PAGE FOUR
VIEWPOINT
Rich Man's Legislature •
It will bf hard to find H North C a rob,:.a
General Assembly tl? t !■ < . Ir< ■. 1
the intercs*:- of the i.- h -m : p...wt tul and dis
regarded the pirns of the poor .ip ( r,< rfy. n.-i
matter how far you look hsrk into the )•• : -
lative history of this state. ii m’i ■.v 1 •
recently adjourned.
Even before the session r. ' full . under -
5t met in special s-ion t■ nv ;> >0 n< .mt
•alary increase to some of u,e highest p.-u-l
state office h Id : • Rvht ii
session heard the tiovcrn -n ■ -r
of one of thr nation’s b • o rni
Marshall Field Co. ur.- i :
reduction program for corn : 1 'b '<• ’
this state up in ° milbon ■' -Pars uu-dlv n
lost revenue While urn mg fant -r-ir. md
unrealistic fax giv. -way i r th* corporations |
the governor said that •••
of tl percent for state *?r.nl- • pu 1 .
teachers and 0 per no ;.<r r- r r ,-m
--ployees was all this state ;u 1 afford mr<
Since that time this h 1 .. ■ '
to enact into law l< ;■ ■' *
some 100.POO underpaid ■’
hour minimum wage it h»- •-» ' v ’f •
age assistance grants that m " fin
and infirmed air exp-- d u ■ *' ■
pnneely sum of $k "’> p. < i> < i ■ ■ •
than paid by any .• v
ward states of Mr r-sippi "od \
which is exceeded even 1 p: C , F
has because of he miH-< nt •- ! • ••■ ' *
up the teacher s-ilar v im 1
tc I s and other ..s< ■ i.p
per cent both-of which is » lot
and 15 per cent ri ’< •
if these worker? « io •
themselves end !.') ■ -
sent standard D ip-' . r
On the other ; *• •
lature has fust ab.-up ro - -•> u 9
million dollar tax .pv -
. Tic.' I ’." g Votes
Although he has vhyM’ouriv 1
charge, supposed-to be i l
Wayne Morse (D m.-O -.ton >
eused of some dirty pnhn bn
When the real y-- •< p : n !:■.■■■■
that the only wav the nv-ntiv •; i
Rights bill could < ■ ■- p ■ ■
anti-Negro hands of • •
roan of the Senate Ju- r . :
for the Senate to vote r -y
calendar. With tiv <-..■■ li: f-p
--mitte. Senator M>-
one who could he d pc ir ur>--‘>n »
this maneuver.
There was pending ; r, :* •,
t bill to authorise ib- p g ■ ■
build 3 public pov■ r d : .• ■
Csynon on the- Snob'’ Rr. • • i
sue in which Senator ;\1 . - p ,
because he ha- long i> •• n p -p p ■
of the public pc.,.-. ,• r ;• m ,
facing this particular f.<l! 1- p
down to the point p p :
dam would be built fm *
people in that sw'
would be handed m- M
pany to utilize.
ft k a well’known f >ct tb i -i-.- 1 '
lation has been a f* ’• rj .
ere and Southern Senat f ; uruc
Through this ij.-;bnlv t-n 1
Senator? t • r >• •
Supreme Court Looks Forward
Recentdecision? i! '• '• ,i»
although v/holL .-*• v . .
concept? of ilirhnal p-M >i.v . i :
those who wM i -
jacket of barkv ’ • '• .*
. majority of those !«■--» r. ■ * •,,• . i . m-.-i .
Log the U S Con.- ‘ n -•
ing vehicle, written ••i n <■• •,.. , iV . .■> n>
itself to the needs r-.< -■ pi., m. ,
Beginning with i • 1 ■■•■■• <-v
of 1954 when the <■ ::rt ;■ • ■ ! n
aratf hut equal ruling r.f hrUckiri 1
"We conclude that :p dr M . t>,,•
cation the 'doctrine of . .u- },.j c -,-j U t v .-,
no place
‘'•Separate t.v ■■, • > •• t <»
ly inequat." the Court I ■ *u> : > ••; «•»t ■*• •, ,
down segregation <vi nil »*:•«•.}>• . .in . m
waiting rooms publ • b •-• ••> - ! p! .■.■•, ■•: .■• ’ :- !
recreational areas and i i md- o u urg
ing can remain -e C r .yin. Idr• » , ~* n ,
«nd aupported hr puhU rru ••■ ■ • A i •-f
decisions have caused a a- of u o h to
come from those who 1 • • belie v. I ••>-•! • '!
