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THE CAROUmiIK WEEK ENDING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER B, 1955 4 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S WORDS OF WORSHIP "Go lye into the highways and byways and scalpel them to come." The Bibie. This message is the advise which Jesus gave Christians in the work of evangelism in their local churches With this commission, the mem bers seeking to win others to Christ cannot afford to make the mistake of apologizing The message today is for you—the Christian. When you engage in personal evangelistic work, you represent the King In His name you have a right to be heard. But be tackful. It is unwise to talk in terms of salesmanship. Yon are not. trying to sell something that money can buy. Salvation is free It calls for a personal experience of God’s redeeming grace, and a life of devotion to the Lord Jesus. Partly fat this rea son it is unwise to do much talking. Give the other person an opportunity to think. If he says little, be may be listening to God. It is foolish to argue. High-pressure methods defeat themselves It is wrong to get angry. If you cannot control your temper, stay at home and saw wood. It is wrong also to compromise with con science. Sin is sin. The man whom Christ saves is so ashamed and sorry for his past that he repents and confesses to God. It is a grievous error to . suggest that an. unconverted person become a proselyte. The Kingdom will never come in a. com munity where the churches steal sheep. Church And Race Relations Speaking in New York City recently. Dr. < Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College, declared that neither the Negro nor white churches are doing all that they might in working toward a solution of the racial problem, Negroes have criticized the white church for its segregation policies and violation of the < principles of Christian fellowship. They feel that the church should take a stand for what is right in both, word and deed The white min istry has been challenged to become stewards of high calling. But, what have the Negro churches through their national headquarters done, for example, to assist in the integration of the public schools? Surely there are some techniques they could employ to prepare their local parishes and communities for this change in social liv ing. Should there not be some sort of briefing of Negro pupils as to what problems to expect is integrated schools and how to meet them 3 What sort of help are the churches prepared to give Negro parents who lose their jobs for seeking to have their children assigned to pre viously all-white schools 3 'What encourage ment and assistance are Negro churches ore pared to give white ministers <s wh© are fired' 4 < because of their Christian stand on the matter 11, S. Senate Has N, C, Visitor Tk«* is much good to he gamed from the U. S Senate hearings where five Negroes from North Carolina appeared , . four in behalf of s federal district judge and one against his appointment. The fact that five prominent Negroes from the state took time out and in vested funds to voice their convictions for and against newly-appointed Federal District Judge Algernon Butler is significant The CAROLINIAN will not attempt to jus tify either parties However, it wishes to point up the great need for participation in city, state., and federal affairs by more Negroes who are willing to stand up and voice their views and opinions. This is the American way There will be s great awareness of the newly-elected judge by many more people than otherwise because of the pert played by the five Negroes who ap peared for .and against him. Death On Our Highways Excessive speed was by far the biggest single cause of traffic accidents that caused mors than 2,825,000 injuries and 37.700 deaths on the United highways during 1038, according to s report by the Travellers Insurance Com peny- Speed killed end injured nearly 1,000.000 persons in the United States last year, more than 40 per cent of the total Cars that did not have the right of way were involved in 25,2 per eent of the accidents caus ing a total of 608,400 injuries during the year. Reckless driving was blamed for 10.4 per cent and improper signaling for 3.6 per cent. Crossings at intersections was the chief cause of the 7,000 pedestrains killed and 245,800 in jured. A total of 10.1 per cent or 27,040 pedes trains were injured while crossing with the sig nals as compared with 7.4 per cent injured crossing against the signal. The report revealed that 07.1 per cent of the drivers involved in fatal accidents had more than a year of driving experience; eighty-seven and nine-tenths oer cent of the drivers in volved in fatal accidents were men. Fatal pile-ups could not be attributed to bad weather, because the weather -was reported as clear and fair at the time of occurenee in eightv-seven per cant of the causes. Evidently, the drivers had no one to blame but themselves. Our highways say at the proper sites, “Yield the right of way," Yet one-fourth of the acci dents were caused by drivers who failed to “‘yield the right of way ” These drivers appar ently didn't "give a Continental” about their safety,, or else they would have brought their automobiles to a stop The demon Speed caused, as we have said, more than 2,825,000 in tunes last year, yet our highways have signs which designate speed It is, useless to work in the spirit erf gloom. Faith, love, and hope arc? contagious. So axe