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THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1358 4 Editorial Viewpoint r/ ie CAROUMAfTS WORDS OF WORSHIP 1. God be merciful unto Us, and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. 2. That thy way may be known upon the earth, thy saving health among all nations 3 Let the people praise thee O God; let all the people praise thee. 4. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously. Next Sunday is Mother’s Day. On this na tional holiday we express publicly our rev erence for the mothers of the world. They are the best friends we ever had. The observance of Mother’s Day dates back many centuries. Our present observance is de rived from the custom of mother-worship in ancient Greece. In Christiandom there origi nated a celebration known as A father Church It was celebrated on Mid-Lent Sunday. Chil dren returning from the worship brought gifts to their parents. On May 8, 1914, our Con gress gave official sanction to the celebration of the pecond Sunday m May as "Mother’s Day.” The floral emblem —the white carna tion * represents sweetness, purity, and endu rance. . A soldier from the North lay dying m a Southern hospital during the Civil War, and the mother heard of it. She must reach him m ,omr way, and a pass from the President places her beyond the lines of the Federal army. Her story passes her through the ranks of the enemy and to see her boy. “He has a little while to live,' the doc.c! tells her ‘‘He would not know you. He has not known anyone for the past three days You had better not go in since it may hasten his death.” But the mother’s pleading wins her a place beside her boy It is only one word, spoken just above a whisper. "Charley! But the mo ther speaks it. There is life and healing in that voice. Men of other races have not always treated our mothers with respect. In the days of bon dage. they were slaves to white lust and pas sion. This was humiliating and called for the It w ould Hum VUA WVVMWAUJ Ever since the Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954, various states in the Old South have threatened to abolish their public schools. If this is done, the economy of the South would collapse. It would affect the popula lion in more ways than one. In the first place, millions of people would lose their jobs including administrators, teachers, maintenance and cafeteria personnel, and so on. Teachers employed in five states are dis tributed as follows: North Carolina—33.39l : Florida 27,494; Mississippi—l6,6ss; Ala bama —22,485: South Carolina—l9,ooo. Abol ishment of public schools in these states would cause 121, 125 people to lose their jobs. These same five states employ 5,279 prin cipals and supervisors, as well as 1.016 super intendents. These administrators would be un employed should the public schools close. A total of 23,000 bus drivers employed in these five states would he thrown out of jobs. And the 7.946 plant and maintenance em ployees in Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama would also be unemployed. We were unable to secure figures from the other eight South ern States. In the second place, millions of dollars — yea billions would be shut off from the stream of the economy in the South. Alabama. Florida. Mississippi, North and South Carolina pay their administrators $22,152,789 annually. They pay their elemen tary, secondary, and special teachers the stag gering amount of $418,404,606 each year. North Carolina. Alabama, vnd Smith Caro Arf. wf Christians? This is a question which many people would prefer to answer silently To this, we have no obligation. There are other people who like to confess openly that they are joint heirs of Christ. These few are per haps sincere. But there are others—and a great many too —who like to herald to the High Heavens that they sre ‘ Followers of the Lamb." But, in their hearts, they are hypocrites. Their testi monials are contradicted by their unholy lives. Many ministers say that open confession before the congregation in the church is good for the soul. But we think they ought to quali fy this statement. To say that “I am on tire King’s Highway” is not enough. Bold talk does not make them Christians. Are you one Ot those talker «? There are far too many people who think that going to church makes them Christians They go to Sunday School and Church, sing in the choir, attend prayer meeting, serve on church boards, and teach m the church school. They are class leaders, trustees, deacons, dea conesses, and so on. They pay tithes and con tribute generously to all offerings. But doc-, this make them Christians? A white southerner in Mississippi dors all of these things Yet he would not think of permitting a Negro to join this church. He wouldn’t permit a Negro to rit beside him in prayer meeting, because that would be social equality, Look at that white Georgian whose name is on the church roll. See how he exploits his tenants—both colored and white. They labor from year to year, yet their lot is one of dire poverty and distress. The tenants live in shot gun houses made of inferior lumber, and more often it is a broken-down shack. '‘Why o ” you Sunday Is Mother s Day Are We Christians? and govern the nations upon the earth. Selah. 5. Let the pople praise thee, O God: let all the people praise thee. 6. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. 