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4 immsutmatp BAUKIGH, I*. C_. SATTDSOAT. DECEMBER 17, ISSO Editorial Vtetvp i I The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP A number of people taik about their religion, but dc nothing This danger has been eloquently ?xpres-ed by C. S Lewis’ devil in The Screwtap* Letter as he refers to his efforts to tempt the good man “The great tiring is to prevent his doing anything. As long as he does not convert into ac tion. it does not matter how much he thinks about Harrison Library After 25 Years Recently the Richa-d B. Harrison Library ot which Mrs. Mollie H Lee ; s head librarian celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary The history of its growth reads like a fairy story Through the enterprise of he Negro citizens, die N C. Library Commission, the N C. De partments of Public Instruction, enough mon ies were raised to start the library in a rented storeroom in a Negro section of the city According to the narrative the City Com missioners appropriated the 'irst $2,500 while Hie county gave a sum of $750. The money raised by Negroes was used to purchase needed equipment Thus with 890 books, the library opened on November -2. 1935 Since that date, the library has made tremendous strides through continual growth nd development Now housed in its present ’oration, the Rich Training Students For Citizenship The Eisenhower’s Committee on National Goals for Citizenship Training in secondary schools recently made tome recommendations The first response to these recommendations came from nine Nostfasastern states The Tufts Uonreraity Civic Education C«n her, probably the on&y university-based project w the Unateai State devoted to the improve ****** of ciarar edunatlinii. is serving as a clearing Btwsse for resmsurmss and guidarce. Every mt in: tSin nation would benefit from the program as teacher training and student es&rousmgjraiMsnt: m <hvie leadership and improv «agf drawr cdtazst&m for high school students «4w» «nl wst go tt> arrilege 3® tbs Tter Mtwi State we find high school sssssferses fwnßaflJv as well nformed as their rWters *« liww-mHtttars. but there is still much aw- can «tb aftossf ttrnchmg civic educaion. Thartars «f Bfcgro students have an addi The Jacksonville Decision Jgmsmmy 9 wail' lie the effective date of an in aasttßamrtg the City of Jacksonville, S®®a aqpmiHng any of its recreational ferfßfe vs® «> racially segregated basis. This Saw ssjomtfcd the death- knell for segregat @®nKastbsrr«f facilities throughout the entire SkmA. ®«*2Sain||- that the city might seek to evade <*■*3***# aaalvthe order through subterfuges and orateah ffecilities to private concerns and the judge made a sweeping but 4fefi»i3fed order. For example, the order stated in f«t l£«t the facilities should be integrated ■*ta&*£&sy operated by the defendant city or bv onddr any form of base rental, license *r rnmxmkm (tom the city.’’ Sanaing tb'st the city officials would find w®9«B ami meetis of getting around carrying out osxter if made too genera' the judge made apaeifkh parks, tennis courts. msitsmmm pools muncipal zoo, Jacksonville ®*jsds»H Rark, Qator Bowl and Jacksonville Is AMA Abusing Its Power? m us know good doctors who have de th-eir lives to the relie* of physical pain f 3©i*i rawrartel shocks our bodies and minds are I Therefore, it ir hard to imagine them MBWaßt'Wely defying the President-elect long hie even assumes his official duties, in his wfttawajjt to put through Congress nis promised legislation of tying to Social Security and hospital aid for our senior citizens. Tftfe fk*t impulse would be to declare that nSfeJ opposition is the strongest argument that tsm bfc presented by the new President and Jifefcr sponsors for the enactment of such legis- in behalf of senior citizens. Since the A (SBfkfan Medical Association has vigorously agepoasd all social legislation aimed at better ii®t materially and physically, the well being 'rf’tfct' people in general, we wonder if the or s*ss**at»on is not its power. We like to think that this is not the actual .issfcfy of the individual members—some 179,- 9®*h doctor* in the AMA - which, in the final *WtbbH«, is a union of physicians, but as one is being headed by a seemingly Jimmy Hktffa who would deny the aged adequate medi care for which they are unable to pay Our doctor* are not denied but freely parti spate in the mechanical and scientific benefits t<v present-day living. Should they be pressured irtto denying aged citizens the benefits of mo University Curriculum Re-Organized The Pennsylvania State University announc ed in October the adoption of & four-term aca demic year designed to speed the educational process. President Eric A. Walker asserted that the mounting flood of college-bound youth and he pressures of the times dictated the adoption of an academic program which would utilize »he university's human and material resources on a year-round basis. The new academic year will differ from the oki in two important respects. Instead of the traditional two semesters of !5 weeks each, the university will switch to four terms of 10 weeks each. Class periods will be lengthened from 50 minutes to 75 minutes with a 20-minute inter val between .