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THE CAXOLOfIAM RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, AUGUST It, 11*4 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP This was Jesus' own picture of himself —a bridstroom! The center and soul of a glorious existence; a brlnger of news so wonderful that those who received It should be marked by their radiance as by a badge. Os course he disregarded the narrow code of the Pharisees. The Code was More Time Needed The recent resignation of Officer Alfred L. Grigsby again brings to attention a policy practiced by the City of Raleigh through its Police Department. Officer Grigsby resigned his position as an officer in the Police Depart* ment August 12 to accept a position in the Post Office, as a clerk in the next three daya, August. 15, thus giving no notice with usually accepted time notice practiced in resignations. In checking with Police Chief Tom Davis, regarding resignations in his department. The CAROLINIAN was told that both the depart ment and its personnel have the prerogative of severing relationship without notice. Such a practice could lead to some hardship We Need Standouts - Not Handouts A go6d many Negroes are thinking that the new civil rights bill will be the means for hand out jobs to them. This will not be the case since training and skill are the keynote to em ployment. At a recent conference on Reading Reform Foundation, a Negro named Mort Levi, a former research chemist at Sacramento State College in Califamia. called attention to one of the Negro’s greatest needs—skill in the fun damentala of reading and associated aeume. When Levi was teaching chemistry in Cali #rnia, he discovered that often he had to give his students a private course in remedial read ing before they could do anything about sci ence. Since the “look say”, or "configurative contour,” method of reading had already ruin ed some of his students to far as scientific pre nston in the use of the language was concern ed, Levi had to experiment with old-fashion ed phonics. This approach seemed to work. The condemnation of die “look say” method of leamir% to read was also made recently by Dr. Allison Dsvis, distinguished Negro profes sor st the University of Chicsgo, who wss consultant recently at an institute at Florida A&iM University in Tallahassee. He told tea chert that they could select better materials designed to help the Negro leam the basic skills of reading. Regarding the Negro revolution, Levi says after he heard Dr. King speak once, he absorb ed everything that the speaker had to say. “Once the Civil Right Act was passed,” he said, “that was that.” Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Law, it appears to us thst demonstrations should be abandoned unless they tre properly timed and have the aasurance of winning their goals. Otherwise, like many demonstrations in the past, they will be ineffective. "Sit-ins. lie-ins, and other things of the sort*, aren't the answer to the Negro's troubles.” says Levi. "What we need is “dignify-ins" and "pro- Integrated Faculty Is Announced There hat been to much talk about integra tion of Negro pupils into formerly all-white public schools that Americans almost forgot that the ideal arrangement would be the ap pointment of Negro teachers to faculties of newly desegregated schools. It is with a deep sense of pride that among the Deep South States North Carolina will soon lead the way. It has been announced that seven Negro teachers will be assigned this fall to formerly all-white Hanes Junior High School of Winston-Salem. According to offi cial sources, Hanes Junior High School will have the first integrated school with an inte grated faculty in the city-county school sys tem. Not only this, but. so far aa we know, this will be the first integrated faculty among public schools of the Deep South. Hanes is being integrated for the first time this fall, and approximately 200 Negro stu dents will be enrolled along with the assign- A Florida Farm Success Story Then crista the notion that with the disap pearance of the tenant-fanning system in the South, die Negro has made his exit from the farming scene. Most of ua were glad to “write off" the exit as a God-given bleeri- *. With the change of fanning methods from the “mule and two-hend plow* to high-pow ered tractors end harvesters, the smatl-tiiM . Negro farmer was lost with the advent of auto mation. And many of our youth took degrees ' tn .agriculture at state oolleges and universities but they aspired to careers as farm demonstra tors rather than become operators of large forms artth specialised machinery. But ham and there were e few Negroes who rode “mechanised mules" to the acme of suc cess. Two inch farmers ere