Insist that advancing and chancm: : - n ' • '■ -d
and economic condition-- do nus n •< itah a
change in concept-, und think>ng.
The advocates of the status quo bar d the'-r
arguments on the thinly won. contention of
States rights seemingly forget ling if. m re
valid reasoning that no nitho: t\ h-.s ev-. r
been given to state* to d prive it-. mi i/tns of
. the benefits of their .irk anrfrnr-n' m 1 prop. -.
Continuing it- forward look the < ourl has
recently declared in principal that no nccuuM i
person can be condemned unit! h> L had the
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| |',tuition"* *“ t > “ 1 " ’ t!, i! **»»» at:r. .paper are not aecmartl? theme nt the pet-
J
in addition it has granted substantial tax rc
du'uon to several other businesses, it has, in
iddition to giving all the top state officials a
,f! p< r nt salary increase, increased the sal
:of stale judges and solicitors, authorized
a; increase for county and city officials and
1 ver voted an increase in subsistance allow
ar.rts for itself.
Even a school child knows that liquor is
one of this country’s biggest businesses. This
same child should know or should be told if he
d< n’t know that the state of North Carolina
n thr liquor business up to its neck. The re
nt disgraceful exposure of the manner in
1 rich die big liquor intrest exerts its control
over the legislature by passing out fine whiskey
to its members should shark every decent riti
rrn into a demand for s full, all out investiga
tion .
iM: governor and all others who seem to
want to imply that the state legislature is not
dominated by the liquor industry should at. (
f-mpt, to give a pJausable answer why a peti
tion with over a quarter million names, asking
for a state referendrum or. liquor sales has
1 pi completely ignored by the legislature !
v bile at ihe same Hme every petition, regard- j
' ’ i the limited number of signers, asking
for a whiskey election has been granted.
Rut these members of the 1957 legislature
• 1 pr ''sons the people sent to Raleigh
n "represent'’ them. They did not elect them
•: • they had to hr voted into their legi*
lo'ivp ■ nfr just as long as the people, you
nrl I, nr Tom, Dick and Harry as th* gov
<• nmf designates the common herd, just as
1 as the people tolerate such represents
: on. such representation will conntinue. And
•mrh -fpresentation will likely continue tust !
' the people of the state set back
.'ud a’lov/ an arrogant, power mad one-parts
■ m rule and ruin North Carolina
their Northern and Western colleagues in de
t- a ting the passage of civil rights measures bv
r p-oimsex to support certain measures
••••• '• '’••’••'rtherners and Southerners were in
ter. sled in getting passed
‘h-r or not Senator Morse was a parti
i - such a deal has not been fully established
but the (act that he did vote against by-pass
!uHw;ary Com mftrr c- a :r.p:■ - <
■■ ’ am! the fact ihat sevei ai Sojittic.
naiois. including that arch civil rights hater
Mr bom Ervin of North Carolina, who. last
vrir. voted to turn the Hell’s Can von deal
me I ir- private power interes'?, switched their
vo: , thin year and voted along with Morse
and other public power advocates for a fed
* * ■’ financed public dam
in. other words Morse wofed with Ervin to
i- ’•> kd' civil rights and Erv-’in voted with
Mor-P to help pass the public power bill,
Mr Morse has attempted to explain his
civ! rights vote by saying he could not ca-t
-i vott that would nullify a senate rule Tbc
only thing wrong with that statement r- the
fact (hat since the senate made that, rule it
■ -l t very right to chance it any time it. by a
m ;i-' r tv vot* saw fit to do so. An v. hnic Dm
a tor Morse or anyone else votes with Mr. Sam
Iwn r :*i North Carolina against anything that
v- 1! - - Ip the cause of civil rights, that p' rsort
immoni-ti j becomes suspect.
right to meet his accusers, This ruling. In ef
'll! prevent persons being condemned
fr.i crimes solely on the evidence of secret in
i-m i-r; withheld from the four* and the.
a.-niM-d on the ground* that its disclosure
■ 1 jeopardize the security of the country-
If ;< hard to conceive why the Supreme Court
v, :>-• so long arriving at this conclusion because
u ,:!i all due regards to those procuring evi
denr.- of whatever secret nature, the fact, stand*
"in most clearly that any person accused and
convicted by such evidence was not given his
constitutional right to face hi* accusers and
refute their accusations if possible
Boiled down to its simplest degree such nr
cuMtions fall into the category oi heresav.
