L—THE CABOUNA HUES SATURDAY, SEPT. 25, 1985
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Urban Renewal A Farce or Reality
From a practical standpoint, the so
called Urban Renewal program in Dor
ham is viewed by a majority of Negro
citizens, living in the Hayti section of
the city, as about the biggest farce
evw concocted in the mind of mortal
man. Such an attitude has been
brought about by the swiftness and
efficiency with which Urban Renewal
acts in tearing down houses and the
lack of speed which it has exhibited
in replacing them.
Along with the above, one is stared
in the face with the fact that in tear
ing down a few substandard houses
and shacks, the Urban Renewal pro
gram has torn down some of the best
dwellings in the Hayti area atff that,
up to the present moment, not a single
replacement has been made. Some of
the dwellings destroyed were by far
better than many Negroes had ever
lived in or hoped to live in before the
Urban Renewal program came along
anl painted its glowing picture of
better housing for all the people.
Add to the above the fact that there
CAN WE SAVE OUR CITIES?
WHAT is happening to our American cities? Have they passed
their prime and must they now sink into decay like the Babylons
of the ancient world? Or can they be revived and rebuilt to herald
a bright new age in the life of mankind?
These are among the major questions facing the United States
today. Responsible citizens everywhere have become increasingly
concerned about the decay and deterioration that have affected
large areas in our urban regions. Slums have always existed in our
cities, but recent years have seen formerly prosperous and attrac
tive sections of the cities sink inn squalor; once well-kept business
districts and the former residences of the wealthy have suffered the
effects of blight.
Community leaders became alarmed, and in hundreds of cities
throughout the land they have tried to do something about this
deterioration. Title I of the 1949 Housing Act authorized the use
of federal funds to encourage private investment in redevelopment.
The plan was broadened in 1954 and again in subsequent years.
This appeared to be a hopeful answer to the complex problem
of urban Might.
Comment from the Capital ._ A •• .
IISI BRIEF
by Vant Neff
The "Do-Gooders" will have
you believe all criminals are
produced by bad housing,
broken families and unequal
job opportunities. Hogwash.
This great country was built
by people who came from bad
housing and surmounted un
equal economic opportunities.
• • •
Only 10% of our population
is Negro. Yet, tliey commit 67 r ,'c
of the crimes. Of course, some
of it's to be expected when
Negro leaders encourage civil
disobedience, and condone
Negroes' refusal to obey laws
they don't like. Also, threats of
"long hot summers" are the
kind of movement ,that spawn
lawlessness. CORE and
NAACP demand equality.
Surely they mean equality in
everything. Isn't this an excel
lent startling place?
• • •
If your neighbor gets mad
and breaks your window, who
pays? When union goons destroy
property during a strike, who
should pay? The unions? Well,
look what happened in the lie
cent New York taxi strike. Self
employed cabbies, who own
their cabs, weren't involved in
the unionization drive. Yet,
some of their cabs were stoned
and burned. Who was stuck
with the bill? The poor cabbie
struggling to make it on his
own.
• • •
Be afraid, America, .tremble.
The nuclear holocaust is com
ing. This kind of talk is broad
cast throughout our land. But,
it's never heard in Russia. Isn't
this a planned program to
weaken our will to resist?
• • •
What would the Founding
Fathers say? They enacted the
Bill of Rights to protect the
people from excessive power of
central government.
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is much dissatisfaction over the price
many homeowenrs have been forced
to accept for their property and it is
not hard to understand why rumors
and suspicion prevail that, so far as
the Hayti section of Durham is con
cerned, Urban Renewal is not only a
farce but just another scheme to re
lieve Negroes of property they own
too close to the downtown business
section of the city.
Two of the unanswered questions
that now exist are: Where and when,
if ever, will the low income apart
ments promised by Urban Renewal
officials be built ? Who will own
them? On one occasion one resident
of Hayti, whose grandson was about
10 years of age, was heard to remark,
"I have already put it in my will that
when my grandson's great grandson
moves into one of the apartments
erected under the L'rabn Renewal pro
gram to not forget that his old great
great grandpappy dreamed of such a
day." »
Most people don't seem to
have time to think about poli
tics. But, politicians always
have time to think about prom
ising the people anything to get
more power.
• * *
Not so long ago the Com
munists )trenched coexistence.
Note even some of our leading
executives have allowed it {o
infiltrate their reasoning. In a
speech before the UN they
paraphrased Red preaching.
They said, ure will have "co
existence or coextinction." It
just goes to show how much the
Commie line has become part
of /Imen'rnn thinking.
