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TSSt r»^pefl^s^f RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14. IM4 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP "Woe to you. Scribe* and Pharisees.” Jesus of ten said He knew that they were full of nM rtghteousness, they could aw aU kinds of sins In other people but they failed to understand that their “selfish getting" was sin. They were men who found no pleasure and gave none to others. Thus, when the ftoariaeee approached Jesus try ing to catch him on some point of law. Jeaus was Died In The Cause Oi Freedom In Rocky Mount, N. C., a Negro woman eras strilcen unto death while waiting in a precinct line to vote on election day. Her death in this manner could not have been connected with a nobler privilege than that of casting the ballot. J. B. Harren, whose byline appeared with the article in the November 7th issue, said: “Chalk this up as one vote for Johnson which he did not get counted because of the Grim Reaper.” Mrs. Lula Mae Drinks, a middle-aged do mestic, fell while waiting in line at the Booker T. Washington High School on election day What About The Human Slag Heap? It has been estimated that the nation ia ad ding to its “human slag heap” about 250,000 young boys and girls each year. This informa tion comes from W. Willard Wirtz, U. S. Sec retary of Labor. Wirt* coined the term “human slag heap” because he felt that society jvas derelict in its duty by its failure to prepare its children, through schools, for jobs in a new automated and (nuclear) world. He said shout 8 million youths will enter the labor market in the nest 10 years as drop outs. and that a tragic number of the 27 mil lion who do not graduate from high school won't be trained for job* that are available The National Education Association's re port that 24 out of every 100 high school stu dents are now dropping out of school before they graduate. In a note of hope, the NEA’s A Look At The Negro Vote Manatee County, Fla., has three predimi nantly Negro precinct*. “And how they voted l ucsciay warrant* a second look, ' satd colum nist Bob Hendcnon, o! the St. Petersburg Time * in the November 6 issue. The three are Precinct 5 (Manatee Fire Sta tion. East Bradenton), Precince 8 (Bradenton Armory) and Precinct 30. Palmetto Trait Park. Precinct 3 has 300 yrhite voters and 833 Ne groes: Precinct 8 has 04 whites and 809 Ne groes; Precinct 30 has 343 whites and 1.435 Negroes. '• While generally the enthusiam for LBJ was restricted and he won only five of Manatee 35 precincts, and that included the three Negro precincts. The Negro precincts voted aa (61- lows: Number 5 gave 613 votes to Johnson. 105 to Barry Coldwater; Number 8 more de cidedly gave Johnson 634 and Goldwater 39: and Number 30 favored Johnson 1,807 to 56! Negro enthusiasm dwindled sharply when “it came time to pull levers for U. S. Sen. Spes sard Holland, who voted against the civil rights bill, and Governor-Elect Haydon Bums, who has not been identified as a strong pro ponent of civil rights.** Precinct 5 gave Johnson 612 votes, but only 330 to Holland and 413 to Bums, and propor tionately lew support to their GOP opponents. Precinct 8 gave Johnson 634. Holland 264 and Bums 431. Precinct 30 gave Johnson 1.087, Holland 503 and Bums 580. Bob Henderson observed that "Manatee Ne groes were pretty good at picking winners. The three Negro precincts favored Democratic winners: Wilbur Boyd, Richard Briggs. Na than Taylor, Robert Hughes and others." The con traversal sheriffs race seas a cloae one. Precinct 5 favored Democrat > Roy Baden 307 to 395. Precinct 8 by a hair, picking the winning Republican incumbent. Ken Gross. 243 to 331 Precinct 30 chose Gross 537 to 399 Deadline For Coast Guard Applicants Since jobs and vocational opportunities are pftrn scarce for Negro youth in certain area* feel that it is imperative to call these oppor tunities to everyone's attention. * " Eligible yqung men are reminded that the deadline tar submitting applications to com pete for appointment as Cadet. United States Coast Guard, is December 5, 1964. It should be emphasised that appointments will be made solely on a competitive basis with no Congres sional appintment or geographical quotas. With dw voting count completed. Senator Barry Qokhrater*« winning*, excluding his na tive state of Arhrona. was limited to one sec tion of the country, the Deep South—South Carolina, Oeorgia, Alabama. Mississippi, and Louisiana. Clearly this indicates that sectionalism and disunity persist; that the race problem Is still a prime considerstk» in the behsvior end vot ing