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THE CAHOLIWA TOflM SATUBPAr, NOV. 27. 1>54
PROFESSIONAL EXHIBHIOIIS OF IGNO^CE
When Zalph Rochella, a lo
cal rent collector and peren
nial letter writer to the editor
of the Durham Sun, gives an
exhibition of ignorance and
stupidity we think it would
be asinine on our part to dign
ity his moronic, literary es
capades with an answer. It
takes no psychologist to re
veal that when a middle-aged
or old man suddenly realizes
that he has never amounted
to much and never will he re
sorts. to drinking, running af
ter young girls, the age of his
granddaughter, or some oth
er form of stupid behavior
that plainly demonstrates his
need for a nurse or guardian.
He must have something to
fill the empty void which a
lack of esteem and attention
from his fellowmen brings to
one^Such old fossils are to be
pitied and not condemned.
When a man of Dr. W. C.
George’s stature, training and
experience, especially in the
field of anatomy, gives an ex
hibition of ignorance and
stupidity it is time for this
newspaper to express its opin
ion for or against such. Dr.
George is a retired professor
of anatomy at the Universi
ty of North Carolina and al
though our investigation dis
close that his training and
achievements in his field have
been confined almost entire
ly to the campus of the Uni
versity, we think his former
position as an educator in one
of the outstanding education
al institutions of the South, at
least warrants our passing at
tention. Dr. George may have
set the woods on fire in the
field of anatomy, but his
ignorance of history is most
astounding..
Says Dr. George: “No cat
tle breeder would want to
cross up his productive stock
with a stock of unproven rec-
cord ...... When you cross
up different breeds of ani-
m a 1 s, including man, you
spoil the breed. Either Dr.
(^Drge is blind or he is more
stupid than we give him cre
dit for being if he has not ob
served in his more than a half
centuiy on this earth tiiat this
“crossing up” business be
tween whites and Negroes,
though for the most part
clandestinely, Jias been going
on ever since the first ship
load of Negroes landed on
these shores from Africa. Ev
ery American Negro whose
skin is not black is a living
testimony to the fact that
there has been plenty of
“crossing up” and even Dr.
George will be forced to ad
mit that it was not the Negro
woman who put the scissors
lock on the white male and
overpowered him to beget
“crossed-up” offsprings in the
dark that he was ashamed to
own in the light.
If Dr. George will consult
history casually he will dis
cover that George Washing
ton, Thomas Jefferson and
hundreds of other honored
celebrites of America his
tory had their Negro concub
ines or mistresses who begat-
them half white sons and
daughters that have most
nigh “ruint” us black'folk’s
color in this country. Even
here in Durham some of the
most respected white families
are studded with their Negro
relatives.
Actually what Dr. George
and his kind are afraid of is
that movement toward inte
gration in public sdio^ will
eventually result in legalizing
this “crossing up.” They want
the few remaining black Ne
groes in this country to con
tinue as social ^garbage cans
into which their illicitly be
gotten offspring may con
tinue to be dmiped. Then
they can continue to stomp
and strut about the country
screaming about not “cross
ing up,” and keeping the
breed pure.
According to Dr. Ethel Al-
penfels. New York Universi
ty anthropologist, in an ad
dress to a Chi(^o high school
human relations audience
this month, 9 Negro univer
sity flourish^ in Timbuktu,
Africa as early as 600 A. D.
Says Dr. Alpenfels: “there
was a Negro university at
Timbuktu, Africa which ex
changed professors with
Moorish universities hun
dreds of years ago.
It is believed to have flour
ished as early as 600 A. D.
and in years when my own
Swedish ancestors were paint
ing their bodies and worship
ping in toe woods.” In adm-
tion ancient Jiistory is pre
gnant with accounts of Ne
gro civilization that existed on
the Nile and other sections of
Africa^hen Europeans were
livii^m caves, hunting each
‘r with clubs, and eating
tHeir meat raw, especially the
breasts of captured women
which were relished at the
time as a delicacy. Mod
em history, even here in
America, in spite of efforts to
delete and prevent it from
being known, is filled with the
achievements of Negroes in
science, industry, education,
music and other fields. We
hope, however, that Negro
leaders will never reach the
position that they and they
alone, like a segment of south
ern whites and Russian com
munists, will feel that their
race or any one race of man
kind has a monopoly on the
achievements of mankind.
While we are on the sub
ject we would like to ask Dr.
George one question. When
oh when is his kiiid of white
folks going to grow up to the
extent that they can shed
their inferority complex?
