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111 THE CAROLINA HUES Sat, DITORIALS & COMMEN "nf BlSTOry POORS OT w end say, 'There Hved e end yet with dignity end Christie Love, when written b future generations, the historian" will have to pouts i black people who injected new meaoino sm 1- ...L. - - diqniry into the veins of civilixot.on ' This is our challenge and our ewtrwbsbelea, re- t." Rev. Mertm uitner Mng, jr. I Job Prospects For College Grads" The prospects of jobs tor this year's crop of college graduates appear to be relatively good, that is. it is much better than such prospects have been in the prior lour years. When the young graduate tosses his mortar board into the job ring this summer, he or she will find particularly good areas ol health' care and business management, teaching profession, engineering and the business administration arena. ft is important to note that the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reports that there will be probably too many college graduates lor the rest of the decade and relates that serious readjustments or changes in the job markets may become expedient. Further, the Commission says that the "realistic problem for the ll)70's may be the necessity for the absorption of some college-educated persons into jobs which have not been traditionally filled by persons with a college education". For college-educated black women, the outlook appears that she will be the most favored of prospective employees in all fields. This will become necessary as employers seek to make adjustments in their employees to achieve greater representation of minorities on their payrolls to meet equal opportunity requirements. Without a doubt, the optimistic attitude for blacks, particularly, will be that the demand for college trained personnel is expected to continue for the rest of the 70's and beyond. Challenges to the Graduates Our strength lies in the continued production of leaders who apply themselves to helping others. With the continuous changes in our society, the -challenges become greater and much more frequent. Only those who have the ability to look ahead and grasp reality need appy for many jobs today; Especially only the mature should join in the ceremony tor the best joKs. . Getting a good job, however, has never been-nor will it ever be-a bed of roses. The college graduate, just like anyone else. wiH-have to put his best foot forwardas well as presenting the cherished document of education. His or her shiny new job will not be handed to them on a silver tray.' Perhaps sqme tbugb ffeould be given to these'tfiiajMio matter what many others say or possibly do not say. ;' Appearance and decorum-as al ways-count for a lot. Acting natural and being neat and courteous have not gone out of style. Thinking of potential service to an employer goes along way toward convincing him you are the one for the position. What can you do for him? Don't linger unduly over salary and fringe benefits. Avoid a tendency to oversell your qualifications. Time will show better than talk. Bone up on company background and performance. Examine ratings. Don't do all the talking. Let the employer express himself. Allow him to ask the questions. Although it is true the '73 graduate has better than an even chance to obtain excellent employment this summer and fall, he or she must not appear over-trained for the event or seem too sure to himself. That is a good way to be a work drop-out before one is even hired. Finally respond to the task with vision, maturity and if hired, dedicated work. Build your future in your thinking and accept the challenge to work for yourself and others as well. Mayor Bradley's Win The election of a black man to the mayorship of the country's third largest city is a major step forward in the political development of black Americans. It is also a landmark of the growing political maturity and sophistication of the white voters who turned their backs on narrow racial appeals to vote for the candidate they considered best for their city. A vindication of democratic political process appears in. the election ol" Thomas Bradley as well. Perhaps it shows also that people could rise above racism and judge a man "on the basis of his merit alone". It is his hope that the election would help launch a "new thrust" in the black movement and held divert it from confrontation to cooperation on mutual interests. But by no means must Bradley's win indicate totally that a new era of racial harmony was dawned. Blacks will and must continue to seek their equality in all areas of economic, political, social, cultural and education gains as this great nation moves toward its 200th anniversary. Things In Stall bar mjZZ! THOTMES '!, ftkVn 1500 B.C. 1 ON OF A SLAVE WOMAN WHO ROSE 10 BECOME A MIGHTY MONARCH... HIS REIGN BROUGHT UNHEARD OF WEALTH i TO EGYPT. HIS EMPIRE EMBRACED TWO CONTINENTS AND,ONE YEAR,THETRiB- M UTE FROM A SINGLE NATION WAS 1570 POUNDS OF GOLD! OF THE MANY MON UMENTS HE BUILT, ONE OBELISK STANDS ON THE THAMES, LON DON; ANOTHER IN CENTRAL PARK,NYC , KNOWN TO MILLIONS MM) "CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE'"! SCRAPPING DESEGREGATION? SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS RICHMOND DESEGREGATION PLAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL. i"L'Ls SUBURBIA SCHOOL BUSING Congressman Hawkins Column By REP. