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THE CAIOLDfUUI RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY IS. IM4 4 Editorial Viewpoint .» II WORDS OF WORSHIP When we enumerate the special sins of superi ority in the light of tb<MJt*pe:, we find one of them as follows: To advocate the authocratie idea that oertain groups mi st be subservient to those in authority. To uphold a form of government which sanctions privileges, preferred positions or dictatorship by We Must Not Fail Shaw The plight of Shaw University has become of grave concern to the CAROLINIAN. When one takes time to evaliiate the service that the institution and the contribution that its grad uates have made to North Carolina and the nation, he need must say, "Is there no balm in Gilead r ' We believe that there is enough “balm” here in Raleigh to cure a “money-sick” Shaw. Wa believe that there are enough Baptist ministers who will follow .the approach that we outlined last week and will not ask their congregations, but lead them into a financing program that will give Shaw SI,OOO. This is a men; pittance to ask to save an institution that has dispensed education in the state for almost a cermry, in a religious atmosphere. We believe that Baptist ministers will fol low their Sunday preachments and prve that it is more plessed to give than to receive. It is our belief that every Baptist minister is proud of Shaw's record and work to the nth degree to bring Shaw out of its ebbing situation and raise it to the heights that it so justly deserves. We believe that there are hundreds of Bap tist organizations in America that wil' do like the women of the Home and Foreign Mission Board which will activate their members to the extent they will subscribe to raise $50,000 by June as Mrs. Home’s group did. We have faith enough in the many Baptist State Associations, throughout the nation to believe that many of them will commit them selves to raise $30,000 like the New J'*r*ey As sociation, led by Dr. L. C. Riddick. $5 000 of which has already been subscribed. This drive for Shaw should go beyond de nominational lines. All denominations are to What About Staying In School? We are sure that * large number of our youth are finding it difficult to find employ ment these days, especially when they have only a high school education or less. To assist in preparing youth and unemploy ed ntfuii . cw.lwvi m ' •; , ..... Avi wat enacted in 1902. Thit legislation is credited with fitting into new jobs three out of every five New York un employed workers who took its training The numerical statistics were 5,000 trained. 3.000 re-employed. This is not a great number in the nation’s roll of four or five million jobless. New York courses were organized only for trade* where there was a demonstrated need for trained workers. The result was that those displaced by automation or consolidation, and those with no skills, were trained for jobs that were waiting for them. This report is better than we have se-n from other states, where there was a low enrollment of unemployed in retraining courses and drop out rate among those who started. The New York experience with selected men for available jobs leaves the reader wondering why the other 2,000 didn’t find work after training, and how many failed to apply or to complete their training. Wc know that there Shot Could Be Heard Around World The Panama Canal incident, if allowed to get out of hand, could fire a shot that would be heard around the world. It might even set off the spark of a Third World War. with the nations of the world grouping themselves into two camps-—democracy and communism Last week Panama broke off relations with the United States, citing '‘unjustifiable ag gression’’ by U. S forces against Panama's citizens in violence which left 20 people dead in Panama and the Cnnftl Zone. The diplomatic rupture grew out of long atanding bitterness over sovereignty of the Canal Zone and the rights of Americans and Panamanians to fly their respective slugs. Fol lowing a January. 1063. agreement in which the United States recognized Panama’* titular sovereignty over the Canal Zone, under per petual release to the U. S.. the two govern ments jointly arrived at a plan prohibiting dis play of either national flag in the Zone except when accompanied by the other. Last week’s trouble started when young A merican students in the. Canal Zone demon strated against this agreement on January 7 and defiantly ran up a United States flag in front of Balboa High School, In response, thousands of Panamanian students Invaded the Canal Zone on a flag-carrying miss'on that A Look At Reatling Teaching It 1* very evident from our observation of poor reader* in and out of school that the “Look Say” method of teaching reading has become a deterrent in our educational system. The ABCs are the building blocks of our English language and when they are combin ed properly, they become words. Words event ually are combined to express clauses, phrases, sentences, etc. When a child has mastered the alphabet vowel vwnda, and is taught to break difficult words into syllables, although he has never f— *» some words in print. He is ”ble to decipher them; and, as he progresses. fft knowledge of the alphabet enables him to use the dictionary. THE NEGRO PRESS—beNtm* that America can hast h ad she wor/o nUA array from racial and national antagonism* whan it accords fc *>erv mat regardless of race, color or craed. hit human and legal rights. Haring no man haring no man — the Negro Press strive* to help every man on the firm be- EMfiß/ Bat that all matt an ktrt aa long