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THE TRIBUNAL AID
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1973
‘You’re A Part Of The Solution, Or You’re A Part Of The Problem ’
The
Pointer
by Albert
A. Campbell
HELLO , WELCOME
In this the first edition of THE TRIBUNAL AID, I
will attempt to relate to you, my readers, the
intentions and goals of this column, The Pointer. As
most of you already know, this columnist wrote for
another newspaper under the same banner. The
Pointer. Most readers are familiar with this name. The
Pointer, and because of this, I think it advantagious
to this writer and newspaper to retain the same name.
First of all, let me say that it has nothing to do with
the name of this city Hi^ Point. I use the name.
Pointer, in the sense of direction.
In writing in the other newspaper, my main area of
concern was High Point. Therefore, most of my
writing was about issues involving High Point and or
its citizens. However in this paper, my scope will be
broadened and I will strive to point towards issues
and concerns that are much larger than just High
Point. However, this is not to say that I will in any
way ignore this city’s problems. To the contrary, I
shill further deal with them even more thourough.
My beat will begin with the city of High Point and
cover whatever else remains. I viill write about the
issuK that 1 feel my readers are interested in.
Additionally, I shall go even a step further and
introduce issues that I feel my readers have missed.
The tone of my writing hopefully will not become
stereotyped in any one category, but objective in all.
The good will be written about as well as the bad.
The new as well as the old. I shall deal with it all.
Government; city, county, state and federal. Illegal
drug use, and drug abuse; politics, and crime; human
values, and race relations; education, and the lack of
it. I will strive to approach the issues as fairly as I
possibly can. I want to be as objective as humanely
possible. And when I fail to be objective, I want you,
the readers, to write me about it. When I faU to
approach an issue that deserves attention, let me
know. I intend to look into all matters, and not shun
any. My responsibility is to my readers and not a
special faction or group.
In my opinion, THE TRIBUNAL AID will be the
perfect vehicle to speak out about the problems and
injustices within our community and also the nation.
Consequently, I plan to honor this great opportunity
with dignity and respect. I shall accord it the same
honor it has accorded me.
Keeping in mind the thought and quotation I like
so well, I hope to be a part of the solution, rather
than a part of the problem. Maybe then corrections
will begin to materidize.
This column of questions and answers on federal
tax matters is provided by the local office of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service and is published as a public
service to taxpayers. The column answers questions
most frequently asked by taxpayers.
Q. My return was chosen for
examination by the IRS. Does
this mean that I’m going to
owe more tax?
A. The selection of your in
come tax return for examina
tion does not necessarily mean
that you owe more tax. Your
return may be selected if there
is a question about some item
of income or deduction, if you
have reported some income
that is not taxable, or have de
ducted some unallowable ex
pense. In such cases, the IRS
may also want to insure that
the other information on the
return is correct. Or you may
have filed a claim for refund,
and your return may be ex
amined to make sure that the
proper amount of tax is re
funded to you.
Q. If, after an audit, the IRS
says I owe more tax, does this
mean that I automatically have
to pay it?
A. No. If you disagree with the
results of an IRS examination,
you may appeal that decision
at a conference with a mem
ber of the IRS District Con
ference Staff and subsequently
at a hearing with the Service’s
Appellate Division. And if you
wish, you may have someone
represent or accompany you at
these stages. If the issue is not
settled at these proceedings,
you may petition the U.S. Tax
Court or pay the tax and file
suit in Federal district court.
For more details, see IRS
I^blication 556, “Audit of Re-
turns, Appeal Rights and
Claims for Refund.” It’s avail
able free by writing your In
ternal Revenue district office.
Q. My son is taking a summer
job between school semesters.
If he makes more than $750,
will I be able to claim him as
a dependent?
A. In general, if your son is a
full-time student for some part
of each of five months during
1973 or is less than 19 years
old at the end of the year, you
may claim him as a dependent,
regardless of how much in
come he has, if you meet all
the other dependency tests, in
cluding furnishing more than
one-half of your son’s total
support.
Q. I pay a maid to come in
once a week to clean up. Do I
have to pay social security tax
on what I pay her?
A. If you pay an employee a
total of $50 or more in cash
wages in a calendar quarter
for household services, you
must pay social security tax
for the employee.
Household services include
those performed by cooks,
cleaning women, babysitters,
and handymen.
