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Page 2, The Carolina Indian Voice ^'^MAVMAiwvwvysAAAMA/vyvvysMA/yyyyvvvwvvvwvwwwvvvvvvvvy^vvwvvvvvv^ EDITORIAL AND OPINION PAGE Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it. picturesquely so they will remember it. and. above all, accurately so they will be guided by its lights. -Joseph Pulitzer AS I SEE IT Bnot Bum REVVING UP MY SPIRITUAL MOTOR I expect Robeson County to go a little mad in the months ahead. (See front page story on HEW communique). All of us will need all the spiritual strength we can muster. Some of us will go a little mad, insanity will rule for a while, passion will replace reason for a season. Reasonable men will become unreasonable; Chris tian virtue will be replaced by spitefulness, hate and bitter ness. The racists in our midst will have a field day. Only the spiritually strong will survive. That is why I am revving up my spiritual motor- re - reminding myself that spirituality is the comforter of all of us, our sustenance during famine..a refuge from the storms of life. 1 am gloriously happy. I am alive and well and doing my thing. 1 have found a need that needs to be filled...and I am attempting to fill it. I believe in a Power greater than myself. 1 choose to call that Power God. I believe that goodness is the positive flow in the Universe. I believe that one reaps what he (or she) sows. The Spiritual laws of the Universe are unchanging and constant. THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE Published Each Thursday by The Lumbee Publishing Company Bruce Borron, Managing Editor Connee Broyboy & Gorry L Barron, Associate Editors SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. Bazie Hardin Violet Locklear B. Locklear Elmer W. Hunt Jackie Lugene Lowery Mailing Address. The Carolina Indian Voice Post Office Box 1075 Pembroke, N.C. 28372 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Instore-1 Yeor $5,20 2 Years $8.02 OUT OF STATE: 1 Year $7,28 2 Years $9.36 MEMBER; American Indian Press Assoc. N.C. Press Association Secono Lloss Posroge Paid or Pembroke N.C 28072 Goa, grant me Uie nerenity to accept the things I cannot change^ oearage to change the thlnga i cant and ihe wltdom to kaow the difference. I believe in life over death, either physical or spiritual. It is good to be alive and well and reasonable satisfied that my life is spent in the service of others through the pages of the Carolina Indian Voice. I believe in people-lndian. Black and White. But I am not blind to the past. We cannot know where we are going if we do not know where we have been. In the trying times ahead (HEW is a^ftrict task master), all men-Indian, Black and White-should attempt to exert the best that is in them to keep the lid on, keep the fires out, and treat one another with kindness and understanding. One racist can ignite an unquenchable flame in Robe son County. Keep passion out of our dialogue and social intercourse. Freedom is nothing else but a choice to do better. Everything has its beauty but not every one sees it. And Faith, Hope and Love... and the greatest of these is love. Let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with understanding. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Let’s preserve God-given priorities It was rumored several years ago that the U. S. Corps LRDA Holds Community Meetings The Economic Development Project of LRDA conducted four community meeting to receive nominations to serve on the LRDA Board of Direc tors. On July 6 the meeting was held at the LRDA Annex in Pembroke to nominate a per son to represent Pembroke, Smiths, and Union. John R. Jones, incumbant, was nomi nated along with Jeff Maynor. Jones received 79 votes while Maynor tallied 24. On July 8 the meeting was held at Evans Crossing Fire Department to nominate a person for Alfordsville Town ship. William E. Locklear was nominated. There was no oppostion. He replaces Clyde Epps. On Silly 12 the meeting was at the Union Chapel Multi- Purpose Center for a repre sentative for Burnt Swamp, Lumber Bridge, Philadelphus, Ralf Swamp, Red Springs and Shannon. Rev. Warford May nor was replaced by Redell Collins of Shannon. Alton Maynor was also nominated but after a caucus, 23 persons voted unanimously for Redell Collins. On July 13, the meeting was held at Ashpole Church to nominate a person to repre sent Gaddy, Rowland and Gaddy Townships. Willie G. Locklear, incumbant, was un opposed. These nomnations are not official until approved by the existing LRDA Board. The Board will meet Monday night July 26. to take action on these nominations. STRIKE at the WIND! A "mRlLUNO OHTbOORbRAMA JIHV l-AUei4..