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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., NOVEMBER 13, 1971
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EDITORIALS
Commitlment And Awareness Tine Is Now
The challenges given to the North
Carolina Central University commu
nity by Rev. Je»se Jackson on the
occasion of its Founder's Day Con
vocation should sound the call for all
persons to assess and reassess the
sort of intellectual elitism and ma
laise that does not lead to true black
progress and even possibly could re
duce the value of our'campuses in
the leadership role training toward
black economic, intellectual, social
and spiritual development
Black students must and should
not allow themselves to be diverted
from their primary mission, the ac
quisition of knowledge and the de
velopment of the best possible arti
culative skills. This philosophy must
become the guiding light of all black
students if they are to carry on
black progress in the years to come.
For in the economic and intellectual
market places, all groups seek pow
er: and here is where the use of the
best available intellectual skills and
communication arts still determine
who will hold the power. You must
be able to sell yourself through ef
fective communication arts.
It is just as true today, as ever,
that one must seek as much infor
mation as possible to make one's
enemies his foot stool and my broth
er—my brother. Minority and black
student.* must recoprnize now that
black Americans are conceded to be
tops in motor skills and entertain
ment. Our cognitive and intellectual
skills are often questioned by the
world, despite the outstanding legal,
medical and scientific advances pro
duced by black minds. Black students
must let go of the fads and faddisms,
Ihe false mannerism and other gim
micks that many of us eagerly pick
up and latch onto and proceed to get
busy with the real tasks of learning.
.•>to-> putting the blame on faculties,
• wichers, and administrators; for the
iraries are always open for inquisi
tive minds and will continue to be
open for the development of intel
lectual stimulation It is well to
remember as Rev. Jackson said, "that
you can't teach what you don't know;
and you can't lead where you don't
go." Discipline your mind to enjoy
and learn about the wealth of avail
able vicarions information in all li
braries as well nc other media Devol
Updating the Price Index
If you are anywhere near a typical
American family with a typical
household budget, you are now
spending a significantly higher pro
portion of your budget on medical care
than just "a few years ago. This one
item in your budget is grabbing almost
6 J i cents out of every spending dollar
today.
Vet, the extent of this squeeze on
your cost of living is not fully reflected
in the closely watched Consumer Price
Index simply because the "weight"
given to the factor in your budget has
not been changed in almost a decade.
And the most dramatic upsurge in
your use of medical care has occurred
in recent years.
If you are anywhere near typical
too. your overall housing costs have
been soaring with key factors in this
trend including skyrocketing property
taxes, astronomical costs of buying
and repairing houses, rising costs of
furnishing and maintaining the con
tents of our homes, higher mortgage
rates, etc.
Yet, the extent of this squeeze, due
strictly to the changing pattern of
spending on shelter in recent years,
has also not been fully reflected in the
CPI. The weights in this broad field of
living costs haven't been altered
either.
Again, it's a virtual certainty that
your spending for services has been
rising across the board while your
spending for goods has been dropping
proportionately. Behind the upward
spiral in your spending for services
has been the relentless dumb in the
costs of all household services,
transportation service, medical care
services. Simultaneously contributing
to the decline in your spending for
things has been the downward price
trend in many household durables.
An updating of the CPI is more
than due and to lay the groundwork
for it, the Census Bureau will next
year launch the first major study of
our spending patterns in more than a
decade. Although final plans for this
massive survey are still being worked
out between Census and the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, the objective as of
now is to go far beyond the impact of
rising and falling prices for various
items on our overall spending pat
op the intensity for academic stimu
lation that many of us have for the
latest fashions, records or dances.
Become trained for power by being
trained intellectually and spiritually
to respect yourself and the people
who respect you. That is to learn and
act upon those necessary emotions
and intellect that will grant you
more control over your life.
In the words of Frederick Doug
lass. "if there is no struggle, there
can be no progress." For in the eco
nomic and intellectual struggles,
dedication to the task on our cam
puses today means dedication to the
task yes—even the duty, to acquire
all the information possible and to
develop the best communication skills
for your future leadership role in
black economic and intellectual de
velopment.
