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THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH, N, C„ SATURDAY, DECEMBER It, IM4
Editorial Viewpoint
WORDS OF WORSHIP
Never be afraid of public opinion If you know
you are right. All achieving men have a aubilme
disregard for criticism “Never explain; never re
tract: never apologize; get It done and let them
howl.” was the motto of a greal Englishman. It
might well have been the motto of Jesus. “No man
can expect to accomplish anything If he stands 'n
Thousands of Americans have found that it
is more advantageous to save in clubs for
Christmas buying than to charge to an account
or to go to a loan company and borrow on the
installment plan. The institution of Christmas
Savings Clubs has made our nation unique and
fascinating. Just recently. 9.900 banks and sav
ings institutions have distributed Christmas
checks in the amount of $l.B billion to 14,750,-
000 individuals. Perhaps the size of the Christ
mas cash led Atty. Gen’l Louis L. Lefkiw'tz
to do a favor for New York’s nearly 3 million
Christmas Club members by requiring that in
terest be paid on their accounts. Not surpris
ingly, bankers protested that the club accounts
were unprofitable, and offered mostly a hope
Yuletide Giving Will Make You Merry
We have come to the time of the year when
we expect to see the Salvation Army conduct
ing its annual Christmas financial campaign
for the purpose of spreading Christmas cheer
among the hearts of the people who don’t have
as much as we have. It is customary to see
members of this organization standing at vari
ous stations oh downtown streets for donations
for the needy. ,
There can be no question that the appeal
merits the philosophy behind it. It says, “But
for grace of God. there go I.”
A great deal of humility is needed to orient
oneself to the way of life Ipiplied by the slo
gan; to acknowledge that were it not for a Di
vine Munificence at this Yuletide Season and
iMf-rt, ♦‘hC ----- - 11 -f V
would be up against the same fate as those
who will be without the bounties of the Christ -
1 Adam Powell Should Pay Up!
One of the "hard-hitting" linesmen for jus
tice and freedom ia Adam C. Powell, 11. who
for a long while stood aa a atandard-bearer of
hia race. He muat now have "a talk with him
aelf* and pay up the $46,500 he owes in a elan*
der auit won from him more than a year ago.
Mra. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won
the auit on the grounda that Powell called her
a “bag woman" (graft collector) for the Police
Department. At first she won $211,500 in dam
ages, but it was subsequently reduced.
We wonder how jt has been possible for Mr
Powell, a U. S. Reresentative from New York’s
Harlem, to evade the law by not paying the a
ward. Although we don’t know the real answer,
we do know that Representative Powell has
What marvels have our changing society
brought us? Many indeed, and too numerous
to mention. Now we have a report of the first
total electric campus, to be built soon at a
coat of S2B million at the 68-year-old Clarkson
College of Technology in Potsdam. N. Y.
Just think of it: the college of 1.934 students
la located In the extreme northern part of the
state, where the Adirondacks slope toward the
St. Lawrence River, and where temperatures
range from below freezing in the winters to the
90'i during the summers.
The plana call for sidewalks that automatic
ally melt anow and ice, 14 electrically heat-d
buildings on a mile-square hillside, air condi
tioned classrooms laboratories and lounges for
summer coolness on an electric campus. The
sidewalks will either have subsurface heating
or overhead infar-red light with the current au
tomatically operated by thermostats that re
How often have we Sunday School student!
heard the question: “Am 1 my brother'i keep
er?” The Lord, in answering Cain, who had
slain hia brother. Abel, let him know plainly
that he waa responsible for hi* brother’* life.
On the night of July U. 1963. In a bar on
New York City’s Ea*t Side a 19-year-old
youth was pistol-whipped, then shot to death
by two ex-convicts. But the startling thing is,
according to the newspaper report of the crime,
that:
‘‘Fifteen pen, - watched the pistol-whip
ping and not one as them budged from his bar
stooL They saw the murder that followed, too.
