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PAGE FOUR fsimrnriL Doing More Than Required Rtmrmbrr the words of the Lord Jesus how hr said: "It is more blessed to give than to receive. ’ Here is a business principle, seem ingly—at first—impracticable. Js a man a fool to let these words be a guid ing influence in his life? Absolutely not! Mankind came periously near to losing those words. They are not recorded in any one of the four Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all forgot them. “All very nice to talk about giving instead of getting,” thought Mat thew perhaps. “It may work in religion, but it s no good in the tax collecting business.” "A splendid thought,” John may have said to himself, “a very noble sentiment, but not quite practical in the fishing industry." Maybe the gospel writers imagined that the Master had made a mistake, or that they had heard Him incorrectly. At any rate they all omitted the statement from the biographies they wrote. But the Apostle Paul did not for get them, because he heard the words drix! remembered to record them. He understood the significance of these inspiring words. "It is more blessed to give than to receive.*' Are they empty words? Certainly not! Take for example, Hiawatha’s Shoe Shop In Montgomery, Alabama. In 1937, h® started out in a dilapidated building located over a branch not far from Alabama State College. He soon began the practice of giving a ticket which entitled the customer to ten free shoe shines whenever he had his shoes half-soled and included new rubber heels. Within a short time, this unrequired service brought him hun What’s All The Shouting About? The South, according to crime statistics, is the most violent pan. of the country. In his book Southern Accent, William T. Polk, Associate Editor of the Greensboro Daily- News, humorously states, “‘Southerners don’t waste their violence on strangers; they reserve it for their friends and relatives.” He goes on to say that Negro violence ra ses the South's rate materially from what it would be otherwise. Mr. Polk cites statistics to show that, in 1940 for example, Negro homicide rate was from five to ten times white rates. We must not accept this conclusion without carefully analyzing the situation. The relation of crime to race presents a deli cate and complex problem that has not been fully explored. It is closely tied to the preju dices that exist between, racial groups and to the reflection of those prejudices in the admin istration of criminal justice. If we want to discuss crime with reference to race in the Unites* States —or the South, for that matter—we must take into account the fact that the whites are the dominant group, both among law-abiding bodies and among public officials that administer the law. Studies based on statistics of arrests and convictions therefore may give a false impres sion of the relative criminal behavior of dif ferent racial groups. The white policeman and the white judge may deal more hardly with a member of another race than with a white offender. White legislators may make laws di rected specifically at the activities of another race that are not regarded by members of that race as criminal. It is generally accepted now that no race has an inherent tendency toward antisocial or criminal behavior, and that all races have the same array of traits and capacities. Whether all these races have these attributes in the same proportion is still a moot question, but It is probable that they do and that seeming dif ferences are the result of social experiences the began at birth and that influence their de velopment and expression. Hence, we shall ex pect to find most if not all of the explanation of differences in criminal behavior between mcee m social influence rather than in inborn Our Schools Move Ahead When 18 Megro colleges were accepted into full membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools which con vened in Richmond, Virginia, the first week in December, they passed another milestone in the long, uphill climb to first-class institu tions of higher learning. These 18 colleges were saleoted from an eligible list of twenty-six. Beginning as early as 1930 when Fisk Utri vemty was accredited by the SACSS’s affiliat ed non-white organisation, Negro colleges have been striving to expand and improve their plants end faculties, to secure more qualified faculty members, and to attract more men tally