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t ,• 329^■ s> . ’ the Ummmm mi ©SUING SATtmBAY, MARCH % im 4 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP “And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddiing clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn,” —St, Lake 2:7, The mother of Jesus knocked at the door of the tan in Bethlehem of Judea, but tnere was no room for her to enter. The situation at the time was unfortunate, because the tan might have sheltered the greatest event in human history. The inn lost its chance. One might be urged to ask. Why? Why was ■Jesus Christ born In & stable? Because the man ager of the inn was vicious or hostile? Not in the least-. It was simply an occasion when the inn was fall, and that was ail. Every room was taken by people who had business to attend to and money to spend. Business was good as we often say. There was “no room in the inn,” and men’s lives are often like that inn. It is possible that each of you know a man whose heart is broken because his son is a fool, «? feeble-minded. Yet deep within himself, he For Public Schools - Then What? To limit desegregation of schools, North Car olina has staked the future of its public school operatic® upon the Pearsall Plan. Now to make Article VII of the North Carolina Con stitution conform to the provisions of Pearsall Plan, a proposal has come before the General Assembly to delete the section that reads "the General Assembly . . . shall provide by taxa tion an otherwise for a genera! and uniform system of public schools , , , ” so that the e~ mended article will read: ” . . . provide by taxation and otherwise for public schools. , . ” The Supreme Court decision of Mav 17, 1954, and subsequent court rulings prevent North Carolina and other Southern States from operating any kind but “a general end uniform” system of public schools. Other organizations and private agencies may ope rate schools which are not general and uniform, but not the states. Private schools, we must Cultivation Os Your Conversation Yes, the ability to talk in conversation can be cultivated, because it is an art. Each of us has some capacity to start with. As in the casr of any art, there are underlying principles la bout which there is no secret: for the applies tion of these principles there is a certain tech nique, which, though flexible, is just as dear and definite as the rules which apply in musjc or any other of the fine or applied arts. Practicing these rules will develop your skill as a conversationalist How swiftly and how far you progress will depend in some measure upon how much ability you have to start with, but still more upon how earnest is your desire to improve. First of all, the topic must be interesting. Everybody is especially interested in some thing. Usually you know at the start what it is. If you do not, there is seldom any great cHficulty in discovering it. In getting s conversation started or in keep ing & conversation going, it is necessary that there be a proper opportunity for each person te raprm himself. Sometimes, indeed, the cir- About Funerals And Interments Daafe h a visitor whom every family must «stecip«to; and lest you regard your future dealings with funeral director* with a notice able degree of suspicion and criticism, there ere certain things you should know to help you pks« festelHgentdy in the csss of bereavement. It will help you to protect yourself against the pktmbie pretenses of “fringe” operators. We cannot say with accuracy when the fun era! directed originated. But even in the Stone Age, earth burial was practiced and prised poasesaie®* were interred with the body. If was fcelsved that the dead would need their earth ly possessions in whatever hereafter these early people may have envisaged. Lste ia the eighteenth century, cabinet mak ers began to construct coffins is advanced of seed, and to offer their services to tee public as “undertakers.” The subsequent evolution of the funeral director ®s we knew him today has adapted itself to the changing needs of our American culture. Thus, the renewal of the lost art of embalm ing, a crude form of which was practiced by tee early Egyptians, received impetus from the California Gold Rush and tee Civil War. Among the consequences of these two historic events was the increasing need of more effec tive method® of preserving tee bodies of the dead in transit for burial. Embalming is accomplished by .introducing disinfectant and preservative chemicals ia the arterial system of the remains at tee seme time the contents of venous'system are remov ed, Embalming is first end foremost an essen tial public health measure. A concomitant function of the funeral director is to restore fee features of the deceased to ® serene and natural appearance. Both functions demand m high degree of professional skill based on apedalked education and training. Under the stress ©# modem dvilisstton, it feee&me saecewsary for tee funeral director to provide personal services and conveniences for the Irsriiif. He had to ftesdSaria® MsmM with suds teverse objects as Hfe insurance, soda! ..security, government burial allowances, taxes, Heate certificates, burial permits, eetaetoesy f and many legal matters, and to *?sve and ermmel with bereaved families who sm mi fasailter with. te*®e problesm, knows that the fault is his own. All through the formative years of the boy's development, he nev er gave his son any time. Not that he didn’t love the boy: but he was busy'. There was no room for family life; and his is a fool. You know of me n whose health is gone; men