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4 TH£ CAKOLINfAN RALEIGH. N. C-, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1969 The basic teachings of Jesus were com passion. In regards to delinquency, there Is a right and wrong way to deal with the problem. The method of condemnation and blame has been followed for centuries. Parents have done it, teachers have done it, preachers have done It, society has done it, but Jesus did riot do so. Editorial Viewpoint Army Mi) Urges ‘PX Prostitutes' Whether the PX should or should not run houses of prostitution is not for this newspaper to say, but the issue deserves at least a factual presentation. Armies of many nations have had more or less formal programs for their troops. Prostitutes brought in by the French were among the vic tims at Dien Bien Phu, the former French fortress in what is now North Vietnam. The top Army medical officer in Vietnam suggests that post ex changes throughout the country of fer U. S. troops a new service prostitutes. The aim is to reduce venereal disease through strict medical control of prostitutes and the men who use their services. Brig. Gen David E. Thomas, sur geon general, U. S. Army, Viet nam, and commander of the 44th Medical Brigade at Army headquar ters in South Vietnam, is serious about the suggestion of Army con trol over prostitution. Thomas said: “If the military were permitted to run homes of prostitution as a part of the post exchange system, we could reduce venereal disease down to a very, very low figure, merely by being able to supervise the operation, if not all the way, at least from the time the soldier goes into the room until the time he comes out.” There is no doubt that Thomas’ suggestion will cause an uproar in the United States, that it will con flict with present Army policy of suppressing prostitution whenever Like The New Style? Well. You’ll Soon Know When the miniskirts, and the ac cessories that go with them came in, most of us just took it casual ly since we were sure that it wouldn’t last long, anyway. But the mini skirts outlasted our anticipations. What we are afraid of now is that condonement of topless wear could easily lead to bottomless dress. They tell us that we won’t have to wait long for the real and popular styles if we can judge from the theme of the new California fashion show's this year, where the emphasis has been upon “funny, funky, and free dom.” When reports told us the designer s would parade their new creations, we thought the matter would be set tled at least for the present. Sure- County Mas Black-White Advisory School Council In an effort to solve the local problems connected with school in tegration, the small county of Her nando, Florida, selected five blacks and five whites to serve in an advis ory capactity to end a week’s school walkout and other problems. The Citizen’s Advisory Council was made up of barters, yard men, house cleaner s, etc, to help the board iron out its complex school integra tion problems. Hernando High School has about 190 black students and more than 800 whites. Trouble brewed over the playing of “Dixie” at a football game, because Negroes consider ed the song offensive. To show their resentment, Negro students stayed away from school. When the county superintendent President Os State University: First Black For more than a century, Negroes have been principals and presidents of both private, church, and state colleges for black students. Then two weeks ago, a Negro, for the first time, was selected president of Michigan State Uni versity at East Lansing and will assume office on January second, next year. The man is Dr, Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr., 43, a Negro economist from New York City, Dr, Wharton will succeed Dr, John A, Hannah, who has retired after 2$ '■yeaT's at MSU to take a. 'foreign Bible Thought Os The Week Hie only comdemnation was Os the hypocrites, of those who pretended to be religious and were not, of those who posed as good and prey ed upon others from a position of social ad vantage. Remember that tolerance should be based upon understanding. possible. But looking seriously at the sup pression policy regarding prostitu tion, it must be admitted that it is presently winked at by a number of commanders and medical officers in Vietnam. No matter what the “hard-core” Christian may think, we must admit that prostitution is a necessary evil, inasmuch as no one has as yet found a better solu tion’ to the problem. Proponents for the “armv-run system of prostitution” believe it may lie looked upon soon with favor, since the United States is getting more sexually permissive. Judges are condoning topless shows, and now they are considering whether it’s all right to have bottom less ones, too. Various groups will take issue w’ith an “Army -controlled prosti tution plan,” but we know lull well that harlots, concubines, and “lad ies of the evening” have