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4 THE CJUOLOVUtIf RALEIGH, N. ©., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY **. IM4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP “Whosoever therefore shell humble himself u this. little child the same is great in the kingdom of tteflven.” Even In such a saying, Jesus Is not promising an arrogant dominance over others as a reward, but simply stating that in the inner world where heaven is, true humility gives the Danger Os Riding Hitchikers When we read the newspapers, we note an increase in the number of assaults and rob beries by bandits disguised as ride-seekers. This has caused many states of this nation to outlaw hitchiking. Almost everyone knows that hitchhiking is the begging of rides by a person who stands at the side of the road with arm outstretched and thumb raised as if to say: “Going my way.” During one period in our history, hitchhik ers were few and far between, and 1 motorists willingly shared their vehicles as a gesture of friendship and Today few automo bile drivers give rides to any but uniformed service personnel and even then, sometimes a GI murders the automobile driver who was good enough to give him a ride. Oftime a car owner will pick up a hitch hiker if two or three passengers are already in A Medical Plan For Aged Citizens All the attention that is focused on Medicare for the aged makes it very evident that a lot of senior citizens have inadequate hospitalization insurance plans, or none at all. The American Medical Association has long hren an opponent of any form of socialized medicine, and certain politicians have vowed to defeat the proposed medicare plan to be fin anced out of Social Security. What can the peoople who need this protection do? In most cities, senior cititens have a lot of free time on their hands. Would it not be worth a try for local hospitals to start a program whereby these people could do volunteer work Strange Case Os Student Teacher It was a kind of irony that befell Roosevelt Ruben Wright. Jr., 20-year-old student teach er at the J. W. Ligon High School when he was released from Wake Countv jail after hring book.-.! J ui the Lincoln Theatre two weeks ago. The charge was that he assaulted Homer E, Sharpe, 65, and robbed him of $250. It was stated that young Wright used a drndly wea pon with the intent of murdering his vcitim. Wright is a practice teacher from Elisabeth City State College, and according to T. E. Jones, registrar, he was “a fine fellow and a good student. I have known him all of his life. Negro Colleges To Be Studied Negro college representatives agreed recent ly to participate in a comprehensive study of the quality and condition of the 104 predomi nantly Negro institutions of higher learning. The study will be coducted by the Institute of Higher Education, Columbia University. New York City, under »grant of SIOO,OOO from Carnegie Foundation. It will be under the di rection of former U. S. Commissioner of Edu cation, Dr. Earl J. McGrath, executive director of the Institute of Higher Education. Dr. McGrath says that it “would be a great misfortune for this study to become involved in the great social and economic controversy'’ related to school desegregation. But he con tinued. “eventually there will not be ‘Negro’ institutions. Our universities will cater to all races, and that is as it ought to be. That is the American ideal. What we propose to do in this study is find out the condition of education in Negro institutions.” We ask then, in what will the findings of this study be useful 1 Dr. McGrath says the finding# will be use- Government Deficit Spending Rises Loral, state, and federal government should set the example before their citiiens in matter of living within their income. If the federal government is being swamped under the snow with indebtedness, which al ready has driven it more that 300 billion dol latj.deep in a financial hole, look what is hap pening to state and local governments when it comes to the matter of increase in debt. the Wal Street Journal, In a recent arti cled sums it up as follows: “The debts of America's states and towns have rocketed 448 per cent since World War 11. “This increase in the little-noticed indebted rjesa of state and municipalities has far out stripped the growth of the highly-publicised federal debt which has edged up only 13 per efcnt hi the same period. : “States and cities now account for 22 per cent of all public debt, up from only 5 per cent The Woman Shopper's Route :If you have aver wondered about the be havior of the American housewife on her mar keting tour, a trade publication has recently come up with the answer. She pushes her shopping cart for an average of 29 minutes, goes by 57 per cent of the pro duct locations, stops at 14 per cent o* them. Jtiß NEGRO PRESS—baheiree that America can hast Mad the worla mwmy from racial and national antagonisms whan it accords to evary mat regardless of rare, color or creed. Ms human and legal rights Hating no mar fearing no man—tha Nairn Pram attivei to help every man on the firm be M that all man are hurt as tong as anyone is held hack. greatest measure of Inspiration, of guldanoe, of power. The twelve disciples, simple men that they were, soon proved the truth of the affirmation for they had more power to lead and to heal than the Pharisees with all their years of training. This was the kind of greatneas Jeeus meant. the automobile. This