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-THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, i 987
Setting the Children's Teeth on Edge
Probably the biggest lie ever to
emanate from a group of congress
men was that joined in by the eleven
southern senators who declared they
did not vote against the Confirmation
of Thurgood Marshall last Wednes
day, as a member of the U.S. Supreme
Court, because of his race but be
cause of his interpreation of the Con
stitution. Such bare face lies con
tribute little to the respept citizens
of this nation should have for south
erners in Congress, especially the
respect of its up and coming young
people.
Like the proverb of old, "The
fathers have eaten sour grapes and
the children's teeth are set on edge."
Thus, the answer to the widespread
sin in high places and especially
among the young people of the na
tion may be attributed to a large ex
tent to such evil men as the eleven
southern congressmen who are so
low in character as to stultify their
conscience before the entire nation
The Sad Fate that Awaits the Dropout
More than ever, this country needs
trained, educated people to continue
the progress America has made and
to take their rightful places in the
society that is developing.
Much of the poverty and unem
ployment that exists today is direct
ly related to the lack of education
and preparation by previous genera
tions.
Right now there are 2 million
youngsters in this country in the 16
to 21 age group who dropped out of
school before earning their high
school diploma. Nearly a fourth of
them are unemployed. Most of the
rest are stuck in dead-end jobs, with
out any real future.
Large gains have been made in the
fight against ignorance, unemploy
ment and poverty during the past
several years. Secretary of Labor
Willard Wirtz recently reported that
2 million more people are working
and 1 million more are in high school
and college than the population in
crease of the last three years accounts
for.
The Education Campaign of the
pait two years has helped in this
progress. It has paid by dividends
by inspiring dropouts to return to
the classrooms and encouraging the
undecided to finsh their education.
In 1960 the dropout rate was 25 per-
Things You Should Know
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by lying.
Likewise, the day has long since
passed when Negro citizens of this
country can be so easily deceived by
such white persons merely because
they happen to be national, state or
local public office holders. On the
contrary, in a majority of cases Ne
groes of intelligence are, more or
less, doubtful of the integrity of the
average high public official of the
South because of the shady methods
they usually resort to in achieving
office.
From the standpoint of training,
experience and integrity Thurgood
Marshall is without a doubt one of the
best qualified members of the U.S.
Supreme Court. The long, hard road
he has traveled as the great-grand
son of a slave and the son of a sleep
ing car porter to a member of the
highest court of the nation proves
one again that "it doth not yet appear
what we shall be."
cent. Last year its had decreased to
18 percent.
But 18 percent is too high for a
Nation to tolerlate. The frightening
fact remains that at the current
dropout rate by 1975 there will be
32 million adults in the labor force
without a high school education
32 million who will be unqualified for
most of the jobs available then.
This newspaper supports the ef
forts being made to keep our youth
in school and help them from becom
ing future victims of deprivation and
poverty.
But it takes more than our sup
port. It needs and commands the
support and effort of every citizen.
Youngsters who have already
dropped out of school need special
help They need to be counseled and
guided into training that will help
them develop skills for today's jobs.
Others on the verge of leaving school
before completing their education
dropout many times to earn money
to support their families or to buy
necessities for themselves. Action
by the business community in the
form of part-time jobs is needed to
help them stay in school.
You can serve your country best
by helping to insure that tomorrow's
leaders are educated today.
Kill The Rats, Not
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT REV. HAROLD ROLAND
"God sending hi* own Son in
our own sinful floah." Rom. 1:1
What a sublime mystery—
God coming in the flesh—
clothing himself in our com
mon fleshly garments to res
cue man in his lostness. This
idea of God, the high and the
Holy One, coming to us in the
flesh confounds us. Why? God
had to come in such a way that
we could understand and have
no reasonable excuse. Had God
chose to come to us clothed
in the majesty of His celestial
or supernatural glory we would
have had an excuse. But God
came so plain and simple that
w are now left without a good
excuse. God came to live the
life in the flesh as we live it.
Now we have no excuse. Christ
came and clothed himself in
our fleshly garments to show
us that life can be lived in this
world pleasing to God.
In Christ and in the flesh we
can now live life acceptable to
the God of Grace and love.
Jesus did it Jesus set the ex
ample and left us without an
-Director
Continued from front page
of the city's Negro housing.
The Council's action is furth
er indication of the white pow
er structure's determination to
ghettoize Durham where, In
the southeastern part of the
city, are confined for the most
part the Negro police, firemen,
an a majority of the city's pub
lic housing units."
Said Ruffin further: "This is
an invitation for the kind of
riot conditions which have ter
rorized northern and western
cities of this country."
