PAGE FOUR v i £ w yo > i w ▼ Civil Rights Compromise Compromise appears to be a strange word *vhen used in connection with Civil Rights. The word defined means that each party in a dis pute will agree to give up some vital part of whatever is under dispute. Civil Rights, loosely defined according to American law is the un deniable right of every American to partake of, participate in and be permitted to enjoy all the freedoms, liberties and privileges pro vided by this government. Our Constitution not only says these things must not be denied any American citizen but adds that he must be protected in his use of them. Because of this clear rut and already clearly stated principal of the inherent rights of all Americans one wonders how supposedly good thinking men in our congress and elsewhere, could allow the word compromise to escape their lips when discussing the basic rights of their fellow men. Thee must be further won der how the members of the U. S. Senate can square their conscience sufficiently to allow themselves to spend endless hours trying to block legislation aimed at putting some more teeth in the laws already on our statute books. Each of these opposing senators have taken a solemn oath to uphold and defend the Con stitution. Each of them knows he is neither upholding nor defending that document when he opposes equal rights for all Americans or when he talks about compromising on those rights. It is indeed hard to see ourselves, as others see us. too many never reach that precious goal but the farce of being a democracy has gone on so long in this country, there is doubt if there are very many people in this country who really care about the shabby spectacle our nation really presents to the rest of the world. This is a real doubt, because after this tong time, if sufficient numbers of American* were concerned not only with the opinion the world holds about their country but also about upholding the principles of democracy at home, no senator would ever arise in the Senate chamber to oppose- civil rights and the word compromise in connection with the rights of any American would never be even thought of. North Carolina Senator Kerr Scott mad<- >hat fact clear ,n a speech he made in the Senate this week. Arising to take his turn at opposing the rights of some of his fellow North Carolinians, the senator was careful to point out that unless a man, in an elective public of fice succumbed to and followed the accepted pattern of things in. his community, that man would soon find himself out of office. No free dom-loving citizen of this or any other state will applaud Mr. Scott for his frankness in stating the facts of the case because some of his congressional colleagues have recently suffered political defeat rather than, sacrifice their prin ciple of what Is right. Had Mr. Scott cared enough about those principles he would have defended them instead of denouncing them and announcing publicly that he knew it was politically expedient for him to do so. The Human Touch Os Teaching Tin? editorial will consist largely of quotes but the author of the quotations and the sub' ject are, we believe, worthy of your consider a * tion. Probably there is no facet of human life that effects us as does education. In a sense human existence depends upon education, our educa tion or the learning and knowledge of others. Rightly or wrongly, in trying to make learn ing more palatable,' easier or more adaptable to an age that either has not the time or does not want to take the time formerly thought necessary for proper and thorough mental de velopment, many new techniques, innovations and fads have been introduced in our class rooms Proponents of progressive and modern education say that these new ideas arc the only answer to the problems of mass education. Without stopping to quarrel or even to argue with the promoters of these new and “hetter” teaching methods, we want to present, the Views of a man who, by virtue of training and experience should know something about this subject, Speaking to several hundred school superin. fcendents from all over the country attending the Harvard University Summer School Con ference on Educational Administration, Dr. Burton K Fowler, consultant for the Fund for the Advancement, of Education, warned the Conference of what, he considered a dangerous trend in modern education. Dr. Burton told of a certain high school principal he found sitting in his office franti cally pushing the buttons on the school’s in tereommuriicnlion system. Dr. Burton suggest ed to the principal that hr might go in person to the classrooms he wanted to reach or that he might have an assistant or aid work the device for him. But no, this principal insisted, he always thought it best for him to spend a large part of each working day sitting in front on his machine pushing buttons in order to snake his voice heard in the different class rooms. THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6, 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March 1879. Additional Entry at Ch<> lotto, N. C. Subscription Rates: Six Months $2.75 One Year $4.50 Pay able in Advance—Address all communications end trial* «> rP