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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 14. 1967 The eminent theologian. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of ethics at Cambridge Episcopal Theological School, says he would amend the biblical Ten Commandments by adding ••ordinarily” to each one of the ten. For example, “Thou shalt not covet . . . or dinarily.” For this theologian, there are no The question of what is wrong and what is right has plagued Christians to no end. Even in our church school classes on Sun day, the question has not been settled to the satisfaction of all people. People who are adherents of different forms of religion are not agreed as to what is right or wrong. Then this makes our acts of sin deserving of punishment according to the moral code we are taught. You will recall the incident recorded in the New Testament, referring to a group of Pharisees who had caught a woman in the act of adultery. According to Jewish law, she should have been stoned to death. Bold in their approach, they called the matter to the attention of Jesus. Now Jesus was not concerned with just one kind of sin, but rather all sins. The Master deflated the pride of the Pharisees when He wrote on the ground: “He that is without sin, cast the first stone.” The Pharisees tucked down their heads and walked away. What they failed to understand was that every man is guilty of some kind of sin, or sins. Then it behooved men to be careful about calling attention to the beam in their neighbor's eyes without first considering the mote is their own. Those of our readers who want to read At this moment, there is no riddle con fronting the Democrats, who feel that Con gressman Adam C. Powell, D.-N.„ should be disciplined and even denied his seat in the House of Representatives. Rumors had it that Mr. Powell would not fight for his seat and would retire from his onice. Hut, on Monday, January 9. Poweil made a vigorous ngnt against the efforts, by fellow nouse Democrats to clip his wings. Knowing Powell, as we do, we believe tie.tias just begun to fight. For the last three weeks, we nave heard enough pros and cons directed for and a gainst Fowell to fill a small volume. Re cently, the Afro-American newspapers of Baltimore, ivid. published an editorial in deiense of the Harlem Representative. The gist of the editorial was that Powell is “guilty of believing that as a duly elected member of the House of Representatives, he is entitled to the same privileges, immu nities, excesses and even to making the same mistakes in judgment as every other member.” Enemies of Powell stated that “The Ba hamas should not carry the reputation of being a hideout lor people who are wanted by law enforcement authorities in their own states in America.” The negro Press International published an article stating that "Representative Powell Becomes Martyr’ as Legal Trou bles Mount.’ ” The newspapers had a field day on the subject of Mr. Powell. Then a House sub committee began investigating the Con gressman s activities. When the investiga tion was completed, the chairman declined to make public the report until it is sub mitted. Rep. Wayne L. Hayes, subcommit tee chairman admitted that the panel does not have authority to recommend to the Justice Department action against the New York Democrat. Speaker John W. McCormick, D.-Mass„ was reported as being opposed to any at tempts to unseat Representative Adam C. Powell or to deprive him of his chairman ship. Wisely, the Speaker refused to be drawn into making public statements cen Negro Becomes Commissioner In Fla. Our racial group continues to run up firsts in politics. The most recent example is that of Jackie Caynon. 56-year-old Ne gro contractor, who defeated a retired busi ness man, for the Northside District seat in Fort Pierce, Fla. Caynon thereby became the first of his race to win a city commission seat in Fort Pierce. The Negro contractor received 2,393 votes to Lloyd’s 1,970, winning by a mar gin of some 423 ballots. Vi hat’s Hood lor The (loose Is Fair For The Gander It seems reasonable for a home owner, in these times of displacement, to believe that money should be available for him to supplement funds to repair or rebuild his home as the tenant now enjoys. In other words, if a tenant has to move from a sub-standard dwelling to one which meets present-day acceptance, his rent is supplemented by the federal government. If his rent before moving, was #4O 00 per month, and after moving, it is S7O per month the additional S3O is supplied hv federal funds. Words Os Worship Editorial Viewpoint “Situational Ethics*' Or Not? \\ ho Owes W