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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. APRIL 18, 1984 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP “Consider the lilies of the field," Jesus exclaim ed. "they toll not neither do they spin, yet Solo mon In all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” That was all very poetic, very nice, but it did not fool Judas—the treasurer. He knew that you can not get anywhere in the world without money, and It was his lob to find the money. The Negro Woman’s Sentence Indefensible Sometimes it would pay us to take our eyes off politics, international wrong doing, Negro demonstration and school desegregation to pro test a local injustice like the one meted out in Tampa, Florida, last month. The injustice was to flagrant that one sickens in shame. The Tampa Tribune reported that a 24- year-old Negro woman, whose two children died in a fire, with a third one in critical con dition. The woman was convicted of child ne glect and sentenced to pay SSOO or spend 100 daya in jail. The woman stated she had been baby-sitting for another family when the fire broke out. The neglect is inexcusable; it cannot be de fended. But her punishment is also indefensible ~it has no relation to her ‘‘crime." Hints For Avoiding Traffic Crashes Every citizen in thin country naturally is in terested in reducing our horrible tragedy on thte highways. There are many ways this can be done. To begin with we might take the license away from the driver who caused death on the highways for a period of ten years. This should cause drivers to think thnee before taking the .iatal chance. There should be more impressive signs at many railway crossings and dangerous inter sections. Many accidents are caused by trying to beat the train to railroad crossings. We suggest that a law should be enacted forbidding huge trailer trucks from proceeding in a long line. Many accidents are caused by motorists attempting to pass three or four trail Negro Establishes Scholarship Fund lt is not often that we hear of Negroes estab lishing scholarship funds for needy and worthy and scholarly students. But about a month ago an Upson- K m (Georgia) Negro set up a $25, 000 college scholarship endowment at the Uni versity of Akron in Ohio, and it is to be used without regard to race, creed, color, sex, or national origin of the recipient. The man we are speaking of is George Wash ington Matthews, 77, who was horn near Thomaston, Ga., the eldest, of 10 sons and a poor farmer. He attended mral schools in Up son County. Matthews’ rise to success Is phenomenal In that he was willing to begin at the bottom to reach the top. He is described as a ‘‘successful business man and one of the leaders of Akron's Negro community " For years this man ope rated Matthews’ Hotel and a barbershop. At the bottom rung of the ladder. Matthews was a stock boy, Inter a hotel porter who saved enough to open a small restaurant By 1919 he We Must Throw Hats In The Ring To get training in running and campaigning for political offices more Negroes must ‘‘cast their hats in the ring” in the South and else where. If they do this year after year, who know*, they may just upset the expert's pre diction that they don't have a possible chance. We have noted that in this state a number •I Negroes are running for political offices in our «tate government and municipalities Right now, for example, a 58 year-old Negro, Georg.) H. McDougall. of Spring Lake is campaigning for the office of constable in the Manchester Township. Is Freedom Farm A Jail? A Negro tenant of the widely publicised ‘freedom Farm." founded near Mason. Tm nkssee. by the National Baptist Convention. If. S. A., Inc., of which Dr. J. H. Jackson is president, said recently the farm is like a pri son. Tha “like prison" charge was made by Earl Anderson, 41, who had a large family of eight members, and who was the first to move onto the farm from the “tent city” encampment lo cated near Somerville, Tenn. '•‘We can’t make enough to live on. much' less to get ahead enough to buy some land of our own," Anderson said. “It ought to be call ed prison farm instead of Fredom Farm. An -yieraon believes that the Fredom Farm idea is all right, but it hasn't worked out because it hasn't been handled right" In answer to the tennanfs charge. Dr. Jack _«on, however, was just as Insistent that the farm has been a success. He said. “We have created an opportunity on the 404-acre farm for all people who desire to be productive for .themselves. We cannot create in people the de sire to seise these opportunities.’’ Because of the counter charges and argu Y/TB NEGRO PRESS— b shaves that America can beef had the worla away from racial and national antagonisms when if a* cord* to erarv mar regardtan of race, oo lor or creed hi s human and legal right* Mating no man haring no man tha Nagro Prase strives to help every man on tha firm be tied that aO man are hurt at long aa anyone m held back. other disciples had similar worries. They wanted to get It clear as to their restive positions in the new Kingdom; they were concerned because out siders. not properly Initiated Into ttia organiza tion, were claiming to be followers of Jesus and doing miracles in his name. They fretted because there was so much work to be done and the days were too short for doing It. The fine of SSOO is, to her a million dollars; and shall she know how to become a better mother by spending 100 days In Jail? Surely this woman must be suffering enough already from the death of her two children, and who is to take care of the third child while she is in jail? North Carolina cannot act smug about this matter, for any number of mothers have been sentenced for child neglect, and we cannot be sure when an indefensible fine will be placed upon a mother in this stats. Oftimes. under certain circumstances, the law should not be rigidly enforced; but rather, it should be tempered with mercy, followed by a program of counselling for the mother. er trucks which are traveling close together. A law that would require the truck* to be spaced at least a 1000 feet apart would help to increase safety on the highway. There are, of course, other Improvements that we have not mentioned. And while we have advocated the enactment of more safety laws, it would be unwise to create new driving laws and not enforce them. A number of persons are advocating that a law should be passed to take away a man’s driving license if he kills someone with his au tomobile on the streets or highway. We would not go quite this far, because often a driver kills someone on the street and the responsi bility does not rest with him—for instance, a child dashing out on the street from behind a car or hedge or tree. had saved $l,lOO and decided it was time for a vacation. He went to Toledo, Ohio, to witnesa the Dempsey-Willard championship fight. On his way home, Matthews stopped in Ak ron, liked what he saw, and returned to the nty in 1920. There he put every penny he had into an 11-room house for boarders. From then on it was growth. He added a barber shop, then a beauty shop and saw the boarding house be come the 55-room Matthews Hotel. We wish we had more Negroea who thought as much of others as they do of themselves and shared their worldly goods to train a youth's mind and hands for the responsibilities of life. Let us hope that the Matthews idea will spread throughout these United States of America. You can’t take your worldly goods from this* earth: if you do, others will often waste it fool ishly. But money left in the form of scholar ships will be as ‘‘seed sown in good soil and bringeth forth much fruit." In Richland County. S. C.. 10 Negroes are campaigning for the 10 county aeats in the South Carolina House of Representative*. Be sides, four other Negroe* filed as candidates for district school boards in Richland County of which Columbia is the county »eat. Two South Carolina Negroe* have Tiled as candidates for the House in Greenville and Orangeburg counties. Not only must we register and vote, but wr must run for office in larger number* In this way. the people of the South will get used to the idea. mrnts. it is difficult to conclude who is right But we can. at least, do some apecultaing. While the Baptist Convention has provided the opportunity, has it given the first tennant the proper training and guidance, know-how, and equipment to succeed? Has is screened farm applicants with the greatest care so as to find fanners with this creative desire to suc ceed? From the viewpoint of the Negro tennant. does he have the needed amount of capital, machinery, business acumen, drive, and know how to make an abundant crop? Is he farming with the members of his family and mules? Docs he know that successful farming now days must of necessity be done with high priced machinery? Without taking sides with who is at fault, an experiment like Freedom Farm must be de signed to give all the help that is needed to teach men how to farm successfully. Yet when the two farm tenants present are convinced that the farm is like a prison of the •'aharecropjjfng era.” we can’t help but won der about the handling of Freedom Farm. A Jnst For Fnn BY MARCUS H. BOULWARt HOT ROD HUH IN PARIS: Disbelieving crowds stopped and stared re cently when a woman dressed as a Carmelite nun climbed into a gleaming white sports car and drove it off down the Champs Elysees. The “nun” behind the wheel turned out to be French actress Denise Duval who was in a hur ry to get to the Opera Comique where she is currently playing a lead role in “Diaglogue des Carmelites.” (Oh, no!> IT WAS FUNNY: In Saigon, South Viet Nam, a wedding SO miles northwest of Saigon was broken up recently when the bridgegroom's commonlaw wife crashed the ceremony and did a atrip tease, (Ha-ha-hs-aaah i The bridgegroom. a mechanic named Le Ngoc, was just about to tie the knot when his unin vited common-law wife appear ed. Aa she stripped and danced, aha sang that-.L* Ngoc had a bandoned her with two children. The bride-to-be fled! (I would have too, under the circumstan ces.) And the bridegroom grieved with a broken heart A LEARNED FRIEND: We read recently in tha Fayettevilla Observer a story that Naro, the wicked Roman Emperor, did not Letters To The Editor To Tha Editor: How many times does a man hava to be told NO? How many ideas does one hava to work on before success Is at tained? Vtyio guides us to do wrong •willingly,” "wholeheartedly?'' When a POINT or a LAW U made, why do we argue and fight about it? Who makes our laws—ls it not a body of men “trusted and true?” Docs half the world know how the other half lives? If all men were created equal, why do we have classes or, for that matter, clashes? Who