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A Nin^ M Of Character
It shoiiW l>c. cnib»rra!sinp if nut humil-
ating ti> niftnibcrs of riio EinwopM
Chtirrli ill Xripth CnivtHna to know O’at
arc connectcd with a C'lirislain ortranization
th»t cun t«l«*rati sn«h n man :i> the Kcv.
Jan»f'> Parker I^jos of StutcsTillc as the rcc-
tor of one of its churches. Tn a statement ac-
kni\vlp«lffi»t|f hif cloctJion ns president the
Kcv. Mr. H>r»s had the f^)ll^)winJ^ to say:
‘^Oar oi^itniiatian a*Mi«l« for nuny
thing* mrnom flnoi- Wwng «| p- eMnra-
tion of our nation’s htteTrity and sover*
cipnitu, ■•voMaaMl. •ccarding to the
CtmMMmm, iwitd ataliM.
rifltts, indhMMi and priyt*
propertjr. 'We are tfotieem«4 prHMMAf.
n*w with tba #r«tAnwtion df naeirf mg'
regatKNi in «ur i^nUic acbvdb.”
It a])])Mrs to us that this so-called minifi-
t;r oi ilic ii*. -ooncernetl with aboin
cvcrvlhin" except acUanciti^ the tttachinpfs
of JesHs Christ or the savin" of smils. When
he as'a mtnisttr jllaces the preservation f»f
>e;|re"ation in the pul>Iic schools nliove tlwit
(>f M)\il .s,Tvin{( we liclieve he is performintf
out of character and nt^eds to read afjain anI
a'^iun rhe sermtni on the mount and the pro
nouncement of the .\postle I'anl when he de
clared m the question of race that “I per-
ccii’c that God is no respecter of person and
thnt out of one blnod Ood created all people
for to ilwrtH upon the face cH tJie «3ir#h."
The Rev. ^fir, f9ees went on funthar to say
fhat "we are now passing through the most
critical time in the history of the human
race, when the destruction of the white race
through racial amalgamation is heing careful
ly planned,” etc. So, instead of emhat4cing on
a program to save souls Dees has set out to
save the white tnce from destwuclion.
.Vt the most there ar$ about 17 milTioti >*e-
groes In the I’nited States, snrrounded on
every hand by l.^.*! milkfeu or more whites of
various strains, strata and what nr^jt. H the
li?.i niilHan,whites are so weiiK a«.t«.!ie. over
come l)y 17 mitHon Xegroes then we say the
former arenU worth saving.
We thriik the Rev. Mr. Qees' fdir >tems
from the usual inferiority complex that ue-
sets the-nverage ignorartt soiithern’er. We do
not Ivilreve that he or anyone else can pro
duce sulMitnntial evidence that there is any
er/janif!«l eiffort on the part of any persons
•r 'groifj) of persons to destroy any r'ace by
amalgamation or amy other ntethod. instead
Mr. Dees is m’ereome with a dose of—race
hatred and preJufFtce for whidli tllertt i,s no
remedy save the lo*-c of Hhn who 2)090 years
ago taught all mankihd that only through the
Fatherhood of (»od and the litotherhood of
man can peace obtnin in the worl*!.
F«^S8vin| Avewes 01 fseape fof ?N Sotilk
Ttie -aftpafftnt search of southern governor*
for a fiu-'d'Mving avcntte of escape from the
st.ind a majority' of them have taken in defy
ing fedrrai ootift rulings on the qhcsrtion of
integration is one of those efforts that shows
a lack of coiirege, nobility and statesman
ship. It takfs. a noble and ooniageoiis. person,
not a coward, to confess his sins when he is-
wroiig. The matter of face-saving only arfsei>
when one attempts to dPfV' right come hell
anI high water, ft doe* not matter when one
is truly repeiitent. TDie only thing that d»)es
matter is to clear one’s cimscience and to see
that right triumphs over wrong.
Those of us who are accjunintcd with the
average southern ]X)litician are satisfied that
thtrre is not enough nobility anl courajfie in
a single gover»or.(r«m yicjfidia^o^IigsLssip-
pi tl) confefts ijiibficiy iHofi'tljt 9fitp of flfffice
he took to ti]rhold the Constitution of the
United States included that portioit- of it
which guarantees-10 moH lU ail colors^-races
and creeilft, tHiiiaKty, befere^tlt* !a^y. Jilen jof
*nch nijliilitn^ aiwl rpittmge -irS seldom ricrted
to pnblit office in t+te South. If by chance
they get there by appointmerft they are soon
cm down by hate moryfers am! crooked poli
ticians. A case in point is that of Dr. Frank
I’orter Graham who was appointed to the
United States Senate by the late fjovernor
W. Kerr Scott only to l»e defeated the very
first time he came tij»-for elertitm.
