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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY. MAY 15, 1985 Editorial Viewpoint "If by reason of strength they be forescor* years" is a statement from the Scriptures, and it indicates that by sane living one may have a longer lifespan. If one follows he world, conform ing to its ways, for a time you may seem to please the world. You will, untii you fail because your strength ha« gone out o f you. You will until nature We are deeply movfd by the response that we received to our first paper off of the new Cottrell-Vanguard Web Offset Press. The re action was highly gratifying and we appreciate the evaluation of our effort to produce a better newspaper. We will use the inspiration that came from your evaluation to continue to im prove the product until it becomes what you would have it be. We would have you know that all the money, effort and time spent had only one purpose—TO GIVE YOU A BET TER NEWSPAPER We hasten to say to you that we realized that thcr were some errors and flaws, but let us say here and now that it is human to error, hut divine to forgive. We hope you can realize that this was a huge undertaking and there The St. Petersburg Times, about two months ago, published a magazine article, from first hand information, on thi problems of migrants in the state of Florida. The findings were not ideal hv any stretch of the imagination. North Carolina Council of Churches is to be commended upon securing a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity in the amount of $270.4-14 to finance an expanded program for aid to migrant workers. The program of fice will be located in Rale’.gh at 410 Oberhn Road, and the council’s Committee on Min istry will oversee the program which will pro vide day care for children, education, health, sanitation and distribution of clothing avail n,,k to eight areas in the state. This expansive pngram will call for a full-time director, 51 st iff personnel during the summer. Most of the migrants some 150.000 passing through there annually are attracted for the purpose of finding work to helpn» harvesting potatoes and varied truck vegetables. Wh«t the harvests are finished, they move on to the next iob which may he located several states away. Where do they live? An Associated Press feature article appearing in the Sunday May Q ssuc of the News and Observer stated. "Some manage to rent cabins but for most its living in tents or in cardboard shacks or make is the food nutritious? TV AP article stated: ‘“You make us f in one of bread . says tony ivoski. the Imperial V.Vky CM. h e worked 10 hours » day on h.s knees The Negro thought that the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill would put an end to their registration and voting woes, but the Ne gro demonstrations during the voting campaign in Selma, Ala., revealed that it didn’t. President Johnson has asked the citizens of the United States to “come and reason togeth i r.” for the time is now to settle the matter of tqual voting privileges for all times in this country. Perhaps he would have used his “prod” considerably more were it not for the Viet Nam and Dominican Republican crises. A Harris survey indicated that U. S. citizens favor the proposed voting law by better than 3-2. The division in the nation would be much closer to SO-SO if the matter rested exclusively on whether the states or federal government should have- primary responsibility over re quirements for voting. Tipping the balance toward more federal initiative now is the decisive belief— better than 2-I—that most Negroes are not allowed to reg ister and vote in such states as Alabama. As was in the case of the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 196 4. the South is solidly opposed to the Tarheel Medical Society Meets Challenge The group conscience of the North Carolina Medical -Society has been "tempered” on the fires of the- American faith. After months of evaluating the organization’s purposes and re quirements for admission, the MCMS recently desegregated its membership but voted against me rging with its Negro counterpart, the Did North State Medical Society. Prior to this new commitment the NCMS admitted Negro physicians only to scientific membership which included all the rights of other white members, except social privileges. The house of delegates approved the consti tution change by a vote of 117 to 28, and this permits full membership for all qualified phy- The current law suit being instituted by twelve Negro policemen and charging the St. Petersburg Police Department with racially dis criminatory practices may be without prece dent. It specifically cites discrimination in the art as of work assignments, promotion artd pay, disciplinary procedures and use of dressing room facilities. The named defendants in the law suit are th< City of St. Petersburg, City Manager Lynn Andrews as administrative head of city depart ments and agencies, and Police Chief Harold Smith. Twelve of the 3 6 employees of the police department are listed as plaintiffs, the suit is a class suit, filed “on behalf of others similarly situated"—that is all Negro employees of the St. Petersburg Police Department. This law suit mav well set the stage for other cities in the South, where discrimination is practiced in many areas of activities connected Words Os Worship Thank You, The Plight Os Tha Migrant Popularity Os New Voting Machine The '’St. Pete” Policeman Law Suit takes your health, your confidence and your use fulness because of having gone against her. But a man should profit by his unfortunate expert-* rr. r . It, fi ver fcrescore years and ten, should you live that