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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1070 There was much talk about the authentlci of Jesus Christ, even by those people who ight to have been sure. John the Baptist sent to of his disciples to watch and to ask. And ssus. knowing how wide was the difference Democrats Should Issue ''Call To Arms" The Rep üblications have not liv e up to what U. S. citizens have’ e: pected from them. Now is the time fc i the Democratic Party to issue “a c .11 to arms.” jThe period of mourning is over for the Democrats. The party can overcome its deficits and embark uson a new Frontier. Recovery is ns>w in the waking stage, or should wjb say the walking stage? 'Why not place around you three elephants as mementos of your ex j '■Today more and more, the term ”§)lack experience” is beingused. If called upon unexpectedly, a person ni’ight fumble for words. However, there is no need for such confusion. If you are a black American, your v£rv life is a ‘‘black experience.” You have lived it, ate in it during tfte practice of segregation, and you h'C' ■- learned the lesson well during die period of Jim Crow schools. Even at thi s present hour, every Ne~ g]-o is h tving the black experience. wit: recall Governor Claude Kirk ■<f Florida taking over the schools a one of the counties in order to % the order to desegree accord id: to a logical plan. This was a ni .1 black experience for those . «>• the scene. ; example, during the post t j War days this incident oc e William Marvin and Wilk in t ill, duly elected senators i ! lortd.i in 1868, were not seat- Don*! Be Fooled About Military Loyalty ‘ . nous leaders have, because l 11;.mi' disenchantment with the >.r m Vietnam, urged their fol ipwers to follow the course of civil disobedience and not honor the draft. Regardless of how you may feel about the feasibility of fighting in Vietnam, answer the draft call whenever it is made. This isthe on ly attitude that a male citizen can afford to take. A nation could never raise an army, if each eligible male dodged the draft on one pretext or another. ■ In ancient Greece and Horne, and particularly in Greece, a male Civilian who refused the army draft, was treated as an outcast. Nobody would have anything to do with the draft dodger, or the army deserter. The defense of the nation depended upon the draft of army recruits. We are not trying to justify or re nounced the Vietnam War at all. But, it is very important for a country to have male human resourced when it commits itself to war. And we won’t argue the point of the draftees having their hearts in the war par ticipation. The matter of attitude is best ex emplifed in the story of Gideon in the Bible. When Gideon called for volunteers (not draftees, mind you) to fight the Midianites, 32,000 men responded. Gideon looked them over carefully. He knew the conflicting motives that had brought them there some from mere love of adven ture; some because they were afraid to be taunted with cowardice; some for plunder; some to get away from Ilie Going Out .And The Coming In The Ligon High School Plant; as it now operates, is antiquated, out moded and washed up in a society that looks more critically at people with a view envisioning a different future. Undoubtedly, Ligon and its staff did a good job with the students who matriculated there. In fact, like all other Negro situations made inferior by the so-called separate but equal doctrine exer ci sed in the past, schools like Ligon did a good job in suite of circumstances. Bible Thought Os The Week Editorial Viewpoint A Black Experience between their attitude and His, refused to argue or defend. “Go and teli your master what you have seen and heard,” He said. “The sick are healed, the blind receive sight and the poor have the gospel preached to them. What more can a doubtful Christian ask? perience in the GOP climate. Mr. Nixon has disappointed the black rank and file. Don’t be lulled into a sense of false security, believing that the Demo crats can win easily next time. Let us seize the new'opportunity brought about by the present infighting in the Republican party. Le us not, however, depend upon the Democratic or the Republican parties to do w'hat each individual himself must be depended upon to do. ed. The tw'o Negroes were tongued lashed by the radical senator Charles Summer, and sent back to Florida bitter and disappointed. Their ouster, however, helped force a rewriting of the State (Flor ida) constitution giving freedmen the right to vote and hold office. William Marvin and Wilkinson Call had a ‘‘black experience ’’ they never forgot. Every black citizen has had numerous ‘‘black experiences” -- uncalled for beatings by brutal po lice. insult on public conveyances, denial of services in restaurants, and