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TWE CAROCflflT ffWfff •AOt S-A—SATURDAY, SIPTIMBM f. IMI DURHAM, N. C. THE CHAW5 HAVE BEEN ftRO KEN SOON TO BE REMOVED 'miMrtint^wstien in th» Giikge Coiledon Sifik& Thrrr is one awl atAy one important ques- ion to be answrrect in th« strike now being vafjed by the city's |farl»afjt* «»llert«>rs to •htain better wagm lor thr-«rr«M« tJtry rrn- icr the dty of Durham. ^liaT"q^stim is not whether' or not tfie employed in the anitation departnieiii have so worded their esires for an increase in wajfes as to give ie impression that they are making a de- land on city officials. Such an accusation is 30 eaty to seize at an avenue of escape from ivlng the men involved the consideration it pfjears they are due. Also it falls far short f statesmanship or the kind of answer that ■;ty officials should give an employee, how- ver humble his station in life may be. The one im|>ortant question whether or not the wages i»id the garbage collectors are idequate to the extent that .they are not be- ng exploited. ThSl the men or their repre- entatives were not able to cncotfch their ords in soft language becorriing; a British '.iplomat is not important. Had they been blc to do this they certainly would be worthy A employment at much higher pay than- they now receive. This newspaper in a previous editorial has already discussed the meager wage increases which have been granted most of the men employed in the sanitation department over a period of ten years or longer. We also point ed out in the same editorial the very low wages paid them and certain other conditions under which they are working and which in our opinion are only a little better than those of a common slave. We cannot concur in the opinion of ou> esteemed contemporary, the Dufham Morn ing Herald, as expressed or implied in its editorial of Thursday, September 7, that the men employed as.garbage collectors should be »o proficient in city government that they should know the exact ‘Tiudget time — this year dr next”—to put in their plea for an in crease in wages. Our contact With the most of them convince* us that few if any of thein are eicperts in municipal government or stu dents of politibal sdi'rtce. If they are there i; good and sound reason to believe that t(ie , Cobtinutid on page, StA Georgia Points the Wa)f loi* tiie New South The city of Atlanta, Georgia, located in *.vhat is sometimes referred to as the deep ^outh, is fast getting ahead of other southern ities in industry, population growth and conomic development. In its September issue, "ortune Hagazine has a most explanatory rticle by Seymour Freedgood w'hich reVeals ast why Atlanta has been, able to accompHuh o much in race relations since the 1954 Su- treme Court ruling on segregation in public ‘.chools. It should be read by evei^r souther ner who is honestly interested in bringing about a better undefstuiding betwen the races in the South. In spite of a few minor- but customary ob jectionable terms, the auttior presehti A tnost challenging revelation of what other southern cities have got to avoid if they hope to keep pace with other,.fiicpgjr#;j|8ive ones in at tracting new indusfriis. capital and qaptains of industry. In refr^ne; to Atlartta’i recent integration of public''Schools and luhch coun ters in downtown area '^f the city, the ariiclt quotes one businessmatv- as saying. “Nobody here—^at least white peFam*—wants inttgra- -ion. Life is too corStSr'^HQ^. the way it is. What prompted the chamber’s decision for open schools was economic self-interest; an awareness of the. role tl*t outside bdsiqess investment has played in. (he city’s ^owth. W^e know what happened* it> Little Rock after the mob took over and disrupted the sichobl system,” the businessman continued. “F^r a period of two years not a single new'business of any consequence moved there.” Ihf article in Fotflfoe then went on to say that Atlanta’s^big businessmen are proUd‘"6f the industHfl and economic growth the city has made, especially the “huge new jet air port they opened recently, the biggest of its tind in the deep South. This has sharpened their dilemma. Not long ago, a group of them asked May6r Hartsfield when they might ex pect the jet port to become international. His answer was bjunt: "Not until Atlanta becomes an international-tninded city. What do you plan to do with the Brazillian millionaire who flies in