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THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 26. 1958 4 Editorial Viewpoint ♦ The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP 12 Now.' if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. 14. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15. Yea, and we found false witnesses of CroH- because we have testified of God: whom he has raised not up, if so be that the dead Moral And Mental Strain Last week tits Joseph Hiram Holt, Jr., case again flamed into the limelight. The youth came before the U. S. Eastern District Court for the purpose of gaining entrance to the all-white Needham Broughton High School m Raleigh, N. C. The case was heard before Judge Edwin M Stanley, of Greensboro, who stated early in the trial that two issues were involved. One issue was: Whether or not the plaintiff exhausted administrative remidies before re sorting to court action? The other was: Was the action of the Raleigh School Board in re jecting Holt’s application based on race as a factor, or was it the sole factor? We were indeed interested in the testimony which was given by Mayor W. G Enloe He testified that he doubted if young Halt’s ap plication for reassignment was sincere. "I didn't expect physical harm to the youth, but there was the possibility of emotional and mental strain had the youth been admitted to Broughton,” said Mayor Enloe who is chairman of the School’Board. Perhaps the Mayor does not know that Ne gro youths live daily under emotional and mental strain wherever segregation exists. Hence, to experience emotional and mental strain, at the Needham Broughton High School would be nothing new for young Holt Whenever a Negro youth is told to sit in the rear of a bus. he experiences great emotional strain Whenever a Negro youth is told he can Recently the Youth Research Company published report? of a survey made among young people between the 17 to 22-year-old group in various towns and cities across the country. mr Less than 30 per cent of these young people could get a passing mark on a Bible test of grade school level Less than 28 per cent of the Protestants and 26 per cent of the Jews look upon themselves as “religious persons." Ro man Catholics scored better than 72 per cent on this question. As to church attendance, 68 per cent of Protestant youth and 86 per cent of the Jew ish youth do not attend church regularly. About 91 per cent o? these young people of all Punishment Good For Children We often tel! each other that punishment, in regards to children, is antique, is cruel and unnecessary. We suggest that parents reason things out with them. We say that punishment only suppresses a child’s natural desire for self-expression and hurts his future personal ity development. Because of such opinions as these. America today is filled with undisciplined children, who may or may not become juvenile criminals. Why has this freedom from punishment pre vailed? What are the results of such a free dom? And what is needed to eradicate the un fortunate results? It should be a known fact that juvenile mis behavior was far less serious in the days of the strap and the woodshed.. Teen-agers used 1o learn quite fast that the paths of mischiefs only led to the aching regrets of the woodshed. And in teen-age language, they soon found out that ‘ there was no percentage in being bad." Boys who got too conceited, or girls who pout ed too obviously, or noisly, were promptly lin - ed up on the side of virture with the threat, or the reality of a dusting-off process. We read one news article, which made the point that most juvenile delinquents could be cleaned up if police officers were allowed to give first offenders a good sound licking on that part of the anatomy designed for that purpose It is not our purpose here to take the affirmative or negative side of this argument. One of the first lessons children must learn is personal responsibility for their own actions. Parents often try to excuse their children by saying. "I know it was not the real Susie who did that nasty thing." It is such excusing of guilt that easily trains a child to blame his other self for his mistakes. Each one of us have evil desires and tendencies in our make-up that we would like to disown, but we must learn to honestly face and successfully control them. Children must be taught that if they do wrong, they must be punished. The next reality a child must face is that a real punishment will come upon me if I do not obey. A child soon learns to laugh off a threat. Work Is Good For Us Any human being who wishes to continue Jiving must work, for this is the law of the Almighty Creator. If man eats less food, his stomach begins to shrink. If he takes cortisone, his pituitary gland will stop secreting it. If he does not use his muscles, they will atrophy. If man does not think, his brain will lose much of his power to function. If an individual does not talk, his speech will disintegrate ra pidly. If a person does not exert himself along many lines, he will expire Normal use of the body’s organs increases their strength and vigor. The more problems ter and more logical we can think. The more we solve, the greater capacity we have to solve future: problems. The more we think, the bet Amazing, Isn’t It? rise not. 16. