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THE CAROLINIAN—2Oth Anniversary Edition WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 28. 1961 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S WORDS OF WORSHIP ‘'Hold your heeds high,” Jesus exclaimed. Foi three years he had walked up and down the shores of hxs lake and through the streets of towns and cities, trying to make people understand. Then came the end, and almost before hlr. flesh w as cold, the distortion began. He who carea nothing for ceremonies and forms was made the .Standing upon the threshold of a new”ear in world history. THE CAROLINIAN pause* this week to take a backward look at the pro gress made over the past twenty years and then to look forward toward the future to project the possible achievements and pro gress which lie ahead Twenty years in the life of a man is but a small fragment of eternity, yet. in another sense, the period encompasses much of import ance that has contributed to world progress. To have been able during this period to make its contribution to the life of the city, state and nation has been a privilege which THE CAR OLINIAN cherishes as a precious jewel. Much has happened between 1941 and 1961 which have made this edition possible. THE CAROLINIAN hopes to capture in stories and photographs some of the highlights which some of its older readers may have forgotten and of which some of the present generation have never heard. This is an edition which you will want to Can Segregation Take It? Segregation has been in so many fights this year, that we wonder if he will survive. Now the actors of the Actors Equity group have announced that they will refuse to per form in any theatre in the United States and Canada that practices segregation, starting June 1,1962. Angus Duncan, executive secretary of the actor’s union, said he hoped advanced notice of the decision would give plenty of time f or those theatres which now practice segregation to stop voluntarily the practice. The actor’s union has considerable support. Broadway producers and theatre managers re presented by the League of New York Thea It is indeed regrettable that two coaches in the CIAA had to be disciplined and put on probation as a result of a fracas between John son C. Smith University and Virginia Union University football teams September 3rd at Charlotte, Harry R. Jefferson. CIAA commissioner, was forced to hand out penalties against the two universities, their coaches, and the game officials. Intercollegiate athletics should prom ise the spirit of friendly rivalry and good sportsmanship. But the Smith-Virginia Union game was marred throughout with temper flsreups and fights. The benches of both teams poured onto the playing field with about two minutes left to play and engaged in a free-for all. The free-for-all led the Virginia Union coach to withdraw his team from the field, with a refusal to finish the game. The penalties meted out were: 1. Johnson C. Smith University was assign We hail the announcement that the adminis tration of Guilford College of Greensboro has accepted for enrollment a Negro minister. Reverend A M Hall is currently taking two courses as an auditor without semester hours credit. But he will enroll the second semester in courses for credit. - - “The faculty committee on admissions will enroll several well qualified and carefully se lected Negroes from applicant? in the Greens boro area for the next academic year," said Dr. Clyde A. Milner. Thus the challenge is made. Those students who have reasonable chances for admission must be “well qualified”, and they will be carefully selected. In general football players experience few injuries and fatalities, but nevertheless every effort to make the game safer must be con tinued. It has come to our attention that it is now possible for football players to get tooth pro tectors. These devices are a fitted-flexible mouth and tooth protector which, beginning with the 1962 season, will be mandatory for all play ers whose schools are members of National Federation of State High School Athletic As sociations. the National Association of Inter collegiate Athletics and the national Junior College Athletic Association. National Federation officials estimate some THE NEGRO PRESS—believes that America can best lead the world stray from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every man regardless of race, color or creed, his human end legal rights. Hating no man, fear nig no man—the Negro Press strives to help every man on the firm be |let that all men are hurt n long as anyone is held back. End Os Two Decades Our Football Behavior Carefully Selected Grid Players Protectors idol of formalism. Men hid themselves in monas teries; they lashed themselves with whips; they tortured their skins with harsh garments and cried out that they were followers of him—of him who loved the crowd, who gathered children about him whereever he went, and who celebrated the calling of new disciples with a feast in which ail the neighborhood joined 1 keep forever. In time, it will become a coller tor’s item, for nowhere else will one find the story of progress in North Carolina so well documented and so attractively presented To the many individuals, firms and institutions which have made this