THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH. N. C.. WEEK ENDING SAT,, AUGUST 1, 1970
4
['von Pilate felt the magic of Jesus Christ.
The two men offered a strange contrast
stading there--the Roman governor, whose
lips were so soon to speak the sentence of
death, and the silent, self-possessed ex
carpenter--accused and doomed—yet bearing
Himself with so much majasty, as though
Editorial Viewpoint
We Musi Let Off Integration's "Sinking Sami"
If the whole -count ry wanted to do
ri<rht, the desegregation muddle
could be dried up quickly. But many
of the schools and their desegre
gation plans have been keeping the
muddle wet.
The Supreme Court told Charlotte
school officials that it will not hold
a special session this summer to
hear their appeal on a desegrega
tion plan. The Charlotte case won’t
be heard until Oct. 1, if at all.
Down in Pinellas County, Fa.,
school officials were told to de
segregate schools by “pairing” be
fore August 1.
The pairing plan is conceded by
friends and foes of school integra
tion to threaten diaster for St. Pet
ersburg’s core area, which would
find itself with even more all
black or mostly black schools and
with i rapid loss of white residents.
School Board Member Charles
Crist, last week, opposed efforts to
W hat To Do With Trash Dumpers
Most everyone has seen in com
munities, the wanton dumping of
leash in forbidden places. This clut
ters up the areas, is unhealthy and
mars cleanliness and appearance.
This is what happened to a man
c.iUght dumping trash illegally in
.Pensacola, Florida: The judge gave
him a 90-day sentence for dump
ing on i rural road.
No doubt this was splendid thing,
l u is it the answer? At the scene,
tin: man was arrested and taken
into custody. This is what it is going
to take to put an end to illegal dump
ing of trash.
i he Cereal Industry is On The Spot
The cereal industry is on the spot!
I* was revealed thatCheerioswon’t
make a boy so strong he can single
handedly rescue Daniel from a lion’s
den. Wheaties won’t make every
one an Olympic champ, either. So
it goes from Froot Loops, (slack
ers. Twinkles and Crispy Critters.
We got the shock of lives last week,
when we discovered that cereals
have let us down. It you think all
is lost, take heart. Congress is in
vestigating.
I'ho l>est authorities calculate that
there were 800.000 Sixteenth Cen
tury Indians, and there are slightly
more than 800,000 today.
Ihe American conscience is
troubled because of our treatment
oi the Indian. American Indians are
the only people that ever survived
in the known history of the world
when a small, weaker group was
conquered by a superior group.
It is worthy of note that the United
Raleigh can look with pride upon
the new plant of the First Cosmo
politan Baptist Church, formerly
Fayetteville Street Baptist Church.
Certainly it takes its place among
the new church structures of recent
years here, as w-ell as aiding the
new look of the “70’s” presented
in banks, motels, county and state
st ructures.
It is both timely and expedient
that we develop tetter churches,
schools and homes as basic centers
oi our culture. Old church buildings,
delapidated houses for homes and
Bible Thought Os The Week
e Owe The Snd ian Something
i'
A Salute To Progress
he were somehow beyond the reach of man
made laws, and safe from the hurt of its
penalties. The involuntary testimony of the
flabby cynical Roman In the presence of per
fect strength, perfect assurance, perfect calm;
“Behold,’’ he cried, “the man!”
submit a better plan, on the grounds
it would interfere with the board’s
Supreme Court appeal.
Naturally, Mr. Crist is on sinking
sands.
Since Pinellas County cannot ex
pect a Supreme Court hearing until
several months after the “pairing”
program has been implemented, the
grim prospects are clear. An ap
peal, if denied, will disrupt the
schools at mid-term.
The solution to the Pinellas County
schools problem is to adopt a so
called “cluster approach.” If this
be true, then it is the duty of the_
school board to get the schools and
children off “sinking sands.”
Many of the school appeals are
“delaying tactics.” and the Court
knows this. To get off sinking ground,
our school officials must do what is
right for all of their citizens. Ap
peals will only delay the business
at hand.
Maybe trashy people don’t under
stand any other language except
arrest and punishment. Too long
they have not been apprehended and
brought to court.
