TItfi CAROLINA TIMES
iA->4ATURDAY. JULY 1, 1M1
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SNFORCEMENT or court DEOSION, ASSU^S U3 FREEDOM PF TRAVIC
Mh of July Message to the li C. Methodisf Meet
You read this we^k about the seeregr«ted
Xcrt^ Carolina Methodist Conference that
has been meeting fn Durham at the seprc-
g&tei Trinity Methodist Church, located on
l,il»rty Street. You also read that the Con
ference launched a “knock on every door”
campaign to take Christ into every home in
the eastern part of Xorth Carolina during
1961. In launching such an ambitious cam
paign, Dr. Harry Denman, secretary of the
Methodist Board of Evangelism, said, "we
ire going out in eastern North Carolina and
tell the people about Jesus Cltribt." Dr. Den
man later on called on the delegates to have
a “great kneeling movement” first so that they
may “find out what God’s will is for you
to bring unreached persons in every commu
nity to Christ.”
Now we are at a loss to determine just
■why the secretary of the Metholist Board
of Evangfelism would confine his efforts of
telling the people about Christ to eastern
North Carolina. If he means to imply that this
particular section of the,^tate is more in
need of missionaries, when it comes to prac
ticing the brotherh^i of man toward Ne-
^pes, than some other sections we are com-
l^iled to. agree with him. We think, how-
^yer, there is a great need for Christ in all
^ the segregated white churches in every
action of this state. Certainly there is some-
tliing radically wrong with any church when
i^ore brotherhood can I>e found in a prize
fight ring, on a football field or a baseball
diamond than in the house of God.
On Wednesday the Conference put on an
other hypocritical act when the delegates re
affirmed the position of the General Con
ference that “there must be no place in the
Methodist Church for racial discrimination
or enforced segregation.” by adopting the re
port on Human Relations. Said the report fur
ther; “The church is called to build bridges
between various groups in our society.”
When j'ou hear of such outbursts on the
part of southern religious leaders, you need
not get excited or let your hopes rise that
our white brethren are actually concerned
•bout the teachings of Jesus Christ. Instead
of launching a campaign to take Jesus into
thf home of eastern North Carolina or any
other part of the state, some one needs to
fint launch a campaign to take }Iini into the
wWte churched of the South. If Jesus ever
entered one of them, there is strong evidence
that He did not tarry long because He fourtd
out that He wasn’t welcome and was given
tht cold shoulder as soon as it w'as found out
that hi taught that “God is no respecter of
p^son.”
In a 4ih it Juh addross over lUO vears ago.
■Frederick Douglas blasted-t he white church
for its hypocrisy on th»* question of slavery.
So befitting and prophetic were his utterance
tlijlt one only needs to substitute the word
segregation for slavery to see that it rings
with condemnation of the white church on the
question of segregation today. For the re
mainder of this editorial we will let Douglas
speak for us.
Said Douglas in part in that memorable
s]ieech:
"But the chnrch of this couritry is not
only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave,
it actually takes sides with the oppressors.
It has made itself the bulwark of Ameri
can slavery, and the shield of American
slave-honters. Many of its most eloquent
Divines, who standi as the very lights of .the
chnrch, have shamdlessly given the sanction
of religion and the Bible to the whole slave
system . . .
“For my part, I would say, welcome in
fidelity I wdcome ath«sm! wdcome any
thing! in preference to gospel, as preached by
those Divines! They convert the very name
of religion into an engine of tyranny arid
barbaroMs cruelty, and serve to confirm
more infidds, in this age, than all the in
fidel writings- Thomas Paine, Voltaire,
Bolingbroke put together have done! These
ministers make religion a cold and flinty-
hearted thing, having neither piinciples of
right action nor bowds of compassion. They
strip the love of God of its beauty and
leave the throne of religion a huge, horri
ble, repulsive form. It is a religion for op
pressors, tyrants, man-stealev^ and thugs.
It is not that "pore andf undefiled reKgion”
which is from above, and whi;b is "first
pure, then peaceable, easy to be entreated,
full of mercy and good fmits, without par
tiality, and without hypocrisy.” But a reli
gion which favors the rich against the poor;
which exalts the proud above the humble;
which divides mankind into two classes,
tyrants and slaves; which says to the man
in chains, stay there; and to the oppressor,
oppress on; it is a religion which may be
professed and enjoyed by all die robbers
and enslavns of mankind; it ti^es God a
respecter of persons, denies his fatherhood
of the rac«, anf jlK«
great tni^. of,
this we affirm to'lSrtT^li^^'po^tdy^
church, and the p^rihur worship iw'oui' litnd
and nation—a religion, a church, and a
worship which, on the authority of inspired
wisdom, we pronounee to be at| al^mination
in the sight of God.”