is much safer that giving a hitchhiker a ride when you are alone in the car. But even thia precaution is no match for the professional robber posing as a hitchhiker. But the real danger of the hitchhiker in life is not the fact he gets an unearned and unde served ride, but that often encourages others to follow his example. History has proved con clusively that a nation of beggars eventually bear down on those who have the motivating vehicles in life and thereby destroy their self reliant way of life Many times a hitchhiker has enough money in his pocket to ride the bus or train. The man with integrity doesn’t stand at the side of the highway thumbing a ride. The main thing to remember, however, is to take much caution when giving people free rides. on a part-time basis in exchange for hoepital care when they need it? A couple of hours a day, or two each week. By volunteer work, we don’t mean “gray lady” or “gray man” duties. We mean jobs like cooking, clerical, janitorial, and gardening. In this way they could build up a “fund” or “credit” for themselves to apply toward their own care if hospitalized. Those who have no occasion to use their hospital “credit” can still have the satisfaction of having done worth while volunteer work. Furthermore, they would feel happy about having something to do, to feel needed. “I would be completely shocked if this were found to be true. I know he did not need the monev.” <■ h dm ciuuudu iciutiiu coming from a college official in behalf of one of its students. Like the college registrar, we hope that the charges are not true. Until he has been proved guilty without a doubt, we must assume that he is innocent. Apparently this is the attitude taken by Ligon officials; according to newspaper reports, it is believed that he is back at his student teaching duties. 1. northern universities that exchange professors and students and cooperate as “sis ter institutions.” 2. To federal and state governments and to certifying and accrediting agencies. The findings in this study, we predict will reveal that many of the Negro colleges are standing at the crossroads, struggling finan cially for their very existence. Many of these colleges are destined to fade into oblivion. Be cause of the lack of adequate endowments and financial appropriations, a good number of these 104 Negro colleges will be forced to close doors in the face of terrific competition with the first-rate large private white universities and state universities, also in the South, that will be integrated. And we predict that no a mount of wishful thinking can save these in stitutions. When the findings of this study are made public, and it is found that particular colleges are functioning far below standards, the spon soring churches should be willing to close their doors. in 1946.” We know that most of the total nation-wide tax take is raked in by the federal government, which undoubtedly can be counted a factor in the more rapid rise of state and local gov ernment debts. Like people, maybe the state and city governments are trying “to keep up with, the Joneses (federal government).” From what we are generally led to believe, local and state governments are always on the lookout for federal handouts. However, it seems that local and state governments are overhauling their taxation in a manner that will give them more of the over-all revenue. It seems that at every level of government, without exception, the predominant fiscal tech nique has been to hit the taxpayer harder. While we citisens moan and groam under the heavy tax burdens, the rise in local and state and federal taxes has not kept government debt from “firtballing ” and spends 6 minutes more and an extra $2.22 if she has a list than if she wanders aimlessly about the store. If the husband or father does the shopping, he spend $3 less, the study indicated. But. if you let the wives tell it. they would dispute the idea of “hubby” spending less money. $1 Just For Fan BY MARCUS H. BOULWABB VISITS INTERNS Last week I visited one of our speech correction interns ipractice teachers) who la working In Panama City. Bay County. Florida. Mrs. Barge, her supervising teacher, works four schools: namely, Shaw School. Patterson School, Ros enwald School, and Elm Park School. She visits each twtae each week and has a ease load of 1W children with speech de fects. Panama City has two Negro motels, one of which Is very modern and nice. I stayed there one night, and also I loot the door key. Later I learned I had a hole In my pants pockets and earns very nearly losing my au tomobile keys. However, the manager would not accept my offer to pay for the key. That evening I went to one of our restaurants and ordered a meat loaf dinner, because the other choice was chitterlings which I do not care for. I left half of the dinner on my plate, and that night I was as sick as I have ever been. Twice I had to get up, go outside to the soft drink vending machine to get Coca Colas to settle my stom ach. But there is one. oomph ment I can pay this cme, they can really make those small individual sweet potato plea I bought four of them to bring back to Tallahassee. The next rooming I visited another restaurant to get breakfast, and was attracted to the numerous signs on the walls. Sortie of them ran like this: ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN THETNAUSFICIOUS EVENING Certain remarks overheard porend the Inauspicious even ing. What I