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The Warren Record has attempted
to be fair to black people In
Its news coverage and Its editorial
views and has been and Is sympathlc
with them In their efforts to throw
off the stigma of second class citizenship.
This was done, we hope, in
a sense of fairness, and in the knowledge
that we can not build a good
county and a good state without the
contributions and talents of all our
people.
This resulted in the beginning with
the harrassment of the Ku Klux
Klan and the boycotting of advertising
by racist whites. In the long
run it has not hurt us and It has
made it easier to live with ourselves
and as we have won the trust of
the blacks we have learned that it
is not too hard to get along if one
treats people as not black or white
but as just people.
This does not mean that as whites
we have lost all racial prejudices
built upon generations of mores,
or that there are not black racists
as well as white racists, but we have
made some progress and we have
tried to be fair.
Perhaps, it was not necessary to
express the views given above,
for we believe that the majority
of the black citizens of Warren
County and we hope the white citizens,
know that they have a friend
in The Warren Record. We point it
out only because we are Impelled
to critic^e the action of some of
our black people whbm we truly
believe do not express the sentiments
or desires of a majority of the
black people of Warren County as
we have learned to know black people,
their aspirations, their sense
of fairness and their love for and
wish to improve the lot of their children.
We refer to action of black students
at John Graham High School
and adult support given them by
what is purported to be the black
leadership o« the county. We would
not claim that all problems of the
schools have been worked out, but
many of them have been worked
out and others will be with patience
and mutual effort and time. Neither
do we feel that all requests, couched
as demands, are unreasonable. But
we are old-fashioned enough to believe
that there must be authority
in the schools and that that authority
does not rest with the students
and that militancy has ho place In
our schools, whether on the high
school or university level. Certainly
the black citizens of Warren
County should know that they are
not without legal recourse for
wrongs, real or fancied, as they
have clearly demonstrated.
The question that faces black parents,
even if we were to grant that
demands and methods are legitimate,
is their solving worth the disruption
of our schools, the worsening
of race relations and abad name
and economic damage to our county.
We feel that those who think so
have a distorted sense of values. We
think it past time that any
of our people, black or white, should
be permitted to use our children for
the advancement of their own aspirations.
Over a long life we have noticed
that violence and rudeness accomplishes.
little and that real progress
is made in a. spirit of good
will. The Bible says that he who
takes the sword shall perish by the
sword and that it is just as true
today as when it was written two
thousand years ago.
We plead with both blacks and
whites to get our schools open
without further delay and let us get
on the business of building a better
life.
Election Change Needed
Winston-Sal en journal And Sentinel
Voters will find the names of 29 judgas
on tomorrow's ballot, but the names mean
nothing. All are Democrats and thus assured
ot re-election.
The Iniquitous system by which North Carolina
elects Its Judges works against the
Republicans, and has worked against them
from time Immemorial. Although there are
plenty of areas where a Republican Judicial
candidate might conceivably win
election, he has no chance to do so —and
the reason, of course, 1 s that he must compete
in a statewide race.
There is nothing wrong with electing state
Stgueme Court Justices and members of the
Court of Appeals on a state-wide basis. But
when It comes to the election of Superior
Court Judges, the system is obviously
unfair.
Since they must seek nomination in their
home districts, one might think that they
should be elected In these districts as well.
Not so, however. There is one way of doing
it In the spring, another way in the fall.
On numerous occasions the Republicans have
introduced bills which would have permitted
the General Assembly to place the issue-before
the voters. But the Democratic - control!
ed assembly has for partisan reasons resisted
all such attempts.
Sometimes the Democrats make an effort
to explain away this mischief by pointing
out that Superior Court Judges m
rotated from district to district and, tor that
reason, ought to be subject to statewide election.
If this Is so, it follows that they also
ought to be nominated in statewide primaries.
