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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH N. C.. SATURDAY. MAY 3. 1969 4 What should a minister do if lie finds that one of his parishoners is a slum lord? We say follow the example of Jesus who on the first Palm Sunday stood up for what He be lieved by driving the money-changers from the Every segment of society is striv ing tor ownership of property —the affluent middle class, blacks and whites, the wealthy 3nd the poor. There is nothing wrong with buying a home and land and making other investments. What concerns us is the philos ophy that “my property is my pro perty and I can do with it what I choose.” This infers, we repeat, that a property owner has a right to do with his property as he wishes. This may have been true during the colonial and pioneer days, but not so any more. Our individual property rights, in somuch as they relate to ownership of land, water and other natural resources, are only valid within the context of public responsibility. It is an absolute imperative that we encourage a philosophy of land and water ownership that equates the re source owner with a short-term tenant, responsible to the present and the future occupants of the earth for the well-being of the resource. A case that bring out this point occurred not so long ago in Florida. In Bradenton, . i - esident felled a tret.* holding an eagle’s nest. Every land owner entrusted with a v bald eagle nest should firmly protect that nest from harrassment and de struction. lie should do so because it is clearly in the national interest to keep this national symbol of the great American spirit from passing into oblivion, simply because he The United States Bureau of Cens us has developed new procedures for counting heads at census time. But in doing' so the bureau “is so busy counting toilet and battery powered radios it misses people,’’ said Arthur R. Miller, law pro fessor at the University of Michi gan. The law professor felt that in the census bureau’s pre-occupation with the nature of toilet bowls, they are depriving 7 million Americans of appropriate apportionment and re presentation in the halls of Con gress. Miller and Rep. Jackson E. Betts, R-Ohio, told the Senate Subcom mittee on Constitutional Rights that the census questions are too wide Will Nixon Lick Postal System Problems? «r If you don’t know it, President Nixon has proposed a postal rate increase to help “pull the United State Post Office out of the red.” If passed, this will be only a partial remedy for putting the system “in the black.” The present postal- deficit is $1.2- billion, an all-time record. Penny increases in letter and postcard rates, and corresponding hikes in second and third class will reduce this deficit by S6OO million. The President has sensed right ly the emergency and expediency of postal rate hikes. He promise Congress specific reform pro posals in June to break the cycle of larger and larger deficits and more rate increases. There is, we hope, room for good manners among our so-called race leaders. In a Tuesday afternoon telephone call to a prominent personality in Raleigh circles, by this newspaper’s managing editor, undue profanity was used to blast The CAROLINIAN. It’s a singular twist of attitudes when we praise things that promote or propagate to our advantage or in our behalf, and curse them should they refuse to be told what to do. Bible Thought Os The Week Editorial Viewpoint "It's My Property - - But! "Straining At A Population Gnat" An Act Os Disrespect Temple. Likewise, ministers should have a conference with such a member about his slum property. We do not advise finger pointing of sermons to certain Individuals. didn’t care enough to extend that protection. The belief that “my property is my property” is a relic of the past that wall all the more quickly pass into oblivion through land owner’s failure to recognize the public in terest in the natural resources they own. Abuse is the surest way to lose any freedom, including the right to own land. Let us look at the eyesore created by junk automobiles which clutter the neighborhood and mar the beauty of the surrounding community. A land ow'ner may feel that he has the right to keep junk cars, allow the premises to grow' up in high w'eeds, and permit the place to become cluttered with old food cans. He may own the property, but he is en dangering the health of the communi ty when he permits the w'eeds to grow and empty food cans to ac cumulate and become resevoirs of w'ater after rain. There are times w'hen a man can not be permitted to do whathew’ants to do with his own property. If so, many men would build a saloon next door to a church or a private home. The saloon w'ould soon be come a nuisance by the presence of loud-playing juke boxes, noisy crowds, and foul and filthy