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-THE C ABO UNA TIMES SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 1865 2A Responsibility of Registering and Voting From its beginning-, this newspaper has kept up a continuous effort to re mind Negro citizens of this city, state, the Sooth and the nation of the im portance of registering and voting in all elections. Frankly, we do not like the widespread apathy that was ap parent among Negroes all over the state during the registration period for the Bond Election which was vot ed on November 2. Although the re gistration books were open for over three weeks it appears that, generally speaking, Negro citizens made no use of the opportunity to increase their voting strength. This, we think, is a serious indictment of the leadership in a majority of the state's, cities and counties in view of the fact that there are in North Carolina thousands of the race who have never qualified vote by registering. Frankly, we are of the opinion that the apathy existed because the mat ter of arousing a register and vote campaign was officially the responsi bility of no particular person or group of persons. As a means, therefore, of guarding against the repetition of such in future elections we would like to suggest the launching of a financial campaign, in each major city of the state, to raise a minimum of SIO,OCX) to be used in the hiring of a person or; persons at the local level to orga nise and direct all registration efforts of the future. If such is done in the major cities, Battalions of Trouble for the KKK The well known and oft quoted statement in Shapkespeare's Hamlet that "When sorrows come they come not single spies but in battalions, well might be applied to the myriad of troubles that have recently beset the Ku Klux Klan. Latest of the KKK's earth-shaking explosions came last week when it was revealed that the grand dragon of the Klan, Daniel Burros, in the state of New York, was racial identity. Most likely, there will be no grand rush of the Jewish people, in this country to stage a parade in honor of a Jew. To pour more, oil on the trou bled waters of the KKK, Burros killed himself Sunday after reading a story in the New York Times, revealing his Burros. Any man who is low enough to be ashamed of and hate those, of his own racial identity is truly typical of the very low and depraved people who go to make up the Klan mem bership. Certainly, the great Jewish iace that has given the world the prophets, Jesus, the multitude of sci i.itists and other notables, will have more cause to be ashamed of the dis ci >very of the racial identity of Bur ros, than the latter was of the revela tion of his Jewish ancestry in the New York Times. To avoid the recurrence of such a tragic episode in KKK circles we would like to suggest to its top offi cials that a blood test and family tree investigation be made of all Klan of ficials. Or it might not be a bad idea Appearance Before the City Council Nego leaders of Durham should ex tend their sincere thanks to the se.v eral members of the City Council who gave, such -an open exhibition of re sentment last Monday night at the efforts on the part of the City School Employees in seeking the aid of the Council to have their lot improved as workers in the City School system. In spite, of the fact that representa tives of the City School Employees appeared willing to accept the ruling of City Attorney C. V. Jones that the City Council is without jurisdiction in the operation of the city schools, cer tain members of the Council appeared unwilling to agree that they, along with all good citizens of Durham, do have the. moral responsibility of see ing to it that all the pupils of the public schools of Durham are afford ed the best educational advantages available- While there appeared to be no or ganied coalition of labor, the Minis terial Alliance, the Durham Commit tee on Negro Affairs and the City School Employees it was plainly evi dent there exists a distinct under standing in the matter brought before the City Council. It is most likely, therefore, that the names of those councilmen, who were so violently opposed to the requests of the City School Employees, will be recorded in the archives of all four of the above mentioned organizations for re ference in future elections not only of th City Council but of any sort. the inspiration is sure to spill over into the less populated cities, towns and counties, especially of the black belt in the eastern section of the state, where a combined effort of sev eral cities or counties could be organ ized. In short, each major city, and probably the state as a whole, is in sad need of a register and vote direc tor whose responsibility would be to Veep up a continuous bombardment of the importance of the ballot in the matter of improving the lot of Ne groes in the state, the South and the nation. It is our firm belief that such a pro gram is necessary if Negroes are to move onward and upward in the pres ent struggle. We, therefore, urge those who head local branchs of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, CORE, min isterial and other organizations to get busy now and formulate some plan by which enough funds can be raised in the respected cities and areas of N. C. to employ the kind of leadership necessary to increase the voting strength of its Negro citizenry. A responsibility that is everybody's responsibility is nobody's responsi bility. That is why, we think little or nothing was done prior to the. Bond Election to arouse Negro citizens to the point of becoming interested in the matter of registering and voting. to cut