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/ ' THt CArtOUNiAN rtALEIGH, N C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1971 .....BEHOLD THE ANGEL OF THE LORD appeared unto him m a aream saying, “Jo seph, thou son of David, fear ye not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Hop Ghost. “And she shall bring forth a son and thou Editorial Viewpoint A Christmas Message - Where Is The Spirit? The 25th of December has a high billing as Christmas Day, the date of the birth of the Su\. -r of the World. The message was given by St. Peter, who delivered it to the Word Incarnate. It is apt in all genera tions. No other message can be compared to it. “It is written, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. M Therefore, the hope of eternal life is found in the function of the Word made flesh. In this story, we find that the demands of love are ful filled in a justice that makes death the glorious doorway to eternal life, an almost uncomprehensible paradox, save for tin pi t• • wis dom and understanding. A simple revelation reads: “He who does not abide in love, abides in death. Death then is to be void of love, and to abide in love is to have eternal life ” God is the Word that is truth, and His truth is revealed in the re demptive act, which brings salvation to all who will receive it. Although the Word is God and by it we shall have eternal life, Christ mas is now displayed in baubles, glitter and perishable pleasures. People want the material things Christmas offers, but go away dis appointed because the, don’t have the money to obtain them. Yet Second Negro Appointed To Cabinet Post From the office of the governor of Florida comes the mnounce ment that Dr. Claude Anderson, a professor of social foundations at Florida A&M University at Tal lahassee, has been appointed as ed ucation coordinator and member of “the little cabinet.” Anderson is the second Negro to get a top job in the Nixon Administration. Dr. Andreson will take a leave of absence from Florida A&M Uni versity to join the governor’s staff on January first at a salary of $20,000 per annum. He has been working in the governor’s office on a part-time basis since last Septem ber, when Nixon’s first educational coordinator, William Maloy, was named executive secretary of the A group of black policemen in Mi ami, Florida, claiming they are den ied equal opportunities in the city police department because of ra cial discrimination, filed a Sl-mil lion damage suit, plus back pay. The suit charged in federal court that the department refused to pro mote and recruit black officers on the same basis as whites and paid Negroes less for the same job per formed by whites. On behalf of 70 black policemen, the group of nine policemen filed the suit -and named as defendants: the mayor, city manager, police Bigotry: A Blind Man May Have fit© Answer Last month, :he news media published a story that a Lions Club refused membership to a blind Negro in these United States. This reminded a citizen of a con versation he heard one day while riding a bus. As the story goes, a young Negro man and a white girl boarded a bus and ? 'own together. The bus driver rted mumbling the usual “bigot. ,ms.’ Sitting on another seat was a blin white man. After a few- minutes of listening, the blind man said very quietly: “I wonder how much bi gotry there would be in the world if everyone were blind?” 10,000 MORE CAROLINIAN SUBSCRIBERS WANTED NOW! Bible Thought For The eek Black Policemen Sue shalt call him Jesus.- for He shall save His people from their sins.... “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’ St. Matt. 1:20, 21, 23-25. no one who desires the love of Christ will be turned away. We are afraid that the love of money has cuased men and women to lose sight of and the direction to the Star of Bethlehem. We have an abundance of pseudo love, but a poverty of the real - the love of God and the love of man for man becuase of the love of God. War, hatred, malice, strife, sen suous pleasures, suicides, drug ad diction, and so forth, seem to be in abundance. Christmas should be a time to wipe away the things of the world, to realize their transpar ency, to look once more to the Star that shone over the Manager where the Christ Child lay. The angelic choir is still sing ing, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace toward men of goodwill.” The call is loud and clear and the way is marked and plain. Our scientists have chartered courses to outer planets, construc ted machines to reach them in per son or with instruments. Although in its primary stage, the space pro gram in the United States will ad vance and bear fruit only in pro portion to the way in which we put the Star of Bethlehem first. “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in varin that build it: Except the Lord keep the city the watchmen waketh, but in vain,” Psalm 12.7:1. gO’ irnor’s Citizen’s Council on Ed u on. . rofessor