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T&E CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1988 W ords Os W orship 4 The Master, Jesus Christ, was a versatile Man, so that each urolessicn saw in Him their aide of His nature which appealed to them most. The doctor thinks of the Great Physi cian whose healing touch never failed, who toy seme mystery preceded modern science in Its still imperfect knowledge of the relation of the spirit to health. The preacher studies Don’t Be Afraid On “The Outside” Two Negroes have spoken out against Negro rioting and raiding the neighbor hoods in Cleveland, Chicago, Watts, and many more places. They are Dr. Jackson, of the National Baptist Convention and George S. Schuyler, a news columnist with The Pittsburgh Courier. In no uncertain terms, Dr. Jackson has been labelled an “Uncle Tom.” while Schuyler has been declared outside the mainstream of Negro thinking and a tool of tiie enemies of the Negro. Widespread opinion among some Ne groes has indicated a resentment against Schuyler, because he pointed out that e quality can never be given but has to be earned; that the white power structure can not be bulldozed and threatened into wide concessions which the loud-mouthed Negro agitators have been demanding, that there are enormous opportunities for colored people to improve their lot, if they devoted their time, energies and talents to it, and stopped following incindiary eadership. As Columnist J. B. Harren-once said so well, "They are strutting along like geese” making a lot of the wrong kind of noise. We have noted these fellows being inter viewed over television, but they create a bad image of themselves, because they can not use the Knig’s English orally as would be expected of a leader who should be able to present their followers’ cause before Presidents, governors, monarchs and kings of foreign countries. A minority group can express its opin ions and needs, but the will of the major ity is always carried out. Therefor- . when we hear some of the small-time guerrilla chiefs of civil rights threatening the power structure with • “If we don’t get what we want, we’re going to demonstrate, and dem onsrate, and demonstrate until we get it!” What’s W rong With Sleeping In The Library”? We came across an article that struck our attention, because it was concerned with an odd law in England relating to li braries. The officials of West Suffolk, Eng land have enacted a law making sleeping in the library a crime, punishable by law. And we think that this beats all. What’s so wrong about a library patron falling asleep for a few minutes? Research studies on sleep indicate that by? taking short naps a student rests himself and then can go back to studying more refresh ed. Fact of the matter is, some doctors rec ommend short naps in preference to long schedules of sleep like eight hours at one •tint. Don't Underestimate The White Backlash The activities of CORE. SNCC, and the £CLC are in full swing, and the “black power” movement is on its way. These ac tivities may carry some weight in the so lution of many of our racial problems and misunderstandings. But we must not let these cause us to underestimate the white backlash of a certain group of whites. The backlash force may overturn the po litical aspirations of many Candida: =s who lean toward the cause of the Negro, right new, while primaries are being conducted in several states—some of which are in the old Deer South. Drew Pearson stressed the point that many moderates may fall by the wayside when the ballots have been totalled and reported. Jesus, for years, has been standing out side the door of many churches trying to get in the thick of things. Last Friday, Walter Cronkite’s newscast depicted white Catholics in Chicago with extreme racial prejudice engendered by the demonstration activities of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the question of open housing. We noted that the members just wanted the priests to preach religion and let so cial involvement alone. They let their true colors show when they called Negroes— "niggers.” And this is not the example set by Jesus of Nazareth, Who ate with the publicans and sinners, and Who visited these people in their homes. Some self righteous Pharisees condemned Him se verely because He became socially involv ed in administering to the needs of the sick, the sinful, the deaf and blind, and the crip ple. Down in Tampa, Fla. we have another dreadful incident connected with the Tyler Temple Methodist Church at a quarterly conference. The members and pastor were involved in hassle over whether to sell the building to the Texas Oil Company and move to a new location, or remain at their present site. The majority of the members voted to stay where they were, but the pas was determined to get his way. He in stigated the removal of the church treas urer who previously had frozen church funds amounting to $20,000 in three Tampa banks. lditorial Viewpoint Church Members Shock Jesus the Sermon on the Mount and marvels that truths so profound should be expressed in words so clear and simple. We have a gcod many agitators who remember only that Christ denounced the rich and the Com munist recalls