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THI CAROLINA TIMII 3-A--0UXHAM, N. C. lATURDAY, DICIMIIIt 1, tttt The Olher Side of The Deep Swtfi Ub«r UbIm IIm hM tf iikf thU (isn wirli Tn a puest editorial appearing- in the No- vrnihor 17 issue of Saturday Review. Ralph McCiitl. noted publisher of the Atlanta Con st ittitionn pens a most penetratinif and thmipht provoking piece on the situatinn as it obtains ,it tlip I’nive'-sity of Mississipfti since the en- trniire of James Meredith to tbiit institution. -Mr. MrGill’s editcriHl tlso ifives an enlijjhl- entng view or look into the minds of some of the forward looking faculty members of “Ole Miss” and plainly shows that even in Mississippi there is another side to the Mere- ■dith story, small and weak though it may be p- present. In quoting a statement from one of this particular group, whose name for obvinns reasons was not given, Mr. Mcdill xv-nfp in part as follows: "I trust it %WH not Im mkHnMlarttood,” wro^K ■ *f Hm faeidty at IIm Uni* versltv of MisdM^ "if I My thirt avwy time I Me JamM INaradMi mi omr aampM the tone aM) wmiIp af aa old pirH«ai ran throaiHi my liaarii 'Swine L«w Swaat Cha* rint, cominc far I* aarry m* homa.' Soma (if «« here aaa in Um, awl tha dew avolv* inf nHMnint of M« awtraaea md praaawca, M deaHfiy-aant dbariot, awanff low, to lift thii Miivanity ami all who love it Mid iiova for it ont of the moroM of faar, adueational inadeqaacies. and malwkalieva in vriiiali k has lo lonff livad. ‘To soaak in the Tamaealar ef tiio tinMa," ha continuad, "wa ara fraadem ridara rid* ing the hope aymboliaad by MaradMi'a pretence. Throafh him freedom may come to thoayht and teacliing. Wa may, in tfane, be able to turn tlia Itasineaa of education and creating: a university worthy of the name. It will not ba soon. But hope has been i)om.” felsewhere in the article Mr. McGill goes on to say- “Standards at the University have remain ed relatively low, despite efforts to raise them. One factor contrifaptinv^ to this is a state policy admittinc any high schod grad uate wIm Ims completed tlie required sec ondary sc1mn4 coarsas ragardlesa of his rradea. The curriculum is not ragardad aa sound, though some indivi'lual teachers are siqwrior and obtain excellent results. The university supports no debating society, no student literary pablicMlon. It has never bean aUa te obtain « Phi Beta Kappa chap ter. newspapers and magazines are not read ily available on tha campus or in t>xford. The atadant newspaper has been harassed by the slate legislature and tha CCs (Citi* ana Counails . . . It ia against this melaneholy background that James Meredith has emerged ^ a sym bol ef change. Resistance remains strong, angry and determined. But the state has radaaad its payments to the CCs Forum. The govamer has had te «aU off a Chicago Winner at which he wes te have addressed 2M Midwest indaatrialits en happy life and adnmtagas bi Missiaaippi. One hundred husinaaa Imders have called for a recogni- tiea ef law. The fawulty supporters of the CCs na longer seem quite so arrogant and assured. They and the stadant informers haya seen that the CCs are not, after all, graater thtn the tovammant of the Unitd Stat^ They have bean forced to think on consthational r^ta, conmoa to all. Hape. therefore, gibnmers at "Ola Miss.’* it ia a tkiy flama. Bat U bama.** Here, arrnin, is the voice of the little known deep South, speaking out. not too loudly, but at least speaking out in no uncertain terms Mgalnst the running; putrid and cancerous sore which infects the social order and moral fiber of this section of the nation. As weak as the voice is now it gives hope that some day it will be heard above those of the Citi zens Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, other or ganizations and individuals that are making it impossible for the deep South to keep abreast of progressive sections of the nation. That there are those even in Mississippi, however few in number, who realize that it is utterly impossible to build a great state, a great people or a great nation on bigotry, race hatred and segregation is encouraging to those of us who wish to see the South grow and prosper. Senator Samuel J. Ervin’s statement made last we^k, following the announcement that a Negrq lawyer had been appointed assistant attorney for the Middle District of North Carolini, to the effect that he had nothing to do With naming a Negro to the post, un covers Bo surprise or startling information to the Negroes of the stat?. While