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THE CABOLOIUUV RALEIGH, N. t, SATURDAY, AUGUST I, IM4 Editorial Vie wpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP 6b me occasion, James and John came to fsjru* to ask what promotions they might expect. 'Master'. they said, "we want to ask what plans rOu have In mind for us. You’re going to need big tnen around you when you establish your king' dom; our ambition Is to sit on either side of you, ope on your right and the other on your left." Who can object to this attitude? If a man falls Wallace Throws In The Towel Although he didn't get into the fray, Gov ernor Wallace of Alabama ha* withdrawn from the presidential campaign This will make possible much prediction It is a good thing that Wallace eliminated kith self from the race, since he would have to ba the banner carrier of a third party which tplintesed itself from the main political tree of Republicanism or Democratism. Critics of these special parties contend that all that their {candidates can do is "to muddy the water."— thus making it difficult to make a good choice from either of GOP or Democratic Party. Now, which ever party loses in the Novem ber election, it can’t say that things would pave been different, or we would have won had it not been for Wallace Wallace has re moved himself from being a scape goat Whether Ooldwater wants it or not the ex bvmista and other radical groups will no doubt get on the Goldwater bandwagon since they pave no Wallace to support. This may embar ras Goldwater to the extent of being forced to pronounce aome of the ideas of the “finger* " If this is done, some GOP's will find it im possible to go along with a candidate pro claimed by racial "rabble-rousers" and spread er* of hate At the same time, white voters in Southern states like Florida. Georgia. North and fieeith C oroline Vi*v»ini« Alabama and Mississippi, will search their consciences to determine whether they can support Goldwa ter We are aware that the maiority of South erners are sentimentally opposed to the pas sage of the Civil Rights Bill, but some of them^. Assasination Os Lt. Col. Penn Ttie azsazaination of Lt. Col Lemuel A Penn. an educator from Washington, D. C.. who wpa en route to Washington, D C . from Ft Banning, Oa , has aroused the ire of Ncgroc* over the nation. Thr murder rame at a time when Negroes were already seething over the mysterious disappearance of three CORE workers in Mississippi. The FBI is investigating, and we are hoping that the guilty persons will he apprehended and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Pretty soon we may know who the coward is fliit sent a shotgun blast from a speeding automobile, thus bringing about Lt. Col. Penn's untimely death While high-ranking FBI officials refused to comment upon their investigations thus far, it was learned that they "are making excellent progress" and arrests are expected at any moment. Perhaps the failure of authorities to find the three CORE workers who disappeared in Mis aiasippi caused many citizens to doubt the sin eerity of state and federal officers in finding guilty persons We believe that the FBI is not leaving a stone unturned in the attempt to find out how and why the three youth* disappear ed. In due time, they will give the public the comet answer. Two Historical Events In 1964 When historians record truthfully the events et 1964. they will be forced to interpret the two top events—both evolutionary and revo lutionary We refer to (1) the U. S Su preme Court's decision that the SO states must reapportion both houses of their legislatures on a population basis, and (2) the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The first of these legislations holds enor mous potential for changes toward more equal representation and hence a greater degree of democracy in state government. We predict it will Improve the legislative branch of the federal government, since the states’ reappor toomment will in due time change the make-up 0# the House of Representatives. When this first experiment toward complete •nd equal representation of the people is achieved, it will be the next thing to a true de mocracy. Its workings would astound Vis count James Bryce: if he were living to revisit our nation he would make a new assessment of it* political structure, say, six years hence. The passage of the second piece of legisla tian the 1964 Civil Rights Bill—holds greet peaaftlihfact for invigorating American moral ity and stimulating social progress Don't he- Bave that legislation does not help people grow in interracial brotherhood. It does Therefore, w* say that this decision, which irks many seg regationists who don’t want their folkway dis turbed, it going to be the salvation of the South. Morn than other sections of the coun ter, the South will benefit from