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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEKENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1958 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to dir: a time to plant, and n time to pluck up that which is planted. A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance: A time to rend, and a time to sew: a time to keep silence, and a time to speak: A time to love, and a time to hate: a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he lahoureth? I have seen the travial which God hath given to tht sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also He hath set the world in their heart • so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour it is the gift of God. I know that whatsoever God docth, it shall be for ever: nothing can he put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear bdon Him. That which hath been is now: and that, which is to be hath already been: and God requireth that which is past. What Is Good Bus Service? Last Saturday an advertisement in the Ra high Times listed the “New Bus Fares", ef fective as of March 1. 1958. It contained the following statement of fares’ Regular fare, 7 adult tickets for $1.00; cash fare 15 Cents; adult transfers. 5 cents; school fare, ten tickets for SI.OO, or cash school faie. 10c. The notice added that school fares apply during regular school hours, and that transfers to school children are free. For several weeks now we have been reading various news articles concerning our new bus system, when it would take over the city’s transportation, and its request for increased fares. At the hearing, no citizens came to pro test. To say now' that we should get better service is to imply that perhaps we haven’t been get ting superb service in the past. Regardless of the way you look it the problem, we do know this. People have waited on buses which run on schedule and other buses which did not. Often we have jread the sign on buses say ing: “It’s cheaper to ride the bus.” Yes, this Wt n rd with interest the news story which told of Dr. Charles G. Gomillion, president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, speaking before the pro-segregation-minded Macon County Abolition Committee. Dr. Gornillion frankly answered questions put to him by the Macon County Abolition Committc, as well as ably defended his organization’s position in the redistricting of Macon County dispute. Dr. Gomillion’s classic answer to the Aboli tion Committee was: “There is no good reason why white and Negro citizens in Macon County cannot dc velop a community which would be a model of democratic living.” The CAROLINIAN believes that demo cratic living consists of a series of experiences. Continuing our series on children born out i>f wedlock, let us look objectively at the case of the Negro unwed mother. The Negro group is frequently singled out as the one which ac cepts without question both the unmarried mother and her child. Thousands of people have the notion that the Negro is constitutionally immoral, and hence no stigma need be attached to the Negro baby born outside of marriage or his unmar ried mother. We will not argue or labor the point here, because it is obvious that this ’s merely another effort—and a powerful one, on the whole,—to support the attempt to prove: the Negro racially inferior. Such m attitude assumes without question that the white attitude toward illegitimacy is completely right, if not divinely inspired. Yet it ignores sweepingly the tragic destruction to human, personality left in its wake. Stupid and fallacious as this myth is, it has exerted * tremendous influence both upon Negro and white citizens. Thus the situation of the Ne gro unmarried mother* is made more obscure, even among those who fox years repudiated In dollars and cents, the cost of crime last year was the “staggering” sum of $55,000,000 a day. We boast of our very high standard of liv ing. our great colleges and universities, our great medical centers; but when we apply the measuring tope, we find that our crime rate is almost double that of most other countries. Representative Ralph J. Scott, in a recent speech, pointed out the sharp increase in ju venile crime from 300,000 cases disposed of in 1948 to 500,000 cases disposed of in 1955. There arc many reasons for our crime wave, but we can safely lay the blame at the doors of We Are All Brothers Think On These Things For Crime, We Must Pay And, moreover, I saw under the sun the place of judgement, that wickedness was there: and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose, and for every work. I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they them selves are beasts. For that which befalleth' the sons of men befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath: so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity, All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that go eth downward to the earth? Wherefore I preceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be alter him? Our Weekly Words —Our Weekly Thought —“Take Time