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h _ TKE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 18. 1970 2A €b* Car«!ma Cime* EDITORIALS Diunken Drivers on N. C. Highways The continuous and almost daily death grind of human bodies up and down the highways of North Carolina over the past several months has reached the point when we feel the time has arrived for every respectable citizen of this state to rise up in righteous wrath and indignation and speak out against the human carnage that is taking place almost daily on the state's highways. The most recent of these awful tragedies occurred just last week on what is often referred to as the "missing link" or that span of highway on 1-85 existing between Durham and Henderson. In that tragic incident three members of a family were killed and one other was injured in the crash, which occurred as the result of drunken driving. While many good and noble citi zens of this state shed crocodile teafs over such tragedies and rightfully con demn the drunken driver, many in addition have given what is tant amount to approval of such, by not reporting persons known to us and others as drunken drivers to the police for fear of incurring the ill will or wrath of the driver and his members of his family or friends, not realizing at the same time that we may be deliberately contributing to the death The Priority Right of a Church We salute the trustees of St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church for the ac tion they took in a meeting held last Monday night when they voted un animously to demand the right of priority in the distribution, allocation or sale of additional land surrounding their church. To have pursued any other course would have betrayed the trust handed down by their forebears over a period spanning more than a century. We trust the pastor, officers and members of St. Joseph's will not grin and scratch where it does not itch in their future negotiations and surren der the right of priority to the Urban Renewal or Redevelopment Commis sion. We trust that each and every one of them will vow to not be moved FACTS a t 0 H* NEGRO Dumpson • /J?-* i ISJEAO OF THE WELFARE OEPT. OF IF . M . : NEW YORK CITY, WHICH SPENDS 1m v: ; over $300,000,000 a year of %-Mi&Mml» i Sef oftheneef/andhal _j|» WjM 1 8000 EMPLOYEES. WAS FIRST FFS -ZBEMTCL * W !. DEPUTY AND WHEN THERE WAS fJrWch EF i TROUBLE IN THE DEPARTMENT, HE VF» MV^ 1 MAR? [ WAS SELECTED AS THE BEST \ Y?'.'"" ■• WWW MAN TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT. «£&. J >'■ •PV : WB& KNOWN AS CAREFUL AND UPRIGHT *W' w OFFICIAL. A HARD WORKER, HE IS 'JI i r DEEPLY INTERESTED IN RACIAL UPLIFT ALSO, HE IS ACTIVE IN THE NAACP AND THE URBAN LEAGUE. 'lt'me NEGRO IS the most thoroughly AMERICAN OF ANV GROUP OP THE \Z, \ *-IJw 865,518 negroes in the census of >// W&t&L 1940 ONLY 85,941 WERE FOREIGN-BORN, i \ClljJ WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF ONLY 74,266 , tfwit v xm\f. \vsrA* m 7O years, new wrk with 51,286, fYY7 HAD THE LARGEST NUMBER OF FOREIGN*! KP MES ' * OF W " ,CH Ssol SSL AJJV VKR Em SEND FLJORIDA WITH 7,779 SSwesPLACE A hISAN NEXT - ™ E INDIAN,OLDEST OTOCER WROTE NOME ON 0CT.23,1777, AMERICAN GROUP IS NOW LARGELY ♦THE NEGRO CAN TAKE THE FIELD IN- NEGRO IN THE BAST AND SOUTH, AND STEAD Of HIS MASTER AND THEREFORE WHITE IN THE WEST. •NO REGIMENT IS TO Be SEEM IN I— _____ WHICH ARB NOT AM ABUNDANCE OF NEGROES AND AMONG THEM ARE ABLE PODIEP, STRONG AND BRAVE FELLOWS * THERE WAS NO JLM-CROW. THE AMERICANS WERE TOO HARD PRESSED FOR THAT. of the drunken driving friend or some other innocent victim who may be come a casualty of his violation of the law. To refer again to sucli cases let us here and now confess our own sins. Known to every member of the staff of this newspaper is a professional man of this city who, after becoming intoxicated often to the extent lie can hardly get in and out of his car, will insist on driving over the streets of this city endangering not only his own life but the life of every person who comes within his vicinity. As one engaged in his profession the above mentioned personality is sorely needed for the contribution lie is capable of making to his race. So, to probably save this man's life or that of some other citizen who may become tUfi-Xictim of his drunken driving, we promise here and now that we intend to report him to the police the very next time we observe him driving under the influence of liquor or drunk. As unpleasant as such a task may be we feel it is not half as un pleasant as looking down on his man gjed body and those of others had we possessed respectability enough to prevent the incident by reporting him to the police beforehand. but to fight to maintain the right of church to have the land necessary for its future development and growth. We visualize 100 years ago St. Joseph's founder the Rev. Ediam Markham and his aids as they stood on the spot now occupied by its pre sent structure and dedicated a brush" harbor to the preaching of the gospel. Later they were able to erect a modest building which was used until a brick structure was erected. So we take our stand with the pas tor, officers and members of St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church and declare "we shall not be moved," until the battle is fought and won on Israel's side even if it means unto the U. S. Supreme Court. A Time For Black To Be Impatient WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON yo 7ex™ Ju " '»■ " 70 'IGZSZJS? !:M i ..... ... >rall IN GOD'S DESIGN .. Background Scripture: Genesis 1:26-2:4 a; I Corinthians 15:45-50 Memory Selection: So God cre ated man in his own image, in the image of God he created him. Genesis 1:27. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have do minion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of -the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and fe male created he them. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, ] and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bear ing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, where in there is life, I have given- ev ery green herb for meat: and it . was so. 31. And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3. And God blessed the sev enth day, and sanctified it: be cause that in it he had rested from all his work which God cre ated and made. 4. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. 45. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a liv ing soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46. How be it that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: and afterward that which is spiritual. 47. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heav enly. 50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot in herit the kingdom of God; neith er doth corruption inherit incor ruption. FOREWORD: Man is the prod uct of the Mind and hand of God. Made from the dust, the first man neither sprung from the slime of matter, nor evolved from a lower animal ancestry, by accident. He was specifically formed by Divine creative pow er. Herein lies the degree of man's superiority over other liv ing creatures. Lower forms of animal life, de riving existence, equally with man, from the creative power of God, it is not said of them that they were "formed" by God. If it is true that the lower forms of organisms display the 4V- action of Divine intelligence, much more may we sec our Cre ator's hand in the form and sym metry. proportion and adjust ment of the human body. An ex amination of the hand, eye, or brain, of the muscular or nerv ous systems, instinctively awak ens the devout feelings of the Psalmist: "I will praise Thee, 0 Lord; for I am fearful and won derfully made." Psa. 139.14). We may see the great design of God in the personal care and attention which He devoted to the construction of man. It looms clear that man should be the noblest of His works of creation, the shrine of an immortal spirit, Psa. 40:6; Heb. 10:8). LESSON OUTLINED. I. Man's Pre - eminence. Vss. 26-28. 11. God's Works. Vss. 29-4 a. 111. "The Two Adams." Vss. 45-50. CENTRAL THOUGHT: The lower animals were left wholly mortal; while man was trans formed into an immortal; (Ec cles. 3:24). COMMENTS ON LESSON: I. Mail's Pre-eminence: God, in relation to man, sustains the unique status as Father as well as Creator. As to the rest of cre ation, it is said, "Let be," "and it was." As to man, "Let us make in our image." Closely kin by original nature, man is invit ed to intercourse with the. Di vine. The spirituality of God's highest creature is the bound of union and fellowship. Man should never forget his relationship to the heavenly Father, "who made him for Himself." "Let us make," suggests the conception of a heavenly coun cil or conference preparatory to the creation of man; and the new description of the being to be created points to the introduc tion of a new order of life—(he spiritual ilfe, as above the veg etable and animal. God entrusts dominion and authority to man on the earth. Man holds from the beginning, the position of a su perintendent for God. There is trust, obedience, responsibility, recognition of Divine supremacy, therefore, all the essential ele ments of religion, in the original constitution and appointment of our nature and position, among the creatures of earth. Man has power, not in himself, but through his Creator. 11. God's Works: Man was "formed" towards the close of God's working time, which gives rise to the introduction upon our planet of the higher animals. Man's works are often mistimed, but God . God's works are never off schedule. Out of all the works of God in the creation of all things, sea, land and sky, sun and moon, light and day; that He elected that man would be ushered last upon the scene, bears peculiar significane; it was a virtual proclamation of. his €b* CaroHfU \ Published every Saturday at Durham, N.C. j by United Publishers, Inc. ' [ L. £ AUSTIN, Publisher-Editor CLARENCE BONNETTE ...! BusiMtt MinifV i J. ELWOOD CARTER Advertising Manlier J ! Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. *7708 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $9.00 per year plus (18c tax in N.C.) anywhere ia the U.S., and Canada and to servicemen Oversees; Foreign, $7 50 per year, Single copy 90c Principal .Office Located It 4M E. Pettigrew Street, jj Durham, North Caroline 27701 • jj greatness. The incompleteness of the earth, when filled with the lower crea tures is a testimony to the great ness of man's spiritual nature; for in comparison with the ani mal races, he is in many respects inferior —in strength, switfness, and generally in the powers which we call instinct. Yet his appearance is the climax of the earth's creation. "Man is one world, and hath another to at tend him. The satsifaction of God is found in his completion of the earthly order in man, the highest earthly being. 111. "The Two Adams:" We may notice the specification of some of the points between the two Adams of resemblances and of dissimilarity will suggest a line of spiritual thought at once interesting, instructive, and prac tical. " The existence of each rose not in the ordinary course of nature. Neither came by the ordinary laws of human generation. The first was formed out of the dust of the earth, and derived his spirit from the breath of God. The second was conceived of the Holy Ghost. The existence of each commenced free from the taint of sin. The first was in the likeness of God, the sec ond was harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. The first Adam was tempted, and he was conquered; the second was tempted, and he triumphed. We must live in the second atmos phere which is Christly and spir itual. FOR MEDITATION SIDELIGHTS ON LESSON: God Still Uvea "The New York Times" ran a two-column obituary notice of the passing of one of history's most venerable figures, a couple of years, ago. Some may disre gard this as a note of sensation alism that has crept into a great secular newspaper. But. on close examination, we find that this disturbing statement concerning the death of God, comes from the lips of men who are identi fied with, and are still in the ranks of the Church. However, we may not become too aroused about this insult to our