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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JUNE 21, 1958 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S 1 WORDS OF WORSHIP 1. Hear me when 1 call. O God my righteous ness’ thou best enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. 2.0 ye sons of men how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love van ity, and seek after leasing? Selah. 3. But know hat the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I .call unto him. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Salute To Catholic Grads After four or five years of integration, Ra - leigh’s Cathedral Latin Roman Catholic High School graduated last week three Negro stu dents the largest yet in a single class. Last year one other student was graduated. The three Negro students were Christeen Blackwell, Charleen Marie Keck, and Delores Ann Smith. They were among the sixteen per sons who received their diplomas. We salute these students for their high achievement. They have completed a mile The Clennon King Case One of the strangest cases of our times is that of Professor Clennon King, who was re cently fired from Alcorn A and M. College, Lorman, Mississippi Most recently Vie flam ed into notice when he attempted to register at the all-white University of Mississippi to pursue a program of studies leading to the doctorate in history. According to newspaper accounts. Ciennon King was snatched from the registration lines by officers of the state highway patrol, held incommunicado for 24 hours, and then com mitted to a hospital for the insane for obser vation. Presently an attempt is being made by King’s wife and his attorney to free him from, the state mental hospital where psychiatrists are seeking to learn if he is insane. Mrs. Anne King, the man’s wife, has requested a writ of habeas corpus in a petition recently filed in a circuit court. This case has many strange twists, but we hardly think Clennon King is mentally insane. This belief is held in the face of .the alleged charge that King was running around in the halls of the administration building yelling. “Help, help, help ...” Our readers well remember the support King received from his white segregationist support ers when he wrote the series of controversial articles condemning the NAACP. So strong was this support that King held his position at the college when the institution wanted to fire him. King drew his salary even though he did not teach. But when the man sought to enroll in the University of Mississippi, his segregationist supporters deserted him and are now crying out. “He is mentally insane.” The explanation LJUky fiC lb 111 til tail Jr’ liISCIiIV,. * VApiUI.MWiV/41 ‘ ' » Freedom Os Opportunity One of the characteristics of our educational intern in the past decade or two has been its preoccupation with the slow learner or poor student. This has resulted in “passing" many persons who should have failed. We are now beginning to realize that the granting of such unearned benefits to the in tellectually poor, or the just plain lazy, has only compounded and prepetuated the diffi culty. And yet the trend in many of our schools is to continue this practice. Our concentration on the poor student has been accomplished only by a corresponding neglect of the better student, end this neglect has been costly. The lesson learned is that excessive concentration on the welfare of the intellectually poor has not only failed to help him but that such policies have had an effect of causing the intellectually rich to lose initia tive in providing brain power for progress. There is no way for schools to “give” an North Carolina Gold Mine There is an old saying abut some people not being able to see the forest for the trees. Reversing the addage. it can be said that many North Carolinians fail to see a single tree in its proper perspective, as an instrument for pros - perity and progress. Foresty experts tell us that a single pine seedling, growing from 17 to 20 years will pro duce 500 pounds of wood. This can be converted into 120 pounds of tough kraft paper, from which can be made 3.600 twelve-pound bags, or 3,000 five-pound sugar bags, or 500 fifteen-pound bags. Os course, paper products is only one phase of wood uses. These figures provide a simple yet impres sive example of the economic value of a tree here in North Carolina. They, also point up The Palmer Institute Feud In recent issues of the daily newspapers, we learned that the trustees of Palmer Memorial Institute at Sedalia, North Carolina, were seeking a court order to restrain Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown—the retired priniipal—from interferring with the administration of the school It was stated that, inspite of warnings and pleas to desist from such interferrence, Dr Brown went so far as to tell the students dur ing chapel assembly she was running the school. Sorely this was embarrassing to the Selah. j 5. There be many that say, Who will show | us any good? Lord, lift thou up the. light of I thy countenance upon us. i 6. