^ THE CAROLINA TIMES
MM TRUTH UNMIDLtD* $AT^ OCTOBIR 1, 1M0
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ONLY IF THEY REGISTER AND VOTE
,. A PBAYIB FOB WRrims AND NBWH>APERMEN
OSArj QREAT dOURCC of ttulk and knoMedg*, we mmwter UM^rt ttipn aH whose calling it Is to
dMkor I MntiMr a| facta far iafanakic the peopla. inspirv Umw wift » (determined love for hoMit
Wttk awf * staMDii halved for flHr nakinf of Iiei, l««t Ac df our Mtion be iarverM and
•» mm *Amm and darlKsk Keht. $iMe efe M«rity aad «IMIom of ai notion ar« IR
waiVi. awv Acy nwM N rtiaaie to »t Nte feant naaaioM nf ma art flr« for the sake at gate.
MJMr lK¥m suMer «ieiMetpas W be aaad !■ *«>Mi*gs tha ailiid al Me peaple with ftilschoodB atid
Grant Uiew bolliiess t» Wra the unwelcome light on tftose who love lie darkness baeause their deatfs
arc a»l. fW Mo tfcair haa4s the shining sword of truth, and make them worthy successors of the great
nhaiiiiaii tfcc iiaapia lidd. mith l4 te a holy ^ aaMaa Vtm im* Im whwh aM»
siio«d >die. Cause liiem to realiair *a( OMjr tmm a *>akfti fawtttaw to mte eawua»aawe»W>. aad that ttaia
oantry may be aaved by Umit mmtm \tif Mr iiimJit mi tOaat*. Gmrnl Nmm the
af flMabaod ta cast Hialr eygj"*** «mr «a faaaaa Wm wmitm tha »aa»ic aad ftaa,
«*« >«•. *».*■* “ H»aai ta OMr aaaia Om Omy haw la«i»« a mt*
and have been ser\’ants of Mv i*flhef M».
A two Party Systenr lor Hie Souib
Tha Vacation confronting tkf Jfeg»o
voUers »f North Carolina and thf remaia4er of
the SoMh in the efection to l)c hekf m Jteveaa-
ber is is not thsbt uf voting Repob&can «*
l^mocratic, either nationalh- or sta^rwMe, as
mnch as it is that of being; \viin»|r *o
Sooth wrest itseW from eternal slavery I® Ifce
Demccfatic Party. Likf his wlttte coo»tcr^rt.
Kegfro leaders in North CaroAaa atgaa tkat
tkis is a Democratic state and, therefore, fkey
are bound to vote Democratic H the race ts n«t
to be left otrt in the cold ed«catio(ia% aa€
otherwise. As a result of this altiadie Ney;rors
of the state wili soob iind thetiKelves Ut the
same political dileranna as that of fbe wM4e
chieens whose poHtiC^t party is ehosaw fo*
them before they are born. Such a state of af
fairs cannot by any stretch of imagination be
clashed as the most healthful to be hadi.
There is no denying- the fact that from a
pofttica} standpoint that the greatest n6ed ini
the South today is a two-party system. For as
long as the South is known to b^ tn the bag,
far as tfc« Denrocratic Party is coacerwed,
there is little if any ehamee that overtures will
fce male tw k by either party or then" ca^di-
^tes. Not onty is this unfortuante for Negro
eiitacfis bait white eitrxens ais welK
If the So«th is to ever free itself from its
prcseiM p«M«ieal pfight of a one-party systetn
aometime aftd somewhere a beginniAg m^ast be
made by me« and women- of vision. Said the
great sage, Ralph Watdo Emerson; - “There
19 a time iw every raajn’s edoication when he ar
rives it the co»vi«tkm that envy is ignoraace;
fitol 1]^I7AT10N is stiieide; that he must take
Mmself tot better o* worse as his poftioR.”
