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THIS CAaOLraiAH .RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. JULY 21. 1982 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP Jesus said to Matthew sitting at the Office of Customs, "Follow me." And Matthew closed up his tax collecting agency and followed the Great Teacher. A lesser man than Jesus would have had. Salutations For Distinguished Service It is time for us to pause and pay tribute to two North Carolinians who have rendered long years of service to the people in this state —Plummer A. Williams, principal of the Apex Consolidated School, and the late Dean The ophius E. McKinney of Johnson C. Smith University at Charlotte. Just recently Principal Plummer A. Wil liams, who is retiring this year, received a plaque for his dedicated educational leader ship rendered to the Apex community during 26 years. The other veteran educator is Dean T. E. McKinney, who departed this life about, two weeks ago, after serving as dean of Johnson C. Smith University for 33 years. Prior to bis service with the Johnson C. Smith faculty, he Stronger Child-Support Laws It has been proposed many times that wel fare costs can be cut considerably with the passage of stronger child-support laws Before we state our opinions, let it be known that we are not advocating that everyone be relieved of supporting their children. We wish to caution officials that such a law might ,be the means by which welfare depart ments can become the tool for a woman to blackmail a man and get revenge. Our di vorce laws are too outmoded for a* 1962 soci ety. It seems that the present attitude of the course is “Clean him good." The ex-wife and lawyers split the couple’s holdings, then the husband’s earnings are harnessed to the limit —all by court order. This is done without re gard for moral right and wrong—purely on a wife-take-all and husband-pays-the-bills basis. Usually the welfare department gets into the Ministers And Extra Fees Our churches should pay their ministers enough for adequate support of themselves and their families, and this action would elimi nate the need for special fees being paid to ministers for serving at baptisms, weddings and funerals. “These are nothing but tips and should be abolished.” says the Rev. Dr. Egdar S. Brown, Jr., worship director of the United Lutheran Church in America, Fort Mill. S C.. with a population of 6,000 residents, recently celebrated its 14th anniver sary since the last traffic death. This achievement is an oddity and deserves a place in Ripley’s “Believe It or Not.” On July, 2 1948, a motorcyclist was struck and killed by an automobile. There hasn’t been a traffic fatality in the town since. “How did this happen?” we may ask. Weil, Police Chief T F, Adkins lists five reasons for this long record: excellent recrea Integrity Sets A Man Apart! Integrity sets a man apart from the run of-the-mill type of individual. We admire the integrity of a young janitor (in Illinois) who perferred to work at a low salary rather than draw higher welfare pay ments from the state. William J. Mallery, 28. is now working as janitor in the Illinois State Capital offices in Springfield, Illnois. The young father of six children receives a salary of $297.60 a month *t his present job, but his check would be more than S3OO if he were on relief, Mallery doesn’t want to be on the relief rolls, because he says: “A man on public aid Men Should Be Free To Work Since when have white men the right to in timidate Negroes for working to earn an hon est living? Nevertheless, let us take note. After eight “hooded” men chased Negro construction workers from a school building job in Heflin, Alabama, about sundown and warned the contractor the next day to get rid of Negro bricklayers, all colored workers were released from the job. The action left the Scott Brothers contractors with only three white masons to finish the job by fall. Violence was renewed in Montgomery, Ala bama, when a Negro bus driver was hired by a subsidiary of the National City Lines. City buses are subject to being fired upon at any time as they were five years ago during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. A cross was burned in front of the Mont NEGRO PRESS —"believes that America can best lead the world f/w It sway from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every mar f Ir^ regardless of race, color or c.eed, hie human end legal rights. Hating no man |J||, if tammfa no man—the Negro Press strives to help every e*&, on the firm oe- Hat that all men are hart at long as anyone is held back , W»*!t Hats Oil To Fort Mill! to set up the advantage of serving in the Gali lean’s cause as opposed to closing down a busi ness. Jesus believed in his mission even if others didn’t; and that is why his call to Matthew was so convincing. was dean for several years at A. & T. College at Greensboro. Affectionately called “Dean” by the stu dents of Smith University through the years, he will be remembered by those persons who knew him as the dean. Dean McKinney’s pro fessional colleagues will recall that he was the founder of the National Association of Collegi ate Deans and Registrars which convened last at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. Two veteran educators—one living end one dead—deserve our salutations and commenda tions for their contributions to the youth of the state. Both of these men were willing to walk the second undemanded mile. At this time, we pause to salute Principal Williams --nd w* commend Dean McKinney’s spirit to the ages! act as a lever to excite the law-enforcing agen ces into action. Oftime an honest husband finds others tak ing advantage of him, and for this reason, may we suggest: 1. Complete rewriting of our divorce laws, holding both parents equally responsible for child-support. Eliminate the she-is-right. he is-wrong attitude. 