mean Is. I over heard things which promise to turn a so-so dinner party Into a terrible bore. The first of such remarks is when the hostess's beet friend asks. “What time did you put the eggplant In?” and the hos tess gives her the unsavory an swer, "Four o'clock." I think to myself, maybe they're joking. They're not go ing to do this to me again. But They’re serious. Becauae a d. Htiti Vi IA MUu remark on her acorn squash and I realise the eggplant Is not the vegetable tonight. It IS the plece-de-reeistance. Egg plant for dinner Is a meal I cannot escape. Some years ago I wrote a col umn about bow bad cooks love the pointless eggplant and not only have I been Inundated ev er since by mall from eggplant cranks, but a dozen hostesses have tried and are still trying to convert me to a love of egg plant. Another bore: More and more hosts these days rise to address the group that the secret of steak Is not In how much you broil but now thlm you can shoe It. One such host announ ced to his nine guests, among whom wns I. that he had broil ed only a two-pound steak bu we were all going to have mon Editorial Opinions Compiled by ANP A MORAL VICTORY THE NEWS. Detroit Byron De La Beckwith still in a Mississippi jail, still char ged with the ambush murder of Medgar Evers. Negro, civil rights leader. That this Is so constitutes something of a mo ral victory. To say this does not presup pose that Beckwith Is guilty as charged. The point is that some members of the all-white Jury (perhaps all: we'll never know) realy tried to do as the district attorney asked: "Look at this case as if the defendant and the dead man were of one and the same raoe.” 5 That's not an easy request In Jackson. Miss., and elsewhere. In such a case as this in such an age as this. Yet the Jury tried, foe 20 ballots, before giv ing up. That all 12 white Jurors. In Jackson s charged atmosphere, did not jump at a chance to believe only those whose word would free a man charged with killing their states most un popular Negro denotes some kind of progress. CIVIL WRONGS IN ALA. THE TIMES. New York The dossiers on civil rights advocates that are now being compiled In Alabama are remi niscent of the police state. The blacklist thus created is designed to Intimidate decent ciUarne by threats of state pressure, interfere with the work of both Federal officials and newsmen, and turn ordi nary polloemen and breaucrata into political police. Oovernor Wallace, the head of this minor-league Oeetapo. has set up "Intelligence" units cutting across many subdivis ions In the state, according to a report to The Times from Montgomery. These have vari ous fancy names: Subversive Unit of the Department of Public Safety's Investigative and Identification Division, the Alabama Legislative Commis sion to Preserve the Peace, the Alabama Sovereignty contri bute to what the Birmingham News calls “a political spy net work.” Tin POSCE BEHIND CIVIL RIGHTS A force for more powerful man even too legislative gen You may have a heart: you may belong to a club, you may own a diamond, but you don’t need a spade to dig this Idea tion. There were symbols of cant hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. Some of the Mgm were as vulgar aa you oonld hope to see; It was not what they said, but the Implications received between the lines. In the case were two mm ar guing about the Bible, and the things they said were Indeed amaalng. Bible writers would turn over In their graves If they had heard the conversation. One man, however, war ax plaining the two Mririw la the Bible—good spirit and bad spir it. In his naive way, he gave a reasonable explanation of Freud’s “ego” and “taper ego.* Tomorrow night (Saturday), we will hold our annual Faul ty Showcase for the purpose of raising funds for scholarships. This is a display of faculty tal ent—and we have worlds of It. For example, I am to do the “Twist"—this is worth a dol lar to see with itself. Our faculty can sing, play musical instruments, act, dance, etc. The show has com edy. and the house Is brought down in laughter like a riot. OVERFLOW: Don’t grab first for a mop when your toilet starts to overflow. Instead quickly lift the flush tank cov er and push the flush ball down. That win stop the tank from emptwlng Into the toilet bowl. This Is a suggestion giv en by the Plumbing-Heating- Cooling Information Bureau. than enough to eett because he had a new carving knife that could slice It as thin m paper. Americans are “erase” ad dicts and I suppose the thin like the hula hoop disappeared slice of steak will disappear and the Yo-yo. In the mean time. however, this new passion is not doing the ranches or the butchers any good. Let's %ay you and your tax lawyer are going to the same party. So you and the lawyer repair to a nearby cocktail lounge and over a few bour bons discuss your return (the Uu'VPr tuc not doduuUbie). Happily you wend your way to teh party only to find out It Is not a dinner party. You have been Invited to watch the films hubby made last summer of the Orand Canyon and if we coax him we can be reward ed with the film he made the year before of the trip to Prince Edward Island. Or let's say you and the law yer repair to a restaurant to discuss your tax return (the lawyer explaining the prime ribs are not deductible) and then wend happily to the par ty. sure that you've missed the filming. The hosteeo will say: "I’m so glad you got here. We’re Just ready to sit down to dinner. And