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THE CA&OLINA T« M£ 3 'if 2-A -DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY/ FEBRUARY 6, IV*; •1011 5 ■ n.i m, in >i.i r_ m • ■ 1 Another Nail Driven in the GOP Coffin The Droorratk hrtjr drove another sail . in coffin *4 the lUpiilican Party last Tue*Say whe* lis f&tinnaV Committee took steps to guarantee that Negroes of the South will have a voice in choosing delegates to .the party's M6B national convention. With" the Republican Party keeping wide open its door for aoti-cinl rights refugees from the Democratic Party it is certain that there will be a shortage of GOP Negro supporters in futuj* political campaigns. Unless GOP leaders take some drastic steps between now aMI the 1966 political campaign to show interested in protecting the voti 4| ngbta ot Mtgroes in states of the deejCPouth, it affcars that the democrats will reap'the greater part of the harvest of the new Negro voters of the South. With the growing interest in the register arid vote cam paign now going on.j» all of the southern states, it is predicted that the Negro vote The Retirement of Dr.. Miles Hark Fisher The honorable retirement of Dr. Miles Mark Fisher as pastor of White Rock Baptist Church will be looked upon by a majority of citizens of Durham, the state and the nation , as tie retirement of a great minister from the pastorate..of a great church. For nearly a hundred years now White Rock has stood as a symbol of Negro progress with its pul pit, through those years, being held by some of the nation's most, outstanding ministers, among which Dr. Fisher was by no means the least. Up until a few years ago, the pinacle of church supremacy could truth fully be said to be shared equally by White Rock and St. Joseph's A. M. E. Church. Among the official family of both, as well as ajnong the memberships of the past and now- have been many of the outstanding busi nesst and professional men and women of the nation. Recently, however, the acceptance of the pastorate o**&veral other churches of Durham by some of the best trained and prepared njinisters of the race, has forced White Rock and St. Joseph's to move over, 50 to sp«ak, in order to make room for other growing and well past ored churches. TpKus, Dr. Ffefcetfa, retirement from White 4hik is certain to great problem officials to find a man capable of fill" in«he shq#s left by one so highly respected an®bek>v*f? With White Rock's proposed buiUling plans and the competition if hasfcvith other churches in Durham, especially witlin its own denomination, White Rock w r Churchill, A Man of Destiny * t T Those o£ us who are fortunate enough to be Having will not see in oar time another man equal is stature and achievement to that of Chnrfhill. To say that he wlas a . man of destiny in pitting it lightly. Winston Churchill was not only a man of destiny bat almost froaHKhe time of his birth nnitl he had braghed his last he walked arm in an with d&iy. Tw gifted writes has ever created an imagi n;fr charades «D JMCC noble deeds and high- than that of Sir Winston. tlfm majestic splenAog to do a noble deed in fces book of eternity a chapter tar Ihis poinjtiog ont England's "finest faou" wwpiink CltarthittVowa "finest hour" came on June 4, 194& itf Mb Dunkirk speech when it appeared that the Allied cause was lost and that HHIw had gained the supremacy in his struggle fc* mastery of the world. Said Churchill: "We shall go oo to the end. ''We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with grow ing confidence and growing strength in the air. "We shall fight oa the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and m the streets, we shall fight in the hills. ' ■ shall never surrender." It was this speech of we think, that electrified (he free world and aroused the fighting spirit of what appeased to be its beaten farcm. if not »*>w, hirtory will some day point to it aj the turning point of World w 1 ' - witt not o»rfy e«fnnl thnt 1064 bat may «*•» .double by 1966. Not only did the National Democratic Com mittee pass a resolution guaranteeing that ail citizens ""regardless of race", creed or color will have the opportunity to participate fully in "party affairs and to cast their election ballots for the presidential and rice presiden tial nominees selected by said convention and for educators pledged formally and is good conscience to the election of these presi dential and vice presidential nominees under the Demoratic label" but it voted to create a special committee to carry out its mandate. While all this