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RALEIGH, V. C.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 89 m 3
Every leader has shortcomings, and the
Biblical evangelist John the Baptist preached
an imperative gospel about “prepare the way
for Him who will come after me." He could
denounce, but he could not construct. He drew
crowds who were willing to repent at his com
mand, but he had no program for them after
repentance. They waited for him to organize
When one takes a close look at the pro
posed (Spot Zoning) re-development blue
print of Raleigh, he can very well visualize
what Shakespeare had in mind when he
said “Hold. Hold So that the knife see not
the hole it makes.”
The now visible pattern to move East
Raleigh . (Negro population), farther east
ward. and to move the other segment to a
farther isolated section, in a north easterly
direction, causes the lowest person on the
totem pole to see that the planners are be
coming more sinister and less interested in
their lot.
This newspaper cannot see how a cap
italistic group of planners whose stomachs
have never felt the pang of hunger; whose
children have never had to stay in the
house when it snowed, due to the fact they
had no shoes; whose wives have never had
to prepare a meal in someone else’s house
and then go home and take care of her
household duties; whose wives can step to
tlv telephone and order anything they de
sire and have it charged; planners who
don’t . r.v: to pay exhorbitant interest on
money borrowed from heartless lenders;
planners who can buy on open account and
pay when they get ready instead of paying
a dollar down and a dollar the rest of their
lives for mere human necessities, to say
nothing about luxuries.
The image that is evolving from the re
development blue print seems to want to
do away with the corner store, an institu
tion that is old as America itself; an insti
tution that a displaced person, before dis-
We Scored Two Firsts This This Time
Negro “firsts” achievements have be
• omt headlines during the past year, and
now last week two more members of our
nc. moved into important positions. Dr,
Robert Weaver was appointed by the Pres
ident to the office of Department of Hous
ing and urban Development. James Byrd,
u w out in Wyoming and a veteran police
o bccT for 16 years, became the first chief
of ixrhce in Cheyenne.
Weaver, who will take charge of his De
partment on November 4, will be in charge
of billion-dollar low-rent housing pro
grams, community facilities, mass trans
portation, slum clearance and numerous
other federal projects, new and old. His
salary will be $35,000 annually. It shows
N pro youth that a man who is trained and
qualified can command a substantial sal-
Your life does not have to be one of
drugery, boredom, and inactivity, because
you can make it vibrant, abundant and
filled with enthusiasm, A miracle won’t
bring this to pass, but you ere the one who
can perform the miracle.
We read last week an inspiring story of
a man, William E. Canstable, a resident of
Bloomington, Indiana, who recently was
awarded a prize in government, an Indiana
University grant and a Merit scholarship
for unusual academic accomplishment. He
was selected as a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, America's oldest scholastic society.
William Constable, who was, five years
ago, a full-time quarry employee, took an
inventory of his assets and liabilities only
to discover that his life was a “vegetable”
existence; so he decided to do something a
bout it and enrolled at Indiana University.
While in school these five years, he man
aged to support a wife and three children,
The jubilation and relief felt by family
and friends when a healthy new baby
comes into this world is not based merely
on emotion. Actually, the risk of death is
greater in the days immediately before or
after birth than at any time until age 80.
Physicians refer to this critical time on
either side of the day of birth as the peri
natal period.
The head of the obstetrics department
of a large county hospital who investigated
the circumstances of perinatal deaths in
New York City regarded 35 percent of
them as preventable. Among the most fre
quently cited preventable factors was in
adequate prenatal care, according to a re
port in the “journal of the American Medi
cal Association.”
Every woman should receive prenatal
care during every pregnancy. The earlier
in pregnancy she seeks medical attention,
the better for her and the baby. Yet, in
many large cities, one-third to one-half of
the mothers delivered in tax-supported
hospitals see a doctor for the first time
when they are in labor. And each year
there is an increasing number of mothers
in the United States who receive no medi
cal attention until actual delivery of their
babies.
In medical discussions of perinatal mor
tality and how to prevent these deaths, it
has been noted that “High-risk babies have
high-risk mothers.” Which is another way
of saying the mother’s health affects the
baby.
If every mother-to-be sought medical
attention as soon as she even thinks she
might be pregnant, the high-risk factors
could be reduced and controlled. Through
Words Os Worship
editorial Viewpoint
Hold, Hold: So That The Knife
See Not The Hole It Makes
You Can Live An Abundant Life
Welcome To The World
them for some sort of effective service, and he
was no organ'zer. Therefore, his followers
drifted away and his movement gradually col
lapsed. This same thing might have happened
to Jesus, bu* He was an organizer who finally
gave them a commission to carry the gospel
to the whole creation.
placement, if sick, could send a small child
to get what she needed for the household.
