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Editorial Viewpoint
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WORDS OF WORSHIP
Qcd aceans many things to many people
Many learned men believe that faith has a
certain ancestral background that needs only a
guiding influence to bring all mankind into a com
patible relationship foi a new and lasting peace.
The instinct for companionship with a common
belief may lead one to suppose that tribal confi
dence in the totem pole, or other emblems of
wofship, exerts a basic faith that may bring the
same satisfaction to the human as the most in
tricate theological expositions by cap and gowned
exponents of Christian culture in more civilized
liMs.
We wonder if the totem pole may not offer
4 safer investment foi peace, than faith in the
success of inventive genius wandering out into
space, leaving an awe-struck populace waiting for
1 revelation to God
Zeal for achievement has almost eliminated
respect for the attribute of identity conferred up
on us by our Creator. “It isn't who a man is, but
what he is that counts," is a familiar saying and
has betome a slogan for service. We accept our
selves passively as living organisms and become
replacements like bolts or screws in a public util
ity. do hot consider that identity has any un
assignable relation to the service we perform, nor
serve *n useful purpose except to gear us to the
mechanical arrangement of our time
According to newspaper reports. Senator
©ijil O Johnson (D.-S.C ) said racial condi
pPiU ifi New York are terrible He blamed
forced integration
"If we pass civil rights legislation enforcing
integration across the face of the land, we will
have the same conditions in every corner of
this nation that we now find in New York
City,” he remarked
•' The Senator further remarked, Police are
WWy.’bf arresting drunks, perverts and crimi
nals fdr fear of Negro mobs moving in to cause
trouble ’’
. How does the Senator know the troubles m
Mew York are caused by forced integration? Is
h*-basing his opinions solely on what he read
Water Transportation Needs Safety
The average American family with high
standards of living owns a boat and trailer
to haul it. The family generally rides to the
btech or some, lake for a week-end outing. Be
teuse of accidents and other circumstances
many people meet their death in boats
Every boat owner—-whether the craft is large
or small—needs to exercise great care while
b6*triding, skiing, nr fishing. Nothing should
be left to chance if safety is to be maintained.
There are basic rules for safe boating from
Interstate Travel Mostly Segregated
Despite federal regulations to the contrary,
feus stations and many railroad terminals are
cdrttinuing racial segregation practices in wait
ing rOom facilities. This report was made
kP&ww recently by the Southern Regional
Council,
This announcement was not new to Negro
passenger# on buses and Pains, because they
are still seated in segregated waiting rooms and
finaet often on buses. For example, one riding
buses by the way of Augusta, Georgia, toward
pert* of Mississippi, will find that bus drivers
make an. issue out of segregated seating.
The sir line* have desegregated perhaps tart
ar.. «r sr» more rapidly becoming desegregated
than other modes of transportation.
The Southern Regional Council reported
Cut system has n© uniformity
mitfc regards f» th* employment of Negroes.
Pmatfcm vary from aeetiOn to section, rang
ing from not-s P-very-good to poor. This van
sfess «sa b« seen is the income pattern of the
fAmea kt United States.
Tfet average kieome of the Negro is about 60
fsremt erf that of whites and ranges from 80
per pssi fes the North to about 75 per cent in
Chicago. Down ta the South the percentage is
•feexst 40 per emt,
Juaf m kieosm vades in different areas, so
“bb frontiers* for Negroes "Job frontiers"
as* fctese areas of penetration in which Negroes
k®v« been able to attain employment on a
broader scale than a "pilot" basis or the “<*x
etpftonal Negro" breakthrough. They include
gll areas where the Negro cannot insulate him
self by directly serving the Negro emmunity
©n the job frontiers, Negroes are competing
std selling services to the non-Negro commun
ity. These frontiers range all th* way from
architecture, to nuclear physics.
