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4 THE CAKOmriJUV RALEIGH, N. CL. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1. IM4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP Jesus taught salesmanship. In a sense, without ever teaching it. Every one of his conversations, every contaot between his mind and others is worthy of the attentive study of any sales man ager. Passing along the shores of a lake one day. he saw two of the men he wanted as disciples. Their minds were in motion; their hands were busy with their nets; their conversation was about A Church That Gave $70,000 Os interest to the Raleigh religious and edu cational community was an announcement by Rev. Albert Edwards, pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, here during last Sunday morning’s service. The announcement was that $70,000 had been raised and given to Peace College during its recent fund-raising cam paign. We call attention to this suable amount of money raised by one church congregation as being a concrete example of what can be done for the much-needed private college by chur ches, especially when such church-related ins titutions depend so greatly on religious insti tutions for much of their existence. Presently Shaw University is a college who would benefit through church giving. As the CAROLINIAN has pointed out in its news columns, Shaw needs money NOW! The least Baptist Ministn-s can do is to lend the leader ship to their churches in seeing to it that plant are put in motion to raise needed cash for this What Hurts Us As A Race? In these years ahead the Negro race wishes to he accepted as first-class citizens following due process of desegregation gains. Through court decisions we msy win legal rights and advances, but will we be accepted or merely tolerated by whites? Presently, here are some things that hurt us as a race: 1. and boisterous behavior in public, further aggravated by the use of profanity or blackguard. 2. Riding buses and other public transpor tation facilities from work without changing our work clothes. 3. Sitting on our porches in our undershirts and with bare feet. Racial Gains In Raleigh For 1963 At the end of each year, or certainly the first of the New Year, we usually read of certain gains made during the past year. As would be expected, the newspapers carried, for example stories about Negro gains in several North Carolina cities—Charlotte, Raleigh, etc. Jonathan Friendly of the New s and Observ er, in the December 14, 1963, issue, reported that “Negroes have gained access to all indoor movie theatres, two motels and one third of the rrstaurants in Raleigh," as a result of the demonstrations and work of the Mayor’s Com munity Relations Committee of Raleigh. In addition, private enterprise and Federal. State and City governments have hired many new Negro employees and have upgraded the jobs they held during the last six months of 1963. The official Committee’s report noted that The Odds Against Smokers Wc have studied newspaper stories from va rious sources regarding the connection of ciga rette smoking with cancer. The most extensive study yet made on the effects of tobacco on health was reported by Dr. S. Cuyler Ham mond. chief biostatistician of the American Cancer Society to the American medical As sociation meeting in Portland. Oregon. It con tained the most devastating indictment of cigarette smoking ever made. It showed that death rates for cigarette smokers were more than double those of non smokers; heavy cigarette smokers were hos pitalized hnlf again as often aa nonsmokers; nine cigarette smokers died of lung cancer for every nonsmoktr. death rates climbed with the number of cigarettes smoked daily and skyrocketed with the depth of inhalation; pipe and cigar smoking is "practically innocuous" since inhalation is low; death rates of men who New Leukemia Drug Developed Through the years, our scientists have made rapid and consistent progress in finding cures or pallatives for certain dreaded diseases, of which one is leukemia. Scientists have developed a new radioactive drug which promises to lengthen the lives of patients suffering one form of chronic leuke mia. a Dallas research center reports. This report from the Wadley Research Ins titute and blood bank credited the discovery for nearly doubling the median survival time of 97 chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients treated with the drug. Median survival time is the medical name for the point at which half the patients in a certain group live longer and the other half a shorter time. It is said the median survival time for the 97 treated with the drug, called colloidal rirronyl phosphate P-12, is seven and three fourth yean. The previously reported high median survival time for chronic leuke mia, • fatal type of cancer, was four and three- THB motto PRESS — boherae that America can best had she worla away from racial and national antagonism* « rhan it accords to ever? mat ragardfaea of race, enter or creed, hi s human and legal rights Hating no ma> soaring no man ffts Negro Pram strives tohelp every man on the firm be Mat that ail man an hurt m long m anyone ta hald back. _ . : conditions in the fishing trade, and the proepects of a good market tor the day's catch. To have broken in on such thinking with the offer of em ployment as preachers of a new rehgkm would have been to