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2A -THE CAROLINA TWHEB Saturday, Nov. 4, 1972 EDITORIALS & COMMENT j Will YOU HAVE * VOICE OR Will YOU IE VOICELESS? Election day 1972 takes on spe cial significance this year. Tues day. November 7is at hand. The call goes out to each and every registered voter to go to the polls and make your choices be felt after careful study. For indeed, it is im portant that all issues be evaluated, those which have made the head lines, as well as those that have not made top news. Many opportunities to register have been made available to all who desired. Eighteen year olds have a great stake in this election -for many issues concern them. Other new voters must and should "take advantage of the opportunity to use his franchise now. The im portant KEY is to get out and vote. Aa one poker player often says to another, 'it is your play and it is time to either put up or shut up.' For if black people are to hold on to the many meaningful gains made in this last decade as well as to push for even higher gains, voting on November 7 must become "I NEVER HAD IT MADE" JACKIE ROBINSON America's most celebrated black baseball hero, the first to break through the white world of major leagues—Jackie Robinson—reveals much about himself in his auto biography "I Never Had It Made" scheduled for publication on No vember 17, 1972. Man of politics, business execu tive and active participant in the Civil Rights movement, as well as the recipient of baseball's great est honor, election to the Hall of Fame, is detailed as Jackie relates the many twists and turns of his various venture. Even the heart breaking story of Jackie, jr. is also told. Other revelations by Robinson includes problems relating to the administrations of the Freedom Bank, his attitude toward the treat ment of addicts and reasons for his shifting political alliances. The autobiography is poitnant with tragedies and eloquent with triumphs. Robinson found direc tion is his special talent for sports. He was the first 4 letter man in the history of sports at UCLA— football, baseball, track and tennis —what a sportsman. Yet he was compelled to drop out of school to help support his family. This man of courage and capacity should cer tainly inspire those persons to per severe who may feel inclined to HEALTH PRACTICES AND OPINIONS SURVEY REVEALING Recent research on health prac tices and opinions was initiated af ter Senate hearing on how elderly consumers were being victimized by frauds and misrepresentations. Such attitudes, beliefs and prac tices of consumers in regard to health problems are critically im portant. An interesting report released by HEW about people in the U. S., as being among the best educated in world revealed however, that de spite this, millions of Americans make decisions on their personal health problems by believing that "anything is worth a try." This trial and error approach to solving personal health problems is the major underlying cause of questionable health practices in the U. S. population says the na tional study. Millions of consumers base im portant health decisions on the idea that since there are individual dif ferences in people, there is a chance that almost any treatment may be beneficial. Faith in this trial and error approach is rein forced by psychosomatic effects and unaided recovery. Other revealing highlights of the study are that older people are generally less likely to make irra tional decisions on health problems and are more skeptical about ef ficacy claims for drug store reme dies than young persons. Forty two per cent of the people inter viewed representing 50 million a top priority. Black people have the numbers and the know-how to help bring meaningful changes. These changes are vital if black America wishes to seek and add to those many gains made by blood, sweat, tears and lega know-how in the past. Black political power must mean more than just electing a few to special posts. It must mean the complete participation of this ethnic into all the political proc esses as well as their involvement in the decision making and other gov ernmental machinery. It is only through the wise and judicious use of the ballot that black people and other oppressed people can bring about the needed meaningful changes in our com munities, cities, states and the na tion at large. You must make your voice heard on Election Day, 1972 by going to the polls and casting your ballot for your choices. drop out for similar or other rea sons. Such courage and ability lifted Jackie Robinson as an image to all whose dreams made sports acclaim a reality for all—black as well as white, for they loved his youth, his strength and his daring. Yet, he had many reasons to be bitter, but he fought the bitterness in himself to find a greater strength—the strength of humanity and honesty —so that we and he could live as better men. Jackie's vision and sense of meaning of his life are best ex pressed in his own words. "... I have devoted and dedi cated my life to service. I don't like to be in debt. And I owe. Some of my friends tell me I've paid the note a thousandfold. But I still feel I owe—till every man can rent and lease and buy according to his money and his desires; until every child can have an equal opportunity in