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FA«TWO TBS CAROL^^ TMga SATURDAY, NOV. S, H5^ The Negro Voter's Golden Hour Tuesday November sixth bers with every right and such naked abuse, can be a golden hour in his- privilege afforded others, it I£ he will vote the Re- torv for more than one million can kiss our votes goodbye. pubUcan ticket on next Tues- Ne^ citizens in North Caro- We ought to say to that pwrty day and show signs being Una or it can be just another with our ballots that we ior willing to attempt to wrest national election day. On that tend to strike the first blow himsefi as well as his wlute day every registered Negro for a two-party system in brethren from the toils of a voter in this sute will have North Carolina, a system un- one-party system, he will toll the opportunity to go to the der which we beUew will the bell lor the dawn of a new polls and cast his ballot ultimately result in a greater day for the economic, educa- against the Democratic re- share of freedom and human tional and political develop- gime in North Carolina and in dignity than we have eiqieri- ment of North Carolina, a the nation, a regime which enced under the one-party state which now ranks ^ong has made the struggle for full Democratic system. the lowest in the nation in citizenship so hard for Ne- This newspaper is aware these areas, groes in the South. Let there jjjat a few selected Negroes Under the one p^y sys- be no mistake about U, the been given token recog- tem, North Carolina has smaU patronage which Ne- under the Democratic sunken to the very bottom in groes in northern and western rggune in this state. Several average weekly earnings paid states are receiving in jobs jjggn allowed to to manufacturing employees, and other political plums attend the County and State In the field of education, ac- from the Democratic Party Dgniocratic conventions and cording to a recognized au- are but crumbs when con- ggj.yg committees often to thority, “North Carolina in sidered in the light of what |j^g embarrassment and con- 1947 ranked 44th among the tt)0 race is suffering imder tempt of members of the states in ability to support that same party in the South, party from eastern North education, 27th in effort put where dwell over seventy- Carolina. This was proved at forth but 40th in accomplish- five percent of the race. (j^g extra session of the legis- ment.” In spite of this sad Lack of job opportunities in Mature this summer, when state of affairs in the ^uca- national state county and of their fellow Demo- tional achievement of the municipal governments or- crats from that section spared North Carolina, voters of the ganized determination to’keep wrath tow^ continue to retiOT to Wm in a state of subservience, izens and finaUy crowned the oflice agpi ^d ag^ the refusal of registrars to per- event by voting into law the Democratic Party that h^ no mit him to register and vote, Pe^U Plan, designed sol^ reMon to fear temg replac^ (even as a Democrat), when ly for the purpose of uphold- with another party that might he is qualified, and now th^ the status quo of the race do better, reviv J of the Ku Klux Klan this state. Again, we say Tuesday, an just a few of the condi- Negro voters must look November sixth can be a tions which the Negro faces beyond these few crumbs that golden hour in history, one in in the South. This is what the hgyg faUgn to him from the which the death kneU was Negro voter should think Democratic table. They must sounded for the well-worn, seriously about before he forget that the overall outdated and stultif]ring one- casts his ballot in this and ijmss of Negroes in this state party system; one in which other states on next Tuesday, gj-e still the last to be hired the dawn of a new day for all There was a time when po- and the first to be fired in all people in North Carolina— litical expediency might have government jobs. If the Ne- and the South—can rise. We warranted Negroes in North gro would be free, he, him- urge with all our sincerity Carolina registering and vot- self, must strike the first that Negro voters in North ing as Democrats. We think, blow whereby he, under a Carohna and the nation vote however, that it is now time two-party system, will at least the Republican ticket, an act to serve notice on the Demo- not be so counted “in the which can mean the end of cratic Party that unless we bag,” that he is expected to the one-party system in this can become full fledged mem- t^emain loyal in the face of state. Governor Hodges And The Ku Klux Klan The statement which Gov- to fan the flames race ha- sworn to uphold the U. S. emor Hodges gave out at his tjed among the yery ele- Constitution and its laws, its news conference in Raleigh . u nr^nds. to citizens must comply with last Thursday, decrying the . ^ ^ the Supreme Court’s