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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1958 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP 1 The proverbs of Solomon A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death. 3. The Lord wall not suffer the sou! of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. 4. He beeometh poor that dealeth with a fearic hand: but the hand of the diligent znaketh rich. > w 5. He that gathereth in summer is a wise Supreme Court Acts Wisely r We are Interested as much as anybody in the reviewing of Judge Harry J. Lemiey’s rul ing which suspended integration at Central High School at Little Rock, Arkansas, It hs expedient that the Supreme Court re fused to by-pass the appeal court as urged by the suit attacking the suspension of inte gration at Little Rock Central High School by Judge Harry J. Lernley. If an exception to the usual procedure had < been made, the Supreme Court would have placed itself deeper into the scorn of person?, from all parts of the nation. We believe that Justice will be served better by a review first by the Eighth Circuit Court of .Appeals in St. Louis This would plac court action a? near the source of dispute as possible, and it would be in line with our court- The Paul Robeson Story A University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis ‘'Negro Oratory Since 1900" by Marcus H „ Boulware, states that Paul Robeson is the on.lv Negro who mixes singing with speaking at his concerts The study looked with disfavor upon the mixing of the two arts—oratory and singing. However, the thesis .admitted that every man had a right to behave as he wished as long as it did not interfere with the general good It was further pointed, out that Robeson did an unwise thing from the economical point of view The oratorical history expressed the opinio-' that Robeson's concerts should be confined to music alone. And, if Robeson wanted to' ad vance the Negro’s cause, he should have don' 1 so on a strictly lecture tour. Because Robeson chose to make addresses in the Negro's behalf at his concerts, and because of his alleged remarks about Russia, he was denied s passport to travel abroad In addition, strong public opinion curtailed his concert ac tivities at home where the -doors of large eon Our Desecrated Spirituals f Tum in on musical programs over radio and television, and you will hear some of our beautiful Negro spirituals being desecrated. Most anytime you will hear Maballa Jackson ■ing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands* For some reason, this spiritual has ceased to be sacred. Numerous jaw singers record this •ong as dance music. American youths feel no sham* in “cutting the rug” to the tune of Negro spirituals. Isn't there something that can be said or Tennesseans Made Selves Monkeys t" One hundred years ago, in 1858. Darwin read his first paper kt which he advanced his idea of gradual change before London's elite Linnean Society. He said that all animals hove a common ancestor. You can understand why some people of that day, who had seen apes ip. the zoo, be came indignant and stirred, up over the matter. When Darwin published 1,250 copies of his "Origin of the Species”, he brought upon him self the wroth of a large per cent of the clergy It is reported that all copies of the book sold out the first, day. The widespread popularity of this book led Tennessee, in the 1920's to enact a law which prohibited the leaching of “any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in th Bible, and to teach instead that man descended from a lower form of animal." Just a few months after the Tennessee law was passed, John Scopes, a school teacher, was tried in the court for teaching evolution to the high school children of Dayton. Tennessee. That trial became sensational news. Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow, an ac knowledged agnostic and one of the cleverest attorneys of his day. William Jennings Bryan. « colorful political opportunist whose eyes were eet on tjie Presidency, volunteered to assist in the proescution. American attention war. focused on Dayton, Tennessee, by the oratory of Bryan versus the magnetic courtroom appeal of Darrow. Scopes w*s found guilty and fined SIOO William Jennings Bryan paid the chief pen alty. however. The weather was hot during the trial held m the day before air-condition- 1 ¥■ Bryan’s palmetto fan failed to keep him i son: but he that sleepeth In Harvest Is a son that oauseth shame. 6. Blessings are upon the bead of the just: but violence covercth the mouth of the wicked. 7. The memory of the just ie blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. 