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mm • rm CAROLINA TUKS • ^ 3, im IS THIS out «OU>n HOUR) ^VKhen a religious, Social, political or eco- nmac orckBr be maintained exccpt Havufh t>ovi(Nngs «r o*h«r crms of violence, history is cwtain to write -#ie epitaph for its tooaiietone wiucfa destiny will read to future generations. Ancieitt Babylon, Greece, ftMM, modem Italy, Qernumy and other ■■tiovs, who thought that they had the ri|;ht ^ jriad ttieir iieelfi on the necks of other peo- eeon found that the mills of the gods may pind slowly at times but they grind exceed ingly fine. Down in Jacksonville, Florida this week M .gcoup of white hoodlums, known as the Confederate Underground, tximbed a Jew ish center and a Negro school almost simul taneously. A member of the organization is reported to have stated that “every segre gationist in the South must go free. All inte- igration must stop. Jews will not be allowed in Florida, except at Miami Beach. Jews out side of Miami Beach will die.” This is blatant fascism and Nazism, the kind that brought disaster to both Germany and ^taly. The thing carries its own seed of destruption. America cannot isolate this cankerous ooae, «ven though it is-in Ihe deep ^uth. -Un less the decent white peopJe of Florida, the rest of the South and all over America awaken to the fact that there is danger of the «ore spreading to the point where it will know no race, creed or color, the time can come when members of the little group in the South who now speak against bombings and other forms of violence will be dared to lift their voices. Then anarchy will break loose only, to be halted after it has spent its iifry in the destruction of lives and property. The seed is there, nurtured now by hatred and color-phobia, but, in the end, it will itnow no race. The law, whether federal or state should never rest until those responsi ble for the bombings are brought to justice. At Roanoke, Virginia—not in the deep South—police were iorcad to wrest a white man Monday night from an angry mob of wJaite json. The man, probably demented, has i?een charged with clubbing to death his wife, 10-y£ar-old daughter, nine-year-old son and critically injuring his 15-year-iold step daughter. Up until a few years, ago the only victim and near-victims of mobs in the South were Negroes. The xecord will show that all over the South mobs operated at will, lynching and beating up Negroes wherever and whenever they felt disposed. In those days the police were always conveniently out of place or if in place unable to identify or arrest a single mobbist. It was only after the mobbists started beating up and lynch ing whites did respectable white people «nd the white press begin to cry out with in dignation against mob violence. The Jews of Jacksonville, Florida, like their ancestors of old will outlive their ad versaries. Suffering makes a people g»eat,; wringing out of them such immortals as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and all of the prophets of old, to say nothing about Jesus and the array of musicians, businessm^ .and scientists of modern histpry. Negroes of America, and the rest of the world, for that matter, should learn the lesson of forebear- ance from their Jewish brethren. “And who knoweth whether thou art coftie to the king dom for such a time as this?” Who knows but what you are being called upon by Divinity to save our white brethren from themselves? Who knows but what we are being called upon to fill the biggest order of history which is to plant love where others are planting bombs, to offer kindness for evU, to offer forgiveness for revenge? THIS MA¥ BE OUR GOLDEN HOUR. tMSmG THE STATUS W OUR TEACHERS Governor Hodges’ hunt for new industries for North Carolina Is compelled to meet the {^jproval of every sensible citizen of this state. The crusade, if successful, should do much to lower the unemployment figure of North Carolina and eventually raise the eco nomic level of aU its citizens. Along with the govemoi‘’« effort to brj^ilg aew industries to North Carolina, we think that he or some other ;high state offidal sbd^d devote :some timel and energy to the state’s mo6t forgotten employees, its teach er. Except in a few isolated cases, where a supplement is provided by a city or county ^vernment. North Carolina teachers are among the poorest paid in the nation. In addition, a majority of them get paid for on- fy nine months of the year. Not only are North Carolina teachers a- mong the poorest paid but they hold their job without tenure. Thus, at the close of each school year they live in feai* and trembling lest some disgruntled school super intendent or principal' decide that they are tno longer needed^. C«rtaiBly, the lot of the state!a.most important servants ought to. he on a par with that of its janitors, porters, and maidfi, to say the least. In Florida the minimunvannual salary for beginning public school t^chexv is $4,000. In North Carolina it is around $2,600 or n ,800. Each year in Florida, there are auto matic increases until the salary is $9,000 per year. After three