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News-Review October 28, 1971 - THE NEWS-REVIEW i PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY I 930 Gwinnett Street-Augusta, Georgia Mallory K. Millender Editor and Publisher Mailing Address: Box 953 Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4555 Second Class Postage Paid Augusta, Ga. 30901 I SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One Year in Richmond County $2.50 tax incl. One Year elsewhere $3.00 tax incl. , ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT , Classified Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday Display Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday Office Hours -10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon. thru. Fri. Vwww Wwwwwwwwwwww J f Msr7o(/e < ’<■\ > < TO BE ! EQUAL Bjßl <' —KfIK/> 4 By > Verno" E. Jordan, Jr. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., who is executive director-designate of the National Urban League, presents a rare blend of credentials; youthfulness, experience and leadership. At the age of 36, he already has occupied key positions in major organizations influencing the course of social change. Personally involved in many of the dramatic moments of racial progress during the sixties, Mr. Jordan, a lawyer, is an articulate spokesman on public issues. Since early 1970, Mr. Jordan has been executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Inc. When he accepted that post he was labeled by Whitney Young as “a man of vision and a man of actlon he knows the problems of the entire country. He has been in the midst of the Black Revolution on our campuses and in our cities.” Before joining UNCF, Mr. Jordan earned national attention as director of the Voter Education Project for the Southern Regional Council. Between 1964 and 1968 he traveled extensively throughout the South, establishing programs to enlarge the ranks of black voters. By the time of the 1968 elections two million new black voters were added to the election rolls, and the course of civil rights and politics in the South was profoundly altered. Mr. Jordan began to deal professionally with issues of public policy while practicing law in Arkansas and Georgia. He successively developed a capacity to plan, organize and administer civil rights programs at both the grass-roots and national levels. He has served as Georgia Field Director for the NAACP, as assistant to the executive director of the Southern Regional Council and as attorney-consultant with the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. Intimately associated with black leadership throughout the nation and with black and white organizations engaged in civil rights movements, Mr. Jordan, in an historic moment, led Charlayne Hunter into the University of Georgia through a mob of white protesters, using his body as a shield. He was a member of the President’s Council to the 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights and the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service. He has broad exposure to and participates in the affairs of social welfare organizations as a member or director, including the African-American Institute, Common Cause, The Foundation Center, National Urban Coalition, New World Foundation, Potomac Institute and Twentieth Century Fund, Inc. Bor* in Atlanta, Georgia, August 15, 1935, Mr. Jordan received his primary and secondary education in the city’s public schools. He earned a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University in 1957 and graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1960. His formal education also includes fellowships at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at the Metropolitan Applied Research Center. In 1969 DePauw’s graduating class selected Mr. Jordan as recipient of the Old Gold Goblet Award, presented annually to the University’s outstanding alumnus. Within the past year he received honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Brandeis University, Bloonifield College, Morris Brown College and the Doctor of Humanities degree from Wilberforce University. A member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, Mr. Jordan is affiliated with the Arkansas and Georgia Bar Associations, the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and the American Bar Association. Mr. Jordan is married to the former Shirley M. Yarborough. The couple has one daughter, and make their home in Hartsdale, New York. phase TWO MAY FIZZLE By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. The economy is getting ready to shift gears and start what the Administration calls Phase Two of its new economic policy, but from this vantage point, Phase Two looks like just more of the same. That means that Phase Two will see the exclusion of black people and poor people from the decision-making apparatus that affects their lives. It will find them unrepresented on the powerful boards that will set wage and price guidelines. And there is every indication that their unemployment and economic disadvantages will continue to grow, while large corporations