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THE CABOUKUDI WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AMKL It, I*3* 4 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP The gospel writers. Matthew and Mark, stat ed that Jesus Christ "taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." Certainly, aometojng about Him made the people feel that authority, Christ did not talk in a timid, weak, voice. We know this because He spoke to large outdoor audience®. On one occasion he spoke to 5.000 people and later fed them with loaves and fish. Evidently it was the powerful votce of Jesus and his positive gospel that made people respect His authority, because they did not believe at the time that He was "the Son of God.' Too many of our ministers today preach a negative gospel. They talk about men and wom an in their sins for which they will suffer the wrath of God. They put too much emphasis on aertata kinds of sins, but Jesus stressed that one etc waa just as great as another, la short, He preached a positive gospel. He was not a detective trying t» catch people in sins, whether big or little. Jesus was not always picking on people for having * good time and sending little boys to hell because they couldn't do better in a. world which He had made so hard. Often our Sunday School teachers have made boys wonder: Why didn't God take on some one His own R*eP Why Not Negro F iremen? Negro membership in fire-fighting com panies in the South ut considerably lees than one per cent. Considering the fact that black cibrens constitute from 25 to 40 per cent of the population in the Southern States, it is in deed alarming that so few of them get an opportunity to exercise the civic duty of “put ting out fires.” AH along we hay® felt that Negroes should be employed by the Raleigh Fire Department, but the recent organ: ration of a company in Durham hse served to renew our interest in die matter. It is our opinion that Raleigh can move forward in human engineering by em ploying qualified Negroes as firemen who could help mar: a station to Southeast Raleigh. This ides is not beyond fruition, because ©pemfcag a newspaper route gives a boy or girl the best all-round training it? production, merchandising, and credit. The boy learns that newspapers must be published-" Production* Second, he learns about merchandising which rovers advertising and selling. Third, he learns the credit field. The newspaper boy buys til* paper* at wholesale prices from the publishing concern, and then he must merchandise or sell them to customers. In this capacity, the boy learn* to smile and be reasonably diplomatic. He learns that he must be faithful to duty and careful not to break a window pane when he sails the folded newspaper upon the porch. He must fee careful not to leave the paper in the rain on inclement days. If a customer Is angry or dissatisfied, ha must try to placate him. Last, but not least, theboy must handle his own collections: in this way, he obtains train ing in the credit business. He must be on the. Wide publicity wm gives? recently to the hiring of the first Negro airline hostess. Some people considered this a major economic and labor gain, while thousands of others were not impressed with the importance of this job. Like our teacher* who work for meager sal aries, sir line# hostesses receive small salary checks when we consider the amount of work they have to do. Perhaps it is not the salary that counts most in these positions, but rather the opportunity to make passengers happy, comfortable, and pleased, or the chance to travel and see the world. Maybe these are the things that count most. Wither Capital Punishment? A study of crime and punishment through out history of mankind shows that crimes a gainst the government, property or individuals have, since the earliest days, been punished with a death penalty known as capital punish ment. Various methods of administering th* death penalty have been devised. Ancient methods which required no appara tus were drowning or being thrown from a high point. Impaling the prisoner on a sharp ened stick or spear was practiced in Assyria. Stoning to death and burning were used by the ancient Hebrews. Crucifixion was used by the Romans for condemned persons who were not Roman citizens. The killing of one’s own par ents was regarded with special abhorrence by the Romans and was punished in a most extra ordinary manner. The victim was sewn up in a sack with a dog. a rooster, snake and an ape and thus thrown into the sea or river. -Boiling to death was