was going on, GOP leaders were sitting supinely by and watched the Democrats run off with the ball. We think the road, in so far as the Megro is concerned, is going to he rough and rocky for all GOP candidates in the future. officers will need to approach their task pray erfully and carefully. While we are on the subject of Dr. Fisher's retirement, we woald like to take this occa sion to pay tribute to the love and respect which White Rock has demonstrated through the years for its pesters, even under difficult situations. Twice within the past 40 years we have seen it rise to the pinacle of love and affection for a pastor, incapacitated hy age or physical disability. Such, we think, is true evidence of a great church. There are two major things that ge to make a great church. First, there must be a great leader, as a pastor or minister. Then there must be among its official family men and women of high moral caliber. Without such a combination em the strongest church is certain to eventually decline m power and influence. For when a church has nothing but a weak spiritual head, sometimes referred to as the pastor or minister, together with a weak official board, it is not long before the boring from within sets in. Then there follows bickering among the officers and members, opheavels in the choirs and its other auxiliaries, until finally the collapse or maybe an explosion, from which it wiU take years to recover. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." We join with all of Durham ha wishing for Df. Miles Mark Fisher a lang and happy retirement from a job well done, a life of service and a great contribution to his day and time. Thus it appears that God always prepares a man for sncb crucial aanunti in the affairs of mankind Truly Sir Winston Churchill was a man of destiny thinQgh whom .God spoke and moved upon the face of the earth. High Faiit BMb fW ttw lecting a Negro fas its l» "*«•* ol the Year." The actkn, taken hy the Jajeee* of the fuxnrtare city Ml do much m help • - A akom hdta oca relations >n Hfeh Point tLi it «s*ahfe£es a eaapeple far the fhendinrr. of Chnuuetce m other cities th»t matiapr te ding ta the an cient and opt ot dnte enataoe el **far whites ooljr* '* ?->■. 'Vr- '*•' Robert J. .tfown,- *r ajqtfeu*** Ae Jay cees award W young citMoa-aAd 14a *he field of business a**'* •*■*» taakr him a most deeartiag-ttztau ** ** haaer that has coma to 'Will. It is oar hope that abaßar organizations in other cities of the state wiH follow the example of the Jaycees of High Point and give honor to whom honor is doe without regard for race, creed or cplot- Were m Dor ham. with its numerous young Ns©ro men and women ot achievement in the field af business and the professions, the example of High Point woll might haw* been set fears ago. For some reason though, Durham lacks the kind of leadership within the ranks of both its senior and young citizens that would encourage such act!## as taken hy the Jafr . cees of High Point Likewise, the adult organizations of But* ham, such, as the Chamber of Commerce, Kiutanis, the Ctvftans, (fee Merchants Associa tion and others appear bßn# to the hivge, number 4 Negroes of JLocfA, state and nation al acclaim who wc citizens of thin city. In short, High Point has simafly stolen the show. I Because of Robert J. Brown's connection with this newspaper as the Of »*» Boaxd oi Directory we are indeed haPTT to join with th* Ja?«*ted TCgh point i» honor in* what w* fed is * mfm P«mi man. * ■ v '■ S ' •- •,v - \ • '■ —•' V *\ : w.'.;, > ... Xk. . / ■ V t " Vt.. ,u • " ITS UGLY SHADOW CIRCLING THE GLOBE ('" V - , '' ' • ' '•• By REV. HAROLD ROLAtyD .: spf • Faith in God Gives Man the , Power to Overcome the World v "Have faith in God who raised Jesus from the dead." Rom. 4:21. A life of great, untold poten- await those souls who real ly have faith in God. The Bible repeatedly calls us to the won ders of faith in God. It further reminds us that this is the path way to great living. Many are searching other ways to achieve the goal of great living. But the one inescapable fact of the Bible is that great living comes through faith in God. What is it that places Moses among the ten greatest men of the age? The answer must be his faith ia God Almighty. Why do the Hebrew Prophets tower as lofty spiritual peaks in the thought and history of mankind. We find the answer in their faith in God. Faith in God shows us lift at its best. We called to faith in the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Here in the resurrec tion of the Crucified