The next step In reforming the courts Is
to get rid of this fraudulent practice. A lawsuit
testing Its constitutionality Is awaiting
argument in U. S. Middle District Court
right now, but wa hope It isn't left up to
the federal courts to decide the Issue. The
General Assembly and the voters ought to
decide it — and soon.
There Is a great deal to be said tor a
system that would permit the governor, with
the advice and consent of the General Assembly
, to appoint Judges. And there axv
other variations on this theme, none guaranteed
absolutely to take the courts out
of politics, but all of them worlds better
than the system we have now.
to any case, the very least we ought to do
Is permit the election of Superior Court
Judges on a district-by-district basis.
No To Mow
Indianapolis New*
B could be that one ofthe burdens ot homeowners
*01 be lsseened by science baton too
long.
The delightful possibility of grass that never
needs mowing arises out of experiments being
condoctad by two scientists at Rutgers mavarsity.
They're collecting grass seeds in an
aflort to develop a variety which won't grow
long enough to be mowed.
The work is being done tor the Maw jersey
Highway Department which speeds about
three-toorths of a million dollars a year
to mow the grass.
akpaet the reverberations will ha toll tar Ink
yout the boundaries at Haw Jersey. B la not
likely that such a product could be limited
ence would be mora peaceful without tbs staccato
roara of the power mowers, to the second
place, father could plajr foil or po flaMng
more often, and In the third place, junior
would not have to think up excuses lor not
mowing.
B Is to be presumed that la devaloptog a
stunted grasa the scientists would see to it
that It would be a variety to crowd oat crab
grass, to that case an Important subject tor
atiburban neighborhood axnarsattoa would be
eliminated.
Many scientific experiments are beyond our
wderstandtog. But here Is ana tor which
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By BION ALL JONES
Harry Golden Mid at Ui
mother that aha nl afraid
to really aujoy good luck because
aba fait that It would ba
followed by bad luck and 1 think
that all of ua at tlmaa (row
apprehensive vbaa tha Uda has
been running In oar favor too
long.
Uda occur rad to ma aa I began
to write thia column and
raflactad on events of tha past
law days. At long last, It appaarad
that Warran County was
on tha move, with factorlas
moving Into our midst, with Industry
orlaated citizens alactad
to leadership, and a racial
problam saamlngly growing
lass.
This feeling was lntanalflad
as I attended a meeting on last
Thursday night to haar Charles
Dunn, director of the State Bureau
of Investigation talk on
tha drug menace. This was an
integrated meeting, integrated
planned in an effort to aolve
a problem that faces black and
white alike. White and black
had parts on the program and
In the question and answer period
that followed his speech
I noted that white and black were
asking similar questions and
showing similar concern over
the problem that concerns people.
In our news story this week,
I noticed that the Town 'N
Country Garden Club had
applied for membership in the
War rent on Chamber of Commerce
which has black and
white on its board of directors,
and I was happy to know
that this capable group was
asking to have a part In solving
the problems that concern
people.
Then came first the news of
dissension at Warren General
Hospital and then on Monday
news that our schools had been
closed because of racial demands.
This was a particularly
hard blow, for In striking at
Letter
To Editor
AUTUMN
-To T1» Editor:
To (M,'autumn gives some of
til* loveliest days of the year
as nature prepares lor that
long, miraculous rest which we
.call winter.
With the first days of spring
we become possessed by a
sweet, dreamy vagueness. We
"leave the web, we leave the
loom" spiritually if not actually,
and are out in the springtime,
smelling newly turned
sod, marveling at the incredible
miracle of spring.
In our gadget-filled, self-ridden
lives there is sometimes
a troubling doubt in the soul.
Is there more to life than we
thought? Might there be a simpler
way, alarger, ampler existence
where things do not matter
quite so much, where
hungry minds might be fed
and weary souls find rest?
Our reaction to autumn Is
somewhat the same.
