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4 THE CAROUHIfiX RAT.Fir.B, N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1989 ''The big inwards come to those who walk the second, underoanded mile,” said Jesus. In other words, we must do more than is requir ed of us. We should never erode our charac ter and integrity by determining to do only what we are required to do on our jobs. The disciple Judas Iscariot would have sneered at this. Not a bad person at heart, he had the virtures and the weaknesses of the Editorial Viewpoint Our Answer Lies In Better Communication There is considerable attention being paid today to disadvantaged and under privileged minorities in the United States —particularly the Negro. Many projects are underway, with federal financial sup port, to deal with the language of the pre school Negro child in order to improve it. The Ford Foundation has such language developmental programs underway. One of them is now being conducted in the city of Detroit and reported in the February 18 issue of Time magazine. The project is tea ching English as a second language. Linguists advise teachers to leave all na tive dialects alone, and teach the child En glish as a foreign language which he can use whenever he wants to and needs it. On the other hand, another group of teachers hold that our language instruction should be aimed at improving the native dialect. We come now to the question; Is there a single standard of English that people ought to strive to achieve? We have several dialects in the United States, but most people who want to move in the best social and business circles develop the English of the best educated people. This type of pro nunciation is found in our best dictionaries, but we must remind the reader that the dictionary is only a recorder of the lan guage as it exists. Nevertheless the predo minant pronunciation is that of the best ed ucated people in general America. The Negro race has demonstrated and seared the American public’s conscience, but now it must do something for itself. In order to get respect in the high business, governmental, educational, and social cir cles of our society, the race leaders must employ the oral language of the best edu cated citizens in the United States. Those of us who viewed the movie “My Fair Lady”, a musical counterpart of Shaw's Pygmalion, saw how a young lady from the lowest social strata in London was taught the elite Rritich English and was enabled to move in the best society in cluding an affair given by a foreign emper or. She never could have attended this roy al social affair with her old dialect. Let us change the old stereotyped image of the Negro as one who speaks with a flat voice, broken English, and with a dialect, Such a picture of the Negro does not do him justice, for as such he can never hope Negroes And Small Business Loans Negroes are receiving about 40 per cent of the loans being granted by the Small Business Administration. This is true, de spite a curtailment in the federal agency’s lending policies. This is a good sign for the uplift of Ne gro businesses, for it indicates that the pro prietors are well aware that a business will prosper only in proportion as it is prepared to provide the best of facilities and render good service. And most of these businesses are operating in the large urban areas, be cause few Negro-owned businesses operate in rural areas. The reason is obvious. The SBA was established in 1956 as part of the Department of Commerce to bridge the “credit gap”-—the difficulty small busi nesses were having in getting loans on a long-terfri basis from commercial establish ed banks. To the SBA, a small business is one that An intensified Peace Corps recruiting, program among segregated colleges in the South has produced a five-fold increase in Negro volunteer applications. Last year, 200 aplications were received from students enrolled in predominantly Negro colleges. With the current recruiting yaer only half over. Peace Corps officials report that the number of applications has skyrocketed to 1,000. In the past, about one out oi 20 volun teers was a Negro and the Peace Corps was concerned about the situation. This seek ing out and voluntering is a wonderful ex- Images Atrophies On Front Lines In Viet Nam Racial prejudice atrophies and involutes on the Viet Nam firing lines. Viet Cong bullets recognize no race, and the Ameri can soldier's on the battle fronts and gueril la hide-outs tend to ignore the color line altogether. Sometimes tragedies and misfortunes have side effects that are good and noble. These factors often achieve in racial rela tions what legislation cannot. In the brutal fight in Viet Nam, a wounded United States soldier gets the at tention of his buddies who somehow-—un der enemy fire—get him to a hospital for Irt 1 Buy United States Savings Bonds A. fj&S STAR-SPANGLED SAVINGS PLAN ’TO*’ FOR ALL AMERICANS Words Os W orship Peace Corps Seeking Negroes small bore businessman He was “hard-boil ed,” and proud of it; he “looked out for NUMBER ONE." Judas was the treasurer of the group