THE CAROLm»AIt FTE*'.® ENDING ItTtRDAT SEPTEMBER 29 1 95§ Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S WORDS OF WORSHIP Thar* is one problem that troubles every hu man being Whatever hißs setting or status, he must settle the question of his own selfhood and hour he shall live. In him are impulses and desires seeking expression. Nature gave him a certain character which strives to grow after its kind. Like the plants and animals about him he feels within a generative strength which urges him to ward the fulfillment of hts being. He wants to be himself and no other On thus point, the teaching of Jesus has ex plicit help for us. Without ifs ends or huts he declare* there is only one way to solve, any and ail of the problems which confront us. This is to look for guidance. Whenever we drop the pressure of the world and make quiet contact with the source of all being which, dwells in the secret places of the heart, an answer will come. "Ask. end it shall be given unto you: seek s,nd ye shall find knock, end ft shall b® opened unto you For everyone that ssket'n reeeiveth; and he that seek efch findeth, and to him that knoeketh it shall be opened.’* No one in *ll history has so affirmed th* im portance of the individual as Jesus The theoc racy into which he was bom was 'cased upon the preservation of Jewish faith and tradition, and the destiny of the .ndlvidual was merged with that of the State Although the laws given by 'loses were for the promotion of morality, con formity to national ideals was urged, not for the welfare of the human being but for the main tenance of the identity of the group. Jesus repudiated this idea!’of personal sub mergence and conceded only the necessity for a* 1 outward accommodation of conduct to the in evitable stupidities of society in any day and age holding that in so doing a man’s inner purpose should remain independent. Nor did he advocate The Fight Must Keep On The Negro students who were sent to Ashe ville. from "V ancey County have refused to re turn to the classrooms to which they were as signed in Asheville located in another county. They sought reassignment in the all-white schools of the county in which they reside, but were repeatedly turned down. While they are waiting for their attorney and parents to fake the next step, they are taking advantage of attending private schools which are being ‘ provided by the Burnsville education project, sponsored by white and Ne gro residents of Buncombe and Yancey coun ties Seven high school students have enrolled in a Asheville private school, and another 2d prepare to begin classes in a makeshift school at a Burnsville Negro church. We learn that the project plans to raise $3-500 to rover the expenses of the group. It will employ a teacher for the elementary school at the Burnsville church and pay the tuition of students attending the Allen School in Asheville. Already we have stated our objection to the Idea of private schools in situations like this The Governor Disappoints Us The daily newspapers report that Governor Luther Hodges declined comment on charges that discrimination against Negroes in the state National Guard is “total and complete ’* When asked about the report at his news conference, he answered: “I don’t think I have anything to add to what has been in the pap ers and what General Waynick said.” What did Genera! Capus Waynick say? Simply this: “Under statutory law the organ ised militia, which is the National Guard, is entirely white." Os course. Genera! Wayniok didn't need to make this statement. Every Negro in North Carolina already knows this just like they know that a black man cannot drive a Grey hound or T railway bus. that a Negro can no! •ngineer a train, and that Negroes do not work Episcopal Church Embarrassed? The Rev, James P. pees, Episcopal rector at Statesville, has envoked considerable com ment with reference to the address he made before the Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans, as well as statements of his view on the integration of schools question in North Carolina and elsewhere. * Viewed strictly from the viewpoint of a newspaper editor, there is nothing sacros&nct B bout a minister expressing ideas contrary to the popular Christian viewpoint nor has a preacher committed a great sin when he joins s White Citizens' Council. Yes, as n citizen the Rev, James P. Dees has a right to free speech, Whether or not there is a differentiation be bekeen a citizen and clergyman of the Epis copal Church is a matter for the officials to decide, Thus, the