youth and manhood; until hun ger is not only immoral but il legal; until hatred is recognized as a disease, a scourge, an epi demic, and treated as such; un til racism and sexism and nar cotics are conquered and until every man can vote and any man can be elected if he qualifies." adults, would not be convinced by almost unanimous expert opinion that a hypothetical "cancer cure" was worthless. Only 45% thought such a medicine should be banned by law. The most common of misconcep tions investigated and revealed were that three fourths of the pub lic believes that extra vitamins pro vide more pep and energy. Al though their conditions had never been diagnosed by a physician, 12 per cent of those interviewed, about 16 million adults, reported they had arthritis or rheumatism, asthma, allergies, hemorrhoids; heart trouble, high blood pressure, or diabetes. Twelve per cent of the sample also indicated they would self-medicate without seeing a doc tor for longer than two weeks for ailments such as sore throats, coughs, sleeplessness or upsetj stomach. ' • Twenty-six per cent, represent ing about 35 million adults, had used nutritional supplements ex pecting specific observable bene fits, without a physician's advice. About two per cent, representing 2Vi million adults, indicated they did something every day or nearly every day to help with bowel move ment, and that they were not fol lowing a doctor's advice. Such results from the survey are expected to be most useful in strengthening both educational and regulatory efforts to protect tho consumers. ■ I\MI I . JI "KM 1 " ' 00^' |JJ| ILHB •ASKS Continued from front page field improvement, for the ad dition to the home economics building, $302,000, and for the $20,000 entrance gate. Con struction on those three pro jects is expected to begin in January. The $2,425,000 addition and renovation to the library building is in final development stages. Construction of that project should begin in May, Jones said. -HEARS Continued from front page familiar "Bless This House*" Executive Director of the John Avery Boy's Club is Lee W. Smith, Jr. He has achieved national recognition as a Pro fessional Boys Club worker and is a member of the Boy's Club Professional Association. •LIGHTS Continued from front page sity to defend black workers who were being excluded from work by a postmaster general and union which practiced white racism. In 1913, light was provided for an Alliance meeting in the home of charter member Arthur Bruce, by an oil lamp, which was on display during the cere mony. It will be encased for the view of posterity. A daugh ter of Mrs. Louise Bruce pre sented the lamp to the Alliance because of its historical signifi cance to the union. President White stated: "The Alliance is the only black con trolled, independent, industrial union in the federal govern ment. It is a vehicle which has been tempered by adversity and the vicissitudes of fortune. It has withstood the witch hunts of the Senator Joe Mc- Carthys, racist tactics of white postmaster generals and past masters. Now, it grapples with an oppressive U. S. Postal Ser vice, biased craft unions and a trickly anti-black U. S. Pres ident. The Alliance is the national nucleus around which all blacks, females, chicanos, retirees, old and young citizens can rally." "Come join us in the struggle to make all Americans free." •MAPS Continued from front page tract Compliance and of the Equal Employment Opportun ity Com miss ion. —Proposed establishment of a non-political procedure to monitor and review prison sent ences for the purpose of dis covering and publicizing instan ces of racial and class bias in the imposition of sentences. —Urged Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to institute a series of measures to reform the state's penal system. —Demanded the elimination of all-white petit and grand juries throughout the state and compensation for salary losses while on jury service for per sons earning less than $15,000 per year. -Called for a federally-fin anced unified system of welfare based solely on need. —Endorsed the efforts and goals of Medgar Evers College, a unit of the City University of New York, in the Bedford- Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. —Directed each branch to activize its veterans committee to assist returning veterans with regard to housing, education, employment and medical ser vices. •GRANT Continued from front page Atlanta University (Dr. Thomas Jarrett, President), $400,000; Clark College (Dr. Vivian Hend erson, President), $400,000; ITC (Dr. Oswald Bronson, Presi dent), $100,000; Morehouse College (Dr. Hugh Gloster, Pres ident), $400,000; and Spelman College (Dr. Albert Manley, President), $400,000. Amounts specified above are for the first year of a series of grants to be made over a five or six-year period. At the same time the Foundation is specify ing a grant of $l.B million to the Adanta University Center for centerwide programs and projects. Morris Brown College, whose president is Dr. John Middle ton, decided not to participate in this reorganization plan. "The Ford Foundation, in making this significant commit ment to the Center, has set an example for other foundations and corporations to follow in making meaningful grants to predominantly black colleges," Dr. Manley said. "If this chal lenge is followed through by other funding agencies, it will open up a new world of acad emic achievement for these in stitutions and provide some of the catch-up funds that are desperately needed. For over 100 years the predominantly black colleges have been neg lected by most foundations and corporations in the United States. Now these institutions which have provided education al opportunity for thousands of black youth who otherwise would not have been able to attain higher education, will have the chance to begin to compete on par with other in stitutions in this country. This L. I.'AUSTIN Kdltor-PublUhar. 