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GE TWO ' THE CAEOUNA TIMES 'SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1>8#j AMEDirAy IM DEFIANCE Of THE UHIIED SUPKEME COURT In an editorial, published goodwill, brotherhood and in TECTION CLAUSE OF THE in its isrisue ol October 18, the a Cnrisuan spirit we wanted FOURTEENTH AMEND- %«in&tun-aaiem Journal ex- to give our wHite fellow cit- MEJNT PROHIBITS THE pie»:>ea tne teelmg that the izens time to recover from the STATES FROM MAINTAIN- i^.uunal Association for the impact of the decision, when ING RACIALLY SEGREGA- ^kuv«nc«iment ol Colored Peo- tney could calmly sit down ED PUBLIC SCHOOLS.” it> nmiting "an lil-advised witn Negro citizens and work SCHOOLS.” iiiuve oy "piessing for im- out satisfactory ways and We think this is downright mediate elimination ’ of what means of complying with the contempt for the highest It terms “legally enforced Court’s decision. We wanted court in the land. It is asking segregation.” The Journal the Negro members of such a defiance of the U. S. Supreme goes on to say that, “By seek- committee to extend a hand Court. This kind of attitude mg immediate integration in of fellowship, to bend over on the part of one of the states Aurtn Carolina communities backward, to go the second leading daily newspapers is tne inAACP is working again- mile in helping to make the far more damaging to inter- st a narmonious acceptance change-over to integrated racial goodwill than anything of the Supreme Court's order, schools. We wanted them to the NAACP is doing or can when it comes.” do the least possible injury to do. For that organization has Says the Journal further, feelings of the most sen- never advocated disobedience “Any attempt to force com- sitive white persons. That was to the law but its record wiU puaiice witn the Court’s de- the only way we would have show that it h^ always Lion belore the court has » - ^e thought that urg^ Negroes to keep with- aeimed the method of com- ‘ m the framework of all law ity for North Carolina to and order. Ln only cause frictio^and editorial plainly ad- . p . „ races in this state have vocates non-compliance with enough faith in each other to the Court’s order now and The Winston-Salem news- work out a solution to even after whatever else it has to paper then adds, “Even after the most difficult interrcial say on the matter of segrega- tne Court issues its order, problems. tion in public schools in the North Carolma will not be Frankly the Journal’s edi- future. It would make the Uirectly affected. Only those torial disturbs us greatly. It road to human dignity and live communitiK from which apparently does not recognize first-class citizenship for Ne- tne cases arose will be. Other the Supreme Court’s ruling groes as hard as it is humanly states and communities which of May 17 on segregation in possible. -iiave had laws requiring seg- public schools as the law of There is no where in his- regated schools may volim- the land and cries out, after tpry where the oppressor has tarily comply with the criticising the NAACP for voluntarily taken his heel off Court’s decision and orders. { seeking immediate Integra- the necks of the oppressed. But they will be imder no tion, that “Even after the ’The Journal has informed the compulsion to do so unless Court issue its orders, North Negroes of this state that it and until suits are brought Carolina will not be directly does not advocate a change specifically against them.” affected” and .suggests that from such a sordid record Up to the time we read the Negroes in this and other and that if Negroes ever ob- Journal’s editorial there was states are going to have to tain integration in North at least a shadow of a doubt bring suits before they com- Carolina, so far as it is con- m our minds that the NAACP ply. This, in spite of the fact cerned, they will have to fight was domg the best thing in that the Supreme Court plain- for it county by county and demanding immediate com- ly said in tiiat decision, “WE city by city. God save us from pliance with the Supreme HAVE THIS DAY HELD such an evil fate. Court’s ruling. As a matter of THAT THE EQUAL PRO- THE SACRED RIGHT TO VOTE Saturday, October 23 will who have moved and need to may go to the home .of the be tne last day of registration have their places of registra- registrar in their precinct any for those who will able to tion and voting changed. This night during the week, vote in the November elec- newspaper believes that the The right to vote is the tion. Although Durham has above facts afford a great oj^ most sacred opportunity that the largest number of regis- portunity for political sci- can come to one living under tered l\egroes per capita in ence classes of N. C. College a democratic form of govern- tne entire state there is room and thoughtful high school ment. For that right men for improvement and this students to do a great service have fought, bled and died newspaper would like to see by making a door to door can- and every man and woman a whirlwind campaign put on vass and to urge