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THE CABOLBfIAN RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, MAT 30, 1984 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP "Thy word Is s lamp unto my feet." These words have served to stimulate Bible readers to be steadfast in their devotions. In response to this challenge, the distribution of Bibles has in creased A record total of 34. 403, 825 oopies of the srieptures was sold during the year 1963. This American Indians Oppose Integration It may surprise, and even startle us to know that American Indians, as a minority group, do not want integration. This point was force fully made recently by youthful American In dian representatives to a four-day meeting on American poverty held in Washington, D. C., at the National Episcopal Cathedral. “We do not want to be pushed into the A mencan mainstream of life. We do not want to destroy our culture, our life that brought us through the period in which the Indians were almost annihilated.” a statement adopted by the National Indian Youth Council and read to the conference’s 300 delegates. The 120-member Indian youth group also made it plain that “the attitude that non-In dians and some Indians have, that someday the Indians are just going to disappear and that we should be working to make them dis appear is very wrong. We are not going to dis appear.” One small but fiery-eyed Mohawk girl pul the Indian feeling in less softly couched terms: "The American Indian wants to be stgrr gated. He doesn’t want to be a part of white materialistic society,” she said. “For 350 years the white man has tried s o force us to adopt his culture; you see the results of his efforts at this meeting. We w. t our own identity ami we want to stay segregated. This is not a strug gle of races. All we want,” she continued, "are treaty rights and negotiations, not new rights but the old ones that were promised." The American Indian has a right to express Representative Powell Is Wrong Thirteen months ego thr court issued * judgment in n libel suit against Congressman Adam Clayton Ppwrll, awarding a Harlem widow named Esther James $211,500 damages because Powell had called her a bag woman (graft collector) for crooked cops. JPowell all this time has ignored the order and ha* not paid the judgment which the ap pellate division reduced to $46,500. Not only this, but Mr. Powell hasn't paid any attention tt> a court-order examination of his assets to ■re if he’s got that much loot on him Previous ly, he had been ruled in contempt for failure to appear. To excuse Powell’s disregard for the court summon, his attorney said that his client's congressional duties were too pressing that he didn't have time to appear in court to show cause why he shouldn't be arrested. Columnist Robert C. Ruark says that this is the funniest line since Bob Hope was a boy. Powell's attorney has got to give a better excuse than this. No one is ever too busy to answer a court summon. Yet thr newspapers have reported that Powell has time to com mute to Puerto Rico where he tins a lavish home. His absentee record from Congress is one of the worst in the history of both houses Patriotism Need On Memorial Day Memorial Day, May 30. is recognized by the federal government and the several states as a national holiday set aside to honor v«t erans who have died by decorating their graves and holding memorial services for the purjiose of acknowledging that their services were not uv-vain. It seems that veterans have to resort to high-powered publicity to bring to the atten tion of the public the moral responsibility to close business and industrial enterprises to close down operations for this day Why is it necessary to bring to thr attention A National Appreciation Day Most of our holidnyv or recognition days ■re observed in honor of someone who has done something we consider of value to us PerhaßS we could add to our list of special days an Appreciation Day. No man is “an island unto himself' be Cause each person is indebted to perhaps a half dozen or more individuals who have in fluenced the course of their lives for the bet ter. Os course, we must admit that probably one of these Individuals influenced the course of our lives more than any other. Think of the people whosi lives have been Raleigh Eaa long elnce become familiar with demonstration*. Come Saturday, it can have thk greatest demonstration that it has ever held. Tha Saturday demonstration can paint an image that oan turn Raleigh into a citadel of democracy and run political bigots into a hole of despair. " A real demonstration Saturday can open more doors of opportunity than 10.000 students marching through Fayetteville Street all day. A real demonstration can open the door of every white church in the dty and both Ne groes and whites can ait down and sing "A great change haa been made.” This demonstration can strike at the very core that haa held Raleigh in a din of dismay, bigotry, race-hate and misunderstanding. This demonstration can be held peacefully and without fan fare. One does not have to talk to frit NEORO PRESS — beNoraa Chat America can 6esf had the world my from rmdri and national ■kajonisms whan it accord* to every man regardl— s of rare enter or eraad. We human and legal nght% Hating no man haring no man—tha Negro Pram strive* to help every man on tha turn be gat that all mm are tort mkmgm anyone is held back. A Real Demonstration was an Increase of nearly 3 million books oveT the previous year. Slightly more than half of the total distributed In the Unites States. Most of the increase was seen In the western United States and the Pacific, according to the American Bible Bociety. his wishes on the matter of how he wants to live in this country. We