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VICWyOINT
May Have Spreading Effect
The CAROLINIAN nstu
t iy hi* 3k v«- s in as; - < -U ■
and would defend to the )a ,t
ditch the right of any ryes
paper to publish any and all
legitimate news with tbv
newspaper receiving tire ben
efit of the doubt as to what sr
‘'legitimate ” Nonetheless we
feel that it is unfortunate
that many daily newspapers
are publishing, and often
featuring, stories about strik
es of white school children,
and. protests and uprisings
of white adults, in cases in
which the protests are over
the entrance of Negro child
ren into previously all white
schools, following tire court
decision last spring.
We feel that it is unfortu
nate for the same reason that
we regard publicizing of pri
son riots unfortunate. Be
cause both seem to spread
by contagion, as so many
disorderly mass actions To.
Such news makes its great
est appeal to the emotionally
unstable and the socially in
secure. The AP, reporting
From Harnett County
The. daily press gave s.
good deal of attention last
month to a meeting of pri
mary school teachers in Har
nett County which was at
tended by both white and Ne
gro teachers. The meeting was
hailed as the '‘first ur.scgrc
gatetl session m county his
tory,” Sixty-two of a possi
ble 78 white teachers were
present, and 43 out of SO Ne
gro teachers.
The gathering appeared to
be on an official basis, though
not called and arrang'd by
top-ranking educational of
ficers of the county Tie
white and Negro sup
ervisors seemed to have been
the parties responsible for ar
ranging the meeting.
There are two things that
make this joint meeting m '.vs.
One is that it did happen and
in Harnett County: the other
is that it should be regarded
as important news at all.,
On The Sidelines Grin The Game?
I? is somewhat disappoint
ing that North Carolina will
take the official position be
fore the Supreme Court in
September that it wants no
real part in the proceedings
beyond urging as much de
lay as possible in the imple
mentation of the Court's or
der, The attorney "genera!
and the high policy makers
even considered remaining »-
Joof from the entire proceed
ings for fear the state might
be regarded as being a
Surprising Arkansas
Arkansas still continues to
do things which raise doubts
as to whether it is properly
classified as a southern state.
It was the first state whose
state university admitted and
graduated a Negro from the
medical school, As cited
elsewhere in these columns,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, was
the first, community definite
ly south of the border states
to integrate Negroes with
whites in a public school.
disturban cs it; Baltimore
isfttr almost a month of un
«vntful integration, observed
tied "schools affected are in
• the poorer residential sections
of tec i.;ty. running heavily to
dry laborers, factory work
ers. and cork ctic servants.” it
:v:;s further noted that the
Baltimore schools involved
in vie n fir:-1 disturbances in
that inly “had only tiny
mi: tori ties of N« gro pupils
since integration went into
effect v.oth the stmt of the
school yearn*
The first of tht above
facts would indicate that the
reaction in the Baltimore
schools so far ofitcte-d is far
from typical of the city in
general, in which 52 of the
190 school buddings now have
racially mixed student bodi
es, The s: :ond make?, plain
m. fact Umt dc proportion
of Negroes within fee indivi
•tuai school does not deter
mine, except may be con
ve-r-.eiy the amount of resist
ance to feeir pr. Usenet It
seems to be more the socio
Os all the fatuous vaiia
uons ; • mutation-- . f
segrgation. none is more ab
surd than that which requir
es racially separate meetings
of ! ' ■ 5 ' school
teachers, all intelligent peo
ple and ail wot king under the
same supervision in. the same
system a; i doing the same
Kind si v. ok. I lit CARO
LINIAN ! 3 a i *>iten in tbe past
been both amazed and amus
ed by the spectacle of the city
an d co ut- ? y su pe rint en den ts
of schools of Raleigh and
Wake County dashing madly
from a meting of the whites
teach us to a meeting of color
ed teachers a few days before
the op- mng of school. There
could have men. little differ
ence bet'.vm the messages de
livered by the superinten
dents to one group and the
other, and the business tran
sacted in each group must
certainly have been about the
“party” to the suit should it
take part in the oral argu
ments or respond to the
Court's invitation to the af
fected states to file briefs. It
was only a matter of legal
technicality, for of course all
and sundry know that the
decision will apply to every
state and not just to those
technically parties to the ori
ginal suits.
