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4 the czmumm RALEIGH, N. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1088 There are times when nothing a man cart say is nearly ec powerful as saying nothing, Every executive knows this instinctively. Sil ence convicts other men of their folly, Jesus had sent two disciples into the town to get accomodations for the night, but they were refused. The two returning and indignant Editorial Viewpoint Getting Young Children Reedy For School This is the time of the year when almost every family is concerned about its little boys and girls who will soon enter first grade, especial ly if they have not attended kinder garten. Why not teach you child the things he needs to know to get along with other children, and accustom him to the school environment. The child doesn’t need to be able to read, spell, or count. His teacher will take care of these matters. Parents should realize that there are other essential skills, the lack of which can color or discolor -- their child’s first experience with formal education. 1. Teach him his full name, home address and phone number. 2. Teach him his parent’s names and occupations. 3. Be sure that he knows how to dress and undress himself. 4. Be sure that he knows how to use a toilet properly and to wash his hands after use. 5. Make sure that the child knows that he must ask the teacher for per mission to use the bathroom in schooi. Explain that there’d be bed lam if all children used these facili ties at the same time. Make sure that the child is not embarrass ed by his normal needs. This is sort of problem that may make the child acutely uncomfortable during his first days of school. 6. Teach the child something a about classroom order and pro- It’s Getting Financially Harder To Attend College Those of the black race know what sacrifices parents have made to send their children to institu tions of higher learning. In by-gone days, mothers washed clothes, did house work, picked cotton to give their sons and daughters an educa tion. Although parents are not so hard put these days, the rising cost of education is making it harder on the college student -- in spite of num erous scholarships and work-aid opportunities. The student hardly ever has enough money to see him through, the majority that is. Yes, college costs money. And the cost, like everything else, is going up. As a result, more and more students are knocking at col lege financial aid offices, while the colleges have less and less to give them. ■ The fundamental problem today is that we’re inadequately funded by the federal government. For instance, the three major sources of federal money the educational opportuni ty grants, the national defense stu dent loan program, and the work- ■ study program all have been cut considerably. The town of Welaka, Fla., with a population of about 800, has the reputation of being a sportsman paradise. It is bountfu! with lakes full of bream and black bass. Bird hunters couldn’t ask for more in the why of quail, deer, and other game. Very few people know it, but Welaka also holds the distinction of being the first municipality in Florida to elect a City Council containing a majority of Negroes. “It seems like everybody is trying to hush up the fact/’ remarked Wil lie Washington, 30, one of the three Negroes on the council and the first to break the color barrier when in 196 She was elected to a two-year term on the five-m Council. What Washingtoff to mention was that in and Mississippi ■ where Negroes gained - -*V*' >**+*+.v ’ Bible Thought Os The Week Black Majority: Welka, Florida disciples returning from the village said, "Lord, let us call down are from Heaven end consume them (the people).” Jsimsi gather ed up Hts garments and walked to the next town. Awed by Hie silence, the disciples knew that Jesus was thinking of hew they had failed to measure up. cedure. But be sure you know what the current school practices are at the time your child enters school. 7. Teach your child to take his turn, to speak up when asked a question and to understand the need for sharing toys, instructional mat erials and the teacher’s attention. 8. Let your child understand what is expected of him on the school bus and explain that his misbe havior may threaten his own and other children’s safety. 