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-THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. SEPT 13, 1969 2A The Judge Haynsworth Appointman President Nixon probably would not admit that his nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth for the United States Supreme Court was suggested or influenced by Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Whether there is any truth in the accusation or not there is strong evidence that the nomintaion of the South Carolina judge for the nation's highest tribunal is another install ment payment on Thurmond s join ing of the Republican Party and his influence in the heavy southern white voters switch to the Democratic camp in the election of IfKSB. Once again we call the attention of our readers to that black hour dur ing the Republican National Conven tion. following his nomination for the presidency when Nixon overlooked all of the more prominent and accept able personalities present at the con vention and selected Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina to es cort him to the podium to deliver his acceptance speech. Here, we think was the beginning of the awful trag edy that is now taking place in the White House on important decisions that are made by the president about the South, especially involving racial A Salute for the Women of Kinstoo We salute the Negro women of Kinston for the very fine effort they are putting forth to increase the registration and voting of their race in their city and the remainder of Lenior County. Like the editorial above we point to the fact that the female segment of the race can play a most important role in improving the lot of their race by continuing the register and vote campaign. It is our hope that the movement will spread to every section of Lenoir County until not one Negro remains who is not registered. Likewise it is our hope that the women of the race in other cities and counties of the state will follow the example set by those of Kinston and organize similar register and vote campaigns. We recommend voting as JLjQgftns of improving the lots of the Negro instead of violence If a size able increase in the number of Negro registrants is achieved, we are satis fied that leaders of the race will be Women-ln-Action Oppose Violence 'The first anniversary dinner of the organization of the Women-In- Action for the Prevention of Violence and its Causes, Incorporated, held at the Durham Hotel last Monday eve ning, proved beyond a doubt that the female segment of the nation can weild a powerful influence in build ing a spirit of non-violence among the people. Led by Mrs. Asa T. Spaulding o? Durham, it was plainly disclosed at the anniversary dinner that the Wom en-In-Action for the Prevention of Violence and its Causes has brought into being here in this city an organi zation that is destined to play an important part in the prevention of both inter-racial and intra-racial con flicts. Because of the fine objectives of the Women-ln-Action organization it is the hope of the Carolina Times that the organization will have the ■ ~ Things You S s\\W' *'* * ''' / * sv / / HANNIBAL **• 1692-1782 f i BORN A SLAVE IN AFRICA / HE BE- M CAME THE ADOPTED SON OF PETER THE GREAT AND LEARNED MILITARY EN -4 wjp GINEERtUG/ LATER, HE WAS COM MANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY/AT THE TIME OF HB DEATH/VAST EN&jV IVVMFAITHY Hg OWNED 2QOO WHITE SLAVES* IMwS f I matters of Negroes That Thurmond actually called the shots in the president's appointment of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, for the United States Supreme Court, is the stand we have previously taken and from which we do not intend to be moved. If and when the appoint ment is confirmed by the U. S. Senate and Judge Hansworth actually be comes a member of the nation'* high tribunal, we predict a tragic outcome for any case or cases that come be fore the court involving the rights of the black people in this country, especially when the fate of the mat ter is in need of one vote lOr final approval. Thus we repeat that it now appears timt what this nation now lias in the White House is a puppet president with the strings being pulle| from behind the scenes by Senator&trom Thurmond of South Carolina!lt is hard to believe that with alljl' the eminent ami competent legalAson alities available in this the president would name su«j| one as Judge Clement F. IlaJMbrth without undue influence oiragje of his personal desires or select*. in a better position to demand more jobs and appointments in state, coun ty and city