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Winston-Salem, N.C. Saturday Sep
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?r*ffia?rtWEn trnmmm nwgn m Wi m i? , tm
Ivitui ill tile Street column iuaU employs 4.
Wfeek we asked people what they Jobs exist,
considered to be the major issue in the columns of
election; we asked our profile Employment S
personality what is Winston-Salem's pages of oppc
greatest problem. The answer was blacks stay jol
always the same: JOBS. If the probl
More jobs, better jobs, challenging apply for bette
^jobs, worthwhile jobs, but JOBS. they will begin
Meanwhile, back in the news, the rut of an e^rdii;
^ labor department reports that black you are over-q
unemployment rose to 14.5 per cent in fullest potflntii
August, reaching the record set'In the If, on the oth
recession of ,'75. For black teenagers for good jobs,
the rate was an apalling 40.4 per cent. them...if it's a
What ever happened to Affirmative tionT then^w? &
Action? Please note that out of 1600 ih this town
blacks in Forsyth County qualified to filing class-act:
hold top-level positions, the city you.
Apartheid : An Afric
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uy r^u win ugobe Og-bu
The task of the inter- The Vorster regime has i
national community is the declared clearly that it does 1
suppression and punishment not seek to end racial discri- 1
of the.crime of apartheid. It mination by pushing segre- 1
-ts^rtask which cannot be gation to its limit and (
entrusted to its perpetra- confining the African major- <
tors. ity to the poor and over- ?
There has been no basic crowded reserves. It ha?
change in the policy of the sworn to keep Parliament as I
Vorster regime, nor can a white preserve. Its policy ? *
such a change be antici- remains as Mr. Vorster de? s
pated. The winds of change dared on 14 September r
which have brought histort? I9TTi fc
changes to Africa in the past "ln terms of our policy of - p
generation have not moved multinationalism, we arenot t
the racist regime which a minority in our father- 1
remains incorrigible. As Mr. land ?we are the only i
Vorster boasted in May people in our fatherland." i
1&74t "We have noticed the (The Star, Johannesburg,-16
winds of change in the world September, 1971.) t
today but thank God we No one should entertain
hflvpn't gnno with thfrm " ? *
abmck eiiinwi
By Dr. Nathaniel Wrig
Human Rights Activist
k NATIONAL SERVICE CORPS
For a number of yeart, we added the opportunity for
bave advocated in this col- military service.
umn and elsewhere a pro- -How this would work ^
posal no'w enthusiastically would be two-fold. It would 4
endorsed by California Gov- require all younger Ameri- c
ernor Edmund Brown. The cans to engage in several ?
^aniornia uovernor has in- years of public service t
dicated rhat one of the major through a National Service i
employment and national Corps. N
morale needs is for the estab- There would be a choice as i
lishment of a National Ser- to whether one wanted mili- i
vice Corps. tary service, urban or rural a
The concept of a National- physical rehabilitative ser- c
Service Corps should be of vice, or human service^ of a a
immense interest and concern wide \ariety, including health c
to all black Americans espe- care delivery and teaching. t
cially. But the idea or pro- In addition to the require- t
posal would have far-reach- ment for service by younger t
ing effects upon younger and people, there would be opolder
people; upon the rich, tions to remain in the Nathe
poor and those, in be- tional Service Corps per*
tween: indeed, it would forming highly important ?
touch, in creative ways, our work, all of which need not
whole national character or funded entirely or even in
personality. part by the government.
Essentially, the proposal
brings together ideas and * .
practices with proven merit T, . . , ,
from-the Roosevelt, Kennedy eref wou'd be th<
and Johnson presidencies option for older ?nd retired ,
... .. . ? peisonA to enter the service ,
and then carries them to a K K. . . c J
i i | , corps. The National Service ,
more nearly whole or logical _ y e . . . . I
, Corps further would be a i
i waiv JI i. ; , , , I
From the Roosevelt era, ready-made alternative to imthe
National Service Corps Prisonment for many offend- ,
would offer to voung Ameri- s 0 ^or w 8
cans the positive opportuni- sen'ence suerve the ,
ties of the old Civilian Con- P good at subsistence |
servation Corps. wa?" w?uld mark marvelThe
old "CCC" built irking rehabilitation.
