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THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH, N. C„ WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JULY 11, 1070
Bible Thought Os The Week
! ‘I am the way, the truth, and th® light,"
3&Sd Jesus with a sincerity that knew no
bounds. Sincerity glistened like sunshine about
Jesus, and it is a characteristic that helps
to make leaders. Many wealthy men under
disguised names have started newspaper to
Sixty-One Years On The Firing Line
Delegates to the annual meeting
o! the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
held in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 29-
July 4, heard the brilliant story of
how this organization had been on the
firing line for 61 years.
The history of the militant organi
zation is filled with heroic deeds,
daring gestures, bloodshed and even
death. We shudder to think what the
fate of rhe black man in America, (It
has been bad enough) would have been
had it not teen for the NAACP.
There are two things that we
should like to point out as militat
ing against the NAACP. The white
nan’s failure to understand it and
?he seeming pulling away by the black
preacher.
The white man should have had an
awakening when violence swept this
nation, the result of the Negro’s
discontent over the way he had been
exploited, first to be fired and the
las! to be hired, denied many of the
privileges guaranteed by the Con
stitation. and many other evils. The
NAACP came out in full force a
gainst this blot on our way of life.
In mau\- instances, its leaders were
died “Uncle Toms and Aunt Fan
nies”, but the leaders were not
undaunted. They continued topreach
that violence was not the way.
Another evil that plagues the white
man is that many of them believe
the NAACP is out to make trouble.
Nothing; was ever far from the truth.
Phe NAACP is for RIGHT and JUS
TIC P, It does not seek to trample
the ! ights of anyone to get the rights
of another. Its history proves that
s* Ims resorted to the courts and
i . i used the Constitution as its yard
stick.
We would like for our white broth
er to know that the NAACP does not
;ko cases. It only prosecutes those
h i! -re brought to its attention as
h wing violated the rights of some-
Who Is Winning In The School Fi«jht?
It is apparent that the educa
tional system throughout the na
tion has become so engrossed in
social aspects, as they affect the
two races, until the cause for which
education was designed (to lead
out for a fuller life) seems lost in
the shuffle.
The processes of that education
that has been given to the Negro
his been watched by black and
white educators since the days of
the one-room Rosenw aid to a
smathering of desegregation. The
courts tore down “separate but
equal”, but in most cases Negroes
were forced to live in segregated
sections, in most instances. Now
that lines are drawn tor a unitary
school system, segregation will
still tie in vogue.
When it was decided that there
had to be a balance of white and
Negro teachers, the two state as
sociations decided that there was
no need of two associations, be
lieved to be working for the same
goal. Educational authority decreed
that they should one body be. Things
began to shape up for that one body,
when low and behold, the matter of
how much consideration the black
teacher w'ould get in a predomin
antly white organization. A dead
line was set and the time passed.
We received word that the ultima
tum was sent down when the leaders
of the two met at the NEA conven
tion and the word is that we will
have the merger.
There is also the black parent,
who says he wants his child to stay
in the neighborhood school. There is
the white parent, who says that he
does not want his child going a
black community because of the
crime prevalent in the black com
munity. The Nixon Administration
is accused of giving aid to the lat
ter.
Edifwml Viewpoint
make money, but somehow these newspapers
fail. The readers are conscious that some
thing is wrong. They feel that the voice of the
editor Is not his own true self. The public
has a sixth sense for detecting insincerity;
people know Instinctively when words ring
true.
one. It is as ready to defend a white
person ulio has been wronged as it
is to defend a defenseless Negro. Too
many white parents have the wrong
idea about the school suits. These
cases are brought to the attention
of the leaders of the NAACP lawyers.
If the rights of their persons has
been violated, in the opinion of the
lawyer, and the person wants re
dress, he employs the lawyer. An
NAACP lawyer, like any other good
lawyer, goes the limit for his
client.
This brings us to the last point
mentioned in the third paragraph
the seeming indifference of the black
preacher. The NAACP was born out
of former slaves, who continued to
sing, “Nobody Knows The Trouble
I’ve Seen” and “I Am Climbing
Jacob’s Ladder”. It was then that
the black minister tried to console
them and sang, “A Better Day Is
Coming.” Out of this association
came the NAACP.