wh ?e taste for reading and music and art is stops Men who have literally no interests in life beyond the office which has become a mere tread mill whereon their days are ground away. In the process of being successful, they have sacrificed success. Never once forgetting them selves, they have forgotten everything else. This is not -Jesus' idea of what life should be. He who refused to turn aside from his business to become a king, was never too busy to turn aside for a sic* man, a friend, a litle child. Jesus never for got that one slight His mother had stood on a threshold where there was no welcome. The threshold of the little inn in Bethlehem. It was so busy that the greatest event in history knocked at its doom—and could not come in. remember, do not operate on the tax payer’s money. We hope that the wise law makers of the General Assembly will not be persuaded to make this backward step. No amount of sub tle legislation can turn back forever the rising tide of progress in education and other areas of human endeavor. The only way that North Carolina can maintain a public school system which will meet the standards of the various educational rating agencies is through the operation of a uniform public school system. If we leave the matter of providing public schools to local op tion, our present schools will retrograde into a status synonymous with the Dark Ages. In our race to gain the lead in nuclear weap pons, we cannot tolerate any type of public sch’,>ol system but the best. To be effective, our school systems must be genera! and uni form. eumstancf* may seem to require a man to R|K«k. as when an opinion or statement of fact is asked for. Such tactical details spring from the interest you fed in the ether man. Interest you must h«m if your conversation is to be thoroughly successful. While your interest can lie pri marily either in the subject or in the man, the latter is by far the surest ingredient for satis fying conversation. Second, you must be at ease. When your attitude is one of assurance you can be relax ed, because you will have confidence in your self. Because you are at ease with yourself, you will be relaxed. Lastly, saying what you mean is important. If a man can say exactly what he wants to say, it ought to be said; then he can create exactly the impression he desires. He can stimulate in the other person precisely the same re action he means to stimulate. He can get other people, singly or in groups, to think and act as he wills. To the man or women of sound judg ment who can talk effectively, nothing is im possible. The urbanisation of the American family created still another problem for the funeral director. The custom of the dead lying reve rently in the large family living room became impractical in the face of the absence of such quarters in the apartment houses of crowded cities. The modern funeral home became a necessity in the face of modem housing,. Tut basis philosophy of the funeral service u “to each his own.” Ail races in ail lands have conducted funerals and burial services sym bolic of their customs and beliefs. When the white men arrived in America, burial of the dead was accompanied by religious rites and the American funeral service has always been interwoven with religious customs and tee folkways of a group and community life. In many foreign lands, burial is a government function. In tee United States, the funeral service is ® highly personalized affair and nine ©ut of ten dtkens prefer to keep it teat way. Ws have in Raleigh a number of reputable funeral establishments which seek to provide a funeral service the way the next of kin wish that service rendered and generally succeed in accomplishing that mission. Often® one hears of allegations that a fun eral establishment which has charged excessive funeral fees err oversold on specific items such as caskets. This may be true in a few esses, but in most instances when the cost of funerals run out of proportion to the survivor’s ability to pay, tee fault has generally been with the fami ly rsfher than the funeral director. The fun eral director may seek to safeguard the family against unnecessary or extravagant expendi tures but, in the final analysis, the decision is that of the surviving family. There is an ade quate service available m every funeral estab lishment for every purse and taste. Most of us? do not like to think of death, but there would foe 1m tossimderstandisig if each family would have conferences with funeral directors before they . are needed. Tfeer I® every food reason why funeral estab lishments are modest about educating the pub lic about their services. We think that they should lay aside all modesty and through pub lic relations educate an ignorant public re garding tfoete HMtttcni, Effective Hatiosi leaders&ip Can Qiaflge This Rctare, Mr. Resilient BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANF 1. This crude contraption of two pieces of wood, with a name consisting of a five letter word, has constantly kept this old world stirred. 2. To every man, woman and child, trees and wood are commonly known, but too few are there who can fully sense how this wooden cross can lead to a pearly throne. 3. Years have passed, but the mystery lasts, for other symbol b\it this has mounted so high as to touch the sky and all the powers of hell resist. 4. It is not the mere wood by cross section arranged that, has stood the test of time, but the life of Him who did hang on the Cross, that still makes it glorious ’ and sublime. 