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ONLY ONE RACE-THE HUMAN RACE
the Catholic
Hh* ij'i .Holiness the Internal .spoke City of Rome, this week.
a message that needs
a hearing, all the way from streets of our
American cities to the far-off places in
South Africa. Pope John was speaking at
the first of four consistories at which
seven new cardinals were elevated to the
Sacred College.
“In the present consistory, as in the
two preceding ones,’’ he said, “a promin¬
cardinals, ent place is given to the creation of new
chosen this time with an even
more Sacred daring expansion of horizons so that
the College is enriched with dis¬
tinguished and deserving ecclesiastics be¬
longing to considerable portions of the
flock of Christ scattered in distant re¬
gions hut blossoming with life and pro¬
mise.
‘tUfc will therefore have a cardinal from
Japan, from the Philippines and from
Tanganyika in Hast Africa. All were
created equally for the glory of the Lord,
Who sanctifies peoples without discrimina¬
tion of language, origin or color, reach¬
ing all with the same good tidings accord¬
ing, io the mandate lo ‘go into the whole
world and preach the Gospel to* everv
creature.’ ”
His Holiness was fully aware that not
many days before, near .Johannesburg,
in South Africa hasty and brutal police
takj^ aclfjfc t against he lives Negro of scores demonstrators of and had
bundles of persons
others, tin Sharpe-
ville afmrt\ eye-wit nesses said that in a
matter of m-cothIs the ground wsfc littered
with 6b 1 bodies, some still, others moving
convulsively, trying to crawl away.)
U( t L un «"'are that the Bishops
ot . h Africa had expressed grief, shock
and the gravest hiisgivings against such
inhupian conduct. It was a return to the
barluyjspj to find police shooting
THROUGH WITH THE OLD ORDER
(From The
Last week, Newsweek, a national maga¬
zine .fbade public a survey by a team of
its venters which indicated that the great
majority ol white Southern leaders are
convinced that the Negro is no better off
in the North than in the South and feel
thafcNorthern criticism is simply The pot
ea!Sg Iking tlu kettle black.”
| only, to “responsible leaders”
r than extremists, the magazine
Jway: liarized its findings in the North in
sidBof •■• Many civic leaders in states out-
the South are relatively uncriti-
ealBf the South’s response to its more
leaders pricing expressed racial problems. Most Northern
Mostly they sympathy for the South.
want to see the South in-
tegjate. •j’-ut. like the South itself,
th;» ancient social they feel
chJBgcd customs cannot he
foifthe over night and it’s perhaps best
South — as well as Congress —
to go slow." Oil the other hand, the in¬
vestigators found the majority of South¬
erner interviewed felt the South “is more
concerned with the welfare of the Negro
than the North ever thought of being ..”
.
What the survey really reveals is how
pathetically uninformed “responsible lead¬
ers" are about the South and Civil Rights.
Perhaps if Newsweek’s reporters disguis¬
ed themselves as John Howard Griffin, a
native white Texan writer who masquerad¬
ed as a Negro for six weeks, they would
really come up with the truth as to where
and how the Negro is treated better.
Sai<i Griffin after six weeks as a Ne¬
gro. “I like to see good in the white man.
BA after this experience, it’s hard to find
it Ih the’Southern white.” This sounds
m«e like the truth than what was re¬
ported jpewsweek’s in the survey.
so called survey is just a
Jot fof v. armed over “propaganda soup”
probably designed to take some of the heat
off the South, during the Civil Rights leg-
isolation crisis. The wav Negroes are mi¬
grating to the North, Fast and West
should be a clear indication where they
think they are treated best. Imperfect as
the North, West, or Hast may tie in
li\ing up to the principles ot democratic
and Christian living, the South will re¬
main the worse place as long as it clings to
the myth of white supremacy in its rela¬
tions with other human beings who hap¬
pen. not to lie white, or do not believe in
the terror, intimidation and violence that
tries to enforce the myth.
