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THE CAROLINA TIMSS MOI t^nHI TftUTM UNMIDLID* SAT^ MARCH 4. IMt EMBARRASSED BY OUR STRONO 8UPI»0RT OF THE COWIO. SUPRORT OF &R Price Conforteblfe lM» HeMmh '■ Our estfcmed contennKirary. ihv Journal .•nd Guide of Notftilk, Virjjiiiia. reprinted a recent editorial of the \\ ashinfjloti i^ost about I ynchburjj, Virjjinia, which we tliink is must tboujjht provokinjj, strai^jhtfur’.vanl ami de cidedly stinpiuK, .The Post’s editorial entith-d, “None So Blind,” calls attention to the fact that in Lynchburg ‘*relati^ins between the races have usually-been generous and com fortable. “but that the city today finds itself **now engaged in trying—altogether hope lessly—to enforce a law, valid, no doubt, in a legal sense but a law which, at least in the Context in which it is being applied is de signed to encompass a cruelty lind an injus tice.” ’ *! ^ Said The Post further: Ta date, 18 partoos have been arreited f«ir tit-in JemonatratioM at Patterson’s drug ^ •tore in do¥fBtown Ljrachburg. The law whkb they have violatad in a narrow techni cal senae is a law foHiidding trespass. But their real offense as everyone knows is that they have asked to be treated as human hcmgs. And for this offmse they have hem sentenced, soom of them to 30 days, some of them to M day« in jail. The roost moeot culprit to be given a jail term is ’* U-year-old girl, Mandaline Tifompson, a high school student wtio sought service at Patterson’s lunch counter although her skin is Colored. A judge of tjbe Juvmile and Domestic Relations Court sentenced her to 38 days, saymg that she and any other xhildren would be treats as adults if dMy committadi this heinous crime and would receivo similar or even harsher sen- tenees. But what win Lyndihurg do when its jail overflows with students, white as well as c«dored, who demand no more than that Acy be treated with the di;smty due free Amrricans who are children of God? What wi*l Lynchbvrg do when civilized people the world over cease to think of it as a friendly, pleasant community and kniow it i^ly as a place that daps childiren into jaU when they ask f«r elementary decency? Lynchburc has the power now to punish these children—and to destroy itself. We ho«e fervently. Iiowever, that Lynchburg win scMndiflFW be able to summtm un out of her own gtearosity the wisdom, kindness and imagina>i^ t* let compassion temper power and to let tho law serve not idone the purpttotluii «l ovtmoded caste conven* , No M# Appointments for HC. veiltiona hMt ti^e intHMls «(, jMiice. W'c think that the sad state of affairs as it exists in Lynchburg, todfiy, can and njust be laid at the feet of oije ai^d uiily one ^;roup of I’t rsons, and that ig Lynchburg’s Negro lead- It has been our observation .that Negroes usually pay far too great a price for their "geneitous and comfortable” race relations. Certainlj’ one who has visited Lynchburg within the past decade is compelled to agree that this has been the sad state of affairs. That city now sees its Negro citizens reap- •ing the harvest of a gutless and spineless lead ership that in the past has been willing to settle for any price so long'as its pseudo renerous and comfortable relations with its ‘good .white • friends" could be preserved. It will be noted that not only are all of the 18 persons arrested in the sit-in demon strations in Lynchburg among the younger element but that a majority of the profession al Negro men and women, including physi cians and undertakers, have stood silently by while thts* people, including a 16-year- old girl, have be|n persectlted in the courts. They apparently do not wish to be listed among those supporting the sit-ins or disturb ing the so-called friendly relationship that is supposed to exist between the races in Lynch burg. Here one gets a sad but true