aa anyone ia heM back. any class. To refuse mutual aid and cooperation as the basis of our democracy, placing the wel fare of the f«w above the happtaeae of the many. “Whoever will be groat among you let him be your minister," said Jesus. Also, ha declared "Whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant” practice the creed they preach, "Do onto oth er* aa you would have them do unto you,” there is no doubt in our minds that they would take an extra offering and send same to Shaw at once. We have faith enough in all Chris tian churches to believe that they feel "They are their brothers' keeper." We do not feel that we are amiss when we My that there are many local and atate busi nesses that will not only make a contribution, but will ask their employees to aid in this worthy cause. We will not be led to believe that there is any business that practices such a hard core creed until it will not come to the rescue of an institution that has meant as much to the ongoing of the economy, as Shaw. We certainly would not leave out the many graduates who left the institution singing the Alma Mater. We are quite sure that these lines are still resounding in their ears: “Thy sons revere thy name "Time shall their praises sing "Nobler the hearts of men "Where thou dost reign "Stout hearts that shall not fait” Should they permit Bhaw to close forth mere raising of $1,00,000.00, then these wen then and are now empty words. We do not believe that the persona who Mng this song so lustily in yesteryears will stand supinely by and let this worthy institution close its doors. No. a thousand times no. the Baptist minis ters. the Baptist organizations, the Baptist women, the Baptist State organisations, busi nesses and Shaw grads will catch a new glimpse of Shaw and not only save the insti tution, but raise it to its rightful place in the roster of American church-related colleges. drones and dreges of the workaday world who are causing us our greatest problem. The so lution must come primarily from within them selves. and not so much by government action. No matter how much trelni««* •« p—ipl have, th. y <!..„•*. *.!•• v.:.!. . Ilu.JuJ. of college graduates are contented to stay on welfare support; men with the finest training often turn out misfits who can not provide for themselves the bare necessities of life, hospital care, food and housing. Some parents provide their children with their every need and op portunity, and their offspring* are perpetual “leeches” upon them and society. On the other hand, in spite of handicaps, a poor boy on his own educates himself and rises to the top as an industrial executive, successful physician or teacher, and so on. In spite of what we have said about retrain ing programs and the integrity of the individ ual himself, Negro young people in particular must be advised and counselled and convinced to finish high school, technical institutes, col leges and universities. This type of training, with constructive motivation on the part of the individual, will put a man or woman in position to get jobs not open to high-school dropouts. « was a definite response to the earlier events. Like the American students, these, too. were hotheads. Political observers My that "ironically, the action of the young American chauvinists was not aimed at Panama as much as at the United States commander of the Panama Canal Zone officials who worked out the two-flag com promise." Commendably officials made efforts to con trol the American students; but, on the oth er hand, some American adults offered them encouragement. “This expression by our children actually puts the adult eitirena to shame,” one American wrote to the Panama American, an English-language newspaper. Although diplomatic agents are trying to solve this problem in a peaceful mann.f, there is always lurking in the horizon the threat of further student demonstrations that could erupt Into a natty diplomatic situation which could be that shot heard around the world. To reports that a flag pole might be removed, one of the American youngsters replied prophetic ally. “They had better not try it while the flag is up. We have only to My the wxrd and there are over 2,000 patriotic students who will be here within ten minutes to halt any such action.” Crowded classrooms, as well as other rea sons have been suggested as causes for poor rending. To discount the theory of crowded schoolrooms, let’s look back to the crowded one-room country school when one teacher managed the first to the ninth grades: teach ing reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, physiology, geography and history. Blit this teacher of yesteryears, taught her children the alphabet and phonics, and moat of them learn ed to read. Until the "Look Bay" method of f#ad>ng re placed the ABC method, only the mentally retarded children were unable to read Just For Fun a* MARCUS m. BOULWAEE JUST ESCAPED IT Bates I moved when I Eve now. I Hved on Oscoda attest to sos of sixteen apartments (one-room with bath and fur nished). Two daps ago my far mer next-door neighbor on Os ceola attest informed me that he went home for the holiday*, and when he returned someone had broken into his apartment and stole bis radio and televis ion sot wh>oh he bought the month before. This “frighten ed” me. for I then remembered that I bad no fire or theft In- Miranee on my few personal be longings. immediately i want up town and arranged for flro.and theft lnmranoa. I feel much better now. OH TBS! Max Baer, the late ex-heavy weight basing aliamp. was as Letter To The Ed US 8. sth at Southfield N. C. January S, 1964 