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2A I—THEl —THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1968 This newspaper refuses to give its support or backing: to the dissenting groups that have recently stalked out of meetings of the major civil rights organizations in this country. For a majority of them we say, "good rid dance." The Carolina Times will not give its support to any person or group of persons advocating a resort to violence as a means of solving the black man's problems in this country or elsewhere. For nearly 50 years now we have waged a relentless battle against ev ery injustice suffered by the race. We would have all understand that we do not intend to give one inch of ground until every Negro in this country has achieved his full rights. Those who would resort to violence to solve the Negro's problem are without any foundation for their con tention that the solution can be found in guns, knives and other weapons. We repeat that we believe in the Biblical truth that "they who fight with the sword will perish with the sword." We call upon every Negro of sound judgement in this country to throw Southern Negro Support tor HHH Word that Vice-president Hubert H. Humphrey, in his bid for the presi dency, has come to the parting of the way with President Johnson on the matter of the United States con tinuing the Vietnamese war, will be received by Negro supporters of HHH with much enthusiasm throughout the South. It will be remembered that it was the Negro vote that tipped the scales just enough to save North Carolina from having a Republican governor in 1964. With the increased voting power of the Negroes since 1964, it is a certainty that the Negro vote will play an important role in the election to be held in November of this year. Negr.o voters of North Carolina have not forgotten the many civil rights stands and battles fought by HHH over the past 20 years. How ever, his recent leaning in the direc tion of pulling this country out of the Vietnamese war if he becomes presi Highway Deaths Create Tragic Problem Automobile accidents claimed 52,200 lives and injured 4,200,000 persons in 1967, according to the annual booklet of highway accident statistics from The Travelers Insurance Com panies. Statistics in the booklet were compiled from records of motor ve hicle departments throughout the country. These figures show a decrease of some 300 deaths and 200,000 injuries from the 1966 figures. However, "the satisfaction this gives must be quali fied," said Sterling T. Tooker, Trav elers president. ". . . it will require many more years of consistent better ment before we can claim any gen uine progress toward the conquest of a stubborn and tragic problem." "Could we dare to hope that this one year's reduction in street and highway fatalities is the fruit of the efforts of agencies of the Federal IT'S AMAZING! -FTEVI ' ■ r ■ IKTTO -RUTRTAO so FINE TUOT 9 I OJK W3UMO Moot : DURIMGSPRING .SEA SCALLOPS CAUGHT , tr» NEW EWIUWD TRAWL6M 'REOU6MTLW ndOO MM Max CONTAIN SMALL HAKE , H TO 3 INCHES LO*»G WWCHNO *NO CM W ntN T Pish PER SCALLOP wwmiHMuauM! * „ V/HSU CStoPS C&S Poo*. /ev fabmhrs Hftwa * P>G? Fa gr ON , Ijk ItMLT ™ E BECAUSI IT "Good Riddance" his support to that segment of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People and other civil rights organizations that believe in and intend to practice law and order. We call upon our ministers to use their influence from their pulpits in admonishing those of our race that the intelligent segment of the race does not intend to resort to bloodshed as a means of solving the race problem in this country. We call upon those in other positions of leadership to use their influence to let it be (known that they endorse un equivocably, the stand we have taken. It is our honest belief that the greatest weapon now in reach of the Negro in this country is ballots and not bullets. We challenge those who stalked out of the meeting in New York to organize and complete a massive Negro register and vote campaign in this country. By so do ing they will have resorted to the use of the most powerful and effective weapon it is possible for the Negro to obtain in the quest of his rights as a citizen. dent will add enthusiasm to their support. Returnees from Vietnam have told of the horrors, untold suf fering and the futility of continuing a war that apparently cannot be won, and generally speaking, Negroes of the South feel that the U. S. should get out of Vietnam. Thus any can didate for the presidency, who is an arch advocate of continuing the Viet namese war, is generally looked on with disfavor by them. We predict the 1968 election will see the greatest number of Negro voters casting their ballots since Re construction. As a result, the vast southern Negro vote may be just enough to tip the scales for a Demo cratic victory, with a majority of the Negro votes going to HHH. In the meantime, we would again urge that all stops be pulled out by southern Negroes in an all-out register and vote campaign from now until the election on November 5. government, the individual states, private industry and the many indi vidual groups devoted to the promo tion of greater safety?" Mr. Tooker asked. "If so," he continued, "we must urge them to even greater ef fort and to give them our earnest, active support. "After all, the deaths of more than 52,000 people and the injury of more than 4,000,000 others in one year is small cause for rejoicing, even though it represents some improvement over another year. Comparisons are odious unless they afford some ultimate bet terment of the human condition," he added. "We are traveling a long road fraught with many