a small piece of flesh from the buttocks of each Klan official and have the same used in making a labo ratory test of his racial and religious identity. By so doing, the Klan could be assured that no Jew, Catholic or Negro would again become a member of the Klandom Kingdom. Add to the Burros incident the resignation from the Klan of J. G. Dußois of Goldsboro, the testimony of Rev. Roy Woodle, a former Chap lain of the. KKK, before the House Committee of Un-American Activi ties, that he had received a thinly dis guised threat against his life, the mis appropriation of Klan funds by high officials of the organization, the con tinuous bombardment of the Klan by the president, numerous governors, other high, national and state offi cials, and one can get some idea of what the organization is up against in trying to continue its existence. It may be the. Klan will be able to muster enough of its kind in the deep South states to continue a skeleton of an organization but we are of the opinion that what we now hear is the death rattle of the KKK in this country. To prevent the actual demise of the Klan we would like to suggest, there fore, that Negroes begin a financial campaign to help keep the Klan in existence so the sorry white, people in this country will have some organi zation with which they may be ideni fied. The Monday night appearance of the various groups before, the City Council should therefore be worth a minimum of 3,000 additional Negro voters, once the books are again open ed for registration. After all is sa«d and done there is one and only one force that is always recognized by holders of public office and that is the. ballot. We trust, therefore, that Negro citizens now understand why we have contended again and again that a "voteless people is a hopeless people." New Executive Committee Members Claude C. Shotts, chairman of the southeastern region's executive com mittee, has announced seven appoint ments to the executive committee. Two Friends ministers—Aldean Pitts. New Garden Meeting, and Jimmv Reinhardt of Pilot View Meeting— have accepted appointments. Also coming on to the committee this fall were Mrs. Sarah Herbin, field representative for the North Carolina Fund; Roy Briggs, sales manager for Perry's Upholstering Company in High Point; Lloyd Tyler, chemist for the North Carolina Water Resources Board, Raleigh, North Carolina, and David Pearson of Atlanta.^ Approximately thirty college men and women of tne southeastern region participated in the 1965 summer proj- _ ects in the United States and abroad. tjm /W W I \ - «/ jp - rff v* \j i k JP'' j* SPIRITUAL INSIGHT ~ 46 v./ The created wnNrit waits with expectation! of God't ton to be revealed. Romans 1:19 The creation waits on tip toes in the expectations pi God's children rising to fulfill the hopes of Divinity. Too often we fall short. Often the expectations seem wasted and in vain, we disappoint Christ the Savior. We fail in the pur poses of the Eternal God. In Jesus God had hoped we would do more. God waits for peace and we have produced conflict and warfare. God waited for the dawn of justice and the old pattern of injustice still plagues us on every hand. A Savior has come and the cre ation waits for redemption. The prayer and dream for hu man oneness has been betray ed by narrow-minded selfish men. And even the Church, the Body of Christ, has practiced and encouraged divislveness The created Universe waits. We see some little signs of achieving a breakthrough. We are making moves, a little here -NEA Continued from front page Patterns of Education." and the general conference will come to a climax during and following a 6 p.m. banquet scheduled for the Durham Civic Center. Richard D. Batchelder, Presi dent of the National Education Association is scheduled to ad dress the banquet delegation. The states of North Carolina. Floria, South Carolina, Virgin ia, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky were represented during the three day confab. -Bogalusa *0 Continued from front page lawyers have collected a stack of signed statements to prove our charges." The U. S. Jus tice Department has dispatched several of its attorneys to Bo galusa and is reported to be considering Tiling contempt of court proceedings. The night beatings climaxed a long day of demonstrations and arrests. Early Wednesday morning six adult leaders of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League were arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors. -Ed. Week Continued from front page lon Chapter. Presenting the award during the annual banquet was Mrs. W. P. Radar, chairman of pub 1i e affairs department in ehrage of the program. She is also president of the NCEA. Mrs. Charles Matheson, president of the Junior Wom ficers were appected by acca business session. The new of ficers were accepte dby accla mation and will be installed in November. Art exhibits were on display by the Young Club. Gene Mabel. Divisional man- DISPLAYING ITS SCALE OF JUSTICE! Man Must be Redeemed to Save the Created Universe and a little there, to evoke the smiles of approval of God in His sovereign power. The little advances come through torture and agony. The little progress is marked by conflict and bloodshed. Rare souls offer themselves in the services of God. Thank God that the king dom is making little advances through suffering and great tri bulations. Oh God touch more hearts of men 'and women to effect this redemption of the creation in its agonizing groans. We must not have too much delay for the hour is now growing late. Delay increases the deadly dangers inherent in the agony. In the name of God •ve must