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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N C„ SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1869 Does your life belong to God? “In Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28). God created man in His own image, but this did not refer to His physical image. It means that the Almighty gave us a braid and a mind to reason for ourselves and make decisions Editorial Viewpoint Classrooms Crowded With 60 Million The new academic school year is just over the hill, and when the new educational term begins shortly, one American in almost three will be en rolled in school from the kinder garten to the graduate school. The predicted total of 60 million students in school across the nation is some thing to take one’s breath away. Americans want education and self-improvement, for it is in the highest tradition, just like the old s~cent cup of coffee, the hot dog, and hamburger. Parents are placing great emphasis upon additional knowledge and understanding of the greatest number of citizens. But there is also the question whether the citizens realize the bigness of our school system and the movement its has rolling. Can we measure up to the challenge that school expan sion is making on a tremendous scale. Statistics tell us, for example, there will be more than 2.6 million teachers when the classrooms re open next month. More than $54 billion will be spent during the forth coming new school year. Our enrollment of students has jumped from 42 million to 60 mil lion within the last ten years. Not only is the population increasing, Docs Small Inspection Make Sense? Most states have annual or semi annual automobile inspection. These inspections bring forth an enormous amount of criticism, and yet there is simply little alternative concern ing our state auto inspection sys tem. We are told that it is practically impossible to inspect small cars, and the machines just aren’t de signed for them. Some motorists are asking why inspect them at all if this is the case? Many motorists feel that these minicars are tested and checked just to bring in money. Well, if this is true, we know a lot of big car drivers who are gripen ing and how, One motorist, a lady in a south ern state, told this story. One July 17, she carried her Volkswagen in for an inspection. It failed the brake test: that is. its right rear brake did. So the lady took the best repair shop in town. The mechanic *-ontranslations NHL; Stay With Non-Violence By a vote of 181-1, the delegate assembly of the National Urban League defeated the motion to de lete the words “Non-violent ac tion’’ from a white newspaper state ment on racism and substitute for them, “by any means necessary.” The amendment was proposed by Charles Washington of Omaha, Ne braska, who contended that each League should have a right to deter mine what kind of action it should take under a given circumstance. Reo Davenport of Pittsburgh, an active member of the youth delega tion at the conference, made an im passioned plea for rejection of the amendment and said: “Violence is a tacit admission that we as Ne- Single People Need Tax Relief Badly Time and time again we have been reminded that death and taxes will always tie with us. No one seems to doubt the veracity of this statement. Last week the newspaper gave a big spread to the tax schedules for everyone to read. It appears that al most everyone is going to be helped by the tax revisions except single people. The federal government feels evidently that all single persons live in with their parents, or at the YMCA or YWCA or maybe on a park bench. The officials of our government might be shocked to Bible Thought Os The Week with wisdom. The-righteous man, therefore,is moderate in all things -- eating, drinking, smoking, exercising, and sex. Wisdom and common sense are the keys to the abundant life. but people are attending school long er than they did about ten years ago. For instance, more than one third of the young people of col lege age are attending college, and that proportion is also rising. Night schools, extension colleges, correspondence courses and other forms of adult education are be coming more popular. Indeed educa tion is the biggest business in the United States, not even the food and automobile enterprises exceed it. The shock comes, however, when we realize that enormous portions of local and state tax funds, plus a relatively small but increasing amount of federal assistance, are being utilized in public education to run our schools. Contractors, merchants and manufacturers know that school supplies and school clothing are most important items on their balance sheets. If you feel that the number of school enrollees is magnanimous this year, just wait until 1975. We will need all of the foresight and careful planning, and all the fin ancial sacrifice, of which we are capable in order to realize the potential of learning and teaching on such a scale. Yes, education is our biggest business. checked and said she needed bo,th rear brakes lined and brake cy linders repaired. He did the work. When she pick-up the little car, she was told that it was in splendid condition so far as the brakes were concerned, but he advised her to wait a few days until the new brake shoes set in before going for an in spection. So the revisited the sta tion and passed until she got to the brake test. This time it was for the front brakes which did not pass, although they did a week previously. She hurried again to the repair station and told the service attend ants what had happened to her. At her request, the service station mal adjusted her front brakes so that the car would pull to the left. Guess what? They passed. Os course, the only reason the brake inspector could give was that small compacts are difficult to in spect. groes can’t compete on a peaceful basis with whites.” Whitney