8. The wise in heart will receive command ments: but a prating fool shall fall. 9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely i but he that perverteth ni« ways shall be known, (Proverbs lOi 1-9) try’s historic judicial processes. Rarely does !t ever happen that the Su preme Court take cases from the thousands of petitions for review.. However, enough are sccepted to keep the High Court busy. Had the Supreme Court granted the review sought by the NAACP, it would have struck a quick blow at racial harmony. Regardless of whether or not it had upheld Judge Lenv iey’s raling, the initial consequence would have ill-served our national feelings. We are aware that the NAACP would like to get this problem settled before the opening of school next September, but a greater victory will be achieved if the petition follows the rou tine legal and judicial channels. There is noth ing else we can do but wait, cert halls and other public buildings were shut in his face. After eight tong years of waiting and protest, Robeson has been granted a passport in com pliance with e ruling of the U. S. Supreme- Court which ordered that passports may not be denied citizens because of their beliefs and association;:. 1 Naturally, Mr. Robeson is a very happy man. He states that he will soon leave for Lon don which will be the center of his activities. There he will do concert and television work. T expect to concertize in Prague, Berlin, and the Soviet Union," says Robeson. When the man returns to England and Rus sia. he will be watched with great interest by people the world over. We expect him to re ceive a “hero’s” welcome, wherever he appears. How he will now be received in the concert halls of this country remains to be seen At any rate, Robeson has dramatic and musical gifts which must not be lost to the world. We wish him God’s speed. done about such disrespect for the music, that has meant so much to our slave ancestors and later generations? The situation seems to be getting out of band, and it bs high time Ne groes do something about it. , We don't believe Mahalia Jackson has re corded “He Got the Whole Wold in His Hand" for jars purposes, but she cannot help but know what the public is doing with this record ing. If our leading ringers -S/on’t protest the dese cration of sacred music, by all means we should. cool, and he later collapsed and died during the trial. Today we accept the theory of evolution, and especially Is this true of our topflight biol ogists. On the other hand, we have not alto gether abandoned the story of the Bible re garding man’s creation. None of us can truthfully say how God cre ated man or how long he was engaged in the Creation. Perhaps God is behind the ever-de veloping evolution of man, and may be man is not yet what he will become. The law of survival of the fittest, the law of natural selection, is just as much God's ns is gravitation which keeps the planets in their respective orbits and prevents their smashing head-on into one another. The chief thing to remember is that the passage of the Tenntesee anti-evolution law and the staging of the Scopes trial was evi dence of the poii tical opportunism within it. The decision of the Scopes trial legally up held the idea that man did not descend from the ape or the monkey. But the Tennessee lawmakers who enacted the “monkey law” and the people of Tennessee who took part in the trial certainly made monkeys of themselves. Just think of what one man started when he read that paper 100 years ago. At any rate, Darwin disturbed the status quo of the think ing of the world. As would he expected when Tennessee passed its anti-evolution law—other states did likewise. Most of the states have repealed such legislation, but Mississippi is one of the two remaining states, with laws forbidding schools to teach that man “ascended or descended from e lower animal." The Immediate Need Os The World: Courageous Leadership SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP GOD AND ME 1. The Kaiser, when becom ing popular In military feat-3 began to grow wise in his own conceits, and instead of giving God "First Place” as he ought, tie coined to In 3 own pi aist ' Me and Gotfc". 2. In like manner, many men ha.ve lost their moral equilibr,- um and finally fall short of making the one vital decision: and though they hide behind smooth phrases and proverbs, their every action speaks loud er than words. 3. So this kind of skull-dug gery in trying to two-time God, is on-’ of the Devil’s chief tricks to puli men into fraud: for ha knows it is the distance that one remains from the Blessed Saviour, that accounts for bro? ken lives and ungodly behavi our. 4. Thus to be happy, content ed and free, it is wise to live What Other Editors Say PUBLIC MUST GET BEAD? TO MEET GRUELING SCHOOL PROBLEMS By OLIVER EMMERICH During the next 10 years, one-half to one-third of the graduates of our nation's four year- colleges will have to go in to the fie'ft of teaching. This must be done if the de mand for good teachers is met, according to a study panel sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Inc. Within this 10-year period, it is generally predicted, the im pact of a soaring population will requu-e doubling the pres ent expenditures fer education —at the local, state and feder al levels. Our people are confronted With, two challenging tasks-. The problem of teacher recruitment and the problem of preparation .for teaching. The root of the problem is finances and the people of Mississippi who followed the struggle in the last, session of the legislature can fully under stand the difficulties involved in raising ever-increasing pub lic funds for this purpose. Even with superior recruit ment of teachers, the panel said, the nation will not find the number of qualified teach ers it needs. Maximum