Fiof as it was also said by the great Oliver
WefwteW Hoiiwes, "No man- ean ge far who^
nevcrs sets down his foot until he knows the
sidewalk is under k. No man has earned the
tight to intellectual ambition untit he has
learned to lay his coufse by a star which he
has never seen - to dig by divining rods for
springs which he may irtver reach.”
Coiorpbobia on a Rampage in ffarnett Ccuily
Otiiy Negro parents and a Negro ehild can
fulJy sympathize with the pircuts and the
little seven-year-ofd white girl who was barred
from attending a white school at Ehinn last
>. week merely because she has dafk skin. Tf
this tragic iitcident has served to awaken
white citizens of North CaroBna to tire vict-
oosness s£ colorphobia, it may be welt worth
all ef'the harm that school official in Harnett
County have heaped upon an innocent, chiW.
If Harnett Cosnty school officials have
fotmd satisfaction in their latest efforts to
preserve the purity of the white race, they
sDiight be shocked out of that sartisfaetioB to
discover that, fot the most part, lliey liave
become targets of rebuke aaKmg iwatty of the
thinking white people of this state. The big
question now before the Board is libw dai4
mast the skin of a white pers«» b« befere he
barred from white! schools. Qr perhaps
Couaty officials should call f6r arf election. tO
aame a Board of Racial Ideatity aad Purity
to determine sach.
-iL might be -that this rolmrphdtia yrobkn*
could be served in Harnett CouiMy fey efectrng
a “separate but equaH’ eldmentar^ school
building for the little girl and staff rt with a
separate but equal faculty. By doing so they
will be sure to preserve the Tily-w^ite skin of
its Kght-skin white people. Certainly if dark-
N. skin white people are permitted to go to
school with light skin white people amalga
mation is sare to foHow, resaltt«g i« a Mon-
Is Hodges a New Yoke Crying in Dixie Wilderoessl
There are tw’o ways to k»k at the state
ment Governor Luther Hodges made at the
26th annual St»uth«rn Governors Conference
now in sesskMt at Hot'Springs, Arkansas. In
commenting on Senator John F. Kennedy’s
chances to win out in North Carolina over
Vice PresideKt Richard Nixon in the presi
dential contest, Hodges said that the fouth
haa a chance to get off the defensive and to
"portray the right image of America to the
woffel but "we will have to start wearing our
Suii^y clothes seven days a week.”
II the govemor meant that the South eaa
help America's position in world affairs by
alK>lishing its pattern of religious and race
prejtidice and becoming ait area of Ihe nation
i4 which the haniaa dignity of all men rmy-
bk found, so well and good. On the othei
h^. «be statement of the governor eouid
iSean that the South shouM resoft to the kind
ot prejudice exhibited by ow dmrcbes on
Sunday Morning aroand eleven o'cfoek when
AtMricat, as it has been so truthfully stated.
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SPIRITUAL mSIGHT
grel race. Say, bro«h*r figitt skin white per
son, woaW yoa want yo«r d!»aghteT .to many
a dark skin white man?
Seriously, we thinit this troforgiveable ham
that has been heaped upon this rnnocent child
can never be undone in Harnett County. It is
our sincere hope that her parents will decide
to move to some other coonty where the
white people are not half maniacs over the
toestion of skin color and where they attath
more impoftance to character.
Along with the personality damage that has
been done in the fittle seven-year-old girl is
o«e equally as damaging that has come to
the oher white school children of Harnett
County. They will now not be able ttf'escape
the damnable notion that a light skin is a
badge of superiority. This> kind -of misconcep-
tiott in a worM that js now^ over
this very Westiorr may mean that the yeats
to come will find them unpr}»a‘fed (of a world
society in which all men mus|, stfhi equalfy
i» the eyes of all other men, withpi^ regard
-td-rac4r-ere«*j^-or «olor, i4-4h«y' are .ftot t« en
danger the safety of us all.