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and | put your trust in the Lord. f 7. Thou has put gladness in my heart more | than in time that their com and their wine I increased. : 8. I will both lay me down In peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest fe dwell In safety. „ stone along life's mystic way. We know that they will prove worthy of the thorough and re ligious training they have received under the guidance of Sisters dedicated to a sacred cause. We also salute the Most Rev. Vincent Wa ters, Bishop of Raleigh, for the forthright cou rage with which he ordered desegregation iri Catholic parochial schools. This made pos sible the graduation of the three girls we are saluting in this editorial. for this state of affairs is obvious. We are disturbed very much about this man —Clennon King. What is he trying to prove? At one time he plays cards with the ‘“segre gationists”; and, in the next breath, he de mands his right as a citizen of Mississippi to enroll in the state university. Once he wrote controversial articles that drew the wrath of his students; and then he said he was misun derstood because his students would not listen to his explanation. We wonder if King is sincere in his attempt to enter the University of Mississippi, or does be have in mind receiving a financial handout trom the whites who would offer such com pensation to get him to relinquish his fight to enroll at the all-white institution? This is the seconG time -Mississippi. has charged Negroes with being mentally insane. Not too long ago. a militant editor was com mitted to the state mental hospital for obser vation and treatment. His friends—black and white spirited him away from the hospital in a coffin and transported him to Chicago. Charging people with insanity because they dare to demand their freedom and rights —is a dangerous trend. And it can reach gigan tic proportions if not “nipped in the bud” at once. While other states are concentrating on the passage of anti-desegregation legislation, they may resort to the Mississippi technique of “mental incompetence.” We believe that King will be released but warned not to put his foot on the campus of the white institution again. Whenever he is released, we would like for him to tell us something about himself and why he made the sudden right-about-face. education; and yet, in one sense of the word, that is just what vve are doing everyday for many of our students. We are letting our sym pathy for the student and his problems run wild. We tend to excuse him for his poor back ground instead of making him enrich his back ground before proceeding with his education. An education must be eariied. Schools should provide the opportunity for education, but that is all. If schools “guarantee” that you will pass, why learn? If God guaranteed heav en, why be virtuous? If the government guar anteed a living, why work? Os course, none of these things can be guaranteed. The schools and the government are incapable, and God is too wise. All that can reasonably be pro • vided is opportunity. The practice of socially promoting students —regardless of what they achieve—must be stopped. The space age demands students who earn their grades. the importance of forestry development to ouf present and future prosperity. In the broadest sense, it can be said that money grows on trees in North Carolina, with our wealth becoming larger year after year aa our forestry industry keeps on expanding. Since cotton and tobacco are becoming less and less profitable to farmers in the state, perhaps the answer to their problems is an expanding of forestry. Negro farmers who have numerous acres of 'forest land may find that they have “acres of diamonds" at their dis posal. Should the development of forestry on a larger scale give rise to varied new indus tries, it is our hope that the«e new industries will empyoy Negroes—without discrimination -—in skilled and semi-skilled capacities. new principal whose authority was challenged not once but several times. That the trustees were forced to take such action is indeed regrettable, but we learned they had no other course. We like to think of Dr. Brown as the wom an, who against great odds, founded a pre paratory school in that neck of the woods where promising Negro youth, could be trained and developed into a “cream of the crop.” We would like to remember her as a “wom an of high calling” and one who became es teemed as her years of retirement increased. Only Civil Rights At Home Can Make . Our World Leadership Possible BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANT HIGH LIFE 1. Some take advantage of the elasticity of the English language and stretch, it into many, odd statements 'that ap pear grammatical, but in fact, are impracticable. 2. This is true of the above subject which has been tv. lut ed for worldly gain and profit, and instead of meaning a high er plane of real life, it is used to enhance business, whatever the cost of drunkeness or strife. 3. This has caused the deatn of many an innocent person traveling along life’s highway trying to do good to everybody while good-timers carried on foul play. 4. So-called High-Life has taken its toll and heaped de struction in its wake: oil sane persons should, eschew its paths, and all of its entice ments forsake. 