North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TEN 'imr&WfM r 'Sn y\ iL W P PINT THE PLOT THICKENS It is Absolut*. ly absurd that Dr. 1 Beverly Lake, who argued for the State of North Carolina befeu* the U. S. S.uprt me Court (and is still assistant attorney general and so involved in what; ver 'egal strategy the State nv.y at tempt to avoid compliance with that Courts decision), shoud be represented by him self or anyone else as a pri vate citizen when he express es such opinions as he has been airing lately No amount of disavowal by himself or by anyone else can change the patent facts. Os course Dr Lake has the right to his opinions and to the expression of them But he cannot at the same time divorce his personal views Bom his of ficial position. Governor Hodges and Mr William Rodman, the attor ney genera! both recognized the impropriety of Dr. Lake's remarks, and cautiously ex pressed themselves in that direction; Governor Hodges later retreated from that stand and defended Lake af ter the NAACP called for th< assistant attorney general's resignation. It would seem that Mr. Hodges could not risk appearing to be on the same side as the NAACP in the controvcrsary —not even a little. So he ‘blasted" the NAACP for its “effrontry" and lauded anc defended Dr, Lake. Possibly the Governor had thought a little about what has happened to some can- ON THIN ICE President. Eisenhower and his administration have final ly backed out of the Dixon- Yates mess—and not a bit too soon. The energetic Sen ator Kefeuver and others had begun to make the whole thing look as if some high scale and high-powered she nanigans had been indulged in. and Memphis' decision to build its own plant appeared more and more like a god send to get the President and his high-powered advisers and financier friends off the hook. Whether they were un hooked early enough to save them from some highly criti cal and potentially damag ing scrutiny is not certain yet. No one should be surpris ed at the attitude of Presi dent Eisenhower, who some PRESIDENT JAMES A, BOYER ' A Boyer has been associat ed with Saint Augustine’s College almost continuously since 1896—nearly 60 years. or almost two-thirds of the life of the institution. Charles H. Boyer was the first dean of St. Augustine’s as a col lege, and served that insti- ! tution all told for forty years. This-month a. son of the I !at< Dean Boyer, who himself 1 had already served for sev eral years as dean, was chos- 1 SHAMEFUL IF TRUE If the report is correct that the State of North Carolina through the office of its at torney general is preparing to defend its barring of the University of North Carolina by proving the applicants do not meet the University’s en trance requirements, then the State of North Carolina is preparing to pull an unwor thy trick, It is of record that the young men were denied ad mission because of their race, and it was clearly stated at the time their applications were rejected that the rejec tion was in line with the state s previous policy of not admitting Negroes to an “in stitution for white students" except to curriclua not avail- THE CAROLINIAN Carolina, under the Act of March 1879, ■ 3 ‘ Subscription Ratvsr Six Months $2.75 one Year £4 50 00 “'“ ica,iw ' r «■- Interstate United Newspapers, >»*, M 2 Fifth Avenue. N, ¥. 17, NT. Nation,! Advert, SU >* Repress. This newspaper is not responsible for t*> 4 return of unsolicited news, pictures or b-IvwUs n, ur?.iess necessary postag# accompanies the copy. u r O}K v *. IERVAY, Publisher BameS Advertising & Promotion L v ’ a a o U ll gt ? n Foreman. Mechanical Department Belton* expressed in by-ttinuo, published In Um newspaper are not necessarily those of the jnuh- < _ _ . I * * didates for office in the lib eral (State of North Caro lina when their opponents circulated certain kinds of propaganda with race as the theme; so he practically re pudiated the very mild dis approval of Dr. Lake's ac tions which he had previous ly implied, and jumped with both feet on the NAACP officers. When the assistant attor ney genera! was arguing the segregation case before the Supreme Court on behalf A North Carolina it was expect ed that he would defend school segregation. Now that the case has been 'decided, with the South receiving ail the consideration that could have been expected Dr. Lake is just plain wrong as an of ficer of the state's department dealing directly with law en forcement and having the chief responsibility