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-THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. OCTOBER 18, 186# 2A This is Cleaner Air Week through out the nation, and that in itself has a special significance in North Car olina. Not that the problem of air pollu tion is overwhelming in the Tar Heel State at this time, but it's growing. And the week of October 19th is a good time for us to take a good look at the potential for smothering in our own atmospheric wastes right here in North Carolina. The idea of Cleaner Air Week is just that. It gives everyone a chance to focus in on the problems that are threatening our health and draws a public awareness to the conditions of our environment As has been pointed out many times before. North Carolina stands to suf fer a great deal if we suddenly start pouring huge volumes of wastes into our atmosphere For one thing, the air •currents in many areas of this state are not the t\|>e that move pol lution out rapidly. Therefore, we are often caught in an inversion situa tion which keeps old air down and traps it We could possibly use the same air day after day until the in version gradually changes. According to a handbook published by the National Cleaner Air Week Committee, this special week has three*-»bjectives which, it believes, make the observance more than or- The Generation Gap fTpHERE IS NO question in America today as widely discussed as the Generation Gap, except the proprie ty of sex education. In all circles from churches to neighborhood clubs Americans are discussing the problems connected with the gap be tween elders and youth or parents and their children. There is a vacuum in the Negro community. It is a condition which blocks the steady and successful de velopment of Negro businesses or organizations. This problem is one that should claim the full and intel ligent attention of the black com munity. Negro businesses too often become one - generation efforts. There are exceptions, of course, but sadly too few. The father starts the business, but too often it dies with him. Over a generation ago a Negro had a successful meat market in Farmville, Va. One of his best cus tomers was the Farmville State Teachers College now Longwood College. This energetic and frugal businessman sent his son to St. Paul's Normal and Industrial School, now Saint Paul's College at Lawrenceville. to prepare him for a trade and to be prepared to take over his business But this man had to sell his business when he retired, and it was reported at the time that it was bought by a white business. Too many businesses and worth while organizations exist for only one generation Anyone entering the business world takes a great risk The problems exist for all business groups, whites. Negroes or Jews The point we make here is that too often when the Negro busi ness fails it goes out of the family, which is like saying it goes out ol the Negro race The process is not without some bright spots The National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Wasli- Things You Should Know SONNI A LI 1490 h His real name was au kolon, hc I BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A COMMON SOLOIER/ I HE FORMED HIS OWN ARMY, AND/ IN 1468, CONOUEREO ALL THE LAND FROM TIMBUCTOO TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN,/ THUS, Hi . M /w FOUNOEO THE VAST EMPIRE OF TIMBUCTOO 4 iul AND RULED IN PEACE UNTIL HIS ACCIDENTAL J**/ DEATH IN 1490. HE WAS SUCCEEDED BY ' HIS SON, ABU KEBR/ f4JT/00i Taking A Breather dinary value: To create better under standing of community, state and re gional problems related to the pro tection of our fresh air supply; tow promote cooperative effort toward the solution of such problems; and to en courage individuals and groups to co ordinate control efforts, particularly at the community level. The secret of any successful cam paign of this sort, of course, is par ticipation by interested groups and individuals. And this participation must always begin on the local level where the pollution threats are clear ly in mind and meaningful steps can be taken to head off additional prob lems This organization goes to state and national levels in the form of support anti-pollution legislation. But it all begins with the individual who has a serious concern for the environment in which he lives. It might be difficult to imagine at this time, but there may come an era when our air is so polluted that even the open fire places in our homes have to be used for rock gar dens instead of burning wood. This is an extreme, but if we don't try to prevent pollution, we may have to suffer from it in more ways than one in the future. The North Caro lina Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association supports Clean er Air Week. We hope you do. ington, D. C., failed years ago, but the training young Negro men re ceived with that company paid off. The three charter founders of the Virginia Mutual Benefit Life Insur ance Company, B. T. BRADSHAW, H. A. M. JOHNS and C. L. TOWNES SR., came from the National Benefit Life Insurance Company. A similar account could be given of other Negro