North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL 27,1957 A ROSE BY ANY OTHER WORD The announcement last week that Duke University will admit three Negroes to a federally financed course in Science and Mathematics this summer, and the further announcement by its president that ad mission of the three will not represent a change in policy, sounds more like the talk of magician than it does a college president. “Now you see it, now you don’t;” or to make it plainer, “Now you are admitted, now you are not.” It might be that Duke University would admit other Ne^oes provided they would promise not to walk on the campus, breathe, sit down or stand up while they are there. Or the school could demand that the government provide all Negro students with uniforms who are enrolled there under fed eral grants. This would at least let the other Li’I Abner white folks from Skunk Hollow and Yokum Swamp know that Negroes are bemg tolerated only because the school wants the money Uncle Sam is handing out and not because they fure considered equals. We recall that Negro policemen were first tolerated in D^rhaapi during World War II in a U. S. soldier’s uniform and rightfully re ferred to as militax:y police. But they were police alright and established the fact among both the intelligent and peanut-head element of white people that Negroes are capable of doing just as good police duty as any others. Since that time, Negro policemen in Durham iUiu many omer cities of North Carolina have uecome the rule rather than the exception. * i.ne lact tuat three Negroes are enrolled at DuJce under a federal grant, a state grant, a private grant or under their own grant, in tune, wUi make little or no difference. In addition, it will give the present administra tion of Duke University the opportunity to begin to do what it probably wants to do anyway; and that is open the doors to Ne groes, Uie only race at present that is barred irum the school. “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell just as sweet." What we are interested in now is tne rose and not what name It is called. Wnat tne Negro wants is iUi opportunity to get tne best education available and a^the institution it is most practical for him to at tend at the moment. We have not lost faith in the desire of many wmte people here in the South to deal lairiy and squarely witn Negroes. We know it IS paiiUul to many of them to have to close the door of opportumty in the face of Negroes 9f ineir own country wnile it is swung wide open to foreigners, many of whom are former enemies of the United States. We predict that witiun the short span of five years Negroes will be admitted to Duke University and oth er white church schools in the South as a matter of routine and not as an exception. OTHER EDITORS SAY Senator Sam Ervin, the North Carolina Democrat, lor the twin purpose of confusing and delay ing paMage at the civil rights bill, has raised the legal argu ment • that Southern juries should try eases involving civil rights. The Department of Justice points out correctly that equity cases under an 80-year old his tory of legal procedure are tried only by judges. WE THINK it most odd that Senator £rvin never raised liis voice in complaint wlien an Alabama judge was fining the NAACP $100,000; or when a Texas judge was issuing a tem porary injunction to put the NAACP out of business in tliat state; t Or when a Georgia judge was sentencing the president of the Atlanta branch, NAACP to jail; Or when a L«uisiana judge was issuing an injunction to outlaw the NAACP in that state. A COSTLY AND UNNtCESSARY BLUNDER The management of the Durham Bulls Baseball team has committed a costly if not a serious blunder in seating arrangements at the Durham Ahletic Park that might have been easily avoided if some one in its public relations department had only mixed a little common sense with a little courage. After the management of the local team finally came around to using Negro players, we had hoped that it would go a little further and, without fanfare or noise, quietly abandon the outmoded, unchristian and undemocratic policy of making special arrangements for Negro patrons to observe the game that is most often referred to as America’s national pastime. We had hoped this because we felt that Durham needed the financial support'of its loyal Negro citizens in making possible a first-class baseball team here. That is why' we made na outcry or demands along this line in these columns when the addition of Negro players to the team was announced. We did not want to place ourselves in the po sition of 'begging the question or coercing. ;^I^wanted the thing to happen voluntarily, in pursuing such a course, we took it for granted that the management of the