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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIOH. N. C„ SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1671 Bible Thought Os The Week “Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain," Jesus said, which moans that if you do more than Is required of you, do twice as much. This is a startling piece of North Carolina has taken a giant step in recognizing ableness in in dividuals, irrespective of race, by the many Negroes who have l>een placed on Boards and Councils in the May election. While there is still much to be done in furthering the great reser voir of talent and advanced train ing possessed by Black educators, technicians and professionals as well as mmy other categories, Tuesday’s elections mirrored a new awakening. There are those who dis’oelieve that more than one Negro can or should be on a coun cil. This disbelief was shattered through the election of two Blacks to the Greensboro governing body. Here in Raleigh, we misseda great chance of having two councilman by a ai' i e 30T votes. During the days of segregation, ' rora one to five black colleges were establishes Southern states for each respective state. These exist ed, in addition to the so-called white institutions of higher learning. Although the facts show that over 50 percent all black college gradu ates have finished from black col leges, or predominantly black, these non-white institutions have traditionally received only two thirds or less of the state appropr iations as their white counterparts. The predominantly black institu tions nr de miracles happen on the “widow’s mite” appropriations. This condition raises the ques tion: How could one expect the non white institution to provide a high quality education when the appro priations were so little? Well, the powers-that-be no doubt said, “We won’t give these institutions enough funds so that they are bound to fail.” In spite of this attitude, these colleges haven’t failed. They have accomplished a miracle on so little m oney. In the state of Florida, for exam ple, two state legislators have in troduced a bill to merge Florida A and M University (FAMU) with Florida State University (FSU), predominantly white. These politi cians have attempted to strike a killing blow at FAMU under the guise of economic austerity. It is argued that a merger is necessary because of a general cutback in state funds. The truth of the matter is that such moves are prompted by fac tors other than economic budget or necessity. For instance, if the state is so low on funds, then why is the state of Florida starting two new universities one at Mi am:, and one at Jacksonville? Why did the legislature cut $5.1 million from FAMU and the other established state universities; and at the same time approved an in crease of $5.6 million to the two new universities? It seems that the politics are getting their econom ics mixed up. Besides the need for saving money, the two legislators argued that why keep FAMU, since the only reason for maintaining the predominantly 87-year-old FAMU is to make it a “repository for black culture”? Are not the other state institutions repositories for white culture? Matter of fact, FA Mil’s desire to survive has nothing to do with either integration or separation. And the elimination of the predomi nantly black university would further deprive blacks of pride in herent in developing their own in stitutions, which in turn, would service their people’s particular needs. Apparently, this service is not being provided by the other Editorial Viewpoint State Takes A Giant Step Political “Doubletalk ” business Advice. Where will a man get, you ask, If he delivers twice as much as he is paid to deliver? T.ie answer is that unless he Is a foal, he will probablj get to and stay at the tor. While Edward Carson, a few months ago, was practically a po litical unknown, in both civic and political circles, his great thrust as president of the Raleigh Citi zens Association placed him quick ly in the public limelight. Believing there was need for another Negro on the council, Mr. Carson offered his services and barely missed being elected, although many gave him little or no chance to even make a credible showing. This is indeed healthy here in Raleigh as you don’t apparently have to be white or new in the game to become a factor in its political life. This should be illum inating to many other faithful as pirants, who are equipped and de sirous of serving Raleigh in the immediate future. state predominantly white institu tions of higher learning. Blacks continue to gravitate to FAMJ. Presently, FAM'J has four times as many black students as there are enrolled in more than seven predominantly white state univer sities and six private colleges. How can Florida State legislators justify appropriating only three