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PAGE TWO THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL 21,1156 ARE WE WINNING? A fortnight ago, two steps were taken by the tJ. S. Gov ernment in its battle againsit Communist ideology to, in the minds of some, insure vic tory. Offices and property of the Daily Worker were seized in several states in a rSid by Treasxiry officials because the newspaper had failed to re port its incon\e for tax pur poses. The offices of the newsroper were padlocked in New York. A few days later, the Supreme Court ruled that any witness in a loyalty case could not invoke the protec tion of the Fifth Amendment if the court promised immun ity from prosecution for any thing the witness might say which might be self incrim inating. In the minds of some, these acts, precipitant as the seizure of property of the Communist newspaper was, is defensible on the grounds that the state has the right to protect itself against a known enemy. To others, it was justifiable and probably felt long overdue in that any act which might tend to hurt the Communists and their sympathizers is in or der. A few questioned the wisdom of the raid by trea sury officials and the court’s diecision. It seems to us it would have been far better if the Trea sury department had acted in regards to collecting tax from the Daily Worker as it usual ly does in such cases, by an nouncing to the newpaper be fore hand that it plann^ such action if the newspaper fail ed to comply with its requests. The amount of taxes that it could collect from the Daily Worker would help enrich the government far less than the impression that the raid has undoubtedly conveyed to the rest of the world. Quite frankly, the report of the raids puts us in mind of the seizure of La Prenia by the late Peron regime in Argen tina and those of the early Hitler regime. The court’s decision un doubtedly curtails the guar antees of protection of pri vate opinion by the Constitu tion. Granted that the state has a right to protect it self, does it have the right to expose its citizens to public infamy, which would surely result were a witness com pelled to state that he was a Communist or Communist sympathizer in 1936? We wonder if we have real ly gained in the battle against the communist ideoogy in these two actions, or have we merely tied ■ ourselves more fimly in a straight jacket of conformity? MRS. HAGCIE JONES AND THE TRUTH Last ihonth, Mrs. Maggie if she never attended any F. Jones, aged citizen of Ashe- school that over 200,000 Ne ville, was featured in the groes fought on the side of morning newspaper of that the Union Army in the Civil city, both in a news story and War and that thousands upon an editorial as a “Daniel thousands of them died to ob- Come To Judgment,” because tain the freedom of their peo- of her idiotic prattle on the pie. For the benefit of the en- race question. Like the dodo iightenment of the Asheville bird, we had thought that all Citizen, Mrs. Jones and the such Negroes were extinct white citizens of Asheville and had long since gone who were doubtless en- to their eternal home or thralled at this old woman’s wherever all "Uncle Toms prattle and her “time worn and Aunt Dinahs” go when myth that life in the old was they pass from this earth. heavenly and that the slaves Here are some pertinent enjoyed an idlyllic existence, excerpts as quoted from Mrs. we quote from Herbert Jones’ article, called by the Aptheker in his book, “The Asheville Citizen, as a “Glow- Negro In The Civil \Var:” ing Affectionate Tribute To White People Of South”: What price slavery? You know we have just cele brated the birthday of Hmi. Abraham Lincoln for being the signer of our freedom, lor which all are sincerely grateful; but we had friends long before his time that we should never forget as long as this world stands. They are the Southern aristocratic Christian slave owners . . : Then, soonor or later, the war for freedom was on. The South lost. The Negro was set free. The white people lost their wealth and I presume they felt just like we did when the little savings we had worked for and put in a bank were lost through Hank failure. Not a cent did we get. It made the dream of a home of our own fade away. What did the master do? “On November 12^ 1S62, Brigadier General Rufus Sax ton reported; ‘It is admitted upon all hands that the Ne groes fought with a coolness and bravery that would have done credit to veteran sold iers. There was no excite ment, no flinching, no attempt at cruelty when successful. They seemed like men who were fighting to vindicate their manhood, and they did it well.’ “On November 22, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel O. T. Beard wrote: ‘On the last ex pedition the fact was de veloped that colored men would fight behind barricad es; this time they have proved, by their heroism, that they will fight in the open field.’ On March 14, 1863, Rufus Saxton again re port^: ‘ ... in every action the Negro troops-have behav ed with the utmost bravery. Never in a single instance Not a drop of our Wood wai ^ shed because of the free dom, not one was killed; but the master called the slave together, told them they were free and said: “What are you going to do?’ ‘Marster, us dunno. Ain’t nowhares for usses ter go.” free and slavery will not be again in my day.” ‘Yaas Sur, usses goin’ stay wid you.” flinched.' “Gen. E. S. Dennis wrote on June 7, 1863: ‘It is impos sible for men to show greater gallantry than the Negro troops.’ Similar testimony came from Generals Banks, L. Thomas, J. G. Blunt, S. A. Hurlbut, G. C. Strong, A. H. Terry, W. F. Smith, T. J. “Well, do you want to stay' Morgan and Colonels J A. here?” he asked. “You are Foster, D. G. Ader ana J. A. Taylor. General Ulysses S. Grant said little, but his ac tion is quite eloquent. When in 1864, he was made com manding general of the Union Mrs. Jones represents a forces and transferr^ frpm concrete example of what the West to the decisive Vir- happens to a human being in ginia front, he insist^ upon America when he becomes taking with him 20,000 Negro brainwashed with the south- soldiCTS. ,j. . em philosophy. When she re- '" Confederate soldier after fers to the “Southern aristo- a particular engagement ex- cratic Christian slave own- claimed: I never saw such ers/* she produces a most disregard of danger and cer- paradoxical monster instead ^®th as these Negroes of a person to be served. Who, displayed. The Richmond but Mrs. Jones, ever heard of Dispatch of August 2, 1864, a Christian slaveholder? No followfhg another battle, also man who embraced the doc- stood aghast at their astound- trine of Christianity can courage. Both the South- square slave holding with the soldier and the Southern teachings of Jesus Christ any ®*ijtor could account for this more than he can segrega- with thhe ridiculous ex- tion. planation that the members of the regiments were drunk Now to take the cake, Mrs. on both occasions! Jones says that not one drop “Let us observe in some of our blood was shed because detail, as example, two in- of the Negro’s freedom. If stances of the great courage this depraved, old women of the Negto fighters. Early ever attended Tuskegee In- in 1863 the Confederate forces stitute, she certainly never determined upon a desperate studied American history. In effort to recapture that tre- fact, she should have known mendously important city. New Orleans. The key to that city was Ship Island. Ten Federal companies guards it, three white and seven Ne gro. In April, -863, this is land was attacked by a Con federate force five times more numerous than the defend ers. And Union gunboats sent to the aid of the besieged men actually and, it is believ ed, purposely shelled the Ne gro troops instead of the en emy. Nevertheless the Con federates were repulsed. The Federal commander declared, referring to the Negro sold iers: “They were constantly in the thickest of the fight, and by their unflinching bravery, and admirable hand ling of their commands . . . reflected great honor upon the flag.” “A Union army laid siege to a strong Confederate force entrenched in Port Hu^ison, Louisiana, in May, 1863. Two Negro regiments were order ed to attack. They did — through direct and cross fire. General Banks reported; “The deeds of heroism performed by these colored men were such as the proudest white men might emulate. Their colors are torn to pieces by shot, and literally bedspatter- ed by blood and brains. The color-sergeant of the First Louisiana, on being mortally wounded, hugged the colors to his breast, when a struggle ensued between the two color corporals on each side o£ him, as to who should have the honor of bearing the sacred standard, and during this generous contention, one was seriously wounded. One black lieutenant actually mounted the enemy’s works three or four times, and in one charge the assaulting party Qame within fifty paces *of themr Indeed, if only ordinarily supported by artillery and reserve, no one can convince us that they would not have opened a passage through the enemy’s works.” In his effort to achieve the impossible the Negro troops made “six dis tinct charges and fought “from morning until 3:30 p. m. under the most henious carnage that man ever tiad to withstand.” An equally authori tative source of information on the Negro soldig^ of the Civil War may be obtained from a history of the Negro “From Slavery To Freedom,” written by Dr. John Hope Franklin, former teacher at North Carolina College and now instructor of history at Howard University. On pages 280 to 290 and especially 286, a very true account of tiie Negro soldier is given. In ad dition to that, there are niun- erous other sources from which Mrs. Jones and the Asheville citizens could have obtained more accurate in formation on whether or not any Negroes gave their lives in the cause of freedom dur ing the Civil War. As is most always the case, white people do not want to know anything but deroga tory facts about Negroes. As a result most of the accoiuits SATURDAY L E AUSTIN CLATHAN M. ROSS ' H. ALBERT SMITH Publisher Editor Managing Editor M. E. JOHNSON W. A. HENNESSEE APRIL 21, 1956 — Business Itlanager Advertising Manafer Saturday by the UNITED PUBLISHERS, Inc. at 436 E. Pettigrew St. Ibtarad as aeeond claaa matter at the Port Otnce at Durfaam, North Carolina under the Act ot March 187S. National Adverticing R«pre«entative: Inter- United Newtpapera, No