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THE CAROLINA TIMII nUTM UNMIM.ID" UT^ MC. t», WITH £NrORC£MfiHT 01^ 1KI UW. DfiMOCftACV WILL miVAIL'. W O TBDU OIBAlf SOfOldfe ti ttutt and knowledca, we raoMinbct bcfort thee all wfeoM calU&g It is to • WBNr «t teett for infimltig the people. Inspire th«a with a deteaniiMd Ibve for hone«t ■i htft^lar the nakiiig m Oes, lest tlw judgeaieat rf our ntfiMi be p«rvMl«d Mid be l» Ml MM «arta and darkness light. ShMC the kantty and wttdom at a nation ar« in IlMlrdN^. mt» tkUt «NHt it sfau>e to set the baser passtons of nen on fire i&r the sake of gain. thvMvwmUrthetaMJvea to be used in drug^ngs the mind of the peop|«;«Uh falsthoods aaf pire judioe. ^ ' ,Grant theat boltotss to tfm the uniietcome light on those who lovA the darkn^ because Iheir deeds^ in evil. Put into their hands the fining sword of truth, and make them worthy successors of the gtitl^ champions of the ptople who held truth to be a hdy thing b; which nytiMs *4d for whi^ ||pii -should die. Cause Um« to realise that they have a public function in the commonwealth, and th^ tftoir country may he saved by their courage or undone by their cowardice and ailence. Grant tWHa 'tte heart of maalieod to cast their mighty iiifluence with the forces that make tho people Itibig aa4 fm. and if they safiar hMS, may they rejoice in that as proof to their souls that they hs*1e*pt « good fight and have hOM servants of the higher law. ' / > The Struggle For Integration in Chipel Hill From the investigation we have made out leadership. Certainly they'^ai’e without the thus far of the Chapel Hill school situa tion as it pertains to Negroes there is a con- Ttirt of ideas, philosophy and emotions such as uo ordinary' person is going to be able to solve or straighten out. On the one hand there appe.xrs the usual element of conservative whites that is fighting, though mostly under cover, to hold back the creeping but certain tide of integration; on the other threre is the element of progressive whites with common sense and the matter of economy on their side, that is fighting to hasten integration that will definitely rt^ujt in raising the ^ucation- al standard of all the children of Chapel Hill and Orange County. In addition tb the above two groups, there are the Negro counterparts of both the pro gressive and conservative whites. However, those classed as Negro conservative are hardly worthy of having such a respectable label and should in reality be classed as the “Uncle Tom" element. Among them are to be found the servants at the University of North Caro lina, the public school teachers and one or two ministers of the community. Of course, the University servants and the teachers whose jobs are controlled by whites are stringing along with the conservative whites out of stark fear of losing their jobs or in curring their ill Will. The most piti«bl^'}ot is that of several Ne gro ministers ^»f the community who are trying to do a circus act by riding two differ ent horses at the same time—the conserva tive and the progressive. They know that there is absolutely no possible way for Ne groes to ever obtain equal educational oppor tunities with the whites, but, apparently fc|r the lack of visio^ lind downright^ moral cour-' age, they'will not take a'definite stand^^ the matter. ^ Because in the past Ntgroes of Chapel Hill and Orange County- have looked to their min isters for courageous leadership, which in the present^! crisis has totally failed them, they are no^' pra,ctical]y like a herd of sheep with out a shepherd. Our honest opinion is that the i^egroes^ of Chap^ Hill’ are enlirc!y”wllh^ courageous and daring kind that should-in these changing times poiht to new frontiers of an integrated society rather th^n look back ward at the shameful past of a segregated one—one that looked down with utter con tempt on efforts of Negroes to rise above the levfl of a mop and a broom. The price, we think, is too high to pay for a shaky se^t on the City's Board of Aldermen and an equally shaky one on the Board of Education, Both of these seats \iave already raised a suspicion in the minds 6f many Negro citizens that they have become means of chok ing to death what might otherwise be a source of progressive and courageous, leadership. Whether the Negro citizens ]of Chapel Hill realize it or not their very fut|»re. as well as that of their chHdren, is at stake in the struggle they are now waging to encouragjs integration. To wage such a struggle is in reality a step toward compliance with the law of the land as laid down by the United States Supreme Court. Any Negro, minister or lay man, who advocates any movement in defi ance tf that law is not only disloyal to his country, but should be considered a traitor to his own race. The time has come;for honest Negro lead ers to stand up and