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wmrnrnmmmmm -T7' tWe TARb INA TIMES . SATURDAY, PtIRUARV I, 1M4, SUCH THINKING IS WHY WE ARZ LOSING OUR WORLD LEADERSHIP Nothing New In The History of Mankind '! here ari‘ only a few Xejjrix's ami |tri>fKih!y nn whites who vfll believe that the Rev. 1!li 111 Cox, state field secretarv for tht f'Vi of Racial Efjiiality, is in earnest alniut liiirtiing; himself in the street. Rwfclhist st\le ii' rnolHl segregation iv-nalk.cu>JttJ in Cha|H;l (ili!. If and when th^'R^V. Cox carries out ihrrat. in an efforf^frfiffn" freedom To ra c and the whhe p**nple nf this Tonntrv. veil, we see nothing sr> tmnsual alM>iit it W i liont its martyrs the ftrrdom ntankiml I'lijfpys would be hard to visualize, 'ficratps. (ft-inkinp the hemlocV in Athens, stians dyinpT in the Roman arena. Christ to r.olpatha, John Brown to the pal- luyjs and thousand of others, who have wiH- "iven their lives for the ricrhts and free- dnifi of others, hear testimony to the truth liif|iipntly spoken over a centttry asjo that Mfind fif martyrs is the manure that rislifs the tree of liberty, s liani for those of us who are the hene- firjivies of the sacrifices made hv others to “rstjind a dedicated life or those who are 11" to walk to thfir, death for a cause. Thf re.Tson for this is that for a maiority of life consists in the ahttndance of thincfs. mil hank account, our honds. houses, land and for many of us a Cadillac car.. Vo wp are i>ot convinel that Rev, Cox or oil ^rs who have indicated that they miel't na ;e n human torch of themselves in the 'tr et are bluffing. The a"ony of the body, siil'eret! in such an act cannot he anv worse fti.Ti tlip arnny suffered in the soul hv N'- ."ri PS in this country who havp seen their wiies. husbands and hahies sold from their sid's on the auction block, lyndied in the sti 'pts riV eTsewhere. One hunrlred years of stK h insults, abuses and lipail.aches can hrinii a til noi I IK-ojile t.i such a slate uf tlesperation. desjmir and des|Hiuilency that it is not unlikely for then; t.> |iroduce nianyrs who are willin;» to j>a\ the uiireiuo price for the freedom oi (•thrt's. ’ Finall>, lest we doubt that there are thoso luiw liviujr who would he willing to risk all ti>r a cause we i|uote below the statement ot Carl r.railen. a white civil rights fighter of tHir own tin»e. wl*> was recently sentence ! Ii nuiuths in jail I'or refiisinp to answer , (pu stions of the I louse Committee on I’n- American Activities, Those of us who know Cavl Braiieu are satisfied and convincel th;.f he meant every word he uttered. The statement of Mr. Rraden is as follows: "I am sure the Court understands that 1 lo iuit really- have contempt fyr the Congress of the I'nitecl Suites. 1 ^cted as I did because I firmly believe that Congress is wronij is» creating a coinmittee to investigate so-called un-American activities. This committee seeks to investigate in field in which Congress cannot legislate withi>ut violating the First Amendment. “The First .Xmendment guarantees our ri gilt to privacy: to say. think, and write what we please: to l>elong to organizations of otir own choc'siug. and to complain to the govern ment when we don’t agee with what it is do ing. “T do not helieve we will ever hlrinff about full civil rights in the .South until these f«n- damentnl liberties are completely restored and exercised. 1 am willing to risk my freedom, ami even my life if necessary, to regain onr basic libeVties and to establish equal fi:^ all. Tliank you very much for your cour- tesv.’’ Know SPIRITUAL INSIGHT REV. HAROLD ROI.AND The way I started to begin this column, I would have re- mlirded myself of the stereo type' of the old Southern at torney who reminds the all- white jury: “After all, this defendant is a niit*er.” I started to say — and 1 think I’ll say it, anyhow, that we ought to remember that those folks in Panama are colored folks. That is," most ol them are. You have to remem ber that there are a lot ol white folks wtio believe in in tegration after dark. Anyhow, to come to the point, whenever I hear these legif!l»tors not all from the South, either — warning that the Un-ited Slates must not give in to Panama because it will only mean that she will demand more, it strikes a familiar chord. That’s what they .say when the Negro in America asks for freedom. I dort know all the intricate implications of the U. S. — Panama struggle. I do know that, whiU in the service. I .went one day a^d one night in Panama. At a USO dance, I met a girl named Amagranda — a Panamanian girl. » Amagranda wasn’t In the mood for dancing. 