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I THE TTMKS SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1958 A m AT DMOCUCY IN AUBM tor the Universitv of Ala- t. You wtre told how so- ' Yoa iMd in the daily press Hiis we^ an account oi the eofiduct of state and school officials in the matter of the •dinkBion of a young Negro bama. called intelligent whites in Alabama became so incensed over the entrance of one gro student to the Universi ty that they became raving maniacs. Human beings of the Alabama sort, possessed with color-phobia, can be come as dangerous as a dog possessed with hydrophobia. The action of the unfor tunate whites in Alabama has no doubt furnished the Com munist propaganda mills in Ru^a with new fodder. They are now probably grinding out new stories for her satel lites and the overwhelming millions of colored pMples of the world on what it means to live in a democratic state like America if your skin isn’t white. Let there be no mistake about it, the action of the stu dents and mobbists in Ala- bamA had the sanction of higher-ups in that state or the rioting would never have happen'ed. There 'is no gang ster as vicious as a poor white when he gets ^ the nod to go on and raise hell against roes from one of his group gher up. Lonely for ^ogni- tion from the so-called re spectable of his race even the nod to do violence to another is welcomed with relish. While you read of the Ala bama incident, you might re- S call that only a few years ago, thousands of Negroes fought and died side by side with whites in World War I and II to preserve Democracy even in Alabama. You might remember also that so far as that state goes, it was pre served for every other race but Negroes. It is nothing new to see in southern schools Japanese, Chinese, Germans, Italians and representatives of people who just a few years ago were blasting into eter nity American white and Ne gro soldiers. They and their Mnd would be welcomed at Alabama University. Only the entrance of a Negro is the signal for hell raising. Only a Negro must My taxes to sup port a school from which' he is barred. Life Is Like That BY U. ALBERT SMiTH Changed Hearts Still Our Need And How Senator Eastland, Of Mississippi, Pays His Respects" GOVERHOR HODGES FOR PRESIDENT OF NAACP' Last year’s report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple showed that North Caro lina had made the greatest gain in membership during 1955 of any state in the na tion. It will be recalled that the NAACP was the object of an inflammatory attack by Governor Hodges on August 8th of last year and that we predicted that as a result the membership in North Caro lina would increase by leaps and bounds. Not even Kelly Alexander, president of the North Caro lina State Conference of Branches, has ever done so much in one year to increase the membership of the NAACP in this state as Gov ernor Hodges. Thousands of Negroes in North Carolina who had never given mem bership in the organization serious thought joined the NAACP after the governor’s August 8th address and have since become staunch sup porters 6f it. Frankly, we feel the governor should be nam ed honorary president of the NAACP in North Carolina, if not active head. There was a time in North Carolina when such an at tack from the State’s Chief Executive might have fright ened a few Negroes from joining the organization or openly admitting membership in it. That day has long since passed and instead any Negro of intelligence in the state who is not a member or staunch supporter of the NAACP would probably not be willing to admit it in the presence of other worthwhile members of his race. BREEDING PLACE FOR CRIMINALS It is high time that citizens of North Carolina take a look into what is going on at North Carolina College At Durham in the matter of discipline and morality. Here of late, the school has been the scene of notorious break-ins, thefts and other questionable con duct on the part of students. Apparently, such crimes are looked on by the administra tion at North Carolina Col lege with too much indul gence—too much to suit thoughtful citizens of this community. Cripie breeds crime and wheil those in authority as sume a “so what" attitude to ward criminals, be they college students or “wine hAwks,” you may rest assured th^ the tribe will increase faster than mice or flies. The apparent tendency on the -part of ■some school ad ministrators to assume the at titude that they are answer- able to no one except their trusted board is booming nauseating to this newspa per. A state educational in stitution is the property of the people who pay toe taxes for its support. It