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MM TRUTM UNBRIDLBir • Xi. UT^ Die. I, \W* Parkt? Cai: Will Destroy the We*^^>ng Imnse. tME CAROL IN A T1 M£S Hie Dai^r d Mfen RepiBsentaflfn *'l uwiwiUni whr «cfabd ^oardl '4b4«rt IhIm apme M(ia* «• d^yir awm in* Mfetivc iaalMd of wraiting for Negroot to hrint bnr aoits tketn. The opkiioa of tlw wprtmt Court is well known, and the board members have road t > these tbincs bstppeoing at littif Rock and Nashville. Wby do they waif oat3 the last nmute and then come op htv* aad claim they need more time in to adapt a poUcy? ’ U. S. Wilian E. MtHer, Mtddic Ois> trid; Tannesaec This editorial is hard tu write. It i-j hard tu write because it is about a person for whose cpinion we have had the hitjhest respect and for whose opinion we will be bound in the future 10 ltH>k on with siispltion of the daily newspapers have quoted him correctly. W hatever ran throuj^h the mind of Dr. Ru fus Clement, only member of the Atlanta school IxiaTd. when he voted alonK with other members for a pian that would keep the schools of Atlanta ojien on a segregated basis, he is now placel in the position of opposing the orders of the federal courts as well as the aspirations of every sensible member of his own race. For approximately six long years the At lanta school board and every other in the South has had time to set their own houses in order without havinj to be clubbed into doing so by a federal court order. In far too msny instances such boards have dilly-dallied, sidestepped and resorted to all kinds of eva sive nietht^s to keep from obeying the law' of the land or complying with the orders of the federal courts. At thia late hour ^’e can see no reason why any respectable N’egto has trot to jKisseRS ‘.o much altruism as to place himself in the position of helping his so'calicd white friends or associates defy the federal iourts. Altluiu"h Dr. Gemeilt may be able to jus tify his vote for a piuii which he feit coii- tainid inc(|uitlrs. it .smells like betrayal to us. In view fif the fact that his one vote would not have changed the course of the At lanta sc1kk)I board we see no reason why Dr. t'lcment failed to stand up and be counted against any plan that means the proldhged continuance of segregation. We have said in these colflmns before that the time has come when Negroes must strive toward more than tokert repres'en^ation or re cognition on policy making bodie.4. Already in the South there are far too many "only Ne gro on the committee” situations. Quite fre quently such representitiott t^rns out to be worse than no represen^atioit The next move t^ow Ihyst be toward equi table. if not equal, repfesetJt&tion so that the fate or destiny of 250^X0 Negroes or more will sot haiig on the decision of qrie lone Ne gro as in the Atlanta caie. The price is too great to pay for only onp seat on the Boatd of Education as Negroes jof Atlanta have probably already discovered. Dr, Clement may have increased his stj^iurt with the white people, but as a leader of hig own race he has shrunk to a size that is less than a pygmy in the estimation of Negroes in Georgia and the re«t of the nation. Only Federal ^ctlo|i in A Fine Exarnple for the Young F»EE WHEiUIN# BY BILU CROWeU. In court lasji week Uie nood charact!r of a Ciiorldttc' bti.siticsn executive, ciiurgetl willi druii^iOH driving nianslau'4htoi and liH- and*run, was affirm'xl by n throng of prominent fiauru* as scmbletl by defense alirtrneys. Somewhere during the hoil follow proceedings Judge Hubart E.^01ive pronoimcins sentence, prefaced by the remarked that, Prisons ojfen't mado for .people IHce him.” Shortly afterward the freed de- fendent left the iBOurlrMm, stunned by a $100 tine., A full account of the (rial was carricd by newspapers the rtext day detai.ed as to facts and quotes by (he usually reliable Associated Press. I tore out the story from the paper delivered to my home. I hoped the kids, one approaching driving age, would’t see Jt else where. Answering their questions •woud have chokea me Jimmy Davis of Charlotte, whom I’ve navor mdt, *as more forthright. He wrote to tlic Ed itors of the (,'hiirt»(lc C)lis«*vcr who printcrl his l-jttcr uttilrr the hcadine,” A good examplg ' for the young?” The le.tcr reatl; “Ye?tefday t saw in the Observer that a prom inent man in our c,:ty weot freb with a small fing a£kr plcadin™ guilty to. drunkah wivinR and hit and r'ln. .A 2,3-year old 'boy was dead as a rc^|lt of his cifimc. “I’/n a