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2A THE CAROLINA TIMES Sat, Sept 29,
What
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RIALS & COMMI
Newspaper Week
IF TM GOVERNMENT WUU NOTPCTZCTIffAHO
VF THE WU& CANNOT, IT mUMS THAT BLACK
Newspaper Week, October 7-13,
will be met with its share of
"So-what's?," but for those who like
the taste of freedom, it will be a time
to pay tribute to one of the most
important guardians of free
expression. y&.
I im-mimjiH- -'.talents and
responsibilities are many: It is a
community soapbox, companion and
entertainer on lonely evenings, bearer
of both good and bad news on the
local and international scenes,
advertiser of heeded goods and
services and a governmental watchdog.
Everyday the thunder of the nation's
presses may be heard throughout the
land as a free people let their voices be
heard. So is has been for 200 years.
Can any other country make the same
claim? The answer, of course, is "No,"
for an alert, articulate press is the
dictator's nightmare. It is our
salvation. .M,'- '" .
Perhaps the editors and their staffs
may be forgiven if they brag a little
during their own special Week. The
newspaper you hold in your hand is
part of a vast, independent
information network that is a main .
pillar in the temple of human freedom
as we know it in the United States.
as Well as Zeal
There Were some 2,400 bills of
medical significance submitted in the
last Congress. The potential of this
blizzard of legislative proposals
bearing on medicine to do great harm
to the cause of medical progress is
incalculable. The perpetuation of high
medical standards and a medical care
system that works in the best
long-range interests of the public must
be founded upon the collective
wisdom of doctors, as well s upon
the eagerness of lawmakers.
There has been general recognition
that a national health care program in
some form will be enacted. Organized
medicines has sought to keep the issue
of health care as far from politics as
possible. It has offered its own
national health care program known
as Medicredit. Medicredit is designed
to couple government action with the
best features of the existing pluralistic
health-care system. It rests on
voluntarism rather than state
compulsion. It is compatible with the
requirements of scientific progress. It
is an example of the leadership role
medicine is playing in the social and
economic problems of health care. Of
that role, Dr. Russell B. Roth,
president of the American Medical
Association, observes, "...we now have
close to 200 Senators and
Congressmen as sponsors of our
Medicredit bill. It is no accident that
some of the impractical solutions
offered for an imagined crisis is
medical service have been
de-glamorized, stripped of political
expediency, and exposed as uhsuited
to the needs of the nation... There is a
slowly growing appreciation of the
fact that physicians are not so much a
part of the problem as they are an
essential part Of the solutions of the
problems." .
WOoi brief, it is being recognized that
in the sensitive area of health care,
good laws depend upon the advice and
cooperation of men and medicine.
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DISCRIMINATION ENDm$
BEFORE WE RID (m
communities of crime,
we can no longer
excuse crime because
of society's inequttj
we stand menaced by
our oun kith and kin
it 1$ inconceivable
to me that we who have
prevailed in spite of
the barbarism of white
people should, in the
last quarter of the
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m ow doom:
0RDE COOMBS
H.Y.HAGAZINE
Competing For Food Supplies
Worldwide pressures on short food
supplies mean that in the U. S. the
family gfpeer: bill is going up. There
pil no waythawfte United States can
stay isolated from this condition
Wheat prices, for example, have hit an
all-time high, and this will inevitably
be reflected in the cost of a loaf of
bread in the local supermarket.
The chairman of General Foods
Corporation has stated that
continuation of controls which
squeeze processors' and distributors'
margins of profit will "only result in
reduced food supplies" and aggravate
"the price increases which are
inevitable." There has been a graphic
demonstration of this in the case of
last summer's beef price freezes and
subsequent shortages of this basic,
food item in meat counters across the
nation. There seems little doubt that
this action will result in reduced
supply and even higher retail prices.
The food industry executive has
recommended a number of specific
steps, including removal of a 75-cent
per bushel wheat-processing tax,
unlimited dairy product imports, an
embargo on food commodity exports
until domestic requirements can be
met and encouragement of soybean,
corn and wheat planting.