a popular form of e#ps Man with his Bibica! allotment of three score and ten years is still somewhat of an fa* fant compared with other children of nature. Even fish such as carp and pike will live to advanced age of 70 years. The simple little canary will ordinarily live to be about 25 years, while storks occasionally reach 300 years. I? is nothing unusual for the goose, rav en and parrot to surpass the 200-year mark. An elephant will live to be about 100 or 150 years of age, while on the Galapagos Intends, off the coast of Ecuador, are found giant tor- Tour Newspaper Boy First Airline Hostess Man And Longevity We* Jesus a kill-joy? NO, fetdawi, ftr B* mas the most popular dinner gueefc tn Jerusalem! Tbs criticism which proper people made was that Be spent too much time with publican and sinners (very good fellows, on the whole, Jesus thought) and enjoyed society too much. They (ailed Bias a “wine bibber and a. gluttonous man.'’ Instead of trying to catch people in their aim, Jesus emphasised otemaJ project* like bro therhood and the Golden Rule To demonstrate lack of prejudice, employed a Samaritan (to* most despised of all race* tn the eye* of the He brews) as the hero of His Good Samaritan Story, And to prove that He wasn’t simply uttering words, he fraternised with this Samaritan woman at the well and even asked fear for a drink of wa ter. Besides, Jesus did not believe tn dhoktog net basic moral truths by strict, adherence to petty ritual Therefore when. Ws disciples were aritiria ed for not washing their hands before eating, Christ replied, “Not that which gcoto into the mouth: but that which, ©oaaeifo out of the mouth, this defileth & man.” Our ministers, like Jests*, should prsedh a positive gospel so that man may cultivate the bast that la in him. South Raleigh ts expanding m both' population and land area. There i« no fir® station near this area; and to get to a fire in the Lucille Hunter area, for example, firemen must trav el considerable distance to reach a particular fire. Thus many fire* in this area are often out of hand when the firemen arrive, Raleigh could easily build a fire station to the Southeast section of the dty. The new station would enable firemen to get to fires quicker thereby making the neighborhood saf er in the cast of a disastrous fire threat. If Ne groes were hired at such a station, the city would be showing honorable intent to give non-white* an opportunity to become expert fire fighters—-* responsibility they must learn, as well as be given an opportunity, to sham alert less a deadbeat tncwea away without pay ing his bill. Many newspaper boys are learning how im portant it is to collect in advance for the pro ducts they sell. If they do tots, they must con vince their customers tsi their reliability and dependability. Naturally a wide perspective as this gives newspaper boys and girls probably better training in. our American economic system than even the usual college student. And what is more, they make good marriage material as viewed from toe angle of living on e budget. If they are good, newspapers recommend them especially to personnel manager* and colleges for iob« and scholarship*. One psychologist ranks this training so High tost he puts it in toe same category as Boy Scouting in its character building functions The newspaper boy is a business man., and you owe it to him to pay him promptly. If the hiring at this hcrtwtt does ft© than get people «ecußtotned to seeing Negro young women on the job, dim it has served a worthwhile purpose. Nest, we may be soon see ing Negroes as airplane pilots in the cockpits, in the ticket office#., and as superintendents of baggage station# or crews of personnel. To many young women the opportunity to be a hostess on a plane or bus would be indeed attractive when we consider the menial jobs they are limited to at the present time. While the salary of the hostess may be very small In the eyes of people In some comm, it i» far better than sls per weefc as a said or eoofa- tel punishment hi England i& 155!.. One at «fe* strangest sentences given criminals in com paratively modem rimes mm that ordered for the two assassins at Cap© Hstria, the presi dent of Greece. These two assassins were sen tenced to be buried in brick walls up to their chin# and to bs supplied with food until they died. In ancient days China practiced a form of torture death, Chinese tortured prisoner# by wrapping them in the hide of a freshly killed rhinoceros. As rise hide dried, it contracted slowly and crushed tfe« victim. Today capital punishment