When oh when are they going
to reach the point in thsir de
velopment where they will
not have to have some one to
look down on to make them
feel equal to others of their
own group? If any civiliza
tion or society is so weak that
it is in danger of being de
stroyed. simply because it
happens to become exposed
to a weaker or stronger
group, in a school room or
elsewhere, it is not worth pre
serving.
We think that the great
question before the entire
civilized world at this present
moment is not the preserva
tion of breeds, races or colors
of mankind but the preserva
tion of the human race in any
form. If all of us don’t stop
having spasms about skin
color and race and get busy
teaching the Fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of
man, atomic, hydrogen and
cobalt bombs may have us all
polishing golden streets above
or shoveling coal below. This
newspaper is worried about
whiU Russia and China are
thinking and not who is go
ing to sit next to whom in a
classroom.
Life Is Like That
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BY H. ALBERT SMITH
Thanksgiving Day reminds ua
that our praise belonsi to God,
the Creator of Heaven and earth
the Father of our t.ord Jesus
Christ, the Source of our being
and the Sustainer of our Lives.
iHe alone is worthy of homage
and our unstinted praise; for His
is the Kingdom and the Power
and the Glory forever.
If we appreciated as we
should the majesty and holiness
of God, his loving kindness and
tender mercies and his bounti
ful providence, we would let
no day pass us by without bles
sing his holy name and ejyjress-
ing ourselves in the highest
worship we know.
It is befitting, however, that
on Thanksgiving Day, a day set
apart as the occasion for Na
tional thanksgiving, we should
offer special thanks to God.
And I can think of no more
elevated and eloquent words in
which to express our gratitude
than those uaed by David.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
all that is within me, bless his
holy name. Bless the Lord, O
my soul, and forget not all his
benefits.”
But wheUier • we use David’^
language or not, we should be
grateful because all our bless
ings come from God. I can think
of none that IsatfvU^anirce out
side of him.
In taking this view I am but
accepting the conclusions of that
Divine man from the Hills of
Galilee. He taught that God is
the source of our temporal bles
sings as well as those purely
spiritual. We are God’s children
and we live because he feeds us
and provdes for our bodily
needs.
How clearly this Is seen
in the Sermon on the Mount.
Jesus in that remarkable ut
lerance taught that God feeds
even the sparrow and clothes
the lilies of the field. If then
God provides for creatures that
have life without soul and
flowers that liave life but nei
ther soul nor consciousness, how
much more will he provide for
men whom he has created in his
own image and likeness.
Jesus further stresses human
dependence on God for tem
poral blessings in Matthew 6:
33. “Seek, ye first the Kingdom
of God and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be ad
ded unto thee.”
Now, some men refuse to
recognize this dependence upon
a personal God. When asked
from whence come our physical
benefits and material comforts,
they point to nature. But Jesus
would answer, “God.” As for
me, I cast my vote with Jesus.
And I find within me a corrobo
rating voice. I believe it is the
Voice of God-
How blind are those whoi.glv.e
no praise to God for material
bfenefits! Who say Nature in
stead of God! Who do not
recognize that "nature” is just
a name to cover the creative
providence of God and his
bountiful beneficience! Let such
men be reminded that behind
what they call Nature, and
working thru it, is a transcen
dent, immanent, and invisible
God.
Somebody could point out
man’s synthetic productions as
(Please turn to Page Seven)
M HEALTH HORIZONS
THE BENEFITS THAT COME FROM STRUGGLE
When we possess that for
which we struggle, we cease
to struggle. When we cease
to struggle, we cease to
grow. When we cease to
grow we deteriorate, and
then we die — AUTHOR
UNKNOWN.
Ben Price writing in the
Durham Morning Herald of
Sunday, November 21, throws
some light on what is happen
ing in the matter of fighting
integration in the public
schools of Mississippi. Ac
cording to Mr. Price, so-called
respectable white people have
begim organizing to put eco
nomic pressure on any and all
Negro leaders who advocate
abolishing segregated schools
in that state. Cr^it to Negro
merchants, other business and
profession^ men will be cut
off by banks, wholesalers and
other sources.
Thus in the place of the Ku
Klux Klan, lynch mobs and
other forms of persecution by
hooded white men, Miss
issippi Negro leaders will
face respecteble law abiding,
white Christian business, pro
fessional men and women,
who are determined to defy
the U. S. Supreme Court rul
ing on segregated schools to
the last ditch.
The forming of anti-Negro
organizations in Mississippi
is good news, good news b^
cause it gives Negroes in this
county, &s well as Miss
issippi, a new foe to replace
one that is about dead—the
Ku Klux Klan. No man or
race of men needs ever wor
ry about its destiny so long
as it has the will to struggle
against adversaries. The Ne
groes of Mississippi will.find
in these new enemies a more
intelligent and better organ
ized opposition than was pos
sible in hooded klans. If Ne-
g r o e s survive they will
emerge the stronger, the more
alert and the wiser.
