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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1969 Jesus came to a stop. “Who called my name?” “Nobody, Master . . . only a ollnd beggar, a worthless fellow, Bartimeus, no body at all, we’ll tend to him,” remarked the disciples. But the Master said, “Bring , him here.” The deep rich eyes of the Master The Black Church And The Minister The time has come when Negro churches should correct one of the worst types of social injustices of which God’s house is guilty. Too many black preachers are shame fully underpaid, and the salary are inequitable by too big a range be tween a high and low salary. iThe itinerant preacher system in many churches is a shame and disgrace, so far as the Christian church is concerned. Often four different churches cannot support a pastor in a manner that he can pay his debts, walk straight, and look the “whole world in the face, and say he owes not any man.” In some churches, the appoint ment system permits discrimina tion and the impractical placement of ministers in accordance with their experience and training. In this instance, the church is not Always able to place “the best Circuit Court Says College Can Expel Students The righs of colleges and uni versities to expel students who stir up campus unrest and “obstruct t lie orderly procedure of the educa tional process” was upheld recent ly by the Sixth U, S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of three ex pelled students versus Tennessee state A&I University at Nashville, Tennessee A&I University had expelled three students - Frederick Brooks, James M. Booth and Ken neth P. Jones - because they al legedly promoted student unrest by passing out leaflets and making speeches designed to disrupt normal campus activities. The three student defendants and •appealers contended that they were denied the right of freedom of speech which was in violation of their constitutional right right to free dom of speech and assembly. in the court, this argument was clearly refused by the record which is replete with substantial evidence A Lecture-Experi mersl In Black Studies Eight Morgan State College pro fessors have agreed to lecture at the University of Pennsylvania on the Negro in America in an effort Jo increase awareness of the history :und culture of the Black American. Willie Howard, director of spe .cial projects at Morgan, has an nounced a series of eight lectures .during March and April. The lec tures will be open to the Philadel phia Community through the Mor ;gan - Pennsylvania Cooperative • Project. These institutions are studying •different types of programs in Af rican studies. The attendance at .'these lectures will be used to meas ure one aspect of community in terest. In addition to the lectures, j students are involved in participa tion in cultural events, concerts, ;and exhibits. • With the cooperative enterprise :between Morgan and the University •of Pennsylvania, there are bound to ;he discovered new ways and means : of best inculcating interest andpar- Post Office New Deai Can Help Blacks With vigor, our new Postmaster General Wanton M. Blount is taek ; lin g the problem of improving the ' postal services, and, we helped put the system in a position to pay : its way. He may be in position to help make u reality of integration. Removing the appointment of post - . masters and rural carriers from the political patronage system, under which congressmen or political ad visors decided who got post office ;jobs and plums will be a blessing. .This change, for instance, should •make it possible for more Negroes to become postmasters. It has been reported that there are "3"2.000 postmasters in the United Bible Thought Os The Week Editorial Viewpoint looked into the sightless eyes of the beg gar, and the Galilean attended to the problem of the man by giving him sight. Here was a need; and Jesus had the time to meet this urgent need. How many of us can say the same for ourselves? men where they are most needed.” The preacher must eat, clothe and house himself like otherpeople. Often a minister must leave a place of critical need because he is under paid. For this reason, many rural communities, inner-city areas, and college campuses—where our churches ought to concentrate its efforts are being short-changed through the failure of church ad ministrations to provide the best rn inisters. More and more local churches must revolutionize their thinking about giving to the church. Too long, Christians of the black church have paid in the collection plate the widow’s mite which accounts as one factor for the underpayment of many ministers. Each member must regulate his giving in such away as to make it more sub stantial and systematic and sacrificial. to support the expulsions for con duct other than the type of activ ity which is entitled to constitu tional protection, the appeals court