Young, Jr., said, “I am against violence because I think its suicide. You don’t run a war with just the Air Force. You have to have the Navy and the Army and the Marines too.” We are glad that the National Urban League stood on firm ground and defended its principles of non violence in seeking to gain first class citizenship, The organization showed that it was not of the mind as SNCC which recently deleted the word “nonviolence” from its name. Already there are too many viol ent black organizations. The NUL must be a balm in Gilead. learn how many single people main tain homes even Though they don’t qualify as heads of households. To tax these single Individuals at a higher rate than other peo ple is downright unjust, if not cruel. What single persons need to do is to organize and put the pressure on the tax experts good and hard. Some body must start the bandwagon in order that the others may get on it. It appears that the citizens who are hardest put are the ones who are made to assume the role of Markham’s “Man with the Hoe.” Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN ' ‘BLESSED BE THE TIE that binds” President Nixon, ever dilig ent in his attempt to bring us together, asked Rabbi Louis Flnkelstein, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary 1 n America, to conduct the weekly pray-in at the White House, Rabbi Flnkelstein join ed eminent company: Billy Graham, the evangelist, and Thomas Cardinal Cook of New York have read the litany to the White House retinue. The President invited a great many of his Jewish con stituents to hear Rabbi Flnkel stein, a more than unifying gesture. But Mr. Nixon dumb founded this makeshift con gregation when the service led off with the Doxology, a Christian hymn, one of my particular favorities: Praise God from whom all blessings flow Praise Hill all creatures here below Praise Him above ye Heav enly Host praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. A close friend of mine who was in attendance but who sworn me to secrecy, con fessed he was at first em barrassed. He hadn’t seen the inside of the shul since 1946 and he at first thought li turgical reforms has caught him unaware. It wasn’t until the New York Times informed him that he realized the Doxo logy was not a new part of the Jewish ritual. Since he didn’t know the words, he hum med. Certainly, President Nixon intended no slur, desecration or slight to Jews. But the his tory of Jews in America is the history of such confusions. I was in attendance that, day in South Carolina when Senator 01 i n Johnston addressed a congregation of Jews on the celebration of Israel's state hood. Olin Johnston liked Jews. He told me once his best friend in Charlotte was one Tony Castellano who was an Italian but Olin said it would make no difference if Tony v/ere Jewish. On this occa sion, Olin mounted the ros- Jest For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOUT WARE want to come to FLORIDA? You might as well, for thing are attractive as can be. The state has 30,000 lakes, more or less. The shores total up to approximately 8,426 miles long. Those of you like to boast of those big fish you catch, just corne on down. You just might break a world re cord. If you are thinking of get ting married, there are at tractions here also. There are twice as many marriages as divorces in Florida, and twice letter to the Editor NAACP SPECIAL CONTP.I BUTION FUND To The Editor; Regardless of the language, the proposals before the Con gress in the so-called tax re form bill to bar the use of foundation funds for voter re gistration are principally anti-black. Negro citizens are not deceived by the "tax re form” label. They view the move (and rightly so) as an attempt to halt the increase in Negro voting strength. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 plus grants from founda tions enabled organizations like the NAACP to increase the r egistration of Negro vot ers by about 800,000 before the 1968 election The total of black registrants in the Southern states rose to slight ly more than 2 million out of a potential of 5 million. Comes now the Congress with a proposal to crush the rising participation of Negro voters in the election process under the guise of regulating the foundations. A neat busi ness! At one stroke prejudice against the Negro franchise, foundations and anyone who endangers the existing politi cal status quo by enlarging the number of voters, is satis fied. The record does not men tion race. It is one on tax reform, or adjusting inequi- THE CAROLINIAN “Covering The Caroltnas” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 518 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27v,0l Mailing Address: P.O. Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 27502 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh. N. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RAIDS Six Months $3.25 Sales Tax 10 TOTAL 3.35 One Year 5.50 Sales Tax 16 TOTAL .5.66 Payable In advance. Address all communications and make all checks ana money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc,, 3H Madison 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. trum and told the congrega tion how in Ezekiel in the Old Testament God promises Pa lestine to the Jews, Now the prophecy had come to pass. God works In many ways His Wonders to perform Olin concluded, and ail that made him sad about Israel was that he would miss seeing the faces nefore him, all of whom, of course would be pro ceeding to Israel right away to fulfill under God's holy promise. Some of the Jew’s who were in that assemblage are still shaking. Not to be outdone, Ross Barnett, when he was Gov ernor of Mississippi, addres sed a Jewish congregation in Jackson. Barnett was then in a lot of trouble with the federal government and he wanted to ingratiate himself with all the citizenry. He said the nicest thing he could think of to these Jews. Throughout his sermon he kept calling them “Fellow Christians,” which led the rabbi to remark that he had become the first Jew ever to minister to Protestants. Years ago, I worked for Mr. I. D. Blumenthal, a Char lottean Jew deeply committed to the Interfaith Movement. I. D. owned Wildacres, a beau tiful estate in the Carolina mountains where often he in vited Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen for semi nars to discuss this ecumeni cal movement. 