3he was in the mood for talking. We walk ed off from the USO dance and for two hours, I heard one of the most bitter, passionate de nunciation* of the American white man that I have eyer heard in my life. It was all thf same old recipe. The arrogance, the looking down upon the peo ple whose skin is not white, the discrimination in facilities (at that time), the gold which was paid to white workers from America and the silver paid to the Panama people. Small wonder that a man whs thlnk.s as Barry Goldwater does should view with alarm the fact that the U^’ited Na tions voting majority rest.= with colored* people of the worH. The -storv in Panrinna and the story in Latin America have the .same theme. The white man has held thi.s tii'er of racial hatred by the tail ton many years. The tiffer is ready to turn and devour him. It doe.sn’^ soimd pretty — but not all truths do. Offer YourseK to God in Order to Give Hope to Some Hopeless Sou! .jf took life once more by the Jessness, How shall we escapc? What Other Editors are Saying tbout tbe only thing we can say about the round victorv won by House stipporters of the civil fights hill is tlwt ,so far so «rood. Vi'^ would caution those m and out of Con- "'r(jss not to l-»ecome too hanpv over winning n skirmish a»''inst the southerners whh are nni osinp’ the bill, ^Ve nredict t**ev will ronie hail' fiphtinw hard and stron*T and will trv ev;( rv trick In the hnp to stall off nassagp nF he legislation eren if the mildfst form, li the meantime we warn sunnorters of th? ’"n|s]talon to write, wire and tbeir ren- , ei: rntatives in the House arvl the F^ate to ■fi-V p their ■full sufinort to passaf^e of the legis- on. ,Mso we urpe leaders throughotit th« Sf» itli. where most of-tKe. of)positioi» t«>the ri\fl rights bill is' coming, to contin»e with- relentine a deterthinfd r^eister 4nT vote crtitipaign'. . TTri;e in North Carolina wfierr the rro vot^ is’’ onty arpund 250.000 another 10(|,n00 new rep'ist'rants would change entirely detprm'ination hv Cowgressmen of this strir to help defeat the bill. 'he regisfration books are scheduled to bt of ofien around the mi^ldle of Anri! fcrt" approxi mately .V) days before the Priman* in May rhtr minister's will he truly preaching the gosnel if they will ur^e their members to do their Christian and civic duty hv registering and voting in every election. The Eroal for North Carolina is ■400.000 Xef>lto voters arid until it is achieved there is little that can be done hut complain' and whine about the conditions which the race faces. Especially is there much work to be Vine in the eastern section of the state where ir many instances Xegroes, if they would register and vote, could acquire positions in city coun ty and state governments, by vivttie of their overwhelming numbers. Tn fact there are several congressional districts in which Ne groes could elect a member of their own rare to Congress if they cotild be aroused to regis ter and vote. It is therefore in ea.stern North Carolina that we call for a concentration of effort the next time the registration 1)ooks are opened which will be in April. "AJl hope that. w» should tektn away i /" —Acts 27:20 IJfe without hope is mean ingless. Hopelessness means emptiness of life ^°r one who , has come to that state of af- ^ fairs. Hopelessness means you have nothing left to hold life ' together. It means you have no binding ties for life. It. Jifn tp—us and shove us down mean a joyless life. It meins /this lanej to this deadend a joyless life. It means wlthoutr ' street of hopelessness . . But a tomorrow. In utter hopele**- Jasus has given us a redeem- The present furor over ciea- rettp .smoking and its relation to lung cancer and other di srases is one which involves moro than merely .getting ci- parette .smoker.s to stop smok ine altnnpther or to smoke less reat mission of Christ and his redeeming love In addition to the mamifae- hand^ Christians and the church is to keep the spark of hope burn ing in the souls that may be heading to the deadend street of hopelessness. The Church, at its best, is to keep hope burning in the .soul of human beings. Some things can hap- ness w4iy should I want to live lor • tomorrow. Every human being should pray God that he should never come to the