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—' TK" CAROLINA TIMES ' K- tKVTH UMBRIOtlD'' SAT., AUGUVT ^ Theii Grip Cun Mk; Brwkei Witk Effective Civil Righlit Laws A Tragedy of Errors at A and T College Was then ia»i>e for njtn'cinj; or weipin}' when ihc l>»ard uf tru.>ti'«*s at \iS:T Collt}je renamed Dr. W armoth T. (’iiUli.-. .i.s president of N«nh CariJina's larj^c.st Nejfro educational ii«Mitutk>«i for another year at its rect-nt nieet- mg? This is the fjuestimi that must and will be answered in the oii'iuinn niimtlis that is cer tain to see an explosiim if the jfrotiml-swelling now existinff at A X: T Cotlcj^e continues. In a speech to the t'irccnsbi)ro Rotary Club rec*ntly. Dr. James Daniely, Presidwt of Elon College pointed out that a I’niversity of llichigan study indicates that the best ways to attract good faculty members are: (1) al low faculty members time for research and writing; (2) give thenj higher pay. and (J) offer opportunities for promotion. In a day when emjiha.-iis is on excellence in teachintj:. there could be no other course of action, vliether in a ]irivatc school, or in a statf - supi*orted institution. It is our belief that most institutions of higher learning in North Carolina are striving to achieve this ideal. Evidence and reliable information, how ever, reveal the fact that this is not the case at one of our more jjromiuent institutions of higher learning — .\ & T College in Greens boro. Although none u( the above factors are in evidence at A & T College, our attention here is to be focused on items 2 and 3 above. \ & T College is one of the North Carolina institutions which has ndt yet been approved by th)e Southern .Association of .Secondary Schools and Colleges. One of the reasons for non-accreditation has been the sub-standard salary paid to faculty members, especally pro fessors. To this end a concerted effort was made in the spring to induce the legislature to make the necessary appropriations. Indica tions are that this was done, for, in the words of Kep. George R. Uzzell of Rowan County, “Schools of higher education received adequate appropriations to enable them to retain com petent professors and to meet the require ments necessary to be accredited schools.’’ And now The Tragedy of Errors. A & T College is today, without doubt, a big operation, at least to the tune of $20,000,- 000. Certainly an operation much too large for one man to administer. Yet, for all practical ptirjioses, this is the condition. The amounts of salai\v offered to the faculty at A & T Col lege are l>ased primarily on the decision of the President alone, without the proper con sultation and advice from his Deans and de partment heads. Secondly, the iSr T College Board of Trus tees has establishel a salary schedule as fol lows: Professors: $7,554.00 - $10,.‘>00; Asso ciate Professors: $6,226.00 - $7,.S00.(X)^ As sistant Professors: $5,155 - $6,500, and In structors: $4,280 - j$5.500.00. Yet the Presi dent has the audacity to offer contracts which disregard this schedule altogether. Thirdly, in the distribution of money for salaries, the President apparently has failed to take into consideration such things as length of service, time in grade, professional training, and professional ratings, with more weight ap- parentl)’ being given to across-the-board in creases. Fourthly, the President also appears to have failed to act with dignity, integrity and states manship in the matter, treating it as a highly secret and confidential matter, and refusing to take the facuty into his confidence. Fifthly, there is apparently no objective basis on which the present amounts have been offered, since there appears to be all sorts of unfair discrepancies with the various ranks, particularly in the full professional ranks. Now, when all these things are considered one gets a picture of higher educational ad ministration that is, to say the least, poor, at a time when the most competent leadership available is needed. .And in an institution such as A & T College, where the enrollment ranges from 2,000 to 3.000 there is certainly no room for an incapable administrative head. It is a peculiar kind of logic which reasons that b)' over-rewarding incompetents, misfits, and instructors of lesser statue, training and experience, an educational institution is go ing to achieve accreditation. It is high time that A & T College took her rightful place among the Holier educational institutions in North Carolina. This can be ex pected