Say West Is Losing The
Battle For African Mind
R.v fV- S. Siggtn.H for \sMn:irils><!
Negro Press
LONDON, England ~-'i£te Mar
s ncster Guardian recently report
ed that, in an interview with a
British United Pits# correspondent,
the first int< rvirw granted suice
hr took office. Dr Verwoerd the
■South African Premier, raid that
"The Western world i. to: me the
prjThoUtttieo! battle for lh< mind
of Africa bee, use it. is “trying to
outbid the Communists at their
own game of attacking the white
man's prestige in Africa.''
Dr. Verwoerd then gives his ver
sions of what is being done and
" hat he thinks should be done
But his argument fulls to the
ground because lie cannot pro
rliice any example of the
standard hr sets for African
advancement: that is the type
n! Afi a-.il, he thinks ids \> stem
would prodoer, nor can he de
scribe. in precise terms, how
all Africans can be advanced
with the in car re resources it
the disposal of the Colonial
I’O" orv
"Poor Whiter'' y e; ruse in South
Mruvi <1 ii.ie alf die efforts of the
Union Government
,lu' re I dnlimjuency i? on the
Increase all ©v i Africa and .wns
of fltuurands ol spivs, prostitutes
an,, drifters are added to the al
ready huge sum every year.
Britain and Franco are poorer
than over and Britain is about to
hand over 7.000 000 inai tieu'atc
Africans to the tender mercies of
20(1,000 rolotirphobic whites in the
Rhodes ias and Nyasalanri: doer.
Dr. Verwtc rri really think that
200.000 whiles can advance the 7
million Africans fast*** than Great
Britain has done in the past sixty
yi are?
The 7.000.000 Africans will dou
ble their numbers within forty
years. The Government of the Cen
tred African Federation is already
short of money for much-needed
social services, housing and cor.i
iTumlcatiuns. They cannot control
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HOME. FOR HOLIDAYS Miss Maryann R. Gay spent an t-n-
Joyable though brief visit here with her parents, .Mr. and Mrs. W . D
Guv of Creech Road. At 19 Miss Gay was graduated from Fisk Uni
versity in the Spring ol 195*. In the fall she began special study no
scholarship in phvsira.v therapy at the University of Pennsylvania,
which course was completed early in October 1958. Slnrp <»< tft|>rr >.be
is happily emnlo.vrif as one of three Physical Therapists al the St,
John's TOO bed hospital in Sprins;fie!d. Illinois.
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markets for copper and other ex
ports; just how ".ill that Govern
ment fulfill «."hst was alleged to
be a "suered trust ’ to it.s African
wards'.’
Then there are the 22,000.000
Africans of Fast, Africa; can the
whites there, numbering a third of
the whites in Central Africa, he
'•xr- clod to fulfill their irnst to
Africans?
I’hc n.Uiirai resources ol
Central and 1 ist Africa are
sufficiently large to support
the issue of a long-term loan
to help Africans, but what
Western government would
lend sa> twenty live billion
pounds io Fast Vfru ail govern
moots on a long-term loan
without-or-with strings?
i agree that the W< si has lost
i the battle for the mind of Africa
| i have said so frequently Bui l
cannot see how the Wed can ex
pect to influence the African mind
1 in the direction Dr. Verwoerd in-
I diiater-; that is, to reeognizi the
i white mail as God's gift to colom
' ed world, and to obey him in nil
•lungs even when his example bo-
I lies his own Christian teaching. ~
i One need not think that all As
i cans will follow Ihe example of
j Dr. Mkrumah. Premier of Ghana
i and start erecting statues until all
1 Africa is on" vast. Easter Island.
I full of grotesque figures and wrih
j several thousand set? of .damps
i and currency tokens anymore than
j one should think it is full of Sir
I Anthony Edens failing upon Kehp
! tians and others in collusion with
other whites, to grab what they
want by force when denied it. Nov
need we imagine Mahdis reducim.
the population of their country by
six millions in a few year: , or a
Zulu like Chaka.
Off-farm income now accounts
for about one-third of farme’.'-
total net income, reports the U. S
Department of Agriculture.
