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ATES CAEGLCJA TCC3 KZUABT V Do:iT w:it to en nr;oivz..? DISIUrO 5!3!i$ ACOUT tllXilTY SCnOLMISIlIPS O L0AI1 GRANTS a report by the American Council on Education presents some very disturbing signs regarding available scholarships and loan grants in higher education for blacks and other minority students. With financial pressures causing increased tuition and with intensified competition for loans and grants becoming more difficult each day, such news offer new problems for blacks and other minorities who need great financial assistance in order to make it in higher education. Everything is tightening up and 4nost institutions of higher "education are looking carefully at their budgets and are trying to survive in the midst of rising inflation. A most disturbing feeling that seems to be permeating the country is that low-income and black students are getting more than their share at the expense of the middle income students. It is difficult to assess this anti-feeling since second and third generations of middle classes have been helped for years by many institutions of higher education. There also appears to be a steady-drop in the number of all minority group members enrolling JkjSpnish surnamed, Oriental and Areericaa i Indian as well as blacks. 1 seems "C that many institutions colleges" and universities are now iackif(fT from their earlier rdete idjt;ta increase non-white ' ; M ' A 1 A enrollments, uovenuncniai grams have been made in the past to improve instructional as well as physical, facilities . to help these institutions and this makes it even more difficult to assess these anti-feelings. As a college education becomes jnpre expensive, and steady isjn inflation JiaveKchippedJfii fjuiiiiyv - bodge ts.raiddle-tncorne"-1 students have been competing more vigorously with low-income, students for the limited amount of available aid. A decrease in the number of students with family incomes less than $6,000 and an increase in the number of students with family incomes of $30,000 shows a steady rise. The educational director of a non-profit educational policy center that studies minority opportunities in education sees students from poor families losing out as financial aid officers and admission officers are reallocating funds to the benefit of the middle class. Many say that they don't wantonly poor and rich students in college so they take one big grant from a ppor student and split it up among six middle-income students, giving each of them enough to get over the hump, but leaving the poor student out of college. In other words, it means that they can help educate six middle-income students for the price of one low-income or poor student. It does seem a bit unreasonable as all segments of society should and must have access to the pool of available educational opportunities if we are to develop much needed leaders and resource persons in the coming decades. . It would seem that greater individual motivation and effort must put forth at all levels by all minorities to aid them in developing greater intellecutal and competitive skills and possibly thus require a lesser amount of financial aid. Now is the time for greater individual effort and decisive study to be purused to better develop one's self as you go about the task, of education and intellecutal gfoth, mmmih&$M th$$ msWM,W the" top academic students. Roy Wilkim Column Executive Secretary of NAACP mi MAYORS THEY ARE AWARE If there had been any doubt thai a Negro mayor just might not have an understanding of the principal problems of the whole city, rather than mow of the areas where black citizens live, the doubt should have been resolved by the inaugural speeches of the two new Mack mayors of Detroit, Mich., and Adanta.Ga. Both declared that crime was one of the big problems and both urged their duzena to help reduce it Now crime, despite propaganda popular in some localities,-is not racial. It is neigther black nor white. When11 white people have been mugged or have had a relative attacked or killed by Mack criminals, it k difficult for mem to be cool, objective, n nnradaL The grief and bitterness are so great that it is hard to have a fair and balanced point of view. Yet Mayor Cole man A. Young and the 35-year-old Mayor May nerd H. Jackson both know that crime b a city problem. Detroit fashioned Its 1 973 USag record and handed its black Mayor Young the label. The Murder Capital of the World." Atlanta gave its young Mayor Jackson "a soaring crime 'rate."; ., . f Both of these elected men know Act a city cannot grow tad have an extraouary crime rate. Buslnessti leave crime-ridden -cities. The . tax.; base shrinks; fewer enterprises, large and small, sea the tax. collector. Not only does crime drive the corporate taxpayers away, bat most who mast remafai are senior dtbens or chSdren, who areson thtweUaYC0s orvfowtfewj: izZzi above thapomfrloiU. :A -J. ' : Poor citizens; white 'T Uack, requtt ' catty municipal serflcei sack aWecfcoclv disks and other health services gsrbe-e ' ct&te&mi fire and folk praceccoa and , dozen, other items. Their tax money does not stretch this far. Deficits result and mayors become fray-haired. .Mayor Jackson recognized that crime ami poverty., go lund-in-hand. He .challenged Adarttans to Join him and the newly-elected city council in combating crime and poverty. He opined that if the latter were eliminated, crime could be reduced spectacularly. Mayors Coleman Young in Detroit had a 3-day inaugural -and spoke in soul brother language: "I issue a warning now to all dope mishes, rip-off artists and muggers. It's time to'leave Detroit. Hit the road! 1 don't give a damn if they are black or white, if they went Superfly suits or blue suits with silver