7- Put controls on fees charged by lawyers. 3. Establish a separate court for domestic troubles. Require the judge to receive special training in all related phases of this court. When divorces cease to be a “quick pen sion” plan and “cure-all”, thev will lose their popularity. Then a couple will cons’der more carefully all problems before marriage, and there might be more secure homes afterwards. Our domestic, marriage, and divorce laws need immediate revisions. Rev. Brown is right, and no matter how much our ministers —especially Negro pastors —are underpaid, fees paid for performing marriage ceremonies, for giving baptisms, for preaching funeral sermons are degrading the minister’s standing in the community. All services of the church should be offer ed without charge and ought to be a part of the total ministry, for which pastors receive a salary. tional facilities, the interest of school officials, the cooperation and support of the local week ly newspaper, interest of civic clubs etc. The cities and towns in Wake County should make an effort to achieve this record, It can be done if everyone is safety-minded and careful, and we need the cooperation of our school officials and teachers, ministers, employers, automobile drivers, communica tions facilities, as well as law enforcement agencies. can never get ahead. Nobody wants to stay the same all the time. Perhaps young Mallery is one man in 100, 000. but he demands and gets people’s respect. H:s integrity won’t permit him to loaf idly so as to draw a bigger pay check. While the prospects may look dim at pre sent for a better paying job, Mallery may made a big decision that will help him get ahead faster ten years from now. We admire a man who doesn’t develop the habits of “Freddie, the Free-loader." pictured so dramatically on Red Skelton's television show. gomery Lines shop and it bore an inscription, which read: “The northern-owned bus company has al ready caused Montgomery enough disgrace.” A sad state of affairs exist in this nation when a black man or a man of any color is in timidated while he works on a job be it in brickmasonry, bus driving, or clerking in a store. Why some white people think that all skilled and decent paying jobs must be reserved for them, we do not know. If the Negro is to be kept off the relief and welfare list, be must have the opportunity to work at any worthy calling which he is qualified to fill Employers and contractors must not submit to the threat of irresponsible whites bent upon causing trouble in a community. A Stroke Os The Pen Gould Help Stop Them, Mr. President girls sive What Other Editors Say DON’T TRUST SOUTHERNERS President Kennedy sounded a little miffed last week when he remarked in effect that most oi the southern Demo cratic members of Congress can be counted on to troop along with the Republicans against his program and against the plans in their party platform. We've remarked on that fact before, particularly in reference to the president’s efforts to appease the southerners by taking an easy tack as far as civil rights legislation and ex ecutive actions are concerned. The president’s supporters argued, and apparently con vinced him. that he should not issue an executive order ban ning discrimination in feder ally assisted housing on the ground that to do so would rile the southerners and assure their opposition to the urban affairs bill. The president sat on his hands and the southerners knifed the urban affairs bill. Again. Mr. Kennedy was told, and apparently convinced, that he should not support wholesale civil rights legislation which, it was said, would rouse southern opposition. Again, the presi dent caved in and tried to set tle for a bill that would have undercut the notorious liter acy test, devices used to dis franchise Negroes. The southerners would have none of the compromise and the literacy test bill was beat en by a Senate filibuster. We hope that the president has learned that you can’t do busi ness with southern politicians. Give them an inch and they'll take five miles. If the president hones to salvage his program he’s going to have to take the issue to the voters. —CALIFORNIA EAGLE FIRST cross CITIZENS COUNCILS? Mr. John Fischer, editor of Harper's tnnvazine. proposes in an article "that we organize a EDITORIAL OPINIONS Here are excerpts from edi torials compiled by Associated Negro Press appearing In some of the nation’s leading dailies on current events of particular interest to our readers: SUCCESS IN AFRICA