guarantee of publication of unsolicited material. Letten to the editor for publication must be signed and confined to 500 words. Subscription Rates: 10c per copy; Six months. $2.00; One Year. $8.00 (Foreign Countries, $4.00 per rear.) of Negro courage in the de fense of their own freedom have been deleted from our histories, or written in such ways as to camouflage their achievements. Mrs. Jones, either inten tionally or unintentionally, has done her race a neat dis service in leading the white people in Asheville to believe that she represents the think ing element of her group or its leadership. She needs more sympathy than condemna tion. The Carolina Times, however, cannot allow her, or or any other members of her race in North Carolina, to feel or to be led Into thinking that their race has not paid the price of freedom in this country. Life Is Like That By H. ALBERT SMITH THE WEEPING KING There comes a time in the life of many men when the pros pects of broken relationships, the termination uf a joyous fel lowship, rejection, betrayal, misunderstanding and repudi^ ation cast their gloomy shadow across their trail, or lay upon their spirits the heavy burden of sorrow. So true is tiiis that these men find themielves lone ly in the midst of multitudes and possessed of a sense of isolation although touching elbows with others. Je»u* Lonely I think that this was eminent ly true of 'Jesus; so much so that one of our noted preachers, some years ago, wrote a sermon on “The Loneliness Of Jesus,” wiiich was publisked with other sermons he penned. Revealing Words Bearing out ttiis thesis, there are some woids respecting Jesus, found m ihe 19th Chap ter of St. Luke’s Gospel record, the 41st verse. Th^e words read: “And when he had come near, he beheld the city (Jeru salem) and wept.” They indi cate how alone in spirit Jesus was, as well as revealing a pro found sadness. Not Happy At the time referred to, Jesus was about to make a dramatic entry into the Holy City, an event we call the triumphant entry. He was riding upon a colt, the foal of an ass, upon which his disciples had set him. But, as the Master rode toward the city, he was far from happV, a state of mind and mood his dis ciples were too blind to detect. What He Knew Let us take note of their frame of mmd and his. Jesus knew the passover, then at hand, would be his last on earth. He knew that betrayal, denial, heartache, conspiracy and tra gedy awaited him. He knew that he was riding to certain death, the horrible agonies of Calvary which would be the c&max of his people’s rejection both of himself as their Redeemer and his message of salvation. Disciples Joyful But those disciples found no such inhibiting visions before their eyes. Sfill dreaming of Je sus as a political messiah, they felt certain that now he was about to re-establish The King dom of Israel, and with glory transcending that of David and Solomon. Given .Acclaim They spread their garments on the liighway as Jesus rode along. They shouted, “Blessed be the King ttiat cometh in the name of the Lordi Peace in hea ven and glory in the highest!” Disapproving Pharisees, in that moving throng, challenged Jesus: “Master, rebuke thy dis ciples!” Whereupon Jesus re plied, “1 tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.” Unkingly Behovior The procession moved on. Je sus rode with kingly majesty, yet with sorrow burdening his heart. The disciples walked with Tumultous joy in their souls and visionary pictures in their ima ginations. And, then, just as they neared the city—Just as Je rusalem burst upon them in all its glory, the Savior, this king annointed of God, did a very unkingly thing. He wept. A Paradox What a paradox, an inconsis tency this spectacle presents! a king weeping on his coronation day!. A king made sad by the ovation of the multitudes and a demonstration of confidence and loyalty essential to any success ful rule! Yet, in the face of such, Jesus wept. Alexander The Great History records that Alexan der the Great wept in the hour when he was master of )he world. But we are told he wept -because there were no more worlds to conquor. There was no moral vision, no spiritual insight behind those tears. The grief of that conquering king was the sorrow of disappointed ambition and foiled hopes. It was the hunger of a greedy appetite for conquest and glory that could not be satisfied. Charlemonge Montgomery tells us that Charles the Great stood one day by -a window lookinjg out upon the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. In his pre sence were several officers of his army. One of them who stood by looked up. He saw tears rolling down the cheeks of the Great Saxon King. But the sol- diei^ dared not speak although he wondered why his chief was sad. '• A Prediction Charles looked up. He called the soldier to his side. He point- (Continued on Page Four ) Pres. Eisenhower's Statemenh On Segregation Said Revealing Alfred Baker Lewis President Eisenhower ait a re cent press conference (March 13th), answering a question on his attitude toward enforcing desegregation in the public schools, said that progress must be gradual and ..we must be pa tient in enforcing desegregation, because the Southern states had not been acting