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P4GE TWO CAROLIHA TIMES SATURDAY, JAW. 2Ut, 1950 DO FIGURES LIE? We wiiili to rtur readers for fol- lowing up our editorial of last we«k with aii- of the NeKro principalu of Northampton County, a copy of whieh has also been aeiit to the Caro- other on tht deplorable condition existing in Hn* Times, makes us wonder if there ifi an ounce Negro itchooln of Northampton County. The of d(‘i*enc\ or inte^rrity left in the entire Hchool following letter recently adddreaaed to the Iniard of Northampton County, or do figures HEWS AND OBSERVER o\-er the aignature aetually lief Editor of the NEWS AND OBSERVER Raleigh, North Carolina SUBJECT: Northampton County School Situation We hare noticed from recent articles appearing in the NEWS AND OB SERVER regarding the schools of Northampton County that some misunder standing seems to have split the opidions of many of its readers. These con- troTersial articles have given us the impetus to find out the actual expenditures for colored schools since Mr. N. L. Turner, our present superintendent, has been in office. We ask you to please publish the following report which was budgeted by the county and audited by a certified public accountant. year Actually ^pent From A"^tually Spent For Capital Outlay For Colored Schools All Schools 1939-40 $ 12,808.77 $ 9,096.81 1940-41 14,554,45 " 11,011.69 1941-42 15,040.00 8,955.69 1942-43 16,155.64 13,866.96 1943-44 16,397.05 8,264.48 1944-45 15,490.00 9,348.21 1945-46 10,022.53 5,261.28 1946-47 22,248.09 14,294.88 1947-48 20,129.54 16,846.37 1948-49 23,360.82 13,268.10 166,206.89 School Busses Purchased 110,214.47 17 busses purchased for colored schools. 1 bus purchased for white schools. These busses were purchased by patrons helping the county by paying the down payment on each bus—white and colored. Colored Classrooms Built Since July 1, 1939 8 (also 10 indoor toilets and running water) Garysbur^ Gaston Oak Grove Ransom Brewers — Jackson ... 4 „1 1 2 4 Ivey 2 Seaboard 2 also new auditorium and office; moved and remodel led old building and cafeteria and 2 classrooms) (new heating plant, 10 indoor toilets and running water) Willis Hare 4 (10 indoor toilets and running water) Creecy 2 (New heating plant in elementary building; $5,000 appropriation on lunchroom-gymnasium. New agriculture classroom and shop; toilet facilities in agriculture building This (Creecy) is the only school t^t has received county funds for a gym nasium. We personally thank the board for this consideration. White Classrooms Built Since July 1, 1939. Gaston 1 1 Agriculture 1 Agriculture Shop This report has been submitted as a means of informing the public as to-the actual school situation in Northampton County by persons who are connected with the school and know the local situation. We Don't' Practice What’ We Sing SOUNDS AWFUL ! Spiritual Insight . Reverence For Reproduction By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church It When we read the above figures, we immedi ately called Superintendent N. L. Turner of Northampton County over telephone and in quired of him if, in view of such figures he con sidered the Negro schools equal to the white schools in his county, he very quickly replied, no he did not. Ther are several conclusions one may draw from the above letter. One is that prior to 1939 the money spent for capital outlay yon Negro schools in Northampton County was so low that amount over a 10-year period that white and Negro schools are still nnecjual. Another eoiiclusion is that school officials in Northampton are artists at juggling figures to piake a thing appear what it is not, and that they liave used intimidation, either directly or in directly, to force Negro principals to sign such a nefarious lie. The only question that needs to be answered is: are the Negro and white schools of Northampton County equal? If they are not then the amount of money that has been spent for capital outlay over the past 10 years is irrevelant. The law of North Carolina says that the schools provided for the white and Negro races must be separate but equal. There is obvious evidence that the law with reference to the separate has been carefully kept, but that the school board of Northampton County has deliberately disobeyed law and provided schools within the county for one race at the detriment of the other. “Thou shalt not commit adultery . . Ex. 20:14. (Jod, in his eternal wisdom, commands reverence for sex. God provided every creature with the mysterious gift of pro creation of itself. The procrea tive capacity, therefore, is a gift to plants, animals and men. With all of the wonderful revelations of science, life and its reproduc tion remains the gi*l*atebt mys tery. \Vliy had God commanded reverence for this power of re production .