They see the signs saying “no
dumping under the penalty of the
law.” We have laws that can be
effectively administered, if we both
ered enough to do it.
It wouldn’t take many jail sentences
to convince people that anti-dump
ing laws mean what they say. And
we suggest that law official stake the
time to be on the lookout for dump
ing violators.
Not long ago, hamburgers and hot
dogs were exposed as “shambur
gers” and “fatfurters.”
Doesn’t leave us much to put our.
trust in!
But, it a Congressional investiga
tion has any meaning, it will re
quire breakfast food manufacturers
to put food in their foods, or stop
their phony claims.
If phony claims are continued,
we can’t but conclude that some na
tional advertising is bold, willful
deception and misrepresentation.
States government today is voiun
taring generously in compensating
present tribes of Indians for the
land they were originally occupy
ing.
We have other pressing questions
on our minds —poverty, racial bias,
the Vietnam war, unemployment in
a land of plenty, and many more,
Eventhough we cannot solve all
of these, we at least owe the In
dian tribes something.
sub-standard school structures have
no place in a modern society. Our
highest regard for ourselves should
be exemplified through the buildings
which afford us our basic values.
They should represent the best we
can afford.
The pastor and congregation of
the First Cosmopolitan Baptist
Church are to be congratulated upon
their religious abode to better facili
tate their program of service to the
community, through accepting the
challenge of the times by sacrifice
and devotion.
We humbly salute them.
Only In America
BY HARRY GOLDEN
SPOTSWOOD VS. NIXON
BY HARRY GOLDEN
Bishop Stephen G. Spots
wood, chairman of the board
of the National Association fm
the Advancement of Colored
People, called President
Richard Nixon’s administra
tion “anti-Negro.” Some ad
ministration supporters
charged that Bishop Spotswood
indulged in inflammatory re
marks.
Administration supporters
always forget that the truth is
inflammatory. The official ad
ministration i espouse came in
a telegram addressed to
Spotswood and signed by Leon
ard Garment, through whose
offices the White House main
tains liaison with civil rights
groups. Mr. Garment said the
charge was “disheartening,”
which takes on a precision ot
meaning one does not often
associate with Republican
spokesmen.
Mr. Garment in his tele
gram took up each, one of
Bishop Spotswood’s charges
in his detailed rebuttal. Which
of these two lias the better of
tire argument I leave to the
discretion of my reader. I
think it is more important to
discover the gravamen of the
charge because Richard Nix
on is not everybody's idea of a
segregationist in the way,
say, that Barry Goldwater
was.
Mr. Nixon is not a ma
jority President, I think when
he was nominated he knew he
was not going to be a ma
jority President if he was to
win at all. Therefore, he kiss
ed the Negro vote goodbye. He
knew the majority of Negroes
were not going to vote for him
because the majority of Ne
groes do not vote at all, some
times througli apathy and
sometimes through repres
sion. More and more of them
are voting but not in such num
bers as to make a man Presi
dent,
Other Kriitors Say
DECODE FOODS
For too long the grocery
market chains have been silent
partners inelaborate schemes
by food processors to code
their perishable products so
that store managers and de
livery men will know when a
product is too old while keep
ing the customer in the dark.
Recently, to cite an ex
ample, we found cartons of
yogurt with a June 30 expira
tion date (in code) on sale
and spoiled-in July.
In Chicago, the large Jewel
food chain-wliichdoes not have,
stores here-has announced
that it will translate code us
ed by various companies so
that consumers can read them.
This welcome move, .which
will allow customers to decide
for themselves when food is
outdated, is in market contrast
to the butcher at a local chain
who, questioned about a code
date on lunch meat, told a re
porter, “if I knew I wouldn’t
tel! you.”
An aide to New York Rep
resentative Leonard Farb
stein, who has introduced leg
islation that would ban coded
dates, said that Jewel is the
first chain in the nation to
translate codes for customers.
The profit motive should not
cause local chains to sell
spoiled, unhealthful food,
aided by laboi coding
schemes.
We urge the introduction of
legislation in W isconsin which
will outlaw code schemes de
signed to keep the customer
ignorant the freshness of their
food purchases.
