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ng CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 196« 4 THE WORLD LOCKS CUT UPON UY and evalu ates our stewaidship. This is made very vivid by the Apostle Paul in one of his writings: "Wherefore we are encompassed by so great a cloud of wit ues'.os. let us lay aside every weght which may so easily beset us, and run the race with patience— looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our The Magnetics Os Antique Auomobiies Have you ever had the urge to own an antique automobile and begin an interest ing hobby? If so, you are not alone, for we have a host of “antique car” fanciers throughout the country. Recently, the gathering of antique car owners in Florida was magnificent. It was rewarding to the spirits of those individ uals who get joy and vibrancy in life through the abstract. Some 237 antique automobiles, with an estimated 500 persons, made the trip to Ocala. This is understandable when one recalls how the antique car craze took hold in this country a few years ago. Persons who want to restore an old car to running condition, and who have the desire to have a good time, qualify for membership into this group of hobbysts. On the scene were a 1924 Dodge touring car, a 1931 Model A Ford (the aga-old gem), a 1937 Buick, a 1919 Mercedes-Benz, a 1913 Ford “T” Speedster (called the Weeki Wachee Spring mermaid), and oth ers. Any one of these vehicles merited a place in the parade of persons belonging to the Veteran Motor Car Club of America. Well do we remember that dynamic “Model-T Ford” touring car, the car with that “go” in all kinds of weather and road conditions. Note how one pulled down the spark and gas levers to meet, throwing the car wide open for speed. It could be fixed by tying together parts with wire, and it seemed to be able to run with little water in tiie radiator. The best it could do on the highway was an average 45 miles per hour. (But some youth, souped up the Negroes Must Not Dodge The Dra?- 5 Over the nation, a number of draft dodg ers have received indictments which ap pear to be inceasing. In New Jersey, for example, dodging the draft is on the increase and has more than doubled in the last four months. In this state, indictments for breaking the Selec tive Service law now run between 30 and 50 a month. Even when caught these days, many young men absolutely refuse to accept in duction into the armed forces of the Unit ed States. This is indeed alarming, when compared with the fact that formerly “it was routine” for men to accept induction once they were tracked down by the FBI. We hope that this trend will not gain support, from Negro youth, in spite of the public statements of SNCC leader, Stokely Carmichael, tvho said recently: “If classi- Freedom Budget An Evaluation A multi-billion-dollar “freedom budget”, conceived by leading economists to wipe out poverty by 1975, was proposed recent ly by civil rights leader. A. Philip Ran dolph. The Sleeping Car Porters’ chief, AFL CIO, has the support of other leaders in the civil rights movement. The program, proposes a minimum wage of $2 an hour by 1958 or 1969, guaranteed income for the jobless; job projects and job training to achieve full employment of the employable; 100,000 new public school classrooms and an equal number of additional teachers; double expenditures for hospital construction, and a 50 per cent increase in medical school graduates. Reliable reports indicate that such a gigantic proposal would cost per year, $112,.8-billion, to an eventual $155-billion with the additional federal spending total ing about $lB5-billion over 10 years. It is admitted that the audacity of this proposal captures the imagination and bids fair to relieve poverty in many areas. But. we can’t conceive of this money wiping out poverty by 1975. It will take much longer than this—probably a generation— for the development and maturation of the Adam Clayton Powell Is Wrong! The leadership of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (Harlem) has been let down another notch by his failure to com ply with a lower court order in a long standingg libel judgment in connection with $164,000 awarded a New York widow who was called a “bag woman” by the Congressman. As yet, it appears that the lawmaker has not paid off. How is it possible for him to defy the court? Does he think he can wig gle off the book? No. indeed! Powell, an ordained minister, for some unexplained reason, has ignored two pre vious orders for his arrest for civil con tempt, but they do not specify sentences. Powell is no fool, and he is aware that the appellate ruling said a Congressman “must respond to civil process and is liable for all consequences of disregarding the Words Os W orship Editorial Viewpoint failth.” A lot of times, a man thinks he is pulling the woo! over people’s eyes, but he isn't The pub lic—ou.