been with us and the army camps for “Lord knows how long.” Regardless of how various citi zens look at the sins of enlisted men and their women, they can’t, in all honesty, say that the sin does not exist. The present issue is, does the country want to control it to in sure better health among our men in the services. It is our responsi bility to present the different sides of this serious legal-moral issue. In arriving at your moral convic tions about the matter, seriously you must let your conscience be your guide. ly enough, they swung from the no bra look of the 1920’s to the thrift shop look of the 1940’5. But it tickled us to learn that fashion w'ould try to zero in on a new “now' look” for the 1970’s and maybe the 1980’s if that’s not too far in the future, Some de signers announced they intended to “let the person shine through.” From the announcements, if we think we have seen it all, the half has not been shown. This is the free dom people talk about— a little short of nudity, itself. Yes, clothes make the man and “glamorize” the woman who likes to be free and appealing at the same time. Mini fashions are here, and all oi us can make our selections. and school board agreed to appoint the 10-man advisory group, Negro students were expected to return to school, “Dixie” isn’t out, but it will be studied by the advisory group. To help ease tension, a Ne gro, 31, was named assistant prin cipal at the school where the trou ble is brewing. School officials were concerned, because the absence of the black students caused Hernando County to lose about $12,000 in state funds in one week. Hernando county officials took a step in the right direction in easing the tensions at the school. An ad visory body can do a lot of good, if county officials follow' their wise suggestions. aid post wxtn the Nixon Administra tion. Being black, Wharton’s selection was marred by bitter political feud ing among MSU trustees, who split 5 to 3 in Wharton’s favor, after re jecting G. Mennen Williams, f six term Michigan governor, with the vote reversed. Wharton is qualified for the posi tion; and, at the same time, young enough fco meet the challenges of these changing times. Dr. Wharton has our moral sup port. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN IS SPACE CHRISTIAN 0 The astronauts sang Christ mas carols on one of their careers around the moon, they read passages from Genesis, and on the moon itself, one of them administered hlmseif Holy Communion. One legal suit has already been instituted alleging that such activity is a breach of the separation of church and state. Some question the pro priety of prayer in outer space, some applaud it. Un fortunately, the National Aeronautical Space Admini stration has not as yet spared its computers, scientists, and administrators to determine which, if any, religion to take to outer space or whether we should take all of them. 1 am about to offer my own thoughts on this subject but I shall digress to urge NASA to move before Congress gets hold of this issue. Every is sue not budgetary becomes a burning issue and burning Is sues do the blood pressure of superannuated office holders little good. In the past God has mani fested Himself. He parted the Red Sea, He sent manna from heaven, He gave His only be gotten Son, He advised Mo hammed, and He sent rain to the aborigine who prayed for it. So far He has not mani fested Himself to advise us how to go about His work in outer space. Unless I hear to the contra ry, I am quite sure He doesn't Jest For Fun BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE IS LIVING CHEAP? I wonder who started that advertisement that "two can live just as cheeply as one.” bachelors, don’t let it fool you: Living in the past has one thing in its favor--it’s cheap er. The Tampa Bulletin warns us not to believe that "junk” that black people are lazy and don’t want to work. The Bulletin calls it a damn Ue (no, I didn’t say it.) It was long assumed that since black folk were unwil ling to work, they were there fore satisfied with their condi- Other liters Soy.. HAYNESWORTH AGAIN? We realize that president Nixon does not want to loss the Clement Haynesworth ap pointment. We realize also that the white paper Senator Birch Bayh and other com piled on Haynesworth is taint ed by error. But for Nixon to talk about gvilty by as sociation and decry the witch hunting of the senate judici ary committee makes up go back a few years. We remem ber the Alger Hiss affair. This was the case that made Rich ard Nixon in this country and ultimately catapulted him into the presidency. This newspaper, even though black oriented, has not protested the Haynesworth ap pointment with the specious argument that he was anti- Negro or anti-Union. The Supreme Court and top of fices often times change a man. Our criticism of the Haynesworth appointment is merely that too much of his dirty linen has been washed in