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" JS THE' CAROLINA TIMES >OUXHAA4 M. C. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1955 2-A in aif integrslwf School Sysfent There is one and only one qu stion that should he raisfrfl in the employment of teach ers Jin a public educational system, or any othipt for that trotter, and that is th. question of qualification. The pursuit of any other courflfr to a state of affairs in education t'.iat eot« and mtist not !>e tolerated by intelligent citizen* of Nfrrth Carolina or any other state. Quaftty education cannot ho en couraged nor maintained whore race or color for employment of teacher.-. ov. r r tint of qualification. It iVour feeling'that the charges now being circuited, to the extent that 500 Negro teach ers have already lost or will lost' their jobs btcnns* of-school intcgrtaic,:i. should he in vestigated to the fullest extent. In tin; case of Randolph County, there is entirely too much evldeffce of foul play on the part of the C ounty School £oard. and the several city or town school boards, for the matter to be shunted aside. We thin!:, therefore, that the least that can Ije done in this particular ease, and in chers"tfi&*VpW)& ivijit;.in the future, as a result of ?on. : is to make a thorough ir.wsfigqticpi. ' . IhtelOff^kt; Xegro citizens will not ask that tf>acl,ers l«e cnVphy td'roereiy because of race hf. otl tbVjfrSLsis of sympathy, fly the same token, tfiey Nvil] expect the !>est. teachers to The Rise of Ku Kliix Klan in Nbrfh Carolina Fret pof thyseTf hec:wi-* of evildoers, neither be thou Vnvtous against tli« j work ers of iniquity. For they shall s>h\i be cut down ljke the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the I.ord, and do good: so shall thou dw. 11 in the land, an I verily thou shaft be fed. —I'salin 37:1-3. The meteoric r;sr of the Ku Klux Klan in the South, with North Carolina as one of its major ba-«.es*of operation, puts to shame the liberal tap: nils state has been wearing for the past halt cerfturv or more. That the Klan coiild muster thousands of Xorth Carolina white citizens to attend, more of them with approval tliau curiosity, it> display of admira tion lor tbree\men charged with nurd r, and the Klan's. ■' mockery of the institution of lfolV matrimony,? ate incidents that demand thoughtfuf'-consideratJon by all intelligent citizens tff ; tfrik state. It now-appears'that the cloak of liberality and progTMsivewwhich Xorth Carolina Ins been: only A cover up to hide its of hate and viciousness for all Certainly the warm reception £ccor.d£d the Klan in Dunn and l'annville be lie's'-'any fhiifii. Xorth Carolina has of tWitiir is a,great hC£*l for missionary workers all ovier thi|R^i|sljt>d lipr.s of the state, who ift ' T }>' 'VS"* ! ''z' f ' " The Resignation of Dr. Wright ' t&ih s*.• f rryejib-d as to> the reason bejjifitt tfif of Dr. Howard Wirtiglrt*,»t 1 pl'esktent -of Allen University, it m^j: 1 oft&t af>ajn bring-to light that the A. M. £/(|huccfly lik*-njany pther denominations, is infect erf*wj,tp ifpo many preachers and too few igyjfcters. There is a vast difference. to observe a general, annual, feitWcal church Conference in session to preachers are still living W sf when the pastor of ,t+i? jtfvror.V»f'the race was'about the orfly* one fc'iKf y>rtgregation who could read an?} writ,r..-T*»p«4y. that laws of church govern ing wep. f»assed" in tlw>se days that are now oat pf date fir putting it'mildly. One i*n parti ciilar is ti fcl];/{►*siknates the pastor as the chairm&'h of all committees or hoards of his church and any meeting called without his Consent .or approval is out of order. .Another custom that should he abolished in Nirgro denominations is the paternalistic at titude of the average preacher toward the inetibfrs of his church. Too often highly train ed aiid educated members fimj themselves tot *Us lpppOSet| .by fhe |>astor, except when it coniis to paying 4t»c>. J We susptct that L)r. Wright, in spite rtf the phejicflifyal. gains Alien University made un der hfc adrt}inistratidn, found himself sur rounded and often opposed on every lian.l l.y he employed irrespective of race. To assure that such a procedure is being followed, we think local and state officials of education should not hesitate to make available evidence that the employment of teachers is being' done solely on the basis of qualifications. Likewise, it appears to us to be impractical to reduce the number of teachers in a school system without reducing the number of pupils. While there may he extreme cases in which tiiat shifting of pupils from a segregated