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THE CABOLOfIAN RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER «. 196* 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP And being asked by the Pharisees when the to its convention*, focused on its ways War, greed, Inn-dom of God cometh. Jesus answered them hunger and exploitation prove these values have ~,u said. ' The kingdom of God cometh not with jailed. If we would have peace, if we would find ( ascrvation: neither shall they say. Lo. here! or, . . , , , :, there! for. behold, the kingdom of God is with- J°> fulfillment, we must free ourselves of this you.” For nearly 2,000 years, humanity has not servile materialism. We must refuse to trust the aared to accept this greatest of all teachings. For world, and putting faith in the powers within our < < tltunes it has continued to live under fear, in- selves, dare again to seek for the indwelling of volved in the usages of the world, compromising Ood. Raleigh’s Ministers' Resolution The recent set of resolutions, passed by the Raleigh Ministerial Association recently, and also by Council on Human Relations, seem ingly have spurred Mayor Enloe to reactivate the committee he appointed to study racial differences in Raleigh This time we hope that the committee will meet and study the civil rights and racial prob lem confronting the citizenry of Raleigh, And certain recent events will make a realistic agen da for consideration and later recommenda tions. Among the items that should be consid ered are: 1. The swimming pool incident which oc curred last summer 2. A number of demonstrations at restau rants and movie theaters 3 Picketing in fremt e>f city hall 4 Employment opportunities m county and municipal geivernment as well as upgrading of Negro workers 1 Inclusion of the Negro on a larger scale in the policy-making proirduies of city and county affairs. The Minister's Association has state el its point of view anel by reason of the leadership roles of its members we hop they will through preaching and counsel encourage the powers that be to give the Negro a greater share : n the economic, eelucatiem. industrial and politi cal life of Raleigh and Wake County. The reseilutieins stated' ' I We tlie Raleigh Ministerial Association mge that the City of Raleigh operate swim itiing pools and all either public recreational The Edenton Ordinance In order to roiubat the tine at of demonstra tions F.drnton passed "h quckic’’—an ordi nance reejuiring a $> I'> a day license fee for picketing However Superior Court Judge Wil)inm Budy ruled recently Hint the ordi nance wns unconstitutional and ord« red it stricken from * recently passed set of ordinan ce s Fight Negro defendants were tried upon r ! irge s of violating anti picketing ordinances fee foie .m all-white airy The ete fe ndnnts were arie ste el last month and charged with picket mg protest te> segregation practices in front of a drug store eipe rate d hy Mayor Mstcher Among those serving as witnesses were the Mavor. sis ritv council members, the town clerk cits- attorney anil the presielent of an Eden ton super market More Federal Jobs For Negroes It is indeeel encouraging to learn from trends shown in l l )bl-l l Mi2 figures releHseel from the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity, that Negroes are getting a bigger share of feel eral white collar jobs From June. IQ6I to June. 1 Oe»i. the number of jobs on the federal payroll increased by 62 6.1.1 Os these, Negroes took 10 7.17, or 17 per cent The n<w Negro employees had 5.500 jobs m the 5.1 son to $lO 000 range, and 37 1 mbs in $Q non to $20,000 range Presently, there are 203.353 Negroes in fed real aervice—l3 per cent of the total employ ment. Vice President Johnson feels that this re inarkablv increase may be attributed to “a direct result of a ewnrentrated effort to assure that our Negro jsopulation and other minority Alabama Registration Order A fr<i<tnl judge recently ordered 1.100 Ne groes’ names added to Alabama’s voter list and Rave Montgomery County registrar’s 20 days to comply This was the result of a Jus tice Department crackdown against voter dis crimination. The Justice Department charged two rrg ; vtrars with discriminating against Negroes in August. 10M. A hearing was held last year, and Frdrral Judge Frank M. Johnson. Jr has hern studying the evidence for more than nine months. As a result of his findings, the judge ordered the registrars to stop ‘‘engaging in any act or practice which involves or results in distinc tion based on race between Negro citizens and other citizens" in trying to register and vote. This included restraining the registrars from Riving more stringent tests for Negro appli cants, and with the order that regstrars must notify all applicants within ten days whether they have been registered. The judge found shocking Inequalities through studying statistics. He found that the registrars registered more than 96 per cent of the white applicants and rejected foe registra tion more than 75 per cent of the Negro pop ulation applicants—including 710 Negro ap plicants who had 12 years or more of formal THE NEGRO PRESS — believes that America can best had the morla illjn away from racial and national antagonism whan it accords to n*rv mar Jjilßll^ ragardlaaa el raca. color or craad his human and legal rights Hating no man gJil fearing no man—tha Negro Press struts to help every man on the firm he - skUMjJgJy Eat that alt man