Unless somehow fnan can find' a way to rid
his heart of all this poisonous mess about race
and skin color; unless he can fincf some way,
as it was said over forty centuries ago, for
the woH- fe dwell with the lamb, “and the
leopard to lie down wfth the kid; and the calf
and the young Ilon and the fatling together,”
we win have no work!.
God Is Always Near Those
Who Really Try to Rnd Him
"GOD IS NiAR”
?'Y*» M# is not Hr lr«m weh
on* •! u* . . . " Act* 17:27.
God fills the infinte vastness
of his wondrous creation. Here
we have briefly set forth the ,
doctrine of God omnijireseace.
What an assurance it is to know
that God is everywhere. God is
always near (o every creature,
fhas the Psalmist calls God th*
inesct^able one. If we descend to
the darlcest depths God is ther#-
—near and ready to help. You
may take wings and soar upward
into the infinite vastness of outer ^
space and there you will find
that God is still near. God the
all powerful one fills His crea
tion. And this we his children
should alvtays know that God is
ever ^ar us t» help us.
God is ever near wiih His gra
cious love and care. Have you
really thaufiht abouLthe .spiritiwl
meaning of this great idea? Wh^a
I am lost in the darkness in my
weakness, blindness and iielptess^
ness, I can be assured that Gpd
Is near and ready to help me.
God’s sovareign power is near
and can be tapped in my behalf.
Isn’t it wonderful to know that
wherever I am and whatever my
condition may be God is
and ready to help me,
Paul had this in mind in Rom
ans when he said . . • “Nothu^
can separate me from His love.”
And Jesus was tryring to impress
this great truth when Ha said:
■‘Seek and ye shall find — knock
ami the door wi» be dpened."
"Go* is ever near and ready and
wiflini to help His chlWren. 1
have always found God near and
a very present help in tie thntf
of trouWe."
G64 Is always near and all you
have to do is call, Him up.
In daily prayer we find that
God is always near. Itien let us
cultivate God’s presence by, a
daily chat with him in. prayer.
Then let us stay oh sjSsatBg
tarins with Sod so we can c»U.
You can call my ^od anxtime
and anywhare. iOod r^es aver
South Can Take A Lesson From "Sif*Downers"
reaches its highest point of segfregation while
at worshifi.
Hodgea went on to say that tlie Ui^ited
States had “done nothing but slip and slide’'
in world affairs during the present adminis
tration awcl that "the people are looking for
action and a dynartfre government.’' ^aid Hod
ges further, "We need new vision, a new
image and a determination to do the job that
needs to be dope. ' j . v
• > "’‘'I,
Now these are strong w«^ds,. and we trust
the govet^ior means what he says. Certainly,
the times demand that the South time in on
the wave of freedom now prevalent in Africa,
As» and other parts of the world. Anoerica’s
posit^ as a wofld .leader most not b« en-
dange/^ by the perpetuation of the southern
way of Kfe btrih on a foundation l^at only
“white isrright," If America is to heiW it» own
among the peoples of the world, it mmt be
able to extend to men of all ra«es, ctteeds and
colors the full benefits of the democratic way
of Kfe. It cannot deny these benefits to- others
in any section tff the nation withoirt endanger
ing her position and inffuence among thtf-over-
whdnriMg number of darker people of the
carttf.
Gevmior Hodges' statement, we hope, is
a nett voice eryittg in the sonthern wifderness
of the 'United States. If a new and broader
outlook OB the race probien* is his objective,
AtM ft t« heeded tbe leaders in the soMttherti
•tetes, il ean metn a new day for the Souflf
that will enhince this country’s position hj
wwM nfWr*.
Quietly lunch counters in some
cities in the South are abolishing
their racial restrictions and Ne*
groes are sitting down to eat
wl^re they have never sat be-
fore. The Diamond, leading de*
paflment store in Charleston,
West Virginia, under pressure
from the Congress of Racial
Equality and from various, citi
zens’ groups for several years le
cause of segregation at its Itinch
counter, is now accepting all pat
rons in all departments and var
iety stores on an equal basis.