language emitted from the mouths of the drunks. Our persona 1 rights must be merged into those of national rights for the good of the nation. ranging and the penalties for re fusing to answer them are too se vere.. The penalty for refusing tc answ er census questions is 60 days in jail and a SIOO fine. The Census Bureau says only two person have ever been penalized. Maybe people realize that you can’t beat the system. The purpose of a census is to locate and count the number of resi dents in the nation. While we re cognize that, during the process other valuable information can be assembled, no one should be forced to answer questions other than that of giving his name and address, perhaps occupation, and the number of persons comprising his house hold. It has been suggested that all first class mail should have one rate of ten cents, and promise delivery by the most expedient method, whether it be air or surface mail. Ten cents per letter is little e nough to pay for an efficient service ot promising to pick up, process and deliver a letter anywhere in the country. Os course, this will require more efficiency than has been demonstrated in the past. For twenty-seven years, our.post al rates remained steady, but the cost has been leaping up regular ly since 1959 to keep pace with our growing economy. If we are going to remove the enormous deficit, let’s attack the problem realistical ly. We are not asking to be loved, only regarded as others in our field of endeavor. Profanity is un needed to tell a reporter ‘I will not entertain your call.’ However, should one expect to be respect ed, he must first respect himself. Heated profanity by anyone to a reporter seeking information is dis respectful of oneself, not to mention the insult to the earned so-called station in life as a mannerabie citizen, professing the Apostle’s Creed. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN EASY CREDIT TERMS If “Easy credit” or “No Down Payment” had been popular In the 1850 s, Earl Marx would have conjured up a whole new universe in “Das Kapital.” In those days when one man owed money to another and could not or would not pay, the creditor threw the debtor into prison. No steel bars or stone walls threaten debtors today; the creditor only asks the debtor to pay the interest on his loan. As long as credi tors collect Interest they have to hire Brink’s trucks to take the money to the bank. According to the moralists among us, the viciousness of "edit buying is thai u nas oe come an end in itself, a goal Instead of a means. Some car dealers, for instance, make a larger profit out of fi nancing autos than they do out of selling them. Even with the new federal law which re quires a statement of the true annual rate of interest, the folks over-extendthemselves. Some years ago, the poet w. H, Auden declared we had too many happy marriages and too many unhappy people. So, too, with credit buying: we have happy customers but too many cluttered households. The invention of personal credit and its widespread ap plication helped make us an affluent nation, the most af fluent in history. People bought their own Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE- “AND GOD MADE WOMEN” They tell me that “a man finds himself seven years old er the day after his marri age.” So let the buyer beware! (Men don’t fall for that jive that a married man lives on the average longer than a single man.) This may be true, but a few wives with their nagging drive their husband to their graves. It is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. So Other Editors Say THE BLACK ACADEMY Prof. C. Eric Lincoln, of the Union Theological Semi nary, announced the es tablished of a Black Academy of Arts and Letters, dedicated to defining and promoting cul tural achievement by black people. The Academy was launched with the help of the Twentieth Century Fun, which provided assistance in financing the creation and initial operations of the new institution. As part of the celebration of its own fiftieth anniversary as a foundation, the Fund fur nished administrative aid to the Academy's organizers and will assist them in obtaining to insure sufficient operating revenues for the Academy. Anticipating a pertinent in quiry into the reason for creating a Black Academy, Prof. Lincoln has provided a convincing rationale. A Black Academy of Arts and Letters, he said is "one way of coming to terms with a society that has not yet made up its mind about the role of color." He added; “A Black Academy of Arts and Letters is away of affirming the existence of creative excel lence in places where we are not accustomed to look for It; and of recognizing It where, for any number of reasons, it has gone largely un - recognized." However, the Twentieth Century Fund is not interest ed in the pursuit of the black movement for separatism. In