- neighbors, associates, and fellow workmen on jobs—are like a stadium full of people watching a great sport and they can see the mistakes we make clearly. “ole gal”, and she would get up to 50—in rare cases, 55). Remember that old Dodge, with the gears shifting backward in comparison with the modern standard shift. The 1924 Buick had a stick shift laterally opposite that of the present standard shift. In those days, it took art to learn how to drive a car, with coordination of the feet in manipulating the accelerator and clutch. Drivers today can learn to operate a car with simple ease and move off like a breeze. Think of the waterless “cooling” Frank lin, and we believe it was electric powered (yet we could be wrong on this point about the power) . What about the curtains to ward off the rain in touring cars? As the “flivver” got old, the cold North Wind seeped in between the curtains that were made to keep out the rain and the cold. Not many people had car heaters in those days. Then there were dray trucks with chains that revolved the rear wheels, and most often truck tires were made of solid rub ber. Many of the oldtime cars had to be hand-cranked. It was expected of all males —young and old—to turn the crank for all ladies who were ready to take off in their cars. A few men sprained their arms, and some had to go to the hospitals for broken limbs. The antique cars have something that antique furniture does not have. They pro vide transportation, often slow, but never theless a form of riding. What a thrill the driver gets when folks turn around to catch a glimpse of the old roadster. lied 1-A. I’m not going to sen in the‘arm ed forces.” And he added the insult: “I don’t care which it is. I’ll go to Leaven worth.” Well, the government ought to call his bluff, and enlist him in the armed forces. If he doesn’t accept induction, then let him land in jail. There is no more despicable citizen than a male who refuses to take up arms for his country. In ancient Greece and Rome, the male who refused military service, or who de serted while on the battlefield, was looked upon with with dishonor. No greater hu miliation could befall a Roman and Greek citizen. We are calling upon Negro youths evei \ - where to answer the call to the colors, and defend their country to the death. poor cannot be changed rapidly, for the process must be slow and gradual. A crash program will but it will not entirely eliminate poverty, for we have the factor of individual human motivation to be lift ed up above poverty. Far too many peo ple, at present, seem to thrive on poverty in a negative way. The proposed adding of 100,000 new classrooms is commendable and will, no doubt, do a tremendous amount of good in lifting peonle out of the mire of poverty. One hundred thousands new teachers would answer many educational needs. However, we think the addition of 100,000 classrooms to train people for good and skilled jobs would be wiser than the ad dition of classrooms for general teaching. A guaranteed income for the jobless needs objective and reflective analysis. H guaranteed income for the jobless might be more devastating than we realize, for why should one strive to lift himself up ward economically when he is guaranteed a certain income? Human beings make prog ress when they compete with thier asso ciates. We would eliminate the guaranteed annual income from the proposal. same except that he cannot be subjected to arrest during a session of Congress.” Powell has made it convenient to be away when Congress is adjourned. When Mr. Powell was elected to Con gress from Harlem in the 1940!s Negroes rejoiced greatly that they had a “true and tried” leader. While the Harlem Represen tative has looked after the interest of Ne groes, he has let them down in his “public image”—to wit; shedding of wives, alleg edly cruising abroad with ladies, allegedly having his wife on the payroll, hut which she denied receiving pay, and continued absentees from his duties. Powell can raise the cry that other Con gressmen are doing worst things, hut this does not excuse him one bit. Like Caesar said of his wife, she must live above sus picion. So must Mr. Powell! Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN WHO WILL GET THERE first? New York is ending an ex citing political campaign for tiie governorship. Nelson A, Rockefeller is the nomineeof the Republican party, running to succeed him - self for a third term. Frank D. O.Connor, presi dent of the New York City Council, was nominated on the first ballot by the Demo cratic party state convention. