Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / March 21, 1964, 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
I THE CAROUNIAH RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 21. IM4 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP In the three years of Jesus' public work there was not a moment when he failed to be complete master of the situation. He was accessible to any body—in the market place, in the temple, and cm the street—fair game for the keen and the clever. It became quite a recognized sport to match wits with Him. Pharisees tried it; Scribes tried it; "a certain lawyer” tried it. Always they came off second beet. And finally one afternoon the chiefs Must Teachers Spare The Rod? A most disturbing announcement reached us recently byway of the newspapers. In New York, students were guilty of threatening, stab bing teachers and sending them to the hospital, and threatening or “roughing up” other teach ers. These were mostly Negro students living in Harlem. Evidently in New York City, as is true in most school districts, something must have .gane wrong with discipline. There is no other way to explain this wild outburst of student resentment. Our displinary methods today may be mo dem, but they are failing in getting the results when compared with the strict discipline of the early school masters and teachers of fifty years ago. Many of us who head this paper were educated under this type of discipline, where teachers did not “spare the rod and spoil the child.” In some instances, these early teachers were downright mean arid they didn't hesitate one moment to send a student to the principal’s office if he got out of line. Not only this, but these teachers told the parents about the con duct of their sons and daughters. In response, many parents gave their children a second "whipping” at home following the report of the teacher. Yet, the pupils did not threaten their instructors with “switch-blade knives/’ Before the modern era of discipline, teachers demanded home work from the children they taught. Pupils had to be quiet or suffer the consequences. If any pupil becomes so bold as to throw spitballs, he had to clean the eraser with “beating them”, scrubbing the chalk boards, and even staying in after school. If a lad wanted to go to the toilet (we call them restrooms now), he raised his hand and tip toed from the classroom. Some of the boys and girls were large for their ages, but they were scared stiff of the smallest female teacher. This is quite a con trast when compared with today, when stu Ttirre are two reasons why we fed that this editorial is necessary. We have just celebrated National Negro Newspaper Week and we are approaching the primary election in North Carolina. So-called Negro newspapers have been cri ticised for carrying advertising that tends to mislead and in many instances deceive the reader. We arc happy that moat newspapers have proven that this is not true and it is our belief that advertising copy placed in news papers is solicited - with the idea that both the advertiser and the reader will be benefitted. We do not believe that newspapers either solicit or run advertising that they cannot re commend to their as demonstrative of what the product is designed to be and the hope of getting the desired result from the pro duct. This brings us around to political advertis ing. It is our candid opinion that nny advertis ing solicitor should be cognizant of the desires of the readers and certainly not ask potential sdvertistrs for copy that is directly opposed to the wishes, hopes and aims of the constit uency that his paper serves. A publisher or editor should reserve the right to reject any and all advertising that tends to humiliate and embarass his readers. Advertis Memorial To Mrs. Effie Whitaker When Mrs. Effie Whitaker, who resided on 820 Ellington Street, dud recently, one of Ra leigh’s most devoted school teachers, Chris tians, and well-thought-of citizens passed on to her reward. The wife of Claude Whitaker, former Ra leigh printer. Mrs. Whitaker taught in the kin dergarten department of the State School for the Blind and Deaf from 1915 until June of 1958—a span of 43 years of educational serv ice. There are not many people who can record a similar record. Ska was not able, like the Man from Galilee, The Nuclear-Age Telephone The telephone is an effective Instrument for business and social communication, and it haa brought our domestic and foreign neighbors as near to us as odr telephone stands. Up to the present we have thought that the telephone is the “last word” in communication. There is no telling what the telephone will be able to do for us in the future. This thought led one comic to say that “Who knows, maybe they’ll put hands and legs on tomorrow’s tel ephone and equip it with a diaper-changing circuit.” Speaking seriously, we learned that the new telephone will have a memory. Tell it where you are going for the week end. and it will THE NEGRO PRESS beMeeaa that America e an bate had the worlo nuA away from racial and national antajormrm whan it accords to trerv m*’ Jk'IIL regard/eea ot race, color or creed. hia human and Iff) rights Hating no mar tearing no man—the Negro Preee etrivea to halp every man on the * rr- Met that aO man an hrjrt aa long aa anyone * held baa*- | Advertising Ethics of the priest* came to see Him. They would de molish the presumptuous upstart by the splendor of their presence and their offices, they would awe him Into line. "By what authority do you do these things.” they demanded bruskiy, “and who gave you this authority?” Immediately, Jeaus put them in their places. dents boast before their teachers that “the law won’t let you whip me—if you do, my parents will