to an integrated school system would reduce the number of teachers needed, it is hard for us to understand just exactly how the same num ber of pupils can he effectively taught with fewer teachers, merely because they have been removed or transferred to another school building. Frankly speaking, we do not have very much faith in the type of persons who con-' stitute the average school board in many sec tions of North Carolina. An attempt at in flicting reprisals 011 Xjfgro-teachers because »if enforced integration and other examples of defiance of the. law would be more in keep ing with their established policies thaji peace ful compliance. It is. therefore, our feeling that each and every casfOi teacher dismissal should h? thoroughly investigated to assure that such has not occurred because of race. Zens and the future of Xorth Carolina, will need to.think, work, talk and act together if the state is not to continue as the hotbed of Klan activity and race hatred it now appears to be. The leadership of Xorth Carolina must not b. j surrendered to the. Ku Klux Klan if there is to be j>eace and harmony between the races in this state. Xow it is the unprotected Xegro that is th? target of the Klan. Tomorrow it will be the few whites who are "opposed to its activities. Finally all law arfd drder will break down, tyranny will reign supreme and the people of the state will leafn the hard nly that no man's rights, freedom and life are safe so long as those of the most humble citizen are in jeopardy. " , In the meantilhc-while the KUn is paying tribute to those accused of wanton murder and appealing to everything that is base and despicable in mankind, thereby furnishing the leadership for race hatted ;tnd animosity, we. appeal to Xegro' citizens of the state to re main calm a«d unafraid. By so doing you will furnish the leadership fh'at. is so badly needed in Xorth Carolina if all its citizens are to be assured of freedom ahd human dignity. You have outlived your adversaries of the past and you will outlive your adversaries of the pres ent and the future. ?o. '"Fret not thyself be cause of evildoers, neither, be thou envious against the workers' of iniquity.'' the trustee board of Allen that made it im possible for hihV'to contrhufr as its president r.nd at the same time 1 'retain his self-respect. The very success and progress the school was having, with Dr! Wright as its president, no doubt encouraged a spirit of jealousy and envv that can be easily understood by those ac quainted with what is sometimes referred to as church politics. It would he a fine thing if oUr ministers would iurin'sh the moral support of our church schools from tlrtfr pulpits and keep their noses out of the pVesident's office. It is no accident that KittrelJ College, like Allen, made strides under lawmen ;'as presidents. The former can trutK"fuir» hi said to have seen its best days under the administration of the late Dr. John K. Hawkins and the late G. A. Ed wards. Before and since the school has only been a token of what it should and could be. HdNESTY A 4 LABOR SAVER HONESTY is among the greatest of labor savers. Every merchant knows that a dozen dishonest customers will consume more of his time tha na hundred honest ones. Every device to prevent dishonesty is a waste, view in an economic sense, because- if the ideal of nnversary honesty existed, thous ands of j>ersosn could be placed in productive employment and millions now invested in pre ventive systems could be released for produc tive enterprise. Honesty is such a valuable aspiect of char acter that we could afford to spend almost any sum of money to implant the virtue. Those who have little to do with the dollars and cents cide of people often wonder why businessmen are hard-boiled. The wonder is that they are so tolerant. >»ot only are they frecfuent victhfis of downright dishonesty, but only by everlasting vlgi.lanca do thfcy rtfanage to siirVivel THE DOORS OF INDUSTRY HAVE OPENED, WILL THEY RESPOND? CAN YOU PASS THE TEST? Endurance brings proof that we have stood the te»t.. Rom. 5;4." Every soul who makes a" commitment in Christ must face a crucial test. No one can escape this crucible of test ing. We must pass through the water, the fire and the storm. The soul must be tried and tested in fire. How else can we really know about the spirit's Power. The soul needs the disipline of passing through a test. We know some christians who have never stayed around long enough in one place to test God's promis ed power. These people are afraid to stand and put this religion of Jesus to a test. We might call these hit-and-run