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—THE CABOUNA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY >. 1«7 2A The Power of the Press Those who have sneered again and again at this newspaper's refusal, for nearly a half century, to bow before the altar of the financially strong, with the hope of someday being able to show a profit, even at the cost of its own soul, will need to read Drew Pearson's Merry-Go-Round in last Tuesday's Durham Sun about what it had to say of the folding up of a 142- year-old newspaper, the Boston Trav eler of Boston, Mass. In quoting one of the nation's fore most broadcasters, Edward P. Mor gan, the Merry-Go-Round had the following to say in part: "Instead of trying to solve our problems we organize hate groups to blame the other fellow. Or we flee to the beaches of frantic leis ure only to be sunburned by the guilt of our wanton negligence. There is no miracle drug or magic ointment to cure or quiet this situ ation. But there is an instrument The Allen University Fiasco Just how much longer respectable ministers and laymen of the A.M.E. Church will tolerate the Allen Uni versity fiasco in Columbia, South Carolina remains yet to be seen. Frankly, it is our feeling that if Jesus were named president of Al len it would be impossible for Him to remain at the head of the school under the present situation created by the ugodly bunch of tyrants now in control of its affairs. The recent ousting of Dr. B. J. Glover as president of Allen, by the Trustee Board, is just another comi cal link in a chain of "Amos and Andy" events that have been the fate of Allen over the past 15 years or more. Included in the number of men who have been ousted or re signed the presidency of Allen, be cause of the intolerable situation brought about by the operation of its Trustee Board, is Dr. Howard Wright, former N. C. College faculty member. Dr. Wright quit the school under circumstances similar to those surrounding the ousting of Dr. Glov er. We are convinced that at the bot tom of the Allen fiasco is the jeal ousy, ignorance, envy, littleness and The Supreme Court Has Helped Again The Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare has recently laid down guidelines to speed up racial desegregation of the schools, accord ing to the Supreme Court's decision fourteen years ago that segregation in education is unconstitutional. They are armed with a provision, which was won by the political muscle of the NAACP and other liberals, that Federal funds can be withheld from school districts which do not deseg regate. Much of the white South has tried to avoid school desegregation by the miscalled "Freedom of Choice" plans, which permit Negro parents to choose whether or not to send their children to previously all-white schools. White southerners have Negro Mythical Universities In bestowing the status of regional university on A. & T. College in Greensboro last week, without pro viding ample funds for university operation, the 1967 General Assem bly of North Carolina has simply added another black chapter in Ne gro education to those already writ ten by its predecessors during the entire period of more than a hundred years that slavery has been abolished in this country. In bestowing the phoney regional university status on A. & T. College members of the General Assembly have probably been able to appease their guilty consciences for the dirty, raw deal they handed all five of the predominantly Negro institutions of higher learning during the 1967 session of the Legislature of this state. It is, therefore, our feeling that men of such low estate are more in need of sympathy than condemna tion. In the wearing of the university title, A. & T. can now take its stand along side the several other pre dominantly Negro institutions of Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida that have paraded around for a long number of years with the title of university hang ing onto their names. They have of devastating effectiveness which we have only superficially, often hypocritically, employed. It is called the power of the press. "Let's face it. We in the trade use this power more frequently to fix a traffic ticket or fet a ticket to a ball game than to keep the doors of an open society open and swinging, by encouraging honest controversy or crusading for truth and justice. There is enough wrong in the republic to merit a full-scale expose daily, if not every hour on the hour . . . "In our obedience before the altar of profit and free enterprise we have let the lust for material things get the better of us. Noth ing is so important as people. But instead of the sacred dignity of the individual human being, too many of us worship dividends and private property more. downright hellishness that exist within the ranks of the members of the trustees. We are, therefore, not afraid to wager that thorough in vestigation of the Allen University Trustee Board will reveal that, for the most part, it is composed of weaklings possessed with a rule or ruin attitude in conducting the af fairs of the school. Our observation of a majority of the A. M. E. Church schools is that the