Anderson comes well prepared for this educational post. He moved o Florida in 1970 from Detroit where he was counselor at Wane County Community College. He holds the bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate from Wayne State University and taught in the Detroit public schools for nine years. The fail internship has given Pro fessor Anderson the experience he needs to move into the office of educational coordinator, state of Florida, We wish for Mr. Anderson a suc cessful future, and we have the confidence that he will move into the limelight of achievement. chief, and city medical director. “We feel it is important to ad dress ourselves to the problems of discrimination and intimida tion,” said Lt. Leroy Jones, one of the plaintiffs. “This has existed for the last 27 years. We need to take some action to have a better com munity.” it will take many more years before discrimination against black policemen is eliminated. The de cision in this case may well set a precedent for black policemen in all of the fifty states. If people couldn’t see the color of a man’s skin; the only criteria we would go by would be what kind of a nan he was; what he ac complished, and what he could con tribute b the world. We wouldn’t have r hoice, would we? Bb s ju might do a lot of g ther ways. For instance, the an or woman may well be . to handsome and beau tify , Many men would stay at . and fellowship with their families, since- they could not see beautiful and seductive females. Much human lust would fade away, because the visual stimulant would be removed. On if in America MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS STORY by harry golden While the Lower East Side of New York, like Madison Street in Chicago, was a thor oughly Jewish community, by and large it understood the spirit of Christmas Mv mo ther. a very pious Orthodox woman, gave me a wrapped up package and said, “Give this to your teacher for her holiday.” One of my favorite Christ mas stories is about Myra Kelly who was a public school teacher in this immigrant community during the great wave of immigration from Eastern Europe 1399-1912). Although her students were children of Orthodox Jews, they participated in the spirit of Christmas by bringing their Christian school teacher pres ents; cups and saucers were standard, with soap a close second Other gifts piled up on the teacher’s desk includ ing a dozen buttons, “Save Dreyfus,” and a few khaki belts, ‘‘Remember the Maine,” And now the last boy was approaching her desk and in his hand was neither cup nor saucer nor cake of soap. In halting English he told Miss Kelly that he had asked his mother for five cents for ”a Christmas present for teach- A MM POINT OF VIEW BY BILL” MOSES “SEGUIN, TEXAS REVISITED” It is the Christinas Season, and I have just had the un usual experience of revisiting Seguin, Texas, where I spent three wonderful years as a boy of 13, 14, and 15, for the first time after 56 years. The world and the nation (also Seguin) have changed tremendously since t. he n. When we arrived at Seguin in 1913, a mule-powered trol ly on steel tracts was the con veyance which took passen gers from the isolated railroad stop (the Southern Pacific R. R,—two stops a day) several miles from the town, which was so small that a two block walk in any direction practi cally put you out of town. My father had just left the pastorate of a substantial black Baptist chreh in Knox ville, Tenn, to accept the pres idency of a small school in Seguin, supported by the or ganized black Baptists of Teas, called Gpadalupe Col lege. The college was located on the outer-outer outskirts of Seguin <and I discovered a day or two ago that its dilapi dated remains are still on the outskirts of Seguin). It com prized then some farm build ings and two new brick build ing (the contributions of a Texas philanthropist, Colonel Breekenridge) one was a boys’ dormitory, including a gasoline powered power plant. And the other housed the girl students, the president and his wife and daughters, the fe male teachers, the classrooms, the kitchen and the dining '.facilities as well as the ad ministrative of'ice of the col lege. Everything was so bright and shiney and new that it was a disappointment to me and my two brothers, for we had anticipated that this Tex as sojourn would put us in the midst of ‘Cowboy and wild Indian’ country. However, we were relieved when we discovered that the college land included a beau tifully wooded forest along the Guadalupe River, with its cataracts, waterfalls and wide silent stetches. It was herc that my brothers and I dis covered the mysteries of the woods and the river as early What Other Editors Say... KEEP ON TALKING The pitch made in Dallas last week by Nebraska State Sen. Ernest W, Chambers surely did not sit well with a lot of. whites, and blacks, in Dallas. Nor for that matter does it sit well with many segments of the nation. However, The Dallas Express finds it hard to argue with some of the points made by the 34- year-old Chambers. We feel most Dallas resi dents, if they face hard reali ty. will find his premises hard to counter. First, there-is the fact that he told some hard truths that are hard to swallow. Some times truth is like that. TREE CAROLINIAN "Covering The Carolinas” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company SIS 55. Martin Street Raleigh. N. C. 21601 Mailing Address P. O. Box 25747 Raleigh, N. C. 27« U Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh, N. €. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months „ „ POO Sales Tax 12 TOTAL 4.12 One Year S.SO Sales Tax ... .20 TOTAL 6.70 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make ail checks Mid money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 510 Madison Avenue, New York, N. V. 10013, National Advertising Representative. Member at the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsi ble for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postace accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by col umnists in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. er" and his mother began to cry, he said, and kissed him saying, “Maybe tomorrow,” but she never gave him the five cents and he was terribly worried until last night when his father came home and gave his mother a present. “My mother was so happy that she cried, and said to my father, ‘Thank you,’ and my father said, ‘You are welcome . . . ’ ” And so I asked my mother could I take this pres ent to my teacher, and with that, the young immigrant handed Miss Kelly a rumpled piece of paper, and quickly ran back to his seat. Late that night, Miss Kelly sat In her room, a greatly pampered person, and review ed her treasures. She saw that they were all touching, very numerous, and very precious. But above all the rest she treasurer a frayed piece of paper, crumpled and soiled, because It held the love of a man for a woman and a little child and the magic of a home, for the little boy’s “Christmas present for the teacher" was a receipt for a month’s rent for a room cn the top floor of a crowded tenement. teenagers. After two or three years of such bliss, my moth er discovered that her sons were being woefully uneducat ed; and after much pleading on my mother’s part, my fa ther gave in, and we began the long treck north to Phila delphia. Pa., where he resum ed his ministerial functions as pastor of the Zion Baptist Church there. Seguin. Texas has changed much since then. It is now a typical small American town of some 16,000 inhabitants, with a Chamber of Commerce and all the other accoutre ments. The only thing I really recognized as belonging to the past was the boy’s dormitory (now' in a state of ruin) on the old college site. The river, too, had changed (once I found my way to it). After some discrete inquires, we had found our w'ay to the Guada lupe College, marked by a rundown clapboard roadside sign, which seemed to date back to my former days there. After looking at the remains of the old dormitory, there was nothing else around which struck a memory chord, and we inquired where was the road which led down to the river. There was no long er a direct access to the river, but if ww went back to the highway and turned left be fore we reached the bridge, w'e could circle the course of the liver and return to the highway < Incidentally, the college land had now become a sort of second or third class beef cattle ranch, under black auspices. We did the tour a iong the banks of the Guada lupe River, which was now fenced off by a couple of hun dred yards from the college holdings to the waterfront. There was Seguin’s ‘Suburbia’ —neat summer houses and others more pretentious, rang ed the banks of the river on both sides. There were faint memories of the river itself, because the course of the riv er hadn’t changed. I could go on writing like this for a couple of hours or more, but it is the Christmas Season, and here I stop. So, A Merry Christmas To Every one! What Chambers had to say is important in that he is black, the highest ranking black man in government. We do believe Chambers got off on the wrong foot when he stood before a group of dignitaries at the National As sociation for Mental Health’s annual meeting in sweatshirt and Jeans and excused his in formal dress by saying he want ed to talk “man to man.” Since when, Mr. Chambers, does one’s dress or color or weight or any other external factor determine manliness? Or intelligence? or honesty? Or courage? Aside from that difference, which borders on the trivlla, we go along with what Chambers had to say and, we’re happy to report, we believe the whites and blacks in Dallas are well into v/hat Chambers says the two races should be doing. Talking. Chambers warned that the time for doing something be sides talking may be drawing near if something isn’t accom plished via the verbal route. In other words, the days of violence -- subdued in recent years -- may well come ‘round again if some of the conver sation between blacks and whites does not result in head way for the black poor of this country. We believe he’s right, whether we endorse the vio lence or not. We believe, In fact, that the white community is just as fed up with its own bureaucracy that spends billions of dollars sorry Picture Os Racism CONFRONTATION even IN THE U.S.ARMY r ’ ''COMPLAINTS RAMuE FROM \ DISCRIMINATION !N DUTY' OR f < -Jill ON EMOTION AND THE USE OF j ■ /• jtKmfr- • - ,SUCH WORDS AS v NIGGER''ANP jif% jjSß| 'BUCK BOY"TO ANTI-NEGRO * (CRAWLS OR THC LCSIIE. wiu.