The redevelopment program moves this
unfortunate person to a remote area and
when sickness strikes there is no store to
send the child to an no telephone to call
for aid.
This nefarious program is saying to the
small businessman of East Raleigh, "your
business can be hanged. We are going to
sacrifice you and your business for a bet
ter looking Raleigh. When we rebuild there
will be no place for you. We are going to
establish shopping centers and your chance
of renting a place is about as good as that
of a snow ball in the blaze of a hot August
day.”
There is another sinister feature that has
crept into the picture—that of building in
one section for Negroes and in another for
whites. We are not too sure that this is not
a continued effort to continue ghetto liv
ing, even if it is in better houses. We hasten
to say that as soon as any movement be
gins to tackle a problem by dividing, the
movement does not relieve the situation.
The planners might not agree, but the sun
is too high in the day and the minutes of
time are ticking away fast. It is our belief
that public opinion is not only saying
HOLD. HOLD, but is saying the knife of
deceit has made a big enough wound and if
the planners cannot see the wound through
clear eyes, it means that the defenders of
truth and right will rise to the occasion and
the persons being planned for will aid in
the planning.
ary. May they be inspired to go and do
likewise.
James Byrd, who has been a police cap
tain in charge of administration, will soon
take over the reins and move forward.
Since he knows police activities from inside
out, he should run the Cheyenne Police
Department with efficiency and dispatch.
Weaver and Byrd were ready when their
opportunities came, and so must we all.
When a youth decides what he wants to be,
he should find out the type of training that
will be required. Next, he should take the
training and become qualified. Like the
Savior who is knocking at the doors of our
hearts, we must listen and look for new op
portunities.
There are opportunities knocking at our
doors, let them in!
and earned a cumulative grade average of
3.95 out of posible “A” average of 4.
This man’s maturity stimulated him to
do what he hadn’t done in high school.
Constable said he did as little as possible
when he attended high school during ado
lescent years. Having come thus far, he has
discovered how fruitless his life had been.
Some credit must be given to his wife,
because unless she cooperated his life
would have been miserable and he could
not have earned his high average. When he
talked of going to school with three chil
dren. many wives would have walked out
of the home.
Let us catch the spirit of William E
Constable and set our records straight. At
35 and even 40, it is not too late to get a
good education to enable you to live an a
bundant, vibrant, and creative life. Re
member that life is more than meat and
bread!
physical examination, laboratory test, me
dical history and regular observation, phy
sicians can spot conditions 'which might be
troublesome or even threatening. By mod
ern treatment, the physician can often safe
guard the health of mother and baby.
Doctors can usually control or correct
diabetes, thyroid conditions, anemia, tu
berculosis, venereal diseases, high blood
pressure and a variety of chronic diseases
that can affect the baby during the most
important period of his development. A
mong other things doctors look for in a
mother-to-be is a healthy condition of the
blood and proper kidney function. These
are extremely vital in the pregnant woman
since her baby is completely dependent on
her for nourishment and elimination of
waste products.
Most women do not have an Rh blood
factor problem. But for those who do, me
dical observation throughout pregnancy
may save the lives of their babies.
Most women have an adequate birth ca
nal. But for those who do not. it is impor
tant that the doctor know this before the
onset of labor.
Perhaps one of the strongest arguments
in favor of prenatal care is that the rate of
prematurity is two to three times higher
among women who have had little or no
prenatal care. The point is of special con
cern to us at The National Foundation-
March of Dimes in the fight against birth
defects, because the incidence of birth de
fects is from two to four times as high a
- the premature ss among full-term
babies. What’s more, prematurity is asso
ciated with 45 per cent of all infant deaths.
Only in Amt flea
BY HARRY GOLDEN
PROJECTS' PROJECTS!
One of the things every home
must have, according to a lot
of wives around the country,
Is a hothouse. This will enable
the family to dine regularly
on hothouse tomatoes and will
enable wlfie to plant every
avocado pit with every expect
ation that it will bloom into
a gargantuan bush.
Hubby usually agrees that
yes, what the family needs is
a hot house and forthwith -
spends the next several
months constructing one out of
discarded plumbing pipes and
defective panes of glass which
he picks up at a real bargain
In a lumber yard three coun
ties away.
