Sgt. Andraw E. Gooch of
Phoenix CUv, Ala., i* a dental
technician with the lit Infan
try Division’s Medical Battalion
In Germany. Gooch, whose
wife, Dorothy, lives on Route
2, Phoenix City, entered the
Army in February 1981 and ar
rived overseas last November.
His father, Silas H. Gooch, li»c»
at 407 Taylor St., Oxford, N. C.
-Life Is Like That-
(Continued from Page Two)
dark skinned man came before
a Senate Committee to speak on
what he had done with the pea-
nut and the sweet potator’wEen
the chairman of this committee
saw this little man of no com
manding presence, be said:
"We’ll give him j»»t five
minutes.’’
Time Ebctended
The little black man began to
speak—^to speak eloquently, In
terestingly, intelligently. Just
before the five minutes were
up, Somebody moved that this
man. Dr. George Washington
Carver, later to win world
wide fame as a scientist, be
given unlimited time. The mo
tion carried and, for more than
one hour, Dr. Carver held his
congressional ' hearers spell
bound as he told them more
about the sweet potato and the
peanut than they had ever
heard before.
Advice to Consider
1 leave with you the thought
that the measure of the quality
of any man is his heart, his
spirit, his mind and not his
physique. People use to ttiink
that the size and shape of a
man's head determ&ied brain
power, that criminals were u^
in appearance and misshapen in
stature. Now, they know better
or should: but still are impress
ed by outward appearance.
1 don’t have space for further
comment but would call to your
attention some words to be
found in the book of Samuel.
“Look not on his countenance,
or the height of his stature; be
cause 1 have refused him; for
tiip Liord seeth not as man seeth;
for man looketh on the outward
appearance, but the Lord look
eth on the heart.”
(Continued from Page Two)
can satisfactorily provide the
educational program of the
futur^.’”
“Economic Consequences
Of Segregation In The
Publico Schools”.
North Carolina’s Negro
population has a deep and
understandable yearning to
prove its economic worth to
our economy. Above all, we
wish to earn our own way and
to make a real contribution
to the growth of the State. It
is our firm belief, therefore,
that the course of action and
official policies adopted by
our State Government shall
determine whether North
Carolina’s Negro population
wiU beccane a great resorvoir
of productive o^Mudty and
purchasing power or whether
it will continue 4o be tiie
number one problem in our
economic life.
It is common knowledge to
every North Carolinian that
restricted employment oppor
tunities based upon race iuve
limited considerably the earn'
ing power of our Negro
population. The 1950 Census
reports that the mediam in
come for all North Carolina
families was $2,215 per year.
For white families it was
$2,476 compared with $1,056
for Negro families. In ad
dition, 27 per cent of the Ne
gro population earned less
than $500 per year. It is ap
parent, therefore, that if
North Carolina is to compete
with other states of our na
tion, it cannot do so success
fully while the earning pow
er of one-fourth of its popula
tion remains at such a low
level. The tremendous tax
burden which must be assiun-
ed by tiie remaining three-
fourths of the population al
so looms as a block to real
prosperity for any segment
of our population. Recent
studies of the National Urban
League indicate that while
the sliuns of the average
American city accoimt for
only six per cent of the tax
collections, they account for
45 per cent of the police cHts;
35 per cent of the fire costs;
and 55 per cent of the costs of
delinquency.
In North Carolina Negroes
are systematically exduded
from m«3t skilled employ-
men purely on the basis of
race. This is true in the fol
lowing areas:
1. The textile industry
2. Clerical employment by
the State of North Caro
lina.
3. Administrative positions at
state, city, and county
levels.
4. The public power compan
ies, Ae telephwe compan
ies and the highway de-
-partment also exclude Ne
groes from ridlled po>
idtions.
This condition exists in
roite of the fact that the
School of Engineering at A.
