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THE CAROLINA TIMES : A—DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1W2 THEIR DEFIANCE OF THE LAW OF THE LAND IS BECOMING OUR WORLD IMAGE Law School Failures In North Carolina \Ve Invr lu'on aiua/id. amusw! aiiH inter-- ftH in tlu‘ stateintnt inalr bv Dean Henry Mnndis nf the I’niversitv nl North Carolina l.'MV ‘^fti'Kil conccrning the larfje number of whirh took place in thf recent exam- innflon i '''pn aspirin" voiinqf Inw students by sintc ntifhorities. Snid Oean Brandis: “I be- lii-vc thst llii'. pcrrentn*''*' f>f failure? among ttie ('rn'bnles of i;o(m1 I:i\v schools indicates tlinl lilt Hoard of Law Kxnniin#s somehow i'- tc'-iini’' for thinq;s that tl»c law schools are not ti 'ichintr.” I'lilikc unollirr law" school we know of in i> liii h i)iit a siii^te ^!;radIlate has passed the Itsr ifi this state for the i>ast three years, Denn P.randis at least shows some concern abo'il tlie situation. This is in sharp contrast to the nfM>arent nonchalant attitude of the Dean of N. C. Collceje’s Law School concem- ip”, the one hundred per cent failures of its erafhvtrs for the past three years. The Car olina Time>; feels that the X. C. C. law school dean should at least show enough conceri st«iut ‘uch a sitU!(tion as to find out the reasorvs for the failures and seek a remedy for this situation. It's no joke for a young man or youitg: woman. a.s|Vjrine for a csfff^r «« a lawy«'f. to spend time and monev for three vears nr four long years in any kio4 of school iirovided by the state only to discover in the end that l)oth th* monev and the time hftve been wast ed in eha.sirnr a raiiibnH' hecnuse such a school does not have what it tT'-es. R’ther this is the case with (graduates of N. C. C. I/aw School or the pupils taWin" the course do not have what it takes. Wherever the fault, we think the taxnavers are fnrni«hinR the money to maintain such a school have a rif^ht to know. It is hard for this newspnner to understand how the graduates of the K. C, C law school with its limited facilitie* could pnss the state bar in the early years of the school’s existence but are unabl^4P go now' with a stronger facuhv and better factHties. Wc are of the opinion that a thorough investipaion of the hundred per cent failures of N.CC. law school graduates over the p«it three yeari will dis close an entirely different reason from that of the large nunber of 'failures which have taken plact among graduates of other law schools of the state this year. Implications of the Civil War Centennial CeMiration \*THE WHITE MEN Of fHKfTATE HAVE A Rjght toresort to AMV MEANS AT THEJ« COMMAND TD STOP NlOtOCS Letters to the Editor' SOMETHING WTIONG WITH DURHAM JUSTICE To the People of Durham; There is something very wrong with Justice in our city. It is to be hoped that one of the functions of city go^vem■ ment is to safeguard the rights of its citizens. To this end it Is very gratifying, I suopose. to note ♦he fatherly concern shown by Mayor Evans to those citizens who run through stop slms. Hfl thinks “the cost is exces- alv«.*’ At this time in the history of our city, M per cent of our citizens are engaged in a peaceful, responsible effort to gain some rights which they h‘»ve never possessed. These citizens don’t want a ^educed fine for runming through stop signs they want to be allowed to go to movies, to cut wb«m they please fo d»i thin*'* wh|e!» you, if you’re white hiiva »|- wflvs taken for gMnta^- personaUy,"! don’t like peo ple w]Mt*i>^n through step signs. Thev make me n^rvQu*. But I do Uke the many ii«c«fe friendships which I have Itna- ed with Dtirhsm citizen# are Negro. With these eMzCM. I would be pleased to eat or to (Fa to the movies with or send my children to school witli their children. There is something wrong with Justice in our city. Sincerely, Donald T. Mever Research A^soci«(c What Other Editors are Saying STRONG LAWS NEED STRONG MEM In -TH editorial of Thursday, August 16, Dur ham’s mornincf newspaper makes a desperate attempt to .•'ttach some nobility to the obser vance of the Civil War Centennial now going on ff>r the most part in the South. In so doing it hurls a bla.st at Harry Golden's recent attncV on the Centennial, appenrincr in the S.