ruled. While this particular ruling af fected Tennessee State A&I Univer sity, it may also set a legal pre cedent for dealing with student leaders in campus disturbances. It goes almost without saying that the Tennessee student defenders, or some university students, may challenge the ruling of the Circuit Court of Appeals and present their cause to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, students should consult legal sources for advice be fore adopting disrupting techniques to get action on their grievances. Otherwise, they can get themselves into a lot of unnecessary trouble. At the same time, universities must find other ways in seeking to settle student complaints. ticipation in this kind of project - various approaches have been u lilized at various colleges and uni versities. It is hoped, at least we think so, that black studies programs will teach our students other ways of building racial pride, black identity, and so on, than by the educational disruption procedure. Building black pride is one thing, and this is edu cational in process; while seeking to re Iress grievances is another thing -a political t\pe of activity which serves in good stead as a means of reaching certain goals through the democratic process. Pride, as perhaps the Apostle Paul would say it to Christians, “the gospel of Christ (dignity'of the black person) is a doctrine of which we needeth not be ashamed.” In this light, the student wouldpresent him self as a first-class citizen who as sumes constructive responsibilities and seeks redress through the courts rather than through taking the law into his own hands. States, but only about 40 of them are black; and in rural letter car rier’s jobs, there are only eight Negroes out of a total of 31,000. This condition shows a perpetuation of racial discrimination. In the past, approximately 1,600 postmasters and 1,800 rural letter carriers were appointed annually. Now with the newpolicy, Postmaster General Blount can personally rid the Post Office System of discrim ination in the appointment of rural letter carriers and postmasters. Such a move will create more jobs for Negroes. These federal jobs should be made available easily to ail citizens. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE NUMBER ONE HOBBY •Joed news I A press dis patch informs us that the num ber one hobby among Ameri can males is not deep-sea troliing for swordfish, it is not baseball doubleheaders, nor even Superbowls and dis cussions about Joe Namath. Nor is it the dogs and the ponies at the tracks. It is not even poker. Guess what? It is gourmet cooking. How the reporters or the statisticians discover the number one hobbies from time to time is a mystery, shroud ed with confusion. But if the newspaper says so, it must be true. City editors take no chances Once upon a time a! 1 Papa knew about the kitchen was popping corn in the fireplace for the kids and twisting the ice cream churner on hot Sun day afternoons. We are the first nation to get Papa back into the kitchen and we should swell and burst our chests with pride. My own imperishable prose is, in fact, preserved in a cookbook; The Artists and Writers Cookbook for which I wrote out my mother’s re cipes for holishkas which is stuffed cabbage. 1 even posed in a plaid apron once for the Charlotte Observer where mj recipe was repeated some years later. However, i feel it would be misleading if I pretended to have cooked the holishkas. I did the writing, the posing, and somebody else cooked the holishkas. I con fess that I did it for the mon ey. The American male started Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE DOWN IN N. O. Last week I attend a federal ly-sponsored conference on undergraduate training of speech correctionists, under the auspices of the American Speech and Hearing Associa tion In New Orleans at the Jung Hotel on Canal Street. Aside from the proceedings, the evenings and nights were spent in visi ‘ng places full of history and lore. There was Preservation Hall, where Negro jazz oldtimers played “real-old Dixieland jazz.” The place was so crowded that it was pressed-down and run ning over, with people stand ing around outside. Letter to the Editor SCHOOL INTEGRATION To The Editor: Some time ago, to be exact February 1!, a request from the Supt. and the cf Education called on parents and other interested friends to submit plans in writing “on how to intergrate the schools.” To me this is a very simple question. If everybody submitted a plan there would be just as many as there are people who submit them, and certainly the Board of Educa tion would never be able to integrate the schools, as re quired by law. An eminent jurist, Mr. John Morrisey and also general counsel for the North Carolina Association of County Com missioners made the following statement and I quote, “Every city and county is a creature of the General Assembly, they