Hubby also plunks down S3OO
for a lawyer to argue for a
variance with the zoning board
of appeals. Most hubbies are
nice guys. What's a home with
out a hothouse?
If perchance the real estate
contains a toolroom, chances
are the little woman will re
design it to do for a loom
room where she can weave
rugs. Renovating a tool shed
rarely takes more than a hard
earned SI,OOO plus, say 42
weekends of labor, Prestob
the loom room is ready and
all the family lacks Is a
place to store the lawn mower,
the hose, the sprinkler, the
spreader, the shovels, and the
hedge clippers.
Faillth either of these pros
pects, your average wife can
usually determine it is about
time the family wallpapered
dotter’s room or removed the
wallpaper from dotter’s room.
When himself complains the
job seems to take forever, the
little woman can always reply
it wouldn’t take forever if he
didn’t have to play poker once
Just For Fun
BY MARCUS H. ROULWARE
OH, THE WEATHER
Tallahassee Is located in
the northern part of Florida
near the Georgia state line,
and the weather really gets
cold sometimes. This week
(January 17 to 23) is wet and
cold; in fact, we are having
the coldest weather of the
year.
Our students are walking a
round like “drawed up chick
ens” as our elders used to
say. I chuckle to myself and
I don’t know what they would
do in such areas as Detroit,
Chicago, New York City, Bos
ton, and Portland, Oregon.
SOME HOT, BUD!
So hot Is the core of the
sun --lGmilltondegreesCen
Other Editors Say..
OUR RESOLVE FOR 1986
Let us not make silly reso
lutions or vow to keep those
that market not. Let u s re
solve to be better sons and
daughters in the family, better
fathers and mothers in the
home, better men and women
in our country and to that end,
better neighbors, better citi
zens and better Americans.
How, then must we proceed?
We must start with SeU, not
They. Not what they do. Don’t
for one minute believe that you
can make your neighborhood
better, sons and daughters by
simply berating hooky-playing
John or vulgar-talking, gum
popping Sally Mae. You must
set a standard—a good one.
You must temper the pace a
correct steady one and set
your eyes on a good tomorrow;
for last year; which repre
sents the distant past is done.
It is dead, But it is also
alive to all of us who will
learn to avoid its errors and
Vie eager to assilimate Its
good whether it be in mecha
nics, science law, commerce,
or morals.
To those of the white race
who have ‘made a religion out
of race and color prejudices,
I would beg charity; for they
are often the wicked and the
strong. They act infrequent
ly with furiouspassion-some
times with malicious deliber
ation. They retard democracy
by restricting its goods to the
idol god of race which they
worship just as fervently and
just as blindly as the pagans
who, centuries ago, worshipp-
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a month until midnight.
Anyone in need of a title
for a book explaining the A
merican girl’s boundless en
ergy can have mine which is
“Projects! Projects!”
From the prospects of living
on a houseboat to building a
canvas kyak for the Girl Scout
troop, the imagination of most
women rarely rests. There is
always something to be done
and anyone who only puts In a
50 hour week the most ex
asperding part of which Is fil
ling a e.uota, —V to be a
vailai !e for the doing.
The one i n hibition which
sometimes deters a project
dear to the heart of a woman
is her old man’s heart. Many
a time I have heard the com
passionate complaint, “Why
do you have to sweat so? You
go about building a flagstone
terrace like you were chained
to a galley. Take it easy.
The terrace will look as nice.”
Occasionally there’s a lull
between projects. Milady fills
up this hiatus by purchasing
blenders, washing machines,
ironing boards, and dish dry
ers. Wh?t motivates her, of
course Is guilt. She is probably
descended from Puritans and
the Puritans would have ap
plauded ourleisure. There are
ever so many more gadgets
and projects to occupy usthan
there were In the days of the
Plynouth colony. W'e all seem
to have the never diminishing
ability to keep making work
for ourselves. All of us should
be safe from mischief.
The only ones who seem
lackadaisical In our society
are the Litvaks who emigrat
ed here In 1939 and not only
instruct the local laundry to
iron the shirts but the pillow
cases as well.
tigrade--that a pinhead of its
material would emit enough
heat to kill a man 100 milesa
way. (Whew! Whew! I hope
they won’t lalk about putting
a man on the sun; maybe
the moon is better, after all.
But, for me, the good earth
is just fine.)
A TIP FROM BEES
Bee authorities state that
a great amount of work goes
into making a jar of honey.
