THE CAROLINA TIMES
IKWIM UmillDUE*" SAT^ OCT. II. 19SV
RUMBLES FROM AORQAQ, INDICATE IT WAS NOT A XJLEAN KNOCKOUT
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Apply the Remedy at A&T College
The Carolina Time* is {jlad to wclcoinc to
il's isidfr the daily press of the slate in our ef
fort to help clean wp the deploralJe ,sittwtim
existing at A and T tVtllepfe, HiftVrences he-
t^teon the president and the Inkiness niann-
R«r of the sehiHil have reached the i>oiiit
w"here w.e think drastic action by the-Tnistce
Board is warranted, if A and T is to In- saved
frtim a worse muddle than now exists.
WTiile helping toward aecrcdilutioii of A and
T has been and still is our chief objective, we
do not feel that such can l>r achieved with
conditions as they are at Dresent between the
president and the btisiness manager of the
school. However, such a drastic stej) as the
removal of either or both is the responsibility
of the Trustee ll.>ard and ni>t that of this
newspaper or others. Our hope is and has
been that the trnstees will make a tliDroug’h
investigation or have same made of the in
ward turmoil \\hich now e.';ists at the school.
Frankly we thinl: that imder c;xisisting cir-
ctlmstances the best step the Trustee Board
of A and T College could fake is to retire both
the jiresent president ami business manager.
To ’dtMitinue eitfier'at the .school is to lea\ne
the roots of an old evil that mav remain dor
mant for awhile but is certain to rise agfain
with increased tronbles and more troubles. In
telligent, CDurafyetms and drastic action is
what is neelet! in the situation if A and T is
to ever take its rig^itftil j>lace among the
leading educational institutions of its Icind in
the nation. Even though we are willing to
leave whatever course of action is. taken en
tirely up to the Trustee Board, we are not
willing to stand idlj’ hy and see the condition
at the school further reach the i>oint where its
service to the people is more destructive than
constructive.
As the situation now stands the greatest
losers in the squabble that has been and still is
going on at A and T College are the students.
For the sake of more than 3,000 of them, and
the taxpayers of the state, we urce the Trus-
tees to make a thorough investigation of the
situation, dating back from the administration
pfthe late President F. D. Bluford and its
late bursar manager, the late N. C. Web
ster to the present head of the school. The
iniblic is entitled to know ^^-hat is wrong at
A and T and who is responsible for it. After
the investigation they sliould apply the rem
edy without fear or favor.
Welcome Baptist State Convention
The CAROLINA TIME.S joins with the
churches, business instittttions and individual
citizens of Durham in welcoming the ninety-
second annual session of the General Baptist
State Convention of N’orth Carolina to this
city. It is pleasing to know that as soon as
freedom came to the N'egro he set alwut to
organize churdi groups HKh as the General
Hajitist State ’^^Conventi'nn, tnany of which
have had much to do with jxiinting th'e way to
a finer and nobler life for members of the
race. f ’ .■ /
Kinety-two years is 'x loftg time in the life
of a people whose freedom has existed less
tlian 100 years. That ftur forefathers had the
v^ion to organize the General Bajrtist State
Convention almost l>efore the wwuids of their
backs from the masters' lash were healel
prjrsents a challenge’ tt> tjibse wfus tiKlay who
hqjve greater adrantages of ethicfition. income
and experience. OflSrtals anl members of the
hoatty ^^•efeome tJ 811 M them, - .
Durham is by no means a j>erfect city. How-
evier, we have been aljje here to weld out
forces together through the efforts of the
Dkrham Com^fctee on-Xegro^ Affairs and
achieve many diings for our group that could
ncrt have been 'rtalized ^ier\y^8(ff~,^er tlaptta,
Parham has hisdi^jf Totinti;. t>er-
*Many Negro cit^cns yf North Carolina
were startled to learn fl’oiji an article ])tob-
lished in last week's edition of the CAROLIN.\
T^IEIS that there is not a single Negro high
school accredited by the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools in
the entire state. From all corners of North
Carolina, as wel^,as locally, liave come words
of appreciation for the jQ^KOLINA TfMES
exj>osure ijf ithis vipiotis praectice which the N.