Yesterday we drove far out
into the country. Here a scarlet
leaf fluttered down to drift
exquisitely upon the still mirror
of the pood. Around the
base of the old tree, long ago
stricken by lightning, grew
pearly mushrooms, fragrant
and delicate, and on the fallen
limbs of the old tree bright
orange and crimson growths of
extraordinary beauty adorned
the dead wood.
Out beyond the wood the
fields lay silent and golden
la the last of the afternoon
light, and a solitary bird sang
his lonely little song, uncaring
whether there were hearers
or not.
"All Is safely gathered In,
'ere the winter storms begin,"
we thought, remembering at the
same time an earlier visit to
an old friend who had indeed
entered the autumn ct life.
Unable to share as he had
once done In life's give-endtake,
removed by Illness from
the world which he had so much
loved, we wondered whet the last
few months would have brought
to his valiant spirit —depression,
detent, sadness?
We found a spirit full of
warmth, of gsyety of heart,
even at laughter. There was a
"a width, a gathered radiance,"
the stm mill pond and the
scarlet leaf, the tawny field and
Development
Members
our schools the blow Is aimed
at the jugular vein, and because
every Indication was that we
were solving our racial problems
and I was proud of the efforts
of students In John Graham
High School and I still
fee 1 that the students have the
Intelligence and the heart to
work out their problems If only
the adults will leave them alone.
Believing that the United
States must solve its racial
problems or that the racial
problems will destroy the
United States, I had a dream,
or a belief that still persists.
That dream and that belief Is
that the South will be the first
to solve Its racial problems In
fairness and In Justice. And with
that dream came the hope that
the good people of Warren
County could be the first county
In the state, with Its predominate
black population, to
work out Its problem and to show
the world how black and white
could work together to solve
the problems of people.
I did not believe that it could
be done without sacrifice, without
patience and without a sense
of values, but I believed and
believe that It can be done.
And on Tuesday morning I
found that black students Who
ought to be lttschoot grasping an
opportunity to prepare themselves
for opportunities for
a better life, were marching,
clapping their hands and
singing as they marched to
make their "demands" to the
school authorities, and overheard
a student say as I was
passing, "I have nothing else
to do as school Is out." And even
more discouraging was to find
Made adults marching with the
children and to be told by a
visiting newspaperman that
among the group he had seen
faces that he had seen in disturbances
at Oxford and Henderson
and that among these
were three persons that he knew
to be paid agitators. That is a
far cry from letting the students
settle their own problems.
And 1 am deeply distressed.
Board
(Continued from page 1)
fields. Oim natural hollow, containing
springs and a stand of
large hardwoods, Is centrally
located on the property.
TIM developer proposes to
construct, operate and maintain
a family camping ground, open
to the public. This camp ground
Is to stress natural camp sites
for tent campers, camp trailers,
mobile campers and
others. Feature items to be Included
In outdoor re croation are
nature trails, boating, lake
swimming, fishing and skiing.
Other facilities to be constructed
are an Olympic size
swimming pool, recreation hall,
marina and piers, social hall,
par-three golf course, and tennis
courts.
Schools
(Continued from page 1)
the group called for the resignation
of Peeler and the immediate
reopening of schools.
The session, which was described
as peaceful, reportedly
was held to gst parents of protesting
students to si«>port their
demands. Those In attendance
included John Hawkins, rftorney,
Frank Ballance, Charts,
Webb and a state racial mediator.
The black pupils vowed to
oootfcme the protests until their
demands are heeded.
A list of the demsnds includes:
L AM Immediate apology
from principal Fred Barthoto
6.1W0.
Members of Cool Springs United Community Development Organisation are pictured with
judges, left to right: First row—Mrs. Robert Davis, Mrs. Elisabeth Wilson, Mrs. Cassie
Wilson, Mrs. Carolyn Morgan, CPAL electric living specialist; Mrs. Josephine Patterson,
District Extension Home Economics Agent N. C. State University; second row-Mrs. Elisabeth
Davis, Mrs. Lillie Hawkins, Mrs. Bertreen Wilson, Mrs. Alice Debnsm, Mrs. Leora Davis,
L. B. Hard age, Extension chairman; third row—William G. Roberts, Jr., associste director
Urban Affairs and Community Services Center, N. C. State University.