~ | .F’ iJmSwlnai A/*L-4Z - "HATED H THEM $ Mwh T DEER j/SmLM ABIDING, GOD-UhE HATRED." ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS In a special report, entitled “Services grow while the quality shrinks,” Business Week magazine shows how the country is passing through an economic revolution that will likely be as far-reaching as the industrial revolution of a century or more ago. The Business Week report, says that, “....some time within the last few years - economists cannot agree on just when - the American economy entered a new era. As a mark of the country's rising affluence, the U. S. economy moved beyond its ‘industrial’ base and became the world’s first fledged ‘serv ice economy’ at least, to the extent that more than half the private, nongovernmental work force was engaged in supplying services.’ Service companies of today are all those companies that sell products of an intangible nature. They are products that are produced and consumed simultaneously. These new type service companies are engaged in ever; conceivable activity. plan conventions, sales meetings, provide data -processing, tern - porary secretaries, babysitters and a host of other conveniences and necessities. As the pehnomenon of the service economy has expanded, growth has outstripped efficiency. As Business Week comments, “Thedeteriora tion in quality of service stems largely from too much growth too soon, with too little application of sound management. Nov. that may change.” The service industries are beginning to undergo the same transformation that took place In manufacturing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They are “mechanizing” and standardizing their “p rodct i on.’ Service companies are working toward the same economies of scale - labor-saving machines and assembly lines - that increased the pro ductivity of manufacturing long ago. Medi cine, retailing, banking, transportation, beau YOUR WELL-BEING The Surface Transportation Act of 1971 as proposed, most authorities agree, can open the way for revival of an industry that has been driven to the brink of chaos by inflation, too much regulation, discriminatory taxation and other problems that are beyond the control of business-managed, taxpaying, private enter prise. Regulated water carriers, truck lines and railroads have joined hi unanimously support ing remedial action as embodied in the Sur face. Tran sport at ion Act of 1971, An indica tion of the overriding concern for the public interest that has led to the united action of competing carriers can be seen in the sum mary presented to news correspondents at a press briefing relative to the proposed legis lation, It states: “The most productive farm-- or mine--or factory--would be spinning its wheels without adequate transportation to move materials and goods to the places where they're needed. And without efficient transportation-- a total system capable of doing all parts of the total job at the lowest possible cost--the price of everything we use, wear or eat would be affected. About 20 cents of every dol lar spent in this country goesfor transportation. And, if we’re talking about freight transportation, it’s 10 cents of every dollar.” W'hen you read in the news about this pro posed law dealing ostensibly with transportation, it is well to remember that it is not the welfare of a railroad, a trucking line or a water carrier that is necessarily at issue. It is your standard of living and your well being--both of which are dependent upon trans portation. annually in fighting poverty and ends up with little more than a lot of whites and uncle Tom blacks drawing fat government salaries which too often are spent in the white community, rot with black businesses. What has been, or better still, what has not been ac complished In Dallas is indi cative that money alone does not right, wrong or improve the plight of the poor. Despite the dozens of a gencies, community centers and programs, many Dallas blacks still are underfed, underedu cated and underfoot. Resolutions have been pas sed, boards have been esta blished and centers have been created. Yet the problems remain. Leaders in the black com munity too often have used the federal programs for self-bet ferment only while others, like outspoken Al Lipscomb, be RAYSOFIIOPE cause