THE CAIOUNIA*
RALEIGH, N. C- SATURDAY, MAT U, IMI
4
Editorial Viewpoint
WORDS OF WORSHIP
"Whomever will be great among you, shall
be your minister," Jesus said, “and whosoever of
you will be the chief test, shall be servant of all.’’
The motto of modem business and success hinges
around the motto: "We serve: therefore we grow.”-
Manufacturers of building equipment, of clothes.
After The Committee—Then What?
Another bi-raial committe of 15 members
has been established in Raleigh for the purpose
of seeking a solution to the city’s racial prob
lems. In the past, preceding committees of this
type were not ealled together for sustained
work, or at least no headway was made in the
solution of local problems.
From reliable reports, it appears that this
•oramfttM is going about its task in dead earn
ed. And while many of us art not satisfied
with n—of all of the Negroes composing
«M alemeßt of the oommittee, we should give
It all the cooperation and support that we can.
While the Negroes of Raleigh will not be
satisfied with leas than full opportunities for
Segregation—North And South
We wonder if the people who juxtapose seg
regation in the North with that in the South
truly feel this absolves them of their obvious
feelings of guilt. Whether any similarity exists
or not is highly questionable.
The subjective segregation that exists in
some Northern cities, that separates not only
Negro and whites, but Semite. Oriental and
Latin as well, while no lew deplorable, cannot
be equated with the authoritative segregation
characteristic of some Southern states.
The main difference, as we see it, is that In
file latter equal opportunity has been and is
beingly openy denied. It is the abolition of bar
National Salvation Army Week
This la National Salvation Army Week, and
fids 1* tea time we should remember the help
ing hand always extended by this wonderful
organization. In many counties and cities the
Salvation Army is supported in part by local
United Funds.
Because moat of us forget the humanltarin
lam of tee Salvation Army until the Christmas
season of each year, we want to call your at
tention to SA’a mottoi "With Heart to God
and Hand to Man."
The Salvation Army began its operation
back In 1905 when It launched a program of
aarviees to the homeleas the hungry, the sick
and tea troubled In hundreds of committees.
Birmingham Demonstration Critique
It stems that tha persistent effort! 61 the
Negro demonstrators in Birmingham will pay
off for the Non-Violent Movement led by Dr.
Marlin Luther King. Negro demonatration
leaden and white buaineae leaden have talked
over the problem around die table in man-to
man faahion. and they have reached aome ten
tative agreement*, which it ia believed, Birm
ingham city officiate will accept
However, let ua analyze the Birmingham
trials and give a critique. No matter how great
the victory, both aide* in the war are guilty of
aerioua mistake*.
1. Hundred* of echool children, many of
tfiem adolescent* and minor*, took part in th*
demonstrations and were jailed. Those wha
watched televirion eeenea on Birmingham wit
nessed young children running and dodging the
sprays of water hoses turned on them by city
firemen.
(We think that children or minora should
not have been drawn into the demonstration*,
thus taking on th* responsibilities that only
adults should assume. This wa* strictly a man’s
or woman’s job, die job of people who would
be old enough to take “come-what-may”!)
3. The participation of school children area
also another calculated risk in another way.
(One pannot go to school and demonstrate at
the same time he cannot do both things well.
A student should not expect his teachers to
give him grades for being absent from school.
Then, too, parents of school-age children can
be handled by the law when their children do
not attend school. With regards to student
riemonstrationi, we feel only college students
have the maturity for this sort of thing.)
3. The denial of a permit to parade to Ne
groes was a serious mistake on the part of
Birmingham city official*. (When, after sev
eral weeks. Negroes were Finally given a per
mit. it was too late to avert the sickening pic
ture of racial relations in this country. All white
men who view this “Eye Witness Report' over
television should bow their heads in shame,
because it dramatised the barbarism in the so
called white superior race. If they were not
Plans For Youth Work Need Study
In the face of reported rise* in juvenile de
linquency, it behooves local communities to be
vitgilant and constant in their plans for youth
program* $
• Are we neglecting or shifting die needs and
values of our communities necessary to achive
effectiveness in whatever we do for youth?
What methods should we employ for changes
and improvements to make our programs suf
ficiently acceptable and specialised?
