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THE CABOLDfIAM
RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY. NOVEMBER M. ISO
Editorial Viewpoint
One'* biggest temptation will be to think in
term* of. “Ood and myself,” to be absorbed in his
selfish little world and to leave the running of
the big world to those who either hate Christ or
know Him not. Even when praying, it is easy to
say "our Pather” and yet mean "my Father”; to
say "give us our daily bread.” yet mean "give me
my daily bread”; to ask Ood to “forgivp us our
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hfm back. We should, however, strive to make
his credo work in this Christian nation. This
brings us to “After Kennedy, What? The
blood of the fallen martyr is on the hands of
every American citizen who revels in the din
and fog of race hatred, intolerance, bigotry,
peculiar to any race or group, however, they
dircrimination. These damnable traits are not
maybe more noticable in racial matters.
Those persons who failed to trace the dyna
mite that blew Moore and his wife to bits in
Mims, Fla., sometime ago; those who sat su
pinely by and said or did anything when 32
white cab drivers were freed in Greenville, S.
C. for the wanton killing of a Negro cripple;
those who saw a Jewish salesman castrated in
eastern North Carolina; those who have seen
We think it fitting and proper that is wan
decided to have an eternal light burn at the
-grave of our slain President. The light can
serve many purposes as it flickers from the
4jde of the hill, in Arlington Cemetery.
‘lt will say to those who come to visit the
last resting place of a truly great American
that this light is a symbol of the virtures this
than possessed. It will say that he trimmed his
lamp in the true sense of the word and when
the bridegroom came he was ready to join the
other martyrs who had fallen for their convic
tions and the courage to stand up for them.
It will also serve to tell mankind that it is a
symbol of a man who poured oil upon the
torch of democracy which was lighted by a
man who suffered the same fate almost 100
years ago. It will say to friend and foe as long
as the world stands that here lies a man who
had faith enough in his fellowmen to believe
that someday they would truly live the credo,
The Late President
By now the reality of the untimely death of
President John P. Kennedy is considered a
fact, and people no longer are saying, “I don’t
believe it.”
Members of the Negro race, who admired
the late President for his stand and efforts in
the matter of civil rights, have alsb reacted in
shock at the dastardly deed of the assassin in
Dallas, Texas, last Friday. And we especially
remember him for programs of the New Fron
tier and his Alliance for Progress.
We cannot bring back the life of the Presi
dent; and, if we could, we would.
The death of our President seems and is a
waste of human resource and constructive
leadership. What the assassin hoped to gain by
his act may never be known, but the Florida
Times Union hat stated the situation vividly in
these words:
"If the assassin thought that by shooting the
President he would serve some higher cause,
then he was wrong and he will quickly find
the hand of honest men and patriots turned
against him. Bullets prove 'only who lies, not
who is right, and the attack great dis
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
Because of the fact that President Lyndon
Johnson wanted the nation to celebrate
Thanksgiving according to the proclamation
issued by our late President and the fact that
Governor Sanford asked for a day of true
thanksgiving, we are suggesting that we cele
?brate it in the true sense of THANKSGIVING.
It would be a fine thing for us if we would
do like the Pilgrim fathers, come together with
our individual selves and appraise the many
blessings that we have received during the past
year. It would also be good if we would eval
uate the blessings that we have shared with
our neighbors. Not from what we got out of
sharing our blessings, but the heart-to-heart as
surance that we were motivated by a still small
voice that said, "It is more blessed to give than
to receive.”
If this soul-searching reveals that we have
not been as generous to our fellowwomen as we
should have been, then our prayer of Thanks
cMng should include a soft whisper that
would ask God to enable us to increase our in
Integration In Negro Colleges
;'ln the not-too-distant future all Southern
colleges and universities will be integrated, in
cluding those which now have an all-Negro stu
dent body. This is what will be, and we should
Be preparing for it now.
„ Such integration is well under way in the
fcttder states, getting started in the Deep South
states and is even inevitable in such strong
holds of opposition as Mississippi and Ala
bama.
When integration does come, It will not spell
the doom of the all-Negro college. It will sur
vive or fall on only one issue—the quality of
the programs they offer.