businesses which fur nished training and experience that gave the Negro a lift in the business world. But Negroes have lost too much by short-lived business ven tures. Civilization depends on the progress and continuity of events. The security and freedom of Ne groes must have an economic base sustained by a heartfelt and invigo rating psychology of the worth of the Negro and his place in human society. This is why it is so import ant that Negro businesses and com munity organizations survive from one generation to another. The survival value of a Negro business or organization is its ability to change with new requirements. It must be ready to meet modern techniques and the changing modes of the consumer mind and his needs. No Negro business can expect to live by appealing to race pride. It had better rely on the ability to keep up with a fickle public on styles, tastes and sometimes plain fancy. No Negro any longer can afford to act like he will get a break just because he is black or because some of his. ancestors were slaves. A Ne gro in business has to meet the exi gencies of the business world like anyone else. Cooperative effort is important and appeal to race can help, but the ability of a business to serve the people while it meets the demands of the business world is better. —THOMAS L. DABNEY This Is No Time WE UNITED STATES ONCML RIGHTS HAS BWHTVT STATED UNAT HAD KCOME INCREASINGLY v -that the nixon administration is A. vjp&BSuttSr r PERMITTING A MAJOR RETREAT IN THE ftfL STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVEMEANINGFUL /' Xforr* '*^L MR.FINCH AND OFFICIALS IN HIS DE- fjfi(V MRTHENTS CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE ARE TJlt\S >X HONESTLY DEDICATED TO RACIAL EQUALITX/lffMJ PRESIDENT WHOIH HIS EFFORTS TV /IHfJk PLEASE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES / HAS REFRAINED FROM SPEAKING WHERE TOBACCO IS KING It is apparent that Durham's image, is slowly, but surely, being phased-out in industry, health-welfare, and devotion to the city. A pioneer citizen said: "All the day long and all through the night, for a number of days, people were moving. Many were walking, some on horseback, passenger trains, box cars, buggies, wagons and Oxen-drawn carts." Durham's leading industry - the W. T. Blackwell's tobacco factory - had closed down. Sometimes lightning strikes twice in the same location. The Utah Senator, might succeed - in having an anti-tabacco Moss Act passed. Some folk suspect that cancer-research money is being used for adverse tobacco advertisements. Many eminent doctors claim that there's no proof that tobacco causes can cer, but strong opposing forces might close-down tobacco in dustry in 21 states: N. C., Ky., Tenn., Md., Va., S. C., Ga., Fla., and others. News headlines stated that Duke, Watts, and Lincoln -Clement (Continued' from front page) Committee on Negro Affairs, a director of Scarborough Nur sery, and treasurer of Penn Community Services. He is al so past chairman of the Dur ham District of the Boy Scouts of America and in 1968 was chosen one of Durham's five "Fathers of the Year," the first black man to be selected. Clement is a trustee of White Rock Baptist Church and past president of the Talladega Alumni Association. Married, he has six children and six Crandchildrcn. --Warring (Continued from fronl page) the era of McCarthylsm." SCEF is a Southwide inter racial organization working to end racial injustice, poverty, and war. It has joined the National Abolish HUAC/HISC in urging tele grams and letters to senators, asking them to stop S. 12 from becoming law. Citizens were also asked to organize people in their own communities to fight against the bill. yiji .-in»'Wßi Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. by United Publishers, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher 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 OFFICE LOCATED AT 436 E. Prrncnw STRUT, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 27702 would get over $9,000,000. Lincoln Hospital received about $23,000. Black folk were disappointed that Lincoln didn't get $3,000,000. The Duke Endowment has helped Black folk tremendously, but the transaction has been mutual, black labor helped to make the Duke Endowment. Besides, a Negro discovered and developed the art of curing bright yellow tobacco. Unless we keep faith with those who vote, love and devo tion to our city will diminish. Citizens cast their votes for an improved Lincoln Hospital; any other plan would not keep the faith. Our pioneer fathers didn't phase-out institutions, in the name of progress. From the remnants of Blackwell's factory, they developed a mul ti-million dollar tobacco em pire; they preserved Trinity College, used it to produce Duke University - these es tablishments have helped to make "Durham Reknown, The World Around." Frank George Sowell 1508 E. Pettigrew St. Durham. -Seminars (Continued from front page) in and taking all to a stance of new imperialism which means to basically set up a puppet government so that they peo ple will think they are still controlling their own desti nies." Manning