4
Children usually have what is know n as
the autism of youth and the sens’ of inner
joys. Boys and girls b< .in life with enthu
siasm, which means literally, “divinely in
spired,’* or “God within you." Later, children
have their integrity attacked by civilization's
“don’ts. ’ Jesus tnee said. “Except you become
as one of these little ones, ye shall in no wise
The ancient philosophers had a saying
that “knowledge is power.” True it is. If
not- why have we made education in this
country big business?
As the nation's population increases, its
death and accidents increase. Should we
not have detailed records revealing the
causes of all deaths in a meaningful report?
Some leaders of the medical field are of
the opinion that rve should have compe
tent medical examination to ascertain the
cause of every death in the U. S. States.
Such an opinion has been advanced
through a committee headed by Dr. Ed
ward G. Haskell Jr. of the Florida Medi
cal Association, who has conceived the idea
of a Florida-wise medical examination sys
tem to make autopsies routine. And what
is proposed for Florida should, of course,
be made practical in all of the several
states.
Upon reading this proposal, we under
stand that most hospitals and doctors make
post-mortem examinations to establish the
cause of death of patients in respective in
stitutions. Their findings are put on the
death certificate and filed with state bu
reaus of vital statistics- More of this kind
of thing should be done for outpatients or
people who unexor-tedly fall dead, let us
say, upon our stu is, and so on.
Such a proposal would be of tremendous
benefit with sudden death, for example, in
bed, on the street, in waters and drown
ings, in cases of accidental shooting and
traffic fatalities.
You may ask why do all this? Well,
presently the lack of a medical system in
sudden death cases enables one to get away
W ill North Carolina Follow Virginia?
Virginia's Governor Mills E. Godwin,
Jr., left no one in the dark as to where he
stands and how he fc < Is about the Ku Klux
Klan. He let the world know that his state
is not big enough to let the Ku Klux Klan
burn crosses, practice bigotry, harass and
intimidate any segment of its citizenry.
We congratulate Governor Godwin for
his forthrightness. We have long since
thought that governors and elected offic
ials in any state should speak out and
even act, with all the power that they pos
sess to put an end to the reign and terror
which the Klan is reported, as being re
sponsible for.
Certainly our elected officials should be
as dedicated to right and justice as those
in Virginia and in any other state. We do
not believe that Governor Moore will per
mit Governor Godwin to be any more ser
viceable to Virginia in the sphere of human
rights than he will to the citizens of our
state.
Governor Godwin realizes that to per
mit hooded bigots to roam through Vir
ginia. at will, and to continue to disregard
Yes, The IJ. S. Congress Works Hard
Too often we judge the men who make
up our United States Congress to be a
group of "thumb twittlers.” Congress may
not pass the bills we want, and it may even
amend them into toothless instruments,
but no one can truthfully say that our law
makers don’t work.
Let us take a glance at our lawmakers
for a moment, and one of the best ways to
do this is to tabulate the record of the 89th
Congress.
The number of bills introduced in both
houses during 1965 was 16,#82. Os these,
only 967 Senate measures and 1,123 pro
posals of the House were passed. Yet. the
batting average was probably higher than
in previous years Bills introduced totaled
9.684, of which passage was won by only
1,001 which originated in the House of
One of the problems confronting college,
university or public libraries is loss of
books. This can amount to large sums of
money if it cannot be adequately curbed.
Most libraries have installed “guards”
at the check-out counter, and he is in
structed to examine a student’s brief case
to determine if he is carrying out illegal
library property. Os course, some argue
that this practice is an invasion of one’s
privacy.
Now we learn that Michigan State Uni
versity will establish next fall “electronic
snoopers” to detect those students who are
carrying out library property without sanc
tion from the library staff.
The system will work something like
The recent elections across the nation
gave us some eight to ten Negro mayors,
according to the records. One of these men
is Floyd J, McCree, a soft-spoken foun
dry foreman of Flint, Michigan, a south
east industrial city of that state-
Apparently, the election came as a sur
prise. because McCree said that he never
dreamed he would be mayor of any city,
let alone one as big as Flint with a popu
lation of 200,000.
Too many Negroes have the idea that
when a Negro gets into an office of this na
ture, he should at once put a chip on his
shoulder in racial matters. They seem to
THE CAROLINIAN
Words Os Worship
Editorial Viewpoint
Deaths: Must We Know Why?