The bees have gathered nectar
from about 4,000,000 clusters
of Clover to produce it; in
doing so, they have travelled
150,000 miles. If man worked
like bees, tremendous would
be the results.
ed the golden calf and the
brazen serpent. God is not
made with a shaggy head,pale
face and mean heart.
Wherefore, My Brethren,
the Caucasians who identify
with the above will sink just
as deeply in hell and burn
just as brightly as the blacks
who drown themselves with al
cohol or who are heavily laden
with the sins of child deser
tion. Therefore, I beseech you
on leave the doors of demo
cracy wide open, so whoso
ever will to enter will not
have to guess and miss, will
not have to hunt and peck
but leave democracy’s doors
all wide open so the totally
blind may surely find his way
therein without aid of a tap,
tap cane, or a leaddog.
; Do you so pledge? All re
peat after me. “I do.”
Now, to those of my race
1 beg you to fight your vices,
to make peace or war with
your neighbors and let 1966
end with you being a better
man.
It is your duty to take a
deliberate stand against ev
erybody and anything that
wouid compromise your A
merican citizenship or de
crease your manhood; for Is
peace so sweet or life so dear
so as to be purchased by the
bonds of slavery? No. Then
if your neighbor denies you
the right to vote, you must
fight for the vote. If the
neighbor is a governor, or a
mayor or a school superinten
dent who opposes your right to
full citizenship, you must not
compromise that right. If
yielding that right is the only
other recourse to peace you
must fight until the thing or
the circumstance that re
stricts your citizenship right
is altered, changed or demo
lished. All over this great
country of ours, there are
areas of stubborn resistance
to first class citizenship for
the dark American.
First class citizenship is
not without price, and the price
we dark Americans pay must
be not only in money, but In
an entirely different coin. We
must resolve not to destroy
property--of this destruction
many of us have been rigidly
fcharged; exceptions to the
contrary not withstanding.
Writing on apartment walls,
ripping mail boxes from their
Anchor, littering the lawns and
building entrances, we must
no! let go unchallenged in our
community. We must not only
HE WAS “PREPARED.”
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Part of the victimization of Negroes, both in
the United States and most definitely on the
continent of Africa, has been the use of religion
to get the black man’s mind on heaven.
Meanwhile, back in reality, the white man has
been taking over the earth, and In the words of
the Psalmist, “and the fulness thereof.”
Unfortunately for the Negro, the Negro preach
er in the pulpit has bought this line of hogwash
and preaches about Heaven lustily and passionate
ly, Ignoring the fact that, as the Psalmist also
says, “The earth is the Lord’s.”
The Negro preacher seems to be teamed up
with aggressive, greedy white, who wants the
Negro to put up with anything “down here” in
exchange for what might be forthcoming “up
there.”
Part of the denial of rights to the Negro
is this business of exclusion from the MONEY
STREAM. In American culture, the Main Stream
and the Money Stream are synonymous.
Giving the Negro the right to eat, sleep, work
and reside where he wishes, and excluding him
from the Money Stream is the grossest kind of
tokenism.
You and I have known Negro ministers by the
hundreds who deliberately keep themselvespoor
encourage their members to remain poor--as a
symbol of commitment and devotion to the will
of God; offering this as a sure ticket to heaven.
Perhaps such leaders have never read that the
earth is the Lord’s.
Admittedly, the lust for money can be de
scribed as sin. However, obtaining one’s share
of God’s earth -- using the profits from such
UMTATA, South Africa - A recent government
proclamation providing for the zoning of 23 towns
and villages in the Transkei Bantustanasall-hlack
and all property to be owned by black Africans
has proved a windfall to KhotsoSethuntsa, Trans
kei herbalist millionaire. Shortly after the Is
suance of the proclamation, Sethuntsa was visited
by several attorneys offering to sell him white
owned properties In the black zoned areas. The
herbalist, who estimates his "petty cash" re
sources at $5.6 million, feels that If he can
raise enough money, he will buy at least 10
of the villages "lock, stock and barrel."
MAGAZINE AWARD
ENUGU - Sir Francis Akanu Ibiam, 68-year
old governor of Eastern Nigeria, was selected
last week as the 1968 award winner of the "Upper
Room", a world-wide Interdenominational devo
tional magazine published in Nashville. The
first African to receive the award, he Is being
honored for his work with the World Council of
Churches, of which he Is co-president; and his
many years of a Church of Scotland medical
missionary. He has also, been president of the
All-Africa Conference of Churches and the World
Council of Christian Education.
