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THE CAROLINA TIMES " 1-A—SA'EMROAY, APRIL 14, 1WS DURHAM. N. C. THERE CAN BE NO PEACE UNTIL THE CHAINS EVERYWHERE ARE REMOVED Qnrdi Meries fcrllfgRies ModDeMe The four-way church merger now beiifr con- «i(i^r*d by lckdern ad the £|»t80opsl‘Chin>h, the Hethodist Church, -tlie United Chu^h of dM^st ard the Utuud PneibyteriBn Onirch before us once again Hhe dire n«cessity a similar inoveraent wittiin tW ranks of Ka^rn rfiurch cincles. etpeoidlK* the several branches of Methodists, Once or twice with'in the past half-centnry there hag arisen the cKr- AtiMion of a ,tU)ion of the AMiE Oiurch, the A.ME .Zion Churoh and the GME Church. Without ever givinj? the rnatter serious con- •ictenrtion the fH»p«ssionR have alway« died for tl»« lack of Mie kind of leadership neces* sary to implement the movement. Such lead ership. of course, should necessarily come from the top. wWch includes the several histi- OjM of the three church .groups, thif; making *ft almost an imiK)ssil>ility that anything will «rcT *he done to encourage the movement. We think, however, that a •rocrger of the three branches of Neffro Methodists is not Wily oonsMmmation tWoutly to be wished’* ^wrt fhe most sensible fhiiii; that could take {Jlace within the ranks of Neffro diurch cir- 4lfls. From an leconomk «»tandpoi|it it would certainly lighten the financial burden under which the laymen of the three denominations *re now Btruffijlin^r- With hardly any differ- mmot in their rltMBli.'rtic set-up. it does seem "ttrat somewhere within the ranks there could be found the type of leadership that would iead toward a unicm of the three Nflgro de nominations. We say again that sucli {cadersbip need not ^ looked for amonf; the bisliQjis or other Wgh rankinc general officer*. They are aware that a union of^ the three chnrches w««ld mean that the number of bishops and .general (rfficers now ri«ling high and mighty •n the biUiks of their poor laymen would be Mduced over fifty per ««it. For instance, the AMF. Zion Church now has four bishops serving its parishes or confeteoces in North Carolina; the AME OiuTCh has one who divides his time and service in conferences in two other states and the r>istrict of CoUtmhia; the C. M. F,. Church has one who serves corifer- ence in North Carolina. South Carolina. New York, tht District of Columbia and Virginia. A merger of the three Methodist denomina tions. which now have a total of six bishops serving in this area of the United States, would reduce that number to one or certainly to not more than two. When it is considere.l that* a bishop’s salary is around Sl.'i.OOO an nually. in additiim to secretarial help, travel ing ami other expenses, the financial saving that would 1>e realized in this section of the U.S. alone is asltmdiitf. Only a bunch of dupes, such as the laymen in the three denom inations. would (refuse to demand a merger. Instead, the poor suCkers continne to pay. and that in the name of Jesus and the glory of God with their noses on the grind stone. Unless there arises within the ranks of the laymen of the three denominations one or more who have the time, money, energy and ability to lead the mcml)crshij)s out of the present wilderness of despair, there is little hope that they will ever get out. Certainly^ the Wshops .and high ranking general officers will never make the .start toward a merger. Thev fear that such a move, if successful, would snatch fom too many of them the easy life they now live at the expense of the poor deviU wlwi continue to follow them blindly, ■thinking all the while that it is the lowly Nazarene for which they are sacrificing in stead of another human being. Negro Wrifer Records Impressions 0f Abka on Fint Tnp fliere SPfRITfTAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROm ma$J(mD Great Eniotioiial byieriences Help Transform li&iiuak Jk Political Lelbai^y of ^itnm Negroes This editorial is b^injj written a few hoars before the deadline for filitVT for office in the May Primary. The ‘Carolina Times had hoped that the Durham Com»iitt«e on Negro Affairs, whose re«|)onsibility it is to assist in the selection of Negro candidates for public office in Durham, would' have b«»twr«d itselt long Ago in st^gcstung a member of the race lature. Thus far, vtf ap^leiri nothing definite t^#ard‘.Ibaf ftltl done, and, as a result. ANill'.liave ^io »gro running forv^elflctlan for aliy office in this year’s elect' Such a sad state of affairs, we think. *hould ,not exist here in view the fact that many K«gr(»es in other Bections of the state took to Durham for leadership along Such lines. It is our hope that before the deadline expires that qualified persons for bf»th offices will luve annouiKcd their intention of running in the May Primary, eithT' on the Democratic or Republican ticket. W'ith Negro candidates already in the race in'nuilford. Rutherford :*nd several otiier o.