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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1971 4 Thorn Is a portion of tho Bible which says, “and tie shall run and not be weary, he shall walk and not faint by the way." This is a description of the man or woman who has a grip on life and is master of his fate, a thins which manv of us do not have. Too many men waste iditmmi Viewpoint Citizens Must Think Os ‘’Privilege** Too When you ask some men what is the most important thing in their lives, they will answer, “My job, my family, my bank.” Any of these can be true of any individual, in our opinion. it would seem that “privilege” is the key work, and we would like to say why. One man tells this story: “Many years ago, I became a “social drink er” and throughout the years I have enjoyed this privilege.” The story is completed by the man’s state ment, “My driver’s license was re voked for a period of 90 days.” she man took his car home and park'd it as the police told him to do. Thirty minutes later, he wanted some cigarettes and, instead of walking six blocks for them, he drove his car. He was caught bvthc law. Liberia’s New Leader Is Ready When President William Y. S. I ulmi 'ii ot Liberia died, a new leader stepped into his place. William Tolbert became president. His background is indeed impres sive. As vice president, Tolbert auto matically succeeded Tubman to the presidency. He lvad been vice presi dent since 1951 twenty years and was three times re-elected as Tubman’s running mate. The elec tions were a formality, since they were the only candidates and Tub man’s true Whig party is Liberia’s only political group, a one-party system, so to speak. Tolbert is the son of a family of earlv settlers, freed American slaves, who made Liberia the first independent state of black Africa. He went to school at Bensonville, his hometown, then through high school to Liberia College, now th > l diversity of Liberia. The new president started work in the government services as a typist and then advanced to senior jobs in the treasury. He entered politics in 1943 as t representative for Montserrado County. Thomas J. Reddick, a 1949 graduate of Florida A&M University Law School, was recently appointed A Broward County judge and is be lieved to be the first appointment of a black man to a major court in Florida since the Reconstruction. Governor Reubin Askew appointed the Fort Lauderdale attorney totin' Broward County Court of Record. Reddick, 51, has been practicing law lor 20 years, and form 'r served as co-chairman of that city’s Economic Opportunity Coordinating Group. The Florida Bar executive direc tor, Marshall R. Cassedy, said that Reddick ‘‘is a person of high inte grity, hard working, and has a high reputation, both with lawyers and citizens of his area.” But, in passing, let us make a com ment. Reddick was a product of the law school of the Florida A&M Lni- Since 1963, the state universities of Florida have lieen open to blacks who could pass tests and entrance requirements. Prior to that time, all blacks automatically went to Florida A & M University (FAMU) at Talla hassee. What was different about Fa MU, was that it admitted a large percentage of high-risk students. The University of Forida has an enrollment past 20,000 but only 350 Negroes have enrolled. The small enrollment of blacks at UF can be traced to several factors. Student leaders—both black and white have said that the Univer sity of Florida has a “poor image” in the eyes of blacks, that testing policies for admission are too ex- Bible Thought Os The Week G radii ate Becomes A New Judge Many Factors (.loud Race Ratio their lives in frivolity, gambling, drinking, swearing and drifting. When it comes time for them to die, they have nothing to show for hav ing lived. It would have been far better that they never lived. Make of your life something that counts. The next thing that hit him was his boss telling him that he was fired, that is, until his license was re stored. As he looked for a new job, he was told that a driver’s license was required. Now his wife has to carry him everywhere he goes. It was his privilege to drink and drive intoxicated, but by doing so he was infringing upon the privi leges of other people. ' Now many citizens curse the po licemen for doing their duty and taking away their drivingprivileges. Hut with privileges goes some re sponsibility on the part of the indivi dual. Privilege does not give one the right to throw garbage in the streets, speed down th ? city streets, drive while intoxicated, swear before ladies, steal other people’s property an i take a m in's life. Like Tubman, the new president is an active churchman. He is president of Liberia’s Baptist mis sionary and educational convention. He was president of the World Bap tist Alliance during 1965-66. Throughout his career, Tolbert was a loyal protege of the late president. At his inaugural cere mony, Tolbert said: ‘‘We are like los ! sheep without a shepherd.” Tolbert is a nonsmoking teetotaler, and the father of eight children. He owns a large rubber plantation, banking