New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00894

id Write...And Write of course this is a very great crime that a citizen in the ab­ sence of protection by Federal, State or any other govern­ ments and in constant danger of losing his life should prepare to defend himself. Up From Slovery Sir: Slavery was Introduced into the English Colonies in 1619 when a cargo of 20 Negroes was landed in Jamestown, Virginia. Within a hundred years, slavery spread to all thirteen colonies. In the’ year 1865 slavery was abolished. Of course I do not find your action, or the action of the school or any of the other officials shocking. After all "yot all" The abolitionists argued thit acted about as one would expect slavery is a great moral wrong “you all” to act. I am greatly because no man has the right grieved at the attitude of our to hold another man in bondage nation toward this matter how­ Slave owners are criminals. Slav­ ever, for we all know that this ery is against the teaching of man was in. danger of losing the Bible, and the Declaration of independence declared all [his life daily and no one was men. not only White men, free!protecting him and yet we take it as a matter of course that and equal. Years have gone by and yet I he had no right to prepare for we are still in slavery. The white his own defense. man refuses to acknowledge the! We all know, also, that none of the people that carry guns Negro’s independence. This is the year of 1963 and constantly in your little domain its abolitionists are still arguing | and shoot other citizens, that the same points. The only differ- happen to be black, at will ever ence between today and the year! have their guns taken away from of 1619 when the first cargo of them by this law which is being Negroes landed in Jamestown? enforced where Mr. McDowell Virginia is the white man is not!is concerned. standing over, us with a vhip.i I ur8e you to wake up befnre The same as years gone bv: it is too late and realize t.iat we were refused the righ. to Jaw must be enforced, yes al- vote, refused the right to scuc ways law must be enforced, not where we wish hnd refused the just when it is convenient for right to an equal education and what you want. Until such time as you realize this, I urge ail equal jobs. Until these problems are solved Amei.oans to let up such a pro- the signing of the Declaration of test over the expulsion of Mr. Independence on July 4, 1776 McDowell from the University has no real meaning for t ie of Mississippi that it might even be heard in the little domaii) Negro People all over the world talk'of Gov. Barnett. Max L. Hardeman New York about the beautiful United States land of the free. But here. I am, a citizen, born in the United States and yet I am not free Where else can you get Martin because I was born a Negro. Luther King, Jackie Robinson. I did not have to apply for cit- Roy WUklns, Poppy Cannon, Ger- izenship because I was bom here trade Wilson, Jimmy Hicks and and so were my parents and my Jimmy Booker but In the Ams- foreparents and yet I am still terdam News. Out every Thurs- denied the basic rights of the day. Declaration of Independence ------------- --------------------------------- •’ ’ ’. Anderson, US. Navy; YN2 falter Hogan, U S. Coast Guard ind S-Sgt. Cecil E. Ward, Jr., J.S. Marine Corps, as trivial comedy and nothing All men are created equal.’’ ore. I do not or cannot understand am not free. Because By the time 1 reached adult- ; why I bom a Negro should I wd I had long ceased being 11 was ihamed of being a Negro, but'be happy to be a cook, cleaning woman and taking care of white as proud of it. Thia pride has men’s babies, but not good enough tabled me to get along very for high paying jobs and good ell in my dealings with whites, schooling? lis pride also told me that Amos The so-called Negro problem Andy no more represented the egro than say Laurel and Hardy 1 would be easy to solve if the d the whites. Why should Amos Declaration of Independence was Andy; and Little Black Sambo put into effect antLa document ! stereotypes of the Negro when!written without any\(neaning. surel and Hardy, or Simple Si- A Negro has been misunder- on are not stereotypes of stood front the beginning. When he speaks of integration, he hites’ I think the«Negro needs moreirnean’ 5^?,s’?