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-THE CAROLINA * WMBI SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1988 2-A The World's Blackest Hour, You will need to read the August September issue of the Social Ques tion Bulletin, published by the Meth odist Federation for Social Action, to begin to realize what a mess the world is in over the matter of the awesome nuclear bomb. In an article written by Reverend William M. Justice he declares: "TOot only Soviet Russia but also Red China are now fully mapped for destruction," in quoting the testimony of Major Gene ral John P. Lavelle, U. S. deputy chief of staff and director of aerospace programs. Says the article further: 'The United States has targets picked out in China that would destroy, in the event of a general war, key govern ment and industrial centers as well as Peking's new nuclear facility." It adds "my government stands before the world drunk with military pow er." The article also quotes Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara as saying: "that with a 5-1 margin in nuclear striking power and with an atomic arsenal equal to 40 to 50 bil lion tons of TNT, the United States could absorb the largest surprise at tack that could be launched against it, and strike back with enough mis siles and bombers to assure the simul taneous destruction of both the Com munist Chinese and Soviet Russia." Says McNamada: "Since it is the policy of this country to never attack first, the U. S. must be prepared to suffer a first strike by Russia in which 100 mil lion Americans might be killed. He suggests that this country must maintain enough power to to take a first blow, suffer great damage including the total loss of our 50 biggest cities, then be able with certainty to kill 150 million Russians in return, and leave no big Russian city habit- Segregated Beneficiaries of Durham's UFC Durham's 1965 United Fund Campaign opened last Tuesday with $562,755 as the goal to be reached. I! the effort is to be acclaimed a success for this year, every intelli gent and loyal citizen of this city cannot escape the )x»rsc lal feeling of responsibility in helping to raise the more than one half million dollars necessary to reach the desired goal, the highest in the history of the United Fund Cami>aign. The chal lenge is a big one and every good citizen should feel obligated to put his shoulder to the wheel and help put the drive oyer. In supporting the annual United Fund Campaign Negro citizens of Durham face a challenge that is go ing to call for a far greater amount of unselfishness than is demanded of other citizens. Such a condition has been brought about by the fact that two of the beneficiaries of the United Fund, the Boys Club and the YMCA, have not yet found it possible to practice Christianity and democracy in their every day operation. Instead both the Boys Club and the "Y" con tinue to maintain a segregated policy in the face of the fact that they are recipients of money from the United Fund that gets it support from all the people of Durham. , As a result of the segregated policy of the above mentioned institutions the average Negro citizens of Dur ham is going'to find it hard to mus ter up the kind of enthusiasm that is desirable in support of the United Fond Campaign. In short it is going* to take more than ordinary altruism, Cuba: Further actions for disarmament A Dumber of actions took place in Cuba during July and August aa part of the campaign for disarmament and peace and to celebrate the first anniversary of the World Congress in Moscow. The Congress Message to the Peoples of the World was printed in 80,006 oopies sod distributed throughout the country. Lectures on "Dis armamsnt and Peaceful Coexistence" were held in the Universitiss of Havana, Las Villas and Oriente. The first lecture, at Havana University, was given by Dr. Joas Antonio Portuondo, Rector of Oriente Uni versity and President of the Oriente Peace Council. Prsss and radio reported on all these •vents while the television showed an fetersstmg documentary film on the Moscow Congress A photo- competition on the theme of 'Teaos and Sovereignty" was also organiaed and a leaflet printed explaining the aims of the disarmament campaign. » • * In a leading article of its Bulletin, the Cuban Movement for Peaoe and Sover GDR Peace Council pays tribute to Joliot-Curie A commemoration muting was held on 14 August in the Berlin House of German-Soviet Friendslup in memory of the French scientist and peace worker, Frederic Joliot-Curie'who died five years ago. It wae convened by the GDR Peace Council, the Central Executive of the Scientists' Association and the German-French Society in the GDR. The crowded audience included rrprcKiilatifts of peace movements in the USA, Australia, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Holland, Austria and Weft Germany. able. It is a shocking thing/that per sons in high position in our government would contemplate a course of action that would lead our country and the rest of the world into such unspeakable hor rors in the name of liberty and a free society of nations. Have, our ethical judgements gone hay wire? Are we on the slide toward barbarianism ? Is this to be our national policy? Do our national planners realize that government strategist in Washington are. now taking it for granted that with the outbreak of nuclear war there will be no survivors in the section of the