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--THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1966 2A A Deepfreeze for KKK Members The Carolina Times proposes this week the immediate establishment of a DEEPFREEZE into which the names of all members of the Ku Klux Klan can be placed for future reference. In the establishment of such it is our purpose to safeguard not only the welfare of the Negro citizens but to aid in safeguarding the future of our own country against those who would use the activities of the Klan to pro mote distrust in America and com munism among the newly established nations of the world. There are probably many known members of the Ku Klux Klan, espe cially among the leaders, who will sometime in the future aspire to public office of one kind or other. It shall, therefore, be our purpose to place the names of all known Klan members in deepfreeze now so that if and when such persons ever seek election to pub lic or ap|K>intive office of any sort they can be opposed at the ballot box or otherwise by all forthright citizens of both races. Likewise, there an- probably many known members of the Klan already holding public offices in North Caro lina. We are, therefore, of the opinion that much good for the welfare of all citizens can be achieved for America as a whole, as well as Negroes, if the A Devastating Blow to the Klan All good citizens of North Carolina as well as Durham will be indebted for a long time to come for the re lentless fight being waged against the Ku Klux Klan by Durham's lead ing daily newspaper, the DURHAM MORNING HERALD. In an editorial in its issue of August 2 entitled, "Klan Demonstrates Its Meaning," the HERALD rose to the pinacle of journalistic heights and delivered a mo®t terrific blow at the Klan. Said the editorial: If there is room for argument over the meaning of "black pow er," there is no doubt about the "white power" term tossed into the latest Ku Klux Klan rally'at Raleigh. Por the second time in recent weeks, the Klan's goon squad has hustled people away from public property where klan&men chose to set up shop. And thus quite crude ly and obviously, the Klan demon strated what it means by "white power." The Klan's imperial chaplain was talking through his pointed hat, as usual, when he claimed that North Carolina has been changed from "a moderate state to Klans vllle, U.5.A.," in the last two years. But the clear point of rallies like the ones in Raleigh is that such is the Klan's aim. What's more, let the Klan come anywhere near ful filling that aim and the bully boys The Irony Should Amuse No One Congress is inspiring a round of smug I-told-you-sos here in the South. When, first, Bull Connor's police in Alabama and, then, Sheriff Clark's men in Mississippi played the anti-Negro heavies to the civil rights movement on television, the result was instant legisla tion in 1964 and 1965. Now the scene has moved North. White mobs are the an tagonists to the key issue (open hous ing) of this year's civil rights bill. The only item that stirs clear congres sional interest in the proposed 1966 civil rights act is an anti-riot amendment. The rest of the bill will come out of Con gress as a pale shadow of its original self, if it comes out at all. The switch is lost on no one. And, alas, the irony should amuse no one, whatever his views on the merits of the 1966 proposals. For we are now looking st the hard core of our national racial problems. And the embarrassed tendency toward inac tion in Congress bespeaks a national paralysis that invites the menacing po larization of racial problems between black power extremists and racial xeno phobes collected in groups like the "States Rights Party." There is no time for the luxury of I- Discontent Often Is Exploited There should be little surprise and even leu disbelief of the Cleveland Grand Jury report which cites black nationalist and Communist youth leaders as the inciters at the Hough riots last month. Each time the Jury identified a leader in the precipitation of the violence, the indi vidual fitted into either of those two cate gories- The riot in Hough in mid-July was follow ed by widespread fire bombing, looting and vandalism in Cleveland. Four persons died from gunshot wounds received during the violence. The jury reports the outbreak was "or ganised, precipitated and exploited by a relatively small group of trained and dis ciplined professionals at this business." the violence. names of all such persons are likewise placed in deepfreeze so that if and when they conie up tor re-election thev can be opposed by all good citi zens of both tace>. The law of North Carolina plainly states that; "No per>on or persons over 16 years of age. shall while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to con ceal the identity of the wearer, enter, be or appear upon any lane, walkway, alley, street, road, highway or other public place in the state." "No person or persons shall in the state, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter, be or ap pear upon or within the public prop erty of any municipality, or county of the state, >r of the state of North Car olina. In keeping with such laws of the state we urge each reader of the Car olina Times to forward to this news paper immediately the names of all known Klan members so that the same may be placed in deepfreeze for future reference. It is our solemn pledge that the source of such information will now. henceforth and forever be kept in strict confidence. of the Klan "Security Guard" will no longer be satisfied with simply chasing Negro children and college students off a sleepy square