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r" ■*'' 4 THE CAAOLIMIAN Week landing Saturday, January 35, 1958 Editorial Viewpoint elm enmu wiki r i wabm mu wan— The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIF 4 Editor’s Note: The following Words of Wis dom were taken from the book of Proverbs, chapter 30, verses 24 through 28; There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; The conies are but feeble folk, yet make The Smoke Has Cleared Away The curtain has rung down on the Robeson County Indians - KKK incident and the smoke has cleared away. But the echoes of Indian gunfire that sent the small band of 2 5 or 30 Klansmen “scooting for cover” will be heard around the world and the discordant notes will linger on. Now we can sit back in a rocking chair and do some serious objective evaluation of the af fair. 1. The Indians cannot be blamed for op posing Klan activity and intimidation aimed at them and letting them know of their resent ment and firm stand. Indians are not alone in their KKK con demnation. But we cannot condone any group taking trie law into its own hand, and this goes for the Klan too. It was the duty of local and State law enforcement agencies t.o pre vent both the KKK demonstration and In dian gunfire. As it was- the handling of the matter was undertaken by local police autho rities on the night of the clash. State patrol men were not brought to the scene until dan ger signals were imminent. 2. The incident was loaded with excitement. “Suddenly the' light, suspended over the KKK's P. A. system, was blown out. The horde of Indians moved forward. Their sil houtes leaped in the darkness. Gun flames stabbed the night. The crowd scattered in pan ic. A deputy tossed a hissing tear gas bomb “Before and during the riot, the mdJallic clink of guns being cocked and cartridges eject ed could be heard on the cold air,” Student Loans? Sometime ago we read with interest the daily >,jtss to the proposal of awarding Fed eral scholarshipss to enable qualified and above average students to prepare themselves for a career in science- The southern states are opposed to Federal “handouts” for one reason or another. Governor Hodges suggests that epllege men and women make a larger use of student loans provided by their respective colleges and uni versities. We are not trying to evaluate all of the plans of financially aiding thousasds of stu dents to get a college education. But we are opposed to the expansion of any type of stu dent loan system to put and keep thousands Church Program Cl Sell Denial | Last fall The Carolinian outlined a pro gram of self denial" whereby the churches of « Raleigh, Wake County, and the State would increase their finances almost: a hundredfold. This program is based upon the words of Jesus Christ when He said, ‘lf any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up the cross and follow me." The philosophy behind "the program of self denial for churches” is simply this: By denying himself of a few small luxuries rach week, a church member will save at least $1.25 of the money he is already paying t>ut. Through strict'personal discipline, he will make it a weekly practice to give the money he saves to his church This, of course, would be over and above his regular weekly giving. This self-denial gift when multiplied by hun dreds and thousands of church members will cause die church’s treasury to litterally burst mi the sevris. We have often heard people say that churches oeg too much, put on too many ral lies, and pass the plate too often. Maybe there is some truth in these statements. But what we fail to realize, is that we can support our churches better without it coating us a cent more than we arc in the habit of paying. No doubt most church members would become better spiritually, develop more wholesome at titude* towards systematic giving, because they would be practicing what they preach. The heart of a church program of self denial •an be illustrated in this manner: 1, Instead of smoking one pack of cigarettes * day, a smoker would make out with 15 ci garettes « day. At the end of a week, he would stave more than the cost of a pack of cigarettes Or in money about 40 cents. 2, Instead of eating steak at one meal, which would amount to about 20 cents per person, a church member could get the same food value by eating a substitute like codfish rake which would cost approximately five cents creating a saving of 3 5 cents. 3, Those who drink beverages, soft or hard, could do just as well with one less soda a week, one less bottle of beer usd one less bottle of ‘toddy,' and so on. This, in money, could range from six cents upward to a dollar. The average would be 20 cents. 4, Instead of riding the bus one morning, we would aid our health by walking to woik and save 15 cents for the church. 5, Most of us could eliminate one sweet each week (at home or as a snack in a store). This would amount to about 10 cents. their houses in the rock*; The locust have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces. Our weekly words—We ask the question tor thought during the week—Harmoniously, can ive build? Dramatic, isn’t it? It was reported that only four people were slightly injured, but had the situation gotten out of hand hundreds of people could have been killed. Remember that the eyes of the world are focused upon North Carolina, 3 Rev. James W. Cole’s wife and babies came, with him to the KKK rally. Cole swal lowed, his thin neck muscles working. 