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Jesus knew that without compassion and
tender understanding of the causes of human
delinquency no teaching and no healing was
possible. Many supposed Christians lack al
most entirely this spiritual gentleness, and
seem to believe that by tirades of condemna
tion men can be lashed into goodness. Like
(ionummity i hallen«je Highw il\ ISf
Throughout the nation superhighways
are rising with great rapidity, but with
their construction often comes the isola
tion of minority citizens who become set
apart more and'more.
This very fact was noted recently before
the Nashville (Tenn.) Chamber of Com
merce by Dr. Charles Mitchell a Meharry
Medical School professor, in. a breakfast
address.
His statements were a broad indictment
of both the private and public sector of
the local community—Nashville, Tennes
see. The address charged the leadership
with thoughtless planning, wholesale job
discrimination and inferior, segregated
housing patterns.
Dr. Mitchell was referring to the 6.8 mil
lion project extending the expressway from
48th Avenue to Bth Avenue North, and
which also was the cause of many homes
being demolished in the Negro sector. The
project involves the Fisk University, Me
harry Medical College, and Tennessee
State AM University areas.
The Nashville Banner in commenting on
Mitchell’s address said:
“Dr. Mitchell did not address himself to
some areas where progress has been made
in attacking traditional barriers. Perhaps
this was because he thinks the progress has
been too little and too late. Perhaps he
.thinks there is dangerous need for more
breakthroughs. And perhaps as in the case
of school segregation he thinks—as he said
—that progress has been no more than ‘to
kenism.’ ”
Many of the Chamber of Commerce
members may not have liked what they
heard, but some realized that if Nashville
is to move ahead in the right direction, it
must not keep a substantial portion of the
population situated in inferior jobs, trap
ped in inferior housing or excluded from
the fruits of a growing community on the
move.
As Dr. Mitchell said there is something
wrong when a community like Davidson
County attempts to connect three other ad-
What About Those Men Os The House?
Momism and feminism seem to be grad
ually dominating every facet of our lives,
it appears that the nation is fast transform
ing itself into a matriarchy.
Why is this occurring? Simply, because
there are not many patriarchs.
How many men do you know who are
heads of their households? Most men are
allowing the responsibilities of being a fath
er and a lord of manor to fall smoothly and
easily upon the shoulders of their spouses.
How many men do you know who regulate
the family budget in their families? (And
we must admit, were .it not the firm busi
ness hand of mom some homes would be
bankrupt financially.)
Most women pay the bills and make the
final decision of whether something can be
or cannot be afforded.
How many men do you know who play
the major role in the rearing of their chil
dren? In order for a boy to become a man,
he needs a masculine example to follow, a
masculine hand to guide him as well as to
hold him when circumstances call for dis
cipline or affection. When the boy recog
nises only mama and her feminine touch,
what do you expect him to see later?
Women go to church in larger numbers
than men it seems. They may worry about
what they are going to wear, but at least
they go to church And they don’t use the
excuse of golfing, fishing, hunting or mow
ing the lawn.
Women are not perfect, but whether we
like it or not, they are becoming leaders or»
the home front. They are not perfect, not
even expert cooks, but they are assuming
Sometime it takes a lad to give us a les
son as was true of the boy from whom Je
sus took « few loaves and two fish and
transformed them into food for more than
S.OOO people.
In Trenton, Mo., recently, a 10-year-old
boy walked into the office of the Trenton
RepiihHmn Time s and asked If there was
« job open for a paper carrier.
‘'Hot right JKrw,” he was told, "but £’ll
take your aame in case we do need' some
body later."
asked my name five yean ago,"
.the boy replied, "and 1 ain’t got a job yet."
The case of the boy Illustrates how easy
It Is not to pay attention to persons who
4s*w ambition, and who want to find a job
WORDS OF WORSHIP
idit&rial Viewpoint
Lesson From A 10-Year-0 Id Boy
the head of an Engi-sh boys’ school who
shouted, "Boys, be pure in neart or I’ll flog
you until you are,’’ they have tried to produce
virtue by intimidation. Even worse by threatt
enin? eternal punishment, tho very-' essence
of Jssus’ teaching of a God of love, forgive
ness of tenderness, was violated.
jacent counties economically by a super
highway, but leaves its people divided in
bold-faced markings by the magnanimous
highway project.
Naturally, the highway officials did not
agree with the statements made in Mit
chell’s address. J. V. Graves, director ot
administration for the State Highway De
partment of Tennessee, said flatly that
Mitchell’s charges were not justified, and
that “the communities which surround
Fisk, Tennessee A&I, and Meharry Col
lege will be connected by four crossings.’’
