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4 THE CAROLINIAN " * ' H 1 s '/*/ *• svr! - VT*.\T DECEMBER IS, lf>S9 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S 'Ve have made my house a den of thieves.” The Scripture. It is very difficult to free the mind from the ntimblmt crip of ancient creeds. But let us make •he effort, Lot us touch once morr the high spots in this fittest, mo i exulted siicces# story, eon* • v idfrine nov the perils and crises of success, > r t U... vi); not at ail sure where Ho was coins’ when Ho laid down Hi - took and turned His bock on the carpentt’i shop*— unless we can believe this, Hu struggle:- erases lobe in all points” like, our o’vn. tor each of n> bar to venture on Life as on an unchartercd sea, Something inside Him carried Him forward—the. something which has been whispered to so many small town hoys that there is a place for them m ?hc world « hich lies bevond the hills,. He went to John to be baptised and lor a while John’s influence molded Him. He, too, retir ed into wildeme;: and there met the Into crisis o.t His career. When He emended he had formed His ora plan for His work; asceticism and de* nuciation, he knew, vers not the role for Him, His first sure,"is was swift beyond all expecta tions, Out of the Temple, shrieking and cursing, warn- the money-changers, while the crowd cheer eu His name to echo. That night the whole city "'a.': stirred in the story When he left, at the end oi the feast, and went back into His own north Awards To Superior Teachers At an atfu legislative dinner of the North f srolina Education Association, State Treas urer Edwin Oil! proposed that cash awards of each be givers to outstanding public school teacher'- He said that some method should be found for encouraging teachers to give then best to then profession. The State Treasurer stated some general cri teria upon which teachers ought he selected to receive the** awards TK criteria .'he said, might include teacher? who had shown, excep tional ercdlener in finching, who had perhaps m-nie experiments in techniques, of performed some unusual ser/icis in the educational field, A statement hk» this coming from a high State official been long overdue. There should be some kind of incentive to make tea r.-rrs. feel that they ar« wanted and appreci ated for the outstanding service they render. Outstanding teachers need !h< ‘’feeling of satis faction and achievement which might furnish an encouragement to those who strive to rise to the top of their profession,’* State Treasurer Gill went a .%«■< p further and tailed for teachers to be freed '‘from much of the mechanics and machinery of 'school house keeping. * He said much of these duties could he performed by others ” We are in accord with the idea of giving rash awards, arid even trophies to topflight teachers, We would go a step further and say that out public school systems should amend their salary schedules to include increments for teaching ability in addition to degrees and ex perience. How such a system should be worked out. wc are not prepared at this time to say. But surely, we have sufficient brain power among our educational administrators to devise prac tical plans and schedules, Ofton a superb and promising teacher is Who Wants Cash Money? . The time is fast approaching when spending '■ash money mil become as obsolete as a two* dollar bill, You won * believe it but ready cash has become almost a thing of the- past if not a nuisance, Durmg the Yuietuie period, advertisements are saying Charge It and No Payments until February, 1939 We need not fear that our cash will wear holes in our pockets, because it is so nastily inconvenient. for a long time, installment purchasing reigned supreme, but now the popular charge pUdc and ere<iit card air moving into first place 1 hrough these three devices, we are moi IgagUig au r future- labor, services, salary check, and weekly pay envelope. We art not worried at, a 11, because (he Jone ses are- doing it. Years ago a man pride d himself on being; ebb: to pay cash for the things he bought, and tins included a home and automobile. Not so today, for w< "buy now—live ii up-—and pay later.” Our department stores feature the charge plate, garages and filling stations issue tin; credit card, while hotels, theatres, night Wt have often wondered why is it that p t . o » pie continue to foe ‘fooled out of their money” by coofidmcr me n and worm n. The rules of tbi: on garni hav» not changed, but people never seem to J< am, ivinl iy a IV: pro won-an claimed that she V ’ BS hypnotistby two fast-talking confi dence men who talked her out of $:300. The woman told the police that two well dressed jS T < :;ro men anpronrhed