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v THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY. JULY 17, 671 4 Ourv Jpfus appoftrecl before John In the rtvnr bn pt Ling convert*. Je*«a appeared to Ik> i(*; t.’.od, John drew back in protest saying, •” V'avn naad to be baptised of thee,” hr* ox cluitti'd, “and cornont thou to me?'The lessor man recognized the greater in*tlnctlvely. It Editorial Vliwpolnt Armstrong, Jazz Artist, Gone From Us Louts Armstrong, famous jazz, ■ trumpeter, died after a critical ill ness. and now has teen buried in th<* State of New York. His death was not a surprise, but unexpected, - since he seemed to be recovering ’ slowly. An orphaned waif from the streets : and bordellos of New Orleans who ; became king of the jazz trumpet and • won international acclaim, died July . G at his home, only two days after his 71st birthday. Critics of goodwill paid this tribute to Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong: “He was an American baby, born on the fourth of July, and his horn became ihe instrument of international diplo ic icy that earned him the title “Am bassador Satch.” Whether he played Let The People Know About Democracy John S. Knight’s Notebook of Sun da' , July 4th, “Precedent: Govern ment Did Stop the Presses,” made appropos contribution for the day. “Only the informed people through tree press can help make deci sions which gives democracy strength and substance.” Significantly, the Notebook ob srru'd that the court did not affirm ih.d the First Amendment gave an absolute right to publish anything under all circumstances. Atten tion is called to a statement attri buted to Justice White that news papers are not free from prosecu tion for alleged violations under the Fspionage Act and other laws which bar publication of defense secrets. The Espionage Act is designed to restrain disloyal conduct subversive of the war aims of the United States. Therefore, one can suppose all can concede the First Amendment does not grant newspapers the right to State Colleges Fees May Shut Out The Disadvantaged Financially-pinched state univer sities are ljeing forced to raise tui tion and fees at an “alarming” rate, according to the National Associa tion of State Universities and Land- Grant Colleges. “It is ironic,” the report said that “this trend is developing at a time when one of the great national endeavors in American higher ed ucation is to open up new opportun ities for blacks, minorities, and the disadvantaged.” The general theme of the associa tion’s report was that public, as well as private higher education, has had to tighten its belt and scramble for funds as costs threaten to out strip means. Ihe median charges for tuition, fe> s. room and board have risen b\ more than 30 per cent over the past five years at the major state universities. And since tuition and Involvements in wars has been the- pattern of the '2oth century. The Democrats lead us into these wars. However,we want the young voters to study our history to know the truth; but, at the same time, they must not l>elieve all they read in history for much of it is propaganda. Young voters, before you be sway ed by “come out of Vietnam immed iately,” you must study the back ground of the war, how we got into it, and why we are still there. If any voter feels that the trouble rests with Presidential administra tions, they must seek to rectify pres ent conditions. It may. even mean voting out those candidates who lack t no proper leadership at this crucial I;out in our history. An one with any kind of judgment rih"uld understand that we can’t stay ii war forever. !"tiM often focus our article ! -mo: ... mg advice, yet occasionally w;e d.». this advice-is relevant to Bible Thought Os The W eek Counsel For New Voters was the personal magnetism of Jesus that stood out, In Jo.mis mon aaw It, but could not cmiluln why? Tlu* essential element of the personal magnetism of Jesus Christ was u con suming sincerity—an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work ho had to do. in Belgrade, Moscow', or to a gath ering of AfricansinGhana,histrum pet generated excitement.” “Satchmo”, himself, declared that “me and my horn, we come a long way together.” And they did. Armstrong’s virtuosity on the trumpet overshadowed another, his voice. It was gravelly, but infectious and audiences, reponded so warmly that the trumpeteer found himself in demand as a scat-type singer. What a man does in this life makes him immortal in the minds of peo ple all ovei the world. Armstrong m tde a sigi ficant contribution to culture in the United States and the world. May God be with him. And may th Almighty bless him memory! publish “anything under all circum stances.” However, the Notebook conceded that the press had won a signifi cant victory. In the forepart of the article Katherine Graham had been quoted as saying, as publisher of the Washington Post, that the