Bulls had a measure of foresight and courage that does not exist. The Carolina Times would like once again talking thia matter doWn front and plaee it on the table before all of those white people in Durham who are so full of ego that they feel Negro citizens here are fairly itching to sit beside them at a baseball game or in some other public place. We want you to know that it is the stigma that Negroes resent, the stigma of having some one make special ar rangements for them that are not made for other American citizens. All respectable and thinking members of the race will opose such to the bitter end. The others will, as usual, enjoy being kicked around and no kind of insult or abuse, however, aggravated, will arouse their resentment. If the management of the Durham Bulls had had the foresight to go ahead and re move the jim crow signs from the park, 90 per cent of the Negro patrons would have, in the very nature of the case, taken seats with members of their own race, as would have the white patrons. At Negro football and baseball games play ed at the Durham Athletic Park, white and In nAne of these trials was the NAACP granted the right of a trial by jury and Senator Ervin iujows its counsel would have been hooted out of court if he had sought one. BBFOBE ELECTION to the Senate, Mr. Ervin wiu a mem ber of the North Carolina Su preme Court. Before him came on appeal four convictions 01 persons cliarged with contempt of court. They had been tried by a judge and under North Carolina law were forbidden to ask for a jury. Judge Ervin upheld aU four convictions without even a whispered reference to his cur rent loud crusade for "the his toric right of trial by jury.” We think it’s rather Ironic that brother Ervin should wait until he is no longer on the bench to launch his phony cam paign against judicial practices that are nearly a century old. (The Afro-Amertean) LEHERS 10 lUE EDITOR Gentlemen: 1 have just read your Editorial in the April 13th issue under the caption “Leadership at its Worst” in which you take to task the Negro Ministers of tlut city who accepted segrejBt^ seats in the gallery “Buzzard Roost” of the theatre there to see a Biblical Play while wliite clergymen of the city were given free seats on the main floor and were accorded every respect, etc. General Motors Makes Gift Of $35,000 To United College Fund As you say, acceptance of such segregation free or other wise on^the part of Negro lead ers or any Negro, is a reflection ^ j. , , on and a repudiation of the Negro patrons have been attendmg for lo druggie Negroes have made these many years and sitting where they I and are making for civU rights aesiied without even a semblance of trouble or misunderstanding. Occasionally, by refison of mutual desire, white and Negro friends nave sat together and enjoyed the games the same as any other American citizens. It is only when the management of such games are in the hands of white jpersons do Negroes become offensive and are subjected to insults after paying their money. Now, leading Negro citizens of Durham are fully aware that the Durham Athletic Park is municipally owned and the manage*, ment of the Bulls would not have one leg to stand on if a suit were brought in the federal courts to have the management abandon its segregated policy. Because such a suit would take time and money and most of all only arouse bitterness on both sides, they are hope ful that the management of the Durhun Bulls will o^its own accord rectify the blund er it has made and quietly abandon the pol icy' of segregation which now exists at the Durham Athletic Park. The railroads the bus companies pursued such a course in the matter of travel and, whether many white people realize it or not, segregated seating arrangements on both are now practically unheard of or seen, even in the deep South. Unless the management of the Bulls does this, it will never receive the patronage of thousands of Negro .cittzzens who are deter mined that they will not purchase insults at a baseball game merely because one or two Negroes hapen to be playing on the same team with white players. and human dignity in Mont gomery and other sections of the South. Negroes can not af ford to pa^nize filling stations that have Jim Crow signs on their rest rooms. We rtiould not buy at any store that refuses to employ some Negro clerks. The Negro should not buy segrega tion and, discrimination any where. Agaia, 1 congratulate you on the strong upstanding editorial and hope it causes my fellow men of the cloth to see their error and as it were they will “sin no more” less a worst tiling come upon (us) them. H. T. Medford, Bishop, 5th District AMEZ. A TRAGEDY IN EDIKATION The greatest tragedy that has ever hap pened to Negroes is that