—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1966
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Joint Choral Effort Applauded
With the announcement in this
week's edition of The Carolina Times
concerning the combined choirs of St.
Joseph's A. M. E. and White Rock
Baptist Churches appearing in concelrt
on October 16, we are of the opinion
that the person or persons initiating
such an idea should be commended.
Having no intention to detract from
the musical interest, we feel obliged
to note that this is probably the first
such in Durham of this type,
and may possibly forecast some hope
ful trends toward future cooperation
anion gthe city's churches.
We salute Representative Charles L
Weltner of Georgia for withdrawing as
a nominee for Congress in his state
rather than vote for Lester G. Mad
dox. arch segregationist, for governor.
Greater integrity is seldom found
among seekers of political office in
these times. Representative Weltner's
withdrawal from the congressional
campaign may in the end be just the
thing needed to arouse respectable
white voters to the sad state of af
fairs now existing in Georgia, from a
political standpoint.
Said Representative Weltner: "To
day. the one man in our state who
exists as the even* symbol of violence
and oppression is the Democratic
nominee for the highest office in
Georgia. His entire public career is
directly contrary to my deepest con
victions and beliefs. And while I can
not violate my oath, neither can T vio
late my principles."
The Power of the Majority
An article appearing in Durham's
morning newspaper on October 6, to
the effect that "some 40 representa
tives of Durham's largest businesses
heard an appeal Wednesday night from
officials of Watts Hospital concern
ing the November 8 bond election,"
has probably set top officials of this
citv's major Negro business institu
tions back on their heels. It is likewise
plainlv evident that those who initiated
the meeting of the "40 representatives
of Durham's largest businesses," had
no intention of ihviting representatives
of Negro businesses of this city to
hear the appeal for support of the
bond issue in view of the fact that it
was held at Hope Country Gub
where no Negro has ever been known
to be welcome or seen, except in the
capacity of a servant.
With three of the state's largest
Negro business enterprises, N. C. Mu
tual Life Insurance Company, Me
chanics and Farmers Bank and Mutual
Savings and Loan Association, being
domiciled in Durham, and having as
sets totaling over SIOO million, it is
going to be hard for those who guide
the affairs of these institutions to un
derstand just how an appeal to such
a large number of representatives of
Durham's largest businesses could
overlook them* entirely, when the pass
ing of a sls million bond issue in Dur
ham is being discussed.
Add to the payrolls of the above
three institutions that of N. C. College
and it is not hard for one to realize
just what a gigantic contribution Ne
gro business institutions of Durham
are making toward the economy of
this city and county, to say nothing
about the amount paid in taxes by the
30,000 or more Negro citizens of Dur
ham.
Things Tot Should bow
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The conception of this program, fea
turing these two outstanding musical
groups, is indicative of the type of
progressive attitudes long needed for
the promotion of brotherhood among
all church members. To all of the
participants, we extend warm congrat
ulations for the time sacrificed, and a
special "thanks" for those responsible
for the idea.
Knowing these two organizations to
be representative of the finest of the
city's church choirs, assurance of an
evening of enjoyable listening is cer
tain.
Political Integrity
These are strong words to conic
iVom a candidate for public office. We
are of the opinion that such a jolt
was not only needed for Georgia but
the remainder of the southern states
and probably the entire nation. Such a
high sense of character as that ex
hibited by Representative Weltner is
good medicine fov the time in which
we live.
As it now stands the political situa
tion in Georgia is in such a muddle
that the outcome of the election on
November 8 cannot be safely deter
mined. The withdrawal of Representa
tive Weltner may even result in many
respectable white voters staying away
from the polls or voting for the
republican candidate for governor.
Should thev resort to the latter and
the Negro vote goes republican the up
set of the century in Georgia may be
the result.
We say in all seriousness that there
is something basically wrong with any
man or group of men when they can
permit their integrity to sink so low
as to plot, plan or scheme to brow
beat into submission, either physically
or politically, a minority group simply
because they have the power to do so.
