. ‘ T H E C A R 0 L I N A T 1 M E S
I^^ATURDAY, JUNi 33, 1962 DURHAM, N, C.
Siktrdiy an Iwfiortanl Day Nr Nwin
The Spoils System-Democratic Party Style
Ue or sht MUST
le 30.CXX) or tfinre
iffHfijU hrjVe absD-
whntSoevor on the
[,ssioners. Such a de-
is not a lu'althv
For fvcfv Negro in whe ia C|uali-
fied to y^e it) 9 Prit^ary Satiir-
Jt}f^ 23 a day
As it npw sta
N^Jro citizens livin}*'’;
IjUply no represent a
o^ Cf*pnty Com
stj^e of
i(i|)^^OD for any coijjrnuuity the size >f Dur
ham, having the varied business, educational
■nd pther types of institutions owned and
confrolled by Negroes. Cei;tftinly, any fair-
minded citizen would'jj^e tp admit that the
sfgnu’nt of th^^pnlation is entitled
to at least a minimumjftlirMentation on not
only the Board of Cx>mniissioncrs but
ill important policy-rnfliiSg bodies of Jjoth the
toun^ RUd the city.
For ipqrt than a quater of a century the
piff^m Cpmwittee on Negro Affairs has
to g^ide the political efforts of
Negfg oi thii qaivity anrl city. In the
Boulwnre as a can-
the Board o County Commission-
•ri ^ k¥ lollowed its usUal pattern of offer-
Ik0 ytry best qualified person available
for or post under consideration. We
thinjf P)(- Boulware’s qualifications for the
poet Iff is seeking will stand ui> with those
6f nicntber now serving on the Board or
Uny ioT the position.
. •: *0 *'■* biographical skctch Dr,
I?oulware was jijofn i|} Fairlipli^ Co|)^y, S.
C., attendf^d
Chester, SJ gra4u»tir4
from John/ Smith University. Charlptte.
received Bk.'^ degree from University of
J|icliig|fV:^,.» Columtwa Uni
versity. 'Si»jce 194.3 ha^ Ijceii Prpjiesspr of
Mathematics an#i Superintendent of the Po'-
legt- .‘Sunday Schcpl at Njj:th C»rolifl# CoHege
at Durham: an elder and Ckrk of Session ot
the Covenant United Presljyterian Chj|ffh;
formerly president of the Durham City-Coun-
ty I’T.'K CouncjI. cljijinpaif of the Durham
Youth Board, meii}Jjjer of Board of Directprs
of the United Fund, member of the Execu
tive Committee of Durham Planning Council,
member of Executive Committee of the Dur
ham Chapter of N. C. Symphony Soci.ety; in
1%1 apj»ointed by Governor Sanford to the
.‘Vdvisory Committee of Atomic Energy. He
is married to thp formfr Mi»» Arii^ja Hamp-
field, and they ha¥e one daughter, a teacher
in the public sphools of Phtladelphia, Pa,
We urge the voters oi both rgces in Durham
to weigh, and consider all sides of the quej^ '
ion before thetp in S^tifrday'g run-off pri
mary, and go tp tlje ppll> aqd vqfe for Dr. \
Itoulware, not merely because he i« a Negro SPffilTUAL INSIGHT
but because be is so well qualified for the • ^
post and his election to the Board will
him a bigger ojpportuijity to better sef^^s tjje
community and the time in which he lives.