future -n S bin between Reverend Mr. Dees a "hUrch will have to be de' dence, reason, and justice. Vm ... _ Epis-' eopai Church does not wish to use censorship or coercion to brine this rector in line with its principles. V hile Reverend Mr. Dees exercises his in- A Proposed Bus Terminal !t 15 time for the City Council Transporta tion Committee to seriously study the possi bility of establishing a downtown bus termi nal to provide comfort and shelter for persons waiting on buses and those vyho wish to make transfers. she terminal we envision would at least Have a roof to provide passengers with shelter from ram, sleet, and snow. In addition, seats would he installed m ordei that passengers migi t: sit down while waiting for the buses which olten run from 30 to forty-five minutes ?parf at certain hours around the clock on •reek days and Sundays. supine accepb&am of the dictates of tbc majority, for he continually expressed a. willingness to con test external evils and die in that conflict. In this sense he is in every way a savior. It is noteworthy that throughout his ministry Jesus not only taught "The Kingdom of heaven is within you.’ but emphasized the importance of the individual and the need of protecting him from the domination of social ignorance. In fact it is obvious that his healing depended upon freeing the personality from enslavement to the tradition of that ds.v, a release of his attention from its fixation upon external customs and it® return to the power within himseil. It la also dear that what he called being possessed by evil spirits meant being controlled by forces in the environment, hy influences out side the self. Whe® these devils of belief in the world and faith in its standards and traditions war® east out, the tree nature was free to fallow the guidance of its inner vision. For nearly two thousand yeans, humanity has not dared to accept this greatest of all teaching* For hundreds of years, it has continued to live under fear involved in the usages of the world, compromising to its conventions, focused on its ways. War, greed, hangar, and exploitation prove how these values have failed. If we would have peace, if w« would find joy and fulfillment m = must free ourselves of the servile materialism. We must refuse to trust, the world and. putting forth faith in the powers within ourselves, dare again to seek for the dwelling of God. And being asked by the Pharisee when the Kingdom of God cometh. Jesus answered them and said. "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall thev sav, Lo her* 1 m lo there* for behold, the Kingdom of God >* within you ” Commendable as the efforts of the. education project are, a makeshift school has no place in the American society. As a matter of principle, if. would be better for the children to remain at home until their cases have been resolved by the court. Yancey County has a holy commitment to educate these 27 Negro children in the schools within the confines of its boundaries. !t cannot in no way push the problem of educating these children into the lap of Buncombe County. And since it has no so-called Negro school, it cannot justify any other decision than to ad mit these pupils into its county schools. For the men of high calling on the school board to take their present stand is (to say the least) dishonorable. We hope that the parents of these children will not be lulled Into complacency by the temporary private school education project. The site of their children In a private make shift school should make them whet their swords and enter the integration fight until their battle is won. Right is on their side and they cannot help but win. in clerical positions at the State Highway De partment Building. The Governor seems to be noted for his "hands off policy,” The least that the black citizens of the State could expect from the Governor would be for him to say it is wrong, and that he would use the powers of his office to bring about a revision of die law limiting the National Guard to whites only. When a reporter asked the Governor if the State should integrate its Guard units, the Governor said, "I think all you’re doing is borrowing trouble there.” We want to say that ihe great push is on for acquiring the elemen tary rights for the Negro. The State might a* well face this issue now, because it is destined to come up m the not-to-far-distance future. Mr, Governor, you disappointed us! dividual rights ss a citizen he certainly has embarressed the Episcopal Church. His ac tions without doubt force