CONSTITUTION. Atlanta: "Undoubtedly to their keen disappointment, the Russians have been unable to make any deep and extensive inroads in Black Africa. "There efforts have been stumbling and ineffectual. They make blunders that would be embarrassing even for the goat of our Asian reversals, “The Ugly American.” "So as William Gordon—a former Atlantan now with the U. S. Information Agency—re ports. the Communists are los ing out in Africa. "Gordon, whose station is in eastern Nigeria, said on a visit here that U. S. aid is gaining lasting friends in Africa. The Peace Corps, Gordon said, is * making a real contribution. "Gradually, our foreign pol icy is scoring significant and important accomplishments iri Africa,” , , . AND ALL THAT JAZZ TIMES. New York City: “Premier Khrushchev does not like jazz. His voice high, he commands jazz to go away. But it won t. First it was swirling around hjs toes; then his an kles, and now, with Goodman playing to the enthusiastic Leningrad cats and Kiev Kan first-class citizens council with the purpose to make every Ne gro a first, class citizen. He holds that the Negro must change to be accepted in white areas. While we do not agree with Mr. Fischer, either on the thinking that it is t ie Negroes business alone to strive to make every Negro a first "lass citi zen, "or that he change into a first class citizen of evtry Ne gro, even if this were possible, would make him acceptable in what he calls white areas, we do agree with Mr. Fischer in his thinking that we, as a group, must address ourselves more intensely and more realis tically to the removal of our own shortcomings to-wit: Our moral irresponsibility, our too casual attitudes about sex and our family responsi bilities; our unwillingness to invest time and effort in civic and political organizations which hold every American commnity together. Our tendency to blame every body but ourselves for the plight we are in, and our equal guilt in shunning our fair share of the responsibility for the fix we are in; And finally or inclination to ward slovenliness, to sit around and do nothing to keep our en vironment attractive; to do no Improvements on the ' shelters in which we live, make no ef fort to keep well groomed the yards we inhabit. This would be a good thing for this group of ours to ma.lor in. For the resolve to overcome these things is the heart of first class citizenship. It is not an external thing— it's an internal motive. It is not designed to make the white man accept us but rather to make us acceptable in a moral universe. We are reminded that not all of any group are first class citi zens; that the shortcomings we find in ourselves are common to segments In all ethnic groups and with this reminder is also the ugly fact that wherever garqos, it is up around his knees. The Premier had oetter learn to swim—or, at least, re member what happened to King Canute. RWANDA AND BURUNDI DAILY TRIBUNE, Chicago: “Only an incurable optimist would suggest that the two countries can make a go of It without help from outside. Bel gium is able and willing to give this help and Is on reasonably good terms with both new gov ernments. But, as usual, the Communists and their allies in the United Nations see a chance to promote confusion and are doing their best to get the Belgians out.” MORE ABOUT THE CONGO DAILY NEWS, Miami: “'The ever-present danger of more trouble in the Congo is IN THIS OUR DAY BY C. A. CHICK, SR. CHOOSING A COLLEGE A very important factor to take under serious consideration in looking for a college to attend is the attitude a large number of toe present atudents <n any given college has towards the administration of the college (the president). Parents of prospec tive college students as well us and whatever group these shortcomings are dominant, that group is weak and deca dent and in the end runs out of gas altogether. Maybe we need such a, coun cil if it will gear us up to meet the challenge raised by these weaknesses. —OKLAHOMA EAGLE RACIAL BIAS EXPOSED The v.iACP has charged that ficoyny Mobil Oil Co violated a non-discriminatory pledge to the Federal government In its treatment of 55 Negro employes at its Beaumont, Tex., plant, Socony was one of 52 gov ernment contractors which signed "Plans for Progress" agreements in accordance with President Kennedy’s March. 1961 executive order barring discriminatory practices of companies with government contracts. The complaint was filed with the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportun ity, headed by Vice President Lyndon Johnson. It aileges “refusal to promote Negro workers in a. non-dls crlminatory basis; wage differ entials based on color; and the systematic practice of violating the seniority rights of Negro employes.” A spokesman for the com mittee, not too long ago, said that the Immediate objective of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity was to create jobs and not to punish obstinate employers by cancellation of contracts. This we take it to mean that where soft-spoken suggestions faH to persuade am erring con tractor, no firm or embarrass ing action will be involved to enforce compliance with the discriminatory pledge. It is, therefore, clear