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mn> THB CAROLINA TIMES SATUBDAY, MAY 28. 1S55 THE NEGRO’S SIRUGGIE FOK FREEDOM In an editorial of Monday, May 23, the Durham Morn ing Hraidd admits that the Kegro students who applied for admission to the Univer sity of North Carolina are within their legal rights and sections of the South is in doubt, if the decrees are moderate, prospect of a gradual adjustment is en couraging.*’ therefore will have to be ad- would nave Negroes of the mitted. Says the Herald in South fold their arms, sit wi part: “The Supreme Court de cision of last May 17 has established that racial seg regation in any institution supported by public funds is unconstitutional. The de cision of the Court of Ap peals of the Fourth Circuit in the Maryland case in volving segregation in re creational facilities shows the far-reaching extent of the precedent .... Nevertheless, from the broad view their applica tions, and the disposition oi the NAACP to push them, does not help create the sort of mood which will be needed if the problems, of des^^egation are to be' worked out for the best. There seems no question but that the relative quiet with which Southern white people regard the Supreme Court decision is deceptive. There is apparent intention to wait and see what the decrees which the court is ' now pondering will be. If they are drastic, the future of public education in many rig'ht to be admitted to state supported colleges and uni versities, bus transportation for rural schools, duing car service, puUman car service, and fivfia the right to ride on It appears that the Herald int^p^urban bilses In North lina and other rights all obtained through supinely by and await the “push” or struggle. South’s own good time to „ ... „ . grant them theu* rights as cit- „ Sensible Negroes m North izens in this country. We Carolina, or elsewhere m the thinlc, however, that even the wiU iwt be lulled to Herald will have to admit sleep on the theo^ that there that had this bera the order j? enough Christi^ty or b^ of the day prior to slavery J^efm democracy in the South the Negro would still be in f rulers to arrive at a bondage. The same applies to where they wiU volun- every gain the race has made to the Negro we economically, socially or oth- ‘^°^ess our sins and are sor- ry for them and now extend Histi)ry wiU reveal that at ®very right and pri- no time Has the oppressors of accord^ to ^y oth^ a people ever voluittarily lift- ? ea their heels from the necks the Negro that he that would of the oppressed and that it strike the first has only been through “push” struggle or force that op- Within the framework of pressed people have been able democracy, within the law to move toward the goal of and with malice toward none, free men. . we will “push” on and strug- From slat«ry up to the gle on until every vestige of present time, the Herald can- wrong against our people is not point to a single gain the abolished. We have the full Negro has made in tl^ coun- knowledge that right is on our try that has not been obtain- side. We will never give up; ed through struggle or we will never quit until the “push.’ The South has never Constitution of these United handed the Negro even a States which holds that “all crumb of freedom for which men are created equal,” in it did hot force him to strug- reality becomes the protect- gle. Erqual teachers’ salarieis, orate of all the people with- the right to participate in out regard to race, creed or democratic primaries, the-.color. TUs newipa^ feels that not only should the Pet Milk Company and the federal gov ernment be urging American citizens to voluntarily sup ply themselves lyith identi fication tags but every in dividual and organization. The time may come when federal laws require ev- ety American citizen to wear an identification tag, and It may come sooner than those of us outside the Pet Milk Company can now imagine. "They Are Befler At Home, But Still Need A Lot Of Attention." Life Is LikeThat By H. ALBERT SMITH EXPERIENCE AND MORAL LAW fiL Msr siAuct .‘.c- . -'5 rue ^ ■Sy TWO OCfANS 70 SBf if WYTHINC ■ NEECXS attention ■ TMngs AfiC NOT f! TOO MD HBRB AT HOML - NEGRO REPRESENMIIVES FOR AMERICA This despised and rejected larger and largert)n the world China that practically pro race of ours may yet become horizon as the yard stick by hibited any citizen of that the source from which Amer- , overwhelming country from l^om^ a dt- ica will be forced to draw ^““^°ers of darker races of izen of the Umted States representation of its govern- Africa will measure whUe Europeans of every ment to aroused countries in American democracy. strate have been accep^ Asia and Africa. Congressman naUons of the world freely as citizens. Practically A Clayton Powell back from choosing sides, with the same policy, either wnt- the Bandung Conference in R““ia getting more than her ten or unwritten, has been his report to President Eisen- maintained against other hower, urged