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8A-THE CA10LDI A THOt& 8s Her. I l jlV EDITORIALS w ell . . . Aeerici's Ttliwlest Shortage With all the other shortages around, employment still looms as America's greatest shortage. Reports show that dozens and hundreds and even thousands of small plants are closing or laying off workers because they cannot secure adequate supplies, especially if bidding with die giant corporations. To name some, greeting card companies and some newspaper companies find it difficult to secure paper or newsprint which has forced many of them to close or reduce personnel. Foundries and other smaller mills that depend upon steel in many midwest areas may also be forced to close, continuing to add to the already rising unemployment rates. As the shortages in consumer goods continue to rise, so will unemployment rise because workers will be either laid off or there will be even greater cutbacks byxompanies. The Administration can no longer afford the luxury of not setting up some public service employment at all levels. For just as action has been immediately planned for the energy crises, needed action for jobs for those who desire to work must be taken as well, ' It becomes extremely important to the masses that Watergate not be permitted to blind all Americans to the desperate need for development of goals for employment to offset, the rising and continuing threat of even more unemployment at all levels. The Black Community Has the Tools to Do the Job slacks' reticence to seize the initiative to organize their COMMUNITIES" SAID DOUGLAS GLASGOW, DEAN OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WOW, ISA MAJOR FACTOR AND AH IMPORTANT FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO OUR COMMUNITIES' POLfDCAH BUSINESS MAM DOCTORS LAWYERS ARTISTS TEACHERS MINISTERS WORKERS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION SOCIAL WORKERS FRATERNAL GROUPS FINANCE COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTION ADMINISTRATION PLANNING ARCHITECTURE BLACK PRESS Voter School Bond Approval North Carolinians by their vote for $300 million in bonds for, school construction have shown that they do want better and more physical facilities for the many communities. It is especially important since this was the fourth time in 24 years that North Carolina voters have decided statewide school proposals. Such monies, according to the 1973 law provides that the money can be used to renovate or add to present school facilities, to build new facilities or in those few school units that do not need new plants, "to retire local debts, incurred through local school construction." Citizen input and equitable distribution of the funds, especially for inner city school development should be favorably and equitably allocated in all communities. After such allocations, there should be even more citizen input in the utilization of the proceeds of these bonds in order to get the maximum benefits for teachers and students and to prevent the placing of the greatest burdens on the minority school population. It is only by these means that future additional school bond passage can be assured. Consumers Returning To Simpler Life Styles Higher food prices and the running out of so many things appear to be changing American consumers way of living to need instead of greed, especially over these past several months. Reductions in (&NUnt purchases at all income jftvels can be seen as one observes purchases or reads varying reports. ,f Housewives are planning carefully to eliminate waste and there appears , to be few frivolous purchases. With every day listing of some Financing Of flections Just at government itself is financed by j public funds so the elections which the gov ernment should be financed by public foods. Several related reforms should accompany public financing of elections including shorter campaigns, a lowered ceiling on spending, and vigorous enforcement by an I'l'T1- election commission beholden neither to Congress nor to the president .- shortage, the shortfall continues to send even larger ripples through the economy. As the world's major industrial nations continue to compete fiercely for avail abfce naturea -m & consumers hereas elsewhere, will havew M to pay not onlf higher prices for such -short items, but some items just will not be available. Frugality, it seems, is taking on a more definite meaning at all income levels. The American Indian The American Indian is one of the most abused minorities in the United States. Stemming from over two centuries of iaola dolescent Indian, in particular, is faced with a desperate situ ation. Bis culture has been suppressed. stay on the reservation, he is faced with poverty, alcoholism, dis ease, and oppression. If