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It is very Ratifying to know thM mil
lions of people this year will b observing
lilt 44th birthday enniverssry of Martin
Luther King. Jr., January 15th. On this
fifth consecutive year of nationwide com
memorations, it is a pleasure to send you
this message
My husband's birthday anniversary is a
day for the celebration of his life and the
perpetuation of his teachings. It is a day
for recognizing his leadership and under
standing its meaning for the future.
The uniqueness of Martin Luther King
was that he not only spoke of his ideals
with uncommon eloquence, but that he
also took action in a movement for the
fulfillment of those ideals. He observed
that the rights of humanity should be val
ued even more highly than one's own in
dividual life, and he made the ultimate
sacrifice himself.
Martin Luther King also proved that
lasting social progress can be achieved
without resorting to hatred and violence.
He set in motion a struggle for political
and economic liberation of black and
other poor people, and for peace rooted
in justice and equality. Many achieve
ments in thttstruffto are already history.
The challenge to us now is to continue
the struggle and hasten the time when his
dream becomes a reality. Yes, he was a
dreamer, but a planner, too. It is left to
us to carry out the plan - a nonviolent
movement, pragmatic in its action, moral
in its purpose.
If the deepest tragedy in the loss of
Martin Luther King was that his work was
unfinished, the greatest inspiration in his
legacy can be found in his own words:
'The arc of the universe is long, but it
bends toward justice."
January 15th is a day in which black
people justifiably take special pride. But
let us remember also that the life and
leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
transcends race, creed and nation. Let us
resolve on his birthday to re-dedicate our
selves to his quest. Every time a single
person grasps what he stood for, and
makes a commitment to his movement
every time any individual anywhere takes
a position against human suffering and
injustice... the ideals and legacy of Martin
Luther King. Jr. will be vindicated and
strengthened.
Idealism and Generation Holding
Interest groups and elections
as well as styles in reforms help
to bring about many idealistic
movements among the youth and
the young. But such movements,
fueled by the youth, seem to
quickly pass and makes one won
der about the depth of true com
mitment to such ideals.
Civil rights, the war against
poverty and peace demonstra
tions have been well out front
movements. Ciyfl rights move
ments helped toJMing and bet
ter focus attei&on. by-all seg
ments to the- many injustices
rendered against blacks, women
and other minorities. The war
against poverty pointed up the
devastating plight of the poor,
educationally and economically,
regardless of race, creed or color
and many, many welfare pro
grams were instituted to help
alleviate some of the conditions
under which many of the less
advantaged and poor existed.
Peace movements turned our
Vietnam policy into a more seri
ous search for a way out of the
"undeclared war."
The determined, humanitari
an spirit is a product of personal
development, but may be tem
pered or attenuated by the op
portunities and trials that a time
in history imposes. Reformers
make themselves at any time
(we are grateful for that), but
society makes more progress at
some times than others,
j We perhaps think of youth as
an interest group, and as such,
they have played most dramatic
roles in the past few years. But
"the manner in which young de
termination and compassion col
or their adult lives will affect
our nation longer and deeper.
It is hoped that true commit;
ment toward these very human
istic ideals will become the
watchword of not only our youth
and the young, but to others in
policy and decision making roles
as well as we move forward with
great hope that peace will soon
come.
A New
Governor
The inauguration of James E.
Holshouser on January 5 signal
led new and long sought desires
for Republican readership among
North Carolinians. Many will re
fer to the election of a Republi
can governor as a mandate for
change ; others will simply cite it
as the way of politics; and still
others will have a "no comment"
or wait and watch attitude.
A 8 one looks at the power vest
ed in the office of the governor
of North Carolina, you will be
quite surprised. For among the
50 states, North Carolina's gover
nor is the only one who does
not have the veto power. This
means that any legislation the
governor's office thinks or be
lieves may be undesirable for
the state and or its citizens, must
be accepted by the governor
A FEW UNIONS HAVE REGRESSEPTO
THE POINT WHERE THEIR
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The People's Holiday
ft has been said that, sooner or later,
the United States Government usually
p with the leadership of the
We hope this will be true in the
ease of the drive to make the birthday of
the tote Or. Martin Luther King. Jr., an
annual, legal national holiday.
It is high time thet Congress pass the
pending legislation to create this holiday
15th. Millions of people
At least 14 States and 33 cities have
already proclaimed January 15th as "Mar
tin Luder King. Jr. Dey ." The schools are
stores dost or take time off to pay auk
able tribute to Or. King.
Most of the present national holidays
glorify past wars and their generals, or
have become too commercial and
SlsofMey. Unions neve a dey off with on
A national holiday honoring Or. Kim
I honor all Week people. It would
It would honor Justice and
It would honor brotherhood, ft
would honor the rights of all men.
