WED1T0RIAL. JAND OPINIOM f PAGE <4 "We cannot know where we are going if we do not know where we have been." Twthmlliii Iw.Qwhy ittftffc mm4 sink# rtipcc* tiveiy... Sickness seems rampant in die land, and we were sad dened here at the Carolina Indian Voice to lean that two ? favorite Men of God had been struck down recently with debilitating illnesses. Be v. Chesley McNeill suffered a massive heart attack but is, according to reports, now oat af intensive cpte at South eastern General Hospital. Bev. Jack Hunt, pastor of church, is recovering from a life- threatening stroke. He was allowed to come home "just for a little while" Wednesday and my mother, Mrs. Berna Barton, and 1 took to see trim. He afflrms that he counts his Banes "a joy to suffer because the Lord has ensealed so much to me since Pve been sick..." He asked me to announce that "I will be pneching at Pembroke Church of God Sunday morning (as his doc tors at Southeastern have ???ii ??j-^ J 1.1 ? US* fl ?? < ? ? ?t promisea nun nis nrst wee* end at home) although 111 probably have to preach from a wheel chair for a while." That's good news to his church and to friends and admirers like me who remem ber when he came to comfort me in a time of trouble. And, of course. Rev. Ches ley McNeill, formerly pastor at Deep Branch Baptist Chur ch where I was "gloriously the same place or not Trouble came eventually to Deep Branch, as it seems to come where ever God's people congregate, and he left with some of die other mdmbers and began Riverside Inde pendent Baptist Church on Mghway 74. 1 still love him and honor him although f ? _ I pray that both men will continue to improve and, eventually, be able to return to their dudea aa "Preacher* of the Word." Tbt first wristwatch of which there is any record dotes from 1790, and is itemised in the eceounts of the Swiss watchmakers Jaquet-Droz and Leschot of Qeneva as "a watch to* be fixed on a braceiat." NOW ACCEPTING \ ORDERS ? ~^y ton.... 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Oh, my Ood, remember am At Thy Great White Throne Lest I there, too, groan, "Not Remembered!" The above are the bitter words of a much-frustrated wfiler it m particularly on* couraging time of his ttfe meaning me and mine.Fortu nately, however, it was a feeing of depression 1 did not long retain. And I now know better. The street where the fan mortal poet Homer once beg ged bread, now proudly holds his monument. Though bela tedly, he is remembered. Edgar Allen Foe died in a Baltimore gutter. Yet his literary genius was so great, his writings are studied today by every school child in 'America before be or she gets out of high school. Foe is -remembered. And so are many, many other people worthy of remembrance. LAST WEEK TWO Last week two Robeson Agues were weil-remember ed..and will continue to be. One was a leader who died in 1915 and the other still Hves. HERMAN DIAL V'~ served tor sixteen 'years as a Robeson County Commissioner.'' Dial told me recently. "It is a heavy responsibility. I feel as though 1 have served the major portion of my adult life as a Robeson County Com missioner." "If 1 had to do it all over again, 1 wouldn't do things any differently. I ran my campaigns honestly. The people put me in office and kept me there four terms. 1 served honestly. I'm ptoud of my record." It isn't often that people date, bat last weak several oat to honor Commissioner Herman Dial...in a very spec ial way. HAMILTON MdkOLLAN Col. Hamilton McMillan, a dutiful Confederate soldier when circumstances and Ms K^ion demanded h of Mm, was also a humanitarian ex iraortfinary." He was the best friend die Robeson Indians ever had," a Lumbee leader in education said rev canity. When he died two years before I was born, it was predicted that he would be remembered so long as there i was a Robeson Indian. He will be remembered as long as there is a Pembroke State University, too, because he is the father of that institution, regardless of how small its beginnings were. For as someone has said, "A thousand miles journey be gins with a single step." He took more than a single step on behalf of Robeson's people, however, especially the Indians who needed Mm so desperately. His journey on their behalf took him from 1864 to 1915. For once the great man set sail, be never turned back. It may have begun aa "just a little ted school house (only not "just") but the first days ? were die moat critical ones in the institution's history. In order to fully appreciate McMillan's contributions seemingly caches* contribu tions-it must be remembered that he began at point sent. No, I was not privileged to know him personally. Yet I feel as though I did. And in a very real sense, I dkL You see, he cared about me and others Uke me before I accciscu laxncr 5 eye. Yes, 1 get emotional about the memory of Hamilton McMillan. He brought us hope when we had none, became our friend when we were without friends. Any time my people are unjustly treated and I am inclined to be bitter and racial, I only have to think of Hamilton McMillan to know and realize the tremendous good, love and compassion of the truly great of all races. He represented die very best there is to be found in mankind. I?