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J PAGE TWO THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1954 M BOARD OF EDUUnON MISSED THE BOAr AGAIN While it brings no surprise to the Negro citizens of Dur ham, it is regrettable that the City Board of Education did not see fit to give the rtiore than 20,000 Negro citizens of this community representa tion on the Board by appoint ing one of the five persons of- fereil by the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs. Such an appointment, in view of the recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools and the pening further action of the Court on the matter, would have done much to foster a better understantfmg and co operation between all of Dur ham’s citizens during the change-over from segregated to non-segregated schools. In selecting Herman A. Rhinehart to fill the vacancy that has existed since the re signation of James A. Slay, the Board has selected one of , Durham’s finest citizens, one who otherwise Is well quali fied to serve in that capacity. However Mr. Rhinehart nor any other white person is in position to interpret the feel ing, attitude and aspirations of Negroes, that are more of ten misunderstood than un derstood by a majority of white persons. A qualified Negro representative would not only increase the confid ence of the race in the Board’s willingness to be fair in mat ters pertaining to the city schools but it would likewise increase the confidence and respect that white citizens have in the Board. Many so-called intelligent white persons have the silly notion that Negroes are just dying to have their children attend schools with white children, that their one high est ambition is to have at least one of their children marry a white person. They do not know, as much as Negroes try to grin and bear it, that when a Negro marries outside of his or her own race, a major ity of them have a secret con tempt for such a person. While a white person desir ing to marry a Negro may not find within his own race one possessing'an olive, brown or black complexion, and is therefore forced to go outside of it for such, a Negro desir ing to marry a person pos sessing a white complexion does not have to do so. This attitude and those facts need to be driven home to some white persons we know again and again and it cannot be done so as long as qualified and intelligent Ne groes are excluded from pol icy making committees, boards, etc. The new era in to which the south, and the rest of the nation for that mat ter, is entering is going to take courageous, intelligent and vigorous leadership on the part of both white and Negro people. The day of the compromising, head-scratch ing, grinning “Uncle Tom” Negro leader is over. Like wise the day of the “Mr. Charlie” type of white lead er is over. For “Mr. Charlie” was too full of hypocrisy, de ceit and prejudice. He lived not off his own sweat but the sweat, toil and blood of Ne groes. “Mr. Charlie” and "Uncle Tom” are both dead, struck down by the United States Supreme Court. May their crooked ashes rest in peace. City, county and state boards of education need to be told that Negroes are not interested in marrying their sons and daughters, social izing, fraternizing or engag ing in other, social contacts with whites when such is not mutually desirable. They- should know that first and last Negroes are interested in becoming full-fledged Amer ican citizens, possessing .‘ev- ery right of any other citizen of this country. They do not believe they can reach that status while living in a world of second-class citizenship where educational and job opportunities are inferior. The Durham City Board of Education has oii several oc casions had an opportunity to make available for itself and all the people of the city a more harmonious relationship between the races by appoint ing a Negro representative as a member. Each time it has missed the boat. We trust that when the next vacancy oc curs its members will see the wisdom of giving the more than 20,000 Negro citizens of Durham the type of repre sentation to which they are entitled. A COSILY DELAY As yet, no one has put his finger on what or who was re sponsible for the delay three weeks ago in informing the Sheriff’s office in Durham that a warrant had been sworn out for Caldwell Baldwin almost 24 hours before he wantonly shot to death an innocent and respectable citizens in the southern part of the county. According to information giv en this newspaper, and pub lished in its issue of October 2, Baldwin had cut James Holland on the arm, Sunday afternoon during an argu ment and the latter had sworn out a warrant for his arrest. It was not until late the next morning that the warrant was received by the Sheriff. Now this newspaper knows little or nothing about the custom of the Sheriff’s office for Sunday duty, but we do know that Sheriff E. G. Bel- vin says, he did not receive the warrant until the next morning a few hours or may be minutes before a blast