the denial of a first--class ed ucation in the segregated schools of the Southland the latter exists wddely today. If any man asks a black man what is meant by ‘‘black experience”, think and recall your life, and you can vivivly describe ‘‘black ex periences.” their nagging wives. The general determined to weed out at once. “ Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him go home tonight,” he pro claimed. The next morning 22,000 men had vanished. Only 10,000 men remained. Still Gideon was unsatified. He hit upon a stratagem. Down the hill and across a little brook he led the men. The vast majority of the men knelt down and pushed their faces into the cool water, taking long re freshing draughts. But a few' were too eager. They caught up the water in their hands, dashed it into their faces, and hurried to the other bank, restless to be on their way.” Only a handful; only 300 men. Gideon kept them and sent the rest home. But with 300 men having the right attitude, he won over the Midianites. We admit that the draft enlist many men who are fearful and afraid, men who come into the ranks for adven ture and to get away from onery wives; hut this is the best system of building an army that the nations have found. A you n g man now, with nothing to lose, may think refusing to accept the draft is wonderful for one rea son or another. In later years, how ever, when he wants to get ahead, he will find that a negative draft record will prevent his getting a job or government position. In all seriousness, a youth cannot afford to refuse the draft, because it will face him the rest of hisentire life! Be sensible, and let no one fool you about draft dodging! However, now that it is found to be unwanted by whites and is being discarded by Negroes for tetter learning advantages in a totally clif ferent society for the Negro, a new policy may be in the making for it. Raleigh needs a good technical high school. No doubt Ligon could be made such. And, in this event, stand ardization would be met there by beckoning both races to take advant age of a first-class technical educa tion. More power to Ligon Tech! Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN “i am not a racist bit it A decaue or so ago, one of the apologies that hung in the air, supposedly suspended in good will and amity, was “Some of my best friends are Jews.” Invariably, “Some of my best friends are Jews” did yeoman-like service for the home owner who had signed a restrictive covenant prom ising_ not to lease to Jewish tenants. It wasn’t his fault he was exclusive, it was the neighborhood’s fault. Or it issued from a per sonnel director who was promising to change things once he became the corpora tion president but in the mean time Jewish applicants were out of luck. Or 'it issues from people who wanted to discuss Jews as other men discuss the weather: the Jews had all the money, they stick together, and they killed Christ, but the interlocuter didn’t want anyone to get him wrong be cause some of his best friends, etc. What I do hear, sometimes endlessly repeated, is “I’m not a racist, but. . .” That adversative “but” is a key to a universe in which a lot of things are spinning. Those who are “not racists, but. . .” will, if pressed long enough, dogmatically declare that the Negroes are either funny or dangerous and what do funny people or dangerous people need with a public school any way? I have heard “the non-rac ists, but. . .” complain that Other Editors Say... MAURICE STOKES The death last week of Maurice Stokes, the former basketball star, brings to a close a rare story of hero ism and willpower. Before March,. 1958, Stokes was one of the country’s superb ath letes, 6-foot-7, 240 pounds, a rookie-of-the-year in the National Basketball Associa tion, an all-star team player in each of his three pro sea sons. A few hours after taking a hard blow to the head on falling during a post-season game, Stokes collapsed. Taken to a hospital, he lay in a coma for six months, only to be told on awakening that he W'as totally paralyzed and would likely stay that way. The last 12 years of Mau rice Stokes’ life included enormous pain- and frustra tion, of learning to re-use the simplest muscles of the body. But it also included the stubborn will to regain his health, the desire to say yes to life; all of this makes Stokes’ years in the hospital considerably more inspiring than his successess as an athlete. Thousands of people lie in . hospital today, mysteriously cut down in the full of life with their minds still working but their bodies nearly help less. The example of cour age given to this group by- Maurice Stokes is abvious; that life is not hopeless—not even if one cannot at first move an eyelid—that physical therapy can work miracles if just half a desire is