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THE CABOUNIAN RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 1«, 1960 4 Editorial Viewpoint Tie CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP According to our need, the tenderness of Jesus means different things to us. His understanding is at onoe universal and yet so personal as to penetrate even the fog of egocentricity, making us realize the changes that with His help we can bring things to pass. No psychic turmoil is more deeply and in tensely touched by the finding of compassionate comradeship as self-consciousness. We know how Jesus chose hundreds of His followers from the simplest and most unlettered people who up to the time of meeting Him and receiving His help had no position and little confidence in themselves. We know that after the transformation He wrought in their lives they went out, able not only to .perform miracles but gifted with powers of speech and capable of imparting wise instruction Belief in the message of Jesus gave His disciples an amazing faith in themselves. If those who nowadays feel the blight of in adequacy and are shy and hesitant could let the The Earmark Os The Executive Almost a hundred years ago an important man left the White House in Washington for the War Office, with a letter from the President to the Secretary of War. In a few minutes he was back in the White House again bursting with indignation The President (Mr. Lincoln) looked up in mild surprise. The messenger was too angry for words when he had to tell Lincoln that Stanton had torn up his message and called the President a fool. The President rose slowly from the desk, stretching his long frame to its full length, and regarding the wrath of the messenger with a quizzical glance. “Did Stanton call me that?" asked the Presi dent. “He did. sir. and repeated it." added the mes senger. “Well,” said the President with a dry laugh. “I reckon it must be true then, because Stanton is generally right.” The angry messenger waited for the storm to break, but nothing happend. Abraham Lin coln turned quietly to his desk and went on with his work. It was not the first time he was rebuffed. In the early days of the war when every mes senger brought bad news, and no one in Wash ington knew' at what hour the soldiers of Lee might appear at the outskirts, Lincoln had gone to call on General McClellan, taking a member of the Cabinet with him. Official eti quette prescribes that the President shall not visit a citizen, but the times were too tense for etiquette; he wanted first hand news from the only man who could give it. The President waited thirty minutes only to be told that the Drivers, Stop The Practice! The newspapers have brought us a story that should make all automobile drivers sit up and take notice. It took place in Roberta, Geor gia, when a motorist drove more than a mile to the home of a friend after his left arm was tom off in a freak highway accident. The victim was Jimmy Stembrdge who col lapsed at his friend’s front door and was rush ed to a Macon hospital in critical condition. According to the highway patrol. Stem bridge’s car sideswiped a big auto carrier truck just outside the Roberta town limits on U. S. Highway 341. His arm was outside the window and wrenched off by the passing truck. Still more dramatic was the fact that the truck driver was unaware of the tragedy until One More Victory For Sitdowners The fact that some lunch counters have been integrated in Charlotte lead us to make some re flections on our statement that the “sitdowns” have served their useful purpose. Perhaps the timing of these protests and where they are staged spells the difference when it comes to victory. Despite the breakdown of resistance on the Charlotte front, we still feel that the overall strategy now should be the attainment of a Supreme Court decision on the matter of tres pass. Like integration in the schools of North Carolina, integration of lunch counters will be sporadic and token in nature until there is a fundamental decision upon which future strategy must depend. It is astounding to learn that check forging has become a multi-million dollar business, because check writers are careless. It is still more shocking when we consider that over ninety per cent of all buying and selling orders now are completed by payments in checks. The use of checks has more than quadrupled since World War 11, and forgery is so lucrative that bad check artists are stealing at a stagger ing rate of SI,OOO per minute, every day of the week, and every year. This amounts to the stagcring sum of $1.5 million dollars a day and more than SSOO million a year. “It is quite alarming,” says Martin C. Even house, head cashier of the Merchandise Na tional Bank of Chicago. “With the greater use of checks there unfortunately has not been comparable increase in the caution exercises to guard against forgery.” This nationally-known banker has made three suggestions which, if used, will reduce drastically the practice of check forging: I. People should guard their checkbooks carefully. A book left unattended on a desk top or lunch counter is a prize find for a lrcmid-he forger. The checks tell him where Bad Check Artists teaching of Jesus come into them even as Hit followers did. If they could have faith in the heal ing power of His truth, an equal transformatioi would be theirs. It is hard, at first, to realize tha personal efficiency and confidence are not mat ters of scholarship and social