—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1969
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The Soul City Project
The announcement this week that
Floyd McKissick's Soul City to be
built in Warren County never has
intended and never does intend to
exclude white persons as citizens,
should bring much relief and comfort
to those who had the misconceived
idea that the originators of the pro
ject ever intended to bar any human
being from Soul City because of race,
color or creed. Those who know Floyd
McKissick, as we have known him
for 25 years or more, are quite satis
fied that he has too much common
sense and best of all, too much love
for all of his fellowmen, to embark
upon such an ungodsy undertaking.
This newspaper, because of its
acquaintance and association with
McKissick through the years, takes
the liberty to say without fear of
successful contradition that if any
Powell's Return to Congress
This newspaper has never had very
much respect, if any, for Adam Clay
ton Powell as a minister of the gos
pel of Jesus Christ or a congressman
of the United States. As we see it,
in both instances, Powell has failed
miserably to live up to the high call
ing of preaching the gospel, pastor
ing a church and the great responsi
bility entrusted into his keeping by
his constituents who have consist
ently voted for him as their con
gressman in the House of Represen
tatives of the United States.
In our way of thinking Powell is
a "lucky duck" to be tolerated by the
members of Abyssinia Baptist
Church, the largest protestant con
gregtation in the world, and his con
stituents in New York, who continue
to vote for him as their representa
tive in Congress. In spite of the way
the chips appear to be presently fall
ing in Powell's favor, we predict that
sooner or later, if he continues his
present way of life, he is certain to
Johnny Is Looking For Work
JOHNNY'S DAD is a good friend
of the neighborhood grocer, So
Johnny will get a job this suSnmer
working as a stockboy in the gro
cery store.
Robert doesn't have a father. And
his waitress mother doesn't know
any store owners. He'll be idle this
summer unless he's lucky enough to
turn up a job on his own.
But there's one similarity. Both
Johnny and Robert—like 13.4 mil
lion other youngsters 16 to 21 years
old—want to work- this summer.
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individual or group of individuals is
looking for a fool or a source of some
ill-conceived idea with no foundation,
such will not be 4 found in Floyd Mc-
Kissick. We stake our all that every
detail of the Soul City project will
be worked out and planned to the last
letter of the law with malice toward
none and love for all mankind.
Likewise, we stake our all on the
fact that if any individual or group
of individuals is looking for a weak
ling with fear in his heart they will
not find such in the founder of Soul
City. Because of our confidence in
McKissick, and above all our faith
in the Father of all mankind, the
Carolina Times wishes it to be known
here and now that it stands behind
tthe Soul City project and intends to
support it to the fullest extent.
be "weighed in the balances and
found wanting."
On the other side of the picture
we see Powell being punished and
persecuted solely because he is a
Negro. When the wrongs he has
committed are placed beside those of
many of his white colleagues he is
in many instances no worse than
they, if equally as bad. It is our feel
ing, therefore, that the members
of the U. S. Supreme Court took the
racial angle into consideration in
reaching a verdict in Powell's favor
which returned him to his seat in
Congress.
Whatever the circumstances are, it
is our hope that Powell has learned
his lesson and that he will change !
his way of life, both as a minister 'j
of the gospel, and as a congressman
of the United States. If he does this
he is certain to render a fceHtfce to
his race and the nation that will
place him among the greatd&t of all
times.
For Johnny, • «
luxury. For Robert, a summer
job's a necessity for staying in
school. For both, a summer job is
excellent preparation for the future.
how that achoel
of Johnnies and Roberts and Susys
are in search of work. Nearly 2 mil
lion of them won't find johg—unless
adult America helps. \
Some of these youngs|psf, like
Johnny and Robert, are only; seek
ing summer work. A g&od many
others, however, are looking for jobs
to launch life careers.
Ominous Signs Of Our Titnes
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-Colleges
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for the feasibility and plan
ning study which led to the
proposal for the cooperative
library'center.
'lj Hillis Davis has been ap
pointed Director of the Cen
ter and will come to this new
post on August 1. Mr. Davis
'has been head librarian at
Hampton Institute for the
past four years. He is a grad
uate of Johnson C. Smith
University in North Carolina
and the School of Library.
The Center will be in full
operation toward the end of
the year.
-DeJarmofr
(Continued from front; page)
Since 1960 - Handbook tor
University and College Disci
pline Committees has been used
widely by a number of universi
ties and Colleges throughout the
country.
DeJarmon is a member of
the American Bar Association,
National Bar Association, Ame
rican Judicature Association and
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serves as President of the North
QHtflina Section of the South
eastern Lawyers Association. He
% also t member of the Phi Beta
Sigma fraternity.
DeJarmon is married and the
father of a teen-age daughter.
-Churches
(Continued from front page)
unto you?"
Judge Alexander said
many person forget that the
church and salvation are for
the lawlesß. It is the mission
ary agency to put people in
right attitudes for living."
