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cmm t cornu Keys To Success-Ambition, Effort by Hoyle H. Martin, Sr. Post Editorial Writer The problems of poverty, unemployment inadequate health care, inferior educational experiences and sometimes institu tionalized the life of misery and deprivation that many black people face. Yet, even the casual observer can see as the Rev. Jesse Jackson has recently said, "mountain ambit ions and valley efforts," will not enable most people to escape much of the deprivation they are caught up in. We are reminded of the valves of ambition and effort by a number of recent events that should give hope to anyone feeling a sense of frustra tion and hopelessness. We have recently witnessed the "third com ing" of Muhammad Ali as he shatt ered tradition by winning the heavy weight boxing championship for the third time at the age of 36. We saw on television this week the Ron LeFlore Story-a convicted felon who became a model prisoner and a suj>erstar baseball player that led to parole and major league baseball career. We are reminded, too, of Ms. Dona Patterson the 35-year old wife, mother, job holder and high school dropout who completed high school, earned two bachelor's and two master's degrees and now seeks a PH.D. .And that reminds us of Warren Rhodes, the eighth grade dropout, who now. holds a Doctorate degree in clinical psychology and teaches at Delaware State College. Each of these individauls - and we could name many more-has at least one thing in common: a driving ambition to succeed and a willing ness to put forth the effort to make success possible. Ali, who admitted he had some doubts during training for the big tignt reportedly saia to himself, "Suffer now, and live the rest of vour life as a champion " Dona Patterson, Ron LeFlore and Warren Rhodes are champions too because they suffered and sacrificed as they made an effort to achieve a desired goal. These individuals were, to use the Rev. Dr. Robert Robert scnuiier's words, "Possibili ty Thinkers "-people who believed they could achieve something by dedication and commitment to a goal. In conclusion, faith, hope, and a commitment to work oriented goal achievement is a quicker, more sure way to becoming .a champion to yourself than is the route of food stamps, welfare and-or self-pity or hatred of others. inus, we oeneve 11 is eacn person's responsibility to think through what his goal and willingness to work and sacrifice to achieve such goals. That, with all it implies, is what make America the America that it is. JLonger L-ounciI lerms, Yes! Λ* the City Council meeting on Monday, Councilman Ron Leeper asked his colleagues in writing to think about the possibiity of 4-year terms of office. While we believe this is a good idea whose ΰφφΛ? overdue,*~wer do not flecessarHy agree with 4-year terms. Just as we believe the districting system has brought the citizenry closer to their government, we believe longer Council terms on a staggered basis would be another step in the direction of more efficient government. fnl _ · - J -* * 1 grows and new demands are made for public service, it is essential that a stable council with considerable continunity be over-seeing and direçl^içse activitiesj - itS ' 4 ·. / . ν I f. Our reservation about 4-year terms stems in part from the length of the terms for the Mayor and the Council persons-at-large. It might be more practical to give the district Council persons 3-year staggered terms and the Mayor and at-large council-persons 4-year staggered terms. χ ne uuviuua nuvdiiidgcb ui lunger terms are (1) Council members Whatever the length of the terms, could concentrate more fully on city to repeat, we believe longer terms business, (2) Council persons would will make for better, more efficient be better able to avoid the pressures government. However, underlying of election-year politics in decision- it all is the more important fact of making, (3) the Council would have having dedicated and competent greater stability and continunity, (4) Councilpersons such as those we Council could implement long-range have now. planning than it would be able to witness in the executation stage (5) We urge the Mayor and City less costly for candidates seeking Council to give Councilman Ron public office and (6) it would enable Leeper's recommendation careful more citizens to seek public office, consideration because of its relation These are more than ample rea-ship to a bigger and better Charlotte sons for lengthening the terms of as we rapidly approach the 1980's Council persons. Most importantand even the year 2000. however, is the fact that as the city BLACKS'RETICENCE