and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Newspapers, Inc., 544 Fifth Arena#, N. V. 17, N. X. National Advertising: Repre sentative. This newspaper is not responsible tor the return of unsolicited news, pictures, or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. P. R. IERVAY, Publisher Alexander , Advertising & Promotion Chets. Jones » News 'S Circulation E. R, Swain .Plant Superintendent J. C. Washington Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs, A. M. Hinton Office Manager Opinions expressed in hy-co)«i*ins published la this newspaper ate not necessarily those of the rrob- Kcatlen, se - At his press conference last week. President Eisenhower was quoted as saying that he felt the pending Civil Rights measure should be modified to make it more palatable for the Southerners. The President has shown on more than one occasion that he doesn’t exactly know the score about anything and that he can be moved about kke a chess man, on a chess board. But the President does know that Civil Rights cannot be modified; he knows there is no halfway ground in which to place the things this country is supposed to stand for. He knows that there should be no more consideration giv en to talk of compromising the rights of any American than that he would give to a request from Russia that this country agree to a com promise solution on Communism. So it would appear from his remarks that even the Presi dent is no more concerned about the true pic ture this nation presents to the world than he is about the rights and privileges of twenty five million Negro Americans. There really does not appear to be any validity in the arguments presented by the Southern opponents of these Civil Rights pro posals. There is certainly no validity in the ar gument presented by those who talk of a com promise. Southern Congressmen rant and rave and pull their hair while maintaining that there is no need for these laws, they say there is no need because there is nothing wrong with the way the Negroes are treated in their home states. Os course they know how far from the truth their statements are. Not only do they know that those statements are utter false hoods, their fellow members and everyone else knows they are untrue. But be that as it may, or rather, os it is. if the rest of the nation, the other two-thirds that is outside the South, that has its own representatives in Congress, feels that the laws are needed why the hesi tancy in passing them. Would not the ball facts, borne out by every day recorded Civil Rights violations in the South be sufficient evidence for this two-thirds element to see the need for this legislation and seeing this need, move to do something about it, not after the manner of a compromise but a forthright, clean cut decision that would put a capital D in Democracy and let the 25 million, long suffering Negro memory and the rest of the world know that this nation is tired of playing the hypocrite. We like to visualize an America free of prej udice, intolerance and discrimination. As we travel up and clown the broad areas of this God-favored nation, as we gaze with awe at its lofty peaks or stand at the sea side and watch the ebb and flow of the ides, we ssk, how long, 0 Gracious Father before mankind, our American fellowman will recognize Thee as the Father of all mankind and through this recognition realize that all men are brothers and are created equal even as our Declaration of Independence states without even a hint of compromise. This particular principal may have been an extremist Dr. Fowler said but he was typical in a degree of many others. Dr. Fowler said the picture of him sitting there in front of his machine pushing buttons symbolizes a real danger. It is a danger of letting devices, new methods, red tape systems and mechanical routine get in the way and rule out the warm, human exchange between educator and stu dent that once was the vogue in our schools. Dr, Fowler asked, “is the junior high school teacher as concerned with the values she is teaching as she is with the neatness of her black board ” “Is she as sensitive to the emo tiona! complications of Johnny sitting there in the back row as to the proper adjustment of the Venetian blinds.” Americans in school and out must remember, he said, '’not to be come. slaves to meetings, to machines, to in terview?, to techniques ” After defining chavi tor as caring intelligently for other people, Dr. Fowler recited a prayer for teachers written by Bonario Overstreet: “1 do not ask of any man alive that he know ah the answers. I only ask a great caring, a humble caring. Help us to make sure that- no individual is ever for gotten. Dr. Fowler, who was for many years head’ master at the famous Germantown Friends School In Philadelphia, was apparently offer ing a rhnllerig' to the school administrators assembled at Harvard. He seemed to be telling them that if they continued to take the human values out of education, education would have no value, Every one must admit that people are not machines of steel and metal to he me chanically harnessed and driven. It. should, we believe, be likewise admitted that the best way to get ideas through from one person