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f m CAXOUXtAN P. MJCXOH, M. 0., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1671 4 ■ Cud, a iim Ckxi, and a good God. !; v'- wero the three steps In the develop ment of the greatest of all ideas, Hundreds of generations have died since the days of Editorial Viewpoint It Will Pay The Nation To Educate Blacks By and large, the educated man is a tree man, and he is able to sup himself and his family. The educated man is able to p"”' taxes and contribute to the general wel fare of the nation. The bulk of Negro students who finish colleges have graduated from (he predominantly black private and public colleges or universities. Many stales are trying to get rid of their formerly black colleges, using for an argument - it costs too much. Think about the states that have only one predominantly black college - Flo rida. South Carolina, Oklahoma, Ar l •.’i.sas, etc. Certainly, such institu tions have a role in the continued duration of Negro students. They have the experienced “know-how” Study Os How To Teach Children In Ghetto Among children living in the ghet to no blacks, Mexicans, and poor whites. These children have also hern labelled the “disadvantaged,” or “the culturally'deprived.” Since school integration, much pub lican has been given to the prob lems associated with the teaching of these children in public schools. AAd particularly do some white ed ucators want to make out of these children an American “showcase.” Rick Holier, professor of educa tion and child psychology at the* University of Wisconsin, has demon r • strafed in an experiment that it is possible to prevent the intellectual crippling that is the curse of slum children. Herber used highly-trained spe cialists and a very small pupil teacher ratio - one to one for the first two years, and never more than 11 to 1. lie had ample supplies and equipment. The researcher discovered that ed ucational retardation, even in* the slums, is not randomly distributed, but t.< nds to occur in children whose mothers are of low intelligence. Inis, he found, is not because of gen dies, but lie cause low IQ mo thers tailed to provide a stimulating For generations, the black colleges and universities of this country have been the major source of education for thousands of young men and wo men. Many people are not aware of the tremendous job these schools have done for our country since the end of the Civil War, providing lea dership and professional training for a community that would not have had them otherwise. Despite financial difficulties and competition from larger and more affluent white institutions, these schools, even today, grant degrees to the majority of black college graduates. In 1970, for example, there were approximately 400,000 black college students ami more than half of these students were enroll ed at predominantly black col leges. Approximately 40,000 of these students attend the 36 member in stitutions of the United Negro Col lege Fund. Student enrollment at black col leges continues to increase because of certain unique features these schools have to offer. Black col leges were pioneers in early ad missions and open admissions offer ing intensified programs of study for promising students. Years ago, they began to admit some students who had not formally completed the • secondary education. Many of lie o same students earned their bachelor degrees with honors and enter d prestigous graduate institu lions, Often students who come to these colleges cannot afford to pay high tuition. Today, more than sixty per cent of all freshmen entering black Bible Thought Os The Week Black Colleges Still Import Moses, of Amos and Hosea, The thought s>f the world on almost every other subject has changed, but tne conception of God, whicn these three achieved has remained in con trol of man’s thinking down to this very hour. in underpinning the weak founda tions of these students. Predomin antly black colleges .ire experts in educating high risk students. Our states should support financially this know-how with magnanimous appro priations. Certain politicians in Florida, for example, want to eliminate Florida A&M'University at Tallahasse. Yet within the past ten years, Florida has built more than six new univer sities. What it should have done was to make better some of the univer sities it already had. It is cheaper to maintain an edu cational institution already estab lished, than to build new ones and support them. environment for their offspring). The findings indicated that re tardation is both predictable and preventable. Then what should be done? Well, the educator must work with the mothers, as well as the children. If one dreams a little, the support of this new educational plan could be tied in with the President’s Family Assistance Plan. This would prevent some of the technicalities involved with laws dealing with compulsory school attendance. It the government is willing to pay th ’ price, tin 1 re could be estab lished day-care centers, well-equip ped and