from Baldwin’s gun had sent Rev. J. Lee White to his death. Be that as it may, we raise the question here and again, as we have done so often in the past, as to the need for one or two Negro deputies for Durham County. We have been informed that the ex cuse for not employing a Ne gro as such is that there is no money available for addition al men or even^n additional man. This to us seems like a weak excuse and one that may at any moment result in more lawlessness in the rural sections of Durham. We do not believe this county is so poor that it cannot employ additional men for the sher iff’s office when they are needed for the protection of its citizens. We wc^ not arguing 4iere- that those already employed on the Sheriff’s force are not all good men and competent. It so happens that we know all of them and are satisfied that if they had known the situation in the southern sec tion of the county, at the tiAie Baldwin went on a rampage, they would have taken care of it. We do contend, however, that in the very nature of the case a Negro deputy sheriff would have been more ac cessible to the average Negro citizen in the county and so would have been informed by telephone or personal contact as to what was happening. The time has come when we in Durham ought to see the wisdom of employing a Negro on our sheriff force, not because he is a Negro, but because he is more familiar with difficult situatioj^s as they arise in Negro sections than one can be who does not live and move in and among them. It is our candid opinion that had a Negro deputy sher iff been employed in Durham county that Rev. White would be living today. Whether "His death was the result of the delay in deliver ing the warrant to the sher iff’s office or the delay in em ploying a Negro as deputy sheriff, we think either is too costly for such to happen again. We appeal to the coun ty commissioners and other county officials to provide from some source the funds for the employment of one or more competent Negro dep uty sheriffs in the county of Durham. A MUNICIPAL STADIUM FOR DURHAM Durham is the only one of the 'four largest cities of North Carolina that does not have a municipal stadium for big sports events. Charlotte, Wjnston-Salem and Greens boro all have had stadiums for a long number of years where big sports event^, such as high school and college football and baseball games and track meets may be had. As usual Durham is the last of the major cities to take this important step that will add to the recreational life of the city. ' With the increasing import ance of the football teams at North Carolina College, Hill side and Central high schools it appears to us that a first- class stadium that can seat at least 25,000 persons is sore ly needed here to give Dur ham a well rounded recrea tional program. It is our can did belief that if the county and city would put up half the money that the remainder could be raised through sub- scripions of interested per sons. Although the Durham Ath letic park has served as the place for high school football games and sometimesf or those played by North Carolina College it is not fully adapt ed for that purpose and games played there have been more or less under makeshift cout ditions. Because of its size it is absolutely unfit for track events. It is also our belief that if a stadium is built in Durham that it can at least be made self sustaining, if not a pay ing proposition. We believe it could be operated on a rental or percentage basis with practically a year round pro gram for its use. It might not be a bad idea for city officials to appoint a special committee to look in to the matter and ascertain the cost. Such a committee might also suggest to the sev eral large and small construc tion companies located here the matter of donating equip ment and men for one or more days as a means of cutting down bn the actual cost of constructing the stadium. If and when the project is undertaken this newspaper would like to pledge $100 to ward it. Can we get a second. { SATURDAY OCTOBER 16, 1954 L. E. AUSTIN Publishw CLATHAN M. ROSSi Editor M. E. JOHNSON, Business M&nacer \L ALiiERT SMITH, Managing Editor R. J. HAYNES, Advertising Manager JESSE COFIEI^D, Circulation Manager Puffiished Ever} Saturday oy the UNITED ■'UHIJSHEKS, Incurporated at 918 Z. Petticrew St luntered af •et'ona olaat niattar at the Post Of/ice ■f OurHam. Nortli itnrtT tha Act of Uarcb I. V > v.fial AJvt«rtinlnf Representative S>Vw«DMO*r« Member WVPA No guarantee of publication of unaoUdtad mate rial. Letters to the editor for publication mutt be •igned and cunfined to ftOO worda f: Subscription Rates: 10c per copy; montha, ■fS.OO; One Year. Sa OO (Porelrn Cotintliea. $4.00* per year ) NOTE ON THE NAAWP (From The Greensboro Daily News) The Delaware State Police have taken the usual step of issuing a public statement con cerning an , individual with whom they have, as yet, no official connection. The individual is Bryant Bowles, the Florida-born ex- Marine who