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THE C ABOUT?'AJS EM»!W S.ATIJF.DAT, NOVEMBER 1, !»&9 4 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S MBMWMWWMMM——a—WMßWMM——fcaßW—ao^x)—a——B* WORDS OF WORSHIP ts you ha"* r*ad the Gospels, you will marvel »t, tjr.f= manner by which Jesus met successfully the traps set. b,v bis enemies. You saw how every trap had sprung upon the fingers of those wfco set It No argument was left for tbPtn except the final one which was t confession of failure. They had the brute force on their side. They could not stand against Hr* thinking but they could, and did. nail Hun on tiv> cross. Mot. in time, however. Not until His work was finished. Not until He had trained and equipped a farce which would carry on with the double pow er because of the very sari, of His death. Every year in this country, there are. thousand? cf conventions political, charitable, business. Most of them are a- waste of time. They are. con ducted on the false ssumption that over-selling and exaggeration are potent forces—that the en ergies of men respond most powerfully to prom Jses of easy victory and safe rewards. The great leaders of the world have known better. Gideon, for example, is one we might observe so? a, moment. Wh'm he called for volunteers to fight the M'dianltes, thirty-two thousand respond ed. Gideon looked them over carefully and criti cally. He knew the conflicting motives that had brought them there— ■ orne from mere love of ad venture: some because they were afraid in be taunted with cowardice; some for plunder: some to get, away from (heir wives He determined to need them out at oner " Whosoever is fearful and. afraid, let him go home, tonight,” he proclaimed. The next morning twenty-two thousand had wen!shed. Only fen thousand remained. Still Gideon was unstaisfied. He hit upon ■* Idylls Os The Bond Voting When the citizens of the Tarheel State film ed out last week so vote on the. nine items in the proposed bond issue, we expected a great deal of apathy on tht part of Negro voters. However, we did not expect the final tallies to be shamefully low. For out of several thous and registered Negro voters in Raleigh and Wake County, some 170 or 175 voted. After examining the totals in the pre-domi nantly Negro precincts (numbers 20, 25 and 56). there, were some interesting observations; 1. Raleigh's Precinct 25 was the only one in the county that did not cast a vote againsi the following item? mental institutions, com mum try colleges, armories, training school*, blind centers and histfoica! sites. It should be added that it cast only one vote against the item on educational institutions. We, Too, In Fire Fighting! Professor Merle Eppse. noted historian at Tennessee A, and I State University, Jias writ ten g book entitled WE. TOO. IN AMERI CAN HfSTORV. Thr title implies that for some reason the Negro has been left out of our history books. And may we add, he really was —almost entirely. !t has been an American tradition to leave the Negro out of the warp and woof of cultur al, vocational, political, and economic activ ity. Hence, in the matter of earning his daily bread, the Negro was forced into occupations known as “characteristic Negro jobs.” Never could the Negro aspire to engineer a railway locomotive. In the South today, he cannot drive a bus, collect taxes in a municipal office sell license tags in a highway office building. Very few cities have Negro personnel in municipal firefighting units, and thousands National Book Week Observance Throughout the nation, schools and colleges and public, libraries gre celebrating National Book Week from November 1 to 7, The oh **@rvance focuses attention to the fact that a good citizen is one who reads books, newspa pers. magazines, pamphlets, and other reading mattei 1* it any wonder then that Bacon said that 'reading maketh a full man." fn anaent times, professional readers enter tained audiences through the public reading of literature. The cultivated ancient Greeks, for example, delighted in reading the Epics of Homer, the dramas of Sophocles and Euripi d-., and the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle To them reading was mainly an oral sit Our way of reading by just running our eye quickly along a page of type would have sur prised and shocked the Ancients. Few people, in antiquity, knew how to read, and few pos acssed the bricks, stones or rolls necessary for reading. So, like Herodotus at the Olympic games, they were expected to impart to their Greensboro Bar Association Proposals Recently the Greensboro Bar Association voted to postpone action on a proposed ehanga in Municipal-Court setup to permit local resi dents to pay