him to appoint “ means. Already Asiastic nations. So it will be Negro miUtary and cultural approximately a hard for any white repre attaches and other officials to bimon people has sided sentatiye of the U. S. to con- far East embassies and Afri- Communists, pos- vince Asiatics that this coun can Countries because this coimtry try practices what it preaches handed out a few tokens about democracy. Congress- It may be that a black face of democracy to individual man Powell may have some- representing America in Asia Chinese while maintaining an thing when he says, “One or Africa will be just what is insulting attitude toward the dark face from the U. S. is as needed to tip the scales in this Chinese people as a whole. of much value as millions of country’s favor. Thus the Ne- For years this coimtry has dollars in economic aid.” gro in America begins to loom maintained a j^olicy toward THE FREEDOM DAY CElfBRATION The Carolina Times is hap- outstripping that which freed Looking at it from a nation- py to note the enthusiasm the race from slaverv This al standpoint, the may 17 rul- wl^h attended the NAACP newspaper feels that^t would ^"8 ^he Umtf J^ta.^ Su- ^ be most appropriate for the ^ourt fre^ leg«^ over the nation, commemor- maacp t/f the tJnn whites as well as Negroes ating the May 17th ruling or from one of the r ® Supreme prLdom Day, at wWch time f ourges the nation ever Court of last year on segre- anneals for membershios ^ farther gation in public sch^ls. ^ mS“rt and father away from the act- roi^g to repor^ from the the organization on a na- upon wluch the riU- National Association for the ^ A be made ^“8 history wiU Advancement of Colored Peo- ^ establish more fully in the pie the first attempt at cele- The Sunday closest to May minds of future generations brating the event was a dis- 17, would be better suited its full significance and mean- tinct success and therefore as NAACP Freedom Day be- ing for all the people of Amer- should be continued each cause it would give the min- ica and the entire world, year on a national scale un- isters of the race an oppor- The establishment of May til it becomes the biggest tunity to throw the support 17 as a national holiday ap- rallying period of financial of the churches behind the pears to us to be in line with and moral support for the orgainization. Until the day the motive that prompted the NAACP. be made a national holi- fathers of this coimtry to set Not since the Emancipation day, the Sunday celebration aside other days to be obser- Proclamation has a more im- would make it possible for ved in commemoration of hi8- portant event taken place af- Negroes even in the deep tory miQdng events. There- fecting the lives of all Ne- South to join the movement fore, this newspaper would groes in the United States whereas if another day is us- like to urge the NAACP to than the May 17 ruling. In ed efforts on the part of many use its influence toward the fact, many have looked upon employers of Negroes would end that the day will become it as a second Emancipation be made to keep them from a national holiday. Proclamation, equaling if not taking part in the celebration. IDENTIFICATION TAGS FOR ALL The program now being not need them than to need cupants are killed or render- promoted by the Pet Milk them and not have them. ed unconscious miles away Company, with the approval Omit the possibility of an from their homes and friends, of the f^eral government, to all-out war with a foreign en- Then there is the possibili^ provide American citizens emy, which with the use of of an attack of amnesia seiz- with identification tags ought modern instruments of de- ing a person under the same to receive the endorsement struction such as atomic and circumstances. Then there is and support of ^very indi- hydrogen bombs might call the possibility of children get- vidual in thi^ country. While for the instant evacuation of ting lost or straying away the program is not designed a city. We think there are from their homes. It is in that to create any hysteria that an other important reasons why most serious hour to parents attack of a foreign foe is emin- the identification tags should and loved ones that the ap- ent every person in America be worn at all times by all parently unimportant identi- ought at least be willing to Americans. Quite often auto- fication tag becomes the assume the attitude that it mobile wrecks occur at whic^ most important item in the is better to have the tags and time many if not all of the oc world. SATURDAY L. E. AUSTIN Publisher MAY 28, 1955 CLATHAN M. BOSS, Editor H. ALBERT SMITH, Maiuiginc Editor M. E. JOHNSON. Business Manager JKU5E COFIELD, Circulation Manager PubUflMd Bv«7 Ssturdajr b7 flu tnnrxD PUBLWBUI, laoorporatad »t >18 B. P»ttlyr«w St. I ncoad at*M matter at tba Post Offto* at Oiitluai. Nortti CaraUaa unitor tha Act ot Mareb a. mt. MattMMa A4v«ni«iBt BurnantaltTa: Istatateta No fuarantaa of pnbUeatiaa of naaoUeltad mat*- rlaL