dead ebd of darkness wtiich it ho|)elessness. What is the message in this passage? The m'wwme is that we must strive diligently to keep the spark of hope burning in the soul, I have seen some p;ople who stood near this deadend street of life. The man I met on the railroad track one day was Pear this dead end street of life but some how the fai0t spark of hope that was left in his soul was rekindled and he ing mission: “Rescue the per- tshing and care ftor the'dyixrg' . , . tell them of Jesus the mighty to save , , ,” We mast find people in the name of Jesus and step them before they reach the dead end street of hoplessness Man by nature needs hope. In Christ we have a hope that is an anchor for the soul. Christ is the hopo of a world of sin Christ and Christ alone, will .save us from the deadend ol honlessnese. In this our world thore is a erowine feelirfe tha‘1 humanity is tending in the di- roeticn of this deadend of.hope is our ore hope, God so loved the e World that he gave his Son to save us from the dead end street of hopelos.sness. Let us then be on the alert to keep the fires of hope burn, ing in Ae souls of men. Prea chers, how can I become a spreader of the hope that isf found ip Jesus. You can look for opportunities to show lit- tip bit of love. You can show a concern for , the weary, ex-' haiisted and embattled soul You can offer a helping hand in some place of i^ire need. In love you can tell a lost soul that a Savior died to save him from sin and give rew hope for the hooeless. Yes, just a little word or a HUlp deed may /turn someone from the deadend street of hopelessne.ss t, yourself to God to give hope to somo bopelesn Bonl (his day—tomorrow may be too late. turin» oTTh^ rommodity, wTilch involves millions of dollars yearlv in wages arrd advertis- ip?. there is the factor of thou sands of others \vtio make their livine growino tobacco. The scientific panel, com posed of .smokers and po'i. smokers, was unanimous in it! renort that lun«r eanc^r i‘ paused- amo"? other thinps, hv the eigaretto habit. There is one m'stake thni must not b'> mnde. There mu=t bo no prohibition lepis'nt'on .cuch as was tried with liquoi many years nen. Prohibition led. 1-0 moro drinking, to bonlleg- gine and snawned smutreljpg. 'A nro^am Ivf educatTon should be conducted on a broad scale, so that all mi.ght k”ow the facts. Those who wanted to continue . smoking cigarettes could do so. Those who wan-t- eH to ston could so do, An^ thos'' thi^kine of becoming somkere eould have tho facts on v’*’ieh tn r^aeh a decision. —PHILADKLPHIA TRI’^UME A Symbol ^ Hope and Justite The Belated Realization of a Former Governor is intefreistijbg jtjjej^ Rtate*e;n/.; ently ma]ilp by Secretary of Commerce l.v ther Hodg/s to the effect that discrimina- fir 1 of "conserrativf estimates place the an nu il economic loss to the nation caused by ial discrimination at $30 billion." 5>ecretary Tt( dges’ belated realization of the tremendous lo's all tlie peofile of the United States are fering; because of discrimintalon is ironical ;hat the now secretary of commerce served govenor- of -North Carolina for four - loa^ •s without makinf; any .serious attempt to do anrthing about it. This h?1ngs^Its around to ;he present , -Jt ought, to dawn upon high state, county and city officials that members of a segment of the population who are forever kept on the bottom of the economic ladder cannot shoiikier their part of the cost of goremment to say nothing about becoming poten^'al con sumers of ottr manufactured products. It is our hope that Secretary Hodges’ state ment will awakea white leaders of the South to the realization that the freedom fighters they now resent with so much determination may he a hlessiag in disguise, in that they may serve to awaken the South to its fool hardy traditions and customs which have Ja m plo that Mr, Jobn,son is will ing to go all the wav in the fiirht for civil rights. It would also-encourage and embolden the many moderate whites who are on otjr side, but who ju;f aren’t savin? it out loud, '’How about it, Mr, Presi dent? For many years, the city of Atlanta has been regarded as one of the more enlightened Southern communities. This city iuic been blessed with pro- gre^iye government: govern ment which hag recognized that freedom must ultimately come to the Negro. Atlaitta’s present Mayor, Ivan Allen, Jr. had the huge Negro rote behind him when he sought office, rumiing against