9. Take your child to school the first, if you possible can. Make sure that he gets a good night’s sleep on the night before. Make getting off to school a happy oc casion, since the separation of child from mother may be frighten ing to some children. Be sure you and the child get to school on time that first day. 10. Finally, let your child meet the teacher before school begins. Invite the teacher to your home or visit her at school. Knowing what the teacher looks and sounds like will take the edge of your child’s understandable apprehen sions. There are many parents who are too lazy to accompany their chil dren to school on the first day. Too often, they send the young child with their older siblings, or some neighbors older child. Every par ent should see to it that the first day of school for their youngsters are pleasant moments. Educational opportunity grants are scholarships of SI,OOO or less, awarded to students from poverty level families. Under the work-study program, the student works on campus and the federal government, pays 80 per cent of his salary. The national defense student loan program has been an enormous boon to thousands of students. The student can borrow up to SI,OOO a year, and repay it within 10 years after graduation at the annual in terest rate of 3 per cent. However, monies allotted for na tional defense loans have been de creasing, In July, the House Ap propriations Committee voted to spend $188.2--million on the loans in 1970. some $5.2-million less than in 1969. Where does the student turn? Counselors have suggested other sources, such as: federally insured loans. But insured loans are not picking up the slack from cuts in national defense loans. Some of our civil rights organiza tions might undertake to find ed ucational finances to train Negro students to earn green power. voters were overwhelmingly Negro. In Florida’s We!aka the percentage is 55 per cent white and 45 per cent Negro. “There has Jieen no friction or splits along racial lines,” said the mayor who is called “Chief” by al most everyone in town rather than by his political title. “But they re fuse to go along with projects we (the whites)-advocate. All they want to do is table things. But they never get around to a vote.” Daniels thinks this inaction is re sented by whites and will result in a big turnout of white voters in the March election when three council seats, including the one Washington holds, will be at stake. The term of a second Negro councilman, E manuel Johnson, also will expire in March. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE MISUSE OF WIVES Os &I1 the allusions to which the English-speaking world resorts, the most abused is the expression about "Cae sar's wife.* The full expres sion is "Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion," and re cently the Football Commis sioner, Pets Rozelle,employed the phrase to' explain why Joe Narnath had to sell his share In a nightclub. But the allusion to Caesar’s v/ifedoes not refer to purity but rather to the victim of circum stances. In the hopes the folks will get it straight, let me make a brief resume of the situation. Milo, a elves Romani, but a connive? of the worst sort as well as a lecher, conceiv ed a passion for one of the ladies-in-waiting who attend ed Caesar’s wife. There not being motels in classical an tiquity, Milo took matters into his own hands by sneaking into Lady Caesar’s bath and, as it were twixt earnest and joke, enjoyed his lady. But he was spotted leaving. Caesar promptly instituted divorce proceedings. When her lawyer pointed out to the General that his wife was perfectly innocent, that she had not conspired in the affair, that she had ordered her handmaiden boiled in oil, that she despised Milo and wouldn’t say hello to him if he were the last man in the world, wasn’t the divorce car rying things too far? Might} Julius replied, "Caesar’swife must be above suspicion admitting the truth of her de fense but insisting that she was out of luck because he, Cae sar, was big time. Everyone knows that Lot’s .wife, who is otherwise name less, is turned into a pillar of salt. Her crime was to look back at the destruction of Jest For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWaRE VITAMIN C. The reports say that vitamin C can improve the mental and physical health of most people. Then why don't the members of our U. S. Congress, arid various state legislatures, drink more orange juice and think ten percent more clear ly? Vitamin C may be the means of ending the Vietnam War, casting out the 10 per cent surtax, settling the ABM is sue, and prevent us from tak ing that expensive plunge to put a man on Mars when mil lions have very little to eat. Other Editors Say.. PAGING PRESIDENT NIXON President Nixon's attitude toward black Americans is permeating the social, eco nomic and political struc tures It has reached right down to the Corporal in Fort Bragg where 26 MP’s were sent to Quell a brawl between black and white soldiers and only one of the 26 was black, Clearly the sender expected the black soldiers to get a good whipping no matter which side of the color line had com mitted the insults or