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THE CABOUNIAN RALEIGH N.C,. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1973 BIBLE THOUGHT OF THE WEEK The parents of Jesus when they missed him in Jerusalem went about looking for him. “How is it that ye sought me?” He asked. "Wist ye not that I must be about My Father s business?" His father owned a prosperous carpenter shop in Nazareth and that was the place they thought Jesus should have. But the parents didn’t understand what was meant by "Mv father's business” She and Joseph turned and started out. and Jesus followed them -• away from the temple and the city back to the little Nazareth. ONLY IN AMERICA EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT Lyndon Baines Johnson-A President A black construction worker stood quietly, holding his hardhat almost in . military salute, as he watched the ^neral .■ procession move towards the Capitol. ; A few hours later, a black Congressman, • from Harlem, said: "1 admired that man , as much as it is possible for me to admire : any white mail." ■' It was the day that the nation's capital city said goodbye to the man whom Roy Wilkins said; "He did more to advance the cause of black America than any President since Abraham Lincoln.” It was a day to forget the plastic quality of the just-concluded inauguration of an administration that seemed not to care, as they danced, that the poor grow poorer and the young lose hope and the old are forsaken. ft was a time to rejoice-even m .. jW"that a man of the stature of Lyndon Baines Johnson had once been President of these United States. When Lyndon Johnson had power, he used it, mightily. Even as the nation mourned the murder of John F. Kennedy, President Johnson proclaimed that the first order of business was the passage of civil rights legislation. And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law. When black Americans in the South were being beaten, and gassed, and shot, because they wanted to vote. President Johnson called a joint session of the House and the Senate, and said in a voice not to be ignored; "We Shall Overcome." And the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law. When black anguish at the murder of Martin Luther King exploded into For All The People violence, Lyndon Johnson understood and said, again, to the nation, this time more desperately: "We Shall, We Must Oyercome." And later, when the power had passed and his health was almost gone, Lyndon Johnson persevered. He called together the men and women, black and white, who had been with him in the fight for a free America. Once more they would "reason together” to see how they could stem the retreat from the dreams they all had shared. No one who was at that Austin meeting, just a month ago, will ever forget the sight of that giant, ailing, aging, but determined man of Texas, as he ignored his doctors, took his heart pills, and spoke eloquently of his fear and hopes. No one who was there will ever forget those last words of Lyndon Johnson, spoken softly, in a southern drawl, a last urgent appeal to a nation that seems to have forgotten: "To be black to one who is black ■■ is to be proud, to be worthy, to be honorable. But to be black, in a white society, is not to stand on level ground. "While the races may stand side by side, whites stand on history’s mountain and blacks stand in history's hollow. "Unless we overcome unequal history, we cannot overcome unequal opportunity. That is not nor will it ever be •• an easy goal to achieve.” Let those words serve, for black America, as the epitaph for Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, the 36th president of the United States, the first southern president since Reconstruction, a man who understood -- and cared. We have lost a friend. May This Order Expand : Federal Judge A. Leon Higginbotham : has put a stop to policement in i Philadelphia hauling people off willy nilly I in dragnet style to question them. This • order has been postponed too often over ' the United States, and we compliment the ; act of the judge in favor of personal rights. 1; Not only did he put pressure behind the {law, which basically requires police to shave probable cause to believe a person's Activity in unlawful, but he required that jeards be printed and supplied officers so there could be no excuse. More than this, the judge ordered that people be pucked up at decent hours, that they be treated courteously and that they be properly advised of their rights to end questioning at any time. These orders wiU protect the rights of citizens and improve police-community relations without curbing the ability of officers to perform their duties to the people. You Must Investigate Alaska Job Offers The Alaska job lure has prompted the Wall Street Journal to issue this warning: "If you’re approached by someone promising for a small fee, high-paying jobs in Alaska for construction engineers, heavy equipment operators and truck drivers, beware.” Alaska officials warn that fictitious construction jobs on the proposed Trans-Alaska oil pipeline are being offered in many parts of the United States. Often they have, for a placement fee, offered in many parts of the United States. Often they have Alaska officials warn that fictitious construction jobs on the proposed