J
A Balm Now For School Libraries
The New Flint, Mieh. Negro Mayor
enter the kingdom of heaven.” Isn't this a
simple majestic sen ence uttered by the Man
from Galilee. Unless we learn to give up the
attitudes and values forced upon us and re
turn to the integrity of our original relation
to life, we are shut out of the Garden of Eden,
the heaven within, where joy is found and
wisdom gained.
with murder easily. How many poisonings
have been recorded as heart attacks upon
casual observation? How many drowning
victims really were dead when their bodies
entered the water? Not many no doubt, but
nevertheless they were deserving of better
medical reporting. This can- easily happen
in areas where there are few doctors and,
or, perhaps none.
This type of medical examination can be
more beneficial than we can ever know. It
may even, in some cases, establish inno
cence in the face of doubt and gossip. Fig
ures compiled from this type of examina
tion would be beneficial in medical re
search. especially in the area of incidence.
These facts might be useful in establishing
civil liabilities and get at the very root of
the more prevalent cases leading to death.
In our traffic fatality reporting, medical
examinations might bring out the fact that
an automobile driver was under the influ
ence of a drug or liquor, or restricted by
some physical ailment in a highway wreck.
Certainly, we need to know why death
strikes thousands of people mysteriously.
Now the medical profession, as a whole,
may contend that this task is impossible
since we have already a serious doctor
shortage. This leads us to ask who created
this shortage of physicians? Can we attrib
ute it to the powerful influence of the
AMA?
This medical examination for all states
is imperative, and if we have a serious
doctor shortage, then let us develop a fed
eral system of training an adequate num
ber of doctors and specialists that we need,
The federal government has been giving
this thought a great deal of concern lately.
law and order, is just as much a crime as
killing, stealing and other heinous acts. The
truth of the matter is that persons who hide
their faces and use the cloak of night are
more dangerous than the average criminal.
We hope Governor Moore has not waited
too long. It is our understanding that cross
burning is a felony in Virginia, punishable
by imprisonment for from one to ‘five years.
The North Carolina law, passed in 1853,
when Klanism was considered a passing
fancy, does not put such a price-tag on
cross burning. Governor Moore is reported
to have said that the North Carolina law
does not give him the power to deal that
harshly with those unidentified criminals.
Mr- Moore seems to think it is a job for
his Law and Order Committee, which he
has headed since Malcolm Seawell resign
ed. Certainly the chairman of any commit
tee has a right to set the guide lines for his
committee. With crosses blazing across the
horizon of the state and their smoke ris
ing in disgrace to the high heaven, we cer
tainly hope that our chief executive is mov
ed to do something.
Representatives.
The fact that so few bills were passed
may alarm many of us. The action of the
Congress indicates that the defeated, or
shelved bills may not have been of con
structive benefit to the nation.
At any rate, the public citizenry was
spared something above 15,000 new federal
laws, resolutions, appropriations and so on,
that were proposed last year. By debate
and reflection the Congress passed approx
imately 1,000 new bits of legislation. This
is a great number of bills to add to the
large number of laws already on the federal
books.
Often wc wonder why do we need more?
Perhaps, it is that there are too many poor
ly drafted bills for clarity.
this. When a student is carrying out li
brary property concealed in his briefcase,
for example, the library turnstile locks un
expectedly, bells clang and the sheepish
student who has been caught in the elec
tronic snooping device returns to the
checkout desk with the “energized” book.
This electronicc system will also have
a psychological effect upon dishonest and
book pilfering students, because they won’t
chance the risk of embarrassment of the
clanging bells.
Would that someone could develop &
system for “finger-pointing” those students
who cut pictures and articles out of books,
newspapers, and periodicals belonging to
the library.
forget that men like McCree must be a ser
vant of all the people, regardless of racial
origin.
McCree has the wisdom to be moderate
on racial issues, and in this way his term
of office is directed toward success. Os
course, he has been outspoken previously
on the matter of racial sufferance from po
lice brutality. Not only this, but he strong
ly advocated open housing and equal op
portunity in employment of all citizens.
McCree, a sane man with wisdom, knows
his way around. We wish for him success
in his new office.
Only In America
BY HARRY GOLDEN
THE CLERGY PROTESTS
Some of the priests In the
Windy City have organized
the new formation of the As
sociation of Chicago priests.
Many within the Catholic hier
archy treat this new Asso
ciation delicately. Say what
you will, however, the Asso
ciation represents a "palace
revolution.’’
The Chicago priests want a
closer and more responsible
relationship with the Arch
bishop, John Patrick Cody,
They were led to believe this
expanded relationship was
forthcoming a year ago when
the Vatican Council recom
mended that Bishops share
some of their power with the
local priests.
Whatever his reas on s,
Archbishop Cody did little to
implement this recommenda
tion and the priests, tired of
waiting, have decided to force
the issue,
Tlie move should not sur
prise us as much as it does.