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., accepied the nomination offer - ed to him by the Liberal party a political organization of trade unionists which, on one or two occasions produced the decisive margin of victory for one of the major political parties. Paul Adams, a college pro fessor wore a button which read “I’ve had enough.” At least three of these can didates, Rockefeller, O’Conn or and Roosevelt have been making a determined effort to get the most out of the usual blintzes-eating contest, and much depends on who gets to the kosher restaurant first. Mr. Rockefeller proved this in 1958 when he upset the Democratic incumbent, Aver ell Harriman. Rockefeller walked through New York’s Lower East Side eating cheese blintzes and corned sand wiches like mad. Mr. Harriman, an athletic man who watches his weight, kept to the issues of the cam- Just For Fun NEVER RIDE A “HIKER” Years ago I was way up in the mount.,ins of Tennes see and North Carolina en route east. I stopped at a stand to buy some apple juice, and then I was approached by i hitch-hikei' to let him ride with me as far as Asheville. I declined the proposal in no uncertain terms since 1 was riding alone. Through the years, I have corninued this,policy. Ins? week, T read of a Flori- X' to picking up a hitch hike r. Later the “thumb • r” suggested that them.otor i-• and he go to a bar and some drinks (You know, Other Editors Soy.. ULTIMATE GOALS The momentum of the civil rights revolution has beenar resied; not because the revo lution has spent its kinetic '■aercy; not because all of the ‘•'dec ives sought have been oN airier!—but because of an n.i oh ~ul conflict as to the ■'■s to achieve the desired > - -d ■ quickening pace. bum' I ;• segregation which bus meant token compliance •v. best, has virtually come to * standstill; public accommo below the Mason and Dixon Line are a mirage: free dom of residence, so far, has been successfully obstructed; and, not enough federal re gistrars are dispatched to the rural areas in Dixie to pre vent a large segment of Ne gro voters from being inti midated. Clearly this is not backlash against demonstrations and riots. It is a well planned rebellion against concessions made by the Administration and against Congressional en actments which have tended to widen the scope of first class citizenship for the American Negro. The rebellion is given a political coating because this is an election year. Politicians who are not too sure of vic tory are grabbing at anything that might lure the voters to their side. Open housing is the one aspect of civil rights on which the North and the South have complete identity of emotional reactions. It, therefore, becomes an easy target on which to rally in tersectional support for mas sive resistance to further gains by Negroes in their quest for freedom and equali ty. Just at the critical moment, when all the factions in the Black ftevolu'ion stand in need THE CAROLINIAN Publishing Company ' "Covering the Carolinas" Published by the Carolinian 518 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address: P. O. Box 6ZB Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $2.75 Sales Tax 08 TOTAL $2 83 One Year 4.50 Sales Tax .14 TOTAL $4 64 Payable In Advance. Address all communications and make all chocks and money orders payable to THE CAROLINIAN Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., 310 Madison Avenue. New York 17. N Y., 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 copy unless necessary postage accom panies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not. nec . essarily represent the policy of this paper paign. By the time he woke up to the inroads Mr. Rocke feller was making with his gustatory campaigning, it was too late. Rockefeller squeez ed , cheese blintzes and all. It should be a fair campaign all around because all four candidates can eat blintzes to their advantage. Basically this is the reason the Jewish candidates cannot get himself elected mayor of New York, The blintzes-syndrome is the real stumbling block. It is hardly news to see a news photo of a Goodstein, a Lef kowitz, or a Beame eating blintzes. It is no bargain. And the additional disadvantage is that the Jewish candidates cannot go into the other sect ors and eat chitterlings or hog Jowl, That would make matters worse. The candidates this year are more or less evenly matched. Rockefeller has been there twice before, and O’Connor will undoubtedly eat blintzes, not only on the Lower East Side but in all five of New York’s boroughs. Roosevelt has come by his blintzees capaclty by inheritance, his father invented the gambit way back in 1926 when F.D.R.first ran for governor of New York. It will all depend on who gets there first with the most, Rockefeller, O’Connor, or Ro osevelt as they discuss, be tween bites, the two perennial New York issues: bossism and budgets. ‘‘buddy-buddy”). Before the trip was over, the “hiker” took an ice pick and held it to the throat of the motorist and lifted him of his car ancj $204 and a wallet. We admit that some “hik ers” are all right, but you cannot afford to take the risk of being murdered. HAVE YOU HEARD? This fall I read an article saying snoring has been the cause of murder and