interests and real estate. The new president has traveled widely in Europe, Russia and America. He represented Liberia’s President Tubman at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. What more can we say forth? new president than that he rose from government typist to the presidency °f Liberia? He has the qualities that tend to make one succeed. T hey were hard work, experiences and business acumen. It takes a man like Tolbert to keep a country operating in the red. We salute Liberia’s new presi dent William Tolbert! versify at Tallahassee which was organized to keep Negroes out of the law school at the University of 1* lorida at Gainesville. However, in the 1960’5, the FAMU law school w as closed to make way for a new law school at Florida State Univer sity. The closing of the law school at 1 ami marked the end of an era since witli the opening ofthenew law school, opportunities for X igroes to enter the field of law will lie cur t ailed. Without a law school at Florida A&M l niversity, Red lick may never ii ive had the qualifications to put him in line for a judgeship appoint m cut. So many voices are saying, ‘Let’s do away with every black institution in the country, because we no longer twed them ’ Nothing could be farther from the truth. elusive, and finances prohibit many from attending. The University of Florida officials contend that blacks do not measure up to entrance requirements. I F student president Don Middlebrook, who won the presidency with a black running mate, agrees that the “placement tests keep blacks out ot the University of Florida,’’ but he maintained that test are unfair to Negroes because no consideration is given in the test for cultural dif ferences. As a result of the dull system of secondary schools, the black pupil lost so much educationally. He is paying for it in desegregation of schools. Bit blacks cannot use this argument much longer. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN FEINTING SPIRO OUT President Nixon's an noucement of an impending vi sit to China took almost every one by surprise. When a President takes everyone by surprise, you can be sure there is a positive genius be hind the bold stroke. It did take genius. First of all, Mr. Nixon had to set it up with the Chinese that they were willing to enter a dialogue on the highest levels. To gain this, he had to be sure no one guessed what cards he had drawn. A couple of news leaks and some intemperate speeches might have soured Chou En-lai. Henry Kissinger pretended he had a stomach ache in Pa kistan and by the time the rest of us thought his digestion was back on the tracks, the ra prochement was fait accompli. The genius lay not in zipping Henry around the world, stop ping at foreign capitals, dis guising the whole venture. Af ter all, anybody can pretend to have a tummy ache. The gen ius was in seeing to it that Spiro Agnew was in the Congo at the moment Henry was in Pakistan and that Spiro was in Ethiopia on the day Presi dent Nixon told the folks. It is probably as to declaim from the Congo and Ethiopia as it is from inside jail--harder in fact, for during this period the Berrigan brothers were still making noises while all we knew of Spiro was that he was golfing. Getting Sniro out of the wav was as brilliant a political A DARK POINT OF VlfW BY “BILL” MOSES “SUMMER DOLDRUMS’’ Wp are now in the midst of the summer ‘doldrums’, which one dictionary defines as fol lows: “A dull, depressed, or tiored condition of mind; the dumps.” Most Americans, from the President down to the ditch-digger, during these sultry days, are seeking sur cease from their normal la bors - ‘to get away from it all’ -by indulging in what we euphemistically call vaca tions. But there was one summer ‘happening’ In July, which gripped our minds, and contin ues to do so, whether we are relaxing at a mountain take, the seashore, or in the air conditioned coolness of our own home: and that was Presi dent Nixon's announcement of his acceptance of an invitation to visit the Peoples’ Republic of China some time in the not too distant future. With the prospect of such an impending visit, you just don't give in to complete boredom. While the President has warned us not to speculate about his commit ment, ‘speculate’ we will, be ing human, if only in the pri vacy of our own minds. So it’s only natural that a not ed political writer, Mr. Hugh Sidey, who writes a periodic column for Life magazine, un der the pontifical title: The Presidency”, should Indulge In a bit of speculation of his own about the President’s pro posed visit. Mr. Sidey's sub title in Life's July 30th issue was: “The Secret Os Lincoln’s Sitting Room,” M.