Bo ■l've of t his liberal and fair minded inter
pretatinn of the rights of accused individual-.
th<- Court now finds itself again the target, of
who would deny individuals their basic
s'rJ"':- if those rights did not rigidly conform
to the preconceived notions of those holding
these notions .
Tt does not make too much difference wheth
hr or not one agrees with the results of the
forward interpretations now evidenced in the
cki-ivions of the Supreme Court the fart is that
this Court has set the trend in policy in many
controversial fields. When the Court decides
whether or not a law or a practice is in ac
cord with the Constitution, it is, for the most
part, determining how the clauses of the Con
stitution apply to changing conditions and cir
cumstances regardless to the existing status or.,
to prior determinations
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By REV FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY For ANP
ARE TOT.’ FOLLOWING YOCR
HEAD OR. YOFR HEART?
1. Man hems the highest of
God’s creation.’and in His im
age made, his most valuable
parts cannot, bp -pen. nor in
his face are they fully portray
ed
2. Mis mentality is hiah and
lofty, bespeaking an element
of holy design, fsr above all
other form.? of his Maker’s ere
ation, and his heart is most
truly Divine
3. This is the seat of bm af
fections. reaching bevond ev
ery common ground encirclinc
spiritual dominions where only
the m.v-teric.'. of God abound,
and only from here can the
elect, of God tunc in for its joy
ful sound.
•1 It is within this zone n*
God’s great unknown He would
have every man to abide; for
alone for this cause He faced
the Cross and bore the panes
of Hi? trims on vide
5 Thu? man out. of moral
darkness can take on a heat •
eniy likeness which even trans-
Along- Tiie QolmM Front
EUROPE ’S* EXTREMITY Miy
BE AFRICA';* OPPORTUNITY
LONDON, Eng.— Although
talks on disarmament between
the Colossi < the rest don't
count) are in progress provi
cation is increasing and a
showdown mir-i not, he ruled
out. Trie Soviets are alarmed
becauf-e U.S.A intends to arm
Norway, Denmark. West Ger
many, France, and Spam with
nuclear weapons and if all then
bases in North Africa. Turkov,
Arabia and further get these
the Soviet,*. ar» entitled to fear
encirclement and to take pre
cautions.
What nobodv knows is what
form these precautions will
take the Soviet leaders will
certainly try to call a halt at
some point They may have al
ready fixed a deadine.
If nobody yields then war
will start.
AFRICANS ARE WATCHING
TIIE MOVES
The Colossi appear like creep
ing lions to Africans of the out
back and like two of the gun
men in a tense Western where
both walk slowly towards an
inevitable gun battle.
Many Africans would regret
the passing of Europe. Many
more would welcome it with de-
IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK
IIS GLADYS P. GRAHAM for Associated Negro Pres*
BIAS SUFFERS SET-BACK
Bias suffered a set-back ar,
various leaders put forth them
views on ways of elimination.
Dr. Channmg Tobias feels that
the legal groundwork for de
segregation had been laid. Fur
ther. that it was high lime
that the millions, of uncom
mitted Americans be converted
to a genuine belief i n human
equality
Bishop Ambrose Reeves of
Johannesburg, South Africa
declared that the United
Sfa.tes is moving toward racial
integration while South Afri
‘V * moving aw*? from it The
THE CAROLINIAN
forms his fleshly Intellect, and
quickens his spiritual heart
acting to even a- more noble
and Godlike reflection.
r, Y< tix-n ilrK' M.
change when man and his
Maker come into close range,
and man negins doing things
from bis heart, and keeps p-s
head and Satan far apart.
7, He fully realizes then that,
the heart is but a small pint,
when to the vibrations of Heav
en he must eagerly resort.
howling tempests begin to roll
and beat upon his trembling;
soul.
8. Who then would trust hi?
head when visibility is poor and
physical strength insufii--*» nt
when drenching rains pour ’ -
it is then Hi? heap of man.
that unseen and mysteno r.
source, nob only points the way.
but )-• an unfailing source.
3. He who follows the bid
ding? of hi? heart when it i?
staid upon his Maker, can for'
any trial and meet. Batan'? ev
ery carjrr . . . and when diffi
cult decisions for God must, be
BY DF C. A CHICK, SR.
lirious joy. not because they
hate all Europeans, but bec-iu"--
it. would give them freedom
from vexations taxation, seg
regation and other controls.