U. S. east of Clevland?" It must now appear to even the dullest American citizen that it was one of the blackest hours in the, his tory of mankind when in World War II President Truman, as Commander on Chief of the military might of this nation, issued orders for the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Na gasaki. If and when the leaders of the na tions of the world are senseless enough to launch a third World War, we agree with the Social Questions Bulletin that: "In the conditions that prevail at the present time, the third World War is the greatest possible evil that can befall mankind. In com parison with it all other calamities become lesser evils. Its dilemma, which consists of either killing in nocent millions or being killed among guiltless millions, is absolutely un acceptable in both parts. Whoever ac cepts it, especially its first part, becomes a full moral bankrupt. A Democracy or Communist regime that kills millions of innocent per sons ceases to be a Democracy or Communism and simply become Mur der Incorporated." brotherly love and downright Chris tianity for any Negro parents with an ounce of self respect to shell out his or her money in support of an insti tution that insists on slamming the door in his child's face or even the face of a grownup for no other rea son than God Almighty made him a Negro. Such conditions provide the fertile soil in which disrespect for all law and order grows, not only among Negroes but white persons as well. It is the food upon which the Ku Kiux Klan. the Black Muslims and other such organizations .feed and thrive. One needs only to study con ditions that obtained in Los Angeles, before the recent riot, and other cities of serious racial disturbances, to dis cover that behind them all there existed the lack of mutual racial re spect that was bred, born and nur tured under conditions that encou raged racial discrimination rather than discouraged it. We think the time has come for the United Fund of Durham to with hold support from any organization that practices segregation. Such a course will give evidence that city officials and other leaders of Durham are not only willing to practice De mocracy but Christianity as well.. Such a course will discourage demon strations, racial disturbances and the court action, that is now being seriously considered, to prohibit the United Fund from collecting money from all the people and appropriating it to institutions that maintain a poli cy of segregation. eignty of the People* condemns the methods used by the Aref Government in Iraq and calls on the peoples to mobilise and support the rights of the Kurds. • • • On the 9th anniversary of the conclusion of th« Geneva Agreement, a rally was held in honour of the people of Vietnam, spon sored by the Cuban Institute for Friendship between the Peoples, the Cuban Trade Union Federation and the Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples. • • • The Cuban Movement for Peaoe and Sovereignty of the People has sent a warm and encouraging masaagu of greetings to the Nigenan Movement on the occasion of its first anniversary. -• * * Dr. Diego Qonrales gave an interesting lecture in memory of &e life ml woric of the great Romanian scholar, Jorge Mari neecu, under the auspices of the Cuban Movement for Peaoe and Sovereignty of the Peoples and the Cuban Medical Association MLUEDINTHISVOfiLD ASHE SHOWS BY HIS WISHES SPIRITUAL INSIGHT 0+ ~3L "W ("Thooo who live on tho lowor lovol havo thoir outlook for mod by it. "Rom. 8-5). Our outlooks are determined by the level of the environ ment in which we live. In living on the lower level of our sinful natures, then our out look is set by the pattern of the lower level. Redemption or regeneration is supposed to ef fect a transformation. And this transformation is a spirit ual operation. Its primary aim is to prepare us to move from the lcrwer life of sin to the higher life of the newness of life in Christ Jesus- There must be an inner spiritual change or conver sion if the outlook of the low er nature is to be changed. Every human being needs this spiritual change. There is no thing in us that can produce this change. We are unable to lift ourselves from the level of the lower nature by our won bootstraps. The power i Concern In the White By WHITNEY M. YOUNG The White House has indi cated that its forthcoming conference on race relations will emphasize the tragic plight of the Negro male. Stirred by the recent U. S. Labor Department study of widespread disorganization a mong the Negro poor, Presi dent Johnson has asked his braintrust to plumb beneath the surface and to produce some far-reaching solutions. "There will be no social peace in the United States for generations" (unless the Negro male has the same opportunies as his white counterparts), the report warns. His lot is re garded as the key to the fu ture of the Negro poor and that's every second family of color in this country. The Urban League move ment, of course, has long been trying to focus public opinion on this question. In fact, the Federal rtport cites these paragraphs from my To Be Equal" book (McGraw-Hill): "Both as husband and as a father the Negro male is made to feel inadequate, not be cause he is unlovable or un affeetionate, lacks intelligence or crime. Or he may escape But in a society that measures a man by the six* of hi* pay check, he doesn't stand very tall in comparison with his white counterpart