Safe, satisfied and secure “responsible
leaders’’ obviously know little of what’s
going on in the world and are iii no posi¬
tion to voice an authentic viewpoint. From
’he “ivory” tower to the country dub. to
cod.tab circuit and heme, to the
man-uim these esteemed leaders have little
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at large crowds of Negroes who had
gathered merely to protest against the
government’s segregation regulations. The
South African Catholic Bishops have re¬
peatedly condemned the “apartheid”
policy, according to which Negroes have no
vote, must live in segregated areas, suffer
severe job regulations, must obey curfew
laws and carry police identification pass¬
es.
The Bishops voiced “the gravest mis¬
givings” about the impasse that has been
reached. The forces which insist on main¬
taining the absolute apartheid and in pro¬
claiming white supremacy within the very
citadel of Afrikaner nationalism have cut
off all common ground for discussion;
there is no meeting place between black
and white. Since there seems to be no
hope of any radical change in wjiite policy,
there is little likelihood of any change in
the developing pattern of violence.
No wonder the Bishops have grave mis¬
givings for the future. Is blindness and
prejudice to doom their land to a future
of strife and bloodshed? Are reason and
Christian principles to be outlawed for¬
ever? These are grave questions, and
they must be answered.
The words of Pope John XXIII and the
bloody actions in South Africa should be
combined to sound a siren warning for
everyone. There is a Christian answer to
this serious (even if man-made) problem.
The bloodstained streets of Sharpeville
cry out as a warning that such is the
frightening end result of prejudice run
wild. The Holy Father points to the
Christian solution which is pointedly ex¬
pressed in the recent pastoral letter of
the Catholic South African Bishops
“there is only one race, the hitman race,”
How long will it take us to learn and to
live this basic truth? *
opportunity to form a reliable opinion
about people and conditions they know
nothing about.
It is doubtful that in the above men¬
tioned survey few, if any Negroes were
usked to express an opinion because what
Negroes think obviously was unimport¬
ant. For the record we would like to
reprint some recent remarks by Roy Wil¬
kins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP,
which expresses eloquently the viewpoint
of Negro leadership. j
Said Mr. Wilkins: “It is safe to pre¬
dict, however, that American Negroes
have been stirred deeply by events in the
1 'ast few years. They are restless and
frustrated. They are tired and snappish.
'I hey contrast what is happening else¬
where in the world with the same old dish¬
water they are getting from many parts
ot the South. They remember the lynch¬
ing of Mack Charles Parker and the fail¬
ure ot Mississippi to do anything, even
after the tremendously thorough and ef¬
fective report of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. They remember the defi¬
ance of the Supreme Court and the con¬
tinuance of Jim Crow schools.
“They regard the filibuster in the Sen¬
ate as a personal affront to each of them.
They remember the speeches of our Presi¬
dent on freedom and dictatorship to the
parliaments in India and in Chile and the
wonder, understandably, why they cannot
have freedom here. It is altogether pos¬
sible. then, that some of this feeling may
remain ing booths with them November as they enter the poll¬
next to help decide
which party and which candidate shall
win. ‘ ,
“Anyone who doubts that the Negro
citizens are weary of the old-time pro¬
mises and excuses needs only to read to¬
day’s newspapers and listen to today's
radio and television. Young Negro stu¬
dents have served unmistakable notice
that they are through with the old order
of segregation and racial insult.
"The lunch-counter sit-ins that have
spread across half the South signal a new
day. Segregation as a philosophy is dead,
and as a practice it is being hastened to¬
people ward its depth. The minute Negro young
jail agree spontaneously that they will
go to rather than submit to the old
practices, those practices are dead.
“It does not matter how many police
are employed, or how many different
charges are sworn to. it does not mat¬
ter that for a time the evil practices con¬ I
tinue. When a whole generation of young-
people decides that a thing is wrong, it is I
dead. The white people can go on pretend¬
ing if they choose to do so. They can be ;
“tough” or not. as they please. It will i
n6t affact the final outcome: segregation
in public places must go.” i
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
BUT UNCLE, WHAT ABOUT HERE AT HOME?
