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4 ’ THE CAROLINIAN f RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. JUNE 28. 1968 •'All power Is given to me In heaven and earth. Go therefore and teach ye ail nations: baptizing them In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Koly Ghost . Teach them to observe all things whatsoever ! have commanded you: and behold I am with you all Editorial Viewpoint Our Policemen Must Create A Better Image !i ; In the eyes of the black man, |he police has long had a bad image. As far back as the early 1910’s, Negroes had a right to believe this. We, have seen in. small southern towns constant abuse of Negroes being arrested and put in jail. In t*ne South Carolina town, we have Seen white policemen hit black pri soners and arrested person with sticks merely because they did not answer with the anticipated reply. Many black men and poor white men were abused, cause the ar resting officer knew nothing would be done about his brutality. Should :a black prisoner talk up for his rights as an arrested individual, he might be shot. The policeman :would say that I shot him because he resisted arrest. • Times have changed, but the aspect re of police brutality still hov ers over the nation like a rain jcloud. For instance, two Los Angeles recently made a terrible smistake and shot and killed an un manned man because they thought he :-was reaching for a gun. *. It was action that should never Shave happened. Unfortunately this "‘tragedy occurred when criticism of s 5 Never lie fore, since its organiza tion, does the United Negro College s Fund need increased public financial than it does not. The cost jof education is going up by leaps bounds, and the school under its must have the ne-•. jcessary money to provide quality Without an abundant sup port, the predominantly-Negro col 'lege or university is doomed, jj The UXCF is nationwide, and the ? contributions it received are paid to member schools —all private, all accredited, and nearly 2 all church related. The member 4 schools open their doors to students !|of all races, colors, and creeds and 5' have been doing this prior to the pas •l sage of the 1964 civil rights legisla -1 tion. 3 In short the so-called black pri tjvate college needs money and plenty H of it, as soon as possible. The money 2 UNCF collects and raises is spent |on student scholarships, faculty ex pansion, teaching facilities and sup a plies, research, and library serv- H ices. jj This year, the United Negro Col |j lege Fund has set a goal of $lO *! million to loe raised for 36 col leges around the nation. This is * really not much when compared with < the multi-million dollar campaigns ; which are common at single uni versities across the country. ?• l 'Black Studies’ Is The Coming Thing n : The national interest in Negro >: history and culture has swung its “'.pendulum from almost total neglect tto a wealth of attention. Now it has been reported that the I-JFo r d Foundation, contending that •: black studies too long have been i neglected in American colleges, an £: nouced it will make a series of f grants totaling sl-million to advance < and i mprove A fro- Ameri * can courses. Afro-American studies at six in is: stitut ions -- Yale, Morgan State, £ Lincoln, Rutgers, Princeton, and £ Howard-- will be assisted. In ad* £ dition, the foundation’s funds will be used to help support 15 summer institutes on Negro history and cul / ture to be attended by college facial *: ty members; to provide paperback books on Afro-American history for 85 colleges; and to assist Atlanta i and Fisk Universities and Tuske | gee Institute in cataloguing and re > storing materials now in their li | bvary collections. ‘’Such studies have long been £ neglected, to the detriment of our £ understanding of important aspects | of the nation’s history and of the | origins and experience of America's Bible Thought Os The Week The UNCF: Let Us Get On Its Side days even to the consummation of the world. (Matt, 28, 18-20), Jesus meant simply: teach men that God is our Father, and we are His children. The least in His sight Is just as precious as the king. This was the gospel of the dignity of each person on earth. the police has reached a new high pitch, and rather police ought to be doing everything possible to im prove the image of law enforcement agencies. Well-trained policemen will tell you there is almost never any ex cuse for two officers to open fire at short range when only one suspect is involved. Their training is (or should be) to disarm the suspect before he can get bis gun. Could not the arresting policemen have forced the suspect to stand against a wall or car and search him. It would make good sense to assume and treat the person being arrested as though he has a weapon until the law officials discover otherwise. With street demonstrations, cam pus takeovers, and other kinds of crowd disturbances, the job of law enforcement is not easy. It is dang erous and taxing. An officer cannot afford to panic under stress, for he needs the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job. This is true even when he is putting his own life at stake. A policeman cannot afford to make a mistake with another man’s life, or his own. As would be expected, the UNCF schools have no heavy endowments or wealthy alumni patrons. One-half of the 40,000 students attending these schools are receiving some form of scholarship aid. Most of the students pay an annual average tuition, buys books, and pays much less for room and board than can be found most anywhere else. Stu dents pay less than is required at 54 state-supported institutions of higher learning. Students attending the member in stitutions of UNCF are generally “highrisk” individuals, because they begin their educational careers with a handicap traceable to sub standard elementary and high school education. They get some individual attention, take highly intensi fied courses, and get much tutorial assi stance. The UNCF schools are