roads and bridges, reclaimed
forests and vital agricultural On the surface,then, a Na- 1
lands and did so much of the tional Service Cqrps would
vital ecological .work which cut a huge dent into a numstands
nparectecr for lack of ber of the nation's nagging
manpower today. problems. \
From the Kennedy >ears,
the National Service Corps ? _
would include .the Peace ou( of the sl vouth
Corps type of service, for the unemploymem situallon ;
increasingly urgent human whjch ml promises on. ^
resource or service needs in . ^ri:,
our own country, especially. '> gel much worse. It
and incidentally, to help wfoul? work to ,rcdu" m,uch
abroad. of lhe gene,r,al urtemP|o>,
. ment, especially among singFrom
the Johnson years, a ,e and marned b |e
National Service Corps Doubtless any Ngljona| Ser- 1
would inclu e an improved vjce corps wou|d make pro- I
Teacher Corps and Job vjsl0n for couples to work <
Corps. To this would be (and so live) together.
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ONICLE ^i*ce In Winston
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Beyond the garden of
talking flowers, to theNortheast,
Alice saw a
large mushroom growing *
>iana Roberts on 8 weU-keP'lawn' The
mushroom was taller than
rertising Manager Alice, like peculiar trees
springing up out of the
lawn. A ?iny, brightly
colored fence encircled its
base. .
By standing on tiptoe,
>tember 10 19 77 Alice could just barely see
over the top of the <
mushroom. When she did ;
j^hjAjMjgMd s larmr \
g-- smnkiiip ft ,
=a
* I^Bteg your pardon,"
stammered Alice. / (
"What are you?'' asked (
?- - *>... ?-- >.*? o -rr4?'f-- ?4- **1./ ? f~ . . *
LUC-A^<U,C1U111ZU LUiiWlllV ?
Personnel agencies fun .series of smoke-rings ^
ads every day, ~ the resembling ghostly hand- ?
Security Commission has cuffs. ^
>rtunities...but somehow 44 What am I? Well...I'm 1
bless. a little girl/' said Alice. ?
em is that blacks don't 44Not what I meant,"
r jobs, then we hope that snapped the Caterpillar,
to do so, to get out of the 4 41 am referring to the i
y-obtained job for which chess game. Are you a red j
ualified, and realize your pawn or a white pawn?"
9L 44I'm not in the chess i
ier hand, blacks do apply
but somehow don't get
question of discriminaworking
night and day ion
suits: that's jobs for . i
_ ? . NOW
an View NAn/i
ITllnsinn?
ahw-mt r\rvcci- ? ?
? ? ? w w a w MK/VMV VIIV %
silhy of. the conversion of \
:he racists or try to make \
:he liberation of the people * \
dependent on the peace of
conversion of the privileged
The primary-Tole in the^
iistori? task of transforming f/r
>outh Africa from a racist ?
ociety into a truly nonacial
and African State yKfyKfc
elongs to the oppressed ^
eople of South Africa and ^ \
heir liberation movement. V
[*hey deserve the firm and
inconditional support of the
nternational community. .
Effective action must be
aken to curb the selfish
nterests which encourage
See Apartheid, Page 8 AC
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ht, Jr. ^
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With pay and benefit dif- ^I
erentials, we could build an M H
adequate military force withthe
)ast?what has been charac- V
erized as 4'para-militarv
ninds" into^he military service.
What the military needs
s men and women?includng
couples serving together,
is in a growing number of
ountries?who do not have
i "might makes right" point
f view but who can indigently
and with dedicaion
fulfill the national mili- ?
-dry requirements. -??
Even more important m m mdD m*
svould be the benefits to our -* -MDlder
and to our "disabled"
:itizens. Both older and so:alled
disabled persons could
serve in a National Service
Corps.
rm r
The immense value here is M-WM.
that older and disabled persons,
now dealt with (albeit
politely) as somewhat useless,
would be included in The appointment of U.S.
