4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER U, IM4 Editorial Viewpoint Jesus persuaded most of his oonverM through the personal Interview, rather than bi| revival meetings Os course, John the Baptist won his crowds of converts at open-air meetings. Think of the meeting of Jesus and the women at Jacob's Well. He got her attention by speaking of Water of life. With sure instinct he followed up Who Is The Most Thankful Family? It is traditions! to observe Thanksgiving Day in the sirit of the Fath ers, who had had a rather "rough" time of it during their first year in the new world. They fellowshipped with the Indians who brought moat of the food which consisted of wild tur key, squash, and other wild animals. We are afraid that far too many of us have strayed far from the original spirit of the ob servance. Some take this time to go hunting and fishing, to make trips to football classics, to cat sumptious meals and “stuff’ themselves so full that they must take something to re lieve them of acidity and painful stomachs. But then, on the other hand, other people and families are genuinely thankful for God’s blessings. Many families have special reasons for which they are thankful. The pastor of the Pine Crest Baptist Church in Florida, for exx ample, has one of those special reasons to be thankful The minister says: "Thanksgiving Day this year has come to us with a deeper meaning. For the second time in his life, Grant, our little son, has been brought back from the brink of death. When Grant was only six months old, he was stricken with ft brasarcoma, a malicious form.of cancer. This dreadful disease sweeps swiftly through the body, especially in the case of a child. Doctors said an immediate amputation was necessary. Even then, they said, they had little hope for him. They are amazed that he is alive today. “My wife and I, however, accept his recov ery as an answer to our prayers and give God thanks. "Then came another terrible testing time for Where Is Our Students Integrity? It has caused us some disappointment and alarm to hear that the Federal government is having difficulty In getting repayment of loans to college student*.. Federal education author ities were alerted recently by government au ditors that a collection problem is rising in the fast-growing college student loan program. The program, begun in 1959, is just coming to grips with the payback problem as students Complete their studies and the year of grace -allowed before loan payments start. The comptroller general’s office, in a re,>ort to Congress on the loan program, said the Of fice of Education has been slow to install good collection procedure*. Naturally the colleges and universities them selves have become disturbed and concerned about the problem and completed recently a study of how the program ia operating in 446 college*. The result* of the studies which covered all cost aspects of the program includ ing repayment, will be published early next year. For an example of how the collection pro gram haa suddenly burst on the universities, in November 1962 only 9.394 loans were due ond not collected, while six months later the num ber had jumped to 22.007. This fact is calam atous when we consider that the number of students participating haa risen from 24.831 in 1959 to 217.000 in 1963 with the average loan being $478 a year per student. Morality Os Law Enforcement Officials You have read in the newspapers an account of the Mecklenburg grand jury indicting Police Chief John 8. Hord and seven other Charlotte policemen on 37 counts last week, climaxing a five-mooth investigation of the city’s police department. Most of the charges involved wil ful neglect of duty. There were 14 charge* against the chief of police, six against his chiri of detectives, and six against a former detective of the depart ment Police Chief Hord, who has held this iob since May 1961, was charged on two accounts of falling to keep proper supervision of his de partment of about 350 men. and in two cases with failing to arrest two women whom the gnund jury believed operated houses of prosti tution. Captain W. A. McCall, chief of the de tectives, was charged with failure to arrest a woman who was suspected of murdering her child in an Icebox In April 1963. He was also charged with failure to discharge his duties properly in • gasoline theft esse last January. It was this caw that aet off the probe of the departmant Abusing Federal Exemption Rights The past election brought into bring a num ber of hats group*, political propagandist*, right-and-left wing group*, and other organi zation* of this type; Not knowing altogether the purpose* and goal* of these organizations