One way would be to have special interest
" groups srhich would evaluate reveal, and revise
cotuunuy cvfry piutK of progrtini ana ■mv-
Men By constant evaluation, analysing, rating
developments, and diagnosis, we could do a
way with iaacturate standards and give direct
TM HEOBO PRESS—baNarm Mat America oan hast had the world /iUU
away from racial and national antagonisms whan ft accords to arary mar JU
..jMMNBsos of iwoa. color or craad, hh human and toga/ rights Haring no man ANk ■ JCI
nKMaaHft Nairn Pram atriv as to he/p erery man on the firm he- lllßfif
Ea! tikat atl man ara hurt aa long as anyone is hs|g hook. fTT^
'^rV'-tWilKTfffiM 1 ' w - JKkt* :4i- . :, r yjfe.Ma,- —“w'”
of food; presidents of railroad* and steamship
companies; the heed of lnveatmcnthousee—all of
them tell the same story. They call It the “spirit
of modem business”; they, most of them, sup
posed that It is something very new. But Jesus
preached It more than nineteen hundred years
ago.
each citizen, and that these citizens are inte
grated into the life of the community, we must
expect the two sides in the dispute to make
compromises on the various issues involved.
We should be encouraged that, at last, lead
ers of the majority and minority factions arc
sitting down in man-to-man fashion to diseuw
the issues affecting all of us.
Thm News and Observer, in a recent editori
al, warns us that whilt “no final settlement has .
been reached in Raleigh, there can be no la pee
of concern for such settlement" Let each par
son keep his concern high.
Instead of criticism, let us give this commit
tee our moral and prayful support
tiers set up to deny equal opportunity that not
only the Negro but all those concerned with
civil rights are striving to achieve.
We hear also that the psychotic element* are
claiming that the Communists are responsible
for our racial problems. How could this be,
if we consider objectively the fscts? We ima
gine that if these goblin chasers had been a
round 100 years ago, they would have just as
easily laid the bame for the Civil War on the
Communists, had there been any.
In trying to attach a label tea just social
movement one had better be quite sure he is
not attaching the label of bigot to himself.
Although the Salvation Army adapts contin
ually its program to the needs of modern times,
its services are baaed upon an old and time
tested conviction: Man best serves God by
serving his fellow man.
We have among us the aeemingly-hopeless
problem of the aged, the hostility of youth,
and the agony of the alcoholic. The Salvation
Army’s program is an ardent and eternal one
of love and patient understanding.
We want to salute the Salvation Army for
its achievements, and as long as .we have hu
man needs, this organization will have a place
in our communities.
moved by these scenes wa felt ashamed for
them and the United States.)
4. “It is hard to kick against the pricks,*’ said
die Apostle Paul. By now the white South
should have learned that it cannot solve the
racial problem, alone; it must voluntarily seek
the counsel and cooperation of the Negro citi
sens. The “we know how to deal with our
problems” does not make sense any longer.
What segregationists must learn is that the
present generation of Negroes does not intend
to suffer the injustices and indignities of their
forefathers and that they have made this point
clear by their sit-ins, wade-ins, kned-ins, court
suits and so on.
5. The Non-Violent Movement has been ef
fective in the past, but its prolongation in Bir
mingham reached what might be termed a
breaking point almost a threshold beyond
which there could emerge a racial riot. (The
police, acting under the direction of Eugene
Connor and pretending innocence in the mat
ter. claimed that the only purpose for using
dogs was to maintain peace and order. Let us
not forget that fire water hoses can change the
non-violence attitude of the normal man or
woman into violence. Thus anything can hap
pen when we use dogs, ldds, and water hose
to settle differences.)
(6. The Birmingham story should serve to re
mind the South that Negroes will continue to
show openly their resentment of segregation to
a larger and larger degree. White leadership
and legislators can avert much racial inhar
mony by repealing the laws of segregation on
the basis of race—-to the Southerners, sacred
though it may be!
In conclusion if the hard core of segregation
does not restrsin itself, we can expect (on one
of these mornings) to awaken and find several
million Negroes demonstrating all over the na
tion in one nation-wide movement. When hun
dreds of jails are filled, the Federal Govern
ment will be forced to take action on the prob
lem. Then Southerners will yell the “wolf cry"
of government infringement upon State's
Rights—whatever they define these to be.
censorship and controls to develop proper
method*.
Something must be done whereby we could
rest assured with a greater promise of results.
