North Carolina Newspapers

2A —THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1987 "Simple" Sam Ervin The entire nation, as well as citi zens of North Carolina, were given another opportunity last week to wit ness first hand the designing but fu tile attempt of Democratic Senator "Simple" Sam J. Ervin, Jr., of North Carolina to defeat an administration - backed civil rights bill under consi deration by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Ervin heads. After being out maneuvered by President Johnson who, with master ful strategy turned to a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, and had him flown from England in a military transport plane, to furnish the margin needed to get the bill out of committee with a favorable vote, 8-7, "Simple" Sam has brazenly announced he intends to oppose the legislation backed by his party, when it comes up on the floor of the Senate Let there be no mistake about it there is one and only one reason Er vin is against the civil rights bill The Non-Discrimination Policy of NAACP We endorse without reservations the emphasis placed on the "tradi tional non-discrimination policy" of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People as ex pressed in the telegTam which Glos ter B. Current, the Association's di rector of branches, dispatched to Blythe Andrews, Jr., editor of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin of Tampa, last week. For sure it will be a dark day for the Negro people of this coun try when any civil rights organiza tion, whether the NAACP or some other, closes its doors in the faces of the thousands of white people, especially in the South, who have often endured a veritable hell from many of their own people to take up the cudgle in behalf of Negroes In taking our stand beside that of the NAACP we are not unmindful of the many prevalent reasons why Mr. Andrews might feel disposed to limit the membership of a branch of the A New Voice is Heard in the Nation While many of the major and smaller newspapers of the nation, both North and South, are still wal lowing in the muck and mire of ra cism it is refreshing to detect the sound of a new voice among them such as the Plain Dealer of Cleveland that has come out unalterably in sup port of a Negro candidate, Carl B Stokes, for mayor of that city, not simply because he is a Negro, but because it considers him the best qualified candidate now running for the office. Whether Stokes wins or loses the good people of Cleveland will have The Plain Dealer is endorsing Carl B. Stokes, Democrat, for mayor of Cleveland. We are endorsing him because He has the determination, imagina tion, desire and drive to find solutions to the many problems of this city.. A Negro and a Democrat, he has ap pealed in his campaign to Clevelanders as a whole and has made clear that if elected he would serve all bis fellow Clevelanders fairly. A NATIVE CLEVELANDER. Stokes shares, through a lifetime of personal ex periences. the city's problems because he hßs grown up with and lived with them at home and at work. He is a par ticipant. not an outsider. Stokes has ample experience in working directly for the public, as a member of the Ohio House of Represen tatives. assistant police prosecutor, st'te liquor control agent and probation offi cer. He has made public service his ca reer. Voters in Cuyahoga County first showed their confidence in Stokes when he won election to the Ohio House from the county at large Later, when the county was subdistricted. he won elec tion from a district. - He has been endorsed by Mayor Ralph S. Locher and by most of the rest of the city's leading Democrats He u to be endorsed by the Democratic county organization this week. IF STOKES BECOMES the first member of his race to be elected mayor of a great city, he will bear a deep re sponsibility. He cannot afford to fail and he knows It. To govern well he cannot favor any special group and he knows it. These are our major reasons for hop ing that on Nov. 7 the voters of this city will elect Carl B. Stokes mayor. There are other reasons. We find Stokes is a personable, articulate man who is well suited by temperament for a job that has become one of the most on Another Rampage and that is because it u intended to provide a greater share of democracy for Negroes in this country. Thus, the citizens of North Carolina, espe cially those in the Democratic Party, are treated to the spectacle of view ing a Democratic president forced to turn to a Republican to get favorable action in behalf of administration backed bill. We think "Simple" Sam's violent opposition, in the instance of the civil rights bill, backed by his own party, proves once again that he is totally unqualified as a member of the Dem ocratic Party, if not as a United States Senator. It is, therefore, time for the intelligent voters of North Carolina to begin looking around for some person to fill the post now held by Ervin in a manner that will not be embarrassing to every loyal mem ber of the Democratic Party if not to every intelligent citizen of North Carolina NAACP in Tampa to Negroes only. In spite of such, however, we are of the opinion that it would be a trag edy for Negroes in NAACP branches, in any section of the country to turn their backs on their many upstand ing and courageous white members because of their race Such a policy of discrimination is exactly what the NAACP has consistently