Six Departn^ent and variety
stores in Nashville have now de-
segregated their lunch counters
following sit-in demonstrations
by Negro students and the near
riot which resulted when white
hMdlwns tormented the demon-
Orators. During a cooUng-afi
period the transition m Rashvilkr
was carefully planned at cov-
ferences between respresentative
N«gro and white leaders. Niem of
the agreement ria^h^, the plan
of operation, and the date fdr
putting the plan into effect were
kept from the general publfe
through the cooperation of the
store managers and all media pf
communication. On “D-day” (de
segregation day) Negroes in small
numbers sat at the lunch coun
ters daring the slack hours of
the afternoon, placed simple or
ders, were served, and left
iioietly after eatins and ^iig
their eheeks.
One stwe official commented;
“There was no reaction whats»
ever from our white austonaMrsL”
Thus easUy can tha new day re-
plaee the H i» refvetaMe
tbat Negroes htve h*d to win
freedoif-froM-lnsult tagr protests,
but we can bfe grateful that they
l»ve riBsblv^ to resiit wrongs
peacefully. .are not respon-
pfble for the, turmoil which enr
sues whftn they assert their dig
nity as persons.
The acceptance of the Nash
ville pnd ChOleatdn actittu
prove what good may come when
ihe, rightful claim of the Negro
to he treated as a citisen aiid a
human being' is met with kind
ness and in |oed faith by respon-
College Days Ahead
This is the time of year when,
millions of -eoHege students, all
met the coAtry, prepare to
leave home. enter college for
the first timte, or return.
U we could offer any single ,
piece of advice Vo yeangstera e»
tering college, or returning te
college, it won^ lie for them te
develop a Christian philosophy
and attempt to Hve by it. W« are
too rapidly becoming, a "stand
ardized” jpeople in the Uiiited
Spates.
Each young boy and girl shotHd
develop' their own Christian phi-
lesoiAy> aceordhig to their reli-
^on and conscience, attempting
to do gtxM]' for others as wen
tBeme^es, and they should re-
sirt the temptation fo follow tha
eroHyd. oir conform socially, if it
dbw not blend in with hia or her
e«n«pcrs^l phUoaopi^r. In the
Iiing ran, 4ha world will reward
Independent thinkint aHMugh
the Cl# ira7 Men to IM lifgh,
or oiirwiutioa» t«a»oraB%.
MoieM'of Mm
vaitr ttai t Aail |la» ftiiai
ahaM aever ydaalf Ini fliw
wtAte mjt I ah«B d^a klM
stejl bein Mb* e we# a# wleir
wpOmgimtc vi» tato th* ei«w->
laattasli^e^Oolw 4il4)
Thqaa who Uk» Christ fartv
their Warts Uvw ea«vy
witli thean tivNtym tie ooe
wrfnMnff ammrem frant iKiifali
tba|r ean atven«th mkI
t*lr»»hmant in timea of
trouble, temptation aad waar*
laaas.
Tshombe of Katanga Described 1
As Npet Ruled By fhe Belgians
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
■DfTOirs M9TI: Uef weak,
WM»m sbelafte4 Hm aarftr
bicfcgi'oMMf of ■atfium'* oi»’
nlai policy In tha Conso- The
dlicutsion is continuad this
week.
By FRANCES WALTERS
But as these countries aband
oned the responsibilities of gov
ernment their industrial leaders
continued to develop colonial
properties. Mines were developed
in Katanga and elsewhere, using
native labor wholly, except for
technicians, and not one cent was
ever paid the Congo itself either
in faxes ot for ownership. The
Belgian industrialists were asso
ciated with the world-wide cop
per cartel, which has its head
quarters in Rhodesia, South of
the Coniro, and with financiei*
all over the world except in Rus
sia,
pillions of dollars have been
taken out of the Conffn and not
one cent of this have the Cnneo-
fese seen, except the pitifully
tiny wages paid, them.