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS m bbv bi Hi i w m r s aw anni . r s s v . A FEW CAN PRETEND TO HAVE FORESEEN HOW THE NATION THAT RESPONDED TO WE CIVIL HI GUTS ELOQUENCE Of PR.HING-AND LYNDON JOHNSON- UOULD REGRESS IN THENIXONERA " JAMES AWECHSLER NY.P0ST - I iniUfi ' V. fc t I LiltlUIll .. . 0:.- hundred and tarty two 'years ago (1431) otrTVed nesday of this week Ike first Negro convention in America met in Philadelphia. The main objective of this meeting was to consider the "oppression of our brethren in a country whose republican con stitution declares 'that all men are born free and equal.' " Other events- this week of historical interest are as follows: JUNE 4 - First Baptist Church founded in America in 1665. JUNE a - Supreme Court rulecr again si segregation in railroad cars in 1950. Supreme Court abolished segregation in the University of Oklahoma in 1950. ' , JUNE 7 The States Navy announced m ism!) i of equality of treatment opportunity ior an persons in the the Navy and Marine Corps. ( JUNE 8 - The Florida Conference of the AME Church was organized in 1867. JUNE - James C. Napier (1845-1940) was the pioneer in the movement for the establishment of the one cent savings bank first organized by colored men in Tennessee which later was known . as the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company. Meta Vaux Warick Fuller, foremost Negro sculptress in the 19th century, born. JUNE io - Richard Allen started the independent African Methodist Movenunent in 1794. Antonio Candido Gonzales Crespo, Portuguese poet, was horn in 1846 NOW YOU KNOW Of about 7.000 Koinan vlve; eoilin found in Scan dinavia, more than 5,000 were found as) the island of Gotland. Gas Leaks Out-Like Watergate WASHINGTON Thanks to soggy weather that curtailed holiday travel in many areas, gasoline supplies held up better than expected over the Memorial Day weekend. Only a few motorists were stranded by the gas short age. Among them was my friend Rimbeau Hooker smith, who stopped at a service station that had run out of gas and didn't have enough in his tank to make it to the next station. "THIS IS outrageous," Hookersmith fumed in recounting the experience. "Why didn't somebody warn us there wouldn't be enough gas to go around? f "Oh.eomenow, said. "You must haVe known gas supplies were limited. It's been in all the papers lately." Hookersmith Explodes "Lately Hookersmith 'ill any lately! Any genius can tell you there's a shortage after the jtsm YES, WE ALL TALK By Marcus H. Boulware, Ph. I) Public Speaking Textbook QUESTION: I am in terested in studying public speaking on my own. Please suggest a good textbook that I might study -Mrs. K.L.P. ANSWER: Since you mentioned that you wanted to study public speaking your self, I assume that you do not want to skim over the subject One of the textbooks Hike when teaching public speaking is PRINCIPLES ANT91PES OF SPEECH, film edruu.:, by Alan H. Monroe, and pin..:. il by the' Scott, Foresman aiV pany with offices in New k Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta. This book gives an idea for every word. It discusses every principle and demonstrates with an example speech support, details, main ideas, development of - ideas, purposes, and delivery of the speech. iy ' . : - '; ; iv':' Speech Is Necessary Mankind cannot get along without speech-civilised man, that is. We are living in a society that is organised. No longer can a Man do things of any great magnitude alone; he must first secure the consent or active support of other people in order that the combined effort of all may converge upon a common objective. The leader by public speaking hopes to arouse enthusiasm when the audience agrees with him in principle. Conviction' is the "ord, that is, the necessity not only of arousing t an audience but also of changing beliefs or instilling new ones. READERS: For my pamprtwt -90 Unique Public Speaking Subjects", send two stamps and a long business envelope to M.G. Boulware, Florida A&M University, Box 193 Tallahassee, Florida -32307. OEO Urgently Needed Earlier this year the Subcommittee on Equal Oppor tunities, of which I am Chairman, held extensive hearings in Washington and other cities around the country as a result of the Administrations announced intention and subsequent efforts to dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity and eliminate the community action agencies. . The hearings demonstrated that there is strong public sentiment and support for the continuation of OEO and community action. In view of this finding coupled with the recent court decision declaring the efforts of the Administration to dismantle OEO as illegal (pointing out, however, that Congress is operating under a June 30, 1873 deadline), it becomes imperative that the Congress see to it that monies are appropriated for OEO and the community action programs for fiscal year 1974. In his budget message. The President stated that com munity action agencies have had an adequate opportunity to demonstrate their value and that they have been supported long enough by federal money. Coupled with allegations of wrongdoing from other opponenets of community action programs, the Administration's announced intentions and subsequent actions have caused the poor and disadvantaged to have to fight for their survival in the Federal budget against almost insurmountable odds. This rather unjustified posture in which the CAAs find themselves comes ironically at a time when, according to the information gathered during our hearings, the community action concept enjoys the kind of broad community support and acceptance shared by many of the other federally sup ported urban programs. Witnesses ranging in scope rom bank executives to Archbishops testified as to the ef fectiveness of community action programs and emphasized the desperate need to see that funds continue to be made available for these programs. To suggest that there is no longer a need for such programs is to perpetrate the crudest of frauds on the poor and disadvantaged. And worse yet, to then proceed to eliminate the programs can only be described as an arrogant and callous treatment of the facts. In addition to the overwhelming testimony in support of CAAs gathered from our hearings, other reports and studies seem to produce similar positive conclusions. In an OEO sponsored report entitled, "Utilization Test Survey Data for 591 CAAs," the results show that community action agencies, with relatively small amounts of seed money, have been able to bring significant additional funds and other resources to bear on local community problems. There are also reliable indications that the Annual Report of OEO, which, for yet undetermined reasons, has not been released to Congress, contains very positive recom mendations for the continuation of OEO and the programs authorized under the Economic Opportunity Act. While I would be the last one to even suggest that there have not been abuses in some of the community action programs and other components of OEO, I would be the first to say that the abuses and wrongdoings in no way charac terize the whole of community action programs or the con cept of community participation. TO BE EQUAL Rw VFRNOIM JORDAN 1 "Jpwfc7 relive Direr to, Nation.1 Urban i.eagu, gasoline is gone. "I'M TALKING about 10 or 15 years ago when there was still time to do something about it. Somebody in the government must have seen the energy crisis coming at least that long ago. "An energy crisis doesn't just spring up overnight, you know." I said, "Rimbeau, I hope you are not insinuating what I think you're insinuating." THAT'S exactly what I'm insinuating," Hookersmith replied. "I'm insinuating that there has been a deliverate, high level effort to cover up the energy crisis." "Fiddlesticks!" I creid. "You always think the worst where President Nixon is concerned." Beyond Nixon "This coverup extends far beyond Nixon," he retorted. "Johnson and Kennedy and maybe even Eisenhower had a hand in it. None of them wanted to become the first U.S. president to tell the American people they couldn't jump in their cars and go anywhere they wanted to anytime they wanted to. "THAT WOULD have been even worse than being the first U.S. president to lose a war." I said, "Hold on there, Rimbeau. If there was an energy crisis coverup, I'm sure it was confined to White House aides who thought they were acting in the in terest of national security but whose zeal exceeded their judgment. 'PENDING more evidence, I must reject your insinuation that the presidents themselves were aware of what was going on. "Under our form of government, the president is presumed oblivious until proven informed. "AND BESIDES that, they couldn't have kept the energy crisis secret anyway. Sooner or later, the gasoline shortage would have leaked out." Now You Know f h longest overdue library book on record was one that Frederick Smith of Bishop's Stortford, England, found in his possession in July, 1964. It was checked out in 1827 and fines amounted to $1,540. fTTliiTTa TtftiT P. O. BOX 33.S DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 27701 Editor Publisher 1027-1971 L. E. AUSTIN Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. 