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THE BLACK MAN
A Political Flunky and an Economic Bum
By Haji Talib A. Dawud
Ingenuity of man is the only solution
for his prosperity. The destiny of a man
should be shaped within the race and not
from without. It is regrettable to note
that the destiny of the black man is still
shaped from without. The sooner he
realizes that no one is responsible for his
lack of progress, but because of his own
lethargy, the better off he will be. He
should be tired of being the vassal of
.
other people
The United States, which is the most
highly industrialized country ip the world,
has a population of riot less 1 thpn 18 mil¬
lion of black people: With*‘tfye facilities
of education ahd the opportunities of cre¬
ating any amount of economic fields, the
blacki man should be one of the most in¬
Your Child
to
< Final 1 in a Series <if Fokr)
By MRS. Harris,is FANNYF Childrens .!. JjA^RIS Librari¬
Often, an at 'PUskegee is 1 heard n#it|tj)
a parent to say,
is really an excellent read¬
but she just doesn’t read,” or
doesn’t have enough time
read,” or “Barbara doesn’t like
read.” Rather than continual-
offering excuses for the young¬
who has not fully developed
reading potential, consider
two questions:
(1) What have I as a parent
toward his, , r present
(2) How can I help to develop,
and maintain a desire in
child to improve his reading—
quality-wise and quantity
First, quizz yourself as a par¬
(1) Do you read at least one
newspaper regularly?
Do you read the paper in an or¬
fashion or do you simply
such headlines as:
(a) “HEAD OF KIDNAPPED
FOUND IN TRUNK.”
(b) “SEX KILLER STILL AT
(e) “HONEYMOONERS’ CAR
50 FEET IN ICY
(2) How many representative
of fiction and non-fiction
you read during the past 12
(3) Does your family share in
regular story hours? •
(4) To which magazines do you
(5) Do you have a home library?
(0) Do you always read mimeo¬
materials that you re¬
(7) Is the Bible in your home
read or is it only a way
adding religious prestige to the
(8) Do you frequently misunder¬
materials that you read?
You can probably add many
pertinent questions to this
How you rank on such a quiz
the appropriateness of
stage you have set for your
It is the responsibility of the
to see that his child is
with the basic needs for
to read. Probably the
most basic Jacod- arc: (1) i
eye-sight, (2) good hearing ’
dependent elements living in the country
today. Any people who lack industry
should. never expect to be on the same
social level with other industrious groups.
The lack of ambition, the initiative and
incentive from the masses of any race
of people will certainly bring about an
economic instability; hence, the interna¬
tional problem of the Blacks can only be
solved by a step by step method. It is a
three-front proposition; namely — Local,
National and International. A people who
indulge a lot of frivolities will always
be found wanting. With the constant in¬
human practices and insults heaped upon
the black man, he should be the most
serious and organized man in the world —
but instead, he is the most frivolous.
ahjjity, (3) adequate speaking
ability (don’t encourage b^by-talk;
help yoyr chjld overcigne if), (4)
ability tp pay attention, (f>) ade¬
quate language skills (ability to
use and understand common
words), (6) desire to read, and
(7) particular skills for reading
(ability to distinguish between like¬
nesses and differences—was, saw).
In considering ways to motivate
the desire in your child for more
and better reading, it is important
to remember not all children of
the same age or grade will read bn
the same level, our ultimate ob¬
jective is to have the child develop
his potentialities to the maximum.
How Parents Can Stimulate
Their Children To Read
1. Read to your child even
though he has learned to read for
himself. Likewise, you should lis¬
ten to him read frequently.
2. Buy books for him and allow
him some voice in selecting pur¬
chases.
3. Have a genuine interest in
him and his activities.
4. Provide frequent opportuni¬
ties for him to browse in children’s
departments of public libraries and
bookstores.
5. Recognize bis progress and
refrain from making comparisons
of his failure or progress with an¬
other.
(i. Encourage him to develop
some creative hobby—he may find
reading about his hobby rather en¬
joyable.
7. See that he gets adequate
rest. A late date with TV will
definitely show up later.
8. Encourage conversation in
the home—especially at mealtime.
An earlier start in the morning
makes this possible even at break¬
fast time.
9. Form a partnership with his
teacher to insure desired results.
10. Respect his reading tastes,
and at the same time, encourage
the acceptance of. finer ones.
Reading is, without a doubt, a
very difficult task. Make it a
pleasant experience for the child.
As motivated parents we can moti¬
vate our youth to become well-read,
well-informed citizens who under¬
stand <y|id appreciate other nation-
of the world.