They lay on the floor (as ordered) while the
two ex-cons lugged the body out and drove a
way to dump it in the East River. When it waa
over, these IS citizens went home and forgot
•bout It (as ordered): not a peep out of any
one to the police. But for some dogged detec
tive walk, they probably would have remained
•Dent*
In May of this year, in broad daylight, an
18-year-old gfarl waa raped in a Bronx. N. Y .
office bulMtog The story of the crime revealed
that a “nude ravished girl fled screaming from
her attacker to the very threshold of a Bronx
office building, where die pleaded for help
from onlooker*! But some 40 New Yorkers toil
ed to ooum to her rescue.”
TM9 motto rjtm Bkftrn that A marie* elm bmt had the wertd
mwmr frrr racial and national antagonism* whan it accord* to arary man
regard*** et race, order or creed, hk human and *d*j right*. Haring no mar,
tearing no man-fh* Nairn From atrhm to halp on the firm be-
Christinas Savings Clubs
An All-Electric Campus
Am IMy Brother’s Keeper?
terror of public opinion." he said In substance.
"People will talk against you no matter what you
do. Look at John the Baptist. He came neither
eating nor drinking and they said he was a devil
I come both eating and drinking, and what do
they call me? A wine bibber and a gluttonous
man!
of getting other banking business. But the idea
generated almost no enthusiasm among Christ
mas Club members.
The average citizens who are not expecting
to make a fortune were not impressed. Maybe
these individuals felt that being able to do
cash-in-hand Christmas shopping is reward
enough. Then the small amount of interest
which could be expected on the average accou it
was not enough to outmatch the savings on in
stallment interest and rotating charge accounts
fees. Shucks, they reasoned, they were money
ahead with just their Christmas Clubs anyway.
The Christmas Club idea demonstrates how
much a man can save if he puts his mind to it.
mas Season.
Our inner voices seem to compel us with an
insistent plea that we are both the gifts of God,
and the givers, and that the wherewithal of our
lives flows from a Divine Source that is power
ful in dispensing its blessings.
Your inner grace urges you to do your level
best that others won’t have bare tables and
empty stomachs on Christmas Day. The toys
distributed by the Salvation Army will bring
out the joy and sunshine in the hearts of boys
and girls in our communities.
During World War 11. the Salvation Army
gained fame on fighting fronts for administer
ing to soldiers* needs. Sometimes the Army
says, “drop a nickel on the drum and save a
»
When you drop your coins, their jingle will
bring joy into your heart and soul!
refrained from obeying the law.
Now a New York judge is issuing a new and
tougher warrant, which has ordered Powell to
appear in the criminal section of New York’s
Supreme Court to begin trial on charges that
he illegally transferred S9OO of his personal
funds to his wife’s account to avoid paying it
to Mrs. James as a part of the slander award.
We are aware that $46,500 Is no small sum
even for a congressman, but the law maker has
an enforceable obligation to settle the matter
like any law-abiding citizen. If he does not do
this, his ethical appeal for us will become a
matter of inconsequence.
Mr. Powell, your actions are not right!
act to weather conditions.
This work is scheduled for completion >n
1971 when the college will celebrate its 7 sth
anniversary. It will dispense with the “million
dollar smokestack" or central heating plant,
saving $1 million at the outset.
Clarkson College offers engineering, science,
business administration, and the humanities.
The student body includes 9 women, who en
rolled last year when a co-educational policy
was inaugurated on the previously all-male
campus.
It is probable that thousands of people have
never heard of this school in out-of-the-way
Potsdam. What it is doing to modernize its
campus and teaching is symptomatic of the
surge of higher education throughout the na
tion in preparation for the so-called student
explosion ahead.
Two months ago in Oakland. California, the
press reported that a young woman was raped
and beaten unconscious in a downtown park
ing area while about 20 persons standing a
round ignored her screems for help.
You may say to yourself, how can there be
such growing callousness and indifference on
the part of so many American citizens with re
gards to the protection and welfare of their fel
lowmen? Perhaps these people said to themsel
ves that is nons of my business: all that I can
do is attend to my own business and be careful
about myself. The once-sacred dictum that
each man is his brother*! keeper apparently
has little appeal today, and this situation has
become of great concern to administrators of
the law. sociologists, and clinical psychologists
Something must have gone wrong with our
parental teachings and education. Must we.
aa citizens, be compelled to render aid to per
sons being attacked by criminals, or will we
assume that it is our unenforceable oboligation
to help innocent men and women save their
livea, virtue, and reputation when attacked by
vicious characters, who have not bothered to
talk with their conaciencea?