>bs’ Pi*,bllc facJ’ iucation of himself and more J11*’- neighborhoods He is nt tai pride. (I am not saving we^talking2f a*kin* lhe ‘"T”1 ren t a proud race' and’ then ,kinKs of tlie white man, he is pople will see Amos ’n Andv In °"ly askln? t0 ®*en tbe tb,ngs s true perspective A Roy Wil- ‘hat "ere ins or Ralph Bunche.cannot be ba# ma^ Sl’m1any wonder- though God; ul thin*s flfKl a1’ 1 am asking ailed stereotypes for is my equal share of them nows it would be desirable) rhy should we as Negroes even , Why -hould the Negroes have uggest that Amos ’n Andy are” t‘,Ja,t /orJr>ghts or inte­ gration to be written when they I am fully aware of the serious- are alreadv staUxj in the-Con- stitution of the United States un­ less the writing of the Constitu­ tion in the year 1786 was ip- tended for the white man, and Negroes have fo fight and dem­ onstrate until it is decided that another set of laws be written to guarantee th^ Negroes their freedom less and difficulties of the Ne- troes fight and a little humor ihouldn’t take anything away rom that seriousness. But, until ve as Negroes can tak? a little Kidding good naturedly; I don’t Jiink we will ever really feel pqual. For centuries we have seen the targets of a lot of bad humor and have rightfully fought against it, but we aren’t a race without humor and should be big enough to take it. J J Dunn Brooklyn, N. Y. McDowell's Gun to him by b*rtn Charles Myers 521 Macon Street Brooklyn 33. N.Y. Job Applicant Sir:. I am a man 50 old, married and have my er who lives with us.tf Sir: This is to Gov. Ross Barncit: Sir: I note with hilarity that in the matter of Cleve McDowell carrying a pistol that Mississippi • Ils as always in such matters years for l&w and Order and that he moth- will be punished in accord with the gravity of the- crime. 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We would even accept a build­ ing that pays no salary but gives an apartment in exchange for service. I have lqoked into several su­ perintendent jobs but would not accept any of them due to dirty, roach filled apartments that they require the supers to live in. We are clean, quiet Christian (colored) people and have an excellent record in maintaining a clean and presentable build­ ing We are willing to keep the premises in tip-top shape and I am writing to your of flee asking your assistance in helping me l find a suitable' job. - • I If it is necessary for me to 1 come to your office for an inter- [ view, I will be glad td make an I appointment with you. r At present I am working as a i porter in one of the department - stores, but the money is not suf- B ficieat to support my family. B I would appreciate any help B you can give me aa I have look­ ed everywhere to find a decent i superintendent job. a, e a' Lester V. Henry 35 W 64 9t Apt 733 New York • d r. y >r I. ;e n It y B- IS it f. id >d How Bonk i The following letter was Bent to lhe Amsterdam News for Jackie Robin ton i Sir: Congratulations to you and your associates for establishing the Freedom National Bank. Best wishes for your continued suc- ceas. We thank you to send to my co-workers a brochure of yoj' stock offering. I, too, may be in­ terested in investing. You’ll like the many comforts of these bright, modern coaches. All 60 will offer restful reclining seats, smok­ ing lounge, ample luggage space, plenty of room —to stretch or walk about, and a pleasant air- conditioned interior. The first of these cars are now in operation on New York-Washington trains. All will be in service by the end of November. When you’re making plans for travel between these busy cities, plan it in the moat pleasant way possible- —on the Pennay! James L. Bowers Box 1870 Philadelphia 5, Pa PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD 3 African Protestants At Council ROME—Three sub-Sahara Afri­ can clergymen are among the more than 50 Protestant and Eas­ tern churchmen attending the sec­ ond session of the Second Vati­ can Council, which opened last Sept. 29 under Pope Paul VI. but there ate no American Negro non-Catholic ministers. The African clergymen attend­ ing as observers are the Rev. Melake Salem Demetros and Dr. | Haile Gabriel Dagne, both of the Church of Ethiopia, and the Right Rev. Alpheus Zulu, Angli­ can Church co-adjutor bishop of |St. John’s in Umtata, South Africa. The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jack- son, president of the National Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. Inc., was the only American | Negro clergyman who was among the 60 Protestant observers at the council’s first seassion in 1962. Dr. Jackson, of Chicago, was Invited by the late Pope John XXm, with whom he had au­ dience twice before the opening of the first session. The council’s 2,500 Fathers are studying ways to modernize the Roman Catholic Church, which has 500 million communicants on every continent. March Is Still Alive The Aug. 28 march on Washing­ ton is now a fact of history, but it Is still alive in the minds of many people. The Rev. Lawrence L. Durgin, speaking Sunday in a sermon at Broadway Congregational Church said disaster at the march was averted because “God had obli­ terated the color line in fact as well as in theory.” If violence had come, It would not have been caused by the marchers, the minister asserted. The march was an “act of apprehensive obedience” and “for the faithful attending ... it had been a grateful day and for the unbelievers it had been an incredulous day.” The minister urged the church’s members to Join the Fellowship of the Committee, a division of the Committee for Racial Justice Now. The committee is also a part ot the United Church of Christ’s civil rights program. Arrest 38 Job Bias Pickets CLINTON. La. — The atari of picketing In the downtown busi­ ness section here resulted In the arrest of 38 pickets and of a CORE field worker. The pickets were arrested as they marched in front of the downtown stores with placards urging desegregation and equal job opportunities. The CORE field worker, Edgar Vickery, was seized during a raid on CORE headquarters by the sheriff’s deputies. All 39 were accused of violating a state district judge’s injunction prohibiting mass dem­ onstrations.' In addition, 50 persons Includ­ ing Ronnie Moore, CORE field secretary and Currie Collins, chairman of Clinton CORE were served with contempt citations. The local CORE group was only formed two months ago. In that period, 237 Negroes have attempted to register to vote but only 36 succeeded. B'klyn Y Has 7-Week Course NEAR THE HALF-CENTURY MARK - Dorothy McConnell (second from left), editor of World Outlook, a Methodist publication, gives Georgianna Bartunek of the Methodist Div­ ision of World Missions a ci­ tation In recognition of her 45 years of service. Looking on are (1 to r) Bishop Herbert Welch, Henry A. Lacy and Er­ nest Boynton, vice president of the Employees Association of the Methodist Board of Mis­ sions. (Gilbert Photo). Ministers Urged To Urge Their Members To Register; They Did! An appeal to Baptist ministers throughout the city to urge their adult* members to register and vote in Harlem and other Negro areas was made last week by the Rev. David N. Licorish of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. “One of the significant areas in the whole field of democratic progress, without which full free­ dom is impossible, is the proper use of the ballot,” the minister said at a meeting of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Greater New York and Vicinity at Second Canaan Baptist Church, Lenox Ave. and 11th St. The minister, noting that there are “over one million Negroes” in the city, with a “potential voting strength of 424,000,” said in Harlem alone only “140,000” persons vote, although the com­ munity has a voting strength of “300,000.”, "In the 11th and 14th Assembly Districts only 42 per cent of the potential votes are cast,” he said. “In the 12th and 13th United Church Queries Companies On Hiring Policies BY MALCOLM NASH The United Church of Christ appears to have gone further than any other denomination in American Christendom in tak­ ing a resolute stand against dis­ crimination — in and outside the church. It took the lead last summer at Its general synod meeting when It called for complete Integration of the 2 million-member church, on all levels. with “formal, routine replies” which stated that the companies do not discriminate racially in their employment practices. Twenty-four companies said they had employes of minority groups on “most levels of em­ ployment,” said Dr. Babcock. Eighteen others reported that minority groups were represent­ ed on more than one level. Dr. Babcock said he was en couraged by the replies of 23 Assembly Districts (all In Har­ lem', we have 50 