have no sovereign rights of their own, but only those del egated to them by the General Assembly.” If this is true (and I have my doubts), then Vance county and the school board have no authority to in tegrate the schools, but must wait until the General As sembly gives them authority. If some one would come here to rny home and tell me that I have no authority In my home, but what he gives, I would say to him, you are preposterous, ridiculous and absurd, The General Assembly of North Carolina Is the only source to blame for our schools not being integrated. The school locally has done a good job. They have had many headaches and pains, they have been unjustly criticized by those who do not understand the circumstances by which they are surrounded. When our General Assembly went on record approving the freedom of choice plan It was THE CAR or. IN IAN "Coxerlng The Carolina?.'' Published b> The Carolinian Publishing Company 518 K. Martin Street Raleigh, N C. 27U)1 Mailing Address: P.O Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 21602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RAT.SS Six Months , ~. $3.28 Seles Tax . . 10 TOTAL 3 35 One Year 5.50 Sales Tax 16 TOTAL 5.68 Payable in advance Address all communications and make ail checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 310 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N Y, National Advertising Rep resentative. Member of the Asso ciated Negro Press and the Unit ed Press International Photo Ser vice. The Publisher is not responsible for (he return of unsolicited news pictures or advertising copy un less necessary postage accompan ies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of tliis newspaper. cooking hot dogs for the Boy Scout jamborees, progressed to the mammoth barbecue pit and now he is concocting la cervelle au beurre noir and les moules au vin blanc ma riniere. If he thinks he has not been had, I got some news for him. I see nothing demeaning a bout a man preparing pablurr. when his wife is off having the second kid. Preparing pab lum is infinitely more pleas urable than getting along with her mother. But there it should end. If I were expected to pre pare split smelts Greno bloise for dinner, we would eat out of cans. The kitchen is her job, along witl doing the dishes and hanging the storm windows. The good people at Heil man's mayonnaise plant and at the Good Seasons Salad processing factory have re moved forever the doubts whether tiie dressing is ade quate or not. The cowboys out West have produced steers every pound of which is steak. If the worst conies to the worst, a TV dinner is not the worst tiling you ever put in our whole mouth. Hobbyists! Do not commit yourself to what will eventual ly prove a peonage worse than any Conquistador ever de vised. A man who evicts his wife from the kitchen forces her into one of the adult courses at the local high school; she’ll start studying the history of the dance and the gourmet cook will waste his vacations of Jacob’s Pillow watching Joe Limon cavort. To get a kick, many of the delegates visited “night spots” to see the “go go gnis.” One landmark of entertainment had a big fat mama dancer who tipped the scales at well ox er 350 pounds. They tell me she almost, or did she, dance in the nude? I learned by the grapevine that she brought down the house with a song titled, “Big Fat Mama with the Meat Shak ing on her Bones,” and “Rock it to me, Baby!” Somehow, I missed this entertainment. Who know s, maybe I can spend mv vacation in good “ole” N. O. then they prevented the local board from integrating the schools. Some one said, “That every bill or plan lias some kind of teeth or object and the very object of the freedom of choice plan was to take the responsibility from the school boards and place them In the hands of parents and children. The result is still a problem and the school board stands in danger of losing Federal funds. Who is to blame for ali of this trouble we are in? The blame is not on the school board, neither is it on the General Assembly and cer tainly not on the HEW. There is nowhere for the blame to be placed but on Henderson and Vance county. It appears to me that the whole of Hen derson and Vat.ce county have been brainwashed by the bu reaucrats who teil us that there is no power in us, but that which is delegated to us by the General Assembly or some other bureaucratic or ganization. Power is in us local people and we can in tegrate schools if we have the courage and bravery to stand up and utilze the power that is in us. Our American Constitution is the mow inspired docu ment struck off by the mind of man at any given time. (Gladstone’s statement). An other American statesman said, “The soul of the Con stitution is the Bill of Rights,” which is contained In the first ten amendments, and made law Dec. 15, 1791, This bill of l ights protects ttie citizen from