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4 THE CABOUNIAK RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY *4, IMS Editorial Viewpoint “Every kingdom divided against Itself is brought to desolation and every city or house di vided against, itself shall not stand, said Jesus, Whenever an individual sees that his unhappi ness, his deforming attitudes, his ugly and for bidding moods are but evil forces which have taken possession of his mind, and performs that greatest of all miracles, which is to cast them The time has arrived when some organization •houid undertake to train Negroes for skilled employment in a nuclear age. We don’t know whether this should be the task of the NAACP of the CORE, or maybe some new organization. All of us cannot be teachers, college profess ors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, ministers, etc. Hundreds of opportunities are awaiting Ne groes in skilled jobs if they are prepared to take them. No longer can we have the excuse that industry is prejudiced against Negroes, for in a large number of cases Negroes are not qualified to hold certain jobs offered to them The Negro’s shortcomings are many. One has a difficult time finding a capable secre tary, who can type well, use English mechanics effectively, and who can spell The small num ber that has shown exceptional ability already have jobs. The Urban League reports that a certain large company wanted to hire Negro secretaries and offered $65 per week. But no one could be found. Very seldom do you bear a youngster these days saying that he wants to be a contractor of buildings, homes, highways, or bridges, plumh ings, electrical work, printing and what-have you. The housing construction field offers emmense opportunities for the contractors that the capital, know-how, and skill to build homes. A good Negro company could make millions of dollars if it turned out good work and rendered courteous and dependable serv !ee. The United States is spending high, for crime outweighs religion 9 to 1. The FBI has furnished statistics which in dicate that each taxpayer had to foot a $l2B crime bill last year. And more vividly put. crime is costing $56 million a day in this coun try. For each dollar spent educating the boys and girls of this land, sl.ll is being spent on crime and for each dollar contributed toward religion. $9 is spent on crime, making it 9 to 1 ratio. While crime is costing us too much money, it has also another side. Look at the wasted lives and wasted potential of human resources. Some criminals are very brilliant people and had they used their God-given mental powers, in productive causes, there’s no telling where our nation would stand in the world today. University Salary Differential One of the problems that our Legislatures need to consider in the Southern states is that equalizing the salaries paid to professors at the white and Negro universities. The' state that comes nearer to payng equal salaries at present is Louisiana. Typical of the problem of unequal salary scale is what is happening in the State of Flo rida. Salaries at white universities in Florida are based on those in 21 of the best universities in the country. Those at the Negro university. Florida A. and M., are based on salaries paid hi 13 Negro colleges. Consequently, on this basis, FAMU eanpot maintain a competitive position. According tc a recent, report, the highest paid professor at A&M is exceeded in salary by about 88.4 per cent of those at the University of Florida, and 90.3 per cent of those at Florida State University. The lowest paid professor at the University of South Florida receives con ■ aiderably more than the highest paid FAMU professor. From professor down to instructor, the FAMU salaries pile up at the bottom of the scale in every single case. In spite of this con dition, the Board of Control requires all in struction to meet the same standards such as credit hours taught, student-teacher ratio, space Utilization, etc. The Miami News emphasied the crux of the problem in an editorial dated April 4, 1961, under the title: "Salary Standards Should Be Equal." 1 Said the editorial In part: “There can be no justification of lower sal aries at Florida A&M (Negro) University than St other state colleges. The Florida State Tea- Association was quite right in calling at Fiorid® Hat finished tfie ?J. S. State Depart- Sneat with a Hat of hotels and restaurants where tftp!omatie and foreign African nations can be satisfactorily accommodated without problems arising from segregation customs. We believe this action is designed to prevent RtohanvacmmL to foreign visitors who make smeseorted and unannounced rifeits to This action, we art sure, will prevent some of "the problems and misunderstandings arising, from conflicts with local meres and traditions* While we would like to know that any man of color could visit Florida with dignity, we also fed that th® State has a definite responsibility THE NEGRO PRESS--4s«Hawm that America can best had the world aemy from racial and national antagonism* when it accords to every man jf-liSilll regardless of race, color or creed. We human and legal rights. Hating no man Ms 4 f|f taamig no man — the Negro Pros-$ strives to help every mem on the firm he Med that all mm am hurt aa long me anyone is held back. I§f fjsl|F WORDS OF WORSHIP A Job Training Front High Cost Os Crime We Can Too! forth as the source of hi® debasement, he becomes whole. No man can keep his mind vigorous and strong of purpose until he refuses to defile It. His integrity and well-being depend utterly upon his refusal to harbor all enemies of the spirit. Only as he does this wholly and