he attempts to break out, he is forced to live within the bounds of an alien culture. A. Milestone for the South The victory of Maynard Jackson in the Atlanta mayoral race marks a milestone in the political history of the South. Atlanta becomes the first major Southern city to elect a black as Mayor. Buth the election is more than just a victory for a highly respected black politician. It is a victory for biracialism, for the voting crossed racial lines. Many whites gave their ballots to Mr. Jackson and rejected the incumbent Mayor, Sam Massell, whose campaign in the last week assumed harshly racial tones. Moreover, black civil-rights activist Hosea W defeated for the post of president of the city council by a liberal white attorney Wyche Fowler. Atlanta win thus have a moderate, biracial tandem at the head of its city government for the next four years. The biracialism carried through in the other elections to the city council and the school board. Nine of the council's 18 members and five of the board's nine members will be black. The result of the vote shows a high degree of sophistication on the part of the Atlanta electorate. Mr. Jackson is a young, able black attorney who should make a strong Mayor. His election is comparable to that of Tom Bradley hi Los Angeles last spring. Unlike some of the cities that nave elected black mayors, Atlanta and Los Angeles both have a substantial white population and are thriving economically. But the new Mayor of Atlanta inherits from Ms predecessor major problems: a "white flight to the suburbs' provoked mainly by desegregation in the city's schools, and a rising crime rate. He must act to reassure the white business establishments which ran the city for years and was rebuffed four years ago by the election of Sam Massell, who became the city's first Jewish Mayor. Mr. Massell won that election on the strength of black support which later slipped away from him. In an interview with this newspaper Mr. Jackson pledged himself to lower the crime rate, improve the quality of the schools, and provide incentives for the development of middle and upper income housing within the city. "We are not a deteriorating city," he said, "we are one of the few successful cities in the country. And what we have to do is to stop the sort of trends that are negative." The most encouraging thing about the Atlanta poll was the maturity shown by the voters in rejecting racialism as an issue. In another post-election statement Mr. Jackson said his election is "a resounding affirmation of the prin ciples of unity and of brotherhood that have helped make Atlanta truly a city too busy to hate." In saying that Atlanta is "too busy to hate" he was quoting a phrase first made famous by former Mayor Hartsfield. Under its first black Mayor Atlanta is about to embark on a new political 111 which could set an example not only for the South but for the whole country. .fr, ' I Mm Christian Sckoce Monitor atrt.r.-1 7-.' . . , EQUAL PI By VERNON JORDAN WfftfM ExecarJ Director, NittonW Urb U-r WLmikw Mi nor mum SAYS Executive Secretary of NAACP WtLLwt jC. . -J '-! PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT' Some of the white people in Newark, N.J., have been discriminated against, they charge, by black attitudes which they characterize as The dispatches do not say whether the "American way" is used as a commendation or a- condemnation. The "American way" is customarily to exclude blacks, but now they say it is used in Newark to exclude white ethnics. These claim to be minorities in the same sense that the usual groups claim to be minorities. , , I . g. . . ; If what the Newarkians charge is anything like a philosophy which is too prevalent ai some blacks in the rest of the country , then the whites have been the victimsof dscrhnmarion. However, it is really not racism, reverse or any other kind. It may fed like racism, but it lacks a pattern and, too, it is fairly recent. . Nothing lite the 350 years of cruel, often vicious treatment, accorded the Negro American. That was truly pervasive racism and it is by no means wiped out There has been a tendency among some Negroes, chiefly young and young marrieds (but not exclusively so), to treat white people with studied indifference and, on occasion, with crude hostility. It begins with some black students in high school and college. They sit together, room together and eat together. They laugh and holler loudly. They use filthy language so that everyone will know how "tough" they are. And their unfailing badge of belonging is to put down whites. This is perhaps what die Newark whites are feeling. It slops over into die behavior of black adults. This, however, is nothing more than the sticking out of a tongue. It is a childish gesture that