Members Of Community Development
Organization Hold Meeting For Judging
Members of Cool Springs
United Community Development
Organization met at the
Cool Springs Community Building
last Thursday to present a
list of achievements for Judging
as the representative from
Warren County In the Capital
Area Development Association
Community Judging Program of
communities in the category
of 60 rural families or more.
Cool Springs is competing
with Vance, Granville, Franklin,
Wake, Harnett and Johnston
Counties for honors In the
Community Improvement Program.
The Cool Springs United
Community Development Organization
consists of 129 families.
This community Is located
In the western section
of Warren County. The organization
was reorganized in December
1064, bringing together
small hollering distance communities,
namely, Cool Spring,
Aattell; AJrtaU Special, Largo,
Jones Ctoaprt, Plummer Grove,
n. Government:
1. The election of Student
council officers by a majority
of students within two weeks.
a. Allow time for campaigning.
2. Freedom to form student
organizations on campus.
a. The use of school facilities
for meetings.
3. A student grievance committee
to handle all student
disciplinary problems.
a. Black speakers at assemblies.
b. Visitation rights for Black
graduates.
4. Right to Indicate their
race as black at their option.
5. A Black speaker at Commencement
selected by student
government.
6. A Black assistant principal.
7. Black study courses.
HL Restoration of Social Activities.
1. Junior-Senior Prom.
2. Homecoming.
3. School Ranees.
4. Use of school equipment
for student related activities.
ih Warren County, Hacks and
Indians make up about 73 per
cent of the pupil population.
The racial balance at John
Graham High School whose pupils
were leaders of the protest,
Is about 600 black to >00
white.
Commended
A Norllna High School student,
Karl Watklns Tunstall,
has been commented for Ms
high performance on the 1970
National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test, Clint L. Heps,
principal of the school, announced
thl* week.
TunstaU is among 35,000 students
in the United states who
scored in the upper 2 per cent
of those who are expected to
grad«ute from high school in
1971. The commended students
rank justbeldwthe 14,750semlflnallsts
announced in September
by the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation.
MBS. DUNSTON PROMOTED
Mrs. Evelyn H. Dunston, a
supervisor in the First National
City Bank of New York, ha*
been promoted to aaw section
head la evening Investigation.
She started work at First
National Cttlaens Bank four
years ago as proof machine
operator. i'MiiMawM!
Mrs. Ounston is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ma Harfteoa
ot Macon.
Greenwood, West Coley Spring
and Perrytown.
Mrs. Elisabeth Davis presented
Information on community
organization and duties
of the officers and committees
at the Nov. 4 meeting.
The accomplishments of the
program and attendance committee
was given by Mrs. Alice
Debnam.
Mrs. Berteen Wilson, Chairman
of the Civic and Vocational
Educational Committee gave
the report of this committee
emphasizing the Involvement of
community dwellers In existing
programs.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson,
Chairman of the Community
Physical Improvement Committee
reported on the home
improvements in the community.
She said as many as 11
new homes were constructed
in the community during the
year 1970.
The committee on Youth and
Recreation, chaired by Mrs.
Leora Davis, discussed the enrollment
of youth in 4-H clubs
and youth activities. She stated
that 5 - 1970 high school graduates
In the community are enrolled
In Institutions of higher
learning bringing the present
enrollment to 12 over a two
year period.
The Rev. J. B. Wilson, President,
presided over the Judging
program. Community Development
Officers and participants
are planning to attend the
Community Development
Awards Program on November
IS, 7:00 p. m. at Meredith
College, Raleigh, N. C.
The program Is sponsored by
the Capital Ana Development
Association consisting of seven
counties. Ss major objective
Is the development of people.
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