Direction
By J. REDDICK
t
I
i Many factors are responsible for
the birth of events. Along
small and unobserved things,
finally presents the events
are related to the preceding
tors. Whether they are
or social this principle is
Someone has said, “Events
not happen, they are brought
about.” Diseases,
deaths, social problems and
wars do not “happen.”
They have their beginnings
the small and the unobserved. On
the other hand, health, safety, life,
social harmony and peace do not
“happen.” They also have their
beginnings in the small and the un¬
observed. That which'seems to he
insignificant have major conse¬
quences in human affairs. “How
careful then ought I to live.”
When we observe many events in
our world today, we rather say,
how careful then should we have
lived during previous years in
order that many of the consequ¬
ences that we face today would
have been more desirable. We are
helpless in the case of the past;
although, we can be helped by the
past. The past has given to us
many factors and processes by
which we get many specific pro¬
ducts, whether those products are
blessings or banes. We can re¬
frain from those factors and pro¬
cesses that give us undesir¬
able products and embrace those
that gvie to us desirable products.
Little things are important.
Someone has used the following
prayer,” Lord, deliver us from the
gnats, we can take care of the
elephants.” If we get help with
our pennies, we can handle the
dollars. If we are helped with the
causes, we can take care of the
effects.
Encouraging rays of light upon
the issue above are found in the
Bible. Matthew 13:31-32. Here the
smallest of seeds, by process be¬
comes the largest of herbs. Jesus
chose 12 men to help him in his
early mission on earth. The group
was small and practically unob¬
served, but it resulted into major
consequences.
If people are to follow the Way
of Security, they must use and
be loyal to those elementary fac¬
tors and processes that both time
•miiI eternity u-e. Love good and
hate evil, seems to be an adequate
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2)0 Drops
R. W. Gadsden
Anything, any plan to help even
a few of the many thriftless to
become thrifty is a good thing.
No thriftless person who really
wishes to escape from the embar¬
rassment and thraldom into which
his shiftlessness has lured him,
can fail to see the promise the
ability to escape holds for him.
of the enterprising advertising of
The high - powered salesmanship
press, radio and television, which
daily bombards ready and prospec¬
tive buyers, contributes little or
nothing toward developing their
ability to make value judgments,
either as to what to buy, or when
to stop buying, or whether to buy
what is needed or just wanted;
whether to save or to spend. Hence
it is not altogether surprising to
learn that some people have spent
already this year’s salary, and
some others have even spent next
year’s. The difficulty such people
are in is attributable in no little
degree to the fact that they have
listened to the siren song of loan
companies who know all the wiles
of appealing to the thriftless who
do not listen to the advice of those
who speak from experience, who
caution that “you can not borrow
yourself out of debt”; who, to
say it more simply, advise that
when you borrow from Peter to
pay Paul, you still owe Peter;
who know that it too often hap¬
pens that when you borrow from
Peter to pay Paul, you don’t, and
so you have to borrow from Tom
to pay Peter and Paul and so on-
ad infinitum—and the circle even¬
tually becomes complete and there
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Some sage has said that man
his best is a compliment to his
ator. And man is never at his
until he feels that he is
and dying in a great Cause.
is something inspiring
strengthening about sacrificing
a great cause.
We are told that John Brown
ways alluded to his fight
American slavery as "The
and this explains why he put
head ihto a hangman’s noose
Harper’s Ferry. The risk he
there was calculated.
The 9 hanged him as a
because he dared to take up
against the United States; on
other hand Others who took
arms against this country
heroized; and only recently
the last Confederate veteran
ed on, our President ordered
flown at half-mast, out of
ence to a man who did the
thing that John Brown did.
Our strange ways — hang
and heroize the other for the
offense. Although John Brown
been disparaged by Southern
torians, the fact remains he died
Martyr for a great Cause; and
spirit goes marching on
When a wealthy white
African farmer shot Prime
ter Hendrik Verwoerd he was
ning a foul of the law, but he
inspired by the conviction that
was serving a Great Cause.
Verwoerd’s pronouncements
his apartheid principles and
gram sickened the soul of a man
of Christian sensibilities and
red him to an act that may
his life. The apartheid must
somethng fearful when a
white South African rises
against it and jeopardizes his
to the extent of attempting to
its advocate and proponent.
