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4 RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, MAY 9. 1984 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP There is abundant evidence that Jesus was forceful and aggressive. When he railed men to him. they responded. As he commanded them, they followed. He did not ask if it were a convenient moment for them to become dis ciples, nor did he consider their circumstances or commitments. When as he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two fishermen, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting Good Luck Mr. And Mrs. Peebles The Peebles Charcoal Flame Restaurtnat. lo cated on downtown Wilmington Street in the heart of Raleigh's busy business section is a refreahing atmosphere. Well appointed with the latest fixtures and kitchen equipment, amiling. cleanly attired waitresaes with an eagemeaa to nerve patrons place* this business tn the category of a real first-class downtown enterprise. The kitchen personnel is aa profes sional as the proprietors themselves. Steaks, rhopt. appetizing breakfast menus, dinners, with variety selections, topped off with de licious desserts are all specialities of this fine restaurant. The proprietors are no strangers to Raleigh. With a combined half century in food prrpara tion and hundreds of patrons eating regularly Southern Presbyterian Take A Stand At long last, Integration Is about to come fco the Southern Presbyterian Church and. in this way, the church will let Jesus come into the sanctuary. The administrative officials of the Southern Presbyterians recently ordered all of their RO presbyteries in a 16 state area to integrate The integration order affects 4,000 Prrshy ierian churches with 037,000 members Pre sently. only 12 churches in the Southern and southwest areas have white and Negro mem bers, but many others have an open policy; they would accept Negro members if they ap plied Integration often has an opposite effect. In this case, the three Negro presbyteries will merge with presbyteries in their areas. This Another Step In The Right Direction The CAROLINIAN salutes the Andrew Johnson Hotel this week in not just integrating the facility, hut advertising for patrons through the columns of the CAROLINIAN This means, of course, that this hotel is after business It is not |ust integrating for Integra tion’s sake That guests are welcome and sought ta far different from integration that says so. Alcholics Need “Coercion” This newspaper has rnrrirrl from time to time announcement* of the nirrtiin;s of Alco holic* Anonymous It hn* hern our thinking that those who went to these meetings volun tarily inchoated a desire to rehahtlvt ite them selves from the slavery to “corn". BoUtbon. and Scotch We learned recently that it is better “to eoerce" the sick drinkers into earlv treatment rather than bring allowed to hit rock bottom with their problem. And this is good no doubt you will agree The foregoing words were among the rxpre* sions in a recent worshop on alcoholism during the 17th annual meeting of the Florida Psycho logical Association Negro Signs For Wake Forest Grant For some reason the field of sy>o!ts has been fertile soil for advancing the Negro athletes into lntcgiatrd organizations and clubs - It was gratifyinf to learn that \Y kr Forrest College confirmed th.it it has sigiu I Us second Negro athlete to a football grant m aid us hea ' Coach Bill Tate sought to rebuild the Deacon's tarnished sjxirts image The Negro player is William (Butch) Smith. Let Demonstration Keep “King Style” Any sensible cit'zrrt will agree the equality v( rare has been woefully ner,’,t* > 1 m th's n«;n try. The plight of tin N'cqio is mi h th it om ean hardly blame him for some h i'' d of whites who frustrate his efforts to gun first class citizen hip We have had our sit-ins km- 1 ms wade-ms and niost recently "stall- os' Th-- -tdl-ms" are a far cry from what Martin Luther King meant by peaceful resistan e t-.'m jue When the World Fair opent ! recently sonv- CORE protestors of intustur m the Umted States employed st illed cars to block tit. flow ■ of traffic to the Fair. In other are is of tin country the demonstrators threw themselves in front of bulldozers (an unpractical a t> while others in New York Cits dump'd gar : bage at City Hall and noisily invaded the mator’s office. In peaceful demonstrations of the Cihand; and King type, the dumping of gaiba o u s not aprojios The stench and fs>ul of garbage desecrated tht philosophy of non re-,st nice whieh is always carried out m an atmosphen of cleanliness and personal dignity, calm and poise on the part of the participating demon strators How can one think clear in an aimos phert of stinking garbage ? No self -respecting citizen will allow himself to belittle the caus« of freedom with such antics silly to say the least. Our leaders with integrity should counsel against this sort of thing. What had the World Fair done to Negroes? Would t not be better’ to stage demonstrations strategically in regions and places which offend the Negro's citucn IHK NEGRO PRESS—behe v*e« that Ar>-»-rc# can best had the wor.'o nu A away from racial and national antagonism s when if accord « fc e.erv mar jl i' |J I regard lr ss of race colot ot creed hi* human and legal rights Hating no mar fllkl haring no man — the Negro Press sfrnes to help e\ erv man on the firm he Mat that all men are hurt am lona *« «m™» <a held W**!