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THE CAROLINA TIMES Sat., July 21, 1973
lEDlTORlALS & commentI
A New Spirit For 76
The Bicentennial wil net
mere! v be a time for reviewing
past glories, it will aim be a
time for looking to the future,
for building upon the ideal of
the founding fathers and for
keeping the spirit of the
American Revolution alive. By
working together to meet this
unique challenge, we can make
1976 as memorable as was the
year 1776-for America, and
for the world.
-Richard Nixon
Washington, D. C
April IS, 1973
The foregoing quote is the second
paragraph- of "A Presidential Call To
Action" sent to our Nation's
communications media by the
National Bicentennial Organization as
it revs up its engines" in preparation
for the two hundredth birthday
anniversary party.
This newspaper agrees that it is
both nice and necessary to look back
on past glories, it is nice to look to the.
future, it is nice to talk about building
upon the ideas of the founding
fathers of this nation, it is nice to talk
about keeping the spirit of the
American Revolution alive. This
newspaper also believes, that the time
has come for all men, women and
children in this nation, irrespective of
station in life, to put less effort into
rhetoric and more energy into
working toward to realization of the
great American ideas for the
countless oppressed among us, the
countless mistreated among us, the
countless hungry among us, the
countless functional illiterate among
us, the countless ill-housed among us.
We would like to see some of the
billions earmarked for the "big party"
redirected toward making the great
American dream come true. ' t
There is no denying that the "big
party" is in order, but what do we
plan to do about the thousands among
us who are not "invited" to the party
because their backs are too weary,
they lack energy and interest because
they arc hungry and hurt, they cannot
read the invitation or they have no
address to which it can be sent?
It seems somewhat difficult to get
excited about "the party" when we
see such flagrant and numerous
examples of human hopelessness and
suffering around us. It also seems
ironic that we gear the nation up to
celebrate two hundred years while we
allow OEO to drown struggling for
breath;
We would like to urge that the
"New Spirit of '76" become one of
real commitment and dedication by
all Americans to the realization of the
ideals of democracy. We call upon all
Americans, and particularly black
Americans, to get involved in the
bicentennial celebration and use their
influence, energies and whatever
tactics are necessary to insure that a
"new spirit of '76" will mean
improving the quality of life in Ale
years to come for ALL Americans.
Perhaps then, when time comes for
the third century celebration, it will
not be soured by evidences of
injustices in every walk of life.
Abuse of Sterilization Authority
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,,A, flagrant abuse of sterilization
authority seems to be cropping up in
sections of the nation and it does not
appear to have ensured that the rights
of the individual were paramount,
always observed and always secure.
The real issues involved in the
n cases in Alabama and
MM .appears to lpe
agrant abuse and unconcern for
those who do not and, because of
their minor age, cannot make
decisions in planning the sterilization
operations. Further these decisions, it
seems, depends upon the securing of
needed welfare aid and help for their
families and the use of moral
judgments by those in power to
render such necessary help.
When divisiness and racist policies
in top echelons permeate to the
detriment of blacks and the illiterate
poor, you will find many such actions
taking place.
Recent reports in the press state
that there have been thousands of
cases of so-called involuntary
sterilizations of women and men in
North Carolina. It is possible in other
sections as well.
We wonder how many of these
cases involved those largely illiterate
families, who in many cases, it
appears, that for the sake of some
type of welfare aid, surrendered their
God-given rights, the right to
reproduction, to the "do good advise
of welfare officials who sought only
to cut down such aid or help by any
means possible.
Coming on the heels of the
infamous Tuskecgec experiment on
blacks, one wonders if this is not just
the example held by some federal
officials that the poor and of course,
this includes blacks, are just a distinct
class which cannot be helped by an
political or economic means and the
social programs must be cut down by
any means possible.
It may be recallM only too well
that during the years of the planned
extermination of Jewish persons by
the Nazi regime, under Hitler such
programs took on similar beginnings.
Such callous officilness by local,
state or federal authorities should not
tw allowed to continue in the name of
the poor who may need help and
services. fS
Many groups have raised the outcry
against such unconcern, but the
damage has already been done and
every precaution must be taken to
prevent such callousness from
happening again.
Again, one sees the limitation of
education on such subjects in ui
schools and it is increasingly difficult
to place any curricula dealing with the
pros and cons of planned mthods of
birth control in some of the tow
educational level states in the nation.
It would seem to suggest that the if
the same eagerness used in planning
such sterilizations by some social
workers were used in truly
educationing the millions of illiterate
families on what is really happening
when one has such operations, we are
certain there would be fewer instances
of such illegal behavior.