under the Governor for law enforce ment, to advc cate a course which would flout the Con stitution of the United Stat es. He cannot do this as a private citizen as long as he is in the attorney general’s office, no matter how long, loudly or often he asserts that what he is saying as a private citizen. nor car Gov ernor Hodges’ saying it with him or for him change the facts. Dr. Lake ought to have had the grace to reign and if he had the proper regard for the position in which he is placing his superiors, he time ago named the TVA as an example of creeping so cialism, There was no reason to conclude that the Presi dent was not inimical to the philosophy behind TVA. and it was a foregone conclusion that his political associates looked upon TVA and what it stands for as contrary to the interests of private en terprise. It was probably this excess zeal for private initia tive which led the President and his administration, along with the business interests which have his ear and those of his lieutenants, to go so far in the procedures like the Di xon-Yates contract as to re sult in the questioning of the propriety of some of the steps along the way. There is a great deal about the whole matter of govern- cn president of the local col lege, where hr had been act ing head since the resignation last January of Dr. Harold L. Trigg. Dr. James A. Boyer brings more than family tradition to his new position. Well trained, he is also both young and seasoned —a combina tion not too often found. H< knows the institution, its aims and ideals. Few know them better. He is acquainted with able in state-operated "insti tutions for Negroes.” Possibly the report is not true; we hope that is the case; for the CAROLINIAN is reluctant to believe that the State of North Carolina, the University and the At torney General’s office would stoop to such dishonesty, The stand of Georgia is more honest. While Oklahoma opens all state institutions of higher learning to all qualified citi zens, regardless of race, it is shameful to find North Car olina planning such patent trickery to avoid the law The opponents of desegre gation, in building up their rase, have argued that the Negro public schools of North Carolina were on would. Since hr ppercntly -foes not, there was no irupro puciy whatevc in !h -:t quest by the NAACP officers that the Governor request h-; resignation. It. is an <.’<i trick—that of being overcome with indig nation. And Mi Hodges’ charge th-;l the NAACP s move was "designed to split North Carolina citizens in to racial camps’* is an older and feebler one. It is the technique of accusing the in nocent of whet Mi; person one is defending is really guilty of. Ih e Governor showed signs also of making plans not to let Dr. Lake take the anti desegregation play too far away from the Governor himself, when he offered, a long with his blazing defense of the possibly long-term planning D; Lake, the v’ pt.ie promis: : *'l have been working cm an address to be made to the people of the State on my program as to how we can try to save the public school system of North Car olina and at the same time permit each race to haw its own schools. 1 will make this address within the next few weeks Well, at least the Governor is whiling, ac or ding to his own statement, to try to ;:e --uir out away to eat the cake and have it. while Dr. Lake is urging hat the cake be pitched out the window. ment versus private develop merit and operation and con trol of public power and sim ilar natural sources essent ially monopolistic by nature which is open to difference of opinion. It is a legitimate question as to what extent and on what terms the fed eral government should com pete with private power pro ducers and sellers. Granting that private power companies are to operate there is no reason why customers who happen to live in the TVA or some similar area should enjoy rates lower than ran be made available to custo mers in other parts of the country in which privately operated companies could no; supply power at simimriy low rates, yardstick or no yardstick. many generations of alumni and former students. He was born on the campus, and ex cept for his college and graduate school years and his service in the Navy dur ing World Wa; 11. has liv>..J there all his life. We believe that St. Au gustine’s will continue grow and flourish under tbr administration of Dr. James A. Boyer, equality with the white pu blic schools of the state. In doing so, they