offer relief and long awaited corrective measures. God's Son the Savior has come and yet we are not redeemed. It is time to get moving. Soon too soon, time will run out. Hie created Universe waits with bated breath. For God's sake let us move. When? Now! for tomorrow could be too late. ager with financial programs, Inc., of Charlotte, showed a movie on mutual funds and talked on Financial Programs, Inc. Jeffers who was a special guest, along with his wife the former Maude M. Mitchell of Gatesville, gave the invocation at the opening of the meeting. -Conyers Continued from front page Corps recruiters into believing that their sons would not be sent into combat until they were eighteen and so had al lowed their sons to volunteer. Current Federal law allows seventeen year olds to volun teer only 'A-ith the signed par ental permission. "As a result of these hundreds of protests from Detroit parents, we were able to get the Marine Corps to immediately issue an order to all their recruiters reem phasizing that the Korean War policy preventing seventeen year olds from going into com bat dfd not now apply to Viet nam," declared Congressman Conyers. -Jeffers Continued from front page in? Power." Veteran's Day will be joint ly observed on Thursday, and the AEW theme for Thursday is "To Develop Good Citizen ship." Friday's theme, "To Enrich Family and Community Life— To Deepen International Un derstanding," will share the sootlight during another spe cial assembly period with an AEW program which will fea ture Hillside PTA President Walter Ricks in an address to the faculty, staff and student body. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Hemdon, English instructor at Hillside, Is chairman for the American Education Week observance. By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Man the masterpiece and the heart of the creation, in agony, must be redeemed. All human schemes have failed. And now •ve must know that there is but one true source for the re demption of the "Created Uni verse"—and it is Christ the Son of God. Christ is the answer. Truly it is Christ or Chaos! Marx has failed. Smith has let us down. George had a fond but futile dream. War only compounds the agony! Communism with its Godless, materialistic ideas is a faded dream that ended in conflict, bloodshed and confusion. Capi talism ended in a greedy ac cumulation of wealth. If you doubt this how do you explain the thirty-five million poverty stricken souls in our nation. "The Created Universe Waits" In Christ man must be redeem ed to save the situation. Christ the Redeemer alone can make this agonizing crea tion what it ought to be—it is He alone who can redeem and save the creation. MRS. S. GILMORE-j HOST TO MOUNT GILEAD GROUP The Missionary Group No. 2 of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church met at the home of Mrs. Stella Gilmore on Elizabeth Street, Monday night. The meeting •vas opened with an inspira tional devotion led by ' the president Mrs. Ida M. Oliver. Each member present contri buted with desires to con tinue in the worthwhile pro gram by mission. Those present were Mrs. Betty Tuck, Mrs. Nina Hill, Selena Miller, Mable Rurnette. Ruth Cooper, Odelia Fuller, Mildred Gattis, Eliza beth Short. After the business session, Mrs. Gilmore served a delicious repast. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Tuck to discuss the 5 Mary's of the Bible. The East End Betterment League will have its regular meeting Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the E. D. Mickle Center. All persons living in this community are urged to be present; business of impor tance to be discussed. This is election year and we hope that all of the members will be at this meeting so that the nominating committee will know just who to select for the future. Mode! Mothers Club Sponsors Initial Meeting The Model Mothers Club had its first meeting of the year at the home of Mrs. J. W. Me- Clinton, 301 Wayne Circle on October 16. The meeting was opened with words of greet ing from the president, Mrs. Massenbtirg. The minutes of the last meeting were read after which old and new busi ness was called for. The com- Ow C ©i ato Published every Saturday at. Durham, N. C. by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year plus (19c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to service men Overseas; Foreign, S7JO per year. Sin gle copy 15c. Principal Offioc Located at 436 E. Pettigrew Street. Durham, North Carolina 27702 REV. BARNES ELECTED TO HEAD NEW HOPE ASSOCIATION'S UNION The Union of the New Hope Baptist Association, in its last quarterly meeting for the year, •those Rev. J. W. Barnes as President of the organization. The Rev. Barnes is the well known pastor of the Terrell Creek Baptist Church of Orange County and the Pine Grove Baptist Church of Gran ville County and a Social Sci ence teacher at Hillside High School. He has served as Vice President of the Union for the past five years under the able administration of Rev. L. W. Reid, Pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church. Rev. Barnes is also a dedicat ed* minister and pastor. He plans to dedicate a new church at each of the places he pas tors within the next month, which are now nearing com pletion. Other officers elected in the Saturday session of the Union were: Rev. C. T. Bellamy, President-Elect; Rev. J. R. DeSHAZOR'S ALUMNI CHAP. NO. 9 MEETS WITH MRS. GENEVA DILLARD The DeShazor's Alumni Chap ter No. 9, met Monday, Novem ber 1, at the home of Mrs. Ge Neva Dillard. The devotional exercises were conducted by Mrs. Magnolia Leak. They sang the group song. Prayer was of fered by Mrs. Josephine