1927-1971 > Pubiithad every Saturday at Durham, V. C. *' bjr United Publlahara, Inc. ? MRS. VIVIAN AUSTIN EDMONDS. PuftUakar iCLAKTNCK BONMKTTX Hmmmt J HWfiOD CARTCR .'i Aduar Hates If—9** Mcood Claaa Poataga Paid at Durham, N. C. tTTSB , - jj , SUBSCRIPTION IATH H United State* and Canada .. v . *£l Tapr #Mf Statea aad Canada .....a;..;........... Taan 91141 foreign Coontrlaa. ..1 Mr.fUl «•*>• Cdpjr > ' Principal Offloa. Located at U| Baat WtHiwr ■liltU 1 ' ' DurfUn. Korth&svltea 1770S ♦ ... . . . Vii- ••• 1-. funding will make more cutri cular implementations and in novations possible and allow these schools to become peaks of excellence." President Manley commend ed the Ford Foundation for setting the pace by providing this generous grant and indi cated that while this is & good beginning toward meeting the needs of the Center, more funds will have to be sought to meet the total needs of the institutions in the consortium. He stated that he hoped this example would be a catalyst for other foundations and cor porations. -MiHARRY Continued from front page preparation of programmed in structional material in bio chemistry, physiology, anatomy, genetics and coll biology for use in a number of campus programs. Other schools receiving Ed ucational Incentive Award grants this year are as follows: Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh, Pa., $65,000; Duke University, Durham, N. C. $64,500; Kno\ College, Gales burg, 111., $16,500; and North western University, Evanston, ni., $45,000. Second-year grants were an nounced for six schools which received Educational Incentive Award grants in 1971 and have been provided with additional funds to continue the imple mentation of their award-win ning projects, as follows: Am erican University, Washington, D.C., $29,000; University of California at Santa Barbara, $30,000; City College of the City University of New York, $40,000; Dillard University in New Orleans, $50,000; New Hampshire College and Univer sity Council, $32,000; and Rochester Institute of Techno logy, $34,000. The General Electric Found ation inaugurated the Educa tional Incentive Awards prog ram in 1971 "to stimulate im aginative changes m curriculum, community involvement, and other programs to enable col leges and universities to relate more effectively to contem porary societal problems," Dr. Watson said. The program was open to all four-year degree-granting insti tutions. ibvße-J HB sSqual LARGE BLACK VOTE '■ CRUCIAL VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. As the election campaign speeds to its conclusion it is more apparent than ever that the stakes are high for black people. The candidates seeking our votes have the power to put this country on the course of constructive change, or to seal the death of the Second Reconstruction, with all that implies for the well-being of blacks and other minorities. As in any election campaign, partisans of both sides have made the case for how blacks should vote. But too few ob servers have pointed out how vitally important it is for black people to show up at the election booth and have their ballots counted—no matter for whom they vote. The importance of the black vote lies in its very existence. The larger the black vote, the more important it becomes to politicians of all parties. It has been clearly estab lished that black voters hold the balance of power in close elections. In many large in dustrial states, black ballots can swing the states' electoral votes to a candidate. In races for state and local offices, this swing power is even more pro found. Too many people don't think this will matter this year. They have been lulled by the polls into thinking their candidate hasn't got a chance, or that their candidate is an easy win ner who won't need their votes. That kind of thinking hurts all black people for several reasons. First, an election isn't overuntil-the votes are counted. There have been enough upsets in our history to know that in politics nothing can be taken for granted. That's why both Bides are hustling to get out the vote on' Election Day. They know that premature confid ence or disappointment can mean an upset at the polls. Another reason applies es pecially to black people. The voting booth has been slammed closed on us for most of our history. In fact, it is still less than a decade ago that blacks in many parts of the South were guaranteed the right to vote. We got that right because brave men spoke out and de monstrated and were beaten and killed so that we could "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" How can America learn to sing a new song? Never by the indifferent attitude