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4 not oABOLOtA iiiild satcbdat, mat ua, im dte Cai^la Ctogg PuUahed Srery Saturday By THE CABOUNA TDnS PUBUSHING CO. SIS SMt Pettlfrew Stnet — Dwham, N. O. PHONES: S-tS7S — S-N71 — 1-7(11 Memkw Nattoaal N«gn Prcw Aatoelattom voLun M—mrMBiB is SATUBDAT, MAT Srd, 19S8 It to akMlately lipiwiTrIn f«r the CABOUNA TIMES to ruarantee the exaet time of pakllea- tiM «r lonatt— tai tko papw of wiMUetted artlele*. but will itrlve to conform with the wishes of its roadlag pahUe as aear as is hamanly posslhle. Bntered as Soooad Class matter at tte Post Offices at Durham, North Carolina under the act •f March S, lS7t. National AdvertUng BepresentatlTe Inter state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Aveune, New York 17, New Tork. Branch Offlee: S East Jaeluon Boulevard. Chit»vo. Ui. L. B. AUSTIN . M. B. HUDSON W. EDITOB AND PUBLISHES BUSINESS MANAOEB CIBCULATION MANAGEB ( Months 1 Tear SUBSCRIPTION RATES: IB.M Forelfu Countries SS.M S Tear* Per Tear $4.00 $9.00 Brotheriiood In The Church And The Sports'World The sport’s world^not the church—dealt another heavy blow at discrimination laat week when the National Collegiate Athletic Association admitted another Negro college to membership. With Hampton, Morgan, Howard, Lincoln and A. and T. College al ready members, the NCAA is making a dis tinct contribution in promoting real Chris tianity and democracy in America. Ever since it let down the bars to Negroes in organized baseball and Jackie Robinson became a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team the sports’ world has set a rapid pace for the church to follow, in fight ing discrimination. The announcement several weeks ago that Negro players would be used on league teams in Texas, plus the present use of them on the Danville team in the Carolina League of this State, is an indication that even the sports world of the South is more willing to prac tice brotherhood than the church. We think the Christian church stands to day indicted before the eyes of the world as an institution of hjrpocrisy which preaches the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man rather than practices it, while the sports world is taking the leading role in advancing both Christianity and democracy. About two years ago we sat in on what was supposed to have been an interracial ministerial group meeting. The pretense, the hypocrisy, the forced and feeble attempt of the white ministers in that meeting to ac cept their brother Negro ministers as equals and the latter’s^ miserable attempt at trying to cover up their suspicion that their white brethren were not sincere was something awful to behold. Because of this condition the Christian Church in the South is bedridden with the malady of white supremacy which has forced the sports, theatrical and musical worlds In to the lead in promoting brotherhood among men. Thus one finds the white church in the South tearing its hair about Sunday movies, liquor stores and such, but refusing to cry out against the Florida bombing to death of a Negro man and his wife while they slept in their home at night and other heinous crimes committed against Negroes. As for a source of real Christianity we prefer the sports world to that maintained today by the white church. The Horror Of Race Prejudice The April issue of Soutukrn Patriot, published by the Southern Conference Edu cational Fund, tells in graphic and pentrat- ing style the plight of a Negro mother who could not get hospitalization for five hours after being seriously burned in a vain at tempt to rescue her children from their blazing^ home in this jery progressive, lib- ery and Christian state of North Carolina. The Patriot is edited by southern liberal whites and Negroes who have a little more than a superficial conception of Christianity and Democracy. Says the Patriot: “Excmolatlnclr burned In the vain, heroic attempt to rescue her children from their blasinc home, a North Carolina mother had to Jonmey more than 65 mllco-spendliic flve hour in an ambulance—before findinf a hospital that would grant her a bed. Eichty-five percent of Mrs. Nonie Clark’s body was covered with first degree burns and she was suffering from extreme shock. But she was a Negro and Jim Crow decreed her for a long odyssey of agony. From Farrington, whwe the tragic fire oeeurred, a friend drove her to a clinic in Plttsboro. There she was given mocphlne and sent by ambulance to Duke University Hovital in Dnriuun. Bat th« 81 beds for Negro patients were filled at that dutfeh-saiworted instituUon. Bln. Clark—^Jnst like the fatally—injured • coUego stndevt, Matthew Avery, whose