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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH N. C„ SATURDAY. JULY 5. 1889 Bible Thought Os The Week "He (Jesus) could do no mighty work, because of their unbelief”, tU<s gospel writers £ave reported. On this occasion, Jesus visit ed His hometown, Nazareth in Galilee, but the people’s attitude together with the looks on Editorial Viewpoint What Next Congressman PoweSl? Seniority restoration and back pay became the issues recently in the Adam Clayton Powell, (D,N, Y.) :case after the Supreme Court’s dra matic decision that the congressman was illegally excluded from his seat. For the moment, we are not going to deal with the question of whether Mr. Powell was right in his every action. If we did, it may well be that we would need to put dozens of other U. S. Congressmen on the stand. However, we still hold that the action of Powell should have been above suspicion. When the Supreme Court made -its decision, there came at once the cry of challenging the court. As one newspaper described the situation, ; “The House of Representatives has ibeen caught with its biases showing ■in its illegal exclusion of the Con gressman from New York’s Har lem.” ; The war cry of confrontation be i'tween the Congress and the Supreme Court led to the proposal of a res ; olution, offered by Rep. Charles C. Diggs of Michigan, which would re store Powell’s back pay and sen iority. It is our belief that the Court will support Powell in the restora tion of his seniority and payment of ■ back salary -a sizeable sum if you »ask us. Those Congressmen who have in rmind challenging the decision of the Supreme Court know that they goof- Dissent In This Country Must Live The rash of student dissent and campus takeovers shoud not lie ; placed entirely upon students nor : any other of our protesting groups. The blame must be shared by all of us who help to mold the policies ; and actions of the government, be they students, faculty members, deans, presidents of industry, lead :ers in politics, etc. Only by the willingness of all concerned to com ~ '.promise, communicate, and work - out the problems can there be a ready solution to the present crisis. Many of our leaders suggest that • officials “crack the whip” upon the : students and other groups like the : Panthers, for example. We must ‘ not look with disdain upon students as objects of scorn, for they have a side for complaining, too. Stu . dents have raised many areas of ■ legitimate concern which the eld . ers and officials must admit. Whenever certain groups, like our • students, become militant, too many : officials begin to label them as • communists, socialists, hippies, ; etc. Such labelling can only serve : to radicalize the moderates or silent :• majority. •1 No More While Elephant Wars '■ The United States Senate is con sidering ways and means to pre vent this country from getting into • wars similar to the one in Vietnam. > However, it is not quite right in 3 trying to use powers not grant >ed to it under the U. S. Const!- tution. The entire blame cannot be 2 laid upon the shoulders of the exe ? cutive department. a ; The recent Senate Manifesto ; warns President Nixon and his sue - * cessors not to involve this country in future wars abroad without first ? getting the approval of Congress. . Futhermore, the President is not l to promise or use our troops or 3 financial resources to aid any for- Peopie, Not God, Set Present Moral Standard 2 Everywhere and through all forms 1 if news media we hear talk about 2 a “letdown” in moral principles jjjthat should guide the nation. It ij doesn’t matter whether people do j wrong, but rather whether is it 3 morally accepted by society? I Citizens will condone almost any thing it seems, such as malfeas lance in office, crookedness in busi jjness, big fish preying upon little Jones, while there live millions in tghettoes and far too many working for the widow’s mite. their faces told the Master: "You are just our neighbor and home boy t we dare you to perform a miracle here." Because of their attitude, the whole town missed a great bless ing that Jesus was prepared to give. ed. There should be no question about whether Mr. Powell should re ceive recompense and also resto ration of his chairmanship of the Education Committee. Powell’s conferees, who said he had broken the law, ought to realize that the Court’s decision is a judg ment and interpretation of the law of the nation. In defying the Court, the Congress will be guilty of de fying “law and order,” and this will lower its shirt button one notch. We were not pleased with some of the things Congressman Powell did, nor were his constituents from Harlem. But the workperformace of the man stacks up better than a large nuraer of representatives. He was effective in his committee chairmanship. When the chips were down, we expected his electors were about to lose their faith in him - even when they reelected him. However, they should be proud they did re elect him now that his exclusion has been pronounced illegal. Yes, his enemies to the contrary not withstanding. The issues will soon be resolved, and we hope that the New York Congressman has learned a lesson. Let him pitch in and do the best job he is capable of doing. Hereafter, by Mr. Powell’s fruit ye shall know him! It is easy to call another person a communist when you can’t give a good reason for the label. The communist aren’t so powerful that American citizens must look to them to do their thinking. If so, we under estimate our own abilities. Most all of us will agree with the need for maintenance of law and order and the quelling of riots where destruction of property and the safety of human beings are involved. This does not, however, imply that