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4 TKFI CAKOLINI&N RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY MARCH 26, 1966 No 3«*3mrk miuie by Jesus has been more S*2aee«S than th» magnificent sentence, "He that ksa&th hi* life shall find It.” For centu ries#, this statement has bfoessi made the ex •uea' fesr « doctnne of self-sacrifice wiiich Jmu n®itts«r taiusht nor practiced. Rather Athletes Must Make Good Grades, Too! Athletes, for some reason, have created an unfavorable image when it comes to the matter of academic achievement. Far too many Negro athletes, playing for the pre dominantly Negro colleges and univers ites, have been contented with just getting by or flunking out in college. Many coaches and college administra tors in the past are partly to blame for this state of affairs. They have coddled too many athletes who strut around on our campuses like Greek Gods, except that, they have not displayed the glory of the gods. There have been some cases when pres sure has been put upon teachers to pass star athletes. This practice has not been a good thing, because many of these players feel that the world owes them a living for doing nothing. Often colleges have the feeling that they must engage in athletics to attract students. But this is not a fact. If an institution of fers a strong curriculum, it will attract stu - dents who are interested in learning. But probably, those students who want to watch athletic games will go elsewhere. Playing athletics is not the end. not the means to the end. There was a time when a youngster played for his college out of The presidents of 33 predominantly Ne gro colleges and universities will meet in Washington with business and government leaders on March 28 in a concerted effort to improve higher education opportunities for more than 15 million disadvantaged Negro young men and women. In all, there are some 85 Negro and pre dominantly non-white institutions, state and private, but these 33 are members of trie United Negro College Fund. Many notables will be there at this meet ing, under 1 the chairmanship of Leroy Coi lins, Undersecretary of Commerce: Wil liam T. Gossett, board chairman of the Fund and former president of the Ford Motor Company; and Dr. James Perkns, president of Cornell University and chair man of the Fund's board of Trustees. While these presidents are meeting in dustry and government, we hope they wall get new directions in their thinking. We hope they will be whiling to inaugurate new programs such as Departments of Special Education for Exceptional Children. De partments of Communicative Disorders (audiology and Speech Pathology mainly), areas of psycho-lunguistics, communieol ogy, Reading consultant training, in ad dition to forced programs for the disad vantaged. We are trying to say that these 33 col- Must Get In The Running For jobs And Offices An Associated Press news story said re cently that a dozen Alabama counties will find a record number of Negro candidates on the ballot in the upcoming Democratic primary. Some of them stand at least an even chance of defeating their white op ponents. One is entering the campaign for tire governorship. We must also make applcations in large numbers for city, county', and state jobs. Let none of us however, think that it is the duty of the city to seek qualified Negroes for employment and train others who pos sess the potential for filling jobs in city and county government. No. we cannot afford to wait tor this to happen. This is some thing the race must do for itself, even though Negroes are not totally responsible for their lack of qualifications. One editor stated that he felt the city Wave Os Negroes Seek Political Offices It is indeed rewarding to learn of the large number of Negroes filing for all lends of political offices in the Upited States. Figuratively, the idea is spreading like a forest fire out of control. Three Negroes in this state are seeking judgeships. Attorney Arthur Lane, native of Goldsboro, filed as a candidate for judgeship over the 12th Judicial District. Upon good authority two other men filed for judgeship in other places. Down in Florida, Dr. Robert L. Smith of West Palm Beach has filed as candidate for the City Commission. An advertisement Scholarships Are Awaiting Good Students If a student is building a good academic record, he can get scholarships from schools, government, and private founda tions, to see him through undergraduate and graduate study. Just recently, for example, the National Service and F\ind for Negro Students has ■ismmd several students from Immaculate Conception School to Auguste, Ga„ as re of four-year grants to colleges. Harm. Donna Fuller, Words Os Worship Editorial Viewpoint Negro College Heads To Meet did He exemplify the principle of self-use and Instrumentation in sendee. Had He stayed at home and worked as a carpenter to help sup port His mother, instead of fulfilling His task as a Healer of men, He would not have used His divine gifts for the ends of human better ment. school spirit and loyality. But now a play er is looking for the biggest windfall in scholarships. He wants to get paid for playing football rather than getting the scholarship to aid him to leam the