position. Few of u are ready to believe that without material advan tage and special opportunities a man can posset all the brilliance and poise he ever could need. It affronts those who put their reliance upoi sophisticated cleverness to be told that such i conversion wihin the self as came to the disciple; can give a man intellectual development, and personality ability. If. like many devotees of form al education, they hold that all knowledge is founded upon factual information, personal de velopment without mental discipline seems im possible. But if their contention is true, al! the accounts of the advancement of the disciples are but empty myths. General was too tired for a conference and had gone to bed. Not to make a scene before the servants, the Cabinet member restrained himself until they were on the sidewalk. Then he burst forth, de manding that this conceited upstart be remov ed instantly from command. Lincoln laid a soothing hand on the other’s shoulder. “There, there,” he said with a deep, sad smile, “I will hold McClellan’s horse if only he will bring us the victories.” Other leaders in history have had that su periority to personal resentment and small an noyances which is one of the great signs f>f greatness: but Jesus infinitely surpasses them all. He knew that pettiness brings its own pun ishment. The law’ of compensation operates in exorably to reward and afflict us by and through ourselves. The man who is mean is mean only to him self. The village that had refused to admit him for the night required no fire; it was al ready dealt with. No miracles were performed in that town. No sick w'ere healed; no hungry were fed; no poor received the message of en couragement and inspiration that was the penalty for its boorishness. As for him. he for got the incident immediately. He had work to do The great executive overlooks the small per sonal affronts that cause so many people to lose their poise and balance. It does not matter whether one is a minister, a principal, a chairman of a department in a university, an official in government, a judge of the courts, he must exercise superiority to personal resentments and small annoyances This is one of the earmraks of the executive! he made a stop later to check his brakes and found Stembridge’s arm dangling from the car rier. There are hundreds of drivers on our high ways and streets practicing riding with their arms hanging out of the left front window, or more than likely with their arms held at an angled upright position with hand clutching the rim of the top above the window. Riding with arms in this fashion can often spell tragedy for automobile drivers in a man ner similar to that of Stembridge’s misfortune. We urge all drivers to keep their arms and hands inside of their automobiles. Drive safely, bcause the arm or hand you save may be your own. Now that we may eat at these lunch coun ters in Charlotte, Negroes must exert every ef fort to make themselves generally well-deport ed customers at mealtime. There must be no loud talking, profanity, disrespect and lack of consideration of other customers be they black or white. In some way, there must be a nation al movement to train us in the social graces and refinements of etiquette. What happens in Charlotte and the other few cities that have opened their counters to Negroes, will, in a large measure, determine how many other cities will follow in their foot steps. All citizens must be willing to walk the second, undemanded mile to make this project in human relations work. your bank is how much you have deposited and what your checks look like. When he runs out of checks, he may be able to counterfeit an endless supply—that is, until he is caught. 2. People should keep track of their bank statements. Some individuals toss their state ments away without looking at them. From the statements the forger can draw an accurate pattern of your checkwriting habits---how large they usually are, how they ere filled out and signed. 3. Individuals should take care how they write their checks. Many persons fee! that a fancy signature is so distinctive it would be hard to imitate. Forgers, however, find that the sim pler and clearer the signature is. the more dif ficult it is to reproduce. 4. Write the word, “and” at a downward slant to serve as a stop, for example, when writing “Twenty and no—100.” A number of business concerns have develop ed techniques for detecting forgery and bad check passing But it is up to every person to exercise caution and pre-caution against forg ery , because the forger may have “hit” your account long before he is discovered. Strong Civil Rights Laws Can Remove This Biot Cn Our World Leadership PIC SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP MOTHER’S HUMILITY A REAL MOTHER is not of the spiteful, hasty and boister ous kind, but a kind and loving soul, trying to make her life sublime. Like a weaver's shuttle she goes in and out and gives the world a pattern of HUMILITY and of a life devout. Few. if any mistakes by her observers must be seen, and this calls for careful living to keep al! such from appearing upon the daily screen. The things then that are rare, like the aroma of precious oint What Other Editors Say PROTECTING THE LILY WHITE VOTE As might well have been ex pected, Alabama is doing every thing possible to prevent the Federal Justic Department from investigating possible voter reg istration frauds. State Circucit Judge Walter B. Jones has issued a temporary injunction to