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THE CABOUMJUV RALEIGH. N, C- SATURDAY, APOPBT U. IM4 4 Editorial Vie wpoint At the last supper, Jesus end his disciples had solemn memorlee. Their minds were heavy with foreboding. Christ talked earnestly, but the whole purpose of his talk was to lift up their hearts, to make them think nobly of themselves, to fill their Leaders Need Agreement On Tactics - - Two of the six national Negro civil rights leaders who attended a "summit” meeting in New York recently declined to go along with the others in calling for a curtailment or mora torium on mass demonstrations until after the November election. Both holdouts John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Com mittee and James Farmer, national director of rrrthe Congress of Racial Equality—head organ iritions that rely heavily on non-violent pub lic demonstrations. Lewis and Farmer nave promised mass dem onstrations if necessary to prevent seating an ell-white delegation from Mississippi at the Democratic national convention beginning on August 24. These men gave other reasons which you have read in the newspapers. On the other hand, the NAACP, National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference, and the National Negro Lab or Council endorsed the curtailment. The statement they signed included a strong attack on Senator Ooldwater. saying his candidacy threatens "the whole climate of liberal democ racy in the United States.” We are aware that Negro leadership has em ployed about every technique that could have been used, except perhaps, the technique of revolution. Concerning this, the late P. B. Young. Sr., of the Norfolk Journal and Quids, said that everyone knows that revolution would have been fatal. What we seem to need most et present Is not so many different techniques, hut an agreement upon a cooperative plan of action by ovir entire leadership. Some years ago Lem Graves, Jr., journalist called upon Negro lead ers to organist a full-scale, cooperative, offen sive against racial prejudice. In part he aaid: "The enemies of Negro progress and tate Let Negro Youth Get Prepared It hat been Interesting to Htten to what the Negro youth who participated In the Harlem. Rochester, and New Jersey riots, gave at rea sons for their activities. Among them stare, the city officials should plan special educational programs for the underprivileged. Maybe the dty officials could do more along this Una. but hero is an area in trhlch the Ne gro can be his own benefactor and do the most good. The Negro parents, in this respect, must take the leadership. The Negro cannot demand any good Jobe with good pay unless he is srell prepared to take them. And how can Negro youths get pre pared if they drop out of school? Parents must counsel their children in en roll in school, stay in school, and attend classes in all kinds of weather, rain or shine, cold or sleet This is the only way they can hope to stay off the welfare and relief rolls, or have regular and gainful employment. Negro youths cannot afford to be content with wing the last in line, and they must run -. -fast to catch up hurriedly. Employers no long er pity the untrained when it comes to pro _yiding Jobs. The Question Ol Illegitimacy Wo have heard ao much about varying at titudes toward the question of illegitimate chil dren that one would wonder what else is there to say on this subject It is our purpose to lobk at this problem from another point of view. In a recent court decision, the U. 8. Supreme ..Court ruled that a husband's onsent to arti ficial insemination of his wife by another man's semen does not render the child legiti . .mate in New York State. The United Stefas Law Week, reporting the decision of August U. 1903, said: "The concept that historically is deeply Im beded in the law that a child who is begotten through a father who is not the mother’s hus band is deemed to be illegitimate. Unless some statute changes this doctrine, ‘it must be pre sumed that tiie historical concept of illegiti macy with respect to such a child remains in force and effect’ There is no statute." The decision of the New York Superior Court Kings County (Qursky versus Ouraky, August 9, 1963), said: “Where the precise issue of legitimacy has 4 Men Charged With Killing Educator It did not oome ao a surprise when we learn ed that four men. Identified by the FBI as Ku Klux Klansmen, were named today in state warrants charging murder of the Negro educa tor. Lemuel Penn, a fair weeks ego. CHven time, ths FBI seldom fails to apprehend cri minal offender* 1 U. S. Commissioner Olriard Hawkins held - ths four men under $25,000 bond each after a ■ hearing on federal charges broutfd under ths 1964 Civil Righto Act Hawkins arid one of ths four roen, a gas attendant, admit ted complicity in the staying of tha educator. Ths reader* will recall that, an army Re serve lieutenant, was —to big Washing Tat NEGRO PRESS! bsßsvto ffcaf Amwtap non boat lead r*» *Mf *.