7. God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. —Psalms 67 power of endurance. They have been called “Aunt” by white employers. This was insul ting, but they retained their poise and sweet ness. Southerners, wishing to recall their pic turesque South, have referred to her as ’"Mam my.” They did not appreciate this term, be cause it. was degrading. White Americans have not always recogniz ed the full value of Negro mothers. Shortly af ter the emancipation, the Savannah Daily published an editorial that said that Negro women were not fit to nurse or care for white children. This led Lucy Craft Laney, the great educator, to say: “If they are not fit to nurse or care for white children, then they are cer tainly not fit to mother their own,” She proved to the world that this assertion was erroneous. By training and education, the Negro woman has proved her ability to assume the duties of motherhood. We know that what ever progress the race has made, it may be traced to the fireside training given children by Negro mothers. The Negro mother has suffered and experi enced many hardships. In slavery, she was of ten separated from her children on the suc tion block. The Negro mother speaking to her son in Langston Hughes’ poem says, “Life with me ain’t been no crystal stairs.” Often with her arms deep in white suds, she has toil ed hard. She has sent her children to school and college. She has helped her husband when times were hard. She has helped to pay for her home. She has helped to build church, s by washing, giving suppers, and giving rallies. Negro mother! We salute you—the best friend we ever had. 3ina paid their bus drivers $11,967,001 in 1955 - 56. This does not; include what is being spent in Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, and Georgia from which the CAROLINIAN was unable to get information. Thus the abolishment of public schools in five states would force 158,000 persons into the ranks of the unemployed and $451,624,369 would be drawn from the economy in five states alone. We have, not counted the millions of dollars spent annually to employ home and agricul tural agents who work with public school pu pils; nor have we taken into account the mon its spent by public school systems for cafe teria food and school supplies, buildings, cus todial supplies and maintenance. If this mon ey were drawn from the economy, it would af fect many other types of business. What would the unemployed teacher and school personnel do for a livelihood? After all, they must eat to lice. To say that the states in the North and West would employ them would "be too much wishful thinking. If they did. they would soon get wise and put an end to this nonsense. Die-hard men and women of the South may let their emotion# overcome their sane judg ment and action, but they cannot escape the fact that it takes money for school personnel to buy the necessities of life Sane men and dedicated women in the South must rise up and put an end to this type of foolish thinking. They must not let this awful c aiamitv come to pass, may ask ,and the reason is far too weak. The white plantation owner tries to ease his con science by referring to “those picturesque cab in These Georgia tenants want to live. Christ knew this when he said. “I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” Now would you call the Georgia landowner a Christian? Should Christians have hate in their hearts ■’ Certainly not. but take a look at the world to day. It is impossible to pick up a newspaper without becoming aware that we are living, in an age beset by hate on every side. Ours is tt world where race is being inflamed against race. Nations are so stirred up that they are spending millions of dollars to keep ahead in the Sputnik race. Should a Christian be reborn? The answer is obvious: and to be reborn, a Christian must have change of heart. Jesus taught this lesson besf when He was interviewed by Nieodemus, the Pharisee and supreme court judge. Must a Christian -be saved from his sins? Yes and Jesus taught that Christianity, dem onstrated and practiced, is the way out. We find many of his precepts recorded in the fifth chapter of Matthew, which presents the bea - titudes with an extra explanation of the re sponsibilities of the believer Should a Christian strive for perfection? Yes and Jesus Christ outlined the necessary steps by saying we must follow after right eousness, have right motives, have right de sires, and have right actions “Abou Ben Adem” by the poet, Leigh Hunt, teaches Christians that the love of God is one’s love for his fellow man. Herein lies the secret of good Christianity. Are we Christians? Let us search our hearts earnestly for an answer to this question. Better Wake Up. White Citizens Councils Closing Their Economic Crip ' iuTEKEiEMO,, . BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANF RIGHT AND WRONG WERE NEVER INTENDED TO GO ALONG t Just as truly as there is a NORTH, SOUTH, EAST and WEST that comprise our stan dard directions, there is a right and wrong way any man may choose to enjoy life, or pay penalties for his trangress sion.s. 2. Man having been given the right of choice, needs only to recognize his Master’s voice, and in moments that to others would bring quick dismay. He hears His children's cries, and sympathetically clears the way. X This is something in which every man end woman should take pride, and not like Adam who committed wrong, try to run from God and hide; when men learn to face God square ly, misdemeanors will occur very rarely. 