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THE CAIOURIAN
RaLeIQH. N. C., SATURDAY. JANUARY 13. 1887
“Only true security is found in God,” t
the Apostle Paul in one letter to Timotny.
And he added, “I know whom I have believ
ed.’' So many of us haven’t learned this
fact as of now, or maybe we nave forgotten.
Most of us place our security in bank bonds,
savings deposits, and the acquisition of wealth.
Editorial Viewpoint
9
We Can Reduce Instances Os Drunken Driving
It is our belief that the trend
toward the reduction of instances of
cases of drunken driving can be ef
fected, especially if we utilize the
apropos know-how.
England appears to have reversed
the rising trend of holiday traffic
accidents by applying a stiff new law
designed to keep drinking drivers
off the streets and highways. The
Ministry of Transport gave a preli
minary estimate of 86 killed on the
roads one week end period, compared
to 136 for the first four days of same
week last year. There were 2,730
accidents reported, compared to 3,699
last year.
The Royal Automobile Club said
this past Christmas that traffic vol
ume was down, indicating that driv
ers were staying off the streets and
road to avoid being stopped by po
lice who might require the appre
hended drivers to take a mechani
cal test measure their blood-alcohol
content.
Britain’s drunk-driving test, which
¥ s been in effect since last Octo
ber, has already brought noticeable
Heart Transplant Is A Godly Miracle
In all seriousness, Dr. Christian
N. Barnard, who has just performed
the only two successful heart trans
plants in history, has beer, inspired
by God to effect a mos ! modern
miracle for patients with certain
symptons of heart disease. For this
Reason, he has teen described recent
ly as a man “impatient of overcau
tion” and “filled with the spirit of
adventure” (in a God-life manner).
; Apparently, the Almighty has pro
vided him with the qualities of “an
artist, a perceptive novelist who,
aware of all factors, has put them to
gether when others would not.” He
has demonstrated that miracles can
happen in the twentieth century.
Dr. Barnard’s first patient survived
Slightly more than 18 days, but the
operation proved a success in spite
of the fact that case died from pneu
monia. As in most things, chances
are better the second time around.
Therefore, prospects are bright for
fche 58-year-old South African den
tist who received a new living heart
from a young stroke patient who died
Recently. The dentist is beginning
his period of adjustment and recov
ery.
■; On Tuesday of last week, Rep.
•Robert G. Clark walked into the Mis
sissippi house of representatives to
become the first Negro since the Re
construction Period to serve in that
body. The new member termed his
. reception by other lawmakers as
' “very warm.”
One could say that a political mi
racle is happening in Mississippi,
l and that a new day is dawning in
: that state because of the recent elec
; tion of Robert Clark as a represen
tative.
I This occurrence is indeed world
l shaking when history reveals that not
j only has a Negro not served in the
l Mississippi House since the turn of
f the century, but Veteran capitol ob
servers say no Negro visitor has
; been permitted to walk on the floor
f of the House in the memory of any
? one now alive. While this may be
historical , the fact should make every
t Mississippi citizen bow his head in
? shame.
*
Rep. Clark won by a narrow mar
gin last November over veteran J. P.
Love of Tchula in the race for the
seat from Holmes County, a pre
« dominantly Negro County in the Mis
l sissippi delta.
The defeated Mr. Love did not take
I his defeat gracefully, but filedachal-
I leuge against Clark’s seating earlier
| on the grounds he had not techni
cally qualified as an independent can
Bible Thought Os The Week
A Mississippi First In Congress
To make us secure during times of illness, we
pay premiums to some hospital and medical
insurance plan. But before we buy, we want
to know what l>enefits It has In store for us.
Security is available to each one of us, if
only we believe all things are possible with
God.
decline in highway death statistics in
England. The results of the strict
enforcement of the drunk-driving test
seems to be paying off by reduc
tion in traffic accidents and deaths.