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain: ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we arc of all men most miserable. (I Corinthians 15:12-19). not eat in a public case he suffers emotion*! frustration. Whenever a Negro is denied a job because of his color the shock siphons off his ambition. Whenever a Negro youth is denied admittance to the large state universities where he wishes to study law. medicine, or engineering, he faces a situation full of emotional stress, Joseph Holt. Jr. undergoes emotional and mental strain everyday he rides the school bus pass the Needham Broughton High School en route to the Ligon High School nearly three miles from his home. He knows that he is be ing denied admittance to the school nearest his home mainly on the basis of race. Perhaps if white youths had to undergo the same ingidinities and embarrassments which arc experienced by young Negroes, they might “blow their tops.' A white youth can sit any where he wisher, on vehicles of transportation, attend the best theatres which are off-limits for Negroes and get the finest type of educa tion in a school with the most modem facil ities. Never you fear, Mr. Mayor, young Holt can. take it on the chin He has developed emotional and mental stamina by sparring in the Jim-Crow arena. He has fought and been tried. If y oung Holt has weathered the storms of Jim-Grow thus far, we need not fear that, the indignities he might encounter at the all white school will upset him. faiths said they would never think of turning to a clergyman to help them solve life’s prob lems. As to Bible knowledge, only 30 per cent knew that Paul was the Apostle to the Gen tiles. and less than 50 per that Moses had led the Israelites out of Egypt. i his situation ts indeed alarming for a na tion that calk itielf Christian. Perhaps that is why thousands of parents are darning to church-related and private schools where the simple but fundamental objectives of religious education can berealized. When we come to think of It, those educa tors who advocate the teaching of the Bible in our public schols may not be as “out-of-date" as we think. that is a lie. For instance, “If you do not go right up to bed, the bogey-man will get you.'* Now lust who is that bogey-man? We do not believe anyone in the world can tell you. The child not only takes advantage of such ■ he, but inwardly loses respect for his parents Lies can never take the place of firm and sound discipline. Unless parents are strong enough to enforce painful reminders for violations, life itself will brutally punish the child who thinks he can get away with misbehavior. World War II turned up the largest num ber of neurotic adults ever discovered In A merica. The main cause was found to be, young men who were babied and spoiled by adoring parents These young men just could not: face the hard realities of war, and so they went to pieces. Our modern home life is too soft. Tt attempt® to cushion children against all that i* hard, and therefore the youth is not ready to en dure- life’s stern lessons. Knowledge of right and wrong Is not heredi tary. That must he acquired through the prac tice of right habits. All children are naughty, but no child bad Children cannot help being good and happy if their parents train them m good habits from their earliest days. And that training must include punishment. Punishment may be physical with a strap or switch, a good slap or a licking. On the other hand, it may be spiritual —a hurt look or a disappointed silence that indicates you feel the child has failed And it ought to be, more often than it is, a work assignment like doing the dishes alone for a week. Too many parents say, “I have done every thing I can for this child, but look how he dis obeys." We want to tell you that is just the reason why he won’t obey You did too much work and the child too little. Parents, don’t feel old-fashioned because you use the hickory stick in punishing your child. That child will thank you for it during the years ahead. responsibility we assume the more self-reliance we acquire. The more decisions we make, the easier it becomes to decide. Have you ever noticed that the more active a person is in his community, the more jobs of local leadership are placed upon his shoulders. Usually, the people who get things done in your neighborhood are the ones who already are doing a dozen different jobs. Some people thrive upon mental and physi cal work, and they like it. But there are others who have eroded their human character by de termining to do only what they have to do. Wake up, learn to work and like it, and you will live! Government Responsibility Can Do The Same In Schools, Mr. President sfdsfs SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP ITCHING PALMS 1. This is rust another way of saying that many men with “HONESTY" have been play ing and in an effort to appear as committing no harm, finally become inflicted with a disease, known as “Itching Palm”. 2. This is something that steals in on a person who tries to hide his sly ‘‘Steal" . . . bur, every successful adventure in stills an ever growing appeal, until the habit grows so strong, it fails to be counted as a seri ous wrong. 3. To some persons the Dol lar Bill” brings ruch an inde scribable thrill that they go in quest of some with an indomit able will . . . and taking little or no concern of the moral cost, they too become insensible of the vital spiritual loss. 4. He who betrayed our Bless ed Lord for “Thirty Pieces of Silver", became unmindful of any other costs in his eagerness What Other Editors Say THE POLITICIANS ARE TALKING ABOUT US OUTSIDE THE SOUTH By OLIVER EMMERICH Congressman James Roose velt of California quotes the Southern Regional Council ns reporting that a total of 1.238, 038 Negroes voted in the Sou thern states in 1956. The number of Negro votes cast in the respective states, a: reported in the Congressional Record, were: Alabama, 53,336; Arkansas, 69,677; Florida, 149, 703; Georgia. 