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EDITORIALS
25th Amendment tt Year- Olds Cat Vole
The ratification of the 25th
Amendment sounds a loud and clear
challenge to all 18 year olds and es
pecially to young blacks. The measure
of the value of the 18-20 year old
voting rights amendment will be evi
denced by the skill, talent, and know
ledge about issues that most young
blacks can bring to the ballot box.
Now is the time for our newly en
franchised voters to get with it and
become politically sophisticated.
The art of becoming and working
hard to be politically conscious and
sophisticated is one of the best
methods to acquire power. We know
there is power in the ballot, but most
important is how one uses his ballot.
With the wise use of the ballot and
the power derived from its use, we
can and will become formidable
agents in our own liberation.
One can expect the usual demago
guery as candidates from all levels and
parties file for various public officers.
But you must be alert to these tech
niques and assess and evaluate the
real issues. Now is the time for the
Pan-Africa-U.S.A. Track Meet
Much has been said and written
about the Pan-African U. S. A. Track
meet being held in Durham at the
Wallace Wade Stadium of Duke Uni
versity on Friday and Saturday, July
16-17. It will be a distinct honor to
all persons in our country and es
pecially to North Carolinians and
Durhamites in particular.
Many cultural, social, educational
and economic dividends will be re
ceived by every one. We are especially
pleased that Dr. Leßoy Walker of
North Carolina Central University,
Duke University officials, Durham's
Chamber of Commerce and other
governmental officials have worked
together to provide us with this
Public Service Legislation Much Needed
The passage of legislation and the
signing by President Nixon for public
service jobs in areas of safety, environ
ment. health, crime prevention, pri
sons. education, recreation, part main
tenance. rural development and sani
tation is a timely and well needed
piece of legislation to relieve human
hardships and to stimulate the sagging
economy.
It is hoped that this much needed
legislation will alleviate some of the
mounting tensions of unemployment
shown in the diminishing rates of job
opportunities for racial minorities.
The rate of unemployment in many
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. ..BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S MOST FAMOUS U
AND MOST CONTROVERSIAL SPEECH WAS DE
LI VERED A THE ATLANTA EXPQSITIQN/VISIT
ED BY PRES. CLEVELAND ON OCTOBER 2^1895).
HE ARGUED "THAT IT WAS MORE IMPORTANTTO GO AFTER NEGRO
EQUALITY IN ECONOMIC LIFE;THRU / VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, -
THAN TO AGITATE FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION.SOME LEADERS A
GREED. BUT TROTTERA HARVARD GRAD.a EDITOR OF THE BOSTON
GUARDIAN/ OBJECTED SO VIOLENTLY HE WAS THROWN IN JAIL,/
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18-20 year olds to take to the polls
and register - a preliminary for vot
ing. Your thing today and now is to
register and vote. It is well to remem
ber that practice makes perfect and
you can acquire this art of selective
voting for effective action.
The power derived from the wise
of the ballot will go a long way in
the continuing struggle for equality
and justice through non-violent social
action. Blacks and other "minorities
will have opportunities to substan
tially increase their political power in
all states. This is especially vital when
we consider that North Carolina is a
state where the greater percentage of
its population may be found in the
30 and under group.
A coalition of interest for a change
in America can become a reality as
strategies are developed that will bring
enough power and enough votes to
make the American dream a reality
for every American.
The challenge for 18 year olds is
clear. How will you face it?
monumental event. The task of plan
ning and implementing such an event
should be most appreciated by all
citizens in the area and at-large.
The Durham community will be
able to see African and American
athletes, male and female, performing
in all sports activities. In fact, here
will really be a young Olympics right
in our back yard so to speak. This is
our community and we can show our
pride in it by our all out support. We
urga all people of the Durham com
munity and other areas as well to
come out in full force and support
this wonderful international sports
event and spectacular.
central city areas is nearly 40 per cent
since so many of the jobs that
brought many of the minorities to
the cities have now moved to the
suburbs. By keeping the suburbs lily
white also makes jobs unavailable for
minorities, and especially blacks.
Remember that unemployment is a
major ingredient that helps provoke
protests and other demonstrations
that may often turn into race riots as
well. We hope that all states will begin
immediate implementation of the
public services program as set forth
by the much needed legislation.
Do They Have Hunting Licenses,
Mr. President?
MAYOR STOKES OF CLEVELAND
IN A RECENT SPEECH REMINDED
HISBLACK AUDIENCE, WAT
UNITES IN THIS COUNTRY ARE
CAPABLE OF NAZI-TYPE EXTERNI- K&PA
NATION.
COLUHBUS, 6EOR6IA-A COP SHOT A . . ife* 9,
20 J£4ff Otf BLACK WHO REFUSED
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SHOT A TEEN-ACER IN A DENON
STRATION- NAY, 1971 jEgjß^V*--
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STRATOR WAS SHOT BY A COP M
IVAS RESISTING.
