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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 1- 1889 Bible Thought Os The Week “What is man that Thou art mindful of him, , . thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and crowed him with glory and honor” said the Psaimist. God and language made man in the image of the Almighty, When the Creator Editorial Viewpoint The Black Manifesto “Hustle’" Just when our campus “show downs” are subsiding, something hew is appearing in the movement for white churches to pay repara tions in payment for wrong done to blacks. From the very outset, we have opposed a movement of this kind, because it is irreverent of God to interrupt religious services, it is a symbol of robbery if church officials are held against their wills, and it just might be a money racket. We are glad that we are sup ported in our views by a number of black civil rights leaders and others. For instance, Bayard Rus tin objects black militants and their tactics of disrupting church services and occupying denominational head quarters. He labeled the movement fa “hustle”. Rev. Thomas Kilgore, the first : Negro to head the American Bap •fists, has served noticed that ,if •his denomination’s headquarters in : Valley Forge, Pa., are forcibly oc fcopied, the intruders will be eject • ed. And Mayor Charles Evers of 'Fayette, Miss., brother the slain ; NAACP leader Medgar Evers, re marked: “If any black militants dis rupted our church services, he’d .go out on his head.” “In our long crusade, we have ; never subscribed to the reparations ; concept,” Bishop Stephen G. Spotts -1 wood, board chairman of the NA ACP, said in the keynote address Mast week at the Mississippi state v convention. “it is easy and it is emotional ly appealing, but it is not the fair est way for this white generation ;to redress the wrongs still visit jed upon this black generation and I its children,” said Bishop Spotts ' wood, of the African Methodist t More jobs Needed For Youth Years ago, college students, for .example, went off during the sum mer to earn money for their school expenses, or as much as it as they jcould. The prospects for jobs for •youth during summer is not as at tractive these days. The U. S. Department of Labor jis conducting hearings in Washing ton on a new regulation which should '.provide more part-time jobs for -full-time students in retail and serv ice trades, and in agriculture. Under the present laws, it ap pears, that some employers can hire more students at less than the $1.30 per hour minimum wages than .■others, and some can hire no more •than they must have at the minimum :wage, rather than get involved in the ;red tape, or should we say inade quate written regulations. : Note the following: • “If necessary to prevent the cur tailment of employment opportuni ties, the Act authorizes certificates employment of full-time ;students at less than the statutory 'minimum to the extent that students ;were employed in the correspond ing month of a specified base year, ;The present regulation credit only •those hours of full-time students in ; he base year, which were corn • oensated at less than $1 an hour. The revision would credit all •those base-year hours of full-time he Deadly Chemical Warfare Idea ■, Let us take you back to the year :■ 600 B. C., and observe how the •;archon Solon of Athens defeated the :-army of Kirrha by putting poison in •i the enemy’s drinking water. At the present time, the U. S. is % spending more than 5350 million, 'this year alone, on a sophistocated £ version of the same thing. Only it <:is called chemical and biological | warfare (CBW), and its awful 'potential is beginning to frighten the ; world into stopping the deadly t march. i Recoil, according to news l sources, came three times in the £ la st few days: ; 1. An international panel of sci endowed human beings with the ability to talk, speech created thought which is the measure of the universe. Speecn maae possible the ex pression of thought, and thought brought forth ideas which are not running the world. Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. It is hoped that more leaders will speak out against the repara tions concent. And we object to the tactics of trying to force churches to meet reparation de mands, by the threat of sitting -in the premises. Demand,” has an unsavory connotation through its use with the student confrontation activities across the nation. Even the patriots of the Americans colonies used the words “petition” and npt “demand.” Human being has a tendency to obstruct anybody or any group at tempting to exercise force to a chieve certain goals. Could we not apply the principles of psychology used so effectively by Jesus Christ when he conducted his missionary movement upon this earth? Jesus advised us get in “step wi t h your