now going on in our industrial, technical or trade schools. There was a time when schools like Hampton, Tus- kegee, St. Paul Polytechnic Institute, West Virginia State College, A. and T. College, and others held great hope for the race as training centers for electricians, plumbers, farmers, carpenters, printers, brickmasons, steamfitters, tailors, plasterers, cooks and other trades. That time is no more. Instead of following in the path~for which they were chartered, practically all of these schools 'have abandoned it for that of the liberal arts college. ') Try if you will to get a Negro college train ed man, or even a high school graduate, in any of the above fields and you will very quickly discover that there just isn’t any such aninoal. After you have done this turn to the same type of white school and you will discover that^hey can very quickly point out graduates in city after city who are follow ing trades for which they were trained. Somewhere along the line, some teacher or group of teachers has led Negro youths to believe that unless one has a liber^ arts edu cation or is prepared to teach*or follow one of the professions he is unfit-for leademhip or unacceptable in the best of society what ever that is or implies. As a result, thou sands of Negro high school and college grad uates are pounding the sidewalks in search of teaching jobs in a field that, so far as Negroes are concerned, is overcrowded. And the number is continuing to grow. Unless'we can re-think our silly notions about education, certain economic awaits us. Unless we can turn some of the thousands of young men and women of the race into other channels of learning that of liberal arts, many of our high school and college graduates are going to awaken one morning to the sad realization that they are all dressed up with nowhere to go. The challenge is a great one and must be met at the grass roots of our educational system' which is in the classrooms of our elementary and high schools where the teachers are not ashamed to teach our youngsters that there is just as much dignity in wearing a pair of overalls in the practice of a trade as there Is in wearing a white collar in the practice of a profession. DETROIT, Mich. A $35,000 General Motors gift to the United Negro College Fund was announced today by Louis G. Seaton, GM Vice Presi dent in charge of Personnel and chairman of its Committee for I^ducation Grants and Scholar- shiiw. The GM grant comes at the beginning of the 19.‘i7 nation' wide drive by the United Ne gro College Fund which pro vides financial air to 31 Negro Colleges in 12 states. It brings to $135,000 the amount General Motors thus far has given to the Fund. “We recognize their needs and are pleased to support the United Negro College Fund,” Mr. Seaton said. “We know that from the 23,000 students en rolled in its member colleges will come many of tomorrow’s outstanding Negro leaders.” Leonard N. Simons, partner in Simons-Michelson Co. and Michigan co-chairtnan of the Fund, expressed - appreciation for the gift and termed it “the largest individual grant re ceived from any corporation in the country." “Through its program of sup- port for higher education. General Motors is helping to mobilize the intellectual man power of the future,” he de dared., “This grant will help member colleges meet annual operating expenses, give scho larship aid to promising stu THE CAROLINA TIMES MAIN OFFICE — 43 EAST PETTIGREW STRBKT Phones S-0S71 sail 2-291S — Durham, North and expand library and labora tory facilities.” He and Wayne County Cir cuit Judge Wade H. McCree, Fund co-chairman for Michigan received the money at a meet ing with Mr. Seaton and An thony De Lorenzo, GM Vice President in change of Public Relations and a member of its educational grants committee. Judge McCree, a graduate of one of the Fund’s participating members, Fisk University, de clared that “we are very grate ful for the assistance that indus try is providing-to help fill the need* of -our coUagaa and w» are confident that the invest ment will enrich America’s fu ture.” Lincoln Hi Band Receives Rating CHAPEL HILL The Lincoln High School Band under the direction of Mr. C A. Egerton Jr., received a "B’ rating at the district band fes tival, Monday, At^ril 15, held in Ashboro, North Carolina. High School Cadet March wail played followed by the rating peice, “The French Quarter,” a B class peice by John Morrissey in four parts. The Patio, The French Market, Saint Louis Ca thedral, and C^ngo Square. The band will attend the state dents, Increase teacher salaries festival on-May 2, 1957. Medical Milestones Safety Test for Drugs At a recent medical meeting in Detroit, a young woman sat down to demonstrate a device that looked like part toy, part