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THE CABOUNIAM RALEIGH. N. C, SATURDAY MARCH X«. IM4 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP “Whosoever Is fearful end afruid let him go home tonight,’’ he proclaimed. Gideon, the mili tary leader, was about to go to battle with the Midlanitea. He had called for volunteers, and some 30,000 men responded. Oldeon looked them over carefully and critically. He knew the con- The person who is always criticizing is bor ing when involved in conversation. However, we have so many of these kind of people that we hardly know what to do. A large number of people express dissatis faction of one thing or another This makes us wonder what have these critics done themsel ves to improve the deplorable conditions they •ondemn. They do not like the people holding public office, or those running for public office. Of° course, they have the right to criticize; but we wonder how many of tlum voted in the last election? Have they written their Congress men expressing dissatisfaction with or approv al of aome bill or program? Congressmen don’t have cryatal balls to tell them. People complain about how juvenile delin quency is increasing. But how many have stop ped to take time out to work in a boy's culb, Can Citizens Bury Themselves? Looking at things as they really are at tha present time, we can’t help but wonder can the rank and file of Negro citizens afford to bury themselves? In this country, the sverage cost of a funeral comes to over SI,OOO. Negroes in the low in come bracket, on relief and welfare rolls, and those engaged in domestic service cannot by any stretch of the imagination pay this price for a funeral. Thus, it becomes the duty of the County in which they reside to bury them. To offset the high cost of funerals, a num ber of funeral, burial, and memorial societies have been founded in many states for the pur pose of reducing the individual costs of fun erals through cooperative strength and numer ous members. Some 14 have been founded in California, one in Arizona, two in Virginia, two On what we call Palm Sunday, last Sunday, Jesus passed through Jericho, and just before He came in sight of the city, the group of Jew-t who had accompanied him tin route to Jerusa lem burst out in a demonstration and wanted to make Him king. These pilgrims, mostly Jesus’ home province citizens. it must be re membered were different from the larger num ber of Jews already in Jersaulem. To this lat ter group Jesus was cither quite unknown, or . known as a teacher of an unauthorised doc trine: they were not the ones who cried, “Cru cify him!" later that week, or Holy Week. Monday: Jesus challenged the money-chang ers and drove them from the outer court of the Temple. These men were licensed to do busi ness; and when Jesus drove them out, no won der they questioned His authority Tuesday: Jesus remained in the Temple Courts all day. answering questions, suggest ing in parables that God was aliout to reject the Jewish people. Hr got himself generally disliked because He denounced the Pharisees in the moat scalding denunciation. This ac tion on the part of Jesus made the Jewish au thorities determined to bring about his death one way or another Wednesday: The Master did not enter Jeru salem. Thursday: On Thursday evening. Jesus cel ebrated what wc now call The Lord's Supper with his disciples in Jerusalem. The treachery of Judas enabled the High Priest to srrest Jesus quietly at a fixed time. At midnight, Christ was brought before a group of promi nent Jew* in the High Priest's palace. This led City Officials Should Set Examples Every state establishes deadline* for motor ists to purchase license tags. If ritirrns don't comply, policemen will sooner or later catch them in some spot check Then the offending must feel the effects of the law. In Brunswick, Ga.. n group of City Conimis aionera were attending a meeting which we in terrupted by a request from the police chtef: "Would the commissioners without city car tags, especially the one forked in front of the police station. please put them on.