These ere the vetoes Martin Luther
King, Jr. stood for. These art the ideals
for which he gave hit life. It is not too
much to call unon Oa I an to follow the
of the nennle as asses aaain
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Here's How You Might Prevent Theft
Will Burglars Break In
Your House This Year?
TW YORK to day
of the unlocked door is no
more. It's an unhappy fact
of Urn times that families
today most at least consid
er the possibility of burgla-
dwellers, ev
en more than any homeown
er, should fake precautions
agaiBat break-ins if the sta
Mattes art any guide,
actuaries at Conti
nental Casualty Co. predict,
snore than Sift million rent
ore will .utter insurable loss
this year , and thieves will
bo responsible for more
half the losses.
in terms of lota likely,
IMng fat an apartment i
very different than living
to a house. In a house, the
art 240 per cent high-
will be caused by
burglar.
VWITINO neighbors, or
stepping out to the laundry
room without locking your
door is asking for unwanted
visitors. Evan when you art
at home, be sure all doors
art locked,
Many a thief, entering an
unlocked door, has grabbed
Valuable objects while the
occupant of the house was
la the back of the apart
ment, or upstair Never sat
down on a hall
it away, out
it, immediately.
IT 18 best to Invest in
automatic switches that will
.'WfcM,,,! light
off at eiiff
din or television eet also
wiS give the impression!
apartment or bouse is oc
cupied. Running a television tat
coats a little less than a
penny an hour, Be sure,
however, to put it on a tim
er if you sort going to be
away for any length of time
your purse
tahttTul
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IF, DCSFITC your pre
cautions, your aptjtraant is
burglarised, what do you doT
Even tf you believe there's
pcjMnpa of BBeoytring what
stolen -a. not an unrea-
ble attitude an many
lay Gillespie says
you should report the theft
to the police. Then call your
insurance agent One of tno
first questions he'll ask is
whether or not you have
reported t the
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since North Carolina laws re
strict and vest all such legisla
tion to whatever the legislature
lfiay vote on and the governor
would have no power to veto
such faulty legislation. ...
However, the most important
power is the governor's power to
appoint citizens to offices or po
sitions. It is in this capacity that
many changes may be anticipat
ed that will, and can make
North Carolina a better place for
all its citizens to live, work and
play.
It is hoped that by his power
to appoint citizens to such posi
tions opportunities for North
Carolinians with many ialents
and skills will be afforded to
share in shaping the future of
our great state.
fire or storm. Only 13 per
cent of homeowners' insur
anct craims art due to
theft
EVERT TEAR, says Cow
tlnental Casualty's Jim Gil
lespie, nine out of a hun
dred apartment dwellers
have soma kind of tost, and
that doesn't include statis
tics for the many tenants
Who don't carry insurance
For all apartment dwell
ers. Gillespie sa& the ex
pected average cost per
year for losses due to theft.
fire or storm damage is $35,
The average WPHs about
$400. DependUglb location,
losses could be Jgich higher
and more freJ3, he said.
WHAT'S fhtW way to
prevent burglaries?
Gillespie suigSsts: Buy
heavy-duty bdtejtcks, solid
core doors without windows,
bar the wtodtl and keep
the doorstop '
DP JOVE dopy locks auto
matically on lto way out,
lthas whet is .Mown as a
spring lock. A five-year old
could open it with a piece
of stiff plastic, such as a
credit card, Gillespie said.
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afiOB9tflaii Ppfltki losefca
plus door frames that over
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la tailed for so that a bur
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reach inside tad unbolt the
To most apartment dwell-
Congressman
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Column
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Is IIP AUGUSTUS P HAWKINS
The long-brewing crisis in Smg, and who depend upon the
public houirsj is about to erupt, .m of housta ggj,
as several taator local housing of ffW alternativeg ITagble
authorities art tottering at the
edge of bankruptcy and nearly
forty others may have to throw
in the towel before next winter.
he public housing
program, which provides shel
ter for mora than three million
low-income people and which
has proved itself over the past
thirty -five years, may be ren
dered useless at the very mo
ment when the need for more
housing is desperate
The crisis has come about
because the federal government
has put a lid on operating sub
didies to local housing authori
ties. As originally conceived,
public housing was to be built
with federal aid, but rents were
supposed to wver operating
expenses. This arrangement
became unstuck in the 1960s.
whdn rising costs and inflation
led to rent hikes that threaten
ed to place such housing out
of the reach of the very low-Income
families it was built for.
Congress then passed a law
limlttog public housing rents
to 26 percent of a family's
income, resulting in rent cuts
which the government made up
i through payments to the local
authorities. Such an arrange
ment is fair and reasonable, but
since the government has failed
to release the funds it is obliga
ted to pay, many local authori
ttes may go bankrupt.