Trans-Alaska oil pipeline are being offered in many parts of the United States. Often they have, for a placement fee, offered in ads job guarantee and promised travel reimbursement once the job prospect reported to the pipelines in Alaska. In reality, construction work won’t be done on the pipeline this year. Alaska’s job market, in general, is very limited at present. Twelve Students Interrupt Classes At Troubled Southern University The administration of Southern University has experienced minor harrassment when twelve students attempted to interrupt the resumption of classes at the Baton Rouge campus. It was reported that Southern University’s twelve students were involved in the harrassment act of pressuring to talk with the president. They were asked to leave; and since they would not leave, it led to the arrest of the New Orleans student body president and another student. The two arrested students were released when they agreed to leave the campus. But when it was thought they left, they seemingly had influenced local campus students to break into two classrooms. BY HARRY GOLDEN THE WELFARE MYTHS When I was a boy I heard the myth about every beggar woman that "she's a big landlord with many houses." Every beggar was a hidden millionaire. The same myths pervade the welfare system of our times. The hard hats cry "Let them go to work like me." One of the most unjust of all the myths is that work is the cure-all of every welfare crisis. The truth is that only 8 percent of the national caseload are required by law to seek employment. Another percentage are the aged and the blind or otherwise incapacitated. But the large majority are children and their mothers who care for them. The mothers express indignation over the movement to enforce them to leave their children for outside work, pointing out that they are already working hard at cooking, cleaning, washing and taking care of their children. Most are uneducated and. even if they could find employment, most of their salaries would not even pay for child care. Recently a judge in Charlotte sentenced eight welfare mo thers to jail for not reporting their income while receiving welfare checks These cooks and cleaning women were getting three dollars a day, the income which was not reported, and the money was used to take rare of their rhildren The state welfare commis sioner assigns first priority to a statewide crackdown on wel fare "cheaters ’ The welfare commissioner is responding to the myths about color TV sets and "welfare Cadillacs." As the welfare mothers who were hauled into ' court a few days ago said, these working welfare recipients are so meager they keep their children in shoes. Billions of dollars have been drawn off poverty program funds by firms and profession als hired to "help" the poor. Many companies received huge payments from the government to pay to train the poor for labor, but they do no training. In one case the government paid a company $3 million for a 30-week training course and the workers received 20 minutes of training. Welfare systems and poverty programs draw off millions of dollars for administration and operating expenses, leaving only meager amounts to reach the poor, who get very little help from the money the government sets aside for them. The only adequate answer is to abolish the welfare and poverty programs. They should be replaced by an adequate guaranteed income that would get money direct to the needy and the guaranteed income should be enough to keep body and soul together for the recipient and their children. What the students fail to realize was that the Board of Regents of Louisiana has policies whereby students can be permitted to have conferences with administrative officials. The breaking into classes was highly improper, especially when previous emergency conditions developed on the campus closed the schools. Grievances cannot be solved within an atmosphere of dissention. It has been reported that some leaders want to create an atmosphere that will keep the school closed until grievances are met. But supposed grievances are not met? We don’t know what the grievances are, I but they can be solved. And tearing up property won't solve them. That $4,000 Gap Hurts The earnings of Negroes are not as good as we would like them to be, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median income for black families remaines almost $4,000 behind that for whites. If the federal cutbacks, which Nixon is pledged to make on various programs aimed at training and helping poor people to continue, things are going to get even worse. And when the Vietnam veterans return home, things will be tough. The Nixon cutbacks will hurt the present poverty programs "nd school system, and A DARK POINT OF VIEW BY "BILL" MOSES "VIEW FROM A HOSPITAL BED" I have just been discharged from a hospital, after a week's stay for minor surgery on my right hand to straighten out a nerve blockage which had been Ixithersome for some months. The successful operation was performed on the morning following my entry; and I was kept around to undergo some further testa which my doctor deemed convenient with my presence there. Not being in any particular pain after the first day or two. I resigned myself to my confinement. There was a TV set present, along with