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THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1058 Editorial Viewpoint pie CAROLimAN^S WORDS OF WORSHIP B l therefore the prisoner of the Lord, beseech |Squ that ye walk worthy of the vocation ayhcriwith ye are called. p| With all lowliness and meekness, with long «if faring, forbearing one another in love. ■ Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit Si the bond of peace. Bj|j There is one body, and one Spirit even as He ire called in one hope of your calling: HI Ope Lord, one faith, one baptism, and Father of all. who is above all. ||jnd- through all, and in you all. §|| But. unto every one of us is given grace ac «§•irding to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he smith, When he ascended up ®n high, he ted captivity captive, and gave p| fti unto men. IlNow that he ascended, what is it but that he Ml so descended first into the lower parts of the ®-a'th? yf He that deccnded is the same also that as- Mended up far above all heavens, that he might Kill all tilings.) HI And he gave some, apostles: and some pro- Hihets; and some, evangelists; and some, pas- Hors and teachers; B For. the perfecting of the saints, for the jgjvorit of the ministry, for the edifying of the Hxxf? of Christ: B Till we all come in the unity of the faith. Bind of the knowledge of the Son of God. unto Bt perfect man, unto the measure of the stature jjlhf the. fulness of Christ: B That we henceforth be no more children, ggl sssed to and fro. and carried about with ■every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, Band cunning craftiness, whereby they lit in ■wait to deceive: || But speaking the truth in love, may grow ■up into him in all things, which is the head, ■even Christ: If From whom the whole body fitly joined to fflgether, and compacted by that which every ||joint supplieth, according to the effectual ||working in the measure of every part, maketh ■increase of the body unto the edifying of it |§self in love. I This I say therefore and testify in. the Lord, I The average man on the street has been tax led into an individual of inconsequence by the ■gigantic budgets established by the various [tiebarfmenf of the Federal government. As tlv [years go by, the tax burden of the little man is Becoming heavier and heavier, and we wonder 1 just when he will collapse. | We believe that there are ways and means [by which the tax payer’s load can be light lehrd. A reduction in the budget and federal [spending will “do the trick.” FIRST: The policies of the Federal govern ment must be changed, and this can best be done by a corresponding change in public at titudes. Our legislative body Congress should go back to the initial constitutional interpretation of the function of the Federal government, namely: it n* a protector—not in provider. In the role of a provider, the Federal gov ernment should stay out of business that com petes with private enterprise and serve its role as regulator of business and industry and not a producer. Lawmakers should begin thinking in terms of what is best for the United States and not in terms of their own districts and states. No* only this, but they should stop supporting “pork barrel” legislation. They should do what is best for al! the American people j Next:, the nation should give up the idea of | remaking the whole world against its wishes. (Friendship is gained through respect, and not purchased by millions in hand-outs, as some of our legislators think. We can respect among the darker nations of the world w’hen wc be gin to treat the Negro as a first-class citizen at home. SECOND: You may ask just how can we reduce the Federal national budget? In an swer to this question, we suggest that the United States: 1. Reduce all foreign aid except that deem ed absolutely necessary for millitary expedi ency. Millions of dollars can be saved by re ducing our foreign hand-outs to a bare mini mum. 2. Eliminate al! government subsidies to farmers, airlines, steamships, and the like. Then private business will seek its natural level. Subsidies should be used only in cases «£military expediency for stock piling certain trttical items. Although vve have until April IS to file our Federal income tax returns, many individuals lwiv« begun the laborious task of preparing th*se forms. Persons earning an annual wage of $5,000 or less will have a considerably easier time than those earning slightly more than thws ©mount. -We believe that simplification of the entire tax structure and doing away with the com plicated tax form as we have now would make the task of making out returns more pleasant. The Federal government should adopt on income tax based on sn “across the board,” flat percentage rate of the total income—such as 8 or 10 per cent as deemed necessary. For example, at 10 per cent rate, « person earn ing SIO,OOO annually would pay SIOOO as his income tax. The tax plan could be graduated on some such plan as the following: 8 per cent for man with two dependents; 7 per cent, for three de pendents: 6 per cent, fer four dependents, and so on. For persons earning more than SIO,OOO annually the per cent required for income tax We Must Hold The Line Income Tax Headache that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ig norance that is in them, because of the blind ness of their heart: Who being past feeling, have given them selves over unto lasciviousness, to work all un cleanliness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so bt that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him as the truthis in Jesus i That ye put off, concerning the former con versation, the old man, which is corrupt ac cording to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your m’nd: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and tru« holi ness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are mem bers one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not th« sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more; but ra ther let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to tlw? use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemp tion. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. —Epheisans 4:1-32 Our Weekly Words: Our thought, Let not the sun go down, with anger in your heart, toward your brother. 3. Cut down on the expenses of the armed forces by complete unification. We suggest that all purchasing, supply depots, medical facilities, standardization of various types of equipment, ctatloguing, and so on, can be done to cut down the tremendous duplication that is now going on. 4. Streamline for a Space Age our obsolete Post Office Department and put it on a pay ing basis. Raise postal rates, if necessary, so that the user pays for this service and not the tax payer, We think the recent proposal of 5 cents on first-class letters is sound economic ally. 5. Congress should dispose, in an orderly manner, of all such projects as TVA plants, barge lines, and the like. By experience we have noticed that our government has no com punction about loaning England billions of dollars and even for getting the interest. This applies to other countries as well. Under certain conditions, the Federal gov ernment could lend its own citizens money for constructing dams, power projects, irrigations, which will pay their share of taxes. 6. Study the entire Veterans Administration program. Stop building VA hospitals in out of-the-way places as a part of the pork bar rel legislation. Review' veterans’ pension. Those who need them, see that they get: them; and those who don't see that they ar adjustd. 7. Stop all Federal aid to such porjects as school lunch funds, schools, and so on. Again the Federal government should remain a pro tector and not a provider. The school lunch program is a state responsibility. 8. The Federal government should live with in its means, that is, its spending should not exceed the faxes available. There should be no deficit spending unless times are of great emergency, as for example, World War IT. 9. There should be a reorganized Budget Committee composed of members of the House of Representatives and Senate to serve as a “watch dog” for requests and handling and ex penditures of all government money. We know that there are many other ways that may be employed to reduce Federal ex penditures, but the foregoing nine points—if seriously carried out— will effect a saving of billions of dollars for the national government annually. would be increased accordingly by some plan carefully studied and worked out. For the man earning SIO,OOO or less, the plan we have suggested would do away with all this complicated matter of deductions, capital gains, depreciation—that even Con gress or the Internal Revenue Department it self docs not understand, much less the ave rage citizen. It would eliminate bookkeeping, supporting deduction claims with receipts or cancelled checks, and substracting line 7 from line fi. We contend that the time-tested Biblical way of collecting taxes from each individual, who would give his proportionate share, can be applied to the operation of the government. The low income individual gets as much protection from the government as the high income one; and he in turn should contribute his proportionate share to the operation of the Federal government. To keep the morale and spirit of the citizen high, income tax paying should never be per mitted to become a burden as it now is. Breaking His Grip And Removing His Sway FDF What Other Editors Say FAMILY IN COURT Justice George Edwards of the Michigan Supreme Court believes that family courts can go a long way toward solving problems of juvenile delinquen cy. His counsel on this subject provides good mental food for all who concern themselves, of ficially or only as interested citizens, with this important matter. Justice Edwards, formerly a juvenile and criminal court judge in Detroit, believes it “just doesn’t make sense that the father appears in one court for a criminal offense, that the mother's divorce suit is heard in another court and that, their delinquent son is up before a juvenile judge.” He would bring the family’s problems to one court, which could then deal with the complex interrelation ships from which trouble em erges. The business of such courts, as this experienced jurist sees U, should be to help families provide the kind of home set ting that would lessen rather than heighten the chances of juvenile delinquency. He be lieves that. “love is the most dynamic force in human life,” and that “it is this that has been missing from the lives of these young offenders.” Fami ly courts, in his opinion, can do more than the usual frag mented” court system to fos ter love and security. This is the thinking of a man who has heard thousands of cases involving juvenile de linquency during the past 15 years. It is eminently worth the attention of all who believes that jail sentences are not the only means of dealing with SENTENCE SERMONS BRIDGES 1. Human life, even before being exposed to its outward environment has to cross a bridge; the foetus after leav ing its embryonic state, be comes restless and forces its way to a point of escape, where the administering physician administers a spanking if ne or she appears lifeless account low breathing; this is their first bridge. 