PAGE FOUR
There is a great deal being said nowadays
about the lark of respect: that students in the
public schools show to their teachers Any lack
of respect for authority and position is regret -
able and. if not corrected will always result in
disaster. The survival of society rests upon
respect for authority and law. Disrespecc on the
part of children, whether it be in the home,
the school or elsewhere should be given most
serious consideration because if this unwhole
some tendency is not checked and corrected
their development into law breakers and crimi
nals is inevitable.
Our public school teachers have always oc
cupied one of the highest and most responsi
ble posts. To them are entrusted the moulding
of the intellect of the nation. Their task has al
ways hren stupendous and unenviable. Today,
this task ha? berarru magnified because n f »h
--greater number of children in our schools and
because of the many complexities, frustrations
and confusions not onlv facing the students but
also the teachers themselves. Students are find -
ing it difficult to protect themselves against
evils that arc beckoning to them from all side-:
teachers are finding it difficult to cone with
the burden of trying to cope with the r suits of
these adverse conditions and condition their
pupils to the point the pupils rnav be able to
assimulate knowledge. If, in the face of the-'
adversities and perplexities, the teacher must
also have to cope with disrespect and disobedi
ence from her pupils, her job becotr-'s almost
impossible and unbearable.
Because disrespect of a teacher '■ ?• mr **•:•
Hents can disrupt the teaching program : stvov
the teacher’s effectiveness and seriou-’.y re
tard the progress of all the students, ev< rv po- •
sible method must be used to combat it In
working against this destructive menace
teacher must be sure that she is in no wise con
tributing toward it. either directly or indirect!'',
consciously or unconsciously.
Today, as always, the majority of the public
Gov Hodges has been quoted as saying he
is proud of the way the people in North Caro
lina reacted toward this state's first public
school integration If the governor says he is
proud of the things that took place in Chariot 1 -
and Greensboro, then he is proud of them and
tha* is that.
Fortunately, the representative press of this
state and many of its leading citizens do not
phare Mr. Hodge's “pride' in the lawless dem
onstrations that went on in Greensboro and
Charlotte. Editorials appearing in the leading
newspapers have ail denounced the violence
that attended the appearance, of Negro students
fit previously all white schools. Neither the
newspapers or the individuals who have con
demned this violence are advocates of school in
tegration Most, >f not all of them believe that
public school integration is wrong.
They are convinced, however, that they can
live with integration, that it will not destrov
the public school system in this state nor alter
the pattern of civilized living. On the other
hand these persons who would never vote for
school integration, realize fully that lawless
ness and violence can and will destroy not
only the public schools but all that has been
achieved during the nearly two hundred years
of American history. They are more interest' 1
in the preservation of civilization than in the
maintenance of segregation.
The dictionary define? “proud" in part' a?,
properly self respecting, giving cause for
pride " Properly self respecting must certain -
ly entail actions on the part of some that will
demand the respect of others because to he
‘"properly self respecting one must respect the
rights and the. person of others Is is possible
to believe that any properly self respecting
person or persons could or would throw stem ?
shove and spit on another for any reason and
more particularly if that other person were
merely exercising his legal rights as was the
case of the. Charlotte girl who had these in
dignities heaped upon her.
Americans everywhere, North and South
alike, pride themselves because of their respe< *
for law and order. In fact this is a nation of
law. A nation that was established on the
principle of the supremacy of law, the law nf
God is interpreted and translated to fulfill
and carry out His commands. The South has
long, been called the Bible belt, because of it?
supposedly strict adherence to and belief in
law and order. That innocent Negro girl who
was so violenty abused in Charlotte last week
would never have been at that school if the
law, the law as interpreted by this nation’s
highest tribunal had not decreed she had n
right to he there.
No sane person could reasonably argue
that those persons who do not agree with the
decree that opened those school doors to her,
do not have a right to disagree. The right to
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Another Point Os View
Pride Or Shame
school teachers are women. There was a rime
when the average age of teachers was fifty
years. Now, with the accelerated tempo of ed
ucation, this average age has been reduced to
thirty years and in a few years it will be down
to twenty-five. There is nothing wrong with
having so many younger persons teaching, as
a matter of fact these younger teachers often
bring freshness and vision into the classroom
and give to the araous job of teaching a touch
of nthusiasm that is most helpful and welcome.