ho? hat! rules—none at all. In his situation ‘'ethics”, everything and anything is right or wrong according to the situation—what is wrong in some cases would be right In others. A ques tion for you to ponder is: "Goodness is wliat happens to a human act, it is not the aot itself.” more along the ideas of right and wrong should direct their attention to the “situa tion ethics” of Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, pro fessor of ethics at Cambridge Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., and whom we mentioned in "Words of Wor ship.” One classic question that has been pos ed over the years is: “Is it ever a sin to tell a lie?” Whether a person should tell a lie will depend upon the situation that he finds confronting him at any given moment. The proponents of situational ethics hold that good and evil are not absolutes. “Good is what happens to a human act, it is not the act itself.” A private citizen is con demned to death for first degree murder, but on the other hand, a nation will send him forth to kill not one man but hundreds. Is war right or wrong? History tells of the activities of several Crusades undertaken by Christians against the Turks. Christians. Popes, and other leaders held that the Crusades were holy wars in the interest of right The Turks, on the other hand, felt it was wrong to chal lenge therm to war to protect their own form of religion. The Turks felt they were right, and the Christians felt they were right. soring Powell as so many other Democrats have already done. A wise man thinks be fore speaking, and thereby will not be sor ry later. William White, Washington columnist, stated last week that “the long-heralded attempt by angry liberals to bar Rep. Ad am Powell from the House of Representa tives is not going anywhere when the showdown falls in the new Congress. This is clearly as it should be. For when this thing is stripped of an emotionalism that is clearly excessive, and of a finger-point ing humanly justified not relevant, one central truth remains unalterable. This is that the voters deserve precisely the kind of representation they get and it is appar ent that in his case Powell's Harlem con stituency is perfectly satisfied with him.” “To oust him justly would require his conviction of crime in a court of law and not in some pseudo-court of head-wagging at his undeniably imperious and embarras sing conduct- His more violent critics, in deed, would have done well to have done their home work before they set out to get and expunge Adam Clayton Powell.” Naturally, Powell allegedly has threat ened retaliation by blackmailing his ene mies. And these enemies had better be sure their own houses are clean before they try anything. Human beings are humans; if you throw mud at me, I’ll toss stones at you, if any are around. Powell is not the only Congressman who has abused his public trust and allegedly misused public funds; but he is the most brazen in his defiance of the court. Drew Pearson, in a recent column, said, the hullabaloo in the House, over Powell, has obscured the more subdued but more significant investigations of Sen. Thomas J Dodd, D.-Conn., in the Senate. Pearson added, “For the case against Powell is Sunday School stuff compared to the evidence against Dodd. Senate in vestigators, following up leads provided by this column, now have documented Dodd’s apparent violation of at least two federal laws. The new commissioner, a widower, has been a member of the city’s Community Association for sometime. He was also a member of the Mayor’s Bi-Racial Com mittee- Raleigh Councilman Winters preceded the Fort Pierce contractor by several years, and now Winters has decided to retire from office for his fastly growing business inter ests. We also want to pin a bouquet on Councilman Winters while he yet lives, and for his diligence in commitment of his stewardship. With such a precedent, homeowners should be accorded the same rights as landlords and tenants. In other words, should a homeowner have to spend $5,000 to bring his home up to required standards, this money should be supplementary as is the case with the tenant and the landlord who enjoys a richer investment. While we don’t necessarily agree with the rental supplement, there should be no discrimination in up-grading housing stan dards win ' u ■ -i person rents or owns his home. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN SAI.UTE THE LIBRARY II we draw up a balance sheet of Vine : lea's fixed as sets, we would say that the library, the public library, the school and the university library, the private Horary, is on. o r our most precious possessions. There are complaints heard in recent years that we am not as patriotic as we once were, that we do not praise the flag as often, that we do not appreciate America as wo once did. Those who file these com plaints are unaware that the reason for this Is that the uninhibited expressions of patriotic fervor were heard in our country during the days of unrestricted i nmigration. The immigrants, like the clas sic stranger through all of history, told us what we had and what we were. When we halted Immigration in the 1920 s and then added the restrictive clauses of tne MeCar -an-Walter Act all these uninhibited rituals ceased. The Immigrant sang the praises of his new land not to convince others he was a native but to give vent to the hyngei and longing to be come an American as quickly as possible. Tvv o ms* Itutions turned millions of immigrants into Americans within a single general ion, the greatest miracle of human relations in the past century. These two institutions were the free pub lic school and the free public library. It’s hard to communicate to a present-day audience what the punlic library meant to immigrants Tin? librarian was a sexless saint without the usual ipparuus of nor mal humans. I remember in the ghetto branch of the New York Pub lic l ibrary there was a wash stand i i a booth off the main entrance. You washed your hands before you went to the shelves. This was no insul;. Indeed it was a compliment, a tribute to the men and women who came out of idirir sweatshops o stop at the li- list for hi BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE THAT’S ALL? We registered again for the second trimester which began on the fifth of January. Three of my speech correction ma jors wanted to know why they made “D” in the course “Ana tomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing.” I said, “Why ask me that?" You know you made 40, 43, and 48 respectively onjho final examination which is one/third of the term grade. They were no fools; they knew they hadn’t studied like they should. TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH BY SAMUEL L. ANDELMAN, MD., M. P. H. CHICAGO COMMIS SIONER OF HEALTH LEFT-HANDEDNESS Some children are born right-handed; some achieve right-handedness, and some have right-handed thrust upon them. Why some are left handed is not known, but for tunately parents today are less determined to change them than they were 50 or 60 years ago. Also, for reasons that are not too clear, left-handedness w’as associated with the bar sinister which inharaldry was used to designate illegitimate birth. Tills unwarranted as sociation led parents to punish children for preferring to use their left hand. We now know that handed ness--whether right or left is an inherent characteristic like the color of one's hair, which, incidently, is also sub ject to change when such a change is deemed desirable. To change a child’s natural preference for the left hand by persistent force has been thought by some tocause stut tering, slowness in learning THE CAMUNUN "Covering The Carolina*" Published by the CmruHnUn Publishing Company 518 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address: P. O. Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N. C 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $3.25 Sales Tax <* TOTAL 3.3* One Year 8.80 Sales Tax TOTAL Pa>aDie in Advance. Address all communlcr.tions and make all checks and money orders payable to THE CAROLINIAN Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 310 Madison Avenue, New York 17. N Y . National Advertising Re presentative and member of the Associated Negro Press and the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited: news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accom panies the copy Opinions expressed by column ists In this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this paper. brary on their way lnmn: i tribute to boys and girls who sold newspapers or played in the street and who went into the library to spend an hour before supper time. » yoi ••••.» under 15 years of age, the librarian would actually ask you to show your hands and you turue 1 them over and she either sail, “Go ahead," or “God wash them.” Immigrant mothers, like my mother, who couldn’t speak a word of English, went into the library, held up their fingers to indicate the number of children at home. The librarian issued cards and the mother handed them out to her children. She slid, “Go, learn, study, read.” This was part of the process of becoming an American. I recall the first landing library. It was in the ghetto of the Lower East Side of New fork a! :ie beg', nlig of this century. A