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I THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, DEC. 4, IMS PAGE 2 All-White Delegations for Race Problems Try as we may we are unable to muster any justification, other than prejudice, for the action of the all white North Carolina delegation in appearing before an advisory panel to the House Judiciary Committee last Monday to protest the 1965 Vot ing Rights Act. About the best that can be said of the changes the dele gation proposed in the law is that they are about as stupid as ever have been concocted by a group of officials from any state. In addition to Alvin K. Brock, ex ecutive secretary of the North Caro lina Board of Elections, who present ed the proposals, there was in the dele gation the state's perennial and chief opponent of civil rights, Assistant At torney-General Ralph Moody. Mr. Moody has proved through the years that he stands ready and willing at al times to throw his support against any legislation or movement that means the advancement of the Negro. On occasions his past performances before, the federal courts, committees, etc., must have often appeared ridicu lous if not embarrassing to all intel ligent state officials and citizens. Had the delegation been on solid ground and with no ulterior motives in mind, at least one representative Negro citizen of the state would have been included in the delegation, since every one of the proposals con cerned the million or more Negro citizens. Instead, it appears that with out the consultation or advice of one responsible Negro leader of the state, the delegation made its appearance before the advisory panel to the House Judiciary Committee. This ante-bel lum pattern of paternalism in interra cial matters does nothing to improve race relations here in North Carolina! On the contrary it raises, again and again, the suspicion that high state officials do not intend to play fair or include Negro leaders in the equation when it comes to the matter of inte gration etc. One of the proposals presented by the N. C. delegation asks the removal A N. C. Negro Candidate for Congress The announcement this week that a Negro housewife will be a candidate for Congress from the First Congres sional District of North Carolina should do much to arouse Negro vot ing interest, not only in Martin County where she resides, but throughout the entire state. Too long Negro citizens have been dragging their feet on the matter of seeking public office in North Carolina, from That of governor on down to township constable. Although Negro citizens of the dis trict in which Mrs. Small is running for Congress will have only one regis tration day to increase their voting strength in support of the candidate of their race, they will at least be made to realize that they are without hope so long as they don't vote. The Gen eral Election in 1966, when a full reg istration period will give ample time for any member of the race who de sires to register to do so, should re sult in a decided increase in the vot ing strength of Negroes in the First | flhjp YOB SWHIM bwr PJGENE CHEN IN TRINIDAD / 8.W.1. OF NEGRO, CHINESE AND SPANISH PARENTAGE; EDUCATED FOR LAW IN ENGLAND, HE BECAME j LEGAL ADVISOR 70 THE MINISTRY OF COM MUNICATIONS AT PEKING IN J912! IN 1914 HE FOUNDED AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST NEWS PAP ER, AND IN 1917, BECAME PERSONAL ADVISOR AND PRIVATE SECRETARY TO DR.SUN YAT SEN, FOUNDER OF NATIONALIST GHINA!- HIS CLEVER STRATEGIES FORCED FOREIGN EXPLOITERS TO YIELD ON TOO MANY POINTB TO MENTION ! of what it refers to as the "constant and careless reference to federal reg istrars being sent to our state." Said the proposal further: "\V e can and are handling our own election system properly and efficiently, in compliance with the law. We are not children who'need to be threatened in order to obey." It is amazing just how self-righteous certain state officials of North Car olina can become once they realize federal authorities are breathing down their necks. If Mr. Brock and Mr. Moody are unaware of the vicious methods registration and election of ficials of eastern North Carolina have continuously resorted to in preventing Negroes from registering and voting, they are too unintelligent to be shouldered with the responsibilities of the offices they now hold as state of ficials. If they are not what is going on in general in North Car olina they.'are compelled to know about the brazen denial of the rights of Negroes to register and vote in