To this situation he may rtact with withdrawal, bitter aess toward society, aggres sion both within the family and racial group, self-hatred, or crime. Or he may tscape through a number of avenues that help him to lose himself in fantasy or to compensate for his low status through a variety of exploits." As I read these words again I can the fresh batch of letters I will receive accus ing me on "making excuses tor Negro criminals" and the like. But just as I tell Nefro citizens thirt "We must do more than deplore injustice by whites" I say it is not enough HAVE THEY DIED IN VAIN? Our Outlooks are Determined By the Level of Our Environment for the change and the move must come from God. In Christ, and in Christ alone, we are made new creatures. God in Christ effects the inner spiritual change which makes us ready to move from the lower to the higher round of life. Christ redeems and moves us from the dark, miserable outlook of the lower nature. The outlook of the lower nature leads to darkness and misery. No one loves darkness and misery. Finally we all want to escape this darkness and misery of the lower na ture. We want the higher life in Christ Jesus. We would es cape the dark pit of misery We would leave behind the terrific burden of our unhappi ness. Weary of the burden of the lower nature we would lay it aside. To live on the lower levels of life we must be de termined by its OUTLOOK. Every soul cries out for the for white citizens to "deplore" crime among Negroes. This is a time for under standing and for action. Regarding the former, I found my recent trip to Africa of immense usefulness. On that continent I was deeply impressed by the heads-high attitude of ordinary Africans. The colonialism which they endured for centuries has not marked them a$ deeply as slavery did their American brothers. . In African society, the Afri can male whether he is a pilot or ditch-digger—feels his worth as an individual. His job is as steady as the next man's, and his family unit is as stable. (This is true for middle-class American Negro es, by the way.) He possesses • spirit of confidence in him self his daily role, and his fu ture. The difference lies in the fact that European colonialism thirsted to exploit the land its resources whereas slave ry sought to exploit the hum an person- Moreover, because THE CROCKETT CARTOON REVEILLE Bj REV. HAROLD ROLAND higher grounds of the abund ant ~ life offered by Christ Jesus. The life in Christ is life at its best. Then let us lay aside the burden of the old life of the lower nature through repentance and come and accept God's gift of high er life in Christ. Let us give Christ a chance in our life. And as you take of the sweetness and beauty of this higher life in Christ you will never want to return to the old with its darkness and misery. Life redeemed by Christ is life indeed. Life on the lefty heights of redemp tion is meaningful and satis fying. This life gives accept ance with God. This life is full and rich. This life is peaceful and joyous. This life ceases to be restless for it finds its rest in the ultimate security in God. Thus it can cry out joyously-peace, peace at last with God. House of our Judeo Christian heri tage, the slaveowners had to convince the Negro that slav ery was Holy Writ, and moral in keeping with the servant tality they forced the slave to assume. At the same time, they fed the vanity of un thinking white people with the pipe-dream of a superior race to justify slave-hold ing. Only in America has the Negro male been so deeply injured. My understanding is that President Johnson intends to hit hard the issue of the Negro male. Hopefully, his solutions will include far-reaching, meat and potatoe programs to en courage Negro youth, to re habilitate their poverty-struck fathers, and to improve their housing and economic pros pects. , t Most of the signs of over discrimination C*white" and "colored") have been taken down. Now the unwritten sign over our ghettos must be re moved. For too long it has read: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." CbtCm^aißmea Published every Saturday at Dorhain, N. C. by United L. E. AUSTIN. Publisher Second Class Poatage Paid at Durham, N. C. 818 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year plus (15c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to service men Overseas; Foreign, $7-30 per year, Sin gle copy 19c. Principal Offloe Located at 438 E. Pettigrew Street, Darfeam, North Carolina -Ex-Gov. Continued from front page the Declaration of Independ ence." Mr. Collins revealed that: —ln most cases during his tenure as director of the Com munity Relations Service the agency was "called in" to help troubled communities begin the "dialogue* between the warring factions. In only a few cases did it voluteer its service. —The greatest challenge to the community Relations Ser vice was to "crack the dark silence of a closed community where sterile monologues had strangled the free exchange of ideas and hope of growth." —The fundamental effort of the community Relations Ser vice was to go in and seek through persuasion and con ciliation to secure voluntary compliance with the law with out the "eruption of con flict." —To avoid the "closed com munity," no single influence is more important than local human commissions. "It is significant that communities lacking this kind of help—this effort by local citizens in evitably experience the