percent of state allocations to FAM J which serves more than six percent of the state’s student en rollment? Why is it that teachers at FAMU earn lower salaries that those at the predominantly white institutions on the average of $1,600 per teacher? This state of affairs is not only true in Florida, but a similar con dition exists in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and so on. The predominantly black colleges in all of the southern states do not pay salaries equal to those paid at predominantly white institutions. The salary differential, for example, is a carry over from the post-Civil War days when it was said that blacks live cheaper than whites. But no bigger lie has ever been told. Show me a black man who can buy a pair of shoes cheap er than a white man. The South, in particular, has not given the black man an equal share of the economy. The black man cannot live cheaper than whites, but he is forced by circumstances to do so. But the level of existence is a ghetto. For those white politicians who get the idea that they can save their state money by eliminating the pre dominantly black colleges, let tnem try saving money elsewhere. It is common knowledge that for any ethnic group to be self-realizing, if mast have its own institutions io transmit its values. No predomi nantly white institution can do this, and they know it! The Florida senators further pro pose that the enrollment of Florida A&M University be limited to 5,000 students. This attitude is absolute ly ridiculous. We can't keep down state expenses by putting a lock and key on the growth ot institutions or a state. In addition to this, some F lorida politicians have suggested that tourism in Florida be limited. There cannot be any method in, such madness. We have used Florida as an ex ample, but we must keep our eyes and ears open for similar madness in the other states where there are predominantly black colleges and universities. If we do a little re search we will be amazed at what we find. Politicians are yelling about saving the money of the taxpayers, and often they are the ones wno waste a large amount of it. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN NEW YORK - THE JEWISH CITY Why would a laree majority of sopnistacated Americans call New York a Jewish City yet still call Boston, fur ex ample, The Hub instead of an Irish City? Proportionately, there are probably as many Irishmen in Boston as there are Jews in New York. Neither constitute a rnaioritv of the population but both have invested the city with certain characteristics. In fact, in Boston, the Irish have had far more political success than the Jews in New York. The Irish have elected mayors, governors and a U nited States President, none of which have the Jews ac complished in New Y'ork, Go ing further, the Irish have done hotter politically in New York than the Jews although they are fewer in number. Still, we say New York is a Jewish City and it isn’t tie cause you don’t have to tie Jewish to like Levy’s rye bread. The Irish came by steerage to Boston because it was $9 cheaper than steer age to New Y’ork. Between 1880 and 1924, over two mil lion Jews came to New Y'ork because that was the nearest immigration center from Bre men. Some of the Jews moved on to Philadelphia or to Chicago, even to Atlanta, but 90 per cent remained in New Y'ork bee jse they had no money to venture further west. They funnelled into one area of the city, the Lower East Side, filling the six-story tene ments with children, parents, uncles, aunts, and boarders. The Jews, alone of the im migrant groups, did to New Y’ork what the Irish never did to Boston; the Jews trans formed the city. The invention of ready made clothes was a Jewish innovation. About the time of the mass Jewish immigration, manufacturers realized that clothing was a seasonal prod uct and maintaining a factory year-round ate up profits. So the manufacturers moved the factories into the homes, a system infamousL descrilied as the “Sweatshop system,’’ the most ingenious process ever devised for o verexertion. The willing workers were these immigrant Jews, who, A DARK POINT OF VIEW BY “BILL” MOSES ‘'THE BELL-MAN” The black ‘bell-man’, like the black postman, has fulfilled his niche in American life. . . I am writing about the hotel bell boy of many years ago—speci fically the black bell-boy. I •was one once. It happened many years ago, around 1925 in Miami, Florida at the Royal Palms Hotel. I was trying to make a season at Southern winter resort, in order to make enough money to get back into the swing of archi tecture, which intrigued me as a student at the time. It was a dull Sunday afternoon at the famous resort hotel. The younger hotel guests were busy with the yachts, swimming pools, and other physical activ ities. The older guests were sitting around the hotel lobby listening to