the Civil Rights Acta although Governor Wallace to tfc contrary. Let us note one example) In the few days since President Johnson signed this measure, all over the South, even in some p&ttK of Mississippi, have courteously served Tiff? NEGRO PRESS Srftfii that Amarica cf n bmt had tha world MW fr*m racial mid national antagmaum wham it ae&rda to every man rUMhn at rmoa, color or craad. hh human and hgal riihta dano4 no mom. Haring 06 man tha Nagro Pram atahaa to halp ararr min 6& tha firm ba- Watahai all man ara tent m hog aa anyone h haid back. to look out for htmaelf, certainly no one else will. If you want a big place In life, go ask for it That's ths way to get ahead. Jesua answered these disciples with a sentence which seen* poetically absurd: "Whoever will be great among you. shall be your minister.” he said, "and whoever of you will be the chieftest, •hall be servant of all." are trjgng to adjust to it. Except in eases of stiff resistance. Southerners want to comply with the law; yet, at the same time, they are hoping that the law will be declared un constitutional. Other citizens are lending their support to the "stiff resistance" offered by such states as Alabama and Mississippi. This is highly un desirable and no good citizen should allow himself to become guilty in this respect. The Negro expects the effects of the "reverse white back lash”, a new term originating out of the issues and the times. This “back lash*' group voted for Wallace in Indiana, Mary land, and Wisconsin, if for no other reason than to vent their feelings or blow off steam Now that Wallace has withdrawn from the presidential race, this group, no doubt, will come to the conclusion that there are other is sues than civil rights that should occupy their thinking The quicker these people stop dis obeying the civil rights law. or at least show ing they deeply resent it. they will concentrate on other vital issues to them personally and to the nation Finally, when Wallace bowed out of thr race, he put out the fires of racial hate which he would keep alive had he stayed in the cam paign White the motive* of Wallace are known to us all, his withdrawal from the campaign will be a keeping the peace among rhe racial groups nation. The Almighty knewv there are enough other factors to fan >ne racial fires of hate without a Wallace s adding his injury We nfm»t not Ist our biases run with our imaginations to the extent that we think thr authorities should have been able to pre vent incidents like that of the late Lt. Col Penn. It would be well-nigh impossible to pre vent assassination over a nation as large as ours Think of the Presidents who have bean as assassinated for instance the late and beloved John F. Kennedy. Tight security measures were put into effect in Dallas. Texas, to pre vent any one from harming the President. And then it happened where we could see it on television. A prospective assassin could be anywhere: he could be listing right under our noses in our own communities. However, we can do more, as a community, to prevent future assassina tions if each citizen gives the law enforcement officers such testimony as will make for speedy capture of the criminal. And we must testify without “fear and trembling." The man who shot President Kennedy was a coward, and the man who assassinated Lt. Col Penn was likewise a coward. Remember that a coward meet* "mental" death many time* be fore he is summoned by natural death Negroes in restaurants, hotels, motels and theatre*. Why? In many eases, because they have been released by law from the social pres sures of rabid segregationists. They are glad to be mtf the hook. And their businesses art tree to grow and prosper. True, there are busi nessmen who won't go along until they are forced to do so: but even they, if they continue in business, will eventually come around-—and in doing ao. find a freedom they never before experienced. Not only in business, but in other ways as well, the South is going to have a new birth of freedom and opportunity because of this leg islation and its acceptance by rational men and women. White citizens stand to gain from it as much at Negroes. The “riddance" of seg regation in the South will enable its politici ans to become statesmen of high calling: and this will give them the opportunity to become greet, as well as become Presidents of this country. A new South will rise to make "aew south erners" who will take the government and so cial order from the racists and see that decen cy, order, and justice prevail. As Booker T Washington would say it. "The South will I*- rome a new heaven and a new earth." White citizens who think rationally will give the government full cooperation in assisting the irrational that the forces of law will have in making the new law work. But it is with the irrational that the forces of law will have to deal. "America the beautiful** is within the hori zon of our vision, especially if work can be found for the unemployed. The New South is destined to make a better nation Don't you worry because the social and political change will not turn “the world upside down.