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THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. DECEMBER :?,0 1958 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP “1 perceive that ye are too superstitious.' New Testament. The Acts of the Apostles tells of a pilgrim who arrived in a modern and perfectly satisfied city called Athens. He arrived on foot because he had no car-fare. His shoes were almost worn out and his clothes unkempt and covered with dust. Certainly these disadvantages were enouch to dis qualify him for success in a city so smart and critical, but he had other handicaps more funda mental. lie was too short and thick-set to be im pressive. That he should come to the most sophisticat ed center of the ancient world and expect to mam an Impression was extraordinary. The principal business of the men on Mars Hill was standing around the market-place, there to hear or tel! something new. They originated new ideas; they did not buy them from the provinces. In spite of this Paul walked until ha reached Mars Hill, the Broadway and Forty-second Street comer of town. Tire curious audience let Paul know that the critical moment had come. He knew he must say something, and no matter what he said. It would be wrong, If Paul had started in saying he wanted to speak t-o them about a new religion, their boisterous laughs would have ended his talk. Unable To Cope With Snow Last Friday caught us by surprise and it showed that Raleigh's Public Works Depart ment is not prepared to handle big snows. The alarming thing about the whole matter was that very little attempt veas made to remove the snow from the main downtown streets —- Fayetteville. Wilmington, Salisbury, Martin, Hargett, Morgan, and Davie. Without chains on automobiles, it was ha/ arripus to park on any of the aforementioned streets—and other streets, too, for that matter Some plan should have been put into opera tion to remove the snow on these streets im mediately after it. stopped snowing. In a daily newspaper report. Public Works Director Warren J. Mann was quoted as say mg that this department had four trucks and twelve crewmen sufficient to cov r the most important places in the city. We want to know how is it possible for four trucks and twelve men to handle adequately the majority of problems created by the snow? It was dc finite ly impossible. In an emergency of this kind, the city should have employed private trucking firms to assist in r moving the. snow from the streets and parking lanes in the downtown shopping district. Because of the snowed-under streets in the main district, thousands of Christmas shoppers stayed at. home last Saturday. We arc approaching the Yuletide. season when thousands of citizens and students are employed as parttime workers to take care of the Christmas rush. Since all men must eat to live, we hope that various individuals and firms will consider giving a few of these jobs to Negroes. Realizing that the employer is interested in hiring persons who will render efficient serv ice. we suggest that principals, and college of ficials be called upon to recommend courteous, dependable, efficient and competent Negroes We are asking prospective employers to ex amine the past work records of Negroes, and they will discover a long list of fine, honest Persons who are waiting for opportunities to prove their worth. Nothing engenders one’s elf-respect and security as having a good job. We would like to see stores that are bold enough to hire N'gro clerks, grocery cashiers, and so on. Leaders in the. Negro community Fifteen years ago. a group of Negro colleges united themselves into an organization called th«* United Negro College Fund and started f lertea's first cooperative fund-raising ven ture for the support of higher education. Since 11, the UNFC has raised $35,67.1,000. ifts amounting to $17,925,000 have been contributed to UNCF’s annual appeals to help meet the yearly operating expenses of the member schools. And a special five year capi tal-fund campaign raised another $17,750,000 for necessary repairs and new construction. To date, 1958 contributions represent nu merical and financial gains over last year. This yea 56,819 contributions amounting to sl,- 486,625 have been received as against 34,120 gifts for $1,443,535 at: this time in 1957. In many instances these gifts represent the contributions of a group; a student body, a fraternal .organization, a church auxiliary, or a labor union. If counted individually, tire num ber of contributors to the College Fund would be increased by many thousands. This is in deed encouraging and shows that the faith of the American people is growing in the worth of this project in human engineering. The