• if MinGE N. ft, lATPHOAT. OCTOBER 11, lIM 4 y - - Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP Early Jewish writer* had proclaimed Ood as one peraon who was Just. Than oama Hoses, the pro phet, who said that “Ood la good.” The wife cl Hoaea deserted him; heartbroken and vengeful he was determined to east her off forever. Tat his love would not let him do It Ha went to her, for gave bar, and took bar back. 1)100 in his hours of loneliness and brooding a great thought oaaa to Our Privilege And Responsibility Often we have heard , and also viewed on television, a group of Negro demonstrators cheating “wo want our freedom,” meaning, of ropens, Yet we wonder if they realis ed: that freedom is available to those who as sume their responsibilities. Sn this nation, thousands upon thousands of yogmg men and women are entering schools on tty privilege of higher education, just as they aft in North Carolina and Raleigh* \Vhit that means to them and the country wgs bluntly explained by Kingman Brewster, Jr£, president of Yale University, to the enter ing class of 14)63 freshmen. He told them they have been selected be cause.they aroused in those who knew them bertT confidence in their capacity for growth. Inf large part this was measured tn terms of Intellectual capacity, but. Indispensably, part measured in terms of moral capacity, thaHkelihood that they would eventually be ahleTo make a constructive impact on the lives of other people. fit is the hope of our country that educated men will not permit oversimplification to be mistaken for clarity, that they will not let recklessness masquerade aa courage; that they will point out the difference between exaggera tion and conviction, and that they will not ac cept venom as though It were eloquepce." In happier times, it would have been enough toiaay simply that privilege always carries with it fa burden of responsibility. But these are times of violent irresponsibility and Irrespon Rule On Reapportionm pnt - Defended Most every U. 8. cltisen does not wont to change the Constitution of the United States. Yet radical Republicans and Southern recrt sionists are desperately trying to change it. They flood congressmen with letters urging them to support an amendment which would deny the Supreme Court jurisdiction over state apportionment. If they are successful, who will benefit? The founding Fathers who wrote the Con stitution mada the legislative, the executive and judicial branches of our government sep arate and independent of each other. By keep ing them independent, they are a check upon each other so that a tyrannous concentration of unchecked power is made impossible. These are the. checks and balancea that give our gov ernment stability and protect us from radicals who want to destroy theta checks and bal ances. Over 179 years ago, our forefathers wrote Article 4, Section 4, of the Constitution which stgfesc "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a republican form of government ..." Later, Congress wrote the 14th Amendment which states, "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge tha privileges or immunities of citisens of the United State*..." These two laws not only give the court jurisdiction over apportionment, they demand iti The word "guarantee" Is not a wishy-washy wbfd. Should the extremists destroy the U. 8 Supreme Court, theee laws stitl remain. Every Perhaps He Has Served His Purpose * *'*’. It lwa been reported that Jamea Parmer, noted leader of CORE, will toon resign to take another position with the American Federation of! State, County, and Municipal Employee*. Ms leave ii a matter of time, since he hae promised a top official to wind up "few things bafore taking leave." .‘While this announcement comes as a sur- P«aeto many persons, perhaps Parmer has al ready served his usefulness to the CORE and . this civil rights movement It acsemed useless to us for CORE to continue its demonstrations after the passage of the 1904 civil rights bill. We were waiting to see if Mr. Parmer seas go* ing to load the CORE to set up new goals to advance the Negro cause; but It did not ap poor that he would. Let’s Halt Foreign Spendthrift Giving ' I The United States Is giving away millions oI dollars to sore certain foreign nations from the pdnugaien of communism. Many taxpayers are getting tired of such melds— abandon. Let ua expre— arguments against It In outline dfoukht ghee money, be—u— (a) no—bars has a beggar liked this beneficiary: helped anybody — saA by giving mooay to foreign govern meats AflMri— amts against democracy, be can— a yotamment that get* its money from atgMMf la lags dependant an tha local people. tQHMK ratrinir Israel), and it is working a ggfcMt democracy, where power go— from the «im ** Third, finwlna should attempt groat devel opoaant Nek cailmeya through jungl— and 3: TMK NtQXO NUtn * ill m that 4am rfes oaa ksst had tfm world iVDI\ 4BOOOP fTfWt MMSMF Warn* wtKUUKaB* WfWfr ff fICOOPwV ®0 •▼•r j Wf W Sstr^ss.