THE CA&OLINA T« M£ 3 'if-DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY/ FEBRUARY 6, IV*; ?1011 5

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Another Nail Driven in the GOP CoffinThe Droorratk hrtjr drove another sail .

in coffin *4 the lUpiilican Party lastTue*Say whe* lis f&tinnaV Committee tooksteps to guarantee that Negroes of the Southwill have a voice in choosing delegates to.the party's M6B national convention. With"the Republican Party keeping wide open itsdoor for aoti-cinl rights refugees from theDemocratic Party it is certain that there willbe a shortage of GOP Negro supporters infutuj* political campaigns.

Unless GOP leaders take some drastic stepsbetween now aMI the 1966 political campaignto show interested in protecting thevoti4| ngbta ot Mtgroes in states of thedeejCPouth, it affcars that the democrats willreap'the greater part of the harvest of thenew Negro voters of the South. With thegrowing interest in the register arid vote cam-paign now going on.j» all of the southernstates, it is predicted that the Negro vote

witt not o»rfy e«fnnl thnt 1064 bat may «*?»

.double by 1966.Not only did the National Democratic Com-

mittee pass a resolution guaranteeing that ailcitizens ""regardless of race", creed or colorwill have the opportunity to participate fullyin "party affairs and to cast their electionballots for the presidential and rice presiden-tial nominees selected by said convention andfor educators pledged formally and is goodconscience to the election of these presi-dential and vice presidential nominees underthe Demoratic label" but it voted to create aspecial committee to carry out its mandate.

While all this was going on, GOP leaderswere sitting supinely by and watched theDemocrats run off with the ball. We think theroad, in so far as the Megro is concerned, isgoing to he rough and rocky for all GOPcandidates in the future.

The Retirement of Dr.. Miles Hark FisherThe honorable retirement of Dr. Miles

Mark Fisher as pastor of White Rock BaptistChurch will be looked upon by a majority of

citizens of Durham, the state and the nation

, as tie retirement of a great minister fromthe pastorate..of a great church. For nearlya hundred years now White Rock has stoodas a symbol of Negro progress with its pul-

pit, through those years, being held by some

of the nation's most, outstanding ministers,

among which Dr. Fisher was by no means theleast.

Up until a few years ago, the pinacle ofchurch supremacy could truth-

fully be said to be shared equally by White

Rock and St. Joseph's A. M. E. Church.Among the official family of both, as wellas ajnong the memberships of the past andnow- have been many of the outstanding busi-

nesst and professional men and women of the

nation. Recently, however, the acceptanceof the pastorate o**&veral other churchesof Durham by some of the best trained andprepared njinisters of the race, has forcedWhite Rock and St. Joseph's to move over,

50 to sp«ak, in order to make room for othergrowing and well past ored churches.

TpKus, Dr. Ffefcetfa, retirement from White4hik is certain to great problem

officials to find a man capable of fill"in«he shq#s left by one so highly respectedan®bek>v*f? With White Rock's proposedbuiUling plans and the competition ifhasfcvith other churches in Durham, especiallywitlin its own denomination, White Rock

officers will need to approach their task pray-erfully and carefully.

While we are on the subject of Dr. Fisher'sretirement, we woald like to take this occa-

sion to pay tribute to the love and respect

which White Rock has demonstrated throughthe years for its pesters, even under difficultsituations. Twice within the past 40 years

we have seen it rise to the pinacle of love andaffection for a pastor, incapacitated hy age or

physical disability. Such, we think, is trueevidence of a great church.

There are two major things that ge tomake a great church. First, there must be agreat leader, as a pastor or minister. Thenthere must be among its official family menand women of high moral caliber. Without

such a combination em the strongest churchis certain to eventually decline m power andinfluence. For when a church has nothingbut a weak spiritual head, sometimes referredto as the pastor or minister, together with aweak official board, it is not long beforethe boring from within sets in. Then therefollows bickering among the officers andmembers, opheavels in the choirs and itsother auxiliaries, until finally the collapse ormaybe an explosion, from which it wiU takeyears to recover. "He that hath ears tohear, let him hear."