2. Then baby in arms at the baptismal fount crosses its SECOND BRIDGE as upwards it begins to mount, and after a few years of childish glee, soon discovers that life de mands a constant foe. 3. If then he begins to fol low the advice of his Savior, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you”, he will find his mis takes a very few, and. his out stretched world, brand new without any loss, and tnis THIRD BRIDGE, of Christian conversion he must cross. 4. Prepared then to make a LIFE and not merely a LIV ING, this young man or wom an resolves to act real human, and following the regular order of life, the young man decides to take a wife , . , this is his FOURTH BRIDGE. 5 Now her© is where real life begins, for here at this point we inherited Adam and Eve’s sins . . . and if this brand new couple is not very careful, liv ing problems, by the same token, wili prove very distress ful; for what we see of this arrangement in the world to day, are more thistles and thorns than profitable hay. 8. There must, then be the FIFTH BRIDGE that such as these must crass ... a. BRIDGE OF DETERMINATION, devoid young lawbreakers. --THE INDEPENDENT, Fuquay springs, N, C WHY READ TRASH? One of the most unsolved problems of the universe Is the habit of many Americans of reading the lowest form of dirt that can be excavated. More over, these citizens and they seem to outnumber those who read decent literature about ten to one pay good money for the trash they buy. Everyone knows that a filthy book, which is derived in some - one’s infected imagination, makes scads of moneys ior the writer who puts together the low-grade continuity. Yet there are good clean books on the _ market, with a« much adven * r.ure, action and “escape” as one finds in the trash being addled so successfully today. Truth is stranger than fic tion. If you wish to read a great sea story, read the great exploits of the German mer chant marine raiders durin ; World War I or World War II- Rather than merely running your eyc-s over someone else imagination, concerned with something that never happen ed, you can actually read a bout things, people and times and places. If you would like to read stories of great aerial adven tures, read the drama which unfolded in the skies in World War I and World War 11, or in the Korean War, or in other periods,' and find the human emotions, warmth love and tears (and sadness) which you find in fiction. If you would read non-war sea stories, read the story of the sinking of the BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP of all dross, supported by Grace and surcharged with love, that their offspring also may be blessed from above. 7. Indeed, at the foot of this bridge it is difficult to con template whether the day-to day problems will end in ill fate; it is imperative therefore before entering this realm, that complete arrangement is made to have God at the helm 3. This life’s sea has. always been rough where Satan has heel allowed to get in his bluff: he is indefatigable in his at tempts to defeat God’s right eous purposes, and young in habitants of God's Kingdom are eternally safe if they stay afar from his chicanery and deceptive curses. 9. For the final and SIXTH BRIDGE, for everyone to cross, is DEATH , . . who is there at the entrance of this TOLL BRIDGE would want to be left? . , , who after facing every IT HAPPENED II MEW YORK LEADERS PARTE, NED BY ATTEMPTS AT GLOBAL AMITY AND PEACE NEW YORK Peoples and leaders here are heartened by the attempts of their leaders to inject peace and unity in every phase of civic and per sona! life. The acceptance of fc h e George Washington Carver A ward by the esteemed Pope Pi us thrilled Tuskeegians and others interested in the cause of brotherhood. The famed Negro scientist for whom the award is named made famous peanut chemistry. Philltpa Schuyler youthful pianist along with other peace itanic.” If you would- read, on either subjects the story of the 13-year effort to build the V-2 rocket. Read if you would read on other subject-, such as the weather; the stars, etc., you will find a host of educational, exciting, and rewarding books and articles. What we are seeking to point out is that the person who reads trashy fiction will end up his life without much of the knowledge and balance of the person who actually thrills to actual events and learns as he reads. With the hydrogen bomb. ~ ATLANTA DAILY WORLD. MONKEY BUSINESS Rarely has a Senate commit tee looked as ridiculous as the McClellan Committee in the finagling over the investiga tion of the long strike at Koh ler by the United Automobile Workers. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R- Ariz.) has paraded up and down the country for month?, “finding” UAW Pres, Walter Reuther “guilty" of all sorts of dangers, threats and men aces to the national welfare, his cohorts, the objective of For Goldwater and some of the McClellan Committee hear ing was obviously to give the company free rein to smear the union and the strikers, and to make it as difficult as possible for the UAW to get its side of the story into the record. Quite correctly, AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany has depict ed these “smear” efforts as “raising grave doubts as to die impartiality, objectivity and Integrity” of the McClellan Committee's future operation . -—AFL-CIO NEWS head-wind and storm would take a chance on still exposing his soul to ill fate and eternal harm? 10. The Poet Tennyson must have sensed this, and labored to thwart it when thus he wrote. “Sunset, and even Star and one clear clall for me, and may there be no sadness cf farewell when I put out to sea”. 11. Paul not only anticipat ed a victorious end, but labor ed assiduously toward it, as is expressed in his words. ‘ I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kc-pt the faith.” 12. In like manner are you preparing to cross this final BRlDGE?—this is a question no one can dodge. . . in fact, it should have precedence over everything else, for hopeless is that soul who fails to prop erly make it across. loving people were happy to learn of Emperor aiie Selassie's efforts to serve as mediator for the Sudan dispute with Egypt and are praying that eventful results will be achieved. The profound concern of the Ethi opian. potentate has implied and endeared him to his fol lowers here and elsewhere. Nigerians are concerned over what they consider “more aid to the soc.alled Reds than coun - tries which have remained true to the West.” Governor Averell Ha trim an has designated Monday as Es tonia Day to mark this na tions fortieth anniversary in proclaiming Estonia as a free JUST FOR FUN BV V*.}v > BOIJLWVftE SPEED BALI, R V\ Usually each a tally le afternoon a ■ .. p ot t neet at Jabe VVi.glus Barn •hop to beat, our chops. live other week, we am aero,. 'Speedball’’ McLean who dim one of those hiss frailer in!v- I for the Howard Wholes,,! Company. He drops in to get his hair cut. This particular afternoon we started telling stories which never once drifted “off color. “Speedball" McLean, a 250- pounder, stepped down from the chair and started “gabbing his tale. “It is hard for a vet driver like myself to understand wom en. This morning as I was dri - ving down Loomis Street a red light stops me and I lighted up a cigarette, All of a sudden a powerful car smacked my rear bumper. The cigarette Dies from my lips. My cap falls oU and lands on the floor mat. i am shaking with anger. So I gets out and walks over to punch that car driver in the nose, in case he ain’t too big and strong for me to tackle But instead of a big fat slob of a driver, I see behind the wheel one of tnem giamorom chicks who should have been better employed.” “My dear- lady,” I says to her, binning up slowly, “is there anything wrong with your eyesight?” Without batting an eyelash .she replies, “What the hell do you mean by that, There's nothing wrong with my eve sight. I hit you didn't 1? Serves you right for getting in my way.” “That answer was enough for me,” said 'Speedball", And he said he walked away. CORNY ARD THEN TOLD Ot the time he was tearing along the highway in his car at 50 miles a.u hour, when the speed limit was twenty. Suddenly a Cordon B. Hancock's BETWEEN the LINES STEALING 011ß STI FF Kimball Young, the great sociologist, tells us that jazz and blues are music just as ■surely res grand opera. There is the temptation to gloriiy grand opera and deride jazz but according- to Young there is no basis for such difference in music evaluations. Where hundreds of thous ands enjoy grand opera, mil lions enjoy jazz; and when it comes to popular appeal that of jazz and the blues is great er by far. This writer mas been tremendously Impressed with the volumes of jazz and blues that come over radio and tele vision. In fact these have al most a monopoly of our media of the air. What is doubly impressive is the fact that jazz and the blues are Negro creations and the while music world have gone wild over them. When Negroes and independent Republic. The fact that the United States will build a network in Nepal (Katmandu! which cabs for the installation of fifty six radio-reception and trans mission stations has encourag ed students at Barnard in the field of telecommunications. The United Negro College Fund seeks $2450,000 in its fifteenth annual drive to aid the thirty-three colleges affili ated with the Fund. Stanley C Hope, national campaign chair man is president of Esso Stan dard Oil Company. Appeals will be conducted in 120 cities and towns throughout the country. Columbia University’s report on fifty years of public schools contends that the age of dedi cation is over for the teacher and that money is making a difference in education. Schools which spend more get more. The United States stands as a good object lesson in race in tegration from the vantage point of South African Edu cator VioUrine I. Juned. Her visit here •& sponsoieu by the Phelpr-Stolvcs Fund. Thrilled by the positive gains in this country Miss June* is set to tour northern centers with a large Negro concentration be fore visiting the deep South particularly in Montgomery and Little Rock. CARIBBEAN LEAGUE OF AMERICA CLOSES RANKS The Caribbean