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i tmt amoumrn RALEIGH, N' C„ BATCRBAY, APWth I*. Htsil 4 It was the voice of the robber who said Painfully to Jesurs, “Remember me, when fchou cornest into thy kingdom!” You may have let yourself picture Jesus Christ as weak, as a Man of sorrows, uninspiring, glad to die. There have been leaders who could call forth A battle for auto safety is now waging in this country', and its main line of march is between Washington and Detroit. Safety must win. and this fact is flagrantly notice able. Studies indicate that 49.000 lives were lost last year on our highways and these could have been saved by the employment of stricter standards affecting the driver, the vehicle, or the roads. Action tow'ard the goal of safety should not be deferred any longer. The charge is that automobile manufact urers are more interested in style appeal to the public’s eye than it is in incorporating known safety features in its cars. Industry manufacturing automobiles would like to have the opportunity to "show what it can do” providing Congress won’t inhibit its efforts by passing legis lation requiring compliance with safety standards set by the federal government. Since auto makers have net instituted standards of high safety after all these years, why should they be granted an ex tended period of grace in which to make corrections or initiate new safety inova- The Flag Must Be Held Sacred We regret the incident in Cordcle, Geor gia, in which nine civil rights demonstra tors were charged with defacing the United States and Georgia flags during racial demonstrations recently. The hearing brought a verbal clash be tween a deputy sheriff and a Negro defense attorney. The attorney from Albany. C. B, King, objected to references to the demon strators as "niggers” by Deputy Sheriff James Faircloth The judge directed the Here’s what the civil rights demonstra tors did: the flags were torn from lanyards at the courthouse during the demonstra tions protesting what civil rights workers called rundowns schools. The incident in volved 39 persons, who now are in jail a waiting the next Grand jury session on April 25. A Liniversity’s Right To Drop Student A Third District Court of Appeals judge in Miami, Fla., recently ruled that the U niversity of Miami has the right as a pri vate institution to set the terms under which it will allow students to remain in school. The decision was made in the case of Robert J. Militana, a medical student ex pelled for "failure to complete successfully the prescribed work and borderline aca demic performance,” The court said that the university is o perated as a private business and “may set forth the terms under which it will admit and subsequently graduate students.” When prosecuting in circuit court, the Draft Dodgers Are Always Caught The Romans and the Greeks had nothing but disdain for young men who tried to dodge military enlistment, or soldi ers who deserted their battalions. Likewise, in this nation, the draft dodger is held in disrespect. Anyone thinking of dodging the draft had better think about the matter twice before acting. For 7 years, a man who had been hon orably discharged from the Air Force and was in the Air Reserve, worked a scheme to help young men unlawfully evade the draft. He had secured hundreds of DD44 forms attesting to membership in the Air Reserve, which he filled out and mailed to draft boards for youths who were not re servists. The board automatically reclass ified these youths froml-A to 1-D, or re servists subject to later call. A few years ago, sensing a bigger de mand, the man took a partner, who hunted up prospects, preferably students. The go ing rate for a form and deferment was $ 1 500, but at least in one instance, $5,000 was extracted. The fraud was uncovered by the FBI Government Tackling Negro Job Lag The lag in jobs for Negro citizens in this country has become “a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal,” There is always more noise than results, and more talk than ac tion. When the situation in this nation is 90 good that almost anyone can get jobs, why must the Negro be in the largest unem ployment group? In an age of skyrocketing job prospects and ‘‘equal opportunity”, Negroes often are the last to catch up with good times. They find that the best jobs are far beyond their abilities, If it is a matter of job training that holds the Negro back, then, by all means, give him the training he needs to get good jobs. One of the key organizations tackling the problem of Negro industrial employ ment is known as Plans for Progress. This Is a voluntary group of big businesses that Words Os W orship Uditmul Viewpoint Do We Really Want Safety? enthusiam when their fortunes ran high. But, the Master, when His enemies had done their worst, so bore Himself that a crucified felon looked into His dying eyes and saluted Him ae King. tions? Safety authorities state that the stand ards should include: 1. Driver licensing, re-exemination and training. 2. Tougher enforcement of traffic laws. 3. Traffic laws, in order to clear up state-to-state confusion. 4. Better procedures for reporting ac cidents. 5. Vehicle inspection. 