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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY. MARCH 15, 1969 Bible Thought Os The Week H. G. Wells on one occasion was asked the Lincoln. Why were they great? Well, they took name the six greater men tn all history. He little from the world and left It much. They compiled this list--,Jesus ofNazareth, Buddha, did not get, they gave: and, in gtvLng, gained Aseka, Aristotle, Roger Bacon, and Abraham eternal influence. Go and do likewise! Editorial Viewpoint Is The Present Recompense Justified? Depending upon how one looks at the matter, the present racial up risings in our colleges and uni versities, or the confronting of po lice with citizens, seems to be a joke were it not for the fact that these events come with alarming rapidity—making clear that these are not jokes, but indeed serious p oblems meriting solutions. wnatever one wisnes to call these events and campus take-overs, they form a recompense which counter acts nearly 300 years of slavery, segregation, and discrimination. Tip. slave masters and their off springs are being paid for their seeds of inhumanity. One hundred and eight years ago on October 15, John Brown was so i , ole rant of slavery that he staged 1,.- leadly raid on harpers Ferry, \V".u Virginia, with the aim of free ing all of the slaves in this nation and establishing them into an in dependent Negro republic. John Brown reasoned that slavery in (he U. S. was tantamount to ‘‘unjustifiable war of one portion of the population upon another por tion.” Opponents of John Brown argued that American Negroes were a “peaceful, domestic, inoffensive race; in all of their suffering, they seemed to 'oe incapable of resent ment or reprisal.” To this obser vation, John Brown replied, “You h ive not studied them right . . . human ' nature is the same every where. . .” These prophetic words are ringing anew around the nation. In our big cities, racial clashes with the police have become rampart. Black students, supported by some whites, h ive shaken our college campuses with riot, ruin, and “take-over.” In black, people’s resentment, they have demonstrated, as John Brown said years ago, “You don’t know human nature.” While there is a cause for these events, one, based upon the sur face of things, would right away call all of this foolishness. Our university boards are tightening down on students in an attempt to control them in the expression of their resentments to the long years of mistreatment and discrimination, starvation wages', and living with rats and filth in slums. Students feel that ;hey have been hemmed in by the power structure of this nation. The radical element is “out to beat” this evil force down. Fhey may say, “We want black power, we want black studies in a separate school, we want more There Seems To Be A School Conspiracy Time and time again, C. Blythe Andrews, publisher of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin at Tampa, has written editorials and columns on what he terms an educational con spiracy on the part of whites in moving toward integration. He added that this subtle conspiracy “in the name of desegregation,” has these aims: 1. To discontinue Negro schools wherever they may be and build new ones in white, urban and rural areas, 2. To man these new schools in white areas with white principals and mostly white teachers. 3. To eliminate Negro principals, as far as possible, in the transition from schools in Negro residential areas to those built in white re sidential sections. In getting i'id of the Negro prin cipal, many subterfuges are employed, such as: (1) moving the school to a white residental area under a white principal, (2) raising the educational requirement for a princlpalship to a doctorate de gree, (3) transferring Negro ad ministrators to school board ad ministrative offices and placing black teachers, we want this or that,” but these activities are mere ly overt signs of deeper feelings of resentment. They may say “We want anything, logical or iliegical. crazy or stupid,” just to confront injustice. This resentment must burn its way out of black humans. Yes, these may be the wrong tactics to achieve human goals, the wrong “road to right injustice,” but America must understand what has caused the natural “recom pense” we are reaping. tVhen the cause is understood, the powers that be should honestly set about to rectify all injustices. But what we find to !>e true is that the United States is dragging its feet in recti fying injustices among the poor and disadvantaged. » The so-called militant leade r s like “Rap” Brown, for instance, may be giving blacks the wrong kind of counsel, for instance: “We intend to wage revolution by any means possible.” “Any means possible” hasproven to be tragic and ineffective, as the followers of John Brown found out --no matter how j u s t i. f i able the cause. The Negro is not strong enough in physical power to win by the route of violence. And history is replete with examples of this fact. Hoy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and other leaders have counseled against “riots and ruin,” “we are going to burn it down,” and so on. At the Founder’s Day observance at Florida i&M University on March 7th, one of its graduates, Dr. Cleve land L. Dennard, president of Washington Technical Institute in the nation’s capital, urged students “to transform their activism into positive action once they leave the college campus,” and we would add “on the campus.” “Don’t jazz out,” he pleaded. He urged students to accept the call of responsibility in their hometowns or wherever they may go. Students were challenged to acquire “social and political skills,” and return with them to their own communities and make them work. America is feeling bitter pain for its long history of injustices upon a people brought over from