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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1050 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP “So the Lord drove out the man; and he plac ed at the east of the garden ox icvn Cherubims, - and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.’'--The ‘-'erljmire. We have read the story of the fall of Adam and Eve and how they were cast out of the gar den. The ground was cursed with weeds and thistles; hard work and the sweat of their brows was to be their portion until they should return " to the dust fiom which they came. Hundreds of thousands of sermons have been preached about Adam, berating him for his lew. Innocence, bemoaning his fall. But these ser mon* overlooked the most significant phr.se of the story. Adam was innocent In the Garden in the same sense that the sheep wore innocent and the sheep are just, as Innocent now ns they were then. But Adam In Eden had no character, and character is the one good thing which God alone does not create. It is a Joint product. Just what the sin was which p. recorded tra der the symbol of the tree and its fruit we do no? know. It is an admirable symbol The birch-, in Eden pecked holes in the fruit, of that tree, as of many others. No fruit-eating beasts held it in special regard. Adam’s sin was somethin which was wrong for him but not wrong tor beasts and birds, some act of unbridled lust or bloody re venge; and having done it, he knew in-ta.utly that It was wrong. Somehow, in. this new green uni verse, remorse and repentance entered into tlte soul of a living creature; and ehaveater began. It doesn't matter If the story in Genesis be In the spring of each year, North Carolina residents must dig down deep -into then poc kets and pay the state income tax. it “hurts” them tremendously, because the tax come due about the same time we must pay the Federal income tax. We are confident that the majority of citi zens in the state would perfer to have this tax withheld from their weekly wages, or monthlv salaries. The plan would operate in a surd! r manner as that of the Federal income tax sys tem of withholding taxes from the worker’s paycheck. Already a cost analysis survey on a with holding plan for the state income tax hem;; prepared for the Legislature when it convert* s in Raleigh next month. Revenue Commis sioner James Currie says the survey is now in full swing and will cover various angles of a state withholding tax—costs, equipment, per sonnel and method. 1 he study thus far shows that a withholding More Mousy For Professors An increasing number of coltegf proftssors nave been leaving the campus for better •pay ing jobs in industry.. Beardsley Ruml, noted economist, in ,< > report, observed that fifty years ago it was not unusual for a professor to earn an annual sal ary of $5,000. (This was not true, however, of Negro college teachers). To maintain tin standard of living he had then he would have to make more than $20,000 today. Yet, only in the richest private schools does a professor’s salary reach even $15,000. The figures that we haw just cited refer only to professors in white colleges. Many N< gro college teachers still earn $5,000 and less each year an amount many while colleg professors earned fifty years ago. Since many Negro colleges are seeking mem bership in. the best rating associations in the country, they are making plans to raise theii teachers’ salaries. To meet accreditation re quirements. the colleges will have to pay their professors specified minimum annual salaries together with other fringe benefits. Foy years college teachers through their in adequate salaries have been subsidizing the education of the students, and in some cases This past week the Dixie Basketball Classic was played in Raleigh. Several out-of-stab teams participated, mi d we watched with in terest the Bearcats from the University of Cincinnati, and the Michigan State University team—both of which had Negro players. When Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati’s Negro ace, came to the tournament he was the rsa Iron's number one scorer with an average of »!- *»ost 10 points per game. Michigan State brought two Negro players, one of them being Jumping Johnny Green, a high scorer and the nation’s top rebounding champion. North Carolina State in the second round of play met: the Cincinnati five and defeated the Bearcats 69 to 61, holding Oscar Robertson to 29 points. For the championship, North Carolina State College overpowered the Mich igan State College club by a sixeabh score. State won by playing a possession type of ball, attempting to score only when there was an excellent, chance. When The Mouth Is Shut The late Dr. George Washington Carver said that he found that the mind is most open when the mouth is shut. There is considerably more truth in this statement than would ap pear at first. A person who does a lot of talking—foolish and otherwise"—cannot learn very much. On< must, listen to gather information and learn new ideas. Normally, a human being thinks before he speaks. This is as it should be since through speech mankind expresses ’his thoughts. Gen- State Withholding Tax The Dixie Classic tin allegory; no matter if it summarises m the, experience of one man a proc ss which worked it&elr mu through generations or centuries. The mam fact r. mam.