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HAT UIGH, N, C., SATURDAY. MAT U, i 960 4 Editorial Viewpoint n-pjjjg'*' i J mill. 4 , -LI.I.II—UUAU.. -iri iinrfimTiiir-f [ i ——| g| r ——— The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP j "I have overcome the world.” There Is nothin* Is history so majestic! Already one of his disciples had slipped away to betray him. That very night the soldiers would take him, bind him. throw him into prison. The priests and Pahrisees whom he had taunted would have their turn to taunt him now. Jesus would be harried through the streets like a hunted thing, the butt of every corner loaf er’s jest. All this he anticipated, and w ith the vis ion of it fresh before his mind, he lifted his head and looked beyond, into the far distent a*e«. “Be of good cheer,” he said to them in tones whose splendor thrills us even now. “I have overcome She world!” They went into the garden where so many of tfeetr happy hours had been spent. The very air w*a fraught with their most scared confidences. Under this tree they had gathered for worship, while the setting sun glided the towers of the city; Religious Home: Better Government Last week we called your attention to the fact that Grady Davis of Shaw University was running on a platform epitomized in the slo gan: “Putting Christianity in Government to Make It Better.” That good government should have a moral and religious tone was recognized by former President Calvin Coolidge several decades ago. Coolidge said: "We do not need more material development; we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power; w'e need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge ; we need more character. We do not need more government: we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion.” If the citizens of Raleigh and Wake County want good government—and the majority of the citizens do w r ant sound administration— then they must work and put in office peoph Use Os Germ Warfare Is Fanaticism The Army is attempting to secure public backing of the idea that gas and germ warfare should be used as a legitimate means of de fense. This attempt should arouse a great cry of indignation through the entire nation. The very idea that we would spread disease should be deemed incompatible with Ameri can ideals. Yet, you should know that our Ar my Chemical Corps is stockpiling flies infected with plague, cholera, dynestery and other germs and toxins. We oppose this idea on religious, practical, and human grounds. The Golden Rule, which is accepted as the basis for our national moral ity’. requires us to refrain from producing such atrocities even if the contention is true that the Russians are preparing for germ warfare. An essay titled “Bread and Hyacinth”, writ ten by the distinguished professor, William H. Comog. asked the question: Is life a ferry boat run from breakfast to job to home to tele vision set to bed and so to breakfast? With millions of people in this country, life is just that. They are living lives of monotony, and therefore they are merely existing. See the public school each morning going to class to lunch in the cafeteria to class then back home to housecleaning to supper, to television or correcting of papers to bed. The minister’s life becomes routine, for he goes to the same meetings each week, and looks forward to the eleven o’clock sermon. The business man lives for opening his store, ringing the cash register until it runs hot. tak ing inventory, and closing for the day. This is A Look At Professors Salaries The upward trend in the salaries of college professors throughout the nation is indeed en couraging. But still the salaries are poor, ac cording to a recent survey by the American As sociation of University Professors. The average pay of approximately 64 000 full-time faculty members at 323 institutions of higher learning was cited at $7,050 for 1959- 1960. However, the average for each classifica tion. including fringe benefits, was $10,789 for professors, $8,124 for associate professor. $6.- 840 for assistant professors, and $5,542 for in structors. For the institutions included in the study Sfeere was an increase of 6.6 per cent for the current school year over that of th preceding year. It should be noted that the increase was 7.1 per cent for the professors, While these figures are encouraging, we must take a realistic look at the salaries paid in our What is courage? It takes courage to wear threadbare clothes while one’s friends e re wear ing silks and satins. It takes courage to say “no” when everybody is saying “yes”. It takes courage to be laughed at. scoffed, ridiculed, misjudged. It took courage for Christopher Columbus to insist that the world was round when all others said it was flat. It took courage for Rog er Bacon to announce that someday airplanes would soar above the earth, for he was looked upon as a heretic and sentenced to jail for this radical statement.. Is Life A Ferryboat Run? What Is Courage? In the waters of that brook they had found re- j freshment; to the left and right of them the vei 1 stones cried out in heartrending reminder of tk t days that were gone. j Even at that hour it was not too late for hi to have saved his life. Supposed he had said: have delivered my message faithfully, and it is t use. Judas has gone already to bring