The failure of being your brother’s keeper
ia comparable to the tin of ommission. The
person is not guilty of any crime, but he fails
to keep others from committing diem.
Just For Fun
BY MARCUS a HOCLWARR
obange Blossom classic
Tomorrow the Florida AAM
Rattlers will play their annual
“Orange Blossom Classic” with
Grambling College of Louisiana.
(As I write this column it Is 5:30
p.m. on Friday. December 4th. >
Usually some 45X100 to 50,000
people attend the game; some 15
buses carry students from Tal
lahassee; and it takes four or
five buses to carry the band of
133 pieces.
It Is raining hard today, and I
hope that the weather Is better
in Miami. Scouts from the big
professional football leagues will
be there for the purpose of spot
ting new talent.
NEVER TOO LATE: Here is
a story from Omaha, Neb. It was
a kind of homecoming when ac
tor Tyle Talbot returned to his
old home town in the road show
version of "Never Too Late.”
Talbot, who left Omaha with
a hypnotist’s act when he was
17, had been In show business
some 40 years—but never played
Omaha. His parents still live
there.
COMIC DICTIONARY: Court
ship is a game in which some
men win the girl by audacity.
ONLY IN AMERICA
BY HARRY GOLDEN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HART
FORD COURANT
The Courant is the morning
paper In Hartford, Conn. It is
now over 200 years old. It is
the American newspaper with
the longest history of continu
ous publishing.
I had a chance to remark on
the courant some years ago.
Right after my book “Only in
America” was published I was
invited to come to Hartford and
deliver two lectures for the
Hartford Jewtah Community
Center. In the course of this
visit I met a young reporter
from the Courant who drove
me around town to see the
sights.
Mark Twain’s house still
stands In Hartford and as we
passed It, this young fellow told
me the years Twain had lived
In the house and what he had
fboeo He - * ’
that every noon Twain would
dress himself up and go down
town and have luncheon at the
Heubleln Hotel. Twain presid
ed over what was an early
round table.
One of the dally guests at
this table, said mv Informant
was Earl Dudley Warren. I be
lieve, who was the editor of the
Courant.
In the process of making con
versation, my young report -r
said that It wns really Far!
Dudley Warren who remark'd
that everybody talks about the
weather but no one does ary
INVtvs anil Views
EDUCATION VS. THINGS'
ROCKY MOUNT— This col
umn certainly likts the thought
advanced in the speech of Dr.
James T Guincs, Education De
partment chstrrrinn at St Au
gustine's Collenr. as report i in
the Dec 5 CAROLINIAN He
said what this "Old Mountaeier"
has been saying and written, for
years regarding Negroes p' ing
higher values on “thing- than
they do on PRINCIPLES. MO
RALITY and EDUCATION, a
long with TOR I FITNESS
There is no - escaping 1 -id
fact that we have been c!y
negligent in the matter of gtv
mg ourselves the BEST n du
ration. We have preferred quan
tity to quality as we've Mriven
to stretch out over much mate
rial and many courses retting
only a smattering of each rather
than acquiring thoroughness in
hardly any. Thus It is that our
teachers and youths find them
selves confronted with subjects
which they cannot master u >n
they enter the many teetmes on
a merit basis.
That brings us to the core of
Dr. Guinea' remarks where he
said (according to the story t
“He felt that parents needed to
sacrifice more than they do for
their children's education . . .
that buving expemive homes,
cars and other nutria l •'
and then seeking tIW code ,
with the lowest cost xo.: just
didn’t seem logical. He fNi it
a cheap education result rV :u
the same experience as whan
one buys a cheap commodity ir
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Letter To The
Editor
EXPRESS APPRECIATION
To The Editor:
The ptvstor and the member
ship of the First Baptist Church
are especially well-pleased with
the complete and detailed cov
erage that you so kindly s ve tr
The CAROLINIAN new spa-r
to our recent Woman's Day ur-
Uvtties.
Your summary article on the
front page of the current issue
of the paper is moat compli
mentary to Dr. (Willa B 1 Plat
er's splendid presentation Your
readers air so wUJe-sprv.id tint
our rich experience is being
•hared by a large audience
Piease accept our sincere
thanks for your kind coopera
tion throughout our Woman s
Day effort.