unregistered should treasure it to the high- next Saturday in an effort to persons to register in order est. Because of its importance increase the number of regis- that they will be eligible to the C^olina Times, as it has teied Negroes in this city and vote in the Novembir elec- done fii'ihe past, most sincere- county. tion. ly urges every person in Dur- Ali over the city and county According to R. O. Everett, ham, and elsewhere for that theie are many persons who chairman of the Durham matter, who has not register- have never registered even County Board of Elections, ed to do so before sunset next tnough they have lived in the registrars will be at their Saturday. We urge them to Duiham for many years. In posts of duty Saturday from do so because it is the only addition there are many new- 9:30 a. m. until sunset. Prior way that good government comers who should register- to that time persons desiring can be maintained and free- ed as well as many persons to register before Saturday dom can be guarded. THE BEGINNING OF THE END , OF THE NAAWP It now appears that Bryant ful to the police of that state advancement. If with every Bowles, the chief organizer of for disclosing the court rec- door of opportunity that has the National Association for" ord of Bowles. Likewise those been open^ to them for the the Advancement of White in North Carolina should be nearly 500 years they have People, has turned out to be thankful to the Greensboro been in this country, they a chronic violator of the law Daily News for its forthright have not advanced, an organi- rather than an honest respect- stand on the matter and its zation such as that proposed able citizens. Last week on exposure of one who is by Bowles will not help them, this page we reprinted in its threatening the foundation of The organizer and the entirety, for the benefit of our all law and order in this coun- NAAWP are probably on readers, an editorial from the try. Many of them will prob- their way out like the organi- Greensboro Daily News. It ably feel somewhat embar- zer of the Ku Klux Klan and throws some light on just the rassed that they have allow- the Klan itself. The reason for type of man many of our ed themselves to be sucked in it is that the purpose and white folks here in North by such a notorious violator foundation of both are wrong Carolina are following by of the law. and there are too many decent joining the NAAWP. Generally speaking white people in the most of the Negroes and white people people in this country need no states where they are oper- in Delaware should be thank- special organization for their ating for them to survive. MAKING IT HARD FOR KNIFE WIELDERS Jud^e A. R. Wilson of the start cutting on a fellow hu- to such criminals Judge WiJ- Durham Recorder’s Court man being. son should receive the full gets the approv^ of th^ . understand it a vie- support of every law abiding newspaper for getting tough ^ unaersxana u a vie t'y . ^ f with knife and razor wield- tim of one of the cutting af- citizen in Durham. In ad- ers. Last week the Judge frays was forced to have 54 dition every police officer slapped heavy road sentences stitches taken in his face as should be on the alert to make on two defendants charged the result of one of the knife a quick arrest of those who with knife cuttings and warn- wielders. A person cut to such carry knives and razors as ed that others will be dealt an extent is lucky to have weapons around in their with in a similar manner escaped with his life and we pockets for the purpose of when they come before him agree with Judge Wilson that using them in affrays. If for such offenses. This is the the time has come to close in Judge Wilson is given this kind of court action it will on those who have no more kind of cooperation on the take to have such culprits un- regard for life and limb than part of citizens and police of- derstand that they cannot the two defendants he sent to ficers it will not be long be- whip out a knife or razor on the road last week. fore cutting affairs will be the least provocation and In his efforts to put a halt unheard of in Durham. Saunders Redding, an Ameri- of poflcy committed ^gainst hu- can Negro writer and teacher ■ manlty by Russia. (Hampton Institute), went to I Combined with this open and India recently for the U. S. I sometimes hysterical anti-A- State Department and found "an' mericanigin was a frustrated de- incredlbly complex, knotted sire among all he encounted to coil of attitudes toward Amerl- visit the United States. Students ca,” which he described in de- would heckle his lectures, then tail in his new book, An Ameri- request help In getting to A- can In India (Bobbs-Merrill). Moving as a cultural ambas- merica. During one lecture (at Hindu sador among Indian officials, College, ‘a rabbit warren ol educators and Intellectuals, he found, the United States had re placed Great Britain as “devil." But what shocked him most was a massive reservoir of mlsinfori mation dbout the U. S. com' bined with bitterness, envy and a sense of inferiority. As a colored