Os course drunken-driving is not
the only cause of traffic accident
and fatalities. Hazardous highways
and roads and speed driving has made
its contribution to traffic tolls.
These and some other causes re
sulted in killing 44,600 persons and
injuring 3,868,000 during 1966:
1. Driving on w'rong side of road.
2. Exceeding speed limit.
3. Drove off roadway.
4. Did not have right o-f way.
5. Reckless driving.
6. Passing on wrong side.
7. Passing on curve or hill.
8. Failure to signal and improper
signaling.
9. Cutting in.
10. Car ran away - no driver.
But of these ten causal factors,
alcohol is a contributing factor in
more than half of the fatal traffic
accidents.
Need we say more?
When the surgeon placed the young
heart in the chest of the dentist,
it began beating on its own without
the electric shock used in the first
human heart transplant. The patient
regained consciousness soon after the
surgery and his condition is describ
ed as “good.”
That the dentist lived until the op
eration could be performed was in
deed a miracle, for he was desperate
ly ill with a damaged heart. He
had to wait three weeks for a trans
plant.
Dr. Bernard may have set a new
world record in the medical area of
cardiac diseases. Twenty years from
now the transplant of organs like the
heart and liver, etc., may be rou
tine surgical procedure. For this
advance, we must thank imaginative
surgeons who have received wisdom
W[hich came from God.
Since the attitude of the patient is
important in any kind of illness re
covery, doctors must forever rely
upon the dynamics of the spiritual.
The patient who believes that he can
be healed is the one who profits
most from his medical treatment.
didate for the November general elec
tion. However, the challenge was
withdrawn.
From the files of history, Clark
apparently became the first Negro to
sit in the once all-white legislative
halls in Mississippi since the 1890’s
when Isaiah Montgomery, once the
slave of Jefferson Davis,, he Ip draft
and sign the 1890 constitution, which
remains in effect today.
If one wants a thumb-nail sketch
of the new representative, Clark is
a bachelor who wears horn-rimmed
glasses and lives with his nephew
on a 70-acre farm at Ebenezer, 14
miles south of Lexington. He is a
member of both the Mississippi Free
dom Democratic Party and the
NAACP.
From what we learn Rep. Clark
plans to enter into the routine of
things. He said that he looked for
ward to the coming weeks of delib
eration upon such matters as reap
portionment, Clark acknowledge s that
being the only Negro in the House
of Representatives might hamper his
effectiveness, but added that it would
not prevent his introducing bills.
With a positive approach to the
work that lays ahead, we predict
that Rep, Clark in God’s own time
will serve the State of Mississippi
with loyalty and distinction, May-
Almighty God bless his initial ef
forts,
Only in America
BY HARRY GOLDEN
Some years ago I describ
ed my New Year’s resolution
to my readers as a solemn
pact never to reveal my reso
lutions to the discriminating
newspaper public, I have no
intention today of breeching
that solemn pact.. As a matter
of fact I have no resolutions.
But I can pass out some
beauts to the other s.
I thlnkthe airline companies
should make a joint resolu
tion to take the money out of
advertising and Invest it in the
food. 1 fly frequently and
far and in the last decade
while the advertising has be
come glossier and more ap
pealing, the food lias become
more and more like a gigan
tic leftover.
Serving food, snacks, cham
pagnes, and peanuts to the
passengers is part of the air
line business. It takes the
passengers’ minds off the
sense of impending disaster.
I am all for it. But that
rubbery omelet I’ve eaten
countless times on the morn
ing flight to New York is a
disaster of sorts, too. An
air plane has one virtue: it
gets you there fast. The ad
vertising agencies' ought to
come down heavily on that with
significant safety statistics to
comfort me, not those caietei -
fa steaks.
All the book publishers
ought to band together and
pledge unstinting advertising
efforts on behalf of all authors.