103,339, Louisi ana,. 16,410; Mississippi. 20,000; North Carolina, 135,000; South Carolina, 89,890: Tennessee, 90. 000; Texas 214,000 and Virgi nia 82,603. Congressman Roosevelt, in his "etxended remarks’’ in the Congressional Record, makes this statement; "In 1958 we hove probably 200,000 more, with a likelihood of a total in crease of 1 million, Negro votes in these states between 1856 and 1900 if purges do not offset a. large part of this gain.” The Civil Rights Commission was established as a govern mental agency to see to it that the Civil Rights of Individuals are protected. Congressman Roosevelt, how ever, pictures this government agency as an aggressive aim of the government the purpose of which is to see tha.t a large Ne gro vote is piled up in the South. He says, “if the Civil Rights Commission does a dy - namic and effective job, this in crease will certainly occur, and it could, in fact, be doubled.” Congressman Roosevelt says further, ‘‘The future of the Ne gro vote in the South may very well be in the hands of voters completely outside that region and subject to forcer, and fac tors far removed from him.” There are several observa tions which can be made from these statistics and the remarks of the congressional son of the late F. D. R. First, these figures Indicate that m3Jiy more Negro votes are now being cast in the South than people generally assume. Second politicians outside the South are making political cap ital in their own areas through campaigns of change directed at the South. Third, people of the South may well expect dominant ef fort, toward using the Civil Rights Commission as an ag gressive campaign headquar ters rather than a body to pro tect the rights of individuals. Fourth, sometimes overlook to deliver; and not having the slightest qualm. Judas fell vic tim to the "ITCHING PALM". 5. The only cure for this ter rible disease, is for a man to fall upon his knees, and pray to his God, for being so rude, to in termit the plague that needs roust light on this ingratitude. 6. The immediate “Take” is not always in a, deceptive hand shake, but in the holding of an important office in Church or sons over-step their bounds and State, where some smart per quietly get away with ether people's funds. 7. It is said that leprosy some imes begins with a small sore m the plam of the hand and spreads. , . but “Itching Palm” starts in evil hearts and heads, h This disease had an early beginning in the human family . . for it was Zaccheus who said, after coming down from his high perch, his sins to Jesus to unfold. “Behold Lord, the half ed in this controversial sifcua tion is the fact that people in low income and educational seg ments of our population, white and colored, do not generally vote in large percentages. It is a mistake to assume that the number of Negroes voting is completely the result of politi cal factors. The comments of Congress man Roosevelt also point to the effort to use the national Democratic Party as the crusad ing organization to force changes in the South. This is reflected in the following state ments made by him: ‘ These reports indicate the need of three types of action: <l> Pohitcal action to enlist national party support of a strong and decisive report by the Civil Rights Commission; <2) a South wide, state by state campaign to get Negroes to register; and f3t an education al campaign to instruct Negroes In the values of the vote, the use of the ballot, how to regis ter, how to vote, and that vot ing is a federal right The South is a part of the nation and of national politics. Our chief role, today, however, seems to be to supply the poli ticians of other areas with something to talk about. We are being freely discussed. State Times, Jackson, Miss. DAY OF OPPORTUNITY DAWNING To those college graduates, and all young men and women in the world today, who are set ting out to earn a living, wr would like to refute the many claims that the day of opportu nity is past. It is frequently heard that the current, high tax structure in this country, and in most current discourages in itiative and drive, and that the day of individual fortunes is past. All the facts and figures avail able refute this as complete non sense In almost every commun ity in this great country there are wealthy business men who have made every penny of their fortunes since World War 11. The nation is growing in popu lation by over one million a year, the long-term trend is to ward a higher standard of liv ing and the free enterprise sys tem is still respected and pro tected in these United States. That is all any ambitious, and talented, young person needs to day White it is true that taxes will take a greater proportion of income than they took twenty or thirty years ago, it is also of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusa tion, I restore him fourfold.” 9. ‘'FOURFOLD” is a pretty fail - reutrn, for money that once made the palm itch and hart.: It is very seldom done on this '•cals today, . in fact, oven an ALL-WISE GOD, it would try to fool 11. How precious then is it to find, some noble women of the Shunammite kind and men like Elijah, humble and true, who live their Christianity through and through. 