Another Show Window Dressjnp Stint
vLt
Gpvpmor Terry Sanmrd put on another
%ho||r window dressiflj|f ^fttnt Tuesday when
Ij* to the N(^t^i
^on'
$1
til'Carolina Methodise
fftritfice in session tf.IRnston to do some-
ing
Ijorers and Negroes
-governor went on
Conference. "Who
,s#y that these peo-
Ijield down in terms
lOflist Church has
so. The Methodist
to do something
to aid the mi|
Jprth Carolina. .
to a|k in his address
A-Hpisg to stand up.,
ue not going i
(qiflprtunity? Tl
|ke n)issionary zea!.!t
has the atii
4bont it."
loitead of lookiii||’. ^^ ''ihe show window
|rc*8ing of the g(fmllgt» utterance to the
Conferenci/? :-#iight not be a ba>t
>to ttke a pe^ Jntft; the hac;kroom an.d
of ^he cjosets pf state capital set'up
In ^e crocodile tears
||k frequent of North Caro-
i'i chief executive concerning the sad
of the thousands pf young, well-quali-
,'f^ Negroes being'out of the colleges
tllis state, ye^fJlIK*^ year, we repeat,
is Hflt Nearo ernpfoyed*
K state capital buiitltnjr 5n Raleigh as steno-
]^lri|up)tcr, bookkeeper,‘*litric or anv other posi-
^ovc that of |J>rJ^^r or maid.
* may be gootl puUlic relations for the
l^ernor to call on ifKj "missionary ze il" of
]||ftl|pdist Church to right this terrible
and to furnish| ^He ‘‘outreach to do
something about it.” We think, however
that the solution is more of a political than ^
relipious responsibility. Under such circum
stances, and in order that the pattern may be
rightly continupd of keppiflg church and state
separate, the governor as the head of the
party in power in this state ought to furnish
the leadership apd the statesmanship to cor
rect the wrong:
Negro citi»ei}» pf ^'prth Paroling mav
awaken some day to the folly of etcrijallj
being "in the bag" for any political part)
that cannot furnish, beyond empty words, the
leadership to share with theiji thp million?
of dollars the state is paying out annually in
salaries to clcrictl emjrfoyees. highway patrol
men, the National Guard and ottier positions
in which “nayy" a Np|;ro ^ai'^yer been em
ployed, '
Negroes of this state now constitute a
sleeping giant who has been overcome by
an overdose of loyalty pills from a party that
continues to toss only the bones of honorary
appointment.s out the window to them along
■: "Wftlrtfte TTUtn^s that falf frotn the-^^for whites
only"" democratic bamjuet table. That they
have been blind^ed by the glitter of a few
honors in the form of appointments to trus
tee boards of Negro colleges and other equal
ly worthless apjwintments only goes to show
how gullible some of us are to a guberna
torial pat on the back-
To Make False Accusations
Is To Sin Agaisnt Jesus Christ
"Nsithar can ihay prova th«
wharaol thty accui* me .
Acts 24il3.
It is a shameful thing to
make accusations without due
proof. But the morally blind
and depraved will attempt such
tbinw- But simply decency de
mands that we face the facts to
back-up hurtful accsations. The
truth should be established by
Indisputable facts. You know
they played this morally de
praved trick on the noblest
soul to gace this earth, Jesus
Christ the savior. They brought
false witnesses against Jesus.
And as you recall the evil
witnesses got tht|lr_ ll*s tnjji^ed
up.
Decency demnds that if we
would accuse then we must
have the indisputable facts to
back up our accusations. He
who accuses without facts is
^viteess.
guilty of bearing false
An this a very serious moral
breach. The one who bears
false witness is guilty of sin
against God and man. Here is
one person who bears false
witness and causes one to lose
his job. Then another bears
false witness and causes a home
to be broken. Other bear
false witness and disturb the
peace of th6 neighborhood.
He who bears false witness
may be counted the lowest
among the low. It is a despic
able thing to do.
The bearer of false witness
i» a peace-breaker. So a world
wearBy 'Jjti»lilg for 'pemc^ e«n
ill afford to have peacebreak-
ers. The word says the Christ
ian is to be a peacemaker.
Jeus called the peacemaker.
