rAGI TWO mt CAftOLmA TIMES SATURDAY, MAY T. 19S5 AHEND THE FREEDOM RALLY SUNDAY This newspaper would like come to an oppressed people Wilkins will furnish it at the to add its endorsement to the after much struggle and Sunday meeting, state-wide mass meeting of sacrifice. Therefore the frigh- The (Carolina Times urges the National Association for tened, the wishful thinkers, every Negro citizen who is Advancement of Colored Peo- the opportunists and the arm- interested in securing full pie to be held in the Memozial chair leaders, who always hop citizenship for the race to Auditorium in Raleigh, Sun- on the bandwagon after the give their moral and financial day afternoon May 8. The victory has b^n achieved, support to the Freedom Day meetii^ is important enough will probably not be present celebration next Sunday by for thinking Negro citizens of in large numbers next Sun- putting in their presence and this state to lay aside what- day. They will assume the donating to the cause. Al- ever they are doing and at- wait-and-see attitude and though the Memorial Audi- tend in large nmnt«rs. “Hie what ever way the drop falls, torium will probably not hold Fighting Fmid For Freedom” to the right or to the left, they them there should be at least needs no explanation in these will cry aloud, “I told you 10,0000 pei^ons on hand in columns to those of average so.” stead of the 5,000 the State intelligence and we trust the The North Carolina State Conference hopes tP bring to 5,000 persons which tiie presi- Conference of NAACP the meeting. Certainly, if Ro dent of the National Associa- Branchs is to be commended groes in the state are unmind- tion has requested will be on for its effort, rapwially in ful of their own rights and hand. bringing to the meeting as the the struggle now being waged As far back as history rec- principal speaker, Roy Wil- by the NAACP to obtain them ords there is no single in- kins, the Executive Secretary to such an extent that 5,000 stance in which the oppres- of the NAACP. The more than of them will not show it by sor has voluntarily taken his a million Negro citizens of attending a rally for that pur- heel off the neck of the op- this state need a shot-in-the- pose, then, we probably are pressed. Freedom has only arm and we are satisfied Mr. not ready for them. A SALUTE 10 THE NORTH CAROIIIU MEDIUI SOCIETY We salute the North Caro- In an address before the Yes, tlm is a serious but Ina Medical Society for its Missippi Regional Council of correct indictment of the forward step in approving ^ Leadership meeting in Negro membership for that i ♦ ed States and especially m the organization. The move is in Mound Bayo, Mississippi last South. It tells the sad story keeping with the and Friday, Congressman Charles of this institution refusing to was inevitable. The doctors C. Diggs of Michigan drew a take the lead in pointing man- have fotmd out what the second indictment on the kind to the way of univei^ church apparenly has not— Christian church and its pat- brotherhood and surrenderag and that is that there is no . . . Mr program to the profession- difference in the human an- segregation. Said Mr. tusines sand sports world. atomy and what ails it be- Diggs: cause of race. Admission of Negro physicians to the N. C. M^cal ^ciety should make for a better understanding between the races along oth er lines as well as those of health. When diseases strike they are very democratic and have a way of knocking on all doors without regard to race, creed or color. And any movement that will unite the forces that fight them is cer tainly a step in the right direction. The action taken by the N. C. Medical Society will probably cause heart failure to a number of the diehards in North Carolina. Their de parture, however, should be welcomed as go^ riddance rather than a tragedy during these times of great change in national and international affairs. The Society has out stripped by far the church by practicing what it preaches in that it has destroyed the bar rier which prohibits men of an races from studying work ing and struggling together in one common cause — the elimination of the diseases of manknd. “In our land any Sunday momiitg, men, who in ad dition to their profession have suffered a war to pre serve democratic ideals — among which is the prin ciple that all men are creat ed free and equal and are endowed vrith certain inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness^these men sit in their segregated church es, worshipping in a feel ing of virtue the God of all who commands that man love his brother, while denying church member* ship and fellowship as a policy, or as a passive mat ter of practite because they cannot conceive on a per- sohal level of an associa tion with fellowmen who are not of the same race, or color, or creed .... And these violations of profes sed faith, as they cannot help, move out into the wid er world, becoming