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4 THE CAIOUNMN RALEIGH, V, C. SATURDAY, ADfHTf-T U, IG#l . Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP In these disturbing times there is a thrilling challenge in the realization that the world itself can be better because we are in it. No matter what our circumstances or failings we can yet do more than say, “Thy will be done on earth.' We can with God's help, actually help make this turbulent The cause for so-called “apathy” among the ' civilian population toward civil defense ef forts is due to the inability of country and municipal civil defense directors to advertise properly and publicize a campaign to inform the public of the serious need for closer coope ration toward CD work. County and municipal directors are without adequate funds to secure materials needed for fi campaign iin this dimension in their respec tive areas The funds must be provided by the respective county commissioners and boards, as well as municipal government bodies. It is the responsibilty of the local CD direc tor to budget or request the amount needed to get the word and thought to their respective populations as to their immediate need for CD interest. The continued accusation of unresponsive ness to civil defense interest by the public does more harm than good. It tends to create con fusion and defeatism in the ranks of the civilian bkc thinking into a state of “We are smothered blie thinking into a state of ‘We are smothered in apathy and what’s the use of trying to do anything.” The average citizen is handicapped for time to devote to CD work and has depended on those designated to handle this phase of their This week we wish to focus attention on the educational problems of Negroes in Georgia. What is going on in Georgia is happening in other states in the South—but pierhaps to a greater or lesser degree. The Georgia report was prompted by an act of the Governor who called, on November 3, 1958, a conference of several hundred business ®nd educational leaders for the purpose of con sidering some of the educational problems of the state. The Governor did not call a single Negro to the conference. Because of this a Georgia Conference on Educational Opportunities (Negro) was form ed bv Negro educational leaders. The report of the Georgia Conference on Ed ucational Opportunities indicated what efforts were made by the state of Georgia to educate its white and colore-d children. Study and a nalysis of the records of the State Department of Education shows that, as late as 1958-39, the state gave much less support to the educa tion of Negroes than to that of whites. Geor gia’s schools still are “separate, but unequal ” One of the most frequent objections to inte grated schooling is the claim that Negro stu dents are below the achievement level of white students. If this is true, the explanation of it can he found in the existence of inequality of facilities. As long as Georgia provides inferior opportunities for it® Negro citizens, it hardly fan complain, fairly, that they are less well ed eated. In Georgia. Negro school children and schools receive $37.00 per pupil less than white children in current expenditures: receive only Donations To NAACP Non-Deductable Fnends and supporters of NAACP will be disappointed to learn that they can no long er list contributions to this organization as de ductible items The Interna! Revenue Service has instruct ed? its offices to disallow deductions made for contributions to the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch Soriety. the National Association for the Advancemnt of Colored People, and other group*. Other groups to which contributions are not deductible include the Congress on Racial F %iality, the American Nazi Parry. White Ciri hens Councils and United Klans of America. Although the NAACP. which attempts to in fluence legislation, is subject to taxes, IRS said its Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., k tax exempt and contributions to it may be This May Be Church's Answer The idea otf ritfikig ki the ohuroh is not « new Idee, and should tew oh and train their aongregetions to practice giving erne tenth of their kusoen* to God’s work. A sew opganfeaotlon was formed recently, sod k may be the spearhead for launching a •v tion-wida tithing campaign. Certainly, no other religions® groups could profit more from this practice then Negro churches, A few wsefes ago In Jacksonville. Florida, in International tfthtifg organization was formed. The gro»p fcwmedtetety dWtered its fkst lo se! dub. Tithing Chub Infeawietioffmt Inc h «n organ ization with a single purpose; to promote the practice of tithing for God’s work. It