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CAROLINA T i IS E £ ^ Tmmi UNBRIOLIO ' SAT„ AU0UST t, Eitecrive Action on Ct^ Wi/llid tMhtUKse Our L.«*dbr»hi|t ^ lill Doing Btsiness at Same Old Stand 11 tit tlu' ^^lllnsurs (if tl>t trip ail j^iixi‘iii»rN It* the SiA'iet maden the j^nvtrnor!.’ imder- sit»n of world affairs and racial •hole venture appears tp have le failure, at least in so far as pes of North Carolina is coir is return from the Soviet emor fiili«iwed his usual line orance in a speech delivered •»ib a civic groMj) at Los An- '^ctual and intelligent discuss ion OF~'IB^^^Ker GtWernor Hodges, in his speech. delinS^bv proceeded to put ,words in the tnuuths of X%y^oes and thoughts in their minds. In other worils, he attempted to say what the Negroes of North Carolina want and think on the question of integration. Said the governor in his address: “So Tar, North Caro lina's approach of moderation in dealing with the school desegrerration i)rohleni has ojjerat- cd satisfactorily.” He vent on to say further that “the vast majority of Negro children are voluntarily attending their own public schools.” In the light of the struggle oi the National Association for the .\dvancement of Colored People to achieve full integration for Negroes Governor Hodges' s|)eech jilaces those of ^orth Carolina in direct opposition to the NAACP's ])rogTani. which of course is both untrue and distressfully embarrassing. If a vast majority of Negro children of North Carolina are attending segregated schools it is because of economic reasons and a lack of knowledge £fs to how they should proceed to bring about the desired change. Governor Hodges hikI other state officials must not be led into believing that the vast ma jority of Negroes in this state or anywhere else in the South, are satisfied with anything less than absolme equality. The mere fact that a vast majority of Negro leaders of the South are members or supporters of the XAACl’ is prima facie evidence, we think, that they are in absolute sympathy with its program. The several integration suit* now pending in this state are further evidence that Negroes of North Carolina do not intend to surrender to those who would keep them in the inferior schools which, generally speaking, the state provides for its Negro citizens. Experience has taught Negroes that too much noise and rabble rousing are ineflfective and futile in a civil rights struggle. One does not have to resort to such to give an exhibition of determi nation. In the same calm manner in which the fight to gain admission to the University of North Carolina and to achieve other rights here in North Carolina have been carried on and wen, the Negroes of this state will continue to wage eternal warfare against a segregated school system until it is abolished. Time and right are on our side and a thousand gover nors like Hodges will not stop us. In contrast to Governor Hodges’ speech, we call the attention of our readers to remarks made in a speech by former Governor Averell Harriman of New York, who also has recently returned from a tour of Soviet Russia. Said he. in part, “Whoever is elected president in 1960 will malke it doubly plain in his campaign and triply plain when he becomes president that segregaition is a moral issue as well as ben ing against itl»e law.” Said Harriman further, “People in India don’t understand how it is that we are a country that has been held out to them over the years as being a great coun try. a free country and a country of equal op portunity but still has discrimination.” On the question of integration, this, we think, more nearly becomes the approach of a statesman than that of Governor Hodges who in spite of his tour of Russia is still do ing business at the same old stand of white supremacy. Why Opposition to Medical Aid for the Aged ? It is hard for this newsj)aper to understand just how Negro physicians can oppose the For and Bill or any kind of legislation to provide medical aid to the aged. In a recent telegram to the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Old Ndrth State Medical Society “voiced its opposition” to the bill which is now before Congress. The telegram stated that such legislation “will gravely harm a precedent now existing in the patient-phy sician relationship and would ultimately open the door to the eventual socialization of med- idneZ’_ There is nothing as pitiful as an aged, indi gent person who