per cent of the potential.” Show Apathy “These figures reflect most embarrassignly the indifference, apathy, inertia, idleness and ir­ responsibility of a community that likes to boast of its unique position of freedom in the body politic,” he declared. Editors note: Following the close of registration last Saturday increases were noted In Negro areas. The minister blamed part of the indifference in voting to those in politics who “are chiefly con­ cerned with capturing a job for themselves” and “have very little incentive to work for the total freedom of the community which is bound by the chains of economic servitude.” He also suggested that the drive for voter registration include barber shops and beauty salons and other stores. "Can you imagine what a blow would be struck for freedom both in the North and in the South? he asked. He cited the Reverends Adam Gayton Powell and Dr. Joseph H. Jackson of the National Bap­ tist Convention Inc. for helping to keep alive the civil rights struggle in their areas of activity. Special Services . .. „ p, Not Naive Last week the church’s Board firms that referred “to positive For Domestic G for World Ministries disclosed action which the companies or!t> that It had asked 138 major corp- their officers were taking toward I C3CC x.Orps olin. orations — Including some of the solving tne problem not only as largest Industrial organizations in a company, but as a part of the the world — to make known their community.” policies and practices on the hir-j i tng of Negroes and other non- Presenting the substance o;f.0ctobcr » at the whites. Forty-eight members of Har­ lem’s Domestic Peace Corps wfll be honored at a special Sunday . evening service being held on Master, 86 Morningside Avenue. The board has more than $20 directors, Dr. Babcock said: Following the service a recep­ millions invested in stock in the "We are not so naive, o f tion will be held for the corps- course, as to think from the fav- 138 firms. men, giving them the opportuni­ oraWe answers In this corres- ty to meet members of the con­ In making known the findings pondence that all doors- are open gregation as well as community of its inquiry, the Rev. Dr. Ever- and fair attitudes are at work figures. After the reception, fam- win tnkp ett A. Babcock, board treasur- in all of these companies." er. said that 30 of the 138 firms He added, however, that It Is members of thp Domestic Peace failed to reply to the inquiry and his opinion that these corpora-, <» responded with "thoughtful t.oo. are "responds to the inte- letter, indicting deep concern" grn.ion procen," and that the with the problem of Integration, availability of qualified personnel * f ™up of c.lleg some ot the letters to the board s' . q.,ndav dinner 30 Don't Reply . g , » of , SEVEN YEARS IN THE MIN­ ISTRY — Evangelist Essie B. Cobbs, after seven years in the ministry celebrated with an ap­ preciation program Sunday. She is a member of the City of Refuge House of Prayer here. Here Bishop J. R. Smith, the pastor, congratulates Evan­ gelist Cobbs. (Photo by Year- wood). Set Special Offering To Aid Bias Fighters MIAMI BEACH - A special offering will be taken up on Oct. 20 and 27 among the two million members of the 8,000 churches of the Disciples of Christ to aid ministers who have lost their pulpits in the fight against bias and have suffered financial loss because of the church’s inability to place them in other parishes. This was decided Saturday at the International Convention of Christian Churches, as the Disciples of Christ churches are formally called. The decision will be implemented by a three-man committee which is part of the coordinating committee on moral Clergyman Honored On 90th Birthday and civil rights, headed by the Rev. Barton Hunter. The three-man committee will help, however, to first try to relocate the deposed ministers, consulting privately with each clergyman and with the leaders of his congregation to ascertain the facts in the situation. Four Lose Jobs If the committee cannot resolve the situation and cannot find, a new pastorate for the minister, then it will help him financially until he can be placed. Four ministers who have taken positions against bias have lost their pulpits each year since 1958. The special committee is be­ lieved to be the first of its kind in Protestant churches. Assault Victim Denies