, _ Milwaukee area chains, if
they care about their
customers, should not wait for
new laws before decoding food
items.
THE DECISION
If the interpretative report
“It's Time For Decision on
Model Cities Program”
(Journal 14-70), is the thought
of the Milwaukee power struc
ture, the democratic process
has proved to be a lotting sys
tem at the hands of chau
vinistic racists once again.
A few weeks ago, the Model
Cities resident council mem
ber, James Davison, charged
that Journal reporter Chris
Lecos referred to him as a
“boy.” To say that organiz
ed Black men. who rightfully
demand a cl ance to administer
funds in a system they believe
in, equal “teenagers on 3rd
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this newspaper.
Mr. Nixon probably kissed
the Jewish vote goodbye which
would not make him an anti-
Semite. The Jews didn’t vote
for him in 1900 and thev didn’t
vote for him in 1968. The Jews
exercise their voting power
in the cities which Mr. Nixon
knew he would lose.
Hence the “Southern stra
tegy,” an unfortunate horse
which, should never have been
saddled.
First of all, Mr. Nixon
couldn't pay with Supreme
Court appointments. Some of
the thrust of the civil rights
movement has been blunted,
but much of the thrust which
was generated in the late 50s
and mid-60s is already in
stitutionalized in the govern
ment agencies.
If it is hard for the coun
try to dismantle the Electro
al College, whose efficiency
has long been debated, think
how hard it is to shuck the
laws passed during the Ken
nedy - Johnson administra
tions, let alone reverse Su
preme Court rulings. And the
folks know Nixon cannot pay
it off. Witness the majority
George Wallace won in the
Alabama runoff primary. They
will vote for Wallace in ’72
because he promises to give
back to the constituency the
nineteenth century.
Like all men who cannot
pay off, Mr. Nixon is em
barrassed. This is not a sub
ject discussed publicly. In pri
vate, Mr. Nixon probably
warns his debtors he must be
scrupulously fair to all of the
people.
And this is the gravamen
of Spotswood’s charge. The
Negro needs more the
scrupulously fair during the
Reconstruction, no one was
scrupulously fair during the
20s and the 30s. It is too late
in the game for the chief ex
ecutive to insist everybody is
going to start all over again.
and North watching the cars go
by” leaves us no choice but
to believe Davison. This is not
to say, however, that we con
done Davison's attack one one
imperalist, The Milwaukee
Journal, for another, Mayor
Maier.
As for the resident council,
we agree that their role has
been meaningless. But, we
also find that the negroes and
others who champion the cause
of the poor have, too, been just
as meaningless.
Had these people not been
on the task forces, the money
still would have gone to the
white developers, the Housing
Authority, Milwaukee Public
Schools, the Joseph Ellwang
ers, and negroes who want jobs
softening our young warriors
to later be putty in the man’s
hands.
Still, there were enough ne
groes on the task forces, along
with liberal whites to have
made an attempt to give the
real taxpayers their chance to
gain experience and get are
turn on their money for once.
But, no, tilings worked out just
like Mayor Maier and other
colonialists planned.
The ineffectivenss of the
resident board must be blamed
on the People’s Committee
leadership which was with
drawn when Triple O com
promised its position.
To the Commando Project
I, we have only this to say:
If you, our first militant, blew
the chance to program over
500 young warriors towards
your liberation during these
“cool” summers, we know you
learned little since calling off
the Xmas boycott in 1967. The
Commandos followed Joe
Fagan, and now look where he
is, and where you are.
The fact is, even if things
couldn’t have !>een any dif
ferent in terms of who re
ceived the funds, we believe
that some people could have
gained more experience as to
government programming if
the resident council would
have been intermingled with
technical assistants. Instead,
they were segregated in that
obsosete common council
chamber miles from where
other community people, or
anybody, could have helped.
Back to the article. The
poor communities are tired of
being labeled “fatherless”.
For informational purposes,
unemployment is up more than
15-25? in most Black com
munities. Consequently, there
are many children whose fath
ers are home, but cannot pro
vide three meals a day.
Therefore, we feel had some
of the funds gone to organiz
ing minority construction
companies, to training some to
counsel others on the dy
namics of m. c.. and to pro
moting minority carpenters,
electricians, and plumbers to
organize to get some of the
rehabilitation bids; perhaps
there would tie no need to
serve breakfast.