6. Highway and road signs, so that their meaning would be instantly clear and unvarying. We are happy to report at this time that Congress has already approved a compa rable program of national standards to control the amounts of air pollutants which new automobiles may emit. Under the Clean Air Act of 1965, all 1968 model auto mobiles must be equipped with blow-by de vices similar to those already required in California. No matter who must bear the brunt of the safety battle, it must be done. Postpone it, if you will, but in the final analysis, Congress must act. deputy to use proper language when an swering questions. Law officials ought to use respectable language when testifying under oath. In this case, the judge solved the problem by an order. We have no quarrel with the right to demonstrate, but when the demonstrators went so far as to deface the flags of the United States and Georgia, they were leg ally and morally wrong. Their actions vio lated protocol. If we would demand the respect of citi zens of the United States, then we must show the respect expected of a citizen to his country and state, or the governmental flags. The demonstrators were wrong this time! particular student held that his grades had improved at the university. The circuit court ruled at the time of expulsion that the student be readmitted to the institution, but later the Third District Court reversed the lower court’s decision. Be this as it may, the student's attorney is asking the University of Miami to let him graduate, despite the district court ruling. If this medical school student is a bor derline scholar, then he should not be per mitted to graduate. This is true, especially if there is some doubt about his ability. For if ever there was a need for a competent practitioner, it is the Doctor of Medicine. when the Air Force changed its form DD -44 and draft boards continued to get the discontinued forms. The perpetrators were first taken into custody. Then fathers and sons were routed out of bed early one morning when a roundup by U. S. mar shals brought 31 to face indictment of draft dodging against the boys and abetting a gainst their fathers. There was no need for this in the first place, because if a young man is a student, he need only keep his grades satisfactory to earn deferment at least until he com pletes his studies. If not, he could have en listed in the reserve or the National Guard. Yet these fathers and their sons got pan icky. They made themselves liable to fines of SIO,OOO and 10 years in prison for draft dodging. Yes, they must be prosecuted as an ex ample if for no other reason that thous ands are accepting the draft, or volunteer ing to risk their lives. No man should be permitted to buy himself off from mili tary service for pay. As for the “schemesters” of a dispicable racket, they should be punished to the full est extent of the law. have banded together under federal gov ernment blessing to make the Great Socie ty come to pass for Negroes who want to get better jobs. Remember that this effort is being made in behalf of those persons who want to get better jobs. This suggests that the receiver of a good job, must also give something in the deal by having the motivation. This is as it should be. Time and time again, we have sat in places where young Negroes have congre gated and listened to them talk. The reve lation was indeed distressing. Their con versation centered around women, liquor, and minutia. We were almost overwhelm ed with the knowledge that so few young men want a good job and are willing to be trained for it. Only Ist America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE BASEBALL FANS Has any baseball Seam ever commanded the loyalty the New York Giants commanded? No. Has any ball team ever rewarded their loyalty as the Giants did in 1951 when they came from 13 behind games in August to win the pennant in a playoff with the Dodgers? Is there anything i n sports ever to equal Bobby Thom son’s home run in the last of the ninth' 1 No. The Brooklyn Dodgers had the support of the world. They were the Bums, the perennial underdog, the daffiness boys The fans came to see a Brook lyn Dodger steal second with a teammate holding the base. And they loved the Brooklyns for it. The Yankees in the days of Babe Ruth introduced thou sands of people to the game. They came to see the Babe hit a home run. The folks came from the farms and the bayous to see Babe Ruth. Then for years, the Yankees sup ported half the teams in the American League. The folks began to hate the perennial winner and they came out by the thousands to see the Yan kees lose. Which they didn’t. The New York Mets are re markable for a collection of guys, few of whom are young enough or talented enough to play baseball. People watch them anyway. Then maybe the fans like the pizzas they serve at Shea Stadium. But no team ever owned the quiet afternoon and loyalty which the New York Giants had in the days of McGraw, Doyle, Mathewson, Marquard, Red Murray, and Chief Mey ers. And later with Frankie Frisch, Art Neff, and Lei Ott and Leo Durocher. Even the Giants transplant Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARD INTERNS COME