To the Editor: I have thoroughly road the newspaper articles by Or. Lake, one of the announced candi dates for governor of North Carolina, and as I road them and try to evaluate the man on the basts of what he said In 1960 relative to his stand on raoe relations and what he Is saying now. the more confused I become. In fact I have not bean able to sea much differ ence In what be aaid then and what he is saying now He said then that he was for States Rights but not for Civil Rights. He was for the 10th amendment then but not for the 14th amendment which la his position today. He accepts the Negro In hie place—ln a passive role of acceptance— slxty-flve years ago. but con elders him out of place today as be demonstrates for first class citizenship. This means that there has been no change In his endorsement of the subservient position of the Negro. He expressed then and he states now that the Ne gro's race for first class citi zenship should not In anyway change the status quo of 65 years ago. At the same time he suggests that Negroes and whites should be as united as the har\d but as divided as the fingers. In this way does he mrsr. !! I ; u . N\- ;■ iw 1/ul wl»utw whites work? Tor them to live but not where whites live? For them to go to school but not where whites go? For them to be In industry but only In the Industry they make for them selves? What are the answers hero? All that he has said on the race Issue form a perfect conundrum and the answer ap pears to be this: Dr. Lake Is precisely the same figure with the same racial views today as to 1960, Just more tacit. In 1960. he favored the sep arate but equal doctrine In re lation to schools and be has reaffirmed his position in this respect even though he knows that there con never be equal development of the human mind of the human being un der the pretext of "separate but equal" conditions. The separate but equal doctrine which he likes and would enforce if elect ed Is outlawed and declared un constitutional by the O. 8. Bu perme Court. Yet. If elected governor, he would enforce this outlawed, unconstitutional sta tue. How does he propose to do such? Even If the people ac cepted his enforcement of an unconstitutional statue they would be out of harmony with the law m interpreted. In 1960 he was In favor of States Rights as he Is now but opposed to equal human rights which Is the cardinal princi ple of a democracy. He sup ported the Btat* Constitution then and would now disregard the National Constitution and the Civil Rights rulings of the U. 8. Supreme Court, affect ing the states. He did not favor the promo tion of Negroes in Industry in 1960. nor the protection of their rights In housing, education and the use of business facili ties. To this In 196 S he still ex presses opposition. He soeoks of whites and Negroes living to gether tn a spirit of friendli ness as experienced in North Carolina and the nation prior to naM* demonstrations when minority groups, solely because of raoe. were systematically forced into accepting the most menial jobs and pressed into the worst living conditions. When Dr. Lake proposes going back to the oonditlons of sixty- Other Editors Say... Tin nkc.ro mist learn TO SELL AS WELL AS BUT The JOURNAL supports ths efforts of our civil rights leader* in opening up public accommo dations to all and their efforts to secure more Jobe Mr us in the mala stream of American life, especially so In the field of gov ernment which is supported by all the people But. we pose this question: Revs ws overlooked ths busi ness** owned and operated by Negroes? Integration and deseg regation should not mean that these of us who are shopkeepers should close up and work for the whit* man! The white man has the ham merlock on us today, because of economics. It is not news that w* a* s race of people arc poor business folk. We don't knew foot with the quip as he was with his fists; often tester— tA« the night Graham Use- Names was colling one of bis fights and was rattling off de scriptions of Max’s punches en tirely too fast far Max Flnahr Max worked his way over to the ropes nearest where Mac was seated and breathless ly whispered: “Soy, Grahamt Slow down a little will you. X can’t keep with with you.” GET SUPPORT Beatniks Anonymous has been orfganised for young Loo donors reluctant bo yield to the pressures of conformity. Whan a dub member feels htmaeif stoking into normal society eo that be Is bemtped even to wash or out his hair, he nsed only put through a telephone call to BA. and he will receive strength and encouragement to continue in his unwashed wsga. itor five years ago is this th* ritna tlon that he wishes to perpetu ate? What Is K he would do under the Anglo-Saxon ap proach to eliminate human in justices? What is It to raoe re lations. In Dr. Lake’s estima tion. has worked well for slxty flve cr a hundred yean? Dr. Lake to a recent state ment recognised the success of Asa T. Spuadlng si a singular achievement and endorsed hia vision and determination os a challenge for the Negro. What would he propose that the state offer Irrespective of race, to eneourage the kind of vision, dreams and hopes that prompt ed the organization growth and develoment of the vest N. O. Mutual enterriee over which Asa T. SuakUng now presides? What does he mean by the statement that If elected he would be the governor of all the people—white—Negro—and Indians? Negroes and Indians being the deprived, exploited and neglected cltisens, what would he do to ameliorate cir cumstances affecting these peo ple? He Is s states rtghter but does not express belief in or give support to human rights as a blue print for civil jus tice In America for minority groups. To some extent deseg >D: LETTER TO EDITOR rogation has been established In many sections of the state. If Dr. Lake Is elected sovemnr would he ndvtjc:.