‘nir«k\v F.veninrr Post and that of Mrs. Fawn if Hrodie. appearing in the New York Times The niorpitiEf newspaper follows the usual southern line and even finds a defense and some complimentary words for the institution of slavery. Fnid the Herald’s editorial in part; “And it is difficult to see that slavery, in which thf 'lave was cared for under all circumstances, was more inhumane or immoral than the con- (''♦inns uti'*''r 'vhirh factory workers in the North lived and worked.” FJther the author of the editorial is (grossly icrnorant of the 9wfnl tran-edv of American slavery or he is drliberfitely falsifying, Qb« dues noi Ua’rc to b«! a student of Atpwi- to know'that slnverA', as it existed in this coitntry. was the most sordid, the most immoral and the most tragic lot that has ever been heaped upon a race of people. When • southerner glorifies American slavery Of the Civil War in which so much southern blood was shed and so many lives were lost in an attempt to preserve it. he is glorifying an institution that saw babies sold from theit mothers arms, wives of helpless Nes^ro men prostituted by slave masters and all sorts of other immoral and indecent crimes committed against a helpless people. ■At the worst the factory worker, if his skin was white. miia:ht find a way out of his pre dicament. Certainly, he was paid at least a modicum wage for his labor. Tht slave on the other hand was paid nothitig for hifc labor, however hard and long the hours. In addition there was absolutely no way for him to extricate himself from his predicament through hard work, industriousness or faith ful service. If his white master did not feel disposed to set him free, his lot was that of a slave until death. This newspaper for one will be glad the PentfsqnUl bj'Stcria pf .southern fanatics^ is over. The entire effort appears to us to be a futile attempt to win a war that has been for ever lost and to feed some simple-minded souls that are still hungry for revenge. SPIRITUAL INSIGHT REV. HAROLD ROLAND Righteousness, Temperance and Judgement 3 Essentials of Religion "He r«8Mn«d of righteous- nets, i*mp«rance and Judge ment. . Acts 'SBiI. Righteousneas, temperance.' Judgement are three essentials of our Religion. We are asked to be good, moderate, and live right. God has given u9 the power to help us live right — THE HOLY SPIRIT. Now we have no excuse about right living. God. the Holy Spirit, has come to dwell in us and help us live right. Folks, let for that final day of Judgmerrt’ us live right for we have no before the righteous ruler of valid excuse now. the world. How standest thou in these three essentials? We are saved from sin to live lives of simple righteoua- Christians are called to the life of discipline or temper ance. Temperance la based up on the principle of moderation. ness. Wha^ is ♦hi* business ot^'lt is an aspect oi Christ’s de- rifhteounafcs? 'It is strtvirtuaf m^^ of' Mlf-^4plal. Temper- to live fr6m day to day thar^* nne^/ Is slmplie Stelf conftrol. would be accoptablo before ^ ' What can you hope to become Remove the Hazard Before it Is Too Late We shuildcr to think what will probably hnpj>en when the new Fayetteville Street Flementary School opens this month and its 700 or more pupils are forced to walk in th*e street becaus* of a Inck of sidewalks leading up to the school. Even before the present strMcture was completed the life of a sm.al’ boy was snuffed out when he was struck by an automobile almost in front of the school whw. because of the absence of sidewalks I’d was fnrci'il to walk in the street. With the eviiected increase in the n\uT»lier of pupils who will attend th- school this vear. there is a rreat possibility tliat tlu‘ toll in accidents an(? (lenths nnv reach a much hii^her number. With the exception of an area directly in front of tHe schofil there is absolutely no side- wnik north or south of the .school building. Thus (he pupils who attend the school will be ex'posed to speeding automobiles for a span of two miles on the north and all the way on the south. F.ven in areas where there are sidewalks leadinij up to a srhool the haxard of children darting across the street is had enouirh. The )>icture of several hundred walk ills: in a busy thorc.mrhfare like that of Fav etteville .Ktreet is enoufjh to give one the creeps, M'hile we are on the matter of traffic haz ards, we may as well call the .attention of ritv officials .md railroad officials to the a\\ful couflitions that continue to exist at the r.