THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1969
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Blacks Expecting More Appointments
Thus far the administration of
Gov. Bob Scott has shown little or*
no indication to stray from the age
old pattern of naming no blacks to
the 107, governmental boards and
commissions to which North Caro
lina governors have the appointive
authority. As a result black leaders
who insisted, during the 1968 elec
tion, that black voters stick with the
Democratic Party, by which Scott was
able to defeat his Republican oppon
ent, are now hard put for an answer
to those of their own race who con
tinue to remind them that "I or we
told you so." About the only conso
lation the average black citizen or
voter has is that President Nixon or
the Republican administration, up to
the moment, has made such a miser
able failure to live up to the many
promises he made during the 1968
presidential campaign.
It isjflbt too early for black leaders
to begin pondering now as to what
Mayor Evers of Fayette Points the Way
The Carolina Times salutes this
week the example of human brother
hood and noble citizenship given the
nation by Charles Evers the new
black mayor of Fayette, Mississippi.
It is the kind of leadership for black
people that will lick the Ku Klux
Klan, hate mongers and others who
practice or preach racism in this
country or anywhere else on earth.
If any human being has cause to
be revengeful Charles, whose brother
Medgar was shot down without cause
by whites of Mississippi, does. Add
to the cold-blooded slaying the fact
that the state of Mississippi has put
forth little or no effort to bring to
justice the person or persons respon
sible for the heinous crime and you
will have some conception of the
great nobility of the new mayor of
Fayette.
Here we think is the kind of action
that will eventually put an end to
the Ku Klux Klan and all other
manufacturers of race hatred and
bigotry in this country and the world.
Oh yes, the Klan has the answer
for blacks who Would tyke up the
sword or report to vfblence in the
war of race hatred. Their answer ifl
'Rule By Nightstick'
MrHE trend of human events usu
ally runs in cycles. It appears
from.reports from different parts of
the country we are entering the bad
end of the cycle in human relations
for black and white Americans.
"The backlash" of evil days is upon
us. It comes so often with the return
of Republicans and conservatives to
power that it looks like the two are
the same.
It is somewhat ominous that the
"backlash"'•would sweep the "law
and order'*! advocates into office
particularly in Minneapolis where
there has been very little racial
trouble and only five per cent of the
population is colored.
Here is CHARLES STENVIG, police
detective, political novice and Mayor
elect of Minneapolis who has assured
his supporters that he will bring law
and order to the city. The irony of
this case is that MR. STENVIG and his
supporters are apparently thinking
in a short circuit. The popular
phrase "law and order" covers more
then its advocates seem to recognize.
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course to pursue in the off-year elec
tion campaign of 1970 and the next
General Election campaign of 1972.
One thing is certain, Negro citizens
thte Ku Klux Klan and all other
eye on the appointive moves made by
Gov. Scott, which they hope will in
clude some of the many well qualified
black citizens of the state. Unless
such recognition is forthcoming it
may result in a breaking up of the
black Democratic bloc that has exist
ed for so long in North Carolina.
If by chance President Nixon is
able to bring an end to the war in
Vietnam, it is'certain that the thous
ands of returning black troops will
expect recognition or active partici
pation of their race in governmental
affairs as compensation for the serv
ice rendred their country in the time
of war. Such they will deserve and
such they will expect to see take
place.
to get more members, more swords
and embark upon a murder excur
sion, which they in the end might
win.
By refusing to engage in a pro
gram of hate and bitterness Charles
Evers has not only set an example
for blacks in Mississippi but all man
kind everywhere. It is the example
set by Jesus 2,000 years ago which
has kept the torch of Christianity
burning while His adversaries have
become extinct. It is the example
set by Mahatma Ghandi, in our times,
' that brought freedom from the Brit
ism empire to over 400 million peo
ple of India.
So we say to those who would re
sort to violence or take up the sword
to settle the race question in this
country or anywhere else on this
earth that, it can't be done. There
fore, we take our stand beside Evers
and against the "hippies" and others
who advocate hate and violence. We
appeal to blacks of this nation to re
sort to the ballot as their weapon
and above all to embrace the
but enduring admonition which Jesus
left 'mankind to "Love" ofte another."
injustice and defiance of law and
order.
As observers of recent elections
know, the phrase "law and order"
means different things to different'
people. To racially prejudiced peo
ple it is a code phrase, appealing to
fear. In the South, for instance, the
cry for "law and order" by an office
seeking politician is just another
way to "holler nigger." The practice
is obviously spreading.
"I won't let you down," MR. STEN
VIG promised his supporters in his
victory statement. He won the race
June 10 by a margin nearly two to
one for mayor of Minneapolis.
Vindictive politics will not cure
the ills of society whether resorted
to by blacks against whites, labor
against capital, Protestants against
Catholics or Americans against for
eigners. There is no place in an intel
ligent society for 'Rule by Night
stick.' The force of reason and un
derstanding is what our cities and
rural communities need for creative
work and- political and economic
progress. Anything else is destruc
tive and hMttrfdl
"Message For The Future'?