A fairly recent survey of St. Louis found that
gevCn out of ten Negroes with traditional skills
iji fte crafts were unable to find jobs for which
they" w*re trained. They were working at job
levels lower than their training. Only 50 per
eent of the Negro college graduate* covered
ware working in activity even roughly com
mensutate with their level of education. The
other 50 per cent were employed in jobs rang
ing fell the way down to the most menial types
of occupations.
f The Negro is seldom a part of the origins 1
, planmhg of municipal or state projects in
frftfartli Carolina, In fact, our job opportunities
' *re m drcumscribid that we get little or no
chance to be exposed to governmental opera
tion (m planning dr working level Jobs would
at least give us greater responsibilities and
some returns through such contact in lieu of
the taxes we pay by ownership and rental of
property
AM while we sre familiar with this fob dis
«rt§9S»ation cat the one hand, we must, m Hu
A Senator Speaks
Job Penetration
Bond Election
Language begins with a single word of ident
ity. We are born of the flesh upon the earth, but
transformed into the world by language. That is
how and why we become men.
To us, God is not solely what what we ac
cept by definition to be a divine or supernatural
force ruling the universe, but a power released by
the gift of speech that enables us to proclaim it.
Invention has now become a great wonder
that has set up the deceitful notion it operates
independently cf a common tie and this belief
finds a natural refuge in free speech. In ths case
the word is exempt foi reasons that become irk
some when it is completely obligated to truth.
We truly live within the power of a single
word. The destiny of man will not be determined
by the works of his hands, but by a pattern of
behavior provoked oy his speech. That is history
So it appears that the unbridled tongue will
eventually trigger a world catastrophe that may
well be without a comparable precedent. For the
nations .seem determined to talk themselves into
oblivion 'Revelations 16:13-14),
God does indeed mean many things to many
people, but in the final reckoning, all the earth
will surely ocme to know that the common fac
tor in human behavior is a single word—God
in an article in the magazine. U S News and
World Report, on race relations in New York
City?
We wonder if Mr, Johnson has actually
made a study of the conditions by means of
research and case findings to ascertain the
cause of racial strife in New' York City Ra
cial integrations cannot be assigned as the only
to police brutality as a probable cause of racial
strife before the Supreme Court decision of
May 17, 1954?
We wonder if the Senator gave any thought
to police brutality ar a probable cause of racial
unrest. Certainly', one cannot overlook the in
fluence of poor housing, lack of recreational
facilities, unemployment, and so on.
the standpoint of speed and sobriety to the
law requiring a life preserver for each person
aboard, There are rudimentary points of navi
gation to master and obey. There is a code of
courtesy, demanding concern for the welfare
of other boat owners.
The experience of a single tragic mishap
should be its own reminder of constant danger
warranting maximum of cere. How many' peo
ple must drown before the safety message can
be put across?
there are inconsistencies in waiting room prac
tices of a single type of carrier in a particular
city. Herein we find frustrating problems for
Negro passengers, because they don’t know
whether to expect segregation or desegregation.
Whereever the segregation practices exist in
restaurant facilities, they sre usually inferior
for Negroes. Many of them are unsanitary and
constitute health hazards. Municipal health
departments should order them closed.
The wheels of gradualism turn slowly. The
black man know.'® that many years will pass
before federal regulations are dbserved in bus
and railroad stations For this reason, he has
resorted to the courts to speed the process a
long and to give it momentum
The bus driver situation in St. Louis illus
trates the general patterh of Negro penetra
tion into new areas of job opportunities. After
considerable agitation and protest, the public
service company decided to employ Negroes..
The bus driver is a semi-skilled operator sad
the company hired whites with grade school
education or lower. The first forty Negroes
hired were college graduates, some with rank
of major and above in previous military serv
ice. Os the 180 Negroes hired, only ten were
high school graduates; about 80 had two or
more years of college training, but were not
graduates; 50 per cent were college graduates
and 22 had M.A. degrees.
This kind of job "breakthrough” is usually
highly publicized and hailed as s great step
forward. But it does not in any sense herald
the removal of discrimination. It is the excep
tional and qualified Negro versus the average
or unqualified whites It is job penetration, but
not on an equal basis
If we compare the Negro with the average
whites, the black man is merely holding his
own. Chiefly he works at unskilled jobs. There
is greet danger in this practice, because un
skilled labor is becoming increasingly and un
saleable commodity ir, American society.
The next generation will produce a larger
number of Negroes who are the economic equi
valent of "all dressed up and no place to go."