and other favored elements of the economy will continue to prosper. The appeal for Americans to make sacrifices to insure that their economy is not run over by runaway inflation is all well and good, but why is it the guy at the bottom of the ladder who always has to make the sacrifices? Let’s take a closer look at the freeze and what will follow it. First, prices haven’t been frozen. Sure, the big-ticket items have been watched, but the reliance on voluntary compliance has meant that shoppers still face prices that are crawling upwards. , All the while, wages are frozen. Whatever justification there is for halting the kinds of contract settlements economists call inflationary, the workers who really get it in the neck are the millions who '.re working in hard, demanding jobs and getting wages below or just above the poverty level. How in the name of economic good sense and simple justice Page 2 1 walking M I 13® ■ I I Dignity til ||j|||| by Al Irby 48 IIA jC~ii7iT~i iu 1 {THE AUTONOMOUS MAN MAYBE LOSING HIS COOL AND HIS RELEVANCY) Dr. B.F. Skinner, the Harvard Psychologist, has become some-what of an intellectual reprobative mad man. In his recent book’ “Beyond Freedom and Dignity,”he has created a verbal storm in religious and scientific circles. But when you read his book carefully, and unemotionly, the Harvard man makes sense aplenty. Super-Powers are frantically building destructive weapons. Our giant B-52’s are saturating populated areas in North Vietnam. City streets are unsafe, even in daylight. After 16 years black and whites in America are still battling about school desegregation. Then to add more to the universal dismality, hard-bitten criminals are rioting, and asking for rights, that surpass many privileges enjoyed by persons outside of penal confinement. The young are demanding placement on colleges and universities boards, and faculties, irrespective of ability. Hate, avarice, greed, racism, and divers moral and ethical violations are rampant. In spite of our Christian back-ground, we have proven to be spiritual failures. Under these apparent incorrigible handicaps, Dr. Skinner certainly has earned a potent voice. The far-out behavorist suggests, that social science should match the relevance of physical science. Physical science has often changed its concept for better, from Aristotle and Newton up to the present time. Social Scientists tend to be reactionary, and therefore a slave to all of the out-moded Judeo-Christian inexpendables. The long suffering “Autonomous man” had definitely proven in decay. Mr. Skinner does not think much of the so-called “Priesthood of the Individual”, and the ways we mortals have behaved, even in our civilized culture, give strong credence to his theory. A few weeks ago, on the day when most of us American men were glued to our television sets, and our football heroes, 75 of the most eminents scientists and global thinkers met in our nation’s capital to ponder the deprived conditions in this old troubled world. They were guests of the Joseph P. Kennedy foundation. Their tough topic was: “The Ethics Os New Technologies In Beginnings Life.” It was a pithy subject, but we all living in the 20th Century must face up to the better quality of the “frontiers of future life on our planet.” The day is fast approaching, when the embryologists and geneticists are seriously thinking about what Dr. Skinner had the courage to bring out in his book. Mankind most certainly must be saved from its ecological and violent negligence. There will be much prodding in the future, with remedial possibilities to turn the human race away from self-destruction. Physical Science already has the know-how, just waiting for the sentimental Social Scientists and ultra-Religionists to make up their minds. Computer Complexes can be the ultimate answer. Neuro-Chemistry is already changing the habits and modes of animals; if they are aggressive, they are made to be docile, and vice versa. Embryologists and Geneticists are far in advance research on actual “genes surgery.” That could be a blessing to the black citizenry in conquering “Sickle Cell Anemia”. Also the ratio between males and females could be formulated, because in a very short time, the sex of children will be predetermined. Dr. Skinner contends that what after all, we do have to show for a world governed not by behavioral science, but by human judgment and insight, a suicidal world. That is bound to destroy itself by famine or pollution or nuclear war. The human behavior of our generation, certainly gives credence to Dr. Skinner’s contention. A technology of behavior would enable man to gain greater control over himself in a time when his behavior seems to be leading him toward self-destruction in various ways, just as physical science has permitted him greater control over his physical surroundings. One of Mr. Skinner’s cardinal theories is: “that all of our physical actions, as well as the complex of what we call feelings, ideas and beliefs, are all responses that are absolutely predetermined for us by our personal evolution - our genes - and our social evolution, and our culture.” can