** Law enforcement officers had been cracking down on driven who failed to get tap by the wk) of the daadHnc When the matter was rail ed to the attention of the commiaaioners. some nflßlji hi explained they didn’t know the dead line had passed. It ie hand to Mtare that a city commlaaion- Let’s Look At The Tampa Job Survey The Tampa Urban League has started a program to determine what skills local Ne groes have and to place them in iobe where they can IMS these skills. Although the pro gram is being sponsored by toe Tampa. Fla , Urban L aagae. afcss industries are taking part. Volunteer dtivena will interview and register Negroes In rleadflrrH — according to their skills and trade*. This preject is an effort to audit Negro skills in Tampa—to find oat just what skills there ere, how many trained Negron are working on lower levels that their training qualifies them for, how much unemployment there is among them, and how much under-employment Tampa firms participating in the project fdf NEGRO PRESS haSavas fhsf America can hear feed the worlo _ away from racia/ and nation*/ mtmgpntum whan H accords to every mar regardless of race, enter or creed, hit hummn and I*4*/ rights. Mating no man fearing no m an—the Negro Frees strives to help every man on the firm he- Hot that off mm on kart m long m anyone *» bM back. The Critic Is A Bore The Palm Sunday Story Dieting motives that had brought them there some from mere love of adventure; some because they were afraid to be taunted with cowardice; some for plunder; and some to get away from their wives. He determined to weed them out. Therefore, he gave them the opportunity to re turn home if they wished. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and to on? Criti#^condemn the program of the P. T. A.; but are they members of this organization? Some critics claim Communists are getting a foothold in this country. Well, as long as we sit around and do not vote, complain and do nothing, this is exactly what they want Many of us express displeasure at the way our allies handle their business, their foreign and domestic affairs. But, before we criticize others, let us "sweep clean in front our own door first,” If everybody would work together a little more, this nation would be a heaven on earth. In the words of the late President John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your coun try.” We might even add thia statement; “If you do for your country, the other people will take care of themselves." in Maryland, and three In our own North Car olina. At the turn of this century, a number of Ne gro funeral directora provided burial insurance for people in the community at low-cost fees by the week. These burials, of course, were not of the SI,OOO class, but they were decent and honorable. The high coat of funerals In this country de serves a government study for the purpose n f persuading undertakers to charge more ir. xl erate fees, or it should encourage constructive controls. Think of the growing number of senior citi zens who form an ever-growing class. We won • der is there no way to die decently and be buri - ed at moderate expense? to the “three trisls” of- Jesus. In the first trial, several charges were brought against Jesus, but no serious offense was proved against him—except that He a vowed to be the Son of God, heard by witness es of unimpeachable character. Saiaphaa said Jesus spoke blasphemy. At the second trial, the courts were thrown open to the crowds and Caiaphas pre-planned it so that the crotfd. would cry, in favor of Bar rabas, which finally accured the condemnation of Christ * Friday : Pilate did not take any executive ac tion. until a third trial "Trial for Life” could be held. The Sanhedrin Court brought Jesus to trial on Friday morning. (Good Fri day), in the presence of Pilate, at sunrise, and the final charge was that Jesus had committed treason against the Roman Empire. While Pi late vacillated, Jesus was condemned to death. Pilate said that he could find no fault in Jesus, but he permitted the thief to go free and likewise the crucifixion of Christ. He would have been well satisfied to set Jesus free, but he feared the Jewish authorities would com plain about him to the Roman Empire: and could not face the possibility of being de-mot ed from his position. The last week of Jetua’ life teaches us that we will always have Pilates with eagle eyes cocked for fishes and loaves, for votes in the next election, for opportunities to be crooked in elected offices, for the chance to take ad vantage of our poor brother. We cannot have both Barabbas and Christ It must be one or the other. er did not know the date of the license tag deadline. Certainly, this was not a valid ex cuse. We doubt if the police chief would have given the average citizen a warning, because they would have been “locked up" in jail or fined. A mayor In a Florida city made almost the camr excuse for not having his state tag as did the Georgia commissioners. His conscience “bothered** him and he voluntarily paid his fine. Just because an individual is a mayor, com missioner. or what-Jiave-you. is no reason for his not buying his license tag on time like everyone else. Although we haven't heard of a similar story in North Carolina, we know our officials have been guilty at one time or another. are Sperry U. S Atomic Energy