' THE CAROLINA TIMES
i-4—vURHA'\ K C. StkTUkDAY, JULY as, 1?*^
WILL W£ OR WILL WE NOT GIVE HER A CHAtlCE?
Miots and Not Bullets The Solution in Harlem
This editorial vill noi he eiuidrsed by mc.n3’
our t’eaders. It wiH ni>t hi -ni' >rsed bc-
ause. ttry as we ni'y, \vp Ikivc I)t'eii uii;il>lo
!o place our approval mi ilic vioknoo and
rioting resorted to )>y the Xi\t>T()es of Havlein
luring the past several days, Tln'iv> is not
he way of the brave am! tin- strniij;- but tbc
.ny of the coward and l)ie \\‘aW. This
■ractice of an eye for an t-yc and a tuotli for n
otth is certain to brinj^ tboni to ilu‘ l^rink of
isaster if it does not (ivercoinf ihcni enti^’i-ly.
Oh yes. we can very wi'il nnder'itand tlieir
onient of resentntcnt. as wi‘11 as theiv mid-
'nt of deep grief over wbal a|)|icars to liavc
. in the wanton and ninieccssary slumiim; t«
;ath of a teenajjcr by a N'i'w ^'^>vk police-
an, and we condemn the act wiiii all our
ight. Along with it. however, we also con-
;mn the spectacle of roven;.;!'. the i\uib vio-
•nce and tlie exhibition of liatird fov all
/hife people resovted to hy the .\cjLfro vonths
f Harletn. in what they apjiarontly think is
means of exacting justice for the pt)lice-
lan’s act. think it was Kanies wlm
aid., “The inditlgcnce of revciiffe tends to
lake men more savajje ai'd c*i-uel.’'
This tiewspayier has viidorsed inarchis. sit-
s, pickets and other demonstrations, resort-
( to by Negroes in tiieir efforts to fibtain
itfi'i rights in this country, it has originated
icket lines and boycotts, again anti again.
..'ainst tho.se who would deny ii(Ual rights to
egroes. It has been in the forefront of every
“otest of Negroes of the .'south in behalf
' their 1-ights for neai-ly a hali-ceiitury. l.ong
■efore the Negroes of Harlem became aware
f the injustices they an- now |il-otestiug.
his newspaper was thundering loud and long
gainst them. .\niidst it all we have never
esorted to enconraged a jJi'ogram of vio-
;nce, revenge uT hatred.
1'he promiscumis use of firearms, the chant-
>K ofJatown wit-h-whttey," ineanittg all whitr
ersons, and the willful and uncalled acts
f vioience IS not cute, it is not smart, it is
■ it. fumiy nor is it intelligent. W'e condemn
"I'h with all our might because we will
tioiis.i.Sj'ins aip id.t.^.iB "jou
all white person.s ave enemies of Negroes and.
therefore must be hated or opiKisd.
We would remind lh« riutiiig Negvoes In
Harlem that In every sectioii of this country,
including the deep south, there have always
been thousands of white people, old aud
young, who have been willing to enduve irt
suits anl abuses, from those of tlicir own race,
to take a staml in behalf (.*t Ne^ri'es. God
forbid that the how wiil ever tome when
there cannot he found white persons in this
cnimtry with the s|>irif of Ji>hu UVown. Mrs.
T’eabody. ihe mother of the .gorernor of \I»s-
s.icluiselts. aiitl those white peiHuis in ivviV day
who have |iarticip«ted in .sit-jns. picketifig.
marching and other dcnioiistralitttis in Itehalf
of civil rights.
We would also Vetiiind the rioting Xegroes
of Harlem that not a sirtgle Negro in the
I'.iited States wa.s in a |Hisition to vote for
the civil rights bill when it wu.s passed in
the United States Sen..te. nor wrt-e theri* more
than five in a position to vote for it when
it was passed in the Honse nf Representa
tives. Had it not been for the white men
in both lnnjses-,of t'ongres.s who wrt-e willing
to piU right alxfve wrong, Uie bill would never
have been i>;issei in eitlMT M'anch of (. on-
gress.
