THE CAXOLOfIAIf
RALEHM. If. C„ SATURDAY. JULY 28. IH4
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Editorial Viewpoint
WORDS OF WORSHIP
- Every Sunday School student remember* the
-words, “Follow Me,” as uttered by Jesus Christ.
There Is abundant eridenoe that Jesus wes fores*
fin and aggressive. When he called men to him.
. they responded. As he commanded, they followed.
He did not ask If It were a convenient moment
for them to oome and be disciples, nor did he
Out of financial adversities often comes ad
vancement and progress. This certainly can
be said of Shaw University which, tome months
ago. laid “bare” its financial emergencies. And
yet. President James E. Cheek has the audac
ity to project a building program of $S mil
lion during the next five years.
This reminds us of Jesus Christ who tied
* no money nor any public-relation propaganda
machine. Yet he dared to invite hit followers to
carry the gospel to the utmost ends of the
earth. In commenting upon this same incident,
Bruce Barton, in his book Tho Man Nobody
Know* asked his readers to consider the sub-
Hroe audacity of the Master’s command.
' " The development building project will enable
' the university to nearly double its enrollment
Football Hero's Finest Hour
Tttc funeral assembly of Ligon’s athlete, Wil
• Ik Dean ‘"Pat” White, who met an untimely
death by hia succumbing to rancer, waa aym
beUcly the young man’s finest hour. “Greater
iawe haa no man than this” waa exemplified
by more than 2,000 admirers and friends who
Came to pay their last respect to an individual
who had excelled in hia field.
Many of ua wonder why the Almighty taw
fit to cut short th* life pereona like Willie Dean
White. A 1964 graduate, the young man en
tered the hospital after attending baccalaure
ate exercise*. It is told that many of hia friends
believed “Pat” could pull another miracle aa
he done on the gridiron many times, but the
unseen hands of death had other plans for him
and called him to hia reward. The time had
come for an accounting of his stewardship, at-
Local Racial Groups Increase
Tt is indeed encouraging to know that almost
40 per cent o i all United tates cities of over
30,000 population now have official local
-groups to help ease their racial problems. This
information, reported by the recent Confer
ence of Mayors, indicates that our cities are
aware that ignoring the racial problem will
not solve It
Local community relations commissions have
bfpi established in 225 of the 589 cities in the
population bracket lust mentioned.
“The fact that 120 of these official local
groups have been set up in the past 12 months
indicates a trend of national significance."
Mayor Raymond R. Tucker of St. Louis. Mo ,
conference president, said in releasing the re
suits of the survey.
Mayor Tucker said that one-third of the 128
cities in the Southern region now have official
bodies a slightly better ratio than in the
Economical Impact Os Racial Strife
While racial strife and rioting make the
newspapers notices, some Southern cities have
failed to recognise the financial losses which
may accrue from racial crises such as we have
in' Little Rock. Tuscaloosa, Oxford. Bt. Au
gustine, Fla. and of late in New York.
MORE
The lots of dollars and cents art grim facts
which St. Augustine. Fla., has experienced. And
yet the leaders have not been able to bring
about eace and harmony; if they veers able,
they perhaps did not want to do ao.
The St. Augustine's Chamber of Commerce
estimates the loas of tourist business at 35 mil
lion with an expected total loaa this year of
$8 million.
The ancient city thrive* upon tourist trade,
and it has been estimated that the afore-men
tioned loos meant a loas of $533 for every man,
woman, and child in St Augustine with a pop
ulation of about 15,000 resident*. Tourism is
off. it is reported, about 75 per cent. Hence
motels and other tourist accomodations ere
said to be in difficulty.
Breaking The Drug Habit
ginot 1961 approximately 800 drug addicts
have voluntarily, or by referral by a eourt
attended a procram of hypnosis and therapy
1 t» aariat In hroaking tiie narcotic*
habit, an well aa develop a useful life. More
then 400 have been cured, and certainly this
Is -Ski impressive record.