doubt, coldness, and despair. When you go out to in tercede for Christ, be at your best. Look and act like a Christian! Be radiant! While it may not be sinful to get blue, neve; engage in soul winning when your heart is not in your singing. Remember that results appear slowly at first. In some cases you will not succeed. The Lord Himself did not win the rich young ruler, and many another. While the Master did prevail with Nicodemus. the victor? came long after the first meeting. The person who is hardest to win often means most to the cause. It is unwholesome to think much about the obstacles, and your owes limitations. Lift up your heart and trust in the Lord. It is wrong not to try and keep on trying The worst mistake is to trust in. yourself, not in the Spirit of God. Learn to pray and work. Form the habit of engaging in religious con version Whenever you find that a man is not a Christian and a member of the church, pray for him. Then speak to him • about Christ. If your faith falters, keep saying to yourself: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help" Towering above those hills behold the Cross. of integration? These are questions which the Negro churches must answer sooner or later It may be all right for our churches to preach “the golden streets over there”, but it is just. as important to guide people in making satisfac tory adjustments in a country where “the walls of discrimination and segregation” are gradu ally tumbling down. The Negro churches must begin now “a iob crusade" for black youths. In this movement, the churches must emphasize finding the right vocations and then preparing adequately for them. They must be prepared to give schalor ships and make education loans to intellect ually gifted and talented young people who are without funds to continue their education. The Negro can’t expect to be integrated into high-level professional, engineering, and edu cational positions unless he is prepared for them. The church is probably best equipped at present to assist our youth in getting this adequate preparation. A program of evangelism, soul-winning, and missions is needed to be sure However, the. Ne gro church needs to broaden its base of opera tion in order to help youths break through economic barricades into the limelight of A merican prosperity. Alcxsncter Hsmcs., in pftrticul&r, ths ion<& <3is i renter to Judge Butler's appointment, certain : ly contributed many columns of publicity to i the newly-elected judge. He no doubt also set somewhat of s precedent for this section in facing an astute member of the Republican party, of which Mr. Barnes is also a long-time member and worker, to let him know face to face he was against his appointment. Mr, Barnes is certainly due a vote of confidence for his forthrightness and courage ~ and the other four. E>r. Merritt, Sammons, Scabrook, and Spaulding have a right to their views and should be commended for standing up and stating; them. May their number increase in our state, because it is in this area that many times we are absent , by choice or invitation. Such participation result in greater dignity and respect. limits for trucks and cars. On our mountain highways, drivers are cautioned bo drive at certain safe speeds printed on highway signs. There is absolutely no excuse for the failure of drivers to observe speed limits in cities and on highways. There is no excuse for failure to yield the right of way and stop at dangerous crossings. There is no excuse for running signal lights in town, In some cases, the pedestrains ere to blame for their death or injury. We have seen pedes trains walking against the light on our busy main streets. You may ask. what can we do s bout this matter of automobile accidents and deaths? Our city police departments and highway patrol have done everything possible to reduce automobile accidents and deaths, but they are fighting a losing battle against strong-headed, disobedient drivers. They have fined speeders, revoked driver's licenses of offenders, often more-than-adequately warned motorists with bright-colored signs, required driver’s license tests and wh@t~have-you. With proper precaution and moderation., many of us can live to a ripe old age. But if we are daring and headstrong, an untimely death may he our end. The slogan "the life you save may be your own" should sober each one of us. This week hundreds of North Carolina schools opened for the 1959-1960 academic session. Since children don’t always think be fore crossing a highway or dashing onto the road, drivers at this time of the year should make special effort to be careful. The 15-mile per-hour rule in school rones should be obeyed to the letter; end persons caught violating the law should be meted out justice heavy-handed ly. Ml HE MAKE IT! THE FREE MLS SENTENDE SERMONS BY REV, FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP , WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR WORLD J. Though important as may be the circus tent, it does not compare with the genius of the actors on whom ali eyes are bent 2. Thus you and I, under this not just try to come out even, great canopy oi Heaven, should but- go beyond all usual vent ures,, and in the hearts end minds of others leave lasting treasurers 3. If everyone who reads these lines would be honest kind and fair, there would be left very little to solve, and far less of earth s troubles to share, but because we think too little about others, too much time is left in which to make serious blunders. 