amongst you declare yourself superior! (Who said that”) Many more of these type ques tions do not need ANSWERS. The answer lies in your heart NO INDIVIDUAL has a right to hinder progress by flaunting that his religion, or his race, or his color, can withhold people from seeking a simple life and be free A king once said. •I ll give my kingdom for a horse ' Likewise, strange as it may seem the rich man in the desert, said. "I'll give my fortune for a drink of water " It's a strange anomaly that all this wrangling about Integration and civil rights may go on and on and eventually lead the world to chaos and destruc tion, only because there will be no workers and only employers. Only engineers and no mechan ics, Only lawyers and no guinea piss. Only automation and no humans! In answer to all this, I am re solved that there is a big job ahead, “To Give Freedom To All Law Abiding Citizens.” spend more time learning trades with general education Learning how to SPEAK as well as READ. Lis ten to your neighbor and evalu ate him so that both of you can progress and improve your con ditions. ISN'T THIS TRUE? The most important question of today, “is INTEGRATION" In the last ten years nothing has been accomplished. Some places have recognised committees with fancy names. In Raleigh, we have the Ra leigh Inter-Racial Council. Id the State of North Carolina, we have a similar name. Without question, the men on these committees are our most learned and distinguished men. SO WHAT! Have they FUNC TIONED” no: Six months ago, I submitted 100 prominent names to the may or of Raleigh to prove that I can qualify for the chairman ship of a committee to render service willingly and honestly for our community. Whether I agree in principle, what should be done, w as not mv rhoexting— rather to have the committee as a whole, do what it sees fit. IVr example. Boy Scout Law Calls For. "A Job Cannot Be Done by a LONER 1 It takes cooperation and coor dination and hard work by a group of people to do "A JOB RIGHT'. ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN NOW IT IS IN THE OPEN I did not know my mother had a cancer of '.lie spine until she was already in the hospital and I happened to overhear the doctors diagnosis accidentally. My mother died in the early 1920 s. a time when cancer was a taboo word You never told anyone a relative had cancer. It was tantamount to revealing that someone had a venereal disease or leprosy Thinking back. I am amased at how recent our enlighten ment is In the early 1900 s tuberculosis was also a taboo subject. It was not until people felt safe In confessing Its af fliction that successful treat ments came tn profusion nad It is no longer always a lethal disease My mother never smoked and I think the only wine che ever drank was on Passover when she said. “I only we: my lips w ith it." I recall no accident to her. no sudden blows or bad faUa She rarely left the kttch aa aaorpt to attend tha wma fiddle while Rome burned, ae fiddles were not even invented at the time. The way it happened, accord ing to a narrator, was that Nero was all upset and undecided about this when the fire alarm sounded. Aa the fire jumped from pillar to post he just pid dled around. Years later fiddles were invented and nearly every body was fiddling around. A his torian undertook to tell this story of Rome's big fire and the part that Nero did not play. The historian mistook piddling for fiddling, and so his history came out reading that Nero fid dled while his favorite city burned to the grourd. POPULAR SALESWOMAN: One young lady behind the counter of a candy store was al ways busy. Customers waited in line for her. rather than have the other girls wait on them. "Why,” asked her boss, “are you ao popular. Her answer was simple, but wise: "When a customer wants a pound of candy, the other girls scoop up too much and then take the excess out of the box. I al ways scoop up a little, and then add more.” (Very good, psychol ogy.) Over two months ago, T volun teered (no pay) for the position of secretary of the Raleigh In er-Ractal Council by a telephone call and by my personal repre sentation. TO DATE. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. How long must this city of which I have been a resident for 30 years (24 permanent) be guided by a cer tain group that as long as they have control, down with any thing that comes along. Remember—there never was a dynasty—there was never a dic tator. There never was a king, or even an individual that was able to hold back progress. It may be so today and perhaps to morrow. but as sure as God made green apples, the RIPE, or ROTTEN ones will always be on or UNDER THE GROUND. REMEMBER—the best plat form of today is hones'y, truth and the will to work '•ide-hy side. Why wait for a dileina to decide, when long before it hap pens we all can rida, •Vith Freedom, C KARL LICHTMAN Raleigh Waterbury Hal! 25? 325 Western A' Albany 3, New .'a. i - April 8. 