hope that no one will use this as an argument for maintaining that the Negro ought to want segregation too. The Negro’s situation in this nation has stemmed from his former condition of slavery. He could not resist having the white man’s civilization forced upon him. Not only this, but the Negro position in the white man’s civ ilization forced upon him. Not only this, but the Negro position in the white man’s civiliza tion b(gan in the role of an inferior h’man— on re hr was regarded as property and again as a fraction of a man. Since the Negro was not located on reserva tions like the Indian, he had no opportunity to retain his African culture. The master white man oftrn whipped “white civilization of a kind" on his back and into his mind. To make the process easier, the white ruling class for bade the Negro slave to learn to read or get an education. They were no fools, for they were aware that you cannot make an educated man a slave. Even though his body may be beaten and his fret bound in chains, no one can en slave the educated man's mind. The wishes of National Youth Council may he pricking the white man's conscience, for who knows how widespread were broken promises to the Indians. Take whatever side of the argument you may, but remember that the Negro has force fully revealed that he does not want to be seg regated! Tlx most recent journalistic rrport is that the congressman surrendered last Friday to police men in connection with a fraud warrant but was quickly released when hr promised a ludge he would appear for trial "at some later elute " The warrant for his arrest was obtained by Mrs. Esther James. 67, a Harlem widow who won a $46,500 libel judgment against Powell Mrs. James has been trying to collect for near ly a year. The widow had to follow the con gressman to Puerto Rico; and then she charg eel him with illegally transferring his property to the name of his wife’s uncle to escape pay ment The charge resulted in the recent war rant for his arrest accusing him of fraud. Since it is rvidrnt to Powell that “the dodge" is up. he said, "We reached an agreement un der which the trial will be held at some latei date." Powell said. We have admired Powell for his forthright stand against segregation and injustice, hut we can't condone him at nil in shirking his re sponsihility to make full payment of the libel judgment of $46,500. If other citizens are rc quired to pay libel judgments against them, then Powell cannot he excused. And his con tempt for court orders is downright disgusting and sickening. of our citizens and business establishments the honor that should be shown by displaying the American flag? Let us not forget our patriotic responsibility on May 30. Would not it be a splendid thing if all busi ness would cense "business as usual” in order to honor our dead heroes who died for their freedom and ours’ We can support one of our bulwarks of lib erty in • symbolic way by proudly displaying thr American flag on Mny 30. spared by death by new medical know-how, who have been saved from misfortunes, who have been helped in some minor needs, who have been, provided funds for education, who have benrfitted from lives that have set good examples, who emoyrd the’luxuries of this life. We think that people who have influenc ed us should he honored with a special day— Appreciation Day—because they helped oth ers without thought of personal reward. This idea might be disseminated theough ' a letter-wnting campaign. make the demonstration felt. There is reported to be 11.000 registered Ne gro voters in Wake County All this U.OOO people have to do is to walk silently into a booth, close the curtain and with a, fervent prayer ask God to help them strike a blow at injustice that will not only strike down strife and animosity here hut can be the clear edict of the more than one million Negroes living in the state. Saturday is the dav, the hours are from 6:30 A. M to 6:30 P M Every registered voter who does not take part in this real demonstration, without fear or favor, will miss the greatest op portunity to do Raleigh a real favor that he has ever had in his lift. The CAROLINIAN urges you to make this a real demonstration by voting early as you can and to aid anyone else who needs aid in voting Just For Fan BY MARCUS H. BO CL WARE THE STORY GOES You can believe if you want to, but a story goes: "Comyard, you think your 999- pound bullfrog is a tall story, but I have one that tops it. "We live on a farm and have a 35-acre lake. Last summer I was paddling my boat and using my casting rod with a small, live minnow wiggling on the end of the line. “Suddenly a fish struck. In stead of jumping, the fish rolled on the surface. It was a bass that weighed only one pound. "Playing him, I let 50 feet of line run off the reel. Next there was a still harder jerk. The line tightened. “It refused to budge. The fish has gone around a snag, I be lieved. Paddling to the place, I pulled as hard as I could. “Pushing the boat paddle down along side the line, it suddenly came loose. An 11-lb. bass had swallowed the one pounder. "That isn't just a big fish lie. The enclosed picture shows all three fish.” Signed: Speedball Eddie, your pal. Such Nonsense In Rotterdam, Holland, a ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARtfY GOLDEN THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR Out in one of the swamps that ring New York City, the new world arises. The city will have a World's Pair, opening in 1964. There is nothing like the emer gence of a new world to remind one of the impermanence of the old. The last world of tomorrow New York subsidized was the World's Fair of 1939. Since then, New Yorkers have not only dis mantled Mark Twain’s house in the Village area and the Penn sylvania Station, one of the great architectural landmarks of mod ern Western building. A dozen other cultural and historical landmarks have gone the way of all American prog ress. The Gettysburg battlefield (not the cemetery) may become part oi a rebuilding development although Gettysburg itself Is now so desecrated by neon lights and shill booths it probably won't make much difference. Ripping up landmarks, how ever. is as American as apple pie. Back in 1901, President Mc- Kinley’s Congress and the Presi dent himself deeded over to the Pennsylvania Railroad 14 acres of the Washington, D. C, Mall simply because that stretch of green between the Washington Monument and the Capitol was beautiful. The Washington Park Commission fought the transfer of land and surprisingly won. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a trip to Washington's home at Mt Vernon can breat te in relief that it is owned and administered bv a private organization called the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association. No Italian, no matter how “progressive', would tear down Dantes home in Florence us indeed Dantes homo is known); no Frenchman would tear down Editorial Opinions Here are excerpt* of editorials, selected by the Assoc is'cd Negro Press, from some of the nation's lending daiiy news pap- s.) THE FIGHT FOR EQI ALITY THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL There is a heartening degree of statesmanship in the biparti san accord hammered out last week, on amendments that can bring the civil rights bill to final passage. The key figures were Senator Humphrey, floor manager for the bill, who has abandoned his earlier stand against any chan ges in the house version; A tty. Gen Kennedy, who was accom modating in his views of w hat a sufficiently effective bill must be. and Senator Dirksen. the mi nority leader, who is trying to deliver the Republican \otes that are needed to shut off the filibuster and bring a passage vote. The amendments now upon by the conferees are aim ed at senators who are willing to have a bill pass but demand Letter To The Editor AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS BILL To The Editor: I am against the civil righ-* bill because. 1 know of no way it gran’s more rights to minority groups than already granted to then under the constitution. I do know of a number of ways that it takes away ngb*s of both the majority and the minority group*, to name a few: the right of_ trial by jur> ai d the writ of habeas corpus. I know what happened to the Jewish minority group in Ger many when a lunatic came to power with weapons at his com mand such as would be granted by this bill pending, the so-call ed civil rights bill. It could turn into a civil frights bill (or the same people it professes to he bo. Remember, no freedoms ha»e ever been taken away from a people except under the guise of giving them something This bill gives nothing, except dictator ship power to the Attorney Cen tral Who he will be in ten yea.s nobody know s. Very truly vours. MRS ODIS B SUMMERS 3304 Hampton Road Raleigh. N C. Dutchman becama so angry at his wife that he took an axe and smashed all the furniture in their living room. Including a radio and a television set Two policemen were called to subdue the enraged husband. The reason for his violence and outburst of temper was that his wife forgot to put his daily bot tle of beer in the refrigerator. Well, if I were his wife, here after I would put In a dozen bot tles at the time. And don’t for get. the “Missus’* is going to make that guy buy bar soma new furniture, or hubby will ha in the doghouse for sometime. Snuff Dipping Snuff dipping la definitely cm the increase in the United States, according to the United States Tobacco Company. He attributed the increase of snuff dipping to people’s switching from cigarette smoking. Sales, however, have tx en rising since 1962. During the age of Shake speare, or thereabouts, men sniffed snuff to make them Sneeze, and for the purpose of tolerating the odors of other people attending the theaters. Francoise Villon’s homo for any reason; and an Englishman would take pains to preserve Marlowe's home though ha might charge a few bob to tour it. But Americans are always on the lookout for some signifi cant place so they can tear it down right away. Carnegie Hall has been saved but only for the duration of the World's Fair. Goodness knows what will dis appear when the Fair departs its swamp. One can wonder how it is wa pour such millions into our schools and yet our educational system leaves so much to be de sired that neither constituents nor legislatures nor chief offi cers can appreciate the Ameri can past about which they are endlessly declaiming on any given holiday. It took a superhuman effort on the part &f Mrs. Adda George to save Carl Sandburg’s birth place in Galesburg, 111., and I remember when the ladies of Shrewsbury. N. J., ringed them selves around the 13 sycamores planted at the end of the Revo lutionary War to save them from Rxmen intent on building a post nl fice. But these are isolated victo ries Only the American Chinese have been able to preserve some of the cultural traditions In their various Chinatowns. As of this moment, there are easily 15.000 commissions dedi cated to saving the downtown areas of our American cities. In 14.000 of these instances, down town will go. We Americans are so fast and so progressive, we can't even keep up with our selves. Lewis Mumford has pre dicted that one day we Ameri cans will have to sit down and reinvent the railroad train. reassurance* on two point* hi the two most crucial sections, public accommodations and em ployment opportunity. They want full scope for state and local agencies to act