sue you!” According to President Charles Cogen. pre sident of the United Federation of Teachers, assaults upon teachers in New York City and staffs average one a day, most of which are not reported because of intimidation. We have come to a sad atate of affairs when a teacher is afraid to report assault for fear that he might be waylaid one night by a student or group of students. Many people may say that children are bad and tough these days, and that you can't dis cipline them. This may be true, but we have always had a group of tough pupils to contend with. Many of the pupils attending schools forty or fifty years ago Came from the cotton fields and turpentine camps where they were as tough as they came. These early teachers didn’t have the law on their sides, as the pupils have today, but they demanded that their students behave in school. Whatever they demanded of their students, it was carried out. since the teacher was in a sense comparable to "the cop on the comer with considerable authority.” Now we know that a few of the “oldtime” teachers abused their authority, but in general the benefits outweighed the disadvantages. This strict discipline was old-fashioned you may say. Yes. but it occurred in the underpriviliged arras of the South, in the mountain recesses, and in the Cotton Black-belt. We didn’t have school clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, guidance counselors, special education classes, free lunches, and so on. But we got such re sults as children learning to read and to do arithmetic, recite Latin, and explain algebra. No student would dare throw a bottle of acid at the chemistry or biology teacher then. Yes, something must have gone wrong with our present methods of public school disci pline. ing that supports men and principles, for the sake of a favored few, and out of step with the onward march of civilization, should not be carried. Any advertiser who would seek to have his views, supporting communism to the detri ment of the United States should be refused. By the same token any office seeker who de fies the United States Supreme Court and the laws of the land, affecting all the people and hns vowed to use the influence of his office, if elected, to pursue his course further, should be told that his copy is not wanted. The publisher or the editor has an obliga tion to his readers and should take into con sideration the fact that any advertising copy, appearing in his columns, carry his approval, so far as he has been able to ascertain. Any publisher or editor, who knowingly accepts, or permits advertising copy to be run In his pap er that is proposed by office seekers whose pronounced aims and desires are contrary to the rules of fair play is not worthy of the trust imposed in him by the readers of his paper. Lest we forget the principles of the freedom of the press and be misunderstood, let us hast en to say that freedom of the press does not include the right to advertise persons, products or things that are detrimental to the concept of the United States Constitution and in prin ciples for which it stands. to give sight to the blind, the ability to hear to the deaf, and the power to walk to the handi capped and the crippled. However, through her instruction and stimulation and encourage ment, she taught the blind and deaf to make the beat use of their mental and physical as sets if they would succeed in a world of so called normal people. Surely, her presence in the classroom gave many a blind and deaf rhild the desire to live a long and useful life. This woman's good works will be multiplied a hundred-fold through the lives of the boys and girls she taught. In away her name will become immortal. transfer calls. This modem telephone will be able to turn on the stove or if you forgot and left it on. the phone can turn it off. Then there will be television-phone. You can Bee the person that you are talking with at the other end of the line. This will be delightful for the single man. we are sure. On the other hand, he may call this same girl before she ‘'dolls - ' up. Naturally, she will answer the tel ephone in giant rollers, cold cream over her face and a wrinkled old house coat around, her shoulders. What will the you*..? man say then? Twenty-five years from now, the 1964 tele phone will be as out-of-date as “the mule and the plow" of former years. Jast For Fan BT MARCUS H. BOCLWAEE 99-CENT TRUCK Cm you Imagine a man get tog a truck tor twenty-nine cents? Well, In Loegstoer, Den mark, Ole Hansen was the only person who showed at an auc tion. He actually got a small truck tor two kroner (29 cents). However, the auctioneer claim ed an additional 29 ore (2 cents) as commission on the deal. The 1962 vehicle, described as in ex cellent condition, had been the property of a business man whose goods were seized by the local court and ordered sold to pay his debts. (Well, 29 cents did not reduce his debts very much —eh?) LEAP YEAR LIST; The bach elor wont’ have It so good in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, this year, because a local newspaper decided to help the unmarried ladies to take full advantage es leap year. The newspaper printed a list of 25 eligible bachelors ranging in age from 21 to ”39”. Mrs. Jo Helen Lerrel. bachelor editor, said the listing is a community service “to the maidens of the city,” and who are well aware of the potential of the year 1994. (Fellows, can you imagine any* ONLY IX AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN “AFTER THE FALL” Arthur Miller has written a new and highly controversial play called “After the Pall" which is performed by New York’s Lincoln Square Reper tory Theatre. Mr. Miller’s play is controver sial not because of Its mibject which, as you