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t A THE CAROLINA TIMES Sat, Jan. 1171 DO S0ME1HIN6 EDITORIALS & COMMENT BLAhJNG THE POLICE FOR WEU'TREAT? OF BUCK JUVENILES DOESNT STOP THEM FROM KILLING OLD MEN AND UG.H. sitting ABOUND DOING NOTHING WONT HELP ETHER. Remember FACTS THAT ARE NOT aa, mm a t At A NASTY HABIT OF STABBING UB IN 'THE BACH. Remember when" ancedotes about the days when a nickel bought a cup at coffee, a subway ride or a giant candy bar have become even more fantastic as the inflation spiral carries us higher and higher into the stratosphere of spiralling prices. Regrettably, Life Magazine has be come a "remember when." We will no longer have LIFE mag azine to carry us visually and picto rially on those many, victorious trips both home and abroad as history was in the making. As it fades away from our news counters one can now recount or "re member when" LIFE took us pictor ially to all events and especially those more trying times of our pres ent day lives dealing with the havocs of war, education, sports, crime and poverty among many nations and within our own country. You name it and LIFE usually covered it pic torially. Perhaps the "remember when" in the future will certainly carry some revisits to the many fine stories, pictorial and otherwise that LIFE Magazine brought into many homes, schools and offices. Harry S. Truman History will record that Harry S. Truman, former president and some times called that "gusty man from Missouri," will be marked as one who braved the rebuffs of Congress, especially Southerners, as he at tempted to correct some of the many injustices that plague Black Ameri cans. N He sought to develop "programs that would generate black support and braved the political storms of his time to win important victories for black Americans. Among Truman's most clearcut orders were his ordering the integra tion of the armed services by Execu tive Order on July 26, 1948; the strong position against job discrimi nation in federal employment and his strong public admissions that black Americans also deserve equal treatment and emphasis on the right to equal protection of the law. Truman should be saluted by black Americans for his courage to seek the black vote when most poli ticians sought to ignore blacks and supported efforts to deny them their right to vote. Some refer to him as the first civil rights activist presi dent, paving the way for the great breakthroughs of the turbulent sixties. - "" Idiot's Delight: New Teacher Certification Newspapers.. .Still A Continuing Dream As we look to a new yur the roIe of the newspaper is still a continuing dream. We hope that it wifl always be able to carry the news and recur ring news as mankind continues o advance in all areas. Wh,. For with a beat-qpp hand fed press a couple of cases of type, some news print, and a spare "boiled" shirt in his satchel, the pioneer editor hitch ed a team to his spring wagon and followed the sun. With Horace Greeley's "Go West, young man ringing in his ears, the early news paperman followed t'.te expanding nation with his portable newspaper. Where the rail: ended and a tent city was pitched, he was there, chronicl ing the happenings at "rail's end." Now more than ever, the news paper and especially the black press becomes a chronicle for news and information to the minorities. Too long have only unpleasant happen ings been recorded in the media. The black press stays alive as a beacon to guide, inform and tell of outstanding progress among this great minority. It is well for this tra dition to be continued and we sin cerely hope that it will always be a beacon of light Jer all people who seek the worthfnB dignity for all men regardless of race, creed or cil or. With "roots" in a community, the newspaperman begins the difficult task of building the communities that they have settled in. As each new civic improvement project evolved the newspaperman was there reporting, editorializing and helping to make the citizens aware of the importance of the project. Certainly the press attempted to make all people aware of the many issues confronting this n- it ion and will continue to do so. Community pride and progress as well as injustices to minorities have been bannered in bold headlines for all the world to see. Little known facts have been gathered to repudi ate the inequities as shown by some media. The apathy was trampled underfooV?asf ' pytlpfSakn t pushed, cajoled, exhorted and even shamed his readers into action. It is thus that our nation was and has been molded by the increasing efforts' of the newspapermen and women. For the reader, news is gath ed from the printed page at his con venience and can be read and re read to obtain the true meaning be hind any article of importance. Just as in days of long ago, the newspaper still is the vital commu nity link with the outside world Community events are covered with a depth impossible in any other medium. Advertising is not an intru sion, but is a part