PAGE‘two THE CABOLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1S56 The Special Session Of The Legislature Following on the heels of a Governor hedges’ local option scnooi plan by Attorney R. Mayne Albright in Durham a forthnight ago came another last we^ from Attorney Irving Carlyle of Winston-Sa lem m a speech in Chapel Hill. The opinion of these two prominent lawyers in a matter as vital as the school segrega tion question should not lie dismissed by the citizens of this state without serious con sideration and study. The fact that the governor has called a special session of the legis lature for the announced purpose of passing new laws to defy the U. S. Supreme Court makes the speeches of Attorneys Albright and Car lyle even more significant and timely. Add to the statements of these two prominent lawyers the resolution opposing the proposal to repeal the state’s compulsory scnooi attendance law passed by the North Carolina Parent Teachers As sociation in Greensboro last week and you have evidence of a growing attitude on the part of some of the leading members of the opposite race in North Carolina to move in the direction of compliance with the law rather than in defiance of it. At present, there is little doubt in our minds, however, that a major ity oi wnite people have been misled by a small, yet hard and vocal core of white supre macists to the extent that they would prefer segregation to keeping public schools. We think that the number oppos- ing such drastic action as closing the public schools is growing, and their influence wiU be greatly felt in the meeting of the special session of the legislature. Whether we like it or not, the entire educational struc ture of North Carolina is at the crossroads, and, if left en tirely in the hands of such ignorant .men as constitute certain members of the legis lature from eastern North Carolina, it may be destroyed or badly damaged. It thus ap pears that instead of furnish ing the right kind of leadec; ship that Governor Hodges has failed miserably to meet the test and has led the peo ple of this state up a blind alley and in the deliberate rebellion against the United States. From all indications. Attor ney Carlyle has proposed a most sensible approach to the problem; one that it is at least possible for Negro leaders to meet halfway. It is hardly possible that any leader of any race, or any other of in telligence would refuse to go along with an honest plan that advocates “birracial ad visory school committees in every administrative school unit, and another state-wide birracial advisory commit tee,*’ with a definite program that would lead to the ulti mate abolishment of segrega tion in our public schools. On the other band, no Negro of sound judgment and self- respect is going to cooperate with, support or take part in any prorgram from the gover nor or anyone else that sets apart members of his race as inferior or any better than the members of any other race. There ought to be enough sensible members in both races who are willing to sit down together to make a start that will take into mutual consideration the feelings of each other. In this direction Governor Hodges has furnish ed no leadership, but instead he appears to have taken a “Supreme Court-be-damned” attitude. Such a course will not be followed by loyal cit izens, white or black, who have respect for the Con stitution of the U. S. and its tughest court. Reprisal In South Carolina Is No Surprise Some two weeks ago, repre sentative Adam Clayton Po well revealed in New York that several students and teachers have been dismissed from South Carolina State College in Orangeburg as a result of a student strike there last Spring. The stu dents and teachers were let out by the college’s all-white, pro-Citizens Council Trustee tioard. The students were said to be leaders of the strike. Just what role the teachers played in the affair is not readily apparent. Perhaps ihey sympathized with the students. Ihe trustee board waited until the students had left school at the end of the term and informed them by letter that they should not return in tne I'ail. Likewise, the teach ers were informed after the end of the regular term that their contracts would not be renewed. So, according to the interpretation by one Mr. Booker Bethea, secretary of the trustee board and him self a leading member of the Citizens Council, the students were not expelled and the teachers were’nt fired. They were simply told not to come back next year. But, quite apart from Mr. Bethea’s rather weird seman tics, the action of the college trustee board is just one more example of the kind of re prisals and power tactics the state of South Carolina has employed in attempting to maintain thought control in the matters of race. The spark which ignited the student strike was the stationing of state troopers on the college campus to main tain a constant surveillance of student activities. This was a prelude to an impending in vestigation of the NAACP and other “subversive” activi ties on the caniKis. The State of South Carolina had already committed itself to police state tactics-in att«npting to crush the NAACP, the leading threat to the traditional think ing and acting in matters of