. Basically, they're left with
two alternatives to board up
their houses, or to turn them
to them. '
It makes no sense to aban
don public housing now. Con
gress has set a goal of six mil
Hon new housing units for; low
and moderate income families
by 1978. That goal probably
wont be met. Federal pro
grams to encourage home owner
ship and to subsidize private ef
forts in this field have been shot
through with scandals thai; may
cost far mare than the operat
ing subsidies needed to keep
public housing afloat f
Even if subsidies continue
to rise several times over, they
won't cost the government ss
much as its present subsidies to
middle and upper income home
owners in tax deductions hot
available to tow income rent
ers. ;
Public housing projects have
come to for 4 tot of criticism,
much of it amply merited. But
there is evidence that many
have learned from past mistakes
and taken as a whole, the pro
gram houses more loWiincOmt
pie in decent homes than
any other means yet devised.
By and large, it has created a
pool of managerial competence
rarely to be found in the pri
vate sector, and has becomes
- source of employment; as well
as housing, for many thou
ands. j . ' j
While the spectacular failures
such . as , the Pruett-Igoe pro
ject In St. Louis nave been
headlined, the many successes
over to the federal government of the public housing program
Either would be disastrous. E
victton of hundreds of thou
sands of tenants and the dosing
up of 'sound buildings b un
thinkable. A federal take-over
would lead to even higher costs
and chaos. ' '
u ine local Housing aumo-
just try to tighten their
I save money by cutting
Inance and Upkeep, the
building will deter id rate and
new slums will have been crea
ted. - Caught in the bind between
the .local ho usipg authorities
and federal budget -watchers
art low income families who
cannot afford unsublsdized hou
haft' been relatively ignored.
In many instances, the pro
blems created by the private sec
tor, whose refusal to enter the
moderate-cost field leaves low
Income families with little
choice in housing. 'Discrimina
tion too, raises public bousing
coats since it forces more build
tag in fiJh land cost, central
city disiiits. J-'Isii
it is mkr that the system of
public housing must be saved
and while further experimen
tetkw In housinaf is to order,
this valuable institution should
improve ami extend so that
decent bousing will finally be
within the reach of every family .
tog to Russia to stay out of Greece, Turkey and Southern
Europe. He also strongly supported the birth of Israel and
insured tJ. S. support. . L ;
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Another Truman Dimension
TfjrARRY S. Truman, 88, the 33rd U. S. President, died on
XX Tuesday, December 26, 1072 at 7:50 a.m. in Kansas
City, Missouri. This news made headlines sll over the
world, followed by the details of a rather simple and brief
burial service in Independence, Missouri, his home.
What kind of man was Truman? He wss oftentimes
characterized as a little fitsty, industrious and blunt poli
tical giant. His command of salty words snd tendency to
articulate them, publicly denied him the suavity of his pre
decessor. Franklin Roosevelt. Truman possessed a style of
brazenness snd independence that was admired .by many
Americans, but was also disliked by many. The latter thought
he was unrefined.
Inheriting the Presidency early in Roosevelt's third term,
due to the letter's desth near the end of World War II, was
not an easy task, nox was following in the footsteps of a
great staesman and charismatic personality. Roosevelt had.
established a domestic and international agenda upon which
Truman was able to project himself as a strong decision
maker, capable of shocking the world.
, He Met Momentous Events ! v
Three weeks after he waa sworn in as President, fifty
nations met in Sen Francisco to proceed with the building. of
the United Nations. Just short of one month after Truman
took office, Germany surrendered, ending the war in Europe.
Three months later, Japan was hit by deadly atomic bombs,
' bringing about her immediate surrender. ,
Harry 8. Truman was a clever in-tighter who place high
priority on winning, and seldom lost crucial political battles.
However, his bluntness and sense of independence often
times got him Into trouble, but he Usually managed to come
out on top. His dismissal of the Alger His case as a "red
herring," promotion of Integration in the U.S. military and
equal employment legislation, China policy and firing of
wartime hero, General Douglas McArthur. brought a rash
of public criticism. v ' 1
I will never forget the worldwide criticism that emerged
when he let McArthur know that he wss the boss and
wouldn't tolerate his defiance. Truman also saw to it that
the old soldier didn't return as McArthur predicted. In at
uncertain terms, he pulled McArthur out of Korea, and con
demned his desire to excellerste tot war. , , .
In 1P4I. when Truman wss elected President over
Thomas Dewey, few Americans thought he could do It, be
cause he was Identified
verslal issues In
oke up the next moral
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Political historians rate high Truman's postwar 1
Plan, savior of Western Europe economically and his mWjMB
for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which protected
it militarily. Other strong defensive positions -wert hit ward-
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