Mississippi. Alabama, Louisiana and other southern states. Both Mr. Brock and Mr. Moody must know that even when Negroes are registered by fed eral officials they are often subjected to the most cruel and inhumane re prisals by white citizens who resent a Negro exercising the basic citizen ship rights which are to register and vote. Like the rain that is sent on the. just and the unjust, like the Ten Com* mandments that are for both the saint and the sinner the Voting Rights Act exists for the good and the bad. If North Carolina intends to obey the law we see no reason why its officials are so disturbed about any of its con tents. The appearance of the delega tion before the advisory panel of the House Judiciary Committee raises grave suspicion that there is a dead cat up the line somewhere in this state and that it is in the 26 counties of eastern North Carolina where Ne groes have been intimidated and are often denied by subtle and sundry means the right to register. District as a result of Mrs. Small's candidacy. Win or lose Mrs. Small's bid for a seat in Congress is certain to make a distinct contribution to the political interest of all Negro citizens of North Carolina. It should also shame Negro leaders of the entire state and cause them to realize that they have been derelict in their duty of promoting the interest of the Negro masses in regis tering and voting. Sooner or later a Negro is certain to win a seat in Congress from North Carolina and it is certain that the First and Second Congressional District, where Negroes are on a par if not outnumbering white citizens, are at present the districts in which success is most likely. It is our hope that Ne gro leaders in the First Congressional District will take Mrs. Small's candi dacy seriously and get out support for her both from a standpoint of supply ing the votes and money she will need for a successful campaign. WE MUST CONTINUE TO PREPARE ... AS WE PROTEST WW J NO INJURY TO HIS HEALTH, INCREASE HIS EEHOEHCYW Z ™J?R EMPLOYMENT I OPPORTUNITIES | : l s £tIUA L DUCTING BUSINESS IN A MOST BUSINESS LIKE WAY, EMPLOYING THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB TO * - INCREASE THEIR OWN EFFICIENCY AND PROFITS, SPIRITUAL INSIGHT KI Man Can be Made Acceptable By ■ The Redeeming Love of the Cross "ThoW who ar4 in Hi* flash cannot pla«M God." —Rom. 1:1 Man, in his natural state, is unable to please God. Human nature being what it is—weak, very weak—man is unable in his fleshly or natural condi tion to please God. This stub born fact of man's experience stands out from the beginning in Eden to this present mo ment. Then what is man to do to achieve that state in which he can be pleasing and accept able before God? Man must be subjected to an enabling act on the part of the Almighty God. And this enabling act of God has found expression in the saving power of Jesus and the gracious gift of the Holy Spirit. Man regenerated in Christ can be pleasing to the God of love and holiness. The secret is found in Christ and his crosT In that gracious act of redeem ing love of the cross man can be made acceptable to God. But man in the flesh is unable -Clement (Continued from front page) ton, South Carolina, is a trustee of White Rock Baptist Church, a member of the executive committee of the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs, a Shriner, and a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He was awarded the Chartered Life Underwriters designation by the American College of Life Underwriters in 1953. --Registers (Continued from front page) istering daily, she stated. A total of 1,613 Negroes has b€en" registered in the county/^ In Jefferson County, (where Negroes outnumber whites by three to one, 1,569 Negroes, about half of their voting po tential, have registered. Miss Simmons, who headed the highly successful NAACP summer voting registration project, returned to the Jack son office following complaints that registration in Hinds Coun ty, in which Jackson and Ray mond are located, was lagging, despite the presence of Fed eral registrars. -Congress (Continued from front page) Mrs. Small has done exten sive work in registration and voting campaigns and stated she is running as a representa tive of "all the poor people" of the first district. With Golden Frinks, well known and ardent civil rights worker of Edenton, Mrs. Small is expected to make a decisive bid for the congressional seat she seeks. Her filing fee was paid by CORE and the Southern Christ 1a n Leadership Conference. She declared, however, that