oonfuae them and invite a certain rebuff. What was Jesus’ approach? “Come with me." he said, “and I will make you flatten of men.” deserving university. While we don’t exect a church to give S7O, 000 to Shaw University as did the First Pres byterian Church for Peace Jr. College, we are sure, with unselfish Godfearing leadership that Shaw/dJniversity will get its just share of sup port from our fine Baptist and other interest ed churches. From year to year our world grows larger and larger. There are more things to support Bigger prices to pay to live are keenly appar ent. Our responsibilities as well as our privi leges are enlarged. And with this ever expand world we must learn to give more to our col leges, our charities and die perpetuity of the betterment of our future culture. The Baptist State Convention cannot be urged too thoroughly, at this time, of its privi lege to guide its hundreds of member churches in behalf of an institution whose rich heritage they have been so much a part in the past 4. Working hard all the week, and then spending our wages on jail and court fines because of fighting, drunkenness, cutting with razors and knives, and wounding others with weapons. sf> Hanging around street corners and mak *iQg ourselves public nuisances. If we want people to accept and respect us, we must improve greatly our behavior, devel op thriftiness, and acquire more education and training. The law and court, the NAACP, CO RE, and organizations cannot do everything for us in our quest for first-class citizenship. We must develop a moral integrity, and our words must be our bonds. We must do more than is required of us on our jobs, if we expect to get ahead. in Raleigh seven department stores and four grocery chains employed Negroes as clerks, that three industries hire Negroes for produc tion and office work, and that one utility was seeking Negroes for jobs that were formerly for whites. Furthermore, the report stated that 26 of the City’s 70 restaurants adopted nondiscrimina tory policies, that all facilities in variety stores and downtown drugstores were open to Negro es, and that City's public swimming pools and other recreational facilities were integrated. Small though the gains were, the progress made showed that much can be accomplished when the channels of communication are open by means of a Community Relations Commit tee such as we have in this city. In 1964, we certainly hope that we will make more pro gress than waa made in 1963. started smoking in their teens were much high er than those who took up the habit later in life; if a person starts smoking early, he will gradually smoke more cigarettes daily over the years and inhale more: death rates for those who have kicked the habit five years or more aome close to those for nonsmokers; the higher the degree of education the lower the amount of smoking; and there seems to be no relation ship between the amount of nervousness and the amount of smoking. The evidence accumulates with every scien tific survey. This one studied the death certi ficates. medical records and personal question naires of 422,094 men aged 40 to 80 in 25 states. - • Wc think that by publishing the facts a smoker can decide for himself whether or not he want* to give up the habit. sixth years. The patients in the study experienced “ex tended symptom-free periods with normal activity," scientists said. Some of the people taking part in the experiment are still living, several years longer than the median survival time for the group. According to a paper appearing in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the new drug concentrates radia tion in ports of the body where leukemia cells infiltrate. Cancer cells are destroyed by radia tion. The skeptic may say. "But the new drug does not cure leukemia.” True enough, but it docs help add several years to the patient's life. The average normal person departs from this life all too soon anyway. Mid we certainly are grateful that science can add several years more to the life of a person who will eventual ly succumb to leukemia. Just For Fun BY MARCUS a BOULWABS PLAY VBBXIVAL Recently, our Speech sad Dra ma Department, here at Florida ARM University, sent me, one English professor, and two sen ior student drama majors to . Judge at a play factival at Cairo, Georgia. It waa actually bald at the Washington Consolidated High School at 4:00 P. M. last Friday, Jan. 34. 1004. I believe it waa District Five, of the Geor gia Interscholaatic organisation, of which the various high schools are members. Four schools brought plays, and later the winners were an nounced. But Just as we (judges) were shout to depart for heshe, a fifth school earns upon the scene. White most of the audi ence waa gone, the Judges were asked to remain to view the ploy. We received a small fee of thirty dollars for three judges. Since the two student drama majors acted aa one Judge, we divided the fee for three judges in three equal parts. This meant that the two students received five dollars bach. To my sur prise. I was also given a travel mileage check for the use of my automobile; I wasn’t looking tor it, but I waa delighted. You know, for some reason, I like to feel green money between my tinge.