also pointed out that is is almost next to im possible to get out of the war because the industrial and economic giants of this coun try will not let the govern ment get out. The second seminar held in the B. N. Duke Auditorium, was composed basically of stu dents who have an interest in the Viet struggle. Generally the concensus was that the war is not a war against communism or a war to liberate the South Viet namese, but a war to make money for this country and to continue the country's present policy of oppressing people. Though some of the speeches disagreed on the sur face, essentially the theme was the same -- Blackness. Three of the speakers were veterans who vowed they would use the skills of mayhem taught them to fight the "real enemy" when the time came. Many of the persons parti cipating in the moratorium did not support the protest as a whole. Their basic concern seemed to be not the moral aspect of the war, but the poli tical issues. An underlying question was when would such an effort be engendered for black people. The moratotium was all but ignored by the Malcom X Liberation University. Accord ing to Chuck Hopkins, stu dents and staff will travel to Greensboro Wednesday evening to participate with the stu dents of A&T in their obser vance. "We are sympathetic to the idea that the Viet Nam war is related to the struggle of black people in this country for fnee&m, Our standpoint is that this war is just another episode in America's continv - ing policy of explioting other people aroung the world." Hopkins said. Ben Ruff in, director of UOCI, commented that though the moratotium might be a good idea, he was far more concerned with the problems here from a black stanpoint. "Rather than just the vio lent aspect of war, I am inter ested in those people who fight a constant war with roaches, rats, poor housing and inade quate jobs. We need to do something about these things/' he said. -Teacher (Continued 1 from front page) earned her MA in Education at Hunter College. She also has a Professional Certificate in School Supervision and Ad ministration from Hunter. Mrs. Gordon is also a Regis tered Nurse, with State certifi cation in Vocational Guidance Counseling. Her first teaching position with the city's public schools was as a teacher of nursing at the former Yorkville Vocation al High School where she later moved to the position of a counselor in Health and Voca tional Guidance. -Appointed (Continued' from front page) Ricans, Indians and others must increasingly be en couraged to enter the field of business, both in the areas where they now live and in the larger commercial com munity -• not only as workers, but also as managers and owners." "This council," President Nixon stated, "is a means of bringing together some of the best minds in America to eli minate roadblocks on the path of economic opportunity for every citizen." Berkeley G. Burrel of Washington, D. C., president of the National Business Lea gue, was named vice chairman of the commission. rpj r rr ». B 1 ' WHITNEY M. YOUNG . i i ■ H Bias On Cult MOOT PEOPLE are familiar with the facta about Job discrimination against Negro workers, but an indica tion of just how pervasive such discrimination is'jHHf be seen by the unofficial ban on black artists by some cul'tilral insti tutions. An Instance of this is a current case before the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Two musicians with wide symphony orchestra experience one wa g a cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony for four years are charging that th e prestigious New York Philharmonic re fused to hire them because they are black. The Philharmonic says no, color doesn't have anything to do with it, they're just not "qualified." But since the men have such high reputation s and since the orchestra has hired only one black man in its hundred-year history, that ex planation isn't very convincing. A look at other major orchestras reveals the same pic ture: one black musician in Cleveland, another in Boston, other orchestras with no blacks. The numbers of black symphony musicians in major orchestras can be counted on the fingers of one hand. We're 'Born With Rhythm' If there is anything Negroes have been known for in this country, it is musical skill White Americans sing and dance to music written, played, or inspired by black writcj-s and performers. In fact, one of the stereotypes black people have been subjected to is the myth that we're "born with rhythm." How strange it is then, to hear the Philharmonic's music director explain to the commission that his 99 per cent white orchestra's audition standards take into account the "warmth that emanates" from a pJayer, and his "rhythmic under standing." The stereotype is used against blacks, and then discarded when it comes to evaluating black musicians for jobs that supposedly value the very same qualities. It i s shameful for a major cultural institution, one that gives concerts in a beautiful new hall financed by public subscription, to cling to the color 'bar while other fields are in the process of discarding it. To claim that there aren't enough