opposed among whites since its founding in 1909, as expressed in its telegram to Mr Andrews on October 25. As brougru out in the telegram the non-discriminatory policy of the NAACP opposes any "background" membership for whites and implies that its membership of them is abso lutely the same as that for Negroes. We think that is the way it should be and the way it should remain. As far as this newspaper is concerned it is the only policy it can and will sup port in any civil rights organization. the satisfaction of knowing that they have in their city a newspaper that has the courage of its conviction and will speak out for what it believes ifi right irrespective of race, creed or color. Because of such an outstanding example of journalistic courage and statesmanship the Plain Dealer has set w'e are publishing below the edi torial in its entirety with the hope that it will give a modicum of com fort to those of our country who are desirous of seeing the time arrive when true democracy will obtain throughout the nation. Stokes for Mayor difficult and exacting in government He has shown good judgment and bal ance. Carl Stokes is opposed Wthe Repub lican nominee. Seth Taft. a WfcH-meaning suburbanite who has headed several non political civic organizations. Ta/t. who moved in from Pepper Pike only to run for mayor, has served Cleveland in an advisory capacity but never as a public official. THE PLAIN DEALER'S editors In terviewed both candidates at length. It's reporters have followed the careers of both men and in particular their cam paigns for office. To us there is no com parison. Stokes is a skilled professional. Taft is merely a pleasant amateur. The election is a little more than two weeks away. The Plain Dealer has waited until this late date to make its determination because we believe this election is the most important in Cleve land's history. An era ended at City Hall with the defeat of Mayor Locher. Great new hori zons and a new civic lift are possible for our marvelous city with the right man as mayor. Luckilv, remarkably, we have the man capable to do the job The Plain Dealer endorses Carl B Stokes for mayor of Cleveland. Barring Smith Some years back the State ment succeeded in preventing Moise Tshombe from paying a visit to the United States where he was schedu led to give his views on the situation in the Congo. Tshanbe's policies were considered colonialist by the Department, which used its visa authority to prevent his visit. Re cently the Department moved to block a propooed visit by another African leader, lan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia. Ignoring 'Responsible' Leadership Builds 'Extremist' * THESE CAN Bt NODE- /«K V\ ./ L 77* ... \MOCQACY UNLESS IT 7A/a\X. '^S^. Is- MwK THEN ALL OF US {gS \ fl9l WILL HITHER IN Jg M /V r J/ ,-' JOj,^ I TELL IT LIKE IT IS — 1 By KENT R. AUTO* Who is Ben Ruffin? Agitator? Opportunist? Or is he an honest and dedicated man doing a job that needs to be done? Ben Ruffin, presently Director of the United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI), is, in fact, all of these things. As an agitator, he fights for the rights and dignity of the common man. As an opportunist, he has taken every chance that has opened up for him to do this. As a man, he is honestly and sincerely dedicated to "helping people," the Negro, the poor, the deprived, the oppressed. Ruffin was bom and raised in Durham, and in his 26 years he has come a fair pace. His father, a Dur ham laborer, deserted his family when Ben was a boy, leaving his wife- a domestic worker-with five children to support on about J2O a week. "Man, I Jived, poverty, he says, "my mother raised all of us. My brother and I took jobs shining shoes, selling papers, and cutting grass. We all had to pull together. We all tried to support the family as much as we could." Today, the young UOCI Director can chuckle is he says: "Yeah, I can remember missing some meals." School days found Ben at Lyon Park Elementary, Whitted Junior High, Hillside High, and ultimately, North Carolina College where he ob tained a Bachelor's degree in phy acal education and recreation. Hav ing learned something of the tailor ing trade in high school, he worked his way through college sewing other people's clothes. "I'm still a pretty good tailor" says Ben with a grain of modesty, but the experi ence "taught me how a dollar comes." The thread that led to where he stands today, begins when he was at NCC as a struggling graduate student "I was doing a little tailor ing, and held a part-time job as a counselor at the John Avery Boys Club. I wanted to do a thesis on recreation problems in the ghetto. I got on Operation Breakthrough work-study program, and was paid to develop a tutorial program for the kids at the Club." It was Howard Fuller, then with Breakthrough, who recognized Ben Ruffin's talents. He persuaded the young Negro to join the staff of the local community action agency. For a couple of years, Ruffin and Fuller were associated in the Community Organization section of Operation Breakthrough. Ben's successes re silted in assignments requiring more and more responsibility. For a time, he was the Program Director of Breakthrough's Target Area "C" in the Bragtown area. Ben Ruffin became Director of UOCI in May of this year. The orga nization is one that is of the poor, by the poor, and for the poor. It's Director was well chosen. UOCI Is the