w'hen, and only when, the powers that be recognize the fact that competent leader ship comes first. SOUTHERN ^f^ESSURE GROUP?" IGNOR/^NCE VITAL INFORMATION -^11 ’ Some Examples of How Knowledge of Technology Can Be Benefical Editor, note: This week. Dean S. C. Smith, of the A and T CoW(|e Technical tastitute, dMCUsses the personal advantage ot a ^wl^ge of technology. The second of « series o;. the importance of technoU.gy in the IWe. of North Carolinians, Dean Smith’:, discussions will be ear- ri«4 regularly. There is a lady who can make minor repairs on her car and is able to detect the trouble on parts that she cannot repair herself. It would be difficult to “put one over on her” about the car. It goes without saying that she has saved many dollars with this kno'vledge. Can you do this? There is a man who, aside from his regular job knows how to^ build, and he built a gara/,'e from scrap brick which he hauled from another city, and saved himself over $2,000. Could you have done this? There is a lady who has learn ed short cut* to painting and decorating. She painted her house and made her dvapes. The total project cost no more than $80.00. Wouldn’t you like to have done that? There is a boy who hat learned enough about photography to go PART II into business. Imagine having your own business or Being a photographer for a paper, maga zine, or researcji firm. Photogra phy for example, is useful in any field. The uses for trades is endles* and employers are seeking' peo- pl(( who know how to do these things, not speculators. One of North Carolina’s main industries is turni‘ure. Beautiful furniture from our State is sent to major stores all over the nation. Up holstery is also a phase of furni ture. In many cities, communi ties would welcome a neighbor hood shoe repair shop. (Knowledge of these thlhos It M close at yoor telephone. Write or call Dean S. C. Smith, Technical Institute, A. & T. Collcfe, Greensboro. N. C.. tel- •hone BRoadway 3-1773, Ixt. 74.) WATCH ON THE POTOMAC 3y ROBERT SPIVACK Africans Won't Take U. S. Policy Based on What Europeans Want Too Many Negro Tochers Editors note: This is the concluding portion of an article reprinted in two installments from the Wall Street Journal. Because of the im portance of the subject under discussion, the TIMES invites readers comments and will publish articles on the same subject with different points of view. ^ A Possible New Avenue of Employment We hava rioted with u degree of interest the recent aj^icle appearing in the Durham Morning Herald by Suzanne Jones, relative to the shgrtage of secretaries and clerical work ers in Durham. Whether the writer was re ferring only to the shortage that exists with in the white race or not. we feel that there is a great possibility of such jobs becoming available to competent Negro secretaries, -1 - -t-- V.1C1 Kv' emphasize the word competent, however, be cause it is within this area that the break through is going to take place if anid when it does come. Our greatest fear is not that the opportuni ty will eventually come but that the type of training now bejng received in mgny of our so-called business schools and colleges is just not up to standard, or should we say the type of product that most of them are turning out is not up to standard. Our impression is that the majority of these sdhools are more in- • t«re«ted in jgttting Jheir ftands On the iStuf ; itenographer. In far too many instances the graduates ot, Neg^TQ business schools and colleges lack the basic or elementar^ traifring in grammar, spelling and other important subjects. That these schools will issue ar diploma Or certificate to such persons is an indication that there is something decidedly rotten with their method of training, guidance or integrity. What we would like to see is more com petent secretaries, stenographers and clerks ■oiiT'schooTsr^Slicli pei^sons ought to be familiar, not only w'ith the funda mentals of grammar but they ought to have at le^st passing familiarity with w'ords that are now' in common use in science, business and other fields of endeavor. Quite frequently much of this can be remedied by intensive reading of good newspapers, magazines and other literature beyond that which is required in the schools attended. In any event, the increasing demand for ef ficiency in the secretarial field is certain to open up a new source of employment if Neg- fo«;s w'ill adequately prepare themselves. Most ,^|ic^%sf^ busfceas men are'not too interested in the race M