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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1966 2A Respect for the Flag Musi be Maintained This newspaper takes up the cudgel this week against the Negro youth demonstrators of Cordele, Georgia who are reported to have torn holes in the U. S. flag during a demonstra tion last week. If the reports appear ing in the daily press are correct we have nothing but the highest contempt for those who participated in the act. The U. S. flag is a symbol of this nation and, therefore, it represents the American people of all races, class es, creeds and kinds. Any person or persons engaging in an act of disre spect for the U. S. flag is therefore committing such an act against the American people. Negro citizens, in spite ot the in- justices heaped upon them during the dark days of slavery and since, have come thus far without engaging in acts of extreme depravity agains* their adversaries. They have murdered no president, governor .mayor or other public official. They have dynamited no public buildings, burned no church es or homes, slain no person or en gaged in no lynching however bittel the grievances against them have been. To become so depraved at this late date as to lose respect for Jhe flag The Plan to Abolish Lincoln Hospital It is now beginning to dawn upon the minds of Negro leaders and Negro citizens of Durham, in general, that the so-called special study committee of the Health Planning Council for Central North Carolina, was designed for one and only one objective" in mind and that is the closing of Lin coln Hospital. Such an achievement, therefore, will result in the allocation of'evcVy last dime of the proposed sl4 ir.ilion being spent in the expansion of Watts Hospital only. The action of the committee, in including Lincoln Hospital in its study when it had given its word to the contrary, appears to us to be the kind of procedure that bears watdiing. This was disclosed emphatically at the meeting of the Health Planning Council this week when J. H. Wheel er, vice chairman of the Lincoln Hos pital Board and a member of the spe cial study committee, objected to con sideration of the report of the study The Vice President's Visit to Durham The ghost of Booker T Washington must have hovered over the throng that gathe-ed here last Saturday to hear the address delivered by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at the dedication program of the new home office building of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. The vice president praised race relations' in Durham and North Carolina but re minded his audience, composed of nu merous white leaders of business, in dustry, religion and civic affairs, as well as Negroes, that the state and the nation cannot build a sound and prosperous economy so long as the Negro segment of the population maintains a high percentage of unem ployed. He pointed out that the recent rise in the employment of Negroes had resulted in a better economy for all the people. ' It was Booker T. Washington who reminded southern whites over a half century ago that you cannot hold a An Enemy of When a thoroughly disgusted Negro woman, Julia Brown, denounced the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth as "an enemy of my people" last week, the famous pastor of Revelation Baptist Church in, Cincinnati called it quits. Mr. Shuttlesworth has announced he will resign his pastorate. His congre gation can hardly wait. Behind the resignation is a storv of the growing awareness of many Ne groes that they have been exploited by the very leaders who promised to lead them out of "exploitation." The Shuttlesworth case is a good illustra tion. For several months the congre gation has been aroused over their pastor's imperious attitude toward the church property, depositing church funds hither and yon in various insti tutions without the permission or con trol of the trustees. He refused to release the church records until sev eral hundred members of the congre gation brought civil suit, charging that he treated them as "illiterate slaves." But the money issue served only to bring to a head the problem de scribed by Mrs. Julia Brown. The Rev erend. who once served a prison term for moonshining. is not averse to doing a little moonlighting away from nis pulpit in Cincinnati. Although most famous for his work with Mar tin Luther King. Jr., he actually has had a more intimate association with Carl and Anne Bra den, a pair of iden tified Communists, and their propa ganda sheet of dubious title. The Sou- of this nation is carrying matters en tirely too far and will be opposed by every intelligent Negro in this coun try. Oh yes, we can unstand the re sentment that goes with the insults and abuses so often heaped upon Ne groes, especially in the deep South. We know something of the anguish that grows at the heart of a Negro when he has felt the bitter sting of discrimination. That is why for over 40 years we have waged in these col umns a relentless and uncompromising war against those who would stoop so low as to mistreat another because of his race, creed or the color of his skin. We say to N'egroes everywhere pro test, demonstrate and do everything within the bounds of law by opposing with all your might even- act of dis crimination but do so without hatred, malice or viciousriess. By so doing, you will show strength rather than weakness .courage rather than cow ardice and you will draw to your side the increasing multitude of others who believe in justice for all the people of this country without regard to race, creed or color. committee If and when the closing of Lincoln Hospital becomes a reality it is our hope that N T egro leaders of Durham will enter into the new plan with their eyes wide open. Unless