C. State Depart#ient 6f' Education is perpe
trating against Negro pupils. Many who have
previoush' assumed a more or less .“take it
easy" attitude on the question of integration.
have now expressed themselves as being con-
yinced that the only solution to this deplor
able situation is in the federal courts.
jAs the article in last week’s issue of the
Times attempted to reveal, the obvious reason
for holding uj) the inspection of all Negro
scfioois on the matter of accreditation is that
there is such a gross difference of facilities in
the average Negro and white public school.
No honest evaluation of such schools could
be made by an accrediting committee with
out making practically everj' ^tate, city and
countv school official in North Carolina liable
far stKxessful proaetntion in the federal
a$uU.
For tte Southern Association of Colleges
awl Secondary Schools to accredit a white
fchool of a cit}' or county withcnit being
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centage of any city in the state, if not the
South. Durham has a fire station manned by
members of the race; it has more Negro
policemen per capita thai^ any other city in
the state, two deputy sheriffs, a member of
the City Cound! and Board of Education.
Negroes of Durham own and control the
largest Negro business operated by the race
anywhere in the world, they own and con
trol their own bank, savings and loan associa
tion, rental and real estate agencies and num
erous other smaller businesses, all of which
we are itideed proud. They also own more
homes jwr capita than anywhere else in the
nation. '■
S*omeone has said that the progress of a
people can be measured by their churches,
libraries and schools. We w'ould add, their
hospitals. In addition to being the home of
some of the large.st business enteq>rises owned
*nl «i>erflted by the race, Durham has more
modern Xccto churdi structures, the finest
and hospital of anj' city its size
in the.,South. 7'he only state owned and oper
ated Negro college, accredited by the South
ern .Association of Colleges and Schools in
North Carolina, is located in Ihirham.
To all of 'fliese institutioiis and others too
numerous to mention we again welcome the
nirtety-second annual session of the General
By)tist State Conventioa.
WATCH ON THE POTOMAC
Political Journalist, of All Others,
Must Guard Objectivity Carefully
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able to accredit the Negro school is nrime
facia evidence of unequal educational oppor-
‘ tunities for the races. Lest southern officials
become -entangled in their own web by their
own people, all Negro schools were therefore,
left out of the picture. This is a typical south
ern maneuver that is dirty, vicious an^ das
tardly. This is the plan that Negro jjar^nts
: aj^d citiBetis have been brazenly asked to vol
untarily accept, be patient with.
'In spite of this deliberate robbery, perpe
trated on Negroes througliout the South in
the matter of unequal educational opportuni
ties, it is remarkable how many of them are
able to enter and obtain advanced degrees
from sortie of the best northern and western
colleges and universities in the nation. This
we hold, however, should be no reason for
Negro leaders to drag their feet on the mat
ter of stepping up the stru^lfe for full inte
gration of our public schools.
Whatever conclusions are reached, what
ever steps are taken, the fact remains that
there is not a single*'accredited Negro high
school in the entire state. This is the problem
now facing Negro parents and every respect
able Negro citizen of North Carolina. This
fact alone is enough to cause every one of
them to ask for reassignment of their children
to an accredited school which can only be
found in the state of North Carolina in the
white public schools.
Healinir Effects of Desegregation
The importance of desegregation, at the
tnoment at least, consists far more in remov
ing the stigma of inferiority, which legal segre
gation places bn Negro children than in act
ually mixing large numbers of white and Ne
gro diiMren in the classrooms.
Yet ail of the Negro school children of the
South would instantly be affected. All would
have been informed that they could, if they
widted. atteiKl any school vwhich any white
cfaiM co«M attend. The results in terms of
ImNng what ha* bmi a deep psychological'
wound would compare wth the most wonder-
f«l of the wonder drugs.” '
Willdam Ptettr* in The Southern Temper
HOW NOT TO COVER PO
LITICS—This being the sluite
season, with Congress out of
town, the members of the Wasli-
ington press corps are now en-
^ gaged in a great debate ^ M>out
' the 1960 presidential ca^|>aisn.