*^. sr^sc« ax sttl» JM that all atm aim kart as Jang m anyone h fwM back. rTTf him! If a mart man eould tove aa nnaatflstily, ana who had brokan faith with him, moat not 004 be capable of a great, or greater forgiveness, toward erring human beings? The thought find hie ima gination; he stood up before the nation and pro claimed It with bunting asal ■ Ood ao strong that he could deetroy. yet ao tender that ha would not! One Ood, a lust Ood, and a seed Ood! sible violence—times which call for reminding our students that higher education is not a right common to all, but a privilege which ob ligates them to make the moat of it, not only for themselves but also for the country and the world. There is no doubt that on every college or university campus there are numerous stu dents who have'failed in getting the point con cerning their responsibilities. For instance, just two weeks ago several students of Florida A flsM University were engaged In horseplay in one of the men’s residence halls. One of them allegedly slipped and fell—hie head hitting the floor.—the impact caused brain injury and eventually death. Besides the tragedy, we could ask the question: Did not these students have more to do than engage in horseplay? Did they not need to prepare their lessons fat erudite fashion? We have seen on several of our college camp uses young men "lolling around” the student union buildinp .or in front of female residence halls watching the girls and meddling. Betides being impolite, their "lotting” did not present a constructive picture of what education ia for. Then there are our proud athletea. especially football players, who strut about the campus in their glory, never giving much thought to the business of education and their respon sibilities as students which takes priority over all else. Our students must accept the challange im plied by the term responsibility. person in the Federal and In the State govern ments. including the county commissioners, has taken an oath to preserve, protect and de fend these laws. Our Conservatives have vio lated these laws for years. Will they also de mand that theae laws be destroyed? A republican form of government is one In which a majority of the voters elect a majority of the representatives. In most Southern states, a small par cent of the voters elect a majority of the state senators and representatives. It is obvious that many of our legislatures have no intention of —apportionment themselves just ly. The Supreme Court has a duty to protect the rights of citisens in every state. In Florida, for example, it is alleged that the Florida legislature aids and absts the schemes of radicals to defraud the people of equal votes whether rural or urban areas an involved. If the U. 8. Supreme Court is silenced on re apportionment. to whom can the people of this nation appeal for justice? History has proven many times that when paople are forced into a comer, they revolt. Most American citisens are agai—t the use of violence to prove that "taxation without representation is tyranny!" Right now. in times like these, citisens should thank Ood we have Supreme Court Justices courageous enough to stick their necks out for us and who refuse to make s mockery of their oath. It is obvious why many state representatives do not favor —apportionment it may mean that many of them will loae their jobs. Like the individual, organisations must be flexible enough to make adjustments to chang es in ths nation or body politic. What are nsed as Negroes now is not so much demonstrating, hut rather some plan designed to put Negroes on "their financial feet" as quickly and sound ly ae possible. ' The Negro needs a rapid expansion of busi neaa of the gigantic corporation type. Theee kinds of businesses continue to grow and earn millions of dollars for the investors. Big busi ness is what the Negro needs today, and or ganisations like CORE and NAACP and the National Urban League must furnish the lead ership to help them achieve theae ends. Would it have been poeible for James Farm er to assume such a role? tundra; and drill water wells in the deserts (Sa hara. India. Arabia). Fourth, it is obligatory that the— works should be executed by American companies. Otherwi— it is going into bribes usual. The American companies should do this work, he re u— (a) they are efficient and. the work! needs at this moment quick results, and be cau— (b) the flow of money through salaries to tha local people wiU be —med honestly and much more appreciated; (c) America— abroad should by their presence influence a trend to ward higher living standards which the local people will try to match by hard work. By products (beauty shops, etc.), will affect the local women more than bomba. We know that our views will not be in ac cord with everybody'*, but our foreign policies need a restudy at this time. Inal For Fan •T MABCUS U, SOOLWABB KT NIGHT OUII X think X bald you that X was taMttkMS|Oatusa tn^psyegtag oats Issued by the American Speech and Hearing Associa tion with headquarter* in Washington. D. C. The advanced certificate will mean that X am qaatifiad to sysss z?!gss% this certificate next spring. Some Politics: The sosne la fat toularOle, Ky A woman spent nearly an hour trying an everything in the drees shop but didn’t seem Interested tn never get what X a* for In this shop?” Ihe weary dark smiled and replied: "Perhaps, it’s baaauee we’re too poUte" They Were ltabbed: Dawn In ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN . THE TKAGEDT OF THE DAILY NEWSPAPER Nothing la aaddar to ms as a newspaperman than the dos ing of an important dally. And almost as sad Is tbs news that a paper Is on strike. I hate to talk of the good dd days (which weren’t aa good be cause my sister waa getting 30 cents an hour for a 00-hour week, a fact I mention ao no one will think X honor all the good old days), than ware eight dally morning papers In New York and perbapeU eve ning papers and almoN a doc an dallies in foreign languages. But each year ethos World War I another great paper suc cumbs. It succumbg to reader apathy, to high ooets, to de creasing circulation. Though the population has tripled since I was young, the papers have not. In many cities, even big cities throughout the country now there are but two papers, a morning and an evening dai ly and often they are both own ed by the same chain. In some of the big cities and densely populated suburb*, the free newspaper has made some he* rd•*»«.*. - • * - . ... *•«•'** can guarantee an advertiser a the throwaway is simply a shopping guide and Its news and local dispatches are lifted from the dallies who spend for tunes on foreign correspondents and news services. In fact. It Is often said that if the dally happens to print a local story with the third paragraph up side-down the throwaway will also print the third paragraph upatdr down. The throwaway can never re - place the dally. And the dallies keep dying—and striking. Frankl/jl cannot eee how a mao esn do his Job as an editor when he has to devote half of his time negotiating with a doe •n labor unions. And I am an old-time trade-untdnlst but I do not eee how the fellows who wrap the papers can have the Other Editors Say HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE niTl RE Ths hard philosophical and pollUcal core of the Ooldwater movement rests on the belief that in previous presidential contests the American people have been offered an excessive dose of “me-toolsm ' that greet numbers of voters have no place to go, that they deserve and want somethin* very different, and that this year they are go ing to set Just that Senator Ooldwater* cam paign. then, consists ol provid ing the voters with a ‘choice, not an echo." President John son Is doing precisely the same thing. A* U. S News * World Report puts the contest. "It's a sharply defined study In con traata presented on presidential ballots thla year . . . The two men have oonflietlne ideas on aim—t every phase of the Pres idency— In domes tie problems, in InternaUonal afiai-a, eco nomic policy, defense, the whole role of Oovemmert " That ha* certainly been proven in the early campaign move* and speeches. Take, for Instance, one of the moat Important issues— that of permitting NATO comma nders to order the use of certain kinds of nuclear weapons. Senator Ooldwater has said. "I have suggested that away man be developed to provide NATO with Its stock of small, tactical nuclear battlefield weapons that may be truly called con ventional weapons." The PrcU* dent’s answer was a direct un equivocal rebuttal "Mskr no mistake. There t* no such thin# as a conventional nuclear wea pon." No one