In spite of th‘ ea.se with which they can
register and vote ajiywhee ^ the state of
New 't’ork the voting record of Negroes in
Harlem is in many instances below that of
Negroes in many.ol th^ Sirtithem slates. It
is «ur feeling, and we reeomniend ballots in
stead of bullets and other acts of violcne*,
as the answtV to police Junitality in New
^'ork and every other i'ity, town and 1>aml»t
i\i this countvy. I’ntil Kegroes register and
vote in •-ufficient numbers to be of influence
in elections, they may expect to coiitinue at
the hrrrtrmnif the lotem pole not only in the
matter of )Milicy bnttality Inn hi ^Ite adminis
tration oK justice, rmploynlt-nt, editcii.rional
alv:uitages and . other iTeeessities for a lull
and prosiMli/iis life..
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SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
REV, HAROLD ROLANU
The Forbearance of Almighty God
Leads to the Forgiveness of Sin
ARE THESE OUR LEADERS?
Newspapers all over America—
and I am sure—throughout the
world—carried stories a couple
of weeks ago, telling how two
Southern Senators engaged in a
wrestling match on the floor of
a Senate hearing roonri.
One of the playful legislators
—both are sixty-one years of age,
old enough to know better—was
that defender of the honor. Sen
ator Thurmond was supposedly
“only kidding” when he went
to the mat •A'ith his long-time
friend. Senator Ralph Raybo-
rough, the Texas Democrs'.. We
wish Senator Thurmond had
been k.ifldinK immediately after
the March On Washington when
he broadcast some remarks to
the world which, to say the least
were pretty silly.
The South Carolina Democrat
let it be known that he con
sidered the magnificant March
unnecessary, embarrassing to the
nation and a demonstration which
woidd give the world the wrong
picture of the status of the Ne
gro in America. Senator Thur
mond allowed that Nesmes in
America havt» “more refritrera-
tnrs, television sets and cars”
t*ian anvvhere else on thp elohe.
What this has to do with our
wanting our freedom as human
beings was not maile clear hv
this stalwart champion of white
suoremacv.
In troubled times like thes-?.
the spectacle of two members of
the august United States Senate
carry nn like two schoolbovs
does little for the ima"e of this
nation around the world. Ar?
men like these our leaders?
Is Louis Lomax, the autli./r,
one of our leaders? While hun
dreds of state and federal p^i-
.sonnel were dredging waters and
beating buses in Mississippi to
try to find the remains of two
■A-hite youths and a Negro, evi
dently murdered by segregation
ists. Mr. Lomax was writing srti-
clest elling the Negro people to
“go solw" in the Integration
fight. From Lomax's vie*, tlie
Negro should be so grateful for
groes should be so grateful for
the new civil rights bill that he
should not crowd the Southern
white man. Mr. Lomax has every
right to advance his own career
and to earn comfortable checka
for his writing. But 1 do not be
lieve that Lomax him.self really
believes that the Negro should
slow down in his fight for free
dom simply because, ono hundred
years late, '#e have been grant
ed—not our rights—but leg.')) re-
qognition of them and a green
light to fight for. them with the
Gov«rnni«nt aiding in the fight
Mr. tjomax echoes the same
mhitake whieb i? made by many
of our white friends when he as-
sumM that the elvil i;ights bill
is a gift 'to the Negro. With the
shape of the woHd 'toBay, the
civil rights bill is as much i
salvation to white America as
it is to black America.
Is Lomax one of our leaders
I hope not.
I hope not because—t(w often
—it apepars that Mr. Lomax is
telling the white man what the
white man wants to hear rather
than what he ought to kno'«.