12. My' what a wonderful world this would be. if more palms would itch to lift the sin sick, down-trodden and forsak en and set their souls free: this should be the joy ana hope ct the majority of men today. , . for hopeless will be our eternal end if the vile disease of ‘IT CHING PALMS” is allowed to have full sway. true that there are many advan tages for the youth of today which were net enjoyed by the generation which preceded him. For one thing there is a large national market. For another the standard of living is higher and wages and salaries are high er For another there is better j oration yet spawned in this conn and innumerable scientific ad vantages which esn be taken advantage of in industrial fields. In addition to these advan tages, we believe that the dawn of the world's most adventurous era is now arriving. Far more thrilling than the discovery of Amend'd will be the first trip to the moon, or Mars, or a nearby planet. During the lifetime of this country’s present youth this trip will probably be successful ly completed. As the heavens reveal their secrets, and as outer space is conquered, the age of real ad . venture will only be beginning. Therefore far from being pessi mistic about opportunities af forded youth today, we believe the young people of today have the brightest future of anj' gen ation yet spawned in this coun try From the economic stand point, they also enjoy many safe guards which their forefathers did not enjoy, and for which they paid, heavily in periods of depression, -- SHREVEPORT SUN it Happened in New York By GLADYS P GRAHAM FOR ANT RUTS UP FIRST OVERSEAS CHAPTER The influential Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, now on the threshold of its 50th anniver sary, is following the modern trend of reaching out to the “brightest, continent" Africa. Monrovia, Liberia will be the site for a new AKA chapter, to be set up by Supreme Basilcus Ar» netta G, Wallace when she flies there from Chicago Liberian women have been trying for sometime for this goal. The Re public is dotted with AKA sor ors.‘ fully paid by Boule mem bers. looking forward to the JUST FOR FUN BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE TIME 2:35 p. m. Corn yard and 1 aboarded a Trailway Express en route to Raleigh and points north on Saturday, July 12. Indeed, we were surprised that we would be en route home be fore our anticipated ten-week stay had expired. As soon as Indicated to the President of the Alcorn A and M. College that 1 was not inter ested in joining the faculty on a 12-month basis, he had no more use for myself and Corn yard, my right-hand Boon-Coon. When the bus rolled out of the union bus depot, Cornyard taid, “Whew, DOC, am I glad to get away ole Mississippi?” Those chicks, Cornyard Hinted, w«i« too backward for him I added that maybe Cornyard was right, and I said, “God save us all r ” JACKSON, MISS.: I stood long in a line to enter the bus at J.iCkson, Mississippi, and I fin ally got or> with my suitcase, ripper bag. and typewriter. There was only one star, left, and a lady had her water jug in it. ' Lady, may I sit down beside you?," I said. She hollered back, “Why don't you gel off and take the sec ond bus'’” T added. ' Because I don't, want to have to change back to this bus.” •Seeing her holding her water jar in her Lap. I offered to put it on the floor or up or. the rack Abruptly. sh“ said, “No: ’ Ar.d theft added, ‘ I like to hold my pig in my lap and I don't want the bottom to get dirty. You know, folks, that woman held that, jug in her hand un comfortably until she reached Columbus. Georgia. I know her wrist must have been paralysed by then FLORENCE -SC: As we pass ed a row of Negro houses on a Gordon B. Hancock *s The Tragedy of Segregation My father was a minister and one of the early • graduates of Benedict college, my alma ma ter. Upon leaving school, he was called to a Baptist church in western South Carolina not far from Augusta, Ga. The while of his ministry was served at this church, which gave him an honorable funeral and his pass ing was widely and sincerely mouned. The writer well remembers that he received a call from a church, with a large member ship .which offered many in large and influential city ducements Father was stern in his spirit whether to leave his first love and go to the sup posedly larger field of service. Useless to say the larger church offered a much larger salary, which was a by no means minor consideration where he was bringing up a large family He apparently was on the verge of accepting the chal lenge of the larger field, al though the people of his par ish were imploring him to re main. There were prayers and tears. I shall never forget that coming of their leader from A meriea to be set up the gradu ate chanter. AFRICA NEW STAR IN HIS TORY is the theme of the Satur day Review Vol. XLI. Leaders Nkrumah, Azikiwo Kenyatta and A W Lewis arc among these featured under politics in this well-illustrated issue, with the latest compilation of factual ma terial by researchers of note. In this same issue is noted SB's sixth annual world travel photo competition, deadline for entries October, 1938, open only to am ateurs. Youngsters and oldsters may sport their wares in color and in black and white. Author of THE TENTH MAN. Lucille A. Chambers, is slated for a teaching post in Nigeria, where she will use her skills in human relations and health ed ucation. The .AKA soror and NC NW member is being loaded down with useful items for bon voyage Hon C, C Dennis, mem ber, House of Representatives, Republic of Liberia and editor, LISTENER DAILY of Monrovia, route from Japan, He visited his son James, and was widely feted