badges. AS - of this moment," Mr. Young said, "we arc going to turn this city aroundVt Three thousand people paid $5.00 each td eat breakfast with the new mayor. Mayor Thomas iavdley, the black mayor of lot Angeles, had sounded much the same - theme, last July, wim variations, of course, as southern Quornhns think of themselves ' as special people; Thus it was dear (hat black mayors,. In order to be good mayors, must bo mayor of all the people, not just the black people. . -. ' One Mack mayor elected two years ago once said: "We found almost the moment we got to City HaD that there were a hell of a lot'of problems bedde the race problems," Tha good ones, JJke the good ones of any race. wQ hack away at crime and poverty (bom of which have been all over tha world for a few thotumhd years), at budta an4, taajtiiie,atpohdotttiacaaes,at ' siick) fnifiiniMirs and jCscMg.businesseiC amdwfctes YWWmi&Z .. pnant treaties for nose, of which tatf. know nothing.' ThVbad'ones, tke tabs3 i of airy nee, w caa get along wuhoat. V? are scarcely a csUca bow at C;:r!' are, rather, a ccrameratloa of very rx. ly caszlz fcccLcreat. r'rr'f -".M neems to me Cat. psniztezZf, Jt U 4 J' very cm&ME&j of speech tad gtmpj pa; ?'K fi?rts thst have clsdel Ca tizJt -s Urea, their fortonea and tbrir aaered fcctSr." And It aeeps to, me, arzsr, m t i e?' tanelSf tss coait I atassri bs$ casanlajsIeaa CiSart ta ta UtmCsf Ceview. . . - ntstticitt, TMrT'trr" tat ttuSSSHt 0-t -i-5lL' , aJSsAtiliillSjwi WHITE COIiTROL MID INTEGRATION At iEIUCA IS REMISICLE By'REV.V.E BROWN- By ALFRED BAKER LOUIS Some members of the black educational hierarchy, and others, are warning against school integration on the ground that integration means too often "white control" of the schools.' Whites of course had control lonjj before integration, before racial segregation in education was declared unconstitutional. They then used it so much to the detriment of black students that sometimes only one third or less as much money " was s (.spent per pupil to educate black students as , to educate white litres; ' The ":! vNA"pr im ! iffcburt!-to' win the decision declaring racial segregation in public education was unconstitutional. The purpose of integration, in education, employment and promotion, politics,' housing, recreation, or the Armed Forces, is to get equal opportunity. "Control" in itself is neither good nor bad. It depends solely on what the control is used for, not on the race of who exercise it. Gen. Idi Amin is in control of Tanzania. They have black control. He has used it to oust some whites, but mostly East Indians from their homes and businesses without compensation. The black control is bad because the purpose and result is (injustice. In Liberia the control is in the hands of descendant!' of freed American slaves who were settled there, and are,- called Americo-Liberians. I have never been there but V am told that the native Africans, in Liberia are denied equal political rights. That, too, is black control, but it is -unjust. , They have black control in Fayette, where Charles Evers is mayor. He has brought new small industries to Fayette and given more jobs to blacks and white alike. They have black political control in Petersburg where the mayor and the majority of the city council are black, in Atlanta, where the mayor and chairman of the board of education are black, in Gary, Ind., where Mr; Hatcher is mayor. The black control has in general been used for tile good of everyone, and is good because the purpose is good, although some leading members of the NAACP feel that the interests of black pupils in Atlanta have . not been sufficiently protected by black control there. Whenever whites have a majority . whites have control. But that is not necessarily bad. It depends on , . what kind of whites are exercising that control, and the purpose for which they exercise it. I certainly, and probably most black people, would prefer control by white men like Andrew Goodman or Mickey Schwerner, who gave their lives for racial justice for a racial group not their own (they were both Jews), rather than control by some black Uncle Tom who was doing the bidding of some white person who , was calling the tune and' pulling' the strings from behind the scenes. In the U.S. Protestanual rights. A Catholic has been elected .Pxe.si.d.Wrt- ,e(And .may, egfain , -accor dingus toiihftoajpooJlaO .ViThe ,iu Protestant control is reasonably fair. In Northern Ireland there is Protestant control. They have used their control to deny decent homes, jobs, and government positions, especially on the police force, to Catholics. The Protestant control is wrong, not because Protestants have control but because the purpose of the . control is injustice. Whenever whites have a majority, they have numerical control. If they are decent, and exercise that control for equality, which is what they are supposed to do, there should be no complaint. If they do not do what is right, they can and should be made to do so under the law and the Constitution. All that is required is proof of the facts, not complaints. It is wrong, therefore, to declaim against white control, when white control may be either good or bad, like black control, depending on its purpose. The positive arguments for integration are overwhelming. Neither white students nor black students can get a good education in democracy unless they know what their black or white fellow students, and future fellow citizens, are thinking and how they got their ideas. This they can only learn in integrated education. A Negro student came to the dean in a certain college which had been recently integrated, and said he did" not want to room any longer with his white roommate, because he was "tired of being a sociological