-lasses. Total time spent in classes, course organization, and credit structure will remain unchanged. this new repentance. Let the brute wallow in it . The more often he feels without acting, the lees he will ever be able to act. and, in the long run, the less able he will be able to feel." Talk without performance is evidence of lack of sincerity, i “Even as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.") —JAMES 2:26 ard B. Harrison Library ha . a unique collec tion of books for its size Through the foresight and planning of Mrs. Mollie H. Lee. librarian, the library dots not entirely duplicate other li brary holdings, but rather a reader finds there oobks that he cannot find at 'wo local colleges. In short, one is arnaz d to ( nd the .variety of books in most any field to fit the needs of the readers. In the Richard B Harrison Library one will bnd the atmosphere of a library in one's own some. Its smallness makes it unique in this respect. And yet it is not small when we think of the rang< of s« evicts provided the commun ity. We take pride in congratulating Mrs Lee and the ef f cient and friendly staff for 25 years of progress tional duty when they teach high school young sters civic education. They must face impor tant questions fired at them by students who realize that segregation and discrimination pre vent them from exercising their full rights as citizens of the commonwealth Presently because of racial origin, Negro h-gh school students cannot nope to be govern ors of states in the North md South legis lators in the South, and holders of public offi ces in most Dixie counties and municipalites. How can they reconcile themselves to the dis criminations they face in the use of public fa cilities for which they and ♦heir parents also pay taxes? In any form of civn education, teachers of Negro students cannot tench tas it is presented in guides anel textbooks They must fill in the missing parts that historians and political sci entists have seen fit to omit. Coliseum, and all types >f entertainment, games, sports, amusements or recreaion therein to which he public is admit*- d, and attendant facilities thereto such as (bu* not limited to) rest rooms, picnic anas, refreshment stands, drinking fountains, entrances and exits park ing spaces, pony rides merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, miniature railroad or other riding de vices, and reserved and unreserved seating spaces or standng room . . . ” If there are any other fonns of recreations le ft out, the order takes care of these by saying “but not limited to.” This is a sign that the South must get ready for the New Order. It must honestly seek to carry out this order, and it must not be forced to do it. The South constantly says. “We won’t 'iave this or that crammed down our throats.” However, experience has shown that this is the only way the South will dc anything The South’s stubborness has continually made it a backward region. dern medical science? We hope that the rongr'.s will not let the powerful AMA lobby pressure it into denying medical and hospital aid to - itizens through a •>ystem which will, at the least cost and no profit to the Government, reach th greatest number oi beloved and mostly helpl -s*- ailing members of your and our families. This most recent > hallenpe by the AMA smacks of an abuse to an inhuman end. and •norally as indefensible as a threate-ned strike by a haughty' labor leader to bring the nation to its knees for the satisfaction of a small seg ment of the population and vainglory to him self. To counteract the powerful ’ohby of the AM- A, he masses of citizens must rally around the sponsors of the bill that will assure me dical aid --nd hospitalization to our Ider citizens We should literally flood our senators and congress men with telegrams and letters urging the sup port of this proposed legislation. Each one of us. if we liv? long enough will become an elder citizen on“ day. And all of us wil] not be wealthy enough to provide ourselves with proper medical care at a time when our ailing bodies need it most. The proposed health plan will not injure the nation’s physicians econonu-ally nor profes sionally. The new plan will make it possible for a stu dent to graduate in three calendar years. Make-up work also can be done in shorter, less costly sessions. Students who interrupt their studie for financial oi health reasons will be able to re-enter at more frequent periods Holi day interruptions will be shorter and fewer This idea is fine for the large state unvivers •ties, but for many of the N gro colleges it will not work. A number of cnurch institutions could not draw enough students during the summer to operate a summer school. Because of the general rc snomic status of Negro parents. t.he summers are needed for cbeir sons and daughters to work to help defray f part of their own college expenses. Why Most Os The World Frowns On Our Leadership PIC SENTENCE SERMONS A MOTHER’S COURAGE Meek and Tender is the REAL MOTHER, but mighty in Cour age in a vital hour. This is what God imparted 1o her to engender STRENGTH and banish FEAR. L.deed, it is one of her invalu able CHARMS, to lift her above discomforting alarms. Dark and perplexing at times a. her way may seem, she final What Other Editors Say CURE FOR MANY ILLS Norinan L. McGhee, Cleveland investment broker, in an address Monday evening before mem bers of the 18th Annual Pro fessional Agricultural Workers Conference at Tuskeegee Insti tute, Ala., urged Negroes to "meet the problems of change with an improved money man agement plan " He said, Negro leadership of the United States owes a duty to the masses to instill the de spending habits, part of then spending hbaits. part of their earnings and channel such sav ings into productive invest ments. McGhee charged