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EDITORIAL FEATURE
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By Gordon B. Hancock
AN OVER-WORKED FALLACY
Animal psychologists tell us that a
hundred sheep passing single file along
the sheep path through the meadow will
jump if a stick or pole is placed in their
path. The first sheep seeing the stick will
jump and so the second and third and
fourth, and the stick or pole may be
thrown aside, but each of the 96 sheep
will jump at the same place because the
sheep ahead jumped. The 96 sheep will
not take note of the pole’s removal, they
just jump at the jumping place. Hu
mans are kind of stick-jumpers when it
comes to their thinking. We would rath
er jump than think. Everybody accepts
the "safety first"’ slogan as a nugget of
wisdom and swallows it without think
ing. As a matter of fact there was never a
greaeter fallacy! If the progress of man
kind had depended upon the “safety
firsters” we would still be in the Dark
Ages. Columbus was not a safety first
er. The Pilgrim Fathers were not safety
firsters. Those who faced the Indian’s
tomahawk to get a toe hold in the New
World were not safety-firsters. The Co
lonials who rose up in their might and
wrung from England and its tough King
George American independence were
not safety-firsters. The adventurous A
mericans who dared cross the Misissippi
and open up the Golden West were not
safety-firsters. The moher who rushes
into a burning building to rescue her
helpless children is not a safety-firster.
Duty first is the word, and not safety
first! As with safety-first as a slogan, so
the old gag “Be sure you are right and
go ahead.” It sounds good and clever
but basically it is a fallacy—a glorified
fallacy! It will take a hundred lifetimes
for one to be sure one is right. It is far
better to go ahead and get right as one
goes, or even go wrong, than to sit a
hundred years trying to figure out just
what is exactly “right” or “sure.” An
other glorified fallacy. Still another hal
lowed fallacy with a death-hold on the
struggling masses is “There is room at
the top.” Negro educators have over
worked this fallacy. All of our schoo’s
and colleges for Negroes have emphasiz
ed this slogan to the exclusion of almost
•every other educational consideration.
And so it has come about that our edu
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A FAMILIAR POSE FOR THE CHAMP - Standing in an
accustomed pose, giving the V for victory symbol which he
has done six times this year, the amazing Cassius Mavcallus
(Muhammad All) Clay, Jr., is shown Tuesday night in the huge
Astrodome in Houston, Texas, looming over Cleveland (Big
Cat) Williams, who had just "purred out" after being floored
i n the second round of a scheduled 15-round bout for the
heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Clay won on
a TKO after 1:08 of the third round. See story on sports page.
(UPI PHOTO).
Bishop Shaw Keynotes
Cape fear Conference
GOLDSBORO - The annual
session oi the Cape Fear Con
ference, AME Zion Church
closed here Sunday night, Nov.
13, after one of the most suc
cessful sessions ever held. The
cational set up is geared to produce star
gazers with not a job-gazer in sight, al
though every person who reaches the
top must stand on the shoulders of those
who live by jobs.
What is not being told to our people
is that there is also room at the botom,
and that said room is unlimited, whereas
the room at the top is strictly LIMIT
ED. The Negro-wise here are some who
will help fill in the unlimited room at
the bottom: those who refuse to take
low until they are able to take high,
those who will not accept a lean today
in. odrtr to have a fat tomorrow; those
who soldier on the job by which they
live, instead of giving good service for
good wages; those who see everything
wrong with the white man but nothing
wrong with Negroes; those who believe
there is substitute for hard work; those
who think big brave talk is a substitute
for strategic thinking. It takes a pack
of hounds to catch one fox. Why? The
hounds yelp and bark while the fox is
thinking. It would take one hound a
hundred years to catch one fox. Negroes
are doing a lot of feeling and talking,
but only a little thinking. It is easier
to “blow-off” than to “think through.”