have made un tenable by their own argu merits the position that stu dents graduated from Hill side High School, granting they ranked hi go in the grad uating class, would be unable to meet the academic re quirements for admission in to the state university. The authorities of the uni versity took a stand which was indefensible when it re jected the applicants of the ground of race. If the stand is to be shifted to the one alleged, those in charge will he standing on ground less defensible logically, and on no ground at all. but thin air, ethically. THE C AROLINI AN ‘Bill if i hrough Integration Can Their Power Be Broken 1 ’ . . ~™~ C. D- — sorm OF MASON-DIXON : We bear no ill will toward our Iv-'sro citizens. XTiov arc our nuifebbors aPd our friends. Wo wish them well. But wo also hold a deep soHu-d coinv -oMon that it rs our n; hi and duty to liafov'uard and transmit to poo t E’X \ l,' l .12 i) ; -v.; f o ■'C Ti . U" •'. T Father"of Tr U rncn n Vit to endow the wnirc race." So certain white d tire ns of Farmvilie, No v th Cnrolirm &d~ document' commending him for cel' \Pi re o-'nt :e oi;' inu . ment One does uot bear a:; much Uc '/ cl,'Vi about the inherent superiority of one race over Another as one heard a score or more years azo. But here it is, however, piously stated, and Use pious la: r: cD not: Even though, it was the Father of all men. there is no question in the mind of the pamphleteer v. ho drafted this declaration that the Father, for some rea son not brought out, was de finitely partial. One may as sume that the drafter and the CAPITAL CLOSE-UP Grass in the Car Tracks Grass is growing along the tracks of your Capital's transit • it run on Washington’s streets for more than three weeks. Business is “off’ by wide mar gins merchants frantically price-slashing, changing store hours, even offering to pay shoppers’ taxi fares, in an at tempt to catch the private-car trade, bring out the stay-at homes and fill near-empty store aisles. Grass in Other Tracks In late January, Close-Up noted the advent of a new five-member watch-dog com mittee on Government Em ployment Policy, authorized to make investigations, and re sponsible directly to the Presi dent. <The old Fair Employ ment Board couid initiate no thing. and was responsible to the Civil Service Commission.) The chairman of the new Board was Chicago lawyer Maxwell Albeit now in Europe for the summer, or longer. Archibald Carey of Chicago, a public member, is Acting Chairman. Assistant Secretary of Labor J, Ernest Wilkins is a Govern ment member. We referred r.n them both—hopefully—as "go getters.” But after .six months, the grass appears to be growing, here also. If any action has moved oyer these traces, we haven’t "heard fell,” Although the committe has held month ly meetin.' ■, -the !., 1 on Monday through Wednesday, last week—their have been no reports of decisions, and no public releases of anv kind. According to the office of Gwendolyn Tice. Acting Ex ecutive Secretary of the Com mittee, the only published me - term Is have been policy memos circulated only to the various agencies. Miss Tice, who i without authority, appears to be limited to ‘ taken under ad visement” rcplie:, to questions. This grass may be different from that which grew in such profusion around the old PEP Committee. If there is & dis- ‘peculiar genius." the exec; nature of which was somehow left unspecified. On the face of it, it could be, as far as these are concerned, a genius for co lossal conceit and self-sa trac tion not to be even approxi mated by the Pharisee in the parable C ert .inly it is not a genuis for humility. With such a peculiar heri tage. attained whether by lurk. snide stratagem as Jacob null ed on poor, blind old If. >ac at the expense of Essii every ef fort . must naturally be mode for its preservation jt ; ,ee:n:- that this her::arc- is chf-liens?