rAQI TWO
TOT cabolina macs satubdat, sbpt.
The Veneer Of American Civilization
Just exactly how thin the gone to Khool for two dayi to declare themselves dpmly
of that thin* we wme- >!rtthout event White
8, ItM cause America cannot con- and unborn generations of
i ■■ itinue to flaunt its hTOocrisy your own races, but for your
labout donocracy in the &ce white brethren, roaiw o f
of all the darker races of the whom in this hour of destiny
world without ultimately suf- are frustrated and blinded by
fering the consequences. We| prejudices that have been ^
call you from the farms, fac- stilled into them over w
tories, your homes or where- years. Without boasting, talk-
ever you are to let nothing ing or bragging we call upon
stand in your way Saturday you to go to the polte on Sat-
to keep you from voting. urday and ^litely cast your
Remember, you are not on- ballots against the uimoly
ly voting to obtain human dig- scheme of the Pearsall Plan,
nity for,your own children
FACING
THE ISSUE
By DB. A. H. GORDON
THE TWO PARTY PLATFORMS
y to as American dents, the teachers and the law and order While they have
rii^zation or culture was Negro students within that a chance to speak. Likewise
week when one short time had already begun sensible Negro citizens must
^son from to forget about the diiference meet such JeUow white cit-
KEon D^ went to in the color ol their akin, izens half way il not over half
runton. Tennessee.’normally Democracy was becoming a way in an honest effort to up-
JSuni “S^ceful ai^ reality. Christianity wlTW ^Id respect for law and or-
law abiding citizens, and “»g enthroned. der.
tunied it into a hell hole of So here is the saga of white The pretepe of fear of
raving maniacs. Negro citizens supremacy at its best, or southern white folks that ev-
of the little town who had should we say at its worst. For ery Negro student who sits in
previously boasted of the fine Clintcm, Tennessee has prov- a classroom with a white stu-
race relations and the inter- ed beyond any doubt that dent is a potential candidate
racial love and respect that there is only the thinnest for an interracial marriage is
existed in their community veneer between white supre- stupid, asinine and without
saw decency, Christianity and macy and white degeneracy, foundation. The percentage ol
every shi^ of morality Thus we must understand interracial marriages in states
thrown to the winds in a week that sometimes the so-called where integrate schools are
of senseless and fiendish at- culture we see existing among »*nd have been in process for
tacks, tlireats and near attacks magnolias and over mint ® long number of years is of
against any and every Negro juleps in the South is not yet small consequence in com-
who hapened to come in sight far enough removed from the parison with the number of
of the so-called superior race, jailbirds and harlots who clandestine interracial love
_ I.- L 1 came over on the Mayflower affairs that are so prevalent
This newspaper which last withstand the presence of and of common knowledge in
week had^ written ^an editor- Negroes in a class- the South,
i^ pramng the citizens of rooin_ What is needed in most
C^ton for the maan^ m ^ . southern communities is more
which they dispatched the Are we to further under- interracial fellowship where
members of the White Cit- stand that in every city, town members of both races will
izens Council by jailing him and hamlet the gasoline is that all
for attempting to incite a race fhere only awaiting to ejrolode humanity is but grass and
riot in the town saw its words once the match of hatred, in- *hat denial nf thp henofits of
of praise go down the drain as tolerance, indecency and dis- demSr^y from ^e
heU raged in Clinton. The respect for law and order is vidual endangers that enjoy-
town was now hurling not on- fPPUed as it wm in C^ton? ^ b tj,e remainder. Some-
ly threats against every Ne- We do not think so. We be- ^ow we must find a moment
gro who came in view but lieve there are enough up- {firing our rush to a
against the U. S. Supreme right white atizens in the 'to make some decent
Court, the law 'enforcement average southern community, and women in the South
agency, school officials or any whose forefathers d^ not ^ teach both races the
person or persons who dared come over on the Mayflower, laundered so force-
raise their voice in support of to seek and find a sensible fully in the “Sermon on the
law and order. solution to the problems that Mount.” We must not let our
Whatever essence pf moral- now confront us here in the communities be taken over by
ity, decency and Christianity South over segregation. , hoodlums and other irrespon-
that ever existed in Clinton These citizens are there but sibles, less the Christianity
tcwk a walk when the White they must not become too and democracy we .to
Citizens Council came in. complacent, too early. They possess become more a mock-
Prior to its arrival in town must speak out for law and ery in the eyes of the world
the 12 Negro students had order. It is their bounden duty than it already is.