gifted, capable, and talented students. Asa result, the SACSS by 1956 had accepted as members 63 Negro institution# in affiliat ed, all-colored organisation. For the achievement of full membership in the SACSS, the 18 Negro college* deserve com mendation. We also salute the other 8 insti tutions on the eligible list, because it has been, learned upon good authority that they will soon be accorded membership on a gradual and progressive basis. In our own state, North Carolina College and Bennett College achieved full- membership , atatus, while Barber-Scotia College at Concord 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 fieriest Si* Month* $2.71 Ono Year S4.SO Payable in Advance-—-Address all communications and raaVe ell rherics and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINI AN. Interstate United Newspaper*, Ino., 544 Fifth Avenae, Jf, Y. 17, N. Y. National Advertising Repre sentative. This newspaper is not responsible tor the return of wnaaiiehed news, pictures, or advertising cop? unless necessary postage accompanies the Copy. ?. «. fEfiVAY, P»bH«lt«r Alexander Barnes Advertising & Promotion Chas. Jones News <$ Circulation E. R. Swain Plant Superintendent J. C. Washington ................................ Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M. Hinton ... Office Manager Opinions earp-sswsd .paWttihed t« fete oewspeper *«» not neceeuirily those of (the pub lication. dreds of new customers. Today, his shop is lo cated in a brick building and there arc several shoe repairmen working in the business. Yes, “H is more blessed to give than to receive.” In Madison, Wisconsin, a man started a laundry in a small building. He instituted free delivery services at no extra charge: sewed on buttons, turned shirt collars, mended socks and shirts, and patched holes. Soon people began to take their laundry to this new es tablishment, because it gave them something that the other laundries didn't. If offered ad ditional services which were free. In short, it was operating on the philosophy that “it is more blessed to giv* than to receive.” Many Negroes arc hired in numerous capaci ties and in many vocational areas. Occasion ally, they are called upon to perform some service not listed in their line of duty. Perhaps, they arc asked ro wash the dishes for a fellow worker who is late in reporting on his job. Too many of us take this opportunity to say, “That's Johnny Street’s job. let him do his own work. He should be here, and it’s time for me to punch my time card.” Yes, this is the attitude of far too many people. Remember that individuals, who do no more than they are paid to do, never get paid for any more than they do. “It is more blesed to give than to receive," At this time of the year, most of us arc won dering what we are going to get for Christ mas, But the important question, What do you plan to give? characteristics. Take “Burma Road” on East Davie Street in Raleigh for an example. Official studies of both juvenile delinquency and adult imprisonment generally show a higher rate of offense for Negroes than for whites. In the summaries of numerous re searches made by Frazier and Axclrad, it is shown that Negro children are Drought before juvenile courts and are institutionalized 3 or 4 times as often as white children, in propor tion to the number of each group in the popu lation. As among white children, boys greatly ex ceed tin girls in delinquency. Negro children become officially delinquent at a somewhat earlier age than do white children, which may indicate either that they actually escape fam ily supervision earlier or that the police pick them up for minor misconduct at an age when they would overlook similar misconduct in white children. Adult crime rates for Negroes exceed those tor whites, as judged by commitments to pris on. Undoubtedly this excess in Negro rates ss partially derived from discrimination by the courts, and inability of the Negro to em ploy adequate legal, counsel or inability to pay’ fines and thus avoid prison sentences. Certain studies show that when a Negro offends against a white person, the percentage of convictions tx much greater than when a Negro offends against a Negro, or a white offends against a white. The lowest percentage of convictions in southern states occurs when a white offends against a Negro. Encouraging, however, is the fact that there Is a trend toward less discrimination in length of prison sentences, but a