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PAGE FOUR 'tSWrnmsT'%, *Wf»Qirnr Give Until It Hurts Once again the Christmas Seal campaign is underway, and shoppers are being approached on the streets to make voluntary contributions Winn a citizen makes a contribution, volun teer workers pin plastic Christmas Seal emb lems on the coat lapels of the givers. Despite the recent important gains in the .fight against tuberculosis, more than SO,OOO persqns die of the disease annually in the United States. There is no excuse for com placency of the public or for assuming the disease is of little concern to public health. To carry on the fight against tuberculosis, thousands of dollars will be needed to cany on research, to maintain screening servicev, to maintain control services, to pay for the serv ices of medical technicians and reel;! work ers as well as occupational therapists, con Can We Teach Good English? Educators everywhere want to know why our .students can’t writ*- good English.-' Well, they can be taught to write effectively but not with the methods wt now employ. In the average college, fr< shown are required to take an English composition course >.vh eh meets three times a week for three serresU .- hours credit, There are few students who con learn good writing by attending a class the hours a week. Therefore, in order to 1- -h students effective writing, our colleges mi:: , be willing to pay the price. In addition to requiring students to attend three formal class periods each week \v sug gest that average students be required to spend eight hours practicing writing in a writ ing renter where no instructor would have to supervise more than ten students during s ach two-hour laboratory period. In such a sc tting, the English instructor would requirt the stu - dent to revise and revise to the point of actual A Career In Speech Therapv Tt has been around ten years since the first static in the Deep South began a program of speech correction. Tennessee. Florida, and North Carolina led the way. Meanwhile, other states became interested in programs of spe ckri education and enacted legislation to this <>"- icct. The last southern state to enact a. pro* gram of this kind was Mississippi. A Carolinian survey reveals the following facts regarding employment of speech corn < tionists in public schools: Employed st Need in Present Ten Years Alabama ...... ... JOO ._ 30 400 Florida 13c 200 ail::- , Georgia 30 Louisiana . 50 Maryland 90 200 Mississippi 15 too North Carolina 06 200 South Carolina . . 6 Tennessee " 5 116 white 25 Negro 627 1791 ( :i ‘n far-western state) According to findings from the question naires returned, there wen: a total of 81 Negro speech correctiomsts among the 627 employed. We would expect a lesser number of Negro (n the United States, there are dozens of religious cults, including Ml Sinai Holy Church, United House of Prayer for All Peo ple, Church of God (Black Jews), Father Di vine’s Peace Mission Moorish Science, Temple of America, and Washington’s Church of God under the leadership of Elds: Solomon Mieb sux. t Negroes me attracted to these forms of religions for different reasons, but the com pelling forces are the peisonality of a trader, relief from physical and mental illness, the quest for an all-powerful God, and race con sciousness. "There is one main attraction which ■tapds out in all cults, making n kind of com mon bond among them,” says Arthur Huff Faost-t. It is the desire to get closer to some supernatural power, be it God, the Holy Spirit, or Allah. Singing, dancing, shouting and clapping haods are characteristic in the worship of most Negro cults, but the most compelling force is music. Oratory makes the cult leader and is the magic of his drawing power. Sometime it con sists in uttering only a magic word. For ex ample, in the House of Prayer, this magic phrase is “Sweet Daddy Grace.” Without elo quence, the religious movement is a failure. There must be constant preaching to indoc trinate the members. The cult leader must con vince his followers that he knows the way to Gotf. Bishop Charles Manuel Grace, head of the United House of Prayer for all People with ' ~ 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 Matos? Six Months $2.75 .On© Year $4.58 Payable in Advance—Address all communications and rinVe» rM chocks and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate Hatted Newspapers, Inc., 544 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 17, NT. 1. National (Advertising Repre sentative, This newspaper lc not responsible for the return of unsolicited newß, pictures, or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. P. R. IEHVAY, Publisher Alexander Same# , Advertising St Promotion Chas. Jones Nows & Circulation E. R. Swain Plant Superintendent J. C. Washington Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M. Hinton .Office Manager 4,1 by-collin'ns published In this newspaper ue not necessarily those of the p*l»- UCAIIOIL _ - - ___**» 4, -.1,- Sweet Daddy Grace sutants, physicians, and other hospital serv ices. The National Tuberculosis Association must make grants for patient services and library facilities, for nursing scholarships, and foi giving post-graduate training to doctors. ost-isc of t’iic tplsclifisli