When David Pratt made an at¬
tempt on the life of Verwoerd, he
was doing the same thing
John Brown did at Harper’s
he was attempting to serve a great
Cause. And so human freedom
continues to stir the martyr blood
in men and as long as this is true,
the days of human slavery are
numbered.
It has come about that the sym¬
pathies of the nations are with
Pratt and not Verwoerd. And in
the long run of history this is
mighty important.
When men become so possessed
Your Past This Week
April 26. 1909—Miss Caroline
Plhelps^Stokes, of New York
died. The Phelps-Stokes Fund
was created in accordance to
the terms of her will, for the
memory expression that applies to
the issue above. As Christians,
we use Jesus’ standard of love-
good-evil and hate. A person’s life
is small but once given to a Chris¬
tian eaUuC ha:, certain potential;
for major consequences to the con¬
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, I960
is nowhere to go.
The old-time advice “to save
some of what you earn for the
rainy day” is still sound. There
isn’t much else to be said now that
applies to individual thrift. If
we knew them, it would be quite
improper and libelous to be spe¬
cific to the point of giving names.
However, a word may be said
about group thrift, that is, group
earning, saving and management
of money for the benefit of small-
income earners.
Two plans or movements have
proved very beneficial and highly
successful for earners of small in¬
comes, where the rules governing
them are strictly adhered to: the
consumer co-operative and the
credit union. The consumer co¬
operative, the product of the think¬
ing of the Rochdale weavers, 48
of whom inaugurated the plan in
uider to free themselves from the
inconvenience of low income. Sim¬
ply stated, the plan recognized or
implemented the fact that a lot of
people with a little bit of money
could poo! it for their common
benefit. They began, with $240,
five dollars per person. The credit
union is another such plan in
which people of “common bond”
or interest put together their
small earnings to establish credit
for the benefit of its members, to
furnish money to them when they
need it. Limited space forbids
giving detailed description of the
workings of these plans at this
time. They suggest something
that can be done.
with the spirit of freedom that
they are willing to lay their lives
on the altar, we have men living
life at its best. More and more
Negroes are manifesting a fear¬
lessness that means ultimate trou¬
ble for the oppressor; and this'fs !
as it should be. jV.
Somewhere along the line Of
struggle for freedom there comes a
moment of grave decision as to
whether to die as a slave or as a
martyr for a great cause. The
Colonists of America faced this
moment courageously and thereby
blessed mankind. “Safety First”
is fine as a slogah but is not a
sound philosophy.
It was not exactly safe for the"’
Colonists to fight against the tyi* 01
nanny of England, but they got
away with it. It was not exactly
safe for the allies to resist the
Kaiser, but they did and saved the
world from Germany’s iron heel of
oppression.
It was not exactly safe for the
free nations to defy Hitler and his
marching legions, but they fought
World War II and won it
It was not safe for Old John
Brown to make his stand for hu¬
man freedom by dramatizing a
Great Cause but his sacrifice stir¬
red the forces of freedom every¬
where, and when the last page of
history is written John Brown will
go down as a martyr with a place
among the great martyrs of his¬
tory.
There is something strengthen¬
ing about the fight for freedom
and his fact should encourage the
heart of the darker races every¬
where. David Pratt of South
Africa gives assurance that John
Brownism is a living reality in the
Twentieth Century world. The I
fight for freedom will be won!
This non-violent approach to the
fight for freedom is fast becoming
more powerful. This is another
way of saying that the spirit and
teachings of Jesus Christ are
mighty forces in the world of to¬
day. | j
We have recently celebrated Eas¬
ter which is reference to the resur¬
rection of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. One of the great evi¬
dences that He is risen is this
same non-violent resistance to op¬
pression and slavery.
V\ herever there is sympathy for
the oppressed and non-violent re¬
sistance to the oppressor, Jesus
lives.
education of Negroes.
April 27, 1803—Toussianb
L Ouverture, Negro liberator of
Haiti, died in France in the
Prison of Joux.
struction of good and the destruc¬
tion of evil.
Did you know St. Benedict the
Moor. Negro saint, died at San
Fradella, Sicily, in 1589.