£C«K NISS-A GROCERY STORE
PROPRIETOR KILLED A BLACK ' [\
NAN, SAID HE THREATENED HIN.
THE FOLLOWING SUNPAY-A OASi
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WASHINGTON
Why should the United States make
more loan funds available to im
poverished foreign nations when not
enough loan funds are available to
impoverished areas in this country?
Testifying the other day in favor
of $960 million more for the In
ternational Development Association,
Under Secretary of the Treasury
Charles E. Walker said, "The brief
answer is that in a world community
where goods, people and ideas travel
rapidly, no nation's concern with other
naitons can stop at the border."
That didn't satisfy Rep. Henry
Reuss of Wisconsin, and a number of
other memberk of the House Banking
and Currency Committee. Reuss tola
Walker that "if we are going to pass
the IDA bill, the request of the
Treasury to help Paraguay and
Afghanistan, the Treasury is going to
have to do something for the im
poverished people who are growing in
percentage and in absolute number in
the impoverished areas of our country
. . . something for the banks and
savings and loan institutions which are
trying to do something about housing
and jobs and economic development
This was necessary, Reuss argued,
not only as a matter of need in the
ghettos and poorer rural areas but "in
convincing our colleagues on the floor
that the Treasury isn't solely con
cerned with the fortunes of the poor
people of Afghanistan and Paraguay
... but is also concerned with poor
people right here in the United
States." The IDA bill might be en
dangered, he suggested, without some
such showing.
What Reuss and 14 colleagues on
the committee have in mind is a
change in the management of the
federal government's so-called tax and
loan account to channel more of its
millions into financial institutions that
would make loans for low-income
housing, depressed area assistance,
guaranteed student loans and other
public-interest needs. Information
available to the House committee and
its chairman, Wright Patman of
Texas, suggests that there is as much
as $5- to $lO-billion available "at all
times" in the Treasury tax and loan
account.
Moreover, the 12,716 banks that had
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TN 1968 CONGRESS enacted a "Wild
1 and Scenic Rivers Act" as a first
step toward preserving the finest of
America's streams in their natural
state. Last week the North Carolina
General Assembly passed a similar
act of its own, this one patterned after
and made possible by the federal
statute.
But all of this may have come too
late to help the New River, a stream
urgently in need of preservation. The
Appalachian Power Company, goaded
by the Department of the Interior,
plans to impound the river behind two
giant hydroelectric dams so that, in
the dry season, excess water might
be sent rushing downstream to
"dilute" the polluted Kanawha.
A strange and lugubrious fate for
so fine a stream. The New, North
Carolina's oldest and most unusual
river, and the only one to flow north,
is said to have been the source of
an antediluvian river system so vast
that the Mississippi and Ohio were
mere tributaries. In view of this it
seems odd that Interior would destroy
this stream merely for the sake of
a rather far-fetched experiment.
For "pollution dilution" is exactly
that: an experiment now deemed
impractical /by most en
vironmentalists. /
If the Federal Power Commission
agrees to licenaft this project, and if
its decision is/ipheld by the courts,
a precedent fraught with potentially
disastrous conseauences will have
been established. Encouraged by this
folly on the New, the Interior
Department may insist that other
First Things First
tax and loan account balances at the
end of the last year had the temporary
use of these funds without paying
interest to the government. The
system works this way, as Walker
described it to the committee:
"As individuals and corporations
pay their taxes or purchase govern
ment securities, the funds are trans
ferred from the account of the in
dividual or corporation to the Treasury
tax and loan account at the same
bank. The Treasury then draws down
the tax and loan balances as it needs
the funds to pay the government's
bills."
This system, Walker said, permits
the government to handle its finances
"with the least adverse impact on the
total economy."
And it should not be changed "to
stimulate socially desirable lending
programs," he argued, first because
it was basically a collection system,
but more importantly because most
of the tax and loan balances were
highly "volatile" on hand in the
banks for short periods but quickly
withdrawn.
This was not convincing to Reuss
and the other 14 committee members
when Walker explained it in detail last
Nov. 25. On Dec. 29, Chairman Patman
wrote Walker in their behalf and asked
him to draw up a program, including
any necessary legislation, "providing
for the deposit of United States tax
and loan account balances" in in
stitutions that helped "towards solving
some of our nation's problems."
The Treasury still has not done so
and when Walker appeared before the
committee again last week, he was
still opposed to the idea—and cited
instead a Nixon administration goal
of getting $35 million in new federal
deposits (not tax and loan balances)
into "minority banks," those owned
by and primarily serving blacks,
Mexican-Americans and Puerto
Ricans.
Walker no doubt is right that to
use the tax and loan account as
desired by the committee members
would be less efficient and more costly
for the government, and he was op
timistic about the $35 million deposit
goal.
Still, $35 million is ndt much
compared to the $5- to $lO-billion that
Reuss and others think might be
tapped in the tax and loan account.
streams be dammed up and put at
the service of polluted rivers in distant
states.