We would, therefore, like to direct
onevand only one question at those in
Durham who are so determined to
ram the hospital bond issue down the
throats of Durham's Negro citizens
on November 8. What would you do
if the circumstances, as re'ating to
Watts and Lincoln hospitals, were re
versed ?
We say again as we said in our
editorial of August 20, entitled, "The
Lincoln and Watts Hospital Case,'
that the sls million bond issue will
carrv on November 8. It will carry
because Negroes are without the pow
er or the resources to prevent it." We
think, however, that with the passing
of the bond issue there will also pass
the confidence, the faith and the re
spect that N'egro leaders have hereto
fore had in and for their white coun
terparts in Durham.
You ask us why do Negroes riot in
Chicago, Atlanta, New York and else
where in these United States? They
do so because for 300 years, they have
again and again been forced to drink
the bitter cup of disappointment, mis
treatment, brutality, hatred and simi
lar situations as that which will take
place in Durham on November 8, when
via nefarious schemes and devices, the
majority will ram down the throats
of the minority group in this city the
sls million bond issue, not because
they are better but because they are
bigger and have the power to do so.
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SPIRITUAL INSIGHT B * REV HAROLD ROLAND
B Confession of Sins Will Open
The Gateway to Salvation
Confession that leads to salva
tion is upn the lips.
Man, in facing and confessing
his sins, will find salavation.
Confession, is one of the
important keys to man's spirit
ual life. Recognition and con
fession of sins will open wide
the gateway to man's salvation.
And throughout our Christian
life -A-e must continue to face
and confess our sins as a cor
rective to our evil thoughts
and deeds. With our best we
say and do things unpleasing
in the sight of the High and
the Holy One. Thus initially
and continually must we con
fess our sins before God to
maintain the highest level of
spiritual achievement.
Man's salvation depends upon
his confession of sin. We do be
come weary in bearing that
heavy burden of sin. It is then
that we need to come before
God and confess our sins so
that we may have the burden
of sin lifted through God's
pardon and forgiveness. Why
bear that burden? God invites
Need For Copyright Revision
Congress has the opportunity and the responsibility
this session to do an important job for America's play
wrights, artists and composers by passing Bill H. R. 4347 to
revise our copyright laws. The United States Government
can give great impetus to those talented men and women
who create our nation's music, plays and art.
Our current copyright law was last revised in the "horse
and buggy" era of 1909. The tremendous developments in the
electronic communications field have made the present
copyright law archaic.
The provisions of H. R. 4347 would update our national
copyright act and correct many inequities which work a
hardship on the men and women who are creating American
culture. Protection for the creator's work would be in
creased to a term of his life plus fifty years. This would bring
the law in line with the practice in most of the civilized coun
tries of the Western World. Many of our great composers
have unfortunately outlived the term of copyright of some
of their master works. Ironically enough, they still collect
royalties from some foreign countries.
Bill H. R. 4347 would also provide royalty payments to the
holders of copyrights which are performed in juke boxes.
It is obviously unfair to our nation's composers that their
works which provide the entertainment sold by these juke
boxes are not given the performance protection that every
other media of entertainment must pay. It is grossly unfair
that the coin-operated music industry doing a $500,000,000 a
year business does not have to pay a performance fee under
the old 1909 Copyright Law.
The Government of the United States has shown great
concern for the culture of our nation which, after all, con
veys our national image throughout the world. The United
States Congress has the opportunity to make a practical
contribution in this direction by immediate passage of Bill
H. R. 4347.
THIS WEEK IN NEGRO HISTORY
Om hundred and forty
five years ago (1821) on
Friday of thli week the
founder of the Under
ground Railroad waa born.
He waa William Still, who
died In 1902.
OCTOBKI I Timothy
Tfcomaa Fortune (1865-
1828) widely known Jour
nalist waa born. He found
ed the New York Age.
OCTOBER 4—The Initi
al publication of the Ne
gro History Bulletin ap
peared In 1987.