b« counted and pay the price of leadership. Those who refuse to do so, who prefer to grow fat while eating at segregated flesh pots, studying in segregated schools and meekly submitting to other in justices of a segregated .society ^re unworthy of the name of leaders in these times when black people of lesSer opportunities all over the world are suffering and dying for equal righti and hun^an dignity. I^^oes.fltf Chapel ape\t^st fortunate and liberal whites \vho to rtand side bpr side wit^h them in tpelr ^^truggle. For them to ask fot anything hjl^ inJplementation of integration is to. reptidisite the support of these courageous whites ^;.the community who have stood up and been counted in the cause of equal right for all Atntricfin citizens. GOP-Dixie Axis Plans Blockade SPIRITUAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND In Time of Real Need, Help Conies From Unknown Friends Protestant Unification A Must For Survival God aiovM in a mjratarioos way His won ders to peifoiin. He pUnts His footsteps on Ibe sen sad rides oposi the storm. The Carolina Times would like to add its voice of approval to those already expressed on the proposal made by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia last Sunday for an intensified reunion among American Protest ant b&th of "Catholic” and “reform ed” llf,^4 when the plan presented by Dr. Bla^^e dbmes a reality, it should give new and much needed vigor to Protestants as we have known it in our time. No person who observed its declining .strength in the face of the rising tide of Communism over the past quarter of a century could very well oppose any plan that will reunite the “tragically divided church" as it exists in America today. In addition to the damnable denominational situation among Protestants in this country, there is the other division known as the white and Negro church that adds further disgrace to it. Thus we find on record instances in which a Negro would-be-worshipper has had a church door slammed in his face when pre senting himself at a white church for worship for no other reason than that of his race. The threat or challenge which Marxism pre sents to the free world may be,, after ail a bksing in disguise. Certainly, if it serves to reunite the Protestant churches in a similar iMarday «t mnham, N. (X fslHHns: M8U and »-1912 fer ftUUbtn. iBC. U 9, MmOH, PHbllsber I aiMt ■■ttsr at the Post Oflea : flMi OmvIIm. onder the Act um DmMbC IMrti OaMUaa OilMlNlitf dl4MI B. Pattlgmr tt If. I. MttMlf. OMtnttw taau: 9tM ni yxab manner to what has taken place in South India, the achievement will be weH worth whatever price there is to pay or sacrifice there is to make. One thing-is sure, the church' as it is now divided cannot hope to meet successfully the challenge of Communism in the free world or supplant it in countries al ready overcome by it. The history-making proposal made biy Dr. Blake should also sound h warning to Negro Protestants in this country who have prob^ ably overplayed their hand on the question of denominationalism more than wiy other group. In addition to being separated—by no choice of their own from white Protestants— into such _groups as the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Epis copal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist E))iscopal Church, the National Baptist Con vention pf America and the National Baptist Convention U. S. A., there are_ also several smaller Negro denominations separate and apart from those of the white race though of the same faith and ^rder. If Negro Protestants will take a cue from the proposal,made by Dr. Blake and at first set their own house in order by placing less stress on denominationalism and more on Christianity, we think a great stride will have been achieved! -This slfould be done with the idea in mind though of becoming a living and active part of the broader reunion of all American Protestants without regard to race, creed or color. WAS THERE FIRE UNDER ALL THE SMOKE? The action of many African states in ex pressing their disapproval of young Colonel Mobuto’s rule in the Congo jnakes us wonder if beneath all of the smoke raised early this fall in the United Nations by Khrushchev there were really ao9te fiery trutiis which the world n«ed« to know. "No man will harm you . . I have many people In this city . . . "Acts 18:10. It is strange how invisible friends of righteousness will rise to help you in the critical hour. Paul as a preacher of the Gospel. is seized'by terrifying ravages pf , loneliijess. Every righteous cru'*- sade for God feels none at times. Every preacher has this feeling, at times. At times we feel Only. God is left in the battle with us. . And then at times we doubt eyeQ,|, the presence of God Almighty.,.