except lor statements on paper, the Federal government granted many such organizations tax exemptions. Since many of tbeae organizations have en gaged In full-range political activities forbid den to tax-exempt groups, we think that this privilege should be revoked. A recent report from Washington informs us that the Internal Revenue Service is moving to tTifE ItEORO PRESS- holism* that America can hesf had tha v«W away from rmeiml and national antagonist* whan it accords to every mar ragmrtOm «f racs, ootor or oread, Ms human and bgal right a Hating no man haring no man—tha Nagro Pram atriraa to help arary man on tha firm ba~ t Hat that aD man are hurt aa long as anyona is haU back. 1 1 1 : ' WORDS OF WORSHIP i his initial advantage. Ha began to talk to her In I terms of her own life, her ambitions, her hopes, i knowing so well that each of us Is interested (first of all) In himself. When the diseiplas came up a few minutes later, they found an unbeliev able sight— a Samaritan listening with rapt at tention to the teaching of a Jew. us. Last April Grant become violently ill with spinal meningitis. Hit life hung in the balance. We prayed to God once more and our little boy was spared. “Today, except for his stiff way of walking due to his woden leg, Grant is like any other little boy—mischievous and affectionate.” Often it takes a great tragedy like this case to awaken us to gratitude. In little Grant’s healing, the parents opened their hearts to the full meaning of Thanksgiving, In fact, all man kind ought to think of Thanksgiving Day as being more than a time set aside for the formal recognition of the Lord’s goodness to us. Tc us, the true thanksgiving should be an attitude of the heart that knows no season or limits. Negro families have much to be thankful for, since the pasiage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill a little more than four months ago. Even though some businesses must be coerced into compliance, our racial group is beginning to feel “like a man” with human dignity. We can stop at decent places in our travels and enjoy good food and lodging at economical prices We can be thankful that few proprietors will dare to tell us to go around to the back to the kitchen to eat, or “we don't serve colored.” We should be thankful for the concept of the dignity of man. our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and our freedom to worship the Supreme Being as we please. President Johnson has offered us a challenge in the offering of our thanksgiving: We should be thankful in our ability to meet the ctml lenges of today and the future. It is Thanknjivinj! No wonder the institutions participating in the federal defense loan to students program are concerned about the products they have been graduating since 1959. If college students learn nothing else of importance while engaged in study, they should develop a pride in their integrity, honeaty, and practice the philosophy that "a man’s word (promise to repay his loan) is his bond." If students cannot be de pended upon to assume their financial respon sibility, how are they going to have a family and earn a credit rating? While we ndmire the programs of loans for assisting students to remain in school and graduate earlier, there may be some merit in a student dropping out of school for a couple of yeara to earn a hank account to pay for his education cash. Then students won’t have to start out in life “in the red ” And oftimes a stu dent finds that when he marries, he doesn't have enough left from his salary to repay his loan as he promised. It would be wise for a student owing a loan to the government for his education to put off marriage until the cost of his education is paid for in full. The colleges and universities involved can not afford to permit a single student to get by without repaying his loan. To do so. would deny other worthy students from getting this same privilege. Studenta, remember that your word is your bond! If you keep your word, people will re spect you. Just two months ago tha Jacksonville. Fla . police department personnel came under fire for allegedly accepting large-sum bribes from underworld character*. The investigation in volved from six to ten policemen. While we cannot present facts in support of our conclusions, it may well be that certain underpaid law enforcement officer* accepted bribes to increase their incomes. While in the Charlotte case, we can only ask whv didn't these high-ranking law officers live above su spicion? Why was it that certain officers failed to make arrest* in order to carry out the man dates of the grand jury? What morr serious charge can there be against an officer than “wilful neglect of his duty?" If the charges against some personnel of the police department at Charlotte, N. C.. and Jacksonville, Fla., are true, then without delay the involved offenders should he relieved of duty and punished in accord with strict en forcement of the law governing failure to com ply with the ordinance* governing the deport ment of policemeh and the performance of their sacred duties. cancel the tax exemptions of several of the group*, mostly right wing. Whether the IRS is using this whip to silence the right-wingers we cannot say The preedure to revoke tax ex emptions should be fair and applied also to terms of special privileges. We know full well that aH tax burdens waiv ed for organizations of this type must be. in the final analysis paid from die citizen’s poo ketbooks. If the organizations cannot qualify for the ttax exemption, and obey the roles in their activities then deny them the free ride Every organization mutt help bear the tax burden! Just For Fan KV MARCUS H. BOCLWARE THANKSGIVING DAT Thanksgiving Day is right >v«r the hill, and I think of the poem we pupils were required to learn in the elementary school. It went something like this: "Over the river and through the woods ■to grandfather's house we go, the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh, through the white and drifted snow. ~ f Then at .another place in the poem: “Spring over the ground like a hunting hound, for this is Thanksgiving Dty." And it It; think of the turkey and mince meat pie Ah boy! UNANIMOUS CHOICE: The place it located. in Chihuahua. Mexico No! not New Mexico. By unanimous choice, Governor Praxedes Glnor Duran was best man for 17 couples who chose to get married in a simultaneous ceremony at his dedication of a new Civil Registry building. DENTRIFICE: Hippocra t e s '460-337 B. C.) was the first to ONLY IN AMEKICA BY HARRY GOLDEN ANNUAL THANKSGIVING COLUMN Like us, the ancient Cartha ginians were very brave and very strong and very rich. They had so many of the good things of life they hated' giv ing any of them up. So they went out and hired foreign sol diers and mercenaries so they could devote themselves to real enjoyment that came with be ing a Carthaginian. They had always had a Thanksgiving Day until the Romans came. The Romans were neither rich nor apprecia tive of the finer things In Car thage. But they were tougher and braver The Roman command er slept on the ground with his Legionnaires and every night on campaign, the Romans still had the energy and discipline to build around their camping grounds a trench eight feet wide by eight feet deep. His torically. the Romans were nev er surprised at night. They be jsan pressing the Carthagini ans. <»e 4v venUtti a new kina oi Thank*- giving. They offered the Rom ans their young sons If only the Romans would leave them a lone. But there was always S Roman senator to rise before the people and demand Carth age must be destroyed. The Carthaginians went fur ther. Their women cut off their hair as a sacrifice, and when that didn’t deter the Romans thry built a huge pyre end con signed the most beautiful of their maidens to It. They tried everything but nothing worked. Nothing proprltuited the gods, beoaus* the Carthaginians w.'re not really giving thanks. Thanksgiving Day Is the most modest of celebrations because all it supposedly involves is gratitude for life, for susten ance. for freedom. Ollier Editors Say... THANKS FOR GIVING • Thsnks to you, young men a-id women afflicted by polio and other crippling diseases are learning to work with their han dicaps. Thanks to you. people born without hearing and who live in a world of silence an- being trained at trades they can one day perform in private indu.-f-y. Thanks to you. 530 pe pit- bur dened by physical, mental and social handicaps are being given hope for the future through sheltered employment at :to Goodwill Industries workshops, 1500 West Monroe Street While they are striving to achieve their Independence and maintain their dignity by under going rehabilitative training at Goodwill, these handicapped workers depend upon you to keep them busy By providing the materisls—used clothing, toy*, electrical appliances, fur niture. shoes—you make it pos sible for them to learn hew to repair and renovate a range of items and thus simulate job sit uations tn competitive industry. In this way. you make hop,' a reality for hundreds of people who would otherwise face the agony of being useless-to thern selvee and to society. Without your help, particular ly in the w-inter months, these handicapped people would not be able to work and le.trn and prepare for the future. —Tire NEW CRUSADER VIRGINIA POU. T\X The nt’ing by a special p, ,1 of three Federal Court judges in Alexandria in which the state of Virginia s poll tax law was -. tv held. poses a Judicial as well as moral dilemma. The decision ig nores a 1963 Cons itution.