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2A -HHI CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1«T1 A Political Frameup in the Making Hie remarks made by Angela Davis, now being held under a kid napping, murder and conspiracy charge in Marin County, California last August to the extent that she is a victim of a political frameup, strike a truthful ring in the heart of this newspaper that we cannot let go unanswered. Cbrtainly we are as anxious as any law abiding citizens of this coun try to see the person responsible for the shooting done in the Marin County courthouse last August A Fine Example for Others The election of a black citizen to the Board of Directors of General Motors, last Monday, comes at a time in the history of this country when it is compelled to bring a breath of relief to all of those who have be come discouraged at the unsetded state of affairs, generally considered as proper by a majority of American citizens. The election of Dr. Leon Sullivan, pastor of Zion Baptist, Church, in Philadelphia, to the Gene ral Motors Corporation board, is in reality a shot-in-the-arm for the thousands of blacks who have be come discouraged because of the. usual objections raised when the name of a black person is mentioned Miles Mark Fisher WILIS MARK FISHER, D.D., 7, • prominent minister and educa tor who died recently at 71 at his bine in Richmond, was a student of the Negro church and for years was •"guceeasful Baptist pastor. He at tracted public attentiqn while he Wfi professor of Negro church his terj at 'Virginia Union University in Richmond. DA Ftnxa Wtf T*>m in Atlanta •Ad was a graduate of Morehouse Cfllfge, receiving his college degree im 1911. He later earned his mas ter's end doctor's degrees at the Uni versity of Chicago. He held several pjfctorates, but was best known wj&e serving at White Rock Bap tiftl Church in Durham, N. C. He retired at White Rock in 1964. Most of his educational work was dene in the field of religion. DR. Floras mixed his presching with philosophical interpre tati on. He qpjnt much ef his time during his eefly years teaching. He served mere 30 years on the faculty ef Shaw's University School of Re-' ligton in Raleigh, N. C. ~—* —— SS. • sisg^agss'ssin. PORTUGAL* G«IATEST RO6T. CAMOCNS, AUTHOR OF THE uwsapbs mas very poop, joao «0 HiM AND OTHCRWISe SUPPWT » HIM WHILE MB WAS WRfTIMG : MS VBfcr famous work. brought to justice. In the meantime, we do not intend to stand by and see one lone black woman made the goat of such a heinous crime without crying out against such a dirty deed, or as she puts it, such a "political frameup." It is our hope that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and other organiza tions of national influence, will get behind the defense of Miss Davis and see that she gets a fair trial. for such posts. While Dr. Sullivan may not have all of the experience that would otherwise qualify him for member ship on such a board, it is certain that his experience as a leader in the training of others in business has pre pared him for worthwhile member ship on the board of such a corpora tion. The example set by General Motors is one that we trust other leading business corporations will fol low. It is certain that such action will go a long way in determining the welfare of all citizens of this country as well as blacks. Da. FISHXR was the author of sev eral books, including "Negro Slave Sepgs in the United States," "Vir gil* Union University and Some Achievements," and "A Short HJftocy of the Baptist Denomina tion." He was an authority on Ne gro songs and their background. The message of DR. FISHER'S writings about Negro songs was that black Americans contributed richly to the music of the nation and that the authors of the sorrow songs and jubilee music made musical contri butions to America which were orig inal —in fact the most original music in the nation. DR. FISHER popularized the sor row songs and the work-a-day music of black Americans. He was espe cially interested in the religious mood of the x slaves and the dramatic sermons of the early black preach ers. • He understood the religious impulse of black America, and on occasion delivered interesting ser mons on Negro music. JOURNAL AND GUIDE Must Have Better Coordi SON- Wf-SS 1970 WA Jf \ FOR US. IT'S UP TO YOU TO I "J* 'V MAKE l?7l BETTER! Comments from the Capitol } TRENCHANT TRUTHS AND TRIVIA IvKggv. by Vant Neff Hospitality heave-ho: It has be come the "in" thing for "on-the outs" individuals to flee the coun try and seek refuge in other places. But the "host" nations have become quickly disillu sioned. Some are giving the rab ble-rousers short notice to