throughout the civilised world fa generally administered by hanging, shooting, the guillotine, electric chair or gas chamber. While we realise that criminals must be punished for their misdeed®, mm must r*« fleet seriously upos. rise cruelty of taking * "life which they cannot giv'», M Are there not other ways of inflicting effectiv* punishment? toi«sft wittefs *r* acM to hem M fife span ©f several centuries. Os coups® plant life, «®ste ®s trees, enjoy (fee longest span of Ufa, Many of the redwood frees of California ara known te be from 2,000 to 3,008 years oS age, wfcilr rile Mexican cy pres* lives mm longer end these Is me found ifi the village of Sants Maria de Tula which is 4,000 years old and the moat ancient living thing in the world. This causes m to mm/3m whom fa superiority, Sara Old Threat, But It Must Not Werk This Time SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP ns t wnx SPIRIT 1. This is the spirit- that nan build a city—this Is the spirit that never looks for pity—this is the spirit that never runs colds—this is the spirit that never grows old. 3. Indeed, this Is the spirit that gives others hope, and off ers so Incentive to carelessly lean or mope; but ever alert to do or dare, yet always patient, true and fair S. This Is toe source, when God. Is given control, that makes toe possessor courageous and bold, though always coop erative, kind and sincere, the type of person toe common peo ple move close to hear, 4. When sons and daughters would seek to aspire, this is the noble spirit that defeats un guard haste and ire, thus em bracing toe higher things of life, and putting down the works of strife, 5. This “I Will Spirit” is toe conquering theme that make* life appear as a wonderful dream, and goes ? 11-out for God What Other Editors Say I’TEEaamOK IS NO SOLUTION Guilford’s welfare soperta tondemfe, L. M. Thompson) hit the mark with hie criticism of the proposed bill to sterilize un wed mothers. Desertion and low wages are far more damaging and. costly problems than illegitimacy, he recently wrote Dr. Rachel ft Davis, author of the current measure to punish mothers of children born out of wedlock. Dr. Da,vis is soliciting support from county welfare superin tendents. Citing statistics to show that Illegitimacy is not a "major problem" in Guilford County, Mr. Thompson informed Dr, Davis that of the total births In the county during 1951 there were 334 bom out of wedlock. This ifi between 8 and 1 per cent. Even smaller is the percent' age of Guilford families with Illegitimate children getting fi nancial assistance from th© welfare department. Os the 050 families receiving aid to dependent children grants, there were 228 last January with one or more children born out of wedlock More than a third of these had only one Child. Figures for the other fam ilies are as follower Two chil dren bom out of wedlock, sft; three children, 43; and four or more, 40. In a county with » total population of 323/500, this seems a very small number of unmarried women who are pro ducing large families for the purpose of collecting welfare checks. Perhaps there are counties where it is profitable to raise illegitimate children on ADC grants, but Guilford doesn’t seem to be one of them. The truth la that the legisla tors who seem bent on punish ing unwed mothers without bothering to be concerned about unmarried fathers—are really opposed to the public welfare program. Ibis is their way of getting at it in the 1958 Legis lature, Last session they proposed to cut off help to unwed mothers after the birth of one illegiti mate child —as If the state had no j-aspcfflslblllty for fatherless children or that tea® children didn’t get hungry or need to b@ clothflfd. Trite session that same group of legislates®---still of a puni tive triad, sfclK forgetting the fathers involved and stO ig noring frandamenml social and and man and delights to extep.d a helping hand. 6. Selfishness cannot abound where ever toe “I Will Spirit" is found, especially when touch - ed by God's spirit divine, it moves about with a heavenly design.. 