Quite plainly, there is urgent need
for consteffltlojBrange policies and
take account, not Only 3$orldWide.
JoWII Woo(f supplies, but also of '
the necessity of permitting adequate
price incentives to encourage U. S.
producers, processors and distributors
to stay in the business of providing
essential food supplies. At this stage,
further prolonged tinkering with the
economics of the U. S. food industry
could fatally rupture the horn of
plenty that has made the United
States the best-fed nation in all the
years of recorded history.
Saarmaation A Bad Seen
Only people who never lived under 4ftf
rogation would want its return. Either they
are too young-horn since M60 or they are
from another region of the country where
segregation was not written into legal sta
,;. it manifested itself In a
somewhat milder form. For segregation in
the Middle and Deep South was, by any
body's estimate, by any standard, under
at circumstances a bad scene. II
everyone in every facet of life. Mary He
"A fatty is one who exceeds the feed limit.'
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BECTON
(Continued from front page)
lack of interest on the part of
church leaders, with emphasis
on the ministers. He was
critical of the lack-lustre that
has gripped ministers, not only
in Durham, but throughout the
nation, as it relates to human
rights. He could not correlate
poorly-lighted and unpaved
streets in Durham, being
tolerated by ministers with all
the golden-paved streets in
heaven. He was at a toss to .
Justify milk and honey in
heaven, when there are. so
many people being denied the
right to earn enough money to
buy steak and. milk down here,
with very little help being
given, by ministers, to alleviate
inequality here.
He rapped about the
employment policy of Durham
City and Durham County. He
explained the equal
opportunity employment tew,
by. saying, any municipality
that employed more than 100
persons was liable under that
law. He urged the JiAACP to
implement its fight for
minority employment in city -and
county government.
There Was an encouraging
note from Rev. E. T. .
Thompson., pastor pi
Community Baptist Church
where the meeting was held.
He told of the urgent appeal by
Roy Wilkins at the recent
meeting of the National Baptist
Convention, in Los-Angeles.
Rev. Thompson told the
audience that unless the
NAACP raised $1,000,000.00
soon the civil rights program
would suffer badly. He pledged
to use bis kind influence, in the
Durham area, to awaken a new
interest.
In order to meet the new
thrust, both Rev. Thompson
and Mr. Becton were asked to
attend the meeting of the
executive committee, Kyles
Temple A.M.E. Zion Church,
October 2, 7:00 p.m., and give
any imput, they might have in
initiating a more aggressive
program.'
JEWS
(Continued from front page)
to that of those Jews in Russia
who are made to pay large
sums to the government
ostensibly for their
government-subsidized
eduction -- before being
permitted to emigrate to Israel
or other countries of then
choice. We call upon our Federal
Administration to use the good
influences of the American
government to gain relief from
this tyranny, to the end that
these Russian Jews may enjoy
the freedoms and privileges to
whkh all human beings are
entitled.
We specially call upon the
United States Congress to deny
"favored nation status" in
world trade relations, Until the
Russian nation ceases and
desists from this "ransom
demand" practice.
c-Owned
Rim Is Given
Major Contract
A black owned firm on
Long Island has been awarded
a contract worth $1.3 million
for tableware under provisions
of the Small Business Act, the
General S e r v I eel
Administration announced
recently,
This is the first GSA
minority-assistance contract
awarded to MPM Industries,
Inc. of Hempstead, L. I.,
according to Arthur F.
Sampson, GSA administrator.
He described the award as a
"significant step toward helping
minority firms develop into
successful enterprises."
MPM Industries was
organized in 1970 by a group
of black businessmen
concerned with high
unemployment rates in the
npstead area.