forced to give their students six years of education compressed into four. Now that we have laid before you the imperative need, the rest is up to you. Your investment is destin ed to being in a threefold harvest and you won’t be investing in the stock market carelessly either. Give generously until “your pocketbook hurts” and also cheer fully, because God loves the cheer ful giver. largest minority,” said F. Champion Ward, foundation vice-president for education and research. Ward said that it was the Ford Foundation’s belief that Afro - American studies should not be “fenced off.” “We are pleased and persuad ed that these subjects will not achieve the place in the college curriculum which they deserve un less they are designed and taught in accordance with regular standards of learning and scholarship,” Ward said. We recall that often such schools as Atlanta, Fisk, Shaw, Tuskegee, Hampton, ana Johnson C. Smith had courses in Negro history as far back as the period of the First World War. In the early 1930’ 5, a professor George Brown taught courses in regular history, includ ing one course in the history of the Negro at the Johnson C. Smith University. Where Negro history was left out, “little George,” as students called him, fired the imagi nation of students with the skill of an orator who wanted to make his hearers want to tie somebody. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE DECISION IN CHAR LOTTE Federal Judge James B. McMillan handed down his de cision to the Charlotte school board: he said the board had to make plans to integrate the Charlotte school system, He said the integration effected so far was only token integra tion, the city will have to In tegrate its students universal ly. The Judge went on to say that bussing school children out of one neighborhood to another was one of the meth ods available to the Board of Education. Board Chairman William Poe immediately criticized the jurist’s interpretation of the Constitution. McMillan, however, followed the reason ing of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred M. Vin son in the landmark Sweatt case, a ruling handed down while Ear] Warren was still governor of California. Vinson argued that we are what we are because of our classmates in school, we get our patterns of behavior and of speech from classmates. Eduation Involves the pres tige of an institution, the pres tige of the faculty, the size of the library and most of all, the chance to exchange ideas. __ A city can provide each Negro with a gold doorknob and a special tutor but as long as it separates students Jist For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE WHAT’S THE MATTER? What’s the matter? A whole lot, I’m told! But this is nothing new, be cause there is something wrong with everything and everybody. The Bible writers tell us that not even Jesus Christ could escape the point ing fingers of his accusers. They said he was a wine bib ber and a gluttonous man, for he ate and drank with the scribes and sinners. If Jesus ate too much, it certainly did’nt show up, for every picture of him indicated that he kept his weight under normal control. He was a trim figure with the m uscles of man used to doing hard work like Other Editors Say... MCGOVERN’S DIRE WARN ING In his speech to theologians and laymen at an internation al conference on racism, South Dakota Senator George S, Mc- Govern warned that time was running out for the white pri vileged nations and churches. <! We had better come to grips with the problem of else the church will become an ir relevant institution. The black man is obviously reaching the end of his endurance, 1 ' he said. The conference, which rnet in London, was sponsored by the World Council of Churches. Its main purpose was to explore the causes and solutions of racial con flicts. Delegates from 30 countries were in attendance. The most incisive address was delivered by the Rev. Charming Phillips of the Unit ed Christ Church of Washing ton, D. C., who said that if the church was to fight rac ism it must move away from the “false base of pietism’* and become an institution on only of love but also of power that does not reject violence.” Mr. Phillips, it will be re membered, received votes for the Democratic Presidential nomination at the party’s con vention last August. He rock ed the London conference with the force of his rhetor! c, “When a society does not per mit restructuring power that produces justice through eco nomics and political maneuv ers, then the church ought not to shy away from aiding and abetting the development of the only power available-which is the power of violence.’’ Racism will not be dealt with effectively until it is real ized that economics is a pri mary motive, he asserted. “As the capitalistic system has moved to seek new re sources and consumers under THE CAROLINIAN “Covering The Carolina-,“ Published by The Carolinian Pisbilshim; Company 518 E, Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 21011 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 628 Raleigh, X. C. 27 m Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh. X. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION rates Six Months $3.28 Tax . . in TOTAL 3 35 One Year . 