We wish you and the ent're
staff of The CAROLINIAN a
merry, merry Christmas
Sincerely yours.
MRS NORA EVANS LOCK
HART. Program Cl. i
and MRS ANN D HURDLE
Co-chairman.
some by tenacity, and most by
mendacity.
COFFEE BREAK: About two
weeks ago, a man was appre
hended on a charge of slipping
poison into his wealthy aunt's
coffee day. He may Just
have been trying to give him
self a coffee break.
WISDOM AND IGNORANCE:
What is the essential difference
between the wise man and the
ignorant man? Well, the wise
man will often know without
judging, while the ignorant roan
will judge without knowing.
DEFLATION: The Interior
Department has awarded a $1.39-
million contract to restore the
Tord Theater, In Washington, to
the way it appeared on the
night of April 14, 1865, when
President Lincoln was assassin
ated by John Wilkes Booth.
It is noteworthy that the cost
of restoration of the little thea
ter will probably far exceed its
original cost. Just as inflation
ary forces have reduced the buy
ing power >f the dollar since
Lincoln's day, so has the “de
flat inn” of the nation's moral
standards weakened its defenses
against attack from within.
thing about it. Twain quoted
this remark and it has been
forever attributed to him.
It was all Interesting enough
and I went about the business
of making my speech. But not
long after that, I had occasion
to write a column about Mark
Twain. In the course of this
column I remembered the story
and somehow it seemed appro
priate so I included It.
At the time. Only in America
appeared in the Sunday Cour
ant. The editors there sent me
a marvelous letter In which
they said. ‘‘Congratulations,
Hfcrry Golden We are so glad
we subscribe to your column.
Not only is it an excellent col
umn but you have at last re
vealed the truth about Earl
Dudley Warren and Mark
Twain, a thesis which we here
hold in high regard Would you
please tell us where vou un
• "l! tv:: tact tot WP WOUid
like to put it on the front page.
What are your sources?”
It was a chore to write them
a letter explaining that my
sources happened to be the
Hartford Courant itself. I for
bade mentioning the name of
the enthusiastic reporter who
imply repeated what he heard
his editor insist.
The Courant and I have
blundered on. each our separ
ate ways. I suspect if will last
another 200 years because It
does not report its own gossip.
It leaves that to the syndicated
newspaper columnist. ,
ny other variety. " We certain
ly agree with him.
Our people should recall or
lr m the wisdom of the old ax
io- i: “lie who cmptieth his purse
in o his head is wise, because
no man ran filch (steali it from
hini ”
It seems we do not get educat
ed away from trying to make a
di play of material things rather
than subordinating them to the
more basic things of CHARAC
TER-BUILDING. THRIFTI
NESS. CHRISTIANITY and gen
eral NEIGHBORLINFSS.
During the last twenty years—
since NAACP has secured for
Colore dtearhers EQUALITY in
salary scales —too many who
could not afford it. have Jump
ed from a modest shack to
building a thirty-years mortgag
ed mansion oil a small lot to be
•trained for life minus the capi
tal that is necessary to sustain
the standard of living their al
most total investment in a (for
them, big home demands Cer
tainly. a wise parent will not
invest his entire income into
even a home to the neglect of
his child's educational future
which -demands the BEST in the
head instead of on the back or
in brick and flashy cars. Let’s
be prudent about living. Strive
for QUALITY IN EDUCATION
—and THOROUGHNESS. That's
what sends Rockets to the Moon.
Other
Editors Say
HOUSING
Indications throughout the na
tion are that fair housing is in
for a r ugh time. The giant real
estate lobbyists have mounted a
money offensive whose awe
some might is being recognized
for it forimdability. In Californ
ia it was defeat of the Rumford
Act «proposition 14 <; In Gary.
Indiana the City Council voted
down an omnibus Civil Righta
package which included fair
housing. In the suburbs of De
troit the citizens voted against
fair housing; In Dayton. Ohio
fair housing came acropper. In
Arkron there has been noises
and in Columbus. Ohio the
Council Is afraid to even present
a bill of this nature.