It should be said that integration in reverse
—the enrollment of white students in predom
inantly Negro colleges—is a little recognized
THE NEGRO PRESS—bettevei that America can beet lead the worla Aim
away from racial and national antagonism* whan it accords to arary mar JnH I L
regardless of race, color or creed. Ns human and legal rights Haring no man fllk ■
tearing no man—the Negro Press strives to help every man on the firm be-
W that all men are hart as long as anyone ie held Hack.
WORDS OF WORSHIP
After Kennedy, What?
The Light On The Hill
trespasses,” and yet mean nothing more than
"forgive me my trespasses.”
All the talk about the brotherhood of man will
mean nothing unless one acknowledges that bro
therhood under the falsehood of God. Even from
one’s kindergarten days, always keep this thought
uppermost in mind.
more than 1500 Negroes lynched in America;
those who have given asaent to the death of
Emmet Till by keeping their mouths closed;
those who passed over the killing of a white
New Jersey postman because he dared protest
Mississippi injustices by walking; those who
have resorted to every conceivable devise to
keep from implenenting the United States Su
preme Court’s decision; those who say the case
of Medgar Evers is insoluble and those who
merely said “It’s too Bad” about the four
small children who met their death, in a Bir
mingham church, while they were attempting
to delve into the mysteries of the Bible, to
mention a few, are all before die bar of justice
and it is our belief that Kennedy’s blood is
crying forth from Texas soil and Arlington Na
tional Cemetery saying, “You are your broth
er’s keeper.”
“The Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man.”
The light can very easily serve to warn the
bigots, the demagogues, the hate mongers of
the assassins ilk that the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life. Surely it will
tell them that Kennedy is not dead and will
not die unless this light is extinguished by peo
ple so warped in their thinking that they will
not accept democracy as the yard stick of life.
We say the light upon the hill can serve to
point men to a fuller and more glorious life.
One that is filled with joy and happiness in
stead of greed and discontent. One that is fill
ed with power to exalt righteousness and yet
humble enough to respect the rights of others.
One that is filled with service to the leaa fort
unate and yet mindful of the Golden Rule. May
we ever look to this light as a compass point
ing toward better understanding and goodwill.
John F. Kennedy
service to the cause of those honest men and
women who have sought to change the policies
of the government by lawful means ”
American citizens hate a coward like the
assassin of the President of the United States.
The murderer will be put in a class with John
Wilkes Booth who assassinated Abraham Lin
coln in the 1860 s. History will make immortal
this unholy act and people will always re
member him for the kind of man he was.
Men will always differ with Presidents and
their philosophies and principles. If so, then
they have the right to freedom of speech in
stating their opposition. But men should never
let their moral and political leanings erode
their character to die point of believing they
have the right to take the life of a supposed
enemy—no matter how fanatic they may be
come on an issue.
May the departed soul of our New Fron
tier leader rest in peace! May the principles
of a Free World for which the President work
ed become a reality! He now belongs to the
ages.
terest in others to the extent that we might
have a warmer fellowship and a better under
standing of our own frailties.
Certainly we are thankful for the many
blessings that we 4 hajve enjoyed during the past
year. We will no dbubt thank God for the suc
cess that has attended our families, onr friends.
There might be those of us who have been
more successful in our business ventures and
daily strivings to keep a roof over our heads.
There might be those of us, as we look over our
yields, who might desire to tear down our old
bams and tell our souls to be at ease. We could
wake up Friday morning and find that fate
had been cruel to us and that our envisioned
new bams were destroyed while we slept.
Then it behoves all of us to have an OLD
FASHIONED THANKSGIVING where we
would really inject the spirit of the first
Thanksgiving and give thanks in the true spir
it of the day mindful that ere the 1964 Thanks
giving rolls around we could not be as fortu
nate as we are this Thanksgiving.
trend in the direction of complete integration.
This change is already taking place in three
all-Negro institutions of higher learning name
ly: Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo.;
West Virginia State College at Institute, West
Virginia; and Kentucky State College at
Frankfort. Kentucky.
At West Virginia State College the enroll
ment has changed from all-Negro to one-third
white; and Kentucky State College has 80 to 90
white students in a total enrollment of 868.
In the private Negro college area integration
will not be the factor to doom the existing in
stitution; but rather it will be the lack of ade
quate support from the various religious de
nominations sponsoring these collegia and uni
versities.
