Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / Feb. 2, 1963, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
4 THE CABOUMIAM RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY. S, IMS Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP "Refrain from evil and do good” in a well-* known saying. Despite our moral prejudices and taboos to warn the venturesome. It Is doubtful if an? man wants what is evil for him. He has at least as much sense as a mosquito. It is probable he would ask what is good If he always knew what it was and were free of traditional Ideas as to how be should behave. What he wants beyond all ques- Literally when Janies Meredith enrolled at the University, he turned "the world upside down.” Mow we learn that the U. S Fourth Court •f Appeals has ordered Clem son College to admit Harvey B. Gantt, its first Negro student la the preplanning, Clemaon officials out lined a procedure for keeping the peace. They stated that K waa their intention and determi nation to proceed in an orderly fashion and in keeping with the good name and dignity of tha college and the Btate of South Carolina. This pledge apparently will be carried out. Tha nation cannot afford any more bad pub licity like that which occurred at Oxford, Miss. Southern schools officials have tried all sort of obstacles to keep Negroes out of their white schools, since May 17, 1954. The genius of their We Must Trim Gov’t Expenses President Kennedy is calling for a large tax rut in apite of the fact that it is estimated it will take SIOO billion to operate the United States this year. The experts estimate that we will be forced to operate, with or without a tax cut, on a budget with a deficit of aproxi mately sl2 billion. Economists have taught us that in order to balance a budget our expenses must not exceed our income. Hence, we are wondering how can we reviae our budget so that the nation can operate "in the black”? Have we ever thought about the possibility of trimming the budget to take care of the sl6 billion anticipated "deficit?” 1. Congress might give serious thought to bringing about large economies in its own operations. For example, operational expenses for the Congress was $147,594,000 for the 1962 fiscal year; more than twice what it was in 1952. It costs an estimated $275,000 a year to keep each legislator in Washington, although the salary is $22,500. The cost is run up by hidden allowances and benefits. Many pf theae allowances a** legitimate, but we certainly can question others. For example, MM of the most-quoted Incidents is that con grgasmen hire their wives and relatives at fat salaries. # Many congressmen take Junkets around the world, and this irritates the sore spots of many voters. 1. Large savings could he effected in the op aration of our Armed Forces through tight eco nomies. William F. Arbogast. an AP columnist, states that our Government could save in eight Negro Schools Get Low Rating The Guilford County Board of Education was told recently by a survey committe of the State Department of Public Instruction that tha eight Negro schools of the county system are below acceptable standards. In a 31-page report, physical facilities of each school were analyzed. None was found adequate for junior or secondary school levels. The survey committee proposed, however, that with one exception existing facilities could be used for elementary grades. Most secon dary school pupils (grades 7 -12) could be accommodated in one or two consolidated schools and the other absorbed in the school systems of High Point and Greensboro. While Negro school are constantly being im proved* ire still have deplorable conditionT existing in other schools of the state as in Guil- Give To Cerebral Palsy Campaign There is now underway a national campaign for the support of the program for persons suf fering with cerebral palsy. The campaign is being sponsored by the United Cerebral Palsy Association. Inc., together with its local and etate chapters. Dr. Perlstein says that cerebral palsy is “a condition characterized by paralysis, weak ness. in coordination, or anv other aberration of motor function due to pathology of the mot or control centers of the brain ” The condition is not curable at present, but often is amenable to therapy and training or rehabilitation. It is estimated that cerebral palsy strikes the population of our nation once every S 3 minutes. And there are about seven cerebral-palsied in dividuals per 100.000 population. To the layman, a cerrbral-palised child is one who is partially pa retired, who walks with ST without crutches, who moves about in wheel Banks arc being held in higher and higher esteem everywhere in this country. We there fore, question the advisability of keeping large aums of money in one's house—whether kept in safes or stacked away in some hidden nook. By now everyone knows about the incident of two women who allegedly stole $24,000 from • safe in C. H. Morris Funeral Home of Laur inburg. N. C . with which to build a spacious home. In Madison, N- C . a 150-pound safe con taining stocks, bonds and at least $75,000 in cash seas stolen from the home of Dr. C. W. MeAnaDy. a dentist. The safe measured two and a half by one and a half by two feet, and the police say that it would have taken at least two persons to remove the safe from the house. White these two incidents represent a size able sum of money, nears media are just full Trouble At Banks - The Safest Place tion I* to be himself and to remain himself, free of the distortion of any standards of behavior. Jesus told us how to solve this problem once and for all. This Is to look within for guidance. Jesus said repeatedly, “Seek first the kingdom of Ood.’’ Let us not forget that kingdom of God is within each of us. Clemson?? legal minds in this regard has rarely been sur passed; but gradually and slowly, they are losing the battle in the name of segregation. Just easily Southern officials could carry out the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision if they applied this same genius (of whieh they have spoken) to voluntary efforts to insure freedom to the Negro. Experience has shown that men tend to do what they want to do. We hope that South Carolina will rise above to rise above tha "stigma of hate and preju dice” and show the world that it intends to keep tha peace with Harvey Gantt in their midst at Clemaon. Clemson can join Tulana University (pri vate) of New Orleans, La., which has recently and voluntarily admitted eight Negro students —six graduate and two part-time students. Best wishes Clemson and Harvey Gantt 1 ways if it exercised greater economies in the military units of the nation. For instance, in one year the Defense De partment spent sl3 million to carry passengers and baggage on commercial planes while mili tary planes making the same trips had empty space. The General Accounting Office of our Gov ernment says that, in government contracts alone, the nation could save approximately SIOO million by strict economies. 3. We are constantly raising our postage rates, and yet our Post Office System always operates with a large deficit. Surely, we have the know-how to make this system operate in the black, and thereby save the taxpayers mil lions of dollars. 4. Have we ever thought seriously about re ducing our foreign spending? We spend bil lions, and sometimes it seems that we "are casting pearls before swine.” Ought we not consider lending responsible countries money to get on their feet, but with the understanding that they are to pay thia money back with interest. Our legislators ought to realise that we can’t win every country over to the aide of the free nations. Some nations don’t want democracy, and we can’t pay them to take it. It is so easy for our congressmen and sena tors to cast their votes for appropriations that will come out of the voters’ pockets. Our vot ers must demand a better accounting from their representatives in regards to their stew ardship. When they get too reckless in spend ing, voters must retaliate by “voting them out.” ford County. These conditions represent some of the ones sehich were present the first decade of the present century among Negro schools. Guilford County school officials. Negro school principals and teachers were already a ware of their shortcomings at the eight schools in question. The principals no doubt called at tention to their needs, but were powerless to correct them. School officials possibly couldn't find the money to remedy the inadequacies. The Guilford County present situation points up once more the fact that a dual sys tem of schools is more expensive to operate than one school system for all the people. That is why Southern schools in general rank for be low the average for the nation. Citizens must demand that the exposed school conditions be corrected at once, or else nothing will be done for a long while to come. chairs, who ia alow in learning aa a result of brain damage. But we must aay here that ce rebral palsy also strikes persons with paraly sis. but leaves them with brilliant minds. The United Cerebral Palsy Association. Inc., 32 1 West 44th Street. New York 36. N. Y.. pro vides rehabilitation centers which treat cere bral palsy through physical therapy, occupa tional therapy, speech therapy, medical treat ment. psychological evaluations, nursing care, and parental counselling. This organization carries on research, as well as provides scholar ships for students who want to be trained to work in the field of cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is no respector of persons. It strikes the rich and poor. Negroes and whites, literate and illiterate, the high and the low of our society. Mail your contribution today so that CPs may get the chance to live worth while lives. of reports about smaller amounts of money be ing taken from homes or safes. The purpose of this article is to call atten tion to the dangers encountered when one keeps large sums of money around the house, including that which is kept in safes under the supposedly-safe of combination lock. It should be noted that many of these safes are small enough to be carted away by professional thieves or robbers. In a few cases, amateurs may be tempted to cart away safes in which they think there is money. Without doubt the safest place to keep money it in the bank. And many individuate who preferred to put their trust in safes in their homes, often lived to regret it. If any of our readers are keeping large sums of money at home in safes, we advise you to deposit it in the bank at once. Just For Fan BT MARCUS E BOLL WARE Ona columnist says, Ts you teen-aged marriages to on tbs racks, just stand around a sup ermarket and ass what the young wives put into their ■hopping cart*. All you can see ■re TV dinners, frozen chicken pies and boons of mixes. Any thing that to easy and tort.” Mr. Com yard says, “Don’t they teach Home Economies any more?” I would imagine ho wants s wtte who eon cook