Lattan to tba adMar lor publication muat ba rt»»ad and mnflpait to BOO woida. Subacflptkia Bataa; lOe par oopr: Wx maatbii •1.00; Ona Taar, fSM (Ionlsii ConnMia, $tJOO One of the most mysterious and perplexing facts of life is the dogged persistence with which we liuman mortals ig' nore the voice of experience and our seeming inability to learn the lessons experience has been teaching us during J;>racti' cally every conscious rnomeht of our lives. It is our Stubborn resistence' and fanatical rebel lion against ' the warnings which experience is constantly shouting at us - and the fierce, unyielding determination that Constantly drives men to tempt the gods to vindictive anger, to defy the “Thou shalt nots” of the eternal God, defiantly to trample under foot the laws both of the natural and spiritual world, and to risk their immor tal souls, their destiny here and hereafter, in efforts to succeed where none has ever truly suc ceeded and in areas littered with the skeletal remains of the unheeding who were caught in the quicksands of tragedy. Not Really Dejiant This tragic and teart-rend- ing defiance of the voice of ex perience, however, does not al ways represent an irreverent and contemptuous rebellion against the laws, the principles and disciplines experience tells us we had better heed. But it is a defiance that roots in lack of spiritual vision, the failure to realize that life is so organ ized and put together that there are certain laws we must obey and disciplines we must accept in order to become the selves Destiny purposed us to bccome and deep down in our hearts we would like to become. Don’t Clearly Vizualiie And, so, we often disobey the laws'obedience to which is a demand of a morally centered universe. And we reject the dis ciplines that the Author of life laid down from all eternity as essential to human develop ment and progress. Somehow, in our blindness, we just don’t clearly visualize how those laws and disciplines tie in with hu man destmy. BeflinninfLPoint Take f«r- instance ordinary human thinking with regard to the law of habit. How many people realize that just a few acts, looked upon as unimpor tant and inconsequential so far as future reference is concern- ed, may become the foundation of a habit which is crippling and devastating in its ultimate consequences. TOO LATE “I didn't mean it to be this way; I didn’t intend this out come!” She wept bitterly as she expressed a poignant regret. Or, was it he? It makes no differ ence. A human soul, locked in the cruel embrace of a vicious habit like a hapleSs deep sea diver caught in the tentacles oi an octopus and unable to break away, realized too late that in tention is one tiling and reality another. Won't Hoppen to Me Or take ordinary human thinking in the face of evidence seen in the misfortune of others. There is quite often the feeling that it won’t happen to me. We hear the expression of ten, “Sure it iiappened to him,' but he was “dumb." He didn’t know the pitch.” And, so, somebody who thinks he is not “dumb,” that he knows tlje pitch teles an identical type of beliavlor, only later to wake up to dis cover that he was not as wise as he thought he was and that he too did not know the pitch. Foolish Thinking Say what one will or may, any person is “dumb” who thinks he can violate moral law with unponity, or exemption or freedom from punishment, liarm or loss. There is no such thing as knowing the pitch, if by that one means he can live outside the requirements of a moral universe and not get hurt. Experience, carefully studied, will always yield thin truth. A Carry-Over Maybe, the impression men have that they e^p' get around moral law is a sort of a carry over from successful evasions and violations of human law. That, they do sometimes be cause of the weakness of law enforcing agencies, a weakness manifested in an inability to de tect the violator.or to appre hend him often when he is known. Besides, there are sub terfuges, teclmicalitles, connec tions, money, smart lawyers that serve to defeat the law. In the Structure of Life Moral law however, is no hu man invention or a statute written on paper and dependent upon human agencies for en forcement. Its roots are in the very structure of life. It works as certainly and inexorably as physical law or the law that governs physical life. As pro per food, taken in i quantities not too much or too little, is required for life and health, so there are conditions of a moral nature we must meet to live. And because of the closeness of the tie-up between body and spirit, violations of the moral law often result In physical de struction as well as moral de terioration. Results the Same But one thing we need to bear in mind: whether we con- temtuously reject the laws of life in our refusal to leam from experience, or ignorantly do so, the results are the same. Aa ex.