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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMTH ft Vj 1" K Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP Jesus answered and said unto him. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Nicodemus, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of Heaven." St. John 3:3. A country boy from Nazareth, Jesus, achiev ed a, success that was always exciting. This makes us wonder: what was the principal ele ment of his power over men? There were many elements we are sure. But His principal element was His voice and manner, —the personal magnetism that b- > loyal'.'- and commands respect. Ths very beginnings oi it were present in Him even as a boy. John felt them. On the day when John looked up from the river whore he was baptizing converts and saw Jesus standing on the bank, he drev. back in protest. ‘T have need to be baptized of Thee.’’ h exclaimed, “and contest thou to me?" The lew - er man recognized the greater instinctively. We speak of personal magnetism as though there were something mysterious about 1: n magic quality bestowed on one in a thousand ai .1 denied to all the rest. This is not true Th<. senttal element In persona! magnetism h i con suming sincerity—an overflowing faith in the importance of the work one has to do. Most of us go through the world mentally divided against ourselves We wonder whether Time For Thanksgiving Again It goes without saying that Thanksgiving Day brings to ouv minds the Pilgrim Fathers who landed an exploring expedition at P'y mouth harbor in Massachusetts on D< • i 21, 3620. Anticipating difficulty in centr'd ling the action of some of the more turbuh fit members of the group, the Pilgrim "Fat!"'. :s. or at least forty-three of them affixed th< ir signatures while still on shipboard to the f in cus “Mayflower Compact," by which tin y bound themselves together into “a civil b i politic” for their “better ordering and pr< -< r vation.’* They chose John Carver as then first gov ernor, and as n pure democracy the group faced the unknown trials of the New World. The first winter took a toll in dead of over half the company, but the survivors stayed on, and with the help of a few more muni grants they were able to found an enduring settlement. Farming, fur-trading, fishing, and lumber furnished their chief occupations. After enduring hardships for the first twelve months, the survivors held what we might rightly call the first Thanksgiving Day cele bration in America, With a few friendly In dians, they feasted to then* soul's content. They served wild turkey md all kinds of fowls, corn, nuts, wild vegetables, pies, cakes, and dried fruits. In their Puritan worship, they thanked God for His bountiful blessings —wild game, fruits, foods, and friendly In dians. One would be inclined to think that sure Iv such a group of Puritans, who immigrated to these shores in the hope of finding religious freedom, would have encouraged freedom of religion and personal liberty. But not so —the intolerance of the Massachusetts government in all matters of religious belief and personal conduct provoked much irritation. Deporta tion for religious offenses were numerous, and harsh punishments were laid upon those who The Raping Disease Spreads For some reason there seems to be in the state and southeast area a wave of -ascs of rape committed against women of both races. We have watched this trend grow during the past twelve months, White rape is not nearly so prevalent as other types of crimes—and it would be dis astrous if it were—the shock it has on the f, male is indeed nerve wrecking to say the least'. For example, the recent rape on a housewife by seven boys must have been humiliating beyond our comprehension. For this dastard ly and brutal crime, the court meted out one death sentence and six life sentences to the convicted youths. No doubt many people think trial the sen tence# for the youths were too extreme h< au ■ the youths knowingly overpowered and forci bly had sexual intercourse with the woman in volved. They were no children—they knew what they were doing and that their acts were in violation of the law. We believe they knew they would be caught. Regardless of what o>eople say or think, they have their reward. Cases of rape are not limited to youths B’one. The crime of Matth' w Bass is c most glaring example. This man has sought relief through the courts but his death sentence re mains in effect. The best he can hope for now When one reads of the excessively large number of accidents occuring daily in this country, he should become alarmed to a largi degree. The CAROLINIAN took cognisance of this trend last week and noted some dra matic accidents—many of which no doubt could