bloody body was brongfet to Dnke a year be- faro—was shunted away. No one, apparent ly, considered the possibility of letting this pain-wrecked human being sully the white sheets of the white ward. Her next stop was Lincoln Hospital, a Negro institution. Here her burns were bandaged. But, according to Lincoln of ficials, there was litterally not an empty bed in the hospital and she was sent on to Ba- leigh. There, at last, at St. Agues Hospital, Mrs. Clark’s pilgrimage of pain ended. Commented St. Agnes’ administrator, W. Gordon P»ole: “In no instance do we re fuse emergency cases. We feel it is better to place beds in the hall than send a patient from the hospital who is in need of im mediate care.” . Here again one gets a true picture of what it means to live in the South and come face to face with the kind of conception which some of our people have about Christianity. When you read of such incidents the great wonder of the age is that Negroes still have faith in their white brethren and have not turned to communism or some other ism that promises them escape and human dignity. The kind of white people who edit such periodicals as the Southern Patriot and those who support such organizations as the Southern Conference Educational Fund are at present in the minority. The tribe, how ever, is growing and the time is not far away when they will be in the majority and the South will take its place as the nation’s main citadel of democracy. A Suit For Equal Education In Reverse As Drew Pearson would say, it hasn’t leaked out yet but there is a great possibility that a ^udent will apply for entrance to North Carolina College. The student who is a young man has been turned down at the University of North Carolina for no apparent reason other than he is too liberal on the race question to set well with the decadent administration that has taken over since the passing of the era of Dr. Frank P. Graham. , Once the stronghold for Ubeirallty in the South, UNC has declined in this particular category until it is now a stronghold for one of the most frightened bunch of Intellectuals to bs found any where. The University is DOir koked upon by many as a tired old pmde of southern aristocracy that has noth- iag to bosst about in the way of modem eoDospt but the past. If and when the young white man does iqpply to North Carolina College for admit- tanes hs will probably be turned down on •oeount of his race by its officials who prob- rank well with those at UNC in being afraid of their shadows. The young white man should thus be prepared to enter suit against North Carolina College officials for discriminating against him on accoimt of race. In that he should have the backing of every respectable Negro in this State, all of whom should be just as much opposed to a Negro educational institution that denies a white man the right to equal educational op portunities as they are to a white one which dailies the same to membera of their own race. Sooner or later leaders of the South are going to have to come face to face with the fact that this most poverty stricken section of the nation cannot operate two standard educational systems of higher learning. It is then that they will do the sensible thing and throw open the doors of all its public schools and colleges to citizens of all races. It is then that America will take a place of world leadership that will not have to be backed by guns and atomic bombs. “The Strongest Link Is Civil Right” race-COLO Spiritual Insight “The Sick: A Healing Faith” By REVEREISD HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church .THE sick visitor must be cheerful.. .“Romans 12:18 Sick visitation is very impor tant. Everybody should not visit the sick. I shall never forget the woman who brought the gossip out of the street into the sick room of a woman who was lighting the last battle. Sick visitation is a gracious and bles sed ministry. Jesus made -the sick a primary concern of his ministry. We need greater care for the sick. We* need a greater concern about all sickness-sick- ness of body, mind and soul. For sick visitation to be m^ helpful it must be don^ in^i cot-' tain mood. Every mood or dis position is not helpful in the sick room. The sacred write^ hits the major key for the sick room:. .“The sick visitor mtist be cheerful.. .