TO SEIZE THE INITIATIVE TO ORGANIZE THEIR COMMUNITIES 0 SAID DOUGLAS 0. GLASGOW, DEAN OF HOWARD 'JÏ4JVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, ISA MAJOR FACTOR AND AN IMPORTANT FACTOR CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COMMUNfT/FS' UNDEVELOPED STATUS" POLITICAN BUSINESS MAN DOCTORS LAWYERS ARTISTS TEACHERS MINISTERS WOPkERS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION SOCIAL WORHERS FRATERNAL GROUPS FINANCE COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTION ADMINISTRATION ENGINEERING PLANNING ARCHITECTURE PLACH PRESS Blacksv Destiny In Own Hands For Survival "Black Ethnicity" Needed The principle of "Black eth nicity" is a major key to the survival of Black business and Black economic self-sufficie ncy. according to George E. Johnson, President, Johnson Products Company, Inc. In a speech before the annu al convention of the National Beauty Culturists' League in Detroit, Johnson said giant corporations, conglomerates and multi-nationals are vigor ously competing for and seek ing every dollar they can get in the Black Community. Johnson, in 25 years, has turned a $250 loan into Ameri ca's largest Black manufac turer o£ hair and beauty pro ducts: He also founded a-tank on Chicago's south side 14 years ago, that is now one of the largest Black-owned banks in the country. "The Black insurance indus try is our oldest organized Black business enterprise, fol lowed by our beauty industry and then the Black funeral business," Johnson pointed out. "The Black beauty indus try has much in common with the Black insurance and fune ral businesses in that we are limited to the Black consumer market, as are moet other Black businesses. "Until Johnson Products Company went public in 1969, the major white cosmetic companies looked upon the Black beauty industry as just a nickel and dime business Today, when whites look at the Black beauty industry they see that it is not only beautiful, sut green and plenty green. In he last five years, practically •very major white cosmetics :ompany has made a concert ai effort to copy the product ine of Black companies and market these products specifically to Black consumers. White companies are making strong efforts to take over at every level of our kinky hair business." Black businesses must suf fer the onslaught of this com petition, Johnson said, be cause "the free enterprise system in this country is not yet a two-way street for Blacks. Whereas white com panies are free to enter our market and glean from it all they can get, we are not free to market our products in the general market. White people traditionally, do not buy any thing from Blacks that they can get from.whites." The answer, in part, to this problem, Johnson said, is for "Black business leaders, com munity, church, and political leaders to all understand that the principle of ethnicity is the key to our survival, and we must sell the entire Black community on this principle." Johnson declared, "We must stop the flow of our dollars from leaving the Black community to build the econo my of other communities. Until free enterprise is a two-way street, the only mar ket we have is the Black consumer market." He explained, "This concept of Black ethnicity means that we must build the economy in America's Black communities by going out of our way to support one another in a thou sands ways. We must buv the goods and services our broth ers produce and sell, even if it means going a little further, searching a little harder, and even at times, paying a little more. Loyalty is the very essence of ethnicity. Without survive." Johnson added, "The mess age is clear. We must come together, communicate, coop erate, collaborate, and coalesce our resources, and together re-orient ourselves on to a new course of enhanced economic growth. Sure, there are obstacles to overcome, one of which is our . propensity to distrust each other. This dilemma is a hangover of the slave mentali ty which many of us still suffer. Letter To The Editor Adult Center Dear Friends: We at East Mecklenburg Adult Center want to do every thing that we can to let the members of our community know about the courses and programs that we offer through Central Piedmont Community College. A great many people are not aware of the fact that senior citizens can take., courses through CPCC at no cost! This is an excellent opportu nity for many people, if only they were aware It would be greatly apprec iated if you could help us spread this information in our community. Enclosed is a brochure which lists all our course offerings for the Fall Quarter. You can see that it is indeed a very full schedule