If is realized that teachers are human beings,
human beings who are subject to the same
w< aknesses and temptations that other humans
arr heir to. In addition, the steady influx of
younger teachers in our classrooms mean that
we now have an increasing number of young
People who must realize that they are teachers
first and a? teachers they must control and
restrain the human urges of youth.
If to be noted that the vast majority of our
4 her? try to set an example for their pupils
to follotr. For this we should be very grateful.
Unfortunately, however, .there are some teach
ers. particularly those in the younger age group,
who by their conduct outside of the classroom
make it somewhat difficult for them to com
mand respect inside the classroom. This is in
deed a new day, it is an age when many things
that were once considered wrong are. now con
doned, This new concept has brought with it
many new freedoms and has removed many of
the strict Puritanical limitations once consider
ed proper and necessary. Too many of those
restrictions were unnecessary and intolerable
and were the result of ignorance and hypocracy.
We welcome the coming of enhghtment and the
freeing of teachers and other? from unwise and
unneeded bondage. We do not believe, however,
that the day veil ever come when Immortality,
drunkenness, gambling and lasciviousness will
ever be sanctioned by society as fitting and
proper for anyone and more particularly for
teachers.
disagree is another freedom guaranteed by our
system of law. On the other hand, we cannot
see how any sane person, any person, “proper
ly self respecting.” could argue or say that
those who molested that girl were not crimi
nals. To disagree with a law is a normal right.
To oppose a law by violence subjects those
same persons to he penalized by the law.
The Charlotte chief of police has expressed
hi? regret that his police force, was not on hand
at that school opening to suppress the aefiv
ities of those law break- rs. Yet, this same chief
of police wa? quoted by the pres? as savins
before the opening of the schools there that he
did not intend to dignify the occasion by hav
ing police on hand. It would seem to us that
there would have hern more dignity having
police on hand to uphold the good name of
Charlotte and the State of North Carolina.
No one ha? been killed or even seriously
injured during the perilous days that marked
the beginning of public school integration in
this state. For that we humbly thank God.
In Winston-Salem the enrollment of one Ne
gro student was as it should have been with
out incident. We cannot, however, join the
governor in being proud of what happened
in the other two cities when Negroes went to
school for the first time with whites. We are
of the opinion that the loitering crowds, the
jeering mobs, the stick wielders. the rock
throwers, the spitters, the cursors and those
who aided and abetted this violence could all
have had the law so impressed upon them that
they would not have dared to even attempt
to break it. We further believe that had law
enforcement machinery been properly mobi
lized and alerted that those who might have
dared to make, a test of it would have become
speedy victims of their lawlessness.
We have much to be thankful for in thi?
matter. Thankful first that the hack of public
school segregation in this state has been brok
en Thankful that we have Negro parents who,
although aware of the dangers confronting
both themselves and their children, are. never
the less willing to make the sacrifices neces
sary to help free their country from this ter
rible affliction. Thankful that our race has
produced hoys and girls of the stamina, cou
rage and poi?e typified by those brave youths
who faced the mob unafraid in Greensboro
and Charlotte. We are thankful for the many
white North Carolinian? who helped to make
these first integration steps possible, But. we
can never be proud of the violence and abuses,
the lawlrsr.es? and the idiginities our children
had to suffer because there were those who had
not been trained to respect the rights of others
and because those in authority did not see fit
or care to take the simple steps that would
have insured the dignity of law and order in
this state. To us there seems far more reason
to be ashamed rather than proud.