According to Dr. M. L. Wilson,
national Baptist leader, the black
minister has become so engrossed
in his Cadillac until he does not have
time to work with the fellow'who has
not registered, or the garbage col
lector who is underpaid, the drug
addict who robs and steals to satisfy
his desire. He alleged that the black
minister is so busy building the most
modern ..kitchen in church, that he
forgets to put food in the ice box
for hungry children. He alleged that
time was spent choosing the club
that would sell dinners to replen
ish the coffers of the church.
It is our hope that those ministers
who took part in the dinner will not
only rededicate themselves to the
• cause of freedom, but that they will
use their influence to bestir their
fellows to themselves, not for
glamor, nor praise, but for the
cause of a people so badly in need.
Nobody questioned or even thought
about busing until it became neces
sary to have black children ride with
white children. No one said a word
when these same children rode past
white schools, supposed to have been
offering the same degree of educa
tion. to get to an inferior Negro
school. Many black parents who are
up in holy horror did not mind their
children brazing the weather and
other hazards to get to a black
school.
The dazed white parent, even
though realizing that this so-called
crime-monster could change neigh
borhoods quickly and th it all per
petrators of crime were not black
folk, did not become alarmed until
somebody waxed the red flannel
of race in front of his eyes.
This issue has been fought back
and forth in the courts and we feel
that enough of the taxpayer’s money
has been spent. There is an old
saying that “Friends and money
cannot be made in the courthouse.”
We ire not in position to sax- who
is winning, but we hasten to say that
the children are losing. In these
crucial times in the life of our
nation, we need to implement our ed
ucational system so that our chi 1-
Ten will get a nexx- concept of ed
ucation. We are too far behind in
the race with immorality to lose
time fighting over what organiza
tion will survive, what principal
will lose his job, what teacher will
be moved.
We need to know whether the prin
cipal, the teacher, or what-have
you in education, is inspired with a
devotion to serve the needs of che
children, in every facet of life. We
need to see to it that all who have
to do with our educational system
are imbued with an unfaltering t rust
to teach the true principles of de
mocracy.
Only lit America
B\ haWRY GOLDEN
THE STATE OF THE UNION
BY HARRY GOLDEN
The turmoil and agony of
this vear have not convinced
me of any radical change in
the country. I neither believe
that we have gone to the dogs
nor that revolution is immin
ent, I have several reasons
for this conclusion.
The Reader’s Digest whose
editors keep a steady hand
on the pulse of middle-A
merlca is still running stories
about how dedicated Russian
agents become concerts to the
democratic way of life through
exposure to happy homes of
FBI men.
Southern policemen are still
shooting Negroes, The Kent
State murders produced a
wave of outrage but that is
because the National Guard
with loaded rifles invaded the
back yard of the middle class
and nothing converts a stu
dent from the American way
of life like a bullet in the
head. But there was little out
rage atxiut the murders of
colored students in Jackson.
Siro T, Agnew didn’t even have
the time to issue an insensi
tive remark.
Some Senators have decid
ed to see if they can re
strict the power of the Presi
dent by cutting off military
appropriations. There are
some things a President can
not do. He cannot pack the
Supreme Court as Franklin
D, Roosevelt discovered nor
can he implements a "South
ern strategy" through ap
pointments to the Supreme
Court as Richard Nixon found
out.
But the President may very
well be able to dictate what
he wants as Commander -In -
Chief. Lincoln found away to
suspend habeas corpus and
Richard Nixon found out.
Other Editors Say
CONTRACT HOME BI YERS
The ordeal, the bitter con
troversy and the dishearten
ing experience that marked
the courageous ©Torts of the
members of the Contract Buy
ers League seem to ha v e
reached the final stage of the
unhappy drama.
Supreme Life Insurance Co
and the Seaway National
Bank have stepped lino he
breach by committing sub
stantial sums for the pur
chase of the contracts from
the builders who were exer
cising overt lights to strangle
the po >r b’acks
The courts which could
have resolved the mater
through a cmnmission or an
equity formula, exhibited in
stead a shockn : i aralysis
leaving the black buyers at
the mercy c<." their uncon
scionable exploiters
The judges showed no com
passion for the men and wo
men who were ruthlessly evict
ed from the hemes they were
buying at considerable per
sonal sacrific. The sight of
furniture and other belong
ings strewn holier skelter on
the sidewalk was depressing
and mournful.