injuries. Not since the days of Wood row Wilson has America had a president that shows so little consideration for the first class citizenship of black A mericans. Wilson, the racist, moved all blacks from the White House right down to the scrub boy. On the finest ships afloat Wilson sent white Gold Star mothers to Fi ance to view the site where their sons silent lay, but the Black Star mothers who paid no less price were sent on cattle boats to the same France to see the graves of their loved ones, White mothers on the voyage were served filet mignon and broiled lobster tails in lemon butter. Black Star mothers were given black eyed peas, fried chicken and watermelon. Mr. Nixon appears to be cut of the same racial cloth as Wilson. The black legislators in Washington, as far as the White House is concerned, are “Congressmen in exile.’' His welfare and anti-poverty plans to let the states have control over job training and distri- THE CAROLINIAN “Covering The Carolina*" Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 418 E. Martin Street Raleigh. N. C. 270)1 Mailing Address: P.O. Box S2B Raleigh, hi. C. 27692 Second Class Poslase Paid at Ra leigh. N. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months *3 25 Sales Tax ;o TOTAL 335 One Year 550 Sales Tax i« TOTAL 5 66 Payable in advance. Address ail communications and make ali chet-Ks arid money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., 31(, Msdison Avenue, New York 17. N. Y. National Advertising Rep resentatlvf Member of ihe Asso eiateo Negro Press and the Unit ed Press International Photo Ser vice. The Publisher Is not responsible for Ihe return of unsolicited news" pictures or advertising copv uni IM* necessary postage accompan ies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists In t(,*s newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of tnta newspape r. Sodom after the Lord have giv en Lot the warning to flee to Zoar. Why the Jealous God of the Old Testament changed her into salt I leave to the Freud ians and the Higher Critics, He changed her because in looking back she longed for possessions which God was destroying. See, when the Lord warned Lot of the imminent destruction of the city, Lot lingered. He lingered until the vicious Sodomites started to seize his lands. Even then he was able to make a deal with God to flee to another city instead of the mountains. God was giving him a better than fair shake Wives of the men in re ceivership: take due notice: That’s what the expression, "Lot’s wife” is about. "Potiphar’s wife” is always referred to as the seductress of Biblical times. Potiphar, one of the Pharaoh’s captains, took Joseph into his house and made him the major domo of the estate, the overseer. But Potiphar’s wife began making eyes at Joseph, who spurned her advances. She tried again. And again. And at last Joseph told her to lay off, if Potiphar found out they would both be in the soup. She grabbed Jo seph’s cloak. He ran out. Whereupon she accused him of attempted rape and Potiphar threw him in a dungeon. Portiphar's wife has had a life in all literature since then because the underlying sense of the situation is that Joseph led her on a little bit. Shake speare not having yet warned him that hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned. If she entrapped Joseph, it was a spur of the moment entrap ment. She wanted a jet-set swinger while he was all for forecasting the future through dream analysis. What we need is a drink to check the nation's mad spend ing habits with the taxpayer's money. The lowly taxpayer is being pressed Into a groove from which he may never rise again. Someone said that we may all need orange juice, or more bottles of vitamin C pills. NIXON, A POLITICAL FOOT BALLER? One newspaper called President Nixon a sideline end not so long ago. If you don’t get the message, ask some body, but not me! button of welfare payments to the poor will make unemploy ed black mechanics and lino type operators mere yard men and baby sitters to serve whites of the South and the southern oriented in the North; for whatever has been achievement by these white in other fields, and they have achieved mightily, when it comes to race relations they have hopelessly demented. The rule being when the family is on welfare the head of the household must accept “suitable” employment of or have the benefits discon tinued. In a society where racism is a passion, yea, a religion, “suitable'' employ ment for a white high school graduate on welfare would very likely be Junior Account - ant, Laboratory Technician, Assistant or Journeyman in one of the building crafts. However, for the black col lege level person who heads a welfare family his lot could well be that of house boy, yardman