The HEW guidelines, found stored
away in a storage room, fjOud
pHfttl'' post-haste to afr SoiM
services agencies and their medical '
boards. It is an easy matter to do this
since HEW had already prepared
guidelines for sterilization operations
on planned parenthood and mental
defectives.
From these guidelines-coupled
with better educational knowledge,
every individual, parent, social worker
and clinical personnel would know
clearly what is going to happen before
they suggest that a particular
individual undergo sterilization
operation.
In any case, the sterilization
operation should not ever become a
condition precedent to welfare aid or
help for any low-income family as has
been reportedly done. f $
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS
ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS
ALCORN A&M COLLEGE is the
oldest traditionally BLACK LAND
GRANT College in the United States.
It began in 1 830 as OAKLAND
COLLEGE, a Presbyterian school for
white males, and closed with the
advent of the Civil War. The plant was
sold to the state of Mississippi to
educate its Negro citizens.
The first black to be elected to the
U. S. Senate, HIRAM R. REVELS of
Mississippi, resigned his seat to
become Alcorn's first president in
1877.
The UNIVERSITY OF
NRKANSAS AT PINE BUFF,
(formerly Arkansas AM&N) was
established by the Arkansas
Legislature in 1 973 as a branch of the
University of Arkansas. Under the
supervision of J. C. Corbin, a BLACK
man, and with only seven students,
the state supported land-grant
institution was orginally called the
BRANCH NORMAL COLLEGE.
BOWIE STATE COLLEGE owes its
origin to a bequest made by Nelson
Wells, who died in 1 850, and left his
estate to be used in establishing a
school to train "NEGRO
TEACHERS."
The school was started in 1 867 by
J. M. dishing and a group of
associates who persuaded the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1 908 to
appropriate $5,000 for the support of
the young institution.
- DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Of the total 54.4 million, 30.7
million families, or 58.4 per cent,
earned more than $10,000 last year.
Seventeen per cent had incomes
between $7,000 and $ 1 0,000.
Only Black In Watergate Is The Guard That
Caught The Burglars
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Everybody Hurt
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev did what nothing else has
been able to do for weeks-he bumped Watergate off the front
pages. Now that we know it tan be done, it gives heart to those
of us who feel mat, important as Watergate is, it should not
Tji aHowed to obscit stic social
diate, direct impact on every single
m the country.
Roy Wlkins Speaks
Executive Secretary of NAACP
REP. CHISHOLM A LEADER
Representative Shirley Chisholm was the
leader fat unpubticized hard and tedious wijjjk'
that resulted in domestic workers being
included in the House bill increasing the
minimum wage to 1 2.20 an how.
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. The ews story . .declares that Mrs.
Chisholm's rose was one of "uncharacteristic
j anonymity" and so it wasJMot many persons -and
certainly not the general public know of
the key part of her office was playing in getting
( a higher minimum wage; for about 1,000,000
domestics, many of whom are black.
Representative Chisholm is not known for
hiding her light under a bushel and most
newspaper people expect her conduct at all
times to be what the kindest of them describe as
"outgoing,"
But sources in Representative Chisholm 's
Brooklyn (that which there is no more
mdividualistic city in the nation) join the
sources in Washington in agreeing that the first
black woman elected to Congress was as busy as
a bee in pursuit of her goal. She was not
working strictly for Brooklyn domestic
workers, but for every domestic in each one of
the 50 states. '
This took time and care and a fitting
together of (he attitudes and aspirations of
disparate groups. Observers agree that the main
task was the unitingof women's groups and the
powerful labor movement, which had opposed
flfjartain goals of the women's movements. Mrs.
Chisholm used her office, mailed appeals for
support , made telephone round-ups, met with
endless committees and groups, consulted
-leaders in the House, got petitions signed and
made herself available to household workers
One of her efforts before the bill reached
the floor was to get Representative Edith Green
of Oregon j and Representative Martha W.
Griffiths of Michigan, two seniors among
women House members, to speak for the bill
during debate. Representative Chisholm whose
mother was a domestic worker, also spoke for
ike bill, but her political sense and he
sense" told her that speeches by these two
powerful women members would help the bill
to victory.
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an her passionate appeal for passage, Mrs.
Chisholm echoed the tales that are told and
"warnings" thatnmeet embattled black people
"When this House she said, "was debating the'
anti-poverty and welfare bib, all the servant
speeches dealt with the work ethic Today , the
House,has heard wan
WSJ the House apply the same standards to the
poor as they apply to themselves?"
The battle was won by a vote of 287 to
130. During the two months of work that
preceded the floor debate, all black members
signed a petition for the bill and all but two
women members signed up. As an indication of
the excuses used by all members at one time or
another, one woman refused to sign because
Representative Chisholm had been cool to her
urging that the Labor Department relax its
. lifeguards on admitting foreign domestic
workers. Both she and the other non-signer
later voted for the bill.