present. Perhaps some of Stokes’ friends who faithfully stayed with, him over the long and lonely years, will write the story of th.is r 'markable life. If so, it.will wi crucially im portant tc the field of physical therapy and to the many sick and helpless in quiet hospital rooms fighting their way back. UNEMPLOYMENT REACHES 4.4 PCT. Unemployment, climbing at the fastest rate in a decade, rose to 4.4 percent of the nation’s work force in March, the highest level in nearly five years. A total of 3.7 million Americans were out of work. Total employment also in creased --up 468,000 to 78 million--but not enough to balance off an unexpectedly big flood of new job seekers, said the government report. Most ofthe employment gain was in part - time workers while the 230,000 rise in job less was entirely among adults - - mostly women -- seeking full -time jobs, the Labor Depart ment said. The average work THE CAROLINIAN The Carolinas” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 558 E. Martin Street Raleigh. X. C. 27601 Mailing Address: P. O Box 25717 Raleigh. N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh. N. C. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Six Months $3.25 Sales Tax .10 TOTAL 3.35 One Year 5.50 Sales Tax ' ... .16 TOTAL 5.86 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable tc The CAROLINIAN Amalgamated Publishers, Inc.. 310 Madison Avenue. New Yore, N. Y 10017. National Advertising /Representative. Member of the United Press lute-national Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, piettves or advertising copy un less necessary postage accompan ies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this newspaper. the. Negroes want all the school busses which, I believe, is a variation on the theme of the Jews wanting all the money. Some of the folks answer they are simply trying to pro tect their property values or the quality of classroom ed ucation or the sanctity of white womanhood. Anent white wo manhood, if you can divide by two, you can probably count the number of white waitress es and actresses who have de cided modesty has nothing to do with sanctity. We have pulled the shade on events “communist - inspir ed” and opened the window to let in the SDS, the Students for Democratic Society. I heard a serious analysis of fered by a responsible of ficial of how the postal strike was inspired by the SDS. These . dissident students apparently infiltrated the most gentle of all our institutions, the postal system, and radicalized the employees therein to demand a 12 per cent raise in pay. Did the SDS also .Infiltrate the Congress when our rep resentatives and senators raised their pay by 41 per cent? Were they behind the slow down by the Air Traffic Con trollers, delaying important businessmen intent on vital appointments? My spies tell me the pro fessional communist infiltra tors are quite concerned a bout the SDS stealing their thunder. If the folks keep It up there will be nothing for tne communists to do except join the middle class and give up subverting freedom. week remained low in the slug gish economy, it added. A Democratic senator cal led the gloomy unemployment report “shocking,” the AFL CIO demanded a drastic change in White House policy to stop the rise, and a spokes man for President Nixon said his policies are not intended to increase joblessness, “No level of unemployment is acceptable. As long as any one is unemployed and looking for work we have unfinished business,” said White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler. The 414 jobless rate was the highest since the same figure in August, 1965, The number of unemployed increased by one million to the past year. The March re port made a total rise of nine teenth of one percent in ’the jobless rate the first quarter of 1970, largest since the last quarter of 1960. “Unfortunately, our predic tions were all too true,” said a spokesman for AFL-CIO President George Meany, who had said in February that, unemployment appeared rapidly heading for a 10-year high of 6 percent ir. the next few months. -The INDIANA POLIS RECORDER. W ATCH OUT, SENATOR STONE Dade County Senator Dick Stone will have a lot of ex plaining to do when he gets back to Miami because of his “no” vote on a bill that would extend workman’s compensa tion to migrants. This odd de parture by Sen. Stone is hard to understand since the entire Dade delegation was behind the bill and it also was the top priority item for farm work ers adopted by the Greater Miami Coalition and present ed to the Dade delegation. Sen. Stone is a popular candidate for the Secretary of State post, but he can count on very little support from black people with a vote like this. It is absolutely essential that protection 1* provided for mi grant workers whoare injured