habits of still too snot a sector of our coun try. Had Sea. Ooldwater*s electoral count been attributed to other areas of tbs country, then one could not judiciously say that voting sen timent wag aarinty that characteristic to this sue illssalUfhrtton with civil rights efforts. The Deep South's outlook on foreign policy is not indifferent from that hi the North; the Deep 3outh’s advocation of a strong deterrent defense system represents a national attitude: reactions to fiscal policy in the Deep South is hfffa—n y the same as elsewhere in the country. However, the split comes with the indisputable filS NEGRO PRESS biWirw thmi Ammt* t cm km M ths ms« tuny Inpm noW tntf iwtAomf fitft|£Mi/snw irhm if accord* M ererv mar f|Ttff—e of MOO. onfor or erilf, An human and tagal rights Hating no man taming no ■QI ffw NMro ftw atriraa to halp every man on she firm 6e —tiff tibsf oil mm or* fart as Jmf aa anyone fa haM back. Disunity Still sensitive to thslr affront, and therefore he utter ed his wow against them. Jesus knew those seen were painfully careful to give exactly one-tenth of their Income to the Temple, figuring down to fractions of pennies. However, they failed to as sume toe obligation of leaving the world a little mam cheerful because they had passed through." morning around 7:00 o’clock. When stricken aa ambulance was hurriedly called, but she died before reaching the hospital. For the cause of humanity dignity and de mocracy, Mrs. Drinks could not have died in a better place—not even the church. Since this woman was in line at the early hour of 7.00 a. m., she probably wanted to be sura and vote before going to work. Would that every eligible Negro voter would fellow her example of getting to the poll early. Blessings on Mrs. Drinks’ memory! figures show that the dropout rate has been re duced by 1.6 per cent nationally and 2.5 per cent in the big cities where dropouts have been the biggest problem. Wirts proposes two worthy solutions: 1. Two mom years of free education (junior college) should be available to aU high school graduates. 2. Investigate to aw if starting to school at six is right or not. Maybe we ought to start them to school earhftr if they arc ready. A cloudy picture I Little children in the wealthiest nation of toe world must live in the slums, doomed from childhood to end up on a human slag heap. The leaders of this nation must take more than puny steps to prevent the permanency of this cosufitkm. Supervisor of Registration Mable Davis, one of the victorious Republicans, took two of the three Negro precincts, and lost the third Pre cinct 30 by only two votes. 306 to 304. “One explanation is available for Mrs. Dav is* win in these precincts.” said Bob Hender son. columnist. “There have been vigorous vot er registration drives in the Negro areas this year, directed by independent groups but with her cooperation.” Without being facetious, it appears that Johnson pulled his “trick card" when he exert ed hit influence for the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Feeling that this legislation helped to give him human dignity, the Negroes every where cast votes solidly for President Johnson. A UPI survey indicated that Negro precinct* over the nation gave the President 80 to 98 per cent of their votes in an election where each candidate's stand on civil rights bill was a cru cial Msqe. Early campaigns to increase the strength of Negro registration in the South yielded fruit in Tennessee, Florida. Virginia and North Carolina. Abolition of poll tax re quirement for federal election was undoubtedly another factor. A Negro precinct in Atlanta. Ga., gave Presi dent Johnson 4 000 votes. It handed a mere 4 votes to Barry Goldwater, who carried Geor gia. Goldwater won Mississippi, but the all-Ne gro town in the state gave Johnson 275 votes— all it cast: while in Washington. D. C., *hr pre dominantly Negro 71st Precinct gave Johnson 1.762 votes, Goldwater 6. The Negro's response and support of the Democratic program, under President John son. should give notice to candidates in future elections that their position on the matter of civil rights can spell their doom. The Negro voter has come of agr. and he deals hi* ballot to GOP or Democrats in terms of what they can deliver. An appointment must be sn unmarried high school motor or graduate who has reached his 17th but not his 33nd birthday by July 1. 