the soldie they will be her in half an hour. Wiry should stay and die? It is only eighteen miles to Jerich bright moonlight and down hill all the way. Oi friend Zacchaeus will be glad to see us We ca j reach his house by day light, rest tomorrow’, cro the Jordan and do useful w'ork the rest of or, i lives. The disciples can fish; I can open a carpen ter shop, and teach in a quiet way. I have don everythin* that could be expected of me. Wh ! not?” And Jesus did overcome ttje world. His gospc' has been preached to the utmost ends of the earth W'ith sincerely honest and Christian ideas. Grn dy Davis is both honest and Christian. Today our greatest danger in this country i from within, And we need in office men wh< will serve without the stimulus of war. withou' public recognition, in positions which are im portant for the survival of the democratic ideal The only stimulus Grady Davis needs is the problems of humanity around him. Grady Davis will do everything to keep God given heritage which is yours today. You. as a citizen, can do no less than to work and vote unceasingly for Reverend Davis as one of the three men to fill the three seats in th N. C. House from Wake County. In order to legislate on the great issues be fore us, we need men whose judgment is temp ered by a prevading moral and religious tone in government. In Grady Davis we have such a candidate. To pledge the use of germ and gas warfare is somewhat equivalent to national suicide should another war come. Once the germs are spread, they may even wipe out their makers. The whole idea is fanaticism and may hasten the extinction of mankind on the face of the earth. With our scientific know-how', there must be a humanizing force to keep our vast assort ment of mechanisms of war from getting out of hand. Germ and gas warfare is too cruel for civilized and Christian people to even think about. Will our nation allow' itself to be driven to fear, or will it assume the moral leadership in a sick world? repeated more than 200 times each year And we could go on and on! Our schools should train our youth for a moral and spiritual adventure in life, so that they may learn the fine art of living—and not just existing. Our schools should chart some stars to live by and find some human values to be the seasoning tone. For some reason, the masses of men work themselves to endless graves trying to acquire the material things of the world. In so doing, they forget the liberating knowledges - art. music, literature, and history—which free and exalts the mind. In so doing, they fail to realize the value in the dignity of man and the pre ciousness of every soul. Professor Cornog said that he was for let ting some of the bread go and buying hyacinth to feed his soul. So are we! Negro colleges. We doubt that more than a half dozen professors earn the ten thousand figure. Actually the average professor in the Negro college earns a little more than $5,000 for a nine month period. This would amount to the average paid to instructors in the na tion. The best salaries are now being paid Negro professors in state colleges and universities. This is making it difficult for the church-re lated and private college to compete for teach er with superior training. We are urging the members of our various denominations, and especially denominations with predominantly Negro membership, to in crease their annua! contributions five folds. Unless you- do this, your favorite college can not remain in the education business much longer. It is easy to lead a battalion irt war when everybody is following you, but it took cou rage and nerve for Amelia Bloomer to appear in public in a divided skirt, once known as bloomers in her honor. It was the first eman cipation of women’s dress. Then there were Damon and Pythias, two of the most courageous individuals. Yet neither one ever faced an enemy. They showed so much confidence m each other that one willing to sacrifice his life for the other. That is real courage. Hate groups And Segregationists Must Not Be Permitted To Debase Her SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP “FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG" BV REV FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY FOR ANP There are many church-go ers who could name the author of this line, but perhaps very few like Paul, its spiritual depts could define. For this epigrammatic sen tence, bearing truth bv contrast seemed to embrace the spirit ual ingredients that aided Paul to be determined and steadfast. Along The Colonial Front BY A. J. SIGGINS SOMETHING’S ROTTEN IN DENMARK Eric Louw’s press conference at South Africa House in Lon don, attended by over 100 jour nalists, produced a flood of hostle questions often scathing and pointed—but this did not shake the South African Min ister for External Affairs. He did not sidestep any ques tions and stood fast to the Union of South Africa’s apar theid policy. This policy means that Afri cans would be free to live in Bantustans and be given every assistance to develop until they could stand up for themselves —is the way Louw put it. He then exploded a bomb shell by saying that other Prime Ministers of the British Com monwealth of Nations support ed the South policy. When ask ed to name them, he refused. WHO ARE THE GUILTY? But the damage was done. Youw had. in fact, accused