That it surprises us at all
is due to our own miscon
ceptions, I suppose. Most
of us who are not Catholics
supposed the church was a
monolithic structure. Per
haps this is because we did
not properly Interpret the doc
trine of the infallibility of
the Pope which literally, I
think, extends only to theo
logical questions (and then he
doesn’t have it all his own
way).
Nor should it surprise us
that members of the Ameri
can clergy have’banded to
gether. Indeed, some priests
have even been discussing the
possibility of a labor union
which would spell out their
rights and privileges.
A famous incident involv
ing the Protestant clergy oc
curred before the Revolutio
nary War. It vas more or
less a strike to win redress
from what the clergymen
thought was an injustice.
The “strike” occurred in
Virginia among the clergy of
the Anglican Church around
list For Fun
BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE
A LEARNING MACHINE
The University of Virginia
recently announced that it had
a learning machine, and 3
was going to rejoice. I thought
it was a machine that could
learn for people who didn’t
want to study or read.
(Shucks) It teaches a prob
lem by suggesting an answer
to itself anil then modifying
it by small amounts chosen
at random. Each guess is
graded by another part of the
system and guesses which im
proved performances are re-
Letter to the Editor
Dec. 7, 1966
To The Editor:
Dear Sir;
Inasmuch as we are enter
ing into another Christmas
season, we should begin pre -
paring ourselves for thankful
ness for having reached this
season of the year, and re
membering those with love and
kindness who helped make this
possible. In the hope that
this message might enlighten
someone’s life from a feeling
of insecurity, I am entering
some excerpts from the Ma
sonic Messenger. “Many
times we resign ourselves to
a feeling of helplessness and
Inadequacy.” “Life and life’s
realities present insurmount
able problems.” We cannot
stop the w'orld long enough to
make our voices heard.”
It is true. As individuals,
we cannot suddenly remake the
world. This, however, should
not be an easy excuse for not
doing all that we can. If
we cannot create an empire
of love, we can contribute
something toward its founda
tions. Ii we cannot erase from
society the scars of hate, fear,
injustice, greed and violence,
we can remove these evils
from our own being, and to
that extent, and something
constructive to the stream of
society. If there Is too much
unkindness and brutality in the
world, we can be .kind and
considerate to those who are
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1758. These Episcopal priests
did not abandon their pulpits
but they began joint litiga
tion to gain their rights. Vir
ginia pastors were paid bylaw
which set their salary per
annum at IG,OOO pounds of
tobacco values at 2 pence a
pound.
During a serious crop
failure, the price of tobacco
went to 8 pence a pound. It
was a short-lived bonanza for
the Episcopal clergy, how
ever, for the House of Bur
gesses passed an immediate
provision that the salaries of
the priests should be paid
in cash ori the basis of 2
pence a pound for 16,000
pounds of tobacco.
The clergymen reasoned
that they should receive the
advantage of the crop failure
just as they would have suf
fered during a glut. Why
should the House of Burgess
es pass on this advantage to
the tobacco grower? Under
the leadership of the Rev.
James Henry Maury, they
appealed to the King of Eng
land. George HI quite natu
rally sided with his pastors
In the colonies and ordered
they l>e paid in tobacco no
matter what the going rate.
Virginia appealed this de
cision mid sued. Patrick
Hem y took up the state’s
case and contended that King
George had no authority to
upset a law passed by the
Virginia House of Burgesses.
So you can see there was
more to the American War
of Independence than chop
ping down a cherry tree, or
throwing tea overboard.
The court upheld Patrick
Henry, ruling against the pas
tors. The judge even con
gratulated Patrick Henry on
the brilliance and logic of his
forensic reasoning. Curious
ly, that judge was no less a
person than Patrick Henry’s
father, Judge John Henry.
Someday, I will have to ask
nn friend, Supreme Court
Justice Hugo Black if Judge
John Henry should have dis
qualified himself.
warded. Then the process is
repeated until the best pos
sible answer is reached.
I don’t pretend to understand
this type of gadgetry, but I
know that if I’m to acquire
information, I must study to
prove myself a student that
needeth not be ashamed.
“GUBBER” MAN
A young man, Richard Lee,
an Oxford University student,
won $2.00 recently for show
ing that he could live for a week
eating only peanuts. By jove,
he did, too.
part of our limited world.
Who knows how' far-reaching
may be the light of one candle?
Thank you very kindly,
Wilbert M. Sanders
1121 Kitt Place
Biltmore Hills
Raleigh.
Other Editors
Soy...