Christians. They never go through the trying hour of test ing! "Endurance brings proof that we have stood the test. Spiritually we are just ing to say that a rolling stone will gather no moss. To real ly gi-ow spiritually you must get on your assigned row in# hoe to the end. To many so called christian are like gay colored butterfly— • • Bfr Whitney M. Young Jr. • PROJECT HEAD START # By flouting all the rules of bureaucratic inertia. Projeß Head Start—a new. 62,000,0H chance for the children of the poor—will break like summer lighting on the Americftt landscape in the days ahead. If successful, the Federal program will rain a torrent of educational vitamins some 500,000 pre-school clflDj ren of disadvantaged hoi^^ By the end of the month, more than 2,600 individual projects are expected to be authorized by Sargent Shriver director of the Office of Eco nomic Opportunity (OEO). In paying out up to 90 per cent of the cost of an eight week summer program, his of fice hopes to reach half of the 1.000,000 youngsters whom Mrs. Lyndon Johnson describ ed as being "lost in a gray world of poverty and neglect" and to "lead them into the hu man family." Of them. Mrs. Johnson said, "Some don't know even a hun dred words because they have not heard a hundred words Ssm don't know how to sit in a chair because they don"! have as much as a chair. Some have never seen a book or held a flower." Some social workers have been critical of the OEO's speed in devising and funding the projects. But this ecesslty was prompted by the failure of the public's oldest and staid methods to accomplish the same ends. Thus, In 261 of the count INSIGHT By REV - HAROLD ROLAND tntuai Let us Stop Running and Face tnsam And Pass the Tests of Religion move from one situation to another. We lack the patience courage and endurance to see anything through to a suc cessful conclusion. A running christian never becomes a strong witness for Jesus. Some run from church to church locking for an easy seat among those called to a com mitment of Self Denial. Like Judas we never learn self de nial so we betray our loving trust. Let us stop running and face and pass the tests of true religion. With God's help you can pass the test. In the spirit's power we can face and pass our tests with flying colors. Thank God we do not have to face these tests alone. Jesus in the supreme tests had the assurance that God was with him. As Jesus faced Calvary I hear him say ing "I am not alone the Fat her is with me. ." And this promise holds fcr every rede emed soul facing its hour of testing. Paul in that embattl ed hour of his Roman impris onment assured Timothy as he walked steadily toward the end of the journey. .." The Lord is with me and will deli -10 BE EQUAL ries 300 poorest counties, chur ch, welfare and health agen cies, schools, settlement hous es, fraternal, sorority and wo men's clubs are preparing to open the doors to the Head Start operations in the weeks ahead. This effort goes beyond tra ditional day care services—a field in which America lags behind many industrialized nations. Its aim sot merely to baby sit but to open the child 's mind to the world around him, to prepare him for suc cess when he' or she begins first grade or kindergarten in the fall. All children enrolled will Set at least meal dai ly. For some, they will get their first dental and medical examinations. Other 3 will get eyeglasses their parents could not afford. Dr. Julius B. Richmond, pro ject director, says Head Start will attack the health deficen cies of the children enrolled; emphasize communication .skil ls; expose them to art and mu sic and reading; motivate them to learn; and expose them to the wider world be their slum or rural shanty town. One thorn in Head Start's side is netting racial bias against Negro and other child ren of minority groups. To underscore 11 s determination to impartially administer the grants OEO sent trouble-shoot eh Jack Gonzales and a staff of investigators to chick impli cations from li aouthe;.; and border states. * vcr me..." And in Jesus, we too. can face anu pass victori ously our test 3.. " Endurance brings proof that we have stood the test.. " What a glorious guarantee we have as we face our tests." I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.." With this backing of God's word you can say: This is my test and with God's help I will pass it. And how true, for with God's help we can't fail. It is hard for you to pass that test alone but you and God working to gether will spell success with that test. If you are facing a test ask God and he will help you pass that test. Faith