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2 TI?£ CAROLIlsjA TIMES Saturday, M*y 24, 1958 E!«siDCinMwirsvsirTo SOUn«MEMCA ' You read recently that Vice President ; ■ . trii r4:xoii \v;v t i:pon on a good-will tout of ojr v r t-.iuntries in Sotith America. l.v\ l' !'-■ mislake about it, those South ! V f t UP '>' Nixon were spit- ) ;; ,1. I, , •. V V cai.cii of the Unittxi States, jv v.c • ' or insignificant his lot visitor to the South American ■n vi-nf, more than a visitor. Ho ■; . '■ the United States, and 1 :j c inti-mpf our neiRhbors to the , , i,;.(;v,ori for him was contempt i, - ! ■ V. (’ -’ntrv. • i ' I ‘ ;;i it the .-it-jdents, although re- p \ i livo boon professionnl Com- r. li t .: '!r inspiration and method of f • : -■ n-; .-mpt inr this country from what h ‘-f- d t Dorc't'iy Counts a Negro ntu- c'c '1^ Mitmptrri to enroll in a white s- ;- :1 in r'-, I.ilie last fall. Or it might be t.:-; V. t-re ro'cnting the foreign policy of the Lr ‘c :‘t '.ti . I'r v.'h.it wo did in Little Rock iO' th.m citio.' recently. What- ■eve the ree-'-'-n you must lake no comfort or dll i; r. ; I ■O'.'r way ; m - m ■ :t:, To do so i.'; revengeful. Keep minds.'Fonls and spirits as far n; I", cnge as pr.ssible. even though I t ^ "c;’m other ‘ourccs. Two wrongs ■: he ‘ i^jht. rntry mtjst lonrn, maybe the hard * '-nt li!te, th;rt there are some things • : ' ,.’i. int hl’v. It can’t buy real friend- . ' ■ -'^fi-'.v'll. He wlio attempts to •' 't v. >': r- 'ni!v is rnly a little iibove the .1 1:! :i " lio uttempts to peddle it for money. Watch the Burop^an c6UMtf4es have pefidled theirs Ameribhh Hortih. There Is no basic inutiial rgspsil Ih elth» the buyer or the seller. The friendship gives out as soon as the money gives out. While you are reading this you might ask yourself the question, is thttre Snythihg I won’t sell for money? dt yttu nlight'tib he smarted thing and ask yoilftelt the Ites'ieln- barrassing question, is 'there anything I can’t buy with money? Turn the pitiless searchlight of thorough analysis on the Vice President’s South A- merican toUr and you are compelled to con clude that in spite of the purchased warm reception he received in son* of its countries even In OUr OWn hehiisphere the United States stands practitaillj^ tflonfe and without honest-to-goodhess friends. For the frtend- ship of nations cannot be measured by the tailored greetings of its crown heads and diplomats but by a mutual feeling of brother-, hood among the common pedple. Finally, our own nation must realize that jt cannot engender respect ^or the d^ocratic' way of life in European, Asian, African and South American countries so long as It fails to practice it here at home. 4*tit it on fdreign policy or whatnot, the fact l^mains thht what "has happened -in Little Rock, Mont gomery, Birmingham, in our own state,' Charlotte and other southern cities speaks so loudly that Vice President Nixon’s voice Or that of any other representative of this couh- try cannot be heard. OF WROtie BY ns CIWKH xJ) n an editorial in its issue of Wednesday, I I V 21 .ittled, “Impasse Over Segregation i;; C : i Groups,” the Durham Morning Iltrf(. ii for a compromiBe in this momen- t’; q’ l t; n which now faces the South. 1 o :■> tlie fact that the ministers in ; ■nations to which most Southern : ;c: i.icmbcrs belong have endorsed the :; v Court s-*Taciai desegregation de- i..' :0’i . ’ v.'hilc a “substantial number of t'lii r S members” have not, the Herald says, • li :o;',»rnng to a study commission set up by the Diftf'C of Southwestern Virginia on the rartter cf desegregation that the organi- ration “has the opportunity to lead Southefn religif us groups in a reconciliation of differ- iinrxr on pressing issue.” * V'h: t t!’.e Ilerpld csks for and apparently i' ;■ r.'mpr(«nise with a system that Jir' bcca declared wrong by the highest be nches of . the church and the highest f>ri:i.ches of o\ir government. In other words. according to the Herald, both should paiilper the South in its dfesiire to continue a wrong, giving it time to adjust itself to right. As well might one attempt to compromise with murderers, thieves, harlots, bootleggers and other criminals. This‘has been proved to be true by the lack of seHous effort all avpt the South to comply with the Suprehie Cdurt ruling on school segregation which went in to effect over four years ago. Iftstead of com pliance or even attempts bt compilidnce there has in a majority of cases been downright de fiance and that o£ the highest cdurt in the land. Neither the church nor the federal govei*n- ment can afford for its highest legislative or administrative bodies to comprdihise oti a single issue of wrong. Both must opfehly and uncompromisingly stand up and be counted on the side of right or'mankind •Will aSSvBtl; to savage beasts w*hose way life Will iJfe the survival of the fittest by hoof and the claw. P1AYIH6 ilO THE B»CS' HANK Wiiether we want to admit it or not, the w;;;te man is much more clever in his use of ’c .'