that "Plans for Progress” is simply a euphemism for the discredit ed "voluntary” approach in race relations. —DAILY DEFENDER intensified by the breaking off of conciliation talks between Moise Tshombe, president of dissident Katanga and Premier Cyrille Adoula of the Congo . ~ “Meanwhile, President Ts hombe says he has to go to Geneva for a medical checkup. We hope he is soon well enough to resume the talks.” GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE SUN, Baltimore: “The one that really tripped up the conference was civil rights. The conference was of fered three resolutions on the subject: one of them vague and general, another Republican loaded, a third Democratic loaded. It was the Republican loaded version that got the floor, inspiring an unprecedent ed filibuster mounted by Sou thern Democratic governors that blocked all action." the prospective themselves should and must take seriously the way present students in a given college feel towards its administration. n igrgi* nurr>h.»r of Student* in a particular college dislikes, fears, and distrusts the presi dent, the general morale of the entire institution is certain to be Gordon B. Hancock s BETWEEN THE LINES FOR ANP THE SUPREME COURT AND PRAYER A large sector of the Southern press has been having a field day, since the Supreme Court, handed down its recent ruling on the matter of compulsory prayer. This ruling on the part of the highest judicial resort in the land has been variously constru ed by many editors and their reading public as something fearfully anti-Christian and ath eistic and as a moral calamity Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Supreme Court’s decision was in no way based upon a sub tle desire to undermine the great prayer tradition in v/hich this nation was incubated. It said to no person the he could Dray or not pray. It simply took the compulsion out, of the prac tice of prayer. The precious doors of God's gracious bounties are still ajar and who-so-ever will may cc-me to the fountain of life and drink deeply of the life-giving waters. The Supreme Court merel> said that there must be no com pulsion in this matter of prayer and praying. Praying and the desire to pray must spring up in the hearts of men and not in legal compulsions. And the Su preme Court was merely trying to keep prayer a personal mat ter instead of a legal one. No person in the world can com pose a prayer that vu’.l sat:?iy the aches and urges of a troubl ed soul. Os course, this writer would like to see prayer a part of the ritual of the public schools and he would hate to see the cessa tion of public prayer and pray ing, but he strings along with the opinion of the Supreme Court that prayer should be vol untary and not legislative. When the founding fathers wrote Into the basic structures of the Constitution he princi ples of freedom of religion, they laid the foundation of the Su preme Court’s recent decision. Court could not have ruled oth-. erwise and been true to the tra dition that has made our nation great, and our civilization splen did, May it. ever be thus. Os course, the anti-Negro sec tor of the Old South is using the ruling to carry out its plan and program of discrediting the SJ preme Court’s decision of 1954 The recent decision just gave JUST FOR FUN Bf MARCUS H BOULWARE CAN’T FOOL THEM A second grade boy in De troit recently came home and asked his mother why firemen can't read She assured him that this was a misapprehension and asked him where he got the notion. “Well”, he answered m our reading class at school we ’. e divided into three groups Teach er calls us the Cowboys, tne ,n --dians. and the Firemen, and I ve noticed that none of the 1 ire men can read too good. Sometimes 1 wonder if ’• e ought not be honest and truth ful with our youngsters when they can’t read. WELLINGTON. Kansas A workman fell while workmv on a scaffold and had to be tak* n to a hospital. When examiw by the doctors, they said hr back was not hurt. , But + he man complained "f severe pain, and the doctors de cided it might be from a bad ap pendix —and it was , Operating doctors fount, buckshots in it. The man had been eating rabbit which he shot on a recent hunt. GOPHER STEW: Why my sister and I were little c. 'lonm our parents moved to a h.' le oranee -move not far from Clear Water. Fla. On Sunday a church, the religious enthusiasts served the congregation witn goober stow. g The gopher eats grass, leaves and wild fruit; and in turn me eooher is good eating too. ° jt digs underground a tunnel at a very low level. It could not be any other way. You see m a small college everything be gins and ends in and around -ht. president. And, again may th writer point out that all oui * ■ gro colleges are small If the president of the co.