have been avoided. In Mew Bern, a 10-year-old boy accidently strangled himself to death one night whil< watching television. He apparently fell asleep after playfully placing the belt around his neck and fastening it to a door knob, rumbled down on four men clearing an ear- A hillside covered with logs and huge rocks lier slide from a mountain logging road. One of these men scampered to safety. Obviously, the men did not take the proper precautions. An AP story told of a thick fog which blanketed n 3Vz-mile stretch of Highway lot in California two Sundays ago, causing the collision of more than 100 automobiles. For Hi■ nstely only two persons were killed in the fog which lasted about six hours. The safest The Rise Os Accidents we are in the right jobs whether we are making the right Investments, whether, after all, any thing Is as important as it seems to be. Our enemies are those of our own being and creation. In the cue of the Master, very important people were moved by his personal magnetism, Jesus had been in Jerusalem only a day or two when there came a knock at His door at night. He opened it to find Nicodemus, one of the prin cipal men of the city; a member of tbs Sanhe drin. a supreme court judge. One feels the dra matic quality of the meeting—the young, almost unknown, teacher and. lire great man, half curi ous. half convinced. It would have been easy to make a mistake, Jesus might very naturally have expressed his sense of honor at the vistt; have said, "I appreciate your corning, sir. You are an older tv n and successful. I am .just starting on my work. I should like to have you advise me as to how I may br t proceed." But there was no such note in the Interview—no effort to make it- easy for this notable visitor to become a convert. One catches his breath Involuntarily at the audacity of the speech: ‘Verily, verily, 1 say to you, Nicodemus, ex cept, you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of Heaven.” failed by ever so slight a margin to conform to the strict Puritan standards. The careers of Roger Williams and Anns Hutchinson, both cf whom challenged the ac cepted order, serve to illustrate two facts, first, that dissent in Massachusetts Bay did exist, and second, that the dissenters usually lost in their conflicts with the ruling Pilgrims. Roger Williams startled the authorities by declaring that the state had no right to punish an individual for his personal habits and op inions. If a man committed a "wrong against his neighbor, then, according to Williams, the state should punish him: but if the man mere ly held uncommon religious views or depart ed from the customary practice in a small matter like Sabbath breaking, then his of fense was no affair of the state. No wonder the Puritans were disturbed, because Roger Williams’ doctrine would have withdrawn the power of the state from the support of the church and would have wrecked the Pilgrim's experiment. Upon this same principle, some dissenters today challenge the validity of Sunday Blue Laws. Like Roger Williams, they would say if a man wants to go to church that’s his busi ness. or if he wants to keep his store open dur ing Sunday church hours the city has no right to forbid him. The dissenting merchant feels that he is doing no wrong to his fellowmen through the orderly pursuit of his business. We should, on this Thanksgiving Day, be thankful that we have the privilege of dis senting in this country. We should thank God this week for our freedom of speech, freedom of the press, Freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly. Church leaders must accept that the fact that they cannot legislate and force men to attend church by closing businesses, because people do whatever they want to do. Men ■must be persuaded to attend church and wor ship God, For this we should be thankful, is a commutation of the death, sentence to life imprisonment by Governor Hodges. Wo are confident that there is a need for a uniform law to deal with rapists. Punishment should be meted out in accordance with the law regardless of the race or age of the crimi nal. If one person gets the death sentence for rape, then all rapists, should die if found guil ty. As it now stands, the penalty ranges from six months in jail for a white man to the death sentence for a Negro. There should be no ■■ or youth who forcibly violates the feminine person for sexual gratification, because there exists in the land prostitutes call girls, and ladies of the evening. Even if these types of women did not exist, man’s brain and intellect should be made to control his emotions, Wc can be sympathetic towards rapists If wr want to. but it stands to reason that these types of criminals do not discriminate in pick ing their victims. They select men’s wives, young mothers, sisters of the best citizens, and t ven little innocent grits as victims. The low est man on earth, we think, is a grown in dividual preying upon the sexual person of a five or six year-old girl. 