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2A —THK CAROLINA TUCKS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1968 "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thoa enviow against tho workers of iniquity. r lbey ahaD aoon be eat down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." . , (Psalm 37: 1, 2, 3) At Stake in the November 5 Election The Raleigh Times of Monday, Oc tober 7, published an article on its front page by Glenn Roberts to the effect that, "The number of Negroes registered to vote in Wake County is lower now than it has been at any time in the past Ave years." Certain ly, with the large number of Negro professionals, businessmen and others over the average, educationally, found in Raleigh, the county seat of Wake, information to the ef fect that Negroes in Wake County are literally dragging their feet on the important matter of qualifying to vote in any and all elections, is decidely distressing In attempting to put its finger on the cause of the drop in Negro regis tration the Raleigh Times aticle went on to quote several sources as giving various and sundry reasons for the decline. It is our feeling, however, that whatever the cause of the de cline that the situation presents a N. C. Attorney General Runs True to Form The unfavorable ruling of the North Carolina Attorney General's Office that the City of Durham has no legal right to enact the anti-dis crimination ordinance proposed by the Black Solidarity Committee, should surpise no one. Had the all white staff of the attorney general's office ruled otherwise the shodk would probably have been too much for members of the Black Solidarity Committee, as well as numerous other Negro citizens of the state. We would recommend that every intelligent Negro citizen of Durham pay special attention to that part of the refusal in the reply of the at torney general's office, which states that the proposed ordinance would simply be redundant. In short, what the attorney general's office is say " tng ts thatthfcttf in exist '•"We-f&gfaS 'lii*statfe^iwi s offering the same objectives included in the proposed ordinance presented by the Black Solidarity Committee. There fore, to pass or enact another law prohibiting the discrimintaions which Negroes suffer is smply going over ground already covered. By the same token the federal, Durham's New Human Relations Commission At long last the Durham City Coun cil has afficially established a Human Relations Commission for the city Durham and that without a dis senting vote. From the standpoint of the Negro members selected to serve on the commission, w«? think the council is to be commended. The selection of the Negroes chosen is strong evidence that the Council had the advice of its two Negro members which once again goes to prove the importance of Negro representation in such matters. Now that the Human Relations Commission has oeen established, we trust it will lose no time in tackling the many perplexing problems now facing the people of Durham. We think among the first to be tackled should be that of the boycott. Cer tainly for the benefit of all concerned, the commission should lose no time in determining or getting at the bot tom of the reasons for the boycott which we trust will be ended before the Christmas shopping season gets into full swing. \GRJC A HAITIAN COROMANTEE OF OBSCURE \% BACKOROUM}HE ANO HIBBAND DEFEATED DIE \% ■HrnSHM NUMEROUS RAIOB OH PIAffIXnONS/HE QREW POWERFUL IT 1730 THAT / Ik MANY ENGLISH SETTLERS WENT HOME / THE 00V- \ 4l gBMMgWT SENT HUNDREDS OF OENTRAL AMERICAN MBUMAWJSSSMineMiDoeaaniWMM- • UNOBie«rtUM«LM.mOUMOUIMUMBCMI» ~-v~ gfIfMTMMHEMY WBH—MI OVIWMMINTiniWHT HNt OFF WITH A LARGE TAX FREE LANO GRAMT/ " challenge to the Negro leaders of Ral eigh to bestir themselves and see to it that instead of a decrease that the close of the registration period which begins Saturday, October 12 and ends October 26 will show a decided in crease. What applies to Raleigh and Wake County applies to every city, town, hamlet and county in the state. Never before has so much in the cause of civil rights been at stake for the Negroes of this country. The stake in the election on November 5 is so great that it demands the active interest of every Negro of intelli gence to work increasingly to arouse others of the race to rally to to the cause. Again, we call on our ministers, teachers, businessmen and others to button hole, collar and otherwise in sist that every Negro man and wom an register and vote on November 5. state and county governmnts have a right to reason that any law they pass, prohibiting such crimes as mur der, thievery, lying, adultery or any other of the Ten Commandments is redundant. We think, however, that in spite of the redundancy or what not, no state, county or city would risk the failure of enacting laws against such offenses. It might not be out of place here ana -low to advise those in positions of power in state offices, as well as those in similar offices of counties and cities, that only in rare instances is there to be found in this day a city or county in which there is not to be found at least one Negro or even several Negroes who are un aware of the trickery generally