\ Sidey states that; “Nixon worked in secrecy in the Victorian (tai - lor in the southeast corner of the White House, known as the Lincoln Sitting Room.” And as t continue to read Mr. Sidey’s article, I can’t escape the feeling that Mr. Sidey was perched, Leprechaun like, on Mr. Nixon’s shoulder as the President pondered and dis cussed ‘affairs of State’in this historic room. Mr. Lincoln must have spent many soul searching hours in this same room before he reached that momentous decision to free black Americans from sla very. Ho-Hum! The summer drags on; “Having a wonderful time, wish vou were here.” What Other Editors Say NUL AND MR. NIXON In its 61st annual conference and one of its most stirring, the National Urban League took a sharp, but realistic view TUB CAROLINIAN “Covering The Caroltnas” Publlihed by The Carolinian Publishing Company SIS E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 2764)1 Mailing Address P. O. Box Z 3747 Raleigh. N. C. 27«1.i Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh, N. C. 27*11 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months 91 *0 Sales Tax .16 TOTAL 4.16 One Year 6.50 Sales Tax .2* TOTAL 6.76 Payable In advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers. Inc.. 310 Madison Avenue. New York, N. Y. 10017, National Advertising Representative. Member of the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher Is not responsi oie for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by col umnists In this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper tactic as any Richard Nixon ever devised and implement ed. Shutting Spiro up has never been easy. He had a lot to say about the inadvisability of Ping - Pong competition. That did not mean, of course, that Sntro had nothing to say. Indeed, once he got hold of some reporters he did in deed divest himself of some profound opinions. He thought American blacks had a lot to learn from the Congolese and Ethiopians. He thought Haile Selassie and Joseph Mo butu could teach Ralph Bunch and Ralph Abernathy a thing or two. He came back to ad vanced civilization with the big news that these guys were turning in marvelous jobs. When a reporter reminded the Vice President that the average income of the Ethio pian was $65 a year and that 95 per cent of the country was illiterate, Spiro said he con fessed there was a lot to be done, there always is, but look at the accomplishments of the past. Never before has Mr. Nixon’s political dexterity been more evident than when he sent Spi ro back to where they came from, One, it allowed the President to cut down on his aspirin quota for the day; two, he was telling the conserva tive right that Mr,Agnew was not the running mate in '72. Mr. Agnew could havehadthat tummy ache in Pakistan. Mr. Eisenhower sent Mr. Nixon to the kitchen in Moscow, But Mr. Nixon sent Mr. Agnew to the woods. of the social objectives of the Nixon Administration. The League’s newly elected Ex ecutive Director, Vernon E. Jordan, gave an impressive accounting of his estimate of the governmental program In action and of its possible Im pact on the needs of the poor and minority groups. As the President prepares for hishistorlcjourney toChi na, Jordan said, “We of the Urban League movement ask him to make a spiritual pilgrimage to black Ameri ca.” That, Jordan observed, would demonstrate Mr. Nix on's concern with the hungry children of the urban ghettoes and the rural farmlands as he is demonstrating his concern with the strategies of world politics. Stagnant domestic problems with their alarming economic and social consequences are not receiving the priorities they rightfully deserve. And where they are brought with in the focus of official at tention, the remedy is inade quate, rigorously regirhented and too often unavailable. What is aggravating almost to a point of hysteria is the hocus pocus manner of treatment given the social ills. The now - you-see-lt and now-you-don’t shell game trick In which the Administration is currently engaged, gives rise to disturb ing ambiguities as to official (im poses and plans. The Administration efforts In welfare reform, revenue sharing, housing and health do not go deep enough into Jfce well of the afflictions which torment the prior and the blacks. Mr. Jordan had good reason for pointing tothe sus picion of (he black people of a plan that would provide large sums of money to towns and suburbs that exclude them. “Government’s refusal,” he said, “to act against the im plicit discriminatory effects of economic and zoning bar riers delivers a cruel, crush ing blow to all who need decent housing and to all who believe in an open society.” STUDY OF BLACK FAMILIES The fear shared by many race militants that birth control programs are aimed at the e~ limination of blacks from the population, seems to have no foundation in fact. A study of black families has found that ,a majority of those in the re productive age range reject the idea. The study was conducted in 159 black households in a me dium-sized city in New En gland by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, and reported in a publication of the Popular Reference Bu reau. The Bureau noted that government population policy has resulted in birth control activities being confined largely to bringing to the poor the same ability to control fa mily size the rest of society has. Inevitably, the Bureau said, “that has meant that official birth control centers have been concentrated in poor communities, a dispropor tionate share of which are black, - ’ This concentration has led io the conclusion that family planning programs are aimed at black ‘‘genocide.’