an hurt m long as anyone is ha/d back. facilities without discrimination against any person on the basis of race or color. “2 We urge all restaurants which advertise to serve the public to serve all customers on an equal basis without discrimination in re garei t'» rac> e>r color, and if services is refused that it be refused on just criteria other than coleir or rarr We as members of the Associa tion pledge fiurselves to patronize and to sup port these restaurants which so act. and to urge our people to continue to do likewise. We know these matters are on your mind and it might be helpful for you to know the sentiments of this segment of the citizenry of Raleigh.” Surelv in this age of change and progress, the white citizenry of the city and county will hr willing to accord their black fellowmen some of the elemental justice that they have en toyed for many decades. We know that it is very difficult for white people to compreh* ud thr plight of the Negro, since they have never hern refused admission to recreational facil ities nor to service at cases and restaurants. [f any white' person doubts what it means to be discriminated against, then we invite him to live in the disguse of a Negro for at least tlmty days We venture to say the experience would make him a changed man. Just as thr Raleigh Council on Human Rights and the Raleigh Ministerial Associa tion have published their views, we urge other (ivie groups to do likewise. Not nnlv do we ask them to state their views, hut also to set m motion plans to implement the desirable changes. Time and again we have observed instances of cities and state legislatures rushing to pass some law or ordinance to cope with problems created hy Negroes in attempting to break down the practices of discrimination and seg regation But they later found that the courts declared these stop-gap measures unconsti tutional. Hasty-made laws cannot stop, as we have seen, the onward march of progress of the Ne gro to first class citizenship. And a better ap proach to all of these problems would be a willingness on the part of white officials to discuss m man to man fashion the racial prob lems that confront them. Os course, there would have to he compromises for the best in terest of majority in a community or state. groups are given an equal opportunity in gov ernment employment on the sole basis of mer it and fitness.” We know that the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity had a lion’s share in the publicising federal opportunities to qualified Negroes in low-pav federal jobs to see if they had been overlooked for pormotion. The Committee’s rrixirt is encouraging and indicates fhaPwe are moving in the right direc tion. Negroes should now continue to prepare themselves for top paving jobs in federal and state governments Our claim that we are be ing discriminated against is not enough, and we must he prepared to compete with all citi zens in the job market—be it state, federal, or in private industry education. Os thesr rriectcd. six had master’s drgrres: 152 had four years of college training ; and 222 had some college training One hun dred and eight public school teachers were re jected “The evidence in this case” the federal judge said, “overwhelmingly reflects that from Jan uary 1. 1956. until at least June. 1960 the reg istrars and the state of Alabama have deliber ately ami consistently engaged in procedures and practices which have favored white ap plicants and discriminated against Negro ap plicants who were seeking to become register ed voters This discrimination was in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Con stitution " Consistently the denial of the right to rrg ister has been practiced in manv of the south ern states. And it would seem that no section of this country would want to deliberatrh deny the Negro this practice of elemental jus tice We dont need to ask why do registrars deny Negroes the privileges to register, because the answer is obvious If the said registrars are found guilty of de liberately discriminating against Negro appli cants who wsh to register, they should be pun ished to the fullest extent of the law and re moved from office forever Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULW ARE STRIKEOUTS Back in 1884 when profession al baseball was a mere fledgling sport, two pitchers struck out It) men in nine-inning games. That record stood until Tom Cheney, of the Washington Sen a'ors fanned 21 of the Baltimore Orioles. but the game went 16 innings The records, of course, are quite comparable, but it was still a single game. Other notables through the years had come close to the re cord, hut failed to equal it. The record-keepers, and those who lav down the rules for them, may in the future, be compelled to be more explicit. Nineteen . tnkeout« in nine innines. and 21 in 18 are quite different things A MISTAKE Arriving late for a holiday dinner a guest found a seat re served for him near the head of the table where a goose was be ing carved ‘Ah ’ he commented, "so I'm to v;t bv the goose " Rut rio'icing the lady seated on his left, he hastened to make amends I mean " he smiled at her a pologetically. "the, roasted one, of course ” WHAT BRAVERY? Erriil Arndt of Madison, Wis consin. turned in his driver’s license after a record lot 43 years without a ticket) was tarn ished recently. Arndt, arrested for driving a gainst traffic said he did not want to spoil his record any further He Is 