sit lation w« wonder if W present poverty stricken section ol an av«wed and ardent segrega gc nemor of this rtatf h »ware of the tr« Mtioo. m^dous tos* the people of North Carolina suffering annually because of discrimina- ti a. If Covernor Terry Sanford is aware it WP are also wonderiag wliat he is hon- ly (lotnf; to rid North Carolina oi sttch an 't tnrrdMi, ^ visit to any of the state offices in the ca >ita1 city of Raleigh will reveal the fact th i only iii the most menial jobs, where the aries arc the very lowest, are Negroes M tM opfoittuiify to earn a living. The tie apptles in city, and county office* all owpr this state. MUMhM a«eir If. C. hr roMbbera, kc. I.. II, A«HfIlV. MMWiw ■ N. ITIM •4« ptr fMrjHMl lie Mt tor llr.'«:> i«rwker« la til t tP.lL, ejirtia altMrvtcemeft Oteriw; pillipb fMty«r9Mr. tkgle copy Ue. OMIm loestirf M 4M B. PettKmr M. - t SHIPMATES MOST of us imagine that our little prob lems are peculiarly individual, but if we do any reading or make inquiries we quickly discover that everybody seems to be in the same boat. With almost no exceptions, every man thinks his family is extravagant, that he is overworked, that his wife drags him out too often in the evening, that she criticizes him more than he deserves. The niajr>r complaints of the women are that their husbands are stingy, or that they don’t earn enough money, that they are tin- romajitic and that tliey are selfish. Only by an occasioMl cxchaog« oi aotet do moat men escape the coavicttea thkt their maifried Kfe is a total failtire. That others have the same trouMes comes to thetn as a soothing surprise. Woacn, I am informed indiilge ia the same kind ot coaftisioaala, aad, like the men, ate b^wycd hgr the ■iirriri of their friends. tlnnist. — — Atlanta, culturally,, is a mecca in which some-j^ our finest institutions of higher learning are located. The social awareness of tlu^ Neero in thif dtjr is very high and the mili- taney of the Negro man on the street had grown in gi'atifying proper tioB-s One of the powerful factor? Irr Atlanta’s nrocresslvp sttMud Is thw ATLANTA rONSn ishe^. cea^ad- ^ ^1*■ IH. I nvnTff Mcrtlll, Hs editor, has breathed a flamlne liberalism into thlr pubHcflWorr. In spite of nil this. Atlanta, as w, write tWs column, ha* become • Moodr arena, T>Je- hard seirr^ntlonlsts are hold ing out against the attempts nf dvlf rights representatives to dnegregat. eaHne places as a first ste® to «^«11e^ng everv rMnalnlm' vestige of racial bias in city. ■ Mavor "XTTMl 'proteirts that much hat keen done in Atlanta to promote racial equality. He speaks the truth. But, in At lanta today — as in hundreds of cities across the nation — the Negro has awakened so completely to his situation that his answer to the achievements’ of the past is that “progress is not democracy’s most importan' product.” At any rate, not pro gress which takes baby steps to appease the right of our peo ple to full justice. What the Negro wants is "freedom now’ and, no matter how many people may scoff at this, he is determined to get it. That is whv freedom fight ers in the city of Atlanta are roinr to inil and demonstrat ing. Tho Kn Klux Kl«n ha* now entered into the pictive Each dav. violence i« becoming more alarming. It is the opinion of this co lumn thflt Pre«ident I,,vBdon Johnson has. in th« Attorrtn *Mii ation. a ri^i chellence a»*d wn o«pOTj|nvitv t«* demonirtriite de- thdt h, means nil thfJw* finp words he has been uOerimr. It was nil twoH ntid for the President to invite n'l the eMI rlwht.s t**ader>i to the WhHe "House in what was virtnalhr Ms ftnrf nfftrial art, Mr. J«hn»nn wants to make H nlain that he i« tmlv eommitted to rnrlnt 1ii«Hee. Ti>» ml*it w»M mnVe a stat^rrmnt inr bis nr»o« eonfffpenee. with rtrgtrd to the Attnnta situaflon. .Such B wwdd not only prove to the N»fn> peo- •-IT* Heroes of fmandoation JOHN JONES John Jones was froo-birn in ' North Carolina about 1817. Whi'e an nnnrentice tailor, he »''ii!»ht b'imself to rr^d and write. Jo"es lived in' Norh Cn- rnlinn until 184S wherr he ard h*s wifn proved to Chicago wl'h a total capital of 1!!5.!50. Jones became a militant ro- f''Tne>- and wiffed n relentless frtTufffflo aeain-st slni’ro-v. TTe dfiiinlnnod n rlnce frjenrlshin v,i(h !>hnlitionlsts .Tnhn Urown nn/t PreHeHek DouPlass nnr mndo his bom" nnf under- groun railroad station. Jo"ec built a hiPhlv supcess- fid tnilorine biisieess from whieh he amas^etl a large for- tun*'. As a re«ult, he wras nble t* lend nnd fln»"pn the flgbt to rental the Illinois "Black mnde imeerhes. pomW'l*^«. o»»n*>(Te»1 Nerroes whites nnd acted n« a J,ob*»«!