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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1968
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A Growing Suspicion of the FBI
Hie growing feeling of many Ne
groes in this country that the recent
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., was the result of a vicious
conspiracy on the part of higher-ups,
rather than the vile act of one man,
must be faced forthright and with
great concern by all citizens interest
ed in the welfare of this country. In
support of the suspicion there also
looms in the picture the $1 million
which the assassin is reported to have
received for the murder. Certainly
such a sizeable sum has not or is not
available from just any ordinary
*■ source.
Add to the above the failure on
the part of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to apprehend; the slay
er, or to announce that he has been
apprehended, after over two months
of intensive efforts to bring him to
justice, and one is compelled to ad
mit that there is at least some justi
fication for the growing suspicion
among Negroes as to the integrity
of the FBI, in the case of the slay
ing of Dr. Martin Luther King, if
not otherwise
The customary readiness or deli
berate speed of the FBI in solving
the nation's most difficult
Reverence For the House of God
You will need to read the account
of the recent dynamiting of a syna
gogue in Meridian, Mississippi to
realize jfost how low in the scales of
human, degredatiaji some human be
ings can sink. It is not very hard to
understand why a vicious dog will
attack a person entering his owners
yard or house, likewise it is not too
hard to understand why a rattlesnake
would sink its poisonous fangs into
the foot, ankle or leg of a human
being who might by chance to tread
upon him Dogs, snakes and other
lower animals are not made in the
image of God Almighty and, there
fore, are with out the love for others
that was breathed into the soul of
mankind when God created him in
His own image.
Lest we forget, there are human
dogs and there are human snakes.
It 30 happens, however, that such
persbns do not have to be on guard
duty in a home or stepped on in some
secluded spot before they sink their
teeth on fanra into an object of their*
fiendish lWfred.
The white person or
persons who Waited the synagogue
in Meridian, Mississippi were lower
than a vicious dog or rattlesnake in
that as human beings God Almighty
A Significant Victory
The victory won by J. C. "Skeepie"
Scarborough, 111 in the Run-off Pri
mary held here Saturday, June 1,
was most significant from two an
gle&. It was significant 4ft' the first
place in that it had the unqualified
support of white labor as well as
black labor. It was significant from
a second standpoint in that it
brought together the unqualified
and enthusiastic support of all seg
ments of the Negro citizens of Dur
ham.
It can be safely said that active in
the Run-off election Saturday, in
so far as Negro voters are con
cerned, were the aged, the young peo
ple, both in and out of school, the
man in the street and the profes
sionals In short, the Durham Negro
voters deserve a salute for the united
manner in which they turned out in
support of "Skeepie" Scarborough,
who without a doubt is one of Dur
ham's finest and most worthy young
men.
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Let it also be said that white labor
deserves a salute for the "Skeepie"
Scarborough victory in that its lead
ers had the courage to throw their
official support behind a Negro can
didate for which they knew were cer-
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A SEMI-riVWE
crimes and misdemeanors also looms
high and mighty on the horizon when
it is placed beside the failure of the
FBI in the Martin Luther King slay
ing or th§ ability of the perpetrator
to escape apprehension.
That there is widespread and a
growing suspicion, both at home and
abroad, that if the racial identity of
the person or persons, involved in
the above mentioned tragedy were
reversed, they would have been be
hind bars long ago, is also another
issue that must be faced in the case
with great concern by all citizens of
this oounrty who believe in equal
justice irrespective of race, creed or
color. It must now be readily under
stood that the failure of this coun
try to bring to justice the slayer of
slayers of Dr. King will have an im
pact on the image of America among
other nations of the world that only
time can determine the results.
Likewise, the billion or more of yel
low, brown and black peoples of the
world await America's answer to the
King assassination which now has
assumed the proportion of one of the
most awesome tragedies that has
befallen mankind within the past 2,
000 years.
had breathed into them the breath
of life. His life, which thunders eter
nally in the soul of every human
being that he is his brother's keeper.
Thu3, instead of lesponding to the
high calling of the Eternal and Great
God, to love one another, he or they
embarked on the dastardly deed of
bombing, not a dance hall, a liquor
still ,or a bawdy house but a House
of God.
You will probably want to know
now just how much lower in the
scales of degredation a human being
can sink. We say in all humility be it
Jewish, Caucasion or Negro, that any
building that has been dedicated to
the worship of God who made all
mankind should be regarded with
the uttermost sanctity by every man
or woman, who has not sunk to the
depths of human depravity.
