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4 THE CAIOLIMAM RALEIGH, N. C-, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, ISil Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP "God has so ordained that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to hear each other’s burden.” Lite that is lived merely for self, therefore, is wasted. The Divine records, seeing a man’s lack of service, consider that this man has done nothing worthwhile in the furtherance of God’s plan for humanity. Never “Twain” Shall Meet The Federal ICC ruling banning segregation went into effect last week, but it met with op position in Mississippi Louisiana, and Georgia. For instance, four Negroes were arrested in Atlanta when they sought services at a bus terminal restaurant; and three others were taken into custody in Jackson, Mississippi, when they attempted to use white waiting rooms. In Greenwood, Mississippi, one circuit judge enjoined Southern Greyhound lines from re moving signs designating white and Negro waiting rooms at its terminals. Apparently, these were the first incidents which challenged the recent Commerce Com mission outlawing segregation on interstate buses and in the terminals they use. It has been our opinion, all along, that the enforcement of interstate and intrastate laws in the same terminal is almost impossible. How can the problem of law enforcement be resolv ed? Either the interstate, travel laws, or the in trastate travel laws must prevail. Never ‘‘the twain shall meet” Maybe the challenges of Mississippi, Louisi ana, and Georgia are blessings in disguise Prankster Taught A Lesson More and more we are supervising Hallowe'en partise and recreational activities to reduce youngsters’ urge to play pranks. The case of an Allentown youth, on our last Hallowe’en, will serve our purpose in illustrat ing how fateful pranks can become. A youth, 16, is in a hospital in criticrl condi tion after being shot by a 65-year-old man with' a .22 caliber rifle. The bullet entered the boy’s hip and emerged from his abdomen as he took part in corn-throwing forays on the man’s home. The distressed man fired shots to scare a group of boys away from his home, but the boys were determined and returned to the yuan’* house. It was then that the 10-year-old They Who Have Arrived The cold war with Russia, the Berlin crisis, and the Cuban problems, have created a new image of “those persons who have at last ar rived” in the economic and social worlds. Thus we picture the new' American as one who owns—through installment buying —a winter and summer home, a boat, two automo biles, one or two televisions sets, radios, elec tric kitchen and patio, and also a fallout shel ter. Speaking with reference to fallout shelters, the U. S. government is developing plans for a cramped, crawl-in home fallout shelter, de signed to keep a family of three or four alive. These plans have been described as “minimal crawl-in spaces.” about four feet high and posting about $l5O. The Need... More Than Talk A committee of the Baptist State Conven tion has called for an end to segregation in Baptist churches and colleges. This is a splen did and noble thought, but putting the idea into action would be more effective. At the Baptist State Convention nest month in Greensboro, the oornmitte said it would ask the delegates to urge the trustees of Baptist eotleges to “move as quickly as possible” to ward a policy of racial integration. Already Wake Forest and Mars Hill Col leges have taken three constructive steps re sulting te the admission of Negroes. The action of Wake Forest College and M»ra Hill College is sn example of what w* mean by “putting the idea into action ” Yh® acton of the RaMgh City Council on banning public dances at the Memorial Audi torium aaesm to be tfet only wey to approach the matter. Mayor Bnkss, in saying that strict er rules and regulation* should be set up, has the cur? far the aituation, and certainly better policing would hdp City Manager Carper should know that the people who attend tbe dances ere people who help to increase the city’s coffers. Like sin, we have had dance trouble for a number of years, or @s tong a® people have beta attending dances, A cHstorbene* at a dance Is nothing new and should be treated Mbs any other evil. We don’t stop selling whiskey when a drunken driver kills some body. We don’t suggest that we visit making automobile when there is m fatality or maiming, due to a wreck. We don’t THE NEGRO that America east bmt Iwtef ism world mray from racial and national antagonism* whan H accords to wary man i.lgl’il regmrditm »J race, color &r creed, his human and legal rights. Sating no man, |*ltf taaenig no man—-the Negro Press strives to help every man on the firm be- Hat that aJJ men are hurt as long as anyone is held back. Perhaps it might be a good thing for us to sit down and write on a piece of paper and jot down the things we have done for other people. Let's count our many blessings Iran the services we have rendered God and man. We cannot set a more rewarding goal than the urge to do far others what ought to be done. They may force the United States Attorney General’s office to file suits charging the South ern segregation laws are unconstitutional as applied to citizens of the