essen tials of a good education. Colleges and universities throughout the nation are competing for star football and basketball players. Not long ago, the Uni versity of Florida athletic department ex pressed an interest in a star Negro player attending Blake High School in Tampa. However, the university did not commit it self It is waiting to know what kind of score the boy made on the Florida test which is given to all high school students wishing to enter the state universities of Florida. It seems senseless to the University of Florida to sign a player who will make such low grades that he cannot maintain the eligibility to play. An ineligible player is dead wood to a football squad. Our athletes must be taught how to de velop a thirst for knowledge. They could many of them, achieve like Paul Robeson did at Rutger’s University years ago. Robeson earned four letters in athletics, took part in dramatics, became a great singer, and, above all. was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. leges and universities must not do the same things they have been doing for the past fifty years. They must be willing to be creative in their curricular planning and execution. No longer will the strictly arts and sciences colleges suffice. Not only this, we are hopeful that some university will consider beginning a pro gram of training medical doctors, for we do not have enough training institutions to prepare medical doctors to relieve the criti cal shortage of medical practitioners. While the activities of CORE and other civil rights organization' nave had their place in the changing of customs and ha bits, we must now seek to win progress in a vital area now understaffed. Some national organization could accept the challenge to raise the funds to build the university and get it going on a first-class basis We have some 20 million Negroes in the United States, and if we could get each one to give at least five dollars, we would have the enormous sum of 100.000 million dol lars. Mind you, $20,000,000 would be a good start, but our race is capable of doing far more than this. Think of the money we waste each year upon cigarettes and Scotch ? Oh a lot of people may utter that it is impossible to do this. Develop the philoso phy of the man who said, "If it is impossi ble, I'll do it!” government should seek out Negroes for some of the city and county jobs that are presently available. He thinks that cities and counties should contact schools where Negroes attend and inform officials of these schools that jobs are available for quali fied persons. This, he said, would eradicate any suspicion, that the local governments are not acting in good faith. We would take just the opposite ap proach: Have the schools to contact city government and local business concerns and tell them they have qualified graduates for numerous positions. Finally, no enterprising person should sit down and wait for government or school to bring the job to him. Everyone worth a grain of salt, should seek work until they find it. in West Palm Beach is urging citizens to pull Lever 13-A for Holland as municipal judge. These are just a few examples of what kind of action it is going to take to get Ne groes in political office. It is apparent that we can use the ballot more effectively if we would. The reason why we have not been able to get many things we want in our local community is traceable to cur failure to e lect people of our group to office. If we did, we could count on them working strongly in our behalf. Noble Benefield, Edward Fletcher, William Hawes, Ronald Mills and Samuel Wilson. Negro high school graduates all over the nation are winning similar types of schol arships because they did their level best which was on a high scholastic level, Many teachers have lazy high school stu dents who are contented with just getting by. Let’s drive a hard bargain and force these lazy ones with good minds to achieve in spite of themselvevs. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN GOERGIA STATE LEGISLATION AMBUSHED BY TWO SNICS AT THE EAGLE PASS The Student Non - Violent Coordinating Committee, hereinafter known as SNIC, ambushed the whole Georgia Legislature. As these former white supremacists bit the dust, they shouted, "You are disloyal to the USA. (that’s the North too, suh) and what about you violatin’ our USA Constitution?” The decoy who led the Leg islature into the ambush was one Julian Bond, a Negro re cently elected as a repre sentative to this body. He prepared and read a two-page foreign policy address criti cizing American Intervention in Viet Nam just before he was sowrn in, along with seven other duly elected Negroes. For the opinions he express ed, the Georgia legislature denied him his seat. You have to be terribly maive to believe it was simply coincidence that James Fore man and John Lewis, the two big SNICS just happened to prevail upon this clean-cut young politician, a day or so before the swearing in. In deed not. The SNICS are hot-blooded and in one fell swoop they have achi e v ed world-wide publicity. The SNICS figured (un fortunately correctly) that the white supremacists would find a reborn ardor for the Con stitution of the United States. And the