4 THE CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1359 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S “And He cried out, ‘Peace be stUi to the waves mil billows,’ ” The Scriptures. All of Jesus' days were spent In the open air—this is an outstanding testimony to His strength. On the Sabbath, He was in the syno- COfftte because that was where the people gath ered; but by far the greater part of His teach ing was done on the shores of the lake, or in the cool recesses of the hills. He walked from town to town; His face was tanned by the sun and wind. Even at night He slept outdoors, when He could- turning His back on the hot walls of the city and slipping away into the heathful freshness of the Mount of Olives. Jesus was the type of outdoor man whom our modern thought most admires; and the vigorous activities of His days gave His nerves the strength of steel. Jesus stepped into a sailboat with Hi dis ciples one late afternoon, and, being very tired, lay down in the stern and was almost immedi ately asleep. The clouds grew thicker and the surface of the lake, which had been quiet a few minutes before, war broken into sudden waves. The little boat dived and tossed, and still H< slept. His disciples had grown up on the shore* of that lake; they were fishermen, accustomed to its mood and not easily frightened. But they had never been out In such a storm as this. It grew fiercer; water began to come in over the side, and every moment semed to threaten de struction. At last they could stand the strain no longer; they went to the stern and woke Him. Virginia integration stopgap measures re cently burst under the strain of legal decis ion when two high federal courts struck down legal maneuvers of Arlington and Nor folk to postpone public school desegregation. The U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order directing Arlington County to admit four Negro students to a white high school on February 2, A ?■»-. 4V- .- n »%■% ar% 1-- e~.~. 4 1-* --*i £•*“**■- *-T t *r--- ituuvcu, m uiv Ottilia 1/u.aui, a bpvAicu untv judge constitutional panel sitting in the same courtroom killed the Norfolk City Council's plan to close its entire secondary system to avoid integration. The court enjoined Nor folk from “engaging in any evasive schemes or devices looking to cut-off of funds for schools or grades affected by the mixing of races or the closing or elimination of specific grades in such schools.’* The universal charge directed against our high school and college students is that they can neither speak nor write the English lan guage effectively. There is considerable evi dence to support this charge, for one has only to listen to average students speak or read letters, reports, and compositions written by them. They apparently can’t spell, conjugate correctly verbs, decline accurately nouns and pronouns, punctuate satisfactorily, and ar range words orderly in sentences and para graphs. Professor A, C. Jordan of Duke University, critically and fearlessly appraising the situ ation, has proposed two remedies: 1. Remove freshman English from control of English departments ar.d place it under the college administration which can operate it with continuing standards: 2. Call a conference of educational and business leaders to set up standards for a basic course in freshman English with an eye on the needs of the future. These proposals, Professor Jordan says, would help eliminate the troubles which he describes clearly; “In the American College today, there is no determined, fixed standard in English at tainment. Rather does the standard flow un evenly, up or down, with the changing atti tudes of a constantly changing teaching stuff . . In light of professional, business and indus - trial needs, we agree with Dr. Jordan that some fixed standards should be drafted for baric imd modern English. Certainly, we can find no better qualified people for this task then our business and educational leaders. And once these standards have been deter mined, no students should be permitted to graduate if he cannot meet them. There should be no ’"watering down of English in struction” as practiced by many of our Eng lish department* so that students “can get by." The Importance of this point was expressed in a Newt snd Oh*erv«i editorial under the title. “The Know How and Know Why” and published on November 6, 1.957. In part the editorial said; After 91 years of operation, Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, will close. Its board of trustees has officially voted a merger with Alderson-Braddus College at Phillippi. Storer. a training college for Ne groes. was founded on seven acres of land donated by the United States Government in 1868. When West Virginia Integrated Its Institu tions in 1954, state aid for Storer College was discontinued. Without sufficient funds, the college had “to give up the ghost.” As we move toward complete integration, other private colleges will face similar doom, Without adequate financial support, they cannot compete in the education business with state colleges, or heavily-endowed pri vate universities and institutions. Trouble is now brewing for Mary Allen College in Crockett, Texas. Formerly a Pres byterian Junior College, it was soid to the Missionary General Baptist Convention of Texas which operates it at the present time. For five or six years this college has been '‘operating in the red.” It iias not been able to pay its teachers