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THE CABOUNIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1958 4 Editorial Viewpoint in i ii mi minnimi- am niwr rinriiwiimiii imhi ii ******* The CAROLINIAN’S "words of worship 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way. which leadeth unto life and few there he that find it . . . 19. And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master. I will follow thee whithersoever Sometime this week, or the next, we expect the attorneys, for both sides in the famed Holt case, to give their oral arguments prior to the ruling of the judge. The Attorney General of North Carolina hes filed a brief in the. capacity of a “friend of the court'*. In general this belief argues that be fore a school board can be charged with un constitutional action, exclusion, of a Negro pu pil from an all-white school must be “solely' 1 on the basis of race. In the Raleigh case, school board officials acknowledged race was a “factor” in their de cision to bar Joseph Hiram Holt, Jr., from Needham-Broughton High School. But they testified the youth’s race war- not the sole reason or even the controlling one. Testimony was heard earlier last month be fore federal district Judge Edwin Stanley and oral arguments are due on August 8. If we.take the School Board’s testimony at its face value, we would like to know speci.fi The United States Department of Agricul ture has- estimated that the total sugar con sumption in the United States this year will average 9? pounds per person. Sugar consumption has reached the amazing rate of a little over one-fourth of a pound per day for each person. On the basis ol expert calculation, 16,500,000,000 pounds of sweet crystals disappear into the mouths of the A rnerican people annually. In order to visualize this amount of sugar, one has only to imagine it will fill a one mile square section of land surrounded by an elev en-foot fence. When we think of sugar, our minds picture The Death Os A Postage Stamp Regardless of what may come and go. there are certain American ways of life we expect to remain constant for aye. Among them are the 5-eent hot dog, the 5-cent cup of coffee, the ice cream cone, the cheap hamburger, the drive-in movie, and Coney Island. These are landmarks that we don't want changed. At midnight on July 31. the 3-cent stamp for carrying a first-class letter went the way of all flesh—if. died a premature death. Its end brought much regret, and many letter-writers would gladly welcome its return. The 3-cent stamp for carrying letters to their destination is gone, and. no amount of persuasion will effect its return. The politici ans say we must substitute a four-cent postage fee to bring our post office department out of Cooperation Has Ce rtain Limits How often have we been told that the. great value of cooperation is found in joining hands and working shoulder to sohulder in s mu tually helpful way. A group of cooperating persons is often able to carry through a project ■snd obtain results otherwise impossible, as Ne groes building a large poultry plant or dairy. This philosophy would have you believe that in order to cooperate successfully one must be forgetful of self and render service to the other fellow. Although Jesus Christ said “If any man would come after me, let him deny him self," we fear our ministers and teachers have preached this doctrine to its extreme. When a ship is, sinking at sea, men say; “Women and children first.” The real man thinks of no other rule. We must warn you, however, that such a rule of utter self-forget fulness is foolish and absurd in every detail of daily living. The words “service for others' 1 have been much abused. One evil connected with such s limited philosophy of life, is that when the doctrine of duty, or of living always for others without a single thought of self, has been din ned over and over again into the minds of children, these children will soon learn how impractical is this teaching. ✓ Many people have the impression that all colleges arc bursting at the seems and turning away applicants right and left. The CARO LINIAN* thought sc too until we read an ar ticle in The New Yorker. True the Ivy League institutions are packed full but this past year New York University could have taken another 1200 students, Ala bama and Ohio State could each have taken a couple, of thousand more. And of the 200 small colleges surveyed, three out of four were looking for freshmen. The experts have predicted that the college and universities will be bursting at the seams , in 1960. The trends in enrollment in many of our colleges and universities do not bear out these predictions. Wc wonder if’ the experts have “goofed”? The Sole Reason Beware Os Those Sugars Have The Experts Goofed? thou goest. 20. And Jesus Mith unto him, The foxes have, holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head 2: And another bf his disciples said unto him. