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9 this Carolinian RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1986 4 Within every living thing Is a guiding force. No one has expressed it more forcefully than Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essay ‘‘Self- Reliance" is as appropriate on this point as anything written since the days of Jesus. The principle of living is biologic, cosmic natural and spiritual. It Ls not to be discovered in a Teach Counseling Project Should Get Attention A Florida minister, Dr. Jack Anderson, has been awarded a $7,000 federal grant to train other - clergymen in counseling school age children. This idea should stimulate Negro Tarheel ministers into action. The grant to Reverend Anderson was one of 13 projects to be financed by $99,950 in federal funds which must be approved by State Superintendents of Education. Reverend Anderson reported that his work under the grant has been underway for about six months as a "pilot project" If found successful, he indicated that it may be made a continuing program. The project operates on a non-denomi national basis by training clergymen to counsel children with educational, mental and emotional problems. The trained min Pinellas’ Findings Change Poverty’s Image A survey of poverty in Pinellas County Fla., is underway. While the study is far from complete, some of the pre-conclusions have given us vital information about pov erty which we are prone to describe in terms of dollars and cents. The mass of our Negro populations have been identified with poverty’ since time im memorial. The Pinellas County study stat ed tentatively: 1. There is a difference between econom ic poverty and social poverty. Many per sons whose incomes fall under poverty’ standards do not consider themselves poor. (This is revealing since often a low-income family with intrinsic vaules may live mod estly happy’, free from debt and without the general class worries. On the other hand, people whose annual incomes exceed SIO,OOO are woefully’ burdened with debts to the extent of being unhappy.) 2. Education is no guarantee that a good All-Arnerican junior “Colleger*" Signs With FSU History was made again last week when Leonard Hall, a Negro All-America bas ketball player from St. Petersburg Junior College, accepted a grant-in-aid to Flori da State University at Tallahassee. Hall is the first Negro to receive an ath - letic scholarship to Florida State Univer sity, the previously all-white institution at - Tallahassee which now has enrolled about fifteen Negro students. However, Fred Flowers, a Negro, is a pitcher on this year’s team without scholarship. A native of Camden, N. J., Hall plans to ma jor in physical education at FSU. He was signed by Coach Hugh Durham who Does A Citizen Need Protection From Snoopers? In plain and simple English, there is s principle which emphasizes that a man’s house is his castle, in which he is entitled to individual privacy. However, investigations recently have in dicated a flagrant disregard of this princi ple by reputable business enterprises, as well as the federal government. This is best illustrated by two widely publicized cases: It was indeed shocking to know that the State Department’s Passport Office to U. S. embosses abroad asked them to main tain a surveillance on Harvard historian H Stuart Hughes, grandson of the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who dis tinguished himself as a jurist, when he leaves this country to visit Moscow and Paris sometime later this year. Why, you may ask? Well, this was ordered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the or der has been cancelled, we question the right of the FBI in the future regarding this procedure. Newspapers stated that Mir Frances G. Knight, head of the Passport Office and an alleged notorious reactionary, is furious at the expose of her bureau. Ralph Nader, author of “Unsafe At Any Speed,” a critique of unsafe automobile construction, was harassed by a private in vestigating firm employed by the legal de partment of General Motors. This had been done without the knowledge of GM Presi dent James M. Roche, who publicly apolo gized to Nader before a U.S. subcommittee investigating auto safety. This may seem unimportant to the aver age citizen, but take the case; of the District of Columbia Motor Vehicle Bureau just recently. One of tire hottest cars on the market—a 306-horsepower Cobra engine in a Musts,ne body that can accelerate to 65 Star-spangled way to save a bundle fpi Buy U.S. Savings Bands STAR-SPANGLED SAVINGS PLAf’J FOR ALL AMERICANS 1 Words Os W orship Editorial Viewpoint study of the ways of society or of its stan dards. but by an understanding of inner neetle and values. For in the depths of every man’s spirit is a sense of identity, a feeling upon which th» integrity of being res’s. What every human being does to fulfill the endowments gives joy to him and permanent service to other people. isters, in turn, conduct workshops for other ministers. By now. we know that “ministers are in the frontline defense in the battle against mental illness.” Forty-two oer cent of the people go to their minister with emotional problems,” Dr. Anderson reported. “We see a great many people before they become mentally ill. and therefore need to be train ed to detect signs of deep emotional prob lems or symptoms which may later lead to mental illness.” Let us hope that some qualified Negro minister in North Carolina will become interested in starting a similar project. If ever a group needed counseling, it is our schoolchildren, who are prone to dropout so easily for many reasons, job can be found. Pinellas study revealed that a large number of college-trained men and women are working as unskilled la borers. 