long, you are not more mature, better adjusted, happier, led by a deeper faith in life, something has been wrong in your choice of life roads. Our Public was much to be done in the time allotted in or der that you would have a paper last week. The staff spent many hard hours in the change over. It is to be remembered that the process was new to it and very little time was available for indoctrination We accept the constructive criticism that came to us due to the errors and flaws and want to assure you that they were taken in the same spirit that the good things were taken. We hope you will continue to call our attention to any and all things that vou might feel wrong with YOUR NEWSPAPER and we assure you that we will always be trying to correct same. When you praise or criticize, we know you must be INTERESTED taking carrots from the rich earth only to earn the handsome pay of 12 cents for each 55- pound sack he filled—amounting to $3.50 for a day’s work. This kind of money cannot sup port one man decently, much less a family. But. what struck more vividly our imagina tion was a photograph of a man and his family walking on the highway to the next job. The family was walking because their car broke down and they didn’t have the money to get if ‘ Ts e AP article giving information about the North Carolina Council of Churches grant said the project would encourage crop growers to ■-ovide improved housing while the grant wit make available education of the workers in cleanliness and the proper maintenance of their housing facilities (if that is possible). Practically all migrant camps are below standards of good health and safety, and the workers don’t earn enough money to secure bet ter housing if they desired it. While crop pro ducers are complaining how little profits they earn it would exemplify the Christian meaning u growers would “cut down” on profits and pay more to make it possible for the lowly mi grant workers to buy decent food and clothing, rent first-class housing, and provide themselves with additional training designed to improve their lot. The legislatures of our states as well as the United States Congress, have not stooped down to help “the man farthest down.” May they ponder in their hearts, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these ye have done it unto Me!” new vote legislation—by about 2-0. But an al most identical majority in the East favors the bill. The balance is held by the Midwest and the West, and people in both areas want to see the legislation enacted. A breakdown of the reasons people feel the way they do reveals that slightly more than half of the pe-ople (52 per ce-nt) believe the re quirements for voting should be regulated by the several states rather than the federal gov ernment. But one person in every seven is will ing to forego his preference for states’ rights in the Southern area because they feel deeply that inequities and injustices have been wrought to Negroes in voting. Nationwide, Democrats heavily favor a vot ing bill But a slim majority of Republicans is opposed to it. The right of states to determine voter qualifications is a deeply held conviction among the GOP rank-and-file. It is strange that Congress has to keep pass ing additional civil rights bills, because, by rea son of loopholes in the laws, the Southern states have not enforced the laws already on the books —thereby sinning morally by omission. sicians. In the push for full membership, many Ne gro physicians criticized the few Negro physic ians who accepted the scientific membership. In the face of being called “Uncle Toms” for accepting a slice of pie instead of the whole pie. the few scientific members could well have helped to apply the persuasive technique that won the majority of the house of delegates to the Negro physicians’ side. Although it is mentioned that some county medical societies will still offer only scientific mernbebrships we have faith that they, too, will rise to the occasion and open their membership to all qualified physicians. with the operation of police departments. There has been very little progress made by most Southern law enforcement outfits, since they first hired Negro policemen. The custom of seg regation was a snag in making progress along these lines, for the practice called for separate drinking fountains and dressing rooms and rest rooms, assignment of Negro policemen to desig nated Negro areas where they were powerless to arrest a white lawbreaker, and limitations fss to promotions for segregation never per mitted b Negro policeman to he promoted to a position involving supervision and direction of white officers Since the “segregation die is cast”, and with out waiting to be sued in court, police depart ments of the South should be making plans to set their houses in order. It is regrettable that the color of a man’s skin can be such a retard ing factor. Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE PARLIAMENTARY LAW CON TEST This morning (Friday, May -14) I had the privilege of be ing one of the judges In a par liamentary law contest, spon sored by the annual convention of the Industrial Education Clubs of Florida, The judges were: General Watkins (re tired Army general) rf6w“ori the Law School faculty at Fla. A&M University in Tallahas see; George Connoly, assist ant professor of agricultural education, FAMU; and myself, a speech professor, who Is a member of the American In stitute of Parliamentarians. The contest was conducted In this manner: (1) the par liamentary chairman was as signed an ability to carry out for five minutes; (2) this was followed by a question period of three minutes by the pan el of judges with reference to .