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4 THE CJUSOLMIAN RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1669 Bible Thought Os The Week In how many homes or churches do the people know it la in the way a human tend ency is expressed and not in the inclination itself that the morality lies? In how many do they comprehend what Jesus meant when He said, “Thy faith hath made thee whole," un derstanding it so fully that they realise no part of any man’s nature can be suppressed or de- Editorial Viewpoint Work Release Plan Shows Good Record A number of states have tried out the “work release prison system plan,” It works something like this. Most of the men in the program are second and third offenders, first offenders get put on proba tion. Because the program accepts a man in the last six months of his sentence, he has probably already been passed over by the parole board at least once. It he qualifies for the work re lease program, and it’s not easy, a prisoner is transferred tothepri son nearest his home community and given a job. Working like a free man in the daytime and returning to jail at night, he can save a few hundred dollars for his release, pay part of his room and board in jail, and must send a part of his earnings home to his dependents. : Aside from the financial consid erations, the program helps pierce an “invisible wall” separating in mates from free men. It is a kind Unemployment Else Gives National Concern ' Statistics indicated a pronounced jump in unemployment last month. There was surprise and concern in political, la)>or and economic quar ters. And we should add the concern in black quarters, for the Negro is ■the first to be fired during a labor .depression. The scattered hints of slowdown :in the U, S, work force seemed a reality. It was not surprising that was on the upgrade, but rather the acuteness of the rise •in one month September. Other factors are involved in the situation, including the turning down of industrial production, housing off ■sharply, and business orders and sales falling. However, the big rise in jobless rolls to the 4 per cent FAMU inagurates Sixth President. - Last week, a series of events were culminated in the formal inaugura tion of Benjamin L. Perry, Jr., as the sixth president of Florida A&M ; University (FAMU) at Tallahassee. Saturday afternoon alumni, state government and educational digni taries looked on “the symbolic :change of command.” ; Approximately 2,000 guests in cluding Gov. Claude Kirk, FAMU President Emeritus George W, Gore, and Florida State University President J. Stanley Marshall, gathered in Lee Auditorium for the inauguration of the first FAMU graduate to become its chief ex ecutive. Highlight of the approximately iwo-and-a-hali hour convocation, came when the Board of Regents Vice Chairman Louis C. Murry of Orlando draped the traditional medalion, bearing the seals of Florida A&M and the State of Flori da, around Dr. Perry’s neck. FAMU, located in Tallahassee a bout one-fourth mixes from Florida State University, should be merg ed with FSU if certain legislators had their way. However, these state ments coming from distinguished of ficials of the State lead us to be lieve that for the time being FAMU will remain an independent institu tion! 1. Vice Chairman Louis C. Mur ray of BOR: “In such a relatively short period of time, Florida A&M has come to play such a definite role in Florida higher education.” 2. University Chancellor Robert Mautz called Perry “an unusual man. . .dedicated to the welfare of Florida A&M University,” and expressed hope “that you will work with him, and support Ms efforts.” 3. Speaker of the House Fred Schultz of Jacksonville stated: “Florida A&M has a unique and special purpose in our higher ed ucational system, and with the in auguration of a strong President strayed and he remain “whole"? The very idea of wholeness means that every least attribute of an Individual can be saved, and turned into constructive ways of life. That la what modern educators insist that the molding of character Is achieved not by inhibition, but by re -direction of fundamental Impulses. of “decompression.” In this way, it gets the guy back into the com munity, reacclimates him back into society, and puts him on his way to rehabilitation. For an example of what may he considered meritorious about the “work-release prison play,” let us go to Florida. When the first “graduate” of the Florida prison system’s work re lease plan finished his sentence, he promptly quit his job, invested his savings in an old car and left the state. One otiicial said to another, “Per haps we have failed.” The second of ficial said, “Look at it this way: If he’d gotten out with $25 and a suit of clothes, he might have stolen the car.” We support the prison “work-re