that His disciples carried a common purse. The attoreny has also been In trigued by the pleading of Jesus at His own trial. So Jesus is a savior to all people. They are simply fooling their adherents who will perish with them “when the deal goes down.” What many of our leaders need is the ability to do critical thinking. They fail to understand that men of the opposite race can be persuaded if they are approached in the right manner. Yes. white opponents of Negroes, can be persuaded if our leaders can put themselves in the Southern white man’s place. The persuaders, however, must apply the rules of psycholbgy in con trolling the behavior and action of the peo ple we want to give us first-class citizen ship. Leaders of such organizations, like CORE and SNCC. should pursue a pro gram directed by its executive board. This board should have at least one psycholo gist, one expert public relations man, one research officer to get facts and advance information concerning the most effective procedure to follow to reach a particular goal. Demonstrations have been long over worked by being used too often and too long. They have become trite, irritating and annoying, violent and ineffective in most instances at the present time. King was somewhat effective when his demon strations were non-violent, but now too many violent folks have joined thsse marches. By no stretch of the imagination, do they intend to turn the other cheek as King advises. Responsible leaders have remained si lent, because they do not want to be brand ed Uncle Toms. Don’t be afraid to be call ed Uncle Toms when you have sensible counsel to give. Schuyler isn’t. Dr. Jack son isn’t, and Jesus wouldn’t if He were here on earth today. Rabble-rousing lead ers must be put on the right road to escape the old mores of the past. A library patron doesn’t usually go to sleep unless he is terribly fatigued. If he snores and disturbs other readers, the li brarian might suggest that he leave the reading room. But, to assess a fine upon a person for going to sleep is absurd and ri diculous. Os one thing we are sure: The sleeper in a library is much more to be desired than lovers who come to talk hours upon hours, or persons who mark in books, or individ uals who cut photos and articles out of periodicals, and or persons who tear whole pages out of books. Certainly, these cul prits are detrimental to the property of the library', but the sleeper only involves him self, unless he snores. In Georgia, for example, the inimitable Ellis Arnold has an impressive approach to the voters, a good public relations staff, and a sound program that will advance the state. But never, for a moment, underesti mate Lester Maddox, the Dixiecrat restau rateur who appealed to the United States Supreme Court before he would give up his fight against feeding colored people; and when he decision went against him, he closed his business. Maddox may easily be come the “dark horse” who will upset the applecart by winning the governorship of Georgia. This challenge suggests that the propo nents of a progressive government for Geor gia must keep their hand on the plow and look ahead. The meeting erupted into disorder, and the law enforcement officers were sum moned to keep the peace. The presiding el der, who “chairmaned" the meeting tried to maintain order in a fair and impartial manner. One faction of the membership wants the pastor to resign. The majority of the members indicated, by majority vote, that they wanted their church to remain at the present location. Parliamentary law demands that the will of the majority must be carried out, and therefore, the pastor should have accepted the decision in good faith. It is reputed that the pastor disagreed with the major ity, and herein may lay the cause of the disorder. Time and again we have observed disor der in churches and their metings. Deacons have brought guns to some meetings, and on one occasion, one officer shot another inside the sanctuary of the church. Louis E. Lomax, in the Ne&ro Revolt, called at tention to factional fights at the National Bapist Conference when opponents to mea sures or - candidates "killed" microphones to create disorder that had to be settled by policeman. Every member has an obligation to see to it that all meetings in his church are conducted in a proper and peaceful man ner. Then, and only then, will Jesus Christ want to come inside. Behold He stands at the door—-please let Him in! Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE WARREN REPORT CRITICS Let’s start a rumor, you and I. There will be a point to It. Charles Whitman, the psycho tic sniper, sat the night before he wrought his carnage writ ing a letter. He told his friend Larry Fuess he was writing to a friend of his in Washing ton whom he hadn’t seen in five years. This was one of the letters the grand jury in Austin suppressed. The grand jury suppressed W'hitman’s last thoughts be cause, it argues, his letters libeled innocent people. But let’s say they didn’t libel in nocent people; let’s say they were inflammatory, let’s say they contained terrible charges. Who would he charge? Well, we don’t know. We can only make rumors. But we can guess that Charles Whit man served in the Marines about the same time another famous sn ip er named Lee Harvey Oswald served. Per haps they knew each other. Why not? And if they knew each other, is there any reason why Charles Whitman couldn’t have been the second as sassin ? The assassin who some believe helped Oswald murder President JohnF. Kennedy? Maybe that sup pressed letter is a confession. Maybe Whitman went atop the tower to prove what a crack shot he was after he had signed his confession. Absurd? Os course this is absurd. Whitman was psycho tic. Even I who have little truck with the theories of Sigmund Freud will testify that Whitman was acting out of a. classical Oedipus complex: he killed the mother whom he loved instead of the father w'hom he hated; he mounted a tall tower and asserted his omnipotence by killing people below. But my rumor, hereby res cinded, is no more implausible than the spate of books which now question the findings of the "Warren Commission. 1 can think of four off-hand: Mark Lane’s "Rush to Judgment” (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $5.95), Harold Weisberg’s "Whitewash; (Harold Weis berg; $4.95), Edward Jay Ep stein’s "Inquest” (Viking; $5) and Jean Stafford’s "A Mother in History” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $3.95). Many critics insist there must have been two assassins. Jwf m Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE ALL ABOUND ME On Monday, I was puru sing the PEN, a magazine, when carried a funny story a bout a farmer. When asked by a friend, “Do you worry about getting up and going to work? The farmer answered, “No brother, I don’t need to work, for work is all around me when I wake up,” ( Ha ha ha ha) My situation is much like the farmer but yet I must get up and go to work. But once I am in my office, the work closes in on me and it makes Other Editors Say.. SENATE CIVIL RIGHTS IN ACTION WILL SPARK MORE The 1966 Civil Rights Bill is in jeopardy in the United States Senate; not because of absenteeism, petty filibuste ring and just plain childish ness. The Senate’s problems are mainly twofold: (I) Sen ate leadership control the a genda or muster a regular quorum. (2) Ailing minority party leader - Senator Ev erett Dlrksen - unlike his attitude on the Civil. Rights Acts of 1964 and ‘65, Is a damantly opposed to this bill. The result is that while there are enough votes in the Senate to pass the 1966 Ci vil Rights Act if it is ever put to a vote, presently not enough can be corralled to in voke cloture. Satistically, there must be at least two-thirds (66) of the senators present and voting in favor of cloture before it car be invoked. In 1964, 41 De- THS CABQUNSAN Publishing Company "Covering the Carolmas" Published by the Carolinian Sl* E. Martin Street M N. C. 27601 Mailing Address: p. Q, Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Faid at Ra leigh, N. C, 2763$ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months *2 75 Sales Tax 08 TOTAL *2 B 3 One Year Sales Tax . 14 TOTAL "|464 Payable In Advance. Address all communlcntlons and make all wable ~^Sl*!f, ama, ? d Publishers. Inc., SSC> Madison Avenue, New York 17 «• * • National Advertising Re presentative and member of the Associated Negro Press and the United Press International Photo Service The Publisher Is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising codv unless necessary postage accom panies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy 0 f this paper. The basis for this insistence is that if Oswald succeeded he needed a fantastic amount of luck. Which I believe is pre cisely why Oswald did suc ceed. He had a maniacal courage and there is some thing about maniacal cour age which commands luck. The main criticism leveled at the Warren Commission is that it proceeded on the as sumption of Lee Harvey Os wald’s guilt. 1 see no reason why men cannot make pre sumptions about facts. The Mark Lane book makes much of the nonsense that Jack Ruby was in on it because he had such easy access to po lice headquarters. But what Mark Lane doesn’t know is that every town in America has at least one Jack Ruby; the fellow whose pockets are filled with police and sher iffs’ "courtesy” cards, and who is always butting in. Not only do you see him at police headquarters when they are bringing in someone, but you’ll also see him at big fires, wearing a fireman’s hat. And any semi-intelli gent conspirator would have had to be insane to take a Jack Ruby into his confidence. But to say that the Warren Report withheld vital evi dence, as two of these books charge, is to say also that the Chief Justice and his col leagues, who included at least three very "tcugh” men, Dulles, Rankin, and Gerald Ford, were in on a conspir acy to protect Jack Ruby. Why? But there’s no need to ask why. You are involved here with the renunciation of logic against which no logic can prevail. All of this is to say nothing of the brother of the murdered President, who, next to the widow, was the most devastated human be in g in America; another "tough” man, who happened also to be the Attorney Gene ral of the entire United States. Two months after the tragedy, Robert Kennedy told me, "... the family is satisfied it was this one fellow.” But 30 years