EDITORIAL AND OPINION PAGE I > rhe voce of rhe drum is on offering ro rhe Spirir of rhe |' World Ir's sound arouses rhe < mind ond nnokes men feel rhe J mysrery ond power of rhiogs *! DLACK ELK < > i) ?# ## #ttttt' As I See It Bruce Barton I YEA! ENDING NOTES, MUSING, ETC. 1977 ?u not a bad year. We survived, didn't we? I put a lot of stock in surviving. Surviving is almost a lost art form. 1977 was the year that the Robeson County School Sys tem changed administrative . hands. Purnell Swett. a pro duct of the school system, replaced Y.H. Allen who re signed in the face of growing dissatisfaction with his 1950s style machevelian derring do. Swett is doing just fine. He's growing in his job, teachers and administrators are excited about education. I wish Pur nell Swett continued success as superintendent of the Rob eson County Administrative School Unit. He is ably assist ed by school board attorneys, Locklear, Brooks and Jacobs, a youthful and able Indian law firm. Ralph Hunt, the able chairman of the board, and his predominate Indian school board are providing sober, long range planning. The sun still comes up in the morning and goes down in the evening. The seasons continue to come and go as they are supposed to do. Our distrac tors used to say..."but you don't have anyone qualified!" Well, we do now and they are doing just fine. My wiah for 1978 is that we support Sept. Swett, Robeson County Board of Education, ' and the entire educational system in the county schools. In the past, Allen played us off ngnkaatbne another flke under RUgs Manning em* 9A the king's palace, each Vying for the king's ear. Things are diffcient now. Let's give Swett a a. t- - - - ? t .. .ikl. .. idq nts ceasn some Dreaming room, some growing room, some teeming room. He de serves a chance to install his own team, define his own policies, his way of doing things. My number one wish in 1978 is that we g?ve Swett and company a chance. They de serve it. God knows they are qualified. All they need to succeed is our support. 1 hope we give it unflinchingly. At the tail end of 1977 1 entered a spiritual realm that I am not sure 1 can define fully. Adversity, mostly in the form of economic reprisals, caused mpto re evaluate The Carolina lti$an Voice. Survival is the answer. I do not wish neces sarily to go up in a puff of smoke. 1 am not going to be as reckless this year as 1 have been in past years. I will still take my philosophical stands, no matter what the cost, but I will try to look for the best in all of us before I look for the worst. I am growing spiritually, looking for peaceful planes, examining myself for growing room. I have begun to attend the church in my community Deep Branch Baptist Church. The people who attend Deep Branch Baptist Church are elementary, down to earth people like me. I am comfort able with them. They soothe my troubled spirit. I am entering 1978 thinking things out for myself, toned down, not as cocky as 1 have been. 1978 promises to be an uncertain but exciting exper ience. 1 am not sine exactly *1 where 1 am going, but I do know that my route is a spiritual one, like always. 1 solicit your prayers, your continued support in 1978. happy new year! * through ? : channels : ?T JOfT suu Confidential Report... A TV tragedy ? A famed TV star is going through a bitter divorce which is causing him so much pressure he's being driven to fits of bizarre behavior. On the set recently, the star betted an actor and friend in tbe chops when he hinted that the star's intense concentration on Ms career had caused the breakup of Ms marriage. The friend, however, has forgiven the star, and insists he is still my friend. Later, the star displayed another violent outburst tMs time on national television when he entered a round of verbal fisticuffs with a Washington. 0. C. journalist on a nationally syndicated show. When the star split from Ms wife he went to live in Ms dressing room on the set and didn't leave the place for days. Then, to relieve Ms boredom, he worked extended hours running Ms crew and himself ragged. He finally had to be hospitalized when he collapsed on the set "It was an intense, physical grind and it was very hard on Mm." explained his personal secretary. Contributing to Ms exhaustion was a severe Mgh protein. low-carbohydrate diet Now the star is reporting that he plans to quit the series after tMs - season. "I want to quit a winner and not overstay my welcome." he notes. "H Humphrey Popart were on TV every week, they'd get sick of Mm. too." However, chances are the network will be aMe to lure the star back with a salary increase. He needs the dough now that heavy alimony payments are in the near future. To help with the finances, he just accepted SI million to do another commercial for an oil company. Since becoming a bachelor, he Is acting like he's trying to catch up on lost time. "A different girl as often as possiMe." Is how Ms friends explain it . . . Suzanne Vomers says her favorite drink Is a Teacher's bullshot... lye on TV: "That's really what I can an odd couple!" exclaims a waiter at the deverty Mils Hotel restaurant He's referring to Hollywood's hottest new couple. TV talk show hostess Dinah Shore and actor Ron Ely. alias Tarzan. The two began their relationsMp over a