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22. But Jesus said unto him Follow me: and let the dead bury their dead. rally what were the other factors (in addition to race) that prompted its decision to bar Holt from the Needham-Bioughton High School. Many stories have been printed, in our daily papers, but nowhere have we seen a list of the other factors considered in the School Board's decision. It could not have been the distance factor, because the Needham-Broughton High School is much nearer to young Holt’s home than is the J W Ligon Junior-Senior High School. Could it have been what one member of the Board called the psychological factor in a roundabout wav 5 We have tried to think of a few other factors, but none seem to suggest themselves. Knowing the South as we do, It is apparent that there is only one factor that would keep a Negro from attending an all-white school— color and rare. If we are wrong, we hope that the School Board attorneys wall name these factor in their oral arguments this week. the sugar bowl. The. truth of the matter is that much of the sugar never gets into the sugar bowl. Instead it winds up as soft drinks, bak ery goods, canned and frozen foods rind con fections. • Approximately 75 per cent of the people like to drink coffee in the mornings with sugar and cream. During summers many of them drain down glasses of ice tea, malted milks, lemonade, and other sweet drinks. Better watch out and cut down on those • sugars or else the pointer of the scales will rise pass the 200 mark. You'll live longer with your weight streamlined, and the pressure on your heart will be considerably reduced. the red. Congress says we had to discard the 3-cent stamp to give postal employees their much-needed raise. People appreciated the 5-cent stamp, be cause it represented at least one type of service they could still get for less than a nickel. And what is more, this “little purple adhesive square” did not cost enough to bankrupt any body. There wars hardly a man, woman, or child who had to say, “I can’t buy it, because I don't have the money.” Paying one cent more to post a letter won’t wreck anybody's life. American life will move on as it has always done. Regardless of what may be said or done, we regret the passing of our long-loved way of life. We hold in high esteem the memory of the lowly 3-cent stamp. By carrying out the precept of duty and doing for others, the person soon finds that it not only starves and debases his own life in certain respects, but it harms others by mak ing them lazy, selfish, and even arrogant. After serving two years in Congress, Abra ham Lincoln had time to compare himself with the cultured and distinguished men gathered from all parts of the nation. He had come to realize his own deficiencies and crudities ator.R certain lines To overcome these, on his return to Springfield, Illinois, he procured the best teacher he could find and took private lessons in English composition far two years. Lincoln's example exemplifies how his pas sion and innermost urge for the highest self development persisted throughout his life. Duty to ones self makes a man work his way through college ft makes a man sacrifice ten years of his life to become a physician. It makes an individual work bard, sacrifice, and save systematically to set himself up in busi ness, There is a limit to “living for others'’ and “working cooperatively for others.” Every man has no greater obligation than to seek those things that will aid in his highest self-develop ment. In niany colleges, the student recruitment program has been intensified and expanded. They realize that the experts could be wrong and are. not “putting all of their eggs" in the one basket of “1960 burstrng-at-the-seam' predictions. From what we have been reading, it ap pears that the experts made calculations on flimsy evidence. Should college enrollments fall far short of the 1960 predictions, we hope the experts will be able to give a logical ex planation. And if they cannot, wc urge them to admit that; they “goofed.” Wc are living in a highly competitive age. and if a college wants its share of students it must conduct an ambitious advertising cam paign. Although 1960 is just around the cor ner, there can be no let up. Encouraged By The Vote From Arkansas JUST for fun BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP Bui Look Who Brought Her 1 The woman who was caught in the very act of adultery war absolutely wrong, , . but look who brought her, questionable characters woh tried to appear as being strong 2. Satan, for his devotees has always carried in stock, any thing from a cloak to a gaudy frock in which to disguise when carrying out his orders, and it matters not who he salughters, 3. As long as he can inveigle folks in Church and State to pull his tricks with his poisoned bait, he wilt pay them high wages though they come in late. 4. These slick, swavy folks who would even double-cross God are his best employees for carrying out fraud, . . . in fact they can deceive the. very elect, while trying at all times to hold peo ple's respect 5. This was the caliber of that What Other Editors Say NO PATIENCE’ HERE President' Eisenhower jumped troops into Lebanon so fast that he took the world and our coun try by surprise We gasped and then supported him. He acted like a quick-trigger cop. if only he showed the same speed and determination in or dering the Justice Department to enforce civil rights at home there need not have been a Lit tle Rock. We have not heard of Ike's patent expressions, such as, the crisis in Lebanon should be set tied through the process of edu cation. We have nOt heard about Le« ha nor. s independence, aftd anci ent traditions of self-rule going back 2.000 years. We have heard Ike says we ought to be patient with Leba non’s rebels. In - Lebanon there was in the President’s book no such thing as a middle-of-the road policy and moderation no damnation of extremists. In defending our foreign in vestments in oil, the