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Ernest H. Pitt
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Member North Caroline Yvette McCulloUJ
Black PdWUbw's AwocUtfoo Cit> Editor
Guns or
In the days prior to Oct. 1, the U. S. Senate is engaged
in the traditional "guns vs. butter" debate and the
advocates of "guns," among them U.S. Sens. Robert
Morgan, D-N.C., and Jesse Helms, R-N.C., seem to be
holding the upper hand.
Oct. 1 is the beginning of 1979-80 fiscal year in the
federal government. Before any money can be spent,
. Congress has to set an overall budget limit for the year.
The objective is to allow the legislators the opportunity
to set priorities and make decisions on the full fiscal
picture instead of voting on each appropriations bill
separately.
However, the priorities which have been recommended
by the Senate Budget Committee would be quite
inappropirate at a time of spiraling inflation. * .
Keconimended cuts include: S/00 million trom
allocations for low-income housing; $500 million in
budget authority and $400 million in actual outlays form
jobs programs (CETA and WIN); $100 million in budget
authority and $200 million in outlays from Aid for
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and $1 billion
from school lunches, agricultural conservation, water
development and law enforcement assistance.
Instead, the lawmakers would mandate an increase in
the defense budget, beyond what the Carter administration
requested, and even beyond the ability of the
free-spending Pentagon to actually use effectively.
Fueling and the pro-defense trend is the hysteria over
the presence of several thousand Soviet troops in Cuba.
For the purpose of making a symbolic gesture, human
needs will go unmet if the cuts are upheld. Inflation in
construction and maintenance, plus the lack of adequate
?hewing for the jXK>rt makes additional housing funds?
more than necessary.
Jobs programs are needed to meet the increase in
unemployment which will occur as a result of thej^
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What About
One of the most enduring musical contributions to fte
ArtTCrK^n cultural idiom is country and western music.
If s popularity is evidenced by the large number of
television and radio shows featuring that particular style
and the enormous attendance at such events as the
Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers Convention^1
The influences of country music have spread into the
work of musicians generally considered to be "pop"
artists.
However, country and western is not the only music
which is indigenous to the American scene. Of equal
importance have been the influences of the blues and
spirituals, both of which are also firmly rooted in
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claim a substantial following.
For that reason, we ask why state and local officials
chose to pick, with a single exception, solely country and
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I PL A S a black who's assistant
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the experience, then he
should be considered.
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they should get someone ij
who can deal with the 1
unions that are coming
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President John W. Templeton |
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Sports Editor Office Manager
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depression. Thatjingmployment will occur as a result of
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me ucprcssion. mat unemployment will be particularly
rampant among the black labor force.
More families will be in need of public assistance,
more children will need assistance with school lunches
and economy-induces higher crime rates will create a
greater need for law enforcement assistance.
In as much as budget deficits contribute to the
inflation which amplifies the country's human needs,
there is a need to control the budget. The proposed
budget total approaches $550 billion dollars and still
includes a deficit of more than $28 billion.
We firmly believe the government should be able to
get by on the half-trillion dollars in taxes paid by
Americans and it should be able to make ends meet.
With the time the Congress has taken on the budget,
we. believe the lawmakers should have trimmed it the
correct way- going line by line, dollar by dollar, position
by position; trimming out unnecessary employees,
unneeded administrators and generals, wasteful procurement
practices and costly "pork barrel" projects.
With such an approach, savings could be made in
social programs which invariably seem to help many
bureaucrats as recipients. Increased service could be
obtained for the same amount of money.
The national defense would be enhanced by having
lean, well-equipped armed forces ready to respond on a
moments notice.
There would be enough money for assistance
piugioius uiichcu tti a?iuics ana municipalities, wnicn
are among the programs a cutback-minded Congress do
away with : * 1 ?
All the objectives which our country has decided are
important can be achieved with judicious use of the
budget procedure.