And. of course, many African
(and other) “Strong-arm:-” are
simply dying to get into the
rackets now exploited by. lor
example. Sir Ernest Oppen
heimer and his associate.*. The
thought of coni rollin'- all i.h°
diamonds, copper, tin. zinc,
cold end other wealth of As -
rica if Europe i- obliterated
Is a fascinating one for all ad
venturers. no matter of what
race or color they are
There (s another rhoueht »-
ntong many Africans and non-
Africans,
AFRICA MAT HAVE TO
SUCCOUR EFFORT.
That thought is that the
knowledge and experience of
Europe is essential to African*
progress and'it. would be a tra
gedy if it were all lost,
Africans realize that fhev
cannot halt the Bomb-happy
Europeans and that a show
down can come at any minute,
but what, they hone is that, if
the bombing is confined most
ly to the northern hemisphere
the fallout will not affect Af
rica 100 badly.
If possible many Africans
Right Rev Ambrose Reeves
will make a seven-week lecture
tour here, during which he win
discuss racial problems mainly
as. they affect the church Dr.
Reeves regretted that he had
not been scheduled to lecture
in the Deep South.
Jim Crow has gone forever
In the major hotels as far as
hooking rare talent is concern
ed Count. Basie, Sarah Vaughn
and the Haitian Moon Dancers
choregraphed by Buddy Phil
lips, and Syvillf, Fort in their
Calypso Carnival have upped
the box office rece.iots to --n
unprecedented nev high F-p.v
made, he meet:, boldly and up
rightly the issue, and is not
afraid,
10 And too when other 1?
foi tunat! ' m he, an
3ur>t on life's highway, he is
never too busy to aid and will
take time* out. to pvav; . . . for
he knows all of his thoughts
j's conceived »’ 'lie head, but
pilT'-, rv a r', jon from his
heart that his soul Wight be
fed.
11, The spiritual heart of
man, like unto his one most
Important physical organ has
to carry meticulously on Its
snort viral function: for if God
■ and man ore to serve each oth
er, then the heart, ot man must
cleave to him as an eternal
lover,
Id •A HP YOU' FOLLOWING
votjr head of your
HEART"-" this should not
he hard to discover . . , don't
let old Satan answer for you,
lor he is a great deceiver; the
head can Iced one far astray,
but purified heart. WILL
TRUST GOD, AND OBEY,
would like to make Africa a
vast, reserve of food stuffs and
raw materials and a hospital
where stricken people from Eu
rope could find succour and re
habilitation
Civil De fep.-p measures have
not been >• xienrVd to their Af
rican po: r : uon;? bv European
Colonial Powers; m seems Mho. ►
Powers have so many problem?
of their own that they cannot
find nm» to attend to those
of Africans.
Britain should retrEsmber
that Afiiran? won their net or
ire in Africa in two world wars
and partly in other theatre?
of v w Without her .black
troops Fiance could not ha °.
held any of her colonies or ra
se ted her enemies so long
Africans not mil- supplied
hoops and carrier,-, but partly
financed Britain and Britain
still owe, Africans a vast, sum
of money.
When planning wars one
must consider not only the
flanks and the rear but away
of retreat, and. above all. th#
moral?* ot all fighters, includ
ing allies, Iflt us try to make
allies of those Africans of
whom we have made enemies,
or at. least, disinterested neu
araß
WE MAY NEED THEM!
*en; of the performers ere all
over the hotel and gracr even
ti e Park Avenue side of the
Waldorf-Astoria which should
be given credit, for starting the
get-rid of bias in show busi
ness.
EARLE HYMAN GRACES
COVER OF SATURDAY
REVIEW
Earle Hvtnan i? cover bov on
the staid SATURDAY RE
VIEW OF LITERATURE por
trayed m m, r ole of "Othello."
at Shakespeare Festival in
Connecticut It is believed Mr.
Hyman who was discovered
Hy the American Negro The a-
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JULY 6 19 f .
Earl ,/. Morris *
CHICAGO (ANPi _ Return
ing to Chicago a-fte** an ab
sence of eight years, I feel like
the prodigal son. Chicago is
now big. sprawling over a great
area of land, with public trans
portation speeding overhead in
streamlined elevated trains,
under ground and on the
ground.