Son the final reason of faith in ibod. Men in the fury of their spiritual blindness nailed God's Son to a cross. They laid him in, a tomb. And they shout with glee ♦. i . } By Whitney M. Young Jr. RACE AND REASON i'. Two. of the more maligned groups, in the current social rev olution are those often dispar agingly referred to as "white lib erals" and the "Negro middle class." You can toss an egg out a window and hit somebody woh will take after either one or both of these groups. Most often "White liberals" are lambasted for offering lip-service only to the Negro's protest. And the Negro middle-class, supposedly, "turns its hack" on its origins, and "won't help its own people rise up." It's easy enough to such statements -but I think it is a lot harder to prove them. First, I wonder if we don't ex pect the Negro middle-elaas to perform miracles. While 1 don't want to be put in a position oi excusing any person who ia cal lous to the plight of the poor, white or black, I do think we muts take into consideration its else and composition. * In Memphis, Tenn., onlp eight percent of all Negro families pre earning over $6,000 a year, a recent Urban Lea|oe survey of 6S major cities disclosed. In no rity analysed did the Negro middle-class exceed 45 percent of the total Negro community. fa Dayton, it comprised but 33 percent; in New York3o; is Bisliimore , 25; in Cincinnati it VM only 22 and in St. Louis only I®. r Yet many people deride this group fer not doing more ftnan • ritfy, and etberwiso, to help poorer Negroes along. Do the ' * 1 - - we are done with the trouble some agitator. But they in blind jiess overlooked the fact this was the incarneate Son of God, this was God clothed in gar ments of our flesh-. This son of God had anchored his hopes in a faith in God's power. And in this faith he had said with as surance I will rise on the third day morning. And this faith in God was vindicated on the third day morning as he rose on time to get the Easter parade started. It is wonderful to have faith in the God '.vho raised Jesus from the dead. Faith in God gives us the victory over the world. This is our hope of victory over the world—even faith in God. Is there any other way for man, in his weakness, to overcome the world. The answer of history is no. The answer of human ex- • perience is no. Man left to him self is unable to overcome the world. But man with the an chorage of faith in God can overcome the world. And if #e would overcome the false philo sophies and ideoligics running rampant in our world at this To Be Equal critics of this class recognize that often a Negro family earns $6,000 a year only beeause the husband makes SBO a week as a laborer and the wife brings home S4O from a job ironing shirts in a laundry? In terms of composition, this so-called "middle-class" family differs greatly from that of, say, a white office manager for an architectural firm. Yet the Ne gro family is supposed, by vir tue of its "middle-class" design ation, to be pouring huge sums into the NAACP, CORE, or send ing book parcels down to SNICK field workers in Mississippi. As for the "white liberals," who ever took a pool to deter mine just how many of them signed petitions to keep Negro families out of their neighbor hoods? How can the critics of this group judge them as an entire class? isn't it just foolish to say that "white liberals," (meaning,! sup pose, all white liberals,) are be hind the times, as it is to say v that all Negroes who succeed don't help their poor relations down at the bottom? To be sure, there are men formerly thought of as liberals who won't staad 'up for equal opportunities for Negro citizens when it involves some mild inconvenience for their own families, like bussiag a child to a school. Bat from my vantage point at the Lincoln Memorial duriag the March on Washington, 1 could see tens of thousands of white faces among the marchers. And more keep joining all the time as they recognize that • fair chance for all ia in thpr fii hour, it must be through faith in the God that raised Je?us Christ from the dead. The only thing that nukes mefeadul for the nation is that it wW throw away, cast aside, its faith In God. This is the danger of the nation and not wne Godless philoso phy. The critical call then this day ia a return to a rimjpif faith in the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead- Here is individual and social attvatio*. Have faith in God fay giving Km the first place in our Uvea. We hoar much about the pototkapfc dream 'of the great society. The great so ciety