It seems to us that Mitchell was imply
ing that the new superhighway extension
which makes it inviting for whites from
adjacent countites to commute to the
Nashville metropolitan industrial areas,
thereby forcing the Negroes in the Nash
ville sector to continue to be the last hired
and the first fired.
It is easy for the powers-that-be to for
get those poor people living below the
highway, and who can only reach the main
thoroughfare by four crossings. How will
that highway benefit the Negro citizens of
the metropolitan area? Os course, it will
bring more out-of-town shoppers and more
non-resident workers, but what will it do
for that host of non-skilled Nashville citi
zens Mitchell was trying to get listeners
to observe.
We are not in position to take sides in
the Nashville problem, but a description
of it and the procedures of planning are
the same no matter where—Raleigh, Char
lotte, Birmingham, Philadelphia, and so
on. Negroes are not considered and brought
into the planning sessions. If so, in most in
stances the blue print has been set and de
termined before Negroes would have any
say in behalf of those being affected.
If the American cities and communities
are to plan wisely for the future, they can
not continue to ignore the Negroes’ coun
sel. And may we add that there are hun
dreds of Negroes whose heads are more
than bean nuts. Administrative officials
and the power structure will learn this les
son after it is too late.
places of leadership because men who
should assume their share of home and
community responsibilities are not doing
so.
A lot of persons are aware of the declin
ing position of the male who has been sit
ting down, as it were, on the stool of do
nothing in places where action counts.
If one surveys the course in American
history, he will observe that shortly after
slavery by and large that it was the Negro
woman who kept the family .together eco
nomically. She cooked in the big house and
brought home the bacon when Negro men
could find no jobs. This was also true dur
ing the days of the depression when Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt had to give
our financial structure a shot in the arm.
Finally, one of the worst factors contri
buting to the predominance of monism is
our economy itself—private, public, and
otherwise. A man can’t earn enough now
to provide for his family and let his wife
stay at home and keep house and provide
for the needs of the children. Instead, our
industrial and public economy is forcing
households to dump their children into
nursery schools and kindergartens every
day.
In the mad rush for profits, industry has
given little concern for the need of the
mother to remain at home, and to the need
of paying male workers enough in wages
to provide adequately for their families.
The working-man-and-wife-team has be
come away of life, and with it has come
many evils which we cannot eradicate very
easily.
end work. Often the files in many person
nel offices are never opened again when
once an applicant has indicated he wants
to.work. Why have the files anyway, if
they are not going to be reviewed often
and regularly in order to let people know
you are sincerely interested in giving them
work whenever it opens up or a vacancy
occurs?
Applications should be considered on the
basis and in the order in which they were
registered. Who knows, may be a dozen
paper boys were hired since the lad made
his appearance at the age of five.
We hope that, the newspaper office did
n’t take the *io-year-old boy incident only
es * joke, or a funny piece to be read its
the publication.
Only Ii Imerici
BY HARRY GOLDEN
SHIRLEY TEMPLE AND
POLITICS
Mrs. Charles Black, other
wise known as Shirley Temple,
has announced her candidacy for
the House of Representatives.
She wants to represent the con
stituents In San Mateo, Calif.
Naturally she Is a Republi
can. I say naturally because she
Is already an odds-on favorite to
win. The most successful Re
publicans are always amateurs.
Look at Elsenhower. Look at
Romney, Several other one
time political amateurs are
guiding the destiny of California
voters, notably Ronald Reagan,
governor and George Murphy
Senator.
If my logic seems specious it
Is no more specious than the
reasoning of Republican profes
sionals who manage with alarm
ing regularity to find absolutely
untrained candidates to run for
Important offices. Mrs. Black,
or Shirley, is running on a plat
form pledged to healing our
scarred morality. She may well
have dispelled the black clouds
of the Depression for many,
but i for one find it hard to
how she will “take cat e of the
moral fiber of the society’' as
she puts It, in Washington, D.C.
No doubt the moral fiber needs
constant repair but one would
suspect the PTA or the Junior
League, in both of which Mrs.
Black boasts membership, are
more than equal to the job. At
least they say they are.
I always supposed Congress
was a place where representa
tives in convention met to de
termine legislation to imple
ment domestic and foreign po
licy, appropriate budget mo
Just for fii
BY' MARCUS H. BOULWARE
NEAR QUITTING TIME
There is a certain ham
burger-case place in Nashville
(Tennessee) that makes ham
burgers out of this world. But
the catch is: one of the
waitresses is as “slow as
kingdom come.’