lease plan,” since it seems to offer the prisoner and society more than other plans like “parole,” for ex ample. level a rise of 0.5 per cent in a single month, the sharpest rise since the presidential campaign of 1960 ■— caught economic experts off guard. The poor and hungry, the man farthest down, and the black doesn’t care about statistics. What is more important is work, a wage, a house to sleep in, and some security to keep the wolf from the door, With President Nixon’s national economic policy on a restrictive course, unemployment had to rise. Evidently Nixon didn’t have tne answer, and the quick big increase in unemployment poses a thorny dilemma for policy makers in Wash ington. (Perry) for a strong institution, I am confident that role will expand.” The philosophy of the new FAMU President can be deduced from this story. In the inaugural address, President Perry recalled a meet ing he attended at which a wealthy Tallahassee resident asked why “your people don’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps as we did.” President Perry’s goal for Florida A&M University is to pro vide “both the bootstraps and the boots” for those deprived of ed ucational and economic opportuni ty.” For over 300 years, Dr. Perry said, “The black man in American has been isolated from the so called ‘bootstrap culture.,’ It is now' mandatory that society give some concern for this discernible segment of the population.” This is a new kind of black leadership when compared with the dictatorial roles of blackpresidents of yesteryears. It is necessary, since Dr. Perry will be confronted by independent faculty, students who demand a share indecision-making. He realizes that present -day lead ership must be by persuasion and force of intellect rather than by so-called “black power.” The casualty rate is high among today’s university presidents. The road they travel is frustrating, and the battles they wage is often dang erous. They suffer abuse no man should be required to endure. The recent student take-overs throughout the nation have given us a taste of w’hat the college presi dent must endure. Yet with this knowledge they have the strength and courage of face up to the chal lenges, being aware that there is little personal gain, there is much promise of personal loss in terms of time, effort and even health. We salute Dr„ Benjamin L, Per ry, Jr., the sixth President of Florida A&M University. 6niy Its America NIKON’S HARDEST JOB Whether intimates, report ers or oolttici&ns like him or not, on® thing I've always heard them say about Richard Nixon is that he has a po litical intuition that amounts to genius. Only such a mar. could have survived the defeat in 1960, the subsequent defeat in 1962, and the Gcldwater candidacy in 1964 to become President In 1968, K this is true, tnen we all have to do some Important de tective work. An affluent sum mer has drawn to a close. The President has posed for pictures with the astronauts, aboard his golf cart and at dinner with all the governors. The fall is different because the Vietnamese war affects college students more than it affects anyone else. It is their time and their lives which are at stake. The war has raged over the summer with quasi-mutinies, an* obvious Int ra-military struggle between the Green Berets and the Army and the withdrawal of 25,000 men who were due to be rotated anyway. With the students convening again in universities, the agi tation to end the war is start ing up again. Even over the summer, interested groups throughout the country were circulating petitions to con demn the war publicly. The question is: why doesn’t Mr. Nixon end the war, or start bringing it to a close? If the war continues another year, he knows it will be label ed his war as it was labeled Johnson’s war. If it is la beled his war, the chances of Jest for Fun BY MARCUS FOR GETTING We have lived together 40 years; And he’s been pretty much a lamb; But why does he always for get my birthday, Yet always knows how old I am? (Can you come up with the answer?) This fellow needs help. You know how import- Letter to the Editor WTJERE TOBACCO IS KING To The Editor; It is apparent that Durham's image, is slowly, but surely, being phased-out in industry, health-welfare, and devotion to the city. A pioneer citizen said; "All the day long and all through the night, for a number of days, people were moving. Many were walking, some on horseback, passenger trains, box cars, buggies, wagons and oxen-drawn carts." Dur - ham’s leading industry - the W, T, Blackwell's tobacco fac tory - had closed down. Sometimes lightning strikes twice in the same location. The Utah Senator, might suc ceed in having an anti-tobac co Moss Act passed. Some folk suspect that cancer-re search money is being used for adverse tobacco adver