ditorial and Opinion
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And Responsibility
)range County and North Carolina last
[ by a decisive margin the issuance by
_.lent of 225 million dollars in bonds for
rural road improvement and school building construction.
It was a great personal victory for Governor Scott, who led
the campaign and demonstrated again his potency as a vote
getter, campaigner and organizer.
In approving the bond issues, the people handed the state
administration the resources and the opportunity for great
accomplishment and with them the greatest responsibility
ever tendered a North Carolina Chief Executive to produce.
It was said that much of the bitterness and opposition in
the bond campaign was a hold-over from the gubernatoria
election fight. Be that as it may, a continuation of the bond
issue fight can hafdly do the state anything but hann. The
same is true of any further widening of the rural-urban split
so evident in the election results. It is time now for the
closest cooperation between all groups to see that the most
good is derived from the vast expenditures approved.
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The newspaper, with its printed word, in the view-bf
Joseph W. Fraser. Vice-Chairman of the Kaiser-Fraser Cor
poration, is still the backbone, not only of automobile adver
tising, but of all products.
While nearly every newspaper man will agree with tne
conclusions voiced by Mr. Fraser, there is no harm, from
the journalistic viewpoint, in passing his words along.
“The printed word has more authenticity than the spoken
word of radio,” declares Mr. Fraser, who, in a brief sen
tence, gives the explanation for the continual growth of ;
newspaper circulation despite radio competition.
The reader of the printed word, whether it appears m
newspapers, magazines, pamphlets or books, understands
very readily that when one puts words in print, there is no
saying, “I didn’t say it.” Consequently, those who write
for the record are more apt to -be careful and exact in their
statements. This, of itself, is worth something to the dis
criminating reader. . .....
Mr. Fraser stated these views at a recent meeting m New
York of Greater Weeklies Associates, a nation-wide news
paper group which includes The News, along with the out
standing weekly papers in all sections of the country. He
was joined in his views by the top figures of other auto
mobile firms, General Motors and Plymouth, and other
large advertisers. “Your newspapers are the backbone of
all advertising, and especially automobile advertising,” he
said, and the other speakers agreed. .
As a member of the Greater Weeklies organization, this
newspaper is expected to carry considerably more national
advertising in the year ahead, for it was evident to our
representatives at the meeting that national advertisers and
their agencies are particularly anxious to place business in
the newspapers which have been able to meet the high
qualifications of Greater Weeklies Associates and the mem
ber newspapers.
What About College?
The school year has just come to a clpsp^nd a number
of young people will go into business of making money.
Too many will stop their scholastic training at the end of
high school days without realizing the tremendous advan
tages that will come to them by pursuing their way through
. college. . .■ ■
The News does not recommend a college course for every
boy and girl. There was a time when people thought- this
was a jrood idea, but undoubtedly, there are some boys and
girls who will not take advantage of the educational oppor
TmgfJFas well go to
work, whether they are the sons and daughters of rich or
poor parents.
At the same time, let us urge all students who will com
plete their high school courses this summer, to give serious
thought to the possibility of attending college The right
institution, and the right personal application, will make a
difference in life.
.THE NEWS of Orange County
Published Every Thursday by
T H E NEWS, INCORPOR AT E D
Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C.
Edwin J. Hamlin..,..(.Editor and Publisher
JCommunity Representatives—Miss Elizabeth Kirkland, New
Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. C. H. Pender, Cedar
Grove; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson,. Mebane; Mrs. Marinda McPher
son, Hillsboro Negro Community; Mrs. Golden Sellars, Chapel
Hill Negro Community. Manager, Chapel Hill Bureau, Miss
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Thursday, June 9, 1949
PRESS COMMENT
State Striving
For Equal Schools
(An Editorial from The,Win
ston-Salem Journal)
About the only pertinent an
swer North Carolina can make
to the charge of that it does not
"—*->- z~~zl educational ad
vantages for her white and
Negro children is that it is try
ing hard now to bridge the
gap.
The State Education Commis
sion report published some time
prior to the convening of the
1949 General Assembly noted,
t)ie difference in educational lii
cilities for whites and Negroes,
stating: "The Negro schools de
serve special consideration.
Generally speaking they are in
much worse condition than the
White schools. In IMS over 60
per cent of the Negro high
school children of the State were
enrolled in schools below the
standard required for accredit
ment. Of the 261 Negro high
schools, #6 employed from one
to three teachers. Children at- i
tending these schools cannot re
ceived credit required for en
trance to college.
conditions and duxerences
vary from county to county, but
the State average investment
in school buildings in 1943-44,
according to the report, showed
a range for white schools from
a high of $459.19 per pupil in
Currituck County to $40.53 in
Cherokee, while the range for
Negro schools was a high of
$187.56 in Stanly County to. a.,
low of $2.13 per pupil in Gates
County.
Other evidences of inequality
between white and Negro
schools include the fact that
while 70 per cent of the white
elementary classrooms in North
Carolina were considered “sat
isfactory” by the commission,
only 422 per cent of the Negro
classrooms were so considered;
that while 84 per cent of white
high school classrooms were
satisfactory, only 61 per cent of
the Negro high school class
rooms were.
An action has been filed in^
Middle District Federal Court
by a group of* Negro patrons
against the Durham school sys
tem, alleging inequality in
white and Negro school facili
ties and services there. Sev
eral suits of a similar nature
have been launched in various
states. In a Virginia county
which was ordered by the courts
to equalize the white and Negro
school facilities it maintained
some time ago, the county .au
thorities, holding fhat' they did.'
not have funds to bring the
Negro schools up to the white
standards, reversed the process
by discontinuing certain courses
that had been offered in white
schools but not in the Negro
schools, -
Regardless of what the result
of the Durham court action may
be, North Carolina, cognizant of
1 the present inequity and injus
tices suffered by its Negro chil
dren with respect to educa
®-' tional facilities, will continue
efforts already launched to
eliminate the inequalities as
rapidly as possible. But'unless
forced by the courts to do other
wise, it will not try to equalize
facilities and services by pulling
down the already too low white
standards. It will endeavor to
carry out the more logical rea
sonable program of raising the
Negro schools to the white level.
This long, hard task may be
made considerably shorter, and
less difficult if the Federal aid
to education bill passed by the
Senate becomes law during this
session of Congress. The big
gest handicap to the equaliza
tion program in the State now is
not a matter, of attitude, but the
financial costs of providing the
necessary school facilities and
instructional service.
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Health Board
Allots Hwcy
Raleigh.—The 'State Board.of
Health has adopted a plan for the
allocation of the $800,000 in new
money provided by the Legisla
ture, each year of the coming bi
ennium, for the improvement of
local health work in the State.
Broadly speaking, the plan
adopted provides for $3,000 a year
to each of the 100 counties of the
State; $500 a year for each county
conducting a twenty-weeks’ oral
hygiene program; $250 a year for
each county conducting a ten
weeks’ oral hygiene program, 40c
for each school child, based on
average daily membership, in each
health jurisdiction. The venereal
disease fund of $175,000 a year
and federal funds will be allocated
on the basis of population and it is
j expected that this will amount to
3 5c to 8c per capita.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
And what he greatly thought he
nobly dared.—Pope.
A thought by thought is piled till
some great truth,
Is loosed, and the nations echo
round
Shaken to their roots.
—Shelley.
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But words are things, and a small
drop* of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought,
produces
That which makes thousands, per
haps millions, think.
—Byron.
For just experience tells, in every
soil,
That those who think must gov
ern those that toil.
—Goldsmith.
I think, therefore, I am.—Des
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