5. For when ensnared within its bewitching precincts, few live to tell the story after par taking of its poisonous drinks. What Other Editors Say POPCORNLESS CULTURE Popcorn may be an integral part of United States culture but it’s not cultural enough to be a part of the United States exhibit at Brussels. At least that’s the report an indignant Nashville, Term., popcorn pro moter brings back from the fair. He thought the US pa vilion should have a popcorn stand; but, he 3aid, “They told me that popcorn wasn’t cul tured enough to get in." He added that this was the first world fair In 50 years without a popcorn stand. It is evident that the US is not running its exhibit as a profitmaking enterprise. Num erous movie theatre managers would be the first to testify that the show couldn’t be a going concern without a pop corn concession. —T!me»-Pitayune FINE BLUE PRINT FOR ACCIDENT PREVENTION Well worthy of review, an alysis and public discussions are the major recommenda tions outlined by Garland Lyell, Assistant Attorney Gen eral for the State of Missis sippi, as a delegate to hte re cent meeting of the President's Committee for Traffic Safety in Miami. Presenting Mississippi's re port on the needs of traffic safety from the statewide view, Mr. Lyei! covered a wide range of objectives for accident pre vention programs. Os these, ru are especially noteworthy, as follows: 1. Laws permitting police to use medically accepted chemi cal tests for intoxication. 2. Driver education as a part, of the high school curriculum, supported by state aid to cut the accident, potential by half. 3. Increase Highway Patrol strength to meet recommended standards. 4. Legislation to improve fa culties of traffic courts and qualifications of judges in such courts. 5. Legislation requiring peri odic motor vehicle inspection as prescribed by Chapter 13 of the Uniform Code. e.Uniform driver license law'. Present law is out-dated and easy to evade. While the foregoing recom mendations admittedly require increased expenditures, Mis sissippi would benefit in lives saved and accidents prevented-. The next session of the 6. Who then cares in this realm how many have been tricked, after many have fallen prey and the tavern till drawer has satisfactorily clicked. 7. Mankind ought always to be alert, for the so-called High Life patrons are always ready to flirt . . . and nothing will they spare to make a sale, and care not for the ouslaught of misfortunes that follow in their trail, 8. O’ man. due precaution take when choosing a proper path for your feet . . . ail e!se is sinking sand and bound for quick defeat, if Christ, the Sol id Rock, you evade and listen to Satan’s beguiling trade. 9. Nothing but the Cross of Christ as an eternal guidepcst can direct a soul aright; it is m this Cross of Christ men glory, towering o’er tire wrecks of Time , . . this is the only true story that leads to heights sublime. 10. There is a real High-Life toward which all men should Legislature should give fullest consideration to the six point program which Mr. Lyell pre sented on behalf of our state at the Miami conference. It provides the basis for a chieving a new plateau of ac cident prevention accomplish ment in Mississippi, an objec tive which urgently needs all possible support and coopera tion at every level. —CLARION LEDGER, Jackson, Miss. POWELL THROUGH? It looks like Congressman Adam Clayton Powell may be through. He has not only loss the support of Tammany Hall and the local Democratic Negro leaders, but the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People has declared against him. The action of the NAACP may turn the trick. Anyway it comes, the removal of Powell from Congress will be a good riddance. It is good to see that his own race now regards him as a liability rather than an asset. —News and Observer SIGNS DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS The taking down of Jim- BY DR. C. A. CHICK, SR. POOR SALESMANSHIP It is a ■well known fact that with the exception of ministers, teachers (The word “teacherc” 'nr the purpose of this article has reference to classroom tea chers) are the poorest paid of all the professional workers, A recent release by McGraw-llill Publishing Company pertaining to the salaries of college and university teachers states that in the United States, the average faculty salary is a little more than the average income of in dustrial workers. The release points out that the average fac ulty salary is about $5,240. College instructors receive $4.- 100. associate professors $5,730, and full professors $7,100. The average income of United States factory workers in 1958 was $4. 580, The release goes on to show that workers in many Industries, steel, automobile, and petro leum—earn metre on the aver- aspire, which is grounded upon love and holy fire; its Captain has weathered every storm on land and sea, and still lovingly looks down to protect you and me. 11. Yea, this is the only HIGH-LIFE men and women should embrace, for v pays me * highest dividends as the end of the race, and a crown, to adorn every past weary head that Heaven finally accepts as an eternal thoroughbred. 