a maiDrity of of them may not know that both the state’s senior senator and its junior senator, B. Everett Jordan did everything in their power to block the appointment, they are fully aware of the fact that both North Carolina senators have voted against every piecc of civil rights legislation that has come before the U. S. Senate. Likewise Negroes of the state arc aware that lM)th of them also op posed the confirmation of the appointment of Thurgood Marshall for the Circuit Court of Appeals. It is also being revealed that whereas Di strict Attorney W. H.Murdock did not o))|K)ss the a()pi)intnu“nt of the Negro lawyer, he did nothing lo aid it.Thus, it now appears that the naming of .Attorney Henry H. Frye to the post was designed and consummated en tirely by high officials of the present admlhi stration in Washington, without the ap proval, the blessings or even the suggestioa of Democratic Party bigwigs' of North Car Don't Support South African Bias The General .Assembly of the United Na tions has passed a re.solution condemning the racial exclusion (apartheid) policy of the Union of South Africa and calling on all members of the UN to boycott South African goods and shut off all exports to that country. The vote was 62 to 16 with 23 abstentions. Unfortunately, the resolution is not com pulsory but merely a recommendation. In the next place, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France were among the 16 nays. The unwillingness of the United States to boycott South African goods does not, how- errr, leave the American consumer power- published evacy latuiJai at Dartuua, N. C. by Uaitad MklisiMn. lac. L. C. AIOTm, PnbltriMr Tatephona: Mi-UU §mt Ml-MlS fcrtuiid aa second daas oiatter at tiw Post O0M «t Darbam. Nbrtli OBNHaa, undar Act • ■anb a. tm I JBwlil fg a PatHgaa m. IM* All Money Created Equal, Says Los Anoeles Ntimillionaire SPIRITUAL INSIGHT REV. HAROLD ROLAND A Clear Conscience Is Very Essential to Good Christians Frye's Appointment No Credit for NX Democrats olina. Whether the state’s two .senators will ad mit it or not, they now stand before the eyes of the nation and Jhe world as opposing two preeminently qualified per.sons for the posts to which they were appointed for no other rea.wn than they are Negroes. Thus, without their conscience to do what they felt was politically expedient rather than what was morally right. In spite of this tra§(ic situation North Car olina will not fail to exploit the appointment of attorney Frye to the rest of the nation as evidence of the state's favorable climate of race relations and as part of its efforts to lure industry to North Carolina. Negro lead ers who have been able to out maneuver the wishes of the Democratic Party leaders of the state and nail down the appointment of Frye are beginning to wonder if it's not time for the party to begin trotting out for high public office candidates of a higher caliber. They are Iwgtnning to wonder just how much longer they will be required to remain loyal to a state administration that is never will ing to reward such with |M>liticaI appoint ments that have the approval of high officials of Democratic Party in the state. "Brothsri, I have lived with a perfectly clear con science before God . . Acti 23:1. A clear conscience before God is a supreme spiritual blessing. Human beings desire and search feverishly for many Other things |p this life but a fleu copsciinae nre treasure. We seek for influence, prestige, education, power, wealth and position. Yes, we run in Hot pursuit after many things in search for that inner state of satisfation callcd hap piness. But here Paul reminds us of one of the real sources nt ahiHing h.ippimpsg that -he had found: A Clear Conscience before God. What greater bless ing is there beneath the vault ed skies than a clear conscience giving you pcsce before God and with man? A clear conscience gives the ble.s.sed spiritual fruits of soul peace. The spiritual slate of a clear conscicnee carries the beautiful idea expressed by the hymnologist . . . “There is nothing between my savior and me . . And O how blessed It is to find and live in this spirttual dtafte. It give» you peace when you meert, your brother. It gives freedom from agonizing burdens of guilt that know and nag you into a state of restlessness. A clear con science means restful, refresh- inf slew fit pight. The clear bMcien^ fgivfes thirt peace dm that is beyond all human uniderstanding. A clear conscience is a basic element in the peace