THE SLUM PROBLEM
The basic Idea is to bring
the private sector of the eco
nomy into slum rehabilitation
on a large scale - to form
a sort of working partnership
between government, business
and the slum dwellers In an
effort to conquer the recal
citrant economic and social
problems of the cities.
Walter Reuther, president
of the United Auto Workers,
expressed one variant of the
idea last week when he call
ed for a national nonprofit
corporation to attract private
capital, union pension money,
foundation grants and feder
al funds to the cause of build
ing and rehabilitating houses
and apartment buildings in the
decaying slums. Other ver
sions of the idea have come
from Ribicoff himself, Sens.
Robert Kennedy and Jacob Ja
vits, comm ill ee members;
David Rockefeller, president
of the Chase Manhattan Bank;
and Roy Wilkins, executive
director of the NAACP.
The irony is that the gov
ernment itsell has large
scale, non-profit corporation
scheme for slum rehabilita
tion, but it has never been
officially released. There is,
therefore, considerable con
fusion as to its actual dimen
sions.
In spite of this apparent
agreement the juxtaposition,
last week, of the committee’s
hearings and a President ab
sorbed in the problems of
military necessity pointed to a
major schism between John
son and his former allies in
the civil i ights movements and
in th( big, cities of the north.-
WASHINGTON (D. C.) STAR.
The real culprit, in the opposition to ‘Open Housing*
’/'d - • •• ■■ ■ ....
Altar Call
BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D.
NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL
MEMO TO A D) P YRTEI) BISHOP
Sixty-one ye. r: ago on Dec. 11, in Do
Hall, tie late Bishop Reverdy C- ,ir
Ransom deliver'd ui addresscommet;.< l at >• '
100th anniversa) y if the birth of William Lloyd
Garrison.
One section ol hi- address was entitled, “What
kind of Negroes :>< The American People v
Interesting, isn’t that America’s wdn
not really answeie this question.
Negro America i- still victimized m rh"ii re
fusal to open wide the door that l>= ini. l the
mainstream of America that would ci\, d n
nition to an oppressed people.
Rev. Random, who was not then .mAMf hi ■: ,
said, “The Negro is here in million )
and for weal or woe, he is hei to stay - is
here to remain forever.”
Yes, Bishop, we are still here, Put u.v v, ul ■
see little evidence of an answer to your quest :o:i.
We are here by the teeming thousands :m ked
in all-black ghettos and slums.
We are here entertaining welfare invest) -
in the midnight hour. We are here hurr;. un
to get our unemployment compensations on the
right day. We are here forced into seeing our
children receive an inferior elemental- educa
tion. We are here looking at the Ante; kan wh’t
Why An Urban Leagua?
It costs the people of Racine, throe, i Racine
United Community Services, about $24,000 a .v u
to support the Racine Urban League. This i
a modest part of the RUCS annual bud: •>(, but
we have heard questions asked about why RUCS
supports an agency which is in large pa t dm.vi
ed to the interests of minority groups.
There could be several answers, jn ineipU
among them the fact that minority croups, by
the very fact that they are minor it ie save
special problems that need special atb-.
***
But we prefer to answer by telling t o stm ,
which demonstrate to us how the whole
munity is getting more than its money*,
from the fact that the Urban League i •;
added to our array of community <■: u-
Os necessity, the stories must be personals/.!-i,
because they involve in large part the activity
of two men who in themselves symboli/t
bi-racial co-operation that is a watchv -pv.i v. ii:.
the Urban League. They are Merritt Mill,
industrialist and the president ol the Urban
League Board, and Donald P. Addison, ov outiw
director of the Urban League. Hill is :
Addison is a Negro.
The first story statts on the very re , t v
weekend of August 19-22. On that F ; a
ing, Hill was alerted by a story on tut ft cat
page of the Journal-Times which said that th<
local chapter of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, fed up with
racial discrimination in housing, would consider
demonstrations or picketing. In the context of
that August weekend, with demonstrations and
violence popping in Milwaukee and Chicago and
all over the county, that was an ominous note
and a warning.
***
Hill went Into action with Don Addison’s assis
tance, (although both of them had to act hi a
personal capacity because the Urban League
cannot become Involved in direct lobbying). Hill
called a meeting of 20 men, white and Negro,
whom he considered key persons in the situation,
for the unlikely hour of 8 a.m. on Saturday morn
ing. That meeting assessed the situation and
decided to convene a larger meeting Sunday after
noon. Almost incredibly, 81 community leaders,
including 15 members of the Racine City Council,
showed up at the meeting at 4 p.m. Sunday,
That meeting thoroughly aired the housing pro
blem, and 55 of those present signed a "Declaim -
Congressman H.R. Gross of lowa recently
observed: "Congress has authorized another
huge, multibillion-dollar foreign aid program,
included in which is provision for hundreds of
millions of dollars to be ‘loaned’ to foreigners.