man- minglingi with colored men,' he experi enced an intimacy and direct ness of contact ftfOnd by few outsiders. But nonVv^f the In dians he met on his 25,P00rmile trip honestly believed his loyal ty to the U. S. could transcend his loyalty to race. Everywhere the U. S. race dilemma has been blown up out of perspective. To the average Indian America is a land where culture halted with Emerson and Whitman, and where lynchings and Negro pog roms are common. Yet, at the same time Redding found a massive color-consci- ousness in India dwarfing any-t thing he experienced in tho United States—North or South. Combined with it was a shrill defensiveness about all things Indian and a stubbomess about recognizing or admitting Indian defects. Redding also found an alarm-^ ing tendency to equate the evilai of the U. S. with the evils of Russia. He described it this way: It was perfectly obvious that in neutralist thought there is no moral difference, or even perhaps differences of degree, between isolated crimes against crumbling musty buildings, the densest, poorest native quar ter of Calcutta”), the subject got around to American movies, and one member of the audi ence ended a lengthy tirade against the U. S. by asking: "Why do the Americans send such vulgar and worthies books and pictures to us?” “You should not accuse all the American people when it is only the enterprisers who do this,” Redding replied. “But if these enterprisers did not find a market in India, and if the people of India did not buy these books and attend these moving pictures, they would not be disturbed here.” This created a near-riot: “Sir, that is an aspersion! You insult the people of India!” A clamor arose and witti it many hot-eyed young men. “Insult!” ■ “We wish an apology!” “He accuses us of obscene tastes!'’ “Americans, go home! Ameri cans, go home!” The chairman stood up and angrily gestured to me toward the packed door way... That was the climax of Red ding’s Indian odyssey. It left him shaken, frightened and dis turbed. Redding’s contacts in India were mainly ambng upper class intellectuals and scholars. He could not be sure the same hostility toward the U. S. per vaded rank-and-file India. But what he found was disturbing, and what America should do humanity committed by mave rick individuals or groups in about it is a grave problem. America and deliberate crimes Integration In The Schools Will Prove The Answer" POUCATIOH HAJORIT Civil. RIGHTS FOR aE ^ aherjcans STRAK3HT AHEAD Saturday October 23, 1954 K. A'USTlI’f Publifthttr n At 0*0* CLATHAN M. EOSS, Editor H. ALBERT MMacfaig Editor M. E. JOHNSON, Business Manager JESSE COFIELD, Circulation Manager PuMMMd Kvny aaturdair bf innisu PUBUSBSU. ^peofVonM M SU B. Vtftttgnw ■■ mamt «laM aattar •« th* rom OtUm at Dnihaa. Martb CtbUm —It Oh Aat of Ttnrrt S. lart. No tuarantee o puMlcattoB of luuoUdted mat*- rtal. Letters to th* editor tor ruUloatlam muft ke ■tfned and confined to 500 wordi. Subaerlption Bate*'; ISe per eepr; Viz mentiia, (SCO: One Tear, M.SO (fareico Cauntrlai, H.00 NEW YORK Ever since the May 17 Su preme Court decision against segregated schools, there has been constant dispute as to whether the RepubBcan Party could take credit fqv.it. The Re-, publicans have tak^ the posi tion that the decision was due to a combination of the Presi dent’s full and complete moral backing, the appearance and the arguments of the Attorney General before the Justices, and the leadership provided by the GOP appointee. Chief ■ Justice Earl Warren. The Democrats say this isn’t so. It appears the answer was given rather forthrightly in an article by David Lewrence in the October 12 issue of the New York Herald Tribune, caption--, ed, “Desegregation May Bring a* Realignment of Parties.” Mr. Lawrence says that, speaking of the controversy “solely as a realistic develop ment in American politics, it is not too early to say that the Republican Party has lost out in the South for decades to come.” Mr. Lawrence points out further that "since the Eisen hower Administration sent a special counsel to appear before the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States to argue against se gregation, and later boasted about the part it played in per suading the Justices to rule as they did, there is no longer any doubt in the South that the Eisenhower Administration has reverted to the traditional po sltlon of IKe Republican Party rests on civil rights issue.” Lawrence goes on to say that “the move was wholly un necessary from a political stand point” whiph points up the mo ral issue involved. The Ad ministration seemed to have felt that it was necessary from a moral standpoint, since the See Straight Ahead, Page 7 WASHINGTON V N D SMALL BUSINESS Utah is well known as Mormon headquarters. Whether one ap proves or not of their ipiritua) philosophy li of little moment to news that comeg. of that state. ~ • • • > But It b Blcnlflcut that It is a matter of rdcord doriiic Great Depreulon no Honaon wm» on relief. Throagl nse af oapi taliatltf ooB cepta of in' creased pro-j iaction and dia-j trlbntion, other: princlplea of lonnd buiness, they met the{ problem bei on and cob>| queredlt. C.W. Harder * * • Neither can Mormons be called isolationists. In fact, there is hardly a corner of the world where Mormon missionaries are not found. * • • iTet despite their demonatrated lonr atanding zeal to spread an idea over the world, they have never dissipated their bard won substance at home, knowing yon cannot bribe people into accept ance of ideas. • • * It therefore seems but logical that biggest attack at present on continuing Ui. S. worldwide boondoggling is being readied by J. Bracken Lee, Utah governor, « • * At this moment it Is not known If Gov. Lee la a Mormon; neither would clariflcatlon of this poii^. be of any Import. The interesting fact 1s t^t Gov. Lee is preparing to make a legal test of U, B. foreign aid programa. • * • He states, “It has long been my feeling that this program is con trary to our Constitution.’’ • « • OoY. Lee also expresses hope legal basis can be fomid to sub stantiate his contention. While Constitutional law becomes very Involved, there appears to many © Nttioail FadfUon tf BcmIbmi By C. WILSON HARDER that thia document and appended Bill of Blghia contains ample precanlioaa taken by the fonnd- inc fathers to prevent either per sona or their property being seized tor revemmental whims, even if temporarily such a whim had a majority backing In Con- gteas. Therefore, many share with Gov. Lee his feelinc that proper interpretation of the Con stitution will stop thia drain of bllliona la taxes. • « * He points out that while foreign aid, when first started, included only Greece and Turkey, today 81 nations have nosed up to Uncle Sana's well filled trough, * * • And Ironically, he state*, the combined'national debts of all' these naUons receiving American taxes are less by $63 billion than the present U. S. national dfebt. • * • And finally. Gov. Lee states truths almost as old as mankind. * • • “I do not believe yon can boy friends with outlays of cash. The foreign aid programs ought to have taught na that by now. What now needs to be learned la that we cannot spend ourselves rich, that the 'American taxpayer is overburdened right now, and be should not be expected to support all peoj^e of the world.** * » • Footnote on Congressional economy: The proposed raise of dependency allowance for each child for income tax purposes from $600 to $700 which on aver age would have given parents another $15 per chil^ was turned down by Congress because it could not be afforded in view of foreign committments. • * • Tet same Congress voted $6000 to design and make jaxsy gold medal White Boim presented to wealthy Tin Pan Alley composer Irving Berlin in appreciation of his patriotic songs. Tet $5000 equals savings-on taxea tiiat fam ilies representing some 330 child ren would have gained by ths $100 increase in exempticma. Spiritual Insight “Marriage: Roses Or Brickbats” BY REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND Pattor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church "Marriage, Roses Or Brickbats" "Let...a husband love his wife Let the wife reverence her husband..." Eph. 5:33 Many dangers threaten mar- riage and home life in our times. There are wars and a hundred other things. But im maturity of childishness is one of the great dangers to the deli cate relationship of marriage. Maqy immature people, who have never grown up come into the marriage relationship. Here is one of the great spiritual problems of our times. It calls for deep insight and under standing of the feelings and emotions mvolved. Why? The happiness of wives, husbands and children is involved. The very foundation of the nations threatens the foundation of the nation itself. What about the mature and the immature in marriage rela-i tionship? Those who have not grown up are the source ol much peril and danger in marri ages. What are you saylngj preacher? I am talking about people who because of their childishness, are unfit or un prepared for the give and take of a real marriage relationship. It is seen in so many youngsters now who are ready to nm at the first sign of hardship or difficulty. This inability to face difficulties and fight them through to na successful conclu sion is a sign of childishness or immaturity. Love seems to be th6 key to maturity. You must be loved and then you can love. If you have never been loved, then you don’t know how to love. He who has been denied love has never had a chance to grow up. The roses of love will buill a strong enriching marriage re lationship. But the brickbats of childish immaturity will wreck the delicate libers of marriage. Roses will build your marriage. Brickbats will destroy it. What are some of the signs of immaturity, that are a threat to marriage? 