Pearsall Plan Shows How Much We Are Lacking
North Carolina’s scheme to his summation that, stripped what they felt were the pre
preserve segregation in its of legal jargon and technicali- vailing “emotions, customs,
schools, otherwise known as ties, the only question which traditions and mores” on in-
the Pearsall Plan, appears to was before the Court was ^®8ration. But the work of
• j- f - , I. iu -X .11- i most men reflect m some
us another mdication of how whether it was wilhng to say ^ay their own feelings and
wc^fuUy short man falls of to America and the rest of the thoughts. Though the framers
being prepared to accept the world that 15 million Ameri- of the-Plan claim they were
exactmg responsibilities of cans were unfit to associate constructing something to the
cr^tmg an atmosphere in with the remaining 135 mil- liking of the majority of
which a luting peace among lion. The Court has given its whites in North Carolina, they
^tions ofthe world c^ be answer to that question. But were really fabricating some-
fmt^ed. Ine basic premise of the South and North Carolina, thing to their own liking. It is
the Pearsall Plan, as everyone spuming that answer, have because they themselves are
conversant with issues wthin come up with an answer of not willing to forego the
tlM state well knows, is that answer of their own. North luxury of racial hatred that
the majority race will not Carolina would say, through they have devised such
tolerate the admission of Ne- its'Pearsall Plan, that the N^ scheme. And, once one com^
gro pupib to schools which groes who live within its to this realization, to llie
^ve in the past been reserved borders are not fit to attend knowledge that the leaders of
for whites only. It would be school with the white pupils official thought in the state
naive Md downright dishon- of the state. The Peani^ have capitulated to such retro-
Mt to believe that desegrega- Plan would give the official grade views of one segment
tion^ a popu^ ^ng among sanction of the state to raek^ rf htmian nature, any faotpeUbt
wuthem whiles. North Caro- intolerance. Behind intoler- lasting peace in the world is a
linians included. But, after ance of any kind lies hatred, tenuous one indeed. For na- why neither party could offer
mak^ that point, the Pear- And the Pearsall Plan says to tions, like states, are made up ’ any for a substantial re-
s^ Plw proceeu to s^en- the citizens of the state, go in the final analysis of human auction of taxes, especially the
der to the same kind of base ahead, indulge your hatred flit beings,
motives which have wreaked the state’s behest. The Plan „ ^ j u ,
so much carnage and suffer- would put a premium on ha- , hatred has always been a
mg in our time. It capitulates tred. It would pay ($135 per men. The rec
to intolerance, to hatred and puoil) for racialhatred “ every great mind, from
proceedstohammeroutaway ^ ' the Holy Scriptures down
through which intolerance ^ the essence of the through the modems, testifies
can be nourished. Pearsall Plan. And it gives an eloquently and profoundly on
interesting, though altogether this question. If Americans
^^en the question of segre- suspected, insight into the cannot tolerate each other;
gation in public education was character of the leaders of the how can they hope for this
first arj^ed before the Su- state. The framers Of the Plan country to lead a world of
Thurgood Mar- and their backers say they divided peoples to peace a-
shall reminded the court in were acting in accord with mong themselves?
Vote Against The Pearsall Plan
Saturday, September 8, the not believe it will carry with ing their* vote against • the
voters of North Carolina will it as great a majority as was plan. This coupled with an an
te call^ on to vote on the first believed. ticipated large Negro vote a-
Pearsall Plan which is in re- In the first place the ele- gainst it foreshadows tough
aiity a plan concocted by its ment of fairminded white peo- though probably successful
wthor and Mcked by the pie is increasing in North Car- going for the Pearsall Plan,
uovemor of this state for one oHna and although for the „„ , „
expressed purpose, and that is present its members are some- Whatever happens we call
defiance of the U. S. Supreme what silent, when it comes to on Negro voters to vote as
Court’s ^^g on segregation, speaking out in the press, ra- never before, not because
AXtnough it w our candid o- die and television we believe they have anything to gain by
pimon mat the Pearsall bill; they will speak out at the bal- integrated schools other than
will probably be passed we do lot box this Saturday by cast- academic equality but be-
The shouting and th» tumult
have died away in Chicago and
San Francisco, our two major
political parties have nominated
their proposed candidates for
the liigh offices ol President and
Vice—President of the United
States. Each party has announ
ced its jplatform. Both of the
parties dodged the main issues
which should confront the vo-
ten in the November elections.