of the whole news paper. Newspapers touch the daily lives of all of us, and especially our black newspapers who will and should continue to forge ahead for justice and equality due all men. Today's newspapermen and wom en are not unlike those of yester year. Community pride, black pride and progress are still the bywords that many live by. Today's newspa perman or woman is a vital key in dividual in the community. His ad vice and counsel are sought on myriad programs. Hours of hard, long work are spent for his fellow man and community, many times without any thanks. Yes, newspapemen and women have a dream to as we look to 1973. This dream is for a better America for all people; a better world for all mankind and certainly a world where all of us can someday live in harmony and peace with equality and justice for all on the face of this earth. About the most charitable explanation that can be given of the State Board of Education's decision to lower academic standards for public school teachers is , that the board panicked in anticipation of heavier federal insistence on racial balance. The board, in a pretty much peremptory approval of a plan, concocted by the Department of Public Instruction, voted to de- emphasize the National Teacher Examination as the basis for certification. Undefi the new certification pian to become effective next Jutefcospective teachers would alsoe5 judged on tverity personal and Jpial -tpaM,ii such as "quality of fbicV' "oral language skills," 1 ''personal magnetism," "willingness to improve," and ''empathy for students." All those Qualities, of course, ard important to effective however, would txej a purely subjective evaluation. The possibility exists under the new plan that a candidate could win certification without, scoring a point for academic achieve ment. So you could wind up with a successful candidate: stunningly equipped to teach in every respect but academic qualification. The possibility is remote but it exists. AlthaHhere doubtless are many other" arguments for the new plan, one of its immediate ('feels -will be to make cer tificate easier for graduates of predominantly black Institutions. It is no secret that graduates of those institutions invariably score lower on the National Teacher Examination. This is due in large part inferior academic preparHR Consequently, the door tHpblic school teaching career i much harder, to open for graduates ol' predominantly black mstiiutiohs:. As a result of that and of desegregation, a racial balance has been impossible to achieve. P The feAefii' government has alreadyaWTOretrated with legal action against other states that such imbalances will not be tolerated for long. Thus the spur to action. j The only apparent means of achieving an acceptable racial balance would be to lower the certification standards or to improve those institutions turning out unqualified and minimally qualified graduates The State Board of education didn't con sider the possibility of improving institutions, possibly because the federal, threat seemed imminent while . institutional improvement would be a long and costly' process, if it could be brought about at all. the trouble with the new plan, besides the tragic blow it will inevitably deal to public school education, is that it invites rather than eliminates prejudice. The Nat ional Teaeher Smination is certainly prejudicial, but it is prejudiced against thbste academically unqualified, not against ethnic groups . Under the state board's new plan, teacher candidates could be disqualified not only academically but because some evaluate decided they didn't have pleasant voices, didn't seem to be personally magnetic, or didn't project a certain empathy for students. Any candidate who prefers that sort of subjective evaluation to an impersonal academic exami . nation probably wouldn't be fit to teach to begin with. I? A demand for a racial balance of teachers might well be thrust upon North Carolina and soon. That doesn't mean we have to create a certification farce to satisfy it. We would do just as well, and certainly be more honest, simply to declare all education graduates of every institution in the state automatically certified to teach. That would make a shambles of teaching as a profession and the educational quality of our schools would suffer measurably, but it would at least preclude that empathy-magnetism-orator non sense. The charge can be made that we have some teachers in our schools now who don't teach and some who won't. With the new plan we will also be able to say we have many who can't. Campaign should be continued to abandon new teacher policy State Treasurer Edwin Gill, a member of the State Board of Education, has some excellent advice for the Board: Recon sider Its action in reducing the impor tance of academic achievement in cer tifying state teachers GUI wasn't present when the Board voted ft-! to put lest emphasis on academic ability and more emphasis on classroom performance and personality