Like the Klan, anti-Negro
organizations have in them
selves the very seeds of their
own destruction; for, as it was
with the KKK, they will
first attack Nemoes, then the
poor whites and then the mid
dle-class whites. Finally, no
man or woman in Mississippi,
be they white or black, will
be safe from the terror of eco
nomic pressure.
Weak Negroes in that state
will submit to their new en
emies. The stronger ones will
oppose them, come what will
or may and a few will be de
stroy^, as has always been
the case in every struggle for
human existence. Another
class will sell the race down
the river and grow fat fi
nancially along with their
white masters who will con-
ti«e to demand theiir souls,
their self-respect and the re
spect of member of their own
race.
At heart the Negro is a law-
abiding citizen. For nearly a
hundred years he has bowed
to the southern white man’s
non-sensical segregation law,
even though it caused him
great humiliation and dis
turbed his very soul. When
the U. S. Supreme Court rul
ed on May the 17th, of this
year that the segregation law
as it pertains to public schools
was unconstitutional, he ac
cepted that ruling as the law
and as the law will uphold it.
If in the end he loses a few
jobs and even a few lives he
will accept his lot as being
no different from what it has
been. Nearly 300 years of
slavery, discrimination and
'persecution will stand him in
good stead to meet and out
live this new adversary, as it
has done with others.
Negro leaders will not be
come alarmed at what is go
ing on in Mississippi. ' They
will accept the challenge with
a peace that will pass the
understanding of their excit
ed fellow white citizens whose
consciences will not let them
be at ease. In the end we shall
see more frustration among
Mississippi whites which may
cause them to resort to fool
ish ways. History is laughing,
a new era is being born and
the pangs of labor are ex-
cruiating but the child will
arrive on time fat and kick
ing. Time is the mother and
the Eternal God who has nev
er lost a case is the physician.
Helping The Alcoholic
In the treatment of an alcohoUc, the family pUjrs a vital roli. Rela
tives usually want to help, but frequently they do harm. In dealing
with this problem, most of us have to discard some time-worn ideas
and listen to modem medical advice.
A basic fact that is difficult for
nx>st families to realise hax been
expressed this way by Dr. Z. Miles
Nason of Kansas City: “Alcoholics
are not drunks by choice.” Today
ricoholism is recognized as a dis
ease by the medical profession. But
unlike victims of other diseases,
^ the alcoholic k quite gener^ly ac-
' cused (In thMght, if not iiractuBi
words) of bringing his fate on him-
•elf. To the non-alcoholic. It seems
simply a matter of will power.
Medicine says positively that this
is not so. You do not accuse a “It is quite difficult for a famUy
tubercular person of lack of will to have an alcoholic member with>
power bccause he coughs. In the out showing considerable shame,
alcoholic, drinking is similarly a hostility.or guilt,” says Dr. Foster,
symptom that cannot be repressed But venting these feelings can only
Without proper treatment. make matters worse for all eon-
oemed. Alcoholics are beset by
anxtctles and funs, which criti*
cism will only aggravate. Instead,
talk to your doctor. “Giving the
relatives a chance to unload their
feelings often helps,” says Dr.
Foster. In talking things out, they
“frequently wind up by evaluating
the patient’s assets and show a de
sire toward really helping him
rather than punishing him for his
pas* or policing him in the future.”
The road back probably won’t be
easy for any member of the group,
but cooperation may help.
SATURDAY
L. E. AUSTIN Ptililiahar
yOF. 27, 1954 I
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Spiritual Insight
“JOY: SACRIFICING FOR OTHERS”
BY REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
PMtor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Families cannot help an alco
holic by badgering him into some
“cure,” advises another Kansstn,
Dr. Thomas L. Faster. The patient
may yield, to “get them otf my
neck,” but it won’t last There must
l>e a genuine desire for treatment
—a need felt by the patient him
self. It cannot be said what will
bring about that desire in any
given case, but doctors do know
some family attitudes that are apt
to delay it. ^
"1 am tujfermg now on yotir
behalf, but I rejoice in that."
Cor. 1:24.
Real joy comes when we of
fer ourselves sacrificially for
others. This is the sublime
meaning of the Christ and his
Cross. The highest joy comes
when we empty ourselves in
sacrifice for others. The pur
suit of selfish ends or aims can
never bring that deep, abiding
joy of the human soul. With this
great spiritual truth many lives
will take on a new meaning and
purposefulness. He who hoards
the rich treasures of his life
will never find ireal joy. Real
joy comes when -the rtch God-
given treasures of life are spent
for others. Freely spend the
rich treasures of your life if you
would find real joy and happi
ness.