- that one day somebody stood out against » burkyi-ound of innocent and con tented animalism and assumed self-conscious ness and reproach wnicb go with a moral nature. To that somebody, that Adam, wo owe a debt which we can never repay, He v,as the earth’s first great, hero. Adam in !he Garden, fattening on the fruits that grew without labor, files had too much atten tion. .We should ca.ro little for that inglorious period in his existence. It could not lust long Let us remember th; later Adam, contending with thorn? and thistles, trying hard to govern the rising*, genera lion which perplexed him as it has perplexed suceei'tiintf fathers, the Adam who famed his bread with the sweat of his brow, the Adam whose eldest son killed his youngest bro ther. the Adam who courageously, imcomplalngly carried on and handed down to Isis descendants a nature capable of responding so law and duty. That Adam is the first in honor as well as in time. He and Eve sent down to us the qualities that lifts us out of the dust from which they came and back to which we, like them, return. How was it that Adam knew himself to be different from sch« beasts that perish? Why was he so ; ure that it was wrong for him and not for them to use hi brief opportunity for ail it was worth? What persuaded him that God cared? Read the Bible and learn! system “would cover areas which cannot be covered now.” One area, for example, would be persons who move in and out of the state, and other transients We favor the system of withholding state income tax from, the citizen's paycheck. It. is the painless way, since only a small amount will be deducted each, week, or month from one's paycheck. As it now stands, in the face of the rising cost of living, it is vety dmicuit for a person to savt enough to pay his tax in a lump sum. in addition to what wv have already men tioned. we hope some: sort of system can be de vised whereby a citizen will not have; to file an income tax return It would seem that a well-planned withholding system would be a means of elimirintiomg the nerd for filing re turns. We urge each person to let hts or her Re presentatives know how he fc-cls about tVic es tablishment of a state withholding income tax plan the luxuries of students’ families, by an a mount which is more than double the grand total of alumni gifts, corporate gifts and en dowment income of ail colleges and universi ties combined. President Fiscnhowir’s Committee on Ed ucation figured that college teachers, by work ing for the low salaries they have long accept ed are contributing more than 800 million dol lars a year to the students of their schools— more than $3,500 per teacher. Professors must maintain a high-level stan dard of living-—luxurious homes, one or two cars, modern home appliances and labor-sav ing devices, contribution to charities and the United Fund, a sizeable wardrobe, member ship in professional and community societies take extended vacations, pay taxes, and take in-service training for professional advance ment . It. would not be asking too much of colleges to pay a professor a minimum of SIO,OOO an nually, and a distinguished professor from $12,000 to $15,000 per year. We predict that those colleges which are still in business 25 to 50 years from new will bt paying at least our recommended minimum. &>tate College was able to accomplish this feat by playing two or three men on the visit ing teams ace players, Their plan of attack hemmed in Oscar Robertson and Johnny Green. While every team is out to win, we feel that this plan of “putting forth special ef fort to stop Oscar Robertson and Johnny Green was in a sense unsportsmanlike. The only sportsmanship that deserves admiration is a mun-to-man type of play, used almost unanimously over the nation. 1 o concentrate on stopping one man in bas ketball is somewhat, similar to ‘unnecessary roughness and slugging” in football, “hitting below the belt” in boxing, and “spiking the base runner” in baseball. In order that State College will not place itseh in a position to be criticized, we hope in the future it will concentrate in winning the championship by playing a man-to-inan type of basketball. eraliy, the person who talks too much doesn’t have much to say. An individual will never be sorry if he thinks before speaking. Very often talkative people have made caustic remarks about other people only to regret that they didn't think before talking. A person who gossips does not think her remarks will injure the other person in some way, but it does. Unguarded tongues have caused more mis ery in this world than Wc can ever imagine. Remember that the mind is most open when the mouth is shut. Integration Is The Only Answer 1,.. IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK Negro pensmen are finally reaping some literary rewards for their prowess and ability in the field of writing. Renders Digest has purchased the 70.