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-THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 19W 2A Opposing KKK Members for Public Office Inormation which appeared in the daily press on Tuesday, August 16, to the effect that J. Robert Jones, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, has stated that the membership of the Klan includes newspapermen and tele vision men of North CaVolina should surprise no sensible person of ► this state. If the truth is ever known we may discover that there are many members of Congress, the state legis latures and the holders of other na tional, state, county and city public offices who are likewise Klan mem bers. In spite of the membership drive, which Jones confirmed the Klan is now conducting in North Carolina, we are satisfied that the organization in this state, which ha> already been dubbed "Klanville USA," will only go and grow to the extent that it is supported by the mass of white citi zens of North Carolina. The time may yet come in North Carolina when liberal whites Catholics and Jews, who constitute the only white people not accepted into the Klan, will have to put their trust in a Negro or -Ne gro citizen, to he assured they are A Desperate GOP Effort A resolution which Kep. Albert Wat son. Republican of South Carolina, has stated he intends to introduce in Congress, calling lor immediate in vestigation of all civil rights groups "to determine the extent to which they are influenced by or dominated by sub versive elements," is by no means to be unex]>ected. Those who are familiar with the desperate efforts of the GOP to establish a |>ermanent foothold, in what has heretofore been known as the "Solid South" or the baliwick, of the Democratic Party, will not' be SOT'- prised at any move a southern GOP Congressman jmakes. While there may or may not be one or more civil rights organizations that have been infiltrated by the Com munist Party it is asinine for Watson to place the Southern Christian Lead ership Conference, the Southern Con ference Education Fund, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality +n suciv aoategory. All- 6>f the above named organizations can be vouched for by both white and Negro leaders of unquestioned reputation in this country and no amount of insinuations or attacks will lessen support 'for them. It will be remembered that the cry The Lincoln and Watts Hospital Case "Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good: so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." Psalm 37 The verdict of the Durham County Commissioners, calling for a sls mil lion bond election on November 8, for what has been so carefully and de signedly referred to as a means "to finance expansion and modernization of Watts and Lincoln hospitals, "has been handed down. Action of the com missioners, in specifying $13.9 million for Watts Hospital and oijjly sl.l mil lion for Lincoln Hospital delivers a most devastating blow at whatever vestige of faith intelligent Negroes of Durham might have had in the gov erning body of the county that a spirit of decency and fairplay would in the end prevail when its members were confronted with a question of such magnitude and involing such a basic and fundamental matter of right and wrong. This is the kind of action that pro duces a Watts, Chicago and other riot ing cities in this country. The action of the Durham County Commissioners is the kind that deliberately pulls the rug from under Negro leaders and renders them powerless to hold in check recalcitrant elements of the race when a crisis arises. In spite of the "clean bill of goods" given Lincoln Hospital and the "A" rating it has received year after year, certain well-known sources in Dur ham have now pretended to discover that everything is wrong with Lincoln Hospital and therefore it must be-al lowed only the crumbs that fall from the proverbial rich man's table. In short, there is a sinister and a delibe rate move on foot to close Lincoln Hospital so that even the crumbs it now gets will be fed to, the rich man's not dealing with a Klansman. The one and only answer Negro citizens have left in facing such a situation, especially those living in counties and cities where Klansmen are known or not known to be run ning for public office, is to register and vote in all elections. Along with the "deepfreeze" recently established by this newspaper into which we have promised to place the names of all known Klansmen, for future reference should the owners ever announce for public office, we would like to urge Negro citizens to begin now organiz ing register and vote campaigns for the election in November when the books for registration will again open. Negro leaders will likewise do well to establish contacts with liberal whites. Catholics and Jewish friends so that the right kind of coalition can be formed to oppose all Klansmen running for public office in this state. Unless this is done we may awaken unt morning to discover that a Klans man has been elected governor of North Carolina rfr to some othei important public office. of communist is one of the tech niques used by reactionary southern whites to undermine the influence and support of any and all civil rights or ganizations or individuals who oppose the status quo in the South. It is, therefore, most surprising that Wat son did not include the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col ored People in his attack. Again and again the NAACP has been charged by many southern whites, but to no avail, with being communistic or in fluenced bv communists. It sounds .