North Carolina Newspapers

THE CAROki^NA •flE UUkKICMlf T»M'£ S' Mfl MMt 30. IM» SL'iVO 74>«ft of Ovh ItifcV.U Arft GcttThg. G«i(lct>. Mr, Pms'iditill Another Lynchng to Come in l^ississippi (CONTIItUEO FftDM PAGE ONE) *■' - -If So the td«k of arrestinj^. jailiilg,. indkiihg, prosfcutiiig and c».iuvictiiij^ those resjihnsiHle for the crinie rests now entirely in the hands of Mississippi a'ltHorities. Atid what hands they are? I-egal hands that aie ah'eady dripping with the hlood of Emmett Till and Rev. Georpe Lee will hardly do anything alwut the bloody hands of the killers of Mack Par ker. So come this Xoveinber the climax to this trag’edv against the nation s attempt to sell deirtocracy to oppressed people of the world will taklr place. Then >’x)ii will see the tragedy of traghdles, the lynching of what little is left ol .^metica’s good name. So the last act in this most sordid crime is certain to fonts the eyes of the entire worlcl on the state of Mississippi. This wicked st.ate that has reeked for so long of moral decay, race phobia and corruption at last is to stand naked in the sun. Charles Mack Parker rtiy riot have died in vain. Rabbit Brains vs. Rabbit Weddings Of all the fools and ignoramuses on the race question that have ajipeared on the scene in the South. State Senator E. O. Eddins of Mar engo County, Ala, takes the cake. Mis' attack on th? book for children entitled “The Rabbit Wedding" is about the most asinine thing we have seen of a supposedly intelligent person in manv years. It plainly shows the quality of some men who constitute the uAlabama legisla ture and is evidence that the state has a long distance to travel before it can be considered wholly civilized. If there is a bigger “Simple Simon” in the South, ht must be. the size of an elephant. I Any day that Senator Edwins introduces a bill in the Alabama legislature to make it a crime for white rabbits, mice, do^'S, birds and othtr beings of the animal kingdom to co habit with black ones, we will not be sur prised. The incident of Eddins tearing his hair and running his blood pressure up over a fic titious story in a children’s story book simply because one of the rabbits in the “Rabbit Wedding” is black and the other \vhite ought to call the attention o his ilk in the S.pulh to what fools some of them can be over nothing. If the Almighty hnd in His divine wisdom felt that the color of fur, skin or feathers of m species Avere important in the process of mating and reproducing, he would not have left it to eggheads of the human species to settle. Certainly if he considered it important and took time out tt> forge separate and dis tinct fingerprints for the 10 fingers on the hands of ever human being in the world, he would have taketi time out to make it imposs ible for white and black of both man and ani mal kingdom tt) reproduce if it were of the slightest importance. Let_ there be no mistake about it, Senator Eddins has his following all over the South. He represents and is voicing tlvfxwitiments of thousands of his ilk. We think he should be dubbed Senator “Egghead” Eddins. If the rab bits in the “Rabbit Wedding” had no more sense- than Eddins, they would bring suit in the Alal^ama couijts for damages they have sustained at the hands of thp *aut^r whose story suggested the wedding of a Wack and white rabbit. We think the Eddins incidetit is a- case of rabbit brains agaihct “Rabbil Wed dings.*’ A Salute to Gastonia Gastonia, North Carolina, is probably the only city in the South that can boast or lay claim to the fact that it has ever had a Negro to serve as its city treasurer. In this textile citj’’, located in the w’estern part of the state, one will find a kind of relationship between leaders of both races that is far in advance of that found in many other cities of North Car olina and the rest of the South. Last week leading citizens of both races in Gastonia pulled out all stops in paying tribute at a testimonial dinner to one of its d^sHng- uished Negro citizens, Nathaniel Barber, who has not only served a term as treasufer of the city but three terms as a ^ember of its City Council. Among those attending the "dinher neie all the ■ cil. the representative from the congre'isiortal district, who was the principal speaker; the mayor and two former ma3’ors; the city-rttan- ager and other notables of both races. AH joined in paying tribute to Mr. Birbtr, who is also secretary of the Negro-owned and operated Excelsior Credit Union which has as sets of $552,(XX). Said Attorney Donald Raih- seur, chairman of the sporsoring committee; “We all love Nathaniel Barber and we are hav ing this dinner to recognize his contribution to Gastonia and to our community.” Much of the fine relationship between the races in Gastonia can be attributed to the leadership of Thebaud Jeffers, principal of the Highland High School and president of the Credit Union. It has been Jeffers along with Barber who led the way and honestly interp reted' the aims, aspiratiorl's and ambitions of the Negro, community to the white communi ty. Ih other words, in Gastonia there is a line of communication that makes for better race relations and interracial goodwill at all times. W'e salute Gastonia for this fine approach for other cities to follow. Charlptte, less than 20 miles away with its 50,000 or more Negroes, has little or nothing to show in the field of interracial goodwill or ,in the economic achievetnent of Negroes. It might not be a bad idea for some of the Negro leaders of Charlotte to pay an occasional visit to their smaller neighbor Gastonia and find out how it is done. What WasJbi^Uerald's Point? P j ^ M' j ^ We'have »ead with more than passing i est the story by Charles L. Weft, published in ^st Sunday’s issue of the Durham Mor^tnjg’ Herald, concerning the three young Negro students who failed their courses in the Uni versity of North Carolina undergraduate school. This being the first time we have ever se«n a newspaper attach so rhuch signi'ficance tb the incidence of a student failing, we havt beCM. trying with all our might to determine whether the Hjerald considers the students he roes because they failed or UNC a hero be cause it managed to get rid of them before graduation. ' ' We think there w’as more to be read be tween the line in West’s story than was shown in the lines. There appears to have been a stib tie gloating or at least much satisfaction over the fact that all three? of the first Negroes ever to be admitted to the UNC undergra(AiAte school were unable to make the grade. 'Flu*, we think, is strong evidence that the HeraW was speafcing'-lbr those who control the edbM^tfiial madiineg^^^oOfortl^^Caiolii^^ H, e. MItifced every Saturday at Bntliaiii; by United Publishen, Ine. L. E. AUSTIN, PnfidMt' M. E. JOHNSON, ConiMltfr Maeipal Office located at 43« i. fiMllgift# St Durham, North Cariritaa MaM M meoad daat nuttar at tUf M PartMB, North Carolina, tindar the Act of Maidi S. 1M7». tumaopftoit MAvu: -MKDIBBOBO m K. muktt St t«L Hie cuutcittiuh' of' inatjy SbtlHI- enters that Negroes do upt want theU* dhilldren to att«ntli,lehool with white waa bramlKl as “ri diculous” tbdair hy '^rgil.^ 'II Blossom, school'suitertnU^ideiit at' Little Rock, "Most Negro tMrthtti wdnt their children atceptM and WAnt them to have better educatiotttl oppor tunities than they normally get under a segregl^ syst^ii” Blossom writes in the current (May 30) issue of’ The Sattinlay Evpninig Pbst, Part TWO of his, report, "The Utitold Story of LltMe Woek,” says that in many talkl wjth Negro piareSits and' leatlMrs Btetwom found them keenly? awatik ttf the dangers of itnmedhtte, cotilplete integration. “There were some wlito'dKhiatld- ed speed,” he says, “btit mMt of them favored modmitidn for sound reasons feir of «coitiifttic retaliation, fear that the legisla ture would ahplish- public educa- ' tion or, in most iitstanbiek, a sane desire to avoid a violent ujtheaval. “They v(anted to co-o|ietate with the school board!” Blossom reported' that at a school board meeting aftet the Supreme Court decisioh the six members ag|«ed that the board’s ufficial position was o(ipased to the prhlci|»lti of the Cgurt ruling, bur that “it was the 1^ of the land and' the law should be re- spacted.” ilK fittdt it stgUificaht that not a sirtfele members of the btferd e» pretsed arty iUea of refiising to obey the law. the Post' ai5tiele teltt of mouttt* ing pressure* and a growing at mosphere of hysteria after the reelection of Governor FaUhus irt 1956. “All Hjat was needed was a single gesture of firm aD|l' cour^ ageous leadership in behflU' of law and order—and the danger would be gone,” Blossom com ments. “Where that leadfershlti would have to originate was hOW obvious. The integration Of Cett‘ tral High School was no longei- a local problem. The segpegatlon* ikt Mader|i^.liad succeeded'in'their strategy of building it into a state problem, with repercussiona throughout the nation. “Governor Faubus had tried des perately to confipe integration tb