They will be s frustrated, aggressive tense
group.
other hand, continue to support our city and
state growth. In so doing, we sre building a
greater state for *ll. In time there will be job
opportunities in city and state positions for
those who are qualified, regardless of color.
The Carolinian* believes, even in the face
of being denied the responsibility of planning
representation and job opportunity that we
should support the fcrtbcoriring Mud issue.
And as Raleigh girds herself for expansion *0
should we prepare ourselves to merit a right
ful place in her future progress and develop
tap&fc.
Their Grip Can Be Broken With Effective
tivfl RighK
BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP
“l AM THINE O’ LORD”
1 Only those who would
speak such words as these, must
have in mind at all times their
God to please; for this bespeaks
an unbroken' love with Him
who rules and reigns above
2. There is nothing hid tost
cannot ire seen, no thoughts
conceived that, He cannot
screen; we are as near to Him
as His Divine mind that tries
in us the best to find.
3. How then can we escape
His tender care when His all
seeing eye is everywhere, and
designs for us the very best,
though we stumble and choosp
even far less.
Yet when one enters his Holy
Door and decides throughout
life, heavenly things to explore
• He will not withhold any
good thing and such become
heirs of an Almighty King.
5. Then from a heart that
rings real true, and sprinkled
with a. heavenly dew is heard
th* cry "I Am Thine O' Lord",
and that one, as never before
What Other Editors Say
WHAT DOES THE DOCTOR
HAVE IN MIND?
Dr. I. Beverly Lake probably
drew substantial applause for
his attack upon the NAACP in
an address at Sanford and his
avhwSl that North Carolina
should "not accept the type of
schools" that organization "in
tends to force upon us” But
dislike of the U. S. Supreme
Court’s desegregation decree
and denunciation of the NAA
CP are at Msfc generalities.
In specific terms, whatswould
the good doetbr and former
state assistant attorney gen
eral have North Carolina do tp
keep its public school system
gong and be "the promised
land" which he envisions for
our children and grandchil
dren ?
Everybody, including Dr.
Lake, knows what happened in
Little Rock, what is still hap
pening in Front Royal, Va.. and
what happened to Virginia’s ill
fated policy of "massive resis
tance." The Old Dominion ran
into court Orders and legal bar
riers which forced it to choose
between closing down its
schools or adopting some pro
gram. similar to North Caro
lina’s Pearsall Plan with' its
pupil assignment provision,
which would satisfy the courts
and avert collapse of its edu
cational system.
The people of Virginia show
ed how they felt, what they put
first, when they went to the
polls recently and elected a
Legislature which will go along
with Governor Almond’s modi
fied school plan. Neither North
Carolina nor Virginia is doing
what the NAACP would have it
do. But each state has shown
that it will act in moderation
and with a flexibility which
will hold disruption to a mini
mum and balance public opini
on with court rulings and de
cisions.
What North Carolina can
truly be thankful for is that it
has not closed a single school-
Nor does it have a single school
under court order to integrate.
Before Dr. Lake gets anywhere
with thinking North Carolini
ans he will have to be far more
specific and offer something
which will accomplish more
than the present program is
accomplishing, ndt to please
as* NAACP but to kASjp t-M
public school* gems and avoid
the tragedy which beset both
AritJAs&s ted VHttfiii
—<MUBBWB®sDR© DAILY
afssw©
is by heaven graciously adored.
6. It is at this point that Paul
sprang into ecstacy and cried,
“eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered in
to the heart of man, the things
which God bath prepared for
them that love Him.’’
7. But now listen to him r
he soars and cries aloud, “But
God hath revealed them unto
us by His Spirit; for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the
deep thinsg of God.”
3 "For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the
spirit, of man which is in him?
even so the things of God
knoweth no man but the Spirit
of God."
3. And now dear friends is it
not definitely clear, that to
know and understand God, we
must at all times at His feet
draw near? who would want to
stay away and live on meager
fare when with Him and His
only begotten Son one can be
an heir and joint, heir?
lb. This is enough to make
UNNECESSARY
HOSPITALIZATION
"A Good Thing Carried to Ex
tremes” might have been the
title of the statement recently
published by Blue Cross and
directed to its membership
The Blue Cross management
is concerned because, it ap
pears, some of its subscribers
Cor members) are going to hos
pitals unnecessarily.