'I want to get my wife and my babies out . . . some body's going for them ... my little babies,’ " he said. Cole’s wife and babies should have been at home in Marion, South Carolina, in the first place. How could any man bring his babies out on a cold night as last Saturday and ex pose them to possible dangers? 4. God was not on Rev, James W, Cote's side. The Christian’s God is not a God of Wrath, but one of peace, sympathy, and good will. 5. Indictments will be made against Rev. Cole. Robeson County Sheriff Malcolm Mc- Leod is asking the district solicitor to pre pare indictments charging incitement to riot against Rev. Col? of Marion, S. C. If found guilty of exciting a riot, Rev. Cola should be sentenced in. accordance with the strictest terms of the law. The smoke has cleared away, but the Max ton affair will go down in history. If steps arc not taken to prevent similar occurances, God knows what will happen next time. Local and State enforcement agencies should begin now taking the necessary precautions. of students in colleges, universities, and tech nological institutes. Suppose a student was forced to borrow SI,OOO a year to complete his education and get, a degree. He graduates with an education al debt of $4,000 plus interest, In short he must begin his life’s career an the red. Under average conditions, it would take this student four or five years to repay this loan. We suggest that a student “pay as he goes” to school. This means that he will need to drop out of college a year or two and work so that: he might reenter school. Our young people must not become slaves to that Greedy-Eyed Monster—DEßT! Yes, —not even for a college eduationl 6 By being careful not to work in our dress clothes, by hanging them up at home instead of throwing them on a chair, we can save about 20 cents a week on dry cleaning. 7. By going to bed early one night a week, we could save approximately 5 cents on the electricity bill. From the savings we have just enumerated, it would be .safe to sav that a week’s program of self-denial would give each member an ex tra $1.25 for his church. It. wouldn’t cost him one nickle more. The self-denial gift of $1,25 from each mem ber would eliminate rallies, discourage begg ing, and add dignity’ to religious worship. It would be a symbol of members with Christian intent. This, of course, entails intelligent sacri fices and habitual action. It cannot be spas modic and impulsive but rather continual and systematic. To go further into the tremendous wealth we control through church congregations sup pose a church, having 400 active members adopted "the church plan of self-denial". By multiplying $1.25 by 400, the church's treas ury would be increased by the amount of SSOO. Then multiply SSOO by 52 weeks in a year, and the church would be richer by $26,000 from "self-denial gifts" alone. Just think of what a church with 1,000 members could do. Members must remember, however, that the "self-denial gift" to the' church doesn’t cost them a penny. Therefore, it must not take the place of the ragular Sunday offering. The "self-denial gift” merely supplements regular giving to the church. There are many more untapped financial resources that churches could make use of, if they would only organize for constructive ac tion. For example, The Carolinian Bonus Money Program, the practice of tithing, the paying of pledges on Founders Day, Easter, and Christmas as well as the acquisition of commercial properties from which churches may derive monthly income. Year in and year out, we go to church in the same unassurnisg frame of mind, paying usually the same amount in the collection plate, supporting rallies without realizing that there are things we could do to aid ourselves spiritually and fipancialy to the point of sup porting our churches more adequately. If any church wilt systematically carry out this plan under the enthusiastic: guidance of the minister, it won’t be able to count the many blessings. WE bARE YOU TO TRY IT A Strong And Determined Leadership Can Break Their Grip What Other Editors Say ATLANTA, Ga— A suit seeking the end of ra cial. segregation in the public schools in the City of Atlanta was fled in federal court here Saturday morning. This i 3 be ing clone at the behest of per sons allegedly, parents of “one or more minor children, who ere eligible to attend trie pub lic schools” under the control of defendants who are mem bers of the Board of Education of Atlanta and Miss Ira Jar rell, Superintendent of the city school system. Thusly, what has been ramb ling in the dim distance among other Boards in a Ike situation, comes into closer focus to the citizens of this community. At some time or other, it was but natural to expect some ges ture in this area, in the face of what has been happening over the South in many com munities. Both sides have had the time to be conditioned to a common sense approach to what apparently would