Freedom can't come, that is true
freedom for any minoritv without
agitation; but let some of this agita
tion on campuses become mental
agitation instead of educational ma
laise—a deadly enemy of progress.
Black progress needs more than un
kempt appearances, utter disrespect
for the rights of our fellowmen, and
the constant you know what I mean"
—which as we see it is nothing more
than poor articulative skills.
One must seek each opportunity
to become aware of the need, concern
and committment for both intellect
ual and spiritual involvement stimu
lation by spending more hours in the
libraries and less time on the cor
ners, the plaza and even the union.
You, the young women and men
on our campuses are the intellectual
elite and you must seek every oppor
tunity to advance black progress. In
tellectual and economic power can
lead us to real black progress, in
creased pride and power if we can
effectively compete in the market
place of ideas, intellectually, eco
nomically, spiritually and morally.
Yes, nation time is now. Move into
the power stream with the best pos
sible "know how," which can only
come from well developed and well
disciplined minds. Decision making
time is now. Committment and aware
ness time is now. What will your de
cision and committment be—intellec
tual agitation now or educational
malaise?
terns. r
The aim is to find out in addition
how our spending patterns are
influenced by our income levels, the
size of our families, the locations of our
homes, the climates in which we live,
our changing personal preferences,
our priorities, the availability of the
enormous variety of goods and ser
vices in the U. S. marketplace.
Then out of this unprecedented
exploration of the basic factors
determining our spending patterns will
come an entirely new set of weights
for all the items in today's price index.
And at that point, the CIP the only
index we have to measure changes in
living costs, and indisputably the
single most influential economic index
in the U. S. today will be up to date
again.
When? Almost surely, not until 1976
for the results of 1972's census
survey will be too complex to permit
much earlier updating. The results of
the 1960-61 census did not appear in the
CPI until 1963. This revision will be
much, much tougher.
It's a long time to wait for specifics
but you can guess the most
significant changes. We have enough
clues to know that the weight for
medical care will be way, way up;
for housing, moderately up; for food,
moderately down; for personal care
and reading and recreation, down too.
And from analysis of the impact of
price changes over the past seven
years, here are six startling ups and
six downs to telegraph how some
weights might change:
PCT. RISE
ITEM SINCE '63
Doctors' in-hospital 66.6
Mortgage interest 47.4
Hospital services 45.5
Property insurance 39.0
Indoor movies 36.8
Household help 30.8
PCT. DECLINE
ITEM SINCE '63
TV sets 33.3
Coal 33.3
Nylon hose 28.2
Prescriptions 25.0
Recreation goods 22.3
Telephone 21.7
"The World Will
11l Breeding at U.N.
WASHINGTON
Following is the transcript of White
House Press Secretary Ronald
Ziegler's press briefing today:
Mr. Ziegler: I'm sorry, I'm late
this morning, but my conference with
Miss Cornelia De Rigor, the in
ternationally famous authority on
etiquette, ran longer than I an
ticipated. As you know, I had to call in
Miss De Rigor to help answer your
questions on United Nations etiquette,
and I think I am pretty well informed
now if anybody still has any of those
questions to ask.
Q. Ron, you said Wednesday that
the handclapping and dancing in the
aisles of the U.N. following the vote to
admit Communist China was a
"shocking demonstration" of behavior
which the President found offensive
and undignified. Is there any thought
being given to appointing a blue-ribbon
commission to draw up a code of
etiquette for the U.N., so members
will know how to behave properly
when the United States loses a vote?
A. Any country big enough to go to
the U.N. ought to know how to act
under such circumstances, Dan. Any
country that doesn't can always find
out simply by calling on the U.S.
ambassador at the Waldorf and prom
ising to vote with our side.
Q. Is there any truth in these
stories, Ron, that the President has
taken down the names of the countries
whose delegates applauded, cheered or
danced, and that he will give all these
countries an F in conduct for this
semester?