result of efforts to organize existing neighborhood councils in and their lar ger units, the Area Councils, into one representative organization of the poor. It represents an attempt to "broaden the structure of the various area councils into a single dty-wide organization," because It Teeogß&ed that the problem* faced by the poor - especially the Negro poor residing in the ghetto of the city-were problems of the city as a whole. The attempt was made possible by a grant of $78,000 from the North Carolina Fund in March of this year. Ruffin was appointed Director and assumed his position the following month. Unite idea* mganfin g Black Power, leadership, and 10-caßed Nefro lea der*. "1 define Black Power by defin faif white power. I look at white* and see the power they have to con trol their lives, to control their com munities, to protect their interests, and then I see what the Negro doesn't have. What we ain't got is power." "Negro "leaders" is a kind of misnomer. Whites have tried to ap point Negroes leadership by recogni zing them publically and calling them "leaders." All of us are, in fact, leaders by virtue of the fact that we have suffered together from the cycle of discrimination and tht cycle of poverty." Commenting on Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael, Martin Luther King, and other "Negro leaders," said: "All of these men have some- Do's And Considerate Of Others This NATION UNt>6R QOt) HOW DID IT COME ABOUT? Our Pilgrim Fathers came to this land because they were determined jjA to have religious liberty, and they had discovered that It was Impossible to have religious liberty _ I'lJtml without political liberty. They had no precedent, HMr no blueprint, but they had clear minds. They de vised, for the first time on a major scale In all of .JJOMfcj" human history, a system whereby people control JLiv" government instead of government controlling fa ft fun i ■ people. And It worked. RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OF AMERICA, INC., was founded in 1951 as a national, non-sectarian, non profit organi zatlon, for these purposes: 1. To increase the general knowledge of the religious SMB heritage of the nation from the earliest settlers to ]|[M .. the present day. 2. To encourage the application of religious principles icß to government, business and industry. 3. To develop a greater understanding among all people of the theistic presuppositions in our common life |sj| on which our nation has been founded and its insti- I \ tutlons of government created, and to make these I. \ relevant In our day. Vl MORE INFORMATION \- will be sent gladly, with A. OUR RELIGIOUS HERITAGE no coat or obligation. At Write to: Religious ft •i»0 uvV I®DOr vv nlwiii u •• » a § Out of th* ion«inf of tMarts Heritage of America, fr •nd tho prayerof MUIS, 2430 Pennsylvania rA? Out Of the memory ot f* Ave., N.W., Washington, / 7^ •nd th# hopes of tho world, n A M God fothionod a notion In Lovo, ' * " F + +++++++ thing to commend them. I feel that I should seek to emulate them, not imitate them. I want to emulate what I admire, and be free to leave what I don't like. For example, I like what Stokley did to register people to vote in Lawrence County, Alabama. That was a good piece of work and on the right track." "My mission in life is to help people. 11l do it any way I can." CAIRO A 1 Ahram, an authoritative Egyptian newspaper close to the gov ernment, charging the Uni ted States was partly re sponsible for the Israeli shelling of refineries: THE WAY I SEE II By DAVID W. STITH Such is the plight of the Negro small businessman today that even the massive efforts being made by the Federal Government fall far short of bridging the gap. For the past twenty years that I have lived, studied and worked in Durham, I have looked with amaze ment at the Hayti section, the Ne gro business district For many years I have marvelled at the fact that these small businessmen could make a living under such poor cir cumstances. I have wondered how they can get and keep their custo mers when they often occupy sub standard facilities with equipment and supplies that may not be in the best of condition. And, of course, 1 have wondered how these men could make enough profit to feed their families. The only conclusion I have reached is that the Negio small businessman, in Durham and in many other places in these United States, in order to survive, must be a combination of many things-but most of all, something of a finan cial genius and an itinerant magi cian. The small Negro Businessman often finds himself in a very dif ficult position. Many of his poten tial customers are not willing to do business with him because of some of the conditions mentioned above or because his prices are slightly higher than those of his white com petitor. His potential customers either forget or ignore the condi tions under which he labors as he attempts to keep his doors open to provide them with goods and ser vices. Basic to the plight of the Negro small businessman is his inability to secure financing from either white or Negro lending institutions. This prevents him from being able to own his own building, suited speci fically to his type of operation, does not allow him sufficient operating capital to meet his obligations and therby affects his credit rating, and does not allow him to have the necessary funds, to buy goods in large lots to take advantage of lower