prospect,” and your chances of getting what you want are considerably better. Suppose, for the moment, that white churches did fork up thousands and thousands of dollars in reparations money to those demanding it. How do they know that the money will be used for the purposes intended? How do those who make the de mands propose to give an account ing of their collections? Far too many of our civil rights groups are operating in the red so far as money is concerned. The kind of money James Forman is asking for will require the skills of a busi ness managing staff to give an accurate accounting. Walking into a church and demand ing reparations or else in very much 1 ike abu rgl ar wa Iking i nto you r home and demanding your money. students which were paid for at less than the statutory minimum in ef fect at the time of application.”' Does this wording of the law con vey the idea with clarity? Well, you may guess the answer. One newspaper suggested, in cases like this, the government should take up the slack by hiring unemployed students to teach bureaucrats how to write regula tions in understandable English, “but we’re are afraid they couldn’t find enough students who are quali fied.” Any liberalization would be good for students who cannot find work. Os course, it will reduce the hour ly pay but more individuals could De hired places where they refused at the present time. There is hardly a retail or serv ice business that wouldn’t like to hire youngsters. Now they are de terred by the minimum wage law's, the thought of having to put up with a fast turnover of untrained boys and girls, and keeping books on social security and unemploy ment compensation for temporary workers. The average college or high school youth should be willing to forego a short period of fringe and mini mum wages in order to get his foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. enlists studied the dangers of bio chemical warfare and recommended a complete halt in its development. 2. The Senate Armed Forces Serv ices Committee cut. from the Penta gon’s budget all funds for research and development of the offensive CBW. 3. President Nixon pledged the United States to the search for re liable arms control in chemical and biological warfare. Let us use wisdom and stay away from CBW, for it is just as danger ous for the stockpiler as it is for the target countries in the case of war. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE NFvV CHIEF JUSTICE Just what kind ot a Chief Justice Warren Burger will make is a hazardous guess. Just what kind of a court will emerge rrom the Nixon administration is an equally hazardous guess, No one at this moment knows who will replace Abe Fortas and no one knows how much longer two or three of the Associ ate Justices will continue to serve. But I do know that the court has never moved In one di rection. Where now its critics accuse it of advancing the cause of extreme liberalism, once its critics charged it was the “bulwark of privi lege.” Where now the court has been preoccunied with the rights of the Individual in criminal procedure, once nothing absorbed it so much as property rights. I fully expect the Supreme Court to shift gears. I ex pect it will shift gears be cause we have traversed a transitional period in our his tory. After World War 11, when even Americans could no long er shirk from the fact that we were the industrial su perstate of this century, there were needed reforms which only the court could make. The military could integrate its units overnight, but Con gress could not integrate the schools, Congress Is power less to abolish the oil deple tion allowances which hurt our national pocket book but not our soul. There were de cisions made in those years which only the court could rule had the status of law even if not realized in prac tice. It is hard to me to imagine how the court can help im plement the war against pov erty, or bring ease to the afflicted cities, or rule on Vietnam. There is no rea son why we should expect the court to do so. The Su preme Court has often prov Just Far Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE DOG FOR EVERY BOY As a rule of thumb, every boy snould have a dog. But, if every boy should own a dog, should not there be fathers and mothers to feed the dog regularly? Why not, yes, why not revise the old maxim? They way some people treat their dogs and let them run about all over the neighbor hood, they don’t need any dogs. Then, too, are there enough (Jogs to go around for ixiys? I mean real dogs: —not the fancy poodles trim and prissy, --not for boys. These are for entertainers, movie actresses, and the affluent so Other Editors Say... ÜBS PROGRAM GOOD The Black Community De velopment Program, co ordinated by United Black Stu dents of the University of Miami has temporarily locat ed the