race in South Carolina. By an overwhelming vote, the state legislature passed regulations which foroade state em ployees from joining or main- inging membership in the NAACP. The penalty for violating the law is auto matic loss of job. With a view toward following up this leg islation, the legislature had decided to root out “subver sive” and NAACP elements on the State college- campus with its proposed investiga tion. In the face of such blatant poliire state policies and al ready caught in the vice of a vicious economic squeeze by white merchants of Orange burg, the situation became unbearable to any sensitive, self-respecting Negro. So stu dents, more prone to action than their elders, registered th6 most dramatic protest they could think of. Although we don’t condone the dis regard for authority, which is always inherent in a strike of this kind, the action of these ' students is Certainly understandable. The reprisal which the state has exacted from them is also no surprise. For South Carolina is following the same pattern in trying to maintain unity of thought on the race question that Nazi Germany followed in the late twenties and early thirties. OfScial South Carolina has already substituted something else for American democracy, and it seems just a matter of time before someone suggests, and the suggestion taken, that something else be substituted for the American flag in that state. Semi-Pros Show The Way For the past summer or two, semi-professional Negro and white baseball teams playing in Durham Athletic Park have brought about inte grated seating at the park’s grandstand with little “fuss” and no untoward incidents. Fans have paid their way through the turnstiles and have taken the most comfort able and convenient seats they could find, paying little or no attention to the pigmen- tion of skin of the fans sitting nearby or next to them. In general, they have enjoyed themselves in the old Ameri can tradition at the games, rooting for “their” teams and heckling the umpires. Pro moters of the semi-profession al teams tell us that they have enjoyed modest if not hand some success in putting. on these contests and believe the fans are “taking to it.” That brings us around to a moraL The Durham Biflls, the Carolina League’s local em battled entry, both from the standpoint of league pLay and finances, have played for vears and years in the park before strictly segregated audiences only. Even the ad vent of several Negro players into the league h^ made no dint in the segregated seating policy at the local park. Yet the Bulls raise a perennial clamor about how the fans won’t support the team. They say they are losing money. Negro organizations and individuals in Durham have appealed time after time to the Durham Bulls owners, the City Council, and the City Re creation Commission to do something about changing the seating policy. Each appeuhas been shifted back and forth between the above named agencies so often that the ap- pesil either dies from confus ion or‘those making the ap peal lose heart and drop .it. As a result, nothing has been done to date about changing the policy. Negro fans who warit to see Carolina league games in Durham must enter through a gate in the right field comer and sit in the far right field bleachers. The majority of Negro sports lovers in Durham have responded with a silent boy cott of Durham Bulls baseball games. Although there is a small, hard segment of Ne groes who, despite the apall- ingly inferior facilities that their game tickets can pur chase for them, still attend Durham Bulls games. But the thousands of sports-mind ed Negroes in Durham who have more pride in them selves as human beings th^ they have love for baseball, stay at home and watch games Qn television, listen on the radio or travel north to watch major league games. And, in the meantime, the Bulls continue to lose money. J^t two years ago the fi nancial situation became so acute in Raleigh that the Capitals had to turn in their franchise and quit the lea- we. Few people showed up for their games. A seating policy similar to the one at Durham Athletic Park obtain ed at Devereaux Meadow, home of the extinct Raleigh Capitals. Other Carolina lea gue teams have met the same fate in recent years. It does seem that in view of the success the semi-pros have had with their policy of “sit where you want,” the Bulls owners would, if for selfish motives only, take the initiative in changing the seating policy at the Durham park. Many times more Ne groes than those who now at tend their games would doubtless be attracted to watch the Bulls if they could do so without compromising any of their basic human dignity. If integrated seating can work for the semi-profes sionals, it could work for the professionals. But maybe the Bulls own ers are victims of the Patriot mentality, a position which assumes that the end of seg regation means the end of the white race^ and, in the words of the president of the Pa triots, nothing is more im portant than maintaining the white race. If so, Negro base ball fans will continue to en joy their baseball vicariously or in some other towns. LEHERS TO THE EDITOR To the Kditor: Uecently a number of pro- Krains ana spubchcs have been arranged