President, is radical, But when it comes to eMI rights he calls himself a mod erate. AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAP NEWSPAPERS. LEMLEY’S rock in the ROAD An Editorial The decision of Federal Judge Harry J. Lemiey bringing to a halt the Little Rock school board's feeble ami snail's pace application of the Supreme Court’s “deliberate speed” ord er for integration in the schools in a damaging blow both to the cause of integration and to the American conscience. The latter Heaven knows, bears a heavy enough burden these days. The UPWA International Ex ecutive Board has acted to call on President Eisenhower and the Department of Justice to give firm backing to the NAAC’P in its appeal of Lemley’s ruling. The Executive Board's resolu tion cited the telegram of sup port sent to President Eisenhow er when he ordered troops into Little Rock to suppress the tnob violence directed last year *- gainst that tiny handful of Ne * pro children who sought to climb the steps of Central High in pursuit of education and their rights as Americans, The Board’* resolution then went on to declare: The recent action of Federal Judge Haw J Lemiey in sus taining s request for delay of tntegr: lion in Central High School in Little Rock until Feb ruary, 19151 undermines the ha r n won pre tress made to date in this field and deals a' serious and damaging injury to the fight for equal rights for all Ameri- crowd that tried to intimidate this poor woman, exposing her to every drop of. the most dead ly venom. $ She beyond a doubt was wrong, and without defense for what she bad done. , . but look at the character of her accusers who had all of the earmarks of heartless abusers. 7. Jessu, with this women did not condone, but had to take time cut to deal with, this blood thirsty throng, that cared not what her penalty would be, just so long as they could hide be hind her and wiggle themselves free. 3. But ah. it didn't happen just that. way. . . Jesus soon made them feel they were but common clay, when He exclaimed “he that is without sin let him first, cast a stone” and immediately with Jesus she was left alone, 9. My’ what a difference with cans, and to decency in our country. The effect of this decision is to pay dividends to those who en gage in violence as a method of depriving American citizens of thorn rights under the law. It pays dividends to violence as a means of achieving undemocra tic ends and recommends its use to those who would flout the rights of citizens or. any issue —- THE PACKINGHOUSE WORK ER TRENT TO BUN CAN In its 80 years of consecrated service to the Christian religion and sterling citizenship. Living store College ha* had only five duly elected President*. The newest. Dr. S. E Duncan, has just been welcomed to his tenure succeeding Interim- President, 3. H. Brocket! who had been efficiently filling the breach after Dr. w. 3. Trent had been named President-Emeritus on his retirement last year from a 32-year career es the college’s chief executive. Prior to Dr Trent, there had been only rounder Joseph C. Price. Rev. W. H. Goier, and Dr. David C Suggs to occupy the President's chair. That Livingstone Is and has been an instituiton of extraordi nary stability and steadfastness of service and purpose could nsk no better proof than this That Dr. Trent remains President E meritus after more than three decades of continuous tenure is companion proof that even the foment and turmoil of the edu cational world within the past quarter century have failed to agitate Livingstone with it* tre mors or beguile it into novelty nnd departures. Yet in the increased tempo of its physical growth, tha broad ening cf its curriculum, find the added stature of its faculty Liv ingstone, under Dr, Trent, has marched with the times, has ap proximated the general advances of its immediate environment, and has introduced the modern into th'- traditional at measured pace Dr. Duncan has stepped into a pair of big snoes; the shoes of a leader who, while pettomis ing th* spiritual dedication of « church-related institution to Hie unstinted admiration and ap plause of his colleagues in the educational world, and meriting the respect and veneration of his his flelow-townsmen, hnt> head ed a regime which has seen the local collage win eproxlmately a half a million dollars more from the nationwide United Negro College Fund, than has been do nated to that fund from the local area. It js well that the new Presi dent, himself a Livingstone pro duct, generously qualified by accomplishment of h’s own dis i in the warm embrace of Hint who never carried a double-face,' but went about doing good an 2 aiding I-lis neighbor, teaching them humility as the road to good behavior. 10. Yes, He sought sincerely to bo understood arid taught all Races how to be good; to jilt the fallen from the ground and in trickery end deception netsr to be found. 11. This is the reflection fiat, beams from Christ's face and lifts even the downtrodden caught in disgrace—when others evade and withhold their aid, the true child of God says, ‘'come, be not afraid.” 