is power. The spirit of God is power. Armed with faith and indwelt by the spirit's mighty power you can pass that test. With the word the child of God can pass his tests. Finally let our hearts rest securely in the assurance that in Christ, our blessed Savior, we can pass the tests of'life and death. This Jesus has pas sed successfully all the tests and in him we can pass all the tests too. Hi 3 staff told applicants that car pools or busses which picked tip white youngsters would be required to pick up colored children, too. The staf fes, also would have to be mixed. Gonzales said, or not ve funded. "The hill country of north ern Lcuisana. southwest Geo rgia ad coastal South Caroli na." he said were among the "worst areas" from the stand r-irt of compliance. Surpris inggly he found that in Miss i • i— pi "they want the money' end were to integrate. In many cities, North and South, bv the time Negro, Puerto Rican. Mexican, or ether children from disadvan taged backgrounds reach the six*h ggrade, they are years behind their counterparts on the achievement scores. They are the dropouts of the future, tomarrow's failures. Operation Head Start, could bo an imaginative answer to open the doors to creative and constructive citizenship for these younggsteds. Ttye na tion will watch it carefully to see whether it can help the children of the poor break the cycle of poverty, and stand on their own two feet. -Ambassador Continued from front page who was eritey under Prefcideht Truman to that European country. There are few who doubt that "Pat" Harris will leSVe her to#n distinctive brand of dfrlomtty. The Pathway of Power r: Saul Alirisky says, "Power just goes to two poles—to these who've got money and those who've got people." Thirf professional radical from Chicago will be demon strating his theories of mili tant community organization in Rochester, Buffalo and sev eral other northern cities this summer. His plans, ideas and methods are discussed i n a n article, based on a scries of exclusive tape-recorded inter views, in the June issue of Harper's Magazine. Alinsky's operating base 1 s the Industrial Areas Founda tion which, he says, has be come a front for the Catho lic Church, a marxist outfit, subsidized by the Roman Cat holic Church and the Presby terian Church, which uses the tactics of a Capone mobster." Within the past year. Alin sky attracted nationwide at tention when Charles Silber man, in his book, "Crisis in Black and White," called Chi cago's WoodlaWn organization created by Alinsky, "the most significant social experiment going on among Negroes in America today." Alinsky's first job, he re ports in the magazine article, was forging an effective coa lition in Chicago of Catholic priests, left-wing labor lead ers, local businessmen, and rank-and-file stockyard work ers. Their enemies were the meatpackers. slum landlords, a City Hall dominated by a callous political machine, and bankowners who turned their backs on small homeowners in need of mortages, and on small merchants seeking cre dit. Their tools, he says, were picket lines and bivcotts, mas." meetings, rent stricks, demon strations. and sit-downs. Conservative Am e r ic ans were dismayed by these ag gressive tactics, Alinsky re calls. His actions also caused consternation in "liberal cir cles, dedicated to more order ly social-welfare programs. As a result, the "Back of the Yards" movement, as it be came known, and its originator became objects of bitter con troversy. . Alinsky had no financial backers when he started work in the stockyard area but he soon found not only backers but potential leaders of the movement within the commu nity itself—a n organizing prin ciple he has adhered to ever since. A few farsighted and gen erous Ch'cagoans saw in Alin sky's methods a new way of extending to other communi ties what has now comQ be known as the War on pover ty. With their help he form ed the Industrial Areas Foun dation, a kind of training school for agitators which, over the next fifteen years, helped almost forty impoveri shed communities set up mili tant organizations, the most famous of which is in Wood lawn, a, Negro slum near the University of Chicago Campus. Despite, or perhaps because -A&T Continued from front page pointed to the new position in April 1964, Taylor also continues as vice chairman of the Presi dent's Committee on Equal Em ployment Opportunity, to which he was appointed in 1962 by the late President John F. Kennedy. With this position, Taylor is re sponsible for developing and im plementing committee programs aimed a t eliminating discrimina tion in th e