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The Augusta News-Review - September 30, 1976 • Walking With Dignity By AL IRBY Somethings Are Better If Left Undone The U.S. Congress made a tactical mistake when it increased the minimum wage. All the industrial companies were already paying far beyond the increase. The only persons that in the long-run would suffer were the young people and the unskilled Blacks. Some businesses, that regularly hired young people in the summer, were priced out because many small merchants were unable to pay the increased wage. Therefore they cut back their production. Thousands of unskilled Blacks, that did job or day’s work, were affected immensely. If the small merchants were forced to hire and pay the prevailing minimum wage, they most surely will hire the skill worker and that would mean a smaller work-force. Carter and Ford disagree on how to help teen-agers get work. The U.S. economy is doing surprisingly well after emerging from the worst recession since 1930. The Department of Labor reports that the total of men, women, and teen-agers seeking jobs have grown by 2.1 million in the last year. Yet unemployment, though still very high, has dropped from 8.9 per cent in the spring of 1975 to 7.5 per cent of the work force today. The economy, in other words, is absorbing enough people to pull down the jobless rate, as well as provide for newcomers flooding in the labor market. That’s bad for Mr. Carter and the Democrats. They were hoping that the economy would reflect a far negative position than it is. BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR BLACKS AND TEEN-AGERS The darkest blot on the current economy is the inability of thousands of young Americans, fresh out of school, to find jobs. Nearly one out of five teen-agers is jobless. Black teen-agers are in the worst spot, as usual. About 40 per cent of young Black men and women -two out of five, cannot find work. These people, experts say, benefit least from a U.S. economy which, more and more, demand some kind of trained skill. Three prominent economists, Albert Sommers of the Conference Board, Bernard Anderson and Michael Wachter of the Wharton School, are analyzing unemployment problems and what might be done about them for Democratic Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter. President Ford’s major initiative in this field an effort to reduce the minimum wage for teen-agers - is stymied by the joint opposition of the AFL-CIO and a Democratic-controlled Congress. Mr. Carter also opposes lowering the minimum wage for teen-agers. He says they often are not part of a family structure and enter the world of work with the same needs as older Americans. The Ford administration officials argue that a lower TO BE EQUAL By Vernon E. Jordon Jr. Busing And The Election Campaign It remains to be seen whether political candidates in this year’s election will restrain themselves from using busing, a tool to desegrate the schools, as a political football to win votes. The only role busing should play in the Presidential campaign is for all candidates to agree to support the Constitutional mandate to desegregate the schools and to pledge their support to the courts and to communities engaged in desegregating. The sooner this is done the better for the country, and for its children who are all too often made pawns in the ugly battle against desegregation waged by their elders. The candidates ought to be honest in telling the country that there's no constitutional way to avoid dismantling segregated school systems. The courts have ruled definitively that districts where segregation survives due to official actions, including such dodges as gerrymandered school districts and racially-inspired pupil assignment plans, have to desegregate. Where those districts refuse to do it voluntarily, the courts must step in and order it. That’s the origin of the so-called “forced busing”. It’s “forced” only to the extent that communities in violation of the law are forced to comply with the law. No one complains he’s “forced” not to commit a robbery or otherwise to obey laws. And courts aren't frivolous in ordering busing as a remedy. It’s often the absolute last resort and busing plans invariably bus the minimum numbers of children to effect desegregation. In some cases, implementation of busing orders meant fewer children bused than before those orders were formulated. All of this makes various legislative proposals to restrain busing less than honest. For example, one