4 THE CAfiOLmtAM WEES ENDING *At USD AT AUGUST 29. 1959 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S WORDS OF WORSHIP One man prayed 'Lord help us that our minds may be receptive to the truth and then our lives reflective of the truth which we have just learned.’ Do you know a tetter way to say it? Can you think of a higher ambition to have than this one? What would happen if that ambition truly be longed to every man? To know the will of Ood he would search the Scrlnutres daily. The nobility that belongs to such 3 search is often times complimented by the *acred text itself. He would take nothing for granted He would not rely upon his wisdom or wish but rather seek that of the Father and the eternal message given by the Holy Spirit. Once he had learned this truth he would im mediately begin to put it in practice in his life Tfc would not be a thing he would postpone, but it would be an Item of immediate enactment. Every day growth would be reflected for every day some thing new he would learn would be added to hi* sxister.ee. And at the end of the race he would b* at the happiest richest, and most complete men possible to observe. Memphis Negro Bid Political Flop The first two Negro candidates even to rank •s possible victors in the recent Memphis, Term,, election trailed far behind when the of ficial vote tallies were counted A cross-section of white and Negro precincts showed that the big Negro bloc vote expected to put in office Russell B. Sugarmon, Jr., and the Rev. Ben L Hooks did not "move into high gear’' One of the candidates, Russell Sugarmon Jr who faced four white men in the public works commissioner race, was given the best chance of victory. However, he ran second with 35.268 votes; but his leading opponent rallied 58.268 votes to win the post. The other candidate, the Rev Ben. L. Hooks, was conceded s fair chance to win the race for Juvenile Court judge. When the votes were counted, Hooks trailed incumbent Judge Eliz abeth McCain by about 21,000 votes, Two ether white candidates ior the judgeship m reived less votes than Hooks. The response of the white vote was greater than anticipated with an unprecedented 75 pet cent of the Memphis registered Negro voters, North Carolina Teacher Shortage Practically everv daily newspaper in the Hate last week published articles on the serious •hoetage of teachers in North Carolina schools The estimates ran in some newspapers at 7 non while Graham Jones of the Greensboro Daily News cited the shortage at 9,000 Dr Charles Carroll, State Superintendent Education, disagrees with the 9,000 figure. He does, however, admit that there are definite shortages in just about ah graded school cat eeories and in high school positions of English, mathematics, and science tn an editorial last week, the Greensboro Daily News gave as reasons for the situation low pay, working conditions, lax discipline of pupils, and excessive certification requirements The editorial closed by saying. "Before we solve the teacher shortage there must be s threeway attack on the problem legislative bodies must increase pay, parents must require and support a mote effective Meat Packing Worker What Next? The meat packing industry's drive toward greater efficiency and mechanization has left a jobless trail of tens of thousands of workers Armour and Company announced recently that it will shut down certain operations which hire 4,500 in some seven plants, The work force in basic meat processing in dustries has fallen 18 per cent since 1956. a drop representing an estimated 30 000 jobs. Packing house workers and meat cutters blame the drop m employment to the movement of the big meat packing concerns to ship dressed beef. This trend is growing because it has been found cheaper to ship dressed beef than to transport live animals. Thus these companies lower ship ping costs, beat rising freight rates, and put themselves within trucking distance of south western and southeastern markets tn addition, the giant packers are abandon mg obsolete and inefficient plants in favor of modern facilities which produce more products With fewer men Newer firms like Oscar Mavei. Path and Hormel built their modern plants in the livestock areas to begin with Armour, Swift. , Wilson, and Cudahy are now leaving the city for the country. More or less incidental benefit? for the big packers are the non-union, lower-wage areas in to which they move. Unions claim that when the packers move they write off as losses for lex purposes abandoned plants. UPWA Public Relations Director Les Orear teys that Armour’s decision to shut down and modernize has left ? 500 unemployed in Chi cago.