offices than th«ty would be by all of the violent action that can be resorted to. With the off-year election; not too far away it is not too earlylto begin preparing for the election M some Negroes to public office as*well as the defeat of some whites Vho are holding high salaried ap pointive and elective without giving any thought to the lot of the Negro who. generally speaking, is usually on the outside looking. As we have endeavored to point out again and again in this newspaper that a "VOTELESS PEOPLE IS A HOPE LESS PEOPLE." Therefore we urge, we beg our leaders in every county, city and town to get busy NOW and organize a register and vote cam paign so "that the lot of the Negro may be improved as a citizeif vt this! nation. full support of all worthwhile citizens of Durham. If and when the organi zation does embark upon a program of actually looking into and attack ing some of the problems precipitat ing violence in our cities its mem bers will need the assistance of the male segment of the population. It is our hope that some of the fine members of the Women-In-Ac tion organization will visit certain sections and homes of Durham and observe firsthand some of the awful conditions in which many of the pov erty stricken of both races are liv ing. That such sections anff homes have been and will be the sources of violence, if they are not improved, is a certainty and we again appeal to the male segment of the popula tion to throw its support behind the Women-ln-Action for the Prevention of Violence, not only in Durham but the entire state of North Carolina. No Way To 'Bring Us Together j JOSEPH L. RAUGH. VICE CHAIRMAN OF : S* AW V AMERICANS FOR DEMO- //. .. sSST" 7 CRATIC ACT/ON,SAID A J * 'THIS IS THE WORST / A POSSIBLE TIME FOR ' s./ THE APPOINTMENT OF QYkVTL*t> // If* \ >. /4 HARD-CORE SEGRE - / f-JEPj f , / ilk 1 \ OATIONIST TO THE tiT / i> */> / SUPREME COURT. # / j/.> / Wi /> / PRESIDENT N LYONS t ' 1 //- # APPOINTMENT OF v / / / JUDGE HAVNSWORTH si« - U./ / 7 • / IS UHE THROWING A k/-3# ./; tl/ v/ •' 0// THE FIRES OF V J BLACK PROFILES Syi COURAGE lolll l' Tu , 'Mr . Civil ROY WILKINS, executive e director of the National As- s sociation for the Advance ment of Colored People, is one Black man whose cou- ' rage, faith, tact in handling situations, persistence, and the fine art of communica tions keep the NAA C P moving forward for equal opportunities for all, for de segregation. and for civil rights . and He tells it like it is no matter who dis agrees. A recent editorial by Nan nie Mitchell Turner of the Louis Argus, gives you the picture of his 'frankness.' We quote part of this edito rial: "IT IS ROY Wilkins" well documented, point by point criticism of the present administration's (President Nixon) direction in relation to items of prime interest to Black citizens. "He pin points such var ious items as the cutting back of the Neighborhood Job Corps Centers, the De fense Department letting multi-million dollar con tracts with only verbal as surances of fair hiring po licies. the firing of Clifford Alexander from the chair manship of the Equal Oppor tunity Employment Com mission for what amounted to doing his job. THE CUTTING back of funds for low cost housing, model cities and rent supple ments. the subtle passing down of the word from the administration that lagging school districts would be given more time to effect desegregation. This coming some fifteen years after desegregation was declared " illegal by the Supreme Court." You'll agree that he (ROY WILKINS) does take a stand for RIGHT. ANOTHER instance which shows that ROY WILKINS is a man of courage, was during a convention not too many years ago when a group known as the "Turks" tried in every way to "b rea k" or split the NAACP, I In fact, It was in 1968 at the National NAACP Con vention in Atlantic City that the "Turks operating in direct opposition to Mr. Wil kins and the NAACP poli cies were handed a re sounding defeat . . . But RICrHT will prevail when you have that "stick to-it" determination W»ii»nrtr for the principles « set forth by your organization, as MR. WILKINS has; and the "Turks" did a right about face when they pre sented ROY WILKINS a plaque and paid SIOO on a SSOO NAACP Life Member ship at the 1969 NAACP Convention which was held in Jackson, Mississippi. THE PLAQUE was en graved: "We commend Roy Wilkins, our Executive Di | rector, for his years of f thoughtful and dedicated service. As NAACP mem bers, we pledge our support to its duly constituted lead- er-.ship." The piaque was signed '"The Turks." ROY WILK INS has been - ROY WIJCINS