4 m cmeimm WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, im Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S WORDS OF WORSHIP JESUS lllE TEACHER Suppose we take one principle of teaching *JUf sees illustrations ol it in the work oi Jesus Novi we propose at the outset to take one section of his work, a unity tn itself, and find in it some of the principles and methods of teaching He utilised. It will give u.s a view of the field. Not that Jesus eve taught to give as an ob ject. lesson in teaching, though He did wash the disciples’ feet to give them an object lesson in humility, but that we. can use such masterly les sons as He gave His pupils as models for our own atudy. What would be a good illustration to take? Let's choose St. John 4:1-43. The topic is "How Jesus Taught the Woman of Samaria. ’’ 1. Here wc have a complete teaching situa tion with master, pupil, environment, subject matter, aim, and method. Jesus is the teacher, the w&man of Samaria is the pupil, Jacob's well is a part of the environment, the water of life is a awt of the subject matter, the transforming of life is the aim, and what sre the methods? 2 Tht Master utilized ar. occasion as it arose, though He was weaiy with His journey, and it nas the noon hour, and she was the Samaritan and a woman, and sinful. There were several rea aons why He could have let this occasion slip, but not *e. “There comath a woman.” 3. He established a point of contact. She had evidently come to draw water. ' Jesus said unto her, Give me to drink.'' He was thirsty; it AS* ft. natural request. ■ i He had her attention and Interest from the start. He had done an unexpected and unusual thins?. He utilized "surprise power.” Though a •few. He had spoken to a Samaritan. This atten tion and interest are sustained throughout, even iftereasngr in concentration and intensity as alustbering impulses arc awakened. 35. He used the conversational method. Seven time* He addressed ner and six times she replied. Token Integration Thermostat We have said or, previou* occasion* that the Pesrsa!) Pupil Assignment Law is a control device to regulate ‘hr flow of integration in Tarheel public schools. Following the events of the Hiram Holt, Jr. Case, we have urged ail parents seeking to transfer their children to previously all-whhe schools near to their homes to be sure chat they have exhausted si! administrative remedies. To exhaust all administrative remedies is a procedure that remains almost a mystery, If fhere were precisely v r. or 7 steps to follow, Negro parents would know just ivhat to do. However, following each court suit, parents are beginning to see exactly what these steps are. Again the public’s attention is called to this question when the North Carolina Civil Rights Advisory Committe was asked by Dr William L, Greene, executive secretary of the North Caroline Teachers Association, to investigate W'hat he called “a sick scheme on the part of city snd county school boards’* to evade the U. S. Supreme Court’s »954 desegregation rul ing- Greene, tn his letter to the Civil Rights Our Degree Mills Must Close Down Our government must clamp down on the operation of "degree mills" at once. We cannot afford to condone correspondence colleges whose campuses usually consist of a post office box and a small office. We must put a stop to this racket which fills the pockets of smooth operators to the tune of ar. estimated S7S.oort.. 000 each year. The recent report on this subject by the American Council on Education was indeed shocking to every American having a sense of decency and honesty Imagine some 750.000 atudents around the world being taker, for a tide by fake presidents, deans, registrars, and faculty! One can hardly hdieve that apporximately 30® "diploma mills” are operating in thirty- Wives Jitates. On the average, each student is charged t tuition fee of slsf). Any number of these schools have the audacity to require their Passenger Trains Have Chance « Railway passenger service can survive even do. the branch lines if the officials will put im- Sjfination into their planning. Whatever this plan is. it must be characterized by sublime «udit cits’ Automobile manufacturers have worked hard at the idea of improving their cars, both in term of design and serviceability, ""trough the years they gave us power steering, auto matic trancmisaions, power brakes, back-up lights, push-button gear shifting, increased horsepower, adjustable seats, arm rests, radios, light dimmers, and a hort of other gadgets. The buses introduced express super-service and hired hostesses to serve meals and cater to every whim of the patrons. They