ruling revival of the Ku Klux^n pg^u ^^ich in North Carohna, wiU be re- ^^sons *hem t^t he wanted th^ ceived by intelhgent Negr^ ^now has a ghost of a^ance pass f law that would cir- with a grain of salt if not a of meeting the approval of the cumvent the decision, sp^k suspiaon. If ever a u. s. Supreme Court, Hod- So now, if the good people chief executive has done ey- opened a Pandora’s of both races in the state must erything in his power to which has now reap the harvest of their Gov- create an atmosphere^ in gpjmjg ^ revived franken- ernor’s wicked ways, charge which organiMtiom sum as g|gm^ ^jje Ku Klux Klan. So it up to him and not to the thrive, ^y- thgre is a reign of terror in ignorant whites who have em HMges is the one. If his- Carolina, it must in all been duped into believing tory fifty y^s from now does faimejsg be charged up to the that white sheets, hoods and not as i! one man who has done more other regalia are sufficient to nor of this st^ who had the gg^ ^jjg g^age for it than any frighten Negroes into accept- greatest op^rtumty for pro- other single person, Governor ing a state of second class cit- gressive leaderslup, but made jjodges. izenship, and that they can the greatest failure at it, it get away with defying the will record him as the most WhUe aU this wm going highest court in the land, stu^. oBr repeated- ttppeals were ^ Circumstances and events made to the Governor by this There is no just cause in a of the past two or three years newspaper and other sources democrapr that cannot be ob- have brought this state and close to the Negro population, taioed within its framework, the South to the threshold of to caU a meeting of leaders of When evil men seize the free- a new and brighter era in both races in order that they doms which are allowed un- boto the field of industry and might sit down together with der a democratic form of gov- race relations. Instead of us- mutual respect to plan a- emment to enslave those who ing the influence and power peaceful acceptance of the are weak, those who are of his office to promote the Supreme Court’s decision. In- strbng had better come at at- coming of the era, without stead, all the stops of defiance tention, legt in the end they which North Carolina or no were pulled out, and a special find themselves also the vic- other state can have prosper- session of the legislature was tims of tyranny. “Eternal ity in this age, Governor called, not to inform its mem- vigilance is the price of free- Hodges deliberately set about bers that as its Governor, dom.”. the Beam In Senator Eastland's Eye Senator James. O. Eastland ed Eastland to ask for free state, of Mississippi proved himself elections in Mississippi. Eastland needs to wash his a veritable jackass last week It will be recalled that last own dirty linen before he when he had the gall to ex- year two Negroes were killed starts pointing to that of press a desire for free elec- and another seriously wound- Poland. While we agree that tions in Poland while approxi- ed in Mississippi because they two wrongs do not make one mately a half million Negro insisted on registering and right, we also agree that an voters are denied the free use voting and were influencing accuser ought to get the beam of the ballot in his own state, others of their race to do so. out of his own eye before he Eastland is reported to have In spite of this. Senator East- start pointing to the moat in released a statement on Oc- land never rai^ one finger the eye of his brother, tober 22 proposing that the of protest. Is is revolting that Southern congressmen, as United States press for free he can seek free elections for well as others of the South, elections in Poland. Inunedi- people in Poland while it is should awaken to the fact that ately thereafter, Roy Wilkins, denied such a large segment modern inventions have now NAACP secretary, telegraph- of the citizenry of his own brought the peoples of all lands 10 cIom tog«th«r that Poland muat hav« tumad up they can no longer commit their noses at Senator Eaafe» heinous crimaa against Ne- land’s attempt to injaet him* noes in their own l»ckyard into tne int^mationai without ^ding a repwt of limelight by asking for a frea the same on the front page of election in a foreign county newspapers all over the world when no such thing, exists In the next day. Officials of his own state of Misalsiippi. FACING THE ISSUE Bf DK. a“ EISENHOWER MILITARISM The Balance Of Power,If They WW Only Use It Cdimla Ctnws MAIN OFFICE — 436 EAST PETTIGREW STREET ' Phones 5-0671 and 2-2913 — Durham, North Carolina Published At Durham, North Carolina Every Saturday By THE UNITED PUBLISHERS, Inc. ' Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina un der the Act of March 3,1879. L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher CLATHAN ROSS, Editor M. E.