1 remember one particular minister who was taking his leave of I. D. after a week of horseback riding, swim ming, picnicking, and good talk. I, D. pressed a basket of apples into his hands and in geniune appreciation at such largesse, the minister said, “Mr. Blumenthal, you would make a wonderful Christian.” But also remember one of the Wildacre seminars over which Bishop Spaugh presid ed. The Bishop said, “Let us first sing a hymn.” And we all sang, “Blessed be the Tie that Binds.” Thus I feel about the Doxo logy, if it bind up ties, it's all right with me. as many people are being born as die. Well, doesn’t it sound like a good place to live, or at least take a vacation. The word is that Florida natives, or the people to pre tend to be, are called Crack ers, net because of what they eat but because many of the pioneers cams to the state driving cattle. The cracking of their whips earn them this name. Yes, our motorist like to “tail-gate” too. It is a very bad driving habit, but some people are like this, you know. ties, but labial? No, Sir! We have learned little ap parently, from the violent out breaks in a hundred cities and from the gangrenous po larization of racial feeling that has flowered in the Sixties. The simole alternative to violence and to racial bitter ness is the resolution of is sues through the ballot box. The v/ider the use of the bal lot by minority citizens and the greater their sharing in the decisions, responsibilities and rewards of elections, the less likelihood there is of the spread of polarization and violence But the Congress seems to have embarked upon a deli berate effort to restrict voting rights of black citizens and to drive them into the camps of the various, insurrection ists, This course could in cline the disfranchised reluct antly to the view that there is little hope for redressing their grievances under the demo cratic system. The question of race has threaded our national history since the first black slaves arrived in 1619, After a bloody Civil War, the enactment and betrayal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the cruel illusion of separate-but equal, the slow beating back, via the courts and political action to a form of decency and the accelerated thrust since 1960, are we not to back slide? In the era in history when men are painfully adjusting to the togetherness forced upon them by their own technology, is the foremost nation on earth to restrict by Congressional action the right of eiiizens to “government by consent of the governed?” Sincerely, Roy Wilkins Executive Director Other Editors Say .. • SALUTE TO BUSINESS AN INDUSTRY Miamians, black and white, were proud of themselves and Victims of Violence in the Streets! MERGER ANDREW \ \fp^j ICSipy SCHWERNER CHANEY kJ3fs JIMMIE LEE REV. JAMES JACKSON J. REEVE PRESIDENT PR.MARTIN LUTHERRING ~~ Economic Highlights " Until comparatively recently, a strike a gainst government was looked upon hi most quarters as tantamount to treason. Early leaders of the labor union movement were ve ment in condemning strikes by employees of government. Every state in the Union, by statue and common law, makes a strike against government illegal. But, irrespective of the law and the principle involved, public employees have been striking. Schoolteachers, policemen, firemen, garbage collectors, sub way workers and others employed in vital public services have resorted to strikes with near calamitous results. The principle that a public-employee strike is a conspiracy a gainst government is apparently no longer a deterrent. Thus, what would seem to be a near insoluble problefri arises. What is the answer to strikes by workers in government service? Mr. Theodore W. Kheel, one of the nation's top labor mediators, discusses the subject in The Reader’s Di gest, Mr, Kneel has been a labor lawyer, mediacor and arbitrator since the early 19- 40’s serving in many national-emergency dis putes in long,shoring, shipping, airline and railroad industries, as weell as public-em ployee bargaining deadlocks Mr. Kheel believes the legal outlawing of strikes Dy government employees has be come a practical impossibility. He points out that local government currently employs 8.5 million people and “...is one of the coun try’s fastest growing industries.” In the next decade, those working for state and city gov ernments will increase to 14 million. Cur rently, another 2.8 million work for the fed eral government. And public employees, like any other group in contemporary society, are “..getting into the organizing act...” Accord ing to Mr. Kheel, one organization--the A merican Federation of State, County and Muni cipal Employees—may soon outrank such giants as the Teamsters, the Automobile W’orkers and the Machinists. In Mr. Kheel’s view, antistrike laws are UPGRADING ADDIS ABA BA-A major reorganization oi Ethiopian Airlines has put five more Ethiopians in top-level executive positions-in flying oper ations and financial management. Captains Ale m&yehu Abe be and Adamu Medhane, both ve teran airline pilots, were elevated respec tively to director-international flying and di rect or-domestic Esthetie, controller; and Aberra Makonnen, assistant to secretary legal affairs.