without pre mature and undue federal in tervention. And they want to minimize authority for the gov ernment. instead of individuals, to be the plaintiff in enforce ment suits. The proposed amendment ol the public accommodations sec tion will require prior reference of complaint* to state and local agencies If any. and when com pliance is not obtained will per mit the attorney general to go to court only to break a com munity pattern of discrimination, not on behalf of an individual. It is significant that Kennedy particularly is satisfied that It will still be an effective bill thus modified, for he is determined not to have the bUI shot out from under the administration. If the accord clears party cau cuses this week it may spell the imminent end of the filibus ter and write legislative history. THE NEW YORK TIMES The veto by three Puerto Ric ans and a Negro of the peace pact negotiated by Mayor Wag ner and George Meany in the Bronx's plumbers dispute is a disservice to the cause of equal employment opportunity. Its end result can only be to poison re lations between organized labor and the civil rights group* and to impair the highly effective working partnership they have established to push for a strong civil rights bill. The ostensible complaint erf the four worker* was that they could not get into the Plumbers Union because erf their color. The agreement to give them a standard union qualifying test, in English or Spanish, with elvtl rights observers on hand to guard against unfairness. remov ed any element of legitimacy from that complaint Now. ap parently under pressure from careerists in the civil right* field, they have chosen to turn their battle into an assault on the whole structure of union se curity in the building trade*. As we have previously observ ed. the kind of union Job control that exists in consTuction is de cidedly unorthodox according to the rule* prescribed in the Taft- Hartley Act Whether it can stand a full legal test is open to question. Yet nothing could be more unfortunate than to link such a task '«• the civil rights issuei It Takes More Than An Irrestible Force To Overcome An Immovable Object ■ p PULPIT AND PEW BT EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D. (For the Associated Negro Press) OPEN OCCUPANCY CHURCH STYLE As Church groups are bolding their national and regional meetings this year, an increasing number of them are Issuing statements and res olutions spelling out their sincerity in the pro cess of Integration. "Open occupancy” in the church Is becoming a greater reality as the A merican Baptist recently joined the Methodist, the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and southern parishes of the Roman Catholic by opening their doors to Negro members. This has been accomplished by them with few or no demonstrations by facing up to their Christian commitment. Ten years ago the Supreme Court made "open occupancy” for the schools of the land the law of the land. In recent months a few cities and states have passed open occupancy housing laws. And, true to form, the churches are the last to join the parade. Although resolutions opelnlng membership doors are made by church leaders attending these national gatherings as delegates, speaking In some Instances for themselves and not all of those they represent, the denomination al pattern Is clearly stated and the pattern is be ing set. In time the effectiveness at their resolu tions will filter down to the smallest town and hamlet In their denominational structure. There will not be any wholesale shifting of Ne gro members to once all-white churches. First, there will be the testing by some Negroes out to prove that they can go to a certain church if they chose to. Then there will be cases In newly integrated neighborhoods where Negroes will find membership in an integrated church comfortable. Perhaps In the not too distant future the larger percentage of all churches will be Integrated. We agree that our housing pattern has created what we call de facto segregation as far as schools are concerned. Can we also admit that as for the church the housing pattern has created de facto congregation? Since we tend to go to the church of our choice for the most part we have chosen to “congregate’’ as a race and thus have congre ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD The future looks bleak for Aunt Chloes chillun. Deepite the fact that their knowledge of reactin', wTltin’ and 'rithmetic is astronomically greater than it was 100 years ago. education and train ing for the Jobe of today is almost the same, in relation to whites, as It was in the latter part of the last century and the first forty years of this century. They are not catching up with the white man. They are falling farther and farther behind. Some of the fault lie* with the brethren them selves. Most of the blame can rightfully be at tributed to the unbrotherly white American. Truthfully, we have not done ail we could or should have done for ourselves. We complain a bout the lack of jobs and about our low economic status. But in the last 100 years we have done little to make or create jobs for ourselves A group of twenty million people should be able to make jobs, thousands of them, even hundreds of thous ands. We not only do not make jobs. We don't make anything. We don’t make the clothing we wear. We don't make the shoes nor the hats that we wear. We don't make the food we eat. We don’t make the furniture we use. We don’t make the cars we drive. We don’t make the whiskey we drink. We don’t make the broom* with which we sweep, nor the mops with which we clean. We don't manufacture the books we read. We Just don't make. And where we put forth an effort at making, we don't make as well. We