that the duty of Negro leadership is to devel op a new emphasis for the at tainment of economic goals for the Negro. He remarked that his experience as an investment broker revealed that the Negro is the quickest spender and the slowest saver. However, he stai - ed that he did not believe this was due to any inherent differ ence between the Negro and other segments of the popula tion. but in his opinion, this condition was due to the failure in leadership to exalt the place of the saver above the spender. Mr McGhee, who is also s columnist of finance and invest ments, unlike many who criti cize and point out weaknesses and bad habits of our group, came up with a plan which is not only concrete, but simple and easy to perform He urged formation of the "American Investment Club" which would seek to have every Negro family in the nation make a declaration of intent to set apart 25 cents, or more, each day and through this plan make a vailable SIOO or more each year, with which to acquire shares of stock in the principal indus trial companies of America that produce and furnish the goods and services needed in their daily living. The broker declared this would produce upwards of half billion dollars annually from the 5 million Negro families in this country or investment in Ameri can enterprises which provide employment for the large ma jority of people of this country. He called attention to ten Indus trial companies whose tola) em ployees number more than 2 1-2 million persons. Named among those were. U. S. Steel, Genera! Motors, Genera! Electric, Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph. Swift Packing. A&P Stores, Standard Oil, Sears-Roebuck Co.. Ford Motor and Westing house Electric. He pointed out that owning x 'hare in American industrial companies Involves more than the cash dividends one obtains from his investment The jobs provided are also a dividend Job dividends are a crying need of the Negro. BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP 1 v bridges every tempest like a placid stream. No sacrifice, to this courage ous soul can defeat her purposes when striving toward a goal. She. like all other real soldiers v. no have gone before, knows full well it is FAITH and COURAGE that unlocks HEAV ENS door. With these Master Forces within her embrace, she pene The church was mentioned as an important source of guidance in helping the Negro raise his economic statu* This is true of all professional classes—doctors, dentists, lawyers and teachers — who also have a stake in the economic advancement of the race. Leadership among these groups should serve as a cata lytic agent to achieve for the Negro economic security and cit izenship equality, McGhee stat ed When we look around us we can readily see what Mr, Mc- Ghee is talking about Big cars, lush homes, lavish parties, fab ulous clothes and jewels out weigh sensible investments and economic security of the brother in almost any town, except sev eral in the south where owner ship of a piece of land is the uppermost thought In the minds of most every mother's son you meet. Where they had a chance they advanced. Don’t just say Mr. McGhee Is right Take heed. —THE OHIO SENTINEL CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS This year Christmas and Thanksgiving were separated by more than a month; even so. in many communities, the Christ mas decoration* went up before Thanksgiving. Shreveport was one of these communities. We observed Thanksgiving with Christmas decoration* on the streets and in some stores. Yet Thanksgiv ing this year came as early as it can never come, on the 24th of November. It is easy to criticize, of course, and there are sincere differences of opinion on the question but one cannot help but wondering whether all this early concentration on Christ mas has anything to do with the real meaning and spirit of Christmas. Or is it pure and simple an other manifestation of the com mercialization of Christmas. Certainly the annual major holi day of the Christian world is over-commercialized. Some fam ilies are in doubt for a month or two after the observance be cause of the costs of presents, cards, and all the rest. And many a housewife is worn to a num after the season! Is this what we want? Should n’t we limit the Christmas drive to December, after Thanksgiv ing? A Christmas shopping sea son extending from Decemtxv until Christmas would always allow over three weeks for shop pers. Stores could display Christmas merchandise before this time, of course, but our streets and our outdoor decora tions could at least be limited to the month of December, It would seem to be oroper and in good taste, and in keep ing with the spirit of Thanks giving, which is about to get crowded out of the picture 1« trates all impediments not easy to face, and steadfastly with COURAGE, conquers through GRACE. Then at the end of her jour ney. with wings angelic, she leaves this unfriendly world like a passing relic; and reach ing upwards to an untravelhd land, she finally experiences the majestic grip of an eternal hand tdll.tlvZH.bd-wyul'-t-dv to the rush toward the Christmas season -THE SHREVEPORT SUN THIS LIVIN’ IS KILLIN’ ME There's more truth than poeti.y io be found in the often amus ing but always education col umn ’This Livin' Is Killin' Me” written by the publisher, G L. Porter, each week. Here one find pathos, humor and dry wit all hatfed on happenings to the author during the week However, with the every day life of the reader one finds that many are having a rough time