victory was not just for the press, but for the sake of the public and the good of the country. Many, including this newspaper, concur in Katherine Gra ham’s view in this regard. Men have died in many wars, and World War I was said to be one that saved the world for democracy. Our goal upon entry in World War I w'as to make the world safer for democracy to be sure - open democracy! One dares to venture that there would exist no signifi cant gaps in loyalty and devotion if our governmental affairs, in peace time, were arrived at openly. fees at private universities, except for the predominantly-black col-' leges and universities, have promp ted fears among some private in stitutions that theyarepricingthem selves out of business and the ed ucational market. The predominantly-black state colleges have greater problems, since usually they don’t get their share of appropriated monies as a result of many factors. Some of this may lie traceable to recent waves of black student protest demonstra tions. Black students deserve more con side ration from the public treasury, since society at large benefits from a well-schooled citizenry. Predominantly-black colleges need a compensatory appropriation to bridge the gap for hundreds of years of neglect. everyone but especially to the young who have just won the right to vote. Before you decide where to place your X in the forth-coming Na tional elections (1972), you should study our history as it developed since 1900. Since the year 1900 we have had eight Republican presidents and five Democratic Administrations in the White House and many of those were under the New Deal Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In contrast, we did not become involved in any wars during any Republican Admin istration, In contrast we declared war in each one of the Democratic Administrations (Wilson, World War I; Franklin D. Roosevelt, World War II; Truman, Korea; Kennecly- Johnson, Vietnam). All of these Dem ocrats were Peace Candidates from the time Wilson campaigned as the candidate who kept us out of war to Johnson’s declaration we’re not going to fight an Asian War.. Only in America by harry golden PRESIDENT NIXON AND THE SOUTH Mr. Nixon set Mull into Ala bama several weeks ago to show the South ho still cares about Its future and to prove the extent of his concern he tried to appoint South Carolina Republican Albert Watson to the Military Court of Appeals. The Alabama foray was a charade and so, too, was the nomination of Watson, which has been fortunately aborted. Nor is this pronouncement the thinking of the isolated 'Southern liberal. Let me quote the editor of the conservative Charlotte News: “What Nixon demonstrated most clearly is that his in terest in the South continues to be that of an exploiter. His appeal was not to the South's best interest, was not the voice of leadership, was not even ad dressed to all the Southern people. He was in effect the sort of ‘for white ears only’ appeal that was once the coin of Southern politics but which recently has been rejected in all of the South, which includes Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Arkansas last year.’' Mr. Nixon's ploy was the old ploy of “Holler Nigger and holler loudest.” At a stump speech delivered to the editors of Alabama, Mr. Nixon praised the South for in tegration and expressed con tempt for hypocritical double standards of racism which prevails in the North. It brought him cheers. It brought the President cheers because no one brought to his attention the crucial fact he had omitted. The crucial fact is that what integration there is in the South was imposed and not volun teered. The South did not make the moral choice of integrat ing half its citizens with the other half, a choice which lay before it for the last half cen tury, the South was forced to give its black populace the A DARK POINT OF VICW BY “BILL” MOSES TREK NORTH This story is a follow-up of last week’s column about ‘‘The Covered Wagon” (the pet-name we used to describe our family’s migrations about the country.) It won’t make much sense to you unless you have read the pre vious column. However, writers (essayists, columnists, com mentators, or what have you) like other laborers find the going tough during the hot and humid da vs of July and August; and their ‘stuff’ might become trite, trivial or not worth read ing; but, anyway, here it goes. The trek North of a black Bap tist minister, who had just pass ed up 30 or -40 thousand sure dollars, to move his family ya brood of six children and a wife) from a small Texas town to the metropolis of Philadelphia was no small accomplishment. To move a family of eight on the rail road’s ‘Jim Crow’ coaches -by easy stages-over some two thousand miles, back in 101 G, offered some inconveniences quite comparable to ‘'The Ore gon Trail.” My father literally preached his way to Philadel phia. The trek began in June and ended in