and gave every cent a good tight squeeze before he et it pass from his hands to the receiver. Remember the man who built new barns to house his great possessions, and when he had completed them the Lord sent death for him. His survivors enjoyed his. great wealth. to walk in society of the representatives of the United Nations, of big business execu tives. of armed services officers, in affairs of state including proper protocol, and in sitting at the table negotiating with labor executives. Now. ivhat must we do in our own best interest as a racial ilroup? We must learn to speak correctly, use the basic rules of English grammar, • ad employ the idioms of the language appropriately. Since we talk from morning until evening, it would appear as a matter of common sense for people to use good oral language for effec tive communication A person':-: speech re veals either his ignorance or his culture in the way he carries on conversation. If he does speak correctly, pt op:, note this and are favorably impressed. And God knows the Negro needs a better public image. We can talk about letting people keep their dialects all we want to, but let us em phasize that a dialect is not the proper medium for expressing clear ideas Com municcation is made easier when the id-a can be transmitted in familiar everyday words without loss of precision. Yet, as a corollary, the use of a longer, less familiar and more specific term is not only justified but required when nothing simpler will serve to express accurately the desired thought. Reflect, if you please upon some of the television scenes during the acme of the civil rights fray. Did you not see certain local Negro leaders conversing with news men concerning their future plans? Yes, but think also of the inadequate and un trained leader profile that they displayed. No power structure would be convinced that it should waste its time in conference with civil rights leaders who cannot express clearly what the Negro citizens really want. Even citizens who have less than a high school education can speak properly. They just need to learn a few simple rules and apply them. We can argue all we want about letting the race retain its dialect but the fact re mains that our “New Revolt” image must be matched by a new and improved lan guage and speech image if we want people to respect us. grosses less than $1 million annually, a ca tegory in which falls most of the estimated 25,000 Negro-owned enterprises in the United States. A commendable t f fort cn the part of the National Business Leagut a nationwide organization of Negro business, in connec tion with civil rights organizations, is the plan to begin a 'nigh-pressure lobbying campaign in Congress ;o get a greatly in creased lending budget lor the SBA dur ing the next fiscal yea; This shows that our business men are on the alert for in creasing a profitable source of financial as sistance to small businesses. We urge the Negro business leaders aslo to get underway some plan for establishing big chain retailing concerns ir an effort to gain for the Negro more respect from the financial and political world. perience for our youths. How do we benefit from the Peace Corps experiences? Well, it’s like this* the more Negroes work overseas with the corps, they experience a fine demonstra tion of equality ir. America. It is significant that the Peace Corps is interested in us to this extent. To the youngster just finishing nigh school or college, a rour of duty with the Peace Corps will be a valuable experience to serve as the foundation of the person’s entrance into college or his embarkation upon life’s professional career. treatment. A Marine battalion commander once said: “There’s still a racial problem in the Corps, but it gets less and less the further forward you go. I’ve seldom seen it in front line companies.” In other words, the need to stay alive demands the full cooperation of all servicemen, whether black or white. Would it not be wonderful back home in the States if the whole population could learn the lesson that “there just isn’t much room for racial prejudice when the need for survival is at. stake." Oiiy li America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE WASHINGTON ANNIVERSARY He had big hands and a big appetite which in later years caused him considerable dis tress because his teeth hurt him so. He enjoyed a good story and he had an eye for a pretty woman. He was a highly successful farmer, who also distilled whiskey and played cards for moderate stakes. They called him first Colonel Washington, then Mr. Washington, then General Washington, and later on, your Excellency. No one called him George. Washington allowed famili arity from only two of his contemporaries. General Henry Knox, the artilleryman called him General, without adding the last name and so did General Nathaniel Greene who Washington called Broth er Nat. Os course, there was no nickname for this aristi crat. Has there ever been a nickname for King Arthur or for Sir Launcelot? At the time of the French and Indian War, Washington was 22 but already a