according to the terms cf their contracts. In the January 17 sesue of the Negro Labor Aew* of Houston., Texas, there appears an WORDS OF WORSHIP Bid Opportunity Come In Teaching Good English They Must Bo w Out The Master rose without the slightest sug gestion of hurry or alarm. A quick glance was enough to give Him & full understanding of the situation. He issued a few quiet orders and pro ac-ntly the menaced boat swung round into the smoother waters of safety. Call it a miracle or not- -the fact remains that it is one of the finest examples of self-control in all human history. Napoleon said that he had met few men with courakc of “two o’clock in the morning va riety.” Many men. can be brave in the warmth of the sun and amid tlio heartening plaudits of the crowd; but to be wakened suddenly out of sound sleep, and then exhibit instant mastery that is a type of courage which is rare indeed. Jesus had that courage, and no man ever needed it more. In the last year of His public work the forces of opposition took on a form and coherency whose significance was perfectly clear. II He refused to retreat or to compromise, there could be but one end to his career. He knew they would kill Him, and He knew how they would kill I-lim. More than once m His journeys He had passed the victims of the justice of that day, writhing, tortured being nailed to crosses and waiting piteously for release. Sometimes they wilted for days before the end, The memory of such sights must have been constantly with Him; at every sunset He was conscious that He had walked just one day nearer to His own ordeal. Since it is apparent that integration cannot be postponed forever, Virginia should in good faith devise ways and means to proceed with orderly desegregation of its public schools. If one-half as much energy was expended in trying to make some integration plan work as has been spent on “laws of massive resis tance,” one would be amazed at the bene ficial results the harmony and good faith exhibited by black and white citizens alike. A UP! report says that the school boards in Arlington and Norfolk have pledged to open the schools, integrated if necessary, if given an opportunity. The court has now extended that opportunity to these two cities. They do us wrong who say that opportunity comes but once. For in Virginia, Opportunity stands at the door and knocks. “No boy (or girl) should be allowed to pass any course in any subject who cannot write his knowledge of its content in correct, grammatical, intelligible English.” For some reason, our teachers of English have failed to determine effective standards of basic English. If they have, they have not insisted upon their students meeting these rigid standards. One reason for this is that they are afraid of failing too many students. The problem of poor English has not been solved by the purists who look to the conven tional rules of grammar, to dictionaries, and to lists of mispronounced words as absolute authority, “As our speech changes, so do dic tionaries and grammars change; so must they change if we are to prepare our students to speak and write the language of their time, or to secure from the better oral and written English of our.own day reinforcement of our teaching.” The way the language is now employed by a large number of our students, we get the impression no matter where or by whom an expression is used, it must necessarily be cor rect. Professor Albert Marckwordt says that the doctrine of usage does not legalize the language of the gutter, for the language of the gutter and uneducated people is not the English which is apt to prevail as Standard Written and Spoken Erg^sh. The standards of business leaders are ex tremely high in occupational and communi cation skills. Business leaders certainly could help colleges to set up high standards for stu dents t.o meet in basic English skills. Once such standards are adopted, college admin istrations must have the courage to require students to develop skills to meet them. We don’t visualize an English basic skill course as one which wilt give students a bag of verbal tricks with which to impress peo ple. But if students are eager to share ideas and experiences with other people; if they want to make better sense when they talk and write and learn more when they listen; • f they want to develop potentialities as a thinking, communicating human being, then a stiff course in basic English is a promise. article which states that Mary Allen College has lost another round in the nonpayment of teacher salaries dispute when Third Ju dicial District Judge V. M. Johnson, Houston County, awarded Robert Drew—a teacher— a judgment of $2,034.90 for salary and S4OO for attorney fees The entire amount will draw six per cent interest until paid.” Hardly had the college recovered when an other judgment for more than $1,900 was won by a business firm. And now Professor and Mrs. James L. Stanley are suing the col lege for $9,744 in delinquent salary, damages, cost of court and interest. Prior to the lawsuits, Rev. Warren S. Brent, a Forth Worth pastor and chairman of the Board of General Management of the col lege, publicly announced that “Mary Allen is out of the debt.” The judgments in the three lawsu ; ts present evidence to the con trary. It is now reasonable to expect that dozens of other unpaid teachers who have taught at the college will sue for bank salary and ac cording to the precedents recently set, they will surely win. The college will eventually close shop; and perhaps it may be forced to sell its buildings and properties to appease the rred'torr end teachers. Can Destroy America, Unless They Are Eliminated a SENTENCE SERMONS “GIVING UP” 1. ft is never right to hold on to things that are wrong, but it is always wrong to give up the tilings that are right. 