with revulsion. Is the crea tive germ of his being set free to grow after It* kind. For a long time, the Negro had a monopoly on washing clothes in the old-time wash tub. But one can count almost on ten fingers, Ne groes who operate first-class laundries. Most of our universities and colleges, private and state, have programs geared mainly to the training of teachers. Probably as many as 85 per cent of the students are training to be teachers, and as a results the elementary and secondary teaching fields are overcrowded for Negroes. Our institutions of higher learning need to enlarge their offerings in the industries and home arts. While the type of education started by men like Booker T, Washington was suit able for his day. today we need a type of skill ed training geared to the demands of a space age. in terms of operation, management, and procedure. Our young men must be inspired to Have more purpose in their lives to the end that they are not satisfied to exist and loaf about in pool rooms or rove the community in gangs bent on mischief. Tn short they must be taught to make a name for themselves in this world. For ex ample. men like Henry Ford. Abraham Lin coln. Booker T. Washington, and women like Mary McLeod Bethune made a name for them selves. Some concerted efforts should be made also to retain unemployed Negroes who have no skills. This, in part, is a task for all of us. How our educational leadership can continue tc overlook these demands on their institutions is astounding. The burden of the prevention of crime pri marily rests with the home, the school, and the church. At birth, each child has two God-given coun selors —his parents. Some children get out of hand from simple “hard - headedness”, and these frequently can be straightened out with one trip before the judge. Most of juvenile of fenders come from good homes. Evidence indicates that most problem chil dren reflect an I Q. in the below-average 55 to 85 rating or in the superior level above 135. Why is this so? Probably, because our school system is geared to the typical child. Neither of the children at the extremes —mentally retard ed or intellectually gifted—can gain acceptance from fellow students and often wind up in the juvenile court. tention to this disparity at their Miami meet ing. “The difference is more than nominal. At Florida A&M. faculty members average $5,460 a year, compared to $7,211 average at the three white state universities. “Entirely aside from the segregation issue, or even because of it. the Legislature should cor rect this injustice." This is the picture in Florida, and you may rest asured a differential exists in Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, as well as in North Carolina. The only explanation for a difference in sal aries paid to Negro and white professors is the rationale that Negroes can live cheaper than white people. This principle does not stand up under the critical eye of analysis. For the goods that he buys, of whatever quality, the Negro must pay the same price as members of the op posite race. Because he has less money to spend the Ne gro must of necessity buy cheaper brands in order to make his budget balance. In almost every case, white government of ficials have had to be forced legally to do the right thing with regards to providing equal salaries and facilities for Negroes in education, recreation, etc. Willful discrimination in payment of salaries to Negro professors should rest heavily upon the consciences of our state legislatures. And when the Southern legislatures meet again, may they have the courage and the disposition to correct this injustice. Since the Negro professor must meet the same academic requirements in his education and experience for the various college teaching to the citizens as well as the diplomats to see that such visitors are received properly and with dignity. North Carolina might wish to send invita tion to the embassies of Asiatic, European, and African nations. To give dark-skinned visitors a favorable impression, some thought should be given, to sec that local customs and traditions will not put “bad taste” fur the state in the visitor's minda—be they on an official or un escorted tours But let us not forget,, we would not want state officials to treat the African men of state, for example, better than North Carolina Negro A Firm Stand By The Government What Other Editors Say DEATH WARRANT . . . What did the Governor of N. Carolina say to the Governor of Ohio causing the Ohio Governor to sign extradition papers to send a Negro woman back to that state few trial on a charge of kidnaping an elderly white couple, is a question a lot of peo ple want answered. This answer is being sought because many believe that when Gov. DiSaile signed extradition papers releasing Mrs. Mae Mal lory to N. Carolina last week, he staked her freedom and per haps her life on the word of the governor of a state where racial violence has run rampant for the past several years. DiSaile says he approved the extradilion after Gov. Sanford assured him that Mrs. Mallory would receive a fair and impar tial trial. According to the Gov ernor he first discussed the case with Sanford by phone the week of Feb. 1. He decided to sign the papers on Monday of last week after Sanford phoned him and assured him of a fair trial for the N. York civil rights crusader, he said. DiSaile says he has known Sanford for a long time and that he is confident that he is a man of his word. "And he is not a racist” he added. For this rea son he said he simply had to approve the extradition. DiSaile said he was also dis turbed by the fact that the NA ACP was not in the for front