used in evading the requests and pleas of Negroes for their deserved rights in all affairs of this country. So the ruling of the N. C. attorney gene ral's office in declaring the proposed anti-discrimination ordinance redun dnatruns true to form and is, there fore, in keeping with the traditional custom of the southern states that only white is right. If the Human Relations Commis sion has the full support of the City Council and the citizenry of Dur ham, as a whole, we are satisfied it will be able to find a satisfactory solu tion to many of the problems now facing the city. Such support should and will only come from Negro citi zens when they have been assured that they will share equally in the taxes they pay for the establishment and maintenance of such. A second problem that should be tackled by the Human Relation Com mission is that of the Hospital Bond Issue. As badly as 'the proposed hos >ital is needed in Durham it is stupid to expect Negro voters to have any enthusiastic feeling for supporting the bond issue until they are assured of absolute equal treatment of per sonnel and patients. Certainly no in telligent white citizen if placed in a similar position would want to vote fo£ such a facility without being as surqd of the full and equal benefit to b# derived therefrom. When Is Protest...Dissent Or A Mot? v Mtuw? \i IB WHITNEY M YOUNG Fear Is Big Issue rIS BECOMING very clear that the war in Vietnam isn't the top campaign issue. Neither is crime, law and order, or inflation. I think that the dominant issue in this election campaign is one that some candidates cater to, but none mentions out loud—fear. We would have to go back a good many year* to find an electorate as frightened an insecure as the present one. Back in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told a fright ened nation: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Those words bear repeating today. What people are afraid of, course, is social change. The world is getting increasingly complex; people find it hard to understand the new attitudes of their children, oe the new assertiveness of black citizens who were silent sufferers for too long. We have to understand too, that much of the insecurity that haunts so many otherwise well-off middle class people is due to their newly won status. Their Parents Were On Relief Barely a generation ago, the parents of today's affluent middle classes were standing on unemployment lines or were employed in relief projects like WPA, PWA and others during the Depression And many who get so worked up because of welfare grants to black mothers conveniently forget that the welfare checks their own mothers got thirty years ago kept them alive and enabled them to to to school. It took the war and economic boom times since then to put most Americans into the middle class. The government tore down black slums to make way for expressways that rushed white people out of the central cities, and the gov ernment lent them money and insured their mortgages so they could create a suburban dream world into which black people could not move regardless of their income, culture or education. Some of these same people are now screaming about government spending on poverty, but they didn't turn down the handouts that helped put them into the middle class, and they aren't returning any of the money they are still getting from government sources. Their beef isn't really about government spending, but government spending on today's poor and on measures to help Negroes and other minorities reach the same middle claw status they've just attained. Feeling Secure —And Superior And that's the fear that Is gripping so many people today. So long ■■ blacks are confined to ghetto*, rendered powerless and dependent, many people leel secure and even superior. But once they see a black family moving Into a neigh borhood; a blrck child at school with their kids; a black supervisor on the job, they feel their status is threatened. It's an Irratiional fear, even a hysterical reaction, but It exists and some candidates for office are shrewdly appeal ing to it. Law and order and crime In the streets become the great code phrases that gather the insecure around safe issues. Few talk about justice, without which there can be no law and order. Crowds cheer when George Wallace talks about running over demonstrators in his car, or letting the police loose on anyone not of the approved color or'political opinions. Some of the statements I've heard in recent weeks smack «K a kind of neo-fascism that represents a sick element in our political life. It's time our political leaders stopped catering to the fearful and the apprehensive, and started to appeal to the best in our life the decent, generous people of good will who will understand that changing the social and economic system that oppresses a tenth of the population will benefit all Americans. Says Jail Is Best For Criminals GABY , Mayor Richard O. Hatcher believes that more prison terms Utd less proba tion would help reduce Gary'* rising crime rate. • "We are dealing with a num ber oi repeat offenders and I doot think the police ought to have to deal with a per eon Cbi Carolina ©ius fjzr&jzUet