greater proportion of Negroes who commit homicide receive the death sentence than is true for whites. We are not saying that Negroes should not be punished for crimes they commit, nor are we saying that Negroes are less criminal than other groups. We must not accept that “Negroes are more criminal than whites” at face value. Let us do some critical thinking and interpret crime studies more objectively. made the eligible iist. These institutions de serve our moral support. But. what should concern North Carolinians more at this time is the plight of the following private colleges that are pushing ahead to get on the eligible full-membership list: Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, Shaw University, St. Augustine’s College, Kit* troll College, and Immanuel Lutheran Col lege. (We have purposely omitted the state and municipal colleges for obvious reasons). To get on the list for full membership, these private and church-related colleges must spend hundreds of thousands of dollars which they do not have at present. We suggest that the Negro citizens of North Carolina give them the support they need. According to the latest census, the Negro population in this state is 1,047,353. Easily 750,000 of this number are adults. If every adult Negro reaches down in his pocket and contributes on the average of $5.00 a year, these North Carolina private col leges would have $3,750,000 added to their budgets each year. And in this way, they could qualify for full membership. North Carolina needs everyone of these col lege's, but begging won’t keep them open. We must pay for what we need. The Removal Os These Obstacles May Be The Answer jnkldjfljfkldnjk SEITEIGE SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP It VOl HAVE GOD, WHY FRET? 1. Yes, how profound amt everlastingly- true, that if we have, and hold ou to God, there is nothing more one needs to do . . . and certainly no cause to fret . . . for who ever perpetrates an unfair aci on such an one, it becomes his debt. 2. Yes, unfair deeds are like planted seeds which perhaps look much alike, but when Nature adds her mysterious touch they have to come out right; so if seeds of unkind ness are placed in life’s soil, they are certain to germinate as so much worthless spoil. 3. Mankind for the most part has been known to handit moral seeds very carelessly, but care not later to face tire fruit age most unsightly, and be cause of such treatment a they continue lo sow. they re • fleet a depraved nature as on life’s way they go. 4 Even the atmosphere r> their account seems surcharged with hate that continues to mount, and lowering clouds of What Oilier Editors Say WHERE DOES TOLERANCE BEGIN, ls propounding a po licy of racial segregation in the public schools "illegal” in the United States? Under the First Amended! it is not so defined any more than are views to the contrary. But that was not the case in Chicago, 111., the other day. George Ltehner, 18, a junior in Choraas Kelly High School, and 13 classmates petitioned the principal in favor of racial se gregation, asking that the hCi cugo Board of Education adopt segregation as a policy. The result was do casting. The principal suspended Lichner l'or two weeks and each of the oth er signers for one week. Lich ner was then arrested, charged with disorderly conduct and re leased on $lO bond. A boy s court judge ordered him held for psychiatric examination end put him under court supervi sion for one year. When does the expression of an opinion become ‘'disorderly conduct”? The high school prin cipal feared Lichner's petition would cause racial trouble: he notified police as a precaution. Bbut. there was no overt disor der! iness on the part of Lichn* r. He was epxressing an opinion in the age-old tradition of A mertcan free speech. These are times when nar row-mindedness and intoler ance can pose as open-minded ness and tolerance—on both sides. Where does one end and the other begin? Even the Chi cago Tribune is disturbed: All this is unpleasantly sug gestive of situations elsewhere in which spokesmen for minor ity views are restrained on the specious plea that the mere ex pression of their opinion is in itself a disturbance of the pence. --Greensboro Daily News INVESTMENT IN GOOD WILL Los Angeles’ Leading Citizen contest is a new kind of a contest in which the winner gets his satisfaction from nam ing a student to receive a schol - arship at one of our leading u ni versifies. It turns out that, the real be neficiary isn't the winner of the contest but the student. Were being told on every hand those THE CAROLINIAN dissatisfaction worn of on coming storm* of death and humiliation. 