doesn't mean, a permanent shift in anything significant, anything involving power. It is a period of adjustment. Blacks should get accustomed to being responsible citizens with more on their shoulders than skin color and whites should get out of the habit of "jumping oh" blacks. This should not be and must not be if we are to have a nation that is together. Black people these many years have been forcing white people out of die pattern which says that all Negroes look alike. How silly and unintelligent to turn around and act as if all white people are alike! It is 3nothcr tiling niiro)ly when white .ethnicsm wark or else where complain that a 'nWrW0mS&yKr has elected a black mayor and a predominantly black school board. Such a shift belong properly in any city where white people number 30 per cent of the What did some of these whites expect a continuation of the old system when whites were in the majority? Of course, the mayor and the school board are black. White families by the thousands fled to the suburbs and left a few white ethnics holding the tax bag. And these had better join in solving the nagging problems of the cities instead of yelling "racism" simply because their little red wagon has been upset. Af set history books, black Americans have been trying for a hundred years to read something about themselves in their history books except a few lines that said they were slaves and the other few tines that warned that Negreos in office would be corrupt. Shades of lily-white Watergate! President Nixon has been accused of everything else and he could be guilty of polarizing the races. But if certain white ethnic groups, whose record on the black question is not so good, want to straighten up and fry right , they could join t he blacks. The problems of the cities demand all the talents that men, not children, can muster. am ' ? NO SUBTITUE FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PLAN This country has been draggin itself, step after painful step, to the point where it just might be ready to accept what other nations have long had a full, comprehensive health care plan. By almost any standard of national health, the United States falls far short of what might be expected from the world's richest nation. Part of the reason is the virtual absence of preventive medicine; the mis-allocation of health resources that concentrates doctors and treatment in areas that can afford them with little left over for the poor and for working people. The success of programs like Medicare that brought federal health insurance to the elderly has led to widespread demands for a system of national health insurance. Now it is beginning to look as if the long road to a comprehensive national health insurance plan is going to be side-tracked. Support is beginning to focus on a plan for crushing doctor and hosiptal bills that can bankrupt a family. It's a good idea, but not good enough. It deals with a part of the problem and not with the whole problem itself. It represents another step on the circuitous road to a national health system instead of jumping directly to that goal now. Tinkering with a few elements of the finacial aspects of health care will do nothing to make our people healthier. Insurance against health catastrophe helps protect against disaster, but does nothing to change the disastrous lack of health care available to large portions of our populations. Right now the system that is supposed to deliver health care is so inefficient, understaffed and haphazard,, a proposal dealing only with flnacing will create a demand for often absent services. This will become exaggerated as federal and state funds are tunneled into insurance, coverage and away from necessary support of public health facilities and their expansion. It promises a lot more than it delivers too. Insurance aganinst catastropher will take a big bite out of people's salaries, but by the time they satisfy the large deductible costs and the insurance starts paying off, they've already had to cripple themselves economically. And since catastrophe insurance is supposed to mesh with existing private national health insurance schtnes, what happens to the one out of three families in the $5-10,000 rnage who do not now have hospital coverage? There are those who say, "let's be realistic, we can't have a complete national health insurance system now, so why not make what changes we can." This is the kind of view that wins the battle and loses the war. :0f Each small change that satifies some small segment of concerned people makes it that much harder to marshal support for a broad, comprehensive plan. And since each small change takes about five years or so to come about, the entire process of comprehensive change is delayed. Why put off