is also a part of the community in which it is located and those who live in its immediate operation from North Carolina vicinity have a right to feel College officials in its efforts and know^that once a bunch to get at the bottom of the of thieves* are uncovered on break-ins that occurred on the a college campus that they campus that had resulted in will be treated in the same several typewriters being manner as any other common stolen. To our dismay, we dis- criminals. covered that long after The hotioi, that seom to get into some youngsters' -Sted tT?o heads that it is smart to be slicksters ouffht not to be ^^^ht on to classes and mingle SleratJ^'by N^rth Cai-o^^^ with other students ^ though College officials and when discovered it should be dealt h™ with with ,peed «d eertein- ‘.Kte^on^ the Spte S A1. i XI. , i j Durham by the press did col- Abeut the only ray ot de- lege officials bestir themselves cency that has ^ine off the about punishing the students campus at N. C. College with involved, reference to the heliums mi.' x i- j x, that have b^n initiators This type of attitude on the of the crime wave has come of the adnumstration at from decent and respect- Carobna CoUege either able students themselves who from laziness, crooked- charge that the college. ministration is guilty of ^wtelltgence. We f6el thdt the “crooked fence discipUne” and *h® state, and cer- no discipUne. In other words, ^hpse in this imm^ate the administration appears to S ? assume a Ustless attitude North Carohna Col- which is a little short of pam- i®®® stand by and ^ it b^ pering crooks found on its so mn ^wn at the heels campus if not deliberately t^a* 1* bec.o^es a harboring them breeding ground for criminals instead of worthwhile cit- Several weeks ago, this izens. newspaper got little or no co- There has been no time since our blessed Master walked over the highways (>f ancient Pales tine that the need of regenerat ed hearts is more apparent than today. Since JesQs' day, human progress along scientific lines has been amazing. Should John the Baptist, the apostles, Paul, Peter, John, etc. be. brought from the dead and into our mo dern world, they'd find it hard to believe this to be the same planet on which they live. Probable Appraisal In fact, our great-grand parents and even the grandpa rents of some of us would feel about the same. And all of them, if they judged our world from the point of view of the comforts and conveniences it of fers, would say. “What a won derful world!” Life Better In fact, many of the persons, if not all, who have lived through the past five or six de cades, would say the same thing. For, without a doubt, the technological element in our civilization has made life far more comfortable, satisfying and interesting than it was fif ty years ago. Other Aspects But, unfortunately, if . men of past generations were with us, they could not Judge our world by the improvements afforded us by the inventions of tech nology. They would see aspects of our life on the moral and spiritual side that would give them considerable concern— also, on the political side. There would be grave questlcms as to whether the world was better or worse. ' Disturbing Elements For one thinR, they would be disturbed by the high incidence of nervous disorders and men tal breakdowns in our society, the rebellion of youth against essential disciplines, especially in big cities. They would be disturbed by the growing inci dence of suicides,"Tiurders and ■other crimes. They would find the callou^ disregard for human life to be quite upsetting, to say the least. And by, all means, would they te shocked by the con stant threat of atomic and hy drogen warfare that threatens to destroy civilization, extermi nate mankind, or drive them back into the primitive exis tence of tbe caM life of 10,000 years ago. Such is the picture of our world in miniature today. The Remedy What can be dwie? What must be done? What i» the so lution for our problem? The cure for our sicknessT The answer is Jesus. Men—society itself—^must be bom again. The Christian world muat re capture ite i>ri0jltive insight, vision, passion, and energies and institute a huge releivtlesa persistent offensive the objec tive of which is the realization of the Kingdom of Qod (m earth. More %han Ideal “Such a realization is more than a mystic ideal. It is the crowning fact of history. It is the solid reality with which God is displacing the unsub stantial materialism underlying the rude social structures of hu man selfishness. It is the goal of ages upon which Jesiu turned his dying vision and which has held the faith of the pure and the wise, the