an individual. What they want is a secretary, clerk or stenographer w'ho has ability and can deliver. THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES —As they say in horse racing, Tom Mboya is a man to watch. At 28, he is a member of the Kenya LegislativeCouncil, sec retary general of the Kenya Federation of Labor and served as chairman of the first All- African People’s Cftnfefence in Accra last December. He is con sidered one of the most brillianl (and certainly one of the most feared by colonialists) of the new crop of young African na tionalists. As such, he made a lot of American sit up in their chairs recently when he bluntly told an audience at Howard Univer sity that the Prime Minister of States request to stop apartheid would simply be “go back hpme and deal with Mississippi.” Unlike many of the touring foreign digitaries who habitually make a stop in this city, Mboya did not pull any punches about the plight of his country, Africa as a whole, or the American foreign policy in that area. Africans are depressed and dis appointed” by a number of United States foreign policy pos itions he told a press conference. Mboya feeli thit Ariierichn leaders must take note of the fact that developments in Africa SPIRITUAL INSIGHT are as significant, or more sign ificant, than developments in Eu rope. He pointedly took note of the fact there are now nine Afri can states in the United Nations and that next year there will be 14. Africans will not be content with an Anierican foreign policy toward Africa based on what London, Paris or Brussels wants, he added. “We believe that Americans generally support freedom for Africans; yet your government does not seem to.” That’s what he told the annua! convention of the Americans for Democratic Action in Washing ton. COMMUNISM IN AFRICA—He told the same audience that he would have liked to avoid any friefitloh ■ of the "Cold War"" aiiiff to turn directly to the “warm heart” of Americans toward Africa, but that he felt that he would have to take up at least one aspect of the East-West struggle. “Frequently I hear African spoksmen accused of using the struggle between the Communist bloc and the West as a means to blackmail the West by threat ening to seek help from the So viet if Western assistance is not forthcoming,” he said. •AccorSii^ ,to Mboya, thi.t ais-^ sumetj both a “political subtlety and a lack of disCtiminat^aA^’. • which most African leaders can rightfully deny. “The cold realities of the sit uation in Africa, however, do not leave the leaders much room to maneuver.” He feels that Africans need help desperately to fight disease, poverty and ignorance and to bring to the average man the minimum decencies of life which the people in the West take for' granted. “They do not want theo ries or excuses; they want re sults,” he told the ADA. support of six well-defined issues Africa looks to America for according to Mboya. They want support in the UN with “target dates” for partial and total independence for trust territories; help for colonial areas Tri "gaming Their Indepen- dence; more help on non-military projects; elimination of apart heid; new and creative measures to bring South West Africa under international control; and sup port for demands at the UN that Spain and Portugal report on their African colonies. The goal of the black African is independence without vi olence. He explained: “Our urgent hope in this struggle is that the United .States will not only understand but help and contribute toward the attainment of our objec tives.” tty REV. HAROLD ROLAND (Continued from Last W««k) Dr. George Gore Jr., president of Florida Agricultural and Me chanical University at Tallahas see, Fla., has similar trouble: We have difficulty selling students on other things besides teach- - ing,” says Dr. Gore of. his 2,800 students. “They don’t want to change and neither do their par ents want them to,” Dr. Gore adds that 90% of the 340 members in the class of 18S9 went into teach ing, or tried to. “By comparison,” Dr. Gore says, “We don’t have nearly enough graduates in nursing or pharmacy.” But not all the blame falls on the students. The colleges gener ally lack placement services. “We have no placement officer, and so some of these offers don’t get proper attention. Somebody loses out.” Many Negro colleges delegate placement to already overworked teachers. At Tuskegee. Dr. Fos- tff of JUXULf the have to make the Important con tacts with employers.” Also at work prepetuating cer tain