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-THE CAROLINA TMES _ SAT., NOVEMBER 1* 1988 2A The Defeat of the Hospital Bond Issue The truthfulness that "politics makes strange bedfellows" must not be overlooked in the election held in Durham on last Tuesday. Most as suredly the Hospital Bond Issue was by far the most decisive factor in bringing about what, on the surface, appeared to be a coalition composed of white and Negro voters. That Ne gro voters found themselves bed fellows with members and/or sup porters of an organization such as the White Citizens Council, is one of those rare incidents that only hap pens in politics We think though it is only fair and just to look at the differences in the reasons behind the objections to the Hospital Bond Issue, as evidenced by the predominantly Negro precincts and that of the White Citizens Coun- cil, before any conclusions are drawn on either. In the case of Negro voters, opposition to the bond issue stemmed solely from the flagrant ine quity in the allocation of funds to Watts and Lincoln as proposed by the the Hospital Citizens Committee and others Joined by the growing seg ment of fairminded white citizens of Durham who just could not bring themselves around to the point of seeing any fairness in such, the two The Plight of Negro Teachers From the November issue of the READER'S DIGEST comes a most en couraging piece written by Helen Ellsberg on how "Negro residents and police have cooperated to ease racial tensions and improve com munity relations in San Diego," Cali fornia. Those in other cities, where race relations are on edge, would do well to read the article, condensed from "TOGETHER," and follow the ex ample set by a city, located in a state that has had more than its share of racial conflicts within the past sev eral months. Says the article in part: "When there were threats of vio ence in the area last year, Ted Patrick, 35-year-old Negro presi dent of the Logan's Heights Busi nessmen's Association, gave up his public-relations business to con centrate on improving conditions. He went from door to door among the poorest families of the area to organize the mothers and fathers into what became known as the Volunteer Parents. Lt. William Kolender began a series of discussion meetings bet ween police and Logan Heights youths at police headquarters at which the boys poured out a tor rent of troubles. The Volunteer Parents and Logan Heights busi- A Fine Example of Interracial Cooperation Several months ago we wrote an editoral in the columns of this news paper on the "Diminishing Returns of Integration." We endeavored to point out in that editorial that with the acceptance of integration by whites in the fields of industry, edu cation, business, religion, etc., there looms before us the stark spectre of competition that must be met by Negroes in such fields if they are to survive not as Negro institutions per se but as individuals engaged or em ployed in such fields. In the July 23 issue of the CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, there appeared a most penetrating analysis by James C. Wallace, assistant Professor of Social Studies, North Carolina State Uni versity on "Teacher Education In North Carolina." The writer goes on to reveal the awesome plight now facing Negro educational institutions, as well as Negro teachers. The writer presents several table* of per centage scores supposedly to show the stark inability of even many of the best trained Negro teachers to I IT'S AMAZING! r T ' ? -» II nmM rw-g-*>c r* c— * COMPOUND *CURCF FC» AU $:( i PR/SSVS we*e AttCIEMT CHWMWIWMWae forces, combined to make a formi dable block against the bond issue as proposed. The third factor that contributed to the defeat of the bond issue wai that of the White Citizens Council, whose opposition was based solely on the ungodly, unchristian stupid idea that God in His rll wise creation of man found it necessary to produoe a "super-duper" human being and endowed him with the right not only to rule over others of His handiwork but to kick them around whenever and wherever he so desired. In spite of the aspersions, in nuendos and wild attacks made against Negro citizens of Durham by the White Citizens Council and other sources, Negro leaders here are aware of and will hold fast to the faith and respect for the growing segment of forthright white citizens of Durham. When the time comes and the pro posal is fair and just for all con cerned, Negro voters will politely and gladly join hands with them in helping to provide whatever funds are necessary for adequate hospital facilities for the people of Durham irrespective of race. ness groups sponsored a potluck dinner which drew 100 young adults whose evenings were usual ly spent on street corners. Hon ored guests were police officers and the district's councilman. When a survey by the Volunteer Parents revealed that nearly 1500 families in Logan Heights were without proper food and clothing all San Diego pitched in to see that every family had a Christmas. The police helped pick up and dis tribute the gifts. For the first time since anyone could remember, no one in Logan Heights went hun gry or without a gift. In return, the Negro community declared a "Police Appreciation Week." Volunteer Parents patrol the school grounds after hours and watch the meeting places of trou blemakers. In the first year of the organization, there have been no major disturbances in Logan Heights. While San Diego's racial problems are by no mean over, Mrs. Ells berg, who lives in Apline, Calif., writes "even the most confirmed racial cynic cannot ignore the clear evidence of improved community relations and the success of the juvenile program." meet the qualifications when faced with the required tests of examina tions. We think there is enough informa tion disclosed in Wallace's article to demand the immediate attention of the North Carolina Negro Teachers Association. In short, there lurks in our minds the belief that there now exists in North Carolina sinister and a most pernicious move, not only cut to the minimum the employment of Negro teachers but total elimination of them. Certainly if the Negro State Teach ers Association is worthy of the name it owes its qualified members pro tection from any and all unfair schemes to take from them their means of being employed by the state the same as other teachers. We think the matter should be explored and pursued to the bitterest and even if it means resort to the federal courts to render a final decision in the mat ter. -.