fines and costs on less serious traffic violations without attending the court. The proposal, prepared after weeks of study by the court officers and police department, would enable violators to plead guilty, sign court attendance waivers and pay fines end costs at the court deputy’s cage. It is estimated jthat this new proceedure would provide a convenience to about 1(1 thousand of 25 thous and persons who appear in the court annually. The new proposal would apply to offenses such as running a stop light or stop sign, fail ure to yield right, of way, .improper equipment *ttd certain speeding offenses. In the speeding category, it would accommodate thasc who #,re charged with speeding under 15 miles an hags over the limit in a 60-mile zone and un der 20 auies an hour over the limit, m other •ness*. stratagem. Down the hillside and across a little , brook he led the whole band. It w as a hot morning; , the men were thirsty and tired; and Gideon, stand ing on the bank and watching, had a shrewd id6a that character would show itself under the strain. Sure enough, of the ten thousand, a vast majority knelt down and pushed their faces into the coo!, clear water, taking iong refreshing draughts. But a few were too eager. They caught up the water in their hands, dashed it into their faces and hurried across the other side, restless to be on! Only a handful; only three hundred. But Gi deon kept them and sent- the rest- home. Better three hundred who could not be held hack from the battle than ten thousand who were merely half heartedly ready to go, With the three, hundred he won the battle. That higher type of leadership which cells forth men’s greatest energies by the promise of I obstacles rather than the picture of rewards that was the leadership of Jesus. By it he tempered the soft metal of his disciples' ns tore into hard j keen steel. j The final conference with which he prepar ed them for their work: is thrilling in its majestic appeal to courage. Listen to the calm recital of the deprivations and dangers: "No wallet for your journey; neither two '•oats, nor shoes, nor staff. ' Behold I sand you forth ax sheep in the midst of wolves,” 1 Following the death of Jesus upon the cross every member of the original organisation wes j gone, but the “blood of the matyrs wa* the seed of the church.” The Master’* framing had done it* work. The great Idea prevailed, 2 Over the State, the cit»en« voted down the items on armories and historical sites; but Precincts 20, 25 and 26 voted for them, H, On all items, the affirmative voting ex ceeded considerably the negative voting. V One out of nine registered voters in Wake County went to the polls for the bond issue, while approximately one out of thirty regis tered Negroes showed up at the polls. Although many of us did not bother our selves to cast the ballot, we .surely will have to pay for these bonds Citizenship requires more than willingness to bear our part of the tax load. We must become responsible in mu voting so that the ballots cast will lot more representative of the people. t of cities have no policemen from our group. While Raleigh has employed Negro poiir.a men, it has not seen fit to include us in a fire fighting capacity. We are sure that then? aru many young men who can meet the qualifi cations required of fireman if they only had the opportunity. Paraphasing the words of Professor Eppse, ‘“We. too, would like to fight fires.” Durham, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee., are among the few cities in the South having Negro firefighting units. In i every detail, these men have proved their skill in “putting, out fires.” Young men who are interested In bre-fight ing should ask the city personnel department for application blanks for positions as firemen. If enough individuals apply, the City Father* will have to search their consciences befors they can say, “No ” !<*.«« fortunate brethren something of the treas ure in their hands.. Reading out loud seemed to have been the rule. Literature through the printed page S® now so familiar from childhood that it has almost lost its power to thrill us with wonder and surprise. All too frequent is the picture, of (fie fired business naan who retires in gloomy sil ence behind his evening newspaper, and de mßoris complete isolation from the family life around him, The modern traveler is inclined to settle comfortably m his individual seat in a streamlined bus or railway coach or airplane and keep hi* book or magazine strictly to him self. Let us hope that . through the efforts of our libraries, families will institute, the oral read ing hour where they may share the joyous companionship of Chaucer’s Canterbury pil grims, regaling