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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C . SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 196 S We make a mistake if we think of Jesus as a social outsider. To be sure, it was the “poor' 1 who heard Him gladly, and most of His dose disciples were men and women of the lower classes. But there was a time Editorial Viewpoint Why Do We Wan! Loudness? Our environmental noises on the ■average are annoying enough to cause hearing detects, but whyrnost so many of us make unnecessary noise? Take an average day of noise and here is what can be observed: 1. Hot-rod cars are made to pro duce loud motor noise just to give youths the feeling that they are be ing seen and heard. 2. Hi-fi appliances and record players are turned on to the top volume notch. The music is so loud that people conversing must yell at one another. The results are hoarse voices and sore throats. 3. Out-of-tune diesel engine trail ers, called “big jobs,” thunder along highways in a nerve-racking way. 4. Unbridled factories produce human deafness within a few years, and outside of them the peace and calm of the area are annoying. 5. In ordinary living-room con versation, the people yell at one another instead of conversing with one another. Sound has two characteristics: frequency (pitch or tone) and in tensity (loudness). -The latter is measured in decibels abbreviated db. Within the last twenty years, there have been numerous studies on the ‘Skeletal (lloset Door* May Expose Sins At an unexpected time, the public becomes horrified at the revelation of the misdeeds of men in high of fices. We can never forget the Tea Pot Dome scandal, the Whisky Ring 'during President Grant’s admini stration, the Adam Clayton Powell. 11, exposure, the Senator Dodd re velation, and many others which time prevents listing. There is a well-known injunc tion: “Be sure your sins won’t find you out. ’ * Then there came along the Edward Kennedy incident, a product of cir cum stances seemingly turned by ; Fate. Now Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is held up like a light upon a hill but nor hidden. Life magazine, in a widely-pub licised article, entitled “Strom’s Little Acres,’’ reported that the scrub timber acreage along an In - terstate highway cost Thurmond, and his former law partner. District Judge Charles E. Simons. Jr.. $14.- 53 and acre in 1953. They were paid We hear so much about the virgin birth among religious adherents that the controversy is easily compre hended. Yet the term “virginbirth” is specifically mentioned in only two of the New Testament’s 27 books (St. Matthew 1:18-25 and St. Luke 1:34-35). These ten verses provoke more theological discussion than perhaps anything else in the Bible. In Germany, for example, Catholic scholar Hubertus Halbfas was re cently removed from a number of prestigious teaching positions and censured ,by the German Catholic Church’s Commission for Faith and Morals. Professor Halbfas refused to recant his expressed conviction that “the virgin birth of Jesus does not testify to the faith as a biologi cal. fact.” The case pitted German’s gen erally liberal Catholic hierachy a Bible Thought Os The Week Virgin Birth: Bihical Controversy when He was quite popular in Jems&iem, Tne story ui His uays is dotted with these phrases.... “A certain ruler desired him that lie should eat with film,'’ or "They desired him greatly to remain and he abode two days.” effect of upon the human body, especially the ears. To give an ap proximate idea of the loudness of sound, a light rustle of a leaf in the tree is about 10 db.. while the noise level in a quiet home is about 4 5 db. .A garbage disposal truck make noise ranging from 80 'o 95 db., and an airplane engine, of course, much higher. Not including explosions, the range of sound the human ear can tolerate is enormous, the loudest sounds being billions of times as great as the least sound which can heard. But there is a limit to this accomodation by the ear. Long, prolonged exposure to noise above 85 db., comparable to that made by the jet commercial planes, is felt to produce permanent hear ing losses. Employees in an noisy environment may not be ahletohear much at the end of the day, but by morning the hearing is back to near ly normal. More and more factories and in dustry are becoming aware that the noise level is important and should be kept at a safe level. But what should we do about owners of auto mobiles that make loud noise just to appeal to the vanity of the driv ers? $492 an acre from the public trea sury for this land, while other land owners got an average of about S2OO an acre. The magazine does not contend that the two men exerted political influence to obtain a profit, but in dicated that if these two men were given any favored treatment by South Carolina highway officials without any prodding, the public has a right to know about it. And South Carolina officials have a duty to bring a halt to the practice. We were informed by new's media that the location of a bridge site was changed by South Carolina high way officials in 1967 so it now “nick the corner’" of property owned by Thurmond on the banks of the Saluda River, inevitably increasingly the value of the proper’y. This will be an interesting case for the public to watch, and who knows what “skeletal closet’’ might be opened to the public? gaiast Catholic faculities of the U niversities of Tubigen. and Munster, among others virgin supported Halb fas. Toronto’s famed theologian Rev. Gregory Baum feels that the virgin birth is symbolic in these words: “The Virgin Mary, then, stands for the virgin Israel, in