reading material which I had brought with me, and morning and evening daily papers were available So, I kept up with the world, without the minutia of interruptions of normal daily living at home. I was struck by the organized efficiency of a modern hospital: the clock like precision of the medical, nursing and service staffs; the excellent meals, trom a previous choice of menus, which appeared almost on the minute: the intermitent blood pressure and temperature checks through the day and evening; the prompt appear ance of any medication which your doctor may have ordered; the courteous, kind and polite attention of the nurses and other attendants; the quiet which prevailed, even as I knew there were patients along the corridor who were suffering deep pain and misery. You exchanging conversation between yourself and a nurse at the nursing station through the inter-com munication system. The easy flow of interchange between the black and white nurses themselves, and their black and white patients was pleasant to see, as your memory drifted back to earlier scenes of hospitalization where strict segregation between the ‘races’ was required by law and custom in Virginia. For the moment it made the raw facts of life outside the hospital seem distant and unimportant-the turmoil, the confrontations, the senseless shootings, roberies and murders, the war and shakey attempts at a ‘Cease Fire’-all of these things seemed in strange contrast with the quiet certainty of life in the hospital's atmosphere. He Led The Nation On A New Plateau Of Humanity SOHEAREBORN GREAT, 90Me achieve CREATNESS/SOHE HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON THEM. smESPEARE J ^ TIME OF JUSTICE HA$ ROW COME, NO FORCE CAN HOLD IT RACK. ITISRISHT IN THE EYES OF MAH ARP GOP-THAT IT SHOULD COME. ARP WHEN IT POES, THAT PAY WILL BRIGHTEN THE LIVES OF EVERYAMERICANf THERE ISRONEGROPROPim THERE IS RO SOUTHERN PROBLEMMRORTHEfW PROBLEM, THERE IS ONLY AN AMERICAN PROBLEM." THEHISTORKAL SPEBCH OF MARCH IS, W6S What Other Editors Say HERE COME DE LANDLORD Now that the Nixon Adminis tration has moved into Fhase 3 of its economic programs we can perhaps obtain some semblance of wage and salary increases more in line with the higher living costs we face in our day to day lives. Hopefully any wage and salary incre ments would surpass the ever spiralling cost of living, if we’re lucky. Before anyone could realize a wage or salary adjustment, some greedy landlords were knocking on doors announcing immediate rent hikes. As always, minorities, the sick and the aged, the poor and the ill-housed are the first to suffer. We might agree that some small rental increases could be justified in order to offset some higher maintenance costs, the price which, like everything else, is constantly rising. But, along with any increase land lords are expected to provide necessary repairs to make or maintain their properties habit able. Too often do we see rent hikes but no maintenance P erformed on the multitude of uildings in which so many of our people are crowded. Judging from past perform ance, however, slum landlords will, most likely, let the simple economic law of supply and demand take hold and rents will go up with maintenance stand ards remaining the same (poor) of falling tp even lower levels. In an area that has a backlog of 14,000 families with over 50,000 people awaiting public housing, what else use can possibly occur? In view of these facts, now more than ever, is the time for strict code enforcement by appropriate County agencies. Positive action by County officials could at least serve to have some of our poor and ill-housed citizens living in adequate humanly habitable dwellings. It would also serve the needs of many citizens if the County government would consider the estabiishment of a watchdog committee or even commission the formation of a full-fledged agency charged with the protection of tenant rights. Such Here, in the hospital 1 realized an agency could operate with how completely interwoven the clout many of our citizen were the lives of black and white Americans. Here, in spite of the high visiability of black Americans and the prevelent RAYS OF HOPE The Great American Dream of a college education automatically followed by a prestigious, weil-paying career for the graduate is history now . No longer does a sheepskin on the wall guarantee a higher status, economic security and greater personai satisfaction. In the past, when college was only for the wealthy or very ambitious, a degree was a magic key to the door of success. But times have changed, for on the heels of World War II came a flood of G.l.’s returning to school, a skyrocketing birthrate, more minority groups seeking a better education and an affluent society that could afford to send millions on to college - all of which resulted in a subsequent lowering of entrance standards and bloated enrollments. Thus, the specter of joblessness has arisen to haunt today’s college graduates, many of whom cannot fi. . employment in the fields for which they were trained and must take jobs at what they consider to be lower levels of prestige and pay than they had expected. The question is, how serious is the problem and how do we solve it. At the darkest end of the scale, some predict a generation of embittered