We join with all of Durham ha wishingfor Df. Miles Mark Fisher a lang and happyretirement from a job well done, a life ofservice and a great contribution to his dayand time.

w r Churchill, A Man of Destiny* tTThose o£ us who are fortunate enough to

be Having will not see in oar time anotherman equal is stature and achievement to thatof Chnrfhill. To say that he wlas a

.man of destiny in pitting it lightly. WinstonChurchill was not only a man of destiny batalmost froaHKhe time of his birth nnitl he hadbraghed his last he walked arm in an withd&iy.

Tw gifted writes has ever created an imagi-n;fr charades «D JMCC noble deeds and high-

than that of Sir Winston.

tlfm majestic splenAog to do a noble deedin fces book of eternity a chapter tar

Ihis poinjtiog ont England's "finest faou"wwpiink CltarthittVowa "finest hour" cameon June 4, 194& itf Mb Dunkirk speech whenit appeared that the Allied cause was lostand that HHIwhad gained the supremacy inhis struggle fc* mastery of the world. SaidChurchill:

"We shall go oo to the end.''We shall fight in France, we shall fight on

the seas and oceans, we shall fight with grow-ing confidence and growing strength in theair.

"We shall fight oa the beaches, we shallfight on the landing grounds, we shall fightin the fields and m the streets, we shall fightin the hills. ' \u25a0

shall never surrender."It was this speech of we think,

that electrified (he free world and arousedthe fighting spirit of what appeased to be itsbeaten farcm. if not »*>w, hirtory will someday point to it aj the turning point of World

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Thus it appears that God always preparesa man for sncb crucial aanunti in the affairsof mankind Truly Sir Winston Churchillwas a man of destiny thinQgh whom .Godspoke and moved upon the face of the earth.

High Faiit BMb fW ttw

lecting a Negro fas its l» "*«?* olthe Year." The actkn, taken hy the Jajeee*of the fuxnrtare city Mldo much m help? - A akom hdta oca relations >n

Hfeh Point tLi it «s*ahfe£es a eaapeplefar the fhendinrr. of Chnuuetce mother cities th»t matiapr te ding ta the an-cient and opt ot dnte enataoe el **far whitesooljr* '* ?->\u25a0. 'Vr- '*?'

Robert J..tfown,- *rajqtfeu***Ae Jay-cees award Wyoung citMoa-aAd 14a *hefield of business a**'* ?*\u25a0*» taakrhim a most deeartiag-ttztau **** haaerthat has coma to 'Will.

It is oar hope that abaßar organizationsin other cities of the state wiH follow theexample of the Jaycees of High Point andgive honor to whom honor is doe withoutregard for race, creed or cplot- Were m Dor-ham. with its numerous young ... Xk.

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ITS UGLY SHADOW CIRCLING THE GLOBE

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By REV. HAROLD ROLAtyD

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Faith in God Gives Man the ,Power to Overcome the World v

"Have faith in God who raisedJesus from the dead." Rom. 4:21.

A life of great, untold poten-

await those souls who real-ly have faith in God. The Biblerepeatedly calls us to the won-ders of faith in God. It furtherreminds us that this is the path-way to great living. Many aresearching other ways to achievethe goal of great living. But theone inescapable fact of theBible is that great living comesthrough faith in God. What is

it that places Moses among theten greatest men of the age?The answer must be his faithia God Almighty. Why do theHebrew Prophets tower as loftyspiritual peaks in the thoughtand history of mankind. We findthe answer in their faith in God.Faith in God shows us lift atits best.

We called to faith in the Godwho raised Jesus Christ fromthe dead. Here in the resurrec-tion of the Crucified Sonthe final reason of faith in ibod.Men in the fury of their spiritualblindness nailed God's Son toa cross. They laid him in, atomb. And they shout with glee

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}By Whitney M. Young Jr.RACE AND REASON

i'. Two. of the more malignedgroups, in the current social rev-olution are those often dispar-agingly referred to as "white lib-

erals" and the "Negro middle-class."

You can toss an egg out awindow and hit somebody wohwill take after either one orboth of these groups. Most often"White liberals" are lambastedfor offering lip-service only tothe Negro's protest. And theNegro middle-class, supposedly,"turns its hack" on its origins,and "won't help its own peoplerise up."

It's easy enough to suchstatements -but I think it is alot harder to prove them.