Still others who are doomed to the bot
tom are those who are hoping to get
something for nothing: those who are
waiting and willing to wait for some
thing to turn up instead of going out
and turning up something; those who
long for beds of flowery ease while oth
ers battle the billows of stormy seas;
those who subscribe to a “let George
do it” philosophy rather than the “Do
it yourself" program; those unprepared
Negroes who take lightly the establish
ment of vocational training centers and
attend these indifferently, or not at all,
while whites are fair breaking into such
centers; those who absolutely refuse ov
er-alls when white collar positions are
all taken by those best prepared for
them. The foregoing is a brief pen-pic
ture of those who will find sooner or
later that the room at the top is strictly
limited while the room at the bottom
is strictly unlimited. Let Negroes not
further over-work an already over-work
ed fallacy. Lets have some marches and
demonstrations for some common sense
program!
theme of the meet was "The
Open Door." Bishop Herbert
Bell Shaw, who presided ovei
the 6-day meet gave the key
(See BISHOP SHAW. P :!)
Negro-Jewish
Progress Is
Cited By AJC
CLEVELAND, OHlO—Moun
ting public concern over black
power and the white backlash
has obscured quiet but genu
ine progress toward Negro-
Jewish cooperation and under
standing, the American Jewish
Congress reported Sunday.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of
Cleveland, national president
of the Congress, summed up
a series of reports from vari
ous sections of the country to
the Congress* policy-making
National Governing Council,
meeting here, with the com
ment:
"More Jews and Negroes are
working together on common
projects to meet common needs
than at any time in our na
tion’s history.
"In economic aid programs
aimed at helping Negro fami
ly-heads to become self-sup
porting; in remedial reading
and other tutorial programs de
signed to help Negro school
children; in campaigning for
(Ste NEGRO-JEWISH. P ?.)
Sigmas Ask
Shriver To
Reconsider
NEW YORK The members
of the Phi Beta Sigma Frater
nity, Incorporated, an organiza
tion of 40,000 college-trained
Negro men, have inaugurated
a national letter writing cam
paign protest ing the term ination
of funds from the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity to the
Child Development Group of
Mississippi.
In releasing the text of the
letter being mailed to Sargeant.
Shriver, Executive Director,
Office of Economic Opportuni
ty, from local Chapters of Phi
Beta Sigma, William E. Doar,
(Soe SIGMAS ASK. P. J)
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VOL. 25, NO. 52
It Happened In Fayetteville
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Dr. Albert Whiting New NCC Proxy
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THREE ELItCTHOCtn ED W n C. - Thr«e mass were elMgrocmnm mrlx la at Saturday morning
on Yadktn Rd„ Fayetteville, while attempting to work on a water pump. The three men, au Ne
groes, were holding a pipe which fell against a pow r er line, killing them Instantly, the victims
are visible near sheriff. Officials said the men had been working on the pump for sever >1 days.
Photo courtesy The Fayetteville Observer. (See storv).
Pipe Held By Fayetteville Victims
Falls Across Exposed Power I due
FAYETTEVILLE - Rev. De-
Witt Womack, who presided ov
er rites for three men who
were accidentally electrocuted
Saturday, drew a vivid picture
of how stark tragedy lurks In
the scenes of life, even though
one might be doing a good
Samaritan duty.
Rev. Mr. Womack delivered
the eulogy for William Edwards,
38; Mgt. (Retired) Walter H.
Shropshire, about 40, and Hu
bert Ray 34, Tuesday after
noon at Evans Metropolitan A
ME Zion Church. They were
all members of Beaver Creek
AME Zion Church, but due to
the unusualness of the occasion
it was necessary to have the
funerals in a more spacious
auditorium.
The three men died Instantly
as a result of having held to
a pipe they were using to re
pair a pump at a house own
ed by Edwards, at 5957 Yad
kin Rd., about 8 a. m. Satur
day.
An eye witness, William Me-
Koy, a neighbor, told a solemn
story of how he arrived at
the scene of the fatal accident
just in time to see the men
pull the 20 ft. pipe from the
hole of the faulty pump. He
related how the pole fell on a
rotten limb of a tree in the
yard and the sudden collapse
of the limb that caused the
pole to fall on an exposed e
lectric wire when the full volt
age of the wire went through
the bodies of the men.