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western acts for the N.C. State Fair and the Dixie Classic
Fair.
-Fairs are more than just an arena for showing off livestock
and produce. They are an expression of an
area's culture and accomplishments.
Accordingly, a fair which putpfrrts^ftKrepresent the?
entire state of North Carolina, which is one-fourth black
or the city of Winston-Salem, which is two-fifths black,
ought to recognize the music which blacks have
originated.
Not only from a racial aspect, but from a standpoint of
taste, are the selections bad. For instance, what of the
classical music lover, or the rock lover or the jazz lover.
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rre imnK, mat tne operators of the N.C. State Fair and
the Dixie Classic Fajr need to take a lesson from, for
instance, the State Folklife Festival and the Carolina
Street Scene and clean up their acts.
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Manager Have?
in. The person should and who has a program
have a lot of experience to make us grow. It
as opposed to degrees should be one who's not I
and I think it should be a going to be manipulated I
black, but not A1 Bea- by inter-city politics, and
ty." one who's going to do a
Larry Holland -- "We better job than Orville
need one who's progres- Powell. I also think he I
sive, one who's unbiased should be black. Let me
and unbigoted, who's add that it should be one
aware of the need for that's not influenced by
Winston-Salem to grow Reynolds money."
Frances Flow Robert Reynolds i
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This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the ]
Peekskill, New York riots. Given the anticommunist
rhetoric expressed by the media during recent months ? '
from denunciations of Vietnam and Cuba to the Right's j
opposition to SALT -- it is necessary to reexamine the j
historical roots of this sentiment.
Peekskill represents white America's basic fears -- i
against Blacks, against economic equality, against full i
civil liberties. I
The historical facts were as follows: the Harle m
division of the Civil Rights Congress and People's s
Artists, a cultural affiliate of the Communist Party, i
scheduled a concert featuring Black artist Paul Robeson
at Peekskill, a conservative upstate New York town on 1
Aug. 27, 1949. 1
American Legionnaires, Catholic war veterans, a few
Jewish war veterans, local whites and anti-communists 1
decided to picket the concert, and hopefully to stop it 1
completely. <
?Waving swatiskas and shouting racist slogans, thft <
mob broke up the concert. After three hours of fighting t
fifty people had been injured.
Progressives, union members and the Black commu- j
nity rallied to support Robeson's civil liberties. The J
concert was rescheduled for the afternoon of September f
4. Over 25,000 people attended the second event, I
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Job discrimination is * continuing fact of life for '
minorities, and it's made oven . worse when the
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govcrniiicius mat are supposfu 10 yimciT xncin gsinsT
job bias are actually firm practitioners of discrimination.
Recently there have been a number of studies
documenting this. One found that in over two-thirds of
metropolitan regions government hiring of blacks
lagged behind that of private industry. Another showed
blatant discriminatory practices by federal courts."
concentrates on women and minorities in lower paying
categroies. Only 3.4 per cent of high level federal jobs
and civil service jobs are held by blacks.
A Congressional commission has found that blacks
with comparable educational backgrounds earn less
than whites in every job category of Congress*
employees. In high paying staff jobs on Capitol Hill,
men outnumber women by 15 to 1.
Sometimes job bias is reinforced by apparently
"neutral" standards, such as veterans preference.
Federal law gives veterans an extra five points added to
civil service test scores. That's one reason why over
forty per cent of new federal hires are veterans
although only 27 per cent of those who pass Civil
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Do you know the name even that of his father,. 1
of the Queen of Sheba? King David. i
Was it perhaps Mary or, Solomon was not at all 1
more likely, Fatima? It is impressed by the queen
one of the oddities of when he first met her., As ]
history that no one has it was he had sufficient
discovered it for sure. women for wives: he had <
We know her simply as 700princesses. And if he <
the fantastic woman ruler felt the need for extras, he
who traveled on camel's 300 concubines, all <
back for three months housed in his fabulous 1
across desert and moun- palace, which gleamed
tains to meet the wisest eveything in the way
king who ever lived. ?f luxury and richesWhy
did she make the There was a reason why
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was the woman's curosity. Sheba. It was because
She had heard of Solo- she was too hairy, Solomon's
wisdom and she mon remarked that it was
wanted to put three ques- good for men to be hairy,
tions, all riddles, to test never a woman. So he
his sense of judgment. sent her some portions
She did so and got the and ointment to soften her
right answers. skin. She becamc nice to
Then in true modern l??k at.
