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Vol. 7, No. 38
Jesse Jackson says
no strings on HEW funds
By Capitol News Service
(Washington, D.C.-CNS)
“There are no strings attached
to my taking money from the
government...and my knees
ain’t buckled when I come
here,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
outspoken civil rights leader,
declared after accepting his
first token $45,000 grant from
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
But Jackson said he would
need about an additional
million dollars a year to
expand his reportedly
successful PUSH for Excellence
in educating inner city youth.
Officials emphasized that
Jackson did not ask them for
the money, but HEW
contacted the PUSH (People
United to Save Humanity)
leader after the late Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey saw
examples of the PUSH program
on television while visiting with
President Carter at Camp David
last month.
HEW Secretary Joseph
Califano announced the grant
to Jackson and Howard
University President, Dr. James
E. Cheek, in an elobrate
ceremony in the new H.H.
Humphrey HEW building that
was reminiscent of the
President Lyndon B. Johnson
era. Califano, a former loyal
Jackson aide, said he also saw
the TV program and was very
impressed with the results.
The HEW secretary said the
limited funds would be used to
determine how much aide
PUSH would need for
expanding its program
nationwide and for holding a
conference on education of
inner city youth on the
Howard U. campus on May
17 th. PUSH has already
received a $400,000 Ford
Foundation grant for a pilot
program in Los Angeles.
“WE want to give our young
high school graduates a
diploma in one hand and a
voter registration card in the
other, Jackson said in
emphasizing how his program
is designed to tum out good
citizens instead of hoodlums
and criminals. “I am
embarrassed everytime I visit
one of our schools and see
policemen sitting in the halls
watching our kids,” he
declared.
Although Jackson
emphasized that no strings
were attached to the grant,
Califano also announced an
HEW report emphasizing
increased violence in inner city
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services for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The above service was held in the Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel of Paine College.
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rousing message at SCLC’s National Mass Rally during 19th Convention in Biloxi,
Mississippi.
schools. The report
immediately received more
attention from the media than
the small grant to PUSH and
Howard University.
Meanwhile, officials of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), meeting in
New York, announced the
beginning of a new ACT SO
program to emphasize positive
achievements of youths in
inner city schools. The NAACP
also released a 120 page
do cumented report of progress
in desegregation of schools
based upon an extended study
completed last September.
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The ACT SO program is
headed by veteran Chicago
newsman Vernon Jarrett, a
frequent critic of Jackson and
PUSH tactics. However,
NAACP officials refused to
publicly criticize Jackson for
emphasizing negative aspects of
public school problems to
receive government funds.
“Jesse Jackson is only one
man and we have the
organization to get the job
done,” declared Mrs. Francis
Hooks, one of the 500 branch
leaders and officials at the
semi-annual mini convention at
the Sheraton Hotel and Harlem
State Assembly building. “We
will help anyone to improve
the quality of education in our
schools,” she added in
apparently expressing the
consensus of the association.
Back in Washington,
Clarence Mitchell, NAACP
bereau chief appeared at the
Jackson press conference to
urge skeptical newsmen not to
be critical of the HEW funding
of the PUSH program.
And Jackson said while
getting diplomas and
registration cards for eligible
voters, he will continue to urge
Blacks to vote Republican and
Democratic “so one party will
not control all of us.”
January 19, 1978
Humphrey
got rude
welcome
(from Miami Herald)
WASHINGTON - “I have a
blind devotion to the Senate,
which represents the republic,”
Hubert Humphrey said in one
of his last appearances in what
he called “the greatest
parliamentary body in the
world.”
Sen. Humphrey came to that
body in 1949 as a bumptious
newcomer to national political
life who, he wrote in his
autobiography, “was treated
like an evil force that had
seeped into sanctified halls.”
When he left it for the last
time, he left behind not only a
record of fighting for liberal
causes but a reputation as a
skillful legislative craftsman
respected by his conservative
opponents as well as his allies.
He mobilized those elements
to push through the Civil
Rights ACt of 1964 and to
play key roles in Senate
approval of the Anns Control
and Disarmament Agency and
the limited nuclear test ban
treaty of 1963.
Although he is perhaps best
remembered for his civil rights
record, Humphrey’s legislative
interests were broad - so much
so that he was criticized for
spreading himself too thin.
In the 1971 session alone,
Humphrey made 509 speeches
on the Senate floor. In one
week, he spoke on subjects
ranging from French politics
and the public debt to the wild
flowers of the Northwest and
the need for more office space.