tisements. Many eminent doc tors claim that there’s no proof that tobacco causes can cer, but strong opposing forces might close-down to bacco industry tn 21 states; N. C., Ky., Tenn., Md„ Va., S. C., Ga , Fla,, and others. New headlines stated that Duke, Watts, and Lincoln would get over $9,000,000. Lincoln Hospital received a bout $23,000. Black folk were disappointed that Lincoln didn’t get $3,000,000, The Duke Endowment has helped Black folk tremendously, but the transaction has been mu tual; black labor helped to make the Duka Endowment. Besides, a Negro discover ed and developed the art of curing bright yellow tobacco. Unless we keep faith with those who vote,- love and de votion to our city will dimin ish. Citizens cast their votes for an improved Lincoln Hos pital; any other plan would not keep the faith. Our pioneer fathers didn’t phase-out in stitutions, in the name of pro gress. From the remnants of THS CAROLINIAN “Covering rue Carolina*" J*uts!l*h®«s by riie Carolinian Publishing Company 81# E. Martin Street „ «*»*£]». N. C. MaUlns AMren; PO. Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 27802 Second. Class Postage Paid at Ba isifb. N. c. nm SUBSCRIPTION BATES Six Months ga a Sale* Tax to total 3 » One Year ain Sale* Tax j* TOTAL 58« Payable in advance. Address all communications and make all to The SiSU' te ' payable Amalgamated Publisher*. Inc.,, Sr Avenue. New York 17. National Advertising Sep **g?lb«r of the Asso - and the Unit ed Press International Photo Sor- V4O4D. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited new*, pictures or advertising copy un lesr necessary postage accompun- • les the copy . Opinions expressed bv column ists in this newspaper do not nec ctwarfiy represent the policy of this newspaper BY HARRY GOLDEN Republican candidates In the congressional election In the fall will be somewhat lessened. If the war continues any longer in its stalemated position, Mr. Nixon's chances of *72 will be Indeed risky ones. There Is no question the war is unpopular. There Is wide spread dissafection with its progress and the people have stopped thinking of vic tory. Other powers have called it quits. Russia got out of Cuba, both superpowers figured it wasn't worth their while in Africa, England left Egypt and the Suez. Why do we stick? Look at the years France drained her self in Algeria, finally to admit they had to abandon it to its own people. That may be the key. For when De Gaulle pulled out of Algeria, the French generals revolted and mutinied. I don't think Richard Nixon is afraid of the American generals mu tinying if he pulis out of Vietnam, but Ithir.k he worries about polarizing the military and civilian structure. I think he may be worried about generals resigning their commission to run around exortlng the lunatic right as Curtis Le May tried to do wun ueorge Wallace. Reminding generals uiey were wrong about the Cuban people rising up at the in vasion of the Bay of Pigs, that the admirals pulled a bonehead play with the Pueblo, and that the military swore to God we were around the corner from victory a month before the Tet offensive my be Nixon's ■hardest job as President. H. BOULWARE ant these birthdays are. RELIGION-TAKE YOURS PICK In the field of religion, you can take your pick from 75,- 000 Catholic alumni, 45,000 cultured Jewish individuals, or 18,000 prominent protest ants . That’s good enough for me, what about you? Blackwell’s factory, they de veloped a multi-million dol lar tobacco empire; they pre served Trinity College, used it to produce Duke University'- these establishments have helped to make "Durham Re nown. The World Around.” Frank G. Sowell 1508 E. Pettigrew' St. Durham, N, C. Other Editors Say ... PIES AGAINST MEN The unauthorized consump tion of some Republican pies at the Gary Armory earlier this year evoked quick re sponse from Lake County's prosecuting authorities in the form of two indictments. Seemingly, at least, the loss of the pastry has aroused greater official indignation than the recent blood bath at the Indiana State Reforma tory. The Madison County Prosecuting Attorney has ap parently decided against grand jury investigation into the fatal shooting of a 20- year-old Gary inmate and the wounding of 46 other Ne groes by prison guards. What matters a life as long as Re publicans are permitted to have their pies and eat them too. The pie-versus-mar, thesis was reintroduced this w'eek by Robert Rooda who, as Gary Republican city chairman or coordinator, is the most cur rent of the long line of field marshals who have command ed 41 years of political dis asters. If an answer is needed to explain the four decades of Republican defeats here, Mr. P.ooda’s logic provides it. While expressing outrage over the piracy of the pies, he denounces Mayor Richard G. Hatcher’s