good roast beet lag of lamb, and make a fresh salad or bake a delicious pie. Well I want to aay that he’ll have to look a long time for that rarity the superb cook. The columnist may criticize the TV dinners, but these new food preparations are ideal for mo whan I decide 4s whip up a dinner rigbtquiek. Every man taka pride In It SHE WATOTKR tin Arisons ftatistiaal Re view of Phoenix, ta Ms annual publication, dtorieead that mar ried melee eutanasber married ten alee In Artama by MM. He explanation ssas offered, TO, THE HOW The Women’s Driving League of Milan, Italy, has advised wo men that the way to enter an au tomobile graeefully to to ait on (he car seat with their feet on the ground, than pivot the bo dy and let legs and feet slip in to position. "Do not enter a ear feet first.” Is the rule. Although couched In mors sis In This Onr Day BT O. A CHICK. RR. A POSSIBLE DANGER That the general public Is demonstrating Increased Interest in our young people’s obtaining an education commensurate with their abilities and their goals for life’s work Is very commend able. A young person with abi lity and ambition is almost cer tain of financial aid to obtain the type of training he desires. This increased Interest in educa tion for our youth on the part of the general public may be ob served in several ways: A youth may obtain a loan for educa tional purposes from the Fed eral government: Also in many of the state, he may obtain a loan from his state: private fi nancial institutions in many ca ses have special arrangements to make loans to student and, of course education institutions and alumni are vyfng with each other in setting up student lo ans. Moreover, it Should be pointed out that ah of the fore going types of loans are granted on very liberal terms. As stated In the foregoing, all of this Is a blessing mingled with a possible grave danger. Stu dent and parents Should plan to use any of the foregoing loans only in emergency situations. That is to say. neither the pa rent nor the student should de pend on loans to finance the student’s education. As a matter of fact, parents should start fi nancial planning for their child's education before the child is born. By all means it should be started Immediately after the child's birth. A small amount of Other Editors Say A SALUTE TO A promising law-makeb There is nothing particularly unusual about .him as a person or as a Negro except that, through some strange trend of events, he has become Georgia's first Negro law-maker in near ly 100 years. Senator Leßoy R. Johnson Is writing a new and different page in the annals of Georgia history. Raving gained a surprising de gree of acceptance by his new colleagues, Johnson has grace fully and with dignity begun to shoulder the responsibility of representing the SSth Senatori al District. Obviously concerned about the welfare of his entire county, the young solon has al ready prepared two bills to in troduce this session. It Is to be noted that his bills are for the good of all Fulton County citizens One bill prom ises a 940.000 annual Increase in the county's revenue: the other, a more representative method of filling vacated Aldermanic seats. Both Nils apparently, stand ex cellent chances of becoming laws This is beyond doubt a good beginning. The positive approach that Johnson has made in his new role will, meet likely, be the ba sis tor his success tn the legisla tive chamber. Without feelings of inferiority. Johnson immedi ately availed himself of the Cap itol's eating, rest room and oth er facilities And. with equal comfort in his position, he ac cepted an invitation to the Gov ernor's Inaugural Ball. Convinced that he is a hill part of the State Senate. John son is tost becoming accepted as such. It is with gratification and a greet deal of anticipation that we salute Senator Leßoy John son A demising Law-Mak er. —ATLANTA INQUIRER m TEAM or FREEDOM Throughout this greet coun try of ours the wonderful Unit ed States millions of people gsnt language, tha adrice to ri milar to that of? an old tewtest ed army drill sarnsaM attempt ing to introduce sSxmv rasculta to marching cadanea. “Just go ahead.” he said. “Yaur fast wfll have to follow.” .' HOURS A* SHIR Men. if you don’t-want 4a put an the old batter not let tha Httla woman read what 1 am about 4a aay. The avsragr American hrnisa wife spent lAM hours at bar kitchen sink *'»4f IMB, re veals a year-end study by tha Jansen-Thoraan Cosporattaa es Addison. Illinois. That averages aut4o MJ hours a week or a tttUa mors than three hours a day, notes Kart Jensen, president of the firm. She or some in tha temJly •l*o washed MASS dishes. That 1.005 hours of sink time includes not only dishwashing duty but also the housssslsss urn the sink in the course.ef «i«—i«s er food preparation. Be flareful. man, er yeur rib will quote them atettetim when you want te enjoy year retira- COULDTAKB IV Two .Oesls, Via, bora derided to taka a IM-mfla top an their Mkas. At first; tt sounded like a lot of tan; but after complet ing the first If miles, the boys decided they'd hotter call off tha trip. Tbs boys told a service-station attendant that they decided to coil off tha trip, and soon the police were asked to help the lads. The boys were returned home by car. Funny, isn’t It? money wisely invested monthly over a period of from fifteen to twenty years would solve the fi nancial problem of • child’s ed ucation. You see if a student gradu ates. from whatever level of training, in debt it may