Jesus called the pacemakers
blessed. Thus a Christian
Safeguarding the Future of America
Premier Xikita
Khrushchev,
• '6c»viut
intentionally Q^,.uniiitcutionally, is an
unpredictable charaat^^^Sn one brexvth in his
eech in Romania l^^y. June 19 he de-
sred that he sees r^^feason to go to. war
l^CfUn. In the vei^- next breath he .says
^ 1^4 Flag will fly-ovftr the United States,
“rtie only qualification.of reservation the So-
Vifct Premier made is t|nt the American peo-
will hoist the fia;^,f ^
Whether Krushchev"'is right or wrong in
prediction oiUy»»tiij|a will tell. In the
ntime. howevcrt-^w^ would not like to
the American jSfcoplC'influenccd one way
Of the other by anything the Soviet premier
tuis ^p say- Jf Amer4ca,ie,to remain safe from
being overcome by cgj^tinism or any other
foreign doctrine, tHi3.\|toritry must forever
^ C»n guard against eh'emies from within as
fTflt from withouf." The latter we think
IfC ffMT Wpre daitgeTQWi than the former.
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m momi the Post OQ|n
North nndn th« Act ol
Maivfi I, iVm
P«H“, Hfffth Ci^na
l9(|fed at 439 f. Pettigrew W.
PPI WA*
to make.chqiufea
fqr letters to thp
f dPf ^ fHanntee return o( unwUcj^
’aS22S2iti£',
9 W* fn^wtee retui
This newsi>app(: is not too sure that there
dtes not exist m»ny persons inHHii's country
who would prefer seeing the r^ flying
over America than to extend demO^cy alike
to all its citizens. Herein lies the extreme
danger- That boring from within which for
one reason or another was the down fall ot
Babylonia, Greece, Rome and pthejr civiliza
tions of the past.
We think .Americans in all jV/tllff of life
should alert themselves to such dangers, and
whether thpy consider Khrushchev a real
threat pr n«4 they should take no chanpes. The
extension tq all Ap^ericans alike, without re
gard to race, creed or color, a full mei^sure of
human dignity is this cpuntry’s surest way pi
perpetuating den|ocr^y. Any other course is
risking the future of America and the possi
bility that the Red flag may some day fly
over if.
TOK^ I^EORATION
Of thfl State’i 3^,9162 Negro piipiU. only
2Q3 are in formp|rJy 8plip0ls. These are
distributed as fpllows; Charlptte 27; Greens
boro 17; Winston-Salem 15: Fhirham 11 j Yan
cey County 10; Raleigh 9; Hi^h Point 9;
Asheville S; an4 HlSPfl Clierry Ppint
Marine B^se h^ ^ N'grp children it> Craven
County 'Vtii^e’! scboola; and there are 25
Negro childrfn from Seymour Johnson Air
Force Base ia **^}iite” schools in Goklsboro.
By cpntra*^, Virginia, t)|e sta^p pf “massive
resistance,’^ l\as S36 Negro pupiU in formerly
all-white schpo)s. Florida has 648 and Ten
nessee
-rrrTbe jlun»a|| B«n.9^i«,
The U. S. Sixth Circuit Court
ruled on March 23 that the
Tennessee Pupil Assignment
Law (similar to North Caro
lina’s) cannot serve as a plan
to desegregate the schools.
"The Pupil As.signment Law,”
declared the Court, “might ser
ve some purpose In the admin
istration of a school system,
but it will not serve as a plan
to convert a biranial syy*,pm
to a non-racial one.”
Regarding the transfer pro
visions of the law. the Court
said: “Negro children cannot
be required to aplly for that
to which they are entitled as
a matter of ridhts. If thev are
(|eprived of their constitution
al rights, thev are not re
quired to seek redress from
an administrative body before
applying to the courts.”
The Memphis school board
argued that they were not
ooeratina a comoulsorv segre
gated school system. Said the
Court: “The real question is,
do they maintain separate
schools? . . . The Inescapable
conclusion is that at the time
of the judgment in this case
the schools for Memphis were
operated on a basis of ‘white
schools’ for white children
;nd Negrq schopls’ for Negro
children.’