for the fight for Mrs. Mallory In stead of having the NAACP in the fight, "she was surrounded by a group of strange people", he asserted. He said the result of h:s ex tensive investigation indicates that Mrs. Mallory was associat ed with a group of agitators and lirouble makers. It is his under standing that the leader of this group was expelled from the N AACP because he advocated vi olence in the civil rights move ment, he said. Thus we are informed as to what the governor of N. Caro lina said to the governor of O hio to lead him to extradite Mrs. Mallory to a state Where she says segregation forces have threatened to hang her on the court house yard. Perhaps Gov, Sanford will not betray DiSaile's trust, but if Mrs. Mallory is railroaded to prison, or is done bodily harm by a mob, he will carry her bloodstains on his hands the ba lance of his life. -THE OHIO SENTINEL FOOT IN MOUTH EDITORIAL OPINIONS Here are editorial quotes com piled by The Associated Negro Press on subjects of current in terest to our readers from some of the nation's leading news papers: NEW POLICY AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND THE JOURNAL Winston-Sa lem N r "Regent* of to® University of Maryland, the most northerly of the member* of the Atlantic Coast Conference, have voted to give Negroes the same consider ation s* white student* Jn the awarding of athletic scholar ships. This means, more than likely feat Maryland coaches will be recruiting Negro young sters from the populous Wash ington area and that, within a. few years. Negroes will have key positions on the university teams. “The university’s regents ap pear to have acted sensibly. Thsy made no announcement of fewfcr 4*oMen, m they *pp«r REPUBLICANS Republicans and their south ern Democratic allies are bring ing in their big guns to shoot down President Kennedy's pro posal for a Department of Urban Affairs in the cabinet, a position which would be filled by Dr. Robert Weaver. Even the liberal Governor Rockefeller of New York got in the act last week when he hoot ed at the proposal as a political move and remarked that ap pointments of Negroes to big po sitions won't solve toe civil right® problem. Os course, Dr. Weaver’s ap pointment won’t solve toe civil rights problem but the fact that he has been proposed for the cabinet position has stirred up the southern opposition which the New York governor has jo ined. Before the fight is over Mr. Rockefeller is going to find himself in bed with every racist in the country. On its merits the proposal for a Department of Urban Affairs is a good one. Most of the na tion's population now lives in ci ties, large and small. The trek to toe cities has created a my riad of problems that cry out for consideration on a national scale. Negroes have joined the city ward movement in increased numbers in toe past thirty years. Their problems as city dweller* are compounded by racial prob lems. They would be among the chief beneficiaries of the work that could be done by the new cabinet department Republican opposition to the president’s proposal is a com pound of political opportunism and a determination to play foot sie with toe Dixieorats and re pay the southerners for past fa vor*. Sometime* we think the GOP must have a department devoted to finding ways and means of alienating Negro voters. —CALIFORNIA EAGLE WHAT’S A SCHOOL BOARD FOR? The question project* itself in to thinking because after the election of these members to toe School Board, the citizens who had to do with the elections • least wise these citizens in North Tulsa) never bear from them. Not only do we not hear from them, but as it relates to relieving our section of some of the public schools, they practi cally do not exist. It is our thinking that as a Board of Control they ought to move in the interest of the full development of people through ently were not thinking of a public relations coup or an ath letic talent grab. Negro enroll ment in Washington area schools is high. It would seem that the university, only a few miles from the Maryland-District of Columbia line, would naturally turn to schools in its area in search of athletes.’* ATLANTA’S GRADY HOSPITAL THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta: “The demonstrators' conten tion that the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority did not ad dress itrelf to the Negro request that interne be accepted for training a Grady without regard to race is a misstatement of fact that simply weakens their valid demands. Emory and the Au thority have offered to accept Alvin Johnson of Leeds, Ala,, a senior medical student at Me harry, for internship at Grady. 'This represents a new policy for the Authority and a vital chal lenge to the Negro «»s« to totes the school system when no one else will. To the contrary the Tulsa Public School Board seem to exhibit number one in the realm of action or reaction (sometimes it's hal'd to deter mine which.) In this era when the world trend is toward a free world and the dignity of man not - withstanding the Supreme Court ruling calling for elimination of segregation in schoois, these guardians of the democratic 1- ueals basic inherent in the pub lic schools waited until Bur roughs subversed into an all Ne gro school to find it feasible to to place Negro teachers in the system. ADI) TO OTHER EDITORS And even now, with Emerson school more titan 50 percent Ne gro children in attendance, their feasibility as to the placing of Negro teachers at Emerson has not yet led them to make a single gesture in this the hiring of a Negro teacher in the pub lic school system of Tulsa fea sible and judging from the pat tern, only when