each other with tales of lovs and romance. What matters most is that feh«y should vteit the library regularly. We know that oftimes persons charged with traffic offenses are forced to waste as much as one-half day in court waiting for their case* to be tried. The irritation of waiting arid wait ing is in itself beneficial as a deterent to future traffic violations. Certainly such an experience will make a driver think twics before running a stop sign or stop light. The picture of wait ing in court will appear before the driver’s eyes the next time he is tempted to ignore the “yield the right of way” sign. The. Greensboro Bar Association did right! by postponing action on this new proposal. This matter will require muds reflective think ing and wisdom on the pert of those t*or,sidel ing it. There are thousands of people who don’t mind paying tines for traffic violations, and with such attitude* they are potential high way murderers What traffic offense ts tnor* dangerous than running s stop sign or hgbi. o* failing to yield the right of way? Close The Link In America And Latin America Will Then Understand SMIER, ''UMHi By REV FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP TM Grip WF TRUST 1 Dating back bo Julius O* sat, inscriptions on money played an important part, re flecting the might and power of a government, while portray ing much skill in art, 3. These two inspiring ale ments set, a standard for any people . . , and if seriously re cognized and followed, will lead to a very high level. 3. But sorry to say this seems not to be the objective or com mon practice of governments and people today, and things' of far less importance seem to have full sway. h There was some confusion even as far heck, as Jesus’ time, when He bad to call for a piece of their money, to get them back in line, for 100 many folks have always sought the “easy way” . . . wanting every thing, but not wanting to pay. 5. Thus today, as it, relates to the above inscription "IN GOD WE TRUST”, which takes all of us in, there should be such a powerful unity, that in nothing would wc fail to win f>. But instead, there is much dissension, preudice. halo and greed, until spiritual food fails What Other Editors Say fflC POOR GET POdHKli In tins prosperous capital of the most prosperous land on Rarth. where many of us—most of us—never had it no good, there remains a festering rem nant who never had it so bad. The remarkable and illumina ting report on “Public Assis tance in the District of Colum bia” made public today by Wel fare Director Gerard M. Shea calls to mind the tragic-comic words of an old sons: “The rich get rich, end the poor set, children,” The poor and their proliferating children are the pauper class of this rich com munity. Their pauperization is the community's curse and ist responsibility, “Industry grew': population grew: communities grew—in security grew,” Mr Shea tells us. Why the paradox of hope less poverty amidst plenty? The causes are complex. A mong them he cites the frag mentation of the family unit to which a couple of genera tions ago individuals could al ways look for aid and oppor tunity; the diminution of char ity by church groups and oth er philanthropic, organizations: the development, of Federal so cial security and other insur ance programs, relegating to local public assistance “the teats adequate in the pop ulation besot, with a. multitude of problems.'’ Inflation has been a greviously complicating factor: Between 1940 and 1957 the cost of living increased 93 fi per cent, doubling the cost of relief and also multiplying the case load toy Increasing the numbers incapable of self-sup port. Race t* an important aspen* of the District's relief prob lem.. "For the meet part.” Mr. Shea reports, “the recipients of General Public Assistance and Aid to the Disabled art? mid dle-aged Negroes with very lit tle education and no occupa tional skill or training . The?/ have been marginal un skilled workers with low in oomes and certain physics! disabilities which gradually have progressed to tbs degree ho satisfy, and for things Ip'-s healthful w crave, and «n these we. sumptuously feed. 17. What, a travesty upon life and our nation, that we should hide behind such flag rant imitation . . . loving the money for what it is worth, and evading God. and in the majority Jesus Christ's offer of r second birth. H. If “IN GOD WE TRUST", then the high and virtuous thing of life would not be al lowed to co rust . . . hut a much larger percentage of our money bearing the above sacred in scription would be gladly ap propriated for salvation and higher education. i Rut. in moral and spirit ual strength, we are far from being ready, and thus, as a na tion, we are very unsteady . . . end with enemy nations scent ing our tracks, it behooves ns now more than ever to give Pi-nest hred to spiritual facts. 