\r';! o th.'m the Negro ijs in his use of the Recently there has been a con- > effort to create confusion among the -Vegro pc;.ple and get them divided. If suc- cc_3 1l; achieved in dividing the Negroes, the :.e/jregaiiunist-minded white people will have :;occmjjiished their aim. But there is still I ne important factor in the Negro’s favor ard_ that is the Negroes'whom the segre- g&tiohists are using 'nave no influence, nor litiy following whatever. Irrespective to how much they can write ■ how many vitriolic statements issued to t ;e daily pre;;:;. seeking recognition toward ■erderfhip, there is only one Negro’s voice in .•\rkansas that change the integration picture Arkansas as far as the Negroes are con- 3c:r,'od. 'That’s a fact without contradiction, ivl’.rlhfcr it is liked or not. Tr;: s ro period for any kind of disunity of the Negro people, and we do not believe that the people who seek full citizenship and dienil',- will allow any Negro who has aligned MiTTivc’f with the segregationists to disrupt \Keir orofjram for complete citizenship re- to their likes or dislikes toward the metijods pursued. Neither has our confid ence in the Negro waned to such depths that e led that the Negro’s sense of balance will ije .' I'^ttored by the«tror»g vocal cords of an ClteCa Pt/WCi'ffd every SttfUrrUiy at Durham, N. C by United Publithert, Inc. L. E. Austin. President M. E Johnson, Controller Frinrtpal Office located at 436 E. Pettigrew St Durham, North Carolina Wla«ton-Salem Office: 308 N. Cheetnot Street EDDre Fomtst, Mamacei i entered at tecond clan matter at the Po*^ &0iee at Dui'ism, North Carolina under the JtSt of March S, tS79:’- - »^p»c«f«30N Ratw: $3.00 P** y«A* exilist - from the Tahnadgean 'territOTjr «hd weaken in his fight for his constitutional rights. M is our opinion that while these self- styled leaders ‘are seekii^ money find rec ognition, the ■majority ttie Kegifoes ai% seeking and fighting for thSit condtltutfdnal rights, and are throwing ft»eir strength be hind those who are working for and with them toward that end. We do mot believe that the Negroes in Arkansas have Iflfifl thfeir jierspecfive. know the Negroes liCfho -sirt 'sfnWt^. know the Negroes who liave been put to the* test and stood up for them. And they also know the Negroes who haive woiTced with the segregationists against their caute. We 'do not ibelieve that the Negro’s memory is Sb short thait he will allow himself to be used 80 quickly, 'therefore it is our opinion thart; the segr^ationists are wasting their time in trying to push icertain Negroes out in front as leaders of the Negro people. The Negtoes of Arkansas know Whdm they watit to lead them. As a matter of fadt "the 'Nfegroes haVie chosen their leadei^. The African Methodist Epiwopal people have their leader; the Arkansas funM*al directors fetive thfeir the Arkansas b^uti;tans have th«*ir )Mder-;j the Arkansas teachers hffv% their leaffel", and we undei^and that the Arkansas have thtSr leader. The leaders were seldjt- ed by Negtoes in thdr Own field arid not by any white ^jeople, and«b^ all, thfe^^attlbhal Association for the Advancement of Ck)lot'Al People 16 recognized leader in be field ‘df Cfvil rt^ts f*r them all whietiler thfey Jikfe tt' not, and when the NAAC^P tt ah. ear.