of courses. Please pass this information on to our com munity. Thanks for your help. East Mecklenburg Adult Toward People-Based Budgeting In recent years we've seen numerous sophisti cated systems developed. The latest is zero based budgeting, in which government agencies start with zero expenditures each year and have to justify their existence and their programs annually. All of these devices are attempts to get a fix on managing government agencies moré effective ly. But they don't really get to the heart of the budgeting process, which is political by its nature. —1 By Vernon E. TO That's why I've proposed what I call "people based budgeting." That's simply a handle for a concept that says government budgeting ought to make people needs the priority. Developing the federal budget, for examples a complex process in which each department»· agency spells out its needs for the fiscal year. That's a "want list" that goes to the White House where the ultimate decisions are made about who gets what. That's where "people-based budgeting" comes in. As the Office of Management and Budget shapes the overall federal budget, it has to set priorities. And those priorities should be set according to the most pressing social, or people, needs. The military for example, always gets an enormous budget, even when experts demons tràte where the fat can be cut and which new weapons systems are not necessary for an effective defense policy. Sometimes the military itself will acknow ledge that a specific weapon is needed for defense purpose, but it supports its development on the grounds that the Russians will think we're getting soft if we don't go ahead with it. New weapons systems are incredibly expen sive. And even the original cost estimates, high as they are, barely scratch the surface. Building a new type of aircraft carrier, for example, implies extra aircraft, electronic systems, and support vessels whose costs are never mentioned in the original estimates. And that doç§n.'t ever, touch the ciyaBMWcosti)verrore*rowa»*>o.ru w e a ρs': rvinuwerfi (Λ So people-based budgeting would in effect weigh the benefits of different kinds of federal programs. It would decide wh th - U is more important to build a battle ta? < a million dollars or to cure several hundr· , drug abusers and return them to productive 1 -3,. Those kinds of budget decision:: are ' :5a. to the nation. Should we build a new air; "'ft carrier for 2 billion dollars or should we ·.* .? that money to build 80 or 100,000 public houj! units? The budget-makers generally don't those kinds of questions. The aircraft ca. τ r ' ill either be approved or rejected beset' ·; .o«.ner considerations. Some of those are not really relevant to the worth of the project itself .And sometime s the need to placate soem n ingress man will result in approval of uni. ;ssary expenditure. But people-based budgeting would pose the question directly-does the nation need another aircraft carrier or does it need public housing? And before answering that question a trip to inner city slums should be mandatory. Perhaps if the budget-makers could see and feel the misery among America's poor they'd be less inclined to cut out necessary social programs for "kolnnnAfl K·· — — — Winning Seasons Built On Money And Programs THE CHARLOTTE POST "THE PEOPLES NEWSPAPER" Established 1918 Published Every Thursday By The Charlotte Post Publishing Co., Inc. 1524 West Blvd.-Charlotte, N.C. 28208 Telephones (704) 376-0496, 376-0497 Circulation, 9,915 60 YEARS OF' CONTINUOUS SERVICE . Bill Johnson ' Bernard Reeves ... Hovle H. Martin Sr Julius Watson , Albert Campbell..., Editor-Publisher General Manager Executive Editor Circulation Director Advertising Director Second Class Postage No. 965500 Paid Af Charlotte, N.C. under the Act of March 3,1878 Member National Newspaper Publishers Association North Carolina Black Publishers Association Deadline for all news copy and photoe is 5 p.m. Monday. All photoe and copy submitted becomes the property of the POST, and will not be returned. National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc 45 W 5th Suite 1403 2400 S Michigan Ave^ New York, N Y. 10036 Chicago, 111. 