10. “BLESSED IS THAT NA TION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD”, and not thepitiful lit tle dollar we so lone have a dored: but things eternal that shall ever last, despite winds that they are no longer em - ploy&bte.” These are conse quences of segregation and dis crimination. Negro disadven tagement has produced unhap py cultural patterns—result in nonformalized mail tel ar rangements. a high level of il legitimacy and frequent deser tion by fathers t sometimes to enable families to qualify for relief dented them when fath r are working at inadequate wages). Os course these pot ferns tend to perpetuate them selves. Neglected children are unlikely to become model par ents. What, has taken place among these impoverished people in Washington—a colonial depen dency of the. United States-- is rather frighteningly like what, has taken place among the im poverished people of Algeria, a colonial dependency of Fiance. In her brilliant study of the Algerian problem. Germaine Tiilion emphasizes the hopeless pauperization of the Algerians because they ore unabapted to the conditions of contemporary industrial life: they cannot break out of the captivity of their condition without heroic help. And*this is no less true of many Negroes in the District of Columbia. How can their adaptation be accelerated here? The means must be found in education, in job training, in the opening up of economic opportunity, in ac culturation which will bring them into consonance with community patterns and. as Mr. Shea insists, on a much more generous form of public assistance which will put its premium on family responsi bility rather than on irrespon sibility. Commissioner Karrick's reaction that he cannot en dorse Mr Shea’s ideas, much as he sympathizes noth them, because they would imperii "a balanced budget” seems rather strange. Mr. Shea's program will cost, money to be sure but not nearly so much money as continued parsimony and* ne glect. —THE WASHINGTON POST * * * * and rains or storms blistering blasts. it. A nation that produce;? men of deep spirit and poetic mind, who like the lyricist, GEORGE KEITH, who packed power in his every line . . . who put principle above the dollar to Inspire men of every nation, ns lie wrote by Divine guid anrr. “HOW FIRM A FOUN DATION.” 12. If all living human beings in America would now follow this unfortettable THEME, the future of our potentially strong nation would become a reality and not, a dream: for under this sacred inscription “IN GOD WE TRUST”, and abhoring all sin and lust, we could then be assured through the following, gripping words of the pool, that, all would be safe for our land . . . “Fear not I am with thee. O be not dismayed For i am thy God, T will still give the aid; I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to Upheld by My gracious, Omnipotent hand. Upheld b.v Mv gracious, Omnipotent hand, stand HOW THEY MUST WRITE. AND SPELL It. seems amazing that in an institution of higher learning would find it necessary, bul a large northern university has cracked down on a prickly problem that faces many col leges today—the inability of students to write and spel! ror rectly. At Fairleigh Dickinson Uni versity, which has 13 000 un - dei-RTaduates -at three campus es, stringent rules are already in effect. The most drastic Every student, whose writing falls below “college-level stan dards’ will be required to re peat the first semester of fresh man English which stresses composition. Die student wdi not, be al lowed to graduate until iie has passed the course. The faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson is at tempting to come to grips with the startling- inability of many college graduates to write and spel! It. isn’t a question of pro ficiency in foreign languages, but of minimum ability in the native tongue. Colleges and universities have inherited students inade quately grounded in funda mentals. Happily, those in charge of the elementary school levels have apparently started to rectify the laxity of scholastic standards which re sulted in high school graduates who could not write, read and spell, high school graduates who often went on to obtain a college degree with this alar ing, elemental deficiency in their education unmarred by any contact, with knowledge. Some sins committed in the name of “progressive educa tion." it appears had nothing to do with education at, a!!, progressive or otherwise. —THE SAVANNAH EVENING PRESS * # ♦ * AffIMiDATIOV OF NEGRO SCHOOLS It might, to a revelation to