youths who have invested four years of time and money in a college degree, only to find they possess skills for a job that does not exist. True, there are many of these situations, as witness the unemployed teachers, mathematicians, aeronautical en gineers and others. But moat young people should be adaptable enough to aim their skills in some other related direction instead of sitting around in disillusionment indefinitely, waiting for exactly the right niche to appear. Still, an initial period of frustration is to be expected when the job market is glutted with college alumni. The present unemployment rate among recent college graduates is close to 8 percent compared to 5,6 percent for the nation’s entire labor force, according to a Business Week magazine article entitled. “The job gap for college graduates in the '70s." But the joblera rate among noncollege educated young people is running close to 15 percent. The matter is pul into persepetive in the Business Week article with the observation that, “The pay is higher and job security better for the college graduate who can finta work, and it will still take a degree to get to the very top in the future. But no longer is a coilege degree a guarantee of employment." Change is the answer to this dilemma. First of alt, society must stop overselling a college education. Our economy can't absorb unlimited miilions of college graduates in the white coliar work force. The concept that blue collar work is honorable has been underplayed, and says one labor leader, ".. .A lot of young people would be much happier learning a skill, using their manual dexterity, than going to college." Secondly, coordinated , planning by education and business to try matching the flo\.- of graduates with what the economy can use is desperately needed. Business Week reports that, "Some of the more grandiose expansion plans of colleges and universities will be abandoned, and courses in some of the most overpopulated fields will be drooped. There will be far more stress on job ret.aining and on vocational, as opposed to academic, education, with more and more corporations getting into the business of training people for a fee. The educational system of the future - academic and vocational - may be designed to turn out fewer specialists and more generalists: young people able and willing to shift among a number of different professions." College graduates still have a future! But we are in the midst of change. Broad shifts in attitude toward the role of higher education and its content are underway. Greater flexibility of educational facilities, as well as the work force, will be essential. There is an everbroadening range of honorable and effective educational directions that can be taken which may not terminate in a college degree. This is a healthy and necessary development as the nation seeks to make education beyond high school available to all who want it. ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS tenant organizations aspire to wield but, for obvious reasons, are unable to attain. In order to provide adequate PRIMER OF WORLD TRAVEL The jet age of commercial aviation was ushered in only a decade ago. The 60()-mile sp^ of the big jets in terms of travel time quickly shrank the world by half. The air age is only beginniiig and already a trip to any country in the world can be measured in a matter of hours, and the experience of foreign travel has been brought within the time and financial budget of millions of people. The impact of the jet airliner in building personal contact between the nations is illustrated by the fact that for the first time in its 41-year history Pan American World Airways alone carried over one million passengers on its oversees routes during the month of August, 1968. Many of these travelers found themselves visiting lands about which they knew little more than they would about the surface of the moon. As an aid to neophyte world travelers. Pan Am has published a revised edition of its book, “All You Need to Know About Living Abroad." It provides detailed information and expert advice on living in 93 countries, each with its own way of doing things. There is information on entry regulations, clothing, conditions for children, medical care, servants, social life and tips on how to'survive comfortably regardless of climate, altitude or total lack of supermarkets. You can learn how to use a telephone directory in Denmark, and ^at in (Ihile you should keep a bowl of pesos near the door because the mailman is tipped everytime he brings a letter. The book is a mine of information and a travelogue in itself. It gives an idea of how much most of us have to learn of the world and of other peoples, and, of what an airline can do to help create a better understanding between nations. BOAT ROCKERS BEWARE Academic freedom, the right to dissent and to express new ideas are very holy things around the ivied halls, and so they should be in this country. Some of the new revolutionaries and their followers should give a thought to the fact that if they ever win ther revolution, they . will probably be among the first victims of it. > trainees will be out of work. But we must not lay the blame for unemployment on federal program cuts. The technology of industry is the biggest factor causing unemployment. Now that our war debt will be reduced, it is hoped that our president will delay federal program cuts. The $4,000 gap is a figure that indiciates where domestic priorities might well 'be directed. Conservatives and liberals alike should be able to see the need for improvement in reducing unemployment in this country. 