* In one phase of the study, in dividuals were asked to re spond to the statement, “Al! forms of birth control are de signed to eliminate blacks.” Fourteen percent agreed; 84 percent disagreed. “Do they have a hunting license,” as you asked in your speech to the FBI graduates, Mr. President? mm stokes of Cleveland m RECENT SPEECH REMINDED H» BLACK AUDIENCE, THAT rnres in ms country are CAPABLE OP NAZI-TYPE EXTERMI NATION, COLUMBUS6EORMA COP SHOTA 20 YEAR OLD BUCK KUO REFUSED TOHm-mfym <iACKsmuE,noßm-A cop SHOTA TEEN-ASER IN A DEMON STRATION- HAY, tfn amrANOO6A,TEm-AD£HON STRATOR HASSHOTBYA COP WmWMSRg&SVN& ECRU, MISS.-A 6ROCERY STORE PROPRIETOR KILLED A BLACK NAN, SAID HE THREATENED HIM, the rawm SUNPAY-AUS STATION ATTENDANT KILLEPA BLACKMAN- SMPHEH4B DISORDERLY, ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UTMOST URGENCY Since 1967, the nation’s proved reserves of oil and gas In the 48 contiguous states have been declining. And in the opinion of qualified spokes men for the petroleum Industry, the decline will continue unless, as the head of one of the countries largest oil companies declares,",., new economic incentives are provided to en courage expanded exploration and development programs,” For those who have thought new petroleum dis coveries on the North Slope of Alaska would meet U. S. petroleum needs for years to come, this oil company executive had chilling Infor mation. He points out that, “...crude reserve figures for 1970 include North Slope reserves for the first time and 9,6 billion barrels were added to the total from this source, increas ing domestic crude reserves by nearly one third. Yet from the viewpoint of the total North American crude and condensate position, the net effect of even this dramatic increase was merely to bring about a slight reversal of the downtrend--by raising the industry-wide year’s supply position from 11 years at the end of 1961 to slightly over 12 years at the end of 1970.” Our country has always had an abundant sup ply of energy, thanks to the petroleum Indus try—an Industry that has done its Job so well that people find it difficult to fully comprehend the critical Importance of the oil industry to the sheer survival of the nation. The popular political pastime of taking potshots at the oil in dustry is a luxury the nation can no long er afford. Every authority on the present ener gy supply situation Is urging the adoption of a clear national policy that recognizs the n e e d for increased domestic production of oil and gas supported by adequate economic incentives to find and develop the needed new reserves. It is the utmost urgency that we all face up to the ralities of our energy situation, NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT The Inconsistency of those who think the solu tion to today’s problems lies in withdrawing in to a sort of social and intellectual vacuum—or Into an imaginary yesterday—has been well de scribed by Mr. Marshall S. Armstong, presi dent of the American Institute of Certified Pub lic Accountants, He speaks specifically of the young dropouts who live in hundreds of so-call ed communes or collectives and sustain them selves by doing odd Jobs, raising food and mak- END OF THE LINE A lonely boxcar on a stub of t rack was the prin cipal feature of a lateadvertisement of “Ameri ca’ Railroads.” It drew attention with convinc ing starkness to the editorial - type statement contained in the advertisement. The statement was entitled “The day everything reached the end of the line.” It was the day that the price of everything went up from meat and potatoes to automobiles to television sets and kitchen sinks. It was the day there were no more rail roads to deliver goods—the day that people be gan to pay dearly for falling to realize the im portance of the 340,000 miles of tracks that keep the wheels of industry and the economy turning. Farfetched as the advertisement might strike the average reader, it portrayed a situation that could but need not happen—even though the rails face a crisis. A program has been proposed that would give back to the nation a strong and grow ing railroad Industry, It is the result of a leng thy study and falls into two principal categories. One would Involve benefltted other transporta tion modes, thus permitting the rails a breath ing spell to prepare for the future. The other is regulatory reform that would end the concept born when railroads were a monopoly and would permit them to compete on equal terms. This program should be put in motion without delay if the country is to avert the catastrophic eventually portrayed by a single boxcare on a dead-end piece of track. COUNTER - PRODUCTIVE Many voices have spoken in apposition to the arbitrary Jacking up of wages through the de vice of perennial amendments to the wage and h<mr law. With each increase lh the minimum wage, there has been a general escalation in wage levels and an increase in unemployment am«mg certain