*^^ THE CAROLINIAN their nets into the sea hr said unto them: Fol low mr and I will make you fishers of men," and straightway they left their nets, as did the sons of Zebebee when he signaled them. One man, when Jesus issued the call, asked for time to go home and bid his relatives good bye. And Jesus said unto him, “No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” at thr Peebles Grill, corner Martin and Blount Street attest to their gift in their chosen career. We are justly proud of this team. It isn’t easy for anyone to locate in a downtown busi ness no matter what It* aiza. Rent demands, business knowledge, capital and many other assets are needed. While we have such busi nesses In downtown Raleigh, the trend has been the extinction o 4 them instead trf the ex pansion. But as long as we have smart, ener getic people with vision there will always be more downtown businesses to Join those now operated by Negroes in Raleigh. The CAROLINIAN salutes Mr. snd Mrs "Vic” Peebles and wishes them God speed in their second downtown venture in the hotel and restaurant buisinesa. order will affect 43 Negro churches with a membership of 2,560. This whs not accomplished without some opposition to be sure, because Rev. John* R. Miller of Jackson. Miss., made a motion to request instead of instruct integration—his motion was lost by a vote of 276-136. The Reverend Miller stated the order will force the churches in the area into a tailspin because of friction on the local level. Also pleading for patience and “taking things slowly” was W. G. Thibodeau of Maysville, S C. Christ’s mission of making all men brothers will not be finished in churches like the South ern Presbyterians, until the members give tht Almighty their help hut hopes the integrated won't show up. Many places felt they were forced to integrate against their wishes, and this undoubtedly is true. In the rase of the present management of the Andrew Johnson Hotel we were asured it wants guests ... all races. With them is is a matter of business . . . dollars and sense. Alan Dana, consultant with the Florida Al coholics Rehabilitation Program, described co ercion as motivating the alcorolic to motivate himself The alcoholic can he convinced of this realistically when he is about to lose bis job unless he seeks help with his drinking problem. So many Negroes are heavy drinkers that they threaten the welfare of their families. And since alcoholics are an economic burden to their employers, they should he coerced into enroll ing in a program of citizenship rehabilitation. Oftirnes an alcoholic thinks of himself as a social drinker and if he were not forced to do something about his drinking problem, he sinks to the bottomless pit of human misery and despan n - foot -1 quarterback-halfback from Sterling High School of Greenville. South Carolina, who has been accepted by the college. Os a truth Smith must he an excellent pros pect. for in competition on an integrated basis thr Negro has to be an exception to the rule. We salute athlete William Smith, and may thr unseen hand help him to rise to better than average sports heights' ship sensibilities’ When we observe television scenes of demon strators singing we think the singing takes away from the effectiveness of the protests.—particu larly when it takes on a "litterbug" style and disharmony. And the yelling of "We wan' freedom" is rrdiculous in style and impact it sounds corny like some aspects of a minis trrl show If we must sing anything at all. let it be "\Vi \. 1 11 overcome someday", sung in a chanting, dynamic, melancholy mood. It is only is In n thr songs have dignity and that they ire able to make constructive impressions 'Giddy songs" h.ivr no place in a serious de inonstr.it ion It seems that we are getting too many off fringe movements stemming from the parent organizations—often without the stamp of of ficial approval. To engage in high powered publicity stunts ns challenging bulldozers to run over you is sheer nonsrns't Suppose a bulldozer does kill a demonstrator, what has the picketing indi victual to gain save the loss of life? We must ha'tilv return to the Ghandi method of protest it we want to keep the re spect of persons who adnrre people for being effective in silent, pea efu! marches To those who have the urge to smg ' giddily”, xve want to emphasize that there is nothing so convincing as silence. r ,A first-class citizen and his behavior are one and the same thing We must show our enemies that we are the kind of people who deserve respect. Just For Fan BY MARCUS R BOLL WARE IF TOC EAT? About two months ago my shape got all out of line, be cause I was eating too much, and the fat registered 224 punds on reputable scales. I found I could hardly squeez in to my clothes, and went “crazy” on a diet. The hunger pains are throb bing. but I have some will pow er. Now I register 214 pounds on the scale, but I have con sidered scaling down to do yet. Those delicious foods adver tised over the TV are tempting to say the least. I shut my eyes to avoid the temptation. Tes, sir, I am on that famous “K” breakfast. But strawberry shortcake is beyond comparison —and you lay to that. NEW TRIMESTER; Florida A & M University has started its third trimester, first part. I am teaching "Method of Cli nical Practice” and “Diagnosis ONLY IN A BY HARRY GOLDEN THE COUNTER REVOLUTIONARIES In this crucial controversy about civil rights, one of the facts we most neglect is the Negro’s humanity. We cannot understand his Impatience. But once we admit the Negro shar es a common humanity, we must also admit there is no reason to expect he will consist ently