13. Then like the sun that .fol lows the rain, the prisoner :fsps to loose bis chain, and a s<ui is quickened that was dead i; sin, because a real child of Gnd•car ried “SOMETHING WITHIJi tinctic.n of a number cf his kind in the educational sphere, i| pre pared to continue the colicp ad ministration at the bigh;!evel with which it is long faqi-isr, and with full acceptance if. re sponsibility already define) and exemplified. President Duncan takes flora • man a in the early days <f an era which will frame it) de mands upon institutions s;th as Livingstone in n vocAiUary which ha? but recently acquired new words, fresh invent up of concepts, and confusion cfdo.fi ru lions. He merits the full ir,r»,i- of the ouport and confidence f his board of trustees, faculty, and students, and of this entire com munity, THE SALISBURY PORT By MR. C. A. CHICK, SR Insurance Stocks As Well A Insurance Policies It is my serious and corner ed opinion that the vast major ity of the people of the Ullitd States has some type of life 1- nuranco. I doubt seriously, how ever, that, they have the prodr kind of life insurance, or im proper amount. Those in know-how pertaining to suq matters say that an indmhui should have at leant SIO.OT worth of life insurance for eacl dependent. But. even though it scorn* rather easy to sell people somd type of life insurance, seeming* ly It Is not so easy to sell them stocks in a life insurance, seeni-i ir.gly it is nor so easy to sell them stocks in a life liburance \ company. Mutual Life Insmr- I nnca companies, cf course, do not have stocks.) The general public does not seem to realize that if an insurance company (stock company) is abls to pay its policies when they mature, the companies must make some money. All earned above ex penses, of course, goes to the owners of the stocks of any given company. There are several advantages in owning stocks in life insur ance companies: Reliable sta tistics indicate that there are fewer failures among life in surance companies than there are failures in any type of busi ness concerns The law of av erage# is so well understood and so welt planned that insurance companies know about what price to charge the insured for By MARCUS Ii BOUT WARE ST. AUG. CAMPUS: You have been wondering how to beat the heat these days. Well, one of the men (who operates a power mower which he rides) knows the answer. To keep out the sun and then to provide a shade ho has fitted over his hat crown a piece of pasteboard box, three by 2 '-2 feet. As he mowed the- athletic field, I called Cornyard's attention to the scene. “Cool man—cool man!” uttered my firend Corn yard. SUGGESTION WANTED: I would like to know what can I do to keep my room in Hermi tage Hal! cool without installing an air-conditioning unit. You see I lock the front door at night to keep out any prowlers. A friend ot mine says “It is easier to keep an intruder out than it Is to wd him out once he is insi-le.'* A good example is cited by a man -n Oklahoma. He said that he* vms courting two gilds in the aann: town, and one night a* V opened bis ear door to let girl friend Number 1 inside, there sat: girl friend Number 2 on the front seat. Therafter, the man say* that he never tails to leek his car doors. But Cornyard wanted to know bow the man gos out of that tight spot. And I said, "Only God and ne know ” Meanwhile, friends, give me a suggestion for keeping a locked budding cool. REAL GONE SALES: Now is the time to puli out that, cash you have stacked away. The stores up town are putting out some 'real gone” clothing deals and you'll save money. Just think T can get two pairs of sl2._ 05 slacks or pants for only $5.83 a pair. But lbs catch is. “1 don't have the cash necessary to swing these deals You know one thing—it pay; to be rich. A salesman of tailor-made clothing wants to sell Cornyard a pair of slacks for $14.95 a pair. But Cornyard always pulls out that $4.38 Art he clipped from the Gordon B . Hancock's BETWEEN the LINES ATTACKING THE NEGRO'S MORALS An influential sector of the Nerophobe press of the Old South is making a sustained at take on the morals of Negroes. It is conunded that the low stan dards of morals among Negroes make segregation a necessity. 'Phis writer has often wondered why the segregationists do not come out openly with the truth and say they prefer segregation because they have race preju dice. There is no other explana tion of the tradition of segrega tion The Negropbobes today are contendnlg that the Negro's low standard of morals and educa tional backwardness are the ma jor reasons for the masisve re; ii twice to the. Supreme Court's decision in favor of integrating the schools of the. South. There is of course a reason for the Negro’s backwardness in things educational. The prime explanation is the failure of the “separate but equal” fallacy that was used so long to deprive the Nr:s?r; of equal cdu< utional op portunities Had matters been reverted and the white;- had been given the limited educational opportu nities given Negroes and had Ne groes been given the superior opportunities given whites, there would be a conspicuous any risks the company may as • suite for him. Thus, whenever the tiling in sured against does happen, ihe company has collected suffic ient lands from tae insured to redeem the policy. Another ad vantage insurance companies have- ever other types of busi ness c vporstions is in the mat ter of slate and federal income taxes. Industries and public uti - lities pay taxes on their net in comes ranging up to 52 per cent while insurance companies pay only 7.3 per cent tax on truer not incomes. r have before me. while I am writing this article, two reoprts from reliable financial sources. One of the sources selects four life insurance companies and points out th.'