Sunday brunch at the famous hotel, having been introduced by friends, and have since appeared elsewhere several times, holding hands. "They do make a handsome couple. I must admit" notes the waiter, who wishes to remain anonymous. "Rut I can't get used to it seeing Dinah Shore with Tarzan! At least that's how I think of Mm." ... Now that she's old enough to drink. MacKonzIo Phillips sips Hennessy V.S.0.P . . . With 95.000 fan letters coming each month and a fan dub membership of S5 per head, you'd tMnk Henry Winkler, or the Fonz of TV's , "Happy Days." would be rolling In the green stuff. "That's certainly not the reason I'm doing it." Henry denies. "It's costing me S3.000 a month just to answer the mail... There was never any posslbHtty that "CMco" and the Plan" wouldn't be back on the air tMs season. Jack Albert son claims, despite the death of Freddie Prinze, one of the show's title stars last year. "We got thousands and thousands of letters begging us to continue." Jack told me "and only one suggestion that we give up the show." An Editorial Opinion *NO' VOTE ON VOTING MACHINES MAKES SENSE The erudite chairman of the Robeson County Board Of Elections campaigned hard for voting machines. Monday, the board of commissioners, by a vote of 4-2 voted "no.'* Although we respect and admire Rev. Charles McDowell, the compassionate chairman of the board of elections, we disagree with him on this particular matter. $150,000 seems a little steep to invest in machines that would be used every two f years sparsely and heavily every four years during balloting in general elections. Too, there is a certain excitement to staying up all night following the election returns. Some of us like to get out every two years or so. The vote by the board of commissioners seem, as we see it, to be a wise and economical one. "Fewer deee net oorrupt men; teeta, hewever, M they (et Inte a perMin ef power, eerrupt V EH' Danny Thomas January 6,1S14 * ?' mmmt svs Zr?TZ, ZZLZ vNHWMM* ? MMr? *M k \ I 1 ACCORDING TO ! I SCRIPTURE I ? EVANGELIST TED BRCX)KS ! REPENTANCE Acta 17i30 "And the timesof this ignorance God winked at,, but now commandeth all men every where to repent. Now had you Hved in thia time when Paul preached to thepeople of Mara HUI and found the people worshipping unknown gods and he said, "I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." Acts 17:22. These people were uscJ doing what they wanted to and Paul declared being troubled in his spirit and said the city has wholly given to idolatry. Verse 16. Now I want you to read again the 30th verse and the times of this ignorance God winked at. But now commandeth all men every where to repent. When you finish reading this don't run to your preacher and say Brother Brooks said so and so, but you ted him. Praise God, what the word of God has said. Amen. Paul referred to these peo ple as being Ignorant before lose* cetne and brought his divine grace. The people would go to their priest and he would go once a year with the blood of goats and buls and what have you for the errors of the people and himself Today Ood does not wink at sin, neither does ha eetapro miae. Jesus when he eant his MM , coat mended them to preach repentance Jeeus-eetd. "I tefi MMfi wW wifMpi yW rwWWIi w did dl " Lake IJsi. Gad's aiders to afl man are to repent The way changed his plan of salvation. You think the need for repen tance had somewhat diminish ed. His terms for entering his kingdom had been told to ease off. My friends, God said it, not I. For a man to foil to heed repentance means he shall utterly perish. In D Peter 3:9 it would be wise of you to read that God said he was not slack concerning his promise. As some men count slackness. You may walk by the door of the closing of the service and give the minister a love offering, you can pay your tithes every week and live like the world, but God's word is still there saying repent. It has been asked of me many times, "Hrnthcr lfr.vk-, how is it you can't tell the church some times from the world?" 1 tell them the people need to repent. Now you can dose your eyes to this message and walk away, but you will still be without an excuse. You see, man has tried to take the effect out of repentance In order to build his enrollment and to add on to his bftllding. He has tried to take the power out of repentance. What I'm writing now you can show to the whole world beceuee it Is the truth and the ward. What's wrong today Is man wants to know more than the other man so Ms doctrine meet he better than the ethers. And to got follow ers he wfl try and change Ood's word. Now. I don't ease if yiuis m kas la Sao ha as n ^nwnm II y^Nrt Hl^hlo^or N^w P or ^degrees, a^tl^t^i^i ^t^t himself has been bum again and re pentad til Ms sine, ho Is lost And the degree ha aaads meat af all Is the d.A. Degree, a true bads ?ar af Oad. Van coo. w# gat dtfs hmos bolng ?? stand ag and say I behove and name forth and shake a I LETTERS TO f, THE EDITOR ? ? Appreciates Arricles on Oilirsranding Indians Dear Bruce: I just wanted to take a few minutes to express my appre ciation for ycur recent artMes featuring soreral members of our Indian community. Some of my fondest memories are of the days wMch Jimmie Lowry and myself spent at North Carolina State University