a statement released to the press M, J. Rossant, director of the Fund, said that "the Fund does not view' the Aca demy as an institution devot ed to separatism. The gap dividing the races must be closed and it is our convic tion that the Academy can be a very constructive element in closing it," In our view, the Academy will not be able to close the racial gap If it maintains a rigid line of demarcation nor will it be in a position to come to terms with a white THE CAROLINIAN '•coverlns' The Carollnas” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 513 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N C. 27UIX Mailing Address: PO Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 2756? Second Class Po tagc Paid at Ra leigh. N' C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $3.25 Sales Tax .... . ,jo TOTAL 3.8 R One Year 550 Sales Tax ’« TOTAL 5 66 .Payable in advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 31*. Madison Avenue. New York 27. N Y, National Advertising Rep resentative Member of the Asso ciated Negro Press and the Unit ed Press International Photo Ser vice. The Publisher (s not responsible for the 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 Mite newspaper. homes, their cars, goods and services quickened creating more and more work. Per sonal credit provided one of the great impetuses for the income revolution. But along my street I can count six E-Z Credit Com panies and the folks who pa tronize them own very little of these world’s goods. The money they might have used to supply themselves with necessary goods went in In terest. A shoddy bedroom set which at best costs SB9 be comes S4OO and at that is re possessed eventually, refur bished and re-sold which Is hardlv moving goods and serv ers. Wei e I a school superintend ent anywhere, I would insist that in ghettos, slums, and 1 ower-middle-class neigh borhoods every school offer a course to teach youngsters what credit costs. While the majority of boards of education around the country are frantically scrambling to introduce the children to the complexities of the New Math it seems to me a vain process in dis tricts where people never have one dollar to rub against an other . But I am not a school super intendent. 1 usually pay cash for what I buy and settle up my charge accounts and bills on the tenth of every month. As a resut I have a poor cred it rating. make your choice. But re member tliis: “A rich woman will put you out of her house when she gets angry with you,” says the prophet. Euripides, the Greeks plav wright, once remarked; “There is no worse evil than a bad woman, and nothing as has ever been produced better than a good one.” Take the prophet's advise and ggt a good one. • society that will, no doubt, polarize it as a black entity. It should broaden its per spective to include all who meet its requirements, re gardless of race of color. PRAISE FOR NEGRO WOMEN In a copyrighted article in the current issue ofMcCall’s, Mrs. Edmund Muskie ways some good things about black women’s perfection and poli tical savvy. Describing the hectic cam paign days of Senator Muskie’s Vice-Presidential race, she says she “had become weary of women who compulsively spin their wheels in activity designed more to fill a void than to help a cause. Early in the campaign, I was assured that most modern women --particularly if they are black--know that there is too much at stake today to be spectators in the national arena,” she said. "One of my strongest im pressions -- heightened per haps because I was born and raised in a small New Eng land state where few Negroes live--is that America black women have developed un common political skill and perception.’’ Mrs. Muskie added that working with a group of Ne gro women in Washington, D. C. on a fund-raising effort during the campaign "gave me the chance jo observe a sort of national sampling of crea tive, practical, aggressive women who were resolved to make a difference in their communities. This is quite a compliment to Negro women who have been coming of age politically in the last two decades or so. And, they may ultimately make the diffenrence between suc cess and failure of the move ment for black power and freedom. The CHICAGO daily defender. A COSTLY ARGUMENT As too often in the past, Black Shreveport Is spend ing its time, energy and talents squabbling among themselves. The problems of race and poverty are sidetracked at a time when the best minds are needed in concerted efforts to continue the fight for civil and economic rights. The argument is over which group will furnish local lead ership. Each man and woman involv ed, we believe, is a dedi cated person and seeks the improvement of conditions in the community. Differences come in personality clashes and methods of operation but not. in aims. People who have sacriiied