educators on the faculties ara seldom given an opportunity to di rect their operation. On the contrary the affairs of the colleges are most always left up to or taken over by a Board, composed for the most part of ministers, who insist on running an educational institution in the same manner as they run a church. As a result there is most always a clash of the cloth and classroom that usually ends in disaster. Unless some way can be found to keep the ministers, now running Allen, in their pulpits, instead of continuously sticking their noses in the field of education the turmoil and strife at the school will continue to be a running festered sore in the af fairs of the A. M. E. Church. economic power, so they can and sometimes do use that power to dis charge Negro parents, or throw them off the land if they are tenants, when they make such a choice. Only a few dare brave such economic reprisals, so the children of those few are lone ly and are often harassed when they go to the better white schools. The Supreme Court has now de cided that if the "Freedom of Choice" plans do not achieve substantia) school integration the school dis tricts must carry out H.E.W.'s guide lines by other methods. So there is now a chance for further real ad vance in carrying out the Supreme Court's decision, won by attorneys for the NAACP, against school seg regation along racial lines. been able to get away with the cus tom, in the face of the fact that there is in reality only one predomi nantly Negro educational institution in the entire United States, Howard University in Washington, D. C., that comes within the bounds of such status. Unless Negro citizens of North Carolina bestir themselves, during the two years interim of the General Assembly, and prepare for an all out attack on the situation at the bal lot box and in the federal courts the future for the five predominantly Negro state colleges is anybody's guess. In short, we are of the opin ion that the raw deal handed A. & T., or worse, is the fate that awaits all four of the other predominantly Negro state colleges of North Caro lina. Watermarked paper has become a status symbol. The earliest known watermark ap peared in an Italian paper made in Bologna in 1282, and was in the form of a cross: a cross with circles at the points and in the center. At that time only skilled artisans were allowed to stamp their work in any identifying way. Papermakers took as their trademark the watermark. Whether the watermark had any other purpose beyond identifying the mill at which thp paper was made is not known, but there is good reason to think that it also served to indicate the size and quality of paper, for many printers' apprentices in those days could neither read nor write; As an example, a 12" sheet had the water mark of a fool's head in cap and bells. Gradually, paper of this size came to be known as foolscap. _ It's Time To Speak Up : '~ ■ ; - :; : \ '%■ SPIRITUAL INSIGHT Man is All Too Easily Intoxicated With Undue Self-importance "Think yo sir way *o a sober estimate" —Rom. 12:4 Man, by natural inclination, is all too easily intoxicated by an undue sense of self-impor tance. Thus we are called to think ourselves through to a sober estimate of Number One self. It is most difficult to keep self in the proper perspective. We must strive diligently to keep self in the right focus. Be fore we know it self has been excessively inflated. And this inflation and intoxication with self can so easily elevate us to a high horse of some prideful position. And this unholy at titude isolates us from our fellows and mars our commu nion with God. Thus we can see the great importance spirit ually of having a sober esti mate of self and its importance. The intoxication of self is a hindrance to the highest spirit ual maturity and development of man. It stymies human spirit ual growth. It is a distinct block to man's spiritual stat ure. The truly great spiritual -Convention (Continued from front page) College, on Wednesday, August Outstanding national leaders will speak at city-wide mass rallies Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, and con duct day-time workshops on economic, poitical, social, civil rights, governmental and inter national issues. Negro artists, entertainers and speakers will appear at the Wednesday evening rally In a special program on tage and culture. Fifteen hundred persons are expected to attend the conven tion, including "grass roots" citizens, civil rights field or ganizers, public figures, SCL£ officers and members of the board of directors, and mem bers of SCLC affiliate chap ters. In addition to Poitier, special guest speakers will Include Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, who has become one of the most respected Negro spokesmen in the halls of gov ernment; Louis Martin and Clarence Townes, the highest ranking Negroes in the Demo cratic and Republican National Committees, respectively; Sen ator Barbara Jordan, the first Negro since Reconstruction to be elected to the Texas State Senate; William Pepper, repre ment in New York; Dr. Benja min Spock, the world-renowned physician and leader in the cause of peace