young Manatee men in Florida. They provide an example to point up ways by which agriculturists can wage an all-out assault on poverty. The story of the Woodson brothers’ of Pal metto wee related at e recent conference for Teachers of Agriculture held at Florida AkM University. Pint, them men were successful in getting the necessary capital for financing their 45-acre tomato farm. And may we add that their packing house is "operated on the seme _ TUB NEGRO mat Mill! Aot (Uterine e*n hs* tetirf wirM it <7 ffifll tmCtml fnO fICIIW oniapnesm wnwwi Ts KQVQI BO FIW y IHOP rngarriMa of race, enter or anted. Ms Mona* tetri teg l rig Ms. tfafmf te artan hiring wo own' rite Negro Press atrisas to hsfp every ate da rite firm ha ters that mO man are hurt m Mag as anyone fc bald hate. blasphemy to him. Hls God was no Bureau, nc Rule Maker, no Accountant, “God U s spirit," he cried. “Between the great Spirit and the spirits of men— which are a tiny part of HU—no one has the right to Intervene with formulae and rules.” in the event of an emergency. The position of this newspaper is that the public interest would be better served should a reasonable time of notice be given in the cose of resigna tions of policemen. Should upward of twenty policemen decide to resign without notice, dur ing an emergency, it would be difficult for the department to adequately cope with a prob lem that would require trained and seasoned officers. It is our belief that the public would be better served and protected should the de partment administration and its personnel abide by some regulatory system of time. We would suggest at least two weeks. duce-ins." Integration won’t relieve the Negro of frustration. He needs to achieve independ ability as a producer. We want no relief hand outs; we want self-respecting standouts.” Pro fessor Allison Davis said tjie same thing in other words. He stated that the Negro needed the assurance of success to boost his etfo strength, because he needed to feel that he was somebody, going somewhere. To get Negro "standouts”, Levi insists, one must begin at the beginning with the reduc tion of Negro ifliterecy. One out of every three Negroes in the U. 8. is an educational cripple without reading ability. This very fact is a challenge to every Negro elementary school teacher, for in some way they must teach their pupils to read well. Many ritirens in northern locations have pmpow.il "bussing" Ncgm diiklicn 16 white schools. This is not the answer becauce the teaching of reading in these schools have often been ineffective,—as has been in places like Harlem and Rochester. Like Levi, we have been saying all along that "pigmentation” of one’s skin is no longer the issue, but rather can one produce or put “the job over.” It’s now a matter of qualification— can you read and use language effectively?, do you have technical skills?, do you have pro fessional “know-how”?, and so on. If is person can read and understand, he can learn how to qualify. Any person who con say “ah” can he taught to read in six weeks. The Negro must put on a crash program in learning the basic skills of language—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This must he followed by general knowledge in the human ities and science. Finally, the Negro must stav in school and learn a trade, a technical voca tion. a profession, or what have you. Only in the ways wc have outlined can the Negro be "a student"; otherwise, as we have already seen, he will always be lobking for "handouts" ment of the seven teachers Good teachers cannot be selected solely on the basis of race, and white teachers are not the only excellent teachers in' the United States or the world. There are excellent Negro teach ers as well as superb white teachers or yellow teachers. And we have poor teachers among all races and nations. We are confident that these seven Negro tea chers will give “their all” in the instruction of their pupils. We hope that each one will walk the “second, undemanded mile." It will take this kind of dedication to convince other school boards in the South that the experiment will succeed. Aa a word of caution, all parents of the Hanes Junior High School should do their part to make the school program a success. The appointment of these seven teachers in dicates that a change is coming over the South in many ways. procedures and channels as the other narking houses in Manatee County.” A sale *er. a packing plant manager were hire rry out the marketing procedure* Leading tomato companies in the nation sent buyers to Manatee County to' buy toma toes. The Florida Vegetable Growers of South Miami bought SO per cent of the Woodson bro thers' produce. We should add that the Woodson brother** plant helped process the tomatoes of