4 Today our world is all a flame and individuals and na tions being given a bad name, there is nothing material that can rectify these wrongs and certainly no balm for heart aches in siren songs. 5. And now faced with an evil unheard of before is a. What Other Editors Say MXIECRATS CALL THE TUNE To the surprise of practically nobody, the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives . have decided to shelve the civil rights bill until its second ses sion convenes m January. Senate Majority Leader Lyn don Johnson (D.-Tex.) lias been saying all along that his body will pass a “limited” civil rights bill during this session, but the prospects seem very siim, as indicated by the des perate efforts of a handful of proponents to tack it on to an agricultural bill. Even at best it seems there will be no civil rights law pass ed during this session, thanks to Democratic control of the Congress and the chairmanship of all of its committees chiefly by those who signed the South ern Manifesto. Congressmen like Representa tive Cellar (D.-N Y.) charge that failure to enact a mean ingful civil rights law is due to a wicked coalition of Southern Democrats and Northern Re publicans; but the fact remains that no matter what Republi cans do. the Democrats have a large enough majority to enact any legislation they wish, but they just don’t wish to pass a civil rights law. —PITTSBB URG COURIER THE NEW AUTOMOBILES; BEAUTY BEFORE COMFORT The big squeeze in automo biles lately involves more than finding enough money to pay for them. It also concerns how to get. in and out without bumping head or knees, or scraping your hat on the celling or dragging your trouser legs on the floor The plain truth is, the cars don't fit the passengers any more. Detroit, strangely enough, is the first to admit this, Heres the comment of ’an of ficial of the Ford Motor Co. as quoted by The Wall Street Journal: People have clearly demon strated their willingness to ac cept something less than com plete comfort to get a good looking car So there it is—that old devil, vanity. When Chrysler abandoned the race toward rakishly low models after World War If and beast in ambush known as "cold war" , . , and ever so of ten he seems to disappear, then suddenly returns and moves up too near. 6. He is a monster with cha racteristics of which no coun try could beast, but sadly we see some of his reflections boldly prevading our coasts: hate, avarice, prejudice and greed are certainly not. whole some ingredients on which any nation should feed. 7. Now isn't it sad. that in a beautiful world like this, hu man be mgs would attempt to ignore God, and His Divine laws resist?-—but this is right where we are today, despite all of the proof we see, that sin does not pay. & Just think, God does not hide the Sun because of some wrong things we have done , . . nor does He darken the Moon for the human hearts we chance to wound . . . but rather tries to have us see that He sympa thizes with you and me. 9. Yet. here we are a heed less majority who insist upon ignoring Divine authority, and concentrated on passenger com fort, it practically went bank rupt. When it- came back strong the following year with “The Forward Look” models that tall drivers had to duck to get into it restored its fiscal health. Now the race, toward low' ceilings has reached Cue ri diculous stage. General Motors models have that annoying “dog leg” at the doors where passengers knock their knees black and blue. The low- wrap around windshields have creat ed problems of protecting pass engers in case of wrecks; there’s very little metal support in car roofs these days But what will Detroit do t hout this? Not, a great deal, to judge from the latest word. The new' Fontiacs, lower and more rakish, are selling better than ever. People seem willing to sacrifice comfort for beauty And perhaps that’s an old story. Just watch the next big-foot ed matron you know limping down the street, in narrow' shoes. —DURHAM MORNING HERALD HIGH GOST OF ILLNESS Some thoughtful suggestion? for dealing with the high cost of hospitalization axe offered in an article in. The Nation writ ten by its publisher, George Kir stem is troubled by the eco nomic unpleasantness drama tized in the recent 46-day New York City hospital strike, par ticularly the $32-a-week wages for hospital workers. For bur densomely high though hospital fees are to most patients, they still are partly subsidized by workers In the Institutions who serve for pay at a shamefully low level. "The cost of ward care in e typical New York hospital is nearly S3O a day, yet if all. labor exploitation were to cease. Blue Cross would have to pay at least double its current rates to hospitals,” Mr. Kir stem writes. One part- of the answer, he be lieves. lies in reconstitution of boards of trustees. Hospital boards generally are run by rich men who finance the deficite, he ssye, and thought they ars unselfish and generous they bring to bear on the economic problems of health adminlstra -4 instead of our world resemb ling God’s Kingdom, it is tak ing on the aspect of a lawless gangdom. 10. This very day (Wed , Aug 12. 1958' Little Rock is giving the world another shock , . - their cancerous hate toward dark pigmentation and hair makes them inhumanly hate ful and grossly unfair, and all who think alike with them only add to the holocaust and fan the flame. 