|My foam rariaf and arifaws! anfsgsirisdfo fftaa » kfor* So every Man . TteiartWess of roes, eater or mead, fob huritou and Iforif rilfito yaifo« ito fori) / ■she>fly» Mass an to* knit te- Z\ t ■’ WORDS OF WORSHIP spirit# with a eorquerinft faith. "Be of food cheer/' the Master exclaimed. Joy—ebeer—-these are the worts by which he wished to be remem bered. But down through the Agee has come the wicked falsehood that Jeeue never laughed. gration are united. These are, in this country, organized hate group* with imposing mailing liste. This reporter weekly receives poison notee from thdse 'hate-mongers; The Army general staff has a unified command in its ope ration of army poets. The Dfadeerats are or ganized and hold regular caucuses in the United States Congress. Industrial cooperation plan by day and night how to keep Negroes and poor whites at each other's throats. "Against this united front, Negro leaders are still acting like guerilla chiefs, when the com bined resources, planning concepts, and fire power are urgently needed fdr strategic con centration at vulnerable targets and in such ssqushce as will achieve the most good with the least racial dislocatian. "That is why this writer darts to challenge Negro leadership to devise a system 6f uflifi-'d command, a system of priorities and the ma chinery for softening the blow of integration upon the Negro community. Email private au tonomies must be liquidated for the general good.” Hence, whan we heard that our six topflight leaders were meeting in a "summit” conference for cooperative planning and curtailment of mass demonstrations, we were indeed gratified that we might achieve that unified command, designed to aehleve the greatest gains. Instead of acting like guerilla chiefs, we envisioned an army that could strike prejudice with file war power of a Julius Caesar, the Carthaginian general Hannibal, Alaxander the Or eat. and a Napoleon when he was at hie military height. it is our hope James Farmer and John Lewis will reconsider their decisions, so thit our ns tional leadership will have a unified command which will apply its force at vulnerable points and thereby chase rscisl prejudice out of the country. Our sons and daughters must be counseled to realise that their teachers are interested in them and will “walk the second, undemanded, mile" to help them get ahead in their studies. Negro youth must refrain from "insulting" their teachers who are the beet friends they ever had. Parent* must teach their children to be obedient in the classrooms and school, re spect school administrators, and cooperate with them ao at to reap the benefits of the beet training that the school can provide. In the past many of our Negro parents have gone to tiie schools to “heat up” teachers who disciplined their “untrained and unruly” chil dren. What the parents should do would be to let their children know that if they disobey the school rales, they will receive additional pun ishment when they get home. You will be sur prised how tills parental attitude would im prove the conduct of children in school. Let every Negro parent da his share in en couraging his child to be somebody. No better example it apropos than that of the late Mary McLeod Bethune who once said. “I am Mary McLabd Bethune. I am somebody, and I am going somewhere." And she did! been squarely prasentsd for determination, H has been held that heterologous artifidil in semination by a third party detior. with or without the consent of the hushend. contti tutes adultery on the part df the father, ahd that a child so conceived is not a child born in wedlock and is therefore illegitimate.** Some religious denominations hold, script urally. that a woman who consent* to artifi cial insemination is in substance committing adultery, and if her husband consented to the practice, he would also be approving of an a dultsroua course. “Artificial insemination is out of harmony with Qod’s law." they aay and base their proof from evidence in Matt 7:17- 2; I Cor. 6:9-11. Although we sympathise with the women whoee husband cannot give her a child, we do not propose to take rides pro or con. Bince we have no statute to make the practice legitimate at present, it will serve the purpose of the law for a childless couple to adopt a newborn baby rather than commit a crime through the prac tice of artificial insemination. ton home from Ft Banning. Qa.. where he hdd been attending a summer training program, when his ear was hltotid with shotgun fin in tits early morning hdufa of July 11. Twd other Negro officers were in ths car with Penn, but ware unharmed. These alleged culprit* without doubt will b* brought to trial; but it remain* for ua to am If • Oeorgie Jury will award conviction. The four arrested men have tile right to be triad by 12 of their peer* and it h up to tha Jury to hglglgl lg| onm in air yttuict. , If and when found guilty, tha murderer gWjigatjl BKfo Wire mLsm ■noma or mrvra out justice w m ms cnnii* And we haw* faith that the people of Oeorgla want Justice to be dons! Jure For Fun BY MARCUS R BOCLWARS BAND WAGON Pretty soon the Democratic Party will bold its 1064 annual convention, and reference will be made "getting on the band