may guess by its title, is about the loss of inno cence and the corruption of modern man; nor is it contro versial in its method of pre tation, the stage representing the Interior of a man’s mlnd; x it is controversial because many people suspect Mr. Mill er used real life models for bis characters. For a while Mr. Miller was married to the late Marilyn Monroe and the character of Maggie In After the Fall bears a striking resemblance to her. The relationship of Quentin, Mr. Miller's hero, and Maggie is a searing one, full of hurt and tragedy and aordinees. Say some: How dare the au thor reveal the details of bis painful private life to us? But I say this is the mark of the artist. This is what we. the audience, ask es writers; What happened to you? Tell us the truth about you because we reoognize fiction too easily and any working novelist will tell you fiction is a bad dodge these days. An imagined truth is never as strong as the real truth to speak in language no iogloal positivist will ever un derstand. Mr. Miller as a writer has an internal security admirable in an American artist. And I say for a nation addicted to gossip columns and expose magazines we ore in a bad position to level chargee at him for giving us the precise things we are at pains to know vicariously. Many of us were disappointed in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s book “Mandate for Change" because he refused to tell us the per sonal tribulations he underwent as a President and told us only what the newspapers and the editors had already made plain. I believe I have earned the right to this opinion. I have not written about myself, not re sly, because I lack not only Editorial Opinions THE NATION'S PRESS Here are excerpts from edi torials complied by the Associ ated Negro Press from some of the nation’s leading dally new s papers on subjects of current Interest to our readers: THE CIVIL RIGHTS QUESTION THE CONSTITUTION. Atlanta Hamilton Douglas Is a man with a tough Job. And because It la a hard Job, he la faced with hard facta. This week, he shared some of these facts with an audience of Atlanta Jayceos. What he said to Important for the whole community to un derstand. Mr. Douglas to chief negotia tor for Mayor Allen in the mat ter of the Negro community's "Action for Democracy - ’ appeal to end all publto discrimina tion. •’People keep asking how long It to going on. ‘every time we yield, there's another de mand. - ” Mr. Douglas told his audience. The answer: "This to not an Atlanta problem or a Georgia problem. It's a worldwide social revolution, and Its not going to stop until the full measure of rights guaranteed are actually granted.' DAILY OKLAHOMAN. Okla homa City Negroes have a right to be skeptical of the noisy political support they are getting from the unions In connection with the pending civil rights bill. Eloquent In this regard is a decision returned the other day by the New York State Com mission for Human Righto in the case of Local 26 of the New York Sheet Metals Workers Un ion. The union has 3.300 work ers, none of them Negroes. The commission says the un ion to guilty of “automatically excluding -- all Negroes from its membership. Chairman George fowler o l the commission says the ruling to "revolutionary In that It takes into account a historical pattern of exclusion and not merely a specific com plaint* THE SUN-TIMES. Chicago The moat controversial sec tion of the civil righto bill which the Senate took up for thing like this?) The editor noted tost she might not receive s complete list of eligible males and asked those whose names were omit ted to notify her. She aaya the has received several responses, iWell, what do you know?) STUPID QUESTION: After sitting unnoticed at a table tor over twenty minutea, the diner finally snapped at a nearby group of waitresses who were chattering together, “Say, (herd Who's waiting at this table?” One of toe waitresses turned and answered, “Why, you are, of course!” and then resumed her conversation. (You may think I'm joking, but at some cases, the waitresses do just this sort of thing.) DOGNAPPING: The Georgia House of Representatives recent ly approved a dognapping bill that would make the offense punishable by a prison term of from 2 to 5 years. The present penalty is a year in jail, a fine or both. House Speaker George T. Smith, calling for the vote, said "All in favor say “woof. ” Tha woofs won by 134 to 7. Mr. Miller’s artistry, but mere Importantly, his sense of secur ity, but I have been written about. Many yean ago my eld est son wrote an article for one of those intellectual magazines about what It was like growing up with a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. I will not hide the fact that I was enraged and so was his mother. Not only were some of his facts suspect, but there were facts he had completely neglected. I stayed mad for a month. Was it fair not to tell people I taught him how to throw a baseball? About the first book I bought him? About his mother’s care and love? Os course It was fair. He was telling us his truth, showing us something seen with different eyes. Good -sense overtook us. We were mad at a 24-year-old who had never busted the family car. or been arrested for break ing up a bar, who had never gotten a girl in trouble, but who had simply tried to tell a truth about something impor tant to him. He had revealed his experience and in the reve lation made his experence ours. Fifteen years later, I wonder what in the world made me mad. And this is what will happen to Mr. Miller's play. His hero ine will one day only remotely remind the theatrical historians among us of Marilyn Monroe. She will be Maggie, a character with an existence all her own who will live or