Commission. International Business Machines. Schlitr Brewery. Continental Baking Compeny* Min neapolis Honeywell. General Electric and Fairchild Stratos Corp These industries and firms should be com* mended for their efforts to see to it that they make the best use of the Negro labor they em ploy. Under employment is s waste of labor resources. We urge citie* In North Carolina to take similar steps to bring to the attention of pro spective employers the various and available Negro skills, and ask the toms to include more Negroes in their apprentice-training programs for industry. Just For Fun BY MARIUS H BOLL WARE ON TO MIAMI! Next week I visit my last in tern In speech and correction In the Dade County school sys tem. His name la Christopher Crenshaw, a resident of Pen socoia, Florida, Already aome of my former students in Mi ami have Informed me in ad vance concerning the fine re cord he is making. This young man is about 24 years old and la exemplarary in character and Integrity. He should suc ceed in life. He wants to go on to graduate school and take a M.A. degree in speech pathology; but he is postponing this until he can help a younger brother get through college. Thia is a fine gesture, and it shows that Mr. Crenshaw Is thinking of mak ing the opportunity for his bro ther better. HELPERS: I have known of several cases in which a family of four to six children help one another through school, before taking on the obligation of marriage. There are many Negroes who have no children but who have money. They should be willing to educate some promising young man or woman to pre pare himself for the opportun ities ahead. ONLY‘IN AMERICA WHY CHAPEL HILL? North Carolina’s press 1* puzzled. Why did the Negroes pick Chapel Hill, of all place*, for their current forceful street demonstrations? The editorials point out that our famous University town has had a national reputation for progress In human rela tions. Indeed, out of the University of North Carolina have come pioneers In the struggle for civ il rights. The late Howard O dum, and Dr. Guy B. Johnson, and Dr. Prank P. Graham be gan their fight for civil rights for the Negro a quarter of a dom Riders began to study the centeury before the first Free bua routes of the Sooth. And in the early 1940 s Chapel Hill writers James Street. Betty Smith. Noel Houston, and Paul Green were already talking publicly about the desegrega tion of public accommodations. So why Chapel Hill? Why ahould the local CORE direct Its moot Important demonstra tion in this famous liberal at mosphere of the University of North Carolina? And yet it should be n mys tery to those who study the history of such movements for political freedom and the right to move about a* free citizens. The puzzled editors of North Carolina are right when they say there U "more civil rlghfig' 1 for the Negro in Chapel Hill than in most cities of the South, but that's Just the point. There ait still some. restau rants. motels, and other public accommodations which are seg regated and precisely because Chapel Hill has encouraged a liberal atmosphere, the rem nant of racial segregation is al Ithe more degrading There has been a pattern to man's struggle for freedom through all es history When you are in Egypt, you tip your Letters To The Editor To The Editor; What good does It do to talk about understanding, thought fulneas. and consideration with your fellowman when you can't even get it from those that art close to you. If we don't receive thews thing*, how are we expected to return them? So in the end we have to turn the other cheek and lore one another Love is such a naked word, such a slmplevword, a word peo ple don t think too much Os these days, or any other tor that matter But what do we have left? What carl'we do? We are wedded toaetnK like it or not. by the simple bond age that we are all human be ings. and there is no escaping it This web mi y be the cause of our death or the cause of our living. W'hat good is flying to the moon if carry with u*. hate, tor if our heart* are not pure we will still slaughter each oth er when we meet. We can not hide, there is always someone to xr ut, someone lurking In the shadows V is a long, dark lonely street and at the end we still hive ourselves Do we think someone is gd ing to conic a’ong and care us all, set the world in order for us? We must right our own wrongs before we can teU oth ers how to correct themselves Sometimes we think we can't go one step further, but we know that we never give up. ao Editorial Opinions <Here are excerpts from edi torials compiled by the Asso ciated Negro Press appearing in tome of Uie nation's trading dally papers on subjects of cur rent interest to our readers • _____. THE RIGHT TO