main purpose of this article is to call the reader’s attention to the special gift fund of the UNCF This year. UNCF has been no tified that it is the beneficiary of five wills now School House Fires And Bombs Tiic number of fires breaking out in the schools across the nation is indeed alarming. The police has found out that many of these fires have been set by playful school children. Others have been set by alleged opponents of school integration and those holding preju dices against minority religious groups. Next to the problem of school Jfires is the recent outbursts of bomb scares. Right here in this state, school children were drilled out buildings for fear of possible disaster By in citing school officials to fear that hundreds of children would be in danger should they dis regard telephone warning of bombs certain in dividuals have derived a great deal of fun and Giving Holiday Jobs UNCF Special Fund Hence Paul began by saying: "Men of Athens. I congratulate you on having so many fine re ligions." Nothing in. that to which anyone could take offense, "I've travelled a great bit end your assortment is larger end better than I have seen anywhere else. For as I passed up your main street I noticed an altar erected to ail the regular gods and goddesses, you even have one dedicated to the UNKNOWN GOD, "let me tell you m interesting coincidence, gentlemen. This Ocd whom you worship without knowing his name, is the very God whom I re present.” Can you see the crowd? Cynical but curious; eager to turn the whole thing into a joke, vet unwilling to miss a chance to hear the latest. At any rate, he stimulated them to say, “We will hear thee again of this matter,” It was a com plete victory, such as Jesus once achieved at Ja cob’s well. We often wonder how the gospel was easily carried around the world. The gospel conquered not because then s was any demand for a new re ligion but because Jesus knew how, and taught His followers how. to catch the attention of the indifferent, and translate a great spiritual con ception into terms of practical self-concern. One would be amazed at the amount of snow that could bt cleared away in a day by. let us say, twenty trucks and four tractors shovels. Would it have been asking too much of the city to have this done? We noted also last Saturday that innumer able street water drains were clogged so that the melting snow created unnecessary lakes of water. Emergency crews could have been hired and would have helped tremendously in keep ing the water drains open. We cannot criticise the city too severely without saying a word about the home-owners. Most of them did not last Saturday shovel the snow from the sidewalks in front of their homes. The reason for this may have been that they had no shovels. We were also amazed at the negligence of most service station opera tors in clearing away the snow in their run ways. Then, too, we must not overlook the mer xorbitant prices for auto mobile tire chains because people had to have them. They took advantage of the citizens without oil in their lamps.” Wrecking con cerns charged handsomely for their services, and they welcomed the snow os a God-send from heaves. The Raleigh Public Works Department was “caught off base” this time, but is should be gin planning now for the next snows. should devise seme plan of bringing to the at tention. of store managers the names of persons who can fill such positions. Surely there would be just a few' white cus tomers who would object to a Negro clerk serving them inasmuch as they now eat food which is prepared and cooked and served by Negroes. From the viewpoint of service, cart there be much difference between a Negro cleaning one s house, or washing one's clothes, and selling a person a pair of stockings, gro ceries, or an automobile? it store managers are a bit wary of such a bold policy, then why not try it out on an ex penmenta! scale. We ere confident the experi ment will be very revealing. Why not inaugu rate this practice in stores where the trade is fifty per cent and more Negro? From this be ginning, the experiment could move gradually info other area. People must learn to do who! they have never tried before. in probation. More than $42,000 has already been received from legacies probated earlier this year. Unless designated tor specific pur poses. all bequests arc placed in a special re serve fund established by the board of direc tors in 1956, The special fund—now amounting to more than $275,000 provides additional security for the member colleges., They are grateful for the magic power of empathy that inspires many thoughtful friends to include the United Negro College Fund in then wills—an em pathy that guarantees greater