services of devoted! workers in the field of rehabilitation for tuber cular patients, thousands of individuals have returned to take again their place in society. If the work of the National Tuberculosis Association is to continue on a gigantic scale, th< widow's mite will not be enough. We must dig deep down into our pocketbooks and pull out one of Ihe bills we have reserved to buy a fifth of scotch. Wc must give to this worthy cause until it hurts. It aiming how to write. Such a plan would require a student to re in -n in a course in writing until he can write. For many students, this would require » period of three years. Next, we recommend that no English com i isition instructor be required to teach more than four classes of ten students each during a S!t! gle semester. This would permit the Eng lish teacher to become “a drill sergeant” if necessary. Finally, wt reconimtno that in each Eng r.sl classroom there be placed ten small writ ing tables with three drawers where students may place their unfinished work. The room should b<- elaborately equipped with encyclo pedias. dictionaries, magazines of all kinds, newspapers, publications on current questions, reference manuals, and what-have-you. Our attack on the poor English problem cannot be “mealy mouth.” We must back up the attack with sputnik thrust and blitzkrieg. therapists, since the non-white population rep resents from 20 to nearly 50 per cent respec tively, sn the total population of the several states in the South. In North Carolina, for example, a total of 66 persons are employed as speech correction i-u.:-. Forty-nm; of these individuals render - rvtc< nr the while schools, while 17 are em ployed sn Negro schools. The trend is indeed encouraging as we look back nine years ago, the time win n the program started. At that tim<. five persons were beginning speech ther apy in tiro public schools. Os these five in dividuals. two were Negroes. Many of the directors of special education in the South have stated that many more Ne gro speech therapists would he employed in .hr public schools if qualified persons could be found. Although movement toward complete desegregation ol our schools is exceedingly slow, the time will come when Negro speech corrcctionists will not be confined to schools for non-whites. Therefore, it behooves more young people to begin serious thinking in this direction. They must move into new jobs and new lines of activity like speech therapy, be cause at present we have a large over-supply ol elementary and secondary sthool teachers. .We urge mentally gifted and capable young high school graduates to consider this pro fession as a career. headquarters in Washington, D C,, visited Ra leigh last Friday night. For twenty-seven years, he has beaded this organization and his followers call him “Daddy.” Ric Roberts of the Pittsburgh Courier has written: “Rallying around their ‘Sweet Daddy’ Grace are reputed ly more than two million followers who are reverently certain that this man was chosen ‘by appointment of God’ to stand apart from all mortals,” Sweet Daddy Grace has built his evangelis tic movement on the technique of mixing pa geantry, parades, music, uniforms, and open door invitations. The Grace organizations re port more than 25,000 members in New York City: 25,000 in Newport News, Virginia: 10,000 at Norfolk, Virginia; 120,000 in thirty-one North Carolina cities: and 25,000 in Savannah, Georgia, where the: Bishop owns a palatial sum mer home. The Bishop attracts people's attention by employing assembly-line methods in his mass baptisms. Fire department units drench his converts, with water under the blessed admin - istration of Daddy Grace. If: is reported that Bishop Grace was born in Portugal and speaks with a Latin inflection. He makes an unusual presence on the platform with his almost shoulder-length hair. Daddy is persuasive and sometimes asks his members • to ask him questions. During his sermons in the summers, he often sheds his coat as he warms up. His sermons consists mostly of shouting questions with the congregation re plying in unison. This Vicious Curse On Si. S. World Leadership Must Be Destroyed. jklfmglsnl BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For AMP CHRISTMAS 1. This year, as we face the Yule tide, we wish that a more lasting Peace could abide . . . for while we do not have a shooting war. there are thing going on that earnest citizens and Christians abhor. 2. In the Holy Lands today, there is not the peace and har mony that, once held sway, but out of a desire for things ma terial, there could come at- any time a situation most critical, 3. Other nations with fat more have met their doom by allowing the principles of the Holy Savior to be forgotten too soon; and all others who foi low this line soon of later are sure to meet with the same ill-fate. 4. This should cause even rational human being to won der, how such as we are could make such a blunder, and so soon forget the mystery of that STAR that pointed the way to man's redemption and the healing of every scar. 5. The mystery of this Star is beyond all human under standing, for it embraces man kind in its intricate blending What OLfcsr Editors Say ABROAD - BUT NOT AT HOME All hell broke loose when an American