“Yes, the most have positive", hopeful, inspiring and cheerful disposition. The helpful sick visitor must inspire a healing faith. The sick room is no place for the juicy gossip of the street and the community. There is no place for gossip in the sick room. The sick room is no dumping ground for your unsolved per sonal problems. Keep silent about anything that does not contribute to health and healing. Too many of us are making blunders in the sick rooms. That sick person is already fighting a difficult and painful battle. If you can’t contribute a lift tlirough cheerfulness and inspir ing faith then it is better not to enter. Your presence and bear ing should help set in motion God’s great healing powers for the sick. When you are fighting a difficult battle of sickness you need good cheer with its power to induce healing. Le^ve your aitpients and the ailm^hts of others out of the sick room. The sick person does not need your analysis of his oase nor another similar case. Diag nosis is the duty of the medical profession. The sick person needs your good cheer and heal ing- faith. Your doubtSj fearsr anxieties, and discouragements have no place in the sick room. There is but one reason for going into a sick room and that is to bring good cheer and health. A good plan for most of us in the sick room is to put in your appearance as an under standing friend and keep si lence. Few mistakes are made by those .who are sympathetical- WASfllNGTON AND ^'SMALL BUSINESS’ Eany nruman’s snnoanoa- mtnt that he is not a oaadldato for pe-eUotlon prompted many eommsnts in Washlagtan. From some same lbs wall Is the end at overyttJng". Trom Olhars, came ths gledlil sbsnl, "Mow file country can b* savad'*. • • * Lsgieally, Mtthertarii^ * * * Ths impor tant fsot about ths Prsildmf s announceiAatl win only be as Importut th« paoplsl msks it ' • • • n* hnportaai fsol Is that for tho test time in twcaiiy years, it wm bo poosiblo to have a reaBy free elootloa, liocaase both par ties now liavo an eppwtiiBity to doflne odjeotlvea, a^ select ean- dUatee with oonslderaMs* tor provloM' oommittments. • • 0 Just as tho domocrstie party Is not now bound to defend tho actions of an administratloa. neither are republleans ooafiaed to a oampalgn on real, or Imag ined otUs of the tniBiunbeots. 0 0* With hands tree, oaA side ean assay what the people want, and P'esent positive (iatforas aad candidstes. o • • History may show ftuman a great man; or the oontrary. At the present, it makes little dif ference, became the White House occupant Is not suppoied to be .omnipotent e o 0 Comrri of (ovemmoBl to sup posed to be vested In the pwple throngh Cougress. • 00 Hlitory also reveals another important fact, long neglected. • * 0 Independent enteepriso, wldoh in ton nDrtarea small basiness that may with proper manago- By C. WIISON HARDER meat grew laia larger basin ms, was ta ba ths 17. B. ootnwstsai k 0 * Andthatlslbebasle dUforenoe between Amerlea and tlw rest o the worUl fliat has been forgot ten. In tb« past few yeiM, tiie direat o faseism, or the threat at communism, has been pump ed tip unduly tato a bogey man tat pul)lie attentlao by biiroaii- erats so that everyooo forgot the threat to tho An^oan syston. Xhe pMfjit of the oltlseB s( Lower Slobbovla who oaanet vote a secret ballet Is sad. Bat far sadder is the plight of the free American dtlM wh* ea»- ■ot start Ilia own feaslMas das to the pseasiire of nmopoly on t«7-tasea e« the other sida. e e • . And In tho unsuocosstUl at tempts to get a sooMt ballot for the Lower llobbovlan, many disastrous things have liappenad to America. e e 0 rsr OM federal/ state and local taaaa new taha IS% e( Leadership In protecting U. B. free enterprise has not been a strong po^ by either party. « « e for eaoHnpio, Sea. Jdm Spark- sun at AlsWma, doing as eat* ■tsnding Jeh as hs«t at tlM taa- Is a deasccmt. Bs aHa prede ceeeer waa the late tea. Kms- aeth Wherry of Nebraska, a ra- Hia big issue today is not whether the donkey or elephant parades on Constitution Avanus. • e e An elephant or a deakey wffl b*th eat angaardad hay aaM M Is entirely geao. e e * The big decision Is wfast win either party make to strip the executive branch of govenanent of die power to set up myriads of bureaus. - ly silent. The helpful sick visitors bring good cheer and health to the sick. Please keep your negative and gloomy feelings out of the sick room. Always rememl)er, and never forget, that the sick needs the health giving power of good cheer.. .