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IT Jfrw-Stewro Vol. 1 WRDW Contributes SSOO On Sunday November 28th radio station WRDW presented a SSOO check to Mrs. Biondell Conjey, president of the Concerned Mothers Club. The Concerned Mothers serve free breakfast daily to needy children at five centers throughout the city and Richmond County. The check was presented by Mai Cook, station manager at WRDW. In making the presentation Cook told Mrs. Conley, “We at WRDW your efforts in the community for what you are doing for the children of our city. For many don’t really know what it is to go hungry. I’d like to commend you and your staff for getting up at 4:30 and 5:00 on these cold wintry mornings anti preparing the food so these children can go to school with a hot breakfast so they can concentrate and get their lessons easier instead of sitting in class with their minds on food.” The five hundred dollars represents a percentage of the WRDW sponsored Thanksgiving show at Bell Auditorium. Cook said that the people who attended the show have a part in this contribution. “We want you to know that we are not just taking but returning money back into the community to help feed your sisters and 'brothers.” Cook presented the check on behalf of entertainer James Brown, owner and president of radio station WRDW. (Black Man Has Unique (Dimension-Soul Power Reverend Andrew Young, Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said at a meeting of lhe local Caucus Tuesday night nt Tabernacle Baptist Church [hat the black man’s battle to bain the “promise land” is Educational, political and [economical. Young commended the Caucus for its year round concern and efforts to bring hbout social reform. Young Luoted SCLC founder Dr. Martin Luther King’s statement ■nat “Long hot cummers are [he result of winters of neglect.” I The 39 year old Young said ■rat if liberty and justice Become a reality in Augusta it Ivill have to be made by the people who have been denied liberty and justice. Nobody can give you freedom. Young said, “It has to be won by struggle. People don’t voluntarily give up power. You have to take power.” If blacks are to take possession of this land Blacks will have come up with “better ideas and harder work and more creative approaches to things than anybody has seen before” Young continued. Young rejects violence as a means to “possessing the land”. Young said that whites use fear as a technique by which to bring more repression to Blacks. He said he believed that the Republicans paid Blacks to stage mini-riots in Miami at the Republican National Convention so as to guarantee the nomination of a conservative presidential candidate. “The one thing that the I J a/ ’’Vi- ’ W i .r-' L ■ 'ft- 11 ' | ■ ' T Dr. Pitts is smiles as he chats with “Miss Paine” Melinda Jones at the Coronation Ball. Miss Jones is a senior from Charleston, South Carolina. 930 Gwinnett St. Reverend Andrew Young people in power know”, Young said, “is that to get their own people riled up you have to scare them. And nothing scares them like the thought of black folk doing to them all the things that they have done to us for over a hundred years.” Young pointed ouf that whereas New York City does not have five Black principals in its entire public school system, Atlanta has about sixty-five. One of the things we have to realize, Young said, “is that an educational system is one of the cornerstones of any kind of revolution. The man who controls the information is the man who controls what’s going THE PEOPLE’S PAPER on.” Young said that Black teachers who work only for their pay checks are not cheating the white folk; they are cheating their children. Young urged that these teachers not think of the school system as the white folks school system. “They’ve got to think of the school system as their school system,” Young argued. When blacks free their own minds, they are also going to set white people free, the civil rights leader continued. “When black teachers and administrators begin to realize that it is their school system they are going to create a revolution in American education. And America will develop an authentic 20th century urban education which is going to educate white children better than they are being educated.” Young said the white children are rebelling and becoming hippies because their education give them facts and figures but does not teach them how to deal with people. The hippies (he called them “imitation niggers”) “are rebelling against the racism, materialism and the impersonal family life which their parents ave created for them. And they want to be real and to cope with life as it really is. Young said that the Black man’s unique force is “soul power.” “This is the cultural, religious force that is capable of taking over a nation.” “Politics is money, ” Young continued. The political system is robbing us blind and the SEE YOUNG Page 3 Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 Since September 1971 Verlyn Bell has been the Executive of Bethlehem Center. Although the center dates back to 1912 and was designed to serve the black community, Bell is the first Black man to direct the center (a black woman served as director on an interior basis during the early 20’s.) Explaining the absence of a black director Bell said, “I think we have to look at our funding source; close to seventy percent of our funds come from the Methodist Church; and historically the Methodist Church has sent deaconesses to run the center prior to 1971. This is when we elected for the first time an independent