Just For Fun
BY MARCHS H. BOULWABS
SMITH CONCERT
On Friday, November at. at
S:00 pm. in Jacksonville. Flo
rida. the Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity Choir of Charlotte, ren
dered a concert at the Presby
terian Church. The affair was
sponsored by the North Florida
Chapter of the Johnson C.
Smith University Alumni Asso
ciation. The affair was given
to raise funds for our financial
project for the year. I journey
ed from Tallahassee to Jack
sonville to bear the choir and
returned to Tallahassee around
3:00 A. M. on Saturday.
Jacksonville Is about 170
miles ftom Tallahassee, and I
try to attend three alumni
meetings during each year. Mtty
I add that Mrs. Svangslyne
Johnson Is the corresponding
secretary; she Is very efficient
and dedicated to the purposes
of the Alumni Association. She
“jacks up" procrastinating
members to a sense of doty;
and so far ss I know etw very
seldom misses a meeting.
Some of our members Use in
widely separated areas in North
Florida and hence cannot get
to the meetings very often. No
Editorial Opinions
BLUB GRAY AND JIM CROW
THE TIMES, New York
“One of the outstanding ool
legate athletic events of early
winter Is the Blue-Gray foot
ball game, played annually at
Montgomery. Ala., between top
players of the North and South.
This event has traditionally
been televised by NBC. It win
not be televised this year by
NBC. That station has cancel
ed Its telecast because It has
* been informed that Negro play
ers will not be eligible to par
ticipate. The network says that
it has taken this action In
agreement with the sponsors,
the Gillette Company, and the
Chrysler Corporation.
"This is an example of how
corporate influence can be
brought to bear on the side of
racial justice. The action Is
taken openly and without sub
terfuge. It is taken on the re
sponsibility of great enterprises
which have large financial in
terests in both the North and
South. It Is an action whose
point and purpose are mads
unmistakably clear, as is evi
denced by the outraged pro
tests of Alabama’s Governor
Wallace.”
THE CIVIL RIGHTS
COMPROMISE
PRESS SCIMITAR. Memphis
"For the lack of a handler
cliche. It may be observed that
the compromise version of the
Civil Righto Bill, approved yes
terday by the House Judiciary
Committee. has uncovered
some strange bedfellows:
"Hmnediately vocal in oppo
sition were Southern segrega
tionist congressmen - and
Washington leaders of the NA
ACP. This probably was the
first time these two factions
had agreed on anything, though
their reasons for agreement
were as far apart as usual.
"The segregationists, in our
opinion, have by far the sound
er reasons for their criticism
because the bill, as rewritten
after White House urging, has
at least some chance of pass
ing. The earlier version of the
bill had none.
"The all-or-nothing civil
rights leaden an continuing to
play the segregationist game by
Insisting on a bill so strict R
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
As I sit tonight my heart is
heavy! This is true with mil
lions of Americans. The Presi
dent of the United States is
dead! Death is a sure victor of
us all, but it is not the mastery
of death here that mocks us. Its
the means thru which death is
impllmented. To say that the
President was murdered, may
seem to say all that is necessa
ry, but this is notthe tragedy.
It is the inevitable end of a
tragic condition. That condition
is hatred. Hatred is a quality of
spirit that is often encouraged
and greatly used in our Nation.
The President may-have been
shot by a lunatic or a psycho
pathis who carried with him the
urge to destroy those whom he
disliked. But ia this any wonder
when you live in a community
of hate? These people are pro
ducts of the psychology they
have been subjected and are vic
tims of the more insidious
minds.
Can Barnetts, Wallaces and Er
vins, honestly and truly divest
themselves of all responsibility
and guilt for the blood of this
man? A ball that is set in mo
tion does not always travel ti
direction desired and intended
by the hurler, nevertheless, the
hurler is responsible for setting
it in motion. Hatred knows no
bounds and will spare no means
to achieve its deadly ends, whe
ther they are bombing children
in churches of Ala., or killing
a President in Texas. May God
be with America; we are re
sponsible.