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Veterans Questions and Answers'Long Knocks
GraMYear
Integration
Q.—.About how many women
U. S. veterans of Vt^orld War II
are thiere, a$ cor.>'ared to U. S.
male veterans of thl» war?
A.—About 319,000 women as
compared to nearly 15 million
men.
Q.—What does the VA mean
by a "presomp! Ive perfod" in
connection with diseases?
A.—Generally, a wartime or
Korean-conflict veteran *ho de
velops a chronic diseay to a
degree of 10 percent i more
^disability within one yeay of le- •
lease or separation fromJ service
may be presumed to bejservice^
connected for VA disability com
pensation. In the ease cf active
tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis,'
or leprosy, the law provide* a
three-year presumptive period. [
Q.—I'm an honorably discharg
ed World War II veteran and
need help in finding a job. Does
my war service entitle me to
any preference on this?
A.—Yes. See your local State
Employment Office. You also are
entitled to preference for U. S.
Civil Service employment.
Q,—My son has been in a nurs
ing home for incurables since
childhood. He will be 18 s»on.‘
Will his pension be stopped then?
'A.—N(j. Since he is unable to
become self-supporting his pen
sion will be continued.
Want To Be{ A Good Public
fjpeaker? Well; lake Kote of This
^\y lStXfe’‘CUS a BOULWARB j. joyment is almost unconscious.
Mie Running Out On Pupil Assignment Atf
It was a stinging indictment of the weak
leadership now. existing in our churchi?s that
was made before the North Carolina Bar As
sociation Wednesday when its retiring presi
dent, James B. McMillian, called on the law
yers to take the leaIership in race relations.
Mr. McMillian not only called on the lawyers
to'take lead j but admitted that they “have
thus far failed to speak ,with clarity” on
•uch'mfett^rsX k u H ^ ^ I
n , 16fck
.sthbiols. ‘■^fd j.he ' further,, “After
y years ^bese. requirements remain more
rid th ■Ae'breach than in the observance.
'/rSofsA ^Ik>o1 boards .often shrink’ from
itis emH to recognize valid requests for
imeat to unsegregated schools."
is ditcidely in keeping with and sus
tain* an editorial in our issue of June 24
on the same question in which we endeavored
to call the attention of our readers to the
deliberate dcfiance or avoidance now being
Ksorted to by public schools boards in this
State, There is strong evidence in Mr. Mc-
Miilian’s statement that legally trained per
sons are awakening to the fact that time is
running out on the Pui>il Assignment Act,
•nd that "token integration as,it is now prac
ticed in North Carolina is not going to be
continued to be upheld by the courts as being
in obedience with the order to admit Negroes
to the public schools “on a racially n»n-dis-
cnminatory basis with all deliberate speed.”
Inqiettts to implementation of integration
Ma be lastly helped if Negro parents will
•dc ioT reassignment of their children in
|%|^r and bigger numbers. The success of
Situation is the key to equal educational
^P^ortanitieg for Negroes in this state, and
||^ fliiitt be pushed and sustained at all costs.
OB the part of Negro parents only
to » full” realization of the a3^
to be derived from untegrcgated
U and the Ucwyer$ of the ftatc u-
sume the leadership in implementing integra
tion of the public schools they can do no
worse than the churches which have given
practically no mioral support in the matter.
It is our sincere hope that members of the
North Carolina Bar Association w'ill heed
Mr. McMillian’s advice and btgin immedi
ately to lead the way in compliance with the
^fr^ers of the United States Supreme Ccmrt
^i|i|}'(|^|K^de|^:wce thr^ugl) the presen-t tokeh
jp^iii^.spect'Of society Ydr tjie lirofcssion,
anA, Eventually, its individual members will
lose their own self respect.
•If you want to understand the world in
which you live and the activity of peoples
fhat now populate the globe, you must, first
of all. know much about pas-t' history and
the ex))eriences of the human race in the
years that have preceded us.
The man, who attempts .to pass judgment
upon human activity, solely upon the basis of
personal experience, has overlooked the long
tenure of man on the earth and the varied
experiences that have combined to create our
present civilization. To judge the human race
today w'e must look backward, iiot a decade
nor a generation, but, maybe, a few hundred
years at least.
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BOUL|VAR!B
One of the basic rules of pub
lic speaking is to know what you
want to say and how to say it.
A poor speech is the result of
failure to meet the requirement.
Every speech must have a defi
nite purpose, must stress some
point. mor9
purpose is rooted in absolute
truth, the greater will be the ring
of sincerity.
To overcome any nervousness
the speaker might have, he must
(a) control his material, (b) con
trol himself, and (c) control his
audience.