automobile. Tha machine’s controls were the same as those in a standard car, Mcept that they governed • tiny modol which moved on a strip wprwentin j % road« The young woman was not show- ♦- “ inp attend'ng phwii' drive. Inslcad, she icians how to was demon- the test of a drug,’ the tranquHiier “Mtltown” to deter- strating U; Publithed At Durham, Nor^ Canliif Every Saturdmv Bti THE UNITED PVBU8HERS. Inc. Ent^ed " *ec^ ck« mttUr at ttf Port Office mt Durham, North Carolina tin der the Act of March 3, lt7§. L. E. Airrrm, PubUMher CLATHAN ROSS, Editor ^^^SE GRAY, Advertising Mgr. M. E. JOHNSON, CmtroOer mine what effect, if any, the dn» has ofl the skills required for sa« driving. This question arose recently in re'lation to a whole new group of drugs-the tranquiliiers — which ^4have been finding wider and wider application in Uie last few years. ^me of the tranquillters-such as reserpine and enlorpromasine - are primarily designed for hoa- piUlized patients. Othera, how ever, such as "Miltown,” are wide ly prescribed by doctors for anxi ety, tension, muscular spasms and a broad variety of other conditkms which occur in everyday life. A group of researcher* at the Mental Health Research Institute of the University of Michigan, headed by Dr. Donald 0. Marquis, attacked the question! *‘Po ti»n- quilixers like ‘Miltown’'Interfere wtth a person’s judgment ^r ra- nctions - as in driving a car, for example?" Using 50 student volunteers as subjects, the researdiera scored them - before and after teking “Miltown" — on the driving tester, which measured their ability to steer the model car at various speeds and the time it took them to react to a red signal. With various electronie devices, they also measured the student’s muscular eontrol, visual acuity and reasoning power — all important . ANC^ ^ruFF/ ■w % •igKjIffm.- 'A;; Spiritual Insight “ARE YOU ABLE?” •b- ' By BEVEBEhO HABOU) BOLAND Pastor, Monnt Gilead Baptiat Church What would ye that I should do for you? Grant that we may sit one on the right and one on the left, in thy glory. Can you drink of the cup and be baptlaed with the baptism...? Mark 10:86-37. James and John asked Jesua for a special place when his Kingdom come into its. day o( glory. Their desires were for personal glory and exaltation. This was a very human desire, but it was rooted in selfishness. Too many of our desires are vary selfish. T^ey were tryifig to steal a march on the rest of the apostles. Iliey forgot about the ten. They were busy scram bling for places for themselves. Here we have one of the tragic spiritual hindrances of indivi duals and institutions—^people seeking places of honor at the pxppnup of others. Much of our confusion and hard feelings arise at this very point. What a shameful, human picture we have here; In the very presence of of him who never thought of self they are overpowered by selfish desires. And Jesus asks them are you able and willing to pay the price of a place in th^ Kingdom of God? Here we have one of the great enemies of our individual spiri tual growth and nurture. We all suffer from an overabun dance of individual self seckT ing. We are held back by self ish desires. Selfishness becomes a great drag as' we try to run the Christian race. Yes, we are long on selfishness and short on love and a concern for others. We all need to pray daily with the poet...“Lord that I may live for others...” We are asking with James* and John what glory can I get out of this? We are asking with Judas...“What will you give me?” Our souls suffer from too much selfish ness and not enough Love. Lord, help us to grow into the spirit of Christlikeness. The spirit of self exaltation is an ever present human temp tation. We are tempted to get a jump on our brother or sister and grab all of the plves of honor for ourselves. We love the places of honor. We want to be the big shot in the Kingdom. You want the honors in the Kingdom but are you willing to pay the price? Can you drink the cup? Can you face and en dure the baptism? Are you able to stand the insults, hardships, persecutions, , sacrifices, the hurts and brokwi-hearted ex periences of a true witness in the Kingdom? Are you willing to pay the price of sacrifice and self denial? You want the place of honor but are you-willing to fcarry a cross? Are you willing and able to be a servant or a slave in the Kingdom? Jesus in answer to their ques tion raises anew standards of greatness. In the kingdom one must be a servant. In the King dom one must deny himself. In the~1Kingdom one miisT carry a cross daily. The new standard of greatness for the Kingdom is that one must become a loving and sacrificial servant amid the needs of sick and lost men. By Robert Spivack Watch on the Poto] •laments hi good driTlng,^ And