could ask for a greater difference than that on a question of major polio The President stands on his domestic record—on hi* suc cesses with Congress and ;he state of the economy The o 'id water position is that our pros perity U Illusory, that it is hi<- ed on fate and dangerous .fis cal premises, and that profound trouble 1* tn the offing unless drastic changes are made A gain, the differences are fun damental. irrecouciab’e. and far-reaching. And so it sots with dvll right* legislation, with the war on poverty, with the whole question of what a central government should and should not do for and to its citisens. with local and indi vidual rights and responsibili ties. Thera has bean speculation that tha Pieeldewt would con duct what is OSB*d. for want of a better term, a htsh-levrt campaign, marine prlmsrr use at ths Whits House and hi* office •* a sounding board and emr«oyin* TV as hi* principal tool Than la doubt now m u» Jacksonville. Fla., a numbered motorist had the habit of sklje ping bridge-toll payments that is, until the law started cracking down hard. Than three perrons warn arrested for fail ure to pay the 81-cent toll for crossing Warren Bridge. One of the men, who was appre hended. waa fined SIOO far p»» ing through an automatic toD |mimi WlthOUt dlpOStifclg the coins. Well, X guess u knows now that you can’t beat the law. A (Ham Man: Last weak, X was fitted with eye-claaaaa. The optometrist said X should have giasere ten years sen, I wonder was he aaytag that lust to sell 2 lasers. Well, X realised myself that X reading glasses, but ha fitted me with bifocas. X am now trying to make admen te to th* m X that often It is frustrating. A month from now I am to go back for read justments. power to close down a journal as they dosed down the “Mew York Times" not too long ago. The question over which they struck was: Shall 30 or tt papers be wrapped la a pack age? The union Newspaper Guild rests on a solid foundation. X do not agree when the lata K. U- Mencken made fun of the Guild saying that the admission of telephone girls and rleeelfiert advertising girls demeansd the profession. After all, the executives themselves could bring their wives Into the newsroom and get the paper out passably. It has been done. Without the support of the telephone girls, who are Inextricably part of the business, the Guild would be an affair without Influence or value to its members. But the pendulum seems to ■ ving too far the other way. It is ridiculous for the “Detroit Free Press” to suffer a strike every two years, especially when the strike Is Instigated by one or two of the printing locals. For some of these unions put nothing on the line. The men temporarily away from their mncmties move into other printing industries easllv e- ruM tnrr- can endure a strike of long (Juration. A re porter who strikes sacrifices his livelihood. The recent strikes In Detroit Is whether'some of the print ers will get time and half for Saturday. Working Saturday Is the na ture of the game. For one union to win the point means all. un ions will win the point and then win double-time for Sunday. A dally paper loses valuable staff members after every strike. After every strike It lOfes readership. Neither are ever re covered after years of patient and energetic cultivation. For every paper there Is a point of diminishing returns. The news paper strike of long duration Is one of the great tragedies of our times. this. Mr. Johnson—like Sena tor Ooldwater--was never one to hold back from the battle front* when the political wars were on. It is also reported that he Ja dubious of the polls, which show him far in the lead, and means to use every Instrument he can command to moke his case and to make himself avail eblbe to live audiences. That Is what local groups. Interested tn governorships. congressional seats, and other lesser offices, want. The role* of the Vice Presi dential hopefuls. Representa tive Miller and Senator Hum phrey. will be Important They will do rough, down-to-earth In-fighting. Their oppoente are all looked on as villains of tha deepest dye—their supporters a collection of Sir Oalahad*. So the choice, a real choice, is there. Something like 70 mil lion Americans will make the final decision —THE NEW CRUSADER Chicago THE DUMMY GETS THE NOD That's what we think hap pened when the Tulsa World did its editorial on “Tee. We're For Ooldwater" on the day of the Ooldwater visit to Tulsa We take our cue from the editorial, and for the life of us. the whole thing adds up to preference for the dull one because they can't manage the bright one. We quote the editorial in part. It reads: "We hasten to say that we do not consider Senator Ooldwater the perfect candidate. But no perfect can didate is running: the choice Is between Ooldwat»r and Johnson. Os these two we have seen Johnson in action as presi dent.