5. Yea, it was here that the Only Begotten Son, equal with His Father in Power, Substance and Eternity, made a remedy to cure man of his ills and lift him out of uncertainty. 6. The precious life He gave What Other Editors Say A WISE DECISION Dade County School Board this week announced integra tion at Orchard Villa Elemen tary School in September. This ae.ion was not altogether a sur prise. as this token integration has been discussed pro and con for several months. Then, too, the NAACP has the case of the four children to be admitted to tills school be fore the courts, and if the courts follow the usual decision in these cases, the NAACP will win. It is our opinion that the School Board made a wise de cision. In this case here are four children living a block or so from the school, but must go a great distance to another school. Dade County is the largest and most progressive county in Florida. It is only natural that Dade should set the example by some form of integration. It is long overdue. Governor Leßoy Collins has approved the plan. Some of our legislators have criticised the governor and the school board, and promised to fight for the so-called “last re sort” biil to close Florida’s schools when tee legislature meets in April. We like to see a good fight of any kind, but we like to see a fighter who knows when he is- beaten. Our legislators should ap prove the Dade School Board's actios, not oppose it. They can’t win. We realize the feeling of the small counties. They see but one aids of the picture. I»eta' hope the big counties, like Duval, Hillsborough, Brow ard and Pinellas will follow Dade’s lead and bring about a settled condition in our great sisto. —MIAMI TIMES suf&eme comers WELCOME JKESTRAIOT Tire TJ. S. Supreme Court’s refusal to overturn Alabama's pupil asignment law U yet an other vindication of North Carolina’s Pearsall Plan. For the two plans are alike in many ways, although the Tar Heel pattern is simpler in application. It is WfH, of course, to keep ia mind exactly whies tee high court intended in this decision, It did not In tend to uphold racially dis criminatory astern* to any school case. Bui it did refuse te strifes down a assign was the great price paid, and His blood the cure-all for sin; no other panacea, was at hand, in man’s lost state, to win. 7. JUSTICE had ended her controversy with MERCY, end MERCY on the winning side, made it possible for man in the shadow of the Cross, there safely before God to hide. 8. It was then the Son of God created His eternal Blood- Bank, and left it in escrow with His Father, and came to this wicked earth, the souls of lost men to recover. 9. Yes, this Precious One came down amidst this sin and shame to die a horrible death upon fee Cross, that every sin ner could be given a new name. 10. The Price, was the Savi or’s precious blood, no other means would satisfy . , . man kind to be given another chance, the KING of KINGS must die. 11. He let theca drag Kis weary body until they found merit system which. In ths words ot the lower court, could operate to admit qualified pu pils on a basis of individual merit without regard to race or color. On these limited grounds ths Supreme Court went along with the circuit court decision. It did not choose to make the de cision a “class action’'—thus following an example set by the late Circuit Judge John J. Parker in the Old Port case. In effect, the high court followed a course of judicial restraint, a welcome signal in the unfold ing civil rights drama. What will the decision mean in the South? Certainly the whole process of school desegregation will not be reversed. Individual cases where discrimination can be demonstrated will still receive attention in line with the Brow® decision. But snore am bitious cases originated by the NAACP to bring the walls of segregation tumbling down everywhere at once will not re ceive sympathetic hearing. In North Carolina, where at least three cities have proved that the Pearsall Plan can be used in a nondiacrimin&tory manner, the local option sys tem will be strengthened. Cer tainly the plan will act be rul ed unconstitutional on its faee. It is not likely that ether “class action" cases will get very far in ths appellate court*. Thus the architects of North Carolina’s Pearsall Flan serve renewed congfatulattons for foresight. Btesie problems of racial dis crimination are still with m But there ta mom hope today, because of the Alabama de cision, that tlse 'O'. 8. Supreme Court will not force the des truction of the public schools la states which do not scream massive resistance. —amammsemo DAWS' NEWS mtmxE wagG&vmw m Unemployment, Snsreaood by (116,090 in Jmmxy, mvmftlm to the combined monthly fig ures of ths ‘Oeparteants of. Commerce and liber, reaching 4,724,009., Jsiamssy msvtes ths third, consecutive month in which the figratre has risen, At its low point of October it stood at 3,805,889; hence, the ground lest in this retwvfTj'-rssistitat area over three month* has ag gregatod 33 f»,B{K?. Whm we pom to the season sSy figure showing * a the horrible place where they were wont to place this Cross in open Ignominy and disgrace; from the sixth to the ninth hour, His blood ran down for you and me, and when life be gan to diminish, He finally cried “it is finished.” 