when we were the only two Indians on the campus of a major university. Jimmie was always concerned that we conduct ourselves in such a manner as to reflect well on out people aad that we set an example for other young In dians to follow. All of us can justly take pride in the aca demic achievements of Jimmie at State and in the success which he has had in the business world since his grad uation. Speaking as a long time friend, however, I take the great pride in the fact that he did not forget for one minute his Indian origins. His recent involvement with, and election to the chairmanship of, the North Carolina Com mission on Indian Affairs demonstrates anew to me that he is still the same fellow that I used to have those long, late night conversations with while we were in college. By my calculations, Try on is really not that far from Pem broke, so if I am able to gather enough pennies together I shall buy my next new auto mobile from the only Indian owned General Motors dealer ship in the whole of these United States of America. To my mind, Jimmie epitomizes the idea that Indian ess need not be inconsistent with capi talism, rather that the two can in fact fit quite nicely together. The feature of Dr. James B. Chavis* a i still i l of ? iidne, demonstrates that the State of North Carolina is finally reali zing benefits from a long neglected resource- the Indian people of this State. hand. If you have read your Bible at all, it will tell you that the devil believed. James 2:19. Believing is not enough and if you are claiming salvation by the shaking of the preacher's hand and by believing only, then no wonder every time sin comes to town, you want to ride and then tell every one the Lord was testing you. Come on now, say amen. Every party that the world has you just can't keep flesh down, the reason is you only have a handshake. If you were wash ed in the blood, Glory to God, you could say, "Satan, I'm a child of the King.I 'm consecra ted." You can tell ho linen any where. It's set apart from the world. You can see the blood all over that person who has repented of his sins. Repen tance the word itself means to pant, to sigh, to moan. I know what you have been told, a hand shake or to belhre is enough. If I were attending a church and a preacher told me that was sll my family or friends need to do, I wouldn't support him with one dime. Isa. 55:7 said, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return unto the Lord." It has been told and preached that when one belie ves or confesses, there Is no emotion. What I mean is one knows no difference. It doesn't make any difference what 1 say, but what does the word of God teach or have us to know? When the Publican acknow ledged his sins, he beat upon his breast and cried. Lord be merciful, indicating sorrow of the heart. Rspentance is not only a heart broken for sin, but from sin also. For someone to say it without amotion, my friend, the part of the will and disposition In repents net is shown, how elae shall one know than, csospt by the fruit they bear. When the prmlwal son came to himself, he said, "I will arise." And he did arias. Yes sue, he net only thought upon We ways end Mt sorry bassos# of his sinful ways, but he turned bis steps homeward *Meh wars in the right directum. When rages tanes is mats end a snrrewful ens. there ts an osporioess I treat to aek yea this gneeHee. ?? hunest wt* yarn suif end go (? a bank, the others usually go to a savings and loan. Obviously a great many Pembroke area people already have deposits in a savings & loan someplace, and having your own could very certainly bring a lot of this money home to Pembroke. It is now scattered among maybe a dozen or more out of town SAL offices. What effect would a new S&L have on your present bank? Undoubtedly it would help them grow simply because it would help Pembroke grow! A Savings and Loan company, whomever it was, would provide Pembroke with local financing for new homes, for one thing, and this would encourage expansion of the housing industry, a great stimulant for your entire economy. It would provide local financing for any kind of effort to attract new industry you might like to bring to town. It would provide a money source not available through your banks for the expansion of your business community. And who knows how many Pembroke people who have accounts in savings and loan companies in other towns also do their banking there too for convenience? This business could well come home to you too. If Robeson Savings or some other company were to locate a branch in Pembroke, it would undoubtedly create some local employment. I feel sure it would be staffed with local people, probably even the manager if someone local can be found who is qualified. And since building a new building for the facility would add to your tax base, this plus the other taxes a SAL pays locally would most probably make them one of the highest tax-sources the town has. And if your own local SAL can successfully attract home the money your people now have scattered amongst several such institutions in various other towns, this money as a block could well put some Pembroke people on the local board of directors, as I feel sure the folks at RSAL would prefer. And one more point. Oftentimes