picture of a community in which the Negro leadership has failed utterly to live up to its full responsi bility. Instead of truthfully acquainting the white citizenry with the hopes, desires and aspirations of all respectable Negroes, they have misled them into believing that condi tions as they existed between the races in Lynchburg were perfectly satisfactory. Thus, when the city’s yotlng Negroes strike a blow for .human dignity and freedom, in the form of sit-ins, st .majority of the white citi zens, including the judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, becomes incensed. We trust the young people of Lynchburg will not be discquraged because of the evil efforts cf the coufts of that city to intimidate them. They are on a just and righteous mis- •fion: as just and righteous as ever attempted by the founding fathers of this nation who declared In the Declaration bf Independence that ”all men ai’e cre&ted, equal, that they a TP endowed bv their Cteator with certain inalienabU Right#, that among these are Life, Liberty and tfie puriii^ of Happuiess^ 111 SPIRITUAL INSIGHT Hy REV. HAROLD ROyvND TIk Redeemed Soul Must Teli of Tlie Spiritual Power d Jesus Clirist afs It is becotriihg more ai)d more distressingly embarrasing ti> Negro democrats of North Carolina who #ent all out in beating the bushes to gtt Out the Negro vote and throw it-to the support ol-Governs- Terfy; Satrfofd - in last November’s election that'their support aud canine loyalty to the party and its guber natorial candidate has resulted in the appoint ment of "nary a single” Negro to an impor tant post in this state. Everyone knows, in cluding the governor, that had It not been for the Negro Vote Sanford would never have been nominated in the prhnaty nor elected the election. In spite of it all, abo^t the onljf thing tlie -Ne^o voter has received lor ^ ;4', swift l^ick^iiiv « seat or Nik rants. ' ’ At it now snnds, with the exception of Negroes who are en%»loyed in the state’s se^^gated schools and Farm Extension Ser- vice, there are less than 25 Negroes employed in State jobs. As in the case of Governor.s of the past, Governer Sanford is adhering close ly to the policy of • overlooking the appoint ment of Negroes to any job where there is a respectable salary or pay received. Although Negroes have served on such State Boards or Commissions as the N. C. Recreation Com mission, the N. C. Prison Commission, the N. C. Board of Education. N. C. Board of Higher Education and the N. C. Medical Care Com- tnission. where only living and travel expen.ses are paid while attending meetings, they have never been appointed to such high salaried positions as members of the State ABC Board, *the State Industrial Commission or the Parole Commission even though from cent of the prison- population is PuMMmnI •very Saturday at niirhsm. N. 0. Tdephnae; 682^2913 and (»1-8912 by UaJted PuMUhers. Inc. U ft AUSTIN. PubUsb«- Raiaml M sacaiMI dsss natter at the PM one* at INnfeam. Nwtb Ct»«lina. under tbs Act tt Ifarek 3. 1879. DwhiM. Nv«}i Carollns fMaaipal Mas laastod at 4M E. Pettigraw 8t M. K. CoBlToHa fUmCSVTlOH XAIXS: HM VOL YSAS composed of N^fos.'' ' The State A^C board Sl ciSilifidsed of threfc member*. The cniirnAti a yearly sjil** ary of $10,000. Tt^ other twd'trtehitMei'f feceiv# amniat salaife; a little b^elovvt .