One of the important things to NOTES AND COMMENTS
keep in mind is the control over Even if the worker is worth his
the audience. Never assume that pny there are people who dislike
cn wiU be, an^y wyiii| | ' i *4 Vi
youf%*^^i feive them a‘’nlbm^fi^ iha^ '^ot b^'
of Ijlence to allow .your wo^ds the fai;ggest hew^paper ia.the wo^lid
to impre^^^^^^|||^^^^^^||j^^s,the o^ie you h;vg ^
^^^ng a.,'
liepar^^_
eater, a^ for ^the lyeaKr, the In- eGjpli^ate ctfmpetition.
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But the good cook, like the good
speaker, knows all about the vast
quantity of conscious prepara
tory work that yoes into a meal
or a speech.
A good speech, like a ^ood
meal, beyins lony in advance of
the finished product. °
^ RESDESS: Tor my "paiiipiTer
entitled “Hints on Public Speak
ing,” send a self-addressed, long
business envelope to Dr. Marcus
H. Boulware, Florida A. and M.
University, Box 156, Tallahassee,
Florida. Speeches prepared upon
request.
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African Students Say Ihis^
Sdiods Make Stooges^'
NSW YORK—African students
are being used as sfooges for
communism, posing a threat to
free Africa, charges an Afric^
former student at Moscow State
Univenity in the July Reader’s
Digest.
Everest Mulekezi, a native of
Uganda, had received a scholar*
ship to Moscow State and believ
ed the {Russians were sincere in
offering six years of study to help
him end other Africans to “ob
tain the knowledge to carve out
your own free destiny.”
In '“1 Was A Student at Mos
cow State”, a Reader’s Digest
'$2500 “First Person” Award arti
cle, Mulekezi describes the dis
illusionment he felt in October
1959 upon arrival in Moscow
when he learned that a thousand
foreigners — Asians, and Latin
Americans were segregated in
housing a mile from the Univer
sity, and that guards were sta
tioned at all doors.
In the weeks that followed
communist propagandists began
their campaign to brainwash the
students. All subjects were laced
with the communist doctrine.
Study of the Russian language
was compulsory, and students
were called upon to influence
their native countries through
litei
'i
tape recordings) photography and.
prepared statements.
As the months went by l.some
of the African students beg\n to
seek a way out of the
Uniop. Mulekeri renewed
forts to come to the.
States and being sue
quit Moscow in October Ifll) i^d
flew to enroll at Wait»|ligton
State University in Ptflbnau,
where he is now a student.
In comparing racial di|icrimi-
nation in the United Statei and
Russia, Mulekezi says, “Ameri
cans are consciously striving to
eliminate it; in the Soviet Wniif,
this evil is official policy.^
In a formal charge issued by
the African Students Unioii (A
union formed despite the /dbjec-
tion of school officials)^Ae stu.
dents said in part thaWhey wish
“respectfully to caJUTthe atten
tion of all AfricanJleovernRients
to the deceits, th|^ threiits, the
pressures, the brutality, and the
discrimination with whick tbe
Soviet administrators and strM^
gists have handled Afrfcaa and
other foreign»\btudent8. ■ vf
New and dangerous fomu ' of
colonialism and dist^mination
are being fostered by the coiiO
munists and aVe a grave* threat
to the future of Africa."
Vanderbilt Professor Claims the
South is Now at Crossroads
NASHVILLE, Tertn.—The slow
pace of school integration was
denounced today at the j>pening
of the 18th annual Race Rela
tions Institute at Fisk Univer
sity.
Dr. Herman H. Long, director
of the Institute, said In his key
note address that the grade-a-year
plans of desegregation “are de
signed to reduce to the barest
minimum the number of Negro
and whit6 pupils who have the
opportunity to know each other
as fellow human beings.”
Concerning. sU-in demonstra
tions and Freedom Rides, he
critiaed the "continued absence
of adequate federal legislation to
givf Ji^al ^d^ pcotectioti ,o^
give imal md fulL P
civi^ghty ^ ■ I > ^ .
“ft is d^icult to .be sanguine
when mob rule triuraps over law,
decency, and common sense, and
when the pc^lice power of a state
rides rough-shod over precious
individual and constitutional
rights,” Long spid.
Earlier, he set the theme ol
the Institute bjf telling delegates
the sessions would be concerned
with public policy and human
values as they affected the rights
and status of minority groups in
the U.S.