fellow with a kosher restaurant had i she!' of books he loaned out. "Les Mlserables” was 10 cents a week, plus 75 cents deposit, Count Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” was also 10 cents a week, hut $1 deposit. These were the .wo most popular books of the day. In those days parents were afraid of librarians, but to day the librarians are afraid oi the parents, especially the female parent in tennis shoes, who says the John Birch So ciety does not like the books o f John Steinbeck and Justice William O. Douglas. But a .ibrary is more than a place ID people to go with a certain kind of card. Like most of the things i i this world, a library is part of a chain reaction, and a li brary must remain ever new. unheard of to each pair of eyes. Too often the library is a c.lv’c adornment. But cities are not bettered by libraries, people are. The library is only a re pository, a bank, but it’s a bank that can do business only when people make a run on it. IT IS SO! A 16-year-old boy went to the hospital after being shot by a pig. In Sioux Rapids, lowa, a boy was shot by a pig. The boy saw a rabbit in the farm yard, got his rifle and started after it. He stopped to open a gate and leaned the rifle against the fence as his pet pig "Molly” rushed up. The pig brushed against the rifle and it fired, the bullet hitting the boy in the right shoulder. Two weeks ago, the boy was listed In good condition. to read, and assorted emo tional disturbances. Further study of this problem indicates that these undesireable re sults are due not to altering the child’s left-handedness but to harsh methods of accom plishing this change. If you try to alter the left - handedness of a child between 1-1/2 and 3, his reslstence may be the natural negatism of that stage of his develop ment, A person who Is na turally left-handed will fold his hands with his left thumb on top even though his pa rents may have succeeded In changing his preference In other uses of his hands. One aspect of this matter that has not yet been explain ed is that some right-handed boys naturally kick a football with the left foot. Similarly mixed dominence has been ob served in persons who have better vision in the right eye but better hearing in the left ear. More important than which hand is domtnent is the es tablishment of one dominence or the other. So-called am bidextrous children have, as a rule, poorly developed mus cular co-ordination. A parent’s best plan Is to try gently and without emotion, to set the child to use his right hand. If, in spite of this, he persists in using his left hand, console yourself that this is no longer a handicap, and he will find many others with the same trait. DONOI j ; Can't Quit This War ... Either! STILL WITHOUT A SONG Jazz in the sanctuary of <: >■ ■; is > > 'olid churches and cathedrals cl whit. Am»-nc:-; an invocation, but it isnoihiw inth ■ diweh. of Negro America. It is not uncommon to feel tl< '■an.- pur at ing reaction to the beat of the .■ pel on m church and that music pla-. < : < ■ nr, Negro night, clubs anu tin >ri:s. ' 1 r ;hc or-.is are different. Perhaps it was not uu . a ’ . ■ . uUurt that the music of the Net; <;■ .a a- n’t character and qualitative: >!m > church. Whites, with their monopoh 1 . . \c . long tradition of glorious, \s< u-\ - \, —, oratories mid hymns. The Negro was left to expn • sell- s and pains of his heart through the rit mtal . ->pp with minor chords and ie Hi ct :■ . . is,:, But the Negro grew weary an mi ! of tin spiritual, abandoning if for : on gospel song. If the trend in some small . tin "white” church i tov well meet it on this coi if the words of Negro "church jm c itinue to be suppliated and p, him, - will i- no meeting ground. Majority Rule In The Senate The tilibusiei has foi reputation of the United : ite. It . i parliamentary device ti . • .i.d ■. it> to outvote a majority It i- moj uu ■ • for die-hards to substitute sail ; t«nv er for compromise and i public business, and to to regarded as the shield for the ract.il r>r«-t :,•!;«•< s of a particular region, P has weapon for all sor'.s of spec When the senate meets iz< for the coming two year , opportunity to revise the ruli filibuster. As matti 5 two thirds of the mer ibers required to end debate on any Is ue, Including the question of revising tin i 1 tin . sselves. But when the Senate Oi es, it does not have to continue tl old les in force. It can simply lecld ritj vote to close debate and adopt new r,a; < • . The only requirertx ident, the presiding offici liiat, the majority do. 5 hav< "Man Os The Yr.”