Wilson W. Lee
Statesville
To the Editor,
Isn't it time ter Southerners to
bury the Confederate Flag? Al
most an century has passed since
the conflict between North and
South was officially ended and
tee nation eras officially re-unit
ed under one Flag. Perhaps it
was providential that Abraham
Lincoln did not live to see how
hollow was his victory, for with
in a decade after his death the
movement had begun to takea
way the freedom that had been
won with so greet a price in
human life. Some lives were giv
en to establish the right of hu
mandignity and freedom for all
without regard to race. weed, co
matter what the demands of
my job, I find time at least
three times a year to be pres
ent. and enjoy the fellowship*
(This Is good far me. because
I have a tendency to isolate
myself from people. The pmr
chologist would say that I am
an introvert.)
STILETTO HEELS
In Wigan, England, an ulti
matum was issued to ISM girls
to leave their high heels boom
or fsee expulsion from college.
The decision was mads bp the
governors of the eoOege after
stiletto heels had dons $3,000
damage to Hoorn.
• A county education official
said the pressure applied by
the heels was M 0 pounds per
square Inch, equal to M ele
phants standing on one leg.
(Gee. but Isn’t this Informa
tion startling?)
WATCH THAT WEIGHT!
A Mayo CUste psychiatrist
said he believes 38 per sent of
the nation’s population to be
overweight. He said the obese
condition results from boredom,
tension end anxiety and saa
be related to experiences earl
ier to life.
would have no whs not in this
congress.”
THE poerr. Washington
"The people who want to see
ar effective civil rights bill en
acted into law have reached
agreement. It la not an agree
ment which can give consola
tion or oomfort to the people
who do not want any etvil
rights legislation. But if it rep
resents a recession from the
Ideal measure which some
sought to push through the
House of Representatives, ft
represents also a reasonable
compromise among man of
goodwill of the kind that Is in
dispensable in the functioning
of a great and diverse democ
racy. This is an honorable com
promise. If it becomes law, it
will provide a powerful weapon
against racial discrimination."
THE COURIER JOURNAL,
Louisville
“President Kennedy has
maintained all along that new
civil rights legislation is ao es
sential to the domestic tran
quility and the national con
science that K must be ap
proached on a nonpartisan ba
sis. He knows, of course, that
If the legislation becomes an
object of partisan political ma
neuvering between Republicans
and Demoekate it Is doomed.
emsoan votes are necessary to
offset Southern Democratic op
position.
"Indeed, the measure approv
ed by the Judiciary Committee
|s stronger than the legislation
originally proposed by the Ad
mtolitraUon. m addition to
to
voting, education, federal pro
grams, and public accommoda
tions, the new package also
would create a federal commis
sion empoweied to act against
racial discrimination to em
ployment
"Those Negro leaden who are
attacking the civil-rights pack
age that cleared the Judiciary
Committee as “Inadequate” and
accusing the Administration of
not standing firm on civil rights
are being dangerously unrealis
tic They seem to prefer noth
ing at all rather than settle
for three-quarters of a loaf.”
lor. or national origin. Some
lives had been given to support
the right of the “white” South
to maintain its own dignity
while at the same time depriv
ing its black brothers of tee
same privilege.
No serious person questions
tee brotherhood of man. It is e
scientific fact But human histo
ry demonstrates all too dearly
teat brother can hate brother,
that brother can enslave brother,
that brother can kill brother,
that brother can scorn brother.
And every time a brother is hat
ed or enslaved or killed or
scorned, all brothers die a lit
tle.
For tee victim or victims in
tee overt act of violence, death
marks finis to physical life; but
we who remain must live with
that death and be constantly re
minded teat in this incident we
haVe “sinne dand fallenshort of
the glork- of God."• The wages
of sin is death.” What does it
matter whether tee President of
tee United States was killed by
a Communist, a Fascist, or a Con
federate. Ha died because some
one hated tea principles of jus
tic and quality on which this
country ia founded. This hatred
sought a target for its death-giv
ing bullet
For too long man who are in
terested in their selfish interests
have demanded tee right to en
act laws which infringe or the
freedom of fallow citizens; the
right to follow policies which In
sult human dignity and which
convey scorn toward a segment
of society; the rightto refuse to
recognise laws and decisions
preventing them from practicing
unchallenged traditions which
ausDort (heir r prejudi
ces; tea right to hold up legisla
tion designed to eliminate in
equities in this land.