properly staffed, for the purpose ol supplying the intellectual stimulation found missing among ghetto children. Is this too much to hope? Well, it depen Is upon the nation’s pri orities. If we can afford to finance a Vietnam War, we can afford to send men to the moon, and we can afford to give millions of dollars to foreign nations to help them get on their feet, then, why han’t’we afford some investment in salvaging the lives of ghetto children? The United States needs to shift its priorities!! colleges have parents whose annual income is less than $5,000. Seven ty-five* per cent of the students at black colleges receive some form of financial aid. But black colleges now face a new challenge. They are beginning to ex pand their curricula to keep pace with increasing job opportunities. This requires more money than they have been getting. For example, of $4 billion in fed eral funds given to higher educa tion in 1969, only 3.5 per cent or sll9 million went to black col leges. Os $390 million in corporate funds given to higher education less than one per cent or $3.5 million went to United Negro College Fund schools. The United Negro College Fund tries to help colleges close the gap between operating expenses, low endowments, and actual assets on hand. With student enrollments in creasing and costs rising, the role of the United Negro College Fund as a resource for financial aid becomes more crucial. In 1970, each of the 36 UNCF colleges received at least SIOO,OOO through the Fund. The Carnegie Commission on High ex Education calls the black colleges “ a national asset....a source of pride to blacks who have attended them, and a source of hope to black families who want the bene fits of higher learning for their children ” Black colleges need your support for Uje good of all America. Givfe to the United Negro College Fund. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THERE’S NO HIDING PLACE DOWN THERE A fellow came home from the office and noticed that his wife had been crying. “What's the matter, dear?” he asked. And she gave him the ter rible news: "Jim, one of THEM has moved Into the va cant apartment upstairs.”' And right then and there, on that evening about -45 years ago, this fellow Jim started the mass exodus from a merica’s cities when he sug gested: “Let's move out into the country where there's lots of room for the kids.” And so they went; and then each group that had chased out the previous group ran out to the suburbs; and each said exactly the same thing; "You know, if one moves In, a whole pack of them will come later.” And so it went, In the man ner of a cycle, and in the end, as in a game of tag, the last man was "it.” And thus did the Negro wind up with some of the most comfortable, steam-heated, elevator apart ments in the big city, with a view of the Atlantic fleet lying at anchor, and the ma jestic Palisades, to say nothing of a drugstore, a grocery, and theatre, each within a stone’s throw. And out yonder in the suburbs, our contry boy began buying all sorts of gadgets, farm equipment, and rubber hoses, and he learned all a bout plumbing and he traveled two hours each way, back and forth to his work every day; and if he forgot to bring home A DARK POINT OF VIEW BY "BILL” MOSES “WRITERS AND ARTISANS’* Now and then, I feel the need to reassure myself about the things I do-such as writing. I am convinced that writing is work, and one labors at it; and the satisfactions one gains from writing are pretty much tb.e same as those the skilled wood carver and other crafts men feel when they produce something with their hands. I like to think of the writer as an artisan, rather than an art ist- one who labors, even as the ditch digger. I have always admired the late Heywood Broun's (1888- 1939) definition of an artist: “Anyone (or thing) from a trained seal to Toscanini.” I remember in high school, back in the twenties, I had a school mate whose way with words attracted me until one even ing I visited him and his mo ther told me he couldn’t be disturbed because he was writing. He heard my voice and came downstairs to greet me. He was wearing a smock with a flowing bow tie (in those days writers, painters, sculp tors, and architects were al ways pictured in such garb). My respect for him dwindled rapidly; as a matter of fact, I can’t recall that I ever saw him again or knew what hap pened to him in life. Those smocks and ties 'turned me off*. I was definitely convinc ed that I didn't want to be a writer or artist; and I was sus picious of architects, for they, too, affected this badge. How ever, the attractions of archi tecture for me were so impell - ing that I decided that I could pursue this urge without a smock or tie-so I never own ed one. To me, the writer is an ar tisan -a worker, a laborer who get tired from his ef forts, even as the carpenter of brickmason. 