3. Most counselors advise people to get an education, and thereby change their sta tus from poverty to substantial living. It is indeed gratifying that the people in this area are attempting to work out solu tions to their problems. Providing day care centers for working mothers, arranging adult education classes at Head Start Cen ters in the evenings, determinng guidlines for predicting which families might benefit from case work servees, helping to find jobs for the unemployed irrespectve of racial origin, etc. Communities working in this fashion of ten achieve more progress than civil rights round-table discussions. No one, not even communities, will ever be sorry for givng the unfortunate a lift. said, “Hall probably has as much natural athletic ability as any basketball player we've ever had here. We expect him to.be a starter for us next season.” The fact that Hall was "signed” indi cates his academic average wa9 all right, and the statement that he is expected to be on the starting team next year suggests that he is much better than the average player. We salute Leonard Hall for getting this opportunity at FSU, and we are confident that his record will pave the way for others to follow. Next year, we will’ call your at tention to this young man’s stewardship. miles an hour in five seconds—flunked Washington’s auto inspection last Thurs day because of its system. The D. C. Motor Vehicle Division ordered modi fications of the braking system before it would pass any of the 31 Shelby GT3SOs ordered by Hertz Rent-a-Car. Not long ago we read in Consumer Di gest a critique of two models of GM pro ducts which were called “death traps” be cause of their tendency to turn over on quick turns at street intersections. The ar ticle accused the manufacturer of selling these models knowing that this defect ex isted If it is in the public interests to conduct investigations, we have no arguments. But, in instances when the safety and welfare of the public is not at stake, who has the right to snoop on other citizens? What legal re course does a citizen have when he is con fronted with this sort of surveillance? Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach is thinking seriously of asking Congress for a law to prohibit wire tapping and elec tronic eavedropping entirely, whether by private individuals or law enforcement a gencies. He believes that a citizen’s right to privacy is more than a euphemism. He would give the harasssed person recourse to law by' suing for damages, and prosecuting the offender for a criminal act. If “snooping” gets out of hand, a citizen may well be investigated as a Communist by local law enforcement officers to cur tail activities of citizens engaged in civil rights activties, and persons who may dare to expose discriminatory policies in local areas. We cannot stress too strongly the inalien able right of every' citizen to individual pri vacy. Only In America ONE KIND WORD FOR CASSIUS CLAY Cassius Clay, the world’s heavyweight champion, ex pressed himself rather illogi cally, perhaps evenunpatriot ically, when he was informed his draft board was reclassi fying him lA. But what Cas sius Clay said, hot off the cuff, was mild compared to what thousands of college students and professors are saying. Many people say these pro testing students and college professors are mistaken. Ve ry few of the extremists call them unpatriotic. But the way all the sportswrlters and the governors and the boxing com missions reacted to Clay's ex pression tells us a lot about what we are. For a year or two, Cassius had been classified as 1Y which meant he did not meet the men tal requirements to get into the Army. He complained there had been no new exami nation to reclassify him and the complaint has some justi fication. We would be naive if •we didn’t acknowledge that there was great pressure to get this fellow out of circu lation. If an off-beat journ alist In North Carolina who enjoys no connections with government, army or prize fighting receives a few letters every week asking, “Why isn't Cassius Clay in the army?