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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N C., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1063 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,»» remarked the Apostle Paul on one ,, t ,occasion. The gospel urged men to become ‘brothers and sisters, to recognize that each 7‘ -'‘person has a personal dignity which must * . ,be respected and cultivated. The Bible tells One of the most-read journalists . &hd editors in the South was the late ■'‘Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Con stitution, He died last week, follow ing two heart attacks at the age of 7 Approximately 70 years, spoken of by .■ihe Psalmist who said that "the days ■bf our years are three score and ten.’* Yes, all of us spend our years as a.tale that is told, but the tale is not remembered unless the character 'leaves the world a little* better than fie found it. And this is what the late Ralph McGill did, if anyone {7dtsubts his stewardship, j, God asks of us all a tithing of l-our time, talent, and money in carry ing on the work of the great enter- Jjprise which he has iniat.ed, McGill Does N Everybody is talking about high taxes, and the man farthest down seems unable to do much about it, or else he refuses to join hands with other hard-pressed citizens to ef fect a just and equitable national tax system. 1 Most every Pi’esident during the last two decades has considered the tax issue something too hot to handle. Some headway is being made in the direction of alleviating the tax burden for those who can hardly pay the required taxes. We think the new tax reform proposal is not broad enough. This is the state of affairs. Our Treasury department did not plan to get more taxes by tightening up the old system; but, instead, plans are underway to bring a mini mal balancing toward fairer and easier tax collection. Apparently, the Treasury’s three goals include: 1. To tighten up loopholes and tax shelters so that some 40,000 of the very rich could not escape. But this does not sound good, when this readjustment will burden these very rich with only about half the tax paid by the not so weathly. 2. The middle income group which, at present, pays most of the taxes at the highest rates would, accord ing to the Treasury’s suggestion, A Salute To Excelsior Credit Union * A word of praise is in order for ! the Gastonia’s Excelsior Federal ; Credit Union on its 27th anniversary, I and reaching its first million and a v quarter dollars in assets. !; Note the beginning of this financial ‘venture. In 1942, the Credit Union •: began with the small sum of $193.95. :j It grew and grew and grew until at ■I dividend paying time in 1968, share :■ holders were paid $90,741.49. ;! Those persons who distinguished :• themselves in the upward climb of •1 Excelsior Credit Union were award ij ed symbols of recognition in form of :• plaques T. Jeffers and Dr. N. A. '■*. Smith, deceased. Plaques were presented to board J members, other honors were ac • corded to hard working members for i their genuine service through the Gainesville Man A Registered Nurse Neil Ac Butler, a Negro resi dent of Gainesville, Fla., is a reg istered nurse who graduated from the University of Florida, Now he plans to campaign for a seat on the city commission. Men usually do not consider nurs ing as a career, but why not? Can he not be just as efficient as the female nurse? Surely, he can, and more male’s must consider nursing as a career. And what is more, a man is probably more helpful in helping certain patients turnover in bed. or in lifting patients out of bed. This male nurse does not only tvani to find satisfaction in his pro fession, but he feels an obligation Bible Thought Os The Week idiim&l Viewpoint The Passing Os Ralph McGill ixon’s Tax Reforms Go Far Enough? us that God is no raspacior of persons. Ke administers to the needs of every man, and will judge him with mercy and understand ing to the end that he may make out of him self the best that there is. used his time and journalistic a biiity to help wavering southerners to chart a Christian course in their respective communities. He always encouraged the South to demonstrate its better side by lifting up the fallen, helping the weak, showing friendship and brotherhood to all, regardless of their national origin and station in life. The prophets of the Old Testa ment, if they were living would label McGill ‘The root out of dry ground,” "the balm in Gilead,” and "charity along with faith and hope.” Time marches on, but eternity will magnify McGill’s destiny so that it will permeate every wrap and woof of our ailing society. get a larger standard deduction. If effected, this plan would reduce red tape when some 19 million citizens pay their high tax bills. 3. Families of four with an income of less then $3,000 would no longer pay taxes. We think that this figure should be extended to $5,000. It appears that with these new features, the total income in taxes won’t bring in more tax money. If this is true, what is the next step? It has oeen suggested that Con gress should try to recover some of the S4O-billion lost through federal tax loopholes when it takes up the issue soon. This means there should be adjustments to the excessive oil and gas depletion allowances, cutting down on capital gains and tax free development bonds. Any President and Congressmen acting cool to the prospect of a com plete tax overhaul has been mis reading the pulse of the public. The late Senator Robert F. Kennedy received a responsive chord during his campaign for the Presidency through his demands for sweeping tax reforms. And we hope that all constituents will not let their elected representatives and senators rest unt i 1 we have im portant improvements incur "sagg ing tax set-up.” years. Another credit union which has established an enviable record is the Florida A&M University Federal