prevent the Jus tice Department from examin ing the records. This is understandable be cause the judge would probably have no job if Negroes were not disfranchised in his area, so he has a personal interest. Four other Southern counties in South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama have been asked by Washington to make their rec ords available to the FBI, and perhaps the same tactics will be locally adopted to stall the in vestigation as soon as possible Local officials know that the handwriting is on the wall and that, eventually they will have to give in (if there are any rec ords left by that time!), but the ultimate day of reckoning is not far off. The FBI has also moved into Louisiana in an effort to make democracy function as regards Negro citizens, and every device is being used to handicap the Government. A suit has been filed against sundry voting officials, and we can be sure that they will fight to the fast ditch, because they realize that wholesale Negro voting means the end of public job monopoly and all that flows from it—which is what is meant by white supremacy. —PITTSBURGH COURIER KENNEDY: SYMBOL OF A NEW GENERATION' Sen. John Kennedy's response to Harry Trumans fire and brimstone invitation to step aside at Los Angeles mirrored again the political adroitness and self-possession of the young man from Massachusetts. The senator gave the ex-Pres ident his due. He was courteous but firm. He listed Mr, Truman's as among the three great Demo cratic administrations, along with Wilson's and Roosevelts Indeed, Senator Kennedy almost killed the man of Independence with kindness. And in politics that can be devastating. To the charge that he was too young arid inexeperiericed. Sen ator Kennedy replied that many of the great achievements of his tory have stemmed front young men. His list included Washing ton, Jefferson. Pitt, Napoleon, and Columbus. To the charge that he was in experienced, Senator Kennedy referred to his 14 years in Con gress and his four years in World War 11. "If we are to es tablish a teat for the presidency where 14 year® in major elective ment filling the air, must come from human beings like you and me, and such priceless things are not the fruit of any tree. HUMILITY when practiced by false pretence will certainly land the perpetrator on the wrong side of the fence; Satan soon found this out when he on the mount sought to inveigle the Master, but instead fixed a trap for his own disaster. There is a counterfeit for ev ery virtue and for Christianity one can play a hypocrite . . . but the greatest satisfaction one will have in the final judgment, office is insufficient experience, then all but three of the 10 pos sibilities mentioned by Mr. Tru man must be ruled out—all but a handful of our Presidents since the very founding of the nation should have been ruled out—and every President ele vated to that office in the 20th century should have been ruled out, including three great Dem ocratic Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman himself.’’ Senator Kennedy thus peeled off the lace pretensions of logic in the Truman outburst and re vealed it for what it was: Harry Truman opposes Kennedy—not young men in general. Harry Truman likes Symington or Johnson and the intensity of h:r pre-convention vitriol is a mea sure of his desperation. Syming ton's campaign never got off the ground, and Lyndon Johnson's candidacy is so uncertain that Mr. Truman's political instinct led him to unloose both barrels well in advance to try to keep it aloft. The Democratic convention is no more "rigged” for Senator Kennedy In 1860 than it was ‘'rigged” for President Truman in 1949. If a majority of the del egates are leaning toward the man from Massachusetts, just as they leaned toward the man of Independence 12 years ago, the reason is not hard to find. Senator Kennedy, through tough-minded political organi zation and campaigning has demonstrated both his popular ity and his power. Politicians like a winner, and Kennedy has subjected himself to all the pre convention tests. This does not, hoar directly on his capabilities for the presidency. Men will dif fer on that score. Kennedy, like young Gov. Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. is still something of an unknown quantity. His lull po tential is yet to be tested. But because no other candi date combines all the necessary ingredients, Kennedy seems des tined for the nomination. Harry Truman has spoken out against the front runner, just as he did in 1956, and he is en titled to his say. But the tides of history are running with the younger, more vigorous, even if untested, men of the 20th cen tury. Kennedy, whatever his defic iencies. personifies this new generation. He is tough-minded and charming. He is dispassion ate and ambitious. He may lose the nomination and the presi dency, but he and his kind will be heard from in the emerging sixties. —GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS NO NEGRO FEDERAL JUDGE? The House Judiciary Commit tee having approved a bill to create 35 new Federal judge ship®, and 'he Senat* Judiciary will bp when knowing we have lived heip 100 per cent If wp are both HUMBLE and SINCERE, what need any of us to fear? . . . and Christ we are sure is on our side, this certain ly is the guarantee that in Heav - en we will abide To follow CHRIST, one must be most HUMBLE, and be as sured ail of His pathways have stones, and too there will be some heartaches as well as some terrible