THE CAROLINA TIMES
2.A—DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 37, 1M2
FACTORI OF RACE HATE THAT MUIT II OISTROYID TO RETAIN LEADERJHIF
The Necessity of Registering and Voting
Thp Carolina Times wishes to call atten
tion of its readers to the fact that Satunlay
is the last Hay to register for the election to
he held on Titeslay, Xovemher 6. W’e trust
that every qualified N’epro man and woman
who has not done so will not rest until he has
registered before the books close at 6:.10 p.m .
Saturday. October 27 Tn several cities and
counties of the state the registration books
are alw»y* open. In nuch cases wc advise
those not registered to not wait until Patur
day but do so now.
Many of the ills that confront Xegroes as
a race in various sections of the state and
the south would disappear if all of those who
are qualified would only register and vote.
In several counties and congressional districts
of Xorth Carolina where the Xegro pojjula-
tioij constitutes from .“>0 to 72 |)ercent of the
whole, there is not one Megro holding a pub
lic office. This is a sad state of affairs and
is due to a lack of leadership, and. in some
instances, to downright iriKirance or lethargy
in the m.itter of registering and voting.
There are several congressional districts in
,\’orth Carolina in which a N’egrci could easily
be elected to Congress if members of the race
would only regi»ter and vote in pro|)ortion
to their percentage of population. Instead,
these very sections are those in which there
is prevalent a serious lack of interest in reg
istering and voting.
We urge those in positions of leadership to
bestir themselves and see to it that every ■
member of the race who can qualify becomes
a registered voter. We urge our young pe(»
pie who are below voting age to organize
youth movements in section where Xegrocs
have not lieeu arousel to the necessity of reg
istering and voting and make a door-to-dooi
canvass in an effort to enlarge the voting
strength of the race. Once this is Ione many
dM>rs now closel to Negroes will swing wide
open.
The Setediwt of the Next President of NCC
The special committee appointed bv the
Rortrd of Trustees at North Carolina College
to find a person to succeed Dr. Alfonso Elder,
who is soon to retire as its president, has a
difficult and tremendous responsibility on its
shoulders. To begin with, there is a serious
shortage of men qualified and available to run
an institution the size of NCC. Even if the
trustees have to offer more money than the
present president is receiving, the rin-ht kind
of persons is sure to take into consideration
several other factors before accepting such a
position.
It is, therefore, our hope that the special
committee will not comb the nation to find
the most harmless creature to place at the
head of the school. In this \ve think we have
the support of the alumni, the faculty and
friends of NCC. This is no dav for conformists
or persons who have no convictions of their
own. The challenges which NCC and all other
educational institutions are poing to be call
ed on to meet in the immediate days ahead
are going to call for strong and courageous
leadership. A man with this quality in all pro
bability will not be acceptable at all times to
certain segments of the citizenship of this
state, hut he should be generally acceptable
to the progressive element of Negroes whose
sons and daughters will be sent to NCC to b*
educated.
The resnonsibilitv of conveving the thinking
of NeTro leaders of the state to the remaind
er of the citizenrv on a matter as important
as the naminp' of a president to one of its
lending educational institutions rests squarely
on the shoulrlers of the Negrn members of the
NCC Trustee Hoard. The white leadership o*
North Carolina must not tinder any circum
■ stances be led to believe that any person pos*
spssinir academic achievement only will be
acceptable to Negroes as president of the
school. The next president of NCC should
bring .something to the school rather than
have it confer some stature on him. Certainly,
his past achievements .shottld be of such mag-
nitttde that he would not take from the
school what prestige it has. These are im
portant factors the special committee ap
pointed by the NCC Trustee Board should
take into consideration in their search for the
next president of North Carolina College.
KKK'
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RIGHTS
What the White Man Needs Most:
A First Class Awareness ^ Alj
Humm are Fallible-Ev&t He
lin r*»lv JeOwi
"What
her * just salary?