As frequently happens ^
there is no other big news, pas
sions become aroused. Sopw
pers have been lost and maj^
some reputations will be shat
tered. The argument is aw the
proper way to cover the coming
campaign.
What precipitated it has been
publication of “CANDIDATES
1960”, the book of intimate pre
sidential profiles edited by Eric
Sevareid, with chapters by nine
leading news eorrespbtfdents.
Since T wratfe lire forwsrd
no pretense of being
interested bystander.
The book has generi
well received across the
The only serious eriti
fact, has come from Bri
ers and has been directetJTto one
point, which lies at the
the current controversy
book “objective to a fauli
idea was suggested by a writer
for the London Observer wKo re
viewed it for The Waaftgton
Post. W
These views may b«8hared
by few American columnists, but
are not held by most of the po
litical analysts who have review
ed the book up to this time. The
idea though, is worth examining.
The way I see it those who
argue along these lines are lay
ing (1) that they are baffled by
the wide variety of candidate*
been
ntry
available, especially among the
Democrates a*d (2) they want
to be “toM who is best fitted to
serv« as the next President of
the United States.” '
The authors of the book, on
the other hand, felt ttiat to
adopt a “well tell ‘era” approach
is the wron way to to about nar
rating the stories of Symington,
Kennedy, Stevensota, Johnson,
Bockefetler, l^on and the
othera.
We have a tradition in Ameri
can joia-nalism known as “let the
facts speak for themselves.” In
no lirea, it seems to me, is it
more important for writers to
cling to this tradition than in
the area of political coverage.
The writer whd feels he must
“lecture” his reader unconscious
ly is saying that he does not
trust the reader to make up his
own mind on the basis of a full
and fair presentation of the facts
and facets M a candidate’s per
sonality. Oih the other hand, Se
vareid and his associates go on
the assuH9|(iion that any man
who ^ads a book of this sort
has it mind of his own. He
doesn't have to be “told” nor be
spoon-fed, he prefers to think
for himsfelf.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE
MTllTEk?—While all this soul-
searching is going on about the
function of the political re
porter,- I think it is just as well
American journalists remember
that the prejudiced reporting of
IflW and lt02 did very little to
enhaiKe thair status.
In the Pewey-Truman cam-
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
♦
Want Your Life to Countl Ask
God to Use It to Help Others.
OTHER mm SPEAK
Christian Leaders Take d. St«p
By ROBERT SPIVACK
paign everybody was yawning at
pathetic little old Harry and were
falling over each other telling
the world what a great man Tom
Dewey was.
In 1952, the situation was
somewhat different. Many cor
respondents figuratively fell in
love with Adlai Stevenson. As
his wit and wisdom became bet
ter knpwn t)iey deli)ded them
selves into thinking that he was
putting these qualities across to
the voters.
Stevenson was charming and
delightful but it was obvious to
anyone who bothered to .talk
with an ordinary voter he was
not putting himself or his ideas
across. Yet if you go back to the
newspaper flies you’ll find that
some of those very people who
this year want to “tell” the read
er What he “ought” to be think
ing are among those who were
predicting Stevenson’s election
by a landslide.
This practice of saying some
thing is happening that we only
“wish” were happening, natural
ly causes the reader to become
wa^ of the writer. He begins to
wonder if the story^ is being
angled, if the writer has some
pet peeve or some special fa
vorite. EventualDy the reader
proM^s suspicious and he con
cludes “you can’t belive what
you, read in the papers.”
Calm, detacJ^, factual re
porting is needed most when
everyone else is losing his head.
Thia year it is not only let the
reader beware; let the writer al
so beware.
It was well, that the Southern
Christian Leadership Congress
went on record in its deep South
Carolina session recently with a
resolution commendi n g the
United States Ownmission Civil
Rigths for its recent repart to
Congress approving the prapasal
of a constitutional amendment
“to establish a free and universal
franchise throughout the United
States.” It also approved a ctwn-
mission plan for the appoiint-
ment of federal registrars where
local authorities refused to re
gister citizens to vote becausa
«f race, creed or color, or na
tional origin.