true and the brave amidst forgotten defeats and unrecorded sufferings. It. is the bloom of evolution and the cli max of revolution. It is the di vine errand upon which white- souled prophets have walked serene through a world ablazed with scorn. It is the consumma tion of all God has been and done for man and man has been and done for God. It is the eter nal Kingdom of Christ, which is beseiging the affairs of men, troubling the foundations of so ciety, and sifting the church as wheat.' Divine Support “The pledge of God is behind it and the victorious forces *of the universe are aUied in its behalf. The Bible is its written warrant, and the cross its seal which none can break. It may take us with violence, but it ad vances to conquer And the saints shall judge the earth.” Only Hope This ideal accepted without reservations and made the sole objective of a church .full of the spirit and vision of Christ, and possessed of the flaming missionary passion and indefatigable , and imwearying energies of the apostle Paul- tbis alone is the greatest need of our modern church and the sole hope of a decadent civilization and a dying world. Spiritual Insight “WHAT’S IN MAN?” - > By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church Committee On Negro Affairs Issues Resotution Lauding D. B. Martin COMMIHEES FOR OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW Ever since tiie decision on segregation in public schools was iianded down by the U. S. Supreme Court, this news paper has made repeated sug gestions that the governor of this state appoint a commit tee of at least 400 white and Negro leaders to work on the matter of obeying the court’s order. We did this because we were satisfied that there is in North Carolina a segment of its population that will stop at nothing to keep ther Negro in this country a second-class citizen. ' We did not think so then, and we do not think so now, that this segment represents the best element of whdte peo ple in North Carolina; and we had hoped by the formation of such a committee of white and Negro leaders to get the jump on the type of people who are organizers and mem bers of the Patriots, DUPEC and other such'organizations and to crystalize sentiment in favor of obeying the law rather than defying the Su preme Court. For som^ unknown reason, neither the late Gpv. Umstead nor Governor Hodges saw fit to follow our suggestion. As a result, instead of a spirit of law and order prevailing in North Carolina, as it regards the matter of segregation in our schools, deliberate de fiance of the Constitution and the Supreme Court is the or der. of the day and we now have the Patriots, DUPEC and otter such organizations in existence for the avowed pur pose of disobeying the law, rather than upholding it. If it is too late for the gov ernor to appoint a committee of 400 white and Negro lead ers in the state, it might not be too lafe for the mayors in respective cities and towns to call a meeting of white and Negro leaders to sit down and talk over frankly and with out fear, how law and order can be upheld, rather than al low the vicious and poison ous propaganda now being pumped into the minds of our adult and young citizens to overcome us Y^ith violent re sults. The way of the Patriots, DUPEC and other lawless groups is not the way of peace and mutual respect. On the contrary, it is the way of riots, mob violence and gen eral chaos. The members of such organizations do not want to know the truth; they do not desire peace; they do not want a better understand ing but just the opposite. We call upon Mayor Evans of Durham and the Mayors of other cities and towns in this state to formulate a com mittee of ^^egro and white leaders in their communities whose members have the courage and vision to sit down together and talk over, the question of ending segrega tion in our public schools as well as in every other walk of life. SATURDAY L. *. AUSTIN CLATUAM M. ROSS a. ALBIST SMITH CltfCaitSKIiaCtm^ Publisher Editor M. E. JOHNSON FEB. 11, 1956 Business Manager —■ —— JJ1401XIC0® xuaiiaKcr wji* J^SE COFIELD Circulation Manager — Managing Editor W. A. HENNESSIE Advertising Manager Put PISU'l . Saturday Iw the UNITED Inc. at 436 E. Pettigrew St. _ second class matter at the Post I ^ Durham, NorOi Carolina under the 1 Advcrtlalof Representative; Inter- ■ Hewqpap^. No guarantee of publication of unsolicited material. Letters to the editor for publication must be signed and confined to 800 words. Subscription Rates; 10c per cot>y; Six months, »2.00; One Year, $3.00 (Foreign Countries. $4.00 per year.) A MAN-whose life and ener gies are spent in the promotion of such