^jHj pMd ine V^Vil^e- wise the n>e^b^, o;i: St^ ^u^tri Commission yearly approx imately $10,OOft-.;’ '.I ’ All in all,; Gov^hor, has- hal t>efore him a minimum 4^ sjiiaji^d job appoint ments. Th«(y rahge frpm two seats oh the State Utilities C^^nfnissiqh' wjbicb pay $12,000 to 25 non-paid-on the Cpn^ederate Cejn- tenaial Catii^iMn, been able to an appointn^^i to 'post that paj'S a^^pectfible annual salary. „ f, J ‘ ' As we see it, Gj}vet^oT^''feajifqrd is trekting his Negro cpnstvQj^nc)^ exactly, ri^ht. So long as Negro voters J^ntipue. t^ tie “in. t^e bag” for the Democratic *P%rty ;Pr ^ny othw party in this ktate, jusi so l^ng'^^yj^l they be com pelled to retrtaijl^ sattsffisji with 'the trutnbs tint are thrown from its political table. It will be interesting to tyatch jupt* what argu ment Ne;»ro leaders of the Democatic Party will come up with for support of its ticket when the next election rolls around in 1962. We trust that th^,ingratitude they have re ceived at the hands of a itlBn who owes his office as governor almost entirely to the hard work and loyalty of Netrro leade^s will awak en the Negro voter to his senses. If it does not. there is little hope that he will ever re ceive the full benefit of a si^port such as he gave the party in the election last Nov. A KECE9SA|(1i; OELUSIpN "(We have) iaventcd and glorified a ficti tious historical South, a lliyth which did not die with the crisis that, produced it, for suc- ceejding experiences of defeat* aqd hamiliation made it even more a psychological necessity to Southerners. For a hundred years Southern historians found the dream so warm, the truth so cold, that they were slow to con struct fpr the South an image, of itself that was true to the reality of its past or relevant tb its diangiu^ circjim^tajnces.** "Tht nsm* of Jstus Mwss ex* tolled" Arts 19:17. * Those who know tM' sfiiritual power of Jesus Christotnost tpU men about Him. Torf^bften we fail to praise the - nnster that men may know about lilir 'mighty spiritual power. Thef't«ileemed soul must tell about thi^'^Stiiiritual power of Jesus Christii Out Sav ior. Those save by must ^ tell of His wondrous (avivg pow er. If we, the saved, MU to ex- toll His virtues andi spiritual powers the lost will tut know about Jesus, the mighty to save. If you have been bom of the spirit and have the power of this new life in Christ Jesus, thsa yoH ouj^ht to tell m^i^ut it. J^is :1». counting H^he rn- deetnM soul to tel^p|| eoo'l ' news of ^salvation. IQ^: indeed- gOo^ to be sayeii'^ ftoMfi sin. Jesus in Hi#-death qn the cross has given lip the, plan. We who know Jesiis as a saving power hiust tell the good news of this saving power to hum«n beings who have nol| yet eiqfteirl- enced it. Yoa say that Jesus saved you, then, why not tell somebody what he has done for yotir s6ul. The good news of salvation is not to be kept but it is to be t(4d. A gift so precious as the salvation of aur souls mtist be shared. You remember whin Jesus healed the man siek in mind among the Oadarenes, he told him to go kiome and iel) what God i» Christ had doha for his sick mind. M^t m tell i little more about tha skying pow er of Jesus in ow own ii%M ■ Y«u .s«y Jesw% tyfiut Hie one dfy- WW U»el» d4 you tfdn a se^?,& Jeslis swed;^^ the^i^dtt reeolUnie^d Itini «s a:^viqi|. tt^Jesus hmght joy to yau^oiotif; tiieti tail some- bojr abQtt| it. If. yo|lr sOiU hat been dcuuis^ npm .iiin, then teli sa«nebq^)F. kbout ^it. Some fpul sick and weary with sin needs to hear about Jesus the mighty power to save. Some soul burden ed with sin needs to know about Jesus who takes {>way the burden of guilt and sin. Yes, those of us who -haw been saved from sin by Christ JeSus must tell men about the saving -power of our Redeemer. A matchless joy comes to those who carry the god news of sal vation. IJThat greater joy can come to yyi than to know that you hAve helped to lead some lost soul to Christ. Even Heaven itself rejoices when one soul tiii^ to Christ for salvation. In this, saving of a soul you bring a ble^sipg to that soul and you abb' eaitses heaven to rejoice. Cqn an^hing be more satisfying? Let every soul redeemed by C|irist Jesus become an enthusi astic,'zealous teller of the good ne#S 'to those who may be lost in the darkness of sin. •Summary Continued fwm fionl «N6 AT c0ms^^ Hie Bev. QIaan T. Setthi, iM^er of the famous Wings Over JtflnAu) chorus, said at a luiidi^on.