they can have definite assurance of full equality fromthe top to the bottom of Watts Hospital, which includes officials, em ployes and the accommodation afford ed patiens, they should oppose now the abolishment of Lincoln Hospital with all their might. Frankly, we have little or no faith in the special committee of the Health Planning Council or any of its plans. If it will default in its word at this stage of the game it is certain that once Lincoln Hospital is abolished Ne groes will stand little or no chance as medical stuff members, employes, or patients at Watts and the other hos pitals now operating in the city and county. man in a ditch unless you stay in there with him. Although Washington preached his philosophy from one side of the South to the other southern whites continued to keep themselves at the bottom of the economic totem pole by holding Negroes in poverty until such men as Hubert Humphrey, and other liberal whites appeared on the scene to change, the condition. We think the Vice President's visit to North Carolina was well worth the cost. It should sound a new day of southern thinking on the matter of better employment opportunities for Negroes. Certainly the most stupid person should see the wisdom and the sound advise expressed all through Mr. Humphrey's speech that it is ut terly impossible to improve the lot of all the people so long as a large segment of the whole) is poverty stricken and thereiore unable to cart-N --its part of the economic load. My People thcrn Pntrioi. He is president of the Bradens' civil rights outfit, the Sou thern Conference Educational Fund. The SCEF is a division of the now defunct Southern Conference on Hu man Welfare, a group conceived, fi nanced, and organized by the Com munist Party in 1938. SCEF eventually became so notorious in the public mind that even Mrs. RoQf.evelt, one of its board members, felt that she was compromised by its imputation and had to resign. Besides the Bradens, the group has been a roost for such odd birds as James Dombrowski. Aubrey Williams, Howard Melish, and Bishop Love. Mrs. Brown, who worked as an un dercover agent for the FBI, has long believed that her race was being duped by such leaders as Mr. Shultlesworth in the civil rights movement. In 1962, she appeared as an expert witness be fore the House Committee on Unamer iean Activities: and since she emerged from her secret patriotic role she has become more and more vocal about the situation. She believes that the entire movement has been so heavily infiltrated by Communists and left wing extremists as to threaten the structure of a free society. Mr. Shuftlesworth said piously that "the dissidents in the church have been captured by the right wing." But if ordinary common decency is the meaning of that terrible accusation. Court Put Teeth In Law; Let s Use It The Editor The Carolina Times 438 E. Pettigrew Durham, North Carolina Dear Sir Since 1954 the City Board of Education has consistently act ed in ways which have sought circumvention of or only mini mal compliance with the law of the land as it applies to school desegregation. Indeed, since 1959 many thousands of dollars have been spent in litigation involving the Board. These dol lars, of course, represent taxes paid by the citizens of Durham and allocated to the Board through the County Commis sioners for the education of our children. It is not possible any long er to defend either a Board of Education or an educational system which perpetuates and encourages practices which are plainly contrary to the Consti tution and the laws of the land. Neither is it possible to justify the inexcusable waste -Frye Continued from front page for Saturday, May 28. A graduate of A. and T. Col- j ud « e court as a historic mile " lege, with highest honors, in stone the *t™Bßle of the the class of 1953, Frye received race 10 ac^'eve human dignity, his law training at the Univer- Many of them recalled, how srty of North Carolina, Chapel ever - that in "unties like Hill. While at UNC, he was a Prince Mwarda in Virginia member of the staff of the, hundreds of Negro children North Carolina Law Review''" and was awarded the Doctor of Law degree in 1959. He also studied at Syracuse University. Frye was admitted to the N. C. State Bar and Federal Court also in 1959, and operated a private law practice in Greens boro from 1959 through 1962. Following his appointment as assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle N.C. District in 1963, he held the position for two years, resigning to return to private law practice in 1965. During the past year he has also served as professor of law at the North Carolina Law School. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the ~.U. S. Air i Force, following his graduation at A. and T., Frye served a* an ammunitions officers in Japan and Korea and currently holds the rank of Captain is the Air Force Reserve, now serving as a Judge Advocate General Area Representative. A registered Democrat, Fry* is former chairman of Precinct Eight in Greensboro and is a member of the Young Demo crats Club. Social activities include an entertainment for the delegates at the Blair House by the Greek Letter Organizations and a dance at National Guard Ar mory sponsored by the Durahm Alumnae Chapter. Installation of new officer;- will take place at the closing banquet Saturday evening, fol lowing the address by Dr Woods. Local committee chairmen for the conference are Social Action Luncheon—Mrs Joche bed Locust and Miss Inez Cole : man; Banquet Mrs. Wanda Garrett and Mrs. Olivia Coles; Steering Committee—Miss Cla ra Allen and Mrs. Constance Allen, Durham Alumna* Presi dent; Publicity—Mrs. Mary L. Smith and Mrs Evelyn Drake Letter to the Editor of tax monies in efforts to evade and obstruct an orderly transition