and freedom; and Dr Robert Theobald, the economist who has written ex tensively on the need for a guaranteed income to abolish poverty. -Mrs. Cole (Continued from front page) lations of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany as assistant director of publicity. She was also a mem- giants must escape the snares of undue preoccupation with self. It is for this reason that Jesus calls for self-denial. For without self-denial man will fall short of his true spiritual grandeur. With the weights of self-intoxication man is unable to rise too high. So the word rightly calls on us to "Think your way to a sober estimate" of self. Self is the great enemy of man's true spiritual aspira tions. One we begin to think that we are the center of the uni verse life gets out of fo?us. With our frailties we can nev er'qualify to .stand at the, cen ter of the universe. In the vastness of the universe we are so infinitesimal an dinconse quential. How then can we get such a bloated concept of our own importance. Yet man re peats in every age the old fol ly of self-exaltation. And then we become the prisoners of our own sense of undue impor tance. It causes us to overleap our limitations. It blinds us to the stark realities of this life. ber of the National Delta Sig ma Theta Sorority and the YWCA. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are two sisters, Mrs. Anna Young, Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Ethel Knox, Hanover, Va.; four brothers, Butler, Samuel and Walter Williamson of Nor folk and G. Norwood William son of New York, N. Y., and a large number of other rela tive!. Interment was at Beechwood Cemetery. -NMA (Continued from front page) a privilege for those who cfen afford to pay the price." Dr. Holloman and his col leagues said that, "health care is a human right." "It is obvi ous," they said, "that the coat of medical care will continue to spiral until the present cha os in delivery of health care is replaced by a rational system." They said that they felt "the National Conference on Medi cal Costs has evaded this cru cial conclusion because it would require confrontation with the AMA, many voluntary hospitals, the drug industry and other vested interests in the health fields." -Biaelow (Continued from front page) rendered by the Senior Choir of the church. Rev. Bigelow is a native of Greensboro where he attended the public schools. He was or dained July 25, 1956, follow ing which he was called to the pastorate of the New Hope Baptist Church in Chatham County. After serving the New Hope Church for several years Rev. Bigelow was called to the pas torate of the First Baptist Church of Apex. He was called to his present pastorate at St. Paul June 21, By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Look what it did to Napoleon, Mussilino and Hitler. They all, intoxicated with a sense of self importance, forgot their limita tions and ended in despair and desolation. We are reminded, then, to be aware of the intoxication of a sense of self-importance Take a sober look at the stubborn fact of man and his existence. What is man? Man is made in God's image and just a little lower than the angelic beings; and, yet just one fleeting breath from death and his eter nal destiny. Truly we need a sober estimate of ourselves. That we may -not drink the heady wine of self-importance. This thing fascinates and causes man to lose sight of his true place in God's creation. What is his chief aim? It is to glorify God and lovingly serve his fellcwman. These times, in human his tory, especially demand that we take this Biblical admoni tion seriously and take a sober look at self and its place in the Divine scheme of things. 1965 where in 19 months a new edifice was erected under his leadership. The membership of St. Paul has increased over 360. Rev. Bigelow is married to the former Miss Lillian I. Hughes of Greensboro and is the father of three children, Ronnie, Patricia and Stephen. -Program (Continued from front page) address. Delegates will be wel comed by John A. Volpe, Gov ernor of Massachusetts and John F. Collins, Mayor of Bos ton. Kenneth I. Guscott, presi dent of the Boston Branch, will preside at the meeting which will be followed by a reception for delegates in the Prudential Plaza adjoining the headquar ters hotel. On Tuesday night, Sen. Ed ward W. Brooke of Massachu setts, will be awarded the As sociation's 52nd Spingarn Med al. The presentation will be made by the new Senator's sen ior colleague, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The medal is award ed annually to the "man or woman of African descent and American citizenship, who has made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any honorable field of endeav or." Sen. Brooke is the first Negro ever to win popular elec tion to the U. S. Senate. -Execution (Continued from front page) named. LDF attorneys point out that two petitioners (Saterfield and Anderson) are Negro, and one (Hill) is Caucasian. The attorneys explained that they have filed an action which could affect all death row pris oners but will assure Negro prisoners, who show* up on death row in disproportionate