his government ana in dicates that there are some things the government can not do, among these, no in terference In the exercise cf religion, no interference with free speech, no interference with popular assembly and the right of petition. May I suggest to the local school boatd you have the power to intergrate the schools according to law. But as long as you wait pending on the children, the parents and the freedom of choice plan, you will never do the job. Fifteen years ago the highest court in the land hand ed down a verdict doing a way with a dual system of education and today some of us are continuing to hold to the status quo and rebel against the law of the ' md. If the job is to be done, a few old men must be crucified and killed dead. I name them as follows: bigotry, malice, selfishness and hypocrisy. In the place of these may all of us enthrone in our lives, love, friendship AMERICA’S TRAGEDY 1 U 1 'THESE.DR. CYRIL WALWYN, ** ! 1 THE DIRECTOR, CONTENDED’ . Mm -v ili.j | THAT HUNGER INTHE DELTA 5" / Jiß 1 y W.AS NOT DECREASING, AS V fo* j *7 MOST WHITES INSISTED; HE fit gf# vfi.lllJ HADSEEN ro ° MANY p° t — m Jill 'ifp. BELLIED, WORM'INFESTED nSPWHHfiP!y 8 YOUNGSTERS. The Thought Exchange BY GORDON HANCOCK TIME FOR STRAIGHT TALK! What people want to hear, and what they need to hear, may be entirely different things; and currently we have too many speakers who are more interested In telling people what they want to hear, since this insures a certain species of popularity. One of the most unpopular things a speaker can .do is to tell people what they need to hear. It was all the more gratifying to hear Dr. Tl.oma» H. Hen derson in ids recent convocation address before the assembled student body of Virginia Union University depart from the usual course of trying to court popularity, and make a serious attempt to be helpful to the hundreds of young people there gathered. But the most gratifying feature of the great occasion was to see hov, hungry the students were for some straight talk. The applause he received at the conclusion of his marvelous address strengthened faith in the possibilities of youth at a time when youth is being severely tested and freely criticised, for what they do and what they do not do. Among the powerful observations made by Dr. Henderson was the warning to the students that while it was timely and necessary for the Negro to react to the discriminations and limitations whicl he must meet on every hand, it is highly necessary for the Negroes and especially the younger generations not to “over-reach” and turn humorless and rude and boorish in their efforts to prove them selves no “uncle toms and handkerchief heads.” He emphasized that the real “uncle toms” may prove to be those young Negroes who are allowing themselves to be used by designing whit revolutionaries, who are .desirous of overthrowing this nation and using our young Negroes to spear-head their thrust to power. For it is true that in order to appear coura geous and brave, some Negroes go to the ex treme to show their true color*'. It is a fact that a man can be a man without being rude, boorish and uncivil. It is true that the white man should be told of his sins; but, it is also true that Ne groes should be told oi tlieir shortcomings, and tills calls for straight talk, and only Ne- World Nows Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL RACE BIAS LAW NASSAU - The Bahamian House of Assembly is being asked to pass a law; to make illegal discrimination on racial grounds in business establishments. Maurice Moore, People Labor party representative from Grand Bahama, testified ihat discrimination “against Ba hamians Is the order of the day in many establishments,” particularly in bis con stituency. He suggested that those practicing discrimination should he expelled from the Bahamas. CH \LI ENGES U. S. WASHINGTON - A Western Shoshone Indian, Richard D. Williams, has a challenge against the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme court, protesting his induction into the armv and subsequent service in Viet Nam. Williams contends: he is an original Indian, a member of an unconquered nation, and cannot be made to, as a traditional Indian, abide bj the laws of the United States. CONSTIT UTION A L PRO PCS A l SALISBURY - The white minority-ruled government headed bv Piemier lan D. Smith has found Its new constitution plan, setting up segregated election rolls, meeting op position from ail sides. The plans proposes one roll foi Europeans, coloreds and Asians, and anothei for Africans. Both the moderate center-party and the ultra-right-wing con servatives are against the plan, to say nothing of the coloreds and Asians, and, most of all, the Africans, LANDS GRANTS FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A federal panel has proposed giving native Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos grants to