5. But ah, what bright; hope when great souls are found, whose heads are raised far a bt've the ground .. . v ; a <> think only of God and Ills way of life and work to banish the sword and bloody strife. 6. Yea, souls who study God and want all of Him . . . who like Saints of old, fcsrive to con quer sin; who think not; in terms; of worldly things, but sacrifices to help folks war heavenly gains. 7. While doing this, one can’t fret, fact he has no time while dealing with spiritual things so high and sublime; for he constantly thinks of the great debt for him paid, and the countless blessings on his soul overlaid. 8. These gifts of Heaven are so transcendency higher than any emoluments of Satan with liis final destructive fire, for ihe followers of God will never have need to “FRET”, but the devotees of Satan are constanf y faced with remorse and re gret, says that our great need is op poftunit fur study by gifted stu dents. It strikes us that tho Old Charter Company which spon sors the contest end Charles Williams, its public relations man who conceived the idea, deserve community congratu lations. We can’t think of a better in vestment in community good will then providing funds for the education of a student. - CaHforonia Eagle. HOW ONE SPENDS MONEY AS IMPORTANT AS EARNING IT—The Power oif Money? One of our most vivid boyhood re , collections is a speech I heard in Sumter, S. C., more than 45 years ago. The speaker was George W. Murray a tall, hand ■ some, dark brown man who had for a short time served as a Congressman from South Caro lina during the Rvcontruction era. Gordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN the LINES l ater Than We Thought When we had. exploded our atom bomb our hapless Iliro .shi fa and Nagasaki, and brought an abrupt, end. to World War 11, our nation took on an air of complacency that, was not dictated by wisdom. It. was not long before Russia had sxuloded tm atom bomb. We consoled ourselves with Uie thought that Russia some how, by foul means, had com'' into possession of our secret of know-how. And then we ex ploded our hydrogen bomb, and ail too soon Russia had also exploded a hydroen bomb, and there was also talk of having hsima and Nagaskai, and More recently Russia has launched a spatial nattelite but we can hardly claim that Russia stole our secrets of launching- a satellite for the reason we have not launched one. We have made the grade mistake of underrating Russia and its scientists; and now we 9. See how vividly this truth is verified in Proverbs 24: 19- 20. “Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious of the wicked; Far there shall be no reward to tire evil man; the candle of the wicked shsli be put out,” 10. Just think what a tra gedy could come to our dark world today, with wicked mt n who know how to pray, and moping .mound with just a burnt down candle coon to go out, and Satan and his imps ready to .viebiaie with a hi larious shout. 11. For such as this, cer tainly no Christmas would fen - felt his eternal bliss . . . and to he sure, he would not FRET, but for such unfortunate crea tures would suffer deepest re gret. lit If a Christian, do you realize how unfortunate you are, to have Jesus ms- your Savior and your bright and morning Star? who dissipates with His power and light, every shadow o fregret, and whisper, "come close my dear one, and. there will be no cause to FRET,” He was an eloquent speaker with a big voice and a burning desire to raise standards of his sorely prosecuted people in tha Deep South Recently tug words of wisdom, have been going through my mind almost con stantly bs I reflect on what Ne groes must, do to become a more powe r ful force in the economy of this m oney-made nation, Ha saw then, as few Negroes understand today, that the way money is spent is as important as earning it. In fact, the real value o! money is in its use. Mr. Murray tried to teach his people that basic fact 50 years ago. Be declared before hundreds of au diences thai a dollar had a dou ble value when wisely spent, it first value was to secure the im mediate needs and wants of its owner. Its second ami perhaps greatest value was with whom and where it was spent. are panicky in away that does not. become a