is the chief organi zer of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, a group which has been spearheading the drive against integration of v^hite and Negrp pupils in the public school; of Delaware. “The state police conducted an investigation of Mr. Bowles," the police statement said, “in the public interest and for the public protection in view of the prominent part he is .taking in the organization of an NAAWP group in Sussex Coun ty. “Because of the many ad dresses made by Mr. Bowles and the number of contributions accepted by him, state police be-» lieve the people of Delaware! deserve to know his back ground. “He was arresteeji by the Bal timore city police on May 12, 1953, on five charges of false pretense. Disposition of thesq cases indicates that he was fined $25 and costs on each charge. At the time of his arrest in thd city of Baltimore, he was want ed in Tampa, Fla., in connection with bogus checks. Authorities at Tampa later advised Balti more that testitution had been made in their cases and that Bowles was no longer wanted there. Warrants were also oii file in the sheriff’s office at Belair, Md., on two counts. “Bowles was turned over to the sheriff of Harford County, Maryland, and on April 1, 1954, the charges were nolle prossed by the state’s attorney’s office. “At the time of his difficulty in Baltimore, Mr. Bowles was an officer of the Bryant Roof ing Co. and is alleged to have paid wages to some employees of the firm with bad checks.” Mr. Bowles has already won a certain measure of notoriety for his statement to an Associ ated Press reporter: “My three- year-old Slaughter will never attend s;hool with a Negro aS long as there is breath in mj^ body and gunpowder will burn.” Bowles’ organization publish es a pjeriodical entitled “The National Forum,” the basig function of which, ’he has claim ed, is to counter “the propagan da beinj poured into Southhern newspaper editors by self styled liberals who got $75,000 to do the job from the Ford Founda-* tion,” he declares. It is this last statement lohich indicates the vast contempt Mr. Bowles appears to feel not only for the Supreme Court but for the Southern press asl well. We have news for Mr. Bowles. Good newspapers any where are not swayed by pro paganda, whether it emanated from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation or tha National Association for thd Advancement of White People. We do not question any clti-t zen’s right to disagree with the Supreme Court decision, but we do question the value of his protest if it is channelled through an organization led by* men such as Bryant Bowles. There are democratic proce-* dures for registering disagree ment and they seem to us far better than threats and con tempt for established constitu tions. Wild talk of resisting in tegration “as long as gimpow^ der wiil burn” is no answer to thoughtful Southerners who will find their solution with dignity, reason and a sober trust in the function of democratic government. Life Is Like That BY H. ALBERT smith' The use of the editorial “We” is calculated to ward off the impression of egotism and self- conceit, an impression some people get when a person makes frequent use of the personal pronoun I. It seems to me U)st this represents a case of the remedy exceeding in serious ness the affliction. This is par ticularly. true when some semi illiterate person bloated with egotism and pride of self tries to conceal his very evident sense of importance with the frequent us» of “We” for “Jl’. I recall listening more than once to such persons who had been introduced as Dr. So and So, a degree merited neither by academic achievement nor cre ative labor; the former being prominently in evidence by a gross misuse of the King’s Eng lish, lack of elementary infor mation and considerable mis information. The good “doctor’s” speech would be in form, if not in substance, as follows “We ara happy to be here today even though we have come at a great sacrifice. We had to cancel an important engagement to come here and we left a sick wife be hind for whom we employed ^ nurse. We did this because we knew that the Lord’s work has to go On.” This repeated use of “WE” for “1” served only to bring into sharper focus a conceit that only a master actor could hide. Its use, therefore, failed misera bly tn aphipve the desired^end. Now, I do not mean to giva the impression that the editori al we, is always a cover for self-conceit and self-impor tance. I have heard it used by some very humble men who, without the speech of pompous bombast and pontifical authori tativeness, genuinely sought to "keep themselves out of the picture” and to cause their congregation (in instances in- See Life Is Like That, Page 7 WASHINGTON AND ( ' C AA A 1 I SMALL BUSINESS” By C WIISON HARDER Preildential yeto of federal pay rail* bOl Iniofar ai It pertains to poftal workera presents Interest ing viewpoint on current Wash ington viewpoint. • * • Veto menace listed bUl would ralie covemment oosti $312 mil