born-again Constitu tionalists fell for It, ran gal loping into the Eagle Pass and voted to deny Bond his seat. Had these born-again Geor gians played It cautiously, the joke would have been on SNIC. But Diamond Jim Brady said it a long time ago; "The wise guy is the sucker after all.” SNIC lias established a world-wide rapport with all lust For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE STILL ON ROAD In a previous article, I an nounced that I was travelling over the state (Florida) visit ing practice teachers. This week I covered another route (my thirdtrlp)to Panama City, Tampa, and St. Petersburg, Florida. It was during March 14 to 20th. Thus I found myself way down on the West coast of Florida, and I had the oppor tunity tc see the lower part of Florida on the west side of the map. I arrived home on Friday night, and will take off again Sunday morning for Miami, Florida. I shall be Other Editors Say.. HARLEM POLITICS Mayor Lindsay's growing popularity in Harlem is caus ing much anxiety in Democra tic ranks. It has been con ceded that the defection of Ne gro Democrats in the Recent mayoral election contributed much to Lin day's smashing victory at the polls. So far the New York Democratic par ty’s strategists are at a loss to initiate a formula that might arrest the Harlem trend to ward Republicanism. The biggest upward push in Mayor Lindsay's popularity came with the appointment of a new police commissioner who said he would cooperate with a civilian - dominated board that will review com plaints against the police. Although some civil rights leaders would rather see a review board entirely outside the Police Department, the Mayor’s overriding of the op position to a review board by the Police Department as a whole has brought him praise from the National Association for the Advancement, of Col ored People, the National Ur ban League and the Congress of Racial Equality. The Rev. Eugene Callender, chairman of the board of Har lem's sl3-milli.on anti-pov erty program, made this sig nificant observation: "I think a new era is being created 'between police and ghetto communities." the cjmaexttiAN Publishing Company '‘Covering the Carolina*" Published by fi» CatoHnlsa SIS E. .Street Rslelgh. N. SUM Mailing AtlslreMS •s*. O. Box Raleigh, nTC. Sim Second Cl sue Postage paid at Ra leigh, n. c~ mu sußsaßmaoN rates Six Month* 82.7& Sale*, Tax ,£* TOTAL .... ”*ss* One Year 4.50 Sales Tax .34 TOTAL ~sHm Payable in Advance. Address all communication* and make all cheek* and money orders payable to THE CAKOUNtAH. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., SIC Madison Avenue, New York 17 M. V., National Advertising Re presentative . and member of the Associated Negro Prea* and the United Pros* International Photo Service. : The Publisher i* not reaponirfljle tor the return of unsolicited; hows, pictures or advertising copy toll.* necessary pqMagre accom* teenies the copy. ' , . Opinions exprwamrt to columnn lots in this newspaper do wot nec vusarlly represent file policy at shls tmpar. the revolutionaries in Africa, Asia and points east and it didn’t cost a dime in mimeo graphing. The naive Mr. Bond will sit with Prime Ministers from all over the globe, who, too, were once denied their rights after a free election. And the born-again Constitu tionalists will sooner or lat er have to listen to the Su preme Court tell them they are wrong again, In away it is too bad. At lanta, the scene of the ambush, does not deserve the ridicule. This city has actually led the South in the two domestic crises of the 1950’s and 60’s: school integration and reap portionment. It has been a decent and courageous city. John Lewis made some out rageous remarks about burn ing draft cards suggesting, to me, at least, that hehasfallen victim to the danger of all revolutions: the revolution be coming an end in itself. SNIC achieved its national forum through the efforts of people who devoted their lives to the Civil Rights movement. It can be said that SNIC is a hitchhiker on a movement to which thousands of men and women gave their time, their resources, their energy, 'and their blood. Julian Bond, an elected member to the Georgia, state legislature, had a perfect right to speak out against the in volvement America suffers in Viet Nam. It Is true this statement would probably have hurt the civil rights move ment, just as Lewis’s urgings to burn draft cards would probably have hurt it. But the born-again Constitutional ists of the Georgia state leg islature beclouded the issue by denying young Bond his seat. These legislators walk ed into a carefully, if hur riedly, prepared trap en gineered by no more than two or more smart SNICS. riding with the head of the Foreign Language Depart ment, and two other supervi sors of general methods stu dents. While 1 am enjoying the scenery and palm trees, 1 am also putting on weight. Sometimes people Invite you to their homes and treat you and the practice teachers to a dinner. They insist on your eating second helpings. As a result, I have ten pounds in 3 1/2 weeks. The best way to reduce Is to push your chair away from the table before you get sec ond helpings. Harlem leaders who were interviewed agreed that May or Lindsay’s popularity