'I here must be a healing of this disease while yet there is time. thing that these nsortorists could have done would have been to stop until the fog lifted. In Lexington, N. C., a 23-year-old man was severely mangled in a cornpicking machine as he tried to undog it on his father's farm one morning. Both of his arms had. to be ampu tated. Had the man called for help in undog ging the machine, he would have his arms to day. An Oklahoma City lad, 10-years-old. was discovered hanging from a tree with a a rope around his neck by his seven-year-old sister. The boy had hung himself accidently. His mother told the police that the boy had often scared his sister wit the rope trick, so she was not excited at first. This accident could have been avoided. Tim people whise injury and death we des cribed could be hving or unhurt today, but they gambled their lives on the cross of care lessness. We must not let a similar accident happen to us. Hate, Dividing Us, When Unity Is Needed picther SENTENCE SERMOHS “THANKSGIVING” 1. This word of two pasts should bear the same meaning to all human hearts; Its mean ing also Is the same when re versed, and Its glad tidings to man should be constantly re hearsed. 2. For man seems to fake much for granted, treating as a matter of fact, God’s bound less gifts and growing Insensi ble to spiritual lilts, 3. He gives little or no thought to the air he breathes, nor the water he drinks and his thirst relieves; food, to him is simply as it should be and finds no particular attraction in a tree. 4. lire flowers are just here, having no other place to 'go, and the sun, moon and stars are just shining for show: ask him about nature, and he says “I don't know.” 5. As to himself, he just showed up by no special ar rangement . . . but since he is here, should be furnished seme special entertainment, and not have to worry about making a What Other Editors Say END OF “MASSIVE" RESISTANCE’’? Is “massive resistance” crum bling in Virginia? First signs of a crack In th» wall were editorials last week in both Richmond newspapers calling for some modification in Virginia's plan for total op position to integration, in schools. , Tho TUnes-Dispatch, using such words as /futile.” “inef fective’' and “suicidal” to de scribe the Old Dominion's pres - ent policy, suggested a legis lative study committee to draw up a new plan. Then the News Leader, which not long ago saw victory in sight when Norfolk, Charlottes ville and Front Royal began closing down schools, now views the situation in a different light. While saying that the next step “ideally'’ would be a head on federal-state clash which would land Governor Almond in jail for contempt, the News Loader opines that “the realis tic answer” to Virginia's dilem ma is a “valid system of state tuition grants.” This pian in the long haul would mean private schools for parent# who were dissatisfied with public schools, and even “in other areas, whore the peo ple approved, public schools might be maintained on an in tegrated basis for Negroes and for the handful of whites, like tho woman front Arlington who testified here on Tuesday, who believe affirmatively in rr.es rDixirist.” to a word then, Virginia is returning to the Gray Plan, The shaft of the Richmond edi tors foreshadowed a change in official, policy, because on Wed nesday Governor Almond said he will name a, legislative com mission to draft new s policy re commendations if Virginia’s anti-integration laws are struck down in pending court cases. Apparently the Governor fore sees just such an outcome and is preparing the way for a new course. The Gray Plan, abandoned in a political campaign that i threatened the Byrd organiza tion. had features similar to .North Carolina's combined Pu pil Assignment Act-PeorsaK Plan. It permitted pupil assign ment at the local level and pro vided for tuition grants for private schools. Like North Carolina's plan it did not en vision massive integration. Under North Carolina’s sys BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP living, and certainly not for a brother take a part iu giving, 6. Saddest of all. too few- real ize the mystery and power of the human frame, which even Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, both to claim and re deem. so man could fit in the Divine arrangment of the heav enly scheme. 7. Even our Precious Father, God, made man in His own image, then sent His Son, Jesus Christ, that His holy person ality we might, envisage; can we now say wo are thankful for this matchless gift to earth, who counted it not robbery to be equal with God and em braced human birth? 