So, the dastardly deed of the perPT
son or persons who bombed the syna""
gogue in Meridian can probably best
be summed up in the words of Rabbi
Milton Schlager when he declared,
"The explosion didn't happen to me
it happened to the town." We think,
however, it happened to the souls of
the human wretches who perpetrated
the foul and dirty act.
tain to be criticized and suffer repri
sals from certain sources within their
own race.
As it now stands, without the oc
currence of a miracle in the" Novem
ber election, the Durham County
Commissioners Board will have two
Negro members. As in the case of the
two Negro m'embers on the Durham
City Council, both of the Negro mem
bers of the Board of County Com
missioners, if elected, are well quali
fied from every standpoint necessary
to serve on the Board in the very
highest manner, and to the best in
terest of all the citizens of Durham
County.
This newspaper feels that the
demonstration of cooperation mani
fested in the Primary Saturday, June
1, sets a fine example for Negroes
in other cities and counties of the
state where too often a lack of co
operation or the clash of personali
ties has cost them representation in
both city and county public offices.
So again we point to the solidarity
and cooperation exhibited in the Run
off Primary in Durham on June 1,
and say to those of the race in other
cities and counties of the state, "Go
and do thou likewise."
1 r * Missing "Link" In The Black Revolution
?AC TtOH IS EL OQIMHCZ;
WKEytS OF THE HNQRMir
MX MOOE LEABNED
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Is Violence in the Black Ghettos
A Mere Token of Things to Come?
The riots that have taken
place In the black ghettos of
this country are a drop in the
bucket of violence that will
spill over if white America
continues to regard them ex
clusively as senseless, lawless
acts.
'Out is the view expressed
in "The White Problem in
America," an article in the
June-July issue of Natural His
tory, a magazine published by
The American Museum of Na
tural History.
The co-authors of the arti
cle are Dr. Colin M. Tumbull,
Associate Curator of African
Ethnology at the Museum and
author of five books on Africa,
and Joseph A. Towles, who
has studied and done field
work in Uganda, and has been
Dr. Turnbull's research assist
ant.
"The problem," write the
authors, "is rooted in the slave
system. . .from which whites
derived a consensus of atti
tudes about the Negro. .And
long after the system itself was
destroyed, values originating
within it continued to be the
guidelines that defined the at
titudes of white Americans."
What this meant for the
Negro, they continue, was that '
his manhood was all but taken
away from him. . ."the fact
that slaves were owned and
sold as (arm livestock (boys
were sold by the inch) were
advertised as such, and were
used for breeding should be
enough to indicate the kind
of battle the Negro must have
had to retain his identity as a
human being."
With this background, what
is the (Unction of the present
violence, the authors ask
"What does the looter think
hr is doing when he loots a
(tore? What is he trying to
achieve? Is he really risking
being shot dead by police in
order to get an armful of cheap
hosiery?"
Theae acts appear to be
meaningless and stupid, the
authors write, but while they
may be thoughtless, they are
not stupid. "The Negro youth
who runs from a burning store
holding a child's doll is clutch
ing far more than fifteen dol
lars' worth of merchandise: he
is clutching a symbol of all
that he is deprived of in this
anything but equal world."
The equality which Negroes
want, Dr. Tumbull and Mr.
Towles suggest, is not so much
the equality of economic op
portunity pr the equality of
being liked by whites. Rather,
they believe, "if we accept that
the vioteitee is symbolic of a«i'
assertion of masculinity or of
manhood, then what the Ne
gro wants is to be accepted as a
man not necessarily good or
necessarily bad but, as a man,
equal." r
Feelings of violence, the au
thors point out, can be chan
neled in several directions. In
Africa, they write, violence is
often formalized in ritual acts
of rebellion which include des
truction of property and serve
as a safety waive to prevent
more extensive warfare.
The non-violence of Dr,
King and the Africanization of
many Negro Americans are
peaceful ways of expressing op
position to the whites, the au
thors say, but the danger is
that as the goal of identity and
equality comes closer, many
will redouble their efforts and
militancy, leading to more vio
lence.
With regard to the riots that
have taken place in recent
months and years, the authors
warn that violence so far ex
hibited is a mere token of the
potential held by Negro Ame
ricans.
"If we treat these outbreaks
of violence merely as lawless
acts and try to suppress them
as lawless acta should be sup
pressed," they write, "we miss
the whole Import of the situa
tion, and far more dangerously,
we block up a vital safety
valve. . .By treating sporadic
violence as an actual rebellion
and by stamping it out with
more violence, we merely ta
eniae the potentiality of a
real rebellion."
- The authoia conclude that
if, aa they believe, the violence
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so far has not been organized
or due primarily to slum con
ditions, then "the worst erup
tion we have seen to date is
no more than a tiny trickle of
escaping steam. We are all,
black and white alike, sitting
on top of an unbelievable in
ferno.
tfc^UIZMEC
•• • •
Dr. Quizmee, our information spe
cialist, is hsppj to answer his read
ers': his weekly column.
