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4 the cMomimr RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1971 “The heavens declare the glory of God. and the firmament showeth His handiwork,” are words from the Holy Scriptures. The coming and going of the seasons of the year, the sun light and mooniight, the mountains and rivers Editorial Viewpoint If It’s Passed, May The Money Be Well Spent The local bond issue for streets, sewage and water improvement in the forthcoming election October 12, seems to have an inside track on passing. Raleigh'has become such an af fluent city, economically, that many people are on the positive side.... looking up and ahead, so to speak. One thing which points up this great, boost to our ego and pride is the high income here. Many people are unaware that Raleigh ranks second in the entire south in per capita family income, with some $13,500 per average family. Only one city tops this healthy financial condi tion-Atlanta, Ga.-by only SIOO. So, it's little reason there is lit tle or no outward opposition to the bond issue. When a city is well fed, clothed and housed, it is apt to respond in a positive way to the needs of the future. However, in the midst of plenty, there is much demand for the city to search out its conscienous regard ing many things, For instance, the Rocky Quarry Road, from its be - ginning, leaving Tarboro Road is overloaded with no provision for pedestrians, who are less fortunate and have to find their way by foot, walking part of the time on pave ment and part on the shoulders. The short distance between the above mentioned point and the many sub divisions surrounding “Dead Man's Curve" on Rock Quarry Road, should have a four-lane highway with pro visions for foot traffic. One of the major gripes of peo ple whose neighborhood has been in fested with heavy trucks and un usual traffic, is that the city and state officials care little or nothing about their (the residents) section of town as shown by the Motor Vehicle’s Building on Tarboro Road and New' Bern Avenue. It's a mon strosity to those w'ho live around With all of ths advances in medi cine, we have come to think of the problem of veneral diseases as of little impression. However, the in cident of VD is larger than we think. More than two million cases of veneral disease were treated in the United States during 1970. We can conclude, therefore, that VD is the most serious communicable disease in this country. This con cusion is supported by many doctors of medicine. The problem today is not the re porting or what community should be in first place. What is really serious is that VD constitutes a public health emergency. It is kill- The President Should Appoint. A Woman The women of this country have voiced their opinion about the op portunity for a woman on the United States Supreme Court. If one is not appointed, President Nixon will feel the impact from women voters in the next campaign. Nixon is facing a great test in the two appointments to the posi tions vacated on the Supreme Court. Some predict the possibility of a Nixon Court of justices, brought a bout by destiny. Neither Mr, Nixon, nor certain people of the public, must be fool ed by the idea of <4 Nixon Court, brought by destiny. ” Destiny can al so elect a new president without the Nixon Court, Citizens, as well as some news papers, hurl the word “pigs** at the police, This is true, because the officers of the law have creat ed a bad image which is hard tc live down. More and more, the demand is Cor more police and less restric tions on them. Leas common is the Bible Thought Os The Week Let’s Learn About VD The .Police System Needs New Image and sre&ms display the beauty of the-Almighty. However, in spite of these facts, mankind finds itself destroying the beauty of nature with air, water and land pollution. What then we say about these things? this area. They can hardly get in and out of the driveways in the morning or late afternoons when personnel is going to or leaving work there. Also, the heavy rumb ling of trucks and the loud ex haust of motors into the earlyhours rob many of their sleep and rest. And when a hole has been beaten into the street, it takes the Public Works people many days before any repair is done. Even then, it is, not made permanent. A point in ques tion is the hole on Pettigrew Street , around the curve from Davie. Here, many cars drive through this hole because it isn’t easily seen there by causing loud sounds and no doubt, damage to scores of cars The link of the beltline, which would ease some of the pressures on Rocky Quarry Road, may still be t few years off. However, all bond issues should be all-inclusive, from their inception, so that no area or part of the population, ir respective of its influence or lack of it, should be overlooked and pur pose fu 1 ly d i sregarded. Certainly, a city as blessed eco nomically and otherwise as Raleigh, should lave the wisdom to never willfully cause hardship upon any segment of its constituency. No one should want to evade his fair share ,n the growth of Raleigh and, by the same token, no one wants to be overlooked or disregarded in the im provements and benefits derived from accepting the responsiblity of added taxations. The bond money, no doubt, is pertinent to the continuance of growth and development of Raleigh. Along with it, nonetheless, should go a more openmindedness towards areas which have been so sorely neglected in he past. According to our per family income, we can certainly afford it. ing, crippling, and seriously affect ing the mental and physical well being of millions of people. Prevention and treatment are easy to come by, but many people ap parently do not recognize the symp toms and have a causal attitude a bout the dangers of VD as do many concerning the effect of hard drugs, A helpful booklet which every citi zen should read is entitled, “Plain Talk About Veneral Disease,’* which xs distributed by many drug stores during National Pharmacy Week which runs through October 9, 1970, For those persons