7. Thus toe world becomes the parish of such liberal souls, who serve with great patience their neighbors woes, and lift the fallen where ever found, and let none languish upon the ground 8. Thus “I Will Spirit" helped the patriarchs of old to acoom - plish mighty things before the years took their toil . , . and even then, held on to new tasks begun, until they heard their blessed Master finally say “Well Done,” 9. Moses had this wonderful spirit, and left, this rich legacy for others to inherit; it thus becomes a challenge strong, to follow God and hate that which is wrong Hk The mighty Paul used economic causes of illegitimacy •—is concentrating on the ster ilization of unwed mothers. It doas seem at times that the desolate, as the Scriptures say, hath many more children than she which hath a hus band. But. the legislative solu tions proposed so far do little or nothing to solve the prob lem. And Dr. Davis’s role, we add rogrettfully. is disappointing Her fight for compulsory polio shot# was admirable; her asso ciation with this questionable sterilization bill is neither in telligent nor enlightening. DURHAM MORNING HERALD THE STATE SHOUT,D NOT "FLAY GOO" Arguments at Wednesdays hearing on the Davis-Jolly ster ilteait,ton-©f-unwed-mothers bill ranged far and wide, but the principal objection could not be denied* Giving the State Eugenics Board power to enforce com pulsory stert 11 action smacks en tirely too much of police-state methods lately observed in Hit ler’s Europe. Motives of the bill’s sponsors undoubtedly are the highest. Sen. Wilbert Jolly wants to re duce welfare expenditures on illitigimate children. Dr. Ra chel Davis, an obstetrician, would reduce .some of the mis ery ahe has observed in private medical practice. In their ze&l to achieve wor thy objectives they would, in effect, have the state “play God”. Dr. Walter Kula&h. State College entomologist, noted the gravity of such a lew: Sterilisation is an unnatural act. It Is an act which pre cludes the possibility of divine grace, of redemption or repen tance . . . The punishment goes on forever, for the life of the repentant. Even Dr. Davis’# Insistence that sterilization operations are fairly simple and can he un done (both questionable con tentions! does not obviate the compulsory nature of the pro posed law in an area- where it has often been said, “You can not legislative morals." North Carolina has a sterili sation law. But it is voluntary. It. provides that the State Board of Eugenics, ts it can persuade catieem of the value of sterili sation, sway proceed. Thai law ought to remain unchanged. The people of North Carolina do not want the state telling them whether or not they may h&v® children—-re this accurate yardstick and stepped, out on taifch to every conflict; with God. his Father facing the fray, and his “I Will Spirit." all the way. he knew old Satan could not stay long 11. You too, can have this courage strong and daringly fight, the whole day long . , for if you will lot, Ood front and fight, your battles, your “1 Will Spirit’’ puts Satan in shackles. 12 Only those who have weathered the storm, know well what it. takes to escape serious harm , . . there must be grit and grace implemented with poise, and a double portion of God’s spirit without any noise; then with the "1 Will Spirit" with poet Keith, can joyously sing— “ When through fiery trials thy pathway Shall lie. My grace, all sufficient shall oe thy supply, The flames shall not, hurt thee : I only design, Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine ” gardless of their fiscal solven cy or economic plight. And Senator Jolly would do well to recognize that greater economic opportunity would go considerably farther than com pulsory sterilization in lessen ing many of the problems of illegitimacy. GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS HARD WORK AHEAD Nov/ that the local NAACP has finally got its elections out of the way we hope It will pro ceed to tackle some of the many problems that have festered while its members quarreled ov~ er the spoils o! office Membership has dwindled from a high of nearly 4,000 three years ago to a mere 4500 today. The treasury is empty and the branch has been re duced to borrowing funds from the drop in membership and the lack of funds. It has been a, long time since the Los An geles NAACP has taken a sig nificant stand or played an im portant role in community af fairs. The harsh truth is that the ad min Ist.rati on of the past two years was bungling and inept but nothing will be served by scratching old wounds. The need is for a sharp break with past practices and initiation of a program that will repair the damage. One of the first item? on the Branch agenda ought to be that of securing an executive secre tary. No NAACP branch in a city of this s ze can do a good job without, e vigorous, and paid, executive. The tasks facing the Los An geles branch are too many, too complex and too variegated for volunteers. Ws hope that all members and all candidates will lay aside the