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THE CAROLINA TIMES Met THE TRUTH UNBRIDLEir SAT^ MAY 21, 1M0 THE HATE GROUP AND SEGREGATIONIST CONCEPT OF FR;ltbOlto A College President Bank for North Carolina It is only natural that M Coni^nc^inrnt time one’s thoughts wouW turn to graduates, CoranirncemCDt jpeakrrs. colkge presidents and th« «tatc of atlairs as they exist today in the higher institutions of learning in North Carolina well a* the high schools. Viewing the entire «ittiation from where we stand, on the |uestioit of qualified persons who aie Kvailaltle to fill the vacancies that are most certain to arifce within the next few year.s in two of our state schof*ls, one i> ctmipelled to admit tliat it is more tlian (le^|K'rate. If sclioiastic preparation or acliievi-inent were the only requirement, there are a dozen or more men »m the faculties')tsi)ui>various state colleges that could fill the bill. However, when one sits down to consider that a success ful college president needs to posses.s adminis trative ability, as well as academic degrees, the field of qualified material quickly narrows doxvn to a *ero point. In fact three of the most successful college presidents we know of, one white and the other two Negroes, possess ed no earned doctorate degrees from a scho lastic standpoint. All of these men, however, knew how to get things done. We have said in these columns before that it is stupid to think that it is possible to sud denly snatch a college instructor from behind a classroom desk and drop a multi-million dollar educational institution on his siioulders and expect him to run it with the ease of an ex perienced administrator. This has been the usual procedure in selecting presidents of Ne- git) state colleges in North Carolina. The practice has reaped a harvest of faculty strife and bickering, student ui)heavals. strikes and rebellions. In fact, there is one state college in Xorth Carolina today that is a veritable mad house because of the mismanagement and lack of experience in dealing with people that is daj’ after day exhibited by its president. In stead of the president being master of the situation in which he finds himself, the tail is now waggiiig the dog with both fax:ulty and students hoping and praying that the school can make it to commencement wUhout an ex- (ilosioti. Probably trustee boards of ,ouf educational institutions should learn a lesson fi4»«i mem- l>ers of the medical prdfebsijcm ^\ly» prejiare for emergencies bcftjrehaud- by -siting up blofid banks, eye banks, etc. *0 that when such k(sses occur to t>ne of their patients they do not have to run helter-ske-’ter or guess about wiiere they can secure replacements. Because we liHve observed over the years the tremen dous haxard an educational institution exper iences when its trustees are called upon to find a president to fill a vacaricy that has arisen becatise of death or retirement, we propose a college president bank into which the names of capable and available |>crson$ mar be placed. Such i>ersons would naturally be those who have had administrative experience and ability or who have served an internship of two, three or four j’ears uiider an active college president with such internship being credited toward a certificate or degree in college administration. We have also said in these columns that we have observed that there are three* kinds of college presidents. There is the kind whose achievements confer prestige to a college when he is named its president; there is the kind upon whom the college confers prestige when its trustees name him as its president; and lastly, there is the kind who takes from a col lege what little prestige it has managed to ac quire from previous administrations w’hen he is named its president. In far too many instances the last type has been the kind that has been named to the presidency of Negro colleges in North Caro lina. If the college president bank plan could be followed, we believe it would lessen to a great degree the placing at the head of our educational institutions in this state so many square pegs in round holes. From all indications Negro physicians and patients arc on the outside looking in qn the question of equal hospital facilities in North CarpUi^a. The results of our'hivestig^tions lu te th^ practices and policies of the Wesley Long Community Hospial, the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital of Qreensboro and the Alamance County Hospital of Burlington re veal that all three have been careful to keep the letter of the law. When it comes to the mo' ral issues involved in the cases we will be com- ‘ pci led to Itave thOsCIo our readers to decide. About six months ago several members of the Old North State Medical Society placed in to our hands certain information regatding discriminatory practices of the three hospitals mentioned abovp which apeared to be in con flict with the t«^ms providing aid for hospitals ,under the Hill-Burton. .