years a teacher has tenure. Even in Georgia the minimum salary paid public school teachers is higher than that paid in this state. The Florida salary status IWs been made possible by a closer coopera-, .vtlqn betwe*! white and Negro teachers than ca^ be found in North %e sad Wte of diSatTE which now exists amWg North Carolina .teachers with regard to •^fehlaify and tenure inay eventually force them t6 organize under the banner of the Anverican Federation of Labor or the CIO, as has been done in several other states. When that hour arrives the people of North Caro lina may -be^aeed -with -a situation 4hat wilt hazard the educational program of their children! It would be far better to provide adequate salaries and tenure for our teach ers, voluntarily, than to force them >to seek it otherwise. Without an intelligent and an informed people, a democratic form of government cannot long endure. Thus, it is upon the backs of our teachers that our government rides. They ought to be adequately paid for their service, and we think they ought to be granted some form of tenure. New industries for Nortlf Carolina are fine. We are wonder ing, however^ if the governor should not de vote some of 5iis time to betterijjg the lot of the state’s most forgotten servants, its teach ers. MVICAI9!;8 ' Don’t Want To Be White BDigon’S NOTE; ISiis fe the rs^th in « seeks of As- ctHwions on Africr toABy National Baptist Convention Secretary, Dr. C- C. Adams. By DR. C. C. ADAMS LOGOS, NIGERIA Do not get the wrong idea of African men and women- Tl»ey are quite gatisfied with themselves as God made them. They know that black Is as good, as pretty and as honor able as white, yellow, brown or any other color. Africans want to be themselves and to develop themBclves, and in tha,t they will strive forever through education to develop the minds. They will strive to train the eye and hand in useful arts, and through medicine and lanitation to make the whole body more healthy. Through religion and the church, under God, Africans seek growth in heart and i;pir- it to become worthy sons of God and brothers of men. As Africans, we believe this to be .our mission in the world and should be our highest goal. On this platform, we seek not only our good, but the good of all men. With this, Africa confronts and challen ges the world and offers her hand and heart. No Growth From Isolation Another thing. It has long since been proved beyond question that neither an indi vidual nor nation can live a- lone and to itself. By nature man, whether alone or in groups, is an interdependent. He is a social being, his na ture and needs call to and for his brother. And his brother is all coir ors and nationalities; they live in all the areas of the world. God made man inter dependent. No matter how strenuously men and nations seek to make themselves iiFs, dependent ol others, the^ al “ T i ways wind up disappointtvi and disillusioned. Until recent times, nations tried to make themselves in violate by huge national ar mies and navies, by building walls and lines of defense. They only finally eomc to re alize tliat they were dreaming idle dreams. Hence, the need of allies, alliances, friends and a world organization whene all nations are recognised and mutually dependant, where they are mutually in need of each other. Need Others Therefore, we cannot think of a free Africa as being free from the need of the beat in all nations. A free Africa, in experienced in the fine arts and know-how of govern ment, will certainly be some what like a child who but re cently has learned to walk. Venturing out, into the dan gers of the world for the first time, she will surely need the sympathetic solicitude o f those who know both the way and the dangers. Free Africa needs to adopt and copy the best wherever found in other nations, espec ially those things which suit her own needs. She need not be ashamed to do this, for that is the way progress is made African needs to be espec ially careful to avoid the evils and the worst found in all nations. She does not need the the Caesars, Napoleons, Hit lers and Stalins. She does need in spirit some George Washington, Abraham Lin coln, F. D. Roosevelt, Eisen howers and some Bismarks, Nelsons and Churchills. TNext Weelu pod Greatest Among'African Needs : TO na EDITOR; DO YOU REmER! toot (OR THE OUSE ff MTE6RATI0N The TOW that went on in ^Charlotte this i^efk at the Presbyterian Congress is good for the natjipn, the South and Christians of all denominations. Anything that focuses the att^tion of thinking people on the simple- iwiiwiariness of the reactionary South ie an other nail driven into the coffin of se^cc^a- tion. Such organizations as the Ku &lux Klan, DUPEC, White Citizens Councils and otbera can do more in one week to destroy the philosophy of the so-called southern way life tiian lie M[atioqal Association for the of'GeAorad People can do in a ‘MBeaming^jQtembers of the Central ’ of and other members ay at Durham, N. C. by ViAtad Ptibluhen, Inc. L. E. Aumtr, President H. C. ioHMaoM. Controller ! located at 436 E. Pettigrew 8t- N«rth