Band wagon is an imaginary vehicle conceived to be carry ing supporters of a front-run ning candidate to a fast vic tory. Delegates who wait Itoo long ta climb aboard a winning band wagon can get left be hind, without friends In power. GJtASS ROOTS In political parliamentary law, "grass roots” refers to the common people, ss distinct from the ''bureaucrats’* in Washington and the "money men” on Wall Street. It dates from the 1913 convention of the Bull Moose Party, which was called the party that "comet from the "grass roots.” NAME SWITCH ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN ARE THEY TRYING TO WHITEWASH WARREN HARDING? Warren Harding sometimes appears one of the moat be nighted of all men. When he became President, be put bis friends and cronies In position of trust and they stole red hot stoves and wet paint signs. No administration had the scan dals poor Warren’s had. In addition, Warren bad trouble with women, lots of trouble. Nan Britton sooused his ghost of having fathered her Illegitimate daughter. She was very spoeiflc. She said she and Warren conceived the child in a White House eloeet. Now the historian Francis Russell has found 380 love let ters Warren wrote to a home town paramour, Mrs. Carrie Phillips. Not only did Mrs. Phil lips pave the letters, which can break up a love relation faster than anything else In the world, but she blackmailed him, too. Warren, at one point was re duced to desperation, offering the girl friend 88,000 a year as long as he was in publio office. Mrs. Phillips also told her hus band about Warren's attentions because JTr. PMHIpe refused to decorate his store front with bunting when Harding came home to Marlon with the Re publican nomination for Presi dent In his pooket. Boies Penrose, the politician journalist, onoe advised a friend of his, "Never write a letter to a woman you can’t cool a beer on.” And Soren Kl Other Editors Say... WHAT THE MOTS TEACH VS The rase riots In New York and Rochester. N. Y. and minor ones In other cities are deplor able to citiaens, north and south. Negro and white. Re tardleas. they do point up a fast that we all must face. These riots have brought in to sharp focus the fact that in the changeover from an agri cultral to an industrial econo my a large minority has been left out. We must. now. try to rectify s situation which had tte be ginning one hundred years ago. After the Civil War when the United States mads its decis ion to demote the Negro to sec ond class ettisenahip it was lay ing the ground work for a so cial problem which would have to be resolved In the 1960'5. For years Negroes from the south have been moving to the north and to larger olties in ths south, as the need for farm lab or has decreased. Ths cities, as s rule, have refused to acknow ledge the presence of these mi grants. Unable, by look of edu- Litter To The Editor M Kingsbury Heed New Rochelle. N. Y August 10. HM To the Editor It is, I bsliev*. high time some one spoke out against the latent and ax press anti-Semitism which appears to be not at all uncom mon among Negro Americans to day. Let's look at e few (acts: (D Tbs only race which ha* suffered as mush u, or more then die Negroee, is the Jews. <6,000.000 killed by Hitler alone, to say nothing of the thousands murdered by Russians. Foies, etc.) <t) Jews ere in the forefront of the struggle tor Civil Rights. A Urge percentage of the COFO group working to ths South this mssmsr are Jewish college stu dents as well as Jewish lawyers, (9) Ths national Jewim fra ternal organisation. B*nai B rtth. works squally hard to combat anti-Negro as to fight anti- Jewish Was. statements end acta (4) The only national veterans* organisation which really cares •bout Negroes is ths American Veterans Committee, which to SMI per cent Jewish. Oho tote Megger Hears was a member of AYC sari at toe time of his death was serving an tie Nation al Heard.) <S) OE Ms three lynched ware recently found by the FBI to llhteriipl. one <Jta Chaney) was a Ufa sad bath of the toy) were Jews. equally. Tharotore it would aeess only sensible tor the Jews end ay this to teds to tight toe HespertfiiTli ymxtx. iU A Fayetteville man was re cently confused. Be dtasoednd that someone had stolen bto mall box and left oat In return. He said the new box carried the name "duffle” or "Me Quf fie” on its aide. The mystery wee solved thle way. According to the sheriffs Investigation, the owner ot the property had replaced the mailboxes in the area with "better cam." (At least this wee a consoletien). FISH STORY In Hawthorne. California, po lice thought the telephone call er was telling them a hum fish story, but they hmsogatod anyway. Bure enough, the men had a dead 100-pound ehaife in hie swimming pooL The shark, apparently damp ed In the pool by a lssiitelis was removed by the Humane Bociety. erkegaard. the Danish phileao pher who invented Existential ism. once observed the gras* trick with a woman is to get rid of her whllo she thinks sIG getting rid of poo. But a phil anderer can get all the advise he needs without leading any thing. Warren Harding was an