traits la certifying that persons are qualified to teach with A certificates In our oublic schools. ' H the time of the meeting. Gill was attending a meeting of the Council of til State Treasurer, whose interest in public education is long standing, points out that the new certification policies wouldn't become effective until July 1, 1973. Therefore, he notes, the policy could be returned to the present system, which paramounts academic strength. In discussing the new policy, Gill clearly pointed out its faults: "I can understand the wish to associate the National Teacher Examination with factors such as professional performance and individual personality traits ... But I. must object to these two factors, taken together,-being given greater weight than academic achievements. To, give' so much weight to these two new tors are vague and unclear, and are this reason, they are not dependable stan dards, being easily subject to whim, bias and other sl&es." This summarizes well the objections "to the new policy. The three parts of the certification process can i hit mm that an applicant could fail he academic test completely and still be certified If he received top scores on the other two. Or, which is certainly likely, he could receive a very low and score on the academic test, and make up enough points on the other two to be certified. The result might be a teacher with a pleasing per snnaiitv and a ffood classroom manner. ' but woefully lacking in knowledge of what be is supposed to teach. h s w policy was hurried th State Board of Education without any public hearings. Among reasons advanced in its favor have been that the present test, which features academics only, Is biased against blacks, and that the state would be sued if the policy wasn't changed. ' ," , Dallas Herring, the long-time chairman of the State Board, voted against the been fighting it since it was adopted. He has found a strong ally in Edwin Gill, and the two of them should continue the fight until the academic factor Is made at least the major part of teacher certification. s eacher to have a good personality. And, itls nice for a teacher to be learned in bow to teach. But, If a teacher doesn't know anything to teach, he will be at a loss in the classroom, and the students will be the real losers. TO BE 1 f EQUAL ;1 By Vernon Jordan The year 1972 ended in much the tame spirit of eon fusion in which it began. It was a year that brought few victories to black people and to other minorities, and some set backs. It was a year that saw the nation adrift, without that sense of purpose that has cate gorised other, better years in its history. The mood of drift and con fusion was highlighted by a Louis Harris poll that reported early m December that over four in ten Americans "still feel largely alienated toward the system under which thev live." The poll found largely numbers whlle attending the ceremon of Americans af Beted with feels mA, symposium commemo mgs or powerlessness and or vers have often noted - that the North is showing signs of adopting some of the patho logical signs of racism it had long charged the South with showing. In 1972, the biggest outbursts against school dese gregation were in Michigan and New York, not in Alabama and Mississippi. White the nation seems to be slipping away from its past commitment to racial justice, the problems are still with us and are still in desperate need of resolution. I was reminded of how much unfinished busi ness there is still before ness us being exploited. Such feelings ran strongest among several key groups in the population - young people union members, poor people, and blacks. No country can af ford such widespread alienation, bast 6f all a country with such tremendous world-wide respon slbllittei and impact as the Uni ted States has. But instead of taking ! to relieve the divisions in our society, many events in the past year only reinforce them. Instead of concentrating its en ergies on improving education and on creating new job op portunities, the nation became obsessed by such artificial issues as busing and quotas. ' Many of the Country's ac tions seemed out of touch with reality. For example, unsub stantiated reports of racial kill ings by a black murder gang were headlined fair many days a few months ago. We are still waiting for any evidence- of truth to such malicious allega tions. But while this was a leading topic for the media, the real tenth came about racial violence toward the dose of the year, when a blue-ribbon inyejigaV ting panel found that two buck youths had been killed at Sou them University through the Irresponsible actions of police officers The next day, New York City's Commission on Jtu man Rights reported that there was "a dangerous pattern" of violence atainst blacks in some sections of the citv. This confirms what obser- rattng the opening of the civil rights archives of The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Texas last month. There, many people