after dinner we’re going to see the wonder films we made when we visited my mother In Pensacola.” lus of Lyndon B. Johnson ac counts for the astonishing vic tory for the civil rights bill Monday night In the House of Representatives. The bill was due to pass but the margin was 290 to 130— better than 2 to I—as North ern Democrats supported the President solidly and as Re publicans held true to their party's past In helping to turn the legislation out just ahead of Lincoln's birthday. More than 100 visceral amendments had been defeated when the last roll call came. What moves such a bitterly controversial measure to such *a margin is nothing less than a national consensus. Nothing leas could sustain this measure, much stronger and more com prehensive than anything clearing a house of Congress since Reconstruction. PRESB-SCIMITAR. Memphis The fight Is over In the House. It was remarkably bloodless. The prise was the toughest civil rights bill in nearly a century. It contained many of the provisions ardent civil rights advocates long have sought—sections on fair em ployment. public accommoda tions. sterner protection of vot ing rights and authority for the Justice Department to initiate desegregation suite. The House, however, was a relatively low hurdle. Southern senators, wise In the ways of parliamentary maneuver and stall, threaten a bitter filibus ter to remove such key provis ions from the bill, or at least to weaken their impact. The “strong" bill passed by the House, even If It should be come law in its present form, would not. of course, automati cally solve injustices bom of racial prejudice. But the un usually temperate and compar atively short House debate In dicates a trend the senators might well note. CONSTANCE THE FWT Already distinguished for the civil rights battles she has fought with marked success. Mrs. Constance Baker Motley aow adds an historic political victory to her string of legal tri umphs. She hat been elected to the New York State Senate by a whopping Democratic majori- n t v . .j&jf* iJBr- -. VlflV' * J »y^~jf>J ■ • I - ■• ./• jjJr*? -i 'M*Q^>'2i’t-^i*>'& %s» Gordon B. Hancock f s BETWEEN THE LINES GREAT LET-DOWN IMPENDING* The friends of freedom everywhere have been heartened at the way the Civil Rights Bill now nearing victory In the House of Representatives has been faring in Congress. It was forced out of committee, where Chairman Smith of the Com mittee jeemrd determined U* h mv,. _ ... •>.* Last. OVULiJ-Ulil COaavaiafeLAits bUb de lea ted at every turn of the game of politics. Today the Mil goes to a vote that at this mo ment assures victory I We friends of freedom have been lifted and inspired by the spirited way In which supporters of the bill stood up to their re sponsibility with a determination seldom seen in Congress on matters which so directly affect the fortunes of Negroes In this country. In other words, we have had a great build up such as we have seldom witnessed In a Congress In recent years, it can no longer be doubted that this coun try. under the gal ant leadership of our late Presi dent J.F. Kennedy. Inspired by the great leader ship of our great leader, Martin Luther King, has been made civil rights conscious, as it has never been In the history of the country. It must not be forgotten that the current struggle is not about civil rights per se. but civil rights for the Negro. Whites have always had their civil rights, since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and have enjoyed these rights in ways that were most satisfying, whltevjHegroe* have been denied these rights in ways that have been too largely disappointing. About civil rights the Negroes have the major complaint, and to his credit be It said. Martin iAither King’s recent rise to power as a Negro leaders, has stirred the nation and the Ne groes as they have never been stirred before on the civil right Issue. The coming of a really New Negro has made a great difference and this New Negro came with a new leadership spearheaded by King and Com pany. It can truthfully be said that the March on Washington and the assassination of President Kennedy who put the White House squarely in ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD BT P. L. FRATTIS For ANP Although I stopped smoking three packs of king-sine cigarette* dally twenty years ago, I have nothing special against the tobacco companies. If it were not for the people, vox populi so-called, they couldn’t stay In business. And, cancer or no cancer, the people are going to keep the tobacco concerns busy. If the people have a yen for some thing. they are as indifferent to Its dangers as Governor Wallace is to the rights of Alabamians who are not white. For example. The three big automobile manu facturers have Just had their biggest year. Gen eral Motors made more than a billion and a half dollars net. Ford made nearly a billion and Chrys ler steamed through with nearly 200 million. That ain't hay. Its what keeps the country going and proves what the late Charles Wilson, president of G M. said. "What's good for General Motors is good for the country.” Yet the product by Gen eral Motors. Ford and Chrysler kills more people annually than anything else made In the United States. It is to be doubted that the United States has had many casual!ties In any one year of act ual warfare as In a peace time year of automobile fatalities. Cancer Is a pikere In the world of auto mobiles. There's another