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. TMS CAROLINA TIMES ttUTK UNMIbLIO- tAT., Pll. 21, 1M1 LETS MAKE A “FllESM PVT OUR OWN IN10RDER FIRST A Satute to Penoii Coynty We Miutc Persoh County for hating won ihe 1960 North Carolina “County of i!he Year" •ward for rural progress. The achievement shoul|l be an iosptration and an encourage ment, csptctalty to Ndfp'ocs of the rural areas of the county, to continue their efforts toward improvinf their living conditions. Wltilc th* rtftnrt paid special attention tu gains made in improving the income of farm- elre of the county on crops, expanding live stock production and other farm areas, we would liWe to point out to the winners of th? award that there is another one in which Negro farmen and persons living in rural areas are tadly ronning behind, and that is in registering aad voting. It ii ouf sincere hope that Negro farmers of Person County will not feel that winning the “County oi the Year" award is evidence thfit they have arrived. It should give impetus to the efforts now being mftde by the Nation al.Association for the Advancftnient of Colored Peo|vle, other organizations and individuals of North Caorlina. to increase the voting strength of Negroes, especially in the rural areas. For without influence at the ballot box, the gains made in farm income and elsewhere ,are .'.are to to be nullified by the overall losses experienced by Negrbes in industry and other fields. The Carolina Times woultj like to see an award offered by some organization or indi vidual to the county shcjwing the highest in crease in registering and voting of Negroes liviuR in rural areas. It is our feeling that sucli p orofirram will h** equally if not more bene ficial to all the Negroes of the state as the "County of the Year” award,by a county. A Shock to ttie Wal(e Forest College Trustee Board Their blood pressure shot up like a modern day sputnik atu{^ose pimples shot out all over the tough, southern hides of members o^ the Wake Forest Trustee Board last week ^hen members oi the school's faculty recom mended that the colle^ trustees modify their stand on admitting Negroes to the school. No sooner had the stunned board members partially recovered from this staggering blow when five coeds of the school declared, after spending a week at Barnard College in New York with five ?Jegro coeds from Spelman College of Atlania^ that the week together had helped them clear misconceptions and fear*. The action of the faculty members and the five co-edi. we fear, was enough to make half of the board members swallow their cheW of “terbaccer” and reach for another swig of brandy or mountain moonshine. There is cer tain to be a hoi time in the old town of Wake Forest whep the next trustee meeting is held. Squtherp dander is up, and Baptist deacons and rnissi)nary sisters are sure to search the scriptures for proof that GJod Al mighty never intended for White and Negro pupils to get an education together. Some of th trustee members may be ex pected, to snatch the> confederate flags from th6 walls of their homes and offices and ride in haste to Wake Forest College to halt what they will declare is downright communism. In fact, before it is all over the Ku Klux Klan may even ride again and Senator Deacon “Kunnel” Claghorn may renounce his Baptist faith and join Jehovah’s Witnesses. What happened at Wake Forest College is • a foreshadow of coming everlts, and in the South more such incidents may be expected as the spirit of the new South conflicts, with that of the old. It is positive proof that segre gation as a philosophy of this region is dead and is now on thie embalming slab. The only thiners left undone are tl^ funeral and burial and those are soon to nke place, and the mourners will btpifly a few die-hards who ”■’11 Inti" tor food old '*r>! nf *!*‘'Tre'»ation a ("tre was th“ onlv thinof neces sary to qualify one as a supertor human being. Veterans Questions and Answers EDITOR'S NOTI: Vetaran* «n4 th*lr f«mU^ ar* Mhiag iliMW •ndi of quittlon* eoncerith^ tht thair •evernmalit pro- vIdM for tham through V«i«rati( Admlnittration. Btlow ar* tbiM reprMtntafiva qwarlaa. Addiflolt* al InForamtion may b* obtalntd at any VA offlca. Q_hear that man bainf dia- eharpad from military aervica hava ena^aa^ daadllna from data a VA dainlclliaryt A.^Ai ( n^,-:raiMponatioti to a VA donSTcirfary ‘ at flov*h»- menf ejcpense ii provided oMy for initial ataitsian. Q.