\hat the chairman should have done, and (3) each judge scor ed by a checklist. Each judge submitted a total score for ONLY IN AMIRICA BY HARRY GOLDEN ELLEN TERRY’S VISIT TO THE GHETTO The most memorable events on the Lower East Side of New Y'ork were the visits of Theo dore Roosevelt and Ellen Ter ry . Theodore Roosevelt came to eat a dinner at the Little Hun gary Restaurant on East Hous ton Street, sometimes during his second administration, a bout 1905 or 1900. All *the Jews turned out to see him. They remembebed when he had been Police Commissioner and later Governor, Roose velt knew the Lower East Side, of course, but his visit was more political than nostalgic. A candidate for the mayoral ty ofthe city accompanied him. That was all right with the Jews. My father had always insisted that If a man had a choice between two men, one a n amateur and one a pro fessional politican, vote for the professional. The profes sional has earned his spurs somewhere along the lines, winning some support because he attended a Bar Mitzvah, some more because he defend ed an Italian peddler and more because he went ball for some misguided youth. It rubs off on the professional. Ellen Terry wasn’t running for anything. She came down to the Neighborhood Playhouse during one of her American tours because she hoped to perform Shakespeare before an audience which ordinarily wouldn’t get the chance to see her. The Neighborhood Play house was the first Ameri- in This Our Day BY C. A. CHICK, SR. Rule by “Majority-Minority” Back in 1776, we fought Eng land on the sound and wise principles that Taxation with out Representation was tyran ny. It was tyranny then and it is today. We won the War of Independence and establish ed a government with tiie prin ciple of rule by the consent of the majority of tiie people. We further established the rule by the consent of the majority- of the people. We We further established the rule that the people would express their consent In mat ters pertaining to government through their representatives, letters To The Editor To The Editor: A number of colleges and universities across the Unit ed States have recently be gun to organize "Teach-ins,” students - faculty discussions on the current crisis in Viet nam. In April, the University of Chicago, with a capacity au dience in its largest auditori um, held a “Teach-in” which lasted from 9:30 p. m. until 4:00 a. m. At this meeting, a petition, drawn up by a student campus organization, the “Students’ Emergency Committee for Vietnam,” was read to the audience. The petition de plores the United States gov ernment’s current policy in Vietnam and expresses a re fusual to support such inter vention. Approximately half of the audience signed their names to the petition arid their number Is recorded at the bottom. We addressed our petition to Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant in the name of all mankind, and sent it to major newspapers ail ov er the world. We hope that people of all lands will begin to hear of the growing multi tude of dissenting voices in America voices of desper ate concern. Respectfully yours, Arthur Kaufman, Co ordinator Students’ Emergency Commit tee for Vietnam, Chicago, Illinois EDITOR'S NOTE: The following are some of the important statements made by Francis J. Foole, Wake County Attendance Officer, before a regular meeting of the Raleigh Ministerial Alliance re- each contestant, and these scores were totalled and di vided by three to arrive at an average. While the chief judge was compiling the scores for the purpose of announcing first, second, and third - place win ners, the remaining two judges made comments upon the er rors they observed in the con test. (I enjoyed this exper ience very much). Possum Didn't Know Cats The setting is in Kansas, and a woman knew her cat was a good provider for each litter of kittens but mama cat over did the feeding routine on the last offspring. After bringing in numerous mice and rats for her kittens, the big cat dragged home a full grown Opossum. Instead of being happy with the bounti ful fare, Mrs. Scherock said, the kittens were only confused. (I bet so, for I have no taste for an Opossum.) can theatre to produce Shaw's "Major Barbara" and It did several plays by Ibsen and Su dermann. It was a perfect place for a one night stand by England's greatest actress and Ellen Terry came to it on the night of Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23, 1915. John Kingsbury, her man ager, had asked Lillian Wald of the Henry Street Settlement where he could find a theater for Miss Terry and it was Lillian Wald, who told him about the Neighborhood Play house on Grant Street. To say it was a memorable evening is an understatement. I would say Ellen Terry's ap pearance on the Lower East Side that year has been re counted by half the people in the theater at the time. She stood in the center of the stage behind a table covered with spring flowers. She wore a red gown with sleeves and never look more beautiful. J. P. Morgan lent the the atre his copy of the First ► Shakespeare Folio, 1923 and the first guartos of "A Mid summer’s Night Dream” and "The Merchant of Venice." A museum lent a fine Shake speare portrait and the artist Gordon Graig hung his paint ings in the lobby. She read several of Shake speare’s heronies, concluding with Portia. This Lower East Side audience was absolutely responsive. Site brought Eng land and high culture to the Lower East Side and the Low er East Side on its part re turned love and attention. whom they have elected by a majority vote of the people. In this writer’s way of think ing, the ’'foregoing Is a very good rule of conduct, In this good