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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH N. c., SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1965 4 Editorial Viewpoint “Ooms with me,” Jesus said, ‘'and I will make you nshers of men Fishers! that was a word the prospective disc.pies could understand—fish ers of men—that was a new idea. What did Jesus mean by this, and what was He driving at? Fish ers of men! It sounded interesting. What other way do you think Jesus “oidd have won the men whose minds were in motion, whose hands were God Can Now Visit Charlotte YMCA! For years and years, we have always thought the Young Men’s Christian Association did not live up to its name. It hasn’t been Christian, because it had bowed to the practice of segre gation in many communities, and certainly there was nothing Christian about this custom. It gives us hope and inspiration to learn that the Charlotte YMCA has been quietly integrat ing ail its facilities. Much of this progress went unnoticed since the officials did not want to create unfavorable publicity. This forward step means that the former all- Negro McCrorey YMCA Branch will also be integrated, making its facilities available to all members without racial restrictions. In all fairness to the public, the board of directors stated that while facilities are avail able to all. some clubs and teams have not yet Progress In International Exchange For those of us who are keenly interested in the future of this nation, a cheering sign of progress is the development of international ed ucation. For the academic year 1963-64, nearly 75,000 students from other lands were enrolleld in our institutions of higher learning. The Uni versity of California led with 3.927 such stu dents. Columbia, Harvard and Howard Uni versities followed close behind. Some U. S. universities pioneered in provid ing scientifically prepared courses in speaking and listening, reading and writing American English. Outstanding in this effort was the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. At the same time, the number of U. S. stu dents studying in universities abroad rose sub stantially. Many of them were prepared for Good Auto Damage Protection The problem of uninsured motorists is a per plexing matter in all 50 of our States. Various remedies have been tried by the several States in attempting to rid the highways of the irre sponsibility of drivers who have no insurance. Some States have made liability automobile in surance compulsory. In New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, compulsory insurance law’s have cre ated snake pits of red tape, confusion, and fail ure. In addition, traffic accidents, cost of gov ernment administration and insurance rates have also increased. Massachusetts and New York motorists pay the highest insurance rates in the nation—twice the national average. North Carolina had to place full-time highway patrolmen to the task of tracking down drivers whose insurance had lapsed. There are several basic reasons why compul sory automobile liability insurance will not work. First of all, it cannot compel people to buy insurance even when tied in with vehicle registration. How can the law keep operators of stolen cars, uninsured out-of-town drivers, newly-arrived uninsured residents w'hose cars are still registered in another State, and in surance dodgers, w’ho cancel their insurance Recently, there came to our attention an in* foresting feature article in the St. Petersburg Times, magazine section, the story of Rev. Rob ert Day Miller, white, who was recently cabled to the pastorate of Lakeview Presbyterian Church in St. Petersburg, Fla. It is significant that this man of God. who is endowed with a -keen sense of human rights, is to begin work Ift a parish fast becoming a mixed racial neigh borhood. What impressed us most about Rev. Miller, before he came to St. Petersburg, was an ex * perience he had while minister of a church in Tuskegee, Alabama. An elder refused to serve communion to a Negro who was visit ing the church. After the communion service was returned to the altar, Mr. Miller walked to where the Negro was sitting and personally served him the elements. “We don’t fence the communion table,” said Rev, Miller. “It’s not our table. It’s Christ’s ” Insisting there was nothing extraordinary in his action, Rev. Miller comments, “But if I hadn’t done this, I couldn’t stay in the ministry.” With” it knowing anything else about Rev. Miller, this action was enough to convince us that he is the proper minister to meet the St. Petersburg challenges where an area is rapidly Negro: Bishops Council President Within the last decade, we have had so many numerous firsts among Negroes that other in dividuals should have been encouraged to as pire to reach the topmost rang of the ladder of success. Bishop Prince A. Taylor, Jr., has been elected president of the Methodist Church’s Bishop Council. Bishop Taylor, a resident of Princeton, N. J., recently began his term of one year as presi dent of the 95-member Council of Bishops at the close of a four-day meeting in Houston, April 18. He succeeds Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke, of the New York area. This is indeed a high honor for Bishop Tay lor to become the Council’s leader for the 1965- 1966 term. It is significant that he heads a body which is made up of 46 active bishops in the United States, 3.9 active bishop® overseas, WORDS OF Challenging Ministry WORSHIP busy with their fishing nets; whose conversation was about the condition of the fishing trade, and the