North Carolina thus be
comes committed to the -wait
ing game, though trying to
Latest news out of Arkan- nominee for governor: “I
sas is the Associated Pres* hope the committee will
intelligence that “seven Ne- name some outstanding Ne
groes virtually arc ertain to gro leaders as members.”
be named members of the Arkansas, which made
Democratic State Coro— news along the racial front
mittee.’* The state eonven- two decades or so ago only
tion adopted a resolution re- with Jynchings, peonage and
quiring the state members, race riots, has certainly come
cue from each congressional a long way, and is now in
district, and it is understood position to serve at;an ex
that these new members are ample to some other states,
to be Negro Democrats. not excluding North Carolina
,AP quotes the Democratic and Virginia.
economic status of the school
neighborhood.
The big risk is that su h
distrubanccs which seem to
have much in common vain
the rioting in Chicago cv?r
s long period of time be
cause of tht presence of a
Negro family in a hou 1 m;
project will spread unless
checked by positive action of
the proper authorities. There
was a strong element of .hood
lumistn in the Baltimore
disturbances, as there war in
the Chicago housing riots
One of the Baltimore “dem
onstrators” arrested on tht
scene lived 28 blocks away.
Opponents of integration
everywhere will try to make
capital of each such incident
and will take the position
that such incidents rep? wnt
the “spontaneous” resist
ance of a unanimous or al
most' unanimous body of solid
citizens, which, of course will
not be the case, as witness
the 28-block jounoy of our
friend mentioned above to get
in on the fun.
same. The great difference, of
course, was that one group
was made up of white teach
ers of white children and the
other of colored teachers of
colored children,
The Supreme Court has
paved the way for some
changes, but it certainly
should not have required a
constitutional decision from
Washington to end such a
patent and bothersome ab
surdity as white and “cullud”
teachers' meetings. W< con
gratulate those who arrang
< d the Harnett meeting.
They did not deni it neces
sary for the court decrees to
come through before they
could have a meeting of
teachers-—just teachers. On
the other hand", many local
ities will continue, through
plain inertia or habit, to havt
two sets of meetings until the
whole school system is ro
te-grated.
be in the game and on the
sidelines at the same time.
Tennessee at the moment is in
very much the same position..
But both look better than
Virginia, whose governor has
declared that the state will
resist in every “legal” way the
application of the Court’s or
der, thus aligning Virginia
substantially not with its
neighbors in the Upper South,
but rather with the states in
the farther reaches of the
Confederacy.
THE CAROLINIAN
“A Finn Stand Will C snvince The ■
World Os Our Sincerity"
j
—• C D. Halliburton's
SECOND THOUGHTS @
Statistical experts will tel l
you .hat a four-out-of seven
World Senes is too short to de
termine a a;, thing but which
team will v, in a total of four
.ii; tines nr -i. It has often hap
pened that, tin;, team that wins
the pennant is the same tears
iVfuei; out et its first
live i mi! , ~! the season, or did
even worse. The Giants, win
ners of the '-sudden death'*
.-rues jjy four straight games
this year only a short time ago
dropped four straight durng
the regular .season. Examina
tion of fee records might show
that they lost four in » row on
one or two other stretches. So
a short sen.es does not prove
much about fundamental su
periority.
The short series of four games
..is especial iy hard on the in
dividual stars, of whom so much
is expected. That is why it so
oner, happens that some out
stand in;: star is the ‘T.oaF’ of
the serifs Less famous play
ers on both teams are more
relaxed, and therefore often,
come through when the stars
fail. By the time some of the
stars settle down, everything
may be over.
Look at Willie Mays. Hitless
the first two days and more
than once durum that period a
stsikeout victim, he came into
his own on the third day, and
rot three hits All his hitting
uv .. trie laid two games;
Tcamm o on the other hand,
was consistency good with the
bat ail through the series and
seemed the Indians’ pitchers
feared him more than the stel
lar Mays, batting champion of
the league. Os course Thomp
son is no third-rater at any
—STRAIGHT AHEAD-
MTW YORK. GLOEAL.I Re
cent newspaper reports indicate
(tint the Republican party Has
heel the happy opportunity to ex*
tei -a welcome home to a goodly
number of prodigal* who have
been away a lour time. They
went slogan-happy a few years
back, deserted the GOP and
marched off to the camp of the
Democrats and the Liberals. Sunn?
of them waved relief: checks and
sang lustily about “the little
man" and "special interests."
Still other* werr "intellectual”
about it all. The time had come,
they s-:nd, to turn Abraham Un
con’* picture to the wall. Nobody,
Out nobody but the Democrats
would see the little man through.
Those who had expressed them
selves vehemently in years past
about never becoming Democrats
because that party was born and
b, cd in the .Solid South, joined
the ranks of the Liberals, They
gave it all they had for the next
few years and a whole new cul
ture was built up in this coun
try around pseudo-intellectual*
who knew all the answers. They
ridiculed anti heckled, an,.; proud
ly called themselves independent
thinkers simply because they did
not vole as their fathers and
mothers had.