James E. Scott Com munity Association Building at 4001 N, W. 7th Avenue. The program is covering the economic needs of the Model Cities area. Through research and date compila tion, they hope to establish a basis on which economic improvement and black en trepreneurship can occur. A program dealing with Consumer Education has been initiated to acquaint the tar get area residents with the economics of saving and spending money. The Cultural Enrichment Program provides tutoring by qualified personnel. Field trips are included for young sters 14 years of age and und er. Some of the areas covered are dance, music, and art exhibits and classes. Extensive programs in Black Awareness and Political Orientation have been initiat ed for eight sessions that began June 27. There are films and lecture series for those 14 and above. The IJBS should be con gratulated for initiating this type of program. There is much meaningful information to ve turned lix a program THE CAROI.IXIAJN • Covering The Carolinas" Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 518 E. Marlin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27<,01 Mailing Address: P.O. Box (Si Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, X. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $3.25 Sales Tax .10 TOTAL 3.35 One Year 5,50 Sales Tax IS TOTAL 566 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make al! checks and monev orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., 31s. Madison Avenue. New York 17. N. Y, National Advertising Rep resentative Member of the As-o ciated Negro Press and the Unit ed Press Xntei national Photo Ser vice. The Publisher is r.oi responsible for 1 1 to return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising eopt un less ntwesxa postage accompan ies the eopj Opinions expressed by column ists In tins newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this newspaper. ed itself unable to resolve domestic tumult. It had the chance to rule against slavery once and it refused In the famous Dred Scott decision. It refused to sanction Frank lin D. Roosevelt’s economic innovations, What leads me to believe the court will not be decisive in quieting the crises of the 60s and 70s is the pronounc ed sentiments of Congress anent the war in Vietnam. The Congress knew Copper heads in the Civil War but the complaint of the Copper heads was in essence that the war had not been won and prob ably could not be won, not that it was imperialistic and un just as Senators and Con gressmen charge today. In World War I, there was a hard core opposition. In the late 30s there was the A - First Committee which disbanded the day the Japanese dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor. If the Paris peace talks continue at an impasse, Congress will prob baly take over the conduct of the war and make its own peace, usurping the Presi dent’s prerogatives. I use Vietnam as an ex ample of Congress showing more muscle. In the early 60s the Congress wanted to balance the budget and avoid Joe McCarthy's censure. I cannot for the life of me re member a Senator or Repre sentative aware that Brown vs. the Board of Education was about to become an un paralled landmark decision. Congress may or my not resolve the problem of late twentieth-century urban life, the problem of America’s for eign commitments, the prob lem of poverty. If Congress doesn't no one will. Certainly not the Supreme Court and I believe the court is aware of their inutility in this area and that the court’s concentration wili go else where. ciety. My family, during my boy hood, could not stand dogs; but they loved cats. Cats didn’t bother anybody, except that they may have fought on the nearby fence at night. The solution to the problem here Is to snore and drown out the cats. We had a cat, as I recall, “Big Red,” not much on breed but great on size and friend liness. He ate dog food and grew as big as a house, fine and fat. If one didn't look close, “the American Kennel Club by cats’ may nave over looker he was a descendant of the “Cat farthest down.” of this nature. Let’s hope that the community avail Itself of this useful information being disseminated. We congratulate Willard Butler and David Jackson who are directors of the program, MOVING FROM NEGRO TO BLACK During W’orld War I the great ideological argument In A mericn between Afro- Ameri cans and Euro -Americans was, as now, equal opportuni ty, but there was also the ar gument on the word Negro. Whether is should be at proper noun ana afford a captlal “N”. Those for capitalizing Negro won. Since 1963, the hundreth an niversary of the Emancipation there has been another ideo logical argument between the same parties mentioned a bove, but with the added di mension of an intramural de bate among descendants of identification as Negro or Black (with a capital B). The old argument was won because Negro was the name whites had given blacks and Blacks demanded the respect of such designation being proper noun. Today the same basic problem is being attack ed. The noun Negro is an 1- dentification given, whereas the term Black implies a se lection made by the people. Afro- American is another term some Blacks prefer on the ground it is equal to other hyphenated Americans. But the real struggle is within the Negro - Black com munity. Those who call themselves Negro are branded as old an out-of-date. They are the so called compromisers. They argue that a label is un important in the struggle for equality of opportunity. More over, they say the word Ne gro is understood by everyone and that’s what counts. On the other hand, the young demand to be called Black. They say Black is our word. Black is what we are and any other identification is a patent denigration and fails to re cognize Black people as human beings. MIAMI TIMES. f i “The Message of the Future Mr. President?” NIXON MAINTAINED THAT THE T \ great majorityof the v PEOPLE IN OUR CITIES ARE NOT J| anttnegro, antswelfare.. jim ANTfPOOR, OR REACTIONARY ! HATERS. RATHER, NIXON SAID M THEIR ‘LOUD AND CLEARtALL wL JL& I /M IS FOR DOMESTIC PEACE. f| ■ flip ¥ >, | Tfi ‘THAT'S THE MESSAGE FOR THE J§L m ■ CANDIDATES IN THE FUTURE/ Economic Highlights Half' a generation hence the wisdom of fate ful decisions that may result from the current “military-industrial complex” debate will be known. If the decisions are wrong, it may be that as one dedicated naval officer puts it, . .the next decade will bring us great sor rows indeed.” Those who remember the near tragic unpreparedness of the U. S. at the time of Pearl Harbor shudder at the prospect of such unpreparedness in the nuclear age. No longer do sheer distance and breadth of the seas stand as barriers while we train men with wooden guns and work feverishly to catch up with military reality. Instead of years, the grace period between attack and demolition will be measured in minutes. The soft-headed campus radicals and others who put domestic, social and economic problems ahead of all else— including defense of the nation- -would be silent in the finality of death by a conquerer acting under the ancient credo of survival of the fittest. Against this backdrop, it is easy to see why concern runs deep among thoughtful citizens as the military—industrial complex story unfolds. By nature the U. S. is not a militar istic nation. The citizen soldier has been the backbone of its defense. But no longer is de fense a matter of a man with a rifle. The age of science and technology has led to what the late President Eisenhower termed a “conjunc tion of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry,” which he called some thing “new in the American experience . .. .” Today, there are those who fear the growing power of the military and the economic impact on the nation of multibiliiondollar arms spend ing programs. In the meantime, what are the facts about military spending and the relationship between the military and industry' 7 Currently, military spending is running at the rate of SBO billion a year. It accounts for about the same percent age of the Gross National Product now as in 1358 or around 10 per cent. There has been waste admittedly and unavoidably in military ISSUES BAN LUSAKA-In a speech delivered recently, President Kenneth D. Kaunda announced the banning of the African National Congress in the Mumbwa district as an “unlawful organiz ation.” The banning, and arrest of leaders of the movement was ordered because “the organizers of ANC have seen it fit to or ganize violence, and themselves and support ers with spears, knobkerries and other wit nesses, and surrounded one pollirjg station and ordering out would-be voters,” He cited six incidents which have occurred between March 21, 1968 and June 15, 1969. EXTERMINATION LAND JOHANNES BURG-South Africa’s strict pol icy of separation of the races and blatant discrimination against ail people who are not white--and even against its liberal-minded whites--has given it the world’s title as “violence land.” A report in a University of South Africa publication notes that the country had 47 per cent of ttie recorded executions in the non-Communist world. Mur der is not the only crime punishable by death. There’s robbery with violence—even if the vic tim is not slain; rape, treason and crimes under the security laws. MORE REPARATIONS ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Reparation demands of another kind and by another people is in the process of being officially made to A merican whites. The demand comes from the Eskimos in Alaska who want at least SSO million a year for 10 years and the right to ownership of a selected 40 million aci es of the