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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1866 The Bible Is full of the chronicles and deeds of various types of leaders, but of them Jesu* stands at the top of the tower of success and influence. When compared with Jesus so many of them failed in comparison. Moses, at first, was no organizer, for he tried to do every thing himself. Samson could do wonders sin glehanded, but he failed to accomplish any thing for his nation. He was just strong enough and had the bravado to keep himself fd/foriol Viewpoint Neighborly Kindness Still With Us Some men strive only for themselves and their families, and no one else matters. Hence, we propose the question: Who would bother to make a speech to a gradu ating class with only one student? And yet this question no doubt troubled a girl. Jan ice Fuqua, the lone graduate of a one room school located at Valley, Wyoming, last June. One can well imagine how important the commencement program would be for this girl and her parents, her teacher and neighbors of the community 7 . We are told that the people who were patrons of the one-room school had a fam ous neighbor among the ranchers of the Shoshone Valley almost under the shadow of the famous Rocky Mountains. The fam ous neighbor had been president of the University of Wyoming, then governor of the state. He was. near commencement time, living in Washington, D C,, where he was United States senator. This did not dampen the fervor of the people of this little community, since they dared to invite Milward Simpson. 68 years old, to deliver the commencement address School Boycott Successful Weil! About ten days ago. the Leon County Branch of the NAACP (Tallahassee, Fla.) persuaded more than fifty per cent of the Negro parents to keep their children home from school two days for the purpose of dramatizing Negro grievances. In addition, the NAACP set up what was labelled “freedom schools” at several churches to accomodate the boycotting students. A Flambeau, student newspaper at Florida State University, staff writer, published an article in which he said “the successful school boycott has ended," as a majority of the county’s Negro students again remained home in a protest of the School Board’s failure to desegregate or to improve poor conditions in the schools, On what grounds the Flambeau reporter termed the boycott successful, we are not quite sure. Perhaps he meant the “institu tion at the freedom schools in seven churches” where the pupils were informed about the plight of their children, civil rights and Negro history. Did he term the boycott successful, because of the large number of students who participated in the demonstrations? Os the 11 Negro schools in Leon County, 1836, or 27.3 per cent of the enrollment m these schools were present, while 4880. or 72 per cent were absent. Yes, from this viewpoint, we might say the absences from school were triumphant. What about the effect of the boycott up on the School Board to the extent of get ting a promise to redress the grievances submitted by the NAACP? It is our opin ion, that it was a flop. First, the Leon County Board, one of the poorer school systems in Florida, lost a lot of money that it usually gets from the state. For each of the 4880 students w'ho did not report to school, the School Board Can Anything Good Come Out Os The South? Most of us have either read or heard about that biblical statement which said, “Can anything good come out of Boza”? It is now being asked about the South with so much strife, antagonism, night riding, JKu Klux Klan boast, devious means of avoiding the Civil Rights Laws, general abuse of human rights and the election of segregationists to high office. We are happy to refer you to the Bible, which points out that something good did come out of Boza. Certainly something good can come out of the South. In fact, Richmond M. Flowers, attorney-general of the “Sovereign State’’ of Alabama, comes from the south and has a story to teU. In Chapel Hill last week he spoke out against elected officials who come to power by inciting the voters to hate. He minced no words in saying that such officials were a draw back to the American way of life. He lamented the fact that his state had drifted further into the doldrums of ignor ance and despair by electing an unfit per son for governor- Flowers will be in Raleigh Friday night. Quicker Quickie Divorces In Nevada It is known that the Nevada State Bar Association has reported a situation in that state of serious proportions. The organiza tion has allegedly called for help in pre venting the abolishment of the six-week residence requirement for uncontested di vorces. The number of Nevada divorces has slumped to fewer than 10,000 annually, or half that of the golden peak of two decades ago. Nevada weddings outnumber divorces eight to one, and for a wedding you don’t need a lawyer. The Nevada Bar Association is deeply concerned over this trend, and may we add rightly so. It blames the competition from Mexico, where “quickie” divorces these days are easier than Nevada's-—and quick