apparently lor the purpose ol softening up the people and the Legislature to accept the intent ol the Su preme Court and othert to mix the races. As Citizens we believe that duty does not require us to aid and abet destruction ol the Constitution. As Christians we consider it a religious Iraud to say tiiat Christianity requires us to lol low a course that would lead to destruction ol the white race. As Patriots ol North Caro lina we wish to maintain our public school system so that all children may have an op portunity to become educated. We consider it more impor tant, however, to preserve the white race than to maintain the public school system. I We believe that separation ol our children by races is necessary il we are to main tain the white race and trans mit to future generations the quality ol creative greatness accessary lor human progress. Separation ol the races in the schools will also aid the Ne groes in maintaining their ra cial integrity 11 their pride and moral standards cause them to desire this end. Therefore, it is our desire: and purpose to support the Governor and the Legislature in their efforts to • avoid any mixing of white and Negro children in the schools ol North Carolina. Since, in the school segrega tion decision, in our opinion, the Supreme Court usurped authority reserved by the Con stitution to the States, we wish to support the Legislature in making as strong a protest against the Court’s ruling as is inherent in the rights reserved to the States, whether this pro- )test be called "‘Interposition” or Something else. We wish to support the Le gislature in bringing about an amendment or amendments to the State Constitution that will legally permit such actions as may be nescessary to meet such situations as may arise. We wish to support the Le gislature in authorizing the closing ol schools where inte gration is forced and in pro viding funds for instruction of pupils in private schools where tjhat is pecessary to educate children and avoid mixing the races. W. C. George^ President of Patriots of N. C.,. inc. SATURDAY L. E. A0*tdi Clathan Rom H. Albbbt Smith JULY 14, 1956 Publlaktr KdiCer If. 1. JOHMKHf W. A. Hunnssn BuHneu Manager Advertisiivg Manager Managing Editor l*ui»Uab«d Every Saturday Inr tti* umTKD PUBUMURS, Inc. at 4$t S. St. loterMl M —M«d dasf Matter at the Poat N« guanntce oi pubUeation ol unsoUcitad nuteHal. L«tt«rs ta tba aditar for pubUeatlon moit IM sigud amd conllnad to 500 words. fi Carolina uodar tte Sub«4r4NM> Rataa: 10c per copy; She montha, It Ol Marcfc a. l»7». 12^. On« Yaar. $8.00 (Foreign Countries. $4.00 par ymx.) NatiMuJ A*nw»lKhtg lt«praM«tattve: lotar- ^te UaMad » To The Editor; An American friend of mine sent me recently a clipping which carried your article A WORD OF EXPLANATION, of March 10, and I beg you to allow me to comment on it. 1 am a young German who was a boy of 12 when Hitler came to power, and who was told a few years later only to ‘defend’ the Fatherland-but it was in the army already that I learned the truth. The truth which to clearly was stated Oy Franklin D. Roosevelt in his Report to Congress, Jan. 7, 1943: “The Issue of this war is the basic issue between those who believe in mankind and those who do not-the ancient issue between those who put their faith in dictators and tyrants. There have always been those who did not be lieve in the people, who at tempted to block their forward movement across history, to force them back to servility and suffering and silence.” And so we must be glad that Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito did not win, just as you stated. But did the American people listen to Franklin D. Roose velt’s warning, “And above all, it (victory) shall not be imperiled by the handful of inoisy traitors—^betrayers of America and of Christianity it self—would be dictators who in their hearts and souls have yielded to Hitlerism and would have this Repubj||c do likewise (Radio talk to the Nation, AprU 28, 1942)”? I think not! Of course, I whole-heartedly agree with you that many wars were fought for motives power and prolit. Even today we witness in North Africa and in Cyprus war and violation oppress the natives’ longing for independence, freedom and justice—^for the very aims the pioneering forefathers of your nation fought the British and French! And the greatest shame is the fact that the troops which are to oppress the natives’ desire to be free, are those of the countries which call themselves “defenders” of the “Free Western World”! Well, what were we fighting for In the last war we experi enced? Lat us PMiima to da- feat Hitler, Mussolini, ana Mi- rohito—auT TODAY wa muai ask another - question oi great-, er importance: What did we oo u> preserve peace? Wi!