wedttoria lg Wand opinion? ' page 4 4 We cannot know where \ we are going if we do not know where we have been. 4 . s?6 I by Bruce Barton THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE MOVES AGAIN To be honest with you, I have spent the better part of the week (and the last one too) helping The Carohaa Indtae Voice move from one location to another. We are now located uptown in Pembroke, right off Third Street. Or more exactly directly behind Lewis' Fish Market and beside Cliff's Convenient Store. Or. even more exactly, in the "Old Theatre" where 1 first saw Lash Larue and the other shooters of Indians. Anyway, I have had little time to prepare a column so I am borrowing one from a guy who has something to .say ? I,about BILLY GRAHAM IN [MOSCOW. It's what I would have said if I had the time. It's a regular column from the [Heritage Foundation, a Washington based public po licy research institute. As [noted in the by-line the writer's name is Edwin Feul Iner. Hereeeee's Edwin.... "The office makes the man." Latin Proverb . ? Fabulous Firsts Diesel engine* now used _ in the Antarctic were fir?t used there to power snow 0*M J ? tractor. 26 years ago. _Wr// / A Reader's Digest ad reports that, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Isuzu trucks average more miles per gallon than any other line sold in this country . . . up to 49 mpg on the ] highway. _ The first two-ton diesel (1959) and Japan'* first dieael powered passenger */' vehicle (1961) were made by the tame ingeniou* peo > A pie, Isuxu of Japan, who M produced the dietels pow ? ering the Antarctic snow I tractors. BILLY GRAHAM IN MOSCOW By Edwin Feulner Like street urchins rummaging desperately through yesterday's litter for today's survival, for many within the Soviet Union hope is a commodity in short supply, providing only temporary relief from the endless cycle of despair. The Reverend Billy Graham's much talked-about visit to Moscow was disappointing not only because it revealed" his naivete about Soviet propaganda, Imt because he missed an opportunity before a worldwide audience to bring a message of freedom and hope to the very people who need to hear it most. The sojourners who came from Eastern Russia to hear him speak must have watched in puzzlement as Dr. Graham cruised through Moscow with Party elites inside a shiny limousine. As he nibbled caviar with Leonid Brezhnev ? delighting Soviet propagandists with his comments that only the very wealthy can afford caviar in the U.S. ?r one wonders how he was not moved to respond to the silent cries of the needy and impoverished all over that country who are forced to grovel for a bit of bread. Did he forget that the Soviets can't even produce enough grain to feed their own people? Was he unaware that while the Soviet Union was blessed with an abundance of sturgeon, and has just about cornered the world market on caviar, it has produced one disastrous harvest after another, and now faces a major food crisis? Dr. Graham was in Moscow to participate in a conference lot religious leaders on the nuclear issue, fie had beaawnif&fr by the Reagan administration, to fprego -t the trip because of the propaganda mileage the Kremlin SJ would try to squeeze out of his participation. The fact that the Soviet Union ? which has systematically attempted to extinguish the fire of faith within its expansive borders ? should hold a conference for religious leaders is ludicrous in itself. That an American clergyman would not seize the opportunity to soundly condemn a system that has punished those who have spoken 1 out about the human spirit and its need to be free is a travesty. Consider the irony of a group of religious leaders going to Moscow to discuss the nuclear threat, when only a few weeks earlier a demonstration against nuclear war staged s in Red Square was immediately stopped by the authorities. For the religious community to express its independent views about nuclear arms is one thing. For religious leaders to be set up and used by a country that has made a mockery of God and religious freedom and will use its new-found credibility to further its own destructive cause, is inexcusable. It seems prudent to exercise caution when mixing ' politics and religion. A lot of the momentum for the nuclear freeze movement has been generated in the religious community and on moral grounds most can agree about the tragic consequences of nuclear confrontation. But if our clergy are truly concerned about the suffering in the * world, they would do well to concentrate less on parroting rhetoric and attending conferences in Moscow and look more to the needs of people all over the world whose spirits have cracked under the oppressive tyranny of the very same system that now purports to be the champion of peace. HELP ME HELP YOU ? VOTE ! I (Zf William L. (Bill) Oxendine Robeson County Board of Education DISTRICT If ?Raft Swamp ?Pembroke ?Burnt Swamp ?Union I A Candidate who believes that an Elected Official is a SERVANT of the PEOPLE, Instead of the PEOPLE being a SERVANT of the Elected Official. ' - - ? i.. . - - ? ' - i ???? ? ? " I 4 k Dealing With Russia One of the realizations affecting the Adroinis stration's dealings with Russia is that policies of three recent U.S. administrations-aimed at getting Rusnia to accept the status quo--have not succeeded. Wifcfng in The t Washington Quanenty recently, William Odom, formerly a staff member of the National Security Council in the Carter Administration, says the failure of Presidents Nikon, Ford, etfd Carter to gain acceptance of the status quo with expanded Russian trade policies and arms control pacts shows the Soviet . system of government will never accept the status quo. To do so would be a threat to Communist Russia's power and survival, he feels. That's because the Soviets suppress the national istic forces at work in and out of their empire with a strong military force and brutal suppression of . t ? .. : i individual freedom. The economy, also, is on a^ permanent wartime footing, Odom says. Odom suggests, in effect, that President Reagan's more realistic policies in dealing with Russia is the sensible policy. Ever-increasing trade concessions will not bring about liberalization within the USSR, he suggests. U.S. trade policy should recognize this situation and trade should not include strategic goods. Any concessions should be based on reciprocal commer cial or diplomatic concessions. And western military strength should be built up to a degree that keeps the NATO allies stronger militarily than the Soviet Union. Finally, the peoples of all the subjugated countries should be constantly reminded that U.S. long-term policy is that they someday enjoy the individual freedoms those in the western democracies enjoy today. These proposals sound as if they were emanating from the present-day White House. They are sound, and in tune with reality, the times and American interests generally. "Reading maketh a full man; conference e ready man and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon Say Can You See Regular eye exams are important for all Americans, but there's one group of people that must pay partic ulariy close attention to eye health. 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The POWER of their idea was in their acknowledgement that the individual's rights are derived from the Creator ? not from government ? and that individuals, in turn, should granr to government only those rights which they want it to have.1 Creator - ?k . Individuals ? i ^ Government Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution were designed to protect the individual's rights. Their framers recognized that a government made up of imperfect men exercising power over other men should possess limited powers. For a free copy of a booklet entitled '' What Can I Do.'" ? a citizen action plan, utile to Stedman Corporation, Asheboro, North Carolina 1720}