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of the people, mentioned by themselves. We find i t as Jesus, Allah and the H o l y hard to separate from them According to the changes Qur-an as being a people as it was 600 years after they of civilizations by Allah and who were created (grafted) were grafted from us.

His M e s s e n g e r s — f r o m so that they might be tried Moses to this day and the at ruling the righteous for I N THAT WAR, Allah was last Messenger — the resur- the past 6,000 years. successful, d r i v i n g them rection and return of the Their first 2,000 years were (most of them) out Into what lost-and-f o u n d, mentally- spent in the caves and hillis known today as Europe: dead members of the ab- sides of Europe (the only apE U — stands for hills and original people of earth (the pointed continent of Allah cavesides of that continent, Black Nation) is now.

Yakub. for that people). and ROPE means a place Today, they have filled the where that p e o p l e were TODAY, WE live at the THEY SUFFERED divine earth with their wickedness, bound in. end of the world of people chastisement for the f i r s t and dissatisfaction reaches who have ruled the black 2,000 years on this continent the point of 100 per cent Since 1492, the people of man and his various colors for their trouble-making and against their continued rule the white race have been albetween black and white for for causing war and blood- over the nations of b l a c k lowed to spread over the the last 6,000 years. face of the earth (to have the shed a m o n g the original people.

Allah now has put i t i n the freedom of deceiving all that The world of disbelievers black people, who had not and hypocrites know these suffered from wars, exploita- hearts of our people to for- they could). To learn more are the days and the end of tion and enslavement before sake them, and to separate about them, let us read and the creation (grafting) of from them, living to our- study their history. Read i n the rule of the white man.

I am referring to the rule this people by their father. selves as they used to live to the Bible the Revelations of

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BREAKING UP WHITE CIVILIZATION (See Story Above)

Why Art of Selt-Defer^se Is Booming Among Negroes See Page 16

Mississippi's Methodical Starvation of Negroes See Page 2

Afro-Asian Populations Greatest Expansion See Page 21

H o w toG e t a n dK e e p E m p l o y m e n t See Page 10

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(Continued from Page 1) fare program in the city, but America has fulfilled this no family which includes an to the very letter and spirit John, under the title of "The adult Negro male is eligible with her slaves (the soBeast and The Dragon." as a relief recipient." called Negroes) under the Their history shows trou- type of Israel. The EgypDR. POUSSAINT is a na- ble-making, m u r d e r and tians did nothing of the kind tive of Los Angeles, Calif., death to all the darker peo- to Israel when they were in where he has been active ple—the far-off islands and bondage to them. with a branch of the Medical mainlands of Asia, as well Committee for Human Rights as the South Sea, and the PaI N FACT, and as God has for the past two years. He cific a n d Atlantic Oceans. taught, me, the Bible is not came to Jackson seven All have been touched by referring to those people as months ago and immediate- their destructive hand and His people, it is referring to ly became active with the lo- evil way of civilization, and the so-called Negro and his finally, the bringing of my enemy (the white race). The cal group. people to make their de- seventh verse of chapter 3 The Medical Committee is struction sure. also gives us a hint in this an organization interested in way: the health and welfare of all ACTUALLY it was suicide the people. They have sent "Behold, I will raise them for them to have brought our letters of protest to the Pres- fathers into slavery. T h i s out of the place where you ident of the United States and act was charged to them by have sold them and will rethe Secretary of Agriculture, the Divine Supreme Being turn your recompence upon condemning the laxity of the as being the most wicked your own head." (3-7).\ state of Mississippi in obtain- people on the earth.

The slave masters of our ing available food to mainfathers must reap what they Now we see the results in tain the health of women and have sown. children who are starving the fight of the ignorant Allah calls them to war in during this bitterly cold Mis- among our people to gain the 9th verse of the same sincere love from a people sissippi winter. chapter: Cotton - picking machines who have no sincere love and other automation de- among themselves.

"PROCLAIM you among They have never practiced the gentiles, prepare war, vices are displacing thousands of jobs previously held sincere love, according to wake up the mighty men, let

by Negroes. As a result, their own history of war- all of the men of war draw families are being starved making, robbery, murder near, let them come up." out and, during one of the and exploitation a m o n g All the mighty men of scicoldest winters in Mississip- themselves. This is clear to ence and modern warfare pi history, are being evicted you who see and imderstand. have been called in an effort The so - called Negro has to devise instruments and from their homes due to inbeen made so blind, deaf weapons against God and ability to pay rent. and dumb by them that even the armies of heaven. The "THERE IS every indica- the intellectual blacks now nations of the earth are antion ^hatthere-wiihhb-f ewer a r » blindrancLseek t f r m a k c The disbelievers and hypoand fewer jobs as time goes love and friendship with the on," Dr. Poussaint contin- p e o p l e of the devil and crites of my people also are angry over the change of the ued. "No man is going to satan. old world to a new world of stand by and watch his famTHE DAY OF decision be- justice and righteousness, ily starve. The demonstration at Greenville, Miss., Air tween the dark races or na- causing much spiritual darkForce Base was very mild tions was b e g u m by God ness and misunderstanding compared to what may occur Himself in the P e r s o n of to fall upon them. They want if immediate steps are not Master Fard Muhammad, to to judge the person Allah Whom be praised forever, as should choose for His Mestaken to release the food." is prophesied in the Bible: senger.

"Multitudes in the valley of Welfqre Abuses Hit decision, for the day (before BELIEVERS, be aware of WASHINGTON — The De- or by 1970) of the Lord is this chief hypocrite, who partment of Health, Educa- near in the valley of deci- has, for the past y e a r , tion and Welfare has been sion." (Joel 3:14). stepped beyond the limits in asked to hold a hearing on I t is clear that the armies trying to keep people from "substitute parent" policies of the na'tions of the earth following me (see Holy Qurused to deny public welfare have geared themselves for an, Chapter 68:10-16). assistance to persons in a showdown between their I am no more to suffer the Georgia and Arkansas. forces and Allah and the Na- evil and slanderous talk of Asking for the hearing, the tion of Islam. the disbelievers (as though NAACP Legal Defense and We, the so-called Ameri- they are the judges of A l E d u c a t i o n Fimd, Inc., can Negroes, the lost-and- lah's Messenger) as did the launched a campaign against found members of our Na- Messengers before me. Not welfare abuses which will tion are in this decision. The one of you of the 22 million result in litigation in Missis- second and third verses of who do not believe in the sippi, North Carolina, and this same chapter (chapter truth that I am teaching will harm me in the very least— major northern cities, as 3) reads like this: you are harming only yourwell as Georgia and Arkansas. " I WILL ALSO gather all selves. nations and will bring them As I have said, Allah has down into the valley of Je- given me the key to your hoshaphat (Europe and Asia mental death here in AmerMUHAMMAD SPEAKS —between black and white) ica (hell). I am not allowed Published Weekly and will plead with them by H i m to even beg you to there for my people and for believe, because the truth is A n y subscriber t o M u h a m m a d Speaks newsVol. 5—No. 22 Feb. 18,1966 my heritage (the lost-and- plain enough for a fool to see paper w h o is h a v i n g d i f f i c u l t y o r is not r e c e i v i n g his foimd, so-called Negroes), and say that it is the truth.

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JACKSON, Miss. — "We;the newly - obtained Negro charge that there is a deli- vote," said Dr. Alvin F . berate, methodical attempt Poussaint, Southern field dito starve out black men, rector for the Medical Comwomen and children here in mittee for Human Rights. order to force their migra"THERE IS absolutely no tion to the North and thus need for these Negroes to decrease the effectiveness of starve," asserted Dr. Poussaint. "The Federal government made available $24 million worth of surplus food commodities, but white local and state officials, through their inaction, have blocked this food from reaching needy black families."

He said he has received many reports that areas which contain a preponderance of white families have received government surplus food, the whites getting the best of the food and the Negores receiving the leftovers.

"But the city of Jackson and surroimding areas have been allocated none of the food commodities," he added. "There is a type of welDr. Poussaint

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CHARLES P. HOWARD (UN and Foreign Correspondent) UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — There has hardly been any comparable happenings on the African continent since the independence drive began in 1957, that has aroused so much concern and hope as has the recent revolution in Nigeria.

The reason for this complexity arises out of the fact that besides the size of Nigeria, 356,669 sq. m i . and the population 55.6 million, the largest in Africa, the country appeared to have adopted a western-style democracy, especially its weaknesses, and the feeling has been, in many quarters, that Nigeria has for some reason or other accepted the role of "spoiler" of all the efforts of the majority of the new African leaders to establish a realistic Unity Government in Africa.

INFORMED sources have kept out a "weather eye" to see if there were any indications as to w h a t courses t h e new Government would t a k e . Thus far two offic i a 1 statements f r o m t h e Military G o v e r n Howard ment h a v e been distributed here at the United Nations. The first was distributed at a press conference called by Nigeria's Mission Head, Chief A. S. Adebo.

In its first announcement of policy the M i l i t a r y Government vowed to protect the Federation as a paramoimt obligation, suspended the constitution providing for the establishment of the Office of President, the Parliament, and the office of Prime Minister as well as the Regional Governors, Regional Premiers, Executive Councils and Regional Legislatures.

The p o l i c y statement further said that the functions of the Federal Military Government would be exercised by a Supreme Military

Council and an Executive Council. The various Federal Ministries will be run in the future by the Permanent Secretaries, who shall be responsible to the Military Government in their area.

THE COURTS Will continue to operate as formerly. A l l local government police forces and national authority police are placed under the command of the Inspector-General. The statement went on to say that it is the intention to maintain law and order in the Federation until such time as a new constitution for the Federation, prepared in accordance with the wishes of the people is brought into being.

The evidence at this point is clear as to why the old g o v e r n m e n t was overthrown: There was a complete lack of confidence in the. Government because of alleged corruption and graft, the economy of the country was in shambles, and the country was on a political course following the British in whatever they wanted rather than meeting the needs of Nigeria and the rest of the African countries.

It wasn't so much the domination from the North as it

SAVAGELY CRUEL treatment inflicted upon Viet Cong prisoners, whether soldiers or civilians, is symbolized by this Vietnamese prisoner whose leg was amputated. Many African and Asians leaders look upon American war in Viet Nam as the deliberate destruc-

Kennedy to Speak in South Africa CAPE TOWN — The National Union of South African Students said Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, (D-N.Y.) had accepted an invitation to address a multiracial gathering of students here next May.

THE STUDENT g r o u p said it had received a letter from Kennedy's office accepting the invitation. The date of the meeting was not given.

It could not be confirmed immediately whether KenBRITAIN TIGHTENED ECONOMIC SANCTIONS nedy has been granted a visa against rebel Rhodesia by formally making it a crime by the white South African for anyone to export tobacco from the country. government. South Africa * practices strict segregation.

THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN Activities plans to end its investigation of the K u Klux Klan in about two weeks and start considering legislation to Kill Education Bill curb the secret white supremacist organization.

ATLANTA — This state's * * * education committee shoutPRESIDENT JOHNSON CHOSE A railroad executive to ed down a bill by Negro take over the controversial White House Conference on state Rep. William Alexander which would have inCivil Rights.

Ben W. Heineman of Chicago, chairman of the Chicago creased the number of mem& North Western Railway, assumes the chairmanship of bers on the state board of the controversial conference in mid-stream. I t has been education.

The rejection of the bill headed by two lawyers, Morris B. Abram of New York and William T. Coleman Jr. of Philadelphia, both of whom killed the possibility of havhave been identified with the civil rights movement. Mr. ing a Negro named to the state educational body.

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Viet Cong "suspect" hobbies to a waiting LSI to be taken to "interrogation center" for further questioning. Questioning procedures has been criticized as replete with torture.

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WHETHER Morocco's opposition leader, Mehdi Ben Barka is dead or alive remains biggest political mystery to strike France in decades. But uproar over whereabouts of famed leader has caused a near-split between Morocco and France and continuing internal turmoil in Morocco.

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Louisiana Night Riders Bomb Another Negro Home ZACHARY, La. — Night riders hurled a bomb onto the roof of a black man's home here, hospitalizing an elderly, defenseless Negro woman, in the fourth such mysterious explosion involving Negro property since last summer in the Baton Rouge area.

ARTHUR LEWIS said the explosion ripped out the living room of his home, injuring his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Washington.

He said he and Mrs. Washington were in the living room when he heard something strike the building. He

started to investigate, he said, but the bomb blast ripped through the roof.

Ray Herd, head of the state police crime laboratory, said the 10-inch hole in the roof was similar to damage caused by bombings in recent months at the International Motel, the Lincoln Hotel and the Play Pen Night Club, all Negro businesses.

Mr. Lewis, an oil refining employe, said he knew of no labor trouble that c o u l d have prompted the blast, and said he had engaged in "no civil rights activity at all."