the Church to ex plain that he does not have its endorsement. !n fact as a rector, he cannot help but appear at any meeting as ordained priest of the. church— symbolically at least. And this is an inescap able fact. Appearing in role of s segregationist. Rev erend Mr, Dees finds himself in conflict with the pronouncements and deeds of the Man from Galilee. Jesus taught that God is our Fa ther and we are His children. Therefore the least in His sight is as precious as the king. By his actions. Jesus showed that all men are bro thers and there is but one class—the human race. To prove this He fraternized with pub I leans and sinners, the Pharisees, as well as the Samaritans, We urge Reverend Mr. Decs to search his conscience if he has one. He has embarrassed the church, and he knows it. Now that he has put the Episcopal church “on the spot”, Rev. James P. Dees must decide for himself what course of action he must take. He cannot hr a segregationist and Episcopal rector at the *«m time. The two just don't mix The two nmst suitable'locations m terms of vacant sites are: (1) the park located at the East Martin and Blount Streets intersection, or (2) Nash Square. The advantages of locat ing the terminals at one of these points would far outweigh the disadvantages. Bus patrons get “awfully” tired standing with armsfui of packages and waiting for bus es. Something should be done to make their waiting more comfortable, end now is the time to do it. Os course many people will disagree with °ur suggestion, and this is to be expected, If they do, then let them come up with some thing better. Did it Again. Wil! He Be Permitted To Do It In 1960? What Other Editors Say STATEMENT OP THP WEEK College foolbal! teams which are in all essentials professional rather than amateur in charac ter draw vast crowds: and in order to keen their stadia filled they feel obliged to extend their professionalization of the ‘spirit’ by practicing long before the opening of school and hy mak ing a grueling business out of what is supposed to be a form of play. The plain truth is tha* college football, and to a con siderable extent high school football, no longer has anything whatever to do with cultivation of the heatth. character and sportsmanship of students, ft is a ruthless contest for big money m which victory is equated with virtue —WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS Discrimination against Np groes in the North Carolina Na tional Guard is “total and com plete’’. says a report of the Stale Advisory Committee rm Civil Rights. If this is irue—and it seems In he true—here is another area where the minority race has » valid criticism against both cus tom and law. ts ab!e-bodi°b citizens of th» state—while and Negro are called on for compulsory mili *ary service, they should ha - ’* sn equal right, to serve in th» state's militia, if they desire and otherwise qualify. The attorney general’s office m's the North 'Carolina law saying white and Negro citizens shall ’’never He compelled to serve in the same orgamaztion” has never been tested consti tutionally But there is grave nuesfion whether it would stand up The Daily News is not. inter ested in integrating the N. C. National Guard. It could suffer thereby, if a campaign in that direction were pursued dili gently. But here again, as in the schools, when individual cases prove discrimination, fair-mind ed citizens among us—and the® are many in both races—must admit that, truth is truth, and sometimes it hurts —GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS “SNOOPER-VISORS- A new terminology has been coined for some of our school principals who are requiring their teachers to fill out qn®s tionna'res regarding their per sonal affairs The move is so unusual until it has created fear in the teach er ranks. Some have expressed that if they refused to answer such qustions as '‘Spouses’’ nc* copation? Number of chillreu’ Where employed? etc., reprisal might be iaken This personal questionnaire we understand, is aside from questionnaires teachers are re quired to fill on* by the super intendent’s office The Labor News inquired nf some of the retired principals Whether this procedure was mandatory. The reply was that during the periods in which they were active, was negative And, they also referred to this practice as being the work- of “'Snooper-Visors’’ and offtimes our informant said, “that the practice had beep used to -'m---- sure- teachers, even to the ex font of immoral purposes” —NEG*RO LABOR NEWS fit 0(1 St on. Texas' MIL rcv'sftkt pys-T ri.Tß.tr, T!y= American Medical A m nation ha* estimated that m -.,.. Weight Anrerirsns ,spend f*oo,. 