The Communist strategy is
simple: stubbornly hold your
line, always say "nyet," and the
Americans will gradually re
treat. It is succeeding. In a re
cent editorial. The New York
Times justified the Russians'
not paying UN dues on the
grounds that the Commies
didn't favor the UN peace-keep
ing efforts.
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Recently on TV, when Mf-
George Bundy showed Profes
sor Hans Morgenthau how
many times he was wrong about
Viet Nam, the pontifical pro
fessor accused Bundy of being
"too well prepared." Is the pro
fessor just ignorant when he
says China never attacked any
body, or does he know perfectly
well what he's doing, and for
whom?
IF ONLY "WE" HAD THE SAME DETERMINATION
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SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
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"No longar under our lower
naturo, it directed by the
spirit." Roman #:4
In Christ we win the mastery
over the lower nature to be
come motivated by the spirit
of God. In Christ we find a
new center of power. Once the
old life with Hs reckless, ruin
ous way was the dominating
center. Then we were motivat
ed by blind, destructive pow
ers within. But Christ in his
regenerative or redemptive
power creates a new center to
be the creative, healing ground
of our motivation. In Christ we
are "directed by the spirit."
In Christ love is the new
motivator. And since God is
love, God becomes the new
power of motivation for our
lives. Love heals. Love en
riches and builds. Love works
for community rather than for
self-centeredness. Love's gift is
self-esteem and dignity. Love
includes others and thus be
THOSE ALL-WHITE BOOKS
The steady diet of prejudice
which most book publishers
have been feeding our children
has been brilliantly document
ed in a recent article appear
ing in our foremost literary
journal, The Saturday Review.
The magazine's lead article,
"The All-White World of Chil
dren's Books," is an incisive
and exhaustive analysis of
thousands of book titles which
have regularly been finding
their way into our homes,
schools, and libraries.
Written by Nancy Larrick,
former president of the Inter
national Reading Ass'n, the
article finds our publishing
industry guilty of creating
stereotyped images of Negroes
or of leaving them out of books
entirely. It also rips the dam
age such books inflict on white
children.
Says author Larrick, "Al
though his light skin makes
him one of the world's minori
ties, the white child learns
from his books that he is the
Mngfish. There seems to be
little chance of developing the
humilitj so urgently needed
for world cooperation, instead
of world conflict, as long as
our children are brought up
on gentle doees of racism
through their books.
The Saterday Review writer
sifted through 8,206 children's
books turned out by 6S pub
lishers during the 1962-64 pe
riod. Her finds: only 549 in
clude one or more Negroes—
an average of 6.7 percent.
"Among the four publishers
with the largest list of chil
dren's books," she writes, "the
percentage with Negroes is
one-third lower than this av
erage.
"These four firms —Double
day, Franklin Watts, Macmll
lan and Harper and Row—pub
lished 966 books, and only
percent have a Negro in text
or illustration." Eight book
bouses, she adds, produced
only all-white books; and
among those which their
texts depicted Negroes some
didnt look colored at all but
Man So Prone to Evil Needs
The Motivation of God's Spirit
comes the basis of true happi
ness and fulfillment. Yes, the
new creature in Christ is moti
vated by the spirit of God.
And love is the IdghejtWpres
sion of that hew motivator—
the spirit of God. Thank God
for the power and the motiva
tion of the spirit. Man so prone
to evil and ugliness needs the
motivation of God's spirit.
Christ moves man from the
lower to the higher reaches of
his sublime and divinely-im
printed nature. Being made in
God's likeness the lower can
never fully satisfy us. We long
for escape and freedom. God
in Christ gives a way of escape
from the misery of the lower.
Do you want to move from the
lower state? You can, but you
must make up your mind. This
move, unfortunately, does not
come by automation. Your
loved ones would like to toudh
a button and effect the change.
To Be Equal
left the reader wondering if
the subject didn't suffer from
sunburn.
Miss Larrick says one five
year-old Negro girl looking at
a book in nursery school ask
ed, "Why are they always
whit* children?"—a question
today's publishers must pond
er. This certainly has a crip
pling effect on the mental
growth of our 6,340,000 non
white children "learning to
read and to understand the
American way of life in books
which either omit them entire
ly or scarcely mention them,"
them," she notes.
In Cleveland, Chicago, St
Louis, and Washington, D. C.
the majority of public school
children are Negro. In many
other cities—Newark, Detroit,
Atlanta, and Philadelphia, they
make up a high percentage of
the total. Will they go on get
ting the impression that life in
their city holds no future for
them, encouraging a "what's
the-use attitude? Will this at
titude, shaped so early, charac
terise our next generation of
urban unemployables, rioters,
and delinquents? And, when
today's children do find a pic
ture of a black person will it
be that' of a slave or share
cropper, a migrant worker or
nanny?