policemen can be empowered to break up an orderly assembly of people who are not violating any laws. But it should be recognized that riots and violence do not develop spontaneously, but that they are the outgrowth of deep-seated problems. \ iolence is not new in this country, and it is a part of our history. Have we forgotten the American Revolutionary War and the events leading up to it? And how about Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, who were called radicals in their day? Would they fit into a scheme of orderly, well behaved, and low-abiding citizens? eign country without “affirmative action’ by Congress. Congress doesn’t have this kind of authority and should know better than to issue such a manifesto including these terms. Os course, this res olution is not binding on the Pres ident. Nov should it be. Should not our President have certain freedoms in dealing with complex world af fairs? If our President waited to make decisions, after lengthy de bates of congressmen, the delay might prove to be disastrous. Some officials feel that we should never again involve ourselves in an’ undeclared war. There is great resistance to mak ing integration in school really work, and officials are manipulating school district lines to keep from doing right and being fair to every student. There is still too much practicing of the double standard in distributing monies to state uni versities and colleges, predomi nantly white and predominantly black. Th« Bible says that a people or nation will reap what it sows! Only In Amorico BY HARRY GOLDEN AMERICA’S ADMIRATION FOR VILLAINS Some time ago, John Con way of Harvard University writing in Daedalus magazine declared the American idea of excellence now depends not upon what the good man does but upon what the gifted man delivers. I say it was sometime ago because this is the sort of thinking and philosophizing we used to expect of professors. Nowadays the professors are all concerned with how to get the machine guns out of the Dean’s office without calling the National Guard. Mr, Conway’s’thesis indi cates we arealldemocratesat heart. We are perfectly win ing to put businessmen and poets in the same boat even if they don’t want to go to the same place. The business man wto goes bankrupt and the poet who cannot rhyme still preserve a moral exterior but since they are not useful to themselves in either state we declare them non-excel lent. The multi-mlllionare and the Pulitzer Prize winner we are sure have attained ex cellence and should at tie very least provide a cover story for Time magazine. Mr. Conway’s thesis goes a long way explaining why A mericans have a covert ad miration for thugs like A1 Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE “DE SUN DOES HEAT HOT” Do you remember the fable of the contest between the wind and the sun as to which could make mortal man take off his coat? Well, I am now in an office which lias no fan or air-condi tioning. Comfortability is, therefore,out of the question. Sometimes, it seems, that the sun gets hotter tiian it did when the man was forced to take off his coat. And may I add when the judge pronounced the victory in favor of the sun. I don't know which is the Letter to the Editor Editor's Note: Following is a letter road last Wednesday before members of the Ra leigh Recreation Advisory Commission at its regular meeting, held at the Velvet Cloak Inn To The Editor; We are the Biltmore Hills- Rochester Heights Mother’s Recreation Committee, This is a group of mothers vitally concerned with more and better recreational facili ties for our neighborhood. We are keenly aware of the neces sity for improving our re creational program and facili ties and we are seeking con structive ways to do this. The residents of this area are hard working people who own their own homes or at least are buying their own homes. We pay taxes, we take pride in our neighborhood and we are concerned about our children and anxious to see that their needs are met. The Biltmore Hills-Ro chester Heights residential section, is approximately twelve years old. This is a site set aside in the Biltmore Hills area for recreational purposes, hut this site is under developed and ill-eqmped. There has been a recreation al program, supervised by two adults sot at least four years. These two people are well qualified and are doing well under the circumstances, but at the present location there is very little to super vise and no facilities in which Other Editors Say... HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Hood Theological Seminary and Walls Center is the hub around which the religious ac tivities of Livingstone College revolve. The seminar;, is • ‘tops” in architectural design and is ideally located to serve a growing ministerial popula tion. Named originally for Bishop James Walker Hood THE CAROLINIAN "Covering The Carolina*'' Published by The Carolinian Publishing ( otnpany 318 E. Martin Street Raleigh. N. C. 27101 Mailing Address: po. Box 628 Raleigh. V 27802 Second Oas< Po.