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4 -T' C "OH A Tt"?S SAT.. FEPRUARY6, 1877 I J. i i ; lETTEa TO TG EDITOH Fund Exceeds $15,000 .Dear Sin: The temperature crisis and the resulting suffering on the part of some of our neighbors here in Durham have brought our people of all walks of life together in i combined effort never witnessed by me during my 34 years residence here. I am so humbly grateful to the thousands of people who have heard our appeal for assistance . in financial aid and other acts of humane thoughtfuiness, especially, for those who are in need. At this writing nearly $16,000 have been contributed to the Emergency Energy Fund, and I am sure that others will give. To our newspapers, radio and TV sta tions and other means of communication we owe a great debt of gratitude. To the leadership in our churches, Sunday School classes, the Durham Commi ttee, the NAACP, Duke University, the Wood Gather ing Volunteers,-civic and fraternal clubs and numerous individuals the City of Durham is most grateful for all of the gifts, great and small, which you have given. It is the greatest opportunity we have had in Durham to demonstrate to ourselves, to the unfortunate among us and to the world that the people of Durham do care about the conditions under which our neighbors are forced to live. I know that all of us wish , that this effort will continue until at least $20,000 is reached. , C. E. Boulware , . - . lo Do Eczzl v v .S MftMitflittnitiiiiifliiMiiiiflntiiifiiHimiiiaililtHfiiiflttt HMHItUtUtliUMHiUUUiUUUIiltiUIUiiilllliilUUjtlli Cv vo:i l joli tftftitttt mttMriiitMMtitttftittttffiiifiitittftfifHtffiiMil Carter's? andatb for Activism t-t,aMlMMMaMSlsytSS'ily President Jimmy Carter enters office with the solid backing jof the American people, as measured not only by the election results but also by recent polls. And that, backing is larger predicated on the expectation - that he will actively take steps to introduce important re forms. '' v .." -" . A recent Newsweek poll, for example, shows that 60 $er cent of respondents have a more favorable opinion of President Carter than they did last November, and only ten per cent thought less of him.';., -'-fi'.f-v; l At the same time, 76 per cent expect him to introduce a tax reform bill this year, 69 per cent expect a reduction in unemployment this year, and .: 54 per cent expect him to introduce national health insurance bill in 1977. Another public opinion survey, this time from Washington-based Potomac Associates suggests that much of the public's backing for then President-elect Carter was due to expecta tions that he would take risks and be an activist. The study warns that "a lack of action, the pursuit of stability for its own sake . . .ultimate ly would lead to political failure." So Jimmy Carter enters the Presidency bask ing in more than the usual honeymoon period all new Presidents enjoy; he enters it with the good feeling and support of the citizenry based on their expectations of his leadership and his com mitment to change. , , " ' And . that explains some of the disappoint ment in the economic package he has proposed. It's a grab-bag of tax cuts, tax rebates and some . jobreatkn programs. Despite the expectations of reform programs within the coming months, his Administration indicates that welfare and health insurance reforms will have to wait for an improved fiscal situation: But at the same time taxes - the resources needed for the reform -will be reduced. i $ I don't think a tax cut is called for a time, when the budget deficit is so large and the needs fot federal programs are so great. A tax cut is not ,; nearly as effective as f job-creation programs in stimulating the economy. It's been estimated that public service employment programs create two to four times more jobs per dollar than a tax ' cut. - .J.--i :': -- . - And the job-creation component is limited. Over a two year period it would create jobs for only about ten per cent of the officially unem-. ployed, and by stretching it put there's the pro bability that . any slight improvement in the economy will be used as an excuse to cut back the urtfidillled portion of the program. , The economic package , is 'clearly less than what President Carter's supporters expected and less than the economy needs. The most disturb ing aspect of this is that President Carter seems to be trimming his sails needlessly, spending un due energy and care on reassuring his political Thanks To The Community Den'acjfn L Woo,IS ' opponents that he is not too radical,, instead of meeting the needs' and high expectations of his supporten.;n:; Seeking consensus 'ano taking the middle ground is often advisable, but a new President must be aware that the political honeymoon comes to a fairly early end anyway and that it's necessary to act swiftly and boldly at the start of - anew Adrninistration. , Black people; poor people, and the jobless . are looking to Washington today for signs that their interests will for a change be advanced, that their cities will be helped, their children well schooled, their families weli-housed. They are looking for decent jobs, health care and peace. The government can't do it all, but it is the single most important instrument of securing these basics for the bulk of our citizens. The policies it pursues affect the private sector's rple. Its enormous power should no longer be placed at the service of inequality and the . status quo. Rather, it should be the righter of wrongs and the instrument of constructive change. ; The biggest priority facing the nation is full employment, and President Carter should modify ' his economic proposal to ensure full employ ment. By doing so, he will set his Presidency on the bold course of greatness.;;;: v iil- FCC