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THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1963
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The self-righteous Pharisees, during the
4fene when Jesus was on earth, never tired of
criticizing the Master for His social contacts.
They were shocked over His companions, but
He was not. That He had condemned Him
self according to their formula worrried Him
not a whit. His liking for folks overran all
social boundaries; He just ruld not seem
to remember that some peop an ice peo-
We judge a man by his stewardship in
whatever career he follows. It it is on this
basis that we venture ’to survey the influ
ence of Congressman Adam Clayton Pow
ell, Jr. from Harlem, New York,
Back in the 1940’5, when the Rev, Dr.
Powell was elected to the U. S. Congress
without a primary run-off, because he had
in his vest pocket the votes of all parties,
his pronouncements gave the Negro hope
that the newly-elected man from Harlem
would team up with Rep. William Daw
son, from Illinois, in behalf of the Negro’s
cause.
Powell had demonstrated his social ac
tion ability by leading Negroes in a move
ment to get better jobs with the telephone
and electric companies of the city. This
swung him into the city council where he
was influential.
We remember that Powell said in his
first newspaper conference that he would
not be a silent legislator, and that he would
be vocal. To this promise, he has been true.
When other Congressmen are drowned out
in a bedlam of noise, the House will stop
talking and listen to the Harlem represen
tative—but, in many instances, they won't
follow him. P. L. Prattis of the Pittsburgh
Courier once said that Powell ought to be
a leader of a team, but he isn’t.
Powell has been criticized for his absen
teeism from the sessions, for his jaunts a
round the world with female companions,
For the next six months, talk about re
quiring manufacturers of automobiles to
meet certain safety rules has taken news
paper priority. Well, last week. President
Johnson signed that landmark safety auto
highway package into law.
The President and his supporters hold
that the legislation promises “to cure the
highway disease” by requiring auto-mak
ers to build safer cars and encouraging
states to develop effective traffic safety
programs. Mr. Johnson observed that over
the past Labor Day weekend. 614 United
States citizens died in automobile acci
dents, compared with 29 U. S. servicemen
killed during the same period in the Viet
Nam war.
President Johnson has focused attention
on two prerequisites for increasing auto
mobile safety, namely: (1) built-in safety
features in future new automobiles and (2)
the initiation of more intensive and effec
tive traffic safety programs by the several
states across the nation. If this is done, we
ere confident that there will be some re
duction in highway deaths.
But this is not all that should be done,
arid we want to add a third factor—the de
velopment and encouragement of drivers
with good and safe driving habits. The
State of Florida, for example, has been em
phasizing, through television and other
Does Stokely Camiehael Talk Too Much?
The inexperienced Stokely Carmichael,
CORE’S “black power” leader, was recent
ly bound over to a Grand Jury in Atlanta
on charges of inciting to riot, and then he
was returned to his jail cell. His bond is
SIO,OOO.
We learn that Carmichael will remain
in jail while his associates will take his
cause to the federal courts in an effort to
atop arrests of racial demonstrators.
“Mr. Carmichael is a political prisoner,
captured by the Atlanta police and chooses
to remain in jail,” James Forman, acting
chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coor
dinating Committee (SNCC), pronounced
(Snik), told a news conference.
The charge:
“Inciting an outburst Tuesday in which
1,000 Negroes pelted police with rocks and
bottles and toppled Mayor Ivan Allen. Jr.,
from a car when he tried to reason with
them.”
The Response: According to daily news
papers, these were the responses:
1. He (Carmichael) was denounced by
his own people. (Negroes).
2. He was denounced on the floor of the
U. S. Congress as an “anarchist."
3. His one-time associate. Julian Bond,
the Negro representative-elect in the Geor
gia House, announced that he was‘pulling
out of SNCC.
4. The Atlanta police arrested Stokely
Carmichael.
The events recounted, and others which
were not made public, transpired just as
quickly as that.
Stokely Carmichael is now challenging
the validity of five Georgia code sections
on insurerctions, inciting to riot, riot and,
unlawful assembly, Atlanta’s disorderly
conduct ordinance, on the grounds that he
is being denied “the fundamental guaran
tee of free speech, press, assembly, and the
right to petition the government for redress
of grievances.”