11. Thus you and I can plain ly see that the present status of t-h's world rests with you and me . . and if we fail to under stand, we invite chaos and doom to visit our glorious land 12. If behoves each of us then to be right in cur think ing, and from hearts fitted for the skies for anything less would not suffice, but only be so many lies, so to share in this momentous task of making real that part of the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Will Be Done In Earth As It Is In Heaven' you and I must be fair and square and kind to all of Gods' children ticn a, limited point of view H*. believes hospitals could be more economically run if their gov erning boards included econ omists, sociologist and “schol ars in other • disciplines bearing on public-health administra tion,'’’ who would explore new methods. Supply costs represent the approximately one thrd of a hospital’s total cost which have really skyrocketed. The Nation's publisher writes. He mentions neither the recent, congressional investigation into the costs of new drugs nor the indications that some physicians are em ploying them indiscriminatlng ly The investigation into drug prices ended in cor.clusi.veT-' largely because of the difficulty of determining how much a drug house was justified in its pricing policies by the costs of research and development, and the subject, evidently deserves further scrutiny —WASHINGTON POST Along The Colonial Front BY A. J SIGGINS ißinish Journalist For AMP) CHAOS OR CONCERT IN AFRICA—FART SI Hhana and Guinea appear on the surface to be a team, but below' the surface among the people, they are poles apart. Dr. Nkrumah is a very mix ed-up little man. While an nouncing Ghana's intention to proceed with plans to become a republic, he tries to retain con tacts with the Queen. The source of Dr. Nkrumah’s headache —which lias become chronic is lack of funds, a hole in the Ghana purse. The headache has been ac centuated by the refusal of two French African states to join his two -state West African, fed eration, and the postponement of the Queen’s visit. He was. told the postponement was likely last June, just when his strug gle with that very smart lad. Sekou Touro of Guines, was at its peak—and that did not help bis headache. •Touro can play tfc both wavs; JUST TOR FUN '• BY MARCUS H. BO UL WARS MATING CALL TAPED A recent newspaper article told of a University of Mary land student. John P. Stout, who is “taping” (recording) the sounds made by fish and other marine life. Stout is seek ing his Ph.D degree and came to the Duke laboratory to stu dy marine invertebrate zoology under Professor C. G. Bookhut. The research student, is seek ing to determine what stimu lates one sex of, the fiddler crab to recognize the other. Stout said, “I consider vision, smell and noises” to be impor tant. He has found that the male fiddler crab utilises both vision and noise to attract his mate. FRESHMAN ESSAY Last spring in one section of Freshmen English, we read an essay entitled The Courtship of Animals” by Julian Huxley describing among other things the courtship of the fiddler crab. The male fiddler crab has one enormously enlarged claw, which may weigh al most as much as the rest of the body, and is often brightly-colored It used to be supposed that with this the male stopped their bur rows. or fought other males, or seised and carried off the females However, the careful studies of Dr Pearce show that its main function is one of display In the mating season when a female comes past, the males thi ow themself es into ’ tiptoe attitude, with the big claw rigi dly held aloft If the female takes no notice the male runs again to where she can see him, and again strikes the statuesque pose. If she goes too far, he returns to his burrow The observer may sum up his impressions in these words: “the males appear to be displacing their maleness ” STOI T'S OBSERVATIONS Stout at Beaufort, N C.. says “When the male fiddler crab Gordon B. Hancock '$ DOING SOMETHING ABOUT n In 1944, when 14 Negroes were invited to collaborate in writ ing What The Negro Wants." the writer was the only one who took note of the importance of propaganda Having offered courses in social psychology at Virginia Union for quite 20 years familiarized him with the potentialities of propaganda Then too. see how effectively our count'-- employed propagan da in building up sentiment a gainst the Germans in World War 1 who were tied by blood to this country in ways that were difficult to break down We called them Huns” and fi nally made it. appear that every other barn doo run France had a baby nailed to it. the hellish work of the “Huns” Shortly af ter the war was over, we knew we had misrepresented them in the interest of victory to the al lied arms. So, when we v. ere called upon to write “What The Negro Wants”, it. occurred to me that propaganda would eventually play an important part, in ad justment of race relations, which even then, were pressing for consideration I approached the matter thus: “The coming of propaganda is a threat m many ways against minority groups Propaganda ex plains more than anything else why the Negro has been damn ed in the eyes of the world. Pro paganda deals in half-truths which are too often deterimen tal to minority groups by rea son of their inability to finance the whole truth The man who can finance propaganda is in the last analysis the only one who can be guaranteed its ad vantages Like-science, whether propaganda is good or bad, de pends upon whether it falls into the hands of good or bad per sons “Those