1964 Mr Paul Jervay THE CAROLINIAN Raleigh, North Carolina Dear Mr. Jervay: Enclosed is tha article in which I describe some of my impressions of Raleigh. You would have received it sooner, but 1 received your mes sage in the meantime that you wanted a picture me as well as some of my background. En closed is the picture. I am at present 18 years old and am a freshman at the Slate University of New York at Al bany. 1 am a Political Science major with an undeclared minor field. My interest include: the study of Political Science and compar ative theories, reading in psy cho-sociological literature, meet ing and talking to people, see ing where people live. American politics and the causes of many erf the news events, labor vs management disputes, formal af fairs. dancing, seeing new places, writing creative articles that re flect a moral or more along the line of research papers In the past 1 have drafted resolution* for Civic groups and worked to enlist public support by mean* of letters and lectures to get these resolutions passed. I belong to the Grange and am a member of the 4-H, the Boy Scouts, and the church choir in the Old Saratoga Dutch Reform ed Church. In college I am edi tor of the UCA BULLETIN, a paper dedicated to the sole pur pose of simply letting the col lege population know what is going on. It is in conjuction with my in terest onlv that I came to Ra leigh for the Vote E cM V on Project (See story on page One i Sincerely you RICHARD K HECKMAN rogue end to do the shopping In the** 1 days all the women worked hard at sewing and cooking and preparing the kids for school. Her leisure consist ed of an hour on a rocking chair, looking out the window with her arms fo'ded. some times leaning on the sill. My mothers cancer caused her death, of course From the tune of her first pain until she succumbed was less than two months. By that time, my bro ther Jacob was doing well and the family could afford to take her to famous Mount Si nai Hospital and engage one of the great surgeons of the day. Dr A A. Berg. It was Dr Berg where I wr ' heard He told my brother. "We dare not operate The cancer has already affected the brain " We told everyone my mo' her wss suffering from an infec tion of segue kind resulting from a bout with pneui ma. People talked about pneumonia. They whispered about cancer Cancer is no longer taboo. It Unity Gordon B. Hancock’s BETWEEN THE LINES OLD SOUTH FIGHTS BACK FURIOUSLY This column has never been deluded Into think ing that the Old South would sit humbly and pas sively by, and let segregation go by default. From the very beginning of our current fight for free dom. we have sounded the warning that the Old South would launch Its counter-attack with all of its retaliating powers, and that la Just what is happening. Some months ago it was rumored that a large sum had been appropriated by legislatures of the Old South to propagandize the nation, by giving the ‘‘South’s side” of the struggle and we have reasons to believe that the Old South’s strategy is paying off, for not only have there come into be ing various new organisations, but decadent or ganizations are being revived to help beat back the Negro in his current fight for freedom. The Klu Klux Klan illustrates the latter point. This anti-Negro organization was wel nigh out of business: but with the Negro’s current drive lor fi-eedom. the Klan Is bristling with new life and energies and abetted by new recruits, some overt and some covert. The propaganda campaign is amounting to a brain-washing for the Nation for all practical purposes the nation is being brain washed into believing that the civil rights bill now being debated is the worst of all possible evils of legislation. We here In the South are being daily fed on a new diet designed to weaken our faith in the pro posed legislation. Os course the Negro press com ing once a week trying, to give us the truth of the matter cannot compete with the dailies espousing the cause of destroying the civil rights legislation. The most we hear from the Southern white press is what, is wrong with the bill. We search In vain for any word erf approval of what is right with the bill and nothing is right. Os course that is propaganda in its crassest form, for our social psychologists tell us that he who simply tests one side of a question is a propa sar.dis' m the truest sense of the word. The Southern press harps on the point that passage of the Cm! Rights Bill would take away freedom ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD Are we Negroes the pioneering sort? Are we the ones to take a chance in strange places? Why did not our foreboarers discover the western Hemis phere before Columbus, or even Lief Erickson? Africa is much closer to the hemisphere than Eu rope. It CAn be conceded that Africans were not building ships which were large enough or sturdy enough to risk in ocean travel. But even If they had the ships would these Africans have had the spirit and the daring to sail into the unknown? The foregoing questions are pertinent in thn light of things as they are happening in the world today There are just as many places In the world today where a man might go to better himself as there were 400 years ago. In fact Jhere are many more such places. We Negroe* rightfully complain about how the white American short changes us m even.