One Friday evening, I stop
ped to get one of the burgers
and placed my order, and the
‘ soul-brother” lass took her
time. After sitting there for
thirty minutes, she hadn’t even
bothered to put the meat patty
on to start frying.
This w-as more than I cared
Other Editors Soy..
WAR ON HIGHWAY
ACCIDENTS
The Governor’s Conference
on Law and Order, gathered
in Raleigh late last week, was
an appropriate forum for Gov.
Dan Moore in effect to de
clare war on the speeders
and drinking drivers of North
Carolina’s Highways-, In an
nouncing that the State High
Patrol is receiving the latest
detection equipment the Gov
ernor placed traffic law vio
lators in the same category
as looters, rioters, murder
ers and arsonist.
Perhaps that judgment
sounds too severe to motorists
most of whom speed occasion
ally and too many of whom
drive after drinking - but the
Governor justified it with a
shocking account of the state’s
traffic toll for this year a
lone:
If the people who have died
in traffic accidents in North
Carolina ware alive today, it
would take 25 of those big
cross-country buses to bring
them to Raleigh for this meet -
ing ... Os course, a .nursery
would have to be provided, for
many of our 1,300 fatalities
ware small children and ba
bies... If it were possible to
get together in one plate all
who have been injured to acci
dents this year, we could fill
Carter Stadium.
Two of the major causes of
highway deaths, driving at ex
cessive speeds and driving
while under the influence of al
cohol, will now come under
heavy attack by the State High
way Patrol. The number of
"breathalyzers’’ which mea
sure alcohol in the blood of
apprehended drivers will be
nearly doubled by adding 33
units to the 36 already in use
by the state. But a more dra
matic improvement in mgnway
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nies, and in general guide the
life politic of the country. But
then I’m forgetting the Manr.
Act, Prohibition, and all the
obscenity laws. Moral fiber Is
always a concern with all the
folks. Most of the folks are as
unctuous about moral fiver as
No doubt the sophisticated
reader will detect a note of
jealousy in these passages.
Jealousy it is. Sad but true,
When a movie actor gets iong
In the tooth, he or she goes in
to government. When a creative
writer finds the wellsprings of
his inspiration drying up, he
joins the academy and becomes
a “'writer-in-residence,’’When
a teacher gets bored with the
illiteracy of his students, some
foundation will coddly and com
fort him. Old Generals become
corporation presidents. But who
takes care of the journalist?
Nobody.
Let me assure the foks that
journalists are a lot worse off
than anu movie actor. They
get no subsidies, not grants;
they are in essence the ge
they are in essence the great
capitalistic middle class with
all of the tastes and none of
the wherewithal.
I do not see why the state
and federal apparatus have t o
protect those who now only
populate the Late Show. Not
that I am any better qualified
for the Senate, the governor’s
mansion or the House, but I
promise to let moral fiber take
care of Itself. One of the rea
son moral fiber keeps shredding
I suspect is that thousands of
us are always busy at the warp
and the woof. Too many cooks
spoil character soup
to take, and immediately I
made my departure to another
place that can give you a ham
burger in just three minutes.
(Soul Brothers establishments
let this be your lesson. A hint
to the wise is sufficient).
FISH SAUSAGE
What will they think of next?
Sausage prepared from fish is
providing a new item in Lon
don. A British research ex
pert, lan Richardson, said the
fish sausage is one result of a
governmental program aimed
at developing new uses for
seafoods.
safety may come from an as
tonishing new electronic de
vice.
It is called “Vascar” -for
"visual average speed compu
ter and recorder’ - and it is
bad news for speeding driv
ers. It is about the size
of a cigar box, and from a
moving patrol car it accu
rately computes the speed of
“target” vehicles traveling to
any direction and records the
speed on a graph. “In fact,”
Gov. Moore said, "there are
23 different ways in which the
unit can be used to check the
speed of suspected law vio
lators.’ Vascar is being in
stalled in 100 of our State High
way Patrol cars.
Twenty states are now test
ing the device; it already has
been used on a large scale in
Indiana, where its effective
ness has been hard tobelieve.
Vascar *s inventor told news
men in Raleigh that it has
brought 3,500 arrests in In
diana, that there have been
only two “innocent” pleas and
that no cases have been ap
pealed.
North Carolina has been
testing the device for seven
months, and before troopers
begin using it on routine pa
trol they will be trained to
special courses by communi
ty colleges. Gov. Moore said
he wanted every driver to be
aware of Vascar and its capa
bilities, so there will be a
30-day grace period before
arrests are made with the 100
new devices. The reliabili
ty of the machine and the
legality of the process will
be determined In North Car
olina courts.