Social engineers who are pres
ently grappling w ith the various
complexities of de-facto segre
gation recognise that our hous
ing patterns me the fountain
head for many of our civil rights
problems. This issue generates,
unfortunately, a great deal of
social animosity and fear built
on false prejudices and aided
and abetted by the harbingers
of deceit.
It :j indeed unfortunate that
in a society that has "carved
highways m the stratosphere
and put tuna in chains" Ist-
Why Not The Same Concern Here?
Gordon B. Hancock ’*
BETWEEN THE LINES
(For Associated Negro Press International)
THE SOUTH’S GREAT SON
Through many years this column had deplored
and lamented the South's race prejudice and the
evil concomitants thereof, but we have never dis
paraged the South’s fighting fettle. It has been
wisely said that you cannot whip a man who will
come back for one more round. The South can
always be depended upon to come back for anoth
er round and especially If the fight Is against the
Negro. As was said of Cyrus of Old: “He was
friend to whom he was a friend and an enemy to
whom he was an enemy.” This applies to South
erners. If a Southerner Is your friend you can
have no better friend. If he is your enemy you can
not have a more mortal enemy.
Southern Presidents In this oountry have been
scarce commodities but within recent years
Southerners have been successful In winning the
Vice-Presidency and through the untimely death
of the President they have acceded to the Presi
dency. Truman succeeded the great Franklin Del
ano Roosevelt who wrought one of the greatest
national miracles known to history. He took a
bankrupt nation and made It one of the greatest
In history. When death removed him Truman
took over, and excusing his uncultured manners
and his uncouth language, he made a good Presi
dent and dared to carry on In the Roosevelt tra
dition. Truman was a Southerner but when he
mapped out a course he had the courage to fol
low through and he faced the color question like
a man. Os course he had his shortcomings but he
tried hard to deal fairly with the Negro in his
struggles for full freedom.
Even struggling Negroes had few complaints
against Truman as a President even though be
was a Southerner. Southerners are not afraid to
stand up anß fight for the cause they believe In.
Truman believed In Justice for the Negro. He was
a true and fearless champion of Negro advance
ment.
“GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CLARENCE
i JORDAN”
“Turning his back on his father, because he
could not turn his face to his brother.” eloquently
sums up the gospel message of the “other” broth
er In the story of the Prodigal Son as told by the
Rev. Dr. Clarence, Jordan on a long-playing Kc
lnonia Record.
This would be just another harratlve record. If
It were not for certain facts shout the story-toil
er Clarence Jordan Is a white, south Georgia
southerner, with all the typical Southern drawl
and dialect, that oftlmea grates the ears of Ne
groes. He Is a scholar with a doctor's degree In
theology and a graduate degree In agriculture. He
was just another Southerner untly 1942 when be.
his family and several friends began living on a
farm near Aericus, Oa.. calling It “Koinoala
Farm"— a venture In Christian community.
In 1956. Rev. Jordan's application of that
which makes Christianity Christian brought the
wrath of Southern bigotry and prejudice down
upon his head. He set up an Interracial children’*
camp on the farm yes. in Georgia but it waa
soon dosed by court injunction: It waa bombed;
he was boycotted: crosses were burned; Insur
ances were cancelled, and all other tarns of ugly
heathenish reaction were heaped upon him. his
family and neighbors.
But there were friends. Christian and other
wise. who believed In “the gospel according to
Clarence Jordan.” who came to his raauce. pledg
ed insurance assistance, giving and loaning money
The violence-ridden crisis has pawed, damlte con
tinued boycotting. Clarence Jordan has Md the
story of racial crisis, appealing fee change of
hearts, in lectures and sermons throughout the
nation. Today he has a new “sermon” —a long
playing record called “The Rich Mon and Laz
arus" on the Kolnonla Records lebel (Boa 14TL
Evanston. HD.
You've heard the profile* of the Rich Man and
Lazarus, the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal
Son. but never like he tells them. Tot example,
the Good Samaritan ia a Negro in South doorgra
should be such • powerful wap
on. Franklin Delano Booaaewtt
recognized this wtan ho aaid
we "have noChing to tear but
fear itself." And all through his
tory we have our great poets,
philosphers and writers aware
of the pwer of tear. Shakespeare
said: "Nothing is good or bad
but thinking makes it so." Again
ALTAR CALL
BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D.D. (Far Negro Frees International)
tor ia toe culprit So It is with
the lair homing act which, in
■wat cases, gives dtisens the
right to purchase homes in any
—a— a they desire, that
•ear is toe big bugaboo predicat
ad upon property values, etc.
