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rnS CAR01.1NA TIMES PIM t-A~tAT, MARCH IS. 1MI "THI TRUTH UNtRIDLID* k Most Sipificant Hass N«f For Mnn >K AM&HfCAlS t£ADeaSMII^ IS HEJECTCO TT*e nia»>i neetinK held at ijt. Joseph A 'f. E. Chuoch on U«iiiday nij^ht wa-. prolafch (fie «iost significant gathering sfaf^rd in Dur bam in many years. S|>carheaded by tlu‘ youth ful picketcrs. sjt-in grohps anl tlic local liranch of the NAACP, t!ic nitctiiij; hrMi!;ht tiigfthcr many of the adult aijd ynunfj inoiii- bers of the community wht) jiU-ilgod them selves to support the effort now iHinij made to peacefully secure more and licttfr cniiiloy- mcnt for N«rfjroes in Durham. It is our firm belief, an! wij- luild. that the effort to secure more and better empln\ nn-iit for Nepfroes transcends the question of race. In reality, it is an effort to imji!ement democ racy in this land of ours and prove to tfie world, especially Soviet Russia, that the demo cratic way oJ life is to be extended ecpially to all the citizens of the United States without regard to race, creed or color. We think the meetinjf on last Monday.ivifjbt also gave evidence of the growinij solidarity of Negro citizens of Durham behind the ef fort now being made by 4he yoiipf people of the race to share to a ^reatef extent in all phases of employment. It set at rest those who were under the impression that those leading the effort were composed of irrespon sible youii{f people who did not have the sup port of the adults of the community. We commend the leaders of the effort, and as lon{j as they go, about their task in the same peaceful and lawfvil manner as they have demonstrated in the past, this news paper, as well as every respectable Negro citizen of Durham, will stand behind them. It is our .sincere wish that the support which was demons,trated at- the mass meeting will encourage the leaders and participants in the effort to continue until victory is achieved. It is also our hope that all participants in the effort will continue to conduct themselves as ladies and gentlemen. By so doing, they w'ill not only have the support of Negro citizens of the community but many fair-minded white citizens as well. Hie Civil War Centenmal Ceiejvation The Carolina Times has been more amused than aiqaaed at the moronic antics or clown ing now going on over the Civil War Centen nial celebration. Not only has such taken place in southern states but several northern and western states, having been flood.’d with pro-i^uth propaganda, have succumbed to the craze and will join in celebrating what many have labeled the blackest chapter history has written about the United States. Of course the money to pay for the foolishne&s has been in most instances appropriated from the pub lic tax fund, which means it will come out of the pockets of all the taxpayers. There can be one and only one objectiv*; in the average southern mind, and that is, as reported by the National Association or the Advancement of Colored People, the hope of “repudiating the gfeat moral issue which lay at the bottom of the Civil War.” That issue was slavery, and'no amount of propaganda to the contrary should cause any citizen to lose sight of that fact. What then appears to be on the surface a harmless celebration is in reality an effort to further brainwash Ameri can citizens into believing in white* supre macy. » * ’ Further preof that tH| Ci'^1 War Centgnnial will be no ordinary celebration is the stark refusal of the Francis Marion Hotel in Charl eston, South Carolina, where a planned Civil War assembly will be held on Aprils 11-12, to accommodate Negro members of the Centen nial Commission. If» the llfice 6{ such refusal the New Jersey Civil War| Ctptennial Con^ mission voted unanimouoly to boycott the meeting. This was follo\yed by an announce ment by the New York 3t^e group chairman that his state W'ould not be pfficially repre sented. In appealing to othef staths to follow its lead by boycotting the meeting, Chairman Donald Flamm of tlie New Jersey Commis sion said: “We don’t fefel that the federal government should sponsor any activity w'hich doesn’t respect the fundamental laws of this nation.” The New York chairman, Bruce Catton, said: “We would have been awfully hesitant to send a delegation to a place where one member' was not invited. We have firm convictions about what came out of the war.” In trying to defend