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4 THE CAR6LIHUU9 RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1982 Editorial Vie wpoint 77ie CAROLINIAN’S Jesus strove also to produce sufficient humil ity in patents to have them willing to learn from their children the deeper things of life. For when hts disciples rebuked those who brougt their young to be blessed by Jesus, he w as much displeased, and sa d unto them: "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for such is the king dom of God . " Is Travel Segregation Gone? Is travel segregation gone forever? We cer tainly hope so. in light of the most recent ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court. There have been a number of successive de cisions regarding travel on buses and trains without being segregated on a racial basis. The South, however, has discovered ways and means to avoid carrying out the decisions. The South has done this successfully and with much finesse. Foi instance, once when the High Court ruled against segregaton of "interstate” pass engers, the South thought up an “intrastate” arrangement. It puts on the doors of the wait ing rooms: "Intrastate Colored Passengers" and “Intrastate White Passengers.” The freedom riders focused the attention of the world upon the bold, wilful practices of the South as to segregation of passengers on the basis of race. Observance of Sav-Your-Vision Week be gan Sunday and is sponsored by members of the Optometric Society. This celebration is n deed fitting, inasmuch as nothing is more m portant than good vision if one is to live hap py and secure life. The history of eye-glasses dates back to earlv Chinese history. In drawing a comparison of vision needs today with that in the past, one learns a great deal. Although glasses were a great early discovery, their use was lost, be cause they failed to appear in the times of the Hebrews. Egyptians or the Greeks. Tt was not until the end of the 13th century that any testimonials to heir use had been found in writing. A standard vision test did not appear until 1863. Our special education programs in the public schools offer courses for the visually handicap ped. To qualify for enrollment in the classes, a pupil’s vision after being fitted with glasses, and according to the Spelling Chart must range between the perception of light to a dis tant vision of 20/200. This latter figure means that the low-visioned child sees at 20 feet what the normal-seeing child perceives at 200 feet. If the Snellen fraction reads 11/200, the child would, for educational purposes, be called Foreign Language Difficulty Since the cold war with Russia, foreign lan guages in our schools are being reemphasized. Tn some schools at least one language is requir ed. Up to this time, and even now, many stu dents have developed the attitude that they can't learn a foreign language. They balk at studying a language just as much as they do science and mathematics. And many students fail because of their own faulty thinking. One of the reasons why students experience difficulty when taking a foreign language is that they lack a basic knowledge of high school English grammar. Thus student's background in English plays a major role in foreign lan guage institution, since it serves as the “refer ence’ language in the students' studies. “German” differs from French, Spanish, and English: it is akin to Latin. Some students at tempt to learn English and German at the same time, and this is not easy. Too many stu dents assume wrongly that they know English because they, supposedly, speak it every day A student should be required to speak correct English, for it is the medium through which German can be taught. Another reason why students experience dif ficulty in learning a foreign language is then failure to apply themselves before the midterm examination. AH foreign languages particular ly Gentian, require day-to-day study. All les sons form a continuing chain! therefore, a stu dent cannot hope to learn several lessons all Victor Riesel in a recent column entitled “In side Labor—Move for Desegregation” calls at tention to practices in our national unions. One point he emphasized was that organized labor does not practice whiat it preaches. In a private meeting in his office on Feb ruary 15. the Vice President of the United States told NAACP leaders that his next major project would be the desegregation of Ameri can labor. After the NAACP leaders informed Vice President Johnson they wanted more than promises, the Vice President said he would move on a formal basis in 30 days. At that time, he will call labor leaders for official chats The Vice President learned from NAACP leaders that it is easier for a Negro craftsman to join and stay In a union in the South than in the North. In the skilled construction trade unions, for instance. It was learned that vhLualiy all of the 25.