*ays whereby their talents District Court Frank M.
:ould be employed in ways Johnson to head the FBI ia
*hich engender self-respect an ezeellent one. It is also
and a zest for, and joy in, significant, both because ol
life. the agency's importance and
because it signifies the
Administration'a deter
W?M. ;i,c .lai.on needs is mination to give tfie FBI the
to be put to work as a whole, kind of leadership that wil]
and in ways which bring dig- en<* abuaea.
nity, security and a sense of there have been
personal achievement... not plenty of abuaea. It had
welfare as we know it today. become routine "procedure
for the FBI to tap phones,
harrass civil rights and
Black Americans have, political activists, and to ride
then, a vested interest in roughshod over constitu
pressing for a comprehensive tkmal rights, The result:
National Service Corps which serious erosion of publk
would lessen the enormous confidence.
present expenditures in alar- The ageney exhibited a
mingly high military salaries, Cok! Wsr mentality t*at
in the unconscionable human viewed almost'any diaaent
waste of welfare, and in the aa . p^oof of disloyalty,
fighting of unemployment Nurtunftg _a. carefully foeand
hopelessness-related , tered "O-Man" image
:rimcs in our urban and rural through the late J. Edgar
:ommupities. Hoover'a flair for pubHdty,
o
a
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Hookah - Smoking
"When the men on the
chessboard get up and />
tell you where to go and
kyou've just had some / \ '
kind of mushroom and , fh y\;
your'mind is moving &jfanf?j I
slow. Go Ask Alice: 1
think she'll know." \JJu
tame," answered Alice.
ran be in it?as a pawn. 'l
Dnly a few can be queens
bid knights, but we need
ig,wie!Rr"^jgyBy1 "gmi JyjB
io you get u> piayr Wm/il U&Jp:
"You sign up. i can sign "
fou up/and then you'll be
m officially registered
>awn," said the Caterpil- "You have to play as a r?d t
ar, blowing a few more pawn." r
imokerings. "I thought I could
choose the side I pre- r
"Then I'd like to be a -ferred," ventured Alice,
vhite pawnt please sir," _ "My dear, you can. But t
?aid Alice. , don't expect me to help t
"Out of the question," you join the white pawrf!f t
eplied?the?Caterpillar.?you silly donkey. I happen t
* \
in
= black and
viwite.'
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PROOF POSITIVE ' *"
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by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. J
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it eventually came to feel it skilled agent* were concoctcould
do no wrong. ing phonj rumors to disA
federal policy agency credit anti-war activists and
that is a law unto itself is s dvfl rights militants. After
threat to all dtizens. And Hoover's death, one of the
when such sn agency temporary heeds of the FBI
becomes politicised, as it did actually destroyed evidence
in the Nixon year a, it can in the Watergate case.
become the instrument of So Judge Johnson inherits
subversion of democratic quite a men. The prime
principles. quauncauons lor a new FBI
Over the years it became Director are personal inobvioua
that the image of a tegrity, leadership ability,
super-efficient FBI was at firmness, and respect for the
odds with reality. Con- law and for the consticentrating
on spectacular tutional limits it places on
criminal and spy eases, the , police powers. The nation's
agency virtually ignored top cop has to be someone
white collar crime and who is completely devoted
organized crime. More to enforcing the law, but not
energy seems to have gone at the cost of destroying the
into public relations efforts ' personal liberties the law
than into enforcing the law - defends.
within the confines of legal* On those grounds, the
constitutional police pro- President and the Attorney
cedures. General could not have
With Hoover as cur. th? ? < -
? uivhu uvuor jivrsun MJ
Agency had deteriorated to head the FBI. If Judge
the point where well-paid, J0hnaon ? record on the
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Caterpillar
wipt? them all out."
, , "Just what are you in
J t C^\ * this chess game?" asked
>T\t\ 1 m a ^^kt,"
* - / r \Nr\ the Caterpillar. "I move
/ ) i'^^JlL one s<luare and
one c^a^ona^y
"Yes, I know about
L knights." said Alice.
t "You're the only chess
pise08 who move crook||
The Caterpillar smirked <
knowingly: "Don't you
you believe It " _?