er, too. Annually some 15.000 persons from New York state alone have their knots cut Words Os Worship in thz limelight The stories that have been preserved of him in the Bible are the most tangy in Hebrew literature. The leader of Is rael, Samuel, was a guardian of the Hebrews’ democratic spirit. In time, he feared that Saul, for example, was becoming an autocrat rath er than the chief counselor or that his title implied. Like Samson of old, the present-day SCNC leader, Stekely Carmichael, manages somehow to stay in the limelight. to the lone graduating student. And the gracious senator, remembering his friends, flew home to make the commencement ad dress for the one-room school graduation exercises. Jus think of it, and you will be amazed at Senator Milward Simpson’s generosity. He traveled 2,500 miles by plane, then 50 miles by automobile over a dirt road to the tiny schoolhouse. For 20 minutes, he gave a good, old-fashioned commencement speech to Janice and 74 other persons as sembled in the school. Senator Simpson had nothing to gain by going to the little one-room schoolhouse. His term of office as a senator was to ex pire within six months, and he wasn’t run ning for re-election. In these days of anxiety, of cynicism and self-seeking, and of gratification of having so much of this world’s goods, the neigh borly kindness of Senator Milward Simp son is heartwarming and exhilarating We need mere people in this nation with a heart that bubbles over for friends and other people. Here, indeed, was a man who will “forget himself into eternity,” lost $2.25 a day. Now multiply this by 4880 students, and you get a figure of $11,980. In two days, eleven Leon County Schools serving predominantly Negro pupils lost $23,960. Does this make sense? Leon Coun ty schools needed this money, and the 4880 absent students needed those two days of school instruction. Negro students are already behind in educational foundation, traceable to inade quate school facilities and a hundred years of inefficient instruction. These 11 schools which were boycotted needed that $23,960, We are proponents of the use of differ ent methods other than the boycott and demonstrations, so notably “overworked’. There was a time in earlier days that dem onstrations and boycotts were encouraging ly successful. But this is not true any more. In the case of cur schools, the Negro leaders should ask for a conference with the school boards either in private or pub lic mee f,; "gs. If refused, the next step would be to engage lawyers to seek a redress of grievances through the courts of the land. This is the sensible way. We think that many of our racial pro test organizations, and their leaders are working under false assumptions. What statistical facts have these civil-rights or ganizations gathered with speed and dis patch through IBM computations secured by experts and a staff of researchers? It is our belief that if the truth were known, our civil-rights leaders would be shocked by the experimental data indicating the percentage of failure of the boycott and demonstration techniques. In the Florida case which we have cited, nothing has changed. The NAACP group hasn’t even persuaded the School Board to give them a conference at which the vari ous grievances can be aired. when he will address those who attend the banquet of the Southeastern Lawyers As sociation, which will be held in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Persons in the Ra leigh area would do well to hear him. Flow ers has carried on an almost one-man fight against the Ku Klux Klan and other evils of Alabama and even though he has been buffeted in almost every effort, he has not lost hope and vows to continue to make Alabama a target of hope and a citadel of aspiration. Yes, something good can come out of the South. Ralph McGill, the fighting At lanta newspaper authority, former U. S. Senator, Frank Graham, Harry Golden, Atlanta’s ex-congressman Weltner and many others who have dared to speak the truth, even though villified by their fellows, are living examples that good has come from Dixie and more is expected with likes of Mr- Flowers. We are hoping that members of both races will turn out to hear Mr. Flowers Friday night. He is really a voice and we do not think he is altogether crying in ‘he wilderness. in Mexico. It was reported by the NBA that two thirds of 271 lawyers said they would favor granting uncentested divorces after one day’s residence, provided both persons had lawyers. Contested divorces would not be affected. From this report, we cannot help but take side with Prince Hawkins, chairman of the NBA’s economic committee: “The move would attract disenchanted husbands and wives who presently head for Mexico, and thus add to the income of the legal profession of Nevada. It is readily seen that some lawyers are more interested in divorce fees than in giv ing an estranged married couple time to take stock of their suit for divorce with sober reflections. Certainly people contem plating getting divorced should “make haste slowly,” Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN WHAT