other •mall farmers in the area. This increased the output of the pecking plant and provided * ante* source for the small fanners who used the facilities. Statistics of the successful tomato market ins project included: a total of 37.872 pack ages of tomatoes shipped out; a total of SIOB,- 557 gross income received by 17 farmers, and 512.5M.70 total payroll for tabor for five week* for 85 workers. Our Negro youth must not be afraid to ven ture into large-scale fanning production, be cause this is one of the ways by which they can become sseH-tofdo or wealthy. The southern , white man respects the person who has wealth mors than he does a hundred demonatrations. Jnst For Fan ■Y MARCUS R HOULWARR ANCIENT BEAST In Moscow, tbs tusks and bones of a giant elephant which lived some 140,000 years ago have bean unearthed in a quar ry, the Soviet news agency Teas reported recently. WANTED TO TRADE BADLY A Clearwater man finally traded hls car. Last week he wanted to, but a thief wouldn’t let him. The man's old ear. parked near the courthouse building, was stolen while Wal ter Oest was inside the licens ing department getting papers so he could sell or trade it. Later the old car was found by police, and Oest, 324 Florida Avenue, picked the car up at In This Oar liar BY C. A. CHICK. BR. "TWO INCOMPLETE®" Within the past twenty years or more there has been a great deal said in religious meetings about “Religious Education” and "Religious Education build ings.” And, of course, along with the foregoing, there has been an abundance of dis cussions pertaining to the re ligious educational programs In our churches Moreover, books upon books as well as magazine and newpaper articles have been written discussing and outlining model religious educa tional programs as well as the proper buildings for such pro grams. Apparenty because of the foregoing many of our "church leaders” of churches with a "handful” of members have tried to erect educational buildings and to institute mod el educational programs. They have tried to do such notwith standing the fact that in a vast majority of cases the main sanctuaries have not been com pleted—no. not any ways near completion. Morever, and this is the serious part of the entire matter, but few, indeed, if any Negro village* and or, rural churches have large enough membership to Justify an edu cational building, even if some one gave it to them By the same token,-such churches do not have large enough mem hpi-shins to have a modal rellg ous program. For example, how could one grade Os a Sunday school function with a total of about ten to fifteen students? And. what is more serious, the ONLY l\ AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN SWITCH BLADES AND HAT FINS A young secretary in New York recently defended herself against a rapist by stabbing him onee With a switch blade knife. The reluctant New York City cops had to charge the lady with violation of the Sul livan Law which prohibits the carrying of ooncealed weapons. The switch blade knife which springs open at the flick of a spring has lona since been out lawed in New York. But the girl exercised good sense at her arrest when she said. “It’s bet ter than being dead." A little while later, a Orand Jury refused to indict her though it did Indict her attack er. I do not think this means switch blßdes will come into fashion, designed with pearl handles and rhinestone acces sories An even better weapon for the ladles is the hat pin which is. as it were, already open and no law violation whatsoever One company whioh is selling hat pins these day* recently announced an ex tra stock dividend Hat pins are an age-old wea pon. There is an interesting ex change of letters between May or Oaynor of New York and a certain constituent named Ralph E. Walsh preserved in the volume “Speeches and Let ter* of Mayor Oaynor " On November 14. 1911, the mayor wrote to Mr Walsh. "You com plain that the hat pins sticking out of ladies’ hats are a men ace to other subway passen ger*. Why do you get so close to • woman in the subway for the hat pin to become a men ace? If I were sitting as a mag istrate I would recommend these hat pins be used to good effect." . A HOODLUM IR A HOODLUM Roy Wilkins, executive secre tary of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, recently gave the membership some strong talk Mr. Wilkin* said. "The teen-age hoodlums in New York City are undercutting and wrecking the talas made by hundreds of Ne gro and white youngsters who went to fall for human right*. Theee hotshots, tearing up sub way ear* and attacking inno cent people, are selling tty Freedom Riders down the er. They are working for Mls- j Utter To The Editor OOLDWATE* SUPPORTER 649 Leavenworth San Francisco. Calif. To