^ct. In our effort to aerve our readers and the race and to get at the bottom of the entire matter, we dispatched a telegram to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health. Education and Welfare, at Washington, setting forth the complaints and asking for a clarification of the department's stand op the matter. The reply to our telegram is as follows: Tkia i» in r«|ily to jrour teletram of A^rU S, 19M, roqueating: confirantioii of Barton jallocationa. to the Wealojr Long Conmranity Hospital and the Moaoa H. Came lAcBMrial Hospital, both located in Ciri—horo, North Carolina Am appliixtion for $1,617,IM of HiH- Barton funda, (Title VI of the PoUic Hanitb Service Act), to asaiat in con* atWMliin m new 111 bed hoapitd to riplari *fce old Wosfoy Long Conununtty Hnipital WMjvproirod in December 19SI. Hill-BaM- ton aid in the amount of $807,fM waa ap proved in Docembar ltS9 to asaiat in con- alwi liag an addBtion to the Moaes H. Caao Measoiiai Hospital. The Act and PoUic Healtfa Service Re- eoletiem (Sactians fZ2 (f) and S3.112 i«- •pMlkalr) provide Ibot tke SUte nfaiiaii cverr Satnrday at vailiam, M. iX hf IhiMed Pulillriiers, Ine, L. B. AUSTIN, PttbUsher IL E. iOHNSON, Controller Qflce located at 436 B. Pettigrew It. Tafaphsiisi: Mtnir 1-7613 Nor^Ji Carolina la« Matter at iiie Fact Oflaa Jbia OnraUwi. twdtr % Act ifaRfe a. im. applicants that the facilitiii»^i» iMr built with HiU-Burton aid will beiAvaibtble to all patients residing in the area withont I (Ujpcriarfi^tioii o)9L Mcoib^^ ,$^aed, oJor. However, in any where separate hospitals or medicld‘‘Ai^iUtiea are provided for separate populatHp #f^ps, the State ageney may, in aiMori^j^ce with t^e Act and Regulations, waive thii re- - quired assurai^c from ' li^j^Kcant if the approved Skate Plan othe^rwise makes Tquitabte prbvisidn oh fhe*ltt^l>f for facilities and services of like |uality for each sudb populatioti gri^ in the *rea ,1; ^ The North Carolina Sta^ PIra has pro grammed for separate population groups in the Greensboro area and has been ap prove by the Public Health Service as making such equitable provision. Accord ingly, assurances that the facilities of the Wesley Long and Moses H. Cone Hospi tals would be nvaflaUe to aU patients in the area without discrimination on ac count of race creed, or cdor were Hot re- quircd. Planning for the hospital and medical faciUlies need of the various areas of the State is the responsibility of the State ad- miniatering agency. In yonr State this ««eMy w t^ North Carolina M^ical Care Conunission, Raleigh, under the di rection of Mr. William F. Henderson, iSk- ecHtive Secretary. The ncm-discriminMion and separate . bat equal provisions of the Act apply only to t!ie admission of patients and & not ex tend to the staffing practices'of tiie facili- , ties. A! the time of enactm^ of tys legislation, an amendment wKfdi would have authorised the Surgeon General to prescribe rcToiations to assure that ho^ti- tals would be available to all Reensed prac titioners in the comiiwMiHy was consider ed by the Congress. However, the amend ment waa defeated. PoKcies pertaining to the staffing of hoepitals are matters of hospital administration and as such are the responslMity of the governing au thorities of the hospital, subject of coarse, to State and local requirements. In fact. Section 35 of the Hfll-Burton legislation spseifies that no Federal officer or em ployee shall imve tiie rigiit to exertise any supervision or eentroi over the administra tion, personnel, mmntenanoe or qperation nf-M hespital or dCher medical facility re> f«idt imdar the program. Siacer«l^ Tours, Botha S. Adkins ActJag SMMMrjr The Negroes They Love SPIRITUAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Love of God Works Miraculous Changes in the Lives of Men Bias Practices of Hospitals Receiving Fede^l Aid "A DRAMATIC CHANOl" "Ki took them snd washed their weundi ..." Acts 16:33. The spirit of God works a sud; den, dramatic change for the good. Here we have a phenome nal reversal of events in a tragic situation. The pow9; of Divine love has a way of performing such seemingly impossible mira cles. Love, prayer and spirit of God work a great, glorious trans formation. The love