for addsd oompaiinn, the same tests w«r* fhm to Oa stu- dmts after dHnkn« whlslHK anH after taking bott ^iltowa” ani whiskey togmer; Tha results showed that, aven - double the usual dosage, tne t- quillnr did not interfere \ driving skills. Further, while tht. teste proved the theoi7 that even two ounces of whiskey ean inter fere with good dMving, they show ed that osiag “Miltown" did net increase ftis nnfavorable effect. In thus answering an important question on tha effeete of the tran- Siillslng drags, the University of ichlgan tests have furtiMr cleared ths'*ay to confident nse or Oese valnabla naw sMdieal aids. Mr. Spivack THE SLOW-DOWN In off-years, politicians say when talking among them selves, it^s “Smart politics” to do n(Tthing. If you delay, stall and don’t make many speeches you won’t get hurt when the next congressional election roUa aroimd. The present leaders of Con gress, Sen. Johnson and Speaker Rayburn, live by that rule. The result is that the 85th Congress, after being in session for four months, has done nothing on: civil righte, schools, and the high interest rate. * If Harry Truman were Presi dent he would probably de nounce this as a “do-nothing, good-for-nothing Congress. As it is the Republicans, from 'The White House down, seem to want to do even less than the so-called Democratic leadership. The present Congress has two “accomplishments” to ite credit. It adopted the so-called “Eisen hower doctrine” and that seems to be the last we'll bear of it. It also extended the corporate and excise taxes. That’s the extent of the operation to date. . In return for all these bur densome services in the public Interest, you may recall that members of Congress voted i too dumb to govern themselves. Nazis, the Fascist Italians and the Communist Russians were using Spain as a proving ground to test their new weapons of war and destruction. But the people of Spain, bit terly divided and yearning for freedom, had other aims. When they moved leftward towards a Republican form of government they did not think of themselves as pawns in the hands of bigg^ powers. Tliey were fighting for ideas and ideals. One of the best reporters of that civil war was Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times. His dispatches were al ways factual, but ttiey also man aged. to capture the spirit of the Spanish people. Matthews has now written a book bearing the title “The Yoke and the Arrows.” He re visited Spain after 18 years to see how Dictator Franco has managed to retain power. It’s an eye-opener and highly recom mended adult. reading. Mat thews isn’t blind to the short comings of the Spanish people in • modem technological world, but he ifn’t blind either to the fact that dictators always justify their existence on the gxounds tliat their people are themselves almost a 100 per cent salary Increase only a few years back. MATTHBWS ON WAIN Those of you who are in your 40s or older will rememebr the Spanish Civil War. It was a prelude to the disasters which were to follow later In Europe and in the l^clflc. As we loo^ beck at It now, ttw Oerman Nearly two decades of Fran co’s totalitarianism has failed to break the spirit of the Spanish people. But in the United States Con gress one might get the impres sion that Franco is some sort of American hero. Last week with out any debate both Houses of ConfraM adopted resolutions urfinc the U.8. to sponsor Spain’s admission into NATO. The Senate resolution had the sponsorship of Sens. Bridges (R.N.H.), Kennedy (D.Mass.), who seems to be running very hard for President, and Sen. Ives (R. N.Y.,), up for election next year. They claim, of course, that Franco is an indispensable ally in the fight against Commun ism. Franco claims that he is now ardently pro-American. But there are many who will re call the fervor with which he embraced Hitler and Mwvolini and they will wonder when he changed. A NOTE FROM HOLLYWOOD While on the subject of books we came across this exchange in Bosley Crowther*s new book on movieland called “The Lion’s Share.” He was recounting a meeting of movie executives at which some intrepid young salesman bluntly asked Louis B. Mayer, “Why do we handle Marion Davies’ pictures?” *■ Mayer didn’t expect so straightforward an inquiry. But he rose to the occasion. He men tioned the modest succw of Miss Davies’ movie ventures. Then he reminded his listeners of her close friendship for pub lisher William Randolph Hearst. “Furthermore,” Mayer con- tinued,““I would like to remhid you gentlemen tliat Mr. Hearst is the son of that great patriot, former U.S. Sei^tor from CaD- fornia, the late George Hearst.” He then launched into an elo quent defense of the elder Hearst and concluded: “This is the point I wish to (continued oa page 7)