Madgar Evers, a few mantes
ago, and John P. Kennedy, a
few days ago, had their lives
snuffed out by tea bullet of a
sniper* gun. They now share a
reeling place at Arlington Na
tinal Cemetery. Would teat an
Eternal Light could be placed
over Medgar Even grave also
teat Americana might be per
petually reminded teat two A
meriean soldiers died because of
hate! - one was black and one
was white; one was a Sou thenar
and one was a Northerner: one
Remove The Barriers So They Can
Work Together
• .*
Gordon B. Hancock ’$
BETWEEN THE LINES
DEMAND OB PETITION
The other day one of-our Negro freedom fight
era, canoe face to face with a group of whites in
authority, and listed the things It would take to
satisfy Negroes in the given crisis.
One of the whites asked pointedly “Art you
making a demand or a request?”
The Negro leader replied forthrightly aa if by
inspiration. “We are making a petition” and the
meeting moved on smoothly in away that would
have been Impossible had the Negro leader said
that he waa making a “demand.”
There ie quite a difference between a demand
and a petition. Demands are made from a position
of power, whije petitions are made from a posi
tion of strategy and eoncllUation. Demands pre
suppose strength to back up or enforoe the de
mand. It Ik a word that connotes great power.
Petition is a more conciliatory term and carries
with it the possibilities of constructive dismiss
ion. When the weaker confronts the stronger, the
pressing need is not for a display of power but a
suggestion of discussion and understanding.
During our fighting for freedom within recent
month*, we have heard time and again our Ne
groes make “demands” and more often that not,
we have seen these demands rejected: and where
great advances have been made, we cannot say
with any degree of certainty whether these have
been made in response to our “demands or our
petitions.”
When we make flat and positive demands as a
weaker and poorer minority group, can only base
our demands on moral power, and too often we
are dealing with circumstances where moral in
fluence is too often non-existent with those with
whom we are dealing. Moral influence is at a
minimum in Alabama and Mississippi among the
whites with whom Negroes are to deal—if they
are to deal at all. Too often those whites among
whom there is a moral influence are in the back
ground—and silent If our demand is denied we
have either to fall back upon the law or upon the
moral powers of the community.
A demand without adequate powers of enforce
ment seems a weak and clumsy expression of
wishful thinking. The atmosphere is filled with
our unsatisfied and Insistent “demands” and
ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD
BT F. L. PBATTIS For ANF
Just because he took the paddle to them. Con
gressman Adam Clayton Powell and Maloom X
of the separatist Black Muslim sect, have de
manded that Dr. Ralph J. Bundle. Undersecre
tary for Political Affairs* of the United Nations,
rejoin the Negro race. The inference is rather
dear.
Dr. Bunch* is. first of all. a mulatto. Second,
he has slnoe IMS been engaged in high level a
operations with the United Nations. This has kept
him from being a socalled “race leader."
The immediate cause of the ire of Congressman
Powell and Malcolm X waa criticism of them ex
pressed by Dr. Bunchs in tee course of an address
he recently made at Tougslou College, near Jack
son. Mlsa. Dr. Bounche won criticism from both
sides for that speech. Gov Roes Barnett of Miss
issippi excoriated him. Likewise, Gov. George
Wallace of Alabama. This indicates to mb that
Dr. Bunehe wag selecting his targets carefully
and purposely.
I very mud) wonder if we have reached tfie
point where Negroes who write and speak must
conform to what “mob leaders” and race lead
ers” demand. I wonder If a reservoir of acorn is
to be loosed against the nonconformists, those
who question whether this or that Is right
Since the courts have made it presently dam
ageable to call the man. or woman with whom you
disagree an “Uncle Tom,” are we going to invite
him to leave the Negro race or to join tee Negro
race? Are we going to seek, to sell him off as s
traitor to the Negro race?
Certainly, a social audit of all teat has gone on
in the last couple of years would Indicate that
some mistakes bam been made. More oertain it
was a leader tor dhril right* ia
his local community and one was
a leader tor civil and human
rights in tee nation and tee
world; one was an ordinary A
merican citizen and one was A*
merica's First Citizen, tee Presi
dent of tee United States. Bote
were young and beloved bus
bend and ffeteer to Borrowing
wife-end children. What a price
to pay tor hatred and tee right
to segregate.