In his conference speech,
Gov. Moore urged all courts
in the state to deal "firm
ly and quickly as well as fair
ly” with traffic law violators
because of the seriousness of
driving offenses. He noted
that although traffic fines may
be sufficient in some cases,
“restriction of driving pri
vileges is generally far more
effective.”
The Governor’s ultimate
appeal for ti’affic safety was
to the motorists themselves.
Startling statistics, elabo
rate detection machines and
tougher sentences all are di
rected at the people who drive.
Many acc Mentis and traffic
deaths are unavoidable, but
many others are caused by
drivers who speed or drink
or simply get careless. The
deaths of 1,900 North Car
olinians in lass than, a year
are as uensssary m they are
intolerable; perhaps the Gov
ernor’s d-idUwwttou of war d©
the problem eventually will
make our highways truly safe.
- GREENSBORO DAILY
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Economic Highlights
As was expected, the President has asked
Congress to impose income tax increases -a 10
per cent surcharge on both corporate and per
sonal income. It seems certain that debate
will be heated concerning the size of the in
crease, the effectiveness of such an increase
in alleviating growing budget deficits, inflation
ary pressures and the Impact of this course
of action on the economy. On these points,
there is sharp division of opinion in Congress,
on the part of the general public and among
members of the press.
The President has said that spending during
the year, beginning July 1, 1967, can run as high
as $143.5 billion. This is some $8.5 billion
more than was expected last January. Federal
revenues, it is now thought, will fail at least
$7 billion below January estimates which in
cluded the 6 per cent surcharge on personal
and corporate income taxes then proposed. As’
things now stand, it is officially recognized
that if no changes are made, the budget deficit
could run to $29 billion between now and the fis
cal year ending June 30, 1963. The one thing
on which there is general agreement is that such
a deficit - the biggest since the end of World
War II in 1945 - would be critical to the econo
Jobs On iosls Os New Definitions
The United States is plague with the problem
of unemployment, and yet it is possibly the wealthi
est nation for its size in the world. The nation
is about two-thirds wealthy (not always in health
both mentally and physically) and approximately
one-third is poor, ranging from destination to ut
ter, rat-infested, soul-searing poverty indigency.
The wealthy • United States* citizens are whites
mostly, while the poor American is generally
Negro. The poor America is becoming increas
ingly urban, congested in substandard apart
ments located in ghettos. As the colored A
merlca observes how the larger composite of
citizens live -- sometimes in sumptuous wealth -
envy and resentment builds up until there are
outbreaks of riots, looting, burning, and loss
of life occur with increasing intensity in the larg
er cities.
Negro leaders and white administrative of
ficials are agreed that rioting will set back the
progress and gains of the Negro. This may be
true, but you can’t convince an unskilled and un
employed man who Is about to be evicted because
he can’t pay the rent. A starving man cannot
reason, for his emotions have the upper hand,
and the larger America needs to put Itself into
the poor Negress’ place. Jesus recommend that
we must put ourselves in step with out prospects.
American politicians fail to under stand the impact
of this counsel, and this is why they keep repeat
ing the same mistakes.
There is an urgent call for increasing police
powers to cope with the unruly elements and
put down the so-called senseless rioting. This
kind of reasoning takes well with an educated
man with a good-paying Job, a full stomach,
and ranch-type mansion furnished with television,
household appliances of every description, motor
boat, beach houses to spend weekends, two and
three automobiles, and a handsome bank ac
count.
The plans to cope with this basic problem A
Teachers Mean iisiitsi
Throughout th« nation, teachers are protesting
for Increasing salaries, and rightly so. Being
true to the humanitarian cause because of by
product rewards no longer has magnetic appeal,
and why should it? J .. . , . ,
Medical doctors take the oath in ihe Intel est
of serving their fellow men, but they don’t take
cases lust for the fun of it. They charge right
down to the nose. It is alleged that in order to
balance the budget in the medicare assignments,
they have raised their fees, Most of these profes
xlontls axe not in th© gam# for peanuts* IS
you don't believe this try to get a doctor to come
to your house when you are ill.
Realtors in charge of rental properties mean
business, because if you don’t pay the rent
“out you go,’ It is Just as simple as that.
If a Sawyer takes your divorce case, he wants
one-half of his fee now, the remaining half
before he hands you signed degree. No amount
of “good neighbor policy, and I’ll pay you later,
persuades the attorney to plead your case in the
interest of humanity.