The cool reception he
received on his first arrival at
the Capitol stemmed in part
from the Democratic National
Convention in 1948, at which
Humphrey pushed through a
civil rights plank that led 35
southern delegates to walk out.
One afternoon during his
first week in the Senate, he
recalled in his autobiography,
he heard the veteran
Democratic Sen. Richard
Russell of Georgia turn to a
group of colleagues and say,
“Can you imagine the people
of Minnesota sending that
damn fool down here to
represent them?”
However, after the 1964
battle in which Humphrey
floor-managed the civil rights
bill, Russell praised the
Minnesotan for the fairway he
had treated him and his
conservative allies.
In an analysis of 1
Humphrey’s legislative career
in 1972, the Ralph Nader
Congress Project said the 1
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Pictured (from left) are Roger Williams, Rev. Edward C. Ducree, Dr. Julius Scott Jr., Rev. J.S. Wright and Rev. N.T.
Y OUng. Photos by Michael Can
Less Than 75% Advertising
Doug Barnard for jobs,
against minimum wage
By E.R. Shipp
Augusta’s representative in
Congress, Douglas Barnard, has
completed his first year in
office. In an interview last
week, he reflected on his
freshman year on Capitol Hill
and some of the key issues.
The past year “was more of
a learning process,” the former
banker admitted, “but a
seasoned, experienced staff has
been helpful in acclimating
me.”
Prior to his 1976 election,
Barnard was an executive
vice-president of the Georgia
Railroad Bank and Trust Co.
and had spent a total of 25
years in the banking field.
Barnard represents the
21-county 10th Congressional
District, which stretches north
to south from Newton County
to Richmond County, and
extends east to west from
Madison County to Washington
County. The district is 30 to
40 per cent Black, by Barnard’s
estimation.
UNEMPLOYMENT
A CHIEF CONCERN
The major problem
confronting the district, he
said, is unemployment,
especially among Blacks.
“I think we have a
disproportionate number of
unemployed Black youth,”
Barnard said of his
constitutency.
Barnard talked about
joblessness and inadequate
incomes which plague the poor
and Blacks. Yet he voted
against the minimum wage bill
enacted by Congress last year.
He voted against the bill, he
said, “because it would be
more damage than good.”
As he sees it businesses
“have to make a profit,” and if
forced to pay higher wages
they will either increase prices
or reduce operational costs by
hiring fewer or laying off more.
This, according to Barnard, is
what will especially hurt
Blacks.
How does the Congressman
propose to solve the
unemployment among Blacks,
estimated at 14 per cent
nationally and 60 per cent
among youth?
“The first priority is to set
up incentives to private
employers to hire the hardcore
unemployed,” Barnard said.
He emphasized the need to
urge “permanent” employment
as opposed to seasonal or
temporary solutions.
According to him, there are
now laws on the books which
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REPRESENTATIVE DOUGLAS BARNARD
compensate private businesses
for up to 50 per cent of the
costs of creating jobs for what
he calls “hardcore”
unemployed, but these laws
need strengthening.
Barnard is against anything
resembling handouts to the
poor. “We are not looking for a
government dole,” he said.
Yet he agreed that there is a
need for the government to
create jobs for the jobless. “We
need to have public service
jobs. I do see that taking
place.” For that reason, he
said, he thinks Congress might
accept that part of the
President’s welfare reform
package designed to create 1.4
million jobs, though other
portions of his proposal might
not fare as well.
WELFARE REFORM
The welfare reform proposal
is one of the most important
pieces of legislation potentially
affecting poor Americans.
Barnard conceded that he had
not studied it yet “to any
degree” and doesn’t know too
much about what the President
has asked Congress to do.
“It’s identified as a welare
reform package,” he said. “As
far as that’s concerned I’d
consider it a step forward.”
I n his view' that which makes
it harder for able-bodied
people to refuse to work and
still collect welfare payments is
definitely desirable. He thinks
providing work is the way to
foster “personal pride” and
create “self-sufficient citizens.”
What the 55-y ear-old
legislator is quite opposed to
are proposals which seek to
guarantee a minimum income
for all Americans. Such
proposals would, for example,
guarantee everyone an income
above the poverty level, with
substandard incomes being
supplemented by the
government where necessary.
“1 feel like that’s not going
to encourage incentive or
motivation when one knows
he’s going to get so much no
matter how much he works,”
said Barnard. He pointed out
that the country was built on
hard work and enterprise.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
A decision in tire Bakke case
now pending before the U.S.
Supreme Court will be a
much-awaited one in 1978.
That case challenges the
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