Hi* Ncaro N««d$ Most: A Flnl As a letter replying to Mr
CI«M Citif«n« Council) Fischer’s article has stated; "The
By JOHN W. PLBMINO Negro is not seeking the white
Since John fischer, a white man’s acceptance.” He is seeking
man, was so hold as to write constitutional rights. He realizes
about the Negro’s basic need, I, that men are more fallible than
a Negro and just as bold, am the Ideals of the constitution,
writing about the white man’s
most pressing need. As indicated moving toward the Demo-
in the title, the white man’s great Creed it is not necessary
est need is the recognition that identity. If my
he. as ail other men, is fallible white
susceptible to mistakes, and err- >'’®n’s standard; it I have othei
ing as all other humans do. idiosyncrasies contrary to his pat-
Throughout Mr. Fischer’s article *hat any indication that
my mores are wrong? My jazz can
one could hear ringing frotne y queerer to him
line: “White is right, ^nd hillbilly music does to me.
that basic hypothesis h constitutional right
ing criUcisms were to play and sing hillbilly music if
Negro for failing so many times j
to achieve the established stand-
,rd (esUblishe,-. by the white
man).
Not only did ne criticize but, as Mr. White Man, like ail
so often with the case of the self- people, we have our bad and our
righteous, he failed to see in the good. We have some people whose
Negro’s mistakes a reflection of gpt, make us bow our heads in
the sins of all men. shame. And then we have others
, ... whose heroic lives cause us to
Crime, immorality, ‘Heg timacy
broken window panes unkempt ^
lawns and eliminate all the mediocre, all the
not things that characterize » . . , ,,
cnminals, all the poor house-
r-ce. TOere keeprs, and all those who show
tion between these things and pov weaknesses of
er^ an gnoranc . human nature from among us, I
Clarence Daijow once sa d Yot. ^
are a cnm o# who asking too much. Man is not an
what you do but because of wno , . , t ^
you are.” Certainly the color of angel And I am afraid that earth
the skin has been responsible in « ready for a whole race of
many cases for Negroes going to angels.
prison. And vice versa, the color many group and units
of the skin has kept many whites vvorking for the uplift of human
out of prison. The men who mur- i,ut we don’t have, and don’t
dered Emmett Till are typical ex- „ggd any more than any other
amples. Crime is a legal term ethnic group of “do-it-all” reform-
based on conviction. But wrong j„g citizens Council,
doing is still wrong doing wheth- ^s the white race has had its
er the perpetrator is convicted or Benedict Arnold. Baby Face Nel
not. son, ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, and John
The same is true of immorality. Dillinger; as it has had its robber
The immoral acts in Hollywood barons, embezzlers, political graft-
thouBh glorified and dignified ers, and gangsters, so have we
are just as immoral as the same had people of ill-repute. As the
acts committed on South Side white race has produced its out-
Chicago, the Central Area, Cleve standing people, so have we pro
land; or in Harlem, New York. duced Benjamin Banneker, George
Illegitimacy, the white man in Washington Carver. Percy Julian,
timates. Is a racial (Negro) trait, Ralph Bnnche, Martin Luther
As Professor Stember of Rutgers King, and many more. We are
stated so well in a recent letter proud of them as the white man
to Harpers, the ratio of Negro ille is proud of his great ones. But
gitimacy to white ■would be differ- we would not expect the Caucas-
ent if the abortion, which Negroes ian race to be labeled a race of
are often unable to pay for, was geniuses and saints because it has
eliminated as a face-saving tech produced some geniuses and
nique for whites. saints. Nor would we expect every
On this matter, another point Negro to have horns and carry a
is worth pondering. From the col- pitchfork simply because some
or of the skin and the texture of Negroes are devils. And, as im
the hair of many of these so-called plied in Mr. Fisclier’jt acti«l«r we
Negro illegitimate children, we would not want a standard of
wonder the white man, recog sainthood set that every Negro
niting his fallibility, would not niust meet before any Negro can
admit that he too is responsible achieve first-class citizenship,
for this illegitimacy? All of these burdens that have
What about the accusation that heen placed on the Negro could
the Negro ignores the run-down he lightened IF the white man
condition of the home in which would only see himself as he
he lives while keeping his car should. What the white man needs
shiny and in good shape? In many is to free himself of his
cases he is renting the house in “Messiah Complex,” of the “Su-
which he lives. Low salaries and Perman Fallacy.” He needs to
restrictive covenants have kept *'®alize that he has made mis
him from buying a home of his Waites, is making mistakes, and
own. He does, by straining, make continue to make mistakes,
enough to bny a car. It is human What he needs to realize is that
nature for a man to take better ^|’>^ricanism cannot be equated
care of that which he owns than white man’s standard
that which lie rents. Even the Negro’s standard, Ameri-
white man must admit that. canism is moving toward the ful
A husband who toils all day of the American dream;
in a sweat shop, a wife who labors and fair play for all. It is
all day in a laundry or in some 1"® talent, energy, abilities—
body’s kitchen will not feel too , ; white, red, whomsoever—
much like mowing a lawn, patch- common purpose of pro-
ing a roof, or painting a window ® freedom and liberty for
when work hours are over. It may
come as a surprise, but most Ne
groes in a middle class salary
bracket and with leisure time to
perform chores around the house,
keep it in good shape.