are A-No. 1 consumers, but we drift distress fully toward aero as producers. If we produced, and produced spell. It might safely be predicted that we might buy from ourselves and thereby lay the basis far jobs. Also, if we produced well; that Is. If our products were as good or better than others, we could sell beyond ourselves in the gen eral market and thereby create mare jobs. Also, if Tha Southern filibusterers in Congress have been trying hard to split the Negro-labor coalition on Capitol Hill by arguing that tha fair employment practice sections of tha Administration bill will shatter the seniority and union security provision* la bor ha* fought so many years to win. Union leaders have de rided all such contentions. Civil rights groups, tor their part have campaigned side by side with labor against state right to-work laws, despite the efforts of Southern legislators to per suade them that such laws would help Negroes break union job monopolies. Eke fcuarrr turn in tha Broca gated ourselves racially in such a manner as to make it appear that we have been segregated. This is what I mean by de facto congregation. The question*now Is whether or not the Negro is prepared for the white church's open occupancy policy. Needless to say there will be a growing number of Negroes joining the once all-white church for varying reasons such as. status, in trigue, curiosity and the fact that for the most pfcrt the all-white church is more highly de veloped. Is the Negro church, then, prepai d U,r this loss of membership? As Bishop Gerald Ken nedy said at the Methodist General Confer. in April, “the removal of racial segregation ■ d cost the Negro Methodists some of their mine., y rights ... it will cost some white Methodi . t'-.g pain of rooting out deep-6eated and long : i convictions concerning racial relations.” And \ - untary changing from a Negro church to a wlii;2 church on the part of Negroes will for the N: . d mean the loss of the status he once had in h 5 "own” church. Many, however, will do it a, try price. Many whites, eager to prove their Chri 1 witness, are preparing themselves now for the en trance of the Negro into “their” church. Many Negro preachers will sleep through it all only to wake up one day to discover that t ie people In the pew have abandoned ship to with their white brothers in the pew. Will those Negro pastors in the pulpit then be ready and prepared to "integrate” white* into what th~y have left? The economic loss to the Negro church will ne cessitate a shrinking denominational structure and hierarchy. The Negro church can ill afford to keep running behind a white church to buy the building and start a church, if finally the white church quits running to the surbub* and opens the door to all persons. It is not too early for the Negro people in pul pit and pew to prepare to either close the door of the Negro church or open the door to all. The day of the all-Negro or the all-white church 1* ending swiftly. BY P. L. PRATTIS For ANP we were making lobs for ourselves, the chancre are that we would get more mbs from others be cause there would be more trained worker* a mong us. It is hard for me to believe that we are any worse off. or have been any worse off since E mancipation than the Jews in many countries of Europe, especially in eastern Europe for nearly a thousand years. But the Jews did not let the' fact that they were wailed up In ghettoes and required to wear identifying symbols stand in their way. They peddled their way all over Europe and they came to the United States peddling. But look at them now. Negroes allow Jews to come into their "ghet toes” and run all the businesses. Then when the Jew makes money and buys him a nice home, the Negroes get angry with him. Why is it that Jews can make money off Negroes and Neeroes can t make money off Negroes? Why is it that most, not all. Negro businessmen look for a captive Ne gro market and try to sell on the basis of color rather than rely ,on the quality of their product and service and sell to everybody? My bre*.h r r: Just don't do that—nowhere you find them. G to Liberia. Ghana. Nigeria, the Congo, and s who is running the big stores. Sure, the American white man has put stumb ling blocks in our way. Those early th debtors and prostitutes who came over here rr c ed barriers against the Germans, the Irish, t Italian, the Poles and everybody else, but U were not able to maintain the barriers— - against us. Our color isn’t our only hand - There's something else which enough of us admit and do something about We’d better ws’.: up or thousands of us are going to start death in a land of plenty. plumbers row hurts both tha minority groups and labor The nonunion plumbers ought to take the test the union has of fered them. If not the civil rights groups ought to leave them to their own devices THAT MAN WALLACE THE DENVER POST A third of the people opposed the American Revolution of 1776 Considerably more than a third opposed the elimination of slav ery. A- d in 186 more than 44 per cent of the North opposed the re-election of Abraham Lin coln. Throughout our history, sub stantial minorities have opposed many of the major steps this na tion haa takes os the road *c greater strength and greater freedom. But the nation march ed on Just the same. In 1964. it is neither unprece dented nor surprising that a sub stantial minority should opppe .• the civil rights movement a that many should express that opposition by voting for Ala bama's Gov. George Wallace in Wisconsin and Indiana. But more than two-thirds of the voters in the Demacrat.c primaries in those two states voted against the governor, and the latest Harris poll shows that more than 70 per cert of the people in the nauon favor the civil rights bill