rule of conduct in mat ters of government. The grave problem in the entire matter is so great an apathy (A cute word for lazi ness) of the people In their at tutides toward voting to elect people to represent them in their governments -- local, State, and national. Yes, we elect by a majori ty of those voting. But in most of our political elec tions, only a minority of the citizens concerned, who could qualify to vote simply by reg istering, have registered. Moreover, many of those who have registered to vote do not take the time to vote. And, especially is the fore going true in municipal elec tions. Many people seeming ly do not realize the extent to which local (grass root) government affects their lives -for good or bad. Yet in our political munici pal elections, not half of the population who could qualify and vote actually does so. Thus, we are actually ruled by a minority. A situation we claim not to deeply admire. And, if the various candidates for offices in our elections did not operate “car pools’’ to carry people to and from the places of voting, even fewer people would vote. Note how few people vote in referen dums—a bond election, for example. When will we American peo ple want and have democracy in our political elections? We shall have it when we want it seriously enough to vote In elections' cently. The CAROLINIAN believes these statements to be of such importance that we are reproducing them, in digest form, here, WHO IS TO BLAME? To 'The Editor: Who is to blarr." for today's school droupout? Is it the youngster, the home and par ent, poverty, social agencies, the school, or the community? No one of these, by itself, Is to blame or makes the drop out. One thing v:c can be sure of —the undcr-the-roof atmos phere from one household to another can make a lot of dis - ference. The things that 'count the most In rearing children do not depend so much on dollars and cents as they do O’JR WORLD IMAGE .. .! j ALA^ BY EMORY G. DAVIS, DD NEGRO PRESS INTERNATION\L "SEX AND THE NEGRO MALE A Negro woman, employed as a secretary in a northern bank was asked recently why the institution did not employ Negro men. Her reply (given in confidence) was that the manage ment feared the contact between the Negro male and the white female. So that’s why so few Negro men are hired as accountants, clerks and tellers? Now, met:, we know how “potent" we are. Prof. Louis J. West, University of Oklahoma, is quoted as saying at an American Psychiatric association convention in New York, “A common Southern myth has it that a white woman who mates a Negro will never be satisfied with a white man again. As this superstition suggests, many whites deeply hate the idea of contact between the Negro male and the white female." Add to this revelation the fact that at least 19 states in the U. S. still ban Interracial marriage and you have gathered some credence to this myth. Another myth I remember hearing in my early youth, that still persists, is “the only free people In the U. S. are the white -n. m and the Negro woman. These two can mix, day or night, without fear of too much condemna tion ot criticism.” Y'et, enslaved to human reaction and criticism, is the Negro man and the white woman. It seems, however, that despite the myths, it is the white man who keeps preaching “pre serve the purity of white womanhood." We have yet to hear front the white woman, hei self. Although she does not verbalize her de sire to have her choice in the matter, she is quite adept at conveying her desires arid wishes in a thousand subtle and/or obvious ways to the Negro man who fearfully succumbs to the temptation under the cover of darkness. VD IN RUSSIA UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. - The Russians, who know a red flag when they see one, are denying the existence of venereal disease in theWorkei’s Paradise. Just to prove their argument, the Soviets have refused to make detailed facts and figures available to the UN’s World Health Organiza tion (WHO), now mounting a global campaign against the menace. Like crime and Judaism, no good Russian citizen is supposed to be Contaminated by VD. Sickness and organized religion, Ivan Ivanovich is told, are hallmarks of the Decadent West. So, in the absence of reliable figures on the presence of VD or is it the presence of unreliable liars on the absence of VD? -- we hereby note for the record that VD does not exist behind the Iron Curtain. And neither, we might add, does CRIME 01 JUt ENILE DE LINQUENCY or the opiate of the people, RE LIGION. I bring all these arguments up for the bene fit of those diehard ideologists who believe that human nature can be altered b; changing economics systems. The Reds are always harping on the note that crime is a, capitalistic ill and then apologizing for criminal.- like Stalin who fill up the labor camps and lime pits with the bodies of innocent men. I also have in mind certain Americans who regularly assail the Scandinavian countries ori the (mistaken) assumption that their “socLt list’ economics breed all sorts ol social *ils ranging from suicide to divorce. Therefore, I propose to demonstrate that hu manity has more in common than not by pointing to that universal yardstick, the VD figures. These show conclusively, friends, that the only progressive country in the world is Ceylon, where VD is in the decline. Everywhere else there is (ugh) unanimity among all peoples in terms of the rise of this noxious illness. In our own country, WHO reports, syphilis on the parents' affection. Pa rental love is not purchasable, and you don’t express this ldve through cverindulgence, or by bribing a child with pre sents to make up for the lack of that parental love g. nd con cern day by day. It Is during the early years of a child’s life that the fam ily group and the immediate surroundings play such an Im portant part In the future de velopment of the Individual. Current society has not yet defined a meaningful role for adolescents Opce there were chores around the house to make a child feel Important and useful. All this released leisure time presents a prob lem. Life requires a certain a mount of discipline. You need it in the home, and in society at large as well as in the classroom. More and more, mothers who are going to work leave ALTAR CALL ONE WORLD BY SHERWOOD ROSS their children more or less un ati.end: d at home or In the street until school time. This has d.