to an other is by love, a deep warmth of feeling, and interest characterized by apparent care arid understanding. There is no better way to pro voice a bitter argument than to suggest that old time teaching methods and idt as were bel ter than those in use today. “When Will They Be Told To Take The in this out? m\ Hats Off To Teachers T once heard a story or joke which related an account of a good old santified teacher with long years of honorable and faithful services to humanity and then died, and of course went to heaven. Having arrived .into the Promised Land beyond Jordan, the Angel Gabriel as signed her to a very beautiful home, hers—an estate with a beautiful flower garden. Now this good old tired tea cher was very surprised to be given such an elaborate home, having lived on a marginal eco nomic level in this present world, boarding for the most, part, and thus nor. living in or on an estate, but, by and large, in one room. As the Angel Ga briel was about to take leave of his most recent addition to the Beautiful Land, the teach er asked him were there any other teachers up there and, if so, where were they? The Angel Gabriel replied that there was a large number of teachers up there but pres-, cully they were all down to attending summer school. Currently I am not down to But I am attending summer By REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY For ANP ham? well wir:re often her JKSf/V BANQUET TABLE 1. Speaking of Jesus, we think of Him generally in terms of mortal flesh, though having a dual nature; being both hu man and Divine-, we note His long hours of toil and medita tion. yet spared some moments In which to dine. 2. As to His human side, there could be no question, for day-by-day the inquisitive folk were following Him in close succession, and when he thought they had gone long enou-'b He could always pro vide plenty of food-stuff. 3. One day, even on the Sab bath when bread was not b round. He utilized the corn then waving above the ground, and using His hands as an im provised Mill, He prepared His own corn cakes and ate to His fill. 4. Another day, with a hun gry crowd of men. women and children H# sat up His Ban queting Table in an open Pa villion. and with a picnic bas ket of fish and bread, saw that five thousand people were am ply fed 5. Bread and merit have nev* LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In answer to the July 6th letter ever the signature of Rev. J. H. Clanton, First Bap tist Church, Clinton, North Carolina. I’d like to say that the good Reverend has been grossly misled through infor mation he received. Rev. Clan ton has inferred the following: 1. Tiiat the incident had its beginning with the transfer of several teachers. 2. That the commutes was not of the Civic League. 3. That Rev. ,T. M. Holmes who is the president of the Civ ic League had no knowledge of the complaints. fn this respect, lets’ clear the matter by first saying that ft* secretary of the Civic Lea WE CAROLINIAN schoool in New York Univer sity. As I move in and out of classes, go in and out of the. libraries and go to and fro a cross the campus and observe the large number of students here—mostly teachers, 1 say to myself "Hats off to teachers”. And, by teachers I mean all those who are engaged in ed ucational work. One can easily observe that many of them have already spent many years upon this ter restrial ball and that they are rapidly approaching the West ern Horizon. Also it can be seen from the wrinkles on their faces and eyes that life has been none too easy for them. Furthermore, It is very obvious that many of them are physi cally tired. But yet they go on! I feel safe in saying that no other professional group spends as much time and money in further studying as teachers. This is all the more remark able when it is realized that teachers are the poorest paid of any of the professions, vC h the probable exception of the ministry. I recently attended the Cen tennial Convention of the Na* er been a problem to Jesus, be cause it has always been His from the start, and all He asks Is that men be grateful, so w ith them. He can graciously im parl; but the majority of men lake Him lightly, awaiting a more convenient day, only to find they have forfeited a for tune, by allowing it io slip away. ft. It is indeed hard to con ceive that in the face of ,-ucb love, power and might, a man would choose to go hungry and be exposed to danger and fright, when a loving Savior at His eternal Shrine continues calling the Wayfarer “to come and Dine”, 7. Just think, all a. man peed -. 