heron a street corner and confused h<r with a “running jab bn and a scries of gestures. When she fell under their “spell', sin said one of the men sfi;d he had found $6,000 and the other said he had collected a large aim from an insurance payment, f hey promised to share their ijew found wealth with he* but asked that she put up s,*'oo as n “token of good will,” From that point, it war, the- old “con'’ game story. The woman withdrew her money from n bank turned it over to the strangers who promptly disappeared. People have read about the “con ' game hun dreds of time? in the newspapers. The bait, has been the finding of a large sum of money which the finders want to share confidentially. The money finders always persuadU the victim WORDS OF WORSHIP Con Game Artists! country, Re found that Hi* tame had preceded Him Crowds flocked to hear Him talk; news of His deeds of healing traveled ahead of Him every where His vision of His work began to take shape, He would restore the self-respect of the people, abolishing the rule of formalism, and establishing a fresh, glorious conception of the Fatherhood of Hod, and the brotherhood of man. At first, there wss not a single cloud in sch« •ky But there were people in Jerusalem and other cities whose private affairs his ideas would seri ously interfere. Reluctantly He had to face the fact that the time was coming when He- roust compromise or fight.* It was with this realisation that He faced a »eetmd and a great crisis. He preached to the crowds, fed them und healed diseases. He realised that the multitude wso bent upon making Him king. The Gospel story puts the dramatic climax in a single sentence: “Jesus, therefore, perceiving that they were « BW’i!i to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again into th* mountain J himself alone.” £ In that hour of crisis, Jesus proved His right « to be the silent, partner in every modern business there is a success which is greater than wealth * or title? h,» says. ‘lt comes through making your work an instrument of greater service and I .utter living to your fellow men and women. This I mmy Father’s business and He needs your help 2 weighed down with the routine chores of school keeping. We have reference to supervising playground activities, supervising the children while they are in the cafeteria, collecting tic k»us at night at basketball games, selling tic kfUs, and collecting monies for such purp..- . . ' ,<4 United Fund, TB Association.'Red Cross and so on. These duties could be per formed by other people on 9 part-time, if not a full-tini" basis. W f should like to call attention to another Improvement needed in our public schools Our teachers teach all day long without rest periods which are very much needed to keep them from becoming over-fatigued. Industries give rinx for rest: periods and lunch periods for their workers, so why not extend this sami privilege to our teachers? You in a v say- “But don’t our teach. h«v. lunch periods now?” Yes, they do; but, at th< '-ame time, they must supervise the children in ?hf ir classes while they eat. This is not an «*?m bi.sk for one who wants to enjoy his or her meal. In spite of the fact that they must do rou tine school housekeeping and serve in extra curricular capacities, many of our teachers rise above the common level and achieve an outstanding success. When they do they should be rewarded generously. There are no doubt; many people who feel that our public school tear hers are well paid tt is easy to present evidence to the contrary For example, a professor at a state college, who holds the doctorate degree, spends almost »s much time in taking his training as the Doctor of Medicine. But when we compare the pro fessor’s. salary with the annual income of a physician, you will find that the teacher re ceives a mere pittance- clubs, and airlines persuade you “to live it up while on vacation and take twelve months to pay.’* Unless a man uses a charge plate, install merit credit, or credit card, he can’t establish a good credit rating. Ts he wants credit his cash purchase slips will not impress the managers of stores. They don’t want to know “where have you traded cash” but rather ’’where have you had credit before?” Regardless of how much the American pro p!e have enslaved themselves through credit buying, the. system is one of those necessary evils. Prices harm become so inflated that, without credit, our entire wholesale and re tail systems would collapse. If people could net get credit, our automobile factories would •have to shut down, department stores would, go out of business, farming would be seriously handicapped, and young married couples would not be able to set up housekeeping. While we may not like to say it, credit buy ing is the king who enslaves most of us In our attempt to maintain the American standard of living. to go to the bank and draw out a rum of mon “V « “token of confidence, or good will.” As soon a.