The delegations to this Con
gress are to be highly oommend-
ed for another bold step which
provided for the federal ieatioo
of public schools where local of
ficials refuse to provkie educa
tion for all without discrimina
tion as in Prince Edward Orrnnty,
Virgiaia. They also urged the
withholding of federal funds
from schools that practice dis-
A. and T.’s Troubles
Revelations brought out When
state budget officials, headed by
Paul Johnston, director of the
State Department of Administra
tion, visited A. and T. College
Tuesday show that clarifying and
corrective action is needed some
where along the line.
It is difficult to say just where
the trouble lies. Among factors
calculated to bring on trouble
are the combination of college
and vocational courses offered
at A. and T., differences between
the president’s and business
manager’s office, personalities
and lack of clear-cut under
Standing of what the institution
is supposed to do.
Apparently responsibility for
needed changes rest with at least
two agencies, A. and T.’s own
board of trustees and the State
Board of Higher Education. Be
it said in the former’s favor that
it has a committee studying mat
ters which were discussed at
Tuesday’s conference with bud
get officials. As a result of what
has come to light, that commit-
crlmination.
The plea of the delegations
meeting at Columbia paves the
way for « serious beginniAci of
the implementation of what the
court amiKt when it said “with
all deliberate s^eed.” It is a
tmieiy warning to a certain aec-
tion of West Virginia where Ne-
gro *iWren are being forced to
make a 160-mile per day round
trip to and from a segregated
setM«l, or else attenff schiol In
a damp church basemwit.
Hie Smithem Christian Con
gress has always been forward
and consistent in its resolutions
and pleas; it has an outsUnding
recwd o( being m the legal side
and in reason k its contentioas
dt removtn* those un-American
activities which invite the finger
»f scorn and guilt when and
wherever our nation under God
seefcs te in«i«ire into conditions
unbecoming to the democr^ic
principles.
—THE INDEPENDENT CALL
tee will-presumably step ap Ita
stwly and come in with construc-
tiv« recommendations.
When it comes to curricular
dunges, the State Board of High
er Education is empowered to
order them in some instance; in
others it can only recommend
and endeavor to attain objectives
through persuasion and what
ever influence it .can exert. In
some instances, remedial action
will have to come from the Gen
eral Assembly.
One can only conclude from
conditions which have been de
scribed in the press that some of
A. and T.’s operation should
come in for closer scrutiny, that
the goal of the college should
be more clearly outlined and
that sti;uctural and administra
tive overhauling is in order.
Minor irregularities, as in ac
counting methods where certain
funds are involed, can be ironed_
out. But organic troubles call
for more drastic treatment.
—GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
OCT 22
HEALTH HINTS
By Et-DEE L. BROWN, D.C.
THE WAY TO LIFT THINGS
WITHOUT STRAINING
When a professional weight-
lifter raises a heavy weight with
apparent ease, it isn’t just a dis
play of muscle—it’s the technique
which COT*
rectly isn’t a secret,* but millions
of painful accidents occur every
year in industry and home be
cause people don’t have the
knack. The result is strains and
injuries, millions of them. The
doctor of chiropractic, a special
ist in the structure and function
of the body, is eminently fitted
to advise on lifting, or to treat
the effects of incorrect lifting.
Most people, bend at the waist
line with back horizontal, or low
er, with arms outstretched at
tempting to lift like a derrick.
The weight to be lihed is thus
sit,uated from the center of ^av-
ity of the body. Sprained pack
muscles, pulled ligaments, and
sacroiliac strains often result.
The lifting secret is to use the
large, heavy musclea of the but-. .
tocks, thighs and legs. These are
strongly attached to the skeleton.
The lifter should get close to the
object, with feet on each side of
the load, bend the knees, add
squat down in front of it, with
back held in a vertical position.
Now there is efficient leverage
of legs, spinal column, and shoul- >
ders. With arms at full vertical
length, back upright and relaxed, .
one may rise easily to an erect' ^
posithMi.