AH responses are verified by Funk
& Wagnalls Standard Reference
Encyclopedia.
David S. Asks about a proud tra
' dition: "How
did our Marine
Corps gel its
The Corps goes
back before the
Revolutionary
War. It evolved
I from two battal
ions authorized
U in 1775 by the
Continental Congress.
Brian G. seems to be a little
tongue-in-cheek when he writes:
"Where do we get the expres
sion 'chattering magpie'?"
Magpies are noisy birds belong
ing to the crow family. Their rasp
ing call sounds like "cack, cack",
milted with a gabble and some
whistling notes. We call gabbling
people "chattering magpies" be
cause their speech is tike the birds'
irritating sound. v
Moviegoer Susan S. wonders:
"How do they film ships in a
storm, or cities being destroyed
by volcanoes and earthquakes?"
Although producers occasionally
use old newsreel clips of storm
tossed ships, they generally rely on
special effects. Toy-sized boats are
blown around in a small tank by
wind machines. Miniatures are also
used to 6how towns being destroyed.
If you are the first to submit a
question to Dr. Quizraee, in care of
this newspaper, (the writer of this
column to be sole judge), you will
receive'free the full 25 volume set
of Funk & Wagnalls Standard Ref
erence Encyclopedia.
"What are the odd-looking lel
t«TH on the widen of Kuxnian air
craft?" ask* K. M., a Euro|*-an
traveler.
Those letters arc from the Cyril
lic alphabet, an ancient system at
tributed to the Apostle Cyril. It con
tains 48 characters, compared to our
alphabet's 26.
Movie (an Tony C. a»ks: "How
iIM movie* gel Ihrir atari T
Peter Mark Rog.t first saw the
possibility of making pictures move
in 1824. In 1872. Lelaml Stanford,
in settling a wager, set up 24 cam
eras along a horse-racing track and
produced a kind of film strip.
Thomas Edison improved the pro
cess by using a single strip of film
rather than separate plates.
HEW YORK - The l?st book
written by the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., will be-pub
lished June 26.
To Be Equal
| ■ By WHITNEY M. YOUNG, J*. j
Who's Getting
MANY OF THE plan* for ending poverty and putting peo
ple to work rebuilding our decaying cities call for
government subsidies. These would be either outright
grants, or tax breaks to motivate companies and individual!
to take on aocially useful projects.
From the howls that have gone up'from
■ critics you would think nothing has ever
been subsidized before. Some even say that
the tax structure has to be "protected" from
rebates given for anti-poverty programs.
Don't they know it is too late to "protect"
it? It is already riddled with special inter
est loopholes.
The fact of the matter is that sub
sidies are as Amer.can as the flag. I don't
Mr l now , °f ,nyon * who is well-to-do who
Mr. Young . doesn t benefit in some wav fr nm .
Just look at the Mississippi Delta wher#> .w
croppers and tenant farmers are literally t*
rt M,d rssj? ~
Kot fofthP v W o° poverty program in that county
& r.rr?"
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Guoranteed Annual Income
linn in irf last tw ° years alone . cotton farmef-s got $1 8 bil
' wh" TnSect U iT. rt t- But ( th !f « - e «t to farm owners
wno, «n effect got a guaranteed annual income for not Brow
ing cotton. I'm not against this welfare program for weTl-
Zl a :tZT 1 iU#t W " nt 10 ~ U «*** t0 the
( bas ' c P ur Poee of subsides is to encourage the de
velopment of economically useful projects For example
f ' S , C ril ered . a ,/ 00d ,hing ° T the U ». to have a large
mn th S ? S ,, a . disposal. So the goverment subsidizes
l*»le think"  bU i U to CaTry f ° rei?n trade Some
people think a supersonic plane would be a good thing. So
if I 'L B «. Ve * nme °!. subsidlzes th e private companies building
It to the tune of two or three billion dollars.
The average middle-class American is heavily subsidiz-
Jnterest on hi s mortgage and his local property taxes
are deductible on his federal tax. But when these sums are
included in the rent poor people pay in the slums, they can't
deduct >t. Mortgages themselves, are ofter backed by feder
,.Bu®rantees Commuter railroads are often x heavily sub
sidized, as are the highways suburbanites need.
Many Americans climbed into middle class by virtue
of subsides like the Gil Bill, which enabled them to go to col
lege. And white middle-class citizens are often favored in
property charges. A recent study in Boston showed that
homes in affluent areas are assessed at only a third of their
real value, while homes in the Roxbury ghetto are assessed
at 75 percent of their true value.