inevit ably come. IT HAPPENED II NEW YOBK V, N. CONTINUES ANTI BIAS MEETS * The Human Rights Sup-Com mission on Prevention of Dis criminaton and Protecton of Minorities is most active at the United Nations. This commis sion has aided remarkably in the elimination of inequalttes on a global. Discrimination in employment Is now under fo cus by Chairman Chatenet of Egypt. Puerto Ricans rere are rejoicing at the huge budget which has been given to their countrymen in Han. Juan to privide substantial increases for the University of Puerto Rico, Department of Educa tion, Public Health. Police and Public Works. The last vestige of the once proud Daily Worker has dis appeared from the stands and Editors Oates and the noted Eugene Gordon apparently gone with the wind. It is noted that the- achool which Dv. Doxey Wilkerson was formerly Deat at Sixteenth Street and Ave nue of Americas is dismal, dirty and closed along with the excellent bookstore which had a store of priced books on the field of Communism and other works by worldwide authors. Baritone singer Paul Robe son (whose life size photos are said to bo all over Germany in the major record shops by re cent returnees from West Ger many) is following D. Alpha* eus Hup ton as author. Dr. Hunton's book DECISION IN AFRICA published by Inter national Publishers is creating considerable interest. Mr. Ro beson's book soon to be off the press Is to be dritnbuted by OTHEIjLG publishers, NEGRO ARTISTS BECOMES MISSILE CONSCIOUS The missile-satellite debate has impressed Artist Joseph Delaney who flew back from New York from a visit to ids aging mother Delia Delaney In Knoxville. His new portrait is entitled WILL I FIND A BONE ON THE MOON. Young De laney has written a poem on the missile age and is current ly exhibiting another one of his one man shows at ’'Cafe Au Latfc" in the Village where he has resided for many years. : Delaney’s work was seen at ] We did not know this suit was to be filed, but whether the action on the part of those who would cause a showdown at tills time Is in its timing and THE SUIT tenor for the bast of all con cerned, would now be beside the point. It can only be said, therefore, In Interest of har mony and the benefit of ail concerned, it would now be be side the point. It can only be ■said, therefore, in interest of harmony and the benefit of all concerned, it would highly be come all affected to do so as the court sought to do in call ins this who would appear as friends of the court, to resolv ing this issue In a spirit of supportng the principle of law and order. It is felt that the best minds and manners would be enlisted in this situation, now definite ly before us, which would en hance our efforts and talents in the field of better relations, ATLANTA DAILY WORLD -Help Urban eague BY GLADYS P. GRAHAM Hotel New Yorker In a group show and his work created considerable comment particu larly his work on Jackie Rob inson and the American scene, AFRICA IN THE NEWS Two prominent Liberians have completed their assign ments here and are heading for Monrovia West Africa. Mrs. Gertrude Dean Thompson, wife of Major Thompson end daughter of Col. David F, M. Dean of the Dept, of Defense, has finished her course at the Apex School of Beauty Cul ture. Mrs. Thompson who took third place in her class has her own shop in. R. L. fully equipped with three opeafcors. She was guest- of Mrs. Paddy IE Davies Liberians. Sailing on the Sbani (an English ship) along wth Mrs. Thompson is Electrician Henry E. Luke, of the Dept, of Public Works and Utilities, Mrs. Thompson was in the U, S. formerly to taka a secretarial course This is her second trip to this country, Rhodesians are interested in the news that a high quality emeralds rave been discovered In Belingwo Native Keren* SENTENCE SERMONS IF YOU SHARE WITH SATAN Hip*, ItyS'LL NOT STARE YOU DOWN THERE ’ 1. When you help Satan out, he gets his Devilish works in, and all you get in return is bus haunting deceitful grin, 2. One has to undo himself to do business with him, :nd how ever clever one might think himself to be. . . with this Past-Master, he Just can’t win. 3. Satan can boast of a .strong defense, because many weak Christians lean over his fence, and while taking time out to look around, he with charming enchantments lifts them off the ground. 4. Then Intrigued with every kind of contraband he moves them unconsciously about, in his Fairy Land, until every sense of moral fortitude and pride, for a dance and a song The Urban League’s mem bership drive will open Janu ary 19 and it's not too early to remind our readers that the League needs the two doiiar an nual fee from more than the number who have responded in the past. The League gets the most of Its funds from the Commun ity Chest but it could multiply its effectiveness if it had more funds. What the League does often goes unheeded because ts good works aren't spectacular ones. It. has the hard day-to day task of changing public at titudes in housing, in employ ment, and in breaking down color barriers in other phases of our community life. It doesn't picket. It doesn’t go to court and win legal vic tories. But what the League does, and has done, goes a long way toward making