eternal verities as hu man dignity, personal self re spect and brotherhood of all men under the Fatherhood of Almighty God, will, upon pass ing this present existence, have so completely identified him self with life that death will have little or no meaning. For life md death are 'but different faces of one and the same eter nal plan of existence, even as the river and the sea Sre one. WHEREAS, in the course of the unfoldment of God’s un fathomable will among the children of men. He has suffer ed the passing of our esteemed friend and co-worker for the common good of all people within our community; . WHEREAS, DAVIS BUC HANAN MARTIN, a tireless, uncompromising and cease less worker for justice, equality and demooracy in our commu nity for many years, has come to the end of a vigorous and fruitful career as a citizen of ^urham; ' WHEREAS, the deceased has wrought well as a leader among the people of Durham in the areas of business enterprise, civic and political affairs; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED; (1) That the Duiham Commit tee on Negro Affairs and the City of Durham, North Carolina have lo^ a cease less worker and a tireless advocate for better and more representative na tional, state and local go vernments (2) That with the passing of D.. B. Martin, a man of cour age and of a pioneering spirit has been removed from our midst and our fellowship (3) That, as we face the com ing days of trial and un certainty and grave mis- . givings in the area of hu man relations, may we, his fellow citizens of Durham and in his memory, take increased devotion to tbose aspects of life to which he has given so generously of his time, his energies, his ^oney and his interests, that the unfinished task of building a Christian demo cracy shall not be neglect ed (4) FINALLY THAT a copy of these resolutions be copied into the permanent records I of the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs, and a copy of same be presented to the family of the de ceased as a token of our esteem of a man who has iwrought well and has carried forth the banned of noble service to his fellow- man. DURHAM COMMITTEE ON NEGRO AFFAIRS By J. S. STEWART Chairman By C. E. BOULWARE Executive Secretary Tor he himself kne\o what was in man” John 2; 25. Jesus in the infinite wisdom of his Eternal nature knew what was in man. Yes, what is man’s true nature? What is in the dark, hidden depths of Man’s inner nature? What’s in the conscious and the subconci- ous mind of fnan"! What' about those hilden hurtful feelings which rise up to plague us so Offten? They flash forth with their fury to enslave us with their unreasonable viciousness. What makes man tick? What is the passionate driving power of so many human actions? Are we moved by our i^nds or our passions? Jesus knew there was something radically wrong with man’s nature. 'I'hus he said man’s nature needs rebirth through the redeeming "power of God’s love. ' The whole Biblical teaching' of Regeneration of the New Birth grows out of his concept of what’s in Man’s Nature. What’s in man? There are dark blitad passions in man. And then there are the sub lime aspirations of Holy Love. The latter quality is the thing that makes man “a little lower than the angels”. It is also the heart of sacrificial services men perform in their finer mo ments of Holy aspiration. Yes, there is hate that watps, wrecks, enslaves and ruins indi viduals, races and nations. And then there is the' enriching warmth of human and divine love. I What’s in man? Pride holds a big place in man’s nature. There is the essential pride which makes for a self-re^ect- ing human being. A prideless man is a worthless man. But wait! There is the other side of pride which in its ugly viciuus- ness will destroy a man. This pride rides a high horse and is dressed in the shoes of haughti ness and a cloak of arrogance. This kind of pride debases a man. It puts a cheap tag on the personality of others. This pride is strangling and wasting the *lives of two hundred mil lion people in Africa. This is the pride of race supremacy in Mississippi. This is the pride that tries to insult and degrade ten million people under segre gation. What’s in man? There is the noble and the ignoble. There is the angelic and there is the passion of beastJliness. Man as cends to angelic heights. And he can descend to the dark depths of hell.' What’s in man? Fear, a spiri tual hobgobblin, inhabits man’s soul. It ehfilaves and cramps the soul. We know the ravages of fear in our souls. Our fears are vicious. They defeat our good ambitions. They rob us of quiet ness and peace. We fear these and other things—lost of pow er, prestige, job, status, loved ones and security. Fear breed»^ hate. That we fear, we soon b»- gin to hate. No wonder the Bible admonishes us so often to...