Section 8(a) of the Small
Business Act enables the
Federal Government to
negotiate with minority-owned
PUSH Expo
Theme - Save -Black
Colleges
The 5th Annual Black
Business and Cultural Expo,
sponsored by the Rev. Jesse
Jackson's Operation PUSH
(People United to Save
Humanity) placed all emphases
on the theme "SAVE OUR
BLACK COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES" during the
xhibit periods
as well as economic values' at
the International Amphitheatre
in Chicago, September 19-23.
Black colleges and
universities have a special and
unique mission, and even more
so, during these critical periods
in our system. Black colleges
have always served as an asset
as well as a resource for the
AwHwit of black teadM
and future black leaders of our
society; One wonders what
would have been the future of
blacks and other minorities
without the many black
colleges and others instituted
by religious groups when the
state and other federal agencies
would not even more to
educate blacks until legally
forced to do so. History shows
this even though the
Constitution guaranteed this
right to black citizens as well as
white citizens.
Black colleges and
universities STILL graduate
from 70 to 80 per cent of all
Mack college and university
. businesses on a non--competitive
basis for up to
three years. Sampson noted the
program "is part of President
Nixon's commitment to help
minority firms become
established in the mainstream
of our free-enterprise system."
Since inception of this
program in 1969, GSA has
awarded a total of 1,203
manufacturing, service,
: construction and concession
contract worth over $103
million.
The President's Double Talk
President Richard M. Nixon con
tinues to doubletalk. It was apparent
in his State of the Nation message in
several ir icularly took
notice of his obtervat w
children to schools. .
Mr. Nixon continues to c m
he believes in the neighborhood school
and the right of children to attend
schools near their home as a reason fosL
his not advocating busing of. childres
as a means of desegregation.
President Nixon's exact words wtrej
"Another area of renewed Utters
eat this fall is busing. My poeWon f
is well known. I am opposed
compulsory busing for the purpose:
of achieving racial balance bt cat
schools. I continue to believe in
the neighborhood school fa the
right of children to attend schools
near their homes wtA friends who
live near them. I continue to be
lieve that busing If an unsatis-..
factory remedy for the inequities .
and inequalities of educational op
portunity that exist in our country,
,'mWcas those discrepancies are.
IO htm bom working to end
those discrepancies, and we will
continue to do so. But we should
also place effective and reasonable
curbs an busing in a way which
would aid rather than challenge
the courts- ;
"I will continue to work with the
Congress in an effort to enact leg- ,
isloMon whkh will end involuntary
busing for purposes of racial bah
Wee and concentrate our effort on
bm Opportunity in education."
Mr. Nixon's statement could be more
readily satisfactory if he did not per
sist in curtailing funds that provide
aacceptjonally skilled teachers who can
help eliminate the inequities and in
equalities of educational opportunity
in our present system of education.
The President has declared war on
the program of busing that would end
die racial Imbalance, in both black
and white segregated schools that
largely contributes to Inferior educa
tion. i -iM
Let there be no mistake, Mr. Nixon
Is not only hindering the approach of
the day when black children through
out this country will have equal edu
cational opportunities with any other
ethnic group, but lie also gives aid and
comfort to those bigots who oppose
basing for other than cultural reasons.
Things Ym Should Know
To Be Equal
Bt VEBNON E. JORDAN Jfc.
IOME RULE FOR
WASHINGTON D. C
Picture one of the great cities
the world, with thrccuar
ers of a million people. stao
urns, museums, headquarters of
rational organizations and busi
nesses, a thriving community
iifen and a national communi
cations center.
Picture such a metropolis
whose citizens do not have the
ight to vote for their local of
ficials, whose every local law
has to be approved by people
who live elsewhere and whose
main interests lie elsewhere.
Picture such a city, whose res
idents pay taxes but cannot
elect the officials who formu
late those taxes.
it sounds like tyranny, doesn't
it? One would expect such a
situation to exist in a colony
or in some dictatorship.
The city is Washington, D.C.,
the capital of the United States.
This nation, which won its In
dependence nearly 200 years
ago under the banner of: "no
taxation without representa
tion." follows the same course
with regard to its own citizens
in its own capital.