proposal under consideration is a law mandating the courts to use busing only as a tool of last resort if all else fails. But that is exactly how the courts now handle busing - it's ordered as the last, not the first, of possible remedies. The Administration has proposed a limit of five years on busing orders, and limitations on how and when courts may order busing. But putting a time limit on court orders is only a promise of resegregation when diey expire and will clearly tell a community they just have to go through the motions until the time limit is up. Further, everyone knows that legislative attempts to limit court jurisdiction or restrictions on remedies for illegal situations are doomed to be ruled unconstitutional in and of themselves. For too long political leaders have been manipulating fears and emotions instead of coming right out and supporting desegregated schools as a vital building block for a racially-just society. Because of their failure to lead the nation in this effort to overcome the racism of the past, busing and desegregation have had a rocky road. But a recent report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights indicates that desegregation of the schools is proceeding, and that for every publicized case of illegal resistance, such as in Boston, there are dozens of communities that desegregate their schools :< THE AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW ¥ Mallory K. MillenderEditor-Publisher Frank Bowman General & Advertising Manager ?:• Stan RainesManaging Editor & Circulation Manager X •X Audrey FrazierEditor-At-Large Al Irby News Editor $ Michael Carr Chief Photographer Mary Gordonßookkeeper !;• Mailing Address: Box 953, Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4555 Second Class Postage Paid Augusta, Ga. 30903 $ SUBSCRIPTION RATES £ $ Payable in Advance One year in Richmond Countys7.oo tax incl. 6 Months $3.50 tax incl. One year out of County SB.OO tax incl. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT £ Classified & Display Advertising Deadline 12 Noon on Tuesday & News Deadline Monday 5:30 (printed free) $ XXi AMALGAMATED filing y PUBLISHERS, INC. £ B NATIOHAI AOWimSUKt««««<•«,WiS Z. .*. »HCW »O»K • CHICAGO ■■ V. Page 4 minimum wage for teen-agers might induce employers to hire them for bottom-rung jobs, from which they could begin to climb the ladder. Some experts point to the failure of American schools to furnish young people with marketable skills. West Germany, they note, has a youth unemployment rate of only 3.6 per cent because the majority of young Germans go to some form of trade school. Educators in this country have a dreaded mania of so-called education getting its hands dirty. Why can’t an architectural student learn carpentry or brick-laying along the way to his or hers profession. A majority of young Americans do not go to college or leave school all together. Or better still, a goodly number in college don’t have any business there. A majority of young Americans do not go to college. But traditional American high schools, geared to college preparation, provide limited opportunity to learn manual trades at least to the extent demanded by the marketplace. Meanwhile, says the U.S. Labor Department, “the youth labor force-ages 16 to 24 is expected to reach 25.8 million by July, 1976, about 600,000 greater than in July, 1975.” Anyone can see by those statistics that employment conditions for teen-agers are getting worst and nothing is going to help but to remove minimum wage, especially for young people and unskill Blacks. By 1980 according to labor analysis, “post-war babies" will emerge fully on the labor scene and the youth labor work force - as a percentage of the total U.S. work force should level off; if one can buy that kind of fallacious reasoning. On the bright side, if there is one. The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. makes this report, that the U.S. economy now is putting people back to work at a faster pace than it did after all but one of the postwar recessions. On the other hand, the U.S. has a higher “employment ratio"-percentage of working-age people actually holding jobs - than some other major industrial-democracies, including West Germany and France. Yet the latter nations have lower unemployment rates than in the United States. How is this possible? Because, experts say, more American women enter the labor force than in most European countries. Fewer European women, in other words, show up either as part of the “employment