10,000 MORE CAROUNIAN SUBSCRIBERS WANTED MOW! discussions of the 'Black tenant protection it would be “ ' • ....l:.- ^,p|| responsible organiza tions to launch a wide-scale tenant education program on a block-to-block basis which could encompass a short course in tenant rights and direct those who have suffered abuses to the appropriate agencies to obtain relief. It is regrettable that under Florida law tenants have no legal means to force a landlord to undertake needed repairs. In some cases tenant organized rent strikes have proven successful. The inherent danger with rent strikes is the continuing threat of eviction for non-payment of rent. It would be well if tenant education programs would pro vide special guidance in the area of rental leases and the protection these would afford tenants. It is unfortunate indeed that so many tenants are unfamiliar with the lease instrument and, even where they exist, often allow rent increases or accept sc. dee decreases without question. Here. too. tenant organizations Experience' and the ‘White Experience', here, in the quiet efficiency of the hospital was a minuscule example of what life may be like between black and white Americans in some distant future TBE CAROUNIAN “Coverlnf The CaroUnas" Publibhed Weekly by The Carolinian Publishing Co. SIS E. Martn Street Balelgh, North Carolina 27601 MalUng Address P. O. Box 25747 Balelgh, North Carolina 27bll Second Clast Postage Paid at Balelgh. North Carolina 27611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months M-OO Sales Tax .16 TOTAL 4«16 One Year 6.50 Sales Tax .26 TOTAL 6.76 Payable in advance. Addreu all conununlratlons and make all checks and money orders pay^ able to The CAROLINAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., S16 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 16:t7, National Advertising Representative. Member of the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher Is not responsl* ble for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy uaiesi necessary postage ac companies the copy. Opinions expressed by colum nists in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. can fill a tremendous void. Until such time as state law swings to allow tenants some legal protection from unfair landlords, or there are some landlords who capitulate under pressure to provide dwelling units which at least meet minimum housing standards, it is incumbent upon local officials to provide the leadership necessary to effect a housing situation which meets mini mum human needs at some what reasonable prices. -THE MIAMI TIMES STOP USING INMATES AS GUINEA PIGS The state of our criminal justice system is well known. Hardly a day passes that a new indictment does not cite it for what is the continuing failure of our penal institutions to re habilitate those thrust into them. Few states, if any, can boast of model penal institutions. Florida certainly has none of which it can be proud. Conditions at Raiford Prison and other institutions around the state are well known and. despite calls for reforms, are not improved. Reports in the news that our prison inmates participate ex tensively in the testinf of purely experimental drugs for future human use serves only as a further indictment of the attitude existing in our state penal institutions. Prisoners are induced to be human guinea pigs with the offer of a mere pittance with which to buy candy and cigarettes, while prison officials reap small fortunes from the various drug companies con ducting the experiments. With the vast majority of our prison population black and the recalcitrant racist attitudes frequently exhibited by some penal officials, we see exactly why human exploitation of inmates is allowed to exist. The use of prisoners as human guinea pigs by large drug companies to zletermme what effects, if any, a particular drug might have on humans is a practice which must be stopped at all costs. It is disconcerting to say the least that some state officials have realized financial benefits totalling thousands of dollars annually for recruiting and allowing inmates to be used. We can be sure that these officials were not in the least concerned with scientific advance, but only the financial gain. The immoral practice which is surely the lowest form of human exploitation must be stopped. Concerned citizens should take immediate action and demand state government's cooperation in punishing those officials responsible for allow ing such experiments and calling for their immediate cessation. A massive letter writing campaign to Governor Askew and our respective state legisla tors deploring the honible practice would surely point to our concern and lead responsi ble officials to act. A government can only be responsive to its citizens when voices are raised loudly and clearly to faring out the conditions requiring immediate positive action. own'MIAMI TIMES..
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