* and that is one good rea son—though not the only one —for favoring Ooldwater." Then the editor observes: "Mr. Johnson ts a man of tre mendous political talent. We have said It before This is what makes him so dangerous to the country as a president. If he would apply his brilliance aqd knowhow to the jobs that need doing: take tha fat out of gov ernment payroll; balance tha budget; provide an orderly gradual reduction of the na tional debt: reverse tha trend to the welfare state: put some starch -In the State Depart ment; eliminate government by fixers in Washington. If be would do these things, we would have to say that te belongs In the White House " Again the editor observes: *Ta the eleven months that be has been our Chief Executive. Lyndon Johnson has demon sum tvd that he is a masterful •trlng-pußer. an incomparable merjputsror. a man with an tn rerevtna to have hie aura “Findings Withheld Is Evidence Suppressed” - * ‘ * .... . . MISSISSIPPI S % ' V - ALTAR CALL BT KMOBY G. DAVIS, D.D. (For Negro Frees International tf&EY FOLLOW AFAR OFF" One of the dtoparittos in the social revolution going on In these United States today is tha wide gap between religious leadership on the part of the clergy and religious fellowship on tha part of the laity. It to evident that tha ministry feels the pressure of the demands for social and racial justice, and being true to their sail, they launch out to af firm their faith and calling In deeds of social re form-marching tn picket lines, staging dsfuon stratlons, drafting petitions, yea. even suffering violence, abuse, humiliation, giving their Uvea for that which they now believe to be Just. There to some foUowship on the part of tha la ity the ministry attempts to toad but sent tally, like Simon Fetes during Christ's trial, the tatty "follows afar off.” Three recent events point mom deetdely to this feet In Southern New Jersey, Roman Catholic lay men were surveyed on their feeling about civil righto. The results of tbs poll shows how far the laity to behind leadership: Do you approve of ths passage of ths reeent dvll rights bill: Yds. 404; no, 996. Do you believe Negroes today are trying to gain too mueh too soon? Yes. Ml: no, 297. Do you feel the civil righto bill in any way les sens the righto of white Americans? Yes. 451; no. 328. Do you believe Church leaders should take a stand in favor of particular civil rights causes such as Integrated housing? Yea. 906; no. 471. Meanwhile in South Carolina, 87 of that State's 795 Methodist churches cut off funds to Wolford college in Spartanburg, because the school deseg regated thi* fall, admitting an 16-year-dd Negro boy. This, in spite of the Methodist’s stand on in tegration token at their General conference in April. In California, where a fair housing law to be ing hotly debated, with most religious leaders op posing a petition on the November ballot that NEWS AND VIEWS ITJ. & BARREN FREEDOM 18 NOT FREE GREENSBORO As the 21st Annual Conven tion of the Torheelia NAACP Conference convenes here this week it to faced with the momentous task of charting the political course It will re commend that the twenty-five per cent Colored population of the Old North State should take come November 9 election. It to an open-secret that Colored Torheelia to 99 per cent for Resident LBJ all the way. Hubert Horatio Humphrey has been our man sin— he mushroomed out of the Mid-West a score of years ago and took a 'first base' stand far Civil Righto. NAACP ha* learned that a check up mowed only FOUR NEGROES in Senator Barry Gold water’s home city of Pheonix, Aria., who stand up for him for the presidency. Perhaps they have been convinced otherwise by now. Negroes everywhere must quickly leant that Freedom is NOT really FREE. WE. like an other ethnic groups, who have come through varying forms of slavery over ths —nturi—. must realise that true FTOadem costs more than Just Um phy sical chat— removed. Negro- MUST realise and ACCEPT the RE SPONSXBXUTOB of FULL FREEDOM and CAR RY our FAIR SHARE of the LOAD of maintain ing OUR much-desired FREEDOM— OCR GOV ERNMENT! That brings us to the point of being willing to share with our time, money, vote, and partiei pate tn ail efforts tending to promote BETTER CITIZENSHIP