Equally Vicious In The Eyes Os The World What Other Editors Say...
dfaf
“White Gold Mines”
The thought tor my article
this week is the result of my
attending the Southeastern
Cattle Show near Fayetteville,
recently. As I sat and observed
the adolescent boys and girls
lead their thoroughbred cattle
before the judge, to be judged
my heart leaped for joy, Anri,
believe you me. there wen
pretty cows of various breeds
on parade to be judged. Said I
to myself, as I sat and o’os
served with keen interest the
entire performance, “there is
one item of cure, or to say die
least, improvement, for rural
juvenile delinquency", When
boys and girls become interest
ed in raising thoroughbred rat
tle, they do not have the time
to engage in anti-social activ
ities.
Moreover, it was real en
course in cr for one to realize
IT HAPPENED IN HEW YORK
RT GLADYS P. GRAHAM
NEW YORK -ANP) —Bias
reactions to the new barriers
facing full integration are
quite varied and those who had
been encouraged by the faint
lines "of progress made av°
plunged in utter despair, The
ugly finger of bigots have
the suburban areas here. Per
struck at the heart of some of
sons who reside in the deep
south (formerly from Arkan
sas. Virginia and Alabama a
mong other points, are humili
ated by the goings on in their
respective states.
Meanwhile the political lords
here are girding their loins for
the forthcoming elections with
little fear of opposing forces.
Tan Psychologists On
Conference Scene
Tan psychologists, chemists
and political scientists from all
points are here for their re
spective meetings. Dr. Lenora
Lane, chairman psychology de
partment of Central State Col
lege, Dr. ajnd Mrs. Canada,
West Virginia State, Chief Psy
chologist Vernon Sparks,
Crown State. Hospital were a
mong the familiar faces around
the conference fables of the
American Psychological Asso
ciation, convening at Starter
and Hotel New Yorker Politi
cal science and chemistry de
legates are gathering at the
registration desks for the scores
of meetings to be absorbed
by them.
In Our Mail Bag
Samuel P. Perry, alert United
Nations correspondent for ANP
who flew to New York from
Boston for a brief respite be
fore heavy Genera! Assembly
duties begin Is back in Ben
town. Principal Elizabeth Le
mon has lost some of her sec
retarial staff to the bright, new
school which opened in Gary.
The former Atlanta University
system faculty member finds
space inadequate in her school,
Frederick Douglass, to accom
modate the youngsters who are
pushing out the walls (popu
lation wise) In their effort to
enter the world of education.
Professor Willa J. Page is
happy that her husband John,
well known mortician In
Welch, W, Va.. is up again after
a serious operation which kept
him in the hospital for many
months. The Pages may accept
(he bid of Attorney Miller now
in the Virgin Islands to visit
in the. Caribbean. Attorney and
Mrs Miller resided in Welch
for over thirty years and were
neighbors to the Pages in the
Mountain State.
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II THIS OUR BAY
By C A. Chick, Sr.
that here are some evidences
that Negro farmers are slowly
but surely getting away from
the traditional Negro farmer
'here in the Southeastern sec
tion of the United States) *of
raising for the most part, cot
ton and-or tobacco. Tt has long
been observed that farmers who
diversify their crops have a
higher standard of living than
those farmers who do not di
versify.
At intervals during the judg
ing, different farm demon
stration agents gave brief re
marks. One agent pointed out
the fact that there is a. short
age of milk in North Caroline,
As I recall, he stated that an
nually North Carolina import
5.000.000 worth of milk. In
asmuch as North' Carolina i.«
generally regarded a? one of
the progressive Southeaster n
Duchess Rachelle Burton,
globe trotter, has recently re
turned from Philadelphia
where she attended the Elks
Convention. She has Israel
and India, in view as her next
stop over. The lecturer return
ed from Philly in time to end
her choral, singing as, a, mem
ber of Billy Graham Crusade
Choir and earn her certificate
of recognition.
Floyd Price, hygienist is up
Boston Way enjoying the
sights of New England. Miss
Price is a product of Benedict
College and a native of South
Carolina.
Forrester Washington famed
social worker, formerly in tha
Atlanta University System
writes that he broke, his foot.,
which has been in a cast. How
ever, he will arrive in time for
the African seminar at the
New School slated for this fall.