Ve have put groat slock in
toe Supreme Court and recce:-
The untimely taking away of the late Presi
dent John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who had so quick
ly won the love and admiration of the wor d by
his fearless stand on the question of civil rights
for Negroes, was most fortunately succeeded by a
Southerner of the calibre of Lyndon Baines John
son who was not only willing bu able to carry on
In the great Kennedy tradition. Ushered by Fie
and misfortune into the Presidency of the nail m.
be took over with a courage and mastery that lira
won the applause of the civilived world. HW 1-
slide victory In the last election was a pub c > i
dicatlon few men In history have ever vec.ivd.
He so richly deserved such vindication, a
Southerner of Southerners—deep from th“ h >t
of Texas—comes to the Presidency, and t"“. ny
where the immortal Kennedy left off. H?d e
been from the East, North or West Mr. Jr hr- n
could not have taken a braver stand. What i«
more, he brought to consummation Knnedv's dy
ing dream of a Congressional Civil Rights Bi r . As
a tough fighting Southerner he took hold of tl<»
civil rights cause in Congress and would no Ist
go until a meaningful Civil Rights Bill had b?:n
passed. He beat the Southern opposition to i «
knees and did what Kennedy himself would hard
ly have been able to do.
The old anti-North fight Southerners have been
wont to carry on for a hundred years, lost its ef
fectiveness. when a brave Southerner was at the
helm and not afraid. Yet. here is the great moral
tragedy of the hour. The prejudiced South studi
ously refrains from hailing one of Its greatest
sons. The South which is wont to boast of every
thing “Southern”, studiously refuses to hail its
great son who is President of the United States of
America, the highest office with the highest hon
or In he Twentieth Century World. Johnson came
unto his own and his own receives him not be
cause he, as President, stands up to be counted aa
favoring Justice for all men.
who sew a robbed and beaten white man reveal
ed by headlights of his car as he drives along the
road. Knowing much of beatings, ostraetzation
and mistreatment, this Negro has compassion,
stops, aids, and takes the ‘white cracker” 'no
doubt) to a hospital, with the rest of the story. In
essence, told as it was in the Ist century by Jesus
of Naxareth.
It Is a gripping and soul-searching experience to
sit and listen to these familiar parables told in
an unfamiliar manner. It is easy to imagine Jesus
of Nazareth, or Jordan of Georgia, telling them
the same way. Jordan of Georgia has this advan
tage, however, that his voice can be heard by in
finitely more persons than ever heard Jesus of
Nazareth's voice.
My first reaction was that Negroes ought bu7
this record and give it as a Christmas gift to at
least one white acquaintance. At any rate, many,
many whites. North and South ought hear this
record.
They ought keep it handy so they can play It
for their friends, neighbors and visitors. They
ought let Jordan's gentle, drawling voice pene
trate the core of their being until they've heard
the story with the ears of their soul.
Clarence Jordan is extending the gospel accord
ing to his Insight and experience. He is In the
process of Issuing what he calls a Koinonia “cot
ton patch” translation of the New Testament .
"a translation that seeks to convey as simply as
possible to the plain man of today the startling
ideas of the Christian faith as proclaimed in the
first century.” he says
What an Altar! Now. sitting in the comfort of
the home, we can worship God as we listen to
"the Truth that makes men free.” We can feel tb*
piercing, searching sword of "the Word” cutting
away at prejudice, injustice and bigotry, letttng
the teardrops of our melting heart fall In the pir
acy of our own personal encounter with the Crea
tor of all men. ,
Not all Altars are In churches. Not all sermons
are preached behind pulpits. Clarence Jordan has
made an Altar oat of a record player. Amen. A
men. Amen!
proclamation after proclamation
couched in socialistic belief* in
the ultimate dignity of man.
This has caused concern to the
ultra conservatist of the land
and they have been marshalling
their forces for the last ditch
struggle to maintain the status
quo. —THE CINCINNATI HUB
ALU