is non deitocnktatioßal and a dub may be formed by @ Sfrotstp of wiembem of any religious oragniza* THE NEGRO PRESS—bothvoo that America can best feed the world away from racial and national antagonism* when it accords to every man regard} ess of race, color or craad, hi* human and legal rights. Hating no man, hILv ioamig m Negro Prooo otrrvm <w help ovary w«i em the firm ho- flf Hsf an smm ana fmri m long as anyone se hold hock. W VW Who s Fault? Education And Georgia world of ours the prelude to heaven. And since this is what God wants it to be. truly it is a great time to be alive. Now and for always—we can look with deep consolation on the part we have played, no matter how small or insignificant, in shaping for the better the destiny of all mankind! business to work without effective programs. The average citizen is even prevented from getting vital training in survival courses offered by the CD training schools to protect his very l existence. The average citizen is prevented from this opportunity by the high cost of living: high taxes to finance foreign lands; national mili tary projects and expensive Geneva Confer ences. and other costly burdens of government operations. Last, but not least, the average citizen is pre vented by physical limitations to cope with the many labors involved to maintain a decent standard of living. And then to be ridiculed and called “apathetic” for not feeling physically fit to attend night classes for instruction on per sona! survival, following a long day’s work, is grossly unfair and serves no constructive pur pose. The effort to stimulate greater interest in defense of the local population and their will toward survival is a decision to be made by their elected hoards of county commissioners and designated CD directors. The cooperation hetwen these two segments of government will determine the amount of apathy' and defeatism to exist iin each respective county' and munici pality. thereby reflecting the general state at titude. one fifth of the money spent for maintenance of school buildings: have fewer accredited schools; have teachers with more training and lower salaries: have onlv one-sixth of the stage’s library hooks: and receive only six per cent of the state's expenditures for higher education. Rural schools in Georgia, with little money foi essentials and with the problem of provid ing good schools for small numbers of -hildren, discriminate against Negro education in vari ous ways. They provide too few' buses, inade quate money for maintenance snd operation, a mere handful of custodial and clerical employ ees. almost no attendance officers or visiting teachers. The rural systems sometime discrimi nate so heavily against the Negro schools that they are able to provide white school children with some facilities equivalent to those of rifv schools. It is well to consider here the cultural back ground of Georgia's white and Negro children. Negro school children have more unschooled parents, and their home environments are typi cally less conducive to learning. Discrimination in educational opportunities is cumulative. If Georgia were truly to “equalize” Negro schools and undo the damage already done by provid ing Negroes for decades with inferior schools, she would have to provide better schools for Negro children than for W'hites. Instead she is still providing them with inferior schools. This is a report on Georgia, and we hope no other southern state will feel smug about the matter. If the truth were known, conditions in many other states might be worse North Carolina included. deducted , This ruling may set s dangerous precedent, in that in the future all organizations—religi ous educational, professional, and political— may soon find that they too must pay taxes. Not only this, hut persons making contribu tions to charitable funds may not be able to list thrir contributions as deductible items. We must not permit this recent ruling to pre vent our making contributions to organizations working for racial progress and first-class citi zenship. The work of these organizations must continue with full force. We must make a self denial offering and forget about the deduct! bles. A thing so vital as our freedom can be had even if we must pay taxes on it in order to en joy it. tion. (We don’t know if this means Negro groups or not), desiring to promote the prac tice of tithing. To keep the club strong and growing, a pro vision for membership is that each member must agree to tithe for 3 consecutive months: end that he must obtain one or more new mem bers each year or invite at least three qualified persons to become members during the year. The power of tithing is dynamic and