A literate section of the coun
try takes to “underground’’
books, those novels or studies
which slipped into the stores
either last month or years ago
without fanfare or promotion
but with such excellence that
Just For Fun
BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE
SO TRUE
The American way of life is
the same of civilization as we
view it today. Thus we can say
that civilization is a system
under which a man pays a
quarter to park his car so he
won’t be fined a dollar while
spending a dime for a nickel
cup of coffee. (May we add
that exclusive eating places
have the nerve to charge fif
teen and twenty cents for a cup
of coffee. Where is civili
zation leading to anyway?)
ATTA BOY, POP
When viewing his son’s six
week report card, one father
penned this stanza:
Report card time is here;
My son thinks his is fine.
It is, when it’s compared
With one he found of mine.
It takes a broad-minded Dad
to admit this fact.
RUN THROUGH FORTUNE
Nothing .shows up poor judg
ment of a person like inherit
ing a lot of money. (Iremem
ber two young men who in
herited SIO,OOO each upon
reaching 21 years. Within
three months, they had
squandered every dime). This
is both humor and tragedy.
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JCSU SEMINARY
CLOSED BY TRUSTEES
We heard the rumor, but now
it is official that the century
old Theological Seminary at
Johnson C, Smith University
will close at the end of the
current academic year.
Naturally, there is opposi
tion to the closing of the semi
nary by many friends and a
lumni. However, the voice of
economic practicality stands
firm on the issue and decision.
In a statement to the pub
lic recently, President R. p.
Perry gave as one of the rea
sons for the Trustee’s deci
sion a SIIO,OOO deficit in the
operation of the seminary last
year. Any practical business
man knows that such continu
ed losses is sheer economic
folly.
Then there is the matter of
seminary enrollment. In all
of 100 years of operation, the
enrollment never exceeded at
one time more than 35 stu
dents. Presently 24 students
are on the register, and eight
teachers gtve instruction to
the few students. The teach
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panto? the copy,
Opinions expressed by column
tuts in this newspaper do not nee>-
epNttlly represent the suite* of
tto pßgtdr.
they survive through the gen
erations. But who with a fam
ily to support wants to be an
“underground’’ writer? All
of us want to be the num
ber one best-sellers.
Last but not least are my
neighbors all of whom I dear
ly love. There is one little
resolve of community action
they have yet to take. They
have neglected to leash their
dogs which roam through the
neighborhood like a pack of
marauding vandals. None of
them do my young magnolia
tree any good. Ido not know
what there is about that mag
nolia tree that so attracts them
but attract them it does.
During the Charlotte elec
tion last Spring, one of the can
didates visited me, soliciting
my support. I told him that
support was his for the ask
ing if he would include in his
platform a plank urging a
leash-your-dog ordinance.
He simple gulped. He star
ed hard at me for several
minutes. Deliberately he ans
wered: “Harry, I seek your
support because I am a lib
eral. The folks can stomach
our stand on integration. They
don’t like it but they can put
up with it. They’re not too
happy about ttie way we feel
about unions. Nobody but you
and I want to unionize all the
55 - cent - an - hour laun
dry workers. We also annoy
ed the constituency plumping
for medicare and all the fed
eral social legislation. But
they will run us out of town
if we promise we will make
them leash their-dog. Every
body has a dog.”
•er-student ratio is far from
normal in this respect.
Although the Seminary is
being closed, Johnson C. Smith
University is going through a
period of reorganization at
the end of which it will open
a unique center for continu
ing education to focus speci
fically on the social and eco
nomic problems of the South
east.
In addition to the proposed
Center for Continuing Educa
tion, the institution will es
tablish a new department of
business administration. The
organization of this depart
ment comes in responsetothe
need by business community
for graduates who have train
ing in this field. The depart
ment will provide majors in
economics, marketing busi
ness management, and secre
tarial science.
The Theological Seminary
will bow out after making an
illustrious record. The first
class to graduate from Biddle
University consisted of three
theologians in 1876. Since the
founding 637 persons have re
ceived the bachelor degree in
theology. During its 91 years
it produced approximately half
of the ministers in four sy
nods of the Presbyterian
Church, USA before its mer
ger with the United Presby
terian Church.