from two school systems based on race or color to one school system for all of the children of all of the peo ple. There is no way to calculate the cost to human personality and society that each day and year of continued resistance brings. We do know that thous ands of tax dollars have been spent, and that probably hun dreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds have been lost to the children and school sys tem of our city, because our school Board insists upon walk ing backwards into the future. Their recent decision to re ject Project Headstart is only one more instance of the trust. We have the right to expect public officials to act Board's denial of the public in the public interest; but this expectation is shattered by such callow disregard for dis- -Judges Continued from front page hailed the decision of the three- 3 'Hungry' But Okay By RALPH DIGHTON DOWNEY, Calif. AP> - On their ninth day crammed in a 6x9-foot capsule hung in a le thal, space-like vacuum, three men in longjohns are hungry "for the things you might ex pect;" but confident: 1. They'll finish their 14-day simulated flight to the moon and back in good shape. 2. They could endure their spacecraft environment four weeks without strain. 3. Fear of spacecraft punc ture by micrometeorites need not keep astronauts from relax ing in their underwear on long trips—there's plenty of time to get back into spacesuits The three Richard Erman, 33: John Moyles, 36: and Nor man Abell, 37 entered their mockup Apollo moonship March 29 to test the environmental con trol system ECS> designed for U.S. lunar missions later in this decade. Since then they have eaten only freeze-dried food, taken turns sleeping on astronaut couches and worked halfway through an inch-thick book of equipment-test procedures al most as exacting as a flight plan. They have survived two cabin decompressions, sustained on ly by their space suits. Air pres sure in the capsule, normally maintained at 27.000 feet alti tude, was allowed to drop—as if hit by a marble-sized bit of space dust—to an altitude of 110.000 feet. "Exposure to that altitude would of course have been fatal if they hadn't had time to get into their space suits," test di rector Bob Sheere said Wednes day. "But the system is designed to allow time, by releasing a high flow of oxygen to compen sate for the leak while the men suit up." The trio so far have noticed no ill effects. They began the experiment in space suits, but now wear only long underwear. advantaged children, the local economy, and a dozen other considerations. Desegregation is not the only issue: children are deprived of the benefit of funds especially earmarked for them by the Congress and, over the long haul, both Durham and the nation are deprived of salvaging a part of the popula tion, long oppressed, who could have contributed their fair share of educated manpower required to achieve community and national goals. The Board, the Commission ers, the City Council, the citi zenry someone must act, de cisively and immediately, to put—an end to this indefensi ble waste of human and fiscal resources. Sincerely yours, Harmon L. Smith President Joseph P. McKelpin Chairman, Committee on Educational Programs had been dealt a gross injus tice by the closing of schools, resulting in no educational ad vantages for Negro pupils. -Deltas Continued from front page taged teen-age boys and girls in South Carolina. Another feature of the pro gram will be a discussion of the concerns of today's college women. Mrs. Edythe Tweedy of Rocky Mount, is Director of Delta Sigma Theta's South Atlantic Region and Mrs. Constance G. Allen of Durham is chairman of the host committee. Other highlights of the con vention are a Literary Tea honoring Lena Home on Friday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the Washington Duke Ballroom and a Social Action Luncheon on Sat. from 12:15 to 2:30 p.m. -Opposes Continued from front page plan. He geared his agreement to the point that the commit tee had not gone very far be fore realizing it could not con sider Watts and leave Lincoln out of the planning. Wheeler stated, "we have every assur ance that Lincoln would not be regarded in the study." Said Wheeler further, "I thought we were dealing with people of integrity. When I Sive my word, 1 am expected to keep my word. You have not kept yours." He urged that the initial re oort not be considered and the committee meet again. Wheeler contended that the trustees of Lincoln and Watts met recent ly and agreed to a plan to bring to the council. John McMahon. council chair man pointed out that all mem bers of the committee had signed the report but Wheeler tiuickly retaliated with the -tatement that the report did not fairly reflect the under standings the committeemen had received in the meeting. Thr committee recommended •net the proposed hospital ioarl be composed of 5 mem bers each from Watts and Lin r oln board of trustees and fhe be named at large by the Durham County Board of Com nissioners Ou Published trtery Saturday at Durham* N. C. by United Publishers, toe. L. E AUSTIN, Publisher Second Clan Postage Paid at Dvhaa, N. C 27703 SUBSCRIPTION HATES |B.OO per year plus (19c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada aad to service men Oversea*; Foreign, $730 per year, Ste ele copy 13c. Principal Offiee Located at «M E. Pettigrew Street, Durhim, North Careiiaa J7702 To Be Equal By WHITNB* M. ZOCNQ JB. Another Hot (First •( Two Articles) npME SUMMER of 1964 was marred by the din of gunfire i X and rioting in the ghettos of come of our large*! northern cities. The lummer of 1986 was shattered by the explosion of pent-up range and frustration that wu Watts. Last month more violence came to the Watts area. Was this a harbinger of things to come? Will the summer of iQftft also go down In history as a time of V death and destruction; as • symbol of the ■ failure of the races to live together to " peace? I fervently pray that this does not come to pass, but there is every indication that K |the warnings signalled by previous eut r .