When the Belgians left the
Con^o they appointed a wealthy
native citiien of LeopeMville
named Kasavnftu, who bad made
Ms money under fhe Belgiaas, to
he President, heinif sum that he
weald guard th«fr interests But
astensibly te paitfy tie outlying
country, they appointed Kasavu-
bu’s lauiest critic, the patriot
Patrice Lumumba, as Premier,
believing that_^ KasSvubu would
know how to-handle him. But
Uumumba had power in the. pro
vinces and quidtly took over the
array.
TSHOMBE: A QUISLING
Moise Tshombe, a quisling ill
the employ of the Belgians, re
volted in Katanga and, backed by
Belgiap troops, took over the one
province that was absolutely ne
cessary of the new Republic were
to be on a sound financial basis.
Simtritanecusly Belgium circu
lated reports of Congolese atroci
ties against the BQlgians which
later were found to be false.
Because of these alleged atroci
ties the Secretary General of tlie
United Nations flew to Leopold
ville wher/s he was impressed
with the urgency of the crisis
and so advised the tTnited Na
tions, which sent an array tn oc
cupy the country and restore or-
dev. '
Next week I will tell ,vou what
happened after the United. Na
tions troops arrived—and the de
cisions which led up to the criti
cal situation today.
r
A Pandora's Box
the infinite vastness of the uni-
verse and Jesus says he sees and
is near when the Httle sparrow
falls to the ground. God sits in
soverign power over the creation
and “Yet He is not far from each
one of us. God is near. Call Him
and He will hear your prayer
and bless your needy soul.
This nearness of God shaulld
banish our fears and anxieties.
God is near you. Then take Him
at His word and rest the whole
weight of your life on Hira and
in Him. God is near, so you
should be free from unnecesaary
fears. God is near you, then away
^ith those gnawing and para
lyzing and energy-wasting anxi-e-
ties,
God is near you now. Then let
us trust Him fully and go on to
live successfully and victoriously
from ^ay to day. “Be not dis-
iniyea whatever betide,'God win
take care of you.” For God ia not
far from each one of us.
NBW YWOS — . . . (CNS) . .
While N«gr« servieeanen are well
tategrated, tli«y are stilt subject-
0# to raelat diaerimination. In a
aarvey hy the American Veterans
Conmittee, which has been snb-
nitted t» tha gavenment, it
shows this.
1. ^acti^lly n« Negro veter
ans are' in white eiritar Jobs in
aeuthem VA offieest
2. .Southern Negro veterans
were tao Aseouraged by eeono-
mie diaeriafiinati(» tei ap]^ for
Cff home, farm aatt business
loans.
3. Negro veterans were unable
to use their Gl-on-the-job train
ing because no decent Jobs are
available to Negroes in the south
and few iti the North.
To correct a feir of the.se
points, a ^oposed amendment
of the 61 tin fias been suggested |
whereby the lot of Negro veter
ans woo^ be imnroved. Repre
sentative* would be established
to help ffegro GIs get their right
ful benefits, and to halt federal I
funds which in any wav support- J
ed discrimination against veter-/
ans. * ‘
Vels Face Jim Crow
iiible white leaders. Other citiet
should-profit from the examples
set in Charleston and Nashville.
In the end Negro citizens wjH
ride desegregated buses, eat rt
desegregated lunch counters and
swim ia mimcipal swimmiaf
pools, worship in desegregated
churches. Why do white peojie
continue to degrade, torment aAd
affliet themselves by humUiatitg
and depriving, the Negro?
—The Christian Century, May »,
In a land where people might
no know or care who their great
grandfather was, a group of Har
nett County parents would open
a genealogical pandora’s box.
The parents turned a little girl
away from^ the white school their
own children attend because she
is “a little dark skinned.”