*' we can well image the letters which must have poured upon draft board officials, army officials and government clerks. In 1966, Cassius Clay is in the same position Jack John son was 50 years ago. But the emphasis is entirely dif ferent. People hated Jack Johnson because he had mar ried a white woman. The pub lic clamored for a “white hope’’ to recapture the heavy weight crown “for the white race.” Today, such a clamor is taboc. Sammy Davis, Jr., enjoys great popularity and he is married to a white girl. Harry Belafonte Is married to a white girl and he is a most respected concert artist of the day. Cassius Clay knew they hated him when he told the Negro Floyd Patterson, Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE I AM A SQUARE! Readers, I thought I was a “Square” but now I am con vinced of it. Some weeks ago I travelled with some asso ciates by automobile, and dur ing the course of our stay two of my former students and their husbands Invited me to dinner one evening and in cluded an invitation for my associates. They declined in favor of a fish dinner at Howard John son’s. They thought I was a “Square” instead of a “Regu lar Cat." They assumed the evening would be too dull for them; they were wrong and missed a treat. The menu was superb and delicious: Roast leg of lamb, baked squash covered with Lifter to the Editor Carolina Hotel, # 314 Raleigh, North Carolina March 24, 1966 THE LATE DAVIS HARRIS To The Editor: This afternoon I attended the funeral services for Dav id Harris, a young Raleigh freedom-fighter whose tragic death occurred on March 19, I first met David in the late spring of 1963, Young Ameri cans throughout the south were in the process of creating a more human society, David Harris was one of these young people. The spring semesters at Shaw and St. Augustine’s ended and students from Ligon High School became the pre dominant group who manned the picket lines, sang the free dom songs, and marched for equal rights. David was altogether de pendable. He was on the line for each demonstration. I re call his quiet dignity in the face of abuse, and I remember the jolly twinkle in his eyes. THE CAWMUENIAN PubUchlßt Cdjnpaay “Covering the Carolina#" Published by the Carolinian 518 E. akssta Street Keleich. N. ■©. Z7SOI Mailtos? Manm 9, O. Box <2B Baleifh, V. C. . 275W2 Second Cleat Pcwt&s»e Paid at Ra leigh, N. c pm SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Month* *2.75 Sales Tax ,C* total .. "Ices One Year 4.50 Sides Tax 14 TOTAL “Im* Payable in Advance. Addrees all communications and make all Checks and money order* payable to THE CAROL3KAK. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., an; Madison Avenue, New York 37 K. Y., National Advertising Re presentative and member at the Associated Negro Pres* and the United Pres* International Photo [Service. The Publisher la not responsible tor the return of unsolicited kews. pictures or advertising copy teles# necessary postage accom faanies the copy. ; Opinions express*# toy column ist* to this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy srf this paper. BY HARRY GOLDEN “You are now the white hope.” No one hates Cassius because he is a Negro. It would be easy to say ’the folks resent Cassius be cause he is a loud mouth and a wise guy but that is too simple. The loud mouths in sports are admired and re spected. Leo Durocher is anything but ret irbig and Ty Cobb was anything but sports manlike. People don't hate Clay because he promises a knockout in the fourth round. Babe Ruth pointed to the stands before he hit a home run and the crowd rose and cheer ed his trip around the bases when a reporter told Babe he received more money than President Hoover, Babe re plied, “I hit better than him.” The folks revered Babe. I revered him even listening to his language while lie was playing pool with a teammate up in Doyle’s on Broadway. The truth Is America real ly should love Cassius Clay because he is living symbol of Puritanism, old-fashioned. Puritanism. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn't take the Lord’s name in vain and he divorced his wife lie cause she wore slacks and out raged an orthodox tenet of Puritanism. The Hebrews had originally made it a crime for a woman to masquerade as a man and the Puritan and the orthodox Anglo-Cal vinist tradition of America and England took over tills idea. Moreover Cassius is reli gious. We don’t by and large approve of the Muslims but none of us takes them ser iously. And anyway, how many fight-fans are up on their theology and have read the Koran? As a matter of fact most glamorous delegates to the UN are Moslems with turbans. I once suggested to the Israeli ambassador to wear a turban so all the high school kids will ask him for his auto graph. In those two personal habits which forever haunt the A merican soul, sex, and reli gion, Cassius Clay is every thing we say we are but ain’t. His Puritanism evokes huge areas of guilt. And I think that is why we Irate him. tasty cheese, string beans and whole white potatoes (new), rice and “out-of-this world gravy”, hot biscuits and black coffee, pie a la mode, etc. Then there were the “night caps” of Scotch, Bourbon, and rum, in a atmosphere of ste reo and TV and lively con versation. The next morning en route to Tallahassee and home, one ventured to ask lightly, How was the dinner.” I laid it on, describing it with the art of a superb radio announcer. When I said, Scotch and rum, they said, “Oh!” softly, but eagerly, and then were silent for nearly 20 minutes. Yes, sir:, the “OldSquare” got the last laugh -- the old hewhaw, even though he is a teetotaler. He marched; he sang; he was arrested for affii ming his conviction that freedom is the birthright of all Americans. I didn’t see David often af ter that memorable freedom summer. Occasionally he visited the Shaw campus and we would have a good visit. Today I wept because I’ll miss him, and I also wept because so few people here in Raleigh knew that here was a young man who was one of the multi tude of unknown and unsung heroes of midcentury Ameri ca, Raleigh is a different city now. The role of the adult com munity was not central in mak ing it so. It was a finer city primarily becausl of the dedi cation and sacrifice of the young men and women of Shaw University, St. Augustine's College and Ligon High School; because of beautiful young people such as David Harris. Our debt to them can never be paid. We should all know this, and we should never for get it. Sincerely yours, Clyde R. Appleton, Shaw University Other Editors Soy . . . SHIFTING INTO THIRD March 27 will be the last in a series of great days in the life of the Mystical Body of Christ. The changes to be introduced into cur worship this Sunday will mark the con clusion of the first stage of liturgical renewal, November 29, 1964 was the first day of joy and fulfil ment for those who had lab ored long for a popular liturgy. The Word of God was to tie proclaimed in the clarity of a known tongue, and it would CHAOS! AFFLICT OTHER \ ///£*’ I? \ i&BF PEOPLES, SOONER \ / / iil%, \ %£Bm> OR LATER WE OUR- \ / JS& M s l|. \ SELVES WILL FEEL V JP \i %\ F®mS& THEIR IMPACT." >l'>ll i 1 \% juhher well 5 V»( \ % \r i y !4 asTO^^^^/rm>rsr/^^' SPONONO The Hull House Community Houses, founded by Jane Addams, as a Chicago institution for interested people to learn and do artistic things has long been a significant means of expressing their thoughts and ideas. In the last three years the theatre projects of the community houses have achieved national attention under the guidance of Bob Sicklnger and his staff of directors. About a year ago a workshop called the Park way Theatre, or Hull House South, was opened in the heart of the Negro community. In this short period the group -a carry-over of the community’s old Skyloft Players, now under the direction of Michael Miller, one of Sickinger's ablest assistants -has produced a series of plays that has not only sought to deal with current problems and modern themes, but has attempt ed to revive the community’s interest in the theatres. There have been plays dealing with loneliness, love, sex. race, ambition, hope, and the whole SHOOK UP KAMPALA, Uganda - Quakes of varying Intensi ty shook up people on two continents recent ly - in Asia’s north China sector and in Afri ca’s western Uganda. China had four quakes, one registering 8.3 on the Richter scale (making it one of the most powerful recorded in recent history) which makes a total of six in the area around Singtai this month. Os lesser intensity were two shocks in. western Uganda which dumped rocks on the only access road from Bwamba county to the country’s capital. LET DOWN CARLETONVILLE, South Africa - The world’s richest goid mining area is a “sinkhole” death trap for its 20,000 inhabitants. Since Dec, 12 1962, 29 Africans have died by being swallowed up in one of the huge chasms in the earth. The cave-ins are principally caused by removal of underground water from subterranean areas in the search for gold ore. Subsequent water, seeping through the dolomite rock, cause the rock arches to weaken and the ceiling of the caverns to give wav, bringing the surface down with it. LOUD VOICE KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - For its size -- 0,800 square miles or roughly a little larger than Rhode Island, Conneticut or Delaware - - the five-year-old independent Arab nation of Kuwait will have the loudest national voice in the world. Next year, the country will begin operation of a 750,000 watt broadcasting station, which is cost ing something like $3 million to construct. SIGN OF TIMES??? CHICAGO - Evidence that patriarchial rule is fast becoming passe is attested to by the fact that one of the last bastions of male authority - the American Indian - is being taken over by the squaws. Gone are the days, according to henceforth be celebrated and received in a living and com munal form of worship! Last Lent the ‘new liturgy’ moved into second gear as the celebrant turned away from the wall to establish immediate and intimate con tact with the congregation. Al ready the 'new liturgy’ is no longer new; We have grown accustomed to its face. Even the" traditionalist who long for the sonorous Latin of former times will appre ciate the March 27 revisions. The awkard switching back and forth from one language to another will all but be elimi nated; and the official pray er of the day will no longer need interpretation by lector. Even now a commission of 40 bishops and 200 advisors are at work on a future re vision of the ordinary of the Mass and a plan for employ ing a greater variety of scrip ture readings. However, it will be ‘a period of years' before its proposals are act ually adapted in this country. This Sunday, then, w*e will be shifting into third, and each pastor and parishioner must accept the challenge to make continuing progress un der the existing discipline. Some, we not be Literary Notes World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL gun to update. (Pastor.'