- vC: at the present mono-m., par ticularly and Lonendously, by the possibility that the Father might concievably permit ,soir<? Neg.TOcr to z■; to the :■o school as some of the race di vinely endowed with this par ticular genius, right down there in Farmville. The («duration again is a little vaaue as to how the genius :.s to be leunar dized by proximity in a class room to some not an peculiar ly endowed. It seems that it would just naturally 'follow in Farmville, though in some Places Negro children have gone ference. the public would hke s to know it. it should know what, ii any, positive action ■ has been taken, Adam Pulled HR Punch • - When West Virginia’s 69- ; year-old Cleveland Baikv (De mocrat *> swung a “solid one" at 46-year-old Adam Pow.il 'Democrat), in a debate over Powell’s anti-segregation a mendment to the School-Aid Bill, during a closed session, of the House Education and La bor Committee, the big New Yorker pulled his punch. Po well contended himself with warding off the ire of his small er and much older adversary, with whom he later shook hands The Bailey wrath broke when Adam said Bailey lied in questioning the sincerity of his prof fe red amendment which lost, in committee, by a Ti to lO vote, following the in cident. If the school-aid bill is cleared for debate by the ail powerful Rules Commute*-, Adam thinks he will “be forc ed” to offer his much-criticiz ed proposal as an amendment, SENTENCE SERMONS REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY for ANP ABSENTEEISM 1 Many isms pi < vailed in years gone by and member ships ran surprisingly high; but absenteeism exceeds them all. commencing as Jar back a.- man’s calamitous fall. h When God. calico Adam and Five after they had trans gressed. they thought they could run out on Him and not, haw to confess . . . but God in His wise providence always knows what is best. 3. His omnipresence end unerring timed-ack never fail to apprehend the slightest rr ror or sin-spot. But 'man has taken this so lightly that his record i? becoming disturbing and unsightly. 4. Thus the world today is ~o§ •'*' school for years srtth mem- B r rs of this peculiar geniused ’■ace without preventing the aa;ah r of that genius from generation to generation. Or at lea-t we have r.ot heard anything to the contrary. It would seem then, that the apprehension grows out of the cread of miscegenation, or what currently is often called''mon i-Telization.” And this appre hension may be based on a misapprehension. It, would seem a lot of southern white people have been misinformed. Apparently they have been •old that the United States Su preme Court ha handed down •"! decision requiring that henceforth all school children when they reach the awe of mnm&se must many someone v, 'ho doe; not belong to the ktiiiH: race zb theirs. As we understand it, the court ruled that the operation of two sets of public schools, or in North Citiolina three 'one .of for jfcertain Indians.-', was unw.ius'Autional. The world needs all the geni us it can get. We sincerely hope that nothing will happen to in terfere with the proper trans fer of u from generation to generation down around Farra ville. Time with out end. wT ; 'n r m bill reaches the Floor the House. Anti-Integration Via Pay-Raise Gimmicks A sliding-scale provision for three categories of School Su pcnntendents's salaries may be the gimmick by which Missis sippi’s Congressman Thomas G. Abernathy, who chairs the sub committee on teacher's pay. ex pects to knock out school inte gration—or reduce it to token action, here in the Federal City, The scale provides for superintendents without the master’s degree, as well as for those with master’s and earned doctorates. The District of Col umbia Board of Education has established no criteria for su perintendents’ qualifications. It is all left to the appointed Board, which is about as pre dictable as the mercury. Con gressional pressure could, with very little trouble put the Dis trict s school system under the direction of an inadequately trained superintendent who would do the bidding of his •sponsors. quite upset because God’s de mands are not being met, and man, determined his own whims to please, has brought on a state of lethargy fast be coming a disease. 5. Thus everything now seems thrown out of gear, and the earmarks of Satan’s king dom begin to appear; truth is being carelessly set aside, and honesty relegated to the- rear. 6. It is all because man has absented himself front the pre sence of his Almighty God, and -:o allowed his mind to warp and drift that he delights in trickery and fraud. 7. Today the cfislaught of wicked device.:- has mounted to such outstanding proportions that alarm is spreading to ail WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY .If), ih.nS Gordon Hancock's BETWEEN the LINES HONOR TO WHOM HONOR is miii The South 15 currently sir, :i mg with excitement. i'he preme Court decisions and those of the lowei courts urincndourly oxcitir.. thv • days and the erstwhile staid Old South is wide awes* ■> d wondering what will c&rr.e r.ext. To the credit of the South it must be raid, when aii said and done, the Seg-egattd Som •. has demeaned itself admirably. An outburst here and then’; but on the whole the South In been reasonably free from vio lence If the South's bark liar been lend, its bit has iwu ns jet been dangerous and ail 01 the? pact goes to show that 11... Stout-h is not as bo,! ?:■ sov.