For God ’ Elccklesiastes 3:1-23 may be true, but who on Sundays, for ex ample, wants to wait almost an hour to catch a bus at an unsheltered bus stop on a rainy day or near zero weather? Oftimes on week days, at certain hours bus patrons must wait on buses a half-an-hour or more. If a person had important business to transact he can’t afford to waste so much time waiting to get a ride. He would rather pay a taxi or walk to town. Good bus service includes: Buses running on schedule, economical fares, and speedy ser vice. The greatest improvement the Raleigh City Coach Lines can make would be inaugurating faster schedules. Patrons should never have to wait longer than twenty minutes on a bus. This is the only way to give gooa service. The Raleigh City Coach Lines may blame the present bus schedules on present fares and operation costs. Then, if this is true, company officials should have asked for an increase sufficient to make possible the operation of buses on a faster schedule. These experiences must be learned as we learn anything else. Learning anything requires that the learner put forth some effort to learn. ii the white Macon County Abolition Com mittee would put forth as much energy as it is now putting on the division of Macon Coun ty, a NEW EARTH would spring up. We ven ture to say that in a year or two, the white citizens would be amazed at the rich rewards of democratic living in Macon County. We believe that the Negroes of Macon County would cooperate wholeheartedly with their white brothers to set going a demo cratic experiment which would attract the eyes of the wortcl. We are all brothers. Let us be bro thers in America. such obvious stupidity. We have frequently heard that the unmar ried Negro mother has no shame about her action and no personal problems arising there from. This is not true, for she has the same neurotic problems as: the white unmarried mo ther. And to make such a sweeping generaliza tion, we fail to consider the fact that the pat tern of Negro culture is not the same in all places and under all circumstances. The Negro girl in a backward county in Mississippi, for example, has a very different problem from the girl growing up in industrial cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadel phia. So each case of illegitimacy must be con sidered separately and individually. Like the white group, the Negro community has developed many shades of attitudes to ward this problem, ranging from a punitive rigidity that often exceeds that of the most conscrtative white group to that of a rather mild uneasiness and disapproval. Before we judge any race too harshly, or severely, think on these things. tbr home, the schools, the churches, and the individual himself. Many school systems through special edu cation have set up programs for students with potential criminal tendencies. Cojointly the church and the home must hove a part in the rehabilitation of these individuals. Our cities should provide psychologists. Counselors, guidance officers and other speci alists if we want to rehabilitate these people and eliminate the drain upon our treasury. We have suffered the problems to long, and the time has come for us to labor with <t for a solution. Still Casting His Vicious Shadow, Despite The Court Decision Happy Khmer New Year. What Other Editors Say CAN THE COURT BACK? The Little Rock School Board's request for suspension of racial mixing in Central High School presents the fed eral courts with a difficult choice. A good deal can be said in support of the School Board’s argument that opposition to de segregation has made normal school conditions imposible. Surely no one inside the school can forget for very long that fed eralized National Guardsmen are on duty outside as a pre autiors. Whether the tduation of the school’s 2.000 students has act ually suffered is debatable. Several reporters of the Arkan sas Gazette recently tried to find out. In general, the stu dents interviewed didn't seem to think their educational op portunity had been impaired. The teachers were divided on the question. The School Board’s petition to the court does not appear to be prompted by zeal to main tain segregation at all costs. It imfst be remembered that this is the same school board which sponsored the plan for gradual desegregation of Little Rock Schools. The plan was approved by the Federal District Court, only to be thwarted by Arkan sas Governor Orvat Faubus, The court last fall turned down one request from the School Board for a stay of its order requiring desegregation. Can the federal courts back down now in Little Rock in the light, of the Supreme Court’s de cision that compulsory segrega tion of the races in the public schools is unconstiutional? Those who support the Little Rock School Board’s request see some hope in a recent decision of the Fifth Circuit Court, of Appeals delaying desegregation of schools in Dallas, Texas. The decision reversed a district court ruling ordering desegre gation at the midwinter term. The Circuit Court said the “school authorities should be accorded a reasonable further Otir Shifting