Executive Director of the NAACP since April 1955, when he was unanimously named by the Board of Di rectors to succeed Walter White who passed in March, 1955. UNDER HIS staunch, cou rageous and intelligent lead ership has grown immense ly membership over 450.000, located in 1,700 branches and youth groups in 50 states and the District nf Columbia Hp is often -calico ' MR, CIVIL RIGHTS" because of .the many things accom plished by the organization undi r his Chairmanship of the Leadership Confcrn'' on Civil Rights a group which coordinates the lob bying efforts of. some 120 civic, labor and' church or ganizations. HE LED the catapiHtins which resulted in thn enact ment of the Civil Rights Acts of 11J5T. i'.'HO. ID'i4 and 11W5. JNO matin - 'i">« "hot" the situation might gel. he keeps his "cool." He dislikes all fuss and ostentation, never stoops to deniug'igy or courts popularity at the expense of honesty . . and you can be sure that he does not believe in rioting. ROY W ILK INS' personal life typifies the up.-'ard mo bility of a whole generation of American Negroes. He wW born In ff. r.o». Mis souri; but grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota where h« finished the public schools and graduated from th« Utuwrsilv of Minnesota. FOK EIGHT years ha worked on the staff of the Kansas City Call, a Weekly in Kansas City. Missouri; and he achieved consider able celebrity with hi§ column "Talking It Over." In 1931, he became a part of the NAACP Team as As sistant Executive Secretary, editing the Crisis from 1934 to 1949. His life is dedicated to the betterment of conditions for mankind through the prin Psychology ' students win bid for help WASHINGTON - Black psychology students switched to quiet con frontation Tuesday and won a round in their demands for financial and education al help from their white professional elders. As 2 5 youths stood silently facing them, mem bers of the American Psy chological Association's council of representatives endorsed a scries 5f de mands by the Black Stu dents Psychological Asso ciation. The council told theA PA board of directors to work with the student group and «•» the black sociatioß to prepare a pro gram by Oct. 4. • f • The students, who held up an APA meeting Mon day night until they were assured of a hearing, called on the 29,000-member pro fessional group to actively recruit more youths into psychology, to work out "realistic" standards for black faculty members, to seek centralized scholar ship fund programs, and to seek ways for psychologists to be of more help in black communities. Gary Simpkins, a student at California State College at Los Angeles, spoke for the youths, who lined up at the front of the council meeting room and stood, staring at the delegates, for more than an hour. The black student de manded "seed money" for an APA program within 24 hours, which some council members obviously took as a threat. But the students did not say what they would do if their demands were re jected, and at no time dur ing the session did the dis cussion become heated or emotional. • • • At one point, several members of the council and the APA audience said the response should be in the form of a SSO per member assessment to assure at least $2 million for the kind of program the black stu dents sought. But this did not come to a vote, and Simpkins indi cate d that the "seed money" his group sought was funds to start planning a larger program. • » • At a later business ses sion, about 50 members of a white militant group, Psychologists of a Demo crat i c Society, crowded on to the convention stage carrying posters and signs. Their spokesman. How ard Gadlin of the Univers ity of Massachusetts, de manded, that his profession- CamiliW^ ciples of the NAACP to which he draws every man, woman and organization, h« can . . . for its growth has been, what we'd say Roy Wilkins' monument. HIS HOME life with hit charming and brilliant wife, Aminda who is an Executive with the NYC Welfare Dept., is chocked full of "NAACP" off-duty chores, shall we say: but that's the way it has to be for a man whoa* courage stands out as that of ROY WILKINS. WHITNEY M YOUNG After Vietnam, What? WHEN THE WAR in Vietnam ends $24 billion per yew will be freed for more productive uses than killing people or will it? A few years ago economists painted a very rosy picture of all the wonderful things that be done witih so much money, but now there are very confusing .statements coming out of official Washington. It seems that the $24 billion often called the "peace dividend'' won't be there when the war