- 1,120 in East St. Louis, Illinois; 209 in MeHarry Benders Service To Man For S 3 years Meharry Medical College, lo cated in Nashville Tennessee, has been train ing physicians to administer to the health ineeds of Negro citizens in the nation Since its founding in 1576, Meharry has graduated more than 53 per cent of the Negro physicians and surgeons practicing at present in the United States. The institution was named for the, Meharry brothers (Samuel, Hugh. David. Jesse and Alexander) who contributed the first $20,500 to establish the school, it is one of the two privately-endowed accredited Negro medical colleges m the nation .Mehafrv s one ol the 85 medical colleges n the United Stales; and like all the others, it cramped and crowded for space. The college :an accommodate cnlv 500 students in its three wbeols Q f medicine, dentistry, and nursing. In order to ba able to find this truth., a man must be able to walk with God. In Genesis 5:22 we read. "And Enoch walked with God and he was not: for God took nun.” Can a man actually walk with God today -1 It He not too far away? Is H<= not too different from us? It is true that our sin? can keep us from walking with God. Isaiah said. “Your iniquities have separated between you and your Ood and your sins have hid His face from you that He will not hear." However we can. through Jesus Christ, reerr e forgiveness of our sins and actually walk with God today In John 1:14. the Apostle says, “The word was made flesh and dwelt among us '' Jesus himself said, "He that hath seen me. hath seen the Father.” When the disciples walked with Jesus they walked with God When the Holy Spirit, came, these same disciples continued to walk with Him and thus with God, so our Lord’s promise is ful filled. “ho I am with you always even unto the end of the. age,” an estimated 62 per cent cast ballots Perhaps if the other 38 per cent of the registered Negro voters had gone to the polls, one of the Negro candidates may have been elected We are strongly opposed to bloc voting in any form, but we have also observed that prac tically every Negro now in office on the stale federal, and local levels has won “on the birr band wagon.” Backers oi the Negto candidates used “church mass meetings and prayer" to dissemi nate propaganda to get out the vote To some degree, these efforts must have been effective for 62 per cent of the regii tred voters reported to the polls. This was only 11 per cent less than that for the white voters. The Memphis strategy illustrates the point that the Negro church is perhaps the most po tent agency for getting people to report to the polls. The political showing of the candidates in the recent election should stimulate Mem phis Negroes to begin now perfecting the m* chmery for participation in the next city Her tion school program, and educationists must revise realistically the present unrealistic certification standards.” It is not. our purpose to take sides in the ra tification arguments, but we wish to call atten tion to the fact that there is no appreciable shortage of Negro teachers m the state, nr an v where else in the South. We have tended to overcrowd the teaching field because th c r F have been so few professional employment op portunities in other areas for the Neero Shortages of teachers in the Mid-West. Mew England, and states likes California can hr fill ed by the oversupply of Negro teachers in the South. Some concerted es foils shoud be made in this direction, ft would be economical ly beneficial to the Negro teacher, because w California, for example, the maximum salary often runs as high as SB,OOO for an academic year depending upon onek qualifications. Fargo, N. D.: 165 in Tifton Georgia, and so on Orear said, tor example. Swift and Company recently opened a plant in Wilson, N. C , early this year. The plant is non-union and the corn pany is fighting organization, he said, The pay for 250 workers there averages $1.49 an hour By comparison, the unionized Swift plant in Atlanta, Georgia, carries on the same type of operation with a minimum wage of $2.08 and an average of $2.47 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's union, through its research division reported that in 1956 there were 191.300 work ers employed in the meat packing industries but in April, 1959, that number had dropped to 156,000. This trend of conditions will have an effect upon the Negro worker in two ways First, in the unemployment piral the black man will be the first to be laid off Second, when the meat packing industries locate in southern towns the Negro will not be hired m skilled capacities, or more than likely not at all In the negotiations to take place the last of this month until management of meat packers, unions will attack this unemployment problem