® they get the victim’s money, they im mediately disappear. It would stem that no sane person could be fooled by this game, but many people are if people would only use s little common sense, they would not be “conned” out of their mon ey. When strangers find money, why would they want to be so generous to share it with another person? The answer is obvious. How can a person be so careless as to go to the bank and draw out SSOO, or $1,200? What makes a person take that same money and give it to total strangers? There js only one answer: they want to get something for no thing. The only simple thing to do, when ap proaehed by well-dressed strangers who want to share their new-found money, is to call the Police. If the proposed victim would quietly whisper the word '‘police”, the “con” men and women would disappear in a hurry. Any person who permits himself to be “taken for a ride” by “con” artist* deserves the con sequences. Recognition Os Human Rights Could 00 Thp Rafpfv l/alng sir*# x yiyy POST-WAR HATE SENTENCE SERMONS ”A AIIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD" 1. In these days of nuclear weapons and Space control, it looks like man is going to re main jittery as the ages roll 2. -lust as long as the vast majority fail to look up, the vessel from which ail men will drink will be a bitter cup: but *hat cup, ui those who arc faithful, and who lean upon their Lord, will not be suffici ent to overcome them with its destructive elements of fine blasts and sword. 3 In fact the fjute Chris tian fears nothing more man can do. for he knows his God will surely carry him safely through. 4. He knows the feeble ac tion of those who know not God, cannot match his Re deemer’s power, who to per form miracles needs not. a sin gle hour: but can In n moment relieve, his obedient children’s distress, for He is not alone a Watch Tower, but. an unfailing and Mighty Fortress, What Other Editors Say BUTLER- AND THE SOUTH; CHANGE f) ATTITUDES Men who have received sub stantial support in the South lor national positions of late have not been particularly hap py choices If one judges them on the baste of their attitudes towards the Souths distinctive viewpoints and attitudes, A eonspicioin example is President. Eisenhower, who re ceived widespread and substan tial support in the South, The President appointed the Chief Justice who wrote the school desegregation decision and sub scquenU&ily supported that de cision by dispatching federal troops to enforce if in Little Rock One cannot help wonder how such inveterate segrega tionists as Virginia's Harry Byrd and Bill Tuck now regard the nan they abandoned their party to support for the- presi dency in 1952, Another example is Path Butler, Democratic national chairman Southern support put Mr. Butler in the chart* man's post in 1954 over the opposition, as Congressional Quarterly recalls, of ex-Pres ident Truman and the party leaders in New York. Pennsyl vania Ohio, and Illinois. Rep. Hale Boggs 'D-La) nominated Butler, and Southerners on the Democratic National Commit tee wefts virtually unanimous in supporting him, Now Mr. Butler would read Southerners out of the party find promises wh a t white Southerners would regard as a radical civil rights plank in the party’s 1960 platform. Why the change.' Is it because Southerners dir! not respond to Mr. Butler’s earlier conciliatory attitude toward them? Because they did not rally again to the Demo cratic ticket in 1965. although the civil rights platform that year represented something of a compromise and although the loyalty pi edge issue was a iso compromised? Certainly President Eisen hower made gains in the .South in 1956, gains he undoubtedly would not have made if the Southern Democratic leader ship had loyalty and unani mously supported the Steven son-Kef a uver ticket. The Re publicans held their own in congressional representation from the Southern states In 1956 and even in the face of the Democratic landslide In BY KEY., FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY Far ANT 5- Thus, when vicious men with their deceptive schemes, innocent, souls would try to mo lest,. they know real well their afety is assured in tins eter nal and MIGHTY FORTRESS. f>. This Fortress provides pro tection to those alone who love their God. nod none can find any .refuse here who live care less and slip-shod, 7, Therefore, since no tree passers can gain entrance here, all true followers of their Sav ior car? move about