“WORDPOWER” Page ie Dialog ue. EDITORIAL BOARD , Wordpower is published every aaa Thursday by Wordpower, Inc.,. non-profit organization. a page for the expression of opinion and exchange of ideas. Editorial Ofc. 975 E. 3300 South Suite 1 Tel. 486-9371 EDITOR Marlene Marie Young EDITORIAL WORDPOWER Neswpaper pub- lished it’s first issue on February 12, 1970. Since that time, we have increased our circulation, sold several advertising contracts, added many people to our staff of volunteers and hopefully, made some headway in the fight against discrimination in Utah. Each day we receive letters and phone calls from readers praising our efforts, and we also get calls and letters threatening us, calling us names and downgrading the paper. The latter let us know how desperately the community In this 10th needs WORDPOWER. CONTRIBUTING issue, we are asking EDITORS that everyone who is interested in the paper, volunteer a little time, a special talent or some new ideas. We urgently need contributions to Ed Brown. Glen K. Douglas, Sports defray Roberta Herschfield the costs of printing Lucy Black, “Whose Pond” Column “Through a Child’s Eyes”, Staff, distribution. If you believe that communication is the beginning of understanding and if “you give a damn about your fellowman” - give us a hand. Call 486-9371 for information or mail your donations to Wordpower Newspaper, 975 E. 3300 South, Suite 1, Salt Advertising& Sales Director: Manny Rojas, Ann Tolley, Jobe ‘ Marie Darling ‘From the President’s Deak Cathy Jamison, Central City Editor Mary Jones Social Security and Medicare Jorge Arce-Larreta, Assistant Project Director Manpower Planning Council — By GRANTLAND : Black is, understanding The world don’t give a damn. Black is, the persistence To part the logs that jam. seen, it, RICE request anyone interested to join in and no one stops to help. There’s a cry in the night and everybody assumes “somebody else” will take care of it. It seems that everywhere relationwhips have broken down. Starting with our broken relationship with God. Resulting in our briken faith with ourselves. And ending in our growing disregard for the other fellow. It is true that maybe you, personally, can't change the world. But it’s remarkable what one person can do, when to the students. Sign up for life, Send letters, articles, poems, art work or photographs for publication, to Editorial — Offices, 975 E. 3300 South Suite 1, Salt Lake City, Utsh 84106. for them.. up his mind to start to mend a broken world. _ Traveling through the South can be rough if you haven’t any money or real friends. I’ve always thought I had a few very good friends in ..- When you do, you will /be joining more than The Mailbag /_/ Salt Lake. But when I needed them, they weren't around, There was one family that did what they could to try to help us get back to Salt Lake and I'll always be grateful to them. ham, Alabama in a rented van and Their attitude and Mr. Muntu’ S aré when asked for a while we slowly worked our way back to Utah on wired money and the help of generous strangers along the way - my friends sat comfortable in Salt Lake. Thanks to people like Divid in Birmingham who gave policemen, been accomplished. They are hurt- Big Jim who gave us breakfast, a parking place and $20.00. In a truck driver, Dick who gave us gas and soft drinks. These people were people we never saw before, strangers, and yet, my very own friends wouldn’t give up $2.00 apiece. There are still some good strangers left in the world, but very. very few friends. | correct this and $5.00. And in Louisville, Kentucky, $10.00 from two nice in St. Louis, Missouri, / ‘members, and been working in civil/rights for several years to try and condemn a black man ... : SHIP i | will help ° Increase job ee opportunities e Expand Voter Power © Instill Race Pride | | t { { | { | i A life Membership may be purchased through installments for as little as $50 a year. This means less than $1.00 a week or 15¢ a day to subscribe to the continuing struggle for equality. | WISH TO BECOME A LIFE MEMBER OF THE NAACP [-] t enclose check for $ as first payment toward a Life Membership. [] ! enclose a check for $500.00 for full Life Membership. i Name I SOG ie oe City and Star ity and State -..........0....00..... * Integrate and Improve ....4|| 2.03 Education | e Increase Community Participation INSURE or woman who happens to fall in love with a person of another race. Name Withheld life _.. Your LIFE MEMBER- e Extend Fair Housing ing all people and I resent the implication that/any race is inferior. I applaud the belief of the BBOS their efforts;‘to unite the black people, give ‘them strength, power and economic equality, but please, don’t NAACP / peas and racism just As serious and wrong as any other kind. I have situation, .so that other young couples, racially mixéd and deeply in love, will have the opportunity to marry and be/ together. The BBOS is destroying all that has us gas, food, an ice cooler, water, fully | paid Black Men” in the June 24 issue, | couple dollars, to wire to us couldn’t be bothered - they didn’t have it (except for liquor and partying). While we sat stranded in Birming- friends, 33,000 subscribing and cE Editor: In reply to “Message to All want to bitterly complain. I am : white and was engaged for two | / years to a black man. Finally, the pressure became too severe and we separated. The pressure came from / his family and friends, not mine. Kansas, On September 14, 1970 WORDPOWER will begin a training program for minority and disadvantaged persons in journalism and communication. This program will combine both academic and on-the-job training for a 6 month period. Interested persons are urged to call 486-9371 for further information. No. special skills or education are required and the program will be offered at no cost happen. . Our and the suburbs turn their backs. A man falls down in the street Other a UNITED effort to work toward better understanding through communication. This drive will be called Project: INVOLVEMENT and our goal is to add 50 new volunteers to assist with editing and distributing WORDPOWER and to raise $5,000.00 to help defray costs and establish a scholarship fund for minority and disadvantaged journalism students. Call 486-9371 How very young their faces were Where all the dead men lay. Portly and solemn, in their pride The elders cast their vote For this or that, or something else, That sounds the warlike note. But where their sightless eyes stare out Beyond life’s vanished joys, I’ve noticed nearly all the dead Were hardly more than boys. anguished cities teeter on collapse he makes to volunteer. your assistance. Beginning July 10, we urgently But out along the shattered fields “Where golden dreams turned gray In which you have to star. Black is, acceptance, of what you really are. Advertising rates available upon request. INVOLVEMENT All wars are planned by older men In council rooms apart, Who call for greater armament And map the battle chart. Black is, now a role Publicity Director: Shirley Shields PROJECT The Two Sides of War BLACK IS Staff: Glen K. Douglas Lake City, Utah 84106. Shirley Shields. Advertising Department Ivadstart Day Care Center and Reflections You've. Wilfred Simpeon, NAACP Linda Muntu, BBOS Jorge Arce —Larreta, Manpower Marie Darling, UWRO Lucy Black, South County Joseph Geter, Apprenticeship Program Don Ray Sampson, CAP Administration FUTURE | THEIR | | | 1 te Annual installments of as little as $50. 00 or more, sent to either your local branch of the NAACP or the New York headee can make you a Life Member in this vital crusade. L NAACP — Danny W: ‘Burnett, Membership Chairman 247 North 6th West Salt Lake City, Uteh