Ruffin also stated that oppo
sition to the housing project
had 100 per cent support of
the Negro community.
Conferences were said to be
underway among representa
tives of the UOCI, the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs
and the NAACP.
Ruffin emphasized that "ev
ery peaceful means of protest"
had been used in an effort to
avert the annexation measure
which he said "is detrimental
to the overall best interests of
Durham."
-Election
Continued from front page
Negro victories in the first pri
mary on Aug. 8. In that election
Negro candidates swept to vic
tory in 16 contests.
Mr. Evers said the setback
suffered by Negro candidates
in the second election stemmed
from his belief that "The
whole thing was rigged."
Nearly 200,000 Negroes were
eligible to vote as a result of
the Federal Voting Rights Act
Christ Comes in the Spirit as a
Guarantee of Successful Living
excuse. Now all we need to is
to get on with the business of
living this life, with the help
of Christ, acceptably before the
God of Holiness and Righteous
ness. It can be done. Thus let
us get on with this most impor
tant business of being Chjis
tian witnesses for God in this
world. Jesus has performed
the great experiment. It was
successful he lived success
fully and victoriously this
same life we are called upon
to live. Jesus lived this life
in spite of the sin, heartache
and tears. And we redeemed
and in Christ can live it too.
Christ has given us the help
er The Holy Spirit! Yes,
Christ set the example and
sent us a helper in the person
of the Holy Spirit. To keep us
from confusion and frustration
he has given the Holy Spirit
the helper. So again we must
conclude there is no excuse
whatsoever for man. You can't
hide behind an excuse now—
you have all things needed to
of 1965. Prior to this year's
election only about 25,000 Ne
groes were registered to vote,
mainly because of feair and in
timidation and tht antiquated
poll tax.
NAACP officers in the state
had urged Negroes to seek pub
lic office in their drive to gain
Constitutional guarantees and
political representation.
-Morehouse
Continued from front page
Duke on August 27-29. The oth
er seven approved institutions
were Muhlenberg College, the
University of Notre Dame, St.
Louis University, the Univer
sity of California at Davis, the
University of California at San
ta Barbara, Macalester College,
and Michigan State University.
Morehouse and the other sev
en schools had to satisfy the
stringent academic standards
required by the 191-year-old
honorary society which now ha*
184 chapters at colleges and
universities. This process in
volved satisfying successively
the exacting requirements of
the Qualifications Committee,
the Senate, and the Council of
Phi Beta Kappa.
As a result of the vote of
the Phi Beta Kappa Council,
Morehouse will join Agnes Scott
College. Emory University, and
the University of Georgia as a
Georgia institution having a
chapter of the national honor
society.
In commenting on the ap
proval of Morehouse for mem
bership in Phi Beta Kappa, Dr.
Gloster said, "Morehouse has
not been content simply with
being an outstanding predomi
nantly Negro college. More
live this life. So we say on
with the business of living this
life at its best—living it as
Jesus did. Christ redeems—
takes away the sin—and comes
in the Spirit's power as a
guarante of successful living.
Then Christians, let us stop
making excuses. Christ takes'
away sin and gives you the
sanctifier so there is no ex
cuse.
This life can be made man
ageable with a day to day ap
proach. You remember, Jesus
said just one day at a time.
Live this day and let God Al
mighty take care of tomorrow.
Let yesterday and its failures
go. Ask God to forgive you
and wipe the slate clean and
make a new start. Forgetting
all things in that ugly past.
God will forgive you.
God came in His Son Jesus
Christ, our Savior, to show us
how to live this life successful
ly with all of its rich" poten
tials. The Savior lived it. And
we too, in Christ, can live it.
house has sought to qualify as
an outstanding American col-
lege without any reference to
its racial constituency. We be
lieve that Morehouse is one of
the best undergraduate schools
in the United States, and we
are pleased that our program
has enabled us to gain a Phi
Beta Kappa Charter. This de
velopment will be a source of
great satisfaction to Dr. Ben
jamin E. Mays, who retired as
president on June 30 and who
previously worked hard to gain
membership for Morehouse in
the distinguished honorary so
ciety of which he is a mem
ber."
-Party
Continued from front page
the American people want and
that's what the troops want. As
recent polls show, on this issue
we speak for more Americans
than the Republican or Demo
cratic parties."
Halstead said he intended to
appeal to G.l.'s as voters "to
vote for our ticket on this issue
as a vote for getting themselves
and their buddies out of this
illegal, immoral and useless
slaughter."
-Committee
Continued from front page
ful.