Negroes of North Carolina.. If nor state education officials, to lea in that so far as the South ern Association of Colleges and ftf 81* ECUS 8 BOCiaiE! DEHMIION Os BOY In mv English Composition 1-A classes, 1 a* one time or another teach the topic 'she Logical Definition ” For a unique definition of "BOV”, m.v students might do well to take note of the word in THE PRENNIAL ALMANAC by Thad Stem, Jr. The review er of this book says the author defines a boy better than any "•v;i,er since the Elizabethans ‘ Weil, f don i know about that) But it is picturesque A boy is that thing with the eyi,s of an eagle, the reflexes of a tiger, the appetite of a wolf, and th<' enthusiasm of a gamecock. He wants morn good talking and. less television, more Scout Masters and fewer Santa Clauses ” (No student, it is nm lone ! -—I can {.ell you that 1 ) THE \lt !> Wtl S Mi Corn.yard, 4 squu f ’. ~tp pea red before ’Die Mesdaruer- Chib in what was railed the Annual Emily- Post lecture Thr ove hoy made a (u.n pas when he talked on I'he Female Blacklist' He talked about the type--, of females that s-nnoy male-, namely;—- t. The r omgr: who wears f,or> much make-up 2. The, “phony intellectual .2," The Bi>| who puts on a helpless act. 4 The pseudo-sophisticate 5 The bossy type who “take; over" and po:;;rs Hie dale roo r,non The l-inggir Bottom < omirr recently pul lixhed nn article o; n nmn who nursed a bruised eye because the Elm Bujldnc has excel tent, j-.iiitotiat sei \ ■ ice. U serin thal the man walk rd t.hroueh a spotlessly clean dooi Vito Klin. It 1 :hr second time some one has trued to stop through the un- Gordon R, Hancock’s Tnr TASK or KfCKO LEADERSHIP It, is more than passing strange that the cradle of Ne gro enterprise was not In Bos ton, -‘Freedom's Birth place,’ lint, in Richmond the fkipito! of the Confederacy Upon their emancipation. Negroes’ of the South bestirred llirm.olvr;- to find ways and men ns to meet the challenge that segregation was forcing upon them. Those were very heroes who laid the foundations of Negro enter prise, such as the once famous ’ True Reformei I'hcy i dlied with an amazing di play of or ganizational genius, which p. •■n today is not. excelled. The True Reformer.- set. the pace for progress ot Negro en terprise. which is sorely needed today. Those men and women who laid the foundations oi that once grat enterprise, were indeed leaders with great vision and vigor. Just as the True R lormers was built by a vision and vigor. Just ar Secondary Schools i- concern ed there is nol a single Negro high school in this entire state that is accredited. Add to this f.li? fact, that of the five state educational institutions of higher learning operated foi Negroes that is only one of them that lies hen accredit ed b.v the Association and you have a, gloomy picture of who! Negro citizens of North Caro lina. In.ve been suffering as a result of the vicious segregat ed school system which this slate operates When is is considered that even the small! si state educa tional institutions for lrighci learning, devoted to the train ing of whites and Indians, are accredited b.v the Association if becomes even more obvious that efforts of state officals to hold the line against an inte grated school system is design ed primarily to keep the Nemo citizens of the state from reap ing the benefits of the bcy.i ed ucational opportunities which the state- has to offer it- other citizens. The CAROLINA TIMES has not been able as yet to deter mine just who is responsible for kepmg Negro high ‘ school* oi the state from becoming ac credited b.v the Southern As s’n of Colleges and Secondary Schools. L% it the fault of state officials? la it the fault of the principals who head the Negro schools? Or is ii the lault. of the Association itself. These are the questions that this news papn would lii-.s to have an swered before it can a-k Negro citizens to withhold an incrcn.-e of action in the federal courts to bring about a hasty imple mentation of the V 8 Supreme Court rulings on the matter of segregation in the public schools of this stale. The aid of fairminded white citizens in every community in North Carolina should be sought in the, struggle to have made available the best education which the. state has to offer for all its people without, regard to race. Covtainly there are thou; ands of them ail over the state who would not he saistied with knowing that North Carolina is so unfair as to deny equal edu cation opportunities to children because heir race. TVioy. with courageous and progres sive Negro citizens, can move ku.nri in hand in the du retain of the. goal once the fact, is revested that such a gross injustice is being main tained. _ the CAROLINA TIME" opened door sfr Comytfd Tis •he first- one. MAIL CARRIER A PROBLEM When I tell you this, yon sr» bound to pity the poor postal worker m Boston. Mass. His is tiie largest postal district in the-? United States. Within this district there *r* 40 at ree's named * darns. 