far America. That's WHY wa way.” There was more, and even the fear that Job—on’s strength could convert this dsmncrairy into a dictatorship. On the outer hand, the only thing offered la r— emmsad Barry OoMwetar Is a program which to mostly mouth, with no evMnwe that he has the ce pactoy or the wherewithal to World's' program Into anything but mourn. gsj&iSS would bring about a repeal of that State's present fair housing law, a Methodist church group In Los Gatos has been maintaining a “fair housing referral service” quietly assisting persona who wished to rent or buy bousing on a nondleerimin natory basis. When this program hit the press, the church was deluged with condemnatory phone calls and letters. Tha ohurch also suffered a *lO.- 000 loss In pledges to its annual budget canvass and attendance dropped. The church commission on Christian Social Concerns was challenged by the board, getting a very slim vote of confidence. 21 - 16. Needless to aay this disparity In what ought to be a firm and oommittod thrust against social in justice is found in white church— I suspect that similiar disparities are found In Negro churches In other wvUai matters. Hare again to a problem of communication and the Negro churchman must sssrnns his share of the responsibility of communicating to his fellow white churchmen the Negro concern sad feelings In such matters. A few weeks ago X beard of two or thro# Metho dist churches whose numbers mode paredk: visits to all-white Methodist church— and to the homes of the white members. They war* doing this in preparation for the merging of the Negro and white Methodist conferences in tha Chicago arte. This seems like something that other Negro denominations could do regularly to aid In the in crease of communication between me— end chur ches. There to no Justifiable reason for the ead*- tenoe of such separateness between Negro and white churchmen. AH Integration cannot be e chleved by fiat of law alone, but mueh of It must be accomplished by religio-soelal inter-relations. Behold another altar THE ALTAR OF IN TER-RACIAL FELLOWSHIP. Not Just on Re— Relations Sunday, but throughout the year. Sun days and week days, that Negro and white may both discover they believe in and worship the some Ood. our Father. MUST strive to set out the vote for Niw. S, add all other elections to prove to thole unfriendly to our cause that ire have both, the DESIRE and CAPACITY to form our own ALLIANCE to achieve our objectives in the realm of democracy and freedom. This column, once again. strongly advocates the Necro leaders should Instruct thetr people— from the pulpit to the pool parlors—to show tbto strength by easting their gubernatorial ballots for Republican Robert Gavin and Democrat Robert Scott in an effort to get a bt-parttsan team In Raleigh for a 'new look* In Tarheel leadership. This we advocate because we do NOT see the po tential of another TERRY SANFORD hi Demo crat Judge Dan Moore, who conttnuea to etriddlt the fence and his every aot (tm to Monday) of being unduly COID toward the National Demo cratic presidential ticket under the flimsy excuse of having to plug for the Stole ticket. Negroes KNOW WHO BACKS DAN MOORE and hope not to be saddled with him if he is to be the puppet governor of those reactionaries who sleeted him We know those force* seek to turn bask the clock of progress in TarheeHa. This new system of everyone having Is READ and WRITE a portion of the Constitution in order to Register-to-Vote Is nalonlatsd la setback a lot of people whose reading and writing abiUtßs ar only marginal. Therefore, we must encourage them to attend adult schools and special registrr and rote clinics to prepare to pass; else well b> woefully SHORT of PREVIOUS VOTES. This U our RESPONSIBILITY to HELP THEM QUAL- which lbs Tula World —asks earned him both ths ro—set and admiration of his col leagues as on incomparable ad ministrator. not a manipulator; • masterful stall—nan, not a string-puller. We think of Raw the record ha* stood up through an tbs— yean to stamp Lyn don Johnson —a man of boondlsm energy and knowi asnd integrity, and we are tent to believe that eleven months proems— tn tbs midst at the —entry* groatast men gel mad tbly can’t see straight This may account for the editor’s chstos He stayed mad about Mm P- Kennedy ’s pohrtaa. sspsftolTy as Matas to CMI Bights. And If this is true, hh. would not go for JotoMsi toSfSpt bto «»• mitment to the martnad prssl- The «£tor of Iha TO* world. Utod with toss, torn the

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