Mrs. Chisholm has shown superlatively
what representatives can do for the forgotten
wage earners in their districts and throughout
the country. If the black membersof Congress,
the black state legislators and city council
members will remember that they are human
beings first and blacks second, they may yet
return the nation to "government by consent of
the governed."
The black mayors, struggling with all the
mmicipal problems, including those of race,
learned this in their first days in office. They are
wrestling with ethnic groups, taxation , sewers,
schools, various municipal service personnel,
state legislatures, appointments, greetings, ad
infinitum, Representative Chisholm has shown
them one way to operate.
m the pi t things have
occurred that point up too miataJunredenldomestk policies
le need for re-ordered pi
ONE WA8 THE MEETING of the nation's mayors in San
Francisco. The mayors, including officials of both parties,
complained bitterly that special revenue sharing only shared
problems, not solutions, with the cities.
Nearly all said that they would lose resources because the
present federally-admjniatered programs in health, housing
and manpower pumped more money into their cities than the
proposed special revenue sharing would. It's hard enough
trying to cope with the special problems of the cities now, the
mayors said, but it will be worse after federally funded
programs end. 9 t
A SECOND NOTABLE event was the release of a survey
by the Federal Revenue Sharing Office of how funds already
given cities under general revenue sharing were spent. Over
five bilbon out of a projected 30 billion has already been sent
to local governments.
Trie feted report documented what many have suspected
all along. The money has been used for building and for
hiring more police and foremen, b some localities, it's been
Sfto reduce taxes and to build golf courses and tennis
courts. Social services for the poor and the aged ranked last
among the priorities of the focal governments-only eight
JSittjnentlotied
can be made for confidence in focal ability to deal with
national social goals?
ANOTHER RECENT EVENT buried by Watergate
publicity was a special Senate bearing on the budget, called
to put a spotlight the propped end of Important federal
eeefal service ptugraijMvi A' L ,v -.
I went to Washington to testify before this Committee and
among h- things I pointed out was a special Utile secret too
long kept from the American people. You may recall mat a
while back two writers; Richard Scammon and Ben
Wattenberg, made a weU-pubUdsed charge that black
leaders were keeping significant black progress a big secret
Well, it seems that white leadership is keeping an even bigger
secret-that the social service programs have benefited
whites far more than they have blacks.
JUST CONSIDER: THE MAJORITY of welfare recipients
are white; two out of three families mat got housing under
the now-frozen 2SS subsidy program were white ;rfhreeoutof
ftMOfrthoJob Training program participants are white;
, Bi W iHiMpPtrr' I" J m the Public Employment
ivogram are white.
These are all programs that are either frozen or due for
cuts or for transfer to local, and less effective, control. The
silent white majority may be reluctant to help black people
ani may tolerate the death of these programs because they
utnut they are for blacks, but the big secret today is that
rhM nmarama have r rimaruv nenentea wmies ana wnues
"EgRSnffiWEWttl UVvacuum created by
.!. :re are some small si
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It passed, by overwneiming
ties, extensions of some
tk nrnirimi iba(M far MtUnctinn. These mav
still be sabotaged by executive impoundment and by
bureaucrat s tauure to aamuuawr uw programs pmperiy uui
pifoatfeitii in Congress la not misplaced. There seems
nowhere else to turn these days.
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YOUNG CHEMISTS - Doris
Eubanks of Durham High, and
Carlos Page of Hillside, both
rising seniors this fall, are
participants this summer In the
American Chemical Society's
"Catalyst Program" at Duke
- University. Both are interested
in further scientific training,
Miss Eubanks hoping to use her
chemical studies and
knowledge of computer
techniques in a career in
pediatrics, eventually, while
young Page wants to ' either
teach or do advanced research
in chemistry.
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Two rising seniors in local
high schools will get a valuable
early taste of college level
study and research this summer
at Duke University as
participants in the American
Chemical Society's nationwide
"Catalyst Program. ";MMp1
Carlos Page of Hillside High,
and Miss Doris Eubanks of
Durham High-the two students
selected from a group of
talented and sophisticated
Durham youths interviewed for
the program-say they are
enjoying Catalyst so much they
regret only the fact that their
contending classmates were not
able to get in the program with
them
j Page and Miss Eubanks, as
well as others who preceded
them in earlier AGS Catalyst
programs at Duke, are typical
of those nominated by high
schools science teachers here
and in other U.S. cities where
the professional society has
established them through its
local chapters. i
Each participant has a
demonstrated interest : in
scientific learning, says Dr.