Invest the treasures of life
and joy will come as a rich re
ward. Paul says I am giving my
life...”I REJOICE IN THAT..”
Many Want this rich fruit of Joyr
We envy it when we see it in
others. This Joy is precious.
You can have it. But y6u must
pay the price. It is indeed the
pearl of great price. Some say
they cannot find this joy. Maybe
you are striving too much. Bring
your life as a offering to the
Christ. Surrender and let him
take over. Real Joy comes in
sacrificing for others. Stop
hording life’s treaswes. Invest
life’s trea^res and joy will be
the reward.
A life placed on the altar of
service for others comes to no
ble and rich fulfillment. Tha
rich treasure of Joy comes to
such a life. This is the way of
rich fulfilment for your life. It
is wonderful. It is beautiful.
Give it a trial: MAKE AN EX
PERIMENT WITH YOUR OWN
LIFE AND YOU WILL FIND IT
TO BE TRUE! Think: What are
the happiest moments in yours?
You will find them to be rooted
in those impulses that led you to
offer yettrseU ON 'EHS ALTAR
OF SERVICE FOR OTHERS. A
great story came to light just re
cently. It was the story of the
unimaginable sacrifices being
made behind prison bars
throughout the country to ad
vance medical science and hu
man welfare. Here many -
offered themselves in plain,
agony, sickness and some died.
Yes, some died—offered their
Hves in sacrfice—that others -
might live. Greatness and no
bility of souLis found in strange
places. Sven men behind prison
bars find a matchless joy in of
fering themselves in sacrifice
for others. 
God is love! And God’a
has been symbolized in the
Christ and his cross: OFFER
YOURSELF FOR OTHERS
AND YOU TOO 1VILL FIND
REAL JOY—it comes in the
sacrifices we make for others...
“I am suffering now on your be
half..” This is joy supreme. Will
you go out and try it?
STRAIGHT AHEAD
WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS
Probably nothing illustrates
fallacy of chain banking better
than Small Business Administra
tion, headed by Wendell Bames,
set up by Congress to make loans
to small, independent busineai. .
a • *
WhBe aeme deplore tovem-
ment encssini
In banking bi
iness as detrl
mental to
tree economyl
they fail to reo.
ogalse the!
shackles pot oa|
the economy.
* a •
It is signifi
cant nation
wide ballpting C.W. Harder
by small businessmen of National
Federation of Independent Busi
ness, plus untiring »kk by the
Senate and House Small Business
Committees with such conserva
tive thinkers as Senators Thye
and Saltonstall, Rep. William Hill,
brought about SEA. It any of the
socialistic crowd favored SBA
they kept awfully silent.
* * *
Facts are Hurt threuth >Ba,
gevenuncat sotad to attempt al
leviation of sins of both omlaaioo
and eommlsslon with which gor-
erament ahaokM small boslsMas.
a • a
The sin of omission was faU-i
ure to more forcefully restrain
growth of branch banking and
consequent amassment of large
segments of money and credits
in hands of few. Small business
denied access to money and
credit is in as dire straits as it
shut o9 from raw material or
merchandise by monopolization,
a • a
The sin of commission Is sop
ping up earnings needed by small
business for expansion to flasnce
multl-bllUon dollar world boon
doggling schemes. It is an axiom
no bnslneas stands still; It eUher
goes forward or backward. Thus
American system at pulling a
business np by its bootslrspa has
been nullified by taking away the
By C. WILSON HARDER
hootatraps, and often the iriiole
boot, to give to Patagonia or Al
bion. Small business earnings
taken by taxes oannot bo
ploughed back Intd that business.
• 0 •
In first IS operating montiis,
SBA has granted 858 loans total
ling $47,323,000, an average of
less than ^,000. Loans range
from $2,800 to $110,000 limit,
a • •
Bat significantly, throngh poll-
oles Instltnted by Bames, in 19%
ef these loans, private lending
agencies are piurtloipating.
a • *
Much more money has been
loaned by private banks to small
businesses after they first applied
to SBA for loans, ttan has been
loaned by SBA. Banking houses
find exhaustive SBA Investiga-
tkms show up soundness of mangr
small business loans thrt chabi
bank employees turned down.
This situation applies primarily
in areas where Jndependeot
bankers have been driven out
* • *
b other words, appareatly toe
often, ohaln bank employees can.
not recognise good loans. Inde
pendent bankers, generally, have
a wide experience la bn^ess,
mannfaotnring, farming, and
also aa Intimate knowledge ef
an Important Ingredient In mak^
Ing any loaa ... oharaoter,
gained not from working up
thronili chairs of ohaln bank bat
by lifetime of experience.