A new state law in Illinois requiring doctors and hospitals to report instances of child abuse resulted in reports of 228 alleged eases—15 of which resulted in death—in its first six months, a state official said recently.

The law, in effect since last July, exempts those who report such maltreatment from possible lawsuits by parents alleging damage to their reputations.

Zambians WELL-BUILT Zamhian soldiers march in combat uniform while they train at a base near Zambia's Capital, Lusaka. Map (inset) shows nearness of Zambia to White Supremancy Rhodesia. Rhodesia's Ian Smith spoke with

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was the course of Northern d o m i n a t i o n . Maintainance of one in office by whatever corrupt practices necessary was common.

ON THE 28th of January this year, Major General Aguili Ironsi, head of the Military Government and the man on whose shoulders the task of "picking up the pieces" has fallen, called in the Heads of the Diplomatic Missions in Nigeria and read a prepared statement to them.

After expressing his pleasure at seeing them he said, " I wish this morning to reiterate that my Government is

desirous of maintaining cordial relations with all states and will continue to honor all treaty obligations, including the financial agreements and commitments entered into by the previous Government."

The General went on to say that "there are no plans for nationalising industries." Further, the General said. " M y Government wishes to stress that it will continue to welcome all honest businessmen who are prepared to invest in Nigeria in Nigeria in mutually beneficial projects."

"THE MILITARY Government will uphold the principles of the Charter of the Organization of African Unity

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Informed s o u r c e s here note that these broad statements of principles, and that is about all that they could be at this point, differ but little from the statement of principles of the deposed Government. Of course, it is in the implimentation t h a t the difference, if any, will show.

open contempt of black small, ill-equipped back armies which surrounded him. A number of militant African nations are setting about doing something about their armed forces.

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Man^s V {The author, in his evaluation of the current Vietnamese situation, fointed out that despite a "New York H erald Tribune'' article seeking to prove that the black U.S. soldiers are finding the Vietnamese to be anti-Negro, he had not been confronted by racism from the Vietnamese in any part of the country.^

By Robert S. Browne These allegations are completely at variance to my own lengthy experience in Viet Nam where I encoimtered no racism whatsoever on the part of the Vietnamese but, on the contrary, found many of them sympathetic with the Negro struggle i n America. Indeed, considering the prominence afforded these anti-Negro alle-

America's Leading White Columnist Said This Week: "Those o f us w h o s u p p o r t this s t r a t e g i c a l p r i n c i p l e are c o n v i n c e d t h a t a w a r o n t h e A s i a n m a i n l a n d c a n n o t b e w o n b y a w h i t e W e s t e r n p o w e r . F o r 20 years this b e l i e f has been tested o n the b a t t l e f i e l d s o f I n d o c h i n a , a n d t h e r e is n o reason t o t h i n k t h a t w e are i n sight o f t h e objectives once a g a i n reiterated i n the H o n o l u l u declaration." — WALTER LIPPMAN

U.S. Still Buys Rhodesian Slavery-Mined Chrome Ore WASHINGTON — O r e mined from the slave-labor chromite mines of Rhodesia continues to flow freely into the United States, enriching the coffers of Ian Smith's white supremacy regime, swelling the p o c k e t s of American investors and perpetuating the slavery of Rhodesia's black citizens.

FINANCIAL statements show that two U.S. firms alone import more than $5 million worth of chrome ore

annually from Rhodesia, despite the fact that even the British Government recently banned importation of this ore under an Order in Council.

The two are Union Carbide and the Vanadium corporation. Both firms maintain wholly - owned Rhodesian subsidiaries.

Despite a mild request from the U.S. State Department that these two firms cease dealing with Rhodesia and even an offer of alter-

Robert S. Browne teaches economics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, N.J. He lived in Viet Nam and Cambodia from 1955-1961, while working for the U.S. foreign aid program. In 1965, he returned to Viet Nam to lecture at the Buddhist University in Saigon, to evaluate the current Vietnamese political situation, and to visit friends and {his wife's) relatives.

Browne pointed out in -'his artidle, "The Freedom Movement

and the War'' in Viet Nam," that he was "a non-white, Vietnamesespeaking member of a Vietnamese family f which, said, "frequently made me privy to conversations intended only for Vietnamese ears . . . and provided me with an unusual measure of msight into the deptJis of Vietnamese thinking and emotions."

Excerpts from Browne's article is reprinted from the quarterly magazine, Freedomways, fourth quarter issue, 1965.

nate sources of supply from the Soviet Union, neither Union Carbide nor Vanadium have shown themselves prepared to accept any f i nancial loss involved in joining the Administration's voluntary boycott.

RHODESIA'S SYSTEM OF slave-labor e n a b l e s the white supremacy regime to undersell all competitors, and these two U.S. firms apparently have no scruples a b o u t profiteering from black slavery.

gations, one wonders why so little publicity was given to the fact that i n May of 1964 the Saigon taxi drivers' imion called for a one week boycott of all foreign passengers except American Negroes.

One does not wish to be overly suspicious in this matter. Yet, one of the most depressing aspects of contemporary American diplomacy is Americans obsessive fear of the American Negro's intimacy with other colored nationals. I have written elsewhere of the attempts to convince the Negro that he has nothing in common with the African.

Although the Asian is a virtual stranger to the American Negro, a base for friendship and imderstanding between them certainly exists. I personally recall how, on the occasion of my first encounter with the venerable T r i Quang, leader of the Vietnamese Buddhists, I was momentarily thunderstruck at his appearance for, with his hair clipped short in the traditional style of the Buddhist monk, he looked exactly like any Negro whom one might meet on 125th Street In Harlem.

JUST AS I question how it can be in America's interest to continue its futile effort ta dominate and rule South Viet Nam, even so do I question whether i t is i n the best interest of the American Negro to accept with equanimity the role which he is perhaps being obliged to play in this racially charged struggle.

As a minimum, some effort should be made by Negroes to determine whether Negroes are in fact being used in excessive numbers in Viet Nam so as to deflect the growing Asian accusations that the Vietnamese war in a confrontation between whites and non-whites. I f such practices are substantiated, they wlU indeed be grave ones.

Whether or not any organized Negro protest against the Vietnamese war should take the suggested form of a refusal to do military service deserves considerable thought. Such a call appeared last summer in Mississippi, and later a similar call was circulated by a group entitled Afro-Americans for Freedom.

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Soufh's 7 0 0 Job/ess Black Teachers May be Relocated More than 700 black teachers in southern and border states have lost their jobs because states which force integration of students blatantly refuse to force integration of faculties, according to the National Education Association.

ARMED - TO - TEETH U.S. Paratroopers, considered best trained and equipped troops In the world, cautiously move In on Viet Cong soldiers such as the 15-year-old youth at right who was later captured. His countenance bearing expression of defiance, the Viet Cong youth sneered at U.S. propaganda experts proclaiming America's desire to de-

fend democracy and pursue "peace." Many leaders consider American assault against Viet people as "genocide," a war In which nearly an entire race of people are being destroyed—thousands of whom are as young as the above 15-year-old "enemy" and younger.

SOME 500 of the Negro teachers have been invited to participate in a re-training program in the New York City area and 50 more will receive letters in the next few months inviting them to apply for Chicago teaching jobs.

Some Negro leaders across the nation have voiced objections to the retraining and relocation programs, stating " I f they can force southern school systems to integrate students, they can force them to integrate faculties."

The government has ignored these appeals and agencies continue to recruit Negro teachers displaced by integration of staffs in southern school systems.

recruitment for the Chicago Board of Education said letters are also going to 50 Negro teacher graduates of the class of 1965 who have been unable to find jobs.

Miss Dieterle said she requested names of teachers after learning that the National Education association made a survey of 17 southern and border states and found that 700 southern Negro teachers were losing their jobs in the process of integration.

Many have already been placed or indicated they do not wish to move far away from their homes, Miss Dieterle said.

DURING THE current school year, the Chicago board has hired 150 teachers with previous experience in the South, according to the department of personnel. I t is estimated that at least 25 of these were among teachers displaced by integration.

Chicago's chief teacher recruiter will also visit several dozen southern college caenLOUISE DIETERLE, new- puses, including N e g r o " ly appointed head of teacher schools, this spring.

Invoke Rights Act to Force Use of Negro Apprentices, Labor Secretary Wirtz Told 10,000 Negroes Registered This will give BAT more from the Civil Rights ComWASHINGTON — The token effect of the Civil Rights "teeth" because the Com- mission and several civil In One County in Alabama mission could bring about

Act of 1964 was thrown into the face of Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz recently when an advisory group pointed out that i f the Act is to have "teeth" in bringing about ernployment reforms it must be used to break down the barrier of racial discrimination in union apprenticeship programs.

I N A report issued two years ago the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said that only 5.5 per cent of those in building trade union apprenticeship programs in eight states surveyed were Negroes.

A similar situation exists in many local imions now.

An advisory Committee recommended that the Federal E q u a l Employment O p p o r t u n i t y Commission, created by Title V I I of the Civil Rights Act, be teamed up with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT) to erase racial barriers.

court action to break down patterns of bias, according to Donald D. Glover, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor John F. Henning.

Under Title V I I , the Commission can ask the Attorney General to seek Injunctions where a "pattern or a practice of resistance" to full employment exists. BAT has no such power.

One committee member said this could prove effective in dealing with national unions that steadfastly refuse to admit Negroes in their apprentice training programs.

rights organizations that feel much stronger Federal measures are needed if Negroes are to gain more than token entry into training programs.

The Bureau has little enforcement power if a union refuses to admit Negroes, Glover said.

DESPITE this, the Committee said the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training "should carry the primary responsibility for a massive and vigorous affirmative action campaign" with the unions that sponsor the apprenticeship programs.

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The Committee's recommendation follows prodding

WASHINGTON—The Census Bureau reports t h a t about 1.5 million men and women 65 or older—or 8 per cent of this age group—are working full-time. This compares with 1.8 million, or 11 per cent, in 1960 and 1.9 million, or 15 per cent, in 1950.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — More than 10,000 Negroes in Jefferson County which includes Birmingham h a v e been certified as v o t e r s since Federal voting examiners went to work there 11 days ago.

JOE JUSTINE, state supervisor in charge of examiners now working in 11 Alabama counties, said that the registrars in Jefferson had certified 10,220 Negroes between Jan. 24 and Feb. 2.

They started work in the state's l a r g e s t county Jan. 24.

The heavy registration in Jefferson brought to 48,095 the total number of Negroes added to the voting roils in the state by the Federal officers since the work began last August.

1,993; Hale, 3,323; Lowndes, 2,000; Marengo, 4,615; Montgomery, 9,452; Perry, 2,543; Wilcox, 3,444.

Turbines for Power Station

NAIROBI — A $1,500,000 contract has been awarded to Boving and Company for two vertical shaft Kaplan turbines for installation at Kindaruma hydro - electric power station, Kenya.

The power station is on the Tana River and is the first stage of the S e v e n Forks p r o j e c t being exploited by the East African Power and Lighting Company.

When completed, the project will supply the whole of FOLLOWING are the to- Kenya. Completion of the first unit is planned for Octals by county: Autauga, 974; D a l l a s , tober, 1967, and the second 8,489; Elmore, 1,202; Greene in February, 1968.

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After miraculously surviving centuries of genocidal colonialism, Africa has emerged into what appears, on the surface, a vast number of "independent" 'nations. However, the ease with which Europe and America dominates most of these new nations is evidence that their real struggle for freedom has yet to he won.

The following analysis of "Africa's Real ProblemNeo-Colonialism" is a commentary on an article by otie of Egypt's leading scholars and historians, on the road .Africa may be forced to take in order to finally win true ownership of the products of its own soil and soul.

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South African Courts Claim Crushing Of Three Black Guerrilla Warfare Leaders CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Three black South Africans were sentenced to very long prison terms here on the spurious c h a r g e : "conspiring to send people outside the country for training in guerrilla warfare and sabotage."

THE purpose of the alleged training, i t was suggested during the trial, was to achieve the aim of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress and its military wing Poqu—the violent overthrow of the racist South African Government and the establishment of an African democratic state.

At the conclusion of the unusually long trial, which became known as the "guerrilla warfare training t r i a l , " Kwedi Mkhalipi was sentenced to 20 years, Jack Jaza 17 years and Wilson Mketshane 11 years.

I n a revealing off-the-cuff statement after the trial, the judge, M r . Justice Theron told newsmen, " 1 w o u l d

A r e Really

By Mohamed Zoghby (Special to Muhammad Speaks) Five or six corporations own the fabulous wealth of Africa. The Anglo-American Corporation Ltd. stands as a good example in this respect.

This corporation owns in South, East and Central Africa a b o u t 100 companies which work in different fields and in a number of coimtries. This corporation owns: • Banks or companies—35 • Diamond companies—7 • Iron and coal companies—18 • Gold-mining companies—15 • Companies for other minerals—12 • Exploration companies —13 • Industrial companies —23 • Agricultural companies—7 • Companies for the recruiting of African workers who are sent where their toil is needed—2 TO FACILITATE the drawing of t h e people's wealth, the African countries were Balkanized so that popular resistance m a y be weakened.