HAPPENED TO SAVIN ROCK? Savin Rock is what we used to call a boardwalk amusement area. Savin Rock is in West Haven, Conn., overlooking Long Island Sound. I passed through this area one October Sunday not long ago and the bumper cars and the miniature golf course and the hall of mirrors were all shut up and boarded for the winter. Amusement areas boarded up are just as interesting as when they are in full blast, offering thrills and joys for a quarter or r>o cents. The deserted roller coaster loomed above the park, looking like some mysteriously ritua listic statuary from another planet and the horses on the merry-go-round were frozen foi ever in their places. One of the hot-dog stands was still open and inside a group of men pursued a passionate discussion about the last stock-car race on Labor Day. Tne waiter and I indulged some desultory conversation and he remarked things weren’t like they used to be. Indeed they are not. It is inaccurate to say amusement areas are dying out as a special outing for a family two or threetirnes over a summer, but I suspect that is the case. It is true that Disneyland in California is thriving but Disneyland is another planet, the world of the neuroses come to life. Playland in Rye, where I used to take my boys when they were kids, suffered a fire in one area not long ago and none of th operators rebuilt. Freedomland, which imitated Disneyland failed in New York. Heie in the South the county fairs still thrive but they are not what they used to be. The one-family farm is dying and the city folks sit at their television sets. Coney Island is still crowd Jisf lor Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE A LOT OF DOGS Owners of 1,776 animals have entered them in annual Eastern Dog Club show and obedience trials will begirt or. Dec. 11. We have a young Collie- German Shepherd dog named "Thor,” and can’t get him to obey always. Maybe I need to take a course in making dogs obedient. In the mornings, I feed him a glass of milk (which he loves) and two scrambled eggs, and a mess of Gravy Other Editors Say.. AN HONORABLE SCHOOL PLAN The more we see of the school administrator’s new plan for high school zones, the more possibilities it seems to have. Essentially, the plan calls for the creation of a new high school in the eastern part of the city, the elimination of Paisley, Anderson and Atkins as senior high schools and the realignment of the attendance area for Parkland, North For syth, Reynolds and East For syth. Atkins would be con- Letter To The Editor Dear Editor: I always appreciate the cov erage of happenings at Fay etteville State College in The CAROLINIAN. I was espe cially pleased with the editor ial on “Mother Bryant” in the November 26 issue. You are so right when you say she “stole the show” at the dedication. Enclosed you will find one dollar for which lam request ing that you will please send me five copies of the Novem ber 26 issue. Best wishes to you and The CAROLINIAN for continued success. Yours very truly, Rudolph Jones President, THE CAROLINIAN Publishing Company ‘ "Covering the Carulinus" Published by Ihe Carolinian 518 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address: P, O. Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N C 27632 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $2 75 Sales Tax OB TOTAL $2 83 One Year 4.50 Sales Tax 14 TOTAL (4 64 Payable In Advance Address all communlc tions and make all chocks and money orders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., 310 Madison Avenue. New York 17, N. Y.. National Advertising Re presentative and member of the Associated Negro Press and the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accom panies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this paper. ed but it is not as propor tionately crowded on a Sunday these days as it was when I first saw it 50 years back when it drew from a popu lation one-third less than we have today. Then there was one saloon; now there are dozens of cocktail lounges and bars. The big treat in those days was to buy an ear of corn dipped in butter for a nickel. The days of the nickel are gone forever. And the amusement areas may vanish along with the nickel and the sandlot baseball game. Obviously television, for all its grotesque programming and tasteless presentations has still made ultra-sophis ticates out oi the children. It is also, after its fashion, free, and perhaps that is one of the blows Savin Rock had to take. On the Sound itself, some powerboats idly cruised and our expanded leisure is another blow. Right beside Savin Rock, however, is one of the new Gold Medallion Villages pio neered by General Electric. A Gold Medallion Village is a complex of some 500 apart ment units all of them com pletely electrified. The units by Savin Rock were almost finished. General Electric, I understand, fully intends one day to build an entire city which will resemble this small complex in West Haven. This particular complex had a swimming pool and a su permarket and maybe even a church all electrified. But, of course, it was the body blow to Savin Rock. It was no