Journalist Richard A. Grad
dick of the United States Navy
will hit another forcing port
when he (Cuba) becomes Sta
tion Manager WGBY and WG
BY —TV, another first for a
SENTENCE SERMONS
BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For AND
Knocking Individual* Out With
The Truth, Then Helping
Them Back On Their Feet*
1. Ir one of the rounds of
the last Championship fight
August 21, 1957, it appeared
that the Champion was help
ing the Challenger to his feet
after knocking him down sev
en (7) times; but this was only
a photographic appearance, for
the Challenger w«3 soon knock
ed out beyond any shadow of
further .reatstsyice.
2. 3a it far from me to as
sociate prize fighting with vho
high standards of religion,
only to show here in point the
wide differentiation in fistic
art, as compared with the all
forgiving love toward mankind
upon Jesus Christ’s part.
3. For be it remembered,
Christ had to knock Saul down
and smite him with blindness
to change his course toward
peace and kindness for
once his hate was as bitter as
gall, until Christ lifted him up
aftd changed his name, in love,
to Raul. ■
4 That was a day Paul long
remembered, 'or along the
States, I am assuming that
each of the other Southeastern
States imports about the same
amount of milk as doe.-. Not h
Carolina.
Thus, the real purpose
this article is to point, out that
there are “white gold min* ■”
(milk) right here in the Soiu:-
oastern section of the. United
States. Let’s start, now encou
raging our boys and girls to
immediately start mining this
gold, that is raising dairy ra>
t.le and thereby producing rin k
for the market. Moreover, as
long as we produce milk cow?
these white sty.d mir?? vh
never become depleted.
Let's raise our standards of
living in the rural districts by
diversifying our farming, de
voting more of our time to raiz
ing dairy’ cattle and milk for
r&a market,
Negro in the Navy. The Phila
delphian, who served in the
South Pacific during the World
War II and who for sometime
was stationed in. Hawaii will
do a two year stint in his ca
pacity with sixteen journalists
and four technicians working
under him to keep him busy
indeed.
Luther Henderson Jr , form
er Lena Horae accompanist ha?:
taken on his second better half
and has left Harlem for a
downtown hotel suite. Hender
son. is achieving another first
in his contribution, music and
script-wine, to Par,tie Page on
CBS.
Nora Holt, distinguished mu
sicologist, informed this writ
er that her season for broad
casting on the artist hour Sta
tion WLIB. has terminated and
will resume later in the fall.
The Dean of music critics is
continuing to write her book
and has purchased an apart
ment in. the cooperative pro
ject of Morningside Heights ro
which she indicated she would
move within the next few
weeks.
road he was traveling too heav
ily encumbered with the tilings
that were quickly sapping his
life and driving him furiously
headlong into sin and strife
5. Such a blow as came to
him from his Blessed Master,
would from any other source
have meant terrible disaster;
but He who purposedly knock
ed him down didn't do it with
deceit, but only with a right
eous motive to get him prop
erly back on his feet.
6. This is a lesson the vac
cilating Peter had to learn,
after ail the mercies of his
Master, then allowing Satan
heart »o turn; but his loving
Master dealt mysterious blows
that turned him around and
after conversion prepared him
to wear a crown.
7. How often men have miss
ed the mark while by-passing
God and acting smart, seeking
things, prestige and position
but regarding very lightly the
high standards of Christian
Religion.
8 It seem* to be one of the
follies of men to wear the
cloak.
week: ending Saturday, September ia 1957
LEARNING TO DOL'BT
Even though we may be past
the days of school bells ar.d
the musty smells of sweeping
compound and freshly scrubbed
desks and slates, Septemner
nonetheless has away of re
minding us of school days, hard
benches and pigtails. Almost
everyone feels a rueful twins;
of the heart at seeing the kid
dies skipping, or snailim,, then
bright or weary way to school.
As adults, school and its
meaning, should never escape
us. Whether we finished four
years at. grammar school, or
earned on through to college
and post-graduate work, edu
cation should have made us
humble. lor the wise man, im
mure he knows makes him
aware of how little he actually
knows and understands of the
va?t mine of knowledge. At,
least, that much of our school
ing should still ho with us . . .
the habit of doubting, the at
titude of checking and wcheck
ing constantly.