«ninties it appears to u.' that Durham shmild afso find qtjalified per sons to enter the race for boMi.Board of Coun ty Ccjmmiasioners a«d tUf legislature. The state of affairs Itecomes even sadder w-hen it is considered that the Durham Coun ty Democratic Connuittee «ij>parently gave no thought to the aittiuintnient of a Negro to tlie Board to fill the place tnaUc vacant by the recent resignation of,John Doaief. In.stead. the Committee did toke into consideration that the Northern Hjgh School arj^a hajl.' no representation on the Roard and will sooner or Liter, if not now. see to it that this parti- culiar section does have representation. Tt ap pears to not have dawned on the Executive Committe thnt fhe ^0,000 or more Negroes of the city aild county njf ;Dufham. although consistently voting the Democratic tickct. have never had r^)resentation of one of their op the Tt api^ears to us that it would have h«en a noble ge.sture-to^have fifle^ the vacancy with a representative of the group that kept this state in the Democratic fold in the election. In the face of such brazen disregard for SX now wonder just how nmch^ longer leaders here will demand and insist that Negro voters continue their loyalty to thi Democratic Party, e.sjiccially of Durham (*ounty. We thiivk the time has come when Negro leaders ought to consifler their pcopie not l>eing in fhe bag for any party that does not have the decency to reward |>arty loyalty of Negroes tl»e same as others. The jMilitical lethargy in not providing can didates in Durham for public f>ffice. plus the ajiparent lack «if interest in demanding repre sentation on the County Board tff I'^liication when a vacancy was male available by a re signation. needs to be given serious conside ration by tluute meml>ers of the race whf> wish to see progress male here in the direc tion of greater participation by Negroes in all phases of Durham's development and growth. NBVEB THE SAME AGAIN "Wh*n the blood of thy jnartrr was sh»d . . I was standing by . . Acts 22:20 We see some heart-gripping, dramatic things and we are never the same again. These great emotional moments leave their mark. Here a young man saw a noble, loving soul die and he never was the same l^{gin. He lost, or tried to lose himself In a truthless plan of vkilenoe, but all to no avail. The blood orf this man would not let htai in peace. It k«|]4h«MlnK up ito iiaunt aid plagiie hk very ^rt ano soul. His mind was ifcver freed from the shattering emotional impact of this dyinr Christian. He ran but he could not out run it. All of his aeUons could not erase the act of this man who died with a prayer of foi'givenc!»-WT 4ipfr We arc unable to hide from God and our ugly, shameful acts. Man is unable to escape the ever-present God. The Psalmist rightly teflls us that if we go to the upper reaches of the Infinite vastness ■ of out er space we will run into Gad. We can run but we can never escape from God and self. 1 see Paul running but he could not get away from the dying Stephen. And he, therefore, found no peace until he stop ped runnhig and confessed his sit» and made peace with God. Some of us need to stop our vain efforts to runaway -and make peace with our God and our fellowman. When we have wronged a brother confMaion ««hl ipkrdoa ar« in otdar. tM us atop '.running and make peace with God. Where are you going Sin ner? Remember you cannot hide. If a sinner would find peace, he must confess his sins. I aee men and women trying to run with that great tiuraen of'gultt.-Paul wa« run ning with a weight, until he confessed his sins before God. Paul laid his burden of sins down at hlghnoon on the hlgh- ■way -as he met God In Christ Jesus 4b a regenerating in fluence in his life. .Just oqme as you are and ChrlJit wtU ido the work. Bringi your *ins to Jesus and he will wash and cleanse you from ail sin and unrighteousness ... “Just as I am without one plea but that thy blood Was'•Shed "for me. . . O lamb of God I come . . . Why try -io Ttm with that burden of sin? Cpnie with your sins to 7esus and you may walk In, true peace. Jesi|s says to the weary .rest less GO m PEACE. Jeius la Mve down and go In pa»ce. T^ith will make you whtfle. 