of body, I mind ^and soul. If you would raall^'be healthful then go to , (Md and get your conscience cManT Your conscience, may be, needs a spiritual dry clean ing. The Writer of Psalm FIjKy-one took his dirty con srfence before God and ask that it imight be washed and cleaned that he might enjoy again health of soul and spirit. We hear him crying out for heal ing . . Create within me a clean heart God . . . and ren'ew a right spirit within me . . Many are sick because they have a sick conscience that needs God’s spiritual healin'g and cleansing. Thus if you would enjoy health of body, mind and soul take that con science to God for .cleansing. A clear conscience gives a fortaste of Heaven on earth. What a wonderful and joyous feeling it is to be in union with God and man. It is Heavenly In a world of.sin Ind 'darkness to be in fellowship with God. With a clear conscience we can skip light heartedly and joyous ly about life facing its joys and sorrows. Yes, with a clear conscience we can turn life’s troubles and sufferings into a song. Job felt that his^ corr- ^ence was clear before Gof regardless of what his friends in their misunderstanding could say. Thus we hear Job rising from the darkest depths of his suffering and bereave ment crying out joysously and triumphantly . . . “GOD MY MAKER GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIOHT . This precious coin of the spirit a clear conscience be fore God—can be had by all Yes, We All Talk less. The individual buyers should let .stores offertng Union of South African goods for sate know that they will not but them. If Americans, and particularly Negroes, will tnke a definite stand against the importing and sale of articles made in the Union of .South Africa, the importers will refuse to bring them in. Those stores which continue to support the rilod policy of racial discrimination of the Union of South .Mfrica hy spend i n g money with it ought to be boycotted by all Americans intertsted in seeing to it that the repressive policies of the Union of South Africa are diacontinued. —THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE Hctre are auHjhoritative answers by the Veterans Ad ministration to questions from former servicemcnr and their families; Q—For whom does the VA provide guardian service? —During the past fiscal year, VA provided guardian ship service for 104.469 ve terans, 390,341 minors, and 16,163 adult dependents of ve terans. At the end of the fiscal year their estates amounted to more than million. Q—How do VA expendi ture* for compentalion com pare with amounts spent for pensions in a given year? A—In fiscal year 1962, the VA paid an average annual paynfent of $850.30 fo 2,372,- 683 compensation cases for which the total expenditure was $2,017,482,^04. During the same period annual pension payments averaged $880.05 to 1,854,881 pensioners whose total payments amounted to $1,632,387,762. Q—Where can I get informa tion explaining the choice between tha old VA pension plan and the new pension plan that went into effect July 1. I960? A—You may visit, write or telephone any VA office for this information. A choice of the two pension systems is oppn to those pensioners al ready o" the rolls on June 30, IsSp. Those coming on the pension rolls after that date automatisally come under the new pension law. Answers to Veterans Questions At one time I had an elderly talkative chauffeur who moat have been toM a hunlred times by his daughter never to say ‘1 see him.’ He was commandtd to say '1 saw him.’ The trouble was that the oW fellow dropped "■MB* froiB his vocabulary. Everything was ‘saw’. He would say, ‘I haven’t saw him for ycari.’ H« thoMght ha was being elegant. By MARCUS H. BOULWARI Question: Can you recommend a phonograh record containing lessons to improve one’s speech? —H. L. Answer— I recently received some advertisement literature listing the title of a phonograph record “Speak Well Off the Re cord.” The record (CL 1361) uses the modem method of overcom ing pronunciation problems, in correct speech habits and speech handicaps. There are 12 partici pation exercises with a 16-page manual of instructions. Ilie advertisement says the re cord Js excellent for remedial speech classes, all grade levels. The record was created by Paul Mills, consultant to industrial and United Nations personnel. You may order this record and manual from: Columbia Records Education Department, Order Service Pittman, New Jersey. Other offices are located in Los Angeles 48, Calif., and Terre Haute, Ind. (Allow me to say that I bave not auditioned the record.) READERS: For my parliamen tary law chart of motions, send fifty cents to Dr. Marcus H. Bouhrare, Box 310-A, Florida A. and II. Univertlty, Tallahassee. Fla. Randoipli To Address Sigma Conclave In Dec. CLEVELAND. Ohio — A Phillin Randolnh. the Internatinnal Presi dent of the Brothprboorl .'