was envisioned by the one who eaase from heaven to be bora in n wager and walked among men for thirty-three years, was crucified, buried and , rose on the third day moaning j with the keys. The new society was to be built on pap redeem J ed and filled with the tave of J God. In brief, the new society was to rest upon faith in God Each soul needs a faith in God, the one thing that gives man power to overcme the world. - • ' ,' v *. V> . . • . f* interest, -too. , . ' If the current aqeiai revolu tion teaches us nothing el*, I hope that we have learned •th be careful in loose generalizations. Thousand* if Negro families >of r-pUifcle-cksa status are, struggle tp keep folgjijfc ahpM, contributing tor. ment. So are lao'ry supporting the righlif SfßMpMltt. . Our problem; lem is not . the* .' support, and others depose,'; jet ial justice. Our jpaMwi ia one of awakening tbfr||Vp|ijfc. that large body of jjtomjmt indif ferent man, qgaHHMH Amp us. A woman wKpßpfri in New York at *a-'ptfi?e ma streets in chain* yp they will keep their sibpoe. Vmt* **» speak up, jnattot * Aaaoriea will not be aaawd ip aay —a HUGHES WRITES SPECIAL POEM FOB COBB fipp tmms To sit and dm* hp tad "■d. To aft and team about the wwW Outside our world * ***** now bur problem wa*l~- *9 dream oivast horfpna of the soul • •/r r: ''" r^TT \ • - —r \ 1 ■ *-' ■' .• - l'- m - v *4?u : t '.• .. .;/• -• i'/.vV/i y k .*. ' ? "'' ■ i \ *.:/■*' - ; One World By SHHWOOD ROSS SUKARNO, TH« LOSER UNITED NATIONS, N. Y President Sukarno of Indonesia has embarked his 84,000,000 people on what may well be a suicidal course towards isola tion, suffering, want, and war. By telling the UN to "go to hell," the aging dictator-play boy did infinitely more damage |to his own nation than to the OR, -«hich shows few signs of titlirriat since his walk-out earlier this month. In withdrawing, Sukarno has kissed goodbye to $50,000,000 in aid his hard-pressed people were receiving from the UN in the form of technical and agricul tural aid, medical supplies and Stseese-fightiog services. He also fwfctti Indonesia's right to sit la the new world trade counsel, r created at the behest of the waller nations to improve their disastrous commercial plight. And by stepping up his "crush Malaysia" drive, Sukarno has alienated virtually every Afro- Ada n country, incurred the wrath of Great Britain, and per haps ended his romance -with th* Kremlin —disgruntled by his overtures to the Red Chinese. In his "go to hell" speech, Su karno intimated the shsping 'of a' new alliance among his coun try, North Korea and Red China. But even if he succeeds in unit ing the outlaws and the outcasts, he is still outclassed morally and militarily. Today, as he sends forth band after band of guerilla raiders in sneak attacks on his Malaysian neighbor, he invites only self ' destruction and disgrace. British Prime Minister Wilson recently warned, "No one...in any part of the -world will doubt the re salve with which Britian stands by oor partner Malaysia in re slating infiltration." Backing up Wilson's words is a fleet of 70 warships, including the aircraft carrier Eagle, at battle ready in Malaysian waters. On land, 50,- 000 crack Tommies stand pre pared to bolster Malaysia's lojtal troops. Even though Indonesia's peo ple are eight times as numerous as Malaysia's, there is faint hope that Sukarno's armies can wage a successful guerilla-type war against them. It was in Mialaya where, between 1948 and 1960, the British put down a vicious and crafty jungle '«var inspired by the Chinese Communists. Where the French failed Advice on Choosing Good Medical And Hospital Care Given in Booklet NEW YORK—Ii your doctor is hard to reach because he's spending a lot of time at a hos pital clinic, is he being unfair to you, his private patient? If you have to check into a hospital, do you have a better chance of getting the best care fn one that is modern looking, comfortably . furnished, and khown for its tasty food? the answer to both questions is no, not necessarily. More re liable criteria for judging a doc tor's competence and a hospi tals care are to be found in HOW TO GET GOOD MEDICAL CARE, by Irvan Block, a new Public "Affairs Pamphlet issued tosUr:!t is availiable for 25 cents ffom the Public Affairs Com mittee, 381 Park Avenue South, New 'York, N. Y. 10016. Mr. a writer on medical af fairs, is now serving on the Gov. crnor's Committee on Hospital Coats in New York. Because of today's increased aaedkal knowledge, concentra tion and specilization have be . aaeans, Mr. Block points out, IMA "Constant communication tad teamwork with other doc tars, ia a setting concerned with a broad rang of medical prob lem, is essential if today's phy sfcan it to keep up-to-date and fti—in competent." TUs is true whether the fami fcr doctor works in "solo prac tice" or at part of a group plan. Theagk group practice is not an aatamatfe guarantee of highest VMtlity care, the author finds that aaaagr knowledgeable peo ple Mm "it affords the great er ch*aet |«r good medical *eetis»m brcauas consultation ■art referral are *buUt in' to free—help me! AH yon who *re dreamers, too, Kelp me to nuke Our world anew, I reach out my hands to you. ' / —I .an gat on iiu«hM against such taction ha Ifdo- China; whert/, Amerisa * failing in Viet Nam, the British tri umphed in *Walya. Observers credit Britian's success .to win ning "the hearts and minds" of Malaya's 10,0«Q,000 people. These people expert*tew, »tand firm ly behind thelf([Vw government. Otherwise, Sukarno's raiders would not be mopped up as they land on the beaches. > with increasing anxiety, Asian diplomats watch to see if Sukarno will escalat# hi* corsair warfare into- all-out /tffression. Tokyo reportedly extremely worried. Japanese Premier Ei saki Sato has urged Sukarno to reconsider abandoning the UN- Sato is said to have written him that Japan's military lhisadven tures began when it left the of Nations —"i'pointed warning. War in the Pacific is the last thing Japan wants. It is winning through peaceful trade a prospe rity unimagined wheff it last went to war, and its people proudly see their country as "the Britain of the Orient." Sukarno, unfortunately, has paid Japan no heed. Nor has he listened to the wise counsel of India. Asian spokesmen say privately that he is stuffed to the gills with his own publicity. His mir ror does not reflect the shabby spectacle of himself as an ama teur Mussolini bent on "living dangerously" and probably doomed to suffer the -same un happy end should he adopt his idol's —shopworn methods. Faced by .internal discord, haOnted by tW spectre of assassination, and bwdlcas of chronic hunger and malnutrition among his people, Sukarno like ly is beating the drums ef •«»r to take his publio's mind jff their rumbling bellies. (Kicking out the UN specialized agencies like UNICEF, the World Health Or ganization, and the Food and Agricultural Organization) is cer tain to worsen an intolerable situation.) If Indonesia's flag is finally haulded down at UN headquar ters here, it scarcely spalls the end of the organization, as the sayers of doom and gloom are ever ready to predict. More like ly, it will increase ,the determi nation of the other 110 members to prevail. And most likely, it will mean the beginning of an era of tragedy and disaster for Indonesia's unlucky millions and their nickel-and-dime dictator. the system....When this is com bined with strong supervision and painstaking selection of well qualified physican-merabers of the group, superior medical care is assured.". Mr Block discusses some of the signs of good quality medi-. cal care which patients them selves can check. For example, the physician usually displays his diploma and license as well as a certificate from a specialty Board, if he is a specialist. If you do not the name of his medical school, it is not at all improper to check with the County or State Medical Society. You can also review the information in the Medical Directory and the Directory of Medical Specialists, which most libraries have. It is alio impor tant that a doctor limit his prac tice to his field of competence Affiliation with a hospital of good quality is another impor tant criterion., Such affiliation is highly competitive, however, and preferance may gives to specialists rather than general practitioners. Consequent- Iy, "many excellent doctors are forced to obtain bed privileges, or the right to attend patients, in hospitals whose quality Is somewhat less than they would want it to be." , To get back to the question about doctors and clinics: "If you sometimes find it to contsct your. doctor because he is working extra hours at'the hospital clinie, swaltew you t im patience and congratulate yeur aelf upon your choice of a doc tor....who wants to enlarpt his experience and s(through) hospital clinic work....wMeh ex poses (him) to problems, psafes sional contacts, unj .medical ideas that his prhra* 'practice could never pro*ijte?" Similar!/ , i( is 1 possible to judge « hospital, bat sack fac tors as architecture, Tmfart of the rooms, TV, sad tastiaasi of / See ADVICE, ,^ "'v- \