in Raleigh. Given the Klan's historic pen chant for fouling any region which grants its acceptance, the loathe someness of this organization can't be emphasized too much. There is a risk that it will capitalize on fears generated by riots and tu mult elsewhere to strengthen the weak but extensive organization work already done in North Caro lina. But let no decent person be mis lead by the Klan's demagoguery or the meaningless fact that it has wangled a corporate charter usu ally reserved for more estimable organizations. The only organiza tion in North Carolina that has private organized squads which assume the right to chase people off the grounds of the State Capitol, a Raleigh public square, or a side walk is the Ku Klux Klan. Our concern over the ferment of social change in this country must not be turned into tolerapce for such an organization and the clear menace of its racial power theories For the Klan is not so much an organization as a sickness, which all men of good will must see is not allowed to spread across this state. told-you-so chortling. It is not a plus for our society that the national Congress' capacity for action and innovation stops when racial problems are no longer nar rowly regional. A society in ferment can not be soothed by having a key instru ment of national expression, such as the Congress, thus imply it is checkmated by conditions. The irony of this situation can be bit ter for all men by reenforcing the ten dency to do nothing in areas like our own where the problems are obscured for the moment and by leaving action up to extremists operating outside of es tablished institutions in areas whers the problems are all too obvious. So we may snicker while Congress ig nores televised scenes from Chicago that would have produced instant action if they had originated in Birmingham. We may even laugh out loud as Northern congressmen paraphrase the words of a hundred Southern mayors in attributing trouble to "outside agitators." But the fact remains that all of this amounts to an admission that Congress can't or won't meet our national racial problems head on this year. 1 We should never ignore what the history of communism clearly shows—that a small group of Communists has the ability to turn a noisy demonstration into a riot or revolt and to shape the disturbance to their goals. A few Communists, bound by their fierce discipline, can use the cover of a mob to inflict severe damage or death, creatine even more discontent and violence. We should work to remove the blight of slums from our cities. We should work to encourage and educate people who have aspirations for a better life. We should work to instill in all people an awareness of civic responsibility which must be met if our country is to survive. Durham Morning Herald Legislating Bias .. Who Shall Be Allowed To Discriminate?! ■ V SPIRITUAL INSIGHT "IwHwa d»*ir« it for tfiair Rom. 10:1 The supreme, passionate de sire of the church, ministers and Christians should be for the saving of lost souls. Here we have simply stated the chief function of the Christian church. Do we, generally, have this great, overpowering desire for the salvation of lost souls. Or have we lost this urgent concern for the lost souls of men? We must take a new look at ourselves in relation to sal vation as the chief mission of the church. Have we become preoccupiel in organizational red tape, and consequently, have lost sight of this Christ given priority. The final order of Christ himself was for us to oroclaim the Gospel, the good news, to the countless number of lost souls. Salvation or heal ing for the sin-sick souls around us must be the supreme desire of the church and its ministry. We in the church must give first place to first things. This is what the holy writer is try ing to say to us. The church must tell lost men what God has done for their salvation— God gave His Son to reclaim -Cigarettes Continued from page X seniority provisions dividing employees into nine different job categories. If Negroes leave the blend ing and services department, which attorneys describe as being "one step above sweep ing," they lose seniority, hence they are confined to the same positions. The Legal Defense Fund suit followed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title VTC of the 1966 Civil Rights Act. -Taps Continued from page 1 Association of Educators are: The purpose of the Doctoral (1) to foster interest in public education: (2) to stimulate in terest in research and in the publication of research arti cles; (3) to provide a medium of cooperation and participa tion for its members; (4) to af ford opportunities for exchange of ideas in scholarly research among its members; and (5) to work in behalf of education in general Membership in the or ganization includes the leading American and foreign colleges and universities A member of the department of education at Saint Paul's College. Lawrenceville, Va . Dr Jenkins maintains membership In numerous educational and professional organizations Her Biographical data is listed in Who's Who of American Worn, Who's Who of American Worn., cation, and in other national and international publications She is currently serving as a guest professor in the summer sessions in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at the Agricultural and Technical College, Greensboro God Calls Every Redeemed Soul Back to the Task of Soul-saving and redeem lost men. Thus we have set for clearly the urgency of the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our times. This proclamation of God's re leeming love in Christ is the business of the Church. If