without the riighest fear, for He who is the author of every invention, ruarantee-s to His children .per fect protection g. Who is there that would not be sheltered within the.se mas sive walls, and have to endure Baton's abuses and brawls; on ly those who take no thought lor the” lives and suffer to be continually exposed to his vici ous dives, 9 Truly, this does not make good sens*-, with such a. high recompense, Satan pulling crea -1958. While Butlers change (a well as Eisenhower’s attitude l reflect political considerations. Southern Democrats may well ask some of their leaders if they have been as conciliatory as they ought to. have been Durham Morning Herald MAN’S SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON MAN’S RESPECT FOR FELLOW-MAN 'There is one quality in the realm of human relations winch, all men arc striving to attain and maintain. The effort is there, whether done purpose!? or by inst inct. Possession of this quality during man’s lifetime will cause others to seek his council, and multitudes together at his bier at the time of his death. Money and power do not In sure possession of this prized goal. It can not be bought, but must be earned. Many years may be required to attain it. yet It can be lost in a day. Tins quality is called respect With out respect the world would be chaos The family, the com munity. and the nation are bound together by the respect one individual has for another, As man’s survival depends on man’s respect for man so does it depend on man respect for the things that surround him. from the tines*. insect to the largest tree. We see respect, and the lack of it, si! around us. One short trip down highway, and woods road, or along any stream will furnish .ample evidence that some of us lack respect for our fcllowman and for God’s han diwork. At one time this country was sn sparsely settled by man that the .soil, the forests, and the wtld creatures that dwelt therein were almost wholly ruled by the forces of nature. Nature was cruel here, and smiled there, with the result that an over —all balance was maintained. Then came the white man. The landing at Plymouth Rock, a glorious page n the his tory of America, signalled the beginning of the end for many things wild, including both man and beast, The forest, the soil, and all wild creatures were attacked with vigor, Much of this was from necessity, since food, clothing, and shelter was vital. Some of It however, was greedy exploration. Here man’s tures apart, to prevent them from making a. heavenly start, 10. No man should allow such ft cosily seizure, with God standing so near, offering ever lasting pleasure; here at this point no men should trans gress, but humbly and sincere - ly before God confess. 11. Then measuring the dis tance with the Prodmal Son... yardstick, between Heaven and Hell to defeat, Satan’s trick make a decisive leap aw.?i from every earthly distress in to the one and only MIGHTY FORTRESS, 12. My what a satisfaction to move out of the realm of dis traction and breathe a- whole some atmosphere, only known to them who keep God near; if one of there happen to be you. then safely within the Savior’s WATCH TOWER, you will march thru , . , here to regis ter eternally your new name and address on the immutable walls of THIS MIGHTY FOR TRESS. respect, for his .wirroundms--- reached it* lowest ebb, The boast of some as they moved westward was. "Why L*ve wore out two farms a’reddy”. The slogan of the timber man was “Cut out. and get out". The stream banks and prairies were Uttered with the skeletons of beaver and buffalo. Times and conditions have changed, but man has yet to show full respect for things Hint surround him What degree of respect does a man have who will set fire to a dec tree and let » helpless animal writhe and squirm and stoke until its lire is cone? What is in s man’s mind when he fires the tree-covered hillsides and destroys in a few mimifct-s what time has been struggling for centuries io es tablish? Why arc some farmlands so badly eroded that, they will never again be rich and produc tive? Why are some of our streams so silted and polluted that life can hardly exist therein? Why is it that the flailing wing of the passenger pigeon will never again cart a shadow upon the earth, and fear is pre sent in some quarters that the tell of the bobwhitc may some day be lost forever? The answer is that some where along the line we have lost our sense of true values, or at. least have let them become badly distorted. Can man live on steel and concrete alone. If not, we must learn to fully respect the fields, the streams and the forests. —THE CLARON, Jefferson Cty. Mo. IN THIS OUR DAY BY C. A, CHICK, SR* CHRISTMAS PRESENT