«» In the Illinoii Lepislatnrn. • He* elect“d twice ns Cook Coiinlv Commissioner, the first Ne»rn in th« North 4n wHn this high elppfiwe no«t T>Wn«r W« fffpiira |n office, h# the pnaetment of » intit sfnrrefated .schools In Cook Conntv. He died in Chicago in 1879. By Alice Dunnigan CHICAGO — It was not iT easy task to reach the top in his chosen field of employment but dug to natural ability, con tinuous training, stubborn de termination-, enduring persis' tency and hard work Henry W McGee finally reached the summit. McGee now serves as person- nel manager for the Chicagc region of the Post Office De partment, a position in which he administers persormel mat ters for more than 61,000 em plovees in some 2300 postal m stallations in Illirrois and Mich igan, He is the highest ranking Negro in the postal service west nf Washington, is well pre pared for the job bv both ex pericnce and training. In aa- dition to having had 33 years of service as a nostal emoloyee, he holds a bachelor of science degree in orsonrel mana^e- mert from the Illinois Institute of Thechnology and a m.'>ster of arts degree from the Uni versity of Chicago. In explainine his preparation for his post the ,'54 year old personnel manager said he re ceived a “sandwiehed-in” edi cation. “I sandwiched it in be tween mv work, mv familv and e^'i^thln? else.” And finallv after 33 years, “mv j''h enu^i’t tin 'Hth me,” This meant th'T he had to give uo his nart- time studv to devote full time to his work. IVfcGee savs that during the 17 years that culminated in his M'lnring his mnst«>r’s degre". h'o fnmilv had earned enouph roill'we degrees tn lino a wall of his home. And no two mem bers nf his family wero in a iiniversltv at tho same time “Tbis was B matter of econo ml''«' ’’ h/. said. Wbnn Vijs w’^n AttV" Pnll wron* in schnol. Me'^ee snid. h" omiMn’t nffn'i^ to (»o. A'* vrVinrr ftiotr children were in m^i.. prftie^^ion pnr-^ ptl ths f^mllir bt''!"* eniild c^'»nH Wb«rt flin pblM. ren uit*rA I’tc ■«rent bnek to srhnol fjnt until sbo fiHched did McGee go back him«elf, t^'e son of a rffT- ennct^irtlnn r»*ew frnrn tTt11e>>0«*0 tn Pbtnowo to with ^’1* nl'’- #»- K'-nfl^pr IVtp T>ot»#ir*nd F. nnitr b*e>iAn Af t^e CVmmti nf ftnri hr f^rW, leee where hp studied pre-med for two years. But this was during the toueh depression years and said McGee, ‘‘there just wasn’t monev to continue mv studies ’ In 1029 he took a job as a substitute clerk in, the Chicago Post Office. In 1031 hp married Attye Bell, a young lady who had al so finished two years at Crane Junior College, Their first Henry Jr,, arrived at about the same time as the great depres sion and substitute work at thu Post Office became more and more scarce, McGep found • neces-sary to seek a job with more permanenc"5f, so he Tic cepted. a po,sition as an in surance salesman. In 1935, the year the Mc Gees’ second child, Sylvia, was born, his insurance company promoted him to district super- v’«or. Soon tijereafter the post officp went orr a 40 hour week sehedule and more postal em- plovees wero needed. M(Oee said ho hart to choose between a career with the post office or one with the insuran'cc com pany. He chose the post office he- causn ‘‘it was steady fiill-tim* work, and that meant a lot dut ini» the denression years ” A1 though it was a strueele to sup port a family in tho.se’dnvs M'eGeo never gave up the i(feo of poing back to sphool. He membered the advice of his older brother, who constantly urffed him to go back to school b'eniise ‘Von carr’t got too miirb e'^ueatjon. Mrs. MeGe» aonarentlv had thn same idea hecausn it was she who first announced that she nlnnpw] to return to College and take teneher’s training. .So. in lO'i'l when Ilerrrv ,Ir wnc 12 nnd Svivla was 9. shf en>-(illn,( In Tjnnsevelt ITnlver- '•itv. .cbn ree"ived a bachelor of in Ttm( lyBs a ’‘m«morabIp year," M'’G‘'»> 'ernlls “Tt 'was tbe ve''t mir «Wf, tn'flrlnnfed Our rb'ld P^nnv i«rn« hnrn_ p-ti, wif^ he. nnd 1 enrnllp^ in tvi„ Ttiinpis Institute of Tech noInffl> ” Whe^ .h» wwirM at he »^nt tn ^rhivil durt*»f tl*e d«T. b* "oid «wJ when bn th» •oVinn? Bf nlatit T|f>finv. In 10««I Mv (t) mtbHe m»mln«tT-«»v*»i sam« vese tbnt Henrr Jr. fin- " enrolled at Crane Junior Col> isred hi^ school.
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