editon possble. THE CAROLINIAN is deeply grateful. The progress which has been made in educa tion, politics, business and industry and the many other facets of our daily living serves to bespeak an even brighter and more glorious future. We are proud to present this 20th An niversary Edition and hope that you will re ceive from it information and entertainment in equal measure to the satsfaction which we enjoyed in preparing it, Recognizing its responsibility to present the news fairly and without fe3r or favor, THE CAROLINIAN pledges even greater efforts in the future to make our community and state bigger, better and safer for generations yet s o come. It is with humility and sincerity that we herewith dedicate ourselves to this task. ters joined with Equity in the decision. Equity also had the support, of the stagehands’ union Segregation has caused the world to have little respect for the United States and the South. Will th South lose some theatrical <’ul ture to preserve the practice of segregation? The South seems to be overwhelmed with a desire for “ego status”. It thinks and believes that the practice of segregation makes the re gion something special. Segregation has taken about all the set backs and bruises he can take. Isn’t he con vinced in his bouts with the sit-ins waide in-, interstate travel rulings of the ICC. and ‘he freedom riders- Definitely not! ed the victory’ in the contest Smith 1. and Virginia Union 0. 2. The coaches of both teams were censur ed and placed on probation for the remainder of the season. 3. Lack of control over their players was th; charge placed against the two coaches. 4. The four game officials were suspended on the basis of a lack of control over the teams on the field, failure to keep records of players dismissed from the contest, and failure to re cord the game officially as a forfeit. The moral penalty for the two universities is shame upon the names of the institutions and their traditions. Future contestants and rival teams will go to Charlotte to play John son C. Smith University with some apprehen sion Being the host. Smith University’s good name wll suffer most, because it did not prove itself a gracious host. The CIAA commissioner should be com mended for this honest forthright decision. Mis behavior of any kind cannot be tolorated on the playing field, or in the stadium seats. Our racial group has been pushing for in tegration with considerable might. But we must teach and emphasize that if we are to participate in an integrated nation, we must be not just qualified but “well qualified.” As we compete for jobs in the professions technical trades, managerial positions, and the like, we will be carefully selected, More and more, Negroes will be admitted to private institutions that educated formerly white students. Many of us. who have had in adequate backgrounds, can make ourselves “well qualified” by a program of intensive and varied reading. This must be done, however voluntarily on our part. In short, only those of us who have a thirst for knowledge can make the grade. 625.000 high school players, and 18.000 small college and junior college players will be af fected by the new rule. The protectors will be constructed and fitted to the individual player and the rule provide? for the use of a dental guard if it is approved by the local dental societicr. Who pays for the protector player or school? That, says Fedration officers, will be decided by local school administrators. In bigtime college football, these protectors will be. paid for out of the athletic budget, we are confident. Regardless of who it is that must pay for these protective devices, all foothill players « should have them. Invalidated By The Cour t. Enforcement Must Be By The Federal Government What Other Editors Say POWER OF THE BALLOT The announcement by Dr. Martin Luther King that a block to-block registration campaign is planned, is an encouraging prospect for the political future of the Southerners. The goal of the campaign is to double the number of registered Negro vot ers in the South —now about 1,- 400.000. This represents about 27 per cent of the adult Negroes of the South. \vh. f eas about 60 per cert of the adult whites are register ed Dr. King said the registra tion campaign must overcome “internal apathy as well as ex ternal hostility." In communities where the Ne gro is free to vote, the campaign will be a major test of the Negro leadership. This is a very signifi cant program, one that will as Dr. King predicted, change the political structure of the South and of the nation. Even the President of the United States, respects votes, quipped the Ala bama leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence. The campaign will be conduct ed under the auspices of seven different organzations: The Sou thern Christian Leadership Con ference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Non-Vio lent Coordinating Committee, the National Student Associa tion, and th" Legal Defense and Education Fund. Dr. King said that the voting campaign would begin in Mont gomery, Ala., within 30 days. The SCLC already has nearly SIOO,OOO to contribute to the cam paign. But eacli organization will have its own budget. There is no question but that the ballot is the most poient weapon in changing