THE CAROLINA TIMES
MOE 3—'THE truth UNBRIDLED" SAT., MAY 7, 1M0
ii
>till IVot ilnough Stepping Stones
The High CaUing of Non-Violent Protests
There Must Be Respect For law
TIiP wiUCnl hratinp a tme of he
vdiitl's pnrticipatinp in the sit-down protests
in tl’.c W'alprecn Drus Ftore on lasd Sattinla}'
is to be rc*!;rcltfj. Tliat anpaxtMUly it was
totli onL'oiiraffed and endorsed hy th^ manaRP-
mrnt of the stofp is serioHsly reprcttrd. Thf
Xt:^o yjnlhs Imiv bren carefully srtccted and
M'lii alcS Ml tlie ni*j>roach to what*
evor itrut''ts they make in the form of sit-
down. i)icl.‘lin" jor otherwise at all of the
stiifO:. invoivcii. They are not the kind to pro
voke or invite violeiice.or the churcUcs, ratcr-
niiics. ir!;aui7ation» and iiidividnaJs. botlp JvC'
jno ;ind white, i-ndorsing their actions woiikl
have long^ a;j) withdrawn iheir *upj)ort.
Kecenily a l-'lorida University professor,
Kimbal Wilcii. made ilic Matcnieirt tfiat “N’e-
;;r > youth:;, v.ith moral conviclioii on their
F’de, are moving into |»ositions of leadership
while their white counterparts, hanistrunjj; by
adult i)rejndiccs, are becoming less potent
forces in community life." Said Wiles fur
ther; "W'hen a Xegro youth sits down at a
lunch counter or carries a placard grotestinif
sume inju^tice. he may lie jailed or injured but
he is firjhting for a basic human right. He has
moral conviction on Ijs side. He is learning
how jiressure groups are organized and the
strategies and tactics used. !4e is develoi>ing
rkill in taking political and social action, Ne
gro youths are moving into leadership roles.”
‘On the other hand,” Wiles continued,
“while youths are kept in the background.
■Action to preserve segregation is in the hands
of older people who are watched, sometimes
cynically, by the young. If a white youth
joins the struggle, he finds himself fighting
in a mob and taking action to preserve segre
gation for personal privileges. This position
makes him less potent. If he operates to fur
ther civil rights fox all he finds himself op
posed and denounced by high-status groups
and those in postions of legal authority.”
The above statement, we think, sets forth
to a great 4egree the difTerence 4ti t4ie posi
tions of the Xegro youths participating in the
protests and the white youths who oppose
them wixji vicious attacks. The Negro jouths
are-to be saluted for their coura^, manhood
and fortitiMle, fnan which they are daily
.growiiijr morally stronger while the white
youths vrfia attack tliem are to lje pitied for
the !adc of control atul cowardice they have
exhibited, evidence that they have mistaken
Ijoth for courage and manhood and are grow-
ia^ morally weaker.
We urge our yowtJis aU -.(>vef America lo
oontinue the sit-down jjrotests and picketing
without abeyance. We urge them lo be piJitc,
cot "teous, ])atient and f(irl»cafing. Only as a
last resort and in self-defense are you to strike
back. I-el them ctirse, yon bless; let them
call names; let them si>it on you. You must
walk on and sit down with dignity and as
ladies and gentlemen in a sjiirit of love, humil
ity and forgiveness.
Already you have drawn many fine white
southerners to your side, as well as others,
H you will “keep your head when all about
you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,”
you will not only be free some day but you
will obtain freedom for others of^ your' race
all over the world. You will draw thousands
of others to your cause, a cause that is both
just and righteous.
Ah yes, this is a big order, but God, your
own people and unborn generations of all
■Americans are calling on you to give Chris
tianity and democracy a new birth in this land
of ours. You are on a mission of destiny.