She also urged more in
volvement by churches in
dvic matters. "We must have
people to understand the
power of the vote," she said.
"We must teach them how
to bring about change thru
lawful procedures."
Other changes advocated
by Judge Alexander included:
A more realistic view of
the issue of birth control.
The establishment of more
programs like crisis control
centers to help persons in
trouble.
The initiation of youth
programs in the art of com
munication.
These are the challenges
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the arena of applied Christia
nity.
--OEO
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destroy those who receive it
and corrupt those who dispense
it. That is why we must move
toward the job solution.'
"The Democratic Party of
Durham County pledget to do
everything in its power to make
the OEO grant to PCD work
effectively with the poor and
for the benefit of the total Dur
ham community. We pledge our
selves to continue to support
the growth of Durham's newest
enterprise, United Durham, Inc.
We ask the whole community to
join those more than 25Q0 pre
sent stockholders in raising ad
ditional venture capital funds to
be added to the $900,000 seed
capital. The success of the FCD
plan will create more than 3000
jobs, taxpayers, and good law
abiding citizens during the next
five years. Success of this pro
ject will make it possible for
us to continue to point with
pride to the ever growing ac
complishments of Durham's low
income people in building pro
ductive enterprises. |
"We specifically support the
'Plan for Community Capitalism'
as proposed by the Foundation
for Community Development be
cause it will create jobs. We
thank the Office of Economic
Opportunity for the $900,000
grant to the FCD and the Eco
nomic Development Administra
tion of the Department of Com
merce for the $60,000 allocated
for the necessary administration
and planning. We commend the
Durham City Council for listen
ing 16 the more than 30 speak
ers flrom the delegation of about
150 citizens who appealed to
that body for FCD support on
June 16. We fully support our
City Council which adopted
with one dissenting vote the
motion, That we endorse the
resolution. This is your program,
you made application tor it, it
has been approved. If you don't
get it, I'm like you, let it stay
up there.' The resolution states,
'The needs of the poor peo
ple of the Durham ana are
severe and immediate. The
Foundation for Community De
lopment (FCD) ia.a responsible
organization which has analyzed
and understood these needs and
has planned programs of econo
mic development that will help
meet some of them.
"Hie PCD cannot implement
these programs without tha
fUnds designated tor It by tha
Office of Economic Opportunity
and the Economic Development
Administration. W4, tha under
signed, hereby affirm our fhith
in the Foundation . . . and
request that the designated
funds be made available to it
immediately.'
"Lastly, we deplore the fact
that a group of about twenty
persons is attempting to inter
pose itself as representing the
poor, and is offering Itself as an
appropriate recipient of federal
action funds for the poor. We
officers of the Democratic Party
know first-hand, bom those
members of our executive com-
mittee identified with tha peoy
that this counter poup (ab
sents only itself and lass than
3 per cent of the low income
community of Durham. The
poor will not accept nor do they
expect to receive any seed capi
tal from this group."
-Bakery
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Jones, a veteran of World
War II and his wife Mrs. Baaale
Jones, realizing even with the
SBA Loan, they had very little
money to spend foolishly, set
out themselves to cleaning the
dust filled old bakery; repairing
old equipment and carefully
selecting new pieces. Finally,
what used to be the Rolling
Bakery at the 1115 Broad St.
address became the new Quality
Bakery.
A proud man and his wife,
who have worked hard all their
lives, finally became owners in
a partnership with American en
terprise. But some of the hopes
of Jones have been dimmed be
cause business is not what it
must be in order for him to
survive at the new location,
i Having to move out of his old
area because of Urban Renewal,
he left a majority of his custo
mers behind and new ones are
not flocking in, in numbers suf
ficient to keep the business go
ing. Still optimistic, Jones stated
U I am sorry I had to move out of
the Hayti am but the place
they (UR) wanted to put me in
was not big enough and ! fait
I needed more space to do the
job I wanted to do." His wife
agrees with him. Continuing he
■aid, "I want to let the people
know where I am because once
they became my customers I
very seldom lost them."
mils seems to be true because
thoee who are taking part in the
grant opening are enjoying the
-High Day
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,°f th» Expansion Comm*|ee
wffl fellow h«r
Officers of the near WM
EQUAL |
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WHITNEY M. YOUNG
'Studying' T
AMONG the many trials and tribulation* black Amer
icana have to bear are the armiea of researcher* who
periodically invad® the ghetto to "study" how black people
live.
Many such studies are useful. They help to define
problem areas and gather the kinds of statistics and P*"
tonal stories that become ammunition for urging basic
changes , „
Black and white researchers rfvould involve the com.
munity in their work, and seek the aid of community or
ganizations and local leaders in framing their research pro
grams, as well as in heloing to carry them out.
But there are other research programs that are con
cerned only with emphasizing Ihe pathology vA the ghetto or
the supposed "inferiority" of black oeople.
