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THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 17, IMS 4 -i Editorial Viewpoint wtnrar*■■■«*■ w ■Mi*m,SAuwtunr«an B *tr*wwMHMr 1 -| -|iii.ihuh«i )■ The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of of the scornful. 2. But his delight is in the lew of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and Good Government Better When May 31 arrives the citizens of Ra leigh and Wake County will have the oppor tunity to vote for three candidates to take seats in the N. C. House of Representatives. Between now and then you ought to study the past record of the encumbents and the quali fications and promises of the candidates who are running for the first time. If you are a registered voter, you should aonsider including Nelson H. Hams among the three candidates you vote for to fill the three seats In the State House of Represents* tives. Nelson H, Harris will make a good gov ernment better. What the Negro citizens of Wake County weed Is a man who will represent them in the House of Representatives. In the past, our leg islators have worked for the interest of the majority group-paying very little attention to the urgent needs of Negroes. A Negro candidate like Nelson H. Harris. ft elected, will cell attention to the problems that especially affect the minority group in the State. He will work for legislation designed t 8 help the "man farthest down." Hts words Training School At Goldsboro The public’s attention should be called con tinually to the new North Carolina Training school for educable and trainable Negro youth This brand-revy $4.5 million institution opened its doors in September, 1957. and is located in Goldsboro. Dr. M. M. Vitols. superintendent. State Hos pital. is the administrator of this school, while Mr. William J. Waters is the director of the program of education and training. The school has an enrollment capacity for 600 persons, but at present it lists 226 pupils. If there is a need to increase its capacity, it can bedone. Special training is provided through the fol lowing departments: Academic School, Basic Training. Religious, and Vocational Training Physical Education, and Vocational Training and Guidance. Each department has a di re dor and several assistants. The school will accept mentally retarded persons educable who. because of slow’ mental development, are unable to profit from the program in the regular elementary school. They can, however, learn many things in this special school. Their retardation is such that they are able to learn some of the academic skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic up to about the fourth-grade level by 16 years State Teacher Scholarships A high school graduate who plans to teach in the state of North Carolina, and who needs Saancial assistance, would dc well to make Inquiry and apply for one of the 635 scholar ship loans available to prospective North Car olina teachers on a non-racial basis. The Department of Public Instruction of ficial in charge. Niles Hunt, has reported that » committee working on eligibility for these scholarships states that of the 1.043 applica tions received to date 570 of them have been processed. The committee also reports that of the 570 triplication'' which have been processed, 2 00 have been classified as ‘'good prospects.” Scholarship loans are made to qualified high school and college students who plan to make teaching a career. Students may borrow $350 a year at 4 per cent interest. Jn this editorial, we want to stress the point that atwierts receiving these scholarship loons The Philadelphia Tribune, May 10 Issue, made reference to restrictions which barred Negroes from registering and voting in South ern States. In part it said: "Just last year the Congress, acting in this area for the first-time in nearly 100 years theoretically legislated away the barriers to free and unfettered voting by Negroes in the Deep South ” The editorial said further that "Negro reg istration in the Southland is a virtual stale mate because of the arrogant tactics of Dixie authorities and the vicious—and at times violent—arts of expanding White Citizens Councils.’’ Let us grant that Negroes in the South have been hampered in their efforts to register and vote. But the present, small number, that reg The trend in the coat of education in North Carolina is spiraling upward. How far it can swing in this direction with regards to Negro college students is a matter deserving serious consideration. There is a limit to their ability to pay for an education. Figure* released by the Office of Education show that college costs have doubled since 1Q3g„40. The average amount spent by stu dents at public college? last term was $1,500. Private college students spent approximately $2,000. The average in 1935-40 was S’47 for a Student in a public college, and $1,023 for * private college student We Hardly Think So What Can We Pay? whatsoever he doeth shall prosper 4. The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. x Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in congregation of the righteous. 