public. Calling it smear tactics or guilt by associa tion will not change the fact that Judge Haynesworth busi ness dealings leave much to be desired, Nixon is properly right when lie says no judge could stand ttie type of scrutiny to which Haynesworth has been sub jected. But the fact is that Haynesworth has been sub jected to this kind of scrutiny and the resulting intelligence has ruined any effectiveness he could have on the Court, In spite of the growing dis safisfaction with the appoint ment the President of the United States again reiterated that he supported the appoint ment, To us this was almost an obscene statement and an insult to the American Peo ple. But the statement could also mean several other things. It could mean that there have THE CAROLINIAN “Covering The Carolinaa" Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 53# E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. Z7M Reading Address: P.O. Box 62$ Raleigh, N. C. 27m Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh. N, C. 27602 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $3.28 Saies Tax . .10 TOTAL 355 One Year SJO Sales Tax. 16 TOTAL 5.66 Payable in advance. Address ail communications and make all to The WSb!e Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., a’C Madison Avenue, New York 1?, N. V., National Advertising Rep resentative. Member ot the Asso rted Negro Press and the Unit ed Press International Photo Ser vice. The Psibiisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy un less necessary postage accompan ies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec s&ssu-lly represent, the policy of this newspaper. want us to bother with His will In outer space. As a numenon of great logic and sense, I think He would rather we clean up His work here on earth first, There's enough on earth to knock the hell out of Chris tianity, to make even the most pious of Jews wonder about the advisability of the dietary laws, and to make the Mo hammedan question Just what sort of seating arrangements Allah has provided in Seventh Heaven, Ecumenism Is on our earthly agenda but no one would call It a driving force among the world’s religious today. Once we do convene we have an awful lot of dif ferences to thrash out. As for instance, the Dead Sea scrolls which the scholars have been translating for the last 15 years suggest perhaps Jesus borrowed from the hagio graphy of the pre-Christian Essenes. The English have been eat ing pork for centuries and while they did not uncover the Jealous God they still managed to devise the writ of habeas corpus and to Is sue the Magna Carta. Now the Egyptians and the Arabs have generals whose sworn purpose it is to keep as many soldiers oui ol Sev-» entl Heaven as possible. No, no, I think we have an awful lot to do just getting the astronauts back and forth without worrying what they ought to carry with them. tion of life, poverty, slums, ignorance and poor housing. We get small wages, but when we go to the stores, we don’t get discount prices as ghetto residents. We must not let other peo ple "lowrate” us by calling us most immoral. Don’t be lieve It. Look around and no tice all the color hues of black people in the slums and every where in the U. S, Black can not produce red, white, yellow, or brown. Dont’ believe everything you see in print, hear over the radio, and view over your tele vision set. been several unreported de fections and in desperation the president is throwing the strength of the president be hind this appointment in the hope that he can shore up a cracking wall. Nixons repeat performance could also mean that he is insensitive to what is going on around him and realizes that a defeat could mean a lack of confidence in his administration. No matter the reason it be comes obvious that Mr. Nixon is going to charged with that will known disease called mouth in foot. His intemper ate remarks concerning the moratorium and his recent reiteration of support for Hay nesworth makes one suspect that he not only does not re spect the right of dissent, but also has no respect for the in telligence of the citizens. THE FEDERAL TURTLE A lot of folks are upset a - Cyclarnate, the artificial sweetner that lias come un der federal scrutiny and has been given what amounts tc a death blow by newspaper and vocal media accounts of its dangers. This whole things is an In dictment against the slowness of the federal authorities and the so-called news media whose job it Is to inform pub lic. As far back as 1966 the government had information that Cyclarnate was danger ous. Doctors across the coun try had reported negative re sults from patients who pro tested that they were having side affects from use of the sweetner. But bureauracracy being what it was it took until dooms day for the government to have the guts to say this may be bad for the citizens. How many other like re ports are laying in some bureaucratic basket? How