1 suppose you might say the writer works with his head (or brains) for the most part, although his hands have a role in it; but then, so does the journeyman. I like Plato’s (427-347 B. C.) description of the arts: “There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.” So, enough of this prattle, for at seven o’clock tomorrow morning I am going fishing; and I close this piece with a quote about fishing from Izaak Walton’s (1593 „ 1683) The Complete Angler: ‘Twas an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer . THE CAHOUNUN “Covering The Carolina*” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company Sit K. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. Z7SOI Mailing Address P. O. Box 23747 Raleigh, N. C. 27611 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh, N. C. 77611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $4.«0 Rales Tax .1C TOT AS, 4,18 One year 6.58 Sales Tax .26 TOTAL *.78 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to "The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Sne., 310 Madison Avenue, New Pork, H. ¥. 18617, National Advertising Representative. Member of the 'tailed Press International Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsi ble for the return of nnsoMelted news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by col mnntsts in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. the ice cream, the kids began to howl and he had to get' into his car and drive eight miles to get it; and then he jumped for joy when his wife told him that the street will be paved out of the 1973 budget allocations if he signs the peti tion and pays the assessment, and that they will finally get sewers in 1972 if they agree to annexation, which will make him a city boy again, but liv ing in the country; and then, of course, the lights go out and he can't find a new fuse. And all of this wouldn’t be so bad if the country boy could have remained "exclusive,” but the folks he had run away from in the first place were now country boys, too, and new set s of people were coming in droves as a result of that damned new bus line which our original suburbanite had rais ed such cain to get. . He thought he’d have himself a nice bus to go back and forth in. He had no idea it would become a whole trans portation system full of all kinds of strange people but the poor guy had other worries-- that lousy septic tank was backing up again. And so he'll move back to the cities soon, sure as any thing and he’ll try to sneak bac)c, sort of looking over his shoulder to see if those folks arfe going to follow him again. And you can be sure of that, too: thev’ll be a- coming-- all of which reminds me of that ' great gospel hymn: “There's no hiding place down there.” of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of pas sions, a producer of content - edness that begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practiced it. Letter To The Editor To The Editor The unemployment rate a cross the country is higher than ever. Alot of this I think should be blamed on the em ployers themselves. Surely they advertise their vacancies but what does the bottom line always read “sxperience Preferred ” or “Only The Experienced Need Apply.” This then is say ing what? Evidently the job is open to a few when there are an even greater number need ing work. t I feel this way about it. Sure the experienced need work, I guess that's why they are ex perienced, those without training. The experienced were inexperienced at one time or another and where did they start? As long as the lack of training is used as a so called reason for not hiring, which is more of an excuse then. The rate of unemploy ment will continue to in crease. I don't know of anyone that was born knowing how to do everything. If people are not given a chance to be taught how to fullfill these vacancies then they are being discriminated against. Now that we know the source, we should seek a cure. Christopher Blue Durham, N. C. What Other Editors Say POTPOURRI “WHEN YOU COTTA G 0...” Some people don’t seem to realize that everybody talking about preserving the “neigh borhood school” is not react ing to the same stimuli. Persons opposed to the “neighborhood schools” as they are presently to be found cite overcrowded, inadequate, phy sical plants. But they don’t stop there. They also acknowledge that there is a noticeable dif ference in the quality of the fac ulty at these schools. Do they mean that only white teachers are qualified to pro vide quality Instruction? No. What * they mean is that there are some black teachers In the schools who have not kept up and, consequently are handicap ping the children they teach. W'e fully realize that we have opened up a can of worms. So be it. It Is time we faced the fact that integration of the schools will mean that a number of un qualified blacks now teaching will tie out of a Job. While we regret seeing anyone Join the ranks of the unemployed, par ticularly at a time when our economy is depressed, we must think of the children whose hor izons are being limited whose minds are being crippled,, Many school districts throughout the south have faced this problem. In some Instance* teachers had been on the lob 15 and 20 years but