lieu tenant colonel in the Virginia militia. His abilities were known not only throughout the colonies hut in the mother country as well. He was a Vir ginia gentleman, a fact which played him false when he had to surrender Fort Necessity to the French. He signed the surrender never dreaming that another professional sol dier would attempt trickery. But in the surrender, unwitt ingly Washington admitted to the “assassination of a Frenchman named Jumon ville, a scout killed in combat. During the Revolution the Tory journalist, James ‘Rlvington, printed a poem recalling this •'•'cruel assassination.” But tills integrity stood him Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE FA MU PARTY Last night (Feb. 18) in uni versity commons, I attended a faculty party and we sat at tables according to our birth months. My birth month is May and on the 17th, The date is easy to remember if you think of the May 17, 1954 Supreme Court decision out lawing segregation in the pub lic schools of the land. The menu was superb: chic ken salad, cake or peacan pie, drink, rolls, etc. GO-GO GIRLS: How many miles does a go-go girl go? Official attached a pedome ter to the skirt of Susie Pet erson of Lincoln, Nebraska, Other Editors Say.. THAT “NEGRO MARKET” NOT AS LIGHT-HEARTED AS RUMORED * This editorial corner has never been to assertatlve on economics and its pressures on our daily lives. The Al mighty dollar is still a vora cious eagle that symbolizes our national life -- save per haps on those deep South sharecrop plantations. There it is simply a perched vul ture. Yet In the last generation (successfully marked off by that excellent, medium, John son publication’s EBONY MA gaztne) the Negro buying pow er has been catered to by not a few of the top brands. But from the count of fine whiskies and fine wearing ap parel and the best of cosme tics appearing in EBONY- the Negro market was also on the ‘high hat’ side. It was a relief to recently * come upon an article in the New York TIMES that shed a new light. It is worth quoting in part: “Much has written about the size and potential of the Negro market in this coun try, And there have been many generalizations made that the Negro is intensely brand-con scious and that his status sym bol is the bright, shiny Cadil lac. Rarely, however, has some one made a detailed check into his pantry closet, his medicine chest, and his THE CABOI3NIAN Publishing Company "Covering the Carolina*” Published by thn Carolinian 5!8 E. Martin Street Raleigh. N. C. 27*01 Mailing Address: P. O. Box 828 Raleigh, N, €. 27502 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh. N C. 27805. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months . ..S2. IS- Sales Tax 08 TOTAL f 2.83 One Year . 4.50 Sales Tax 14 TOTAL $4 84 Payable in Advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to THE CAHOUNIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 310 Madison Avenue. New York 17. N Y., National Advertising Re presentative and member of the Associated Negro Press and the United Press International Photo .'Service. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accom panies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists ir, tins newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this paper In fine stead durirsg the War for independence. When a few jealous fellow officers initiat ed an under-the-table move ment to remove him from command, Washington dis pelled the scheme by shaming General Conway and General Horatio Gates, both of whom lived out their lives in sorrow and oblivion for their pains. When the Continental Con gress fled from Philadelphia and thousands of American neutrals and tories came out of hiding to help the British, things looked black indeed, but by the end of the Revolution ary War, it was clear there would have been no United States of America If there had been no Washington. The old Prussian, Frede rick, studied the American campaigns and was so im pressed by Washington’s re treats that he sent the Ameri can general a sword Inscrib ed, “From the oldest general in the world to the best.” At 2 p. m. on Friday, Oct. 19, 1781, his Majesty’s army marched out of Yorktown to surrender, their band playing, “The World Turned Upside Down.” Cornwallis, ill, was restricted to his bed and he passed the burden of surren der to General O’Hara. O’Ha ra started toward the lines of America’s allies, the French, but the French general redi rected him. “You deceive yourself, sir, the Commander in chief of our armies is to your right.” General O’Hara was turned around toward Washington and offered his sword which Wash ington declined with the com ment, “Never from so good a hand.” Feb. 22 was his anniver sary. No man in the Eng lish-speaking world deserves an annual holiday more. as she performed with five other University of Nebraska coeds as discotheque-type go go firls for a teenage “Combo Clash.” The pedometer, normally used for measuring the dis tance a person walks, record ed 7 3/4 miles at the end of the evening of doing the jerk (dance), the swim and the watusi. It registered 