use of good teach ers must be made, the study pointed out. This would necessitate the elimination of a myriad of pet ty tasks now assigned to many oj our qualified instructors. An increase in thp use of motion picture films and television has b*>en recommended as a means of expanding the use of the tal ents of our. top teachers. This soul-searching Idea has been ventured—that America must, educate a comparatively few teachers exceedingly well It is suggested that the unusu ally talented students be given two to three additional years in mathematics and science. This crisis, the panel indi cates, is not the result of the Soviet Union. "The cause is our breathtaking movement into a new technological era." the pa nel said. if this process is pursued, it will have a tremendous effect, upon our Mississippi concept of “democratic education." We may not now think that our ideas will change. The dem ocratic idea of education will be affirmatively altered. Today ige think that demo cratic action means giving closely with the only one who can make a TREE, then under His wide spreading leaves and branches, be eternally secure from all of Satan's cunning ad vances. 5 This is a social security be yond all expectation, which is the Divine fruitage of eternal Salvation, . . and its wealth is spread from shore to shore and makes no distinction between the rich and the poor, 6. The most important thing in making this Divine choice, is to always keep the heavenly cahnnels clear, so one can hear God's still small voice. 7. Matters not what may han pen about you. or what others may have in social prestige or material wealth; it is better b v far to be a pauper than not to enjoy heavenly health. 8. The "Me and GoW folks like the Kaiher. will some da" before crossing the eternal Pond, will have to let go of things material and lean on every boy and girl a. diploma We will find that the true democratic concept Will be to give every boy and girl the op portunity to earn a diploma. Getting one will be a different thing. The price of a diploma will be lifted. It will require the ut ilization of more talent, more hard work and the will to a chieve learning. The country club idea of campus life will find Itself confronted with the threat of obsolescence The panel says adequate at tention must be given to indi vidual differences. That moans rejecting the rigid policy of promotion by age There is little doubt that this idea will create considerable, political friction when advanced in Mississippi, This information is timely because it provides us with an insight of what to expect in the realm of education. Meanwht’e Mississippi must expand her ec onomy in order to have th* money with which to meet; the rapidly developing challenges of education. STATE TIMES, Jackson, Mis*. GOOD ADVICE Many advocates of civil rights and equality of opportu nity for the United States’ 17, 000,000 citizens of color believe that “integration" is not the best word to use in this connec tion. Perhaps nothing can be done about the use of the word itself but acme thing must be done a bout what it means. And It must not mean, as Dr. J. H Jackson, president of the National Bap tist Convention pointed out, this week that Negroes In the Unit ed States “lose rasepect for their own virtues and values." The fact is that “integra tion" will be more quickly and more easily accomplished when Negroes emphasize the '•virtues and values’ which will make "Integration” worth, while. PHILADELIA TRIBUNE SOMETHING GOOD IN ARKANSAS An editorial in the current Journal of the National Medi cal Association by Dr. W. Mon tague Cobb reminds us that all is not dark and doleful in Ark ansas. racially speaking. It points out. what many have forgotten, that the medical school of the University of Ar kansas in September, IP4R, be came the. first of the Southern mecacal schools to change its racial policy when it admitted Dr. Edith Mae Irby, treated her 4 the everlasting arm. .9. Then will come the great satisfaction as the redeemed once tali to their knees crying "Holy, Holy;" the "Me and Gott” folks then, may not re spend very boldly. IC. Tft prepare for fm-sl reckoning day, ail cheap pink, tea religion must be put away, and this replaced with a con trite heart full and free that :.- happy to admit that all I am or ever expect to be, has come through the mercies of God, yes “God and ine". 11. Yes, "God first" is the great contrast to the present "Gold rush" and social class; men must have a longing for Celestial Fire, if toward eternal things they me*n to aspire. 