“The sick visi tor must be cheerful....” NAACP Announces Opening For Southwest Field Worker NEW YORK Applicants are now being con sidered for the position of As sistant Field Secretary of the National Association fOr the Ad vancement of Colored People to work pHmnrtly in thp SouthwBrt Region, Gloster B. Current, di rector of branches, anounced last week. Tlie region coven the States of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico. f The position involves work ing with branches, youth coun cils and college chapters in the promotion of the NAACP pro gram and policies. | Yale Univeraty Students Foim NMCP Chapter NEW HAVEN Following an address by Her bert L. Wright, youth secretary of tiie National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, before a student body conference sponsored by the Yale University Political Union and the Yale Dixwell Interraci^ Group, fifty Yale students itm week joined the NAACP and^- tered into formal organization of a ciiapter. The new chapter has assigned itself the task of attempting to liave qualified Negro instructors placed on tlie Yale faculty, wliich luis never employed a Ne gro. Robert Weinberg, cliaimian of the Dixwell group, was elect ed temporary cliairman of the chapter. In ills address, Mr. Wright told the Yale students “that young people like youtselves must assume a greater share of the responsibility in fighting racial and religious discrimina tion and segregation in this country. You can lielp material ly ... by working through an NAACP college chapter to eli minate wliatever discrimination and segregation may exist on on your own campus.” The Columbia University Chapter ot the National Assoda- (Plaase turn to Page Seven} BY INCH OF CANDLE By ROSE BUTLER BROWNE Three books that teachers of a unit started?. The initiation of elementary school children can not afford to miss have come out in the last school year. Jolm Michaelis of the California school system has written a book which he calls Social Studies for Children in o Democroy, Pren- tice-HaU is his publisher. We use it for a basal text in one of our classes and refer to it in all of them. The book is admirably suited to the program of educa tion for elementary children anywhere,and especially for the point of view held at North Carolina College. It is our belief that the purposes of education i^he elementary school should be defined in terms of^ child be havior. Miciiaelis has written for the teacher of the social studies in the elementary school. He hat an excellent chapter on purpose called “The Democratic Values and Behavior Through the Social Studies.’’ He puts into words the meaning of demo- cray and the ways that it can be taught, and reminds us “If demo cratic values aree really to be learned by children, they inust be lived in alt phases of the school program.” *We must translate into action our expres sed beliefs. If the teacher, the principal, the supervisor and other ^hool workers do not live democratically in their tealtion- ships with one and otlier, the children will be likely to do much negative learning. His treatment of child development in relation to the social studies is especially well done, but tbe most challenging section of the book is the presentation of tiis point of view on evaluation. He states, “Evaluation in the social studies Is the process of determi ning the kind and extent of changes in the behavior of clill- dren that result from experien ces designed to promote social learning.” recommends pos sible steps involved in evalua tion, states clearly techniques which show' the teacher how she must proceed if she is to carry on a program of continuous evaluation -in cooperation with children and parents. My stu dents and others to whom I have recommended the book find it both stimulating and helpful. For the many persons who expressed interest in units of work, this book includeeS a Unit of Work on the Farm pre pared by a joint committee of elementary teachers, supervisors and coordinators under the di rection of an elementary curri culum coordinator in Pasadena, California. The foreword to the unit was written by Superinten dent Willard E. Goslin (’This Happened in Pasadena). Tile many questions wliich teachers ask such as (1) Hpw does ^e unit work fit in the regular pro gram? This unit is built within the framework of the gener^ and specific purposes of ele mentary education in any edu cational unit. How can one get the unit is outlined in detail, it includes even the arrangement of the room which might stim ulate children most. The part that is of great interest to teach ers who wonder about the skills as related to unit teaching is well developed ’ and itfcludes language arts experiences—read ing, oral expression, written ex pression and literature; spelling experiences are s^iarated from the language arts. Arithmetic experiences, arts—music, art, rhythms, dances, and games are included. No teacher can use the unit as is, and no teacher would want to, but any teacher can get help by following the thinking and planning of another group of .teachers dealing with children similar to the ones with whom she Works. Harold Shane and E. T. Me-' Swain iiave