A. Those rumors are ridiculous,
Herb. The President, of course, is not
empowered by the U.N. charter to
grade other countries in conduct, and
wouldn't use such power if he had it.
He would favor more subtle responses
to countries that behaved rudely. In
the present case, for example, he is
merely sending notes home to their
mothers.
Q. Does Miss De Rigor, the in
ternationally famous authority on
etiquette, agree with the President
that handclapping, cheering and
dancing in the aisles are offensive and
undignified, Ron?
A. Miss De Rigor informs me that
cheering and applauding a defeat for
the U.S. is almost as unseemly as
eating peas with a knife, while dancing
in the aisles on such an occasion is
regarded in well-bred circles as even
more distasteful than going to a full
dress dinner barefooted.
Q. What is the correct way for well-
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bred nations to react to a defeat for
our side at the U.N., Ron?
A. I don't think there's any
disagreement on that point, Bob. The
first thing would be for the countries
who had voted against us to expunge
the vote by unanimous acclamation.
After that, apologies would be in or
der. Then, three weeks of mourning.
Q. Ron, since none of the countries
who voted against us on the China
issue was aware that good manners
required them to rise unanimously and
expunge the vote, are we to take it
that the President will accept the
situation created by this breach of
etiquette, and not make further efforts
to keep the Chinese Communists out of
the U.N.?
A. Our best advice is that it would
be very bad manners for the President
to re-open the issue in any substantive
way, once he has scored his domestic
political points by professing outrage
with the ill-mannered behavior of the
countries that voted against us.
Q. Does the White House expect the
countries which voted against us to go
ahead with apologies, in accordance
with the rules of U.N. etiquette?
A. At the moment, Carroll, we
would like to see a lot of these
countries doing the correct thing—that
is, apologizing pretty abjectly and
promising never to let it happen again.
Q. What does Miss De Rigor say
about the form in which the apologies
have to be made? Do the nations that
committed the faux pas have to come
in on hands and knees in order to
satisfy the canons of civilized U.N.
behavior?
A. The President has no desire to
see any of these ill-bred nations on
hand and knees, Pete. Some of them
are great nations nations that might
some day be number two or number
three, if they learn a little something
about U.N. etiquette. So for his part,
the President will not insist on hands
and-knees. We cannot speak for how
Congress will want them to apologize,
however. Yes, Bob?
Q. Ron, does this sudden interest in
U.N. etiquette mean that the U.S.,
after ignoring the U.N. for the past 10
years, is once again going to let the
U.N. become involved in our foreign
policy?
A. If Professor Kissinger doesn't let
the State Department get involved in
our foreign policy, he's hardly likely to
let the U.N. get mixed up in it, is he?
That's off the record, and quoting me
would be offensive and undignified. I
have it straight from Miss De Rigor.
WINSTON-SALEM JOUKNAL
To Be
Black Ballot Power
By VERNON E. JORDAN JR.
IF BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT to end this decade u
disadvantaged as we began it, there has to be a strong
grass-roots mbvement to influence the political institution!
of the country. Black people have the numbers and the
know-how to help bring about the political "browning of
America" that will at long last result in the total inclusion
of blacks in the democratic political process.
Some people think that if a black man is elected mayor
of a city, that proves the existence of black political power.
To a degree it does, but that mayor is going to have to
deal with regional authorities, governors, planning boards#
councilmen and legislators, not to mention federal officials,
and his power to benefit his black constituents is partially
dependent upon these outside forces.
So black political power must come to mean more than
electing a few mayors. It must mean the complete partici
pation of black people in the political process and their in
volvement in party decision-making and government ma
chinery at all levels.
Black office-holders amount to only three-tenths of on#
per cent of the 522,000 elected officials in the country.
There is a need to increase this percentage, as well as to
influence the political institutions to become more aware
of the needs and power of black voters.
Massive Registration Needed
Massive registration of black voters is, then, a necessity.