12. This is the mystery with an eternal background, that needs no embiiishment, not not even a sound . . . its place as a symbol of life eternal will never be replaced by anything external; the Poet, Isaac Watts, who wrote “AT THE CROSS” in the chorus so fer vently expresses the joy of re demption through the Cross when he wrote: “At the Crass, at the Crass where I first saw the light, And the burden of my heart rolled away, It was there by faith I re ceived my sight. And now I am happy all the day.” the proportion of the civilian labor force out of work, the picture is by no means as dis heartening. The seasonally ad justed figure reached what was practically a double top In Ap ril and August, when it stood at 7.5 per cent and 7.6 per cent, respectively. By November, ev en though the aggregate of in dividuals out of work rose slightly, tile adjusted percent age figure fell to 5.9 per cent from 7.1 per cent in October, Sines the November-January increase in the number of job less largely reflected seasonal trends, it is not surprising to find that on an adjusted basis, which represents both seasonal changes and changes in the size of the labor market, the percentage rise has been only from 5J per cent to slightly over 6.0 per cent. Even after allowance- has been made for seasonal consi derations, the failure of the November and December fig ures to respond more markedly to the forces of recovery is highly disappointing, not only from the standpoint of those Immediately affected but from the standpoint of the Presi dent’s effort to hold off addi tional spending by the new Congress, many of whose mem bers represent, areas in which re-employment has been most laggard. It means that the Ad ministration can lock for little relief from this quarter before the- Msreh figures become a vailabie, which will not be un til about mid-April. —NEW YORK TIMES £¥ SR, €f„ &. &HXC&, m. Bcemmc mmernfmom Since 1854 these* have bean many, many articles &>s well as books written partoixsing to in tegration. Along with the writ ings regarding ths matter, ffivera hm bem an abimdsnes of speeches made on ms *aase mbmb. The purpose of this ar ticle is to d iscuss & phase of in tograsloja in a manner that lit tle, indeed. If anything, has town saM or written, namely tManamis integration. and again, this waiter j JUST FOR -'lls, m XAStitfS B. SOUL WARS GALL FBI Director Edgar J. Hoov er recently reported that bad cheek passers are papering the country. They -are becoming so bold, he said, that one cashed check recently turned up with this signature: “TL R. Stuck.” Another check was drawn on the “East. Sank of the Missis sippi.” Man, this is getting to be big business. The FBI laboratory alone examined 30,027 bad checks drawn for a total of £6,- 053,848; in 948, there were 33,- 037 such examinations ox check totaling $7,933,827. Comyard says some people get all the breaks, When he wants to get $3.00 cashed, the store or bank wants to know about him from A to 2, his tele phone number, where he lives now and where he lived during the past five years, how many sisters and 'mothers he has and where each aie of them lives, etc, EXAMS THEFTS At the end of the first se mester, the newspapers import ed that two UNC st udents were accused of stealing examina tion papers (teachers’ tests) and they were summoned be fore the student council for a hearing. That reminds me of my col lege days, when an undercover student exposed the thief who got hold of a certain Prof.’s ex amination and sold copies for three dollars a-pieee. Even at this price, he did not collect chicken feed, because there were 60-cxid persons in the class. Three dollars then could go as far as six dollars does now. Somehow the professor was anonymously Informed of the trick, and he made out a new test. Imagine the surprise of the students when they arrived at the exam. They thought they had it made; the looks on their faces were indeed sad, because the professsor laid in on them hard. Cornyard wanted, to know did I buy one copy of the hot test. No I didn’t, I was broke! ABOUT MEN Ireland’s most famous: act- Gordon B. Hancock BETWEEN the LINES • ©US WOMANISH MEN ' Our times are seriously troubled and our wise men have, not devised an answer for the questions ouv troubled times are raising. There is a certain amount of groping that is depressing to contemplate. With our great boasting a tXHit our vaunted civilization, we are trembling on the brinks of national disaster. All is not well with our great nation and our much boasting and our bluster do not assure us in the premise. It is being freely ad mitted. that Russia is outstrip ping us in the space rave—and this a serious admission. Democracy is on the defen sive today whereas at the end of World War 1, it was on the offensive. Our educational sys tem is under fire and the younger generations are threat ening to run away with things and to get out of hand. Mark Twain once remarked that much is said about the weather but nothing is ever has endeavored to point out to his many readers that the mon ey am dsecurities markets, and most especially the securities market, are fairly well inte grated. Individuals or business concerns that “good risks’* can borrow all the money they want. Individuals and business institutions lending money do not look at color or race very much more that do concerns selling sugar, or automobiles, or clothing, etc. They are in business to make money, and they like to make money. This writer knows no better way for one with a small a mount of money to get into big business, and, thereby, the world markets than by pur chasing stocks in well-estab lished corporations which have world-wide markets. Moreover, annual, or call, stockholders meetings are in tegrated, All the stockholders \ of a given corporation are en titled to attend all meetings of the stockholders. Notice of stockholders meetings are sent to all stockholders, not to any particular race of the same. In addition to the foregoing, Negroes