Such unnecessary hospital
stays have one definitely bad
result and one potentially bad.
They definitely may fill hospit
al beds that are needed for peo
ple who are really ill.
Blue Cross said in its state
ment that for Blue Cross or
ganizations throughout the na
tion last year, an average of 140
out of< every 1 000 members
were admitted to hospitals But,
the statistics foi the Blue Cross
here showed 159 admissions
per 1 000 members. That fig
ures cut to 13 per cent above
the national rate. And in the
number of days of hospital
car?, the Richmond office's ex
perience was almost 20 per
cCnt above the national finure.
The availability of hospital
facilltes in this area may be
above the average, and the fact,
that good facilities are close by
may be a factor that encou
rages people to go to hospitals
when they otherwise would not
Blue Cross’ own analysis is
that "undue pressure is.being
put on doctors to recommend
hospitalization against their
better judgment in cases where
out-patients, home or office
care would suffice." The state
ment fails to mention the possi
bility that sometimes it may be
the doctors who knowing their
patients have Biue Cross cov
erage, encourage them to go to
hospitals when they could hr
treated at home or in the
tor’s offices.
Whatever the cause, un
necessary hospitalizaton is un
desirable for the reasons cited
above. Biue Cross members
and their doctors—could help
hold down the cost of Blue
Cross coverage by declining to
use hospitals simply as a, con
venience te cases of relatively
minor illness.
—RICHMOND TIMES
DISPATCH
« * # *
EDUCATION GREATEST
WEALTH
No mhmr iririitutabnf. offer
such a mi* mvwtfheht for out
futea m to our schools and
anyone now s stranger to Him,
forsake everything and to Him
cling; for everything else is but
“room and board'' when one
can be a multi-millionaire by
earnestly exclaiming “I Am
Thine O’ Lord."
11. “I am Thine O Lord", dis
tinguishes you among the few
who live for service and know
how when and what to do . , .
who waits not on the other
fellow to make up his mmd.
and then hesitatingly follows
slowly behind; but. low to make
slowly behind; but shoulders
the task regardless of the rest,
and plunges in to do his very
best.
12. The “I Am Thine O"
Lord” disciple is truly a “trust
and obey” example who wants
only to know what his Lord and
Savior wants, and then will de
fy all of Satan's haunts: for in
high or deep waters he has
faith in the “word”, and can
confidently say, “I Am Thine
O' Lord.'
colleges. Yet, many people think
of education in terms of ex
pense rather than of invest
ment. We are apt to overlook
the provable fact that teachers
and schools ere our greatest
creators of wealth.
The latest research shows
that individuals with a fourth
grade education, or less, earn in
3. lifetime an average of $72,-
000; while the people with an
eighth-grade education, or less,
make $116,000. High school
graduates, according to the re
searchers, will earn on the ave
rage of $165,000 during their
lives. The average college grad
uate can expect to earn some
where in the neighborhood of
$268,000
The average college students
spend between $4,000 and $5-
000 for his education, but the
dividends are tremedous. He
just about, increases his earn
ing four-folds over the four
graders b- getting specialized
trailing. Men i nthe medcal, en
gineering, and arch tec t Ural
professions earn far more than
the $268,000 earned in a life
time by the college graduate.
Many c! our boys who drop
out of school upon the least,
provocation have little foresight,
and they will live to regret it
in the years ahead* The man
with a fourth-grade education
is doomed to a life of physical
hardships and economic frus
tration. Only a few cases can
this obstacle be surmounted
The Negro ran leas! afford
to drop out o' school if he
wishes,
-SHREVEPORT SUN
BY »F C, A. CHICK, SR
OFI O COLLEGE
The time is rapidly near
when thousands and thousands
of our young people will be leav
ing home to enter college. Some
will be returning as former stu
dents. others will be entering
college for the first time—the
“wise freshman’. This week's
thought is being directed to the
latter
In the first place. T ho£e you
havn ft definite purpbse for
peeking a, highef education.
