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4r.;cArcir:ATTJTt tAT. crcrrrra ss, irr M.f.nfww!j'if,f',","""""","""'""Tr 1579 Career's JudgG Appbinimonis Dug pi- V Cf. Vernon Jcrdan; IHCUTIYI BlUCTOkV WATI03AI UUAW LEAGfl miiBsssssua ' r v I . President Carter is about to make the largest number of new ; appqfatmeats to the federal judiciary in history. BecayseTof the horrendous . backlog in the federal courts; Congress created 1 52 new federal judgeship." 7j - - That means the Presidenrillkave his mark r on the judiciary' as few Presidents have. Five' years. after Richard Naon's -resignation, the, Supreme Court still bears hil stamp and carries ' . out his policies. Imagine theeffect then, of so many judicial appotntmeatsearing the Carter 'J . .. '.ili 'J ' ' 'WSm,- i. - ' ,-.7; ... . ... ft X Vf, : This is a responsibility the" President cannot take lightly. Past Presidejtx, including John ; F. Kennedy, have osedapfointrnents to the icucm -Dcnco , n , oaxgzuuitff uiipi joi ocua- ': candidates for judgeships are supposed to be. recommend on "merit. Merit,' as we snould - know by now, is an elusive qualification almost Impossible to define. Several of the citi zen boards in 'fact, have 'indicated differing standards ofmerrL And some ' lawyer's groups define 'merit as irKhiding' fifteen years ; - trial experience, as if ten or twelve years won't do, V-, i iy:'i':z'fy$Kn : tObvious!y, 4 the new judges should be .selected on tJie basis of their, legal competence f i and their personal probity, But just as obvknis 'f ly ,-Wacks and minorities with those qualifica s tions should be. included in disproportionate "i numbers. ".r-" i if ' ' 3;" ;. i ; " "'J :Why " disproportionate? Because minorities are rarities in the federal judiciary. By weight- torial votes. As a result, federal courts dealina viiU his new ammintments toward minority cani with nri rightt issues havr included openly ..r- jjdates;-the President tan make the federal -. segfepnonBt ftaga -j ; - bench trade pfjf a few judgeships fy crucial votes on " key issues But when a one-nerime chance to shape the future .of JlheA federal judiciary comes along, normal political dealing has. to be abandoned. .V The tVesident and the Attorney VCeneraJ. i fully representative of this nation's dK Thaf s esDeciaQv true of the ammtmenrs to be made m the South, wheTeihe ixdusiorr of blacks is a national scandaLTA recent report by the Southern Regional Cujm jhdjeatesiust '1 how: widespread that exclusion Q Xg ; : The SRC study found;ihathvo4hfrdsof federal courts in t he South rtSpIolf five or less have already indicated -their selections' wul be. blacks. No WackB" a magbtrat .ajstrict'or removed -from the political tradition of ' 'wicurt cfeik. No blacks are riurnberedriTOng letting Senators nominate future judges' in riefir"w circuit law clerks, hbrarians tor aitanflibrar- 4 Business In The DlacEL BY CHARLES E.KIXE - ' The San Francisco Transfer Amendment President Carter might -want : to read an would require that a certain sizeable portion article in the Wilmington, NjC. Homing of the nation's lughly inflated budget for Star newspaper. A 14-year-old youth helped defense expenditures would be removed puO a drowing woman to shore, and to hisdis from die military budget and be used in may discovered it was his mother. While stead to support much needed domestic Jimmy Carter is still early in his Presidential peacetime ptogiams, such as job development, years (possibly eight he fcopesX a serious housing improvements, education and other problem of Black Americans who voted 90 healthy pursuits geared toward improving the phis for the President, should be shouted out' quality of life in this country, to him for help. j.:''-v'A.W. Clausen, President, Jank America While America's uriemployrrkiU continues Corporation, $81 billion in assets and parent to go down, latest figures fell to 5 from of the biggest free world bank, wrote. The six percent in October, Black Americans and most complex and deeply-rooted problem other minorities continue to -grow graver, we face today b inflation." President Carter m from 11.2 to lMduring;C)ctobe( ? .Ckarry the concern of those with a paycheck Tom, as. A.W likes to be called stateC h to stop inflation in order to truntahi' their j rniraary objective must be to substantially purchasing power. But Black Americans and reduce and eventually eliminate our federal others ' without a job- sink even farther be- budget deficit and markedly slow the growth hind in the social .order when there are no of government spending.' . aahries. 