the South. The power of the balolt in a so cial revolution can scarcely be contested. A politician wants anybody’s vote. In Memphis when there were only 35.000 Negro votes, nobody paid any attention, for it was felt that the results would be inconsequential. But when 77.0(10 Negroes matched to the polls and voted in the last political contest, immediately thereafter some 42 white-collar city jobs opened up for Negroes. It is al EDITORIAL OPINIONS THE HIGHLANDER SCHOOL THE NEWS and CURIIER, Charleston, S. C.: “The danger of Highlander was that it confused a lot of politically innocent people who thought they had an obligation to be tolerant of a center that purported to be engaged in hu manitarian activity. “But tolerance should have its limit*. No individual should be tolerant of a person who is trying to burn down his house. Nor should colleges, communi ties or states be so tolerant of divisive forces that they are threatened. “Th Highlander Folk School wasn’t a place of free inquiry, an academic center or anything of the sort. It was a training ground for persons in revolt against society. Action of the Supreme Court, in effect barring Highlander's revival at Mont eagle is a contribution to pub lic order in this region.” THE NEW YORK SCHOOL SYSTEM’S HYMAN RELA TIONS RETORT The TIMES, New York: “Words are the curency of communication* and, like any •tusreocy. can be devalued by most axiomatic that the greater the proportion of That vote, the greater will be the benefits that flow from it. The ballot will eventually oust those Southern racists from their strategic position of power not only in Congress but also in Dixie economy. —THE CHICAGO DEFENDER LABOR I MON DISCRIMI NATION President George Meany of the AFL-CIO wallowed around in his own words last week when he attempted to chastise A. Phil ip Randolph for daring to raise the question of discrimination in labor unions. What Randolph proposed was that the Federation set a dead line for compliance with an old AFL-CIO resolution against ra cial discrimination in labor un ions. The penalty for non-com pliance would be expulsion from the parent body. If the AFL-CIO means what it says when it proclaims its ab horrence of discrimination .by labor unions it would seem that it would welcome the Randolph resolution. Negro workmen who are denied jobs because of union bias have a right to expect point ed action by unions. Pious hopes and good wishes wear thin after years of non-enforcement. Mr. Meany answered the Ran dolph proposal by a muddy and muddled personal attack in which he berated the head of the Pullman porters for his dose as sociation with civil rights groups He added that since Mr. Randolph had entered into such a close association the AFL-CIO had been subjected to increasing criticism. He was more concern ed with the criticism than the discrimination. Other Federation vice-p: esi dents covered up their own shortcomings with the amazing charge that Randolph is guilty of discrimination because the Pullman Porters union is largely a Negro organization. They for got to add that other railroad unions have prevented employ ment of Negroes in other than the capacities of porters and waiters on the nation's railroad. The Pullman Porters union is virtually ail Negro because of inflation. Thus is eactly what is wrong with a well-meaning report issued by the Human Rt - latitats Unit of the New York City school system, which toils public school teachers to avoid “speech .patterns'’ that create: feelings of inferiority. “As for the report's approach to phrases likely to offend ra cial or national minorities, the fault is that this, too, merely &kips over the surface. There IN THIS OUR DAY BY DR, C. A. CHICK, SR HOMECOMING PROGR AMS At this season c-H the school year colleges and universities as well as high schools throughout the nation are ail engaged in celebrating their Homecoming Programs. Such programs are quite enjoyable, exciting, and happy occasions for students currently enrolled in our schools, faculties, graduates, for mer students, and the public in. the policies of the American la bor movement, not by Ran dolph’s choice. Organized labor can't excuse its own discrimination by for ever pointing its finger at dis crimination by industrialists. Nor can it continue to delay the day of its own horse cleaning. The tragedy of it all is that the discrimination tolerated by the Af’L-CIO not only harms the Negro workmen but onerates to the disadvantage of white work ers as well At a time when un ions are losing membership and influence they should be eager to strengthen themselves by or ganizing all workers. —THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE WHAT WOULD THE NATUR AL HAIR-DO STYLE DO TO THE HAIR INDUSTRY? What's all this talk about ’nat ural , hair-dos' gaining over the cultivated and 'konks’ styles that have so changed hte coiffure contour of Colored American? The vagaries of human styles and fashions, are both fascinat ing and forceful. What was a sacred ‘must’ in one century may be viewed with laughter and disdain in another century. Per haps brown-skin Odetta the peerless singer in wearing her hair au natureal has pressaged the style of hair-do in 1975. It is too commercially revolu tionary, to prophesy any major change before that date. Millions