power ful. Suppose a church had 150 good members, and 100 of them tithed. Assuming that each member had an annual income of $3,000, the church (through tititing clone) would receive $30,000 in its treasury. We must not play God cheap, for He wants the best that we have to give. Why not make a pledge next week to tithe in the church? Finding Out Africa Has Plans Os Her Own What Other Editor s Say AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CHALLENGE The present era is teeming with opport.uniities and chai lenges for all mankind. But the American Negro—as he nears the 100th Anniversary Os the Emancipation Proclamation —is being offered what may well be the most incalculable and cour ageous perogative m human ex istence: The TIME, the PLACE, the OCCASION, and the VE HICLE for establishing his OWN and DEMOCRACY’S t-rae worth. The probing question however is: Will America's 20.000,000 Negroes accept this maenif icent challenge with UNITY. We, who are dedicated to making the Exposition of “A Century of Negro Progress’’ a national reality, take the posi tion that they WILL when they are fully aware of the true sig nificance and the financial re quirements involved in a pre sentation of this magnitude. The Emancipation Centennial Authority is aware it -has launched an ambitious program It is easy for us to envision an expenditure of more than six million dollars for the over-all administration, promotion, re search and presentation of this Exposition. But, if we are to have mass participation and fin ancial support of the Negro peo ple, we must spell out tehy ev ery American of color will WANT to share in this historic observance. Properly informed, they are sure to realise a con tribution of one dollar «$l,OOl or more, per person is a small price to pay for the creation of a program which promises to i'l l Project, the "true image" of the Negro in the light of re corded history. (2> Show how the Negro’s contributions in every field, his progress on every level, and hi.? impact on the entire culture springs from the very heart of this nation’s democratic tradi tion and is shaped by his unique American experience f 3) Predict vast future de velopment, secure within the framework of American heri tage. Add to these facts the Ameri can Negro’s hungering for hu man dignity, and hi* ever in creasing demands for full citi zenship then it becomes clearly apparent he MUST support fi nancially this, his very own “Century of Progress Exposi tion ' By so doing he can feed his aforementioned hunger, give more character to his de mands for citizenship, and elim inate the concept Negroes are incapable of coordinating their efforts behind a fundamental cause. There is work to be done dur ing the months ahead. Doing YOUR share of this work is a very persona! privilege, per sonal because our collective re sults depend largely upon our Individual effort. So NOW IS THE TIME to carry the chal lenge where it belongs TO THE MASSES—and tell them the full story of this, their won derful opportunity for establish ing once and for all the true worth of the Negro and the bold and beautiful political system called Democracy. —ANECA NEWS SHAM LIBERALISM IN THE SOUTH The sham character of south ern “liebralism” on the race is sue was new better illustrated than in the remarks made over local TV by North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford. San ford is, by popular definition, a liberal on racial questions and Norte. Carolina never tires of proclaiming its virtues where Negroes are concerned. Yet the burden of Sanford's remarks was that segregation is firmly rooted in North Carolina end that it can’t be, and won’t be, disturbed by Supreme Court decisions or by anything else. The governor pointed out that fw.MHrree* now attend mixed s«feS&l in his state and ventured she saredicfcictt that tbs msrahar won’t increase in ttie near fu ture. Negroes, he says, aren't interested in using mixed fa cilities. What the want, Sanford says, is equality in segregated facilities and the “right” to use ail state-owned facilities. He is dead wrong The reason that, few Negroes attend public schools in North Carolina does not rest on their lack of desire to do so but on the fact that North Carolina's laws make it all but impossible for any but a select few to at tend desegregated public schools. The state has a pupil placement, law administered not to admit aspiring Negroes to hitherto white schools, but to keep them out. it Happened In Hew York BY GLADYS GRAHAM FOR ANY Lovely Muriel Rah«, actress wife at Dick Campbell, died last weak and the body lay in state at. Phillip* Church where funeral service* were held Fri day, with the pastor, Rev. Dr. Moran