** NEGRO DlflfelPLE I was down in Proggie Bot tom lately and met Speed Ball Eddie in Jab Wright’s barber shop. Speed ball asked me if Je sus Christ bad any colored dis ciples. The gist of what he was; In Matthew 10:4 it says Je sus chose Simon the Canaanlte. as a disciple. Was he not a Negro? I thought Canaanltes were decendanta of Ham aho wae the son of Noah and the forefather of the Negro race. This gave me the occasion to rise above the colloquial English of the neighborhood, so I waxed in erudite language: The designation of Simon is not that of a Canaanlte but. rather, a “Cananaean.” This has no geographical significance. The term "Canaanlte” comes from an Aramaic word which mean “zealot" or “enthusiast.'' Luke 6:16 refers to him as Si mon the Zealot. There was a group of people in Palestine who opposed the Roman rule and were called the Zealots. BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO A MAN I never lose anything Never. Oh. admittedly some years ago I put my syeglasset in my bath robe instead of on my night table snd it took the office staff, my children, wife, and cleaning lady four day* to find them. But otherwise than that nothing. Except for my key. but I know people pick up my key thinking it's their key. Other wise how else could ■ mans key disappear? This is the mo*t inconvenient habit my friends and employee* have: picking up my keys I bet I have spent 9100 changing the door lock* because of their carelessness. Tor a man who never loses anything I have been terribly inconvenienced But I lost my wallet in Los Angeles, t had it in my hand when I gave the waiter a 910 bill for my dinner and- the next morning it wasn t on my dresser. Not even the LoOs Angeles po lice could find it. let aione the hotel manager and the three clerks whom I summoned right sway. There I was on a lecture trip and not a sou or credit card to my name It was an exasperating condition for a man ' who has never lost anything I did not have a dime and couldn't for the life of me remember my telephone credit card number so I could get help from home. The most amazing thing about loaing your wallet ia the abso lute callousness of others. People tell you when you've explained your leaa, "Well, you ahould have been more careful." I. personally, am as careful as men come As I said. I have nev er loat anything, except besides THE SIN OF EXTREMISM Senator Barry Goldwater's declaration to the Republican Letter to the Editor CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TRUE AMERICAN Dear Editor We as Americans are cogni zant of the fact that the Civil Rights Bill has passed. Bui merely being aware o f this fact is not enough for a Christian This law places a great respon sibility on every God-fearing American, who feels that he has been trained by the teachings of the New Testament We can observe daily many people, both Negro and white, who seem to carry a chip of su periority on his shoulder This, we feel, is due to a lack of a general knowledge of the teach ings of the New Testament. Dur ing my early childhood and youth I was reminded constant ly that God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Ron This He didn’t do for any one race of people but for ALL because there is no difference in Hi* people We were taught as children that we were as good a* any man unless we refused to adhere to the teachings of Jesus Christ For ten or more years 1 work ed as a Janitor in a white church here in the city of Raleigh But aa I look back now. I ran see that sny job entailed more than an active part in many of th# church'a activities This was true because we could communicate, we apoke the same language A lack of communication has brought about much of the ten sion and strife that we are ex periencing throughout the world today We. who are devout Christians, nurtured end reered bv the teachings of the New Testament Iwve the responsibility to go in to th* highway* and hedges end iterate end reiterate that God haa no respective person, that communication among people is vital. as parents have the Christian obligation to instill within the hearts end minds of our growing children that God is the Creator of man both black and white and that the same blessings that He has granted tc one He hat granted the other Ministers, parents and Chris tians. the revaluation of God and the life of Jesus Christ means more t* the world in teaching the possibility of r*Ug tea than all theology that was ever written In this measure our lives are like His. we have the same power to reveal God to • there This