(Editor's Note: "Balkanized" means to break regions into smaller segments.)

But the arbitrary barriers imposed on the African peoples opened their eyes to their dire need for unity.

But more serious still than the artificial boundaries set up by imperialism was the

creation of l o c a l classes which were placed on the top, who, together with the imperialist interests, glean the riches of the African countries. The interests of such classes are best served under the present borders and would be lost with the realization of bigger economic units.

IMPERIALISM created such classes from a mixture of tribal chieftains and local employees who reached the top in serving the occupation authorities. Promising elements who mutinied against the imjust economic conditions were lured and the i m perialists succeeded i n some cases in winning some to their side.

A prominent Egyptian editor quotes, as an example, a youth whom he met at the U N and was bubbling with enthusiasm against i m perialism. Yet, when he met him recently in Accra, he was a ruler who owned thousands of acres, had several palaces and innumerable cars.

In answer to the editor's queries, he simply said: Those companies facilitate everything. " I haven't paid one penny." Everything was given to him on a silver plate.

"Those whites made us believe that one has to toil and work hard to become rich.

But to become rich was much easier," he continued.

Commenting, the editor said that the whites were still fooling him, for they bought his m u t i n y with money in implementation of (Continued on Page 26)

have imposed the death penalty if there had been any proof." This statement was later denied.

THERE were 83 sitting days during the trial and the judge took three days to deliver judgment.

During the trial a number of African witnesses, whose identities were ordered not to be revealed, told of receiving military training in the Congo and Basutoland, among other countries.

T e s t i m o n y conflicted greatly concerning the roles played by t h e defendants.

Impartial observers almost unanimously agree that the stiff sentences were meant to serve as a "deterrent to others."

Tokyo Population

Up

TOKYO — Tokyo population on Dec. 1, 1965, was 10,905,264, an increase of 17,877 over the previous month, t h e metropolitan government reports. They were 5, 587,362 males and 5,317,902 females.

AFRICA IS learning the bitter truth that independence can be a far cry from true freedom. The evidence is on every level of activity in independent black nations—even the military. The armed forces of Zambia are still under the command (above) of

British brass. Observers, say Africa will never be truly free as long as its military operates on commands from the former colonialists.

British officer (left) watches members of a Zambian mortar platoon practice loading and firing as he barks orders.

FEBRUARY 18, 1966

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New Volta Dam to Give Ghana Biggest Man-made Lake; Power equal to Chicago TEMA, Ghana — January enables Ghana to undertake 23, 1966, marked a g i a n t a vast industrial expansion.

I s t r i d e for- Several years before ward i n this political independence was socialist na- achieved, the p e o p l e of t i o n ' s eco- Ghana began construction nomic devel- of a g r e a t new port at p p m e n t , as Tema. This port is an essenDr. Kwame tial part of the Volta River Nknimah, in Project. a ceremony Not only will the raw maI attended by terials needed at the giant several world Valco Aluminum Smelter be I d i g n i t a r - fed through this port, but lies, pulled a the finished products of the Nkrumah s w i t c h to smelter—aluminum ingots— start the first generator at will leave Ghana for world Akosombo P o w e r Station, markets from Tema. inaugurating completion of This port, the largest artithe first stage of the Volta ficial harbor in Africa, is alRiver Project. ready in full operation. Ten b e r t h s have been conTHIS PROJECT offers a constructed and two m o r e large potential of cheap hy- are being built.

FIRST - CLASS handling dro-electric p o w e r which

equipment, railways, d u a l carriage-way road connections and warehouses (including four huge sheds for the national crop, cocoa), have been provided.

The V a l c o Aluminum Smelter will be the main user of Akosombo's electricity, providing Ghana with a major e x p o r t which will bring foreign currency. But other users are not neglected.

The oil r e f i n e r y , steel works and all the various light industries which have been established since Tema began to take shape in the 1050s will be joined by new enterprises, a 11 thirsty for the cheap and plentiful electricty provided

by Akosombo.

PRESIDENT Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan met United States President Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington last December before going home to institute changes in ancient tribal laws.

Says America in Clutches of Military Rule

Pakistani Tribal Laws to SOUTH BEND, Ind.—"The that the real issue in Viet tion of the Vietnamese peomilitary establishment of Nam is not the so-called ple.

Be Changed and Modernized the United States is dictat- communist conspiracy. I t is Reverend Bill has Joined

ing our Viet Nam policy, the issue of self-.determina- David Sims Jr., in the strugwhich has led to U.S. violagle a g a i n s t U.S. involvetion of both the Geneva Acment in Viet Nam. Sims' son, cord of 1954 and the United David i n , is fighting with Nations Charter, which exthe M a r i n e Corps in the plicitly forbids one nation mm Southeast Asian war. from establishing military MUHAMMAD SPEAKS! installations in a n o t h e r Dec. 3, 1965, edition concoimtry," said the Rev. Lestained an exclusive story of ter Bill, associate minister Sims' single-handed strugof the First M e t h o d i s t gle against United S t a t e s Church of South Bend, and atrocities in S o u t h Viet staunch advocate of peace Nam. in Viet Nam. Reverend Bill pointed out "FIRST THE U.S., with that the mass communicaits unlimited economic retions media in America are sources, set up a p u p p e t very partial. government In South V i e t "FOR ONE t h i n g , " he Nam," he continued. "Then through this regime—^which RECENTLY ARRIVED in Viet said, "they don't give us the does not represent the peo- Nam, David Sims ill sent this opinions of the world press. ple—the U.S. invited itself to photo to his father, David Sims Nor do they list accurate intervene i n the internal af- Jr., who is waging battle in figures on the number of South Bend, Ind., to bring U.S. casualties suffered in fairs of the country."

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN—One of the first leaders in the African and Asian worlds to decide that modem times had robbed the ancient tribal laws of their usefulness was President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan, who, after his return from a visit with 'United States President Johnson, instituted a change in the old measures.

THE HIGH C o u r t s of Pakistan had declared the Frontier Crimes Regulation in conflict with the Pakistani Constitution. The 100-yearold Frontier Crimes Regulation and the Quetta and Kalat criminal laws will be scrapped and a new law written to meet present-day tribal requirements.

The new law will provide Jirga trials (a Jirga is composed of tribal elders named by political agent or commissioner) . However, t h e new law will give offenders the right of appeal to higher legal institutions.

Gradually, normal l a w s are being extended to the traditional tribal territories in order to eliminate distinctions and merge the tribal agencies with the settled areas for the purposes of administration.

Tribesmen already have representation in the legislatures. Instead of being

nominated, their representatives now are elected by the elders.

DEVELOPMENT p l a n s have been extended to the tribal territories and several cottage industries based on local materials have sprung up.

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SAN JUAN, P.R. — T h e Caribbean area, which includes Puerto Rico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela, has oil reserves of 18.8 billion barrels, or 5.4 per c e n t of the world's p r o v e d reserves. This is nearly as much as reserves recorded for all Africa.

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Muhammad^ With the main contracts signed and sealed, wheels began rolling this week for Muhammad All's third defense of his world heavyweight title against challenger Ernie Terrell in Chicago's International Amphitheater on March 29th. " I ' M WELL pleased wjth With Main Bout, Inc. on this one," Muhammad con- the s c e n e , Muhammad fided to M U H A M M A D moved immediately to his SPEAKS newspaper. "Even M i a m i camp where he the promoters seem satis- dropped all extraneous matfied. Chicago is the site I ters to concentrate upon the wanted in the first place and job of getting into perfect the company I wanted to physical and mental condihandle my ancilary rights. tion. (The Champ has promMain Bout, Inc. is well in the ised MUHAMMAD SPEAKS saddle." readers a new exclusive Muhammad was referring poem on the outcome of to the new promotional com- the fight, as he has done in pany under the brilliant his previous engagements.) leadership of its president, M u h a m m a d ' s schedHerbert Muhammad, a long- ule calls- for h i m to be in time friend of the Champ's Miami until Feb. 26th when and which includes veteran he will fly to Chicago on promoter, Mike Malitz. The Saviors Day to be with his Louisville-born athlete said leader and teacher, the Honit was the kind of team in orable Elijah Muhammad which he had the utmost con- and his brothers and sisters fidence. of Muhammad's Mosques of

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Victory '-s\ '-,J

Islam. The final days of training will be in, Chicago's Trianon ballroom.

Thus the third and most significant defense of the coveted title won by Muhammad from Sonny Liston is now underway and with the establishment of a fresh new company. Already fight observers are marveling at the progress the new company president has enabled the Champion to make, particularly in receiying one of the highest percentage guarantees of any fighter in history for his coming contest.

'Hello Bag, I'm Back'

I N following weeks, M U HAMMAD SPEAKS will resume its exclusive day-byday accounts of events from the Camp of the Champ. " I ' l l tell you what it's like to be back in the g y m , " Muhammad All said to fans and followers. "See you next week."

Nigerians Blast Critics of Muhammad Ali "We attended Muhammad ing his obvious bias," said All's fight with Floyd Pat- Samuel Akpabot of Calabar, terson and saw on thea- Nigeria, who is a musicology ter television his first-round major at the University of knockout of Sonny L i s t o n .

No question about i t , he is one of the greatest prize fighters of all time and any sports writer that fails to WASHINGTON — Rhodegive him credit as such must sia's white supremacy rebe prejudiced," said two N i gerian students who are gime has opened an office in Washington which w i l l be studying i n Chicago. used to encourage U.S. in" I WROTE a letter to vestments in the black-slave Jimmy Cannon, one of the few writers who criticized state and pass out propaMr. All's ability, and stated ganda leaflets supporting my disappointment concern- Ian Smith's unilateral decla-

Chicago. He studied at the University of London for five years and plans to return to (Continued on Page 24)

Opens U.S. Branch Office ration of independence.

THE opening of tile office, which has been registered with the United States Government, was disclosed yesterday with the distribution of an eight-page publication by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information, Immigration and Tourism.

HARDLY W A I T I N G to get into training togs, Muhammad

Ail

bangs a w a y a t t h e b a g , g l a d t o be b a c k in t h e g y m .

Muslim Champ Spends Day At Chkago School, Molds Concept of 'Black Heroes'

THE C H A M P

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Thousands of surprised and delighted black pupils of Chicago's Beethoven Elementary s c h o o l greeted World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad A l i when the famed Muslim athlete visited their school at the request of Negro teachers, who felt the need to present a real-live black hero to their children to offset the daily "white heroes" they see and

H E A V Y W E I G H T C H A M P I O N M u h a m m a d A l i , i n v i f e d t o spend a d a y w i t h c h i l d r e n o f C h i c a g o ' s Beethoven E l e m e n t a r y School b e f o r e s t a r t i n g arduous t r a i n i n g t o r his t i t l e defense, sits in r o o m a n d p o i n t s t o t h e i r t e a c h e r s . W h e n

the

Champ

hear "on television and radio. der, Jacqueline Holmes, Patricia Colvin, Rhonda Moore, MUHAMMAD A L I p u t Cynthia Thornhill, L i n d a aside his tight schedule for nullum, Isobel Lemon and a day to fraternize with Mary Valentine. Edward G. students and teachers in Gardner is assistant princiwhat both call "a day that pal of Beethoven. will be long remembered."

I t all began with an inviWHAT APPARENTLY betation to the popular Muslim gan as a class affair soon Champion f r o m student escalated into total school teacher Barbara J. Collaso (Continued on Page 12) and her colleagues Jack Gei-

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How to Keep

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Blind,

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Deaf Islam

By Abdul Basit Naeem think . . . for all its virtues, THE FACT is that the Islam demands a little too Honorable Elijah MuhamA Christian "friend" of mad's followers live by the mine, long a w a r e of my much of its adherents."

At first I thought I agreed principles of Islam and the avowed appreciation of the NATION OF ISLAM, asked with my Christian "friend's" Holy Quran because they want to do so. They shun the me the other day if I could view and analysis . . . explain why the U.S. Mus"After a l l , " I attempted to devil's temptations and ways lim movement remained a tell myself, "isn't i t true because they abhor evil and WE SHOULD even ask them to forgive us for asking "relatively small" organiza- that Muslims are required to wrong-doing.

Besides, they love Islam them for employment or for even asking them for a bowl tion. pray not once a week but of soup or a piece of bread, after they gave us 100 years five times each day? (Not because i t enables them and their kind to B E THEMto do for self. You may not like this — but truth is truth.