a part of our mode of li^ng, be coming a factor of a na tional and foreign policy.” Thus we see men of all races beginning to leam to work together on the farms, in the factories, in schools and col leges and in hospitals, but not able to work together for Gkxi in the churches. We see them in sports where not only bod ily contact is often necessary but the mauling of each other into a bloody pulp in a prize fight ring is resorted to. We see them a few minutes later when the contest is over shake hands and throw their arms around each other in a bro therly manner. Only the Christian church in the South remains adamant in the upward surge toward a nobler life. Instead of point ing the way it stands in the way or stands on the side lines being neither hot nor cold, condemning nor encour aging. It ought to be spewed up. On behalf of all the Negro doctors of North Carolina and its more than one million Ne gro citizens, we wish to ex tend our thanks to the North Carolina Medical Society for its very fine contribution to the democratic way of life and to a better world. POLIO TREATMENT FOR ALL Life Is Like That BY H, ALBERT SMITH jlhF6siTivK REy’(TfRili*rtNV' OF DISCIPhESHIP distribution and regulation of the cost or keep a close check In spite of the national and over cost.” international need for the Cost to Families: Salk vaccine for the treat- “in addition, patients will on how and ;at what price it ment of Polio we have been have to pay for each visit to distributed through private informed that so-called smart the doctor (vising from $3 channels, business men, along with to $5), making the total crat gmgsters and other ™ks. to,*, ajto are planning to make a hog a child. Though Dr. Salk citi“ns as would be an in- killing or a water haul out of announced the originally vading ?f an enemy the vaccine through both scheduled set of three shots country. We think, therefore, legitimate and black market could be reduced to two shots methods. According to Elmer a week apart, and a third government to Bindiner, writing in the Nat- booster seven months later, see to it that me prople Me ional Guardian, the Polio the total costs remain the protected with all of the Foundation paid $1 for three same. For a family of four, might and ingenuity at the injections of^the vaccine or a- unless the doctor agrees to nation s conmand. The mat- bout 34c per injection. The inoculate several children in “ prot^ing the poor^t original plan called for a one visit, the charges could citizen against this terrible price of $1 per injection to the approximate $100, prohibi- dise^e is so mandatory that wholesalerTor $3.00 for the tive to most families. ^e f^l he should not be de- three required injections. , _ , nied the treatment simply b^ Druggistslirould get the three for^^SO and the patient that the giving of the Salk money. Mr^lnS-th“healtt aS^JlSdSier- We would like to se^ the leans to risk their exploitation vaccine distributed to all a- “On April 12, when the byunscrupulous men in or out like and therefore urge the vaccine was officially declar- of the field of medicine. We federal government to t^e ed elective, the manufactur- think getting every American over its distribution im- ers quietly announced a price citizen inoculated, especially mediately in order that black boost tagging the package of the nations children, is so im- marketing and the unfair three cc at $6 to the patient— porta«it that the federal gov- methods may not be resorted a mark-up of at least 600^ emment should take over the to by evil men. SATURDAY MAY 7, 1955 L. E. AUSTIN Publisher CLATHAN M. SOgS, Editor H. ALBERT SMITH, Manafln« Editor M. E. JMNSON, Business Manager JESSE COriELD, Circulation Manager No ruanatM ol publication ol muolidtad mata- rtal. Lattcn to tb* editor for publication muat ba and conflnad to 800 word*. aubaonptlaa Sataa: lOe per eopr; Wz maatha, •3.00; Ona Taar, M.OO (roraKn Courtrtaa. $4.00 We find ourselves concerned once again with the topic above. In our first article, we ap proached the matter of ChriS' tian discipleship as it entails ac cepting the mind of Jesus, the adoption of his philosophy of life. Last week, we emphasized discipleship as following Christ into the heart of the will of God no matter how painful the sac rifice involved. At this time, we are stressing the thought that discipleship means following Christ in His program of ser vice for the world. Jesus’ Purpose That Jesus had a program of service for the world is seen in His purpose to establish a uni versal Kingdom which has as its ioundation righteousness and as its law love. This kingdom was to be a world-wide brother hood without distinction as to class or race, a divine society in which service is the measure of greatness and the evidence of Christian love. Such was the Master's purpose. Purpose Not Accepted Unfortunately, an overwhel ming number of the members of the church which Christ estab lished