* Is it just a negative decree from an ancient pastIs it oui of place in this twentieth ceiitury streamlined societ^'? Js it out of place' in a latfB where the New Freedom is growing with its moral and emotional chaos? Is it practical in a land w/iere the juntfle piiftern of Hollywood is increasing? The judgment of lunnan experience seems to say it is wisdom. The essential happiness of mankind gives evidence to sustain its wis dom. Sex, set in the framework of disi'ipline and reasonable re straint, brings happiness. Pro miscuity, on the other hand, leads jnillions to the dead end of emotional and moral confns- sion. For evidence, observe the shameful tragedy in the nation. Thus reverence for man's repro- dnetive capacity is necessary for human .society. We have wrapped sex in the wet tissue of social taboo and The Civil Rights IMeeting Gathered in Washington this week are Negro leaders from all over the nation attending the National Emergency Civil Rights Conference. They hope to exert pressure on their congress-, men to give support to the Civil Rights bill now before Congrewi. We think the greatest aid the Washington meeting can give toward the passage of Civil Rights legislation is to start an intense national movement for more Negro voting, especially in the South. I’oliticfSns understand one language and that is the language of votes and more votes. Until the Negro in the South can speak such a language it is usele.ss for him to expect any consideration about civil rights from his congressmen. Here in North Carolina, even in counties that are predominantly Negro, the votes cast by white people outnumber by far those cast by (Ploase turn to Page Four) laaaBaiBi Published Every Saturday By The CAROLINA TIMES Publishing Co. ’ 518 East Pettigrew Street — Durham, N. C. Phones: 5-9873 and J-7871 Member National Negro Press Association laid it on the the slu'lf. It has remained on the shell' too long as a biological “hot potato.” In our ignorance wt' have consider ed it a tiling' of shame. We iiave remained shamefully ignorant of (me of the most important facts of lifi-. The very founda tion of our happiness and emo tional well hein^i: has been neg lected. Now we suffer the tragic social and moral agents of so ciety are responsible—})arents, teachers an*l preachers.- These three must begin now to make an intelligent approach to sex, a (iod-given cijiacity of man to share in the ^eat drama of creation and procreation. Freud siiys its the most dominant fac tor in society. We may agree or (lisjigree with this conclusion. But it is a fact that it is a jmw- erfnl drive in liaiipiness ainl humaji relations. Ueverence for mail’s reproduc tive powers must ‘iH'coiiie a part of the. edi'icational process. This tirive, so basics in man’s quest for happiness, must not continue to b(‘ neglected. With the home being endangered, the nation is becoming aware of the need of training. Many hone.st people are objecting. The fact still re mains that we need training in ' a Ohristian approach to this problem. We need a meaningful program of adult education for parents. Public education is al ready awakening to the need. The Chiireh etin make a great contribution by putting it in its program of religious education. 'I’he prevalent lack of intelligent information makes it a tremend ous task. The inclusion of this in our basic pattern of educa tion will do much to strengthen our society. The results w'ill make for fuller happiness. lieverencc for our God-given power to share in the Divine ilrama of creation leads to the greatest happiness of man. 14e- verence will be increased whcu we come to look upon this gift as more than a physical and biologjical fact. It is this, and more tbo—it involves a spiritual relationship of the highest prder. In this cajiacity God provided . . . “The most jierfect and en during happiness that niankind knows.” When we come to see it in this light, it becomes what God intended it should be; A physical fact raised to the high est level of spiritual beauty for body, mind and soul. Thus re verence for sex becomes what God intended that it ought be~ not an end in itself but a means to the happiness of mankind. This commandment, therefore, is just another call from God the creator of life to walk in the path which leads to social peace and harmony. May God make us reverent in spite of Hollywood and the Kinsey Re port. What Other Editors Say VOLUME 28—NUMBER 3 SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1950 Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Offices at Durham, North Carolina under the act of March 3, 1879. National Advertising Representative Inter state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. Branch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111. L. E. AUSTIN .... Editor and Publisher CLATHAV ROSS .... Managing Editor M. C. BURT, JIL M. B. HUDSON Business Manager V. L. AUSTIN City Editor . Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: « Mosthfl $ 2.00 3 Years $ 9.00 1 T^r $ 3.00 5 Yem $15.00 AN OBVIOUS NEED lu its first two weeks of the present session, the United Sta tes Senate has derjionstrated a- patch the tremendous amount of new that the Senate cannot dis- business which conironts it un der its archaic rules. Southern senators have shied away from any reform in the Senate’s rules because of their fear of Civil Rights legislation. *(J(ther senators have opposed changes in the rules because they like to talk and the rule of un limited debate gives them full opportunity to do so. Senators have taken great l>ride in the fact that the United States Senate is the only leg islative body in the world where talk is free and unrestrained. So long as the volume of busi ness was so small that the Sen ate could transact its business under the present rules, those rules did no harm. In fact, in some cases they accomplished good, by permitting full dis cussion and in delaying mea sures which should ha>e been delayed. However, the first duty of a legislative body is to leg islate that every other leg- eident that every other leg islative body in the world long ago found itself unable to leg islate under such rules as govern the TTnited States Senate. Other legislators like to talk also. Each se.ssion of the North Carolina General As.sembly contains close to 170 talkative. members. If either body of the General As sembly tried to operate uuder an unlimited debate rule, with no requirement of relevency or even pretended relevency, it would soon bog down in the same way that the Senatt* has bogged down. The oleomargarine bill, now the unfinished business of the Senate, furnished a typical ex ample of the way the present rules operate. The Senate met on January 3 and, as is usual in such cases^ adjouriifed without taking up any business after a series of tributes to a desceased member. On the next day the oleomar garine bill was made the un finished business. It has oc cupied that status since, with all other business automatically prevented from coming before the Senate except by unanimous consent. But senators have spent very little time talking about the bill. Instead, they have talk ed for two weeks about almost every conceivable topic. The occasional defeat of bad legislation does not justify the failure to pass, or even consider, good legislation. The Senate rules will have to be changed eventually. The chang(‘ should not be delayed undulv. — THE ‘RALEIGH NEWS AND OB- SERVOR. I FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION STILL A MUDDLED ISSUE The House Education and Labor Committee has set aside an entire month, from Feb. G to ilarch 6, for consideration of nature of the bill which it will Federal aid to education. The report, if any, js not yetjileter mined. Federal aid to education, readers will remember, hit a .snag in the Hou.se committee on the .question of aid to non-pub lie schools, when Congressman Graham Barden introduced a bill to limit Federal aid to pub lic schools. This bill provoked opposition from Roman Catho lic leaders who described it as anti-Catholic and support from PiTotestants who lauded it as maintaining the seperate of church and .state. Previously the Senate had passed a bill providing $300 million for schools the use being left entirely to the states. Thr Senate bill has been proposed as a measure in the House, but some representatives insist. on /iddirig an amendment whMh provide appropriations for transportation to private and parochial schoolsv Meanwhile * the Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee propose limiting Federal aid to those states which need it most. A tabulation of the position of the 16 Democrats on the com mittee shows, according to Rep. Richard Nixon, a California Republican, six members sup porting the Barden bill, six favoring the Senate bill without the amendment, and three favor ing the Senate bill amended to KINSEY SCOOPED! Two years ahead of Dr. Kin sey’s m\v study of “Sexual Be havior in the Iluman Female,” Tltl’E (’ONFESSIONS (Feb.) predicts the findings of that survey. Based on a mere 300 in terviews, as compared with Kin- •se.v’s thoiisand.s, this prelimin ary investigation is sort of a straw vote among the skirts, to ! which way the wind blows. I'nele .lames’ long tail was a source of consilerable emhar- ias.siiieiit to his family, but lie showed ’em he wasn’t about to be made a monkey of, in the end. Hereby Hangs a Tale by Max Steele; II.ARPEH’S (,Jan.) KIVVER TO KIVVER AUtiOSY for .lanuary. Fic tion.- This is Jo September •Morn in the swamp . . . Brad shaw of the Apes more mon key business .... Case of the Blonde Tamale (novelette), and four other short stories. * * * Articles: 1950—Where Do We Go from Here? by Henry F. Pringle . . . The Nazis Won’t Give Up . . . Get Your Deer the Easy Way, and half a dozen more. * * * B^-st feature in .\li(iOSV pietiin' stories: World’s Most Brutal Boxing — African hoicide called “grace- let boxing” . . . Mountain Lion Hunt i4i color. * * Reptile wranglers carry lots of snake bite medicine during the annual Rattlesnake Round-up. Plus 15 other features and departments. A good buy in a man’s mag- azine. CONNOISSEURS’ HOLIDAY Ten American wine lovers on a twenty-two day spree in the French wine districts, dabbling their toes in 1881 imperiales, sniffing 1810 cognac, and turn ing up their noses at (’hateaux 1923. Gory details in GOUR MET (Jan.) MISCELLANEOUS FILE I’an nts wonder what kind of baby they’ll get. But did you ever stop to think — maybe the bah}’ worries, to»)! Which Par ents Will I Get? AMERICAN FA.MlliY (Jan.). A symposium: Fn“e Enterprise - Are Its Best Friends Killing It? In the K()'TA14IAN (Feb.) “Like a yo-yo with a 1(),000-foot string” .says SKYWAYS’ (Feb.) arti cle on li(*licopters . . . French designer says F. S. women should wear sexier clothes (Les sons from Lili, SCKEENLAND, (Feb.) The pictures jirove her point . . . NEWS BRIEFS HERE and THERE IH)LLYW0()1), (^\L1F. Fn-derick O'Neal, distinguish eil head of the American Negro Theatre and the Negro .