a local issue and had promised to support whatever policy was adbpted in each school dlatrict. “Btit he had wavered and falt- ered under segregdtionlst pres sure and had been maneuvered irtto a political comer.” SPIRITUAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Miami U. Student Paper Praises Horidb A&H "Justice Protest" Human Blindness to Truths Is Story Of Man's Failure Throughout History "Because they did itot recofl* niae him nor understand . . Acts 13:27 These few words fitlSjnglv tell the story of man’s tragic blind ness. This is the tragic story of our common humanitjl in every quality to remain steadfast for lofty principles in spite of human blindness, (^^at soute must know and realize that tinte will justi fy their truths in spite of human blindness. In our blindness we doggedly age., And this tragic bHn&ess o^, refuse to accept the light of new men is repeated in ffll ’'irfiupsr ttuth. We are creatures of habit races-and nations. ,A«aii;| aiffl and custom. Thus, we are easy again, we fail to* see,fW*niii yicttms of the enslaving prison or undejstand the rare aiiff'th^ ' of HumAn blindness. The light of noble souls that appear among us, new truth comes; but we in our We are blind to new movements for t^e betterment of mankin4-, We are all too blind to things that are for the glory of God. ^ Thus, great souls, movefnentis arid causes spring up among us and' they flounder or die. Why? They falter and fail t^porarily. on account of, otu* blindness. So; Christ, the Son of Gdil and Sav bllMlheM would hold tenaciously ‘ to the old ways. And the old trag ic story is repeated . . They did not rMtt^niM hhn nor under stand ..." .Time ripens and ^eat move ments emerge on the stage of hiAbry.' In' the fullness of time a Savior comes into the world. ThiP light of' Eternal Salvation vior of the woi:ld, conies, 3iff we “HaWh's'aBioKg menr God draws in our tragic blindness did not recognize him. * Time, however, brings true recognition for the rare, noble sqtils that come amongst us. Thus, great souls miist have that rare near tot' the. healirig of the na tions, and men in their blindness ceft^e to be healed. 0, the tragic nature of man-’s blindne^. -Salvatibni,redemption or deliv erance is offered—men in their WATCHON THE ponKNieM;: blindness reject It. Time ripens for a labor movement with its hppe of jusice but management in its blindness would crush it. The abolitonists see that the time has come for freedom for the'slaves; but slave holders in their tragi* blipdness will have none of it. In their blindness . . . “They did not recognize nor un derstand . j.’ We see a dramatic repetition of man's blindness in our own times. It is seen in the stubborn' strug gle we are cncounterrng in our efforts to build a new pattern of sensible human relation.s—in the integration, struggle.] In blindness we resist and block a step that will lead us nearer the kingdom of God. O, that we might be sav ed from the tragedy of blindness in our Hmes^ Maybe we all have some spirit ual blind spots in our lives that we need to ask God to deliver us from. Let us all be honest and try to escape the prison of otur blindness. By ROBERT SPIVACK (EtNtor't Note: Follo¥^nf I* a reprint of an editorial appear ing in the May 13 iuua of the Barrifter, publication of the Miami Univartlty Law School. The reprint i* furniahed to newspaper* threufU Hie eoep- eratlen of'the Florida A and M Univartlty information service.) The peaceful but provocative protest held last week at Florida A&M University for Negroes in Tallahassee is deserving of recog nition, not because of its social or emotional impact outside the State of Florida but because of its reflection on the judicial sys tem of our state. Justice is a word which is so often carelessly and thoughtles.sly used to promote partisan aims that it has lost some of its true significance. Nevertheless, “justice”-. Is what our courts must render if we are to truly be a state and nation un- def thi’ laWj- The South is cur rently engaged v» a tremendous battle over integration. The ef fects of this battle are being felt and will be felt in the legal halls. i of Dixie for many years, per- • haps many decades. , The scars which wilt be left on Florida and her slater states must U is ouly-byjnain^ tainlng an Impartial and color blind judiciary that these scars can be continued. It would be naive for any Floridian to refuse to face the f»ct that integration will bring strife among some peo ple of both races in seeing that