- manner possible. He doesn't give us a char.cc to learn. Thus in a period when more and more learning is required we find ourselves behind the eight ball. As the bars of segregation and discrimination are let down, we are forced to admit that we arc not ready, not prepared. Once upon a time, we were prepared. .Vs slaves, we learned the trades and did the work. But since then, th<- jobs we once performed have been taken away from us. These have become white men's jobs They have been passed from father to son. uncle to nephew , cous in to cousin. .Vs a rule only the dirtiest and heavi est jobs have been ’.eft for us. Dunns slavery days. Negro boy« were sent a broad or to Canada to get education There were many white fathers who wan'ed their progeny by Negro women to grow up as free men. They saw to it 'hat their children were educated and freed. One such man saw one of hi* sons become the is st:I! a great khler. It would certainly kill twice as many if people feared mentioning It. I shall enter no discussion here about the proposed cures so far offered except to say that a scientist In the Wetsman In stitute in Jerusalem roM me he was sure there would have to be many ruses lor cancer even tually. This disease may very well hare a multiple of origins and each cause will need a sep arata discovery. from the white man and give it to the Negro. Bui this argument is only designed to muddy the public sentiment and political waters. It has come to light within recent days that the strategy of delay is calculated to give further time for, brain - washing the nation in the momentous qu-s’ion. Such will be the design of the impending fi.ibui ter. Something is right with the impending CHil Rights Bill and that it is designed to right a \>. 0.-r.g that has been perpetrated for a hundred yirrs. During these hundred years every advance that has come to the Negro has come byway of the courts, and not from Congress. As has beer, said many times in this column. Congress is Sou h ruled and its primary purpose is to see that ihs government of the land shall be a governin' >i‘ rs the white man, by the white and for the whies man and shall not perish from the earth. It is difficult to see why the white ma:i with h’s power would be afraid to let the Nd-ro go. Cl' course common sense would tell him that when Negroes see the scum of the .white race cn;: the best that this nation affords, whi’e lov. 1 a i worthy Negroes must struggle for the "crur-i: ” of freedom wherever and whenever- he can f,rl them, the Negro’s patience and good nature ■ on i come at last to an end: and the Negro would pr- s for the rights and responsibilities of full citizen ship. The Negro's current appeal Is to the conscience of the New South and the conscience of th" v.or',l. And in spite of the propaganda machinery so well-oiled by the millions of the Old South, the Negro is making headway. The moral conscience of the nation and world are not dead. What then is right with the Civil Rights Bill? It seeks to right a wrong of a hundred years; it seeks to save the soul of the nation; it seeks to give democracy once more some standing in the world: it seeks to give our nation its only hope of survival. More is involved than the Negro’s full free dom : a nation’s survival 1s at stake. Communism Is already sitting upon our door-steps. They are calling for filibuster. BY P. L. PRATTIS For ANP Roman Catholic bishop of Maine; another, rectot o' the Roman Catholic Cathedral In Boston: an other president of Georgetown University ir« Washington, and another, a commander in the United States Navy. After being put on their feet by Uncle Sam af ter the war, the western European nations are going to town. While our unemployment and pub lic assistance rolls in this country grows larger and larger, most countries in western Europe are plagued by a manpower shortage. Even as this is written. Sweden is trying to induce unemployed Americans to come over there. Workers are needed in France, West Germany, England. Does it occur to any of our aspiring young men that given a little help they might go to these Old Word countries and learn the skills required lr. this technoogical age? There was a time when this could not be done. These countries had all the workers they needed. Every job was reserved for a native first. But that is not true at this point in history. The industrialists in Western Europe warn the money that can be made from full-scale pro duction. They know what workers are the pro ducers. Thus the more workers they have the more money they make. They care nothing abou< the color of the worker. They are concerned only wi*h his competence. It would seem that some of our young mer might look into the matter of empovment or ar prent.ceship m some of the countri’s abroad There is a chance for them to learn skills which can be used either in the United States or Africa In order to take advantage of the opportunities which exist todav. we must be bold and venture some. We must be pioneers. THE AMERINDIAN The segregationists have suddenly become deeply eon lemed about the American In dian. They write letters de manding. “Why don't you do son: hing for the Indian?” Af.er a lecture thdy com plain Why all this agitation for the Negro? How about the American Indian? Indians have been almost to tally segregated for the last cer.'ury. Some legal suits ap pending now where Indian* have left the reservation and are trying to break down the segregated schools I answer all pleas about the American Indian with the in formation that the Negro is fighting for the American In dian If the Negro achieves first-class cttlaenshlp. it will become increasingly difficult, if not impossible to legally aagxa* gate anyone else.
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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