on the job, sometimes for life. The type of work, the pay, and the style of life forced upon m igrant workers make it obvi ous that accrued savings are quite the exception when ill ness of Injury strike. Farm workers deserve this protec tion as much as any occupa tion group in Florida. We think the good senator should step back and take an other look. Back in 1923 when H. E. S. Reeves founded this news paper he picked the above Latin motto. The English translation means, “The times <ire changed and we are changed with them.” Such a change was witness ed in the Florida House of of Representatives Monday morning when the Rev. Theo dore Gibson led the legislators in prayer. Twelve years ago, the Florida Legislature want ed to put the Rev. Mr, Gib son in jail when he was found guilty of contempt of the Legislature. He was convicted of con tempt' of court and sentenced to six months in jail in ,1958 after refusing to give a Leg islature Committee names of Florida NAACP members, Gibson was then state presi dent of the NAACP. It took a great deal of cour- A BLACK COMMUNITY DOES NOT HAVE TO »E A GHETTO! Iconomic Highlights Nonbelievers have long held reservations with respect to glowing prophesies that the age of leisure was just around the corner. The idea that hundreds of millions of peo ple can look forward to a day when the routine of making a living will go the way of the horse and buggy is too preposterous to accept. One student of the subject has had the temerity to question the happy judgments of the optimists in a most entertaining fashion. Mr. Gilbert Burck, writing in Fortune maga zine, presents a strong case in support of his belief that, “There’ll Be Less Leisure Than You Think” in the years to come. He does not agree that long-term growth of leisure can be taken for granted. He’says, “The prophets of Automatic Abundance assure us that the eco nomy of the 1970’s will grow as effortlessly as a crabgrass in a lawm, that technology has solved the classic problem of scarce re sources. The big tasks of the 1970'5, the A. A.’s aver, will lie to distribute production equitably, to improve the physical and spiri tual quality of life, and to gain more leisure '. . .Unfortunately, most of this is nonsense . . .The word ‘affluent’, so often used to de scribe the U. S., is both euphuistic and'inac curate.” The essential flaw in the Automatic Abun dance theory, as analyzed by Mr. Burck, comes down to the lagging productivity of services. He divided the nation’s total output into two categories--production of goods and the pro vision of services. Under the former, he in cluded manufacturing, mining, farming and construction. Under the latter, he placed gov ernment, trade, finance and personal services. Nearly all the increase in employment, noted Mr. Burck, between now and 1980, will be ac counted for by the services. Unlike power plants, factories and refineries, which enor mously increase their output per employee with expensive, labor-saving capital equipment, most services cannot substitute capital for labor on a large scale. Thus, the call will be Figuratively speaking, it was only yester day that international air carriers, andp :- ticularly Pan American World Airways, were endeavoring to prepare the public for the in troduction of a new jet age as the initial flight of the Boeing 747 in scheduled service ap proached. There were those who expressed concern about the possibility that air travelens would view the 747 as a sort of super sardine can. Well, yesterday has become ancient history. The publicity stories about the 747 were un derstatements. If anything, the airplane is more spacious, more comfortable and pi o vides a more luxurious form of travel than even boosters had foreseen. After one week of operations in transtlantic service by Pan American, the box score of its success shows impressive results* Pan Am's 747 carried 2,990 passengers and 132,998 pounds of car go and mail between New York and London the week of January 21-28. The larges* single passenger load was on the irraugura. fligh*: 58 to first class and 264 in economy. This sum mer the airline, using the 747, is scheduling up to a 53 per cent increase in available pas senger seats on Atlantic routes--336,300 a gainst last year’s 219,463 seats. In commenting on the expanding age of the 747, U. S. News A World Report quotes one expert as predicting the number of pas sengers going through major airports will rise from 310 million in 1969 to 1 billion in 1979. With any luck, the good earth, try that time, will have come closer to being the abode of world citizens who will view' peoples of other lands as neighbors rather than foreigners. age during those days to defy the powerful Johns Com mittee, headed by former Gov ernor Charley Johns. When Johns demanded that Gibson