—I know. .4* wif* miy b* burM >n a national eamatary if har ,\^aran ^uiband U already buriad tharo. But what If tha wifa dlM flrttf A. — A veteran who assurei cemetery ofMliIs that he in- tendi -to be bujried in a national of discharge for «ii|tlyin» for VA . cometfery may make arrange- doHtal tnaa jMant, la Nila trv»t ipentl'XorMjvlf^to be^ buried •A.-*G«m»ifalty, yes, for Va out- there, if^' she Viesildea him. in death. Q.—Whar* doaa ona writ* to Mcuro InformalJoO. aboM atata bonutaa#)* ya«|ir«)4 A.—Wi’ite t^ tISe Stale Capitol fn the state concerned. Do hot write the Veterani Administra tion about atat^ bomuei at thay are 4diniDi«t^*4'^*aifBb -hy tha individual .states. . pahent Cental treatment, tor which the dental condition must be service-connected. But there .'■re a - number of exertions. These include veterans drawing compensation for dental eondi-' lions, those whose dental condi- lions resulted from service in- jarief, and former prisoners of war. Q.—Can I gat traiMpartatlon to ■Ptiilip ‘ Continued ffbtp front page they wefe cAt^iinuing to prepare a defense against th* first degree murder chafga. J’hilip is being ^efended Kin ston attorneys Guy Elliott Mc Kinley Battik, and Eavl Whitted, SPIRITUAL INSIGHT ' REV. HAROLp ROLANq of Goldsboro. ittr ►tir I I n/ov "Pitaaosa left Hi*m;-„«rid *vll spirits eama ouf of Mrain." Jk** Healing is an outslapding fea ture of the original emphasis of the teachings and practices of Jesus. We have been templed to I Healing is Outstanding Feature of Teactiings aiid Practices of Jesus -Congo much better chance to have and enjoy the blessings of good health. And faith in our fellow- men is an important factor in our having healthy bodies, minds ‘and SQuls. Thus' when we lose kiommunlon with God and man forget or overlook th;s healing' our chances fqr health are dim- Africans Cause Trouble in The UN Last ^und^ys edition of the New York Times published'ati informative and thought ptQvolqjnf -by Nan Hobertson al3ot||t' _jl||^'i|Mtius facing this'jiajiiion in t# matter nsf housio^ diplomats Qf the United Natloos ip New Yor4c.^ |The articl^ says, in pact, "housing difficulties—caused mainly by raejal f^ejudice—^have faleen a thorn in the side of thi United Nations, the State Departmei^t, afiti-^iscriminating groups and real estate naen New York.” - UnltW 4hs iK)tii^l)crn counterpart, who com^s on out in the opHi with- his prejudice against Negroes, tb^ iftfet segr^ationist resorts to his usual supei'fici^ liberality while carrying on all sorts of shady schemes behind the scenes to achieve his goal, Which is the com plete barriltif 'or^c(j;roes from the better tesi- dent^ areaa.iof Nciv!. Y(^k. The problem is only IfJ^t^^Wtth'txiko^ive repercussions but threAt«q|.& iihdermine whatever hopes the Utiit^ (lal iti cultivating the good- iicw African countries t^>ax|ii«;4»cJMiyy ,Joi|)ed the United Nations. |pny country is that thjf obj*«t''tp beiAg housed' in Harletn, «(t^st exclusi.ve residential area of Ne(rbes.live or go to live in New York. TIie'AfHciin*, like a-majority of intelli- gefit «nd snci^feM.ful southern Negroes who find it nc^SMry to. vjsit New Yor^ on busi ness or oittctWise,'want no part'of Harlem’s usually lat-iofeiited, dirty, crowded, anhdiii- gy aparttttents. In spite of the common belief that all Ne groes: who go to ^w York to live or visit there are just t;aring to settle down in Har lem, th* Africahs have brought to light the underlyiMg fetling concurred in by many seri ous-minded Negroes of this country, that for the naost part t4aHem is a refuge of the un successful, the liglif-in-the-head, the ne’er do wfll, the f^ilur^t and the slicksters' of the race, both nati¥* and immigrant qf the South. There is a grotkritig feeling among the moie thoughtful oi the J^ce that it is far better for NegroA to remain in the South where al mtrliam. N. C. and Ml-8912 fWilMK attte Post OMea fMlM. andsr tka Aat af a im CaroUna 4M E.,PMti|iwv ft Csotwllar 9*40 PB YXAX theire is ino mistake of who.i where and what the eriem>^ ^s than to^jllve in Harlem under, the iji^usion.that he is free-only-to discover ’,’'*^that'*^ iSr'ttie'Viotifri of tliiJ Wjoat' i^iciws isysljijls of subtle! discrijiiihatlon ever con- cotited by tht mind of man. ^ When, thti thbughtful of the race think of f^ar]em they think, for the most part of climb ing four, five, six, eight, ten or more flights of stairs to rat4n|ested, apartments; of the numbers racket, lipuor parties night after tutes, perverts and other"' Victims of the doomed and dying. They compare these