Cm ksure.
Too many of us adults, arid
rot a few children, have er
nuired. even worked hard at
achieving ... a sonsy of cock*
surodness. We act. as if we
could not br wrong in our judg
ments More often than mi.
these cocksure judgments *-«
no more than guesses or opin
ions. We cling t.o them, hou
se!;-evident principles and ax
iom? which none may d? ra
question. If they do raise an
eyebrow we act as if they have
challenged and flouted our very
selinooa. our e^o.
There’s the rub—’ our ego/ 1
Pnde and conceit have a sub
tic way of camouflage. When
our opinions and self styled
judgments are questioned, so
many of us incline immediate
ly to sense a personal, antago -
nistic trust- It becomes foith
vith a direct, attack on us. Thai,
underscores the proud m: n,
the hypersensitive Individual.
For lhe humble man such
phrases as “Unless I'm mist; k-
UY) ip with th 0 humble nr u
siona with an ever-present 1'
*Ti X see this problem cm, -
the ‘ it" is implied.
For the proud man tho.v
and freeze his sense of cso.
seif on his rightness and cock
and simple weakness and idi
ocy, Through hie unwavering
and unhesitating directne.-'-'
and sureness oi speech \v:, fee *
that h.e bowls over, demons’.:' >.
his conceit he truly has 'on*
fusing to agree with rum is
i 1 j fe Editor 4
To The Editor; Regardless
to which Hide one is on in the
integration-segregation issuje
for de-segregation issue, if you
prefer •. or it he is on neither
side, (if such is possible l , any
clear* thinking person mint
necessarily disagree with or*
statement which publicity
seeker John Kasper made in bis
recent tirade against BiUv
Graham. I doubt that Mr.
Graham even took notice of
the fact that John Kasper had
visited his ‘Billy Graham'. >
home state of North Carolina,
but. there may be those tn this
state who are so emotionally
upset there days as to swallow
thrill-seeker Kasper's bait, with
out actually examining hn
words
To these few people, let me
bring to their minds the fol
lowing sins which Mr. Kasper
has committed; sins which ve
would do well to avoid « and wo
should not confuse the hvf
gra lion-segregation issue with
either), First, he presumed to
tell God what he did and did
not do. No one who believes
in God and is in his right mind
would do this. Sian did not
create God <o;» much as he
would like to think so>, there
fore one does not presume to
tell God tor others) what Ood
had done, as if he imam has
the mind of God. One must
examine these- temporal word-;
or Kasper in the light of the
Eternal Words of the Hoi"
Writ: "My way:, are nbove
thy ways.” "What is man that
thou art mindful of him?”
Secondly Kasper trier, to
identify the Christian religion
a«t belonging to one and only
one ethnic group. He soys:
"The white man gave the Ne
gro the Christian religion. It's
a white man’s religion.” X
must remind Mi Kr.sper that,
it, is this kind of think ini .
which led to the dreed Mau
Man uprisings Afr ic a
(which, incidentally, have not
even yet been fully subdued ,y
British Colonial forces'. We
have only to remember the
words of Jomo Key,vatu, then
strongest leader. \S have this
freshly brought to memory. Ho
said. “Behold the white man
co,me. we hod lands and
wealth. We did not have the
white man's religion, we did
net have the white man's book
The white man brought, to vis
his religion He told us that
we must pray He brought us
& book. He said (hat when we
prayed, we must kneel down,
close our eves and *oow our
heads. While we were kneel-
the cry apotheosis os stupid- ■
ity.
Why Schools
Such a person has lost . . .
or never once learned . . the
purpose of schools and educa
tion Bui teaching us facts and
the ability to form true judg
ments and statements with
these facts, education, likewise
should form a child and a man
to be cautious and most careful
in searching, first of all for
the facts: and secondly, should
make him handle these fae's
sacredly when he interpret*
them.