words were prophetic of a day that has already dawn ed when the Old .South, has turn ed to propaganda in a big way. with millions involved To date this propaganda campaign has not had the attention of the Ne gro press that it deserved. Only recently have we evidences that Negroes are at long last waking up to the evil potentialities of the Old South’s relentless cam paign to win. to brainwash the nation and the world on the He can go along with the French and gain all the advan tages offered by the French Union economy (aided by the fact that France is a member of the European Common Market) and, at the same time, gain any advantage likely to accrue through his treaty with Ghana. However Nkrumah is tied to the sterling bloc and controlled by Britain and the U. S., both of which would form their over seas economic problems to meet world markets’ needs. Nkrumah dearly wants to wear both a crown and a halo; he wants to be recognized as a Messiah. 'The Messiah and Li berator of all Africans," but doesn’t want to fall out with the oppressors against whom he fought. It has become clear to him that they hold the only purse open to him. unless he moves over to the Communists, For probably the first time tn his life, this doctor of econom ics has been forced to face the the facts instead of the theories of international economics, and he doesn’t like it at all. spots a female fiddles' crab, hi begins a series of motions his oversized claw, much like ar orchestra leader directing a:: musicians. He then retreats u his hole as the female follows. • It is when the inale •reach.. his hole that he begins his * of love, designed, to epax th u male into the hole with and it is these sounds uiv! Stout is recording by setthu i. a microphone on a stick n?.h. ing over the fiddler crabs n„. in the sand. THE SPIDER Our study of animal court ship in the English class reveal - ed some interesting things a bout one type of hunting spid er. The male spider offers the female a nice fly, neatly w rapped in silk. If put in a box by himself with % fly, he will eat it; but if with a fly and a female, will wrap and offer it; and il a box from which a female has recently been removed, arid in which her odor still presumably linger*, he win still wrap it, and search like Shelley with his bouquet, “That he might there pre sent it!—Oh, to whom?” The female of the web-spin ner spider is almost,, blind Tbs y male comes to web of the fe male and vibrates one of the threads in a special mannas (say boy), quite different from the vibrations made by the trapped prey. If the male did not vibrate the web differently from that of the prey, the fe male would treat the male like any other small living object* and eat him (poor fellow). In many species of spider*, the female actually eats tits male after the act of mating With some female sliders, she is actually hostile at first. The male who is much smaller than the female is always ready to run away during the early phases of the courtship. CWhat a tough life?). race question. The end is act \ yet Limited as they are in finan - ces and unorganized as they are for a counter-attack, these arise? the question "What can the Ne gro do in the promise? The time is at hand when our highly degreed Negroes mur come down from their ivory ■ towers, and come to grips wtt*’ the situation. It is not enough for Negro ministers to "run hot" in their pulpits on Suada:, morning while alluding to the current crisis. It is not enough for our teachers to "run hot” is their classrooms and heroics themselves as champions of the Negroes' larger freedom Thai is easy. What we need is some way te let the white man know how w* fee! rather than ths Negro—for about all Negroes feel alike or. the color question What we need to do is to exploit the op portunities the white press off ers in its open forum for its readers It is heartbreaking to see haw few Negroes avail themselves of A the opportunity to write articles rebutting the “masive. resistors" and the White Citizens’ councils propaganda Fortunately the columns are open to any Negro who has a constructive approach to the question. Let us use this public opinion leverage to coun ter a campaign that threatens to undo all that has beer*, done * for nearly a hundred years. We do not need to be abusive, but factual. We do not need to call names, but parade the facts, Tiiere ought to be, in every citv and community, a •’rebuttal club” setting forth the Negro ude of this pressing question. As it is. the massive resistor* and the White Citizens councils are busy getting their side be fore the world while we are let ting pass a great opportunity to utilize the columns of our daily pavers in ways that could help matters POET’S COSHER' ODE TO SEPTEMBER BY CHARLES' R. JONES CAROLINIAN Managing Editor s Thou art. a gift of summer's sun-kissed breast, So welcome to a parched land And Ln remorse Did summer fashion thee and nobly bless. The sweet, balm of thy days, (not without force To wander back to these which gave thee life) Has kindled sparks anew within the hearts Os lovers, whose course did seem to waver Admidst the fervent breath of summer’* strife. September, thou 'are dueen • month of the year. And to thy court all others honor pay. O’ month of fleeting days, nocturnal cheer. Os auburn woodlands, strewn o'er the wav Seek not to imiti&te October’* gaudy dress ■/ But e'er remain as fair arid unadorned As thou now art: a symbol of .. rare beauty. ■ September! Autumn's post <a& loveliness.