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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 193 R Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP 1. God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. 2. That thy way may be known upon the earth, thy saving health among all nations. 3. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. 4. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt. judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon the earth. Selah. 5. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Will They Fall On Deal Ears? G Last Friday, attorneys for the plaintiff and ’defendants in the case of Joseph Hiram, Holt, Jr., vs. tire Raleigh School Board waxed elo quent in their oral arguments before Judge Edwin Stanley in the U. S. Eastern District Court, We were impressed with the conversational 'delivery of Attorney Sam Mitchell who re presented the plaintiff. His persuasion was not based so much upon emotional appeal as it was upon logical reasons for the prosecution. He made no attempt to influence the will of the Judge through the adrenal glands but ra ther through the cortex, Mitchell contended the reason for denying Holt’s request for reassignment to the all white Needham-Broughton. High School was basically a racial factor, and that the prin ciple of "public interest” should not have en- Anofcher case of glaring inequities has bc-en brought to the attention cf the penpie of North Carolina. i*\ the field of higher education. For a long time, funds, derived from heirless es tates, unused bank deposits, and similar funds, have been appropriated to the three branches of the Consolidated University to provide scholarships for needy and promising students. None of the Negro state institutions of higher learning received any of these monies. The legislative committee of the North Car olina Teachers Association recently wrote Gov ernor Hodges to use his influence upon the North Carolina Legislature to amend the State Constitution to allow escheat funds to be dis tributed to all of the state’s institutions of higher learning. Included in the letter was a statement stress ing that it "appears only just and in accor dance with the nondiscrirninatory traditions cf our democracy that these funds be apportioned on sn equitable bs,si3 to all of the state’s msfi - tutions of higher learning.” We Need Free Medical Care Last year the Duke University Medical Cen ter at Durham ran an “out-patient” deficit of $461,273 for a total of 113,885 visits by in digent and welfare patients, according to L. R. Jordan, assistant superintendent of the Center. This gigantic deficit has promoted a change in the admission policies of the Medical Cen ter. After August 1, 1958, courtesy visits (in cluding routine laboratory work and chest X fsy»> will be extended to patients referred by department* of public welfare when those de partments authorize “any necessary medica tions and diagnostic studies.” If the authorization is limited to the amount, of cost or length of time, welfare.author!ties mast indicate as much. Duke University Me- Center, out-patient department, has ncti tied authorities that they are to be billed monthly fpr such expenditure®. We team that many counties,— f or example, Ourkarn—-do not appropriate funds to welfare dftpartm*ni» for diagnostic services and rne- ks ow country, a many-sided civil war is ge&ng on, oo a nation-wide scale. Our citizens are divided into many camps, each one of which is fighting other groups for more of their property. The sad part of it all is that the battleground is the United States government. Politician* are the officers of these armies. Battles me lost and won when groups succ-eeed or fay in pressuring government into giving them handouts or enacting special legislation of great variety which favors them in one or more of many ways. For example, the segrega tionists in eleven states have succeeded in passing 116 different few* to maintain the statu# quo of segregation. Certain burin esse* are favored fey subsidies, tariffs, fast, write-offs, and many other devices. This transfers the wealth of other citizens to them. Fanners have long been successful fighter* in this civil war. They have won so-called par ity payments, money for fertilizing land, more money for not cultivating it, high payments for raising crops which cannot he sold at prices demanded, and art infinite variety of advan tage#, all giving them some of the wealth pro duced by their fellow-citizens. Yet, newspap ers are singing the blues of ‘‘the plight of the Teaching Can Be Attractive Thi# fall the city o# Norwalk, Connecticut, will attempt to prove that teaching can be made attractive as a career. The plan calls for placing three-member teams, *ach consisting of two teachers and a non-teacher assistant, in four elementary schools to conduct classes jfjfeat now require three teacher#, ffi The salary of the non-teacher assistant, who ! "'WO«S<J fatop nare of the routine -larsworr. de tail*, wouSd be considerably !cs?i than that of a teacher. The money saved would be added to the salaries of the two teachers. Thus, according to Dr. Harry A. Barker, School Superintendent, the teachers not; only would earn more but would be relieved of cle rical and other chores they are now required to perform in addition to their classroom in- Escheat Funds Inequity Space Age Civil War 6. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless thee, 7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him 8. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea. let them exceedingly rejoice. 9. Sing unto God. sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by hss name JAH, and rejoice before him. • 10. Let the people praise thee O God: let all the people praise the. e. tered the School Board’s decision to deny 'Holt’s reassignment request. We think Mitchell realized that his oral ar gument required concentration, very much like hitting a baseball. Tie was like a batter sharply alert, every muscle and nerve in tight coordi nation. He felt his body and brain move into high gear. This moving into "high gear” is something most speakers fear But we think Mitchell re garded it as an advantage, because he proper ly used it. There was never the danger of be coming so tense that, he did not adequately express himself. We believe that Mitchell controlled his ma n-rial, controlled himself, and persuaded the Judge. Two weeks from now. when the Judge gives his decision we will learn whether Mit chell’s words fell on deaf ears. Perhaps many citizens of North Carolina do not know that the escheat funds amount to several hundred thousand dollars Presently, only white needy and promising students bene fit from these funds. The North Carolina Teachers Association has done the State of North Carolina a great service by calling its attention to discrimi nation in the distribution of the escheat funds. State officials of high calling will want —we believe—to correct this fault in the very near future. Lest they forget, we are suggesting that the Negro citizen of the State flood the legis lature with letters, petitions, and telegrams urging an amendment to the State Constitu tion permitting an equitable distribution of these funds to all State institutions of higher learning. If the State Constitution is amended to ef fect this change, needy and promising Negro students will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete their education during the years ahead. dication for indigent people, except when hos pitalized. This change in policy by the Duke Univer sity Medical Center regarding indigent “cour tesy patients” will affect Negroes to a far larg er degree than most, of us can imagine. To be sure, a large percentage of the 118,885 visits last year to the out-patient clinic was made by indigent Negro patients who had no money to pay for their medical treatment. The new policy will curtail to some degree the number of Negro patients receiving neces sary medications and diagnostic studies. And the lack of certain medical treatment may lead to the death of hundreds of people. While’ the medical profession had fought “tooth and nail” the proposals for socialized medicine in this country, our only salvation for proper medical treatment of people who have no money is the establishment of a sys tem'of free medical care available to all citi zens at public expense. American farmer.” Labor unions have strangled, our econo my with their foothold in American industry They have won legislation which compels per sons who do not wish to become members to pay tribute to unions, and they make it almost impossible for employers to replace workers who go on strike. By means of the Wagner Act and later Taft-Hartley they force wages and fringe benefits higher and higher. Veterans have been unusually successful in levying tribute upon the people. Because they shouldered a rifle, or piloted a jet plane, they think that the government owes them every thing Church and religious groups, enjoying tax exemptions, art accepting services for which you and your neighbors are forced to pay. And mind you, some of the churches have become big business. We could go on and on, for the list is end less. The battle rages more fiercely today than ever before. And the sad part of it all is that the end of this multiplex civil war is not yet in sight. If, however, this process of despolia tion is not