with aome money to invest but hap pens to be black? Send him to the Negro YMCA? Think about It friend.” Here is the kind of civk visifen and leader ship that will keep a city from perishing economically tind industHally. Atlanta’s for ward look might Well be studied ty civic lead ers In cities of North Carolina, especially Durham and Charlotte. The former is the only municipality in the nation where the largest home-owned financial institution; the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, has no representation on the Chatnber of Com ber of Commerce, The only possible reason for such a travesty is the firm happens to be be Negro-owned and opferatedjCharlotte is now prepartnjf'foir what it refers to as an “Inter- 'Fair,”. If aadlwl^a Pf«sident Ken- eeay, who has been invifed * to* attend the Opening, accepts and. Ijiter oH, Negro digni- iaries from Sout^ Atnerica and African coun- itrieS put in their appearance alpng with him or Afterward at one of Charlotte's segregated hotels, we are wondering what is the city going to do about it. Sferid thein to the Negro "YMCAt- : ^ SI^IRITUAL INSIGHT ‘ Truth is the Only Quality of Man Which Does Not Ever Change "And how I k#pt biek nothing Hiar was profl'i*W*." Aefs J0:2D. Thera is power, freedom and durabilHy in truth. Truth, in its very nature, has an indestructi ble (lualily about it. Truth is of the Mseoce of Eternal reality. We can buiW on truth for time and eternity. Thus Jesus ad monishes us to kno>¥ .and to build on the truth. Why? He assures us that truth will set us frefe. Truih, finally, he sayu is thfi gate way to freedom and dignity. Paul, as a preacher for Jesus, riehtly took hig stand on the Eternal truth of the Gospel Of Jestts Christ. We are reminded, therefore, that i£ we w(Hikl build ft)r keeps we must build tiiii the , truth. iif' ti' j-' * We are tempted to forsake the, Eternal principles of truth. We would take short cuts and de tours to please men. When it comes to truth there are no short cuts. H you would build a real life, its best to build it on truth. Yes, some forsake truth ic^ the sake of pojtularity, quiek success and ease. Trttth, and truth alone will stand the acid test of time and eternity. Wisdom d e m a n ds, therefore, that we build on truth amid the many Inducements, aU lurements imd temptations for the easy, short cut way. Thus let us fight hard against the ever present temptation to forsake th» basic, durable principles of truth. A lie will enslave you. The truth will give you freedom. Ifany are enslaved because we h*ve taken our stand on the de- Mtotlve-power of falsehood. Some have' sold their vfery souls' for tlie fading gains of falsehood. Let us stay oh the freel^ road by taking our ftand on the truth. , I^t us maintain our frfedom and Agnity by walking the way of freedom. Why? VoM muat fully Th/fe Nation’s Press realize that a falsehood enslaves you but the trutl^ will give you freedom. Build on the rock of truth, if you would build for endurance. Truth will stand amid the shat tered ruins of this life. T^th will stand amid the corrosive powers of time and circum stances. As the poet says there wiU be times when truth will seem crushed and defeated, but she will rise again. "Truth crush ed to earth will rise again.” An enduring character must r^st on truth. A life that will stand the rigors of the gruelling tests must be anchored in truth. How can you build a strong biisi- ' ness or a life apart from indes tructible ifisfterials ' of truth? Truth will wave the final ban ner of victory, when falsehoods and lies have been defeated. Those who build on truth will be spared the disappointments and failures of falsehoods. Negro Students 6an Set Ah Examine Fdf Others The )ra(idin 'Riders' Juries You read in the daily press about the, rising tide of riots by drunken hordts and gangs of teen-agers, a goodly nUtStter'of whom"&re college students..'ThesC.iOutbiitsts, of heathen ism stretched ]^rosiM3}He over th^ Labor Day week-en^ij^/lccording to Police Captain William Brandtjgif L%Jcs.J5*orge, New York, scene of an ta^rning riqt,, _tf»^ mejee in that city wa^jjjtife wjtsj:.^he haal^ *vef seen in hi| 11 y«aj-s df,yolici work. , . ’ The Associated Prets releasi stated .that the Lake George mob, composed o^ l»th bpyi and girls, poured out of taverns and, jnto th* streets and began throwing befr cans* random and without apparent provocation.’