1965 We urge you to enter the competition: and. if you are successful you may receive an ap pointment that will provide vou with four yean of training leading to the B S. degree and a com mission as career officer in the U. 5 Coast Quard. The opportunity is vours. but you must no* let it pasa you by! rejection in the Deep South of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sen. Goldwater voted against this act. Waa this the reason for his excellent show ing here) All indications point toward the af firmative. American ideology resounds with the merits of a two-party system. Is it. however, meritor ious that a second party should emerge solely in protestation to another even more integral component of Americanism—Equality? That Sen. Goldwater waa defeated elsewhere in the country should not be so much s rejec tion of conservatism as an endorsement of the principles of freedom. The Deep South did not so much gain Re publican strength as did it lose an open-mind edness and a conviction to weigh all the issues, not just racial issues, and to reflect its good citizenship, its unbiased judgment, at the polls. Surely this was a loss of landslide pro portions. There was not a choice here: there was only the echo, the acrimonious reutterance of years of bigotry and racial hatred. HOMECOMING Today la Hnmatnmiwg Day whan toe PAMU Rattlers will take on toe A*T Aggies from Omeneboro. N. CL to Bragg Stadium, Tails haws (Novem ber 7, 19*4). Just one hour De ism the game, I find myself typing this column and “Yes. We All Talk.” As a matter of fact. I am go ing to miss toe game to study some lessons in psychology. Saturday is just about toe only time 1 have to mow the lawn, rake leaves, and so forth. There’ll be plenty of people from out-of-town without me. GAINESVILLE, Fla. Lost week I went to Gainesville. Wa., to visit one of out interns to speech correction who is do ing her practice teaching in Alachua County, of which Gainesville is the county seat. The Intern is being directed by an excellent speech correction -Ist. Mrs. Gladys Alexander At the end of each day, Mrs. Alexander sits down with our Intern for the purpose of cor recting errors In procedures, as OISLY IK AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN AFTER ELECTION IN SUBURBIA There is always trouble in the suburbs, especially after an election and there is more trou ble than usual after a national election. Let us center our attention on one of the Democratic Town Committees. The results of the National Election have already faded from their minds. What happened at the Democratic Ball, what hapened »t the Dem ocratic Rally, the poor quality I of publicity has not. Borne of toe folks arc on the Riot. It is important to remem ber that political town com mittees are usually over popu lated by the unsubiimated wo men who do not want Women's Chibs or the Red Cross for te lease but like to get down th re and mix it with the men. One can only say. reading the min utes of toe meeting, heaven help toe men who fall into the hands of women who want to improve the eommunltys po- Ttve Dance Chairman 'who undertook the job because she had a new ball gown) erred in accepting free gifts for door prises. She should have paid for them. Who wanted a record al bum “Six Songs of Fighting Norway"? It was a 78 rpm al bum anyway and it came from World War 11. And the leop ard hat was too small. And the Ball Committee sold too many tieketa and some of the folks couldn't get in. The Rally Chairman has 'ong since resigned. But the Town Committee wants its say any- Volin* Power Vrrxm Propertj Power We have just closed ans ttonal and state election which were stubornly fought by all contending parties. And. of course, where there is a contest tliere are certain to be some disappointments, namely, those who lose But the purpose of this arti cle Is to discuss the rewards tor votlnß. In the first place, it should be pointed out that the act of registering and voting does not promise an individual something for nothing. Thus, the vote should not be used with the Intention of taking that which the other fellow nas worked for and saved To so do. Is using te power of the vote in the wrong direction P6r example, simply because we have voted In the last po litical election and that our candidate won. Is no guarantee that our streets will be paved next week. In order to hsve any Influence on the question of paving any prrttcular street, one must be a nroperty owner on that street. Then a petition must be drawn up and present ed to the propc authortt.es. This writer fears that many of us are lead to believe that if we register and vote all our prob lems will be settled: education, roonomie. and civic .Vs a mut ter of fact, nothing ts further from the truth Xn a capil'.stic country like our: those who own the majority of the wealth will In the end have political control. Thus, this writer Letter To The Editor . EXPRESSES APPRECI \TION To The Editor I would like to express my appreciation to the almost 16.