whom and from whom the universal redeemer was given to the world.” Protestant scholar Rev. George Hedley, retired chap 1a i n of Mills College, points out that “the doc trine of the virgin birth was prob ably unknown to Christians of the first generation and certainly its statement was not necessary to the preaching of the Christian faith in Christ.” The Christian community thought of the first century reported Jesus as Joseph’s son. Thus, we are not taking sides as the dispute continues. Only In America The Jewish New Year, 5730, was celebrated this year on September 14. The Day of Atonement on September 22, The ancient World .of the Greeks lasted about 400 years, then lapsed into silence, never to regain its former glory. The Babylonians, Hittites, Phoenicians, Greeks, Per sians, Romans and Philis tines, all had their hour of greatness and then sank into silence or total darkness. But the Hebrews appear to possess the same vitality to day that they had in the days of their prophets, the same vigor that they exhibited even during the period of captivity in Babylon; and the Day of Atonement, which Jews every where in the world also ob serve may be one of the rea sons for a vigor that has nev er diminished. The idea of the Day of Atonement, which has played an important role in Judaism’s daughter religions, Christian ity and Islam, established the concept of a reconciliation with God as the result of sin cere repentance and the puri fication of mankind. The object lesson was carefully worded, "If one says, ‘I will sin, and the Day of Atonement will bring me forgiveness,’the Day of Atonement will bring him no forgiveness., for the sins Os Jest For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE REPOSSESSION A man who was taken into court for nonsupport of his wife explained it to the judge; “I was hoping her father would repossess her.” SODDEN THOUGHT Memory is the thing that suddenly tells a man that his wedding anniversary was yesterday. We have heard that money isn't everything and doesn’t bring happiness. But it would be nice to find out for your- Other Editors Soy.. STAY IN SCHOOL School houses tiave reopen ed once again for the fall se mester. All over America en rollments are undoubtedly higher than ever because the student load is greater. Un fortunately our schools will not close next spring with an enrollment equivalent to what it was on opening day. To be sure there will be those who will relocate, others whb will become too ill to continue and even some untimely deaths. The greatest deduction, how ever, will come from those who are usually termed '•drop-outs.” Stay In school Is not a trite statement. It is, therefore, not routinely given just to have something to say. It is per haps the most helpful advice that can be given to a person of school age. Dropping out of school with out being forced to because of health, is a serious mis take. - the most, serious that a student can make. In today’s scheme of things a high school diploma is the least education al attainment that one can af ford to have. Even with it and without specialized training ones has difficulty fitting in to this world of automation and new skills. Without it, life is almost disastrous be cause a. dropout practically destroys his whole future and relegates himself to the scrapheap of that faceless crowd of unemployed, untrain ed and poverty-stricken. Not all big!; school students can go to college. In fact only about 30 or 35 per cent are able to. This means that the 65 to 10 per cent who do not get beyond high scuool must make the most of their train ing and ust it to become gain fully employed. Without a high school diploma one has very little to look forward to be cause employment conditions have changed in this age of skills and high competition. Stay in school and you will be glad you did for the rest of your life. BUILDING TRADES DESEGREGATION No field of endeavor--no THE CAROLINIAN “Covering The Carolina*” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 510 2. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27..01 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 82R Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, ,N. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RVTES Six Months $3.23 Sales Tax in TOTAL 335 One Year 5.80 Sales Tax i* total sm Payable in advance. Address ail communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., .)K Madison Avenue, New York 17 Is. Y. National Advertising Rep resentative Member of the Asso eiatod 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. BY HARRY GOLDEN man against God,,the Day of Atonement atones; but for sins against man’s neighbor, it does so only after one has first been reconciled to Him.” Thus the idea of an atone ment, unknown to the great civilizations of Greece, Rome, and countless others, may ve ry well have been the agency for the religious and moral regeneration that has resulted in an unbroken tie with his tory for four thousand years. It is furthermore a day of prayer. Prayer is a religious ritual which confers the man tle of human dignity upon men. The foundation of the Jewish religion rests upon the as sumption that each single hu man Is supremely important. The Jews are not unique in having a day set aside for prayer. Indeed every major religion has such a day. Mos lems make a pilgrimage to Mecca, Christians have Good Friday, Eastei, and Christ mas. When students came up to Carl Sandburg after a lecture and asked him how to become a writer, he always answered, “All you need is a bit of soil! - tude and a bit of prayer.” Prayer is man’s best ave nue to God. It is his l>est avenue because it teaches