-iilroad crossing on Dillard and Pett»- grew I^tr*‘ts and the one that e.xists at the railroad crossing on Fayetteville and Petti* prew Streets. Ju!it several weeks ago severd persons were injured, one seriously, when a piiising train rammed into a Duke Po«'er €k€€ni f>'vi Published eveer 8«t«ra«f m iKmam, N. C. 4 ky United PuliMers, IDe. I. E. AUSTIN. PMMMer telepbiMie: C8B-2tU «sd (Hl-MM BnterMi as s*«mk1 ctais matter at the Poet Of|i» at [>i]Ttiaa, North CaroHna, under Ui* Act el March t, I87t Porbaip, Nortfe Ciraliig Prtnripa] Office locatftf at 40 f- fOUlWt RnacsmiPN bates; 144)0 vm tmut The MsniMper reserve* the iljAt to Mke «Nb|M ill ail material puUMMd. except for Mten tp % editor. It does not guaraotee retuni of anielea aad pletdrea. Company bos. With the very poor timing of the signal lights, when a train is in the vicin ity, it ii a i^ysery that several persons have not been kilUd or aei-iou^ly injured by a train at the Fayetteville and Pettigrew Streets crossing. Before it is too late we would I'ke to insist that city and railroad officials take time out to visit the particular areas mentioned above and oliserve for themselves the hazardous conditions existing at both of them. We tirge, we beg and we iniplor*- them to iln so imme diately so that something may be done to safeguar«l the lives of «iur school children and adults who are forced to use these parti cular crossings and thorouj'hfares both as pedestrians and drivern of automobiles. Grmsboro Negroes Should 0e Emulated The Carolina Times salutes this week the :.-\merlcan F«;deral Savings, and l.pan .Associa tion of Greensboro for tin? excellenl record it, has made since its beginning a little ovei three years ago. According to its statemeni of condiion at the close of business. June of this year, the .Association had total assets of $1,440,900.44. To amass nearly two mil lion dollars in the short time the American Federal Savings and I.oan Association has been in existence is an achievement worthy of the highe.st praise. The fact that the .Association has $l,4-10,‘j00.- 44 in first mortgage loans is evidence that it is serving a most worthy cause in its area by providing liome ownership as well as encour aging thrift. The officials are to be com mended for the very fine joli they are doing and it is our sincere ho|>e that the peo|>le of Greensboro and vicinity will continue to sup port their efforte so that the Association may continue its remarkable growth and service. What the Negro ritizent of Greensboro and Guilford County have done should be emu lated in Wiastoa-Saletn, Charlotte. .Salisbury, Fayettevilla, WUwitigtMi. Wilsun, Roc)(y Mt fnd other cities of tlte etale. Xoo Icmg mem- beea of the race have beea impendent on fin ancial help from fnetittrtion* over which they htve 00 control or in which they have po (Coothiuerf on page 6-A) God of Holiness. You know, anybody can live right for a day. That i« all God wants vou to do: UVE RIGHT A DAY AT A TIME. We don’t live by the month we live by the day'. ‘ God said to I^real and he savs to us Chri.stiaiis . , , “Be'Holy «s I am Holy . Yes, there is no two ways about It, God demands Holiness. We can live In life without self control? All noble souls have had this discipline. All ages can profit hv the practice of temperance. And youth especially .'■hould recognize the need of temper- anoe in building.a strong. dur- able life. Then, Chri.stians let us practice this discipline that we may ascend to the heights great living and enjoy the blessings of true happiness. In the very nature of things we must be Judged for our thoughts, words and deeds. You know every day may be a day of Judgment. And ulti mately we must stand before ^,God Almighty the sovereign Judge of all things. There is going to be a day of Judgment —and we must give an account of life’s stewardship. Then how rBhhll we live? We should live fa life that we may hear the $velccnne and well done oi God Almi^ty. We should so live that we may be accepted in the realm of blessedness where we shall share a never- ending life with God and the Holy Angels. Let us, then, so live that the judgment will Joyoua day of homecoming in that land of pure delight where we shall receive our Just rewards. Mother of Eight Year Old Lad Addresses Letter To North Carolina Drivers as School Days Near By BILI CROWELL From the files of the State De partment of Motor Vehicles eomes this anonymous letter from the mother of an eight year old lad, arti^ressed to all drivers: Dear Driver: In a few days our eight year old son, Joey, will return with all his pals to .school for another year of classes. Joey’s a pretty Rood little fellow. He minds as well as most children his afie. he can use his head when he wants to and generally he slays clear of trouble. But Joey’s eight and healthy and full of life. He’s been told a thousand times not to run and play in the street. He’s been warned about the dangers of tfaffic. And he knows by now the things he’s supposed to do and suppeied not to do wherever there are cars arourd- V Bui remember, if you will, Mr. and Mrs. Driver, what the first day of school is like. Remember •when you were young