The demise of the Theolo
gical Seminary will mark the
end of an educational tradi
tion at JCSU. This is not
to be scoffed at, especially
when we remember that the
late Franklin Delano Roose
velt answered the critics of
his racial economic program
with words something to this
effect: “I hate traditions like
the Devil Hates Holy water.”
The work of the Theological
School can never be supple
mented for its place and time
in the affairs of men. As
long as we have history, as
long as we have alumni of
the Seminary, one can never
forget what those trainers of
ministers did for more than
four score years.
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UN EMPLOYMENT-BROKEN HOMES EXPLOITATION
Ili Thought Exchange
BY GORDON HANCOCK
"Away With Him! "Crucify Him ”
Thus cried the blood-thirsty mob bent on the
crucifixion of Jesus’ In many ways it resem
ble a sentiment abroad in our land to cruci
fy President Johnson which sentiment is incu
bated in the anti-Negro South and is sweeping
the nation. It has spread like an evil conta
gion and not only is it still spreading, but
intensifying as it spreads! Touched and alarm
ed by the spread of such sentiment, Inez
Robb-ofie of the nation’s most renowned syn
dicated columnists was moved to write an ar
ticle pleading for amnesty for our great
President as follows: "Would it be possible
in the interest of national decency, to de
clare a Christmas amnesty-say 48 to 72 hours
on the obscene, continuous and scurrilous
vindication of the President of the United
States? The country no less than the Presi
dent deserves a respite from the shrill charg
es that he is a murderer and worse, and a
holiday from the sight of mangy pickets, seen
in the communications media carrying pla
cards reading ‘Bastard Johnson, Your end is
near’ and similar sentiments not only vulgar
but plainly threatening." The vocal and un
bridled hatred for our President seems so
closely akin to that which culminated in the
death of the late President Kennedy, whose
brains spattered the inside of a parading
limousine by the bullets from an assassin’s
well-aimed, deadly weapon, which dastardly
deed caused applause in the Texas school
room by the pupils of tender years. And the
applause is that school room was nothing as
compared with the silent applause in millions
of human hearts "deep in the heart of Tex
as" and the Negro-hating South. Such vitrio
lic hatred quickens in the human heart the ques
tion put by Pilate to the mob that cried for
the blood of Jesus "What evil hath he done?"
The evil that President Kennedy had done was
to array the powers of these United States
against further segregation and subjugation of
the Negroes of this country. The current
bitter hatred of President Johnson likewise
quickens the question "What evil hath our great
President Johnson done that he is currently
bitterly hated?” The answer is the same that
WE ARE VERY ANXIOUS TOO
Welcome Vice President Humphrey; and wel
come to Mrs. Humphrey too. Mr. Humphrey
is the Vice President of the United States
and quite naturally the enthusiasm we show
in our welcome Is well to be expected for
America has shown friendliness and a profound
interest in the endeavors of our country.
We would however, like to give a special
welcome to Mrs. Humphrey who is a symbol
of perhaps the most dynamic human force in
the United States -- American womanhood.
The keen interest shown in the daily affairs
of the-state by the American woman and the
tremendous support the men at the helm of
affairs generally get from their women (who
have the absolute freedom in choosing to remain
unconcerned) is one oi the most impressive
aspects of American civilization -- some
thing virtually unknown in several parts of the
civilized world.
In his brief speech in reply to that of wel
come by the Vice-Chairman of our National
Liberation Council, Mr. Humphrey said a
mong other things: “We have come to listen,
to learn, and to help. Wo are anxious to be
gin.’*
Mr. Humphrey may assure the government
and people of America, that we are more
anxious to give them the opportunity than they
can ever imagine. In tils exercise of demo
cracy, there is no easy, straight-forward ap
proach if the liberty of the individual is to be
MARCH OF DIMES MONTH
Monthly bill-paying time is
past. We hope you paid them
all, but isn’t something wrong?