^ plosion loses none of its de structive force and devastating power because it was accidenti- ally caused. An artery severed unintentionally will bring death as certainly as if It were intentionally cut. Likewise, ig norant violation of the laws of life in no wise makes the pen alty lighter or the consequence less tragic. The Wise Man Heeds I take leave of you with the thought that the truly wise Vnan will listen to the voice of experience and heed its warn ings and admonitions. He will take note of the tragedies tliat befell men In past days who re jected moral law and its dis ciplines. And, observing the same thing as it occurs in con- tempory life, he will not re- l^t their mistake. UnERSTOIHEEDnOR The Editor Carolina Times Durham, N. C. Dear Sir: The papers tell of a speech on May 15th, by “Most Reverend Vincent S. Waters,” bishop of the Raleigh, N. C. diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, givei^ at Chicago on May 15th before the Catholic Inter-Racial Coim- cil of Chicago. The bishop spoke of “the results of racial prejudice” as being infractions of the law of God and man,” He further said that “we must solve this problem as Christians, which means by love more than by justice.” We are left to won der whether the bishop meant that if dealt with merely in justice, then racial prejudice would be understandable and excusable.' It might be noted, too, that those familiar with Jesuit me thods of reasoning, might easi ly see a world of difference be tween “racial prejudice” and “the results of racial preju dice.” Sanctimonious speech and pious palaver as the the bro therhood of man, racial equali ty, etc., sound fine, but God’s Book says that a leopard can not chsipge its spots, and, since the history of the CathoUc Church is so dark, and in view of her unstinted support of the Confederacy in the War Be tween the States, we might do Well to take such statements WFith a grain of salt. Shice the United States go vernment is democratic, and the majority of votes conteol (con trary to the wishes' and purpo ses of the Catholic ' Church), and since the Negro can now vote, and his vote looks just as big on the tally-idieets the night after election as do those ot the white man, the Church has now become much more interested h the Negro than in times past. So, let's be rather cautious before we swallow, “hook, line, and sinker", any and all such statements. The Bible contains the Word “reverend” only once, and then refers to the name of God, as seen in Psalms ni:9. But the Church’c bishops can not be content with this, and their names are “Most Reve rend.” Truly yours, - J. J, Walsh Spiritual Iiisight By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church ENEMIES OF MARRIAGE “Don’t (et bitterness and Resentment spoil your mar riage..." Col. 3:18. Many marriages and homes are desteoyed by the great ene mies of marriage—bitterness and resentment. These twin agents of destruction are ene mies of happy marriage. They will desteoy almost anything- a life, a nation or a marriage. The welfare of so many is in-‘ volved-the wife, the husband and the children. Yes, so many lives can be dragged down to the dark depths of misery by the enemies of the home. Look how they blighted and ruined the life of Saul the first king of Israel. Did they not contribute greatly to the ruin and down fall of Germany? A resentful and embittered nation struck out at the world in violent and bloody fury. The result was ruin and devastation. Paul, the man of wisdom and spiritual insight, rightly warns us against these enemies of marriage. It seems to be true that bit terness and resentment wUl spoil your marriage and destroy your home. These are God-given powers. Then, how are we to handle these destructive potentials of our nature? We can keep ^em from destroying the most deli cate ties of the marriage rela- tionstiip. Occasions for resent ments come, yes. Most all have had the impulse to bitterness and resentment in this close in timate relationsliip. We must recognize that we tiave them and make a sincere fight with God’s help to channel and con trol them. We must face the fact that re sentment can be a roadblock to personal relations. They do exist. They are dangerous ene mies of marriage. 1 have seen people gain mastery over their raging temi>ers. I know two people who have won great vic tories against their destructive feelings. We must fight them and remove them before they grow. The longer they grow the harder are they to be removed. Face them and uproot them be fore they get a strong or deeper rootage. Guard against them Why? They blow out the light of reason. They throw you off key and induce temporary in sanity. Guard agaUist them. They 'bring a blight of dark misery and gloom upon the home and rob you of the sweetness of a itappy and loving atmosphere. These enemies of marriage poison the atmosphere of the home. The home should have a reasonably loving and gracious atmosphere...