in defiance of law when they had segregated schools heretofore, but had fol lowed the now discarded Su- pieme Court ruling that sepa rate but equal sch'iiols were Constitutional. This remark illustrates clear ly two facts of present day poli tics; first, the way in which the Republicans play ball with the reactionary Southern Demo crats; and second, the deep igno rance of our President on social and economic issues. For the ex cuse given by President Eisen hower for the segregated schools in the South, namely that they were separate but equal accor ding to law, is just not true, as nearly everyone but the Presi dent knows. The separate but equal doc trine was laid down by the Su preme Court in 1896. Forty-five years after that here was the sitiuition: The Southern states in 1940 spent on an average only 43 percent as much per pupil for the education of Ne gro children as they did for the education of white children. (Actually the amount spent per child of school age was still less for a somewhat smaller propor tion of Negro children were at school.) Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina spent only one-third or less per Negro pupil compared with what they spent for each white pupil. In addition, Mississippi spent only 17 percent as much. By 1052 there Bad been a very substantial improvement, to be sure, by then the Negro children were not getting what the white children were getting in the South, but 70 percent as much instead of only 43 per cent as much. Alabama had gone up in expenditures per Ne gro pupil compared with whites from 33 percent as much to 80 percent, Georgia from 31 per cent to 68 percent, and South Carolina from 30 percent to 60 percent. Even laggard Missis sippi had gone up from 17 per cent to 30 perrent. Even then, despite President EUsenhower, the Southern states on an ave rage (there were individual ex ceptions like Oklahoma) were still not obeying the law under the separate but equal doctrine. For President Eisenhower to say in the face of facts, which were known in a general way, though not of course in precise figures, to nearly everyone who thought about the matter at all, that the South has l>een obeying the old separate but equal doc trine, is just plain nonsense. Either he was abysmally igno rant, or else he was making a specious plea for the South in the hope that he can repeat this year his feat of the 1952 elec tion, by winning several South ern states. It is worth remarking that the marked improvement in the education of Negro children be tween 1940 and 1952 was not due to just goodheartedness of the Southern whites. They acted under pressure. During that (Continued on Page Five) Acceptance Of Tiie New Order Is The Answer t-: -V “Pride goeth before destruc tion, and a hauyhty spirit be fore a fall..." Prow. 16:18. Pride is listed among the seven deadly sins. What is this sin of pride which is such a great spiritual problem for us human beings? Pride is that selfish spirit described, by the writer of the Proverbs...“Be not wise in thine own eyes...” Thus pride is an overbearing, exces sive sense of our own impor tance. it is the attaching of an undue sense o( importance to ourselves. And this excessive sense of importance, self glorifi cation or exaltation may apply to individuals, ra^es or nations, Pride is the seirparading of its own so-called virtues or fine points. Humility lets others boost it. Pride boosts itself. Thus, it is clear that excessive pride is an enemy of man’s spirituals life, and thus may be rightly classed as one of the seven deadly sins. The Holy writer, therefore, rightly warns us that pride is a deadly enemy of man’s spiri- Spiritual Insight “PRIDE: A DEADLY SIN” By REVEBEND HAROLD ROLAND PastOTf Mount Gilead Baptist Church well to-do may ou conten\ptible toward the so^nlled poor. The blue blood may look with scorn upon those who may have or dinary red blood. Those who tual life. Pride, as self-exaltation or glorification. Is a deadly sin. Ex cessive pride Ls an enemy of man’s spiritual life. We all know that there is an essential pride which gives dignity and worth to the human personality. A man without this essential pride can be dangerous. But we are talking ' about excessive pride, which is rank and dan gerous selfishness. This destruc tive pride may be a soul sick ness. It may be the soul sick ness of Germany under Hitler. Or it may be the dangerous soul-sickness of race supremacy. Thus, this form of pride is right ly classed among the seven deadly sins. It is the characteris tic of...