2. Adam set the wrong pace for man to follow, and now he seems to have him entranced ;n Sleepy-Hollow: for he seems bent on doing every wrong thing that comes to his mind, and leaving the worthwhile things behind, 3. Not only men of low estate fall prey to this dc-plorable fate, but intelligent men who should know better are over taken by Satan’s flatter . , , and as long perhaps as Liu world goes round, these duped individuals will forever be found. 4. Thus our world is jittery today, because billious minds appear to hold full sway, and the deceptive smoke-screen be fore men’s eyes makes their vision too blurred to discern the real prize. 5. Sauls brilliant mind in this manner was almost tricked beyond redemption when Sa tan issued his five days notice of eviction; it was then, only, What Other Editors Say SEGREGATION IS DOOMED IN IT, s. Elgin Baylor, star rookie basketball player for tire Min neapolis Lakers, stirred up a hornet’s nest when he refused to play in a game at Charles ton, West Va , after he had beer, denied accommodations in a hotel because he Is a Negro. Much is made of the fact that the two other Negroes on the Lakers ‘team did not re itm to play, even though they too. had been denied accom modations in the hotel. It is well to remember that all Ne groes are not alike. Mr. Baylor happens to be among those who believe that manly self respect is more valuable than playing basketball in a city which refuses to permit him to enjoy the same privileges os other Americans. At the risk of losing his fat salary and being denied the op portunity of playing in the Na tional Basketball Association, Mr, Baylor took IPs stand a gainst racial segregation. While the other two players had a perfect right to decide for themselves whether or not to participate in the game, it Is unfortunate that they did not also refuse to play, since St would have strengthened the position taken by Baylor. The position taken by the other members of the lakers' team in refusing to stay at thfc hotel which refused accommo dations to their Negro team mates is laudatory. It is signi ficant that the management of the Lakers refused to condemn Baylor for Ids attitude arid de clared that his actions were jus tified. This incident points up two vital facts; (Xi There are some Negroes who have made up their minds to resist segrega tion regardless of personal sac rifice. (2) There are a growing number of decent white Ameri cans who have joined In tha fight, to end segregation. In the face of those two for ces. racial segregation in A merica Is doomed to defeat. —Philadelphia Tribune RULING DOES NOT OPEN LITTLE ROCK SCHOOLS Just what practical effect Saturday's ruling by Federal District Judge Miller in the Lit tle Rock school desegregation will have is coniectural. BY REV, FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP when a merciful God. issuing a THREE DAYS NOTICE of blindness, as His Decree, that hla sinful soul was fully set free. 6. Some hard meaded Indi viduals have to be knocked completely to the ground be fore their thinking begins to become sound . ... , for they are so much like children wanting their own way, and when fail ing to get. it, decide not to play. 7. But, this kind of conduct God will not countenance, and for such He lets us know we have no defense; so the quicker we learn the priceless value of humility, the sooner will we escape the penalties for our stupidity. 8. Following my determina tion to get a word in for God somehow every day, I after wards felt sorry for my morn ing cab driver when incidental ly relating to him some of my hardships in gaining an educa tion along life’s rugged way; this sadly he had to say, “My mother wanted so badly for me to become a priest , . .1 start ed, but gave up;” my’ how sad today ha is just a poor way- The rullnt; ordered the Little Rock school board to report to him within 30 days its plans for carrying out the desegrega tion plan for the schools under its jurisdiction. It also enjoin ed tiie board from leasing pub lic school property to be used as segreated schools. But Judge Miller did not ol - der the board to reopen the closed schools and noted that the decision of (he Court of Ap peals for the Eighth Circuit, under which he issued the rul ing, “clearly” did not require him to do so. Unless there are subsequent court rulings to re open the schools, tire Little Rock school board does not have to do so. If it does reopen them, they must be reopened under the plan for desegrega tion which the present board'.", predecessor prepared and which Judge Miller approved over two years ago. Thus Judge Miller’s ruling and the Circuit Court directive do not come to grips with the issue of closing public schools to avoid desegregation. Pre sumably the Little Rock school board may keep the schools closed although it apparently has little choioe about assuring the District Court that it wall put into effect the approved plan lor gradual desegregation when they are reopened. The Little Rock plan called for gradual desegregation over the period September, 1957- Septeinber, 1903, Desegregation