run often and the price of tickets is cheap. People like to ride the bus, because it puts them off on the high way near their homes. Our suggestions may appear fantastic, but The Negro worker is feeling a terrific im pact of the 102-day-eld steel strike. Thres months end twelve days is a long time to have the pay check stopped, regardless of the gain* to be accrued in the long run. Editor C. W Rice of the Negro Labor News, Houston Texas, recently gave a vivid pitcure of the effect of the strike on the Houston Ne gro steel workers. He cited an instance of * woman asking his help in securing day work, because her husband's lay-off no account of the strike had caused the family to be in *r miff is house payments, ear payments, and Impact Os Ste el Felt the arrival of the disciples interrupting the eon versation. 6. He was here dealing with an individual, though thereby the way was opened to deal with the erowdj of the city for two days. 7. He exemplified the principal of personal association, for s brief Unit., by intimate conver sation with a woman who was a sinner, thereby causing His disciples to marvel. 8. He asked her no question, but He answer ed three of her explicit questions, as well as the deepest longing of her nature. He built upon her answers and made the most of them: “In that sardst thou truly.” 9. There are problems at the basis of this tea ching. First, there is the personal problem of the woman’s life. Who was more conscious of this at. the first, the woman or Jesus? It was His ob ject to awaken her conscience. Then there is the theological problem, if.lt and stated by the wom an: “Where shall God be worshipped? She seem ed to h&ve introduced this problem as a distrac tion from the personal issue, but the answer of Jesus, “in spirit and in .truth," reopened the per sonal problem. 10. There is the problem of appreciation in passing from water to "living water,” yet it is clear that even so the woman did not understand 11. His use of th* concrete appears in “to drink." “this wafer,” “thy husband,” “five hus bands” "this mountain,'' and “X am He.” The concrete wafer of Jacob’s well was used to illus trate ihe abstract of life. 12. His use of motivation appears in the a wakemng first of merest and then of conscience and finally of service. The conversation concern ing water awakened her interest, that concerning the husband awakened her conscience, that con cerning true worship awakened service. 13. Jesus disregarded current conventional ity in talking with a Samaritan and * woman and a sinner: He laid aside false modesty: and He showed intimate knowledge of His pupil. group education committee, charged that school boards and tne state's machinery are not acting in good faith to implement the Court's historic decision One excerpt from tne letter reads; ‘‘School boards act in a routine fashion on hundreds of requests for transfer of students—-except when the application is a Negro wanting to transfer to a school designated as ‘white.’ ” The execu tive secretary added that in most requests for transfer of whit? students, “school boards aren't even consulted. They’re handled by the superintendents.” “But when Negro parents ask that their child be transferred to a white school,” said Greene, ‘‘they are subjected to publicity, em barrassment, coercion, and finally the cost of employing lawyers." The highlight of Greene’s letter was that tok en integration is. “hvpocrisy of the rankest sort.” ‘ The Pupil Placement Act has been upheld by the court, but sooner or later it will be doomed to failure. It cannot hold back the tide of progress forevei. students to write thesis which are never read. The lessons sent out to the students are not representative of any academic excellence. The reports mentioned that Arkansas and New York have state laws which place some restrictions on correspondence schools and the issuance of degrees. We wonder when will the other states wake up and crush this vicious racket immediately. Perhaps we ran excuse the foreigners to other countries for being gullible to this racket With all the legimitate school* operating in the United States, we find it hard to visualize any American falling sot this propaganda " Who knows, may be a few Americans have found the "diploma mills" an easy way to get a degree. We hope the American' public will not ait supinely by and permit this harmful racket to prosper another year railway officials would do well to read them at least. There is an oid saying that "nothing beats a trial hut a failure." 