of God changes violent, cruel enemies into loving helpful friends. And we need to «ver Heep 4n min^ this, great revolutionary power of God’s love in- the heart and souls of human beings. What a sudden dramatic change for the good is shown to Paul and Silas, the prisoners. “He took them and washed their wounds ...” The lov^ of God as revealed in Christ .Jesus chang^'. enemies int« friends. With th^, potentHil conflicts and disharmonies of this life we all stand in need of this great, beautiful spiri\ual power. We all may have woi^tf-be ene mies that need an inner transfor mation of the spirit, li^ere is an unkind, unholy attitude that needs changing or spiritual trans formation. Paul and Silas had been the objects of attitudes that resilted in their being beaten, wounded. But in the midst of real and potential violence tney acted lov ingly. They reacted in a spirit of understanding, forgiveness and love. They accepted insults with I a rare charming gnaciousn^s. Their attitudes of love saved, re- 'deemed and made friends oat of t!)eir enemiees. Tbis splrituaf power wprks. It. works wkh a ,kind of scientific ,«nd mathematical exactitude. Here we have a law of the spirit ual realm that cannot be denied. This spiritual law has the test ing of two thousand years in a laboratory of human experience. It worked for Paul and Silas in an aiitlent prison. And this great truth \yiii ^01* It will change you and your ene mies. It has been validated in the life of Christ and the noble com pany. of the Saints of God in Ghiist Jesus. Jesus rested the Coalition Of Southern Democrats, Re^iip ; Repubicans Responsible For Weak Civil Rij The civil rights bill jpassed by Congress and hailed Ijy^^Wesident Eisenhower when he Signed it is the weakest measure-41ut could be called a civil rights bill at all. Its weakness is due to a com bination of reactionary Southern Democrates and reactionary Northern Republicans. In this case the mountain (Congress) has labored and brought forth a mouse •' The first and most serious blow against the bill was struck la^ August when a combination • Republicans and Soutlfein Demo crates in the Judicia]y Commit tee of the House of Representa tives to which the bill was refer-' red, voted to strike out two pro posals strongly desired by the genuine advocates pi £ivil rights. One was for a grant of federal funds to help school districts de segregate. This is important be cause there are some school dis tricts even in the Dep South which want to obey court orders to desegregate. But they face the loss of state funds it they do. Atlanta is a good example of this situation. The Federal funds could have made up the differ ence. ' The secon.l provision which the reactions^ coalithm in the Judi ciary Coinmlttee cut out of the bill would have given statutary authority to the President’s Com mittee for Job Equality under Government Contracts. It should be explained that ever since Pres idents Roosevelt’s Fair Erspioy- ment Practiire’'Commission was first set up, federal contracts have required contractors supflylag material or aracting buiUiogi ot other installations for the Feder al GovernmMt to hire employees without regard to race, creed, or color. This provision has in fact never been enforced by a crack dovm on contractors who disre gard it, as most of them do, un less they are working under state fair epiployment practice laws. 'the do • nothing committee which has charge of enforcing this contract provision is headed by Vice-President Nixon. Juit as the Republican Administration is against “compulsion" in insurance to provide, heeded medical care for the aged, it has been against “compulsion" in enforcing this provision of Federal contracts. Thus far Mr. Nixon has attempted to rely solely on persuasion with comparatively little results The atte.mpt made by liberals supporting a genuine civil rights bill to giv^ Congressional backing for this pravition against' job discrimination in Federal Con tracts would have made a begin ning, which so far has not been made, on a real Federal Pair Em ployment Practice law. But it was voted down in committees. Meanwhile President Eisenhow er has studily opposed any addi tional expenditures for social wel fare pnrposfs. The Republicans have heeded suppon . fl’om the Southern Domocriites to keep Congress from vSing such funds as the liberal DeiqQcrsies from the North and West wanO)d, or to sustain the Presidieilt’s. veto when such funds ynre voted Contrary to his wishes. So they tnided to' the Southern t>ea^rats itepubU- can votes agt|i^t: strdi^ 'provi sions in any.civif Hght^ biiriA re