6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the wsy of the ungodly shall perish, will sear the “legisladvti conscience** with re spect to matters relating to unemployment and labor, public welfare and human betterment, desegregation of schools, morals and religion, and life and death. Nelson H- Harris la the only man in th# race, who, by reason of his experience as one of our group, can persuasively and sincerely lay before State House of Representatives our petition for elemental justice. Like Modeda W. Johnson, in his classic oration, Harris will “call upon (legislators) to kindle anew’ about the cruicible of race relationships the. firea of American faith.” The Negro needs skilled jobs its Raleigh and Wake County, and he needs facilities for train ing him to do these jobs. This is perhaps the crux of all his other problems. Someone must make known these- needs to the political edu cational. and industrial leaders of the State. The man who can do this well is Nelson H. Harris. If you vote for Nelson H Harris, he wiH make good government better! of age This is why they are call “educable n It is expected, however, that the greater por tion of the enrollment at the school wall con sist of mentally retarded persons trainable. These youth are not able to profit from the program designed for the mentally retarded educable, but they have potentialities for learning (1) self-care, (2) social -adjustment in thefamily and neighborhood, and (3) econom ic usefulness in the home, in a residential school, os in a soeiurfed crivironmcnt. Many of them have inadequate speech and language skills, and they will require some care, supervision, and economic support throughout their lives. Their mental develop ment is approximately one-quarter to one-half that of an average individual They are gen erally not capable of learning academic skills such as reading and arithmetic beyond the rote learning of some words or simple numbers. There is no known cure for mental defici ency but r.o one can tell what the future holds for each pupil. The Goldsboro Training School is interested in the trainable potential of each child enrolled. We urge each citizen In North Carolina to take time out and visit this school, and he will be amazed and gratified at the program and its facilities- do not have to repay them if they teach one year for each $350 scholarship loan received. For example, if a student gets four $350 schol arship loans, he must teach at least four years in North Carolina. If a student decides not to teach in North Carolina, it is required that he repay the schol arship loan plus 4 per cent interest. These scholarships are awarded on the basis of a fund established by the last General As sembly. and State school officials expect the scholarships to relieve the teacher shortage by 1961. We must hasten to add, however, that there is no shortage of Negro teachers in this state. We are urging eager, alert, and competent Negro students to apply for these scholarships if they have decided upon teaching as a career. The letters should be addressed to the Teacher Scholarship Committee, N. C Department of Public Instruction. Raleigh, North Carolina. isters to be eligible to vote, cannot be blamed entirely upon the arrogant, tactics of the South. Much of tiv trouble- can be traced to- most Negroes* apparent lack of interest in register ing and voting. Pnc of the best examples of the Negro's lack of interest in registering was shown recently during the period which closed May 9 in Wake County. We estimate that 5,000 Negroes were qualified, but only 500 to 700 registered Many times, in order to get people to the precinct to register and vote, a committee of friends must remind them by telephone and transport them to and from the voting place. Southern States may prevent many people from voting, but today the greatest hindrance is the lack of interest on the part of thousands of Negro citizens* The average amount spent by the Negro college student in North Carolina last term was $675. This is approximately SBOO less than the amount spent by college students in the nation as a whole. We know that the average Negro college student cannot afford to pay $1,500 (state college) and $2,000 (private college) annually for his education. While it is urgent that coi leges get a fairer return from student fees, they must not close the door in the face of worthy young men and women who come from families in the low inco?x?e bracket Period Os Calm? See That They Never Reach The Floor EtnoLsaMK " BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP i HRIST S POPULARITY 1. Christ's popularity was due to his singularity, Divine Sin cerity and Humility, and with these He lifted lives and brought them out of obscurity, 2. He drew crowds, but didn’t go along with them —said what He meant, and meant what H® said, though He had not where U> tay His ’ icad. 3. He Jlicl not pattern after anyone else... no one was great er than He; He was wholly truthful and imparital in any case and never made any dis tinctions between any Race. 4. If folks were only looking for just a man about town, this was r.ot the man commonly found, for He was followed by great thorngs, even though He admonished them of their wrongs. 