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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIOH. N. C.. SATURDAY, APRIL 19. 1969 Bible Thought Os The Week "Though I have the faith of a grain of a mustard seed, I can remove mountains,” says the Scriptures. By "removing mountains” one does not mean moving physical moun tains at all. There are other kinds of moun- It appears that many of the former poverty programs did not actually achieve their projected goals. The impact of the Vietnam War has re sulted in some reduction in such programs. Thus, many Negro leaders are concerned as to how much this will affect the black and culturally deprived. To cope with the issue facing the nation, Nixon’s a dministrationisec pected to reorganize the major part of the present poverty program in a positive manner, while we have ob served the new plan has some nega tive provisions. Please note these realities: 1. Job Corps funds will be cut more than one-third; 65 of 106 re sidential and camp-style training centers will be closed, 2. Part of the training experience for Job Corps members is getting out of the depressing and degrading environment which spawned their inadequacies. Under the revised program there will few resi dential camps since these are the most expense. e-- and more day tyle centers. In summarizing these two points, most of the persons attending train ing centers would live at home, or go back to their own environments on week ends. While this does not sound encouraging, the present Ad ministration will continue one of the poverty wa”’s most successful cam paigns. We regret that the summer Head Start program will terminated, but if it is actually being curtailed for a stronger emphasis on a year round Head Start, then the plan should have strong support for a p rogram reconstruct ion. Armed Forces Recruit Should Used Benefits It has been reported that only a small percentage of our enlisted men are taking advantage of the GI Bill to help pay their expenses to complete high school and go on to college or vocational training. An estimated 20 per cent of the 2.7 million veterans who have served in the Vietnam War and elsewhere since 1964 have not completed high school, yet only 21,000 are making use of the federally -financed pro grams that would enable them to get diplomas. Only 19 per cent of those eligible are using the GI bill for college or technical train ing. Sen. Ralph Yarborough of Texas, who is greatly concerned, feels that the Veterans Administration should become more active in prodding Disposal of junk automobiles and trucks is getting to be a serious problem in every community across the nation. What can be done about it? A citizen who is a resident of Mount Dora, Florida, once visited Rio de Janeiro about fifty years ago. The method of disposal of waste which might be the answer in getting rid of the country’s ever increasing pile of wrecked automobiles. The garbage from the city of three million inhabitants was.loaded on special barges, having suitable bulk heads to provide flotation and col lapsing bottoms. When fully loaded, these barges were towed out to deep sea, the bottom opened and the refuse dumped. The advent of the Negro into the market place as a clerk, cashier and salesman brings on more mean ing than just an image. That was the businessman’s goal in the past. With training, exposure, and ex perience more is offered by this new phalanx of people facing the buyer from across the counter. They know what they are doing, Business op erators have confidence m them. idifmttl Viewpoint Poverty Program Reorganization An Idea For Junk Car Removal You Have A Resposibility! tains which can be removed-problems, worry, insecurity, hate and bias, murder and crime. These are mountains that need to be eliminated or greatly minimized. While this may be true, the pro gram will lose some S4O-to-SSO mil lion with the reduction in summer training. And although the number of children in the summer program will be reduced by 200,000, the number of children in the year round program will increase only by 10,000. The Head Start summer program has helped the Negro and deprived children more than we can every know. It is regrettable that the curtailment involves a large figure. Maybe each citizen can help to do something about this situation. Write your senator and congressman con cerning how you feel about the matter. Generally. Sen. Gaylord Nelson’s note of caution should lie heard in Congress. Sen. Nelson Warned against curtailment Job Corps and other programs designed to aid the poor until our law-makers adequate ly review accomplishments and goals. Hasty action, remarks Nelson, would represent a breach