4. It appears that man's greatest trouble is wanting to enjoy a standard of life he doe,- not possess and, ‘ before God fails to confers; this keeps him a dwarf while pretending to bo a giant, and quickly moves at Satan’s bidding during the day and often at night becomes dp. What Other Editors Say A MEASURE OF JUSTICE , The Administration’s "wait* and-see” aproach to the nation's worst postwar recession has har dened into a flat, “do-as-iittle ar. possible” approach despite mounting evidence that, the eco nomy is still sliding downhill. The President has made it painfully apparent in public statements and through Repub lican congressional leaders that; 1— There will be no foresee able action on a tax cut to aid low ami middle income families. 2 There is a deep reluctance to do anything- substantial in -the way of a short-range or long range public works program, 3 'There will be an all-out Arimlnistiation-led fight to block the emergency unemploy ed compensation bill voted by the House Ways and Means Committee, and if necessary a presidential veto. The suffering nr the unem ployed and the Plight of the en tire economy makes it impera tive that the Congress detent the Administration jn all three ri eas The immediate fight centers on the jobless aid measure, a stopgap bill to grant 16 weeks or unemployment compensation to jobless workers regardless of their eligibility under state re strictions. The basic need ir, the unem ployment compensation program is tor new and adequate federal standards to correct the distor tions written into the program by the steles that has resulted in perversion of the original goal of giving an unemployed worker at least one-half his nor mal pay when out of work, for » reasonable period and with out a host of disqualification gimmicks. •The House committee bill does not measure up in this respect but it at least recognizes, even if only in passing, a federal re sponsibility for the unemployed and willingness to grant mean ingful emeigency aid. This move to alleviate suffer ing among the unemployed has drawn the threat of an Adminis tration veto or. the grounds that it would upset federal-state re lationships. fianl 5. It is not an easy task for a friend under such circum stance to try to help a charac ter like this who counts him self a free-lance; for Satan has him well bound and un der control, for he keeps him in the dark and frigidly cold. 6. Any attempt to puli away f»Viu this defth dealing grip takes something more than a slight wish or twist of the lip; the individual must take a dare and become determined to do right, or forever he will remain weak and be banished from God’s sight. 7. Satan, the powerful wrest ler uses more than a toehold, for he tries to get and keep men down before they grow old; his strategy is chicanery, deceit and hypocrisy. . . . and if men aren’t strong and smart he’ll gain the victory. S. Thus, certain definite rules of life one must early learn and against all tricks of Satan to remain stuborn and firm. . . for when he gets one twisted on RIGHT and WRONG, he knows the end isn’t, far along. s>. Our Adamic nature like to play with fine, and will drift to the point of even making Goa It is difficult to believe that the Administration has so little compassion or economic good sense that it would seriously mount a bitter battle to defeat, this stopgap measure. The Congress owes America's job-hungry workers, millions of whom are not now’ receiving un employment compensation, a measure of justice and compass ion. The Congress must enact this measure, weak as it is, AFL-CIO NEWS WHAT PRICE CRIME? In a desperate eifort to white wash the case for segregation, southern apologists are making much of crime statistics which show tha tthe percentage of ar rest:; and convictions for crime are higher among Negroes than among the general population. This southern attitude is, of course, another variant of the old story of the man who killed bis mother and father and then beged the court for mercy nn the ground that he was an or phan. The dispariiy in criminality is an attenduated result of the cen turies long denial of rights, pri vileges and oportunities to Ne groes, first as slaves and then as half slaves in the south and as second cl as citizens in other sections of thenation, No other American group has been sub jected to the same kind of op ■ ion. The nation has not only de nied the Negro access to docent job:? grid decern housing; it has aborted hope in the, hearts of the young and has frustrated the yearning of the ambitious. It has done its best to prove to Ne groes. young and old alike, that honesty and industry and appli cation to duty will avail them nothing. The frustrated Negro, too of ten, and without sny real reck oning of the ultimate cost, ha? slipped Into crime in an effort to compensated for what he can not get, or what it seems he can not get, as a law abiding citi zen. The segregationists have for ced these disparate crime sta tistics on public attention and people are saying that, the "Ne gro must Jo something." They out a liar, and minimizes the consequences of sin, when we make up our billious minds, at any price to win. 10. RIGHT, must design our choice, tor WRONG, with GOO. has no voice, in fact wrong thinking and WRONG action, fi nally drives a man to distract ion: there then remains nothine that he can build upon, and the next is Satan’s move when he is so far gone. 11. RIGHT and WRONG have always been at war, and Satan madly strives to make the high est score; he undermines and streamlines his every case, and delights to bring every weak ling to total disgrace; not only ■sad js such a situation, but the end is torment and eternal dnm narion. 