produce NAACP membership records, charging they were filled with Communists, the fearless minister flatly re fused. The Rev. Gibson never served a day in jail because the U. S. Supreme Court over turned his conviction in 1962. The civil rights struggle has moved forward in Florida ever since. Rays Os Hope Our hats are off to Dade Rep. Sandy D’Alemberte, one of the brighter lights in our delegation, who invited the Rev. Gibson to deliver the prayer. The times are changing. -The MIAMI TIMES. * * * But now in Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. * * * For since by man came death, by man came also the resur rection of the dead. for more and more poeple in occupations mark ed by declining efficiency--in other words, in dividual output. Mr. Burck sees govern ment as one of the worst offenders. Govern ment jobs in 1968 amounted to 12 million, or 15 percent of all employment, not counting the armed foreqs. By 1980, the figure will very likely be above 20 percent. And, says Mr. Burck, "AH the negative characteristics of most services--lov. productivity growth, ris ing comparative costs, lack of market dis cipline, limited consumer sovereignty, and a pervasive complusion to expand--are combin ed in government.” Mr. Burck backs up his thesis that a leisure society Is a myth with figures that show how more and more man-hours will be needed to provide evet expanding services. “Between 1948 and 1980/' he reports, “total employment will have increased by about 40 million, from 61 million to more titan 101 million. But the number of people employed in goods produc tion will probably have increased by no more than two million. . .nearly 37.5 million will have In effect found jobs in government, trade, and other services.’’ Since time is money, the slower and less efficient people become in providing set '.ices, the mote costly life is go ing to be and the harder people are going to have to work to secure the many amenities that we have learned to consider as essential accessories in the popular concept of a leisure society. Agriculture provides perhaps the clearest evidence that the need to work does not nec essarily decline as technology takes over. By 1980, agricultural employment will tie down to about 3 million. The declining farm popula tion has not meant more leisure but merely a shift to other occupations. And so the utopian day of no wot k lias been brought no closer. It is very likely that as Mr. Burck concludes, “. . .the prospects for reducing the hours ,Ofi life’s treadmills very much will keep receding into the future.” AGAINST INFLATION’S TI! !• Five leading investor-owned companies, whose business it is to provide electric serv ice to the state of Indiana, have published an enlightening little pamphlet, entitled “The Truth About Elect it Bates In Indiana.’’ It effectivel; destroys Hie notion that investor owned electric companies are in the habit of overcharging customers. The pertinent Infor mation it contains is applicable to every other state in the Union. Figures are given for a 20-year period -1949 to 1969. In that 20 years, the cost of liv ing in Indiana went up 46 per cent. Taxes were up 400 per cent. The cost of electricity was down 21 per cent, and the use of electrici ty was up 400 per cent. Thus, while electric bills in total were higher, customers of In diana’s investor-owned electric companies, as the pamphlet points out, today pay less per kilowatt-hour than at anytime in history. This recon! has been made possible by the grow ing efficiency and mass-production techniques of the Indiana power companies. Two otlic*r points of interest in the pamphlet are that while electric utilities are publicly regulated monopolies, they are also highly competitive enterprises. They compete with other energy-producing fuels. They must also compete for consumers’ dollars in the mer chandising of energy using appliances, and they compete in the money market for dollars with which to build new plants. Lastly, it should be remembered that a good part of the con sumer’s electric bill is taxes. About 25 cents out of every dollar customers spend on e’ectric service from the five companies in question goes for federal, state and local taxes. “The Truth About Electric Rates. . .” goes far be yond the boundaries of any single state. * * * Seeing is move than looking! Experts in visual perception point out that the importance crawling plays is not only in muscle building, but also in learning distances from one ob ject in a room to another. Lit erally, a baby “muscles” in on perception that eventually makes a sale automobile dri ver! Next time someone passes you too closely on the high way, it could be safe to guess that person was confined over ly long in a crib or playpen!
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