divorce. I have been trying to trace the truth of this statement for two months. Have you readers heard of such a case under the category of “im compatibility?” of unity in order tetter to withstand the assault of the enemy, a schism,with uni maginable consequences, sets them apart, at the extremes ends of the poles of direct action. It should be obvious to all Negroes of whatever persua sion that the struggle for free dom cannot be won through disunity born out of an inde fensible desire for self-ag grandizement. The proponents of Black Power committed the unpar donable error of allowing the concept to become synomy mous with violence. Such a connotation is both irrelevant and inpractical. Fundamen tally, the concept of Black Power is a set of dynamics for the mobilization of all the resources within the grasp of the Negro masses, in such manner as to fashion on the anvil of racial cohesion the black man’s economic and po litical destiny. This is the thesis white A merlca has been preaching all along. The Negro’s final e mancipation from economic oppression and social subju gation will come only through self help, self-determination and self-respect. The bless ings of a free society will not’ be offered to him on a sil ver platter. He must earn them from the sweat of his own brow. The advocates of Black Power have exhibited a shock ing lack of intellectual capa city and directional sense to define the concept with per suasive intelligibility. Yet it is by far the brightest no tion that has come out of the civil rights movement. It is one with which the ultimate destiny of the black masses is woven. The old historical assumption that the Negro is the white man’s burden is no longer compatible with the profession of freedom and e quality. Even in a democra cy, a man must be able to “paddle his own carsoe.’’ Un less the Negro develops his own independence and power, the recognition and equity that he seeks today will long re main an unfulfilled dream. - THE CHICAGO DAILY DE FENDER. HONEST LABELING At long last, a bill requir ing the honest labeling of food has cleared congress. This legislation is expected to be appreciated by and beneficial to those housewives who sup ply food for the family table. In the past, many labels have been grossly misleading and, in some instances, apparently dishonest. For example, we seen an article marked “five cents off the original price.’’ This Is Your Duty As A Good American Citizen! liter Cell “NO MAN’S LAND” Startling statistics revealed by an eminent sociologist give some explanation for much that is happening to the negro in this period of his existence. In 1910, 73 per cent of the nation’s Negro population lived in the South with 60 percent of these residing in rural areas. In 1960, 73 per cent of the US’s Negro population lived in urban, metropolitan areas. Considering the sub-standard educational fa cilities available to the children of these two generations, it is no wonder that our metropoli tan school systems, formerly geared academical ly to a white middle-class population, have in recent years failed to educate a predominant Negro population now resident in the inner city. Education is not the only area making the prob lem so complex. It is utterly impossible to take any racial or ethnic group out of rural customs, traditions and mores and urbanize them in so short a span of time. And thus, for a large percentage of the 73 per cent Negro population now residing in oqr cities, other cultural lags are easily recognizable. The pr oliferation of the Negro church in metro politan areas Is Indicative of the fact that the CHURCH’S “BLACK POWER’’ CHICAGO - Negro churches have a black power movement all their own, according to the Rev. Nicholas Hood, pastor, Plymouth United Church of Christ, Detroit. Speaking before a regional meeting of the denomination in LaSalle hotel, he said that Negro churches which have projects working for community change “are black power in the highest sense.” END BLA.S PLEA WASHINGTON - A plea to uproot all vestiges of racial discrimination within the United Church of Christ denomination was made by 48 ministers of both races during a conference at Plymouth Congregational church last week. The ministers voted to form a permanent watching committee to press for the end of racial bias in the 1.3 million religious body. BACK POLICY STATEMENT NEW YORK - A policy statement on integra tion issued by a group of Negro leaders receiv ed the commendation and endorsement of a com mittee representing major Jewish organizations last week. The resolution, adopted by the execu tive committee, National Community Relations Advisory council, approved the content of the FREEDOM DRIVES VILLA CISNEROS, Spanish Sahara-The newest voices to take up cries for independence from colonial rule are the Spanish posessions in Afri ca—Rio Muni (Spanish Equatorial Guinea), Ifni, Fernando Po and Spanish