One thing that the “Superman
Fallacy” has made the white man
adept at doing is finding sociplp
gical and psychological causei to
account for any mistake of a
white individual. But in viewing
the Negro’s 6rrant act, he looks
for symptoms. He never sees pov
erty and ignorance, the tact that
he is the last to be hired and the
first to be fired, inferior schools
and response to prejudice behind
a crime committed by a Negro.
Another thing that his lack of
awareness that he too is fallible
has caused him to do: Crime
when committed by a white per
son, is always personal and in
dividual. Crime, when committed
by a Negro, is indicative of a
racial trait. “Jack is a rapist be
cause all Negroes are rapists.”
“That house with the rags in the
window belongs to my cook Sally.
All Negroes live In run-down
homes. That accounts for the
shabby appearance of Sally’s
house.”
Did it ever occur to this person
that Sidly could probably liv« in
better qiiarten U M would oajj
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
REV. HAROLD ROLAND
Man Must Remember There Is
Divine Power Greater Than His
Revelations of the Spirit
Several years ago we stated in these colums
that it was stupid to snatch a perfectly good
classroom teacher from behind a desk and
thrust on his shoulders the full responsibility
of administering the affairs of a college or
university. We further suggested that it
heads of educational institutions of higher
learning serve an internship or serve a period
of understudy to a college administrator. We
predicted at the time that if the practice
of placing novices at the heads of our col
leges continued that some of them were cer
tain to get into trouble of one kind or another
• It now appears that in one ease, least, ottr
"ersion and our prediction were revelations
if tlie spirit rather than the flesh. Although
it has not leaked out yet it is being whispered
in certain circles that Shaw University is now
in serious financial difficulties. It is being
further whisperel that its former president.
Dr.'William R. .‘>trassner, iufcuued the Trustee
Board before hr left the school that the cur
rent indebtedness of Shaw was only $20,000
while it has been revealed that instead tlie
school owed at the time over $225,000 with an
adIed capital indebtedness of over $200,000.
As disconcerting as the indebtedness is. it
could be easily wiped out in view of the fact
that there are over .100.000 Negro Tlaptists
in North Carolina provided the ministers of
the churches in which the memberships are
"hftd ‘WodTd furnish theneaHership for a coii-
certed financial effort to get Shaw out of its
present predicament. There are those who
feel that the leadership should come from the
present {^resident of the State Baptist Con
vention but because of some unknown reasons
he has failed to furnish it. They further feel
that if he would furnish the leadership that
the present indebtedness of Shaw could be
easily wiped out.
As it now stands the .100.000 or more Bap
tists of the State are at a standstill awaiting
for the leadership that will save their school
from its present embarrassing situation. The
big question now is will the present president
of the Baptist State Convention lead the way
or prove to be just another mediocre leader
sloshing around in shoes that are too big for
him ?
"It was travslling with
authority from ih« chief
priests ..." Acts 26:12
God’s sovereign power stands
above the fading, feeble pow
er of man. Amid the fears and
anxieties of the use of so-call
ed human power, we should
remember that there is a high
er power. Men through the
permissive Providence of God
Almighty exercise a brief and
passing power^ Men strut in
pride and use their litttUMow f
er for a brief day and th«j®they
must lay it down. Paul fail
ed to realize this that day as
he got his grant of power from
sin-ful and dying m,en. Look at
him going in the'fading grab
of a brief grant of earthly
THORITY FROM THE CHIEF
PRIESTS . •” He torgets that
in God Almighty there is the
highest power.
