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Winston Salem Chronicle 722-8624 Or 723-9863 From The Desk Of The President By T. DIANNE BELLAMY-SMALL President. North Carolina State Vouth Conference-NAACP Ernest H. Pitt Editor & Publisher Isaac Carree.ll General Manager Melvin Eaton Circulation Manager Winston-Salem, N. C. Ndubisi Egemonye African Correspondent Saturday April 22, 1978 MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA, BLACK PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION Save the Children “Your older brothers and sisters got their heads busted in, but you’re nqt utilizing the tools ti took a lot of people a lot of time to get ” said the tennis superstar, Arthur Ashe inreference to the benefits gained from the student sit-ins of the l960’s. Mr. Ashe was delivering a scolding address to students at Atlanta University Center. He also said, “The first problem with us blacks is that we don’t get to work on time,” and he said the same problem exists among black college students. The black college student of today for the most part is not applying hmhimself or herself. When you go back and read about the struggles of blacks in education it becomes a problem in understanding why young healthy minds are wasting away inthe institutions of higher learning. Mr. Ashe and many black leaders are asking, do we as a people always have to suffer and fight to do our bestTLook at the 1977-78 school year for yourself. Did you quit when things didn’t go your way?Did you sleep late and miss a class because you played cards all night or got in on some good partying?Are you strung out on some dude who just wants a place to lay, but could care less about the homework you leave undone? Did you cheat on another test so that you could keep the false idea that you were the best?Did you call your Mom and sell her on how hard school was when you were just too lazy to try? Think about it. Some of our young black minds will go to waste because of these excuses. I think college has becomyeasier and change is good because some of the needs of the day must he met differently that they were yesterday. However, no one has come up with a substitute for studying, preparation and hard work. Parents can afford to let their go to college these days. But if the only thing you get out of school is belonging to a fraternal organization, keeping up th latest styles, smoking, drinking, partying and leaning theories of easy life you have failed the major course—preparation to deal with life. Just because you can brown nose the professor or give the sob story of your past to white administrators does not mean the world will accept it. Look around you, seniors in high school, freshmen and sophomores in college, you will find that there are a lot of college graduates who aren't doing a doggone thing but sitting at home w’ith Mom and Dad. Why? Because college was a waystation for tooling around and learning the games people play. Wliere does this leave young black potential?As Mr. Aslie stated, the American system and the way it works unfairly towards black people should not be ignored, but while other minority groups seem to have clout, the 24 million blacks in America, “get what the eagle left on the rock.” If black people are to protect their old, respect those in their productive years and encourage the young, we must keep high quality standards in every aspect of life. If you are in school take that grand opportunity to do your very best; because when you leave school and Mom and Dad aren’t there to pick up the tab, you and only you have got to make it. Can you do Lt?You’ll never know until you give it your best effort. This school year is ending but if you gQ\ another opportunity to come back next year, make it a/Worthwhile investment.for you and your people. e£ "sBtr THOSE WHO WORK VERSUS THOSE WHO DON'T Does the city of Winston-Salem care about its children? The staff of North west Child Development might be hard to convince of that. The program faces a loss of $510,000 in Title 20 Funds, and there is a fear that a first-rate child care program will degenerate into a baby-sitting agency from lack of funds. Unless money comes from some where, Northwest Child Developmennt will ahve to curtail health care and transportation, reduce staff, and stop home visits. This child care program was some thing of a luxury, well-funded by the state as an “experiment” in daycare. Because it surpasses programs in other regions, the state is cutting back on funds to the Northwest. If the people in this area want to continue to have outstanding child care, they will have to come up with another source of funding. Forsyth County has come to the aid of Northwest Child Development, but: “City government has never given a dime to Northwest,” according to director Susan Law. At a recent aldermen’s meeting, Mrs. Law took droves to children and anxious parents into the council cham bers to iamatically remind the board who and what was involved. The response, in effect, was: “We’U think about it.” We hope that this request will be carefully considered. The children in Northwest deserve quality daycare. Many of them are from single-parent homes: without good, affordable day care, mothers who work might be back on welfare. Funding for Northwest is not only vital for the children involved; in the long run, it may effect the total community as well. Mending Walls Apparently, the “rift” in the Board of Aldermen, if one existed, is on the mend. The resolution proposed by Jon DeVries calling for the expansion of community development in East Win ston offered enough hope for the black community so that plans to block the grant have been at lesist suspended. The attitude among black leaders seems to be “wait and see.” It is unfortunate that the situation came about in the first place. The week before a $3.5 million grant is to be approved is not the appropriate time to voice opposition to its contents. Those objections should have come while the proposal was being written. The dramatic last-minute threat to allot more to the black community or lose the whole grant could have labeled the three black aldermen as reckless - or worse. But there is this to be said in their favor: they did not settle for the CD package just to keep from “making waves.” They spoke up for their constituents, despite the knowledge that their actions would be criticized. We hope that time and experience win give them the expertise to get their programs approved and funded before drastic measures are