-mbi Paid a! Ra leigh. X C. 27602 SL'bSt RIPIION RATES S■ x Months $3.25 Sales Tax 10 TOTAL 3 35 On. Year 550 Sales Tax TOTAL 5 66 Payable in advance Address all communications and make ail checks and mnnev aiders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc,, 3R Madison Avenue. New York 17. N Y . National Advertising Rep resentative Member of the A>-o ciatcd Negro Press and tile Ignit ed Press International Photo Ser vice. The Publisher is not responsible lor the return o( unsolicited news, pictures or acivcitising cops un less necessary postage accompan ies the corn Opinions expressed by column ists in Hus newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this newspaper. Capone—and the Teamsters time after time elected Jim my Hoffa their president until the government lawyers saved the Teamsters from them selves. Capone and Jimmy Hoffa exploited their natural talents to the ultimate degree. Sharing a men’s room sink with either of these two men meant your watch wasn’t safe unless it was in the water, but I’ve heard it argued neith er of them did anything a cor poration president wouldn’t do if he had thought of it first. The English have a different idea of excellence. Robin Hood was the last crook the English admire at all and they had to make him a member cf the welfare state in order to sing his saga. But the American slogan, as W. C. Fields put it, is, "I steal from the rich in order to give to the poor us poor." The Talmud says nothing should terrify us like the sight of the man who is perfectly just. More of us ought to read the Talmud because what really terrifies us is the sight of man who has not scruples. This man does not necessarily menace our physical safety but we defer to him liecause we admire his boldness. If a man is successful it is amazing the amount of rudeness his > colleagues will endure out of admiration. worse, extreme heat or cold. On Monday, I plan to walk the ‘Tan requisition’’through in one hour proceeding a trip to Sears, Roebuck Company. In studying Negro literature at Alabama State College some years ago, my class studied a sermon by an oldtime black preacher entitled “De Sun Do Move.” It may not move, but I am sure it can put the heat on. And when it does, something has got to give or move. I usuallv take off my coat. to do it. There is one small build ing wtiich Houses a limited amount of equipment but no shelter of any sort for the children. When a sudden show er comes up the children have to run in order to heat the rain home. More often than not, the rain wins that race. There is no telephone service in the area. Since most re sidents work full time, it is possible that you would have to go a mile to ttie nearest telephone (that isto find some one at home and ask permis sion to use it). There is one picnic table in the area which is most inadequate for ant type of arts and crafts which require a flat surface. We should like to know; What long range plans are underway for the further de velopment of this park? What stages will be completed each year? What are the specific tilings that can he- done this summer to improve our re creational program? We would like to hear your thinking on these questions and we would also like for you to send your answer, in writing to the chairman of this committee. In order to help you gentle men in your deliberations, we have prepared a list of rea sonable requests to be carried out in this summer’s program. We have also attached other suggestions for your long range planning and study. Mrs. George R. Greene, Chairman. with a recent addition honor ing Bishop William Jacob Walls, two of Zion's greatest, and both having served 44 years in #he Episcopacy. I’ lias an able faculty and staff, beaded by Dr. Frank R. Brown, that equals any of our seminaries of equal size. It has sen ed the needs of AMD Zion and other ministers (It is an interdenominational in stitution) well. A majority of our present Board of Bishops are among its alumni. Most of the men occupying our lead ing pulpits are “Hood” men. Their leadership in official and unofficial circles is ac cepted and acknowledged. The seminary is ample in dormitory, class-room, li brary and other facilities, to care for a much larger num ber than those now enrolled there. Six men graduated in the 1960 class. The 1970 and other classes should be much larger. This, in spite-of the growing disinterest in reli gion and the ministry, among so many. We should encourage young people to enter religious ca reers. This is not to say any of us should have the nerve to iell someone to go out and begin preaching. But we can A Historical Decision in the Fight for Equal Eights! Jt HE FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT OF THE BLACK COMMUNITIES TO ELECT AND SELECT IT'S OWN REPRESENTATIVES. Economic Highlights Just about everyone agrees that positive change in established institutions of business, government and industry is necessary to meet urban and educational problems and all the other stresses of present-day society . Some talk of reform, some of revolution and more than a few are ready to abdicate in favoi of all-powerful, centralized authority . A refreshing light lias been cast on the chaotic contemporary scene by Mr. John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, now chairman of the Urban Coalition. He calls for a redesigning of society tiiat will permit “. . .continuous change, re newal and responsiveness.” But while he readily acknowledge . . archaic organiza tional arrangements. . .” of existing institu tions in government, business, labor and ed ucation, he believes centralization of the kind envisioned by many reformers is no answer--far from it . In Mr. Gardner’s opinion, “A society ca pable of continous renewal would be charac terized first of all by pluralism--by varietv. alternatives, choices and multiple focuses ol power and initiative. We have just such plura lism iu this society . But the logic of modern large-scale organization, governmental or corporate, tends to squeoz out pluralism and to move us toward one comprehensively artic ulated system of power. If that trend proceeds unchecked in the public sphere, there will soon (say, in 25 years) bo no such tilings as stab-, county and city government. There will Ik- one all-encompassing governmental system. . . . I find myself treasuring every remaining bit of pluralism, everything that stands between us and an all-embracing system. When i hear young people recommending the abolition of private