„ ELECTION BILL NASSAU - The Bahamas’ new e leetion legislation, which lias passed the House of Assembly, provides for 18-year olders to have the vote, and for the illiter ate to cast their ballots secretly by use of symbols. In addition, the legislature pro- their community last week when the results of the OIC drive was announced. The re sults even amazed the foun der of OIC, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who founded his first Opportunities Industrializa tion Canter in Philadelphia six years ago at the end of a luncheon that lasted an hour and a half, more than $138,- 000 was raised to make Mi ami the 91st city In the coun try to have an OIC, Rev. Sul livan said he had not seen the likes of it anywhere, and he l)as raised money for centers in most of the major cities of this country. This effort says a lot of our local business and indus try. It says that the so-called power structure in this com munity has exhibited a sin cere and genuine effort in helping to solve one of the major problem we face her. And that is the lack of skill ed people to take advantage of the many good jobs that are now becoming available faster than we can supply the personnel for them. Another thing we lilted a about the OIC drive was the spirit of cooperation shown by the three -sponsoring or ganizations in bringing about its success. When the United World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL Black Federation adopted the OIC as its initial project, it sought :'i3 help of the Grea ter Miami Coalition and the Chamber of Commerce in planning the endeavor. The ÜBF sounded out the black community in an initial self help drive and the communi ty responded by oversubscrib ing the $5,000 goal. This re sponse enthused the Coalition and Chamber and together the three organizations worked out the project. This was a significant exhibition of com munity planning and coopera tion. We are not saying that the establishment of an OIC will solve all the problems that beset our commnui y. But we do say that if major organiza tions. ot this community will plan and work together in a sense of helping each other for the good of the toal com munity, we are well on the way to removing many of the obstacles that stand in our path. TOWNHOUSES FOR POOR PEOPLE At this time when most of the poor people in our com munity are living in the hor rible concrete monsters that absent landlords collect out worse than useless in that they set up bar riers to collective bargaining. He believes that in finding an alternative to antistrike laws, “The first step is to review the premise that 1) legalizing strikes means strikes will be the rule rather than the exception, and 2 ) the re fore the public-service employee must be treated as a second-class citizen.’’ He re commends giving him”... the same rights to organize and bargain collectively, if he chooses, that we give to workers in private industry.” He would also make the Taft- Hartley Act applicable to public service em ployees and so give the President the power to invoke an 80-day cooling off period. Mr. Kheel cites two instances of public employee strikes where utilization of the Taft-Hartley type of emergency procedures could have sav ed the day. In Florida, a public employee is barred by law from striking or belonging to an organi zation which advocates the use oi strikes. “Yet,” in Mr. Kheel’s words, “About half of Florida’s public schoolteachers walked out... and shut down most of the state’s schools for 15 days. They didn’t call it a strike: they ‘resigned’ en masse.” There was no machinery for collective bargaining. Mr. Kheel describes a somewhat similar situation in New York State, where the law grants public employees the right to “negotiate collectively” but out laws strikes. Again, he believes that if there had been a Taft-Hartley “Cooling-offperiod,” with arbitration as a last resort, New York would have been spared the hardships of the garbage and subway workers’ strikes. In conclusion, Mr. Kheel admits freely that ids suggestions leave many problems unsolved because, “Bargaining in the public sector is still in its infancy. We still have to improve the skill of those who bargain. And we., still have to solve problems that are * And we., still have to solve problems that art special to the public sector.... The challenge is to improve collective bargaining—rot to re place it.” vides that a trusted friend may mark the bal lot of a Mind person, after taking an oath to keep the sightless* choice of representative a secret. No person other than a Bahamian by birth or naturalization is permitted to have the vote. CABINET RESHUFFLE KINSHASA - Another reshuffling of the Co ngo cabinet has been unde by President Jo seph Mobutu which has ousted nine ministers and 10 deputy ministers. Foreign Minister Justin Marie Bomboki has been replaced by one-time Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula, who is currently the Congo’s diplomatic repre sentative in the U. S. Other leading figures no longer In the cabinet include Victor Nenda ka, finance; and Etienne Tshisekedi, plan ning. I tragoous rents for, any news about letter housing is wel come. Such is the news that Metro public housing officials art readying bids for a $9.2 mil- 1 lion, 745 unit block of public housing designed as town houses. These units will be spreao over 13 different sites in the northwest area, 80?; in the City of Miami. The units will include one to five-bedroom apartments for large families and effici encies and one-bedroom a partments for elderly per sons. The family units will be assigned to specially selected public housing tenants who show signs of enough ‘“up ward mobility” that they might be able to eventually climb out of the poverty bracket and purchase the town houses. None of the units are plan ned for within the Model City - area, where opposition has met previous attempt this year to increase public housing. The Model City Governing Board has adopted a policy of preferring open spaces so the density of the ghetto area can be reduced. The MIAMI TIMES.
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