Populations: Implications for Churches To use an expression of the late President Roosevelt, again end again, this writer has en deavored in this column to point out the rapidity with which people are leaving many of our rural areas. Many of those who leave our rural areas take up their residence In our Southern cities. Others take up their residence in Northern and Western cities. Regardless of where they may go. ohe thins is certain, our rural population is, and has been for sometimes, rapidly de clining. The reasons lor the foregoing are of course obvi ously: The use of farm labor saving machinery has reduced the need for farm labor and at the same time it has increased the productive capacity of the farmer. The various methods of con trolling the amount of land a given farmer may cultivate are also factors in causing people to move from the rural areas into cities. In short, it now takes fewer farm workers than formerly to produce the farm products needed by the nation. Thus, it became necessary for a population shift from farm ing areas to cities. It is this writers sincere and considered opinion that the present trend of people leaving the fana will opportunity promptly to meet their primary responsibility ” in administering the schools. Thus it can be argued that the local authorities in Little Rock also should be given the maximum amount of leeway in determining how and when the schools should ba desegre gated. Yet the Little Rock School Board once had this same lee way. Exercising its discretion, it developed a desegregation plan which the courts approv ed. If the courts agree now to a request that would virtually erase that plan they might nake a new start on desegregation even more difficult. Governor Faubus has suc ceeded in stirring up racial ani mosities that might have re mained dormant had he acted differently. Any concession by the courts now might be inter preted as an admission that Faubus was right in blocking the admission of Negroes to Central High School. To their credit, the courts so far have refused to knuckle down to Governor Faubus in his prolonged dispute with fed eral authority. They can hardly do so now and rtill maintain the authority of the law. WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL • * * « THE NEGRO'S ROLE IN A DESEGREGATED SOCIETY Coming about 10 days after the Rev. Martin Luther King's challenge to Negroes in his re cent Greensboro address. Wil liam Faulkner's comment? on teaching Negroes the responsi bilities of “first class citizen ship” make an admirable, and sobering, supplement. Mr. King was concerned *- bout the high crime rate among Negroes and called upon mem bers of his race to reduce it. Mr Faulkner probes more deep ly to the attitudes which un derlie action and conduct. The Negro has responsibility to show, In Mr. Faulkner’s vigor ous phrase, “that in order to be free and equal he must first be worthy of it, and then for IN THIS OUR DAY By C A. Chick. Sr. continue in the future. In the past this writer has called attention as to how the foregoing would affect rural churches. Obviously when a great many people leave an area it leaves the social agen cies including churches in the area handicapped in many • ways. la many cases rural churches are left with so few people that they cannot get sufficient leaders to carry out the functions of the churches. Furthermore, many the churches do not have suf ficient members to enable them (the churches) to finance a well-rounded church prog ram. Thus, as this writer has pointed out in the past, the only w 136 course for rural churches, thus having fewer but better functioning* church es. But there ia another prob lem in the matter which this writer has not discussed in the past. With more and more peo ple leaving the rural areas and taking up their residence In ci ties, greater and greater de mands are put upon the city churches for services to the de sirable needs of their respec tive areas. Therefore, the present trend will make it necessary for our city churches to increase and vary their services as Well as in many cases to expand the ever afterward work to ho*a and keep and defend it. “He must learn to cease for ever more thinking like a Ne gro and acting like a Negro. This will not bo easy.” Anti while this, in Mr, Faulk ner's opinion, is the Negro’s re sponsibility in the desegrega tion movement, the white man also has an obligation he thinks: “to teach and train him in these hard and unpleasant habits.” That teaching and training should be provided “either by taking (the Negro) into our white schools or giving him white teachers in his own schools until we have taught the teachers of his own race to teach and train him in these hard and unpleasant habits.” That teaching should be pro vided “either by takink (the Negro) into our white schools or giving him white teachers in his own schools until we have taught the teachers of his own race to teach and train him in these hard and unpleasant hab its” • * * * Both Mr. King's and Mr, Faulkner’? addresses, (the lat ter spoke in Charlottesville, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia» imply