a string quartette playing classical music. The men and women, invariably old, seated in the soft lounge chairs, were listening with various de grees of attention. The rneii were, for the most part, nodding sleepily. The women seemed to be listening; but I’m not sure because they were so busy inspecting each other. The musical concert would last about an hour in the late Sunda> afternoon. The bell-man who happened to occupy the ‘front’ spot when the concert began was generally stuck with it for the whole time. In those days th< ‘front" bell-man stood on a spot until the desk clerk’s bell rang summoning him to some specific errand. No bell man wanted this spot on a dull Sunday afternoon, for fear of being stuck with it for the whole hour or more. However, you didn’t loose your spot for carrying out some simple courtesy within the lobby, un less the ‘front’ bell called you. THE CAROLINIAN “Covering Thy Carolina;’’ Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 518 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address P. O. Box 25747 Raleigh, N. C. 27611 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh. N, C. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Six Months „ „ S* 00 Sales Tax .12 TOTAL 4.12 One Tear 6.59 Sales Tax 2© TOTAL 6.70 Payable in advance. Address aU communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 316 Madison Avenue, New York, N. T, 19017, National advertising Representative. Member ot the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsi ble for the return of unsolicited new*, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by col umnists in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. unfamiliar with the language, tha mores, anti dr qitutn , had little other choice. By 1890, the artnent indus try which had once been pop ulated by the Fnelish, the Ger mans, and some Irish, was now almost wholly populated by Jewish workers turning out shirts, suits, pants and outs in their tenements ;i »d s:.. 11 lofts. Again, these imr igrant Jews from Russia and Poland were Orthodox'Jews, observing all the religious prer-riptions no matter how ai and all the dietary laws no matter how inc m. ■ :;i --ent. Because they would tat only kosher meat, New York remained an important slaughtering center . g after other American cities were content to buy beef from Chi cago. The Jew by diverse and im aginative ways set up. a city within a city, not a , r hotto really, but a set of attitudes and a set of practices cl eventual!’ influenced the whole. For instance, more than half of tin public school teachers in New York are Jews and somethin; like B<> per cent of the social workers. Another reason why New York is the Jewish city is l - cause of the reverse immi gration. The ambiti< i; men of the Midwest and the South and the Northwest always came o New Y'ork Citj to make their mark in the arts or in law or in business. New Y'ork was the place where many Americans lor the first time met Jews in any siz able numbers. The Jewish peddler who ventured as far as Cincinnati in 1833 has descrilted in a diary, preserved in the Amer ican Jewish Archives in that city, how he bent his head for the inspection of a Methodist minister's wife, she wanted to feel his horns. Not findim any, she told him in disap pointment he was no different from others. No doubt middle America was better informed about hi. - logical properties a; the turn of the century but they still did not know abaui bagels .. ■! lox and potato pancakes a:, i that the wife of an Orthodox Jew shaves her head on her marriage da\ lest her beaut ever distract her husband from his religious study. This Sunday I was stand ini .>n the spot, while the ether K-ll man relaxed on the bench hop ing the bell wouldn't ring. A portly old man sat, half dozing, with his smiling wife beside him, just a few feet f; on where I stood'. The soft strains of the music were too much; the old man’s hand relaxed and his ci gar dropped to the floor. 1 im mediately picked it upandhai ed it back to him. He and his wife both smiled in ark hik ing the courtesy and he handed me a bill. It was a $5 note This happened not just once but 4 times during; the concert, and each time the revai was the same. I looked towards tin bell boy’s bench, enjoying the . nvy in their eyes, while the audienci of music lovers ignored tim music in then amusement m the scene unfolding before them. Just before the concert ended the ‘front’ boll rang and 1 was dispatched to carry a pitcher of ice water to a i mote area of the hotel. So, •'.