White banks, mortgage
companies, and other com
mercial institutions, bent on
keeping Negroes as exclusive
denizens of the slums, have
systematically denied leans to
black applicants trying to es
cape the rat-infested ghettos.
This is the sad tale or the
b'ack folk who labor hard and
long to be a part of the A
mcrican society. It seems tint
they have to make it. on the
strnm generated by their own
black power.
CHICAGO DAILY
defender
FELLOWSHIP
ALLOCATIONS
Seventy-three colleges and
universities in 39 states and
the District of Columbia will
conduct programs for higher
education personnel this sum
m?v and during the 1970- 71
school year, according to the
U. S. Office oi Education
The office has allocated 902
ft Low ships totalling $5 mil
lion under th Education P -
fevsions Development Act ‘o
help meet shortages of col
lege and university teachers
and other personnel and to
improve their qualifications.
Awarded for either one or
two years, the fell nvsfiips are
allocated to graduate schools
fc training below the doe
tor.Ve level for college teach
ers and up to the doctoral
level for such non-teaching
higher education personnel as
administrators and student
financial aid officers.
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essarily represent the policy of
this newspaper.
But the President may very
well be able to dictate what
Richard Nixon will find away
to extricate himself from any
military limitations the Senate
imposes. Let us remember
that in 19S0 there were still
Republican Senators talking a
bout the unconstitutionality of
FrankUn D. Roosevelt’s third
term.
A country is in a bad way
when the populace is klll!u»s
the horses of the police for
food. Less than 10 years ago
there were French.tanks In
the streets of Paris but the
French survived and the hero
in trade still flourishes in
Marseilles.
Esquire is running another
article on one of the Kennedy s.
God bless the Kennedys: they
have proved as fruitful for the
mass-culture magazines as
nine-day wonder diets. The
conservatives gnash their
teeth over the prospect of Ted
Kennedy succeeding to the
White House 1n,'72 by beat
ing Nixon or in *76 by beat
ing Agnew.
But the boys in the know,
Nixon and Agnew, have al
ready indicated they suspect
the Democratic candidate will
not be Kennedy. By the venom
they suspect the Democratic
of the Vice President’s at
tacks one suspects it will be
John Lindsay, the mayor of
New York, or someone much
like him, a figure closely
identified with one of the major
cities who by action and word
lias indicated that integration
is still one of the major issues
in the United States.
America this summer much
resembles the typical family
amongest the silent majority:
everybody is a perpetually bad
mood but no one wants to con
sider the scandal of divorce.
Doctoral level fellowships
for college teachers are avail
able under the National De
fense Education Act. About 30
per cent of the programs are
directed to the needs of the
disadvantaged.
Each fellow will receive a
stipend of $2,400 for the first
12-month period and $2,600
foi the second 12-month pe
riod c: a two-year program,
including an allowance of
SSOO per year for each de
pendent. In addition, an al
lowance 0f52,500 will be paid
to the institution for each en
rolled fellow to cover the cost
of tuition, instructional fees,
and other training costs
These programs offer un
matched opportunities to
teachers who want to improve
their qualifications but who
lack the financial means to
accomplish their objectives
--THE CHICAGO DAILY
DEFENDER
Letters
To The Lilitor
OUR POLICY OI VIOLENCE
Our National Policy seems
to be based on violence war
and the gun and the military,
and hear and hatred, particu
larly of Communism. Do
we take it out on ourselves
and kill and main each other
by the millions-one world war
after another?
I recently attended a meeting
of 500 members oi what I
had hopefully considered a
very Honorable Fraternity.
Literature by a Military Man
favoring the use of the gun
(Violence) as a safeguard for
our institutes was distributed
at every plate. Selfishness,
fear and hatred of Commun
ism dominated the oratory of
the evening.
If we nut half of our money
Into helping our so-called
enemies with their problems
(which are mutually ours),
with love and understanding
and confidence and physical
help, instead of violence, we
'might be getting some place
in Asia and our world.
The Gertha Jesus had a
Better Idea!
The Flag of the U. S, is
fine (Nationalism) but the flag
of humanity (World Federa
tion) should be flown still
higher!
Ernest F. Sheffield
3229 E. Calhoun Boulevard
Minneapolis, Minnesota
* * *
DIFFERS WITH ADVERTISER
TO THE EDITOR:
A few days ago, Mr. Leroy
Gordon, who claims member
ship in t.he Seventh Day Ad
ventist Church, located in Ra
leigh used this medium of
communication to state his de
sire fora "virgin girl friend.”