w* can and must d* by example as well n precept CHESTER A LEVISTER Raleigh $ Just For Fan BT MARCUS & BOULWARS O:\L1 IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN Ollier Editors Say... LAST FLING You have talk about a “last fling” of one who is about to get married. But recently another group took a last fling. In Nairobi. Kenya, some 300 witch doctors, including 27 wo-e men, publicly renounced their tribal trade but not without one last ceremony. About 3.000 persons attended the de-witching meeting near Mount Kenya. FIRST TIME: In Bolton Landing, N. Y., a winsome bru nette appeared on a Lake George Beach recently. Police man Joseph Garcia was not so shocked about her bared bosom as he was at the time of day. “I've caught a couple of kids without any bathing suits on at two or three o'clock in the morning, but this is the first time that anybody has done this in broad daylight." he said. Comy&rd wants to know how could the officer keep so cool about it all. Well, all that I can say is that policemen belong to a tough lot. the eyeglasses and the keys once I misplaced aome steam ship tickets which caused some aggravating annoyance on Pier 12 in New York City one day in 1927. For instance I have never done anything as careless as my son who, when he was working for the Penn Mutual Life In surance Company, lost a 93,000.- 000 pension fund check. He was flirting with a secretary and by mistake he put the check in her out box and she mailed it back to the firm which had just writ ten it. I told him simply ha iidn't have much future in sur a nee. not if he was going to lose big premium checks But a man's wallet! I still don’t understand how it could disap pear so easily. I could not hava been pickpocketed because I re member putting the wallet in my jacket and going straight to my jpom with one stopover at the newspaper stand, but I had enanep ter mv purenases. Losing, a wallet is the torture r>( the demnea. I had to call nvy office collect (and someone there exercised good sense in accept ing the call) and tell them to wire the credit card companies right away which they did. 1 told them I had my Diners Card, my American Express, my Air lines card and others Then, when I got home. I found I hadn't taken my America Ex press card with me so I had to wire them again so :heir record* wouldn't get mixed up 1 am beginning tn wonder if I did bring my wallet with me to I>os Angeles aybMe I left it In my bathrobe like the time I left my eyeglasses there. I would go check on this except I was so upset I don't know where I put my bathrobe. National Convention that "Ex tremism in defense of liberty Is no vice'' haa an ominous sound It waa the war cry of the original Ku Klux Klan that drove Negroes from office and from box in the South and oitYfe Ku Klux Klan of the 1920Vihat did Ha beat to deprive Negroes of their civil rights. In each case the Klan protested that its extremist measures were necessary to preserve liberty The same claim is advanced by Gov. Wallace and his fol lowers who base their defense of extremism on the ground that it is necessary to preserve and protect constitutional rights and liberties At bottom. Mr Ooldwater's eloquent state ment is only a rehash of the claim that the end justifies the means The Negro voter who Is a larmed at what the Republican presidential candidate said is certainly not reassured by the fact that the entire South vot ed for Mr. Ooldwater's nomina tion and that there was not a single Negro in those southern delegations. Significantly. South Carolina cast the votes that assured his nomination. To cap the climax. Governor George Wallace has withdrawn from the presidential race He has insisted all along that he would withdraw from the race when he was assured that one of the candidates met his spec ifications and the fact that his withdrawal came hard on the heels of the Goldwater nomina tion is a fairly certain indica tion that he is satisfied with the stand of the Arizona sena tor Aa the Eagle has pointed out on prior occasions there is tragedy tee the nation and for Negroe* in the fact that the Republican party seems bent on becoming a white mans party but there is every indi cation that it has assumed that role for this election at least —THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE ORGANIZED RELIGION FACES CHALLENGER Meeting in the city of Cleve land last week, the North Cen tral Jurisdiction Conference of the Methodist Church voted 370-0 to Integrate the all-Ne gro Lexington Conference A bout 100 Negro churches with 39.000 members are involved Twenty-one of the all-Negro churcbss are in Indiana, and six of these are in the city of Indianapolis The Lexington Conference was established in IMS Other churches in the former Lexing ton Conference are in Wiscon sin. mtnoia. Michigan. Minne sota. Ohio and towa. Following