in their community would rise or fall on how the new civilian board performs in cases in volving charges of police bru tality or suppression of civil rights. The other major factor will be the administration’s per formance in finding Jobs for Negroes. This is not so much a question of putting select ed individuals into political or administrative posts--al though that too Is a factor - but of opening ordinary jobs in industry for thousands. There were protests last January that the administra tion was not putting enough Negroes into policy making and other Important municipal positions. But the Lindsay ship thus far has been able to saU over the reefs without damaging the new mayor 's 1- mage. “I think I’ve appointed more Negroes than any other mayor in the country," said Lindsay. He mentioned the names erf half a dozen Negroes he had appointed as commissioners or deputy commissioners-and his aides added a dozen names involving other important posts - during the course of a recent Interview. The point that is creating consternation among big wig Democrats is that Negroes in Harlem have bridged the par ty’s ideological spectrum. This is a significant develop ment, not only in itself but also as a symptom of an in triguing new political alliance. The portent is that what is happening in New York may well be duplicated in other large metropolitan centers where the Negro vote, such as in Philadelphia and Chicago, has been a deciding factor in the critical elections of the last decade or so. Should the shift occur elsewhere on the same scale as it did in New’ York, the Democratic leaders in big cities may face their biggest challenge in a generation. The Harlem trend may be a national symptom - THE CHICAGO DAILY DE FENDER. AS IF GOLDWATEK WAS RUNNING In the last Presidential e lectlon, the heaviest turn-out BUT WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD...? CONTRAST- 4*B* 'THE ROSE AND THE THORN. AND SORROW AND GLADNESS ARE S J THEY ARE TRYING TO ''SEN.J WILLIAM FULSRIGHT OF ARKANSAS / \l IJ% ?' J , — 'X CARRYING ON HIS SABOTAGE ■ THE-ViE T-WAR CAM jjfr A>xb |? 1 A I Rl/iOSA I PAIGN iN HEARINGS BEFORE HIS SENATE FOREIGN AO I If ; RELATIONS COMMITTEE COLLEAGUES,- 'jo 1 A J 9pV N'. ; pi 'j 'CLAYREFUSED -BEFORE APPROVING THE BILL, THE COMMITTEE ! 4JF \ : Jjf| JTO APOLOGIZE REJECTED, 13 TO 6. AN ADMENDMEN TBY ' T \i v j/ T<? THE ILLINOIS CHAIRMAN J. WILLIAM FULBRtGHT , DEMOCRAT V -"A / ATHLETIC COM ARKANSAS, DECLARING THAT THE AID MONEY MUMAMMED ALI ' j MISSION FOR BITTERLY SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS SUPPORT \ j PROTESTING HISRE FOR ANY FURTHER MILITARY COMMITMENT'S ;N } \ \ CLASSIFICATION SOUTH EAST ASIA 1 ' ) \l FROM l-Y TO L-A IN THE DRAFT" _ __j , \...jseM v-.->c v j Alter Coll BY EMORY G. DAMS. D. D. NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL BLOW THE TAPS Visualize, if you can, a Negro soldier blowing taps amidst the awesome pomp and pageantr;. of an inaugural ceremony, while the Confedt late flag that flies over the state capitol of Alabama is being lowered for all time and eternity This is just what can happen if the elector.it-- of “The Heart of Dixie”—Alabama—will elect Richmond Flowers, the present attorney-general, as its next governor. The hauling down of the Confederate flag and all it symbolizes is a campaign pledge the at torney-general is making that he will surely carry out, if those who wish to escape from the slavery it has imposed will carry out ti - mandate of the times in their forthcoming elec tion, “We dare defend our rights” -- the state’s motto -- has meant for all too long, the rights of “white” Alabama. The teeming thousands of Negroes from the coast to the Tennessee border, hedged in b> the acid prejudice of Mississippi on the west and the diminishing prejudices of Georgia .mo Florida, are looking with religious expectancy for a “white Moses” to further set them free to enjoy and fulfill their human rights. Flowers could well lx? the Negro’s deliwrei from the “bondage of Alabama.” Political ineptitude and apathy on the part of Negroes have been the great deterrents in World Nows Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL BORDER FENCE POCHIN, South Korea - “Seal the lx icr ’ is the present project being undertake:: : • : •>• South Korean government in an attempt to ic- ; North Korean agents from crossing into South Korea. The border sealing is being accomplished by the erection of two-inch wooden poles, < i ht to 10 feet high, lashed together with barbed wire, strung with booby traps, and protected by mine fields and machine gun nests. NOT THE SAME NAIROBI - A misplaced or dropped initial could wreak havoc among political parties in Kenya these days. Former Vice Prt •••id nt Oglnga Odinga, ousted from the No. 2 spot i ,b y fomenting a communist takeover, min . diai-b organized the Kenya African Unity (KAU) in opposition to the ruling KANU (Kenya African National Union) and its rival KADI) (Ke African Democratic Union). INVASIONS WASHINGTON - The U. S. Peace Corps pro gram will invade two new African nations thi year, raising the number of Africa)-; ci-unt covered to 19. A contingent of 37 volunteer s will set foot in Chad in September, and a 34- man crew will enter Bechuanaland