that such a society might be brought into being-members claiming discipleship-have not yet accepted that divine pur pose in practice although com pletely dedicated to It in theory And that is but another way of stating that these members en dorse with their’ lips the ideal of Christ, but are in more less complete rebellion against its realization. « Consider His Demands Consider a few of Jesus’ sayings which to my mind fit into this program and which we find greatly at variance with the practice of His church. At least, they are observed, in that part of the world we call Chris tian, only on a limited scale and with healthy‘reservations. We have, the Golden Rule-Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you,” and the charge not to seek to dominate men as did the Gentiles of Jesus’ day. We find Him forging into an inseparable liAk the'* cominand)^ ment to love our fellowman with that which demands love of God. The Parable of the Good Sa maritan provides a definition of “neighbor” which includes men of every race and illustrates as well as any example in the Bible as to what constitutes Christian Service. And, as well, Jesus proclaim ed Himself as the servant of men and service as the ideal for His disciples. Did More Than Talk But Jesus did more than talk. He estimated the worth of the soul as infinite. His life and death proved His inflexible and complete faith in that estimate. His death on the cross was not compulsion; it was His volun tary acceptance. He died not be cause He had to, but in order to save men from sin. He has been properly called the Suffering Servant. A Cynic Speaks Concerning Christ’s great sac rifice—the greatest service ever rendered humanity—^Heine, a noted German cynic, said: “I too might have died for man kind if I had not shrewdly sus pected they were not worth it.’’ Heines’ self-acknowledged, shrewdness has left him a none- nity-a person of little account- who has left no worthwhile heritage to mankind. But that implied lack ol shrewdness which caused Jesus to die for a humanity “not worth it” turned out to be man's greatest blessing and a service that has yron Him nearly 7,000,000,000 disciples although some are following a long ways off. We Have Failed Him The Christian world has fail ed to follow Christ in His great program of service. ’The Golden Rule is a moth ball principle, a convenient phase upon the lips of clergy and laity alike. Love of money has all but buried beyond hope of resurrec tion any likelihood of any lull scale response to the ideal ol service. Greatness through ser vice. How convenient a phrase that is for baccalaureate ser mons and commencement ad dresses! How many believe it? If someone does happen to take it seriously, he is regarded by many as not being any too prac tical, if practical at all. Profit Motive An Obsession It is the profit motive that governs the actions both of in dividuals and nations. A Chris tian nation spent $400,000,000 to fortify Singapore which was called the Gibraltar of the E^st It was calculated to defend im perialism and exploitation in the Orient. Had that nation spent $400,000,000 in genuinely sincere missionary effort in the areas of its exploitation; had other Christian nations playing the game of exploitation done a similar thing; and il alb had spent a fraction of the money it has taken to fight two World Wars to evangelize and gospei- ize the world and to foster Jesus’ program of service, how different our world would be! Possible Consequences At least, we would hardly be living under the threat of hy drogen warfare so fearfully de structive of life and property as to resemble more the judgement fires depicted in Revelations than the unleasing of devilish human ingenuity by a group of insane rulers in a world gone mad. I’ve heard a few preachers of past days in descriptions of the last judgement that were posi tively terrifying as they por trayed hosts of evil men plead ing with the mountains to hide them from consuming tires sent down from heaven by an angry God. It looks now as if this might come to pass, only the destruc tion will be caused by man, and the good will suffer with the bad. Individual Failure But let us not hide behind the faults and failures of the tions and the church. Individual failures lie behind institutional failure. Neither a nation nor a church can achieve spiritual and moral character any nobler, purer aiid wholesome than that of the persons composing them. One could hardly expect a stream to be any purer than the tributaries that are the source of its existence. Probably, if we would concern ourselves with improving our status as dis ciples, the world—the Christian world con'stituted of 'persons like ourselves would become better. A Registered Disciple Robert Bellaire reported some years ago an inter^esting and illuminating statement made a Japanese Colonel named Nishihara.” ^‘Come now. Colonel,” Bel laire said, “I understand