dis-* advantages with the homes or farms, they are buying, oi; own in the South, the insurance companies and banks they own and other smaller businesses they operate and they are convinced. ’ like thiir African brothers, that living in Harlem is far rtiore like, living in hell I than living jn a majority of.., places in the South. ‘ J So it’s no longer, homt to Harlem. Rather we would ^pnd out a cljirion calj to the hun dreds of housands of Negroes now living in Harlem to co^e on home to the South. Come on back home where you will at least see and know the enemy when you meet him, where you will have a part in the ifreat battle beina^ waged and won by the eleven or twelve mil lion Neo'roes of the South to achieve first- class citizenship without being led to believe Tnii already have it. Thp Only Solution to Con;^o Crisis President Kvvame Nkrumah of,Ghana has come up with what we belieVe to be the only practical solution to the serjotis situation a^ it now exists in the. Congo. Last Saturday Nkrumah called for a new aU>African United Nations command in the Congo to take over “complete responsibility for law and order.” The Ghanaian president ^ went on to say that a new- and serious approach is needed jn the Congo'“'lf the United Nations is to be saved and the further of peace of Africa assured.” Whether the European arid' American na^ t^s of the United Nations agree or not mat ters'little. One thing is sure the situation in the Congo has grown continuously worse un der the present United Nations command, and there is strong evidence that it will never improve so long as the command is composed even partly of whites. Native Negjc^s of the Congo and other parts of Africa, after many y^arg of white coatrol, have reached the point where thjey no longer trust the w4iite man and it is our ofafnion that so long as the control is in his hinds there will be no peace in the Congo or elsewhere in Africa. feature of our Religion at times. But thank God there has been a trend for sometime to recover this important emphasis. There are healing resources in the Religion of Jesus. Faith healing it not a inlshed.; We all need the spirit ual cleansing essential for union and comtaunion with God and n^an. Jesus said on many occa sions to sick people, “Thy Faith has. made thee whole." Faith of- forgiveness. The Psalmist real ized the healing power of Divine forgiveness when he says “Create within me a clean heart, O God.’* Forgiveness is healthful for it takes away the health-destroying power of the uncleanness of sin. Love is a creative, health-giv ing power. We all need to culti vate love in our hearts and sdnls so that' we may share its rich Continued from front page NagtoM may ba no m^ra clear on many aspocta of tha Confo al'Hiatlon than th*ir whit* f*l- low citlians, tlw *»» ••••r In th*lr hallaf thM "thair eoi)iitry should h*lp tha C*n«*l*s* >**• pi* to s*lf-au*tah«|a^ Jndepand- *nc* and that lalitan aalonliar* ahowW net Im rai»lacad with fo> vlat Union aalonlaota." -Aiabania Continued from' front page February 21, 1941, was axcasaiy* and not In th* bdaf Intarasts of imtka. Howavar, th* Pajlefal fruits of health. Yes, love is life ^ Covft rafusMl ta May i.*!* «wC> ai^ health and those of us who tiana. would really be hieallhy must let The New; York Time* najvspfpei*. vain, meaningless idea. Here we fers great healj^g 'ppw^jr for U4. ’ lovfc'abida In oiir Warts^.' |^ve is a co^defendent. in the ess^ ii^ . havfe s'^ritiiSl deariiling ■ as ii * l8piri^al oUahm^,does make’’ 'Aeiterate^' th^-'^ow'^ of* health volving the .suit Motowt^keieiN(tf basis of healing. The evil or uiK> for health and physical Vrell ba- cl^an spirit is a health destroy-! ing. Healing fellows the forgive ing spirit. Msny of cur sickness-^ ness of . our^ns. Forgiveness is es seem to be rooted in Ihe un healthy feelings we may h«ve. What are some of these unhealthy feelings? They are fear; resent- mnt, hatred bit.erness, anxiety, worry. Tanh Th'^’dTs- a basis or‘gdo3 health. Truly good religion good health. Those who have * faith in God Almighty have heading spiritual operation within the soul of man. Sin makes us sick, l^us whe^ sin is re moved our health is restored -in body, mind or soul. You remem- bef the paralytic whose healing folTowed" Ifler Jesiis had fbrgiW i en his sins. Thus we need |o ask- God often in our prayers that we may be healed through His In those Who cherish her in gro leaders r«*ulUDg from the their he:rts. I heard a man of publishing of a full page