-ai^t Isg in Durham Tiysdny aftonMwa that agfiregalion retustss la ae- "cpt engagements befort segregat- •'d audiences. In the city for a copcert at, Hill- "ide auditroium Tuesday, the Rev. Settle, a nritive of Alabama, com mented on the change in race re lations in the South in past seven vears. JACKIE WILSON JtECOVERING NBW YORK—Singer Jackie Wil "on was listed In “satisfactory" "bndition early this week at Roo sevelt. hosj^tal after i^fering bullet wounds jst week. #Hsqh wi^i hit twice On Feb. J.S by a distraught woman fan when Im lefiised her entrance to "his apartment. Police identified his assailant Miss Juanita Jones, 28. She was quoted as saying the gun went nff when Wilson tried to^ take it from her. She is being held on $2,SOO bail for felonious assault. "Oppose Continued from front page 'lated Negro cases are taken. Most Negro patients are trisated at Good Samaritan. Negro patients will be admitted to the new wing anticipated for November. The proposal for training Negro nurses at Johnson C. Smith was made along with the suggestion that they be used at Charlotte Memorial. Smith Is a predominaiirf- ly Negro institution sup'ported by the Presbyterian Church. "Leader Continued £rom front paj^ Greene, Raleigh and Rolland W. Greene, Salisbury, five grandchil dren and two sisters; Mrs. Mabel Powell, Raleigh and Mrs. Annie Yarborough, Louisburg. . We Students, Ne^o and white, who are picketing at Durham theatres do not insist upon de segregation merely because we want to sec movies in equal com>- fort. We believe that segregation is an injustice which hurts our whole cemmunity; wc. ask tlie* patjpna^ D.urhani theatres to sup|^o^£ I oW • tall for a change in policy. y The artificial separatloin of the races hurts the Sopth deeply: Segregation deprives a large , number of Southerners -.of the., basic «dhcational and }ob*oppor tunities which are necessary to achieve true “Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Bwause many Southerners ara .thus de prived, '-the economic gfowth of the South is beinft tetarde^. com; pared to ^e gi’hlt'tli of t^e test of-, the tailed - fetates.^ Segregatiim hurts the South by peattng bitter conf(ct withiti Southero lurches. Most h|idin| Christii||s Jn the South jielie^^. that ..folloMrlng .Chrises tetehings .feilHiiM i]u«lv Ipr sir itteo.j ’ • Segrcgaaoa biH^U thi^ttr« nlrtit» )]MCiUse 4t; liiii^il^ to ' the uncoumitted nMoiui of Aaiii,, Aifriea attd SoOft '|SRerto..'these m^ons, which, ns alem' ^^iig between pcmwrMf’ Nnd. C^nili- nitfH. cahaot uedtediroti vantiHi«s'’ of ■ “^atti^atov” inf whldi Uiey voidd bp triNrtM i*. inferior, second-elass citizsAs. v American continutes to humiliate many 6f its own citizens, it can-' nDt win the loyalty of the world. Segregation hurts individuals, it; hurts the South, and it hurts our country. When a policy such as separate and unequal treat ment of whites and Negroes con- with the best interests of - Jeppka of Durham, the South, and th^ nation, then the p^lie necessity must prevail, i liw! situation calls for corrective; iHtblic action. We' urge you to support a change in policy by> rejecting the I picket lines, by! attending integrated amusement and sports events, and by joining u? il}, nonviolent picketing if you' feel so moved. ^ Tlie Banana Republics of the United States (From an address by 'Malcolm Bryan, President of thB. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Mr. Bryan was speaking 'beiore the Rotary Club of Atlanta;, iinuary 23, 1961.) “Let me now turn'ito'inother subject of some deHcacy on which 1 wish to be l»a|^ “In the postwar v^|d the South has made spirited&almost miraculous progress. have come from a per capita j^coms of less, than half the natftn to a per capita income of 69l>erceirt of the national average, an accomplishment thi forts us all. It is pai gratifying to me and to I, as have most of yoi^ en almost my entire i to thisState and region. • “Our progress has' b€ ly by our own effort, shall be ill Informed am if we do not realise thai com- t life part- t we stupid oon- ridMable part of the aco^plish- ment of which we n proud has come fnm th« ittportolien of capital and sUlia and mstiafe- ment from outidde Ait# state and ojwtside this wondal^ Sattthem regton. We ski^. al|a be ill in* formed and, 1 ttiink, stdpid if WA do apt realiM titot «• are still a deficit are* isr laipMal and fee skills and tikali if mi ara to continaa td ontraee t|iii ntttrtQ) we diall eoatiMfnS. aid sad insptratiim, se to flron abroad. “Now, t am coacaNwi.at^t tMs point b« thoioiii^, iiMentood. In this Sixtii Ve4flral K«aerve Mstriet Miere is a s|»te that hat Adfinitely begUB ta litf, and there is somt evidencf ttat other parts of the r^ioa have slowed down Mlative to the hation, In their pQwqrd eco^omia marcl^ if Aiat llowing doilcl^,' which 1 now see at the f^lnfest ten|ei(c:j;, shinild continue aii(i Be «tigpi4nf- ed said, if m do UprthliW to "Fligtit Continued from front PNCe Jenkins is a Korean Vdteran whose mind began to show serious signs ofdeterioraUon according to his mother, upon returh from the service. n The Veteruis Hospital had no bed avnUble, and a ptivate dpc- tor was summoned, he found Jos eph intensively MfvouS. ^ The mother, Mirs. Orleans Jen kins, haS spent ^ho^sands of dol lars in an effort to save her boy’s life. She is penniless and is in need of4>ublic stjippdrt. There are only a lew days left to' work in beiiaif of her son—who would not be facing death if* he were white. mtinued frotn front page ness faith and tenducted a Sun- day moffilns radio bresdcait whifeh was heard JSy an asthnafed four million ovslr 70 ctstlons. thene are appnMclmafely iW churches ef the d«nai»hietlan. The headquart rt »wila M NU ^Si hsadqusrtsrt dnir^ in nill* adalphh Is vslvsd. at Mifflafl. Price assist or increase the slowing down, or to diminish the impor- tation of extra-r^ional capital and skills, then we shall have struck ourselves a blow from which we will be generations in recovering. Remember, a plant that does not come here does not eliaain^te employment opportuni ties and the wealth we might ha^e had for a day or a month or a year but for derades. “Let me simply add that in my judgement foreign nations or foreigners seeking plant loca tions or opportunities to invest their csptial—and there is much olfdiore capital invested in the SiHith—or other Americans from outside our area seeking the same opportunities are not much concerned with our 'social opin ions. But they are concerned with our ability to govern, ourselves and to maintain law and order. And any individual or corporate management ^contemplating the. Continued from front paga iffs Deputy Garson McLeod who stopped by the patrolman’s home to see Him. When McLeod got no answier .'>nd was told by neighliops that Priee had not been seen, he called Dutham police, who broke iqto the house. Chief Pleasants told the TIMES that Price had tol^ him eariier Mondav that he had taken sleep ing pills over the week-fnd, apd added that they had left him “groggy.” Price was scheduled to face trirl Monday on charges of ss- sault and battery. The trial was put off, however, when his de fense recHiested a jury trial. >C>R Body Continued from front page etnnid(iints arc reqidred Igr.l law to be in writing and nnder oath (that is, in affidavit fosn duly ^«arn- to before a NoUi^ Public or other official). Oral statementg «^11 be i^ceived as the oottdition of the iCommijitet's agenda par- PreviQuS tessions of the Com mittee have been held in Raleigh, ■Durham, Charlottej Greensboro,^ New Asheville,. Wi|jst«i Sal em, Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, and Greenville. The Committee is collecting in- formati&„ to be included in a re port to OM^pAess and the Presi dent duO^^ made in Septem ber, 1S61,; at^lD whether any citi zens of I^rtit Carolina are being denied equal protection of the law on account of race, religion, or national o|^in. Tlie ComnUttee has previously published reports on voter regis tration and Voter partic^tion in the 1058 geseral election.