the unanimous vote for inte gration whop James 6 Thom as. Nashville. Term. was re ceived into the Council cf Bis hops He became the first Ne gro Bishop in the Norn Cen tral JiMteitetem Ha was ached- Every Spbol of IIS Decency Threatened! I ‘fS *******•*** I sc,*i£ THtua AL'nmtrs turns up h/hkm ■|^PP £ I Mtrutos rutCAUULATIOH3 \ I nuHPV>OHTH£KMTAr Gordon B. Hancock « BETWEEN TH E LINES BHAW UNIVERSITY SAVED! Today Howard University is generally acknow ledged as r.he cap-stone of Negro education and what a capstone lt really is! But Howard's great ness only emerged under the presidency of Mor decal Johnson who proved himself among the greatest educators of this generation. Although Howard is our cap-stone today, it was not always thus for fifty years ago Shaw University could easily have been called the cap stone. for In its greatest strength Shaw Univers ity was great. The great student strike broke Shaw's back and ended forever its promise to ful fill its destiny as one of America's greatest Uni versities. The student strike was a great mistake and misfortune and poorly advised. Students then as now Invariably take sides against the university administration when said administra tion and student body come to grips over some vital or even trivial issue. Under the great lead ership of Charles Meserve who led Shaw to th# heights of its fame and glory, the school had a rule that its prospective young doctors must not marry. One of the students got his girl friend In trou ble and did the manly thing and married her. He wanted to remain in school as a student but the rule said he had to go and President Charles Me serve was resolved to enforce the rule and dis missed him. The student body was in sympathy with the erring student and hence the “Great Shaw Strike”. The strike did the students no real good but ruined a great university. Shaw has never recovered her former greatness and never will. All because the students wanted to upheld one of their fellows in the wrong. Within recent, years the great Old Shaw has struggled mightily to make a come-back but In more recent years Shaw has become debt-ridden and an accumu lation of debts brought lt to the brinks of bank ruptcy. When all hope of saving Shaw seemed lost the Reverend James E. Cheek, professor in Vir ginia Union University threw himself as a lamb on the altar and went to Shaw to save the day— a day that seemed irretrievably lost. Shaw had. lt is true, an accumulation of back breaking debts, but Shaw also had a great past and a great history and friends and alumni who NEWS AND VIEWS BY J. B. HARKEN NO VIOLENCE, PLEASE ROCKY MOUNT. N C The old man Wilson Boyd, a well-10-do Negro of Pitt County back during the Depression Years of 1931-33 used to say when discussing Negro-progress: “. . . the trouble is the Negro climbs up ten feet in the day and falls back twenty feet at night." We younger fellows didn't like to hear Boyd say that, but its just about true in so many Instances. If you don't believe its true, look at all this damaging rioting in the metropolitan cities of the north. Too many people nowadays want everything right now Well, we've still got s long way to go and its an everyday walk. It can be made much shorter if Negroes will give half the money and time they are wasting in this headline - getting violence into the fight of organised NAACP - ef fort to eradicate—not only discrimination and segregation in all areas of American life the evil among ourselves of self-neglect and failure to train ourselves in the basic things necessary for good citizenship and the rearing of our chil dren in the nurture es the Lord and common de cency toward all people Any Negro tn his or her right mind knows ful' well those people hsve gone beyond the call 6i duty in demonstrations under the guise of civil rights when in reality, much of tt is being done rust for kicks' »nd a cover to beat someoue up and loot stores and anything possible. uled to receive an uignment in the nine state area of the conference before its adjourn ment. Eight delegates from the Negro churches were seated as members of the jurisdictional conference One of these was Thomas Bryant. Jeffersonville Ind We contemplate the move ment by the North Central Ju risdictional Conference, herein noted, to be a beginning in meeting a "crucial test" now confronting organised religion cmywhere In our neighbor hood world. Over some areas of high-principled thought tt has been ventured lately that organlad religion faces a great challenge. lavoiving vindication of its existence in our century Not so long ago an American religious leader of International stature, on exploring the chal lenge confronted press ally by kept the faith. Now news comes out of Raleigh that the day has been saved and that under the WOnQfcl iodueibiup Os Xjk . Check, silo.