of faith with the thousands who have signed up to improve themselves in these training programs, and “simply add to the disillusionment within the poverty areas of the United States.” In the desire to cut down on na tional expenses, our officials can easily use misjudgement and set the county and people backwards many years. There is so much poverty in our midst; and, if we had our choice, we would say, “For get the proposed ABM system in order to help the poor who are in such dire need.” young veterans to return to school. However, the Veterans Admini stration was ordered to cut down on expenses and has had to drastical ly restrict advertising which would inform veterans of their right and benefits. We urge our government officials to do more in the direction of en couraging these army dropouts to return to school. They should in form these men concerning the fin ancial benefits they are entitled to. We can often become “pennywise and pound foolish.” We, therefore, urge the VA to advertise and pro mote vigorously the idea of getting these men back in school to com plete their education as was true after World War 11. If the reduction of the metal in scrap automobiles is more costly than using virgin metal, why not establish disposal organizations supported by city, county or state division to collect, load and ship this disfiguring mass of junk to the deep areas of the ocean and dump it. Whether dumping of junk is the total answer, we are not prepared to say. But the idea of organiza tions established for finding, col lecting, and dumping sound good. It seems that the main problem is to get the owner of junk cars to do something about the problem. We have seen several junk cars around a single residence. Something ought to be done! Their clientele is both white and black. The least their black brothers and sisters can do is to patronize them. Believe in them. Support them. They need your support. They are an investment by the businesses who hire them. It’s up to us, you their public, to keep them in their jobs. Won’t you stop overlooking and looking down on them and buy from them? Oily In America BY HARRY GOLDEN WE WEEP FOR THE DEAD One of the Latin letters through which English school boys must struggle was sent by Cicero to a friend on the occasion of (he death of the friend’s daughter. Cicero, who always struck me as a pompous, self important type, told his pal not to worry; the daughter was better off, he said, since she would not live to see Rome’s decay. Whether Cicero had his eye on posterity or not is hard to see. I know of no staunch Republican who wrote any pal on the occasion of loved one’s departure that at least the de ceased was missing the mini strations of the Roosevelt New Deal. If anyone did so write, someone kindly burned the letter. I have thought, chauvanisti cally, of course, that the at titude of the Hebrews is the most sensible expression of grief. The loved ones wail and weep. The paid mourners outdo even them. But no one .veeps for the widows. No one weeps for the orphans left to defend themselves in this world. Every one weeps for the one laid away forever in the earth. Significantly, my pious mother always uttered the ghetto prayer for the dead, not a promise or hope of fu ture life, but; "May all the earth be sealed with this body.” It is the wish, cer tainly futile, but a wish never theless, that no one else dies again. It is a wish expressed toward the eternal, impacable enemy, death. The dead should be the cen ter, the focus of grief. Orphans Just For Fon BY MARCUS H. BOULWaRE BABBLE, BABBLE, BABBLE What I am about to talk is supposed to be IBM systems ■with the real truth--of what? Well, let me explain the best way I can, but at best T can include pure chaff, without the wheat, but it is some thing of nonsense. For instance, take "baffle gab.'' This was made popular in Washington by a man named Philip Brough ten, a U. S. Public Health official. He cir culated "bafflegab” among civil service employees, busi nessmen and industrial mag nates. Oiler Editors Say METRO COMMISSION COULD WRECK DADE'S ANTI POVERTY EFFORTS This is an appeal to reason, to the reason of the Metro Commissioners and to those citizens who are concerned with continuing Dade’s war on poverty in the most effective way. An appeal is needed at this moment in the attack on pov erty The Metro Commission is but one step away from emasculating the present Miami EOP! structure to the extent of where its future effectiveness will be serious ly hampered, if not wrecked altogether. This need not, and must not be permitted to happen. If reason does not prevail, not only will the presently smoothly functioning EOPI lie crippled, but