leave. To wit: • Drug cult high priest, former Harvard prof and escaped convict, Timothy Leary, was only permitted a brief stay in Lebanon. He returned to Algeria. Informants report that the authorities there would snatch at any excuse to deport him. • The Australians refused a visitor's visa to left-wing Black American comedian, Dick Gregory, who is voci ferously and vitriolically anti-Vietnam. Why? His visit there would have coin- t cided with an anti-Vietnam protest, and the Aussies were wise enough to stifle an incendiary situation be fore it had a chance to blaze up into a four-alarm disaster. • The British Government told American Yippie leader, Jerry Rubin, to get out fast, after he and his gang had shouted four-letter words on a TV show, and pulled other familiar radical tricks. The Irish wouldn't have him, either. No country wants known trouble-makers. With mere de portation, the culprits still got off lightly. Can you imagine what would happen to them in a Com munist country? Americans, we're far too lenient with these dedicated rabble rousers! • • • Ever wonder how organized labor can give so much financial support to political candidates— when it's strictly forbidden by law? (The federal Corrupt Prac tices Act prohibits labor unions as well as industry from making such donations.) Yet unions do it all the time! How do they get away with it? It's virtually im possible to enforce this weak law, because it doesn't prevent union leaders from squeezing the money out of the rank and file members on a "voluntary" basis, and then funneling it, through various political organizations, to the candidates of their choice. A prime example of this during the last elections is Senator Har rison A. Williams of New Jersey, who received more than SIOO,- 000 in labor backing. He won. His job? Chairman of the Senate Labor Committee! One hand washes the other. Naturally, pub lic officials who get such major contributions aren't -going to for get the guys who helped put them in office. So the next time you discover that another law has been passed which gives more power to labor leaders, to the detriment of the man-in-the street, remember that it may have been bought and paid for. This legal loop-hole is the source of union political power. Under the guia6 of "promoting peace", the Russians are duping the world. Al/he arms limitation discussions,/they demand that we cut our defense preparedness to the bone. Yet all the while aren't they themselves quietly amassing the biggest army, navy, air force and nuclear ca pability in the entire history of the world? Wiser heads than mine have credited the many railroacftrrises that have gripped our country — including the troubles of the now bankrupt Penn Central Railroad i —in part to the archaic make work rules and flagrant fealher ' bedding of the unions. Feather bedding has been anathema to ' the railroad companies ever since the diesel replaced the steam engine. Now, does an en- gine that burns no coal need a fireman to shovel the non existent coal? Hardly! Yet the firemen's United Transportation Union insisted that the firemen ride the trains just as they did before, and be paid for it. Costs went up. The railroad industry and traveling Americans suf fered. How the firemen in their own consciences ever justified this workless "work" in our pro ductive society, I'll never under stand. At long last, Washington is at tempting to pull the emergency brake on this and similar blatant misuses of union power by phas ing out the firemen's jobs as soon as they are vacated. Of course, this is the slow road to achieving the goal and meanwhile, the long suffering public continues to foot the bill for featherbedding in the form of higher passenqer fares and freight rates. However, Mr. Nixon and his emergency board deserve a vote of thanks for start ing the ball rolling. • * * Pessimistic prediction: If we can't make certain that the Com munists are not building missile and submarine bases in Cuba just 90 miles from our shores — we may soon have nothing left worth protecting. * * * May I remind both the "hawks" and the "doves" that the crux of the problem in South Vietnam is not who will rule, but rather, whom the people want to rule. The sanest definition of the situation yet, in my book, comes from American Ambassador to India, Kenneth B. Keating, who stated the ultimate condition for ending the war this way: "That the valiant, war weary people of South Vietnam be allowed to choose the kind of government, be it free or otherwise." I am sure that any objective person will agree with his premise. • • • Budget tip: That supposedly free national health insurance plan in the offing isn't "free" at all. It was dreamed up by Leon ard Woodcock, mentor of the General Motors strike that put such a serious crimp in the na tion's economy, in cahoots with Teddy Kennedy and other free- €he Carolina Cimio gssESfcasg i Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. by United! Publishers, Inc. L. £. AUSTIN, Publisher-Editor CLARENCE BONNETTE . Business Manager I MILTON BERNARD AUSTIN Circulation Manager |i J. ELWOOD CARTER ......... Advertising Manager- li Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES United States and Canada . l Year SB.OO ! United States and Canada 2 Years fII.QO Foreign Countries l Year s7.B# Single Copy ! 