the discriminatory cus toms of the South Col. Karl S. B^tts, execu tive director of the Centennial Commission, gave the usual simple-minded, flimsy reply. Said he. "We can’t, beconje invoijred in such, related questions. Some delegates might ob ject to some other' town ‘because of the smog or bad traffic conditiorii.” Whether it has ■ ever dawned on Col. ^ Batts that smog and traffic know no race, crted or color while southern hotels do will probably never be determined. ^IRITUAL INSIGHT % REV. HAROM) ROLAjNO "A r»on»b»r who praetlc b maol* crt brought Mieir bod 'if' and burn;^ them In the sight _A t» '19:19 ' Human beings find it lifficult to give up habitual way ing things. Here we hav( the great hindrances, to advancement'. The law formation is a powerfu ‘ ‘ihing. We Need to Forsake Ae Old Magic For The Spirit ^ Clirist of do- jOne o| human I habit ^axes and thetii^ Cost of Segregated SMs i : ‘0^ \ r' We ha^e watched with more than a passmg degree of interest the frantic efforts on the part of Governor Sanford to find new sources of tax revenue for North Carolina schools and other vital necessities of this commonwealth. Along with the governor's proi>osals have come the usual objections of those mostly af'- fected. This, of course is easily imderstood by . * majority of us who are astoundingly ■>!« until a proposal is made to slap a tax tson^thj^^|j||toj|i^..^o t^s. It fs then, aft^ y t|||ii to liowl and' screami >iln the midst of' this age old scramble to find new sources of revenue the Carolina Times would like to calmly and prayerfully suggest that the governor and other state officials devote just a little study to the'tre mendous amount of money North Carolina is wasting on, its segregated school system. We wonder if they have ever thought of the mil lions of dollars it has cost and still is costing the taxpayers of the state to maintain two •ets of primary, elementary and high schools in every county, city and town of any size in North Carolina. The wanton waste of money that has gone down the drain over the years in a futile at tempt to keep alive the st4jpid idea that the . cuperiority of race or individual can be deter mined by the color of the skin is, we are satis fied. one »ource of this state’s tax problems. .Tust how long North Carolina governors and Human beings like the ttut of complacency. 'We hate d‘'move from -our customary waj i| of do ing things. Thus -we fii[d much ot tBS bittfer opposition encounter In‘ worthwhili right at this point. 'We ^9 lay that we have this for years. But what have you made in foto old way? But here in the long ago we find some who' 'had been practicing j the magic arts were ready to burn ,th'’ir books of magic when they foui^d new Iif« in Chrfs! Jesus. - Let us burn the books of magic and get a new start. Many of us ion th vhil^ I "b± hat lie ollokr ihat we qauset !,quick doing iepdway ing the who have been, holding up the march of human prQgress with cud old, habitual ways of doing things need now to wake up and 'burn our books of magic. Why? So that, we can now get In step with the onward march of hu- "'ban progress. We need the in- vigorating life blood of some' new, vital idea*. Industry, in itiany instances, pa^ a sj^cial i*eward for bright minds who can come up with new ideas for in creased production and progress. jLet ^ burn the old and have a tranfusion of new ^deas. Thtis can get in 'itfep^^ith the march of progress. • leaders of meanhigful progress in the history of man have been willing to forsake the old. Wp should be willing to forsake thp oid life of sin that w^can bejin the ni»w life of righteousness in Christ Jesus. “If any man is in "dhTlsnre is a new erea^tnrr.” Vct, we shonld glv^ up ttie old th^t we may find the beauty aftd pow er of the new. Let the old "Or der Change Giving Place to the New.'’ Let Jews in His redeei*- ing love ring out tjie old* ring in the new. Let «»ve up the old. .What did you get out of the old? The old offered dark ness, bitterness, tears, i*nd sick ness. The new offer* light, joy, peace, life abundant and eternal life. , . You are a hindrance to life by clinging stubbornly to the old.. Too many of us are holding up life and progressi. by our un willingness to forsake the old and accept Hie new. iord, save us from the spiritual blindness which causes us to cling to the ' old and hold up the life giving power of Christ Jesus. ' I^rd, teach us the wisdom jf burning the books of our habit ual ways and practices so that we may not become hindrances to the spiritual-heattty of the- Chris tian way^ Some Facts For Folks Who fhW Pie SiwM fake f ar 4»0R6I «. •ho'-as from Africa, the |fegro be^ rfight^ for his fre^vN. Put There are well-intfintioned peo- to jsltnpltfy just look at pie who cling tenaciously to the the Wrort since 1778, and ofTe can theory that the American Negro understand why the American Ne- was GIVEN his freedom with the gre is impatient .about gai;iing his signing of the Emancipation Pro- civil rights. For him civil WghU clamaUon; that freedoia was pre- has goite at a snail's pace. Sifted the Ne^ro on a silver plat- Fro« the j|ig»ihg thi? Decla- tor as thou«h it were a gift or ration gf Ind(^epdence ^^ July 4, something given eut of the good- 17'®, it too^ 8'years {»mtil 1807) ness of the wBite mhn's hehrt. for the g(v«BMhent to'aboUsb the Msgro youth, in wneral, are slave trade, not misled aboat this and they It was 87 years before Lincbln will be amonei the first to say this issued the Emancipation t»rocla-^ itn't s*. Rut too many whiles who roation (in 1803), and^ it' took an- belipve that the Negro is indebted other two years (until 186S) fpr to .them for his freedom, find it the 13th Amendment to the Con- di^ficnlt to unrffrstand Why the stitution, jdeclating ihe Negro .a Ne«ro is in full-ffedged revolt. citizen; to become las. It was 92 It woiridn’t be a bad idea to years before the 14th Amendment t^ach white youths a few basics became Ww in 1888, and 94 yMrs abont fre«*dom and the Neijro. And before the ,16th Amednjent became this is what could be taught; law. Freedom is an achievement end It took 144 years, until 1B29, for not a gift. It is hard to attain, and North Carolina to wipe out its pijll much harSer, to k«ep. It is an tax system, and ISfr years for the eternal quest of man. Freedom itate >f Louisiana to abolish poll hns never been eiven to a ppeple taxes. Georgiy hung tenaciously to out of the-ppodness of b nation’s lts^?io1) tax for 16fl years, ftnaUy hmrt; It has been franted only ab«rti»W,n|{'lt in J948. wh»n that nation ha« found it up- h tdi^‘173 yiafs’foi* thi fiwt profitable not to do so. state anti-lyneh lay Amprira foueht in 1776 to Wfln and there is still no Ifftder^l Ifw |t« freedom from Gr»st Britain. prohlMtinf. mob'lyncMilis. leM* She fouvht again |n 1812. then in still, has the peU tax. • M7 and 1041 to ](eep it. In ItMS The momentoua 10Sf> Supreme shii fought in Korea. Court decision that declare^ pu})- W;omen had to flBht for their lie ichool segregation uMOnstltu- freedom: it wasn't siven to them tional. took 178 yeaw, and It IMS by thefr husbadds. They won the^r takpn 180 yean (11^) i«r tiff freedopi by proving that th«y Interotate Commerce Commission were their equals. Bed or brown, to wipe out racial segrega(i«B fn black or white, man must win bis public transportation, freedom. / Thm, it appears) It Jas 't^ra For 342 years, since the first America 184 years to begin io slave was brought to Anilrican catch up with the ideas of .1776. ON THE m W ; other state officials ati: to continue the transfusion of funds iiito veins, of seg regation, a way pf lift ikrtt is already dead and only waiting to bt buHed, is the unan- . s\^erecj tax question of Ihiis ifate. It will take cQuragje afld Ijigh statesman ship for the governor qf ttiis sta,te to lead the people in the direction of abplistiing here and now the eternal Wastjp erf millions of dollars in trying to pay f(}_r a ^Jial educational System! If‘^ |u^ stal^^slmanship could be summone4; 'l)e{}0ve it wijl cJi£>rt a new course in the Soujh, bring needed relief to an alerady overtaxfetj pec^e .and raise the level off education in thiin state to tl^^ point where it can compete with otHei- states of the nation that have on)y one educational system to sustain. ' * Only the simple-minded are* unable to see and read the handwriting on the wall bf segregation. It is our hope that Governor S.an- ford can see and read it and .that he will have tlie courage and the statesmanship to lead the people of the state away trom an evil that is becoming morje and mose burdensome as the cost of education continues to rise. ik Organized to Su^y Durham School Elementanf Aiie WioOin't Afford Them tatiffday at Durnara. u C THyliMt: OT2-28U anil eSi^l2 hr Ooftod PuMlabera. Inc. tk K. Austin, PubUaher JMpra# IP dMM