Cams' 1952, arid despite the
war and the Korean conflict,
and the failure of the reali
zation of their dream of civil
rights, they (Ought against a
time. A dangwmis hitter, he
is also a long ball artist, of
note in his own right, WillieV
laurels lot the frst two* games
depended on his impossible
catch of the long fly ball in the
frist game—-the ball destined
for % homer, except for a mi
racle. White “passed" the mi
racle, and it will be talked
about —that phenomeai catch
of his—for years and year:;, it
was &$ much a . erne-winning
stunt as was Dusty Rhodes’
homer—for without Mays’ stunt
there would have been no te;.ih
inning to win tire game for
New York in.
Or look at Monte Irvin. He
had few chances to bat until the
last game, because every Inn
he was due to bat and there
were men on base, he was yank
ed out for Dusty Rhodes to hit
for him But, in the last game
he performed nicely with the
stick by virture of his getting;
an extra base hit his first time
up, plus the fact, probably, that
the Giants never reeded &
pinch hitter that last gam*.
For the series as a whole, and
especially in consideration of
its brevity, the New York
Giants’ four' Negro player s
were highly successful. Reu
ben Gomez, the Porto Rican
pitcher who won the- third
game, turned in a very high
class performance. Hank
Thompson, in addition to his
timely hitting and gertuv;: or,
base with free tickets because
of the respect he inspired a
mong the Cleveland pitching
staff, also fielded superbly
.Mays and Irvin have already
been mentioned.
Larry Doby of the Indians
With
Olive Ararat
GOP victory. Eisenhower
was a man of war, they swd.
He’d have as hack in a fight
in no time at alt Else bower
was from Texas and wm
schooled in the Army By vir
ture of those two connections
he was a bigot and Negroes
would never get a- break.
On election day, 3952, the file*
ha’ i Democrats and Liberals
le* mere heroic ones said they'd
sang a mournful son gas the Eis
enhower victory was assured, A
waif and see. And wait they did.
And see they did. Some of them
have openly declared that in
twenty months the Eisenhower
administration has done more for
Negroes —for all of the Aroe
xian people than twenty years
SENTENCE
HAVING A GOOD TIME
2. That Episode in Eden is con
clusive evidsce of mart's inabili
ty to make the proper use of
his time; iwn though perfect in
bis lineage, dating down from his
Creator Divine.
2. He certainly had everything
with which to grow in intellect
and power.. but be did not
know how best to occupy his
time from hour to hour.
3. Thus he weakened himself
morally, physically and spiritual
ly, unti to slate highly trained
was. disappointing in the series,
but oniy it is not taken
into cor.; iera;..;o:n that it was a
series- U e, went only four
games. He was just one of an
entire team that never got
started. The show was over
when they knew anything.
Avila, the Cleveland infieider
who won the 1954 Arr.erwait
League batting championship,
collected two hits in IS times at
bat a record no better than
Doby's, The latter connected
for the same number of hits,
but- this home run and runs*
batted-in champion of his lea
gue the current season neither
ruit an extra base hit nor drove
in a single run in the four
games. The vaunted Cleve
land pitching staff, the chief
factor in making them 9 to 5
pro-came favorites, wilted. Vic
Wertz, who turned out to be the
series goat so far as fielding
was concerned, had by far the
best hutting average of the In
dians, and the Negro rookie.
At Smith, did about as well a*
any of the other Clevelanders
m the batting department, with
the exception of Wertz,
Are the Giants a better ball
club than the Indians? No one
know x In lour games they
ware. What we are all glad of
is that their four Negro play
ers were. right at the team's top
in world series performance,
vrr. veteran Hank Thomp
son coining off with the best
r ,-rd in the batting depart
ment of any one in the series
except his three white team
mates Mueller. Dark, and the
amazing Dusty Rhodes, and
the unlucky Indian first base
man, Victor Wertz.
ct Democratic administration.
Sam?! at them have expressed a
desire 1 > return to the ranks o-t
tner GOP.
However, U has been pointed
mu that some cl the more out*
ipofeet; ones "ray be ashamed to
»o completely reverse their cour
se. To these one GOP stalwart ef
fete U there words of encourage
ment:
• Wcdo :rr;» . home, prodigal. We
wilt twiddle our thumbs and
avert our eyes to a cloud while
you quietly slip into the pew
you never should, have let at
least not for the reasons you did.
Bat let that be a lesson unto you.
Be sure you Seoul the other camp
thoroughly before you leave a
gain.''
SERMONS
iu iislo.iect, he sometimes act? real
childish and silly.
