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THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 11)65
Editorial Viewpoint
Words Os Worship
Most men are afraid of criticism and
especially public opinion. However, ail suc
cessful men have a sublime disregard of cri
ticised. It is said, if one does not get criticized,
he is not doing anything. No man can expert
to accomplish anything if he stands in terror
of public opinion. People will talk, about you
Racial I) emonstrations ()verworked
Read the daily newspapers, if you
please, and you will note some groups in
certain towns and cities are threatening to
“demonstrate" against some ra ial griev
ance. or to demand something they want.
We are afraid, however, that this technique
has been overworked to the point of be
coming ineffective or trite.
Much of the effort that goes into the or
ganization of these demonstrations is wast
ed, because of the lack of complete infor
mation concerning, what are the actual
facts?, how strong is the enemies’ resis
tance?, what are the enemies’ advantage s
and disadvantages?, what are the possibil
ities of the Negro group winning in the
cause?, what repercussions can Negroes
expect?, and what are some other solutions
to the problems of the local Negroes?
Jesus urged men to use foresight, think
straight and count the cost. He told two
parables: one dealt with the planning that
goes into buildng a tower, and the othei
told of a king who sizes up his strength
with that of his enemy’s before going to
war. The point of these two parables is that
we must not count on an introductory en
thusiasm to finish the job. And in our dem
onstrations, there is a lot of enhusiasm, but
this alone is not enough.
When the Children of Israel were about
to enter the Land of Promise, spies were
sent out to get the lay of the land and >i::
inhabitants. Many great armies have s«nt
out an advance task force for the purpose
of sizing up the enemy. The task force con
sisted of highly-trained soldiers, taught to
operate behind the enemy lines, living m
the country, speaking the language of the
people who live in the congested area,
counting on dissatisfied citizens of the
enemy country to give them support, and
sneak back, if they can, to the army’s
main headquarters with the information
needed to win.
Our civil rights demonstrators need to
model their procedures after that of the
great military geniuses who had foresight
and counted the cost before going to bat
tle. But, sometimes even then they failed
to use effectively the advanced informa
tion they had. What happened? They were
defeated. We have had a number of vic
tories, but do we have a statistical sum
mary of victories, defeats, and partial vie
The appointment of I. Beverly Lake to
the State Supreme Court will call forth
some criticisms and objections on the part
of Negro citizens. The reason; In running
for governorship of the state in previous
elections campaigns. Lake ran on segre
gationist platform. If you want to know
why he was appointed, The New. s and Ob
server says it is a palitical pay off in an edi
torial in the Friday, August 27 issue.
Regardless of what you may think about
the appointment, regardless of whether he
is anti-Negro, we must admit with The
News and Observer that Lake’s qualifica
tions can stand the test. “He is a scholarly
lawyer. He should make a good associate
justice, reflecting credit” on our state. Give
him time to prove his worth.
Lake has the right to dissent and express
publicly his opinions, even though they
be opposed to ours. One must admire the
man for, in the words of the N&O editori
al: “His politcal ambitions have always
been asserted with clear independence from
special interests. His fervor has never be; r.
mistaken for anything other than manly
commitment to his own conscience.”
One fourth of the school districts in the
South and border states were warned re -
cently they face loss of federal school aid
unless they have desegregated plans ac
cepted before the start of this school year.
This is more than fair.
Out of 5,135 school districts in 17 states,
1,278 have not submitted plans which have
been accepted. Some 930 submitted plans
are still being processed and nearly all or
these are from the South and border states.
Here is the picture: There arc 25,000
school districts in the nation and 74,820
have submitted compliance data. Os this
total 23.890 have been accepted and 930,
all but 15 from the 17 Southern-border
states area, are being processed.
We hope no school district is going to
Somewhere in the Bible there is a state
ment to this effect; “Study to show' thyself
a workman that needeth not be ashamed.”
This has been true of the late Mrs E. B.
Andrews, a retired Martin County teacher,
who departed ♦his life on June 21, 1964.
Memorial services were held recently
under the auspicies of the Edna B An
drews Parent-Teachers Association, which
paid tribute to a woman and teachet whe
worked more than 40 years in tin same
county as both teacher and principal. Mrs
Andrews’ immortality will be realized
The Hi;ihl to Be Dissenters
Will Southern Schools Lose Aid?
The Good Lives Alter Her
no master what you do. John the Baptist
cauie neither eating nor drinking and they
said he was a devil. Jesus came eating and
drinking, and what did they call Him? "A
wine bibber and a gluttonous man!” The mot
to of a great Englishman was "Never explain;
never retract; never apologize; get it done
and let them howl.”
to ties? In the few victories we achieved,
what were the factors that assured the
winning?