60616 (212 ) 489-1220 Calumet 5-0200 by Gerald Johnson The football season is still young, but the spectators that follow the Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith have seen enough. The Bull fans who started the season with high hopes and even higher expect ations have been rudely awak ened to start realization that t winning seasons aren't Dont on hopes or expectations, but rather on money and prog rams. The over Jealous fans built their hopes and expectations on a new coaching staff that brought a new kind of motivat ion to the football players The fan· that had asked Former Coach Eddie McGirt's head thought that a new coaching staff was the answer to a football program that had produced two consecituve los ing seasons and four losing seasons in the last five years Well, after three reasonable facsimiles of football games it wee obvious that ffe 'ifcrf luster Bulls will end this sea son on a losing note But before more heads are requested by the grand stand coaches, several points must be made First, the new coaches are coaching materi al that they did not recruit. Moreover, there seems to be a great deal of confusion bet ween coaches and players. This is not uncommon since the players must adapt to a new coaching staff. The coaching staff has worked hard in trying to pre pare these young men and can't be held totally responsi ble for the team's failure. There is one thing that puzzles me about the coaching, though They have three quarterbacks ; one is an option quarterback, one is a running quarterback, and one is a passing quarterback. The offensive line is inexperience and downright awful..Conse quently, it would appear U> me that the simpler things are kept the easier it would be for the player· to adapt. Shuffling differend styled quarterbacks requires different strategies for an offensive line, hence. It appears to me that unnecess ary pressure . _ being placed on the already untested offen sive line. Also, I can't understand why the only pass patterns run all are poet patterns and down and ins. Every game I saw this year the defense was Orald Jnhnfton giving down' and out·, pop passe·, and screens. But then what do I know. On defense the line is fairly decent. The linebackers are fair, and the defense backs are poor. I watched the right side cornerback who obviously can't read keys. On almost every play he fol'owed the wide receiver wherever he went The lucky thing for Smith was Hampton didn't notice it, and only ran wide to his side s few time s. You see on a sweep to his side, the rightside corner backs has the responsibility of turning the sweep play 'l"he Hulls corner back was out of place on every running play. Hampton did not take advantage of this Afater cursing throughout the game. I realized that the basic problem. It is the players, themselves. They don't poaaea I.D.T. I.D.T. stand· for intelligence, desire, and talent all three of which are neceaaary ingredi ents to win and in that order. A talented athelete that is dumb is not teachable. Conse quently. be can't lit into an organized team sport. An intelligent, talented player that doesn't want to play is hopeless. A player that is intelligent, really wants to play but has to talent Is a prime candidate for team sta tistician. You get the point. fa 1976 the last Bull winning season had a fine blend of academic athelete The likes of Dsrrell Jackson, Tim Hark ness, James Wideman, Lin wood Spindle, Steve Hogan, and Warren Jones all of which were intelligent young men and leaders. A look at grade point aver ages of atheletes ove tha paat three years will prove that the days of the academic atheitea are gone at Smith. In fart scholastic achievement is not given priority at Smith at all. This is quite evident because the school offers no scholastic scholarships. All of the finan cial aid is government grants of loans based on financial need, and not on scholastic ability. The truth of the matter is that the institution has serious and deep rooted problems that are not refcilv addressed. The poor athetotic program Is the only indication to the public that something is not right. The athetotic program is only a reflection of an institution plagued by the changing times, Labor Faces Challenge continued from pg. 1 siana to elect state officials who will work to repeal that state's right-to-work law "The repeal of right-to-work in Lorôslana Will become a major campaign of the natio- · nal labor movement," said Hill. . Hill wants to chance - the climate for labor, especially in thêlîrtjfh "Efforts to unionize J. >. Stevens textile plants and Winn-Dixie supermarkets are very important," he said The AFL-CIO has called for national boycotts against these ^companies because of their Labor law violations and rafaaal to recognize employee elected unions. There are 12 affiliates of the A. Philip Randolph Institute in North Carolina. The Stat* president is N. G. Washington of Fayetteviue, a member of ♦he United Rubber Workers of Americç. James Lawrence heads the Charlottechapter^^^^^^ Keep infromed 0h events tak ·.·& μ>Μ» in Charlotte. 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