great nation such as ours, Panic among pygmies is quite natural, but not among giants. We are beginning to take seriously the ability of the Russian scientists; for it was later than we thought. Today we are frantically seeking to give science a more prominent place in our curricular but the great scientists we produce to morrow will not help us today, and today we are locked in mortal combat with an unre lenting foe. Again wo still cling to tho notion that by spending large amounts of money we can get done the job that we want done. It is the belief of this writer that lavish spending of our billions ami our current emphasis on more scientific training will not guarantee the survival of our nation as we know it. The Russians not only spend WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. DECEMBER 21, 195/ BV M.UK.U H. BO I?LW ARE Gorn.yard Wants Used Car 2-3 y friend Con yard wanbs to buy a. used o. since h doesn’t have the money »> buy a new one. But 1 1: ;v, adv! d him not to buy on Who am I to Ml a man what to do with Hus GW't MONEY 0 If Corny arci ven*; that 195 0 Fcsrd, tit-, it I ha %e --nothlng to do \v ! ih it?” y u say. Well maybe not but T, can't let thaw hound-dog u;»d car dealers dump a lot of tin junk on Cornyard. The 1 , il ruin hun. DON’T WORRY ABOUT what I Know about. ksmil* hand automobiles. It's heap plem'y, and 1 harned It tm; hard v. ,\y in 1949 whh .a ur.hl Bt’iick Century sedan Hiie law est. ten years old at the turn-. Well. U. w.is like tliis Y’hih; in Madis. n, Wisconsin ir, 3949, I bought tills tnt trap ,« > that I might commute nightly from Oscar Mayer Com; any !o Badger .Wiscor.rin, each nirdifc after £ get off from vr-nu Guess what? Three days after 1 hud bought the car, the dam thing “threw a piston rod through the block.” The dealer 1 nought if, from said I needed a new .F,ra Rail engine <s4lfi.o£> > Tim, like that—to me a student. You know what 1 told him?-- “Put it in the tvvrehbuu; and let it rot,'’ Thai; was in Jim?. BY AUGUST Si), I had accu mulated enough monvj’ to rc> to Milwaukee and buy a new engine black, piste us and rings, new crank shaft, and "Gol knows what else.” it cost $235. Next. I shipped these pairs to Bnraboo, Wisconsin to the garage at a cost of Mb SI. When the garage people fin ished with rebuilding the mo tor. they said that they h<t4 to Post’s Corner OLD AGE Oh! Backward, turn : The years of fry life. Where there was no person But me and ruy wife And she was contented With simplest things She din not require me To give diamond rings. 11l fart we were lumpy The band that I hold Has or. the third iv v A band of plain gold. A gift from me to her As this life begun Tin;a God filled my wishes ' Ho gave me a son. Six more of such bit-sing.? ,T h. d in this world Ami chief of the number A darling sweet glri. The times I have seen hev Asleep in £;er crio Her golden huh ohininu Her chin on her bib. My chest would swell proudly, 11 should hav*. been I thought 1 was strum, uut In tact, I V,.!-; vv, To educate seven 1 My duty became. Their needs were apparent I had none, to name. ‘i U ;i; •! Was heavy those days But I had joy remind In numerous ways: A wife, rearing children With never * waste- That brought me home e»,-us ings With pleasure and haste. My daughter I met ot The end of each My And clasping my hand she Says’ "Papa let’s skip”. Although my poor body Was tired and cold It was to me “Heaven” Her hand, just, to hold. Time passing has dwarfed me In body-—Not Soul* There's two that I love ir The “Heavenly” fold, I feci U is tragic My el ■' lai i: t. Brew To man and to womanhood Leaving me so. I do net want, pity My age I enjoy With ail I thought witty Since being a boy. There’s beauty around me I'm sura J. know Bi& With no education I win in the suite. There’s pleasure aboundiuug Both women and men But where is my baby To skip with avaia. Now! there ere none with me “Just me and the wife” Oh! Backward, turn backward The years of my life, A.K.Y. great sums on the advance ment of science and they not only emphasise the great piece that science must necessarily hold in the great tcmiornm, even as it plays a great part in our great today, the strength of Russia lies in the fact time Russians believe in commun ism. And until we believe in de mocracy as fervently and as enthusiastically as the co n munlsts believe in foura , m, we are at a great disathm in this stuigfili! for sureiv d and in our competition wuti communism. It is bard to de feat a fellow who behoves in his cause. ‘ v.