fashion, she fell for the In fact, she became so
famous ruler of Israel, glamorous indeed that the
whose fame exceeded king, forgetting his vast
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aespite tnretts of physical violence.
As dusk came and the cars began to leave, the mob
pelted the concert-goers with rocks and stones.
Hundreds of windshields were shattered, and people
were cut from broken glass. Fifty buses were damaged,
and almost one hundred fifty people were injured, some
severely. In the works of Paul Robeson, Jr., these riots
"were speicfically anti-Black, not just in the slogans that
were used but in the vicious beatings of any Black person
who was even seen in the vicinity of the concert
grounds/'
The two thousand state and local police assigned to
stop violence either joined the rioters or did absolutely
nothing.
For later generations, the meaning of Peekskill cannot
je understood without an appreciation of Paul Robeson,
:he artist and Black activist.
Very simply, Robeson was one of the most gifted
luman beings of the twentieth century^ Robeson was a
wo-year All-American football star at Rutgers University
in 1917-18, received Phi Beta Kappa honors and was
Jie world during the 1930's and 1940's.
Robeson starred in a dozen major European and U.S.
)lays, from Eugen O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" to
Shakespeare's "Othello." From 1932 to 1939 he was
eatured in eight major films, an unequalled feat for any
Slack artist even today.
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Governments
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Service tests are veterans.
Some states give an even bigger boost to veterans, la
Jtme the Supreme CbtWf uph?d tftal fMH&rrlMtt
stand a Massachusetts law that gives veterans not a
five or ten point edge, but absolute preference over
other job candidates with the same qualifications.
Some form of veterans preference is justified. In his
original Civil Service reform proposals President Carter
wanted to limit the point-preference to one time use
"instead of being a-permanent edge on hiring and?
promotion. ..
Such a step would have acknowledged the nation's
interest in rewarding veterans and in compensating
them for time spent in their country's service. But a
permanent, absolute preference can't be considered
fair. It has a discriminatory impact against women and
against minorities who had lower rates of service in the
past and whose less than honorable discharge rates are
higher than those for the white majority.
And permanent preference makes inclusion of
women "and minorities in the higher ranges of
government jods a longer ana more difficult process. In
effect, they're being told to wait until the World War II
veterans have retired. As the court's minority pointed
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Queen of Sheba
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harem, looked upon her stones; all this evidence of
with lust and in Biblical an original mind imlanguage,
went in to her. pressed Solomon, and he
The queen had^ pre- sent a message to her to
pared for her visit to come.
Jerusalem with enormous She went to him with
Mire. First she had sent a further presents, mainly
caravan of camels loaded gold and jewels and also
with gold and other pre- fra nkincense and myrrh
cious gifts to the value of which were much sought
two million dollars, but after for making perfumes
Solomon who had all the and patent medicines.
wealth that ct- -1- "
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wish for, sent it back. been almost as modern as
Then the .Queen of the present-day woman in
Sheba later dispatched the use of cosmetics, for
the most extraordinary we are told that she
present anyone could painted her eyes to make
imagine. Six thousand them appear more lumivery
handsome boys and nous and larger and used
lovely girls, all born in the rouge to make her cheeks
same year, month, and glow.
day, and who were all of Nobody knows how long ^
the same height and pro- the nameless queen
portions. And all of them stayed in Jerusalem but
were dressed in purple. we are told about the
With them went another
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