4 Indeed, some of the ques
tion; the things today he is foolish
enough to attempt, be gets angry
when his: sincere and earnest ad
visors try tu prevent
5. His i . ter self is a true re
flection of what is embraced in
Ins inner parts, and when these
are wantonly neglected, Satan
has ins inning with his fiery
dirts.
H The whole world is out of
control *uday because things
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1954
Gordon Hancock *s
BETWEEN til LIES
For ANT
PAID FOOTBALL PLAY to: *
Football in all its glory ha.
returned to the scene to take up
when' baseball is leaviiv off
F< -.v ; w ple take time to th.i.a
on the diversional good that
com: s of this swiftly passing
from baseball, to foot,bah and
fr rn football to basketball. The
thei apeutic effects .of our
changing athletic moods we,.ld
be difficult to e aluate and
ct I '- renni . ( .tions
ol the subsidized, and subsidi
zing of athlete's nuv-- an’
theie oie the pros and the
cons.
For many yea rs ’ 1 w o-rit* •
has seriously df-buved the mat
ter of payiny young met to
play foot ball, When v-cyt
schools, like the thilverrity of
Chicago, dltewitinue subsidized
*, ;•; *•:,!, r* r- : \ ,K * >. * • ,
<--y wi icj tr ~, pi i/li- *
in-iinations we have food fui
M."Ught- Here and there abo ,-t
the nation we occasionally base
some great school •■..• wearing
off" from subsidized athletics,
the latest being Washington
arid Lee, a reput-abie white col
lege in Virginia
The claim i.s made that sub
sidized apHege sports detract
from the effectivene.. of the
scholastic program of Ih-i col
lege and depresses 11 e 'durati
onal processes in We
have eases like Harvard which,
within recent years, attempted
to de-emphasiae Kuhsidrud
athletics and soon reversed it
self with more and more at
tention given to returning to a
former glory of great athiei it
brilliance when Harvard was
playing in Pasadena's Emc
Bowl.
Try how they will, oar ed
ucational institutions cannot
get away from the glamor and
glory of athletic achievement
The writer, after long and seri
ous consideration of the mat
ter, has reversed himself on a
former stand against subsidiz
ed athletics and has been con
vinced that the rood in sub
sidized athletics far outweighs
the evil.
In the first place, the ar
guments against subsidized ath
letics somehow always hinge
about the “tramp’ athlete who
moves from school to school
for the -handout, making little
or no attempt to measure us?
to scholastic requirements. Be
cause of his lack of interest in
his study and his inter;-.-! in
athletics, he gets what he- cun
and moves on and on and out,
But little fir nothin* is- said
IN THIS OUR DAY
By C A. Chick Sr-
PARENTAL A»J U STMENTS”
This is tee season of the year
when students are entering
schools on all levels. Some ai©
entering school for the first
• time: other are etering college
, for the first time Those who are
entering school for the first
. tune as veil as college for the
first lime will discover that there
, are many adjustments they will
need to make. Thus, it has come
that a large number of schools
and especially colleges have what
is generaiy known as “Oritmta
tior. Week." The main purpose
of such a program is to assist the
freshmen in adjusting to their
new environment, in colleges, be
ing away from home, probably
.tor the first, lime. During orien
tation week there is an abund
ance of advice given to the fresh
man enough to dam up the
Mississippi River. It is not the
purpose of this article to speak
slightly of tiie foregoing. It is
my smeere opinion that the pro
gram of orientation, week is »
very worthy one.
However, it » the purpose of
this article to ‘’orientate” the
parents who have children in
school, especially those who have
children in college for the first
time. Parents will have to adjust
themselves to their children be
ing away front home, probaby
for the first Umo. So to speak,
there a* * missing link, or links,
m the famdy circles. When the
family gathers around the meal
table,, or tor Umuy prayer, ur a®
spiritual are allowed to decay
and senseless things given the
right-of-way.
*. The light and giddy things
seem to sway •men as if on wings
and oblivious of high moral
and spiritual designs, too often be
follows the curse of gaily and
4 good times."
8. Good times are very costly
and lead to quarreling and dis
pute; only ending with grief and.
displeasure, and the earmarks of
disrepute.
i> The "Good Time” folk don’t
lake enough tune to learn what
i@ really beneficial, until day be
gins to fade ana night shades fail,
and then must face things vital
oriel eternal
It). There is nothing n this
world that nan compare with the
blessings Gods children inherit;
and these are free to ail who
come to Hun by faith and
can’t be obtained with a price or
human merit.