turn for Dambcratic votes ayainrt swiar ex penditures *orio sustain a veto by President‘'tilMahower when such expenditures i^e voted. That explains why Itepublicans joined the §outhem Democrats against suppwt fat the fsfar sm- ployment praelioc prevision of Federal contracts, on the one hand, and it si^laips why many Southern Demo^rata. voted with the RepMlieaas, against the bill to provide Federal funds for chronically distressed areas. Their votes were not enough to prevent passing the bill, but will be enough, at present outlook, to sustain a Presidential veto. editor's Neta; the fellowing is axcarpted from “Eys af tha .fttara," a faatura Vtn«th articia Sp ibe currartt staNi af sout^ rkca rtlatloni by Dan Waksfiald It appeared in tha May 7 issue af THI NATMN. Tha Nagraai Thay Lov« Much is made of the genuiae love that Southern whiles feel iftr the Negroes, and sueh love In deed exists, as long as the Negro stays "In his plaee”-~-whii;h is out in the eotton^iekl, Biindin’'hia business and hammin’ a tune. A recent editoral in the AIjABAMA JOURNAL tells us how warm the feelings are for those Negroes who stick to their cotton pickin': Ona of ih» pleasant i^ms in tha day's naw* was a report mada by the N«gro county agent to tha Montgamary County •aard af Ravanua. . . . Among ■IMsiNc individual raports was Hm fact that Minnie Guica of Mt. Maigt produesd tha first bale of aattoM ia tha county in 1V59 . .. Oatsidars are hard to canvinca that white citiasn* of M4lfitgeiit> ary +aka prid* in ao«h afeMe«i> meti^ by Natfrsas wha comIim:- sutcefiful farming aparattaos and not ISd attray by the vistting agita.Vr* who coma Into tl^a county make trouWa. Farm slaries about our Na> graas sm4i as Hiaaa raparted by tha caMiy aflMit ihow ^ how piaasditl am Hia raalal ralatlahs hare whan ear .natlva are >sft alang liy Hie trawWamakara. Thera, are k)vi»g worda for Mhmie Gnhw. who produced the first bale of cotlon in the coun ty; but stones for Autherine Lucy, who tried to enter Alabama Uni versity. Pespiti the editorals of the AL^AMA JOURNAL, how ever, Autherine Lucy is not go ing back to baling cotton; but it well may be that Minnie GUice’s daughter will try to enter Alaba ma University. That is the awful truth that the whites refuse to face, for it means nothing less than that the paat they are trying to preserve ii already lost. Six Years After the May 17 Ruling case of His whol> s^ritual life and teachings on the ^ power of this great ^piHtual: Idw: The transforming power of Divine Love. 1 ^ Christ works a' gre))t change in the souls of men.- What made this sudden, draiAtic change pos sible? It is the regenerating po^- er of the love of G^ in a sin ful human sotil. The whole spirit and. outlook of thip jailor is ch^ngedj A great spirituid opera- tign of a healing natiii^ tiaii tak- m place whei^ it counts most— ’m Tm 'And the ^SOUlu The L^ve of God has mads the jailor a new man. . . .'jvuly, “If any man Is in Christ Jesus ^e is a new . . . ” Christ m^es the bid new. The jailor, once n part of the' patterp of hatred and injustice, now has .become. a new man through the power of God’s* redeeming love in bis fiotil. ' ^ ' t -w- The power of Divine love moves men from l>eating us to nursing our,wounds iot hraUng . . .. “He took them ^i|hd ^kshid their wounds . . On th^ Si th anniversar^of the hiMorlc i Supreme Court rul ing that ra ally segregated pub lic schools h. ' unconstitutional, only six per ctitt of the Negro children of school age in tha southern and border states has been released from the bondage of segregated eduCVtion. And Jim Crow education con- ti*”ies to be bandage. According 10 tha Southern Education Re porting Service for the school year 1QS6-S7, Mississippi spent 1187.33 per white child in daily attendance but only $10T!34 per Negro child. ’This kind of cheating, aix. years after the Supreme Court ruMng is qrippling the Negro citizen of IMO. The only cure is desegrega tion and that at a much jfaster rate than the creepii^ average of ane percent a year. There aie still 2,000.000 Negro children in segregated schools. The NAACP is arging Negro parents to have their children apply by the thoussitds under the pupil'plai^incnt laws for tFMfeis to schods which aow are unlaw fully labeled “whit*.” Heretofore these laws have'applied only to Negro children, but fedarfl courts have ruled recently ttiat they must be applied to whi^ childr«i as well if they are «fo stand. , In this Presidential election year the political party that swallows the “maderation” W kum of the southern politican ea desegregation may meet ceolnaH among Negro votdrs. One candidate in 1906 came a crapper on this issue over t)ik won|f '“gradulism” and “modera; tioni*^ These .i^tds mean oo^‘ thing in the dictionary, but in the sojuthem political lexicon they mean ^staod^t on the Negro.