“Don’t let bitter ness and resentment spoil your marriage.” Only a loving at mosphere will cause us to grow lovely and beautiful as God in tended that we should grow. A resentment-infested atoosphefS** will rob you of your right to happiness in the home. Watch that bitter disposition. Beware of that resentful feeling in your soul. It will spoil your happi ness where it couhts most-lN THE HOME. Never go to sleep with resentment In your soul. A good rule for your marriage is MAKE PEACE BEFQRE YOU SLEEP. Have you ever tried to sleep with the ravaging fire of resentment burning in your soul? It is not a night to be desired. Many marriages are wrecked on the rocks of bitter ness and resentment...“Resent- ment will spoil your marriage..” How can I guard against the enemies of my marriage? Keep your soul free from the poisoi^ of resentment. Root out the poison of the soul. How? Through prayers of, confession and forgiveness. We need 4e- forgive one another “AS CHRIST FORGIVES US...” Hu mility and prayers are the keys. Say to your mate 1 am sorry. And God is always ready to for give you. Capital Close-Up By G0N8TANCS DANIBL The Last of the Messiahs A magnificent character left the American scene when Mary McLeod Bethune was gathered to her fathers. She was a matei- arch in the grand sense, con- spiciously providing, in herself, a strong hub for the wheels of much progress. Few of any iw- litical faith failed to feel the force of her forward drive in the Roosevelt-Truman era. She became a near-fabulous figure, with an emotional following seldom equalled by any leader of her times. Those who ahnra^i, so recmtly. In the last public teibute to her, here in Washing ton, the scene of so many of her teiumphs, must feel rewarded that they gave her the great happiness of this final npplnirrt Often Mrs. Bethune referred to herself and her generation as a bridge between eras, but that was more figure of speech th»n fact. She was far too dynamic for any passive role. Her be loved Bethune-Cookman Col lege, and her brain-child, the National Council of Negro Wo men, revolved around her while she lived. She organized, at her Daytona Beach home, the foundation which bears hex; name, to provide a place where posterity could “browse and leam and be inspired,'’ by the record of her action and her piiilosophy. The world will long remem ber that she passed this way. She was probably the last of th^ &£6fllAll0« "Well-Done'’ to the Living United Community Services recent award to Wasiiington- bom Campbell C. Johnson, As sistant to the Director of Se lective Service^ was very much in order. He deserves well of this community Col. Johnson has had a hand in so much of tlie present growth of the Capital toward social health, that the recount ing of~d6tail seems almost trite. Working for civic progress in a voteless community is an ap pallingly frustrating assign ment, chosen by few. Campbell Johnson, fresh out of Howard University and its law. school, chose It, freely, and lias worked at it tirelessly, i>ersistenely «n^ effectively. He produced— without back-dooring. Camp bell Johnson has stayed with the situations that he has tack led, and has seen through—often almost alone- after early-come enthusiasts had tired and departed. He has grown to as Executive Secretary of the Twelfth Street “Y,” In haiping to establish settlement houses, the local Urban Ijeague, the Community Chest, the Interra cial Committee of the Council of Social Agencies, in work with the' Wasliington Federa tion of Churches, with the Washington Housing Associa tion, which he heads, with the IMstxlct Parol* Board, over which he is presiding for the tenth year. Eight years ago, ,48 Capital organizations joined to honor him for 25 years of Service to his home-town—^the Federal City. His latest “well-done” is for his sixteen years of work with the Pardle Board. Next? Maybe that good Capital news paper we used to talk about. Lawyer Johnson—Sociologist Bernadine Johnson of New ark, New Jersey, was sworn in, last week, as Assistant Counsel of Senator Kefauver’s subcomr mittee on juvenile delinquency. Miss Johnson, a Rutgers’ law graduate and member of the New Jersey bar since 1849, haS been practicing with her father, Bernard Johnson, a Howard law alumnus, specializing in civil and Juvenile court cases. Once headed for a career in bo- ciology,,she earned her bache lor’s degree In that field, under Dr. B. Franklin Frazier, at Howaird. Her minor was politi cal science. Miss Johnson’s appointment appears to be a happy combina tion of the selection of compe tency coupled with political re ward, tor the Johnson family— father, mother and daughter— are all Kefauver enthuaiasta, and all attended the Chicago convention as Kefauver suppor ters. Bernadine admits that she shed tears when the Senator was forced from the race, and is very pleased to be here working with him. Her mother, the for mer Mamie Cooper, of Oordons- ville, Va., is a product of the Capital’s public schools. Tha newly-arrived young Portia has taken up residence at Slowe (Contimud on Page NIim)
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