- 000 word manuscript of Jessie Bennett Bams for SIO,OOO. This month’s issue of the tame publication e.v.led $3,000 purchase price of Gone Holmes Ashburn’s “My Most Unforget table Character.” which is the story of her father, a Negro missionary from Live Oaks, Fla., who spent some 44 years in Liberia as a missionary. Mrs. Holmes is a graduate of New York University and the wife of a minister. Readers Digest is intercut-* Itira! in action and gathers from literary experts of the their rare experiences for pub lication in condensed form. LONNIE SATTIN BREAKS 10 YEAR RECORD A brilliant Negro baritone singer-actor Lonnie SetUn and a native of Philadelphia, has broken the 10-year record at the Roxy Theatre here on Broadway during this holiday season. Mr, Sattin is perhaps the first Negro to be starred ‘.with his name headlined ah around the Marquee) on the Roxy stage in such lavish fash ion in “GET HAPPY” with the show built around him with the ail Caucasian cast of some 75 people along with full length orchestra. Interestingly enough Lonnie Sattin is only a stone's throw from the Broadway Theatre sfdgs THE ELECTION OF SPAI I.DING A WISE CHOICE The election of A. T. Spaul ding as president of North Carolina Mutual Lite Insurance Company to succeed W •). Kennedy, Jr., its retiring head, comes us no surprise to this newspaper. Asa, as he is af fectionately known to all of 2ns friends, would probably poll the highest number of votes for the position if the selection had to be made by the employees of the company and the citizens of Durham. The new president is not only well qualified to as sume the position when it comes to scholastic training but his experience and ac quaintance with some of the most outstanding’ business and professional men of the nation further qualifies him to head the largest business owned and operated by Negroes anywhere in the world. It Is most- fortunate that North Carolina Mutual has for its top officials a plan of re tirement that provides for re lieving them of the full respon sibility of their respective posi tions before they become phy ideally unable to give counsel and advice to their successors. That Mr. Kennedy, the retir ing president, will remain with the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors, advisor and consultant is most fortu nate, Mr. Kennedy, a man of keen ability and sound business ;iud';merit, is still hale hearty and able to fill the position to which he has been elected. The new president of N. C. Mutual has already expressed himself as being aware of the tremendous responsibility which his new office involves, He assm- thosp of his friends and a ; relates that, his office doors along with his ears and mind, will always be open for counsel and advice. This is a fine attitude for anyone to as sume who shoulder heavy rc »V GLADYS P. GRAHAM the scene of his former stage hit “Body Beautiful.” The youthful artist who gave up law for a career on the stage and a world of entertainment has been signed for a four year stint for four years by Chez Pares owner Dick Halper, AFRICA IN TIIE NEWS George Lawson, prexy of tin. United African Nationalist Movement recently returned bom the “Ail-People's Con ference in Ghana, is set to ad dress the assembly on his im pressions of this history mak ing session. Lawson is a, stock holder in the African Lumber Company and active in affairs , vi darker peoples. The Executive Committe of the National Lutheran Council has given endorsement to a proposal for the erection of a radio station in Africa under the auspices of the Lutheran World Federation. The first Protestant radio station in Af rica- with a full-time Christian program aimed at that conti nent is ELWA, in Monrovia, Liberia which is four years old. It is operated by the West African Broadcasting Associa tion as the voice of the Sudan Interior Mission The LWF project would bring into exis tence the second. A large Lutheran center in Dares Salaam, seaport capital of Tanganyika in East Africa, has been approved. This city of more than 100.000 has the greatest concentration of the three major races in the terri tory—African, Asian and Eu- sponsibility and te certain to make friends for the company. That Mr, Spaulding assumes the responsibilities of Presi dent of N, C. Mutual on the eve of the celebration of its 60th Anniversary is indeed significant. With his many contacts in the business world throughout the nation it doth not yet appear to what extent N. C Mutual will develop and expand under the guiding hand of its new president. Those who are around at the close of the next 80 years will probably look back on the year 1959 as the beginning of the company's new birth. —THE CAROJINA TIMES DISSENT IN GEORGIA The phenomenon of college faculties and metropolitan At lanta. clergymen publicly tak ing issue with the high priests of Georgia racial bigotry and urging obedience of the law of the land in school desegrega tion has caused considerable (surprise in civilized areas. Traditionally the Deep South haw made a shameful shambles of the right of dissent and Georgia has been one of the worst offenders, making life miserable for any deviate from the prevah’ng body of racial superstition:;. Since dissent has been so hazardous in those areas in the past, it is quite significant that on the issue of school desegre gation, important white Geor gians are willing to speak out in defiance of the Harr Irises. Griffins and Talmadges. We hail the faculties of Em ory University and the Agnes Scott College of Decature, and the 311 courageous clergymen of Atlanta who have helped somewhat to dispel the world view that Georgia is an intel lectual Sahara. —PITTSBURG COURIER , War or peace for the United Stales, unfortunately, is not left to this nation. ropean. Social activity on an inter- racial bask U purpose Lutheran center. Dr. Melville Herskovils, Pro fessor of Anthropology at Northwestern University and Director of the Program of Af rican studies, is the last dis cussant on the lecture series of the Museum of Primitive Arts, held at the Institute of Fine Arts. New York University. Dr, Herskovits speaks on ART AND VALUE on February sth, Bteuayehu Agohafir, of Ethi opia is one of 34 delegates for 195a Herald Tribune Forum for High Schools from foreign countries. Mrs. Theadorea M&nuwa, principal of Girls' Modern Academy at Lagos in Nigeria is involved in