Weston, officiating. EDWARD WEBSTER, a na tive of South Carolina, hut who has lived for years in New York, held an exhibition of his Re ligious Paintings recently in the parlor of the First Presbyterian Church He ie believed to have met a precedent by being the Pim artist of any race to exhibit fifteen painting* taken from the Bible and done in vivid oils. BANK WINDOW SCULPTRESS Stella Wright will soon be known ae sculptress to bankers from the invitations she bad had to display her works. Sbs i* now exhibiting in Empire City Savings Bank in a show which was extended from a two-week stint, to two months. Miss Wright has bids to show her sculptures in the windows of severai! downtown hanks and the uptown Carver Bank when hs showrooms ere completed. She presented a. bast to the Ghana Government recently during Festival Week held at Colonial Pa/rk under director of Hon. Bly. Alma John. R.N, director wo men's activities at Radio Sta tion WWRL has flown to Dixie four times for the showing of the film “Helen In Paris" In which she is starred. Last week end she was panelist for her sorors in Chicago along with Ebony notables at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Boule in Chicago. She has also taken her third degree from Daughter Elks Eureka Temple, 22 B in N.Y. IN HOME STRETCH The Nettie B. Smith Boosters of Greater New York axe in the home stretch helping Grand Daughter Ruler Nettie B. Smith succeed herself as head of the Grand Temple Daughters TBP OF when the Convention con \s es next week. Dr. Otto Klineberg fwho re cently presented the Spingarn Medal to Dr. Felton G. Clark') has been named chairman of the new department of social psychology’ at Columbia Univer sity. Some fifty doctoral candi dates are working there in the field of osciai psychology. Dr. Klineberg has been on faculty of C.U. for 30 years and holds both an M.D. and Ph.A He is s writer of distinction and this year received the achievement award of N.Y. Society of Clini cal Psychologists. This writer met him in Puerto Rico and has attended many of hte lectures. IN OUR MAILBAG Dr. Effie Adams Quick who returns soon to her classes in Longview, Texas was a. recent bride in Denver where she was married to Dr. Quick She also attended the engage ment party of her niece Blots Marie Adams, of Lansing, ■ Michigan who is engaged to Daniel Skeen. They are slated to marry at AJ.umru Memorial North Carolina, Idee other southern states, make* it so dtf ficult, if not. dangerous, to use general public facilities that few Negroas oe,n avail fchem selves of their oonstitotioml rights. It i» this aj'stem of prevent ing and discouraging Negroes from using public facilities, while keeping up the pretense that such facilities are open to Negro use, that passes for liber alism in North Carolina and that gives Sanford the tit’s of “liberal " Mock compliance with the Constitution Is made to appear as obedience to the lew of the land —THE CALIFORNIA HAGUE chapel, a* Michigan State bn!- versity. Omega Pad Phi Fraternity Conclave!* Bad Washington and Park Sheraton hotel ideal for their 50th anniversary cele bration and bigwig* cm eapitsd hill will be speakers for the confab Hands for Africa Club." headed by Esther Parham Tho mas entertained some 500 per sons or, the lawn of her estate in Westchester County. She re ceived lota Thi Lambda Soror ity's Award in conjunction with its annual business week obser vance John A. Thomas who was ' chaim&n o# toe affair has since been rushed to toe hospital at Tarry-town and placed in an oxygen tent. Isadora Bonnet* to©g,ferioa! pres* agent has reported that her associate of many year#, Richard Pleasant, ws Jowtd te hie apartment dead, apparent ly from natural causer m— R-ehmrfwy cmf-wwp em» Editorial Opinions Complied by the ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are editorial comments from leading daily newspaper* throughout the country on subjects of current interest: CIVIL RIGHTS AND FILIBUSTER ADVERTISER, Montgomery, Ala.— ''Senator Russell of Geor gia believes that toe civil rights tag is now just a mask to con ceal the true motives of the an ti-filibuster forces. What they really want, he says, is to make it easier to get through ‘a lot of economic legislation.' They are 'seeking more to alter the eco nomic legistaion.’ They are seeking more to alter the econo omy of the country than to ben efit the Negroes.’ “As Proxmire demonstrated this week, the right of extended debate is the right of every sen ator. Once it is removed, the Senate will have lost a weapon that may be employed by every section of the country for what ever reason. In the name of protecting one minority, every minority will have been expos ed to the crushing finality of the simple, numerical major ity." * » • * JUDGE PARSONS’ NOMINATION THE AMERICAN. Chicago "While congratulating Judge James B Parsons of Criminal court; on hi*, nomination for lifetime tenure as a federal Judge. Chicagoans can also congratulate themselves m get-' ting a jurist of his s&Htaw for JUST FOR FUN BT MARCUS EL BOULWARE 1811 AUTO THEFT An auto theft in a southern town became a sensation in 19- 11. "Joy Rider Stole Automobile. Ran it. into ditoh; then left for parts unknown. The first case of its kind to occur at Frog me Bottom, but the machine was not damaged.” It had this little community in an uproar and gave residents somtehing to talk about for days afterwards, according to old newspaper records. What happened was, a doc tor left his automobile on the corner and went into his office. A Negro man, who had been recently hired by the doctor, got into the machine with a Negro woman and headed In the direction of the river. When they got to the eastern section of the town, the driver lost control and the auto ran it no a deep ditch on the side of the street. The driver-, itanking the ma chine was a complete wreck, Wed the scene. The doctor was notified soon after the theft occurred and pursuit, followed. Within a few minutes, the automobile was found n the ditch where the thief had abandoned H. The machine was not damaged. It was much ado then over wha-t is now a commonplace oc curence: but it was a rare in cident in those horse-and-bug gv daw. About as rare as the horslees carriage itself. LOSES QUARTER A 12-year-old boy fell into « fain-swollen creek recently and tea* swept mow than a half mile Gordon B, Hancock 9 s BETWEEN THE LINES ON THE DEFENSIVE A few evenings ago the radio ftnnounoer let fall the statement that, our nation in its contest with Russia is on the defensive. The statement was as distress ing as it was humiliating. This writer began to wonder what became of the great, world ad vantage we had at the close of World Wars I and n. when our nation was the envy of the civ ilized world Here we are today or. the de fensive in our contest with a Russia that was flattened in World War n. Russia s cur rently running away with the apace race and we are seem ingly doing nothing about it. When we consider what. Rus sia is sending into space—and where—a.nd what we are send ing- and where we are sick ened by the comparison. But the Doited State* District court for northern IRinota. Parsons is the only Negro ever named for permanent ten uis on a federal bench. That is a p.oud distinction for him but not, the only one. His record is outstanding in. itself. "We hope the remaining two Presidential appointments to the District court will be on the same high level of competence and merit.” • * • * NEGRO RIGHTS THE DAILY NEWS Jackson. Miss. “This overemphasis on pushing the Negro and his mi nority rights is hackfiring and adding greater damage to the misery already wrought by the infamous Supreme Court de cision of 1954. “This realization was reveal ed this past week when Justice Black of the U. S Supreme Court denied a Freedom Rider a release writ which would have made a complete mockery of lo cal tew enforcement procedures had it been to ordered. “We are going to see some Shifting of opinion, some quiet tightening of attitude toward the national pressure groups for Negroes, and some stiffen ing of backs among politicians who have been overwhelmed by the threat of political sanc tions. “These pressure groups thrive on publicity but they also exist because of the economic pres sure they exert,, ano within re cent week there has been visi ble evidence that, this dollar diplomacy will not quite con tain the gangsterism and un controlled lawlessness." # • * • KENYATTA’S RELEASE THE POST, Washington "The unresolved question is whether the restrictions on Mr. Kenyatta’s political activities will be lifted. In the British Par liament Colonial Secretary lan Macleod was criticized by the La norites for not taking stf.pe to permit Mr. Kenyatte to enjoy full political rights. The ques tion is touchy, but the pressures may intensify for removing the restrictions. “So far. the progress in Ken ya toward self-determination has exceeded expectations There is now an African major ity in the Legislative Assembly, and the Europeans appear tn have accepted the inevitable with exceptional good grace. It wili be hoped thrf the arduous work of conciliation will not be undone when a symbol of the past agate becomes a factor in the present.” DRIVE SAFELY through an underground storm sewer before he maneyed to pull himself out of an opening As he traveled through the sewer, the boy could see con crete walls and the water but