\JOHNSON, Controller W. A. HENNESSEE, Business Mgr. JESSE GRAYy Advertising Mgr. WINSTON-SALEM OFFICE — 304 N, CHUECH ST. - MRS. VELMA HOPKINS, Manager PHONE 5-0869 t3.0« %ZM SUBSCRIPTION RATES — One Year Ten Cents Single Copy Six Months $4.00 — Foreign Countries. National Advertisin INTERSTATE UNITED REPRE, 545 Firna Av«nu* * Representatives SSENTATIVES, Inc. Phomi MUreat HIll - 2-5452 New ^Yosk 17, "Niw York One of the most remarlcable accompliiihments of propaganda in the modern world is the suc- cesslul advertisement of himsell by President Eisenhower and his aids as a man s^king peace, a general opposed to war. Many citizens of the United States are convinced that the election of Eisenhower as President of the United States for four more years means that militarism will take a back seat for the leAgtb of his term of office. Just the op posite is the fact. It is strange that our people should believe that a man so thoroughly train' ed in the military traditions and who gained his fame and for tune through military operations has somehow come to be a champion of anti-militarism. One argument of the propagan dists is tliat Eisenhower is op posed to militarism because he knows from personal experience the destruction, suffering and futility of war, the outcome of militarism. Many people seem to have been "brain-washed” in to believing this propaganda in spite of the fact that by his actions our President has pro ven himself to be the greiatest militarist who ever occupied the White House. For example, we are spending over thirty-five billions of dollars a year now on our military establishment, the largest amount ever spent by any nation in the history of the world for militarism. One reason Eisenhower Itas been able to get away with this propaganda is that he practices what some writers are calling “The New Militarism”. This new type of militarism is excel lently explained in a book re view in the October issue of the PROGRESSIVE magazine in which the reviewer^ Louis Smith, makes the following re vealing comment;, It is probably correct to sa> that the danger of militarism in America is greater today than in any other time in our history. We are threatened by a new type of militarism, the militar ism of the garrison state. It is a militarism that comes upon us subtly, produced by perpetual crisis in a time of mortal threat, where every policy lias to be calculated in terms of its Impact upon national security and where welfare considerations must be subordinated to mill' tary considerations.” The essence of militarism, old or new, is the assumption that, in the last analysis, the security of a nation depends up' on physical force or military might. That this is a false a»- sumption is obvious to the stu dent of the history of civiliza tion. Oiur own Civil War, World War I and II, the last two of which were caused partly by militarism, demonstrate tliat any injustice, domestic or inter national cannot long be enforced by military strength. President Eisenhower has demonstrated in various ways, lately by insis ting on a foolish plan of “open sky inspection” to prevent the use of “A” and “H” bombs and refusal to discontinue expensive military training, that he holds to the outworn idea that a na tion’s safety lies in physical force. If he is re-elected it will be impossible to make any sig- nificaat reduction in military preparation and consequently no possible way to reduce the unjust and useless “cold war” income taxes. Since we know that Elsen hower is a militarist and will never lead to peace, is it not the part of wisdom to try a civilian for president (Steven son) who at least has tho in sight to see that militarism does not lead to peace? Perhaps he can bring us nearer that longed for day when: “They (the nations) shall beat their swords into plow shares, and their sp^rs into pruning hooks; hation shall not lift up sword against nation, nei ther shall they learn war any more.” Dr. A. H. Gordon KINC Text Of Resohition By Texas Democrats Supporting NAACP Editor’s Note: Last week, the Young Democratic Club of Dal las County, the official youth arm of the Democratic party in that county, announced is sup port of the NAACP in its fi^t for survival in Texas and simul taneously condemned the Attor ney General for taldng action to oust the organization from the state. Following is the full text of the resolution adopted by the Dallas Coimty Young Democra tic Club. WHEREAS the Democratic Party and the Young Democra tic Clubs of America, of Texas and of Dallas County has an his toric record of the defense of in dividual freedom and liberty, and WHEREAS any attack on the freedom or liberty of any indivi dual or group of individuals constitutes an attack on the ba sic rights of all free people, and WHEREAS it is not only the right, but the duty, of