Credit Union of Tallahassee, whose assets have passed the two million dollar mark. The FAMU credit union has lost only a little more thans2oo on loan risks in about 25 years. The achievements of these unions by black men and women are only examples of what can be accomplish ed in an economic way if people put their working shoulders and cash behind the wheels. More of these organizations should be establish ed for the purpose of helping our selves. Excelsior Credit Union share holders, we salute you on your twenty-seventh anniversary! to his community to run for a seat on the Gainesville City Com mission. Butler says, if elected, he will work to solve Gainesville’s traffic problem, ask for a professionally qualified committee to study the feasibility of jury trails in the city courts and seek to make hiring conditions of city employees more Competitive with private business employment. Here is a citizen who knows where he is heading, and why he wants to go to that destination. And we are sure that he will make one of the best registered nurses that there is. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN PROHIBITION India has spent almost 20 years and not discovered what we found out In 12: Prohibi tion Is a hard law to enforce. To her eternal credit, how ever, though India still has drunks, she has no Al Ca pone. India is not the only modern nation with Prohibition laws. Some of the Arab states pro hibit lntoxicatingbeverages.lt is in those states that the bootleggers live. These boot leggers are much more dar ing than Ai Capone who dis tilled his booch In an aban doned warehouse. The Arab bootleggers smuggle t’ne i r liquor out of Israel. These bootleggers are no "Heroes of the Empty View" as other Arabs have been called. These bootleggers have been investing their profits in Israeli bonds which pay 6 l/2 per cent interest. Many of our Southern and Southwestern states will have dry counties. These counties enjoy a hangover, if you'll pardon the expression, from the years when national Pro hibition promised to solve un employment, wife-beating, and foreign policy. It has been argued that A merica adopted national Pro hibition as an extension of Protestantism. Banning hard drink and beer was a penance, an expiation for slavery, for despoliation of the land, for greed. It was passed under Woodrow Wilson's Admini stration and though Wilson Just For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE CAN WE GUESS WHAT WOMEN WANT? , The experts says that we can know what a woman wants. Well, I’m not so sure. If you read the February, 1969 issue of the Journal on How To Learn This Through Six Martial Fights, you may be enlightened. Each lesson is outlined in detail, and they say that both husband and wife wins. Marriage professor, you are wrong about this. Every body knows who wins. What does a woman want? Remember when we studied the Chaucer Canterbury Other Editors Say. *. THE END OF A GOLDEN ERA The opportunity to witness the demise of an era is not given to every generation. O ften the identity of a period is learned through historical reconstruction. In the case of the New Deal, the impact of its social philosophy chang ed the American concept of government and influenced the thinking of the people for 36 years. Its ramifications and ampli fications took place without a single basic variant from the structural form in which it was conceived originally. In deed subsequent Democratic Administrations succeeded in enlarging the dimension of the New Deal because a strong foundation had been dug into the soil of human affairs. After all is said and done, the New Deal was in sum a board gauged social experi ment which brought govern ment closer to the people in trying to help solve their manifold problems. This is a far cry from the antiquated notion of government re stricted to the exercise of governing according to con stitutional prescriptions. Social Security, one of the great blessings of our times came into being under the New' Deal. There are other bless ings such as Medicare, the Right to Vote, Aid to Edu cation, Public Housing and Public Welfare. It can scare ly be contested that these measures kept America from being turned into a battle field in which Communism, with the doctrinal commitment of taking from the few what the many need, would pose a serious challenge to capi talism and its industrial by product. And that prolong ed idleness of the labor force would have ignited the flames of a bloody revolution. The farmers of the New THE CAROLINIAN “Covering The Carolinas" Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company SIS E. Martin Street „ Baielkh. N. C. 2'AOl Mailing Address: P.O. Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 2 im becond Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N. C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Month* 52.26 Sales Tax io TOTAL 3.3 J One Year 350 Sales Tax ic TOTAL 868 Payable in advance, Address all communications and make «I! toThe p4VaW6 Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., sue MaJsson Avenue. New York 17. Y., National Advertising Rep rasenutive. Member of the Asso rted Negro Press and the Unit ed Prom International Photo Ser- Vsgtt. Publisher i# not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, picture* or advertising copy un •S2 s »i? ocessary Post*!?® accompan ies th* copy. ...OPf" 1 ?"