1s to Trust and Obey, and au tomatically his God makes a way out of no way , . yea., his heart, soul and mind are fed . , . ar.d this, every day, even to lying down in his bed 8 The Samaritan Women cot a taste of this mysterious pow er even while Jesus was intro ducing His choice Table Water as a part, of His Banquet Menu served to every repentant sin ner 9. She was boasting of Abra* istration. However, the issue sue, I have a written record of the proceedings and can "dis play them if the need arises. Xt is unfortunate, that. Rev. Clanton has let himself be "Used” by some others to fos ter their case. For n man who is in the community only fifty two days or less per year, it is practically impossible for that person to have conclusive knowledge of the total welfare of the people in that commun ity. Rev. Clanton Is a transient and lms only served as pastor here, for less than two years One is left to believe, under such circumstances, that the church salary and the trip tional Educational Association, Vice-President Nixon was one oi the guest speakers at the fore going convention. In his speech he stated that he is not sir prised that there is such a shortage of teachers. He em phasized that \vhat 4 surprises so faithful and patient so long with the pitifully email sal aries which they receive. I share very much Vice-Pres ident Nixon’s opinion. Moreov er, 1 raise my hat higher and higher to the teaching profes sion and to those who have de voted their lives to the greatest of cur productions, namely, producing men and women with high moral standards, voca tional and civic efficiency. Those of us who are now tea ching. lets instill within tii? hoys and girls now under out guidance greater financial re spect for the teaching profes sion. Thus, it might well h>> that 5 teaching come into’ cor: s ';'! oi our economy and government, the teaching profession might receive its .lust reward in finan cial matters. forefathers did drink . . . but this first experience with her Master was more than she could conceive or think; it will hen pen to any poor sou! who will meet -Jesus face-to-face end in humility raeek’v bow and re ceive tils warm embrace 10. Epicurean dishes, spark ling elixers and every sell ty ing food mate His banquet me fables groan beneath the weight of everything choice end good: even a prodigal son who once lived in squalor can now hon orably sit at the side of his Savior. 11 Such n table is no.'. Reread for .vou . .won't to Him. be forever true" v ,11 you dine as one with clean hands and heart, and never from Him ever part; sign a r ■ v contract with him today, end promise Him definitely you will go all the way. 32. Then He will say to you, “my beloved, this is your table, come ye disconsolate whri -'or ye languish, come and at God's Altar, fervently kneel -- ivre bring your wounded hearts, hern tell your anguish .. , earth has no sorrow's that Heaven cannot heal.” hack to Raleigh is 13-si. good Reverend’s prime interest in the community and its people. For one to develop a profound interest in the community. I most assuredly feel that the person must certainly have es tablished residence and not merely servo fifty-two days out of 3C5. Since Rev. Clanton was mis informed on the above men tioned Issues, it is imperative that they be cleared up at this point: 1. The move did not have tbs beginning with the teacher transfer. The dissatisfaction has been going on for several years over the ►school admin- » came to the boiling point when i WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JULY 1957 Gordon B. Hancock '& THE HIGH COST OF LAB OK Scapegoatism dates from an cient days. It consists of trying to find someone upon whom to lay our sins and shortcomings, has come about that whenever Man is ever looking for some one to bear his sins away. It something unsavory is laid at tiie door of the South, south erners begin at once to lock for a scapegoat and they al ways find a suitable one in the Negro. If the incidence of crime ■ highest in the South it ir, at tributed to the Negro; and if it is a high incidence of illit eracy it is likewise attributed io the presence of the Negro. It. L the same with poverty and backwardness in general, A “satisfactory" explanation can always be found in the Me pro, especially if • omothing un savory is to be explained. The Negro has served the southern whites wed not only as an un derprivileged citizen but as a scapegoat. It seems never to occur to the Negrophobes that the Ne gro In the South is just what the Southern white man made him. The Negro is the creature and the Southern white man is the creator and the Negro would be better, if hr had been made better. Like begets like is an eld maxim and the Negro is like his creator in the South. Sight is too often lost of the feet that Negroes are a part of the South and southerners and cannot be divorced in the mas ter of crimp! and illiteracy. Every bad Negro is a. bad southerner and every Negro il literate is an Illiterate South erner and the South can never rise unless it lots the Negro rise. Back io the Booker T. Washington axiom, you cannot hold a man down in the ditch unless you stay there with him and when you get up he gels up also. The current rise of the South is due in large part, to the rise of the Negro oi the South. Too often mention is made that most of the taxes are paid the South by tne white South and therefore taxes paid for Negro education is a donation to charity. This is not true for taxes are derived from capita) and v Negroes make capital pu-- ruble end are therefore indi rectly responsible lor the taxi..- that arc paid. You do not hnn* to pay large taxes to be a re spectable and profitable citizen. Mr. Dupree’s announced renrr natfctn did not materialize. Hud Mr. Dupree's regisn&'iioh been accepted by the Board of Edu cation all would haw beta well The people were quiet because it, had been publicized that he was leaving and tyiey believed that at last the school situa tion would be improved. 