by seeking job preference for former employees when a chain meat packing concern open? a new plant elsewhere and a safe-guarding of union wag<- scales and conditions. Since unions have been ineffective w tb* South, it is doubtful that they can exert ore? sure that will place a skilled Negro worker from Chicago, tor example, in a new plant in 3 Geor gia town The average graduating class numbers around 65 students, and this leaves room for only 65 new students each year. Some 550 persons ap ply annually for admission to the college. The graduates of Meharry carry on practice in 41 states and 18 foreign countries. One of its notable graduates, Dr. Joseph Togba of the class of 1944, became president of the World Health Assembly in 1954 with head quarter's in Geneva, Switzerland, A research program is well established at the college where, physicians have pioneered m the use of radioactive gold as a treatment sot cancer and leukemia. The college receives a $10,090 grant annually from the Atomic Com mission for autoradiographic studies on rats In appreciation of the services rendered the nation by the college, why not make a contri bution to the student scholarship fund? But Who Would Ihiik Such tail SEKTENC^SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANF ENDURANCE 1 Underneath an electric clock in the Chicago Union Station, which perhaps with a few repairs, has stood the. tests of time since its erection, hangs a red sign in perfect order pointing the way to the "Air •Shelter" 2 This only further remind ed me that, man oi his own bili ous thinking may sooner or lat er inflict upon himself a terri ble and fatal licking. .? Man, appears too engrossed with the desire for material things, that, the majority seem to allow the eternal things of God, to escape as if on wings 4 Thus, the true and faith ful have to employ every means of Grace, for the faithlessness of this present deceptive world only the truly righteous will be able to face 5 Those of old who stood t.h c test, have left to us the very best, and the faith of those fa thers liveth still, for all who have patience and an indomi table will. Noah has taught ministers never from their main duty to desert,, for even in 3.20 years he had not a single What Other Editors Say DIXIE’S IGNOBLE DELL SION The plaintive yawps of hard core Little Rock segregationists over the abject failure to col lect sufficient money to sus tain a private all-white high school there highlights a five year ddusion that is rapidly being dissipated. Advocates of this "solution" to the problem of avoiding pub lic school desegregation by set. ting up private schools for whites and letting the tax-paid system wither on the vine, are now generally convinced of its unfeasibility. In the first place, private schools are costly, often costlier than public schools, and fam ines adjusted to the latter are unwilling or unable to pay for the former, which means that most children would have no educational facilities at all In the second place, busi nesses shy away from moving to cities and counties where the labor supply is 100 ignorant to operate the new automatic ma chinery or to generally meet the standards of modern industry -and every area is competing for new businesses. it is illuminating to note that Little Rock lias been unable to attract a single new business ,'Ttnce the disorders oi 1957, and responsible civic leaders else where in Dixie fear the same result. Areas of violence and ignor ance attract little or no new industry which means growing inability of most anti-Integra tionists to afford private schools, attractive as they may be to those who profess to fear racial amalgamation as a result oi white and colored children attending classes together in public schools. Where militant segregation ists have established private schools for all-whtie attend ance, the institutions have ei ther failed or are having a hard time getting along, so this “so lution’ is about dead As sanity slowly return-, 16 iS a growing decision, typ ically Southern, to eat the cake and have it too; that Is. to have token integration by admitting a. handful of Negroes while ex cluding the vast majority through pupil placement laws, which the ts. S, Supreme Court has blessed. fully sense . , . for lacking this, convert, 8. Daniel stood true to his appointment and preached a ■silent gospel without any ma terial ointment, and though the flames of the furnace were most "itense, God cooled them off in his defense. 