-.- of its own white LnhabJar: would have us believe. On u l .. whole, the South is peopled 1 decent democracy -lovir.:; a . i fair-minded eitmenc v -ite colored. And if the poll!:- could be kept quic-. th Scuih would handle InteipatV": :r. satisfactory manner. But the current .situation is just bub bled over with political ; simlities. There a: - several governor ships, successful Senate ho-- House seats and just ,1 hori. <\t lesser offices wlhch v ill ,• ed by politicians exploit *n.t 're current situation, it is expect i:ir too much of bum •» r ’e *0 even hope that t;-e politic ians and the ciandenine h.:.■ • man are net going to exp:,ml the situation for all it is worth Humans are still humans The situation will give th* erstwhile moderate Rtsnc-plr • be his chance-to come out u'.e the open with his fir.ht again r the black man. In o>he! words the Negro--phobe will havi h: chance to get real ugly Tin u too. on the whole. Negro. have been rather tt strained in their rejoicing over then h uv earned victory in the c ; The pressure on the South is terrific where there is that ne ver-say-die spirit. The Old South nri; hs?d! Bui, given time and w :w--. the Sold South will rr>-> I he foolishness of destroy me. it self by being a miil-ric:n bout the neck of the notion fighting for Us place in toe respect of the world. ROOSEVELT-TRI'MAX EISENHOWER-WAR! SG But in the hour of ou; bilation, we must not f. rg;..: the pit whence we have boon hewn and we must not forger i the day of small things, who/; ) IN THIS BOR DAY 1 By C A- Chick “REFRESHER f 'OURSIIS" Thousands upon thousands i of school teacher.-, summer :n and summer out return to. school for some type of formal study. Many of them hove suf ficient training and ao:rec; to 1 be secure in then- positions-. Moreover, many of 'hv- sg-.-• life ume certificate r . addition to formal triim;. 4 :. . they are secure in their poo;- . tions from the standpoint of seniority. Despite the foregoing aia • teachers continue to studs. Tin; they do for many reasons: Some study simply becau-f they love to study and. by the same token. f«»r the love of acquiring ;ui(ito know ledge in some field or fields of disciplines Others study cause of the love they have Jur their students. They study tint, they may be more able to guide their students into the nobler and higher endeavors oi hi. . Home study that they nine be the more efficient pan,ic.i, 4..it ir*g citizens in civic and busi ness affairs in their respective communities. Thus, while many people are spending their vacations on the beaches and sea. shores and traveling to places oi beamy and historic interest through out the world, a large number of our sincere and consecrro. - ed teachers are burning the “mid-night oil” studying More over, many of them are study ing in geographical arcus where, to say the least, they will not need a lire to keep them warm One great philosopher is re puted to have said that the laws a state would write upon its statue books or into its constitution that coun tr v should write those laws firs; in its school text books. The fore going was simply away that philosopher chose to empha size that teachers and schools are very important factors m a complex society. At the rate modern day mothers are se conders of the earth to save YOUTH from fiendish distor tions. 8. Bui the alarm has come almost too late with ABSEN TEEISM running high; care less parents trying to by-pass God. arid the devil with all of his imps lingering by. 9 ABSENTEEISM always always abounds when men start, to feeling then independence prosperity pots them wheeling around and swerves them off balance 10. l's not this the state our world is in. drunk with the wine so plentiful around us?— but oblivious to Christ’s agony and death to save us? 11. Through the foolishness of preaching such truths to these- to mankind are being constantly taught; but findim, ways to be absent, from God’s holy worship, in Satan’s net In is easily ctyrght. 12. It is a tragedy indeed that ABSENTEEISM, like a rag weed has found it’s way into God’s rose bowl, for it just goes to prove that Satan is on the move to destroy every hu man souL wv ( 'ato. it seemed at I» v;iu. to be P.