all the white families have transferred their children. We are inclined to think that it is not by accident that the ob servation made by an interested citizen in a letter to the Editor is true. He points up the fact ther* are hundreds of people employ ed in the maintenance depart ment, but there are no Negroes employed except a few janitors working at what were one time known as separate schools. There are many white men employed as electricians, carpenters, me chanics, painters, machinists, truck drivers. In the Education Service there are people working in the case, paint shop, mail department, but there are no Negroes in these groups of workers. There are dozens of clerks and secretaries throughout the building but here again there are no Negroes. Even a people half fair would know that this situation ought not to be, and any school board half fair, with even a shred of concern, would by now have proceeded to rectify this gross injustice to the citizens they serve, Sometimes the status quo puts people to sleep. Maybe this is what has happened here. Some action needs to be taken to a rouse us to the fact that this is not the direction. It make us wonder what makes stagnant 50’s. We're living in the roaring 60's where the insistant note is “Equality and Justice for all.” advantage of that policy, and seek with Qualified applicants to broaden it instead of continuing to protest that such a policy does not exist when, demon strably, it does. A protest with out discerning leadership can defeat itself. “As for the Authority, St ought to do what is right, protest or no protest, and its tardiness in doing so is the main point of thin whole episode.” OBAMA THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston.: “Another inHirstor nf Ghana's more cautious attitude toward Communist monopolism ww i its treatment of mspersataKnan An astas Mifcoysn. During his re cent official visit all the cere monial welcoming at ape were pulled out, but the trade eser reportedly had less than an hour's time given him for pri vate talks, "As was the case in UgypA Iraq, and Guinea, Servlet ®t> JUST FOR FUN ftf MARCUS a BOUIiWARR "AMim" Doctor: “Say ahhh.” Patient; “But I didn't come for an examination. I came to pay a bill." Doctor: “Ahhh.” SUNDAE SCHOOL Beginning the first of Juna uary this year, I was appointed teacher of the Adult Bible Class at the Trinity United Presbyte rian Church. My responsibilities will end Dec. 31, 1962, when an other person will become the teacher. In this way, the respon sibilities rotate. Last Sunday we studied the early part of the career of Je sus and considered his Baptism, his temptations, etc. All of this occurred before the Sermon on the Mount I stressed two ideas (1) the purpose of Jesus’ mini stry tinder the heading of one idea, and (2) the kingdom of heaven is at hand (within the individual, of course). The idea that Jesus preached was that man has a personal dig nity, and in the sight of God the lowly man is just as preci ous as tiie king, the president, the dictator, or the statesmen. And I emphasized that, since we are all children of God, we should love one another. On the second point, I stress ed that John the Baptist preach ed that the “Kingdom of heaven is at hand." I added that Jesus said. “Tiie Kingdom of Heaven is within you”. We discussed Gordon B. Hancock "s BETWEEN THE LINES THE CHRONIC LATE ARRIVAL The chronic late arrival is a pest. With him late arrival Ism is a highly specialized art. He disturbs the assemblage and committee meeting and pro trudes himself into the serious deliberations of many an im portant board meeting and is a diverter of attention generally. The writer has been riled, for too invariably the late arrival is a Negro, and this is particularly true of interracial meetings. When Negroes in a by-gone day were late for church services or the board or committee meeting, they won a species of sympathy on the ground that they had to wait on the white folk and got them off before they could ex tricate themselves from their jobs and get to their own en gagements. It is different today, for the Negroes who attend our board and committee meetings are not busy serving the whites. They are late because they make a haibit of being late and what is more too often they attribute their lateness to being “very busy." There comes to mind a former principal of a high school. For years and years we have been associated in community affairs and not once has this person ap peared on time for his engage ment. He runs in fifteen or twenty minutes late to every engage ment. Then he excuses himself on the ground that he was “just so busy” that he could not come on time. Wherever you find him in the meeting after his late ar rival, we find him complaining that he is “awfully busy”. At some of these meeting I have seen white college presi- IN THIS OUR DAY KEEPING AHEAD OF INFLATION Whichever major political party, Republican or Democrat, is in control of the Federal gov ernment, that party will endea vor to prevent a period of infla tion. And, moreover, each party will claim that when it is, or was in control of the Federal government, it prevents or pre vented “inflation". To be sure there la a grain of truth in each of their statements. However, the catch comes in the definition of inflation. Prob ably no two Individuals, not ev en authorities in economics, would define inflation the same way. By the same token, prob ably there are no two people who have the same concept of inflation. No doubt what those, who are in charge of the Gov ernment at any given time, act ually mean when they say they have controlled inflation is that they have controlled “wild in