• - ' / Viet Nam Restaurant Refused To Serve Negro Soldiers! SPIRITUAL INSIGHT BY REV. HAROLD ROLAND "Th«ir voice ha* foundod all ovor th« tirtti" Rob. 10:19. Potentially the voice of a loving, redeeming Savior has sounded universally in its call for spiritual healing. The re deemed and sent ones have gone among all peoples telling the glad tidings of salvation in Christ. And now with radios, TV's and orbiting sattelites available for the proclamation of the Word of God's redeem ing love, there is no excuse. There is no race, nation nor tribe who has not had some one to tell the story of God's saving word in Christ Jesus. Yes, a universal call has gone out for man, everywhere, in his lostness to return to God through Christ the Savior. "Their voice has sounded all over the earth." All have not heard the voice and turned to God for salva tion. But the voice has been heard among all peoples. In many places the proclaimers of the Good News have had a hard time as witnesses for Jesus. For almost a half cen tury now there have been studied, deliberate efforts to oppress and crush the tellers THE HOSPIiAL PROBLEM F.ditor Carolina Times Many Durham citizens, while unopposed to improved hospi tal facilities, nevertheless, look askance at putting all of the eggs in one basket. Instead of one big, unwieldy building—re model Watts and Lincoln, make additions to these hospitals that will bring them up to date, and build a new hospital out of the balance of the IS million dollars, in the Re search Triangle-Driver Avenue- Wellons Village area. Durham is internationally known as a famous medical center, but most of its hospi tals, Duke, Veterans, Watts and McPherson are all west of Mangum Street. In the last 20 -Wilkes Continued from front page had its counterparts among every ethnic group in America from the infancy of this na tion until the present time. It declares that the Negro deserves full citizenship rights no different from any other segment of the population de spite acts of the small minority in recent months and urges that these actiona are no justi fication for assuming that the Negro people are less deter mined to be rational and re sponsible than any other seg ment of the citizenry of the nation. It points out that candidates who happen to be Negroes are well-equipped, intelligent citi zens and are entitled to every consideration and opportunity to serve their dty, county, state and nation as any other ettlzes. God in His Sovereign Power Will Not Let Evil Forces Win of the Good News of Salvation in Jesus Christ. Just recently schools have been closed and deserted in places like China The going has been tough in recent years in Castro's Cuba. Russia has been only tolerant ly permissive of the ones who carry the Gospel of God's Sal vation. In these places of diffi culty we are reminded of the words of Jesus. "In the world ye shall have tribulations." The vicious hand of persecution would crush and stifle the voice of salvation and healing in Jesus. The call to salvation is still heard in trying times when Godless ideologies would be come the master of the world. These vicious Godless systems would win the mind and the soul of man. These evil forces failed in the past where they dared assert themselves. God Almighty in his Sovereign Pow er will not let these evil forces win the day. Again we must say in these trying times. "The just shall live by faith." Now we must say and believe "Righteousness exalteth a na tion but sin is a reproach to any people." Above the den of Letter to the Editor years there has been phenomi nal growth, east of Mangum Street, with Lincoln as its only hospital. Lincoln hospital, spawned by the generosity of the Dukes, has rendered great service to the community, while furnish ing many foreign doctors, as well as young doctors from Duke and other schools of medicine, intern-ship training. Its school of nursing is highly rated. But it needs aid in car ing for this explosive popula tion and business growth East of Mangum Street, which in clude Sears-Roebuck, the Bus Station, Few Gardens, Coman Lumber Co., W. L. Robinson Co., Mechanics and Farmers Bank, McDougald Terrace, Re search Triangle, Wellons Vil- -Progressive Continued from front page 1341 N. Kingshighwsy Blvd., Jan. 18-19 1967. The Rev. E. R. Williams U the host pastor to this Adjourned Seuion of the Progressive National Bap tist Convention. -Tenor Continued from front page singing of four songs by the Austrian composer Joseph Marx —"Maienblueten," "Nocturne," "Waldseligkeit," and Hat Dich die Liebe Beruert." Marx, a dinguished composer, critic, and teacher, is most widely known for his songs. Although they are- not performed exten sively hi America, they are regarded as constituting an important and highly individ ual contribution to song litera ture. conflict and confusion we must say, "To be carnally minded is death." We must continue to voice the Master's call to salvation even amid the trials and difficulties now encoun tered. Let us keep the call of sal vation in the hope that we are on the verge of achieving a great spiritual breakthrough for Christ. Men universally need Jesus. Thus we must con tinue to call men back to sal vation and healing in Christ. Violence has failed and is bankrupt. Science as a panacea has left us bewildered and dis illusioned. Communism's Uto pia has left us in the quag mire of bloodshed, confusion and conflict. Just take a long look about the world. Capital ism with man's sinful nature has fallen short of its ideal. What is our hope then? Christ is the remedy, Christ alone can heal the root cause of man's troubles, he saves man from his sins. The inescaple conclusion is that we must continue to call man with his evil, sinful ten dency back to God for heal ing in