each man tie has a personal rela wdth his Creator. self. (That’s the God's truth.) LABOR MARKET A labor survey reveals that more wives are returning to work so they can afford to buy those new labor saving de vices, which give them the time and freedom to go to work. MOON DUST Samples of moon dust col lect by American Apollo as tronauts weigh less than one millimeter. Better lie careful about sneezing around this kind of dust. craft anywhere in America is more stubborn in its patterns of prejudice than in the build ings trades union hiring halls. This has been made more evi dent in two of America’s major industrial cities, Chicago and Pittsburgh, by the black-white confrontation on building sites because blacks, for the most ‘part, are excluded as crafts men. A slight ray of hope has emerged in Chicago. This dis pute over hiring more blacks in the construction industry has now narrowed to a ques tion of how a training pro gram for new workers shall be constructed and who shall administer It, Reportedly, the Chicago con struction unions say they will set up their own black em ployment service and thusthev are resisting the demand of the Chicago Coalition for Unit ed Community Action, which represents 61 black organiza tions, to have a strong voice in tiie training and employ ment of blacks. Presently there is an im passe because the builder arid unions long accustomed to se gregating have no inclination to share their authority over jobs with a black group out side their usual collective bargaining framework. On the other hßnd, however, and encouragingly so, the building trades admit their many years of unfairness and discrimination against blacks. In Chicago, blacks constitute only 3.2 per cent of the skill ed building tradesmen. Now, the construction industries and the business permits, to make the number of blacks in skill trades proportional to the black population, which now is about one-third. In addition, tire Industry of fers to recruit and train at least 4,000 blacks immediate ly. This figure even though a far cry from the 30,000 that would ultimately constitute one-third of the Chicago work force and which the Coalition has demanded, the latter realistically accented the starting number as a com promise. But it stipulated a condition which is: that all 4,- 000 trainess be new, untrained blacks and that they (the) Coalition) share control of their training. It is understandable that a grea. deal of distrust on the part of black Americans exist s about these unions which, for so long has discriminated bit terly against them. There is another aspect to this struggle and it deals with government financed con struction. Recently the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People announced a series of legal actions aimed at stopping work on federally financed con struction unless qualified blacks were employed on the projects. Roy Wilkins, execu tive director of the NAACP, describes Building-Trade Unions as the "last bastion AN INTEGRATION RETREAT! *7HEOE 1$ SPECULATION 'WOULDN'T IT BE AMPUL* SAO a THAT THE PRESIDENT, [J RAMSEY CLARK *!F THIS WA$ ATTORNEY GENERAL OTENNIS CASHffIO&HfIS ABM CHIPS?* MITCHELL, SECRETARY | 1 n.yZZT" FINCH-THE WHOLE Li Wj administration intact- ni| V -BUCKLED UNDER Hi Economic Highlights BY GORDON B. HANCOCK In retrospect, it now appears almost in evitable that the United States should have been first among nations to land human beings on the moon. This is because, as one of the youngest of the familv of nations, the people of the U. S. are by nature frontiersmen. Through most of our history, countless A mer leans lived with an intimate conscious ness of the geographical frontier that lay to the West--toward the Pacific Ocean. As the decades passed, this frontier diminished and disappeared. But, the heritage it left- the de sire to constantly seek new frontiers--has continued to live on. The boundless energy of the frontier seekers turned to science and technology. The moon landing was the result, and it is being hailed as a vast new frontier --geographic as well us technological. The quest of the American mind for another frontier of vast dimensions has been real ized. To many, the moon landing is the greatest bequest that we can pass on to future gener ations. Americans who thrive on frontiers now have one that reaches into limitless sp&ce -a frontier without end. There are some who question this concept of ti e moon landing. One of the skeptics is Mr. C. P. Snow. Writing in Look magazine, he expresses the belief that rather tiian liberating the human imagina tion, the moon landing u ay do just the op posite. He believes it maj end b\ giving tin human race a feeling of claustrophobia. He believes we will find that the distances in ‘he universe are so great that we will once and for all realize that we are prisoners of a single small planet surrounded by an insurmount able hostile vastness that no human can ever penetrate. He points out, “The hoi Iz.on is limit ed laecau.se of the size of the universe and the shortness of human lifetime. . .the human imagination is going to be restrict '—as to an extent it was when the last spots on the globe had been visited, the South. Pole ami the summit of Everest. Nowh.ce on eartl for ad venturous man to go. . .it wuld take the en tire history of mankind from paleolithic MEDIATOR LIBREVILLE, Cab >n-Thfi R< of Gabon has been asked by Nigerian chief of state, Maj. Gen. Yakubu Gowan, to act as liaison between the federal government and Biafra, in order to arrange a meeting of the two leaders of the warring sides to work out a peaceful settle ment. Gabon’s President, Albert-Bernard Bon go noted tha* he thought his country has a responsibility to intervene and said, “it. is time for the two men fi om now on to under stand each other, to find a satisfying solu tion for Nigeria arid Biafra. - ’ NOT LIKE OTHERS NASSAU-The Bahamas will not fall ’victim to the ‘‘strife that has caused such tragedy in other developing countries,” according to Arthur A. Foulkes, minister of tourism and telecommunications, recently. He noted that the government and the people are ‘‘deter mined to continue our development. . .with out violence. It is our Intention, with the help of God, to build a society where people of different races and cultural backgrounds live and work together as brothers for the good of all.” MADAME PRESIDENT UNITED NATIONS- Foi If years, Miss Angie Elizabeth Brooks, 41 -year-old Liberian* law against employment of Negro workers as a policy.’’ Hopefully the building trade unions will now begin to see the light and move forward, significantly. If not, then we recommend that those who are responsible for the building, the owners, who are engaging there craftsmen, be they re presentative of the govern ment or private enterprise, take the position of Robert Harlan, three years ago, as a Washington spokesman foi the General Services Administra tion. Mr. Harlan was. called upon to settle a crisis at a World lews Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL Federal Building project in East St. Louis- a city which has 70 per cent Negro popu lation. The project was being picketed by civil rights groups who inturn were counter-pick eted by the angry building trade unions. Faced with this crucial situation Harlan didn’t mince words but gave the prime contractor a clear ul timatum tow It; “Sir, you will have Negroes in every cralt union involved on the project within ten days or lose the contract.” The report is that from that hectic i3G6 experience, that by working day and night and man to the present day to traverse -at the speed of Apollo 11--the distance to the nearest star. So that the frontier is dosed.’* closed.” It is unlikely that this depressing appraisal of space exploration will deter future gen erations. At any rate, for the present we have the moon to think about, and it, may not be as sterile a proposition as a lot of people think. The moon vacuum-lack of atmosphere -lunar extremes of temperature, the rays of the sun and lunar minerals may turn the moon into a very practical discovery. Sci entists point out that certain manufacturers may find the moon economically irresistible. ‘ ■'* Industries that to to great expense on earth to create “hard” vacuums for the production of such- things as electronic tubes, comput er components and hearing aids, would find the moon as ideal site for plants. More over, scientists believe the natural resource® of the moon might even include water that can be extracted from lunar rock, thus mak ing moon colonies of humans virtually self sufficient. It may also be possible by uslaf solar rays to release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere of a covered garden where alga® could be produced in water, thus providing a source of protein for human consumption, as well as the production of need oxygen. On the less mundane side, the value of th® moon to future astronomers is inestimable. Giant telescopes could be trained from the airless moon’s surface on distant galaxies extending man’s vision ol tne universe many thousands of times. Astronomers have even pointed out that lunar craters could be lined with chicken wire, thus making ideal reflectors for radio telescope. Regardless of theoretical arguments concerning the ultimate impact of the moon landing on the human race, the here and now fact seems to be that it has fired the imagination of most people and constitutes the kind of a frontier environment, which in the past, lias always provided a foundation for great achievements. accountancy assistant in 1964, he is In line for promotion to the position of group accountant, yer, and alumna of Shaw University, Raleigh, served her country’s interests well as Its diplomatic representative to the United Na tions. Last week, she capped all her past per formances In the UN by winning by a vote of 113-5 the election as president of the 84th General assembly. She has, in the past, been a member of the Trusteeship committee; president of the Trusteeship council, while also holding a post as assistant secretary of state in her homeland. WANTS TO SWITCH JOHANNESBURG-A 20-year-old white wo man who wants to marry a Chinese, has peti tioned the South African courts for reclassi fication as Colored. Under the country's se gregationist laws, it is an offense for people of different colors to live together. The couple --Miss Susan Schoeman, and the man, Henry May, 33, have already lived together for more than four years, and have three children. CHARTERED TREASURER LUSAKA, Zambia-Zambia has its first Mly qualified chartered treasurer in Oswald f , Sikazwe, 24, who recently completed examina tions at the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants In England. A member of the Ndola City council, which he joined as a pupil through joint apprenticeship committees for each of the unions, the prime contractor met Harlan’s goal because as he said “none of us want ed to see bloodshed. We felt it was a matter of survival.” j It is time now to end bi gotry in the building trades in out nation. Construction companies and building trades craftesman are called upon to comply with out gov ernment’s promise to provide every citizen with a Ml, un» fettered, equal opportunity. The LOUISVILLE DEFEND ER.
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