federal government and among contractors or subcon tractors who perform services for the federal government. He also direets the Committee's Plan for Progress, a program which invol ves the voluntary participation of more than 290 leading national in dustries. A former practicing attorney in Detroit, Taylor is a native of Tex as. lie is a graduate of Prarie View A and M College, holds the It. A. degree from Howard Univer sity and is a graduate of the Uni versity of Michigan School of Law. Other commencement activities scheduled for Saturday include th* annual national meeting of the A and T College General Al umni Association at Carver Hall at 9;30 A. M.'; the annual joint cortriirt b? the A and T College Band ahd Choir, beginning at 5:00 P. If., oh the front steps of Dud of the antagonism he harV® ouscd Alinsky and his organi zers are increasing demand J®., troubled communities. 'Where ever I go there Is trouble,' • ■•I 1 Ahsky says. ( Among other comment*:' he makes in his Harper's artiflfe' 1 —"You need a lot of lmafelrfi tlon to be a good Today when I go Into a coWl" munity, I suffer and resent with the people there, and they feel thin. It's a big thlttji' in my relationships." —"l've never joined any or ganizations—not oven the ones I'va organized myself." —"ln a mass organization you can't go outside of peo ple's actual experience. I've been asked,"for example, why I never talk to a Catholic priest or a Protestant minister or a rabbi in terms of the Jud eo-Christian ethic.. .1 never talk in those terms. Instead I approach them on the basis of their rvn self-interest, the wel fare of their Church, even its physical property. "If I approached them in a moralistic way, it would be outside of their experience, because Christianity and Jud eo-Christianity are outside of the experience of organized religion. They would just lis ten to me and very sympathe tically tell me how noble I was. And the moment I walk out they'd call their secretar iers in and say, 'lf that screw* ball ever shows up again, tell him I'm out.' " —' Do you think when I go into a Negro community to day I have to toll them that they're discriminated against 1 ? Do you think I go in ther& and get them angry? Dori't you think they have resent ments to with, and hcW' much rawer can I rub th^rtt? 1 "What happens when We come. in. We say, "Lok, you d6fity have to take this: there is something you can do abouf^. 1 " You can get jobs, you break these segregated 'flat* terns. But you have to baK>e ( to have power to do it. tfh®' power to do it, and you'll oril/ get it through organization, ' fife cause power just' goes to t* poles—to those who've got nKrttf cy, and those who've got people,'i You haven't got money, so your own fcllowmen are your only source cf strength. Now is the minute you can do thing about it you've ijpkhi problem. Should I handildf this way or that way? You're active. And all of a sudden you stand up?'" —"I rarely reply to oritics. The reason is not the obvious one—that if I were to sperife my time replying to critics ,1 wouldn't have time to do any thing else. The real reason is this, and I try to get is across to my staff: once you become concerned about critics, sub consciously it's going to affect ycur actions. Instead of tak" ing the kind of direct actions and thinking the way you're thinking now, you're going to start pausing and wondering, 'What is (the press) going to think about it? ley Hall; the presidents reception at Cooper Hall at 7: 00 P. M., ani the annual alumni dinner, Towne House Motor Lodge, at 7:30 P. M. --Spaulding Continued from front page umni dinner honoring the sen iors, faculty and staff in Williams Ilall. J Commencement Season actlviHgm opened with the Awards Day Pro gram, Thursday morning, May 12. The speaker wns Dr. Leßoy T. Walker, track and field and professor of health and phy sical education ct North Carolina College, and a reception for re aring faculty mcmhers, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor S. Jackson? both pro fesson in the Department of Edu cation of which Mr. Jacksont;l4 co-chairman. Other events were, the recital by senior music students on Fri day, May 14, and the annual col lege Band Concert, directed by, William H. Ryder, Sunday, May 23, both in Moore Hall. The public is cordially invited to attend the Baccalaureate Serv ices in Moore Hall at 10:30 A. M., and the Commencement in Wil liams Hall at 3:30 P. M., Sunday, Miy 30. »S:fl President and Mrs. Ridley will be at home to graduates, alumni and their families following com mencement exercises.
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