■ When we turn toward some positive youth ac
tivity with a real concern and desire then a
real important aspect of structural and func
tional contribution will have been made to
ward a well planned and organised program
for our youth.
When we act with increasing wiltingnem for
a common objective, then and only then, can
we recognize the value of our efforts. There is
a real need for your efforts and concern, in
your rots as citizens ami parents.
Jnst For Fan
IT MARCUS B. BOULWARS
ON MANBUVEMc Out an
maneuvers the pantroop outfit
was dropped in hot. arid dasert
tod sn< told top find Its way
through the sand unfit one o f
them began to (Ob and mutter,
“Take me home."
“Take us both home," whisper
ed another troopw. “He lives ov
er e mloon.”
DOES CRIME PAT? I mad in
the papers that e very seed idea
for making sure that crime does
not pay would be to let Am gov
ernment run it
GOOD SPORT: The trouble
with betas a pood wort Is that
on# haa to low te cedar te prove
it
OVERHEARD: A doctor Is a
men who tails yon that if you
don’t cut out aonwßiteg, he'll
cut out something. (Go hard.
DoeO .
Teacher. "WUU* did yon fa
ther whip you for what you did
in wheal ysatardeyf”
Pupfli "No, asa’anu he said tbs
hafil
In This Our Day
IT C. A. CHICK. ML
A Smr-POCB DOILU
PLUS QUESTION
It haa been this writer’s sad
experience to beer so many of
us (Negroes) make such state
ments iz T m going to enjoy
mine while I am living"; or “I
am not going to leave anything
here for somebody else te enjoy
end waste;" or “I am not going
to leave anything hem for people
to fuss over."
Such expressions as Km fore
going are certain to be heard in
any group of ua, ts somebody
in the group happens to mention
anything about an effort to ac
cumulate materiel wealth. And.
moreover, such statements am
not confined to the people “a
cross the railroad track,’’ but
they am uttered aleo for the
“UPPER-UPS." It is mol amus
ing and disgusting at the same
time to hear a person who bare
ly has a subsistence level of liv
ing (and that is the vast majori
ty of us) talk about "enjoying
his or hers." Somebody need te
politely remind us that unlaw an
individual Is in the I&000, or a
hove, per capita annual ineoma,
that individual does not have
anything to enjoy. All he can do
is to sxist - Just a littla above
the animal icingdosn. And, why
wa apparently think that an in
dividual who has oMssidsrable
wealth or riches deas not enjoy,
his is a SIXTY-fOU* DOLLAR
PLUS question to thtseetumaist.
Now It must be admitted that
it is possible for a poor person
Letter To The Editor
Her are axeerpts from editori
als compiled by Associated Me
■ fro Proas that have appeared ia
some of the nation’s leading
dally newspaper* an subjects of
current interest to our readers:
BIRMINGHAM AND PODITI
SOUTH
THE SUN TIMES. Chicago
"The night of terror that *-
rupted in Birmingham on Sun
day was a foregone roeult of th*
tensions that have wracked that
harried city. The prenure had
been building for weeks and
whan a sort oC casing had bean
obtained in an unofficial “true#"
it was tha lame-duck officiate
of Birmingham who, predictab
ly Increased the tension by de
nouncing the "truce” and the
Birmingham citizens who had
been a party to the agreement
The bombing of s Negro minist
er** heme and th* motel where
the agreements had been drawn
up followed and tha hopea for
peaceful coexistence while foe
disagreements were being work
ed out vanished in a right at
riot
"Now federal troops »xpsri
•nerd in riot work aro fat roadt
ness near Birmingham.
*T*erhspe this final mova an
tha part of Washington will gtva
pausa to th* extremist* of both
■idee and enable the modirolsg
to roeolv* tola tragic dfltwna"
THE POST, Denver
"Whatever quiet attempt* are
being made by the Justice De
partment to bring a truca hi tea
tanas Birmingham struggle, they
need to bo supplemented by a
strong reaffirmation at cur na
tional policy on etvfl rights.
"The Negroes in Birmingham
are asking for removal of racial
restriction* In downtown merit
bars, public fodUties and stores,
adoption of non-ractal hiring
practices for sales girls and sec
retaries and th* formation of •
bi-racial committee to carry an
negotiation* tar further de
segregation.