83 vears of age. LANDMARK Adolphus Rusrh. St. Louis lii This Onr Day BY C. A. CHIICK. SR. rintISTMAS SAVING CLUBS This writer is a strong advo cate of peoples' joining or start ing Christmas Savings Clubs. One bank has for its advertis ing slogan to encourage people to start Savings Clubs "Plan now for the money you will need next Christmas” This columnist thinks very highly of the slogan. One beneficial result of Start ing a Savings Club is that the in dividual gets in the habit of systematically saving regularly small amounts of money. A small amount saved weekly for a year adds tip to a "Big A mount " And. it cannot be over emphasized that the vast majo rity of us wiio save must of a necessity learn to save “small bits" at any given time, for the very simple reason so few of us ever have "big bits" above cur rent expenses at any given dab- Another beneficial result of Christmas Savings Clubs is that the individual who starts one continues until the end of the year, will not have to “buy now and pay later" ttu* time next year Individuals with small in- Oilwr Editors Say Tin: SOUTH MUST OBEY Even before the smoke from the battle on Ole Miss campus has cleared away, the South fa ces thr probability of row stresses in South Carolina and Alabama South Carolina may face a double desegregation attempt at the beginning of the winter and spring terms of Clemson College and the University of South Ca rolina A federal court suit has gone through the judicial mill to force Clemson to admit Har vev Gantt. Federal District Judge C C. Wyche to whom the Gault case was remanded by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, has the matter under advisement and has announced that he will render an opinion after Jan 1. 1 !)t>3 Meanwhile a suit filed in a Federal District Court seeks to force the University of South Carolina to admit Miss Henri Dobbins Monteith at the opening of the spring semester. Miss Monteith is the daughter of a Columbia. S C school tea cher She is at present a student at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore MH where she i« a prrmcdical student Another point of tension in the Old South being watch'd closely is the University of A'.i bama. w hich is under permanent federal court injunction to ad mit qualified students rega-dh -s of race Tne Alabama injunction stems from the federal suit hy which Miss Autherine I.ucy was admitted to the University of Editorial Opinions More are excerpt* from »mm vials compiled t" Associated N Kto Press appearing in stone of the nation * leading daily r. « ■- papers on subjects of current in terest It' our readers JFK’S NOI SING ORI'FR THF TIMES. New York I'm President Kennedy s otd. r prohibiting racial and :c! gions discrimination iri Federal 1' aid ed housing iS a long overdue ex tension of the principles of equal rights and equal oppo’tun is Even though its provisions are more limited than his campaign pledges led many lo expect the order represents an linrs-nant complement to the historic steps already taken by the Federal Government to implement con stitutional guarantees of equality in voting, education, travel, em ployment and other fields "The President s action should help lessen the residential seg regation which is aim-st as prev alent in most of the North as >t is in the South " THr SCN TIMES Chirac's President Kenneds s evtc;.- tive orderending racial and re ligious discrimination - honsng financed by the federal govern brewer, was intensely proud of the business he had helped found. He regarded his brewery as an American landmark. Once, while in Europe, he ask ed his host to visit him in St. Louis "Where is St. Louis?” asked the European. "You can’t mis* it,” Busch as sured him. "It’s right near my brew ery ” SHOCKING An office boy was rather nerv ous the first day on hi* new Job. Summoning up eourage. he ap prarhed his employer and said: ’Please sir. I think you're wanted on the phone.” The employer, busy with his problems, replied: You think? What'a the good of thinking”” Well sir.” the office boy said. "T e voice at the other end said, ’Hello is that you, you idiot’?” 'Ha-ha-ha-ha, etc) OH, KNOW! An old farmer, walking along a country road, was offered a ride by stranger in a new air eonditroned automobile. It was the farmer’s first encounter with air-ronditioning. Where are you going?” tha driver inquired. "Down the road about three r iles to work in my tobacco field,” replied the farmer. They had travelled only half a mile when he asked to get out of the car. "But why?" asked the puzzled stranger. “I thought you w-e-e going to work on your to bacco crop.” "I was,” the farmer said. “But it's turned so much cooler, I think I'll go back home and kill my hog.” eomes. If they have themselves properly disciplined, can lay a side a small amount of money each week. And. by so doing such individuals would be abla to write Santa Claus a Cashier’s check at Christmas time. Por ex ample. those who save fifty cents weekly would have twen ty-five dollars at the end of the year: those who save one dollar per week would have fifty doll ars: and two dollars per week would net one hundred dollars for Santa Claus. In addition the discipline in the habit of saving is a very valuable asset. “It la a very present help In the time of trouble.” Christmas Savings Clubs are especially beneficial In training young people how to save the little "extra change" they may make in doing odd joba, such as selling newspapers, mowing peo ples lawns, etc. Lets hurry up and make haste and start a Christmas Savings Club. And by so doing next year this time we shall not be com pelled to "buy now and pay lat er." Alabama. Rioting developed and Miss Lucy left the school temporarily. Later she returned but was ex pelled after making certain re marks about university officials The federal court upheld her ex pulsion. and she went to the Uni versity of Texas. The University of Alabama remains under the court injunc tion. however, and a Negro has applied for admittance The sit uation has been aggravated in its inteniity by the Insistence of Gov.