^ You remember how thi^ feeiij^ of being alonfe gfl^p^ the lie(^ and soul of Elijha in his gigan tic battle against sin and idola- try. EUjah reminds God that he alone is left in the battle. And then God told him about the great number that has never bowed to the evil one. 1.1 In this struggle for right un- saan soula ar« standing by tOr^ help in the cause of righteous ness. We have seen this happen so many times. Many souls have been caught in tragic disaster. And then help came for that en- battled soul from across the na tion. Yes, thei;e are many un seen witnesses waiting to hear your cry for help. They hear your cry and they rally round with helping hands. They hear the plaintive cry of the struggling soul and they answer with help ing-hands. They hear the cry of the struggling eause of right and these unseen witnesses rally to give new life to the cause. . . . I “No man will harm you. ... I have, many people in the city.. Jane Addams started the great lema ta aU; mankind at Hull ‘House in Chicago and a very short while there are twenty vol unteers offering their service in the healing and rehabilitation of d istressed humanity. We lare > not in the struggle alone. Sdd has others ready and .yilUngxto help in the struggle. God will move to your aid that wnsiwpjhqit of witnesses. Those who wi]^,{i|are to stand for what is riglf(| yfj)l have God’s unseeft hpat ta,|ielp advance the cause. You ju^,rise and stand for God and he..^jj[l send the helpers. Y60 New Orleans White Supremacists, By Insisting On A "Little Rock" of Tbeir Own, Damaging Country By EDWARD P. MORGAN I AM BEING HAUNTED by a ne^S picture t^ken duri^j U^t week’s Mardi Gras of maanen in New Orleans. It shows a young mother, with a two-headed baby boy in her arm^ observing the ra bid rites of a festival of hate by screaming taunts at the integra tion of four little Negro pirls of the city’s schools. Veins stand out on the woman’s neck in a purple passion, her eyes are blackly biasing and her mouth is k qui. vering livid hole gushing with student epilhets. Her small son is looking over her right shoulder. Here was a woman who saw her civic duty and did it with all the blindness and hot feeling of a black peasant of Haiti possessed by the pagan ritual of vo^oo. Th'tere undoubtedly wds tid qifi^s. tion of her sincerity. But 'it was the sincerity oi savagety based on the pathetic but’poiionious be lief that somehow evil - spirits would rise from ' th6 daintily- dressed Negro girls to inViide attd damage the persons of her own children. This is a picture whic^ hanut ignorance and carbolic prejudice the country. For in'"Its twisted it is as deadly in its way to our securty and well-beng as a nu clear warhead. This lady from Louisiana is not herself to blame for her act. It stems from dark animal fears that have been nur tured by demagogues and de mented minds for turbulent cen turies of human history. Indub itably she felt her taunts and screebhes were saving her family from some kind of fate worse than death but in reality by her behavior she could not have made jVl'hr their fil^ifC) more insecure, if ha .IS'fo survive prosper, her seh cannot look away over a i^rot^lve shoulder as he Brows up. His mother, like a priestess of a discredit^ jungle religion, Was trying to hoot down facts that ha is going to have to^llve with. Thesa facts are ftM only woven Into the le gat fabric of the United ^tates, (•hay are rooted in a growing reality—a reality in which Ne groes and other minority groups are not enly going to demand but sea their demands fulfilled fer recognition es hu man beings. ’Riis is what the rude awaken ing- of Asia and Africa is all about. This is what the, on the whole, remarkably restrained and Intelligent striving of the Ne> gro community of our own coun try is cbncemed with. No amount of the cruel nonsense of apar theid or white supremacy, whe ther in the Union of South Afri ca or the parishes of Louisiana, none of these stubborn little walls of racism is big enough to stem long the tide of the darl^kinned majorities of the world in their reach for full human rights. Why should white men cringe ^in fear at this spectacle? They should better direct their fears, tinged perhaps with guilt, at the consequences should they con tinue to be irresponsible in lead ing and guiding other races to equality, of opportunity. .Such abandonment of leadership can only c(^n>pound such dire conse- i^Denc«,^s have been witnessed ' b'iHu '^tk. Rock to Leoi^dville. One ar, the most affonising By Gem Zuk The Republican ;6ld Guard signaled « drive to |(a[^ ali^ the ri^t-wlng coalitioi^ which has, dominated ’Congresd iie nearly a quarter century as House GOP Minority Leader Charles A. Hal- lec conservt^tive southern Deom- crats. Following a Capitol Hill hud dle with Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), unofficial leader ot the Bixiecrat bloc, and with Rep. Wil liam M.'Cohner (D-Mass.), Halleck expressed confidence thiit the conservative alliance would con tinue to function in the 87th Con gress. “We’ve Seen eye-to-eye- in the pasY” Halleck told reporters, “and I expect we’ll see eye-to-eye in the future.” Oppoiltien Declared The avowed goal ot the coali tion is to block, or drastically, water down, the liberal program which Pres.