"THE MUSLIMS possess only that, we have to underGo to the employment offices of the white man — the a rather impressive propa- go an elaborate process of SELVES, to achieve t r u e human progress and contentcreators of your jobs — with the above words in mind. You g a n d a ma- washing and cleansing our ment ( F R E E D O M , JUSwould not disgrace yourself i f you pulled your hat off — bodies before each prayer c h i n e r y— TICE and EQUALITY) and, since you had all this time to make employment for yourwith t h e i r ritual.) Don't we have to eventually, to see the HEREself. fast not just a few days i n own weekly AFTER (Heaven on earth). the best that he can. Emn e w spaper, a year but every single day As far as they are conof an entire month (RamaYOU MAY HAVE in your ployers like a good laborer schools, cerned, those who continue possession a degree or a like you. books, radio dan) and then some? Isn't i t to oppose ALLAH (God) and expected of each of us to diploma from their schools Go as clean as possible. and TV spots perform the pilgrimage to reject ISLAM — especially or colleges. This makes it all Keep a clean mouth on the and a l l , " he Mecca at least once in a in these last days of the' the worse—you should be job. Do not use filthy, ims t a t e d , his lifetime (provided we can wicked (European) people's across the street making a clean, w i c k e d or profane voice sugges- financially afford i t ) ? " time and rule — "just must job for yourself. Speak nice language. This is also distive of earnnot be in their right minds." to your would-be employer respecting the employment est interest.

Naeem "Not in their right minds? (good manners). he has given you. Let the I CONTINUED to argue "Why is it, Do not count how many of person k n o w that you re- then, the vast majority of within me: "Isn't it taboo . . . That's i t ! " I finally exclaimed — this time loud his own kind he hired before spect his authority. (so - called) N e g r o e s in for a Muslim to touch to- enough for my Christian he talked to you and turned Do not have unnecessary America have not seen fit to bacco and alcohol and to "friend" to hear every word yon down. You are in no conversations on t h e job. cast their lot with them?" consume swine flesh and of it. "Yes, I ' l l tell you the position to do so.

You were hired to work, not I was about to answer my narcotic drugs? Isn't it a real reason why all or most Go to work and give him to converse — whether it is "friend" when he added: fact that he cannot curse, Asiatic (black) people in the a full day's work. Do not religious or whatever. Do "Now, please do not misun- swear or invoke the Lord's wilderness of North Amerseek to do other than that. not t r y to advertise some- derstand me. I happen to name in vain? ica have not joined up with Respect the foreman as a thing without his permission. know that ISLAM is an ex"Furthermore, a Muslim the Honorable Elijah Muforeman; the lieutenant as tremely potent and powerful is not allowed to Indulge in hammad. They don't know the lieutenant; the superreligion. I also know that gambling and other games any better and can't help intendent as the superinten- Brando Movie Praised (the Honorable) Elijah Mu- of chance. He cannot go themselves . . . dent.

NEW YORK — The Na- hammad and his numerous d a n c i n g or watch lewd tional Newspaper Publishers able and industrious la- movies and shows. There "YOU SEE, the MessenDO NOT H I D E around Association has enthusiasti- borers have been trying to are restrictions on the womger himself has stated, on corners on the job and rob propagate it across this land en, too. A Muslim woman occasions, the the owner of 5 or 10 minutes cally praised a private show- for over thirty years. I am may not, for instance, outfit numerous lost-fovmds of his people (soing of "The Chase," Sam or an hour's work. One who just wondering . . . " herself in the beast's fash- called 'Negroes') in this part does so is not a man who Spiegel's new Columbia Picions or waste her money on of the world cannot be reneeds a job — this is the tures release. wigs, hair straighteners and garded as ALIVE — as A l ON AN impulse I interaction of a man who needs The Negro publishers' rupted the Reverend Pastor artificial (so-called) beauty lah's b e l i e v e r s are and a rest — or a job to keep aids . . . " should be. They are mere group acclaimed the movie, and, after apologizing for my from working. walking and talking corpses rude behavior, asked him i f Then, suddenly it struck Your employer bargained starring M a r l o n Brando perchance he possessed an me that these "restrictions" long deprived of their souls, for your labor — not your and Jane Fonda. opinion of his own on the involved no hardship or com- hearts and mental capaciidle time. Be honest with Set in Tarl, Texas, the film subject. "Yes, I do," re- pulsion for the Muslim men ties." yourself and others. tells of the search for an es- sponded the preacher. " I and women at a l l !

(To Be Continued) Do the best that you can caped prisoner and the narto please your employer. Do row-minded hatred revealed not say, "1 will work as by residents of the communislowly as I can" in order to ty as the convict Fs hunted deny the employer an hon- down. est day's work. Say, "I will do whatever I can to keep S U P P O R T pace with the other workers M U HAMMAD'S without becoming exhausted about the great message of truth in on the job." Do so.

MOSQUE OF ISLAM

By Elijah Muhammod We must recognize the people, their office and authority whom we are seeking employment from — that they are the people who own the country and are in authority. They are the people who created the job which you are seeking.

They are the people from whom we are actually seeking our existence, whether we work or play.

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How A Lfsf of Foods We

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"What Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, has revealed to me" grain. The whole grain is too hard to digest. Never eat freshly c o o k e d bread. I t rises and b u c k l e s in the stomach. Eating f r e s h l y cooked bread will shorten your life.

Do not eat the rich soy bean flour. Neither the flour nor the oil from the soy bean DO NOT EAT field peas, is good for our stomachs. black - eye peas, speckled DO NOT EAT the vegetapeas, red peas or b r o w n ble kale, nor sweet potatoes peas. and white (Irish) potatoes Do not eat lima beans, or baby limas. Do not eat any are a staple food for people bean but the small navy who live in frigid zones. Or, "See, He's Really A Little G u y — I t ' s Just That He O f This Big N e g r o . " bean — the little b r o w n for people who cannot afford pink ones, and the w h i t e other vegetables. ones.

The main thing you must Do not eat cornbread be- do — I will repeat — is eat cause it is very hard on the one meal a day, or once evstomach, and not easily di- ery 24 hours. And never eat NEW YORK — The refusal Other African nations, ingested. Eat whole wheat — or even touch the swine of Nigeria, to go along with cluding Egypt, Ghana, Mali, b r e a d , but not the whole flesh.

America's p o l i c y in the Guinea and the Congo (Brazs a v a g e Viet Nam has zaville) have branded America's war in Viet Nam as stiffened the resistance of naked aggression. Although other Asian and African na- the Johnson administration WASHINGTON — The all- cal nor scientific knowledge tions against the resumption officially announced as a white population reference is equally distributed to Af- of bombings of North Viet "great success" the recent bureau reports that t h e rican and^Asian nations.

Nam, it was reliably re- efforts to convince neutral Cook contends that time is world's population is grownations of the "justice" of ing so fast that 100 million short for mass tragedy to be ported here this week.

America's position—the fact persons are close to the fam- averted by citing the buremains that opposition to NIGERIA the largest nareau's statistics for 131 naine line.

American policy is deepention in Africa with a populations, showing the world's BUT ROBERT C. COOK, birth rate is up and the tion of 60 million, had, until ing. its recent change of leaderbureau president, fails to re- death rate down. automatically THE current foreign relaMany leading scientists ship port that most of the technisupported American policies tions committee hearings on cal and scientific knowhow is hold that the earth can procontrolled by white nations duce enough food for all the —even that which included the Viet Nam war, conducted support of U.S. bloody inter- by Senator J. W. Fulbright and that neither the techni- people for years to come. vention in the Congo.

(D. Ark.), was brought about However, Nigeria's chief not only because of criticism S. O. Adeboro's has openly abroad but of opposition to criticized the bombing of the Viet Nam here at home.

Hanoi and has found himself "It's bad to have this divistrongly supported by A l - sion," Fulbright said. " I geria's ambassador to the have never seen such disUN, Tewfik Bouattoura.

Muhammad's University girls and the Honorable Eliof Islam, which is gaining jah Muhammad, President international recognition for and Foimder.

FREEDOM, its high academic curricuMuhammad's University lums, is marking the end of of Islam educators throughthe first half of the 1965-66 out the nation of Islam will JUSTICE and school year by a series of have exhibitions on lesson special programs, which be- planning, visual aids, the soEQUALITY gan with its "Home Coming called new system of mathDay" last month. ematics and language arts, W E MUST H A V E said Sister Dr. Zella X .

OR E L S E A HIGH school girl play and student council installaWould you like remaining a tion was held on Feb. 2, said Secret Tobacco permanent slave or being a Sales permanent member of a soup Sister Dr. Zella X, school SALISBURY, Rhodesia — line? Are you with us to get principal. A banquet will be held at 6 p.m., on Feb. 14; Rhodesian tobacco sales this Freedom, Justice and Equality graduation program on Feb. year will be held in secret, for the So-Called Negroes?

15, with Atty. Brother David probably for the first time P L E A S E S E N D US Y O U R X . Bradley of Cincinnati, in the history of tobacco O., as guest speaker and a marketing. closing program on Feb. 16 An announcement by the Name . . .

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YOUNG STUDENTS at Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago form an "honor guard" (left photo) around Muhammad Ali. the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Two teachers join the Muslim champ (center photo)

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participation that grew from a mere handful to hundreds packed into one room. The rumor circulated throughout the school that Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) was visiting brought class work to an abrupt halt.

The Champ posed with groups of children until mere numbers made i t necessary for the faculty to move the school population into the general assembly room. Seated on the dias in the center of the room, the Champ explained: " I A M the greatest because I believe I am the greatest in my profession. I f you don't believe in yourself, nobody will. Whatever you do, be the greatest by applying yourself."

He requested all students to repeat after h i m : " I am the greatest, I am the greatest, I am the greatest."

He philosophized on superstitions of white society by discrediting "black" as an evil color omen.

"How many of you believe a black cat is bad luck?" he asked.

THE ROOM was filled with upraised hands. The Champ s m i l e d , then inquired: "Why should a black cat be any more bad luck than any other color of cat?" He explained that the black cat omen is a part of white society's teachings.

Black is just another color like any other, Muhammad Ali said, then asked: "What is the color of the best coffee?"

His audience answered "black " "What is the color of the most valuable earth?" The answer was "black."

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"WHO IS my next oppoThe Champ explained why it is necessary for them to nent?

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DESPITE THE exhortations for "peace," savage Vief Nam war goes on and the casualties continue to mount. This medic ot the 1st Air Cavalry crouches low over a wounded soldier.

Official U.S. reports still claim losses to be "light" despite the increased drafting ot civilians.

ALTHOUGH TURMOIL still prevails throughout most ot Indonesia following last year's alleged attempted coup, irrepressible President Sukarno still remains the idol of the

country as this happy dedication ot a hospital site in Jakarta recently revealed. At left is Mrs. Sukarno, Japanese-born Ratna Sari Dewi, shading her eyes with both hands.

THE ANCIENT NILE has seen many civilizations come and go but never before modern amphibious tank to swim across its shore.

Part of President Gamal Nasser's program tcr

modernize his country's army, this tank was seen during recent celebration ot Egyptian army. In the background is the modern Nile Hilton Hotel.

GETTING READY tor spring training and a possible $150,000 per season salary, San Francisco Giant's Willie Mays, highest paid player in history ot baseball and rated the greatest, autographs a ball tor a youngster in Harding Park Golf course.

PROTESTING WHAT THEY CALLED escalation of the war in South Viet Nam, an estimated 1,300 members of the Women's Strike for Peace picketed the White House Wednesday. Wearing white doves of peace, they released helium-filled black balloons carrying the slogan, "Stop the killing."

THE UNITED STATES PLANS to double its manpower in South Viet Nam, a former White House aide said Wednesday. This country's armed forces in Viet Nam will total 400,000 by year's end, Otto Eckstein told a Chamber of Commerce meeting. There are slightly more than 200,000 Ainerican servicemen now in South Viet Nam.

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K U M I T E DRILL is d e m o n s t r a t e d b y M a r c u s Chassagne ( I . ) 17, a n d R o n a l d de L o a c h , 16. Chassagne w o n t i r s t p l a c e in K a t a and s e c o n d p l a c e in K u m i t e a t r e c e n t S o u t h t o w n Y . M . C . A . c o m ^ p e t i t i o n . K u m i t e is t r e e - s t y l e s p a r r i n g and Kata consists o t t w o minutes o t non-stop m o c k d e f e n s e and a t t a c k a g a i n s t s i m u l a t e d o p p o n e n t s rushing in f r o m d i f f e r e n t d i r e c t i o n s . Performers are judged tor f o r m , power, speed.

K A R A T E B L O C K I N G t e c h n i q u e is d e m o n s t r a t e d by Tony M i t chell ( I . ) , 12, s t u d e n t o f Parkside E l e m e n t a r y School, w h o has a b r o t h e r a n d sister s t u d y i n g k a r a t e . His o p p o n e n t is C u r t i s Ellis, 12, s t u d e n t o t W i l l i a m H . Ray E l e m e n t a r y S c h o o l . K a r a t e i n s t r u c t o r and c o - o w n e r o t t h e a c a d e m y , R o b e r t B r o w n , w h o holds a f i r s t - d e g r e e b l a c k b e l t , w a t c h e s .