after the as sassination of President Lin coln, a side-show promoter was charging 10 cents admis sion to "see the mum if ied body of John Wilkes Booth.” And so the Oswald books will go s on ana on; the "non-books” which seem to satisfy the hun ger and longing of those who like to be "in the know,” the poor fools. me both glad and sad. (Yes, indeed!) Cornyard, thinks I am fool ing' (Nay, not so). I advise student majors, do my own typing of letters, examination, course outlines, teach five classes, do therapy in the speech clinic, attend commit' tee meetings, and a tnousanci other things. No, siree, there are not enough minutes in the day to get enough done. But, like the Apostle Paul, I press onward toward the mark or the prize. This is true, very much, for sure. mocrats and 25 Republicans stood for cloture. In 1965, 47 Democrats and 23 Repub licans. The best count at the moment shows that the De mocrats can produce 47 votes in favor of shutting off de bate. This leaves a minimum of 19 to come from Repub lican ranks. Senator Dirksen, who con trols some 8 or 10 Republican votes, is not raising even his little finger in favor of clo ture. The Senator has vacil lated from an initial position of the bill being unconstituti onal to direct opposition to the housing section and now to full opposition to the entire bill. The paramount problems facing the 1966 Civil Rights Act, therefore, are: (1) It Is extremely late; (2) There is almost no pressure brom back home in comparison with that received in 1964 and *65. Many of the white religious and civic groups who openly supported civil rights last year and the year before are now silent. Some Senators insist that this is due to the black power movement. (3) Senator Dirk sen is a very sick man and is moving about on crutches. He is not pleased with the demonstrations held in Chi cago and Cicero and appears to lie yielding to his home district white backlash. (4) For the first time in history, northern members of the U nited States Congress are fa ce 1 with a real challenge be cause, technically, the housing section of the 1966 Civil Rights Act (Title IV) touches a ten der spot in the north. Thus, the northern white backlash is communicating negativelv on this bill with their senators. Add to this, the usual segment of segregationist southerners who are members of the Sen ate. A TEAM APPROACH IS NEEDED ... NOW! * i • »• . ■ l_-/rjSgf' __ 1/ .; JJ ‘ r .■'■ - ,*• ■ / "; fef| N -sis, POWER, POWER EVERYWHERE, BUT... “We don’t want any riots here,” admonished an elderly Negro woman who proffered this ad vice over the phone to me after hearing about a rather mild and orderly civil rights demon stration that was planned. At about this time, authorities in Atlanta were accusing Stokely Carmichael of fomenting violence in his efforts to arouse the conscience of people to protest there. In between what appears to be two extremes, you have the Uncle Thomas Negro, and the Do- Gooder White Liberal who keep yelling to high heaven, “Let’s settle this at a conference table.” Also in between is human inertia. Residual within this vast segment of humanity are latent resources that are needed to do more than a conference table can accomplish and with a san ity that is far more effective than violent riots. Recently, an AME bishop made an appeal for “religious power”. Apparently there has not been too much response to such an appeal. Now the question is whether “religious power” is as potent as preachers have teen boasting from their pulpits. If it does have the potency that could be applied against the problems Inherent in a racist society, then why hasnt’ it been amassed BRUSH VERSUS HATE OAKLAND, Calif - A novel method of fight ing hate messages scrawled on walls has been undertaken by Brother Anthony Bellesert, a priesthood student at St, Albert’s college. Tak ing a brush in hand, Bro. Bellesert has painted a 60 foot abstract mural, on walls of a tun nel, in a “beauty overrides hate*’ campaign. RACE RELATIONS REPORT NEW YORK - A 288 page book combining re ports and illustrated examples of such issues as race relations, church union, Vietnam, “God is dead” theological debate, and the California migrant workers” strike, is being published by the United Presbyterian church this month. The book, entitle “How in the World”, is edited by Earl K. Larson, coordinator for renewal and extension of the ministry. APPOINTMENT DURHAM, N. N. - North Carolina College has a new director of, its United Campus Chris tian Ministry the Rev. John F. Chappell, 27 of Beaufort, S. C„ who succeeds Henry G. El kins, Jr., who resigned to study toward a doc torate in sociology at the University of Chicago. Rev. Chappell was formerly a chaplain at the Boy Scout f ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico, AMERICANS, NOTE STOCKHOLM - Everyone talks about huge car repair bills and spiraling auto insurance rates, but no one does anything about it--except Swe dish insurance firms. For the past two years, insurance firms throughout Sweden have been operating their own repair business, and have cut repair charges by one-fifth. Rates are sche duled to drop even more. Best of ail, Insurance premiums have been stabilized. NOT THAT OLD NAIROBI - There are those who wouldn’t hesitate to take up the challenge of a 70 odd year old man to a fight, just to see how good he really is, but in the case of President Jomo Kenyatta last week, he had no taker. Kenyatta, recently returned from a month long stay on the coast, where he had been under the care of heart specialists, appeared before a rally of 40,000 people, looking vigorous and in a fighting mood. No one present seemed to doubt his “strength and fitness,” One other excuse seems to permeate the Senate attitude to do nothing at the moment a tout the bill. It is based on the false philosophy that a few Negroes, less than two percent, are engaging in vio lence. Therefore, all Negroes are bad and we will punish them by not passing this law. The ridiculousness of this sort of fallacious thinking is cer tain to prompt increased vio lence, we fear, on the part of the lunatic elements of both, Negro and white races. Altar Call BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D.D.D. NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL Religion And Race BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL World News Digest All need not be lost, how ever, if the vast majority of Americans who are in favor of continuing Federal legislative civil rights progress, will make their wishes known directly to the United States Senate, This can be done in two direct ways. First, and this is a verv good time - call upon your own local sen ators, roughly 50 percent of whom are up for re-election and who are presently cam paigning at home. Insist that they not be absent from the and put to work? There is no power in the apologetic, insipid, mild-mannered “word” preached from most of America’s “white” pulpits. There is no power In the emotion rousing, whoopin' and hollering preaching (?) that comes from most ol America’s “Negro” pulpits. Is this to say that there is really no “religious power” available at such a time of crisis? There’s too many complacent and -apat helical whites and Negroes saying, “We don’t want any riots,” who are not doing anything to help cure the ills that breed riots. Perhaps now is the time to call a National Conference on Religious Power, if indeed some such power can be found, and get to work on racism so that we can get on to other things that might make of this nation something great and honorable for human existence. The continued Black Power-White Power strug gle will only destroy the nation. Meanwhile, proponents of Religious Power boast some kind of connection they have with “divine” Power that supposedly will aid and abet tinman power. We may be missing man’s greatest opportunity to save himself by ignoring the ' liar of Re ligious Power. and an interne in the Student Inter racial ministry, New York. WHITES GUILTY WASHINGTON - More widespread thanihe pub licized act of rioters protesting denial of civil rights is the “massive disobedience” of white people in their disregard for laws passed to bring about equality of Negroes, declared the Most Rev. Peter I. Gerety, Bishop Coadjuter, Port land, Me. Speaking at a special 1 abor Day mass, in the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Church, he noted that “The Negro knows that these laws are disregarded and disobeyed at every turn and he is the victim of this ouiet lawlessness.” CHURCH’S STAKE SELMA, Ala. - The United Presbyterian Com mission on Religion and Race, disclosed last week that it will “continue to press for the rehiring of teachers...dismissed from their jobs in Wil cox county (A1a.)...” The commission noted “The stake of the United Presbyterian church in Wil cox county demands that we do everything pos sible to assist the schools to obey the dese gregation order (handed down by a U. S. Court of Appeals).” The church's direct interest is in connection with four schools for froadmen es tablished by the denomination after the Civil War. VISA RULES LUSAKA - Effective as of Sept. I, new re gulations went into force to tighten existing laws on visa requirements. The new rules are that citizens of all non-British Commonwealth coun tries--including Rhodesia—will need entry or re entry visits to be admitted to Zambia. DEVALUATION??? BUENOS AIRES - Yet another devaluation of the Argentine peso is in the rumor stage among business, labor and government circles, although government officially denies any devaluation. The peso, currently pegged at 215-218 per sl, before last Aug. 8, was 202-205 to the dollar. CAPITAL SHIFT BLANTYRE, Malawi - The Malawi government has launched upon a S3O million project to trans fer the nation's capital from Zornba, In the south, 130 miles to Lilongwe, in the northwest. Build ings for two ministries—national resources aad works—have already undergone construction at the new site. Senate during this very cru cial period and that they stand up for cloture as well as pass age of the bill. Second, flood the Senate and especially your own horn# state Senators with telegram# and letters and calls decrying their ridiculous inaction otj this important measure which the longer delayed, is bound to produce more street violence and more racial disorder#, -THE LOUISVILLE DEFEN DER.
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