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PAGE FOUR foimWir Seventy Per Cent Is Not Passing Our public schools have developed away of indicating the progress of students by grading. Students are taught to think of seventy per cent as passing. Vet the question may be rais ed. “In the game of life, is 70 per cent pass ing?” The grading system we use has many short comings. Educators have endeavored to cor rect these evils by developing ways of show ing a student’s progress in matters other than subject matter. Many schools issue report cards that show' how the pupils develop in attitude, leadership, ability to follow the lead er. cooperativeness, and so on. We are not criticizing nor praising the sys tem of grading in our schools. Yet we must re mind you that in the game of life one cannot be satisfied with just passing. In life, we an graded by what we accomplish. We urge every student to make more than 70 per* cent in his course*, for that is just passing. Why hr- sat isfied with 70 when you are capable of earning 91 per cent? Remember that In the game of life, nothing lew* than 100 per cent is passing! Merely learning the names of things might jt*t a student a 70 per cent passing grade in National Retarded Children’s Week November 17 and 24 have been set aside as National Retarded Children’s Week. The ob servance of a week in their honor is one of th* most worthy efforts of public relations of which we are aware. A physical and mental handicap can sometimes, and often does, cre ate in the child’s mind a psychological con dition that i* harder to defeat than the han dicap and retarding condition itself. The greatest handicap besetting the men ially retarded, both educable and trainable — a« well as the millions unhorn —is not their intellectual incapacities. It is, very simply '‘normal” people. Despite heartening strides being made by militant parent groups to bring them out of the shadows despite national recognition made possible to some extent by National Retarded Children’s Week, and despite the fact that this year the Federal government has appro priated $4.5 million to tackle this problem, they are still branded as complete misfits by an IQ-conscious world. And may we say that it is a world that makes reading and writing * criterion for human society membership. As outcasts —so to speak—-these children have stood almost ignored in a scientific world that has been busy, on one hand, hurdling gen - erations of work to cure physical afflictions — and. on the other hand has clung supers tit- Student Legislative Assembly should be grateful. The saddest part of it all, however, is the fact that the Negro delegates—because of race alone—can hardly expect to be elected to the North Carolina legislature now or in the near future. While, on the other hand, their white associates will not face the handicap of race in seeking seats in this august body. Grant that the stigma of racial barriers will not continue to haunt us. Negroes must be given the opportunity to participate in mak ing laws for the State of North Carolina. One of our greatest weapons to achieve this end is the power of the ballot. We must go to the polls and vote, Children’s Book Week CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK inhere was a time —many years ago—when the average Negro home had only the follow ing books: the Bible, an almanac, and a mail order catalog. The last named book served two purposes, namely: (t) a ready reference for adults who wanted to order some mer chandise, and (2) a picture book for the small fry. As we celebrate the 1957 National Children’s Book Week, November 37 to 24, we see evi 4»nre that the Negro has made a long journey Jrom his native African kraal to our modern American libraries. Let us, therefore, encour a« our children to read more books. vVhy not suggest that they read the biogra - phies of Negroes who have lifted themselves up by "their own bootstraps”, and who have stooped down to help black men and women rise above the handicaps of color. From these The Surface Os Things "Values” is a term used to denote those things which we consider most important. Tt appears that Americans have confused their values when it comes to the surface of things. We pay some of our night club entertainer* SIO,OOO a week, and a popular idol like Elvi* Pressley considerably more. For some reason, we place greater value upon the talents of entertainers and movie stars that we do upon the genius and skill of scientists, teachers, ministers, artists, and skilled workers. Often we ask our topflight atomic energy gM«L' —! , W mgm wmmmmmsß!*- THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6, 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March 1879. Additional Entry at Charlotte, N. C. Subscription Kolas: Six Month* $2,75 On® Y mat s4,l® Payable in Advance—Address all communications and make all checks and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Newspapers, )ne„ 544 KM Mb Avanoe, N. Y. 17, N. Y. National Advertising Xtofir*- sentaHve, Tbl* newspaper Is not. responsible for the return ot unsoMeWed nows, pictac**, os advertieteg eepy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. P. X, JERVAY. Publisher Alexander Game* ~. AdvetflUrftoff & Promotion Chac. Jones New* £ Circulation E. R. Swain Plant Superintendent J. C. Washington Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M, Hinton .Office Manager Opinions expressed in by -column* published in this newspaper not necessarily those #f the m®- Ilraiion. , school, but it won’t work when he gets out into the world and begins earning a living. Out in. the world a lawyer either wins his case or loses it, and a doctor's patient either gets well or he doesn’t. In life nothing below 100 per cent is passing. It seems that our schools are putting a pre mium on “just getting by,” Our citizens must somehow reverse such negative thinking. Life presents to us many opportunities to succeed daily. We must grasp these opportunities, put our best foot forward, and use every ounce of our strength for worthwhile living. The Ne gro cannot afford to do less than his best. It would be a good tiling if every high school graduate worked for a year before going to college. This would give him a foretaste of the real world and the demands it will make upon him. As a result of this experience, the stu dent would learn to spend cautiously the mon ey he earns by the sweat of his brow; that is, if parents refuse to send him anything during this work year. It is just as important for him to learn hove to spend money as how to earn it. Life Is very exacting, and the student will soon learn that nothing less than 100 per cent is passing in the game oi life. iously and very erroneously to tha Middle Ages belief that retardation k a hopeless, he reditary, low-stock affliction that is somehow associated with wrongdoing, guilt, and “the sins of our fathers.” These children constitute one of the greatest, snow-balling medical and sociological prob lems in North Carolina and tire rest of the United States, and they still meet rejection the minute they enter the world-—or, to be more accurate, the minute it is apparent that they are actually mentally retarded. It is a happy coincidence, however, that North Carolina celebrated last Monday in Goldsboro during National Retarded. Chil dren's Week its Training School for retarded trainable Negro children. The school, which cost $4,500,000, was built for Negro patients between the ages of six and 25. Tn all, ten buildings have been constructed at the site. The retarded child is found among people of all races, colors and creeds. We have in this country approximately 16,000,000 Negroes. Os this number, about 320,000 are mentally retarded persons. During this week, we are urging every citi zen to become interested in knowing more about the problem of educating and rehabili tating our retarded children and citizenry. STUDENT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY The Student Legislature, which recently convened at our State Capitol, passed a reso lution proposing a repeal of all state laws pro hibiting racial inter-marriage. The resolution drew sharp protest from Representative Har old Cooley, Governor Hodges of North Caro lina, and many other citizens. We do not wish to argue the pros and cons of this issue, since it is our purpose to call at tention to another matter gravely affecting Negro members of the Student Legislature. It k the purpose of the Student Legislature, we believe, to give young college student* ex prience in law-making techniques. For thta, w 4 illustrious am! dedicate*! men aqf women, they will be Iced to dream dreasxs aud gain vision - and encouragement for walking tihe road ahead. Encourage them also to road the children 1 * series containing books about St. Augustins, Bach, Martin Luther, Sbapespeare. Leonardo Francis Bacon, Moses, and Jesus dhrist. As a race, we need to read more and be come better informed. Our children will pro fit from extensive readin®, because It will i (1) increase their vocabulary, (2) improve their spelling. (3) sharpen their ability to criticise and evaluate, (4) help mold wholesome atfb tudes, and (5) encourage them to have a pur pose for living. Reading a good book gets to one's heart fas ter than anything else. And it la often more valuable than capital—for It make* copfowl. READING Is the fire of the sow! scientists to slave a whole year fcf $40,000 or less; our teachers are called Ufxm to take charge of the nation's children for nine months at an average salary' of $3,600 to $4,000. We expect our ministers to administer to our spir itual needs for the pitiful average salary of $3,000 during a church year. A highly skilled worker can earn SIOO a week, or $5,200 a year: but an entertainer can earn this amount in throe days, A topflight executive earns $50.- 000 a year, but a movie star hi paid thk amount In k-ss tli an a month. They Don’t Have A Fair Chance In A SENTENCE SERMONS BY Rp:v. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP AM PASSES, ART ALONE ENDURES 1. Early in my boyhood I first noticed this inscription a bove the main entrance t,o the FINE ARTS Building, and for want of understanding 1 could not grip its most fascinating and mysterious meaning. 2. But, as time moved on I began to learn of some of the worthwhile things of which you and I should become very fond; things not alone portrayed in a picture of sculpture, but magnificently converted through spirit and culture. 