all Ameri cans to aid their fellowman in his attempts to attain his equal rights witliin the law, and WHEREAS the Attorney Gen eral, of the State of Texas, has instituted action aimed at out lawing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, because that Associa tion has sought judicial action to secure equal rights for citizens denied their constitutional rights, and WHEREAS said Attorney General has announced in his legal pleadings that such acti vities are “against the policy of the State”; therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Young Democratic Club of Dallas County publicly decry any at tempt by any State Official to establish any policies in the name of the State of Texas that infer, imply or have the effect of curtailing the activities of any organization devoted to the furthering of liberty among citi zens of this nation, and be it further , RESOLVED that the Young Democratic Club of Dallas County does voice its unanimous objection to the use of public tax funds in the perpetration of witchhunts designed to curtail the rights of any citizen group of citizens, or to prevent attainment of equal rights by any or all citizens of this State or Nation. Definitive Work On Jazz To Be Issued In This Country Wiiat T. S. Eliot is to poetry, Fannie Farmer to cooking, Mic key Mantle—but why go on— Hugues Panassie is to jazz. He is the Frenchman who in the 30’s, as every orthodox jazz fan knows, was the first critic to take jazz seriously as an impor tant musical form. His two pre vious books published in this coimtry HOT JAZZ, Louis Arm strong calls “the musician’s Bible.” Louis |elt so strongly about it, in fact, that he wrote the introduction. The book will be published by Houghton Miff lin Company Novemeber 80 ($4.00). $ Simultaneously with the pub lishing of GUIDE TO JAZZ, RCA Victor will bring out an LP “Guide to Jazz” recording on which 16 of the all-time greats discussed by Mr. Panassie cap be heard, including’'Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton,' King Oliver, Count Basie, and many other notables. Mr. Panaa- sie will write the "liners” for the jacket of the classic record. In his book Panassie provldw a brief biography of the great and near-great among jazzmen, and with the aid of his vast ln formation and years of stu^ in the field, eveluatea the contri butions of each. Spiritual Insight “THE WAY WILL BE OPENED” By BEVSRBND HAROLD ROLAJKD Paator, Monat GUaad Baptlat Chiircli ‘The people of Israel walked on dry grotmd in tht midst of the sea..’’ Ex.U:ia. So many times when we can not see our way out, a way is mysteriously and miraculously opened. It happened to Israel as she was caught between a crud enemy and the barrier of the Red Sea. The way looks dark. There seemed to be no way out. They were gripped by nagging worries and gnawing fears. Too often we worry needlessly as to the outcome of our plans. We fret and are made anxious about our health. Many times the fu ture seems dark and gloomy. And then, all of a sudden, a way is opened. In strange ways we escape the enemy. In unexplain able ways we, somehow, cross our Red Seas. Patience, courage and faith are to sustain us when we come to our Red Seas. Our spiritual resources should steady and hold us_ until way la opened. Faith in God is for life’s dead end moments of bewilderment and confusion. Trust God and keep the faith and “The way will be opened”. Yes, when the way was dark and the outcome uncertain, God opened the way. Trusting souls overcome when all seems lost. The Bible teaches this great truth. It works. I can testify to its truth fulness and workability. In many places during life’s struggle, when the way is dark, the outlook uncer tain, this great truth supports us until the way is opened. The trusting soul finds a way for its follows the guidance of God. trusting soul finds a way for it God’s hands; they rely upon God for strength. Jeremiah trus ted God in a dark dungeon until the way was opened. God op^- ed the way when all seemed lost. Daniel trusted God amid the evil schemes of men, and God brought him out. Paul tells us how the way was miraculous ly opened many times for him. Truly, God will open the way for trosttng sotda. Many of our worries are in vain. Many doubted God amid the perils aiid dangers of the journey towards the Promised Land. Many were paralyzed by futile anxieties and worries. Worries rob us of the joy and the power of living. They wor ried about the enemy that \ras behind. They worried about the mountains on either side. They worried about the barrier of the Red Sea that was in their path. When they got to the Red Sea the way was cleared. Their wor ries were in vain. So many of our worries are in vain. The things we worry about ahead of us are not there when we get there. Let’s cease our senseless and futile worries. Let