11 we are to judge them by their
platlonns both parties are not
only conservative but reaction
ary. Iiet us consider the things
which neither party platform
deals with constructively.
First in.-importance, in the
opinion ol this writer, is the
lailure ol both party piatlorms
to oUer a substitute for lorce,
which ultimately means war,
as a basis lor our foreign policy.
Nowhere does either party plat-
lorm mention the lact that
since lorce, or war, is obselete
in the modem world it is no
longer ol any use whatsoever as
an instrument ol national t>oUcy
in the area ol international re
lations or diplomacy. In spite ol
the lact that all intelligent
people know that John Foster
Dulles is a miserable lailure as
a diplomat, the Republican
speaker at the Convention up
raised him as “a great Secretary
ol State.” The Democrats de
clared that we must maintain
our military power as a deter
rent to war. Neither platlorm
suggests that we should lorsake
war and depend upon the
United Nations and peacelul ne
gotiations to solve our inter
national problems on a basis ol
justice and lalr-play lor all na
tions, large and small. Nowhere
in either platlorm is it indi
cated that we would be much
wiser to take a chance on Peace
rather than on war.
Secondly, neither party ol-
lered any relief to the over-
burdened tax^^payers this
country. Ol course the reason
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morally criminal wd' economi
cally unwise income tax sche
dule, is that they approved de
pending upon military "pre
paredness” as a loundation at
our loreign policy. This in
volves keeping up the present
system ol universal military
training hypocrltally called the
“Selective Service” draft. ^
long as we have militarism we
must have these high, unjust
taxes to support the useless and
vicious “top brass" in the army,
navy and air lorces with their
inordinate appetite lor power
and glory which they do nothing
to deserve.
Thirdly, both party piatlorms
are h}rpocritical about the mat
ter, ol Civil Rights. The Deiaao-
crats oUer a weak Civil Rights
plank, which in spite ol its
weakness is too strong for 'the
rebels ol the South and will not
be implemented by the party
on account ol the influence ol
the Dixiecrats. The Republican
plank is a shade stronger than
the Democrat plank but we
know by his past record that
Eisenhower, 11 he should unlor-
tunately be re-elected, does not
have the inclination nor the
courage to implement it as he
has olten said. II Eisenhower
should resign or die, either ol
which is possible 11 not {iroba-
ble, Richard Nixon will do no
more than Eisenhower has to
lorce the reactionaries ol the
South to obey the laws ol the
land which run counter to their
“white supremacy” policies.
This leaves the liberals and
progressive voters ol the coun
try without a party, without any
platlorm to supj^rt. This ap
plies to whites, blacks, brown
and yellows or any other colors
who may be progressive. What
shall we do? Perhaps we might
as well go lishlng on election
day. We suggest, however, that
we vote lor Stevenson and his
colleague since EisenhowCT and
Nixon have already been tfled
and lound wanting. We might
as weU give a new team a trial.
They can’t be worse.
A. H. Gordon
VINOBA BHAVk A JNSaPlE
OF GANDHI
BY MARY MILLS
Vinoba had not wanted to.go
to Hyderabad;, it had been
tbrusted upon him. Hyderabad
was reported to be the seat ol
communistic activities. He bad
been the chosen one of
Gandhi’s loUowers lor this
mission — unless he under
took it the loUowers felt that
the cause for which Gandhi
i^ve his life was lost. He had
walked into the area to find
out, first handi what condi
tions were like and U there
was anything he could do. HiIb
little group started out on foot
each carrying a bundle of
clothes and a spinning wheel.
They would depend upon
villagers along the way to feed
and house them. Vinoba car
ried a storm lantern which
would serve as a light along
the way until the sun arose.
Hyderabad has a Hindu
Majority but in the hands of
Moslem rulers. It represented
one of the 500 princely states-
and was the only one to resist
the Indian Union Merger in
1948. The Nizem still lives in a
stuco palace with a grant from
the state to help take care of
300 wives.
Vinoba refused a body giiud
ol policemen as he entered
entered communUt Hydera
bad; he invited policeman to
travel with him in plain cloth
es stating that he was there
to deal with human beings and
not with a jungle of tigers-
where their employment might
be useful. He reasoned with
the communists. He went to
the city jail to visit those wlio
were held prisoners and re
quested ol them to give up
their violence “and help me to
find a peaceful way out of our
problems." The prisoners held
on to their visitor for two
hours before they would let
liim go. ^
It was in Pochempelli where
the Bhoodan Mission began in
April 1951. Ram Chandra
Reddi, a landlord, had made
the liist initial gift. This man
called himself and his lamlly
rebels but declared that they
disagreed with communists
methods — “the communists
introduce an era of love and
justice by terror and bloody
idocy and lies. I never believe
tliat.” Ram said’ tliat when
Vinoba saw the condition of
their village and the fear that
was in it, “he cried. Real wet
tears.”