of it and thov could sav. aptly. ‘•This Living Is Killing Me.” The streets are crowded with young men and women just out of school, who are competing against those who have been working since they left school, men and women with families, and who are listed among tho.e “unemployed " There is much unemployment, no one will deny that. However, much of the unemplor ment pic ture could he reduced if some would take the smaller pay (but honest! jobs that are seemln 'lv begging for some one to take them. Word is that there is dire need for competent workers in the domestic field; restaurants and other public eating places need bus boys. di«fh washers, janitors and waiters. Investiga tion shows that some make ap plication. even taking the iob, but fail to stay with the job be cause of the "low pay ” Tt i« the contention of tin Her ald that it is better to takea low paying job and sti it while attempting to fmd sometlng that pays better loan U is to allow one s family to f hungry, or go on relief Unless one starts taking re snonsibility and starts making firm derisions, it i- 9 likclv tnnt “This Living Ts Killin Me” will be more real than just a catchy phrase. That’s our opinion . . . what’s yours? —THE CINCINNATI HERALD LETTER TO THE EDITOR To The Editor- In observance of Human Rights Day last Saturday, how' many of your readers realized that the current national crises are fundamentally in human re lations? Take the trouble spots in Af rica, Asia, Europe, Latin Amer ica, and in our own country. Aren’t they due to a 'ack of good human relations? Isn’t the solution basically that of recog nizing and establishing rights JUST FOR FUN BE MARCUS H. BOULWARE TONGUE TWISTER In Belgrade, Stanley Papan dovalorkomduronikolakopu iov ski has the longest surname in Yugoslavia. Even Yugoslav ton gues get twisted in its 36 letters With this being the case, for eigners shouln't try to pro nounce it A Belt, eh??? The two sons of Mr and Mrs. FUfford Mattivi of Pittsburgh. Kansas, went to the zoo. When the family returned, the mother felt that the two boys had gone too far. Entering tire home, she reached down to pick up what she thought was a belt belong ing to one of the boys. The “belt” raised its head and hiss ed. The family convinced the mo ther it was a harmless snake that must have crawled through the attic fan. But first they had to get Mrs. Mattivi back into the house. Speaking of snakes reminds me of the speech therapy I am giving a preschool girl who has delayed speech for her age. We are working on the “SAMMY SNAKE SOUND.” This is the name I have given to the SSSSS sound. Briefly stated the SSSS sound is made by grooving the tongue whose tip lav lightly a gainst the upper front teeth or gum. and then sending a hissing stream of air through the edges of the upper and lower front teeth which are brought togetn er edge to edge. To make vivid the idea that the sound has a personality, I have drawn a cute harmless snake on a fairly large carboard plate Also I have purchased a green and yellow toy snake from the dime store. At this stage in the speech therapy, I am having the girl to listen to a recording of a story about. Sammy Snake by Elaine Gordon B. Hancock’s BETWEEN THE LINES AND STII.T. ANOTHER REVOLUTION At the close of World War T, the last Lothrop Stoddard wrote a book entitled “The Rising Tide of Color” which was a studied attempt to frighten the white race from wars among them selves, lest the colored race* take over the world. Tt was a skillfully disguised vihite supremacy document and had world wide distribution that set the world to thinking on the follies of devastating wars, and u can scarcely be doubted that it Influenced the attempt to bring forth the League of Nations Stoddard soon brought forth his “The Revolt Against Civiliza tion” which was a treatise on ihe phenomenal and alarming increase of crime in the world and especially" in the United States He termed this crime in fer human beings tn these areas’ Three major ways come to our minds: (11 By recognizing that the rights we enjoy in America can be lost unless we work for sim ilar rights for olher peoples. <2> by striving to overcome preju dices of all kinds And <3>, by working toward a world sov ereignty based on the principle of federation used to set up our own government. Take tne first way: Isn't the future of our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness being limited through the rapid rise in the last four decades of taxes, tariffs, inflation, military service, and of fear due to growing crises in human rights all over th« world? Take the second way: To ov ercome religious, racial, politi cal. economic and patriotic prej udices, the primary cause of the world's destruction, shouldn't we as a people take the lead in practicing such principles as the oneness of humanity, equality of men and women, partnership of capital and labor, universal edu cation, the harmony of science and religion, an unfettered search after truth, and the fundamental oneness of the world's great re ligions? In some of these areas we've done a fair job at home, but these practices and the oth ers to come should be among our chief exports Take (he third way", world sovereignty: Isn't it true that human rights can be establish ed only by a sovereign author ity? For instance, the right to select an occupation and resi dence was possible only after sovereignty was' transferred from landed estates to the na tional state? The right to secur ity of person and property came only after the state could