surmount that humanity, with all the faults and all the foibles to which we are all ad dicted. It is important to realize this so that we can place the civil rights struggle in the proper perspective. We need this civil rights legislation from the con gress not because it will auto matically erase bigotry and pre judice—indeed it will not; we need the civil rights legislation so that both the whites and the Negroes of America can have some av.urance they are travel ing in the right direction. Thus the threat, say. of an unreeon able or ill-tempered demontsra tor should not deter us frofft the goal of undlmlnished sup port for the civil rights move ment. The need for legislation now being debated in the Senate could become obvious to us when we remember that not only do Southern Senators have a vested Interest In racial segregation, but some Negroes do too It is hard to shuck one's own interest for another cause no matter how noble. These are the Negroes whose vested in terest is in a continuation of the struggle. The first thing all mass movements spawn is a bureau-- eracy and the Negro civil rights bureaucrary is already an ex- Editorial Opinions Here are excerpts from edi torials selected by the Associ ated Negro Press from some of the nation's leading dally news papers on subjects of current Interest to our readers. THE NEGRO REVOLUTION THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES Pear of being jailed or reali sation of the futility of the scheme resulted In an abandon ment of planned civil rights stall-ln of autos at the opening of the New York World's Fair Wednesday. But a few hundred Negro and white militants stag ed a sorry exhibition at the fair grounds that brought mass ar rests It is difficult for the average American to understand what the demonstrators hoped to ac complish by rude actions in cluding chanting interference with speakers at the opening ceremonies—including the Pre sident of the United States The demonstrators continued their chanting during the playing of the national anthem and only three stood up. The others laid on the ground. President Johnson said after ward his reaction was "frankly, one of compassion." But the re action of many fair goers was hardly that of compassion The display of disrespect for the President and for the symbol of the nation is hardly In ke>-p --ing with the idea’s professed by the demonsrators THE NEWS & COURIER. Charleston. S C Although demonstrators fail ed to block traffic at the World's Pair, and while masses of police were ah'* to suppress Letter To The Editor Dear Editor: In the May 4th issue of a daily newspaper, the Male Want Ad Section lists "Chips Dr;\e-In. East Raleigh, New Bern Avenue subject needs cashiers, cooks, and make-up men White Male Only ' Experience not necessary. •Apply 12J7 New Bern Avenue" I feel tha; the Negro public should be made aware of tha fact that this new busincs* exist* in a predominately Negro a-ea l further feel, that since such be the case, the Negro should refrain from making any pur chases from this establishment; unlit-such time the owner, man ager or what-have-vou comes to the xetliulton that people should be hired, no; according to race, color, creed o. company policy, but acco-asng to ability RONALD CARTER Raleigh of Speech and Hearing”. I am also enrolled at Florida State University, across town, in Speech 435 “Organic Disor ders with the emphasis upon the cleftpalate child, his speech and rehabilitation. SAYING GRACE: Dul you know that our present custom of saying grace before meals comes from an ancient practice of giving up a prayer before eating? However, this early prayer was not in thankfulness for food but was a prayer to avert any bad effects the food might have von digestion. HOLY STONE: The Black Stone of Mecca is a holy stone preserved in a temple at Mecoa. Pilgrims to that city walk a round the stone and then kiss it. It is a legend that the Black Stone was at one time white but turned black owing to the sins of men. MERICA tensive apparatus. 1 n Iheir turn, bureaucracies qjawn one minor empire after another mi nor empire. I do not mean for one instant that anyone within the civil rights bureaucracy wants to be tray the cause. But ardor is often absorbed in paperwork, planning sessions, duplication and misunderstanding. All too often before they suc ceed .revolutions became an in dustry. The men with the vest ed interest and the bureaucrat* may be the unwilling allies of Senator Richard Russell of Georgia. The tenor of the times is for justice and we must keep concentrating on why we need that justice and why we must have it. Yet none of these secret al lies of the segregationists is as dangerous as the counter-revo lutionary. The counter-revolu tionary is the enemy of all rev olutions. The Martin Luther Kings and the A. Philip Ran dolphs and the Thurgood Mar shalls. and the Roy Wilkinses, and the James Fanners fill the barricades and started the war for justice. But often it is the Milton Galamlsone and the Malcolm Xs who pick up the power as soon as success is gua ranteed. The Southern filibus tered are not the only ones who would rejoice in a defeat of the Kennedy-Johnson proposals. The essential threat to the civil rights movement at the moment it not only in the ra cist's charge that he will not allow any inhibitions to the status-quo of 1883. but rather that a Robespierre will take over from a Danton, and that a Lenin will usrup Kerensky's Parliament. potential riots, the Impact of Tuesday's events in New York is being felt all over the United States. Reporting of civil strife In the North Is customartlly more re strained than In Birmingham. Mississippi and elsewhere in the South. Through guarded New York dispatches and on the air. however, one can detect signs of changing attitudes and the dawn of understanding, the news that visitors to the Most significant to us was fair deliberately stepped on demonstrators who flung them selves beiore the doors. These visitors were not trampling de monstrators because they were Negroes. Some of the demon strators were white The publte was showing Its contempt for anarchists who try to rule by force. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION "Illegal dlstrubancee demon strations which lead to violence or Injury, strike grievous blows at the cause of decent civil rights legislation." That statement came no* from Southern conservatives but from the Democrat and Re publican commanding the Sen ate battle for the civil rights bill. Sens. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Thomas Kuchel of California. Because it comes from men so unquestionably' committed to civil rights. It deserve* long and serious consideration by rights organisations. During the past rear, there has been a trend to wards demonstrations for the sake of demonstrating, of laun ching pub’Ktty device# not clearly related to the causes they supposcbly support. It Is such activity >such as the current proposal to tie up traffic to the World's Pair 1 that has helped a man like Ala bama Oov George Wallace stir up laten racism among North ern voters. Unquestionably, such demonstrations do have nega tive. back-lash effects. It seems reasonable, then, for civil tights organisations to let passions cool and give the Sen ate an honest chance to debate the rights bill free of inflam matory side-issues THE BULLETIN. Philadelphia The civil rights dispute in Cheater has deteriorated into chaos The schools are shut tight and bloody rots swirl through the city Somewhere along the line the powers that be In Chester seem to have lost the capacity to control the sit uation. They tried ignoring it. To that both side* are using violence they added physical force Now arid getting nowheje The Chea'er School Boards suit for a declaratory Judge ment on whether de facto seg regation exists in the schools AiMaiiOfbodNi ■SSI Gordon B. Hancock ’« BETWEEN THE LINES THE LAST CALL FOR GRATITUDE As never before in all this country's history, Negroes are blessed with Presidents going all out for civil rights for Negroes. President Roosevelt made the presidential beginning. Our lamented President John F. Kennedy courageously took up the fight, and went all out on the civil rights pro nouncement. and with his untimely passing his successor valiantly took up the fight and what a fight he Is making! A Southerner taking up the fight for civil rights! In this column we have aald time and again, that If a Southerner takes a stand he stands there, and President Johnson is brilliant proof there of. It is hard to beat a Southerner who comes out fighting. There is no more heartening spectacle In this country than President Johnson's all out fight for the House-passed civil rights bill which in es sence Is a bill for civil rights for Negroes, for whites have always enjoyed civil rights. The President makes every occasion an occasion for pressing for the Civil Rights BUI. He does not mind flying Into the faces of the Byrds and East lands and Russells and Robertsons and all the other Negrophobes In Congress committed to a fight unto the death to beat back the Negro In his legitimate aspirations to first class citizen ship In a country he has helped to defend and make what what It Is. We have come upon miraculous and marvelous times when we have in the White House a Presi dent like courageous Lyndon B. Johnson who is not afraid to face the Negrophobes of this nation. The country Is making ready to elect a president in November and the political pot in this country is boiling over with the states rtghters like Gold water, fighting covertly side by side with the Byrds and Eastlands and the Russells and the Robertsons and the rest of the Negrophobes. It should be a well-understood fact that the state rights fight is an anti-civil rights fight an an anti-Negro fight The resourceful and tactful Southern Negrophobes have made and are making ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD Violence increases as American Negroes press their fight for FREEDOM NOW. This violence and the increasingly bitter attitude of white and Negro demonstrators is causing more and more whites to react angrily. More and more of them are criticising Negroes. They seem to want to say: "It's all right for Negroes to demonstrate to gain their rights, but they should be nice about it. They should not resort to violence in any form. They’ll get their rights if they are peaceful and courte ous ’* It is interesting indeed to observe the reactions of these whites who are cautioning Negroes not to get rough. I incline to go along with the whites, but not for the same reasons. If Negroes went by the rules established by whites to win their free dom. they would be much more violent than they have been Whites have never been reluctant to fight and shed their blood to win their freedom. Ever since the days of Christ, and before, the whites have been resorting to violence to win and hold their freedom. European history is a history of violence among all the tribes and nations. If the position of the American white and the