Certainly, no Federal aid
should go to any school district
in America which provides
only all-white textbooks, a
clear violation of Title VI of
the new Civil Rights Act.
Yea, many publishers are
trying; some very hard. Vir
tually every major textbook
publisher has attended the last
two annual conferences of the
National Urban League held to
discuss methods of correcting
the all-white image. Some are
making significant gains. But
Miss Larrick wriWs that only
9 percent of IMO's crop of
children's books Include one
or more Negroes a paltry
gain of 1.5 percent over the
dismal 1004 performance.
No wonder Augusta Baker,
coordinator of Children's Serv
ices for the New York Public
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
But you must make the move
yourself for the higher ground
of the spirit. You alone can
decide about this business of
spirit motivation. Ask God to
help you to move from the
lower to the higher realm of
motivation.
The spirit's motivation leads
to peace. A world longing fu
tilely for peace needs to know
that God's spirit alone can
give this longed-for peace. The
spirit gives peace. The soul
weary in the raging conflict of
sin longs for God and his
peace which passeth all hu
man understanding. Christ's
redemption from sin and the
coming of the spirit will mean
peace—God's peace for the
human soul.
Man's restless soul longs for
the peace of soul which comes
with the gift of the Holy
Spirit. Motivated by the spirit
•#e are assured of God's peace.
Library, our nation's largest,
says: "Really fine books (por
traying a positive picture of
Negroes) are still scarce."
The publishing industry is on
trial. It has the intelligence,
know-how, resources and capa
city to imbue all America's
children with self-respect and
pride in their common human
ity, in their common land. How
long will this industry lag be
hind the march of events? In
Miss Larrick's words: "Inte
gration may be the law of the
land, but most of the books
children see are all-white."
-Baptist Head
(Continued from front page)
faith in all the people of the
people of the Southland, faith
in our nation, and faith in the
redemptive power of the Chris
tian church, and faith in our
God."
He said the officers and del
egates hoped to "strengthen
and to help spread the spirit
of goodwill among the peoples
and races of the city, state
and nation."
Dr. Jackson pointed out that
many white people who do not
understand the wider view of
the civil rights struggle think
of it as a struggle of Negroes
for their rights, and this group
contends that Negroes should
not "press too hard."
"No person can press too
hard in the pursuit of the
right, and no citixen can be
too devout to his country or
too much in love with the uni
versal principle of freedom
and justice," was the Baptist
leader's answer to this conten
tion.
-Beaten
(Continued from front page)
heel of his hand when he held
it up to ward off blow.
Garris was freed of charges
of assault with a deadly wea
pon in connection with the
same case in July in Recorder's
Court.
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-St. Joseph
(Continued from front page)
day morning September 26
when he will preach his first
sermon as pastor at 11:00 A.M.
at the annual "Homecoming"
Day observance. N. H. Bennett,
Jr., will preside and introduce
the new pastor.
Dr. Cousin's subject for the
Morning Worship Hour will be
"Back to Bethel." Evening
Worship, "Untapped Resourc
es." Music will be furnished
by the Senior Choir, Joseph
Mitchell directing, with Mrs.
Minnie W. Gilmer at the con
sole.
Dr. Cousin is a native of
Pennsylvania, the son of an
A. M. E. minister, Rev. S. A.
Cousin. He was educated at
the High School of West Palm
Beach, Florida; Central State
College, Wilberforce, Ohio,
where he received the bachelor
of arts degree, majoring in
of arts degree, majoring in phi
losophy. His theological work
and was awarded the bachelor
of sacred theology degree. He
has done further study at Bos
ton University in the field of
education.
He has pastored in Florida;
Danville, Va. and Norfolk, Va.,
prior to his election to the
presidency of Kittrell Junior
College.
Dr. Cousin is a member of
the Alpha Phi Alpha Fratern
ity. Married to the former
Miss Margaret Joan Grier of
Winston-Salem. They have four
Letter to the Editor
1 regret the irresponsible
journalism that prompted the
headline and article that ap
pear on the front page of the
Carolina Times Sept. 18,1965
concerning Catholic Schools.
This is sure to result in ill will
among numerous sincere
people where there was none
before. This none of us can
afford at the present. Nothing
positive is to be gained by
this sensationalism because
there is no person in N. C.
who opposes segregation in
ail its forms as Bishop Vincent
Waters. There is no N. C. or?
ganization that has been of
ficially integrated for as long
nor as thoroughly as the Ca
tholic Diocese of Raleigh
(which includes all of N. C.)