I beg to inform the readers
of this paper that the said Mr.
Leroy Gordon spoke as an in
dividual and not representing
the Seventh Day Adventist
Church.
We, the members of the Ra
leigh Church, want to be dis
associated with his sentiment
because they are completely
contrary tothe doctrines of the
church and the wishes of the
members.
Owen U. Holness, Pastor
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Raleigh, N. C.
TELL HIM ABOUT BLACK HISTORY
THE PUBLIC NEEDS THE TANKERS
New environment improvement laws are be
ing passed every day. The overtones of de
bate that accompany their passing have a
common characteristic; they tend to place
those to whom the law applies on the defensive.
Yet, the problem Involved is really one for
which no one is to blame. It is rather a crea
ture of population growth and rising living
standards. A good illustration of this is the
stern, new Water Quality Improvement Act of
1970 that, among other tilings, places the most
stringent responsibilities on oil tanker opera
tors.
The U. S. tanker fleet, during recent years,
has moved oil across the seas in ever-in
creasing quantities to keep up with public
demand. As tanker movement shave multiplied,
there ha\e been accidental oil spills. Updated
laws dealing with the matters may have been
needed, but what is needed even more is
public understanding that In and huge the
U. S. tanker industry fully appreciates the
necessity of meeting soaring consumer de
mands with a little adverse impact or the
environment as possible. The shippin. industry
is eager to cooperate in the avoidance of oil
spills and in making laws work that will help
prevent them. But a shipping industry, spokes
man, in commenting on recent passage of the
Water Quality and Improvemtn Act as it dealt
with tankers, said he felt his industry ; ad been
somewhat unfairly singled out "when one con
siders tiro callous indifference with, which urban
pollution is condoned." Pollution from ship
ping, lie said, was by comparison, a "drop
in the bucket."
The more extreme measures proposed for
controlling oil spills overlook a cardinal faet
the public needs the tankers to keep this
energy-hungry country running in high gear.
IRREPLACEABLE NATIONAL ASSET
In this age of guaranteed security, it is well to
be reminded that for one group of citizens
the words have little meaning, These are the
millions of investors whose earnings and as
sets have been jeopardized by inflation. There
are no government programs to kail them out,
and die} are not asking for any. They have
faith in the country’s ability to weather eco
nomic adversity and go on to brighter times.
Mr. J. Paul Getty, one of the world’s
richest men, has some good advice for young
businessmen that applies in many respects to
everyone else. Among the points he makes;
", . . No matter what happens, do not panic...
When things go wrong, it is always a wise
idea tc pull back temporarily ...In the opening
UNIQUE TOURIST AID
Those who expect to visit the principal
recreation areas of the United States this
summer will find unexpected allies in theii
search for information among tie colorful
Annual Reports of companies operating in
these regions.
High on the list of the most fascinating
sections of the country is Montana. Not only
does it retain the atmosphere and cordiali
ty of the Old West, but it also contains some
of the most spectacular scenic attractions in
Ihe United States. The gateway to Yellowstone
National Park lies along the southern border
of the state. Montar : streams and mountains
are unsurpassed in natural beauty. Montana is
also state rich in history. I ev.is and Clark came
this way on their journey to tl ■ Columbia
river more than a century and a half ago.
All of these features are covered in a local
power company's* Annual Report, which notes
that in 1969 the state’s tourist industry had
another record year. More than two million
visitors were reported in Yellowstones Na
tional Park during the year while Montana’s
Glacier National Park had a record 1,051,105
visitors.
Another interesting point about the utility
company’s report is the obvious prog resive
ness of the state. It is the kind of state that
would be pleasant to visit. It is a state where
in 1969 business was growing normally, in
dustries prospered, people were reasonably
content and surrounded by great open spaces
with room to breathe. Travel folders over
look such factors as these, but they mean a
lot to the traveler searching for respite from
the problems of our times.
A TIMELY OBSERVATION
Mr. James N. Sites, an official of a na
tionally known public relations firm and an
articulate spokesman on government-industry
relations, makes a significant observation;
"Despite recent improvements in business
representation in Washington, a disturbing
blind sport continues to hamper corpoiate ef
forts to relate to government-to have some in
fluence on government decision and long-range
directions. There persists a strange, near
chronic inability to assess and stress the
public's interest in the positions business
takes on government action proposals,bust
Economic Highlights
Rays Os Hope
stages of any developing adverse situations,
it may he necessary and advisable to give
some ground, to sacrifice those tilings which
are the least important and most expendable.