was to begin in the high schools, and the admission of several Negro students to Little Rock's Central High School, in accordance with the plan, at the beginning of the 1857-58 session resulted i narmed inter vention, with different objec tives, by both Governor Faubus and President Eisenhower and the closing of the school last fall after the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court overruled District Judge Lemley’s post ponement of effective date of the plan until February 1861. The Little Rock board, equal ly divided between extremists and moderates, appear* divid ed on reopening the schools. Extremists hold that state law, under which the school* were closed, proven!,* reopening them. At least one of the mod erates wants them reopened at midterm, the end of this month. Judge Miller’E ruling farer, and cab driver. S. Yes, it is the “GIVING UP” that usually leads to the CRACK UP . . . yes. when things begin to get blue, it is then quite obvious that real men are few, 10. Dema-s faltered on the way and proved himself just common clay, but a little wom an named Ruth never acted unkindly or uncouth, hut with patience, love and sincerity to ward her mother-in-law, Na omi, left an undying challange to you and me. 1. Judas Iscariot "GAVE UP”, who might have been a Prince among men, but for thirty pieces of silver, came to a bitter end, 12, But ah, the one whom he betrayed, the ONLY BEGOT TEN SON. held on through blood and sweat until victory was won; those unforgettable hours on the cruel Tre were not for himself, but for you and me: will we not therefore in deepest gratitude and humi liation, give ourselves wholly to Him who would not ‘‘GIVE UP”, but paid it all. for our Salvation? leaves that matter’ unsettled— the very practical one of whe ther the schools will remain closed or will be reopened. —Durham Morning Herald JOHNSON PROPOSES CIVIL RIGHTS t’OMROMISE Lyndon Johnson's aim is to do in the highly controversial field of civil rights what he did in the controversial field of the Senate debate rule. He wants a compromise which will spare the congressional Democrats a knock-down, drag-out fight over what is called civil rights legislation. Certainly such a fight will come if radical, ex tremist measures get before Congress. In proposing another com promise early in the congrse sional session, Johnson is dem onstrating good political, lead ership. He knows the pressures on certain Northern senators and representatives to push strong civil rights bills He knows the pressures on South ern congressmen to oppose them. And he knows also how devastating to the party in Congress a bitter fight on the issue will prove and the pos sibilities for trouble for the party in the 1960 campaign. It is in the best interest.'; of the Democratic party to avoid a clash on civil rights. That Senator Johnson got his proposal to Congress before the administration is another mark of his political astute ness. Republicans know that civil rights legislation can drive a sharp wedge deep in Demo cratic ranks while the issue poses few problems for them. By Betting ahead of the admin istration. Johnson can protect his party against this maneu ver by the Republicans. Newspapers dispatches car ried only a brief outline of the content of the Johnson com promise. Even these indicate that it is a stronger bill than the one now in effect. The por tion granting the Attorney General authority to subpoena voting record* without having to go through a grand jury in creases his power considerably. This section of the Johnson bill should be carefully scru tinized . Like Part 3 of the 1957 bill, it may prove more subver sive of civil rights than a pro tection. The proposal for a federal JUST FOR FUN BY MARCUS », BOLT.WARE GROPING IN DARK When I graduated from high school. I was in a state of in decision trying to work my way out. I didn’t know whether I wanted to attend college, or not. Vaguely in my mind, I visualized attending J. C. Smith University in Charlotte, or Lincoln University in Pennsyl vania. My father, who is now de ceased. wanted to know if I intended to go to college. I said, ‘T don’t know!” He made up my mind for me and plant ed me on the campus of J. C. Smith University. During' the first two weeks I became nostalgic and wanted to return to my home, Chester, S. C.. about 44 miles South of Charlotte. 3omc of the follow ing incidents made me doubt my ability to succeed in col lege: I registered for Latin and chemistry. Being a green and apparently dumb freshman. I didn’t realize that chemistry had laboratory periods. For tv o weeks, I attended the Latin class which met the same time as the chemistry lab One day the chemistry teach er. Professor Knox, wanted to know where i had been. I said. ‘‘Attending the Latin class.” In reply, he advised me to drop Latin. By gingo! I dropped both of tire darn courses. Since we didn’t have an? books cn hand the Latin tea cher. Professor James, review ed irregular verbs whose prin cipal parts gave me some dis ficulty at the moment. Said Prof. James, “Where did you study Latin?" I told him, and he replied. “You certainly don’t know any!” Professor Knox in the chem istry class lulled us to sleep with Ins dry monotous voice: hence. I let chemistry go. I look In its place: Melieval His tory of Europe and Intermedi ate French. Freshman English gave me no trouble, for I had an excel lent high school background at Brainerd Institute in Chester, S. C.