The Editor 1 am writing you in support of Sen. Barry Goldwater for Presi dent of the United States. My message is short end sweet; SOUTHERNERS. WAKE UP! Come November. I shall east my vote ter my eeur try. my flag and myself respect You have a choice You will have to live with that choice, you will haw to live with your coascieoce. you wtU have to liw with yourself I in tend to live free! Sincerely. TERENCE OATES the police station and now mm be traded It in on a new am. SNEEZING HABIT Sudden exposure to sunlight or other bright tllnmtrafloc will cause sneezing in M per cent of white'men and 18 per cent in white women; Negroes very rarely react in this man ner. ■; DEFINITIONS Aggravation is thinking you got a bargain and seeing the same thing in -a store for a lot less. Humiliation Is teaching your 5-year-old son how to boa when he gives you a shiner. Joy i* catching yourself a rustler. memberships of our rural churches are growing smaller because rural people are mov ing to urban centers. But, as yet. no one seems to be con scious of that fact. As a matter of fact, this writer doee not re call having seen but little, if any, written matter on the problems of villages and rural churches. Seemingly “special ists” in the field of religion have purposely avoided in their speeches as well as their writ ings the crux of rural and vil lage church problems. The real crux of the prob lems of rural and village chur ches Is that we need fewer of' such churches. That is to say. many of our rural and village churches need to combine, thus having fewer but larger chur ches. Such churches oould em ploy full-time ministers and each pastor could und would live in the community at the church of which he may be the minister But everyone seems to be afraid to even mention the foregoing. Apparently we have a feeling that If we com bine many of our smaller churches into fewer large chur ches. someone will lose his “po sition” or "authority." To which this writer's reply is that it never was the purpose of the church to create a position for anyone nor to confer authority or. ar.rc , " r And. furthermore, until we are willing to start a program of combining many of the small rural village churches, anything said about the pro grams of the church is nothing but sounding brass, or a tink ling cymbal. sisseippi." Mr. Wilkin* added. "We can help matters along by recognizing that a punk is a punk, white or blade, and by Pitting him in his. proper place ’ Amen. THE XEROX COMPANY Salute the Xerox Corporation which makes duplicating ma chines. for the decision to spend *4.000,000 sponsoring a televis ion series about the United Na tions. I understand that six 90- minute productions will occupy prime evening time beginning in January 1995. This is a courageous decision for a company involved In a vast marketing program. There are many in the country who consider the United Nations controversial, something not to be discussed along with politics and religion (why is it they al ways legislate against meaning ful subjects). There are civil ised folks right here in Char lotte who get red in the face when they talk about the UN Yet people who work for the UN in New York City have told me busloads of tourist*,Jam the place every day. Joseph C. Wilson of the Xe rox Company said. “This pro ject may create some enemies but we also hope to win many more powerful friends . . . How ridiculous it would be for us to build a showroom In New York without simultaneously trying to build a peaceful world.” Long live Xerox. Other Editors Saw BOYCOTT FOR NEW YORK SCHOOLS In New York 250.000 white students are planning a boycott of public schools at the open ing of the term next month to protest the board of education Integration program. Loaders of the Parents and Taxpayers Coordinating Coun cil and the Joint Council for Better Education said the un precedented civil rights dem onstration by whites would be caßed off only "if there are drastic change»~ta the board of education's plans. The main object of the pro-’ test is the reversal of the board's decision to transfer 25.000 white pupils involuntari ly at the start of the new school term. So that’ some of the doings In the state of New York. JUDGES FOB SUIT Three of Metro’s former Jud ges have filed suits ter rein statement. They claim die charter change to the Missouri Ran under which they wars dropped Is illegal, as It cat short their toms In office. Under the new charter revis ion the commission dM not name seven of the IS ineam a™**,. m htf suit, is asking the Ch eat! Coart to determine hi* rights undsr his original ap pointment ter a six-year tafllk- H# alee asks the mart to rale an the validity of the Metro Reaction To “White Backlash" * rut bigotn* TMMoermpr CUM&S