impartiality is maintained in our cciirts, if nowwhcre else. The four white men that as saulted the Negro coed in Talla hassee should receive the same punishment that four Negro men would receive had they assaulted a white girl in Tallahassee under the same circumstances. Th» cry of “keep the streets safe w our children" has as much signifi cance to the Negro parent as to the white. It would be a fine day for Florida if the Legislature in Tallahassee should receive a de luge of letters from white citizens demanding that “justice” be served in this $ase. Those citize^ of Florida that have the true intrest of the state at heart will demand that these bo'ys be impartially tried and impartially sentenced if they are guilty. It is no mist.ike that the statue of Justice is blindfold ed; it might be well to blindfold the jury in this case. Or is it too late! ■! Violence or Non-Violence ■ Tnwr ■ winter-'' M ftoBtrol are determined that only when a court orders them to do so will they admit Ne groes .to UNC. Whether intentionally or unintentionally the Herald's story also served notice on con servative Negroes that the fight for integra tion must continue. It also discloses the fact that as a whole Negroe public schools of North Carolina are grossly unequal and infer ior to the white publii; schools. When these- three young men refer to their background as a contributing factor to their failures, we assume they are tSlking about their educational background. If this is true of the Durham public school systetn whet-e Ne groes are supposed to be progressive and have even brought court action to equalize the schools of the race, what then must be the conditions of the Negro public schools in small er cities and I'Utal sections of thfc state. This, then,,ought*,to serve further notici on those who- expect that changes for the better will cothe &y chance or voluntarily that equal ed- tlckdbtlial opportunities can only come throu^ an irttegtated public school system. that one of the young men attributed a part of failure to a pi'oblem of His o\^n making and rtbV that ol raci*, we thnik, speaks well for the UNC student body and administration. There is possibility that too much social life, golf and other extra-curricular activities also contributed to ttie /poor showing made by some of thfcm. With the inadequate educational background which obtains tinder a segregated school systetti Negro students, who are ad mitted to the undergraduate sdiool at UNC itrture ma^ ii wflJ ptepat'e to deny of ^ by Party HdW LOilB AN IkEiCTKM; WASHINGTW—Lyndton , JohJI- son of Texal^ may thini he’s tHe lif^ of the party, but tHiere' niany thoughtful Democrats wlra' think he may be the dtiifitH 'bf it It is now five months slnce^ the supposedly “ultra-llbeWil” 86th Congl'ess has been Iti sess ion. Last November tHe Dettio* crat^ swept the cotihti^ and' eveii' the mo6t oiitimistlc Republlcatu could see nothltig to cheer about except for Neitmn Rbbke^ ffelier’s victbry III NfeW YoHt. Ahd Rockef^lter was tbo liidlsci pendent to milke rock-MBBctf nf' pubiteanr feel h)r witf ohk w them. But what the Kepubufana could not do for themselves, Johnson and Speaker Sam Ray burn have.done for them. There is more hope in Bepubllcan' ranks right now, less than a> year aft^ their woMt defeat since the 30s, than there h>s been since Gen; Ef^nhower agreM to bebome a candidate back in 1952. fl»«s«rWrsirt#-‘Bc*f>!t](fe W d«Vot€ tii^t «i tk#ir time to itudy. ^ , I What happened to TH^’benut- cratlc leadership that ha« eaptfcd' the preseht Congress (o^tura but far different from original M- pectatlons? Well, you BMW* yout>. n>jcm9y and ydu takes your eheietr. '•>' • The Wail St Joumai^, •icpHiW' i4g> ae ngnNir mbt tiuit- tlij» ; '1» “ci^^HoUji,^ etimpro- i«^iri#'b]6d' bus- iMto^eitV it says Ih elAtet, Have t» abdUt^.WhH^ It ‘ hb, sitlipi^* dxpl^dtioM of fl^naaoni far'’tHe D^iieratic It stt^sts that bus- iir oHce again so good all the pressure frotn tft^' “llberal- lliinf' has Ittst Its steam, this elqilanBtion li not Without But V think the prob- 1^' gtietl . dM^ than that; it gbei tt^tlie' |>et«dtialiiy and pri vate iiitlsnRtit of thir men who «« the show. At the Df the year Johnson AMr * tif hlghHutUhding ^eeehaa ieallng with world af- aad outer space. No one to«k Hifai seriously because etery- (Mie. knew Lyndon’s heart be longs deep In the heart of Texas oil tlU(lteh»ni Fnaiii Outar ,S|lace jQh«MO maniiged to get some g4od publicity out of these ‘^tataamaliUke” pronouncements i^td 'Aait was