educational op portunity for thousands of boys and girls in the years ahead. An unusual group gift of $2,500 was received this spring from the Friars, it represented the proceeds! of a dinner given in memory of the late Mike Todd, Before his death in a plane crash ,en route to a dinner planned is; his hon or, Mr, Todd had requested that all proceeds be donated to the College Fund, The memorial promises to be an annual observance. In general, the members of our race earn very little in comparison with persons of the majority group. But, even so, every self-re specting Negro should will at his death a mod est financial gift to the specie! lurid of the UNCF, Those individuals who have prosper ed greatly should leave a bequest in keeping pleasure. The Disastrous Chicago fire at Our Lady of Angels School may have been the work of arso nists. If so, then we hope they will be caught and punished. Five pupils set fire last week to a frame classroom building at St. Martha’s Catholic School in Sarasota, Florida. Similar fires have occured in other places across the nation. No amount of fire and bomb drills, or strict er observance of fire regulations, will solve the school-fire problem, if we permit arsonists and playful bombists to escape punishment. There yet there is time. must be a healing of this social disease while Majority Rule Could Make This Trip Useless * — -—— -—rspsaa SENTENCE SERKO3S < MRS STM AS 1. After the scorching heat of Summer, and the Harvest shortly past, comes show flur res and wintry winds, all but saying “Christmas is coming fast.” 2. Memory of the last Christmas hardly dies away, when again the same rush and bustle moves in as if to stay. 3. Then, not only children hut grown-ups seem under a spell, each with a happier thought, but in the majority wishing all mankind well. 4. What could lx: this strange happening?•—who is this -that could come to earth, spreading glad tidings and Peace by vir lure of His Holy Birth? 5. It was none other than the King of Glory who came to •earth with an unending story, to convey to us also the like ness of His Father, that all men might adore him and wor ship no other. asfdsa GRASS ROOTS SEGREGATION Where the embattled South era school Segregationist ‘have elsewhere ignominiousiy- tailed to get mound legally the U. S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation ruling, Alabama’s Kluxers seem to have succeed ed. There were shouts of jubila tion throughout Dixie last week when the IT, S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling that Alabama's pupil placement law was not unconstitutional on its face; the state's Legis lature having quietly removed from Its constitution and sta tutes any mention of segrega tion in public schools by race or color. With colored and white pu pils now admitted to all Ala bama schools in theory, jun crowism is legally dead; but the pupil placement law gives the local school boards the right to assign pupils where they choose, so long as it cannot be proved, that racial considera tions entered into the -reasons fur assignment, and so Icih, as some “token white pupils” ap plications are turned down. Instead of segregation being a, matter of race or class it is one of the individual: and since color will, of courge not be mentioned in making or re fusing a transfer, nothing can be done about, it when only col ored pupils are assigned to cer tain schools where there are no white pupils, and vice versa. Other Dixie states" govern ments are sure to follow Ala bama’s lead, and soon the clear intent, of the 11)54 ruling will be evaded and nullified unless the NAACP lawyers can find a new gimmick. —Pittsburgh Courier SOUTH DOESN'T LIKE TO BE KICKED AROUND As date for opening of the new Congress nears and atten tion centers upon efforte by Democrats from the North and West to modify Senate Rule 22, certain factors should not be wholly overlooked. The filibuster, however un democratic it may appear to be at times, has been used by lib erals as well as conservatives to block action on pending leg islation, We recall that once Sen. Paul Douglas himself con ducted a one-man filibuster, talkir. until he collapsed on the Senate floor. Is it the fili buster which is opposed or the purposes to which the filibus ter may be put on differing oc casions ? BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANT 6. But, I fear if this Babe of Bethlehem were to return to earth today, He would have to bow His head in sorrow and heavy dismay, for the light and charm of the Holy Manger, is being blacked out by commer cialism and wild pleasure. The time is now when pre judice and hate are being specialised in as Satan’s bait, like so many forms of mystify ing religions that veil the face of Christ, rather titan heigh ten men's visions. 