Pvt. James, F. Braboy, whose
wife, Doris, lives at 1011 Adams
ct., Fayetteville, N. C., recently
was graduated from the Mill
tary Police Training Center at
Camp Gordon, Ga. Private“^Bra-
boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Braboy, 530 Washington ave.,
Fayetteville, entered the Army
in September^ 1854. He attended
Fayetteville State Teachers
College one year.
and T. College is turning out
Negro engineers, mc»t of
whom must go to other states
in order to obtain employ
ment.. Recent studies of the
Committee of the ^uth,
formerly headed by the late
Senator Broughton, support
strongly the view that tiie
talents of our Negro popula
tion are not being used fully
to increase the productive
ct^acity of North Carolina.
In 1953 North Carolina
ranked 46th among the 48
states in the average amount
of weekly wages paid for all
covered employment. The two
states which ranked lower
than we did were Aricansas
and Mississippi. The situation
should be viewed with alann
by every person who is con
cerned with the progress of
our State. It is therefore, the
considered opinion of t^
group that the problems pos
ed by racial segregation
should from now on be ap
proached in a fortliri^t, in
telligent, and objective man
ner. It is also our considered
opimon that if there is to
lasting prosperity in North
Carolina, all of us must leam
to work an dlive together in
an atmosphere of mutual re
spect and understanding
which cannot be attained as
long as there are barriers
which prevent us from know
ing and understanding one
another.
To those who have fears of
dire happenings and unfor
tunate results of an attempt
to integrate our schools, let
us say that the complete in
tegration of the Arm^ Forces
has been accomplished with
such switfness and in such •
satisfactory manner that it !■
no longer a subject of coi^
cern to our Government, m
addition, the young men and
women of all races who haw
learned to serve and live to
gether have made adjustment
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the fondetjfc hopw of thoM
who have worked for inte
gration of the Anned Forces,
in like nuauier we believe
that integration of our schook
ca nbe accon^lisliad swiftly
and e£fe^vely once we maltt
up our minds to undertake
the task. This, in our opinion,
is the key to improve4i4ndus-
trial growth of North Caro
lina and is an essentiid ele
ment for prosperity within
our State.
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“New Legislatioa Must Seek
To Uphold The Finer Tradi
tion Of North Carolina”
Fin^dly, we respectful^
submit to you the proposition
that enactment of the pro
posed legislation would not
be in Imping with North
Carolina’s traditional respect
foT^law ond order and gov
ernment in accordance with
the ideals of our demoera^.
The St^)reme Court’s decision
of May 17, 1954 prohibits
segr^ation in the public
schools on the basis oi race
because such a practice is in
violation of the civil liberties
guaranteed to every citizen
by the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the Federal Con
stitution. The Court’s decision
is now, therefore, the law of
the land, and in our opinion,
we are faced with the chal
lenge of complying with the
letter and spirit of the de
cision. In 1863, the Ameri
can nation proclaimed to all
the world that it had grown
morally to the point whiere it
believ^ the institution of
slavery to be wrong and un
christian. In liJce mann^, oux
nation has now grown to the
point, where it believes that
race prejudice, class distinc
tions and discrimination bas
ed upon race should no longer
be a part of our way of life.
In recent months, church
organizations and ^oups in
all sections of the country
have hailed the Court’s de
cision as a timely expression
of a moral principle by which
our nation should be guided.
The Southern Baptist Con
vention issued a strong state
ment along these l^es in
June, 1954. The Florida Con
ference of Methodists also
stated that “we commend the
recent decision . . . making
the laws of the land more con
sistent with the Scriptures
and with the declared prin
ciple of the chiu’ches includ
ing our own.” Similar state
ments were issued by the
North Georgia, Lousiana,
Arkansa sand Texas Confer-
e n c e s of the Methodist
Church. The 94th General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church U. S. adopted a strong
statement of policy with re
ference to the decision. The
Catholic Bishops of the South,
the Presbyterian Church U.
S. A., the Greneral Council of
'tiie Congregational-Christlan
Churches, and the Southern
Methodist Women ar^ just a
few of the groups which have
joined in issuing a succession
of statements of policy and
resolutions which support
strongly the view that oiur
task is one of implementing
and placing into enect the de
cision of &e Court.
