4 THE CAJtOUNIJIK RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1967 WORDS OF WORSHIP The Apostle Paul wrote on one occasion, “I Save fought a good fight, I have kept the faiffi, and I shall receive a crown o. righteous ness ...” This means that, if we follow the example, that we should do our work well in eve&- career, keep faith and confidence in our abijjty to succeed in spite of difficulties, so Editorial Viewpoint Are We Concerned About The City Council? Raleigh’s electorate will go to the polls Tuesday and elect a 7-member council to govern the city for two years. There are 14 persons running for the seven seats. We are wondering what the electorate will use for a yard stick to determine which seven will serve the best interest of all the peo - ple. We are wondering whether the electorate will wait for someone to stick a “slate” in its hand Tuesday morning and say these are the ones to vote for. We are wondering whether the power structure will dictate to the humble electorate whom to vote for so it can enhance its grip upon the life of the city. We are wondering if the electorate is go ing into the recesses of its conscious and examine the record and even the history of the candidates, as they relate to dedi cated service to humanity. We are won dering whether the electorate will examine the character of the candidates and deter mine which seven have conviction enough to serve without fear or favor. We are wondering if the choice will be that of the electorate or that of a few who »aat certain candidates elected so they can Tfsther their nests. Raleigh politics, like Ihgf in so many places, is a matter of elect ing. electing and electing, without regards Sor the need to study individually the aims ?end objectives of the several candidates Recking office. In the course of political f ( I It Negroes Must Serve Their Country In Battle i , "The nwspapm are full of incidents of ;@oung men who ‘'tear up and or bum their ; craft cards" Cassius Clay, the world’s jfecavywright champion who is labeled the l Lip”, says he won’t wear an ■ Army uniform "under any circumstances." The inimitable Stokely Carmichael also talks about not serving in the army > * Clay and Carmichael both have refused to take the oath of induction, or at least •Carmichael said he would not. and the na i tkm is waiting to see what will be the con '*Bi?qu.ences. .**• The great opposition to the Vietnam War is that it leads to a dead end. and it is not decisive because no definite side has been drawn to bring the conflict to an end, Many young men say they wouldn’t mind fight ; mg if the United States was in imminent danger of destruction by g formidable foe. : Thirty Children In Station Wagon lmpossible * Can thirty small children be crowded in* ; to an automobile station wagon? It is not impossible, because that is what a nursery school owner in Greater Miami did remxt ‘ ly. A policeman saw the woman with the ; sagging station wagon and stopped the ve- L hide to investigate what was going cm. He I found that, besides the driver, Flora Dfck • i«aon, there were four persona cm the front seat and 25 children, one to two years old, in the rear. The woman driver was charged with op erating an unlicensed nursery school and carrying a concealed pistol. She was also charged on two excessive passenger counts. Chicago Job Corps Graduates 50 Girls The federal Job Corps over the nation ; is one of the “crash programs” for aasist ; mg Negro youth in learning the skills that ' them a contributing citizen to the * optional economy. • ..JJere’s what happened to fifty girls in the ; Chicago Job Corps. They learned how to ; .develop their reading and mathematical : ifeflity and to perform the skills and du -1 ties of a nurse's aide. ’ '-'"Why did these young women enroll at Job Corps Center in Chicago? Simply, because they wanted good-paying jobs. sfow these are preparing to start work in .hospitals near their respective homes. - The worthwhileness of the project that fttegan three months ago conies from the mouth of one of the girls who graduated on tr * HE” 't'-- Employers Warned About Wages * ' "Investigate before you are investigated * is the advice of United States wage and t hour consultants. This is the counsel given to business men. ; To steer dear of the minimum wages Saw. records must be accurate and com l plpte tbe wage* paid to wwkm ineiud * 1 >4iill >lll h . all t .iHi 11-1 9 » I.® ©VSStteS. ’ » 1 is the employer*# responsibility to be * able to prove his position and to disprove dunce made against Mm fey invest!- is that we might receive the plaudits of the peo ple around us. Those of us who serve our fel lowman will get their greatest reward upon this earth. All good work is worship, and dedi cated service is prayer. In this way we can become a carpenter with the Almighty. campaigns much can be evaluated about candidates as they appeal to the public for votes through their pronouncements. In fact, many times there is little difference between candidates. However, this little difference should be looked for to try to get the best possible group of candidates a va liable. It is the thinking of this newspaper that Tuesday’s election is one of the most cru cial that we have ever faced and should we vote blindly. We should seriously consider the yearnings of a depressed people, the needs of a progressive city and the voice of the under privileged who have been de nied those things which make up a fuller life- We are calling upon the electorate to turn out in the largest number posible. We are asking that we display vision and elect those persons it has put before the tele scope of its mind and found to meet the high standards of dedication to service, the ideal of lofty' character, the yardstick of honesty, and the criteria of integrity. It is our earnest hope that when the electorate goes to bed Tuesday night, white and col ored, rich and poor, trained and illiterate, it can say I voted the conviction of my conscious and it might, at that, not elect the right persons, but it would be a fine thing to say to itself I was fair to myself in the way I felt was right to vote. ARE WE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE CITY COUNCIL? There was a time when countries count ed upon professional soldiers in the sense that they sold their services to any coun try. And while many have their misgivings about the matter, the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee was urged Tuesday to abol ish