- 000 or so men in the rapidly dwindling ranks THE NEGRO P RES3-—believes that America can best had the world away from racial end national antagonisms when it accords to every mar regardless of race, color or creed, his human and legal rights Hating no man fear nig no man—the Negro Press strives to help every man on the firm be ii*f that all men are hurt as long as anyone is held back. WORDS OF WORSHIP Save-Your-Vision Week Union Desegregation This, it seems, is the basis of the attitude Jesus held about the home. He saw the importance of the individual, even as a child, and realized the necessity for respecting his selfhood. It the com mon purpose of parental guidance were in har mony with this teaching, so as to permit the child to follow his own spiritual design, keeping contact with his soul, how different would be his manhood The most-recent Supreme Court decision was that all racial segregation in transporta tion facilities is unconstitutional The Court said the ruling is just as binding on travel with in a state (intrastate) as on travel between states (interstate). This ruling can be raced indirectly to the arrest and presecution of about 220 “freedom riders" in Jackson. Mississippi. The riders, both Negroes and whites, were arrested and prose cuted on charges of disturbing the peace be cause they went to waiting rooms reserved for whites. However, the recent decision of the Court was not directly involved in the case of the Mississippi riders. Now that the question has been settled, once and for all, there is nothing for the South to do but be responsible for carrying out the law. If it does not. then the Federal government should waste no time in seeing that the states do. blind. The celebration of this week should call at tention to the fact that we should take very good cere of our eyes. It has b p en stated that one child in every S(M of the school enrollment needs the special serv ices provided for the visually handicapped. This means that a school enrollment of about 7.000 pupils would be needed to justify a class of fifteen for sight-saving instruction. To conserve the sight of the school children, sight-saving teachers use large type book < large type typewriters, (touch system should be taught), off-white or cream colored paper, pencils with large thick soft lead recording machines and records (talking books), and other functional devices. Teachers of these children are trained to un derstand the limitations of these children and to help them solve their special problems in order to develop well-rounded personalities. The children in the sight-seeing classes spend the greater part of their school day in the reg ular classroom. Good eye sight is precious, let us this week resolve to take care of our eyes—the onlv pair we have. at once. For example. German cannot be cram med. “Absenteeism”, excused or unexcused, weak ens a student. It is the student’s responsibility to account for the work done in his absence. Next, poor study habits is another reason why many students experience difficulty in learning the foreign languages. In all courses, students should spend a minimum of two hours of study in preparation for one hour of class Few students can afford to spend less than two Many foreign language students do not make proper use of facilities, such as the language laboratory. Many wait too late to confer with their instructor to correct a fault. Concerning grades, many college students seem to think that they can be given a grade higher than they have earned, especially when it comes to losing a fellowship on account of a poor grade in foreign language. They are also much concerned about their grades in foreign languages when they are refused a national de fense loan, when they are forced to drop out of school, and when they are put on probation. Each student should realize that his final grade in a course represents his instructors' honest evaluation of his work. Learning a foreign language requires a good deal of memory work both in terms of spelling the- words and pronouncing the words. Time ; s required to do this. Let us hope that these observations will prove beneficial to college students who need to reappraise themselves and their study habits. of skilled Negro workers are in southern unions —segregated locals—but still inside them. There are thousands of northern locals in which there is not a single Negro. This includes locals of the operating engineers, iron workers, the sheet metal workers, the plumbers, the carpen ters. the boilermakers, and the rail unions. This is true, inspite of the declarations of some rail union leaders. There is. for example, not a single ticket clerk in the depots of the nation— the North included. How can organized labor justify outright exclusion of the Negro from trade union locals? If specific non-Negro membership clauses are removed, then the exclusion is by tacit con sent—-which is just as harmful as the former. Some of these unions are led by members of labor’s high command itself. The Negro must be given an honest chance to join the unions and work contentedly to earn his daily bread! “Settled Beyond Question That No State’ 1 Can “Require” This Segregation What Other Editors Say "The black men have, for too Ion?, been the "under does" in the land God gave them. Now that they are be coining the “toprinss" thev must begin to bark with one voice. - HIE NIGERIAN IIML - MARCH, lmi2 With rushing winds ami gioo my skies The dark and stubborn Wintoi dies: Fm -olf. unseen. Spring faintly cries. Bidding her earlies child a rise: March -Bayard Taylor. March is a turning-point., when Winter begins to give way to wanner weather and the fii t signs of Spring appear. In early colonial days, the year began ir March. The name of the month comes from the name Mart which, in ancient Italian mean ing. was the name for the Goo of Win. March, of course, used to b* the month of Inauguration Day. and on March 4th, for many years Presidents were inaugu rated. However, with the adon tion of the 20th Amendment in EDITORIAL OPINIONS Following are editorial quotes compiled by The Associated Ne gro Press on subjects of current interest to our readers from some of