Robert W. Henkens, professor
of chemistry and the
coordinator for Catalyst at
Duke. He adds that each meets
the pre requisite guidelines set
by the society for nominees in
that they have a background of
culturally or economically
disadvantaged family," or have
lived in a neighborhood "where
educational motivation does
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The society's hope is that
by involving youth in Catalyst -projects
all over the country in
the summer before their senior
year in high school, they may
be motivated to overcome;
many of the obstacles that
otherwise would be
troublesome at university
levels. ' .
Page and Miss Eubanks and
their counterparts elsewhere
receive $500 stipend for their
summer work. Made possible
through contributions to ACS
Corporation Associates, a
group of chemical businesses
and foundations, the stipend
may be used by the student
any way he chooses.
The cooperating colleges
and universities in Catalyst
programs provide supplies, lab
space, equipment, ana
supervision. g , .
Carlos, who lives at 307 12
Bell Street, is working in
Duke's new Gross Chemical'
Laboratory on West Campus in
a project called "Synthesis of
Aliphatic Azo Compounds."
His supervisor is Dr. Peter
Smith, professor of chemistry.
Much of Carlos' work is
being done in conjunction with
that of fourth-year Duke
graduate student Lee Gilman
who Is pursuing his Ph. D. in
chemistry.
"What I am learning this
summer at Duke is giving me a
whole new outlook on my
future," the Hillside High
youth said during an interview
in the lab. "I want to continue
in chemistry when I get to
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"Can We Corral Natun
Forces?"
The man who spends his
time getting promoted through
pull and influences seldom is
able to hold any important
position for which he has not
been fitted by experience. The
same tiling holds true when a
person who reaches a goal
though bluff and pretense can
die it just as quickly, once
exposed.
One of the main reasons is
because the forces of nature
and the forces of man require
time for their unfoldment and
development. That's why we
can hurry our own progress
Only by a more earnest
college, and I hope to go on for
a Ph. D. also in the field of
physical chemistry.
"But right now, I don't
know for sure if I will want to
be a research chemist or to
teach You know, since I've
been here this summer, I've
found out it's possible to do
both!"
1 Miss Eubanks, who lives at
376 Estes Street, wants to
become a computer specialist,
but she also has leanings
toward using that specialty
perhaps in the field of
pediatrics.
Her interest in the
electronic data processing field
actually led her into the
American Chemical Society
summer program by way of her
high school chemistry teacher,
Mrs. Rebecca Gregg, who knew
of Doris capabilities both in
chemistry and in data
processing at Durham High. '
! It was Mrs. Gregg who
recommended her for the
interviews which led to Doris'
selection for Catalyst.
At Duke, the attractive Miss
Eubanks is working on a
project entitled simply
"Computer Applications in
Chemistry." In her project she
has the comforting guidance of
DtU Charles Lochmuller,
professor of chemistry who has
specialized in analytical
methods using the computer.
Since the program began in
Miss Eubanks has learned
rate a teletype computer
and to prepare chemical
mathematics problems in
computer language for the
machine to solve. Her work is
something entirely new and
different from her high school
computer training.
Eventually, she wants to
participate in Duke's
Physicians Associate program,
one for which she has been
pro-selected and for which her
training in Catalyst this
summer is good advance
preparation, Lochmuller
says. "If I am successful in
the Physicians Associate
program," Doris says, "I
certainly hope to go into
pediatrics. Children are lots
more fun to work with than
machines," she laughed.
application to the work at
hand.
In the world of today we
develop so fast mechanically
and scientifically that it's hard
for us to keep pace mentally
and spiritually. The speed at
which we are living is one of
the tragedies of our modern
civilization.
Most of our youths are
having experiences shot at
them so fast that they cannot
begin to absorb these
Aa a
smbjss them to get
fptri in perse!
mtintttm, The re fo re, due to
the lack of the experience and
knowledge of mental
sitstment to face life's
happenings, they try to adopt a
"don't care" attitude and other
ways and means to capture any
of the temporary joys of this
Hfe.
Not only young people, bat
many adults have missed the
real meaning of life itself, and
decided that it's no use trying
to preserve any ideals. It would
be wise now to remember the
things that were mentioned
about this fast moving age, and
also remember that this
universe is not in a hurry, it
operates mathematically with
the same speed and rhythm,
also abides excellent according
to the laws of the creator of
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in my opinion, it is because
of the fact of man's possession
of free will and free choice in
the world in wwen ne nves
without being isolated is given
ever, opportunity on his strive
toward perfection by earning it
through his ikialopMl, We
have an eternity of
place right here upon I
to do the things
whether it's good or evil But
by trying to do both, it has led
us to the point when taw way
of life is rugged, that our path
is often beset wtfi
heart-fere a kingly
insurmountable obstacle aw
that we cannot see how we can
possibly make the best of what
happened which has caused as
to five in the condition of the
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