several religious conferences here. She has been impressed by the ef forts of the United Church Women and the South Pacific Commission to explore the new world of opportunity In Guam. New Guinea and Caldonia, New Herbides, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Is lands and Samoa, by helping women to play a useful role in community affairs. IN OUR MAILBAG The Sehola Cantorum of New York. Hugh Ross, conductor, will present a concert of music of Moravians introduced to America or composed in this country. According to the invi tation the event Is scheduled at Hunter College the third Sun day in January, William Lewis, noted tenor is among the so loists. IN THIS OUR DAY BY I>K, C. A. CHICK, SR. “TAKING STOCK" At. this season of the year it is customary for business films to “take stock*'—check ing up on their assets and li abilities, what particular busi ness practices they have which have proven to be unprofitable, and what, ones are profitable, what new methods or techni ques they might install that would Increase their profits. The foregoing are some of the many questions a business firm asks whan it is taking stock. Now what is true regarding the need of a. business firm's taking stock is also true re garding the need for individ uals and families taking stock —checking up an many of their personal lives. Individuals and families cer tainly should check on their health periodically. And. this seems to be a logical time of the year for such matters. If many of us visited our medical doctor and dentist move often, we would no doubt increase the number of years -.ve may stay on this terrestrial ball. The cost of being ill is a luxury that not many of U' can afford fin ancially. Os course we should check on our Intellectual growth. Have we censed to grow Intel lectually? Are we reading any thing beyond the headlines In newspapers and the funnies? Do we attend and enjoy classic al musical concerts? Have we JUST FOR FUN NEW YEAR’S HOG JOWLS Wednesday, prior to New' Years Day, stocks of hog jowl and black-eyed peas ran iow in the grocery stores. Froggie Bol stom is a community that be lieves in the superstition that every man. woman and child should eat hog jowl and black eyed peas at some time on thy first day of the New Year. Word to the wise—both luck and beauty are supposed to be enhanced b;- those who par take of this special menu, Tc be sure, Corny rad and I ordered two dinners of hog jowl and black-eyed peas. Please note our improvement in physique and beauty in the months ahead. NO SIGN OF CHRIST The burning of a cross on the lawn of a white minister last week is now under inves tigation in Des Moines, lowa. The minister. Rev lan H. Mc- Crae. sold the property to a Negro couple. The cross, made of oil-soak ed bales of hay, was six feet wide and ten feet long. Al though it was the X-M&s cross, it carried no sign: “Peace to men of goodwill on earth ’ WONDER WHAT’S NEXT The birds had a Christmas party In Greensbo.o during the holidays just past, A large tree was erected in front of the Greensboro Junior Museum, and the boys and girls attending the party, de corated it The decorations? Popcorn strings, cranberry strings, suet filled pine cones and seed filled cornucopias- all for the birde. The youngsters didn't eat birds food, but they got. popcorn and cold drinks for re freshments. You couldn’t crash this par ty, because it was for the birds Reservations had to be made. Ah -ah—would that I were a bird! BATHROOM OF FUTURE They tell me that the bath - room of the future will be call ed a health room which has a •unfcetx sv’lßun.isxs pool which “allows the entire family to bathe together if they like. A sliding top will conceal the Gordon B. Hancock s dfgś MORE GLOOMY—DEANENG In the early nineteen twen ties the lips of our race orators were literally on fire, with themes of Negro progress. The columns of Negro newspaper were laden to the hatches with stories of Negro achievement. Tin-ought it all ran a note of super-optimism that had many U-lieveir.g that full citizenship for American Negroes was just around the corner. Tins writer was never able to see such roseate picture land although thoroughly convinced that the Negro would come into his own, he nevertheless saw great:, obstacles in the path of the Negro's upward progress, He figured then, os he fig ures now, that it takes as much to produce a fine Negro as it takes to produce a fine white man. If it takes a whole chance to produce a fine white man no Negro can be produced with only a half chance. Therefore the Negro needs a whole chance rather than the half chance the whites are dis posed to give. It was clear to the careful observer that those who said that the Negro had made the most wonderful pro gress of any people in history, lost interest in lectures, de bates, and other "deep discus - sions”? Let’s take stock on the foregoing and see if we do not need to sharpen our intellect ual acumen What about your material assies? Ail of us are a yem* older than we were this time last year. Thus, we are a lit tle nearer the “human junk pile”— retirement, age Are we building our material assets each year in preparation for the foregoing age that will surely come? Or are wi de pending entirely upon Old Age and Survivor’s Insurance? May I warn you that the foregoing is hardly sufficient economic protection for old age. If your economic assets are no larger than they were this time last year, there are strong indica tions that you need to take stock on some of your personal practices. What about your social