Carolina tM H. Chwtnut SICMt Hm. Domotht RoBMoir, Manager at -MMMd dUm matter at the 9o»t 0t Dmhmn, North -OaroUm nm^gr ith^ r-SATM: -ff OO Pn 'ftAi of Presbyteries of the deep South over the question of according brotherhood to men of all races, creeds and colors can only serve to stimulate the consciences of all honest Chris tians to a determination to stand stead-last. To do otherwise is to deny the teachings of the author of the Christian faith. In a strongly worded statement the Pres byterian General Assembly replied to its churches of the deep South: The Christian conscience cannot rest ematent with an^ l^al or compulsive arrangement that brands any people as faiferior, wbioh ^nies them the full right of citizeitship on the ground of race, color or soeUA status. Said the Assembly further: 1. The assembly takes the broad idew of opposing racial segregation and supporting the U. S. Supreme Court decision as the law of the land. 2. Tbe assembljr'will not miuude or abolish the Comcil on Ghriatian Rolations, the agen^ -whiab bfM siost foraofwlbr stated the dwaoh’s •taaioa«M0 MlaUaiM. (Rl^aaf 4uni IBiglst) “Do ¥od Remember?" Mr. Editor: _ It was in the 1930's thal buses began to take over from the railroads inter-city trans portation. The busses wanted to accept onl^ white passen gers. The General Assembly enacted a law declaring that buses were not “common car riers,” and that therefore they could restrict their services to white passengers, if they so chose. The North Carolina Com mission Qh Interracial Co-op- , eration appointed a committee to see what could he done. This committee was composed of E. P. Wharton, Greensboro, S. G. Atkins, Winston-Salem; D. D. Jones, Greensboro; N. C. Newbold, Raleigh; Berry O’- KeUy, Method; and Roy M. Brown, Chapel Hill. The committee first secur ed e conference with the bus operators. We got nowhere. The bus ojperators were afraid that if they opened their buses to Negroes, whites would not ride in them. The committee next asked for a hearing before the State Corporation Commission. A was set for the hearing. When the committee appeared in Raleigh only one member of the Commission, Judge Pell, was there to meet us. He, of course, could do nothing, of ficially. He talked very pleas antly and at length, but faid nothing. A few days later the Corporation Commission in vited Mr. Wharton to return •to Raleigh alone- They point ed out that the matter was loaded with political dyna- mite. Let’s just forget it. Mr. Wharton called his committee together and re ported. The committee decid ed to employ counsel. We em ployed Judge L. R. Varser of Lumberton. He repeated the steps the committee had tak en. A conference with the bus operators again accompolished nothing. He rthen requested and secured a formal hearing by the Corporation -Commiss ion. When they d^ided a- gainst us, he appealed io the Superior Court. My recollect ion'is that this court decided in our favor and that the bus operators appealed. At any rate the case went on to the State Supreme Court. This court declar^ that busses are common carriers, that the act of the Legislatuxe was uncon stitutional, and that the buses must accept Negro as well as white passangsEB. The court suggested that the seating, cus tomary on city street cars be followed. This continued, of course, until the U. S. Su preme Court’s literal interpre tation of the Fourteenth A- mendment. I believe Negroes raised all the money for the court test of the bus law. I remember that after we had In hand all the money needed, groups of Negroes protested that they had not had an opportunity to contribute. (Of the Interracial Commis sion committe only 1 am left.) Roy M. Brown Chapel HUl, Route 2 WIT WOkTW THEY CARE AtOUT HAHONAl SECURITY AND WOffl.D OPINION Spiritual Insight “TURNING EVE INTO GOOD” By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word ...” Acts 8:4. What seemed to be a great, cruel tragedy God turned into a great good for his Kingdom. Stephen's death and the per secutions which followed seemed to be a great evU. And yet it is turned into a great good for the advance ment of tbe Church. God, in his'i eternal wisdo^, turjied it^, into a rare>opportuntty for a redemptive witness. The believers were persecu ted, and scattered but they went as flaming witnesses foe Jeus. As they went they preached a gospel of salvation to the lost souls along the way. God turned what seem- great good for the spread of the gospel. God turned an ev il into a stimulant for the growth of the Kingdom. Good Out of Rvil God often brings good out of what .seems to be an evil deed. This truth is dramatic ally displayed in this incident in the life of the early church. The leader is stoned to death. The believers are scattered in every direction. The way looks dark. Without, fear . . . terror and anxiety seem to en gulf them. They stand amid perils and great dangers. And yet God uses this as a rare opportunity for good. The little band of witness es is scattered. But within they have an unbeatable faith in the power of God Almighty. They go with a holy passion buriyng in their