7, Then he stopped tin to the lion’s den and found it, no prob lem God’s cause to defend, for their jaws were locked and ap petites gone while he talked with King upon Hih Throne, 8 These men of God light th<= mighty Paul too weren't, just, ordinary Christians seeking public review, but men of great parte and dynamic in power resisting satanis foes from hour to hour 9. Yes. and there were -some fine women of old also involved In the King’s business, such as the pocr widow with only a lit • tie meal and no molasses; but sharing first with Gods man, Elijah, then her son and seif, through her faith and endur ance discovered even more on each shelf. 10. This is a mysetry that only an enduring Christian can This, of course, Is ar. advance even though very slight, and even though tardy, but also an admission that Dixie was de luded by the “solution" of pri vate schools. —-PITTSBURGH COURIER TUBMAN CALLS FOR AFRICAN UNITY On the occasion of the Re-- public of Liberia's 11th inde pendence anniversary, its Pres ident, Dr William V S, Tub man. seized the opportunity to sound a clarion call for freedom for all captive and subjected peoples. His emphasis was on the ur gency for continuing the cru sade for liberation of the op pressed peoples everywhere, and for unity of purpose and aim. He warned "If it is to be triumphant, if the remotest corner of this con - tment is to be liberated from the shackles of oppression, we must not be divided. We must smite behind the banner for vic tory' not by violence and blood shed but by relentless and per sistent demands for the inher ent and just rights of all men to be free and independent.” This is timely advice. For the success of the experiment, with native self-government is large ly a matter of interdependence among the liberated African states. The territories which are struggling to gain their auton omy need more than mere en couragement: they need sub stantial assistance from their more favored brothers. Freedom and independence are not achieved through sup plication and ntcakness. Ap peals to their sense of social justice have never moved those who are wedded to the doctrine of “Might makes right,” and who believe tn the supremacy of the Master race. Demands for freedom must be accompanied by a willing ness to suffer, to endure perse cution and prosecution and even death for the cause, No human sacrifice is too great for the price of liberty. Free Africa must help unfree Africa. In or der to do that the independent. African states must be united now into a solid front. In view of the crying need for such s development, the postponement until next year of the organ)- poor Job would not hare had the slighest defense; but re !v>- upon God's omnipotent strength and Grace he counted nothing too terrible for him to lace. '! Then considering the rich heritage left you and me, re sulting later when our blessed Savior did hang on a. trep , . who could be so ungrateful not to proclamn His Holy Name? who could deny Him of any duty that would add to Heaven's gain? . . • and surely you would not be guilty of taking His name in vain" 13 What terrible inmates most, of us are, to let the God of Heaven for us go so far as to permit HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN HON to die, that out of human choice we might, reign with Him on high, tor such there should be no limit to human endu rance ■ • , each of us should vouchsafe our unpuostionable pel formance, and momentarily be reminded that, he who would enjoy a lifetime of blessed as surance, must here and now go forth to serve with undaunted courage and endurance. aztlon of the "Community of Independent African States," was unwise. This proposal was made at » recent African Summit Confer ence held in Sanniquellle, Li beria. The participants were Prime Minister Nkrumah of Ghana. President Tome of Gui nea and President Tubman. If was argued that the nucleus for such an organiazton should not begin in advance of the inde pence of Niberia and other ter ritories which are scheduled for. self-rule next year. There is no sound logic for this delay Liberia. Ghana and Guinea could now form the ax is upon which would rotate a United States of Africa. Such a, consolidation would help to hasten the day of deliverance for the rest of unhappy Africa - -CHICAGO DEFENDER USV REPTMARTMENT POLICY The experience of a Detroit fireman who sought employ ment in the local Fire Depart merit lends credence to the charge that the Department is restricting recruitment of Ne gro firemen to a very minimum He underwent a. two-hour quiz on his attitude toward integra tion coupled with a vigorous defense of the Departments’ anti-Negro attitude, During the past eight years the Los Angeles Fire Depart went has added four Negroes, rn the preceding eight years 44 were employed. Since the attack on the De partment's segregation policy oniy two Negroes have been able to get their names on the permanent rolls. Most