European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes Roy Wilkins january 1978 Blacks Are fighting losing Battle for Jol the Manifest problems incident to employment of Black americans even thousands of employed Blacks Are hanging to jobs Only by their fingernails and Are tearful of the the Puzzle which the government and we Are trying to solve goes something like this despite the civil rights supreme court decisions and outreach pro Grams that held Promise of jobs for Black unemployment among Blacks remains More than twice As High As among whey do Black americans still Trail behind White citizens the we Are is very com government officials and economists Colum co is can Only project their theories in have Little meaning for the person who has five children to feed and whose unemployment benefits have run vie see a simpler while Lack of education and other elements play a not enough weight is Given to the idea of race Dis wherever discrimination rears its it spells joblessness for people in the they have been told they Are free the Opl Slont in i columns and cartoons on this Paga re Prasant Thom of Ina authors and Afa in no Way to considered As views of Tow stars and or Tea in Lam suits to go where they want and to occupy them selves As they see when these people go to get jobs the minimum requirement for living in this new world of Freedom of they Are forced Back behind the ghetto Walls to the company of civil rights Laws have been used to Deal with specific types of Dis criminal but they Are ineffective where Pat terns of discrimination this is the opinion of Secretary of labor Ray mar who is considered an expert on Black Many Well qualified Blacks have been appointed Public office where they Are highly of there is a tendency to assume that Black americans Are advancing rapidly in the economic but a study of income distribution shows that such Assumption is Unwar the spread of income Between White and Black families is about three to with the Black families at the lower this should seem 46 indicate that the visible Blacks in higher brackets Are the most Whites believe that Blacks Are doing All they Donot think of the Young people and women who Are How entering the labor Market and taking jobs that would have been filled by male they do not think of the thousands of Ille Gal aliens who Are Given the jobs that Blacks have heretofore nor do they think of the Legal aliens who Are favored Over Blacks for Job Large num Bers of jobs formerly held by Blacks in the for have been Given to of they never think of the Black for they have probably never seen in a democracy where great emphasis has always been placed on the work the right to work is As fundamental As the right of free it would seem to be the responsibility of the Federal government to solve the problem of unemployment generally and inequities in e Reg Star and trl hint Send Scala James Reston key question How much has Carter Learned in his Calendar of great Woodrow Wilson made an observation about which still stands As a fairly Good test of american presidents at the end of their first year in the White the most significant thing about the career of the Man Wilson is the Way in which he grew steadily into a National As be everything transformed the process was slow but he was not fit to be president until he Actu ally became he was fit be cause learning everything As he he had found out How much there was to learn this is a startling observation from who lost so Many of his dreams of a league of nations because he Learned so Little about How to get on with the con and this is the question now being asked about president Carter As the con Gress gets Back to work in Washington what have they Learned about one another in this first and How will they get on together in the second they didst get on very Well in 1977 for Many most of which Are blamed on the the main charge against Carter is that he tried to do too much too with too Little Advance consultation with the leaders of the Arthur Schlesinger who has not been excessively critical of democratic presi takes a different he argues in the Wall Street journal that Jimmy Carter is doing too Little too late that he is really a Republican in democratic clothes and that he is not really an activist presi but a compromised with the con a stand Patter who has tried to do rather less than Kennedy or Johnson tried to do in their first there is obviously something to this a but i dont think its quite you can argue against the Imperial presi Dency and also against the stand Pat ism of Jimmy but its a Little awkward to do at the beginning of his second Carter is clearly in the Middle Between the people who think Hes being too dogmatic too and the people who think Hes being too easy and too which brings us Back to Woodrow Wil sons which is whether new presi dents Are or As he put it at another whether they grow or merely the testimony of the demo cratic who met with the president last tuesday in the White is that Carter has Learned a lot in his first year that will be useful in his for one he has Learned that it is Wiser to discuss his policies in private and in Advance with the legislative leaders than to announce them publicly and fight Over them he has also teamed that the Congress of the United states is not just a bigger Georgia and that it is much much More Independent and combative than in the Days of Franklin sneaker Sam Ray bum and majority Leader Lyndon John Carter was probably quite wrong in As As be did in the presidential elec Tion Campaign of that a democratic president and a democratic majority in the House and Senate would somehow pro Duce party he has teamed since then that there is very Little party that most democratic members of con Gress ran ahead of him in the last and that the party Leaden in the House and Senate can no longer command votes for two important things have happened since the War crisis in Vietnam and the constitutional crisis Over watergate1 the president has lost his Power to Taroke executive privilege in the name of National and Power in the Congress has been dispersed from the leaders and the committee chairmen to the subcommittees and the party Cau so everybody is More and nobody is in this was Carters problem As he outlined his state of the Union message and his budget to the so called party leaders this under these what the democratic leaders Are hoping for is that the in his second will be More flexible than in his they re Spect his intellectual gifts and us Morel values but not his political they think he has been too and even self righteous but they seem to agree that he is learning and will change in the coming maybe they Are right and they Proba Bly Are but it is not at All a sure Carter is learning on the As Woodrow Wilson said of but he is a very stubborn and what be May be learn ing is that the new Young Independent con even less than the old  party jul vote its own selfish interests rather than the interests of the this will come to the test fairly soon in the Panama treaty welfare lax the strategic arms agreements with the soviet and guarantees for a Compromise settlement in the Middle As one of the presidents mod Loyal sup porters puts Carter has been the taunt like a prime minister instead of like a pret Ideal he sends up a complicated Energy and says the Freedom of the Republic depends on without really serious aft saltation with congressional Leaden to