12. Ah, listen to the “High- Life" portrayed by poets Fran ces R. Kavergai and C.H.A. Mi lan; “Take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord to Thee; & Take my hands, and let them ® move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my love, my God. I pour at Thy feet, its treasure store; Take myself and I will be ever, only all for Thee, Ever, only, all mr Thee.” crow signs in the buses and street cars is another victory for the Constitution in New Orleans a large Dixie city tra ditionally and determinedly segregationist. With a stroke of bis pen, Federal Judge J. Shelly Wright signed the order that ended insulting, second-class citizen ship in transportation that has existed for generations. Os course the disgruntled acticnists of the segregationist element marked the historic occasion by burning a couple of crosses; but otherwise the change went over smoothly. If culture, Christianity and courtesy were predominant in Southern urban centers, we could reasonably expect that other communities would fol low suit; but we know that tire most influential elements in the South deplorably lack that grace which characterizes real ly superior people. So. patiently and persistent ly, we shall have to continue battling jim crow city by city, state by state, remembering that human freedom has rarely been bought, cheaply or with out effort. —Pittsburgh Courier age than college teachers. And skill workers often earn more than full professors at some of our colleges and universities. The release reminds its readers that to be a college teacher re quires high intellectual compe tence and long, sometimes cost ly formal training. And, this writer would add that it also re quires a high degree of intelli - gence as well as a great deal of financial expenses to prepare for public school teaching. The thought for this article comes from it statement recent ly made in the presence of the writer by a very well-informed person as well as a person with a broad social outlook on life. The said person pointed out to a group of teachers that teach - ers themselves are responsible for the poor prestige, and thus meager pay. they receive from society. He pointed out to the teachers that people who are JUST FOR FUN BY MARCHS H BOUI,WARE ON TO OLE MISSISSIPPI Oornyard and T aborded the 1.1:45 a lit. Trailway Express bus Saturday enrouto to Alcorn A and M College located seven miles from tne whistle stop LORMAN . Corny arri accom panied me for the purpose of keeping mo company. Before leaving I told the baggage man that I had two pieces of baggage to check, and he said, “Are ther just, two pieces?" Realizing that the question was stupid and asinine, I felt it best to ignore the “nincom poop." Our first driver was cool, ban a stiff board in his back, and was dignified. But the second driver was short, fat, and chubby. When he walked, his belly shook like jello. He re minded mo of the late coach Hiekrmu of Yale University. Yes, sir—he was a jolly good follow. Tire third and fourth drivers, who covered parts of Georgia and Mississippi, didn’t want the color lino to fade. I remem ber that the fourth driver ask ed four Negro passengers to move to seats vacant "farther back" so whites would be seat ed “apart.” When they moved, he said, “Thank you, you've helped us out- so much!" 1 remember years ago drivers like him would have said, “Move back to the back” and with bull dog tone too. Evidently, he had not been instructed about inter state passengers But. in spite of efforts to keep the races apart, they got scrambled again because of the overcrowding of the bus. So be tween Jackson, Miss., and Lor man, Miss., a white mother of three kids plopped down beside me and rode the bus -apparent ly contented. Keeping the color line must he frustrating to bus drivers indeed. What they ought to de ss -wink at" the situation, and I n; sure nothing w ill happen. IN MISSISSIPPI, to circum vent the Supreme Court ruling regarding interstate passen gers, the bus end train stations h a ve segregated waiting rooms labelled for intrastate passen gers. How to act. and the pun ishment to expect, is based up on the meaning you attach to the words “interstate and “in* Hastate. ’’ Ole Jim Crow Is -on his last leg. but he manages to hobble along somehow in Georgia arid Mississippi. UPON ARRIVAL at the COL jpge, Comyard and I expected our rooms to be ready but they were not. After being shown my room, I began shovelling Gordon B- Hancock's BETWEEN the LINES ■ LOi KING THE OTHER WAS Tne worsening race relations r>i today are not unlike thasa that prevailed at the dose of World War 11. It, was this de terioration in race relations that prompted a group of Southern Negroes' to meet at Durham, N. C. *n the now his toric Durham conference to draw up the no* famous "Dur ham Mandfesto” in which Southern Negroes made a statement to Southern whites. The Durham meeting event uated Into the current South ern Regional council which is attempting to raise a voice of reason amid the clamour of ex tremists who arc threatening to ruin race relations in the South beyond hopes of im mediate repair. As. Brann, the manoclast, of yesteryear, war won t to say “When two tram a of opposing thought meet and try to pass on a single trace there is bound to be trouble sure.” With the balances of cir cumstances so delicately pois ed that one cannot tell from day to day Just what will hap pen next, and with a sector of the Southern press freely pre dicting violence as it snorts de cum-nt-ly confining our govern ments on all levels as well as those who arc controlling our economy, not so long ego were students in teachers classes. Those people who are control in? our governments and our economy, then, also control the amount of the tax money that is alloted to teachers' salaries. But instead of selling our selves, cr rather our profession, to our student*, as a