experimental Christian knowledge, and/or belief. This irresponsible rant and so-called "radical theology" may be a test of our religious integrity. We may be called upon not to take ourselves seriously and mount the offensive against a seeming foe, but rather to take the sub stance of the Christian faith with seriousness and to examine the degree of earnestness of our re ligious posture. Since the beginning of time, the prophets of God have been stoned. The church must endure the hammering of bitter foes TOBEEQUAIfc Br WHITNEY M. YOUNG Jr. Britain's Race Problem WHY should black Americans care about the change in government in Britain will mean? We've got a stake in England's policies because they effect the black minority living in England and because Britain can be a great force for good or evil in combatting racism on (he African continent. Back around t%e turn of this century, when white colonial powers subjected Africa to exploitation and domina tion, W. E. B. Dußois, with the farsightedness of a prophet, rightly declared: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line of the relations of the darker to the lighter races of men." , Many people now realize that the future of the globe is tied closely to the success of international efforts to make the whites, the browns, the yellows, and the blacks in the world work contructively together, rather than sliding down hill to the ultimate disaster of race war. The degree to which black Africans can control their destinies, free from settler dictatorships like Rhodesia and South Africa, will determine whether the world will be spared further bloodshed. Outlook In Foreign Policy That's where the change in government in Britain comes in. The outgoing Labor government had a ban on arms sales to the South African dictators, and while It didn't do all it could to make the illegal Rhodesian regime knuckle under, it respected international opinion and opposed it. But the new Conservative government seems willing to change these policies. It's already on record as favoring an other try at settling things with the tiny white minority that oppresses the black Rhodesians that- outnumber them overwhelming. And it appears that British arms will soon flow into South Africa once more, too- Since it is in America's inter ests for the various liberation movements in southern Africa to secceed, our government ought to try to get our closest ally to refuse to ship these arms. The UN has called on member nations not to sell arms to the South Africans. There is no reason for countries that label themselves democracies to help support a brutal h. dictatorship propped up by an armed minority that denies a- every fundamental right to the black majority. ,t- America's attempts to win greater influence among »• African states will suffer a setback if our government does ,jl nothing to keep the British to their previous policy of sup p°rt the UN's position. Further Oppression Of Blacks rs Arms to South Africa and establishment of better rela is tions with Rhodesia have only one purpose —to further op ie press black people. , e The new British government has a racial problem at home as well. In the past decade black people from the f West Indies and brown people from India and Pakistan have immigrated there. They form a hard-working minority that 511 is discriminated against and doesn't have educational and le economic equality. Britain is in the early stages of what we face here in America. They ought to learn from America's failure to bring equality to its minorities and launch massive programs to of better the lives of the immigrants and also to educate white he Englishment to living in peace with their colored brothers nd The British Conservatives are saddled with their own a backlashers, headed by a smoother version of George Wal ce lace—Enoch Powell. Powell spent the recent election cam paign screeching about how the blacks and Asians ought to » be shipped back home. S'ome close olHervew of the English scene made some comments about the poor man's mental lo t state, but there is no question about is influence on many •e people. The new government ought to move swiftly to isolate him and his growing movement as quickly as possible if " e they want to avoid America's tragic scenario. This world seems at times to be full of hate. It can be lis combatted only if the good people stand up and be counted, td. The role of government is to combat the haters, not en he courage them. It may be presumptuous for an American to of give advice to another country, but we have seen what hate jj e and polarization have led to here. The British can avoid it; j I only hope they have the sense to do so. Do's And i i ■HTvve've 6ot H&eoes,H| I NVEMTOES, ■scie^nsrs^ Teach Him Pride In Heritage without and the needling of sub-' tie critics within. The futility or failure of religion is a popular theme in every generation. Over and over in history, there have been those who have announced the death of God and proclaimed the demise of his church. What about these old voices in a new day? Are they speak ing against faith, or are they speaking for faith? Are these voices, some are new, seeking to destroy the institution that God has created 'and established, through which man can be aided towards the design and fulfill ment of his creation; or could it be that the renewal, about which most of us have talked, and for which some have earn estly sought 4n prayer, in break ing forth, not only in the com fortable pew and the restless church, but also on the streets, and in the secular world? These voices may be coming from a new breed of prophets through whom God seeks to awaken His people to the high sense of their calling. We are created and re created for a higher purpose in the fulfillment of God's design. . In this regard, we must come r alive. God of our fathers living - still." (Baptiste) > THE DEVELOPMENT of chHd care programs may aid con siderably in meeting the in creasing demand for trained personnel, in many segments of our economy, as well as in alleviating one of the problems encountered by many mothers who work or who would like i to work.