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PAGE 2 THE 'ND'ANAPOUS RECORDER SATURDAY ^ JANUARY 6/ 1Y79 Concerns of children treated in magazine

NEW YORK Mrs. Andrew Young states that “The quality of responses a child receives from the adults who influence his growth and development will condition his outlook and color his view of himself and the world for a lifetime.” Speaking as chairperson. U.S. National Commission on the International Year of the Child, she asserts that “Solutions to problems which beset them are not easy to define or simple to come by. But if we affirm children we are on the road to affecting change.” Mrs. Young’s comments are contained in an article which she has written especially for the January issue of The Crisis, official publication of the NAACP. which is devoted to the t nited Nations' observance of li>79 a* the year in which the world will pay special attention to the concerns and needs of children. In that same issue. Kenneth Keniston. chairman. Carnegie Council on Children, states'in “Meeting Children’s Needs" ihat "it is time for Americans to start holding the social and economic institutions of our

society as accountable for their influence on family life as we traditionally have held parents." John U. Ogbu, in an article entitled "Minority Education and Caste,” makes the observation that “schools, often without meaning to, are still programmatically preparing child ren of different . castes for different adult worlds.” An increasingly large num ber of the American people, confused and deeply troubled by the continuing failure of the public schools, are opting for some form of private educa lion" observes Stanley William Rothstein of the graduate faculty of California State Uni versity in an article entitled "The Abandonment of the Public Schools." Supplementing these feature articles are a number of information briefs from IYC Report which include statements on gifted children as a minority, adolescent pregnancy, world wide growth of illiteracy, the hazard of female circumcision, outlawing of the term "illegiti mate" by Sweden, etc. Editorial offices of The Crisis are at 1790 Broadway. New York. NY. 10019.

LIFE MEMBERSHIP: The Shiloh Missionary Church presented the NAACP with a check for $500 for a Life Membership at Sunday services Dec. 30th, 1978. This was their pledge for the New Year. Pictured left

to right are Mrs. Lena C. Stigers, President of the Indianapolis Chapter NAACP Dr. A.D. Pinckney, Rev. Clyde Jetter and Mrs. Ethel Wright. Mrs. Stiggers and Mrs. Wright are Shiloh workers for the NAACP.

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Veteran used fewer Veterans Administration housing loans during 197s than during-1977. but during the past three years housing valued at $.'18 billion has been bought by veterans under the loan guaranty pro gram, the agency reported today"* Since 190."). housing bought by Vietnam veterans under the* VA program has totalled about $47 billion. VA said This younger group of veterans has bought l.s million houses. Housing guaranteed by VA during the past three years exceeds by nearly $10 billion the assitance provided veterans during the entire decade of the 19ti0s According to VA loan guaranty officials data they

have received indicates nation wide housing starts rose slight lv during the third quarter to an anny^! rate of 2.07 million units. VA housing starts have shown the same general pat tern as nationwide data. On a seasonally adjusted annual basis, VA starts reached 135.000 in October. This was the largest annual rate record ed since April. This means that the total VA housing starts for 107s should be only slightly lower than 1977. which was the highest total in 21 years. Veterans interested in home buying through the VA loan guaranty program should con tact their nearest VA regional office, veterans service organi zatior. or veterans assistance center.

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ivwanza celebration KWANZA is a traditional Afrikan celebration of the harvesting of the "first" fruits of the year. The Kwanza celebration revolves around seven basic principles: UMOJA (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, natioj; and race. KUJICHAGULIA (Self determination) to define our selves, instead of being defined and spoken for by others. UJIMA (Collective work and responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and to make our brothers and sisters problems our prob lems and to solve them toge ther. UJAMAA (Co operative economirs) To build ,and maintain our ow n stores, shops, and other business and to profit together from them. NT A i Purpose ) To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we in herited it. IMANI (Faith) To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. Members of the Afrikan (American) community of Indi anapolis have adapted KWANZA to our situation and enjoy it as an annual holiday. MRS. ALBERTA JOHNSON Mrs. Charles (Alberta) John son. 65, 2815 N. Ralston, was eulogized during services I)e cember 30 in Galilee Baptist Church, of which she was a member. She died December 26 in Wishard Hospital. She was a .former employee of General Hospital (before its name change), retiring in 1966. Mrs. Johnson was a member of the United District Nurses and the Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of World War I. She is survived by son, Charles Jr., daughters, Ms. Louise Lan ders, Helen Griffin and Lavenia Dyer; mother, Mrs. Susan Dunkerstm.

The Veterans Administration employs some 39.500 Vietnam era veterans, more than any other federal agency.