4 We suggest that o’m passenger trams &<■> cl) out to get people to ride the railway service. Passengers traveling moce than 200 miles might bf served lunch or dinner, and persons travel ling shorter distance* could at least be given s cool soda. All seats might be equipped with push-buttons for Adjustment restful positions for passengers. Each aisle might be so designed that, radios with earphones would be installed near the seats. In certain cars, telephones might be available for business men on long trips. You’d be surprised how jgassengers would support such services. The officials must not forget that patrons don’t mind paying for lux ury and comfort and convenience. other family bills Before the strike, the steel worker* averaged $3.11 an hour. Negro workers in the progres sive industrial city of Houston easily earned this average hourly pav rate. There is no doubt but that hundreds of families arc beginning- to feel the pinch. Workers have lost about 72 working days. This when multiplied by an average og $3.11 an hour amounts to a loss of $1,866.00 during the strike.. What disturbs us t* that the end of the strike ia not in sight. Rubles From Abroad Say It Was Not A Clean Knockout zJxtxxMm&s M.WW * ■ t<fcg*«M^c>-.*<-.»sa»«», »ng«y »>**«»■•.■»«:-* Along The Colonial Front F.T A. J. SIGGINS tht: moon and you tt is just, twp years since-- when t was in Canada—lhat Sputnik th? First startled the world. Now Lunanik the Third has shaken the world even worse. Although ex-Prcsidcnt Harrs S. Truman—like the old lady who saw' a giraffe for the firs! time—syas he doesn't believe it. three Lunaniks have been suc cessfully launched bv the hith erto-despised Communists. U. S rockets have either exploded or—like the famous frog of Calvanas county, which thf boys filled with shot—just gave heaves but couldn't get oft" the ground. World scientists are astounded h.y the amount of concentration and vast sums of money that nave gone into the launching nf the Lananiks and the fabu lous accuracy of direction. It is cleai to everyone, except the Harry Trumans, that the Soviets could land a rocket on a dime anywhere in North America That makes DEW and ail de fenses look silly. t know what many Csnadfi ans felt with sputnik soared overhead and went whizzing a round the earth, while DEW was silent and planes grounded felt that kind of defense was as outdated as buffalo-hide shields. What Other Editors Say ELECTING PRESIDENTS Our system of electing Presi dents is somewhat unique, as «'* a:! know, but one r>f the unique features of that system since 136i-(ri has been the fist rule that no Southerner could be e !ected President. The reason why no candidate from the South, or from a small state, has a chance these dav lics in the electoral college sy stem. That system, provides. »- mong other things, that the can didate with the largest number of vn.es in the respective sta'ey wins all the electoral votes Since it takes less than .100 electoral votes to elect a Presi dent, one can readily see how Die big electoral vote bides are ''musts" for Presidential candi dates Therefore they go into these big key stales and prom ise the pressure groups and the factions which control the actu al balance of power anything— to win the entire bloc of electo ral votes. Tt is surprising how many of the key states vote almost even ly. year after year, so that the small pressure group*, the fac tions which control only s small total of vote*, are able ;o swing the balance of power to the candidates of their choice The remedy which would alter all this, and Which would make it possible for a candidate from a small state or from the South, to be nominated, is a change in the Constitution which would allow the electoral vote to be solit m the various states - ac cording to the democratic prin ciple of awarding the candidates the same number Os electors! votes, proportionally, that they deserve according to the total popular vote. Tt would allow the Republi can party to take an interest in the South, for its vote* there would actually count In fact, it is easily possible under our system for a Preai dent to be elected who receives W'hat defense against enemy attack has North America now? Or Britain, Europe, Chians Kai shek and ail the U. S. bases? Do we hit them first'’ With what" If we await their attack - presuming il will come —will their survivors still he able to conquer us? The big “battalions' and lh< wide-open spaces are mainly in the countries of the colored races. They could even survive a featherbed bacteriologic I war before, during oi after the nuclear war—but could the crowded cities of the West,’ All right. You say, war may not come; but I know that stuff Why spend money on NATO. SKA TO bases. Baghdad