their time, money, energy and even put their lives in jeopardy to provide leadership have seen their best efforts filter way because of contention within the Black community. To name a few of the most recent victims': Dr, C„ O. FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS... CONFRONTATION EVEN IN VIETNAM f ®tsM ''COMPLAINTS RANGE FROM Hr> - DISCRIMINATION IN DUTY OR ON EMOTION AND THE USEOF \/Jj T . SUCH WORDS 45 *NIGGER *AND A fjLgW '’black boxto anti-negro i .MU—M— The Thought Exchange Marcus Garvey lives: In the second decade of the century the name of Marcus Garvey was a name with which the nation had to contend. Carve , and Garveyisrn was the talkoflheworld. Unfortunately, Garvey lived as contemporary of the great Dußois, who by reason of his Harvard Ph.D. v,as-re garded as the last word in the Negro v/orld. Dußois more than any other factor succeeded in crushing Garvev and Hriirnieci him as the “little fat black, ugly man.” But in the current Black Power movement, Garvey lives, for the current movement is the Garvey movement risen from the dead. Just as Booker T. Washington was hindered in his grea» philosophy and program by the newer fu! Dußois, but lives on, so was Gravev. Although gainsaid and bitterly opposed and denounced by Dußois, Booker T. Washington is as much alive today as when he was pre siding in the flesh over the destinies of wond erful Tuskegoe Institute. Booker T. Washington lives because he had not only a philosophy, but a program. Today Dußois’ greatness is in eclipse. Garvey said exactly what the Black Power champions are saying, that after a hundred years the Negro is still far from The , Promised Land of full citizenship in this country. No wonder that fighting Walter White asked in one of his farewell writings, “How Far The Promised Land?” The signs for Ne gro salvation are not propitious and there are many indications that the doors of full fledged citizenship are barred against the Negro as never before. The world seems united in the sentiment to head off the hapless Negro. White supremacy is the great Twentieth Century Pharaoh vowing not to let the Negro go! Now Garvey said in his great movement, so long as Negroes are helpless to crash, tire doors of the white man’s world the next best thing is for the Negro to withdraw temporarily from the fray and re group ; is forces and’ become a separate na tional entity in the world. By this means he might command the white man’s considera tion that is today being denied him. It is said of the great Napoleon Bonaparte that he once engaged an enemy in battle and was worsted in the battle. Aftei retiring, lie looked at his watch and saw that if was only three o’clock and rallied i is army by telling the Old Guard that there was time to fight an- Economic Highlights Is there a change In attitude toward govern ment? This is a question that close observ ers of the political scene appear t<, be asking. They question whether people still accept government as the omnipotent director of human affairs. Mr. MPlvin Maddocks, book editor of The Christian Science Monitor, writes of the public antipail y to the "megamachine," which seems to be the euphemistic term for the modern Super state oi Service State that endeavors to be all things to .ill men -- In other words, a "Big Brother." In thecourse of his discussion of govern ment, Mr Maddocks comments, "The poli tical apparatus that governs me: seems to be getting larger and more complicated, It al so seems to be getting less relevant to their real needs." He then asks, “Can we have our benevolent Service state without having our ‘Big Brother’ Police State along with it? We are a little like the college student who writes passionate and high-principled letters to his father asking hin. to please ‘get off my back’ and -by the way-- send a SSOO check special delivery in the return mail.” Well-known economist, author and manage ment consultant Peter F, Drucker also writes in one of ills late books, entitled "The Age of Discontinuity," on the sickness of government., He says, “There is mounting evidence that government is big rather than strong; that it is fat and flabby rather than powerful; tV.at it costs a great deal but does not achieve much. There is mounting evidence. . . that the citizen ... is increasingly discenehanted with it. Indeed, government is sick -- and just at the time when we need a strong, healthy, and vigorous government. ’’ Mr. Drucker discusses the past 70 years during which the peoples of the world became enamored of the idea that hi all powerful, centralized government lay the answers to their problems. The unquestioned faith in the ability of government to take care of people and their problems soared to dizzy heights in the United States as administration succeeded ad Simpkins, Anno Brewster and Rev. Harry Blake. Presently, the