«. 11, "! ► Ouiftttid pare (LIARS». The lAbor cost sl2s.oo—makii--- a GRAND TOTAL of $484.63. In late October, I seamed a job in Cuarlotif, c. and I left that old Belly Ache in Wire;-min until the next sum mer, B.v the next summer I had paid off the 12 payments and then refinanced the car so I could get. it out of the iiiiOjp. WEXI,, SIR! Before the car run 100 miles. I rolled it in the Aco Euick Company in Madi son to have the transmission and rear ei.d overhauled. How much did it cost? Just $132.00 —that’s all. Two weeks later all four wheels needed new bearings. '.537.04'. Guess what Corayard said " 1 told him this long, sad story about my being a chump ’•Don’t hand me that jive,” ha ;-:u;U. “I gotta have some rub ber or lose Annie Belle. Ono cod fcrawnadtin papa done tola hvx all she gotta do i s say the word—.slie can have a sharp c<n;\ rrtible all. of her own,” Hath of them birds must fcs ;• . •- -what, they see on An* • «io Belle is beyond me. YOU KNOW WHAT? Corn* yard went and bought that i 960 Ford. And I read in tins papers where the dealer got picl.M up for not having any }::cri,,,* Da 1 pity Corayard? 'Mud Gum, No, mid Blast his hide! '.'his morni-Ag Corayard c or. ;.o u; and said the car won't pa.-.-, in:-; action. I need $51.d2 to fix it so it will pass, Yf.on’ you lend it to me? ATE; Dud Gum,--No! CO IIN YARD; Well. whfl-tj. hbor.n Annie Belle? She’s dnv*• tag me cmy. NTS: I hope she does. Cth tN'YARD; If 1 can't have Annie Belle, I’ll kill myself spate out thirty-eight specie! and points towards head). MY: iPleading, NO-NO Mo- you can’t do that!) Hero is $52.00. (Corn yard wins), Dud Gum his hide. I LETTER TO THE EDITOR TRIBUTE TO A GREAT IT.ADKE To th* XditOft Raleigh and North Car-I m will lose one of its great civic , i o p. loyyos leaders January 1 On that date the Revere nd George A. Fisher (affectionately called by many as Father Fish er), will depart to assume du ■: r .{>■■! of UK' China n r.f The Crucifixion in South Phil adelphia. M e MM' when he became, rector of Saint Ambrose Ep:s --»:•. cad Church, ho has contribut ed iremc-ai-urably to the prog ress of 'civic and religious Ufa in North Carolina. Untold num bers from all walks of life have been helped through his minis-. b y. The fruit of his labou.. will vnurme to bless unborn ch 13- iil'.M. • l As a leader in civic affairs, iu> eon intrud'd largely to the .' : movement to get Ne* ■ re ■-i and consequent* : vo: ;. n jin vas rcsponsibla for the .ryan ration of the North (i olina Committee on Negro A Gins. Although the state com-, a. i(«e is not currently intact* ini'; ' an slid vital local com* j, • it-.< s in such places as Dur ham and Greensboro. ) n Raleigh, he led in the sue* c. s-ful effort several years ago i ■ r--;abbsh Negro precinct i .id For almost a quarter rorhery, Raleigh has had Ne yvn regi-.irars and judges in two precincts, He was also instru mental in petitioning the City government to employ police of fic*. ns of the minority race. ThrMiuhet;!. his slay in Pd 1c h. Mr, Fisher has been vo- j ni in calling for complete jus- I tic,-.’ and equality for all peo- A pl,e. He has bad dauntless cour age in speaking out against civ- § ic evil and troubling the con- %* science of government and com- » ihp.nity agencies. He has come to the rescue of g( rbr.ge cel Sectors its their strug- §■ ;■■■ s, exploited prisoners, and s ether people unjustly treated. « His contribution as a religious ft? leader cannot be calculated. |j s>.»no would measure hB m achievement or lack of achieve- || nu-nt in this area in torus of g| the parish building one! the &;•' number of the parishioner!-. Falla r Fisher has nevei been interested in material accorn- wk las ;m end, but only m ;f a ip'-nns to an end He docs not own a home nor an eutemo- Ms i 1 r*. Like ’John the Baptist, he p| ins denied himself many phy-aftS :ical comforts of life to becomejEfc a- inslrument of God. His voice has been "a votsefls crying in the wilderness-- ye, and Lv sieve the gospel.” Hemfe I - i r .phot like Micaiah. yg\ r,; ir»g to say to the Ahnbs t. i: -t they like to lu-ar about themselves (although they know it to ha untrue), but what they nood to hear. Ue works a? » minisfer and cl-, ic le.. 1 ■ looking forward to the d y "When justice will roll dm a the water, and rir.hfecus n like au overflowing stream.” -OTIS L. HAIRSTON
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