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SPACE CENTER, HOUS
TON (UPI) Man's ages
eld yearning to set foot on
the moon seems about to be
realized.
If all goes as planned.
Apollo 11 commander Neil
A. Armstrong will place the
first human footprint on the
moon's surface at precisely
J: 10 a.m. (EDT), Monday,
July 21.
NEVER before will man
have taken such a giant
step. For the first time he
will have journeyed to an
other world an accom
plishment that only a few
years ago seemed a crazy,
impossible dream. , r
, How has it been done?-
Why, has it b^ntfciar
Moon Travel
The moon, sluirunering so
Invitingly in the night sky,
has drawn man like a gol
den maignet since the dawn
•f his life on earth.
THROUGH the aeons men
have worshiped the moon
through such deities as the
Greek goddess Artemis,
(they have written poems
•nd songs with the moon as
their theme.
And, since at least the
■econd century A.D., men
have sprinkled their litera
ture with stories of travel to
(he moon.
IT WAS fine stuff for fic
tions and fables and
dreaming.
Then President John F.
Kennedy with, a single
sentence spoken May 25,
1961— challenged this nation
to turn the dream into real
ity.
Message
"I believe, 1 " he said in a
special message to Con
gress, "This nation should
commit itself to achieving
the goal, before this decade '
is out, of landing a roan on
the moon and returning him
safely to earth.
"NO BINGLE space pro
ject in this period will be
more impressive to man
kind, or more important for
the long-range exploration
of space; and none will bi.
so difficult or expensive to
accomplish."
Just 62 words. Yet they
■tirred the Congress, won
speedy acceptance of a
moon-landing as a national
goal that would cost S2O bil
lion or more, and set in
motion the greatest mobili
lation of a nation's effort
ever seen outside wartime.
KENNEDY was not the
first man to seriously pro
pose a moon landing.
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Saturn 5 launcher that will
speed Apollo 11 toward the
moon, had seriously consi
dered manned lunar land
ings since 1952.
ON JAN. l, 1959, the ori
ginal Select House Space
Committee issued a report
quoting 20 experts saying
such a goal could be reach
ed by 1968 if the nation
was willing to pey the price.
In July of 1960 the House
Space Committee con
trolled by Democrats de
manded that the Republican
administration of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower com
mit the nation to placing a
man on the moon by 1970.
NATIONAL space plans at
that time included unman
ned exploration of the moon
knd a series of one-man Mer
cury flights in earth orbit
to see if man could survive
in space.
The fledgling space agen
cy had on its drawing boards
a plan, code-named "Apol
lo," to fly a three-man
spaceship in earth orbit for
up to 14 days and ultimately
to hurl it nonstop around
the moon. But it was just,
in one congressman's words,
a "designer's dream."
Go-Slow Policy
Eisenhower's advisors
such as Vannevar Bush who
once told a congressional
committee rockets could
not span the ocean, James
Killian who felt iwnruments
could do more than man in
space and Lee Dulbridge now
President Nixon's chief
science advisor, and more
committed now than then to
man-in-space projects ad
vised the President to adopt
a go-slow policy.
HE DID, but he kept the
program alive. In Septem
ber of 1960 "Apollo" was
upgraded to full study sta
tus, and industry was asked
to propose ways it could be
carried out.
That was the space pro
gram Kennedy adopted
when he took the presidency.
MAN HAD yet to fly in
space, but on April 12, 1961,
Russia announced it had
cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin, once around
the Globe. He was the first
man in space and the So
viets had chalked up another
first.
Shepord's Flight
America's Alan B. She
pard made his suborbital
Mercury flight 23 days later,
on May 5, but in the inter
im on April 17, just five
days after Gagarin's flight
the Cuban Bay of Pigs
invasion started and ended
in disastrous failure.
THE UNITED States
needed something that could
capture the imagination of
the world and present tne
nation in a good light.
Kennedy turned to space
and technology, where Rus
sia had grabbed so many
propaganda points. He knew
the existing Russian arsenal
of rockets was far more
powerful than anything the
United States possessed.
SO HE ASKED his ad
visors to find a space goal
where the two nations would
have to start as equ ind
where American tec >gy
could likely win.
The experts suggested a
moon landing. All the ne
cessary equipment existed
or had been designed, they
said. But it would take-rock
ets more powerfd] than
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Famous Speech
Kennedy liked the idea.
Three weeks later he started
his famous May 25 speech
with the words: "Now is the
time ... for this nation to
take a clearly leading role
in space achievement, which
in many ways holds the key
to our future on earth."
OPPONENTS of the moon
goal from that day have cri
ticized it bitterly as an over
ly expensive "crash pro
gram." They have said it
takes money away from
more worthy causes here on
earth, that it is a specta
cular more valuable for poli
cal and propaganda pur
poses than for science.
Those who favor the pro
gram disagree with the cri
tics. They point to the rapid
technological advance the
Apollo program has foster
ed, including much techno
logy that has been applied
outside the space program.
THEY ALSO point to the
burning scientific interest in
the moon, and to the poten
tial military advantage of
being "on the moon."