And, believe it or not, although American tax
payers who put up this money are faced with
hone-chilling high interest rates when they have
to borrow, foreigners will get their money at
an interest rate of 2.5 per cent! And for the
first 10 years of a 40-year loan, foreigners will
pay only 1 per cent interest for the use ol your
money!”
***
The leader of more than five million Negro
Baptists, Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the
National Baptist Convention, defended his con
cern for equality, but said, "any group of peo
ple who turn their backs on law and order are
not working in the interest of freedom.”
Fact And Opinion
’ ui amazement, yet asking, “What kind of
i N' :e do you want us to be?”
’!.• son \. Bishop, but we have disappoint
•••!•• union, expressed in another question
V<Ml •*--ked t! it ”i; ht. “Do white men believe
’ 1 u illim blacks, after having imbibed the
’• i: n| Ano: ic m institutions, and having exer
'in i ights of free men for more than a
■ " ’ “‘l' »a, id fve* accept a place of permanent
d 'priority in the republic?”
lO' nsun. t. us HAVE accepted a place of
n. enmity and now we have an even worse
pi ni! - ID.t slu a mentality.
; B in - haven’t given up completely
■ ' redid sa- • of old. We are saying with
r :• a id . volume and voices, “We Shall Over
yonie. ”
Youi admonition to America’s whites that
“t. .!» by the Declaration of Independence, sus
tained t". -bo Constitution of the United States,
pule w !.. rt by the education of our schools, this
.U d'i' r.i. no more resist the advancing tread
os -he 1 .-its of the oncoming blacks, than it can
in . dr. stars or halt the resistless motion of
the tide.
To the Altar of Historic Refreshment, we
o. r •• , ■: take fi osh courage to become even
m'.' d than white America expects of us.
tion of Principle” asking for a health-housing
cod ’ and a.-: ordinance against discrimination in
housing.
The fast action that followed is part of the
record. The NAACP agreed to postpone demon
st; r ions pending city action. The City Council
Monday night and resulted in the appoint -
lr.etit oi a citizens’ committee headed by Hill, to
nri; ,nv an open housing ordinance, and a Council
con.,] itie.i v vonsider a health-housing code,
! latter code has already been adopted, and
t ■ :vi: lo> Mat ion will soon be before
the Council.
voeoaß , . begins the week schools
C ... . d new J. I, Case High School
op.-;.,..!. .x>n after the new school, which
i -L. d .< junior high school department with
; vv: children drawn from the old Franklin
•Tu Hi v, opened its doors, there were signs
of trouble, mainly In a rivalry between Negro
i-o i’i 1!...- junior high and white boys in the
vi Meanwhile, the city was suddenly
; i)\ exaggerated reports of violence
in the school.
■-Vi .lut.horlties called Don Addison at the
- < otfice and asked If he could help.
Mi the help of a few volunteer
r o. vd into the school. He identi
d n.t loodei of the rival groups of boys,
.< d l '-Id r • • tii -. and talks with them, separate
ly ~nd togfher. He worked with them overt
period of days, striving to understand and settle
then differences and their grievances. And he
worked with school authorities, helping them to
settle down the children who came from many
difn rent schools, neighborhoods and backgrounds.
Case High has been as peaceful as any school
in Racine since.
***
The object in telling these stories to not to
claim that the Urban League accomplished these
thing ■ alone; obviously, it served mainly as a
cat d; st for community action. Nor is it the job
oi the Urban League to “keep the Negroes quiet" 9
or act as a fireman in community crises; it is
a social work agency established to provide on
going programs of job development, housing and
youth incentives for minorities.
But, in these two instances, we believe the
Urban I - ague did two Important jobs for the
community investment In the organization if it
had done nothing else this year.
Think you can stop on a dime? At 60 miles
per hour, that dime becomes as Mg as a football
field. Thus, the Portland, Oregon, Traffic Corn
mis- ion reminds y ou to always drive as if you're
expecting an emergency.
***
Amid heavy hints of an Income tax hike after
tin Novembei elections, Commerce Clearing
House notes that Americans are now lugging a
heavier federal tax burden than their Canadian
neighbors. Using the SIO,OOO income level for
comparison, a U. S. taxpayer with a wife and'.two
children under 16 years of age will pay $1,114,
compared to the Canadian’s payment of $987.
***
If Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law should
be repealed, it is estimated that the total take
it union dues would jump by sls million yearly,
as approximately a quarter-million more worker*
would be forced" to join, reports The Detroiter,