Perry. A beautiful poem was read by Mrs. Leak, "What Did You Do." The meeting was turned over to the president. Old and new business was discussed. Many plans were discussed for the coming activities. The most important being, the annual Christmas party to be held at the Biltmore Hotel, December 13. The club was sorry to learn that two of our members were ill. Miss Hazel McCoy on Ma son Street, and Mrs .lola Goss at Duke Hospital. The club -*as happy to have an honored guest. Madam De- Shazor Jackson, President of DeShazor's Beauty College. She made a very informative talk on the care of the scalp, hair, -School /Continued from front page a sharp retort from Council man James Hawkins. "Its abso lutely out of character for a man who professes to be a minister to malign people," said Hawkins. "You just can't say that members of the school are against the Negro. They the school board members) are human being and fine peo ple." Brown replied, "What I said is true. They have even tried to deny the Negro the right to a good education and had to be demanded by the courts." The minister charged further, in referring to action of the council in approving a resolu tion authorizing the appoint ment of a committee of three council members to work in an advisory capacity with the Board of Education, that "a committee sometimes can be away to get out of doing things. I hope you will do something, and not meet just for the sake of meeting. If you don't help us we're coming back." A ruling from City Attorney C. V. Jones, to the effect that the council has no power to remove a board member and that removal can only be ac complished through a board hearing at the request of the state superintendent of public mittee sponsoring the trip to the World's Fair made its re port to the club. It was such an interesting re port that as a follow up of the report, Mrs. McCllnton, our hostess, Invited Mr. and Mrs. Foreman, who were also mem bers of the group touring the Fair, to come and show slide* taken of points of Interest at the Fair. Mr. Foreman w*a such an interesting narrator he made all feel that they too had attended the Fair. One other point of interest discussed was tone means of bringing about a safety cam paign to the public's attention that will help save the lives of our young boys and girls. Parents don't seem to be Burt, Vice President; Deacon Clifton Stone, Secretary; Dea con John Scarlett Assistant Secretary; Dean R. N. Whit more as treasurer. Under the administration of the out-going President, Rev. L. W. Reid, the Union has made rapid progress in spirit ual gro-Jvth and attendance. Some of the special features of his administration were: to re vise and modernize the consti tution; to provide a place for youth in the Union activities; an emergency fund to help those churches and members of the New Hope Association in distress; and a scholarship aid fund to encourage education. This setting of the Union was held with the New Hope Baptist Church of Chatham County. The next setting will be held with Barbee Chapel Baptist Church on the fifth Saturday and Sunday in Janu ary 1966 and wigs. She informed us about the Opened Day Work shop to be held soon. Everyone enjoyed and ad mired Mrs. Dillard's new home. She served a delicious repast, consisting of barbecued chick en, garden peas, cole slaw, candid yams, lettuce and toma to, olivps. ice tea and coffee. Mrs. Gladys Lassiter thanked the hostess. Members present: Mesdames r: delia Brooks, Classie Brown, Rose Henderson, Mable Bur nett, Irene Jackson, Gladys Lassiter, Grace McFadden, Ma rie Johnson. Margaret Harris, Montez Bagley, Piccola Jones, Josephine Perry. Magnolia Leak, Willa McKeithan, Callie Daye, Thelma Hill, Early Grandy, Julia Higgins, Bell Hayes, Margaret Minor, Alveta Monroe, Josephine Holeman, Lij. vella Edwards, and Janie Swann. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Josephine Hole man in Hillsboro. schools is said to have prompt ed the remarks of the minister. Other appearing before the council in behalf of the school workers were: Wilbur Hobby of the AFL-CIO; Charles Hob by, president of the Durham Central Labor Union; J. H. Wheeler, Chairman of the Dur ham Committee on Negro Af fairs; Attorney F. B. McKissick and Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, Vice President of the City School Union. Clinic Help Cut Abortion Rate What happens when you make family planning services available in a low-income com munity? Here's the experience of New York City's Metropoli tan Hospital family planning clinic: You can cut the birth rate by about one-fourth in a year. You can reduce the number of bungled illegal abortions a hospital is forced to complete. You can spend SSO a year per patient for fam ily planning care as against S2OO minimum for prenatal care, delivery, and hospitaliza tion. These findings were report ed by Dr. Martin L Stone, chief of obstetrics and gyne cology, New York Medical Col lege Metropolitan Hospital Center, and director of the hospital's family planning clinic. aware of the danger Involved in sending young children out at night. Dr. Minnie T. Forte volun teered to contact the Safety Division here for help or ma terials that might be used in carrying out a safety program Members present were as follows: Mesdames Geraldlne Alston, Minnie T. Forte, Min nie Gilmer, Mable F, Harris, Lessie Mason, Betty Massen burg, Perlene Scarborough, Lydia F. Wray and Josephine Yokely. Our guests were Mrs. Estelle Dumas and Mr. and Mrs. Foreman. Our hostess, Mrs. McCiinton served a delicious repast, after which the meeting was ad journed.
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