“Thee* aro not unreasonable
demands In ISA and tacy de
serve national support ixprom
*d through th* Whit* House. In
deed of only seeking a truest
the Prsridmt can us* his port-
Wtaane* to support
BtrmtnWiam Negroes In a foal
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THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE.
Little Rock
"It was predictable that "Buff*
Conner would react tn chat-act
sJf&tiSra&Er
no*
begkmLg. lt'wae > Bot*Mpe<iany
ana day rt
* rtslsea under Conner*
spectacle -BulT
THR PIfBIRMAN: The
stranger slopped Us am to
watch a ftossmsn m the river
bank. The angler awfifht a Mg
pike, but threw N hash. Iks
stmager did not say • word.
large trout, bat One it had:
also. ItnaUy he oanfibt a small
perch and deported it to Ms
beg.
“Say," the strsngsr sailed oat
“why did you keep font anal
one and throw the tom Mg snap
back tar
the fishermen rtrugged,
•Email frying pan."
IHB SIBTBU b g aartatai pa
rish, the SMar who tamftas the
third tobk^harr^s^ta
was to taka notes on the ani
mals they sow and prepare writ
ten reports for the principal.
The principal teas Marinated by
a report turned in bye little
best I foe
Warning Stand Bask. Bump
line we tasked at Ik he qptt at
te'taNfiEttrHwA
iSdfitoOhmST ** *
to be happy. Rome people have
so cultivated the aesthetical ride
of lifo that foay can anJoy a
bright moon, or the songs of the
birds, oc beautiful flowara, as
the babbling of a brook. But II
•ould he emphasised that the in
dividual who can do Ate fore
going is not enjoying hie. He is
enjoying Aw gift of nature.
Moreover, Aw person who haa
richao, to addition to (enjoying’
hie goods, may aleo oojoy Aw
guts ox nature.
Why we think Art If we
leave "a pair of shoes” when we
decease there must be a turn pv
wasted h tnusltag te my best
thinking. To boar many of us
talk, seemingly we have never
heard of wills and trusts. Other
mess establish trust to educate
end to give an economic start in *
life even for their groat grand
children. Wtfo our peculiar phi
losophy of enjoying ours, one
thing we most certainly am sac
essdtng in doing, namely, tore
tag our Children to atari lifo at
Aw bottom ring of Aw economic
ladder. I hope wa riwll soon re
alize Just how for behind we
Shell eventually tall in the eco
nomic game of lifo, It we con
tinue to force our offpering t*
start lifo empty handed while
ri|er mess are striving to sea
heir for up on Aw ooonomic
tedder thoy ooik start their dill*
Mw nui vj upt max* nasta ana
warn no tboa in r wring to "an*
fay ours" until wo Shan have
built up something to enjoy.
- but neither ride to th* dispute
ean osoepe a rtun of th* blame.
The asmbsr development* tn
Binringham work to dispel the
heps* spurred by Boutweil’s *•
lection and to replace them with
misgivings ok «• worn w msy
be yet to com*."’
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR, Boston
"It is no longer good enough
for southern segregationist
groups to aro hi effect, "W* re
fuse to Ist you ewsreiee th* con
stitutional right of asesmbly be
came yon might provoke us to
a to the pesos.”
fodlriduris
taking part to tie "freedom
way Into northern. Georgia and
"to penetrating Alabama and
Mtoskrigpl with their asms too
kM^rSmw^vksrottMSrS
mands aro the most difficult to
ttsaoe and* Nw*^an >< romamSar
roantowa^ttona'ef'Sr^K
thtitatr*puToff* granting *"tba
which the Constitution premia**
to every rittosn.”.
THE AMERICAN, Cttagi
MIVtS."
THE NEWS, Miami
-Tha racial strife to Asiibsws
santributo* tartbsr to tiw toss
of practise of tin United States
Mr. President s
ftit Civil Rights Are Wanted Now,
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BETWEEN THE LINES
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THE STOUT OF JOHN BROWN
William L. Moore, a white postman living In
Baltimore. was hiking to Jackson, Mias., to deliver
a totter to Gov. Ross Barnett, when he wasi killed
by and assassin on a highway to toe rural area,
north of Birmingham. Ala. He doubtless was slain
by the foes of too oauae that was dear to his
heart, and that oause was Negro liberation.