that the Negro is not yet ready for desegregation, Mr King would deny the implica tion no doubt, but the content of his challenge is clear and plain. Mr. Faulkner has not only all but said it, but, he has also challenged the competency of the Negro teacher to train the Negro for living in a deseg regated society. Such speeches as these rive some insight into Use social im plications of desegregation. It cannot, in a very real sense, be accomplished by judicial fiat. The Negro must change, as well as the white man: and he must, change to the white man's stan dard. as Mr, Faulkner pointed out. If the Negro is not willing to do that, he denies the de sirability of the desegregation which he seeks. DURHAM HERALD. slzr of thHr place? of worship and other facilities. Let us who are leaders in our churches, with God’s help, ansa the demands of the occasion and do our best to have our churches, rural and city, to modify their plans according to the demands of the times. Letter To The Editor Fob. 24, 1958 TO THE EDITOR: i have read your editorial of February i!2 concerning our In stitution. i have read it care fully and wish to express our sincere appreciation for the fine comments rendered. I want you to know that we apreciate the fine cooperation you have given us in publicising the news of our college. I trust that our relations will be as pleasant in the fu • ture as they have been in the past. With best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, J. H. Brockett, ,Tr. Acting President Livingstone College JUST FOR FUN CORN YARD PAYS A CALL SCENE: The action takes place in former office reserv ed for the Dean of Men in Her mitage Building at St Augus tine's College. My room ad joins it. Heard a light rapping at the door. Opening the door, I reached •out my mitt and said. "Corn yard, you old rascal! Whet brines you here?” Cornyard answered, "Jest wanna beat my chops about the latest jive.” "You caught me at work on some freshmen English papers,” I replied. “Would you like to glance at a few?” CORNYARD agreed, but the truth of the matter was, he didn’t want to hurt my feelings. He picked up a few and said, “AU right, DOC!” To offer some incentive, 1 added, "Cornyard, many of these papers are little gams written by female students as they see themselves. They art word pictures or self-portraits. . .“Female, did you say, DOC?” Cornyard Inquired, “Yes F-E-M-A-L-Ei” came my retort. At once Cornyard began read ing and mumbling to himself he chuckled, and he sputtered, “Man, listen at tills I” FROM. PAPER ONE: “My eyes are so bright that they sparkle in the dark. (Cornyard takes due note.) I usually wear my blouse with the top button unfastened because with the top button fastened. I look fat ter. , .” Cornyard said, “Well, what do you know?” FROM PAPER TWO: “My eyes are brown and glassy, something good to look into (Comyard's interest is mount ing.) I have a real crazy hair style called the KOVADOS that draws quite a bit o? attention." “This paper slays me, DOC!” Cornyard commented admir ingly. FROM PAPER THREE: “ . . , I am of medium build with broad hips and tiny waist and very alluring and attractive legs.” (Cornyard interrupted, “You know. DOC. these papers are good reading. I envy you English Profs.) "I forgot to mention my exotic eyes, which have charmed so many people. Gordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN tile LINES Our Joint Responsibility Author William Faulkner, a native Mlssissippian and No bel prize winner, is currently lecturing at the University of Virginia. In his first lecture he headed directly into the in terracial situation confronting the South. He spoke forth right and said “The South must teach the NegTo the respon sibility of citizenship and the place to begin is in Virginia. An this must be accomplish ed either by taking the Negro into our white schools, or by giving him white teachers in his own schools, until we have taught teachers of his own race to teach and train him in these hard and unpleasant habits.” Then Mr. Faulkner went on to enumerate the hard things as self-restraint, honesty, de pendability and purity. Said he “The Negro must learn to act not even just as some white man, but to act as well as the best white man.” And the place for this to begin is in Virginia the mother of ail the rest of the South. And unless this is done we will look forward each year to another Clinton or Little Rock, not only further and further to wreck what we have so far created of peaceful relations between the races, but to be the international monuments and mile-stones to our ridicule and shame. Said he, “The problem of second-class citizens may stem from, inability or unwillingness to accept finst-class respon sibilities. The Negro must be taught that in order to be free and equal he must first be wor thy of it, and then forever af terward work to hold and kzeo it and del end it.” Mr. Faulkner went on to set a pugnont truth that we cun consider with profit and that is “Because where the white man. because of his color and race can practice morality and rectitude just, on Sunday and