1 and 3/4 miles during the first one 15 minutes period,, HEY-NOW MAMA!: A lit tle girl was describing a set of scales. She said: “It’s something you stand on and then get really mad.” (Mom, you’d better watch out). bureau drawers to see just what his consumer preference are, in terms of product cate gory usage and individual brand selection. A major fact has emerged such a study; that the Negro is, indeed, intensely brand conscious, that well-known brands imply quality and e quality In the Negro market. But at the same time, the study found that fewer Negro families own cars than wash ing machines, and that the often mentioned bright, shiny Cadillac status symbol is simply not found in the Negro community. Instead, the study found the streets and drive ways full of old secondhand cars - including many Fords and Chevrolets, In general, the Negro market currently is practical - and convenience oriented. It is keyed to quali ty and variety in everyday items. Indulgence items are scarce, . .” It is well that the old ‘Cad illac Item has been punctured. The so-called ‘Negro market’ is like all the other pseudo differential - - the Ameri canization of the Negro has been more of a reality than in any other ethnic group - including those of direct Anglo -Saxon descent, AN EIGHT-FOOT TALL AFRICAN AND AMERICAN BASKETBALL Here is an item out of Africa that Intrigues: Lourenco Marques, Mon zarnbique - In the village of Manjacaze about 180 miles north of here, lives a young African who may be the tall est man In the world . , He is 20-year-old Gabriel Este vaco Monjane, still growing at 7 feet 10 inches. He weighs 276 pounds. Already the extreme-height addicted basketball coaches must be flying agent to Mon zambique to sign up this ‘phe nom’ of nearly 8 foot. Why, he’d simply drop the ball in the basket without a hindrance short of a foul. When Wilt Chamberlain came along with his 7 foot he became the stand ard that American basket,bail set its measure by, (Thus aiming to become an abnormal sport in which 70 per cent of American boys couidl have little hopes of even average achievement. Being a mere At Last... Showing A Desire To Fight For Right! - /■ >. StFMtfXad - Sj u SSr rSiKr - BLESSED ARE THE POOR The effects of racial discrimination, sub standard education, and the lack of job and hous ing opportunities have forced a large segment of America’s Negroes into poverty, squalor, crime, ghetto existence and mentality. During the years that this degrading process was at work, Negro churches and church mem bers, became class-structured. The wealthy, in tellectual Negro Episcopalian, Catholic or into newly integrated churches. Middle-income Negroes went to middle-class churches such as AME, AMEZ, CME and well established Baptist churches. Low-income Negroes gravitated to the store fronts of any and all kinds or brands of denoml nationalism and cultism. The largest segment of Negroes formed our middle-class churches. The upper class and middle class Negroes lost sight of both the store front church and the store-front people. Religiously they considered themselves better-living on the better side of the tract. In losing sight of these people, they also lost sight of the poverty stricken--the kind of life they were forced to live and the problems common to those so victimized. Nov/ the upper and middle class Negro church TALL MAN MANJACAZE, Mosambique -TheTutsis(Watu sis) of Rwanda have long been recognized as the tallest black men on the African continent, but now they will have to give way to a 21-year-old Mozambique African who stands seven feet, 9 7/8 Inches tall, and weighs 276 pounds. Gabriel Estevo Monjane, known as "Chipoco” among fellow tribesmen, is presently undergoing medi cal examination in Lourenco Marques--because he is still growing, CONSTRUCTION ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has been granted a $7.2 million credit by the International Develop ment association, a World Bank affiliate, for school construction and improvement that will permit a major revision of the secondary school system. Scheduled for construction and equipping are 54 secondary schools, three teacher-train ing institutes and a technical institute. BUCKING FOR THIRD HAMMAGUIR, Alergla - In addition to the race currently going on between the United States and Russia for top honors in the space race, there is a vigorous battle being waged for third place. Candidates in this also ran department include France, which has already orbitted its first science s&telite; South Africa, which has been refining its nuclear power projects; and Red China which claims It will be the next nation to take to "outer space/' BLACKS IN BLUE LONDON - Britain Is moving toward the addi tion of non-whites to Its regular police force TEACHERS NEED MORE MONEY ROCKY MOUNT - Last week we heard Dr. Walter N. Ridley, president, Elizabeth City State College, sine© 1858, tell the Nashcombe area alumni of the college - among many progressive things the school is unable to supply enough teach ers for Tarheelia because Virginia (particularly the Tidewater area) and other states are syphon ing off the ECSC grads faster than they can be produced, leaing only a small portion for use In the State that furnishes them the education. Following the release of the report of "The 19th Annual Study of teacher supply and demand," North Carolina is reported to be short on production of one-fourth of the "elementary school teachers needed. 