JUST FOR FUN
BY MAitpU S £
ACADEMIC PRESTIGE
At last members of the tea
ching profession are rising in
status, according to the cynic.
“The students respect us— the
public respects us—they all re
spect, us for being able to get
along on a. teacher's salary.”
MELON FESTIVAL
Froggie Bottom held its an
nual melon festival recently
with Addie Bee, the local wit,
as chairman.
There was the melon raised
by Jim Sewell deep down in
River Hollow. It s seeds were
20 times too big for hens to
swallow.
Young Alfred Stinson grew
two shaped like a dollar, while
James Cloud’s big patch bore
five made like a horse's collar.
Grarsdpap Kennedy in new
ground grew six melions as sour
as Moses, whle Uncle Bob rais
ed three that smelled like thirty
dozen roses.
The top prize contender was
the big 98-pound mellon grown
by the. Tidwell Farms. Mr.
Cornyard bid $36 for it and the
auctioneers said, “Sold!''
Round on the edße of the
contest grounds was Wiley
Reese with three wagon loads
of small melions lean like a
kittle. His high-powered sales
manship ran like this: "If
they're green, they're mine—
if they’re ripe, they’re yours
truly.”
Continuing he yelled. "They
are big as a barrel and long as
g telegram post.’*
AW SHUCKS
Not being able to understand
women wouldn’t be so bad if
they didn't, understand men
THE ALL-ROUND MAN
William Feathers theorizes
Gordon B. Hancock *s
BETWEEN the LMS
OUR REBUTTAL AND
THE NEGRO PRESS
With the Old South spending
millions for propaganda, in its
battle for the minds of the
peoples of the world, the Negro
is peculiarly exposed to one of
the most devastating misrespre
sentations and injustices in the
annals of history. Sociologists
f.ell us that it is propaganda
wnen it tells only one side of a.
question and that is the Old
South’s approach to race rela
tions.
It. would have the world know
that, segregation of Negroes be
cause of their color is the. an
swei to interracial problems
that now vex the South and
will become more vexing as the.
years come and go. Although it
And, even though subsequent
events may cause you to change
your mind so far as your pur
pose and plan for your life,
are concerned, I hope that at
least for the time being you
have a purpose and plan. That
is to say, I hope you are not
going to college just because
that is the thing, as you believe,
for a high school graduate to
do.
Moreover. I hope you are not
entering college just to be fol
lowing the crowd, or because
you rnay feel that there is no
where else to go or nothing else
to do Remember, it costs to go
to college. And. even though
your parents, nor you pay the
entire bill, society pays a part
of it. You rnay be one of the
few young people to have weal
thy parents and thus can waste
some money. However society
is not rich and, thus has no
money to waste.
In the second place, I hope
you have selected your college
to attend that can best assist
you in achieving your purposes
and plans for life I hope you
did not select your college sim -
pl.v because your friends attend
that particular school. Also, it
is my sincere prayers that you
have not chosen your college to
attend because of its popular
ity in athletics, fraternities, so
rorities, etc. etc.
In the third place. T trust,
that, you will always remember,
continuously be mindful of and
never forget that regardless of
what college you have selected
to attend, as to how well you
achieve your purpose and plans
for life will depend more upon
you than any other one factor
at the college. Good teachers
and adequate faclities can be of
great, aid to you in college, but
again I emphasize what you get
out of college for he time and
money your parents and you
will pay. down to the final an
alysis depends largely upon
you.
Moreover, may I advise you
that when once you have en
tered college do not “major" n
“minors”. Do not spend too
much time on the “extras'" that
you will find in any college.
Put your majo’- time and ef
forts on those thngs that null
aid you to prepare for what
ever is your purpose and plans
for life.
Finally, mv prospective stu
dents. do not let. go your “old
fashioned training and your
faith in a Supreme Bepg, just
because you are in ‘'College'.
So many college students
seemingly believe that in order
to be "modern” and, thus, “pop
ular" with the group, they must
he or at least, appear to be,
irreligious But may T beseech
thee to hold fast to your early
Christian teachings that, I
hope, you have received from
your family and your local
churches.