have been spent and invested in straightening out ‘crooked hu man hair’ and the inventors and investors are not going to let its paying public off the hook that easy. The advertising geniuses will find new ways of glorifying the processed hair-dos. Yet who knows, in the next century even the straight-haired folks will be striving to have their coiffures unstraightened? Already there has been a ten dency towards frizzling. And of course, there is inex orable Nature and the complete breakdown of geographical boundaries to dictate the future physical aspects of the human race. The mere item of hair may have a less and less importance in the overall image of human beings in another century of tune. -THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN is more to prejudice than the association of Italians with spaghetti or Negroes with watermelon. Prejudice is in the mind, not the mouth; inoffen sive speech ft no substitute for irrational thought. The Human Relations Unit’s recommendations promise to .n --troduce more of the pseudo-so ciology and amateur psychology which hurt rather than help the school.” general. Students and faculty members put in long hours of work mak ing floats as well as preparing all other paraphernalia that go along with Homecoming. Also students put in long hours prac ticing veils, band music, and marches. Much longer than, of course, they would ever dream of studying. However, this writer h not a Gordon B. Hancock 9 & BETWEEN THE LINES THE BACK-LOOK A HOLD BACK Recently there was reviewed in one of our Southern dailies a bopk which was written by a Southerner, or a Northerner with Southern antecedents. Ii sought to prove that our Thanksgiving Day did not orig inate in New England but in Virginia. The book in question was try ing to prove, as such books have “proved” over and over again the greatness of the South and indirectly disparaging the ad ' vances of the North. Much was written a few days ago on the occasion of the installation ol a new president for the ancient College of William and Mary, which is the' nation's second oldest institution of higher learning. Just why some sophisticated historian has not found that it is the oldest instead of the sec ond oldest is difficult to under stand And by that same token just what happened in Virginia to let the Boston Tea-Party take place in Massachusetts and not Virginia. Why was the first blood to be sited in the. Revolutionary War, the blood of Crispus At tucks a Negro, not sited in Vir ginia but Boston, is a matter which these pseudo-historians never ponder. Why did Patrick Henry in his great speech at Old St. John in 1775 have occasion to re mark "Why stand we here idle while our comrades are already in the field?” That is to say they were fighting in Boston before the colonists of Virginia could decide which side they would take, the side of the Re volutionists or the side ol Eng land with its George 111 This inveterate propensity to trace everything good to the South is a kind of back-look even as it was a back-look to re enact the Battle of Manassas where the Federal armies were put to flight to the delight of thousands of Southerners who had gathered, as for a gala oc casion. But it is hardly to be expect - ed that Appomattox and the tragic enactment there where Lee handed to Grant a sword that had been drawn by Lee against, his native land will be reenacted. Make no mistake about it. among those of the Old South the War of Rebellion is still in full swing. JUST FOR FUN NIP IN THE AIR Old Man Fall has put some "Nip” in the air, and I have turned on the heat. "By George.” it feels good too. Yet during most of the days one can walk around in his shirt sleeves. THE MOSTEST: The Curtis Wall's Service Station of Cam eron is labelled "the most brok en into spot’’ in several states about two weeks ago when it was entered,far the 11th time in a period of two years. What the proprietor needs is an automatic watchman who will shoot first and ask no ques tions. YEAH NOW: Let me recite this “cute” little “ditty’’: There were two sheep grazing in a meadow. “Raa-aa-aaa,” said the first sheep. “Moooo,” said the second sheep. Said the first sheen, "What do you mean, Moooco?" Said the second sheep. "I'm studying a foreign language.” (Some joke, eh') NO SECOND FIDDLE: A De troit man has d>: r ided he’s not going to play second fiddle any longer. Why? Well, his wife prefers the company of her 22 cats to him. So he wants a divorce! (You can’t blame him either.) The man charged in court that the cats have all but evicted him from the house. He com plained that friends refused to visit because of the cats. Furthermore, since the man was already fed up. he told the court a mouthful Since his wife ‘ knoker” of Homecoming Pro grams. Former students, gradu ates, and Ihe public in general will travel many miles to be present at such programs. They will travel much further for such programs than they would for a first class musical program or the commencement exercises at their Alma Mater. But even at. that, this writer still fhiqks that Homecoming Programs are well worthwhile activities for our schools. Former students returnine for Homecoming sec old school mates, former teachers, and f “lends of yester-years. Many of the foregoing would probably never be