anyone defend a freeze on the wages of low-income people while at the same time refusing to freeze profits? In Phase Two, prices will be restrained by a Price Commission; wages by a Pay Board. At this point, there is absolutely no indication that the interests of black people or poor people will be protected by either body. The Price Commission won’t control dividends, interest, or profits, and I doubt that it will operate in favor of consumers. Organized labor is powerful enough to have wrung major concessions from the Administration, and will be in a position to protect the interests of union workers. But what about the masses of unorganized workers? Who will protect them? These questions aren’t just rhetorical. While everyone is talking about the need to control inflation, few people are concerned with the need to end poverty. Almost five million people are out of a job now, and one million of them are black. Black unemployment is over the ten percent level, with no signs of a freeze on joblessness. The economic freeze, Phase Two, and the Administration’s proposals for improving the economy are geared to the needs of big business. Corporations are getting welfare checks in the form of tax credits for equipment purchases and federal bailouts for mismanaged outfits like the Penn Central. But the burden of this is borne by those who can least afford it - the poor and the jobless. If what the President said about all Americans benefiting from more profits is true, then it is even more true that all Americans will benefit from an end to joblessness and poverty. It seems to me that Phase Two will fizzle and the economy’s inequities will be frozen at terrible costs to our social and economic well-being if current policies are not changed to end poverty and stir up the consumer demand to fuel further economic growth. An immediate step must be the addition of spokesmen for consumers and poor people on the Price Commission and adequate representation for blacks and unorganized workers on the Pay Board. At the same time, wage-earners making under $6,500 annually should be exempted from any further wage-rise guidelines. And profits, along with interest rates and dividends should come under the same regulation as wages. As we try to fight our way out of the economic crunch, there must be immediate attention to human needs in shaping policy, and the burden of sacrifices must be taken from the shoulders of the poor, who must be given the power to help determine the policies that affect their lives. Il "GOING f Wl Il PLACES” R-r I 1 UP” w I fl With Philip Waring AMERICA NEEDS BOTH NAACP & URBAN LEAGUE Unfortunately current 1971 reports from around the nation tell us about continued and widespread discrimination in jobs, housing, education and community life coupled with an 18 per cent Black unemployment rate versus that of 6.4 for white workers. This stresses the seriousness of discrimination on the state, national and local levels. For this reason in the long drive ahead America needs both the NAACP and Urban League. Both have different styles in the thrust towards similiar objectives. And thank God, cooperation has grown thanks to the late Whitney M. Young, Jr. and Roy Wilkins. SUPREME COURT VICTORIES The 62-year old NAACP is often called the “oldest, largest (some 450,000 members in 1,700 branches in 50 states) most consulted, most feared and most successful civil rights organization in the world.” Its 30-odd successful victories before the U.S. Supreme Court have played a major role in helping to turn the nation around in terms of illegal laws and procedures in education, employment, housing, voting and public accommodations. The nation should be grateful to the Association for helping to save itself. Both groups are interracial. With a highly experienced legal and professional staff at its New York headquarters, the Washington Bureau and regional offices, most of the field work is accomplished by volunteers in the 1,700 branches and state councils. SOCIAL THRUST BY URBAN LEAGUE The 61-year old National Urban League Movement, as a multi-functioned community service-action agency, has long been widely recognized for its accomplishments in opening new job and economic opportunities sponsoring all types of training and career programs for Black adults and youth, spurring health, voter registration, housing, social welfare, and community organization-action programs of the “New Thrust” coalition and confrontation techniques. The League’s expertise in social research and community organization has brought about social and economic change. Also headquartered in New York City, five regional and a Washington office, and some 98 affiliates around the nation there is found a highly trained and experienced corps of professional workers who do most of the day by day operations. They are aided by volunteers on boards and committees. Funded largely by United Funds, foundations, business, etc., the League uses the tools of social work - fact finding, counselling, job placements, public interpretation, planning and community organization. NAACP AND URBAN LEAGUE COOPERATION