'y j i i't."Big business wul undoubtedly strongly Runwrs runningaround Washington, DjC. support such high sounding advice. But the federal budget money. Few people believe- the the ! case of President. Carter; to cot off brakes will be on the defense budget, betting crucial current job development, health fa on social, health and educational programs.'1, and education Droerarrm, without putting President Carter should get a copy, of the squeeze on the sizeable Si 00 phis. Proposition V approved by a wide margin billion annual defense spending would be of the voters of the city of Saint Francis, like watching your mother drown. - - - Citizen' advisory. boards are being set up and tans. Out of 138 federal judges in the South, only one is black. There is only one black US attor-, ney out of 29. Only three blacks are US mar- : "shals. Only six percent of assistant US attorneys and eight per cent of the deputy US marshalsji are black. .' "";:-:V" Remember - this is a region whose black population is over 20 per cent of the total SS A lot has changed in the South, but not fev$l the federal courts. ' ' a . , And this discriminatory pattern "extends g even to clerical and secretarial jobs, where, .fewer than eight per cent of such employees- are black. AD together, out of 3 JD00 employees; ! of federal district and circuit courts in the.;; only six per cent are black. -. a i 'That's a national disgrace. Given that ' pattern Xoi V extussofi, ' the ' government would haul a major corporation into court. But it tolerates discrimination in its own courts. Now President Carter can break the pattern. The wholesale appointments he will make could change the system of racial exclusion. Appointing black judges will mean changes in : the courf employment system all along the line . ' There's no lack of qualified black jurksts and ,f lawyers, and it remains to be seen if there wul be, as in V the past, a lack of political courage to bust racial patterns. : ? -yi " Given the absence' of bold new programs or " initiatives, the Admmistration's sole means, " of leaving a strong stamp on history lies in its'.' use of this unique opportunity to transform the federal judiciary. i Fit f 7 41 - f W XonobsspaaHovhbs'oloDn Academic Freedom Also Means Fair Hiring liif'l A I f Aft of J By Aogosfos F. Hawkins wmmmmamammimmmmBimaai 1 ! If we have any demoe'raftc goals at all in our universities and coUegeetthey ought to be reflected in the non-biaed hiring policies of ' these higher education intirutidns. ' '' But unibrfunatety, thisijjiotthe case. If you have been following this column you 'have read about the University1 of California's blatant luring policies;' which have C effectively fwid; significantly 5'1cept minoriies out of the Universfty's teaching' and administrative ranks. . i i FEDECil JUC' been released on parole. ;:V Several;',' groups have, , ' ' wnmunicaieo witn lwpree Ptinued From Front) urging Chavis - immediate ' i : , . ; ..' i3r' ' release, and a date set for Department's Civil ;Rhtir the!.: - hearing. The Division,' headed by black Southern , ; V Organizing Attorney Drew DayigoSne'dt Conunittee ' (SOC)T one defense arguments t . last of the organizations November 'in an $ unpre ': oressuring - Dupree has cedented friend of . th?" ureed.L Wilirnineton. 