classes of workers. Congress is now considering increasing the minimum wage to $2,00--and the protest are rolling in. The nation's largest farm organiza tion, the American Farm Bureau Federation, has called the proposal for an increase in the minimum wage “counter-productive."lnafor roal statement before a Congressional Subcom- However, the suspicion still exists among many that there is a concerted effort by the federal government or some RAYS OF HOPE population "enters to reduce the fertility of black mothers, especially the poor whose off spring* create 1 potential PIC ing handicraft articles. He questions neither their sincerity nor their desire to simplify their lives. Rut, he asks,"... whether they,..are not deluding themselves.,, living in small, separate groups, with a mini mum of organization, moans a return to hand made tools, to a food supply rarely above the subsistence level....it would also mean an end to books, most musicM instruments, recorded music, photography, modern medicine and sur gery.” It would mean “that for the great ma jority of Individuals in such a society, life would be, In the words of Thomas Hobbes, 'sol itary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’.” REASON FOR REGIONAL SHORTAGES There is a large measure of irony in charge that some areas of the country may suf« fer power shortages as a result of a failure of the electric Industry to plan ahead for grow th of demand. Who could have foreseen 10 years ago that the day was coming when aproposal to build a p t ower plant would be about as popular as si exiting your mother' 5 A decade ago, a new pow er plant was a sign of progress. Today, Its tur bines my be forced to stand idle in the name of pollution control. a major reason for tight power supplies in some regions of the nation lias been the un expected delays In getting new plants into opera tion--especiall} nuclear plaints. A utility offi cial comments, “The problem is the pressure of the environmentalists. Ten years ago you could plan and build a plant In three to four years. Now. for a nuclear plant, you must pi in on at least a seven-year delay.” Newsweek magazine reports that of the 56 atomic power plants under construction in 1970, “...thetwel ve that were far enough along to operate were all blocked from producing power by environ mental lawsuits. Such obstructions also af flict utilities trying to locate conventional pow er plants....” The surest way to prevent a genuine power shortage Is for people to understand the fact that electric energy is the basis of an improved environment rather that a threat. By the same token, the surest way to guarantee an energy snortage is to continue with a false notion that progress can bo measured by power plants not built. No civilization can advance to a better future, especially in Hie face of expanding pop ulation, by tying the hands of those who seek to produce things people need-including energy. mittee holding hearings on the subject, the Farm Bureau warns that, “An increase in the mini mum wage increases the number of people w ho are unemployable at the minimum wage level-- and at other higher fixed wage levels resulting from the upward push of minimum wages on the wage structure. Members of the Congress and the public are concerned about the depopulation of many rural areas and the desirability of re versing this trend. Minimum wages have a greater (adverse) impact in rural areas..,.” The Farm Bureau, as the leading farm organi- * zation of the nation, speaks from hard experi ence, And the words of its spokesman should be heeded when they warn that another Increase In minimum wage would be “counter-productive.” { DOCTORS NOT ROBOTS Judging by the growing interest in a four - day workweek, the three-day weekend will be a fact of life for most Americans in a comparatively few years—with a few notable exceptions. Le gislative proposals for National Health In surance treat doctors as if they were pieces of X-ray equipment—to be worked 24 hours a day. In the course of testifying beforo a Congres sional Subcommittee on matters pertaining to national health care, Dr. Maxll. Parrott, chair man of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association, remarked that, "The American doctor is the one who will he asked to provide health cure for our people, whether we stay with our present system, modify' it... or scrap it to substitute something unproven... he has a capability that is rarely matched. He has virtually eliminated an impresssve list of diseases. He has increased his ranks by 28 per cent in the last ten years...but still, most often, works a 50 or 60-hour week. And, though he has personal, daily access to the highest quality ♦ health care in the w'orld, he lives no longer than anyone else. The American physician is largely responsible for the state of his art. He is proud of it. And he wants it to be even better, to Improve it wherever possible, to provide bet ter and better care for everyone.” threat to the density of the white population. T.ie CHI CAGO DEFENDER.
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