active in the civil rights movement, in law, the social sciences and politics, tried to assess the ac complishments of the 1960's. Some very great tilings were done in those few short years - official segregation was abo lished, significant economic and political advances were made by minorities, etc. But the atmosphere of the nation has changed so drastically since that time that it seemed as if we were discussing an era long past. As we enter 1973, 1 believe there will have to be a deter mined effort to recapture, if not the specifics, then at least the mood of the 1960's. The new year, should mark a new beginning, a rededication to the goals of freedom and justice for all. The spiritual vacuum must be filled by concern for the problems of poverty, of ra cial disadvantage, and social progress. The reason for the frif t and confusion among so, many peo ple is their perception that th. society is rigid and unwilling to make the constructive changes so necessary and so long over due. We enter 1973 divided and troubled but firm leader ship, a rediscover of democra tic values, and del mite action to deal with our real problems can help turn that attitude a round. It's tone to start fresh. Do's And DoiVts Editor-Publisher 1927-1971 L. E. AUSTIN Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. Tfl by United Publishers, Inc. . J v MRS VIVIAN AUSTIN EDMONDS, Publisher CLARENCE BONNETTE J. HLWOOD CARTER . Business Manager1 Advertising Manager Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27700 . , i SUBSCRIPTION RATES United States and Canada . 1 Year 98.00 United States and Canada . .... .... 2 Yrs $11.00 Foreign Countries ............ . . .. 1 Yesr 97.00 Single Copy ;.. .. ii. 20 Cents- Principal Office Located at lst TMHarew Street Durham, North Carolina 27702 How To Choose A Toy: The ij Balanced Toy Box And 'The Toy Buying Guide For Grownups' It's tun to buy toys for youngsters, and to see their eyes light up when they open their packages at Christmas almost as much fun as it is for the child. But is that all there is to toys buying them, unwrap ping them and playing with them? It is, if your only in terest lies in checking off another name on the Christ mas list. If your interest in the child goes beyond checking him off a list, though, you can do a lot more for him than buying the lirst toy that catches your fancy or the child's. You can give thought to the Bal anced Toy Box concept, and to a simple set of guidelines for toj buying that can help ensure that the youngster gets the most from the gift you give him. The Balanced Toy Box idea is a simple one. top. It merely suggests that a small effort be made to see that the child has a variety of toys to offer him both stimulus and fun in a number of areas, not just one. (Did you ever see a child who. by coincidence or de sign, got nothing but books for Christmas?) There are thousands of dif ferent toys on the market, but many if not most ofNthem fall into a few categories.nd by spreading toy purchasesor n child across these cate gories, he is assured the vari ety of play experiences tnat helps his mental and physical development. A balanced toy box might contain, then, an indoor wheel ed toy and an outdoor one; a cuddly companion like a plush lion or a teddy bear; books; a musical toy; a building toy; a ball; a game, a puzzle and a creating toy a blackboard with chalk, modeling clay, or even a safe pair of scissors, colored paper and paste. These toys, or another group of toys the rules aren't rigid can teach a child in a number of ways: how things work, how to share playtime, how to create physical repre sentations of his own con cepts, structural relationships and other valuable lessons, while he's having fun. (It's no good at all if it isn't fun!) And to ensure that, the youngster's toy. box is kept balanced, it's a good idea for his adult friends to consult in formally just to make sure everyone doesn't buy him a book. Another thing: not aU of a child's toys should come to him at Christmas. Birth days and other holidays, a good report card, or any other occasion can be one for a toy gift to a child. The guidelines for buying toys are contained in a newly developed toy buying guide for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends of youngsters, now available from Mattel, Inc. Prepared with guidance of psychologists for the Toy Manufacturers of America and Mattel's own consultants, the "Toy Buying Guide for Grown ups" sets forth those guide lines for selecting toys on the basis of safety, suitability, and balance. It gives general rules for judging the safety of a toy, its suitability tothe youngster's age group considering var iations in intellectual and phy sical maturity and to his range of interests, and to the question of balancing it against other toys he has or is likely to receive to provide stimulus in all of the various play modes. Mi Dorothy Tucker with cer tificate and LTC Burnis Hall and Dr. George Hunter, dean of the School of Arts and