11 "Good Times” of the kind
that inveigle men to pass by tha
good things God has in s«,ora, on
ly revives ins animal nature and
in the end leaves him poor.
12. But ah, the soul who stakes
his ait on his loving God and
follows Hu precious designs,
finds ioy and peace and life eter
nal. and while on earth, the best
of “good times."
about the subsidized athlete
who makes good., There are
just hundreds and hundreds of
these once subsidized a.thlr.l
- live lives of significant
achievement. Jits* casuals;, no
ticed a few days ago reference
t»» the great Ihikr Slater who
now a judge. This acl-.-eve
noent was possible by ath
letic subsidization.. There are
just thousands and thousands
ol ihe.se .young men capitalizing
on then fine physiques to at
tain an education, and why
shouldn’t they? If n to can ex
ploit his uru'-ie-al abilities and
his abillies and talents in rtber
leids. why should not tin youna
man of fine physique expoht
his?
A few failure- :»nv e uUte-Uc
greats should not bring cou
rt omt tat: on. upon toe rtiouK.teda
, : y : f t w>
,tre do •. .'ted to study ,ilv/:t:-'u
make good. Sitting up In the
midnight hour-; por ru,: over
complicated problems does cot
always guarantee that- trie goal
sought will be reached. Sight is
too o! ten Just of the subsidized
athlete win. djstu.gui in him
self not only on the girdtron
but in the clsrsroom.
During m,v 30 years ? enure of
teaching at Virginia Union, u
was my high prjviler to teach
some brilliant athletes who re
ceived favors because of their
athletic prow--ss. If today the
thousands who arc receiving
athletic subsidies were subtract
ed from the whom body of stu
dents we would have c, tragedy
far greater than any that will
eventuate from their susxadiza
tioji. What we need most to
shtenUy is not to cm, out sub
sidised athletics but cut out the
hyprosTisy that goes .lions wvh
if and make it an. Loom-able
filing. Instead of a thiof to bn
yahn said. The youth with a fine
physique has as much right to
market that physique in be
half of an education a? the
artist, has to market his skills
and gifts.
Thor* too. It must be observ
ed that the millions and mil
lions who witness these athletic
contests must be meeting a
genuine need by their patron
age. Who can calculate and
evaluate the good done by the
relaxation and » o -testem* ex
citement that attend ■ • .•-* ath
letic encounters, There is no
substitute for the euthuriaf.::...
and experiences of athletic; ac
casinos, tnade possible by chore
subsidised rote More
strength to there;
outing to the nuv.’ie or to rhaivK
or a general family conveiva.hi#
■ that link will be rrasst i. It should
■ tie pointed out to paioTiis teal
when a child goes away to col
lege, teat is the beginning of ns
being sway from home and gro.v
ing more and more iodepc nue/n
of tee family circle. After gradu
ation, they are then av y from
home on their jobs, o:i imy get
married. In either case .it is
“gone with the wind" so fur a;
pome is concerned. Thus, parents
cannot look forwaid to the day
t
and be at home again.
Its many cases when chil
dren go away to college, it
places parents “back where
they started” childless.
And. the bad pail about it
they the .parents, cannot start
over again Till* my first
advice to parents with chil
dren away front home in
school is do *>>t grieve too
wiach over being atone. In
such cases husband, and wife
will have to learn to increase
their joy in each other. More
over, they will be able to ad
just to the situation aU the
better, if they will increase
their interest in church co«J
xn unity, and civic, affairs.
My second advice to parents
with children in college is do not
spend toe much time and money
going back and forth to see t eutt,
nor i» permitting them to timoe
home on week-end visits. Do not
get too upset over their letters
relating how homesick they are.
A- part of their education is deve
loping self-reliance and indepen
dence- Colieges have a. sufficient
number of holidays that make it
umieccesary for students to go
home other than on the regular
holidays
My third and last suggaiftion
, to parents adjusting to being a
lone again is do not pay too much
attention to their children's de
mands. pleas, and begging foi
extra money—"spending change,"
Having provided for . their basic
needs, go slowly on their addi
tions! demands. Remember that
if is not always the student who
has the mo?: spending change
who achieves the most in school.
Get used to children's trump card
when they are demanding thing*
from their parents., namely, “all
1 the other students have it or era
1 doing it." It is rather unfortun
ate that so .many fads »ne fr •.*
' have found their ways into our
colleges that in many cases the
extras cost more than the bare
needs to send a child to college
; I sincerely hope that parents
‘ finding themselves alona again
will not “cry” too much,
l
i An important factor in the 1854
. crop production is the crop re
duction program which cover-. •
: cotton, wheat, tobacco, peanut!
and corn ta the commercial area