Morally speaking only t4»e very lowest
Xegro citizens of Xorth CarolifJa will not
l>c surprised that a Sttperior Qjurt jwdR-t re-
fuseI to releane lb« Httle d{ Monroe
who are now bemf'Ww w- a rtatit refotwa-
tory becauoe a Mtth? girl phkymiite
kissed ot»e or both of them, \eithtr are they
stirprised at the fact that the judgi Ie-
l»lores the “storm .of pul>licity from ci»rl
rights advocates ami neAvi«paper« suiw«*mid-
ing the case." The reaction (»f the ]>i^si(ftng
juIgc is exactly AviuU. ii%Ut be e.'cj>ected tn
any case of siittilar circumstances. It is
ical tf the South and rnns trne to form 90
far as North CiroHirt fe (^mctnied.
In order to justify the persecution of
these two Negro cfirjdreu all soijts of. lies,
half lies and innuendoes have been- concoct
ed to make thetn ai»])ear. as adult cn'niinals
instead of towo undfcra^e ymttiis. In the face
>{ the series of delim|nencies, involv
ing larceny and breaking and entering, with
which they «re lunv accused, it itp^oarg
strange .to. us tlwt Jndge J. Mani^rtoA Price
made flo.«Mry ih hfe jtavwtile rccqrdji ttntll
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A few weeks ago the Dixie
Basketball Classic was plaj-od
in Raleigh. Several out‘Of**t(rte
teams participated, and we
watched with intcresi the Bear
cats from the Universit.v of Cin
cinnati and the Michigan State
University team—bolli of which
had Negro players.
When Oscar Robertson, Cin
cinnati’s Negro ace, came to the
tournament he was the nation’s
number one scorer with an av
erage of almost 4n points per
game. Michigan Stale brought
two Negro players, on? of tlicm
being Jumping Johnny Green, a
high scorer ind the nation's lop
rebounding champion.
North Carolina State in Inc
.second round of play met the
Cincinnati five and defeated the
I^arctits 60 to 61, holding Oscar
Robertson to 29 points. For the
championship. North Carolina
Stale Colelge overpowered the
Michigan State Colelge club .by
a sizeable score. State won by
playing a possession type of
ball, attempting to score only
when there was an excellent
chance.
Stale Collerte wa.'; able to ac
complish thi.! feat by playing
two or three men on the visit
ing teams’ ace players. Their
plan of attack hemmed in Oscur
Robertson and Johnny Green.
While every team is out to wm,
we feci that this plan of “put-
tihg forth spccial effort to sl*p
Oscar Robert.son and Johnny
Green” was in a sense nnnports-
man like. The only sportsman
ship that deserves admiralion is
a man-to-man type of play, ii.seil
, almost unanimously over the
nation.
To concentrate on stopping
one man in baskellwll is some
what similar to “unnecessary
roughness and slugging’ in foot
ball, hitting below the Ijcit” in
boxing, and "spiking the base
runner” in baseball.
In order that State C0II030
will not placc itself in a position
to be criticized, we hope in the
future it will concentrotc in
Winning the chamDiunship by
playing a man-to-maii type of
basketball.
—TME (Raleigh) CAROLINIAN,
January 10.
element of sotrtherner is represented in both
hfiiises of Coi>gnes«. .Snoh rtien value the pow
er of ]7tthlfc office ttbofe rijifht or princrjde.
Their philosophy is “win at any cost," and
they therefore will stoop to the very lowest
nrethods to achieve that tnd. That- is why
soiit^rn politicians will (continue to ai4>ea| to
the -rgnoranti voter of the South by his defi
ance of federal court orders* on the qwestSon
of integr«ti(m. Governor .Mfnond of Virginia,
Governor Faubus of ArTjansas and other
southern governors know thfcy are fighting
a losing battle against the federal -courts and
th«?y wwitid be hajjpV, if in some way they
could' fimi a face-sarfng avenue of escape
from thoir plight.