We 'admire the courage of Mr. Carmi
chael in going to jail and his decision to
refuse bond for release, but in doing so he
he shown no greater courage‘'than thous
ands of other Negro youths who went to
jail for their stand on the question of equal
rights. Two or ago, the demon
stration method yas-SMgctive when applied
at the right place and time, but even then
Words Os Worship
Editorial Viewpoint
Adam Clayton Powell : A Critique
We Support Auto Safety Law
pie, proper people, and some are not. Hence,
He said to the Pharisees, “Won’t you ever
get over nagging at me because I eat with
ou'siders? Who needs t*>“ doctor most—they
that are weli or they that are sick?” Jesus
soon added, “Do you suppose God care® for
forms and creeds and occasions? Take that
home and puzzle over It.”
for his attempt to avoid paying a settle
ment in a libel suit he lost, and for his
shedding of several wives—especially does
this look bad for a preacher. Now the ru
mor is that he is looking for a fourth wife,
Miss Corinne Huff, a member of his staff.
The Fayetteville Observer, a Tarheel
newspaper, in an editorial on 8, 1966, call
ed attention to another disturbing fact,
thusly:
“. . The latest reminder of this fact
(flagrant abuse of position) was his wife’s
complaint last week that checks in pay
ment of the $20,578 annual salary she has
drawn from the public till since 1958 as a
member of her husband’s ‘staff aren’t
reauhing her.”
Mr. Powell may not be doing anymore
than what numerous other Congressmen
have done in the past. Certainly, they have
taken jaunts around the world at the pub
lic expense. But this is no excuse for Mr,
Powell.
The Harlem Congressman is in a respon
sible position where he can do much good,
and we give him credit for checking on
monies appropriated to Southern states by
the introduction of various amendments.
However, his ethical appeal as a leader
of a downtrodden race has much to be
desired. The very nature of his role de
mands that he be a good example, and
more important still: He must live above
suspicion.
news media, the practice of “defensive auto
driving.” By this term is meant driving
safely yourself, but most of all, looking out
for the mistakes made by the careless and
wreckless driver.
No matter how many safety features are
built in a new automobile, no matter how
many many traffic safety laws are enact
ed, we will still have more unnecessary
deaths on our highways if drivers are care
less and violate good traffic laws.
We support the three-pronged attack on
unnecassary deaths on our highways. Let
us repeat them for emphasis (1) produc
tion of safer cars, (2) initiation and en
forcement of improved traffic laws, and
(3) the increase of drivers who handle their
cars defensively to avoid accidents and
deaths.
It is hoped that when our automobile
manufacturers make new cars with improv
ed safety features, they will not increase
the retail price. President Johnosn has apt
ly stated, “Safety is no luxury item, no
optional extra. It must be a formal cost of
doing business.”
The public must be trained to become
safe drivers, and the law enforcement agen
cie% must exercise justly and impartially
action in order to effect the
desired safety.
it was probably ineffective more times than
it was effective.
The original idea of non-violent demon
stration was that a few trained adherents
would march to call attention to their grie
vances. This was perhaps a more positive
approach, since all Negroes are not non
violent. The character of the present dem
onstrations erupts into violence.
While the Negro is militant, he must em
ploy it with tact, ’wisdom, and persuasion.
The small demonstration riots never a
mount to much in solving the Negro’s
problem, for they fail to win our enemies
and make them our friends. SNCC lead
ers, in carrying out their doctrine of “black
power”, are actually weakening and un
dermining their sphere of influence. It is
reported that SNCC is in financial straits,
because its income is rapidly dwindling.
The public, with funds, since SNCC is not
economically independent, will call the
tune to SNCC’s dance. If you don’t believe
this, watch the turn of events during the
next six months.
A lot of newspaper readers will take of
fense at this editorial, but the truth is that
SNCC is too weak financially to call its
dance tunes. And many of those persons,
who may villify us for speaking our mind,
will find that we are right before the year
has expired. SNCC’s supporters may talk
and rant, but how many of them are will
ing to dig deep into their pockets for SI,OOO
annually to keep the organization in the
black. It takes a lot of money to make
“the SNCC gospel run.”
The doctrine of “black power” has never
appealed to an intelligent Negro, who is
capable of thinking for himself. Our first
rate leaders (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Roy Wilkins James Farmer, Whitney
Young. A. Phillip Randolph) have been
wise enough not to fall for this trap.
We think that maybe Stokely Carmi
chael talks too much, and his appearance
at news conferences and on te’ecasts have
blown up his ego. He is sometimes talking
out of both sides of his mouth, some things
which make no logical sense. And alas!
Carmichael may find out too late that one
will never be sorry for thinking before
speaking, and for looking before leaping.
Enough said! Finis!
Only in America
BY HARRY GO ,DDN
A MURDER AND A DIVORCE
BY HARRY GOLDEN
He had lived out side of Pine
ville, N.C., all his life in a
tarpaper shack growing a f#w
acres of tobacco every year.