10 court brief. Both. the Justice - .Department and defense ' attorneys ' asked Dupree to release ttbe Wilmington 10 from pri son, and order their con viction overturned. Rev. Ben. Chavis v is the only' Wilmington JO defendent stQ imprisoned. Others have supporters courtroom the hearing. Dupree, 'appointee, cSOCs lira. , Anne letter saying further neither your to die fill day the of a Nixon responded to cohairman Barden 'by "For your information letter and hundreds of other similar , -'. communications received by the court from all over the world urging and in many cases demanding '-f favorable action on these petitions ' nor a lesser numbefof .. i: similar .' communications ". urging their1 denial wul have the slightest effect on this court's decision when and if the case comes on for a hearing before me.' Stephen Coggins said that the delay . is ' attribuUWe to MS. Magutrate Logan ItowelTs having not finished ruling on: issues of law before him. it should be hooted down whenever it tries to assume such a pose. '.. Z - It's desire to be considered among the "academic leadership in the field of higher . education, cannot be taken seriously when it does not provide positive examples to minorit- ity studnets, . who need to see racial and V ethnic diversity within the University's fac- No institution can seriously set itslef up as . a.role model, for dernoCTatic1living.as the Uni- Jt'ft tsif,frgeyf;heil education in versity of Cah&;do!wheriitrttln the., b'rniarSraMyoecauseitmaesa'a . out ot .an institutipnt that ought to pnde itself on the perpetuating of Uhis nation's f ' democratic ideals. California University . System1 should dramatically reflect the multi cultural, multi-racial side of thii society which is clearly evident in the radialculturalethnfc' ; make-up of the people jwho; live in this' country. -av'-'. In its failure . to da, this, die University system has abrogated any (ff.its rights to cit itself as a bastion of academic freedom. And . The University is not totally to blame for all of ihis of course. There are other factors in both the State government and the Federal government which have allowed this thing to , fester and grow. --, - Even . with this in mind, however, the University cannot escape the fact that as an institution, educating some of the Nation's best students, it must set the (tightest example And this it has miserably failed to do. r. Can you believe that the University of'1 California, currently with 5146 tenured pro- ' fessors, only has 68 blacks and 91 His- ' panics with tenure?' On its ten campus facilities blacks have ' 1.3 per cent of the tenured slots, and His-.;'' panics have 1 .8 per cent. Isn't this a sorry record for a University that pulls down millions in tax payer's dollars ' . , ' - J Tf - - T- 1 in mis regard? , No! This js the case all over the United j Slates, with some areas being worse , than . others.' Wul it ever change? Oh yes it will, but it means instituting -numbered goals and timetables for the realistic hiring of minorities. ' Will it reverse the discrimination against minorities? Youbet it will! j 13 Inflation kn Yea Sbrald Knov; i President Jimmy Carter said: "It's a myth ' that government itselfcln? stop inflation, i Success or failure in thisoverall effort will ' largely be determined by he actions of the private sector." . " ' But Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton . ' 'Friedman disagrees: "Government' ha an -effective printing press on which it can turn ' out green pieces of paper, and as a result v government and government alone is the source of inflation." . , :5 t - Former Secretary of the. Treasurer William E. Simon sides with Friedman: The Ameri: can dollar is being debased 'by its own govern ment. The real problem with the dollar is that ' we're printing too many of them." f; Examining the issues of the January Read er's Digest, Senior Editor Ralph Kinney Bennett points out that the root cause of in- flation is that more money is- being poured. : into the economy than . theJ economy is worth, and this is happening because the jfJ. "ho s to Blame? 'government is spending (hence, manu facturing) more money than it receives in taxes: ' t 1 " The real myths that are being disseminated 4, about inflation, according to Bennett, are :these; iti ;f , . .',,:l, . ' ' Rising wages and prices "cause", inflation. Wrong.' "If there is only so much money (and credit) in the system, a business cannot ignore ' supply and demand by arbitrarily raising price? ! or by 'giving in to excessive wage demands," he writes. When the government increases the money supply, prices tend to rise, labor . makes increasing demands, and the inflation spiral keeps going up. , Wage and. price controls will ,"cure" inflation. Wrong. "Price controls have been imposed repeatedly for more than 2000 . years," Friedman