prospects of a good market for the day’s catch? To have broken into their conversations with an offer of employment, as preachers of a new re ligion, would have confused them and invited a strong rebuff. This is why the Master asked them to become fishers of men. been integrated. But we have faith that, in a little while, integration will spread into these clubs and teams. The public may wonder why has all this been kept secret until now. George E. Simmons, gen eral Y secretary, said integration w’as kept se cret because their lawyers had ordered that the matter be kept secret. Even YMCA members of the all-white Y were not told. The integrated YMCA had no records of the number of Negroes who have stayed in the Y dormitory which has been desegregated since last August. Here is an example where silence paid off. Jesus Christ would be willing to stay at the Charlotte YMCA now, since the door has been open to, “whosoever will, let him come.” this study by courses at home, giving a func tional mastery of the language of the land to which they went, supplemented by courses in the culture of the host country. It is essential for the peace of the world that this progress continue. Our young people should gain mastery of at least one foreign language and sufficient acquaintance with foreign cul tures so that when they go abroad, as most of them will between now and the year 2,000. they will go with a sympathetic attitude and will ingness to learn. Thus, they will be able to alter the unfavorable image of the U. S. tourist as a prejudiced provincial who criticizes every thing he meets as inferior to what we have in “the States”. (after securing registration and tags, off the highways? As an example, New York alone has nearly 400.000 uninsured drivers on the road, even though the compulsory law has been in force for many years in that State. Each motorist is vitally interested about the increasing cost of liability insurance. Compul sory insurance is an excellent way for us to in crease the cost of our insurance even higher. It has been actuarily proven that compulsory auto liability insurance increases over-all auto mobile rate levels. Our financial responsibility laws, tied in with uninsured motorist coverage, is the best plan that man has devised in both this country and Canada. Every citizen in this State who buys auto liability insurance policy could be pro tected against the uninsured motorist by means of the uninsured motorist protection afforded by that policy up to SIO,OOO per person for bod ily injury. The coverage costs anywhere from $4 to $7 and is automatic unless rejected. You can’t find a better buy in insurance coverage. Perhaps North Carolina automobile drivers have not given this question much thought, since the matter is made compulsory, whether they want insurance or not, becoming integrated. He certainly can help the Lakeview Presbyterian Church to truly be God’s House. There are members in this St. Petersburg Church who take the view that Negroes, who of their own accord decide to come to services, should be accepted and welcomed. But Rev. Miller, like a large percentage of his member ship, believes that the mission should be. “Go ye therefore into the world” and this message should apply to the little world of the Lake view Church. What strikes us strongly about Rev. Miller’s conviction is that he is concerned about the difference between passive acceptance and ac tively seeking to carry out the ministry of God. In this latter role the new minister seems most strongly committed. The church leadership should have more to offer in the field of human rights than any other force. We agree with the new pastor that “many of our present problems have arisen because of the lack of the church’s influence.” The Rev. Mr. Miller will accept the chal lenge. We know he will, because his past com mitments indicate he is fully ready to accept the challenge! and 30 retired bishops. Taylor’s distinction comes from the fact that he is the first Negro to administer an episcopal area made up of white rnembebrs. Before as suming the presidency of the Council, Bishop Taylor was assigned last June to a four-year term as head of the work of the Methodist Church’s 204,000-member New Jersey Area. Along with the honor paid Bishop Taylor, we must not overlook the fact that, another Ne gro bishop. James S. Thomas was assigned last July to head the State of lowa’s Methodists, where most of the members are Caucasians. A former faculty roembebr of Gammon The ological Seminary, in Atlanta, Bishop Taylor is destined to lead the Bishop’s Council in a commendable manner. May God bless hi* ad ministration! Just For Fun K\ MARCUS H. BOULWARE BELIEVE IT OR NOT Believe it or not, we have been teaching one week already in the first part of the third tri mester (April 26-30) here at Flo rida A&M University, Tallahas see. I am teaching two courses: “Audiometry" and “Voice Prob lems" (speaking voice) and we have in each class twice as many students as I had expected in the speech correction area. This area has grown greatly in the last five years since I have been here. Our major cur riculum has become more sta ble, and the number of speech correction majors are gradually increasmg. We have now around 40 or 45 majojrs who are in tam ing for employment in the pub lic schools as speech therapists. HI’SRWDS: BETTER COOKS Not long ago, I read an article stating that husbands are better cooks than their wives. Wives, ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN THE NEGRO STRUGGLE AHEAD When freedom came, many Negroes went to the nearest Union camp. Even