a simple faith in God take the place of your worries. » Invite God as your invisible and eternal companion in this rough and uncertain journey of lUe. Then you can go tlirough. Give your life to God. Let God lead you. Let God walk with you, and life will take on a new look. And, with God, we can overcome our enemies and cross our Red Seas. God will turn your darkness into light, your sickness into health, your fail ure into success, and death Into immortal life. Capital Qose Up . John Franklin’s 'MiUtant South’ John Hope Franklin’s “Mili tant South,” fresh from the Har vard University Press, is impor tant background to thought, planning and action, in these days of Mid-20th Century Southern belligerency. Dr. Franklin, who recently left Howard University to head the Department of History at Brooklyn College, New York, write* with his usual charm, but is always the responsible historian. His latest work, sup ported by an exhaustive biblio graphy, traces the martial spirit of the South from the settle ments to the Civil War, in all as pects of living, through chapter titles that tell their own story: “Background of Violence, Fighters’ Fatherland, Personal Warfare, A Militant Gentry, De fending the Comentone, Mili tant Expansionism, A Little Learning, West Points of the South, liie Citizen Soldiery, Literary and Social Echoes, To- 'nmrd a Unified South, and— Read^ to Fight.” He shows the pre-Clvil War as s^n through the. eyes of foreign visitors like the SE^Ush philoso pher James Stirling, who, a cen tury ago, commented on its “wild justice and lawless vio lence,” and like London IHmes correspondent William H. Rus sell, who called Southern gen tlemen “traveled and well-read, lovers of field sports,—^bold horsemen and good shots,” but concluded that theh* state was a “modem Sparta...an azlitocnKy reeting on a helotry, with aeth‘- Ing else to rest upon.” By CONSTANOB DANIBL South Believed It Could "Rule Northern People” The historian points out tiuit the South believed that it would win, in a show of arms with the Nor^, because it possessed “more aptitude and genius for war,” and “every quality neces sary to rule the Northern peo ple.” (from Southern Literary Messenger, June, 1860.) The au thor expresses his own belief that the North lacked respect for the military strength of the South, which it thought could be iMlted without risk of military reprisal, while “the Southern hand rested nervously on its pia- tol, knife or sword.” All Were Militant in Frontier South Showing how the fighting spirit pervaded the entire com munity in the essentially fron tier South, Dr. Franklin notes the readiness of Negroes to re sort to violence, reflecting, the fighting spirit of the vdiites, with free Negroes fitting slaves, whites and each other. “Violence,” says the author, “was inextricably woven into the most fundamental aspects of life in the South, and constitu ted an important phase of the to tal experience of ita people. Fightt^ became- a code by which men lived.” He ’ termed the man of the South “a product of his experience as a frontler- man, Indian fighter, slavdiold- er, self-sufficient yeoman, pow white, and Negro.” Quoting from Jefferson's “Notes on Virginia,” (1782) in which Uiat artetoerat dmounced the whole maaker-slave relation ship as “a perpetual exercise of the> moat boistarous paasltms,” wllli' “unremlttlnc de^ettan, and degrading suWniaslon," Dr. Franiclln shows how fear of slave uprisings built by this sup pression, gave rise to the further militancy of armed night pa trols, recruit^ from planters’ families. Expansionism and Manifest Destiny (The South through Its Own Eyes) Intensely Interesting is the in sight into the South’s expansion ist thinking and venturing, even into international areas, provid ed by the chapter on “Militant Sxpansionism,” with its justifi cations for plans to “overrun Cutw, Mexico and Central A- merica.” From De Bow’s Review, (New Orleans) for May, 1856, the au thor quotes this illuminating passage from the pen of George Frederick Holmes, thoughts echoed by Hitler, nearly a cen tury later; “Conquest, extension, appro priation, assimilation, and even extermination of inferior racee has been and miist be the course pursued in the develoi»nent of civilization.” Currently Pertinent The historian’s concluding chapters, dealing with the ef forts of the pre-Clvll War South to achieve areal unity through the Southern Rights Associa tions, the Montgomery League of United Southerners, the "self- sufficiency” resolutions at the New Orleans Commercial Con vention of 1858, and the plea for organization of “Committees all over the cotton statw,” seem strangely familiar, today, as men of goodwill search for a way through the desegregation problems of 'a South still mili tant, a century later.
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