Thank God that you have been honored with
the call to challenge the leaders of nur great
country to implement Christianity and the
great dream of democracy before it is too
late, and we awaken to find Communism
knocking on the door of America with a bay
onet in one hand and shackles of slavery in
fhe other. ^
HRSr CLASS
CftiZBNSmp
M -1*^ r '
SFIBITUAL INSIGHT
—Courtesy Af L-CIO New*
By REV. HAROLD 4iOLAND
Men Do Not Run When They
Know That God Is With Them
The Tuesdiy dynamking of the
home of Attwney Z. A, Lo«fcy,
In Nashville, rennosee. and the
bneaking of windows in Bcarby
Meharry Medical College would
constitute an outrage #f which
no civilized slate or city would
be proud. It would represejrt the
wholesale owtburst of a criminal
■anctiqn instituted in a feeble de
rangement of minds fed up >n
eurreiW drivel of intolerance and
bigotry born of frustration and
unresl now shewing itself in
some cities.
'Regardless of how we ieel in
dividually there must be respect
for the law and respect for- the
mandates of courts. After all, we
are a nation governed by law.
H laws are unjust, let us seek to
change them ^through the courts.
The right tor peaceful assem
blage, the right for a free circu
lation in a free society, would
hardly include the right if one
to violate other people’s rights
neither would it license violence
when it became a sequel to, non
violence.
It is an ill wind that blows no
body good; the whole thing there
fore might be summarize in a
challenge to the leadership of
both groups and a Qall for a more
vigorous and responsible leade^
ship.
Meharry Medical College, for
instance, has a long end brilliant
record of service in this dountry.
It wa* the first effort in the Deep
South after the Civil War for the
training of doctors, nurses, den
tists and general medical admin
istrators for Negro youth. It is
the brain of the illustrious Me-
harry brothers who founded the
school and endowed it so well.
The late and lai^ented Dr. George
W. Hubbard probably gave the
institution one of its most no
table admini.ttrations and it trai
under bin that doctots
found ioi|nvch jnipir4i»l and
fivicid aid ia nrooiidne the
training for the nur.'siiig of their
people.
In fact Negro doctors not only
have bean raluable ataots fur
their^„oWi |»eeple blit general
practiti«»ers for all the people
in tlic corooiunity where they
sorved.
Ob the other hand Mehtrry’g
ccntrii)ution iS' felt today where
Uwre ia attothw shortage «f 4Uk-
tors. In the absence of state aid
in the old days and the refusal
even today of Deep South states
to ullow~Negro students to take
the medical course in the states
where they live and pay^ taxes,
Negro students had to'foot their
own bills.
Hardly such a tj'eatment would
commend .itself to the record and
long service of Meharly Medical
College.^^^
The Attemey in question oaly
had been active in the proKcu-
tion of^ases ethiiJ&lly coining be-
fpre.^i^. He h^ ^one no /uMher
thani wilhki tm Itnaits the
framework' of4he law., >
T^se unfprti^nate iNcldenta
would expose dahgerous open cre
vices in our firamework of good
relations and a bottleneck in the
channel of our mediums of com
munications.
This unrest and di$ti;(^bance
are hampeWng tiur go^ ;«fficeB
and influence all around the
world. They are signal warnings
that our, good senses should lead
us to seriously ponder. ,
Violence and Itombinga are a
challfoge to laWj and order and
the proper officials and the
people should cooperate and join
in meeting this challenge.
Knoxville Independent Call
Let's Support the Unifed Negro College Fund
Perhaps the most compelling argument for
continuing sup])ort of tlie United Negro Col
lege Fund is that it is a freedom-fostering in-
stiltjtion. ^
Only the L'XCF today assures the unfetter
ed development of the nation’s privately sup-
oortcd, predominantly Negro colleges. Often
m these columns have we paid tribute to the
contr’IUitions which these institutions have
mr.de td the cause of freedom for all Ameri-
-cans. , I
One* it was said that real freedom in the
South was possessed only by^ a wliite rnan
and a Negro woman. Add one more dimen
sion; the predominantly' Negro college.