needs medical care but is un- ■ able to obtain it because of financial condi tions. Unless the Old North State Medical So- ciet)' is prepared to underwrite the cost of medical care for the indigent aged, it ought not object to the federal government seeing to it that such persons get at least the minimum medical care many of them so sorely need under the present so-called “patient-physic- ian” relationship. Although w'e have not seen a copy of the bill, we arc assuming that it will make federal aid for medical care to the aged optional. We, therefore, a^e tlvi,i^iju(Jn ' xj^atejv^rg ‘f^tjoiishipAyhigh^jtisjts iurbed, and that in cases where physicians out of sympathy are willing to treat ag^d persons unable to pay they would at least be assured The Negro Teaching Held is Overcrowded We are highly pleased at the apparent arous- t^i interest that is now being manifested by students, parents and educators in the matter of vocational guidance. Along the same line the Wall Street Journal recently published a most penetrating article by Robert Rama- ker which discloses that far too many Negro college students are entering the field of teaching and that we’ve got to change the em phasis." Because of this emphasis that Negro colleges have put on teaching in the past the field fUBBiam PabUdiMl mtrr Saturday at Durtuun, N. C by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, President ALBERT E. HART, Assistant to the PiiblishsT M. E. K)HNSON, CMitroUcr Mudyil Office l^ted at 436 E. ft Dnrlumi, North CaroUna M wcaad clMs matter at the Post OfOet 'iFlMtlMB. North Carolina, under tiis Act S, 1*79. "if y ’ -sntitMHBOBo Qtriet^ Mvttt. mai««KN> C.-1L Niftrr, “riTM- is now overcrowded w'ith a rat race being rwn for every teaching job that becomes avail able. “In El Paso recently, 281 would-be-teac- hers applied for one .job. In Waco, 150 Negro teachers vied for a single vacancy.” We have for the past several years attempt ed to warn Negro students that they should seek training in some other field besides that of education. We have again and again pointed to the fact that here in North Carolina with its four state liberal arts colleges and over a half- dozen private liberal arts college that too little emphasis is being put on engineering and other fields of the techically trained, tt is high time for Negro colleges to begin to re-think their student guidance program and advise students to enter other fields than teaching. Hampton Institute, the mother of industrial training among Negro schools in the United -States, is a glaring example of what has been happening in Negro colleges within the past 25 years. Instead of putting emphasis on tech nical Gaining for which it was founded, under the administration of its recently ousted pres ident Dr. A. Moron, it was Closing down as •Am lire TtB •choofs' OT wxlSHlical training and putting emphasis on liberal arts. The jgame has been goiog on in other Negro (Sm teaching, Tag* *8) ^ 1 ■ .V*-: «TUD¥ tNDICATES Shidy Shows Southmiers Prefer Many Other Things 1o Segregation Mt)st Southerners prefer several things to segregation— money, law and order, and ttie maintenance of their reputation for good manners—and these things are bringing indirect pressure on Southerners to accept integration. ^ So says Dr. Howard Zinn, history department head at Spelman College, i Negro Women’s college of .the Atlanta (6a.) University Center. most part the same courteous Writing in the Aniiust issue of service which is a special pride SPIRITUAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND let Every Soul Born of God Say, Tm Going to Let the Light Shine Harper's Magazine, Dr. Zinn says: “Any pollster, any white South erner, or-any Negro will tell you that whiie Southerners are over whelmingly for segregation if the question is put to them in isolation. What is often over- l«oker, however, is that, like everyone else, the white South erners cherish, a Urge number of values; that these values are arranged roughly and uncon sciously on a kind of ladder of importance; and that although the Southerner may not con sciously acknowledge it, segre gation is scarcely ever at the top.” ». Dr. Zinn names these examples of the values which white South erners may consider more prec ious than continued segregation; (1) Money. The power of the boycott, directed against the bus compsnies' in Montgomery, and the white tradesmen of Tuske- gee, “needs no elsbaration.” Al