*? more de lota dtfeogiegation, complete segregation or com plete desegregation in jobs, housing, schools and business facilities opened to the publlo where all cltisens would be treated alike—whiter Negroes and Indians. The present evasive attitude exhibited by Dr. Lake on de segregation and the civil rights drive may not mean a change in heart from 1960 to 1964 to ward the plight of minority groups. It could mean a trick of deception—another Trojan Horse Plan. He has expressed the feeling that th* Civil Rights cause should not be made on issue In this campaign but he should recognize that it Is not logical to think of subordinat ing an Issue so projected in the lives and minds of a people as the Civil Rights issue to the extent that it can be ignored In the campaign of one who hopes to govern the same peo ple. The Civil Rights issue must be treated like any other Issue in the campaign It would reasonably be ex pected that each gubernatorial candidate will as soon as pos sible declare his position on civil rights to th* voters, so that If the right candidate has not announced his candidacy for governor he wllll come forrth declaring his entrance in the gubernatorial race. The right candidate for governor of our state should be one who'll place human rights above pro perty rights and support the law as It affects all citizens, Irrespective of race, creed, col or or condition of servitude and one who further believes that the present gains made by the state In the projection of Civil Rights are Invaluable and should be extended. Sucli n per son with such a conviction should be elected Oovemor of North Carolina to lead the peo ple forward and not backward to sixty-five or more years ago. I am satisfied that the an swers to these question.' are de sired by thousands of North Carolinians and their reaction to me about this article will determine the strength of my position on this Important is sue affecting the people of North Carolina W R COLLINS how to handle our money. Tn fact, we don’t really handle big money at all. For years, we printed at the bottom of our front page the fact that w* would forever re main second -e lasa unices we learned to sell Instead of doing ell of ths buying We don't think this had much effect on the thinking at Negroes here, be cause w# don't do atuch selling here^'today. In Wilmington, we drive big and beautiful can, some even larger than wealthy people own How many of these can do Ne gro salesmen sail? NONE Alt of us haw to cover our bodies with clothing. How much clothing do Negroes s*D in Wil mington- Practically NONE All of us eat at feast two meals a day. Whites aaU as nearly 100 percent of our Mod. The Hope Os The New Nations Gordon B. Hancock *« BETWEEN THE LINES MEETING THE PRESS—HALF WAY Last evening Dr. Jamas McGregor Burns, chair man of the Department of Political Science at Williams college, met the press, and what a meeting It proved to be! A few more head-on meetings like that will get the oountry somewhere to particular. The questions revolved around the seeming Im passe between Congress and the Presidents of the United States. It was brought out in rrvwt dramatic fashion that from the days of Franklin Delauu RusMw.vit tlwo*luu liwu but a littie rap prochement between Congress and the Presidents, for In Congress after Congress there is a mini mum of progressive or worthwhile legislation. The situation bolls Itself down to tbs fact Con gress falls and too often downright refuses to sustain and support the President Yn any worth while legislation. In other wards there is a bottle neck of obstructionism and reactionism that thwarts the President at every turn of the road. The party platforms are for the most part broad enough and the Intentions of the Presi dents are of the highest, hut nothing of con structive legislation seldom ever takes plow ex cept under the pressure of some emergency. Con gress after Congress has sat supinely by and let Russia take over bit by bit desirable sectors of the free word, not because we did not have the money and the know-how but because Congress pursued its weary course of foot-dragging. And while said foot-dragging of Congress was going at Its weary pace. Russia was taking over Cuba at our very doors. While our Congress was busy foot-dragging Russia was people-grabbing. Professor Bums who Is also biographer of Pres ident Kennedy pointed out that this Congress ional foot-dragging has been going on since the early thirties. As we oan easily remember this was about the time President Roosevelt made the first effort at Integrating Negroes Into the social and economic life of he counry. Ounner MTydal famed Swedish philosopher has pointed out in his famous “An American Dilem ma” that Roosevelt was the first of all cur Presi dents to make a serious attempt to inegrate the Negro into American life and it was about tills ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD BY P. L. PRATTH Per ANT How does s handicapped minority prevail S galnst s majority which has all the power and all the controls? Against a majority which at any mo ment may have the impulse backed by determina tion. to throw all its strength against the mi nority? These questions come to mind tn the light of events which show that there are some members of the white majority who have turned wry sour so far as the so-called Negro revolution is con cerned These whites are not necessarily