ratio" or as unemployed because they do not seek jobs outside their homes. All of that verbosity is fine but this column still stands by its conviction, that is, that the “minimum wage should not apply for unskilled persons and teen-agers.” without tension and without disruption. ' Desegregation works”, the Commission concludes from its survey of many school districts all across the country. And where it has proven successful, the Commission found a pattern of support from community and political leaders and a positive attitude on the part of participants This finding spotlights the role of leadership in effecting peaceful compliance with the law. Enlightened local leadership can now draw on the experience of many communities that show desegregation can work, that it can improve the quality of all children’s education, and that it can be a positive experience for their locality. And the report serves to spell out a lesson to candidates and officals -- that their moral leadership and active support of desegregation can ensure its success. Instead of encouraging last-ditch resistance, political leaders ought to be endorsing a carrot-and-stick approach to ridding the schools of segregation. All communities not in compliance with the law ought to be firmly told they can’t expect any federal aid of any kind until they stop denying constitutional rights to their citizens. And at the same time, federal funds ought to flow into those districts that desegregate, in order to help them improve the quality of education for all children. Letters to the Editor Reader Seeks Correspondence Dear Editor: My name is Hutson R. Tigner Jr. and 1 am a Black, 36-year-old male presently incarcerated in London Correctional Institute in London, Ohio. I'm writing you this letter as an agent of appeal for correspondence and friendship, and I'm hoping that you will be kind enough to publish it in your newspaper. Loneliness in a place like this is almost unbearable - It's very much like that of a quiet drama which keeps building and building seemingly without end. The experience of such a feeling has to be felt to be understood. I have no wish to continue to be swallowed up. what appears to be a vacuum of emptiness, nor do I wish to remain just a faint echo of a hidden shadow. In a desperate effort to emerge from this internal prison of lost despair: I have written you this letter in an attempt to reaquaint myself with the outside world, and to become associated in a more honest and valid relationship with humanity. My interests are many, but my pleasures are few. I seek not pity, but rather a more meaningful strength in understanding of others as well as myself. In closing I would like to say that I believe 1 really do believe ■h that, whenever two strangers can share a smile, a tear or a thought, that they are strangers no longer. 1 wish to thank you in advance. From a friend in need of a friend. Hutson R. Tigner Jr. 143-427 P.O. Box 69 London, Ohio 43140 Request For More Human Relations Coverage Dear Editor: The Augusta-Richmond County Human Relations Commission deserves more coverage in the News-Review. The Commission has served Richmond and the surrounding counties well. Its objective, communication between people and opportunities for all, is the objective of progressive people. To not give the Human Relations Commission proper coverage is not to give proper support to this objective. Yours truly, Lawrence E. Harrison Route 3. Box 99 Aiken, S.C. 29801 Africa Speaks / ' ~ \ REMARKS MAPE BY y . _ / HIS EXCELLENCY f ~ Cl (W fetyPltr PR. KENNETH > president of the REPUBLIC OFZ4MSIA ' * ' at a WHITE HOUSE DINNER GIVEN IN HIS HONOU R As/?. PRESIDENT WE WISH AMERICA TO UNDERSTAND OUR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. WEARE NOT FIGHTING WHITES, WE ARE FIGHTING AN EVIL AND BRUTAL SYSTEM. ONTHIS THERE MUST BE NO COMPROMISE. AMERICA SHOULD ALSO UNDERSTAND OUR STRATEGY WE WANT TO ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVES BY PEACEFUL METHODS FIRST AND FOREMOST AFRICA IS READY TO TRY THIS APPROACH WITH PATIENCE AND EXHAUST ALL POSSIBLE TACTICS. FOR PEACE IS TOO PRECIOUS FOR ALL OF US, BUT OUR PATIENCE AND THE PATIENCE OF THE OPPRESSED HAS ITS UNITS. MR PRESIDENT WE ARE HERE ONLY FORA SHORT TIME.WE HAVE NO OTHER MISSION EXCEPT TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE VISIT TOPUT AFRICA'S STAND.WE WANT TO AVOID CONFRONTATION, BUT LET US NOT BE PUSHED INTO IT ONCE AGAIN ON BEHALF OF MY WIFE AND MY COMPATRIOTS AND INDEED ON MY OWN BEHALF I THANK YOU