'l^e immature can not make up his mind. This is dangerous in marriage. Friends neighbors and even in-laws should be kept out of the deli-, cate relations of marriage. The childish have a desire to domi nate others. This is a danger signal to successful marriage. And we all know about undue selfishness in this cooperative relationship. ^ | It will wreck anything from a nation to a home. Another sign is seen iii those who are sensitive and touchy. Temper and tantrums are dangerous to marriage. Temper is very child ish! Another danger sign is bringing up past faults and failures. Bury the hatchet and let it stay buried. Some bury the hatchet and leave the handle sticking out. Bury the whole thing. The graciousness of love will build a strong marriage. Let us scatter more roses for this most important relationship. Let us give words of encouragement. Give roses of kindness freely. But beware of the brickbats of unkindness, anger, resentment, criticism and nagging. -Tligffft. will make marriage unhappy and in many cases wreck it. Speak a good word to the mant of the house. Say something rilce~To the~Tady^ol the hmise, for it will boost her spirit and her morale. A lady told me once) that she got discouraged be-i cause her husband never said anything about her fine cook ing. Let us scatter more roses and! throw less brickbats! build a strong happy Velation- ship. Brickbats will maake the home unhappy, and they cad destroy it. Let us all resolve to scatter roses of love and be hap» pier ourselves, and in turn make others happy. Life Is Like That BY H. ALBERT SMITH Hurricane Hazel came to town last Friday and left impress upon the minds of many that will endure to the end of their days. I .think the consensus of opinion here would declare Hazel la no lady. In fact. Hazel left me toying- with the question as to bow a name so beautiful and sugges tive of tender foninine quali- ties and fine human attributes ever became associated with such destructive fury and snarl ing rage- the like of which I had never seen nor hope to see ever again. Indeed Hazel is no lady, the Hazel that visited Durham last Friday. That Hazel was mean and vicious, homicidal and de structive. In a rampaging fury, she smashed plate glass win- dows, up-rooted trees lifted shingles, blew down buU^gs lacking rugged support, toppled television - antennas, cut : of^ light and power, and ten^fied more folks, I imagine, than! would admit the fact. I watched this snarling whinning, roaring destructive fury without fear or misgiving. One reason was because I was in a building flanked by other buildings and was Ipoking from a front facing the north while Hazel was travelling directly east straight up Pettigrew St. And, then, there, was the mat ter of faith that there was a protecting omnipotence round about me that even so terri fying and powerful a force as Hazel could not break through to harm me. A lady in the office where I was, ariced the question, “Why do they name these hurricanes after women?” I did not know but ventured the answer, “Be cause they exhibit such femi nine qualities as tempermental instability, changeableness and unpredictable moods. Soon after Hazel subsided considerably and It seemed tluH her anger had been spent. But, a few moments later, she was again a snarling, roaring, mani acal, raging fury bent on havoo and devastation. Whether my answer to the yoimg lady’s question was right or wrong, this sudden change in Hazel’s behavior gave me the chance to say: "See what I mean? That’s what I’m talking about.” About three o’clock business took me uptown. The rain had ceased to fall, but the wind was blowing furiously. At the cor ner of Market and ParrUh Sts., I met a young white man. He was bare headed and stated that the wind had taken his hat and he had no Idea where. I learned from an eye-witness who had seen tthe incident from an up stairs office window that when she last saw the hat it waa traveling up Parish Street. Another man told me that he was taking a sick man to Rox- boro when Hazel blew down a tree halting his journey. He was about to turn back to find shelter at a house not far away when. Hazzel blew across thd road behind him another tree. He said his emergency brakes were not quite tight enough to hold the car against the wind, He had to keep his foot brakes In constant operation, a tire some task at best. A minister told me that ha was working in the basement ol a large building with another man who in the initial stages ot Hazel’s antics was laughing and joldng. But when Hazel’s rage reached its height the man "went to crying.” When I heard this, I was about to form an opinion. But 1 recalled that he is not the first man a woman has caused to cry. A frightened man left his car in the middle of Main Street, I was told, and fled In panic to- the shelter of a store. A police man moved the car. The person reciting the story was harsh in his judgement up on that man. I tried to defend him by pointing to the fact that fear paralyzes the thinking pro cess and that should be consid ered. My Informant did not argue, so 1 figured he thought, my point was valid. Or did he? A young lady told another in my presence that she “crawledi imder the bed.” I heard -several persons say that they werel “scared to death”. I foimd an office forsaken by a small group See Life Is Like That, Page 7
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