Science at S. C. State College. S.C. State Wins Army R0K Scholarship ORANGEBURG, SC-Dor-othy Tucker, a freshman ele mentary education major at S. C. State College, has' been chosen as the first black female student to receive a four-year Army RSTC scholarship, it was announced by LTC Burnis L. Hall, professor of military science at the college. The four-year scholarship will pay for Miss Tucker's tui tion, textbooks and labaratory fees, and will provide a $100 monthly subsistence allowance for up to 10 months of the year. The scholarship is effec tive with the school of 197B- Am detergentj )J Blue-White or Coldwater Sfi ARROW I WE RESERVE THE RIGHT I '""-'' a B , TO LIMIT QUANTITIES Ifl Id ui" , V " ;RS 1 o w $.00 1 IBt Boxes JIL M issttsflHaaH 'Ti WBMMlSSMfcg ,arr- LV ' iSJr PURE VEGETABLE fkf l ASTOR OIL W JlfF 48-OZ. Bottle M( 2r L'mi( 1 Whh $s jtmP Jl t. 2aHF JpPWD BRAND U.S. CHOICE BEEF j BONE-IN FAMILY BL, I ROAST jj aaMMaWP'V' ' OUR FROZEN FOOD SALE CONTINUE SUPERBRAND ASSTD. FLAVORS SHERBET ICE CREAM 2 Hall Gil. (Ins. MORTON MEAT LOAF, SALISBURY STEAK, CHICKEN OR TURKEY DINNERS u-oz. Site Limit 6 With 5.00 Or More Food Order, Please 73. Miss Tucker was nominated by a board which included re presentatives of South Carolina State CoUege and the ROTC Instructor Group. A board of Army officers at US Conti nental Army Command, Fort Monroe, Va., selected her as one of 20 winners from women students who are currently en rolled in ROTC program for women. A 1972 graduate of A. C. Flora High School in Colombia, S. C, she is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tucker of 2316 Haskell Avenue. She currently serves as the commander of the newly created WAC Detach ment at the college. Cadet Tucker said she was Wasfebasket By Joyce Champion flf1 Stain removal is still the peskiest home laundry prob lem facing consumers. It has been made more difficult by the reduction or elimination of phosphates in detergents, a calculated loss of cleaning power to help check water pollution. New products are being de veloped to be used with de tergents to battle stains effec tively. The latest is Bora teem Plus, a bleach substitute form ulated with strong stain re movers so that many stains will now come out during normal washings. Unlike chlor ine bleach, it is safe to use with all fabrics and colors. Stubborn stains, however, require special treatment. Here is how to deal with some of them: For heavily soiled things like work clothes, sheets, pil low cases, tablecloths, nap kins, handkerchiefs, socks, underwear and children's clothes: P re-wash in warm water for three minutes with Vi-cup of the product. If your washer doesn't have a p re wash cycle, use final rinse cy cle. Then wash as usual, add ing Vi-cup of the product with your detergent. For stains from meat juices, soft drinks, fresh perapi ration, fruits, sauces, coffee, tea, etc.: Pre-soak for at least 30 min utes in warm water with lA cup of the product. Drain the water and wash as usual, add ing Vt-cup of the product with your detergent. Cool water pre:soaking, plus the same washing method, will remove diaer stains, eggs, fresh blood, peach and alcoholic beverages. Industrial Hearing- Safety It is estimated that as high as fifty percent of this na tion's industrial workers may be exposed to potentially hazardous on-the-job noise levels. Overcoming this prob lem will require the efforts being made by enlightened managements, the federal government and the coopera tion of industrial workers. This is the warning of the Beltone Crusade for Hearing Conservation. Sponsored by Chicago-based Beltone Elec tronics Corporation, world leader in hearing aids and electronic hearing test instru ments, the crusade is de signed to encourage meaning ful hearing conservation pro grams and the control of noise pollution. To meet the problem of on-the-job noise, the federal gov ernment developed noise ex posure limits under the Wiilsh-Healey Public Con tracts Act, and more recent ly under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which gives the Secretary of Labor wide authority to establish safety and health standards including hearing conserva tion guidelines. Provisions of these acts specify that when job re quirements make it impracti cal to keep sound levels with in safe limits, employees must be provided with protective ear devices. However, provid ing workers with such devices is of no value unless they are used when needed. "If you are provided ear plugs or protective earmuffs to use on your job, use them as conscientiously as you would weir safety shoes or a hard hat," the Beltone Cru sade officials urge. very happy she had been cho sen to receive the scholarship. Never before has a young woman been able to enroll in ROTC while attending college. I felt this was too great an opportunity to pass by," she said. Scholarship winners assume a four-year active duty obli gation with the Army follow ing graduation and commission ing as second lieutenants. Soviets Free 13 