ends. White ifouse advisor Daniel P. Moynihan told newsmen that built in spending increases and bigger Pentagon arms purchases would pretty much wipe out any savings from ttie war. Then other Administration officials said that some money, at least, would be available. Finally, another White House advisor, Dr. Arthur F Burns, said he thought about S3 billion could b e freed for new social programs. That same day. President Nixon indicated thai, no, there wouldn't be much money available if the war ended soon. It seems that there is a big tug-of-war shaping up as everybody ha s different plans for using the pot of gold at the end of the Vietnam rainbow. Being Spent To Wage War The money is there. It is now being spent to wage war. When the war ends, some of it will remain committed to Vio:r.am to help rebuild the country we helped to tear apart. What ar>out tne rest? It will amount to a cool S2O billion or so and how that money i s spent will go a long way toward determining wiiat kind of country America will become. Air. Moynihan act jal»y performed a great public service by his bleak prediction Too many people just assumed that they could sit back and do nothing, because after the war ended, all that money would be available to spend on our rotting cities and to erase poverty from the land. Now those people know it just isn't so. The peace divi dend was a pretty day-dream, bul there wa s never any reason to think that the Administration will spend it wisely unless pressured to do so. War costs didn't prevent us from going ahead with ex pensive space shots, and they didn't prevent the government from spsnding billions on subsidies to wealthy individuals and corporations. And war spending didn't stop the Penta gon from developing ever more expensive military hardware systems like the ABM. Unless all citizens "oecome aware of what is happening to their tax dollars, we're in for more of the same when the war ends. The Pentagon will come up with bigger and still more useless war toys, and still more money will be drained off for selfish interests. 24 Million In Poverty Meanwhile, 24 million Americans remain in poverty; the schools are inadequate; transportation bad; 26 million housing units desperately needed: 5 million public service jobs unfilled; and the cities are running downhill. It's all a question of priorities There has to be a long hard look at what the nation needs most, and then there must be massive allocation of resources into the areas of highest priority needs. We already have enough missile s to blast everyone off the face of the earth, and we've already reached the barren wastes of the moon. We've accomplished alt a nation can hope to achieve except creating an open society with equal ity for all and poverty for none. I "Bsfabllfchrtient tif such i society shouid be the number one priority, but it can only come about if ail concerned citizens tell their leaders that they're fed up with double talk about how poor tlhe government if and demand that war savings become peace spending to build an open society. NAACP Branches To Pay $200,000 As NEW YORK - Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have been called upon to pay assessments totaling $200,000 to the National Office in order to avert a possible deficit in that amount. In letters . sent to the branches, Executive Director Roy Wilkins cited a resolution passed by delegates to the Association's 60th anniversary convention in Jackson, Miss., June 30-July 5. "In view of the current financial status of ffian Sbpics/^ SURE MY FACE IS CLEAN,MA / -- JUST LOOK AT THE TOWEL / J Gasr/Mer**t 5 ; - Carolina Jjr Published mry Saturday at Dmhmm, S, C. by United Pubkahsra, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN. PubU+v CLARENCE F. BONNETTE Business Tfiinf J. ELWOOD CARTER. .AHVIMH Mw^r Sjooad Qua Portage Paid at Durham, N. C. 17701 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 18.00 par year ph» (15c tax in N. C.) anywhare in lb U.S., and Canada and to'aarvioanMn OWMH Foreign. $7.50 par year, Single oopy fOe. FWAIIL O MA LOCATED AT 438 B. Pninuanw Wwmmmt, Dumauu, Jjjyi Caoum 87708 the Association," the resolu tion reads, "the Convention urges the board of directors to assess each of the branches of the Association an amount, depending upon the si» of the branch, ranging from SSO to $450." THE CONVENTION resolu tion was affirmed by the board of directors To implement the resolution, Mr. Wilkins has sent out an "urgent appeal" to the branches asking prompt payment of the assessment.
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