TOOPiNIONSAJ>OPT%D mrhourmttsrmrtokma lr -n'TLi NEWS AND VIEWS BY J. & HARKEN MORE SIGNS OF CHANGES ROCKY MOUNT “ONLY IN AMERICA'S” HARRY GOLDEN will be signally honored In Miami, Fla. August 24, during the 65th annual giand lodge meeting of the Improved. Bcnovelent, Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW). Elks Grand Exalted Ruler Hobson r Reynolds of Philadelphia, has announced that Golden, a Char lotte, N. C. publisher of “The Carolina Israelite" and the best seller “Only In America", (one of his books which has made millions laugh and even cry about segregation in our nation), will b* awarded the Elijah P. Lovejoy Medal for distin guished service in the fight for freedom of Ame rican Negroes. (Lovejoy was a white editor who was mobbed because he wrote strongly about slav ery). Mr. Golden Is a Life Member of the NAACP and is the idol of lovers of Justice. Congrats to Winston-Salem's achievement of, both student and faculty public school Integration to start this fall. Let other progressive commun ities take notice—ACT. Prom the booing of the then Gov. Luther Hod ges years ago at A&T College, one would never thought he would have changed to the extent that he is now—as Commerce Secretary on the national level—being frequently honored and ap preciated by Negro groups (as he was last week by AME Church conference in Durham). When most Tarheelians get where they an not subject to the pressure of Confederate-minded voters, they talk more like Americans. Token integration of at least two Halifax Coun ty schools has finally been announced as being official when Enfield and Weldon units accepted the assignments of three or four colored students to each school. Previously. Enfield citizens had petitioned their school board to not accept the Negroes until the courts ordered it Meanwhile, the federal suit by Mr* Wills Cofield Johnson a galnst the Enfield school officials for failure to renew her teaching contract is scheduled for trial in New Bern late In August. Let's hops, work and pray that she wins for all of us. When A Phillip Randolph, the nation's veteran Negro labor leader; and opera singer Leontine Price, both southern-bom Negroes, an numbered among thirty noted Americans who were recipi ents of the gold Presidential Medal of Freedom— highest civilian award—it is Indeed noteworthy: especially when measured along-side such persons as Edward R. Murrow, Reinhotd Niebuhr. Carl Sandburg. Helen Keller. Dean Acbeson. and 23 others, among them, John L. Lewis and Dr. Paul Dudley White. INMAN NO LOAF; HIM WANT WURK. SAVE WAMPUM Prank Morgan, writing in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, tells how Yankee industrialists have struck it rich by leasing land and building* from the Laguna Indians on the reservations of New Mexico and Arisona (many of whom we saw on a trip through the area). These Indians have al most stopped migrating to Mg cities since the in flux of new Industries to their hoir-lands. They “WE DON’T YET HAVE THE ANSWERS" That is the admission of Dr. H. Conrad Hoyer. associate executive secretary of the National Council of churobee' division of home missions, as be confronts such current urban problem# and revolutions which have occurred In the Negro ghetto communities of Harlem, Bedford-Stuyve sant In Brooklyn and upstate Rochester. N. Y. Dr. Hoyer further explain*. "The church has learned to accept the city and the many complexities of the ‘urban context'. Now. in many different way* we are trying to learn to understand the city " These two comments reveal a “Mind spot" in efforts of the white church leadership and the “big" Negro ohurch leadership to either under stand or rommnnirste with the thousands of Ne groes who now term the major population in the inner city of our large urban center* Too many civic and religious leader* both white and liegre. ignore the existence of literally hundreds of “stare front" churches of various denomination* whore thoooando of Negroes meet each Sunday tor "serrics." There are hundreds of “store front” churches in Northern etttee whose pastors neither belong to or attend Council of Church meetings Moat of them ore qutto aatonomuo with little or no affili groqpa. The poster generally baa another Job or full tßMtooinAlljr limited hint jpood ftffl out of pteeo around the mate highly trained church thna are never really tavofved hi the dtaiegs de to awes the mat needs of gtiotariMil Negroes and ALTAR CALL BY EMORY O. DAVIS. DJR (Fee Negro Press InteraattenaD have admitted that they did not adjust well to the urban life and preferred to work at home at ex cellent prices which were a saving to the imported businesses. This was greatly advantageous to both Indians and the manufacturers due to the hither to lower living