First, I wonder if we don't ex-pect the Negro middle-elaas toperform miracles. While 1 don'twant to be put in a position oiexcusing any person who ia cal-lous to the plight of the poor,white or black, I do think wemuts take into consideration itselse and composition. *

In Memphis, Tenn., onlp eightpercent of all Negro familiespre earning over $6,000 a year,a recent Urban Lea|oe surveyof 6S major cities disclosed. Inno rity analysed did the Negromiddle-class exceed 45 percentof the total Negro community.fa Dayton, it comprised but 33percent; in New York3o; isBisliimore , 25; in Cincinnati itVM only 22 and in St. Louisonly I®. r

Yet many people deride thisgroup fer not doing more ftnan-

? ritfy, and etberwiso, to helppoorer Negroes along. Do the

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we are done with the trouble-some agitator. But they in blind-jiess overlooked the fact thiswas the incarneate Son of God,this was God clothed in gar-ments of our flesh-. This son ofGod had anchored his hopes in

a faith in God's power. And inthis faith he had said with as-surance I will rise on the thirdday morning. And this faith inGod was vindicated on the thirdday morning as he rose on timeto get the Easter parade started.It is wonderful to have faithin the God '.vho raised Jesusfrom the dead.

Faith in God gives us thevictory over the world. This isour hope of victory over theworld?even faith in God. Is

there any other way for man, inhis weakness, to overcome theworld. The answer of history isno. The answer of human ex- ?perience is no. Man left to him-self is unable to overcome theworld. But man with the an-chorage of faith in God canovercome the world. And if #ewould overcome the false philo-sophies and ideoligics runningrampant in our world at this

To Be Equalcritics of this class recognizethat often a Negro family earns$6,000 a year only beeause the

husband makes SBO a week as alaborer and the wife bringshome S4O from a job ironingshirts in a laundry?

In terms of composition, thisso-called "middle-class" familydiffers greatly from that of, say,a white office manager for anarchitectural firm. Yet the Ne-gro family is supposed, by vir-tue of its "middle-class" design-ation, to be pouring huge sumsinto the NAACP, CORE, or send-ing book parcels down to SNICKfield workers in Mississippi.

As for the "white liberals,"who ever took a pool to deter-mine just how many of themsigned petitions to keep Negrofamilies out of their neighbor-hoods? How can the critics ofthis group judge them as anentire class?

isn't it just foolish to say that"white liberals," (meaning,! sup-pose, all white liberals,) are be-hind the times, as it is to say

v that all Negroes who succeeddon't help their poor relationsdown at the bottom? To be sure,there are men formerly thoughtof as liberals who won't staad

'up for equal opportunities forNegro citizens when it involvessome mild inconvenience fortheir own families, like bussiaga child to a school.

Bat from my vantage point atthe Lincoln Memorial duriagthe March on Washington, 1could see tens of thousands ofwhite faces among the marchers.And more keep joining all thetime as they recognize that ?fair chance for all ia in thpr

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hour, it must be through faithin the God that raised Je?usChrist from the dead. The onlything that nukes mefeadul forthe nation is that it wW throwaway, cast aside, its faith In God.This is the danger of the nationand not wne Godless philoso-phy.

The critical call then this dayia a return to a rimjpif faith inthe God who raised Jesus Christfrom the dead- Here is individualand social attvatio*. Have faithin God fay giving Km the firstplace in our Uvea. We hoar muchabout the pototkapfc dream 'ofthe great society. The great so-ciety was envisioned by the onewho eaase from heaven to bebora in n wager and walkedamong men for thirty-threeyears, was crucified, buried and ,rose on the third day moaning jwith the keys. The new societywas to be built on pap redeem Jed and filled with the tave of JGod. In brief, the new societywas to rest upon faith in God

Each soul needs a faith in God,the one thing that gives manpower to overcme the world.

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interest, -too. , . 'If the current aqeiai revolu-

tion teaches us nothing el*, Ihope that we have learned ?thbe careful in loosegeneralizations. Thousand* ifNegro families >of r-pUifcle-cksastatus are,struggle tp keep folgjijfc ahpM,contributing tor.ment. So are lao'rysupporting the righlif SfßMpMltt.. Our problem;lem is not . the* .'support, and others depose,'; jet-ial justice. Our jpaMwi ia one ofawakening tbfr||Vp|ijfc. thatlarge body of jjtomjmt indif-ferent man, qgaHHMH Ampus. A woman wKpßpfriin New York at *a-'ptfi?e ma

streets in chain* yp they willkeep their sibpoe. Vmt*