soldier ac cused of killing a Japanese woman was turned over to the court pt Japan for trial. Speeches were made by high anl low United States officials demanding that American sol diers be protected. The Elsenhower Administra tion and the State Department were accused of playing poli tics with the life of an Ameri can soldier. Passions rose and tempers grew red-hot. It was urged that the full resources of the country be used to pre vent injustice to a single sol dier in uniform of his coun try. Some were willing to go lu war if necessary. It now appears that this same government is unable to give protection to Negro soldiers m the South. The Defense De partment declared that it can protect Negro soldiers with white wives so long as they are on the military base, but when they get off the reserva tion they are at the mercy, of the local authorities. So far as is publicly known, no loud voices ascend heaven ward to protect tire lives of Ne gro soldiers wearing the uni form of their country.- The Philadelphia Inquirer. Dec 2. EDITOR DEFENDS JUVE NILE POLICY-We have had several challenges on our pol icy about naming Juveniles in stories reporting police nnrl court action. Many feel that, to name the youngsters involv ed in delinquency will help put a break on such activities. Oth ers feel that they're only kids and ought not to be given a bad reputation in public. Hut whether the newspaper uses the names or not, the facts in the case and the per sons involved are usually spread about the city by word of mouth. Most authorities in the field say that with the rising Juve nile crime rate, it is time to name names. We have decided on the fol lowing policy, and neither pleas from parents, threats from ad THE CAROLINIAN . . . making man the bene ficiary of Justice, Mercy. Love, Peace and Grace; all of the.se heavenly benefits reflected in its face. t>- Christinas, therefore is not just, another holiday ... it too magnificently arranged just to be allowed to slip away - . all heaven was astir over its proclamation, for it provided the key to man's Redemption. 7. And, if mankind now would envision it with spirit ual sight, it would prove the panacea for every sad plight; for just as the Magi were led to the Christ child, His power and dominion would destroy all things vile. 8. Thus each successive Christmas, to you should have a deeper, fuller meaning if ar dently you study this Star in deep devotion and heavenly feeling. 9. The earth will then ap pear at rest, as on that Holy, Silent. Night, when misunder standing, doubt and fear ware overtaken by a heavenly sight; then only those who were dep utized could come close to this ver Users nor any sort of pve aure will succeed in moving us from it since our only defense is consistency. If offenders arc under 18 years of age, we will nor, report their names the first time they are involved with the police or the courts. On a sec ond or subsequent, offense, their names wiil be printed. We will print all the names of in dividuals involved in disciplin ary action who are 18 years cf age or over. Please remember that we have said this in advance. Don't make it difficult for the editor or yourself by asking us to do otherwise. Remember, we don’t make the news; we only print it, - Galena (111.) Gazette. STUDYING FOR POLITI CAL CAREER—Everyone wiio has tried to counsel high school and. college students in the matter of focusing their stud ies iri the direction of a career of politics has run up against the protest: “You can't stay honest and stay iri politics.'’ Perhaps as high as nine out oi ten students who seem to have the abiity and the bent to pub lic life will give this answer. That explains a lot. One of the troubles steers from the malodorous hangover from the days of the air-tight city political machines. Pre cinct and ward structure in the county and state organiza ion had (and often has to THE PULPIT VOICE Ky HAMILTON T. BOSWELL HOPK FOR THE FUTURE The word “expectancy” best expresses the meaning of the Advent season which are these .several days prior to Christmas Day. The period of Advent which the Christian Church observes each, year, is cut from the garment of those anxious and seeking days, which the pre-Christian world underwent before tire coming of Jesus. glorious scene, for they alone were qualified to determine all that it did mean. 10. Since then its significance has been scattered abroad, for many were blessed to behold our Savior and Lord. . . . they have studied His doctrines and walked by His side, acted friendly towar d Him and false* faces tried to hide; but now can we boast of learning the essential lesson, with wars and rumors ol' wars and Race hate dissentfon? 11. What could the Blessed Savior think of all of this if he should return to witne** this grime and grist, with His noble teachings almost for; oi tsn and mankind's sores of false pride festering and rot telling? 