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*4**4 W...- ....... .41 RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1071 Bible Thought Os The Week "Lot us not l>e weary In well doing for In due season we shall reap If we faint not,” li isn't always fun to visit someone In the Hospital, to rail on an elderly aunt, or to take t gift to a shut-in. But usually Christians Editorial Viewpoint It's Time For Black Colleges To Brag There is a tendency these days for educational gods to belittle the pre dominantly black college, followed by a recommendation for its demise. But the black college “ain’t” dead yet, although state legislatures have cut down to the bone its financial support. There is one thing wo don’t want the public to forget, and that Is that ihe predominantly black college took nothing and created a miracle. Per haps it is better to say many mir acles. It has had to make brick with out straw as did the Children of Israel, down in Egypt. No other class of higher institu tions has performed miracles with so many disadvantaged men and women. -Just last week, something good was reported in the newspaper about Florida A& M University at rallahassee. The State of Florida’s first plant ntroduetory nursery to introduce ami evalute plants with a potential .'or conservation uses was created last week under an agreement with the U. S. Department of Agricul ture and Florida A&M University. Florida doesn’t have enough plants o feed all wildlife in the state, and the nursery is going to solve this problem. The experiments will bo !esigned to get rid of bad plants md select the promising ones that can adapt and survive in different The general theme in public edu ■tion today is “How to stop mass !■ tsing of school children to effect (U ‘segregation?” In Pontiac, Michigan, multitudes ;f whites and blacks, became angry over a desegregation plan that would bus about one-third of the city’s 2 4,000 school pupils. It should be ilso recalled that someone set fire <o about ten Pontiac buses. Many desegregation plans require extensive busing of children to a ehieve a racial balance in class rooms. Were it not for segregation in housing, busing would hardly have become the problem that it has now Itecome. When all is considered, there have been few instances of ma jor protest in the South this year since the new term began. Certainly none rivaled the incident at Pontiac, Michigan. There is much talk about neigh- Not so long the public ex pected teachers to live like a mini ster—that is, almost. Most of the public* school con tracts were alike, but let us take one from the files of the public school system in Birmingham, Michigan, in 1923. The teacher got maybe SIOO.OO a month, and a black teachers half that much, just for the privilege of instructing youngsters. Some of the contractual stipula tions were: 1. Not to get married, because if they did, their contracts became null and void. 2. Not to keep company with men. 3. Be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., unless in at tendance at school function. 4. Not to loiter downtown to ice cream stores. 5. Not to leave town anytime without the permission of the chair man of the school board or the super intendent, or the principal. 6. Not to smoke cigarettes, be cause one’s contract became null I he Other Shoes On In Busing The 1920’s Teachers Brag feel better when they do. This Is a "hurry up” world we’re living In. We tell ourselves that there isn’t time for the little kind nesses. There Isn’t time for a lot of things-- like, maybe, going to church. Who are we kidding? Ourselves, perhaps? climactic conditions. One goal will be to find plants useful for erosion control, critical area stabilation, pollution abate ment, and beautification. ITie nursery will experiment with G 2 varieties of plants from as far away as Africa and Brazil. It is to be increased 120 varieties. Brooks, the nursery supervisor, said that leguminous plants are an example of what Is being done. These plants have the ability to develop their own nitrogen and are richer in protein than the grasses used for livestock feed. It should be added that ten days ago, it was reported that the Dean oi the FAMU Schoool of Pharmacy has received a patent on a time-re lease formula for pills. This will keep a sick person from getting up to take his medicine at night. Where would this Dean have been were it not for FAMU where he did his un dergraduate study. Hundreds of good things are being done at the black colleges, and we feel they ought to tell the public about their superior points. Yes, they have created miracles, they have boon a root out of dry ground, and they have stimulated within the souls of Negroes a racial pride that transcends all of the pitfalls of inequality and discrimination. borhood schools these days; but during the 1950 s Negro parents pro tested their children being bused past the neighborhood white school. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doen’t feel so comfortable. The only solution to the issue is to initiate white-black cooperation and let everyone try to make it work. People have to learn how to behave in situations involving other people whoever they chance to be. The neighborhood school idea would sink the nation right back into segregation. Busing may not be the best answer to the prob lem, but it is the only plan that will balance the races propor tionately. It effectively busing is impos sible, then let America make bus ing work. It can if people want it to work. and void at once if the teacher was caught. 7. Not to get in a carriage or automobile with any man, except her brother or father. 8. Not to dress in bright colors. 9. Not to dye hair. 10. Must wear at least two petti coats. 11. Not to wear dresses more than two inches above the ankle. 