-I bursts have not been properly understood K|j| by political and community leaders, and HMeven where there is some understanding, there is little sense of the urgency of the situation or willingness to take the MR. YOUNG necessary massive steps to alleviate condi tions. An example of this is the now-famous MoOone re port on the Watts riots of 1665, which takee on a new rele vance in light of last month's incident. The Same Tired Solutions The McCone commission was made up of the most dis tinguished citizens of Los Angeles under the leadership ot the former directorof the CIA. Although It called for a new "revolutionary attitude towards the problems of the city" and recognized the need for "costly programs" It offered the same tired solutions for these problems. Td like to list some of the points made In the report which strike me as being indicative of the gap in thinking between the Negre in the ghetto and the well-meaning but ineffective leader* who authored the report: •k The report ignores the bitterness and resentment of past abuses of police power and dees not comment on the role of the Chief of Police who made Inflammatory state ments on television at the height of the riots. He referred to Watts residents as "monkeys in a zoo" and said "we are on top and they are on the bottom." Other statements made clear to them that, in the eyes of the police they were caged animals. •k Only in passing does the report mention the politi cal atmosphere behind the rioting—the iiiept political feud ing which held up allocation of needed anti-poverty funds, or the overwhelming success of Proposition 14 at the previ ous election. This repealed California'* fair housing law, saying In effect, "Negroes must live In segregated hous ing." The Burden Of Adjustment it The report make* • big point of the unprtparedne* of Negro migrants from the South tor city living. There la no understanding that the burden ot adjustment to a strange way ot life Is also on the local authorities; lor Ml* ing, lor education, for housing, tor Jobs. if There is no mention of the brutal discrimination which led them to come to Los Angeles, the promised land that failed them. it The report says these migrants came to share la the "generosity of California's welfare program," ignoring the fact that the state has a one-year residency requirement These people didn't make the long Journey leaving behind their homes, families and friends, Just to get a paltry rells* check. They came for jobs in one ot the great Industrial centers of the nation. That they failed to get these jojbs la a tragedy; it Is even more of a tragedy that the commission thought so little of their effort to improve their lot that it slanders them in this way. To Suffer Wrongs Silently if The report condemns that summer's violent dem onstrations as provocative. Since these were orderly pro tests against intolerable conditions, It tells people to suffer wrongs silently. The real provocations were the series ot crimes against civil rights workers iu the South thet sum mer. if The report calls upon Negroes to "shoulder a full share of the responsibility for his own well-being" and calif upon Negro leaders to "exhort their followers to this end." Exhortation won't bring about this responsibility, only im mediate jobs and economic reform in Watts will. I could go on, but the point I am trying to make is that this report by civic and governmental leaders is so out ot touch with the thinking and concerns of the man In the ghetta and so given to substitution of rhetoric for action, that I fear for the future. Next week I will discuss what I think should be dooa to avert further tragedy. Dirksen Praises Weeklies Continued from front page "The clean and constructive journalism of our small local papers stands as a tribute to their excellent reporting and sense of responsible partnership in this government of the people. The local editor is a leader in his community, a man steeped in civic affairs and vitally interested in the church and community activities of his locality. "The local newspaper is the heart and brain of its community Its circulation provides the neigh borhood with a meaningful con cept of small group life which cannot be achieved by the dailies. The economic life of the commu nity pulses through the advertise ments and market reports; its so cial life through the personal and society notes; its intellectual life through the news and editorial columns. "but of most vital importance is the political life of the commu nity, which is viewed better through the small local newspa per than anywhere else except the polls themselves. It is through the local press that the citizen can keep informed on the activi ties of the minor, as well as major officials—constable and sheriff, selectman and councilor, alderman and assemblyman. It i. here that he can learn of neigh bors who believe, like himself, that the community needs more frequent garbage collection, or higher salaries for teachers, or stricter adherence to zoning regulations, or stringent economy and lower taxes. "Crusading, a rare and major enterprise for most big dailies, is often the constant breath of lifj for the small, local press. Any evil, any hazard, any inconven- ience, however great or small, is a proper object of attack. The community newspaper is usually characterized by the urge for per fection that makes it the constant and open enemy of everything that harms the community.
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