* i> present has been made secure and its future as sured. Shaw University has been saved. The cause of education has thereby been glorified. When Dr. Cheek left Virginia Union to take such a grave prospect, many of hs frends doubted his wisdom. But Dr. Check had what most of us lack, faith in himself and the promises of God who works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. Through Dr. Cheek and Shaw's alumni and friends God has worked one of the wonders of the educational world. It's medal time at Shaw. If ever ther was a super-medalist Dr Cheek ea°.- ly qualifies as such medalist. The nation is alnrvt afflicted with the "medal fever" and it is ’’m;it an accident if a person of some rr.pen vhr ment misses a medal. It is true that th-." -r? worthy souls who abunlantly qualify so; ! and medals but in too many instances crd*'.- ' honors are conferred upon those of uni::--'. 1 and inconsequential achievement. It is much like getting the DD degree These degrees are so prevalent now tkv iv ; one or not having one does not mak~ nr ' ’ - ference. Nearly every preacher we meet 1: a D.D. of some sort some way or anotnr r n~ i thoee who deserve them are just lost in th° cre ! It Is even so with our medalists and honor 0 "' 'c many who deserve them do not receive them an i far too many who dp not deserve them wear th -:n boastfully. But such is life. But the caus* o.‘ ed ucation can boast proudly of its Dr James 2. Cheek who took hold of a great work when fam‘- hearted men shrank in moral cowardice from the challenge. When a great man and a great chal lenge meet head-on something great is bound to happen. It was even so when the paths of Dr. Cheek and distressed Shaw crossed And the great thing that happened was that Shaw has bean saved and once more can lift that head that has been so proudly lifted in the field of education for nearly a hundred years. Shaw was struck down by her students in the great Shaw strike and almost lay prostrate in the dust of humilia tion. but Shaw has risen. Long live Dr. James E. Cheek! Os course we know the Negro is frustrated, mis treated. insulted and discriminated against at every turn in America: but this is still our home land and we must serve and respect it and fight for our rights by peaceful, legal methods, even if lt continues to take more, time. It even takes yean to build top athletes to win championship*. Th# slow, mehodieal processes of law and order are even slower. We must spend more time and energy in pre paring ourselves for opportunities now at hand which most of us are unable to cope with ade quately. If we can do a bit in the way of getting you who are prepared, to help those who cannot read well enough to register and vote to form class and teach them instead of so mdeh shouting, your religion will go a lot farther in God's sight, we fancy. Won t you try it? North or South. East or West, join NAACP and Voting is BEST. With the Ku Klux Klan (James Robert Jobs* Granite Quarry. N. C > says thev are the United KlAns of America. Inc' breathing fire and dam nation down our necks, it would seem that N«- groes would try getting together to battle in the Only way we can—through the laws and ballot boxes for our rights That's the cnlv way to wjn JOIN NAACP WITHOUT DELAY; THEN GET YOURSELF REGISTERED so you'll have a BAY on Election Day Then, they'll call you 'Mister' and their lips won't blister. to be met. declared In this groat task lies the supreme challenge to ministers of the three major religious faiths in America . . He interposed a prophetic, if not disoumfitting note that *v.. in the success or failure of the effort . . . lies . . . organised religion's significance for this day and ags . . Eventually, some prophets or philosophers now- are saying that our way of hfe faces a great challenge involving per petuation or formation of an entity of robust moral charac ter In marked trends sway from truths of Justice, human:- tarianisn and the brotherhood of men all peoples (nations' who the attttudinarisu nourishes of organised religion now art being weighed in De dgns of Retribution of aa Om nipotent infinity religion in our neighborho6d world has potentialities beyond the scope of any entity touch - ins r he lives of men. Such po tentialities here or hereafter might bolster any or til tem poral functions agencies' ded icated tc justice or equality and fellowship or brotherhood of men On meeting squarely any Or all challenges contemplated herein, or by standing in the forefront—of the long way be hind us of prophecies of those perfections which an yet to be —organized religion may SOS vindicate its existence during our centun- Or finally our way of life traditionally embracing organised reiigloru. -r* day on the falling lit* t>. -p tem poral pr-unary may suffer the crushing renreeroe of aa Om nipotent Infinity. —THE INDIANAFOUS RECORDER