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THE CAHOUNIa* RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1881 4 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP “A day in the courts is better than a thousand I had rather.be a doorkeeper In the house of my God, than to dwell in the tent* of wickedness ” —Psalm 84:10. This statement should make us ponder the question: Why do we go to church? There are several reasons why we go to church. These Include: (1) it gives opportunity for The Almighty has certain locked secrets which mortal man may never unlock. Man’s infinite mind is incapable of perceiving the li nite. However, durng the last fifty years our sci entists have come forward with undreamed of discoveries—for instance television, jet planer and the mechailcal brain. Typical of our forward march of progress is the invention of a thermometer which can give clues as to the time of death on an individual. Too Many Out-Of-State Students? Does North Carolina spend too much of its money educating people from other states? The average Southern state spends no more money providing undergraduate education for its neighbors, than other states spend on stu dents from Nirth Carolina! Especially is this true of graduate education. We hope that North Carolinians won’t get so economy-minded as to urge legislation to reduce drastically the opportunities for out-of state students to attend Tar Heel colleges. No state is an island unto itself. The mobility of students from other states • to our institutions of higher learning is partly responsible for North Carolina’s high stan dards of educatonal excellence. These students bring new ideas and culture from other sections of the country. They inject new blood into the University educational stream. As a result, Teachers Need Sick Leave North Carolina has the reputation of having a good educational system. Yet it is far behind the times in enacting legislation providing for sek leaves for its public school teachers. At the present time, teachers who oecome ill must pay a substitute ten dollars a day. A recent survey conducted by the North Carolina teachers organization indicates that teachers feel that a cumulative sick-leave sys tem should have priority consideration in the next Legislature. The teachers said that this is more important than additional personnel and salary increase. Lloyd S. Isaacs of the NCEA staff said 38.7 per cent of the teachers in the survey picked cumulative sick leave as the most pressing need, with additional personnel ranking sec ond on their list of goals. interestingly enough,, in third place, was a McComb, Mississippi, has recently earned for itself a shocking reputation that parallels “the Little Rock story.” Some 40 white men, it is alleged, beat sev eral Negro interstate freedom riders when they sought lunch counter service in the white wait ing room. If the recent I. C. C, ruling, which became effective November first, means any thing. these interstate passengrs should not have been molested at the bus terminal. All too frequently, and especially in the past, white men have taken the law into their own hands in the South. Not only this, but nothing was done to punish them. For instance, several months ago a group of white men burned a Greyhound bus carrying freedom riders; and It would seem that by 1961 that Negro youth would have arrived to the point of being responsible citizens. We recently had the plea sure of attending a university players 4 group performance at a high school in a small town. First, about a third of the pupils who were in the audience carried on whispering conver sations dumg the eight scenes of the play. Ap parently, they thought they were attending a 15-cent movie where misbehavior is the usual thing. Many of the youths had to be curbed by adults (in the audience) who demanded silence around them. Second, m few youths (who may not have had the admission fee, or maybe they didn’t want to view the play) stayed outside and raced automobile motors and blew their car horns. Besides, they raced on and off the grounds around the cafeterium where the play was being performed. Third, a few young men had purchased some firecrackers and shot about thirty of them dur ing the second act of the play. This was annoy ing to the patrons who were interested in en joying the drams, We remember the time, some thirty or thirty-five years ago, when boys stayed outside and around churches which were wiving pro grams at night. It it were near Christmas, they shot fire cracker* and misbehaved in s rowdy THE NEGRO PRESS—beliavm that Atnerics. can best lead the world mrmy from radial md national antagonisms when it accords to every man regardfosa of race, color or creed, his human snd legal rights. Hating no man darnig no man—the Negro Prim strives to help every rmn on the firm he Reg that all men are hart a# long m anyone fa held back, What Can We Know? The McComb Story A Long Way To Go Yet us to lift our hearts In praise and adoration: (2> coming Into the Lord’s presence Is an act of con fession and cleansing; and (3) when we gather at church we are expressing our common aspirations. In short. In the fellowship of worship, our ideals are clarified and and strengthened. This thermometer incorporates an electrical direct-reading instrument with a thermister in plasticized probe. It enables criminal investi gators to determine the rate at which body