In ept a philanderer as be was an inept President In foot he wee a disaster as a President bat X am afraid there are those who would whitewash him by assart ing he was a disaster as a Pres ident because he had sueh bad woman troubles. Thle Is a bum rap for some of the great men of the worid. Warren was a flop as an adulterer became he was a flop as e man and he was a flop as a President elmlliarly. Warren was born to flop. There are great poets and great leader* and great music ians who carried on love .ffairs with everyone and never let love corrupt their work. There are men in history, and poasl blyrtn the present, to whom an extra woman or two never gave two minutes worth of worry and maybe one of them win one lay be President. T would hate to be un-Ameri can enough to count up the number of Presidents who not only wont through their term of office but their life as mod els of probity simply because they had the sense not to write an occasional lady-friend a let ter and because they had the sense to know love affairs which last forever are no fun. cation and training, to qualify for jobs in the industrial area, the cities doled out relief funds and forgot them. Over ths past two or tons generations these families have produced youngsters who them selves have became relief fam ilies. Unemployed, frustrated and defeated at home, these un trained. uneducated but ambit ious Negroes continued to move to the larger cities. Ths slr**<- dy bad situation became wans, It is toe American Way to shut the eyes to a bod situa tion until it to finally brought to public attention and be comes a vital issue. Meed With a problem that has to bo solv ed, Americana set themselves to the task and tat ways, many novel, they have resowed many of our social ills. The country now foots one of its stiffost challenges. Ths can cerous growth of an increasing unemployable segment of our population must bo arrautsd. AH who are mentally and phy sically able must be trained and ima mgo ettt sens. Other political-eoooemto m. teme thrived on exploring Jh* ttnuo to grow only by incroos tag our middle class who are the purchaser! of too goods of Yet. ta > tois l *fiMsr I gragt proo parity, there ora minions who survive on toe bare nscamtttee. doled out of toe putolie treasu- eondMtato In a lao ser degree are present to emery city. Citiaens should not look at the riots in New York as an isolated situation, hut should mallsn n«t happenings are possible in their own cities unless they begin to taka atop* to alaviate the causa* Answers to ths problems are not at our fingertips. Bow to prepare tho adult who Is un trained. to con vinos ths teen ager that ho haa a ohanot and we are interested la him. how to close toe between ths children with a stum back ground and those flam more advantageous homes, how to apply motivation where, to other years tbs idea was to stifle it are just a tew of too President Jdiimib Anti- Itavsrty will ho tho first attack an a nationwide level at ttM soriM m. individ ual dues have started pllol programs as iking to find as*- swen to this problem. Programs reaching a degree of success to prograarivo etttss and states abated be stadia* taUored to masdtos^nssds^or axpmteSStewlH to mnds^ history. • i And Now, WM She Be Accepted In The Mainstream? I ■ mm mM I jml oHLy. m w&W'* Atfsh?- -'As- •/ -a-;• ox* -* Gordon B. Hancock *» BETWEEN THE LINES THE MEANING OF CURRENT LULL Even the most casual observer can ass that within tho last several months there has been a hill in the odd war between Russia and toe Unit ed States, much to the satisfaction of all peace loving peoples. It must be tome in mind that the Mg issues between these two mighty powers are by no means settled and that ths war between communism and freedom is by no mvsns coded. The current tall moot to interpreted to to fully understood. Ths people of tbs Untied States is a whit* people and toe people of Russia is a white people. A nuclear war between the Unites States and Russia would moan a war of extermination of whits /people and the horriblsnsas of ths ox"!** toe ms dnot ths rise of oornmunlwa in China tho noo problem has torn sharply Injected. Whereto the peoples of Russia andths United States an white peoples, the people of China are among too colored peo ples of the earth and 1 too teiHwwt of tho dominant white man. color prejudim has beeome one of ths major social and soonomic factors of too Twentieth Century. It has in fact become a great determining factor, it baa oome about that race prejudice is the greatest determining factor of too hour. Race prejudice like a hellish contagion haa grtapsd too Twentieth Century world and it in fluences almost oil considerations of national and international Importance. Red China has become to whit* Russia and the United State* a grave matter and largely explains why toe current tan in toe told war. The question has bean hurtled into the forefront of their consideration whether Ruaria and toe United State* two white peoples, eon afford to slaughter each other onto death and leave colored China to toko ever tho world communism and