appli cants who qualified in written tests were eliminated in oral examinations that were as phony as that given to the De troit fireman. Those who sur vived hypercritical oral exami nations end physical tests were discharged during the proba tionary periods. When the attack on the A1 derson policies opened, the Firs Department employed about 81 Negro firemen. The number has been reduced to not more than 70. a net loss oi about 11 The end is not in sight. Many Negro firemen hare reached or are approaching re tirement age. The tendency is JUST TOR FUN 65 MARCUS H ROLL WARE OLD FROG GIL BOTTOM En route to Raleigh from Nashville Tennessee, I stopped Saturday night (August 16) in Asheville, N € with the par ents of Charles Moore,, a music major student at Tennessee A& t State University. Had supper, a good night’s rest, and breakfast too I met Mr Moore this past summer while teaching in sum mer school. He used to come to my room “to shew the rag" with Mr, Prank Nichols, my rooaiate Mr Nichols is a speci al education of the EMR class f.’ducable mentally retarded > in Morristown, Tennessee. Rode into Froggie Bottom after I had unpacked and had supper at the Wagon Wheel. Boy, was the gang surprised, and Mi Corny,u d reached out his hand to grab my paw Lat er that night at ' Raise-a Ruck-’ swing-out, 1 saw Anni r Belle, Speedball Eddie, Jabe Wright. Loretta, and Joy Bran don, and a host ot others SURE 'NQUF At. last the United States .Ar my has found out what married men have known a long time— that It costs more to clothe a woman than a man The initial clothing allow ance for an enlisted men, the Army savs. is $166.20 but for a Wac It $232.36. A solider gets, one pair of shoes and two pairs of boots, a Wac four pairs of shoes and one pair of pumps a Wac gets a handbag and overshoes. A soldier 'uses his pockets and gets his feet wet. Then there is the matter of underwear: A G.l gets $5 40 worth of shirts and drawers, a Wac is allowed S3O for “undo varment” However, the A.rm.v does not describe them specifi cally Now, if the Army can tell us Along The Cc'oniai Front BE A I SIGGINS (British Journalist* For ANT) CB.A«V» on err- CERT IN AFRICA? Chaos is developing apace in Africa, but neit-he. the colonial powers nor Africans seem to have a clue as to how to avert a catastrophe Gen, de; Gaulle is determined to get that oil, just as 1 said, no matter "hew many Algerian: he kill tortur< homeless" and the NATO pow ers are backing him with mon ey bombs, airplanes the lot, There is a shortage of man power in the French armies and r< drivfl is be inis made to re cruit more Moslems—Moslems to will their brethren, support, the French and other Jews who imposed Lsnu i on Mori?fine and help to maintain color bars and colonialism, Meanwhile at the conference held m Monrovia, the nine M rlcan states have called upon Britian 'to lift the Nvasaia.nd government's ban on the Afrl for them to nun rather than to undergo the di criminatory treatment to which they are now subjected. *As they quit, the current destructive policy in sures that they will not, bf re placed The Aldprson objective of an all-white Fire Department looms as a real it; The obvious discrimination against employment of Ncgioes in the Fire Dep irtmeni is po sible because the Civil Service Commission tolerates, where it does not connive, at it The oral examination is now weighted at, 50 per cent with the result that a man writing a perfect paper can be flunked at the whhn oi the examiner-- A LIFO RN A EAGLE Letter To Tlia Editor HAVE LATTNDF^MA* WILL SEGREGATE To The l oitoi This may sound amusing fn those who may call themselves segregationist?, but to honest law abiding citizens, its a trag edy Many of you hav“ no doubt observed the unchristian sign in the window of the iaun - dremat • adjoinine. the U. S. Post, Office' that reads— FOR. WHITE ONLY ” Prior to this time the write' >; -d had a ?mt, deal of respect for the Caucas ian citizens who have maintain - ed their dignity by not allowing this to happen. Unfortunately, this has come about and what shall be down it. is left, to the remaining “good” people, mean ing those who still realize that "God is no respecter of per son;'' He levs us ail The Ne groes who go merrily on their way saying "that doesn't affect me because 1. wash my clothes at home” have been thoroughly washed with the white man’s detergon t. The great question in my mind is does our beloved May or, who is friend to the people intend to disgrace our town by allowing an outsider 'The man - agers ’residence is in Greens boro' to come in cm - city limits and segregate honest people" Surely he must be aware of what is happening. Tills is by no means disre spect to the honorable Mayor of