- 000 Wake County citizens who voted for me last Tuesday It is a source of satisfaction that this was more votes than had ever been given to a Republi can candidate for the General Assembly In North Carolina from Wake County ft was also encouraging to see thet more than 19000 c.U sens o' Wake County felt that the Republican Party should be represented on the Wake Coun ty Board of Education bv their support of Mrs. Hewitt Rose I shall continue to work in every possibk way for those princi ples which I believe are tn the best interest of good govern ment in North Carolina I would also like to express my appreciation to the many people who worked so diluent, ly »n this campaign to mak-' It possitle to have a two party election tn Wake County. D 8 KIMREY Raleigh, N. C- A Jnst For Fun , v MARCUS R BOULWABS 11l Tliin Our Oar BV C. A. CHICK. SR. well as to giro many compli mentary remarks for things well done. The leaaun plans she uses are toe most unique I’ve seen anywhere that is. rosy adaptable to toe public school situation rather than for a speech clinic. All interns (practice teach ers* will return to the camps* on the 11th of December, near the end of the flint trimester I found myself in Gainesville on election day; at noon 1 started back to Tsllahamea and voted around 8:80 p m. OLD FRIZZLES Many of you remember the breed of chickens known as friaries. My mother had two when Z was a boy In Chester, 8. C. Well, about two months ago, the lowa Btate Fair announced it was offering SI,OOO in prizes -for the best frizzles, blond i nettes, silver-spang led Ham burgs and Chinese lavenders Fair officials explained that frizzles and silver - spangled Hamburg* are varieties of chickens. Blondinettos, toe ex perts mid, are pigeons, and Chinese lavenders an owls. Professor, sen yon hank that! way. Poor liaaon. that’s the only reason the Rally failed. Who wanted to come and hear that incumbent Congressman from Colorado? The people wanted to hear Lyndon John son or Lady Byrd, or even Hu bert Humphrey. That’s who they should have had for the Rally. Such presence would really excite the community. And Instead of the coffee and cake reception, the town committee could have had a gigantic cocktail party and pretty blue things In new gowns would have glided gracefully about powerful Senators and Cabinet members. And of course, the publicity chairman is really flawed. He is a journalist and he should have had better contacts than he did. It is true the news the Town Committee may get in the paper, but what about the personal interest. Why didn’t the publicity chairman write a story about the Negro bartend er who made a campaign con vi wu btoti vi piuu : The publicity chairman has explained that he thinks a Ne gro has the right to contribute to causes which serve his inter est without getting his picture in the paper. To write a story about a Negro contributor ia to make a special point cd nil being a Negro. Maybe toe con tributor wanted simply to be counted as a Democrat. The explanation is not going to work. The Dance Chairman, the Rally Chairman, and the Publicity Chairman are out. Art. she Is pure but American politics, she is ruthless. strongly urges that along with seeking political power through voting that we also seek eco nomic power through the own ership of wealth. The latter of the foregoing la the stronger of the two. It is most certainly not the Intention of this writer to dis courage our voting. Neither Is It hlf purpose to say that there are no rewards for voting. For example, there Is the inward feeling one feels that in regis tering and voting, one has ex ercised his civic Christian du ty. The individual who regis ters and votes is more likely to be highly respeoted by his fel low citlsens. especially by thaw seeking political office by elec tion. than he otherwise would be. So by all means let's oootinua In larger and larger numbers to register and vote. But also by the same token, let’s seek the greater power that goes with property ownership. Other Editors Saw A DAT AT THE TRACK As we are about to go to press the election of Lyndon Baines Johnson appears imminent We have gone to the betting window of Democracy and waged our bets on the favorite. Truly we have made our choice as well as any experienced handicapper might Yes. and ere taave used the currency of what we believe to he the liberal majority, de spite the (Set that we have plac ed our bets in a