-ege i a high-type of Christian gentle man, courteous, refined. P° ’ ’ • and fair, tne general tone of U college is very likely to be tne same.' And, by the same token, it he does not possess the forego ing characteristics, they are not very likely to be a general pail of the atmosphere of a college which he dominates. Moreover, in a college where, bv and large, the students dis litce the president, distrust and fear him, rarely will there be any sincere studying and thirst ing after knowledge. Instead, cm. atmosphere of hypocrisy, deceit, and a general spiri* of “getting by" will prevail in the entire in stitution. It is not surprising, then, that under those conditions tile graduates of such colleges may become a public discussion as to whether or not they know anything. Such a discussion, of course, to ray the least, is quite embarassing to college gradu ates. , , Thus, it seriously behooves parents of prospective students as well as the prospective stu dents to scrutinize very closely the attitude of tlic students toward the president of any given college before sending their children to that college. the Negrophobes another oppor tunity to heckle and abuse and disparage the Supreme Court that struck so hard against the evil of segregation. Ever since the memorable de cision of May 17, 1954 a small coterie of anti-Negro persuasion led by Southern anti-Negro stal warts has committed itself to discrediting rhe Supreme Court and thus invalidating the far reaching implications of its de cision. In other words the great out-cry in the South against the recent court ruling on the matter of prayer has given the Supreme Court hecklers of recent years opportunity to register their bitter resentment toward a court that would defy the tradition of color segregnion. To heckle and abuse and dis parage the Supreme Court have become the South’s second great 1 “cause" akin to that of perpeu- i atiny slavery. The Old South ■ never gives up in is heart, for j after nearly a hundred years it A is still fighting for its lost cause M We may expect just such tenaci ty in its fight to destroy the in- JS! tegritv of the Supreme Court. jug So we ro°d rot take oo serious ly the barpir.es of the press of the Old South on the matter of X recent decisions of the Supreme Court as it pertains to legal com- "Ste pulsion on prayer. V All the decision said wa* that j| prayer of m ' and by men and j for men must be a matter over which only the individual and net the law must speak with fi nality. The fact remains that when the anti-Supreme Court news papers have done their heckling, meted out their disparagement, and poured out theii vials of wrath, the doors of Gods love and mercy grace will still be open. The court ruling will not bar a single soul from the pre sence of a gracious Heavenly Father. Far too many of those inveighing against the Supreme Court’s ruling on prayer utterly disregard the teachings of our herd that all men are brothers •eeardless of race and condition. The southerners in Congress are almost a unit in opposition to the ruling which indivates ♦hat the Negro is somehow in- voiced and this involvement stems front the attempt■- of the * Supreme Court to further free the Negroes of this country The door of prayer is still op en as wide as ever, and who-so ever will may come from 10 to 35 feet long with a small room at the er.d. Raccoons burrowing owls, opossums, indi go snakes and rattlesnakes often use the gopher’s burrow. The upper shell of the turtle is called the carapace, the lover shell, the plastron. The length of the shell varies from six to four teen inches, and the gopher weighs up to ten pounds. A GIRL: “May 1 try on that two piece suit in the window?" MANAGER: “Go ahead It might be good for business.’ (Don’t words have peculiar wavs?) SOME COSTS: American etti T zens put. out plenty dough to keep animals, home and farm varieties healthy. A survey puts the cost at $240,900,000 a year, of which $200,000,000 is spent for drugs, tonics and veterinary care for farm livestock and $40,000,000 for pets and small animals In another eight years, it is esti mated, the bill will be nearly a billion dollars. The survey show's we have a bout 25,000,000 dogs, more than 22,000,000 cats, and 15.000,000 pet birds ' in this nation. Sometimes this estimate seems a little low. ’ NOT RIGHT: A sneaky scheme for making motorists drive sane ly is being tried out at Piaeer ville, California. Car after car bearing Califor nia Highway Patrol markings is ( parked along the main highway. At the wheel sits a dummy wearing trooper uniforms. It really slows traffic. Nobody can do anything a bout it, either. Well, for one thing, a driver can’t presocuia fc a dummy for impel sonatina an officer, Poet’s Corner A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME by \vm. henry huff FOE AM* A house indeed is just one thing A home is quite another How little can a mere house bring A father, child or mother A home is where there’s real concord And love and peace and union Where wife is queen and hus band king Both live in sweet communion No matter where on earth we roam The.house is but the letter Ah, than the spirit of the home There can be nothing better Forget the mortar and the bricks The nails, the stone, and ? lumber Forget the clock that ticks and "v ticks The cot whereon* you slumber The home is made of none of these It knows no tribulations It shelters happiness and ease. On it all conversations Are hallowed with that thing called love. A house is just a dwelling place.
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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