* • •
No matter how much ability
heads a chain banking operation,
that Same genius does not rub ott
like chalk on all employees.
• • •
Already BBA has proved branch
banking Is no snbstltnte for In
dependent bankers. Hnge corpor
ate systems beoome miwleldy be-
oaaaa of taot top brains oannot
be divided. And la any field of
endeavor, even the highest cor
poration la no match for a sonnd-
^ (^erated independent business.
If government makes sare both
mi^ operate by same rales.
NEW YORK
“To every thing there is a
season, an^ a time to every
purpose under the heaven; A
time to be bom, and a time to
die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is plant
ed; A time to kill, and a time to
lieal; a time to break down and
a time to build up.” Ecclesiastes
3:1-3.
If we are not impertinent,
we would like to submit that
one man’s responsibilities is to
know when that “time” lias
come; and those'who take on
the burdens of leadership must
understand the importance oi
timing.
They said the time had come
to “turn .^Jgi^HHiUncoln’s pic-
‘‘break
ineoln tra'
But was
destroy Lin-
bol so long as
retains Jeffer-
theirs? Are we
our lot with the
lean voters, as
%re exists so much
the minds of so many
are, in fact, Am»ican
True, we must think
laborers, wUte collar
teachers, farmers, but
never to the point of having
our votes delivered in a bloc at
tlie sacrifice oif a pmciple that
is vital to all of us.
What form of hypnotic spell,
for instance, was cast upon Ne
gro voters in Ne wYork who
rejected a man who gave us the
first FEPC law in the country,
in favor of one who has never
held an elective public office
and therefore, has no public re
cord on matters vital to every
minority? The answer is that
there was blind adherence to
party line; unrelenting party
discipline; and unthinkable gul-
Uability.
It seems we were delivered
out of the hands of one master
who held us in physical bon
dage, only' to he delivered up
ture to
dowA
dition
into the hands of others—union
bosses and i>olitical strategists
who tossed us crumbs from the
table in return for our union
dues and our votes. They even
practiced their own particular
brand of discrimination against
us.
We thought the time iiad
come to turn our backs on the
"Old Negro” who was, to us,
the very soul of servility. But
were wrong. The “Old Negro”
represented our will for free
dom of body and of mind. The
“Old Negro” represented by
fathers who “ran on the road”
and did odd Jobs on the side,
and mothers who washed white
folks’ clothes at fifty-cents a
—By VUva A. Adam
basket. They appeared subser
vient, but all the while, they
performed their menial taSks
with a sparkle in the eye, as if
they enjoyed some delightful
secret. Their secret was that
their hard labor would secure
for their children the education,
that would free their minds.
Was their sacrifice worth it?
One doesn’t have to be a-sage
to know that the time has now
come to stand up for principle—
a time to “build up” In other
words; a time to develop in our
children the inner fortitude that
was so characteristic of our an
cestors Whose minds were never
enslaved.
IHTEKS TO THE EDITOR
Editor of Carolina ’Times
518 Pettigrew Street
Durham, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Austin: ^
As you know I admire your
editorial ability. ’Tills opinion
has been expressed by me to the
effect that you have but few
fears, if any.
My reference here is to your
Editorial under caption "Cadil
lac Preachers and Horse and
Buggy Congregation!,” of Nov.
2, 1954, issue.
Despite your ability as an
editorial writer, I, with others
of your readers, think with such
a full vocabulary of words as
you do should adopt "Jackass”
as a pet expression. We think it is
out of place when your use of
words become educational to
your Christian subscribers,
which happens to be your ma
jority of readers.
Some days after the primary
last Spring "Jackass” was your
complimentary word for my
effort to assure the election of
ex-govemor Scott to the senate.
He was elected. I was glad to
have endorsed his great and
inspiring act of naming a Ne
gro to the State Board of Educa
tion. It is my best recollection
that nobody called you by any
nick name when you blasted
Scott for the appointment of
President Trigg or our support
of communists and welcomed
travelers.
You should remember - that
you head a great religious body
that is as - much alarmed at
your expression as with Mr.
Truman in his use of words.
You are still a teacher and ex
ample for those of our race
who are yet in the dark. You
iiave fought many good fights.
You have inspired thousands to
tliink and act. Why now black
your white record with epithets,
tliat will reduce the hold on all
or any who drink at the foun
tain of your great editorial sug
gestions.
J. H. R. Gleaves •
Winston-Salem, N. C.