8. Yes, this is the sad plight our Blessed Lord would have to face, after 1058 years of ex tended Grace, and love beyond ali human understanding, yet men are perpetrating the most heinous acts of robbing and killing, 9. But look what CHRIST MAS should mean to you and me, after the Son ot God left heaven to finally die for us on a tree . . . the price He bore to The Southern point of view, however much senators and re presentatives from other sec tions. of the country disagree with it, has every right to be heard and to be weighed in formulation and enactment of legislation affecting the whole country. There are many rea sonable, intelligent, capable and conscientious Southern members in Congress who are trying to the best of their ü bility to serve their country, to find solutions for vexing prob lems and chart a course of moderation which will be ac cepted to constituents who al ter all will keep them in or re ject them from office, North ern and Western Democrats do not face the pressures and the forces that some of their South ern colleagues face. Political considerations necessarily en ter Into their divergent stands. But common interests, involv ing their country no less than themselves, should bring them together. The Johnny-come-latches in Congress surely cannot over look the historic fact that the South has been consistently Democratic and that it. has been the votes of the Southern "dates which have kept the party alive and going in Con gress on other occasions when North and West have capitu lated. Much indeed can and should be said about the filibuster, seniority and other congres sion anachronisms. All that we are saying is that the South has its trying problems and that, despite its demagogues, it has sent and is still sending many capable legislators to Washington Their view point, and the problems of their re gion deserve just as much con sideration e.s does the rest of the country. The South, with all its faults - and other parts of tire na tion have their faults too resents being kicked about and forgotten. —Greensboro Daily News SCHOOL FAILURE'S Dade County's Superinten dent of Schools Joe Hall ex plained this week why the number of failures in our schools has doubled in five years. Says the superintendent: “A few years ago a teacher was taking her life In her hands if she flunked a pupil. The parents raised cain, and were backed Tip by public opin ion. “Now the public is demar.il be identified with man: should not His spirit by this time ful ly pervade every land; 10. Truly He lias the tight to feel that. He left this world in god huncls when He entrusted to you and me the proper in terpretation of His footsteps in the Sea and scorching sands. 11. Perhaps too selfishly we have labored In your church and mine, to portray the hid den treasurers of the MANG ER, and the CROSS, that should be our daily SHRINE. 12. So here we &r? a year hence, our world still eri shrowded in deep suspense, men like ships with a damaged rudder trying to reach the cov eted harbor; so If its a real Christmas you and I would truly like to explore, it. must slant with an honest-to-gcod ness love for Christ, and not a lone our giving and receiving of gifts, nor holly wreaths on our windows and doors. ing a higher level of achieve ment.” Most failures were in the first, seventh and eighth grades. “The emphasis in the first grade,” explained Dr. Hall, ‘is on the development of the child, and teachers are feeling freer to hold back a youngster they think is too immature to go on. to the next grade. “The seventh and eighth crude failures are similar. Tea chore often fee! it Is wise to hold back a youngster for an other year before letting him go on to high school.” Miami Timex It Happened In New York By GLADYS F. GKAHA M FOU ANT DOROTHY HEIGHT AND EDITH SAMPSON BACK FROM SOUTH AMERICA SEMINARS Dorothy Height, associate director for training, leader ship services -staff of the na tional board, Young Women s Christian Association, and pres ident of the National Council of Negro Women, has returned from a three-weeks trip to South America as a member of the International Seminary She visited eight major cities m seven countries, for the pur pose of promoting inter-A merican understanding. Miss Height and Attorney Edith. Sampson were the two Negro women attending the Seminars. Miss Height will be heard in a broadcast over NBC on December 16. She was im - pressed by the role of women in Chile, Argentina, Urugay and Brazil She found no legal segregation and pride in the Brazilians that, a black man had at ono time been vice president of the country NOTED LEADERS BUSY IN BOROUGHS Ambassador C. T. O. King who recently flew back from a meeting of the American Friends of Liberia in Chicago, headed a delegation of United Nations dignitaries who were present at a speech made by Ambassador Simpson at Be these:t Church. Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunch*, Under Secretary of the United JUST FOR FUN lilt I Lit KEY HUM Scene; Early one morning. Cornyard and 1 left Frogg’.e Bottom in a Stycptwing Dock;:; with our hunting' gear. We fin ally slopped at Crescent Hui around 2 a.m. As day broke, we stood iio • emng, Suddenly an owl homed, then another. Next a turkey gobbler shot forth his gobbling. On the ridge not far oft' an other gobbler ripped off a great clatter and preached his virility to all the heads listen ing. We eased forward, pair- -2 ana finally listened again. Shortly we heard faint sounds of a gobbler's wings ns he came down off bis limb. With cau tion, we made another 40 yards, Cornyard made the sound of a turkey lien clucking. Two hens came past, visum: and looking. 1 was nervous and m. gun shook. Very soon, we saw a gobbler standing with one foot raised, I...toning. Ten minutes passed, and the gobbler did not move. He was a statue, abso lutely immoble, 1 1 t hot! hi, how was it possible to kiu ... biry that way?) Then Mr Cornyard made a seductive cluck. The gobbU r snapped to life. Tail fanner, he made a pirouette. He balked out into the grassy opening, bowed, shaking his fbr eel f ea thers and making shush-shush -shush-voooutn. In full strut, swinging his great breast that now caught the early-slanted sun's ■ lint and threw off spuvkios o' greenish and red-bronw and a myriad of other iridensencies, be came, beard flailing. Awe came over me, and 1 was transfixed. 1 had forgot ten my gun, and then I came to my senses. With stocks snug gled agamsl our shoulders, Cornyard and T eased forward. Next, I. heard <; sudden load, sharp milt! 'Cornyard. i know, did not know what had hap pened until it was over.; To me - the bird was transformed to an amasrtncly tall, slim crea ture add racehorse legs and blurred motion. Then th'-re *•«« a thumping of violent wim la-atr Before we knew tuat he was gone—he was gone < Folks, wc came in boasting but we didn’t shoot a thing.) Gordon B. Hancock’s BETWEEN the LUES THE SOUTH’S NEW REBELS The tide of rebellion is strong in the South.. The rebel of the middle of the Nineteenth Cen tury rebelled against the Fed eral Union and this resulted m the bitter War of Rebellion, which fastidious southern stu dents of history have sucm ded —in part—in having called the “War Between The States-'' Her« eye are in the middle of the Twentieth Century and li gnin the South has its rebelli on; this time the rebellion is still against the United States, for an attack cannot be made on She laws of the land with - out attacking the land itself. The current rebellion in the South against the Supreme Court is an attack against law and order and thus against the country itself. If. the current rebels against the Sunivjne Court have their wav infra national chaos Is inevitable. Happily there is m the Souris those who arc rebelling against the leadership oJ those repre sentatives of the Old South, who would undermine the na tion by tmdcrmming the in tec rit-v of the Supreme Court. A current issue of Look ma ravine carries a heartening ar ticle on the young rebels of the South who place the nation first and race prejudice s; com!. Moreover these young rebels are willing to stand up and be counted. They are not only willing so be quoted but they are willing to be photographed, together with their professions of faith m the tenets of democracy and brotherhood. These young whites take their oath of al legiance to the flag seriously, and their clamour for the re opening of schools, which an ti-integration laws have closed, Nations, laid the covnerstorv at the dedication o! the new Queens Cerebral Palsy Center. Dr. Leona Baumgartner, City Health Commissioner and Su preme Court Justice Samuel Rabin were among the 600 no tables present. VIOLINIST PENELOPE JOHNSON BURIES MOTHER IN YEW YORK RITES Penelope -Johnson Ruffin, famed violr.jrr! and direr- or of Penny's Right-seeing studios buried her mother, Mrs. John son. noted religious lender who passed suddenly of a heart- at tack. Mrs. Johnson is survived by many noted relatives v. ho came from all over the country and Africa for the last rites of the deceased. Wires and floral tributes were still arriving at press time. LAN Cl STONE HUGHES FLIES A human being wtih nine lives seems to be the fate of Langston Hughes versatile Har lemite who flew to the Uni versity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada to be "in his December lecture series. He will hit the Poetry Center in #Ban Francisco, on to NAACF presentations in Palo Alto. U niversity of California in Ber keley and on to Monterey Col lege in California before speak ing at Delaware State College in Dover In 1959. BY MARCUS 11. 