tecn-at^r and my par ents have tau^hf me that wl^ri you do wrong you must pay wHh . punishment. But this proves they are wrong. If you know the ri^t people you can get away v.vitlx anything. "I have talked to my parents about this, and they fenl had I been the one who committed thii crime, they would stand behind me, but wo.dd Want me severely punished. ‘‘Next time you get ready to condemn teen-agers, think about the example these prominent citizens have shown us.” We’ll think Jimmy. Stokes Tliankful TtiougliBedridden SPIRITUAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Hoodlumism Goes to College Hoodlumism of the basest sort, the kind you might find among the criminal element in back alleys of the damned and the ^doomed is slowly but surley taking' over the so-called A and T^N, C. College annual football classic. The .gasne played at Durham in 1958 ended in 8 fight th(it had to be ended by the interven tion of pglice. The game played in Greens boro this year ended in even a bigger and more pronounced free-for-all in which steel chairs and helmets were hurled at players and spectators. This, along with fist fights, threatened at one time during the game to takf on the status of a riot. That no one was seriously injured or killed in last Thursday s fracas when the steel chairs were hurled at persons is- a matter of luck. We think it is time for the presidents and the student governments of the two schools to enter the picture and have it definitely un- dtrstood by players and students that ^Avift and positive action will be taken if and when any of them are involved in similar fights at future games. We do noT agree with those who contend that the situation, has reached the point where the Thanksgiving game be- twttn th* two schools should be cancelled. To do this is merely running away from the prob lem fatlver than solving jt; \Vhst is needed is positive action on the part of the heads of the two schools to take care of the student angle. If this is done, any trouble asiaing from spec tators can and should be handled forthrightly by poliof. There are those fsontend that similar incidents often occur at big games played be tween white schools and therefore such should be overlook at games p)|iyed between Negro schools. To iuch iiersona we'would say that Negro players and student shouW date to set an example of good con^^uct for to go by rather than follow one p>f bad conduct what ever the source. Unless immediate and positive action is taken to cufb the hoodlUt|iism that jias occurr' ed at the last two Thankslfiving gattte^ played betwten A, and T and Collegt, the ath- letit departments of botnichobls will find the disapproval of such by ti"^aj6rity of sp^ta- i>Q3^ffitt receytft. Sen- ^le peoble ate :^ott goitlir t«j continue to ex- .U—-_ Jo yjo_ God Gives Each Man Enough to Live His Life One Day at a Time poSe mtmb^rs tif their lencf apl the disnger ,t|i sileS tind other nldre 'danl aftend ,flying niis- >roiJ4 weapons . Inother Warning About Teen-age Last w|fcek a highly respected woman of Dnfham vas atta,cked and robbed in broad d^ight Ijf several teenage boys while stand ing on t^e corner of Merrick and Law&on Streets i^iting for a bus. The boys sneaked up froiqi behind threw the woman to the ground ,|i|>tcKed her pocketbook containing a small antptant of cash and ran. In other words the you^^ulprits committed a crime o[ high-. way robWry, which carries a sentence of a maximuttt of 3Cf j-ears imprisonment. The Carolina Times has for the past twelve months endeavored to warn the peojile that Durliam is possessed with several gangs of youngsters who apparently feel that other people in this community have no rights which they are bound to respect. The more these hoodlums are able to get away with their crimes and near crimes the more they will be encouraged to continue i:heir way of life. With this in mind we are again calling' upon the police of Durham to wage eternaj war against teenage gangs that roam the city "Exhortsd «.ha brailiran with words and stranfthanad thsm..." Acts 1S!33. The word of Ood gives daily strength for daily living. f.ife is lived one day at a time. Thus life is broken up into managable . pails. .Anybody can live a spirit ually rewarding life for just one day — only twenty four hours. ■ Thank God you don’t have to ‘ live a week, a month nor a year ■t a time. gives life to us a day at a time. You ntjed not; en gage* in that vain, futile' and wasteful worrying about tomor- i"0w. Just