NEW BIBLE VERSION
JERUSALEM - Almost ready for publication Is
a new Hebrew edition of the Bible, which is
said to be the most complete ever to appear.
Being published by the University Press of
Jerusalem, it will include all known versions
of the Old Testament—the Dead Sea scrolls, the
Septaugint translation and other Greek versions,
as well as the "Aleppo Codex," Latin, Aramaic,
Syriac and Arabic versions.
FARM LOAN
DAR ES SALAAM - The United Republic has
been granted a credit of $5 million by the Inter
resolve to abandon the vulgar
and ugly; we must learn to
appreciate orderliness and
create beauty. Our unculti
vated cousins must be taught
not to attempt to awaken his
snoring friends by honking an
auto horn beneath his window
of a twenty apartment build
ing or a one room apart
ment for that matter at 4 a. m,
* * *
THE GREAT QUESTION
It will be a long time, If ever,
before controversy over t:
Altar Call
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BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D.
NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL
HEAVEN OR EARTH
World News Digest
BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL
ALL-BLACK TOWNS
deeds of the 89th Congress
ends. And it will be a long
time before the full effect,
for good or 111, of the mass of
unique legislation It passed is
fully felt and understood.
But one thing Is certain
the 89lh has been a spender
with a capital S. Time maga
zine reports succinctly: "In
all, the 89th spent $119,3 bil
lion-a total unprecedented In
peace-time and one that will
require decades to pay off;
interest on this year's na
enterprises for human progress and develop
ment -- can be hardly described as sinful.
If God’s earth is so rich bountiful, then why
are so many of God’s children (Negro, that is)
so poor?
The Negro needs to get into the Money Stream
legitimately that is, and use these resources
and power to get into the Main Stream of Ameri
ca’s policy-making and economic determination.
How many Negroes, today, are shareholders
in corporations? How many sit on boards of
directorship in industry and commerce.
Yet, how many have money, or access to money,
who are not using it to open further this door
of civil rights?
There is a pattern of change, particularly
in the South. In Birmingham, there is a bank
with Negro and white shareholders, growing and
thriving.
There is another Alabama corporation that is
presently offering shares of stock, quite reason
ably, to grass roots Negroes who want to invest.-
who want to have a share of the Lord’s earth.
These doors have not always been open to rank
and file Negroes. A few, who had “Uncle Tom”
relationships with Mr. Chaoley, have gotten in.
There will bo other corporations which will
open their doors. It stands to reason, if enough
Negroes hold stock in a corporation, it will not
be too difficult to get Negroes on the board.
In the meantime, while we are enroute to
Heaven, there’s an Altar right here on the Lord’s
earth, that awaits those Negroes who have thought
of Heaven ONLY.
national Association toward financing a four-year
lending program for agriculture. The funds
will be used to Increase the Income of thousands
of small farmers, and to encourage usage of
savings for productive Investments,
CABLE LINK
NDOLA - The Zambian Information and Postal
Services ministry announced last week the opening
of a direct radio teleprinter between this city
and London, for public telegraph services on a
seven day basis. This link, together with exist
ing radio telegraph lines to Nairobi (Kenya), makes
Zambia independent of Rhodesia for Its external
communications with the rest of the world
excluding, however, countries of Southern Africa
(South Africa, Basutoland, Swaziland, Bechuana
land, Moazamblque and Angola),
INTEGRATION
MBABANE, Swaziland - Despite Its close proxi
mity to apartheid-minded South Africa, this Bri
tish High Commission territory Is operating
an integrated school. Called Waterford school,
it Is situated about 12 miles from the South Afri
can border. One third of Its integrated student
body halls from South Africa, while the remaind
er comes from other parts of the southern por
tion of the continent where race bias has never
been practiced.
PAPER MILL
NAZARETH, Ethiopia - The International Fi
nance Corporation, a World Bank affiliates, has
underwritten a public offering In Ethiopia of shares
in Ethiopian Pulp and Paper, S. C., a new com
pany organized to established the first major
paper mill In the country. The offering consists
of 85,000 capital shares which will support the
construction and operation of the mill that will
produce an initial capacity of 8,000 metric tons
annually and eventually 15,000 metric tons.
tional debt alone come to sll
billion."
It now remains to be seen
what spending on this stagger
ing scale will do to the dollar’s
worth. Federal deficits, as
painful past experience tells
us, are breeders of Inflation.
And, ironically, inflation Is
the worst enemy of the people
of small means whom much
of the new legislation is sup
posed to help. -THE NEW
CRUSADER.