J:f the stiraws .sliow the way the w-ind
js blowing we think anotlrtr decade will man-
♦f^^s^ a great' change in th» tyfrt of oanididate
the majority of voters wiir *(upport for pub
lic office in many sotlthffn states. The ver)'
foot that several daily j;ewspa,pers 01 Virginia
have bt^nn ito waver in tineir stand agannst
iHtegrit>i*iii -while-g4^>»ps aM l>«ing organised
to keep ^e schools open even if a token de
gree of ititegrdtion mttsi be accepted nia'ke
strong evicleiice that flie fftce - saving ^a venue
of escajK may hot bi too far away {for the
governor of Vir^finia if nit several other
southern states. Onct Vit^ihi* bows to the
will of the fedar-al courts Jgov^ernor* in other
southern stat-frs are sin*fr*tt) selfce the fact as
an avenue of escape. ' |
The Way H Appears As We Enter ^
The Gentle Art 1959 In Little Rock.....
01 Johnson
they were involved in kissing or heing kiss
ed by the>vhit« girls.
The attempt to Svhitev(ish this most re
cent bravesty of Xorth Ci»r»Iin(i .courts mnst
not be nJlowciil to go ntV^h^teitgiid. The-fftct
remains that them twi>,sm*ijlt bi^s were nev
er jsiiltd, thteaft*nwl xi^th ,' bemg jafied or
taken to; a reformatijrt^ Wt;il thffv brol« the
unwritten law ■'of White supreitlacy.-It was
then and only then that tiiey were arrested,
.slummed in jail ami held there f«jr six lays
withont being allowed to see tiieir parents
or friends.
We are compelled to look with sfispicion
on Price’s statememt’ that the reason he
niarttj tK> pneviotts erftwtw 4n his wcordfi is
because he wanted to help thrtm. U takes
no sage to determine how mtiih help a juve
nile judge would be to tw'O little Negro boys
to Whom ho neferrefl- io twice in Ins testi
mony as “n^gers.” When he slammed' them
in jHfl -«mi held them ther« for six. days he
was trivirjg th«n «KactIy 6h* khid help he
felt they should have.
We fWink ftie Xational A,ssoci%tion for the
AdvAncetnent of Gotared f*eoplt sNoirftl per
fect the i|f||ie«I ftjr w,hid« it gnye rto^e at
the f{r»t 1^4 ooly real, h^in^g 4jie .two litUt
boys hiivje had. The case should have the
•Mpport of twry AtiMrictHi who helievw.
tkm HbotM- Hefore «!)« hrw
as equsH vithout ttijguM for their race,
creed or eolor.
Senate Democratic .I^eader
Lyndon Johnson made a rejnark-
able speech to his fellow^em-
oerats on the occasion , dt the
opening of the 86th Congress.
What made it remarkable was
Johnson’s ability to say so little
in so many words and make
them sound so full of impor
tance.
Example: “Our strength rji% (
what we are—and what we
prove ourselves to be.”
Further example: (‘We need
new ideas in many fields. We
need to forge new tools of gov
ernment.”
And: “Our first responsibili
ty is responsibility itself.”
Any critic could run through
the text and come up with half
dozen more Johnson sayinjs that~
will never make Bartlett’s Book
of familiar Quotations.
Yfet a historian who reads this
undoubtedly ghost - written
speech and thought it gave a
true measure of the man would
be making a serious mistake.
Any- appraisal of Johnson must
recognize the fact that he is a
horse-trading politician, who
thinks in the following terms in
just about this ordcn: (1) Will
it help re-elect Lyndon John
son? (2) What will Texas busi
nessmen think about it? (3) How
does it affect the rest ol tlie
nation?
Even if Johnson did not \me
the speech and even if hi.) po
litical homilies read as it tiiey
were meant for the village idiot,
there was an underlying philo-
soirtiy in the Johnson text. The
heart of the speech, as 1 road
it, was in the following sen
tences:
“What we (meaning Johnson
himself—RGS) can do now is
subject to certain limits.
“We have been given great
strength, but not overriding
strength. The Executive arm of
national government remains
under control of another party.
“We have—by our majority
' here—an obligation to lead. We
do not have aitthority to com
mand. We have powe« to ail-
vise and consent. We do not
have powers to implement and
accomplish.”
It sounds sweet and reason
able. But what does it mean in
a pplHician’s language?