'Re pentance Is a spiritual lever to lift that heavy burden of sin. Jesus invites you to exchange that inner conflict of aoul for the Peace of God. Paul said later thaft the peace of his re#tleis soul was one that pas- seth all human ut^ratandlng. That unforgettable moment was the beginninjg of the salvation or the healing of a sin-sick soul. iMGLEWOODJCLIFFS, N. Ji— E. R. 'SralllMvalte, whaae Sir, With Lowe*’ wan the Aida- Jleld-Wtff Award in SMI. raptfti an his flaat ti1») to ikfrica is *ind of Homecoming” to be pub lished April 27 by PwotlcaJIall. A non-Africhn Ne*ro viaitla« Africa is Inevitably tom by two coitflicting eni»tions: one, an Identification with his ancestral' roots; tl»e other, a sease of aliea- ation and a sudden reallution that he is American or French or West Indian (as Bralthwalte isj and not almply a Negro whose spiritual home is among other* with bUck skin. Bralthwalte has written a sensi tive diary of this special kind of homecoming, careful not to judge what he cannot know, or to evaluate what is partially'hid den. Ws black skin may have given him an entree that othei journaliftists don’t enjoy, but his observations are essentially those (ft any foreigner on the AfrlcifD continent. They are acutfe, and thflv 81*6 sonletimes surprising. His first stop is Guinea, recent- liberated fl^om French iuie, wherb the Keliglon is pred6tnl* iVintly Muslim, the political set up aiithorltarian .“for democracy presupposes a literate majority"), and where the spirit is strongly Africim and neutralist. The Guin ean ne'^de help, but he cannot be bought. Whether his technical aid comes from Washington or Moscow is immaterial, but there must be no ideological strings. Braithwaite Is shocked to learn that before the French left, they vented themselves bi an orgy of vandalism, destroying their plumbing, smashing everything that couldn't be carried away, event chopping up the hoses that watered their lawns. But there was no fitter reactiiw Jrom the aiie -Mnaans «nly to aae the FMaeh leave. ifn lUsrra :Le«M, «rtiich was jiMt itoat to Mhieve its inde- paadence, Bnltharaite Jound a curious laek of mthuaia'sw, even of Interest, In the n«w state. Among all classes ot people he was cMifronted with a wall of silence, with apathy. Here he dis covered that the prospect of in- defMiflence pakd before a difli ctitt Internal politksal sltuatl«n, and here, as In the rest of the new Mrlcan nations was the fear at a Congo situation arising. He found conditions more sta> ble in Liberia and Ghana, but he was curious to discover ^thit Africans had no respect for ea6h other. When on first sight he wtfs Inetitably taken for an AA-l- ckn, ‘he yen often met rudeness. When he identffled himself as a firstitlme Visitor to the African continent, the treatment swltrti- e«t hiltantly tO'^ (!!0Urt«sy ^qd pleasure. A senie of'human dlj{> nlty And respect or one's fellpw* hiid nbt follawed fkst enough dn the heels of independence. Bralth\tS!ilte travelled e%i9p- sivejy, fhim the coastal cities to tte most romote Villages, ai^d talked 'vlth government officials, teachers, trjbcs^en, and old coIo- niols. He briniv new inaleht on cooteniporary Africa, which jis more complicated and more di verse than any outsider would imagine. Educated in New Yivk and Cambridge as a physicist,:a fight er pilot in the BritL^ Air Foree, Braithwaite has been an Eqglis'a sdiooknaater, a»d wiHked with the World Veterans Organization in Paris. He will visit New York f4r the publication of his book in April. I Letter To The Editor Do*» Editor; 1 cannot understand why more of us have not taken an interast in the case of Sfrs. Mae Mallory ^ that militant black lighter who is being 'humlUated and abuaed in «n Ohio prison on an obviously trunajgd-up-kilnaagiag chuw.. O'NeiH's View on fiace In New Biography M John Avery Boys Qub Last week’s elitinn of the Carutina Times carried an annuimconent of plans ,for .the celebratfion of Matiuaal QuU Week which begins on April « and ends April 15. Published along with the announcement were two maps showing the number of delinquents among boys of Durliam when the John Avery Boys Club started operation here back in 1935 and the reduced number that exi,sited 13 years later. So convincing as to the worth of the local boys club to this community that we would like to add our word of commenda tion for the work It has done in providing n wholaesdme environment for the boy« of Dur ban. So oft«Mi, tlte tendency of many of us is rnimimmm mmimm sMkm, n. c. V Wied tut/mm. -.IM- Im tMtm dm ffMUr at tk« 4MNi / . Wfttt .0^11%^ jaHmt m M M n0m to take such institutions for granted. How ever, no institutim such as the John Avery Boys Club could ojwrate so successfully