groans, but be faithful, He will not forsake you, for He has gone to prepare palaces for our homes. Committee having approved 25, the specuclation glows as to whether any of the finally ap proved number will be colored. If one tiling has been estab lished within the last quarter century, it is the competence of Negro lawyers, who have won case after case in court after court from the lowest to the highest, Nevertheless, no Negroes sit on the Federal bench except ir, the Customs Court, the Eastern Court of Appeals, and in the Virgin Islands; which seems to be mighty few in the circum stances, even though the com petition is very keen. If these appointments are made on legal merits, there should be at least one Negro Federal judge named out of the forthcoming batch of appoint ments Ts any such appointments are made, it will be as the result of bi-partisan bargaining: hut how ever done, it will be long over due. IN THIS BV Oft C. A. CHICK, SR. “OF THEE i SING" Before this column reaches my reachcds, ihc United States will have.. celebrated another birthday—the Fourth of July For. as it is well kn wu July 4. 1776 that the Second Continental Congress adopted th* Declaration of Independence declaring to the world that the colonies were no longer fighting a rebellious war but that they no longer regarded themselves as a part of the British Empire By all odds, the Declaration of Independence and our pres ent National Constitution have brought forth one of the boot forms of governments that the world has ever known. The foregoing statement is made not unmindful of the fact that there are certain “ugly spots” as well as certain undesirable practices within the United States But we must always be mindful of, continuously remember. and never forget that no human in ■ stitution has ever reached per fection Despite the foregoing, it seems to this writer a difficult task for an individual to develop the attitude of regretting that he is • citizen of the United States of America. Because despite the JUST FOR FUN BY MAJRCUR (L BOULWABE MR. CORNY ARB In the mails came a special invitation to Mr. Cornyard: ’ Amid the luxurious surround ings of the Florida Room, the guys and dolls who want to beat the heat will be dancing to their favorite records. ( Air conditioned, toot. The day set for swing is today at 2.00 p.m. Come on and enjoy the fun, and bring along a friend." Mr. Cornyard accepted, and he went to the Florida Room. TOURNAMENT OF ROSES A card tournament is held every Thursday evening at 6 o’clock in the Florida Room of the Student Union Building. This is a delightful affair for my friend, Cornyard, and I be lieve he won the runner-up prize last Thursday BOOK REVIEW Each Thursday evening at 5:00 a group assembles to hear a book review which begins at 6 o’clock. Tuesday Mr. .Prince Riv ers gave a review of Elsa's In visible Man. To give Mr. Cornyard a well balanced diet, I insisted on his going to the review. Cookies, mints, peanuts, and punch were served. Since there was self service, Cornyard returned to the table for several refills un til I caught him by the coat tail as he attempted a fifth refill I could not afford to permit him to embarrass me DULL FOURTH Being new and having no where to go, I spent a dull 4th but Mr. Cornyard had cultivat ed some friends who invited him to take a deep-sea fishing trip, a barbecue, a beach party, and so on. Now, I cannot enjoy the beach this summer. But 1 hear that Mr. Cornyard, sun-tanned and handsome Hercules has posed as if he just stepped from Chas. Atlas Gym and captured the hearts of the ladies. Gordon B. Hancock’s BETWEEN THE LINES WHOSE FAULT IS IT? 'Die Congolese people haw taken over from the Belgians, their erstwhile rulers. Their in dependence did not come the easy way, for as their new Pre mier, Lumumba, recounted in caustic language, “the Congo lese' - have known ironies, in sults and the blows to which w. have had to submit, morning, noon and night because we are Negroes “On that great occasion of the Inauguration of an independent republic Lumumba came pretty close to spoiling the “coming out party" by his barbed refer ences to Belgium’s 80-year-old history of terrible atrocities in thp Congo. The world remembers with Lumumba the late King Leo pold. who not only exploited the Congo, but bled it in the mean time. So on the August occasion of independent Congo’s “rnminc out party" a discordant note was sounded, much to the chagrin and embarrassment of the Bel gia’ s present. While President Kasavubu fact that there arp some ugly spots and some undesirable practices in the United States, there are more individual as well as collective freedom in the United States than in the vast majority of the countries of the world at the present time No one is put to death in the United States following a polit ical election, local state, nr na tional, because of his political views And. by and large, an individual, in this country, is free to express his political views either m speeches or writ ings Moreover, if the party or in dividual one supports should lose the election, one is not im prisoned, nor put to death, nei ther does he have to flee the Country for safety Moreover, even though taxes, income, property, sales, luxury, etc, are pretty hieh. an indi vidual in the United States still has a feeling of security of pri vate property as well as of per son. Just as individuals are not molested after an election in the United States, neither is private property confiscated An individual still