stopped, the nation will be bank rupted and we will face a desperate poverty in the years ahead. stiuction. The only major means to advance ones self in education is to enter the administrative fu id. That's why school principals generally receive more than their teaching faculty. Un der this plan a teacher can. go forward pro fessionally, both as to salary and general re sponsibilities, without having to assume an ad m misty stive position. The experiment is being financed through a $75,000 grant from the Fund for the Advance ment of Education of the Ford Foundation. W< hope that this experiment will be a suc cess. If so. the idea should be adopted by our school systems throughout the nation. While the field for Negro teachers is crowded, this idea will attract a better type of teacher Will It Prove To Be The C out Qt Justice For National Aspirations? fgfgr SENTENCE SERMONS OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN 1. Every boy who has a good father is a fortunate son, for mine was quickly taken by ill ness shortly after my life had begun. 2. Then when to manhood I later came with a large family to rear, I often wondered even then how it would feel to have m.v Dad near. 3. His well-seasoned advice and wisdom meth.tnks would have helped, to bridge many a chasm; but, there is one right now t.o whom I can go whose ' creative powers far exceed pro toplasm. 4. Thus, in perplexity and storm I find no need for alarm, for I have an unseen Father who stretches forth an invisible arm. 5. He us -OUR FATHER” whom I early learned to honor and revere, and now what ere What Other Editors Say ANTIDOTE TO DEMAGOG? There was, surprisingly en ough, sn element of truth in the vainglorious and self - serving statement issued by Gov. Grv.il Faubus of Arkansas on his vic tory in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. ' The voting today,” he declared, “was a condemna tion by the people of illegal Federal intervention in the af fairs of the state and of the hor rifying use of Federal bayonets on the streets of an American city and in the halls of a public sc hoci,” There was of course, nothing illegal about Federal interven tion to enforce a Federal court order in a situation where state authorities were thwarting ob servance of that order. Governor Faubus knows very well that he himself made Federal inter vention unavoidable at Little Rock. He knows, too, that the use of bayonet# there, while hor rifying, was made necessary by the mob violence he incited. Nevertheless, he is probably right in attributing his triumph to a condemnation of this Fed eral action by the people of Ar kansas, He ought to know about this: he planned it. The whole of his campaign for rcnorr.i na tion was a demagogic incitement of local feelings against the United States and the democrat ic concept of facial equality. Faubus succeeded in this dem agogy in part because of the lack of Federal leadership to awaken the people of Arkansas, or of the South generally, to the real issues Involved. The President of the United State* has never spoken out in sup port of the moral imperative* behind the Supreme Court 1 # school desegregation decision, lie has done little to rally mod erate Southerners to the defense of low and order or to evoke their national allegiance. It i# true that he acted with vigor find decision in the Little Rock crisis—but only after that crisis had been allowed to develop in port at least through lack of leadership. And since*then Fan bus has been left a free field to exploit latent sectionalism and racism and bigotry. Xf his noi some nor sense is not effectively countered, it will spread its poi son throughout the South. FaubUß' renomination in the • circum; ncer, was a foregone conclusion. The Arkansas elec torate has spoken; and the calm acceptance of its mandate by the rest of the Nation is, in a sense, a testimonial to the vital ity of the democratic procc~3. BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP the tempest may be, I can todl Him ever so neap, S. He taught ms bow to re*? roy children end to treat them as He treated me, and to tell them that His loving kindness ■ can set a whole world free. 7. Thus Ufa has been a bless* ing, and living not a common dread: for I have always de lighted in seeing people coi,> fortabla, and especially old folks happy and well fed.. 8. These lessons have oonjg from “OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN", whose leaven leaveneth the whole lump, and whose love 6m draw men from their enemy Satan who forever keeps them on a hop and lamp, 9. The love cf "OUR FATH ER” is beyond aU human under standing, especially so when we think of Kim offering to a sin ful man a safe heavenly land ing, after soowarsfoo, and ttrie There are not so many countries in the world today where on avowed opponent of national au thority oould be elected to an important local office end 4“ lowed to assume it without forceful lnterfarantx-tiy fee na tional goverameni This reaped for loo&l autonomy should noi. however, preclude lSh» use of democratic mean# to win the Id eal electorate to & nipre light ened view, Responsible leader ship is the democratic feftdofa to demagogy, —-THE WASHINGTON POST ill-TEA'S. FREBDOw Today the Rvpub'do of Siberia \n celebrating the fifth W?