It eeesm that the program developed by ac
ddeat The Rev. Damien Piteelthly, rector of
an Episcopal church la Queens, a borough of
New York City, learned that Me parish eras
located in the mkkt of one of the emit nar
cotics addiction areas in the dty. Setting out
to fight addiction, he found help from four
volunteer hypnotherapist*.
The program include* hypnotising the ad-
7 dß NEGRO MfMSS earn tata hag the mtM
ngardlem o!met. enter or emtf, Mr human end legal ri|Mi *ot>nj no won
(tiring no man- the Negro Prate atttme to help eaery man an the htm be-
Bet that atl aeen ere lent at hngja anyone ie held back.
Vision For Progress
consider their circumstances or committments.
When He walked by the Sea of Oalilee, be saw
two fishermen, Simon, call Peter, and Andrew,
his brother, casting their nets Into the sea; he
said to thes. “Follow me and I will make you
fishers of men.” and they straightway left their
nets, ss did the sons of Zebedee when he signs led
them.
Its sights arc on an enrollment of 1.000 stu
dents. This is as it should be, for there is such
a thing as being too small for economical and
efficient operation.
It seems that the debt emergency problem
has been solved. Dr. Cheek told the trustee*
that the school’s troublesome debt has been
paid in full. And may we add that this is in
deed a miraculous accomplishment, for not
only did the campaign bring in 1250,000 to
pay off endebtedness, it went ever the top in
the amount of $323,000.
Preliminary plana that were presented to
the trustees include rasing moat of the present
IS campus buildings and replacing them with
three high-rise building complexes.
Citizens of Raleigh. you also have a stake
in this program. Will you rise to the challenge?
though brief was his stay on thase mundane
shores.
Surely, the pasting of thia young man from
the athletic scent haa made an impression upon
hia fellow teammates who have had time for
reflection* upon life and death, ss well a* the
great issues of life. May the death of White
serve to call attention to the need for develop
ing the religious and spiritual aides of our lives.
Although the Biblical poet aaya that the
dkya of our yean are “three score and ten’’,
young White waa denied thia privilege. Yet
he haa left hit footprints upon the sands o'
time, because Ligonites will recall long hia
football exploits and good sportsmanship.
Would that young White was permitted to live
and put sportsmanship into a long life.
May the God who reigni over ua all be
with hia spirit!
Northeast and Far Weat. More then Keif of
the 187 cities in the Mid-Weet have such
groups
Nearly 3,500 citisens serve as volunteers on
the commissions screes tre country, Mayor
Tucker said. This, it seems to us, indicates
that a significant number of local ritixena ere
interested in keeping peaee end justice in their
respective communities.
The racial problem can be considered se
riously by men of high calling sitting around
conference tables talking in man-to-man fash
ion about the problems of their imm. diate
communities and the great issues of life.
We voice our encouragement to rapid en
largement of loeal citisens commissions across
the nation so that men and women will want
to extend the hand of fellowship and mstice
to minority groups limited in their »<-*iv ; *;*«
by segregation laws.
Evan after things have returned to adrmal
in the ancient dty, the public will long remem
ber its rioting image. Perhaps thousands of
tourists will prefer for years to come to by-pass
St. Augustine, Fie. This is bad news, because
next year the dty plena a quadricentennial
celebration.
If a large per cent of Florida's income is de
dependent upon tourist trade, it behooves Flo
rida citiea to prevent a public image based
upon the stigma of racial violence.
The only way to keep the public image of
Florida poaithre, leading dty offidala and bus
ineaa men must work earnestly to bring about
racial harmony and dignity and justice. Usual
ly when leadership in offidal position demands
the observance of certain polities in race re
lations, tiie masses of white people will accept
the requiremnts.
Every dtisen has a stake in this experiment,
and It is not what they can do to rseitt the
provisions of the new civil rights bill; but,
rather what can they do to make the new lavra
work harmoniously?
diet aftororhieh a script is read to him to act
on his aubconstious mind. Repeatedly, tiie
therapist reads, "Because you believe you can
kick and stay dean, you kick and stay clean."
It ia aimed at strengthening the will end per
sonality of the addict by autosuggestion En
couragingly, it works in e majority of cases.