12. Keep the school room neat and clean: Sweep the floor at least once a day, scrub the floor at least once a week with hot water and soap, clean the blackboards at least once daily, and start the fire at 7 a.m. so that the room will be warns by 8:00 a.m. It appears to us that these rules must have originated from men who were bossed by their wives. It ap pears from the rules that teachers were employed as janitors, instruc tors, and so on. As we look buck today, this les son is very clear, you cannot legis late a person’s morals and behavior. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDFN JAIL FOR STEALING^? They had a good argument to put before the jury. It may not have been an irrefutable argument but it was logical. They asked why would two men steal 90 cents from a man’s vest pocket and not SBO from his hip pocket? The jury was not persuad ed. It found them guilty of arm ed robbery. The state had charged that Daniel Lowery had pointed a knife at Herbert Junior Alex ander and that Thomas Ca borne had threatened the same Junior Alexander with a con cealed gun. They then reliev ed Alexander of 90?. Lowery and Osborne said Alexander didn’t have his facts right. He had promised them $1 a piece to help him un load groceries from his truck, then paid them only 90?. An argument ensued. The cops came. They certainly offered a good story for the 90? they had. But the court-appointed law yers couldn't shake Herbert Junior Alexander on cross examination. The prosecutor said it didn’t matter whether they took 90? or SIOO,OOO. The law was the law. Defense Attorney Chandler said no robber ever neglect ed to take u man’s wrist watch. Ho argued that few armed rob bers populate the vicinity of their crime for a half hour until the police come, He charged that Herbert Junior Alexander had fabricated the entire story as a moans of exacting revenge. Herbert Junior was afraid of a fist fight shortchanging the two defendants. The Defense Attorney con cluded with the Cicoronlan A DARK POINT Os VIEW BY "BILL” MOSES “HOG ISLAND" During the later stages of World War I, there was a place on the southern tip of Phila delphia, Pennsylvania called Hog Island, where the U, S, Government was building war ships. It was a sprawling, busy place, where most any America, who was seventeen or older, and wasn’t a crip ple, could get a job. I was too young to be drafted or volunteer for the Army so I put in a summer at Hog Island as a clean-up man or Sweeper.’ My job was to clean up behind the riveters and their helpers any where In the ship’s hull. The work was dirty and sweaty, crawling about holes and the steel bowels of the ship. Although the turnover of employees in this particular category was great. I stuck it out until just a day or two before the public schools were due to open. The pay wasn’t very much, but it was fab ulous to youth of seventeen, I made and saved more money that summer than I had ever earned in my life; and I was reluctant to give it up, even to return to high school. I lied about my age when I got the job, and I’m sure now that they knew I was lying when I was hired. Most of the sweep ers were black boys andmen the higher categories, rive ters etc., were seldom open to black people. Now and then I even had a bit of pride in my work, in the knowledge that I was doing my bit to help defeat the German Kaiser. My Immediate supervisor, an elderly white man, who as signed me my work area and generally checked behind me, was a kind fellow. We ‘hit it off’ from the beginning when he found out he could trust me to do a clean job. It got so that he rarely checked behind me, and took it for granted that the holeslcrawl ed in and out of would be scrupulously clean. We finally reached the last pay-day before the city high schools would open. I was re luctant to leave the job—the money was good. However the rule was that if you quit your money was held up for two weeks before your final pay ment; but you were fired on the spot by your supervisor, you were taken to the pay roll office, cussed out, and THE CAROLINIAN “Coverlets The Carotlnm" PublUhtd ®y The Carolinian Publishing Company SIS E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address P. O. Box 25747 Raleigh, S. C. 27111 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh, N. C. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months *<QO Rales Tax .13 TOTAL . 4.18 One ¥enr 6.50 Sales Tax .26 TOTAL 8.78 Payable In advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., *lO Madison Avenue, New York, N. y. 10017, National Advertising Representative. Member oJ the United Press International Photo Service, Tha Publisher Is not reasons!- ole for the return of unsolicited »ews, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the ropy. Opinions expressed by eel. umntsta In this newspaper <s« not necessarily represent the policy cf this newspaper argument tnai u a roooery had been committed it was more incredibly stupid than incredibly criminal. The Judge, William K. Mc- Lean of the Superior Court of North Carolina, allowed as how he was inclined toward leniency. He could sentence the two men to 30 years. He was giving them only 25. All of which goes to prove that 12 men can go crazy in a locked room, that Southern judges are hard Judges, and that everyone who goes to prison goes to prison broke. Some years ago Charlotte suffered through a large-scale homeosexual scandal. The Judge in one case gave a young newspaper man, a college graduate with no record, five years in the state peniten tiary. 