1 " Likewise a "criti cal need*' for high school teachers in the area of math, science and foreign language. Dr. Charles F. Carroll, state Supt. of public instruction, is quoted as saying: "There would be 8 foot tall is now something of a pigmy in standard bas ketball). There is little doubt that Gabriel could demand a year ly stipend of some $200,000 -—calculating that each inch above 6 foot 6 is worth $20,000. Readers of this corner are Alter Call BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D. NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL' Nows And Views BY J. B, BARREN aware of its slight bias to basketball in relations to basketball and football. For two reasons; first, this o» beisar.ee to mere height; arid second, because of the monot onous routine of scoring-plus the many fouls called that to a spectator gives the game a touch of bureaucracy. Just the people tend to get all theological about their well being. They consider themselves as people with whom God was well pleased enough to see that they had jobs, houses, cars, clothes, etc. Those who don’t have such "blessings” are evidently not living right or God would do better for them. Hogwash! It seems as though the Negro church should have recognized so much poverty and despair and hollered about it to the high heavens. But, it was not the church that led the fight. It was the government that started the war on poverty, Depsite the fact that the government Is pouring millions into the poverty war; despite the fact that a lot of these dollars are available to church es and their agencies all to few Negro churches have awakened to the fact this war is going on. In the final analysis, the Negro church is one of those agencies that stands to gain much when the war is won. The biblical appellation "Blessed are the poor” had no reference at all to physical and material poverty. It was a metaphor speaking to humility and docility. But, the Negro church goes right on, doing whatever it is doing, unaware of its vital and helpful role in eradicating poverty. There’s an Altar for church people, right smack dab in the middle of the poverty war, and we’d better get up and out of the pew and get to it. in order to close what it terms "the gap between the police and the colored community." The idea behind the move, brought on by the large scale immigrations from the West Indies, West Africa and Pakistan is that "the most efficient police force—is one which has—a certain number of colored faces in blue uniforms." PAGEANT DATE NASSAU - The annual Miss Bahamas elimina tion contest will be held April 30, and the finals May 7, according to the Bahamas Beauty Pageants committee. Winner of the Miss Bahamas beauty contest will represent the island in the Miss Universe contest next July in Miami Beach. SPONONO CHICAGO (NPI) - Alar, Paton-Krlshna Shah's "Sponono," based on life in a South African re formatory, will make its debut at the Parkway Community House beginning Feb. 25. The play, first presented in Johannesburg, features five male African dancing drummers, and authentic African singing by a chorus of 12. SCHOOL CLOSING SALISBURY (NPI) - Ever pressing its policy of "white supremacy," the white-ruled Rhodesian government recently ordered a mission school for black African children closed because it occupied land set aside, under law, for white settlers* The Highlands school, operated by the Dutch Reformed church, has been providing education for children of black people working in the suburb, most of whom are domestics In white house holds. no teacher shortage in the schools in onr state if prospective teachers were preparing to teach in the areas of critical needs and if all those being prepared, to teach sought and accepted teaching positions in the state." That is, indeed, a big "if." There is still a bigger "if" which would remedy the whole situation. If Tarheelia would offer (pay) the experienced and fledging teachers a pay scale equal to and above that of neighboring states, along with attractive fringe benefits, including year-round salary arrangement, to go with requirements for superior training, we would have plenty of teachers at home. This done, we can reduce our teacher-load and turn out higher quality graduates from pri mary through high school. Then, perhaps, we won't have one college asking over 500 to leave due to poor grades, as reported this week. same, baskeiballis the darling of increasing thousands. So this little corner’s bias is nil. . . But who wishes to accept odds that Gabriel Es~ tevao Monjane, EIGHT FEET TALL, has not already been baseiged by agents from A» merican basketball coaches? -THE ST. LOOS AMERICAN.
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