Pacts, etc., then? The cold war is -in. there ir not the slightest doubt about that war And there isn’t the slightest doubt that the Commit nists are winning that war. They don’t have to invent sto ries; they just have to quote Western polities, presses and radios. They can quote the editor of the Wall Street Journal; the re port of UN KAO, the meeting of fid World Banks and other fi nanciers and. of course, the U. S. government's reports regain ing its state-fed materialism- ■ and compare il with their own state-ted materialism. fewer vote* than his opponent and this ha* happened in several Presidential elections under the present from the military, is a warning in time. —SHREVEPORT SUN ONE REASON WOT TRAFFIC DEATHS MOUNT A brief item, stuck away und er a small headline in the state press this week shows one ma son why highway fatalities are mounting' in Noiih Carolina. In Franklin County Superior Court Robert Glenn (.Junior) .Johnson, stock car racing dri'’ev * pleaded no contest to a man slaughter charge. Facts brought out at. the trial showed iha' •Johnson ran a stop sign struck a car in which a Rocky Mount couple were riding and caused fata! injuries to the wife of the driver. Likewise the defendant's at torneys told the court that their client, had i.erved a federal pri son term and that he also had s record of “several ’ traffic vi olations. First of all here is a fatality which demonstrates thai death and injury may result from run ning any "stop" sign or red light. The other driver is cxpecl ing obedience to what, should be one of the most saving traffic laws In our book any driver who disregards "stop" signs or crashes a red light is no minor offender. What can. and too fre quently does, happen is graphi cally illustrated in the Franklin County case. The courts n?pd to punish such offenders in ac cord with the seriousness and the potential fatality of their of fending Repeatedly we find ourselves asking, why t.he differentiation in treatment of highway killers and other killers' 1 Let some de fendant. admit hitting his victim over the bead with a bottle, slashing him with a knife nr plugging him with a gun and the law ia likely to show its Atheists smotij them ma.' re mark that if there is anything in Christian belief in (he power of prayer, God seem? to ha'® ignored the p'-a.yrrs of Western Christians and two-thirds of mankind- and, on balance, fav ored Communists. There seems to have been too much talk and not enough do" in the If. S.. Retain, and Eu rope Conversely, too much "do" and less talk from the U. S. S. R it is time we tried in meet the challenge that is even more than two .years old, by offering mankind something better than talk and defenses, around sy stems which are neither Christi an not sound from either a mil itai ■ or an economic point, of view NATO 'v,t a mistake So were SB’. A TO. Baghdad Tact. 1.1. S. bases and all the rest. The U S has failed It has failed to show that what it alleges in pi ivate enterprise van not cure its own domestic ills, let alone the ills of two-thirds of man kind who are growing poor?) and poorer every year. The U S is not stronger than the Communists; it may not even he as strong as the Soviet, in a military sense, and it is roost certainly pot as strong in an economic sense, m a Sly long prison term But when the weapon h an automobile, admittedly ope rated in violation of th -> law. the sentence is noticeably listen er and human life becomes sub. stantiall t v cheaper. Highway safety will not V advanced when a stop-sign crashing killer gets off with a fine, court costs and probation superimposed upon a suspended sentence —GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS BY DR. C A. CHICK. SR. Emancipation Celebration When this writer was a lad. Emancipation Dav celebrations wore common ocummces throughout the South in com munities with sizeable Negro populations. News Year's Day was the day most, commonly set aside for such programs. However, some communities celebrated the occasion on oth er days than New' Year's. But the point, is. sometime during the year Emancpation was cel ebi.tted. Negroes living in com munities which did not have sufficient numbers of Negroes to have such an activity trav eled lone distances to .join in with other communities in cel ebrating the Day. In other words, it was a "Red Letter Day" with Negroes, especially Negroes living in the South. Gut nowadays, it would ap pear that we have become too educated < misedtreated * to join in such a program as the foregoing When Emancipation celebrs.ti'Ori is mentioned one hoars such expressions as. JUfJT rOR FUN BT MARCH'S it. BUIiIWARE FROOGIE BOTTOM