-ather senseless and equal ly as stupid that with the established efficiency of the FBI to get at the bottom of any and all subversive moves against or within this nation that the danger signal, involving na tional security must now be left up to a lone GOP Congressmen from South Carolina. The action of Watson, therefore, plainly designed to corral white votes in South Carolina, is cer tain to drive away from the GOP many of the growing Negro vote, not only in South Carolina but all other southern states where it is certain to be an important factor in all future elections. dogs instead of Negro citizens Let there be no mistake about it, the sls million bond election will car ry on November 8. It will carry be cause Negroes are without the power or the resources to prevent it and their leaders are smart enough to let the opposing forces take the beating a guilty conscience is sure to admin ister to those who have designed such an affair and nasty plot to destroy an institution and beat to its knees a helpless minority. The bond issue will carry because the bully is bigger and stronger than his opponent and not be cause he is better. Bond issue or no bond issue, no sen sible Negro is going to believe that suddenly the interest of Watts Hos pital or any other white hospital, in the welfare or recovery of a Negro patient, will be equal to that received by white patients. For over 300 years, Negroes have been forced to wait at the back door, take what is left in inferior schools, houses, streets, em ployment and otherwise. It does not make sense at this late date to believe that they will so suddenly be removed from such a status at Watts Hospital. So, Negro leaders of Durham will knowingly grin and grin when com ing in contact with their counterparts and assume a yes, yes attitude when enagged in conversation with them. They will look though into the faces of their conscience-sickened opponents with the calmness that only a faith in the ultimate triumph of truth can give. "The eternal ages of God are her's," her's to finally weigh nasty little human beings in the balances and find them wanting It is not the going out of poll, but the coming in that determines the success of a voyage. —Henry Ward Beecher No one is always wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. —Thomas A. Edison THE ROOT CAUSE MUST BE REMOVED, TO END'LONG HOT SUMMERS .. ] k J!h •• vV : , ' fca£ / u - * %- I ■ #T ... SPIRITUAL INSIGHT "Could any on* spread Hi* News of Hi* Gospel without a commission to do so?" —Rom. 10:15. To tell the Good News of the Gospel one must be called and commissioned. The Gospel is the greatest story and the best News ever given to mankind. What is it that gives it that distinctiveness? Why is the Gospel so stangely unique? It is the Good News because it represents what God. the God of grace, has done about the lost and sinful con dition of mankind. The Good News is that God has moved in the beauty of His love and grace to save, rescue or deliver man from the enslavement of his sins. This is Good News. And we must be called and commissied to tell this Good News to mankind. There is a special call and commission for those who have the solemn responsibility of proclaiming this Good News. This person is usually called a minister or a priest. He is one specially called and set apart Editor Carolina Times APATHY A more correct heading is HATE DOES NOT- PAY, but since this letter will have little or no corrective effect on the haters, it is to point up salient facts of the predicament the community finds itself. The election on the swim ming pools is just over, and it is one more incident in our local society to prove that HATE and SPITE do not pay. It is one more incident to prove that hatred is blind and those who follow its machination are bound to reap its bitter fruit. Right cannot be destroyed. One may cause it to suffer a temporary defeat or cause it to disappear from the eyes of the public for a period, but It has its peculiar way of bounc ing back to the surface. A wise Jewish lawyer once put it this way: ... (or if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come nought: But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it: lest haply ye be found fighting against God. The issue of the swimming pools was based on right as we understand right both from our Christian concept and the constitutional legislature of our land. The Christian concept is not only held by those who are persecuted because of the color of their skin or designat ed race, but it is heralded most loudly by the persecutors and haters. It is ostentatiously defended by these very same men, yet they would rather close the swimming pools than to comply with their own Christian concept. Of course, compliance with that which is right means the transforming of Sunday theories into Monday realities. This distance may have been too great for those who hate or those who behave under motivation. Aren't we right back where -ve were two years ago? What was done Tuesday of this week ■vis all we asked two years ago. To Tell the News of Salvation You Must Have a Call from God to bear these glad tidings of salvation. God does the calling. The called one must know for himself that God has spoken to him to do this special, par ticular kind of %vork. Men help in the