cer tain Commonwealth Prime Min isters of double-dealing by overtly opposing apartheid out covertly supporting it. Who were those double-cross ing ministers? The cowards who feared to say openly what they said in private—which was. as they knew against the opinions of a majority of the world, of the Commonwealth members and of their own peple. They What Other Editors Say GEORGIA PACES A DECISION In a move toward breaking Georgia’s present adamant stand against any degree of school de segregation, an 11-8 majority of the State School Study Commit tee has recommended a local option system of school opera tion and pupil assignment But the close committee vote and the prevailing public attitude on desegregation in Georgia make the immediate prospects for a more flexible school racial poli cy in that state highly uncertain The committee’s majority re port recommended that the }>co pie of Georgia be allowed to vote on a ‘freedom of choice" program under which local school boards would have au thority to assign pupils on the basis of certain criteria. The plan includes a tuition grant sy stem .for children withdrawn from desegregated schools or left without schools if they should lie closed by state law or court ordear. Local school district voters would have the choice of deciding whether their desegregated schools would be closed. The proposed Georgia program Is similar to the North Carolina program with its 1955 pupil assignment act sod the Pearsall plan, Virginia and Ala bama assignment plans are of this same general type. The Georgia committee vote Truly, as a minister of the Gospel, these words of Paul were always cherished by me, but never sensed their real un til a certain Heavenly vision I could see. It took place in Wesley Hos pital in 1955, when I hardly knew' I u'as dead or alive, yet in a conscious moment and fully awake, I cried, "OH God.’ if you will just give me a wink of sleep, I will be most grateful.” Then suddenly a heavenly sight no one else could believe. must be found and forced to repeat in public their state ments in private, for the honor of the Commonwealth. I REPEAT: WHO ARE THEY? Speculation runs riot. Were they Harold Macmillan, Aus tralia's Menzies, New Zealand’s Nash. Sir Roy Welensky of the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaiand? If so, are Af ricans in those territories doom ed to suffer apartheid if the whites there are given self government. Was it Field Marshall Ayub Kan of Pakistan or Jawaharlal Nehur of India? Unthinkable, seeing that all their people are dead against it. But . . . ? Was it Kwame Nkrumah. who has invited Louw to Ghana? Canada’s Diefenbaker, Ceylon's Goory or Tengku Abdul Raman of Malaya. It could not have been. Macmillan will have to face not only Krushchev at the Summit meeting, but the world. He will have to state that he stands for fundamental hu man rights. And. as he and other West ern Sumitters allege they stand for the “free world" and have attacked on numerous occasions the “slavery” under Commun ism, the world will be listening intently to his description of apartheid and all race and color discriminatory laws in the Commonwealth do, in fact, on the proposal reflected the sharp division of opinion in the state on the school racial issue Eight members filed a strong minority report caling for ever, stouter segregation laws. And when urged by a legislator to call a special session of the Georgia Legislature to act this summer on the local option pro posal. Governor Vandiver's first reaction was against t.he idea. He said it, would be “fruitless". But meanwhile Atlanta is under federa, court order to desegrate its schools. Under existing Georgia laws, the city is denied the right to work out its own school de segregation problems. Federal Judge Frank A. Hoover has granted Atlanta a reasonable period of time in which to com ply with the desegregation ord ers of the court. Bat it is doubt ful that he would wait until 19- 62 for Georgia citizens to vote on a Iocs! option school Isw be fore acting in the Atlanta case He has set May 9 as the date for a new hearing on the Atlanta order At that time he may de signate a definite compliance date. If assured that the study committee’s proposed amend ment, would be voted on by the Legislature arid the people this year, he- might give Atlanta an other year’s delay- Georgia officials and the p*®- a full form of JESUS appeared before me, my pains to relieve; and just as quickly as did ap pear this heavenly vision, my slumber w r as resumed ‘till morn ing light had arisen. Trials and tribulations cer tainly have their place, but it is wonderful to know that vic tory is promised through Grace; to Paul, was once an unknown! quantity, but when he became weak in his arrogance and false pride he found it his everlast ing bounty. support what he and 90 percent of mankind abhors. The Communists say they have to have discipline in their fight against Want, therefore they assert their regimentation is justified. Is apartheid justified in South Africa? In Central and East Africa as well? Is Aus tralia's and Canada's ban on colored immigrants justified? Do all people of the British Commonwealth agree with the “skin allergies" policies of Aus tralia. Canada, New Zealand. South, Central and East Africa? If not all. how many do agree' 1 President Eisenhower is per haps wise