you are a Christian, registered in the Christian Church in Japan. Do you Christian Japanese feel the same about the Empcrior as other Japanese-or do you? The partly intoxicated army officer replied, “I was register ed as a Christian foi> only one reason-for the Emperor! The Imperial army ordered me to attend a Christian mission school so that I might learn the English language from your American teachers. Many of us in the airmy and navy qualified ourselves for code and transla tion work in foreign languages in this way. That is how I could become army spokesman for you American and British cor respondents. Can Change The Picture Patently, that Japanese Colo nel was nothing more than a registered disciple of Christ. He had no intention of bearing the burdens or carrying the obliga tions of discipleship. It is my feeling, and that of thinking ob servers far more capable than I —that this same attitude is widely prevalent in the church. Just what we can do about it, I am not fully prepared to set forth right now. But this 1 know. If each ol us will im prove upon the quality of his discipleship, the total picture will, lose some of its ugliness and might take on some mea sure of beauty. The New Approach, Heans Greater Efficiency" 'wmm ■fr mm Spiritual Insight “RELIGION AND MIND SICKNESS” By Reverend Harold Roland , Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “Don’t worry over anything whatever...tell God your needs.. The God. of peace will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus...” Phil. 4:6,7. Good Religion is essential to mental health. What is good mental Health? It is that state of moral and spiritual well be ing in which the Individual can be at peace with himself, with others and can meet the rough and difficult demands ol this life. The basic truths ol reli gion which are needed in health of npind are Faith, Hope, Love, Forgiveness, fellowship and prayer. These great truths ol religion are needed to make that strong, stable and stedlast power to meet life in the state we call sound mental health. What is life without faith, hope, love, forgiveness fellowship and prayer? Without these truths of religion life is dark, meaning less, bewildering, jwpeles* -and despondent. Without these life is subject to breaking down in to the corrupting ravages of what we call mental sickness: AN INABILITY TO STAND UP AND FACE LIFE PEACEFUL LY AND HAPPILY. A fundamental fact of men tal health is this that LOVE IS ■raE LIGHT OF ’THE SOUL AND STRENGTH AND STA BILITY OF THE MIND. Leave out love-the inner essence of religion—and life breaks into confusing frustrations. Thus it becomes clear to all but the blind and most prejudiced that the life-giving resources of true religion are the foundation stones of mental health. I have seen many cases where religion has snatched people back from the brink ol hopeless mental sickness. Religion is needed to keep lile from breaking-sinking down into the destructive ra vages of mental sickness. There is a great increase in mental sickness in the nation. Every day we behold the in crease of that number of people who cannot live peacefully with themselves, others and who cannot meet and stand up to the ordinary demands of life. Such people are mentally sick. Yes, they suffer from mind sickness. They need treatment and healing. Let's get away from the stigma of mind sick ness. The mind gets sick like any other member of this mar velous organism .God has given each of us. The mind the ^ul and the body get sicki And when you are sick there is nothing dishonorable about seeking healing. God gives healing powCT for the sickness of body, mind and soul. The home is very important in this whole business of men tal sickness. Mothers and fa thers are you listening? The home is the fountainhead ol mental health. Give your child and give yourselves an atmos phere that is conducive to sound health ol mind. ’The men- taUy healthy grows in a graci ous and a loving community. Keep your home free from hos tility, tension, fear, anxiety and rejection—these destroy our mental health. These keep our minds from growing in beauty and power as God intended^ that they should grow. A loving home is a step in the prevention of mental health- There are many perilous Capital Close-Up BY CONSTANCE DANDEL Cardozo Cadets Win First Mixed l>riU Integration was dramatized here, last week, when Cardozo High School’s crack regiment marched to victory, at the Na tional Guard Armory,' In the first mixed competitive drill in the history ol the Capital’s Ca-, det Corps. | sen by lot from the integrated schools. All the lormer white high schools, with one excep-, tion, marched with integrated ranks. The lormer Division ’Two (Negro) high schools, on an In tegration time-table, are not yet Integrated and drilled with all-Negro regiments. The Arm strong High School band took third place in the band competi tion at the regimental drill. It was led