* expressed by column »n this. newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of tid* newspaper. J vetoed the measure, it is felt in many ways he inspired the drys. Woodrow Wilson set a high moral tone for men in public life; ne was a man drunk on his own ethical energy, the only example the reform ers needed. Much the same thing has happened in India. Prohibition was one of Monandas K. Ghandi's burning desires. He gave it his imprimature. Some of the Arab chieftains demanded Prohibition when a potential successor of the shiekdom was killed in a drunken brawl. The blind spot men like Wilson, Ghandi, and Arab shieks have is their inability to realize the rest of us simply aren’t as good as they are, that we are probably incapable of being as good, and if we were as capable still would per versely choose to be bad. Offhand, I cannot think of any reason why a man should drink. Perhaps there are med ical properties which invest liquor when administered by a doctor, but I doubt it. Ido know that anthropologists now agree that man invented agri culture A'FTER he discovered the joys of fermentation not before. Americans alone because of their long experiment have solved how to drink and leave it lone. One of our North Carolina towns stretches a cross a county line. One county is dry, one wet. The churches are in the dry county, the saloons in the wet. Tales? In one tale, the wife of Bath said a woman wants most to rule over her hus band. Genesis, Aristotle, though in different words, agreed with the uufe of Bath. In the marriage ceremony, it reads (wife) I will love, honor, and obey my husband. Boy, this is a lot of ‘‘tommy rot.’’ Better let this subject stay swept under the bed, brother. Just get married, and your wife will try to make you over into her idea of what a husband should he. Deal had enough insight into the growing social ferment to insititute the kind of re forms that gave hope to the masses of eventual equity in the nation's staggering wealth. Few people realized how close America was to a domestic conflict of savage propor tions during the depression of the 1930'5. Though the dream of economic redis tribution may not see its ful fillment even in a millenium, a salutary feeling is shared by many that America, under the impulse of the New' Deal, was gravitating toward that goal. The overriding assumption of this orientation was that governemt were not instituted for the shear purpose of im posing rules on man, but more for lessening the burdens of life, for creating opportunity for reaching the moon, If that be an attainable objective, than a barren observance of law and order. That golden era expired with the advent of President Nixon on the scene. Though heapoke of ‘unity," of “going forward together," in his inaugural ad dress, it is a hollow rhetoric. The nation ennot go forward toget her with the black citizen at the bottom of the economic ladder and the white man on the top rung. There can be no unity, Indeed, no domestic peace with slum po very and misery staring us in the face. A Republican Ad ministration that is more con cerned with fiscal economy than with human welfare mav leave a trail of blood for legacy. * * * SOUTHERN SCHOOL AND IN TEGRATION The federal government’s weapon is force desegrega tlon--termination of federal funds -- has not worked, the Southern Regional Council concludes. Most often the sufferers have been the piti ful black schools. The Council explains that many Southern school superintendents equate Negro and federal, so they use federal funds to bring Negro schools' per pupil ex expenditure up to the level af forrded white schools by local finances. Some Southern schools have tried to obtain a court order to desegregate as away of stalling and avoiding the fe deral enforcement office sat up under Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act. However, the Council reports that this of fice is beginning to look at these court-order districts and will report to the courts their failure to integrate. The Council charges that some federal judges, "admit tedly net educators, ’* have fallen Into the trap of bellev* . GET INVOLVED! omuNiTY m Bhelp projects 'CATION e« REGISTRATION IPOVERTV PROGRAM ITICAL ORGANIZATION iQUENC V | HTAGAINST J 'RIME? jg flltl’ff 1’ ■ *I|I £ \ i i JUL JL i. i i. * TRUE WISDOM IS TO KNOW WHAT IS BEST WORTH KNOWING, AND TO DO WHA T IS BEST WORTH doing:' The Thought Exchange BY GORDON HANCOCK THE HIGH COST OF HAND OUTS Whoever implanted in the minds of Negroes that there is some near-cut or easy way to full-fledged citizenship did the race a dis service and an injustice, for nothing could be farther from the truth. Full citizenship is difficult of attainment. Getting full citizen ship some easy way smacks of getting some thing for nothing, a grave impossibility having been tried since ancient days without success. We hear much today about the creation of a Soul City somewhere in North Carolina which seems like another of those roseate schemes for extracting a hand-out from the government of which so many have failed to date. Even ttie great lamented Martin Luther King’s speeches breathed the note that the Government might be induced to hand over billions. This fatuous dream is as far from fulfillment as ever. The current proposed establishment of a Soul City is just another way of inveigling the nation out of a hand out which we have sought so long and earn estly without visible success. Our good friends seem to be on a hot trail this time. But before we go overboard for a Soul City, we had better draw nearer for closer inspection. The price of our Government’s investment in a Soul City is strengthened bonds of segregation against which the NAACP has fought for these many years and won a signal If limited, victory. Somebody is willing to trade our tremendous victory for a mess of hand-out pottage for an immediate advantage. We are pressing for the handout at almost any price. Currently the trade-in contract would read like this; We the party of the first part are willing and ready to concede to the segregationists party of the second part present and future de segregation and Integration rights if you will come through with a fulsome hand-out in the way of financing a Soul City. The said Soul City shall be the Negro capital of America and become a major pattern for the civilized world. We hereby waive all ultimate advantages we may have attained through valiant stug gle, by the Negroes of