Christ Jesus. lage and N. C. College. The druggist have the right idea. They build the drug stores were the people are. Imagine, leaving Wellons Vil lage to go 10 miles to get a prescription filled, or to have someone to put a bandage on your knee. Let's spread-out where the people are. Appro priate eleven million dollars for Watts, and 4 million dollars for the new hospital and Lin coln hospital. Recognition of the great Research Triangle- Driver Avenue-Wellons Village area, would somewhat help to dispel the appearance, that somebody is trying to put all of the eggs in one basket. FRANK GEO. SOWELL -Session Continued from front page bership Committee of Harriet Tubman Branch YWCA, Dur ham. Music for this program will be furnished by the St. Paul choir. Mrs. T. P. Duhart, confer ence branch preaident, will pre side. -Clark Prexy Continued from front page ness and uncertainty," the speaker said. "Negroes are at the bottom of the economic ladder, and moreover, in the absence of creative and mas sive remedies . . . there is no evidence that change will be forthcoming in the near fu ture." The "new frontier" In race relations Involves new de rasnds for equality of access, Cutanea©** 5 Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AI»STIN. Publisher Second Class Postal Paid at Durham, N. C rrm SUBSCRIPTION RATES K5.00 per year plus (15c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to serrlc*- men Overseas; Foreign, $7.30 per year, Sld tie copy 15c. Principal Offiae Located at 430 E. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina 27703 as well as equality of oppor- op Joseph Goraei, presiding tunity. Henderson said. bishop of the Fourth Episco- Negroes have been given pal District, AM E Church, hope by the civil rights laws, Cleveland, Ohio, had been pr»- he emphasized, but unless tan- pared by a drafting committee gible results of those laws are of nine Negro church leaden. seen, the Negro masses are vulnerable to "an ill-conceived concept of 'Black Power" and other kinds of ideology which are the antithesis of what civil rights objectives are all about." -Black Power Continued from front page cago, the 250 representatives unanimously adopted the mani festo outlining several steps which must be taken if in their terms, "the civil rights strug gle is to succeed in the fu ture." The manifesto, read by Bish- To Be Equal By WHITNEY M. YOCNG J*. Riots In T LAST summer, like the two previous one», American cities were torn by riots in ghetto areas. Few cities were spared, and those only through luck. Why? Answers have come hot and heavy from all sides, but It is obvious that the riots were caused by long suppressed bit terness and frustration fostered by over-crowded slums, widespread unemployment, ineffective cooperation between the races, and the failure on the part of ghetto-dwellers to see any real immediate change In their bad living conditions. Until Americans realize this and do some thing about these conditions, they can look for rioting to become a permanent fixture of American summers, in spite of the efforts of responsible civil rights leaders urging restraint and condemning violence. That they don't realize It or are unwill ing to face the effort needed to change these conditions, is ob'-ious from the re- ■ H actions to the riots. We all know about MR YOUNG the so-called "backlash" in which long-hid den racist thoughts have become plain for all to see. An other response is to blame the riots on "outside agitators." People who talk this way sound very much like plantation bosses: "our Negroes are happy, it's those outside agitators coming in here and making trouble." Mayor Blamed Trained Agitators The mayor of Cleveland went so far as to back a grand Jury there which blamed riots in Hough on "trained agitators" and Communists. But police undercover agents said Com unists had no part in the riots and a study by sociologists concluded that lack of effective leadership and the unre sponsiveness to the needs of the Negro community was the real cause. The then Attorney-General, Nicholas deß. Katzenbach told the Senate that the real agitators were: "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness snd hopelessness, rat-infested housing and long-impacted cynicism." Anyone put In those conditions would think of violence. A young VISTA volunteer from a middle-class suburb now working and living in the South Bronx (NY) told a reporter how he felt on a sweltering dsy In his slum apart ment. "1 feel inside me how riots start. I Just had to get out Into the street, walking, six flights down, snd if a cop had said anything to me, it would have been bard not to start something." If the cycle of riotmg is to be broken, both govern ment and industry must move immediately to alleviate con ditions in the ghetto. These moves must be made before riots, not after them. Riots in Chicago resulted In better recreational facilities and riots In San Francisco resulted In Job openings. Had enlightened self-interest prevailed these concessions could have forestalled costly bloodshed. Needed: Real Effort To Change Nobody wants a riot The only ones who sre hurt by them are people in the ghetto themselves. It mskes no sense to allow terrible conditions to exists, watch them explode, and then oiffer token concessions. Yet this Is whst is hap pening. No city is making a effort to change the face of its ghettos by cresting Jobs, building better housing, and doing all the other things necessary to relieve tension and create a healthy atmosphere conducive to progress. h «***>*«. HARO KfItOCKS'THiNKS UP ANOTHER COURSE / Underlying the manifesto and the entire spirt of the conference was an appeal for a return to law and order in the civil rights struggle. As stated in the manifesto, Bishop Gomez reminded the represen- tatives that "As a race, we must not allow the failures of others to embitter our spirit*. Neither must we directly or indirectly turn to violence of any kind. Race riots, the des truction of life and property can add nothing to the con structive efforts to solve the remaining problems in our so ciety."
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