People receiving treatment have ranged in
age from 14 to 43. They come from middle
class homes. Their parents, wives or husbands
are encouraged to take part in the group ther
apy weekly to learn how to help toe addict*.
Would that similar programs could be start
ed all over the nation in order that we might
cope successfully with one of the most per
plexing problems of our day.
Just For Fun
BY MARCUS M. HOULWABS
OLD MAH WRATBKB
Hare in TaUeh eases. Florida,
old Man Waethar has turned
loose on ua that mighty bat
weather. But vary oftan, wa gat
brlaf showers in ths afternoon.
This sort of cools off things for
the night whan usually it is
comfortable for sleeping.
Bummer school is swiftly mov
ing on, and before you know it
w# will have commencement
THEFT
The number of automobile
thefts make ua recall the days
of the hone, mule and buggy.
In the pioneer Wild West, a
horse theft was a "rotten''
character. If he were caught the
crowd often murdered him be
fore he could get a trial.
You might wonder why the
people ware so hard om horse
thieve*. Wall, for one thing,
farmers and pioneers depended
upon the horse for a livelihood.
Hence. if his horse wa* stolen,
he wa* "ruined .” ,
The automobile la now neces
sary to our livelihood, but we
don't hang them for stealing
cars. Our Judges mate out to
them two and four-year aenten
e* for their crime*.
Regardless of what you think.
ONLY IN AMERICA
WHAT’S BEHIND IT ALL?
Wa are amaaed and breath
less to aoe two white women
charge a third who haa been
parading with Negr® demon
onatrators In St. Augustine.
Fla. They hurl her to the
ground and. with their feet,
theae two women, beyond Im
agining. stomp her. Can Ne
groee swimming in the ocean
Inspire such violence? What
makes theae two ordinary wo
men deny their femininity and
their civilization?
And we hold our breaths
learning that three civil rights
workers are missing outside
Philadelphia, Mias. They are
rrvjnC lint nut nf
oollese or just ready to be
graduated. We learn the FBI
la Investigating, that Allen Dul
les la conferring aa the Presi
dential emissary with Oovernor
Paul Johnaon.
But alas, this la no unique
aberration. When we worry
about the three lost boys, we
ought to remember the hun
dreds upon hundreds of Negroes
who disappeared, and disap
peared without an obituary or
a mourner to eorrow for their
death.
They beeted a white man In
a cotton deal or they tried to
vote or they brought a law suit
against a store for redress of
grievance and men came and
dragged them from their
shacks, beat them and tossed
their dead bodies into swamps
or woodlands. Then the Sheriff
earns and sternly asked the Ne
gro mother. "Where's your
Jim? He owes $8 bsck taxes ”
This was the usual covering op
eration.
And when the woman, cow
ered. clutching her children,
the Sheriff would surmise.
“Ran off to Chicago with that,
woman, did he? Just like Jim
JuSt like all of them.” The wife
understood. She knew that Is
what will go into the record
Editorial Opinions
Here are excerpt* of edito
rials, selected by The Associat
ed Negro Pres* from some of
the nation* leading newspa
pers.
TERROR IN DIXIE
THE MILMAUKXX journal
In Georgia, a Negro army re
serve officer, driving peaceably
on the public highway, was
killed by a shotgun blast flrel
from a passing car In Missis
sippi. three civil rights workers
are believed dead, victims of
foul play, and another Negro
church has been burned down.
In Alabama, a report of a Ne
gro woman attending a white
movie theater set off a wild
melee In which more than 300
enraged whites hurled bottles
and stones. In North Carolina
a group of Nearoes sought ser
vice at a truck stop restaurant,
touching off a three hour riot.