-elect John *F. Ken nedy is expected to Send to t!on- gress following his inauguration . In any maneuver to check tha Kennedy Administration's program, the powrerful House Rules (Committee—of Which Smith is chairman and Calmer 1^ the second-raking Demo crat—would play a malar role. Created originally as s "traffic cop" to speed the orderly flow of legislation io the House floor, the committee has been transfwmed Into a botHaneck for liberal legislation under Its conservative leadership. In the 86th Congress, Smith and Colmer lined up with four conser vative Republicans—voCea corp- trolled by Halleck—on the com mittee to or^slf f hotfiia«J>ift and kill meai|^ an lediral ail to edacattao, iH^um wu* and jobsite ^hetiag. House liberals have (UkuisW ways of reviaiiig the structure dt power of the Rules body; Al- thooghy Kennedy has declared publicly that the rules governing the House ar« the concern of th* House, he is kno«!k,to be anxious to avoid any block'lhJe' of hii “New Frontiers" progr^. Among proposals for curbing the Rules Committee reportedly under consideration are: * • Droping Colmer as a Dem ocratic member because he'bolt ed the KennedZ-Jobnson ticket to support a slate of “unpledged" electors which won in Mississippi. • Increasing the sbe of the committee by two members to permit appointment o£ two more Democrats and break the preaent six-six liberal-conservition tie. • Making the Speaker of the House and the Majority and Mi- •nority Leaders ex-offlclo mem bers of the committee, to make it niore responsive to the leader ship. • Enacting some Ume limita tion, similar to the 21-day rule used in the 81st CongNss, to ojp^ the way for breaking the com mittee stranglehold and permit the full House to vote eventually on measures approve by stanM- ing committes. Following his conference with Smith and Colmer, Halleck told newsmen that he was opposed to any of the suggested changes in the makeup and responsibilities of the itulei Committee. just start the ball a rolling and God will supply the help and re sources. This truth held good for Paul and all who arise and de clare God’s truths of justice and righteousness ... "I have many people in this city ....’’ Maijy souls are just waiting for a leader with the moral courage to come forth and declare him self. Douglass declared 4iimself as he escaped from the dutches of slavery in Maryland. God had others to rally to his banner as he held forth the flame of moral indignation. God will rally his unseen witnesses around the God-inspired leader. If we will get going, others will be there to help fight the battle and win the victory. You remember thou sands of church people rallied to help with the Montgomery Boy cott struggle. With a God-inspir- ^ r8l~ lied to the banner of freedom. God has many unseen witnesses just waiting for the call to enter the struggle for decency> and righteousness. imBIS TO THE EDITOR NEGRO VOTE FOR JFK PUZZLES WRITER twis!* in the New Orleans situa tion Is thst the anguish and suffering of iv were such a needless waste. Deiegregation Is already an established and elgaiiied ..fact even though In some parts of the land it is sfill no mors than a token fac?, and it Is only a matter of time before Negroes are able to real ise the civil rights of first class citiMnship gusranteed them by the constitution. Tinhorn poli ticians, bigots and racists may be sble to delay this realiiation by playing on the fears and prejudices of immature citl- IfAs; they may be able to de lay it but they cannot stop it. TN tradgey of it all Is thst each community seems to in sist en a Little Rock' of its own ' before it can accept the lesson. . UNDER THE light-headed lead ership of a sometime entertainer. Governor Jimmie Davis, the state government of Louisiana went on a jag of legislative delinquency designed to wreck the public schools rather than desegregate them. Now there are some signs of hesitation. Anticipating that the Supreme Court would throw out the state’s attempt to inter pose itself between the federal government and the New Orleans school board, Louisiana Congress man Otto Passman nevertheless says that through such proceed ings, “we may have gained valu able time.” Valuable time for what? For further weakening the fabric of American sooiety? There is' kn extravagant irony in Passman’s own position. As a ranking member of the House ap- propciaticHU committee'.he has aq To the Editor I have Just read in the Decem ber 8 edition of Human Events, the