enterprise, 1 question whether they have weigtied the consequences. It ma\ not hate oc curred to them tiiat socialism or am other alternative to private enterpii.se would cer tainly mean the shouldering by government of huge new burdens. Our giant corporations would not disappear. They would simply be World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL CENSUS FIGURES LONDON - Britian figures its coloured po pulation, as of 1966, to be at the 1.2 million mark, according to statistics published re cently by the General Register office. The ap proximation is based on information extract ed from a 10 per cent sample census taken in 1966. PILOT TRAINING LUSAKA - Zambia is to begin training its own airline pilots, effective July 1 when the first class of 30 potential aviators from the University of Zambia will begin training on three Cessna light aircrafts. Initially, the trainees will be working to private pilots' licenses. Some If per cent of the top trainees will be given a chance to continue their train ing to win commercial pilot recognition. HOUSING BIAS HUDDERSFIELD, England - A complaint was filed with the Race Relations board recently by a Black man who charged he was barred from purchasing a ?!9,108 home because of his race. Mahesh Upadhyaya, 27-year-old elect id - observe closely and when we are convinced the Lord has spoken to someone, we should encourage them to take ad vantage of what the seminary has to offer. Incidentally, scholarships, grant-in-a i d s, and other forms of assistance are offered. Thus, if anyone wishes to better prepare him or herself for the ministry or Christian work, one of the better things to do is head for ‘‘Hood’’ in the fall. We hope the number as indicated will be increased, but not at the expense of quality. It is much better to continue with merged into unimaginably vast government ministries. And bureaucracy would conquer all.” On the other hand, Mi. Gardner realistical ly accepts the inevitability and the need for large-scale organizations. Again, in his words, “All large-scale organizations tends to smoth er individuality. But today’s young person doesn’t give due weight to the fact that large scale organization, properly designed, canalso benefit the individual, enrich his life, increase his choices. Everyone lampoons modern tech nological society, but no one is prepared to those features of modern organizations that strengthen the individual and those that diminish him. . . .we can build a society to man’s measure, if we have the will.’ Perhaps the most fundamental point made by Mr. Gardner is in laying bare the false premise on which radicalism makes it case. Os the people who pursue the course of radical ism, he declares, “They have fallen victim to an old and naive doctrine--that man is naturally good, humane, decent, just and hon orable, but that corrupt and wicked institu tions have transformed the noble savage into a civilized monster. Destroy the corrupt in stitutions, they say, and man's native good ness will flower. There isn't anything in his ton or anthropology to confirm the thesis, but it survives down the generations. ... Any one who unleashes man's destructive ini pluses had better stand a long way back. The anarchist paves the way for the authoritarian. The serious citizen will have to learn a simple truth: one must act forcefully to combat in justice, and at the same time one must op pose disorder and violence.” In the end, Mr. Gardner feels, '‘The chief means by which citizens make their influence felt must continue to be the long-tested. . . . procedure's of a free society: the ballot, tiie lawsuit, the strike, the petition. . . He believes we should build on the proven institu tions of a pluralistic societ . Most U. S, citi zens will agree with him. cal engineer, charged that the real estate firm of George Haigh and Company, Ltd., Dalton, told him tha‘ '‘it is not our .policy to sell to colored people.” PASSING APPROVED CAPE TOWN - Strange things must be \. happening in South Africa these days if the * movie censors given approval to the showing of a controversial film with a racial theme. The film is “Katrina,” the story of a colored woman passing foi white The film does sustain some cuts, one of which is a scene showing three white youtlfs beating a black . youth and rolling his body into the sea. The ■ disposal of the bodv is removed from the film. NEW SUBWAY TEHRAN - Follow ing the recent opening of an eight-mile subway system in Mexico city, a team of experts from Germany entered Iran to propose the construction of an underground railway system in Tehran. The proposed sub way initially would be two and a half miles long, connecting the city centre to the proposed Olympic village and would cost an estimated *11,477,000. a few consecrated students, who are looking forward to making a definite contribu tion, than a larger number who go out feeling the world and Church owes them a liv ing. If one plans to enter the Seminary with hopes of en tering the ‘‘top” financial market when he graduates, he had better take a. second look also. There is really no comparison between the start ing pay of say, a school-teach er or similar professional person and the pay of the seminary graduate. But, if one is really committed to a cause greater than himself, sees where the seminary can and will help in bettei pre paring him for service, and upon graduation will go out fGod leading him) and thrown himself into the struggle lifting mankind, the seminary can be of great help. Everyone take a hard look at Hood 3nd her great possibilities. Let us also look for those whom God ‘hastouched, Whatever our hands find to do for her, “Do it with all of your might.” The STAR OF ZION.
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