Wliatcver ill may l>e said of the 5>oiith’s in-
tolcraucc. it has consistently shown a compa
ratively res|#ectful attitude toward the Negro
college. Freedom movements hav^been spawn-
td virtually in full knowledge and in easy reach
of some ofthe South's most notorious bigots.
That cplieges like Fisk, Shaw and Union
are Standouts in today's “sit-in” movement is
a tribute to the support which they have rt-
ceiwd from UNCI'. Thirty-one other colleges
fit the sanie jiattern. Ordy cooperativ»e, mass-
supported philanthropy can keep the doors
o? these institutions open.
Faculty Hemberti anT administrators are
free to speak their convictions. Campuses^
themselves are oases for believers in social
justice. But they are dependent economically.
Deplorable economic condition of the masses
of the nation’s colored citizens make it im
possible for some of them to offer substantial
help. And yet, with the improved economic
lot of graduates of these UNCF institutions,
there comes today the moral imperative to
give Bswk toTi’^p oTIfiefs. • '
For those who are-not graduates, the im
perative is no les# real. Generally, these
UNCF institutions are sound educationally.
Thej' will improve eventually to offer high
quality education fo any Avho wiMi to eriroH.
In the transition jieriod to complete integra
tion, the predominantly Negro college prom
ises to remain a reality for a long tiiTK?. Let’s
face this,fact and let’s improve the quality of
education in these colleges by putting our dol
lars at the 4i»posal of ttie efficiently managed,
soimdly conceived, and purposeful United Ne
gro College Fuad.
"^«il cried Mo «•# ■Mrm
yourctlf, we are all hart ..."
Acts 16M.
The guilty fleeth when no man
pursueth. Those who do no wrong
have nothing to fear. Wrong is
forever running. And wrong nev
er finds a place to hie. Why?
There is no hidiag ^ace tor
wrong. ■ f
^ The fette«s are •ff." Hife • jail
doors are opened. Paul md ^la
stand fast in the rare di^ily of
justice and righteowaneM. Paul
speaks words of congelation to
the terrifying and frightened
jailor. We have done no wrong
and we are not running. Th# jail
or in his terror is about to com
mit suicide with the jHyord, and
■Patil *peak»: “D® i
self, we are all here
Right carries with if
stability. Right g i'
ance and confidenc
a sure anchor for the
makes for calmness
stprm is' raging all aroji
its mighty fury.
assur
the
us in
Paul and Silas had the stable
undergirding of right so they
speak out; “WE ARE ALL
HERE . . .” The jailor is fearful,
anxious and uncertain. But look
at Paul and Silas standing stead
fast on the sure rock righteous
ness. Wrong always stands on
slippery ground. But right stands
with afisuranoe and confidence
and can say i, . . Do not harm
yourself, we-all are here . .
The righteous can always say,
we are slaying around to see
what the end will be. Wrong
gives us the jitters. So we do un
reasonable and outrageous things.
But right can stand through all
the battles and the raging storms
of life. 0
ri«itt «»n aay~ «»-hav«
done nothing and we, therefore,
have nothing to run from. Paul
and' Silas could say we are stay
ing here until justice is crowncd
with her diadem- of glory. We
ere not going any place for we
are wdrking on an eternal, guar
antee. We are backed by him
who has Jill power and they were
saying with John the Revelator,
“The Lord God omnipotent
reigneth ...”
Men do not run when they
know that God is on their side.
Men who do the rjght, know and
trust God, do not have to run.
The evil run because vthey are
shaky within. Wrong doers run
because they have nothing to
hold them when the showdown
comes.
' Look at Pilate in the presence
of the *Ioly Loving Son of God.
Pilate saw that Jesus had some
one on His side that was mightier
than Rome. No wonder Pilate
cried out . . . “Behold the man.”
Yes, behold Jesus standing in the
poise, calmnesa jmd coafideoce
of His Heavenly Father’s sovc-
rign power. Evil runs for cover.