most conserva tive manner. For even though we bet on President Johnson, we made place bets and did not purchase sa abundance eg win tickets Elections, like horse racing, offers a wide range of analyses, many of which run tar afield of the reality of a particular situa tion. Certainly most prognostica tors srere predicting a Johnson win with little or no reserve ttona whatsoever. The question that then remains is why such a conservative attitude at the betting window? Could it he that the electorate liked the sta ble of the Johnson entry, but ability of the hone on his lint distance run? We are inclined to believe that the place bets were made as a result of a gen eral consensus that President Johnson would win coupled with the lethargy of aa awn od victory. Thfc item eaa ho ad ditionally digested with the oh vtous fact that contribution* were not as high this election year as they have btoa in We post We are equally sura that many How Long... Mr. President? 1 1 11 ‘iwiifi'ti iNnyn.A,- ALTAR CALL BY EMORY a DAVIS. DR (Ter Negro Frees International) THE FREEDOM—NOW CHURCH During the last few weeks sad day* of the Pres idential election campaign, we beheld something TC ..... uk'wiv. AIWUIIVII WO fuv used upon what could well be described aa a re ligious phenomenon when Martin Luther King, Jr, came to the city of Chicago and spoke to near ly M 0 ministers, white, Negro, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, gathered tn a Baptist Church one Thursday morning for “sendee.” I have, as a minister, witnessed six Presidential campaigns, but I’ve never witnessed such united effort on the part of the elergy for or against any presidential candidate. There sat the executive head of the Church Federation, a Seminary presi dent, beads of various denominational bodies and the elergy from the lowly stare-front to the city temples, stirred by the emotion-filled “sermon" of that 39th century Moses Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hl* rhetorical eloquence thrilled all of us. We knew we were In church, but toe “gospel“ was different than the usual fare. It was a itqwl of FREEDOM—NOW! A group of civil rights workers led the singing during the offertory. How familiar wer* these tunes to we Negro minister* We’d heard them as children tn the old weather-beaten churches of yesteryear. But the words to the old tunes wen different Thera were words about “ragtstarliy. voting, marching, action and FREEDOM:" too tunes that had oome out of the cotton patch tra vails of our forbears, sung then and latar only by Negroes, were now being sung by Necroat AND whites. Then wo closed, with joined hands, sing ing "I'll Overcome”—whites holding Negro hands; Jews holding Catholic bands, etc. Ood, tn Heaven, must have shouted HUnsetf tn that moment. Throe wwe the “new songs" that had been sung In demonstrations, tn sttins, and a8 other Tne. in Southern jails and stockades. As I earn* out of the church. I had the feeling that 1 had attended a NEW ehureh. To bo sura, it was a religious experience unique to its age. Thera waa a “new" impel. It was a gospel that said “no man was free until all men are rice.” It was a impel that condemned toe sin es hate and NEWS AND VIEWS (NIWS and Views Is grand te peasant as r«wa* writer Br. 8 b Msrgis ■rakes frank admtarion regarding racial aqaal tty). _ TQ THE EDITOR: Mr. Hamn's reference tn News and Views of OaV 31 to asy views on rase lead me to state say views frankly tn doted. I dan to say aty views were precisely the same as the views at the emi nent scholar and salat Dr. W. It Cuiion, reosatiy deceased, who had been my etoee friend for 50 years; and for his tost several yean ay tattmste pal. Hta epritton carried great weight. Be was hand of toe department at Bible and Balfctan in Wake Ftueet college for 48 years. Numerous let ters were written Ip us Jointly in m»wy news papers. We derided several years ago we ought to meat authoritatively on go great a subject as ram. and not be warpod by prejudice or tradition. We set out to study toe euhleet tram the point at view es arianee. w» asked toe head anthropatawist of K. C. University to select mvaral oftoebmtbooks sanes rwitihed to toe asere lib eral briedaw. just os these kn dapios who tor ae Mag am teased a stable o* their heritage abandoned their tana tor a stamp seare la heap teg with uraßy *<^mweitejnsay^prolw- limited at tteaVtoritataTawwio wim "** SPJsfflgw«gg iwy, tor JrimeonV pest perform ance wee qoastieoaMa. He had glorified the vlrture of “good will." It was s gos pel heard by v&rylpg races and religions fee’lng the liupiration and challenge of “the