■ afternoon was over, and 1 was 20 dollars richer. It imv.a-hap pened again. A pointless story- ;• u --.i . And I agree, except fur oik small point: In those days Had people had a monopoly on per sonal service jobs, which rave to many of us black folk the means to secure education and training for th< law, r;t dicin’ , and other professions. Now-a days Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and po’ white boy s have mostly replaced us in these jobs; and. ; a sportly black man and his smiling wife just mi rht R- the occupants of the soft, inviting lounge chairs in the hotel lob! y. In my book this is good -- but I just don’t exactly know why. What Others Editors Say.... SUPREME COURT OVER RULES NIXON Like the •uiian’im is deci sion of the famous 1954 senool ruling, the Supreme Court once agyain has decreed that state imposed segrega tion in public schools must go. Technically, the unani mous decision on April 20 of the Warren Burger court served notice not ortly to seg regationists but to the Presi dent that jud.cially we are not to retreat one inch from the historic school decision of 1954 even though seven of the original justices of that court are no longer on the bench. The real significance is that this decision exolodes the President’s notion that “the Your Generous Help Was Greatly Appreciated. PRESIDENT NIXON IN HIS ATTACK ON WELFARE STATED, "I ADVOCATE A I SYSTEM WHICH WILL j \±/t? "1 ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO / t TANE WORN, AND THAT £}fr j MEANS WHATEVER WORK I [ ,A^Nu is available:' L j I/ m/ -orv£?(C\llNEMPLOyW'\ Ti ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS When tlre U. S. Constitution was drawn up, protectin' the right of free speech was a com paratively simple proposition. The sophisti cated mass communications media of today "ft not present. Free speech consisted of '■ ■ stump and town meetings, and behind these, of com s , stood the free press. Most people in dee l cited States take freedom of speech and freedom of the press as an established un ohan mg fact of life. But, the truth is, these basic freedoms are always in jeopardy and “eternal vigilance’’ is required if we art to keep them. Currently, the question of freedom of speech is very much in the limelight with respect to 11:<■ exercise of this fundamental right on 'I \ and radio. Mr. Buckley, as a columnist, critic, author and editor of National Review, has a television program, entitled “Firing Line’’, Because he has expressed a desire to withdraw from the union, the union is threatening to remove his program from the air. This is the issue that M r . Buckley is taking to court. As he express es it,‘‘The requirement that an individual pay due s to a private organization in order to work is a modern writ of indenture; the require ment that he do the same in order to express an opinion over the public airways involves an net of coercion by a private organization operating under government sanction.” Mr. Buckley’s action has received w'ide sup port in the press. The Tyler, Tejcas, Telegraph comments, “ii ever there were a free speech case which deserved the support of those con cern.xl with preserving civil liberties, Buck h V case is it.’’ Columnist James J. Kilpatrick de\otwi a column to Mr. Buckley’s action and T.YKx IT TO THE PEOPLE • tilths ago, a major Pacific Coast util ity con.; any* announced that it had taken an op ti'-: Oi. a site foi a nuclear power plant in Santa > i t •■■u.nv, California, although actual con st'- uci !• -!■ of a power plant at the site remains blit • 1 • ". *! ility pending further studies, the '• : i i ••• i;. i:n • ‘diatel y subjected to extremist >PI-< •••ii oi all kinds—similar totheopposition ih.it las obstructed expansion of power general i. facilities in other areas. Kii • Him the vast majority of people ari i uceptive to a fair presentation of facts and it took if ( use to the residents of the area in a Rirairht ' i ward presentation on television. Throu ! the local press, prior to the TV pro am. it solicited questions from the public con ’ i: ' the possible new power plant. It then < '•’< ; n the top experts of the company, !" ,fi < Rust qualified to deal with questions of envii onii.ental quality and nuclear generation. One authority explained just how a nuclear plant ■••rks, .md hi th*• atom will play an increasing role in -c-ting the energy needs of the nation, '■ pointed out that it is the obligation of • utility company to build power plants that *!e v ain and need. These power plants will 1 ' ■ •’ ' thousands of new families, new > ; ■ subdivisions, new schools, new in niyti ios io provide jobs for more people. The neighborhood school wT.I bo loomed tin most appropriate u.isu for desegregation plans and ‘transportation’ of pupils beyond normal geographic school zones for the purpose of a chit ring racial balance will not b‘ ■ required.” ‘•' •Ml things being equal with no history of discrimination it might > ell 1«> desirable to assign pupils to schools nearest their homes . . . but. all things are not equa’ in a system ttiat has been delib erate!'' constructed and mail: nine 1 through a forced racial segregation.” Moreover the