qualified black musicians is an ugly untruth, especially when New York also has the Symphony of the New World, an integrated ensemble. About 38 of that orchestra's 90 musicians are blacks, and the group has had excellent notices in its five year history. While the Philharmonic says it can't find qualified blacks and refuses to hire 2 eminently qualified musicians, the Symphony of the New World found 38. But while the Philharmonic gets fat contributions to give summer concerts in the parks, the integrated Symphony of the New World can't raise enough money to give concerts for schoolchil dren in the ghetto. Behind the red and sold facade of our major cultural institutions i, the rotten stench of racism. Prejudice In Other Fields It extends to other fields, too. The movie industry de pends on black stars like Sidney Poitier and Jim Brown to fill the movie houses, but the highpaying craft job. behind the cameras are still lily-white. The saime story holds for television. The performers out front may include black stars, but behind the cameras it's different. At the same time that racial barriers are crumbling and black performers, at least in the star category, are given the chance to play to prime-time national audi ences. black craftsmen are frozen out of top-dollar Jobs. This kind of discrimination is hardest to bear at a time when black writers, artists, musicians, and actor* increas ingly come to dominate the nation's cultural life. By far the most exciting plays, books and painting, these days are the work of black artists who are leading a cultural renaissance not seen since the 1 SCO's. Their success will make it increasingly difficult for our cultural institu tions to cling to outmoded racism. terprise was created by execu tive order from The White House on March 5,1969. And, Thomas F. Roeser was ap pointed director and Abraham S. Venable, Deputy Director. The Advisory Commission in cluded an Impressive array of distinguished leaders from vir tually all walks of American Life - industry and labor, busi ness and the professions, edu cation, religion and the minorities. In another advance, the Of fice of Minority Enterprise in the Commerce Department re leased three important bro chures designed to help minori ties make their way into busi ness careers. The brochures catalogue federal opportuni ties for contracts, some 300 companies that offer fran chises, and groupings of foun dations, organizations and pri vate interests that aid minority businessmen. ■Fuller (Continued! from front page) not necessarily have to meet prerequisites of degrees but rather in the words of Fuller, "be competent and be able to relate this competency to black people.' 1 "If we neo ple who have something to give our people, they may not hold high school degrees, but we're not hung up on degrees. We're hung up on what do you have in your head to give, and we don't care what kind of degree you've got." Funding for the university could not revealed ai this time although many area con tributions have been received as well as those from around the country. (A recent report has indicated that some $40,000 is being awarded to the university through an Epis copal grant.) Fuller reitterated the ulti mate intention of the universi ty and its family when he said, "We view Malcom X Liberation University as an Integral part of the Black community; there fore, we will be involved in any community." In closing Fuller emphasized the following: "we wont tn state very clearly that there will be neither guns nor drugs or any kind in the building located at 426-428 East Petti grew St.; therefore if this building is invaded by so-called law officers of a federal, state, or local variety on the pretext of looking for guns and dope, it will be just that - a pretext We mention this because several Black operations have been vamped on throughout the country under the guise of searching for guns. Once in side, the so-called law enforce ment officers have destroyed the contents inside the building as well as its physical structure. We will be about educating Black people. This building will serve as a base for that educa tion. We will not .take any invasion of it lightly. We will consider any invasion as an act of aggression against the Black community that this universi ty is set up to serve, and we will respond accordingly." Klan Wizard Has Article Published TI'SCA!.OOS.V Ala The Ku Klux Klon 'Wizard. Robert M. Sbelton. for the first time Mwe hp wan jailed on a con tempt of Congress chaifte. lias an article in the organisation's The- article, which appeured recently wg. headlined "Oh s»rvations from the Cell of Robert M. Sheltor." The date line was "FCT Texarkana. Tex." FCI stands for Federal Correctioi'Hi Institution IT WAS SHFI.TON'S first arncle in the "Firey Cross" aince tne March issue. He surro.deretl to federal offici als Fel>. 14 and the March article was written before lit left for the federal facility Sholtop did not mention how hi- was treated at the federal center, but he warned his fo'lowera not lo allow tJvrnspl'-e* ti> be influenced by
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