Just upon the edge of the great Buena Vists Road from Brenham and only about three miles from the Capital City, there stand? a somewhat an cient and famous public eatery and night spot, THE WAGON WHEEL. In bygone days, ii was notorious for being the resort for most of the leading gambl ers, horse-racers, cock-fighters, numbers dealers, and whst have-you. This favorite place for the Froggie Bottom gang has been, and perhaps still is, the nucleus of all sorts of birds, mostly those of ill omen. Here the hang by boys about the town and la dies of the evening fraternize because the place keeps up somp appearance of gaiety and high life (night life as we say); and yet. the place is frequented even by respectable traveller? who have no idea of its past history and present condition. FToggie Bottom citizens go to The Wagon Wheel, because the meal? are rpasonahly priced, coffee is never morp than five rents, and most of all there is no covet ehai ge. Cornyard goes because he likes the food, but the truth of the matter is that he would like to get a glimpse of Miss Joy Brandon. To him she is the apotheosis of a Greek goddess He says that he sees tn her the dormant passion of woman hood. but alas! what hopes can bp have? None, io bp sure, for MR. DEE-JAY is always around and in the way, DOC (myself, of course—who else could it be) goes for what reason ’ He's not quiff sure him self. but for one. thing thrv serve those triple-decker ham burgers (made from pure beef' "ornamented ' with crisp let tuce tcold too), thinly-sliced tomatoes, and sweet pickles (! hate sour pickles). Yes sir, a riant "mess" of good eatings for thirty cents. My pocket book never gets ruffled, because in addition the "chocolate brown 1 roffpp is free at The Wagon Wheel. STATE FAIR 1 didn't get to the State fair Gordon B . Hancock $ BETWEEN the LINES noon signs in the south The Old South sustained a se ver shock when the Supreme Court handed down memorable decision on segregation in the public schools, in 1954. So deep fv entrenched were its mores of segregation and discrimination that many naive Southerners thought these to be eternal, and the verbal explosion that follow ed was in line with what, was to have been expected As bad ly as a few Southerners behav ed. it could and might, have been worse, but for the wise procedures and understanding of the whites of the New South Today, a relative quiet follows what threatened to have been a terrible storm. Far be it from this writer to dismiss possibili ties of further trouble on the in terracial front, but as of now there prevails an encouraging quiet. Desegregation goes slow ly and the upsurge of bitter ness has slowly assuaged— for good, we hope. There is an element of whites in the South who deserv ed great praise for the leadership given m a threatening interracial cri? is. There was an element of sh« Old South trying with all it* might to provoke a crisis that would have spread violence in a large scale, but the new’ South would have none of it' The Lit He Rock situation was the ugli est of them all But more recent events *• "Time for Negroes to forget, that. they are Negroes." Negro es should forget about the pe’-iod of their slavery ' "To like we want to 20 bark into slavery." The foregoing is just cel-brat? our freedom looks 3 few disparaging: statements so many Negroes make regard ing Emancipation Day cele brations. How can we forget that we are Negroes? And. why should we have a desire to force* that we are Negroes? If we are so had that we wish to get away from ourselves, how can we ex pect. other races to accept us? How can we forget about, our period in slavery? It, is a mat ter of history. Moreover every time we sine many of the Ne gro spirituals, which were born duruig our days of slavery, we should recall days of the suf fering of our ancestors, and day suffering is not as great ns thank God that our present theiis were. In addition to the sot egoing many of the greatest herioc act? of the Negro race in this country were performed dur.r.g their period of slavery. And to celebrate an event is no indi cation that, one desires the event to occur again The United States celebrates the Fourth of July as Indepen dence Day. Is that an indica tion that the United Stares wishes to become again a col ony of England? Most certain ly net. And curiously enough we t Negroes 1 ioin in the fore going celebration. Is that an indication that Negroes wart to see the United Skates return to a colony of England? Os ©curse not,. Pray tel! me. (.hen. whv if Negroes celebrate then emancipation that. Hurt us an inSication that they wish to re turn bo slavery. this