standards on the reservations. Morgan points out that the Indians are easily trained and not given to being the clock-v> a loll ing” type of workers who are afraid they will do too much work for their wages. The unemployment rate among 60% of the nearly 600,000 Indiana living in or near the reser vations is reportedly five times that of Negroes about whom much is written, Morgan says, add ing that Negroes are only ten per cent unemploy ed. However, the Indians do receive a government subsidy to help maintain them. Additionally, in getting and pooling their resources, the Indians have been abe to build plants for two or more ma jor industries and obtain lucrative long-term leases to enrich the Indian combine. We are trying to say that Colored Americans would do well to study the thriftlness of the Na vajo and Luguna Indians; how they make them selves reasonably contented (at least for the time being) In their adobe homes—made of mud and logs; or atones and other materials with the bet ter ones having tin roofs—until they can get to something better. These Indiana do not attempt to splurge as Negro Americans do. The Indi?n lives according to hit financial capabilities while the Negro always lives far beyond his—with an uneven standard to boot. We mean by that the period of Integration and better living standards calls for CLEAN LIVING in body, mind and aoul, aa well aa surroundings. It means that Instead of driving a bigger car than our neighbor, we will buy a low-priced model and use the difference to fix up a decent, clean home of our own early In life and educate our children for the highly competitive tomorrow facing theta That’s what the Indian is doing. Some educated Indians are returning to the reservation, stating that the big cities ars not suited to their way of hfe. Thousand* of our Ne groes would rather starve and/or be dragged to the depths of degradation in Harlem or Chicago's South Side than to exercise the sense of the Pro digal Son to arise and return to his father's house where there is much more to share than in the crime-ridden metropolitan centers. Better is security and humility than scantiness amid glamor.. Remember the Bilbe text which says: Pride goeth before a fall; and haughty spir it before destruction. And in this game of right* fighting, h# who fights with the sword (bottles, knives and bricks) will perish by the sword. When God said: One can put ten thousand to flight. He evidently meant by fasting and praying, register ing and voting, and working INTELLIGENTLY through the NAACP where some 150 of the na tion’s BEST lawyers know what and how to do things RIGHT. God is on our side ONLY so long as we ars on His aide. Don't throw any more bot tles or bricks children—north or south. GET OUT THE VOTE, JOIN THE NAACP 1 really do NOT know what to do with this revo lution. Attempts are betngmade by religious leaders in a few cities to give “horisontal” leadership-the kind that cuts across faith and denomination. Training oenters are set up on Inter-denomina tional, in ter-faith bases, some underwritten with substantial financial grants, and their function is too new to know Just what the results will be This approach, despite the fact that it only in volves the major churches is better that the "ver tical’' approach, where each denomination or faith tries to do its own bit and Increase Its own membership. Here again, the “store front” thou sands are left out of the program. Another possibility occurs. Thera Is an ALTAR whore the "Wg“ city church pastor and people can "kneel", yield themselves, and go forth in His Nama-THK ALTAR OP INVOLVMENT. What is it Uke? Why shouldn’t the big church 1-nT*- establish friendship with 2 or S “store front" pastors, and in Ood’s name not an the bas is of altruistic condescension, sharing with them the idea and work of the Councils end Federa tions. taking them along to important meetings when decisions are made and ideas exchanged’ Why shouldn’t big church dubs and auxiliaries plan Joint activities missionary, youth, prayer bands with their “store front" church neigh bors? And. a gain, NO mndnarsinfUiu attitudes. Until the *W Negro church that remains in toe term Negro ghetto and the "store front" clmrehas tn the ghetto get «"g—W in concerns and later ute. the onrapterittea that contribute to racial asptostveneae win never be solved. Until the white church i—a»»a»tp establishes soma kind of raaltetic identity with tot most ob obeeura “store trdbr there is little they win evte demur that they can do to allay the fury of thii MP*t<yppibyf evolution At the ALTAR OP INVOLVMZNT. there is “neither bond nor free. Mack nor white, cathe dral nor store front"—just bod's chfldi+n.
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