the Commission ers will have, perhaps un wittingly, widened the gap be tween ethnic groups and set back the cause of racial har mony to an untold extent. We have no reason to guess at the Commissioner mo tives in passing on first read ing an ordinance for taking over EOPI. It has the option of so doing, or selecting one of several alternatives under the so-called Green Amend ment to the Economic Op portunity Act of 1967. But the proposed ordinance disclosed in its structure and the manner of its inception, an appalling lack of knowledge about the undercurrents in the black community, the cycle after cycle of generations of the poor that binds the dis advantaged, and the goals of EOPI in opening avenues of opportunity for them, to help THE CAROLINIAN "Covering The Carolina!," • Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 518 E. Martin Street Raleigh, X. C. 27ri>l Mailing Address- PO. Box 628 Raleigh, N. c. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $3 25 Sales Tax in TOTAL 3 35 One Year 5.g0 Sales Tax in TOTAL 5 66 Payable m advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders nayablc to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., 3K, Madison Avenue, New York 37, 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 oopv un less necessary postage accompan ies the copy, Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this newspaper. survive and widows and widowers know ecetasv again. I was particularly devoted to my mother. But I remember within a month after her fun eral I was at the Polo Grounds wa t c h i n g Art i e Nehf throw left-handed strikes across the plate. I remember Nehf gave, the batter very little motion. He pitched with his wrist. Christ v Mathewson was the the tuberculosis sanitarium in Sa ra nee, Rube Marquard was then playing for Booklyn and John J. McGraw was still the top manager, developing such future managers as Bill Terry and Frankie Frisch. Out in center field for the Giants was a dandy ballplay er from the South whom the fans used to razz because his temper was so short. One day they really got under his skin and he shouted back at them, something silly about "New York Jews,” and he was on the train that night, trad ed off somewhere. Interest ingly enough, the bleachers were populated mostly b’- Irishmen. I rember all these names but outside of our immediate family I couldn’t tell you who went to the graveyard the day we buried my mother. Charles Francis Murphy, the big boss of Tammany Hall, and my mother had their fun erals on the same day. It was, in fact, the first day of Pass over in 1924. The district Tammany leader, Solomon Goldenkrantz, put in a full day. He attened both funerals, my mother's and Murphy’s. That night Goldenkrantz marched in the Santa Lucia fiesta to the Madonna in "Little Italy.” It was a full day indeed. Well, it was a three-column list of 30 overworked but ap propriate words, a bureau crat likes to be vague if lie can. ‘Therefore, he uses an opaque phrase (3 -digit number) from a master code which he might get the phrase “systematized logistical projection,’' Yes, it lias the ring of absolute authority, but what does it say? Nothing! In the master code, we find suet: words as; policy, con tingency, time-phase, mo bility, management, optional, etc. That’s enough babblegab for now. themselves. In an attempt to keep this discussion on the level of reason, we used the phrase, lack of knowledge advisedly. Perhaps the harsher term of “ignorance” would be closer to the facts. The fate of Metro’s proposed ordinance will be determined after a public hearing on A pril 15. There is but scant time in the intervening days and at the hearing to acquaint the Commission with the facts and to urge revision of the ordinance or its outright re jection. Consider a few of the our standing discrepancies and faults in the Metro proposal: Item -- The County Man ager’s statement that the or al n a n c e r e p r e s e uteri the joint efforts of EOPI and his staff is contrary to the facts. EOPI had only a small gesture toward making its views known. Item -- No definite powers are spelled out in the or dinance for the proposed Com - munity Action Board. This leaves the possibility that the Board would have no powers, but be shelved to an advisory capacity. Item--Appointment of the Community Action Director would he made by the County Manager, subject to the ap proval of the Commissioners. The Manager would have the power to suspend 01 dismiss the Director, who would only have the authority to appoint, suspend or dismiss senior administrative personnel with the approval of the county manager. Item -- The proposed ap pointment of the Community Action