was in New York briefly, en during his sojourn MAYOR WAGNER THROWS WELCOME PARTY FOR TENNIS STAR GIBSON This writer and other lucky invites were among guests at the Mayor's home “Grade Man sion,'' to welcome Althea Gib son, Wimbledon tennis champ ion In a grand reception Ad mittance v:ns by telegram only at the bidding of Richard C. Patterson, Jr.. commissioner. Dept, of Commerce gnri Public Events. Mayor Wagner flew back from Washington for the event. RANDALL TYUS HITS WALL STREET Holding his sheepskin from Boston university where he re cently earned his master's the well known Ei.skits and UNCF Gold director Randali l’yus has gained for himself a place in SPECIAL MARKETS INC the Wall Street firm of Jenkins and Associates. Tyus will officially enter the sales post in Septem ber but hopes to get his feet on firm marketing ground during three weeks of summer vacation. front street near Florence, 5 C, 1 # saw a father bathing his 8- year-o!d daughter in a tub on the street. Cornyard yelled out. “Look, DOC. she has on her birthday suit!” You know, friends, I never saw anything like this before. The time will come. I hope, when property owners will pro vide Negro tenants with bath rooms, It’s a shame to have to bathe ones children naked in the street. AUGUSTA GA. We saw an interesting sight near Augusta, * - Georgia. A highway patrolman had stopped two white boys in a hot rod for throwing litter on the niyhway. Guess what the cop made them litter-bugs do’ Pick up. the beer cam and paper they l *' had thrown on the highway. It looked like it was hard, but Cornyard said, “It was fair, DOC, wasn't it?” THE CHECK-OUT; Since I was paying Cornyard's board and room. I sent him around a while with my check-out sheet. For the benefit of those who don't know what a check-out sheet is permit me. to say it it a slip that tells the powers that be that you don’t, owe the college nary-a-rent. Between Cornyard and myself, we wen to these place* for sig natures; library, service station, dining hall, health service, dairy, farm office, residence hall director, business manager, comptroller, bookstore, mainten ance office, telephone office. and the president’s office. There I picked up my salary check I had on a pedometer (meter for measuring walking distance and I counted four miles for my self alone. I don’t know how far Cornyard walked. Folks. Cornyard has only one, regret, and that was he didn't? get to see Krokas Bag Ben. play baseball. He missed s treat |f ever there was one. ore night as w« were gathered around the fireside, I too was troubled by the situation and spoke up thus: “Father, I cannot under stand how a minister can af ford to leave one field of ser vice. where he is loved and rev- A ered and go to another just be cause he is offered a larger sal ary.” Father waited long before he answered my anxious inquiry. He answered me thus; "Gordon, I do not see. the use of the Lord making a way for a man if he does noW take it!” “Father had something that silenced me and something that should provoke serious thought to whomever is faced with such knotty decisions. The foregoing incident grows out of my study of the subtle passing of segregated seating on the buses of the city of Rich mond. There was never any ov er-ail announcements that seg regation was ended, it just came about as if by some subtle undestar.ding. Ridhmond awoke suddenly and segregation was gone there have been no “in cidents.” Although segregation on the buses was outlawed, both Ne groes and white are trying to make it stick. Whites still crowd to the front of the bus and Negroes still rush for the back seats. It Is pathetic to see how Negroes have been condi- A tinned to the rush for the rear, when they board the buses Agreeing with my father , who did not see the use of God mak ing a better way for a man if the man did not, take it. I tAke the first vacant seat whether It be front or rear. Although Ne groes see me often sitting to this front, they still rush for the rear. Segregation conditions the Negro to seek his inferior seat ing accomodations when first class accomodations are avail able. And herein lies the great tragedy of segregation: it builds into the personality a feeling of inferiority. Negroes have sat, be hind so long that they feel that that is where they belong. They do not seem to make much of the fact that they were set be hind because whites l'elfc that superiors should sit to the front, and inferiors to the rear. Os course Negroes will in time learn how to make use of the privilege and responsibility that the courts ot the land have , granted. But as of the moment ■* the Negroes have been so con ditioned that they rush for the rear What the courts have de clared to be illegal the whites and Negroes are trying ta make mutual. There is an old hack going the rounds that Negroes would rather be with their people sor they are placed in the segregate? accommodations set aside for them. But the segregation that comes voluntarily and that which comes by law are two en tirely different propositions. A long with legalized segregation go inconveniences and humila tlons and the stigma, of Inferior ity The Negro who claims that he does not resent these is eith er ignorant or deceitful, or both. So When Negroes get the oppor tunity to live above segregation and then accept, it, they be come objects of pity and not, of wrath. A new world is a homin’ and we all might as well get raa&y . to live in this world of tomer- f , row The tragedy of segregation * is when the segregated love it and are satisfied with it!