2. As secretary of the Civic. League, T here vouch for urn f.•; r oriir w ■ d represent the Civic Leo me. 3. On June 38. 1987. our pres ident, Rev. J. V... Holme.- did meet with the committee and . helped ppf t,j-,e complaints ui their final form for presenta tion to the Board of Education. The committe, stands ready to challenge Rn J. T-.T. Holmes if he denies this statement. Rev, Mr Clanton tried In a vague manner to clarify the two issue, r corning the rais ing of mot in the school and the award • of certificates to certain met. rs of the grad uating class 1 hereby present these two i. ucs as given to the Board of fiduca'don; 1. Excessive rahm-T n? money for the support, of the i-cncmi program. Wn.v do. t rake so much money Who gets .. luieilC.M statement- of how the money is spent after it has beejf receiv ed by the pnr and raised by the teache:...’ 'ci Are the sehijnl book- au dited every ye?. (d > Who dec what equip ment is to hr abased dur ing the school year? in) Why do si orients have in pay class dues for the express purpose of money drives in the school ? (ft Why are the report cards and final examinations of riii rlenis held un on the payment of certain fees fg'i Why do !ii student-, have i.o nay an athletic fee and .still be required to pay an ad mission to the athletic eam r 2 The isflirinv of certifies tea vs. diplopias: (g i Who decides the r,in dents to receive certificates? fbi What- er!t.cnn is set up for a student to receive a cer tificate? ir-. Why are not (he parents of these students notified that f.he child will receive n certifi cate before the lest day of school? (dl Is the system of issuing the certificates fair and just to all pupils concerned? Although Rev. Clanton only mentioned the above two Is sues, the program consisted of nine points instead of two. This referendum is on file with the Board of Education. Mr. O, A. Dupree, arid the Civic Lea gue. Signed 1 BY"VESTER WHITE. Sen-ctary. Clinton Cfvie League. THE EDITOR feel if is expedient to write and compliment you on your odtieria! in the June 20th issue on the subject oi “Stop The Waste”, The ends of citizenship ar« possible. In other words, in the equally sewed by making taxes general scheme of things the fellow who makes taxes possi ble is just as important as the feiloiv who pays them! The foregoing observation wa , inspired by the shibboleth tlmt things are high-priced to day because of the nigh cost of labor. If its an automobile or a lolly pop the seller always tolls us that the price is high because labor is high. Whether its groceries or clo thing the price is marked high: and the overall explanation is that labor cost is high. We nev er i top and take time to analyze 'he matter and see the fallacies in the labor is-high argument. That is a slogan that is pass r,.i cion" to prejudice the pub lic wunsl the cause of labor and labor advancement. Noth ing is.ever said about the high co t of material or the high cost of machinery and about the high profits. Everything is put on the high coal of labor It has come about that the public is generally pre judiced against labor because of the slogan “Labor is high”. Wo just pay the high prir-’s asked, hut away down in our hearts «blame labor and leave absolved in our hearts and minds the recipients of great profits, v is well for even the hum ble J creatures of our economic order to know that there are other factors beside the high cost of labor thin, must be con sidered if we arc to arrive, at the real explanation of the high price of necessities and lux uries To explain everything by th*» high cost of labor is like the South ex'■ la ini ng every th in g unsnvovy in the- southern situ ation by the presence of the Negro. It is simply an “explan* ation” that does not explain. If must not be forgotten that in those sections with supplies of cheapest labor the same cry is rr.ic»d about the high cost of labor. It has become a habit to blame all price rises on ’. • bnr just, a: it is a habit to ex plain ail of the South's short comings by the Negro. It is true labor Is high but it is also true that materials - high and they were high ac cording to economic principle before labor was high. It. is somethin? which to m v mind was so badly in need of hriny spoken of by some on-. When speaking of "Hitting the Nail on the Head." you really end ' rub. ted ecu rteu. I let a friend, who is a min ister cf the gospel read it and he declared it to be a master piece. Sr : d he wished it. could be printed in all the daily ntw papers of the state. And I say it, would be one of the be-t things that, could happen, for ■•o many people who did no? see. or know ’anything about it would see and begin to wake up to the many detrimen ml things 'hat. me being done to and against the Negro race. Keep up the good works, your paper is getting better all the time. C Q. HAYWOOD Sanford, N. C, PiatwfiKj A Vacation? I !ku Pitty It Sate? J Arc you ready for your two* wceks-with pay vacation ’ Are you ifcly ready ? 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