5,50 Sales Tax is TOTAL ' 566 Payable in advance. Address ali communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc.. 3I(, Madisor, 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 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 this newspaper. it keeps them unequal. Whether Charlotte will ac cept this reasoning is another question. Segregation dies hard. Nixon carried North Carolina against George Wal lace. He carried the state be cause In Winston -Salem he said he would leave the solu tion of the school problem to the individual states. Thus, Nixon really borrowed George Wallace’s platform to win a state which had gone for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy. In eastern Carolina is as stern a policy as in Missis sippi or Alabama, Eastern North Carolina is rigid on race but flexible on eco nomics. In the Piedmont, western North Carolina where Charlotte is, the people are rigid on economics but flexi ble on race. Charlotte would elect Cassius Clay mayor if he could guarantee no mini mum wage for laundry work ers and no collective bargain ing. «. As I said, segregation dies hard. Now we sha’l see wheth er it is immortal. Judge Mc- Millan did net say the city had to bus its students, he said it was one of the op tions open to the Board of Education. Even more than colored and white children walking down the same hall together, bussing makes the folks maniacal, The threat of bussing may make people comply in other ways with the ruling of the court. carpentry. They talked about John the Baptist, too. They said he ate locust and wore camel haired garments. He was modern hippy for the style of that day, but he didn’t think like one. John the Baptist could use words that sent old Satan under the rug. We read in the paper about what is wrong with women, our youth, and the administra tion in Washington. Our youth are getting a verbal beating, but some of them need it. Regardless of how badaper son is, his critics must admit that he has at least one speak of good in him. its horribly efficient techno logy, it has develop racist ideologies to support its stat ed objectives,” Mr. Phillips said. He spoke scornfully of what he called the “insanity that al lows economic expenditures for conquering space to have priority over conquering rac ism.” SOUTH CAROLINA VERDICT A black man and a black wo man were members of the jury panel which unanimously acquitted nine South Carolina State Troopers charged by the Federal government with the killing of three teen-age black students. The scene of the wanton murders was the South Carolina State College cam pus in Orangeburg, last February. The Troopers were accused of shooting point -blank into a group of black students on the college campus. In doing so, they violated a c e nt u r y-old federal law th£t was originally passed to protect the newly freed slaves from intimidation by public officials acting under the cover of law. The Justice Department fil ed the charges last December after a federal Grand Jury had refused to indict the Troopers. The government contended that the defendants had “administered summary punishment" to the three slain youngsters and to more than 30 others who were wounded that night, thus depriving them of their rights to the due pro cess of law. The Troopers, backed by the South Carolina State Highway Department and by Gov. Rob ert E, McNair, insisted that their shooting into the student group came only after they had been fired on from the campus. This excuse followed the usual pattern of police defense whenever the evidence of wrong doing is preponderantly against them. The immediate point at is sue was the policy of Orange burg’s only bowling alley, a segregated establishment, which has since integrated its facilities under the compul sion of a federal court order. For three days, the students demonstrated in mass to show their resentment to the bowl ing alley’s segregated policy. They had no place to go to enjoy public recreational facilities. The demonstrations were peaceful and gave no warrant for the use of State Troopers and National Guardsmen, Their presence simply added fuel to a smold ering fire. Neither was there justific ation for shooting down stu dents who were only adding their voices to tpe campus IS AMERICA A RACIST SOCIETY , .. THt POLICE WILL Qpp jpp POUCE " RESIGN IF BRADLEY jf 0 * detective Charles sstehv/g DEMOCRA 0, THIS 15 m MAYOR ELECT Or Economic Highlights Recent requests by the President for in creases in postal rates logically raise the question of whether any serious efforts are being made to revamp the operating methods of the Post Office Department, which former Postmaster General O’Brien referred to as a “race with catastrophe." It seems that nearly everyone agrees that the U. S. postal service is functioning ir. a state of near crisis and each day slips farther behind the rest of the economy in service, in efficiency and in meet ing its responsibilities as an employer. As the President’s Commission of Postal Reorganiza tion, commonly called the KappelCommission, concluded; “. . .from a distance, the mail service is not bad, but the more you use and depend on it, the less satisfactory it seems.” Months have passed since the Kappel Com mission Issued its report recommending that the Post Office Department be converted to an autonomous, government-owned corporation. Like most such reports, the Kappel Report droooed into virtual oblivion, as far as the pub lic. was concerned. There appeared to be uni form official agreement on its conclusion that a complete breakdown in service was threaten ed if fundamental changes were not made in the postal system. But, many have noted that the obstacle'to postal modernization presented by the nature of politics itself remain formid able. Change may require years even though President Nixon has made it clear that a “com prehensive reorganization of the Post Office Department” is a major goal of his Admini stration. The U, S. Chamber of Commerce news letter, “Here’s The Issue," reviews current congressional proposals together with a few of the many considerations, political and other wise, that are involved in any move to mod ernize postal operations. Foremost among the questions to be decided is that of the status of the postal service. Is it a business opera tion, or is it a function of government to be supported by the taxpayers like the Army or Navy? A spokesman for the United Federa tion of Postal Clerks believes the latter. He says, "... .As a public service agency, is World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS-INTERNATIONAL YOUTH GANG SOLUTION??? NASSAU - The Bahamas may have the answer to the problem of school dropouts and youth gangs. Recently, the local police department launched a recruiting drive to bring 16-year old males on the force “before they are side tracked to some other, perhaps undesirable, ventures.” After two years of service, dur ing which they take advantage of educational facilities provided, they can become full fledged policemen, or leave to enter some other line of work. OPPOSITION GWELO, Rhodesia - The headlong plunge this country is taking to insure continued white minority rule has drawn the stiff op position of Catholic leaders in a 1,200-word pastoral letter. Target of the opposition is the proposed constitution, to be voted on June 20, whicn denomination leadership finds “non justifiable because of allowances made for dis criminatory executive and administrative acts, limitation of freedom of expression, parlia mentary representation of African selective income tax, and a policy of strict racial segregation, and political and economic dis crimination.’’ WELL-DIGGING MBEYA, Tanzania - Forty-three villages in the southwestern region of the country will soon have a pure fresh wafer supply, thanks to funds provided by the people of Bahamas in the Western Hemisphere. Five months ago, the Nassau (Bahamas) Oxfam committee held a fund-raising campaign and secured suf ficient money to supply a S3OO well for each of the villages. The new wells will benefit some 18.000 nersons. protest against insufferable racist policies of the citv ad ministration. The Troopers, no doubt, came on the college compound at the request of the school authorities who must, there fore, share the blame for the tragedies that ensued. The sorrowful events must be traced to precipitious, unwise action which could have been prevented had patience and the Post Office in any rational sense to lie viewed as any more debt ridden than the Penta gon or NASA or the President’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped?” The Kappel Commission, on the other hand, believes, “Mail today is used primarily for commercial pur poses. . . .The Commission concludes, there fore, that today the Post Office is a business. Like all economic functions it should lie sup ported by revenues from its users. The market should decide what resources are to be allocat ed to the postal service.” Two bills have been introduced in the U. S. House of Representatives having to do with postal reorganization. One of these, the Udall Bill, follows closely the recommendations of the Kappel Commission. It purposes a Postal Corporation owned entirely by the federal gov ernment. It would operate the postal service of the United States on a self-supporting, businesslike basis. Under this bill, the Cor poration’s Board of Directors, after hearings by expert rate commissioners, would establish postal rates, subject to congressional veto within 60 days. The Charter of the govern ment Postal Corporation would provide powers analogous to those of private corporations. Most important, it would lie given direct ac cess to its revenues and have authority to bor row funds in its own name to finance modern facilities. The big trouble with the Post Office todav has been termed “no control manage ment.*. The second bill that has been submit ted in Congree is known as the Dulski Bill. “It would,” according to the U. S. Chamber publication, “change drastically the operation of the Post Office, but .retain it as an executive agency.” One of its features would be strong promotion of union organization. Or. die whole matter of postal reorganiza tion, the U. S. Chamber enunciates a number of principles that it feels must be adhered to“. . . .if meaningful modernization is to be a chieved.” These principles support the establishment of a corporation as recommend ed by Hie Kappel Commission. W hether changes in the Post Office Department will be made in time to win the “race v.ithcatast > ophe” is the big question. GULLIBLE VIEWER LOMj , Togo - Hollywood's Western movies can cause the unwary to think that bank hold-ups are a snap, but one would-be west ern-type operator found out different. Fir ing wildly, he scooped up bales oi bills from a counter at the Lome branch of the Paris National Bank, and ran to his trusty steed a taxicab -- some 200 yards down the street. The cabbie Bod, but a crowd which gathered beset the bandit and was beating him up, when the “posse” (oops) arrived in the nick o! time to protect (arrest) him. Seems, in j all the firing he did, he forgot his pistol help only so man. bullets, and he had ex pended ail of them before he got out of the bank. BOASTING PRETORIA - South Africa is lioating that despite UN resolutions .nr ‘ official dis- s pleasure” of many othe i ations, “there is a growing understanding it Africa of South Africa’s position.” According to Prime Minis ter John Vorster, “As far as our imi edtate neighbors are concerned, relations are good.” He reported that diplomatic or semi-diplo matic relations have clirnbc to 65 against only 29 in 1948. RENEW OUSTER CRY WOLVERHAMPTON, England - Britain’s right wing member of Parliament, Enoch Powell, has not let up on his drive to make England the home of whites on I\. Last week, in a local speech, he suggested 1 hat Brit ain “send 600,000 Africans and Asians back where they came from,” addlngthat each family should be given $4,800 to go away.” better judgment prevailed. Bloody confrontation occur almost in every instance in which police or national guardsmen are summoned to quell campus disorders. The Orangeburg incident should be a lesson to all college heads who are tempted to yield to pressure to abdicate their dis ciplinary power to Ignorant policemen. What is revolting and in comprehensible in the South Carolina tragedy is the action of the two black jurors who sided with the white mem- bers of the panel In the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt. Integrated juries in Dixie apparently means noth ing if black jurors are too timid or too ignorant to pur sue the right course of ac tion. The CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER.
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