WISTAITRH RELIEF about
CQMPLIJ^lfCE
“We are impressed.” con*
Itjnued liho Coiif^j “that the
defendant^ honestly and
sincerely desire to comply
with the law. but thev hqvp
pursued the belief that ‘full
eomnliance’ as reouired by th«
Sunreme Court can be hafl
under the Piioil Assiftnmei|t
Law. The nractice over a long
period of time of separate
schools in certain ircographic*1
areas of our nation .has bfi
come a wav of Jifp in
areas, and we realize th-t a
change ^s not ea^v to ncrpmp-
U.ih. But as this court miw*
faUow the supreme law of
land, as Interpretjfcd by the
Supreme Court, so must the
boards of education follow it.
“We urge the defendants
herein to adopt and submit to
the District Court some real
istic plan for the organization
of their schools on a non-
racial basis, in ‘full com
pliance’ with the mandate of
the Supreme Court, and to do
so ‘with all deliberate speed.”
ORDEHED TO SPEED
DESEGREGATIOH
In a decision handed doi^n
in Cincinnati on April 3, the
U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of
Appeal^ s^puck down Knox
ville’s grade a year desegrega
tion plan and ordered the
city to submit a new plan to
speed desegregation.
IJnder a plan patterend on
the Nashville p'an and ap
proved by U. S. District
Judge Robert L. Taylor, Knox-,,
&a^CIENCE--
REV. HAROLD ROLAND
TINY SNAILS living in a
New Mexico hot-water spring
may teach astronauts how to
withstand the extreme heat of
outer space. Dr. Austin Phelps,
University of Texas zoolo
gist, gathered the snails less
than an eight-inch in diameter
from thermal streams as hot as
144 degrees F. If the bio
chemical balance that provides
the snails ^and their inverte
brate neighbors with their re-
'sistance to high temperatures
can be discovered. Dr. Phelos
says, the information may help
man sustain lonff space flights
in comfort . . . JET AIRCRAFT
load at much a! 18,000 Ballons
of fuel fnr a flight to Fiirone
from O’Hare International
Airnort. Chicago, "Fhe lets con
sume about 2 300 gallons an
hour, comoared to 98 gallons
for a large piston-engined
craft.
A ‘BTTY OHANIAN’ drive
has onened in the West Afri
can country which gained its
ind»»nen'1ence from Britain in
1957. The government is at-
(temnting %) discourage the
rnmmonlv held opinion that
imnorted goods are auto-
maticallv superior to those
made in Ghana, cslling this a
“nnlonial mentality” ... A
BOOST in citrus consumntion
reminiscpnt of the 1i920’s when
r>>nnf»d liiices were new is ex-
r>“cted from a nrocesx that re-
triioves no ner cent of the water
frnm orange jnife without af
fecting the flavor. Votator
vacuum-drying experts ^ys
juice of 40 average
can be concentrated down to a
pound of crystals and later rp-
constituted to a gallon of de
licious juice.
LICHENS, one of the h*|-#-
lest forms of plant life on
earth, have been used i|ncf
antiquity for their curative
values. In the Middle Ages’ a
bite from a rabid dog >W'
uallv treated with a servin|
of lichen mixed in Wirm milk
with black pepner. A h^p(|f
hook recently issue^l by thf
Smithsonian Institution rep^rtj
that extracts of somp lichens'
p'’ti as powerfuj ar}tlhiot}cj}.
lichen sqlve is psefi ip Vi9\yi|u|
to tr»»»*t external burnr and
cuts. The big orofoism remain
ing, according to the reiiort. i4
to nroduce a water-soluble
lichen extract so that itf
antibiotic eWppf can be pro-
perlv controlled.
HFNTFRS outnnmbei home
O’nmer'i in onlv thre»' state*:
New Vork (2,89Bi44B rented
to ?. 3,'50.2flH owner-occutrfed
dwpiiitigsV Alaska 29.S7t‘ to
27.fl«7V and Hawaii (90. 127
to ft2 P37). Tn the country as
a whole, the Census Bureau
reports, owners exceed rent
ers bv a wide margin 35.796.-
7i9n to !»0.237.1S'^ DTTTCH NEW
OTTilN'FA head-hnnters wear
the skulli nf their deceased
parents around their necks to
ward off evil spirits. Human
I’ertebrae are worn as neck
laces.
should refrain from bearing
false witness and add to the
peace of the world. Let us
speak the truth and become
peacemakers in the home, on
the job and in all interperson
al relations.