Jewish Protestors MOSCOW - Thirteen Soviet Jews were released Tuesday after serving 15-day prison sentences for protesting the government's refusal to let them emigrate to Israel, Jew ish sources reported. The sources said the 13 11 men and two women spent their terms in a Moscow prison and were freed after receiving warnings against further disturbances. The Wet Skate it Drying Up Flexamatic Wins Converts From Blade Men Your eyes are still naif clos ed as you stumble out of bed and into your bedroom. Ton look into the mirror. Slowly your eyes begin to focus. You rub your scratchy beard and think out loud: "Another day. another horri ble shave." You turn on the hot water. It takes a moment to reach the right temperature. "Yips! Too hot." Next comes the soap and the shaving cream. "What! No shaving cream!!" A quick yell down stairs to your wife who for got to pick some up at the supermarket. "Can't blame her, I probab ly forgot to remind her. Oh well, I'll make do with hot water and soap. After all, that's what they used before shaving cream was invented." Ten minutes later you look into the mirror. "Now I know why some smart scientist in vented styptic and shaving cream. What a mess"! Of course, modern man real ly doesn't have to go through this ordeal, because there's something new that's rapidly making the wet shave a thing of the past. That something is the new Schick Flexamatic 400 Electric Shaver. Schick, which has been mak ing the finest men's and wo men's personal care products for years, realized there was a need for a top quality electric shaver for today's market. And the company knew the Ameri can male was without a doubt the most demanding consum er in the world. The American male expects perfection in the automobile he drives, the food he eats and particularly the shaver or razor he uses each morning. So two years ago, it was de cided to develop a new elec tric shaver one so fine it could rival the blade in per formance. The result was the Schick Flexamatic 400. James Badgett is the com pany's dynamic, young presi dent. Badgett, together with other company researchers, travelled to Europe to get a first hand look at the overseas competi tion. Why Europe? Simple. In Europe, 60 per cent of the men use electric shavers. After three months of test ing, the team returned home and began work on the new product. Baa WfmrWt" 1B Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Spitx has given op the everyday hassle of shaving with a razor blade. He says that his new Schick Flexamatic really beatn the Made fur both comfort and convenience. The first priority was to de velop a shaving head on the Flexamatic to give the Ameri can men a greater degree of shaving closeness. Result was a super thin, flex ible shaving head made of dur able nickel, formed by an electro-plating process. It contains 2900 tiny pores, permitting only the whiskers through, but not the skin. Badgett notes the super-thin flexible shaving-head is the key feature. "The flexible shaving head allows the beard to come into extremely close contact with Schick's 34 blades, without any of the 'razor bum' or di scorn fort usually associated with electric shaving", says Jim Badgett. His claim about the close shave is backed up with doc umented proof from The Na tionwide Consumer Testing In stitute, Inc., a nationally rec ognized organization which tests products to see if they live up to their claims. Nationwide Consumer Test ing Institute was asked to compare the Flexamatic with Norelco, Remington and Sun beam. They found the Flexa matic gave a much closer shave than its three competi tors. The rest is history. In each of its expansion markets the Flexamatic has captured a major share of sales and has made tremen dous inroads against the blade "The blade shaver is one of our prime tragets. We know that trying to change the blade man's shaving habits is a difficult proposition but there's never been an electric shaver which could come close to the blade until the Flexa matic", Badgett says To back up its belief, Schick has committed itself to a multi-million dollar advertising budget the biggest expendi ture on a new product in Schick's history. And so farSthe figures have been encouraging. Sales indi cate the Flenmatic has more than 20 percent of the elec tric shaving market where it has expanded into full retail distribution. But what's even more inter esting is 39 per cent of the new Flexamatic converts are former blade users. "If it continues the way it has in the first six months", says Badgett, then Norelco Remington and Sunbeam may soon be joined by the major blade companies in wondering what happened to their cus tomers." . ' 1 1 i i j-i i - i . 1BATH TISSUE! "" I ROLL 1QC 1 LB. I J ORANGE DETERGEI!!JT , W1TH 1 1 juice jrjy srB STRAWBERRIES DEuaous I --i'q I APPlB fi qt. MM 11 99 M MMMM. .aBaaMflBatflsfl BBa11-hBSjuaaBBg JAN. a. 1973 - QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED. jM
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