ours a bel ter city in wli'ch to live. Your two dollars can nelp it do even more in the future than it has in the past. CALIFORNIA EAGLE ..... near the Mwonza Rango. »R HOOK FLIES FROM TURKEY FOR ALMA JOHN SHOW OVER VYWRL Dr. Lucyle Hook, disijinguisi)- ed educator and Dean of Girls at. the Women’s College in Is tanbul Turkey is in New York for business and social ends. The former Barsard professor* now an * nth only on the Mid dle East and education of wo men Is slated to appear to Al ma Vessells John program over Station WWHL at the special invitation of Mrs, John. The visitor a native of Texas will appear on the show with SupL Truda Weil of the New York City Board of Education. Members of the United Ne gro College Fund are getting ready for their annual meeting at the Sheraton is Chicago tint second week in February. Al lenites are winding their way down to Colombia, S. C. for the annual meeting on the campus of which Rev. Veal is proxy. Eugene Doree is experienc ing a thrilling life In Haiti as a member or the staff of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital. is set aside, 5. This Is his business. . . . If is your business to stay out, and not partake of his foods that lead to drunkedness and gout; for if you made Christ the promise to follow Him all the way. you shall have la pay dearly if from Him you stray. <i. For ail Satan can offer Is ft counterfeit (or everything that Is real and a perfect fit... and if anyone is foolish enough to think that with him he can get ahead, is certain to end up 0:1 a miserable bed. 7, Even Animals out of in stinct try to avoid danger, but human beings allow Satan t > plunge them deeper and deep er. until in a cold 'and Indiffer ent state he chills them through and through, bo they will wake up too late. 8. Even some highly train- < ed and supposed-to-be cultur- i ed folk like to swing in his < JUST FOR FUN BY MAUI IS il BOULWARE ANNIE BELLE IS BACK IN TOWN FROGGIE BOTTOM HANG OUT: Guess who popped in? Annie Belle, of course! You know something? A change has come over that gal—externally, I mean. I said, "What gives. Annie Beile?'' Says, Annie Belle: "I ain't, got no tale, nightingale!” The gang then put her un der the spotlight, quiz. Boy was her answer a surprise, An nie Belle took a 15-day charm and modelling course. Loretta inquired, "What did it consist of? —Annie Beile do you hear me?” Annie Belle: “Subjects cov ered were:” 1. The indiviluality of dress 2. The Challenge of Being a Woman. 3. How to be bold 4. That provocative IT 5. Clothes with, character 0. Do you recognize styles? 7. Your man of the hour 8. Personality plus 9. You must add the rest 10. Managing he-wolves 11. Glamour on a small budget 12. Be yourself 13. The independent wom an. 14. You can’t afford to bo intellectual is. The possibilities of a date CORNYARD AT BANQUET: One of tire most enthusiastic guests at the St. Augustine's College Founder’s Day banquet was Cornyard. I was mighty proud of him, too. Mr. Furlie, toastmaster, read his name as having given n check for 5,100. Where’s that lady who sent me a letter asking: "Where did you get that character, Cornyard? Is he real, or is he a fake? Maybe, you hadn’t oughta be going around with him.” Lady, let me toll YOU some thing—Cornyard has class, his check for was good at the Mechanics and Fanners Bank. Just ask any of the tellers. Would you like to meet him? Just invite us to a repast of chitterlisgs, turnip greens and Gordon B. Hancock's feniEEN too LINES DOWN WITH SQUABBLING AND UP W ITH COOPERATION! Many years ago when T was a student at Benedict College, Columbia, S. C. there was a lo cal city baseball teem that was one of the best to be found in all the country. It was a col ored team and had as its man - ager a fellow called "Railroad Bili” because he managed the team for nothing, and worked at the railroad station for a living, ,1 shall never forget that one day one of his men become miffed about something, and although the miffed man was one of his finest players, he took him out of the game with the pungent remark “come off the field, for no man can play baseball when he is angry.” I have never fogotten that terse admonition, and through the years I have looked for, and found much truth in it. When a man is in the game and becomes angered, he makes all kinds of mistakes. I have found it true in baseball and football and now in basketball, that an angry man is a liabili ty and not an asset to his team. There is tin better sign of a team’s impending defeat than when they begin to squabble among themselves; and there is no harder team to defeat thou one whose mem bers stay at peace among themselves. A team that plays together is almost unbeatable, he thing about our current situation sationally, that gives this writer greatest concern is the tendency of our top-level officials to squagble over the fact that we have fallen, or are falling, behind Russia in the space-race. Just a few weeks ago we were sitting, as it were, on top of the world brandishing our atom and hy drogen bomb. Today Rusla sets its satel lite on its course around the earth, we are terribly discon certed and now squabbling a mongr ourselves, living to de cide who ts to blame for what? hammock, until obsessed with hs chicanery' and trickery they finally run amuck. 