*** mry of its freedom and in de pendence, and we ayngtwWfete tier not only on this long period of sovereignty bwt Al#o cm the fact that after so many trials and tribulation*, ttu* » now prospering. After a quartet* century of pioneering in the doc* of tre mendous obstacles, tire sturdy, valiant group of free American Negroes declared themselves * republic on July 1347, ana launched thatt little feat* upon the stormy see# of sovereignty. In addition to fighting agiHnrt hostile internal tribe#., the new state was threatened time ana sgnin by the British and the French who were then antago nistic to Negro freedom and menaced Liberia from all direc tion*. There was no "h-nothor «s|n try tp pour monsy <s»<! skill* iSto tha .. ap wsi \djW>' fe fcto 0 Chare, twgerfe, Sudan, &brrtb Africfe, and the French and Brit ish colonies: so, left to the ex pedient of virtually lifting her self by her bootstrap*, progress was painfully slow; and to t,,is was added the bitterness of out side scorn and ridicule. The United States on severs! occasion* intervened with for eign powers to avert aggression against Liberia, but otherwise did nothing to help Liberie, ami nobody else would. Liberia 1* to be oongmtwfeted as it celebrate* «* 111th birth day. —prrrsmjßOT cowwi A STAB m THE! BACHt It’s rather distressing, and puzzling, to find Congreesniah Gordon L. McDonough voting for a piece of legislation do - scribed by Hoy Wilkins as a di rect threat to the oivll rights of Negroes and one which will "sell them down the •river,” Yet that’s just what happen }jSs reward for defying Satan by desertion. 10. "ODE FATHER", ail for the asking, yet nations are war torn and their citizens gasping ... to what oilier source can they now v apply and receive something 'more than a mere wish and sigh? 11. There is but one answer . , , it Is "OUR FATHER" from Whom all blessings flow; and it Js indeed foolish to think that right hero at. the brink of eter nal woe, there could yet be some source to which ws can go, 32. "OUR FATHER WHO ART TN HEAVEN", should on every human heart be indelibly writ ten . , , for He for man's sins gave His only begotten son, that at the end of life's journey eter nal 'life could be von; and then as we reach the edge of Jor dan’s billow, we can rest our worthy heads on "OUR FATH ER'S" MAJESTIC PILLOW, ed. The maasure in question is the so-aciled States Rights bill which establishes state suprem acy in legislation which is the subject of both, state and fed eral action. It's aim is to exalt State Jim Crow statutes over federal legislation. Ws can’t understand why Mr. McDonough went along with the Dixifcoraiß. He has been in dongress long enough to know that when a congressman like Howard Smith of Virginia pro poses a measure it’s suspect. The fiTAACP looked at the- bill; it told Mr, McDonough and every pthee congressmen just, what the bill Is about In the face of the NAACP warning, McDonough and the whole Republican congressional delegation from California play ed footsie with the Dixiocrats. We hope that some of Mr, McDonough's strong supporters in tbs Fifteenth district will tnka him to task for his gratuit ous assistance to those who want to undermine civil rights. Wilkins summed up the whole ease against the bill when he pointed out that “it would en able states to continue racial segregation laws and enact new ones without restraint by the United Slates Supreme Court.” Ts that what Congressman McDonough wants? —CALIFORNIA EAGLE Along The Cififligi Frist Bf A. 3. BIGGINS (British Jowroallst for ANPI Fact T» Protect Oppressors Arid Exploiters t have condemned the Bagh dad pact, BEATO and the Ei senhower doctrine from the be ginning, because ail these pacta wore made to protect the rulers of Pakistan. Persia, Iraq, Jor dan and Turkey against their own people, and I knew that wg winn merely delaying: the in* fwitahlo revolt by propping up Reactionary regimes. Revolt becomes a right of oppressed and exploited, people when they are denied consti tutional remedies; and all the Western Powers have done has been to increase the misery of many scores o£ millions of peo ple-for some years. Thus the action of tire