^ UAIN NO LA&TaNCJ PiiAui!, if WE APPROACH IT Wilti SUSPICION ANU MibTnuSi AND FBAKlll Vi/E CAJH Uaia-* iT ONLY nr wa PitOciiaiaj WITH THE UNDEKai'AiNU- iNG AND THE CONi’lDjuMcj!. AND THE COURAGE WHlCn. FLOW FROM CONVlCTlOJMll Let us keep in mind: Military training "educates’’ us to get sympathy lor man out ol our heads and hearts, for wa are to go out to kill and destroy, and there is also no room lor Chris tian LOVE, despite army chap lains! It is utter blasphemy to connect the killer and destroy business ol an army with Christian principles! For This Is My Commandment, That You Love On* Another, Even As I Have Loved You. So I suggest that every nation that lifts up again its hand against a brother, for we are all chil dren ol one Cjod, and so all brothers whatsoever our color and beliel—on its forehead should wear -lorever the curse ol Cain. It Is UP To Us to learn and understand that Ck>d has made oi one blood all na tions ol men to dwell on the lace ol the earth! I learned the hard way in the last war-.that LOVE is the hardest lesson in Christianity, but, lor that rea son, it should and must be most the care ol all TRUE CHRIS TIANS to learn It. What can we do to prevent WAR? President Eisenhower said: “On all the continents and islands ol the earth man kind hungers for peace. This universal hunger must be satis fied. If this is not to be an age of atomic hysteria and horror, we must make it an age of in ternational understanding and cooperative peace.” And every loyal American citizen should pledge for those high aims day for day! Day for Day we must work for Faith in the Triumph of Bight, Recognizing the Uni versal Brotherhood of Man kind, Love of Truth. Allow me to invite your readers to comment on the question WHAT CAN WE DO TO PRESERVE PEACE ON EARTH? Sincerely yours, Friedrich Jaeger German Federal Republic To the Editor, Gentlemen; In the Durham Sun of June 29th there appeared an article regarding AvereiU Harriman’s being a Catholic, and a recita tion of the Catholic Church’s I to the right to fulfe the world, by divine right. Anent the advisability of having a Catholic as pi-esident and the question as to where the individual Catholic's first loyalty lies, it might be well to be acquainted with the words of a Catholic historian by the name of Cormenin. In his volume 1, page 377, Cormenin refers to Pope Gre gory VII as follows; “God is a spirit”, says Gregory; he rules ma^^er; thus tiie spiritual is above the temporal power. The Pope is the representative of God on earth; he should, then, govern the world. To him alone pertains inlaUiblUty and universality; all men are sub mitted to his laws, and he can only be judged by God; he ought to wear imperial orna ments; people and kings should kiss his feet; Christians are ir revocably submitted to his or ders; they should muTder their princess, fathers, and children if he commands it; no council can be declared universal without the orders of the Pope; no book can be received as ca nonical without his authority; finally, no good or evil exists but in what he has condemned or approved.” This quotation can be found on page 407 of R. W. Thomp- son’s “The Papacy and the Civil Power” (1876), in the Treasure Room of the Duke Di vinity School Library. Thomp son was Secretary of the Navy. In order that the reader might know the esteem in which this Gregory Is held by the Catholic Church, we quote from volume VI of the official Catholic Encyclopedia, page 791, (1913), where he is de scribed as “Gregory VII, (Hil debrand), Saint, Pope, one of the greatest of the Roman Pon tiffs and one of the most re markable men of all times”; also as "the great pope Gre gory VII.” If all Catholics should even be willing to kill their loved ones, what might a Catholic president be expected to do for the Church? Very truly yours, W. X. MuUoy, Durham PARDON ME. BUT YOUR \IOOT5 ARE 5H0WIN6 7 jSM of me pane st/peK-fiace / Spiritual Insight “HALLELUJAH, GOD REIGNS” By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAISTD Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Cborcb “And I heard the woice of a great multitude, saying Halle lujah, for Lord God omnino- tent reigneth...”Rev. 19;6. , John sees (Sod reigning amid the decaying ruins of sin and evil. We all need the heart warming assurance of this great truth at times. We need to know that God standeth above the failures and the ruins of men and nations. John sees the final downfall and the utter defeat of evik He hears the mighty host of righteous ness singing a glorious song of victory over sin and evil. He sees a day of victory. He hears the sweet melodies of the song of victory of the Saints. Why? Evil has been brought low. Truth triumphs over false- itood. Justice wins the victory over injustice. The host of the blessed redeemed rejoices over the great victory they have achieved...“Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reign- eth...” Evil is defeated. Halle lujah, God reigns. The weary, embattled strug- glers against evil need the en couragement of ) this great truth expressed here. The many souls who light for righteousness and decency need to know that God stUl lives and reigns. Without' this great truth we would become discouraged and give up? We need to know that Crod is with us. We need to know that he reigns and will give us the vic tory. We need to know that God will not let righteousness be defeated. This, my friends, is the practical everyday les son tliat we should get from this vision of John..."Hallelu jah, the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth...” In the dark and discour aging experiences of life we too )need to know that God reigns in the holy majesty of his power. This great truth will keep us when our hard strug.