or baby Sitter. His tory shows that this is more than a probability. Job train ing—-job training for what? Even at the public school in Chicago’s Washburn Trade School white labor fights biack labor and the number of blacks accepted for training Is very few indeed. So the call for “major revisions of job train ing programs that would shift considerable power to local communities and stated would accentuate racial discrim - and assignment of jobs. States rights as applied in this coun try simply means the right to dehumanize black people. States’ rights will slow down civil rights. States’ rights will turn the clock back. president Nixon’s de sire to restrict and restrain black people to second class citizenship is shown bj his propensity to appoint to the Supreme Court judges who may be so wed to the past that they look to yesterday for the future, while blacks reach for tomorrow and the day aft er . Mr. President, there is no golden past to which, black Americans will return. The GARY CRUSAD ER. THE BLACK MEDIA In a study to determine whsat media is most effective in reaching the Mack consumer market, the Grey Advertising Not The Way To ‘Bring Us Together 1 JOSEPH L RAUOH. VICE CHAIRMAN OF S* {/ AMERICANS FOP DEMO- > J s \ CRATIC ACTION, SAID § A I 'THIS i$ THE WORST f POSSIBLE TIME FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF PKtAT 11/ fpf \ A HARD-CORE SEGRE- 7 f fhl §! vk / 6AT/ONIST TO THE & / [V <f\ / SUPREME COURT. , / jf, \a ts / PRESIDENT N LYONS - /[J /V ' k I 7/ / APPOINTMENT OF ' <2 ,/iy j / / JUDGE HAYNSWORTH \J{ 1 IS LIKE THROWING A /) YJ l J LOG ON THE FIRES OF f y WMmLi ' The Thought Exchange BY GORDON HANCOCK FIVE AND EIGHTY YEARS! On June 23rd, 1884 the omnific hand of a great God launched Gordon Blaine Hancock upon the great and mysterious Sea of Time. Out of the Great Somewhere into this Great Somewhere, heading toward a Great Some where. The voyage is almost completed, and at evening he stands within the harbor wait ing for “landing orders”. In the nature of thines. the court-down !:Our cannot be too long deferred. Good old Thomas Gray calls it the “inevitable hour.” Nor would sailor Han cock have it otherwise, for the “when” of this hour only casually interests him, as it interests those with lamps trimmed and burning. The midnight cry of the bride groom's coming is only an incident of the great voyage, even as Jesus taught in the great parable of the Bridegroom. “And at midnight there was a cry made ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh,’ go ye out to meet him ‘and all the virgins arose and trimmed their lamps”. The important lesson Jesus would drive home in this beautiful and dramatic parable, is not the coming of the bridegroom, but the condi tion and preparation of the lamp*- . The time of his coming is incidental; the condition of the lamps is fundmental. At eighty-five, the su preme concern therefore hinges around the tantamount fact tiiat not only is his light trim med and burning, but there is sufficient oil In the vessel. After such a long and perilous voyage through storms and calm, the question inevitably presses for answeV, as sailor Han cock stands waiting in Time’s harbor for land ing orders, what think you of life? The answer is LIFE is WORTHWHILE! LIFE IS GOOD! The great writer of Genesis telling the wondrous story of creation, kept on repeatingthatasGod looked out upon His creation he said it was “good”. There is something about life that is good and this “Something” offers the only satisfaction in life and with life' The underly ing question of life itself is in what, and of what does this good consist? The question is important; Does life’s great good consists of BEING GOOD. KNOWING GOOD, DOING INTIMIDATION WINDHOEK, Southwest Africa-In one of its latest drives to intimidate the Black Africans in the mandated Southwest African territory, the white-ruled South African judiciary has railroaded five of eight Ovambo tribesmen to life imprisonment, and another to 18 years; while acquitting two. All were accused of being associated with a South-West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) plot to overthrow the “legal” government violently. BOMBING TRY A.CCRA-Reminiscent of the days during the regime of deposed President Kwame Nkrumah, an explosive device was set off at Parliament House last week, slightly damaging a ceiling and a door. The explosion occurred just be fore the Constituent assembly was to pro mulgate a new constitution that would enable Ghana to shift from military to civilian rule. No injuries were reported. SNAIL MAIL LONDON-Like the American public has long since found, Britons arc awakening to the fact that the “swiftness’ 1 lias gone out of the mail- Agency concluded tnat black media