8. No, I fear we are far from being grateful and thankful, and most unworthy of God’s priceless gifts, serving * Him only when most needed, and with Satan having too few rifts, 9. The purest expression then, for “THANKSGIVING" is giving thunks for the mani fold blessings already received, and for negligence and ingrati tern no schools have been clos ed: under Virginia’s “massive resistance" policy nine schools in three localities have been shut down and 13,000 children are out of school or in make shift classrooms. When legislative members of Governor Almond’s projected new study commission get to gether, they might well note that North Carolina’s plan, make* the granting of tuition payments, along with the clos ing of schools, not too attrac tive, This joined with a firm Tar Heel devotion to public school education, means that little private schooling is likely. In Virginia, where there is no such attachment to public schools, it may be otherwise. "An efficient system of private education,” says the Richmond News Leader, “is the direction that Virginia must prepare to take.” Like the majority of their neighbors to the south. Vir ginians favor segregated schools. It’s their lack oi firm commitment to the public school system that is disturb ing. GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS STANGLEHOLO THREATENED What to do with the large number of “liberals” elected to the United States Senate and House of Representatives two weeks ago Is a problem the Democratic leaders must re solve, if the South is to hold the absolute mm it has held in the committees of Congress for years. The average person thinks that speech-making is what changes votes in Congress. To some extent that is true. But most of the speeches delivered in Congress in both Houses are for the consumption of the home folks. The real work of the Cong res sat least, most of it- is done in committees. How to give the “liberal” Democrats their committee as signments and still maintain the ultra-conservative strange hold on committee decisions is not going to be easy. Speaker Sam Rayburn is alleged to have assured Southerners that they have nothing to worry about.: that he will so juggle assign ments as to maintain southern control. This southern control over confirmation of appointments of Negroes and over legislation designed to guarantee Negro citizens their constitutional rights la a “calculated risk” tude, feel most deeply grieved. 10. Hot a day for feasting, but lasting, not for boasting and lounging around , . for our Indolence hatred and false pride. We should want to pros trate ourselves upon the ground; for this rich garden wo have almost changed to hell, and men seem now to be grop ing around as if under a deep dark spell. 11. We are now dealing with things high up in the air in stead of relieving a fellow brother of his woe and despair . . . regarding color and not character in the human race, and giving' vent to evil notions instead ol basking in Clod's Grace. 12. Again, THANKSGIVING, is giving thanks for the priv ilege of living, and the protec tion of Heaven against human ills and sinning; and when America can prove to the World that “IN GOD WE TRUST" then will her ciiiaens give iuU proof of their dislike for hate a id all sinful lust. which Negro Democratic vot ers in the North and West took, wittingly or unwittingly, on November 4th. There’s nothing to do now but sit and wait.. PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE GOVERNMENT BY TERROR A minority of diehard South ern segregationists Im.ve placed the great majority of Southern people on the spot with "mas sive resistance” to public school desegregation. Terror and anarchy have now replaced mere talk, and thoughtful Southerners are a ghost at the breakdown of free government, with open defi ance of the laws of the land and widespread destruction of public and private property. Thus, the South is now reap ing the whirlwind after dec ades of sowing the winds of racial prejudice, color discrim ination. lynching 1 , insult, mur der and disfranchisement; and the forces of moderation and liberalism are, as usual on the run. It must be sorrowfully ad mitted by all in Dixie that this is no new pattern but simply one that has become exaggerat ed and inflamed by illegal ac tions of a Ku Kluxish spear head, and which now endan gers the whole structure of re publican government. Facet with this dire situa tion, it is unfortunate that no strong condemnation has come from the While House and, even wm sc. no program of mass education in obedience to the law has been initiated by the executive branch of the Federal government. Bueh an