total 365 million acreage in the state, plus a 10 per cent share in perpetuity in • mineral revenues from all public lands. This largesse would be divided among appioxi mately 55,000 Eskimos, most of whom now live in 180 villages or in scattered family groups, SEPTEMBER 23RD SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-Puerto Rico now has two “Independence Days” to legally cele brate. One is July 4, Independence Day for the U. S. mainland, and the other is Sept. 23, in commemoration of an armed uprising in 1888 against the Spanish crown. The new holi day makes a total of 20 which the island ob serves lO U. S. holidays, ard 10 of its own, DFATH IN CAPTIVITY ALGIERS-Moise Tshombe, one-time Katan- World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL procurement, lart this does not mean that de fense-oriented industries are rolling in fi nancial fat. The magazine Newsweek reports that a re cent study of top defense firms shows that their profit on each dollar of defense sales was 4.2 cents, versus an average for all U. S. industry of 8.7 cents. “Further,” says Newsweek, “the companies’ annual earnings on each dollar' of— invested capital, slipping steadily over the last decade, averaged 7.3 cents versus 10.1 cents a year for industry as a whole.” There are also ttiose who favor government -owned de fense plants. Os this idea, a former Navy Sec retary comments, “For 25 years the Navy made torpedoes. . . . But when World War II came, the torpedoes wouldn’t run right, wouldn’t hit any ships. We had to get Ameri can Can Company . . .to make the ones that worked.” * As the debate over arms spending proceeds, evidence is mounting that is some areas Rus sia is overtaking the U.S. Not long ago, a Rus sian official prophesied that the time was coming when the U. S. would lose mastery of the seas. The reason for Russian confid ence is easily explained. As columnist James J. Kilpatrick points out, we are economiz ing on defense, and we should be spending more. Says Mr. Kilpatrick, ”... the de mand that the United States spend less for national security is a demand that makes no sense--not at a time when the Soviet Un ion is upgrading its navy and expanding its missile program. Regradless of the outcome in Viet Nam, our general purpose forces must be kept at high levels. To permit their erosion, in effect, is to abandon commitments; eventually, such a course involves the piece meal yielding of jpost of the world to advanc ing Soviet power.” f Whatever happens in the years ahead, tlse public should clearly understand that the cur rent debate over the military-industrial com plex involves questions of survival on which there is no margin for error. ga province chief and also premier of Con go-Klnshasa, never got to see his homeland again. Last week, after languishing two years in jail, Tshombe died of a heart attack. But it was perphaps better that he did not return to the Congo, for he was been under a death sentence in absentia ever since he fled the Congo in 19C3 for exile in Spain. NOT SURPRISED LONDON-Edward Ndlovu, 42-veai -old de puty national secretary, Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) voiced the opinion of many Black people last week when he said, “We were riot at all surprised at the result of the Rhodesian referendum. We expected it.” Ndlovu is in London preparing to take part in the Anti-Apartheid Movement’s con ference on Liberation and Guerilla Warfare, which convenes at the Roundhouse on Julv 6 - RACIAL WORLD WAR » LUSAKA-A charge that the “Southern A frica Alliance (South Africa, Angola, Mozam bique ana Rhodesia), aided by the imperial ist powers, are planning a war of aggression against some African states-- notably Zam bia, Tanzania and the two Congos,” was made recently by Tasivana Mntzva. cheif publicity officer, Zimbabwe Aid lean Nation al Union (ZAPU). He made th- statement during the week-long conference oi the UN Speical Committee of 24 on the ending of colonialism. An example of “this aggres sion” was the -recent attempt to sabotage Zambia’s supply lines to the coas', just two 'days before the comm. ’tee began its meeting. BLACK NURSES BETTER? ? ? PRETORIA -An unusual statement was per mitted to be publicized by the white minority South Afi ican government which 1 uns counter to the country’s policy of segregation arid dis crimination of its majority Black citizens. 1 Prof. Charlotte Searle, a member of the board of the South African Nursing associa tion, and holder of the chair of nursing at the University of Pretoria, said that the country’s “non-white nurses are among tr.e best qualified in the world.” She said that * of 12,808 Black nurses registered, 58 per cent of them are doubly qualified arid con stitute 35 per cert of the total nurse registry in the country.
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