bitternesses and ill feelings bred by four months of bicker ing and Join together to help rebuild and organization that all of us need. CALIFORNIA EAGLE ThtCM, «I>©fag norh.iß* i» s*®* 4 Gremmt job ifec world Sseeavisss yaR «®»** *** ises&«* JUST FOR FUN BY MARCUS 8. BOCLWARS NEW DISEASE Word comes to us that a new disease has been discovered tl thought wo had enough diseases for now.) • Farmer’s lung" is tire name of this disease which w'as recently discussed by Dr. 11l lard Yow of the Baylor Uni versity College of Medicine The necessary ingredients of Farmers Lung are a hypersen - sit. iv® individual and exposure to dust. In medical literature, only 33 cases have been re corded . We read that the disease is dangerous only when it becomes recurrent. Some patient* have developed lung scars and be come cripples through its ef fects, A NEW WORD It is interesting how new words pop into our language .lust recently Judge Susie Sharp coined a word in a, speech be fore Chi Omega Sorority girls She warned the girls against " futili tar lan ism ”, defined as taking on “more than you can do competently and with en thusiasm.’’ (This does not. ap ply to my friend, Mr. Com yard.) 0« YES The average teacher to Tex ts earns $4,000 a year, is buy ing a home, owns a home. is. « female Is married and has one child. (Cornyard wants to meet, one of them unmarried dames with possible matrimonial in tent—just remember I said IN TENT.) FOR TWO Can you figure it out' A beer shop at 419 F Cal donia, Road is named ‘ Para dise for Two ” lettered underneath m red Is: “No Accomodations For ladies.” NOT THE BANK'S Yes sir, several banks in Wake County have been swin Gordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN the LINES PROPAGANDA rmrvn v? OF THE SEGREGATION! S’* SOUTH tn 1944 14 Negroes were ask ed to collaborate on the work. "What Tire Negro Wants,” edit ed by Rayford Logan. Os the, 14. this writer was the only one who took account of propagan da as a factor to interracial solutions. Today we are seeing how the segregationist South is franti cally and zealously turning to propaganda to sell the nation and the world the South’s point of view which is, of course, seg regationist Some weeks ago this column deplored what looked like a well-defined movement, to propagandize this nation in to discrediting the Supreme court, and into indefinitely sanctioning the theory and practice of segregation. When, the old segregationurt South said, “not now", it meant never. The Russians’ appeal to propaganda is paying off and they have found it far more effective and far less expensive f.ha.n lighting it out on the bat tlefield. That, propaganda is a. powe fill weapon if properly wielded, needs no confirmation here In fact, it fs hard to find ways and means for a people of little pro paganda. potential to measure arms with a people with infin ite propaganda resources Now comes Marion Wright, former president of the South - Regional council, with the observation that the segrega tionist South is pouring millions into the cause of propagandiz ing the nation and the world to establish the Old South's po sition in its efforts to eternal lae segregation and the horrible concomitants thereof. They are supposedly buying off newspa pers and. columnists, North, East, and West, Mention was made in this column some months ago of David Lawrence’s all-out. sot the cause of the segregationists in his syndicated column and the pro -segregationist attitude of the U S News and World Report, which has gone over completely to the cause oi the segregationist Fouth. With millions at the disposal of the segregationists, we have but the beginning of a trend which may ultimately mean tribulation for the Negroes of the South and nation The Ne gro without his propaganda re sources will find the going hard against the segregationist South with unlimited resources for propaganda. Os course it, is said that “Truth crushed to earth will rise again; the eternal years of God are hers” etc This aim ply means that right will in the. end prevail and truth will get a hearing. But this leaves out of account the sufferings and sorrows in the meantime. The Emancipation Proclama tion was eventually written and signed, but not until Negroes had endured the rigors of a, cruel slavery for 300 years. The Israelites came out of Egypt, by a strong and mighty hand, but not until their backs were broken with 400 years of Egyp tian slavery under Pharaohs who knew not Joseph. It lias come about that we have numerous able men. and women, of the race whose very high privilege lays upon them the solemn responsibility to set forth ways and means by which the Negro race in America, with limited propaganda potential,, can compete for favorable world opinion with the segregation ists who have at their disposal unlimited propaganda poten tials. This problems demands the serious thought and study of iS millions (d Negroes. died recently by & men peons as an Army major Here’s hisw he worked: The man offered bogur checks at the hank*, .explaining he had just been transferred to Ft. Bragg, and opened a sav ings account. Later the man would with draw money from the aeeoun* with the explanation “an emer gency had arisen.’’ (.My-—My— My) Also banks tn Cumberland Fuquay Springs and Vatina were victims o! this “Kool Pa lm’s operations.” We thought It couldn’t hap pen, became when Cornyarb and I wan 6 to get our check cashed, the banks want to knes> where- we live now and during tiie last, five years, what we do for a living, how much we earn, who are are nearest of kin, who »s our kinsmen, and who knows our kinsmen’s kinsmen. After we give this informa tion, we are called upon to give our social security number, our hospiteti ration policy nu.ta.bar, our gas credit card, and vAbp snores what else. We have admiration foe major In away, fee h» wmg a K.oo! Operator. He didn’t have to answer a thousand and one questions. Sometime*, w» wan der if it pays to b® honasfc— Anri this is not a. "Lower's Qum- Won.” WHAT WOI Manufacturer* of brassieros are at present making three kindK; The Russian land, the Salva tion army type, and the Ameri can type. Tire function of the Russian type is to uplift the masses. The function of the Salva tion army type 1* to nils*, the fallen. The function of the Ameri can type is to make mountains out of molehills. We have only to turn to Rus sia to see how powerful propa ganda can be. We, as a ration, chose to finance the worM. Russia chose to propagandize the world, Communist China, is Russia*’ exhibit number one *a to comparative resoults. We employed money tn out for favorable world opin ion Russia employed propagan da and we here in this country relucttantly admit that Ruaw* is winning the cold war. The segregationist South has taken a loaf from. Soviet Rus sia’s book and there are rea sons to fear that- the results will not be favorable to the cause of Negro liberation. We shudder at the thought that, in their efforts to disqualify tfa* Supreme Court, ths segrega tionists lost by one vote. There will be other contest* and other countings of vote® and the seg regationists with the propagan da are like the jockey on the inside rail .He has an astound ing advantage. The NAACP with it* multi tudes oi obligations and its lim ited resources cannot begin "to match the challenge of the seg regationists with their unlimit ed. propaganda. Who has the answer? It Happened In lew York BY GLADYS I*. GRAHAM (For ANT) NEGRO ARTISTS SPREAD GOOD-WILL, Gifted Negro thespians, mu sicians. artists and others in the field of mass communica tions are giving their all for diplomatic and amicable re lations They find no cold war, for art is a universal language. Young concert, pianist Phil iippa. Schuyler, daughter of eel umnirt George Schuyler, of Pittsburgh Courtier held a- preee interview to discus* her “A round the World’ tour whieb took her to five continent*. Miss Schuyler played for royal ty and Wiis honored with me dals for her musical proves*. The famed Albert Schweitser beard the New York plsniat three time* at his leper colony in French Equatorial Africa, Schweitzer is an authority on Bach and an organist of re nown. Langston Hughes theatre piece* will be seen in fotsr cities in tl -s country and abroad dur in April. “Street Scene," will he h Now York City Center Hughes did the lyric* to music by Kurt, Weill. Hughes' "Barrier’’ wa* given it* second Italian radio per formance. broadcast through - out Europe last weefe with Magda LazsSo starring In the role which Muriel Stem sang in the American production op posite Lawrence Tibbett. Ka rs,mu theatregoers is. Ctove land will view “Simply Heaven ly." Owen Dodson will direct the some at Howard University. SINGING TEACHERS MONO®. JANET COLONS, CASSEUUA WTULSAMB Danseuee Jsnefc Oc&m, former Metropolitan Opera star and Camilla Wiliiiwnr,, noted soprano, were guest* of President Burton Cornwall and the New Tori Singing Teach ers association at the Phsi?. l«a* hotel, during the aasodlfetioo# annual dinner forum. Diva William* ha* her ninth Europe*® torn’ and has recently arrived .Af rica. She leave* for Roma tfajia week.