statement that “Kennedy car ried a dozen states only l>ecause he got a near-unanimous colored vote”. It is difficult to understand why the Negro would vote in sup port of the forces which, have had their heels on the Negro neck for, lo, these many years, and thus be a party to the keeping in office of those who have kept him in economic bondage for a century after they were compell ed to free him from physlita) bondage. ^ ' And especially is it a Inatter ol the utmost irony that the Negro should be a pawn in the Democr atic hand to put a Catholic in the White House, in view of the facts of liistory, presented in my book, “Slgvery pnd Cathpljcism, to the effect that'Catholics were direct ly responsible for the very es tablishment of slavery in Ameri ca, with all its misery and woe to the race, that the Catholic Church actually owned slaves to support their missionary work here, and reoognized it as altogether com- fMtible with the principles of Christianity; that the Pope him self did not condemn the atroci ous “Peculiar Institution” ' as parcticed in our southern states; and, as shown from an official Chatholic historian’s writings, the Catholic Church actually did everything possible to keep Lin coln from winning the war to free the slaves! The Catholic Church has some very strange teachings as to what is morally right or wrong. For in stance, under the heading of tak ing an oath of office, Herbert Jone’s Moral ’Theology, 1960, “ad apted tothe customs of the Unit ed States”, in section 188, says, “If the civil laws contain provi sions contrary to divine or ec- celesiastical law an oath taken to^hyrve them is made with the restrict^ (mental reservation): with due regard for the divine and ecclesiastical law”! When we watch Kennedy take the oath of office on TV, we might l>e able to see that he has his tongue in his cheek! Convinced that such > teachings are right, Kennedy need not vi- _jjlateJiis conscience, as he prom; ised the Baptist ministers in Dallas that he would not do, even it he carried out the entire pro gram of his Church, which calls for the revival of ecclesiatical despotism over the entire world, such as prevailed during the twelve centuries of church su premacy during which tens of millions of Christians were btu*n- ed at the stake or otherwise tor tured and put to death as “her#- tics”. Very Truly Yours, R. R. Miller Durham PLEA MADE FOR POLITICAL CHANGES To The Editor: Because I have no other means by whidi to reach my fellow- Americans, may I plead space in your columns? . . . The stmicture of our American government must remain “by the people” and be halted from becoming govern, by a small group ef Delegates whose functioning can he con trolled by our population only by excessively complex cumber some means, far l>eyond a lay man’s inexpert-polifical under- standing. Converting any government in to 9 machine operable by an in- dividual or group is the very ideology fhat Americans oppoe in other lands! Therefore, I propose that we, the people, address ourselves by individual postcards, letters, group-attested-petitions, to three agencies created to i)enefit man kind without bias: The Ford Foundation, 4i7 Madison Ave., New York City; The Rockefeller Foundation, 49 W^jit 49th St., New York City; Fund for Repub lic, Santa Barbara, Calif. ’That we request; 1) they undertake a study to devise a new system of nomiiwit- ing candidates for our Govern ment Presidential Offices, which wiir ensure the common man. li simple means of stating his cho(iM and ensure that the technicaliti^ of final nominating heed tha people’s voice. 2 to devise new governmental structure which would eliminate the fixed practice of changini our.Ambassadors in foreign lands at each Republican / Democrat change in the White House ... on the grouhds that our AmbasSi- dors should represent our nation, not a Party, wherefore their thinking and functioning must he unaffected by Party politick. Maintaining that pur Ambassador ships, are strictly, non-partisan is mockery in face of the fact thit every Ambassador is changed b|r reason of his political Party afU- lation when the Party changes ih the White House. 3) to devise means of elminat- ing political reprisal ... on the grounds that oiir Cabinet should be composed of the men best fit ted for the particular task, rd- gradiess whom they did or did See LETTERS. 6-A almost wanton penchant for slash ing the foreign military and economic aid. budget. Yet his stsnd as a white sujiremacist is costing the dountry incalculably more. This is the kind of wound ing waste which the |few Orleans housewife sind the ttation can least afford. Encouraging^ enough a courageous federtl judge and local school board, among others, seem tb realifi this. —Reprinted courtesy of tha AFlrClO NEWS
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