profession worthy of dignity and just fin ancial compensation, we have pros *r>ted ourselves and our pro fession as one of great sacrifice. And, ws have painted ourselves m loving the sacrifice. We have liken teachers to monks and nuns of die moneateries during the Middle Ages. Thus, when our former stud ents corns into influential posi tions, either government or ec onomics, they do not think ser iously of using their influence to better the financial and soci al conditions of the teaching profession, because they have been taught, mind you, by tea chers, that teachers are a class who enjoy making sacrifices, especially financial ones. Lets do a better job of selling our profession to our present students as one method of en hancing of financial and social prestige with the general pub lic. While teaching that every child needs security, needs to be made to feel that he belongs lets include the teacher as one who needs those things along with the rest of Ihc human family. out paper, ciotres hangers, jars of jelly and boxes of polish Next I swished the floors with a. mop, got on a step lad der and took a bulb from a high hall ceiling and put it in my room so I could have some light. Then I asked “the powers that be" for two sheets and a pillow case, because Cornyaid Insisted that the i>OC couui not afford to sleep on a bare mattress. I’ve been to many colleges to teach summer school, and they never have the room you're to live in ready. It never fails to* happen. .1 wonder why? ” AH WOE IS ME. and I was embarrassed tot Upon arrival 1 louna out that I had left my house shoes in Raleigh and my soap, razor blades, etc. Sunday night I pattered around by. floor with bare feet. When . looked in the mirror* I looked like a Tennessee mountain hill billy. Sb -sh-sh-sh-sh, don’t tell anybody, but my “footsies" felt pood. The next morning I went to Port Gibson with a new ac quaintance and bought a $1.50 pair of house shoes and now the “old dogs" are in the jail house again. Mr. Jervay, doesn’t know how I miss the Chewy. Now I have to play to the other fel low’s tune when I need to go somewhere. Yes, sir. I feel like singing, "Don't fence me in." You ought to see the camp us; it’s real pretty. And you ought to see these ’57 and ’SB Olds, Buicks, Pontiacs, Cads, Chryslers, Dodges, and Desotas. . (You see, it pays to teach in * Mississippi.) Cornyard doesn't like it very much, because he doesn’t have transportation. He fears hw rating with the gats will be “nil.” But the situation sui ji me. to a tee, and I can reduca my waistline. There are ma Peebles, Statons, and other ca ses to visit in the early part of the night; then too, think cf the money I’ll save. The people are congenial and friendly, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Remember before I left Raleigh—l said, ' “Don’t forget to pray for me down in the Mississippi wild ■ ■woods.” POST SCRIPT —I am Jivirw in the room recently vacated by the headline news item— REV. CLENNON KING who was recently apprehended be cause he went on the campus and tried to enroll in the Um verslty of Mississippi. I feel like ills mantle fell upon me, and its dreadful because I don’t know what side he’s real- ly on. fiance afe the mandate* of the U. S. Supreme Court,, it seems the country <s in for great tra vail. Os course the developing situation calls for some kind of explanation. 'The segregationists claim that communism is to blame, although the Negro was con tending for his full manhood rgihts a long time before com munism raised its head above the horizon. Even in slavery, Negroes were hoping and pray ing for deliverance from the bondage of slavery, and at well-spaced Intervals, Negroes in their enslaved helpfulness would strike violently for free dom. Reuther in his “The A merican Race Problem,” de clares that some American slaves rebelled openly, once every five years. T The emancipated Negro has been no less determined to as sume the duties and rights of full citizenship in this country. A.nd no communism does not explain what is going on in tne Negro’s heart and mind and his attempts to be a full-fledg ed citizen of these United States. Again, the die-hard segrega tionists claim that the NAACP is causing the Negro to aspira to full citizenship. As a. matter of fact the NAACF t# not th* cause oI the Negro’s conten tions but a result of tnem. Like communism, the Negro was struggling for first class citi zenship long before the Niag ara movement, which eventuat ed into the NAACP, had raised its voice for Negro freedom. Th® things the NAACP is striving to obtain—for all the citizens—’will not benefit the Negro alone, but the nation and the cause of Justice everywhere * Letter To The Editor To The Editor: I nave just seen this wAf’J copy o£ the paper end 1 wish to compliment you and your staff for the change that was made in the personalities of the front page. In my estimation, it re sembles one of the better papers of this city. I am sure that your readers in this community and the neigh ig communities will be very grateful and will benefit from the change that was made. Again, I compliment you and your staff and sincerely wish a continuance of success in the pub lication of the paper that has beet? the inspiration of many to our time. Very truly yours, f George Stokes, Jr, , Raleigh 7
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