mid-August. To us chil dren it was one of the most joy ous summers we had ever spent. We slept good, although some what crowded at times; we ate well, even suptiously here and there; we were constantly see ing new faces and new places it was a lark. The secret of this ti ip was that my father had meticulously worked out a preaching itinerary where he was the visiting Bap tist minister, mostly on a Sun day morning, from week to week, in towns and cities stretching across the deep South from Se guin, Texas to Columbia, South Carolina, and then North through North Carolina, Virginia, W ash ington, D. C., and finally ‘The Promised Land,’ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Quite naturally a ‘collection’ was taken up at each stop for the visiting minister. How my mother kept us proper ly bathed and dressed I have for gotten-but she did. I remember how kind and generous the peo ple were who ‘put us up' where ever we were; the wonderful THE CAROLINIAN "Coverinj T'/s* CxroHnxs” Published by The Carollidsa Publishing Company 51* E, Martin Street Raleigh. N. C. 27801 Mailing Address P. O. Box 25747 Raleigh. N. C. 27*11 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh, N. C. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months 00 Sales Tax .16 TOTAL 4.16 One Year 6.50 Kales Tax .t’6 TOTAL 6.76 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make «M checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 110 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10017, National Advertising Representative. Member of the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher I* not response bit for the return of unsolicited aiews, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by cel nmaifts in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. same rights and guarantees enjoyed bj its whites. And the South fights that pro cess. It drags Its feet. It threatens. It cries. It com plalns_ubout de facto segrega tion In the north but de facto segregation is not segregation in law. No Southern governor, ma yor, or city councilman ever got up one morning and said to himself: ‘‘Today we’ll in tegrate the schools." Southern politicians in tegrated swimming pools and schools under the pressure of law, injunction, and boycott. You can applaud the progress but it would be a mistake to ap plaud the politicians. A week after Strom Thur mond announced that the White House would nominate Watson for the Military Court of Ap peals, the nomination was can celled. There was understand ably a volume of vocal outrage at the prospect of appointing a racist to so sensitive a post. That White House source re veals the nomination was not made because close inspec tion revealed Mr. Watson had a notorious record on civil rights which is what the Court dispenses. It is inconceivable that Mr, Nixon was unaware of Watson’s intransigence on the issue of black equality. Ho had been criticized by the national press for his speech at Lamar, South Carolina, which to some de gree inspired the white su premist to attack senool bus es filled with black school chil dren. Did Richard Nixon intenu the appointment? Is it not more reasonable to believe this was a gesture, a forensic pose in dulged to convince a narrow white constituency that the President understands them? Os course it was. The South has problems real problems, and its pro blems cannot be solved by the forensic rhetoric of an of ficial who's simply looking for another four years. breakfasts and Sunday dinners (fried chicken, hot biscuits, but ter - milk, sweet potato pie you name it we had it.) Looking back on that trip, years later, I never dared ask my mother how she enjoyed our ‘Trek North;’ but for me it was a beautiful summer. Well, here we were in the‘City of Brotherly I.ove'. The Zion Baptist Church was then located at 13th and Melon Streets in North Philadelphia, which was several blocks from Central High School, then located at Broad and Green Streets, which made my brother and I eligible, geographically, to attend this famous school. When the schools opened in the fall my father brought ‘De’andme around to enter us. I’ll never forget the smiling Dr. Patrick Thompson, the president (not principal) of Central High, with more degrees after his name then six college presidents. Af ter examining our meager cre dentials, whicn suggested we had completed the first and second years of high school respectively,, he said; “Rev erend Moses, we will accept DeMaurice in our first year on probation; and as for William I think he will prof it by spending a year in the Bth grade of you/ school system.” This was done. My first year in Philadephia was one of the worst in my life. I was bigger, gawker, and older than anyone in the Bth grade,, with a Southern accent broader than Texas - I was also black. I was really apprehensive about being in such close proximity to white children, but by the end of the year I