result in many social problems. For example, a student graduating in debt most likely will post pone marriage until the debt la paid. It is generally agreed that late marriages are not to be en couraged. Moreover, the stu dent's first position may call for some capital outlay. His first po sition may nacasaitata an auto mobile. Not only Should parents strive to let their children complete their education even with tha “financial board” but they should atm also to give them financial aid during their early working years. If their first po sition calls for an automobile, their parents Should be financi ally able to gtve them one. K they desire marriage immediate ly after graduation, their pa ranta should be financially able, at least to give them a large “down payment” on a home. In other words, parents should aim to keep their children from hav ing to start lift on the bottom rung of the economic ladder. Lets make haste and hurry up and atart a wise monthly in veetment plan that our children may not he in debt when they complete the level of education that will fit them for their de sired life's work. of slavery, will celebrate tha signing, of tha Proclamation of ■mandpetton. which freed more than four million people. In the earning week* there will be many thing! mid about this century old freedom, over the radio. In the dallies and on television. Governors mayors and other dignitaries will aay many nice things about .the “progress" the Negro has Baade in theee last 100 years. Few. if any. win comment openly about the siownaaa of the progrow made by the Negro . . . or state the reeeona why pra gmas has been slow. They know only too well why tha Negro has remained a second class citizen for tan decade. . . even though many abhor the place tn the sun allowed the Negro, they are reluctant to do anything more than give lip-service. Thera are exceptions to this of course, hut .even the Negro himself finds It difficult to dedicate himself to fighting an all-out war against bigotry, prejudice end discrimi nation. The beginning of the second hundred years of ’’freedom’* should And more Negroes de dicated to finding that class ci tiaenehtp Tbe New Negro It making a stab at it but he will need the strength and experi ence of the eider generation No gro to help him in this battle. This second century of free dom should find Negroes willing to exercise their franchise, vot ing at every election, showing by their ballets where they •land. Tha hirreaeed voting strength of the Negro must ho triple, quadrupled to the com ing years, and thereby finding their piece to the sun. Freedom Is a valuable areal, but waaea wre ever gtreo B not expect to have hie given of fighting tor ft. . . then aad only then win the Negro ha ctoeaad with other first dare e»- ***** HEBALD Hie Hope Os The New Born Nations Focus On Africa BT EDDIE L. MADISON, JR., tar ANT WILL KATANGA’S MOISE TBHOMBE BE TBIED FOB LUMUMBA’S MURDER? BY EDDIE L. MADISON. JR. For Associated Negro Frees CHICAGO (ANP) While It appeared that the United Nations was in full command In secessionist Katanga Province in the Congo. Ghana continued to press its demand that Moiae Tshombe and at least two of his aides be tried for the murder of Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba. Chargee linking Tshombe with the assassina tion of Lumumba, though dwarfed by efforts to reach a settlement In the troubled Congo, are not new. At the time of the murder—ln February. IMI —sources reported that Tshombe and certain aides actually witnessed the slaying of Lumumba and his lieutenants. The deaths were clouded by mystery, other sources said that if Tshombe was not at the scene of the killings, he and European meroemaries had a hand In them. United Nations Secretary-General V Thant has rejected demand from Ghana President K warns Nkrumah that Tshombe be held respon sible for the murders. Thant, In a letter to Nkru mah, reminded the Ghana leader that his govern ment had gone on record as supporting policies of the UN in the Congo. Despite this rejection. Chana was expected to continue pressing the chargee against Tshombe. A spokesman for the Ghana Government ex pressed surprise at the terms of Thants reply “which according to news agency sources has been dispatched by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to President Nknunah's letter to U Thant regarding the Katanga situation.’’ The spokes man expressed doubt whether U Thant could have asserted that the Central Congolese Government had Issued no warrant against Tshombe. The Ghana spokesman told ANP: “The Gov ernment of Ghana has In its possession a photo stat of a warrant Issued by the Central Govern ment pursuant to a decision of the Congolese Parliament of 9th September 19614t0r the arrest of Tshombe on inter alia a charge of murder. A United Nations commission of jurists has official ly reported that this charge would appear to be well founded. A resolution of the Security Coun cil called for the punishment of Lumumba’s mur derers of whom Tshombe according to the United Gordon B. Hancock BETWEEN THE LINES THE CALL OP AFRICA It was a conspicuous moment in tbs history at Christianity when tha early church beard tha plaintive call. “Come over in Macedonia and help us.” The call did not emanate from a barbarton land, but from ancient Oreece with Its culture and lte learning and phlloeopby, the land of Philip of Oreece boasted then ae it well may boast now that It had attained unto a cultural apogee un matched In human