Africa and put into slavery, circumscribed by-laws of segrega’ion, and per petuated by discrimination. “I will send recompense,” saith the Lord. This is the sign, but will our country wake up and meet the challenge? them in a “figure-head position” or with some vague title, and so on. Negro citizens are catching on. Presently, a proposal has been made to disco..tinue the formerly all- Negro Jones High School in the black community and move it to a new section in the white neighbor hood as a means of integration. The black patrons of this community school are “catching on to the subtle trick” and are making their voices of protest loud. Black citizens are saying, “Why not improve Jones High School and integrate it?” Some have argued that to move by buses Negro child ren to white schools to achieve in tegration ignores the fact that there a re white neighborhoods in the Jones school district which would readily afford an integrated student body. The black patron knows full well that whenever Jones High School is discontinued and the students trans ferred to a white area, the present Negro principal will lose his job as an administrator sooner or later. Is there a better way to deseg regate our school system? Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN LETTER RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE Dear Mr. Golden; I am ap pealing to yon on behalf of myself and several other shocicea and horrified citizens. Thursday night, Jan uary 16, 1969, a young Negro woman, Shirley Small, was shot and killed in Tabor City, apparently by tier husband. Her husband, Prince Albert Small, had jumped bond in High Point; there was a war rant for his arrest. But he had threatened the lives of both his wife and their small son. He had brutally beaten the little boy earlier, in High Point. To be frank, it ap peared that he was about to murder his family. For that reason, Mrs. Small sought legal help either to have a law enforcement agency call the High Point police or to place her under protective arrest or custody. Papers for her Y.usband’s arrest were corning from High Point, but there was no reason to sup pose that he would wait So Mrs. Small and I went to the Tabor City police, Columbus County sheriff’s office, and the county probation department. Terribly frightened both for herself and her son, she sought help frorn all three agencies, but more of them cared enough to make any real effort to help her. In one agency she was shouted at by a police man in the most flagrant dis play of rudeness I have ever witnessed in a public" official. Another time, her plight seemed amusing io an officer, for some unaccountable rea son. Everyone said to eair for the papers to come frorn High Point; they told her to hide, which she was already doing. Nobody cared enough to make a five-minute phone call Just For Fun by Marcus h. boui.warf. A PUBLIC SEER In public speaking classes, one is taught that a speech has a beginning, a middle, and an end. But a wit ad vises that the closer the end is to the beginning the more effective an address is. Will public speakers take this advise? OH YES! ‘‘The love of money is the root of all evil,” but it also the jack of all trades. (Amen!) This is just as true as it is for one to forgive an enemy he can'i lick. Letter to the Editor NAACP NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION To The Editor: I guess we all feel a de gree of relief and satisfac tion in knowing that after a long delay our own chapter of the N. A. A. C. P. has been reorganized and reactivated. We should feel relieved and satisfied because at such a time, during the turbelent re volution of our country, good sound, constructive leader ship is needed. All Negroes should be familiar with the history of the NAACP and what it has done in the past to elevate the Negro to his present status in this country. We also know that it has been the only strong voice that the American people would listen to and respect. In the past few years, the NAACP has lost much of its prestige and white people's support large ly due to internal misunder standings within its own ranks, resulting in Inactivity. In the meantime, black mili tants have taken advantage of tills inactivity and organized their own groups, the most fearsome of these being the black power advocates, seized upon by some to distort, dis rupt, and just plain "raise hell” for the sake of not caring and being devoid of re sponsibility. These people di vert from normal procedures. We also know that these or ganized groups do not re present our true law-abiding Negro citizens. Now Is time for all Negroes who are dis satisfied with what iias been taking place in our colleges and in our streets regard- XHK CAROLINIAN •'Covering The Carolina*" Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company SIB E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27<-01 Mailing Address,: P.O. Box 828 Raleigh, N. C. *7802 Second Clas; Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N, C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES S:x Months 83.2$ Sales Tax . .10 TOTAL . 