OCTOBER 8 Catarina
Jarboro, celebrated Inter
national aoprano, appeared
at the Academy of Music
In Brooklyn, N. Y., In 193®.
OCTOBER •—The first
you through Jesus Christ His
Son, our Savior, to have that
burden of sin lifted. In con
fessing our sins the burden is
lifted and we can go on our
way rejoicing in the God of
our salvatilon. And then we
can say with the Psalmist, "And
he has become our salvation."
0 what a Messing it is to con
fess our sins and then go out
rejoicing in the God of our
salvation.
One of the important steps
in the healing that an alcoholic
finds in the spiritual program
of Alcoholic Anonymous is that
he confess his sins before God
and man. In this form of sick
ness they realize they have
committed many offenses
against family, neighbor and
friends. Thus one of the twelve
steps in spiritual renewal or
recovery is the confession of
sin. Many would find peace and
healing if we would only be
honest and confess our sins.
This is the meaning of the old
saying: "Honest confession is
good for the soul." We all
appearance of the interna
tionally famous Fisk Jubi
lee Singer* was in 1871 un
der the direction of George
L. White.
OCTOBER 7—Juan La
tino, Spanish Negro poet,
wrote a Latin poem In 1871
In celebration of the Battle
of Lobanto.
OCTOBER 8 —Anthony
Bowen (1809-1871), teach
er who organized the first
YMCA for Negroes in
Washington, D. C., In 1858,
was born.
OCTOBER 9 Charles
Blssette, noted Negro
French author, wa» given
his freedom in 1830 and
waa granted a penilon and
a lump turn for his confis
cated property.
stand in need of this spiritual
operation which we call con
fession. We need to bring our
sins and give them an airing
before God sothat He can for
give us. Then we will find the
matchless peace of God.
There have been people who
have nursed that inner burden
of unforgiven sin. And it re
mains unforgiven for we have
not confessed that sin. Why
rarry such a burden? Why sac
rifice the joys of your spiritual
health by nurturing an uncon
fessed sin? If we will confess,
God is faithful to forgive and
cleanse us from all sin and
unrighteousness. Let us then
confess our sins that we may
find greater spiritual happiness
and contentment. So with our
confession and God's forgive
ness we can say: "There Is noth-,
ing between my soul and the
Savior."
Do you need this spiritual
operation of confession in your
soul? If so make haste and do
it today.
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V/ By Mary Whitman
Almost any home can supply an
artist.
If the house has string, old
newspapers, carrots, food color
ing or hand lotion, you have the
makings for art.
That's the astonishing but sound
advice in a new set of books on
creative painting. The books, along
with more conventional art sup
plies, will soon be in racks at
local varietV stores, drugstores
and supermsftkets.
How do yoiruse everyday house
hold objects?
They supplement paints and
chalks and crayons to give un
usual effects.
Hand lotion mixed with food
coloring can be a "fingerpaint"
for a child. He can make designs
on glossy paper in the back yard.
A water-filled sand pail is good
for hand washing. Or if he is con
fined to indoor work and neat
ness he can "print" with a carrot
or potato in which a design is cut.
Newspaper-and-string art also
pleases children. A lion or tiger
shape can be cut from newsprint,
pasted on white paper. Then
frayed string is dipped in poster
paint to make jungle foliage.
For chalk drawings, a stencil
can be cut first. The stencil, per
haps a bird or a tree, is put on
white paper. Colored chalk is
rubbed around the edges with the
flat side of the chalk. Then the
stencil is moved and rubbed with
a new color. Bright designs can
overlap. An adult can spfay the
finished drawing lightly with hair
spray and the chalk won't rub off.
"Today there are approximately
fifteen million amateur artists in
the country," points out president
James Lyle of Whitman Publish
ing Company of Racine, Wis., a
leading producer of activity items.
"Many are adults. But youngsters
take naturally to art if the rules
are free and easy."
To aid the art upsurge, hun
dreds of stores will soon be set
ting up creative art centers.