had found out that they weren’t the ogres I had ex pected them to be. The following year I entered the Central High School, and found out that I liked school What Other Editor Say... WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF BLACK COLLEGES? Currently America’s prac tically 100 Black colleges-62 of them private, are having hard times. In truth they are facing a crisis. There are talks such as eliminating some of them that are government supported and there is a dry ing up of funds for consider able which are private. Yet in 1970, Americas’ Black col leges enrolled about 160,000 students which is slightly more than one-third of the nation’s Black college students. Only ten years ago they ' enrolled over half of a 11 Black students over half of all Black under graduates. While this repre sents a loss and that more Black students are attending predominantly white campus es, it overlooks the fact that Black colieges, which were our only means of gaining high - er education for many decades. Many would not be formally ed ucated. Moreover, if Black colleges go oqt of business it will mean that thousands of Re-Registration ... Deluting Black Voting Power THE NAMES OF MOW PEOPLE WERE ON THE FORMER JONES COUNTY, MISS. VOTING LIST, CONGRESSMAN EDWARDS SAID, BUT ONLY IS,OOO HAVE REGISTERED SO FAR, SO THAT « 19,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN APPARENTLY PEPRIVEP OF THEIR RI6HT TOMJ7F mth me nttru/PHOML tv rtte dunctixnutTfimj: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS The July, 1971 issue of The Reader’s Di gest contains a most enlightening article by Mr. Irwin Ross, describing President Nixon’s plan introduced in Congress early this yeai to streamline the essential functions of the federal government. To give an idea oi how pressing.is the need to overhaul the federal establishment, Mr. Ross draws on a few instances of the kind of governmental confusion that is was ting taxpayer’s money to the tune of as much as $5 billion a year. In one case, he tells of a small Texas community of 200 families that needed a new water-sup ply system. Upon investigation, it was found that two agencies of the federal gpvernijjejit Could finance it -- the Economic Develop ment Administration of the Commerce De partment and the Farners Home Adminis tration of the Agriculture Department. Mr. Ross reports that both agencies “With a spec tacular lack of coordination....plunged in. each line. The confusion was that only half of the community's 200 families ended up hooked into a water main. In a siiniln exhibition of waste and duplication, two lo cational-training centers were built by two different federal government agencies within three blocks of each other in Phoenix, Ari zona—one at a cos; of more than *1.7 million and the other at a cost of *3.7 million. Both are competing to teach mar ketable skills to the unskilled and unem ployed. this kind of waste are endless, and the cost is enough to make anv taxpayer see red. Writes, Mr. Ross, “During the past two decades, the government’s yearly budget has grown from $42 billion to well over S2OO billion; federal domestic programs have mul tiplied more than tenfold, and now number . some 1,400 He calls the Administra tion plans a Search for Sanity and ob serves that its mam thrust is to organize, federal departments around the main pur pose of government and to group together similar or allied programs within a single depart rrtent. The plan provides for a Department of Natural Resources that “....would bring to gether all the activities r of the federal gov ernment involving land use, water resourct energy and mineral resources. There would be a Department of Human Resources which would combine and coordinate the activities of a number of other government agencies to promote ...development of individaul po tential and family well-being. There would also be a Department of Conununitv Do- HOW TO WRECK A RAILROAD A collective sigh of relief went up over the nation when the last railroad strike was terminated after a couple of days. Each crisis of this nature emphasizes our . dependency on railroads. Yet, not onou' h attention is given to basic issues of pub lic policy that are gradual! - paral; zing the railroad industry just as surely as a strike. This lack of Interest--or inertia—is par tially attributable to failure to undorsia d just how archaic regulation can wreck a railroad. A centurty or more ago, rail lines wer< built, among other things, to serve the m-eib of developing industries. But, under the lr<■< enterprise system, where everyone is per mitted to set up their businesses where thee please—with the exception of the ruil roads—deveiopment patterns changed, Indus trie's moved and industrial concentration declined in some areas. There was no longer the business to support the branch line of a railroad. So, many railroads wore left with hundreds of miles or profitless branch lines