One has only to visit their
churches and schools to
this fact in action. It has tjeen
done without the current
trend of sensationalism, by
simply putting into practice
the principles of true Chris
tine Charity and belief that all
men are creatures of God as
understood by the universal
Church. This Church has re
mained your stanchest ally
against communism, KKK, and
other hate groups. We need to
gain more allies not lose some
of those we "have.
Those Catholics and Protest
ants aware of these facts must
have been as bewildered as I
when they read last week's
edition of the Times. It was
blaringly apparent to this
reader that all the truth was
not there. A check with the
editor revealed that the in
formation had been tele
phoned in by the mother in
the case. A correspondent who
lives in was asked to
write the article who did ao
without checking the proper
authorities to verify the story,
probably through lack of
knowledge and procedure in
such a case. This Is bad
journalism resulting in mis
understanding and ill wilL
Those who have definite
knowledge of the Catholic
Church understand that to
have harmony and order in
such a complex, universal or
ganisation one most have es
tablished procedures to carry
on the multiple duties of
church and school without
government and tax support
(even though Catholics pay
taxes to support public
schools) To operate ■ school is
always difflctQt and without
sufficient funds, buildings,
teachers etc. in the face of
sudden changes It is doubly
difficult and some demands
impossible at the. moment
These must be carefully plan
ned and need the cooperation
of all Catholics. A priest takes
a vow to uphold these prin
ciples as part of his personal
dedication to God and obedi-
sons.
Each year, on Homecoming
Sunday, a family from the
congregation is honored as "Si
Joseph's Family of the Year."
This year, the family of tha
late Rev. D. A. Johnston, far
mer pastor of St. Joseph's will
be honored. The surviving
members are. his widow, Mrs.
Verdell Jennings Johnston
and two daughters, Hisses Dor
is Marie and Loretta Ruth.
Mrs .Johnston has been em
ployed for 17 years as a teach
er in the Durham City School
System in special education
for mentally retarded. Doris is
a senior at UNC at Greens
boro and Loretta is a rising
senior at Hillside High School.
Mrs. Johnston has been em
ter of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Jen
nings of Charleston, S. C.
The "Family of the Year
Trophy" will be awarded to
Johnston Family by Mrs. Sallle
Warren, mother of the Warren
Family who received the 1064
trophy.
-Taylor
(Continued from front page)
practice in Detroit until he
joined the Federal Govern
ment in 1961.
Taylor is a member of the
Bar of the U. S. Supreme
Court, the Federal Bar As
sociation, the Economic Club
of Detroit, the University of
Michigan Club of Detroit, the
Detroit Press Club, and the
National Lawyers Club.
ence to His Church. It is reas
onable then to expect a good
Bishop to support his priests
when they have not violated
these principle and procedures,
otherwise there would be
nothing but chaos and many
of the benefits of the Church
would be impossible. This is
exactly what happened in this
case. The mother in question
did not know the necessarty
procedure for making orderly
change in schools for her chil
dren, one of which is to get
the consent of both the pas
tors involved. This is neces
sary as well as a matter of
courtesy to a harried busy
priest with multiple other
duties in addition to operat
ing a school. The beligwd
priest in the case at the time
of publication did not know
either the mother or writer of
the article. This mother was
a self-styled life long Catholic
prominant social worker and
wife of an attorney did not
ignore the procedure through
ignorance. In addition, when
she had the facts explained to
her, she still defied them and
started a campaign which re
sulted in irresponsible journal
ism being forced on our intelli
gence as readers of the
papers.
To us Catholics this mother
is guilty of a serious breach
in the support of the prin
ciples of her Church, Chris
tian Charity and common
courtesy. I hope the harm she
may have done can be repair
ed. The fact of her being a
prominant woman did not he
case any different than other
in her parish.
Bishop Waters is and has
« been one of the most adamant
supporters of integration in
all of its phases over the
twenty years I have known of
him. His reputation is known
all over the county. This is
fact known by all knowledge
able, responsible, If. C. dtt
xens, Negro and white, Pro
testant and Oathollc, Because
N. C. is in this section of the
south (especially the eastern
section) there are many pro
blems to be solved, bat are
being done so at a faster pact
than any other Christian or
ganisation. Dont take my
word for it Investigate. In
how many other churches do
you find villous noes tiedj
worshipping God? No one iHll
stop you at the door or other
you to a segregated are*. To
us a kneel-in has only one
meaning—a praying together
All of this has been brought
about by patience, couraga
and sacrifice of Catholics of
all walks of life, not by aa
Act of Congress bat by and
act of God. Thank you.
Sincerely In Chfist
Clara Council