community projects rruuirf the lolldim of ntoMv expnnsesc^r ee^^p ^^aweewresse^u ee^wmr^^e w JTSBP sx keen such a project--or die c>f ^ or medkai facility or some other MK'h MUfKTl Al llfVIII (Hi |||0Q0, always the largest cuntrthutars llg fs M n|^ue ^ |L L r? STSdNM 7?MlM? financial leu m Mm hewn* I I was in banking prior lo moving to St. Pauls, so I am perhaps a little more familiar than most with the subject. Most times the local banks are the prime movers in getting a SAL in a town simply because the bankers realize the need for services they cannot themselves provide, and the need of a town to have these services to grow. If any SAL wishes to locale in Pembroke, my advise is encourage it. You need it. It will help you. And after all. don't the people of Pembroke deserve to have the services of a savings A loan company right there in town without having to drive all the way to Laurinburg or Lumberton or Red Springs to get it? By not having a SAL there now. you are forcing your people to do their business out of town. I feel sure RSAL already does a lot of business in Pembroke-and it would appear they are willing to make a sizable expenditure to locate a branch there, largely to make it more convenient for the people of Pembroke. Apparently they value your business or they wouldn't have offered to make what has to be at least a S 100.000.00 investment in your town. And since I haven't hoard of any other institution willing to go so far to help Pembroke and it's people, they are obviously more interested in you than the others. And if they should locate there, remember this-they can't grow unless Pembroke grows. Therefore you can rest assured that thev, or any such institution that would locate there, would get in there and pitch for progress and growth just as hard as anybody you have! After all, their future and Pembroke's future would be inseparable! If you'can get 'em, take 'em?it's a necessary ingredient in the formula for successful growth. Sincerely yours, Dak Brooks, president WLAB Radio MMBIIMt L I 0 Prepared by the A men cat Society of Chartered Lift U n d e rwriters, the national society of life insurance professionals who haut earned the C L V designation by meeting high educational ethical and experience requirements. Q. I've jut gone beck to work after an 18-year inter ruption to raise two kids. Though I don't earn as much as my husband (I expect to come close, though), my sai ary is pretty useful. What about life insurance for the working wife?namely, met ? ? ? ^ A. It's not only a sound idea, but a necessary one. Today, there are 21 million married women like yourself who work. In fact, about half of all American families with incomes of $15,000 or more achieved this income level because of a second income provided by the wife's job> Interestingly, studies show thst the typical wife's salary is not used for providing, frills, but for the basics food, clothing and shelter. Consider what would hap pen in these homes if the wife) should die. Without her in come, the family's standard of living would suffer sev erely. Her income?as well as the husband's?needs to be protected, a job that life) insurance can do. I V . VfcVfc ^ ^ ^ I Every year the earth travels 600 million miles through ipaco. An Editorial Opinion : \ V-i' \ KERSHAW TO RESIGN AS 'STRIKE AT THE WIND!' GENERAL MANAGER Symbols are important. Seemingly, as far as role models go, it would be ideal to have a talented and creative Indian as general manager of 'Strike at the Wind!', the outdoor drama built around the exploits of Henry Berry Lowrie and the indominitable will of the Lumbee Indians. But Rock Kershaw was an excellent general manager of 'Strike at $je Wind!'. He has made the difference between "talking about an outdoor drama" and "making 'Strike at the Wind!' an exciting reality.' Now, according to a notice we have received from Adolph Dial, chairman of ? the board, Kershaw is leaving to accept a position with the Lost Colony, the "randdaddyof outdoor dramas in Manteo. We wish Kershaw well. He has been creative, imaginative, hard working, audacious, and talented. He put all the pieces together. But who will replace him? The board of directors of Robeson Historical Drama, Inc., the sponsoring agency of 'Strike at the Wind!' will meet January 9, 1978 to accept Kershaw's resignation "with regret" and possibly name his successor. Rumor has it that Dial and the executive committee will recommend Lane Hudson, Kershaw's personable assistant, who, like Kershaw, just happen to be non-Indian. Of course, the editorial position of the Carolina Indian Voice is that an Indian should be general manager. Or, at the least, an Indian should be named as assistant of whomever the board names as Kershaw's successor. It is time to come to grips with reality. 'Strike at the WindJ's' future lies with local talent, preferrably Indian talent. If it is not time to name an Indian to the position right now, it certainly is time to name an Indian as assistant so that the learning process can begin. And, if and . when tne next general manager leaves foi greener pastures, we will be ready with an experienced Indian general manager to continue the phenomenal growth of Strike at the Wind!', the most exciting outdoor drama in America. i