Blatter at the Post Ofllea CSpraiiaa, ander the Act of IfaKfe t. 1879. Carolina I 4M E. Pettigraw St CostroBer •mi: iM» PEP vkaB OUT-TALKED We mentioned a few months ago that the names of 400,000 New York telephone sub scribers are unlisted in the directory and the predominant reason, so it is- said, is a_ desire to eliminate unwanted callsl from sellers of subscriptions, merchandise and tickets. A reader whose name, is listed Writes us that his wife outwits nuisance callers by quickly switching the sales 1>itch. Before the callers get going she gays she has been try ing to reach them for a week, that she has a selection ,pL the ctttest Christnjas cards, that she bakfMlPes and setls them, or that she takes orders for personal stationery. She’s a fast talker, her spouse jjiys. The callers ^ang up. An organization has been form ed in Durhanr'to supply ^l^thing to needy children of el^inintary school a^e. a^ousSs citiz4^s' of the cMnmu'niij to-donate clothing to hundreds of school‘age childfin between the Gges of six and twelve. Tl)e organization was an out growth of a series of informal talks between interested individ uals, spearheaded by Mrs. Helen Hammond,' who gave birth to the original idea of the clotliihg bank. Currently, it is madrSip of a small steering committ^ respon sible for seeing that the organiza tion’s work of getting cloth'liig to needy children is accomplished, dividuals and organizations throu An appeal will be :Untde t to throughout the commi|jft2^«Art icles of clothing. Recommendations . "®®ly clothing will be made tWNiugh the principals of elementar^^..schools. The n'eeded clothing \yill fee sent to the principals, whb*""fB‘ turn, will distribute them to the chil dren. In explaining the project, the ccmmittee said: , . d;; “The majoi;ity of Durham’s citi zens enjoy a relatively higlj stand ard of living, yet, there are, un- forunately,. many among**u?'^hose economic situations leave much to be desired. The most tragic group in this segment of our population is Uie cjjildrefn who are helplessly trap ped in circumstances not of their own making. We feel that there are (cores of persons more fortunate than these children who wpuld welcome Ifn oppot^nity to do sometlUflg about this situ*tiofa. The Cojhrnuh- ity Clothing ip»|)k hppes ^ provide libyj^'Ws! The /Reqjeation centers^ Ip^ated in itha 'flve gaogtphic area; of the ci^ wil be used as collection poin^. They are: , , • W.' D. Hill ^lUoreation ..^einter, Fayetteville Street;, Lyop Recreatipn Center, Cornell vStre'et; E. D. Mickle Recreation Center, Alston Avenue; R. A. Grady Rec reation Center, Lajceland Avenue; Walltown Recreation Center, Club Boulevard. ' * Individuals may turn in arti- cl>^ of clothing at either of the centers listed above between the hours of 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. from Mondays through Fridays. The clothing will be collected from> the Recreation Centers and processed for distribution at the John Avery Boys’ Club, Branch Streit. Clothing donated that.. is n4t new or in perfect (condition, should be marked so that repairs can be.made before being turned oyer for distributon. Members tf th e Community Clothing Bank Committee are; Addie Bailejr, F. G. Burnett, W. L. Bradaher, N A. Cheek, L. E. Davis, Marie FauUc, Doris Fitzger ald, Marguet Goodwin, Helen Hammqtid, Irvin Hqlm^, Bessie McLaurin, I*. D. MarAall, E. 'W. Midgette, Clayton Ross, (Hladys Rhodes, ‘J. lE. Smith, laee 8n\ith, .ISulma Smitii, Nosfiey Whitted. "Warns the 'l^iAW employed at women’s clothing store, on a time basis. “The white man knows you are entitled to things you are seeking. They’re just waiting for you to de mand them,” Mrs. Hurley said. "All the stores will give in if we stay away,” she continued. She congratulated ■ the leaders of the movement in Durham, and said, "These youngsters have been sitting down not just saying they were tired of it. They were saying they werfe through with it. They were Just not having it any more. And they mean what they say." But she warned her audience that there is yet a job to be done in the whole feld of achieving equality In this Qountry for Ameri can Negroes. “We may lool^ at recent suc cesses and say we’re gaining. Bi^ freedom .is coming very slowly, especially when we look at other parts of the world, she explained. “The day of freedom has been a long day coming for the Uni versity of Georgia, for example,” she pointed out. “The fight has yet to be won. We’ve got a long way to go, even here in North Carolina. Turning to international impli cations of the movement for free dom, she declared that the old power structure knows that it can no longer set aside a tenth of thje population of this countiv. STANLEY'S WAY, • ^ilmMital luomay thmiflli CMt>^ Africa. By Th^a* SterliiM. 