The taxes apply to all cash
wages paid during the quarter,
regardless of when they were
earned and whether they were
paid by the day, the week, or
the month. Food, lodging, and
car-fare are not considered
wages unless cash is given for
these items.
Use Form 942, “Employer’s
Quarterly Tax Return for
Household Employees,” to re
port this tax. The form and
instructions are available at
your local Internal Revenue
Service office.
I'HE TRIBUNAL AID
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ALBERT A. CAMPBELL, MANAGING EDITOR
You People WoHed Too long
ROY WILKINS
COLUMN
Negro Americans are forever complaining
about their lot. They have many legitimate
complaints, the principal one of which applies
across the board: progress is either too slow or
non-existent. They mean that after a
discrimination has been made plain, the
conection of it takes more years and more
struggle against fresh obstacles.
The news that Tom Sanders has been chosen
head basketball coach at Harvard University is a
success story that has a special exhilaration
because of the sharp disappointments of the
past, inevitably cormected with color. Not race,
for dark-skinned foreigners were accepted
before American Negroes made their
appearance. All the cautious words to Jackie
Robinson come to mind.
The worry of managers over the “proper”
roommates crowds into the Sanders tory. Black
managers are still not hired by baseball clubs.
There comes up, too, the difference between
the TV commercials featuring Negro stars - in
dollar earnings - and those with white players.
Tom Sanders came out of Harlem. “It’s a
long way,” he says, “from Harlem to Harvard.
The only thing that’s the same is the first three
letters.” He grew up on 116th street and
Lennox avenue in Deep Harlem. After his
graduation from New York University, he was
drafted by the Boston Celtics. Thereafter, he
played on eight championship teams and this
May, in his thirteenth season, became the first
black head coach at Harvard.
There are good black coaches over the
country and Sanders, hopefully, will help to
dispel the myths that have been hindering
Negro coaching and managerial talent. First
there was the notion in baseball that blacks
must not be allowed to pitch. Too complicated,
too much thought required. Then there was the
idea that a football quarterback was not a spot
for a Negro - too complicated, and too many
brains required. The Georgia Tech teams helped
lay that canard to rest. Now comes Sanders in
the prestigious Ivy League. There will be more.
A^Me the New York Knicks, with their black
captain and other black players, were savoring
their basketball world championship; while
Hank Aaron pursues the homerun record of the
great Babe Ruth; while Mississippi State
University at StarkeviUe graduates its first black
engineering student, Negro Americans might
pause in their progress to consider the 15
million black Africans in South Africa.
A 1936 Bantu Trust and Land Act gave black
South Africans, who comprise 70 per cent of
the population, 14 per cent of the land.
Everything has changed since 1936, but South
Africa stands pat. The voteless black South
Africans have no spokesmen in the Parliament,
which can (and does) enact laws to shackle
them. The courts enforce the laws. The police
harass the blacks on any pretext. A black South
African can be detained for 90 days without
charge and then for another 90 days.
White students and white clergymen have
staged protests, but have been banished or
silenced through persecution and the threat
thereof. The black leadership, thought at first
to be docile is protesting continuously.
Negro Americans ought to press their
strug^e, which has rewarded them in dribs and
drabs. But they should not be apart from the
efforts of the poor black Americans or the
black South Africans, most of whom are far
below the U.S. poverty level and subject to
unlimited racial persecution.
Thoughtful U.S. Negroes reject the
comparison of their lot with people outside
America. How do black Americans stand with
respect to white Americans? By this true test
the nation is falling short, else the Tom Sanders
story, for example, would not be regarded as
unusual.
PIEDMONT
PROFILE
BY CECIL BUTLER
ANOTHER VIEW
Looking at the Piedmont in total is
something that has been long overdue. The
profile of High Point, Greensboro, and
Winston-Salem has to be looked at if we ever
are to work out our problems. In that scope
this columnist will look at the Triad Council of
Government, Drug Abuse & Use, Politics,
Housing, Employment-Unemployment, Race,
Power (or the lack of) and human values. In
dealing with these issues it’s as important to
point up solutions as it is to point out
problems. Your columnist will be fair, and
honest in confronting aU issues.
My qualifications are as follows:
CrVIL RIGHTS: Work with Brooklyn
(N.Y.C.) C.O.R.E. during rioting for better
Community Relations.
Student Organizer for Southern Students
Organization Committee in North and South
Carolina.
Through CORE in Greensboro by a joint
action of NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, I work with P.