God rules in the majesty of
absolute, sovereign power over
time, space and eternity. Paul
rides on and at high noon he
is dramatically reminded that
there is God the Creator, the
higer power. Governments and
individuals are permitted by
God to wield the scepter of
power for a brief period. Then
nations and individuals lay
aside their garments of power
and go the way of all the
earth. Men need reminders
that God Almighty is the ulti
mate source of power. The
little power we may be grant
ed to use is only for a - brief,
fleeting momient. This is God’s
world and he is the ruler too.
^liwe all med to realize the
brief, uncertain nature of our
tenure of power. God has the
last word and he rules in
sovereign power.
We are dwellers in houses
of clay with a dusty founda
tion. What can be weaker than
a "tiDUse of day with-a dtwty
foundation? You know this is
the great spiritual truth
that Job culled out of the
smashing impact of his dis
astrous sufferings. Why should
we be so prideful and arrogant
with our brief grant of power
from God the ground of all
power. We have nothing to
brag about. All we have
comes from God the final
source of power. We play our
little part on the stage of life
and then we must pass on to
our eternal destiny. Then let
us ever remember God the
higher power. There let us get
wise and use our grant of
power for the service of man
kind and glory of God.
We are, therefore, stewards
of God Alrrt'ighty, the higher
power. In this ultimate pow
er, God, we live and move and
have our being. In love and
servic^let us use our {;rant of
power. We shall be, held ac
countable before God the Ultl
mate power one day. Then we
all should be faithful in the
use of our God-given gfts. Let
us not be guilty of misusing
and abusing ■ our powers.
Jesus said that God would
given a Joyous' weTc6me and
well done to those who use
their powers and gifts in love
and faithfulness. Tlien let ua
exercise our stewardship of
God-granted power that we
may hear his well done.
God is sovereign in power
and we are given brief grants
of this power and we shall be
held accountable before God
the Ultimate source of power.
UN •BestaelleryMfor M*d;, jj|j,|j,
Says Author of Road to Peace
Better Arrangements For NCC Homecoming
There were two unfortunate coiulition.s
that obtained in connection with the N. C.
College Homecoming cdebratiou last Satur
day which it appears to this newspaper might
have been easily avoided had those in charge
of the affair used a little foresight and ih»
genuity. The first involved the very poor
organization of the parade. The second was
the lack of seats available for those who had
paid the price of admission to witness the
game.
There were several breaks in the parade’s
pifO Ajrtntat? N c.
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t, % AyvriN, PttbUihw
tttaais umi ai-anu
mtttw at the Poat OihM
CwoUna, under tiM Ad of
S.
mm, if«rttcu«tw
MHlpil-OilM hmu at 4M s. Mttgnw M.
COmMVrripM EAW: M.OO PSB TBAB
rcMTVM the right to make chaag«
Ift ikiMllriil piMlihed, wctpt fw totten to
1| 4^ Mt giunuitae return of ancollcited
line of march which ranged from one to five
or six blocks. .As a result it consumed over
two hours when it could have been completed
within one hour had the participants been
better organized and better instructed. It is
our hope that those in charge of the Home
coming celebration next year will see to it
that the line of march will be so organized
that part of the parade will not arrive at its
destination before the other part moves off
from the .starting point.
So far as the shortage of seats was con
cerned, it appears to us that it would cause
less complaints and confusion if the NCC
athletic officials would limit the sale of tick
ets to the seating capacity of O'Kelly Field
or provide more seats, especially for the
Homecoming events apd others that are most
likely to draw a larger attendance than under
ordinary circumstances.
IF WE HOPE to end up with anything in
the asset column, we must learn that con-
gtructive self«criticigm is imperative.
ONE DAY yot» seem broke, and the ne^ct
month you are offered all you ever prayed
lor, to keep prayinjf, son.
NEW YORK—“The best she'-
yet devi.sed for mankind.”
That is what the United Nations
reoresents to more and morp na
tion's .savs Vera Micheles Dean
in ROADS TO PEACE.