so, a white plumbing contractor will hire a Negro he’.per and sit beside him on the front seat of his truck rather than hire a white helper and pay ten dollars more per week. Too, Negroes are respected customers in the stores of the Deep South, and white and Negroes stand on the same lines in supermarkets, handle the same food, encounter for the of the South. (2) Law and order. Even in the most flagrant cases of vio lent opposition to integration— Little Rock, Clinton, the Nash ville school dynamiting, the Aut- herine Lucy affair—only a small minority of Southerners has pre ferred violence to quiet if un happy acceptance. There are still Southerners who talk in terms of “last ditch resistance." But greater numbers are succumb ing to the doctrine of inevitabil ity. Many who talk uncompro- miningly withdraw in silence when the time comes actualy to defy the laws. (3) Traditional Southern qual ities of good manners. Many Northerners have noted with sur prise a phenomenon which the South takes for granted; a voci ferous segregationist, in personal contact with a Negro, can often be gentle and courteous. As the Negro dares to ,apt>ear in places and situation v/here he has never been, the courtesy will face a genuine test for the first time. And in many cases the individ ual whitr, facing a situation where he must violate ordinary rules of courtesy in order to de fend racial separation, will main tain his conduct at the cost of permitting a breach in racial tr%i dition. of basic remuneration. On the overall question of socialized med icine we have been wondering what is more important than the health of the nation. There are probably over' a million people in this country today who need medical attention but are unable to secure it because of financial conditions. For one has been on the other end of a frantic call to a doctor for medical care in an emergency and has been asked abruptly, “do you have any money ?” and been refused because you are without funds it will not devise some plan, whether socialized med icine or unsocialized medicine, whereby per sons honestly ■ without funds can at least be assured of basic medical care. There are many physicians, not all of them, thank God, who assume a sufficient-unto my self or I-am-the-last-word attitude toward those outside the profession. In many quarters that we know of, this editorial will be con sidered a violent invasion of the sacred do main of Hippocrates. We think, however, that it is our bounded duty to sound the alarm to our readers of an attitude of any person or ttroyp of' persons that, ifi our humble judg- ' w^t{ is ..nc{t ,id>eppiJ« e inteVest With this in mind, we join those who feel that the Forand Bill now before Congress should be enacted into law. "I have sat you to be a light . . ." Acts 13: 47 Every redeemed soul is set in the world as a light. Saved by Ciiristt we are set as lights amid the darkness of sin. The purpose of light is to pusii back or banish darkness. The Christian is to em body the light of eternal salva tion. The light of righteous in the soul is to be a light to which be wildered, lonely, confused, mis erable, sick souls can fallow tp be rescued from darkness. That is why Jesus said we are to be-x as a city set on a hill. We are to be a light to guide lost and ship-wrecked souls into a haven of rescue, healing and redemption. There are souls groping in the darkness. And we are to be as a lighthouse to icad; guide them into salvation. “I have set you to be a light. . .” Just one little light can help 30 much amid the blackness of darkness. The light of one little candle can be of so much help to one who is lost in the dark ness. And in like manner, the light beaming forth from one re deemed soul can help one lost and groping in the darkness. You, redeemed and indwelt by the spirit of God, are set as a light. Thus, you ought to s;hine —you may be of help to some one lost in darkness. Let a ray of love shine forth in a world of hate. Souls im prisoned in hatred need that ray Of love to shine With its heal ing power. That ray of love may unlock a^door of escape for those locked in the prison of hate. Many a soul is caught in the darkness of such a prison. And that soul longs for escape or salvation. And God may use you for rescue purposes if you will leLypur light shine for Him. Remember, you, the redeemed, are the light of the world. You •are set as a light. Let your light shine. Let your