D| Aflf
o be ' a red player m&Wm V
nyself. CVByTt
''And you only recruit mm W EH ?P
ed pawns?" : _ _
"Exactly. The others
ry to pretend I'm not
here, ' but I'll shown * * * ?
hem. I'll march in with
ny ten million pawns and
??(For use by some elementQry
an(j secondary schools
- and by adult groups with a
y larger emphasis upon though t
development. If your schools
do not subscribe to this newspaper
on the bundle plan, *
pleasespeak with your school
officials today. Please use
with a dictionary continually
at hand to look up every
unfamiliar word.)
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1) The South Moluccans
are a dark-skinned island naStion
near India and are much &
like the largely black West
Indies before independence.
What similarities might there
possibly be between the
, South- Moluccan and 4'freedom
movement" and West
Indian, black American and
Irish Catholic freedom movem#nf
c9 Uaiu Uar a Csmi?I%
B IIIVIIIO I iun 11OO VIIV ovum
Moluccan confrontation af\
fected race relations in the
\ Netherlands?
[^/ \ 2) The Swiss have a con||
federation of cantons or pro||
vinces in a federal union. It
f?lf\ , |1 has been suggested that
I I South Africa might adopt
I I such a plan to resolve their
?1 LI black "majority rule prob
I |l lem." Does this seem reason\
able for South Africa? What
?J I - do you feel are the prospects
I for such an arrangement in
I South Afrjca?
I I . 3X-Does-a~ growing?con?- ==
a I frontation or competTtiorP
^ ? 1 seem to be emerging between
I J the U.S.A., on the one hand,
and Cuba and the Soviet
m Union, on the other hand,
for influence or domination
L in africa? What are the main
lines of development for the
operations of each of these
countries in Africa at presI
4) it has been felt for some
^ time in many quarters that
W President Kenyatta's family
fortunes gained from the
wild game traffic, and this
was a major cause of wild
game depletion in Kenya. In
the light of this speculation,
what do you make of the
Kenyatta government's ban
on wild game hunding in
Kenya?
5) It has been felt that the
fir*
v.a. government nas given
preferential treatment to
whites by depositing federal
funds disproportionately in ?
^wWte banks, by giving almost
allfclack oriented advertising
v to Avhite newspapers and by
miny other means. With this
inlnind, how do you react to
announced plans by the Carter
administration to deposit
! inore federal funds in minority
owned and operated
banks? Do you feel that this
, ? . principle should be extended
bench is any indication, he tQ aIl Qthcr
areas of AmeriwUlr^ape
the apmcy into can )jfe? Such inclusjon is
an effective law enforcement known in law as eauitv An
arm of the' Ig^wnment, *nown law " ^u,.ty ?
while ending thllLae. that '"-"..gat.on * "WW in
have characterWit. paat *??r encyclopedia m,ght be
record. "J! " ' . .
In hia 22 yeara on the _6) ,n*our "pinion,
bench. Judge Johnaon has aic OIB?s rcprcscnica on
shown a fierce devotion to welfare rolls up to four times
dvil rights. He haa presided thcir proportion in the popuover
controversial cases and lation as a whole? What
delivered crucial decisions efforts, in addition to welfare
that integrated buses and changes, should be made to
public facilities, abolished equalize the proportions of
the Alabama poll blacks on welfare rolls?
directed desegregation of 7) Blacks are making fresh
Alabama's schools, required inroads in public office-holdreapportionment
of voting ing, but are still far behind
districts, extended women's proportionately. What local,
rights, and protected pri- regional and national efforts
soners and mental patients might blacks (and blacks and
against official abuse and whites working together)
neglect. make to improve and right
That record is unique this situation?
among federal judges for ths 8) Which do you feel is
boldness of decisions as more important, pupil desegwelL_ftf
for the fact that regaiiop^or faculty desegreSee
Jordan,)Page 5 gatiod? Why so?