Ibis is an intolerable situa
tion, one that demands imme
diate solution. All it takes
for home rule to be extended
to the citizens of Washington,
D C. All they are asking is the
right to elect their own mayor,
now appointed by the Presi
dent, and their own city coun
cll, also now appointed. All
they are asking is what every
single city, town and village
in this country has.
Home rule for the District of
Columbia is something so lent;
overdue and so obvious a right,
that nearly everyone is In favor
of it. A natkmai poll some years
back showed Americans sup
port home rule by a six to one
margin. A recent poll of D C
residents shows 30 percent
want home rule. ...
The Senate overwhelmingly
passed home rule legislation;
by a 64-8 in 1971, and 69-17 in
1973. Both major political par
ties have supported home rule
in their national platforms, as
has every President since
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Congress serves as the city
legislature. Local laws passed
bv the District's appointed coun
cil have to be passed by the
c undress as well; That means
that a city ordinance on kite
flying has to pass the local
council, and then go through
'y. separate legislative steps in
the Congress before it can be
come law. This is not only a
grossly inefficient way to ma
a city, but an unbelievable
waste of" the time of Congress,
which ought to be dealing with
matters of national concern.
Apologists say that since the
federal role in the city is so
pervasive, things ought to stay
s they are. But if that logic
were to hold, then the SO states
ought to take over and run their
SO state capitals in the same
manner.
The distrfct once had home
rule, but in 1874 Congress
"temporarily" established di
rt ct control. That 'temporary"
control became permanent, to
ihe detriment of the capital's
iiitizensi ',
It has resulted not only in
their disenfranchisement, but
also in broken promises and in
iquities. Back in 1874, Congress
nromised to pay half tne wts
.of running the cityi but in the
!:ist 50 years, it has been a
lot -less 'than that.
When you consider the special
costs to the city of such events
as inaugurations, state visits,
etc , costs necessary to the run
ning of a capital but paid for
by local citizens, it becomes
clear mat the District is placed
under burdens not shared by
any other city in the country
Add to this the many tax-exempt
embassies and govern
ment buildings, and you see
how important it is for the
government to pay its fair
shnre of the . city's . costs. .
I wonder what goes on in the
minds of foreign visitors to the
capital of the. nation that pro
claims itself a democracy when
they learn that the residents
of this big city cannot even
vote for their own mayor and
council. And how do the Dis
trict schools teach civics les
sons to children whose parents
are disenfranchised and pay
taxes without adequate repre
sentation? If there is anything
all people can agree upon it
is that fairness and equity de
mand home rule for ute Dis
trict now.
...ON OCTOBER !&l85a A
RAJNY SUNDAY NIOKpHE AND HIS
BAND OT 21 MEN RAIDED HARPER
FERR CAPTURING THE FEDERAL
ARSENAL BUT PRES. BUCHANAN CALLED OUT THE CAVALRY
ft MARINES a PEAT HIM HIS TWO SONS WERE KILLED IN THE
FIGHT a BROWN WAS WOUNDED a CAPTURED; HE B SIX OTHERS
HANGED.
graduates. Other majority
schools may list high numbers,
4f entering bjacksv another
minorities, but somehow, the
greater number of those who
enter, still either withdraw or
are dismissed for various and
sundry reasons. As a result
records reveal a very, very
small number of blacks as
actually having graduated from
the - predominantly white
institutions and many insist
they have no such records of
the number of blacks who have
graduated..
Still another fallacy is the
misguided theory that a few
blacks will make a majority or
white institution integrated
and yet the great majority of
black colleges have had large
numbers of whites either as
students or faculty and there is
still the reluctance to call them
integrated as such. For
example, Howard University,
located in the nation's capital,
at present is still called a
predominantly black
institution, when in fact, there
are now more white students
than black students' in
attendance enrolled in the
many very excellent disciplines
offered by Howard University.