wholesale prices which he can pass on to the customer. In many instances, therefore, in the area of general building contrac tors, plumbers and bricklayers, Ne- This Week In Negro History « r One hundred and eighty yean ago (1787) on Wednesday of this week the first African Free School in New York was opened by the Manumission Society. Other events of historical im portance this week are as fol lows: Nov. 2—National Thanksgiv ing for Peace was observed in 1965. It recognized the con cluding of four years of war to save the Union and free tht slaves. Nov. 3—William Cullen Bry ant (1794-1878), liberal minded poet, was born. Nov. 4—H. A. Rucker began his duties as Collector of Inter nal Revenue in Georgia in 1897. Nov. s—Theodore S. Wright, first Negro to receive a degree from a theological seminary in the United States (Princeton) published "Outrage at Princeton" in the Liberator in 1836. UNITED NATIONS l sraeli Ambassador Gideon Rafael, commenting on Is rael's artillery attack on Port Suez, four days after Egyptian missiles sank the Israeli destroyer Elath: "Reciprocity is the es sence of a cease-fire." DES MOINES, lowa California Gov. Ronald Rea gan, suggesting at a Repub lican dinner that the coun try crack down on antiwar protestors: "I think lt'a worth con sidering that if not an out right declaration ot war. perhaps a move could be made to make. In this kind Cb* Carolina ©race Pid>li*hfd every Saturday at Durham, N. C. ' ' Inj United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN. Publisher SAMUEL L. BRIGGS Managing Editor J. ELWOOD CARTER Advertising Manager Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year plus (15c tax in N. C.) anywhere in the U.S., and Canada and to servicemen Overseas; Foreign, $7.50 per year, Single copy 20c. PRINCIPAL Orriat LOCATED AT 438 E. PETOCREW STREET, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 27702 groes are not able to really get into business for themselves because of a lack of financial backing. They are able to work only by hiring out at jobs contracted by whites. Most white financial institutions do not have any confidence in the Negro businessman and many, still living in their segregated society, do not want the Negro to have any thing of his own. Negro lending institutions take much of the same course. Except that we suspect that they desire that the small Negro businessman remain dependent on them and not become financially independent. In addition to this, the local agencies are not adequately advising Negro businessman of the help avail able to them through Federal agen cies such as the Small Business Ad ministration. Local lending institu tions are also unwilling to partici pate in Federally guaranteed loans to these small businessman. This ties in closely with the current problems of most of Dur ham's Negro small businessmen who are being forced to relocate. Dick Gregory once said that when Ne groes become too concentrated in an area on the East coast and begin to influence political and economic life they have slum clearance, and that out in California they do the same thing but call it freeways. Here in Durham they have used both barrels of the gun. What has happened is the removal of the Ne gro small businesses. Only one struc ture has been built to relocate a Negro business. Where are the many Negro bfisineses which have been forced out of Hayti? Many of the professional men have been forced to do business in their homes. Many of the other businesses were either forced out of business or into re mote non-productive areas of the city. Our Negro representatives on city and county boards and com missions must be held responsible for not having advised these men of what was to come and for not assisting them in taking steps to prevent the loss or unfavorable re location of their businesses. Too many of our representatives forget that they are there-to represent us and to work for our interests. We see in these events and pif cumstances a diabolical plan to con tinue the cycle of absolute control over the Negro small businessman. of situation, the wartime rules apply with regard to comfort and aid to the ene my." Medical Group Wants Free Aid Program WINSTON-SALEM (UP!) The Forsyth County Medical Ast»> ciation has voted to encourage a program to provide free medi cal care and facilities to tIM county's poor. The program would be financed by the Office of Economic Oppor tunity (OEO), and conducted \ff a local anti-poverty organization— Experiment In Self-Reliance. -Poisoning Continued from front page 8, Alice 7, and Susie, 6, went back to school following their lunch but soon after arrival began vomiting and foaming at the mouth. They were rushed to the hospital but were pronounced dead upon arrival. The younger children, who were left at home along while their parents were at work were: Doreen, 5, Vanessa, 4, Dianne, 3, and James, Jr., 2. Their illness was discovered when a teacher rushed to their home~Tn"*se«reh of the parents to inform them «)out those who had taken ill at ichooL At the funeral Richardson, ac companied by friends and hit mother, Mrs. Margaret Blvens of Jacksonville, Fla., cried and moaned to loudly that the eulogy being de livered by the minister was hardly audible. Parathion is used as in insecti cide in the citrus groves of south west Florida. The powder is so •deadly that It can kill even if It is absorbed through the skin or breathed through the nostrils.