request for an in vestigation into the reforma tory shooting as “a deliberate and malicious retaliation for the armory incident here.” He betrays the typical, right-wing insensitivity of his party by his failure to voice either pi ty or indignation over the re formatory dead and wounded. In so doing also, he exposes his auneren.ee to the concept which holds that power and authority, even when exercis ed by the Gestapo Jr. a mazi concentration camp or by sadistic prison guards at Pen dleton, are sacred and un challengeable. We are forced to concede, however, that the Labor De partment’s most recent re port on rising unemployment lends a measure of sanctity to those rather indigestible Armory pies. Who knows what another nine months of Nixon will BECAUSE THEY ENCOURAGED A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS ELIMINATION &£& m THE ESTABLISHMENT WMMML NAME "^FATE HEDGER EVERS ASSASSINATED } MALCOLM X ASSASSINATED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATED ADAM CLAYTON POWELL EXPELLED FROM CONGRESS STOKELY CARMICHAEL EXILED RAP DROWN AWAITING TRIAL ELDRIPGE CLEAVER EXILED HUEY NEWTON IN JAIL 5008 V SEALE —IN JAIL ROBERT WILLIAMS AWAITING TRIAL CASSIUS CLAY AWAITING TRIAL The Thought Exchange BY GORDON HANCOCK THE NEW DISEASE-MORAL LEPROSY Jesus was speaking to the point when He said that the poor we have with us always. In the not too distant past, we had a system of poor-houses with one at every county seat. There was hardly any greater stigma tiianthat attached to a name ‘‘going to the poor-house.” How changed are things today, with the poor house being replaced by welfare. It has been pointed out time and again in this column, that one of the gravest dangers being visited upon the poor today was the danger of not being ashamed to gc on wel fare. In far too many instances Negroes are being assigned to welfare and in too many instances Negroes do not seem ashamed of welfare: and although whites too, are on wel fare, there seems to be more shame among whites than among Negroes. There is dancer in seeing a group of Negro women who are bringing up a brood born out of wedlock and being brought up out of wedlock, marching and demonstrating for larger welfare checks. The curtains are being rung down on a people with a generation of women not ashamed of being on welfare. In fact, there are appearing symptoms of a satisfaction with welfare that forebode great evil in the not distant future. We arc not getting anywhere by looking at the whites who are satisfied on welfare. Negroes have nothing going for them except their character, mir rored in their attitudes toward welfare. The white man always has his color going for him; and this amounts to almost everything in a cuior-struck world. It is doubly dangerous for Negroes to let the white man become Ids sym bol of struggle for survival, in this highly com petitive age. One of our dailies recently car ried an account that is deeply disquieting to the thoughtful. An account was given of a St. Louis news paper that experimented in trying to get the hard-core of unemployed off welfare, with of fers of lucrative Jobs. The appeal was city - wide and offers were publicly announced that certain good jobs were available at wages ranging from SIOO to S3OO the week. The ex periment was highly disappointing Only 38 of 141 applicants wound up on the company’s pay-roll; 27 others were hired but did not show up for the first day’s work. Another four worked a few days and then quit. Many of those who applied for the jobs were re jected because they wanted more money, The law of averages is against an “eligi ble bachelor” remaining eligible for long. This is especially true of the black male Yon will seldom find these highly prized individ uals running around loose. The demand for them is great, but the supply is limited. As the inevitable approaches, we find the black male trudging to the altar with his mate. Here begins an ear of joy, jealousy, and jeo pardy (of life, limb, and sanity whenever the husband forgets to be a husband). The male of species faces a role dilemma that is ever changing. In modern times, his once sacred “rights” are now looked upon as community property. He can no longer point to the fact that he is the only one in the fami ly wearing pants. His wife may easily con front him with a newly-purchased pants-suit. He may no longer even be the bread winner, since the ranks of the working wife/ mother are bulging at the seams. Ideas of equality and women’s rights are pushing the concept of a totally rnale-domm ated culture out the back door. Males meet the new facts of life with both regret and re lief. They may regret the loss of a sup posedly all-knowing authoritative voice in everyday affairs. At the same time, it prob- bring? A nation ill-fed, ill housed, 