West ern Fowers lias caused mfi- JUST FOR FUN GOOD OLE COFFEE A group of us was assembled in front of Jabe Wright’". Barber’ Shop late ona afternoon, and the conversation drifted to bow to make and drink good coffee. Present were Speed Bail Eddie, Fellow Gore, Annie Be-ite, Un cle Jim, old timers and young squirts, I started off the “drift" by saying that there are some things in this country wo didn’t want to change—like the 5-cent cup of coffee. From then on the conversation moved into high gear. Continuing I said, "Besides a restaurant in Savannah. Geor gia, l knew of only one case owner who could make good 25- cent. coffee and sell It for 6- eents ” This person we called “JOE", and she had a place in Ann Ar bor, Michigan, when f was at tending the University of Mich igan. JGF, made her coffee in a small pot and changed the grounds at each making. JOE had an art of making cof fee, She concocted a drink made in* infusion or decoction from the roasted and ground or pounded seeds of the coffee bean. Tie aroma was pungent and delicious, and a cup of her coffee made your stomach do a flippity flop with fried coun try ham and hot biscuits. CONYARD SATD ha had tried at least two dozen restaurants, but failed to find one that mas tered the art of making delic ious coffee. Poor Cornyard has given up—why don’t you invite him over for breakfast one Sun day morning? He needs ho taste some of that good coffee you housewives make. "DOC. most, of them guys make you pay ten cents for a cup of colored water. They nev er seem to change the coffee grounds.” remarked Corn yard SPEED BALL EDDIE chimed in that his old lady served him T.lfaxwoß Vrt’ico inc 1: n f coffee, and it was just fine in the win ter time when he took off on ones o? them big frailer truck jobs. I added, "That’s what ’ they serve ns in the dining hall at St. Augustine's College in the mornings." Boy. it is delicious Gordon B . Hancock f s BETWEEN the LINES THE TRAGEDY OF RACE PREJUDICE There is before me a copy of. Look magazine of June 24. It carries an article entitled "What They Did To Me At Little Rock" Rock” by Minniejean Brown, one of the unfortunate young Negroes caught in f.ht* integra tion struggle in Little Rock. The more one studios Minns jean’s own account of the tragic happenings incident to the shams that is now our nation’s, the more there is revealed the baseness and meanness that eventually stoma from race pre judice. When the late world lamed historian, K. G. Wells, said that race prejudice is the worst thing in the life of man kind today, he was putting it mildly. Minnijean’s account of the treatment of those young Negroes who attended. Central High is easily one of the most sorci'd and sickening stories ev er told of mart’s inhumanity to man. And although those shame ful tilings were done to humili ate those young Negroes, the real catastrophic effects will bo manifested in the lives of those young whites who Will be the men. and women of tomorrow. This writer has long contend ed that the greater misfortune of race prejudice and its evil ■ concomitants is the white man’s and not the Negro s Tne cruelty and brutality and the meanness and hatred that Central High’s niie’y morn misery and death that, the revolts in Egypt and Iraq. Pakistan, is facing a catas trophic recession anci only sub stantial help from somewhere can .save the country from col lapse. And the help will have to continue for years. Conditions in Persia are bad. The Shah’s forces are badly equipped and badly organized. Persia is no asset at all to the West as a bastion. Conditions in Turkey axe ap palling and the government would welcome any chance to sell its troops as mercenaries to avoid, trouble with them. Pakistan’s main reason for joining the pact was to have, as they thought, Western aid a galnst India. So, what the meeting in London amounts to is, as far as the Pakistanis, Persians and Turks are concerned, a begging operation. They feel that they ore necessary to protect the oil wells and have told their associates at home they intend to extract enough dough from TI.S.A and Britain as they can sa time is not on their side: the people are too restless now and want to "eat brioche" and bread and the big boys think maybe it's time to make a kill ing and quit; beat It while the beating’s good. The average yearly wage of the people of the area is $26 —■ not a month or & week, but one year. Thafc is what the American and British people are not told the Baghdad pact, 3BATO and the Eisenhower doctrine are meant to maintain. Arid now Mr. Dulles comes to London with a smile on his face and joy in ru«( Lawt By MARCUS H. BO EL WARE when the waiter dowm't Tv.r**t to keep the water piping hot. ■ FELLOW GCRE, Froggie