that the law required them to keep in operation. One railroad went into bankruptcy in 1961 principally because it was forced to maintain a maze of small branch" lines. The company was literally scrapped in order to keep empty trains running ovoi lines”. It sought permission for years to abandon some 1,200 miles of such urmeeded lines. The company was literally scrapped Blacks will never have an op portunity to go to college at all, in spite of the current pace of desegregation. Black colleges like other Black Institutions and move ments are witnessing the loss of support from erst while, white philanthropists, funds RAYSOFHOPE and grants. This is the result of fallacious thinklng-that now Integration Is here--then tliei •• is no need foi anything that is Black oriented. However, the reality of tills situation is. that there is greater need now than ever because as we all know, we haven't even scratched the i* pmout that would deal with both urban i d iin al communities. According to The i .ider's Digest piece, this department ... wild take over HUD, as well as certain Commerce functions, Agriculture’s Rural lficti Lfication Commission and rhralhousing i ui i'.in,s, the OEO’s Community Action pro i in .md the urban mass-transit activities of th Department df ’Transportation, plus oth t community-oriented elements. Filially, more would lie a Department of 1 i-. Gnomic Affairs intended to “promote ec .iiiomic growth.” This department would ab seil fund ions of the Departments of Com nieit-e, Labor and Agriculture among others. The 1 i. - st terms the President’s far-reach ing ; .'organization proposals a “Bold Plan ij* Streamline Government.” It is, most assured ly, teld if for no other reason than that it >uld shake the bureaucratic hierarchy to Its vi i foundations. It would affect departments and ag -ucies whose combined personnel to tal 384,000. Even though the Administration has iv n assurance that its reorganization I a n v i mid not be accompanied by mass fir ing of government personnel - retirement, iv,- e-nation oi death would work as attrition factors. As Mi Ross concludes: “....the best ar ii: behalf of bold reorganization is that II: pi at structure is creaking with age and disabilities. Unquestionably, it needs renova ticin’' Many a thoughtful citizen will add in - mi.! dir An' l ' l ' to that view. HIM ll WITH CHAOS New Yorkers very likely know tetter than anyone else what it is to like to live with d essential services and necessities. One of tin ii recent brushes with chaos came drivers and warehouse workers who handle about ; percent of the metropolitan area's nlim iiodly. Service stations’Rroughout tin- city were forced to post out-of-gas sign:- . The police department, hospitals and ainl'ul ic.-s wore faced with an emergency -:itnation. Gasoline is another of those ne cessitie - that everyone seems to presume will always be available in abundant supply come what may. Ati hundred strikers'demonstrated more eiiectr.el than all the statistics and argu- II a 'tit s d ih world exactly what energy means to a:. an -based society such as that of Twentieth Century America.-Let this flow of eiioi; dwindle or cease, even momen tarily, and civilization would collapse in shapeless mass of unwashed, starving Iminanit. n ioi i to keep empty trains running over li i -, to serve territory from which lndus -11 had Ion:; i since moved away. When the' , , ~i . went out of existence In 1969, it had • oi able to rid Itself of only a com paraiivo); few miles of its unprofitable lines. It ! just this kind of a regulation that j,, i b ding the railroad industry to death .u. i bich confronts the nation with an ever , i o transport n crisis. ! V INC. i'lli, ALPHABET I;. a little sermon on “economics,” Mr. Bill Walkinsof the ESCO Corporation oj p.irtland, Oregon, said a mouthful on the fact.-; 1 lift in a brochure issued by the comp;., Comments Mr, Walkinsj ’'Money is i: , , nod for anything,” my old man used to s; t y. “You can’t eat it, you can’t wear it .tii j ou can’t drink It. You only live i • r r old man said, “if you've got it, spoiai it'. Tin .ltl man was talking economics, but it ,i lan suggested that to him he might liar.- i ou have it right in the kisser. Like most people, he talked economics, all tj, tin.*■. iid, he didn't know It. Just men tioii tin woid economics to an American citizen, and lie’ll turn off his hearing aid. Tin . nth is that an economic subject comes up m virtually every conversation wherever people get tog-ether. When they talk about social security, medicare, government programs and high taxes, they’re talking economics. surface on true integration. Let’s support our Black col leges, especially all of us who had the prlvilegejrf attending them and all others who appre ciate their long record of ser vice. THE LOUISVILLE DE TENDER
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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