- in simply doing everything then - selves). Others at gin < out Catholics can’t sing! No • - the time to replace such i . diculous complaints with ; ■/ - termined effort to work and practice for that living liturgy which the Vatican Council en visioned. At the opposite extrenru -re the litniks whose sun • im passion is the proper pi‘SiUo; ing of the ‘presidential chair’ or the choice of the lector's garb. Exclusive eoncenti a tion on the ‘right’ way of conducting public worship ap pears to us absurd. Litur gical perfection is nothin*, more than ‘playing church’ unless the concern springs from biblical faith and server to nourish Christian respO’ - sobttity in a world bes-.-i b> social unrest and moral de terioration. This Sunday we must ask ourselves what we have ac complished since November, 1964, and what remains to lx done. The essential glory given to God by ti e offering" of the Mass is not altered by the distinction of roles or the use of English, The question before us, then, are concern ed not so much with the de tails of what we are doing in our parish churches, but wit! gamut of human endeavor. For the most part the plays selected and the performances of the local actors and actresses have been in such good taste and professionalism that theatre critics from the metropolitan news papers who norr dlv never venture beyond the professional theatres downtown have frequently come to the performances and written about the productions w ith high praise. Sponono, the current production of the group is a play written by white South African Alan Paton and Ii . KrishmaShah. The drama, based on some of Tab a's personal experiences and on some of his short stories, deals with life in a reform school for African boys. Specifically it i concerned with the attempts of Sponono, one of the inmates, to live up to the idea is of the school’s white principal, and at the same time remain true to the ideals of his former way of life. The struggle of Sponono and the principal to understand each other shows similarity to the more immediate experiences of race relations in America. Earl Old Pe. son, c i-L •: of the 12,000 Blackfeet Indian tril ale was the absolute king. The women now are calling the shots. . A FIRST , COVENTRY, : ; r .an t - Britain’s first non ; white polio • office: is a 23-year-old Kenyan of t Indian and Paki.-tj . y.-ren'age, the father of nine i and who speak- x languages. Muhammad r Yusuf Daar, formerly a policemen in East Afri i ca, until recei il. was a Coventry factory worker, i COMMERCE GROUP MEMBER ADDIS ABABA - N -v est member of the Addis .‘ i tl of Commerce is Ayele Wadajo, ; assistant director, cat go sales, Ethiopian air i lines. Unaninou.-h elected to Cor C mem : her ship, he ■■ -V ;: • v-nt >h- airline as a mem i ber of t:i.■ nov.h nod shipping and transport ( committee. ’ LOADED DOWN , I and television program.- ■: which tie public is invited to par ticipate Ir '••lephuix- have been banned by the Brazilian g< a-rMiint. Reason; The populari ty of sue.: programs have virtually taken over the countr.’s air .-ad . overstrained telephone net work. BEARD EMBLEM STANLEYVILLE - An • diet banning beards In the uppe Com., a r. „ ton was promulgated recent ly by Go -, Ign; • • Al. wizard. He issued the order to “shave off ail b* aids,” because “suchgrowths are considered an emblem of the insurrection.” “BRIGHT” MONEY LUSAKA - For the uninitated, 11 “brights” equals one Kwacha, or $1.40. The kwacha is tl - bash, unit <>f Zambia’s decimal currency which comes into force in January, 1968. Worth 10 Shilling s ($1.40), it is broken down into parts, each of which is called a Ngwe - bright. v.i.at L happening to our par- Lhes themselves. Is the new form or our encounter with C’mist changing us? Are we ■ are of our member -hip b Him Are we more slip in Him ’ Are we enlarg ing the scope of our charity, the ar.ge of our apostolic wit ness' Have we learned the ci* . lesson which is woven ti : ugh ail the reforms: that we art responsible not for one . oul but for as many as we can Influence? vi-,-: Martin Healy sums nr- me issue in a few words: •p the Word of God that calls us to abound in good works has not ied us beyond the :.*rk of worship-well-done to a now and deeper concern for the poor, the ignorant and the broken, then we are still ‘out’ even if our worship is ‘in.’ xpress cur consecration ti God as a royal priesthood and : holy nation in our wor ship must lead us to act as such in our seemingly non •clieioui- !“■ in ‘the secular cite.’ If mb has happened, i.ur first experience with the ‘new liturgy’ has been a suc cess; if it has not, we have < * to begin to be the true worshippers the Father seeks in spirit and in truth.” - NORTH CAROLINA CATHO LIC.
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