on the Iso lated plantation the Negro slaves did not hold Emancipa tion a reason to rise up against former masters. Indeed, we have ample evidence that Negro ser vants continued to take care of the household, in some cases nursing the Confederate veter ans back to health and protect ing the white women from Northern deserters. The spiritual aspect of Lin coln’s Emancipation Proclama tion was far more influential than the law it established. Lin coln hqd resolved a great moral issue. There is far greater en thusiasm today for the late John F. Kennedy and for Mar tin Luther King because the Negroes know that they won their own revolution and be cause King, like Lincoln, has been able to dramatize “Free dom Now’’ with the same moral fervor Lincoln dramatized the Emancipation Proclamation. The struggle ahead will be long and hard and often heart breaking. Much of the struggle cannot be remedied by protest marches nor court writs. There is more to the Negro v matriarchy in the South than meets the eye. The female has been a domestic. Most of her life she has worked in white homes, more usually In the up per middle class homes. To a large extent she has acquired the ideas, habits, and inclina tions of her white lady em ployer. She has arranged the menus, served the guests, lis tened to the talk, often good talk; leading politicians, edu cators, artists, etc. Oilier Editors Sav... meant and race bias A little while back we have had some mental reservations a bout George Meany’s attitude on the race question. His utterances and demeanor had left much to be desired. They certainly did not convey the impression that the President of the AFL-CIO had any appreciable sympathy for the plight of the rejected black labor. We remember the time when he rebuked A. Phillip Randolph, AFL-CIO second Vice President, in language that was both terse and curt, for raising on the floor of the Federation convention the issue of racial discrimination. Various unions and their affili ates exclude Negroes from their ranks in keeping with their con stitutions and by-laws. Today, Meany pledges the support of the federation for the equal employment section of the new Civil Rights Act. The AFL CIO, he said, is prepared to use strikes and boycotts against em ployers whose hiring practices continue to discriminate against Negroes. The issue, Meany rightly ob served, is one of morality and justice as well as economics. His rhetoric on the subject is a credit to his reformed mentality. But the blunt, unvarnished truth is that the sword of reprisal he is unsheathing against recalcit rant emloyers must, also be wielded against some of the un ions in the federation. On July 2, the equal employ ment section of the civil rights law became effective. Mr, Mea ny faces the formidable task of securing the compliance of some of his own key affiliates in the building trades, and many other craft unions. Discrimina tion is the rule and integration the exception in too many labor organizations. The Civil Rights Act is the acid tesst of all institutions in the U. S. The AFL-CIO will be judged not merely by its advice to employers but by perform ance in its own ranks. Examples speak louder than words.—THE CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER. FILTH IS INDEFENSIBLE A clean-up campaign is un derway in North Tulsa, and while we have had no earth shaking evidence that the North Tulsa community is aroused a bout the movement, there are a few dedicated souls who have a greed to head the movement. There are a few civic clubs joining he promotion of the pro ject. They mean to go ahead, and have set May 1 and May 8 for volunteer trucks to gather the trash. They hope that by that time the people will have gathered. It is our hope that this down-to-earth effort to point this segment of the Tulsa eammunity to mm of the basic the article implied, agreed that their husbands are more inclin ed to experiment in their chef chores. They will try all kind* of condiments, herbs and combi nations of ingredients. They are inclined to follow oldtim* -eci pes that are second natch* t* women. Now, let ni* w*rn you "hub bios': Don't fail for that i hat husbands are better cooks than their wives. Although a study indicates that more men arc taking up cooking, and SO per cent of the men are doing this to impress their wives and win from them admiration, men should make themselves scarce about the kitchen. In a reecnt cooking contest, the ratio of single men to mar ried men was 1 to 5, meaning one single, while five married men, entered the cooking con test. On Sunday, the Negro wom an invited three of her friends in who also work in white homss. She spreads a white tablecloth on the table and puts out linen napkins. The ladies chat around the table and the hostess begins to shuffle the cards for a bridge game. Be side each guest, or on a side table, as in the white homes, are the cookies and the tea. While the wife has been working in the middle-class home, the husband has been on a garbage truck or he fires the boiler at the high school or he cleans the type at thejprlnt shop. It is not so much that he comes in wearing overalls, but that he has lived in an entirely dif ferent world. His wife has brought home the world she has seen, and as a matter of fact, helped make. The white boss on the con struction gang just gives the orders. There is no other asso ciation. In recent years the white boss man may have stop ped calling the Negro "uncle”, but invariably he gets the name wrong .always yelling out "Jim” for "Robert”. Sometimes he does forget himself and says, "Boy” to every