As a subscribing NAACP Life member and former college chapter president and now a career League executive, I’ve observed very closely over the years the kind of cooperation which exists between the two groups. My other area of professional interest is history of the Urban League. Again thanks to Whitney Young (who was a NAACP Life Member) and Roy Wilking, considerable cooperation and teamwork has been built. As examples: Both groups now exhibit at each other’s national conventions (which are the largest of their kind in the nation). Often speakers from either of the groups are invited to appear on national or state programs. All over the nation community leaders serve on both NAACP and Urban League boards and have developed the “change of hats” technique with good purpose. At last we are getting smart in using all of our resources. And this cooperation is good on the fight to end racism. lyl gm I ■ta* M licuaeat * IT TAKES A GREAT CAR ... * TO MAKE A GREAT CAR DEAL! WE HAVE BOTH. WIPE-TRACK |] 1 th| CORNERS TELFAIR STREET PONTIAC I st (MASTER •’.lftrr we sell— HE NE'fC I A'—xinre J .9.3 7 Tilt. COMP VNY 111 M CMOS” WE TRY A LITTLE HARDER— —BECAUSE WE ARE BLACK !!!\- SI RVIXG ¥(H! 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PUBLIC INVITED TO DEDICATION OF CLEAN AIR LIBRARY ON SUNDAY A specialized library for the study of air pollution and its control has been established in Augusta, Georgia, and is housed in The Respiratory Center of the Medical College of Georgia. Funded by a SI4OO grant from the Environmental Protection Agency through the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, the library is sponsored by the following three local organizations: The Richmond County Citizens Committee for Clean Air. The Augusta Area Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association. The Respiratory Center of the Medical College of Georgia. The M. Frank McDaniel Collection will be dedicated and the Center opened to the public for the first time at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, October 31, at the close of National Cleaner Air Week. The public is invited to attend. The collection of books has been dedicated to the memory of M. Frank McDaniel, Jr., founder and first chairman of the Richmond County Citizens Committee for Qean Air. An active Jaycee, Mr. McDaniel invited the cooperation of three other local organizations in the founding of the Clean Air Committee in the spring of 1967. Since that time, the membership has grown to eleven groups, each with an active concern for clean air. At the time of his death in 1968, Mr. McDaniel had already seen the Committee become an | EXCHANGE CLUB bwßßl ■arSTWwfel I wIpOI OCTOBER 25-30 MAIN GATE ON HALE & 4TH STS. AUGUSTA FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY EREE Grandstand Show Nightly at 7 & 9 B EXCITING! NEW * B JAMES H. DREW SHOWS It RIDES B FREE EXHIBITS B Livestock Show, Homomaking, Science, Arts ■ and Crafts, Military, Flower Show, Com- B mercial and Educational Exhibits. And until something is done about this very basic problem, people like yourselves are going to continue to suffer the wrath of the political machine that seems to rise up at each election with its fist enclosing money and threats for foreclosing loans or mortgages. This is the political machine’s tool of destruction for good black candidates. The Black leadership in this town has become totally ineffective as was predicted by a white elected official in a recent caucus meeting. The time is now right for Black Augustans to start looking for new leadership in its youth who, thank heaven, have not been tarnished by the mud of the established machine - Black leaders who have no desire to become Gods but merely to insure good community representation; leaders who have the ability to unite the Black Community and hopefully salvage that which is destined for destruction. If allowed to continue to divide, there is a world of truth in the old and tired cliche’ “A home divided against itself cannot stand.” Curtis Cisrow instrument of public education and action on air pollution problems, both on a local and state level. In recognition of his work, the Augusta Jaycees have made a generous contribution to the library, and it is anticipated that other groups will be interested in contributing to its continued support. In addition to the McDaniel Collection, the Air. Conservation Resources Center contains pamphlets, clippings, film strips and other audio-visual aids. Participating organizations are donating their own literature and industry in the Augusta area is represented through their companies’ publications. All current government publications on air pollution are also on file. The Center exists for the use of the public and will be open at all times. Books may be checked out as in any library, and Clean Air Committee members will staff it during evening hours and weekends, when students are most likely to use it. All libraries in the area will be advised of the Center’s holdings, and science teachers will be especially invited to urge their students to take advantage of this additional resource.