kilter—alcohol. It is not as dra matic as automobiles, but It takes its toll—slowly but surely Its evil and fatal effect* have long been frightening intruders Into the lives of wives mothers and children. An effort was made fifty years ago to put the distillers out of business, but’ made such a bad business of it that It was decided to let the professionals come out of hiding. It is this ingrained indifference of the people to the fatal effects at something that they like that stirs me to believe that the five tobacco com panies which have given the American Medical Association ten million dollars to engage In ex ia the New York Senate before. And no one is more entitled to this distinction than is Mrs. Mot ley. She has been a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1M& She led the court bet -tie for the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. An American Image mosphere of hostility was strong enough to unsettle a less dough ty pleader. She addressed the court in a soft but well articu lated tone of voice and her sen tences were crisp, direct and un sm big-- is Mississippi was not the only place where she used her legs: talent to in flic: a gaping hoie in the fortress of prejudice She battled the University of Ala bama (Au therm# Lucy) and the the civil rights corner in the fight, quickened the civil rights consciousness of the whole world and the treatment the issue received .in the House of Representatives has been a fitting climax to tills world-wide consciousness In the Issue of civil rights. But a clear and wweeplrm vJetnry for civil rights (- *ui- * tic ground for super-optimism, if for any optim ism at all. The Senate In the last analysis holr's the trump card in this whole game of politics. There is of course great hoping that by some r.i forseen turn of circumstances, the Senate m y let pass this great piece of legislation, one of tfci greatest in the history o< modern times, but L is exceedingly doubtful. The Southern bloc in Congress is composed rs able and resourceful men who are committed o fight unto the death to head off the civil rtjhrt legislation, so promising and well-begun. I am a son of the South and as such fully acquaint'd with the wiles and ways of the (Southerners com mitted to a cause. If the civil rights cause h-d behind It the determination and resource.'ulrr"-, that is before it In opposition, it would pass with colors flying. When the Senate outwits a Harry Flood By d and his cohorts of opposition and passes a worth while civil rights bill. It will go down in modern history as one of the greatest of modern miracles. We don’t have among the proponents of civil rights a man equal with Harry Flood Byrd who is leading the opposition. Byrd is an able man and he is surrounded by able men who are' skilled in the art of watching and holding back the hapless Negro. On the Negro question Southerners are ex perts in every sense of the word, and this writer greatly fears for a civil rights bill that must paar inspection before the color question expert*. Then there is the dreaded filibuster as the Southerners’ trump card: and they are going to play it with all their southern skill. Never-ism and Now-ism are about to fight it out In Congress. Is a great let-down impending? God forbid! tensive research as to the real effect* of ciaaretts smoking on the human system are wasting their money and putting the AMA In s bad light. In the first place, the public will never believe, after this gift of ten million dollars, that the A merican Medical Association will come up with the wrong answer. The public is just cynical enough to feel that the AMA will come up with the an swers the tobacso industry wants. All of us who are acquainted with the high ethical standards of the American Medical Association, especially under its present leadership, would reject the no tion that its scientific research could In any way be influenced by ten million dollars. But we are not the grass roots public. , Then there's another angle. President Johnson has just thrown his weight behind medical care for the aged based on social security. The Ameri can Medical Association is. has been, and will be. steadfastly against this. It has spent thousands of dollars trying to convince the American public that so-called medicare is the direct route to so cialism m medicine—whatever that is. The pub 'r might like It if it knew. All Intelligent and high minded Americans would spurn the notion the the AMA would divert any of this new ten mil lion dollar kitty to pull wool over the eyes of th American people. You can rest assured that th ten million solidly is earmarked for cigarette re search. However, why should the tobacco companf: throw away this money and take it back later h increased prices to cigarette smokers? The peop’ will be pleased to woo death through the nev deathless filters. That's what they are doing 1 England. The British government tried to scar the Britons, but they don't scare easily. They ar snokmg more cigarettes now than ever. It can b' - truly said that they are smoking themselves tc death. University of George (Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton E. Holm es’. She went to Mississippi 22 times in 14 months, representing James Meredith. She is fearless and uncompromising. No ofcer member of the race is more de serving of being the first Negro woman to hold a seat in the New York State Senate. Hats off to Senator Constance Baker Motley.