HOME Our speech correction in terns (practice teachers) came back to the campus on April 11, and now they can tell mo whether they want to be public school practitioners. They tell me that they never worked so hard as they did on the field in West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Panama City, Gaines ville and Ocala, Well, any teacher who is worth a grain of salt works hard. If he does not, then he is coasting on his job. He is then crippling his students who now need all the enthusiasm he can inject into his teaching to Other Editors Sny.. A BUILT-IN RESTRAINT The current debate over whether or not a general tax Increase is needed to “cool off” the economy has ignored the vital fact that there is a very real here-and-now re straint on workers’ purchas ing power. In the 12 months ending Feb ruary 1966 there was virtually no change in the real spend able earnings of the average factory worker. The rise in consumer prices and the in crease in social security tax es have wiped out any real wage gains. All indications are that the trend will continue. In Feb ruary, for the second consecu tive month, workers’ real spendable earnings dropped from previous levels. To impose a general, a cross-the-board Increase in income taxes would further reduce the purchasing power of those who in the past year have made little progress to ward a better standard of liv ing. In contrast, the booming sector of the economy in vestment in new' plant and e qulpment and the soar ing profits of business and in dustry are proper areas for restraining action through suspension of the 7 per cent investment tax credit and/ or an excess profits levy. This would serve the ends of justice and equity rather than a tax increase that would further cut back the limited THE CAROSJNTAN Publishing Company "Covering the Carolina*'' Published by fh* Carolinian 518 E. MATH* Street Raleigh, N 6. 27601 Mailing Addreaas I*. O. Box 698 Raleigh, nTC, . 27602 Second Claw Pwtetfe Paid at Ra leigh, N, C fpl SUBSCRIPTION RATHE Six Months fB.TBi Bales Tax ,» TOTAL “iusi One Year 4JO Sales Tax .14 TOTAL Payable In Advljae*-. Add reus all communications and make all checks and monejj Orders payable to THE CAROUNUN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 310 Madison Avenue, mi' w York 17, SS?. Y., National Advertising Re presentative and member of the Associated Negro Prem and the United Press international Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited kews, pictures or advertising copy aniess necessary postage accom-i panics the copy. ?• Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent sh 6 policy ®f this paper. ed to San Francisco still have their share of fans in New York. My brother Max, lo and behold, all these years with the Metropolitan Life In surance Company, hangs on their every statistic. Last summer Maxcarnetomy room in the Algonquin Hotel to meet my son, Richard, who was buy ing an expensive insurance policy. Max was in the pro cess of writing the policy when Richard, to make casual conversation, said, "It looks like the Dodgers are in this year.” "Wait a minute,” said Max. putting aside his pen and, 1 thought maybe his commis sion. "I give you Koufax. That’s all I give you. Koufax. Don’t tell me Marichal isn’t as good as Drysdale. Don’t tell me that. Now, who you got on first? You got Mc- Covey? No, you haven't got McCovey. Have you got Wil lie Mays in center field? No you haven’t got Willie Mays in center field. I don’t even give you shortstop.” Later I heard them talking and Max, still insistent, was explaining,- "No, no. It was the bottom of the ninth. The score was four to one. Then we scored a run and knock ed Newcombeoutofthebox...” "Why are you rooting for the Giants,” I asked, "when they play baseball out in San Francisco?” “When Mays is gone,” he said, "when Marichal is gone, then I’ll maybe root for the Mets.” Are you going to sell me this policy, Uncle Max,” Richard asked, "or do you want to tell me who you have on the bench" 5 Because I don’t care who you have on the bench. You haven’t got a Koufax, a Drysdale and an Osteen in ro tation and you don’t have a Perranoski in the bull pen.” bring them up to par with members of the opposite race, the recipient of education while we were in slavery, Natuarally, we got behind. The jobs in the area of speech correction are indeed many. We are graduating two them month and five in August. Each one can pick from 15 to 20 jobs each. Two of our grads in speech correction plan to study next year for the Masters’ degree in speech pathology to become qualified practitioners. They will be awarded federal train eeships of $2400 plus tuition and fees for a 12-month period. We are serious this week. purchasing power of those in the low and middle-income brackets. -- AFL-CIO NEWS. THE CAVALRY MORES ARE NO MORE-THEY RIDE MACHINES NOW Expected but nostalgic is the new's that the famed Cavalry branch of the Army has all but passed Into limbo. The U. S. Army announces that there are only 40 horses left out of the thousands it once sustained as cavalry mounts. And none of these 40 mounts are used for old-fashioned cavalry duty there is no more cavalry as our grand fathers