should be used. The following comment was made on the subject in the house organ of the agency, Grey Matter: “The marketer cannot ig nore the change in the at tittude of our Mack citizens as they climb to higher eco nomic, social and education al levels. As this segment of the total black population in creases, it is becoming more aware of its political and eco nomic power. It is also lay ing more emphasis on tiie identity and the dignity of the black person in a white-domi nated society,” The study also revealed that blacks have larger families World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL and their buying habits differ in some important respects from those of other Ameri cans. In discussing consumer patterns, the study indicated tliat blacks consume 4.5 times more rice than whites, that black consume three times more cereal items, buy one-and-a-half times more Tv sets, and three times more headwear. The findings of the Grey Advertising agency study con firm the observations of many students of our community life. There Is, of coure, an other important factor in the effectiveness of black media in reselling and influencing black consumers. The black GOOD or FEELING GOOD? The Greeks conclude that being good for good’s sake was quite enough. Jesus begged to differ and offered a reward for being good and for not being good He poses punishment as in the case of the sheep on the right and goats on the left. Being good is fine, but not fine . enough. Knowing that there is good is very important, otherwise why be good. Knowledge of good sets the fires of Imagination and life aflame. Is the good that life brings to mind a?id living a matter merely of doing good? Doing good has its great rewards. The great est life ever spent upon earth was by Jesus Christ Himself who went about doing good. The Jesus who “went about doing good” left the world's greatest legacy, not in His teach ings alone; but in his fine EXAMPLE OF LIFE AT ITS BEST. He gave the world its great est example of great living, great giving, great suffering and great dying! Then there is the great experience of feel ing good , What good is being good and know ing good and doing good, if there is so much thing as feeling good? One of the great sins of the Modern church and churchmen is the in turning feelings out of the church. I cannot help that William James, Hugo Manus terberg, Josiah Royce and the great Santayana of Harvard , did not make this clear when they constituted the greatest school of philosophy in modern times. Science in the plenitude of its power, history with its my riad tongues, no philosophy with its subtle deductions, do not make it crystal clear whether the good of life is a matter of being good, knowing doing, or feeling good. Life is not reduced to its lowest terms until we A reduce it to feelings. Life without feeling is empty, irrespective of what great scholars say and do! LOVE AND LIFE ARE FEELING. What is the good of being good, knowing good, doing good if it does not end up making one feel good? To arrive at five and eighty, with a clear mind and tender heart is GOOD. The love feeling for God and our fellowrnan is the highest good. The SOM MUM BONUM OF LIFE! man's creed. The latest incident, a tragic one, involved Mrs. Surjlt Barrar, an Indian living in Southall who had thrombosis in her left leg. Hillingdon hospital sent her a postcard con firm tng inst ructions to reduce dosage of tablets she was taking to alleviate bioodelotting in her leg. The card took four days to arrive, but Mrs. Barrar has died in the interim, from an overdose of the tablets, . OAS MEMBER KINGSTON-The newest and 24th member of the Organization of American States Is Jamaica. It formally took up membership last week when the country’s parliamentary ratifi cation of the charter was handed in to the OAS headauarters in Washington. . POWDER KEG LEEDS, Er.gland-A warning that Britain is sitting on a powder keg of racial violence was sounded last week by Home Office Under secretary Rees, during local address. "There is a danger of the presence of underlying racial tensions in all parts of the country. A non -racial spark could set the trouble off/’ he said. media has greater concern for the best interest and welfare of black people. H istcrically the black news paper has beer, the champ tar, of the cause of black peepie, the communication link be tween the leadership and the masses and the defender of the basic interests est he black community. Mor ©over fcne v black newspaper recognizes the essential worth and im portance of the black per sonality. In the white press, black citizens tire never born, never get married and hardly ever die, Chicago daily defend er.
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