a national health system for fity years when we can have it in two or three? Tinkering with financing alone results in higher costs and continuted inefficient services. Dealing with one aspect of a problem to the exclusion of the totality results in a patchwork reform that only makes the total picture worse. Short-cuts may seem appealing, but they often wind up covering a longer, rougher road than necessary. With massive .jjujpnor health-system it would be a , shame to waste energies in a futile effort to add another band aid lo American medical system!: 'b '09 The alternative to the bits and pieces approach? A national health system that stresses an adequate supply of- trained health workers and facilities, equal access to high quality health care foraall, and a health insurance program that finances the system equitably. The goal has to be better health for everybody, not higher profit margins, the icon of "fee-for-senrice" medicine, or. other concerns that are marginal for the average working man who is not getting his fair share of health care. Things You Should Know V wA . . .'' i. w.vr. 'Mm Don1! Mate The SMawalk A Health Hazard For ChUdram nam asm'- wj MiMi ii m im smmnm mam. t 7 ' -Mr ' - i P'-"'': J i mm , mi :t.;i -.! -a.-' amm - Of ALEXANDRIA, VA-THIS RUNAWAY SLAVE WAS ARRESTED IN BOSTON ON MAY 2SJS25- THAT WEEK THE US-AiTY. REFUSED AN ABOLITIONIST OFFER TO BUY HIS FREEDOM; TO UPHOLD THE "FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW BURNS WAS TRIE! AND LOST, ON MAY 27 ft PRES. PIERCE CALLED UP 22 MILlTARY;5H.RW.f ARTILLERY, 1500 0RA0OONS,MARINES8Tpi!eETC,TO GUARD HN. HtS-SLAVE PRICE "WAS ONLY $1200, BUT THE GOVERNMENT SPENT OVER$4q00O. TO RETURN HIM TO SLAVERY, ". o. sox am DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA vm L. E. AUSTIN Editor-Publisher 1927-1871 Published everv i..... .'i at Durham, N. C. I, UK. : . E BflNNirrTIE D..t . t . LWOOO CABTER ...'. . . Advertisin Manaaor Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27703 mm STWCMPTIDN RATES United States and Canada l year $800 JiU: CaMd ver$n.S ITUKlpal Office Located at 438 East Pettlgrew Stmt r: gaptr Ilili06.97 In Building Fund The members and friends of the First Baptist Church of Enfield, North Carolina closed their Building Fund Drive of two months on Sunday, November 4, and raised o A AC AH T 1 Solomon was chairman of the Financial Building Fund Planning Committee. Mrs. Queen Pittman directed a very impressive Pageant entitled, The Twelve Tribes presented in verse, mood, and song. The narration was taken from Exodus 4th through the 14th Chapters as God revealed himself to Moses, gave him courage, and divine guidance; directed him to lead the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage hel steadfast by King Pharaoh. Moses was played hy Milton Oatis, The Tribe Leaders and Captains for the drive were: Mesdames, Louise Ben net.., Christine Cofield, Helen Garrett, Queen Pittman, Victoria Howington, Dea. James G. Whitaker, Dea. Collin Bryant, Erma Dickens, Evette Hedgepth, Ada McWUliams, Agnes Witaker, and Dea. Willie R. Wills. The narration was given by Miss Minnie C. Cotten. Music was rendered by the Senior Choir of the church. Remarks were given by Rev. K. P. Battle, Pastor, Deacon C. E. Bailey, Chairman of the Building Fund Committee, and Mrs. Lille J. Solomon. Immediately after the program, visiting friends, joined the Pastor and members for an hour of fellowship. Refreshments were served. Other members of the Financial Buildings Fund Planning Committee include, Mrs. Minnie Cotten Secretary, Mrs. Queen Pittman, Program Directress, Deacon Arthur Daniel, Deacon Willie R. Wills, and Deacon C. E. Bailey. "Thank you, God, for everything- the big things and the small, , comes from God the giver of them all". nBBiwhfeaBgftftjifliiiii 1 1 ' tgggggj ifls . aaHaMi M dK iH Bg&jgaKaBgaKk ;sjiE sB HH H? wBirii flnnBff:'ni gaj gaawSf HP ART EXHIBIT - Visitors to North Carolina Central UnrfetSStys Museum or Arts are snown viewing paintings by Ernie Barnes, NCCU alumnus and artist. At left Is Mrs. Nancy u umespie, Director oi the museum .. 