Lorillard, Local No. 317 with I^bor Problems.
Was Union Organizer of America AFL-CIO in
Cone Mills Campaign.
EDUCATION: Boys High School (Brookly,
NYC)
North Carolina A&T State University
(Greensboro, N.C.)
Highlander Folk School (Knoxville, Term.)
CUnical Research (Drug Addiction) Center,
(Lexington, Ky.)
ENCAMPMENT for Citizenship (Bronx,
NYC)
WORK EXPERIENCE: Meadow Brook
National Bank - WaU St. (NYC)
(Supervisor of “Officer Temps”)
Hathaway-DeMiUe Home for Disturbed
Children (House Parent - Cal.)
Experiment in Self-Reliance (N.C.) (Master
Developer)
Youth Services Bureau WFU (N.C.)
(Community Contactact for Prison Units)
The Youth Summit
(Programming Coordinator)
Family Planning Program
(Socid Services Supervisor)
POLITICAL WORK: Precinct Chairman
(North High)
Council of Review (Democratic State Party-
State Executive Committee
FROM ■•JOJHNAL Ai'iJ GUlLjji''
Most of all I am a citizen of the Triad.
However, background is very important in
dealing with issues. I hope my experience will
do justice to the issues explored in the columns
to come. If you have anything to ask or add,
please write in. With your help and prayers this
paper can not help but be a winner!
THOUGHTS ON WATERGATE
If Watergate has taught us anything, it should
have taught us that the journey is as important
as the arrival. Too often, as humans, we are so
engrossed in getting to the finish line that we
fall into the trap of believing the end justifies
the means. In this context we must understand
that there is a need to develop and encourage
leadership in the party as weU as the need to
help rank and file members of the Democratic
Party acquire a reservoir of skills to make their
projects thoroughly successful and, thereby,
making the party a sound one. We have to assist
people with developing projects within the
party, and also we have to give creditability to
those who are elected to office from the
precinct levelto the statewide executive board.
It can not possibly be to our advantage to
develop projects and programs in a vacuum and
just give tickets to people to sell without giving
concern to the creative abiUties that are
available. We must respect each other’s ability
to contribute to the party’s growth and
development.
If we do not use the variety of resources that
are available to us in dedicated Democrats, we
run the risk of developing an exclusive group
calling the shots and thereby, creating the risk
of a Watergate atmosphere within our party
structure. The “Young Democrats” are a good
example of a group seeking its own self-identity
and working toward a sounder Democratic
process. We can all benefit by their
commitment to a more sincere and consistent
party.
II i-lliJH ” ' ' ■
Watergate Or Waterloo?
• PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
tame through the election cam
paign of-L972 in flying colors
:arrying every state in the Union
e icept Massachusetts, but it looks
ike Qie Watergate scandal mi^t be
I is Waterloo. He won 521 votes in th‘-
lectoral College to 17 votes for
iEORGE MCGOVERN who carriec
Massachusetts and the District of
Colunitria. _
As the investigation of the
Watergate scandal continues and
White House staff members who
served the Committee for the
Election of the President come up
for investigation or trial, the public
has begun to blame MR. NIXON 5ot
the fiasco.
MR. NIXON’Sposition in this sordid
casewas discussed at the meeting of
the -jGoilege of Bishops of the
Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church in its executive session April
3ft—May 1 at West Side CME Church
. in Atlanta, Ga. the bishop
expressed concern for the ethical
nd moral health of the naticm in
jneral and particularly of the
democratic process. The btebops
^id:
The bishops called attentim to
L«wis Harris poll conducted prior to
the President’s nation-wide ad
dress of April 30, 1973 and said that
poll revealed that 70 per cent of the
American people expressed a
negative reacticm to the manner in
which the Presidoit handled the
case. The same poll showed that, 70
per cent of the American pe^le
have serious doubts about the
Watergate scandal and the judicial
process of the nation.
“It is indeed ironic,” the bii^ops said
‘that certain members of the White
House staff, who were devotees of.
law and order, have through in
volvement in the Watergate scandal,
[M^pitated a national crisi^in tto
area,”
The problem of school
desegregation, equality of op
portunity for all Amwicans a^
social justice for all the citizens has
be® discussed as pditical issiies,
but basically they are all deep moral
issues. They are as deeply moral
issues as were the problems coh-
^cted with the abolitim of chattel
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