3. Yea, virtues beyond any imitation and truly without any limitation ~ . beyond the pale of brush or pen, that only the spiritually filled could comprehend, 5. All things then began to look new, and with -sprifcual brush, and paint I began to break through! I knew the course would be long and many times unpleasant, but I decided to give the world an expensive present, 5. I realised this picture had What Other Editors Say AfMS YOU I2£»T®Nlwm Speaking a* a symposium on the tfceene of the Parent- Teacher Association in Orlan do earlier this week, the Rev. Paul 3. Wagner, Pastor of the Palm Ceia Methodist Church, Tampa, «M 4 on the subject of '•Growing Toward Mature Re sponsibUrty*’ theme at the con vention! “Schools and churohc* lor somet-lma have been condemn ed by not having produced good enough people to live in an increasingly difiicult world. “I apologise for the church for sometime producing such little people who can look at people outside their group, those who differ from them in race and creed, only with a cri tical eye. “If I hate a Negro or a Bud dahist or Hindu or cannot tol erate other groups, the trouble Is with me, not them. Then I am sick spiritually." We believe these words could do a lot of people a lot of good. As the late Tony Wong used to say: “Are You Listening? —The Miami Time#, November 9, ADVERTISING MAKES BUSINESS Whether one realises it or not, advertising is perhaps the most wonderful development, of the modern commercial age. It is the mak er or breaker of business, big or little. It is the one factor of successful sales that is most apt. to be overlooked by the merchant* and business men of small towns and cl tie#. Why should we ask * #ri*B- Mat to slave for £IO.OOO a year, while we pay an entertainer this amount for one week's work? Is there any wonder that Soviet Russia is outsmarting ur? What. America needs is less entertainment and more brains. We are too ess"y impressed with the surface of things! THE CAROLINIAN to bespeak many virt/ures, with colors and tints quite contrary to man’s nature, and if the full meaning were to be fully dis played, it could not be accom plished without God's aid. 6. So sincerely I sought Him. to come into my heart, and pledged that from Him I would never depart . . , then graci ously He entered my name on a scroll and the mysteries of Heaven began to unfold. 7. From that day to this T knew' of no Artist who could interpret on canvas the high spiritual emotions of an hum ble Saint's bliss; these are un speakable and have to be dis cerned through trial and con flict and the spurs he has earn ed. H Thus the Title inscription above may not have been in tended to fit your cases but, its not partial to any member of the human Race ... in fact, all who follow' the Cardinal principle* and uphold Chrit s name are Artists indeed, and carry an undying spiritual flame. Advertising Is not the ex clusive weapon of big business, it is the power that will make little concerns grow into larg er success. it> is a science that requires study and be it said, character. It caimot succeed if it la based upon untruth; it must be built upon faith and integrity. —The Shreveport Sun, October 12. NEEDED MORE THAN EVER —lt is becoming increasingly evident that the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People is needed more than ever, if full and complete citizenship is to be achieved by 17,000,000 of A merica’s 170,000,000 citizens The importance of the NAA CP is being emphasized daily by the feverish efforts which, are being made in most south - state* to keep the organiza - tion from functioning in those states. It is conceivable that legislature* would meet for the sole purpose of passing anti- NAACP legislation, were it not for the effective program that ha-? been prosecuted under its auspicies in these states. If and when the NAACP is forced to withdraw from most of the Southern States, the ob ligation for its continued opera - men and women living in other tion will rest more heavily on secrion* of efte country. wnft« waiting for the annual traditional membership cam paign In 1958, it would be a sign of enlightened intelligence if 10,000 Philadelphians of both races. u r ho believe in law, order, decency, and full citizen ship for all Americans,, would take out at least a. token mem bership immediately. Philadelphia Tribune, November 12. RACE RELATIONS: THE ISSUE REMAINS Greens boro City Council can hardly Ignore the thoughtful, letter of a responsible Negro organiza tion. the Greensboro Men’s Club, begging the council nor to close the city’s swimming pools because of the Integra tion threat The letter itself Is couched In temperate language. “Over the years,” the letter says of the club’s history, “Our pro gram and procedures have si 9 The virtues known as; longsuffering. patience, ten derness, amiability, forgivene: s, love, joy and peace, and the Artistic spiritual waves that never cease. 10. Truly then, this is the Art that ALONE ENDURES, that embraces all of Heaven's and peace for strife, health for all from the TREE OF LIFE. 11. Those who want to en joy all-in-one, give themselves to the ETERNAL SON. for with HIM the highest gifts He eternally insures, for He U the sole author of the ART THAT ALONE ENDURES. 