The South la thus pockmark
ed and bloodied by violence,
swept by burst* of animal fe
rocity and shamed by stealthy
murder from ambush It is
breeding new hatred and new
lawlessness. This Is an exerciae
In futility; tragic, warped and
absolutely hopeles It can gain
nothing; it cannot revive the
dead pat. The civil rights law
now la the law of the land, long
deliberated, deeply considered
and resoundingly passed
This resurgence of terror, in
the south or anywhere eLv\ cre
ates necessity for strong fed
eral polios action. If a few can
do violence to the law with im
punity. we are all of us in mor
tal dancer
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
The ominous clouds of racial
strife that hang over some sec
tions of the South have been
split once again by the light
ning of wanton murder
Lemuel A. Penn, a Negro ed
ucator, was murdered as he
drove his auto through north
eastern Georgia. FVnn was re
turning to his home In Wash
ington from a two-week tour
of active duty at Fort Benning.
Ga. He was a lieutenant colon
el in the U S. Army reserve
program.
Georgia authorities say the
murder Is not connected with
racial strife. However, less than
M boors before Penn was mur
dered another Negro with out-
Of-town license plate* on his
tbs asms ares
ear was similarly attacked m
The passage and pending im
plementation so the civil rights
law gtvmleaa a period of sc
be safe by locking your ear
when you park it
THAT MOSQUITO: Once a
question was asked: "Who’s
sweeter to a skoeter?" On* au
thority say* that “skeeters" love
young, fragrant aun-tanned,
pulsating people who believe in
the joy of living.
If a mosquito will drop what
ever he’s doing and buzz over to
bite you, the moment you ap
pear, there’s reason. He likes you
very much and especially the
wsy you smell and taste. The
way you dress may even catch
his eye. If you’re wearing per
fume and-or haven’t bathed
lately, he'll find you irresistible.
(Boy.oh Boy!)
Manufactures of an insect re
pelling lotion conducted a re
cent survey of nearly 1,000 per
sons In 18 widtly scattered U. S.
cities to determine what people
get bitten most by mosquitoes
and why. They came up with
a scoring chart on which on#
may estimate his insect appeal.
Hie findings indicate that the
fanatical bother, who wears no
scent, only the palest colors, sits
quietly and never works up a
lather, is the one—more than
likely—who will net get bitten.
BY HARRY GOLDEN
and there was nothing hh*
could do about it.
Now It la manifestly absurd
to believe that these segrega
tionists are charging Negro
swimmers to protect the At
lantic Ocean from contamina
tion; it la equally absurd to
believe that a lynch mob grab
bed three boys from a atation
wagon to protect the Greek,
Jewish, Chinese, and Yankee
hotel syndicate restaurants that
form the vast majority of the
eating establishments in th*
Bouth.
No, neither restaurant* nor
oceans spurred the mobs. The
sergegatlonlsts know what is at
Acvrevsttcmlst# Imnw whet. !« et
stake. And white supremacy is
a wealth that can never be
dissipated.
A man can lose his money,
he can lose his fa but once
upon a time he wa tlwaya su
perior no matter t hat cotton
prices were. He handed on this
superiority to his son and to
his family. He fights for white
supremacy as monarc ha once
fought to protect the divine
right of kinds.
The segregationist is so blind
ed by the threat to his su
premacy he even believe* there
is a chance he can claim sup
port from the North. But the
Negro struggle in th# North,
the backlash, is centered on
realty values and Job displace
ment and annoyances.
The Negro In the North la
trying to move Into the middle
class. In the South, he la try
ing to move Into life. And once
he moves Into life, the segrega
tionist knows perforce the
mainstream will eventually
sweep him along. And white
superiority will drown.
Southern segregation is a
caste system. Caste systems are
notorious not for promising
that life will be better but for
promising that caste itself will
blur misfortune.
treme difficulty In some areas
of the South. Murder has been
committed Churches are being
burned. Civil rights workers are
beaten and terrorised There Is
rioting over effort* to test the
law and even over rumors of
such efforts.
This violenoe 1* deeply ab
horred by all decent men In
the South and elsewhere.
MEMPHIS PRESS-9CTMTTAR
Passage of the Civil Rights
Law has revealed a rather sur
prising and highly commenda
ble Inclination to observe its
requirements.
In a number of Deep South
cities restaurants and hotels
have been desegregated without
commotion.