Time and time again we have mentioned
the great power of good public relations
and persuasion in the civil rights fight.
Some Negroes rely only upon demonstra
tions whch have in many instances become
“laughing stocks.” George S. Schuyler,
journalist, recently stated this idea suc
cinctly; “The well-established principles
and practices of public relations were nev
er used during the entire revolution by
those directing it. Every public relations
firm knows full well that in order to win
customers or “sell” an idea, you strive to
intrigue people, not repel them. You offer
people something, you don’t threaten
them To claim favors, you don’t instill
ft. r. You don’t woo people by calling them
“beasts instead of beauties.”
Not long ago, a Negro public relations
firm received $3,000 for negotiating racial
peace in a small Alabama city. Immediate
ly, Negroes accused the firm of practicing
a form of blackmail, and they said none of
the firm’s fee went to the civil rights move
movement. The public relations consul
tants wa re not obligated to contribute to
the civil rights movements, for they were
doing a legitimate business for profit. What
they acheived should stimulate wider use
of public relatons.
< yrent as we think Dr. Martin Luther
King. Jr. is, in the role of a demonstration
leader, he has not used the public relations
technique. He has seared the public con
science of course, but has yet to test the
power of persuasion.
Our various civil rights organizations
like CORE. SNCC, and so on, need a busi
ness and accountant staff to keep up with
tin finances, raise funds, and keep the or
ganizations out of the red No one has
much respect for an organization that is in
v- rat debt as has been reported of CORE,
In summary, the big civil rights organi
zations must, from now on, have a depart
ment of public relations, a department of
finance and accounting, and an advanced
corps staff to get the facts about the op
position and size up the possibilities of
winning against defeat. Otherwise, there is
a waste of effort and human resources.
Last: week, the newspapers showed a
photograph of Lester Maddox, the Atlanta
r> staurant owner, who closed his business
rather than serve Negroes, picketed the
White House and distributed free pam
r-i is. Regardless of what we may think,
the restaurant owner had the right to
p.cxt;i in support of his cause and in what
he believes.
An unfortunate incident happened last
" , k in Greensboro, Alabama, when an
87-year-old Negro w r as found beaten and
mutilated after reportedly criticizing civil
rights demonstrations and clung to his life
but died later in the week.
We can’t imagine that white people com
mitted this crime, for apparently he was
or. their side. It seems logical that the cul
prit is a Negro, who would tolerate no so
called “Uncle Tomism.” The County Dep
art sheriff is holding two Negroes on su
spicion, and an investigation and hunt are
continuing. One has allegedly confessed.
Who could be so cruel as to commit such
a dastardly crime upon one who has come
ahr s' tc the end of life’s road? Whoever
he is. let justice be done.
be stupid enough to try and violate the
it- ms in their approved plans. We also
want to congratulate North Carolina for
having the State Bureau of Invsetigation
alerted for any violations that may occur.
it has been stated that several small
school districts in Oklahoma and Texas
have no interest in federal aid and are not
■ xpeeted to participate. But happily the
Oft.ce of Education is trying to reach all
those it can identify. Imagine the stagna
tion of the educational process in such sec
tions of the country where the school offi
cials are unconcerned.
The time has come when Southern
school officials must demonstrate educa
tional integrity in the handling of federal
funds.
whenever an individual sees the 10-room
elementary school bpilt in 1960 and named
for her. Her name will span eternity as
long as a single pupil of hers live. ,
The teacher is the molder of young lives,
and when she is dedicated to her task,
when she is willing to walk the second, un
riemandf d mile, when she. is willing to be
gin at the bottom and work to the top, the
good she docs will Uve long after she has
gone to her heavenly reward.
We bow our heads in reverence to the
memos y of this bclovt d and dedicated tea
cher
Only In America
BY HARRY GOLDEN
THE MAKING OF A PRESI
DENT, 1964
BY HARRY GOLDEN
The opening chapters of T.
H. White’s book, “The Mak
ing of the President, 1964”
(Atheneum, $6.50), which con
cerns the assassination of John
Kennedy and the succession
of Lyndon Johnson, consti
tute the best writing or this
subject I have ever read.
Mr. White’s chapters'on the
social revolution reveal a deep
concern as well as an Inform
ed mind describing a pheno
menon without parallel In our
country. There Is no ques
tion but that Mr. White knows
exactly what Is at stake and
that he has studied the prob
lem for a long time.