"The perils will be suc
cessfully navigated. There
will be footprints in the
lunar dust," the late Hugh
L. Dryden, deputy space
agency administrator, pre
dicted with confidence in
1964 as he viewed the almost
complete plans for Apollo.
THIS MONTH his words,
and Kennedy's goal, are put
to the test of fulfillment.
Greensboro Gl
Now A Sergeant
FORT WORTH, Tex. Rod
ney P. Jordan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert P. Jordan of 4628
Byers road, Greensboro, N.C.,
has been promoted to sergeant
in the U.S. Air Froce.
Sergeant Jordan is a meat
cutter at Carswell AFB, Tex.,
in a unit of the Strastegic Air
Command.
The sergeant, a graduate of
Northeast High School, Mc-
Leansville, N.C., attended
Guilford Technical Institute,
High Podnt, N.C.
Susan B. Anthony was a pio
neer loader of ths women'!
suffrage movement.
Australia has a net migrant
intake of about 80,000 people a.
year. The organized movement
of nearly 2,000,000 Europeans
to Australia has been one of
the major population shifts in
the 20th century.
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WHITNEY M. YOUNG
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ONE MAJOR protolem *ls country roust; f*e •» *
before it is too late i( the growing militancy of Mi
police.
A study group of the National Oomml—ion on
Causes and Prevention of Violence recently warned that the
present police militancy seems to have exceeded reasonable
bounds."
The report went on to say that the police had become
"a self-conseioua, independent political power
times "rivals even duly elected officials in influence.
Police excesses against Negroes ®nd other ininoritiei
well known, indeed, the public outcry against themmay
have lessened their frequency. But any minority can become
a target, and how long-haired hippies and student activists
are feeling the brunt of intolerance.
At Berkeley, a peaceful demonstration was broken wp
by a helicopter that sprayed the area with tear gas while
exits were blocked. At other campuses, college administra
tors are fearful of calling in the police because of past
instances of overreaction on the part of officers that led to
brutal treatment of students and faculty alike.
'Law and Order' Theories
Part of the problem, the Commission's report indicates,
is that far too many policemen get hung «p on their own
"law and order rhetoric.
Law and order are necessary, but when "justice" ton t
part of the formula, police state repression seta in. Demon
strations against injustices and public act# to symbolize the
wrongs in our society are guaranteed to a free people by
the Constitutional mandate for free speech.
It's not the Job of the police to stifle dissent and uphold
the status quo. Policemen, like other civil servanda, are
supposed to be neutral on public issues and non-political.
But the evidence indicates that policemen are getting
more involved in political activity and right-wing activity
at that. In recent weeks some obviously limited candidates
have been elected mayor of their cities thanks to organised
police electioneering. They ran on the slippery laiw and
order theme, with some subtle racism thrown In lor good
measure. And who can forget the visilble support given
George Wallace last year by some policemen.
Any armed group liki the army or the police contains
a threat to liberties if it is allowed to become involved la
iV. ilian politics. If the cities aren't to be threatened with
political "coups" the police will have to return to theii
traditional non-political role.
They certainly have legitimate grievances. The report
said; "We find that the policeman in America is overworked,
undertrained, underpaid, and undereducated." A major
effort should be made to upgrade policemen and make tlT=' »•
profession more attractive for younger people.
'Outside Agitators' Is Theme
Certainly, better educated police forces would not be
so prone to se e "outside agitators" behind every campus
demonstration or civil rights picket line. The Commission's
report said one cause of growing militancy was the con
stant propaganda they receive, including some from the
federal government, that encourages them to see interna
tional conspiracy behind demands for social reforms.
A society that tolerater excessive police force, allows
its policemen to become a reactionary political power bloc,
and, as in some recent instances, freely a equity policemen
of crimes and excessive brutality, is a society doomed to
lose freedoms.
The police need the resources to do their legitimate
Job combatting crime effectively. They need higher
salary scales and better training. They need to be fully
representative of the community they serve, and that means
enrolling a proportionate number of Negroes and other
minorities. And they need better cooperation from the
community in identifying and stopping lawbreakers.
But on e thing they don't need and must not be allowed
to have, is political power and influence that is reserved
to civilians in a democracy.
Speech Patterns
Disadvantaged Children
PHILADELPHIA
A Temple University re
search team is investigating
a clue that speech patterns
of disadvantaged children
hobble their performance in
school aptitude and achieve
ment testa.
Dr. Lorene C. Quay, visit
ing associate professor of
education at Temple, said a
project she is directing
among preschool Negro chil
dren in the Head Start pro
gram indicates words such
as "different," "roar" and
"coal" are foreign or eon
fusing to some of them.
*HE SAID the children.
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who are examined indivi
dually, are shown Uluatra
tions of three cats and a dog
and asked to point out!
"Which one is different?"
'"Hie child often doean't
understand the word differ
ent." Dr. Quay said. "If the
question is rephrased to
'which one is not the wne?'
the child understands and
makes the proper choice."
SHE SAID these children
were often puzzled when
asked verbally, "What is the
difference between ■ bird
and a dog?" They under
stand, however, when the
question is changed to.