n&a made "PermiMivenegg” Blacks Can Never Forget! ANAWN WHICH PERMITTED THE LYNCHING OF MORE THAN 4.500 PEOPLE, NEARLY ALL NEGROES, BETWEEN 1882 AND t?3O CAN ILL AFFORD TO ENGAGE IN SUMMARY CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WITHOUT TRIALINOUR TURBULENT TIMES’! a • aaßtL * A * SBya - ARK ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS News stories have filtered out of Sweden revealing the social dislocations that threaten to tear asunder what many have thought was the ideal welfare society. Stories havealsoappear ed concerning the social, economic and politi cal problems of other .countries. They portray situations that are far from Utopian as far as the lot of ordinary people is concerned. They show there is no such thing as a perfect govern mental system—that the more government di rects and protects people, the more drab and uninspiring life becomes. Among the latest of these reports from a broad is an account In The Wall Street Journal by Mrs. Lorana O. Sullivan of how ordinary middle - class British people live. The differ ence in standards between Americans and their British cousins, in many U. S. eyes, is literal ly the difference between living and existing. Ms. Sullivan takes a typical middle-level civil servant who earns about $4,900 a year, which. In Britain, puts his family "...solidly mine mid dle class.” Writes Ms. Sullivan, "It also puts the family in a house with no central heat. It means, t00,..a car smaller than a Volkswagen. They (the family) don’t go to the movies, and they figure that half a dozen dinners out a year is all they can afford.” This particular British family has more lux uries than most Britons—including a telephone. Ms, Sullivan quotes a survey that indicates only 61 percent of British homes have a refrigera tor, 56 percent an automatic clothes washer, 51 percent an automobile and 23 percent an elec tric food mixer. The average family refrigera tor In Britain is only four cubic feet. This is in contrast to the United States where 90 percent of the refrigerators are 12 cubic feet or more in size. In rainy England, only 17 percent of British households have a clothes drier. The typical family, about which Ms. Sullivan writes, have their own home wmen they purchased nine years ago and which stands on land owned by the state. It has one bath. The living room is closed off since it lacks heat and needs redec orating, and in its place the family uses an 8 x 10 foot sitting room. Only ten percent of British families enjoy central heating. This particular family, writes Ms. Sullivan, gets along "...with an assortment of gas and electric heaters.” The family described by Ms. Sullivan re ceives a month's vacation each year which the family sipends at a seaside boarding house to avoid hotel bills. The wife received a S6O lump sum payment from the government when each BAYS OF HOPE Certain areas of the environmental preserva tion controversy are far more sensitive than others. One of the most sensitive is that having to do with oil tankers and the problems of pre venting oil spills or discharges. With no attempt to be humorous, It can be said that, in this case pouring oil on troubled waters is the wrong medi cine—especially if that oil takes the form of laws that hamper, rather than help, orderly progress toward pollution control. A former head of the Safety Branch of the Coast Guard and an authority on technical matters re lating to tanker operations has observed that, “Historically the shipping industry has been de dicated to cooperate with Government Agencies with emphasis on pollution prevention.... Ho wever, public opinion, not always fully informed, creates the childlike faith,in legislation as a cure all which inevitably puts the government authori ties on the spot. While the shipping industry ful ly appreciates the need for concerted effort on its part to alleviate... viewed how the tanker industry has worked long and hard on programs to elimi nate intentional discharges of oil and oily wastes. He pointed out that there are three basic, long standing solutions to this problem. These Include: shore reception facilities, development of an ef ficient oily water separator and design of ships for carriage of clean water ballast. In those Involved In movement of petroleum by sea--Including the tanker industry--canproceed in an orderly manner rather than In blind haste, * ‘sensational progress” can be made toward the ultimate goal of complete avoidance of the dis charge of oil Into the sea. The remarks of this former Coast Guard official emphasized, once again, the great difficulty <sf finding a common meeting ground between emotion and hard reali ty on the subject of the environment. fHEEDOM OF IDEAS AND GOODS Many larger companies and industries are no effort to upgrade the quality of their education. The government, recognizing that many of these persons re leased from teaching would need help In finding other jobs, is paying for their retraining. Prairie View A&M recently re ceived a grant oi several Hun dred thousand dollars tor