United States. If the Federal ICC ruling has authority, then steps should be taken to arrest local and state officials who arrest Negro interstate passengers for exercising their rights under the new ruling. And bus terminal agents should be immune from arrest for taking down the signs designat ing the segregation of the races in terminals. If the Federal government is inclined to have the matter of constitutionality of segregation laws be resolved by the Supreme Court, then the law suits should be filed at once If the Fed eral govrnment prefers to enforce the new ICC ruling, then is should use “the get-tough policy” and see that the ruling is enforced—with Geor gia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi being no exceptions. The Federal government must stop "willv washing” around and mean what it says. Other wise. the new ICC interstate travel ruling isn’t worth the paper upon which it written. Perhaps Southern officials know this better than anyone else. youth was shot. Had it not. been for the boys’ prank, the man would not be in jail today. There is no doubt but that he was provoked to anger. Pulling Hallowe’sn pranks is as ancient in our culture as is now the ox cart. Only persons with immature minds can be persuaded to par ticipate in this kind of behavior. The surviving boys in the prankster group should have been taught a dreadful lesson—i + doesn’t pay t:o push a man too far with stupid pranks. Hereafter, any youth who feels inclined to carry out pranks should let the case of the Allentown, Pa., boy be a lesson. The present organization man and his fami ly wouldn’t think of acquiring a shelter so cheap, for it would ruin the family’s status. The comfortably-situated American would consider a shelter costing from $2,500 to $3,000 befitting the family social status in the com munity. After all, one is mostly judged by his earthly possessions. More important, however, than the addi tion of a fallout shelter to the image of the “have arrived” American is that the Army Chemical and Medical Corp has spent four million dollars attempting to develop some medication, such as a pill, to protect individ pals against the effects of radiation The new fallout shelters must be borne in our image with blood and tears. It is commendable that a religious group has put the idea of integration in words but thev should go one step further and suggest inte gration projects that can be initiated with the least amount of opposition. As perhaps no other Southern State has done, the North Carolina church-related col leges, formerly for whites, have made unusual strides in admitting qualified Negroes through a process of strict selection in terms of abil ities. Words always precede action in the initia tion of social changes. We have faith in the Baptists m North Carolina, and they have the wisdom and strength to do what is right, good, end just. Let's Face It suggest that we disband the fire department when a crank turns in a false alarm. No one could suggest closing a bank because a hold up is staged. By the same token we should find ways and means to safe guard the lives and properties involved in a public dance, ft sh:;uld be the duty of public officials to remedy bad situations, not to abolish or put to an end institutions or practices that are de signed to give people opportunity to enjoy re creation to their Hiring. Unfortunate situations occur most anywhere and each situation must be treated by considering alt sides to the ques tion. Mr. Carper should know by now that there are three sides to a question, the pro ponents side, the opponents side and the right side. The right side of this question seems to be that the dances be properly supervised and managed. Decisive Leadership By The Federal Government Will Enforce The Law What Other Editors Say STRENGTH COMES WITH * UNITY Many, many centuries ago the Chinese were considered to be a race of people who had great wealth of knowledge and placed this knowledge in short sayings known as proverbs. These pro verbs were part of their every day life and have lived down through the centuries to the present day to become a part of our life. One of the proverbs is: ‘‘A Chain Is No Stronger Than ft? Weakest Link.” How strong are you in the chain of Lincoln events? Do you stay in the dormitory when we have football games” If you do, then your link in the chain is weak: consequently, the entire chain is insufficient to pull the heavy load that goes with vic tory. At our opening fotball gams there were Jess than 400 people in attendance. Some of those were visitors. Where were the Lincoln students? In the dormi tories? Down at the “foot”? Gone to the movies? Did they go to St. Louis or Kansas City for the week end? These are questions that run through our team members minds. When you are playing a home game and the visitors from hundreds of miles away outnumber the students, then it is a pretty sad situation. Recently we turned out in great numbers to hear the Greek-letter organizations sing a few songs about how great they are etc. than we do for our football team which plays and often beats teams of national standing. I am not condemning Greek-letter organizations and their practices by any means, but none of them can do for Lincoln what a strong united