-il A men dm or! barring • 'll tnx-w as prerequis'ires for voti-g tn JYd eral elections. The Alexandria court held that it was “not at liberty to de viate' from a 193? Supreme Court decision affirming poll taxes generally. The decision carr.e In the form of a dismissal of two suits at tacking Virginia’s SI 50-a-year poll tax as a violtaion of the equal protection guarantee of the const it monaliy of a c!a-.*e tn the Virginia Constitution that denies “paupers” the right to -ote. —THE CHICAGO DEFENDER do vor xfaijlt Want FREEDOM? The follow ing editorial is from the magazine The Brown Texan, of Fort Worth. Texas, for Octo ber. A dell r Jackson. executive editor- publisher. 4 Ithaugh tha election is oarer, recommend s dentrifica using the recipe of carbonate of lime or chalk mixed with the hood of s hare and the intestines of mice. The American Dental Associa tion. reporting this bit of toothy history, noted also that dentri fices of more palatable formula were used by Americans last year at the rate of 10.3 ounces per person. MAN-EATING CROCODILE: (The mean old rascal) A story comes from Bangkok, Thailand, recently and which stated that a crocodile more than 13 feet long had killed six persons and ter rorized villages in Chumporn Province of South Thailand for several months was billed re cently with an antitank bomb, according to preM reports. The crocodile, named Ai Darng (the Piebald), because of a white streak on its neck, was killed by a soldier, the brother of the crocodile's last victim. Thankgsivln* Day is as old out he Hebrews whose holiday "todah” literally translates as the day in which to praise. Yet old as It is, each national Thank-vuhng Day seems the most :ndigeneous of holidays. New Year s Day is celebrated the world over at some time in the year. Every Western coun try knov. s Christmas. Most peo ples celebrate a day of Inde pendence or liberation. But our American Thanksgiving Day seems absolutely, unique. And unique it is, for It was the first American holiday invented by the Puritans and sanctified by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. We are at the same point In our history Carthage was. We are brave and free and strong. It Is for these gifts we ought to thank Ood as we celebrate happiness and friendship with loved ones. Like Carthaginians, however, we are menaced. The Cold War with Russia and China has changed our lives, every one of us. It Is hard to try simply to and the Lincoln spirituality on surresMve Thanksgivings. We are in a desperate race which itw if can strip man of his In dividual dignity and make of him an hysterical faeeleua be ing. Instead of thanking God for out material well-being and abundance we ought to ask God how can we share it with the world. Instead of thanking God for the love we receive, we ought to ask Him how can we share our love with all men. Instead of thanking God for peace, we ought to ask Him how can we continue to preserve it. If we do these things. I think we will never have to thank God for not being overcome but we can give thanks that we have persevered. we think it’s timely and worh while of reproducing: “For more than 100 years the Negro lived as a second class citizen tn the United States. Now. with passage of the civil rights bill, he has a chance for the first time to become a first class citizen. But the bill only grants him tus rights, it doesn’t force him to use those rights. Wouldn’t it be a shame if. with all the work and sweat that went into obtaining passage of the ’’Negro Bill of Rights,” it all went for naught? It could you know. Apathy on the part of voters could erase most of the gains it took a century to gain. The man who's too lazy to vote on elec ts days, the man who is “too busy” to take part In civic af fairs. These people could nulli fy meet of the good done thus far. Such persons would be play ing right into the hands of the whit* supremacists They could then say: “I told you so. The majority of Negroes really did n't want civil rights at all Just a few agitators." Don't let this happen. On election day, vote. When called upon to take part in local gov ernment projects, accept gladly. When asked to participate in civic affairs, do so willingly. We all can remember how things used to be. how we might have to travel all day withou finding a restaurant we could eat In, how we couldn't use a public drinking fountain or rest room, how we had to ait ,on the rear seats of buses. All that’s in the past now. We