Bot tom's ace piano player, said that , most cals owners mads the mis- ’ take of trying to make a profit out of coffee. “What they need to do is to make small quanti ties of good 5-cent coffee a doz en times a dsy,” he added. A fellow who gets a good cup of coffee is bound to call for * second along with some bacon and eggs. ANNIE BELLE thought that most restaurant owners made the mistake of buying cheap cof fee. “A good cook caftnot makiU bad coffee good,” sh* said At once I challenged, "Us* Carnation Milk!” ‘ Why?” answered Annie Bella. "At the Carolinian Hood Show, Mr. Alexander Barnes said that Carnation Milk made bad co* foe good.’’ was mv reply. UNCLE JIM, who likes hi* coffee block and without sugar, finally ssid that he found thst most restaurant owners aren’t interested In making coffe* good. "Why?” Cornyard asked. "Have you noticed that th«nr let coffee stand in thos* big cof fee makers overnight? All. they do in the mornings is heat ev** the old coffee made the day be fore.” Uncle Jim said. WHAT ONE SERVES COT FEE in makes a difference. Cof fee was not made to serve in paper cups, and anyone who doesn’t have time to sit down and drink it ought not do so. The invention of plastic cup* has done much to destroy the aroma in a cup of coffee. Ti» t cups and water glasses are im proper utensils for serving cof fee. To be enjoyed coffee must h* sipped and not gulped down A man needs to have time to drink his coffee. Coffee cannot make its appeal to the sense rtf taste if one insists on smoking a ciga rette while he is drinking it. Cornyard and I are writing s book on the lost art of making good coffee, It will be off the press soon, and we urge all housewives to purchase a copy. You ran secure it at the modest price of $2.50 young white pfcwdeo#* heaped upon the tew young defenseless Negroes who Wwd peeking an education Will gft down in his tory as one of the greater trage dies of mankind, But after all. these young hating whites are not to be blamed but their par ents who urged them on, and Gov. Faubus, who instigated violence in the first place. Those beset young Negroes exhibited an excellent spirit and practiced the "other cheek” teachings of Jesus Christ; and Minnijean’s final explosion can easily be understood and the sympathies of decent men and women everywhere will be with her. So when the NA.ACP made awards to those young Negroes ■who dared to attend Central High, it was doing a service to the cause of righteousness. But there is something alarm ing in the situation that sur rounded events that transpired at Central High. The alarming thing is not what happened to those defenseless Negroes but what happened to those who persecuted them. So the awful thing did not. happen t.o the Ne groes but to the whites and herein hes the greater danger. In the final analysis the qua*- M, lion arises, will the white man’s hatred of the Negro do to hire what the Germans’ hatred of the Jews did to Germany? It M true the Jews were slaughtered ns Negroes may eventually be slaughtered by Negro-haters who are on the march, but it also means the end of detoi'*:- racy in the earth. Believe it or not democracy is fighting for its life in the 20th century world; and what happened to Minnijean Brown in Little Rock's Central High just goes to show what dreadful odds our nation is fighting against where race prejudice is complicating the prohlem of survival of de mocracy. No, the real losers at Little Rock were not those few de fenseless Negroes, but those white students who spat upon them. And the thing that made matters worse, was the patience and forbearance end good man ners and courage of those young Negroes, beset by a terrible mis fortune. When a man refuses to strike back when struck, btM align* himself with God anti Time and Right; for Jesus taught the way! Ws can afford to forget what happened to the- Negro students at Central High and ponder what happened to those* who poured out their vials of wrath, of bitterness and ha tred, and brutality and crusty and human meannea*. What is going to happen to a country where parents prompt their chil dren to be mean and hateful to their fellowman? Minnijeaa said the first morn ing she attended school at Cen tral High, a white girl sat rear and expressed pleasure at tee ing Mtenijean in school snd wished her welL But MinaSjean say g that after that morning, that young girl never said sm other word to her during those ter.lble days. The heart of the young white girl was right but she was afraid. The thing that made her afraid is endangering the Negroes, the whites and our nation. Unless somehow rail? prejudice is destroyed, tt destroy our grea* nation.
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