perish depend ing upon the Intrinsic worth of her. And if in a decade, the play proves Its worth, as I am sure It will, there will be many of us who say thank you to Its author. A writer should live and we mean by that Insipid but all encompassing phrase that he should be able to recount his experience significantly for us. There are many playwrights who might have married Mart that. But a writer who dares lyn Monroe and let it go at subtract part of his life is like a salesman who refuses to call on a tough customer; he is not doing the best he can. debate to that which borbids racial discrimination In places of public accommodation, such as restaurants, hotels, theaters, etc. Without this section there undoubtedly would be less op position from Southern sena tors. Yet Its provisions are law in 31 states, covering about 60 per cent of the American peo ple. The senators from the South are planning to attempt to pre vent the passage of the 1964 civil righto bill by use of the filibuster. They can be shut up only by invoking the cloture rule which requires approval by two-thirds of the senators pres ent and voting. Since It was adopted In 1917. cloture has been voted only five times. It has been unsuccess fully attemtped 11 times in civ il righto matters. Many sena tors who may favor civil rights do not like to vote to give up the Senates privilege of un limited debate. Some small statee outside the North regard such debate as their own pro tection against big state domi nation. The filibuster, however, is as undemocratic as the practices of discrimination against which the civil righto bill itself to directed. Those who can con done racial discrimination in public places can easily condone the filibuster. It imposes on the majority the will of the minor ity. VIOLENCE IN OCR SCHOOLS THE TRIBUNE. Chicago Attacks on teachers by pupils, parents, and others are in creasing In frequency. John Fewkes. president of the Chi cago Teachers union, told a meeting of the Chicago federa tion of Labor. He cited exam ples. and said five assaults had occurred In a tingle recent The conditions are making it difficult to recruit competent teacher* Mr. Fewkes reported. Five thousand of the 31.000 teachers now in the schools are substitutes. Jt the assaults continue, he predicted it would not be tong before half of the leachen are substitutes. This problem to not confined “Lurking In Readiness For Hie Kill” Jsf \ i? jf Km v Imftt ■Pk.lFx it Gordon B. Hancock ’« - - iimi-n, ■ BETWEEN THE LINES JUST SUPPOSE Just suppose the Negro educators of fifty years ago had taken Booker T. Washington seriously, the American Negroes would not at present be at the economic mourner’s bench begging for eco nomic mercy at the hands of th? white man who dominates the economic life of the nation. Washington saw that being a working people, the Negroes had their foot In the door and if they exploited the economic opportunities they then had. In fifty years they would be figurative ly speaking sitting upon the top of the world. Just suppose the Negroes handling all of the foods and cooking of the South had followed through on Washington’s program, today all of the great caterers and restaurateurs would be Negroes. Just suppose those shoemakers had carried through, today Negroes would be the South’s greatest shoe dealers. Just suppose all the Ne groes doing the tailoring of the South had carried through, today most of the South's great clothiers would have been Negroes. Suppose the Negro car penters and bricklayers had listened to Washing ton, today most of the South’s greatest builders and contractors would have been Negroes. But the Negro educators trained the Negro stu dents to set their sights on higher things; and so the Negroes not only minimized the opoprtunlties offered in the manual arts, but were taught to spurn them and little by little they abdicated to the white man who Is today reaping the rich fi nancial harvest that the Negroes cast away, be cause Negroes were taught to spurn and mini mize the' teachings of Booker T. Washington Os course there were wealthy whites of the North who saw the possibilities in the teaching - of Washington and poured millions into Hamp ton and Tuskegee. But unhappily Hampton and Tuskegee did not turn out graduates who be lieved the things they were taught and therefore could not teach It to others. Instead of turning out graduates to Indoctrinate the Negro in the advanages of the manual arts, Tuskegee and Hampton turned themselves Into colleges of liber al arts and education and left the Negroes of this ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD Can the suburbs b?ot the heart of town? Or. are there enough middle class Americans living in the suburbs to whip or outvote the great mass of poor people who still live In the heart of the big towns or cities? The chances are that the Re publican leadership is hoping to hold on to the suburban vote and thus c..rry a number of states in the north and east. If this is so, the Republi cans are going to be in for a rude awakening. Prior to this year, or the campaign which was launched as soon as President Kennedy assumed office, there was a Justified feeling that the Re publican party might woo some of the Negro votes which are to be found in the heart of the cities. Nee roes have a tradition of supoprtin* the Re publican party. There are some Negroes who have never voted for any other party—and they never will. But thev are certainly not In any majority. The vast majority, eighty per cent, are in the Democratic party. A sizeable percentage of this group mighhbe wooed and won by the Republican party If it didn't outsmart itself. The angle before President Kennedy was mur dered was that Senator Barry Goldwater would