But a major stumbling block is that in many plapes, espec
ially in medium sized northern towns, election laws and
regulations are designed to limit and exclude the young,
minorities, and working people.
In some places the only way to register is to go to the
county courthouse in the center of town. Since it's only
open from 9 to 5 on weekdays, it's really closed to working
people who would have to lose a day's pay in order to''come
in to town to register.
Local governments have a responsibility to encourage
wide-scale registration and voting. Many existing practices
really amount to the undemocratic denial of basic citizen
ship rights. If this system is to survive, then those so long
excluded from it must now be included.
There ought to be opportunities to register all year
round, not Just for a few days in the fall. Registration of
fices should be open evenings and weekdays. Neighborhoods
with low registration should get their own neighborhood
registrars drawn from those living in the community.
Mobile units could go to where people work and live. Com
munity groups could be commissioned to register people.
Should Make System Work
If this system is to work, it will have to expand the
participation of its citizens in the political process. And
if black people are to make our needs and interests felt,
we'll have to learn how to make the political system re
sponsive.
So registration is the important first step. Black citi
zens also have to become more active in party politics of
both major parties, for it is the party structure that is th«
basis for our political system. The parity delegates mad the
party machinery pick the candidates for offices and writ*
the platforms and strategies they run on.
Election Day may be too late for black voters. By
then, unless enough blacks register, become active in party
meetings and clubs, and run for party posts, we may b«
back in our old political role of being taken for granted
and forced to choose among candidates and programs that
don't reflect our interests.
It is through the ballot that black people will bring tht
meaningful change in our communities and in our lives.
JOURNAL AND GUIDE
Everybody Seems To Be
Running For Something
By FRANK ELEAZER
WASHINGTON Many senators consider them
selves presidential material. It's just that at any given
time there are a few who haven't announced. Now, with
the nominating conventions set for next summer, even some
House members are getting their lightning rods up.
Patsy Takemoto Mink, D-Hawaii, for instance, has
adorned the House for seven years. She's a lawyer, plenty
smart, and currently is lending an ear to contentions the
White House ought to be tidied up by a woman.
SSiirley Chisholm, a Democrat from Brooklyn, believes
if a woman candidate is good, a black woman candidate has
got to be better. She will enter primaries in Florida, North
Carolina, California and Wisconsin.
William Anderson, D-Tenn., is the nuclear submarine
commander turned dove who spoke an unkind word about
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He's warming up on the
lecture circuit and has tested the New Hampshire and Flo
rida primary waters.
Hays Has Bumper Stickers
Wayne L. Hayes, D-Ohio, hasn't said much, which isn't
like him, but there are bumper stickers around proclaiming
his availability for the Democratic nomination on a "sense
—not nonsense" platform.
Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, R-Calif., has committed the
ultimate political sin of announcing against his own Presi
dent.. McCloskey is a Marine combat colonel who wants
out of Vietnam and says the Commander-in-Chief has
bungled both the war and the peace.
Oh, yes. There is also Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark. But
there are a number of reasons he couldn't win and he knows
it. In fact, all Mills has to offer the voters is ability, brains,
experience, honesty, demonstrated leadership and generai
good sense.
He will be 63—people say that's too old—when the
Democrats nominate their man next July in Miami. He is
a southerner. He has voted against every civil rights bill.
He has never been outside the United States. He smokes
small cigars (no cigarettes) and even so uses a filter.
Glamorous he isn't. Chrisma (whatever that is) ht
hasn't got. On TV he comes across like a banker disap
proving a loan. His closet hides nary a skelton; only neat
rows of conservative suits.
He Is Running For Something
But since May he has made 62 public speeches includ
ing 12 to state legislatures. He says he isn't running for
president but if nominated could beat Richard Nixon. He
has a manager, bumper stickers and even a campaign song.
So what is he running for?
Some informed congressional sources—well, there is
me anyway—think what he's shooting for is the best Job
in the government, all right, but not the one at 1600 Penn
sylvania Avenue. JOURNAL AND GUIDE
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