Not only is this directly contrary
to national policy, as outlined in the
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. It may
also be illegal. Federal law expressly
forbids the storage of water for
pollution control when it is possible
to clean up filth at the source. Interior
has based its whole argument on the
fallacious notion that the polluters lack
the technological means for treating
their wastes adequately.
Yet the polluters involved in the
present dispute mostly chemical
companies lining the banks of West
Virginia's Kanawha river now boast
of the great technological strides they
have made in recent years and no
longer make much pretense of needing
the extra water which would be made
available by the Blue Ridge project.
Anyway, if the project is licensed,
no water will be available for pollution
control until late in the decade and
probably not until the 1980's. The state
of West Virginia, however, has
established clean-water standards
which must be met as early as 1973.
And it now seems likely that they will
be met.
This means, of course, that the
Interior Department's commitment to
the "pollution dilution" or "low flow
augmentation" concept is sadly out of
date. The time has come for Congress
itself to challenge that concept to
review the history of the project, to
find out where the power company and
Interior went wrong and possibly to
repair this folly before it is too late.
Where do your children spend Sunday afternoons?
Many of them attend the theaters in the area. They go
to enjoy the show, meet their friends, and have a coke
at the concession stand. Many others go to release their
boredom. That's where the trouble begins.
In the past several weeks most of the theaters in
town have fallen victim to a rash of boisterous, un
thoughtful, and, at times, vandalous children. According
to one theater manager, the persons involved all fell
between the ages of 10-16. His report told of teenagers
jumping the rope the management had put up to detain
people from entering the theater aisles before the end of
the movie. He said he was afraid they were going to be
hurt.
He further told of children leaving their seats, during
the film, walking the aisles, and shouting to com
panions sitting elsewhere in the theater.
Another major complaint was that of the condition
in which they left the restrooms. Cups were thrown
unto the floors, forced into the water tanks, and left
in the sinks.
The theater manager I talked with said he could stop
this activity. He could raise week-end admission prices
to allow only select people to attend, he can begin
stamping the tickets with "good for one showing only"
to prevent parents from depositing their children at the
theater instead of with a sitter, he can raise the prices
of the concession stand so that again, only the few, can
afford to pay. But, he also said, he did not want to
make everyone suffer for a few people's mistakes. He
said he didn't care if a child sat in the theatef until clos
ing as long as he didn't disturb the other customers
who had paid their admission and were entitled to relax
and enjoy the picture without harrassment.
I, personally, have been to theaters where events
like this took place. You pay your admission, take a
seat, and sit back for the flick. That's about the time
some kid behind you, who has been there all after
noon, begins shouting at his cohort six aisles down. His
shouts are replied to by a shower of popcorn and the
bobbing of heads between the seats.
Some how, the $1.50 you paid to see the movie, just
isn't worth it . , - „■■rzr-
Letters To The Editor
We can look with a tre
mendous amount of pride to
this weekend's Pan Africa-
U.S.A. International Track
Meet scheduled for Duke Uni
versity's Wallace Wade Sta
dium on Friday and Saturday.
Our city will be before the
eyes of the whole world, shin
ing as an international sports
capital. This is a great honor
to befall on any city and we
should all extend thanks to Dr.
Leroy T. Walker, Chairman of
the Physical Education Depart
ment of North Carolina Cen
tral Univiersity, for bringing
this meet from a dream into a
reality, Dr. Walker has been as
sisted by many of his fellow
citizens, both black and white,
who have worked hard and di
ligently to make the meet a
success.
Hie eyes of the world will
see Durham through the eyes
of an international press corps.
Many of these correspondants
and photographers have al
ready arrived. The meet will
also be televised from coast-to
coast on the CBS Television
Network.
Hie meet's success will not
be measured in financial terms,
but in human terms, as the
people of Africa exhance cul
tural values, ideals and friend
ship with us.
This first international track
meet ever held in the south
eastern United States deserves
your presence in Wallace Wade
Stadium. Durham would surely
be humiliated before the eye»
of the world if the television
cameras and photographers see
Che Camilla Ctans
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"WHAT IS A MOTHER"
By DELORES A. COWARD
Right from the beginning
you were the mother that life
truly meant for us to haw -
For God knew that through
the many perils in life that
there is one that can soothe
the hurts, the pain, the mis
fortunes of the world. Like the
rock of GQbrator your love
has stood the test ot time;
through the many trials and
tribulations that we the meek,
the forlorn, must fpego that we
may shine like the Morning
Star!
Yes, God knew that we
needed you, Mom. For where
would we be without the
love and understanding that
only you could give! For many
times we tried and the many
times we failed, we knew that
you would always be there.
Yet, as the rivers flow in
the darkest of the night -
God made us mortals and so
as we may never pass this
way again, we go forth with
your spirit and truth through
every day. Though we may
falter along the way, your
love will give us the courage
we need. The path you paved
will lead us like a beacon
light!
So shine on forever like the
brightest star in the heavens.
We Love You!