history. Ancient Greece at that time waa the cultural standard of mankind and all subsequent d ruinations have fallen abort and from all indications will fall short tn the foreeeeabls future, much to the chagrin of our pretentious ttme. The man who called from Macedonia felt a distressing need of the ministrations that only Christianity bad to offer, and it te one of the finite things in tbs innate of the Church that the call earns to it tn such decisive fashion When Oreece called for Jesus through the Gospel- The Church received am of Us highest compliments. Cultured Oreece needed Christ Culture cannot save a people however erudite such culture bib ba. There is no other name under Heaven whereby man may be saved the name of Jeeus. Today there mute be going out from Africa's strife-torn land a call like unto that which went out from Macedonia. “Come over in Africa and Horace Oretey once popularised the slogan "Go West young man. go West” We need a kin dred slogan today. “Go to Africa, young Negro, go to Africa I “ _ _ who win renters Into Africa today aad grt te on tha ground Poor, utn bare B made Africa needs the know tew. Wawis who ere teioggllug tecre abowte brepkw ap with the Joueeee, mU ga to Africa aad make it with half the effort In spite at our magntftomt fight for first team eltldanteite and la gill of oar atemo and urg es. tha Proattead land te not jute arotmd tha cor ner. Tha a am of tha ugty taste at zoos rate Nations commission, Is almost certainly one. “Ghana, as a member of the Security Council, firmly upholds the application of the Council's decision and deplores any attempt to treat the de cision regarding Lumumba’s murderers as a dead letter.” The spokesman said that the Ghana Govern ment’s official reply could of course not be issued until the text of U Thant’s letter has been re ceived and studied In Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Nkrumah earlier expreseed concern why no action had yet been taken to implement the Se curity Council's resolution of February. SI. IMI, which provided that persons responsible for the murder of Isimumba and his ooneaguea Mmuld be prosecuted. This was the same l—station referred to by the Ghana remkesman. In his letter to Thant. Dr. Nkrumah asked the Secretary-General to recall that the DM commis sion of leading International Jurists, appointed to examine evidence available and to establish re sponsibility for the murders, named Tshombe. G. If. Munongo. interior minister, and J. B. Kibwe, finance minister, m being directly concerned with Um> assassination of the Congolese leaden. The latest Ghana statement took Issue with this comment from U Thant: “There la no war rant for his (Tshombe's) arrest, there are not any formal charges against him. there is no legal pro cess concerning him and there has been no at tempt to have him removed from office.” President Nkrumah countered by saying. “In fact, a warrant was Issued by then appropriate of ficer. adrien de Loof, of the Parquet General at Leopoldville on September 9. 1961.” adding “Tsh ombe was charged with sedition, murder, arbi trary arrests and bodily torture under Articles 43, 44. 67. 180. 189. 183. and 198 of the Congolese Penal Code. The Ghana President, pointing out that Tsh ombe has repudiated all previous agreements in order to continue bis secession from the Republic of the Congo, opposed any form of negotiation with the Katanga leader. And while reports of solution to the Congo crisis were being weighed with guarded optimism, the issue of Tshombe’s facing charges of Lum umba's murder loomed as a new issue which Ghana will continue to press before the world organisation. tions. Os course we would not have it thus but. wishful thinking will not help us in the premise. The Negro has come to his present hopeful estate by taking what he could get sad making the very most of It and It will be even so tomor row. Race prejudice is enthroned throughout the world and it can only be dethroned through awest and toars and blood. That the humble, underprivileged Negroes must In too many Instances abed the blood makes no difference. They have always made the sacri fice. They win make it in the future. While we are waiting for the dawning of the Great Day. Africa Is calling. Galling today! In Africa, arte and sciences and literature are crying to be born and American Negroes of a cer tain mould could easily play the mid-wife. Africa ie getting ready to tmmortaltm same groat Negro diplomats and statesmen and America is well prepared to supply them if they can be made to hearken unto Africa’s Macedonian can.** Today teaching is the most lucrative wor’: open to the Negro race and the teaching is of the segregated variety and tt win be ao for generations to come. There is nothing In the rats of desegre gation and integration to boost our optimism. A snail’s pace is right! So while the mamas of cur educated Negro s are fighting here In America, why could not tnanv of our “talented tenth" go to Africa and carve out first Mam cittaenshlp there and lay the founds - ttotw for Negro Gamegim. Rockefellers. Fords and Vanderbilts and MeOons. The resourceful and determined Old South win fight to the bitter end even as they stUl are fighting the War of Ksferthaa after a hundred be Mtwraltog Africa. |l||||^ || l^ | 2 ,or Wyw*edu •n wMt. tn AiSTrsjdftew Jsnisi flfht Africa is caMngi Calling out ter bar travail!
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 2, 1963, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75