student body and a good football team can. If our Tigers played the way we supported them, then they would be ashamed of themselves when they go in the dressing room and even think about foot ball. They should break out In a cold sweat when they read the scores in the paper or watch a game over television. You can walk across the cam pus and hum the school song and three out of four people you met would know only the first EDITORIAL OPifIIONS THE NATION'S PRESS Compiled by the Aassociated Negro Press Here are editorial comments from leading daily newspaper l ? throughout the countiy on sub jects of current interest: “THE NEGRO AND DEMOCRACY” (From speech by George Wea ver. assistant secretary of labor) THE JOURNAL, Milwaukee: "The Negro and Democracy from speech by George Weaver, assistant secretary of labor. 'The Negro, more than any other American citizen of this day, value* democracy because he is engaged in the struggle to enjoy it. He is engaged in the struggle to be treated like every other citizen, to be accepted or rejected, not collectively, on the basis of his color, but individ ually, on the basis of whatever merit he may possess. He asks only the most elementary pre rogative of citizenship in « de mocracy equality o£ treatment.” LOTKCfitf AS© THE NOBEL PEACE P*I7.E POST--DISPATCH, Si Louis: "The satisfaction engendered by the award of the 3Mi Nobe! Peace Prize to the late Dag H&msmrxkjoM does not detract brern tbs award of ife» 1980 prise verse, if they know that. There are even cases where people would rather stay in the dormi tory and look at a football game over television than to give our own team support The cheering and yelling fo* the TV games is something to see. You would think that the team could actually hear them the way we at Lincoln shout miles away from the TV game. But their most vigorous support is all in vain. What team can hear people yelling into » TV set’ It really happens! What good it does no one ever knows Maybe it’s a missing link! Link? Chain? Strength? Weak? Lin coln?” —THE LINCOLN CLARION A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE OP LEADERSHIP As an example of outstanding leadership, marked by an amaz ing capacity for hard wank, sus tained effort, and attention to details, Bishop William Jacob Walls ranks high among the great leaders of World Protes tantism. In the rgand total of remarkable achievements in all the areas of American Method ism, and in ecumenical move ments he is certainly without parallel in Ziop Methodism, for he has established frontiers of progress never before dreamed of by the illustrious predecessor* of the Church of Varick. A leader of such towering satue Inevitably has many crit ics, some of whom, unfortunate ly, are loathe to express appre ciation of his fin* work and ability because of jealousy and prejudice; but others have the greatness of heart to give honor to whom hosier is due, even though often having divergent opinions on many vital issues. One among many fine quali ties of Bidhop Wails is his re markable memory. It has been said of him that “he never for gets anything ho wants to re member," To this may be added that: “To ©sr to human, and to those with whom he labor*, even when they disagree with him, for no one knows better than he that: “To err ris human, and to forgive is divine." The remarkable and apparent ly unlimited vitality and stam ina of Bishop Walls to all the to Albert John Luthuli, a term or Zulu chief, for his effort* to relieve racial discrimination in Smith Africa by wm-violent means, "To rejoice with Luthuli, on the other hand, would increase the hope that the eountry may turn for a solution of its popu lation problem to methods ap proved by honorable men. If only those who rule in South Africa knew it, Luthuli is one of its most useful citizen*, MtttSlSKim 1VABW(& TBS LAW The POST, Washington, B. C.s 1 "There can be no doubt what ever from yaii. Supreme Court decisions that the Mississippi statutes requiring segregated facilities in bus terminal* era unconstitutional. Them maths hardly any sboto resta for doubt that Mississippi hs* been using hreach-of-the-p«Bce charges ss subterfuges for enforcing mss unconaUfuttensl s*gr®fation. The so-called “freedom rider*" have not ter&ached the peace in any way save 'by demanding a right guaranteed to thsm by the Con stitution and specifically recog nised by She Supreme Court of the United State*. Mississippi has beets engaged in a deliber ate evasion «f th® tepnsßKt more amazing, when it is known that in his youth he was deli cate in health, and was not ex pected to live long. But by sheer determination to live he was able p) overcome physical han dicaps, and now after passing the allotted span of years, he is able to endure hard work, which many younger men cannot stand. —THE STAR OF ZION CITE SCHOOL PROBLEMS TEST OUR CONVICTIONS We firmly believe in giving credit where credit is due. And certainly it has been pleasant to see our school officials taking bows in the national spotlight. But back here behind the cur tains our children are facing grim problems. Problems that demand something more than being eternally grateful for lim ited favors. In simple fact, nobody does us s favor when he grudgingly doles out to us a fraction of our rights. Too many