able to renew old acquaintances were it not for Homecoming Programs. The val ue to one of meeting old friends and acquaintances cannot be ov erestimated. It bouys one up. It helps one for-the time being to live in a make-believe ideal world Not only is the meeting of old friends a very helpful and val uable part of Homecoming, but it is also very thrilling as well as enjoyable to stand and view the If oats and parades. Such an activity aids r»i» to live for a few brief moments, all too brief, in a mak-beueve world of bcau ,ty. Ail of which serves to stimu late one to thinking of the high- The whole Civil War Centen nial objectives are more design ed to gorify the Old South aud its valor at arms, than to show that our country is reunited un der Old Glory. The prominence of the Confederate flag and tit chants of "Dixie" are solemn reminders that the war is stth being waged in the hearts ol those of the Old South. These are back-look mam testations seeking to glorify the Last Cause. The back-look is a hold back to the South and the nation and to the church of Christ. Why is it that the College ot William and Mary, the nation’ ' second oldest college is so far behind Harvard, which has waxed into one of the world s foremost institutions with au endowment of more than $600,- 000,000.00 and acknowledged to be the finest of American uni versities. Harvard is situated in that part- of the country’ with a for ward-look, while William and Mary is situated in a part of the country with the back-look. The South has such marve lous possibilities and to have them squandered on the back - look and its consequences is nothing short of a tragedy. The South's stubborn fight against civil rights and their possibili ties for the liberation of the Negro is a back-look program. The South’s stubborn fight for states rights is a back-look fight. The South's determined fight agauxst senatorial cloture that would kill the filibuster is a back-look fight as well as the North-South coalition for the appeasement of the back-look ing Old South. William and Mary is a victim of the back-look spirit and the distance between it. and Har vard is roughly a measure of she damage that the back-look can do and when we look about the nation in its current crisis, we can safely say that our pres ent unfavorable position in toe world can be traced directly to the machination of the back look spirit, in this country with the Old South the center of dispersion. Tlie glory and inspiration of the hour rests in the fact that there arc whites and Negroes in the South resolved not to be longer held back by the back look and although slowly, they are surely registering their op position to it . The back-look Is hold-back! BE MARCUS BL BOIXWARE started acquiring the cats torea years ago, it has cost him $3,000 to care and feed them. The couple married In March, 1957. A TALE OF WOE: A Fayette ville man told police he carried his girl friend and fifth of Vod ka to a theater. He went to sleep during the movie and awoke as the theater prepared to close for the night. His girl friend and S2O from his pocketbook were missing. (Serves him right for going to sleep. He should have been more gallant.) SAY WHAT? The American Medical Association has produc ed a new word which means "fear of atomic energy and all its works.” "Nucieomitophobia” is the name. Well, says one hu morous fellow, t'ne fallout from trying to spell it is extremely dangerous. (Some of former English stu dents would have had a time learning to spell this word. Take note of these spellings—speach, grammer, english, doing (for during), and what have you ' WORD GETS AROUND: The new president of Baylor Univer sity announced that Harry S. Truman was welcome to his in auguration ceremonies as long as he minded his manners. The president of the univer sity made this reply after Tru man wrote the college head: "congratulations” and added, "Anytime he wants real trou ble stirred up to send for s Bap list to do it , (Truman) who likes to do it.” There is real guffaw for you. Or aid you get the "spiel.” er and nobler things of life. We must not forget, of course, the football game—the main at traction of the Homecoming Pi*o c ram. To sit and water eleven men on each side vie with each other in physical strength and mental strategy impresses one with the great competitive game of life. For, indeed life is a com petitive game from the cradle to the grave. All of the foregoing has for its final purpose to stimulate with in present students and gradu ates an interest, in, and a love for their Alma Mater. And, it should be observed that if our Homecomings are not doing that to some degree they are failures. This writer sincerely hopes that those of you who have had your Homecomings had a grand time and he also hopes that those who will Shortly have theirs they, too, will have a srand time. And that as a result of all of the homecoming activi ties your interest in, and love for, your Alma Mater will be greatly enhanced. It is hoped that your interest in and love for, your Alma Mater have so increased that you will return to hear some of the outstanding artists that your school will from time to t’me sponsor and that you will also return to the com raiajicement program*.
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