Director by the County Manager is against office of Economic Opportunity regula tions. There are other equally glaring discrepancies. But we have cited enough to show that if the ordinance is passed, and unless It is radically amended later, the responsibility and powers needed for the suc cessful functioning of EOPI will pass from the hands of those persons best fitted to run it. The voices of the poor, whose wants must be under stood and known, and who must become involved in deciding their own destinies, if EOPI is to achieve, will be lost in in the lofty reaches of the courthouse. There can be significant gains in the attack on poverty and the evils it spawns. They FOR SAFF. i V IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY! y j. 'LAW-ABIDING NEGROES MUST STOP JUSTIFYING NEGRO LAWLESSNESS ON DENIAL OF R!GH TS -Ml IS T SPEAK OUT FRANKLY AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS OF NEGRO YOUTH: N* Nn'VvT, Economic Highlights Some may find it odd that ,1 nation boasting the highest standard of living in the world, a nation in which more people enjoy more of the good things of life than ever before in history, a nation whose people have a tradition of gen erosity unequaled by any other people an i a nation whose elected official- have long been pledged to the widest posi-tnl.- db g, : ~. s l - material well-being now finds welfare to t>> its number one problem. Future historians may com- up -. it! some* unflattering answer s to the pai atlox of U. S. wealth amidst expanding dupes.dem . 01. nub! : < welfare. However, the findings of future his torians are of no help in grappling with this problem of the present. Judging by the -x --periences of the manifold relief agencies ,nd the despair of administrators w o contim; b fight the unequal equattoi of to many n< people and too little money, welfare described as nothing less then ;< monster has demonstrated all too forcibly Id .4 outs and hopelessness go karri in ! state of New York and the ci” of X present a portrait of welfare in its ad■ stages that all toe cleai i> re’ -,-als wl.at ot: . > communities, states and localities will bt ap against in t! year* to come—if they are ot already. In a sympati etie and thoughtful article in The New York Times Magazine, Mr. Jr Hu* Horwitz, a novelist who has worked in go. ■ :n --rnent and social welfaie, delves deeply into the human and monetary sick- of the Empire State’s welfare tragedly- -and it is nothing 1 ss than a tragedy. Mr. Horwi’. points out that welfare, as a form ofpaternali.-m inNev York, began in the- 1940's and " r ”s with the influx of low-Income Puerto Rican families ho used welfare as an economic stabilizer. The paternalism expanded wit! the migration of low-income families to Me . York City, from the South. They consider. - Y.fareasa "bank” on which they could draw •< compensate for lack of jobs. In stark detail, Mr. lb •• v ' fi roup! per sonal interviews with ’.-.elfa. 1 recipient'., : cubes the human disintegration wl id seems to inevitably aecompat. toss of the will 01 World Hews Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEW MEMBER RF/AI , Philippines-TRe to; .1 u embership of the Asian Development Sunk has rise- to 3.3 with the recent admission of He ng Kong as 2 full-fledged member. Hong Kong subscribed $8 million to the bank’s capita! stock. AT CROSSROADS BLOEMFONTEIN, Sou> ! U ma-The ’-369 South African ga' 1 s opm >•-! last March 1 • at the Free Statu stadium, replete with fanfare and colorful pagentry, ' ut it the period since, the event has turned out to --a flop. Sine- its opening, three teams of overseas participants withdrew In protest to the country's sep egation policies, and pressure has risen among other countries in the world to drop South Aft tea from various oil c-r int< rnational sports events. INSTABILITY ADDIS ABARA-Uns est is rapidh rising wi* - in Ethiopia and among ! thmpiarx now in other countries, against tl - continued ruR of r e country by Hail - Selassie. The citizenry is blaming the Emperor fort! slow pace of development of the country’s backward eco nomy, and the lack of- one; to put throng , progressive plans. NEV- CURRENCY VIENTIANE, I.aos-A . 5 cur • ic; has appeared on t: •• Internationa - • * . cut!«* -e “kip.” It is tM (-vr! in ; t ! ■ )■■ ut 1 to, and corr.cs In donor- nati-- s if o'\ ? - an.: ‘OO kip. It is issued in )-:R! ■ I -*< -controlled -c --tions of northeast 1 no-, a■? 