live today and' let to morrow take care of itselL' And God will give spirjtual strength for this kind of daily-lhw>fi, God will give you stretigth to live today. I This great, triuth is given ptomineDce by tlie Lord milts model pnytr . this day, our daily bread >..1. . ” God gives us physical ^ngth for daily living through gift of bread. You feat moilB jlhan enough for your daily llvktg »nd what will happen?" You p)^ the health of your body in i&wardy- Yes, the greedy who takes into his system more than enough for his dally needs undermines his or her health. God out of the richness of His spiritual abun dance will give you spiritual nur ture for daily living. And we need this tiaily spiritual portion for the best kind of living. Are you using or taking ad vantage of this daily spiritual p^wer for the enrichment of your life? Why would you rob yourself of this power for daily living? . The word of God will make your daily living more meaning ful. God’s word is a light for a darkness. The work is courage for the faint-hearted. The word is heating and wholeness for the sick, "the word is salvation for the lost. The word is hope for those in dark -despair. Ttw word is a soothing balm for those raging storms of daily living. The word gives us the hope of life beyond this vale of tears. The word makes the difference between success and failure. Many lives are empty and mean ingless for they lack the power for daily living. Many lacking the power of the word for daily living grow weak and fall by the wayside. Lacking the power of the word, we are unequal to the difficult, trying demands of daily living. Without the word we are crushed by the heavy burdens of daily living. Who alone with out the help of God can bear the back-breaking burdens of yester day, today and tomorrow? But the word teaches us the wisdom of living one day at a time. And the word gives us strength for living that one day * ftt ^ tirftc j the us strength for living that orte By MA5C0 YOUNG Your name is Maurice Stokes, and you once stood tall and proud on the basketball Iloor, weighing in at 230 pounds and standing six feet, six inches in your stock ing feet. You were the star cen ter for the Cincinnati Royals in the profe.ssional basketball league, having earned this co veted position after a glorious college car&er in sports. But, like a drnap,' these things are now far* in the past. Today you are taking your first step in many months—far away from the basketball sport that brought you fame. You are struggling to recover from a mysterious ill ness which has left you an in valid. It all began in March of 1D§8 when you fell and crashed your skull on the floor of De troit’s Olympic Stadium during a basketball game. You have been confined to hospitals ever since. Your legs are in heavy metal braces. Your arms r.ro still partially paralyzed. Wi.hout the use of your arms, it is a job getting food into your mouth—-so you must be fed by nurses. As if being without the use of your limbs isn’t enough, fate ulso decreed that you would logo your speech. You cannot talk. On the wall of your hospi tal room at Ch:;.'! Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, there is' a chart to help you loarn again how to pronounce words'. You can’t walk and you can’t talk, but you are still Maurice Siokes, a brave, determined man who has fought back valiantly. Your weight, which once had dropped to 150 pounds, is now over 230. You still hoar and read, and you enjoy television, radio, recordings, newspapers, m a g a- zines and books. You are tahnk- ful for their visits and the kind things your friends have sent to you, and you iire grateful for their prayers — without which, you feel, much of the progress* you have made could not have been. HEAITH HINIS hurt and wounded. The word is day at a time. Live today by. a light unto your pathway. The God’s power. Let God take care WOlid gives strength for the weak. The word gives peace amid con flict and warfare. The word is an anchor for the soul in the of tomorrow God, out of His matchlass Spiritual resources, offers us spiritual power for daily living. parents. In their effort to cjj such tljb bolice rtiust cooperatio^ of everjf city. Whffwver and seen toi^fting the sttej notified ^pmediatetv, « school hfurs. For Iheii teenagifj^ ai*e either hours o|*‘they are ablf,^ why they are not. T1 doivh ^n auch youngs of school '{luring thi , ployed. Those who roj||{i'we streets at night should be made evin bkter targets for