temperatures is decreasing, thus establishing when a body was last at normal temperature. This instrument has made it possible to ap prehend murderers more effectively. In many instances, thus instrument can establish an ali bi for an innocent person who is accused of murder. our horizions are made more lofty and great I '/ expanded. The fruits of education are more than the question of how much money we are spending on North Carilina students, and how much money we are spending on out-of-state stu dents? Let us not forget the influence of the intrinsic values. Suppose each state limited its college and university education to its own citizens. The results would be dramatically disastrous. For instance, had it not been for the generosity’ of other states in admitting Negroes to their grad uate schools, we would have today practically no professors with the earned doctor of philos ophy degree. Not only should we permit 9Ut-of-state stu dents to attend our colleges and universities, but we should also abolish the high out-of state tuition fee. request for an additional five-day extension of the school term for teachers and full 12 months employment for principals and supervisors. Imagine a state like North Carilina having no cumulative sick-leave program for its tea chers. It is hardly believable that such condi tiins exists in the nuclear age. Our public school teachers are generally de voted workers among our children. They give unselfishly of their time and energies, and many of them walk the second, undemanded mile. Surely the State thinks enough of them to give them sick-leave with pay when they are ill. To shock our legislators into action, we sug gest that teachers and parents flood our law makers with letters and telegrams on this mat ter. to date, no jail sentences have been meted out to them. The McComb incident shows clearly that certain elements of the white race don’t believe they will be punished for interfering with the carrying out of the new Interstate Commerce Commission ruling stating that interstate bus passengers cannot be segregated. The men who took the law into their own hands and attacked the freedom riders should be brought to justice—immediately and forth with. There should be no “pussy-footing” on the part of the Federal government in this case. The new ICC ruling must, at least, be worth the paper it is written on. fashion. Often in certain rural areas, sheriff deputies were on hand to maintain order. In this nuclear age when educational oppor tunities are plentiful, Negro youth “should have arrived” at a point where people might respect them for their wholesom deportment. Our principlals and teachers have done a tremendous job in improving the public be havior of Negro youth. But, in many places, they must make a concerted effort to train pupils how to view cultural performances with dignity and respect. Os course, this cannot be done in one night. Even though youth resents cultural entertainment at first, they must be given regular doses until they get used to the best of the fine arts and how to enjoy them. Parents have a responsibility in this matter also. During the family hour, children must be taught the importance of good behavior if the Negro wishes others to accept him in the forth coming integrated society. No one enjoys as sociating with, or being in the presence of. boors—be they black, white, red, yellow or brown, Negro must develop the social graces. He must become more courteous, more polite, more dignified, and more poised. The masses, of our race must be taught to change their stereotyped image, made vivid on Safer lay nights-—!raeor-wdlding. loud talking and pro fanity, drunkenness, etc. HI fTt Only Through Justice Can There Be Peace PIC What Other Editors Say N. Y. CITY MANAGER CENSI'RED The International City Man agers Association at Miami Beach this week in a unani mous vote censured Joseph Mit chell, city manager of New burg, N. Y. for ‘‘unethical con duct and partisan political act ivity.” Mitchell denied the charge of “partisan political activity.” say that he was merely going around the country speaking in support of the Newburg Wel fare plan which he fathered. Mitchell's plan would limit aid to welfare recipients and cut down the time they could be on relief. It would stop pay ments to mothers who continue to have illegitimate children Mitchell charged that the Association’s executive com mittee and not the entire organ ization. “rigged the vote” be cause these fellers want to keep in good graces of the NAACP, the Urban League, the Wash ington Post, the New York Times and Reporter Magazine. Pretty good company, don’t you really think so, Mr. Mit chell? —THE MIAMI TIMES SOUTHERN SCHOOLS! THEIR FUTURE In recruit years the difficul ties connected with racial de segregation of schools in the South have obscured another question: is the education a vailable to young Southerners in general good enough to fit them for life in the latter half of the twentieth century? The South contains a third of the population of the United States, but at present it col leges and Universities are granting only a quarter of the bachelor's degrees and only 12 per cent of the doctorates be ing earned in the country as a whole. In 1950 more than a fifth of the population in six Southern states was nearly illiterate and ten of the eleven states in which about half the popula EDITORIAL OPI DESEGREGATING TRANSPORTATION CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONI TOR, Boston: “The latest move for desegre gating transportation terminals has produced some significant changes in the familiar pattern of compliance and defiance in the Deep South. Scanning the first reports of reaction to the Interstate Com merce Commission order, the Justice Department noted that in at least three states—-South Carolina. Alabama, and Florida —the mood was one of co-op eration. In some other states, persons either testing the order or trying to comply with it were arrested, setting the stage for tests of the ICC edict, in fed eral courts, "This pattern of scattered re sistance may be discouraging to those who hoped federal action could work an overnight change in social custom everywhere at once. But state and city offic ials enforcing statutes in con flict with the order are the ones who may be feeling more hope lessness. There is no sign of the kind of massive resistance which might have bolstered confidence among defiers of ■he feuci'i*! old®;. ia«re j. :Uf been ms chedience, however reluctant. . . Extremists m both sides of the controversy should avoid those actions Which can only inflame and not further illumi nate a problem facing further testing in the courts.” MIMKSURrS~FAI£ EMPLOY ■HI tton had had only an elemen tary’ education were in tha South. The non-South is spend ing 60 per cent more for each pupil than is the much poorer South. The South’* poverty aggra vates it* problem in another way: the prospect of earning more money—and more recog nition—in other parts of the country has long been drawing able people out of the region. For instance, though teach ers' salaries have been going up faster in the South than else where. they are still far below the national level. The state of California which pays its teachers the highest, salaries in the country, raids the South regularily, Teachers in it* elementary schools earn an average of $6,176 a year compared with $4,925 in Flori da and its high school teachers average $6,950 as against Geor gia $3,868. Yet to set against these ra ther dismal examples there is hopeful evidence of a growing appreciation of the desirability of education and of a new con cern for its equality. Many state Universities in the South have been tightening up their en trance requirements, which us ed to be lower than in other states. Some of the ways in which nefc funds have been raised have been devised to cell public attention to the desirability of more education as well as to bring in more dollars. West Virginia’s up-to-date medical center at Morgantown repre sents the conversion of ‘‘cokes’’ in to clinics. Its cost of $32 mil lion was financed by a tax of one cent on every soft drink sold in the state. For a decade North Carolina’s farmers have paid a "Nickel for Know-How” levy of five cents a ton on the feed and fertilizer they buy. The proceeds go to the State Agricultural College. Recently certain facilities in the South have been treated as a regional whole to their great THE POST-DISPATCH, St. Lois: “Missouri*’ fair employment, practices act went into effect last month- It prohibits racial discrimination in hiring, firing and working conditions and— of greater pertinence—it applies to labor unions. On the record, the unions have been a major factor blocking the Negro work er’s access to the skills and training so necessary in an in creasingly automated world.” FRATERNITY OUSTED The JOURNAL, Milwaukee: “All University of Wisconsin fraternities have been forced to drop any ban on pledging Ne groes, Jews or orientals. Regent action approving the ousting of the Phi Delta Theta chanter shows determination to prevent evasion of the university’* In tent. “Phi Delta Theta’s constitu tion doesn’t now bar anyone on basis of color, race or creed. It simply requires that pledges be “socially acceptable.” However, the fraternity’s understanding ha s been that members of cer tain minority groupe were not “socially acceptable.” The UW chapter was told that the dodge would have to be dropped if toe chapter w»s to stay. “Failure forced a showdown. The order for toe fraternity to close out toe UW chapter by Sept. 15 should have wholesome effect. It warns other frater nities against trying any hypo critical trickery on the discrim ination issue.” rm osmxm visit to omtm. advantage Training In enginee ring is being expanded co-op eratively at the University ot Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State College and the Univers ity of Texas as a result of a grant from the Ford Founda tion. Tire Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies links Southern institutions and thus facilities concerted specialization in this field. The broadest and most official pooling of resources oc curred in 1949 when the legis latures of sixteen states from Delaware and West Virginia to Oklahoma. established the Southern Regional Education Board. This helps the states to make combined use of their funds and works to create a public at mosphere favorable to greater expenditure and greater attain ment. At the end of last, year the board set up a special and authorative Commission on Goals for Higher Education, which is to report shortly on how to provide a wider range of opportunities for the increasing student enrollments and at the same time achieve excellence and competence that will en able its graduates to contribute to the expansion of a