In this new 25-cent pamphlet
i.ssiied this week by the Public
Affairs PommiHep (22 East 38th
Street. New York 16. N. Y.>
Mrs. Dean de.scribps the world
as oppratine on three levels; (1>
the nation-state: (2) the reeional
ornanizations. as for example
NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Or
panization of American States,
the Common Market; the
world community—the UN and
its .sneoialized agencies. Each of
thpse she considers a road which
“if well-markod and delimited,
servpq a useful nurpose in the
search for peace.”
Mrs. Dean is a distincui.shed
author whosn most recent books
are THE NATURE OF THE
NON-WF„?TFRN WORLD. NEW
PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY IN
INDIA, and BITILDERS OF
EMERGING NATIONS. Former
research director and editor of
the Foreign Policy Association
and director of the Non-Westem
Civilizations Program at the Uni
yersity of Rochester from 19S4
to 1962. Mrs. Dean Is now pro
fessor of international develop
ment in the Graduate School ol
Public Administration at New
York University.
In ROADS TO PEACE aht an
alyzes concisely the three levels
piven above, taking into account
current developments, potentials,
and limitations. Of “the nation
road” she writes: “Far from be
ing obsolete, nationalism shows
greater vitality than ever as one
nponle after another in Asia,
Africa, the Middle East, and Lat
in Amerira demands its plap«> in
♦he world community. . . . There
is no doubt that the nation con
tinues to serve essential pur
no.ses . . . But in the increasing
ly comple^ world of our times
. . . theMj^tion Is no lonser the
principal road to a people’s se
curity and prosperity.”
Of^ "the region road.” Mrs.
Dean concludes; “In all conti-
npnts. regional organizations
valuable as they may be for cer
tain practical onrposes. do not
s»em able to hold within bounds
the larger aspirations of nations
which are Increasingly aware
that trade and science, arma
ments and politics, not to speak
of oiiter-soace exploration, can
not be fullv developed or con
trolled within a framework nar
rower than that of the world-”
The major secUtm of ROADS
TO PEACE is devoted to a dis
cussion of “tbe world road”—
the UN, which '‘serves ai a ‘mul
tilateral umbrella* for world di
ploraacy, under which the great
and small can threah out and
adjust their ditfcnocei.”
Rafar to Committee
By Marcus H. Boulware
Very often a question comes
before the club before all of
the necessary information has
been gathered-
A good way to propose this
motion is as follows;
“Mr. Chairman, I move that
we refer this motion to a com
mittee of five people who will
report to us at the second
meeting in July.”
The chairman calls for a se
cond, debate, and finally a
vote on the motion “to refer
to a committee.” If carried, the
motion goes to the committee.
Debate ore “referral to a
committee” is limited, and what
ever debates there is centers
around the nunrftier of persons
on the committee, or the time
for the committee to report
to the organization.
READERS; For my parlia
mentary law chart of motions,
send fifty cents (to cover cost
of handling) to Dr. M. H. Boul
ware, Box 310-A, Florida A.
anrd M- University, Tallahassee,
Florida.
llie farmer gets less than
three cents for the wheat
that goes into a 20 cent loaf of
bread.
Farmers have twice as much
mpney irryested in ntachinery as
the steel industry aad five tinMis
as much as the automobily !•-
ALL,
Veteran's
Comer
Here are authoritative ai>
swers by the Veterans Admiiv
istratipn to questions from form
er servicemen and their fami
lies;
O—Can the Vetaraqs Ad-
iBiniatrati«n pay for •mn-
g«iic7 traatmant of the sarv-
lea connactad conditiona ^
Tatarans in private hospitalst
Ai—^Yes, provided the ntved-
ical emergency was such tha^
an attenupt to obtain admis
sion to a VA hospital would
have been hazardous to the
veteranr and if the emergency
treatmen t is reported to the
nearest VA hospital or region
al office within 72 hours after
the veteran’s admission to the
private hoapital.
Is the U. S. vata*_
pepulatiott growing ot dacii)
lag at prmnt? .
A^,-£astest VA figures shoiL
the U. S. veteran populatiol
declined 127,000 during the
iQOntlia precedlnf August i.