Sahara. However, in two instances--Ifni and Spanish Sahara—Spain Is reluctant to move quickly to grant freedom for fear that Morocco and Mauritania will seek to re-annex the territories which both claim originally were parts of their areas. RISING COSTS LUSAKA - The rise In the cost of living for the average consumer in Zambia is best indicated by the taxis and telephones. Taxi fares are now 54 cents for the first mile or fraction thereof. Effective Nov, 1, it will cost subscribers a minimum of $5.50 a line for listing in the tele phone directory, an increase of $1.40. SECESSION TALK EKrtJGU - A disturbed Republic of Nigeria ripped apart by bloody and bloodless coups, and sundries other violent changes in govern men leadership is now faced with the propsect of the secession of Eastern Nigeria from the federation. The withdrawal is based on the How does the purchaser know what was the original price? Fancy packaging also has its disadvantages. Sometimes the wrappers weigh more than the BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D.D.D, NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL Religion And Race BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL World News Digest NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL contents, and they often are difficult to open. It should be remembered, however, that your grocer or supermarket operator is not repsonsible newcomers must find a church in which they feel more at home. At any metropolitan area, you can go down the Negro business streets and count two to six storefront cis; reties in one block. Closer investigation will reV'-al that any follow family or regional lines developing the membership. There are so n, >; planes and situations foreign to the newcomer :>ia he is glad to find some consolation in bein». able to identify through his church affiliation with some of his past. But what need, beyond familiar relationships, is being filled by the majority of the Negro’s storefront churches? I knew a Methodist and Baptist preache-, who, nearly 40 years ago made it their ministry to meet trains coming from the South each day to a northern city. They would personally see that the newcomers had a place to live, a job, or money, food and lodging to tide them over until they got started. Here’s another Altar just waiting for the church...ministering to the newcomers, that they may adjust to urban life before unnecessary tragedy destroys them... The Altar of Meaningful Welcome. “Crisis and Commitment’’ statement issued joint ly by A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney M. Young. The council represents nine national Jewish organizations and 79 state and local Jewish councils. WARNED ON RACIAL, PROBLEMS JACKSON, Miss-A warning that white Method ist congregations throughout the south must be prepared to take “a positive lead’' in solving racial problems, was made by Bishop Roy H. Short, Louisville, to the Southeastern Jurisdic tional council. Noting that “If we do not think for ourselves, someone will do it for us” he add ed that white Methodists “need to keep these other Methodists (240,000 Negroes of the Central Jurisdictional) in mind as well as ourselves.” COOPERATION DEGREE ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Approval of a bylaw establishing a “joint committee of cooperation” was registered last week by Negro and white officials of the Mount Vernon Baptist association meeting In First Baptist church. The committee Is empowered to “nurture meaningful communi cation” between the association, and its Negro counterpart, the Northern Virginia Baptist asso ciation; as well as “explore avenues of mutual assistance and cooperation.” recent “wanton fratricide” practiced against 7,000 Easterners by Northerners.” ANOTHER VIET NAM JOHANNESBURG - Immediate reaction by South African newspapers to the 114-2 vote of the U. N. General assembly to end South Africa’s control over the mandated territory of South West Afri ca, was the headlines in Die Burger, the Africans daily, of “Vietnam in Africa.” The paper noted the “conclusion that South Africa had forfeited its right to administer South West Africa” leads to a “course which points directly to a clash with South Africa.” The negative votes were cast by South Africa and Portugal, while Britain, France and Malawi were the absent ions. ACCESS TO SEA LA PAZ, BOLIVIA - Bolivia, surrounded by Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile, last week, won an agreement from neighboring Peru to construct a highway linking the capital with Peru’s southern Pacific coast, at Ho. Form erly Bolivia had to depend upon Chile for its route to the sea, but during the past four years a frontier dispute between the two countries disrupted traffic. for packaging foods. That is done by the manufacturers or processors. -THE FU3UAY VARINA INDEPENDENT.
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