and school days meant renewing friendshii excitement, the joy of romping and playing and learning. At the end of the day you can count on Joey and his friends to make the most of their play hours. They'll come out of school like a shot, ready to do with full vigor all the. things livel> lads do when study is done. By now, we hope, sheer instinct will make him pause at the curb. But with his childish i(naginatien, by the lime he gets half way across, he’ll be on his way to ttie moon or playing quarterback at the corner lot. There’s where you come into the picture. He won’t see you or hear you, unbelievable as that may sound. And if yoii don’t watch for him, nobody will. 1%at is why I am aaking you to be extra careful when mv Joey’s around Maybe 15 years from now he really will be on the moon or a stalwart in the football back- field. But all I really care about rieht now is that he gets home safely for supper. Tonieht and for the rest of the school year. 1 want him to get through the win ter with nbthing worse than the usual assortment of skinned knees and bruises. You can help protect him. All you have to do^ is slow down when you see him near the street. You’ll know him when you see him. Joev’s eight and healthy and full of life. Yours very truly, Joey’s mother. Veterans Questions and Answers Here are authoritative answers by the Veterans Administration to questions from former service men and their families’ Q.—I hav* liaard that many vtterana and widows are not taking advantag* o4 VA pM- sien plans Niat weuld giva Htam more menay? Is that true? A.—Yes. Apparently thousand; do not fuily understand the new penaion law and the VA is still, anxious to explain all the facts. Suggest you contact or write to nearest VA office. Q,—I am In th* armad fareas •WMSMS and plan ta antar train ing under the War Orphans Kdu- eaHen P r e g r a m. I undaestand th« VA Is awtharlsad to prevMa transpartaMan at Govamwant ex panse to and frem my place of vacaManat cawntaling. Haw can ritia be arranged wfcan I am aversaaat A. — It cannot be arranged. V/ does not provide vocational coun seling overseas nor can travel be authorized l>ack to this coun try for stlch counseling. You should decide where yeu will go to school when you return to this country. If you then write to a VA regional Office near tha^ school, advising when you will be there for counseling, time will be saved in setting up youi counseling appointment. Q. — Do tha Vafarans Affairs Offieaa of tiia Slata Dapartmant act as an evarsaas arm of tha Veterans Administration? .—The offices ha’'e'the func tlon of af^ministerine directly VA educational and tralmng benefits and VA medical care and treatment benefits for eligible veterans in the countries com priiiing Western Europe and in Mexico. In addition, the offices furnish information and assist ance to veterans, their depend ents. and beneficiaries on the full range of veterans matters as do U. S. embassies and conag lar offices throughout the world The Kennedy Administration is being urged to (five priority to compulsory rather than voluntary approaches to end ing diecriminatioR agalnat Ne groes in employment by Fed eral corrtractors. While it is true that some little progress has been made by the Presi dent’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities In securing voluntary agreements from private contractors doing business with the Government, there is reason to believe that compulsion must be used if discrimination against Negro workers is to end in this area of employment. According to the New York Times, Vice President Johnfson snd *!eeretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg are in agreement «dth the change in policy from the voluntary to the compulsory anpreach. Futher- more, if must be conceded that in the whole area of SAND OF SEMANTICS “Wheeler said that the fact that the defendants were Ne groes had nothing to do with the case.” i, Thb sentence attributed to the magistrate in a newaif pnft- of the eoaviction ot thT^ N^ groes for trespass afteir thw sought service at the Howard Johnson Restaurant near Ra leigh really takes the cake for legal and other a'ijsurdity. Negroes, seeking service at restaurants which wish to serve only whites, undoubtedly re sent—what thev regard wrdts crimination. Many white peo ple, includirrg the owners of Buch restaurants, equally re sent what they regard as In- truaion. In this case, however, the Negroes originally said they had gone to the restaurant be cause “I just wanrt something ANOTHER VIEW Much deserved criticism has been heaped or the heads of the segregationist architects of the South who