We suggest that now is the
time for Northern friends of
civil rights, particularly whit#
Northerners, to dear out of the
South and give the Southern
people, both white and Negro
a chance to adjust to the new
sitotaion which the law estab
lishes
Continued presence so these
visitors constitutes a provoca
tion. making It difficult for
moderates to exert their Influ
ence. There remain plenty of
Northern crusaders to right,
racial injustices for these
back in their home towns
Southern resistance to de
segregation has been based on
a theory that Supreme Court
decisions were merely the opin
ions of the court and not the
"law of the land." This Implied
clearly that If desegregation
were the law they would obey
It Now It definitely la the law.
pawed by Congress and signed
by toe Resident
WHITHER THE CONGO
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In a remarkable turn about
that is an equally remarkable
personal triumph for him.
Molar Tshombe has now been
swam in as the new Premier
of the Congo and taken an
oath of allegiance to the Congo
Republic and to President Kas
avubu as Its bead of state. To
toe cheers of enthusiastic
crowds, the former secessionist
President of Katanga, who
fought against both the cen
tral Government and United
Nations Ssrees to keep his pro
vince Independent has pis deed
himself to work for the unity
and pesos of the whole Congo
and to promote its economic
development and social wei-
Ta fulfill this pledge, too
Will We-Or Will We Not Give Her
A Chance?
✓
K m \VYiiRi WlHv yr ml J
Gordon B. Hancock's
BETWEEN TH E LINES
THE MEANING OF CURRENT LULL
Even, -the most casual observer can see that
within the last several months there has been a
lull In the cold war between Rusts and the United
States, much to the satisfaction of aH peace-lov
ing peoples. It must be borne in mind that the
big Issues between these two mighty powers are
by no means settled and that the war between
communism and freedom ia by no means ended.
The current lull must be interpreted to be fully
understood- The people of the United States is
a white people and the people of Russia Is a white
people. A nuclear war between the United States
and Russia would mean a war of extermination of
white peoples and the horrlblenass of the thought
appalls the imagination and since the rise of
communism in China the race problem has been
sharply Injected. Whereas the peoples of Russia
and the United States are white peoples, the peo
ple of China are among the colored peoples of the
earth and under the Influence of the dominant
white man. color prejudice has become one of the
major social and economic factors of toe Twen
tieth Century. It has In fact become a great de
termining factor. It has come about that race
prejudice Is the greatest determining factor of
the hour.
Race prejudice, like a hellish contagion, has
gripped the Twentieth Century world and It In
fluences almost all considerations of national and
International importance. Red China has become
to white Russia and the United States a grave
matter and largely explains why the current lull
In the cold war. The question hss been hurtled In
to the forefront of their consideration whether
Russia and the United Btatee two white peoples
can afford to slaughter each other unto death
and leave colored China to take over the world
communism and all. In other words race pre
judice is causing Russia and the United States to
ponder the question of reaching some kind of un
derstanding rather than slaughter each other
unto the death while China, a colored people, is
to be spared the rigors and destruction of a nu
clear war. Red China has already sensed the race
PULPIT AND PEW
"A MOTHER SHALL LEAD THEM"
"If mothers can read better, it Is reasoned, ao
wiu their children." Is the position taken by a
group known as Tutoring Project For Mother*.
This group Is a logical opposite of the bibieal ad
monition to "train up a child In the way he
should go.” since many of our youthful Negro
mothers missed their training somewhere along
the line of development.
Here again is an answer to toe question many
people in the pew continue to ask—What can 1
do?
On Chicago’s South Side. In the shadow* of
the city's moot formidable eltadel of education—
the University of Chicago la the Woodlawn
community. It Is overwhelmingly a Negro neigh
borhood. There are hundreds of mothers with
pre-school and school age children who can
neither read nor write. Many of these mothers
an on ADC (Aid to Dependent Children), and
their children are expected to adapt to the teach
ing methods of the public school system, but
these mothers, lacking toe basic reading and writ
ing skins, can offer little or no aid and encou
ragement to Inspire their progeny toward excel
lence in learning.