5. There was something so un usual about His nature that a long any subject He could ap What Other Editors Say THE ENEMIES OF THE SOUTH The South has long had the idea that somebody wanted to destroy it. It has pictured itself as the misunderstood section of the nation, This State Os Mind got start ed when slavery was first put under the band by a shocked Christian conscience. Right then began the work of making the South believe that the rest of the nation was against it. It. took slave owners thirty years ;o convince the South that the other parts of the country were out to ruin it. Toe outcome of the Civil War plus the long pov erty-stricken years "that follow ed it firmly embedded this con viction in Southern thinking. It has been used by racists and po liticians looking for a cheap way to make a political campaigns ever since. There may well have some truth in all of this No doubt there were people, in the South and out of the South who felt that it would lie better to de stroy a society built upon hum an slavery than to let that so ciety poison and destroy th* other three fourths which were built upon human freedom. However what the so called “en emies of the South” really were trying to do, was to tear out this malignant growth and re store its health. Mo responsible element ever wanted to destroy the South. The South, however does have its enemies, They are. however, rot. in Washington, or New York or Chicago. The people who have done most to destroy the South are Southerner*. Almost from the beginning certainly from the time of the bringing in of the first slave* the South has poisoned its life by defending an economic and social system which all think ing people held to be uneeonom and desructive of society based upon democratic principles. It mined out the fertility that sla very and plantation practices left the South bereft of a basic wealth—the fertility of its soil. Likewise the ‘way of life." ro manticized about, which in real ity was based upon first slavery and the Inter upon discrimina tion against the freed Negro, be came an undertow which drag ged down the white worker's fear of race mixing to kill off efforts of organization and poli tical action. They have even been able to get white workers to dc their dirty work for them. Who here is the enemy of the South? proach any creature. , „ when heart* became faint and filled with dismay, all He had to say is come, “l AM THE WAY.” 6. His magnetic power could permeate a crowd, and poor souls afflicted would cry aloud; blind Bartimaeu* heard Hun passing by one day. and instan taneously was able to throw hi* yti'O v 7. Ho could sneak, and listen ing to His voice, new hfe the dead would receive .. the morn ful broken hearts would rejoice, and the humble, poor believe. 8 His popularity is the same today, while others, once power ful are now moulded in the clay and forgotten, but Christ’s death on Calvary lives on. though the Cross thru the age* has rottered. 9 Even today in any Court, we swear by that blessed B --ok that contains His noble Report, and of this Isaiah spoke 630 A Minister of the Christian faith must stop at times and ask himself who it is that makes life so difficult for a southern min ister? He must at times find it impossible to ignore the glaring violations of his faith and pro fessions— based as they are on the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man—- and he must admit in his inner soul— tho he dares to say it openly that it is the Byrds, the host lands, the Talmadges, that make hfc so hard for him. These people are slowly but surely destroying the South. They keep wages down They keep people from having the vote. They create an intellectual climate which bright young people feel holds no promise and from which they to escape. They make religion an insincere thing and give adherents of de mocracy the feeling of being hypocrites and cowards They saddle all people of goodw ill with a feeling of guilt which adds on to the day's work play or worship. These are the ene 'miss of the South. —by Aubrey Williams, Editor, Southern Farm And Home, President Southern Conference Educational Fund —The Shreveport Sun SOUTHERN PRESBYTER IA N S SET LAUDABLE EXAMPLE Under a Charlotte, North Ca rolina headline, the Presbyterian Church in the TJ. S, A. (South ern) went on record last Tues day as overwhelmingly oppos ing the use of church buildings for classrooms as a means to cir cumvent tho Superome Court ruling outlawing segregation in the public schools. This action came on the final day of its 98th Annual General Assembly. The council has frequently ex pressed opposition to segrega tion and voiced liberal views on other social issues. The church pointed out its ad herence to the principles of the separation of church and state, and its responsibility to deter mine the use of local church fa cilities. Thusly. this denomination sets an example of the stewardship the general church owes to this age of frustration and unsettled conditions in our civic and so cial arena. It spells out the re sponsibility of the church and cities as well a* the good offices and usages within the compass of Christian practices at the command of all religious bodies. We have said ail along that in such crisis as affect human re lations and our social orders, the years before His arrival, and in a*i of the years sine*, Christ, has never had a Rival. 10. His popularity, even the Grave could not conquer. . . for even the three days while He slept, the Roman soldiers mark ed vigilance kept; but when He unlocked the sealed Tomb Door, it was then thev set anew His popularity to explore. 