must make ourselves worthy of the gains wa have mad*. Freedom on the shelf Is no freedom at all. It's like the rtcry of tha bear In the cage. For years tha bear had been in a six-foot cage. He'd pace those feet then turn around and walk back again. He did thia ewery day tor years. Finally they lift ed the cage off him. He etill paced the six feet, beck-ward and forward, all day tong. He had become a creature of habit. Let's don't be like that beer. This Is a fast-changing world we lien tn. We've got to change wi:h it or get left behind. If we ijet left behind then we’re no better off than we were to start with. Don't be a bear. B* a respon sible citizen. You're got the chance now. Use it —THE MIAMI TIMES CHANGES Dl l No one knows what appoin tive change* Governor-elect Moor* has tn mind bat Mi* Only The Stars And Stripes Must Prevail ' jjf 'r 1— . .. _ -t*-" n nmm •**"Rit , TiH L *'* l Tii A?iffi -y- —_• ijii ilrtit. ~ S"-rCr->£l£-ifeL>kLr — - r 11,, -i ■ - m tn-. -T . i ALTAR CALL i BY EMORY G. DAVIS, DJ>. (For Negro Proas International) "TIME TO TEACH THE TEACHER" .•miu vgauuiuß’tn ntcu nuip auu miucr ztanding,” Director Leßoy Collins of th* Com munity Relations Service (USA) explained to a meeting of all religious faiths In an address In Alexandria, Virginia recently. He called upon hie audience to “enlighten moral segregationists.” This former avowed segregationist, once gov enor of Florida, and now head of the agency sot up by President L. B. Johnson to Implement the Civil Rights Law, has in effect said, IT IS TIME TO TEACH THE TEACHER. Segregation has been taught by thousands upon thousands of American whites. It is still being taught and practiced avidly in the deep South and subtly in other parts of the country. For this the CRS Director give* both an apology and an explanation. “Most defenders of segregation," he says, "do not harbor hatred tn their hearts against Negroes. Nor do mo6t segregationists feel, in their consci ences. any sense of guilt as they discriminate a gainst Negroes. “They were brought up in a society In which they were carefully educated from childhood to believe that the Negro had a secondary plaoe—an inferior place—and that he should be required to stay in it and accept this as his lot in life with out protest." Admitting that he is firmly opposed to those who base segregationist views on hate, he ex plained that “many fine white people” feel that segregation “is perfectly compatible with their sense of moral responsibility and even deep per sonal affection for Negroes.” Yes. Director Collins, it ia time to teach the teacher and you are right when you ask all church members to “help educate those who do not hate and who do not intend to harm and yet who still insist upon keeping the Negro in a state of inferiority.” Twenty million Negroes in America agree in principle with what Collins has said, but they are wondering where we will get enough teachers w> teach INTEGRATION to those who once taught SEGREGATION. We are grateful to have you now as head of the “school of integration.” Another comment in an address made by * “white teacher of Integration” was one of the NEWS AND VIEWS BY J. B. BARREN lEACH THRIFTINESS ROCKY MOUNT Opportunity haa to knock, says the Cherokee (Olds) Republican, but it is enough for temptation Just to stand outside and whistle to get us to accept it. That certainly is the ’gospri truth’, says the Old Mountaineer. It ia a disgrace to the Negro race to see us pass up so many opportunities by which we could easi ly IMPROVE OURSELVES if we would on.y teach our people to stop wasting their little money in riotous living as did the Prodigal Son in the Bible, and put our money to the exchange as the Master taught in the Parable of the Talents. Therein. God rewarded the two who made use of their taients and earned more. He took awry the one talent which the lazy man had and did not use. It was given to the man who had done the most. Thus R Is throughout our modern and profane lives. Let us teach our children, (if indeed we oldsters are too far gone to learn thrift! that every dime saved means a chance at education for the future rather than just eating and drinking up all we have for a season and then Bring In poverty nine months of the year. It has been established that Negrons waste morr mor “T per capita and according to what we earn than other ethnic groups on toys and non-essen tia'.s, to say nothing of confections, soft drinks, strong drinks and just plain foolishness and nick Moore himself, if be has made up his mind. Those dam to him hare the feeling his aa—pOen of office will not affect the rank and file of State employe es who are efficient. However every incoming governor ts am customed to dealing got png. ronage to his friends and sup porters. Some of Moore’s bit terest pre-primary opponents hold paying Jobs in State gov ernment. Reason and pzscadoat give rise to the assumption that these will be among the first to be retired Vo private Me or forced to seek amptogmsnt else most forthright I've heard In a tan* time Rieh iuu j. iaau 4, Ji„ who directed the 1064 inven tory of Community Relatione in Evanston. 