in Decembi r. EQUAL PAY SYDNEY - Cattle ranch owners in tint northern territory have been ordered by Australia's top industrial tribunal the Commonwealth Arbi tration commission - to pay full-blooded ab : ; - in the history of the nation was recorded among Negroes. It was the response of a peo ple to a call to beat back the drive of reaction and to consolidate the gains made toward first-class citizens. In that year, Negroes were as serting their belief in their right to have a voice In the nation’s government, and their resolve that the continuation of a tradition which disfran chised the disherited, because of the race or color or re ligion or economic status should no longer hold sway. The Negro’s resolution In this matter made a difference and the election of LRJ as President of the United States of America and the landslide which characterized that e lectton is part of the Negro’s victory. Today that response is paying off. We call your attention to this victory only to point up that your vote and vour con fleeing Iv.n from t■■■.• politic.il bondage that has so long enslaved him. '..ml yet, although I am neither a native or resident of Alabama, 1 can hear, those Negroes t!ie;. ,\ho ought to be in the frontlines i ] .in - the banner <1 a possible deliverer - coniri-->!..: some inane justification fer inaction at this ritical period on which their ultimate freedom may be hanging. Tli* chinch has fostered all too much poli tic .1 h:v. The church’s “let-God-do-it” at titude .is become the escape hatch for those who lacked the courage to do what they should have don i politically, as people supposedly com mitted to "serve the present age.” While we are in the church praying, *he manipulators ,m taking over--dealing us out "i the political pot—doling out beer, hot dogs and janitor jobs. Is this what we were asking of God? Not only should the Negro in Alabama get up off his knee and get to work politically, but •Ik se enur h Nor roes, too, in Harlem, Watts, Chicac Boston, St. Louis, or whatever thou sand-- us exist as a threat to the old status quo, .. hil-- Richmond Flowers is campaigning, per haps to should be praying for the inept and a pat i etio Negro throughout the United States who rie-ob to find his place around the Altar of Politics, where some ot his freedom can be had for the asking. gines t.ut* same wage.? as white workers re • ;;v, The order afiects only about 500 work ;ry but ii is regarded as a victory for the “ -.1 p... I’c equal work’" drive conducted by ir > . king ir. agricultural, timber, trans port, and mining industries. REBUFF A’TDJ N, Ivory c • as: - The Ivory Coast has taken t and in the Guinea-Ghana counter-coup plans by issuing a warning to the Guinea gov ern:: err f to use Ivory Coast territory as a tr movement stepping stone to Ghana. Pres i -m Felix Houphouet-Biogny backed up the warn ire by stationing Ivorien troops along the border to block passage to Guinea-Ghana forces. BIG CUT BAI K v, Cana Zone - The Atlantic-Pacific Inter oceanic Canal Studies commission is pre sently making field studies of the eastern sector of the J.-u,reus of Panama to determine the feasi bility of a sea-level canal along the Sasardl- Mortl route. One of several CO-mile long routes cut through heavy Jungle in Darien province; it is estimated to cost ir the nlghtiorhood of $750 million. 100 TONGUES LOUISVILI E, Ky. - The American Bible So cle*" pi eparing to observe its 150th anniversary in May, ■ngaged in the revision and trans ition of tin entire Bible in 100 major tongues, snob, - -v; per cent of* he world* speckles. The Bibb h ' .•email,, been translated into 600 lan guages. • < • and the matter of first class citizenship depends on your participation ratter than wishes. In the very near future the citizenry, of 7"'sa will have another chance to strengthen the democratic way of life. This time it has to do with correcting the distortions that have existed tor more than a year. An anti-poverty pro gram which ignored not only the desire.-;, and the needs of the people to be helped, but deprived them of both voice and vote in determining the programs to be projected and the people to be benefited is being rest met u red. Now we are in the process of correcting all this,. A third of the New Task Force or thereabouts is tc consist of representatives of the poor. Neighborhood Councils are to be organized within thirteen ar is anti elections are to be held there the communities ■dec: their representatives by ballot and those represents fives will carry out the de sires and the protests of the tot 1 Task Force for action. In a day not toe far distant,' i p .dec:ions will be announc ed. The area defined, and the citizens given an opportunity to ote We urge you not to miss this one. In fact, we r spectfully insist that yon re spond to this one as if you thought Goldwater was run nL-y . For while there is no candidate running on a plat form of exclusion, the piinci ph of exclusion is the adver sary, and your participation means the expulsion of that principle from a program that affords Negroes the greatest opportunity in the history «rs Amt rica to become a first class citizen. - THE OKLA HOMA EAGLE.
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