9. This common and old story parallels that of the cat and the mouse. , . Satan cares nothing for you, and will fear down any character or house Ire just does not care from what source you arrive, if in* can catch you off guard, he will take you for a ride, 10. It is high time that every creature like you utid me, would become wry cauti ous, and not so care-free. , . for Satan is even nearer than just •round the corner, and is hard on careless folks who slip back and foi ih over the border, 11. It is true, that to He down with a log. you get up with floes, and this valuable time should be taken on a Christian’s knees. , . one has no time with Satan to share, for his business is to deceive and unmercifully ensnare. 12. You will find him a mang the high-minded, the rich and the poor, in Palace? Royal, and iuyury ships on a tour . . . he just won't stay out. but you can keep him from coming near. . and If you don't do it, he will do you up down there sweet potatoes. We'll be around. WISCONSIN: A fellow stud ent livin', at Badger Village 35 miles from Madison tells this story. In trying to hitchhike to the university, he got fed up with the “no rider” signs on trucks paaslsg by. When a driver stopped hla American Van Lines trailer to inquire about the highway to Lake Park, tiie stulent refused to oblige. Tin a pedestrian," the stu dent said. “I don’t help ears.’ BOLITA SAM: (the Froggie Bottom guitarist) “A fine time to come in," stormed his wife as he stumbled in at 4 a,m. “I want art explanation, and I want the truth.” “Make up your mind, my dear,” answered Bolita Sam. “You cant have both.” RALEIGH SCENE: Plain, unmarked truck moving fami ly from dark house on a cer tain street at 11:20 p.m. LIMIT PUT ON; The Wom an’s* Rights Movement pictur’d a dark future for women In 18th century. Shucks, this was nothing compared, with a law passed in England by the Par liament in 1700. This particular law read: “All women of what ever age, rank, profession, or degree, whether virgin, maid or widow, that shall from and af ter such Act impose upon, se duce, and betray into matri mony any of His Majesty’s sub jects by means of scent, paints cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall incur tire penalty of the law now in force against witch craft and like misdemeanors,, and that the marriage upon conviction shall stand null and ; void.” i Cornyard, have you ever heard of a law which prohibit ed married women from turn in;- to cosmetics and perfume and high-heeled shoes to pre serve the love of thir husbands fom ‘such sirens as Annie Belle has taken a charm course. AND SHE IS NOW TERRIFIC! Just like a baseball or a foot ball team must gtt itself to gether if they would realov; the situation, we must h.u o done with this squabbling and bickering if we would com pete on equal terms with Ru si a. , . Just a few months w:> v.re a complacent and conceited nn - tion living on the fat of t .o land: today we are struggL • ; to stay in the race for nation al survival and we are strug gling aaginst a mighty and re sourceful nation. We have been disposed to seel our great nation in a ma terial way: but we have neg lected to sell our democratic Ideology and we have failed in gloriously to sell our democra cy to the darker people of the world. Ota* democracy is color struck an! far too much en ergy has gone into the matter of drawing color lines. Unfortunately, for the cause of democracy the conscience of our nation is smitten be cause studied efforts have been made to stay the push of bro therhood in the world. Both American democracy and A meric an Christianity have fal tered before the challenge of color. Most American Christian* and American Democrats are quite willing to accept the Ne gro as an inferior, but they balk when they are asked to accept him as a brother and an equal. Race prejudice is threaten ing to damn democracy and despoil Christianity. This co lumn has been crying out for twenty-five years that “Ameri ca must save the Negro or it self be lost”. The reasons for this conclusion are becoming more conclusive as time puss es Just a few' days ago there fell into my hands a Colgate University publication. And there was a letter from one of my classmates who recently traveled over the greater part of the world in recent months “And”, said he, “I was ques tioned in many lands and r bout many things pertaining to our country, and the most frequently asked question was “why docs America still reject the Negro”? I do not know what, his answer was but 1 am sure it wan un embarrassed and apologetic answer. Furthermore I urn sure it did not satisfy peoples who see the discrep ancy between our profession and out practices ua a democra cy. There was only one answer for the searching and irrespon sible question and thsG is A merica faring destroyed by race prejudice. We are squab bling not alone over the threat that Russia is repo? but bcran.se of a nation’s guilty conscience. Down with squao bling and up with cooperation and brotherhood. “Some minds are like ®°»- Crete — all mixed up and per manently set’.”
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