Chicago today Is a different
Chicago from yesteryear. Today
I am a stranger in my home
town. 1 used to belong to this
town -now I feel lost, I've got
ten out of step and the town
has gone past me. Now 1 am a.
simple tourist going about with
my eyes stretched wide in a
mazement at the magnificent
progress.
t visited old 27th and Dear
born-gone are the old fami
liar landmarks Today, there
are no run down, ramshackle
frame houses. In then places
are modem, many stoned hous
ing project apartments Strange
as it. may seem, or maybe our,
of respect to me, the old apart
ment building In which’ im
parents lived when I war, born
and where 1 lived until I was
t 2 years old— almost - -• still
stands sod Is occupied by
families pist. a* it was when I
was a tot, and a boy.
T visited the office? of the
Associated Negro Prev vs
Claude Barnett was seated be
hind his large, long modern
desk He greeted me warmly
There was also Albert Barnett.
that grand old City Editor now
retired from his old desk at th®
Chicago Defender and helping
hi 3 lifelong friend. Claude
Barnett.
Irene Poland, who used to b*
a tiny wisp of a grirl in the
Associated Negro Press offices
back in the *2o's—still beauti
ful and still wearing that in
fectious smile and cute mi;
chevlous look in her eyes •;*
still on the iob I also met Mrs.
tret is t.h» first- Negro to be sr
honored Owen Dodson. Howard
University professor of drama
is the first to have presented
Earle Hyman formerly in a
Shakespearian role when the
youthful Thespian graced the
Howard University Players
■'-c r in the role of Hamlet.
Hvrnan has killed the color
line in Shakespeare despite
critics who advised him it
would never work he planned
and prepared. He i? playing
with *he top contemporaries of
our day of all races and creeds
He owns tire largest pen--anal
•ibvary of Shakespearian works
this writer has noted.
i *w •< v set ro no
srifi •*I, WORK
Writer Ccrl Rowan who
broke in t big time jiurnalism
due to sheer preparation and
merit informed this columnist
< hat. keeping up with Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt wa s like
being on full time duty at a
race track. Mr. Rowan is doing
•-i special study on America's
former First Ladv ■ who is cur
rently in controversy with the
pt.iip Department over her in
ability to gain a passport- to
Red China whose full con
tents he was not- at, liberty to
icvpal Rowan is of the opinion
that despite the speed of Dr.
Jackie Robinson on the. base
ball field he will be an easier
subject to do a study on and
less trouble to keep up with
'.nee his speaking engage
ments are fewer.
Dr. Phillip C Brooks has p.
been named director of the
Harry 8 Truman Library at
Independence-, Mo, The library,
like the Franklin D Roosevelt
Lihrarv at- Hyte Park, N Y,
will be operated as a public
trust by the National Archieves
and the Records Service of the
General Services Administra
tion. Dr. Brooks has been chief
of the Federal Records Center
in San Francisco, prior to be
ing named by Administrator
Fieeto. Researchers now bh-e
adddittonal facilities available
to them,
CAMILLA WILLIAMS
M ATEn TOR ST ADI I'M
CONCERTS
Camilla Williams, gifted ?o
pr a no. will grace the Sta dium
audiences in Gershwin Night
this season along with Law
rence Winters Stadium Con
l ei fs have opened here in its
forfwth season at Lewishon
Stadium.
PASSING OF DAVID
BHEPPERD STUN HARLEM
The passing of David Na
thaniel Rhepperd a native born
"West Indian who has Resided
in Harlem over fifty yean
stunned the community, The
husband of Mrs. Theresa Shen
pord and father of the well
known musician Carmen Shen
perd was funeralized at at
Luke's Episcopal Church in one
of the. largest services witness
ed in oyer a decade. The Shep
pards celebrated their Golden
Wedding Anniversary a few
years back Carmen Sheppord s
music pupils were presented at-
Town Hall, three pays before
her beloved father went to his
reward Mr. Shepperd had been
in perfect, health, It was his
Jamaica born wife who had
been ill and hospitalized on
several occasions.
Beauticians some eighty-five
strong were in the La Roberts
Modernistic School of Beauty
Culture twenty - fifth annual
Graduation Exercises. Lou La-
Tour globally known lecturer
dramatist was Mistres of cere
monies with this writer serv
ing as, guest speaker In one of
the largest affairs of its kind
to be presented at, the Corner
stone Baptist Church. Mrs.