life? Have you lost or gained friends during the year of 1958? Re member that the loss of one friend is a great lots- Such a loss is a luxury that we fin ancially poor people cannot af ford to pay for. Arc you keeping up spirit ually? Do you enjoy reading God’s word? Do you enjoy hearing God's word preached? .Do you enjoy church atten dance? Do you enjoy singing and hearing songs and old hymns that have come down to us through the ages. If you arc losing ground lu any of the foregoing stop, stand still and take stock! I am passing on to my many readers the following Bibicai verses as mottoes for 1959: “But grow in grace, and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever more.” "... but this one thing T do, forgetting those things which are behind and reach ing forth unto those things which are before, I press to wards the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” BY SWAROiJg H. BOLL WARE pool and by a touch of a but ton can provide floor space for entertaining. This wonderful room will contain 21 other marvelous features, such as “variable control health vibrator, power operated towel cabinet, refri gerated health dank dispens ers, three dimensional televis ion. electronic memory scale and low frequency vibrating chair.” Engineers have actually put the health room on the draw ing board, and the old-fashion ed gimmick we used to call the bathroom is designated ns “a water closet with a power operated door." Now a- hen you arrange to build your home, plan to add an adltlonnl five years to the mortgage contract to pay for the health room. Pay atten tion, because the present base ment recreation room with bar will scon become obsolete and bow' out upon the advent of the health rcom. YES SIR. IT HAPPENED Frogeie Bottom residents have been wondering about that certain socialite and the reason she leaped from the sec ond-floor window of a North Lancaster St. apartment clad in nothing but her negligee. Seems hex ht.bby. an extreme ly jealous man, trailed her to her boyfriend’s ho m e and crashed the front door just as the “festivities” began. MATURITY Cornyard and Dee-Jay were discussing women last week. Cornyard said he likes to pin his hopes on the “sweet young" females. But Dee-Jay would have none of it,, because he likes a mature woman as her voice is softer and better mod ulated, her mo-omenta less tense, and she is less worried looking. Dee-Jay says a woman in her late thirties is golden, and like good wine mellows with age. “But.” he added, "a young teen-age girl ir, a torrent cf e motion and too tense for her beauty and personality t<> show.” However, Cornyard ha t a mind of his own-—of course, he disagreed. were merely feeding tally the Negro to keep him qi with his half chance. This writer spurned such h. then and he spurns it r, with the contention that rh • Negro must have a full epp iunity if he is to realize his rx: potentialities as & citizen It occurred to this write! U there was need of another proach to the Negro’s am'” tions for full citizenship in ti country He, accordingly .. . called upon not to put all stress on the Negro’s accon. plLshments but more stress on the problems that control)tod the Negro as a race. We emphasized the need for job opportunities and or of the things that the Negro needed to appreciate v. as the Importance of the job by which be lived and moved and had his being. I began to cry like a John in the wilderness. This was so far out of line with the then current, line that I was dubbed the “Gloomy Dean.” But when the pressures of a depression were exerting themselves, jobs for Negroes became a major cone,Pin in ways that were not true of whites. Soon the pathetic cry went up. “Negroes are the first to he fired and the last to be hired.” When the depression was at its worst all of the “Deans" be came gloomy. And there is al ways. the threat avainst the job Uiat whites mut give the Negro if indeed the Negro has » job at all. U always occasions a certain amount, of gloom to face this ugly fact But todai your writer is gloomy with another kind M gloom that stems from \ita threats to our nations welfare and survival. It makes one won der if we are heading for na tional disaster when one stu dies the slate of the country. We have a national debt, of nearly *300,000,000,000.00 To day's news accounts lvove it that the nation's assets are 8202,000,000.000.00 or slightly less than its indebtedness. And what is more, we are going: deeper and deeper in debt each day. The danger ot national bankruptcy Is imminent and one that cannot be laughed off In spite of our grea t boast in vs of our great know-how in things economic, our econo mists have failed to come mi with a formula, for extricating our nation from a. debt that promises to overwhelm us at the least. Then to our back breaking debt let us add the problem of Inflation. Inflation like a financial cancer is eating away at the heart of our economic life. It is eating away the life-savings of millions and thus trusting upon those millions prospects of lives of poverty and misery. This Is the fate awaiting mil lions of the most industrious people of the nation for in flation knows no age and no class With dollars purchasing less and less and with inflation knows no age and no class. With dollars purchasing less and less and with inflation like a creeping financial paralysis stealing upon the nation, we are forced to the conclusion that if our great indebtedness does not break the back of our natten inflrdten whl
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