-elect George C. Wallace that he would not permit the in tegration of any public school while he is Governor. Some of hi* supporters in Tus caloosa. home of the state uni versity, however, are said to be urging him to relax his adamant attitude to avert "another Ox ford." Two other Incoming state officials, the Lieutenant Gover nor and the Attorney General, who have enough sense to fear repetition of the Mississippi epi sod*. are urging that tha situa tion be met without violence. What muat be established clearly In the mind of the segre gationist is that the Southern Negro has long ago shed off hi* timidity and is determined to pursue hia rights at whatever costs. With the uncomprejnvsing backing of the Federal cou-ts and the Justice Department* commitment to uphold the law on integration, the Southern black man can ill afford to even contemplate retreating from his objective of first-clasa citizen ship. ment may affect the home con struction business, as has been feared bv smoe persons in tne construction industry But where similar rule* have been in ef fect at the local level, in New York and Pittsburgh, there ap pears to have been no apprecia ble effect on the economy of the industry And certainly, as a matter of principle, no Ameri can can argue against public money being lent or the pro tection of government mortgage insurance being made available on a non-discriminatory basis "There were many practical aspects of the President's order that had to be taken into con sideration and many legal ques tions involved TTits may have been one of the reasons why President Kennedy delayed sign ing the order or many months “It also might be ne*ed that the signing followed an upturn to the construction of privately owned house* and apartments reported in October The indus try appears to be healthy Thu probably was as good a time as any to begin the new federal rules, if. to fact, they may have a depressing effect on the rete of coMtructMO for awhile * Strong Government Action Needed To Meet The Persistant Challenge Focus On Africa BY EDDIE L. MADISON, JR., lor AXP HISTORIC CALLS FOR NEGRO’S VOICE IN SHAPING U. 8. POUCY ON AFRICA CHICAGO (ANP) ln what is one of the moat significant moves in the interest of Africa to occur In recent years, 100 American Negro lead era last week urged Negroes in the United States to help shape U. S. policy on Africa and indicated they will press President John P. Kennedy to im pose economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa. The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, announced that its first major action will be made December 10. Human Rights Day, when it will urge the President to act against South Africa because of its treatment of Afri cans. This will mark the first time in history that American Negroes as a group have sought to in clude Africa as a part of their battleground in their struggle for human rights. Until the action by the Negro leaders at their historic meeting, the primary—perhaps only— concern of Negroes has been the fight against social injustices they and other minorities suffer in the United States. The conference has been viewed as significant awakening of the Ameri can Negro, to his kinship to his African brother. The three-day summit meeting, held at Co lumbia University's Arden House campus in Har riman. New York, was attended by a cross-section of the nation's top Negro leaders, including re presentatives of the clergy, civil rights groups, labor and education. The conference call oommitte included the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, Ga . integration leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and vice president of the AFL-CIO; Dorothy Height, presi dent of the National Council of Negro Women, and James Farmer, executive director of the Con gress of Racial Equality. The delegates voted to continue the call committee as the executive body. The leaders decided that a close link between the American community and the sub-Saharan Gordon B. Hancock BETWEEN THE LINES ELEANOR THE GREAT If Persia had its Cyrus The Great and Prus sia Its Federick The Great, then the Negroes of tins country can have their Eleanor The Great in the late Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt whose recent passing filled the world with genuine sor row. It is true that Mrs. Roosevelt was a citizen of the world but she was in particular a benefac tor of the Negro race. She did not give to the Negroes of this country millions of dollars, but she gave what was more Important—her wonder ful influence and encouragement. In this Thanksgiving season when the hearts of men are going out in thanksgiving to our Heav enly Father for all his benefits. Negroes have special need to thank God for Eleanor Roosevelt and the contribution she made to interracial un derstanding. She more than any other First