12. Man’s greatest problem and trouble Is himself, . . he wants to lay worthwhile things on the shelf. . and with a "Me and God" spirit forge his way hut remember O’ man soon will come "Fay Day" firlv and awarded her an in ternship in the University Hos pital in Little Rock, We are told further that; since Dr. Irby’s graduation in 1952, seven Negroes have re ceived medical degrees from ton University of Arkansas and eight are presently enrolled there. Five years ago, in 1953. the Pulaski County Medical Soci ety in Little Rock voted to ao mit Negro physicians, and th° following year the Arkansas Baptist Hospital in Little Rock admitted four Negro physicians to its staff. We Just thought you would like to be reminded of this ot-nev side of the educational picture in Arkansas and Little Rock, that is. there are other aspects of race relations there than Central High School. —• PITTSBURGH COURIER By DR. C. A CHICK, SR. MORE THAN 4 BURIAL AID Reliable sources of informa tion indicate that about one person in every ten knows ho v to purchase or establish & per sonal insurance program, or any other type of insurance, for that matter. Os course, It should be pointed out that there is no such a thing as a good or poor insurance policy per r,c. The type of personal insurance, or property insurance that ar. individual takes out. it; grivern ed by many factors, including such as sex, age, type of work, income, and the economic risk of the individual. By the same token there is ’ no such a thing as good perm anent type of insurance. The type of policy that would meet Mr. A’s needs today may not meet his neds five to ten years from now. Thus, an individual's insurance program, like his In vestments, should be constant ly reviewed with t,hc- id da of changing it, in the light of his age, sex, type of work, income, and economic risk of the indi vidual. With special reference to life insurance, it was never conceiv ed of as a burial aid only. It JUST FOR FUN BY MARCH a a RQULWARE PIHPLE PEOPLE EATER Folks! Cornyard wont la.,t. Friday to Ferriday, Louisiana, where he attended a dance in Haney’s Big House with music by Ivory Joe Hunter, direct from the American Band Stand. All I hear is his talk about that sizzing band with that .guitar specialist, Angelo. Corn yard is loud in his praise of Ivory Joe Hunter's rendition of "Love’s a Hurting Game" (Cornyard agrees), "Since 1 Met You Baby,” “Empty Arms" <makes Cornyard moody), and "SHOOTY BOOTY” (Lord a mercy, says Cornyard). t YES SIR! The feature at traction was the stage appear ance of the Purple People Eat er. Cornyard got a chance to shake mitts with that strange fellow and showed me the "Eat er's” autograph on his shirt cuff in indelible ink. Cornyard brought home two discs of that smash hit “Purple People Eater" which was writ ten as a gag. At the door were given out little leaflets about the Purple People Eater. Tt described lum as "a tiny, one-eyed, one-horn ed creatine with extremely un usual eating habits. “Cornyard" said I, “This is Interesting. I didn't know song writer Sheb Wooley wrote all those way-out songs like “The Little Blue Man,” “Witchdoc tor,” etc.” “DOC," remarked Cornyard. “you oughta. seen that creators blowing music out-ta the. horn in the middle of his forehead.” After a few' minutes of mus - ing. Cornyard added : “Me and that Louisiana chick just swung ourselves out on the Purpl ’ People Eater tune." From the look on his face. Cornyard im plied I should've been theie even if I just sat on the side lines. WEST SIDE TIGERS The reason I didn't, go With Cornyard to hear lovry Jo-' Hunter was. I went to see the Westeide Tigers play the Sun ny field Nine at the Rock Hill Par's that Friday at 3:30 p, m You talk about grass-root baseball; I saw it that after noon. Tire star of the game was ''Krokas Bag" Ben. catcher for the Sunny field Nine. He wrap ped his feet in sacks and caught the ball with a fielder's glove. '•Frofcss Bag” Ben was 71 clown, jack-of-all-trades, and Gordon B* Hancock *s WELCOME ALASKA Many years ago Benedict college had a representative on the road, visiting the annual i meetings of the various relig- < ious bodies. One of these meet ings convened in a tidewater , couniv and one of its moving figures was a minister of great . learning, but, of little common sense. He had made hroself a nuisance by his arrogance and meUculousrwss in associations! matters; in other words, since college graduates were few in those days, he took himself ra ther seriously, to the extent that he was quite unpopular with the brethren. The representative from Ben edict, being a man of great tin - derstanding, learned to make good use of the minister's un popularity. In order to get a healthy contribution for Bene dict, he would always word his petition in such away that, the unpopular minister would op pose it and once this opposition was forthcoming, the contribu tion was assured. Year In and year out, in this manner he secured great sup port, for Benedict. There was often doubt, if there would be ft substantial contribution, but doubt was resolved, if he could get the unpopular minister to ] oppose it. Thus indirectly he often secured a support he was meant to be 3, form of fi nancial protection to those who suffer an economic lost at. the death of the insured. Reliable financial sources, for example, indicate that through life, ac cident, and health insurance this year, policy owners and their families will receive more than eleven billion dollars in benefits. Tills eleven billion dollars will serve to tide millions of po - regencies, help pay for hospi icy owners over financial em tal, doctor and funeral ex penses, pay off mortgages and living expenses, help pay for children's education and assure Income at retirement. In addition to the wonderful protection and peace of mind these life, accident and health policies give the insured, ordi nary life insurance policies serve as a constantly growing financial nest egg. You