iB ninety-two jsay that he guarded the New York Times by a frotop his soul against the health-des- defending Martin Lu^ier King, troying power of hatred. Let love In this advertisement, Alabi reign in your heart and she will was charged with intimidation am! off^r you ' the rich fruits of violence against the peaceful p»- healthful living. tests of Dr. King and hia follow- 4dBt ■ ua-. iguord rieh, God- given treasures of health by let ting our souls be indwelt' by lova and the Holy Spirit. -Native CLOAK AND DAGGER TALtl FROM SEfclBEGATION WARS I ' ‘ ■ 1. - ; Group Working for Integration in the South Tells fiow State.Planted Spies in Effort to Trip Members EDITOR'S NOTE; Th* follow ing slory was pr^p^red by Hm Southern Conferenco^.pdvcatlonal Fund, Inc, TALLAHASSEE, hear ing by the Florida La [^^ive'ln vcstigation Committj ^^'jjdaled how spies are planter tiqn groups to repi, officials in the Soutlil-^ Three such spies w^sxposed when the committee ta^e a des perate but unsucces£fiy|lfort to show that the integFation move ment is controlled by stalled subversives. , Those exposed wetaetiM. C. C. Ccllins and Ernest ^'^Hlev. both of DeLand, Flp., and Mrs. Mary Mueller of Mobile, Alji.,, formerly of Tallaha.ssee,' They told of attending n^^H^ittst meetings and subsciffl^Pfii^ in tegration literature at the insti gation of R. J. Strickland, com mittee investigator. Salley even went so far as to I'llow himself to be subpjoenaed to the committee -hdXKng to l!te could taice part in' consultations between Carl Braden and his at torney beforehand. Braden, a field secretary and editor for the Southern Confer ence Educational Fund, New’ Or leans, had been subpoenaed by the committee while mcklng a speech before the Volusia County NAACP in Daytona Beach. SALLEY SPIED ON OROUP When .Salley appealed for help, Braden offered to introduce lal* ley to Len Holt, Norfolk, Va., na tionally known civd right# at- ■-Ld torney who was to represent Braden before the coinmittte. The Ht. Rev. C. Ewbanks Tucker, AMB Zion bishop, Wto alio tta^ den’s .^ttomey but_ was? imable to’be'i^aent. '* Holt Braden, and $illey' met totegra- tijjji ^igh^ before t^a he«ring - stale * Salley employed, IJoh to repte^t him. “^e ^y A cow pf a stat^ent thftt si^'- pianned to make to the obtii- mittee the next day when refus ing to testify. The statement accused the com mittee of violating his rights un der thd First Amendment to the U. S. Conatitution, jtuaranteeing freedom of speech, press, reli gion, association, and petition. Salley gave the atatement to the colnmittee, which then told ^aden hf could either answer all questions fully or not M re quired to testl^ at all. The chairman, Bep. William G. O' Neill of Ocala, hurled the usual chorge^. at Braden. ■ fie shouted: “We will put in evidence that you are intereated .In itfitatioa, stirring up ait-ina, and that you have no desire to improve the position of the Ne gro but to, further the Commu nist cause.” SPMt MNCOVIRIO After (Conferring with Holt, Brade^ told the committee: "This is a somewhat unusual procedure which yo^ have^ set up. 1 dis- agrle. with what you hav* saiii. It Is bssed on inacuraeies and false aaiumptiops. 1 refusal to ^stii^ because you an violating aur rights widMr Uia first Aomb4t Continued from front page to North Carolina College’s Law School Defin during the summer of 1948 and joined the staff of St. Augustine’s Collt|ge ilh Raleigh as an in^ructor in Bi^ess |klu cation iii 'September, 1048. She returned to Khoof, at Bos ton Universitjr, and earMd. the Master's Dagr^ in fiducation in 10S3. She has subsequfntly com piloted additional study at Har vard Univeraity. Mis* Ciimhai ioinad- All*ii Ifni^ and listened to t^e spies describe varsity; |H'«t«|it position their work. Mrs. Collins told of „ pf ytwdiMits tn, W5S. attending meetings of SCEF and ghe is active In a number of «^er groups and of receiving professional oiganizaUoHs, indud- literalure and; letters which she the National Personnel snd turned over the committee. Guidance AssoclaUon, National Salley s:-id he attended a meet- Business Teachers Association and ing in Orlando in March, 1960, : ' . ■ment.” Braden and Holt then sat down in the front row at the hearing the Palmetto Education ' Aasocia- iion. She is also a member of Al- phf Kapp^ A^ha sorority. Miss Cu«f.bp ia .thf Utest in l| series o| .personaliitas festuied In Carnstiort ndvertisipg in flegro* publications.. Amppl. those aee» in last y#ar’s camMiKn were Phy- sicq EngineM