-Mr. Safe Driver At this time of the n, ■ professional organizations and rr.i .crank up the machinery designed to find "man of the year*’ for 1966. Each candidate for such honors is measured against certain criteria oi . Al ways, the accent is on the positi • . We would like to advance or candidate for 1966 honors. This fellov. must ix- annony mous, because we don’t knov. lii . He may not even exist. We propose to honor our unknown gentler n as "Private Automobile Driver oi 1966." He is a man of considerable accomplishment, but his important qualifications for the honor lie in what he did not do. Let us examine the negative virtues of our anonymous but honorable driw r: He received no traffic citation.- durine the year, except, perhaps, one parkin.: ticket vuchhe paid promptlv. % Grammar Humor BY D. P. LOUIS Negro Press International Look for seven error.- in ihe foilowin para graph. * * * Even When You’re Racing When you takes your time and stays calm, you does better than when you . •(: all excited. Sometimes you finds it hard to keep iron setting exciting, but if you want; tc do well, you has to be cool, * * * Score: Seven - chuckle, fiw - smile, three - it isn't funny. (If you find more than seven Ilf sr Coll ' \! ORV G. DAVIS, D. 1). •' "V LSI- INTERNATIONAL Further, the Negro will never learn through the kind of church music now being used that God is depending upon him to be a God-created MAN. It’s about time the Negro stopped crying on God’s shoulder. Such words, set to dancing rhythms as "The Lord is Blessing Me, Right Now,” "Ask What You W-,11 of The Savior;” "We’ve Come This Far by Faith, Leaning on The Lord,” ought suggest that the Negro needs to stop "leaning” and start standing and walking. His church songs, jazz or otherwise, need to convey this message. Perhaps jazz and lilting rhymths can be the b -t vehicle to convey meaning to Negro wor shippers. Some ministers oppose it, others are strong advocatosy. If, the jazzy gospel song is best for Negroes then let this medium proclaim a message, a message calling to full humanity and love for all mankind. Perhaps the use of meaningful words set to rhythmic tempos will enliven the Negro church member to the point where he will go out into the world and put a new song into the hearts of those suffering under the heel of racial segre vion and dehumanization at the Altar of Those Without a Song. outset of .1 new Congress. If there are the votes 0 back up his judgment, there can be no rever sion to filibuster. Richard M. Nixon, while serv ing as Vice President, twice expressed this opinion but the votes were not present to sustain him. Vbw President Humphrey will have a comparable opportunity next week. Since he publicly agreed with Mr. Nixon’s rulings in the past, there is no reason to suppose that he will reverse himself now that the responsibility has passed to him. It used to be argued that the rules automa tically continued la force since the Senate is a "continuing body.” But, clearly, it continues only in the severely limited sense that its mem bers have overlapping terms, Other wise, all proposed bills, treaties and reso lutions die every two years at adjournment. The committees and employes of the Senate also have to be redesignated biennially. Tine-wasting talkathons do not enhance the deliberative process of the Senate; they stul tify it. A majority of the Senate can reassert proper control over its own work by abolishing tin filibuster in the new Congress. -THE NEW YORK TIMES. He did not roll through a single stop sign or cheat at a single traffic light. He never exceeded the speed limit by more than a mile or two. And when he discovered his error, he always let up quickly upon the gas pedal. He never failed to curb his impatience when caught behind a slow driver without safe passing space. If he bought a new car during the year, he fiercely resisted the temptation to discover how far clove sixty the speedometer gauge could climb. I he had a cocktail at a party or a beer at homo, he always arranged for someone else to do the driving. And during the entire year, he uttered not one uncomplimentary word about the police or the Highway Patrol picking on inoffensive drivers while the dangerous drivers went scot-free. Is there such a driver? Somewhere, we be lieve, there is. errors, the joke’s on us!) * * * GRAMMAR HUMOR ANSWERS When you TAKE your time and STAY calm, you DO better than when you GET all excited. Sometimes you FIND it hard to keep from getting excited, but if you WANT to do well, you HAVE to be cool, * * * Send a chuckle to "Grammar Humor,” Negro Press International, 9708 South State Street, c hicago, Illinois, 60621. We’ll put in the errors'
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