Vinoba lound a resting place
in the moslem prayer com
pound, at first none of the
villagers invited him to tarry
in their homes. Perhaps this
was a blessing now he belong
ed to the village and all costes
were free to visit with him.
The people who had become
communists reported to him,
they sat at his feet, that they
liad done so because of the
promise_of land. >
Ram Chandra Reddi and his
family were of the sudra caste
but they had actually been
able to push the Brahmins out
ol their village; they were
wealthy landlords and he be
came a leader of the great land
he became a leader of the
great land gift mission.
Three months after Vinoba
left the area word came to liim
that the communists had pled
ged to abondon violence in
that area; and that these w1m>
were in jail would be released
to take place in the aptnoach-
ing election.
(CONnNUM) NEXT WEEK)
“BURSTING THEIR CHAINS”
^OMIC
LHTERS TO THE EDnOR
Editor I. E. Austin
Carolina Times
Dear Sir:
Talleyrand, and officer of
Napoleon said “words were
made to hide the truth.” No
man is intelligent who does not
look into both sides of any
question. Harry Hoxsey has an
honorarium of $100,000 to
give to any man who can prove
his cancer treatment worth
less. No one to date has taken
him up on the ofler.
Who Imows but that much of
the processed fopds plus their
preservatives, certain drugs,
powerful sprays on Iruits and
vegetables may all combine to
bring on cancer, in the first
place.
For forty years I have kept
an open mind on maintaining
health. I read the allopaths and
the naturopathhs. I leam from
both.
Certain foods wliich are
popular with the populace
rarerly go into my stomach. I
am afraid of certain chemicals
which are us^ in some of
them, lliese chemicals could
be the cidprits which cause
many disharmonies, leading to
DEATH eventually.
U cancer got hold on me> I
would fly to Harry Hoxey in
Dallas, Texas or Or. Max Ger-
son. New York City. This does
not mean I liave no truck with
the allopaths. Sure tliey are
alright up to a certain point.
But they are not the whole
show.
Some years ago I had a gland
condition. One of the doctors
*61 the city “fixed me up.”
Hence, you can see X keep the
open mind.
Much reading maketii a fuU
man. Health should Isecome
the hobby ol every man; then,
would much sullering and sor
row be held in abeyance.
Your xnfly,
CHAS. HARRIS
We, a group ol Christians in
North Carolina, mlndlul ol the
alarming state of affairs exis
ting in our State, send you this
message lor the purpose ol ex
pressing our deep concern for
the education ol the children ol
our State. We call upon you lor
united action in an ellort to
turn the tide ol present trends
into a direction ol wisdom and
progress.
For the first time in the his
tory ol our State Christians
are called upon to go to the
polls on September 8 and give
sanction to a course ol action,
the sole purpose ol Vhich is to
strengthen the hands ol mis
guided men who are deter
mined to shackle lorever upon
the minds and spirits ol our
children conditions which are
detrimental to their personali
ties.
We North Carolina Christians
must repent that our present
quality ol witness lor the
brotherhood ol all men has been
so inellectual that olficials ol
our society boldly c^ upon us
to perlorm acts wliich would
lorever deny Christian brother
hood and turn the hands ol the
clock ol progress back in the
direction of the dark ages.'
Because ol the lact that al
most every church body in
America—^North or Soutti—has
regarded segregation based up
on race to be contrary to the
will ol God and the teachings
-ol Christ; and because deep
down in the heart ol hearts ol
every Christian in North Caro
lina he knows that segregation
solely on the ground ol race is
abhorrent in the sight ol God;
we call upon you. North Caro
lina Christians, to act - in a
manner consistent with your
responsibility as Christians and
not in conlormity with popular
custom or tradition.
Christians in North Carolina
cannot consistently work and
pray lor the coming” ol the
Kingdom ol God in the hearts
and lives ol the peoples ol the
world and at the same time go
out and vote lor or be Indiller-.
ent to a Plan for the continueit
segregation ol the children in
our schools. God has said in his
word,”...inasmuch as ye have
done it unto the least ol these,
my brethren, ye have done it
unto me.”