11. Men of high rank have come and gone, and the earth has taken on a multitude of forms, but He the Son of God has weathered ail the storms; and now as if He had just be gun. He spans heaven and earth, while He holds in perfect bal* ante the Stars. Moor, and Sun. 12. His Popularity, it will Mer er end. for He the Rock of Ages •'Ail! always stand; His King dom will ever spread from shorn to shore, ’till Moon shall wax and wane no more, church had an enviable oppor tunity to arbitrate in such mat ters as we face today in regaids to the moves on the part of some deep states to go to the extreme of closing the schools if such is the only alternative for the stay ing off the enforcement of the decision handed down hy the highest court in the land. These are times in which re ligious bodies can implement the full force of their impact tow ard law and order and those declarations stressed toward the ends of the fatherhood of Good and the brotherhood of man. The church ought to be a mighty in fluence and a balancer in the equation of moderation and jus tice for all the people. So. the Southern Presbyter tot-isms have set another admir able example which we all can wisely Mow. It further states. 'The conscience cannot rest content with any level or com pulsive arrangement that brands any people as inferior, which denies them the uiii rignt of citizenship on the ground of race color or social status, or which prevents them from developing to the fullest possible extent the potentialities with which they aw individuals have been en dowed by the Creator.’’ Such a manifesto on the part of the southern white Christian body deserves more than pass ing mention: it commands the dignity and respect in its con tent ’ which whould spread throughout cur whole social fa bric. Atlanta Daily World. IN THIS OUR DAY By DR C. A. CHICK. SR "CLOSINGS’ The thought for this article was prompt by the fact that everywhere schools on all lev els are getting ready for incur “closings.” So the thought came to me that by and large life, is composed of a series of "clos ings” At this season of the year everybody connected with school work is in a rush. I dare say that but few students as well as but few. professional workers in schools have accom plished all they planned for Ihe current school year. Thus, we are now "doubling M JUST FOR FUN BF MARCUS It BO UL WARE THOSE SACK- DRESSES COBNYAHD and l dropped in on flhe Bull Corner’s Club at the back of Jhuc Wright's Barber Shop, Guess who was there? There was "Speed Ball'’ Eddy. Jim Cloud, Fellow Gore, and ‘‘Pin Head” Jonc-s. Somehow the conversation drifted to those sack dresses and Chemise worn by today's wom en. I drew from my pocket a clip ping from the SHREVEPORT SUN (Louisiana! it included a number of statements on thi* question, and I read the follow ing to the boys: MAN "A" (The Trapes?. Chemise, Balloon) “To me they look like a sack of potatoes without potatoes. They are just a throwback to the styles of the ‘Roaring 20’s.’ " (Ladies, can you imagine that?) MAN “B” “I think that they are terrible. The ‘Sack’ (Chem ise i looks like a loose piece of cloth thrown over i person's head.” (Ladies, what? wrong with this man’s head? He must be seeing things!) MAN C— "On some people they look good and on some they don't; n all depends on ones build The ‘Balloon’ dresses are too short and the ‘Sack’ is not for me.’ (Cornyard remarked that be thought they were “Crazy man-Crazy! He said, *T think the styles are quite flattering to high school and college girls. *> Then my friend, Cornyard said. “DOC, what do you think about these styles?” Turning the question over jp my mind for a minute, I answer ed: "They are out of this world find belong to planets like Mars, and they give hoih young and mature women that Space Look --Balloons. Turnips, and Chem ise The Chemise and Baloon make most women look good.” Ladies, if you like Cornyard'* and my evaluation, drop us a card, SHE WANTED BEES; Tn Atkins. Arkansas. (This hr for realii a woman visited .Pud For- Cordon B. Hancock's BETWEEN the LINES a dangerous symptom News accounts in both white and Negro newspapers of Ne groes slaymg other Negroes ap pear with alarming frequency. It is at times sickening to note the viciousness that Negros* have for one another. With a great sector of the white press committed to the defamation of the race and with the Negro newspapers filled with accounts of Negroes mur dering other Negroes, we have a sordid picture that is depress ing Os course the phenomenon can be explained, but what we ned i> not explanation but pre vention. As has been, said here in before, the Negro resents his oppression and his repression and the discrimination that af flicts him and stays his onward course. Being largely divested of po wer to retaliate against the white oppressors, he turns upon his own race with the fury of an ,iv -nging ante!, and too often w ith fatal results. More econo mic opportunity and more re lief from the rigors and inhu manities of segregation would relieve the Negro of his bitter restenfmente lhat lead him to de stroy his own people. When we shall have explained that this intraracial animosity .stems from the Negro's oppres sion by whis white fellowmen, we art still far from the solu tion of this dangerous symptom thnt seems to manifest itself wherever Negroes are found in considerable, numbers. For generations the Negroes h.w' in one another in the Southern cities: Bui within re cent years ibis slaughter of Ne groes by other Negroes, is being carried to our Northern centers of population and so our north ern cities arc plagued with the Necrn slayer on slaughter ben*. This is one of the evils of seg gic*«tlon and Too often our white brethren re nounce the solemn obligation that they arc their colored bro thivF keeper. This same tendency' to slaugh ter ore another is also manifest among some Negro higher ups. All toe, often one Necrn of sup posed importance