lion for which Congreu hai not levied additloi al taxes. Fn snmabtj, bnt^ tor tliia over-j sight, federal workers weald have received raises, regard-j less of whether entitled to them or whetii- er Jobs serve! any useful pur- C.W. Hardtr pose. • * * But probably in entire history ot government there has never been a government operation aa efHcient as U. S. Post OiHce. * • * Vetoed bill included |1U mil lion increase for this vital ser vice, which was turned down be cause of reputed |437 million deficit in 1954 and because • measure to raise first class post age rates failed. * * « Yet evidence indicates XT. S. Post Office could be run with no, or little cost. * • • But Congressman James Davla ot Georgia claims |232 million of this deficit is in second class mail; $153 million in tliird class maii.These deficits total $385 mil lion. Without them Post Offlce would have been only 543 million in red. Undoubtedly plugging of other leaks would put postal ser vice in black. • « * Third class provides for deliv ery of catalogs and circulars for as little as 10c per pound, while first class mall costs 48c per pound, parcel post 16 to 32c per pound, according to zones. In ad- g) NaHonll Fedwtioo at InUtModmt BtuUma •ditlon, for big catalogs that go under parcel post, a special bar gain basement rate Is given. • * * Third class mail also gives bar gain rates to big corporations seeking to drive out independent regional manufacturers, city by city, by broadcast mailing ot cut price coupons to every home, • • * .But even more Interesting is second.class mail accounting {or roughly half the deficit. Back in 1879 Congress set up low second class mail rates for newspapers and other periodicals to facilitate transmission of news through Impartial publications of which weekly and Independently owned dally newspapers are the only survivors. * * * Bat nnder this 75 year old law, big national magazines printing short stories, novels and o^her material between advertising charged for at $30,000 or more per page, are given cheap rates. • * • A half pound magazine contain ing over a million dollars worth of advertising, is delivered by Post Offlce for only a nickel. Mail subscribers to magazines pay 13c per copy. • * * Thu facts appear those'who seek to d^troy competition by couponing, those wlio sell through catalogs in competition with local independent bnsiness and a tew huge magazine pub lishing combines are subsidized to tuBf of hundreds of millions of doUarcper year. * * • Therefore, this is '^teresting. • « « No mention Is made of making these “free loaders’* pay for ser» vices which create the deficit. Bather, idea is to charge general pubiip more through higher rates, or taxes, to continne these sub sidies, If postal worker pay Is In creased. An Interesting sidelight on a current trend. ■ rr "Will Not Be Stopped By Such Obstructions Spiritual Insight “Law: A Sense Of Reverence” BY REVEREND HAROLD ROLANsJ Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Psa. 119:6i Law at its best is' holy sensa of reverence: Reverence foij God and man. Law is necessary for a harmonious individual' life. It is needed for a strong, stable and peaceful community life. Law is a sense of rever ence—take the Ten cfcmmand- ments—, the first four has to do with reverence for God and the last six reverence for God. Can there be real freedom and peace without Law? Would you want to live in a community without law? No! We must have rules, regulations, order and discipline for the gre^t game of life. We have enough confu sion with law. Without law, there would be nothing but con flict and confusion. , Yes, there are evil laws. But Daw at its best is an essential sen§6"T5f reverencev —mnir have law to curb the selfish invasion of the rights of others. We must have law to curb the evil aggressive tendencies in all of us. Law as a sense of reverence poses a critical question for us as individuals and a nation in this hour. The problem of de segregation hinges on a vic tory for Law A Sense of Rever ence. To our shame we have seen the shameful demonstra tions of irreverence toward the law, stirred by the apostles of discord and confusion. The sense of reverence for the law must give dignity and decency the victory. Can we carry out our mission as a nation if we lose our sense of revetence-the foundation of the law? The answer is riear: WE MUST FAIL AND COME TO A DIS ASTROUS END! Ignore the laws of health and you have no health. Ignore the law of phy sics and you fail to build the house or bridge that can stand. Look at the moral wrecks around you, who have lost their sense of reverence for God and man. They move swiftly to de nations which break the law will be finally broken them selves. God’s law is not a hindrance. At times we feel that law and discipline cramp' our style. It curbs us for our own peace and health. Teen-agers become weary under the yoke of dis cipline when they are making the transition from childhood to adult maturity. This is due to sheer blindness and Inexperi ence. In taking this step towards maturity it is not a signal to throw off the discipline of law. Let us not kick out the moral law. The moral law is essential to the highest freedom, dignity and happiness. To ignore law a sense of reverence is to EN SLAVE YOXm SOUL! The Moral Law is not a fleet-"" ing, temporary thing. It is written eternally in the Divine scheme of things. An Irreverent, callous, undisciplined genera tion cannot erase the Moral Law. It is Indelibly written in the affairs of nations and on the pages of history. There is a ■maivraaais and' Dlvme gnarantee tor-the inatvl^ dual or the nation in. Law: A SENSE OF REVERENCE..