let the rest of the week go hand, the Negro can never let up or deviate.” The last state ment is in accordance with a statement I heard a young Ne gro make forty years ago in a graduation address to a high school class Said this brilliant youne Ne gro, “The fellow who starts behind m a race must outrun the other fellow If he would win the race!” Being Interpret ed. this means that Negroes must do better. This is the same thing that Mr. Faulkner was trying to get over. As discussed by the eminent Nobel prize winner, the respon sibility of citizenship is a joint responaibilt.y. There are some things the white man can do and say in the situation and there are some things that on ly Negroes car. say and do. There are certain lessons of industry and honesty and de pendability that only Negroes can carry to Negroes. There are certain preparations for first class citizenship that must b* made by Negroes themselves. There is certain good advice that Negroes will slmply not take from whites: and must be given by Negroes, if indeed it Ls given at all. BY MARCUS EL BOULWAKE . . . " (Cornyard read this line over, because he didn’t want to miss anything.” Cornyard said, “DOC. la it too late to register for English 1-B?" “Os course, it is;* came mv reply. Then I interrupted with the comment that these papers gave me insights into the in ner-seif of my students, CORNYARD 81. JETED OUT. “Man, the oute ..elf is good *riou* for me!" Take this opening sentence, for example, “In writing about myself, l find it somewhat strange yet amusing to sit and evaluate my physical and inner ■elf.” It shows, »aid I, com templation and flection, but Cornyard was r impressed. Greedily, he was vouring the subject matter c ohe papers. I kept on talikng, picking up a second paper. 1. told how one student was impressed by a young Catholic Sister called “The Lady In Blue.” It read in part, “She greeted the class in » voice that, sounded like a mu sical instrument, etc. . . .” BUT CORNYARD PROTEST ED. “Who cares bout a voice?” “I do,” came my reply. “ You see I’m a speech and voice teacher." Girls, you impressed Corn yard in a big vy. He wants to visit, our class. Shall I bring him? At Jabe Wright’s Barbershop and Poolroom, Cornyard met a new aequaii nee who called himself Big , ;n. Said Cornyard “Would you ire to have a cig ar?” "No, rep! d Big Jim, “I tried it once and didn't tike it,” “Do you want a drink?” ask - ed Cornyard. "No," replied the new ac quaintance “I tried it once and didn't like it." "Well," suggested. Cornyard, “would you like to play a game of pool?” “No, I vied the game onc-e. and I didn't like it,” explained Big Jim. “However, my son will be along soon and he may play a game of pool with you.” Cornyard looked at his new found acquaintance question ;.,!y and remarked. "Your only son, no doubt.” Os course the fact that the responsibility are joint does not erase the fact that th: greater responsibility rests with the white man, whose respon sibility it is to formulate the laws, which limit the Negro in his endeavors to prepare for first-class citizenship. In the last analysis, segre gation is a form of degradation and the Negro’s task is made doubly hard by the legal and traditional restrictions under which he is compelled to live and achieve. One of the fine aspects of the lecture of Mr, Faulkner which he delivered, is its point ing up the responsibility that is the white man’s by virtura of his dominant position in our times. This fact needs to be thrust into the thinking of a large segment of Southern whites who degrade the Negro and despise him in his degra dation. The brutalizing effects of such procedure will ultimately work to the detriment of the white man himself. Fortunate ly. for the South there are those like Mr, Faulkner who see the devastating effects of the de gradation of the Negro after the South's traditional preju dice. The South is not a tote! moral loss when it can produce men like Mr. Faulkner who can inspect the situation from a world point of view. The re sponsibility for the Negro’s first-ciass citizenship is a Joint responsibility with the greater part falling to the dominant white man. Sentence Sermcns t. Tears are bitter things and are never desired by human beings, unless they are tears of gratitude, which only come when a happier mood . . , and these when prayerfully ana lysed. prove to be dew-drops from heaven to vitalize. 2. But ah. those briny tears that flow when hearts are heavy and spirits low, that lake toll and beat a doleful measure, bespeaking inward pain and gran displeasure, 3. often came to a friend of m'ne when, work was scarce ai d hard to find, but being a genius at lamp designing, aim found employment, when wag»s were* declining, and they 7 be insufficient to meet her budget, the tears would unconsciously flow when obligations became urgent. 4. Then on those expensive shades a tear-stain, would ap pear that would superinduce unpleasant questioning, ending in remorse and fear; that dear conscientious soul still recalls those dark days, while now in a healthier clime she is above the storm and haze. GOD CAN USE?