study for ' his white roommate." The dean sensibly asked him why he did not make a sociological study of his white roommate. "You ought to want to know what his ideas are and how he got them, just as he warits to know what are your ideas and how you got them. Each of you can educate the other." It seems to me that the dean's answer makes sense. Who la responsible" for the energy crisis that America faces? In my opinion the people of our : country are responsible for the condition of our country as a whole, our sins am catching up with us in America. The evils of men shall be reaped by the sower, whatever a' nation or race sow, that shall they also reap. We have long forgotten God and His purpose and our praise in this world. We, the American people, are supposed to be Christian people and we have lived every way but the way of a Christian. We have let hate, pride, self-will, self centeredness, disrespect of persons, selfishness, greed and prejudice take us over and we have lost respect for one another and find no time for God on Sunday. We take long pleasure trips' instead of going to church. We have lied and made excuses to each other to avoid our brotherly like duty to each other. We have been mudslingers of each other to cast down our fellowman and build up a high place for self. God has always used evil men to whip his people back in line. We need not put our hurt on any one person. I feel that we are suffering from our own sins and when we return to God he will return to us as set out in 2nd Chronicles 7:14, "If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and return from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." What we say as Americans does not count in God's sight. .But what we do is what counts. We must understand that to reject God is a fatal course in life. We must pay for our sins, sin is any act or will against God's will. To do what we should not do is a sin of co-mission and to omit that which we should do is a sin of omission and we are . guilty of both. We don't like to talk about our sins, yet they are catching up with us in America. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." Romans 1:18. It is high time for Americans to come to grips with God and know that he is the Almighty God of heaven and earth. When Jacob had sinned and ran away with his sins following him,, those same tins sprouted and plagued - him until he came to grips with God and met him face to face, and at that point Jacob said, "My life is preserved which meant that God had conditioned his life so he could behave himself any place anywhere as preserve will keep any place anywhere on freeze or off. Genesis 32:30 During World War I, we had the plague of the influenza and there were not enough of us well to care for the sick and bury the dead, and as soon as that plague was gone, we soon forget God and His purpose. Then later World War II came along and gas, oil, sugar, meat, tires, etc. were rationed and we soon forget. In 1954 that great storm Hazel came through, destroyed buildings, chruchea, homes etc. and man soon forgot that God has a way of whipping us in line. Today, in my opinion the Master' Is once again reminding us to stop our wicked ways and live and act like civilized people. n.it MOBJU8 TULCHINSKY Ssdal Security Adnmuaaea Kansas aty, Me. 1 ) Bv Q. When I'm aat istkany traaaferred tnm welfare la flat Sapplemsntal Security s eeate sgnua, wiB I cea tawe at be eaglMe far MeaV eaid? A Yea. You wul not lose any benefits because of the transition. Q. I drew swrvtvor social aecutrv bene tils far auraalf and nuner caUdrea uxu sty yeuaect child because UL Hkewmean resaarried and t My tamer ami ea tat but day f tat aaa bat I waa leU that Us namaaat check far that BMata bad ta after Ave yean of arrlaaa. I am at yean eld. Am I el glbla ta receive banellrs agala ea my fJnt kanaaai's nearat A. Yes. You wwtd be ena ble to receive widow's benefits oa your tint husband's social security record because your subsequent marriage waa end ed and you are at least as yean eld. You should file an application at your nearest ao dal security office. Q. I wUf be yean eal mm and wU be aatjytaf ft social aecarity. I knew mat a record wu nude of my Mrth aberth tajereafter bat I amy have trouble ptnag It. lam waa ease a lelaana taesnd made of my atrtbato when I waa aaoai raw check far mat bmbu bad he retained. Why? A NO payments an due a octal security beneficiary far the month of death. The reason for this is that aay survivor entitled to monthly benefits becomes eVtfble ef fective with the month of death. This is true even thMigh the person died ea the last day of me month. O. Saw eia I ft mam thai my sedal security cheeks ar rive on tmwr I, far astsaaal ve tinatij several thaes a year. A Notify your aodal secur ity office each una yen move aa qukkry as possible and also notify the past office, etch time yon move. Yea might want eonsider havsaf your checks seat to one place aB year round, such aa a bank. If so. the aodal security office can tell you how to at i i - aa i Q Injanr rrentaaaat anartTttae treats does the Veterans I have a copy of Sk WU I he required to obtain a espy of say birth cerCfieato batsre I appry tar my aeaiCtsT A. No you will not have to obtain .a copy of your birth certificate. A pubMe or m latous record of your biraV Ute are both acceptable proofs, and both carry the same weight A Aa of December, lpn the afsacy had IS spinal cord Injury treatment esaten and IS prosthetic treatment con ten ssr amputees, atoaTaphi eaQy . dispersed astund tat eountry. ' . ' Storee m the TJaMad States am as auaoa to to shopllrlen during UTS. ' ' aaa'nnyBBHBv p.aaoxsm DURHAM, HOBTH CAROLINA tflel Kpuhiiahor nauan by United Ai CASza UMffc
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