world. ’ There were new “hyms” sung, with plaintive tone*. tuuiui utvuia utu major mu monies, tne words were not written by renowned hymn writ era, but by sufferers of racial Injustice in the midst of their suffering, like the spirituals of another country. There was a new sensation of “worship” when we planted hands and aa we sat side b> stilt it felt as though we were drawn toward Ood y something worthy of our mental and emo' 1 «v'.l responses our total being. Here was a cvi j greater than cur pleas to God for self prsrer-a tion and absolution from the guilt of some "**•-. sonal petty sin. It was the kind of “worship” n which one loses sight of one’s self and sees. tid ing gloomily and hopelessly, the hordes of piv < - ty-stricken, ghetto-entrapped, friendless sauls. hoping for a brighter day an tills earth. This la the Church MILITANT, in deed and in fact, and a welcomed sight This Is the Church that has oome to life—has oome of age. This is happening In many parts at our nation in increas ing tensity and regularity. In recent days, the Episcopalians In their triannal convention gave “unwavering material and moral support to those Christians who obey the mandate of Christ by per sonal Involvement’* In anas of racial and social conflict ... the American Lutheran Church tn its annual conference heard their president say that the ohurch in this generation “may vary well stand or fall by her proclamation and practice of righteousness in human relations,” as ha urged Lutherans to “be alert to find ways whereby you can support community activities looking toward fair housing and equal opportunity for employ ment and education . . . and look for the oppar* t unity to make too acquaintance of Negro fami- Hea.“ There is a new ALTAR In this now ehureh and it is the Altar of FREEDOM—NOW. The hymns are different The message is different Trie wor shipper* are different and differing. And tom that worship In their “new” church will ba ilffbs ways with too song at FREEDOM In BnW nth mil BABKIN on too euhleet and send us. Under his guidance we nod several of the leading becks In his field We frankly confess that all oar Uvea we had believed our white race was superior to the color ed races, that we had been wrong. We go declared repeatedly tn forum letters In leading Aanw Just a few days before his death tn ton hmpttal. be said to me earnestly. “Write one more article with my endorsement - saying. “Mono* gives no wippart to toe white man’s Immodest boast of superiority: any superiority Is due to the inheri tance of mpericr cultural and *o*l*l advantages, and not to race. Give the Negro man the same cultural and social advantage. from the begin ning. and he Will show equal talent with the white man." This knowledge has been like an emancipation to me. I drop ire the feeling es superiority In my arif or anyone else. It is utterly opposed to the tooling of humility, which Jeous declared is toe rast dictate of the religion He gave to the world To believe and practice that is as important to toe white man as to the Negro. Baptist Home, Hamilton. 71. C S L MORGAN (age M yean) era frock, wi fb# standards sir pecSei there were considerably different and appossd to stand ards imposed by southern breed er* Johnson's post history re flected the fact that he was a food “mud" runner and at his best an the inside rail at S fur ion**. The professional handi cappers did not know how he would fare at the mils and six teenth and in a changed atmos phere and a unfamiliar climate Nevertheless. after weighing all of the available facto, what ever deficiences Johnaea pos sessed his competition possessed more. After all. why threw good money after bed with a ion* shot virtually untested and un proven? Negro handirawisn rea soned that despite the fact that toe odds were poor, odds have been poor bate* but sever be fore have they been trouWet with the thought the collect!** might be as difficult as winning Subsequent'!, we have taker the even money candidate, rec o(mixing the limited payoff an< a limited knowledge of his abil ity oa the entire national anc world circuit, opposed to the long shot whose solvency it questioned along with his abil ity. When one considers tbs ad vent of electronic vote projec tions. computer analysis, and data process feeders, we can not help hut wander if theyTl put toe race track out of business eventually. In any event Presi dent Johnson will undoubtedly five the electorate s win. wheth er or not a victory or oat TIME WILL TELL . . . ““THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE
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