1 met the judge socially and that sending a homo sexual to prison is like send ing an alcoholic to the brew ery. The judge said he was a lot kinder to the boy than the Jews would have been, “You Jews would have stoned him to death," he said outraged, "1 only sent him away for five years, As for jurlos, the rule you must never forget Is this: if you did it, you want twelve good mon and true because they are your only chance for freedom. If you didn’t do it, you want only the Judge. Unless you are a Louis Wolf son or a Jimmy Hoffa, you will come out of Jail as fait broke as Billy Sol Estos. In this respect the prosecut ing attorney was right: it doesn’t make any difference whether you steal 90? or SIOO - hot her you steal 90? or sloo,oo—or, at least, it does n’t make any difference in the long run. paid off in full. This rarely happened. I had a feeling that the way the War was going I would never see the shipyard again, and I wanted my money now. So, on this pay-day morning I reported to work with a news paper and a book stuffed into my lunch kit. I was assigned to a deserted section of the ship’s hull, and there I holed up in one spot for most of the day, or until inspector finally located me during the course of the afternoon. When the inspector found me I was calmly smoking a cigarette and reading, and hts chagrin was immense. He lectured me like a disappointed father as I listened without a word of alibi or defense. Finally after a long moment of si lence during which he just looked at me, he said, matter of factly: “Come with me.” We walked in silence to the pay-master’s office where he raked me over the coals, and demanded my immediate dis missal. I was paid off prompt ly, and as I was receiving my money the supervisor, without changing his expres sion, winked at me. I was feeling quite guilty about this episode until I caught his wink. What Other Editor Say.... A SMALL BEGINNING Black athletic officials have won a battle, but not the war. Likewise, it is comforting that at least the basketball games in the Louisville area will have desegregated officiating. It is commendable also that at least seventeen Black pros pective officials have been in training as a result of a sizeable grant from the dom inant daily newspaper in the state and the willingness of white officials to train them. This will alleviate in part some of the ugly conditions which have been experienced in the past. Both players and fans have felt that the of ficiating was one-sided be cause of close and questiona ble calls and the absence of Black officials. Thus, the ac creditation of a sufficient number of Black officials to eliminate all white officiating -- particularly in desegregat ed games is a step for ward. However, it is very dis appointing that the members of the Board of Control of the Kentucky High School Ath letic Association have voted down the proposal to in crease their number, in order to name a Black member. This vote was taken amongthe member high school princi pals and it reflects most neg atively upon the attitude of educators on desegregation in general and on Black athletic officials in particular. Hope fully, the fight to desegregate the Board of Control will not stop with this denial. We urge the plaintiffs of a suit against the KHSAA to eat court for relief. -The LOUISVILLE DEFEND ER. SENSELESS... 30MB COMMUNirttt PREPARES C ? tM^£ 5 icr/Ne waves in black ’ft * COMMUNITIES WILL CAUSE , THEM TO LOSE ESSENTIAL . U * _ SERVICES J >/ \[ " i -**\\ , j v j ' ' \. (I TV REACHING FOR NEW ENERGY A major oil company has amanmood, "A promising now technique to greatly Increase the speed and efficiency of drilling deep oil and gas wells In hard rock formations,..’’ The technique involves what the company calls "abrasive jet drilling”. Filed tests of the new method have demonstrated drilling rates four to 20 times faster than the conven tional rotary drilling process. The announce ment goes on to point out that the new drilling technique “..should lead to lower costs in the most expensive drilling areas oilmen have experienced--deep holes, 10,000 loot and be low, where they must hunt more and mere in tensively to replenish dwindling supplies of oil and natural gas.” Once again, technology and oil indust r Initiative are combining to find answers to rising petroleum demands as they have done since the first motorcar took to the road. In the remaining years of this century, the ability of the energy industries to n eot the energy requirements of a rising population will determine the course of our civilization. Authorities have said repeatedly that there are sufficient petroleum and gas resources to meet foreseeable needs. But, they have warned that incentives must be provided in tax and reg ulatory policies if useless minerals lathe earth are to become usable products in the market place. The discovery of an improved method of drillimr oil wells may seem of minor import ance to a non-oil-industr\-oriented layman. But it is not. It could have an Important effect on the price of tomorrow's gasoline or heating oil. More important, it could ha , a bearing on whether that gasoline or heating oil is available at anv price. COMMON SENSE For some two decades, diet campaigns have been carried on urgining people to eat less fat, exercise more and otherwise take step to guard against future heart attacks. So far, the campaigns have borne little fruit. Conse quently, proposals have been made to regulate the diet of the American population ! law, although there are substantial differences of opinion as to the relationship of diet in such things as heart disease. The advice of physicians, which suggests that healthy people eat and exercise moder rtely, as a ring of c< n mon sense that can do more to promote good eating habits than ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS He notes that, “i.iko urn companies and as sociations whoso successful efforts to combat pollution are told on the following pages, all Americans--including you—must accept a share of the blame for our problems, and also a share of the responsibility for solving them.” In the section on what the timber industry is doing, in behalf of the environment, th( American Forest Institute makes the point that we still have 75 percent as much forest land as when Columbus landed. And, even though we have harvested billions of tons of wood in the last 20 years, we have more trees now