millions of acres of their ancestral lands, which reek with rich oil, mineral and other natural resources. The grants are seen as satisfying claims of the native Alaskans which have been filed with the government since Alaska achieved state hood. ELEPHANT WALK RATANGARH, India - The popular saying in India these days might be “Beware of elephants carrying contraceptives.” The government has sent a 25-year-old female elephant on a life-long walk (estimated to anti goodwill to all mankind. As we go to bed a* night not knowing that we will .see the breaking of the day, may we groes can talk straight talk to Negroes. Whites cannot do it, as Negroes would be too re sentful It is dangerous for whites even as it is dangerous for Negroes to tell Negroes the ugly truth about themselves, even though we shall, have to face the truth about our selves before we are free, A laundry works a hundred Negro women and is forced out of business because the amount of stealing was so great that the owners could not stand the weekly losses. A shopping center in W ilming ton, Delaware, owned and controlled by a Negro must shut down because as lie says, “I am closing down the entire shopping center-young hoodlums, most of them under 18, just would not give us a break, they pushed and shoved customers and broke into their cars. Hoodlums are rampant and customers are literally frightened. I am spending $6,000,00 annually just to fix broken windows. I am in debt to the hilt and have lost around $33,000.00 in savings. This was not my fault unless it was being too optimistic for the future of Ne gro business. The whole shopping center of ten stores opened in 1968, closing with a pile of broket: windows and a bath of red ink.” What about the school teacher who bought a fur coat for $3,000,00; what about the male teacher who is buying a Cadillac for $6,000.00 and does not contribute to the very organiza tion which fought for increased salaries for Negroes. Neither the woman with the furs nor the man with his Cadillac own mem bership in the NAACP. When the Negro Col lege Fund passes the hat, they look the other way, while expecting whites to give. W hat about the unreasonable attitude of so many Negroes who honestly believe that everything white is wrong and every Negro is right, and refuses to hear anything to the contrary? WJio is going to straighten out. the Negroes’thinking on these things u piam speaking Negroes do not do it? Like the gods on Olympia, Negroes need to “quarrel” among themselves with plain talk. Scoffing at what we need to lieai and hungering for what we want to hear, is not going to bring ns into the Promised Land. Negroes need straight talk by straight thinkers. We need the truth! We need It now’ take 60 years) to dispense contraceptives (from her trunk) and literature urging var ious birth control methods. The elephant, named Lai Tikon--meaning Red triangle, the symbol of the nation’s family-planning program - •began its 20-mile a day walk at this rural community 100 miles northeast of New Delhi. No otie expects, however, that within her ex pected 60 years life, she will be able to cover the country’s 59,560,000 villages. FIRST LOAN OUAGADOUGOU - Independent Upper Volta has recieved its firs! loan from the World Bank Group, a SBOO,OOO credit to help ex pand and rehabilitate Its telecommunications systems. The loan is for a term of 50 years, J is free of interest, but carries a service charge of three-quarters of one per cent to cover administrative costs. MOSLEM DIVORCE LONDON - A court test .s being made of a centuries-old Moslem custom of divorcing a wife by saying three times, “I divorce you.” Mrs. Avesha Qureshi has put the matter in ihe hands of the British court on grounds that she and her husband, Mohammad, were wedded in a civil and Moslem ceremonies, and thus is not entitled to dissolve a British marriage by a non-British law. The court took the case under advisement. GRUDGING CHANGE JOHANNESBURG - The hullabaloo stirred up by white South Africans over the film, “Kenner”, in which a white South African actress falls in love and kisses a black sailor, after he has beaten up a white rival, seemingly has disappeared. Movie censors re vic wing the film recently, decided not to cut out portions dealing with the fight and the love-making. UPGRADED CHICAGO - Since 1951, Liberian citizen Wil liam H. Jones has served his country faith fully as consul in Chicago, while working as a printer in the Chicago Daily Tribune news- . paper's composing room. Last week, however, ' his government upgraded him to the consul - generalship, with expanded duties covering states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. pray the little prayer, "Lord grant me the serenity to ac cept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wis dom to know the difference.” L. B. RUSSELL “Henderson
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