police investigatkiits. ' It will be too late to start war on such hoodlums after some |>etson has been found dead pr beaten hatt -to deith. The time to stop such gangs is before they get too far advanc ed and organized. Durham and other cities would do well 'to keep a close eye an what is going on among teena|;ers are both out of iip Durham from >e the support and Efent citizen of the r^ver such gangs are the police should be lebialjy if it is during jbsi^ipart respectable ch^l durifig school |[e an account of ought to bear then they are out e or are not em- Netvforks Cas't Agree on How to Police TV Shows; Moon-Rock#faiiur9 Must Be Taken in Stride By ELDEE L. BROWN, D.C. TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US Have you" ever wondered how you look to others as you are walking down the street? About the oriTy~TTme" one’ sees' his or her own full-length refleotion, front and back, is on those rare visits to the men’s clothing store Or the ladies’ dtess shop. Inasmuch as about 89 per cent of the people use one arm more frequently than the othor, un equal shoulder height is com- nt o n. Consider, example, a right-hapded baseball or tennis player almost invariably you’ll find that his right shoulder Is lower than his lefi;. The. same holds trite with industrial work ers, and even housewives who streets, night and day without any apparent . school and out of wofk. mta.as of support other than their unfortunatlT MiUikM every Saturday at iMirbam, N. C. bf VniUd PvMiaben, Ine. L. E. AUSTIN. neatdMtt e. HAKT, AMislaat to the Pu^lMicr ' If. B. MiiI«QN, CantMlNr Offee laeaM at 4t6 E. MUgrew K. Duilum, NortJi CiMte leoad .daii anlter at Mw PMt Oiba Hartli Ccralina. uadar the Act ol Mm* a. 18M. :OM RA«BB: «iOO ftS nUUI iBoso omag A OREADFm. SICKNESS Hate is teirrfble enough when it springs from anger, fear, 'misundetttanding profound aver sion. What ‘then of the .wan who seks out de liberately to foster and nourish iute? What of the man who spreads defamatory lies that im|)el human bein.gs td hate th«ff ’brothers ? He is an enemy of society. Whatever his mo tivation, 'there is ta kkn a dreadful sickness that infects other metl. , -^From th* JOURNAL AND GUIDE Withatrt retmiofw 4a ttlalwftf the- inevitable facts at life, such as birth, CT*dnation, mar- riae«, Christ«ia«, ,tiite Wvea «f nwst e{^s Wiftro i«: THE NETWORKS DISAGIei IT'S SPILLED MILK The networks are repo|^d;;to Spilled milk and abortive be considerably at odds otV Haw. rocket flights are in the same to police television’s moral^and- class; there’s no use crying over afds. That story is in ^.^.dog- them. And it is worth noting If net- that spiilling milk need not eithm $tand- brand a ciiild as incapablc of be ing trusted. By the same token, when the Atlas-Able rocket fired at the moon ftom Cape Canaveral on Nov. 26 plunged into the At lantic instead this did not mean that America’s rocket scientists are all thumbs. Accidents can happen in any human endeavor. That goes double, triple—name your own your own multiple—in the deli cate field of rocketry. When a great rocket does what it was in- tendent to do, many thousands of parts functioned precisely. When a rocket fails, any one of those thousands of components fnay be the-villian. These things should be under stood before one comments too sourly oti the U. S. rocket men’s repeated failures to send a mis sile tiQ the moon. Of course it was a dissappointment when the At las-Able aborted, as did another destined for the moon last Sep tember. But such failures—and others that will surely come from time to time as our space pfo- bftes-man category. If tW net works had agreed on eithm $tand- ards or procedure at thiii^arly stage, that would be an iteip of the far more ‘astonishing man- bites-dog variety. The N'ationbI Broadcasting Company is said to favor the joint participation of broadcas ters, sponsors and advertising agencies in setting up a commit tee to review television policies and stabdards. The Coluinbia Broadcasting System reportedly wants any reviewing and regula tions to be handled solely by the broadcasters, lest it be said that the ^networks are shirking their full responsibility. This divergence is not entirely a bad thing, from the standpoint of the viewing public, 'the whole broad question of moral stand ards on television coMd do with a thorough airing. If the net work delay enough to feel the full weight of public opinion be fore takhig- action, so mach the better. The chief danger is that delay will be prolonged until public feeUng on the matter d|^;down gram con ;jnues—-must bo taken and' becomes ineffective. For- in stride. tunately, the threat of aytif^n by At present the Soviet Union Congsess should the networks' has a clear edge on this country „ , lira bimall. Bussian missile bunged into the ring. ."