*. There is nothing that lifts the spirit as high as money ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN BARRY OOLDWATER IN NORTH CAROLINA •‘lt's n new ball game,’* said Herman Saxon. Republican State Chairman In North Caro lina. Mr. Saxon wag talking about Senator Barry Ooldwa ter’s chance* for the Republi can nomination. It waa a new ball game because this waa Senator Goldwater's first lec ture tour In Dixie rince the aaeaealnation of President John F. Kennedy. Senator Ooldwater came to North Carolina involved In one of the moot complex political quests ever initiated by a poli tician. The genial Senator from Arisons la searching to see if ht has a cause or if he Is the oauee. Senator Ooldwater has to discover which of these is true aoon. Five months ago, Barry Odd water need nrrf heve worried Wiill.il lit- •• it.. w ...~ *. l er or U>e cause itself. The en thusiasm he mustered among Southerners was all encompass ing. Everywhere he went, he was met by cheering crowds. In his speeches, the Senator did not have to explain why the economic and foreign poli cies of the New Frontier were Inadequate. He fired up his audlenoes until someone yell ed, “Down with the Kennedy*’’ and the cheering transformed Barry Ooldwater from a charm ing Senator into a knight on horseback ready to defend State's Rights. Terry Sanford, the only New Frontier governor in the South, sadly agreed last October that If the election were held then, Barry Ooldwater would sweep North Carolina. And North Carolina has been the most loy al of Southern Democratic strongholds. Stevenson carried the state both times against Elsenhower and Kennedy gain ed his beet majority there in 1960. But then the issue of civil rights for Negroes poked its ug ly bead through the fabric and Barry Ooldwater seemed the only cause nearby who would shove the head of equity back under the canvas where It had been stifled for so long. But maybe Barry Ooldwater Isn’t enough In IM4. The shout. "Lyndon Johnson, turncoat-" has not caught on. Barry Oold water himself has nothing cru Editorial Opinions Here are excerpts from edi torials. compiled by Associated Negro Press, appearing tn some of the nation's leading daily newspapers on subjects of cur rent interest to our readers; E-RACING LOUISIANA BALLOT THK POST. Washington “The Supreme Court was unanimous In reaching this conclusion respecting s Louisi ana statute requiring designa tion on the ballot of the race of candidates for elective of fice. It Is hard to see bow there could be rational dissent from Mr. Justice Clark’s observation that *by placing a racial label on a candidate at the most process the Instant before the crucial stage in the electoral vote Is cast—the State furnish es s vehicle by which racial prejudice may be so aroused as to operate against one group because of race and tor anothei . . . The vice lies not In the re sulting Injury but in the plac ing of the power of the Stats behind a racial classification that Induces racial prejudice at the polls.” “How many times must the Supreme Court sound its trum pet before the Vails of racial discrimination come tumbling down?” A PLATFORM FOB WALLACE THE AMERICAN. Chicago “Alabama’s segregationist Ocv. Oeorgc Wallace says he's thinking seriously of entering PrraSdrntlal primaries in Ore gon and California. His decis ion will depend. Wallace told repot tera. on how much m*n wv get and bow many petitions we receive': so far. be said, let tor writer* tn bath states mss can; and nothing that puts one down "in the dura pa” aa being “broke." Speech Correcttooist We had one speech correction major to graduate just befors Christmas holidays. She was lucky mad got a job at once in Ocala, Florida. And might I add that she earn ed five “A’s" her last semester. Another speech correction ma jor (now a sophomore) made six “A’s” in her courses last tri mester. It made me teeel good to learn that these two students were the only students in tee Speech and Drama Department making an "A" average, or “A* in all of their courses. In fact, the sophomore has " | v** all "A’s" for three trimesters. This is a good thing, because a sps*dh correctionist ought to be at least a good “B" student to he suc cessful In her work. Men in die speech correction profession usually go on and take the Master's degree in speech pathology or in audiol ogy. This entitles teem to direct speech dnlca. engage in private practice, teach in colleges, hold administrative positions such as supervisors of speech correction, etc. Strange as it may seam, very few Negroes go into the profes sion. The opportunities are gnat, but tea laborers are few. el to say of the new President and onee launched on that sub ject always seems to me to look as though he wished he were back In the balmier days <A "Down with Bobby." Does Barry have a future to Dixie? The Republican Chair man says yea—if. That if be ing the possibility that Lyndon Johnson means what be says about civil rights and “public accommodations.” One silver lining that hovers above the Senator is his ability to say anything he wants in Dixie without serious debate. He spoke out recently against Federal government “subsidy, welfare and relief” in an area of North Carolina where they take government “subsidy, wel fare and relief” around the clock from sun-up to - sun down: thf*V till rm it wHtlw liniiiL, uilii thing that Is not nailed down, from subsidies for peanut and tobacco farmers to pensions for the old and school lunches for the young. But they cheered Barry** at tack. They didn't think Barry