Finally, it isn't “our thing”
to be reactionary to the capi
talistic system because we be
live too that it’s “anti-negro”
and that “benign neglect” is
the prevailing attitude. But, it
is “our thing” to try to edu
cate, as well as Inform, when
ever an example of the demo-
Pulling the Rug from Under ‘Southern Strategy’?
»*V/A iTFDHAt
, nA/Jsjisr j
Another kind of revolution has come to
college campuses that many eventually have
a more solid impact on higher education than
anything seen so far. The combination of re
cord numbers of college graduates and an eco
nomic downturn in shattering the axiom that
a college degree is automatically a one-way
ticket to economic security in a high-paying
career.
The nation’s 625,000 college graduates of
1970 are threatened with the highest unemploy
ment rate of any group in the country. That is
about the only conclusion that can be drawn
from the job prospects of the class of 1970
as summarized in a special feature bv Mr.
James G. Drtscol! in The National Observer.
Mr. Driscoll writes, “Thousands of college
seniors across*the country ara set ambling for
jobs in a tight labor market. They are writ
ing scores, or hundreds, of letters to prospec
tive employers. They are seeking help from
family and friends, applying to private em
ployment agencies, and looking for parttime
jobs to tide them over. And many are learn
ing humility.”
Figures compiled by the College Place
ment Council, a national organization, in
dicates that job offers this year are down
16 percent from last year at the bachelor’s
degree level, 26 per cent at the mastei’s de
gree level, and 14 percent for Ph. D.s. A
reas hardest hit by declining job opportuni
ties for degree holders includes aerospace
and teaching. The aerospace industry has felt
the adverse effect of cutbacks in the space
program. Even worse than aerospace is the
economic plight of the teaching profession.
Estimates indicate that at least 100,000 of the
300,000 students graduating with teaching de
grees this year will be unable to find jobs as
teachers. Those with degrees in scientific
fields are also destined to find tough sledding,
Practical experience is still the world’s
greatest teacher. An impressive example of
this truth is furnished bv the community of
Eureka, in northern California. While theoreti
cal arguments whirl around the issue of safety
in nuclear power plants and have resulted in
the delay of needed nuclear plant construction,
Eureka has been enjoying the benefits of nu
clear generated electricity for seven years.
The citizens of the comm unitv are so proud of
the nuclear plant, which a major West Coast
utility company put into service in then area
in 1963, that they persuaded the company to
install a sign on the road try the plant declar
ing that it is a nuclear power plant.
A staff writer for the Monterey, California,
Peninsula Herald, decided to determine for
himself how the people of Eureka felt about
living as neighbors of atomic energy. The world
given to him by Eureka leaders was, “Don’t
worry about it.” Before the plant was built,
the people of Eureka were admittedly con
cerned, since it is located about five miles
from the heart of town, and an elementary
school Is only a short distance from the plant.
The Herald staff writer describes the me
chanics and the safety factors of nuclear pow
er generation. He also quoted ttie opinions and
findings of local leaders on the subject. The
president of a local school board reports,
‘‘Parents are now accepting the plant as they
•would any plant,” \ Radio-TV station owner
commented, ", . .No one has challenged tne
safety factor.” A local editor remarked,
“Several years ago, the idea of the plant
-caused a rash of letters to the editor. But
. . .The plant is pretty well accepted now by
everyone.”
Not long ago, the citizens of another West
Coast community voted a four-year mora
torium on the construction of a proposed nu
clear plant in their vicinity. They, like other
people all over the nation, could profit from
the experience of Eureka, California. As it is,
by their vote, they have raised the specter
of power shortage in their region and have
announced their intention to deny the fruits
of nuclear technological progress for at least
four years.