'Perhaps every white school in
North Carolina should follow the
Ifarnett school’s example alnd
have g skig-ehaclttHg esmMlttee
watcMng at the door.
Perhaps peafle now should
add to their worries one about
how much sun their ehiklren get
at the beach in the summer.
Perhaps chUcfren should sub
mit along with proof of their
vaeeinattons a phper proving
themselves to be pare Caucaaian.
Perhaps white people all over
the state had better get a lot
m»re interested in the family
tree, including the parents wha
turned the little girl away be
cause somebody else might be
checking the skins next year.
All of this ili rtdicalius ii^ the
extreme, of course, but it is no
more ridiculius than the Harnett
County parents wiio suspect the
little girl of being part Negro
and the Harnett County officials
who let the parents' suspicions
fag t^eir official judgement.
•The child whose skin "is a
little dark” moved into the Dunn
community this year after attend-
a white school in Jones County
last year. Documents recording
the little girl’s birth list her as
white.
‘‘When this little girl carae
with dark skin, they came to the
eonelasion she should been sent
home,” Mrs. L. L. Milam, the
school’s principal, said. She spoke
of the pathos attending the case
while Harnett school officials de
cided to conduct a “thorough in
vestigation” before allowing the
child to go to school.
Mrs. Milan already has con-
dutted the only sensible investi-
gafiop in this matter. “The re
cords all show white,” she said.
"The parents are as white as I
■am . . .” And the sensible princi
pal warned: “If we started send
ing them home because they
were a little dark skinned there
would be three or four around
here who would go home.”
—Raleigh News and Observer
SHOtaO HIVE GOHE TO CUBA
Life will, even yet, reward the
individual who thinks for himsaU
am) devetope his own phHoaopliy
and chwaeter, and this is a Ma
jor undertaking for every stu
dent going to school this Fall.
--The Inde^ijdent Call
Robert Lee Shirley, 25, was on
vacation from his job in a Ve
teran’s Hospital at Long Beaoh,
Calif. On Sept. 2 he was travell
ing by car with his mother, his
girl friend, his three sisters and
a nephew from Gainesville, Ga.,
to Norfolk, Va.
Bn route Bear Gaffney, Soutti
Carolina, he stopped to ask a
gfoup of white men outside a
meter court for highway direc
tions. After some words, one of
the men riiot Shirley in the stom
ach. He wrestled tha gun from
Mb assailant and the men dis
persed.
The kMtal sheriff insisted the
aheating waa “just one ol those
thinfa tbrt happaa There wasn’t
racial.aa«l» ahaut ik.”
His olflae said: “We’re paetty
aura we kkaw wh« the sen ate.
BM they RaHw lega and Wa havea’t
eaiight np with them. We're
aa the at» day and
The gavarioi caHed the shoet-
ing “a wanton act^” He aaid such
happe^ngs "will not be tolerated
in South Carolina” and pranlwd
>eee«cwtlee “to tka lUl attent
"re-
“in
of the law.”
The incident reminded us that
,on Sept. 3 the $tate Department
warned Americans about travel
ing in Cuba. A principal hazard
Americans tourist should watch
out for, according to this warn
ing is use of “cameras” in
stricted” areas. A tourist
trouble” might be “detained
briefly by the police. . . ”
This propaganda is part of a
coldly calenlated campalfn to
stop Americans from visiting
Cuba.
The fact is that Cuba is far
safM for tourists than the United
States. For example, no tourist
ever got shot ia the stamach for
asking directions iii Cuba.
If Shirley had spent hi* va
cation in Cuba he would have
found a land where raoR pre-
ludice is virtually nonexistent
and where tourists of all colors
are given the most roy
come.
Perhaps in their next ca
speeches on (he “mena^'e
Cuba and the virtues of
can democracy under Dixiecrat
nil«.
—The MiUtant.
wel-
ipaign
of
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