can consider it a savings account. It is always there to help It.. time of need. Besides the secu rity and protection the insured receives, those who take out life, accident, and health insur ance companies lend large sums of money to various types of business. Finaeial reports point Out that during 1958 insurance companies will lend business six billion dollars. They, thus, will aid business in creatir 1 ; new jobs and work opportuni ties for a larger number of peo ple. Let’s cease thinking of our 1 life insurance policies as only 1 burial aids! 1 teaser all in one. I came very near having to call the doctor to sew up my sides because I laughed so hard. Modern catchers are "sissies ' beside “Krokas Bag" Ben. He ore no mask nor breast protec tor, He could make a sorry pit cher a a hike-out artist. Yes Krokas Bag was confident and his actions were always expedi ent. This diamond catcher could ruffle the butters and m*k« them like it. He could do te baseball fans what Elvis Pre*: ley can do for the teen-age dames. It would be worth your trip out here to see thi* *an In ac tion. BAREFOOT JAKE, the West side home-ru# king, was held hitless by a, mediocre pitcher whose ego wes boosted by “Kro kas Bag" Ben's whoop-it-up jive. Under Krokas Bag’s leader ship. u» Sunnyfield aggrega tion won 5 to 1 over the West fleld Tigers. When the game was over, I asked the people in the community why Krokas Bag Ben pulled off his sack shoes and played barefeet at the batter's box. Nobody seemed to know why, but I saw him steal three bases that afternoon in his harefeet. You would have been amazed at the agility with which these two learns fielded, batted, and ran bases in that old country grass field. It, was good “ole country style”. How did I get; to the ball park? Well, a, large truck went around the countryside picking up passengers and baseball pa trons. We went to the ball park for 35 cents roundtrip. The fellows who heard about me at, Alcorn insisted that I ride in the front seat. But I wouldn't- hear of it-, and just climbed on that truck and rode standing up among some forty people. Not known ig that I was a lessor", two fellows began a conservation as we rode along. The. things I heard were not ap propriate for a "professor" to hear, but, I grinned and bore it like a. veteran. Our bus tickets were pieces of paper bag with numbers writ ten on them. You might, laugn, but my ticket permitted me to see a game that you won't tee In the. big league. Those big Jennie contests don't have th human interest appeal like the game I saw that afternoon could not gain directly His was tire indirect method, The f O. - going illustrates this writer s acclamation of Alsaka’s admir ion as the 49th state of these United States. The things the writer doe;* not know about# Alaska will make a bigger book than the things he knows. Why then is he so happy over the finally-achieved statehood of Alaska. It was because i,he Dixie Ne grophobe bloc fought, it so stub* bornly. I was finally convinced that there must have been something in Alaska’s statehood that had some remote advan tage to the Negroes of this country. Like Benedict's repre sentative 1 arrived at an ap praisal of the matter by indi rection The fact the Negro* phone?, m congress opposed the statehood of Alaska, was a good reason why it had my sup port and favor. So long as Alaska is found la the northern latitudes, there ia always the possibility that, in its congressional voting, it may be generally aligned with the None pnd West and East, again -t the South. There could hardly hf a more certain cri terion of how the Negroes' pathies should lie than this self same stand taken by the Negrc phobes of Dixie Whatever they favor is usually against t,h® Negro’s interest; and whatever they oppose is generally of ad vantage to the Negro. And so this writer gets his cue from the Negvophohes in congress. If they oppose civil rights, the writer favors such rights, if they oppose the NAACP, the writer favors it. If they oppose the statehood of Alaska the writer favors it; hence our wel come to Alaska to the comity of the states of the Union. What is said here about Alas ka may bo said concerning the proposed statehood of Hawaii The Ncgrophobes in Congress are stubbornly opposing th<* proposed statehood of Hawaii, for Hawaiian:; are people cf color and the Negrophobcs in congress have for their slogan “They (meaning people of col or! shall nor, pass" And let. us be frank in this matter, the Ne rrophobe South is ably repre sented in the Congress of thr> United States. It is safe to soy here that if the United States as a whole were ably represented as tln* Nagrophobe South, our foreign arid domestic prohlems wOu d not be so knotty. If the abili ties that go into the eterftalisa,- tion of the Negro's second class citizenship were utilized to meet our national emergencies our national way at present would not be nearly so tedious, ' The South and its points of view" are ably represented in the Congress of these United States and a close student of the situation can always te ll which way the Negro’s advan tage lies by the stand taker, by the Negrophobes It may not ah ways be thus, but we suffer it to be so now. A
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