-L-ILW Jf- ifeSZa ^^^82^3^^ I LAST CHANCE | TO SAVE ON | THE SEASON '82-'83 SEASON TICKET | iiwi Simons SIS UhtiMl SIXSS State CMm | SSI | iNr f'ljii U?L IS, MB | VI?at Mw. Api to, MB I ONLTBNOli TICKETS KB BACH EVENT WE* SB SOLD AFTBt SujaMUJt 30.19B ( _? _ - I hearts of calory in jars of ( water on kitchen counter. They'll look pretty and the tops can be snipped for use in salads and soups, jj r 1 HE WASHINGTON?One of the questions often asked of me concerns our mail?how much do we receive. In 1961, we received, and answered, 232,674 pieces-of mail. Clint Fuller keeps track of our mail count, along with his many other duties as executive assistant He notes that in 1961 we received 949.6 pieces of mail each working day. Through June 30 of this year, we had received 96,531 pieces of mail. Inasmuch as our heaviest mail months gener ally are in the second half of the year, it's likely that we will top the 1981 total by the time December 31 rolls around. During the first six months of 1961, we received 10,000 fewer pieces of mail than in the same period this year. FUNDS?It also may be of interest that during my first 9ft years in the Senate, we turned back, unspent, to the U. S. Treasury $1,427,311 of the funds allotted to us for operating our office. This may not seem a great deal of money when compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the federal government each year. But if everybody in govern ment, at all levels, would make an effort to turn back some of the funds allocated to them, it would have a remarkable effect on the economy. Let me illustrate: On May 20, when the Senate was considering its budget legislation, I took all of the available information home with me one evening for study. I spent several hours, until well past midnight, looking at the various aspects of the legislation. Along about 1 a.m., I was astounded at the enormous figures I had compiled. INCREASE?I discovered, for example, that the pro posal before the Senate (it eventually passed the Senate) would increase federal spending by $282.8 billion during the next three yean. During the same period, tax collections were to be increased by $365.2 billion. Th'.; was something that I simply could not support. Therefore, I prepared an amendment to reduce both spending and taxes by 6ft per cent I do not believe there is one agency or department of any government, and especially the federal government, that would be paralyzed by a 6ft% cut in funds allocated to it Yet that proposed 6ft% cut would have saved the tax payers more than $100 billion?and it would have sent a healthy signal across the country that Congress was serious about restoring a measure of common sense to government spending and taxation. My amendment was not accepted by the Senate. PROTESTS?Every time President Reagan or anybody else proposes to slow down the rate of increase in federal spending, there immediately is a storm of protests. Hardly anyone receiving federal money seems willing to sacrifice epKLJUUttJe bit in order Mo*aigbt?p the country. Pres ident Reagan is right when he talks about the "big spenders" in Congress. Little or nothing has been said about it, but the budget legislation approved by the Senate calls for a $145.8 billion increase in federal spending for 1985 compared to 1982. Moreover, the legislation calls for $825 billion in tax collections in 1985, compared with $323 billion in 1982. MASSIVE?Such enormous figures boggle the mind, I know. But they are the figures that we must constantly deal with in Congress. And they are the figures which prompt President Reagan to veto spending proposals sent to him-by Congress. The truth is, the President has not called for enough reductions in federal spending. Yet he is criticized constantly and vehemently by those who contend that he is cutting "too much." That depends upon whether the American people are serious about wanting to straighten out the economy. I believe they are. They understand instinctively that there's no easy way to do it, and that there's no instant solution. Congress has devoted more than 30 years to approving excessive federal (pending, and the result is obvious: We have a trillion dollar Federal debt, a stagnant economy, interest rates that are stifling our farmers and business people. Our national sickness has been clearly diagnosed for any body who will face up to the facts. The question is, are we ready to do what is necessary and inescapable in order to set things straight again? ? ? ' 1 1 1 1 ? I ' I . ? I CUMBERLAND COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN PEOPLE PRESENTS SECOND ANNUAL STATEWIDE AMERICAN I WHAN CULTUML FESTIVAL CUMBERLAND COUNTY MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM J I- s^?-nJ;ss , tmarnmm ? mmm M. ......MO m mm ?MNMMM M. **SS ... mm ?a... mm m v mm *".?*? M MM mm rmmmmmmmrnb* m ,.iu M IMO October 1st and 2nd 1M2 SSBmm f53/Sp2Wt ^ wSSSS!-*' SSL ST" SMBhb iBm SmUL ATTRACTIONS ANTS4CNAFTS ?All AW WW I "" 'miimi ' MijiMMmM NBB ?PSHSS " ? K