notes. They have always failed." Instead they create shortages, require a large bureaucratic administration and only temporarily hold inflation in check. Inflation is "everybody's business.' Wrong. Bennett points out that the only two 1 Western European countries to have kept their inflation rate to about four per cent are West; Germany and Switzerland. "Both countries have displayed the political courage and citizen discipline to keep a tight rein on their budgets and on the growth of their ' money supply," he points out The only way to stop inflation is to keep the money supply within the real ability of the U.S. to produce. It wfll mean that . pohticans will have to stop giving (social ? benefits) without taking (taxing): Economic historian and monetary expert Donald Kemmerer warns, "a nation that does not - stop an inflation simply because it is poltiical ry painful to do so is essentially declaring bankruptcy" .V. i . .Born augustis.1075. in enoan9- JSON Or AN Erl6LlSHVi'0MAN O A NE6R0 1 Jfe rWS'JCWi FROM AT- Sfiw?-TEfvDSO C0LIE62 FH0M ISCOTO I097QHIS FTOTFlGLiSHIp PSCYSjri THO LORD INIC9I J IU 1303 ClCtXZA FTv0?Ei)R ATTRrNirYfcOLLEGE OTHAT BULrGCAfJTO AT.'TR?CA V.gRS HE VstDN vith pizixiotiA 6 03 or. septj, atthe ageof Here's what food rtgptei wRI cott In S yer Even if the nation achieves its goal of holding inflation to a "moderate" six percent, h will still take a big bite out of a family's pocket book. The American Council of Life Insurance checked current prices of food staples in a large East Coast city, and then calculated what they would cost five years from now with inflation rising sis percent a year. Here are the results: A loaf of bread from 49" cents to 66 cents. ' ''' f ' A half-gallon of milk from ' 87 cents to $1.16. ' - A dozen eggs (large) from 89 cents to $1.19. Potatoes (20 pounds) from $1.39 to $1.86. I - Margarine ( I pound) frorjt 95 cents to $1.27. 1 Hamburger (1 pound) from $1.49 to $1.99. Sugar (5 pounds) from $1.45 to $1.94. These estimates assume the gov-; ernment's hope of holding inflation' to six percent will be reached, al- ; though the nation has been aver' aging more than seven percent in -recent years. ' -',.. yiven moderate inflation vrill hurt family t 'tk ih m y .. .... ' ' 5 umog jp . For the average wage-earner nuking $10,000 a year today, this . means his or her income wil have to rise to about $13,400 a year in A 1983 just to stay even. V 1 For someone earning, $20,000 today, staying abreast would re. quire a salary of $26,800 in five ' years. Of course, if inflation gets out of hand, all of Jh? .figures would rise proponionstdyn That's one reason Authorities awlggesting consum- surance' protection without takina money directly from their pockets. Add k on The first is to use the dividends to purchase additional insurance and simply add it on to what they have. The second, called the "fifth di vidend option" entails buying term insurance with the dividends to provide extra insurance protection : good for one year at a time. The Council also suggests an an-' nuat review or your family's life cumstances. ers develop strategies to keep up msurance protection to take into ac4 with inflation L ' , . ' count the inroads of inflation, and . In the life msurance area, for in- 0,ner cn"n8 in your , cir- stance, the Council provides the following tips; r ; , k 'i . Consider paying your pre , hiiums annually instead of monthly ' - or quarterly. .You can ve fix per- cent of the fosa if you switch from . ' monthly, four percent if you change s from quarterly. V 'i' i ' . in ramiiy budgeting, set aside ' a specific percentage for insurance. Then, as income riscs you will be . able to buy more life insurance to keep pace with your earnings. . ' For policyholders who have , policies which pay dividends, there ' '' are two ways to increase (heir in- cm. Urf 1 liy if Doctors find a special laxative ingredient to be highly effective in relieving even severe constipation overnight. Don't let Irregularity or constipation become a problem. This medical ingredient Is now available in the exclusive EX-LAX formula.: Use only, as directed. Chocolated Tablets . . H or Unflavored Pills. KA'IAX
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