Moreover, what we do in
North Carolina has an impor
tant bearing on the position
of the United States in the
rest of the world. The Na
tional Council of Churches
recently issued a message
which contained a stateBitet
that “the non-white peoples
of the world are unconvinced
by a democracy which ac
cepts a color line.” It is dear,
therefore, that while our con
tinued loss of prestige abroad
may be puzzling to us, the
real answer lies in our fail
ure to dose more rapidly the
wide gulf between our ideals
of democracy and the man-
ner in which we practice it
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Writing in ft Nttbt Jmoo of
the Umt^ NatkMM Ummmetm,
O. Frederick Noble said, “We
must speed the process of se
curing equal treatment of
all pjBople witibin our borders,
regardiesB of nu», creed or
«>lor.’' It is apparent, there
fore, that int^^ation of our
Ne^ population into the
main stream of American life
is a matter of greatest urgen
cy.
Our group has rather
strong feelings that North
Carolina should avoid the
dangers inherent in luke
warm efforts at integrating
our sdiools. The experience
of various dties and states
which have already adiieved
integration, has proved that
the job can be done ^ective-
and ydth the miniminn of
(usturbance, only when those
charged with its execution
are given full power to carry
out their plam and where
they themselves have enun
ciated a firm policy of de
termination to do the Job
quickly and effectively. To
illustrate this TOint, we
should like to cau attention
to the fact that in the fall of
1954 complete integration of
both teachers and pupils was
accomplished in the City of
Washington, D. C. without
incndent except for a brief
disturbance during the month
of October in which only
three per cent of the dty’s
99,000 pupils participate.
The City of Baltimore had a
similar experience and we are
reliably informed ttutt a re
cent meeting of School Sup
erintendents for cities having
populations of 500,000 or
over, the superintendents of
schools in Baltimore and
Washington stated that ^
cause of the firm policy of
their respective boards of
education and the |uU sup
port of their police depa^
ments, they now consider in
tegration of their schools as
having been fully accom-
Elished with comparative!^
ttle difficulty. Complete in
tegration of teachers and
pupils was also accomplished
recently without inddent in
St. Louis, Missouri, where
Negro pupils comprise 38
per cent of the total elemen
tary school population and 30
per cent of the high school
population. It should be easy
to imagine, however, what
might have happened if the
efforts in these cities had
been lukewarm attempts
officials who themeslv^
doubted the possibilties of
success. We appeal to you,
therefore, to consider care
fully the cowrae wliidi North
Carolina should follow, par
ticularly in view of the fact
that there is no longer any
doubt that our schools will
be integrated.
A positive and forthright
approach ^ the problem is,
in our tqmtion^ extremely
necessary and can best be ac
complished by strong central
ized authority re^ed in the
^te Superintendent and the
State ]&>ard of Education.
Tliis should produce results
of which North Carolina can
be proud. On the other hand,
we feel assured that no one
will be proud of what may
happen if North Carolina s
record of progressivene^ and
enlightenment is besmirched
by a long period of bickering,
litigation ,and unpleasantness
occasioned by efforts to avoid
the decision of the Court.
For this privilege of ap
pearing before you and ex
pressing our views, we are
indeed grateful. It is because
of our sincere interest in the
progress of all of the people
of North Carolina - - both
white and colored - - that we
have come before you and we
can assure you that because
of this overall interest we
have felt compelled to ex
press our views which we
are convinced are shared by
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many others - - both white
and colored - - - a large num
ber df whom have served or
are now serving in an inte
grated Army. Assuredly,
these persons will be totally
uns3rmpathetic with any lean
concerning integration and
with any efitort to perpetuate
our expensive and undemo
cratic system of segr^ated
pubUc spools. This group ot
dtizens is, therefore, apmal-
ing to you for support n the
following prindpiM in hand
ling the task ca integrating
the North Carolina public
schools;
1. That yon will reaffirm
North Carolina’s traditloB
of enlightened leadership
throaa^ a fair, positive
and forthright policy on
integration of schools in
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date of the U. S. Supreme
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Southern B^ional Council,
suc(!iess«r to the Old Inter
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Ci^lina which we are walk
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