be able to win in a number of southern states. But as soon as the President was interred and Lyndon B. Johnson became President. Ooldwa ter’s chances In the South were reduced to near zero. As a consequence, the Republican party must turn to getting more Negro votes if it cares at all about winning In November. But the Republican party should know this: So far as Negroes are concerned, the parry could not nominate a worse man than Goldwater. The only Negro votes Senator Goldwater might get would come from Negroes who have always voted Re publican and have never tried \ oting Democratic. One doesn't need a Harris or Gallup poll to learn that Senator Goldwater has no appeal for Negro to Chicago Attacks on teachers and other violence are report ed frequently in the New York schools, and the teachers union there haa demanded from the board of education “Immediate steps to assure protection of teachers.” Last week a 15-year old boy plunged a knife into the back of a teacher be had quarreled with *4 a school In the Bronx. Children from alum homes country totally bereft of places where they could be taught the manual arts: and little the Negro literally forgot the possibilities of industrial edu cation and every Negro student aspired to become ,a white collar candidate and a professional. And so it came about that all of our educators pasted up the great opportunity of creating in the students a job consciousness. And even today our schools have no program to lay emphasis on a plan for the relief of dis tress that comes today of a lack of training To day as yesterday, aside from teaching in segregat ed schools and segregated practice of the Negro professionals, there to really no positive program for Negroes who fill by millions the segrega'ed schools of the land. It Is true that here and there are a few Negroes who have risen to prominence and world-wide renown. We have a few judge ships and a few professorships in white univrri ties and we have here and there Negroes in high places; but such places are few, and even fewer are Negroes with the adequate training for such places. Our Negro educators still are looking the other way when the younger generation*of Negro stu dents cry out for direction In such a time as this. What does it profit the race to have a f w Negroes in the upper echelons of life when tlrre are millions of Negroes who are candidates lor the bread line? It is pathetic to see the young Negroes fighting for the jobs that were cast away years ago be cause they were discounted by the Negro educa tors. Even today the Negro educator has no pro gram for the Negroes In his current economic plight. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Negro educator has failed! He has utterly failed to look over the shoulders of his students, and has taught them what they wanted instead of what they needed. He has been popular in his spurning and minimizing the teachings of Wash ington; but he has not been smart enough to offer something better. The Negro educator has failed the Negro masses! Just Suppose! BY P. L. PRATTIS For ANP generally need special assist ance with reading, speech cor rection. counseling, and other sendees. They need small class es and specially trained teach ers with exceptional sympathy for 'heir pupils handicaps. THE NEWS A COURIER. Charleston. S C. Announcement by the New York City Board of Education that 60 teachers were assaulted on school property during the last 13 months to receiving wid<t voters. They would shun him on election day and fear him afterwards if he were elected. Any other Republican candidate. Including Stassen. would do better among Negro voters than Goldwater. Maybe Goldwater doesn't deserve be ing regarded with the great suspicion that he is among Negroes. But they fre suspicious of him and the suspicion won't rub out. The Republican candidate with the most ap peal to Negroes. Republican or Democratic, is Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Gov. Rockefeller does not have to prove himself to Negroes. The Rockefeller family over the years and through generations has sought to be honest and fair with everybody, regardless of race or color. If Rockefeller were to win the nomination. President Johnson would have a real job on his hands. There are many other Republican candidates or hopefuls who might win a significant segment of Negro votes. If they got to know him. Negroes would vote for Governor Mark Hatfield of Ore gon. or Senator Thruston Morton of Kentucky, or even Richard M. Nixon or Harold Stassen There is no man the GOP could select who would not do better among Negro voters than Goldwe ter In this writer's long life, there has never ber a Republican candidate so universally rejected p Goldwater. There is no objection to Republicans going ♦ the suburbs to win votes. But if they want th Presidency ihev had better map plans for gettir some of the thousands of votes which reside i the heart of the city. Further they should no play around with the man now in the Whit House. They are up against a master politician e well as a master human being There to no chanci of heading him off the Republicans chocs their very best, someone like Rockefeller or Am bassador Lodge. Nixon could not do as well agains l Johnson as he did against Kennedy. attention. Official school records show that teachers were punched, bitten kicked, and shoved, struck with chairs and wrench es, stabbed with knives, nail files, ballpoint pens, sharpened metal rulers and scissors. Dr Renatus H&rtogs. chief psychiatrist for Youth House in New York City, reports "a steady trend for the worse in violence In classrooms."
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 21, 1964, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75