1 : r•• t ■ Mo tion Paihet I.oa, meanin. I - ;?e. EXPO ‘69 ST, GEORGES, Grenarin-Svurda-\p tl 5, can be made only if the front - line fighters have the no- --s --sary flexibility to meet the fluid conditions of the war. This is not possible undei the Metro proposal. As pointed out previously, Metro has the choice of several alternatives. We ear lier recommended and still urge adoption of the plan for Metro to assume only nominal control of EOPI arid leave the present organization function ing as it is doing at present. It is ironic to note, also, the opportunity to obtain productive employ scut. If b a desolate tale of drug addiction, family abandonment, illegitimacy, theft, viol ence, 1 oral and financial bankruptcy. He can find no concrete suggestions to offer for im provement. In the meantime, the plight of New York l rows more desperate. In 1961, a New York State welfare study made what was then the alarming prediction that 703,150 persons would I’. receiving welfare throughout the state by is7o at a cost of $536,665,000. In fact, the . deni wolfs re budget in Now York City alone is si.4 billion, and :t is now estimated that oi’.i y'.k-n pc- -.. ’.re, or will be, on relief in t ;s -s a population move than : Buffalo, the second largest k Stab . It is larger than 15 in the single month of August, . welfare recipients were added ; . ststanco rolls in New York Citv. - answer to welfare? A great ~-hUM citizens are asking this ques- I'.-rt of use answer may be found in the nsifi- : efforts of government and business 1, dor,- r.. pro- ide jobs and opportunities for t uneniplo ed and underemployed in private hrh stt • '. part of the answer lies in removing ’ •,ni:';c!.il ,nd legal barriers to employment oat have arisen through custom, tradition, y ndie • and the relaxing of the unduly re- Motive employment rules and regulations ,M ; iv, government and unions. Compaines Mi over the country are stressing “Equal Em pie :i ont Opportunity” policies. The cnairman of a major oil company went u- e -cart of welfare and racial discrimi :• -tioi: when he said, "People on welfare and unemployed minority groups are really an un di .-1-lope-' human resource. Developing this re source by helping these people become pro ductive through employment, whenever there are requirements for jobs, is a major answer to the problem it must be solved mainly b individuals in our local communities and business- : Obviously, the answer to welfare ioes not lie in simply adding more and more people to the welfare rolls and multiplying the bur hen on the already generous taxpayers. marked the opening of the little island of Grenada’s own effort to better the economic position of the West Indies through the Carib bean Tree Trade area. The effort is known .is • xpo ‘GO, and is being sparked by Dame Hilda P; noe, the island’s governor and first Dai ■ in the West Indies. TTTYBI IMG BLOCK ACOKA-Kimla Age believed Gbedemah, for - minister in Ghana under deposed President Kwame Nkriirnah, discovered his at - ten pis to form a new political party in the country did not set well with citizenry. When his plans were announced publicly, hostile crov,'i> gathered to protest the move. Gbede man returned to Ghana, after Nkrumah’s over - " row in 1966, from a five-year-exile which i!. \ it! ins ouster from the cabinet post. 1 -AC A BIAS TOO LIVINGSTONE, Zambia-C. Brown, a white local merit supplier, had his license suspend- , e ' bj the Livingstone District Gov. Dhilernon I ye mbe on charges of refusing to sell liver r o Africans for racial reasons. Brown claimed, in defense of his action, that the liver was re served for use by hotel dining rooms. HEAP MUCH WASTE CHICAGO-Two American Indians, active in irives for the betterment of their peoples, charged recently that more than S4OO million is wasted annually through mismanagement by federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. Making tne charge were Joseph Muskrat, a Cherokee; and LeNada Boyer, a Bannock-Shoshone. Both appeared on the “University of Chicago Round Table, ’’ public television discussion program. that it is not mandatory for Metro to take over Miami EOPI, a commonly held mis conception. Nation-wide, only 26 local governments have expressed a wish to change their existing Community Ac tion Agencies, which they have the option of doing. That is only a fraction over two per cent, a figure, the Commis sioners would do well to con sider in their deliberations. EOPI is clearly at. the crossroads. The road chosen by Metro can only lead to crippling the program, per haps destroying its effective ness. Again, in light of the facts, we appeal to your reason, Mr. Commissioners. The stakes are high, not only in human values, but in terms of com munity betterment. We urge you to reject the proposed ordinance, and start a new with the full partnership of those now most deeply con cerned and involved. The Miami Times.
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