This was. In Shprt, not an ex
hortation to the troops to go
forth into battle to fight for
the liberal ideals which were
so appealing to the voters last
November. It was, insteadi «n
oxhortation to “Go forth tnd
make deals with the boys down
Pennsylvania Ave. We can’t Jbln
them, but we won’t fight them.
We’ll go forward togetfier,
smothering the popular man
date.” '
THE OLD COALITrON—What
does Johnson construe that r(ian-
dale to be? He said further in
his remarks that the mandate
of the Democrats is “for eonfi-
dent and creative and cens^c-
tivo leadership.” Somefiow,
though, when he got around to
listmg the things in whicti the
party siiould “lead” he forgot
to, mention civU rights, ,^vi]
l^berites or re-^ninK pi|bljc
1 schdols. I ^
Now that's quite ad ever-
sight, for a man wha' ac«i|fes
tlffe opposition of Bejng
cated to inorlia and full ef'sla-
tid. ■'
But when you put down John-
soa’^ speech and watch the man
in action then it becomes quile
apparent that it was all meant
for the- birds.
What was his first official
act, on the first day of Con
gress? It was to shut off de
bate on a proposal to limit the
filibuster. And what his major
political operation? To ensnare
the new RepuDiican Senate
Leader, Everett McKinley Diric-
sen, into a deal to back Uic so-
filibuster proposed by the Tex
as lawmaker.
This posed quite a dilemma
for Dirksen. He agreed'to be a
co-sponsor of the Johnson reso
lution. At the same time his
aides informed the office of his
IlllBois colleague. Sen. Paul
'T)duglas, {fiat W was f6r,''a real
curb on endless talk in the Sen
ate.
But, of course, for Dirksen
and for Johnson the “real”
problem in the forthcoming Con
gress is not civil rights, not the
filibuster, and >not reopenmg
the scjiools. Those are seco..d-
ary matters. What’s real for
them is whether it will be pos
sible to re-establish the old co
alition of Dixie Demociats and
' right wing Ucpublicans which
has for so long dominaiec! the
Senate. '
For these two estimable gen
tlemen the “real” enemies are
those" liberals who insist that
th'e pled’ges £he politicians pro
mised the voters last November
must be carriod out. To John
son and his associates Senators
liko Oouglas, Javits, Humphrey,
Case.qf New Jersey, and Morse
Of Oregon are dangerous men.
Governor Faubus is still bas
king in the nation's ^headlines
in his infamous ro'.3
Attorney General Bruce Ben
nett is still making himself ridi
culous, trying to gain the af-
fedion of the state’s segrega
tionists.
Truth In Little Rock is agita
tion while democracy is Com
munism.
A traffic violation is a more
serious offense than att&iTipled
murder.
While the nations of the
world are putitng emphasis on
knowledge, povernor faubiis is
glorifyisft. i|nqra4we and. adv9-
caling juvenile detlnquency>. •
The crisis that hns disgraced
America will remain unsolved
until the pcnole of Little Hock
I who have something- 'at stake
Former governor, Sid Mc-
Math’s admitted mistake while
he was governor of bringing Or-
val E. Faubus to the city''from
Groasy Creek vrill always re
main a dark spot on nis ad
ministration.
Arkansas will remain through
out the year of 1959 a;» one of
Russia’s greatest aides in her
elfoct to spread Communism
throughout America.
This, we’ll admit doei^n’t ap
pear too encouraging, bj^'when
the use and aulhoyjtV '6| rea-
the headlines, hiS olhcp^cture
seems possible.
—Arkansas Stat* Press.. Jan. 9.
The Senate s Rule 22 Most Go
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
By ItEV. HAROLD ROT.AND
God-Fearing
e
"An upright) Get-f«arin9 ntan.
..." Acts 10:».
O, that his trSb|t may increase
among us. We^e in need of
more simple, ordinary. God
fearing people. The people who
go about from day to day try
ing to serve God humbly and
reverently. We^ haw enough of,
the self righteous, complacent
and the satisfied. We have
in need of more of the ordinary
enough of the bigshots. We are
peofMe who Inve God and seek
to do his win. Yes, we need
more of the Cornelius type. . .”
“An upright, God-fearing aian.”
Stiete am the p«opie, in the
final mialysiiB, w^o ape the r«a>
burdm beaners. l!hese people
carry the major portion of the
burdens in the great ihinistr} of
the Church. They make the
great sacrifices. They are this
sharers and the beaeers of the
burdens. And wjthout this great
mass of honest Chrietians
where would the church be?