HARD TO BEAT
Sweden, the model socialist state, is show
ing many social and economic bruises. Ac
cording to an AP dispatch, nearly every police
man in Stockholm went on the “sick list” in
protest against working conditions. As a re
sult, gangs of youths rampaged through the
city, looting liquor stores, gas stations and
cratic process Is perverted to
“keep negroes In their place.*'
hoover'
J, Edgar Hoover, the fad
ing pederaste who has run the
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion as his own personal kind
dom since it began, has Issued
Economic Highlights
Rays Os Hope
his annual report. . .his an
nual stab at justifying his
salary to a constituency which
his grown tired of his
rhetoric-which finds militants
crawling out of the walls and
the country in peril, held to
gether only by his fearless
due to cutbacks in federal funds for research.
On the other hand, reports Mr. Driscoll,
“For some lucky-or smart-members of the
class of 1970. . .these negative trends are out
weighed by the heavy demand for their spe
cific skills.” Accountants are in great de
mand this year--probably due, in no small
part, to the increasing complexity of govern
ment--required record keeping for taxes and
other purposes. Some members of the college
class of 1970 have been embittered by the dtf
ficulty of finding jobs. Others are facing thes
difficulties philosophically. The latter will un
dertake virtually and kind of work, regardless
of pay, in order to get a start--shades of thd
1930's 1 One Ph. D. In chemistry is “kind of
disgusted” because he cannot find a job com
mensurate with his status, but still he is far
from bitter and observes, “T can't really blame
anyone. There is just an oversupplv of chem
ists and an undersupply of jobs.”
Many view the plight of this year’s graduates
as a temporary condition caused by the busi
ness slowdown. Yet, as ever greater numbers
of young Americans complete their education
with a college degree, it is only logical to ex
pect a permanent shift away from the time
honored lielief that material success and a
diploma go hand in hand. Another questionthat
remains to be answered is wtiat will happen
on campuses as the inexorable law of supply
and demand takes its toll of the cash value of a
college degree. Will young people then be in
clinded to turn their backs on higher education?
Or will they accept university disciplines for
wtiat they are--mere stepping stones on the
way to becoming educated responsible citizens.
For a long time, the practice of hanging a
dollar sign on a college degree has obscured
the real meaning of education--particuiarly at
the university level.
wrecking' amusement parks, as well as autos.
Among the undesirable working conditions
noted were low salaries and alleged overtime
burdens. The chaos was brought under control
with the aid of private guard organizations
and reinforcements from other parts of the
country. Human aspirations have away of de
manding recognition, regardless of reigning
political philosophies. A fair reward for a
fair day’s work is a hard credo to beat. It
is the backbone of capitalism and applies to
both businesses and Individuals. Even a per
fect socialist state must eventually reckon with
the profit motive in one form or another,
MISLEADING THUNDER
In line with a change in federal law, the Food
and Drug Administration, which formerly judg
ed only if a prescription drug was safe, must
now determine whether it is effective--and, if
not, order its removal from the market. As a
result of this, a curious situation had de
veloped. Stories occasionally come out in tne
press telling of FDA. “bans” on certain drugs.
Often the action is presented as a dramatic
FDA move against a recalcitrant drug firm 4
when, in reality, it is no more than long de
layed thunder from a distant bolt of lightning.
Recently, under suitably formidable head
lines, The Wall Street Journal reported that
two antibiotics sold by a couple of the major
drug firms were tentatively banned from the
marketplace. The companies were given 30
days to offer sufficient evidence for the FDA
to determine whether a public hearing on the
marketing ban should be held. Were it not for
the adverse impact on public opinion, this
story and similar ones would have a humorous
side. Spokesmen for one of the drug firms re
ports that the drug in question was discontinued
In August, 1967. The other drug concern whose
product came under FDA fire said that It
also had discontinued sale of the drug in ques
tion -a discontinuance that, began several
months before the FDA first proposed to re
move it from the market.
It appears that the FDA is compelled to go
through a laborious investigative procedure cm
thousands of drugs having nothing to do with,
safety and then to undertake costly action a
gainst the marketing of compounds that are
no longer in existence. Don Quixote and his
courageous offensive against windmills had
nothing on the FDA. About the only ones hap
py witti the current turn of investigative events
are the drug industry critics, who seize upon e-L.
very opportunity to undermlnd public confi
dence in the industry.
lawmen.
Again this year, the 22 page
report dealt with the threat J.
Edgar feels the Black Panther
Party poses to his concept of
the U. S. A. '
-The MILW AUKEE STAR.