20 Cents Principal Office Located at 436 East Pettigrew Street, Durham, Ndrth Carolina 27702 * . I - ** ' * A spending senators. Economists assert that the plan would cost the average family SIOOO a year. Remember, it's your SIOOO they're spending the money will come out of your taxes, and mine! Maybe the top-rung com mission set up by the United States Chamber of Commerce to delve into our country's health care needs can prescribe the right medicine. But this outrage ously costly plan, as it stands now, simply isn't the best rem edy, in my mind. People would have to be really sick, or rich as Croesus, to fall for it. II you don't want to spend SIOOO a year for this compulsory health insur ance, write to your Congressman without delay and let him know how you feel about it before the "free" plan becomes just one more bitter financial pill that you're forced to swallow. Ironic twist: Isn't it the same young radicals who claim to be anti-war who are in the forefront of the anti-police vendetta, shout ing "Kill the Pigs!" at every dem onstration and protest march? -Register (Continued from front page) than 2,500 young people to Washington to lobby for the pending measure. Brown and Miss Philomena Queen, president of the Mary land State NAACP Youth Conference, testified in sup port of the legislation before the Senate Subcommittee t>n Constitutional Amendments. The youth division is com mitted to continuing its ef forts to get legislation en acted in all the states to assure the right to vote to all 18-year-olds in all elections, Brown said. --Colonel (Continued from front page) with the 479 th Tactical Fight er Wing, as Chief of the Stan dardization/Evaluation pro gram. Lieutentant Colonel Brown, a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, is working to ward a Masters degree in Aero space Operations Management with the University of South ern California. He has been se lected tor promotion to the grade of temporary colonel by the Fiscal Year 1971 Promo tion Board. Lieutenant Colonel Brown is married and has three child- -Dollars (Continued from front page) Blacks," Burrell adds. Citing the 1971 projected unemployment figure of 5.8% to 6%, Burrell notes that this traditionally means a Black unemployment rate of 11% and a Black teenager rate of nearly 22%. At a time when Blacks are pushing for white collar jobs In industry and government, whites are being kid off and normal retirees are staying on due to low re tirement benefits. "Interest rates are easing, but dollars are still scarce for Black borrowers," says Bur rell. "In addition, housing is scarce and usually priced out of range of Black families. Though the income gap has lessened in recent years, Blacks still earn less than their white counterparts." The economic squeeze has caused white construction unions to be less receptive to admitting Blacks as members. In addition, the funds for government sponsored hous ing and urban renewal projects became depleted, according to BurreD's statement. In discussing the plight of Black businessmen in the light of the vast trillion dollar GNP, Burrell cited the following problems: Increased theft due to high unemployment rates for the 16 to 30 year old age groups; Black businessmen are concen trated in the service industry, the hardest hit by inflation, making it impossible for them to maintain even a semblance of competitiveness; credit, al ready scarce to Blacks has dried up and while creditors demand cash, customer! delay payments and render internal financing difficult. According to Secretary of Commerce, Maurice Stans, the government's minority enter prise program suffered in 1970 due to the economic slump. Burrell commented that the SBA had run out of funds, OMBE never had any, and big business, caught in an econo mic squeeze amid dwindling profits, is little disposed to as sist Black business, except with rhetoric. -Epilepsy (Continued from front page) that is something he much en joys. At 5, Zachery is the young est of EFA's Poster Children. But, as his