towards what goes down their gullets. Americans have gone long years enjoying eats without ceasing; never questioning any thing, always enjoying and feasting on what is set before them. Now they have gone to a time when they had' bet ter hied or, most of their sav ings will go for medication and hospitalisation. Our young folk are turning to studying the most wholesome foods and giving an ear to the perserva ates and aditives as well — which are found in too much of what goes down. Certain bleaching products or chemi cals have been rotting our teeth while others stiffen and give pain in our joints. Some medicinal* may ease the pains but never eliminate the stif ness nor pains permanently. The young have made haed ways socially and are now hea ded toward a happier USA physically. Refined foods are on the way out. There are a few millions in this country who outlive and live more glo riously because they heed the "nature" doctors. These folk have long been anxious to aid the general public with their fundamentals; but It hai long been anxious to aid the general public with their fundamentals. But it has long been a thank leas Job. Not only their friends pass out but their families also from lack of interest. The MDs of this country need not la ment in the future in earning a livelihood. These United Sta tes will come up with laws and monetary ways of ade quately compensating the me dicine man by working out ways to satisfy the MDs. Much of the return of Chinese his tory will return. That - b, of only compensating the doctor when well. If not thb proce dure, perhaps bounteous «tti exercise this fundamental right. To refuse to use this precious right of political self-expression is to betray their ideals and their sacrifices. Black people have to vote because we have vital interests to protect. These go beyond national administrative policies that can be decided by the next President; they also in clude legislative proposals and local administrative policies by the congressmen, governors, mayors and other officials well be voting on. In some states there will be important refer enda and constitutional amend ments to vote on, too. Black people have to consider where candidates for all offices .stand on issues vital to us, and use our votes to reward our friends and punish our enemies. There is no black voting bloc; no single stance agreed on by all blacks. Each person must vote his conscience. But we are all aware of the pressing needs of black people for jobs, housing, better schools, court reforms, and changes in the welfare system. While black people are not beholden to any one party or political ideology, we all share the desire to im prove our lot and to fight the racism that burdens our every hour. Our vote is a weapon that's effective and that must be used if we are to survive. Right now, the non-voter is one of the stumbling blocks to black progress. Black people simply don't have the luxury of going fishing on Election Day. Political leaders are shrewd men. When they see figures reflecting high voter turnouts in black districts, they are im pressed, whether the vote is for or against them. If it is for them, they are under an obli gation to deliver on their prom ises. If it is against them, they still can be moved to sit up and take notice of a large, or ganized oppisition that has to be wooed and granted conces sions. Every politician knows that this election is but a pre lude to the next one. Show him a big voter turnout and he'll start listening, even if he doesn't want to. So get out and vote this Election Day as if your life' depended on it-it just might. pends to the medics to look after his quote of the populace. Think not the MDs won't be pleased; just a few annums ago the lifetime of the Ameri can doctor wsa just forty two years. To live happily, com fortably for life will give the American MD a more glorious life than he -now lives. His practice will become easier be cause his patients will be eat ing more intelligently with very rarely a sick four day. Right goods minus additives or perservatices will assure day to day ascending lives of a rap turous accord. There are a few people on terra firma who live long glorious lives; but they are in the minority. These few come from hardy forebears who live closely to nature. The Hunzas of India, a colony in Russia, three thousands cen tenarians in Bulgaria among ten mliions inhabitants. Some of three thousands reach one hundred and forty, fifty and sixty annums. Their eats ac count for much of their long years. They raise their own food plus having skilled ways of perserving some of them. Although these plus cen tenarians are wonden, there have been freaks like Zora Agha the Turk bori in 1775 and then dipping away at one hundred fifty nine years. Za vier Pereira of Colombia, Sou th America born in 1790 and passing out at one hundred and sixty eight. It is written there is an old man in Africa who is now one hundred and eighty yean. Here in our country R.ufus McGhee who slipped out of this life at 130 years, John Smith still lives in Vartow, Fla., at 130 annums. In the biblical history of some thou sands ago, Methuselah made it to nine hundred and sixty nine. Perhaps they reconed the years by each new moon. Who knows?
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