To the news reporter who
ailed from his boat, “far whom
when these demands are rejected their rejection
is backed up by all the powers of the segregation
ist Old South which has at its command the legal
machinery, the brutal pohee, the water hoses and
German police daps. Jells and full charge of the
nation’s propoganda press, with disciples of the
segregationists oombing the country for new di>
—* t
cipios* \
In short, when Negroes make demands they
make them from a position of relative weakness.
Whet these demands arc rejected the rejection 4s
made from a position of rotative strength. The
Negro’s strength Is a moral strength and it is
uselas to impose any other kind. Whether demand
or petition, increases the Negro’s moral strength
is a most important question and one that our
Negro leaders should ponder with deep concern.
Whioh will get the Negro along faster to make
demands which he has no way of enforcing or to
make petitions with thetr,moral impact upon the
oonaelenoe of the community?
When we consider how many have been our de
mands, and how many more their rejections, we
begin to sense the importance of “weighing
words.” When our Negro leader in question said
he was making a petition, the discussion moved
along to a somewhat satisfactory conclusion as it
might not have, had he made "demands." Our
Negro leader knew how little Negroes have to back
up demends and bow much whites have to back
up their rejection.
The grim situation facing the struggling Negro
es calls for sitting down and reasoning together
rather than making many demands. The petition
ing may sound less dramatic but we are after re
sults not drama. When Dr. Martin Luther Luther
King demanded that Birmingham appoint a cer
tain number of Negro policemen within a given
number of days, the demand was simply rejected;
and to date nothing has been done about it.
Here was a case of demand that in the end a
mounted to a "petition.” Would a petition have
served the same purpose in the first place?
When Reverend Mr. Griffin of Farmville re
fused to say whether his presentation to tee city
council was "a demand or a request”, he wisely
stated that it was neither, but a petition.
Great leadership.
to that there has been a rash of unwtoe state
ments. Congressman Powell, who has just tost a
huge suit against him tor libel, is no duffer when
it comes to speaking out of the wrong aide of his
mouth. Maloom X*s crudities may be entertaining
but they reflect only a frenzy to take advantage
of a situation, admittedly bad.
There are thoee who do take some wrentf
thoughts. Quite recently, the leader of huge dem
onstrations at a construction site In Brooklyn
last summer were foroed to confess
demonstrating bad not brought results. Hundrmto
went to jail but rib hundreds went to work.
This has left the leaders of those demonstra
tions very disconsolate. They frankly don’t know
what they can do next Now, erf course, this does
not mean teat all demonstrations are futile. It
doea mean that each and every demonstration
must be thought through and a decision must be
made as to whether the demonstration or some
other tactic, is the best to get results. The point
is that there can always be room for criticism
without being disloyal to tee race.
I know of few Negroes, elevated to a high post
tion like Dr. Bunehe. who would have retained
more loyalty to their own people than the United
Natiom.undersecretary. The battle for hU people
wW< *L b€ ?\ n , early in tee life of Ralph Bunehe is
* of ,*?* * XM *' •»> marrow. Fortunately, or
unfortunately, be is not the flamboyant tyne
But when tee chips are down, when tt to neces
*“3* *^ or do. there win never be need to
gueeUon Dr. Burn**, He may be wrong some
to britove he is do
*** »*at to beat for his people..
is tiie flag flown half mast?"
the reply comes, “tor the people
ot the United States.’’ A part of
the American dream was assassi
nated by the bullets from a gun
of hatred and disrespect for the
principles on which this country
is funded. But. "Thanks be to
God.” (he bullet did not end our
physical Uvea. We have time to
right the wrong. We ean teach
love rather than hate. We can
teach justice rather than parti
ality. We can teach equality ra
ttier than discrimination. As long
•s there are people in this coun
try who hats and rebel against
righteousness and justice and e
quality for all citizens before the
law« guns will befired and Uvae
‘ will be lost and families will
bear their burden of grief as
they follow their dead to open
graves. Only we, the American
people,can stop this procession.
Miss Mildred L. McTyre
PO. Box 2823
RaleiWi