Right can stand for it has God
on its side.
Let find God and rest in His
matchless, eternal power so that
we can stand amid the storms
and battles of life.
HEAITH HINTS
(Slanged Aftade Biggest Fador in St-Downs
By DR. ELDEi L. BROWN
ChlropracHc Phytlcian
HOW'S YOUR LIVER?
Not so many years back it was
customary, when inquiring about
somebody’s health, to ask, “How’s
your liver?” the decline of this
query hasn’t altered the under
standing about the vital impor
tance of the- liver and another
member of this blood-purifying
team: the gallbladder. Both are
vital because neither have spares.
The human body is blessed with
two of certain organs: the eyes,
the ears, the kidneys, and others.
If one kidney ceases to function,
the other can carry the overload
and operate. The heart, the liver,
and the gollbladdt^ epe single en*
cities. Knock them out.and the
epitaph must be written.
Actually, the liver isn’t an o^-
gan but is. rather, a lare;e gland,
irregular in shape, reddish brown,
and .soft. It receives the blood
froin, the heart, filters and stores
^ihe food elements, makes impor
tant changes in proteins, elimi
nates poisonous substances, and
secretes bile in the gallliadder.
If there are dietetic abuae*. there
can be ruptures, infection, atro
phy, falling, a change in the
fibre known . as cirrhosis (hiird-
ening), fatty degenration, and
tumors. J
Anyone who has drawn (dress
ed) a. fat iien will' note the liver
may be very ligkt and very soft,
so that it spreads under the
fingers. This is fatty degenra
tion, caused by too much rich
food and not enough exercise.
The human liver in adipose per
son acts similarly under these
a bus6s. Fatty' degenration en
sues.
TM liver \wll not-function
normally and may -become dis
eased if there is interference of
normal nerve energy to the liver.
Impediments of nerve force can
also act similarly on the gall
bladder. Care and correct di4t
are recommended as an aid to
nature in restoring these organs
to normal fttnctioh.
No Protection For Negro Women in Dbde Courts
N*gro-citizens may well brace themselves
for a shock if they are expecting North Caro
lina and other sfHitliem c»Hirts to convict a
white woman for an as.sault on a Negro. Here
in Durham several weeks ago a white wom
an was'frewl after lieing charged with spiltin.'j
on a Negro. #n Concord another vkliite womnn
was aci|iiitted last Thursday of an assault
charge brotiglit by a Negro co-ed of Barl>er-
Scotia College who was in turn readily con
victed by the same court on a charge frf tres
pass because she pirtiapated in a lunch cmin-
ter demonstration at a candy kitchen.
Our readers will only need to recall the
Scotts1x»ro Ixij's case of Alabama and the
Mack Ingratu -ase of Caswell CoHnty, North
Carolina, to know that white woman does
not Jiave to be like Caesar’s wite, “above sus
picion,” to send a Negro to prison, tfje electric
PiiUMied every Saturday at wnrtiew, M. H
pf United MbliAcri, Inc.
L. e. AUSTIN, PdblUbar
M. e. JOmaOM. CoBtrollir
OOce iecated j« 4M C. PetUgicw Si.
TWlftonrs: MSTI;
Vwtem. Cse^M
Iktantf «■ MtoM claw i«Mr at 1
H DnKmm. North Corolioa,
chair or gas cliamber. Likewjse, in the sit-
down protests soutJiern conrts, %t best, may
convict a white man in the ca.se of a most
aggravated a.ssatih against a Negro, but can’t
imagine one' aggravated enough to have a
southern court- oonvict a white woman for
asfaulting a Negro.
We may as well faoe up to tlie fact that
not even a Negro woman of the highest type
stands on an equal footing in a southern
court with a white man or woman of tlie
lowest .'tyjK'. The truth of this will lie found
in tlie fact that even in the most sordid cases
of rape no white man has ever paid with his
life for rai»iug a Negro woman in North Caro
lina. In fact, only in rare jinstaiices has one
even been convicted.