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.1015 Hil i, DON! Miss Edith Tucker, junior, heme economics major. «ts F.lkin N < ithird from
right » is congratulated by Miss Barbara Freeman, sophomore, nf l.awrcneeyi!!©, v,),„ following the form -
er's report to members of Omlcron Eta Chi ai Bennett College on hn attendance at the North Carolina
Dietetic* Association meeting. Miss Tucker is president of the Bennett group Others m photo. left to
right are: Misses Alma I'innis, freshman, of Vanreyvillc, who gave a repoel on the meeting of the North
Carolina Association of Home Economic* to which she was a delegate: Carolyn Cotton, sophomore, of
Tarbnrn; LulUia Waftrs, sophomore. »f ,lai ksitni Ilk. f ’la and Rtlllse Adams, senior, of Prioreion. W. \»
Rev. King Tells Os integration Plans For
59; Montgomery Attempts flew Area
MONTGOMERY, Ala. cANPi ,
I -Negroes hen w ill attempt mas- j
i sive integration nf city schools ear- i
I ly in 1959, the Hev. Martin Luther |
Kmg announced Tuesday.
The minister who led » success- j
ful bus boycot there two and a ;
j hail years ago said a committee of 1
j i hr Montgomery Tmprovenunt As
i sn. is now working mil the detail?
| of the integration attempt. He said j
j the attempt will begin early next !
i ’'ear, but added ' nothing is work ;
ed on! in detail arrangement yet.' i
Kee King confirmed, how
eve*-, hroad outline of the in
teg-f-;,(too plan. He said the Ini
tiai step would he a series of
conferences on (he question
with various white Jradcrs In
j (be rrariie of the confederacy
He raid the MIA, which 'he I
j heads, would present a plan of de- !
j segregation to the Montgomery j
i hoard of education in an attempt j
j to work out a solution to the prob- j
I I err,.
plan mapped before
DECISION
t King pointed on! that the over- I
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Proxy Wants
Educated Minds
URBAN A. 11l iANT» - Edu- ]
cation of the heart as .veil as the
mind was urged -Sunday night by
| Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of
j Howard University, Washington. D.
j C., as he opened the sixth National ;
! Student Assembly of the Young j
i Men's Christian Association and j
j the Young Women’s Christian Aw - i
j Hociat-ion on the University of (Hi- i
j nois campus.
Nearly 1,000 representative;; 1
« ing and our method as we move
S into the future ” "No attempt. v/ib
j be made to register individual Ne»
! gro children at white schools dur
j uiR the: integration attempt," the
i minister conrludrd
ef (hr student Christian organ
editions on campuses across the
roimtr*' heard hr, Johnson in
the Keynote address of the
week-Jong assembly':
\ Dr, Johnson called for a new re
! sped, for each individual end the
| elimination of nationalistic view
points which put one country a-
I gainst another in the field of pHm.
j cation,
| The western university 1* a
wounded institution. Dr. Johnson
asserted, but, it can be saved with
a new revolution that concentrates
on education of the heart as well
as education hf the mind
In the main auditorium on the
Illinois campus, on Sunday morn
mg. Dr. Gardner Murphy, director
of research for the Menmnger
Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, toid
the students that, "the world today
Mrs. Sarah Herhin, High
Point, In Shaw U. Address
Mis Sarah W Herbin, associate
direclor, Merit Employment F’eo
cram, American Friends Nervier
(lommittec, l-ligh Point, spoke In
Shaw University students on Mon '
day, January ■ on Job OpporUtni
ties in Industry.
Mrs Herbin pointed out that j
new job opportunities have devtl- |
oped for Ihr; Negro more. rapid !
than the rate of preparation for j
them, due to the fact that in the j
post there was no possibility ~f o!>-
training employment t!l many fi< I
tile ■kitien fields.
i«r t!ie technical skills are aid
ruing, the Negrii must aspire
and prepare fur irclinical mm
Jraditionat jolis, and imr*- pro
Oared, knock on *ny door in
search nt employ merit. Site
suggested that the southern
e so sick that, normal young men |
arid young women are ovei-vict <f ire ’
preoccupied with the nm'-aion ot |
rihnnging rather lh«n adjusting to j
the world *s they observe- il
‘‘This defines our age as -i
crisis aßii,” he added, and “the
problem is hoe- In master ihr
tremendous forces which pave
heen unleashed in Ihr world
and to control them before
they control os to nor doom.'
Dr Paul Lehman of Harvard
University Divinity School on
Monday responded to the first two
piatform speakers with on applica
tion of the Christian faith
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322 IS. CABAKRUb ST
tion, absence of opportunity, but
lit* facts are changing and the
Unit- ha- come lor Negroes to a
buiidon traditional view* about
"'hut. work they should aspire to.
Tin piogriv. N*. groes will make
in industry-, die concluded, will de
pend In a large extent oil how well
tiny 1 1* t?i .-< opportunities now a
■ i lin hie Tin:- determination to
.cm‘tp new opportunities must
spruij, ijom within, she empha
sized.
Only if thir. is done will the Ne*
Rio achieve Ihe equuHlv of op
portunity which he seeks, she com
eluded
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