attempts so at tain unto greater importance by disparaging other egro leaders 11 has came about that our all ton scarce Negro authors, spend entirely too muc Mime on what thev call “debunking” some Ne gro greats. time” endeavoring to make ‘ home bare” before the closing day. And so is life. We arc con stantly closing something By the time v/e get; ready for one sea con c£ the year, it Is time for another one. Thus, we cannot enjoy tltti “reedy” for making arrangements for the next sea son. We hardly get our winter clothes out before spring ar rives And. then comes summer, fali, and winter again. As individuals we are con stantly passing from one age level to another. From “babies" we pass into the preadolescence stage, and before wo learn to live the foregoing we are in the stage of adolescence, the age of •crises,” All of us who have passed through the stage of ad olescence recall what a crisis it was in our lives. No body seem ed to have understood, and car ed less, about our problems Tester's apiary and offered in pay him to let some bees sting her. Forrester gallantly refused the offer but the woman persisted, saying: “I have rheumatism and need four stings on each knee and one on each arm.” Forrester let his bees sting the woman—free! WHAT BREVITY: Airplane pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, a taciturn duo, hated to make speeches. Once, at a lun cheon, they were scheduled to >peak before a group of inven tors. The toastmaster called on* 1 Wilbur. “There must bs some mi»- take,” stammered Wi'tbur. “Or ville Is the one who does the talking.” Th,* toastma-ter turned to Or vi!J \ The latter stood up »nw said: "Wilbur Just made th* speech.” HORSE NAME ANDY: When boy in South Carolina, a man used to come by our house sell-* ing veget.aobles. He. drove a two* wheel cart and usually m#dk this sales talk: 'T have a little horse named 'Andy’, and I send him to school to learn the rules. And he learn* them very welL 1 go to the Springstin* (man* of textile mill) where th* mow-* *y never fihlne; I go to tb* Eureka (a mill) wh*r* f get mr money quicker, “1 got beets—-not fivs b that lay around and loaf on th* streets, nut the beet* that yon can cook. pickle snd eat. , “Where is my cabbage lady fray mother)? Today is Batu** day and tomorrow is Sunday better get enough to do you hi! Monday.” Then Uncle Andy moved or s )o the next corner where K* started all over again. He was, * master salesman, and Til never forget him as long a* I live. A FRIENDLY CHUCKLE: A woman used to ask a doctor j| she could have children. Now she asks the landlord? It began with the rise of Book er T. Washington. There have always been a coterie of Negroes of limited importsnca, who rd to i'eei uiat U> prove that Washington was a high class renegade would prove themsei- -r ves great Long after Washington ha be come one of Americas immor tals and has been enshrined in the Hall of Fame, there are still to be found hecklers and snip ers who golry in trying to prov r that Washington was not found on tile race question. There is one monumental fact and that is Washington built Tuskegee in Alabama. He did not operate from New York or Chicago. He built Tuskegee m Alabama of the Confederal* South. It was just as bold and heroic for Washington to say and do what he said and did in his days «•* for the current would b« great Negro to say and do what ha is currently saying and do ing. At least Booker T. Wash ington challenged the lien of race prejudice in hi* very den. Moreover he got away with it. and founded and left for com ■ng generations, the monument that is Tuskegee. This article is inspired by the subtle refer ence made within recent year* and months in books authored by Negro writers. AH to frequently our budding authors take a dig at Booker T„ f- Washington and his philosophy. Booker T. Washington’s philoso phy was k&rfely one of surviv al The Negro hae not only *ur i ivod and advanced but he s* bidding feir to achieve the full stature of American citizenship. The sheer survival of the N«- aio of the South and in th* South is one of the highest tri butes that can be paid to Book er T. Washington's leadership. If he had said what Negroes cun say today and if Negroes of his day had tried to do whet Ne groes of today are trying to do, the Negro race would not have survived. But back to our point of * dangerous sj’mptom. This pen chant for the would be Negro lender to kill off and discredit other Negro lenders is extreme -- dangerous. It took a Tuske gee to produce a Montgomery. It took a Booker T. Washing lon to produce a Martin Luther King. The “ducicides’’ are just itching to dim the brilliance of -* the hero of Montgomery. which were so ' grave to us.” But soon we were adults, just about the times we had learned to live joyfully a* adolescences. There again so few of us wenj* ready for adulthood when we reached that stage in our lives. But we had to close the adoles cence -tage. Many of us are still adolescence in our actions. W« are not able to assume the re sponsibilities of adulthood. No sooner than we have learned to be adults than we passed into that stage of our lives that no doubt most of us dread to see, namely "old age.” We are gen erally not ready to close Kh« adul?. periods of our lives. Blessed are those individual* of life who so live that they are ready for the closings of life, whatever they may be. And, su premely blessed are those who so live lahl when the Gro*H Summons comes to close out their lives