fault of General Electric that the realty be came more valuable than the business the realty once hous ed. That’s what happened to Savin Rock. In an ex panding economy, there is no place for sentimental reser vations which do not pay a proper dividend all year round. Traiii, He is now 8 months and is growing long-legged. ANCIENT CAR A man who is a nut about classic automobiles bought a car recently and it runs on electricity. Would you believe he paid .SIO,OOO for it—s4,ooo for the car and $6,000 for an extension cord! Don’t criticize the man, for I’m a lover of ancient cars. Trouble is I don’t have the fat cash to buy one of them, but my heart is there just the same. verted into a vocational trac ing center for the whole school system. Carver may also be abandoned as a senior high school, but that is separate from and not essential to the larger plan. An essential ingredient in the plan - perhaps the criti cal one - will be how the attendance areas are aligned. If the school administrators had any thought of simply creating a single central school to take care of almost all the Negroes, they w'ould soon find that they could meet neither the requirements of the federal guidelines nor the demands of the law. If there is an honest attempt to draw the lines along natural rather than racial divisions, this plan might be the answer to our problems. It would do several impor tant things: Replace Anderson and Atkins, both of which need to be replaced as senior high schools; minimize the over crowding of existing schools, such as North and Reynolds; provide space for a vocational education center; and elimi nate the need for building a • new Paisley High school (which has now be come im practical). The school administrators will have a difficult job as, they attempt to work out the details of this plan. They may be tempted to try to circumvent in a number of small ways the law's require ment that we end the dual school system. But if this plan can be worked out, it could bring to secondary school planning in Forsyth County a stability and an hon esty that has been sorely need ed. It would, we think, be an honorable course for this county to take. - THE WIN STON-SALEM JOURNAL. A TEST FOR GOP The new brand of moderate Republicanismwill be put tothe test in the state legislatures as well as in Congress in 1967. Many of the Republican gains in the states were achieved by candidates who described themselves as pro gressives and who advocated programs to meet the needs of cities and suburbs and halt the pollution of rivers and streams. Will Backlash Be Allowed To Defeat Open Housing IS iSlfil “TIME TO COLLECT BACK PAY” Noted author, Harry Golden, has become one of the few white-skinned advocates for economic indemnification of Negroes, Testifying before the U. S. Senate Government Operations subcommittee on ways to improve the lot of slum dwellers, he advocated a SIOO billion program to compensate Negroes for “centuries of slavery and deprivation.” Suggestions for this type of indemnification had come from Whitney Young of the Urban League and other civil rights leaders, earlier, apparently falling on deaf ears. Perhaps this was because Negroes were saying it--like asking for something for themselves, although these leaders would not personally need any financial subsidization at this point in their careers. Admitting that “the United States has had Negroes locked away during the greatest wealth producing period in the history of the world,” Golden declared that this “war has been lost-- the Negro has won - he deserves back pay.” Negroes who agree that the government should realistically DO something concrete to erase the last vestige of poverty and the attendant slum ism and slum living, would also agree that this is not an exorbitant amount for the govern ment to invest in human life. MEANS TO END CHICAGO - The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice last week announced the creation of a new department of urban services, which, through a comprehensive inquiry into existing problems and programs of urban affairs, would serve to Implement recent policy statements by Catholic bishops urging full freedom of the housing market to all minority groups. The new program will join the NCCJ’s current Proj-ct Equality which is functioning nan on all; in over 42 denominational jurisdictions, with more than 12,000 participating business firms. SOMETIME IN '67 RICHMOND, Va. - Transfer of the North Car olina-Virginia conference from the Central (Ne gro) jurisdictions into the Southeastern jurisdic tion, and its merger with the North Carolina, Western North Carolina and Virginia conferences, is expected to take place sometime in 1967. The transfer was voted last summer, but North Carolina did not attain the two-thirds majority vote thought needed. This holdback was solved when the Methodist Judicial council ruled that two-thirds approval was not necessary in each of the four conferences, only two-thirds in the transferring unit (Central), which has just to register Its vote. World News Digest * NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL WIN