22 Clelands, 35 Hancock', 14 •frifiersons. 2! Jacksons. 31 Ma - dc,f.-ns. 25 Grants and 59 Wash ington streets. Ha! Ha! Ha’ A teacher was examining th* class on the moral law and ask ed for a definition of “Si nr. V Omission. A bright, Sunday School pupil was quick with the answer Maid he, “They ar* sim. we should have committed but didn’t” iff i "ere grading this pa nr. i "-quid put do' ir n ninety five*. fete and repeat rhe newspapers report that a ’i year-old girl in Washis®- ton r, C . has sued a Isimdro n-t,;; because one of its drying machines melted a. pair ot fgi .* v'. arid ruined h*t laundry to the amount of S4O Ts should be noted, howrepgg*, that, the la'indry filed a, coun ter suit in. which -.fc claimed the me!ti-.fi fgisies burned out the machine and resulted in slOl damages, iWho's gonns pay*- who? That’s what I want to knc*» ?> HR.OTHFIt CORNYARD Hid ! pvpi lel] you a-bbUt th» time that Brother Cornyard, who had .beer, drinking, was ven iby the Lew, of courser .vnvnr his way down sh« •.tieet until he came to a* „ mounted polloetnan, then walk out. in the street, and next ki -.sed i.’n r horse I'iie judge finer) him $3.50 lor breach of the peace. <Tf yo>i a,u him aheiul it,, h® will d B n” it. stoutly.. l f.jie T in.-- Rf-fnrtT’.eS'S njs fytlUt by a ere at, Negro leadership, if failed for the lack of greet leadership. At this writing the aid Tru< Reformers shall m R-icrmond is being razed The once Great. True Re formers organization is but s memory of its glory of being the first great example of th 4 Negro's organizational ability which will not. fade from fch e p-igrs oi Negro history, Th 4 True Re funner organization as such is to all intents and piuposcs dead, but its spirit !.-o,\s marching on. Its phenom oust rise and its deplorable fail were matters of leadership Some years ago. Virginia Union offered an extension course in social psychology in Suffolk, i was sent to give th 4 course, and while in Suffolk, the fact was revealed that N« g-oes in that city had on d»- por.il. in the banks several mil iums of dollars. There arose = clamour for a Negro bank to iiandle .sonic of the Negroes' money The organization of « Negro h-iuk was effected and the maUei of president was so an forced to the for 4 A successful business man was proposed. but. turned doom forthwith because of his limit ed knowledge of handling mon - cy. The principal of the ele mentary school was proposed a id hr was voted down for the reason The city's only Negro physician was proposed and al so voted down as being well.- .--killed in medicine but poorly skilled in the knowledge d# handling thetr million dollar enterprise. The board of director* ftoal i.v decided that there was only one Negro in Suffolk the Dee - nut Capitol of the world, who understood and that was the Nr am ianit.or at the white bunk. He was onthusiastically and unanimously elected a* president of tlic newly organis ed Negro hank OI course, tli* bank cams to grief and what mors eouSd have been expected of a. board ot Trusi.ee.-, .so naive a* to sleet ,i janitor as president, because ii- knew hanking ** a. result of his cleaning chores around s wkdte bank. Wp have today about th* country many fine examples of successful Ncrro banking. Th,* success of these banks is I matin oi Negro leadership In the pas!,, much, of the Negro's enterprise has been rooted in the Negro’s resentment of seg rogation and its evil concomi tants. In other words in t-b» oast the Negro's frame of re ference has been segregation, just as our nation’s greatest, frame of reference has been th* doings of Soviet, Russia. But wuiat we must boar in mind is that race pride as well as me 4 prejudice can be an effective fi-nme ot vef<Tencr. Building up and maintaining ri'.wr, tmen* against prejudic® and segregation ought to 1» don% but building up a rat* undo that, eventuates into N«- crp enterprise ought, not to be left undone.. Those, big league. Negro bass it players who participated m wonderfully in the late world s< rics. not only played, to keep the opposition from, scoring tout they went, about, scoring them selves and covered themselvr# with, baseball glory. Noai and .-is two home nms in game waa not n defensive *a»t* ter but, an offensive one. All of the energies es our*«*?s. leadership are concentrated cat building a resentment of s@**s> rogsd-lon, Whose hudS*f* to this?
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