!!!" * _ i eai'th’s great satellite; another whirled behind the moon aiid gave man his first glimpse Of what had hitherto been hidden. But had the U.S. rocket not blown up on its launching pad in Sep tember, we might have been the first' to reach the moon. To say these things is not ex- cuse-making, nor childi.sh ration- aliution of failure. The Nov. 26 attempt to send an instrument package into a .tight orbit around the moon was a flop. The thing to do is not to cry over this spilled milk, but to seek out the trouble and try again. Which is exactly what the rocket men are doing. « « a * British actor Cyril Ritchard, thinks America has an oversup ply of snobs. Just one is an over- supply. • * • * The mean temperature at Little America in the Antarctic is reported to have risen five de grees since 1012. But it’s still pretty mean. Russia’s Lunik is silent and may have coUided with a meteo rite. Sooner or later establishing space right-of-way may become a problem. * 4i 1% Labor Secretary Mitchell ate an edible imitation of his hat. Maybe he’s saving the actual ohapeau favor the use of one hand. Unequal shoulder height often results in defecting neck and head carriage, may induce aches and pains which you are attriblit- ing to some other cause. Such habits as sitting in. a slooched Tjosition, sh3cp1n? ^h the pillow supporting only your head and neglecting the support of your neck, can also contribute to poor posture, back strain, and sacroiliac involvements. The best way to sleep is with the piUrfw in a diagonal position, which will support the neck and the upper portion of the back, as well as the head. Your doctor of chiropractic re minds you that by violating the rules of correct posture, dur.ing walking and sleeping hours alike, you ate inviting ill health. Combttlling On*Tht-Job Allmanit Almost as muoh time Is lost from work through sickness and injury sa li given to yearly vacatlons-^an average of nearly ten working days, or two weeb, per person. This startling statistic is the result of a survey aaiong Industrial workers reported by the UJ3. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is just one illustration of how costly common work ailments are in millions of work days, fun daysi' and dollars lost. In charge of finding the answer to these painful questions are the Industrial physicians. At 4 spadal conference held by the Niw York State Society of Itadustrial Medi> ch)e, the three most common on- the-jofa ailments namtd were shoul der Injury, back pain, and heftda^e. All these conditions* have one thing in common—pain. The sldans agreed that pain relief is tne first step, prhnarily through usa 6f analgesic or “pain killing” drugs such as asphln, eodshie and ethan. One new drug was repotted to ths eonferenee as a real help in healing injured muscles. It u a ■jrnthetle compound called Soilta, which is both an snalgssie and a anisde relaxant. It was found par> tlcularlr valuable ia aiubv pain caused by muscle ipasm—tu con traction and stiffening of musdas thati follow bijury. In numy easas, the spasm becomes the major cauae of pain from sprains, bruises, etc. Here Is how Soma and othar treatments are used: • Shovld$r vain. Dr. Bohart Franaway, Ford Motor Company’a Wayne, Michigan, plant, said at the conferenoe that with Soma, "paMKs thought they were more (omrortable atnUht and slept with out beliy disturbed by pain." He added that muscle relaiuuits can I • Lov-baek pain. Dr. KalmaS' FrankeL neurologist at Jefferson Mj^cal College, Philadelphia, reo* omniends "conservative tnwapy V bad rest on a firm mattress or board, and heat through bather lamps and diathermy machines. "Soma is very effective in decress* big paravertibral muscle spaim an4 the asuciated back pain,'’ he said. • Htadaehe. Diagnosis of type ot Wdache is essential, accormng ta Dr. Arnold P. Friedman, Monta* llore Hospital, New York. The ten* sion khid, caused in part by tight* aned muscles hi the back of tha neck, may respond to mnscle re* laxants, ti'anquilizers and analge sics. Migraine, which results from t>lood vessels in the head It sensitive nerve end*
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