iflfiQl TiMtihsd «««r| f Uatwrrfag mt Durham, N. C. )y> Ff-U.J ■ t». « __ f Dy I'nwo ruoitmsri, inc. L. E. AUSTIN, PubUthtf SAMUEL L. BRICCS JEdMor J. ELWOOD CARTER Adewttta* llisgsr Second Class Postage Paid at Dirim, N. G 27708 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 18.00 per ymr plot (18c tax in N. C) awywhsie in the Ui, and Canada and to scrvtosmen Ovanaaa; Foreign, I7JSO par year, Single oopjr SOc. FMMCBPAL Ovrns Loam AT 430 E Paiim—w ftnar, DOHUJC, Nona CaaosatA 27708 *MUST HAV/ LAW AND NEWS MEMA ir9& • - 'm£S? II _— [r / over and over again," said May or Hatcher, who did not see ad ditional policemen as the ana war to the crime probtan. Calling tor more punishment in felony eases, Hatcher noted that Gary's crime rata daring the first six months of IM6 waa 60 per cent higher Your.Tax Questions Answered This column of questions and answers on Federal tax spatters la provided by the local office of the U. S. 10-i ternal Revenue Service and . is published as a public aervice to taxpayers. The column answers questions most frequently, asked by taxpayers. " Question: Should I keep my paycheck stubs for tax purposes? I just started a full time job aj)d will be fil ing my first tax return next yietar Answer: While these stubs nyiy be helpful, the W-J, „ Wage and Tax Statement, you receive from your em ' ployer at the end of. the year contains the wage data needed for tax purposes. It ■ shows your total earnings and the Federal income and social security taxes with held. A copy of the W-2 should be filed with your tax return. However, many paycheck stubs ahow the amounts withheld for items such as medical insurance and union dues. If yon itemize deduc tions when you file your 1968 return, these totals should be helpful to you. IT'S A GOOD practice to keep records of all expenses that »re deductible for Fed eral income tax purposes. Put yoUr. receipts and can. celled checks for charitable contributions, medical ex penses, and interest ex penses in a special envelope, cigar box or file folder. Most people starting their first job find it to their ad vantage to take the standard deduction rather than ite mizing. But unless you have kept records of your deduct ible expenses you will not be in a position to itemise if that happens to result in a lowtr tax for you. QassfiM: My SOB earfted over |6OO this summer work ing «» a construction crew. He's now back at college and has a part-time job • there. Will the money he ®akM cost ma my depend ency deduction for him? Answer: Not necessarily. If he is under It at the end * the year or a full-time student, he may earn S6OO or more and you may still claim the exemption if he otherwise qualifies as your dependent. K any tax has been with held from his wages he must file • return to obtain a re fund. In any event, he must file a return when his gross income is 1600 or more. In filing such a return he also clakne his own rptifm even though you claimed him u a dependent. Oa«*t»«ai I just got a di vorce from my wife. Will I have ta make any change in my tax withholding? If you have been claiming a withholding ex emption tor your wife, fito Certificate, with your em ployer dropping that e» emptlan. Since you an di vorced you art no longer titled to claim bar ex emption. ; & r°u h«v« ehildren and are claiming their exemp. tton you should drop tinw, too, unless you will be able dafcn'Hwm to ttafc/aoni than it was daring the firsf&Uf of 1967. What You've Got Coming From Social S By Robert M. Ball SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES TO MEET NEEDS Hie social security law, one of the most amended laws on the books, has changed fre quently In Its 33-year history to meet the demands of a dynamic economy and the changing needs of the Ameri cas society. The changes In the law have reflected economic factors such as the Increased number of women in the work force: the rising cost of living; snd of heslth care. But probably the most Important change has been a shift In the sttitude of the American public Itself - the acceptance of the social In surance or social security as the basic imethdd of providing a continuing income for the family when the breadwinner retires, becomes disabled, or dies. For the generation now be ginning to assume its place as adults in the working world, the changes may not seem so dramatic. Social security to day is as much taken for grant ed as the public school system, and only those who can recall the period of the depreasion during which the program was given birth can remember a society without social security. From what was solely a re tirement program for persons In Industry and commerce, the social security program has grown until today it includes protection for the survivors odi deceased workers, protection for the disabled worker and his dependents, and health In surance for the aged. It has be come a basic program of finan cial security and income main tenance y for people in just about all occupations. More than 24 million per This Week In Negro History One hundred and fifty-nine year, ago (180S» on Tues day at this week the foun der of the firat YMCA for Negroes in Washington, D. C. wag born. !H)e was An thony Bo wen who died in 1871. Other events this week of apacial historical interest are as follows: OCT. 7 - William Still (1821-1902), author of the underground Railroad, born. Juan Latino, Spanish Ne gro poet, in 1571 wuote Latin poem in celebration of the Battle of Lobanto. OCT. 9 Ethiopia, the Adest independent nation in Africa, became the 30th member of the United Na tions under the leadership of Emperor Haile Selassie. Qiarlee Bissette, noted N«gro French author, was given his freedom and a lump sum for his confiscated property in 1830. OCT. 10 The U. S. Su preme Court ordered the University of Alabama in 1955 to admit Autherine Lucy and Polly Myers who had been denied entrance to the university in 1952 be cause of race. Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943), pianist-compos er, bora. He served on the staff at Hampton Institute for sevieral years. Robert Gould Shaw (1837- 1863), colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Re g i ment, born. This was the first Ne fro regiment sent from the free states. OCT. 11—Antoine Blanc founded the first Negro Catholic Sisterhood in the United States in 1792. OCT. 12 Baritone Law rence Winters in 1932 be came tile first Negro to sing a white role with a major opera company in his ap pearance in "Rigoletto." U - An act of the Confederate Congress in 1882 provided that Negroes tak •n in arms who could bo Identified as slaves should be returned to their owners. Skirting The Issue *ln Church ONTARIO, Calif? A Roman Catholic print haa banned the wearing at miniakirta in church but he admit* hi* campaign ian't meeting with much aucceaa. ions am currently receiving monthly (octal security bene fit*. The figure Includes tome 18 million people 66 and over, about 2.2 million ypung work en and their dependents who are disabled, and about 3.4 million persons - widows and children of deceased workers - receiving survivors benefits. TTiese figures point up one of the common misconceptions about social security. A surpris ing number of people still think of social security as pri marily a retirement program, although benefits for depen dents and survivor* have been payable since January 1940, and for disabled people since 1957. Some 87 percent of the persons between 25 and 65 are protected under the social se curity disability program. And 95 percent of all mothers and children have survivors protec tion against the death of the husband and father. Almost one-third of social security contributions go toward this protection against illneas, in jury, or death during years when the worker's family is growing up. Practically every type of work Is covered under social security - from the migrant fruitplcker to the domestic worker, from the garbage col lector to the top executive in the largest corporation. I will be discussing many different aspects of the social security program in ftiture columns - the various types of benefits and how to apply for them, how social security works, what you need to know to make the most of your social security protection* and how your social aecurity office can help you. Southern U r s Prexy Tenure Of Office Ends I BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana's State Board of Eduoation accepted the retire ment last Thursday of Felton G. Clark as president of Southern University and named G. Leon Netterville acting president and president elect. The board retired Dr. dark, effective Oct. 14, but granted him a leave of absence to June 30, 1969, the end of the 1968-89 fiscal year. DR. NETTERVILLE, an early student of Dr. Clark, was named to take over as acting president Oct. 14 and to become president July 1, 1969. Dr. Clark, retired under board policy requiring man datory retirement of top ad ministrators at the age of 65, i W MI b® permitted to occupy the president's home on the Southern University campus here until Jan. 1, 1969. Dr. Clark beoame president of Southern in 1938, succeeding his father, the late Joseph S. Clark, who founded Southern University i n 1914. DR. NETTERVILLE wa, vice president of Southern in Charge of business affairs, prior to his appointment as acting president and president. The board voted to draft a resolution and Incorporate it into the minute# of the special meeting commemorating the service of Dr. Clark to South, ern and to education in Louisi* ■ ana. STATSMBNT Of OWNIR SHIP Statement Required By The Act of August 24, 1912 as rr Y£'J ed , b , y the AcU of March ii «?• IMfl " nd Jun * 11. 1960 (74 SU. 208) Showing the Ownership, Management ot CARO- J TIMES* published weekly at Durham, N. C. for October Publisher, L. E. Austin, Po. 0 J3825, Durham, N. C. Editor, L E. Austin P O Box 3825, Durham, N c The owner is: United Pub lishers, Inc., L. E. Austin, P. O. Box 3825, Durham, N. t. 1 The known bondholders, mortgagees are N. C. Mutual Ufe Insurance Co., Durham. N. C„ Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham,-N.C. The average number of cop ies of each Issue of this pub lication sold or distributed through the mails or other wise, to paid subscribers dur ing the put 12 months prece *hown abov * wu I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete. L. E. Austin, Publisher
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