12. That STAR still radiate* Heavenly Glory, and reveals to man the Old, Olu Story, re minding him of an eternal Jove, at the price of His Kingdom He left above; this act marked the beginning of this gruesome contrast, which in Bethlehem’s Manger produced our HOLY CHRISTMAS. day s away of staying in the grip of one well oiled machine which raw that onij the 'tight’ people had a chance to work up through the party ranks. Partly that explains why so many cities dropped the politi cal party government in favor of city management by paid and trained career men. His torically this loss of .the two party political structure is re grettable since party principles arid discipline counted largely in building and shaping the philosophy behind. Our Ameri can Dream. Possibly the stature of men Sn political life like Senator John F. Kennedy of Ma.- chusetts, and there are .many coming up in both parties, will refurbish the idealism and hon * or associated with public lito in the days of our founding fathers. More, however, in a positive way Is demanded. Idealism waned in politics as it did in labor unionism be cause the rank and filers quit. To play defeatist, and cry 'shame 1 , is always an easier way out Iran to attend pre cinct and ward meeting*, serve on committees, ring doorbells, publicize issues, and get our the registration and v. • i-i long run everyone of us John Q. Citizens arc at fault for the current low repute of poli tics and politicians. North Car olina Catholic, Nov .22, And to a large segment of that early world, Jesus came as the answer to the great expectan cy of the promised Messiah, a non of David who would save the people from their defeats and restore them to a. larger life. Arid to millions upon mil lions Jesus has si pee been the saviour and hope’ of this life and also the life to come. He is everywhere become the shin- WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1957 BY MARCUS 11, BOUUV.UU. SWEET DADDY GRACE Cornyard telephoned me last Friday that Sweet Daddy Grace would be the House ot Prayer that night and asked me to meet him there sometime;, be tween 7:30 and 8:30 o'clock in the evening. “Cornyard, I don’t think I'm up to it—you know how slow these Raleigh buses are. Can't wo call it off?" I said. Cornyard emphasized that I just couldn't afford to miss the occasion be cause it would be a religious experience. CORNYARD: "DOC lt wouldn't be any trouble. I'll send Loretta (his sister) to pick you up." Wel'i. 1 don’t believe we have mentioned Loretta before ;» this column. So lei me intro duce you to her. In the J 1 , place, she is a cool and non chalant personality who bub bles over with vivacity and en thusiasm. (I’m finding it dif ficult to describe her.) She has a vibrant and charming voice “that sends you. fellows." And although sophisticated she easily “comes out of her ivory tower." Fellows she is a teasing Brown who looks very appeal ing in most any attire. When she drove me to the House of Prayer her black coat,suit (or was it dark blue?) molded 3nd held her in the prettiest pos sible lines. The outfit played up her natural coloring and did not, overpower the wearer. In short she wore the La Mar lene Diet-rich look. For some reason, I'm bashful in her pres ence. XT WOULD HAVE BEEN different if Cornyard had sent Annie Belle to drive me, and no doubt I would have said. “I'm too tired to go." Cornyard and 1 just tell Annie Belle where to get off, and she un derstands us, too. But don't for get it, Annie Belle speaks her mind. Whenever she doe-. Cornyard and I “tuck in our tails and run for cover.” To make a long story short, Loretta dropped me off at Bis hop Grace’s House of Prayer, but no amount, of persuasion could induce her to go inside with me. She tooted her horn and zoomed off. You see-—fho word moves on! Did I take Loretta to the Debutante Ball No T was too slow in extending the invita tion. and she went to the ball with a distinguished escort I immediately went in mid sat beside Cornyard who - already there waiting Mr;:; others were waiting, too, for Sweet Daddy Grace to make hi*, appearance. G o rdo n B. Hancock *& BETWEEN the LIES TtVO GREAT MISTAKES OF THE SOUTH When I was a student in Col gate University we had a pro fessor of Philosophy who hud an impediment of speech. But once he had wanned up to his lectures the impediment left him, and his lectures were great and inspiring. Quite well do I remember one morning., when his lecture touched upon the question of slavery in the South. He told how the Dutch trad ers sailed up the James river and sold « tew ..laves, to the Virginia planters. The trade seemed to the Dutch ir a dors and the Virginia planters a perfectly innocent and legiti mate transaction; but said the professor the moment the trade was consummated they had sown the seeds of the Civil War which swept away so much, of the flower of American man hood and brought ind< scrib ing hope for the future! The similarity between thore ancient days of hope and ex pectancy and the uncertainty and hopelessness of our woriel today is amazing to say the least. There has come up on the horizon of the life of Amer ica a great- fear and at the same time a hope for a measiah who can save us from the dan gers of the future. In light of the recent illnr ~ of President Elsenhower, tit ere has started a great, sea re h for leadership for the nation. Some are openly saying that the President ought to resign and let Nixoh take over, for to them Nixon is become the sym bol of hope. Each of the major political parlies is search in,: desperately for potential pru dential candidates tor 1900. There in the call for a "cm 1 ' to conttol the Missile program in which we. are so far behind Russia. And never before- does it seem that America is so be reft of leadership, men of pow er and courage, who as Roose velt during the Second World War, could personify the hope of the American people and unify them for the task at hand. The period of Advent which the Christian Church observe-: each year is strangely parallel to the great expectancy which facer, our national life to day. There, arc some lessons from those ancient days before the birth of Jesus which are mean hu-ful to us today. The first lesson is that the answer to our besetting problems may not be the answer for which we are looking. In the meantime, approxi mately 45 young whites entered the House of Prayer and were assigned seats by the ushers. Cornyard remarked, "What do they want here? 1 guess the.y- Te just being curious.” Later, we learned that they were a class taking a course in religion at Duke University. When given ah opportunity to say something, their professor asked Sweet Daddy Grace to tell them something about him self, how he was born, and would he live forever. Hi -hop Grace answered the first question by saying that he didn't know about his birth be cause he was a baby then; he told nothing about himself, but intimated that he would live in eternity. (Cornyard chuckled at this answer, for Sweet Dad dy Grace is no fool). During the service prior to the advent of Bishop Grace, the meeting was featured with hiincidivoing in answer to a questioner who asked the con gregation if they were glad to have Daddy Grace come to Ra leigh. But the thing that im pressed Cornyard and me most was the music. Members inarched and shouted to the rhythm They rocked their bodies in complete abandon to the notes of the piano. The minister Cl guess I'm u- :vt the correct term' who played the piano had an unusual sense of rhythm and he played it with so much feel ing that the keys si emed to jump from the keyboard, clash in mid-air, only to drop down again, (You know something, Cornyard bobbed and weaved iris head, and I patted my foot as if Fats Domino was there.) One thing I like about the House of Prayer, there is no room for any dry bone religion. The compelling force is music, and the in to-resting thing about the player was that he picked up hto melody according to the key of the singers. Bishop Grace, when he ap peared, made an impressiv* figure. My mind, recalled ttu Prophet Isaiah, for the bis hop’s chants were comfortin'; and persuasiv". I too, was car ried away by his angelic and eodly presence. His oratory effectively delivered by a pnwv of questions and answer's b>- tween himself end the m - her*. F"s <>:•■ imp's\ he s' 1 calmly'. “If you v-v-s to 1 somethurr that r ! v :<• e-p r you. ask me. 1 I’. 1 • G” Vvs iff); v-ton [',>-> >}■ ■ '• versify cGra .vs *' ■ a■ ; cli ft kn - > : their \v • v to is - Cornyard --no ? rr >v .1 c to the night In silence. able suffering to our nation. As he pictured the fatal re sults of what he called a greet mistake he was overcome with, emotions, as he reflected upon the great tragedy that was the Civil War, Today our nation ill general, and the South m particular are torn over tha question of segregation and the concomitant question of inte gration. And when we reflect cm how easily our present tensions could have been averted, wo can all the more clearly appre ciate the tragedy that la upon us. Just as the mistake of trad ing slaves brought great sor row and df.iira,s to the nation, so the South’s failure to live up to its “separate but equal" opportunity offered by the Su preme Court. Once the South through tha dupremc Court’s decision had gained precious time in in dealings with the color ques tion, it went straightway about, Us business of putting si! the .stress on Use “separate" and none on the "equal'’ aspects ol the Court’?, ruling. For quit# half a, century the South’s ma jor emphasis was on keeping the races separate, but then wore only token attempts t<) make facilities equal and es pecially the school laeilitles. The wide disparities between expenditures fer Negroes -is contrasted with expenditures for whites caused little or no concern. The Nejrroes* accom modations were grossly unequal and us a result the Negroes were retarded. When the ques tion of integration arises one of the most prevalent argu ments of the ssjerr mtlontsts is the matter of the Negress’ re tardnlimi. and this is n- d -is an argument again?!', nil:"’,ra tion. where alone the Negro has a chance to have equal school facilities', It has been proved time and again that separate facilities um hardly be equal. Wh.cn NV r> i" were forced to law, to teat the great discrim Inin tlnn in facilities, the South weal about bettering Negro facilities almost feverishly. Had this been clone without litigations, matters would have been bt ttev; and the probabili ties of litigation would have been {'really reduced. The Smith's mistake of putting all its emphaSis on the "separate” and. little or none on the •equal” in a previous decision by the United States Supreme Court;, is ‘one of the direct calicos of the present impasse in race relations. A fairer up parlsal of the rnarate but equal’’ decision would have ob viated in many ways our cur rent troubles,