light shine as a ray of love to push back the darkness of hatred in the souls WATCH ON THE POTOMAC of men. This light of the Gospel, in the soul of the redeemed, is for the healing of nations. The light that was aglow in the Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, has beeti shining to push back the forces of darkness. This light has push ed back the dark forces of op pression. It has broken the grip of the dark forces of injustice. It has lifted the darkness of human slavery. Yes, the light of Christ has been meeting and overcoming the forces of darkness and sin in the souls of human l>eings everywhere — on all continents and the isles of the sea. John was right in the vision of Pat- mcs when he said the light re- jvealed in Christ was “for the healing of the nations ...” Let every soul that has been born of the spirit of God say I am going to let the light shine that the Savior shed abroad in my soul one day. 3y ROBERT SPIVACK Negro Colleges Training too Many Teachers, Too Few Technicians Preponderance of fl^rpes in D. C. Dim Editor's Not*; Following is th* first of a two part article reprint ed from tho Wall Stroot Journal. The writor doals with an !wub th* TIMES f*ol* Is fuNd*m*nt*l. Th* socond part of th* artlcU'wlll b* carrlod n*nt w**k. By ROBERT RAMAKER- (Staff R*port*r of th* Wall tSraot Journal) TUSKEGEE, Ala.—Dr. Luther Foster, president of Tuskegee Institute, the famous Negro col lege here, edges forward in his chairm and complains: “Of the this year, six out of 10 tried to go into teaching. We’ve got to change the emphasis.”' Dr. Foster's concern seems well founded. In El Paso recent ly, 281 would-be Negro teachers had applied for one jo*b opening. In Waco, 150 Negro teachers vied for a single vacancy. So great is the surplus of Negro teachers that Mey spill over into such prosaic jobs as mail car riers in New York, Washington, Nashville wd St. Louis. In Jack- sonvU^e, eiPght of ten Negro mail cii^fers fiold collie in nimi tea|h teaching. I) HOME RULE THIS YEAR— For the fifth time in the past decade, • a home rule bill for our town cleared the Senate and went on its merry way to the House of Representatives. By all odds, our long-sought right to have a vote of some sort should be forthcoming this year. President Eisenhower is behind it. Sep. Lyndon John son is behind it. Both Republi can and Democratic parties are committed by party platforms to support it. And they say around town that the votes necessary to put through legis lation are there if the bill ever reaches the floor of the House. But the boys in the backroom are taking bets that for the' fifth time in the past decade, home rule for the District of Columbia will be smothered in the House District Cotnmittee. Why? OUT OF THE WHISPERING STAGE — Rep. Joel Broyhill (R-Va.) pulled the skeleton slightly out of the closet in a national sense recently when • in reply to a question on the CBS television program ‘‘Face the Nation"—he predicted that any local government permitted^ nie. ,W>!lui>8toa‘..''''>uld be "lar gely Negro.” Commissioner Robert E. Mc Laughlin, one of these aiqpoint- ed by the President to “goverfa” our town, may have had the Broyhill statement in mind a few days later when he noted that political domination of Washington by ^y!groe8 as a by-product of home rule was a subject which had only recently emerged from the “whispering stage.” He emphatically stated that he himself had no fear of this happening. Negro voters, nation-wide, he said, now divide themselveh “pretty evenly” between the two political parties. There are too many intelligent leaders in the Negro community, the Com missioner emphasized, to “ever stailt a third party here jby which they would take over control.” . Broyhill, on the other hand, had said that he did not think home rule would be good for the city. He doubted the fair ness of permitting a racial group representing only 13% of the country’s population to run it’s Capital City. Sen. Vance • Hartke (D-Ind) took issue with Broyhill on the same television program. He felt that the Nation’s Capital cannot morally use the issue of iac« as a bander to looal s«lf- .gowhuncnt. He -added that tbe jsountry -4s tonitf to Mil tan Ideg—democracy—to s world in which whites are a minority. “If District self-government is approved,” Hartke said and the best qualified man for a local office is a Negro, “he should be elected.” It's a pretty well known fact that