Belie Miller wife of Herbert
Miller and Miss Viola Crop
land President, of New York <
State Beauty Culturists Asso
ciation were notables on the
p» ogrnm
Ruth Sanford charming lad
who has the great task of gr.r.
ding cut, this column, first, on
her typewriter making stencil
copy for the mimeographing
machine
Claude Barnett was aniddas
for me to see the- great cnaii.. c
made at the great Suprem -
Liberty Life Insurance Com
pany. He arranged for a torn
I was greeted by Mr. Edward
S, Gillespie, Vice President and
Public Relations Head. He is
son of t,j- Illustrious late la
mented Frank L Gillespie,
founder of the magnificient in
stitution . .
Mr Gillespie conducted me
on a tour of one of the. world's
largest and great Negro busi
nesses I shook hands with
Earl B Dickerson. President,
•>'ho chatted with me while
Jefferson Gather-ford Ish. Jr„
Vice Chairman of the Board
of Directors, smilingly listened.
T met the great man. Truman
Ke.Ua Gibson, Chairman of -hi*
Board at Supreme Liberty Life
Insurance Company 1 was
greatly impressed by him, *Mt
man who had walked and talc
ed with Presidents and other
officials of the U S. Govern
ment
Then there was nouns hand
some Warten H Bacon, who is
industrial relations director,
T also saw the modern cafs
tona which t? open to em
ployee.-. only and capably man
aged by Mi's Ada Templeton
Edwards and her staff of as
sistants
LETTER
r T f THE
Thus article is being sent to
the press, to inform the pumie
that recent publicity concern
ing the operation of the Samp
son Training School in Clinton
did not represent, the majority
of the people of Clinton AT tor
investigating the situation,
was discovered that, the inci
dent began when some teach
ers were transferred to a nr*'
school in the county due to i
deconsolidation program a- th?
Sampson Training School in
which students and teachers
had to be transferred
It s«m? that, some of the
teachers transferred felt that
teachers who were kept at the
Training School should ha-*
been transferred Evidently a
few who were surely adminis
trative or other people '* t*
contacted organized and ap
pointed a committee who pre
sented themselves to the C:".-
Board of Education la the
name of the Clinton Civic Lea
gue to a~k for the dismissal r-f
the Principal. It was learned
the president of the ends
group Rev j M Holmes, de
nied knowing anything about
it and mdictoed that he wants
'» known that the Civic Lea
gue knows nothing about it. *
The people, of Clinton are
wrought up over th* situation
and concerned about the bad
publicity their school ha? got
ten Th* people of Clinton
have implicit confidence in. the
leadership of their principal.
A Dupree, and they ar?
urgm? him to continue to ts.r
rv the banner of education in
Clinton
If air-o seems that, the issues
presented, such as the raising
of money and the awarding of
certificates at, the commence
ment. were concocted to hide
the mi in tsesue, that of trans
ferring of teachers, a matter
over which the principal had
no control. Clinton is a small
community and according to
information received, gate re
ceipts from football games do
not in any way balance the
athletic budget, therefore
money has to be raised in the
school
This money is raised. «<-
cording to information from
th? printipa! mainly at th*
annual homecoming and their
annual May day festival. This*
is done without tm paring Ah*
instructional program. Infor
mation was also received that
certificates were awarded to
certain seniors to improve
scholarshllp and to keep stu
dent? from going to collet*
whose ability not warrant.
Mr. Dupree has don* an out
standing job at the Sampson
Trailing School since he has
been there. He has raised the
standard of the school, improv
ed greatly th* participation cf
the lunchroom program, and
has worked untiringly i n
church, civic arid community
work His character is a boy ft
reooach and he is loved bv ths
people of Sampson County.
H* ha? served as prineine.l of
other schools In the state as
Dean of Education of the Flor
ida Normal and Industrial Col
lege. St Augustine Fla., Di
rector of Summer School 3t
th? same school for two sum
mers arid taught summer
school at. the Florida Colics#
for six summers. He has writ
ton a syllabus in Elementary
School Curriculum now In use
m several summer school? in <4
this and othc-r states and
is now serving as Summer
School Instructor at the A.LT
College where he has served
for the last six summer? In
the graduate school. Outside of
his class work at A&T he as
sists graduate students In re
search and serves on the board
es examiners in Comprehensive
examinations
Sincerely
Rev. j. H. Clanton