—A«KANSASStAtte PMHSS, Mriy !!6. BtJt NOt IT'S 9&Wn And how, in dosing a final thoi^ht on , the “fron ICuriain^’: May tt hurt in peace. —Hal Slocb in tlie IntlletiB M OveMn finm Cftib. UMINIIHEUUCKONMN CUYTON nwai »v tovis I:. WRismm In THk fUATIONAL GVAttDIAU, Majr 1# publican gains among Negroes did not hurt Democrat Powell. HT 'SHOULD iStefeM theft's nobody in Adam Clayton Powell's corner but the voters of Harlem’s 7th CongreiS- ional District. And th^y are there even though they do hot sujipoH feverything the viola-, tile Congressmah has ddne in 17 yeiars of piiblic office. POW- ell lias an uncanny faculty for making Mis ihbst fervent fol lowers urihajJiJy some of the time. But whopping majori ties in one successful cam- paifen'for'theN. Y. City Couh- dil iStia seven fOr the flDust of Representatives show that they tlrefer a fiery, though unpredictable, crusader to a tame Tammany hack. PoWell is a political roam- er. Hte has neVbr found a h()me in which he didn’t make life difficult tor the party house keepers. In 1944 he became the firSt N6gro Congressman frohi the East On the strength of the Republican, Democrat ic and American Labor Party designations. Two years later the Republicans ended -their flirtation with the militant minister. In 1050 he bowed to the edict of Tammany boss Gm- mine G. DeSapio and qqit the ALP. Since then he has been a free-wheeling Democrat, using his base in the 10,000- member Abyssinian Baptist Church, of which he is minis ter, and his personal political machinery, the People’s Com mittee and the Greater New York Leadership Council, to wrest concessions from the Tammany Tiger. HOBSON’S CHOICE: Now Tammany has decided the wrestling match is over. Six of the seven Democratic lead ers in the 16th C. D. are re ported ready to drop Powell in favor of a more manage able candidate, “a true organ ization man.” The chief Ne gro spokesman of the ma chine, Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack, has said that “Mr. Powell’s be havior has not been in.the best interest of the Democrat ic Party.” He would seem to be right. In October, 1936, Powell re turned to the political wars from a three-month jaunt in Europe, took a look at the bat tlefield, and called upon Ne groes to “think first as Ne- ■groes at tl»e polls.” After thinking a little further, him self, he decided that the Dem ocratic civil rights plank was ‘,‘withy washy” and the -Re publican plank “so little bet ter than that of the Democrats as to provide a Hobson’s Choice;” to elect th^re is bbt one Hobson’s dhoice; take that dr none. Nevertheless, after still fur ther thought and a widely- heralded visit wtih President ial candidate Eisenhower, Powell came out for Ike in '56. Soon thereafter a Federal gKtnd jury that had been in vestigating the Congressman’s Income tbx returns called an abrupt halt to its inquiries. Rumor had It that this Was the pay-off for Powell’s switdh. Bo'th the Prraident and the Congressman denied the rum or. change'AT THE POtiLS: Whatever his personal reas ons, Powell’s endorsement of Eisenhower and of Jacob K. JBvlts, N. Y. Republican can didate for the U. S. Senate, reflected the growing disen chantment of Negroes with the Democratic party'which they had gtven their votes in land slide proportions since 1936. The party of Roosevelt had become weighted down by “the stinking albatross of Eastlandism.” Because of Southern rebellion and Stev enson’s “moderation” on in tegration, Negro Democrats Who tofed tWe party line cast their ballots With heavy hearts. ' iifany broke the habit. Eis- •ttAioWet’s share of the Negro vote mcre'aised 18 per cent ov- tr 1952—from 21 per certt to 3S per cent of the total. Forty of lOO Negro weekly newsiia- TJcts stipportei -ttie President. n the Deep South, where Nfe- groes blamed Democratic state machines for the limita- tieinB on their franchise, thoS6 who could vote gave Eisen- howtei: a majority of their btl- fiMa. 8t(^rtoson had carTMd lli9timo^e'i predominantly Hllfgro 14th 0. D. tWo-»o-me ih 1052; tn ’S6 the tally Shift- W te iJlserthower, three-ti- %W6. He rode back into office with 99,399 of 72,529 votes cast in his district. They did, howev er, So cdhsiOerable dtiinage to the prestige of 'IX^apid. And the Tamttiany bbss is ‘a pridefiil man. Political ttbservers believed it would be only a matter of time before DeSapio would Seek to settle accotmts witi) PoWell. That timb has come. Capitalizing on an assist from the extreme right-wing of the Republican Pftrty and f»riw- ell’s apparent fall 'from %isen*. t hower’s grace, DeShpio rteett-® ed only to find ah “Accept able” candidate artionfc a half- dozen Negro hopefuls to deny the designation to Powell. The assist came from the ultra - conservtitive we^ly ' magazine, NMtioiuU EeVlew, which last December demand ed that the grand jury recon vene and continue prying into •powell’s finances. The Justice Dept, for a time fatted to re spond,* but under edttstant prodding by the magaSlne a minority of -the jury threat ened to “run away” \with the investigation and hire as at torney Thomas A. Bolan; for mer