3.35 One Year 550 Seles Tax IS TOTAL 3.66 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. alt 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 the return of unsolicited news pictures or advertising cony un le.js necessary postage accompan ies the copy Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of tills newspaper. to High Point to verify that her husband was a fugitive from justice; nobody cared enough to put Her in jail for her own safety; nobody cared, and Thursday night he found her and shot her three times in the back and she is dead, her little boy an orphan. Mrs. Small was a Negro, and apparently nobodythought her trouble was worth bother - ing with. I have heard people refer to such things as “nig ger mess." The fact that she was a human being--ar, Intel ligent girl who love her son-- meant nothing to them. She be lieved that the law, designed to protect the rights of in dividuals and defend them from harm, would help her. The law ignored her, and she is dead. Mr. Golden, your name is a syn on v rr. for honesty, justice, and decency. None of us here has any power or influence, we have no reading public. But we know that if such a thing could happen once, it could happen again. Such negligence and uncon cern cannot--they dare not-- be tolerated, if the lives of any of us are to be worth anything. Please help us make this shameful 3ffair public know ledge, so that it will not happen again. I am a VISTA Volunteer. I am doing this work because I love this country, and I can not stand to see such things as Shirley Small’s needless and unnecessary death happening in it. Thank you for any help you can give us. What more can I arid? Plato argued we shall never have justice until the man who is not wronged feels as aggriev ed as the man who is. RECORD ANIMALS ON TAPE We reoerd the voices of people; so why can’t we ‘ ‘tape” tiie barks and howls and snor ing of dogs? But capturing the sounds of barking dogs on tape is progress, and could we not play the tape back so that a dog can hear it. This would keep that four-legged gent from barking at the moon w hile the neiglilwrhood is try ing to sleep,. Well, they tell me that “re cordings of barking dogs” are being used to flush birds for hunters. Can you imagine that? ing us to come forth now and "say it like it is.” We are divided in searching for our true identities. Some Negroes do not hold to the black, but beautiful concept, the na tural look. Some of us just like tie ing ourselves and liv ing our own lives as we see fit. Whatever we propose to be or are searching for, we can not deny that we are all A merican and therefore have obligation and responsibility to this country to keep it unit ed and not divided. Those who believe in the separation of the races and feel that it will solve the Negro’s problems have not shown enough promise to raise the masses of very destitute Negroes from their surrounding c ircum tances, and that includes everything jobs, decent salaries, housing, crafts, trades, and needed technical skills, needed now to even qualify for a decent job. Then where is the needed capitol coming from? As 1 have often stated In the past, our whole salvation lies in working to gether with white people, all people. The lives of too many good people have been given for the rquse of freedom and living together In peace and harmony for us to turnaround and revert to the slavery we have once known. This theme still holds true, "United we stand, divided we fall,” There are many avenues in which the NAACP can exert its in fluence. The new president and his reorganized staff merit all of the citizens of Raleigh’s support. It is to be hoped for that the ones who took office did so with a clear con science and a sense of sacrl .fice and dedication. May all us offer them our prayers as they enter into their new en deavors. The time for action is now' Wilbert M, Sanders, Raleigh, N, C. |JOHN ADAMS 1 B “Yesterday the greatest fl H question was decided which It h ever was debated in Amer- j & sea; and a greater perhaps S H never was, nor wii! be, de . cided among men. A resolu- R ■ tion was passed without one 9 ■ dissenting colony, that those 8 United Colonies are, and of 9 jw right ought to be, free and HI independent States." letter R s ; i to Mrs. Adams H (July 3. 1776) I WILLFUL RETARDATION? GROWN FOLKS HAVE BEEN —— DP. ROY BROWN,ASSOCIATE HUNGRY A LONG t LONG PROFESSOR OF PREVENT TIME, BUT THE KIDS AWE MEDICINE AT TUFTS, V JUST GOT HERE, AND SAID'HE IS CONVINCED THAT WE DON’T WANT THEM \ NEGRO CHILDREN BROUGHT Economic Highlights Three issues dominated last fall’s election. They were inflation, the war in Viet Nam and law and order. What might have been an issue of major proportions has become an untouch able subject. No candidate dared discuss with complete frankness the heart of our growing welfare state, tin Social Security System. Millions of people are now dependent upon this sy stem, anti the most the candidates for public office could do apparently was to suggest various methods and schedules of benefit in creases. Rare is the person who raises a question concerning its fundamental soundness. In a scathing denunciation of what it calls “Robbing Peter and Paul,” Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly goes into some ol the present day facts about social security and adds two distinguished names to its “. . , honor roll of independent thinker', . . who have analyzed the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance sy stein(OASDl).They are Mr. Colin D. Campbell, professor of eco nomic at Dartmouth College, and Mr. James M. Buchanan, chairman of the Economics De partment at the University of Virginia. Messrs. Buchanan and Campbell dernostrate convincingly that from the standpoint of young people just entering the labor force, the social security outlook is bleak indeed. At agi 65, the new breadwinners can never hope to receive more than a fraction of vrhat trey ( and their employers) will contribute over a working life time. Moreover, as Professor Campbell points out, recent amendments to the law will but widen the sizable "gap between potential bene-' fits and costs. For example, a generation ago, President Roosevelt claimed that under the proposed social security program the annual payments “can be ample for a comfortable existence bearing some relations to customary wage standards.” For awhile this claim looked rea sonable. In 1990, monthly benefits covered World Nows Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS LOSE JOHANNESBURG - A “piracy clause’' has been invoked b\ the South African Supreme Court copyright tribunal, permitting the local Operatic and Dramatic society to stage three popular U, S. musical hits O'er the ob|ec.