Negro under 60 years of age. It is inevitable in a culture where the female’s earnings are steady and where she is in a position to acquire habits and reflect the culture of the com fortable white home, whiel her husband's wages as an unskill ed worker are not steady and he has no access to middle class values, that the bonds of mar riage will become more irrele vant. Thus there will be a lot of catching up to do. It will take a generation at least, but it will be accomplished. pillars of a good society will get a good response. The measure of our partici paltion in this effort and simi lar efforts could be the measure of our capacity for first class citizenship, for whoever It was who said, “A man’s environment denotes the nature of his char acter” couldn’t have been too far wrong. There is little question that any people content to live in fil th, people who exhibit, no de-. sire to clean up, people who e vidence no taste for beauty, are people whose souls are of the nature of the slums and as such, are maladjustments, forever a drawback in the social order and equally a deterrent to the forward progress of any com munity. We, as a people have many things to complain about— and justly so. We can perhaps jus tify our shortcomings education wise because as a group, for ov er a hundred years we were no* given a fair shake in education. We have perhaps some ground for our lag in business, our shortage in marketable skills, our home life, our religious in adequacies all these we can lay at the door of those who instituted and still seek to per petuate the kind of discrimina tion which made us half a man. But one thing among us and any other people that is inde fenible is to live in filth. This we can,not justify. We may not be able to paint our houses, but with a little soap and water we can keep the floors clean and the walls free of cobwebs. We may not be able to landscape our yards, but we can keep it free of litter and we can keep the grass cut. We can can haul the old broken down cars which no longer run off to the salvage yard or the junk pile. We may not be able to af ford a garbage disposal unit in our houses, but we can see to it that our garbage is properly put in containers and ready for pickup when the time comes. We can bum our trash at the proper times. We don’t have to scatter it all over the yard. We can pull out the old pieces oi cardboard we’ve stuck in our broken windows and make & sacrifice of the things we don't need and can't afford anyhow and replace that broken window with the glass that belongs there. These things we can do, if we don’t do them, we have no on* to blame but. outoelves. Toe ac cumulation of filth around hu man beings Is indefensible, and those who are party to this kind of living are more the enemies of our growth than any segre gationist eve- could be- Maybe there ought be a picket line thrown around the establish ments of those among us who threaten our way of life i Still Defiant, But Must Not Bo Unchallenged, Mr. President. Sherwood Ross * UNSESOO UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Although our taxes help support It, few Americans have any detailed picture of the activities of UNESCO. Its Imposing title, the United Nations Educa tional Scientific and Cultural organization, isn't likely to excite many people, although the excep tions to this rule tend to deny it. From the standpoint of budget, about $25,000,- 000 a year, UNESCO scarcely exists and one won ders why its 117-member countries, Including the eastern bloc nations, can’t ante up any more for this autonomous, non-political agency. After all, $25,000,000 isn’t much for the hercu lean task of wiping out illiteracy among some 700 million adults and 200 million children, especial ly if it must dabble in culture and sciene, too. Its job In edunation, our subject for today, is particllariy pressing since the number of people who can’t read in our world is growing, not de clining. In India alone, and despite vast education al schemes, the number of adult illiterates in creased by 36 million in the decade ending 1961. This is a statistic to contemplate, particularly for Americans who hold tire view that communism flourishes where mien are hiingry and ignorant. UNESCO’s staff is peltry, too. Its 500 profes sionals at its Parks headquarters and 1,200 field experts, taken together, are roughly half as num erous as the employees of the Chicago Depart ment of Water and Sewers And while we’re at it, UNESCO’s members are not investing as much each year to wipe out illiteracy as the Chicago waterworks, a typical utility, is spending to lay pipes. Somehow, UNESCO is getting something accom plished. Although John Bowers, its deputy direc tor, says the agency needs $1.9 billion to launch "a total eradication campaign” against illiteracy, it’s done a lot with a little. In the Congo, where & college graduate is as rare as a day without bloodshed. UNESCO has helped BY EMORY G, DAVIS, D.D. (For Negro Press International) “THE AMBIGUITY OF A CROSS” Upon the right and left breasts of the Klan robe worn by Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton of Alabama is the insignia of the Ku Klux Klan. The round emblem, white-bordered, with a background of crimson red, has a cross in the center resembl ing the “cross patee” crucifixion cross. At the center of this cross is a diamond-shaped patch surrounding a red drop of blood that is symbolic, according to Klan lore, of a drop of Christ's blood. As I sat and looked at this insignia pictured in a national magazine recently, I began to shudder as I thought of its