our town, for he appears to me as an honest, upright, and understanding gentleman, t could go on describing his per sonality. but it might be .feasi ble to see his stand on the pres ent issue to go further. He has not refused to see me anytime call upon him. for this 1 am how to handle the problem es f-he Wac- who says she cent gc on duty because she simply doesn't have “a thing to wear all husbands will be eternally grateful. DOES SHE CARE? A certain Froggie Bottom ■'Bigwig" of my acqu=iriJl£ncf one night alter dinner asked his wife to put down her detec tive magazine so that he ca&li reach her a poem of which hf was very fond. She sat quiet!;, until he was well into the mid dle of tne thing, itnoning will, ardor and intensity Then sud denly there came a sharp dis concerting slap! It turned out that all during the mage's dis play the female had been in tent on a- circling mosquito ahe had finally trapped it betwer. the palms of her hands. Funny, what trouble a mar goes to, to win the female. In addition to performing parlor magic, he also bfings her can dy, flowers and the fur of ani mals, It is common knowledge that in -mite of all these “love displays,” the male Is constant ly being turned down, Insulted or thrown out of the house, CORNYARD DIDN’T KNOW! A drifter into Edna’s Fisc* got fast, attention on his erd«r for a cup of coffee. Police dashing In after a dos en custmores fled because the man laid a hand frenade cat the counter beside him. N&tufitily, Cornyard made a swift but safe exit. The man wa-s booked for in vestigation of trying to incite s not, The grenade was harmlea —a World War II souvenir, "Where was I when all this was going on?" Your guess is as good as mine. * Meanwhile, I've got to find Cornyard I have an invitatioa a, lady sent him to attend tfel Labor Day annual ball can Congress and release th* lenders now detained in the protectorate. The conference also called upon Britian to re snect tna UN Charter in the ca-se of Nyasaland and to take due account of the as oirations to self-determination and Independence. “The resolution, on® of a number of African questions approved before the conference , was drafted after the eoe terence had studied, a sasme randum from the NYaaalmd African Congress and ttken note of the Devlin repeat ' Tne conference also sailed upon France to recognise the right es the Algerian people to inde pendence, and hostilities and enter into negotiations with the Free Algerian government,” -lust Imagine a, Frenchman r. lying up all that oil without a. fight, if you can The- nations taking part in the conference were the United Arab Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Morocco, Lybya, Li* beria, Ghana and Guinea It is important to look care* fully into the power and influ* ence of the nine nations which took part in the conference, be en,use until they back their res olutions which took part in th# conference, because until they back t heir resolution with %e~ i,ion. neither Britain noi France will take the slightest notice of it. The UAR's aim Is to be the dynamic core of an Arab re surgence. Sudan is predomi nantly an Arab state, a* are, of course, the North African state* Arab nationalism *is a force that must be reckoned with and by their attacks on Suez France and Britain, have Arabs. grateful; but »y cry to Mayor and its honest eittassa is dont’ let this undemocraije as well as unchristian act earn* into oiu town. This is truly a time of cries* when "Man’s Inhumanity to man” has been demonstrated in the first order. We lov* our town and respect its fellow-cit izens, however, if we allow any one to dampen our hearts and prejudice to spread her wing# this will be- another Rock” for Russia to spread in her headlines to sell commun ism to ignorant people . t am by no means saying thsri we have a perfect town for there is prejudice here just as there is prejudice and uncouth people in many southern and northern towns. My point is a e mustn't make it any worse than H, might fcio at present,. Many colored citizens have been hurt by this act but are w* willing to do all we can to prevent this type or any other discrimina tion because of fee color of one’s skin. It is one thing to talk about the conditions of a town, good or bad, but totally different when if comes to doing some thing about it. If there is that friendly relationship between I, he races here as so many citi zens have declared, now is the time to prove it. We must fight together cm this matter of jus tice, If we think seriously on this matter, our next letter to the editor could change its topte from Hava Laundromat Wifi Segregate, to "The North Caro linians” who stood for * Crus Justice. F ?. BODDISS. Jr. Hillsboro N C. •>