conceived and promoted the oneway paid passages for helpless Negroes who wanted to go someplace —any place. That these trips were fin anced to embarrass the north ern ‘liberal” communities more than to help the Negro travelers is admitted by the planners and readily recogniz ed by the northernera. The great cries of indigna tion sweeping from the North are due in great part to the embarrassment to themselves as well as to the treatment of the Negroes in his cruel and inhuman byplay, and this be- Clvil Rights very little hai been accomolished unlesa force was used. Then, too, no law ii of any value unless It Is vigor ously enforced. Too often the laws enacted to secure equality of 0Dpoi*tun^tv remain mere scraps of paper, like the 13th, J4th and l.'Sth amendments to the Constitution, for lack o| enforcement. It follows, then, that even the change of the Administra tion’s policy from voluntary to compulsory will be of litOe value unless the enforcement thereof is placed in the hands of those who sincerely tielieve in equality of opportunity for NegroM. Perhaps t^at is the reasorr why so many agencies ■which have as their avowed purpose iustice for Neeroes el- w»’'s Hflve white directors and executives or else weak-kneed Negrnps. —The Philadelphia Tribune to eat.” In the court at which they were tried for tresp^ the restaurant’s attorney ob jected to every queatkin rej lating tlie case to race. All coij .earned eeemed to be v>vdil[tsi| Wh^t everjibody ^iae s fact. ■ Troublesome and Irrltatln# as these situations may l>e td all concerned, the facts aljout them cannot be dodged. And the evident truth, about th#' action of those who want t^, assert what they regard ajf ■ their personal righta and thoaf whb wish to protect what the^^ regard as their property rights is that race and race only la Involved. The ostrich’s tail is high even if its head is hidden in the saii4 or semantics. —^The Raleigh Ob»ervgp cause of the great waila H differences which N'orth from. South. Who knows, perhaps the se gregationist architects hav( done far better than tl«y plaa- ned. A few more bu^ads and tiie northerners may come '^a realize that what happens is the South is the responsibll'.^ and concern of all citieens ^ the United States, themselves included, and that' what ha|h pens anywhere in the nation affects all everywhere in thi nation. .* The so-called “Southern blem” may come to l>e a ntf tional problem and thys b^ hastened to solution.—Morfott fc Guide. Pangs of Independence In E. Africa • Tliere are 17.4 million cows on IT.S. dairyfarms, a record low number. But today’s dairy ceww have establiahed new records fer quality and production of milk. • Nutritionists and food aco nomists often compare the proper tion of the aatien's fo«d supply de rived from each comnodity gre«p with the proportion e ^ oea sumer’s fo^ dollar speat fer eaeh food group. Dairy foods rank a the top of this comparison becauee while only a flfth of the food del laris spent for dairy foods, con siderably more than a fifth of the total nutrients in the national food sujipljr is derived from dairy foods. *1116 birth pangs of indepen dence in East Africa will pnn duce a good many things that look bad to us violence; one-party rule and a sort of home-grown socialism but tiie lon-range prospects are not altogether hopeless. So says Edward R. F. Kw- eham, formerly with the U. S. Foreign Service, in an article which appears in the Beptaoi- ber issue of Harper’s Magazine. “During their early yeava, the new East African regiaaee will probably seem more par allel In appearance to the eatnmunist system than te our own, and in fact, they may borrow freely from tlie Mar xist textbooks in their im patience ior rapid develop ment,” he vrites. “But 1 do not believe that theae couatriea will actually turn contmunigt- Whateyae- thdr other imperfectioaa, the Airican .poIiticiaM do not in* tend to evict British masterg only to welcome Soviet ont-s;" In his article, Sheehan ex* aimines life in Tanganyilta aivi Kenya, explaining ^at going on there today what can be expected tomorrow. Concerning the African peo* pie, Sheehan beHewaa thM part of their troubles steina from the fact that in a merd decade they haf« ewerged fraM thg alaw a«e i«to the twentieth eaatiirr. "Their tradWasnl atnictufd ia braafciac 4ms«. ami thf Afriean, wlie hM wt hdl time te dipaat tlw WesterA substitute, ia Mt radderleag aad bawii4ei«4,'’ Iw writ(4 •‘Witchcraft, bear aad atx ai* posaii»lr the thrae meat potgiif in/lueitce« on AItImq iPi* bavior, and th»t indudM bMiavior of mwy of Um ptft- See AraiCA. S-A
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