All In all, The Making of
the President, 1964 Is a bril
liant book, with one Important
exception. Mr, White leans
backward when he tries to
have us believe that Barry
Goldwater lived up to an unof
ficial agreement with Presi
dent Johnson not to inject
race as an issue In the cam
paign.
It was obvious in the sum
mer of 1964 to most report
ers that Barry Goldwater and
his closest supporters were
bedazzled by the showing
Governor George C, Wallace
had made In Alabama and in
the Presidential primaries In
Wisconsin, Indiana, and Mary
land. If an unpopular South
ern nullifler could achieve
this support In the North, what
couldn’t a fine-looking, emi
nently more respectable can
didate, backed by a major
political party achieve?
Mr. White obviously was
not at the Greenville, S. C.,
airport on Oct. 29, 1964, if
fie says Barry Goldwater did
not use the race Issue during
'the campaign. Now mind you,
the Republican candidate vi
sited New York and Ohio once
and Conneticut not 'at all but
he went to South Carolina, 8
votes in the Electoral Col
lege, three times. His 27-
minute speech at Greenville is
the key to Barry Goldwater’s
bid for the “white” vote of
the South.
The warm -up speech e s
were delivered by former
Governor James F. Byrnes
Just Foi Fun
BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE
OFF ON THE JOB
It seems just like yesterday,
when we got off for a short
vacation. This week, the
Letter To
The Editor
HATE PERPETRATORS
To The Editor;
In view of the recent riots
that took place In L. A. and
other sections of the country,
I feel compelled to voice my
concern. Although not taking
an active part In w'hat hap
pened, I feel greatly asham
ed and humllated because
these are my people, and what
ever their motives or under
lying causes may have been,
did not justify the violence,
looting, and wanton destruc
tion of personal property. I
cannot speak for the great
er majority of Negroes, but I
feel that there are those who
snai« in* concern.
It Is easy for some of us
to say that riots of this na
ture does not affect us be
cause they are not happen
ing In our city, but it does
affect us all, both Negroes
and whites. The basis of
most of our troubles stern
from hate and ignorance. We
have to many perpetrators of
hate and violence among both
Negroes and whites. I be
lieve that we must maintain
law and order, but I also
think that it should be applied
fairly and Impartially to both
races.
I think that law abiding citi
zens of both races should work
together to create goodwill and
understanding, to prevent any
atmosphere of tension and
hostility. I also feel that
excerclsing certain freedoms,
there are also equal respon
sibilities that accompany
them.
Sincerely,
Wilbert M. Sanders
Raleigh, N. C.
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and United States Senator
Strom Thurmond, who had Just
bolted the Democratic Party.
What Barry Goldwater told
that crowd at Greenville is
• what gave him Mississippi,
Georgia, Louisiana, and South
Carolina in the election.
'*l am unalterably op
posed,” said the Arizona Sen
ator, “to the discrimination
in the Civil Rights Act of
1964 which treads dangerous
ly in the area of unfair dis
crimination in the private af
fairs of men. I know the
Government can provide no
lasting solution, that no law
can make one person like
another if he doesn't want to.
Government can do little more
than offer moral leadership
and persuasion. The ultimate
solution lies in the hearts of
men.”
Goldwater had to know bet
ter.
The issue was never wheth
er or not one man liked an
other; the issue was whether
American-born Negroes can.
vote, move about the society
as free men, participate in
public facilities, and compete
in the employment market on
a fair basis.
Government and law can
guarantee all of this, and this
is all the Negro struggle has
involved.
Today, there are Negroes
working in Southern cotton
mills doing a white man's Job
for the first time in history
because a presidential direc
tive insists no government
contracts can go to factories
which discriminate against
Negroes.
Barry Goldwater’s 27-min
ute speech was telecast over
38 television stations in 14
Southern states. It was re
broadcast the next day over
every radio station in the
South.
It was a segregationist plea,
pure and simple, designed to
attract the intransigent, hard
core segregationists. The
speech succeeded.
I would not cavil about a
book of such obvious excel
lence as White’s save on im
portant matters, Mr. White
himself would admit, if my
facts are correct, I have every
right to call him down.
freshmen are coming to start
the new term at Florida A&M
University. Football practice
started more than a week ago,
and the Marching 132-piece
band began rehearsal on Au
gust 27. We are scheduled
to begin work on September
1.
SHARKS, NOT SHRIMPS
Recently a photograph of a
Cocoa Beach man appeared in
the newspapers. Redisplayed
two sharks teeth thought to be
nearly 30 million years old.