A lie enslaves but the truth
means freedom. All Christians
should be the messengers of
truth rather than falsehood.
Who wants to become the en
slaved victim of a lie? Many
are enslaved because they re
fuse to face the truth. Let us
speak truth and spread the
blessed fruits of peace and
freedom. The truth, and truth
«laxue^c^.m^
Who biii the morally de-
IM'aved would take delight in
making a practice of accusing
their fellowmen without facts
to back up the accusation?
Sliifts in Lincoln's Attitude
Toward Negro Traced In Book
ville in the fall ot 1860 ad*
mitted Negro students to the
first grade of formerly all-
white schools. During the cur
rent school year, 51 Negro
children are attending first
and second grade classes with
white children in nine schools.
The Circuit Court decision
did not require “immediate
total desegregation.” The
Court said, however, “We do
believe that more grades than
contemplated by the board’s
plan should now be desegre
gated. In the light of the
boal'd’s experience wfHli the
present plan, it should be a'^le
to submit an amended plan
that will accelerate desegre
gation and more nearly com
ply with the mandate of the
Supreme Court for "good faith
comnliance at the earliest,
practicable date.”
In "Lincoln and the Negro”
bv Beniamin Ouarles, nublish-
ed by Oxford University Press
on May 3. a leading scholar of
American Negro history traces,
for the first time in detaU, the
imnortant changes in Lincoln's
attitude toward the Negro that
culminated in the Emancipat
ion Proclamation. He also tells
the eoually important story of
the change in the Negro’s at
titude toward Lincoln that help
edP'«ire him his unique vlac^
in I,American history.
Starting with Lincoln’s child
hood attitudes. Beniamin Quar
les traces the development of
Lincoln’s thought in relation
to the Nee^’o and shows how he
chantred his views during his
presidencr. Concerned at first
with methods bv which Negro
es could be denorted to a
“colony” sOimewhere, Lincoln
came later to advocate not onlv
emancipation of the slaves but
also eoul political rights for
them. In addition, he was the
first president to invite Ne-
groo.s to the White Hou.se.
Thf* Negro’s attitude to
ward Lincoln evolved almost as
much as Lincoln’s own attitude
When Lincoln was elected, in
telligent Negroes expected very
little from him and were dis
appointed in how little they got
in the first months of war.
Slowlv but surely Linif(o>''
gained re.snect bv recognition
of individual Negroes, by.^lac;
ing the Negro ip thp tlnJpn
Army, and, of course ultimate^,
Iv bv the Emancipation Pro-;
clamiation. His tragic assassinar
tion .served tp enshrine him aj
a trrpnt hero of the Negro.
Professor Ouarles renj^cks,
“Lincoln became Lincoln bft,
capse of the Negifp. aq4 it ,wi
the lattet who
the image of Lincoln that waf
to live.”
“Lincoln and the Negro” if
an imnortant contribution to a
preater understanding of Abr^;
ham Lincoln and of American
democracv itself. In the light qjl
the Negro's present-day gid
vancpment toward fuller parti
cipation in American life, it re
presents an eloouent comnient-
arv on the unique perception
and faith of Abraham liincoln.
Beniamin Quarles, Professor
of Historv at Morgan State
College in Baltimore, is pne of
thp leadinn scholars in the fie}(|
of American history. He ha*
written a biogranhv of Fre^
erick Dou(rlas! and books on thf
role of the Negro in the R|-
■'’olutionary War and the Civi|
War.