Much thought must and
should be given to this duality
of reasoning by those in power
and continued and greater
efforts must be geared to
helping the many black
colleges or . universities instead
of seeking the closing, phasing
out or the decline of more of
them,
With such a pluralistic
soctety or multi-racial
structured society, all colleges
or universities and especially
the black institutions Of higher
learnings are heeded more than
ever today.
Certainly . the on going
programs of such outstanding
ethnic , or minority institutions
or higher education such as
Yeshiva or Brandt-is to develop
the Jewish minority into
leadership roles in the United
States or the many Catholic
and other religious institutions
continue to show their great
need for these type of
institutions of higher
education, then certai nly our
black colleges and universities
with their many years of
insufficient funding and other
deprivations should be urged at
every opportunity to continue
the unique role and mission of
assisting in the development of
our future black leaders. The
mere taking over of such
institutions by the various
states should NOT mean that
they must be totally phased
out of this, improtant
leadership development role.
Additional funds can and
should be channeled at their
disposal to help build a greater
quality of life for students
enrolled in the black colleges
and emphasis must be placed
on helping all students.
Just as we have used a
Marshall Type Plan to aid
Europe and a similar plan to
aid Japan, the overall strategy
can auto be used to better
develop and render needed
help to the many black colleges
and institutions of higher
learning today . ' fV
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"A hospital is a place whore
a private room has nothiiii
to do With privaey. "(Chang
ing Times)
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OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER?
I can't stress too strongly
the importance of unity, of
working openly together for
the public good. Maybe this is
an old-fashioned message at
this moment in a country
whose leadership appears to
have been working in secret to
maintain power by means
unfair and foul, when we find
new evidence everyday of
stealthy and illegal air strikes in
Southeast Asia and chicanery
in South America by a cabal of
America's corporations and its
CI. A.
But it is because of the
sorry and still self-righteous
record of the executive branch
that those of us who are
concerned about our country
have to pull together to help
pull America out of the fire.
Let's face the fact that while
our elected officials and then
hirelings have been busy
laundering dollars and bugging
each other, themselves and
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even their families, they have
callously and crassly neglected
the needs of the country and
its people.
What has happened to
programs to aid the cities, to
improve standards of health,
housing, economic
development for the urban and
rural poor, to provide day care
for children of working
mothers or tuition aid to
young men and women those
talents deserve college and
whose parents can't afford it?
What ever happened to those
vaunted programs for law and
order? The simple answer is:
nothing has happened npr
seems likely l.o
I'm optimistic enough to
think that the situation in
Washington will improve
slightly after the next
Congressional elections and
enormously after Inauguration
uay, 197 5. Even
pessimistically, I am darn sure
it can't get worse.
But In the meantime, who is
doing something to help solve
the problems of our cities?
Who is working to help the
poor to help themselves? Who
is our brother's keeper?
The answer is you are and I
am. .. we. are.
No one can match the
resources of our
government -that, still pays
welfare checks and Medicare
bills and disburses disability
and Social Security payments,
No one nor one organization
can do what our government
has the ability to do. We must
continue to pressure for real
change in our next
administrations.
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Joseph Barnes
Joins Planning
Zoning Dept.
8at. Sept. 29, 1S73 THE CAROLINA
Joseph A Barnes has joined
the Durham County Planning
and Zoning Department as a
building inspector. The
Durham native worked as a
building inspector for
Durham's Urban Renewal
Program from 1966 to. 1971.
Since then, he has been
self-employed for Acme Taxi
Company.
Barnes graduated from
Hillside High School and
attended A & T State Univ. in
Greensboro receiving a
Teacher's certificate in
Industrial Arts.
Joseph is the husband of
Mrs. Lou Barnes, Assistant
Program Director of NCCU's
Student Union. They are
parents of four children. One
of their sons, Preston, 16;
attends Hillside High. Isham
attends A & T State University,
Mrs. Beverly Jo Evans is
teaching in Newark, New
Jersey public school; Joseph Jr.
is in the U.S. Army stationed
f in Germany
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