Asst. U. S. Attorney who had conducted the Initial probe. Bolan is now a law partner of Roy Cohn, one-time boy- wonder and chief counsel of the late Sen. Joseph McCar thy. When Powell’s lawyer challenged the inquiry on the ground that the Natloiiai Re view had Illegally sought to influence the grand jury by mailing to its members anti- Powell editorials. Judge Irv ing I. Kaufman ruled against him. (Kaufman sentenced Jul ius and Ethel "Rosenberg to death In the face of world wide protest). THE INDICTMENT; On May 8 grand jury foreman Clarence J. Myers, presldeht of the N. Y. Life Insurance Co., handed to Judge Kauf man a three-count* indictment against Powell. The indict ment charged the Congress man with evading |1,66S in taxes in 1952 and aiding his Wife, the piaUist Hazel Scott, in preparing a false return -for 1951. Elach count carries a penalty of five years’ •impris onment and a $10,000 fine. In the face of mounting po litical and legal difficulties, RHaih Poweirs Tvsponse "wBs characteristic; he said he Ih- tended to slug it out. Nobody knows what will happen in the courtroom, but l>etween ndw and Nov. 4 the streets’df Hafr- lem are likely to witness one of the dandiest political donhy- brodks in inShy a dSy. Powell has already set the tone of his campaign. The people of Harlem,,! tired of “white i • from downtown Important decisions; Tammany leaders in Harlem are a bunch of political sissies. I don’t cart-who they nomin- r -ate^—we’ll be ready for them ^ when they hit the streets of Harlem. I am definitely in the race to the finish.” mntECBAtS ^EASEb; There wei-e rumors that two of five local Republican lead ers wanted Powell on thdir ticket and were .trying io swing a third, decisive, vote. But GOP 'County Chairman Thomas, Curran said flatlQr: “I want no pairt Of Adahi Powell.” Nevertheless, the prospect of a winner looked alluring to tlepublicans who have not elected a CoiiKi'eSs- mfin from Htlrlem Since 19^0. Whatever the lepubllcBns do, Powell will iiave more ap position thrtin ever before. La bor organilEations Which have pri^viouSiy 'bfiokeil' hfah were reported ready to Wilhdraw their st»ppftt. Negro iiewspa- p^ carrlM the story ^t Dixiecrsrts -had raised a 9200,- 000 Wtty to retire the Cdn- ili^smbh. Though he r^rt was unverified, thwe was ho doubt theft the ■seiS'efNtionlst pre^ todk cl»e*!r In lH>Wel’s ‘aifficiAin. !t1ie Hlchrtlohd tke Mont gomery AdvertlMlfr #nd •other DBstie 'datlf(!S|i carried front page AtfrUn ^ Mb fafc troables and edit^ifilRjr YnKed the gnand }ni^ 'to with its InveatigCititAi. There Wtia hb Mbtil, idthfer, that the SHideenrtt ^MMWed >* iertoiM tir- (Continued dH W|ke ViKht) BUT AT HOME, “YOU MUST HAVE PATIENCE ' ^?IBOUT CIVfL OT&HTS’" VCS OMUlNG-liatlLft Uke't^e tlOUSE M OROWI ^ SAM DEAR •-ms AWFULLY #in| OF V06-T0 SHARE OUR PEmSc^TIC ipEALS WITH ■TOE OTH0J Peoples M WOlJLD-l^ PROUD OF you! J.- Spiritual Insight ‘Cleansed Of Unclean Sjririts” By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND iPastor, Mount Gilead iBaptist Church “Unclean spirits came out of many that were possessed with them.” Acts 8:7. A great hope: Christ can cleanse us from the unclean spirits which possess our souls. We know the evil, un holy spirit is ever ready to threaten us. When we would be good, healthy, happy and joyous, the unclean spirit will not let us. When Christ in love comes into our souls, the unclean spirit must go. Thus, Christ is the answer to this ever present temptation. This spirit is in our souls. This destructive power re minds us that we need to^be saved. It is in all of us. Thus,> we all need the .saving truth of Christ and His *Gospel. They needed it in that an cient city of Samaria. And we still need it in these times In which we live. We are all reminded of the fact that man needs to be sav ed from something. Call it what you will, it’s there. Call it an abberation, maladjust ment, distortion, evil or sin. Some undesirable, destructive or enslaving power Is at work In man’s mind or soul. We need to be’saved from the en slaving power of the Unclean Spirit. Salvation — religiously or spiritually — is to be free from the destructive, enslav ing power of this spirit. God has given us the way of es cape or Salvation through Je sus Ciirist. In Christ, we have the power of God unto Sal vation. Phillip went into the city of Samaria preaching Je sus Christ, and men Wer^ sav ed from the unclean spirit. • Clirist as ia\loflir flfie »sw^ afld the reniedy. The