Dr. Long welcomed some 100
delegates frorh 33 staties, India,
South Africa, and Rhodesia.' The
two-week institute is a program
of the Congregational Christian
Churches' Race Relations Depart
ment under its Board. of Home
Mlsjio^'sJjhe .Depjj^irjient 'of
Ractal Cuitu^Jl of tjle
'
; creative,' effective appfIfcies I to
ijirhat has,bVen''(^iled tne nation’s
mwt urgMt and diemanding do-
mwtic problem. '
The time has come when the
South must decide whether it
will join the mainstream of
American life and accept the
traditions of liberty and equality
or whether it will persist in be
ing a truculent, fractious minor
ity.
Dr. Robert Harris, political sci
ence professor at Vanderbilt Uni
versity, told this last week to the
18th Race Relations Institute at
Fisk University.
“The South is actually in bond
age to the Negro,” Dr. Harris
declared. “Its politicians are so
obsessed with maintaining sepa
ration of the races that some
soiithern governors never make
a move without thinking about
the Negro;”
He pointed out that the South’s
remittance to^ ..I'iAto)
-l^egroes was-hurwg the v*(^e ’:
region both morally and eco
nomically.
“The only businesses th'kt prof
ited from the troubles in Little
Rock were the moving van com
panies taking people out of that
city,” he said.
Besides creating a heavy fin-
burden for schoi?]
facilities, he observed, discrimi
nation robs the South of the
skilled manpower it needs for
industrial development.
Dr. Harris declared that the
Freedom* Rides may have per
formed a valuable service in pub
licizing conditions of which
many southern whites may not
have been aware.
“The exemplary behavior of
,the Negroes and of the federal
^'gdVeibment marie the 41-olt teg-
loolc^^^^ thf ayes
News Briefs
Continued from front page
at 2 p.m.
FEDERAL LOANS
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Federal
Rousing Administrator Robert C.
Weaver announced this week that
a total of $4,028,864 in grants and
Federal loans has been given to
the Charlotte Urban Renewal
Agency for execution of the Re
development Section No. 1, Brook
lyn Urban Renewal Area.
POWELL TO SPEAK
PHILADELPHIA — Congress
man Adam Clayton Powell will
deliver the major address at the
labor dinner of the NAACP con
vention which meets here July 10-
16.
76,000 NEGRO VOTERS I
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Report that
two NAACP women volunteer!
have buttonholfd and registered
1,521 persons to vote, Within a
two-week period^ was made here
this week. A total of 76,000 Ne
groes are currently on the regis
tered voter list.
STRONG PROTEST
NEW YORK — President Ken.
,u«dy received a strong protest on
his appointment of Misaiisippi’s
South a majority believed that
the federal government had bean
right in sending U. S, marsha^
to Alabama.
Dr. Harris also expressed the
belief that the Kennedy admini
stration would make strong civil
rights moves after Congress ad
journs this summer. The govern
ment has already made a start in
erasing discrimination againtt
Negro workers in plants with do
fense contracts, he pointed out.
In the school field he doubted
that the federal government
could spend money to supper^
segregated scboob in )he fao*
of the I9S4 Supreme Court de
cision. , . . ’
“Even if Con^ss does nothing
about civil rights,” Di’’ Harris
declared, ;'the Prea^ej^an do
Dr; Harris aJup Isui^ it an
couraging that the Justice De
partment w0. attempting to in-
intervene dirwtly in civil righti
cases rather than as a friend' of
the court. / ^
“Atlthough the government’ll
power to intervene is lihitfd
now, Congress could 'auino^p
it to intervene In all civil r||btt
cases.” Dr. Harris said. ^
However, he warned that U.' S.
district attorneys in the Sou^
were riot likely to prosecute civil
rights cases with much enthusi
asm.
“Although these attorneys ar*
appointed by the President, h4
must consult V. S. Senators in
his party,” Dr. Harris comment
ed. “It’s d'oubtfujl that Senatbl*
Eastland, for itstanibe, would
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N. 0. Airport ,
Accused of ias
WASHINGTON, D. C.-41>e
eral government this week accused
the city of Nrv Orleans of illegalljr
maintcining racial segregation ot
restaurant faciHties at the city^’S
Moisant Inte.'national Airport.
The action, announced by At^.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy here was
the first federal move to halt dis
crimination against Negroes in
airport terminal facilities. Kennedy
said a civil complaint and a mo*
tion for a preliminary injunction
were filed at Federal District
Court for the Eastern District ol
Louisiana at New Orleant.
The action was taken at the re
quest of the Civil Aeronautics
Board and the Federal Aviation
Agency.
“As in other cases invoIvli|g dis
crimination, we first attempted to
work this out with local offidaU
without court action,” Kennedjr
said. But he said that he had not
received satisfactory assWancta
that such facilities would be .made
available to the public without
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William Howard Cox to a Federal
Judgeship this waak from NAAQP
excutive secretary, Itoy WUikiiu.'