implications. Christians have just emerged from the season that called attention to the Cross of Golgotha, up on which a rellgiously-radieal Jew was executed because of hte claim to be the Son of God. Followers of this Man of Galilee revere the blood he shed upon a rough wooden cross that he bore through crowds of mocking, jeering people—per haps much like the mocking, jerrlng crowds hurl ing their obscenities at those who inarched from. Selma to Montgomery—and subsequently died up on with nails driven through hands and feet. In fact, the followers of this Jewish carpenter’s son believe there is some kind of “soul purifica tion” or “redemption” in the blood that he shed, although in reality none of that actual blood is a vb,liable for application to a sinner’s soul. Indeed, those who follow Him believe that “the appication (by faith) of this blood” cleanses and purifies so thoroughly that those who receive "the application” become one with both God and the Man of Galilee righteous, holy, as perfect as man can become. What a shock it must be now to the untold num bers of persons who have been following hopeful ly the one whom they believed lived for all man kind, even unto death on a cross to learn that they may have been believing a myth, following an imposter. Hew the world is to learn that, the Cross and & drop of the “blood of Christ” is the emblem of the jeapordire our liberties'! In this fashion, Maybs w« ouajbt print some new signs for to® civil ■ igtew mamhens. Maybe toosa ONE WORLD signs ought read. ”We Want Our Freedom Now! Freedom From Filth, Freedom From Th« Ugli ness of Unkept Surroundings, the government recruit 800 teachers and double secondary school enrollment, in just a few years. Together with the UN’s Special Fund, (he agen cy last year opened 13 teacher-training institutes in tropical Africa. Within three years. Bowers tells us, these will be turning out 1,800 graduates annu ally. The major barriers these teachers will face in clude the absence of books for their pupils, decent schools, (or any schools.) and “Linguistic choas." This last horror, enough to discourage anyone who's had pains becoming bilingual, is common in Africa, where some countries enjoy more than 100 languages. (The world total is 2,800, UNESCO says.) UNESCO last year also opened, or expanded, technical and engineering schools in the follow ing countries: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador. Iran, Iraq, Malta, Morocco. Pakistan. Trinidad 'Tobago, and Turkey. The research schools were opened in India and two academies for training vocational and technical instructors were opened in LcTun n and in Laos. This, unfortunately, was about, as far as UNES CO could stretch It The agency has been obliged to single out a half dozen countries, or so, for pilot proocts in education because it can't finance the, whole ball of wax. Bowers says that it costs be tween $5 and $8 to teach a man how to read and, v in a world that’s spending $l2O billion a year for weaponry, mankind just can’t swing it. To help countries help themselves, UNESCO last year teamed up with the World Bank, sent two missions to Latin America to help government of ficials learn how to plan and bankroll literacy campaigns. UNESCO enjoys a good reputation in Latin Amrica. In 1957 it opened a drive to get 40 million out-of-schooi children enrolled in classes. To date, it’s gotten 20 million into the classroom. In a world that measures victories by counting the enemy dead, I suppose UNESCO didn't do much last. year. Writing about it certainly isn't as exciting as Vietnam. adherents of hate, terror, murder, castrations, floggings, beatings, and the supremacy of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS). For. with this emblem, the KKK Is telling the world that they are wearers (if not, bearers) of the cross and advocates of “the blood of Jesus” (to purify THEIR race). How eager and dedicated they are to erect and ~ set aflame their fiery crosses to symbolize their zeal. How proudly they lay their claim to the “word of God.” How effectively they move in to control a vil lage, a city, a county, a state that reluctanly bows to their cross or hesitates to “wash in the blood of Christ.” How dramatically they move about in pure white, flowing robs (in a world where many sym bolize white with purity) to impress their progeny and the non-believers. How fervently they preach their gospel of the “blueblood” the pure (?)) white race. And how many “repent, believe and are baptiz ed” in this “gospel.” Let us not be duped into believing that only those who wear the bedsheet-robes and burn the crosses and wear the emblems visibly are the only WASPS who kneel at, the Cross of the Klan. In far-flung places throughout the length and breadth of the “land of the free and the home of the brave” are those who wear this emblem of the KKK within their hearts. Although their hate is more subtle, their belief in their superiority is no less ardent. Their blueblood is so pure (?) that they fear a Negro, or Jew, or Catholic, or Oriental, or Mexi-' can, or any non-blueblood living next door. From where I view the current scene, there are two crosses or one blurry cross and it isn’t clear Just whose blood is being shed and for whom. Our only hope is that those who would redeem ff our sick world will pick the light cross and get* “washed" In the light blood lest we all perish at the Altar of Spiritual Ambiguity. Freedom From The Slufny In fluence of Those Who Do Not Care!” THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE.
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