en force peace upon warring fap tions? The right of citizenship was achieved when the state be came the people and not the dynasty? If so. it. seems logical to believe that, as no nation is any longer independent of Other nations, human rights for all mankind can be established on ly by transferring real sover eignty to a world government. Therefore, we believe that the safeguarding of our own rights in America urgently requires that our people do their best to guarantee similar rights to all people This they can do by tak ing the lead in stamping out prejudice and in establishing a world sovereignty that recog nizes all men as citizens and assures all nations, justice MARGARET QUANCE, Sec'y Baha'i Local Spiritual Assembly Raleigh, North Carolina Mikalson. The record isolates the hissing “SSSS” sound, gives ear stimulation, provides oppor-A* , tunity for the child to discrimi- nate between the SSS-sound and other sounds, and finally help* the child in identifying the SSS sound by having the girl raise an apple whenever she hears the sound. It is a lot of fun doing this. The next and more impressive step is called phonetic place ment. In this step, the girl will be taught to make the sound bv telling her where to place the articulators ftongue, teeth, jaws etc.) in making the SSS-sound Os course, we will work before a mirror and continue to give some ear training at the same time. THIS IS A LONG-drawn-oul procedure, and it takes weeks working with a child two or three times a week. What most mothers don’t know is that in correcting a child's speech i* that we work with only on# sound at the time. We are no! concerned with the fact that the child misses other sounds. If we can correct the SSS-sound, for example, think of the improve- A ment in the child’s speech think of the thousands of words that have the SSS-sound in them. Then we move to another f sound. GONE TO MIAMI: Yesterday over one half of the student body aboarded trains, buses, and automobiles en route to Miami. Florida, to witness the Orange Blossom Classic. (Saturday). T had two classes last Saturday morning and only a few stu dents came to school. We didn't have a formal lesson but rather we chatted about a number of things. •JUST AROUND CORNER: Christmas is just around the corner. We close school here on Saturday, December 17. at noon. crease to an open revolt of 4 tain elements of society againstl civilization itself. He made a strong case even as he made in his Rising Tide of Color But even a biased or prej udiced man can speak words of wisdom at sundry times. The aboce of reflection is inspired by the current crime wave that threatens to engulf our nation The communist wave is threatening us from without and a troublesome and disastrous crime wave threatens us from within. Within recent weeks t lis column has expressed great con cern for the crime wave that is currently threatening our land The youthful delinquent of which we hear so much is bu! the youthful manifestation of crime, of vrtiich adult criminal is the inevitable counterpart When we add our so-called ju venile delinquency to adult ciime, we have s black picture that should bestir thoughtful men and women everywhere and especially in the United States which unfortunately i« v leading the world in this unhap- A - p y revolt against civilization * In what mood are we to face the ugly facts that there are three times as many criminals in our penal institutions as we have students in our colleges and universities that we have ihe highest rate of crime and delinquency in our history; that a minimum of 6,000.000 persons in this country, or one out of every 23, has criminal records according to the F B I. that mor"> prostitutes under 16 ar rested last year than in any previous year. That eleven out of twelve voung people do not attend any church; that some 2.000.000 of our young men and women are infected annually wdh social di seases until it has become Pub lic Enemy Number One: that during the last war. 1.000,000 ba bies were bom out of wedlock; that 60.000 of these bahies were horn to girls under 14 years of age. That we have one murder ev ery 40 minutes. 60 suicides everv dav. and a robbery every seven £ minutes, a rape every 36 ser onds and a major crime com mitted every 22 seconds: that i” some places divorces equal mar” riages? The foregoing references to crime in our land amounts to an alarming situation that calls for serious consideration. Waiters are not growing bat ter but rapidly worse and tins means that if we arc not de stroyed from the outside bv communism, we shall surely be destroyed from the inside by crime. Here is one of our major prob lems receiving but casual at tention in press and pulnit. W» are not going to get anywhere by merely turning our heads and refusing to face ugly facts. Among the "days” we observe annually we need a “Crime Pre vention Dav". What will it pro fit our nation if we are on our toes politically aftd race re.la tionally, if crime is to destroy our fair land from the inside The juvenile delinouency of which we hear so much is bul a manifestation of a deeper mor al disorder which needs atten tion now. The crime situatior can no more be shrugged iff . than the slow but sure encroawt ' ment of communism. Lawlessness in this count rv has been carefully and skillfullv cultivated in the name of white supremacy Is our current crime crisis a matter of chickens coming home to roost ?
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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