111-clothed could also become ill-pied. DEMOCRACY OR MOB RULE? Democracy has a well-re cognized weakness to be con stantly guarded against that Is the danger of mob rule. This ever-present danger is the reason for the division of gov ernmental powers embodied in the U„ S. constitutional sys tem by the founding fathers, The need for division of pow er and the checks and bal- lib Os The Species BY LEON S. WHITE ances it imposes on tiie gov erning process becomes grea ter and more apparent with each passing year as modern means of communication a rouse emotional reactions a mong. the populous on a mas sive scale. Many firearm control measures have been propos ed during recent months. The manner In which private citi zens, who do not go along with the supposed popular sentiment have been abused for their views is nearly un paralleled. For example, The some refused to work at night. The company spokesmen said that the results of the ex periment showed how a no-work system cou pled with generous government subsidies had encouraged laziness. “It is apparent that from the results of our experiment that too many people, both white and black, just do not give a damn about working.” We need not go to far-away St. Louis to find out what is going on in the Negro’s mind here abouts. Less than five years ago when it snowed, the next morning just swarms of men v.'ould be. roaming our streets, with their sho vels, asking for the privilege of shoveling the snow away from the front. Not so today. It is impossible to see a man with a shovel af ter the snow fall. A rnan nearby has a great poultry farm, where he handles 60,000 chickens and he cannot hire a Negro for love nor money. He has to rely on white help or do the work himself. ~ia nearby cemetery the owner's son currently studying medicine, must turn grave-digger in a Negro cemetery. A white saw mill owner went into a Negro community and invested a hundred thousand dollars hop ing to provide jobs for the Negro community. He had to go out of business, for the simple reason that Negro latxjr was not to be had for love nor money. There was a time when a handy man for odd jobs could be found; today such handy man cannot be found even at the stipulated by-the-liour pay. We cannot speak for the whites but Negroes do not seem interested in getting arid holding jobs, instead they seem contefit to take welfare and let the work go. Just where such attitude will ultimately lead \ is anybody's guess. But welfare is fast be coming a moral disease just as surely as leprosy was a disease in (he times of 'Our Lord-and just as deadly. It is difficult toavoid the conclusion that our current system of welfare is producing sycophants and not citi zens for tomorrow. What are our youngsters 1 who spurn hard work doing instead? If we turn to Washington find that our streets are being; peopled with youths bent on steal ing and robbing and raping and rioting. The scum of the Negro race seems to be head ing for Washington which has become the crime capitol of the country and the over-flow into Richmond is something terrible. Holdups are not news any more They are routine. The many Negioes are suffering from welfare disease’ baly comes as a relief to them to know that they no longer have a monopoly on errors. However, the role of the female has not undergone so radical a change. She is still held responsible for the basic paternal func tion of bearing and rearing the offspring. The additional roles that she assumes are not. thought of as nermanent, but as temporary chores which will enable her mate to advance further in society. So, as a backdrop to these developments, we find an increasing number of males dog gedly clinging to the overworked phrase of “a woman’s place Is in the home.” How ever, this type of thinking only lengthens the stay of the* female in areas where she senses she is not welcomed by males. And, it makes hei more determined in her ef forts to "break down the barrier." “You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them” is an expression that characterizes a male's viewpoint of the clas sic struggle of male against female. Yet it is not a statement uttered in jest and should never be taken as such. It may well serve as guide to the integration or disintegration of the family unit as we have come to re cognize it. National Rifle Association, representing private citizen gun owners, was one victim. The. Association’s primary function is educational. The dues of its members are utilU zed for setting up and running, both national and international competitive shooting events and thousands of training and safety programs for both the sportsman and police forces. Much of its eftort is directed toward conservation and en vironment, Gary crusader.
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