better and more abundant society. Undoubtedly the South is catching up with the rest of the of the country education a - as is is economically. But is it catching up fast enough? Or will its economic growth, its transition from an agricultural to an industrial way of life, con tinue to be hampered by de ficiencies in racial out look in its educational system and in the training of its people, chil dren and adults alike? These and other social prob lems which affect the Negro population in the South as well are not given the prominence they deserve in the transfor mation of the Old South and in bringing its social objectives to the liaht of democracy. —THE CHICAGO DEFENDER mm CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONI TOR, Boston: “The Queen Elizabeth ID and the thousands of Africans who welcomed her have given a badly needed reminder to governments and peoples that consciousness of skin color can eventually be erased from re lations among nations every where." IN THIS OUR DAY BY C. A. CHICK, SR. PROCURESS MAYBE AND AND MADBE NOT! Some few years back when this writer Joined the faculty oi Fayetteville State Teachers College, there were only shout six people including the Presi~ dent connected with tee College who owned an automobile. And, automobiles were about as scarce among tee students as tee pst/vorbisl '‘lien teste,” In other words not a single student possessed an aatocno bila. Cmrsnciy a sfewfee& own ing an is no laager ‘news". As a matter «? f*et teera are more sans tom araumi,- the St&dctttt than therv wow among ail the employees of tee Ooßagfe Just a, few years back. Os wi», «.* of now & fares prapertiaoa of ail tee employee*. JUST FOR FUN By MARCUS a BOULWAKK WOULDN’T IT, Wouldn’t it be just grand, if we oould all live to be one hun dred years old? Then we could hope to be reincarnated to the age of twenty to begin a second life period on earth, —that is, unless we preferred to go to heaven. Well, we may not be enabled to live 200 years, but we can go a long way on that first 100 mark if we heed the advice of a Scottish doctor. Sir Derrick Dunlop, M. D, professor of medicine at Edin burgh University, recently told a health conference that there are three ways toward a long life (and by golly. I want one'i —more work, less food and no cigarettes. The good doctor has advised executives not. to take it easv, rest more, for this is wrong. (I agree'With him, for I’m never happier than when I am work ing; Mr. Cornyard, says I am a "fool workhorse.”) Is there anything wrong with being a workhorse or work ox? "There are few better thera peutic agents that routine hard Work. It takes a very civilized man to be able to ioit grace fully,” the professor said. The rise of arterial disease and coronary thrombosis in the past 40 years can as well be re lated to the increased use of cars, tractors, bulldozers and labor-saving devices as to the Increased use of animal-fats in diets, the physician added. WHAT HO? "For every fat person who reaches the age of 80, there are 10 lean persons who do so,” Professor Dunlop said. “It is true that like motor cars some people, run 15 and others 40 miles to the gallon, but obesity is always due to an Gordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN THE LINES COMFORT TO THE NEGRO’S ENEMIES Dr. W. E. B. Dußois has nev er had a greater admirer than the writer. And too often wc have mentioned him in this col umn as the ablest Negro alive today. And this in no may min imizes the fact that there are many able Negroes in the world. So when Dr. Dußois overtly turns communist we are trou bled exceedingly not alone that he defects to the communists, but tire probable consequences of such defection for the Ne gro race. Os course, there is a communist party in this coun try; and Dr. Dußois is at lib erty to join such party, but short-sighted must be he, who disregards the total effects on the cause of Negro liberation Our nation and the Negro race nurtured Dr. Dußois into greatness, and brought him in to world renown. And when a man is so nurtured it places upon him an unusal respon sibility to those who made his renown possible. Here is the Negro race strain ing and struggling for first class citizenship, with mighty forces arrayed against him in the uttermost parts of the earth in, general, and in these United States In particular. When the French were hard pressed at the gates of Paris in World War I. with the Ger mans pressing hard from the on all levels, of the College own a car. In fact some days park ing space on the campus is none too plentiful. It is this writer's considered guess that the foregoing with reference to automobile owner ship is typical of many of our colleges. Is this ft sign of economic progress. Well, in away is may be. And in away it may not be. Even if one makes the assump tion that the automobiles are not paid for, it is certainly some degree of economic progress to be able to get the automobile with "so much down” and “so much per month”. Just a few years back we could not have done that well. Now it certainly is not the intention of this columnist to tell his readers how to spend their resources. That is a mat ter for individuals and families to decide. However, this writer has no hesitancy in pointing out that along with purchasing automobiles if we have also been economically thoughtful enough to purchase some se curities, especially common stocks, of factories making