League of A merica, Inc. with national headquarters here Is closing ranks to meet the challenge faced by the newly form d Federation of the Caribbean Islands becoming an accom plished fact. The kick-off event will be with the Summit Conference convening at Bel mont Plaza come March twen ty-third. Dr. Gerald A. Spen cer is president of the CLA. Plans are getting underway for simultaneous activities in New York at the same time of the Federation's observance in Port of Spain. Trinidad. The first American produc tion of THE COMMON WIND: A PORTRAIT IN WORDS AND DRUMC OF TOUSSAINT L OUVERTUPvE by H. S. L. Craig is to he presented by the Poetry Center. YM-YWHA. Mas Adrian. Austin Briggs- Hall Frederick O’Neil and Mar tin Wolfson are starring in the production to be produced by Paul Lewis. Native drum ef fects by Cyril Jackson and cho ral accompaniment fey George McClain Chorale are featured, motorcycle cop whizzed up be bu, him. cut in front of him. and ordered him to stop, and hauled ;i book of summonse* out of his pocket. “What's your hurry?” d«- ii',uided the policeman. **• cu.i-vtotttU/iltWidV lilt cop had Cornyard stopped Tiro cop knew he was bigger and I ranger than Cornyard, and that his motorcycle could eas ily overtake Ccrnyard's car, He. knew that the law was on his ide, and that he could let Cornyard go with & warning, or compel him to “tell it to the judge." “All this being so,’* said Cornyard,” the policeman be came talkative, and even sub jected me to sarcasm which he Thought was witty, but which r thought was decideiy poor taste.” The way Cornyard described the incident we guffawed. MY STORY ONCE WHILE RIDING with loretta in her flashy converti ble. she wheeled on. the boule vard doing 60. The same coo that beat Cornyard into sub mission with his verbal may hem, roared out from a side road and blew his siren, Loretta said, “Now let me see —which tactic shall I start with the smile or the pout or the look of helplessness. Well, that’* immaterial, for in a few mom ents I will realize my superioo ity and dominate the conver sation." ‘Youre mighty sure of your self. Loretta," I remarked. “With my feminine charm, do you think I will drive away with a. summons?" retorted Loretta. I said. “Os course not." “That’s right,” answered Lo retta,” not if I am the woman I know I am.” I snickered, but said no more as we zoomed on down the highway. first played Jazz and Kandy fust wrote his blues, little did they think that the world would rave over their creations. But today the whole world is wild over jazz and the* blues and what is more the world is becoming day by day. When the Negro wrote jazz and the blues he was making a sur stantia! contribution to the cul tural life of the world. Say what, we win the world loves its jazz and its blues, and it is difficult to imagine wliat the world would do without them, fn very fact the world has stolen the Negro’s stuff; even m the deep South whete the Negro’s aspiration to pub lic esteem is spurned they aie rocking with the Negro jazz and crooning with his blues. Nothing could prove more conclusively that races like in dividuals cannot live unio themselves but must share life with each other. Not only is the nation and the world stealing our music stuff but they are stealing our dance stuff also. The current rock ’a roll rage is a Negro cre ation and its literally sweep ing the country. It can in truth be said that Elvis Pressley is a Negro creation because Ne gro music made him and also Bing Crosby with his croon ing. The Negro’s dance no less than his music is sweeping in its appeal. What about the Bis Apple and the Susie Q? What about the Charleston and the Black Bottom and trucking, and syncopated music in gen eral? Tap dancing is a Negro creation popularized by the late Bill Robinson. The Negro has made an in delible impression on the danca life and the music life of the nation and the world. Swing music hath its almost univer sal appeal. Some years ago when the Elks met in St. Louis, I remember quite well their spectacular parade. The writer was among those standing a lomc the parade route and the colors were flying and the bands were playing trium phantly. Standing near me was an nid lady who seemed to be around eighty-five or ninety and she yelled out as the band passed, “Mr. Bandman, put a little more swing in it". She was up in years but, she want ed more swing. And so in music and dance lilt! country is stealing our stuff to say nothing of our humor which Negroes popular ized on the stage. The point wc are making here is that the Negro has something to offer the world and something tne world can use to advantage. If wo take out of the worlds of dance and music the Negro’s creations, there would be con siderable impoverishment. Just, as the Negro lias made his contribution through his sec ond-class citizenship, he could have made hi,> contribution through first class citizenship. It !r> highly probable that had this nation used to its fullest extent the scientific genius of Its Negro citizens,the Vanguard would long since have sped in to its spatial orbit, instead of languishing on the sands of Florida. This country cannot afford to leave unused the Ne gro’s gifts and talents. Just as the country has stol en the Negro’s stuff In music and dance, it can use, without stealing, the Negro’s several abilities that would help our nation to become a more mighty nation.