souls. ^ But God turns this evil'deed into a great step in the growth of the Kingdom. In trusting God, we too, can turn the evil in tended by men into good. We, too, can distill good from our experience of trial or suffering. They reacted cre atively, helpfully under the suffering. It became - a stimulant to good. Suffering much, they went parrying the word with power. For those enslaved by sin they had a word of redemp tion. For the soul-sick they had a message of salvation. For those sick in body they had a power of healing^ For the discouraged they had a message of hope. For the dy ing there was the message of everlasting life. You Can Do It, Too God works through them to bring good out of trial and suffering. God can do the same with you in your exper iences of trial suffering. Yes, through faith in God they turned evil into a great good for the church. Everything that happens to you can be turned to good for the Kingdc^. G^ turned this exfKjrience of suffering to the good of the Kingdom. Do you use the things which happen to you for spiritual growth and enrichment? Why not? This suffering made Phillip a leader. It expanded the stat ure of his character. It brought Christ and his re- demption to the city of Sama ria. The evil apt in Jerusalem resulted in joy^and healing in Samaria. Things happening to us, even evil, can be turned into great good. Let us, then, when trying experiences are ours, let God use us to turn them into great good. Let them bo a stimulant to growth and goodness. By ROBERT SPIVACK Watch on the Potomac SPIVACK THE EISENHOWER GAMBLE THE SOUTHERN CON^RENCE EDUCATIONAL FUND needs X41,000 this year for its activities. It needs your help. Tbe SOUTHERN NEWSLETTER asks all of its readers to make whatever contribution they can to this fine cause. Ev ery dollar helps. Send it to: SOUTHERN CONfl»ENCE EDUCATIONAL FUND, 822 Perdido Street, New Orleans 12, Louisiana. MADAME PANDIT, Nehru’s skter, ^peakiqg for thte 400 million people of India i|i the'United N{itions!M)w, “I« help- to eliminate a^egritioa ike SC£F ds iDdif- «o«tribiitioin;tio . WASHINGTON .A man sometimes gives himself away when he least expects to do so. That’s what happened to President Eisen hower the other day. He made a remark that’s likely to pla gue him for a long, time to come. It was not made in an ger, as sonie of his headlined remarks were. This comment was almost off-hand. He was casual about it. What happened was this: A reporter asked the Presi dent to comment on a speech by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson made before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Ip that talk Johnson said the adminis tration Jacked the "courage and boldness” required »to meet the_ recession. The newspaperman wanted to know if the President- thought this was true. The an swer given by the President was long and rambling. • When he finally got to the point, though, he had this to say: “So, what I say is: Courage ,an| boldness are very line -thiogp when you know you have got a plan iliat is really , effective, and that is in battle or whether it’s here.” In short, the President was s^ing he had no plan to com bat the recession. Muddling Throiigh Back in the halcyon days of Elsenhower prosperity, the President would tell reporters that if we ever faced another “depression” he would not hesitate for a moment to use “all the resources" of the gov ernment to combat it. Now there is “depression” in autos, railroads, among farmers, in the textile industry, as well as in lumber and certain seg ments of small business. But the President does hesitate. In fact there is a widely held belief here that the Ad ministration has madfe a ma jor decision: no further fed eral action, beyond reduction of interest rates, to combat the recession. In other words, there will for now be no White House call for price cuts, no public works and no tax cuts for those in the lower brackets. Also: there will be no efforts , to plug up the loopholes in the ' jprttent imw fivhlab tgiw thr well-to-do innumerable spec ial tax privileges. The Battle of The Pentagon Ever since his 1955 heart attack the President has tried to hold his temper in check. He succeeded until the other day when Sarah McClendon of The San Antonio (Tex.) Light asked him if a military dictatorship might not be the final result of his t’entagon reorganizations plan? ; The President’s blow-up hat already been headlined from coast-to-coast and we see no need to go into it again. Jt was a spectacular fireworks dis play. But after the pyrotech nics burned themselves out. Miss McClendon’s question still remained unanswered. One may disagree with the President on other issues but I think he’s on solid ground in his call for a Pentagon re organization. When you con sider that 2-3 of your tax dol lar goes for the Defense Dept, and related agencies, it is not' a subjM to dismiss lightly. The President, though, is not really explaining what the ar> gument is all about when ha blows up at a perfectly proper (Please turn to pMlc JBlght^)
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