he refused to cater to the usual futility of some feder al programs, gets labeled a militant when he tells it like it is and refushes the cushion ed existence available to him. But Lipscomb and his ~Llps combltes” are still trying. Sometimes maybe they try too hard Shouting matches on local television, profanity tossing ai local board meetings and hate * ¥ n- Hospital care for veterans who have regular need of an artificial kidney* - is avail aole at 40 of the Veterans Ad ministration's 165 hospitals, the agency announced recently. * * Veterans unable to visit Vet erans Administration Head quarters in Washington to pre sent claims for GI Bill bene fits may do so before travel boards -which visit their stats Va regional offices. ty shops, advertising, building mainteanene, equipment leasing and rental, lodging, etc. are part of the service revolution. One particularly interesting development is that the evolution of the service economy may stabilize business cycles to a great er degree than any conscious planning by government could ever achieve. An official of one of the nation’s largest banks believes that a service economy is less vulnerable to business ups and downs. Business Week cites figures that seem to substantiate his belief. During the past two years, service enter prises registered a far slower decline than did other segments of the economy including manufacturing. Obviously, the service economy in no sense represents an entirely new economic sys tem. It merel’ supplements and, hopefully in the long run, will make more efficient the functioning of today’s industrial economy. Auto manufacturers, for example, employ more and more people in an external service capacity. These services include data-pro cessing, personnel work, quality control, en gineering, customer relations and other “white collar” chores. According to Business Week by 1970, hi the motor vehicle and equip ment industry - which includes cars, trucks, buses, and agricultural implements - auto mation had trimmed production employment to 613,000, while nonprodttetion jobs rose to 196,800 or 24 percent of the total. The service econom - . revolution has once again demonstrated the utter futility of at tempting to regulate u capitalistic society on the basis of theories formulated upon Its past behavior. Whatever capitalism was yes terday arid whatever it is today are most assuredly no criteria of what it will be tomorrow. Reflecting the desires and wishes of a few people, it is an ever-changing system. UNTHINK ABL E PR OS PE CT A year or so ago, Congress passed a law launching, with the cooperation of shipping lines, a comprehensive program of merchant ship construction designed to give this country a fleet of new technology merchant vessels capable of competing with all comers in inter national commerce. The problem now is whether the new merchant fleet will have access to the trade for which it Is being built. Addressing himself to this problem before a congressional committee, Mr, James J. Rey nolds, president of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping, has strongly urged that legislative and administrative action be taken to insure that U. S.-flag cargoliners carry 50 percent of total United States liner trade and 1 00 percent of all government cargoes when U. S, - flag ships are available at fair and reasonable rates. He referred to measftres to assure cargoes for U. S. -flag vessels as a second phase of the work begun two years ago to develop a new national maritime policy. A competitive and revitalized U. S.-flag mer chant fleet will not become a reality unless it has an opportunity to compete for a fair share of America’s growing commerce. Re added that rates are not a basic problem and that U, S. cargoliners today provide ef ficient service to over 400 major world ports. The problem, as Mr. Reynolds expressed lt, is “overt and covert discriminations” by other nations. Equal access to world trade and commerce is now a cardinal feature of U. S. foreign policy. Thus, as Mr. Reynolds asserts, to let discrimination in favor of foreign flag ships “destroy prospects for revitalization of the U. S, flag fleet is unthinkable.” messages in local newspapers mav border on that. But even that is far bettej' than what Chambers predicts may Ixs the next step. So shout, on, Lipscombites. It is when we no longer hear your voices that we’li know the verbal battle has beep lost and the inevitable war of vio lence is to follow. -me Dallas express ¥ *l* ¥ Veterans Administration co sponsorship of GI Bill on the job training with private, state r and Federal and municipal em- r ployers recently resulted in 8,000 new programs and 12,000 new job slots. "'*‘¥ if * *- Pensioners 72 years old and older on Veterans Adminis tration rolls during two conse cutive years no longer have to file annual income question baires, Out still 'must report changes in income.
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