hazards," Mr. Tooker said. "Only caution MI the part of every traveler will bring him and others on the road safely to the next stage of our journey." } p - 1 1 Unbelievable 'Dilemma' W nmiHG E HOR£ jbWi jj p; "New Set of Civil Rights Needed" Senator Eugene McCarthy Tells North Carolinians By John B. Justice "We need a new set .of civil rights for all Americans," says Senator Eugene McCarthy, can didate for the Democratic pre sidential nomination. Speaking in Raleigh to a crowd of 6,500, the candidate said every American citizen has the right to: -a decent job; —a good education, "not just for the most gifted, but for the least gifted as well;" —health protection; " —a decent house, "not in a ghetto, but in a genuine com munity." A moderate number of Ne groes stood in the crowd out side the Sir Walter Hotel Thurs day as Sen. McCarthy said, "We need not suffer from ra cial conflict, and our cities need not deteriorate. "All of our problems are . subject to thought and plan ning, and can be solved. These problems are not beyond our control." The underdog candidate gave his views on such issues as race and poverty, but he continued to hammer away at the Johnson-Humphrey Ad ministration's Vietnam policy: "None of these problems can be solved unless we turn away from war," said the Min nesota Senator. "Each time there is a cut back because of Vietnam, the ftinds me taken away from our moat pressing needs." McCarthy's visit to North Carolina was intended to rally popular support and give the Senator a chance to talk with some members of North Caro lina's defection to the Demo cratic Party's national conven tion In Chicago next month. The 131-man delegation is be haved to be leaning heavily toward Vice-President Hum phrey. Ik. Reginald Hawkins, Ne ro dentist of Charlotte and a delegate to the convention, was one of the persons with whom Sen. McCarthy spoke. "He's a good man," Dr. Hawkins aaid after a doaed meeting with the presidential candidate. "Is he your man?" a re porter asked. "He's a good man," Dr. Hawkins repeated. The non commital reply sums up the hesitation many black people aaam to feel reprding Sen. Mc- Carthy; in a recent syndicated newspaper column, J. P. ter Hoist wrote: "Neproaa feel McCarthy Is more philosophic than active. Ha la not known to them as a champion of ctvil rights causae, as Humohrev Is." McCarthy's staff is aware of the lack of rapport between the Senator and the black com munity. McCarthy's Washing ton headquarters this week re leased a story about a report issued by a Senate subcommit tee chaired by McCarthy. The report, prepared in 1960, an ticipated "the design and the concrete programs of both the Kennedy New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society," the story said. "Sen. McCarthy's report is a national poverty and civil rights classic," concluded the release issued by the candi date's research staff. Still, black people aren't quite certain where the Sena tor stands on race and poverty issues. A Negro Congressman, Rep. John Conyers of Michi gan, is conducting a study to determine where Sen. McCar thy and his potential ttvals stand on the questions. Rep. Conyers is heading the "Na tional Committee of Inquiry," which is Interviewing every Presidential candidate. The This Week In Negro History One hundred years ago (1868) on Sunday the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Con stitution was ratified. This is commonly regarded as the Citizenship Rights Amend ment. It says in part: "All persons born or na turalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi zens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the priv iligcs or immunities of citi zens of the United States, nop shall any State deprive any person erf life, liberty or property without due pro cess of law, nor deny to any person Within its jurisdic tion the equal protection of the laws." THE AT.rENDMENT also provides that "The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this ar ticle." All civil rights legislation since the historic school de segregation decision of Msy 17, 1954 has been based pri marily on the 14th Amend ment. JULY 2Z Hall John son's latest version of "Run Little Chillun" opened in 1939 in Loe Angeles, Calif, with great acclaim. ~€lwCar®a Cusre (feed&HCBI * UWWWO eVfll y W 1/WniMy iwe We by United PubUthtrt, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, PubUm SAMUEL L. BRICGS Mmogtag ***» J. ELWOOD CARTER. JidcvrHdng limwgtr Second C3ass Postage Paid at Dorim, N. C. 17701 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 18.00 par year phis (He tax in N. C.) anywhere in the VS., and Canada and to earrioamau Owanaa* Porslgn, $7.50 par year, Single copy Ma PauKaFAi. Oma Locarno at 436 E. ftmwnw Snsr, Dohum, Nam Canosjm 17701 committee will publish each candidate's answers so that black people may have some solid information on the issues which most directly concern them. Meanwhile Sen. McCarthy is taking his case to the people throughout the South, trying to wrest delegates from Vice President Humphrey. McCar thy supporters are challenging the lepriity of the delegation make-up in several states, in cluding Minnesota and Alaba ma. Dr Hawkins is leading a challenge to the North Caro lina delegation; Dr. Hawkins, who polled 130,000 votes in his race for the Democratic nomination for Governor, con tends that Negroes should be allowed more than the nine dots they presently possess. It is uncertain how much support, if any, Sen. McCarthy would Ahe Negro den tist's challenge should succeed. JULY 23 Charles Bush, first Negro page boy, was appointed for the United States Supreme Court in 1954. JULY 24 lra Aldridge (1807-1867), Negro actor and