A Salute to the Wikmngtoii Jouma]
We. salute this week our esteemed CKnteni-
'jotary, the WlI.MlNtiTON Jt)l kN.\L, 4»f
■VVilmington. X. L’., ptiWlished undel- the lead-
rship of Tom Jervay, for what we consider
he most effective and successful news-
aper job, in behalf of itis immediate consti-
Jb>“|icy, it ha.s been ouv grxwl ])leastire to
i-serve. Through the years the WlLMINti-
?C)N JOURNAL has been an uncomi>»-onii.s-
ng force and weilded a most piwcl'ful in-
luence in behalf of Xegro citizens, in a sec
tion of the state, where only an unselfish
ind dedicated institution or inlivilual would
lar^ gnfle^take such a stand.
Wf suspect that there arc many bencfici-
iries of the fight the JOl'UN.AI. has waged
Wilmiagtpn, in behalf of Negroes, who
K).k on it and its published- with disltfce if
ot utmost contempt. There are always
iree different attitudes NegVo leaders of a
oommuiiity assume towaful 'a newspaper such
as tlie VVILMIMITON JOl'RK.M.. Fiwt
there is that st-gTiien( of He-nefi«‘iarfe?»^’tiat cm-
siders it a "necescsary evil." The second is
that .segment of heneficiafries conjposed of
those who. out of sheer fear will sem every
ofijMirtunity to infoi-m those of the city’.
white power structure that they do not en
dorse the ncwspiiper’s policy are entirely'
op|)oseil to it. Finally, is that ;»egni«nt'
that hates the very guts vi the uewspa|H;r
and the ptiblisher doinK nhat they do not
have the cmirage to dn in brhaU of their
race.
We say long h»e the WILMINGTON
JOIKNAL am! Its iiTfrept»l’ pnbHstter, Tom
Je^vay. Long after both are out of existence
the result.s of tlie uncompromising Stand they
have taken in behalf of their race will live.
“COO’S FORBEARANCE"
Man's sinful inclination calls
for the forbearance of God Al
mighty. We all are the easy vic
tims of sin and error. Our fel
low human beings are not always
as forebearing and understanding
as they might be? Thus amid the
towering and frightening accumu
lation of sins We need God to
overlook and cancel our many
sins-
Ood, in forbearance, cancels
•ttr.slns and gives us a secono
chance. We ought to be thankful
that ours is a God of a secdnd
chance. If justice had prevailed
we all would have been cut off
in our sins. Then let us praise
God that His gracious forbear-
mee overlooked our sina. 'Wii.s
divine forbearance ought to make
us' more thankful and faithful
to God of such loving if)ncern
Men, in all too many irtjftances,
would have closed the door in
our faces. But God’s forbearance
gave us a second chance and a
new beginning.
In the light of God’s forbear
ance we ought to be more for
giving of others. All of us need
the spiritual healing of forgive
ness. The most self-righteoiisness
may not feel this need but they
have it. God forgives us and
w e ought, therefore, forgive
others. Goj cancels our mountain
of past sins; w« ought forgive
others. Let us not be too hasty
to condemn other*. ■ In a world
too prone for conflict there is
a great need to more human for
bearance. We ought have for
bearance amid the weakness of
others. How can the kettle call
the pot black? The kettle and
the pot are in the same boat. All
men are sinners, and this com
mon human weakness calls for
the grace of forbearance.
Forbearance would make for
great peace-and harmony among
men. God is forbearance to us
humans. God’s grace accepts us
sinners as ',ve are and makes us
what we ought be. And we need
to acccpt our fellow humans just
as they are in the power of God’s
redeeming love, make men what
they ought to be . We are tor
prone to say—kick the rascals
out. We would ruthlessly crush
the who would dare differ with
us. We -would ignore love’s call
for reclaiming or redeeming a
brother or a sister. Jesus calls
us today to Forbear Amid Criti
cism, Persecution and Opposi
tion. Thus let us be forbearing
in all areas of life and add to
the great need of peace and har
mony among men.