William L. Moore was a martyr, lor toe great
cause of tuiman brotherhood, and hi was martyr
in tbs —me sense ss was groat Old John Brown
whose body Use “a ’mouldering to toe Olay”, but
whose spirit goee marching on. - •
Dying for groat causes to not Oil of dato. WS
an told to toe Scriptures that greater loro hath
no man than this that he will lay down hi* life
for his friends, and laying down onrie Ms fro
causes is ss noMs as toying down oost Me fro
one’s friends.
A hundred years ago John Brown a poor
white man literally put his head to a hangmans
noose, and thereby did sometoli* to the ocn
sdenoe of a nation and toe world, tote precipi
tated toe War of Rebrilton. that eventuated into
toe emancipation of toe Negroes to Amrotaa.
The mme spirit that sent John Brown to
Harper’s ITOry sari William I* Moore to>MJe*-
isetppi and to toe end their glory will be the
same. We are fast approaching a grand ooneum
nation of to* Negro’s struggle whan a young white
man, with wlfoand family, win set out atone on
an errand of death to advance toe cause of Ne
gro liberation. Because he had wife and family he
{right have restrained htotertf from taking that
last long Journey and he ntobt teveJwenatom-
Amtiyr p*r«uyu. A for his restraint. But William
Moors had a rendasvous with destiny and bnmor
*** *Ss* hour of his higher destiny had.rtruck
and hs sets his face toward lflarimlppl ton* dark
er blot on a dart: region that ia today in grsat tra
vril where right Is strugglint to emerge.
Brown and WUlam Moore aro toetwo great rea
sons among toauauxto of others why ttoso^nm
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ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD
fof.L nUTTIB
Wb* I. . —W TOP *» » m*<*****«
sggut LW&Evis eras a
wg m employ toe pnltss power of toe stele a
state bemadte torow union pickets to Jail—even
* *WtaSSSiM qaestoms and maro otosts bs
eame uertinantbeeam* wa hate towns# to «f—
--toga tote tea g* depends an
wswSii IBM Srtjto of Tktoaston D
rivesTOty to riote* toe presto^aga.
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eiw* the world, even here to our own God-bless
ed i«Mt The key tost will unlock a future of
peaoe and good will among men, is tore and not
And so young William Moore is to be nuxn
bered imong the martyr* of the white
man dying for toe freedom of Negroes. The days
of flowering Christian knighthood are not end
ed and there are still those who take Jesus Christ
seriously to this matter of dying for the Right.
ff half toe Tlmnwis themselves would take as
•erfcwaly toe cause aq young Moore tocrijtoe mom
of the Dear day would soon break. There are
thousands of things Itogroee themselves can do
abort of martyrdom that would hasten our libera
tion and an acute interest to toe ballot is one
of toe things that demands toe Negro’s attention.
We are working to enfranchise millions of Ne
groes of tbs South who are virtually today with
out a ballot But if toe Negroes who can vote
would vote where they ean, toe picture of toe Ne
gro’s future would be Immeasurably improved.
The death of William Moore is an indictment
against toe Negroes steeped In political lethargy
and should haunt them Uke Banquo’s ghost The
blood of William Moore not only cries against the
oppressors of Negroes but U cries out againrt the
languid Negroes whs make nothing of their vot
“srsas.
Cause is not the Negroes who cannot vote; toft
those who can vote, and do not If toe blood of
William Moore could only stir these lethargic
millions!
As the Old South grows men and mere des
perate. we may emmet toe repetition of the Wll
liam Moore episode sad It is Just a matter of
time and Negroes will be slain in the struggle
that is moving toward a bloody climax, sooner or
While the Old South is content today to use
Are hoses and dogs in their fight against Negroes,
violence is to the offing. When white* slay whites
contending fro Negroes, it is Just a nutter of
ton* before they slay Negros*.
And the spirit of John Brown goes marching
an!
Tbs ftratls ttmtths student demonstration to
MIIWI
pottos power Is and aaalnst segments of
the so tasty which am wash. The power structure
aad tti proswny east get away with murder.
Why dtd not ttw poDee hi Birmliwhsm chase
aft Ms weetstora. They were whits and they worn
Me SynmSySs Ms*s&a^Sd£tiam
“**Tbe took to «MM Dr. Martin Luther King,
aimJhm a» s nob» Uiem
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wnitmTwmj th * t n^t^po
hkd» fer*vtotat£g stood fosraasSnatmnMmr
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ton MMhstis wha waa hark Jsfl osanrighi.
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