the draft or military conscription in favor of a highly paid army of professional soldiers. Opponents of the idea conceded the in equities of the draft law but questioned whether military manpower needs of the nation could be met without it. The men of Greece and Rome were held up in disgrace for refusal to serve in the military, or if they deserted the field of battle. An army “slacker” is considered even today an undesirable citizen. Negroes must shoulder the arms of their country even in the face of injustices. The children were taken to a welfare shelter while police sought to learn their parents’ identities. They got virtually no help from the children who were too young to tell. Isn’t it terrible that the parents did not have enough interest in the welfare of !he : children to find out if the nursery Bcho<~ facilities were licensed. They must have known that the nursery school director ov ercrowded her station wagon. The station-wagon driver will be pun ished. but what about the parents? Cer tainly, they were not all ignorant of the facts. April 16: “Who wants to live in this mod em world without being able to read or count their money?” These young women graduated from their course with specialities in several areas: geriatric nurse aide, home health aide, psychiatric nurse aide, and pediatric nurse aide. Their beginning salary •anil range from S3OO to S4OO per month. Who knows, maybe one or two of these girls will save money and take training to become a registered nurse- Each girl is now in position to do whatever she wants to do, providing she has strong motivation to ward a particular goal, Like the late Mary McLeod Bethune, each girl must make up her mind that she ‘‘is going somewhere in life.” gators from the Wage and Hour Division, Employers should take a close look at their overtime practices, particularly in re gard to salaried workers. Overtime is where most of the violations seem to occur. The minimum wage is $1.40 an hour, and this amount is little enough for 8 grown man to receive for his labors. There fore, all business men should be willing to pay the legal wage scale fairly &nd square ly. Only In liiirlca BY HARRY GOLDEN THE HOPPER’S FULL OF NAMES One; can always spot when a political party is in trouble or when it thinks it is in trou ble. It’s easy. Once can tell when the political hopper is suddenly check full of un political names for important nominations. The Democratic Party may or may not be in trouble right now’. But the names come tum bling fast and furious. It cer tainly thinks it is in trouble. All of this is very interest ing to the public which dotes on all star movies, intersect ional football games, and has al ways wondered who would win between a wrestler and a boxer. It is even more interesting to those so named. Every body likes his or her picture in the papers. Certainly it is Interesting to the probably opponents. It is interesting to everybody save the profes sional politician who exclaims to himself, "We are going to do bad enough with the tried and true. Why do we have to compound our misery with the amateurs?' 1 Out in California, Gregory Peck, the actor, and Sandy Kou fax, the southpaw, are being bruited as possible nominees for 'he Senate seat now held by R publican Thomas Kuchel whom many liberals consioer a good guy. The Republican apparatus will gobble up Gregory Peck like balsawood whale gobbled him up in "Moby Dick.” That same apparatus will give Sandy not only a more trying afternoon than the Baltimore Orioles gave him last October but a more trying afternoon that the Dod gers did on the same day. In New York, of course, the big news is that UN Ambassa dor Arthur Goldberg may seek the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Jacob Javiis. It could prove a real contest. Just ForFii BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE ON TO “FLASHA” “Flasha” is the clipped name given the Florida speech and Hearing Association which met at the Causeway Inn last Thursday, Friday, and Satur day, adjourning at 4 p. m. Two years ago, our associa tion met at the International Inn in Tampa. The theme of the conference was limited to stuttering, but 1 was permitted to read a short paper on the “Attitudes and Inclinations of the 50 states and the District of Col umbia toward Implementing ASHA’s Certification Provi sions.” This topic is interest ing at present, since on Jan- Letters I© tie Editor 703 Pritchard Ave. Ext, Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514 April 22, 1967 THE CAROLINIAN Raleigh, North Carolina REPLY TO MR. HANCOCK IN HIS EDITORIAL FEATURE OF April 22, 1967 To The Editor: Mr. Hancock seems to feel that both Dr. Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael are doing an injustice to their race by urging Negroes to “desert their nation”regard ing the national policy of the Viet Nam War. The above editorial also makes suspect the lnteations of the two Negro leaders in question, conclud ing that two wrongs (the first being the historical treatment of the Negro) do not make a right. Mr, Hancock sums up his argument by saying, “To much Kingism and Carmi ehaellsm will eventuate into communism... then slavery for us all.” To begin, Dr, King's ren unciation of the U, 6. involve ment In Viet Nam is meant to urge not only the -Negro bm all Americans to effect uate a change In Foreign Po licy. While Dr. King is an avowed pacifist, does this ne cessarily detract from the lo gic of his arguments? I think *mm etiSKOtJHwat "Covert** The CMoJtoß#" PBMUtamt fesr fee autmkm m S. Martin Street. oatoieh, w. c. vs mi suniime A£er**«: w. o. Box citizens without prejudice or favortism, men who are in terested in the little people and their problems, the for gotten people who live in the back alleys, the run down houses, the ones who are try ing to live on Insufficient wages. These are the people to be remembered if our can ditates are elected to office. It Is to be hoped that these men who are seeking public office are this type of men, and not men with a selfish motive to further their own personal gains. Raleigh Is growing and Ne groes are apart of that growth. Whatever affects one citizen affects ail citizens. There fore, the Negro segment of our population must have more voice to the internal affairs of our state., We are apprecia tive of the support we have received from our white friends thus far and will look forward to their continued support to the general e~ lection. Thank you, Wilbert M. Sanders