In the words of the Good
Book . . . "hold that fast which
th6u hast- that no bran take
thy crown”. Or further to*
Godd Book says "hold fast
to that which is stood."
BOLL WAR (
the average ich wdow wouldn't
t>e nearly iM interested m an,
offer of lßLrriage from the
town’s bank president as She
would be from a personable but
perhaps penniless combination
plumber-elec’rician-carpenter.
A woman requires three hus
bands; a great lover, a steady
and generous provider, and a
handy man around the house
who can fix. all the tilings that
bet out of whack. The gim
mick every husband faces up
to show to be the best com
bination in one person of these
three.
This makes sense. In these
days when there’s a minimum
price of five dollars from a
plumber or electrician to come
to your house and fix whatever
trouble’s afoot, the more you
see the need for a competent
and general Mr., Fix-Xt-All a
rounri the home.
A libera] and technical edu
cation helps Personality the
husband must have, but a
knack for fixing things is also
a requirement.
(Mr. Cornyard states that, he
is just such a husband pros
pect.)
WORLD’S RANKING
BEAUTIES
The fair sex in the United
States received far fewer votes
for beauty in all polls of 12 na
tions that do Italian and
French women who placed first
and second respectively. Third
was Sweden, fourth was Spain,
and fifth was the United States
of America
MOUNTAIN
Os course there are bigger
things than money For ex
ample, bills at the first of the
month.
ts generally acknowledged that
segregation means the degrada
tion, humiliation and depriva ■
tion of Negroes in their quite
understandable aspirations to
full citizenship, tire Old South
is committed to the eternaliza
t.ion of segregation of Negro?
as away of life for the South
When the Old South says
"not now”, it, means never,
when it says it, refuses to have
integration “forced” upon it. it
means that it will not accept
forced integration or any other
kind.
When millions available for
propaganda, against the Ne
groes’ general indifference to
the possible evils of propagan
da, there is great, danger that
Negroes may be dangerously in
jured by the inequity of means
for propaganda and means fer •
its rebuttal. It, seems that it is
high time that our educated
Negroes, with their learned d~-
grees, were coming down from
their ivory towers and getting
up to their necks in the terri
ble fight that, is raging a bon*
this matter of segregation and
integration
The propaganda story that
the Old South is telling to the
world is disadvantageous and
damaging to the Negro and his
legitimate aspirations What he
is doing about it. becomes a tan
tamount question. And herein
resides the great, bulv ark of re
buttal that is contained in the
Negro press.
It is depressng to imagine
what the cause of Negro ad- ,
vane? would suffer in the face F
of the current multi-million
doilai propaganda without the
help of the Negro press, which
is waxing stronger year by year
The rebuttal which the Negro
press is offering is the greatest
weapon standing between, the
Negro'and total moral annihi
lation in the eyes of the world.
The Negro press affords an
instance where the Negro news
paper should be read bcih for
its news content and because it
is & Negro’s only way of com
batting one of the bitterest,
campaigns ever waged against
a. hapless people. One of the
things that impresses this writ
er in scanning a Negro paper
is the fact that we find so
many things complimentary of
the race that we do not find
in the white press It is true
that more and more the white
Southern press is beginning to
make note of Negro achieve
ment, but, when the whole store
of Negro achievements is told,
the Negro press must tell it
Had it nor, been for the N»
gro press long ago the Negro
would have despaired. And
most certainly the growth of a >.
race’s pride would have been
seriously stunted, When we get
in thankful mood, let us not
forget to thank Our Heavenly
Father for the Negro pres 1 '
through which the world can +
get the complete story of the I
Negros strivings and contriv
ings. Things may be none too
reseate at present, when we
survey the current scene, but
they are a whole lot better than
they would be without a Negro
press to offer the strong rebut
tal that the current propagan
da campaign demands.
What is a debate without s
rebuttal? What is this multi
million dollar propaganda it
the Old South without the Ne
gro press reouttal?
TrA Negroes owe an evens *■*- i
Ina debt of gratitude to the Ne
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Negro Press strong, for we
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insistent the voice of rebuttal Jg
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port of defense
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