au tomobiles, the indications of economic progress would be greater than it is by purchas ing the automobiles alone. It is estimated that the A meric-an public will purchase 7.1 million new automobiles during 1962. Now when one considers cither industries con nected directly and indirectly with the auto industry one gets into figures almost beyond the human brain to conceive. For, example, the automobile tire industry is a giant industry within itself. So is the auto battery Industry, surd on and on one could go listing various in dustries supplying auto parts &s the new parte wear awa’ All of the foregoing is to say that some of those giant indus tries must be making money. So, along with purchasing the automobile M's also get some securities—stocks and bonds— in the automobile indutry and aslo in the industries suppiving various automobile parts. By so doing we shall be earning mon ey os well' spending it! excess of intake over output.’ On the question of smoking, the professor said that to deny that cigarettes are an impor tant factor in lung cancer and other diseases is to carry skep ticism to absurd lengths. But the simplest way to a good old age, he said, would be for people to be able to choose their parents. (Boy oh boy, I would choose a millionaire if I had the choice.) Longevity de pends on family history more than anything else, he added. RUNNING HOG WILD: A few weeks ago a truck full cf hogs turned over on West Ten nessee Street in Tallahassee. There was confusion—most of it four-footed. The porkers, fat, fast, and vocal, had the run of the area for a while and skillfully evad ed would-be captors, some of whom were returning them and some of whom were swiping them. The hogs helped to tie up traffic on Tennessee Street for quite a while. Distressed home owners in tire area acted as au dience to an impromptu con cert by the pigs and watched as the fugitives and tneir pursuers dashed across the lawns. (Mr. Cornyard said, “What do you mean by ‘distressed homeowners'?” He hinted he would have been delighted to hide away about three porkers in his freezer. It would have helped his budget at lot.) I. however, encouraged Mr. Cornyard to be wise, because this sort of thing can put one behind the bars. At any rate, police were un able to determine the number of hogs which got away or the estimated damage to the live stock. front and on the flanks of Foch’s great army, it is said that each French soldier, whis - pored in his comrade's eat. “They shall not pass!” There are forces in this country just as determined that the Negro “shall not pass” as he march ■ toward victory in his current battle for full citizenship. And Dr. Dußois’ defection n the communists is not going to help the Negro in his current fight. Instead it is going to give comfort to those who oppose the Negro’s advance. That sweeter morsel of com fort could come to the Ku KUr; Klan, the White Citizens Coun cil, the John Birch Society, and the Defenders of State Sover eignty and all the rest who are committed to beating back the Negro in his righteous aspira tion to become a fu’l-fledred citizen of the land he loves and for which his fellow race men have died. To these anti-Negro ora an i zations and movements hence forth, the NAACP will car note a stepping stone to communisn Dr. Dußois’ defection will give comfort to those who are try ing to destroy (lie NAACP from the face of the earth. , And it. is going to be easier' for these to argue that all or ganizations fighting lor Negro freedom are communist inspir ed even as Dr. Dußois was com munist inspired. The Negro’s fight will be tougher and dead lier because one of its greats defected to the communists. There will be a long line of evil consequences stemming from the decision it tork Dr. Dußois nearly a hundred years to make. There are hundreds of things Dr. Dußois could have done that would have been more helpful to the Negro in his current struggles than jom the communist party. Os course. Dr. Dußois has a right as an American and as an American Negro to join whatever political party he de ■ sires, but the Negro and Amer ica have the right to evaluate his decisions. Dr. Dußois - de fection amounts to another road-block for the Negro as he walks a tedious and dangerous way. There arc many things that may yet happen to the Negro race as it struggles upw-ard, but few will be more shocking than the defection of one of their idols to the enemy. What the communists stand for can be seen more clearly from them refusal to allow Ne groes shore-leave when our na tion was sending relief food ships to their hungering thou sands, than by Dr. Dußois faith in communism. When enemies of the Negro’s advance are fighting furiously for the etemalization of the Negro’s second-class citizen ship, it is disheartening to see one of its giant leader take a course that will give comfort to those enemies Although Dr. Dußois’- course may make the Negro’s cross heavier. Negroes will he ever grateful for the fighting spirit and pattern which he inspired in the Negro race the world over. We sincerely hope that Ne groes who have been honored with leadership responsibilities will ever bear in mind that it is not enough for them to get by, but may they remember there is a long line of Negroes behind them and these too must, get by. Giving comfort to one’s ene nttee is a dangerous thing. DRIVE SAFELY!!
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