‘It is now compUiflg Mmilar data jon regis tration by. connties and by race iti the loeo generid elect^. The ?om}nitte%^^ also publ^Mied two and tow ’mtorts os public em- reports on Mblic school 'Question ployment,f||H latter detiiing with the Nati^al Guard and the Em- plos^rtienf jSecurity Commission. Qttier eniployme^t studies, bas ed on Questionnaire solicited froi» eoBtr*elors lielding govern ment contracts in North Carolina and from^ state agencies-as to the employnteAt of pem>ns la govern ment in Jiforth Carolina, are in IHTogresa and are- exp^ied to be eemeAeted and pi^listi^ at an Memly^ of the ebtnt^ittee are McN(^ ChreensboCo, chair man; iSeetar MeLean, / Southern Pinei; Al f. Spaulding, ^Durham; Atty. 'C. (3i«iparson, Durham; Mar garet m:'. Wilson; Wn>^ Thorp, Bockjr HoMt; Paul Eri’ln, Char lotte; Atty. C^i^B Todd, Winston- Salem; Mari)p Wright, Unville F«lls; and l^llard Barbae, Dur ham, ■Stokes Contiir^ from frooe page Carolina and reared and educated in New York City. She is Direct or of the Department of Religious Education of the Massachusetts Council ot Churches, wJiich rep resents the United Ihrotestant forces of 1800 churches through twelve major denominations with in, the Commonwealth. Dr. Stokes. received her Bache lor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Education from New Yerk University, and the Doctor of Education degree from Colum bia TTnlveriity and Union 'flieo- iogical Seminary. Post-doctoral studiM have followed at the Grou«» Development Laboratories at Beth el, Maine and Boston University. She holds membership in the Pi Lambda Theta, the National frater nity for women in education, in Alpha Kappa Delte, the Natoinal So«iriogy Honor Society; and in^ Delta Sigma lliete, an internation al-., college women’s sorority for eduction and service. The nam| of Qlivia Pearl Stokes is found in “Wh^’s Who |o America,” “Who’s Who in American Women” and “Who’s Who in American Educa tion.” ■m0 Continued from front page Hoses said: "We tl)ii)ik we ^ have some good men. I think they will- Ifelp base ball in Durham a great ^eal.” Turner, who is now manager of a Beauty SuppHes Firm, is a former basebSll player, coach and umpire. His active playing career span ned 13 yeaft, and included play ing with ‘SUch teams now defunct aS the 6rooklyn Royals, the Ameri- rsn Giants, the Philadelphia Stars, the Bittningham Black Barons and in Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico. investment of capUal ot tba lo cation of a> plant in this place knows lOne thing tuQ well. V the govememnts of our stttes are so ill advised and so oblivious to reality as to fall in their tespon. sibilities to nuUatain law smd order, the Inyastmeat of that capital' or' the locadan of that plant with us is dstiaereua; for all ntionid men know tiiat a mob turned loose on one hmdi qf en onei class of men, or o» one property, ok class of propeirtji cm iOm b«i tunMKt lopm m m other man, or' other men, or othet properties. 1 trust that no one hel'e Ml be under the slight est illusion on this score. A fail ure in the South to maintain law and MMer ban cost bitteriy in the job opportunities and the wealth that we so much need to ihcnaM if 'lur citizens .ue to be well served. “If we behave like a banana t’epublic we shall get and deserve tba aeononic rewards character- iatio oi^ a banipy rapublie.”
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