But wherever yon are if you
run out of supplies, there's al
ways the kitchen.
NORTH AMERICANS
Of every 1,000 people in the
world today, only 65 live on
the North American continent,
the Catholic Digest points out.
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To Be Equal
By WHITNEY M. XOCNQ J*.
Operation Survival
IT IS GRATIFYING, even tM a lapse of three yeari, t®
find an Important proposal I made In 1993 again re
ceive nation-wide discussion.
In 1963, and again in 1964, in speeches, magazine arti
cles, interviews, and in my book, To Be Equal, I called for
a Domestic Marshall Plan. This was a proposal for a mas
sive governmental and private attack on the causes of pover-
Ity and discrimination through immediate
action to bring first-class education, hous
ing, and employment to Negro citizena.
The reasoning behind such a special effort
Is that the Negro received "preferential
treatment" in his 300 years In
first in bondage, then in second class citi
zenship—and that it time to right past
wrongs.
Now Dr. Martin Luther King and
Senator Jacob Javits have both called for
a Domestic Marshall Plan. 1 sincerely
MR YOUNG hope that the addition of their voices to
mine will engender new interest in the original proposal.
Racial tensions are too high, and the problems of poverty
too pressing, for anything less than a national effort, a Do
mestic Marshall Plan, well-financed, and with top priority.
.Another Major Proposal
Now another major proiposal has evolved from the Na
tional Urban League's annual conference. It is called Op-
I eration Urban Survival, and I hope that it too, can get wide
support.
Briefly, it is a plan lor coordinated action to keep our
cities from becoming vast racial ghettos of Negro poor. In
creased demands for social services and a shrinking tax
base caused by the middle class immigration to segregated
suburbs, place the very existence of cities as we know them
in danger.
Operation Urban Survival calls for a massive program
of building in the ghetto . It suggests that every large city
with a significant ghetto population needs to construct of
fice buildings, industrial sites, commercial buildings, cul
tural centers and the like, in ghetto areas. Only in this way
can meaningful communications between whites and Negroes
come about. The ghetto, and this is fast coming to mean
the central city, suffers from a tragic lack of communication
between the races. Unless white people can come to the
ghetto—to work, to concerts, for a variety of reasons—this
gap will widen.
The ghetto's isolation from the rest of the metropolitan
area must be ended if urban civilization is to survive and
grow. Such a building program would put the ghetto back
into the city; make it a living part of the city, a symbol of
urban vitality and strength, not a showcase of weakness and
brutality.
Renewed Vitality And Life
Along with such building, there must be massive con
struction of integrated low and middle income housing, and
supportive social services—training c,enters, schools, recrea
tional facilities. For the city itself, such a program would
mean renewed vitality and life; for the ghetto, it would be
a visible sign of acceptance and hope for a better future.
In New York, the major candidates for governor havs
responded to community pressure by supporting construc
tion of a state office building in Harlem. The enthusiastic
response of the community shows how important this would
be for Harlem, an area w#iich has no major structures of
this kind. It is fikely that the proposed building will attract
other developments and upgrade the area, just as similar
large scale projects have improved other areas. Such build
ing, accompanied by expanded housing construction and
massive social services, could transform Harlem and make
it a national showcase for Operation Urban Survival.
I spoke with a young lad in Philadelphia recently. He
came to see me at our convention there. He pointed to the
beautiful Museum of Art which stands like a Greek temple
at the head of an impressive boulevard, and then he pointed
to the handsome Free Library towering over a charming
fountain, and he said to me, "We don't have a museum or
• library in my neighborhood, we've got nothing—absolute
ly nothing."
Nothing but «habby streets of despair and hopelessness,
•n environment which stifles young and depresses the old.
Operation Urban Survival would bring these buildings of
hope into the slums; it would penetrate the iron curtain of
despair which rings the ghetto. It is absolutely essential for
the survival of a creative urban civilisation. America can
not abandon its cities to despair. It needs an Operation Ur
ban Survival—now.
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