the nation’s leading newspapers. URBAN AFFAIR *MF,LOD\ FINGERS ON THE NEWS, Miami. Fla.: "If an urban affairs depart ment cannot be authorized in this Congress, perhaps the Dem ocrats will stand to win in the end anyway. The issue also could be decisive for a number of congressional seats. “Meanwhile. Dr. Weaver may get a cabinet post regardless Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff is expected to resign to cam paign for the Senate from Con necticutt, President Kennedy is expected to appoint Dr. Weaver to succeed him. “With the racial issue out of the way, perhaps the next Con gress will be more sympathetic to the needs o f urban areas. THE NEWS AND COURIER. Charleston, S. C.: ‘Apparently a vacancy is coming up soon in Health. Edu cation and Welfare- described as a happy hunting ground for iob-seekers when Secretary Ribicoff resigns to run for the Senate in Connecticutt. We would not expect the Senate to refuse confirmation of Mr Weaver as a Cabinet officer on the ground that he is a Negro Whether he has other qualifi cations for appointment to a Cabinet post may be regarded nowadays as irrelevant. “However, that may be. we re joice at reactivation in the Sen ate of an alliance of Republi cans and Southern Democrats to strike a blow at the Urban Affairs proposal. The scheme has many undesirable features, chiefly the transfer of respon - sibility from local communities to Washington.” THE SUN. Baltimore, Md.: Osie catch m this scheme was that mast Republicans now in the House do not mind being so revealed. They come from small towns in rural areas wncre civil rights is not a burning issue: their constitu ents Include few Negroes. They are well aware that the swine of population to the cities hr.v yet to be- anything like reflect ed in representation in the House. The city voter, generally •peaking, is a voter they feel 1933 inaugurate ns have been held in January. I'ht' cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney, of Massachu setts, on March i 4. 1894. The U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. V., was founded by an Act of Congress on Mar. Hi. 1.".02, and St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th, daunt: from the death of the patron Saint of Ireland on March 17th, ! 493. The month is the birthday anniversary of several Presi dents of the United States, a mong them being Grover Cleve land the only man to serve t? o separate terms of office as Pre sident of the United States. Cle veland was born in Caldwell, N. J on March 18, 1837. March contains many othe, interesting historical days, Mar. 19th being the birthday anniver sary of William Jennings Br> - an. and March 29t.h that of Pre sident John Tyler, the tenth Pi esident of the United Slates. March 30th is known as Seward Day in Alaska, the anniversary of the day. in 1868 when Russia ceded Alaska to the United States tor $7,200,000. --THE SHREVEPORT SUN they can pretty much ignore. “Republican senators, and Republican leaders who want a member of their party again in the White House, cannot afford to take so blithe a view. For the future, they must look in the cities, and for that matter to (he Negro vote. They may b less sure than are their rural fellows that Mr. Kennedy has been given one in the eye. THE POST. Houston. Tv “The real opposition to crea Medical Care For The Aging The overwhelming majority of America's 17 million senior citi zens want health care throu.n Social Security. They are deter mined to get it. For too long they have been shunted aside by a Congress that has responded to the pressures of the American Medical Association, the large insurance companies and the Chambers of Commerce. Time is running out The pa tience of our older population has been taxed beyond all rea son. They want action in the next session of Congress Being realists, they are gilding for an all-out fight with the A. M. A. and the big business interests. Experience has taught them the need for unity of purpose and intelligent political action if they are to achieve victory on Hit legislative front. All over the country Golden Age Clubs and Senior Citizen; Organizations are springing up —not for the purpose of getting together for a friendly game of pinoChle or checkers, but for the purpose of mobilizing support for the King-Andersor Bill. Re cognizing ihat there is strength . . IttiUj, clu&itfi'a Oi tiie&c »emut groups nave been banding to gather to form area. State and regional Councils. These, in turn, have been affiliating with the National Council of Senior Citizens for Health Care through Social Security—the central na tional organization in the coun try today carrying on the fight tor such legislation. The accent is on organzation and education. The elderly want to know the facts. They are RIGHT WINGERS POSE DANGER The John Birch Society's Blue Book, the Bible of the organi zation brands civil rights strug groes were fighting hard for pies as “Communist inspired". That's a tip-off on where the John Birchers stand on the issue. It is pretty hard to believe that John Birch founders and officers don't know that Ne their eivi! rights long before the Communis's came on the Ame rican scene. What is piain is that the Birchers want to discourage par t icipation in civil rights strug gles with the suggestion that those who fight for fair employ ment or fair housing laws or for integrated schools are stoo ges or dupes of the Rods. Although he's not quite as fai right as the Birchers, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater wants to amend the