Oldham was questioned on
his "about face attitude" re
garding tenant organization,
by Atty. H. M. Mlchaux, Jr., to
which he answered that he has
been accused of many thing*
during his directorship, but he
stated that attempts during the
past six years have been made
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To Be Equal
By WHITNEY M. YOUNG JtL
Gl's Face Hou
j| N ARMY OFFICER was assigned to Vietnam. He tried to
find an apartment (or his family before leaving for the
war zone. He couldn't. Dozens of realtors turned him
down because he is Negro.
An Army sergeant recently returned from a frontline tour of
duty in Vietnam, where he integrated dozens of foxholes without
complaints from his "neighbors." He too, couldn't find an off-base
pgagMK apartment for his family. Again, it was racial
discrimination that forced him into an overpriced
apartment in a rundown building in the ghetto,
i These are examples of the disgraceful con-
MCS jp ditions facing Nepro Gl's. Finally, the Defense
Department is doing something about it.
■Tbilisi Secretary of Defense McNamara, issued or
ders forbidding military personnel in certain bases
to lease or rent in any segregated building or
trailer court within a specified distance from their
base. He said the orders were issued because
"thousands of servicemen are being subjected to
MR. YOUNG humiliating discrimination by the refusal of land
lords to rent them apartments because of race or creed."
The first base to which the order applied was Andrews Air
Force Base where over half of the white servicemen live within 3V4
miles of the base, but only one of every hundred Negro servicemen
live so close.
Order Should Be Extended
This order is long overdue, and it should be extended to cover
every base in the country. It appears to be the only way to get many
landlords and realtors to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
If they are willing to have their lives and property protected by the
sacrifices of Negro servicemen, they should be willing to rent to
them.
This order must be strictly enforced. A report issued last week
indicates that landlords are complying, but we all know that many
will try to avoid it whenever possible. This is one order which should
get top priority from every base commander.
The order is significant because it will enable thousands of
Negro Gl's to find decent homes for their families. But it is also
important for the example it sets. Private industry should especially
take it to heart.
Large companies should make sure tbat their Negro employees
will be allowed to live wherever they wish and not be restricted to
the ghetto. They should let it be known that they will not build in
a town which will not treat its employees equally. For most American
towns the arrival of a new industry or plant means the difference
between growth and prosperity and a slow decline. Big corporations
know this and use it to get favorable terms for land and taxes. They
reed to use this power to assure equal treatment for their employees.
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-Prosecution
Continued from front page
en other county officers raided
their homes in Pike County.
They were accused of trying to
overthrow the government of
Pike County and Kentucky.
A truckload of literature was
seized and Ratliff labelled it
"communistic" and "supver
sive." The U.S. court ordered
the material to be sealed until
further action in the case.
Dan Jack Combs and William
M. Kunstler, defense attorneys,
charged that the material, in
cluding diaries and other pri
vate papers, was being circulat
ed widely in Pike County.
Ratliff is the Republican can
didate- for lieutenant governor
of Kentucky in the November
election.
to employ a social worker. ,
Chairman of the Citizens
Advisory Committee, C. C.
Spaulding, Jr. stated "the tour j
was a good start for the com
mittee's task in eliminating the 1
problems in public housing."
A committee report on the |
tour will be made to the City i
Council. ]
Continued from front page
F. V. Allison, C. A. Alston,
Sr., H. V. Alston, S. P. Biggers,
C. C. Burthey, Albert Cain, W.
H. Cole, Jr., H. H. Coleman,
W. R. Collins, Rev. G. Davis,
W. L. Doom, J. F. Drake, L. G.
Frazier, L. B. Frasier, U. M.
George, H. W. Gillis, T. H.
Green, Sr., S. M. Holt, I. R.
Holmes, J. C. Hubbard, J. M.
Hubbard, C. E. Jemison, S. Jor
dan, W.J. Kennedy, m, L. Law
rence, J. D. Lennon, R. Long,
Z. Massenburg, H. C. McAllis
ter, N. McClamb, R. Mitchiner,
C. Moore, E. B. Palmer, J. Par
ker, D. A. Perry, C. Ray, M.
A. Sloan, G. J. Smith, H. W.
Stephenson, T. R. Stroud, J. T.
Taylor, J. Tedder, R. G. Thom
as, T. B. Thornton, M. D.
Thorpe. E. Totton, N. Vaughan,
H. E. Weaver, C. Wright, and
R. McAllister.
-Church
Continued from front page
My Home." Mrs. Ruth Mitchell
gave the Children's Talk.
The architect is completing
plans for the new church
structure to be built at 3400
Fayettevllle Road.