educational program should have been inaugurated as soon as the Supreme Court's 1964 desegregation decision was handed down; but instead the While House remained silent for years, only acted when its hand was forced, and even then cautioned a “go slow” policy, never implemented. The fruits of a do-nothing policy are the persecution of law-abiding citizens and the destruction of homes, churr lies and schools in scattered com munities. If the terrorists are not -.top - peri in their track:, right now, who will or can stop them? PITTSBURGH COURIER /bom 74 artificially bred cow, 1 ! out of each 100 will coucieve on first service. JUST FOR FUN \ BY MARCUS 11. BOULWARE WHAT HO! THANKSGIVING By Golly, Mr. Cornyard, got an invite to a Thanksgiving Dinner at the Wagon Wheel and was the guest of Mr, Dee- Jay and Miss Joy Brandon. How he managed to get that invitation, I don't have the faintest idea. But Cornyard, along with Jabe Wright, made a four-some. Periscope, the local Curolln ian gossip columnist, published a piece that set tongues a-wag ging. It seems that when Mr Dee - Jaj went to a telephone booth that Mr. Cornyard sailed onto the floor and danced with the lady who didn’t seem to be too cooperative. Observers say that Cornyard and Dee-Jay didn't exchange any more wore;.-, dur ing the meal. Needless to say. Mr. Corn yard won't set any invites in the future. # * * The day following Thanks giving was ideal for making the ’ rounds of automobile show rooms. Cornyard took me around to see "The Car" (Buick). We noticed the posted prices which have appeared on cars since October 1 under a federal statute. Now the law does not bind the dealer to sell at the posted .figure; fact of the mat ter, he will sell below the post ed price in many instances. Folks, the posted prices sear ed Mr. Cornyard out of the sales room before the salesman had a chance to discuss that he would be willing to sell cheaper. Cornyard is in no mood to buy a. new car now; but he fre quently talks about “coning” a rich widrw into making such a gift. (I warn you, sir. you’d fetter watch your step.’ OH OH WV: Bpeedball Eddie, that knight of load <’trailer truck driver), took Cornyard and I for a spin in his new "Swoptwins Dodge.” Speed ball, having imbibed a little too freely, lost control of his car, left Highway 00, travel led too feet, returned to the road, then ran off the other 111 THIS GUI? DAY OUR NATIONAL- THANKS GIVING FESTIVAL "Pride slays thanksgiving but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grows. A proud man is seldom a. grateful man, tor he never thinks he gets as much as ha deserves.”—H, W. Beecher. We are approaching our na tional festival ol Thanksgiving. Even though during the period of our national history we have celebrated the Day at differ ent seasons, or dates, of the year, in one way or another we have observed the Day ever since the Pilgrims first cele brated such. The Day was fi nally established as i duinuc national festival of thanksgiv ing largely by the life long ef forts of Mrs. Sarah J. Hale of Philadelphia, In 1863 she car ried her plan to President Lin coln and won his support. On October 3, 3.863, the Presi dent issued a national Thanks giving proclamation setting the dale of observance as the fourth Thursday in November. There after each year the President proclaimed the holiday, which was established by custom as the last Thursday in November It is of interest to the consum ing public that when Lincoln issued his first Thanksgiving, proclamation the general pub lic complained that- pricer, were so high that they could not. af foid to have a Thanksgiving dinner. According to financial his l.rry, turkey then was sixteen cents per pound and duck was nine conks per pound! I am wondering what would those, people say were they alive to day? Even though alt of ua, T am positive, have had. are having, and most certainly will con tinue to have, our share of this world's troubles. I am certain that Hei we approach our 1958 national festival of Thankfsiv (' ■ ’ ' A TRAGEDY IN THE MAKING There lies before me a pam phlet entitled “Soviet Educa tion A Moans Towards World Domination”. It was written by a member of The American Bar Association who recently returned from Russia where they made a study of the legal system of Soviet Russia. Not only was the writer of the pamphlet, Attorney Lewis F. Powell, a member of the study group, a lawyer of great porminenre, hut he xvns inci dentally a member of Rich mond’s School Board, being chairman of the .tame. So while, he sojourned in Soviet Russia ho made a study of Russia’s educational system: and what he found he wrote in the pam p.blet in a very facile and il luminating manner. From a study of Mr. Pow ell's study of the educational system