- tions of their authors. The plays involved are “West Side Story,” “Fiddler On The Roof” and “Man of I.a Mancha.” The authors objected because the plays would be pre sented to racially segregated audiences. Tne piracy clause states, “in circumstances it is unreasonable that the license should not be granted, the tribunal should then grant a license.” NEW CHIEF DaR ES SALAAM - The work of the Mo zambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) re sumed Its usual pace last week after being brough to a momentary halt with the death of its president, Dr*. Fcluardo C. Mondlane. Filling in the top spot temporarily Is the Rev, Uria Simango, Protestant minister and FRE LIMO vice president. WATER SCARES EVERYWHERE AUGUSTA, Me. - The U. S. is not alone in having to come to grips with water prob lems. While the Maine government :s launch ing a $1 million regional plan to clean up algae-choked lakes and streams which threatened water supplies, the Russians are busily engaged in trying to save the Aral Sea of Central Asia—a major lake, from extinction, not by pollution, but from div ing up. SPECTATORS ONLY BLOWMFONTEIN, South Africa - When the all-white South African games are held during mid-March to mid-April, non-whites will be allowed to attend the games as spectators only, according to a decision made by the city council. There will be no black, brown or yellow participants in the games. BIOGRAPHER NEW DELHI - Dr. S. Copal, reader in South Asian history at Oxford (England) University, has been selected by Mrs. Indira Gandhi to compile a ful! biography of her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru. Dr. Gopal is to have full rein over the Nohru papers, now stoied in bulk at the former prime minister’s residence which has been renamed Nehru museum. less man aO per cent of the budget and by the end of 1966, less than 30 per cent. As a result of continuing inflation, the Social Se curity Administration now fears that people choosing to retire before age 65 may be fotced to apply for welfare. Moreover, as Messers Buchanan and Campbell point out, v “There are more than 15 million persons now receiving federal old-age pensions--probably not one of whom paid in the full cost of his insurance benefits.” Even friends of the Social Security System of today term it an outright fraud in terms of insurance. “A \oung person starting work,” concludes Professor Campbell, “in 1968 at the ige of 2? and earning at least $7,800 per year for the next -13 years is scheduled to pay OASDI taxes (excluding medicare ) worth $83,053, if 4 per cent interest is assumed . . . After deducting 20 per cent of the total value of his taxes for survivors' and disability In surance, the amount paid in for old-age in surance alone would lie $66,442. The maximum retirement benefit that his young worker Is scheduled to receive is $3,876 per year ..... A pension of this amount could be financed at age 05 with accumulated tax payments of only $42,183 .... As an insurance policy, the explicit terms offered to a young worker under the federal old-age insurance program are not attractive.” In calculating social security tax payments, Professor Campbell’s figures include em ployers’ contributions which as Barron’s points out, most economists agree really come out of the employee’s pocket. As time goes on, i!" inequities of federal social security are bound' to become issues that cannot be swept r unoer me rug. A growing number of an tiioi ities appear to be convinced that social security will become one of the top problems of a “Pandora’s Box” of problems that seem inseparable from a burgeoning welfare state. CHANGES COLORS CAPE TOWN - Harry l ewis, an Opposi tion (United Party) member of parliament who heretofore lias been regarded as a liberal, switched sides last week and joined forces with the ruling Nationalist party, to support “the official racial segregation policy of government and attempts to unite the two white groups (English and Afrikaans-speaking) into a greater South African nation.” However, his switching lias not been received with open arms, because the majority of the Nationalist members are “suplcious of him.” i PILOT TRAINING BLANTYRE - Both Malawi and Zambia are seeking to build lip a highly qualified and professional group of pilots—Malawi, to operate its commercial planes, and Zambia, its military aircraft. Malawi has signed an agreement with Britain to have its pilot trainees undergo a year’s course at a civil aviation training college near Oxford. Zambia is dickering with the Italian Airforce training establishment for the training of its pilots. END DETENTION ZANZIBAR - Two members of the former cabinet of the Sultan of Zanzibar have been re leased from detention by the present Zanzi bar government. The two are Muhammed Shamte, former prime minster; and Ibuni Salah, ex-Mlnister of Communications, Power and Works. Three other cabinet members are still In detention. THIN LINE LONDON - A snag has developed in the 1968 Race Relations act, which bars discrimina tion, among other tilings, In housing. The snag concerns the distinction to be made between “citizenship” and “race”, and results from the refusal of Ealing Borough council to grant housing to Polish and Spanish applicants be- \ cause they are not British subjects. * ILLEGAL ENTRANT NAIROBI - Fame and fortune are pretty slim for John Okello in Nairobi thesedays. Okelio, who led the 1964 revolution on Zan zibar which ousted the sheik, had taken lightly deportation back to his home country of Uganda by Kenya several years ago, and decided to enter Kenya again. Naturally, he was caught, and now is beginning a three-year prision term for entering the country illegally, ‘
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