Corr.r.issiacr unMiinMmiiuimiiiHMitiiiiiiniiimuiiiiiim The great outpouring of help from the Durham community to aid the el derly and poor during the fuel crises de serves praise and thanks. , , , From the : cutting,, storing, and transporting of wood for needed heat in homes of the less fortunate, a deep human interest and concern was exhi bited by those, working in this community effort. Individuals are still working to provide the needed man power and wornanpower as they con tinue to cut, transport and store the wood for futel at pick up points. Re member this has been carried through during the times of coldest weather, from all area reports. Community groups such as Opera tiJlcaWursugh, Social Services, Women-in-Action, Church Councils and Volunteer Services, to name a few, have provided yeoman services as they have checked and sought . put , those who were in need for '. heart or warmth. One is also reminded of the fine community spirit when children and staff of our schools in the northern por tion of our community became en dangered by the quick and freezing snow which made travel nearly im possible. All of them deserve praise and thanks for their efforts. Durham did receive, national cove rage on, its wood program for fuel - energy project. For those persons who note the occasional letters of thanks from grateful individuals while passing through pur city, it is also nice to see ' thev cooperative efforts carried out at home as well For does not Chanty be gin at home? ' As the groups and individuals con tinue to pursue the wood for fuel tasks, we also - commend the Rev. Robert Young, Chaplain at Duke Unhrersity1 fot the wood idea ahd?Iffi'.WBo1flvar? (cash donations) for their coordinating efforts to follow through the project during the freezing weather. . Thanks again and 'much praise to v the : Durham community for helping and sharing. " - - Giant loots To Fill i Housing; An Urgent Need An announcement by the Housing Authority of Durham Director, James Kerr that additidnal housing for the elderly will soon be started on LaW wood Street is good 1 news to, poor people - especially the elderly poor, . Many of our elderly and poor, live in inadequately insulated and inade quately heated homes. '.Many of them are also among those seeking needed wood or other fuel to help keep them ; warm in this unseasonably cold winter.1 Reports will also show, that, poverty among the elderly is continuing to rise as their population? figures increase. A lack of adequate housing in Dur ham has struck the the elderly and the elderly poor of all ethnic groups most severely during this extreme cold weather period. - Durham needs to speed up its hous ing program, especially for the elderly and the poor, so as to minimize these ; hardships in the future. Further,' as builders construct homes for low-cost' tenants,' better governmental controls and strict super vision of such structures are necessary to prevent the continuance of the many hardships that have surfaced during this emergency period. ' . - .Stop-gap 'construction, in the long run, makes for the many insulation pro blems that are now found in much of the housing that is usually occupied by, many of our elderly poor. ( So the sooner the construction can begin to : alleviate some of these pro blems, the sooner many of our elderly poor can find relief. On January 10, the NAACP National Board of Directors re-elected Roy Wilkins as Executive Director and Secretary of the NAACP for a term that will run througn July 31, this year when he will retire after more than 45 years with the or ganization. For his long, meritorious service, Wfl kins upon his retirement will have conferred on him the title of "Executive Director; Emeritus," On August 1, of this year, the board also de creed, that I shall assume the title of Secretary and Executive Director of the NAACP, - the nation's oldest and most prestigious civil rights organization. ". ... and until that time (August 1) Benjamin L. Hooks shall have no official duty status.within ihe Association," the board de- , ,i;:claryd.v "Uhta ii Mr. Hooks will ' have the title.of Executive Director-Designate." I went to some length to spell out the board of director's announcement, in hopes that the air will be cleared once and for all in respect to ' when Ifwill assume the NAACP office. ; So many of rrry friends and well wishers in Washington, D. C. and throughout the country have asked me that question: "When will you be leaving the FCC?"? Or "When wfll you officially become Executive Director of the NAACP? , I will be leaving the; Federal Communica- tions Commission in the month of July, spend a few weeks vacationing and contemplating before assuming the awesome task of heading the NAACP. . Such giant boots to fill! Such gargantuan . problems to shoulder! Such heady goals to work toward, the fulfillment of which can mean so much taht is good and positive for all of Ameri ca. The mind is boggled. Senses reel. Imagina tion spars! . "These, indeed, are the. times that try men's souls." During quiet moments of contempla tion, when I am alone the office or home is still, and no insistent phones jangling for an answer, doubts creep in. Am I big enough for the job? Is any one man? ,;; ' - .iThe answer is, of course 'notl This is not a one-man work. It is a task, a struggle of many ' people committed to end injustice, racism and in tolerance in our country. I will, as my predecessors before me, merely stand at the center of struggle - a catalyst, an in spirer, hopefully an organizer, a fulcrum on which the levers of our combined struggle can turn lifting the heavy shackles of bondage and oppression from our tortured psyches and souls. The mood shifts. The weight is lifted, mir aculously. For with this clarity comes a certainty ; separately, my brothers, and sisters, we are not much. Together, acting in unison, with an un flagging sense of ourselves we can move mountains. : It was a great annual NAACP meeting in New York. Enthusiasm was high. Most of the 64 board member board of directors were on hand for their meeting following the plenary session. Praise, deserved praise, was heaped upon Roy Wilkins, whose 45 years of unstfatirig work in the movement has earned him the enviable title of "Mr; Chil Rights" a man who is indeed ; a living legend m his vm lim. cs " V We not only wished lum the best but con ferred him the title of "Executive Director Eme ritus" when he retires. And I am sure that we at the NAACP and black folks will be more honored if we continue as an organization to ':' hold ever higher the precious torch Of freedom. i) ; ! ,; 1 " Now rs" a good. time ' tb stop and takelstdckbf the fact that in this first year of the third century of our nation's independence as W. E. B. Dubois, has so well stated (in his book Souls of Black Folks in 1903) that ihe problem in the 20th century is the problem of the color line." " Today the, prophetic words of Dubois still ring true. The problem unresolved is yet that of "the color line". People all over this world are still looking, yearning, hopefully, to this,' the brightest star in the national constellation hoping if will yet live up to its noble pronouncements: : "We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evjdent, That AH Men Are Created Equal" and begin to assert it self vigorously on this premise. ' 1 Ccncrcsscn tlaulibs' Colt-mo : U.S. Economy Tied To Foreign Economies MINTON B0RNlNCOLUMBIC.IWri , EOUOTeO M NEW HUMPSHUte; HC WASCUBS ' CiuioiWOoDrrcorMisMuxQtwptt HC eOTHW WU.IW W93;H HP.fROM JgFITW CICMmC NtSCMKHCfl HE MADE MEDICAL ' , HI STOW WtTM MS HOHltA WORK ON THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OfTUtEJWJLOSJSHE WAS ALSO A CEiEiRATEO CHRONICLER Of 'I m' o ' ( u A" -The Prime Minister off Jamaica, Michael Manley, was recently quoted as saying that, Jamaica comes down with pneumonia every time Washington gets a hed cold. If this is not an exact quote, its neafi enough to the point to suggest that Amerfcarpeconomic policies affects foreign economies, andvice versa. President Carter; strongly believes this asser: f tion; and so does hi Treasury Secretary,- W. Michael Blumenthal. 4nd his Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advison, Charles Schultz. Both of these new administra tion leaders testifying before Senate Committees have said in effect that American economic policy will require anew and greater emphasis dealing with the ecjlomic interdependence of nations;. if :"':-t Unless we come to grips witn tne innerent problems in these economic interdependent factors, world recessions will stay with us, and mounting confrontations between the "have not" nations and the "have" nations, will esca late. - , : : For example the less developed countries rural located in Asia. Africa, and Latin Ameri ca, have had on the average, a per capita GNP of only $ 1 3U, tor tne last nve years. (The GNP or gross national product is the market value of all final goods and services pro duced by an economy during a one year period.) ' The U S. picture is radically different; per a capita GNP was $7,000 in 1976. And in Europe, it had a rousing range of from $5,000 to $8,000. Blumenthal feels that such disparate income distributions have all the seeds for promoting "a real threat to peace in the long run". K ' What can be done? Well, there certainly must be all out effort by the leading industrial . nations - the United States, West Germany and Japan - to develop a comprehensive, coordinated effort at expanding theiikjojnt economic activities on a number of fronts, and especially accomplished in such a way that LDCs don't go deeper into debt. A healthy starter, would be for the industrial nations to begin paying fairer prices for the raw ' materials they extract from LDCs since most in dustrial western nations have had a long history of ripping off the mineral wealth of the LDCs The aggressive attitude of the OPEC nations, causedTn part by past Mid-East exploitation by the West, explains why oil prices have become the focus of such world-wide tension and world-; widc.apprehension. ' : y.f- .J ; ; t Jamaica is another case. It has had an ample share of problems with Jamaican based, U. S. owned aluminum companies over bauxite pro duction, bauxite prices and corporate ownership of bauxite lands. To get even.the U. S. Treasury has orchestrated a credit squeeze on Jamaica, in order to bring Jamaica to heel. This is bad eco nomics, and hopefully President Carter will dra matically change our neanderthal behavior. The industrialized West must organize a cooperative move for world-wide economic stim ulation, which will bring about economic sta bility, and challenge the old economic values which have led to an unfair imbalance in the world s ownership of wealth and productivity. The sooner they do this, the better, ; $ ' k-' 4i s - DR. FRANKLIN Dr. John Hope Franklin, ' -the John Manly Distinguished 4 Service Professor of History and former chairman of the Department of History at th - 'the University of Chicago, will ? ' ; deliver the address for the ' J 10th ' Founders' - Day Celc ,' bration: of , Saint " Augustine's College; He will s speak ' on i , Thursday, Feburary 10 at II 1 .'t.m. in the Emery Buflding.i;i- 1 v. L E. AUSTIN Editor -Publisher, 1027-1971 Published - every Thursday, (dated Saturday) at Durham; N. C.; by United Publisher, Incorporated. Mailing Address: P. O. Box 3825, Durham, North Carolina 27702. Office located at 436 East Pettigrew Street. Durham. North Carolina 27701. 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