12. Thus a Saint who passes on under this glorious array, the officiating Minister has this to say “And I heard a. voice from heaven saying un to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; Yea. saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.’’ - This is the enduring ART that has no end. ways been tempered with pati ence unci moderation. It is in this spirit that we appeal to you not to take recourse ro measures of extreme which in a few years from now Greens boro itself would look back on ' with a sense of shame." The letter commends the lo cal NAACP chapter for with drawing its "insistence upon making further demands for swimming pool integration through court actions." It al.-o declares that .selling of the pool will “only re incite endless counter actions." Its general conclusion is that “a conference table would be a far better thing than a pub lic auction block." Only recently two Tar Reel Cities, Charlotte and Durham, at the behest of prominent business men, set up top-level interracial commissions to sit. down and discuss some of the pressing racial problems of the moment. This idea stemmed from the belief that recent de velopments have broken down white - Negro communications and now threaten to bring tui moil and upheaval in many communities which formerly prided themselves on racial good will. Perhaps Greensboro City same approach. For the issue of harmonious race relations will be around for a long, long time, whether the swimming pools remain open or closed And Greensboro can scarcely allow a policy of drift or de terioration to replace what has been a cooperative and con structive grappling with inter racial problems. In the words of the Chapel Hill News Leader, ‘ No city in North Carolina wants to tee public questions solved by bay onets. The way to avoid them is to meet for mutual infor mation and help.” —Greensboro Daily News, November It. WE NKKD HONEST CON FESSION • American scien tists say Russia’s feat in send ing a second -and bigger Sputnik out into space is not surprising. And, the President himself plans to make a speech aimed at restoring con fidence. It appears now that what A WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1957 JUST FOR FUN BY MARCUS H. BOULWARF M.v Friend Conyard And Homecoming 1 ran into my friend CON YARD on Fayetteville Street last Saturday while waiting to view the Shaw University Homecoming Parade. And it occurred to me that I had’nt seen him since we rode to gether on tire Greyhound bus from New Orleans to Atlanta. We agreed that we would fake over old times at Vic Peebles Case immediately following the football game. CONYARD ex cused himself almost at once Then I turned around just in time to see ADDIE BEE and we clinched mitts. ADDIE: Gee. I read your column last week but I think you left out the PICK-UP WOLF. (But before I could say anything ADDIE BEE showed me a newspaper clipping which read: > “What man needs, says a leading neuro-surgeon, is a tail to wiggle. Some where in the course of evolution we lost our tails, But we still have the compulsion to relieve brain tension at the top end of our spinal colums by wiggling the bottom end. Unfortunately we don’t have the equipment ;o do it.’’ Mil: He's got sumpin there. ANNIE BEK’ The doctor may he right., but if our tails were suddenly returned to us, how would we use them? Would we lash them to show anger, like a cat? Or wag them to show pleasure, like a dog? Or switch flies with them, like a cow 0 Or swing through trees by them, like a monkey? ME; I don’t know, but mak ing a decision like that could hr more frustrating than not having a tail to wave at all. ANNIE BEE: Sorry to move on old pa.l, but I’m parked in a 10-minute zone. AT « T.M SCENE: Peebles Case. As agreed we met as plan ned. I ordered beef liver, French fries, cucumber salad, coffee, potato pie a la. mode CONYARD gave the waitress this order: Here I want, some sandwich humdingers; Along The Colonial Float BY ,1 SH.GINS LONDON, Kr,c;and The famous remark attributed so General Willington when he saw his allies, literally jumps to one’s lips when reading the latest lunacy contributed by U. 8. and British leaders in their Washington talks. A meeting of the heads of governments oi the 15 NATO powers is proposed to discuss plans for an atomic defense of the free world. The big idea j ; to have a stockpile of nuclear and a tornic weapons ready in Eu rope. The force will be com manded by one man who will have authority to use the stockpile if and when occa sion wavant.s. This would mean that the sate of mankind rests upon the judgement oi one man. There is no man on earth fit to have such power and the sooner the people w ho risk such a terrible fate stop this lunacy the better. Just, imagine what would have happened in Korea had General MacXjrthur had such h stockpile! Just imagine a Marshal Juin, with his views regarding Al geria, General Spicdel. tne Nazi general, or our Monty i.he Montobank, with his crazy ideas, left in sole charge of such an awful weapon-pile They could get a little “high”; have a. bad attack of liver after a banquet; a hang over; anything - any one of the thousands and one ills that affect a man’s temper and