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Negroes throw a punch, 15 to 18 different kicks, 15 stances and combinations of a l l of these," said Robert Brown, karate instructor and coowner of the academy.

Brown, a Chicago police officer who holds a karate first-degree black belt, has been studying the art ~-for four years, starting at the Chicago Judo and Karate Center.

"Karate is not simply a matter of execution," Brown said. " I t includes discipline, mental training and a kind of philosophy. I t might be said that karate is a way of life."

HE SAID several parents have reported improvement in their childrens' school grades since enrollment in the karate academy. " I n the first place, we exclude drop-outs and goof-offs of all kinds from enrollment," Brown pointed out "Nor can a man or boy with a criminal record join the program. Of course, this Is not a rigid rule. I f we see that a person is rehabilitatec, who once went wrong and has proven himself over the course of a few years, then we'd admit h i m on a probationary basis."

He said the reason for this is rather elementary. A l though karate is primarily a defensive art, the skill can also be used to attack and "we wouldn't want our students to go out and strongarm someone," he said.

"In the wrong hands, karate can be a very dangerous skill," Brown asserted. " I would venture to say that any unarmed black-belt holder can instantly kill a man in several ways. And this is not just talk."

BROWN pointed out that the groin is the most vulnerable spot on a man or woman if the aim is merely to incapacitate, but the temple is the spot to hit if an instant kill is sought.

"But if you're being attacked, you can't always reach your attacker's groin or temple and this is where karate is of most value," he continued.

"We stress training in use of the foot and legs. A

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skilled karate practitioner can effect am instant kill by directing a kick against any part of the human torso."

Brown pointed out that the legs are three to five times as muscular and powerful as the arms and therefore constitute the most effective weapon an unarmed person has.

BROWN'S SCHOOL, t h e Tong Shoo-Do Academy, won the last four tournaments entered. The school teaches four styles of karate: the goju, for very stocky individuals with powerful arms and legs; the sharei, for students with thick upper torsos, powerful arms and short

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Most Believe Phone Taps, Electronic Evesdrop, Regular Port of Police (Pan-African Research Associates) P o l i c e , F B I and other agencies' use of secret listening devices—many so revolutionary they make wire tapping seem outdated — remains a subject of heated controversy.

THIS WEEK President Chiang Kai-Shek, the American-supsorted version of "China" raised clenched fist to declare that ie expects soon to "return" to mainland China and assume control of the 700 million Chinese under the leadership of the Chinese Communist. More than 20 billion dollars have been poured into Chiang Kai-Shek's Formosa by U.S. to support this odd dream.

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legs; and the gung-fu, a fasthand technique d e a l i n g mostly with open-hand attack and defense.

"Wc hold the interest of our young students by starting out teaching what they came to learn — execution.

After learning basic combinations, drills for power, speed and accuracy, the students are taught the vital parts of the human body," Brown continued.

"Wc stress grace and form. All physical endeavors must have good form. Discipline, of course, is maintained at all times. Nothing can be learned without discipline."

The academy holds instructions every night, Monday through Friday. The tuition is $25 per month for

Construction Aid to Sudan KHARTUM, Sudan — Agricultural and reconstruction equipment worth ak least $6 m i l l i o n and, perhaps, as much as $10 million was granted the Sudanese government by the American Agency for International Development (AID).

The contracts between the government here and AID provide that the loan would be refunded over a 50-year period. The first installment falls due after 10 years, with the interest standing at one per cent during that period, to rise in the following 40 years to 1.5 per cent.

A U.S. embassy spokesman here said that another $1.5 million would be allocated to Sudan for a communications survey.

THE U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and even some state and local police have admitted employing these devices, but unanimously declare "their use is for investigatory purposes only." They make no mention of the obvious fact that use of "eavesdropping" mechanisms is a reprehensible invasion of privacy.

One of the latest electronic secret listening devices is the "Sound Gim," which was perfected by the television media for audience-partici-

adults and $20 a month for students under 17 years of age.

As a student becomes more proficient in the art, he is promoted by receiving higher-ranking belts. There are five degrees of white belt —white, yellow, green, blue and purple; three degrees of brown belt and 10 degrees of black belt.

A STUDENT who has not achieved black-belt status cannot compete against a black-belt holder. But a holder of a first-degree black belt can compete against a student who has reached the tenth-degree black b e l t .

Brown said that when a student reaches his first-degree black belt, he should be able to take care of himself.

"The method of promotion has recently been changed," he said. " A few months ago, all the ranking black belts in the city called for a tournament during which promotions were considered. Now, t h e academy instructors grant promotions through the degrees up to the black belt. Only a" committee of black-belt holders can grant a promotion in the black-belt range."

Brown pointed out that karate is not only important as a martial art, but also a great character builder, i f properly taught.

"We've s e e n complete changes in personalities In our students," he said. "Karate gives a person a sense of confidence and pride. I ' d recommend it for every Negro youth in America."

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BUT WHAT does the average black man and woman on the street think about use of these "secret" listening devices?

Pan-African Research Associates recently conducted a poll of some 3,600 Negroes in the South and an equal number in the North.

The question: Do you believe there is widespread use of wire - tapping and other secret listening devices by the F B I , police, etc?

The answers: In the South: Yes 62% No 32% No Opinion 4% In the North Yes 68% No 26% No Opinion 6% MUHAMMAD SPEAKS' research photographer asked the same question of Negroes on the streets of Chicago and received these

typical replies: THELMA S I M P S O N , homemaker: I think the local police, F B I and CIA use w i r e tapping and several o t h e r secret listening devices whenever they feel like using them. They don't respect anyone's privacy. I don't worry about it because they have no reason to spy on me. But I ' m sure i f they wanted some information on

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HORACE JOSEPH, painter: Of course they use wiretapping and other spying devices a great deal, and I think it's an infringement on a person's constitutional and civil rights. I ' m against it 100 per cent. Even if they suspect that a person is engaging in imlawful activity, they have no right to invade his privacy in such a manner. They have an unlimited number of ways to gain a conviction if a person is committing a crime. When they use these devices, they're (Continued

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By training this device on a speaker as far as two blocks away, even whispers can be amplified as i f a microphone were i n c h e s from the speaker's lips."

A U.S. Representative, on the floor of Congress, recently called for a government investigation of the use of these devices by barious governmental agencies and even some private detective firms, asserting that "no person, at any time, is safe from "snoopers."

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NOW THE center of atfention in Laos, Nigeria, just as she was when serving in the United Nations on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, talented Miss Uloma Wachuku is rated as the most effective woman leader in West Africa.

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FUNDS FOR building the eight houses were received from private sources hy Neighborhood Developers, a local contractor, to be given as grants to the Strike City community. The houses will be constructed of concrete blocks and wood with four to six rooms.

Neighborhood Developers, Inc., is a non-profit corporation that gives grants to poor people for housing and job training.

BUT THE rice project, according to Secretary Cooper, represents the key effort.

Only when it has proved successful, he said, will other ets be started. projects started.

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THERE IS, OF course, greater significance to this entire discussion which again comes from the Messenger of Allah. If we would seek to know the depths of knowledge, we would not be the losers today.

The Honorable Elijah Mu— hammad has taught us who clear to our people in Amer-. seek to know the truth that. ica and the world that this some members of the Cau- race is today tactfully using casian Race, b e c a u s e of i that which he has always their acceptance of Islam hated—the spread of Islam under the Caliphs and other (a direct challenge to his leaders of Islam who domi- false world of Christianity) nated much of Asia, Africa against the new rise of Isand parts of Europe many lam which is, for the first centuries ago injected the time, pulling off the cover of spiritual impulse of their re- the real devil, Caucasian ligion i n t o the decadent Race as being the natural areas of the world in which born enemy to truth and this race were the inhabi- righteousness, to the call of tants.

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Islam did not come to Upon this w o r l d ' s conAmerica until recent times, science runs the blood sacriand the White Race of this, ficed by many of the prophcountry are the descendents ets sent to them as well as of the European people who thousands of martyres. opposed Islam's spread and organized the falsehood,, WE MUST AWAKEN to ruthless propaganda a n d the truth of Messenger Muslander against Islam which hammad's teachings. Let us has become the inherited lit- face the fact that we have no erary p o i s o n of much of | accurate k n o w l e d g e by what the American people which to contest the superiread of Islam today. or teachings of this g r e a t man. Therefore, we should IF ISLAM WAS so bitterly, change our attitude of conopposed by the Caucasian' tension to that of seeking to Race throughout their his- know through questions and tory and is now being simi- study the nature of these larly opposed by this same teachings which have made race who have always been' him the master authority on the greatest and most mill- the Religion of I s l a m in tant opposers, it should be America and the world.

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" I N 50 YEARS," said Secretary of Agriculture John W. Cooper, "where there now is iron ore, we will only have big holes in the ground."

Looking unhappily to the day when Liberia's booming iron-ore business will show diminished returned from dwindling resources, Mr. Cooper has d r a f t e d a "stumps-root movement" to make the nation self-sufficient in food production.

The program, which will start this year, calls for converting Liberia's many mangrove swamps into rice farms. The Agriculture Department will help villages in the difficult work of rooting out mangrove stumps and in building dams and ditches. I t will also provide seed and technical guidance.

As visualized by Mr. Cooper, the swamp-rice project is the first in a series of measures for fuller development of Liberia's agricultural resources. These will include establishment of animal raising, cultivation of fruits and vegetables and a diversification of tree crops.

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H U G H SABBER, bricklayer: I have no doubt that the police, F B I , CIA and the rest use these devices.

Not all the local police use them, but I think the intelligence divisions do. And big businesses use secret listening devices to gain secret information about each other and each other's products.

I ' m not against it to investigate criminals, but do not approve of admitting into trials evidence acquired in this manner.

E V E L Y N LANDRY, homemaker: Yes, I do think the police, F B I a n d other agencies are tapping wires and f e e l they shOLild use these devices, but only if such practices help prevent crime or police corruption.

I wouldn't approve of the indiscriminate use of wire tapping. Of c o u r s e , I don't doubt they are tapping some wires they have absolutely no , rjgbt to tap. This. I ' m against.

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By Harriett Muhammad You asked in your letter: "What do they (Africans) say about what we have been told — that they sold us into slavery . . . ?"

YOU M U S T remember that when you speak of Africa, you are speaking of a CONTINENT, not a country — a continent with himdreds of languages and cultures and histories.

The slave trade you speak of took place mainly in West Africa among people like the Yoruba of Ogo, Nigeria, and the Angolans — to name some names. I t is not easy to track down which people made the first bids of a gunfor-a-slave with the Europeans —. but this is the v i cious circle that ensued.

For instance, a people may have feared the invasion of a foreign intruder.

So, when the Europeans offered superior weapons i n exchange for s l a v e s , the transaction was made.

These people then would be more materially ready to protect themselves from an attack.

Another group might have heard about this arms buildup and feared invasion or retaliation — and stockpiled guns through the same type of transaction. I t is similar to the vicious circle we have in s t o c k p i l i n g atomic weapons.

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about from the Europeans.

The slavery thai existed in Africa was NOT the s a m e institution i t was here. An African "slave" was similar to an indentured servant.

He may have been a slave because he had committed a crime and was being punished, or he may have been working off his debt. But he had certain rights — he was treated as a human being and could purchase his own freedom through his labor.

Some even have married into the family they served.

The slaves had a lower social status, but they were never considered animals or pieces of property.

Some historians say that the institution of slavery in America was unprecedented in its cruelty. The Americans had no pattern to follow and were not familiar with the practices of others in this area. Consequently, they did what they wanted and had the worse results as far as human dignity is concerned.

AFRICANS who come here rarely deny that the slave trade existed, but their explanations show the many factors involved — factors heretofore u n k n o w n by Westerners.

They have dispelled the stereo-typed mental image we had of our own people selling us for some of the white man's glass beads and "fire water."

If you are interested in learning more about Africa and her peoples, there is much available material to read. I n your city, there is

BISHOP COLLEGE'S famed black choir is now touring the nation and stopped in Chicago to appear on a musical program at the Parkside Baptist church. Directed by J. Harrison Wilson, the choir sang classical num-

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U.S. Upsets Alabama Ban on Women MONTGOMERY — One of Alabama's most a r c h a i c laws—the exclusion of women from jury service — was declared unconstitutional as of June 1, 1967, by a three-judge Federal court.

The rulings came i n suits brought by Lowndes County Negroes last winter. The U.S. Justice Department entered the cases as in tervening plaintiffs.

The cases were filed after two white men on trial for civil rights slayings had been acquitted by all-white j u r i e s in Hajmeville, the county seat.

Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., one of three K u Klux Klansmen charged with murder in the nightrider slaying of Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo of Detroit, Mich., was t r i e d twice by all-white juries i n Hayneville. The first jury could not reach a decision.