board -a board on the local level that makes policies. Bell feels that many Blacks "Tell ft like ft tis” Sims gets louder voice Reverend Arthur D. Sims has a new radio show “Tell it like it Tis” heard on WTHB twice a week (Tues. 3:00 - 3:30 Sat. 2:00-2:30 P.M.). Sims said that he has been critized for using his pulpit to “dabble” in politics. “There were so many people who questioned my method of preaching not that I’m going to change; I’m still not going to change my style of preaching, but I felt I needed more time where I could address myself on a more neutral basis.” On the program Sims said that he plans “to look at the social and political issues as they occur during the week and to speak out on them. “I don’t care whether its about the police department, a black politician, a white politician, the church, Paine College needing money or the Augusta Chronicle being biased, whatever comes up.” Sims says that he won’t be pushing a certain candidate or telling folk whom to vote for. “I’m not talking so much “for-ness”, I’m talking moreorless against-ness.” jt. r 'ML Vk . // Molly Kenner, newly crowned queen of the Progressive Blacks poses with escort Alan Collier. Bethiehelm Center Takes On A New Look in the community have benefitted from the services of Bethlehem Center, and most Blacks hold the Center in high esteem. He acknowledged, however, that many of the people in the community feel that they have not been served by Bethlehem Center. In order to better meet the needs of the community, Bell conducted a survey among four hundred residents of the Bethlehem Center area. Bell said that 80% of the residents felt that the Center ought to be taking a more active role in community problems such as garbage collection. The residents cited garbage collection as then number one problem. According to Bell garbage is collected only once a week in the area surrounding Bethlehem Center, and rubbish Asked if “Tell It Like It Tis” will reduce the amount of politics normally heard in his Sunday morning sermons, Sims said, “No. Not whatsoever. If I were to change my style it would be like saying that those people (critics) are right. To me, the people who say 1 have too much politics in my preaching do not know what preaching is. They are brainwashed by the white man’s concept of God. I think religion has both helped and hindered the Black man. So I think that my type of sermons are needed, and if I do anything I’m going to get even more involved, because I think that the church is not only on Sunday mornings; the gospel has no confinement; the preacher has no certain boundaries. He is supposed to address himself to anything or any situation. I’m not changing my preaching; I’m expanding it. Sims said the name of the program was his idea. He said he chose “tell it like it Tis” rather than “tell it like it Is” because the grass-roots people December 2, 1971 No. 37 JI Verlyn Bell is picked up once a month. Asked why this area had garbage pick ups only once a week when garbage is collected three times a week in most parts of the city, Bell said he suspects that “the community itself, m°'’e up of low income blacks is the reason.” Historically low income Black communities have been excluded from getting services that the rest of the city gets. The Bethlehem Center community ranked crime and drugs as the most urgent problem after poor garbage collection. “Our calls to the sanitation department don’t get much action,” Bell said. “The people in the community can identify with it more easily. “It’s Black. It sounds more Black. I think that more Black people will listen to it that are not educated. It cut’s down on the communication gap- COULD YOU USE AS MUCH AS SSO FOR XMAS In your spare time, you can earn as much as SSO. News-Review needs more official Community Representatives to accept and send in subscriptions from every locality. No experience is required. You simply pass out, to folks in your community notices we supply you free of charge. Orders come back to you by phone, mail or personal contact. This is just one way to get orders - well tell you others that are just as easy. Interested? Then see cupon on next page. JUST 100 PAID SUBSCRIBERS EARNS YOU SSO. have talked with, the mayor and members of City Council about their . problems in the . past and the results were ‘almost fruitless’. There is a pervasive attitude in the community that nobody cares. Nobody cares if our garbage is picked up; nobody cares about our children; nobody cares if we receive adequate police protection.” Bethiehelm Center is currently considering limiting its scope to an area within a ten block radius of the center. The center is primarily centered around a child development program involving children between the ages of four and fifteen; although the gymnasium and recreational facilities are able to youngsters age 16-24. The center assists the latter age group in career training, job development referrals to other agencies. Bell says that he would like to hire social workers to work with drop outs. Bell stated that according to the Board of Education. 689 children quit school in rJchmond County last year. “The overwhelming majority of those kids were Black. Many of the children who quit school came from the Bethlehem Center service area. So we are thinking of focusing in on the problem of drop outs. In addition to the child development program, the center has a pre-school program which complements the centers Head Start program. Other programs at the center include boy scouts, girl scouts, adult education and planned parenthood.