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New book reveals the life and work of Amiri Baraka “What a writer has to do is to expose contradi tions, to increase understanding that you can change. How you expose the contradictions, of course, is the art itself; and the question whether you attack directly or indirectly is the question of the art itself.” -Amiri Baraka Le Roi Jones, dubbed Amiri Baraka by the same orthodox Muslim who buried Malcolm X, has dedicated his restless career to merging “populism” with “modernism.” The struggle to fuse life and art has become a growing preoccupation with contemporary writers. In AMIRI BARAKA/LEROI JONES [Columbia University Press, December 13, $16.95], W’erner Sollors provides a fascinating chronicle of both poet and ideologist at work. Born in Newark in 1934, Baraka studied religion and planned to be a minister. However, after a year at Rutgers on a science scholarship, he transferred to Howard University where he concentrated in English literature. Although he was to describe Howard as creating "bourgeois conversatives” out of Black students, it was his preparation for the intellectual future of producing such accusations. He dropped out to join the Air Force, an experience he called “right out of ‘Dr. Strangelove.’" Jn 1957, he came to New York City; on the Lower East SideT Baraka felt free of the restrictions of the Black bourgeoisie. Working with Hettie Cohen, his future wife, Baraka published many of the most important avant-garde writers. In their literary magazine “Yugen," William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and other friends from Black Mountain, the New York School and the “Beat Scene” were represented. Baraka's own early works were included in Yugen 1 and 2. The focus of Beat philosophy was Bohemianism: “an artistic cult of youth, beauty, truth, and flourishing life against the bourgeois desert of hypocrisy, vanity, and fraudulence.” As the authpr of AMIRI BARAKA/LEROI JONES points out, this movement *was beset by the contradictions within itself. Tin Beat’* dependence upon the rejected bourge »isie becomes apparent not only in their willingness to interpret themselves within the American literary mainstream as a new Lost Generation, but also in their desire for publicity in the bourgeois press.” , As Baraka's concerns became more social than aesthetic, his writings continued to express the opposition between art and life. However, the struggle inside the writer grew to a struggle between the individual and society. Werner Sollors examines the plays of this period in the context of Baraka's ambivalence. It was during the 60’s that the basic conflict began to change from anti-bourgeois to anti-white. When The Toilet and Dutchman, double-billed in Los Angeles, w'ere closed the day after opening on obscenity charges, the race riots were making Watts a national target of outrage. Malcolm X was assassinated the same year. Baraka left his family and the literary avant-garde and moved to Harlem where he initiated his commitment to Black cultural nationalism. The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School was an important model for American American Black theatre, but after starting it Baraka left for his home town, Newark. He became involved in many Black cultural groups, usually as a leader, and married his second wife, Amina Baraka. This crucial period of political activism is closely followed in AMIRI BAKARI/LEROI JONES. In the 1967 Newark ghetto revolt, Baraka was injured and arrested. He was convicted by rn all-white jury for unlawfully carrying firearms aft er the judge read his poem “Black people” to the court. He woo a retrial, was acquitted, and helped organize a National Black Power Conference in Newark. After the assassination of Martin Luther K,ng, Baraka called for an end to the riots in a network intierview. The anti-leftist nature of Baraka’s Black nationalism in the 60*s can be seen in this, as the author shows in quoting comparable statements and writings. Baraka was embarking on a new phase of expression: pragmatism. He successfully campai^ed for Kenneth Gibson, the first Black mayor of Neward. As Chairman of the Congress of African People in 1974, Baraka became more concerned with socialism. He transformed the Congress into the Revolutionary Communist League, and has rejected his cultural nationalism of the 60’s. In AMIRI BARAKA/LEROI JONES, the writings and politics of this significant figure are (onnected by the author's thorough comparison of Uteri Ty and poUtical references, showing the importance to Baraka of his art, even though the issues were deeply political. In December 1976, SoUors interviewed Baraka, providing a revealing look at the feeUngs of the ever-changing poet. This dialogue closes a book which probes the life of a “visionary who also tries to be a practical man.”

MRS. HATTIE BAILEY Memorial services for Mrs. Lemual (Hattie Green) Bailey, 75, 8181 Harcourt Rd., w'ere held December 30 in Jacobs Brothers Westside Funeral Chapel. The member of Messiah Missionary Baptist Church and former employee of Kingan & Co. during the 1940s died December 27 in a nursing home. She is survived by husband, Lemual; son Edward Lfoe) King; sisters, Ms. Ophelia Kirk and Lena Briggs. INDIANAPOMS RCORDER MARCUS C. STEWART Editor and Publisher Pubfiskod Weekly By The Georg# P. Stewart Printing Co. Inc., 2901 N. Tacoma, Indianapolis, Indiana as sacond Class matter under the Act of Anarch 7, 1170. National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 45 West 45th Street, New York, N.T. 10036. Member of Audit Bureau el Circulation National Publishers Association.