And the strangest part of all is that some of these studiea
are financed with Iferteral funds. Somehow money is avail
able to researcher, who want to study what s wrong with
ghetto life, while too little money is available for pro.
grams tc make life in the ghetto better.
An Old Mvth Is Back Aaain
One recent study came to the conclusion that Negroes
have inferior intelligence. We haven't heard that one for
sometime, outside of Klan meeting?. But here is that old
myth, back ags'n and alive and kicking.
This time it comes wrapped in a scholarlv nackage. full
of statistics and IQ test comparisons, and all the other ap
paratus of a serious study. Dozens of prominent educa
tional psychologists and other experts immediately chal
lenged it. showing what was wrong with the research de
sign. but it was too late. Newspapers all over the
country had already reported the findings, and bigotr, had an
old. disapproved myth that they could once again bring
to life.
Another study, made with federal funds, found that
the Head Start program wasn't worth the money spent on
It because disadvantaged children didn't benefit too much
from it. About all the study really proved was that this
faulty research wasn't worth the money spent on it.
The study was rtiot full of holes far too many to list
here—and one consultant, a distinguished statistician, re
fused payment for his work and demanded his name to be
removed from the final report. The report was so sloppy he.
didn't want his reputation damaged by being connected
with it.
But the valuable Head Start program, which has helped
hundreds of thousand of youngsters, was damaged. Many
people who weren't too keen on supporting Head Start now
use the report as an excuse to cop out.
There have been other studies too. The black family
continues to be a major concern of white researchers who
overlook the overwhelming majority of stable lamilies to
focus, public attention on the minority of broken homes.
Discrimination Ignored
Rarely in these studies do we find any suggestion that
racism and discrimination, as revealed by bad bousing, unem
ployment, and inferior ghetto schools, have anything to do
with ghetto "pathology."
Yet that is the real problem. Studies that blam* the
victims while ignoring the crime against them are not only
useless, they become part of thepnoblsm themselves. Bfarck™
researchers must be part of any future studies In the ghetto jH
- to help focus those studies on the causes af ghetto pooh- "
lems, and to keep them from hecosaing yet another elufe
with which to beat back persons.
"Racism is the number one public health jnihlsm
facing America today," is th« conclusion of the Joint
Commission on Mental Health of Children. V twl?V"g
ist« and researchers can only manage to tear themselves
away from their fascination with whafs wrong with
life, and start studying the "number one public health prob
lem," and if the federal government can support such studies
with the same willingness that it now supports wi*»«g
and damaging reports on black people, we mltfit just begin to
solve the sickness of racism.
an James R. Jones, Supervisor,
President, Mrs. Josephine Mar
ray both of Frmnklinton.
-Approved
(Continued from front page)
handicapped if it remained a
college while other institu
tions of similar were
university status.
The word "college" was
removed Monday night, June
9, from lexicon of state-sup
ported higher education in
North Carolina.
Effective July 1, the insti
tution will be referred to as
FayetteriDe State University.
What had started out as a
pitched battle over higher
education changes in this ses
sion of the General Assembly
ended with barely a murmur
as the House of Representa
tives conferred the WW Mfr
tus on the lone remaining
colleges. The Senate had ap
proved the university state
earlier.
Powell Case:
High Court
Vs. Congr
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON
There has been a lot of talk
about tiie possibility of a con
frontation between Congress
and the Supreme Court.
The court's ruling that Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell was
unconstitutionally denied his
■eat in 1967 may have put it
on a collision course with the
House of Representatives.
Some of the more militant
congressmen have threatened
defiance should a lower cyurt
now rule that Powell is en
titled to collect the pay he
lost while in liiribo and Bi
mini.
"There is a lot more to this
than just the Powell case,"
one of the militants told me.
"We congressmen feel alie
nated from the mainstream
of Supreme Court decisions
and we are demanding that
congressmen be given a big
ger voice in running Con
gress."
Law and Order
It is believed the militants
speak for only a small por
tion of the legislative body.
The overwhelming majority
of today's House members are
on the side of law and order.
But we all know that mill
tants usually prevail over the
moderates when the situation
gets down to the nitty gritty.
In that event, the justices
and the lawgivera would be
eyefoall to eyebell. Or, aa the
case might be, bifocal to bi
focal.
In my mind's eye, I am al
ready getting some vivid men
tal pictures of what the con
frontation would be like.
It would begin, I imagine,
with a group of congressional
n.'ilitants occupying the House
Usbursing Officeto prevent
execution of the court order
regarding Powell's back pay.
,A obviously
numerical super
iority. They outnumber the
justices 435 to g when both
•re, at full strength.
Doddering Age
A vacancy caused by the
resignation of Abe Fortas has
further weakened the bench
and some of the justices are
near the doddering age.
But in seeking to enforce
tne order, the court would
have at its disposal a sizable
force of U.S. marshals, some
of whom have been battle
tested on college campuses.