students are still being crammed into rooms meant for half as many, still scrambling for a place in a lunch line wv.th no guarantee of getting fed before the next boil rings. And many of these children daily pass another school where some of the rooms stand vacant because there are not enough children to fill them. The Courageous Nine continue to enter token-desegregated classrooms each day. But for some of them at least more cour age and a thicker skin is re quired than should be necessary in schools operated under the auspices of a Board of Educa tion which he received so many laurels for its civilized view point. Be reasonable? Very well. Certainly most of us who elect ed fellow citizens to the schoool board did not think we were se lecting flaming radicals or bleeding hearts. But then neith er do many citizens feel that the Board and the principals and facilities of our schools were chosen because they could be counted on merely to hew to the cold letter of the law With precious little regard for the spirit which must give it life. —THE ATLANTA INQUIRER Court’s mandate To allow that evasion to continue is to make a mockery of law and order ” POSTMASTER DAT AND THE SAVANNAH MAIL CARRIER The CONSTITUION, Atlanta: “Rationalisation cannot Justify the action by Postmaster Gen eral J. Edward Day in reinstat ing W. W Law. the Savannah postman who was dismissed from his Civil Service job In September on numerous charges. Ts Law is not worthy of deliver ing the postmaster general's mail, in the latter's own words, how is he fit to deliver mail to a lot of other people’s homes’ "The NAACP has not further ed the cause of non-discrimina tion in government jobs In this case. It is an affront to the Ne gro, and should be recognized, as such, to demand a different set of rules because of race. “As for the Post Office de partment itself, Day’s action cart only make che task of maintain ing a semblance of efficiency all the more difficult. If his decis ions must be based on "shabby” use of pressure, the postmaster general’s qualifications also are open to serious question. "We suggest Law be given a ncfv mail route: the home of Postmaster CSten, Day.” JUST FOR FUN BE MARCUS SS. SOUL WARE NO RAIN Quite often I have mentioned that it rains in Tallahassee daily during the summer season. Well, I’m about to "eat up my words ’* October went down in the weather bureau record books as the first rainless month in Tal lahassee in 57 years. Last measurable rainfall w here was six-tenths of an inch on September 15, racking up a rec ord-breaking drought of about 50 days, with no relief in sight for at least another week, the bureau said. The last rainless month was October of 1904 when the pre vious record drought of 42 days was set. The 42-day record was equalled in 1939 but stretched over September and October with some rain falling in both months. Tile long drought increased She danger of woods fires but so far heavy dew and soma moisture retained in vegetation has held blazes to a minimum, A total of 72 fires burned 440 acres of woodlands this month com pared to 31 blazes on 53 acres in the same month last year when 3.2 inches of rain was recorded In the area. YUM—YUM: Boy, this is news. A man who has raised hogs for 58 years last week took top honors at Valdosta South Georgia Legion Fair. The man and his partner took double hon ors with their 83-pound boar who was named ihc biggest ani mal in tire show and the grand champion. He was a Duroc breed. While the boar would cost a pretty penny to purchase, would n't those pork chops he just Cordon B. Hancock’s BETWEEN SHE LINES THE FUGITIVE NEGRO Nothing seems to give certain sectors of the Southern press mere exultation that to pass a long accounts of, and edotrial references to, racial dis orders in the North. That these disorders are spawned in the South does not seem to occur to the Southern writers and editors who at times wax genuinely vindicated in their determination to keep sec ond class citizenship perman ently foisted upon their Negro citizens. Tire assumption too tnvaxably prevails that troubled race rela tions in the North justify racial tensions and disorders in the South. This matter of drawing gen eral conclusions that the North is no better that; the South evi dently gives the anti-Negro sectors of the Old South genu ine satisfaction end becomes a socrce of exultation. It adds up to the old false assumption that two wrongs make a right. The fact that race prejudice is rampant in the North does not make race prejudice in the South any less unfortunate and dangerous. White emigrants from tire South and Negro fugutives from the South transplant their problems to the North. The white Negrophobe from the South takes his prejudice with him to the North and where ever lie goes, and the fugutive takes his resentment along, and finding himself in a commun ity where he has protection of the law as he so often does not have in the South, he exudes his undiluted resentment hr ways that make for trouble in the North. Tire northern cities are load ed with Negro fugutives from the South, these Negroes have fled by hundreds of thousands to a section of the country where they can at least “talk back” and “speak up" for their rights. When it is considered that millions of Negroes