*’ The I^rii collage student sit- in cMipei|p that has swept tht South andfreceived financial and' roortii-l>afkti(8 from the adult Ht- gro ieonMuntty is a clear sifB that N^ra ettitsns do not tDtanA to st*adpat na aegregstioa. HIAL^H hint; BY DR. iLDBG L. BROWN Chirapractic Phyiielan Rast Can Be Bxhausting In this modern age, with all its (pnveniences, too many people ate, literally, pampering them selves to death. Consider the man who comes home from the office 'dbg tired and aTt dragged out.** Needs a rest. More than likely he needs just the opposite—exer- cise. That may sound incongruous, but it’a not.^ A great deal of fatigue is caused by mental, ra-* ther than physical activity. And fts anxieties and annoyances mul tiply, there is a greater need for c6unterbalacing outlets. That's why thie person who avoids ex ercise in order, to conserve his strength is often deceiving him self. At so^e time or other you’ve certainly heard the complaM,- “I have a headache. I think I’ll lie down and take a nap.” High achool and college athletes, in fact, all students, sometimes dcf- velop headaches during the course of the classroom routine. But the pain often diaappeats shortly after they ge^ out on the practice field and start limhertng up their muscles. • ^ Inactivity frequently pic\ok#s shoulder and lower back pains. Whereas activity stimulates vi tality, alertness, strength, Mi beauty. If you lack energy, but ottiw- wise possess normal health, a g6^ walk each day, combined with 10 minutes af set^ng-up exercitdS, will 90 a-lot further in toning. yoar body than a half-hour during the afternoon hefore din ner. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE -PROTEST There UB be ne successful future without a goal, snd that goal saust be lafty snoagh to fire the imagination aad inspire^ ona to his highest and bast efforts. lETIEI! TO THE EDitOR en^'tn Iwycott the f^m. O'Neal said there ware aniy twa Nagre custamars on tha route. X ’Hie youngster has helped man picket lines protesting segregatiSn at lunch counters in front of Wal green Kress and Wooiworth since April. He admitted that several white persons on the route iden tified him as one of the picketers. A Durham Dairy official ax- plained lata Wadnetday that tha company has little eentroi aver the policy ef hiring halpara len milk dalivary routas. C. F. Watkins, a sales supervisor, pointed out that the operation of milk routes are left largely to the discretion of the salesmen. Ha did add, hawavar, that the campany frowns an tha wsa af yaung beya as hatpar* on the milk routes and that Durham Dairy has regulations against such pracflca. The salesman who fired O’Neal confirmed in a telephone conver* J am an African boy 19 years efid, five feet, six inches tall and wdigh 139 pounds. 1 am seeking pen paU -'in America and wtth whom I ran exclunge sume Afri can Items with ^nertcaa geeds. Alrtcsn items, baautifal akear carvings in sh^ H human be ings and animals* pictaresque wall plaques and crocodiles skin handbags, slii^rs, wallets, purs es and billfolds, pipes, calabashes, types ef sptaal skins, tiger, ae- bm, Makes, Umfim, imtkof* and mookey skins, etc. In return, cl .hing, belts, socks, ties, wallets, e c. I will appr. :iate letters from anyone regan.'ess of age or sex. ! 'ncerely yours, Lasis A. Anihaba 20 Apativa St. UCos, lOitrfa Mtion with the TIMES Wednesdsy that he was forced to Ist 'the boy go. But he said that the,objectlbti did not come from customers on the route but from several rdii- dents who lived ih the «res the route serves. j -STIRS school beard past will ba filled by tha Rev. Jamas Costan, 2l year paster of tha Prasbylarlait Church hare. Rav. Coiten Was datcribed as having bean reared In an Integratad commanHy and as having'been endorsed for the position by tha axeeutive caoi* mittee of the NAACP. It went on to say that the Arm strong brothers, members of a pro minent family had taken the le4d in the approving of Mr. Costen in several secret morning meetitlgs held at the Booker T. Washington high school. Both the Armstrongs and the Rev. Costen denied the statements in the letter and called the Utler “a complete fabrication to a yki- ous smear campaign. -SIT DOWN credited earlier claims by ctty officiab that "a majeritjr af .tha Negro leadership is Mt in ajna- pathy With tie moTeniHC”. T 44
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