WINGS LIVINGSTONE, Zambia - The first two Zambian citizens to complete pilot flying training and to fully qualify as service pilots, were awarded their “wings" at ceremonies conducted at the Livingstone Air Force base recently by Vice President Reuben Kamanga. The first flyers are Flying Officers D. C. Arsenson, 23, and C. J. Kabwe, 25, who began their training on govern ment scholarships in September, 1964, MUZZLED NAIROBI - Opposition parties to the ruling Kenya African National Union Party of President Jomo Kenyatta are finding it difficult to spread their appeals for support around in Kenya. Under an edict issued by the government, public meet ings of opposition groups are banned, and about the only place they can make a political speech Is at a funeral. ANOTHER WAY PANAMA CITY' - In a few months, an engineer ing survey to find a new link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is to begin the first step to replace the 50-year-old Panama Canal. The - survey, dictated by the need to provide larger These needs are great. There Is unmistakable need for improved schools, com munity colleges and state uni versities, Mental health fa cilities In too many states re Altar Call BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D. NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL Religion And Race BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL main a disgrace to a civilized society. There is continued need for social legislation to help those ground down by poverty and prejudice. Republicans have often ar gued that the federal govern Over against the millions the U. S. is spend ing in Vietnam for life destruction and death; over against the millions that are being spent to land two or three men on the moon before the Soviet Union does, such an investment is a mere pittance by comparison. It is hoped that other whites will hear what Golden is saying. It Is hoped that white econo mists will see how quickly such a governmental investment will make available more human re source that will in turn up our country’s Gross National Product, which to them 1 rno.-'t impor tant. It is hoped that our politicians can see that this expenditure is far less than the continually rising cor. of prisons, police, public welfare and compensatory education that is mounting, and will unless the U. S. does something concrete. Now, THIS is power, and it’s not all alack. Perhaps we should put “black” voices behind a new cry for “Golden” power. For if Harry Gold en, with his white skin, can advocate this most realistic power, others of the white hue can and ought share promoting it. The Altar oi Gratitude should be buzzing with devotees heralding this “voice in the wilderness” hoping other whites make this proposal a reality. STEPS BACKWARDS WASHINGTON - Two steps backwards were taken recently when the District Baptist Con vention voted to withdraw its support from the District home rule drive, and adopted a weakened statement on fair housing. The motion to delete a phrase supporting home rule was passed 94- 46 at a poorly attended session during the recent two-day annua . ting. BOOK PROBE ATLANTA - A study of text: ;oks used in parochial s- O in the Atlanta archdiocese is to be umiertaken in an attempt to delege possible vq ■ ■ -'ion of anti-Semitism. The survey was or dered by the Most Rev. James L. Bernardin, who said, “We intend to do everything in our power... to resist every form of anti-Semitism, no matter where it is found, whether inside the church or outside.” KIT AIDS NEWARK, N. J. - Program kits to as-Ist sessions, congregations or presbyteries La reli gion and race activities have been compiled by the New Je. sey synod’s Commission on Religion and Race. The kits list specific aids that a synod unit is prepared to offer, along with suggested areas of Involvement and a list of 25 books and papers for study. canal facilities, will attempt to discover which of four routes is the best: the present canal, a 60-mile route between Caledonia and San Miguel bavs. Eastern Panama: a 102-mile route through the northern neck off Columbia; or a de ferred Nicaragua-Costa Rica routing. NEW LAND SAN DIEGO - The dream of creating a new land 110 miles west of San Diego in the Pacific ocean, seems to becoming a reality after all. A group of developers, who have been working toward the end since 1959, have gone so far as to select a name for their homebuilt island, Taluga - which will be built with rock and top soil transported from Mexico, at a cost of SB.B million. FARTHER AWAY JOHANNESBURG - The recent victory by an extreme rightwing group in winning control of the politically powerful white mineworkers union has widened the gulf between white and black mineworkers. The white mineworkers' had been feeding for the past two years with former leaders over an experiment, since abandoned, to give mineworkers more responsible jobs in coal mines. mont can't and shouldn’t do everything. This argument is valid only if accompanied by a willingness to fill the gap through state action. - LOUIS VILLE DEFENDER.
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