about all he want ed. When there was no more milMsli to He gottieti-he-retutnea U). Htft Mdiltary pursuits as Chlitipiwi of s^lal interests, affeMh that there must be no ttcktefi federal “apentUng,*’ and let S4lm Harqr P. Byrd scuttle a «lanat«'tpproved wm^en's eom- li)w|i|[t|iai maatuM- bj> yleldiiu in„ ooDifef«Bc» In many ways Johnson reminds me of a man named H. Sanders Angles, who Is currently running for vice mayor of Nashville, Tenn. In announcing his decision to run Anglea said; “My many friends have not pre vailed upon me to become a can- ■ didate for reelection, and I have not been told that the city needs my services; the truth of the mat ter is, I want the job again.” Nobody has asked Johnson to be the Democratic “leader.” He stepped in when a vacuum exist ed, None of the Democrats from those populous states, whose sup port is needed for the party to win in 1960, wants Johnson to continue as party boss. But he likes the job and he is staying. • ♦ * All this, of^ course, is made to order for Vice president Nixon. If there are no “big issues" de veloped by the oppo^tion party— or if its congressional “leaders” believe none exists—then what reason is there for choslng a Democrat for President next year? Nixon will claim that he knows more about the inner workings of the federal government than anyone now being considered by the Democrats. There will be a lot of people who will believe him and a lot of , othenjvho will take ^ ffwhat the rheli" «ttilud&. and simply atay itaiwar lroBa.^.poUat«H . t Last week the Natlonat Board of Directors of the NAACP sus pended one of Its branch presi dents in North Carolina for ad vocating “Meeting Violence With Violence.” Since that time that has been a topic for aiscussion in many circles. Just what-.yre , wot|ld have done pi' said In a similar posi tion bh the board, is soinetKing, that we. don't know. But we do know, that at times it is pretty hard for people to suppress 'cer tain feelln|0l Wheh all' around you, you t-^n only see hate. Sure, we know the old saying, “That violence never solved any problem.” We know that too, nonviolence never. 'saved George . f Cost of Ms Discrimination Lee in Belzoni, Miss., nor Em mett Till, nor Mack Parker at Poplarville, Miss. The Negro doesn’t want vio lence, and he doesn't want death. He is not going to be the instigator of violence, and he is not going to run from death. ». 'Since the siibjeet of viotente and nonviolence is one* of sucii magnitude, and is already urt- der disciission by members of the National Board of Djirectors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it would be far better to let an opinion come from the august body. — ArkanM* Stata Press, May 23 (Editor'! Net e\— Excerpts from addrast bf' Dr.' Martin Luther King, the Con ference of Religious Leaden chaired by Vice • Presldmt Richard M. Nixon, and t|Mn- sored by the President's Com mittee eh Oovemment Con tracts, at the Sheration Park Hotel, Washington, O. C.) “DiscrimiBation in employ ment has resulted ,in an appall ing lap between the Uvlng con ditions of whites |nd mei;nber8 of minority groups. Kor Instance, recent statlstks revealed that 48’ per cent of the Nfegro families of America eam lew than. $2,000 a year. Twentrone per c*nt of the Negro famillea of America eam less than 91,000 per year, while only 7 per cent of the white famillea eam 'less than $1,000 per year. Eiglitj^-eight per cent of the Negro families of America earn less than $5,000 per year, while only 60 per cent of the white families earn less than $5,000 annually. Or to put it another way: only 12 per cent ol the Negro families of America earn $5,000 a year or more, while 40 per cent of white families earn $0)000 a year or more. Similar statistics 'can be recorded for other minority groups. We need not look very far to see the injurious effect that dts- erinflnation in employment has upon the psychological and mor al life of the victims. To deny any group honest work and fair pay Is not only Immoral, It is almost murderous. It Is a delib erate strangulation of the phys ical and cultural developmeht of the victims. What Jtrftnsoi^ dbn ni>f kbow, or doe* not carr a^ut, Ur the simple pfllitk’ar fact that Dtmo- cratic vlcttMT Ur ntft iliavtltble. If thr party ■twke«ttMt«aA(Kttut» to poiMcat (MlltrfrtMiee t^'Moth- ering aU the big «# dfT then the election becomes a con test of personalities. Johnson, who is no glamor boy, ought to think twice about what such ,a contest could do to hit own. can- didaiiy.