>f ine Car Porters will h« Ihe nrin cipal .speaker of t’le Public M'et- in? of tho 4Rlli Anniversary Con clave of the Phi B"ta Sisma Fra ternity, Incorporat''fl. which W'P convene in Cleveland. Ohio, at the Pirk-Cnrter Hotel, from December 2fith through December 30th. Randolph is .scheduled to ad- the Nntinnal hoflv and their •suests in the main ballroom of the Piek-Carter Hotel on Thursday evening, December 27th, at 8:00 p.m. Frank Brown, General (Enclave Chairman, said. “The Theme of the 48th Conclave is Victory through Enlichtened lieadership.” Randolph is a Vice-President of the Negro American Labor Coun cil. Phi Beta Siema Fraternity is one of the four National Negro CoMefiate Societies with more than aoo chapters located on Negro College campuses, in cities of the United States, the Virgin Islands, Europe and Africa. The Fraternity was orcanized at Howard University in 1914 by A. Langston Taylor, L. F. Morse and C. I. Brown. Dr. C. U. DeBerry, of Greens boro, N. C., is director of the Southeastern Region for the fra ternity. I LOS anoeles — The patrl arch of America’s richest Negro family sinnple in a $125 a month apartment, reveals the Decem ber issue of Ebony. He is 84 year old multimil lionaire L. M. Blodgett of Los Angeles, who anrussed a saving and loan fortune estimated at more than $3 million. He is so rich that, even if he loses a law suit which is now threatening half his holdings, he will still be a millionaire. He leads such a quiet life that Ebony says, be is “known to few outside of the Liberty Savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles, which Blodgett guided from a $16,000 beginning to an Institution with assets of more than $20 million.” Blodgett sold his half interest in Liberty last year for $2 million. The only frankly luxurious item in Blodgett’s qui^t, taste ful apartment is a $500 tele vision set. Ebony points out. But “if upstairs, he listens to the radio; two TVs would be extravagant.” Ebony spotlights Blodgett and his family and chronicles his rise to riches. Blodgett does not pay rent on his $125 a month apartmertt, because he owns the building and most of the pleasant, middle slass neighborhood. His bachelor son, A. J Blodgett, lives nearby in an equally simiple apartment nnd his daughter, Mrs. Josephine Blodgett Smith and her husband ■ind two children, have a home in- the neighborhood too. Less retiring than her father and her brother, Mrs. Smith is active in civic and chartible work and “bStieves that money has three fundamental uses: security, edu cation and enjoyment.’ Ebony chronicles Blodgett’s irrival in California in 1906 at the age of 28 in response to rail -oad advertising. “They were urging all us young people to i»o west,’ he tells Ebony. He worked his way up from i bricklayer to building contrac tor, and then with other success ful Lns Angeles businessmen, formed Liberty Savings, During the depression, Blodgett took "Greensboro Continued from front page drawal of the bands the fact that sentiment was high among Negroes over the arrests of the Bennett and A. and T. students in the sit-ins. TKe sTt-ins anr suBsequent aT rests were staged prior to the parade. Also this week, it was reveal ed that a film company, hired by the United States Informa tion Agency, had recorded on film scences from the sit-in on Tuesday at the S and W cafe teria. The company, Van Dyke pro ductions of New York, is pre paring a documentary for the UISIA on the progress of Negro es in the U. S. over the past century. over active management of, the firm, and not only rescued it from the brink of failure but built it into the thriving insti tution it was when he sold it. “I didn’ give up and I had no fear of failing.’ “A fellow asked me how 1 learned to build houses and lend money and run a financial in stituiion. I told him I learned from experience,’ Blodgett tells Ebony. The richest Negro, says Ebony, “is dedicated to the pro position that all money is crcat ed equal and that onre enrned it should be used primarily to earn more.’ Uhlike the Horatio Alger stories, it isn’t all happy endini( \ for Blodgett. Says Ebony, "In ' the shark infested wafer of big I business, it is not unusual for ' the kingfish to incur something other than starry eyed admire tion along the way upstream. L. M.Blodgett is no exereption. His tight fiscal policies have not endeared him to all tho.se with whom he has come in business contact.’ Last year a group of white businessmen won a battle for Liberty Savings and Loan As sociation. Says Ebony, “Resist ‘ ing the bitter end, L. M. Blod gett finally sold out. Perhaps more than 20 years age . he would have fought and won, but now, a little more than a decade away from a century of living and under doctors’ orders to rest his weakened heart, Blod gett had to settle for the sooh ing feeling of another couple of million dollars and the proud memory of the financial institu tion he had built.’ Says Blodgett himself, “I had the satisfaction of knowing I had the best organized business the Negro ever had, barring mone.’ Blodgett is currently being sued by relatives of his late se cond wife, who claim half his holdingsi under California’s community property law. In Ebony he sums it up philo.so phically, “Even if they get all they’rt asking for. I’ll still ha^e a million in cash.” SiRfmaf* H*mor Former Officers NEW YORK—Fifty former chap- officers, national and regional officers of Phi B'-ta Si?ma frat^r- litv woro flw.irHpd seats in the fratprnitv’s Orchid Circle at a re- '’''tivstion ceremony at Sigma Among those honored were the 'ate Dr. Elmo Anderson, James (Billboard) Jackson. Augustine A. A”sHn. anH Clifford Clarke, and, living members, Alston Norwood, l^n"ene Whitlock. Amos Charles, lulins Casian. Clvde Jordan. A. F. L.omav, John Shepherd. Guy Co wer, I^s'ie Coles, Charl“s Frost, A. P. Morse, Louis Wilkerson,’ Daniel Niihteneale, Rudolph Adams. B. A. Applewhite. B. Bvas, G"orge Daley, C. M. Patrick, Oliver Eastmon. "Edenton Continued from front paqe picketing license , notify police authorities 24 hours in advance of picketing, stay within a five foot area prescribed by police and carry signs of a certain size. On the first day of the trial. Judge Williams Bundy ruled that the $10 picketing license fee was unconstitutional and ordered it .stricken from the or dinance. However, the eight were subsequently convicted by an all-white jury after a brief deliberation orr Wednesday of violating the remaining pro visions of the ordinance. All were convicted of violat ing the provisions requiring 24 hour advance notice and of viola ting the prescribed 5 feet picket inrg area. In addition, Barbara Roberts was convicted of carry ing a sign over 24 inches large. Others convicted were Rev. Frederick LaGarde and students Jessie Ellis, Frances Lawrence, Robert Capehart, Lois Carter, William Copeland and Emma Brothers. The charges stemmed irom demonstrations irr front of Mitchiners Drug Store in Feb ruary. -Brown Continued from front page Ushers Home in Franklinton on Sunday. Rev. Brown’s speech will high light the closing of the Ushers fund campaign to complete re novation of the home to be used for uMvad motlMn. Non-Violence Praised ATLANTA, Georgia Dr. Martin Luther King, Jp , presi dent of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told an audience at Atlanta University Center that non-violent action is still the most potent weapon in the continuing struggle for civil rights. Dr King said that if demo cracy is to live, segregation must die. for "segregation is a cancer which miust be cut out before the full moral health and ".trength of our country can be '■ealized’. Our love for America ■>nd the American way of life makes it imperative that we fight unjust systems. “How ever,’ he continued. The N. C. Interdenominational Ushers Association has been working for the pa.st three years to turn the old Franklin Chris tian College Into an institution for unwed mothers. It has received several gifts from philanthropic organizations and individuals throughout the state in the campaign. C. R. Craig, of Greensboro, state supervisor for the Ushers, is expected to announce the gift of 22 roomrs of furniture from a firm in the piedmont area of the state at Sunday’s meeting. Also on Sunday, a deep freeze chest will be given away at the urogram on Sunday. It will be awarded in a drawing to the holder of the lucky ticket. Rev. Brown’s trip to the Holy Land was made last summer fol lowing his victory in the Car olina Times Ministers Ponular- Itjr Contest. He toured Israel, Jordan, Athens, Rome and Pfcrb on tha trip.
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