Lady in this country’s history made Negroes at home tn the White House. Singularly enough her uncle Theo dore Roosevelt had our great Booker T Wash ington to dinner in the White House, the first such occurrence in history. , And thus while Negroes of this country go a bout this matter of thanksgiving, may they re member the blessings which have come to them byway of the White House occupied by the Roos evelts. When Roosevelts are in the White House Negroes have a friend at court. It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who made the first move toward/ integrating the Negroes into American Uft in full according to Ounnar Mry dal tn bis monumental work An American Dilem ma. Truman had the way biased for him as he at tempted to follow Franklin Roosevelt's course. The very groundwork for President Kennedy's fine beginnings to Improve the lot of the Negroes of this country was laid by the late Franklin De lano Roosevelt before he laid down the burden Only a casual study of theh istory of the Negro s struggles for full cittoenship tn the last fifty years will reveal that the Roosevelts have stood with us in many critical circumstances and wiMreew a Rooaevalt wa weighed in the seals African pople would help sub-Saharans in at taining international status or freedom, and give the American Negroes a new Impetus In their fight for civil rights. In addition to the resolution on South Africa, the meeting reflected the intense concern and im patience of the American Negro over conditions in Southwest Africa, Angola Mozambique, Kenya, the Central African Federation, the Congo and the High Commission Territories (Swaziland, Be chuuanaland and Basutoland). The Conference urged unification of Katanga Province with the Central Congolese government and U. 8. support for the liberation of Africans in yet-unfree ter ritories on the continent. It also urged financial aid and assistance in consultation with the Kenya nationalists to develop their political community, and urged the British government to adopt a hands-off policy on internal affairs at this colony pending constitutional negotiations. The conference, which sought to determine if U. S. policy on African accurately reflects the thinking of America’s 19 million Negroes. South Africa's harsh treatment of Africans came under bitter attack at the conference. Aside from calling for economic sanctions, the leaders condemned apartheid (segregation), urged an arms embargo, called on American firms to cease lending money to the Republic and to withdraw investments, asked that no public or private eco nomic aid be given, and urged the U. S. to sup port sanctions by the United Nations. They also called for an international boycott, and end to military cooperation, and a White House confer ence on apartheid. While the conference theme centered on Af rica, it marked a formal link of the African's struggle for complete independence with the Ne gro's fight for equality in the U. S. Also, it paved tre wya for the destruction of the belief in some circles that a serious breach exists between Af ricans and American Negroes. The delegates said they felt that the Africans too frequently did not understand the social and economic progress achieved by U 8 Negroes, and also failed to un derstand that the poll’leal power of a minority of 19-million, although important, was necessari ly limited in what it could achieve. of interracial justice that Roosevelt has not been found wanting. This bristling fact is most abundantly dra matized in the life and labors of Eleanor The Great for Mrs. Roosevelt was in very truth great as a world figure and as a friend of the stricken Negro race. Sometimes the stature of a towering person age can be measured as surely by their traducers as by the admirers. It is even so with Mrs. Roos evelt. It is true she was admired and honored in the uttermost parts of the earth, it is equally true that she was mercilessly heckled and hooted by a sector of the South. The Old South has never forgiven her for treating Negroes as human be ings and children of God No white woman in this country’s history has been more soundly abused that Mrs. Roosevelt and no white woman in this country’s history has more proudly scorned and spumed such abuse. Being afraid of Negroes may endear some to the traditions of the Old South but not for a Roos evelt' Mrs. Roosevelt ended as she began with her friendliness for the Negro race. Nothing could turn hex around and all of the abuse heaped upon her by a reactionary Old South instead of dis couraging her seemed but to steel her determi nation to follow her high course of human under standing. That Mrs Roosevelt courted the abuse of the Souths Negrophobes will be as a star in her crown of wonderful achievements. If as tfie Old South in derision contended that among the Negroes there were "Eleanor Clubs” there certainly ought to have been. Negroes could be not only abun dantly pardoned but quite abundantly comp'i mented by the organization of Eleanor Clubs for in ao doing they would be honoring one of their greatest benefactors. When a woman of Mrs Roosevelt’s statue stands in the comer of a stricken people disdain ing the course of lesser souls, she blazes a trail of glory in a gloomy world. So while we are giving our Heavenly Father thanks and glory for all Hi* benefits, let us not forget to thank Him for the Roosevelt* in general and Eleanor Roosevelt tn particular She is the Negro's Eleanor The Great.