have fled the South because of the South’s policies of oppression, suppression and repression, of its segregation and desegrega tion and humiliation, the South can take no pride In the ten sions and disorders in the North, for these had their gen esis in South. When we go to Northern cities and observe the unem ployment, underfed, under clad and poorlp housed Negroes who make problems to be solve in the North, we must not blame the Negro and we must not blame the North, we must blame the Old South with its segregation and diicrimination which has produced the fugu tive Negro who makes trouble at the North. In other words, the fugutive Negro is just what the Old South has made him. In slav ery time friends of Negro free dom devised the Underground Railroad by which Negroes es caped to better hands and the Negro’s quest for better treat ment in sections beyond the South has gone steadily on through a hundred years with the result that the Negro fugi tive population in the North The JOURNAL, Milwaukee* “If Law did the things with whi. h he was charged, as Day obviously believes, the dismis sal should have been sternly up held, As things stand, Day has not resolved the dispute on its merits and has left a man he considers unqualified on the job. Finally, he has cast real doubt on his qualifications to head the post office department. He was n’t made the top min to duck th* tough ones.” “whoppers” and delicious. too? Two of them fried crisp—with welll-cooked grits, hot biscuits, smothered gravy, coffee with cream and sugar—would make a man’s mouth water. CRAM IN 115: For a while college students were engaged in bed rolling contests. Now they are trying to see how many students they can crar s in a small student bedroom. Last week students at Florida State University laid claim to two world records in the new' campus craze—room jamming. Some 115 coeds crammed into* a two-girl room in a residence hall and thus claimed the wom an’s records. Earlier last week, 315 men jammed into a two-man rbom in Kellum Hall. The old mark for men was set at Kent State College in Ohio when 141 squeezed into a room. While this may be fun, college officials had better put an *nd to this sort of thing, for if more than 215 men jam themselves in a bedroom something disastrous is bound to happen in ease erf a panic. What mortals can thee* stu dents be? DO THEY? Do gentlemen pre fer blonds? Certainly not V I prefer the brown stuns, Girls may not realize it, but there is something to the science of synesthesia. One color may make a male hear wedding bells while another makes a male break out in a rash. Red to an exciting color, for instance, but it leads to arguments—according to some experts. Psychologists tell us that yellow is the most capivating of all, thus explaining the appeal of blonds to men. is considerable and neither the North nor the Negro should be blamed if he should become a source of adjustment problems. When we see the migrating Negro not bs a genuine migrant but as a fugutive, we get a better conception of what is be • hind racial troubles in tin North, they are transplanted Southern troubles. In all of our Northern citio, where the Negro population is growing, ever and anon trou bles of race arise, but students who appreciate the fact tha. these axe troubles of a fugitive l>eople in a new envtronmeni are neither surprised nor alarm ed. The Southern Hegropnobc press have neaioufily publicized what they have called the de terioration of Washington, our nation’s oapitol. They have used Washington as an example of the failure of integration and they have painted Washington as a den of crime and criminals, mean ing of course that it is such den because of its great in crease of Negro population, Washington may be having its troubles but the fact re mains that It is handling with great, success and effectiveness its fugitive population of Ne groes which has been produced in the South, In pointing the accusing fing er at what is taking place in Washington and other North ern cities namely integration in a successful way, these Old South devotees, instead of ex culpating themselves and their beloved South, rather make more glaring the evils of seg regation. Tiie Negroes of our norther* cities axe fugitives with all th» shortcomings and posstbilitto of agitives! Letter To The Editor To The Editor: Without doubt your recent an niversary issue was your most ambitious undertaking in twen ty years. I have watched your effort* in connection with several spec ial issues, but the 20th Anniver sary Issue was the most daring of them all. The various articles ww* In forming, stimulating, and ever convincing. The complimenarj pagers and pictures indicate thar you have the support of th« community whose interest yoi have at heart Accept my congratulations. ' Sincerely yours, M. H. BOULWARE Florida A. & M. University TaliaiiSasee, Florida Create m nse a etesm heart, O God, and m«v a right spirit within me. Cast me not mmy firm Thy My preame®,, —{Pasha 51:10-*!.) It s* only whwi w* h&v’f gained, through devout prayer, oar Father » everlast ing mercy, that we can. gain also a clean heart and a right spirit. Then we will know His presence, enveloping and fill ing us, and find therein & strength superhuman, a peace beyond description.