of the Soviets, we find many items of interest that should stir us Americans deep ly. He studied the Russian edu cational system from both the qualitative points of view. Qualitatively speaking, he feels side. But that was just the be- # ginning, I'm heie to tell you. ' Che car then travelled another 85 feel-, hit a guy wire, travelled 71 feet farther, then went 210 feet into u creek. Next it trav elled 110 feet up the creek be fore it finally came to a halt. Officers charged Speedball with driving while intoxicated. The newspaper reported that Cornyard and myself were con fined In the hospital for two days suffering from nervous shock. opeedba’.l’s wife had to bail him out of the goosehouse. * * THE DAILY HERALD (Frog gie Bottom) reported last week that a pretty young Miss was ousted from the Swing Out Club district for stripping to her panties while performing a cha-cha. According to Mr. Cornyard’.s version: "Everybody stopped dancing when tile girl, who was not identified, took off her dres. on the dance floor. But when she removed her brassiere and continued to dance in nothing hut her panties, the 1: v rushed in (And Mr, Corn* yard sneaked out the side door). * * * A FEW FItOGGIE BOTTOM hubbies are forming a Dog House Club. They want to have some place to sleep when the Missus throws them out for sneaking in late at night or the next morning. f am not a member, but 1 pi ■ i to visit'the club’s brows* inf' room where they will in* stoil « stereophonic record player. The - tell me that store* 4 ophonie sound adds a new di mension to the art of captur in'’. music on disc or tapes and then ploying it back in your living room. .Stereo is a method or repro ducing sound as though you were- hearing it with both in s’- ::! Os Os ’. Y All of you married men had hi tier subscribe for your mem fao; . hip hi the Froggie Bot tom Do' House Club The member si up fee- is just a small matter . ■ SSO per year. Sooner or later the Mr--us will put you in the do;: house, and it's getting too cold to sleep in the park or in ilie car. BY i)R. C, A. CHICK, SR. iiv v.c niil have much for v inch to be thankful. Certainly we ere thankful to our Creator for all His mercies towards us. And, whatever may be our trou ble:. and crosses, I fear they could, be worse than they are. Thus many of us, as it were, will reach buck across the cen to: ■ .1 snake spiritual bunds v uft David and say with Bun: “T will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from which oomvih my help. My help com ebh from the Lord which made heaven and earth " Tn. -1 it .seam?, to’me that we shall waul to be thankful to: our governments local £ late, and national. Whatever -short comings they may have, they are relatively stable. We do not go to bed in this coun try under one type of govern ment and wake up the next morning under another. We do n >: believe in revolutions as a way of solving problems but rather we attempt to solve our problem,-, local, state, and na i nnai through the process <rt evolution. Moreover, life and property, to :> large degree, are relative ly safe and secure In this coun try -much safer than in many other parts of the world. Thus, v o cap bercasonably sure that that which we are wise enough to accumulate we will be per mitted to enjoy, ft is not likely to i>e sociahaad, and enjoyed by those who worked not for it. Thus, on individual in the United Stales is encouraged to save and invest his savings toe cause he feels that the reward lor such will bo his and his lov ed ones. Have you invested in the industries of your country the United States? If you have not. hurry up and make haste and see a reliable and ef ficient broker and invest in the economy of this great country 0! ours. that Russia is ahead, or fast forcing ahead, of us in educa tion. From his description of Rus sia’s system, the Russians have definite objectives and driving hard toward them with a •' d that should alarm us in tilts country, who are facing something like frustration in our educational objectives. Russian education is direct* ed towards definite ends and our system lacks definite edu cational objectives and then we lack correlation in our system of education. We have the wealthiest universities and the finest, equipment but each in stitution is going its own way almost wholly unrelated to the rest. There is nothing shout Mr. Powell's description of educa tion m Soviet Russia that is < alculated to give comfort to American patriots. While Mr. Powell tacitly con ceded Russian superiority quan litavfjy speaking, he feels strongly that ,so far as the quality or kind of education is highly debatable Our quality* (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5)
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