12. What ?t pily some men can't see until it is too late, and finally must face such a terri ble fate. . . all because in due season they failed to pause and give serious consideration to God's Divine Laws; it is only then they will take a careful look at God's eternal Law Book . . . then pleading for a last es cape. they will sorrowfully find it .is all too late. are right: he must do something. The primary "something ' that he must do is to continue his re lentless pressure for first class citizenship He must continue to demand the full fruits of Am erican citizenship; he must, con tinue to hammer away until the Negro youngster in California and ir. Mississippi, can see clear ly that he can ge t the job for which he is prepared and that color is no barrier to realization of tegtimate aspirations or am amblions. The battle must con tinue until the time comes that the Negro baby starts out in the race to become president of ti ll i ted States on terms of equa , lily with the white youngster who born the same day. Above all, the Negro must teach other Americans that the so-called Negro problem, in the urea of crime statistics or in the realm of struggle for first class citizenship, isn't the Negro problem but is the problem of the manor in which the Negro is treated by the dominant, group. It. is the treatment of the Negro that is the problem, not the racial identification of those maltreated who slip into crime. —California Eagle DRAWING FALSE CONCLUSION 8 One comornn excuse we hear for not getting polio shots is that "there’s no reasons to wor ry about polio soy longer. Why. there were less than 6,000 cones in the whole United States lost, year," The person who says that ia well-informed on statistics. But the conclusion be draws is dangerously incorrect. Polio did 'iron off form 38,983 cases in 1905 to 15,400 in 1956. and then tc 6.894 in 1957. But the principal reason for the encour aging drop in incidence wan the fact that millions of American were taking advantage of the protection offered by the Salk vaccine. Most of the cases rec orded last year were fatally un necessary, the result of failure to vaccinate. It is difficult to some people to understand that they receive no protection whatever from Ihier neighbor’s vaccination. ATLANTA DAILY WORLD. JUST FOR FUN Bf MARCUS IL BOULWARE CORNVAh'S> AT THE FOOD SHOW As we look back upon the Annual Ccu oli/iirtii Home and Food Show, all my friend Corn yard can say is, "Man. it wiis real gone!” You see, Cornyard is one of jitterbugs whose mind is human but who acts like an insect. Thus with him, everything L real gone—real cool, and so on. •Con.yard registered at every booth for those valuable prize s, hut he won exactly nothing. Sh sh-.-h- - don’t say this very loud, hut you know one thing: I reg istered et every booth and twice at the door. Now I’m glad S didn’t win anything, because be ing on the Carolinian staff bar red me from taking part. Just think of the embarrassment t would have caused the Carolin ian had I won that set of Rog er's silver. (That's what I wanted to win i Cornyard said that the Carol inian Talent Show was the best ever. The contestants had the judges in a strut trying to de cide the winners. Cornyard also liked that Cat from the Blind and Deaf School, the one who played the piano “tub bass violin.” I thought the tones coming from the “tub bass violin” were “senders”. THE FEMALES WERE “lull ed into ecstacy" by that male crooner from Shaw University. Although his style was differ ent from that of Sam Cook's "I love you—l love—l love you", it nevertheless had (he same ef fect. Ladles, Cornyard was a bit jealous because he says that it doesn't make sense the way you carry or. over those love lyrics. But mind you. he has already arranged with a music tutor to take vocal lessons throe times a week. Cornyard urged me to take music lessons too, but. hut what's the use? You just Cordon B. Hancock's THE TAX FALLACY A few weeks past Richmond s afternoon daily was just bul ling over with results of a sur vey, patiently designed to prove what had been previously con cluded atvi that was, the fail ure of integration in the Wash ington public school system. In all fairness there should have been at least one good fact found about integration; but there was not one in the whole survey. Os course there was little sur prise at the biased findings from a survey conceived in bias. It is always true that most <>f these surveys "prove” what they arc designed to prow in matters pertaining to race relations. The Washington, survey not only ‘proved* that integration was a calamity; but the attempt made to show that disaster was about to be fall the capital of the nation in that the population?! ratios of whites and Negroes are gradually changing, with the Negro ratio getting gradually greater, while the white ratio a getting gradually less. The prospect for the future was an alarming one, for the tax-paying or non-taxpaying whites were moving to the sub urbs while the light ‘tax-paying or non-taxpaying Negroes mov ed into the heart of the Capitol. It took no economic prophet to foresee what was about to hap pen to Washington, and all ac cording to the data produced, was because of integration, •fust about time that the dis tressing information was ab sorbed and integration had re ceived one more bitter condem nation, it was revealed that ir: Richmond we have the same movement of whites to the sub urbs and Negroes into the city. Bui it. must be remembered Richmond has no integration anti just why Richmond, with out. integration, would have the same phenomenon as Washing ton has with it, has not been By C. A. CHICK THE ADVANTAGES OF STOCK OWNERSHIP IN LARGE CORPORATIONS One of