Many parents are now lite rally racking their brains en deavoring to decide what to tell Old Santa to bring the various members of the family, arid most especially the children. Old St. Nick will, no doubt, bring the kids lots of toys— JUST FOR FUN THE RAMBLER BEAI You should've been at Ja-be Wight’s Barbet shoe last Thursday when Speedball Ed die told the story of the Nash Rambler Beep. It seems that a man was crui sing down the hisrhwav in hit CADDY when he saw a Nash Rambler approaching through •be media of the rear vision mirror. Just thee the Rambler blew “Beep—been!" Bpeeriball said the CAD driv er knew he had to save the big car's reputation, and then he pressed down on the accelera tor making the speedometer move up to 70 miles an hour. “What happened then?” said Onmvard “Well.” said .Speedball,'' "the Rambler pulled up behind the big CAD and blew—BEEP BEEpi because it was doing seventy with the brakes n'" The CAD driver moved on up to 120 miles an hour but to hi. surprise the Rambler pulled up on his left-hand side. The own - er yelled to the CAD driver “Say. buddy, can you tell me how 1 can gat out of second gear?” Comyard guffawed loud and long. He has learned that h phonograph record has been made or this song, and that it. can't be played by recording over the TV “Tile story's real gone,” re marks Comyard. Just think, my friends. Mr. Cornyard has made an appointment with the Rambler salesman, because he's just tickled to death by that “Rambler Beep.” T.AIUEI, Fonnosoa An AP story says that the Chief Li brarian Han Shih-la Is agatngt lifting the barrier between males and female* ni the Tai wan Public Library on south ern Formosa. He told city coun cilman favoring the idea that wen now paper darts are used for flirtations between the se gregated sexes, and added: “If the rale is revoked, even more undesirable forms of flirtation might occur.” Well, nil I've got to say Is, ''The Library chief, is off the beam. Doesn't 1m know that the library is a place where 'stu dents go to COlii't?" SAN DIEGO, according to an .VP feature, meets the Mexican Cordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN the LINES Till' PERSISTENT SOUTH Nothing seems to give the Negro-phobe press of the South such lift, as seeing violent dls Plays of race prejudice in wide ly disparate parts of the na tion and the world Bombings bicycles and tricycles. Here and there he may be *>ked to bring r good book. Certmnly the kids as well as grown-ups are enti tled to have Old Santa pay them a visit on Christmas night. Thus, all of the foregoing is perfectly in order. Just to ob serve the kids get up on. Christ ina.-, morning, hurry to the family Christmas tree, and open their various articles Old San ta has left, is worth all it cost,-. to have Santa bring ihem. U is not the purpose of this ar ticle to speak disparagingly of such family activities as the foregoing. But the fact, remains the mime that many of the toys he will leave the kids will soon be “gone with the wind.” They will either be broken up or the kids will have lost in terets in them This writer is taking the lib erty to suggest to his many readers that, along with the us ual toys, clothings and fruits that, we ask Santa to bring our children, let's ask him to bring their, a share in the great Unit ed States’ economy, In other words, why not request Hants Clause to taring the kid: a share of common stock in some of the “blue chip corporations of the United States? You would be surprised to know how much more a share of good common stock would be worth ten .years from now khan it would cost, today. Moreover, the kids would be receiving an annual income from the same And, even more important that the foregoing, you would be helping them to become Investment-minded. If cannot be over-emphasized that- by and largo we (Negroes) arc on the consuming end of the American economy. and that we must, if we ever expect to become first class citizens, also get on the investment end of our economy. Reliable .sources of Informa tion pertaining to Investments and industries indicate that the economy of the Uni tori States is on the verge of it* greatest expansion during our entire national history. Indus tries are spending billions and billions of dollars In research which will result In thousands and thousands of new products and services. They are also spending billions and billions of dollars for new building* and machinery. A large part of the foregoin money come from millions at millions of people with ver moderate incomes. They ha\ the courage i the faith t nurchase, ene’ a few shares ' common ho bust nr corporation mind you. Is the poop' !i coure and faith v enjoy » cream of tk •*a.t futir. growth