numbers, of adequate constitu tional safeguards. thfCaroUTUftuaefl Published every Saturday at Durham, H C. by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher SAMUEL L. RRIGCS Managing Editor J. ELWOOD CARTER Advertising Manager Bacond Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $9.00 per year plus (15c tax in N. C.) anywhere in the U.S., and Canada and to servicemen Over seas; Foreign, $7.80 per year, Single copy 20c. PRINCIPAL OFFICE LOCATED AT 436 E. PITTIOMW STRUT, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 27702 To Be Equal By WHITNEX M. YOUNG JB. Wonderful Youngsters THFRE WAS A time when most Americans quit ichooi early to help support their families, but now most Americans complete high school and many go on to college. Those who leave school before they finish are called dropouts. I don't like the word. It gives a wrong picture of what actually happens to these kids. 1 d rather call them "pushouts," because they leave school not because of any great defect in themselves, but because the educational system just doesn't make the effort needed to motivate them and teach them. • Negro youngsters attending ghetto schools learn at a very early age that society slacks the 'cards against them and they are amart enough to observe that the Negro high achool I graduate has the same unemployment rate as the "dropout." This is a serious problem, because only by continuing their education can they hope to get 09. a decent job and escape the poverty they have known all their lives. But most educational sys terns are by their bureaucratic natures, unrespon sive to the needs of (he disadvantaged. They can handle the average student pretty well, but they just can't cope with the special attention needed BBk by disadvantaged youngsters raised In a poverty- MR. YOUNG stricken racial ghetto. Model For Every Ghetto The New York Urban League has a successful program which should serve as a model for every ghetto in the country. The League has set up storefront schools, called street academies, which enroll teenagers who have been "pushed-out" of the regular school system. League staffers give the students remedial work, discuss their prob lems with them, and motivate them to go to college. For those kids who are homeless, the League has rented apartments in the neighbor hood, and they serve as "dormitories" and places where students can study. This personalized attention has paid off. Over thirty of these kids, labelled "unteachable" or "disciplinary problems" by the school system, have gone to college. Over 60 others were placed in prep schools and will eventually attend college. The League has plans to operate its own prep school in central Harlem, an area of 300,000 people which doesn't even have its own high school. That way graduates of the street academiea won't have to depend on scholarships to out-of-town prep schools. Mr. Eugene Callender, the League's executive director, says: "Our premise is that 70 percent of the teenagers in deprived areai have Ihe capacity to attend junior college or college." Thanks to discrimination, poverty, and the failure of the educational system, they don't. v Potential Of Ghetto Youths How long is America prepared to waste the lives of its young people in this way? The potential of youths in the ghetto is great; we need to direct it and develop it. The street academies point the way to solving the pioblem. Their teachers, Negroes and whites, have built a rapport with the students unsurpassed in other schools, because they really care, so • The youngsters"wh'o are part of this program are real Heroes, the kind you don't often read about in newspapers which pay more attention to the kid who throws a rock in a riot than to the kid who burns the midnight oil studying to get ahead. One of the students at the academy spoke at a meeting honoring Frederick Douglass. He said: "Frederick Douglass stressed education, but he also stressed self-knowledge. He reminds us that the man who knows himself is the man who can remove any obstacle." These young people are removing the obstacles placed in their way by a hostile society which would rather condemn than help disadvantaged people. It takes real guts to go back to school and start again, more guts than it takes to stand on a street corner and curse fate. My hat is off to these proud, wonderful youngsters. Do's And Dorits A Cheerful Start Can Make It A Pleasant Day . . . Christ Called TOD Man In All History . NORFOLK The pa*tor of Bank Street Baptist Church described the power and influence tst v the life of Christ In a «?Win Sunday on "One Solitary Life." The action filed in Federal District Court lists the three petitioners, Hill, Saterfield, and Anderson, and "all other simi larly situated petitioners." Dr. J. H. Henderson point ed out what the urbanization of society is dning to the In dividual. "The individual la becoming lesa and leas" and "is lost and lonely In the midst of millions," ha aaid- It asks the court to enjoin San Quentin'g warden. Louis E. Nelson, rrom all execution* until a full hearing can be held on the petitioners' claims.
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