Life was no picnic. He told
her continuously and honestly
if contentiously, "I don’t want
no stew meat and rice for din
ner. I had stew meat and rice
for breakfast yesterday, I had
stew meat and rice for lunch,
and stew meat and rice for din
ner. This morning I had stew
meat and rice for breakfast
and I don’t want no stew meat
and rice for dinner,”
With that, he jammed on his
tattered Stetson and walked all
the way to the PineviUe court
house to pay his kerosene and
light bills.
But when he got back, sure
enough, there was stew meat
and rice bubbling on the stove.
It was like she couldn’t speak
English, he said later, “like
she hadn’t never come from
Pinevllle. I told her I didn’t
want no stew meat and rice and
by' god that’s what I meant. No
stew meat and rice.”
So he walked to the corner of
the room, hoisted his shotgun
and pulled the trigger. No one
could ever say he hadn’t told
her. Os course, it is also true
that when he gets stew meat
and rice in the state peniten
tiary he’s going to eat stew
meat arid rice and like it. This
fussy eater isn’t going to get
it at home anymore.
Another fussy eater up in the
suburbs puts in a very hard
day. What with perusing the
W'all Street Journal on t h e
train in, consuming the six
martinis at luncheon and play-
Just For Fun
BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE
SEE, HOW THEY RUN
This past week, the life of
Hannibabl, the Carthagin
ian General, became my
reading interest. The book
that I read told how the
Carthaginians crossed the
Alps in Italy and swooped
down on Rome while the cit
izens lounged in luxury.
I was tickled mightily with
the strategy that Hannibal
used to outwit the Roman
legions that marched almost
automatically to the com
mands ot their officers. The
manner in which Hannibal
confused those “Old pros”
was a, thing of joy.
Letter to the Editor
DON’T YOU CARE?
To The Editor:
During the busy and fast
times in which we are'liv
ing. we seldom have time to
observe the things that go
on around us. How often
have we traveled the streets
of the city and noticed the
human sufferings within our
midst? I have often heard
my pastor make this remark
during church services:
“Would a man rob God?”
I would like to ask this
question of men: Don’t you
care that we still have Negro
families, human beings who
are still living in dwellings
which are unfit for human
habitation? We are living in
a modern age now, and are
supposedly civiliezd people,
who walk, talk and discern.
Can we truthfully say that
we can pass these places ev
ery day on our way to and
from work and our con
sciences do not bother us?
Os course there are some of
us who won’t be affected or
pretend not to be, for we are
so smug and comfortable,
living in our ivory towers
vlth all the push button
conveniences that we are not
too concerned.
But we must be reminded
that it hasn’t been too long
ago that some of us were
living in homes without all
the modem conveniences we
have now at our disposal.
The pot bellied stoves and
back porch Johns are still
vivid in some of our mem
ories.
Other Editors Soy..
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COUNTS
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ing bridge on the train back
at a nickel a point, he’d like
to indulge himself at dinner.
So he asks her, “What do you
have tonight?”
And she says, “I ha vea
four-pound sirloin on the ro
tisserie.”
“No, ” he says. “What
else.”
“I could do the loin.lamb
chops.”
He shakes his head.
“Mock turtle soup?” she
suggests.
He settles for a souffle gar
nished with delicious pine
apple.
Well, whe thinks, tomorrow
is another day. When he troops
home and asks, “What’s for
dinner?” she answers,
“Pressed duck.”
‘ No go d ” he says, “I had
coq-au-vin at the Pavilon this
noon.”
“Mock Turtle?” she sug
gests timidly. That comes in
cans.
“Taka the veal cutlets out,”
he says. “I’d like veal par
migiant.”
Finally, of course, her tem
per gets tee better of her. She
tells him one night all she has
is that steak she put on the ro
tisserle six days ago. There
not being a shotgun in the
house, he takes her to dinner,
a sacrmce on nis part since
she knows he hates to eat out
twice in one day.
In the affidavit, he sulks,
he’s goingto tell the judge what
a lousy cook she really was.
The American palate has
ruined mo: • marriages than
all them painted wimmindown
on the square ever thought of
ruining.
While in Italy, Hannibal
had to depend upon the tri
bes he could persuade to his
side. When the battles be
came too hot, some semi
civilized tribes deserted.
However, when the fortunes
changed, they returned to
the main ranks to share in
the glory.
Remember Gideon, who
took 300 men and routed the
M'idianites. But Gideon
started out with 32,000 men
—many of whom went to the
army to get away from their
nagging wives.
Ah—ha!—the hot military
affray was more to be fear
ed than nagging wives.