Washingtonians have no direct control of their govern ment But it always comes as a surprise for visitors to learn that ihe people of the District had enjoyed self-rule' of one sort or another for mors than 70 years. The eclipse of self-govern ment resulted largely f/3m par tisan conflict between residents and radical Republican major ity in Congress immediately fol lowing the civil war. As a result an act was passed in 1878 which established the government of the District basically as it is today. In Focus "N*wtp*p*r4 *i1* th* most powarful fore* In public •pin ion today bocaus*: "1. Th* n*wspap*r Is th* only modium which talks dlr*ctly to oach r*ad«r in t*rm* of him* s*lf«_l>i*. *v«Uy .and hl«,.«M^ munlty. "2. Th* n*wspap*r Is tkc.anly mMilum which romaks Its product *v*ry day. These figures point up a grow ing problem for the South's Neg ro colleges: They continue to channel students into old grooves —teaching, the ministry, the law and embalming — where in the past Negroes have been able to succeed by giving services to fel low Negroes. They are failing, however, to train .enough stu dents for new job opportunities, in such fields ae engineering, opening up for Negroes in some quantity for the fh-st time. Ironic Stumbling This stumbling by Negro col leges comes ironically in the midst of the school segregation battle. While Negroes are strug gling to improve educational fa cilities at the grade and high- school levels, via the integration route, Negro colleges are missing a big opportunity to move ahead, their critics claim. The impact is not confined to the South. Graduates of Negro schools frequently migrate north ward where demand for engi neers and other technically-train- ed graduates is ,k*en but whtre holders of taaohii^ dagraas ara more deeply involved. Listen to an offlcer at the Mar tin Co. misiile plant at Orlando, Jla.: “We haw no N«gro with 4n eactnaering dagree on the payrallj -if a candidate mat tha Job MutNBMnts, .ha’d ka hir- teardiing far .^tsgimau this VMur, Ka rti n zwGBMntotiivas ■otalkgd tailh liM» Nupo^duatM >t lloward Univenity, la Wash ington, D. C., which has the on ly accredited Negro engineering school in the nation. None of the candidates measured’ up to Mar tin’s requirements, the firm re ports. Training vs. Ability At the Douglas Aircraft Co.' plant at Charlotte, N. C., a com pany spokesman reflecting on skilled openings for Negroes comments: “During the spring and summer around graduation time we might have three or four Negroes a week applying for jobs as electronic technicians, tool RiQciune' operators, * or tool makers. Their experience and training is limited. I'd call it sub par.” Then the spokesman emphasizes: I’m not talking about abilities, but training. If the Neg ro meets the job we hire him. Race is no factor.” Negro coliegs and civic groups candidly admit they’re l>ehind the times. Few are more out spoken than Julius Thomas, di rector of industrial relations the National Urban League, a nation-wide group dedicated to social and economic problems in Negro urban communities. f> Rustling through a file in his New York office, Mr, hTomas brings out these statistics: In the nation's 79 Negro colleges (77 are in the South) 70% of the 72, 000 enrolled students in 19S7-D8 were in training as teachers. “This percentage has gone un changed for 10 years,” says Mr. Thomas, “and it shows a glar ing weakness in Negro educa tion—it’s too lop-sided.” A Steady Ratio Mr. Thomas continues: Of the 26,000 engineers who were grad uated from accredited scMools in the class of ‘59, only 156 were Negroes. “This is about the ratio for the past decade.” Why don't Negro educators steer students away from the over - crowded teaching profes sion into technical fields? They say they run into resistance from both students and parents. Dr. Paul Clifford stocky cigar-puff ing registrar at Atlanta Univer sity, complains:' “We have the facilities to double the enroll ment in our school of business administration tomorrow, but students aren't interested. Yet, the number of requests we get for trained people is ten times the candidates available.” Dr. George Gore, Jr., president of Florida Agricultural & Mech anical University at Tallahassee, Fla., has similar trouble; We have difficulty. on other things besides teaching," says Dr.. Gore of his 2,800 >stu danls. “Thay don’t >mnt to (CONTINUED NEXT WlEK)
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