-t go of riie Pt; .uo.:> of ? ivi.s"' bigot;j. There h.ivo been times when the while .!oi( ii;;.< hto had thing.- i.K bu:’ 4 v.; 1 and then came Uiioklut Delano Rooseveto wh 1- '. 4 d:..> ■ 0 Gtßinar Myio'** >vas tone l'.rst President of the f.toiiu.J Slates who made ru k:i!s i i. effort to integrate Ne •‘■roes into full citizenship hi iiie.se ton,fed siaetrs since '*#. fonuoing Others before r o- 've’t had temporized , 1 in pored with the ma •ter of ’he Negio'r. full mancipation, but Ivoosevclt was the first 10 magpie mantuiiy with the Ss in hir Now Deal. Truman, to ids credit be it said, was bto>. enough and man enough to ircrj'j the ball robing. Kisenh v.p 4 , 4 took ijold with doth hands because the way had been prepared before hr.: by Truman and Roosevelt. The Si-pmac courts decision which todr.y are making history and vnakiiig 4 citizens of Negroes, who hove long been denied their • R-i vip are- but the out ■ toov.ih oi logical sequences of the decisions made by Judge Wait Waring of South Caro lina If can truly be said that. I’ld. 41 Wiring's d-xis'-n on the primary i.-mio wo> the real be tototon;, oi thase current court dornr, ;Uv 4 arc today tock c- and tor r-k-.ng The land. Had v, nken tl:a ep he took. the. current re i ‘ that ir so near at hand ought have been indefinitely delayed, When we got down to thank Cod for what He to, bringing to pars tort us not fail to men t.d ito'.e waring. Rouse. 4 di. toanuu; along 'with Eisenhow er. If the Negroes can somehow to-'i ■;. Judge Waring out of re i.4. -Vito, to a place of honor In the- Negro scheme of things, thto ; aouri. qo it without de- At r ;11. the sacrifice of ; id ■ Warm ■ vm the greater! He ceved in the South and had to mm muth ill uviy mood Th.it to had to finally retire to the North to Inc i:: security, it- The s-tre;; 1 :' 4 -’ tcdm-ir.iai to Tie liitcm toy total has immort caltrcd him In the final analy sis Judge Wanna's is, the great er ormiLc- 4 : an; therefor'* the mm ton hormr i.svna live Judge Vtom •. Waring the s'out-heart mi touthcnier and martyr! Im ■ live the incomparable T n'tom Dtisno to’; Os 4 VC It of cm; tori to .i’ll m j Lcmg live Har ry to momjii, hnrd-itotoer and fearlmm Long live Eisenhower, the humamuudan of the hour. curb c jobs and positions out si live to.snic school teachei > an deitine to become eve,; more important factors in the matter of training our youths, rioiimriv we 1 bought in terms of the. elementary school teach - or cm teaching the child the Three R s But now-a-day*. with the home in many in stances. playing less and less part in_ the basic training of Ihe child, th; . U ;■>. ntarv school teacher has to teach not only 'hr - to’u'Cf R y, but many of the funriuhient-als of life including m-m,' manners ’ Many a child arm not. only the proper diet in school but also the proper meinocL 4 of eating—table roan ners and cultiue. Ail of the foregoing is simply a v.j* oi pair ring out the im portance of teachers in. our modern day and complex socie ty tou praise is too high and no gratitude Is too great for our teachers who make so many sacrifices that they may serve •b.eir .-to tidento and the public : firm 1 ( ificientiy. So this writer bfi.i his hat higher and high-' er to our teachers of all levels 1 v, ho sacrifice their summer vacations seeking additional ! training that they mar be come more effective teachers 1 m their respective fields, and : thereby render greater ser- * vu’es to their students their \ coin muni ties, and their country. 1 Poeis Corner SEQUEL TO THE POET ANTI THE LADY Bv A. H. YANCEY His “Simeon Pure” like sekf esteem j Was much depressed and sore 1 Until within his soul a dream Demands an even score. It questioned him about r date Some years before they met He with- her sister drank and i ate | With a seclude 4 ’ set. He held her firmly in his arms He knew she was a wife He reveled in her woman’s charms Almost produced a life. But fortune favored no one 1 knew J And so you carried on the loving lust that pieaseth you I Pi om evening to dawn.. It was your brother that you I found Behind your chamber door It. is her sisters that you found j With thought, and mind or more. j Go search your soul! If it is > pure j from acr. or deed alone Then search your mind. Make doubly sure Before you cast the stone How hardly can the human heart In honest penance live May God teach both the Chris tian art That mafceth love forgive.