Those IS white preachers from
New Englandwho came to William
eton last week were something less
thait impressive—from anybody’s
standpoint. One might have thought,
judging by the advance press no
tices, that they had a real crusade
-in mind—one that would have dem
onstrated their durability and illus
trated their sincerity. As it turned
out, the preachers showed precious
little durability—and their sincerity
is at least subject to question.
They managed to get themselves
arrested, of course, by deliberately
"breaking a reasonable law that, had
been honestly enacted to preserve
the peace, yet give demonstrators
a chance to demonstrate. That much
accomplished, the preachers then
staged a fast that was hardly more
than a farce. And by the end of the
week, having drained the incident
of its publicity, the preachers began
their return to New England.
Through it all, they busily ad
vertised themselves as doing the
work of the Lord. It may well be
that in addition to their other vio
lations of the law, the preachers
were guilty of false advertising.
The “work” they came to do was
that of Martin Luther King’s so
called Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference which, we are con
strained to suggest with as little
sarcasm as possible, is hardly syn
onymous with the workings of Hea
ven. Dr. King’s outfit, we keep re
metnbering, is heavily laden at the
top with leaders of proven records
of communism, socialism and sex
perversion, as well as other curious
behavior. One of the Negro agita
tors who has been on the scene in
WilHamston and Edenton, himself
was in court in Norfolk not long
ago in connection with his arrest
at 3 o’clock in the morning in a
motel room with a woman who was
not his wife.
And so, if the people of William
ston somehow failed to see the hand
of God in the arrival of the IS New
England clergymen, more evidence
is needed before it can be said that
they lack true Christian vision. The
whole affair has taken on the pro
portions of a tragic comedy. The
15 clergymen came to break laws,
not to establish law. They came to
promote bitterness, not to advocate
brotherhood.
The questions we would most like
answered is what did the visiting
preachers prove, what cause did
they help? They have built so tight
a fence around their own concept of
the race problem that they can see
its existence only in the South which
most of them had never visited and
about which none of them had any
real knowledge. It mattered not to
them that their own cities, their
own neighborhoods are teeming with
racial discord and violence. They
chose to overlook these and head
(nously to the South amidst a flur
ry of press releases and in a spirit
calculated to inflame rather than
to calm. >
If this is the clergy’s answer to
the racial strife that is seething up
and down and across this nation, it
is an empty, dangerous answer that
serves only to make bad matters
worse. For, concerned as we are
about the injury such ministers do
to the cause of racial harmony, we
are even more disturbed at what
they are doing to the church.
If the IS men from New England
choose to be missionaries for Mar
tin King, that is their choice. But
they make a mistake when they at
tempt to equate King’s ideals and
King’s methods with those of the
phurch., And certainly the com
pany that Dr. King keeps in press
ing his demand for power is not
the kind that does credit to the
church or its ministers.
This is what the people of Wil
liamston saw last week when the
15 ministers from New England
came upon the scene. They re
sented it, and not without cause.
They are sick of a so-called “non
violent movement” that festers with
violence and draws Its sustenance
from the control of masses of peo
ple who sing and dance and chant
in the streets in a demand for a
freedom that defies definition.
The basic problems of segrega
tion and integration are left far
behind, with hopes of solution even
farther. The preachers came, un
wittingly perhaps, to add fuel to
the fires of force against force, bit
terness against bitterne&s. And so
they march up a street, refuse a
few meals in jail, and then they flit
back North to their own untended
responsibilities and problems.
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the Veterans 'Administration to
questions from former servicemen
and their families:
Q—As a veteran, I plan to be
buried in a National Cemetery. Can
my wife be buried there, too?
A.—Yes. Should your wife die
before you, she may also be buried
in a national cemetery, provided you
give written intention that you plan
to 'be buried there at the time of
your death.
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annual GI insurance dividend to
meet, the premium payment. Do I
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Q.—As a dependent parent receiv
ing DIC payments from the VA 1
have been mailed a questionnaire
card asking my income for 1963 and
my expected income for 1964. The
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i-c-L livwcu, miner, assistant state
superintendent of public instruction,
explain what is contemplated in the
four-mdllion-dollar experiment.
“We’re concerned,’’ he said, “with
the organization of the first three
grades. So, instead of having three
separate grades, each consistsing of
30 pupils and a single teacher, three
teachers will try applying their best
talents to 90 pupils.”
Shades of the Little Red school
house !
Here we are, 30 years and billions
of dollars, later, turning back to
the old technique in trying to teach
children the fundamentals of an
education. The very first school we
ever attended had two teachers and
about 90 children all in the same
room. Neither of these teachers had
ever heard of John Dewey or pro
gressive education; but somehow
most of the pupils learned to read
important bearing on this. You
should complete the card and mail
it to avoid any chance of a hold-up
of your monthly checks.
ana write.
So we hope this experiment pans
out. We hope t^gfc^nstead of teach
ing children.;H6#_'fi) get along with
their peer group,' they teach them
how to think for themselves. We
hope that instead of teaching them
that school can be fun, they teach
them their alphabet, how to put
letters together to form words and
how to put words together to form
sentences. We hope they teach
them how to add, subtract and mul
tiply and how to write the results
down in a legible: ^and.
Somehow, tbej-ilrop out problem
didn’t seem so serious in Mark
Hopkins’ day. It may oeaise to be a
problem when we again begin to
operate schools as institutions of
learning instead of sociological ex
periments in group therapy.
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Saturday Liston Jones of La
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Highway Patrol and charged with
a 4th offense of driving without a
driving license.
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