In the second trial, Wilkins was acquitted. The o t h e r two Klansmen, William O. Eaton and Eugene Thomas, still must stand trial in the slaying.

THE P A N E L also declared the jury rolls of Lowndes County unconstitutional and ruled that J. B . Julian, Lowndes County justice of the peace, may not t r y a case against a N e g r o charged with reckless driving.

The Negro, John Hulett, charged that the justice of the peace system in Alabama put a financial interest on convictions because the justice of the peace were not paid unless the accused were convicted. The decision applied only to the Hulett case, however, and did not invalidate the entire THOMAS COLEMAN, acsystem. cused of manslaughter in the P L E A S E

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The Real Story of Muslim's Religious Freedom Trial

By Minister James Shabazz salute the flag.

TRENTON, N.J.—Behind However, Dr. Frederick the recent New Jersey State M . Raubinger, a state eduSupreme Court ruling up- cation commissioner, ruled holding t h e that the children could reright of Mus- frain from saluting the flag l i m children on the grounds of consciento r e f r a i n tious scruples. He ordered from saluting the children reinstated. or pledging But the Elizabeth Board of allegiance to Education went over Dr. the flag of the Raubinger's head and placed United States the matter before the New was years of Jersey Supreme Court. devotion to New J e r s e y state law, the cause of amended a f t e r the U.S. Minister Allah and His court ruling, allows children James Last Messen- with conscientious scruples ger, the Honorable E l i j a h to stand at attention without Muhammad, on the part of saluting the flag or reciting a number of courageous and the pledge of allegiance. dedicated followers. I t is a story of perseverance a n d THE STATE high court faith and one which did as! b a c k e d up Commissioner much for the freedom ofj Raubinger's decision, noting black America as any yet; that to force children to sabrought before the courts. i lute the flag who have reTHE ISSUE arose in Eliza-; ligious objections is " m o r e beth, N . J., in 1963 — 20 likely to defeat than serve years after the U.S. Supreme its high purpose."

Court ruling m the Jehovah There has been some hosWitnesses' case—when the tility during the more than Elizabeth Board of Education suspended five Muslim two years struggle over the youngsters for refusing to issue — in and outside the classroom. Sister Ella and

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WASHINGTON — The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee has vowed to continue its boycotts in the nation's capital after winning the battle with the local transit authority over fare increases. Next possible target: The Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, which GABRIEL ESTEVANO MON- opposes strong home rule JANE, 21 -year-old African measures. from the village of Manjacaze, Mozambique, said to be the Train Negro Teachers tallest man in the world at 7 NEW YORK—Fifty Southfeet 10 inches—reports that ern Negro Teachers have behe is now looking for a bride.

He says, however, that she gun an 18-week training promust be tail, well over 6 feet. gram in preparation for In fact, he would prefer that teaching in the New York she be 7 feet. Estevano weighs City system.

The teachers lost their 276 pounds and is reported by doctors as being normal in jobs during integration of Southern schools. every way except height.

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For and About You (Continued from page 19) a black nationalist b o o k store in Harlem that has much to offer. (Book stores featuring African literature also can be found in other major cities.) Also, try reading some books written by Africans themselves, such as WEEP NO MORE, CHILD. The world is in for a treat and a surprise soon, when the African historians working in Accra, Ghana, have completed their encyclopaedia on the true histories of the African peoples.

This was the p r o j e c t W. E. B. Du Bois was working on at the time of his death. Friends there have told me that it will be a magnificent work of art — one that will change the history as we now know it.

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her h u s b a n d Matthew X Schumate, said their children have been driven to the brink of a nervous breakdown because of the classroom harassment over their religion.

The parents of the children have been receiving crank telephone calls ordering them to leave town, said Sister Ella. Even some high officials of Elizabeth h a v e been quoted by the d a l l y press in harsh statements about the Muslims.

The daily press in Elizabeth reported that M a y o r Dunn has urged the board of education to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Elizabeth Daily Journal, in an editorial, the tone of which was not sympathetic to the Muslims, pointed out that moving the case to the U.S. court "is i l l advised" because "that tribunal ruled against compulsory flag saluting in a 1943 landmark case involving the Jehovah's Witnesses."

E l i j a h Muhammad and members of Muhammad's Mosque No. 25, Newark, N . J., are undaunted. To quote Sister Ella: "The beneficial teachings of Messenger Muhammad have brought us peace in our home and respect abroad— and my family and I w 111 never let anything turn us from these life-giving teachings, and we have submitted ourselves entirely to the will of Allah."

Refugees In Zambia Die In Epidemic

LUSAKA, Zambia—Fortyseven persons have died in a measles epidemic among a group of 2,000 African refugees in Zambia.

The refugees flew from Mozambique following a PorTHE PARENTS, faithful tuguese army operation to followers of the Honorable weed out terrorists.

Illegitimacy Rate Among Whites Growing p r o b l e m of illegitimacy found that 90 per cent of the mothers kept the children rather than giving them for adoption.

"These mothers are likely to live in a deprived environment, and rear children who may repeat the pattern in the next generation," the report said.

family life."

The committee, headed by Grenville Davis, has b e e n engaged in the study for more than a year. However, it has not yet completed its recommendations f o r the new "broad platform for action against the root causes of illegitimacy." I t released some of its findings as a preliminary report.

"FOR THOSE individuals, expansion of present social services alone provides no answer," said the committee THE REPORT states that study. " A multiple attack in the last 10 years more must be mobilized against than 100,000 children have ' the basic social and ecobeen born out of wedlock in nomic factors that hinder : the disadvantaged mother Cook County.

The committee, searching and her child from developfor a new approach to the ing a healthy personal and

THE figures show that the illegitimacy rate here is increasing. In 1963 more than 10 per cent of the births in Cook County were out of wedlock as compared with 6.3 per cent 10 years ago. I n 1964, one out of every seven births in the City of Chicago was illegitimate.

"The reported illegitimacy rate among whites is increasing faster than among nonwhites," a Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago committee reported recently.

"Even so," the report continued, "there is evidence that the incidence of illegitimate white births is rmderreported in the predominantly white suburbs, which would increase even further the ratio of white illegitimacy over nonwhite."

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WORLD (Special Muhammad Speaks) WASHINGTON — Demographers and other social scientists predict an end to

Western domination of the earth before tiie turn of the century due to the fact that the population of the nonwhite peoples of the world is

mounting by leaps and boimds while the number of whites remains relatively stagnant.

" W I T H A continuation of present t r e n d s , seveneighths of the world's increase in population in the next 35 years will be found in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America," according to statistics from the Population Reference Bureau, Inc. Barring a nuclear war, in the year 2,000, the earth will contain 7.4 billion people.

The non-white world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania, will constitute 6.05 billion and the whites of Northern America, Europe and Russia will consist of 1.36 billion.

The African nation of Mali is one of the fastest growing in the world with a reported increase of 55-63 annually per 1,000 population. Sweden, an average white nation, has a growth rate of merely 16.0 annually per 1,000 population.

On the basis of annual birth rate per 1,000, other fast - growing coimtires include: Sudan, 50-56; Zambia, 49- 54; Ghana, 48-56; T o g o , 50- 59; Nepal, 45-53; Pakistan, 48-53; Cambodia, 47-53; I n GRAPPLING WITH the problem of providing necessary food donesia, 43-53; and Dasupply for a growing population, black African nations, such homey, 47-55. as Tanzania, have made notable progjress, while others still TYPICAL Western nations' suffer deadly hang-overs from long years of enslavement under Europeans. A^ove, laborers in Tanzania work on the build- annual growth per 1,000 are ing of a dam at Nyumba Mungu, on the Pangan^ River. When Norway, 17.9; Hungary. 13.1; completed, the dam will generate more than 130,000 kilowatts Romania, 15.2; Yugoslavia, 20.8; Russia, 19.6; United per year of electrical power.

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States, 21.2; Canada, 23.5; Belgium, 17.6; West Germany, 18.5, and Czechoslovakia, 17.1.

Naturally, t h e Western world is alarmed. Such tremendous population growth of the non-white nations of the world, barring an attack by the nuclear powers, spells the inevitable doom of white supremacy.

"Since 1961, the United States government has devoted increasing attention to the matter," states a report by the Population Reference Bureau, I n c .

"President Johnson has repeatedly emphasized the need for a world wide attack on the problem of population control of the non - white peoples of the world. I n the Congress, hearings sponsored by Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska have accumulated massive testimony as to the gravity of the population crisis."

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PRETORIA — The British Government despite its condemnation of South Africa's obnoxious apartheid policy continues to increase Britain's trade with Verwoerd regime.

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THE LATTER protest had a slightly different philosophical basis in that i t urged American Negroes to refuse to fight any other colored peoples. I t , too, cited the substandard treatment of Negroes in America, but It was imclear i f this were being offered as the rationale of the protest or i f the ideological-foundation lay more in the negritude concept mentioned earlier.

Verbalized objection by Negroes to military service is by no means new to the American scene. Although the position historically taken by the majority of Negro spokesmen has been a demand for full and non-discriminatory participation for Negroes in America's military establishment, there has long been open expression of the contrary opiniop as well.

Whether we are indeed ready to imdertake this ambitious task or not, there should be no disagreement regarding the urgency of insuring that, as non-whites, we are not being inadvertently manipxilated into an untenable position within the global framework. We must amass all of our wits so as to steer a careful course between the Scylla of American racism and the Charybdis of foreign intrigue.

WE INTEND to be tools of neither. Rather, Afro-Americans can perform no greater service to their coimtry and to humanity than to use their unique position to encourage international racial amity and to prevent international racial conflict. They can do mankind no greater disservice than to allow tnemselves to be used as tools in precipitating such a catastrophe.

Ethiopia's UN Candidacy ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia has circulated a letter to all United Nations delegations IMPROVED FARMING and agricultural methods is enabling tion. Above a herd of cattle along the Pangani River Basin, declaring that it would be a Tanzania to stave off the kind of starvation which for cen- carefully tended by black farmer. Tanzania is putting major candidate for a seat on the turies was allowed to exist in Africa during European occupa- emphasis upon its farm production and livestock development. Security Council next year.

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By John Jones (Detroit. Mich.)

He was born amongst ihe beast of prey; Just like a blind man. He had lost his way.

Like a dream, it may seem.

He was raised by the Supreme ...

And all praise is due from me and you, For we're the chosen few.

G a i n i n g k n o w l e d g e o f self, he t a u g h t i t t o his k i n d .

T e a c h i n g self help, t h e y f o u n d peace o f mind) A n d a l l praise is due f r o m m e a n d y o u .

Because w e are t h e chosen f e w .

E6erytfung was lost when we kneeled to the cross.

But by facing to the east We turned from the beast And all praise is due, from me and you.

Because we are the chosen few.

U p , y o u lost-found n a t i o n !

There's n o h e s i t a t i o n ; T h e t i m e is near, b u t have no fear— T h e l a m b w i l l show y o u t h e w a y ; A n d once y o u accept, y o u w o n ' t go astray A n d a l l praise is due f r o m me a n d y o u , Because w e are the chosen f e w . lilt

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Oh thou that sleepest, arise from the dead; Your God is calling, lift up your head; Your time has been wasted, your labor exploited; So stop being excited, and let us get united.

IN RESPONSE to innumerable requests from Muslims across the nation, Muhammad Speaks reprints this famous photo of Muslim children in New York's museum of Natural History viewing the stone face of a black man who trod the North American earth nearly 2,000 years ago — long before Columbus.

U.S. Failing to Act on Bias Charges

WASHINGTON — A backlog of more than 500 complaints of racial discrimination in schools, hospitals and Muhammad Speaks: other Federally supported facilities under its jurisdicB l a c k people o f A m e r i c a , paradise a w a i t s y o u , tion have piled up awaiting B e i t A s i a , A f r i c a , P u n t a o r Peru. adjudication by the DepartE l i j a h w i l l t a k e y o u , i f H I S course y o u pursue— ment of Health, Education and Welfare.

M u h a m m a d Speaks: TITLE V I of the C i v i l Don't say he's a hater, he is telling the truth; Rights Act of 1965 authorizes Allah makes him greater, and he is the First Fruit; the Government to withhold Federal funds from l o c a l Muhammad Speaks: agencies which practice ra" U p Y o u M i g h t y Nation, Y o u Can Accomplish cial discrimination.

What You W i l l " ; Yet so far the Government D o n ' t f a l l f o r i n t e g r a t i o n — i t ' s a t r i c k t o get y o u has been particularly inactive in enforcing the statute. killed.

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By RUTH 20X A b o u t 700 complaints (Muhammad's Mosque No. 7, New York City) i n v o l v e d discrimination charges against schools and Out of the deep, dark cotton belt he came, school districts. I n the abto a tribe of people who knew not their name; sence of a coordinated sysTo scores of vile, uncouth uncle toms, tem for handling such combeckons the Messenger with outstretched arms. plaints, the majority h a v e had only cursory study by Because he came in the natural way, the department. with no sneak thief by night or day.