necessary, but we also hope that they will continue to be conscientious and even stubborn to get the things needed for the people of East Winston. ir , ^OVERPOPULATION THEBE^T COWTRACEPTIVE OF UVIN6THAT WILL ASSURE THAT YOUR IHILDREN WILL LIVE TO REACH MWURIT;* By Congressman Philip M. Crane, Chain,, American Co nservative I organized a meetings conservative and Republicj leaders to discuss waysthi the Republican Party broaden its base to indu,; the blue collar workev; our country. One purpose of thisga^ ering was to meet withla(» union leaders from thestc; workers and constructic trades. T^e meeting most instructive. The analysis of the u leaders brought up son amazing similarities hetwes their views and those of card-carrying conservatm They spoke of injury toil] investment climate becai^ of our country’s tax of the inability to absor mounting production imposed by governmeii regulations; of the unfj trading practices of sou of our nation’s foreign petitors; of the lack of coherent energy policy signed to provide abunds resources; and of inflaiio dictated by uncontrolb; deficit spending. In sho: they articulated the concerns shared by consf vatives and supported conservatives in Congress, My colleague Congres man Mickey Edwards (R-Ol and I intend to draft a lej I'ative package—hopeful with the cooperation these union spokesmen- meet some of the needs pressed by these leaders, Our goal is to make breakthrough with wf should be a natural basis conservative political port. It is the liberal ui by his actions is creatiiij paradise for wildlife at expense of jobs and provement in man’s ma: welfare. It is the liberal believes that we can fo! a “no-growth” path witho cheating working Am cans — particularly — A dime Is a matter of Paper can be a matter of IttflttCrl* OT money to many coin collec- money as the highest existing To Be Equal money to many com cunec- money as tne aignesL cais tors as they are among the denomination of paper vui- - most avidly collected series of rency is a $10,000 bill with coins in the world. The rarest portrait of Salmon P. and most unique dime is an Chase. Only about 400 are 1873 U.S. dime with the CC still circulating today, mint mark. by Vernon Jordan of) tried to Cove hodf’ some Leadership An Iron Will Combined With Integrity Of Purpose Crime-Control Or Cure? Concern about crime and violence .has spawn ed many “solutions” to the problem, but virtually all of them would leave the amount of crime in our society virtaully intact while giving the illusion of dealing with it. It seems that every year brings a new spurious solution to the crime problem. Seme time ago, New York State put through a drastic tough drug law that was supposed to end narcotics sales for good. It didn’t. Today there are more drugs and pushers on the streets than ever before. The Nixon Administration’s plan to choke off drug imports from Turkey also failed. True, Turkish heroin imports declined, but imports from other countries flooded the market and drugs sudl as cocain and others grew in popularity during the brief period of tight heroin supplies. The result, more and more varied illegal drugs are available than before the “get-tough” drive. „ . .. Preventive detention made no dent in the crime rate. But the search for the big fix on crime continues. The new tad is “Swift punishment.” The courts are bottlenecked, the argument goes,and other cases stack up a long time so prosecutors plea-bargain and some cases are dropped. The result supposedly is to encourage law-bre akers to believe they can get away without a prison sentence if they get caught. A corollary of this argument usually is that court decisions on rights of accused persons have handcuffed the police and allowed many guilty people to escape the penalties of the law. Many ppeople have seized on this new fad and are riding it hard. Adopt what we say, they imply, and crime rates will plummet But there’s no reason to assume that this new approach will be any better answer to the problems of crime than others that have been tried ai’d failed. Study after study shows that crimi.ual cases are dropped or charges reduced because prose cutors don’t have enough evidence to convict, witnesses move away or complainants drop charges. Even police officials admit that court decisions on the rights of the accused haven’t prevented them from dealing witn crime and we ought to remember that back in the days of the third degree, long before the court decisions of the 1960s, police representatives used to claim that if the courts took away the third degree, the police migfht as well just go out of business. well: Philip M. Crane ties—out of pai'ticipatic the American dream productivity and mobility. It is the ■who takes such a dim of human nature feels compelled to infli elitist values on us own protection and Such policies course, an anathema servatives, and would of us to work on thego” ment payroll, prolef against our own frailti«' denied the American”' This is equality in j when carried to its conclusion. As I told the spokesmen, before this tury is out we will alld sec the battlelines th: being draw’n: those’ work for a living versusi' who don’t. life The “swift punishment” crowd also forgets that people don’t commit crimes with the expectations of getting caught, and to:- those who are bent on illegal activity, a prison sentence is a business risk that doesn’t stop them It is clear that for the foreseeable future people ..... v.- 1_ 111 t/v The Federal Energy ministration predicts during the next decai imports may reach than 50 percent. will commit crimes for which they’U be sent to prison, but we also have to remember lhai nine out of ten will eventually return to society and punishment without rehabilitation will just ensure their swift return to jail. It is easy to advocate the current “lock ‘em up” answers since they give the illusion of action and of dealing with a serious social problem. But those who back such answers ought to be prepared for the dismal fact that stress on enforcement and imprisonment is no more likely to work now than in the past. That's why AmetiO! companies are wofioni ways to get themselves a much better ba# position with respet- other oil-producing ' tries than they havenov For several years, oil companies have anticipating in di® ways the decline inU' and gas reserves anl sought to adapt theti to this change by di''^ ing into other eBi fields—coal, uranium, thermal energy, oil synthetic fuels, tar and solar energy Bta
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