2SI pp. New Yerii: Athenaum Fublishers. $4. Interest in Africa hw touched every phase of life in the world today. 'Wbtit with the issue of the Congo .being debated in the UN, and the continuous stream of news from the Congo itself as well as other parts of the con- tient, one cdn hardly ignore asy bok coming off the press about Africa at this time. While the author of "Stanley’s 'Way” writes well, he has little to say in this book which would enlighten one on Africa. The book is rather confusing and would not prove fulfilling read ing to those adventurous souls a fbSd travelseue 6r X btK)k of' observations on Centra] Alrica as the title would seem to indicate. Through a tnate of place names wOtich leads to noth ing interesting we travei with Henry Stanley who found Liv ingstone. At times we start out as if we would follow Stanley’s course throu{!h three trips he made into the interior of Africa, but alas we are abruptly brought , back to the author’s present day trivial liffairs in modern Africa as he attempts to follow StsAley’s course with the transportation of today. * , He successfully develops Stan ley’s reason for undertaking si^h an assignment, his financial sourcM, the suppliee StMday needed for travel^, atad »v»n begins a description of.Stanli^a first monthi on ^e ^ip to ftod Dr.' Livingstone. Somewhere tte author forgets his purpose «|d goes on for pages about the author’s adventurei with travel ing companions on boats, trains, government offices, night with two African sisters—ooe of wUeh he grOYra quite fond—and othCT tMich details which only serve i6 kill the adventure which the bqok ori*>inaily begins. What is told about Dr. Living stone is sketchy but leaves oiie with the idea that he was a Im- manitarian similar to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. This critic must con fess ignorance about Dr. rtone andTils purposes for gol^ iijto the heart of Africa In the ipth century, but Mr. Sterlin| states that his expedition, w^i fiiianced by the Royal G^gra- Qhlbal Society, hence it >^.as | mctfe scientific expedition ri>th4r than a humanitarian one. ' Stanley is drawn as an authoH- taiian character exercising‘grea^ influence on those with whom he comes in contact. There if little regard for Stanley’s writing ability though he was the New y#rk Herald’s chief reportier, j “Stanley’s 'Way” adds little knowledge op Afri;a> nothin more to th«i fame of Sta ley and Dr. Livingstone and witt hardly add to the reputation of its auUior—-by Evelyn Woolfolk. EdHoiial of the Week The following editorial appear ed in the New 'York Herald Tri bune of March 11. WHAT THE WAR WAS ABOUT The refusal of the New Jersey Civil War Centennial Commis sion to 4ttend a convention of the national organization in Charleston because one of its members is a Negro and will not be admUted to a chosen hotel with th^ rest is a fit^ng com ment on the unseemly way in which the nation is being asked to commemorate the ibost tragir milestone in its history. Indeed, the assumption that seems to lie behind the acting out of battles, the Chamber of Commerce dress-ups and all the rest is that the pivil' War was a cross between |i knightly tour- n^nt and a Hdlywood epic. Yet the great moral crisis which tor«; the country apart, and which is still with us 1n a not very diff^ent form, is entirely ig nored—except in this ,iyiam«ful way. It ia scarcely possible p«o- j>le have forgotten what th^ «nr W ^ut. ' But even if that ertiif i» plat- tered over in the interiests of “unity” and "harmony” (and the tourist trade), there lit a morbid interest Ip the fighting itself which goes far beyond devoted historical enthusiasm. And what is one to say about the patheti cally ludlon^ re-enactmen^ the other day of,^e inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgqnery? Let.^s hope the taste f^ this kiqd of thing will have disap peared long b^ore the MtMfa an niversary of Appomattox.' low* at ve til* aMaHnit ws "Hmu wjm iwtMiNt x«i» mtm moHamim t»
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