attending a stockhol ders meeting of a corporation employing a large" number of people could, and would, do much towards shaping the em ployment policies regarding races of that corporation. And, most especially could they have a strong influence in such mat ters if they had the proxy votes of several hundred other Hegre stockholders. Lastly, if Negroes owned shares of stock in large and leading- corporations of our na tion, the privilege off attend ing stockholders meetings would be excellent opportun ities for training in large scale business. We would get first hand infomtatien of what is actually happening as well as what the best minds in such ssattens third: will come to pms Is the business world. Let’s ssoro and more soonomic integration. Let’s use the small amount of money we have In purchasing securities it* the fading corporations and tfcsitete? f»t into the world 'iar kste as well as an boats'* of wimt la taking piste® in the world of big Sssslnas®. ress, Sioblsan McKern*, when in New York seme weeks &go, submitted to the press a list of ten things women should know about men. 3. Always cook his favorite dish at least once a week, pref- Jfi' erably on payday, 20. At least once & day tell him he is the greatest husband in the world—the handsomest and the smartest. (Aw, go way —now!) No. 3 wins iny attention but my friend. Mr, Corn yard insists that No. 10 is the mestest. The actress states that an? woman who follows rule 10 faithfully really doesn't need to bother about the other nine. Tell a man regularly shat he's wonderful and he’s your for life.” (Ladies, you’d better bridle that nagging tongue!) OLD HAWG-BLADDER In my boyhood days in Ches ter, S. C., on very cold days people in the community killed hogs to get what was called then “fresh meat.” A neighbor who killed a hog would send the neighbors small portions of hot pork sausage, backbones, spareribs, etc. But wliat fascinated me as a boy was a hawg-bladder from which I proceeded to blow a balloon. Once Mr. Budget, our neigh- * bor across the street, killed r hogs—not just a small shoat, but several “fattening” bogs. Mrs. Budget gave me several buckets with different sections of hog anatomy to deliver to families on the street. For my services, I was given a pound of sausage crackling, liver, ur.d a hog-bladder. Shucks, all them other things meant nuthing’. It was the hog bladder that really counted with me. (At least I thought so then.) Well sir, you could always tell the standing of a family by the cut. of meat they got. You could be a chitterling rank at one extreme or a sausage rank at the other, with various ranks between. “Mama” (my mother) gener ally got pieces high up on the hog. done about it. Today ho v changed, for much is ha. done about the weather, 'ju ingenuity of man is making . warm in the winter and cool ;■ summer, and there is hopi that- something may be spee ' ly done about the current jv venile and adult. delinqugn that is threatening to wre. our civilization. Shakespeare mentioned i some of his works that 1 spurned mannish women b. not nearly as much as 1 spurned womanish men. All a round us are signs that nun are becoming more and more womanish .and women are be coming more and more mann ish and caught between these two society trends, youth suf fers terribly. For many years in my clas ses in sociology we studied these trends which have been embodied in the so-called e rnaneipation of women. As long) as men were willing to shouldeate the full responsibilities of home building, there were the as surances for domestic security, but little by little men becom ing more and more willing to trade their manliness and in dependence, they were willing to delegate responsibilities to the women. Men were willing to marry but were unwilling to assume full responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood. The women were taken from the sacred responsibilities of motherhood and set to work in farm and factory in order to make ends meet. When ends met, the home was in large part destroyed. There was greeter income and less perma nent family enjoyment and se curity. Women were enfran chised with the hope and boast that their political entry would mean clean politics. But poli tics today is the seme sordid and dirty game and played by sordid political aspirants. No thing could be more sordid than the politics the Southern politicians are playing with the welfare of millions of Ne~ > groes as a political football. *■ The so-called emancipation of women meant ultimately the mannishness off women and the womanishness of men, but It has utterly failed to clean up society and politics. The nish woman and the womanish man have been utter failures. This writer has always felt that woman, were too fine to be degraded with the impositions of the so-called emancipated women, and in the heart of a woman love itself was born, a- Jong with everything that makes life worth living. But the womanish man has pro duced the mannish woman who has lost in the exchange of a womanly status for a mannish one. New comes Zeloosefc, in his brilliant book “A changing A merica”, with the startling statement that less than a century ago the ration of fallen worsen to fallen men was one in a hundred, while today the ration is fifty-fifty. That Is to say that net so lone - ago there was only one fallen woman for every one hundred fallen men. Today there is one fallen wom-f an for every fallen man. This Is ' a distressing revelation. The womanish man Is a fail ure and ao Sts isastsisbi warns fee h m creates!.
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