heralds of this saving word have a great re sponsibility In these times. He preached Christ and “Un clean Spirits Came Oat of Many . . . ^The^grlp «f #vll was broken. The Hoi/ Spirit took over and brought* peace and love to set their souls fr^. You, too, in Christ can overcome the unclean. spirit. Yes, let Christ and the Holy Spirit in and the tJncIeaa Spirit Must Go. Christ’s salvation is the breaking of the power of evil in the redeemed soul. The un clean spirit enslaves. But the Holy Spirit sets the soul free. One brings tunnoil and the other brings peace. One bring^ sickness, the other bring^ health and healing. In surren- • dering to Christ the Unclean Spirit will have its power broken and must depart. You can have what you want. Yes, you can have your choice — freedom or spirit ual slavery. Choose this day whom you will serve. Through a simple act of faith in CiiriBt, you can declare your freedom. The unclean spirit binds us In a dark pris on cell. The ,Holy Spirit sets us free and gives us the peace of God. Freed of the power of the unclean spirit, life can be joyously rich for you. Men cannot give it. It is a gift of God. God offers the gift in Christ the Savior. Christ came to free us and give us vntold riches of the fuller life of God. id, are lords By ROBERT SPIVACK SPrVACK Watch on the Potomao Tke President And The Negre Press (Continued from Page one) ed into the ballroom of Wash ington’s Presidential Arms and the Marine Corps Band struck up “Hail the Chief,” this audience of sophistloated men and women game him a monumental welcome. This was the first time since the Supreme Court Integration decision of May 17, 1954 that the President had spoken to a Negro assemblage in the Cap ital. They were expecting a lot. And then what happened? Ike urged “patience and forbearance” in the matter of race relaions. If there were two words that did not have to be spoken to this group those were the words. They have been Patient and for bearing since the daysof the ^^mancipation Proclamation. And then the President Went On to deliver a siermdn- etle, packed With cliches and ‘tJbViotis remarks. “^e most depend more on better and more profound ed- iicatlon than simply on the fettw Of the law,” the Presi dent said. “We must make sure ttiat enforcement wiB not in itself create Injuatlce.” On and bn, tke rambled. He did not “decry laws, for they are necessary” but laws in themselves “will never solve problems that have their roots in the human heart and in the huma^ emotions ...” TBE WRONG AUDIENClE If the President was de termined to make such a speech It seems obvious to me that he was addressing it to the wrong people. It has not been the Negro who has been bombing Southern houses of worship. It has not been in- tegrationists who brave plant ed dynaifiite In public schools. It has not been leaders of the NAACP who have urged de fiance of the courts and civi) disobedience — even when decisions have gone against them in Virginia and other Southern states. After the speech was all over Presidential aides sought out audience reaction. They were surprised at how unani mously unfavorable it was. But the White House cannot write off as just an unfortun ate mistake the President’s re marks. I have been told that responsible Niegro leaders went over many of these points with Sliennaa Adsma and other Adntinistration of ficials. ■ I So we can only conclude that the failure to make a strong statement in behalf of obedicnce to the law of the land was a deliberate decis ion. Actually when you examine) the pattern of activity of this Administration, whether it is in civil rights or in Latin A- merlcan relations, you find the same thing over and over again. It’s a continuing pat tern of appeasing the most re actionary elements in the community. In Latin Ahierica the Ad ministration played ball with all the dictators, from Pei’on to JIminez of Venezuela. The result of this policy was the explosion that took Vice Pres ident Nixon by surprise. Im poverished, trod upon people took their anger out on Nixon who, in their mindv was the symbol of the oppressor. In Washington, the Admin istration appeases the ' Rich ard Russells of Georgia knd the Jim Eastlands of Missis sippi. That can ^ on only to long. Then we may find Ne- leaders Idas patient and less foi^earing than they teiva beeh up to now. And a lot of pK>ple Will be lukfclnf> “What happened?” '
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