* This occurred about three o’clock In the,tito'rt- ing; when every decent and seriotis" m'lnij^ young mao and vo^ng woman, not gafn/ully employed, should l«ve been in bed. The ra- sort village was described as a “screaming madhouse.” At Qermont, near Indianapolis, where tlrt 7th annual drag race of the National Hot ftod Association was held...«• crowd of -ISO race fans marched throug|T’{£e chatidtMF; •We want booze, we,%4iitjy^” Tht ciTowtf was headed for a tave^JS^’cRisftl for th0 ^lUbed cverjF S«itiir4a]r at Dui&ara. |i. C. Tclepiwse: mWi »d M1-«US hf lWt«f~PvMMKR, Ime. " . L. i. AIJSTIN, t>i*Milwr btend m daa» »*tlir ^ Oi«f ■t Dvfaaa. WMtfi ryf iMiijtipdec th% JM GWMbs mm fOBmm. inwAioii Efcmfc eijdi m fitil end on account df Iridiana liqUdr laws. Similar uprising occurred at Wildwood, N. J., Hamp ton/ Beach, N. H., Falmouth and Hyannis, Mass. ' ■ Must the warning of Evangelist Billy Graham be only a voice crying in a wilder- .nesk of tin and de'bauchery? Must it go un- ..heeded'in these times w'hen the nation stands f oi\ the brink of a nuclear war? >• Is it too. old-fattiioned to sound a warning tO' our iyoiiWg college people, sui^sedly a jart of the cream* of the crop who are so devoM olf morals and sdf control that they lopk'upon the kin^ of conduct engaged in at Lake George as modern, cute or having a gwd time? Is there any iiope that the United Btatfes can survive if it tnust' turn over its destiny into the hands of a gang of educated rkts, such as took part last week-end in the shltmeful rioting at Lake Georj^e and other cifies of this country. The pathway of history is strewn with the bleached bones of nations and empires who at the height of their prosperity and power were first ovircone, not by outside enemies, bufc/ by human termitefe and leeches boring from within to undermine their foundations and suck their lift’s blood until there was nothing If ft worthwhile to hold on to. The nations of ancient Babylon, Greece, and Rome are just a few of a long line of those who discovered ere it was too late that trufy “the wages of »in is death." The rioting whidi took place in the cities mentioned above was just about as sadistic , as the panty raids that have occurred at some policies and unlverttlies recenlly. It is our ^pe thiit Nei^0 colkgc students will not at- i tempt to ape the disgrac«fid coadact engaged I in by white stisdents. By refraihlhg from siich Aey can aet an example of deceflcy and re- -q>ectabi!ity that will be a caimibjg influence |or. the natiob in these times of atrea* and Attorneys for a young freedom rider have lots at least the first round in their challenge to the jury system of Mississippi. A superior court judge at Jacksm, Miss, has ruled that the Missis-, sippi system is fair leyen though 29 witnesses tobk 'ftie stand to show that few Negroes ever serve on a jury at Jackson. , It is to be hoped that the free dom ri(ie;i:si; !,Wt allow the ohaUenge to MiHiasippi’s jury Selection to restiion a declsioq by a Mississiippi judge. The issue should be tested in the V^eral courts and all the way up to the (United States supreme court if that II liecessary. it iV Well known that the na- t|ie.it’s highest tribunal has al- cas^, ttat systematic exclusion qt Nannies,is a violation of due pracssB under the 14th amend ment io ^he Constitution. Furth ermore, high court has also ^(«d a token teleetion of Ne^dtl jury duty is not enaagH ttf'^satisfy the require ment* of,due mrocess. ^ t^ freedom rider case 14 Tlwiji Yon Should Knoir .An racAPEfritjAVEttHo serrLEd IN. TMEVigUt06>tblli]iQM|^ mm Will H Be a Man on the Moon, Orti# By REV. HAROLD ROLAND For Uiti iftef of ittP 1. wovfcei up over tl^apae*' fl pf Gagfriit, ttrissoni, and Tlto^t, nor ovei* the pTospM of a fl^t to the mow. In thi first place my one trip to Glorylaiid, when I’jp, i^aut ISO Jrears old, will be )ime eneiiiph We.j^d I for about ttine^f-ni|i« fer^t ci the ireirt of us. Ey« UiA,. I fjink I’lt be iricUneii to stick to the use of the pbtdMi wings provided t« aH -headed-ter tlw Promised Land rather than rely on any new-fangled technolsical equip ment. Not that rm all that afraid, to twvol to Oie moon and not that I don’t an^redftte th« magnitude of the accomnUshment by others. But it’s jiist that there's so much here on earth sfiU to achieve. If I csn Just have mor« lovbig frlenrts. keep ^v good neighbors, P»v all my de'bts. Slav in good he«lth, educate my children, im- provo in mv