-. gles seem worthless and in vain. Yes, evil wUl tempt us to believe that our struggles wUl not be rewarded. When we have done all, failure seems to be our reward. Self-seeking and fearful men walk away and leave us to fight alone. In such hours we need to know that...“The Lord God Omnipo tent Reigneth..." In other words, life’s battles and strug gles take on a new, meaning ful note when we Imow and believe that God reigns. Trust God! Keep up the good fight. When you dre tempted to dis couragement, sing the song of faith and triumph...“Hallelu- jah, God reigns”. Indeed, life Is different when we Icnow and are sus tained by a firm conviction that God reigns and right will win the victory. May this truth ejncourage you in your hard battle with sin and evU. Thank God, the righteous can sing a song of victory. They can sing-fight a littlb harder we are going to win this victory. If you are right, fight on. God reigns. You will win the victory...“Be not dis mayed whatever betide Crod will take care of you...” Fight on for the righteous will sing the song of victory. Yes, If you are right sing the song of the ii^ighteous.j.. “Hallelujah, the Lord Goa Omnipotent reign eth...” Let us toil on for the right, the decent and the just. And one day we too can sing the Righteous Song Ol Triumph.... “Hallelujah, God Reigneth.” Capital Close Up . School Bill Killed The school aid bill—HR7S35 was killed on the floor of the House, July 6, by a roll-call vote of 224 to 194, aimed at the Powell desegregation rider voted into it earliep in the day by a vote of 225-192, as New York’s Senator Herbert Leh man readied a companion ri der to attach to the bill when and if it reaches the Senate. Eisenhower, Truman ,Dawson Oppose Rider Tuesday’s (July 3) teller vote of 164 to 116 supported the Powell Amendment, which was opposed both by Ptesident Elsenhower and by former Pre sident Truman ( who sent a let ter opposing it to the House), on the basis of its evident threat to passage of crltlcally-needed school construction, called “a national crisis” by Congressman Dawson (D., 111.) who opposed the rider on the floor during Tuesday’s debate (but voted for the whole Wll on Thursday). Dawson cited his own childhood struggles for an education, as book and verse against encum bering the bill, and echoed Tru man’s warning tiiat approval of the Powell rider wo'uld kill the. school bill-hindering both edu cation and integration. Eighty-Year Pattern Earlier, Thursday, North Carolina’s Graham Barden, chairman of the House Commit tee on Education and Labor, finally calling up the bill, had announced to the House that he was “washing his hands ot it,” BY CONSTANCB DANIEL and refused to handle it any longer as floor manager, declar ing that “our people do not want this bill.” The bill’s sponsor, Pennsylvania Democrat Augus tine Kelley, then took over. The vote followed the usual pattern of proffered “rights” legislation, none of which has passed the Congress in 80 years- token voting by legislators aware that support for a biU doomed for destruction would keep their pressure group record straight, with a minimum of friction with opposition col leagues. Vote Without Merit The House was under the lash and responded accordingly. As an indication of convictions, “liberal” or otherwise, both tel ler and roU-call votes, to our n^ind, were meaningless and without merit. Race Bias Charged to D. C. Committee Forty-one D. C. signers of a Declaration of Principle, last week charged the House Com mittee for the District of Co lumbia with blocking home rule, here, because the Com mittee's Southern membership is opposed “to granting equal rights of suffrage and citizen ship to Washington’s minority Negro population.” The readily -substantiated charge has been made here, pe- renially, ever since the District lost the franchise, in 1875. Newspaper files provide ample documentation. Duriflg straw voting, her*, in 1048, whn “vo ting” was extended to the high schools to arouse civic interests in white high schools reported that some teachers had instruct ed tliem to “vote” against home rule, to prevent office-holding and political power among Ne groes. Leaders of both political par ties, who signed last week's De claration, included Washington Home Rule co-chairman Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and ftank Jellefl, Episcopal Bishop of Washington the Right Rev. An gus Dim, Rabbi Balfour Brick- ner of Temple Sanai, D. C. Commissioner F. Joseph Donohue, Victor Beuther, Uni ted Automobile Workers presi dent, and co-chairman Edward BurUng, Jr., and Mrs. B. L. Jackson, Jr., of the District Citizens for Eisenhower Com mittee. High Court Foe Snubs Probe Post Leander Perez, Louisiana po litico slated for chief counsel of the House District Subcom mittee on D. C. Schools investi gation, has refused the i>ost. Subcommittee Chairman J. C Davis, of Georgia, announced, last Thursday, that Perez had withdrawn, leaving local groups who had been waiting to testify before the uncommunicative "Davis Committee,” high and dry. Perez, National Director of the 1948 Dixiecrats, has called the High Court “the greatest menace to the country,” and ao- (Plaasa turn to Page 7)

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