“HIM THAT HATH A PROUD LOOK And A HIGH HEART...” Pride puffs us up and makes us feel ourselves to be better than others. Thus, the excessive ly proud look with scorn and contempt upon oihers. In pride the learned looks with con tempt upon the unlearned. The live on the boulevard hiay look with contempt upbn those on the otlicr side of the railroad track. Then, above all, pride with its self-glorification, has given the world the dangerous doctrine of race supremacy. Who can deny that pride It a deadly sin? Who can deny that pride is threatening the peace and harmony of men every where? Pride sets up fajse standards of value. It overlooks the worth and dignity of others. Pride is blind to the good in others. Why? Pride is so lausy looking at itself it cannot see the no bility in other.s. How much no bility of soul pride has crushed and hampered iJi this land of ours? Many meu and resources are wasted at The shrine of pride. Truly, pride must be classed as one of the deadly sins among men. , Capital Close Up Cole Attack Points -Up CR Bill The vicious, unprovoked at tack on Nat “King” Cole, in his native Alabama, last week, points up the urgency of the long-awaited Adninistration ci vil rights bill, which reached Congress only a few days prior to the atttack, together with strong letters of transmittal from Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., one to the Vice- President as Chairman of the Senate, and one to the Speaker of the House. In the Senate, the letter was read by the Clerk of the Senate, and referred. In the House, the letter was read and action im mediately taken by Congress men Hugh Scott , of Pennsylva nia and Kenneth B. Keating of New York, both Republicans. The two Congressmen intro duced the Administration’s pro posed legislation in identical biUs—HR 10340 and HR 10349. The air, hereabouts, filled with the usual accusations as to why this legislation was intro duced now. Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of Board Chairman Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, called for a bi-racial White House Conference such as Con gressman Adam Clayton Powell and other Democrats have been demanding for some time. Said Mrs. Meyer: “A White House Conference should be called at once, of the most re putable white and Negro leaders who could be counted upon to seek pragmatic and rational ap proaches to justice.” This col umn maintains, as it has throughout, that any selection by the White House, itself,^ of “leaders who could be counted on,” would bring down, forth with, a bedlam of indiscrimi nate charges of “politicking,” such as those leveled at White House Education Conference BY CONSTANCE DANIEL selections, and those already launched against critically- needed CR legislation. The Con gress, operating as a body re sponsible to the electorate, should act promptly on all CR legislation broaght before it, from whatever source. If parti san bias is allowed to control its action, that will be evident. It cannot eat its cake and have it, too. Liberian Envcji Acclaimed Ajnbassador George A. Pad- more, new Liberian envoy t9 the United States, presented his credentials to President Eisen hower at the White House on April 7. His advent, here was hailed as a new look in Ameri can—^Liberian rapprochement. While his predecessor former Ambassador to the United States Clarence Simpson, now in London, certainly upheld the dignity of his country, an un- fortimate tendency to be pom pous irked many, here, in and out of diplomatic circles, where “strutting” has long been passe. At the time of his assignment to London, we learned “on good authority” that his^ successor would be dynamic and friendly, with an out-going personality better suited to the American scene. Ambassador’s Wife The new Amtiassador, who has been Liberia’s Assistant Sec retary of State for the past six years, is Just past 41, and the youngest envoy ever sent here by his country. Not only does he measure up to advance reports, but his attractive "wife, Mrs. Mai Wiles Padmore, mother of five Padmore boys aged two to sixteen, also reflects Liberia’s “new look.” She resigned her post as the fn^t woman Execu tive Secretary to the President of Liberia—a position to which she worked up from that of ikK clerk—and was for many years principal assistant to the gene ral manager of the Firestone Rubber Plantation, in addition to managing the extensive Pad- more rubber holdings. Mrs. Padmore is the daughter of Richard S, Wiles, Speaker of the House in the Liberian Legis lature from 1934 to 1943, and a niece ’of the late Liberian Chief Justice Grimes. She is a graduate of the’College of West Africa and of the Monrovia Community Commercial School. Howard Chaplain Named Bay State Archdeacon The Rev. Jolm M. Burgess, Episcopal chaplain at Howard University since 1946, and a canon at the Washington Cathe dral for the past five years, last week was named Archdeacon of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Announcement of the appoint ment has kept the churchman's lines busy, ever since, with mes sages from well-wishers. Canon Burgess, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich.^ will hold the title of "Venerable” which accompanies the rank of arch deacon, one step below that of bishop. On taking office, June 15, he will direct the affairs of 13 missons in the Boston area, and the charitable activities of the Episcopal City Mission. Before coming to Washing ton, Canon Burgess was in charge of parishes at his home in Grand Rapids and in Cincin nati. He is a 1930 alumnus of the University of Michigan, and in going to Boston will be re turning to the familiar scenes of his' religious training at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, where he was gra duated in 1934. During his ten years in the National Capital he has l>een active in the work ol the Wash- (Continued on Page Seven)
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