In our ■ -uiomy. Tho: lacking In suck "h and ecu rage will, so to Hvnk. drink the skimmed milk. BY MARCUS a. BOULWARI State of Baja, California at .Its border, and it has the reputa tion of being toe Border Gate - way to Sin. Beyond this city is located the City of Tijuana, yrhdt,® most important business j* sjn Report* saw that IHre' Bsb; - lon. the city houses gaudy mght clubs and half-hidden dive* which attracts Amen can* in droves. Tourist do!!a. arc spent on lurid pastimej, bull fight*, cock lights., and you know what,? Mexican Editor Carlo* Orte ga says, ‘ There are here .8.0.00 ladies of the evening, and .their customers arc Americans who conrn here when they need di-imr, easy women, or to satis fy whatever desire they may have.” Well, Comyard, what do you think about this? Comyard replied. "People n-e just natural sinner*. But toe place sounds intriguing doesn't it, DOC’' Bring a, research scholar arJ» all—Comyard assures me 5 ri! the more reason I should get * leave of absence and sojourn in the place three months Meanwhile, he plans to go tour* an unofficial observer. Os what mat/ I ask? HOVER'S INDIGNANT: A Police report states t hat a Bur lington dog named Rover ba boon robbed. Some unknown thief walked ff with the dog’s collar, appar ently faking tt from around Rover's neck. 'That's bad and hie cold weather coming on 100. > Poor Pooch, he ain't ran watch dog. f wonder what the* are feeding him for? A BAPTIST MINISTER from Kansas abandoned bis ehureh and went to la* Vegas. Nevada, to work in a gambling house 'Die man said that “he wanted to get away' from, hie wife'' (Note: He had been married 25 years.) I bet the missus got too tough to handle Poor fellow, he was afraid to leave While his wife was. at home She took a. trip to K*n sas City, and the minister laid this was a good ooportunity to ret out (And he did. Ail of you members of toe Doghouse Club, don’! get any funny idea* to your heads!' in the border state* or ttv* «ws ial outbreaks In Chicago er Dr troit or other non-southern states, always begets * peculiar satisfaction in the Negro-pbobe press of the South. The recent outbreak in Eng land of whites and Negroes war b. source of profound gratifica tion for that part, of the South that is committed to the eter nalinfitlon of second-rate citi zenship for Negroes.- And we must ever bear in mind that the desire thus to hold the Negroes down, is by no means unanimous for theh is in the South an ever louder and more insistent voice of nobly disposed whites for the full liberation of Negroes. Then too. It must be remem bered that much of the vio lence and hatred manifested elsewhere than the South, was incubated in the South, Some researcher, would render the cause of better inter-racial un derstatiding a, great service by making a study of the relation between the ant!-Negro out break m London and the virus of race prejudice disseminated by prejudiced American soldiers who have been and are now stationed in England. It is commonly known that wherever the prejudiced South erner goes be takes his preju dice and sometimes displays it as a badge of distinction, Os course this is true of many pre judiced Southerners; but there arc other Southerners, abroad lust what they are at home, the embodiment of democracy and Christian understanding. There is nothing finer to an a Southerner and there is noth ing worse than a bad one! Say what we will, the pat tern of race prejudice and its manifestations of the preju diced South has become the pattern for race prejudice throughout the world. Race prejudice has had as ugly m&n- I for, tar ion in the South, as earn be found in the history of fcht* social and moral evil. On* of the evil manifestations of race prejudice is to be found ta li* persistence, And very often this persis tence is sometimes almost tn discerrdfoiy subtle. As for in stance. a few weeks ago. ;xe pointed out here that we came across a book tri Virginia's state library which was a sub tle glorification of fch* slave South. The author painted a beauti ful word picture of the Old South with its palms and mag nolias and humming birds and languid and happy slaves with the plaintive plantation sing* * ing and with banjos strumming In the slave quarters and the i:mo playing in the "big house,” Os course the Nearro-phofoe * -of the South will play him i a "northerner" with toe Them point of view”. Before me lies, a new* ae of current date relative > meeting in Gettysburg, Pa. American histrtans, and >!!y expert® or* the Cl * ir-or should t say War Rebellion, Th# major topie of discussion for this learned conclave of American histori ans was "Why to* North Won The Civil War?"
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