Then, why should teacher be so magnani
mous as to work at low salaries simply because
the young must te© educated. Actually, the
®alartes of teachers in most, instances is so
low tot a male Instructor does sot m.rn enough
to Ist Ms wife stay at home and rear the kMs,
® doe®, ha has to gat m ©fta-part-tta©
} job oa to akte.
to Florida, tor asontpls, $6,000 teacher con
i vergssi spot a desfgastea dty last week and held
l * «lly» imy Wm thrsatmssd to rssfga
m masse; H they 4a, to stools will have to
close.
r ,Ws «*m* tong could tejgmn fa Sort! <Sur
olto sad else where. Some ettisass way ms\
mic stability of the United States. The Presi
dent has said, “If left untended, this deficit
could cause...a spiral of ruinous inflation which
would rob the poor, the elderly, the millions of
fixed incomes., brutally higher interest rates
and tight money which would cripple the home
builder and home buyer, as well as the business
man...” It is estimated that the tax increase
would bring in an additional $7.4 billion. This
combined with some minor economies and spe
cial financing authorization, the Administration
now believes, would cut the budget deficit to
”... some where in the area of sl4 billion to $lB
billion, depending on the appropriations.”
To grasp the significance of these figures, one
has to consider what they are likely to mean to
the average family. First of all, they mean
that there will be more taxes to pay. &it,
for the family budget, this is not the worst part
of the news inflation is to continue to take
its bite out of the dollar’s purchasing power. The
Wall Street Journal observes, “...there’snagging
doubt in the capito' that the tax increase can off
set powerful inflationary forces even in part.
The combination of huge government deficits,
added infusions of credit, and climbingg produc
tion and distribution costs could send prices
up even faster than now, some officials fear.”
economics include the following:
Some economists had recommended an income
supplement, a guaranteed annual wage, a nega
tive income tax in reverse, or programs by which
the incomes of families in the poverty-stricken
brackets can be brought up the level at which
they can purchase some of the luxuries they co
vet and the necessities most of all. The ques
tion is, how can this be done?
We are not economists in the least sense of
the term, but we hold that with some logical
planning and execution ways can be found to lift
up the poor from the mud and mire of destitu
tion. If so, these people can be employed clean
ing up, painting up, refurnishing. Eager un
employed men would gladly take a job doing
these things; but, alas, automation, ignorance,
and shiftlessness combine to block the road to
full utilization of every human resource.
In light of the present unemployment problems,
the nation experts may need to redefine the mean
ing the term “employment.* Then, a “job”
might mean attending an adult education class,
not necessarily vocational. It could mean taking
correspondence courses at home for mothers
of dependent children whose husbands have de
serted them. It may mean making it compul
sory for a youth to remain in school until he
can prove he has mastered some skillful trad®or
profession. For the work or study done under
the new Job definition, the participants would
receive an annual wage or salary paid in week
ly or monthly installments.
For fear some people will get the idea that
they have good things for do nothing, there should
be instituted a system of adequate counseling,
chiefly at the homes of people Involved, and for
improving the mental health toward what one owes
to himself and his neighbors.
Talk, laws, punishment, while helpful, won't
do the job alone. Until our administration
leaders adopt sbme long-range economic plaster
the poor people, riots will be with us always.
let them resign; our superintendents will get local
and volunteer persons, who are not educators, to
fill the classrooms. However, when the educa
tional curtain ring down, the mothers and father®
will protest that they don’t want any ‘‘backstop”
teachers.
The several states might just as well mete
up their minds to pay their teachers well, or toy
will go to states that do. For example, a speech
correcticnists in Mid-Eastern section was earn
ing $5,600 for nine months plus travel allow
ance. This same teacher has decided to so to
a city In California where he will receive $8,698
for nine months plus travel allowance paying
3 cents more per mil®.
While we ar® discussing salaries, let. us msto
the point about ihe differential In pay to white
professors at state institutions of higher learn
ing and those teaching ia predomiiuuitly-Nogro
colleges, The differential ranges from p. f WJ
to $4,000 for same- contract® on the assistant,
associate, and professor level*. To give a food
example, a white well-trained professor might
receive $16,490 for a ten-mouth contract, whtS®
his counterpart Negro professor might tea paid
SII,OOO. & many cases, tooth men may tew
boon trained, let us say, at to University of
Michigan,
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of mm to ©oori m 4. have to principle ssttof
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to mt who aarr*®* Ms ease to cosrt rs?*y to
Oc»«. Bat asm* worry, this may be to stespbsg
stoma to & tester job.
Tim American people anwt get a new tenon*
of to teetor of to *i. Most of tom caw
w«B»pngMUMd a»d toy waat «eo6 mj fnrfc.