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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
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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.
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William L. (Bill) Oxendine
Robeson County Board of Education
DISTRICT If
?Raft Swamp ?Pembroke
?Burnt Swamp ?Union
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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.
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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
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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. All diabetics should
have annual eye exams, even
those with no signs of visual
problems.
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A diabetes-linked eye dii
seaae known as diabetic reti
nopathy ia now a leading
cause of blindness in the
U.S.
To learn how to take
care of your eyes, contact
your state Society to Pre
vent Blindness or the Na
tional Society to Prevent
Blindness, 79 Madison Ave
nue, New York, N. Y. 10016.
John Adams. Roger Sherman. Robert Livingrton. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
PlMa* M? TwMbfM| Cm? N BwUma Co PMiii?lm
.That they are endowed by their Creator with certajnuaaiienable rights... V
v t ' l? Jbly 4, IV16, Declaration of-Independence
These men drafted the declaration of Independence, a great
testament of individual and national freedom. Therein lay the
unique idea which led to an experiment in freedom of enterprise
that resulted in unprecedented economic growth and an
unmatched standard of living for more people than under any
, other government that ever existed.
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
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Individuals
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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}
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This was the unique America idea. The dangers our system faces
today result from a departure from this basic idea.2
Gradually, however, other "ideas" have influenced legislation
which has reversed the roles and given government greater and
greater power over the individual. The result is ever-growing and
centrally-controlled governments whose irresponsible spending
policies have burdened the individual and stifled the nation's
economic vitality.
John Adams said: "The people in America have now the
best opportunity and the greatest trust in their hands that
Providence ever committed ... if they betray their trust, their
guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have
suffered . .. ,"3
What are you doing about this ?
STEDMAN
CORPORATION
I Irs TIME FOR A CHANGE I
LARRY T. BROOKS
FOR YOUR I
COUNTY COMMISSIONER 1
MAXTON-PEMBROKE'S MITHS 1
? EXPERIENCED IN GOVERNMENT I
? EXTENSIVE BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
? MASTERS IN ADMINISTRATION
? CONCERNED PARENT: THE ONLY
CANDIDATE WITH CHILDREN (4)
IN THE LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Larry T. Brooks
* San*, equltabl* relief for our long-suffering tax payor*. Tho Rob* son tax rat* 1* an
orerly high 0.82 whil* tho stato avorago is only 0.70 por hundord dollar raluation.
* Aggressive rocruitmont of quality, high-paying industry. Tho Roboson unomploymont
rato has long boon tho highost in tho ton-county Capo Foar Rogion.
* Ensuring that our district gots its fair sharo of county ponies. Wostorn Roboson has
gono lacking whilo outsido lntorosts haro received spocial troatmont.
I * Equal funding for our district's roscuo squads and volunteer firo departments.
* Opon. responsive. offset It* government. Honost answors to straight-forward quootlons.
Fair troatmont for all citlxons. Tho samo rulos should apply to everyone. No favorites.
I * Tho highost priority for public education. Over tho last 18 years local support for public
education has decreased from 60 percent to only 32 percent of our county budgetary H
outlay and is still dropping though tho stato average is well over SO percent. Wo can
no lbngor afford tho luxury" of five separate and unnecessary local school systems. I
I Votl for and Eloet LARRY T. BROOKS, County Commissioner I
I paid roe st surroRTms or lasrt t. moon brooks ros courrr commissioner I