But is should he a fighting withdrawal. ~ All
available resources--cerebral as well as fi
nancial, creative as well as practical--must be
marshalled. Counter moves must be planned...
Once everything is ready ,' action should lie
taker, confidently, purposefully, aggressively
and above all, enthusiastically,...’’
These words of advice represent the spirit
of the builders of great industries, as well
as of the investors and the savers who are the
foundation of the nation’s productive effort. |
In a very real sense, *!•••> are in irreplace
able national asset.
"THE PRICE OF C.ASOI INE;; *
Next to water, gasoline is used in greater
quantity thai any other liquid. Although it
comes from deop in ti e ground and is the
prodm of a complicated refinim process,
it actually costs less per gallon ! an distilled
water. Because it is used universally, and in
great quantities, its price is a concern of
deep puMic--and political--interest. When the
pressure of coleconomies has forced the
price of gasoline up. oii companies have been
Sui jected to relentless abuse and "jawboning"
from government spokesmen. All hough 90 per
cent of the price of a gallon of gasoline
is direct e tax wit! the amount posted
on gas nnps in • I.ou.n*iwls of service stations,
consumers still fail to .<>!•• tii.it gas taxes
hue risen far fastei than gas prices—some
2-3 percent in 10 wars. The retail price or
gasoline b\ contrast has risen about 10percent
in the same period.
What is the t rut I about the oil industry
and the price of gasoline'' In one ot the most
informative little booklets ever published on
ll ;( . subiect, the American Oil Company answers
many questions in ~ factual manner. Among
ot! .' things, h shows how the oil industry
is one of tne most competitive businesses >
in existence. It shows how supply and demand,
rather .nan cos*. actually sets the pried of
gasoline, and, above all, it presents convincing
evi l : ’ ** hat gasoline ", . .is a wonderful
ha.gun.’ The pamphlet, entitled "The Price
of Gasoline", is well world the few moments
Os time it takes to read i*. It may be obtained
from the American Oil Company, Post Of
fice Box 6110-A, Chicago, Illinois, 60680. It
answers a lot of questions that need answer
ing- without help from the sound and fury
of the political arena.
ness leadci s regular lv come buiore govern
ment bodies ami Salk only about what partic
ular issues moan to their firm of industr
.. , (t e; seldom go the obvious next step of
citing wnat key issues moan to the public
ttio business rejirescnts and serves--includ
ing wage earners, stock!.olders, suppliers,
customers of ail sorts.”
Public issues affectin' the growth and sta
bility of a company, an industi y or tire pr ivate
enterprise system must be resolved first and
foremost in the public interest. In considering
any broad public issue farsighted business
management must recognize arid make clear
to the best of its ahilitv that the public has
the greatest stake of all in proposals
•hat affect the future growth of a company
or an industr y. Compared to the public in
terest, industry interest is incidental. No one
is concerned with an industry's problems for
the sake of the industry itself. Mr. Site’s
criticisms of the narrow business view are
timely.
COMPATIBLE WITH HUMAN NATURE
Mr. Henry Ford visited the USSR a short
w! ile ago--apparently to help the Soviet peo
ple figure out how to introduce some capitalis
tic efficiency into their auto production. The
trouble with the whole communist system
is that it has never recognized the im
portance of incentive and profits. Just how
Mr. Ford, or anyone else, can stir people to
greater efforts in the absence of the carrot
of incentive will l>e interesting to see.
In thousands of years of human history,
Incentive and productivity have been insepar
able. There is no reason to expect them to be
anymore divisible now than in the past. As
a matter of fact, U. S. industries are going
to greater lenghts than ever to stimulate in
centive. One of the latest wrinkles is the ex
panding trend of major companies to offer
trading stamp bonuses and merchandise a
wards as a form of encouragement to em
ployees who spend extra effort in doing a better
job. One of the latest motor companies in the
U. S. adopted a trading stamp incentive pro
gram. after a year's test, it was found that
the company was saving SlB on cost reductions
for each dollar spent on awards. Even in our
so-called mass production society, output de
pend upon individual effort--and individual
incentive.