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ediiofifli) £ comment Will Blacks Participate Fully?? This year, most of the cities in « North Carolina will again partici pate in their own local elections. The hig question i&; Will the Blacks also participate fully? If history repeats itself, it is very likely that we will not. It’s surprising how little we be come involved; yet on the other hand, how very much we complain: Hopefully, that kind of inactivity Es beginning to fade. For the more the need arises for complete involve ment, the more we recognize our responsibilities. The editorials of this newspaper have always urged its Black readers to use the votinc riehts to better our own deplorable conditions. This coming year is no different, and this newspaper will again call upon its readers to register and vote. Your own local elections will de pend in large parts on the participa tion of the Black vote turn-out. ' Especially the results. change, then just maybe a diffe rence can be made. After listening to three very out standing-political personalities this past week, I am even more convinc ed that the people control the gov emment-and not a select few. That is, of course, when the people vote. This then brings us to the point of “who” we will support. When the mayor of Chapel Hill, Howard Lee, spoke to the Collective Civitan Club of High Point last week, he challenged the club members with the responsibility of becoming an active and working club. He told the club that it was their responsibi lity to become leaders in their com munity. Later, when the congress man from Georgia, Andrew Young, spoke at the Democrat Spring Rally, he too stressed the importance of local participation. He went on fur __. A a A .m . 1 u you are nappy wnn me present conditions of your community, then jijst maybe you have nothing to complain about. However, if condi tions are nyt as you would prefer, then the coming elections are grand opportunities for bringing about some changes. In the spring of next year (1976), we will again return to begin the process of selecting this nation’s presidential candidates for the no vember elections. The question a gain is the same: Will the Blacks also participate fully? If the attitudes of most are the same as they were in our last presidential election, then our hopes of improvement surely must be very dim. But things don’t have to be that way. If we would only take time to do what we each can to bring about < wiw aay uuu uie rnosi important step is to get behind your candidate and support him, for this is po time for demonstration politics. 1 What did that mean? I read it to mean that we caifno' longer divide ourselves and votes on sifre losers. Then, as late as Tuesday night, Terry Sanford expressed what he thought the kind of leadership this country needs. Expressions like: “bold new ideas”, “positive ap proaches”, “strong White House leadership” were just a few of his recommendations. He said that this country needs the kind of leadership that wUl look outside of the Washing ton scene for guidance. Now, the question is: Should there be more said? What are your inten tions? Guest Editorial By A1 Campbell I «... Parents should Keep Youngsters Busy Now that schools are out many parents appear to leave their young children on their own. Children still need some parental supervision and some provisions should be made for such supervision. Many youngsters continue to cre ate problems by visiting stores un chaperoned and disturbing many consumer items that be outside or inside or just bicycling along side walks and many times knocking adults down who may not be able to quickly jump out of their way. development. Other ideas may be to surround oneself with younger child ren and tutor them, thus improving not only their skills, but the reading skills of oneself as well. Our libra ries have many books available and are happy to help young people choose the appropriate ones. Still another possibility is the seek ing of those jobs that many young sters may not like but will give youths a chance to to learn from the more difficult jobs around. Remem ber, there is a need for many kinds and all types of work. niui uiv uiivnipivjiiivui> iHw around and with the letting out of many high school students by grad uation or otherwise, there does not seem to be enough jobs to go around. Even though some few jobs are available under various youth pro grams, many, many youths are left without means to earn an honest living. Thus many itrmmj» and corners are clustered with youths. Perhaps this is the time for learn ing some skills or crafts at the many playground areas, assist with vaca tion Bible Schools or other satisfying activities such as volunteers in insti tutions. Even without pay, many of these volunteer opportunities will afford youths some mean of self Those youths who really desire to work will take most any type of employment as long as it is honest work to earn that needed extra money. We would again certainly urge that parents keep a closer check on the activities of their children now that school is out. Even with limited recreational facilities around, the need is still great for parental supervision so that such unfortunate accidents as the drowning of the eight year old youngster will not happen again. Guest editorial - The Carolina Times 4 TO BAD I I NEVER LEARNED I TO READ!!! * » j Drive Carefully, Have A Safe Fourth— HEW - Too Much Government? By Congressman Jim Martin 9th District, North Carolina Last week we reported on govern ment meddling in our private lives. This week the subject is the Depart ment of Health Education and Wel fare and their new regulations per taining to sex discrimination in ath letics and sports programs. The new regulations include many features that a»e desirable and worthwhile. They also contain ele ments that would destroy intercolle giate athletics. I further believe that if a sufficient number of women students are inte rested to form a team and if compe tition is available at other schools then they should be encouraged with necessary equipment, coaching, ac cess to playing areas, and official school approval. The HEW regula male golfers would be discriminated against. In sports such as tennis, schools will be required to award scholar ships to women athletes whose skills are not adequate to make the men’s team. That will discriminate against any male student who is not profici ent enough to make the mens’ team even if he happens to be competiti vely superior to every female stu dent who is required by HEW to receive an athletic grant. All that should have been required is that athletic grants-in-aid be made only on the basis of competitive athletic ability without regard to sex. HEW has gone overboard. The HEW regulations are exces sive and an unsound invasion of the athletic programs of our schools and colleges. For this reason, I introduc ed legislation to reject this reverse sexism in athletics. nuns pruviue ior mis wim me alter native that if there are insufficient candidates for girl’s teams, the indi vidual female athletes must be per mitted in non-contact sports to try out for the men’s teams