feels safe in the United States in endeav oring to accumulate a "nest egg’’ for emergencies including old age. Because we still hold to the economic philosophy that the individual who by frugality and initiative accumulates wealth should largely control and en joy the same. In other words we still believe that an individ ual should be rewarded econom ically (profils. and. or wages' according to his economics ef ficiency And. so, because of the fore going and many other highly de sirable features of our Govern ment, I, for one. arn proud (o be a citizen of The United States of America, Moreover, I pledge that through my personal eondtict. as well as through participating in civic affairs including regis tering and voting and in ex pressing my views either orally and, or in writing, to play well my part in endeavoring to elim inate the undesifsbla elements and practices in the ecomonic and political affairs of the Unit ed States. TOP RATING The headmistress of a girl’s school in London recently is sued a statement that "Girls like boys better than books." In fact, said Miss E. M. Fur tado, head of the High Storrs Grammar School at Sheffield, few girls rank reading first among leisure occupations and usually put it after dancing, lis tening to records, or going out with boys. She stated at a con ference: “Many of these girls feel they will have failed if they have not had all the experiences of life by the time they are 18. Why waste time sitting and reading about life?” Being an English teacher, I disagree in part with the girls. Even reading the classics is re warding. It was the Greek Aeschylus who gave the world one of its most dramatic pic tures of the woman who could n't wait, Clytemnestra, the un faithful wife who was in an other’s arms while her husband was answering the call of duty. Who is there that didn’t know hgr counterpart in America's World War II? The Greek dramatists furnish ed the Hellenic world with s rather distinguished group of editorial writers. Not as such, of course, but in their speech cho ruses, they commented on the action as it developed, and after a fashion to provide a sort of interpretative analysis. In pres ent-day newspaper writing, this would be called "interpretative reporting." ARE WE GOING? You want to know if Corn yard and I are going to the Democratic Convention. Yes, for this is what will be sold bv sports concessions: 55,000 hot dogs, 55,000 buns, 25.000 sand wiches. 120.000 soft drinks, 30.000 cups of coffee, 16,000 candy bars, 6,000 bags of pop com. 4.500 bags of peanuts, and so on. Marti Man! was more restrained in his re marks for the great occaison. broadminded men every whert will sympathize with the stint ing rebuke Lumumba let go < said occasion. The liberal world will paidi this erstwhile prisoner's on. burst of pent up resentment n Belgium’s treatment for pea • three generations Some of Hi South’s newspapers spoke lathi disparagingly of the Congo's to turn and intimated that t Congo was not ready' fn. n dependence. Suppose for the sake of argu ment—and for the sake of argu ment only—that the Congolese people are not ready for inde pendence, whose fault is it? The Belgians have been in charge for nearly a hundred years, why they had not readied Congo for independence? How long would it take taken Belgium to get Congo ready for independence’ Tliis “not ready" gag is a hoary-headed argument for per petuating colonial imperialism and its concomitant slavery. Doubtless when Moses appear ed before Pharoah with his plea for the liberation of the Israel ites, the Egyptian monarch used the “not ready" argument and doubltless hinted that in anoth er four hundred years the Is raelites might evince certain evidences of readiness for the journey to the Promised Land. It. must have been the same when Artaxerxes was getting ready to let Nehemiah lead the Jews back to Jerusalem aftpr their seventy years of captivity m Babylon. There must have been Baby lonians who raised the hue and ery "They are not ready" for the Return. Then the American Colonists began to press for m pcndence, England under King George 111 got tough and doubt less listened to those of his ad visers who contended that the Colonists were "not ready" for independence, and forced these young Colonists to fight for the independence we are celebrating today. The British suffered Ireland to split into an Ulster and an Irish Free State, before they would grant that Ireland was ready for independence, the Nogores were not ready for freedom after hundreds of years of English ruie whose fault, was it" When the Abolitionists had stirred the world on the matter of American slavery, the South ern planters sent up the cry that the Negroe swere not ready for freedom: and this meant that after three hundred years o American slavery these slave masters had utterly failed b prepare their slaves for freedom Nor were they trying. Slave masters are slow in readying slaves for freedom. Whose fault is it that slaves then are net ready for freedom. Here in the South there is currently going on a struggle between Negroes and their op pressors, and one of the strong est. arguments these latter are using is the “not ready" argu ment. It has been nearly a hundred years since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and if the Negro is not ready it is cot the Negro’s fault. Those in power should have made him ready, if indc-d th*y would have him ready. The fact remains, that Negroes have shown that they can be readied if given a chance.