No arch-angles to sing their silent nights, SOME 65 school districts or bright stars to act as beacon surmise. have been cited as being in Is it really true that he is all-wise? violation of Title V I . Twelve A MESSENGER IS BORN have allegedly purged themselves and 53 face hearings From among our own, ELIJAH was chosen on whether they will be deto deal with Negroes mentally frozen. nied funds.

Presenting in fact, traits the falsifiers deemed we lacked.

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DEDICATED DOCTORS in new African nations are winning precious medicines to school children to take to their village admiration of world with their amazing drive, despite short- clinic. The village, located in Gavie, Dahomey, is built entirely ages of facilities, etc., to improve the health standards of long- on a lagoon with houses supported by stilts, neglected Africa. Here Dr. E. Akouete of Dahomey, extending

Survey Shows TB Infects 6 % of Block Youths Under 14 (Special fo Muhammad Speaks Tuberculosis in the United States continues to be the "scourge of the Negro," as recent data indicate 49 per cent of the victims of the dread d i s e a s e are black, while Negroes constitute a mere 10 per cent of the population of the U.S. CHILDREN make up some of the most tragic cases of the feared disease. A total of 2,367 children in 58 Chicago public and parochial schools in predominantly Negro areas have been exposed to active TB, according to a recentiy-reieasea l9bo survey. ADOui 3b,u00 cnildren were tested in the schools.

"The rate of infection was 6.7 per cent in the 36 public schools and five and a half

per cent in the 22 parochial schools tested," said John E. Egdorf, executive director of the Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago and Cook County which released the figures. In short, six per cent of all b l a c k youths under 14 are infected.

ALL the s c h o o l s are located in so-called high incidence areas of the city which, of course, include primarily the Negro ghettos.

The r a t e of infection ranged from zero (at mainly white St. Patrick's Academy elementary school) to 14.9 per cent at the all-Negro St. Elizabeth High School on Chicago's South Side.

Health authorities say TB cannot be eliminated as a public health problem imless the number of children infected before age 14 falls

below one per cent.

Dr. Irving Abrams, director of the institute's medical bureau said, "The rate of positive reactors in the public schools tested is far too high. But the really tragic thing is that many people with active TB who infected these children are unaware of the disease in themselves because they did not get a chest X-ray and other examinations."

Finds:

THE highest number of reactors was found at allNegro Du Sable High school.

There were 352 positive reactors, 13.6 per cent of the student body tested.

The students who react positively are urged to get an X-ray at the school. Their parents and associates are also urged to get an X-ray.

"TB is contagious," Egdorf said. "You can't inherit it or be born with it.

NEW YORK — Chronic low back pain suffered by young women after pregnancy may be caused by prolonged lack of physical exercise, according to a physician studying 35 young women who complained of such pains.

REPORTING AT the Seventh National Conference on the medical aspects of sport, Dr. Evaljm S. Gendel of the Kansas State Department of Health said there was no sports participation during the school years by the 35 mothers, no calisthenics or other regular physical exercise through junior h i g h school years or since marriage.

Gradual physical conditioning brought modification or relief of the back pains for most of them, Dr. Gendel added.

Every one of those positive reactors caught the germs from someone who had an active case of tuberculosis."

POSITIVE reactors—who do not have active tuberculosis—cannot spread the germs to others.

Dental Scientists Advise Less Chewing of Soft Foods PHOENIX, Ariz. — Tooth decay might be reduced if people spent less time chewing easily digestible foods such as starches and sugars, said a panel of dental scientists here recently.

"MOUTH BACTERIA eat while we chew," declared Dr. Ward Pigman, professor of biochemistry at N e w York Medical C o l l e g e .

"Anything we can do to cut off t h e i r nourishment automatically h e l p s to cut down tooth decay."

Dr. Pigman was one of nine panelists at a symposium on dietary chemicals sponsored by the American Chemical S o c i e t y . Some 2,000 members of the society are a t t e n d i n g its winter meeting at the Town House Hotel here.

IT WOULD be best, the dental panelists agreed, i f people would give up eating "sticky" f o o d s that give

bacteria most nourishment by lingering longest in the mouth. They characterized the sticky foods as sugars and carbohydrates, but chose breads and cereals as two of the most active offenders.

The starches produced in modern flour processing, the panelists explained, stay longer in the mouth and thus provide a handier f o o d source for the micro-organisms there.

"ONE OF the worst ways i know to give children cavities," said Dr. Kenneth O. Madsen of the University of Texas dental branch, "is to let them eat cereal or cracker or cracker snacks between meals.

"The worst is to give a child a piece of bread in bed at night to pacify him. He'll have his teeth decay down to the gum in a year."

T H E PANELISTS suggested that antibiotics and vitamins c o u l d also decrease tooth decay.

GRIEF STRICKEN father brings his son to the United Nations' WHO Clinic in Niger for treatment of the dreaded meningitis. Such epidemics were once welcomed by Europeans as a means of reducing the black population.

Despite years of complete domination, Europe rarely trained a native for medical profession. In Niger alone there are annually more than 40,000 cases of meningitis and some 3,000 deaths among young people.

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Exercise Can Cure Female Back Pains NEW YORK — Chronic low back pain suffered by young women after pregnancy may be caused by prolonged lack of physical exercise, according to a physician studying 35 yoimg women who complained of such pains.

DEDICATED DOCTORS in new African nations are winning precious medicines to school children to take to their village admiration of world with their amazing drive, despite short- clinic. The village, located in Savie, Dahomey, is built entirely ages of facilities, etc., to improve the health standards of long- on a lagoon with houses supported by stilts. neglected Africa. Here Dr. E. Akouete of Dahomey, extending

Survey Shows TB Infects 6 % of Block Youths Under 14 (Special to Muhammad Speaks Tuberculosis in the United States continues to be the "scourge of the Negro," as recent data indicate 49 per cent of the victims of the dread d i s e a s e are black, while Negroes constitute a mere 10 per cent of the population of the U.S. CHILDREN make up some of the most tragic cases of the feared disease. A total of 2,367 children in 58 Chicago public and parochial schools in predominantly Negro areas have been exposed to active TB, according to a recenny-reieasea lOba survey. ADOUi ab,uoo cmlclren were tested in the schools.

"The rate of infection was 6.7 per cent in the 36 public schools and five and a half

per cent in the 22 parochial schools tested," said John E. Egdorf, executive director of the Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago and Cook County which released the figures. I n short, six per cent of all b l a c k youths under 14 are infected.

ALL the s c h o o l s are located in so-called high incidence areas of the city which, of course, include primarily the Negro ghettos.

The r a t e of infection ranged from zero (at mainly white St. Patrick's Academy elementary school) to 14.9 per cent at the all-Negro St. Elizabeth High School on Chicago's South Side.

Health authorities say TB cannot be eliminated as a public health problem unless the number of children infected before age 14 falls

below one per cent.

Dr. Irving Abrams, director of the institute's medical bureau said, "The rate of positive reactors in the public schools tested is far too high. But the really tragic thing is that many people with active TB who infected these children are unaware of the disease in themselves because they did not get a chest X-ray and other examinations."

THE highest number of reactors was found at allNegro Du Sable High school.

There were 352 positive reactors, 13.6 per cent of the student body tested.

The students who react positively are urged to get an X-ray at the school. Their parents and associates are also urged to get an X-ray. " T B is contagious," Egdorf said. "You can't inherit it or be born with it.

REPORTING AT the Seventh National Conference on the medical aspects of sport, Dr. Evalyn S. Gendel of the Kansas State Department of Health said there was no sports participation during the school years by the 35 mothers, no calisthenics or other regular physical exercise through junior h i g h school years or since marriage.

Gradual physical conditioning brought modification or relief of the back pains for most of them, Dr. Gendel added.

Every one of those positive reactors caught the germs from someone who had an active case of tuberculosis."

POSITIVE reactors—who do not have active tuberculosis—cannot spread the germs to others.

Dental Scientists Advise Less Chewing of Soft Foods PHOENIX, Ariz. — Tooth decay might be reduced if people spent less time chewing easily digestible foods such as starches and sugars, said a panel of dental scientists here recently.

"MOUTH BACTERIA eat while we chew," declared Dr. Ward Pigman, professor of biochemistry at N e w York Medical C o l l e g e .

"Anything we can do to cut off t h e i r nourishment automatically h e l p s to cut down tooth decay."

Dr. Pigman was one of nine panelists at a symposium on dietary chemicals sponsored by the American Chemical S o c i e t y . Some 2,000 members of the society are a t t e n d i n g its winter meeting at the Town House Hotel here.

IT WOULD be best, the dental panelists agreed, if people would give up eating "sticky" f o o d s that give

bacteria most nourishment by lingering longest in the mouth. They characterized the sticky foods as sugars and carbohydrates, but chose breads and cereals as two of the most active offenders.

The starches produced in modern flour processing, the panelists explained, stay longer in the mouth and thus provide a handier f o o d source for the micro-organisms there.

"ONE OF the worst ways i know to give children cavities," said Dr. Kenneth O. Madsen of the University of Texas dental branch, "is to let them eat cereal or cracker or cracker snacks between meals.

"The worst is to give a child a piece of bread in bed at night to pacify him. He'll have his teeth decay down to the gum in a year."

T H E PANELISTS suggested that antibiotics and vitamins c o u l d also decrease tooth decay.

GRIEF STRICKEN father brings his son to the United Nations' WHO Clinic in Niger for treatment of the dreaded meningitis. Such epidemics were once welcomed by Europeans as a means of reducing the black population.

Despite years of complete domination, Europe rarely trained a native tor medical profession. In Niger alone there are annually more than 40,000 cases ot meningitis and some 3,000 deaths among young people.

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of Business The Key Role of Muslim Business HOW ABE TOES "

By Abdul Basit Naeem Islam is not merely a religion or set of rigid, prescribed rituals but a complete "code of human conduct" — a way of life. Thus it is that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's teachings, as those of other noble exponents of Islam on this p l a n e t , relate to almost every subject one can think of — food, health, money, success.

LIKEWISE, it is common ot Technology. Both are regular readers ot MUHAMMAD SPEAKS and expressed ad- knowledge t h a t Muhammiration tor the Honorable Elijah Muham- mad's Mosques of Islam in mad's program tor the black man in America. this country — established under the. Messenger's guidance and supervision—serve as houses of worship as well as centers of education and culture and sources of business know-how. touched by race prejudice," versity.

(Continued from page 9) To many outsiders (non"We've found that there said the other student, Alabi Nigeria i n nine months to are v e r y few areas of Ayinia, whose home is La- Muslims) , h o w e v e r , the teach music at Lagos Uni- American life which are not gos, Nigeria. He is majoring knowledge of our "way of in organic chemistry and la- life" comes at first not via boratory research at the I l l i - the mosques or MUHAMnois Institute of Technology. MAD SPEAKS newspaper and other Nation of Islam "OF COURSE, we were literature but through contold this prior to our arrival tact w i t h Muslim-owned in the United States," he places of business or service continued, "but it was still enterprises in their communa shock and disappointment ity. Quite a few of them ELLIS EAST SIDE AUTO BEAUTY SHOP to actually experience dis- later go to the local mosque crimination."

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Both students expressed Many are n a t u r a l l y admiration for the Honor- "afraid," apprehensive or BEEF S A U S A G E able E l i j a h Muhammad's skeptical and hence relucprogram for the black man tant to explore a new or difin America and said they ferent ideology — even if it were regular readers of MU- once belonged to them! But FRESH BEEF - L A M B - C H I C K E N PLUS HAMMAD SPEAKS. no one thinks twice before walking into a grocery store E G G S & CHEESE "THIS is the only news- to buy a loaf of bread or beA L S O FRESH VEGETABLES paper in the country which fore entering a luncheonette tells the truth about what's to have a cup of coffee.

1 1 6 2 9 L I N W O O D T O 7 - 9 3 2 7 going on in Africa," Akpabot BESIDES, T H E atmossaid. We find i t very interphere of a store or office is DETROIT, MiCHe esting and informative." often m o r e conducive to opening a dialogue between two individuals of different backgroimds and pursuits.

The w a y we receive and treat our customers further We Are Always as Near as Tour creates certain impressions Telephone . . . in their minds as to our ( t h e Muslims') character and caliber.