the church fails, this most impor tant job will be left undone. No other institution has been given this task. The School is unfit to do the job. The home can help but the home is un orepared to do the job. Busi ness is concerend about the production, distribuption or consumption of goods and serv ices. So business, with its great genius in the realm of eco nomics will be unable to do the job. The Church and its ministry must carry out the job as given by Christ the Sa vior. Thus the church must have a flaming passion for saving lost souls. Let us disengage ourselves from the complexities of ac cumulated red tape to be about our Christ-oradined task of sav ing lost souls. If we fail in the salvation of souls the world is lost. Man so prone to sin needs the salvation offered in the gos pel of Jesus Christ. Individual -Alpha Continued from page 1 ton University (St. Lx>uis); C. H , Wesley, president-emeritus Central State College, Presi dent: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, past general president and historian, and Robert P. Daniel, presi dent, Virginia State College. The theme of the convention is "Individual Preparation for Group Responsibility: Laws Alone Are Not Enough." Activities to satisfy every preference will spice the con vention There will be a golf tourna ment, a tennis tourney and a bowling tournament. In addition, an impressive array of social events including a moonlight cruise on the famed S. S. Admiral are planned for fhe delegates with a record number of receptions and special events. -Palmer Continued from page 1 Human Rights. As the National Committee of Eductors for Human Rightf carefully scrutinizes the pro gress made in the past, it has set out to make a thorough study of areas which have been left untouched, with the deter mination that much more can he accomplished through this committee. Palmer is believed to be the first of his race to chair thia National organization. In hia acceptance statement, Palmer said, "The challenge of as sisting educators whose Human Rights have been unfairly treated, regardless of race, creed, or color, is a challenge which I welcome. The time has come, that, if educators in a democracy are to receive their due respect aa professionals, a self check from within the ranks must be vigorously im plemented We have established By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Christians who know the joy of salvation in Christ must tell the good news to lost souls. Every soul is precious in the sight of God. God in love has come to redeem lost souls. God in the rich abundance of his love came in His Son Jesus Christ primarily to redeem lost souls. The ornate building is all right but God is expecting us to save lost souls. The increasing budget may be meaningless if we fail to save these lost souls. We, and we alone, are given the noble iask of saving lost souls. We need *o rediscover the passionate de sire for lost souls. Heaven rejoices, says Jesus, when one soul is saved. Angels oause in joy to join in singing when one soul repents and turns from sin. A soul is saved and God smiles, a soul is healed and made whole and the Angels break forth into a joyous song. T ,et us get back to our chief business of saving lost souls so that Heaven and earth will ring with joy and peace. God calls the Church, the ministry and every redeemed soul back to our God-given task of saving lost souls. philosophies, agreed upon goals, set standards and pro vided guidelines. Now, it be comes the task of the National Committee of Educators for Hu man Rights to serve as a cata lyst for our great nation to in sure that our educational sys te m implements it* philoso phies, goals, standards and guidelines." -Lawyers Continued from page 1 ney General of Alabama, Sar gent Shriver, John Doar, Assist ant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Justice Dept., and Detroit Congressman John Conyers headed the speaker*. Flowers, who is probably the most liberal elected white of ficial in the south, captivated a luncheon session with a 45- minute talk that brought him a a standing ovation. In it he traced his early dealings with Negroes in which he admitted to prejudice, and then told of his reversal on the racial ques tion which has led him to the conviction that the "Negroes fight for equality is a just one which he has dedicated himself to working for." Much of the time was given to criminal and civil seminars that were conducted by legal experts in the field. At the an nual banquet Federal Judge William H Hastie of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals was the featured speaker. -Drivers Continued from page 1 oral automobile safety legisla tion adopted so far by the would prove only "half effective" unless federal driv er and road violation standards were included. _ The bar's national convention attracted more than 2,900 law yer's from all parts of the na tion despite the airplane strike. Otf Car§it|a (Bmee gSQEßkte* 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 $5.00 per year plus (15c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to service men Overseas; Foreign, S7JO per year. Sin tie copy 15c. Principal Office Located at 436 E. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina 27702 To Be Equal Br WHITNEY M. TOCNQ J*. Role Of Business In Slums AMERICAN business has a well-earned reputation So* efficiency and ability to turn a profit out of the most unlikely enterprise. It is also beginning to realize that with wealth comes responsibility and many companies are doing well in opening up expanded opportunities for Negre workers. But industry has a long way to go yet before K fully lives up to its social responsibilities. Ideally, American » business would like to make a profit and i' perform a social service at the same time. ' (Such an opportunity exists in rehabilitating alum housing. JHf- At a time when business finds that the ■-$ billions it has pumped into foreign venture* ' are slow in earning a fair return aa start-up costs and the costs of entering a new m»** et abroad eat into earnings, many com* MB panies might look with profit at the hou*. MR. YOUNG ing their own back yarda. Dilapidated Buildings Every city in the nation has its share of dilapidated buildings, decayed with age and neglect, which houae the poorest people in the city who cannot afford better. Often these slums house Negroes who can afford better but are cut off from the open market by discrimination in the sal* or rental of housing. New York City alone has more than 330,000 apartments in buildings which were erected before 1901 and another 825,000 apartments almost that are ob solete. ° . "Hie nationwide market tor rehabilitating theee sub standard structures could run to over S3O billion. This 1* an enormoua market, one which few companies can afford not to enter. One major company has already done solus well publicized project. ....... The U. S. Gypsum Company bought several buildings on East 10f2nd street in New York's East Harlem. Using re fined construction techniques, they stripped the building down to its outer walls and then rebuilt the interior—clean, modern apartments. When one building was finished, they moved on to the next, thus avoiding large-scale disruption of the neighborhood. Three-fourths of the new apartment# were rented to the tenants who lived there before. Tenants Get More For Money Of course rents went up, but the tenants wer certainly getting more for their SBO than they were for S4O. The new owners also hired a project manager who made it clear that repairs would be made and that the buildinga would not b# allowed to lapse into their original states. This concern was transmitted to the tenants who take great pride in their new homes, thus proving that it is neglect by slum land lords that breeds neglect on the part of tenants. The com pany expects to turn an 8 percent profit on the program, and the benefit to the city is that at least one alum block ia on the upgrade. Similar projects run by non-profit groups backed by federal mortgage insurance are also under way. One such, on 115 th street in Harlem helped exiplode the myth that such rehabilitation projejeta are useless because slum ten ants w iU destroy the new improvements. After eight months of occupancy they are as fresh as the day they were first occupied. , __ When landlords demonstrate concern for their proper ty and provide tenants with the services for which they pay rent, tenants will keep buildings in their originsl state. It is when people pay hard earned dollars for rat infested dwellings that despair reigns and they no longer care about anything other than sheer survival. Bishop Stewart Makes Blistering Attack on Feebleness of Church NEW BERN Bishop W. A. Stewart, A. M. E. Zion Church, made a blistering attack on the feebleness of the Church in correcting the evils that beset the world. 'The Church must have redemptive involvement in all phases of human endea vor," he said, as he addressed a capacity audience at the open ing of the new Clinton Chapel Church Sunday. The prelate lashed out at the Ku Klux Klan. Without nam ing the extreme group, he ad monished church people that they should be vocal when acts of violence are committed. "We must speak out when mobs pil lage and plunder, intimidate and incite, and even bomb churches" related the bishop. He got down to singling out the Ku Klux Klan when he said that we must demand a more vigorous repudiation of the Ku Klux Klan by Gov. Dan Moore. Bishop Stewart let it be known that he felt that the governor's feeble repudiation vas only fodder to fan fire oj hate and violence which the "hooded club" had ignited in North Carolina. The high churchman pointed out that deceit was perhaps the most treachous weapon known to mankind. He charged that it thrived upon dishonesty He said church people should substitute britlance for de celt and give out a ray of hope for a better life through a more brilliant display of in terest in human life. The speaker was highly criti cal of thoae who preached a "God is Dead" philosophy fend charged that man had pat too small a premium oa life. Ha warned ministers that they should preach a courageous gospel. One that would move the Ku Klux Klan to know that God is on the throne; —Preach until Governor Moore became conscious of his duty to all citizens, regardless of color— Preach until white men recog nized that black men were their brothers and live like wise Preach until hate and jealousy disappeared. He ended by saying that the world was misguided and tired. He felt that men were walking in space while people on earth were left to do as they pleased, without regard for the righta of others. -NAACP Continued from page 1 Charlotte's major white-collar employers and distribute it through churches, clubs, and other meeting places in the Negro community. Alexander also said, "We can talk about combating poverty all we want to but let's face It, the fundamental baals is for the poor to have decent joba and get decent salaries." The information bureau will liat job qualifications as wall as the name of the contact at each business. Special emphasis will be given to encouragin! Negroes to take dril service examinations.
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