many other reports may be suppressed for many un known reasons. Alien Ginsberg, known as a pornographer because ofhis racy magazines, has actual ly made immense contribu tions to the body literature, These contributions came in one of his better known maga zines known as FACT, As far back as 1967 FACT carried articles citing the dangers of Cyclarnate. It is now the end of 1569 andthe federal govern ment begins to slowly move on pointing out the dangers to its citizens. In those two years how many people were damag ed because of this slowness? There are many such re ports . In some of the little read periodicals and enterprizing editor will unearth a damn good story concerning pest infested food the government Commitment to Enforce the Law of Encouragement to i White Lawlessness? KENNEDY . f | / ORATION, 1 LACK jij THE PEOPLE AND im !l7 BODIES TO ENFORCE . thelaw " V; itfi V i J. W "so WOKE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY * If. \ , 4/m fc. GENERAL JERRIS LEONARD-CML EISENHOWER rights chief of the justice dept:’ Economic Highlights It has been nearly three decades since that fateful day of December 7,1941, when American defenses of the Western Sea Frontier were all but destroyed in the surprise attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. In a matter of minutes our ships were sunk and planes de stroyed. In the precarious months that fol lowed, our military forces fought grimly with inferior, obsolete equipment while the In dustrial might of America was obillzed with what seemed like agonizing slowness. No one who lived through those days will ever forget the men who bought time for the nation with their lives. Tills was part of the dreadful penalty of unpreparedness. Current debate over military spending might logical ly be expected to recall those perilous days of 1941. Yet, significantly, a recent Gallup Poll indicated that 52 per cent of the public now regard military spending as too high. The Poll apparently reflects popular concern over the “millary-industrial complex.’’ It no doubt also reflects the desire of a great many peo ple to devote a larger share of the tax dol lar to such domestic problems as urban de cay, poverty and expansion of various wel fare programs. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird has an nounced military budget cutbacks of $3 bil lion. Ist proposing the cutbacks, he warms that they would cause an “inevitable weakening of our worldwide military posture.” The cuts include, among other things, a reduction In uni formed personnel, a substantia! drop in civili an employees of the defense department and decommissioning of about 100 naval vessels. Proposals to curb military research and de velopment expenditures for new weapons will in all likelihood meet strong opposition from Secretary Laird, who frequently expresses his fear that the Russians are threatening to over take the U. S. Another strong opponent, of excessive cut backs in defense spending in Senator John Stennis of Mississippi. Like the Secretary of Defense, he is a supporter of research and de velopment. He believes if cutbacks in weapons programs go too far, the U. S. by 1975 will have an obsolete Army, Navy and Air Force. The Forgotten American? BY LEON S. WHITE Much has been said In political circles lately of the "forgotten American.” When something or someone is forgotten, life has usually passed it or him lyy so, v,v get a similar picture when such a phrase as "forgotten” American is used, People all over the country-side know when it comes to “low' man” on the ladder that non-white minority group members are constantly battling among each other for the coverted litle of “low man.” After ail, thes>: are the people who have been stepped on, walked over, shoved around and, generally speaking, witnessing life pass them by. However, the Federal Government has pro claimed that the label of "Forgotten American” will not go to any non-white minority group. Instead, the middle class members of white society will he known for now on as foi got ten Americans. It seems paradoxical in that the government remembered to give white, middle class America adequate housing. It remembered to give to them decent employ ment, It remembered to give to them modern educational facilities. And, instances of gov ernment’s “not forgetting” white, middle class America goes on and on. let slip by. Or it may be an intrepid reporter whose nose for news ferrets out the fact that some well known product actually contains harmful in gredients. Or it may be a disgruntled federal employee who leaks the story that spray ing veget ables has been proven to be harmful to man or may lie giving cows penicillin could prove harmful to persons al lergic to penicillin. Over the years most of us have read several stories of this type. But those bureau crats and lazy “all the news that fit to print” news media, persons fail to alert us and warn us about