un less there are behind it dedicated and devoted men and women. In celebrating National Ho> s Club Week, it is our hofK' that citizens here will not forget the time, energy and money proviled by those who are behind the ojicra- tion of the local boys club. Principally, of course, is Lee W. Smith, its executive direct or. who has worked untiringly for the Oub’s success. Ju.st how many 1m>vs he has personal ly been resfMmsible fur guiding int«) useful manhoiKl cannot I>e estimated in numbers nor in dollars and cents. One thing is certain, without such » dedicated person at its head the John Avery Boys Club would have never been abk to make tlie contributim it has to the city of Durham. It is our hope that the citizens of Durham will visit the Club this and other weeks and acquaint themselves with the fine work that is being done there to assist hoys of Durham In growing nji into useful manhool. Without an inst^titinn in our milst. it is hard to picture w|j8t Dtttlmin wonid have experi enced in the way of deltnqueacy gmon£ it« ixw*- How the famous playwright, Eugene O’Neill, broke down the barriers against whites and Negroes appearing on the same stage is told in a new bio graphy. The book, “O’Neill,” writ ten by Arthur Gelb, of the New 'York Times' drama staff, and his wife, Barbara, is published by Harper and Brothers. In 1924, fhe Provincetown Playhouse in New York City presented O’NeiH’s play, “All God’s Chillun Got Wings." It treated a marriage between a Negro man a white woman. Before the play opened, newspapers and various or ganizations were attacking It because in one scene the Ne gro hero kissed the hand of his white wife. And to make the public more furious, say the Gelbs In their book, the part of the husband vv&s going to be played by Paul Robeson rather than a white actor in blackface. The actors rehearsing “All God’s Chillun Got Wings” were bothered by poison-pen letters, threats of reprisal from the Kti Klux Klan, and warnincs of legal action. In *hc midst of rehearsals, the Gclbs discovered in doing research for the book, the mother of one of the white chUdren who appeared In the play >ovIlbd>ew her child be cause her husband had tele graphed her from Georgia, re fusing to allow the boy to ap pear on the stage with Ne gro children. But Eugene O'Neill was not to be frightened by these at: tempts to stop his play. Four days before the scheduled open ing O'Neill was Interviewed by the prvss. die is quoted in the Wo- graphy marimt, '1 admit that there is prejudice against the Intermarriage of whites and blacks, but what has that to do With my play? I don’t ad vocate intermarriage in It. I am never the advocate of any thing in any play • except humanity toward humanity.” “But,!’ persisted the report er who interviewed him:»do«’t you think the white race superior to the black?” ‘tSpiritually speaking, there is no superiority between races, any race,” O'Neill answered patiently. “We're just a little ahead mentally as a race, though not as individuals. But I’ve no desire to play the ex- horter In any racial no man’s land. 1 am a dramatist. To me every human belpg is a special case, with his or her own special set of values. Tni«, often those values at‘e just a variant of values shared in common by a great group of people. But it is the manner in which those valu^ have act ed on the individual and his reactions to them 'which makes of him a special case;'*. The play opened on May 15 and, although sevCTsil pOllce- rhen were station^ 1^ the theatre In case of trouble, the performance went off smooth ly and the play was hailed as a great success, say the C^elbs. Cary High School Band Somss* In ^veral Recent i^onnances. The Cary High School Band has had a full measure of suc cess during the past lew yaars including the winning of a number one rating at the Southeastern Band Festival in Bristol. Tennessee, and the State Band Contest in Greens boro. In addition to this the band has participated in many parades and festivals across the state. On the basis of excellence In musicianship, marching per formance and a past record oi accomplUhmeoiM. Uie Cary Hib School Band has baen •alcoted to repccsant the State of North Carolina in a Nation al Band Fesival at Mason Qi^, Iowa on June IB. 1082. The festival will be present ed in conjunction with the woiM premiar of Warner Brothers' motion pictur« THE MUSic MAN, ud wUi tehire a marchlqg bju)d competition of OBe band selected from each state throughout the United States. The winner of the competi tion will receive a grand prize of $10,000.00 worth of musica} instruments, a cross-country