on the basis of competitive skills. I suppport that concept. Even so, this represents another example of the intrusion of a federal agency into an area subject to no financial aid and no clear authority for federal regulation. It’s another clear cut case of bureaucratic law-' making. ^ I strongly obj^t to the destructive new requirements relating to athle tic scholarships based on sex quotas. Nothing could be more discrimi natory. In some schools scholarships are available only for contact sports. If these schools were required to award scholarships to girls, the iwv Tcwrriuoi There’s been a lot said about President Ford’s vetoes, and you’ll be hearing a lot more as long as the Congressional majority tries to pass extravagant increases in federal spending. Let me share with you a good lesson on vetoes. Earlier the President asked for a $2 billion appropriation for continuing the public employment of 300,000 during the recession plus summer jobs for youth and continuing service for older Americans. Congress, how ever, added another $3.3 billion for additional make-work jobs and some public works pork barrel projects for favored districts-without regard to their unemployment. President Ford’s veto was sustained by the necessary one-third. 145-277. TO BE EQUAL VERNON E. JORDAN JR. Busing And The Schools You might think that the end of the school year would cool off the persistent busing controversy, but it hasn’t. ' " * The new attention to the school bus comes with the highly publicized statement by sociologist James Coleman that court-ordered busing leads to white flight to the suburbs and consequent greater segregation of urban school systems. Coleman’s earlier research, with its findings that integrating lower class black students in schools with middle class whites Jed to better educational achievement for blacks and no change for the whites, helped support the argument that integration improves schooling. Coleman’s pronouncement that busing has failed in that it just leads to resegregation has been siezed with glee by the anti-busing crowd and with disappointment by integrationists. Neither reaction is called for; the statement must be seen in context. une oi cne proDiems oi social sciences ues in .the fact that studies of social issues are often inconclusive. Coleman’s research has been chal lenged, and seriously damaged, by two equally prominent sociologists, Dr. Robert Green of Michigan State University and Dr. Thomas Pettigrew of Harvard. They blast the new Coleman study as unsub stantiated and point out that the white middle class started its exodus from the cities back in 1950, before the Supreme Court’s decision out lawing segregated schools. In some cities, court ordered busing followed years of massive white movement to the suburbs. Coleman is clearly wrong in stating flatly that whites are moving out of the cities to escape school busing. It may influence some, but most of the new suburbanites are searching for the American Dream of a plot of land, a house and picket fence. That’s a Dream closed to most black people because of non-enforcement of fair housing laws, local zoning regulations, and economic hardship. One way to integrate the schools is to integrate housing patterns, but that doesn’t mean busing has no place. This country has become obsessed with bus ing, instead of being concerned about providing quality educational opportunities for all. The school bus is not the answer for every educatio nal problem, but it is one useful device to help integrate the schools and to make the next generation of Americans less class and race conscious and more open to diversity and pluralism, in itself an important educational goal. The fatal flaw in studies purporting to show that busing-or compensatory education or other innovations-doesn’t work, is that such new programs are almost never really tried. Very few school systems have honestly made a priority effort to make integration work. The typical response has been ta delay and to sabotage integration efforts until a court finally steps in and orders busing as a last resort. Then the white community and school officials scream bloody murder about "forced” busing, tensions increase, and nobody shows any concern about the kind of education the kids get. Boston is the classic example of this kind of situation, but other cities are about as callous in. their treatment of white and black children. As . New York City’s Human Rights Commission pointed out: "The fact is that little has been done anywhere to develop pratical strategies to cope with the daily challenges of integration to make it work.” THE CHARLOTTE POST “THE PEOPLES NEWSPAPER” Established 1918 By A M . Houston Published Every Thursday By The Charlotte Post Publishing Co., Inc. 9139 Trinity Road - Charlotte, N.C. 28216 Telephones (704 ) 392-1306 - 392-1307 ‘ Circulation 11,000 Bill Johnson...Editor - Publisher Gerald O. Johnson.Business Manager Robert L. 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Since declines in the unemployment rate, particu larly black unemployment, have his torically lagged (by three to six months) upward economic shifts, it looks like the 1973-1975 recession (depression!!!) might be here till Christmas. While the anticipated $400 mil.' drop in airline profits this year is bad news for the airline industry, it can be good news for black travelers With annual travel expenditures by blacks of over $1 billion dollars, airlines and travel agencies are aggressively offering discount summer travel packages catering to blacks. $2 a pound bacon and continued high beef prices might be seen this summer in local supermarkets, ac cording to the United States Depart ment of Agriculture (USDA). Last year’s high grain prices prompted farmers to cut hog production 15-20 percent. A similar (but not as large) decline in the number of cattle is also expected to keep beef prices high this summer. On the positive side, the USDA'expects a significant drop in both beef and pork prices in the fall as spring-early summer high prices prompt farmers to increase production of hogs and cattle... Expect to be paying 5 cent to 15 cent a gallon more for gasoline by year s end. Although Congress re 8 gaS tax hike* 8uch an increase appears certain because of President Ford’s tarriffs, his desire to decontrol oil and gas prices and the determination of the oil-produc ing nations to raise the price of k Consider gas mileage if O0ujnembu,y,ng a ca'; if you drive 10,000 miles a year, an extra fivS miles per gallon could save you more than $100. y u Alexander Paints Dismal Picture For Blacks Continued from page 1 pastor* and ask them to re store the faith once delivered to the saints. He ended by admonishing hit hearers to stop being delivered at the polls by self appointed ward healera. He aaid, "They get the money for delivering you and you get the cold shoulder, when you appro approach the one you put in office." He «u fearful of the old day* when an elected offi ce1- when told that the had been supported and elected by blacks, retorted by saying, ‘‘I paid for your support and vote, in front."
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