McKoy continued by saying
JOHN LEAK
Ligon High School Trio Named Finalists In
Coveted National Achievement Program
John Leak, president, of the ment Scholarship Program for fied program b> secon-
Ligon High School student bo- Outstanding Negro Students. dary schools from across the
dy, Levi Beckwith and Sundar A selection committee chose country.
Fleming have been named fi- 1150 finalists from 5500 out- c trio p »)
nalists In the National Achieve- standing Negro students certi-
North Carolina "« Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1966
that he attempted to pull one
of the men rrom the
pole, but to no avail. He mr
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MAYOR OF FLINT, MICHI
GAN - The industrial city of
Flint, Mich., has a Negro May
or for the first time in his
tory. City Commissioner Floyd
McCree, 43, a soft-spoken mod
erate, was elected Nov. 14 by
the city commission by a vote
of 5 to 4 as mayor of the na
tion’s third largest auto-pro
ducing city. Flint has a popu
lation of 200 thousand, 50 thou
sand of whom are Negroes.
(UPI PHOTO).
SUNDAR FLEMING
rowly escaped the same fate
and was shocked, to some de
gree, by the current that took
the lives of the victims.
The funerals attracted hun
dreds of people and friends and
relatives gave vent to their
(See ELECTROCUTED. P 2)
Joblessness
Caused By
Examinations?
WASHINGTON (NPI) - A fed
eral official has blamed the use
of pre-employment tests for
helping contribute to a soar
ing Negro unemployment rate.
John Wagley, assistant to Ben
Segal, chairman, Equal Em
ployment Opportunity commis
sion said “Many such tests
measure how much the Negro
has absorbed white middle
class culture” more than they
measure job capability.
Wagley also blamed “wide
spread tokenism unnecessary.”
Requirement of a high school
diploma and unrealistic denial
of employment because of ar
rest records for contributing
to Negro joblessness.
The movement of many busi
nesses aw-ay from central cities
to the suburbs was also men
tioned as a contributing factor
in unemployment among Ne
groes.
Citing “widespread tok
enism” in industry hiring prac
tices and in labor union ap
fSee JO3LESSXESS. P 2)
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LEVI BECKWITH
PRICE 15 CENTS
Dean As
Morgan
To Durham
DURHAM—The North Caro
lina College board of trustees,
meeting in special session Fri
day, unanimously elected Dr.
Albert N. Whiting president of
the college.
Dr. .Whiting, now dean of the
college at Morgan State College,
Baltimore, Maryland, will as
sume the presidency effective
July 1, 1967.
Da score Baynes, chairman of
the NCC lx>ard of trustees, said
the present interim committee
co; isting of William Jones,
chairman; Dr. Helen G. Ed
monns; and Dr. William Brown,
will continue to serve with full
authority until July 1.
In com menting on the appoint -
men* of Dr. Whiting, Baynes
said, “After months of care
ful deliberation the Selection
Committee of the board of
trustees, headed by Attorney
Clyde Shrove of Greensboro,
recomm end e d several dis
tinguished educators, one who
was Dr. Whiting, who was
selected. W'e feel that Dr.
DR. LEWIS C. DOWDY
Dowdy Heads
Association
Os Colleges
GREENSBORO - Dr. Lewis
C. Dowdy, president of A&T
College was last week install
ed as president of the North
Carolina Association of Col
leges and Universities.
The installation took place
at the closing session of the two
day meet conducted at the Win
ston-Salem, Robert E. Lee Ho
tel.
The integrated organization,
(See DOWDY HEADS, P 7)
From Raleigh’s Official Police Files
maamuAT
OY CHA R I ,b S R J()NRS 1
Jumped By Five,
Goes To 'Clink'
Hallie Edward Beckwith, 17,
of 1404 West St., Apex, report
ed to two cops at 12:21 a. m.