knew it. The mechan ized army has taken over com pletely. But there are memories that the modern boys cannot fully enjoy as did the 'boys of for ty-fifty-sixty years ago’, The dashing cavalryman was the aristocrat of the service. Cav alry supplied the moving he roics in the Civil W'ar. After that war, it was the cavalry that was able to make a win ning fight against the Plain Indians , . . Indeed, it was the famed 7th U. S. Cavalry that got mangled, at Little Big Horn in 1876, when Gen. George Custer, with his flow ing yellow hair, was cut down with every man under his com mand, The country was told and the history books record ed that it was ‘a massacre by the Indians’. Facts prove that the Impetuous Custer un derestimated his foe -- dis regarded warnings -- and dashed headlong into a well iaid military trap. This time the Indians out-planned, out maneuvered, out-fought their ‘white superiors.’ Little Big Horn was a ‘low rating’ for the famed 7th Cavalry. But the Indians were doomed to de feat and removal from the vast lands that had been theirs by hundreds of years of oc cupancy .... Fourteen years later, on December 29, 1890, the same 7th Cavalry brought to an inglorious end the In dian War in the west. This was at Wounded Knee, Nevada, The last of the lighting Sioux and Cheyenne had beround ed up, their old Chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and Gall, all old and tired, their war riors hungry and disorganiz ed, here was an encampment where their arms had been taken, and only the ritual of the Being Proud Os What You Are Is Half The Battle! " WE MUST GIVE OUQ CHILDREN A SENSE OF PRIDE IN BEING adgMSHh BLACK. THE GL ORV OF OUR PAST AND THE DIGNITY OF OUR PRESENT u’ MUST LEA P^THE^ ts HLRITAibt BE PROUD _ 1_ ‘Xv^, NOTHING TOFEAR OR LOSE Fear is a form of slavery. Although we may have thought this, or readily recognize the fact as just stated, it has never been put so drama tically as when Dick Gregory recently spoke at the first International Conference on Freedom of Residence in Chicago. As an announced candidate for mayor of Chi cago, Gregory’s campaign ability has yet to be appreciably recognized. As a comedian, his reputation is internationally indisputable. If he continues to speak as he did that night, his poli tical philosophy and reputation will be a challenge to the greatest. Speaking with grass -roots understandabllity, he explained how the white man, who fears the Ne gro, is one enslaved, and the Negro, wbo now has shaken off his robe of fear, is actually free. The Negro has only to recognize his free dom and pursue his goals with intelligence, responsibilities and dispatch. He dramatized the fear that seizes whites when Negroes move about in white neighborhoods, contrasting the fact that Negroes fear nothing as they see whites in their neighborhoods. He seemed to be saying tothe Negro, "take advantage of this fear and make gains in the political arena.” Earlier in the conference we’d heard Cleve land’s almost mayor, Carl Stokes. He told how the whites, who’d never heard of, or listened to PRISON COMMISSIONER BROKEN HILL, Zambia --Paul. Imakando, a 40- year-old former school teacher from theßarotse province, last month reached the top rank in a series of promotions that have spanned 16 years. He was recently appointed commissioner of prisons, the top rung In the service. He joined the service in April 1950, became a prison officer in 1962; chief prisoner officer, 1962; and superinten dent, 1964. ON AIR PARIS -- Riding on a quarter-inch cushion of air will be a reality for ParLsian commuters by 1968. The government announced plans for put ting into operation the world’s first high speed aerotratn, designed to carry commuters at speeds up to 250 miles an hour. The vehicle will be held aloft by the pressure of Jets of air di rected toward the ground. 1,250 TONGUES NEW YORK -- According to a report Issued by the American Bible society during the cele bration of its 150th anniversary, the Bible is now being published in 1,250 languages and dialects, sufficient to cover 97 per cent of the world’s population. Statistics disclose that the entire Bible has been published in 237 languages; New Testa ment in 297, and at least a single Scripture book in 716 languages. BANK LOAN WASHINGTON A $1.7 million loah to the Re public of Guinea has been approved by the World Bank, to finance costs of field surveys and de tailed engineering of a railroad, port and town to be constructed in the Boke region of northwest ern Guinea, The construction will enable Guinea to develop its rich bauxite deposits, said to be a mong the most abundant in the world. BIRTH OF A FAD TEL AVIV -- If the claim of an Israeli sci entist is true, American smokers may be switch ing to a water pipe to dodge the incidence of lung cancer. The scientist, Prof. Joseph Rak ower, head of the pulmonary institute, Hadassah (Hebrew University Medical Center) says that no smoke inhaling, and use of a nargileh (a clay bowl pipe connected to water-filled flask and thence to a long leather tube to a mouthpiece may cut down on lunger cancer. The smoke is filtered through the water, removing the tars, before it reaches the mouth. Ghost Dancing