/f had an individ ual purchased $2.50!! worth of stocks iii each of the lour in. 19-17 fa total of SlP.oniW. his $lO, 00ft would now bo worth $70,757, The foregoing is not counting the cash dividend the individ ual would have received over that period of time. The- other source selects four other com panic4' and shows that had an i individual bought $3.00 worth of . stock in the four companies (not , $3,000 m each company, but .i \ total of $3,000 divided among the \ four companies) his $3,000 would now be worth $40,000. In each of \ the foregoing examples it is as sumed that the individual lei. hr- stock dividend remain -in \ the companies. No doubt m.v readers will say * how many people have slo,f<oo tor $3,900 to invest in stocks? My Answer to which is that I fra' a hat there are rot very many, ftut n smaller amount would Have gone up In value its almost Ihe same proportion. Moreover, here are many people over a Wind of years who could in- V-st even more than SIO,OOO. tLel'r sc® our broker and pet Are information about how to llfild financial security for old at- through a well planed meth oinvesting in the stocks of life ' inhrance companies, papers It's the best argument he could ever make. That reminds me—l had bet ter clap out an Ad for my pro tection HOLY GHOST; One never knows what names he’ll run a cros. in a dally newspaper the otrier day. I came across the name HOLY GHOST HIGH SCHOOL. Professor, can you im agine that;" ft couldn’t be that they have run out el school names. If, so, why not CORN YARD HIGH SCHOOL? HOMETOWN LAD; When I was a youngster about eigbr years old, I had a friend who packed to visit another boy in a city 30 miles away. Guess what he had in his suitcase? These thing:',: Eight comb books. One baseball glove W One baseball. One pair sock*, One blouse. Four pair sleeping drawers, and that’s all Roy, was he ready (o go'* Yes, sir-reel And that was that! fFTE PATCH THAT COUNT ED: When a boy. my mother ad monished me about, shooting marbles on my knees in my good pants But her talk faded on the winds. I attended Brimerd Institute and was in the eighth grade. It was about the time when I be came conscious of the girls. One morning as we marched into cha pel I had to sit down next, to aa- outstandingly dark for light a girl and the patch on my knee grey pants. I tried to cover it up with the hymn book but to T no avail The girl “sniggled” at my patch, and I was very’ much chagrined That cured my shoot ing marbles on my knees in my good pants. At that time, I was an overgrown boy of 15—-nearly six feet tall. NOT FUNNY: Cornyard has been thinking about getting mar ried. Rut- he cooled off when t said, "Keep in mind, Cornyard, thal ALIMONY is a system by which when two people make * mistake, one of them (the msn> continues to pay for it. backwardnes among the whites even as there is among Negroes. This goes also for the moral standard# so much emphasised A today in the effort# to disquali fy Negroes for full participation ■is citizens of this country, un limited by race prejudice and its evil eonclmitants, When the Ne grophobe press would morally disqualify Negroes for integra tion in education the question of illegitimacy is hurtled ufif th e foreground of discussion By all the statistics employed to substantiate the contention that the Negro is morally sub standard, the incidence of illegi timacy is higher among Negroes. By these same statistics the in cidence Os crime is always high er among Negroes. The difference they say is due to race. If it were simply t mat ter of race, why is there any crime and immorality at all a inon.-g whites and why is there any virtue at all among Negroes? )i comes about that there are so many Negroes who exceed many whites exceed so many whites in upngntness and so Negro;# in crime and immoral ity It must he that crime and immorality are circumstantial and not racial. jf crime and immorality were matters of race we would ex pect that whites be uniformly 4 v c!' ici: ; and Negroes would be uniformly vicious. This is not the cas-' As a ratter of fact, illegitimacy is not the only measure of sex ual immorality; and sexual mor ality is more important than its manifestations in Ulegitimacycor legii» ftiaey. For instance in houses of pro stitution there is but, little illegi timacy but a preponderance of sexual immorality. That is i» say, there may be only a rough correlation.between sexual mor ality and illegitimacy. When therefore, there is a high incidence of illegitimacy among Negroes as compared with the whites; it may only mean that the Negroes are unsophisticated and do not understand the pnn« rip.es and practice# of contra ception. When evaluating the .statistm of illegtimacy as they concern Negroes or whites- ac count must be taken of this mat ter of contraceptive knowledge and Ihe more serious matter Os abortions which poor Negroes . canot afford. m There is a current- Kinsey re-1 port on the wide-spread prac-1 ikes of abortion throughout thefl nation. I Letter To The i Editor | TO THE EDITOR ||| Thank you so much for ycffjgj cooperation and interest fiffi seeing that news releases WR Shaw University wftra publijpl|| ed in your fine paper. In WM viewing our clippings for 19. ||l| 58 we observed that the c OT erstge which the CAROLINT H gave us was very liberal. ||| We hope for you contin S success and greater expa-ns.,. |g If we can serve you in *rpw way in our area, please let us 1 know* ‘ PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT'S THELMA M. KECK. ! Director * i
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