she is a candidate of all the people. By REV. HAROLD ROLAND to please God. Man, washed, purged, cleansed and purified, through the Grace of God re vealed in Jesus Christ is made acceptable before God. A God of love and forgiveness as re vealed in Jesus can avail to make us acceptable before God. Tn Christ -we are forgiven. In Christ the burden of guilt and sin is lifted and we are made acceptable before God. The loving touch of the Christ of the Cross transforms, changes that old nature so we are made accepatble before God. Secondly, the Holy Spirit makes us acceptable in the presence of the High and the Holy One. In that inner spirit ual operation in the sinful hu man soul we are made accept able before God. In this spirit ual operation we are emptied, through faith and repentance, of all that Is unacceptable be fore God. We are not left emp ty—we are filled with the Holy Spirit. And the spirit with its work of sanctification makes man acceptable to God. -Nurses (Continued from front page) employees forced to eat in a converted classroom, while the white employees used a new cafeteria. - , "In order to dine in this room (classroom) Negro em ployees had to telephone their orders for food service to the cafeteria and wait until the food was delivered. "This procedure resulted in cold food and delays which ex hausted the 30-minute lunch period." Nurse Smith explained that the classroom seated 35 per sons, but because there are muSv eat there, the room is fretptantly crowded and per sons imist wait their turn for available chairs. Dropouts Urged To Enroll in Natl Job Corps Unemployed high school dropouts in the Durham area between the ages of 16 and 21, who come from very low in come families, were urged this week by Operation Break through to consider enroll ment in the national Job Corp*. According to W. R. Puriell, head of Operation Break through's Neighborhood Youth Corps, his department has been asked by the national Office of Economic Opporunity (OEO) to resume recruitment for the Job Corps program. The OEO' requests seeks 32 new Job Corps enrolles from the Durham area by Jan. 1 and 210 by June 30, 1966, Puriell said. He noted that this depart ment has placed 23 Durham area youths in Job Corps camps throughout the country since last May. Then let us, therefore, thank God for the gift of His Holy Spirit. The gift of the spirit is an important part of the Divine enabling act. The natu ral man is unable to please God. But with the Spirit work ing in man's sinful soul he ia made fit for Holy society. We can now please the Al mighty God. Now, thank God, we have no excuse to hide be hind. Man with the loving and redeeming touch of the Christ of the Cross is fit for fellow ship with a God of righteous ness. Now we can live and grow in the beauty of Holiness. Now we may have the peace that passeth all human under standing. Now we are fit for the rare joys of Divine fellow ship. Now we are fit to enjoy the spiritual riches of heavenly or Celestial bliss. In Christ, God' 3 Son, we are freed from our sinfulness and made worthy of Communion with God, with its spiritual peace. -Mrs. Cobb (Continued from front page) and Mrs. Mary C. Morrison of Washington. Another son, the Rev. Chas. E. Cobb resides and pastors in Springfield, Mass. Interment was at Beechwood Cemetery. The Job Corps enrolls young men for a minimum of six months and not more than two years of training at its train ing centers. At these centers industrial vocational training, useful work, recreation, and physical training are provided to increase employability of each young'person. The pro gram is designed to help young men who could benefit by in tensive "away from home" training. While receiving room, board, medical care, and S3O per month spending money, Job Corps members attend basic education classes, as well as classes in such fields as auto mobile repair, carpentry, ma chinery operation and mainte nance. At the end of his train ing each youth receives a ter minal payment of SSO for each month he has spent in the Corps. Furthermore, he may elect to send up to one-half of his monthly spending money home, and the Job Corps will match this allotment with an equal amount. Young men interested In ap plying for this program may report to the fourth floor of Operation Breakthrough's head quarters at 114 W. Parrish St. Gets Negro Cop CLARKSDALE, Miss. This southern city has lust hired Jesse "Wright as its first Negro po liceman. The action of the City Board last week followed » atepptag-op civil rights campaign in the north Mis sissippi community, which asked in addition better Job opportunities and use of courtesy titles in ad dressing Negroes. rwgan&agfrtfg Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. Second Claw Portage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year plus (15c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to service men Oversea*; Foreign, $730 per year, Sin gle copy 15c. Principal Office Located at 436 E. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina 27702 To Be Equal By WHITNEY M. YOUNG JB. White Status Symbol DRL KENNETH B. Clark, distinguished professor of pay. chology at the City College of New York, and Edwin C. Berry, executive director of the Chicago Urban League, unleashed some verbal bombshells several weeks ago before a nationwide conference on "A Thousand Hsur lems—How To Break Up The Racial Ghetta." As one of the speakers at the meeting sponsored by the Nauonal Committee Against Racial Discrimination In Hous in the Windy City, Dr. Clark called the Ne gro ghetto a form of status symbol for whi/te | jgM paople. "The Negro ghetto helps the whites take f ,~-%l their minds off their own problems," the noted author and educator 9aid. "They talk about those terrible illegitimate kids In Central City, and forget about the abortions in their own 'gilded ghetto!' '• The Negro ghetto. In his opinion, Is best characterized as "an Involuntary prison-like confinement that destroys and dehumanizes powerless people." MR. YOUNG These ghettoes are not accidental, according to Clark, but planned and maintained by governmental power. And he accused Negro politicians of participating in a conspiracy along with their white counterparts to exploit the ghetto eco nomically. Early 'Badges Of Inferiority' Moreover, he indicated administrators of ghetto schools who pin "badges of inferiority" on Negro children early is the elementary grades. "The school people make sure that very few of their prisoners escape the school unscathed," he said. Clark, who wrote the widely acclaimed book "Dark Ghetto," indicated that Negroes should not depend on labor unions to offer help in eliminating housing segregation. "When its gets down to the basics," he asserted, "most unions are as reactionary on the housing issue as the NAM (National Association of Manufacturers)." In conclusion, he described CTiioago as one of the moat segregated cities In America, and its political leaders as only giving "lip service" to Integration. Berry, a top League executve, also unburdened himself of some pungent comments on the Negro's social predica ment. "Chicago has a "DonAte Ghetto'," he explained. "One of race and one of poverty—in a seven-mile stretch of pubils housing on the South Side. It's a classic example of how not to build public housing." "There are kids there who actually believe Negroes art the majority race," he pointed out, "because they never get far enough away to see any whites." 'Locked' In Neighborhoods He contended that persons "locked" in all-white neigh borhoods face a similar problem because their children grow up without knowledge what the world really looks like. Summing up, Berry said all human activities from picketing to prayer—should me aimed at breaking up Ne gro ghettos. It would appear that by now Intelligent people acting in their own enlightened self interest would want, to take Immediate massive steps to eliminate the ghetto. Existence of the greetto has serious economic and politi cal consequences. And unless non-white citizens «re dis persed throughout our cities, then white youngsters win have the unfortunate experience of growing up without any association with two-thirds of the world's population. Secure, Gsture, Intelligent and sophisticated people do not need this nd of sterile sameness. The new status symbol will be diversity and lnclusiveness. (StuADCLOUPC AMD MARTtMtQUE WK!^OSSSEMP\ IN H93 BY COLUMBUS WHEN HE STOPPED 1/ \ AT GUADELOUPE TO PUT FRESH WATER ON HIS r 3BfiU SHIPS. ALTHOUGH HE DISCOVERED MARTINIQUE !■ THE SAME YEAR, HE DIDN'T LAND ON THAT £} VACAT/Ott WTHA fffiNCH ACCfNT FQCNCH CNH66EAN ™ CAft BE ENJOYED BY VISITORS TO WILL K ESTABLISHED THIS DECEMBER GUADELOUPE AND MARTINIQUE. WHEN AIR FRANCE BEGINS A BUND OF fRENOIMD CARIBBEAN DIRECT SERVICE FROM NEW 106K CUSTOMS, SONQS. AND FOOQ AS WELL TO GUADELOUPE ANO MARTINIQUE. AS BM2BAIN FREE-PORT SHOPPING 707 JETS WILL CONTINUE ATTRACT AMERICAN AND ON TO THE ISLES OF BARBADOS CANADIAN TRAVELERS AUKE. AND TRINIDAD. „
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