H and when it »s i>ossil>le, we advise all sit-
down participants and pickets to avoid be
coming involved in arguinente or other en
tanglements with wliite wooien, for the sim
ple reason you can’t win a^^aicust them in a
North Carolina court.
KAtp: mmm
iM , 4
ttaF«itMk« I
erUm MtM '
I
ITk* man or woniaa Who doe^'t tajke the
troidjle to register and viotr tifer^by 4eiwiveH
biiqself of a logical ri^t to com(>lain alioitt
the state oi his city, state and nation.
By improving ourselves we lessen the bur
den for
1
The nearly universal desire for quantity
discourages the prodtiction of quality, and
Hiat fffcs far tvtrytkitig from soup to nut*.
NEW YORK — Sixty-eight
cities in 13 stms -have 'felt the
effects of four Wegro freshmen
from the Agricultural aiid Twh-
nical College of North Ctfoiina
who could not get a cup of eoffw
two months ago in a GreeiisliQi^
Woolworth store, Harold Cl flem-
ing said today in The RepMi»r.
Iri" his copyrighted artic'la,
“The Price of a Cup ofXofiee,"
Fleming says that the trivial ij-
sue of “who perches next' to
whom on a Lunch-coujUct stool”
points to a real and growing dis
content in the Southern Na0vo.
“The time is rapidly approacUog
when segregation can be main
tained only by continuous coer
cion and the intolerable social
order it would create.”
Segregationists Answered
Segregationist testimonies that
Negroes “don’t want this race
mixing anymore than we do” and
Uie angry accusations by Georg
ia’s Senator Richard B. Buaseii
and Governor Ernest Vandiver
Itiat the recent stutent demon
strations were inqtired by a
northern liberal organizatioo have
taken on a desperate Quality,
Fleming says.
"Quiet, wall-discl|Uiaad raato
of M«tre yUHHtrtars
tfccmel¥e« at lundi ,eeyaers,
filing late se«rif»M
libraries, er wsrrtilin |is earie
The official fhwthnw
has been — “Throw the book at
a few of tliflpi, mti iHf whole
thing'will fizzle out; the'grown
up will put a st(v to,it
‘‘iKMiicaUy,” FJeoilnf says “llria
oifioial »mtui§ M0f 4m
than anything else to assure the
folSdarity of young and old in
Mgro communiites. Mass arrests
as in Nashville, tear gas as in
Tidlahassee, and student expul-
^ns as in Montgomery have
served only to unite the students
and their elders in common de
fense of the right to protest.”
Fleming points out that in some
paHs of the South, the legiti-
nacy ef the atuidenta’ demands
has been recognized by a sur
prising number of whites. In sev
eral communities white students
have either actively participated
in the sit-ins or have supported
them by public statements and
editorials in campus newspapers.
Public officials have supported
the objectives of the Negro stu
dents; if not their methods.
fn Greensboro, Durham, Ral
eigh, Salisbury, Nashville. Knox
ville, and Miami, established or
apedally appointed btractal com-
wittees are trying to work out
■dienees aeceptal.'Ie to both Ne
groes and merchants.
Celltns May Open Way
The liberal position of Cover-
iwr Leroy Collins, of Florida, re-
MUed in a state-wide radio and
television broadcast that “amount-
«d to an. informal sermon on
the 'moral indefensibility of
Ijioob-oouater segregation.” Flem-
Ipg says.
WMhia six days Collins ap-
paiwtaj a biraeial state commis-
aioa for nsediation of this and
,«llter race - relations problems.
VMhin the week, the eonmiission
nas setting up advisory panels,
meetiftg with merchants’ associa
tions, and promoting local *bira-
oial committees.