by John Davis. Arm strong will compete in the June drill for high schools with gat- tallons. Wilson-Mincr Merger In 1950, Dr. Walter E. Hager, president ol the white Wilson Teachers College, began advo cating a merger ol that institu tion, organized in 1873, with the century • old Miner College lor Negroes. The proposal cre ated a lurore and was hotly de bated on both sides ol the race line and in the Board ol Educa tion. Dr. Hager's removal was demanded. On April 20, with the Su preme Court’s decision squarely behind him, and other civil changing the A seventeen-year-old senior, Lieut. Col. Douglas Mathis, led' rights decisions Cardozo’s cadets. The Phelps' face ol the Capital, Dr. Hager Vocational School, Irom old Dl-was named president of the vision Two, which took second Combined Wilson and Miner place in the regimental driU,' CoUeges, effective July 1. His was led by Lieut. Col. Frederick dean will be Dr. Matthew Saunders. Two thousand cadets Whitehead, president ol Miner took part in the drill. The acting College, and former personnel brigade commander was cho- j director at Howard University. Miss Edith Lyons, Miner Col lege dean, will be dean of stu dents in Uie new Mt-up. Mrs. Roosevelt Warns Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, at Howard University lor the an nual spring meeting ol the Trus tee Board, told a Howard as sembly that atomic powered transportation would bring the underveloped nations represent ed by the Bandung Conlerence, “as close as Chicago,’’ and that this country would have to live with them as equals. The Aslan-Alrican peoples she said, have a great contribu tion to make to the world, as shown by their resistance to Communist domination at the Bandung Conlerence. Only, re cognition ol these people and the ability to work with others- demonstrated at home—can justily America’s claim to world leaders^p, said Mrs. Roosevelt. New Dean for Howard Medicine Dr. Robert S. Jason, head ol Howard’s Department ol Path ology, was appointed Dean ol the College ol Medicine, begin ning May 1. He succeeds Dr. Joseph L. Johnson, who will serve on indedinlte tenure as a prolessor ol physiology In the College ol Medicine. Howard Chemistry to Offer Ph. D. ’The University will offer a program leading to the Doctor’s! signs of the increasing dangers and ravages of mental health around us in the nation. Dr. Russel L. Dix ol Duke Univer sity Divinity School says that the increasing mental sickness is a threat to the nation and a challenge to the great healing powers of religion. Our men tal hospitals are running over— therefore more than 700,000 pa tients. The mental health hospi tals population is Increasing by 10,000 a year. Mental sickness has increased greatly since end of World War II. Can we stop this dangerous trend ol mental sickness in our nation? We spend more for the treatment ol cattle tlian we do lor the mentally sick in the natioi’. Religion must bring to bear God’s great spiritual healing resources lor the treatment and healing ol the mentally sick. Things cannot give us peace and mental health. Mental health seems to be rooted in'true ligion and the things ol the spirit. Religion and God alone can give the conditions and the at mosphere essential to good mental health. Many have b^n uprooted. And now we must be rerooted and grounded in the great lile-givlng resources ol God and the spirit to halt the destructive ravages ol mental sickness among us. It is only in God and religion that we can be at peace with ourselves, with others and meet the difficult demands ol this lile in our times...“Don't worry over any thing whatever...tell God your needs...and God will keep con stant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus...” degree, beginning with the 1955 1956 school year. The program- authorized lor the Department of Chemistry—will be the first Ph.D. program in the history ol the University. Howard Trustees Elect Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. P. B. Young, Sr., publisher ol the Norfolk Journal and Guide, were elected honorary Trustees. Lorimer D. Milton‘ol Citizen’s Trust Co., Atlanta, chairman ol the Board, and Dr. Floyd W. Reeves ol Chicago, vice-chairman, were reelected lor one-year terms. Secretary James M. Nabrlt, and Treasur er James B.'XIlarke, were also reelected. The New Negro As seen by Doctors E. Frank lin Frazier, Emmett Dorsey, John Hope Franklin^ and Ray- lord Logan, in papers delivered at Howard's recent Social Sci ence Conlerence, the “New Ne gro" thirty years alter his 1925 presentation by the late Alain Locke, is. In Vuth”—a some time thing!” Franklin Frazier offers a new Negro "middle class” with , “only two really vital traditions —^the lolk tradition and the tra dition of the gentleman”—one derived Irom the fields and the other Irom the homes of the white South. Negro business he writes off as a social myth without economic merit; Negro (Continued on Page Nine)