Ame rican Negro could be reversed, the whites would be violent and they would do nothing to please those who counsel fearfully against violence. When the colonists determined that the time had come to free themselves from the yoke imposed by Orest Britian. they went to war. They did not salt for England to loosen the bonds voluntarily Even today .Americans are giving their lives to see that freedom prevails throughout the world We die in South Vietnam to try to guarantee free dom for the Vietnamese If we can become so much concerned about freedom from Vietnamese. and their duties, if any. to cor rect it has now been removed tc Feelers' court This gives nse to hopes that the aiz- may yet receive the kind c f Judicial ' meditation which U. S District Court Judge Harold K Wood render ed so effectively in the segrega tion suit against Philadelphia schools No steps to this end seem tc have been made while the case was m Delaware County Common Please Court. their anti-Negro fight respectable by calling it a state rights fight; for state rights means little beyond the right to hold the Negro down and eternalize segregation. The point of this article Is designed not so much to caling attention to the great stand President Johnson Is making, as to raise in the Negroes' minds the question what Is the Negro going to do about the matter of supporting our great Presi dent in his fight. It is not enough to stand back and admire the courage of President Johnson, who is going all out before the country and the world for civil rights for Negroes. It Is not enough to bid him God-speed in his difficult but courageous undertaking as he faces the vicious Negrophobes who hate him as viciously as they hated the im mortal John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who gave his life for advocating civil rights for Negroes. It is not enough to praise God for bringing ion the scene a man of President Johnson's stature and spirit for such a time as this. There Is some thing that Negroes can do to help in the brave fight President Johnson is making. They can swear by Johnson at the ballot box come Novem ber! It takes votes to elect presidents and it is going to take votes to elect Johnson' The coming election amounts to the Negro's last call for gratitude. If Negroes for frivolous reasons fail to support a Johnson, it wil be a long long time before another President will take such gallant stand for civil rights for Negroris. If such gallantry is not paid off at the ballot box, pray where will it pay off? The Civil Rights Bill may have great trouble in the Senate and we must not lose sight erf the fact that there is a posibility that it may meet defeat by filibuster or otherwise. But whatever befalls the bill the President will have done his duty and merits our support at the ballot box. There are some incurable Negro Republicans who may be pardoned for finding away to fail to support Johnson at the ballot box. But the masses of Negro voters who have been blessed under the Democratic administration must rally to Johnson! BT r. L PRATTIS For AVP why do we not have the same concern for the freedom of twenty million citizens within our own boundaries? Why do we expect the Vietnamese to FIGHT for freedom and the American Negro to PLEAD for his? An undeclared war now goes on in Cyprus. The Greeks and the Turks fight it out from day to day. There are five Oreeks for every Turk, but tliat makes no difference to the Turks. They give lives and take live* in their fight for freedom I am against violence in pressing our cause, but I am not against it in order to please or mo'difv whites. If the situation in this countrv were changed. I eould be FOR VIOLENCE. I am against violence because all the odds are against as The majority of the American public is against us. All law enforcement is against us. Most violence so far has been against white mobe and the police. The white mobs and the police have been respon stble for violence. When Negroes sing and pray for freedom In Birmingham or Montgomery, the white mob jeers and taunts. The police immedi ately turn their dogs against the praying Negroes not against the white mob. The mob of whites is never dispersed. It is the Negro who seeks hu rights who must be restrained. No white is going to be punished because of r.:< violence toward us. The man who alegedly shot Med gar Evers has gone through two trials to mis trials and now walks the streets a free man Had a Negro been in the place of Beckwith, he lour ago would have paid the penalty for such a crime So I am against violence, not because it is th* prescription for freedom which whites have used I am against it because at this time. I do not be lieve it is what will help us most. The State Human Relations Commission earlier proved help ful m getting the parties to gether and m securing a one day cessation of demonstra tions But the situation has fall en apart so badly that it may take the prestige of the gover nor s office to repair It. and it would be well If Mr. Scranton twkl himself in resdinem to step in. Protests have been raised be fore about police brutality m Chester but no ease so far ha? been so vividly documented a? the beating of Bulletin reporter Timothy Tyler. Tyler, who had identified himself and was doing his job was set upm by half s doern policemen. While five held him from behind, another broke his nose with a blackjack and club bed his riba. Be was then charg ed with 'assaulting' a police man and thrown m jaU.
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