mother says, "Zachery seems much older and wiser than his five years. Often his knowledge of things and his awareness of what goes on around him surprises us." For the next twelve months Zachery's alert and ready smile will represent the essential spirit of the child with epilepsy. He will sym bolize the majority of typi cally active, intelligent, friend ly youngsters who are just like all boys and girls - except that they happen to have an occasional seizure. As in previous years, the Contest attracted en tries from all over the country. The first EFA Poster Child was 7 yew old Dawn Martin, of West Palm Beach, Florida, chosen in 1969. -Bill (Continued from front page) amendments, one prohibiting the use of any of the funds for the busing of children and one permitting tests of pupils to determine if they shall be entered in desegre gated schools. The National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People is opposed to both these amend ments and, accordingly, can not support the bill of which they are a part. The whole desegregation policy and the Court orders theron would be nullified by the prohibi tion against busing in cases where that is the only me thod through which desegre gation can be achieved. To allow local authorities to give teste before according pupils the right to education in an unsegregated school system would be to sacrifice the future of little black children to a political maneuver de- stoed to return'public edu— - cation to the statu* of the period before 1954. Pleaae advise senators and congreas men of our stand. - -Hanoi (Continued from front page) iy identify all allow 'prisoner camp inspection by teams from the' all-swiso In ternational Committee of the Red Cross, and the release of the seriously sick and wounded. There has been a notice able change in the North Viet namese stand on the prisoner issue since the letter-writing campaign got under way. The number of U. S. prisoners identified by North Vietnam more than tripled, there has been an increase in the numb er of captives allowed to com municate with their families, and identified prisoners now are allowed to receive com fort parcels every other month. -Emmanuel (Continued from front page) operation ot a modern church. In addition to a ma jority of the members voting to take advantage of the new site on Riddle Road, the new location is reported to have had the approval of the late Bishop George W. Baber and the present Presiding Elder, the Rev. George A. Larkin. -Food (Continued from front page) Participation in the Com modity Distribution Program in which USDA foods are given directly to families was estimated at 3.6 million in November. In November 1969, this figure was also about 3.6 million, making the overall family food participa tion about 7.1 million for November 1969. Families taking part in USDA's Food Stamp Program pay in about what they would usually spend for food. They receive additional free, or "bonus" food coupops >t J|o bring their total food buying power to the level of USDA's "economy diet." USDA food programs are administered by the Food and Nutrition Service, in co operation with State and local governments! -Wilkins (Continued from front page) The results of the election of members of the Board of Directors will also be an nounced at the annual meet ing, 10vie Kaplan, NAACP president, will preside. At the annual fellowship dinner, Sunday evening, Jan uary 10, at the New York Hilton, certificates of merit for outstanding achievement will be presented to Miss Lucille Black, longtime mem bership secretary; Dr. George D. Flemmings, president of the Fort Worth, Texas, Branch and member of the national Board of Directors since 1946; Mrs. Juanita A. Green, president of the North- Central Philadelphia Branch; and Mrs. Margaret Jackson, of New York, organizer and pro ducer of the "Show of Shows," a highly successful fund raising activity for the NAACP. -Census (Continued from front page) minority people. Results will be available in July of 1971. Basic aim of the survey is to fill an existing gap in economic data about minori ty participation in business. The information gathered will be used as source material far measuring the impact and ef ficiency of Federal programs designed to stimulate minori ty participation in the na tional economy. As in all surveys and cen suses, individual reports will be kept confidential accord ing to law and cannot be , seen or used by ■' anyoee other than Bureau personnel. Filipino Violence MANILA Philippine News Service said 2,507 person* were killed and 2,130 wounded by violence in the Philippines during 1970.
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