Could it be that somewhere
under the clutter on your writ
ing table or desk drawer is
the March of Dimes mail ap
peal to help a child with birth
defects.
Your March of Dimes is
waiting for that envelope filled
with your contribution. Your
money will be channeled to
v/ard research, treatment and
education in the field of birth
defects.
explains the untimely slaying of great John
F. Kennedy, who died a martyr to the cause
of Negro freedom. President Johnson’s un
pardonable sin has been his open declara
tion that the Negro’s full citizenship is a part
of the program of his proposed Great Socie
ty! And it is for this proposal that the preju
diced mob of this nation is crying with rau
cus voices "Away with him'” "Crucify
him!" It is all about the Negro! It becomes
all the more amazing to see some Negroes
join with the mob and in its wicked cry!
In the long ago Isaiah wrote as a prophet
of the coming Jesus arrd said of Jesus as a
suffering servant”: Who hath believed our
report? and to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? For he shall grow up be
fore him as a tender plant, and as a root out
of dry ground; he hath no form nor comeli
ness; and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him. He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sor
rows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid
as it were, our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely
he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken
and smitten of God and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruis
ed for our iniquities; the chastisement of our
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are helped." In this graphic and dramatic
description of the coming Jesus, Isaiah de
scribes the lot of all those who suffer for oth
ers even Preisdent Johnson. Let us read the
prophecy thus: "HE hath borne OUR griefs,
and carried .OUR sorrows; yet did esteem
HIM stricken and smitten of God and afflict
ed. But HE was wounded for OUR trans
gression, HE was bruised for OUR iniquities;
the chastisement of OUR freedom was upon
HIM find with HIS stripes WE are healed." The
point here is what President Johnson is suf
fering is in large measure the price he is
paying for proposing to include the Negro in
his Great Society. And just as the Negro
hating SOUTH hated Kennedy it hates nobly
inclined Johnson." Away with him!" "Cruci
fy him!" Negroes, that cry is about you!
(GUEST EDITORIAL)
the supreme tenet of the society. Attaining
the goal is really a ‘life-long’ struggle. This
we here are beginning. We hope what we ex
perience in this exercise, will not be as pain
ful as the experiences of other well-estab
lished* nations. At the moment, however,
this remains only a cherished hope.
Much will depend on the support those who
are farther up the road will give us; not
only in the matter of advice and material
help, but more so by the good moral influ
ence they are able to wield in the world
through the conduct of their own national
and international affairs.
If they fail in so doing, what hopes have
we, the toddlers, in this journey towards
peace, freedom and justice?
We are sincerely grateful for all the help
from the USA both in the past and after our
February Revolution in the last two years.
The fact that the USA gave us help even
during the past era when out government
appeared to be hostile to her government,
shows us that, America believes that we are
capable and will achieve our national aspira
tion which are Similar to theirs, even on Our
own.
The journey may be long and tedious, hut
like the people of that great country of Ameri
ca, we are also determined to get there, by
hook or by crook.
Welcome to sunny Ghana* - GHANA DAILY
GRAPHIC.
The great majority ‘of birth,
defects can be treated and
completely corrected, if they
are detected early and given
the best care known to modern
medicine.
Medical care of this high
quality is supported by The
National Foundation-March of
Dimes, now celebrating its
3Oth Anni -ersary. The or
ganization has nearly 100 Birth
Defects Centers at leading
medical Institutions through
out the nation,
Birth defects are a prob
lem which has burdened man
kind for so long with so lit
tle attention, that many feel
nothi ig can be done about it,
As a result, thousands are
needlessly deprived of a
chance to lead useful lives.
Too many children and adults
are needlessly limited by se
vered mental or physical ban-,
dicaps or are doomed to iso
lation in institutions.
Every year 250,000 Ameri
can babies are born with birth
defects. They urgently re
quire help. Do your part
by giving to the March of
Dimes.