it was dark ahead. Overhead drains let in some light but w riter, too. The boy swallowed a lot of water, but kept trying to find a hole in the wall in which he could catch hold. Finally, about half a mile from where he entered the sewer, the youth saw an open ing where the sewer rose above the ground. He tried to stop but the water tumbled him into another sewer that branched off from the opening. It ended only five yards from an outlet into the Menomonee River, There, his feet touched the mucky bottom, and he pushed his hands against the top of the sewer steadied himself and worked his way back to the opening he had been pushed past. The youth grabbed bricks, .Kitting from the embankment and pulled himself out. He was taken to t.he hospital where ex amination disclosed only a few cuts and bruises, then went home for a hot bath. Guess what he told newsmen, “5 lost, a quarter SOME HUMOR A gentle Quaker, hearing s strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went back and got his gun and ther! stood quietly in the doorway “Friend.” he said, “I would do thee no harm for toe world, but thee standeth where I am about to shoot-*' again we ask what became of our astounding advantage of yesteryear ? In casting about for an an swer the conclusion is forced upon that our great advantage has been lost to this country in its fight, for the Old South's way of life with its segregation and the concomitants thereof. The stubborn fight the rac ists are putting up in this coun try has weakened this nation, until today we are compelled to almost stand aside and sep ,he communists threatening to ov errun the world. If Russia is as far ahead of m the technology of warfare as she is in the space race, then we are face to face with some stern realities Our boast of hat - ing the highest standard of liv ing becomes empty, and leaves us at the mercy of Russia and its communism. The fact remains that race prejudice has weakened our once great and mighty nation because it has become the na - ton's number one divisive in fluence. When this nation should have been exploring space possibilities it was forced to fight internal battles, which were forced upon it bv the rep resentatives of toe Old South that never surrenders. Even now with t.he Russians threatening to take over, this country finds time to reenact t he First Manassas Battle which was reenacted to show how the Southern armies put the North ern armies to flight. The press ing question aries do we have time to restage battles of the War of Rebellion for the de light. of toe Old South which prefers a thousand times com munism to full democracy for all its citizens. The Old South is willing to go on forever rushing its Negro soldiers to the front in tunes of war and to the rear in times of peace. When we see Russia's on ward sweep in the space racp and the nation's slow progress in letting its Negro citizens go, we are pained to imagine what tomorrow may bring forth. Race prejudice has menacled our na tion in its fight for survival and it, is calculated to surrender our fair land to communism. Race prejudice is the real en emy of democracy in this coun try and to dismiss this ugly fact is to invite disaster. If the fight and ingenuity that have gone into the fight of race prejudice had gone into fight against Russia we would be spared the anxietiies and humiliations of the hour. We begin to wonder ft it Is too late to retrieve our lost ad vantage: we hope not but as the news commentator remark ed we are on the defensive. As lona as race prejudice like a golden oalf is worshipped by our millions, our way leads up-hill and into the dark. The organizations and move ments designed to hold the Ne gro back tell their own story What about the Ku Klux Klan known of old as cham pion of white supremacy and Negro subjugation? What about the White Citi zens Councils which have arisen to head off integration ar or dered by the Supreme Court of the United States? What about the Nazi organiaztion recently given credentials of organiza tion in Virginia and thus a beach-head in this country, ev en while Adolph Elchmann was being tried for complicity in the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis of Germany under the leadership of the late A dolph Hitler? What about the John Birch Society now coming w life in the country, with its avowed purpose of fighting against Ne groes end communism? On the organizational front as well as the Congressional front we do not lack genius and energy to defeat toe Negro in his quest for full citizenship. Is it any wonder that we ars on the defensive?
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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