'ublishers, Inc. i - fSTTN EDMONDS, Publisher CLARENCE BONNETTE Business Manager J. 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And at least 13 states have taken advantage of the Supreme Court's ruling that left the way open to reinstate the death penalty if it is applied uniformly, to reimpose that needless and brutal sentence. D7 THE GOAL OF ALL these steps is to cut crime, they make no sense at all. Their only result will be to blindly lash out at people convicted of crimes, while tearing the causes of crime and the inequities of the present criminal justice system intact. With probation and counseling services starved for funds, for example, it couldn't be more wasteful than to build new maximum security jails. The record of the prison system is an almost unbroken tale of failure, of racism, of brutality, and of training for future crimes. Stiff sentences never deterred criminals in the past, even when pick - pockets were hung and thieves drawn and quartered. To suppose that long mandatory sentences, or even the death penalty, will cut crime now is a form of self deception that only diverts attention from the real causes and cures of cirme. , A LOT OF RESEARCH and thinking has gone into the problem or crime in recent years. A couple of Presidential commissions and professional associations have made some sensible observations and suggestions, but in the present climate they are going unheeded. A brief look at some facts is enough to show that the current proposals are taking us down a blind alley. Sentences are already very high. The average federal prisoner is serving about six years, while in Europe sen tences over five years are very rare. Far less than one percent of prisoners in Swedish jails are serving as much as four years. Sentencing procedures are biased against the poor and the black Defendants with private lawyers are sentenced half as severely as those who can't afford them. Blacks nearly always get longer sentences than do whites for the same crimes. "White - collar" crime goes largely unpunished. A theft of a few dollars can draw a six - month sentence, but a multi million dollar stock fraud criminal can get off with a suspended sentence and go home to house in the suburbs. .Nearly three - fourths of those convicted of auto theft went to jail for an average term of three years, but only fifteen percent of those convicted in stock frauds that undermine the economic system went to jail at all, and their average term was less than a year. IT OUGHT TO BE CLEAR by now that prisons are only factories of bitterness, mass - producing angry, frustrated individuals with a grudge against society. Caging a man up, stripping him of his freedom, his family, his self - respect, his mental and physical needs, is not going to rehabilitate him. The criminal justice system is a fa aren't enough jails, not because judges are "soft - headed," not because "criminals" have too many rights, but because it is shot through with discrimination against he poor and the black, with capriciousness that over - punishes some crimes while letting others escape the law, with a lack of humanity, with no realistic means of encouraging people convicted of crimes to become contributing members of the community and because it stresses blind vengeance at the expense of rehabilitation This results in great personal tragedies, but perhaps more important, it undermines the whole structure of law and society. .: enricli your r- Lyx -jm.-:xMiL:mw 1 ' I Bryant's Hot & Wig Box 1 SERVICE PRINTING CO. ) I -. Involve With God Is Involve With Self .fejilil sB Letter Press - Offset Printing - Engraving j A Complete Line j Wig jp ?- :.f 504 E. PETTIGREW ST PH. 688-2394 J Els D. Jom i $'$, Mr . 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Therefore, even from a selfish point of view, one should support the Church for the sake of the welfare of himself and his family. Beyond that, however, every person should uphold and par ticipate in the Church because it tells the truth about man's life, death and destiny; the truth whkh alone will set him free to live as a child of God. Scarborough & Hargett, Inc. There It Comfort In Belief 919 FAYETTEVILLE ST. SANDERS FLORIST Serving Durham Since 1950 . 1102 BROAD CT. PHONE 286-1288 Truewoy Church of God In Christ Jesus, Inc. WE EXTEND AN INVITATION TO ALL PEOPLE 707 N. Mangum Street Elder W. G. Allen, Pastor Tele. 688-8456 The Bible Story Home Health Education Service P. O. Box 1147 Decatur, Ga. 30031 111 ATTEND CHURCH REGULARLY . Neighborhood Disccunt Grocery 910 ROBORO ROAD ' DURHAM, N. C. GIANT FOODS Johnson's Seafood Market THE CHURCH IS LOVE 111 SOUTH ALSTON AVENUE ifpliiey'B. High, Owner K-WIGS CENTER - AU Wigs Are New Fads : STYLING AND CLEANING 353 WEST MAIN ST. 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