We, the creatures of sin and
weakneas, should he long-suffer-
ing and forbearing one to another
knowing that God in his forbear
ance forgives our sins.
"Report
Continued from front page
cities, counties, and states ftTr
policing “emergency” situatfOris
and for litigation. ’
—A loss of, and inability to
attract, faculty and students to
southern universities.
— A growing movement on
the part of entertainers, cultur
al exhibitors, and sports pro
moters to boycott racially seg
regated audiences.
— A loss of convention and
tourist bvisiness.
According to the report, not
all of the waste documented has
a price tag. It a.s-ks if “the peo
ple of Mississippi, for example,
can afford the cost to the human
Vets Questions
Negro Heroes of the American Revolution And Answers
i'cttliwyiife ciWreh of nttrham will feel,
roUd over the fact that the recent rejmrt of
he FBI on crimes during the j)ast year finds
Dpt'^m in the fuirth place in the number of
nur-4e«s per 400.0T)0 population. In addition
CO the FBI report on killings, there comes an
i’^uaHy shameful pictnre on the matter of
Wipes which st.ited that only 17 other cities
in the nation had morip in this category than
Durham in 196,1.
The sordid picture shouW cause respectable
;ltireB8 of Durham to^ think seriously about
•vhat can be done to bving about a better
situation than now exists on the maiter of
the uneHviable position of nttrham on its
recotd of murder ami rape. The situation
presents « bristling challenge to every
choMghtfnl citizen of this city, and ways and
means of bettering it shotthl be s>iiight out
inim^iately,
it is our feelmg that the crime rate in both
lhat of murder and rape can be lowrt-ed if
r«ip*ctal>lc citizens will only become more
a\eit snd r«ady to cooperate with the fxilice
4ep«rtm«Rt im putting their fingev on would-
be kilters •atHt rapi.^tc. Likewise the police
fHilKiml fvay it Durham, H. C.
? I*«WMnrf, Ine.
€. MSm, lhabliaher
.«! ChMllMhik ratt it Dwliiim, H. C„ ttm
toaaaatatm tLAxm
400 «« ytMr QHw tk IH li N. C.) H
^ WL. «ai CMMda ie imH/nmm •wwim
/Mam frji pw r*tr. amia mpr aa.
«l 4M.I. Pitlgr«« It
(iejmrtmetit shouid 1i4vt the full support of
all respectable citiznts, in Its effort to hring
to jnstice thow o)ifirg»f wirt hik4i crimes.
Tt is al.io ony feeling '^at many -ftf fht kill
ings in Durham conM hi T>rrv*nt»d if \North-
while citizens would make it -a pt^ctice of
calling the police as soon as 4hey neiice such
trouble hr«wi»|( in p»i>t the city.
.Sporadic argttinent, should be
immediately called to the attention of the
|)olice before they get mit of control ftr de-
veloj) to the point where thty are dominateH
by serious anger ami strife. In the mattet
of ra()e, every re.spectahle citizen .sh»uld feel
it his bounden duty to cooperate with the
jjolicc in theil- efforts to apprehend those
charged with Mich a crime. Jn sliert, efrry
decent citizen of Durham ahouM want to
make this city an micomfortahic habitat for
nnivderers and rapists. If this is dtme in all
seriousness, it is oilr feeling that the crime
record of this city in 1%4 wttl »how a decided
improveiiient in the are* of miA'dcr and rape
over thuft of 1969.
JAMES ARMISTEAD ;
Virginia became the main tlie-
ater of war in 1781 and it Was
there the conflict would be de
cided. Commencing in 1779 the
state was ravaged by successive
British raids and invasions, the
last by Cornwallis tdpdnbgn’iil)
from North Carolina. ,In F«bn«
arjf of 1781, George Wash'ihgioli
ordered the youthful Major Gen
eral Marquis de Lafayette intfl
Virginia 'with a selected force ol
tome 1,200 New England and
New Jersey troops.