Report; Doesn't Drink Dr. Harry F. Ward, long-time preacher and teacher of “the so­ cial gospel,” was honored at program Tuesday night at Carne­ gie Hall on the occasion of his 90th birthday anniversary and 70 years in the ministry. Alfred G. Sewell, public rela tions officer of the King Solomon Grand Lodge who was assaulted on Sept. 14 on the IRT subway says police reports that he was apparently intoxicated are com­ pletely erroneous. Sponsors of the tribute includ­ ed sixteen bishops, heads and for­ mer heads of leading seminaries, Mr. Sewell pointed out: "I do heads of religious organizations, editors of religious Indications; not drink liquors” and the fact ministers and rabbis. All have)that when he was attacked he been associated at one time or and his wife were on their way another with Dr. Ward over a to an affair at a Bronx church, Following the assault Mr. Sew- span of 70 years. The program was opened with‘ell spent 12 days in Misericor- a specially - arranged program dia Hospital recovering from a of Freedom songs by the Har-! broken jaw, broken nose, concus- • Ision and the loss of five teeth. lem Opera Singers. The remaining 39 C-onded '.111 increase integration." _ IL jr. FOR BIRMINGHAM CHURCH - The Rev. John H. Cross (left ► of Birmingham’s bombed-out Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was awarded several thousand dollars thia week towards re­ building his church by R. Peter Straus (right). President of station WMCA. Four young girls lost their lives in the Sunday, September 15 bombing which sparked a WMCA editor­ ial campaign for funds by Mr. Straus. » l’/z CARAT FOR •397 - $500 VALUE BOTH MATCHID DIAMOND RINGS SI 1 Down—$| Weekly JZ »»nuln» SltmnfM* for ra(u* (n0 b»«uty. 1«.X whit* or ruiow (old. Illuo. onwread. Tnt»i w»i«ht. SIB SFtCIAL IN OUR WINDOWS Naw Varfe’i Largai* Dlamand Dltplaf OPEN EVER. RV^cbS >4 cewwBNtewT atgbbb 128 West 125th Street Ltl i rOMPAIIE VALVBS Store Located at come to Harlem tor one year to work In community self-help programs. The first group of corpsmen came to Harlem in January, 1963. Classes In conversational French, German and Spanish will be given in 7-week courses start­ ing October 28 at the Brooklyn Central YMCA, 55 Hanson Pl., Bklyn., as part of the Y’s Infor- A second group, which arrived on September 15 and is racially integrated, will also participate in the services at the church. After a period of intensive train­ ing, which ends on October 30, this group will be assigned to mal Adult Educational Program All of Brooklyn Central’s cours­ work in a variety of community es are open to men and women programs. on an Informal basis and there are no academic requirements for registration. Further informa, tion: Program Office, Brooklyn Central YMCA. JA 2-6000 Baptism For Junior David Mr. and Mrs. John David Par­ ker, of 4OR Henry St., Brooklyn, anounce the christening of their son, John David, Jr., Sunday at 2 p m. at Christ Episcopal Church on Kane St. A reception will follow at Vot­ ers Club. 209 Union St. Stick-up Integrated GeorgeDavis , 30-year-old cab driver of 1590East New York Ave., was held up Monday morn­ ing by two fares at the corner of Jefferson and Marcy Aves. The suspect, the interracial stickup par.l took $42 from Davis at thepoint of their open knives, police reported. 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The UCA said that nearly all the great national women’s de­ nominational groups are playing active roles in the project, known as "Assignment: Race.” The women all over the country are cooperating with civic com­ mittees, councils of churches, m- terfaith groups and are currently working hard on civil rights leg­ islation through participation In “write ins,” through contacting other women in their states, through letters and speechs, the UCW Of all the Englishmen who drink gin... how many drink Gordon’s? Most of them. And it’s been that way .for years. To be blunt about it, Gordon's is England's biggest selling gin —as it is America's and the world's. Why? Probably because we have always refused to tamper with a good thing. Gordon’s still harks back to Alexander Gordon’s original formula — conceived in London 194 years ago — so its distinctive dryness and delicate flavour remain unchanged and unchallenged to this day. Ask for Gordon's by name. 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