than In 1950. The greatest need, it adds, is the adaption of modern forest management to government-owned commercial tiir.berlands. A large auto manufacturer, in its section, reports on the millions of dollars it has spent on ac celerated programs to reduce air pollution from manufacturing plants and to further cut carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions from the cars it produces below the reductions of 70 to 80 percent that'have been accornpLised to date. In another section of The Digest’s environment al feature, the ultimate recycling system is described by a spokesman for the glass con tainer manufacturers. It shows a housewife emptying garbage into a large pneumatic tube which transports household trash directly to a processing center whore materials are mechanically separated for salvage recycling in plants at a nearby industrial park, such a system will, not merely postpone the time when used materials wind up as solid waste, it will solve the whole problem by converting waste into reuseable resources. And so it goes through the list, perfume com panies, can companies, glass manufacturers—all contributing In their own way to the resolution of what The Reader’s Digest calls a major issue of the I97o’s—environmental pollution. As The Digest makes abundantly clear, the technology of an improved environment is within our grasp. Success now depends upon educating the public to the environmental facts of life, 10,000 MORE CAROLINIAN SUBSCRIBERS WANTED NOW! RAYS OF HOPE laws, by decree, the futility of such a course •should be evident from the experience with prohibition. As "Nutrition Today” comments, “...when the government requires a person to do things to protect the individual from his own folly, it is usually abridging the individ ual’s freedom of choice. It is acting not in behalf of society, which is its proper domain, but in the sententious claim that the govern ment alone Is possessed of superior jut* •bent. This is why on a cannot accept the that cigaretts should bo banned, or tha cuttle-raising, dairy, and food indust should he coerced by government Into cm the amounts of saturated fats in our dU And, speaking of free choice, there People who prefoj’ less longevity to the pro pect of long life in company with a govern meat that acts like a nagging wife. A BETTER DEAL Communities never tire of trying to avoid the laws of economics by going into tin* power business. Often, after a number of years of municipal ownership and after financial deb acle, community systems are voted back into private ownership--that is, the ownership of investor-owned, business-managed com panies. 'I lie Worthington, Minnesota, Globe tells why that city would be better off if its municipally owned power system were sold to a taxpay ing, private utility. In 1970, city operations of the plant netted $332,000 -a return on investment of 616 percent. Less than half of this ‘‘profit”, notes the Globe, was used to lower the general tax rate. One-hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars went into a surplus fund to pay for plant expansion. The question asked by the Globe is: “Would Worthington be better off if it were to sell the entire system to an investor-owned utility and invest the money at interest?" Officials have es timated that the city plant could be sold for between $6 and $7 million and calculated that with funds now in surplus, the proceeds could bo invested at interest alone of about $348, 000 a year. "In addition”, observes the Globe, “Worthington would receive substantial tax payments from a private utility. Municipal systems, of course, pay no taxes...” Government ownership of business whether at the local level or at the federal level offers no miracle of efficiency and no eco nomic shortcuts--facts that can sometimes only be learned by costly experience. ‘ With every passing month, it is becoming increasingly evident that curing environmental ! pollution depends almost as much upon public * education as upon technology and industrial pol s 1 ution control programs. More than a year ago, j a major publication, “The Reader’s Digest," announced its intention to develop a massive '' environmental education effort. Ihe Digest, ' G with a circulation of some 17.75 million, was . obviously an ideal vehicle for such an under h To start with, The Digest conducted public 1 opinion studies on pollution and its causes. It found that 72 percent of respondents, partici ; pating in this study, blamed private industry ) for pollution. About half rated the antipol lution jot) being done by industry .as poor or ' very poor, while only 12 percent gave indus try good marks on the antipollution scoie. Ihese adverse attitudes, it found, prevailed"...despite the fact that industry is spending more than $1 billion annually to combat pollution," As a result of its public opinion studies, The Digest formulated a “...total communica tions program disigned to tell the nation and ’ the world what American business is doing tc solve pollution problems,’’ The culmination of this program has appeared in the September, 1971, issue of The Digest In the form of edi torial advertisements sponsored by basic tndus : tries and individual companies. Included are pages ddvoted to the timber Industry, motor companies, producers of cleansers and Insect sprays, manufacturers of glass containers, mak ers of perfumes, cosmetics and hair preparations and can companies. The Digest itself Is shar ing In tlic cost of its “Environment ’7l“ edu cational program because “...the processes con nected with publishing 50 trillion pages a year throughout the world contribute to the creation of pollution Ui£t would not otherwise exist," The “Environment-'7l“ project, embracing 15 to 20 pages of information copy, Is pre faced with a statement by the editor of The Environment Monthly, Mr. William Houseman,
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