Business Subsidized
Business is subsidized to purchase new machines. Such
investments are eligible for a seven percent tax credit. - ■
Ihi all for this. But if we subsidize middle-class home
owners, expanding businesses, and farm 'corporations who
are paid not to grow crops, why can't we also subsidize the
poor, who need it most? 1 V
We ought to subsidize industry for building homes and
plants in the ghetto, and we ought to subsidize training costs
for companies who hire the unemployed as well as living --
costs for trainees and students.
Subsides work because they encourage money and ef
fort togo intothe subsidized areas. They are form of in
vestment. Let's invest as much in people as we invest in
machines. Let's subsidize industry to tackle poverty and
bad housing, the way we subsidize them to build ship® and
planes. The nation can onlj( benefit from it.
TWO mUTESVL
ytm THE BIBLE
»Y CORNIUUf t. (TAM Nil. 'f I
««IAN mil IOCIITY f \
CMICAOO, IUMOM «OMI F
DON'T TELL HIM A THING
Many years ago the writer's
father, then a city missionary, re
ceived a telephone call from a
prominent clergyman
"Peter," said the clergyman, "I've
got a young man out in the outer
office who seems to be in great dis
tress. He sa>s he feels he's so great
a sinner that he's overstepped the
line and God won't forgive him.
Now you've had a lot of expedience 1
with such people. What shall I tell I
him?'' ,
"Don't tell him a thing; I'll be
right over," said tlad. and he left
immediately to deal with the young
man himself.
Dad knew very well what was
the matter with this young lad. The
Holy Spirit had convicted him of
his sin (John lfi:8) . The lad had
come to see himself as he really was
—as God saw him. and sees any un
saved person, no matter how reli
gious.
No person ever comes to see his
need of a Savior until he has lirst
come to see himself as a condcmmcd
BELIEVERS
Our Lord's appearance 10 Saul of
Tarsus (later called Paul) on the
road to Damascus, changed the piti
less persecutor in a moment into the
docile, yes the devoted follower of
the Christ he had so bitterly hated.
This transformation took place
not only because he had now seen
the risen, ascended Christ: it was
caused also by what he had Irnvnrri
from Christ. From heaven the lord
had revealed to Paul the glory of
His finished work of redemption
and had sent him forth to proclaim
"the gospel of the grace of Cod"
(Acts 20:24)«
This is seen in the closing words
of the apostle's first recorded ser
mon. delivered at the synagogue at
Antioch in Pisidia. After mention
ing the death and resurrection of
Christ, the apostle said:
Be it known therefore unto you,
inen and brethren, that THROUGH
THIS MAN IS PREACHED UNTO
St. Louis.-Until his death,
Anthony V. Tsches, 82. had
given no outward Indication of
his wealth. Ills will revealed
the retired electrician and
bachelor left an eatate valued
at 11.437.490.
sinner before God. And it is onh
when we come to see ourselves as
we are in the sight of a holy God
that there is hope for salvation.
1 he self-righteous do not see their
need of a Savior. What would He
save them from: What have thev
done that is so wrong? This is the
way their reasoning goes.
It is only when we begin to ap
preciate the holiness and righteous
ness of God that it dawns upon us
that our condition is hopeless with
out a Savior.
Strange, is it not. so many people
have pictures of our Lord crowned
with thorns or hanging on a cross,
vet do not really know Him as a
Savior, Ihfir own Savior.
But when we have been com icted
of our sin and our hopeless condi
tion before God. we are ready to
take in the words spoken In Paid
to the trembling jailor at Philippi:
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shall be saved" (Acts l(i:
SI).
JUSTIFIED
YOU THE FORGIVENESS OF
SINS:
"AND BY HIM ALL THAT BF.
1.1 EVE ARE JUSTIFIED FROM
ALL THINGS. FROM WHICH YF.
COULD NOT BE'JUSTIFIED bY
THE LAW OF MOSES" (Acts
13:58.39).
Paul never changed this message,
but kept emphasizing it wherever
IK,went as well as in his writings.
He saw in this revelation of truth
the answer to man's condemnation
for breaking God's holy law. Thus
he wrote to the Romans:
. . By the law is the knowledge
of sin.
"But now the rightcousnea of
God without the law is mani
fested."
"We declare . Christ's right
eousness: that God might be just
ami the juMificr of him which be
"eveth in Jcm is" (Rom. 3:20.21.26).
Sandwich. 111-David E.
Oraf was recently honored by
President Johnson as 1068
National Teacher of the Year.
Ortf. a teacher for 30 years,
was praised tor bis devotion to
teaching and work with the
retarded." ■