The Bible says that we are
aur brothers’ keeper, and
these people are our broth
ers, whether we are willing
to accept them or not. If we
axe not concerned, when we
see some of our people living
in these rat-infested places,
we .just aren’t living right.
One absolute truth that we
all know is that we have
been divided too long.
Call it envy, greed, jeal
ousy, or by any other name,
we still have it ,and unless
we learn to cooperate more
fully with one another we’re
going to be struggling for a
long time. We can’t sit a
round and wait for The
Great Society and the Pov
erty Program to do every
thing for us. We must make
some effective moves our
selves. It will take a con
centrated effort on the part
of all of us to do what we
can to help remedy some of
these situations. Raleigh
may not be Watts or Chica
go, or Washington, but we
still have our ghettoes here.
The most amazing thing to
me is the lack of interest
shown by some of our local
churches and organisations
in these matters. If I went
through this life without
trying to help some one less
fortunate than myself, I
would think this life wasn’t
worth living.
Sincerely,
WILBERT M. SANDERS,
Raleigh, N. C.
issue. In the 1960 presiden
tial election, Richard M. Nix
on carried the State of Cali
fornia by the absentee vote.
There are countless exam
ples of absentee votes mak
ing "the difference btween
defeat and victory in close
elections.
It has been estimated that
there are nearly a million
Americans presently outside
tire continental limits of the
United States. This includes
the thousands of military
men serving overseas. In ad
dition to this, there axe al
ways countless thousands of
potential voters away from
their home precincts on E
lection Day but still within
the borders of the United
States. The mobility of the
American people makes the
absentee ballot a highly sig
nificant factor in every elec
tion. It enables millions of
American citizens who would
otherwise be disenfranchised
to cast a ballot for the man
of their choice.
XI you expect to toe a,way
from your permanent resi-
PRESISTING IN TRYING TO FOOL HER!
1 'WHEN WILL THEY SOBER UP?”
A Negro mother broke into tears as a white
seminarian said prayers in memory of the wo
man’s son who was beaten to death at the spot less
than four months previous.
We wrote about the brutal slaying of this pro
mising young man in this column. We told how
one of his high school teachers, my wife, had seen
unlimited potential in him. He had gone to the now
infamous city of Cicero, aChicago suburb, to look
for a job. >
The mother cried as she stood with several hun
dred marchers who demonstrated in Cicero the
first Sunday of September. The marchers had
stopped at the fatal spot to memorialize the son and
call attention to the rank hatred resident in not
only the four white youths indicted for his murder,
but to the seemingly insurmountable wall of hatred
white racial prejudice has built.
Flanked with Nazi flars and white supremacist’s
banners, amid the jeers, taunts and obscenitjes
°f hatemongers, the voice ofGod could scarcely be
heard by people standing nearby.
Out of this mother’s painful heart she said she’d
"rather deal with a man drunk with whisky than one
drunk with ignorance, because when he is sober you
3URPJRISE ELEVATION
CALABAR, Nigeria— The Rev. Brian Davis
Usanga, 37-year-old son of an Eastern Nigeria
tribal chief, had to interrupt studies at Catholic
University to return home to take up new duties
within the church. The priest was w> 'king to
ward a Ph.D. in anthropology when h learned
he had been named auxiliary bishop of Balabar.
That caused a temporarv cancellation o f his
studies, which he hopes to complete sometime in
the future.
RIOT SITE
LOS ANGELES - Cornerstone-1 aying cere
monies are to be held Oct. 2 for the Church of the
Living God, the first religious edifice to be built
in the south central (Watts') area of the city since
the riots of August, 1965. Begun before the riots,
the $195,000 structure, now nearing completion,
will seat 270 in the °anctuan' and 235 in a fel
lowship hall.
SERVE ALL
World News Digest
BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL
OIL SEARCH
CAPE TOWN - Temporarily setback because
of the recent assassination of Premier Prime
Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African
government is nonetheless going ahead with plans
to thwart a new offensive by Afro-Asian nations
against its apartheir-policies. Embarking upon
a self-sufficiency program, the government has
allocated $7.7 million for the purchase of oil
tankers, and has instituted an all-out search
for oil deposits within its borders.
NEW SOUND
TUNIS - Stambeli Is the newest music erase
to come on the jazz scene. As yet confined to
Tunis and the Mediterranean area, efforts are.
being made to introduce it to Europe and A
merica. The stambeli, executed by a four-man
band playing three Instruments - goumbri (lute),
shkashel (iron castanets) and banga (tom tom)-
is a music form brought across the Sahara by
black victims of Arab slave traders. Until a
dence on Election Day, you
owe it to yourself as a citi
zen to obtain an absentee
ballot. The right to vote is
the most fundamental of all
our rights. Thousands of Ne
gro citizens in the South, are
striving ceaselessly to exer
cise this right under threat
of violence. The behavior and
performance of officehold
ers, at every level of govern
ment, is dictated by the
knowledge that periodically
they must come before the
bar of public opinion in the
polling booths.