“Giyas Miougb «kiU w4 #
Oxford Science Fair Stirs Interest'
great deal of luck,” Fleming
says that Collins ^ould “intro- ^
duce a new era of racial adjust- The second annual scicnce Fair Chemistry-Conductivity of Solution,
ment in Florida and blaze a trail held at Mary Potter High School Walter Craft; Phyeics-Expansion
for less adventurous politfcal created much interest among stii- by heat, Ruth Asgill; Biology-E|n-
loaders of the South.” dents, teachers, parents, and bryology, Thomas Parker, James
However, Fleming adds, Flori- **f the school. McDougle, ilcCoy Harris; Physi-
da, and the cities of Sail Anto- Professor George L. Foxwell, as- cal Science Chicken Skelton, Robt.
nio and Galveston, Texas, and sistant principal of J. W. Ligon Henderson.
Jefferson City, Missouri, which High school, Raleigh .was guest In the junior division, Section
have desegregated their lunch speaker for the science program 3 of the seventh grade received a
counters, are “by no means typi- which was held in the school first place rating for products at
cal of the Deep South.” auditorium. Mr. Foxwell emphasiz- the forest second ^lace rating, 8-3,
u. ESak* e* » many opportunies in the weather instruinents, and third
T j science. He pointed out place rating was given to the sixth
In the hard • core cities of need for more specialized per- grade'
.South Carolina, Georgia. Alaba- sennel in all areas of science. He judges for the fair were Mrs
ma, M.ss.ss*ppi, and Louisiana, challenged the students to take Alice SndU Siaw High IchJol
where “the powers of govern- their rightful place in this scien- strall and aM^^^
Hient hove been «sed to punish nf;- f
and intimicUUe the demonstrat- ' *u Cawley Hi|h School, re«dmoor
ors,” the issue is chiefly between Participants on the as- Committee chairman were as
Negh) citizens and the state. T’’''
Marian Moore, Frances Celbert, courtesty Mrs. T. W. Anderson;
Fleming »%ports that “harsh and Floriatta Gilreath. Music was bulletin boards, Mrs. B. P. Lucas;
police methods and vindictive furnished by the junior and senior Exhibit^, R. L. Bass; Judging and
prosecutions have only succeed- high school mujric groups under awards, Mrs. B. B. Redding Be-
ed in deepening the resentment the direction of Mrs. G. J. Farm- source persons Mrs. R. E. HoweU,
and determination of the protest- er, Roy Anderson and C. C. Powell. Mrs. M. W. Gant and publicity,
ers.” In cities “where the police Blue ribbons were given in the R. A. Hunt. Co-ordinator were;
and other oflicials have perform- following areas Geometry, Geome- Mrs. H. f. Wilson, R. L. Bass and
ed fairly and impartially.” the trical patterns, Ethel Jeffers; F. D. McNeil.
original character of the protest
continues as “an economic tug of
war between the merchants and
the Negroes.”
Although the sit-ins as a form The Toronto Tdegram asked Threescore and ten is enough. Few
of protest may Jje gradually re- Canadians if they would like to j^eople are self-sufficient at seventy
placed, Fleming says that their live WO years, and the answer ... I wjwt *o die when I’m y—j
most enduring results will be in was almost two-to-one against the and beautiful ... I’d be a cratoby
the realm of attitudes. exteadod life span for which aci- old thing. '#
“The white South has peen put encf is striving. • Most of those h*o wanted 4*
on notice as never before that J^je chief reasons most people go on living to 150 explained aim-
Southern Negroes Intend to be gavfc for not wanting to live Jonger ply: ‘Life is good.’ Other reasons;
rid of segcegation . . . Negroes were summed up; ‘I wouWa’t be I’d like to see if the future brings
have learned from the example any good at ihai age, just a bur- « better world ... I juat like liv-
of their young people that their don and a nuisance. People don't 4ig, that's all , fc» aiurti to
capacity and resources for #ro- want you. And I’d be too old to see, and not enough timp t6 do
test are 3»ater than they enfoy life.' Other reasons; I can it ... I’d like to see my
1»J OTemiflf mtw Uw t «o«tf lila la les* ^ . great grandchildren.
Man-'Iliaf's Too Long!