court’s spe cific suggestions were di rected to school boards but it stands ready in the event that these boards do not act to order Fedaral Courts (which already have broad powers) to use its full force in effect ing real desegregation. ' Os course the voices of op position are wailing loud arid lon. bu! like all other civil rights legislation, this oppo sition too, shall pass and busing will become away of academic life, where and when necessary to effect true desegregut ton. RAYSOFHOPE concluded with tl comn . nt, “I, too, amanun ember of AFTRA. In yvn TV Commitments, I too am coi. polled to pay dues and to submit to t! l resent it to the Ii Brother Bill will m °vi ovei ral rules permit, perhaps let a co-plant iff come in.” The union on the otlu r hand, takes the po sition that it eve; lias promulgated or en forced any rxR in a.: way interfering with any member’s :. ■• ; speech. Many years ago, movie pro-Deer Cecil B. deMille, who became a popular radio personality, carried on a long legal Rattle nd lost when he refused to com: lion’s political action fund. He left radii th 1 gal fight failed. Mr. Buckley has again taken up the cudgel in behalf of what ho ol \iously lielieves is a fight to preserve the principle of free speech as it is no doubt complicated bey ond the compre hi sion of Ri averagi layman. Whether the commonly accepted understanding of free speech ca I to the mass communica tions media is something that only the courts can decide. i sei vice that Mr. Buck ley will render to th nation will lx? to call to the attention of the public the fact that freedom ie\ er be taken for granted and that in reality it is notan unquali fied i ight in some areas of communication. If his protest is upheld by the courts, it would Re an mpr cedented milestone decision x'ith a far-reaching impact on Iwth the com munications industry and labor union organizing practices. alternativ is ;o r rati aiing, which would be unacceptabh t most people. Mm uti; r slions ' ere dealt with by the comp;!:..’ ; or: - cludim how this particular I'’-ltd d’ i • mu dud against earthquakes, on Ik./ ■ m , bui!. conducted with refer tear plant on fish lift-. in ■ . the California com pu’ . has • it- mi.-, in the forum of public opinion. It ■ • i: Rave set a pattern for telling the m ol nuclear power that will prove usefu! •- n*. similar problems of extre mist opposu i i mdi. r energy arise, ♦Pacific Gas and : .metric Companv C( OU T C. T’NC Y< 'iT- INCOME When the throe-day workweek arrives, there is a good eh.me that lithe rate taxes are rising those thro* days .-.ill be spent working for government. 'I! demand..-, for education, social servie r and capital outlays have brought many states to a financial crisis, and most of them a r un : r tor help to di" federal government ' hitli is itself vttine new spending records. The vicious circle ends at the door of the tax payer who has buoj reading those wonderful stories about iw, as i :.achines become more ef ficient, ae will enjoy greater leisure. None of the • ri a explained how to enjoy loistue aber taxation has reached a level that allows a pet son to exist, but not to live. NI-.KDI I .SSI .Y V, \:-"! ING RESOURCES Hardly a <!; ■. pusses but that political crusades are mounted 1 took op vast new areas of com mercia! lores* lat ds in the U. S. in untouchable parks and preserves. The folly of this course has been ri ah-: repeatedly, but nowhere more forcibly than in the words of Ur. Frank H. Kaufert, a n • : xber of the Department of Forestry arid Wildlife at the University of Minnesota. Ur. Kaufert points out, “...it is disturbing and even maddeniiu risen...well-meaning groups and individuals rant and rave against the harvest, and utilization of.. .renewable-resources, parti cularly of forest ....Many of their recommenda tions and pressure activities are in direct con flict with good overall conservation of all resources...The 1 fail to recognize that trees and forests reproduce, grow, mature, and are har vested, if not by man then by natural forces; fire, wind, insects, and diseases. If we do not use these ever-growing materials for man’s ne cessary and insatiable needs, they are wasted in mature’s process; s for r enewal. In their place we must use ever increasing quantities of those exhaustible resources of minerals and fossil fuels.” Progressive companies m the timber industry have learned t. farm the forests to achieve maximum produedn. of wood products and, at the same time, to preserve forests for recrea tion and wildlife purposes. They have sought to educate the public to that modern concept of con servation, multiple-use—a concept that recog nizes the requirements of a growing population and the fact that more and more people must be sustained off the output of a fixed land area. Failure to harvest forests intelligently is one of the worst’forms of waste.