CRITICIZE THE CHICAOO TRIBUNE Another milestone In the lona fight for\ freedom of the pisas and freedom of speech hits been set up by * unanimous decision ■ of the United State? Supreme court- The effect of the decis ion is to reaffirm the constitu tional right of every eitiam to criticise covrrrunent and offic ials of wwroiwat The caw was a suit against the New Tort Tunas and four Negro minister* charging that, an advertisement published ua HEADLINE: Just after the report of the Surgeon General concerning cigarette smoking, one newspaper carried this headline; “Cigarette* Off By 10 Per Cent" and just below was another story on cigarette* be ing stolen from the Country Club. Are they being stolen in stead of purchased? NO BIRTHDAY!—I can't be lieve it. In Tokyo, . Japan, Parmer Tokumateu Tsuji Is 71 years old but never has had a birthday. His birth certificate reads February 30. 1893, an en try apparently made according to a once-official lunar calen dar used In Japan. i Well, no birthday no pre sent, that’s how it is.) ' SPOTS: This story eome* from Miami. Fla . where the question was asked; “What has 510 legs and red spots all over? The 255 Miami area school children missing from classes recently because of German measles Dr. John Davie* of the Dade County Health Department said the Increase In case* re ported began March I and has steadily gone up. He said the total of the cases for 1964 Is substantially above the same period a year ago. BY HARRY GOLDEN hat. step off the sidewalk, and bow low before the masters. But when you reach Mount Ne bo and you can actually see the “Promised land," it Is only then that you lntenttfy your efforts to reach It. Whe should expect the Negro effort# to in crease as the wall against them cralhblee. And betides, the demonstrat ing Negroes of Chapel Hill have a right to encourage this great university center to Justify its national reputation for intellec tual integrity and sociological reason. I APOLOGIZE Itake my liat off to no (me In my love for Puerto Rico. I kno wmany Puerto Ricans. I love their Island and they know I love It. But recently I wrote a piece about the Puerto Rican tra'- dition of “machismo" and some Puerto Ricans said it offended them. I thought my essay call ed attention to one of their great virtues but they said I took it the wrong way. I didn’t mean It the wrong way but I don't intend to change my views. What is true of most Puerto Ricans is also true for the majority of Latin Ameri cans. In the male-female rela tionship, machismo means tlie man is always the boss. When a Mexican, say. looks at a woman, he frankly looks at her. He smiles and stares. An American who secs a pret ty woman, shifts his eyes to something else, but manages to keep the corner of his eyes fo cused on the beauty. He Is a hypocrite. This has been very bad for America and I think it is this sly habit that has gotten us the reputation of having a lot of female Imper sonators. I doubt that women admire this trait. Some day we will achieve the Latin direct ress of being able to look at a woman and keep looking, and looking, and looking. we take that next step. If we lose, coming close doesn't mat ter. so we must always have it in mind to win. For the stakes are high, and we cannot afford to lose the race. B. E LAWTON. Raleigh ori* 1 . - March 10. 1964 Dear Editor: Although Cassiua Clay and I are the same age and resemble each other, wc made our debut in separate fields Mr. Clay, as a boxer, lost all that he en countered in theology. Since I am a student in a Seminary it *s matural for me the young people in ouVage bracket that Mr. Clay in religion, and it would nbt be a wise move to join him. No one should be deceived by Mr. Clay's being classified as the world's heavyweight champ ion. as classified and qualified ha\T separate meanings . The fight between Mr Clay ahd Mr Liston proved only one thing: that s man can be wrong and just as sincere with it as though he wax right I hope that Mr Clay will change for his good. He can't run few Mayor of New York spd be a member of a group that wants the state of Anzonr REV JESSE F MITCHELL. ‘ Nashville. Tenn the Times in 1960 libeled J B Sullivan, pol 'e commlsloner of Montgomery. Ala. The adver tisement. which solicited funds to carry on the fight for de segregation contained state ments criticizing the handling of racial demonstrations in Montgomery. Police Commissioner Sullivan contended the statements could be taken as reflecting on him. end asked damages for libc. The Alabama state courts awarded him *500.000 This judgment has been thrown out by the Supreme court, which held that a criticised public of ficial may not recover damages for a defamatory falsehood ro tating to his official