Constitution to permit the state to establish se gregated schools if they want them Right wingers of all shades are lined up in opposition to con tinued progress in civil rights. They are a distinct danger. —THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE tion of the department at this time came principally from four groups, those who objected to the appointment of the present agency’s head as a member of the Cabinet, conservatives and states’ righters opposed to any expansion of federal aid to ci ties. representatives of rural area in Congress and private housing and real estate interests who were afraid that operations of tlie Federal Housing Admin istration might be reduced un der the reorganization" sir! and tired of being told un truths by the A. M A. and big business. They nourish a heal thy contempt for the Kerr-Mi!!* law of 1960 because it destroys ail human dignity by reducinj the medically indigent to the state of pauperism before dis pensing to them limited medical care benefits. They also nourish a bitter resentment against the A M A. and the powerful in surance industry because they supported the Kerr-Mills bill prior to its passage and have been trying to cram the Kerr- Mills law down the throats of the aged ever since its passage. For a law that was supposed to meet, the health problems of the aged the Kerr-Mills law has fallen flat on its face. Last week s report by the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare reveals that only 19 States and two territories, Pu erto Rico and the Virgin Island#, have seen fit to implement Kerr- Mills. Where Kerr-Mills is in opera tion the range of medical bene fits offered is pitifully inade quate. It is this glaring inade quacy that deserves the spot light. In Kentucky, for example, the Kerr-Mills State Program for- the medically indigent pro vides only three days of paid-up hospital care to emergency pa tients only. Yet the A M. A. spokesmen insist that "Any sen ior citizen in need of medical care can get it free under the Kerr-Mills Law.” Such a monstrous distortion of the truth deserves to be ex posed. The simple truth of tis® JUST F BE MARCUS H. BOULU.ARE JIM CROW We were happy to read that the question of ' intrastate” and '‘interstate” passengers has been settled once and for all. All that is needed row is to require (and I mean it) the Southern State? to abide by tne law, Jim Crow is a hard fellow to kill, and we thought he was dead five or six years ago. How ever. he is still living although he is mighty feeble. The fast pace of the “freedorr riders” got him down when hr tried to run the mile race. Once he collapsed from over work and a "run-down condi tion" How he recovered no one knows, but he did, I wonder what he will (as he sits at the door of the white waiting room) do to keep Ne gro passengers from being seat ed in an integrated waiting room You may be sure that he is going to “raise a nikus" MENTAL HYGIENE: I think that I mentioned before that I was taking Psychcology 312 ' Mental Hygiene.” This is a very interesting course and we dis cussed the psychoanalysis the ory of Sigmund Freud, the the ories of Jung and Adler, his pu pits We have discussed the sat . faction of physical needs, and will discuss Monday the satisfy ing of emotional need. 1 am ex pecting the teacher to surpn: e us with a test next Wednesday Considerable attention has been given to parental handling of children which forces them into maladjustment of different kinds. Rejection was consider ed a powerful force m this . - sards. SPEECH CLINIC: Here at Flo. rida A&M University, we have 17 speech correction majors; w>. are expecting two to graduate in June. One of them is a moth Cordon B. Hancock's BETWEEN THE LINES THE LATE MARCUS GARVEY . . . FOOL OR PROPHET Forty years ago the name Marcus Garvey was upon the lips of the nation. His admirers and followers from coast to coast and in many instances, their devotion bordered on fa naticism. Marcus Garvey's sub ject was Africa's redemption and he had dreams of a great African empire ruled by Ne groes. It is true he was in many in stances flambouyant and drea my. but underlying all was a redeemed Africa. He was a West Indian and the large West In dian population in this coun try gave him a leverage that made him a ini' htv force. It was my good fortune to b in New York City when the Gar rev movement was at its zenith and witnessed the great Garvey parade in Harlem. It was a spectacle worth beholding and one to be long remembered. There were gathered in New York Garveyites from all over this nation and his march, was something of a triumphal or cas. Garvey had conjured un ‘dreamy visions, of the ere. :. things that American Negroi'.- could accomplish in Africa It was his contention th.-t ft. citizenship in this count: v would be too long and tedious in its coming, and that Nearor could build a mighty empire in Africa while they were waiting to change the ways of the race prejudice in this country. Garvey had dreamed up sh ■ Black Star Line a steamshm company that would make- a highway to Africa that would bring into cohesive whole t.h" Neuroes of the world. T* is tru that. most of Garvey's follower.