deficiencies in Negro col leges: Southern Negro colleges created under land-grant char ters from the states arc oblidged by law in many cases to empha- »iae such trada-Khool courses as plastering and dress tailoring rather than advanced intellectual subjects. “Programs in these bas ic skills should be tapered off as we^|y to spMk apMBfetest ii) „ >tft^} jf:ifnce4,”j j>{M iWetrd r technical training institute. “We college administrator. “But'these had four graduates >^this-^.y^V’-. basic courses are kept on at full Next fall we expect about 26 strength in too many cases, bit- students to enroll." ing into budgets and channeUng interests into traditional grooves,” he adds. Students sometimes complain about the lack of guidance they get from college officials. Listen to Miss Gene Hopkins, a 1959 graduate of Florida A. St M., one of some 500 applicante jockeying for the 40 Negro class room opening in Jacksonville: “If I had guidance when a fresh man, I’d probably have studied something else.” Some Negfo Universities, belatedly aware they are behind times, are busy these days remolding curricula, expanding staffs in science de partments and upgrading physi cal plants. Negro colleges and Industry are beginning to get together to improve training. Fifteen Ne groes from the Lockheed plant at Marietta, Ga., completed courses recently in I. B. M. accounting at Atlanta University, for ex ample. And within the last few.»fieks, Florida A&M asked Martin Co. officials for advice in curri culum changes in the unit^- sity’s two-year, technician’s train*^, ing course. This will train Ne groes in sub-professional techn ology, and the graduates, if qualified, could be hired on the Martin production line, in labor atories or as draftsmen. “We started training in basic electronics last year — the sami^* time we dropped clothes tailor ing says Dean Maxwell Thomas, of Florida A. & M.’s vocational J Bessie Alberta Mnson Whitted Once in a generation there flits across the stage in the drama of human life one who playf »uch an important part in shaping the live# and destiny of mankind that his or her exit prompts more than the customary note that attends the demise of a majority of us human beings. So it was with Bessie Alberta Johnson WMitted, whose “going home” on August 1 saddened the hearts of all of Dur ham. W* have said in these columns before that one ought to live so in a community that h!s or her funeral will not have to be held on Sunday to get some pallbearers. "Bess” PebH*ed Satorday at Duriiam, N. C. by United Publidters, lac. t L. E. AUSTIN, Presklent AUEBT E. HAET, AssisUnt to the Publiabw M. E. JOHNSON, CMitroUer PMadpid Offiee loeated at 43S E. Pettigrew St Durham, North Carolina btaMd M iMond ehuN matter at tba Psit Ottiet at Umkm, North Canrtina, under tke Act ^ li^Kh S, 1878. MCSBPiWN RA1X8: ««.M fBB YKAE MlfMT, Whitted lived that W'ay as was attested to by the people from all walks of life who took time out on Monday morning to pay a final tribi)te to this good woman who had done w'hat' she could to enrich and ennoble the lives of so many of her fellow human beings. W'hen “Bess” Whitted first saw' tjie light of day is Charlotte, the Negro had been out of bondage only about a quarter of a century. What schools that were available for her Avere few and of less than mediocre quality, except those established and maintained by northern missionaries. It was one of these that "Bess” attended and graduated—Barber Scotia Semi nary at Concord—now' Barber Scotia College. In spite of it all she rose from humSle parent age and obscure circumstances to one of the highest and most responsible positions attain ed by a Negro business W'oman in America, that of assistant treasurer and cashier of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, the world's largest Negro business. Her full life touched and influenced every phase of endeavor among her people, includ ing the young and the old. Let it be truthfully said in her passing that the race, the commun ity and the nation have sustained a distinct loss, one that cannot be filled by thogy w^sc^ are not truthfully dedicated to the bet terment of mankind. Joy is Main Theme of Christian Experience, Known to All of God "Porgy” Seen Race's Triumph "And the dlteipltt wMro fill ed with joy . . .” Acts:52 Joy, spiritually, is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Ji^ is a domi nant mark, therefore, of the soul that i3 born of the spirit of God. It is a fruit of the spirit’s work in the redeemed