110IT,WARE Being a Perfossor, I have been doing some research on wiln turkeys. This part, ut my find ings intrigues Cornyard • "A tom collects himself u fair harem. ‘Cornyard is ex tremely interested.> He stay.- near his loves a good share of the day, guarding against m i.nailing xoobiers being on alien ation of u i lection. He wm fight any gobbler who gets smart. At roosting time ne wi.i be in the vicinity of the hens. ‘Those gobblers may it safe, eh Doe? i They will fly up U ioo; Tic.n ok! turn wo! ’! *. imotiiee place to roost but ft a. short distance from the hens. “Usually, he gobbles once af ter he is on his limb, tailing ».bi hens lie's there and reminding them to dream sweet dreams of him.’ ‘Cool - cool eh Doc?, says Cornyard.) OH KNOW! “Doc, have you noticed that the people who dement a front table in a night spot, try to ev en thhats up by taking a back scat in the church?", asked Cornyard. I grunted, "Yeo got some rnmg there, Cornyard. my i riciici i ” IS S T An open letter in the Win ston-Salem Journal had rhis to say about “Give’m hell Harry;'’ I just want to say it's a shame to listen to profane language hke Harry Truman used on TV. He doesn’t know the meaning of the word dignity, and yet everythin!: he says i;s played up j to the limit.” All I can - y is, * Don't worry .. ■ ■ s:m reward Cornyard and I atm to make ourself rich, he course wc plan to get one of those SSOO re wards ot'icTf-d in the school bomb cases. You bomb bugs hotter -Utah out the Corn lot:! ;<R'; wo mean business. WORD TO WISH; ''Perhaps if wc c;u> find u cure for bore dom, we can ciinmiaie one of the major factors in overeating and obesity," cays Dr. Char lotte M. Young of Cornell Uni versit* Cornyard, you needn’t woi ry about me, because old DOC got a sure plan to Jose I'ifU-en pounds by New Year’s .Dry, From Cornyard; No Comments e. is no. j com aging things to develop in these discouraging times <: cure hatred and sanction ism.. A crisis has been prixupi rat ed and these ycuug whiter iu favor % -f opening the ;;cL- cix even if it means the Integra • tion ci Negroes in tbs schools. They refuse to b. stampeded into placing pre judice above the future of th; South and nation. The encouraging tiling about tlu: stand these young u- ht emts rebel,', are tamng is not ’ only their moral courage, but the fact that, youth no longer bows in abject obedience to the whims of their cinders as in times post. The time when the ciders did the thinking lor the younger generation has long since past. Tlie young people are not on ly capable* of making their own decision, but they are willing to defend these desicions with a course of constructive action* coinmeiisutu tv viti % demoe-t'sney and Cn .•foiiaui ty. The old midumaw and pre judiced houi.ii i-ii yesterday is jv.is.siim and a. New Smith is .fin 'i ■ -'lll S' young willies rebelling against the customs (hat are calculat ed io set the South back for centuries m the future, even as St ha? in the past been st i, back, for centuries. The position of the Old South with its race prejudice and. segregation, is becoming more and more iirtte'uaale. There are too many pressures against it and the “weeping and gnashing of teeth” of pre valent in tire: reactionary press of the Smith is but the sign of these pressures. Moral pressure is on the South in a strong way. The i)u,. uou of holding a human being in slavery, whether phy sical. or mental, is a more! question of greatest magni tude-. ibe Old South cannot escape it. The Old South is on the de fensive before the eyes of the world, and it will not get bet ti r, bin. wc .-e. The moral sen st •> of tl..- future .vrll be quick ened rather, than dulled. The Kingdom of God in V<j( coming will make even more untenable the 03d South’s po -ition of rac- prejudice and i m. Nos only is th# p ' tohr."! moral but it is persis tent. The forces that, are driv ing the Old South to a position of apology and defense for Us ] sending its Negro citizens ic j I I Era getting stronger. I a pooUion more and more inda-B ice "h! . Tim h roes of ; ht-fl cousnoss know no ul l im JB treat! The moral pressure oflH i ioutow Will Im i.n gi than today. jffl The millions the South spending -or willing to spen«| • to defend its traditions JsgSj race prejudice and svgregaticflH will not in the long run pKH Those grim feels are faced by the young whites the South who are willing •stand up and be counted gainst the evil course mav.ivn ic. .i : since duel a I WBM
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