Humility in seeking knowl
edge and truth is the hall
mark of a humble man, a wise
man. Cocksureness and impa
tience of any opinion other
I ban his own marks infallibly
the person of vast pride and
conceit. None of us is ton old
to learn this attractive Chris
tian quality of deference and
respect for the opin-on of oth
ers. And perhaps for the many
of us this symbolical time of
an nm occ’ - -4
vides an excellent occasion to
r>
believe” or even more hum
biy. “if I am not mistaken.”
How Much Do Schools Save
State?
The only raw statistic? we
could obtain on cost-per-chdd
education in the public gram
mar and high school of North,
Carolina were for the school
year 1855-36. With the increase,
in all around costs and with
the recent teacher salary in
crease .which we heartily en
dorse. the figure should be rais
ed at least 5 per cent Two
years ago it cost the taxpayers
of North Carolina. $164 per
white pupil and $144 per Ne
gro pupil. This is a crude fig
ure covering, the. average for
both grammar and high school
levels.
At Ihe ‘T i h: - '
possible, then, our Catholic
schools, with 8.527 pupils en
rolled this yea:, will represent
a net saving of approximately
$1.3 million. In a sense this
wan? bwV'.-., j
■ ■ p. 4c
more money per pupil than its
figures show. School budget is
projected on the total number
of pupils of school age In es
timating the budget no allow
ance is made for the number
of children who will attend
private schools. Hence the ac
tual "per educable" figure allo
cated is considerably higher
than the statistics show.
This fact makes one wonder
why the practice has been con •
doned of putting on local, com
munity drives for the school
bend, athletics, and so on It
sounds, plausible the? this slu : ’•
fund, accruing from Cathol"'
•and othei private school e.n*
.-f i'.lf - might easily cover such
n::h3-currifiuU Activities.
--NORTH CAROLINA
CATHOLIC
ins with our wes closed and
our heads bowed, he hit us over
the head with his dub and
wealth and left us the book.”
runs, took our lands and our
A former teacher of mine—a
Scotsman by birth—who had
spent twenty-two years tn In
dia and was even then think
ing about, joining his son m
Africa, had similar, but more,
rational, ideas when he said to
nie cm occasions. Greedy white
so-called business men have
undone n great deal of tire good
that conscienctous white mi*-
sionaries have done in Africa
Fortunately, there are those
of us in this strife torn world
that, are neither Kaspers not
Kenyattis. The sin of both of
these, gentlemen at this point
if that they are attempting to
attribute the Christian religion
to one ethnic group. We must
remind Mr Kasper and those
who would be taken in bv him
that if one would familiarize
himself a little with the Bible
(which, after all, is the guide
book of the ennstaan religion
and with the history of xftw
Christian religion, one could
readily see how much in error
Mr. Kasper is.
The Bible tells us of at least
two Africans in the Corinthian
church ana of one well-to-do
African convert. It. would also
remind us of il.e Jewish ineai
enst semi orlential. not Anglo-
Saxon' background of the
Christian religion. Further -
more, the Old Testament shows
'clravlv that,, them was a close -
ness that existed between the
ancient African and the anci
ent TsraUte and that Judiasm
had to do with a rolielon which
was universal in scope (If not
in r>u its aspects) not racial
Thu. .- it! v.tcristic was earned
over to the Christian religion
and h clearly shown by Chust
in his talk with the Samaritan
wi man nd by his final com
mission to his followers. Go
ye info fdl the world . . .
teaching every creature.'
We muz* also remember that
the ancient Coptic Church in
Africa and the Thomas! f*
c!,u’ h. < founded by St, Thom *
ns- in India >irr among the old- ”
cat, Christian communions in
the world and that St. Augus
tine was Bishop of Hippo—an
African city
We ar» sometime? attempted
to say to the K.wpers, "Get
thee behind me. Satan”, but
v.- n-.' mb*'' that we are
Chniinarts rod realizing bur
Chrlt.' van duty of lo I '* and for
giveness we must say. "Father
forgive him”.
-4VM J BARBER