There are many people ol our*
State who regard this plan in a
very unlavorable light. Among
them are outstanding constitu
tional lawyers ol our State who
considered the Pearsall Plan as
unrealistic, discriminatory to
all children and unconstitution
al. The State' Congress ol Pa
rents and Teachers opposes the
plan as a threat to the continu
ation ol our public schools. The
North Carolina Council of Chur
ches states that, we as law abid
ing citizens should begin in good
faith, the implementation of
^e Supreme Court’s decision.
Many believe the Plan is an ef
fort at evading the law of the
land, and that the defeat of the
Plan would lorce our leaders
into a constructive course more
in keeping with our Christian
principles. It is evident that in
every locality where an honest
attempt at compliance jdth the
ruling ol our Supreme Court
has made, a high degree of de
sirable results has been achiev
ed.
In the light of our Christian
responsibility as' citizens ol
North Carolina and in the light
ol the lact that segregation by
lorce Is contrary to the la^T'snd
an abomination in the sight ol
God, we humbly call upon all
Christians in North Carolina to
go to the polls September 8 and
vote “No” to the Pearsall Se-4
gregation Plan. We pray that
God will guide' you in doing
his will. 'I
The Council Ol Presbyterian
Men, The Presbyterian (USA)
Synod Of Catawba
Capital Close Up .
Howard’s Reverie Integration
Up at Howard University, last
week, we were asking Dr. Ro
bert Jefferson, Assistant Direc
tor ol Admissions, about the
progress of “reverse Integra
tion” on "the Hill.” Over a
number ol years we bad obser
ved it, rather closely, on the
campus and in our home, and
we were remembering the “re
verse integration” thoughts ex
pressed at Howard, in 1948, by
the late Edwin R. Embree, then
President ol the Rosenwald
Fund (which was just expiring.)
We learned, without surprise,
that, the number of white stu
dents at Howard is steadily in
creasing—at the School of So
cial Work, in Engineering and
Architecture and in bther areas.
Then we went over to the Pub
lic Relations Office and asked
PR Officer Ernest Goodman
what liis picture files showed on
intergration at Howard.' What
Mr. Goodman broaght'^ out did
surprise us. In not a single pic
ture of those which he spread
out for us, had there been any
racial selection in the markedly
interracial grouping. Each was
of a “merif group. 'Hiere were
Sdiool of Social Work seniors in
cap and gown, in the 1058 Com
mencement line, led by a white
By CON8TAMOK DAMBL
honor student, with other White
students in evidence throu^out
the line, (discounting "white”
Negro students.) Of the tour top
Medical Schuol honor students,
one from each field—^two, a man
and a woman, were Negroes,
and two were white. Of four
ranking Science freshmen,
shown receiving awards, one
was a Negro girl from South
Carolina, one a Malayan youth,
one a Washington girl (Nagro)
and one a white youth from
nearby Maryland.
Says Dr. Jefferson, “Race
makes very little difference in
the selection of a school by stu
dents seeking specific training.
They look for the best instruc
tion available and accettt it
where they find it.^
What Z>r. Embree Said
At Howard Commencement,
in 1948, Dr. Embree expressed
his views on Howard’s place in
American education, ur^g that
it become “a truly national uni
versity.” Recognizing the “spec
ial needs and lacks” of Negroes
in the country’s educational
system, he argued for grrat^ in
tegration in reverse, at Howard,
saying that “these defects can
not be corrected by continuing
segregated facilities for special
groups. We cannot realize our
ideal of full education for all
American youth, by patching on
a little more lor Negroes, here,
for Jews, there, for Nisei and
Mexicans and so on in some
other place...We must see to it
that American institutions are
open to all citizens who are
competent to benefit from them
especially in this city—^the capi
tal of the world’s greatest de
mocracy.”
“1 Imow,” said Dr. Embree,
“that Howard was created be
cause of special concern for the
freedman..J£any of its sponsors
were abolitionists or protectors
of the freedmen. And through
the years Howard has been
maintained (both tlirough pri
vate ^fts and steadily increas
ing C^ongreuional appropria
tions) because of special inter
est in the colored tenth of the
American people...But nothing
in Howard’s official organiza
tion limits its services to Ne
groes or to any special group. .
“As a matter of fact,” he
pointed out,” all of the first fa
culty and all of the first little
cluster of students were white.
And during the early years,
Howard was a refuge for all
kinds of people..a new thing in
the country—a university where
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