\ctors Guild, portrays “Dr. Clark” in Darryl 1*’. Zaiiuck’s liOth Cen- tury-Fox jirodiiction, “No Way Out.” ♦ IIALDEN, MASS. Herbert L. Jackson, 45-year- old owner of 41 cleaning shop and member of tin' city’s common council since IDKi, was t>le(!ti'd president of the eouiivil here recently. .fackson is the first Negro to win the post. He was elecfi'd unanimously. LOS ANtJELES, CALIF. „ Ivy^ Ajnlerson is dead. The silver-throatel thrush who for eleven years was with Duke Ellington’s famous orchestra, died shortly after Christmas, re portedly of asthma and weak heart. Most famous among her num bers with the “Duke” was “I (Jot It Uad And That Ain’t (lood.” Other originals she belli ed to make famous include “Jlood Indigo,” “In ^ly Soli tude,” “Soplii.sticated Ladv,” “1 Ain’t (Jot .Nothin’ But The Blues,” “Uoeks In My, Bed,” and many otlu'rs. * * * LlTTlJi: HOCK, ARK. The first farm Housing Loan in the nation to a Negro family was made at appropriate cere monies on Friday, January 13, «t Arkan.sas A. M. and N. Col- ilcge in Piiie Hlutf, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stewart, owners of an HO-iiere Hempstead County farm. * * ♦ S.\HTHFIELD Eighteen year old James C. Royal of lioute 1, has been re lic vetl of school bus driving duties following a wreck last week on Crantop Mill Road. Royal testified that he had re ported the faulty light on the ve hicle a.ssigiied to him that when he came out of a dirt road the lights went out and he could not see in the early morning ilarknes.s, tlius ramming the 1941 (Chevrolet bus into u tree. Dam age was estimated at about $100. ♦ ♦ ♦ ^ SANFORD^ James Jackson has been ac cused with the fatal shooting of Eula Mae I^jisiter Sunday after noon with an automatic in the abdomen. An argument preced ed the shooting in Pocket Town ship. Jack.son is being held in jail until his trial at the next term of court. provide transportation to non- publie schools. According to Mr. Nixon there is considerable opposition to the amendment in Congress. No compromise has yet been reached on the issue of Federal funds goings to the .support of non-public schools. Action by the Hou.se during this session may not jet be regarded as cer tain. — DURHAM MORNING HERALD. MUCH MORE INVOLVED The contest which the House now faces over its rules in volves much more than the FEP(! bill, which has been made the excuse for the change proposed by a coalition of Ke- publicans and Southern Demo crats. The rules were changed a year ago so to pennit legislative committees to by-pass the Rul(*« Committee, because the latter group had fallen under the con trol of a group of reactionaries of both parties and had usurped powers the conunittce wiis never supposed to have had. Had the rules committee been under flie control of the present coalition on it throughout the Roo.sevelt administration none of the reforms, such as social security, minimum wages and a score of others which are now universally approved, would have been enacted into law. The proposed change in the will of the people as voted in the la.st election. More than that it would probably mean, in the abandonment of the seniority rule, which gives the group now controlling the rules committee powers far beyond the strength of that group in the House as a whole. Feature Story Contest Begun By Lincoln JEFFEliSUN CITY, MO. Competition m the fifth an nual btaiu high school feature writing contest is now open, ac cording to an aunouucemeut from the Lincoln University I,Mo.) School of Journalism, sponsor of the contest. Prizes totaling $150.(X) will be awarded the winning writers on the subject: "The itole the Newspaper Must Play in the Struggle for Civil Rights.” The contest is open to students of all four years of the secondary schools ill Missouri. Deadline for entries, which are to be 1,000 words in length, is March 1. The prizes will be awarded at the annual School of Journalism Headliner Week banquet, April 25. Photo-Engraver To Teach At Lincoln, Mo. JEFFERSON CITY, MO. John C. Eastwood, owner of Enterprise Engravers, Kansas (’ity, Mo., has been appointed an InWructor in Journalism to teach courses in photography and photoengraving at the Lin coln. University School of Journalism. His work, on a part- time bdksis, starts at the begin ning of the second semester in February. Mr. Eastwood, a resident of Independence, Mo., and grad uate of the Kansas State CoUcige at .Manhattan, has conducted his engraving plant in Kansas City for eight years. For four years during the war he headed the department of photography aiid print for the North American Aviation company in Kansas City. Prior to that he had served as a slide maker for the TTnTinff City ^?lide company and as a traveling salesman for the Wil kie Spring and Tool company^, also of Kansas City.
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