“FEAR NOT”. Stop, now, exchange your fears for faith and trust. I ask with Jesus... “WHY ARE YE FEARFUL.... WHERE IS YOUR FAITH?...” What’s in man? There is the Hate forces which enslaves the soul. And there is the FAITH- LOVE FORCE WHICH RE LEASES LIFE IN ITS RICH NESS, BEAUTY AND POWER. Jesus saves and gives life abun dant now and eternally. Letter To The Editor College Fund Alumni Meet Set For Phila. NEW YORK The National Council of UNCF Alumni, represmting[ more than 100,000 graduates and former students of the 31 member institutions of the United Negro College Fimd, will hold its 10th aimual con ference Satut^y and Sunday, February 11-12, in the Broad- wood Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. Carolina Times I have read the views of many editors and citizens in North Carolina in regards to Segregation and Integration; some good and' some bad. The bad is always loaded with atomic bombs. As in the days of Paul, thousands have no con science. It is sad to say in this enlightened, intelligent, scien tific, and so-called religious age, many do not believe that God exists. I am sure if they did, they would not have a heart of hate. I realized that during the jkuraign wars, our boys' were called to help fight that we all might enjoy life and a land of freedom. Yes, our boys met many Atheists, Agnostics and Materialists. I sometimes be lieve that many have found their way into religious circles. The Atheist says, “There is no God.” His statement is no proof that God does not exist. These boastful Atheists often ^eak differently when they face death. The Agnostic says, “1 do not know whether there is a God or not" The Materialist boasts by saying, “I do not need God, I can run the world without Him.” I have ch(^n to cast my lot with the Christians because 1 believe in God and need Him in my Ufe; for in Him 1 have my Being. Proverbs 14; 34 says, “Righteousness exalteth a na tion but sin is a reproach to any people.” I am sure that it would be besl^ for the leaders of both, races to get together and teach the people to obey the laws of the land and not teach them to disobey the laws. Let’s spend more tima. pre paring to keep Russia from cap turing America and making slaves of those that may be left. America will know what it is to be segregated and consider ed an inferior nation. I believe that the Negro will be an asset rather than a li ability. Let us search our his tories and we will find that the Negro has made wonderful progress In ninety years with many disadvantages; attending school three months a year in one-room log cabins with one window, 2x4. The Bible has never failed ^man in his despair and dark ness, and there is not one bro ken promise found on it’s pages. Sin is the cause of the trouble that we are having with hea then nations and our troubles are just beginning. We will never have peace in this world until the Lord establishes ever lasting i>eace and the earth made new. If we read the prophecies, we will know the truth; for the more you fight the truth, the brighter it will shine. Peter, at one time, had racial prejudices; Acts 10; 28, 34-3S; "And he saM ihito them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or un clean. Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of n truth I preceive that God is no respec ter of persons; But in every na tion he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness. Is ac cepted with him.” He hath re moved rat;ial prejudice so that His servant, Peter, was willing to take the word of Salvation to a despised group. All who desire up-to-date in formation on world conditions should read the Bible. We don’t want to be ignorant concerning what is coming upon the world. If we do, then Ignore the Bible. We can not Initiate the pro phetic writings. Prophecies are given by God who knows the beginning to the end. See Isaiah 46:9, 10; also 42:9. If we want to know: ^ A. why in our day, have come all this modem know ledge and the wonderful inven tions in which we rejoice; read Daniel 12:4 and Nahum 2:3-5. B. why there is so much trouble between capital and la bor; reed James 5. C. why a state of fear and anxiety exists mong the na tions; read Luke 21. D. why there is so much crime and lawlessness; read 2nd Timothy 3 and Islah 24. E. why a program has been launched to evangelize the whole world with the Gospel for our time; reed St. Matthew 24:14 and Revelations 14:8-12. (Continued on Page Sevan)
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