Meredith (rUsh) Gourdine, former Cowell tinWer- stty trwk Home Econom ics Dei»rtment heads Dr, EUza* beth Durham, of Central State College, Wllberfprce. Ohio, and pinkie Thrift, Southern Univer aity. ■ „ IINCf Continued from front paga student wurollment of mora than 34,000. ‘ --Arrested '(^tinued ti;oxa front page ing ra«tol hate .ift .put to coinmitt political suicide.'l ,^ .. Dir. I,owery, who, hintseU, ha* been -cited for contempt of a. Flori da legislative comn^ittee becaui^ he lailad to satisfy them on ques- tlOQs pui to bim'i said that “With all of ^eri|cn’^ .,genius in out- producing. refit of the world, nap fml citiijenahip righ^ to her W(t«it largest',j^inority—th* Ne groes. Hodges Continued from front page year. WhiUier, 34, was a practicing attorney in Cc^umbus. Ohio. Secretary Ho^g** was on* •» **v*r*l 90V*rnn**nt *i*d \busln*»|, UaOtn who w*r* *♦ tha r*c*ptlfn. Olhors hrtludad QhSni'ji AbiIh***^ 8. Halm and his Wif*; Con*r**s- mart Horae* Komogay (D-M.C.)* Adam Clayton Pw«*ll {D.*N.Y.)r> Prank llautv**, spoclal asslttanf to Prosldant K*nnMly. b*. Jas. Nahrlt, Prisidoirt at Howard U.t Dayk MItehtil, pr*sli»Mit *f In- ' dustrlal Bank, of Washtnitnn, ’ D. C, and AMornwrt B*ll*rd : and Marjorie Lawsoi). ■ The ex-Nprith Carolina chief ex*' cutive w^nt an to say. that hg ^ound it har{4. to divorce hlms^ from North ^rolina itt the begin ning, but re^Hied that he was is 'a'position to serve the entir* countty. ' I ‘ at which a statewide committee was set up by persons and groups interested in civil rights and civil liberties. The inquisitors were especially concerned about a group set up in Tallahassee to alert people all over Florida against repressive legislation. Salley told how he spied on SCEF, the NAACP, and the Coun cil on Human Relatiops. He also made -reporh; on. peace groups. On. one occasion, he even took a three-hour tope recording, part of which was played for the in vestigating committee. NOT WORRIBD Reporters later asked Braden if he and SCET were concerend about spies and infonoars in the groups with which they work. Braden replied: "We never give it a thought We are not' doing anything iubVersive or unlawful. We take everybody at face value until they show that they are not what they say they are. We refuse to play into the hands of the segregationiats by being sus picious of people. That’s what they want us to do.” Reporters also asked Braden for copies Of the statement that ht plamied to make to the com mittee before it was:sufi|^i«d to the committee by ^atley. Braden gave them copies of tha State ment which said: “Gentlemen, I refuse tu an swer any ^ueations of this com mittee and I wish to explain why- You are attempting to inveati- nate in a field in which you ar* forbidden to legialate by the First Amendment to the U. S. Consti tution, which is made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. "Yop have not shown me the possible pertinency of this qt^s- lion to any possible legislation. Instead, a s(udy of your previous hearings convinces me that tha sole purpose of this hearing is to discredit me snd others work-' ing for civil rights and racial In tegration. Thia is psrt of the har assment to which I have been subjected for mimy yesM he- cauae of my atand for civil righfs and civil liberties. NONI OP YOUR ■USINIgg “Vov also seek to punish me for orgaiiizing op]i^ition to this committee and to tha .Itousa CommittM on Un-.^ericsn Acti vities. Yow latent is indicated by the faw that your chief 'to* vestigator subpoenaed me while I was criticiting your activities at a phblic mteting of integration- iata.’'^'" -^ ' . ^ “I^have pending in the' United States Supreme Court an 'appeal hy m« involving these very points,'hrid I do pot f*el thst I should testify' regarding thes* mailers while they sre under Judicial consideration. This was called td the attention of your chairman Wheli I asked for post- ponement' of my appearance here. '‘f Join othiti' victims of this . committee in declaring that you t-fe tiding to hamper our work tor inkegratiolf'Under the pretext ' of looking foi^ subversives. I re fuse ty coopfcrtite in such sn endesvor becsiise it viobfies my conscience, my t^ligious princi ples, and my'>constitutional rights. '!'• “In other words, gentlemen, myJ^Uefs and my Association* are none of the builness of thia commiUfe." Th* commiftee indicated thst i.t.did not ^Uh-snir'action against Braden hecaua4 -of tala, dsfiancg of it, /
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