Autumn in the South:
A Season of Courage
"They dcclartd all that Oad had
don* with tham. . . Acts lSi4.
What is more gratifiying than
for a soul to be Used by God in
service? God can use you, too, tn
his service. God needs wdrkert.
NOW, as always, the harvest is
great, but the Ut>orers are few.
Again prayers for more workers
are in order in our times. You
can offer your life on the alter
of Christian wrvice. Workm are
needed in distant plactei and
workers are needed right where
you” are now. Workers aH'i«ed-
ed in your own neighborhood or
city. What is tlie requirement?
A .soul redeemei
is imbued with
of souls. '
God can do
•na (oaL Ttaew
by ChriM
genu^
w*rfeit
i an BMri
and
love
with Juat
wan in Just Mie aoul that has
bem. touched hy the power of
Divina love. Here was a man
who retired from his regular oc
cupation and decided to let God
uae bias aa a winner of souls in
his eoaamunity. And before the
final call came he had won more
than MO koula f» Christ. God
can do woadett with one aaul.
Ha eta d« wonders with your
life. What greater service ^ou
can reader? What greater use
or iavestment you can make of
your life?
A ^ iBveated for God pays
preciiiM divMMda. Same invest
mcftta yaw make will fade away
and p4rtah. But those mIio ia-
veli^ thair live* tn the service af
0«d far tka aa\tec af aotd* are
Mkfilt Hat a»k tat
time and eternity. A soul saved
is the most precious possession'
in the creation. A soul is val
uable for time and eternity. God
declared the infinite precious
ness of a soul when He in love
sent his for the redemption of
every soul. . . “God so loved the
worl^ that he gave his only be
gotten son thi^ whosoever be-
lieveth in him shall not parish.”
Will you invest your life for
God as a winner of souls?
The need is great for workers
under God for the healihg of the
soul-sickness among men. Some
seventy million souls in America
need saving. T^ere are Some
thirty miUion children each Sun
day morninjK who need the teach
ing* of the savior te our
thnrchM throoChtnrt tbt taoM.
School opening in the South
again this year brought inspiring
stories of human courage. Here
are a few of them:
Jeff Thomas was one of the
nine Negro students at Little
Rock’s Central High in 1957-58,
Like the others, he was taunted
constantly and one day a white
student came up behind him hit
him on the head, and knocked
him out. '
This fall, when Central re
opened, Jeff was there. His moth
er recalled to reporters that after
the attack she had urged him to
withdraw. She said he looked
her straight in the eye and re-
"plied; “Mom, I’m going back
there as long as I’m aUe to
walk.” And he has.
* • •
When Miami began token in
tegration in its Orchard VUla
School, located in a changing
neighborhood, most’of the white
students withdrew. But some
stood firm.
Mrs. Corrine Perrini, white,
insther of three, said her son*
didn’t object to integration but
had wanted to transfer because
their “buddies from last year”
Were nqw in other schools.
“1 told them they were going
to Orchard Villa because it was
the sciioal nearest their home. I
said they could make new friends.
If it were left to the children,
there wouldn't be any segrega'
tion . . . They have to be taught
to hate.” •
* * *
Also at Orchard Villa, twfe pro
fessional segregationists station
ed near the school tried to per
suade another white parent,
Charles Arnold, not to enroll his
two children. Arnold saM:
“I’m stubbam as an (rfd stomp.
1 believe I’ll leave my kids in
tlUs school. I don’t want to hurt
anybody’s feelings ... I get
along fine with my neighbors.”
—The Southern Patriot
Their lives are being formed
with out the blessed spiritual,
moral and ethical teachings ol
the master. Tliese children are i«
the streets of your community as
yon go to Sunday School each
Sunday. Whose respomdbiltty is
this? God is hoHKttg tha Ch«Mth,
the redeemed community \
sible. The Savior died to savk the
soiiis of those boys and girls
who are being lost. The Savior
would like for you to become a
aoMl winner amid the crying
needs of the lost.
Da you really want yaur life to
count? *fhen ask God to ui4 ^ou
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