Gertrud Portens. writing on the work of Tutor
ing Project For Mothers explain*, "modern edu
cation requires that from tfte earliest age on
wards s child’s natural abilities should be watch
ed for and encouraged." She further advises that
for a child to be “able to benefit from school,
children need such pre-school-age training as
involvement In creative play, encouragement In
enlarging vocabulary, learning numbers and al
phabet." She then asks the question, "what
chanoe then has a child whoso mother cannot
even write her own name?"
Tutoring Project Tat Mothers Is a VOLUN
TEER project and Is conducted on a one pupil to
one teacher basis. While mother and teacher sit
at a table, her pre-school children are entertain
ed with teg* by other mother* and her older chil
dren have an organised program of drawing,
reading, mode and uouaLuettv* play. They mast
oner each week. Yea, the vehmtaen. ordinary
house elves, have to bo trained and they ass mo
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factor In the more recent equation aid Is hintini
that the real approaching struggle Is not an ide
ological and political struggle but In th: fina
analysis a race struggle.
When China turned communist the whole com
plexion of the struggle between Russia and th-
United States was violently changed. In the latt
analysis Russia and the United States will some
how become allies on racial grounds rather than
annihilate each other and leave China, a dirk
people to dominate the world of the future. Race
prejudice Is so strong a factor that it is quite
possible that some reapproachment between Rus
sia and the United States and the West in gen
eral becomes a bristling possibility as an alter
native to turning over the world to China and the
darker peoples. And so international afralrs be
come more of a tangled aklen because of the ris
ing racial considerations. The current lull in the
cold war has a racial explanation that the caruel
observer little suspects. Race prejudice strang° to
say Is the major motivating force of the Twen
tieth Century world and It Is world wide and
world active.
It matters not In what part of this world we
may travel we are bound to bump head-on info
race prejudice. It destroyed the League of Na
tions and the greatest hindrance to our dream cf
peace in the world. There will never be peace in
a world where race prejudice takes precedence of
everything else in the world.
Anthropology tells us that the white man did
not appear upon earth until the Bronae Age and
it was he who also brought the sword. We may
add that It was he who brought world wars and
race prejudice the scourges of mankind. Strange
ly enough we hear about everything on radio and
television and printed news media but we hear
precious little or nothing about race prejudice
which is st the root of almost all our current na
tional and international troubles.
Even civil right* with the same old race preju
dice will leave mankind still a long way from the
Promised Land of human brotherhood. But civil
rights hews Is heartening. God still lives oven If
prejudloe doss so often hide His face.
dern. professional materials and tsehnlqi^ea.
The number of children and young people of
junior high and high school age who cannot un
derstandably read a Sunday School lessen quar
terly. to say nothing of their lack of ability to
read and understand their public school text
bocks is appalling. The vocabulary and diction of
too many Negro youth prompted a Negro High
School English teacher acquaintance of mine to
■ay recently, that next semester she plans to
teach her pupils as though English was a foreign
language.
In this age of INTEGRATION every agenev of
communication with Negro youth Is faced with
the challenge and responsibility of doing all It
can to help equip our youth for life In the main
stream of democratic civilization. The Negro
church Is no exception to the assumption of its
share of this responsibility
Voluntary for projects like Tutoring Project
For Mothers fill the pews of Negro churches
There are also enough preachers In the pulpit
who have time enough to spend a few hours each
week helping an Illiterate to become able to read
and write. It was shocking to me recently to hear
a minister say that he didn’t want "those ADC
people" running In and out of his educational
building, where the school board wanted to supply
free teachers if his church would supply the buil
ding’s facilities.
More meaningful than learning to read and
wrtte is the fact that those of our race who are
illiterate through ne fault of own (and re
grettabty there are some who have the opportun
ity and do not take advantage of It* can achieve
an enlarged sense of their own worth ami dignity
as human beings.
People in pulpit and pew must certainly be con
cerned about the worth ond dignity of human be
toga. They ought decidely be concerned about the
potential of the thousands of our youth stumb
ling Into the future. They ought relate their priv
ilege ea “tan and daughters of God" to those
etoßayeut to be able to read their Bibles and
tadnay School quartedhea aa they're able to do.
How many churches could have tutoring projects
for mothers’
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