“And • he shall be like a tree planted • by the rivers of water...his lerf shall not wither...whatsoever he doeth .shall prosper...” STRAIGHT AHEAD NEW YORK As a'relatively few dieharda fight desperately against de segregation in some of our pub- lice schools, one cannot help but extend a word of sympathy to those who would seek to per., petuate the system which they have been brought up to believe is their birthright. The child who has been spoiled beyond belief; who ha* stuck his ton gue out at everybody and found safe haven behind his mother’s skirts, finds it difficult to grow up. Segregation has been the prize southern politicians have dangled before the eyes of their constituents for generations now. They didn’t have to pro mise much in the way of living or working conditions, or edu cation. They just promised that poor white children would not have to go to school with Negro children; that the poor wtiite woman would not have to sit next to a Negro on a bus; that the poor white man’s job would be safe because Senator Blow- hard would keep Negroes ii^ their place. Fortunately, th^ more intelligent ones outgrew all this, and a more enlightened South has for some time been moving intellectually toward Integration. ’The Supreme Court ruling has provided them the support they need. But desegregation is a hard thing to accept, for the person whose only claim to fame has been that his skin is white; whose ego is fed only by the as^ surance that he is—though poor, uneducated' and exploited better than somebody. The poli ticians will have to accept new responsibilities now. They will have to interpret properly the Constitution for themselves and for the voters. It’s a little more work than they are used to, but it will have to be don^. This is a proud time for us. "We have seen our national ad ministration take a firm stan^ on the issue; we have seen thd smooth changeover in some sec-i tlons of the country. The de monstrations that have taken place in two or three isolated cases have only served to strengthen the cause of desegre gation; for the rioters have only exposed their ugliness to all of the people and made themselves look ridiculous, particularly since the uprisings have been adult-inspired and engineered. —Bj OUt* a. Aduoa We have another reason to be proud: In all the years we have been fighting the good fight for admission into the big show, not once has any of the agencies working in our behalf been charged legally with vio lating the rights of others. Our fight has been to make America live up to her Constitution. We have never sought to. tear it down; never sought to gain our own freedom by denying free dom to others. The kind of war we have waged may have taken a little longer, but it appears we have “shown the way.” UNIIED NATIONS NOTES By JAMES B. LAWSON (Accredited UN Corii^pondent) NEW YORK “My ancestors brought yoXa ancestors here from Africa,” boasted Theodore Williams to the elected Ministers of Jamaii ca. No sooner had the worda fallen from Mr. Williams’ lip^ than W. A. Bustamante, Chief Minister of Jamaica, started across the room to make him eat them. Mr. Bustamante was restrained from physical^ clashing with Mr. Williams but he created such a scene that Williams resigned all three of his important political positions, Here is what happened: The police of Kingston, Ja maica, unnecessarily interfere ed with a dance given there At a Council meeting the Hon. Rose Leon, Minister of Health and Housing, issued a com plaint. During the discussion, Mr. Williams made some state ments supporting the police ac tion. (Now, this Mr. Williams is not an elected representa tive of the masses of Jamaica. His racial Identity is not the same as theirs. He has not iden tified himself with their strug gles, and is only a nominated member of the Council). When he supported the police, Mr. Bustamante commented on the “uselessness” of nominated members on the Council in view of the elected majority. He fur ther stated that nominated members had no right on the Council. That is when Mr! Williams insulted the Ministers of Jamaica and ninety-five per cent of all th^ inhabitants with his uncalled-for remarks. Mr. Williams should know that it isn’t wise to insult the heritage of a people. Further, few people of European extraction can prove that none of their^ances- See United Nations, Page 7