oondus* unties he proves that the state ment was made with knowledge This Cancerous Disease Is Catching Gordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN THE LINES A PITY OF PITIES When I first began the serious study of socio logy. my professors had to do some expert brain washing before they finally convinced me that humans afe not bom human. Although even in the eery stages of learning it was clear that man is an animal. However, it never occurred to me that the higher animal was bom sub-human. Man's humanity comes slowly and In many cases it hardly comes at all and when it comes it is seldom deep laid, for it takes-only a.trifle to turn so-called humans to brutes, for as some soci ologists tell us, man is one of the greatest killers that ever lived upon the earth. Man's endless wars and rumours of wars with their beastliness and brutality are mute evidences of the brute in man and how thin-laid is the ve neer of what we call humanity. Just beneath the skin of the human we find the animal in his most brutish form in far too many instance* Upon the slightest provocation man reverts to 41 animal of low degrees. In spite of our pretentious civiliza tion and humanity, and in spite of our boasting and much learning the animal in us must have its turn and what becomes manifest in our mo ments of reversion becomes a matter of great pity. When the animal in us gets the upper hand, we can become greviously ugly in our behavior. In those moments of our thinnest humanity and our thickest animality, we are not objects to be berat ed and condemned, but to be pitied. When the old subhuman animal takes over there is trouble too often of the gravest kind. The above observation was inspired by the news account of recent date of w hat recently happened in one of our great mid-western cities. The ac count reads in part: “Thirty-seven college stu dents, nearly half of them co-cds. were arrested early Sunday in a fraternity drinking party that ranged over nine: floors of a downtown hotel. Fif teens co-eds were charged with entering the bed rooms of the members of the opposite sex. Charges against the men included numerous counts of dis orderly conduct, entering a bedroom and under age drinking plus larceny and public indecency. ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD It was inevitable that someone would Issue a stupid, foolish, suicidal "call to arm*” in the course of the so-called revolution The "call" has come from the agile Malcolm X. erstwhile leader of the Back Muslims in New York, who ran afoul of his Jesus, Mr. Muhammad of Chicago, and of Mr. Muhammad's son* who seemed to feel that Malcolm X was getting too big for his britches. This split within the Black Muslims Is not fore seen by Louis E. Lomax in his most recent book. When the Word Is Given, much of which is given over to Malcolm X's abject worship of. and de ification of. Mr. Muhammad. From the tenor of Mr. Lomax's book and the statement* attributed to Malcolm X. one would have expected the angular New York spokesman to fall to hi* knee* and beg forgiveness for any thing wrong, real or imagined, ho may have done. Evidently, Malcolm X did not get his Inside mes sage over to Mr. Lomax who gives no hint that Malcolm X might rebel and thrust himself, un wanted and unmasksd. into the middle of the so called Negro revolution. In his "call to arms,” the ebullient Malcolm X. shows that he has much less wisdom than loqua cious Cassius Clay, the new heavyweight champ ion. When Clay was cornered, he admitted that he was a Black Muslim and he sensibly explained why He was attracted by the virtures of the Black Muslims, the vlrture of self-help, self-respect of sobrietv. of high regard for women. He renounced hatred of anybody. He denied hating any group and implied that anyone could win his love who deserved it But Malcom X tries to frighten white American# by predicting rivers cf bloodshed in 1964. He exhorts Negroes to aim themselves and prepare for the day when they are going to be forced to start shooting. Could any suggestion be more silly, wicked and that it was false or with reck less disregard cf whether it was false or not. The fight will continue as long as the need periats. We agree with the statement of Justice Black, in his concurring opinion in the New York Tlmss- Suihvan case:, “This nation. I suspect, can live in peace witixan libel suits bated on public Uncials. But I doubt that a country can live in freedom where its people can be made to suffer physically or financially tor critoettmg their cowemmeot. Ua actions or its officials. The police paddy wagon made nearly a dozen trips to the jail over a two-hour span. All 37 spent the night in jail.” Police said that those ar