was left for the men, women, and children to participate l'n. In their ex treme desolation, the Indians had come to hope for a Red Messiah to come down and rescue them from the white man’s aggressions. So they danced the untiring Ghost Dance. On this 29th day of December, tfie surrounding 7th Cavalry guarding the dis armed encampment suddenly fired volley after volley, kill ing the braves and then pur sued the women and children, shooting them down. This was Altar Call BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D. NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL World Nows Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL a genvulne massacre —by the 7th Cavalry, and admitted as such by the historians! But the U. S. Calvary con tinued its better heroics --in border fighting and in the short lived Spanish - American War. By then two of its most fam ous divisions the 9th and 10th U. S, Cavalry came in to prominence. These were the Negro riding soldiers. They made history in support--and perhaps in saving Col. Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Rid ers at San Juan Hill in 1898, Up until World W'&r 11 the most a Negro mayoral candidate, sat amazed at his articulate ability to give a political speech. "They were surprised to learn that 1 speak English,” he commented. Whether by the polished, intellectual approach of a Stokes, or the sometimes comical, earthy, not-so-polished speaking of a Dick Gregory, the American white man, enslaved by hts racial fear, is now confronted with the urgency of the Negro politician who avows his freedom, daring to seek the highest and best political jobs our society affords. Political maturity is at last coming to the American Negro, but awareness of it does not run through the teeming ranks of our darker hued body politic. We have not ripened to the possibility of what our combined, united, political cohesiveness could accomplish for the race as a whole. We really have nothing to fear or lose, you know. • But, it will be the people of the church who, in the final analysis, will fail those who have become our political leaders. They will either be somew-here praying for God (not me) to do the job, or condemning the religiosity of the Negro leader or be ensalved by a fear that religious people should have noth ing to do with politics. The Altar of Political Freedom calls for those who know, avow and will actualize their human freedom. ANTI-BIAS DRIVE WASHINGTON -- A quiet campaign against re ligious discrimination in insurance companies has been launched by the federal government, design ed to open top level positions to Negroes, Jews, Catholics and other racial minorities. The drive is in line with a long-standing Executive Ordercall ing for equal employment opportunity in com panies holding federal contracts, INVOLVEMENT MILWAUKEE, Wis, -- Carrying further their Involvement in civil rightsproblems, local Catho lic priests have brought into existence an organi zation called the Council on Urban Life, The coun - cil is an outgrowth of a dispute over civil rights activities last fall between priests assigned to the inner city and the archdiocesan office, in which priests were barred from participating hi a public school boycott. CONSTITUTION SQUABBLE RICHMOND, Va. A squabble over provisions of the 1827 First Baptist Church constitution which bars Negro membershop has entered its second phase when plaintiffs in a dismissed suit an nounced plans to continue their fight. The plain tiffs are objecting to the admission to the church in January, 1965 of Ade Oshoniyo and Gideon S. Adegbile, both sons of Baptist ministers in Ni geria and students at Virginia Union University, before the constitution was amended to allow their acceptance, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY LOS ANGELES The Rev. H. Manford Knud svig recently told the congregation of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church that Christians must not only avoid evil, but must replace evil with some thing good, creative, constructive. He added, "Religious people become aloof and do not want to associate with others, especially those they consider in a lower class. Jesus dealt, harshly with that sort of religious bigotry." NO RESERVATIONS WASHINGTON The Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, 53-year-old Episcopal bishop of California urged more than 300 persons listening to the first of seven sermons he delivered at the Church of the Epiphany, "not to demand perfection in persons of other beliefs and other colors.” Specifical ly he pointed out that "not all Negroes are fine fellows, but the individual. Negro has an equal right to imperfection.” frequently seen picture in Ne gro homes was the Charge Up San Juan Hill. The 9th and 10th were our pioneer soldiers of honor, a long with the 24th and 25th In fantry. Today, in Viet Nam it seems that every other Amer ican soldier is a Negro, a far cry from those pioneer years when the horse soldiers were the peers In the service, and the Negro American had only these four units to feel patri otic about.— THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN.
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