such retraining. It is a fact that many of the BLACKS PETITIONED THEIR CONGRESS, IMPLORED THE COURTS FOR RELIEF. NO MARCHES-NO BOMBINGS.TNEY _ J• - ... ' child was born. The government also allows $2.16 a week to help support the children. Pay roll deductions for taxes, national insurance (mainly health care), social security and a con tributory pension plan take about a quarter of the husband’s income. Inflation is a problem hi Britain just as in the United States. The British pound sterling lost 61 cents of Its purchasing po wer between October, 1964 and November, 1970. A loaf of broad that cost 11 cents then costs 24 cents today. There is, no purpose in comparing living standards and governmental systems of nations other than to gain perspective and a truer sense of values. What is suitable for one nation would be unacceptable in another nation. The British way of living is incomprehensible by U. S. con cepts. Yet it works for the British people. The important point to consider is whether the Bri tish system or some other system is preferable to that of the United States. Many have thought so. Our welfare programs, proposals for na tional health insurance, and a general extension of government, along paternalistic linos, wit tinly or unwittingly, emulates socialist or semi socialist countries. Is this what the American people really want? Before the choice is irre vacably made, Americans should take a long, hard look at the way the rest of the world lives. REMOVE IKRESPONSIBI I PUBLIC SER VANTS Congressional salary hikes voted to them selves by members'of Congress, at a time when everyone else was supposed to have been holding the line against inflation, did not sit too well with voters and taxpayers. Now there are reports that plans are assort to grant upper le vel government officials federal tax exemption for portions of their income. At the same time, news reports have just appeared telling of de~ mades for a guaranteed annual income of $6,- 500. It seems government officials have no wish to share hi the rising tax burdens that are sure to result from the tightening grip of welfarism. Meanwhile, still another press release tells us that in 1971, the average taxpayer spent the first 129 days of the year working to pay his vearly federal, state juid local taxes. This sort of heads I win, tails you lose at titude of politicians tow a id taxpayers will e ventually load to the enslavement of productive citizens or t<> the breakdown of government. One other course is open—the ein oval from office of financially irn >pon ib! public servants. children In fourth and fifth grade, attending schools locat ed in Sown Dallas, cannot read. It Is a fact that some of the graduates of high schools In ssopth Dallas cannot read or spell. (Perhaps this is true of other schools in other locations but we're sot dealing with them now. We're dealing with what we know about.) seeking to win favor with critics and the public by redoubling their efforts to establish records of good deeds in every thing from environmental preservation to deeper participation in the social and economic problems of communities. But, more than this is needed if our system of private enterprise under representative government is to meet the onslaughts of those who attack the baric principles upon which the American system rests. Mr. Jeffrey St. John, a news service columnist, puts his finger squarely on the reason why busi ness so often finds itself on the defensive. He says, “Only a consistent, philosophical under standing of the enterprise function can provide management the intellectual means to make sound judgments about what is actually being proposed by its critics.” He takes General Motors and the campaign against it by Mr. Nader and others as an example. He points out that the detractors of General Motors could not care less about the company’s past record of achievement and its current acceptance of "Social responsibility." He declares that, "In reality what Mr. Nader and his allies advocate is fascism, although it is doubtful that he—or GM’s management—recog nizes it as such." He then compares the drive 01 General Motors’ critics to put public mem bers on General Motors' board of directors re presenting consumers, dealers and workers with the tenets of fascism. Mr. St. John concludes: "The American busi ness civilization will not find its salvation by a dopting the philosophy of critics who hold coer cion to be their first commandment. It will find its salvation rooted in the philosophy It has a bandoned: freedom in the competitive market of both ideas and goods.’’ Adherence to basic prin ciples—and constant support of those principles -is the first requisite of freedom for business or for the individual. if Is a fact that some Individ uals teaching in mack schools In Dallas would not be permit ted to teach in white schools. If you don’t believe it just watch and wait. What we are seeking is qual ity education for the children. Kigm on. - The DALLAS EX PRESS.
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