work, see som? more of THIS ivbrld, I’ll he quite hap- py If it’s pxcitenxent one craves, what could b! more exciting than the earth problems we have iiuch as the hoad-on battle everywhere with Communism. Achievement? What more to achieve right Iwre oA earth than the better , welfare, friendship, and brotherhood of man? Cer tainly it will be Impressive nsw knowledge to know whether man can live on the moon, but we know about the earth already, and yet there are milliona of people, some right here In America, barely living because of the lack of food, clothing, shelter, and good health. Exploring faraway places ii perhaps all right, but how about By ANDRlW OAt the explorati94 ot dicate oiir high Crime rate, our high divorce rate, and other serious, very earthly matters. ptrhaps it if good to comflete these jaunte into outer syace, but hbW good would it be to eli minate th> 23 million pe^ons in tW» nation over 25 ye|ri old who have less than seveA years of aehoollng. Uodoubtedly a few sdekdists will get a real thrill working out th/> details of life on tiie moon, but we’d all get a thrill out of the perfection of such matters right here on earth. In many respects it boll/^ down to what somebody said, after reading about AmTioa*s tpropos- ed moon shot within ttafe next six months. ^ “We’ll never get a man on the moon,” he .■(aid ffrmlyj “Why do you ^ay that?” "Because we can't; event get a Negro on the front seat of a bus in Mississippi!" There are some rather earthly problems, aren’t thef^? In this connection, incidentally, one doesn’t hear much .talk about racial diserimination in'connec tion with space flights. As with mountain-ciimbing and^ther has- ardout endeavors, the proponentii of equality are very silent on moon travel, I’m with them all the way. Yeterans's Questions and Answers Negroes testified that they had been registered to vote — and hence were eligible for jury duty —for 12 to 40 years in Mississip pi and never once had they been called for jury duty. White law yers took the stand to testify that never had they seen a Ne gro on a petit jury. And yet ip spite of this testimony, the court ruled that the freedom riders had not established that Negroes are excluded from juries in Mis sissippi. Obviously, a Mississippi court 0.—Detain^ et mV' lale hus band's rtillllary service, I re ceived seme $3,600 tti death gratulV Myment. Is this mMey subject to federal Income taxf A.—No. Q.—My husband Is a war vet> aran and since hi« diseharie from active duty, be hes worked under social security. In planning »ur Inaurance program, wa «*uld like to kn«w what hwial allaw- ancea v^uld be paysbl*. Af—it appears that a burial al> lowance in your case may be payable by eltheif the VA, the Social Security Administration, or both. The VA pays to $250 to the funeral director, if he has not been paid, or to the person who pays the burial expenses. The Social Security lump sum payment equals three times the wHfher% benefit, but not mom than $255. Q.—My father, a World War II voMran, died recently from cau^ net connected with his mIHtary service. In erdar for me to be eligible for a VA ponsion, since I am unmarried and not yet II, what Service requirements must my deceased father have fulfilM? A.-^Your father must have had is hotjihe piacf wiiere this issue can be decided fairly. It should be taken into the federal courts just as quickly as possible.— Minneapolis fRiBUNE at least 90 days service, part of which was during wartime. Dur ing World War n the wartime service dates are December 7, IMl, to December 31, 1946. He must have been discharged under conditions other thsn dishonor able. Q.—Has the 61 loan guaranty renisa prevision been extanded for World War 11 veterans, and If so, hew long? j A,—Yes, PubHc Law W by the 87th Congress extended the res toration privilege until July 25, 1967, for World War II veterans, and until January'31, 1971, for Korea veterans. The VA niust have been completely relieved of liability and no claim may] have been made against it for the pre- 1^ vlous loan. If restoration Igjto he gnrated.' Behind, now Is the accept able time. —(II Cor. 6;2) BeKin todny. right where 4 you are. to practice God.'s presence Bes'tn today to prove His perfect laws add promises, for now is the ac- eeptable time to ctuim irod’a Jny onrt ppiu'C. Do*s And Pon'ts MTAMT £A|tLY, TEACH1N6 HER TO BE UKFU&.
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