Lafayette’s great need when he
arrived in Williamsburg was In
formation about his then superioi
enemy. To ascertain British
movements, he sent numerouc
spies to their base at Ports
mouth. Perhaps the most cele
brated of these tspionage agenti
was James Armistead. A slave in
New Kent County, Va., he took
service with Lafayette.
Armistead made numerous
trips to Portsmouth where he
delivered instructions to other
American spies and then hovered
around the British camps to col
lect intelligence. Lafayette prais
ed him and wrote that this Ne
gro sBy“properly acQuitted kim-
.«plf a«ne in^)ortaat com
munication I gave him” and “his
intelligence from the enemy';
camp were industriously collect
ed and more faithfully deliver
ed.”
Virginia emancipated Armistead
in 1786 because, as the act of
the Legislature said, he entered
“into the' s«rvice ol the Marc|uis
la Fayette, and at the peril ol
his life found means to fre
quent the British camp, and
thereby faithfully executed im
portant commi.s«ions entrusted to
him by the marquis” and ‘‘kepi
open a channel of the most u.se-
ful Information to the army of
Know
Ik Ne
SLOW •own MND
Most of its wtio fivt and ivork in Jforth Car
olina pride ourselves on teveil lieaded fhinlc-
ing. If ootbiug «l«« flior* oft^n take the
reaiititic view of thittgs.
'I'he i»hft laf driuinc at afWMk toiB 4%^ k>r
condHioRs 4s # •ytt>fit«ni -ntfliMr tfum a cftuse.
The real vilkins are ift^fience and «hr»-(rg-
gressiveiiess. The only itttellljfMt -way to
drive i* at a safe spfced /or prcv«i|tag,condi
tions ; -any dtMr afilw'hafh ahowa immarturity
«rk) -lack judlgCMlat.
Aj we write this, the Republi-
ean Party has served notice that
it no longer desires to live.
'Unless some bizarre miracle
has happened, they will have
Aoinhiated that Apostle of the
Bghteenth Century, Barry GoM-
water.
The Repvbliean convention was
a liightinare. Cantrolled with an
alOMM polfaie state kltid of des
potism, it projected a -Mcotrcd,
•ati^^o atmoiphere. Aa 3»ekie
BabhMoti has obsamd, aim •
lonDar Prmlimtt tt tti^ United
States, «rhile mouthing demo
cratic - souniltng generalities,
eould find time to make disparag
ing insiiHMtioiis about the Ne-
gra pe«pl«. Vat Vhi* great Gen
eral who onee surrendered to
MeCarthyism, had net one werd
to say about the murderers and
thags ^bo eMeutad three young-
Stan who (o Mississippi to
help mate damacracf voik.
1 ballevt tiiaf Bari^ Soldmtar
la A 4aBnraoa aM& '
I Mtava ta || aot 6ni«r da»
gerous insofar as .aUion
the State.” In 1819, the Vir
ginia Legislature acted again in
Armstead’s behalf. It a-#ardel
him $100, with an annual pen
sion thereafter of $40.
Settling again in New Kent
Coimty after the war, Armistead
became a respected member of
his community. Records indicntr
that he purchased 40 acres nl
land in 1816. Because of his re
nown service to the French sold
ier in the war. James Armistead
took the name ami wa.^ known
as James Lafayette after the
flevolution.
A highlight In the life of the
Ilevolutionary War veteran oc
curred in Octobcr of 1824. In
that year, Lafayette returned to
America foir his well known lour
of this country. Armistead had
the honor of greeting his old
comradc-in-arms at a meeting in
Richmond.
Nejroes are concerned.
I believe he Is dangerous as
a threat to the hopes and aspi
rations and dreams of all Ameri
cans.
If there was any breath of
wholesomeness in the whole
convention it was the way Nel
son Rockefeller, Hugh Scott, Ken
Keating. Jack Javits and John
Lindsay fought—attd the elo
quence of George Parker and
Jackie Robinson and Massachu
setts Atton>ey General Edward
W. Brooke. Senator Clifford Case
of New Jersey was also varjr
mo'ving.