000.000 each year for spurious diet, aids and useless mechani cal devices. The Postmaster Genera! has stated that reducing schemes are probably the most lucrative of medical frauds today, and that Hie use of the mails to promote medical quackery is at the high est level in history The fact is that science ha not yet produced a simple, safr and sane food, drug, or device which will bring about loss of body weight without e;- of the will to cut down food intake. The principal factor in reduc ing is the exercise of the will— the ability to pass up that sec ond helping and to push oneself away from a tempting dish ■ PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE THE WILKINS-JACKSON SKIRMISH Significant was the approval by (he board of directors of the t.500.000-member National Bap tist. Convention meeting in San Francisco, of fhp position taken hy Dr Joseph H. Jackson of Chicago, its president, who re- IN THIS OUR DAY BY »S. C. A, CHICK, SR. A WARTIME ECONOMY VS. A PEACE TIME ECONOMY There are those of sufficient age to still recall very vividly Hie 1323 stock market crash and the long economic depression that followed it. ,So severe was the depression that it. is gener ally designated as the “Great Depression.” Many people, some of whom are well-informed, e ven specialists in matters per- taming to economics and gov ernment, say that it actually took World War 11 to finally break the back of the depress ion. They point out that despite aD of Roosevelt’s “New Deals', such as work projects, youth camps, changing the gold con tent of the dollar, farm support prices and crop reduction, hous ing programs, cashing the sold iers bonuses etc, down to the final analysis if. food a second World War to really bring our economy back to normal If the foregoing is true, if it took a war to revive our econo my. it was not really revived A war is an abnormal situation as well »s an abnormai human ration in all its phases. Under such circumstances, what, may apppar to be an economic pros perity is nothing other than » false and temporary economic stimulation likened unto a pa per bag inflated with air which can be easily deflated. Whether or not it took World War II to halt the “Great De pression" vnav be a debatable question. Be that as it may this writer is concerned with the behavior of our economy during months. This thing that terribly the past, twelve to eighteen disturb this writer with refe rence to our economy is that, when the so-called cold war. sets a little cooler, when there is a httle sign of peace, good will and international under standing, she economy becomes sluggish, stocks and bonds de cline in prices, and business firms curtail their spending on capital expansion as well as on current inventories. This writer feels very keenly Hist the foregoing is s danger ous economic pyschology. Do v * want to build an economy thg; depends for its prosperity upon the cvernrocwt'ji cently clashed with DTAACP Ex ecutive Secretary Roy Wilkins, over the pace of school s*g:‘ 2 - gafion in Little Rock. The National Baptist Conven tion directors commended the Little Rock School Board for the token integration achiever: for this term, while the NAACP has filed suit to compel the ad mission of more Negro children in the local schools. The Baptist action points up a widesp'read war weariness on the part of many Negroes in the fifth year of conflict over public school desegregation (which is by no means confined to Bap tists) and an apparent, desire for a limited peace. While this viewpoint is under standable. and adjustment in Little Rock (and elsewhere) is desirable, we believe Mr Wil kins and the NAACP are cor rect in their feeling that the pare of desegregation has been too slow, and that what gains that have been made have come as a result of a militant, uncom promising campaign PITTSBURGH COURIER spending more and more pro ducing goods for war purposes or fear of war? It, seems to this writer that our capitalistic sys tem —a system that we love so well—-must prove to the world that through it an economy can remain prosperous producing consumer goods and capital goods to be used to produce more consumer goods. Let's lay aside our fear psy chology and use our know-how in producing goods for peace time consumption! Along The Colonial Front BY A. t SIGGINS FOB ANY AUSTRALIA AS WORLD CENTRE LONDON. England For many years I have forseen the need for farming the seas and, in order to have