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 THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6, 1040, st the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March 1879, Additional Entry at Charlotte, N. C. Subscrlpiicm Bates? Six Months $2.75 * .....One Year $4,56 Parycrbl® in Advance—Address all eommuni cat ions and nil checks and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Newspaper*. Inc„ 544 Fifih Avenue. N. 17. N. T. National Advcrtklng Repre sentative. This newsp-iper Is rot responsible for the return of unttlicited news, picture*, or advertising eopy Unless necessary postage accompanies the Copy. P. R IERVAY, Publisher Alexander Bamca .Advertising & Promotion Chas. Jcr.es News & Circulation £. R. Swain Plant Superintendent j. C. Washington .Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M. Hinton Office Manager Opinions expressed in by-toinirm published In this newspaper are net sieewsaarily those of tbs px*- Ueatlon. Ht»— tpfmmrlL * VI ftWf»©BSST 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. THE CAROLINIAN 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

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