^ UXJNIKV CIM fertklfb LT^creiU; POBCKIOJ? PtMeROKE,NCZ8372 WKIZAOI 3^ A first for the South of Engineers and the U. S. Soil Conservation Service were planning to straighten out and clean out Lumber River and Big Swamp from their head waters near Aber deen and Bladenboro, NC to probably ocean clearance; for I see no way of coping with the mud, silt and other pollution and the speed of the water flow until it reaches the ocean at Georgetown, SC. May God forbid. I have been told by the people who live on them that if the Lord had not made the Lumber River so crooked that he would have finished on the 5th day and we would have had two Sabbaths. Wouldn’t it have been nice to have had two Sabbaths together? But he had a purpose. It is now beyond the rumor stage that 16 miles of the head waters of Big Swamp which runs into the Lumber River at Boardman, NC are now ready for channelization by the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, and it will be a shame to destroy so-so much wild habitat for deer, squirrel, woodduck, coons, and those God-given beautiful Redbrest.Brim, Bass (Native Trout), Pike, Jack and Blue Brim, let alone the serenity enjoyed by those who use it, and all are welcome. 1 have hunted and fished the Lumber River and Big Swamp all my life, or at least 50 years of it. Twenty-five years ago it was no problem to catch a limit of Bass and Redbrest. During that time the water would rise and fall, slowly. Then some canals were dug, and dredging done near Lumberton and the Big Swamp areas and this allowed the water to flow into the river with a quick rise and fall, (destroying the spawning beds for fish), plus all the mud, silt, and city polution along its banks, caused the fishing to drop off until you could hardly catch enough fish to make it worth while; and it is just recently that the Redbrest and Bass population are coming back. 1 will admit that there .are a few trees that could be dragged out of the river to make it more navigable, but to go in there (like the U. S. Corps' of Engineers or Soil Conservation Service plan), and straighten out the crooks and dredge it clean is about the^orst thing that I can think of. It will rise and fall so fast until all the fishing and portions of wildlife will be gone forever and ever. It will be impossible for fish to spawn. It is a shame that the love of money for some few will destroy the beauty and plea sure that God has provided for so many. God chose some of his disciples while fishing and he might just choose you some Sunday morning on the banks of the Lumber River, or speak softly to you while in Big Swamp. You must know by now that I am opposed. I shall do anything 1 can to preserve it. For those of you in South Carolina; are you- going to go along with the mud and debris pouring into Littie Pee Dee River causing the sudden rise and fall of the water level and destruction of all this natural habitat for fish and wildlife forever? Does the U.S. Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Soil Conservaton Service plan on dredging all the way to Georgetown, S.C.? Keep your attention to the head waters of Little Pee Dee. Surely someone knows what is going on. i hope we lovers of God-given priorities can find out and preserve them. When we want our hunting and fishing back, will we have to do like Ducks Unlimited? Sincerely. Rafos G. Hoover, D.D.S. Despite its seemingly inevitability (at least for the past month), the 'nomination last night of Gov. Jimmy Carter as the Democratic presidential standard bearer em bodied a certain historic political significance. The Horatio Alger aspects of the meteoric rise of a peanut farmer from South Georgia may well oc cupy chapters in social science and civic textbooks of the future— especially if he should win the presidency in November. But, win or lose, Mr. Carter has broken a Defhocrafic tradition which long obstructed the nomination of a candidate from the Deep South. It might be argued that the late Lyndon B. Johnson broke that taboo, but he was from Texas and made it a political point to identify himself as a Westerner rather than a Southerner. Furthermore, he was a powerful figure in Washington and as vice president inherited the ad ministration of an assassinated president, Mr. Carter comes from a part of America which was subjugated after a war of rebellion (for in dependence, it might be remem bered) and underwent a recon struction period under federal bayonets. Long after the federal troops were withdrawn, the stigma of defeat remained. In the 1930's, President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to the South as the nation's backyard- Economic and political sanctions against the Deep South by the In dustrial North forced the Southern states info the political alliance which came to be known as the Solid South. The 1948 Dixiecrat rebellion turned out to be another lost cause for which Southerners paid a price. 'During the 1950's, the national Democratic party extracted loyalty oaths from Southern Democrats and I turned aside the region's claim for historic recognition as an area of party strength. Those years were to mark a growing sense of Southern political independence, the beginning of the two-party systems in Dixie, and the end of the Democratic Solid South. A new South emergedduring the 1960's In the terrible turmoil of the civil rights struggle and in the quiet economic resurgence of new in dustrial development. As the South moved in the 1970's toward the mainstream of America, It brought I new, young, and progressive governors forward for the nation to see. Mr. Carter is one of them. Much has been said about Mr. Carter's political perspicacity in securing the Democrats' nomination, and he is deserving of admiration. There is a paradox. The Carter