-' were West Indians but this did not detract from his paramount dream of building a mighty eni pirr in Africa with the Amer ican Negro’s know-how But at the height, of hr dreams and glory, there arm stubborn opposition. Even liv Africans began to question where he would center his etn pire and whose part of Africa would he rule over. But most important of all there arose in the United St.af' those who questioned Garvey’s plans and his approaches to ra cial solutions. Some of the crit icim was bitter and one of oir great men ridiculed Garvey as nothing more than a Public As sistance Program which grants limited medical care benefits to those unfortunate innigents who pass the humiliating “mean"' test. The extent of medical sei - vices available is directly pro portionate to the individual State's ability to purchase these services, no more - no ie: s. Another colossal untruth to which the public has been ex posed is that private comnu r cial insurance companies ran adequately meet the health needs of the elderly. To th<» aged them selves. who have been treated over the past years like un touchables by the insurance companies, such a claim become a mockery. These old-timers still feel the sting of discrimi nation because of age. exces sively high premiums, extreme ly limited benefits and cancell able policies at the discretion of the covnpanv. America needs the Social Se curity approach. Seniors acoss the nation do not want the Ken- Mills charity-pauper’s oath ap proach, Nor do they want the A. M. A. or the insurance compa nies and Chambers of Commerce as their spokesmen. The old folks want medical care through Social Security. And they're roll ing up their sleeves in the great est "do-it-yourself” political ac tion campaign in history to get >1 er who returned to school after starting a family. She has dor this at a great sacrifice, but s ft will bo duly rewarded pretty soon, \V. are giving therapy to ten Lincoln High School studen -. Six students in the University School are taking speech correc tion instruction. We have < i. I college students taking therapy, while tw oor three children in the community take two lessons per week. With the little children (pre school), we give considerable ear training. This means that we teach them how to listen to gross environmental sounds, to animals and their sounds, and to speech sound Usually the ear training period is followed by training in how to isolate the error sound and correct it. Then wc attempt to strength en the sound by using it in fa miliar words. First, we give them words with the sound in the initial position of the word. Next, we drill on words with the riT.ii sound at the end of words Finally, we drill on words with the error sound in media! position in the word. This is a slow process for Fob a ■ i a .e child, a.id one should v not become alarmed if it takes ' nine months to carry the child thropih seven steps, meeting twice per week And you must kec in mind that we work on ONLY one sound at the time Mothers a Hemp! to gel their children to correct all of tne error -minds in the word at one md the .one thru But f his is no; Uie way ii si sou id be dene. Teacher:- going to summer chooi is - Jit do well if they would lake a com •- in speech vors. ctioi; :s si a , of another col -e in erim ,t:.-Tl'cm whole perspective would be widened. being "a little i'at black ugt* man". When the American Negroes had leveled their devastatin' banigc of criticism. Garvey movement ran into serious Iron belt and then he ran into gov ernment trouble ; and soon Ga vey's dream collapsed and he no doubt died a broken-heart'' 1 man. „ We can now look back on Garvey and the Garvey move ment through the perspective of forty years. Garvey 's assump tion of bitterly slow progress m a break-through in America.: race prejudice has been justi fied. For in forty years our fight for full citizenship has hardly put a dent in segregation. There is no indication that there will be any significant, break through within the near future fo’ even thou: h desegregation will be stow, integration will be just as slow Gam-vs all ■■•• native was Afri can opportunity for Amo an Neeroes who did not chon. ‘o wait out race prejudice and seg regation. Liberia ; < brilliant example of what Negroes can do if the;. ' lon tired of win ing. Th ■ t tnml.it ing a built in id i o! ru min ■ n way f rot) our In'TJV’lnnd Imre in America no;: a, '] tc anv ci ibout wall -i lud" . !\ for full citizen-) ship. If Alrieu can afford ai he: and hr-v :i so: those whOJ are naoci o. o. km; then Gar-1 ’.■••• dream was not too abor tive. Todnv. forty vi a::- after Gar eev hud fired tlv world's imag ination wkh Africa'' nntcntial j(irs no find the world .- atten tion renewed on the Africa that, (lurvev i: cd so hard to sell to the world of his day. Africa . imply refuses to he dismissed from t'-e world pic ture and there r- a question whet lid thi agonizing throes through which Africa is now passim? would h vo been avert ed had Garvey had his way. Garvey irieri to bring Africa to ihe front in his day Today Africa is in the front of world attention. Perhaps after all. Gorvcv was looking over the shoulders of many who ridicul ed him. The extent to which Garvey saw thal Africa wps high up on the world agenda indicate: hr was nol a foot but n prophet Poet’s Corner POETIC SHANK." BY YVM. HI NRY HUFF Fur \\P He thanks you for that fragrant rose - - How suer) of you to bring ji. A thousand thanks to you hr owes - Your praise, he'll ever sing ; r He thank? you for those words of cheer. How kind of you to speak then? Such helpful words he loves to he a<. Tho tv ver dors he seek them. He thanks you for that .-mil you brought You’d make a dungeon sunnv And take this as an after thought You're sweeter far than honey IfeQkt ilnwz, Y> ‘it’s not the minutes yoa upend eating'—it’* the ssns* onds.” . i
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