to plan a rttreat to Portugal if his seat gets too hot. but for Macmillan and the others, there is no escape. They win have to stay and face the music. And as all Communist and mast, colored newspaper men. cartoonists and propagan da merchants have ail the ma terial worked up already, one can imagine with what joy their presses will turn out billions of real juicy stuff ail fully endors ed by Western leaders. Good propaganda must have a basis in truth. The Commun ists have their basis all right and not all the wheat in the U S., nor all the pork in Canada will be sufficient to stay the mouths of millions of both white and colored people who will scourge the hypocrites pie of thai state quite obviously are nearing the point of deci sion on the desegregation issue They may choose, as Virginia chose, to meet the issue head on ■with massive resistance. But the plan that failed in Virginia and also at Little Rock is noi likely to succeed in Georgia The pupil assignment plan administered at the local level has proved thus far. at least, the best approach to the school de segregation question Under the complicated conditions exiting in the South, what other plan is realistic, or practical? Georgia through legislative and voter action may still have a chance to invoke such a program and avoid the school closings thal occurred at Little Rock and in Virginia. —WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL NAACS*: ISOLATING THE NEGRO POLITICALLY Growing political strength of the Negro race in American po litics was emphasized recently in a Raleigh speech by Jackie Robinson, the former baseball star. Speaking under the auspices of the NAACF, Robinson point ed to the recent Wisconsin pri mary election as an example of tbs application of organized Ne gro voting strength to a political situation. JUST FOR FUN BY MARCUS H. BOULWABK NOT AGAIN I have never seen a stamp ma chine that is out of order so much as the one in the main post office building on Fayette ville Street. Friday the paper pasted on the machine’s face read. “Out of Ordej " (red penciled) Someone with s sense of hu mor added (in blueback ink) the word “AGAIN'' 1 had a de lightful chuckle. What I suggest is that the post office install a new stamp ma chine. and send the present one to the grave yard WHAT A HAZARD? The New York Court of Ap peals recently upheld a $228 workmen's compensation award to a messenger hoy who had in jured his eye while shootin.; paper clips with a rubber hand Such activity, the court held, can be properly associated with an office boy's job (Don't get any ideas, Mr Comyard ) CATTLE THIEF Take note of the Cattle Thief of the Year. Three cows stolen from s dairy farmer in Oldham. England, were not found in the barn of a neighbor who was und er suspicion, according to the London Daily Mail, as reported by the NANA However, the police wondered why the suspected thief was sleeping in the hayloft. Investigation revealed that two cows were lodged iry his bedroom and another in his bathroom. Well, I wonder what did the Gordon B. Hancock's BETWEEN THE LINES THAT BRITISH ROYALTY This writer is unalterably and bitterly opposed to the im- In Wisconsin, he declared, the Negroes voted four to one in favor of the presidential nomi nation of Senator Humphrey as opposed to the nomination of Senator Kennedy. This, Robinson implied, was because Humphrey had the mosi favorable views on the race question He hastened to add that Ken nedy had an acceptable record on the race question, but that Kennedy was smirched by the support of the governor of Ala bama and the White Citizens Councils, What. Robinson seemed to he trying to say was that as tar as the organized Negroes are con cerned any candidate who ac cepts support of organized se gregationists is accepting the kiss of death in northern locali ties where large blocs of Ne groes vote rnmnssc at the direc tion of the NAACP We won't, argue with Robin son on that score there are ma ny localities south of the Mason - Dixon line where the candidate who accepts the support of thi NAACP also accept- the km of death. The regrettable tiling about the situation is that t o intimi dation of candidates by organiz ed racist pressure both above and below the Mason-Dixon lire has a tendency to create a political race issue between Ne groes and whites, Pursued to its obvious conclu sion it will eventually create a Negro political party and a white political party, a situa tion in which the minority Ne gro will find himself at a distinct political disadvantage. In other words the NAACP may gain some temporary politi cal advantage by negotiating the organized Negro vote as a bal ance of power sort of thine but the fact of that negotiation is calculated to result in the long range as the isolation of the Ne gro politically. Organized bloc voting of the Negro through! the machinations of the NAACP is pointing at his political segregation. —FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER SIT-IN SITUATION THE CHAIN STORE ROLE Concerning the recent wave of >ot-in demonstrations against variety chain store eating facili ties in the South, Chain Store Age, a publication, comments with a good deal of truth that for the present these stores “con tinue to lie helpless hostages of a conflict they did not create and are povverles tn avert." At the same time the editors of