candidacy by no means assures that his fellow Southerners ' ' will automatically fall in line as a matter of pride. Because of the Democratic party, Southerners learned to demonstrate their political independence. Mr. Carter will have to woo them along with voters in the rest of the nation. But last night, a page of old political history was turned when the national Democratic party nominated a man from the Deep South for president of the United States. — The State. Happy First BirtMay ftvek MMOBce Fun, wn of Mr. and Mre. Olin Fnrr of Pembroke celebrated hla first birthday Snnday, Jnly 18 In his borne. Helping him celebrate were Timmy and Snsle Ran som; Brace, Jr. snd LaMesba Swett; Danell and Eddie Brooks; Lamar and Ancil Ja cobs, Jr. Ont of town gnesto were Jeanean Boisvert of New York; Laora Rollins of Jaffery, N. H.; Freddie Jacobs, Jr. of CSiarlotte. I * LOOK MOTHERS You Get All This! By Maylon's Studio IN BEAUTIFUL COLOR 1- 11 X 14 2- 8 X 10 2-5X7 10-Wallets REGULAR $24.95' FOR ONLY $12.95 Groups, No Extra Charge TWO POSES EACH no limit on family $2.0U DEPOSIT REQUIRED • Balaace In Full At Time of Delivery At Store In Approx. 12 Days BRING THIS COUPON JulyOOrh July 01 sr 11 ro 7 11 ro 7 2 days only WOOD'S 5 & 10 Pembroke WOOD'S Thursday July 25. 197$ Commentary by Rev. Doug Maynor 1 John 3:1, “Behold, what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God; there the world knoweth us not because it knew him not.” “MANY SHALL BE DECEIVED” America is a nation of Bible owners, Bible buyers and Bible keepers. Many evange lists will wave Bibles at a congregation but they read very little scripture from it. Amen. Many times if we will compELre our Sunday School lessons, we would find num erous descrepancies or dif ferences as to what the quarterly says the Bible says and in fact what the Holy Bible really says. Amen. If you don’t know about happenings in the community, the latest in drama, and you don’t know about the present conversation, then you get embarrassed. But it does not bother us that America has, or to bring it home, that Robeson County is home for Biblical Illiterates. How can we be sons of God and not know about our Ifathei Amen. Countless pre achers tell multitudes that because Jesus died on Calvary we don’t need to keep the Ten Commandments. It is foretold that many will come in the name of Christ and shall deceive many. Amen. Bat the Bible says: I John 2: 3-4 “And hereby we do know that we know fflin if we keep His Commandments. He that salth, I know Him and keepeth not His Commandments Is a LIAR and the tmth Is not in him.” Amen. How do yoii keep the commandments, gy going all the way with Jesus. Amen. His marvelous grace is sufficient for all, Many of us know the name of Jesus but we have not met the Savior. How can we be bom again and know the name but not the man, the Son of God named Jesus Christ Many shall be deceived. Amen. No lie is of the truth. Amen. If you claim or profess but do not confess then the Bible tells you who you are in; I John 2:21-23. Have you ever seen a car that was wrecked and fixed, but when it goes down the road, the rearend is out of line?i Amen. This situation common ly afflicts many church mem bers. If you were to ride a bicycle on the rail of the rail road track and the frame of the bicycle was warped you would fall off. Straight is the path and narrow is the way that leads unto eternal life. And few there be that find it. - Amen. Many shall be deceived and shall be led straight to Hell. Amen. My friend everybody needs to go to church, how-' ever, not all churches teach the full Bible. Amen. The true church teaches that we must be at peace and holy or, we shall not see God. It also recognizes Christ as Savior and teaches that by His Blood we can be saved and that by grace we can live within the will of God. Amen. The so-called church is a halfway house. Many shall be deceived. Time is short. Only things that are done in the beauty of holiness will last. According ro Scriprure • WILL SAMPSON APPEARING IN BLnFFALO BILL FILM WILL POWER; Fresh from his resounding success in the Oscar- winning movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” as the mostly silent Chief Bromden, Will Sampson, an Oklahoma Indian, is now appearing in Robert Altman’s new movie “Buffalo Bill and the Indians.” In “Buffalo Bill” Sampson portrays William Halsey, a half-breed interpreter for Sitting Bull. (The flick is subtitled Sitt ing Bull’s History Lesson.) llie role of-Sitting Bull—the Sioux leader who done Custer in 100 years ago—is played by Prank Ka- > quitts of Canada’s Stoney Reserve. Sampson is rapidly emerging as a major Indian star. He will soon appear with Clint Eastwood in “The Outlaw, Josey Wales,” and with Charles Bronson In “The White Buffalo.” At 43, his life is taking a new turn. In his boyhood he was a star on the Midwest rodeo circuit as an Indian cowboy. Following his share of literal hard knocks, he began painting in earnest—and some of his artworks hang in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and in a number of Southwest art galleries. He stands six feet five, with an inteiestin^y playful and handsome face. He never had any acting ambitions, and was “discovered” by good luck when “Cuckoo” was ready for filming in Oregon. His performance easily netted him his next three large roles. A loyal fan club of Indian movie viewers is also taking shape. Said one: “Will completely captures the heart of the audience as an excellent and talented performer who leaves everyone spellbound. With talent such as Will’s, we will be seeing a lot more of him in the future of the movie worid.” Said another: “Will was a whole, solid personality in ‘Cuckoo.’ He was patient, as anybody could see. He took his own time doing his thing. The film showed he was always in deep thought, probably about his own homeland and family. He looked at all the other patients and thought how it would be to be in their mental condition. They treated him like the average cowboys and Indians show, making fun of him. An Indian is not this way at all. He played a very patient human being, striking when the time was right with no warning.” This has been a week of sorrow for most people who have lost loved ones in sick ness or otherwise. To me, a mother who goes through this suffers most. She can and does remember all things that were of the past. It will be many months before she will gather her strength, for it’s the human part that will miss a loved one. But, the Spirit shall help her over ‘(iome. When it (spirit) does help her. God will honor her and give her help. 1 have seen mothers by the bed side of her loved ones waiting for the fever to break or sickness to get better, that once again she may smile and praise the Lord for deliverence. But not al ways. It’s this way sometimes: Death will enter and bring sorrow and if the one is unsaved, this will make it even more difficult for the one who cares. Most of you have been placed on the altar by someone who loves you. You have gone on fighting the Spirit, not wanting to surrender to Christ; But God has an all-seeing eye and unescapable presence. Psalms 139-1, He said, “thou' hast searched me, (verse 2),- thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising.” That means He knows when you stand up and sit down. Verse 4, “You even know every word in my mouth before I speak,”' Verse 7, "Where shall I go from thy Spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence.” Verse 9, “If I take the wing of the morning, and dwell in the utter-most part of the sea-” Verse 11, “If I say, surely the darkness shall hide me, even light shall be over the dark ness.” You can’t hide from God. Sooner or later you have to stand and stand you will, and to confess and bow at His , feet. For He is hard, waiting' for you to come home. But you ',, must be as Job in 19:25 “For I know that my redeemer liveth, ^ and that He shall stand at the 1 latter day.” Yours In Christ, Evangelist Ted Brooks Educational Views j By Dr Do Iron Brooks SUCCESS Another means that pro vides students with success is to make available social prob lem solving meetings. The purpose is to discuss all problems relative to the group and to any individual in the class; to direct discussions toward solving the problem; and to never include punish ment or fault-finding as a solution. You see, a pupil’s characteristics (whether shy, timid, aggressive, withdrawn, etc.) are important for achieve ment. In fact, Coleman found that pupil characteristics have a stronger relationship to achievement than all the scho ol factors combined. Students want to talk about their social problems and they want some one to help them find solu tions. You mean to say that students develop social prob lems that will keep them from learning? Sure they will. Mr. Harold Deese, Division Plan ner with State Government, documented for me a story about a young girl who lost all her teeth at the age of 12. Her face was disfigured, and she learned to hate her face. Soon she was in a deep emotional depression. Finally, she quit talking, and at the age of IS has completely lost the use of her voice- she will not speak. This is certainly a severe case, but it points up what can really happen. Mild cases deal with student truancy, drop- outs and gener al disinterest. Students will discuss with their teachers or others they trust the social problem that causes them to become problem students. If students can find someone to help them define their problem and affect a solution without punishment, achieve ment in all subjects will increase. Coleman also found that minority students gene rally have a feeling of inability due to their many social problems. He also found that if students had a strong control over their destiny, achieve ment would increase. This feeling of potency is less prevalent among Negro stu dents, but where it is present, their achievement is higher than that of white pupils who lack that conviction. Social problem- solving meetings can help our children focus on real problems that exist. The causes are kept from teachers and other adults because students think that teachers, administrators, and even their parents, will not listen to them without fear of punishment. To prevent fail ure. our children are in need of meetings that deal with social problems. Classified Ads Rate $1.50 first 25 words 5 cents each additional word
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