flation" or rapid inflation. But as a matter of fact whether in flation is “creeping'’ or rapid, it is still inflation. And, in the long run creeping inflation will have the same effect on the purchas tempts to use trade for political penetration have gone awry. To be sure, this does not mean de mocracy is triumphing overau thoritarianism. Nor that playing off East against West is at an end. But it does show how un wise it is to write off prema turely those ambitious national ists who go shopping for Eastern bargains to strengthen their do mestic hold,” THE POST, Washington. D. €.: “It U diMjueiing to learn mat some 80 additional political op ponent# or erttiat of Nkrumah regime b#v* been arrested and imprisoned in Ghana over the past weekend. Among them is a legislator and leader of the Op position United Party, Daniel Kwasne Aped oh, who had taken the parliament seat of another opposition legislator, M. K. Ap ai®o, who was armitod and de tained three year? ago. the Idea that heaven was not in some far off place paved with golden streets, nor with pearly gates. The emphasis was that the Kingdom of Heaven was a spiritual thing and not material as many people thing. We are having some interest ing discussions which contain counsel which we cun use in our everyday lives. JUST LIKE WOMEN Wife at a police station “Well, actually my husband must have been missing for nearly a week now, but I didn't notice it until payday.” Another female “battleax” said to her lawyer, “And you might warn my husband that if he misses a single alimony pay ment, I’ll repossess him.” (The poor guy can t afford to do that, can he?) COP EMBARRASSES In Sarasota, Florida, a distin guished gentleman and his niece sat quietly in the back seat of the limousine while motorycy cle patrolman Clarence Shoe maker wrote out a traffic sum mons for the chauffer. Charge: Driving on the wrong side of a double center line. . Guess who the passengers were? The man was David Gray, former U. S. Ambassador to Ire land. The woman was his niece, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr. Gray paid the chauffer's fine—ls.oo denis, professor and banker, and physicians and men manag ing businesses worth millions but our colored friend is '‘too busy” to meet with them on time, I study a situation where certain colored members of in terracial committee arc invari ably late and the white mem bers are invariably on time. This should not be. Tne writ er had occasion to visit the of fice of the high school principal herein before referred to, and found him sitting behind n largo and imposing desk that was ab solutely clear of papers which he might have been ponderinc Instead he sat gazing out of 1 window into space ne even lea ed bored until he looked up an : spied me. His secretary was in an adj ining room chewing away ; her gum and also eazuic i s’,race. When I appeared in t! > scene there was a sudden f about the office. Our inv.r in' late committee member bt pulling out drawers and f mg a very busy monernt. and a so began complaining of “so busy”. The old gag a’.v being so busy is threadbo <’ it is over-used and often by ;■ pie who are not, and will n be "so busy”. Yesterday I was in a n • e- • where all of the whites c: . the minute, and where most i f the Negro members of the co miUee were late. The whites of course according to habit tori; the front seats and Into cornu' ■ Negroes had to sit behind with only a few exceptions There we were in an interest ing meeting, segregated bye Negroes’ late arrival, V'r I have business at a mectin;. t in variably go on time and cut out this “I-am-very-busy" line. ing power of the dollar as i»- pid inflation will m the tooit run. For example, reliable sour ces of information point out that the purchasing power of the dol lar today as compared w1 to 1939 is only forty-six cents. The purpose of this article i to suggest one way, at least, by which one may protect himelf as well as his dependents against inflation, and especially creep ing inflation. A fixed income will not do it. Many a husband has deceased believing that he had his wife and dependent children well protected financially. But the widow and children soon r< - slued that because of the rising prices of goods and services that there financial protection lasted for only a brief while. Current ly there are millions of people depending entirely upon their Old Age and Survivors Insur ance for their financial support during their old age. Also they are depending upon the same source of income to protect their dependents. It should be point ed out here that those who con ceived of our Social Security program never intended that it, would support one on a decent level of living. It was so plan ned that it would, aside from any period of inflation, to fui nish about one-half of the sup port for an individual And. of course, rapid or creeping infla tion, can and will greatly de crease the purchasing power of the dollars an individual re ceives from his Social Security. History bears out the fact, that, the Government cannot control creeping inflation. During the entire history of the United States, the long time trend has been one of rising prices. Thus in order for an individ ual to be reasonably sure of fi nancial protection tor his de pendents after his death or for his old age he must acquire an equity in the American econo my. There are many ways an individual may become part owner of the great American growing economy, but this writ er thinks that there is r.o better way than that of owning some common stocks in the leading in dustries arid financial firms ia the United. States.
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