would really take it away from them and I don't think he sus pects he will either. What Bar ry wanted to take away were the things that belonged to John F. Kennedy. That was In the days when he was the cause. Now that he has to have causes of his own, the day may come when the subsidized real ize he means to take tt from them. They may not want to let go. A half million of these folks living in the area of North Carolina where Barry spoke did not have radio, television, re frigerator, or washing machine until the mid-1930'5. There was little electrical power to rural North Carolina until the fed eral government's Rural Elec trification Administration oame on the scene. A woman living only a few miles from where Senator Gold water spoke tpkl me a story about the REA and what It meant to her marriage to one man for 43 years: “He went Into the field when It was dark and came back to the house when It was dark. I never did see his face real good till the government strung them power lines.” to think It’s a great Idea. ''Wallace didn't say what his platform as President would be. but we imagine the main plank would be repeal of the Civil War." RETREAT FROM DEMOCRACY THE JOURNAL. Milwaukee Hopes for increased south ern moderation on the question of civil rights have been set bock by the defeat of de Les sens Morrison in the Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial pri mary. Morrison was beaten by John J. McXeithen. who is an outright segregationist and hammered the race issue throughout the campaign. "Not that Morrison advocat ed integration. He calls himself s segregationist, too. But hs called for the ’rule of reason’ In handling racial matters. He has a record of moderation which brought him the support of the Negro voters. “Observers had expected Morrison to win the primary, which In Louisiana is tanta mount to winning the gover norship. They felt that the as sassination of President Ken nedy had blunted the segrega tion issue. But It hadn’t. “Ocv. Wallace of Alabama and Oor. Barnett of Mtostastppi hall McKelthenk win as bol stering their own segregation -Ist position. So do their sup porters. ’’ WHY OP ZANZIBAR THK TRIBUNE, Chicago "In Zanzibar's short carer it has provided two graphic exam ples of Sis sort of hyprocisy that governs world affairs today “First It tola Staling On Rights Makes Ha - Ashamed Gordon B. Hancock ’& BETWEEN THE LINES NEGROES AND OUR NEW PRESIDENT Zt to difficult to Imagine a better man to suc oeed the fallen Kennedy than President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is going to make a fine President within the limits that a Southern Congress will define. With Johnson as with the lamented Kennedy, the going will be tough for any man who dares to stand too strong for civil rights for Negroes. Kennedy’s stand for civil rleht* we* airesdv (eon. nation and It Is going to do the same for Johnson. Negroes msy as well be realistic about it, the fight for civil rights legislation is not nearly over, and faces a “rocky road” in Congress. The South ruled Congress can be counted on to go all out to its efforts to oppose any worthwhile civil rights legislation, and while I believe to Johnson with all my heart, mind and strength. I do not under rate the stubborn opposition with which he Is confronted. The fact that Johnson is a Southerner does not to the least count against him in my book. In fact It is my studied conclusion that the civil rights cause tuts a better chance under Johnson than it would have had under Kennedy. Johnson as a Southerner has a certain amount of strength In a South-ruled Congress that Kennedy did not, and could not have. Another fact worth remembering Is. when a Southerner takes a stand, he stands firmly! When a Southerner is standing in your owner you have a fighter standing there. You can find a North erner here and there who when he stands up to be counted, will follow through with all might and main, but generally speaking, the so-caled North ern liberals who take the side of legislative mea sures which promise an advantage to Negroes In thelf fight fw full citizenship, are too prone to speak softly while the anti-Negro Southerners speak not as the scribes and pharisees but as those having authority. In other words, I would Just as soon see the presidential fight for civil rights in the hands of ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD BY F. L. PRAT TIB For ANT Ih our fulmination against colonialism in Af rica our denunciations are usually delivered a gainst whites; The English and Dutch in South Africa, the Portuguese In Angola and Mozambique, the French In West Africa, and so on ad infini tum. We are Inclined to pass off as not too Im portant the visitation of evil by others upon the African community. These constitute minorities In moat African states just like the whites are. ‘ In East Africa, particularly, there have been minorities, other than the white minority, who have eought higher rungs on the totem poll than those awarded to the majority black Africans. These others in East Africa and South Africa have been principally Arahs and East Indians. These minorities have done little to help bring freedom to the native African community. As a matter of fact, they have looked the other way when the black African was In trouble. They have been content to serve as shopkeepers and to entice from the Africans what small