former slave, was born. He achieved the distinction of being to audiences through out Europe the personifica tion of Shakespeare's Oth ello. Alexandre Dumas, pcre, (1803-1870), the great Negro French novelist, born. JULY 25 Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), aboli tionist, was born. JULY 26 Executive Or der of the U. S. President on equality of treatment for all • persons in the A rimed For ces was pronounced in 1948. JULY 27 Anthony Burns (1834-1862), « fugitive slave, died. His renddtion as a fugitive slave caused riots in Boston. NEW YORK Vice Pres ident Hubert H. Humphrey appearing on a national tele vision interview program Issues and Answers—AßC: "I think the No. 1 issue that troubles the American people today is how can you have both civil order and civil Juatice." * ■ I To Be Equal Br «nmi m. tocno, m. « Our Big, Cold Society i 'i ryXJCI - community relations are among the mo«t m- JL sitive areas in American life. The Kerner Commission ' pointed out how the attitudes of some policemen in ghetto can create tense situations. All officials and others who come into contact with the public and that includes business leaders and personnel people need a greater awareness of what it means to lM poor and what It means to be black in a racist society. Covlna, a town in California, has a program that help* policemen to better understand people's feelings. Police R recruits were sent to the nearby town ot Riverside and booked as felons, then put into the tank" for the night. Others were given $3 to buy a complete clothing outfit, and sent to spend time oa Skid Row, drinking wine and sleeping 1* flop-houses. Still others were dressed aa hippies and thev staved in hippie hangouts. They were stopped by policemen, frisk ed, arrested, and booked. They learned tomm!tttu f'rst-hand about the terror that strikes Iha WHITNEY heart , man when he Jg ltoo( j a wall and searched. Conveying A Sense Of Dignity They learned to appreciate the fact that the Riverside police addressed them as "Mister" when they were prison ers. learned to value the importance of this way of conveying even to supposed lawbreakers a sense of dignity. The recruits reported that their experience made them more patient and understanding with people, and that they learned the value of treating people with respect and cour tesy. The city's police chief said, 'H've done everything with my men but turn them black and I wish I could do that." Black people, whose experience with the police, especi ally in the South, has been one of hearing themselves called "Boy" and of being treated with Insolence, are calling for police review boards and other civilian agencies which would insure better police treatment. But this kind ot training could be an excellent way to create a police force which is sensitive to the rights ot the poor and minority groups. Putting yourself in other peoole's shoes is still the best way to learn to follow the Biblical injunction of doing unto others what you would have them do unto you. a How To Treat - The People But it's not Just policemen, teachers .and other public officials who need this increased sensitivity. Personnel people in corporations need to know how to treat the un employed, the black, the Spanish-speaking minorities. Too many of them have desk drawers full of corporate orders to hire more black people, but when a man comea downtown from the ghetto he's given lots of forms and tesV and rig'd interviews. He's not used to them, and the interviewer isn't sensitive to his anxiety and discomfort, and of course, he doesn't pass. But it's not his fault, it is the fault of the personnel Interviewer who just couldn't relate o him, make him feel at ease, and discover his potentials and willingness to work. Fortunately, progressive businessmen realize this and they are taking steps to go into the ghetto to recruit, and to train their personnel people tx»ttpr but its Still a prob lem that could be licked by this kind of sensitivity training. This is a big, cold society, and the poor and the racial minorities, feel it worst. A little added sensitivity eould go a long way to removing the barriers of racism. It is still hanging in the courts. Before dawn on July 26, 1067, National Guard War rant Officer Theodore J. Thomas heard what Hersey indi cates were a few. shots from a blank starter'.* p-stol coming from the Algiers Motel. He reported he was under fir*. Police and National Guard units rushed to the scene. When they left, three Negro youths, Auforey Pollard, Carl Cooper, and Fred Temple, were dead. Officer Faces Murder Charge Patrolman Ronald August was charged with first de gree murder in the death of Pollard. Patrolman Robert Paille was charged w(th first degree murder in the death of Temple. Cooper's death remains, a mystery. August's case came up for trial July 8, and was ad journed until Jan. 6. Faille's case was 'dismissed. Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan is appealing. ißene Freeman, of the West Central Organization, a Ne gro group, said: "The Algiers Motel brings everything that we're up against home. It allows very little latitude for expecting to be dealt with or to de«l with whites in any kind of sincere way at any level." Mayor Cavanagh tried to set up a store front concept in Detroit where police could help out citizens in the inner city with any problems that came to them, or direct them to the a Rene v. that could provide assistance. "We already had the spots picked out," says Heffernan. The Common Council overrode Cavanagh's veto ef its budget cuts, wiping out store front idea. Do's And Don'ts Don't Spread It! ' ■ V
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