this country, protect World lews Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL STILL HELD KAMPALS - Rejat Neogy, editor, Transition magazine, and Uganda opposition Minister of Parliament Abu Mayanja were both acquitted of charges of sedition arising from a letter published in the magazine, but instead of be ing freed, were returned to jail under Uganda’s emergency regulation. The charges concerned a letter the M. P. had written, which Transi tion published, criticizing an earlier magazine article by a member of President Milton O bote’s staff. TOO UPTIGHT ALBANY, N. Y. -Police are still trying to determine what caused a 17-vear-old youth to be the fatal victim of a gang attack at a local theatre showing the newest black film "Up tight." The movie deals with Black power and racial conflict. HOLDING BAG FRANKFURT, W. Germany - The white dominated South African government is de sperately seeking to extricate itself from a monetary crisis it fell into while trying to grab up all the gold it could as a means of blackjacking other nations into raising the of ficial price of the metal AU of a sudden, she discovered she had too much gold, and not enough foreign currencies with which to level her balances of payments. Now the country is seeking to trade some of its 90 per cent gold reserves for the currencies it needs, TREASON TRIAL FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Two years ago David Lnnsana, former army chief,*was coHsidered something o! a hero for having successfully carried off a military coup a gainst the government. Now, however, he and 1? cohorts are on trial, facing treason charges, as an outgrowth of that 1967 coup. ing elaborate arguments by Southern schoolmen wh o say they would really like to in tegrate but that it is physical ly impossible. The real story of the failure of Southern desegregation is ed by the God of our weary years. There should be complexities to such a hand-out and such take over as would make wise men blink with shame if they would but stop and think. Sel ling our birth-right for a hand-out mess of pottage. The hand-out currently is the main thing, we shall arrange details later. So long as a few Negroes can get the hand-out and dispense it, nothing else is important at the moment. It was bad enough for the African slave-traders to enslave our forbears hundreds of years ago; but it is unthinkable that civi - lized American Negroes so hungry for hand out from the Government would sell-out for a hand-out. Better never a hand-out a thousand times than a seil-out once. Our champions of Soul City owe apologies to the Negro race for in sulting its pride and its Intelligence and racial respect by offering to sell the race down the stream to the segregationists for less than a mess of pottage-for a sop If you please! The Negrophobes have seized upon the “black” idea with an avidity that is startling. If anything could give our Negrophobes greater pleasure than calling a Negro black, it is cal ling him a “nigger”. And we are clamoring for a return to full segregation! What do Negroes really want? After fighting against segregation for a hundred years, now we are ready to fight for segregaion for the next hundred if we can only guarantee a luscious hand-out per fights. Selling out a race and a principle means not a blink if the hand-out is forthcoming. We are not only fac ing reenslavement in segregation but we are facing a shame for selling out for a hand-out. A hand-out is all the Negro is destined to get out of trading in the desegregation privilege for a more hard and fast segregation. Let us hope that the Soul City project will die “abornin”. As soon as a Soul City is founded, if the hand-out is lucrative, there will be further “Heart Cities, Head Cities, Hand Cities, Finger Cities, Big Toe Cities, Little Toe Cities” and so on! ESCAPES SECOND TIME LAGOS - The recent abortive attempt up on the life of Col. Muhammad Shuwa, 35-year old commander, First Division, Nigerian army Is the second in which the army official was the "victim” who got away. He was one of the senior officers from the nothern region who escaped death during the first military coup in January, 1986. The recent attempt failed when two federal military police were killed while examining a parcel addressed to the colonel. The parcel was said to have been brought from Umuahia, the Biafran capl- * tal, by a laundry man. y. BANTUSTANSA FLOP CAPE TOWN - The annual session of Parlia ment is all tied up in knots over the pace of the development of the African reserves, called Bantustans. One side is complaining that economic development of the areas is far too' slow while the other side is com plaining that the Bantustans are unable to carry a substantial proportion of Africans, since they cannot even offer full employ ment to d.otr own oeoole. STUDY TOUR OXFORD, England - Between Feb. 26 and April 1, members of the Commons Select Committee on Race Relations will be touring five cities throughout the country to gather information about the problems facing colour eds in obtaining work after graduation from hip-n school. The tour will take In Oxford, Wolverhampton, Southall. Huder sfield, Liverpool and Hackney, where the committee will meet with. Immigrant organizations, em ployers, trade unions, local authorities, the Youth Employment service, Institute of Race Relations, Department for Education and Science,' Race Relations board and Com munity Relations commission. the breakdown in law and ord er--the outright floutingofthe law. Not only has this pro longed segregation but it has shown children that the United States is not dedicated to law and order, that the nation’s' < laws need to be object lesson in dishonesty and hypScrisy our government and our society have provided for a whole generation of young A mer'cans. THE CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER.
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