tour, and national recognition through public appearances and coast to coast television. In order to raise the $0,500 needed to take the 98 .musici ans and their chaperones to re- praaaat ke State of Nafth Cai'olina at the National Band Festival, a Telelion wa« held over Channel 9 on Sun day. April B ftam 2 o’clock on. H*e «ntertaliMnent on the four - iMMir • long program indudad he Cary Varrity -Band the Cafy Jmm Band, the Acapella Cheir, -the Tloacettes diluted by feusle Adams, a bartMr shop quartet, '"W# ftewehnMwi** and «thm loa numerous to mwtloo. A inovle o-t W eeMwity I a alaa soheMad ^ *appaar on tlie Ab an Alroamerican who was born In the South and who has spent the bulk of my life In Monroe, North Car olina, I have had nothing but the highest praise for those like Robert F. Wllllanw, Mae Mallpry, and otiiers who have had the “guts” to stand up , and fight agahist the vldous attacks of racism in . Monroe. Thosfe pf us who by our very backgrounds have had to put up with the daily stench of race oppression feel in our de jected bones an earnest desire to be recognized as human beings. This desire on the part of all freedom-loving black men cannot be stopped by San ford’s racists of North CaHllna Minister Press For End To Jim Crow Methodist Unit dNCINNATI, OHIO. —Some 200 ministerial and lay leaders of the Central (Negro) Juris diction of The Methodist Church, meeting for three days at the Shertoa-Glbaon Udtel heie, challenged the denomitia- tion to end segregation within its organizational stnicture. Called by the jurisdiction's C^jUg^of Bishops and the Com- Five appointed by the 19*0 Central Jurisdictional Con ference In Cleveland to study problems arlshig from th« pro- poaed transfer' of local churches and Annual Conferences acroas jurisdictional Ihies. the delegates divided into is dlscusston groups in which all aspects ol church life were explored, with particular refermce to racial re lations and problems. ' > The findings committee, led by the Rev. Dr. L. Scott Alien Of New Orleans, recommended at the closing session Wednes day. idarch M, that “the UMM Methodist General Coaferenoe>he memorialized to declare in mi- eaulvocal terms that the entire Msithodist Church and its related institution* ly deaegfecatad.” The group declared that «or tiv church to denr anr penwn ad- mlasion or enwhianisent of color, race, or national orgin ' prqfrram. Ihe program win afford he people of the Ralelgh-Durh^tn ‘Chapel Hill area OQportunity to see and haar the hand that wffl represant .the State of N. C. and to nnport fh|a jim muahna «rgai&tiaa. and it must not be stopped his henchman^ DISelle, in Ohio- What in the devil Is noiv wrong with us? Let’s Jace it- Can me, continue to go linking the ndiite racists’ toak hy.'deteg nathiag, or can we lie counted tet^our yoicih ' •> he-heaMi in th^ defense of Mallory otl^ black mUt tants who are willing to stand up and be counted as human beings. It’s up to iw to save Mae from K. K. K. We can no longer stand timidly by, watch ing vldous dogs diaguised as law officials,' runnin«r ramnaat throughout' the. fiqiithlaiid preying on Innocent black men, women, and children, especially * those who have the courage to defy their ruthless viciousness. I say, black men - you who have the courage to say you wt(nt to be free - Qet on the ball! Signed; Raymond H. Johnson, A Monroe refugee who had to seek asyltim in the North. “is a denial of the basic princi ple of Christianity." While the conference looked with favor on the transfer of individual churches across jnris- See END, 6>A y^elid ffafllaMantary 4^sMaw «y «iMlCUS »OULWAM One of the fundanwedtal piin- ciplM of parliamentary aiotioil* is that o^y one motion can come hrfNK the assemUy at oae time; but several motiuMU of different ranks may be considered along ‘«4th the main motion. For example, a main »otion may be before the dub aad maV be in the process of diseuasion. Then, according to need, the fol lowing motions may be iH'pposed: 1) Move to amend the main motion 2) M ove to amend the amand- mant 3) Move t(ji refw to a coamlt- tee 4) Hove to lay on the taUs 5) Move to take a reeess, add then 9) Have to adjourn If the motion to adjourn d^ not carry, then the other nu^ tions would be diaeitssed arid voted upon in th^ reverse ardir in which they were propoa^- In other words, the last mrtlifc proposed would be considered -first, and in that ord«. MSADnSrflie writer will pare tlaster jmeechet. For W Wrffa^nta^ chart ot motim. fgrty ‘ crtrta tp Dr. If. jnorida A. and ,>■ IBhA, Tidlaba*' •a.'fla. %
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