-prived the child of the constant guidance and sense of security he needs from his mother In his early years. As the child grows and de velops his experiences multi ply. With good guidance, pro per supervision and .good-up bringing- he Is mjorc able to make responsible -choices. He develops a style of his own in Identifying problems in terms of his ability and maturlay. He Increasingly finds socially, acceptable ways of adustlng The dropout becomes a and solving his problem*, menace, threat, and cost to society which it cannot af ford to stand uround and give lip service to why young peo ple become drop-outs, deiin r uents, why they "go bad”. If recording to research 50% of dropouts studied began to show signs of maladjusted be Prior to the popularity of civil rights, the American white woman was slowly escaping her imprisonment. It was the women of the United Church Women (National Council of Chruches) and the YWCA who took leadership over their male counterparts In chopping at the walls of segregation. the role of the American white woman In the Selma-to-Montgomery march—from the pious nun to the oft-unjustly-maligned do-gooder--was both herloic and a sign of her emerging freedom. Add to this the fact that it is the American white woman who controls most of the nation’s wealth, who is a determinant at the buyer’s market. She, the American white woman, is going to awaken to this fact one day, adding it to her experience in pioneering in race re lations and really become the power factor In integration—the legitimate kind, that is. Dr. West also asserts that the Negro man is NOT as potent as the white man fears. He sights such factors as frustration, poverty, de privation, broken homes, dependency and intimi dation causing "frequent passivity and Impotence in Negro males,” as a basis for exploding the myth. Negro males so affected, he says, turn to drugs, alcohol or homo-sexuality (increasing among Negro males) rather than to white women with whatever potency is left. It seems apparent to some of us that it will take the freedom of the white women to finally give the freedom the Negro male needs to finally get into the mainstream of American life, job wise or otherwise. Here then is the Altar of Demythologization that awaits the “saviour” of the forces of re ligion, both in pulpit and pew, to free the two remaining persons—the Negro male and the white female—since God has “created out of one flesh all men (and women) to dwell on the face of the earth.” ,-ose 1? percent in 1963 over the previous year among children between 10 and 14 years of age. And in Denmark, despite a heavy propaganda barrage by the State, VD has Increased to the point where an estimated one percent of all youngsters between 15 and 19 are afflicted by i>. As foi Americans, WHO says that the laO,ooo crises reported here each year do not tell the whole story. Like the Russians, some Ameri cans have something they want to cover up. And what are the reasons for it all? WHO gives these: Lack of sound sex education, and supervision; parental indifference; failure of fear as a de terrant; earlier physical development; decline of religious 'faith; and the mistaken view that, according to Freud, restraint leads to damaging repression. “Young men and women,’' says the WHO Chronicle, from which this data was gleaned, “meet under relatively intimate circumstances, without supervision and perhaps places where alcohol is taken.” But if liquor and sex mix, as WHO suspects, there is no real proof that old Demon Rum automatically leads to VD. AHO figuies in dicate higher rates of VD lri cities than country places and one suspects that contaminated kid dies of 10 are the children of poverty In the shantytowns of San Antonio and Cincinnati, As "for WHO’s brief that one cause of VD is “the emphasis on sexuality in books, plays, films and TV ads,’’ an obvious dig at Yankee culture, it’s doubtful if WHO can hang the rap on ABC. The network brass is sure to deny an\ correlation between those long hours spent in front of the boob tube and the spread of VD. I can hear an executive vice president telling Congress that no such figures are available, I can hear him saying, “TV does NOT em phasize sexuality. I repeat, TV does NOT emphasize sexuality....” And this is as good a point as any to turn off the set. hnvior at the age of eight or unde:', and virtually 90% showed these signs at the age of 10 or under, we have r.o time to waste. WHAT CAN WE DO? Identify potential drop outs —Provide more guidance services —Provide more attendance counselors Fstnblish kindergartens Enlarge programs for the handicapped Op‘rare surrer schools - Modify the school curri culum —Provide second chance opportunities —Stimulate increased pub lic concern and action. Every effort we put forth, to ensure that today’s young ster does not become “bored" wiih school, Is worth the tins*. FRANCIS J. POOL®. Raleigh, N. C.
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