ieadersnip of B, J. Mason is in ques iion as president of the local branch of the NAACP. Per* sons who once joined hands to bring back its effective ness to the community are other engagement neiore the eventide. He regrouped his men. and won a decisive Ixittle. He had to regroup his men, and the Garvey movement, like the Black Power movement, is a regroup strategy and tactic and it not without Its finer points. Ti e Black Power movement as a separatist movement lias a no more stubborn opponent then i writer, and at every turn he Is r •gi a vote against a separatist move e and more he finds that the move annot be gainsaid and when he leans that his is opposing me i separatism, rattn-r than the I f separatism itself. The greatest ot separatism resides not in the : pal sm itself. The greatest opposition to separatism resides not in the movement itself, but in the advocates who uYe in many instances persons with so much bluster. But when divested of these, the separatist movement makes sense! If the white man is determined to bar us forever from Paradise with the flaming sword of race prejudice, then the Negro is justified in doing the only thing he can do, and that is regroup his re sources and do the thing that is forced upon him by cruel circumstances and fate. With a sane and’matured leadership, Black Power can really be a power which can open doors otherwise closed. The watchword then should be “Let us reason together as brothers, instead of mutual blood-letting and mutual h.or le and interracial destruction. It is not . ..essary to separate ours. Hvs in order to destroy one another with iudei haired which ’ ns about brought the white man to the brink • self-destruction. It is tin impossi bilities being exploited by the current cham pions of Black Power .v! ose moth at ions art voict in “Burn, baby, mum" slogans. A “build, baby, build” motivation shows a pos sibility that needs exploiting. Given a sane leadership and a sensible point of view, Black Power can really become a powei in the crisis that confronts the Twentieth Century world with the Negro its central concern. This writer must confess that his opposi tion to the separatist movements is more of a protest against its champions than against its philosophy. A separatist movement with ’constructive outlook makes sense: Marcus Garvey lives! Constructive separatism? Yes? ministration in Washington. . Promises and cliche’s flowed across the country like water from a burst dam. But behind the froth of promises and slogans came a veritable in undation of debt and bureaucracy that threatens to drown freedom and civilization Itself, If the age of blind faith in super govern ment is, in fact, coming to an end, what comes next? In answer to that Mr. Drucker points out, the main lesson of the last 50 years is that government is not a "doer." "The purpose of government, in other words, is to govern. This, as we have learned,” says Mr. Drucker, "in other institutions, is Incom patible with ‘doing’.’’ The time has con e, in the opinion of Mr. Drucker, for the ‘‘re privatization’’ of the "doing” of society’s tasks. And, that, Lo a sense, is what has been taking place as the federal government calls increasingly on business to beat the responsi bility of expanding employment and renewed hope to urban centers. Unlike the government, business is a doer, because it must continually meet the test of change or cease to exist. In the opinion of Mr, Drucker, this is the strength of business _ as an institution. "If we want a really strong and effective government/’ he declares,” ... we should want businesses that are not ow-ned by government. We should want busi nesses in which private investors, motivated by their own self-interest and deciding on the basis of their own best judgement, take she risk of failure.” It may sound like heresy after generations’ of growing dependence on government to sug gest that the best way out of present dif ficulties is to turn to the resourcefulness of private citizens. Yet that is exactly what ar: Increasing number of observers foresee as a probability. In fact, this may be our only alternative since, again in the words of Mr. Drucker, . , we . . . face a choice be tween big but impotent government and a government that is strong because it. confines itself to decision arid direction and leaves the ‘doing’ to others.” at odds over minute Issues that becloud the chief purpose of the organization -progress While Mason's reign as president may not have been flawless, he has been effective ir, molding an organization that could produce an effec tive program. There is a need for a! concerned to do some co< thinking, realizing that tb program, is more irnportai than the individual and glv support to leadership that ha proven effective. TheSHEVE PORT SUN.
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