111., publishing a 50-page volume that really bared typical subtle Northern segregation, said, "them is no way to escape from living with Negroes, but we must find away to make ourselves acceptably to the Negro rather than to make the Negro ac ceptable to us.” Whew! That’s a hot one I For the white man to “be acceptable” to the Negro is quite an order. MY first reaction was what kind of a white man Is acceptable. Bur-I* not a patronizing, feel-sorry-for-you-Negror s type. Certainly not a hand-me-downer, who pass es his left-over materials and kindnesses to nts “po’ brother.” Then too, neither do we want tvrn to face a wall of black nationalistic arroganc and resistance. During the summer riot* we heard the w»rd "whiter" used quite frequently hurled both at those whites who would do good as well as those who will not Once In a mid-western town where they once had separate beaches on each side c. the lake for Negroes and whites, they changed the policy, opening both sides to everyone. As you might suspect the Negroes still thought they hid “their side” and one day a white boy came over on the former “colored” side to swim and .-.-. is chaaed out by a group of Negro boys who said, “get over on your own side." So it looks as though there’s quite a teaching Job to be done. Not only do we need to teach the segregationists but we need to teach the SEGRE GATED. Once, quite facetiously I said, we will have full INTEGRATION when a very dark-skinned Negro man can slap a blue-eyed blonde white woman in front of the City Hall in Jackson, Miss, without any more reaction from the crowd than, "he’s no gentleman.” This may not be an honorable goal, but it may suggest what kind of a white man it’s going to take to be readied for Integration. If he can stand by and see something like thia happen brother, HE’S INTEGRATED! Teaching Is really the answer both the seg regated and the segrationist. Church people of A merioa ought lead the way to this challenging altar THE ALTAR OF A TEACHING MIS SION IN RACIAL BROTHERHOOD. nacks. Our schools have rightly requested and gotten cafeterias and lunch facilities even among the rural schools where our people have little or ne money to support them. Pray tell us how many tenant farmers or sharecropper families or wid owed mothers can afford to give three to five children from 15c to 25c per school day to pur chase school lunches with, meaning up to $3 75 to $6.75 per week Just for lunches when that a mount will go a long way Into the family grocery budget each week and the poor child could catry his (or her) own lunch from home. O, we know no one thinks of that nowadays be cause its old-fashioned. But the men who made this country great carried their own- lunches to school—even Lyndon Baines Johnson, well bet' Now he’s a millionaire—and President of the USA besides. Many of us would get somewhere in life if we did not eat up, drink tip. and sport out th® part of our income we should be SAVING for the RAINY DAY in life. Thriftiness is the law of the ants, squirrels, ar.a many others: but too many Negroes fear they wnl die and leave some food, bottled drinks or mon'-y for someone else to use. being too selfish to re member that others left somethin# for their ad vent on this planet. We forget that unless we have something to leave for someone else—we can not have enouzh for ourselves on this earth Let s SAVE SOMETHING. where. From remarks made by Judge Moore When he was running for the nomination the lightn ing likely will strike hardest in the State Highway setup. In task, it would seem to be not a bad bet that the entire State Highway Commission will je rmlv i'd. This, at course, would be foi jwad by the replacement of certain key workers m the State Highway Department At to the “tittle fry." they likely will remain on the Job, if the era efficient. Also, each incoming governor names the State collector of re venue. Then, there are other key administration officials ap pointed by the governor, eepe eially those ..drawing from $lO - 000 a year up Perhaps, the n.'w executive may see fit to do something for the "forgotten ’ men ?n d women who do the drudgery for the state. At any rate, we shah see wh*» wv shall see. come Janu ary and the months fotiowin*