1 ' m - VETS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS bi Q--I am a recently discharged veteran with a service connected disability, who'd like to attend college under the Veterans Adminsitrations's vocational rehabilitation program. What benefits would I receive? (P.S. I have a wife and child). ' A-If you attend full time, you will receive your tuition, fees, books and supplies, plus $248 monthly. Q Is there a limit on how much I can pay for a home purchased with a loan guaranteed by the Veterans Administration? A--No, but there Is a limit on the amount of guaranty the agency can issue--60 percent, up to a maximum $12,500. Also, the loan cannot exceed VA's appraised value of the property. Q Do Veterans Administration hospitals and members of the committee are: Mesdames Christine Ingram, Chairman; L. Rose, H. Mimms, a Price, M. Taylor and L. Wall. A fellowship hour will follow the evening service. Rev. N. P. Brodie serves as pastor. clinics take care of reservists injured reporting to, or returning from military training? Q--I draw compensation f r om the Veterans Administration for a service, connected disability. If I get a job, will it affect my compensation? A-Not unless your VA rating is based on miemploy ability and you are rated 100 disabled. Q-Is my deceased husband, a World War II veteran, eligible for a headstone? A-Yes, headstones are available for any deceased veteran whose last period of military service was terminated honorably. Suggest you apply to the Veterans Administration, since this program was transfered from the Army Sept. 1, 1973. Q-My brother was blinded during the Vietnam War, and can't seem to get interested in living again. What is the Veterans Administration doing about young men like him? A-VA recently entered into an agreement with the Blinded Veterans Association to augment agency services to the blind. This is in addition to other agency benefits such as compensation for service connected blindness, guide dogs and electronic and mechanical aids, their repair and replacement. S. John's Da To Be Observed By Chapel M Masons The annual St. John's Day Celebration of the Chapel Hill Royal Arch Masons will be held Sunday, November 18, 2 p.m. at the New Hope Baptist Church, Chatham County. T. R. Cole will deliver the sermon. Dinner will be served after the service. Royal Arch Masonry is the seventh degree of York Rite Masons and is engaged in social, religious and charity activities. New Hope Baptist Church is located about ten miles east of Durham, just off Highway 751. Rev. T. R. Cole is the Pastor of three churches in the Durham area, Barbees Chapel of Durham County, Northeast of Durham and Mt. ion of Wake County. On this special occasion, all fraternal organizations are welcome and encouraged to attend. - ISMi m4n Dark Copper Only GE Family Size RANGE featuring iaiV-ta-Clean Upswpf Ceo fop with Accurate Rotary Infinite Surface Unit Controls. Hi-style back splash with glooming chrome one) aluminum trim. No-drip cooktop edge catches spillovers. Tilt-Loct Calrod Surface Units with removable trim rings, removoble aluminum reflec tor pans Automatic timer for oven, dock and minute timer. Family size oven, flood-lighted. Removable door for easy cleaning. Two lock-stop sliding shelves. Porcelain enamel oven interior, broiler pan and chrome rock. Outlet. Storage drawer. Dark copper only. Black Women Awareness Day Held At Lincoln Lincoln Memorial Baptist Church will have as its general theme In the annual Women's Day observance on November 18, "Black Women Awareness Day in Church and Religion". The motto and topic for the day is "Keep Us Forever in the Path." Rev. Wilhelminia Davis will be speaking on this topic at the 11:00 a.m. Worship hour. She is an active member of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church and serves as minister of Evangelism and president of the Dept. of Missions. Other activities included are members of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham, the NAACP, Society of Society of Technical Communication, Church Women United of Durham and is a state worker of the Women's Baptist State Convention serving as co-chairman of the Haitean Committee. In addition to her Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, she has broadened her education considerably by continuous study and trade in the U. S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa. She is married to William Davis and is the mother of one wm, Gary, presently serving in the U. S. Navy in Coronado, California. A proflel of the black woman yesterday, today and To-morrow will be given at 6:00 p.m. service with Mrs. Lafanta Wall, president of the Young Adult Missionary, Mrs. Charestine Ingram, Christian Education Worker and Miss Debra Owen, a leader in the Youth Department, taking part in the panel . - There will be a candlelight service that will feature the founding women of the church, the heads of organizations and the youth. A Litany on the Black Woman and one collection of the black woman as written by the chairman of the Women's day observance, Mrs. Rebecca M. Carlos will be given. Other 1 1 JOSEPHINE E. TURNER Wishes To Express Her Thanks To Our God & Churches Our Communities & Neighbors Our Clubs & Organizations Our Family & Friends . Most of All To You For your wonderful support in spirit and prayers. Strength and finances Most of all your votes! 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