most trouble.' —The settlement of a dis pute is often only a beginning. The "real work" come in fer reting out its root causes. "The cracking of centuries of segregation in the South or (the loosening of) poverty's imprisoning grasp in a north em ghetto, in many situations (that have been 'conciliated') still remains." Mr. Collins declared that a solution of the "basic prob lems' that underlie "tempo rary racial upheavals" would be expedited by making com munities aware of "the great number of federal programs available to them." These in clude, he said, services on a completely non-discriminatory basis through many programs: poverty, urban renewal, low income housing, manpower re training and technical assist ance program. The effort to secure full op portunity and equally for all is not just the Negroes' fight, nor that of any one minority group, Mr. Collins said. "There civil rights leadership to be as broadly based as possible." The Negro American has opened "a new path," Mr. Col lins added, and has "roused a prospering people and its Federal vdice from slumber ing apathy. But the struggle belongs to the whole nation, which should rally its support and commit itself to achieving civil rights goals quickly and completely." -Funeral Continued from front page for his feats in football. He was born in Philadelphia am) attended both Mtfrgan and Lin coln. He began his career as a teacher in the city schools of New - York, but ere long he left the classroom and began promoting various enterprises. He was considered a top sales man and reached his peak as a representative for Standard Wines and Liquors. He was a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and attended many of its na tional meets. Many of his fel low* awaited his dramatic en try into the sessions and the first order, upon his arrival was to address the chair and say, "Mr. Chairman the Con clave is now open for busi ness, due to the arrival of Rip Day." He was also a Shriner and attended the re cent Imperial session, held in San Francisco- He leaves a wife, Dorothy; a daughter, Dora; two grand children and a brother, How ard. -Fisher Continued from front page Sunday, October SI guest minister will be Rev. Dr. Way man B. Mclaughlin, Pastor of Mount Sinai Baptist Church, Leaksville. 7:30 the Senior Choir will October 3 present "His Hour of Music" honoring W. P. Flintail, Dea con-Trustee. October 10—John D. Harrell, Jr. October-17—Districts of the Year, District 5, Miles Mark Fisher District and College View District, will be honor ed. October 24— L. E. Austin, publisher of The Carolina Times. 4. October 31 The Minerva Womack Missionary Circle will be in charge. The annual Fellowship Din ner under the chairmanship of Mrs. Effie W. Cotton will be held Monday night, Octo ber 26. The speaker for this occasion will be Dr. Joseph H. Taylor, Acting Dean, Bethune- Cookman College. James E. Shepard Day will be observed October 3. Herbert E. Tatum, Jr. 4s Chairman of the Anniversary Committee. -Meeting Continued from front page the Youth and College Division of the NAACP. SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION Julius L. Chambers, Vice Chairman of North Carolina Legal and Defense, will discuss the Civil Rights Acts of 1965, its meaning and implementa tion. Conrad O. Pearson, Chair man of the North Carolina Le gal and Defense staff, will dis cuss Branch Problems in re ference to the administration of the NAACP legal program. Convention Head quarters will be the St. James A.M.E. Church. -Basketball Continued from front page during the '6s' T&ayolTS?" Scor ing 343 points in 12 games for a 28.6 average, best on the Celtics, in their ultimate vic tories over Philadelphia and Los Angeles for the champion ship crown. Without doubt, the ex-North Carolinian is one of the finest bank-shot artists in the game. He acquired this peculiar shot as a student a t Laurinburg Institute. Second Trial Is Set For Ku Klux Klansman HAYNEVILLE, Ala.—A mur der charge against a Ku Klux Klansman accused of killing a white civil rights worker is set for retrial this week. The Klan member, 21-year old Collie Leroy Wilkins, Jr., was present in court with his attorney, former Birmingham mayor, Arthur Hanes, when Circcit Judge T. Werth Thag ard officially put the case on this week's docket. Thagard also drew the names of five prospective jurors in addition to the 60 already on the jury panel. Wilkins was tried last May for the ambush slaying of a white Detroit housewife, Mrs. Viola Liuno, -who was shot to death last March 38, following the civil rights much from Selma to Montgomery. The 12- man jury was unable to agree o na verdict and a mistrial was declared. Peace Has Priority Over Everything WASHINGTON Presi dent Johnson reiterated Thurs day night his aatisfaction and relief at acceptance of • cease fire by India and Pakistan. Speaking off the cuff to soma 90 directors of the Lions Club International and their wives la the WtJte Rouse rose garden, Johnson said peace take* priori ty over everything. He recited a 'Hat of common coucet ua the length of the work week, whether youngsters get on school honor rolls, tba outcome of labor-management negotiations in tba steel indus try and said: "Thoae things don't amount to anything if ▼our son is going to get killed ia Viet Nam tomwrow or iftbsre is a spreading war la Asia or if World Warm is knockteg at the door."
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