These people vepresent the in
ner core of faithfulness. They
make possible the ongoing
program of the Christain ^min-
istryj
Jesus''laid the apoetotic fena-
dation of the ChMMb on such
people. You remember ^e call
ed esdlnaigr, biunUe fi»h«nne»,
tH)^ ooU«cteM and others of a
sknitpr natune. And' the wprld
IpowB the stoty of the gfMt
^iervice reniiefod by these
/simple and noble souls. And
Am
may God continue to inspire
and bless these noble souls who
live in simple Christian dignity
and make possible the work of
Christ Jesus, the Savior.
The dod-fearing • man must
continue to be the hope of the
cause of Christ. These noble
souls seek no special place of
honor. These rare jewels of the
spirit seek no great headlines
but they are the life and leav
en of the church. They carry
on in the sunshine and in the
starmy ^nriods of the Church.
They remain loyal when others
run away. Yea, these are the
people that God and men oan
count, oq. May God bless them
and may their number increase.
Under Senate Rule 22, adopt'
ed in 1949, debate on a measure
c_anngt be limited without agree
ment of at least two-thirds of
the full membership.
In the past this has meant se
curing the votes of 66 Senators
f) halt a filibuster. With the
dmission of Alaska, this re
quirement rises to the impossi
ble number of 68.
Under this rule, a minority
can and has talked indefinitely
to kill any bill, chiefly civil
rights, that it finds displeasing.
Last Januai:y, an effort In get
rid of Rule *^2 lost by a vote of
55 to 38, with 28 Hepi'bliuans
joining hands with 27 D«mo-
crals, princioally Souttierners,
to protect the right to filibus
ter.
SIDES ARK already being
chosen for another siiowdov’n
battle on this issue when the
86th Congress convenes next
Wednesday.
Prospects .ire the brightest in
history that Rule 22 will be a-
mended.
This is so because a large
number of the reactionary Re
publicans who voted with the
Dixiecrats have been replaced
with liberal Democrats pledged
to abolish this m-Kkery of dem
ocratic procedure.
Southerners, who on other
i.ssues have no tender consider
ation for the rights of minori
ties, have sought to enshrine
They contend that unlimited
Rule 22 as something inviolate,
falk is necessary for the pro
tection of a minority against the
crushing weight ot the majori
ty. *
will stop fighting their coijsci-
ence apd come face to face with
the issue.
THEIR ARGUMENT lacks
merit.
In a democracy the minority
has no legitimate right to frus
trate the will of the majority.
The proposals for revision
being offered by Senata liberals
are not designed to stifle dis
cussion. They permit 19 days or
three Senate weeks of debate
after a petition for closing de
bate has been filed.
That should be adequate
time to fully and completely
discuss both sides of any issue.
AfteiL that lhe_. measure und_er
discussion would have to be
brought to vote.
ANY SENATOR who says
these proposals are unfair, or
tjtjat they jeopardize free de
bate, or that they infringe on
the rights ot a minority, simp
ly does not believe in democra
cy.
With complete victory so
clearly in sight, the liberals
must not allow themselves to
be sidetrackcci by sordid deals
or meaningless compromises of
fered by that oily Texan, Lyn- ‘
don Johnson and his southern
friends.
Ours is a .government by ma
jority, not by two-thirds.
Thery^is nothing in ihe Con
stitute whi:-n permits a back-
waro minority ^(13 states) to
thwart the desires and will of
the other 36.
Campy's Return
Roy Campanella v/ill be a
coach at the Los -\ngcles Hod-
gers’ spring traininc; camp and
this is news to greet wit It a leap
of the heart and a glad mois
ture in the eye.
In his playing day.s, »i« could
take Campy or leave birr.; he
was one of the best ot his kind,
but professional a'.nletes aren't
the rock on which tne nation is
founded. Right after he was in
jured we fell as sorry as we’d
feel for anybody so seriously
hurl, but couldn’t feel lhat it
was a calamity for the country
that he’d no more woi'k behind
the plate in major league base
ball.
Through the days of bis
comeback, our respect for him
has grown great.
Any member of the team
who shows himself anything
like a quitter after observing
Campy will be a rhinocer^ iu-f
hide, spirit and mind.
—Chapel Hill N«wt Leader,
Jan. 6
Lei us all try to become such
plDajIs of spiritual and 'moral
slrenlgh in
community.
our church and