judgement and, called upon to make a split-second decision he could do anything. He could be framed to do it—there are drugs today that could be placed In his food or drink or Just near him to distort his judgement. In that state of warned mental outlook the generalissmo could destroy the world. Truly little children today •should cry. “Papa. I m Afraid.” as great Russian novelist dr .scribed in his Destruction of the World. What Precisely Is NATO Defending’’ That if) the first question tha people, not the heads of gov ernment like those of Britain and France who hsve already shown they are prepared to re pudiate all moral laws and ti gress when it .suits them-as them as they did over Suez recently, must determine. They arc not defending a free world. That, is a euphem ism made for the consumption of fools. There is not h free world behind the Brltian, French. Belgium. Spanish. Ital ian,, Portuguese, South Airi mericans need is not reassur ing, confidence-building words from scientists ar.d a President. What America needs Is to think a bil about the old saying which tells us that an honest confession is good for soul. It is about time for all Ameri cans to confess honestly that the Russian,', have given us a terrible licking on this Sput nik business and, having made that confession, Raleigh Times, November 9. Rread smeared with cold mashed potato. Bread plastered with cold spaghetti. Ljvervvurst sweetened with raspberry jam. Sliced bananas with mus tard. Just then a female walked in and slapped CONYARD on the shoulder. CONYARD: (to me» Meet m.v best pal. bandy-legged pigeoned-toed SARAH JANE. (I said, “Hi."- SARAH JANE: BEE. my feet, are killing me! And she slipped of her shoes under the table. l thought to myself, “What an unfeminine remark to make." At this moment, the wailress came to take SARAH JANE’s order. SARAH JANE: (To Addie Bee and Me) I must confess I am odd but I’m gonna order my favorite. <To waitress) Make it sliced bananas mixed with lox (smoked, salmon:, crackers, and peanut buttei. (To Addie Bee and Me > If you c;P the bananas n'hxed'wPh crackers and peanut butter that’s good “eatins." Then she added. “Only don’t, use sugar on the bananas—somehow jt just doesn't go." They Less Oh. T forgot to tell you that I whispered to the waitress t.o hold my order until later. When my pals finished their dinner, they paid their bill and rushed out to get some- well. I hardly know how to say it- WHTTE CORN. Don’t ask me. where? Because the law ha re ears, you know. In a few minutes, the wait ress brought my dinner, liver onion -, French, fries, salad and potato® pie a la mode When a boy. I used to be “crazy about liver.” Yes sir, t;r;v knov how tn cook liver at Peebles Case. You don't have to use your knife It’s so tender. That crunchy cucumber salad made me for get my old pals. Come, to think of it, I don'! sec what CON YARD saw on SARAH JANE Well, may' be he’ll tell me sometime. can, Aur-Uaium and. New Zee ■ land mnn rose: There is a slave world be hind these governments. There are scores of .million;, of co lonial people who are am. L ■ • and have no prospect of ever being free from Want, let .’■■ lone politically tree. And they are bound to Wan: because the governments which control them hold them in thrall, by currency and mar keting restrictions, lack of ed ucational facilities, communi cation;-;, and lack of training. And like Canada, Australia and South Africa, they hold vast monopolies of the earth's surface, unable to defend or develop them, but to which starving peoples are denied ac cess. Is all that worth defend ing? Is it right to defend such evils? LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor; T enjoyed the article entitled “Patrolling a Beat" which ap peared in the last Issue of The Carolinian. Reporter Marcu, Boulware did a good lob and i! was a pela.sure to work with him. Sincerely, Tom Davis Chief of Police INSURANCE TIPS by Vextal lemman, Qirtral Mcnftfltf National Atscciofien of Independent Inturern j Why Rate Increases? v ou hear a good bit there days about, rising automobile insurance rate:-. Some people can't undci stand why rate increases are nro etsary. The fact is that most com panies writing ailto umuanco are lining money and have been for strme time. Take the first six months of this year, for example. Some 440 companies which write about half the automobile business in the country led a combined to tal i.f $14:: million! It doesn't take a financial wizard to so« that you con? do business on that basis. Why arc the companies losing money? Well, the cause in a com bination of several things, but geneiolly you can attribute it to these two main items: First, ns a nation we have more drivers, we’re driving more miles, we‘r« having more accidents, and time accidents are more severe. Second, the cost of doing busi ness has sky-rocketed 200 percent since !i)4O. Verdict- in liability suits hove gone up; todtiy it costs twice as much to settle bodily in jury claims ns in 1940. Consider New fork. There the cost-of-liv ing index went up only sU percent between 1940 and 1055, but the average jury verdict, for the plain tiff in the New York Supreme Court zoomed 230 percent.
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