written on Evalua tion and the Elementary Curri culum, Henry Holt and Com- par»y published it. THe book de fines evaluation as a “contin uous process of inquiry.” I tiUnk you see the value that is upper most in our College program of elementary education stressed throughout the book. The parent, school, community at large, established, cooperative ly, a system of educational val ues, or criteria, in the light of wliich, tlie process of inquiry proceeds to promote desiraUe changes in the behavior of chil dren. In this book, as weU as in the Michaelis book, there is the recurring theme that elementary school programs provide chil dren the opportunity to learn democratic values inherent in the democratic way of life. ' Another book that is worth our attention is a book by Ed ward Dolch, Piychology and Teaching of Reading, like most of Dolch’s books and teaching materials, it is published by the Garrand Press of Cliampaign', lUinois. The strength of this book lies in its readability. Dolch has dusted off many of the dry-as-dust reports on eye- movements pacing, imagery, and the like, familar to students of psychology, but often unin telligible to the teacher of chil dren; and has ^developed a book free from the very special, tech nical terminology which has denied the findings of psycho logical research to teachers. Now to those parents and teach ers who have cried in despair, “I should like to know what is going on inside of your head,” here is a chance to find out more about tlie perceptual process that we call reading. Dolch has given the lay reader an opportunity, to understand the reading process from the psychological point of view.. Every teacher and parent in Durham who believes tliat the democratic way of life is some thing worth striving foe, can get ^ some light and learning from these booiu. CALVIN'S DIGEST By L. BAYNARp WHITNEY (For Calvin Service) REBELS VS. YANKEES Sometimes a little horseplay develops into a grand tragedy. 1 have in mind the manufacture, display and wearing of Con federate and Union caus flags and uniforms. Although many of our best editors look in nocently upon the practice as sometliing for ciiilden to toy with, adults are taking it up, top. From here, it looks lilte a very potent form of psycliol- ogical warfare. Elements tliat seek to divide the Nation are making increasing use of it to remind us of iiatreda that ehmilH have been Gone 'With The 'Wind. Comes now CMcago’s Edgar G. Brown, a Republican, who says he will sport a “Union soldier” hat during his camjiBign, in the First District, to unseat Congressman William L. Daw son, a poweriiouse Demoorat. Olf course no one can imagine Daw son putting on a “eonfsdarate soldier” hat Just because he is a Democrat. Such folderal to gain puiilicity is decidely silly and undignified. Brown’s clowning ought to go far toward pushing votes for Dawson. But, Juvenile as the practice may be, it is reported that Army brass has “okayed a req.u«st that the bandsmen” of the llly-whHe 21st Infantry Division of Ala bama and Mississippi National Guardsmen ... "be permitted to wear Confederate uniforms at a time when Navy has ordered De stroyer Division 122 to haul down its Confederate flag.” Perhaps one reason for the re quest being granted |s that most of the high-brass seat wanaers in the Pentagon are Southerners, and other wiUte supremacists. Is it any wonder ttiat nations a- broad^hat look to American for leadership, see in us a divided country unwortiiy of their con fidence? Do the Negro’s enemies througliout the Nation plan to fight it out again rather t*'”" grant him the same ^eedom en joyed by wliite Americans? WHAT IS A BBATT The 'iliomdike-Bamhart Dic tionary says a brat is a con temptuous name for a child. By which we easily infer that when the conduct ot any child is such as io cause us to regard it «dth contempt, disgust and righteous irrittfUon, it is a BRAT — even though said cliild "unbrats” by subsequent good b^vior, and is no longer a brat Last week a' group ot white mothers in San Francisco, call ing themselves the Lafayette Mothers Committee on Mass Communications went on record against “rowdyism, roughhous ing and horseplay” at Saturday movie' matinees. They sent put a questionaire to theatre managers. In the preface ^e mothers charged that “children cannot hear the dialogue” because “missiles are thrown, hair is pulled, fists fly, cliildren are tripped, there is running up and down the aisles and unrestrained traffic to'and from the candy counter during the performance.’ The kids also slash the seats with knives and break things. (Continued from Page Sevang
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