The Republican Party has let
m^ knew that it doesn’t want
rae^-that ia, that aegment of
'right-*«ingers and reactionaries
who have taken it over. Wall,
1 isn’t want it er them.
I do not kaaw what courst
Here are authoritative an
swers by the Veterans Adminis
tration to que.stions from former
■servicemen and their families:
Q.—When will educational and
training benefits expire for vete
rans of the Korean Conflict.
A.—The educational program
for Korean veterans -#111 expire
on January 31, 1965. The educa
tional program for World War
II veterans b«s already expired
Q.—My husoand’s World War
I insurance is more of a burden
on our very ^ limited finances.
Will this ever be paid up?
A.—Some types of Insurance
contracts are paid up after 20
or 30 years. If you cannot tell
from reading the policy, you
may write to the office to which
you pay your premiums.
Q.—In the case of a service
man’s death while he Is on ac
tive duty, what are the limits ol
the 'Death Gratutity and who re
ceives it?
A.—The benefit is a sum equal
to six months pay of the de-
cesased. However, It shall not be
less than $800 nor more than
$3,000. It is paid to the surviving
spouse, child, or children unless
the servicemen has designated his
parents, brothers or sisters.
others may take. Me, I am go
ing to work like hell for LBJ,
vote for him and split my ticket
to uphold those in the Republi
can Party who have indicated
clearly not only that they want
my vote—but also that they want
a coantry which moves forward
rather than back to some Dark
Ages of reaction and dictator
ship.
1 was one of those who tried
to warn people that Barry Gold
wat^r aymbolized a sinister force
trhioh. if underestimated, could
gain great momentum. America
did uadarastlmata that foriw.
spirit that comes from being
cut off from a culture’s highest
artistic achievement? Is there
enough money in the world to
cover the cost to the American
nation in international good
will lost by unacceptable race
relations?
The Introduction points out
the ‘‘elementary arithmetic"
which refutes arguments that
the expenses are to be blamed
self. It asserts that the estimat
ed cost of implementing Civil
Rights Act for five years --
$100 million .. “would be only
.6 per cent of the Gross Nation
al Product increase .. $17 bil-
rather than discrimination it-
on victims of discrimination
lion which could be realized
for one year with full and free
use of our human resources."
It goes on to say that if all ex
penditures and loss could be
added up, “the sum would be
«bocking.” According to the re
port, “the shock is even greater
If, in reading each item, one
keeps in mind the many and
drastic needs the South for
wise use of its public monies
resources to improve society and
the lot of its individuals.
“Will southern states, which
can. least afford it, which so
need to develop the potential of
their people to the highest de
gree of human dignity, contlnvie
to waste the substance of their
people?”
The Southern Regional Coun
cil and the League said thi re
port was issued to underscore
new opportunities afforded the
South through compliance wlHi
the Civil Rights Act "to h« law
abiding, to,avoid such costa in
the future, and to. develop more
fully its own great natural and
human resources.”
The Price We Pay is «vail-
able from the Anti-Pefamation
League, 3il5 Lexington Avenue,
New York, and the Southern
Regional Council, 5 Forsyth St.
N. W., Atlanta, Georgia.
The death rate from cardio
vascular disease among Ameri
can males, aged 35-64, dacreaa-
six per cent during the past dk-
cade.
There Is a danger that we will
make another error — in assum
ing that Barry Goldwater cannot
beat Lyndon Johnson.
This would be a grievious mis
take.
We do not know how deep are
pockets of reaction and prejud
ice in this country.
All of us who love this ooli.n-
try ought to put some Insurance
on It by Buking cartain tb^t
Btrry Gol^rater receives one ft
the finest trouncings 1a piHUic*]
history and that I^don Johnaon
has a laiylallde to (Uty itatas
ol Axnadei.