these dangers. When this newspaper learr.s of these things we make an immediate report to uu» rea ders and hopefully they act. One more thought. If cigarettes are bad why play around. Treat them like any Speaking on the floor of the Senate, he warn ed, . .it is the height of folly to start cut ting off future modern weapons in this deadly age. . .” He accepts without dispute the pre mise that certain cuts in military operations are proper subjects of debate But, he strong ly emphasizes the danger of curtailing pro ly emphasizes the dahger of curtailing pro curement programs that would undermine modernization of the armed services and be lieves tills would leave the nation with no way to protect itself except by starting a nuclear war The Senator says, . the Senate has been debating the justification for authorizing funds for our most important weapon systems. A mendments have been Introduced which would eliminate or substantially retard vital pro grams. . .If the Congress eliminates the fund authorizations for these major weapon-sys tems programs, we are radically and dra matically reducing the capability of our milt matlcally reducing the capability of our milit ary establishment to defend our people and cariy out our national policy. In the 1950’s it was the naitona! defense policy of out nation to rely on massive nuclea» retaliation. . .Sub sequently, we began to realize that the United States should have more than one response to aggression. .The results of a nuclear holo caust were too devastating to imagine, it was, therefore, decided that the United States should have sufficient conventional military forces to cope with aggression without necessarily being forced to resort to nuclear weapons, . . So far the new Administration, to my know ledge, has iiot changed the national policy of the past eight or more year ” In spite of polls and proposals that seem to indicate a desire to cut defense spending at any cost, the chances ate that wehen at any cost, the chances are that when the * smoke of controversy and debate cleats away U. S. citizens will be found on the side of those working to preserve (he best and most modem military establishment the nation is capable of productng--an establishment that can respond to any emorgency--nuciear or conventional. If we conceded that these people are in deed forgotten Americans, we have really said that the colored minorities (the Negro, Puerto Rican, Indian, Mexican) never exist ed, It ts a simple fact of recall. If we are not forgotten, yet, we do not have adequate hous ing, employment or educational opportunities, then we must be non-existent, No, bits is not so. Our color makes us conspicuous, We are not invisible or non existent. Though, perhaps there are many so-called forgotten Americans who wi r— we would go away. We should vanish, much as a had dream goes away in time. But, this is no dream.We will not go away. We must lie remembered. Even though this may seem like a comic play upon words, the situation is no comedy. It is a real-life drama. The policies now be ing formed to remember the forgotten A merican are formulated at the expense of the colored minority. Their profit is our loss. And, since they have so much and we nave so little, our smallest loss may turn into a large disaster. It must be impressed upon govern mental authorities and others in powe£ that we, too, have been forgotten and we are overdue for remembrances. other dangerous drug and do something radical like mak ing it illegal to own cigaret tes. POT and the govern ment The newspaper, five years ago, took the position that marihuana was not habit for ming, did not necessarily lead to greater addicition and, in fact, was no worse than cof fee (caffiene) and cigarettes (nicotine). This week the fed eral government not only ed dorsed our thoughts, but ad ded another of our thoughts to their news making. The other thoughts is that narcotic addicts should not be treated like criminals. We took this very same position seven years ago when only black peo - ple were be hug arrested on a wholesale basis and being thrown into jail Our plea at that time that addiction to narcotics came out of frustration with socle~ ty and the integral problems therein. We found no support in this belief and even in the belief that narcotics should be sold a! the corner drug store for those whoneedthem. We pointed out that England has had a measure of suc cess in this direction and we could cut off the thousands of dollars made by criminals who are the real culprits behind the narcotic traffic. For years we have wonder ed why the federal government had not adopted this simpitL means of curbing narcotic traffic. The men who make the real money in dope are the big guys who bring the stuff into the country and are hard ly ever behind bars. CINCINNATI HERALD.
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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