Saturday, that five unidentified
Negroes “jumped me and cut
me on the right side of his
head and the right hand.'* Beck
with reported they also cut Don
nell Stewart, 30, in the back dur
ing an argument.
James Ltnell Copeland, was
identified as one of the sus
pects who wielded the knife.
However, both Copeland and
Beckwith were “hauled off” to
the Wake County “clink” and
charged with engaging in an af
fray with a deadly weapon by
Two Men,
Woman Are
Locked Up
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Spencer Strickland, Jr., of
1018 Cannister Street, Informed
■ Officers Charlie W. Twltty and
Joseph B, Winters at 12:44a.m.
, Monday that he, Miss Ruby Mae
Williams, same address, had
an argument with Douglas Good
son, of 1127 S. State Street,
Apt. 10, “about the use of an
if automobile.*’ Tempers are
! usually short after a weekend
I and Mondays in this area have
§ been tagged as “blue.”
The ‘'fuss” erupted into a
fight between the trio, at the
Cannister Street address. In
formation gathered by the of
ficers showed that during the
affray, Miss Williams swung
a butcher knife at Goodson,
while Strickland began to hurl
“some bad threats” at him.
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Good
son is said to have left the
residence and returned in a
short while with a shotgun. He
reportedly came near the front
door and pulled the trigger.
Shotgun pellets sprayed in the
direction he was aiming the
weapon.
W hen some of the smoke had
cleared away and the shooting
ceased, Mr. Strickland discov
ered he had been struck by
(See LOCKED UP, P. Z)
Says King
‘Stirred
Up’ Fears
CHICAGO (NPI) - Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., has been ac
cused again of stirring up
“white backlash” fears. This
time the charge came from the
local NAACP director,
Only two weeks before, May
or Richard J. Daley charged
that the civil rights leader was
playing on “white backlash”
fears in an effort to defeat
Democrat candidates.
Mayor Daley contended that
Dr, king’s recent return to
that Chicago’s Westside from
his hometown of Atlanta was an
attempt to hurt Democratic can
didates in the election.
The mayor angrily charged
that civil rights workers link
ed to Dr. King had “leaked out”
a report of foot-dragging by
civic leaders on open occupan
cy “for pur elypol it leal purpos
es.”
Particularly did the Mayor
have bitter words for Dr, King’s
right-hand man, the Rev. James
(See DR. KING, P. Z)
Ladies Win
Sweepstakes
Cash Again
Again this week, two ladies
won cash in The CAROLINIAN’S
Sweepstakes promotion.
Mrs. Carolyn W'tnters, with
ticket number 10560, which she
obtained at W. T. Grant Store,
Fayetteville St. Mrs. Winters
received SSO, since this was the
first prize number.
Miss Rosetta t-awarus, wiui
ticket number 800, collected the
» second prize Sweepstakes cash.
) Her ticket came from Johnson-
Lambe Co., S. Salisbury St.
This week’s tickets are yel
low in color, and dated Nov.
12, 1966. First prize ticket
number is 170, worth $25; 11.-
432 is the second prize ticket
(See SWEEPSTAKES, P. 2)
25D98808
Temperatures for |the next
next five days, Thursday
through Monday, will average
three to ten degrees above
normal. Some normal high and
low temperatures for this time
of the year are 61 and 37 de
grees It will turn warmer
Thursday, with only minor
temperature ehanges thereaf
ter, until the beginning of the
week, when cooler w'eather
will prevail. Little or no pre
cipitation Is likely throughout
the period.
Officers C. A. Watson andL. L.
Toole
Thinks Shot In
■ Knee An Error
Thomas Earl Joyner, 17, of
I 400 W. Lenoir St., told Offic
ers P. A. Dean and C. C. Heath
1 at 11:24 p. m. Friday, that while
he was walking in the 300 block
of W. South St., an unidenti
fied colored male shot him In
the knee.
Young Joyner stated the as
sailant was chasing another col
ored male and fired a shot at
this person. Joyner concluded
he was then shot by accident.
He was treated for lacera
tion on the right knee.
(Sfte CRIME BEAT, P, i)