They were found In a spring
near Bartow, Fla., and said
to have come from a Great
White Shark that may heave
been 100-feet long.
For interesting reading,
read some of the books on de
velopment of human and ani
mal life on this earth In the
evolutionary process. The
age of the dinosaurs is most
fascinating.
ROMANCE ADRIFT
Love will find away. Re
markable among them Ls a
sailor named Fltssimorss, who
wrote a note to a girl and
sealed it in a bottle. H®
threw it in the sea April
20, 1965, some 200 miles
south of Fastnet Rock Island..
Four months and 4,000 miles
later it was found by a man
on the beach of the Ochloch
nee River in Panacea.
The letter was well-pre
served, very short and had
only one request. It read
as follows:
Dear Finder, I would ap
preciate the pretty girl who
finds this letter to write me,
P. S. If it's a guy who finds
it, will he get his sister to
write me. Yours. P. Fitz
slmons, (But, what if the
guy had no sister?)
Other
Editors Soy .. .
“VOTING RIGHTS,' --FOR
BETTER OR WORSE
The Civil Rights A
The civil Rights Act of 1964
and the supplemental voting
rights law of 1965 row obtain
in spirit (widely) and letter
of the fundamental law of our
nation, Contrarily, over the
Southland disciples of pre-
Civil War traditions and fel
low-travellers elsewhere -re
crying “too much, too 500 n..”
However, the cry of “too
much, too soon, 75 was first
widely hearalded in 1870, In.
that year a majority of the
several states ratified the
Fifteenth Amendment granted
the right to vote to the form -
er slaves and all their pos
terity. The Amendment de
clared, "... Congress shall
have the power to enforce this
article,.
Notwithstanding, over a
per iod of almost one-hundred
PERHAPS AN INVENTORY IN LEADERSHIP IS NEEDED.
are in VOUR^EPARTHEHT 0
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
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>VHERE TO NOW?
A retired Negro Pullman porter asked the
>ther day, “Where do we go from here?”
He went on to evaluate the struggle as he
saw it at this point, describing in ominous
tones tire seeming increase In violent whits
opposition to Negro rights progress and be
moaning the apathy of Negroes who are yet
doing nothing in or for the struggle.
This reaction is not unique. There are
thousands of Negroes in this same qu&ndry.
What they must realise at this point is that
this Is the darkness that precedes the dawn.
The length of this darkness cannot now be
calculated.
One oi the facets of the non-violent move
ment is that things tend to get worse before
they get better. This is largely because the
resistors to change must make a last-ditch
effort in opposition.
They must try their slowly-fading strength.
They fear to release hold on their old idols.
The future, for them, Is uncertain and fore
boding.
The future is problematic for both Negro and
white. It calls for active Implementation of new
racial concepfs by both.
The Negro must strive for excellence in every
possible area of life. This begins with the Negro
recognizing his own humanity. He must achieve
a positive image of himself.
He must ask himself, “Who am I ? What
am 1 here for? What am I to become?”
,He must begin to learn to trust she white man
whenever the white man acts trustworthily.
HUMAN RIGHTS AT STAKE
ROCKY MOUNT - The world is being sorely
troubled about the issues of whether or not
to grant Civil Rights (Human Rights, if you
like that term better) to all Americans; to
citizens of all the world; of all color or shades
of color; Just to so-called “white' people? ’
And don’t you forget it. This world is going
to shake a lot mors - (the people, I mean)
if they don't start trying to treat all men and
women as equals la this world!
Our way of life is at stake unless and until
we find the ' common denomination'’ for racial
harmony and start applying it real soon' Love
and consideration of all people is first step in
removing racial distrust.
The Negroes who have “Been down so long until
being down doesn’t bother them”, have reach
ed a point of desperation which has caused
many of them to ignore the calm leadership
of their ‘moderate 1 ’ leaders when they do not
see results coming fast enough in this right’s
fight. “Mr. Charley” could tell many of us older
Negroes to “Wait” for a little piece of rights,
and we’d wait and wait, But not so, the young
Negro, whether he fee educated or uneducated,
He knows that he is an American who has been
or will fee as subject to death in Viet Nam as the
Southern white man who opposes his full free
dom. Therefore, tbg Negro is now willing to
fight some We to obtain his rights.
years, members oi the legis
latlve branch of the federal
government elected from
“rotten boroughs of the South
land” stayed the tide of en
forcement of ih« Fifteenth A
mendment. *.s a result of the
denial of the voting right to
a vast group of people, the
nation in our times envoys
“manners of a banal legacy.”