change they may have. One was forced to recognize this fact when the Sultan of Zanzibar was chased off his porch. There are five times as many black Africans in Zanzibar as there are Arabs, but when freedom came, there sat the Arabs ready to take over under their Sultan. It should have been Joreseen that the Mack Africans were going to be distress ed when the English moved out and the Arabs took over. For tbs last 1.400 years the Arabs have been -,k source of great concern to black Africans. The Arabs have been behind the trading in slaves. They were the ones who worked with African chieftains to provide slaves for the American with hardly a dissenting voice, even though it gras governed by a minority, sad a relatively con servative one at that, represent ing the Arab traders and Indian shopkeepers who have been the business men of East Africa for centuries. Had the minority been European instead of Asian, the Afro-Anar bloc would no doubt hare demanded its expulsion as a cowcfttioa of independence, just as is being dm in regard to Southern Rhodesia But, sines a hard-hitting Southerner aa In the hands of a Northerner. Johnson may be overpowered, but he will put up a man-sized fight. The South con trolled Congress has on its hand a President who will fight them to a finish and will not take it lying down. Truman who succeeded the great Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a good account of himself even though he was a Southrener and his being a Southerner did not stay his hand in the fight for ..i-,l 1 ... a— V x • Human was and is better prepared to fight the impending issues to a finish. Johnson has my full confidence and my vote, come November. One of the saddest aspects of the assassination of our great President Kennedy is that he died with the grumbling of certain misguided Negroes ringing in his ears. Just because President Kenne dy could not make a clean sweep with his civil rights program, there were thankless Negroes ready to rend him, although he had advanced the cause of civil rights further than ever before In history. While an Irate South was cursing him for even making a signal beginning, aome thank less Negroes were cursing him because he could not deliver everything and deliver It now. It Is seriously to be doubted whether Johnson can deliver everything and deliver it now. When we evaluate the position of the “never-ists.” we want them to be realists who see and realize there la abroad In the world a moral and social revolu tion. The “now-Uts” must also be realists and face the ugty fact that every courageous advocate of Negro advance cannot knock a home-run every time he goes to the bat. Kennedy was not going to knock a home run. either. To beat a Southern Congress Into submission and whip the filibuster is a tremendous task. If any man in this country Is equal to It, It Is Presi dent Johnson. He must not be esteemed alone for his winning but how he played the game. The fight for civil rights legislation Is In good presi dential hands. Let the Negroes of this oountry back up Johnsoh win, lose or draw! market. 81avery Is an institution which the Arabs have never rejected. Nothing Is said or done about the enslavement of black Africans today in the neighboring king dom of Saudi Arabia The Arabs have their ten tacles not only In Zanzibar, but in Kenya. Tanga nyika and other East African states. It will sur prise no one If the going is made rough for the Arabs in the future. The Africans have a score to settle. Not quite as bad a* the Arabs have been the East Indians. Originally brought into East Africa and South Africa as coolies, the Indians have remained to become the store keepers. This has been good business for them. African# have stood on the sidelines and watch ed Arabs and Indians, let alone the whites, milk them and their country dry. However, it must be admitted that the Indian world has been far less brutal, or inconsiderate, than the Arabs. When India became a free republic, one of its firrt steps »as to inform its Indian "co.onizers" In Africa, that the interests of the African* wher ever the Indians might find themselves, were to be paramount. No such regard Is shown by Arabs In East A.rica. Ben Bella of Algeria struck a new h®!? conceded that all Africans. Arabs and black Africans alike, must sacrifice and shed blood together for ail Africa. The first speculation on the coup In Zanzibar is that it is Communist-inspired. That may well ? , ha * s b, ' corTie standard to blame the Communists for any situation which we can't explain away otherwise They have been blamed aZHtESSSt the government was Asian, end since Asians are prominent in the numerically powerful •neu tralist’ bloc of the United Na tions. the ‘crime’ could easily be overlooked. “Second. Zanzibar has now demonstrated bow. once a back wari country is independent. Its politic* can be—and are being manipulated to suit the pur poses of the Communists." WHITHER NUIXIH’ THE TFWESsEAN. Nashville Instead of being the pace and example fetter for independence ar.d freedom in Africa. Dr. Nkrumah a playing the role of despot All the flaws he once lound in British rule he now practices and has managed to go far beyond that uhamans individually are not. free or iroepr-ident. and it is not the coir r.iahst master but ore of their own which fashions chain* for mem.’
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