the best world centrp for this purpose suggest - ed the formation of s Pacific and Indian Oceans' Peoples' Federation in order to guaran tee law and order with, a United Stains of Oceania as the dynam- Thousanda of vessels special ic centre. ly equipped for different tasks are urgently needed Scores of thousands of bases are also ur gently needed. Millions of men and women must be specially trained fbr different types of of work. But we have no teach ers, nor funds enough for ail this urgently needed work Therefore the first step is for North and Youth America Ja pan and all the peoples of O ceania, Asia and Africa to de mand forthwith the formation of a Pacific and Indian Oceans' Peoples' Federation with s U nited States of Oceania as the dynamic centre and Australia as the capital. THE APPEAL IS FOB A JUST PEACE WITH GUAR AN TEES OF INTEGRITY FOR FRONTIERS. NONE OF THE HATTONS NF> n be ARMED w u f.n adequate police forces b? srfAßCifja a BotawAsts RATS OFF Hats off to Uie Redwood City. Calif, poetic burglar who stole JlB6 from a roadsid* case and research laboratory Wh a n he derailed, he left mi:- note be hind at ejjc,h pip'-e 'Roses are red. violet? are blue: money is sweet, and i thank vou ' yr '* p‘nrd and invited me to ’■id* l up York Road hi f.nesf.er S C When he opened tnr- lefthand front door, a lone, green snai ‘ wiggled out to oui THEKF- \V-\S A TIME Once upon a tj.rr?r a * oung lady teacher was swindled oul ~e f non . _ —t, tl. Oi «f> : l JUU ii l t. (-• ' 1 • ' r C* 11 ' people n-c i-4g VV'ai business had a teacher ith sc Gordon B. Hon cock '$ THE MIGHTT pot 1.-Ap T he wo! Id was recently &t.ui rrj by tllf. JU i Huge Ol OR'-' l.lie scions ol the middy Rocl,- fellow family to Norwegian bP'iuty ol humble birth in it heart the world regarded tin marriage as a condescension ol Rockfellcr, a son oi wealth ani affluence, while .1 - a mm • ter of fact, it may not have be n a condescension at all Rockfeller has no claim to greatness nor superiority save that which conies of bis brine the son ot a mulii-tniliionaiir, a. dubious did inert ion alter nil Tire young man h.i - accom plished nothing aside from be ing a Rockfeller whose grand father ama sod a vast, fortune by his shrewdness in manipu lating an oil empire. The stir created by the marriage of a wealthy Rockfeller to the hum ble Rasmussen maiden of Nor way just z here, rt I shut the station and everyone who came tobdr' a ticket a bode of whiskey. fi ty cigarettes and the ta.-.ifars u> his destination, Id b* s a 1n _ money.'' We tvouldn t a’ <= th* to tell three of mv old jokes rusH- j-.d 1 nrrt O’lt Irn Sljr« T’jl : 1 : i . ' composttion. pa j..:.- wo free spending .habits of Nfgroes are not conducive to budding of greafc for tunes s Home years ago I was erutoule. to Egypt and Palestine and happened to meet, a friendly Englishman who was enrouta to Calcutta for a sojourn of seven years We had our firs* moai together, on one of th* fim 1 English liners cruising the Mediterranean, with hun dreds of wealthy Englishmen aboard. The Englishman ordered w hone steak, for dinner I course followed. The only He yin aboard must not be, short' This kind, of thing went on un til we parted at Port Bald. ' Egypt. But before my trip was' •'tided and sea in in New York t v,is eating Hamburger. Started out eating T-bone steak and wound tip eating Hamburger. Somewhere down the line my English friend bad forbears who made T-bon* steaks possible for him. I had no sueli forbearers If the Negro would have j T-bone steak tomorrow, some body must eat hamburger to day. In order to accumulate tin dollar that made the Rockfel irr nuptials a. world even* some Negroes must save and work hard and sacrifice. The dollar is mightn> in today* world. - - Letter To \ TSie Editor This is the third year that ! have been teaching Negro col lege students and I am con voiced that Negroes must prov* themselves much better Scholar) than whites in order to compel* with the whites. I am a white man and I know that these Southern whites will have to be out-gen era led and defeated by a Negro race that is superior to them because of education, cub' ■ ture, and training. It will take long and hard work for Negro students to attain this, but H • can be done. Equality can be gamed in this way. I am sure. • but it is a long uphill fight arri ri cannot be achieved by wish ing for it or through lawsuit* Hard work, patience and Sfib • dj will bring it about. ‘ J W JEWELL. Ph D.. Professor of. English Lan guage and Literature, ■ • 1-p m-gstone College, Salisbury, N. C. ■