year, because Cornyard wouldn't lend me the dough tr buy "some of them foot-ion* hot. dogs The Wild Mouse Civ whoep-de-doo air ride had nr attraction for me Mr Cnrivaid rode it. and he could no* talk for two days afterwards Good ole Cornyard brought me souvenirs folk—toys railed the "flipperdinger" and the gee haw whimmydiddle." Both of these toys are popular The whimmydiddle is a shoe piece of notched rhododendron wood with a small propeller like apparatus attached to th* business end. When the .iotch<b are rubbed with another piCc of rhododendron the propel ic spins. (My students in Freshman English Composition should taki note of this definition as giver, by the prof ) There is a legend that th* whimmydiddle owner can tell i f someone is speaking the truth by making the propeller "gee or "haw''. Boy, am T haring fun Both of these toys, says Mt Cornyard. can be purchased from the Folk Toys of Behrh Cteek in Averv and Wataugh counties. T recommend htgb.lv the ‘'flipperdinger" to Mr. Corn yard. He brought it to me be cause he didn't think I would like it RIPLEY. ENGLAND: A rerent news report says Pub honors » beer drinker. Jock Bowden, be cause of '2O years of faithful beer drinking on his fee* va* honored for his regular patron age at The Three Horse Shoe* Regularly he comes in twice a day. seven days a week, and al was fakes the same spot at the har and always stand To honor the fellow a me*si ilaque was set into the bar r»- •cntly In tell the story for PO? erity, Tt read: "Upon this spot old Jack hSr stood For nearly 2tt years, Tn sup hts beer as well as he could But to *ii down r h» »*' b would. An hence, dear stranger don't you think To keep this spot for Jack we should?” mount, to * repudiation of Hv Faubus approach to th« threat mine situation and there a reasons to believe that if Faubu had had the courage to do ai first what Little Rock's chief < police did at the last, Little Roc' would not at present be tum bled if not indeed disgraced b the turn of events. Faubus will go down in hi lory as inciting one of the i.i.gl cst crimes in the annals of on grrai country. History will re cord the fact that, a! one of lh groat crises of Arkansas. huJor the state had a demagogue f ,; governor, when the situation was calling for a man. The pr*> orient set by a Governor Fan bus and the South's Negrophoh? jtress failed utterly to stamped* the South into mass violence This is one of the "good signs" of the South. When the Negrophobes of Lit tle Rock attempted to provoke a boycott, they failed inglorious l.v. "Business as usual" was Lit He Rock's answer to the impu dence of those who dared no only to defy the laws of th» land, but those whose holy pur pose was to save Little RoKt and the Nation from furthe> shame. Tha* the boycott failed is a good sign in the South and must he a solemn reminder that there 1* now-. ««. there alvavs. has hern, a residue of demon a ry. Christianity and good will that must not he discounted The relative quiet that pr»- veils on the desegregation front here and there about, the nation 1" genera! and the South in par ticular is a harbinger of better things; and it is a compliment to those whites and Negroes who refused to be stampeded in to violent outbreaks by the ha-» appeals of the massive resistors and that sector of the press which tried to incite to violence --by predicting it' The great danger today is not in race prejudice, perse, but in. manipulating race prejudice for political purposes In th» stai*- me.nt of purpose before the now historic Durham conference which issued the Durham Mani festo. it was pointed out ili*‘ one of the dangers we >v , e f ■ • ing was the threat, of throw r sagain the color ouesiion into ( politics of the South Our ct; - predictions have been ada .* iv fulfilled and Hie end * not yet. When d.-micogue* >:ke F.v bus can be swept into '.** - with no political commihno' except 10 eternal-re Mm soc e- onomif and political -f -al -of Negroes, v* • are hear - _ into national trouble sooner or later, ft. is going to tak* mor® than this if our nation i* to r a pace with Sovie‘ Russia ■ K threatens to run a wav wvh th* snare race Bra* regal on expeds can no* compare with those h»H •> ed scientists who can dispute’' missile? to the moon KolcMni Russia in check and hold 'o2 the Negro down are two erH; •» ]y different proposition* Th s country may iearn this some day to its regret The Keep The Public School* Open" movement, the relative quiet on the desegregation front, and *he ’-c fusel of the South to be st-mppdeb into violence tf gvunSt. Negroes are good sign* in the South.

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