FOR THIS WARM WELCOME AND HOSPITALITY THIS IS INDEED A MEMORABLE VISIT, MEMORABLE BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN FRUITFUL AND IT COINCIDES WITH THE LAUNCHING, ONLY YESTERDAY, OF YOUR BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS WE CONGRATULATE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THER ANTI-COLONIALIST STRUGGLE OF THEIR FOUNDING FATHERS. FINALLY I TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF INVITING YOU, MR.PRES(DENTAND MRS.FORD, TO PA> A VISIT TOjAMBIA. WE WILL BE HAPPY TO RECEIVE YOU IN OUR COUNTRY AT ANY TIME CONVENIENT TO YOU. I NOW INVITE YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TO JOIN ME AND MY WIFE IN THIS TOAST: TO THE PRESIDENT AND MRS.FORD Mostly About Women By MARIAN J. WARING X Bicentennial Bits Os Black History SEPTEMBER 3, 1868 - Henry McNeil Turner, Black member of the Georgia Legislature, delivered a speech entitled “Eligibility of Colored Members to Sit in the Georgia Legislature”. SEPTEMBER 4, 1923 - George Washington Carver, the noted Tuskegee scientist, was presented the Spingam Award for his distinguished research in agricultural chemistry. SEPTEMBER 19, 1865 - Atlanta University was founded by the American Missionary Society. SEPTEMBER 23, 1863 - Birthdate of Mary Church Terrell in Memphis, Tenn. She was a noted civil and women’s rights advocate. SEPTEMBER 26, 1937 - Bessie Smith, popular blues singer, died in Clarksdale, Miss. She was born on the same date, September 26, in 1894 and was reared in poverty in Chattanooga, Tenn. At the age of 13, Bessie was discovered by Ma Rainey, the first nationally famous Black blues singer who persuaded her to go on tour with her minstrel show. At age 17, she was singing in Selma, Ala., where Frank Walker, head of Columbia Records, heard her. Back in New York, Walker sent an associate to find Bessie and bring her back to record for Columbia. In February, 1923, she cut her first disc., Downhearted lllues. The record, which sold more than 2 million copies during its first year of release, made her an overnight success. During her first year with Columbia, she became the highest-paid Black entertainer, making as much as 51,500 a week during her peak years from 1924 to 1927. Bessie was most famous for the song, Xobody Knows You Support Your Local SCLC Designed; from the inside out Honda Civic Sedan *2729 ? I Inotdo thoro't room tor four odults and luwoft, tot. Vat the . Honda Clvlc'i compact Utt makoiSt Ideal for foday'i kind of driving. Ta»t own a IW» Hon do Civic. What tha world It commp 10. 1975 Yamaha Motorcycle 650 looded with exFra blk. color. 3,700 miles - Like new $1295.00 Gi RAID JONK VOLKSWAGEN 2415 Milledgeville ltd 731-256) U S POSTAL SERVICE STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION I Act of August 12. 1970 Section 3666 Title 39 United States Code 1. TITLE OF PUBLICATION 2 DATE OF FILING I TheAugusta News Review September 30,1976 ; 3 FREQUENCY OF ISSUE 3A. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Weekly $7.00 J 4 LOCATION OF KNOWN OF F ICE OF PUBL (CAT ION (Street. city. county. elate and /.IF code/ (Not printers) 1008 Ellis St. Augusta. Ga 50902 1~5 LOCATION OF'THE HE AOQUARTE RS OR GENERAL BUSINESS OF F ICES OF THE PUBLISHERS 'Not printers) 1008 Ellis St. Augusta. Ga. 30902 6 NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHER. EDITOR. AND MANAGING EDITOR ’ I PUBLISHER (NamT and address > Mallory K. 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PUBbteMeWrAUSINESS MANAGER I certify thit the statements made by me above are correct or OMtoX ) and complete "36Z6 •> <Ser mnucrio „ M When You're Down and Out, which was cut in 1929. A last recording session was arranged in 1933 to cut The liessie Smith Siorv as a tribute to her career. Four years later, she was involved in an automobile accident. A segregated Mississippi hospital refused to admit her and she bled to death outside. (Note: Me and liessie, the musical life story of Bessie Smith, is in its second year on Broadway in New York City at the Edison Theatre. Linda Hopkins, playing the role of Bessie, is dynamite. Don’t miss it if you are in the Big Apple or if the road show comes to your area. Hope you saw Linda Hopkins on the Tonight show in September. If you did, how you know why she is packing them in at the Edison four%hows daily.) SEPTEMBER 29, 1644 - The first marriage of Blacks in the U.S. to be officially recorded was that of Anthony and Lucie d’Angola in New York. 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