ordination but God the calling. And God does the seal ing of this commission with His Holy Spirit. The call to man to call men into a saving relation ship with Jesus comes from God and Heaven. So tell the News of salvation you must have a call and a commission from God. "Could anyone spread the News without a com mission to do so?" The answer is emphatically no. The called should be moti vated by a flaming passion to tell the Good News to lost hu man beings. One of the most regrettable sights is to see one who seemingly has lost this sense of a Divine call and com mission. It is very possible for us in these times and other times to lose this sense of the urgency of this call to tell the Good News. We can let red tape crowd this thing out. We Letter to the Edito What a tremendous price the community had to pay, and end up doing the same thing that was the initial request. Was it worth having a RECALL ELEC TION if we were going to end up doing the very same thing that the victimized men of the RECALL tried to do two years before? We now have gone fur ther than those men proposed. Theirs was on a compromised piecemeal basis. The reopening of the pools is without com promise and piecemeal. The swimming pool has been re opened on a desgregated basis. Then, what was the purpose of the RECALL ELECTION and the closing of the swimming pools other than a HATE and SPITE campaign? Oh there may have been monetary rea sons or political reasons and race was used mainly to create the emotion needed to carry out the election, nevertheless, he people suffered and the blot is on Statesville. However, we should not ab solve ourselves from all the blame. Hitlers and Hitlerite principles have always been the prey on apathy. If a peo ple of a community go to sleep, they will awake and find that they have consigned their pow er through apathy to those who throw away all scruples in or der to hold and force others to their will. The good people of the community or any com munitycannot sit idly by and see their powers whittled away to be transformed into Hate Machines. The minister is called a "do-gooder" if he attempts to practice the Gospel he preaches. This is but one of the Hitler tactics to seize con trol of a community, state, and nation. We must cry out for that which is right or other wise greater evil will befall us. A local newspaper had this to say: "It would be difficult to say at this point that the question has been setled per manently, It has been noted, since there was a well-orgarvir »\ effort to keep them closed. By REV. HAROLD ROLAND can get preoccupied and lost in organizational structure and lose this urgency of telling the Good News to lost sinners. The one called to tell the Good News of Salvation should inspire and inflame others, even the laity, to join in the telling of the Good News of salvation. This is one of the important emphasis in the lite rature reinterpreting the place of the laity in the larger, more comprehensive ministry of the church in these times. Evange listically the Church must real ize that it is not a one man job. The man called and com missioned must be the leader and teacher of the team dedi cated to the spread of the Good News of salvation. All lovers of lost souls must be harnessed in a fuller minis try of Christ's call for the sav ing of a lost world. May we all prayerfully and seriously rethink our call and commission to tell the Good News of Salvation in Jesus Christ. Observers again pointed out that a minimum of organized effort to keep the . pools closed would have Achieved success." This is the sad truth. Do not play this statement down. The message in it was intended for some one. Remember it was a newspaper two years ago which suggsted a RECALL. History has a strange way of repeating itself. Wilson W. Lee -McNeil Continued from front page ent $60,000 total. The loan limit was moved from S3OO to SI,OOO, five per cent dividends have been paid two consecutive years, life insurance provided on savings and loans at no ex tra cost to the members as a part of the expansion activities during the past three months. McNeill is believed to be the first Negro to serve on a chap ter board of directors in North Carolina. McNeill says that the NCTA Credit Union has a bright future. SIOO,OOO is our next goal to further expand our service." He further stated that "We are proud of the fact that to-date after lending an aggregate total in excess of SIOO,OOO during the past five years, only $3.40 has been charged off as uncollectible." The Credit Union was featur ed in the Raleigh News and Observer recently as a budding success story. The recently merged Ameri can Teachers Association elect ed McNeill as a trustee in July 1965 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. -St. Aug. Continued from -front page support. After his remarks the Committee went on record promising to raise five times as much for the College as it had been asked to raise. A special meeting will be held during the latter part of fT~ . I \ CkCaiSiib Cuws \ « (so«ssHnar *J 2 Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. J by United Publishers, Inc. y £ L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher i Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. C 27702 S SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year plus (15c tax in N, C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to service -5 men Overseas; Foreign, $7.30 per year, Sln i ?Ie copy 15c. S Principal Offiae Located at 436 E. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina 5 27702 September at Virginia Beach at which time, the Alumni will formally kick-off its drive for $50,000 Present at the meeting were Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, Act ing President; Oscar Peay, Alumni President; Purdie An ders, Executive Secretary; John D. Epps, Jr.; Peter Holden, N. Y. Chapter. Atty. Oliver Den ning. Maryland; Robert Brid ges, Raleigh Chapter; George L. Quiett, Durham Chapter; Mr. and Mrs. John Perry, Nor folk. Va.; Mrs. Frances Cut chins Gordon, Philadelphia, P. O Hand, Philadelphia; Furness J. Armstead, Charlotte, Atty. A. Melvin Miller. Alexandria, and Dr. Charles Mosee, Washington, D C. -King Continued from front page "good deal more sophisticated in how it rates the men in the forefront of the movement," Dr. King was on top by 87 per cent. This sample gave such re spected men as A. Philip Ran dolph and Whitney Young high er marks than the rank and file, 83 per cent to 35 per cent in the case of Randolph, and 70 per cent to 33 per cent in the case of Young. Newsweek said "it is quite clear that black power, however it resonates as a slo gan, has yet to explain itself adequately to the great masses of Negroes—something that its advocates realize all too well. In commenting on SCLC's campaign for open housing in Chicago, Newsweek said "and the stickest trouble spots of all—as Chicago's disorders at test—are likely to be the low er and lower-middle class white enclaves on the fringes of the spreading black ghettoes." -Suit Continued from front page southwest border. The Amite County district covers the en tire county while only south ern Pike County is covered by the South Pike district. The suits brought to 66 the number of school desegregation cases which the Department has filed or joined under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. -Names Continued from front page Johnson Judge McCree is a graduate of Fisk University and the Har vard University Law School. He was in private law practice in Detroit and a leader in Democratic Party affairs in Michigan when he was named to the U. S. District Court. His appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals is subject to Senate confirmation. Prior to 1960 there were no Negroes serving on the U. S District Court bench and the nnly major judicial post was held by Judge Williams Hastie, who was appointed to the Ap pellate Court by President Tru man. Today there are six Ne groes on the U. S. District Court and Thurgood Marshall is the first Negro to serve as Solicitor General of the United States. * CWIIII Don't Litter The Sidewalk Always Use The Trash Cans -Atwater Continued from front page organize Negro workers, put ting his job on the line for the benefit of his fellow work ers. Atwater, who has been a trustee of St. Mark AME Zion Church over 40 years, is 78 years of age. He is married to the former Miss Mattie Bolden. They live at 206 Moore St. -Letter Continued from front page worker reports for work. I do not believe that this office would employ Negroes to pro cess applications because this would upset the system of ex clusion. This office would be willing to employ well trained Negroes in air-conditioning but employ only Caucasians for on the job training in maintenance. Positions as receptionists, clerks, and secretaries are gen erally reserved for white work es except for Negro Ward Sec retaries who were first hired. 2-3 years ago after protests by the local CORE chapter. Quali fied Negroes with years of ex perience are frequently over looked when higher paying supervisory positions are open. The most intolerable and ex plosive situation exists present ly in our dietary department whose director does not con sider that any of his Negro "boys and girls" could ever be promoted to supervisory posi tions in the cafeteria or kit chen although many of them have more than a sufficient amount of education and ex perience performing the same or sirrtilar duties. A Negro food service worker, Mrs. Eloise Ad ams of Durham, was fired 2 weeks ago after eight years of service because she simply had the audacity to inquire about a merit raise and was then con sidered by her white supervi sors to be a "trouble maker." An investigation of this situa tion was requested and the heads of dietary reported poor performane, poor attitude, and unreliability on the part of the dismissed worker, whose dis missal was upheld by the personnel and directors office after an accumulation of the "facts." Mrs. Adams was not questioned; nor were her im mediate supervisor and other workers who report that she is very reliable and is an ex cellent worker. Fortunately for the Negro in North Carolina, his destiny is not entirely determined at the local level. A- complaint con cferning overt discrimination in employment at this hospital was filed last June, with the U. S. Dep. of Labor and an in vestigation will follow shortly. It is hoped that our hospital can be brought into compliance with the new law of the land. B. T. Elliott, Jr., M.D. Resident Pediatrics N. C. Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill, N. C. -Deepfreeze Continued from front page of them ever announce for pub lic office, they may be opposed by all progressive white and Negro citizens. The names of the informers will be kept in strict confi dence as originally promised
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