sovjf.. Christian joy, in its very nature, persists through all of the changing cir cumstances of this Ufe. Christian joy is matchless, incomparable, and burns with a brightness and radiance amid the ordeals, trials and difficulties of this life. We see Christian joy in its dazzling brilliance as the Epistle to the Phillipians is writtegy a Christ ian from a Roman pMrin. Joy is a mark ^ the noble company of darias'. i^ls who have walked in thi^ ldatsteps of Christ, the Master’;%i« joy has sustained noble siwl'S' in the great hours of trial. This joy ^^aye an ang^ic Ijowtne^ ,tQ, the countmanra a|(9fephen as he died the death of a martyr without th« gatM ^ Jeruulia. This joy illumined Bedford’s jail for John Bunyan. This joy suetaimejil the great Chri3|an| who died in the Boxer Rebellion in China. It keeps the Christian now; and theq there is the hope of the final fulfillment with all of its rich, dazzling splendor. Christian joy gives light for^ the dark, trying scene of this life. In Christ we have this joy and it keeps us moving maid the dark scenes we must face. It gives a spiritual anchorage for the soul in the d^rk hours of testing. Joy keeps us steady . . . Joy is an assurance against the despair and discouragement. This joy comes from Christ who Is the light of the world. It makes us constant, dependable . . And the disciples were filled with joy.” The light of joy in their souls kept them and led them through the dark ordeals ioKr~ vjpyvuttiOD;' ™ ChriatlaB Jogr kaapi a* moving toward the goal dewita tba tribulations we may Encounter. We need this inner spiritual power as we move against the hostility of powerful forces. Early Christians meet hostility with joy in their souls. Now, we, too, must encounter hostile forces. In Christ, we, too, have the blessed gift of joy. And, thank God, we, too, are fully prepared to meet and overcome hostile forces when the spirit sheds abroad joy in our souls. The spirit of God with its gift ot joy in our souls will pre pare us to become the matters of all hundering circumstances as we move towards our God-ap- pointed aims and goals for the kingdom of God. Finally, the Christian has the hope of ^sharing in the perfection, of joy one day as we shall hava roltodOE jWQun^ dazzling thronie of God. Here it’i partial—there It will ba aam» pleta. “There is^nly one thing more beautiful in the Samuel Gcridwyn production of ‘Porgy and Bess' than the Gerswin music; and that is the Negro race. Although we cannot claim tO' have seen all of the great motion pictures, we suppose we have seen most of the great onc3; and we Would say that this is the greatest , . . more beautiful than “Wuthering Heights,” more mov ing than '‘Grapes of Wrath,” more absorbing than “Gone with the Wind,” more stimulating than “Dead End,” more eloquent than “Dodsworth,” or “Stella Dallas,” or “The Little Foxes.” This picture has not one dull, even unexciting moment, not one in which the audieKe is not on tha ‘qui vive! not one in which you are not absorbed, enthrall ed, moved t» joy or tears. And without a doubt, the underlying reason why, . . .its great music notwithstanding, is that a whole race id starred therin, a whole way of life vindicated as full of human values, like love dignity, and work and struggle against the elements, and compassion, and human halpfnlnest, and jOy, Tbt itax of "Pocgy and Bail” is tha saga of tha lurvival of the Negro race on thousands of cat fish Rows” for a hundred years. It is the strength of the Negro . . . .the vitality of the Negro. . . the compassion of the Negro . . . the song of the Negro .... the realism of the Negro, and the lovingness of the Negro. It is all there in the movie, which is, in itself, a miracle. This reporter has never been so proud of being a Negro, so thoroughly pleased .at a present ation cf the Negro race. . . . has never felt so secure from the in dignity of racial stereotype as when the lights came'up and we moved, trancelike from the Car- thay Circle theatre after Man- day’s press preview, * Although we opposed it, and were so brash as to suggest that Mr. Goldwyn put “Porgy and Bess” in a bottle and throw it out to sea, v/e say uncategori- cally now that it would have been a great tragedy had Sam Gold wyn not made “Porgy and Bets” into a film. It asserts powerfully the dig- ,nity of the Negro race, its beau ty, its unstrident, unboastfal vi tality, the full dimensions of itj ALMCNA LOMAX Lot Ansalet Trlbuna
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