That Muslim-owned places of business should serve as our "fishing" waters holds, in fact, no particular amazement to this writer. The history of our sacred and ancient faith is full of in3 7 2 5 - 19th STREET stances that relate how the Muslim businessman w a s the first and sometimes, in isolated communities, a curious but interested unbelievWILLIE HARRIS, PROP. NIGERIAN STUDENTS. Alabi Ayinia of Lagos, (I.) is a musicology major at the University ot Chicago and Samuel Akpabot ot Calabar, majoring in organic chemistry and laboratory research at the Illinois Institute

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I t goes without saying that Islam had won its first adherents in India (inclusive of areas now comprising the independent Muslim state of Pakistan), Ceylon and the archipelago of Indonesia — w h i c h , together, contain nearly a half of the Muslim world's population — not through organized missionary e n d e a v o r or the "sword" (as alleged by our adversaries) but as a result of the natives' contact with itinerant Muslim merchants from the Arabian Peninsula.

I am n o t implying here that those merchants of old were articulate Muslim thecJ^ logians or otherwise trained in the art of persuasion.

They certainly were not!

While entirely "ordinary" in t h e i r personal disposition, they were ardent believers in ALLAH (God) and H i s Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him!) and practiced w h a t they believed.

THUS, AS living examples of the Islamic doctrine, they were easily able to convince others of t h e fimdamental, natural superiority of Islam to any man-made (false) religious system.

T h i s is but one more reason w h y , in the wilderness of North America, I constantly seek to encourage you — the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and my brethren-in-Is1am — to go into business for yourselves and to establish as many different enterprises as y o u r collective skills, capabilities and financial resources permit.

T h i s would give many more of you an opportunity to be of service to your community. I n turn, this is bound to result, in due course, in adding to the Muslim's numerical strength.

I hardly need add or emphasize that if the Muslim businessmen practice every phase of Islam when dealing with their (Muslim or nonMuslim) customers, ALLAH too, would bless them, and sooner than they are likely to think of i t .

7th Trawler to G h a n a OSLO, Norway — Ghana State F i s h i n g Corporation has accepted delivery of the 7th and last deep-sea stern trawler ordered from the Akar Group of Norwegian shipyards.

THE 70-foot long Agyimfra, with a complement of 52 men, can freeze 24 tons of fish a d a y and keep up continuous operations for 60 days, according to N e w s from Norway.

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So It Is that if the Honorable E l i j a h Muhammad were but to raise his hand and make it known that he desires his followers to assemble in an area under attack—regardless of circumstances—you would see a sea of black people descend upon the spot, whether it be in the East or West, the North or the deep South.

Small wonder, then, that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has been referred to and is feared as the most black man in TO US, I T illustrates viv- powerful idly the unity and spiritual America. togetherness produced by the teaching PERHAPS YOU have noi of the Honor- ticed that we talk about the s a b l e Elijah togetherness of the Muslims \ M u h a m m a d . and the bond between MusO n e Muslim lims, and we are specific in a u t o m a t i - that regard. This often leads cally f e e l s people to ask why don't we the h u r t of sympathize with the Negro another. Un- or black people in general. like an attack Doesn't i t bother us when we on a Negro, read about black women and an attack on children who are not Musbeing beaten and a Muslim is lims Dr. Leo the an attack on killed? How a b o u t over 700,000,000 people the marches? Why isn't the Musl i m participating in these world over.

For the first time In over activities?

These are good questions 400 years, black people— from Canada to the Florida and need answering, but, Keys and from Maine to Cal- which in truth, If you have been carefully following the ifornia—^who have accepted life-giving message of the the teachings of the Honor- Honorable Elijah Muhamable E l i j a h Miihammad mad, you would find they have formed an imbreakable already have been answered. bond such as America has You see, the teaching of never seen. When Muslims the Honorable Elijah Muread or hear of any incident hammad is c o n s i s t e n t , relating to other Muslims, straightforward u n e r r i n g , they are immediately and and unswerving. Thus, in personally involved. Thus turn, those of us who take the magic potion of Islam the t e a c h i n g , if we conwields its powerful effect, sider ourselves to be true sweeping aside the barriers followers, we, too, must be Before taking up the prophetic and intensely interesting drama of the life of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad again, I would like to express my thanks in behalf of my wife and myself to t h o s e who personally, or through the medium of correspondence, sympathized with us because of the danger to which she and our unborn child were exposed during the uncalled-for invasion of Mosque No. 25 In December, 1965.

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Mr. Muhammad was stating a fact we have evidenced daily. (In fact, a recent article in FACT magazine pointed out that seven out of 10 police officers will use force and brutality unnecessarily).

Now, this being the case (and we know it is), we are being a foolish people when we invite this head-beating, particularly if a more worthwhile o b j e c t i v e can be achieved in another fashion.

SURE, I T tears at our guts and brings wrath ^ to our minds when we see our jreople getting mauled, but'we can't get carried away about the thing because the socalled American Negroes really don't have to go through such changes. They bring a substantial amoimt of these beatings on themselves.

All we have to do is get behind the Honorable Elijah Muhammad—and instead of getting our heads beat for a cup of coffee, our God will give us the land to grow the coffee in. Instead of getting thrown into jail, robbed blind in bails and killed in secret, all we have to do is get behind Muhammad and old whitey can't beat or kill any of us unless he is willing to go all the way and rid the world of the Muslims; unless he's willing to launch Armageddon.

When it's raining outside and you don't want to get wet, the intelligent person looks for a place of shelter or an umbrella. Today, God Himself has opened up a place of shelter and an umbrella ' for the so-called American Negro. He has made the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the bearer of that umbrella and the keeper of the place of shelter.

SURELY, WHAT A l l a h (God) has opened or established, no man can close. So how about it? Come in out of the rain. Get with Muhammad.

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Why African Independence May Not Spell Freedom to their knees. Then and there, when they are on their knees, offers are given, and a carefully-calculated plan. every time one of the barWhen any African country riers of resistance and nawins independence, she is of- tional dignity is broken. ten Isolated and is lonely.

EVEN I F we are to supThe natural sources are expose that means of humiliaploited by foreign compation did not work out with nies. the tigers who reached powThe new rulers are mostly er, the imperialists quickly selected for their previous resort to other means in reservice under direct rule of serve. imperialism, or are of the The artificial boundaries mutinying elements whose mutiny was broken after shattered ail possibilities of their p a l m s were well economic integration. Even In countries such as Ghana greased. and Guinea—which are the THE COFFERS of the new nearest to freedom — their state are empty if not bur- hands are still tied in the field of economy. dened with debts.

Both can make a big forA living example is the picture given by Sekou Toure tune out of aluminum, but when the imperialist authori- the required electricity is ties pulled out. They took generated by the new Volta away everything, even the Dam. Gabon, which has imelectric lamps, and the furniture they could not carry mense iron ore deposits, cannot liberate its economy bewith them, was destroyed. cause the iron ore is shipped Lumumba, too, said: abroad. " I discovered the day folAnother barrier is marlowing Congo's independence kets.

Ail markets of African that Congo was indebted to products are outside the conBelgium by $900 million." tinent, and they impose the PEOPLE I N very good prices they want. Sometimes spirit Imagine that independ- African countries work hard ence Is the means to the to double their products but end. Independent govern- the results they reach are ments try to do something to disappointing. justify the bitter struggle for I N 1954, Ghana's output of independence. But to their cocoa reached 210,000 tons disappointment, they dis- . . . In 1964, after independcover that they cannot take ence and as a result of hard a single step without liquid work, Ghana stepped up its money. production of c o c o a to At this critical moment, 590,000 tons, which sold for exploiting companies extend less than the 210,000 tons in their h a n d s to the out- 1954 at London's Future stretched hands. Such gov- Market. ernments do not know that A third barrier is the setheir ignorance of the facts cret activities which had the is the sole reason for their whole continent in its grip. poverty. They are poor beCommenting, the Egyptian cause they are Ignorant of editor says: their riches. " I heard Julius Nyerere Thus begins the process of once say that, in addition to taming the tigers, if we were their hostile activities, the to suppose that the tigers imperialists k n o w beforehave reached power without hand everything the Afrilosing the ferocious nature of cans think of before they take real action." the tiger.

The need of a big number NYERERE continues, with of independent African coun- anger on his face: tries brings them down to "Take, for instance, the work of the Nine-Man Committee formed by the OAU Cooperation in to help the national liberation movements. Whenever Science Plan the Committee decides on supplying a n y liberation of UAR-Czech movement with financial aid, CAIRO, E g y p t — The before the check is cashed United Arab Republic and from the bank, the intelliCzechoslovakia are discuss- gence machinery had information on all details. ing plans for cooperation be"Yet, what the imperialtween the two countries in ists have up their sleeve conthe field of science. tinues to be a secret to us."

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U.S. Finally Brings Mild Lawsuit Against Anti-Negro Metal Trade Unions built largely by the Department of Interior as a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and pioneers who went through St. Louis to settle the West.

Attorney General Nicholas B. Katzenbach said in announcing the suit that it also was the first action seeking to e n f o r c e the nondiscrimination clause that apT H E SUIT was filed in pears in all Federal conUnited States District Court tracts. in St. Louis against construction trades unions which disT H E DEPARTMENT said "criminates against Negroes. that the St. Louis locals had The Pipefitters Local 562, refused to recruit and acSheetmetal Workers Local cept Negroes on the same 36, International Brother- basis as w h i t e s and had hood of Electrical Workers failed to accord their Negro Local 1 and Journeymen members the s a m e advanPlumbers L o c a l 35 were tages as white members. charged with discrimina"Through the operation of tion under Title VH. their respective hiring halls, The Justice D e p t . said these unions c o n t r o l virtheir combined membership tually all the employment these is more than 5,000, of which opportunities for trades in the St. Louis area)" "only thrSe'are NegroesL Specifically, these locals the suit said. and the Laborers Local 42 Negroes who desire work were charged with frustrat- in the trades, it went on, ing the nondiscrimination "have b e e n compelled to clause in a Federal contract with Hoel-Steffen Corpora- seek such employment other tion for the construction of than through the hiring halls a Visitor Center at the Gate- of the imions." way Arch Park in St. Louis.

T H E SUIT was filed after The arch is a monument WASHINGTON—The section of the Civil Rights Act that bqns discrimination in employment, Title V I I , has been in e f f e c t for eight months, yet only now has the Department of Justice announced that it has filed the first "pattern of practice" lawsuit under this Act.

the Government was unable to persuade the locals in St. Louis that they had broken the law and to change their practices.

Whipping O K For Prisoners in Arkansas L I T T L E ROCK, Ark.—The Arkansas Prison Board approved regulations for punishing convicts with a leather strap, including a limit of 10 lashes.

A COPY of the rules was sent to U.S. District Court Judge J . Smith Henley, who ordered them drawn after convicts filed suit contending use of the whip was cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

Henley ruled against the suit, but o r d e r e d rules drafted so inmates would know how to avoid punishment.

J U L I A N B O N D and daughter Phyllis J a n e , can cooly survey coming reelection for his seat in G e o r g i a legislature with assurance that the vast majority of Negroes in his commuiifty" are behind him. Denied a seat in the G e o r g i a House of Representatives because he dared criticise America's policy in Viet Nam, Bond reapplied for the new election after the Governor had declared his seat open. White opponents dT"Bbn?liad'^ hoped other 'moderate' Negroes would run against him—but the Negroes unified behind Bond. H e is the only one running.

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DIRECTORY

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MUTiAMMAC

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FEBRUARY 18, 1966

Presents

The Muslim Program What MUST

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This is the frequently by both the ni...

- - uie blacks. The answers to this question I shall state as simply as possible.

1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom.

2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color.

3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.

4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own—either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years—until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.

Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America, justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.

5. We want freedom for ail Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for ail black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South.

We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave master's children and establish a land of their own.

We know that the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people.

6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the socalled Negro throughout the United States.

We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land—or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.

7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own. we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States, but equal employment opportunities—NOW! We do not believe that after 400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood, which has helped America become rich and powerful, that so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief, charity or live in poor houses.

8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.

9. We want equal education—but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers.

Under such schooling system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide.

free, ail necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.

10. ' believe that, ' irriage or race mixing ... aid be prohe want the religion of Islam taught 1 hinderance or suppression.

These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for our people in North America.

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Believe

1. WE B E L I E V E in the One God Whose proper Name is Allah.

2. WE B E L I E V E in the Holy Qur an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God. 3. WE B E L I E V E in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. WE B E L I E V E in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. WE B E L I E V E in the resurrection of the dead—not in physical resurrection—but in mental resurrection. We believe that the socalled Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore, they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God's choice, 'as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more than the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.

6. WE B E L I E V E in the judgement; we believe this first judgement will take place as God revealed, in America . . .

7. WE B E L I E V E this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names —the black peoples of the earth.

8. WE B E L I E V E in justice for ail, whether in God or not; we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality—as a nation—of equals.

We do not believe that we are equal with our slave masters In the status of "freed slaves."

We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation.

9. WE B E L I E V E that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.

If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so-called Ne-

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gro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people as well.

10. WE B E L I E V E that we who declared ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.

11. WE B E L I E V E our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. WE B E L I E V E that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.

We believe further and lastty that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no God and He will, bring about a universal government of peace wherein we ail can live in peace together.