on. In otoar words ram preju dice to wring Ruaria anTtf* United Stettajfco NEWS AND VIEWS BT J. B. HARKEN * BALLOTS. NOT BOTTLER; MORE EDUCATION. LEES AGITATION. SPELL TREEDOM* ROOKY MOUNT Bveijwhere you go them day* soma namriws of both rasas an beU-bant on starting a eonfiagaretton which oould quickly grow into a rasa-riot of major proportions with out even considering ths low to human relations and good wflL Surely, them are the times which "try man’s souls”—when neither aide wants to gtvs or bend regarding tha granting of Civil Rights to all peo ple allks. But if America is to remain a democracy for all peapto, tbs whites most accept the laws as won as the colored people Hava bad to okay seg- Likewias. Negress orate*not he evarty brilivr ant la thalr ttwirdt toward ths white* —r—<-n --ship wffl tem to b» teto^mmpltoncc.^ become opened te ths teat that we really want— tori to ff ninirin WtSiMol to* wo& tn bind, wo cm and must ptoss ear sasjor yfowte an patting asms sp* to Ml Miinflti coHVfa ftOOiu iffumo nuw to loot our dswwnds for righte with that away vote* not wdy to BOvspber. test at svary ether teaetkm Draw do*o*teh*r to porernor, congressman and uS^^^J^tirnTn^sToTaS^^ timl ltf* a* if yon dtet vote, yaa Jute tent count; and dont get vwaad wttti as for teUtae yo* regJtarurivote ud DMk 'l£tSta **Kurt— jssSSxjysfiWsvrjs tor is toe more reoent equation and is hinting that the real approaching struggle is not and ide ological and political struggle but in the fine a nalysis a race struggle. Whan China turned communist the whole com plexion of the struggle between Russia and the United States was violently changed. In the last analysis Russia and the United States will some how become allies on racial grounds rather than annihilate each other and leave China a dark people to dominate the world of the future. Race prejudice is so strong a factor that it is quite possible that some rapproaohment between Rus sia and the United States and the West in general becomes a bristling possibility as an alternative to turning over the world to China and the darker people* And so International affairs become more of a tangled skein because of the rising racial considerations. The current lull in'the cold war has a racial explanation that the casual observer little suspect* Race prejudice strange to say Is the major motivating force of the Twentieth Cen tury world and it is world wide and world active. It matters not in what part of this world we may travel wo are bound to bump head-on into ram prejudice. It destroyed the League of Nations and the greatest htoderenoe to our dream of peace in the world. There will never be peace In a world where ram prejudice takes precedence of siwillilm alas in toe world. Anthropology tells us that the white man did not appear upon earth until toe Branxe Ago and it was hs who also brought tho award. Wo may odd that it woe he who brought world were and race prejudloe tho scouregto of T"*nWnA atnayaly MSSa°bto^S precious httie or nothing about race prejudM which is at toe root of almost all our cuumt na tional gad international trouble* Bven etvll rights with too aamo old torn proto* dim will leave mankind still a ong way from the sffgrgj’gii Civil Right* BUI win amount to nothing M they set m power. NAACP*worns that ww iw«t do aQ we mn to try to prevent the hot-bead* among n* from un duly inflaming passions or causing disturbance* unnecessarily. W* in the Sooth want to live peace fully with all humanity and exercise our rights ■ too. It eon ha done that way. If you’ll Join the NAACP In number* we can have the resource* to do It. NAACP win furnish speaker* who cur cor rectly Interpret the new CR law so we will know bow to do what. Take the following Up from Brooklyn. N. T. NAACP as * guide: CREDITS NAACP LEAFLET WITH HELPING TO END RIOTING BROOKLYN Credited with helping to halt tba (hoarders which broke out In the Bedford- Btuyveaant section of this city. July 30. Is s ted*- let distributed by the local branch of the Nation *1 Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The handing an the handbill road. “Cool ft Baby Message Has Been Delivered." It continued *We have been screaming for Jobs, decent ■ebook. dean house*, ate., for yean. Some folks just wouldn't listen. We’ve been telling them that all bell was boblr to break loose nnlsas Negroes wv real progress Soma fok just wouldn’t listen. “Today everybody’s listening with both oar* ■Now. ft’s time to cool It and let the i ‘f wnk In* . »» Senator Ooldwater Oov. Wallace o* Alabam*. the John Birchen and extremist# *r? ****** to do us up. and If we don’t play It smart w*R give them the excuse they've been tooklnt tsr. -WhOs the missst? issinkln# in and titoyYe nguitag out how to spread the good living around 2ft “ft®*- >| tor*tlou. pohUoal equality) our s» ■ to ftoour people signed up a* toot they oaa veto to November, otherwise. weke deed and wg» w brothers down South “Now. it's tune to uae our heads. . Violent demcnStraUOds (tod Tha nme°hasSs the to*** register to vats and the ttmss
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