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People ‘78

By MICHAEL W. GREENE

The year 1978 proved to be disastrous for 911 members of the Peoples Temple. Some 70 - 75 percent of Ihe cult members who were murdered in what at first appeared to be a ma c c-suicide ritual were said to be black. The local office of the FBI reported that an estimated 25 persons from Indiana were among the dead, although Dan KeUy, Supevisor of the FBI’s crime s^uad, told the Recorder that the figure “will probably go up.” Most of us would be very happy to forget it ever happened. * • • Black People throughout the United States lost big when the long awaited and highly controversial Bakke case came to a rlimax. The United States Supreme Court granted the 38 year old Allen Bakke admission to attend the University of California (Davis) Medical School. The court’s decision was speculated by many black leaders to threaten the future of billions of dollars worth of progrms in government, education and private business aimed at atoning for past racial injustice. * * * For United States ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, 1978 turned out to.be a fairly good year. Despite being chastened for his truthful allegations that there are political prisoners in United States prisons, he has managed to weather the storm while maintaining his role as a valuable spokesperson for human rights. * * * For Mark Flemmonds and his family 1978 was no year to remember. At 17 Mark was the youngest of seven children in a highly religious family. Shortly before his untimely death, there had been nothing but good comments about his upward mobility marked by improved school work and getting a job. However, some time over the Nov. 18th week end it all ended...abruptly.

Less than 325 U.S. veterans of the Spanish-American War are still alive, according to Veterans Administration statistics. Some 392,000 American servicemen took part in that conflict.

For the talented Mary Bently 1978 was a very good year. Miss Bently was chosen first runner-up in the 1978 Miss Black America pageant. And how could anyone forget having a day dedicated in their behalf. Yes, Miss Bently will look back on 1978 quite fondly.

For former Republican Senator Edward Brooks, 1978 was a year to forget. Brooks, who faced legal problems over complex financial arrangements revealed during his divorce trial, was defeated in his bid for re election.

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Representative Charles Diggs (D-Mieh.) despite easily win ning re election last Nov., would most likely not like to experience another year like 1978. Diggs was sentenced to a maximum of three yea’-s in prison on charges of mail fraud involving kick backs and mak ing false statements under oath.

Judge Webster Brewer enjoyed a prosperous year in 1978 on the strength of his appoint ment as Marion County’s first black Criminal Court Judge. Brewer was re elected in November as a judge, but under a revamped system, has been selected to preside in one ot the county’s four criminal divisions.

1978 proved to be a very rewarding year for Indianapolis born sculptor John Andrew Spaulding. He opened his new New York studio/gallery with an open house and showing that almost immediately gained animportant commission. * # * In 1978 Mignonette Darlene Woods achieved something no other black woman ever accom plished. The 1978 Tech gradu ate became the highest ranking cadet in Indiana and the first black female to hold the title of Brigade Commander, possessing the rank of Brigadier General in the Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (OTC). Miss Woods is very pleased with her 1978 performance... and you can take that to the bank. . * * * For 52 year old Mary G. Winston, being exonerated of charges that she had killed her husband in a murder for hire slaying must have been quite a relief. Although she lost her mate. I bet she'll look back on 1978 favorably.

Oeing appointed the city's . >l i.ia ueputy mayor cer tamiy makes for a very rewarding year for Joseph Slash. Slash's contirmation regales him to the highest position ever achieved by a black in the Indianapolis city administration. * * • Looking back to 1978, School Board Commissioner Mary Busch’s New Years resolution - I would speculate - is not to have another year like the one just past. Miss Busch came under the fire of concerned parents when she voted down to the Options Plan she previously had pushed so hard to sell to the parents. Later, near the end of the year she was among four commissioners that Indy PAC and CHOICE decided NOT to . endorse come next election because of their decision to vote affirmatively to extend Superintendent Karl Kalp's contract without evaluation.

For Slim Williams and most other members of the local gambling community, 1978 proved to be a very bleak year. The near-fatal shooting of the 71-year-old Williams, who allegedly has connections in the local “numbers racket" stretching back more than 60 years, threw a scare into the other members of the gambling community, who vowed to “take whatever means necessary to protect ourselves."

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