The caliber of men in pub
lic life is a direct reflection
of the wisdom and judgment
exercised by the voters.
When it is time to vote, you
are the only person in the
booth. If you cannot be there
personally, let the absentee
ballot serve as your proxy.
There are too many issues
now at stake in the ar»a of
Altar Call
BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D. ‘
NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL"
Religion And Race
BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL
civil rights and economic
advancement to "let George
do it."
—THE LOUISVILLE
(Ky.) DEFENDER
MODERATES
PREDOMINATE
North Carolina always has
been a conservative state. It
was next to the last to ratify
the federal constitution, and
it was next to the last to se
cede from the Union. Today,
it is conceded to be the moe
progressive southern state.
During this era of racial
turmoil, this state has kept
its head. It is a land of equal
opportunity for the quali
fied. About 1919, what was
known as the "grandfather
clause” expired and Negroes
were given the ballot.
In contrast with Missis
sippi, North Carolina har
taken social and educational
changes in stride. A law is a
can reason with him.”
What a text for a -on.; m, pr, acher’ A night’*
« 1 o e p may cure a dnm k, but what will it take to
cure ignorance-bred hati ed?
The father’s com symbolizes the attitude
that we, the Negro in spite of the urgings of those
.vho would have us no. at \ ic-ience with violence,
must take to end the stupor of ignorant hate.
“1 grieve for my boy who was killed, but I also
grieve for these people so full of hatred.”
Slow and disheartening is t!u» process may oe,
jhere is only one alternative to hate. It is love.
■ Love. your enemies'
Biblical though it may torn id, it "ill take a qua
lity of love projected and actualized by oppressed
Negroes to eradicate the hate in the hearts
souls of "those who would, through ignorance of the
essential meaning of life, Into other humans be
cause they are different in color.
We cannot Wt. must not desert non-violence
and love! It is the only power that will endure,
when all other y- we: has dissipated itself in the
elements of Its own self-destruction.
The Altar of Love k us no color. It’s at the
end of a ti ail of broiom h a, is. But, to it we must
hasten.
WESTMINISTER, M l. Members of the all
white Organized Bible Class Association of Wash
ington, meeting i .•■ ...mii.il c nference last week
were told “Followers of Christ cannot pick and
choose those they serve, but must serve all, re
gardless of complexion.” These words were
spoken by Mrs. J. Warren Hasting, an ordained
minister, and widow f the former minister of
National City Christ;,>n church, Washington.
ALL JOIN IN
PITTSBURGH A nail to organized labor
throughout I‘ennsyh. o ‘ join organized reli
gion in a united conscienc crusade for social jus
tice and civil rights for Negroes” was made at
the eighth annual ! a his Day Mass in Civic arena
last week. The call < issued by Bishop John J.
Wright, Pittsburg C ttholir liocese, who pro
posed the establishment of ah; an relationscom
with other religious groups to implement the
crusade.”
year or two age, it was played only in the Tuni
. sian black community.
i NAME CHARGES
i KUALA LAMPUR - There have been some name
; changes made in the independent nation of Ma
; laysia. Former British colonies of Sarawak and
i Sabah (North Borneo) have been renamed East
; Malaysia, while the one time federation of Ma
laya became West Malaysia. The terms Ma
layan and Bornean are no longer to be used.
HOT AND SALTY
NEW DELHI - Fbr the odd facts department,
scientists working with the International Indian
Ocean expedition, have come up with these gems:
The Indian Ocean has the fastest mid sea cur
rent and coldest surface water in tne Tropics,
as well as the hottest and saltiest waters. The
fast current is the Samali current, running north
past Africa and Arabia at speeds up to seven
knots against four for the Gulf Stream, and
Kuroshio in the Pacific.
law, whether we like it Oi
not, and good citizens wll*
observe it.
Segregation, for example,
is more angles than purely
racial. There are some whe
believe that adolescent*
should attend separate
schools. Whether it does
now we do not know, but
some years ago the city of
Atlanta had separate high
schools for girls and boys.
Segregation is practiced by
some social groups also.
North Carolina today Is
spending more on Negro ed
ucation than it soent on all
its educational institution* a
few years ago. We continue
to make progress along taJS
lines-—on what we think and
how we translate thoughts
into action. All of this be
cause our leaders are mac
erates and not extremist#.
—THE INratTOTOBIfT