It follows that In spirit and
fact our nation heretofore has
never been committed' to the
evolution of the highest form
(republican) of government.
Contemplating the rea c -
tionary cry of “too much, too
soon,” the realistic evolu
tion of universal auffrange
(right tc vote) poses as funda
mental in the ordination of
“our new order of human
affairs,” Eventually, it is
an. 'inescapable historical, fact
that the Founding Fathers of
the st*pJjlS« conceived Os af
fording identical 'hopes or as
pirations for *ll people with
in Ms Swmnd#, Seemingly they
Alter Call
BY EMORY G. DAVIS. D. D,
Hews in I Views
BY J. B, HARREN
were motivated by the mis
givings and “trial and error”
in the long course of human
events behind them.
The power structure of the
Southland has repressed, or
denied the right to vote to
a vast group of people for
almost on® - hundred years.
Rut a denial of the right tc
vote, encompasses the denial
of social justice. This man
ner of things has resulted
in the spiritual or ideal con
tamination of the total popu
lace, and it has overflowed
(contamination) from the
Southlands into all areas of
the nation.
“Voting rights” in the
Southland for all people, for
better or worse and/or as of
the present are a triumph
for prophets over the long
wRy behind sis of those per
fections which are yet to be.”
Wtweae, we contemplate in
the spirit of an innumerable
caravan, and yesterday as it
were, the spirit of these pre
Answers to these questions ought give the Negro
something for which to live and to achieve. And
then, with the naval captain’s attitude of yester
year, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”
The white race must rid itself of the myth that
white is right. It must recognize that it is no better
or no worse than the Negro race.
This begins when the white man recognizes he
is NOT super-human but that his humanity is the
same as the Negro humanity. As a white
person, he must achieve an honest image of him
self--not an exaggerated or over-rated one.
Regrettably, the church has done little to ex
plain or come to firm grip with this dark period
that precedes the dawn of integrated life. It has
n&io onto old idols of worship and old icons oi
superiority
Both the Negro and white church have labored
to maintain their racial characters. Negroes join
ing former all-white churches is just another form
of tokenism.
Negroes and whites are NOT different. The basic
tenets of religion are not racial. If religion has a
racial character, it is man-made. And man will
have to change it.
The U. S. Congress has passed a Civil Rights
Law. Whai Law has the U. S, church passed?
The Law for churches and church people was
passed when Qod created man. Heaven awaits
the implementation of tnis Law of Love. When it
is implemented —actu<uju,eu —sucn man made bar
crumble. aS denomlnatlon . ritual and race will
J h6nWUI knOW where we wUI be going
Si SSJSJS£t«.
The answer to all this Is to grant basic
Human Rights now to all people. You hear
of threats of eminent racial friction from the
have-nots (of all races) everywhere. But, A
mertca must wake up and stop heeding the voice
of the segregationists who still believe they can
rule with an iron hand and continue to dish out
just a little bit of freedom to the Negroes as
they have over the past century. They need to
“gat the message” - some of their “Uncie
Toms’ and Thomasinas’ should tell their ‘Mr.
Charlies’ that there is a ‘now’ colored man on
the scene today who is tired of all the delay.
He wants to be a good citizen and help build
America into a greater Nation than it is. Tell
them they Just must give us a chance to get
the training for the Jobs to make us better
citizens.
It’s the whites, themselves, who are ‘not ready
for Integration.’ We are ready to give it a try.
We are willing to act as brother to all whites
who will accept our friendship. And we assure
him that we’ll never, never, treat him as bad
as he has us, How can any of us love God and
not love our black and white brothers and treat
him so?
When we learn and practice these things we
will lessen the Incidence of tragedies like Lps
Angeles, Calif, riots; Chicago, Philadelphia and
Selma, Ala.
vailed;
“...Today Is a triumph for
freedom as huge as any vic
tory that’s ever been won
on any battlefield. This act
(Voting Rights Act of 1965)
flows from a clear and simple
wrong. Its only purpose is
to right that wrong.
“Millions of Americans are
denied the right and can trans
form THE VOTE INTO A IN
STRUMENT OF JUSTICE AND
FULFILLMENT...”
We submit in regards to
the voting right for the total
populace of our nation, or the
cry in 1870 of “too much,
too soon,” still prevails in
the Southland. Yet the re
tarded moral or spiritual and
material development of the
total populace of the Southlano
involving this “instrument of
justice and fulfillment,” has
visited singular iniquities up
on the Southland overflowing
over the nation as a whole,
-THE INDIANAPOLIS RE
CORDER.