rested came from four of the finest universities and colleges and from eight states. Continued the account; • All 37 were ordered to appear in court Monday morning. One parent bailing out his teariul daughter Sunday said, he was alarmed when pa lice called him in the early hours *1 thought s ie had been in an accident’. Thank God it's “only this.” Just think of a parent bailing his tearful daugh ter out of jail calling it “only this.” This parent was terribly disturbed at the thought that his daughter’s body might have been hurt in an auto mobile accident but that his daughter's reputa tion was damaged by going to jail was “only thlc.” With such parents to bring them up it is no wonder that these youngsters make grave mis takes. Now the news accounts did not sav whether theee Involved were white or Negro but in the ab sence racial designation we conclude that thy were white, otherwise it would have been made unmistakably clear that they were Negroes. Bit in such matter race makes no difference when 37 young people from our best colleges, fifteen of them young women, go out for an evening of pleasure and wind up in jail. These young people hailed doubtless from the best homes and many with respectable parer/s with reputations to be respected in their respec tive communities. These young people were privi leged to study in some of our modem palaces of learning, upon which have been lavished millions, and yet they wind up in jail on Sunday morning. Is that a nation's reward for ;tr lavish ependi turse for education? Now we need not be discon certed at what happened in this incident, it can happen anyw here and goes to show how hard it is to rule the animal that is in man. It is pitiful when our most highly privileged come to such grief. Education by itself is not the answer. Jesus is knocking on the door of our palaces of learning. Without Him we’re getting nowhere! BT P. L. PRATTIS For ANP evil? In the first place, this kind of prediction will frighten Negroes more than it will whites. That is not because Negroes are coward*. It is because they are sensible. They know that one handicapped Negro cannot whip or dispose of ten whites who have access to everything they need to defend themselves or to go or. the offensive, including the law which stretches where they wish. Once the Negro starts shooting, he Is in for a blood bath. And he'll find himself fighttng a lone. All the Negroes who tend to listen to the t ain gorious mouthing* of Malcolm X will wake up one morning and begin to wonder where he is. He'll either be in jail, or the chickens will have come home to roost with him. Any Negro. Malcolm X or the others, who feels that first-class citizenship can be won in this coun try without the aid of whites Is a Tool. Any Negro who wants to fight an all-out “war" against whites with “unconditional surrender” the goal is a worse fool. Hundreds of whites have marched side-by side and gone to jail with Negroes during the social upheaval we are witnessing. Every white who join us means one less for our enemies. If anything will frighten whites, it is defection from their ran" They can never figure how far such defection art go. This defection causes second thoughts, indue them to stay their hand. For Negroes to learn how to-shoot would me: nothing to them except that it would be the ex cuse for exterminating 6 million Negroes or mor Negroes are winning thetr battles for recognitic ’ justice opportunity, on every front. Why show' anybody be given the impreastop that they a now going to resort to force and violence'’ Th is monumentally false. If u*i*nim X thinks h can make a racket out of desperation, he'll di cover he is w rong. ' MALCOLM X THE NEW TORK TIMES Malcolm X. the emb: t< 'i racist recently outed from -he Black Muslim movement, has. struck back in anger. He has called upon Negroes to form rifle clubs, ostensible to defend lives and property in tames of em»: 'cncy "It is legal and law ful tj own a shotgun or a ri fle.” he says, adding with a straight face. "We believe in obeying the law " Hv i* s osß to break the law: to take the law into one group * own hands that would hold firearms: to erect a private r Ittia. Hi* is a call to arms gainst duly constituted pot forces. When he mocked the : \ -a.va nation of President K nedy last year, be exposed him self to Negroes and white as the irresponsible demagogue he The Negro ctvjl right* move ment has accomplished more in the past few years by nonvio lence—by what its real leaders call "active passive resistance" than by appeals to armed mobs. Malcolm X will not de ceive Negroes in New York or elsewhere. *
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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