the many advantages of investing in thr stocks of corporations, and especially in large corporations, is that one can get in the worldwide mar kets with -i small amount of money. If an individual attempt to be an enterpriser with a small amount of capital, he can sel dom, if ever, expect bis market to be ary larger than the im mediate community of his es tablishment. If the individual happens 1,0 deal in a very rare commodity or service, the foregoing is not necessarily true. But it should be pointed out that there are re lativeiy sow rare commodities ot services. That is to say most commodities and services, gen erally speaking, may be secured from more than one dealer. Another advantage in owning stocks in large scale corporation is that one gets the advantages of researches carried on by such business establishments. Large corporations spend millions and millions of dollars annually on research projects. Many of the research projects result in new commodities and services as well as improvements in com modities and services in exis tent*? at any given time. can t teach an old dog ne w tricks.” Boy, I chuckled Thursday r.i-'ht at, the Food Show when Announcer Bernes, the Carolin ian s promotion ace. said: Car nation silk will make bad cof fee taste good!” IMAGINE THAT?: alking with a lady the other day, the con versation led her to say this in commenting on JUST FOR FUN: "Your writing style is not !ik“ you: it's vivacious and eager, but you look SACRED.” Sacred—me, sacred, I began to feel holy. When I told Cornyard this, he laughed himself to death. Then my friend remark ed: Say DOC, I think you'd bet ter get a little dose of devil in you." My friends, can you im- •unne that? No, it's not funny, hut go on a laugh if you want to. GET A LOAD OF THIS. Two skur.ks were talking, and one said to the other, “Look, vou wants play some gin rummy?' ‘‘Okay," wes the reply. "What shall we play for ” “Oh!" answered the first, "how about a scent n point?" | YOU BET IT WON’T HAP- | PEN?: Cornyard was watching ; me wash dishes one evening * and he said to mo: “You know, DOC, rn or* and more wives want their husbands to do more house work.” I sa’d. "Yes, the coming gen eration of females believe their mothers made a mistake by not putting men in harness the min ute they married. They say they won't repeat this mistake.” Cornyard answered, “I ean't help but. snicker at married male friends doing housework. It won’t happen to me and you may lay to that.” "Wants bet?” I answered * I'm just waiting for some fe male like Annie Belle t.o snag “ole" Cornyard and rope him in. made clear by the rabid segre* gationist daily. Here was a sur vey withfindinge back-firing. If segregated cities have the same populations! movements as the integrated cities how are we to bin me it. all on integration” mu . e. -4 • _ ?- • j _ _ , i.iu L-.lt-fc iis. High 14a » fli I’ driving !he wealthy classes to seek relief in the country and the suburbs. This explains why the great oid mansions in our olios are being given away. The whites of wealth and means are seeking tax relief and Ihus mo ving out. while the Negro with 'ms Inferior economic status is moving, in. Integration therefore is not the explanation. - If the nation could be con- vinccd that giving the Negro economic equality would cush ion the municipal trouble? which follow this moving out on the part of whites and the mov ing in on the part of Negroes, there would not be any great calamity after all. The remedy therefore for the developing sit ution is more economic oppor tunity for the Negro and not less for the white man. The trouble underlying this new population movement is s deep-seated economic one, and not racial. In treating this de veloping situation, much is of ten made of the fact that Ne groes are light tax-payers as compared with the whites. But sight is often lost of the fact that labor is one of the factors of production and that all tax«F nre made possible by labour even as taxes are made possible by capital The great working Negro population of this coun try is a great factor in prodrr lio nont of which all taxes must ultimately come. The tax fallacy that Negroes do not pay taxes persists. It persists because it is based up on race prejudice of those who * stubornly refuses to let the Ne gro go. It may help just a little to know that tax argument is » fallacy. Tim foregoing, of course, means more and better commo dities and services for the con summing public which in turn means more money for the stockholders of corporations Small business concerns cannot be expected to spend money on research projects. They do not , have it to spend. Moreover, large corporations, because of the large amount of capital they have at their dispo sal, are able to employ effici ent workers and executives. Mind vuu this large amount of capital al tha disposal of isj'fie corporation comes from a * large number of individuals .modest incomes. But such indi viduals are not afraid to invest. Large corporations count their . tockholders by the thousands. Again it cannot be over empha sized that it does not require large: sums of money to become an investor in the stocks of large corporations. Let’s hurry and make haste and see our broker seeking ad vice pertaining to sound plan of investing in the stocks ot large corporations. By so doing we can take a small amount of money and by pooling it with % other investors in such stock get the advantages of world-wide markets, of the findings of Te- searches, and top grade work- j ors and executives.
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