in the South. They are ail over the land. Although these whites are wrong in assuming that Negroes are against them as a group, one has to admit that the assumption is there. Ir. the November elections, the vote in Penn sylvania was studied very cloeely by politicians and many others. What these probers sought to find out was whether Negro protest activity es pecially in Philadelphia, had produced a negative response among white voters? Had white voters decided to vote against what Negroes voted fcr? I don't think the. qusation was clearly answer ed. but the vote would not hare been studied as it was. had there not been some clear Indication of hostility among whites against demonstrating Net-roes. Recently, this hostility has shown itself In a more organised form. The State of California has a fair housing law on the books The organised real estate interests do not Uke it. Thousands of white home owner* do not like it. They could not prevent fair housing coming under law In the first place. But they apparently think they were not properly organised when the Mil waa before They haw no competition front Negro grocer* so they don't hire Negro clerks unless they haw to. Everyone sits in a chair or re poses in a bed. How many chair* or bed* do we sell here? NONE 1 Negro business here is what you find in even the smallest hamlets: personal service insti tutions suck as bsnup parlors time that the obstructionism and reactionism took over in Congress. What Roosevelt started could only be stopped by obstructionists tactics and of course the sou* them Congressional leaders have thoroughly sup plied the obstructionist tacts. And the aspect of the matter is, there is no end of such tactics even remotely in sight. It has come aboui that- fWnww* har.ds zZ souhUi.bis * uC. their syrnr".* v ’' . . T - ' . . . _ Negro advance can only prevail at the South’s behest! This is cos of those ugly facts our leadus m-.y well bear in mind and if too little help comes out of Washington, it is not necessarily the Presi dent’s fault, but the fault of our generally reac tionary southern Congress. Getting the current civil rights bill out of committee shou.d be s convincing evidence of what ails Congress. Professor Burns wss quite dirqpt and to the point when be polrfted out tfao Impasse bc’-v er Congress and tbs Residents since Roosevelt an-' beginning with Roosevelt, but he left the mr.trr there. He might have added that the welfare and civil rights drive for Negroes and on the pan of Ne groes explains most clearly why obstruction!:™ has taken over the Congress of these Unity). States and this also explains, why our foreign relations policies are always ready for a break down. We pour our billions here and there around the world and It Is doubtful if there is a more friendless nation in the world than the United States. We lay our billions on the line and ask for the simple bread of gratitude and coopera tion, and all we get Is the stone of ingratitude. Nearly every country Is ready to take a stand against us. With Congress and the President divided, the nations knowing the reason, listen to our declara tions of democracy as so much sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. Half of our storv hinges about a paralysing obstructionism and the other half hinges about the South's determination that the Negro shall not pass. the legislature. Now they are organised, some 50.000 strong and they propose to set the clock by repealing the fair housing law. Whether they will succeed is a moot question. They have money on their side. They have majority white sentiment on their side. The chances are that they will have the Birchers going along with them. They are Go liath and the Negro Is little David. yThere is no reason to doubt that the Negro has gained more cltlsenshlp rights in the last ten years than he did tn all the M years between 1869 and 1953. He had to strike and strike hard. He had to suffer. He had to etnpoy tactics of all kinds. It would be foolish to say he did not have whi'e friends. Without these friends throughout his history in this country, have been a somewhat select group', inspired people. I daresay mat th Negro's plight has never reached the hearts c the common run of whites In this country Th are not prepared to be Idealist* in this matter. ? these whites are around, they are more apt to t against the Negro than for him. They don't war him on the Job line. They don't want him nex door. The Nergo is here and here to stay but th» majority whites want him to stay away fror them. Is there anything that Negroee can do to w the hearts of this large segment of whites? If b does not. when and how will they fight back’ T Usues are drawn shanrty enough so that th whites seek ways to vent their spleen, hrvw do the Negro retaliate, how does he win? usual small branch office of fits colored Insurance firms The JOURNAL is ooe of the tew dif fract business* operated by Ne groes We are making a success, becait** there is a need for this type ol business and because w* try to effectively meet this de mand. There are many, many other typas of businesses which might be operated here, if only we would stop so much gossip bock-bitang and pool our ra sources and asset the needs of our people. Williston turns out hundreds of typists. All theoe lads need is s chance! We have used and helped train more than a dozen of them at,the JOURNAL, and they are really splendid young people. We are all lor getting equal work with the white man. , but wo, also are trying to afford * employment tor our own people (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)