Burlington Minister Oets Degree
Veterans Questions and Answers
Here are authoritative
answers by the Veterans Ad
ministration to questions from
former servicemen and theii
families;
Q->Wh«n can I except my
61 liuuf ^c« dividend d u r-
ina
A—^l^e GI insurance divid
ends afe being paid as near the
anniversary date of the policy
the d^tc it was first issued as
possible.
q—Can ^rone enter tjie
VA Hos|i>milied Veteran#
Writing Contest?
A—No, the contest is limited
to war veteran? who are act
ually hospitalized at the time
their entry is written.
^1 TettfaRs Trmj
wartime service t9
dAip)|cil|«fr care?
A—rNot necessarily. Veterans
with wartime service muyt
have disabilities tluit U>capacjt-
ate them from earning a lly-
ing; be in need of domipiUery
c^re; and be unfible to d^nv
expense of nec^swnr 4(^■
miciliary care. War veterans
whose disability is nonservice-
.cpnnec}ed- a>u|it. eyecut. an
affidavit of inability to pay fpr
their care. Peacetime veterans
must have been discharged or
retired for a disability incur
red in line of duty or be receiy-
ini( disability compensation.
YES, WK Mh TALK
py Mams H. Beulware
TTie practice of voting for
one’s opponent in running for
office is called "coprtesy vote.”
Howevejr, the ipore logicgl
thiing to Jo would be to vote
(for qnesed.
ffpi only cap » member
for himself, but he can ajso
non^inate hin^elf to any office
he f^is duly qualified to fijl.
It can be i^one this vray: “Mr.
rh»innflp. I npmjnqte myself
'^illljtm. SiQith for the offipe
Qf t^sufer.” Mort people are
t(^ ifiodest to do this, but (t
BURLINGTON — The honor-
a'ry doctor of divinity degree
was conferred upon Rev. Harold
J. Cobb, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Burlington,
during commencement exercises
on June 5. at Friendship College
in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
A graduate of William Penn
High School in High Point, Dr.
Cobb attended Shaw University
at Raleigh, where he received
the A. B. and B. D. degrees
He has done graduate work in
the fields of philosoplw and
ps.vcholoev toward a maker’s de
gree at North Carolina College
in Durham. Last summer he at
tended Union University in Rich
m»nd, Virginia, on a special
scholarship given by the Lily
Foundation and did further grad
uate work in the field of pastor
al counclling and theology.
In 1948. Dr. Cobb went to
Mebane while still a student at
Shaw Universitv and establish
ed the first full-time church for
colored peoole in Alamance
County, the First Baptist Church
of Mebane. While he was pastor
at Mebane. a parsonage was
nurchased and paid for and more
than 100 members were added
to the church.
Dr. Cobb was called as pastor
of the local First Baptist
Church on Apple Street Ip
19B3. Services were begun every
Sunday at the local church for
the first time after he becan|^
na^tor. Plans are now underw^
to build a new church here and
more than 150 neonle have beep
added to the church membarshit>
since he became pastor.
Dr. Cobb is secretarv-treisiir
er of the interracial Federattd
Ministerial Association of AlR-
mance County: a member of ttie
Bfirlinifton Chapter of the
NAAOP. the BurlinHton Minlsl-
(••■ial Alliance, the AlamaiiM
r!ounty Conmilttee on Civic Alf'
fairs, the Board of Missions 9(f
the N. C. State BaoUst Convent
ion. the executive board ot tilt
Lott Cary Convention; cop*
rpipondin# secretary ■ of thi
Rowan Association, a mastV
Mason, and a member nf the
Alnha Phi Alnhn Fraternity.
He is married to the former
Mi)R Armadia Goodson of
w«»nrteJl. a tea*her at ,T. F. Guap
F.ipmentary School. They hav6
one son.
ure.
Never sav that you want to
elect someone bv unanimous
choice of the house, because
he could tw defeated by one
vote. Yet he could easily be
by majority vote.
For my parliamentary law
chart of motions, send HMr
cents to Dr. Marcu* H. Boill-
ware. Box 31A-A, FloridS A.
and M. Univenttv, IWIp-
hassee, to cover the c^ 1^
handling. *