Chain Store Age would do well tn make a factual re-exam ination of eating facilities pro vided in the stores under dis cussion. especially in light of their stated impression that these stores 'attempt to satisfy both Negro and white customer? as best they can by installing eating facilities for both" and their further impression that, “segregated dining facilities" are furnished. One of the weakness of s:nw of the variety chain stores in the sit-in controversy has been that, they have provided some eating facilities for one race, and no eating facilities for the other. By the same token one of the weaknesses of the sit-in agita tors is that they have expressed an unwillingness to settle sos “equal but separate" eating faci lities and have taken a firm stand for nothing lev; than com pletely integrated facilities Tl! ! s attitude puts them more in conflict with white custom than it does with chain store practices. --FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER wife says? That is, if he had one SIZE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE With little boys size makes a difference. A teacher who had been talking about the Golden Rule and the principle of turn tne-other-cheek asked one of her pupils: ‘•Willie, what would you do supposing a hoy hit you?" To which Willie replied. “Ho-, big a boy are you sunoosing’' WRONG CURE A school teacher wrote to the parents of a little boy: “Your boy, Charles, show signs of astigmatism. Will von please investigate and take steps to correct it?” The next morning she received a reply from the boy's father, who wtote, “I don't exact!.', understand what Charlie ha? done, but. I walloped him to night and can wallop him tomor row That ought to help some.” Instead of seeking a cure or solution to the problem at the time, the parents should have made an effort to obtain more information and knowledge a bout the situation Just think the boy had an eye defect for which he was wal loped in good fashion. ON OMR WAY Pretty soon Mr. Comyard and myself will be en route to Tal lahassee, Florida, where I will he teaching courses in speech pathology and audiology this summer. Don't worry, I shall ki ep him in line. But he will make a delightful companion in spite of our arguments. plications and traditions of a royalty based upon the acci dent of birth. Many crimes and shames have been committed in the name of royalty through many generations, and the soon er the notion of a royalty based upon birth is banished from the minds of men. the better. But as roytlay goes, that Brit ish royalty is tops and royalty in the British tradition has some thing fascinating about it. The recent marriage of Princess Margaret to Anthony Arm strong Jones, a commoner, for instance. It was a gorgeous af fa.r, viewed from any angle. In other words that British royalty is royalty at its best. Margaret deported herself like the daughter of a king. If the younger generation of English men feel compelled to imitate their Princess Margaret, they will have good manners. She has set the modern world a great example in making great decisions. When the time came for her to decide whether to live true to the British tradition or for get everything except her own wishes she lived up a great tra dition. although it meant the temporary crucifixion of her heart's desires. She thought not so much of herself, but her royalty's great tradition. Unlike so many other royal! ies who are too well known by then scandals and esca pades. the British royalty is known for its sobriety and de cency and courtly living. The world will wish Margaret well for she has blessed the world with one.of its finest ex amples of stalwart character She is fortunately not an ex ample of the Hollywood tradi tion with its dollar royalty, where husband and wife swap ping has become disgustingly nauseating to decent people. 'I here is no better example o! the integrity of British royalty than the casting out of their Duke of Windsor with his Wal lis Simpson. They simply let him go his way and today he is one of the world's mast piti ful creatures. He broke a Brit ish tradition and Britain broke with him and that is as It should have been When Princess Margaret had to decide between her own wishes and those of an empire, she made the decision as a king's daughter should have done It is safe to say that when the then King Edward gave up a throne to marry be low the British royalty level, he proved himself the .sorriest in a long royal line. The integrity of the British royalty is shown by their per sistence in rejecting the now forgotten Duke of Windsor. As royalty goes we repeat, that British Royalty is tops. What Uv-i British royalty has done for the Europe and the world by its stern moral integ rity, the Fords and the Rocke fellers are doing for this coun try. Money simply does not make a fool of a Ford or a Rockefeller. Feet’s Corner THE WAGES OF TIME BY WILLIS B. KELLER i For ANP) One day I saw a young oak tree Right where an old oak used to be, I’d stayed to watch the old oak frown. The day they came to cut. It down. 1 watched the young oak grow in grace. To spread new ehann across my face. Bo Sturdy and so quick to bear. The pride of all creations there. But then, like old oak, years came by To raffle it and make it cry, The sun, the wind, the rain and snow, I&tcb gave to it « hearty blow.