who are doubt, it gives people the facts that they need to know. We have a considerable number of women lawyers and jurists who would serve with distinction in the protection o‘ individual rights is more important than a conserva tive on the Court in the hope that the conservation will help please the South in the decision making. Women are often brilliant and have and intuitive sense that knows no bounds. They are more humane than most males. We hope that Southern politics will not lead Nixon to make a ter rible mistake in making the two ap pointments. Th? President should have learned a good lesson from the Judge Carswell incident. demand for better police provided by tougher educational standards. And our most progressive police administrators have had this in mind for a long time. But, all too often, they are handicapped by the meager salaries available to law men. Traditionally, only a high school educationa has been required of po- Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN There are certain signs which proclaim hard times are here. One of them is fewer policemen on Sunday. In past years, my home city of Char lotte put practically the whole police force on the streets on Sunday to help direct church traffic. People who are out of work or in debt don’t go to church with any noticable regularity; Sensible clergmen know that in hard times the} have to go to the people rather than have the people come to them. The church bells peal ev ery Sunday, and people kneel in prayer but there are vacant pews in the back. Another sign of hard times is empty shelves in the liquor stores. If economic depres sions could cure alcoholism, the Women’s Christian Temp erance Union would have an issue. Good times or lad times, the drunks do not abate. But the folks generally give up the parties, A breadwinner does not a bandon his two martinis be fore dinner, because two mar tinis often help put the world back on the shelves, but he abandons fine wines, he for goes laying in an ample re serve or deKuyer Peach Brandy for preferential drink ers. No one gets a message fast er than the man who has to stock inventory. Thus the empty shelves. The saddest sight in hard times are the empty offices of the state employment a- A DARK POINT OF VIEW BY “BILL” MOSES “AND HE WOKE UP DEAD" All of us who have lived to the age of 21 and beyond have passed through a personal ex perience with the idea of ‘death’ at one time or anoth er in our lives—perhaps the passing of a beloved relative or friend or even someone whom we neve, knew in per son, but whose character and life we admired and respect ed. The normal cliches-'-'"you can’t take it with you”—“you can’t live forever", are taken in stride, once the impact of a funeral is over. We are still moved by the famous black spiritual: “When the Saints Go March trig In”, however, much it may be parodied on the stage and elsewhere. There is a deep motional pull in the phrase: "Lord, I want to be in that number,” experienced by biack and white Americans (or any people who are fa miliar with the song, for that matter), whether they call or dyed-in-the-wool Chris themselves atheists, agnostics, tians. Within the past few days, a good friend and colleague passed on. He was in his early Letter To The Editor: NO SYMPATHY FOR ATTICA’S BLACK INMATES To The Editor: While there are many un answered questions in the minds of many people con cerning the Attica riot, and the massacre of some of its inmates and the countless wounding of many more, not taking part in the riot, the question that is prevalent in the minds of most people concerned is: ‘Could the mas sacre have been avoided? Some observers and newspa permen on the scene seemed to- think so. One such observer was Tom Wicker of The New York Times, who had this to say from one of his recent col umns concerning the massa cre and I relate: After the massacre at Attica, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller issued a statement that began with this sentence, “Our hearts go out to the families of the hos tages who died at Attica.” Much of what went wrong at Attica and of what is wrong at most ether Ameri can prisons and correction fa cilities—can be found in the simple fact that neither in the sentence, nor in any oth er, did the governor or any official extend a word of sym pathy to the families of the dead prisoners. True, at that time, it was thought that the death of hostages had been caused by the prisoners rath er than—as is now known— by the bullets and buckshots of those ordered by the state authorities to go over the waits shooting. But, even had the prisoners instead of the police, been the killers of the hostages, they still were human beings. But the official heart of the state lict-wn. Tin * is .i i.-'nnivKH-M of \o-k. mill ;iluoit.-f to!w» lus umvllot) a that evviuually \ul! ri.Tj.unv t>.u h;«vt u lour-yvar t ollcviv rMuc.iUon. SoniT h;iv aiioutcci this htTUfUi ril .ihv ulv, Vi’t. Mi nrtHV small ;m,i voUlUirs. poJUvmrU Invr las k‘<** lh.au a high di*ho»i education. We • ■mi hardly cxpecl M tU-r ot'JUiTfc \\ liid Wi” ppy Uu’ih .sl.’uvatkm if Uk* iv.iUfm hopi'k to control crime, it must hiiu* ;t Indieiedm-ut i l puiuT finv«\U mu*t (no plan to piv ihoitc nu n »nhtrle» vommensuraiv with ih**ir training, gencies. They are empty be cause the unemployed have used up their benefits and have long realized there are n’t any jobs. In the best of times, an unemployment of fice ts a dreav niace. In times, rt is oppressive. There are many more places these days at the schools than heretofore. Schools which charge tuition have announced one by one that they are falling into seri ous, serious trouble. No one is trying to save money at the expense of a good educa tion, but the* money isn’t there. Empty seats mean fewer teachers and while there is no epidemic toward illiteracy, there are a great many bud ding talents which will never floriate. If you want to hunt deer in a lobby, a good place to go is a vacation resort. Five years ago, a nosy reporter would always uncover a scandal at Puerto Rico or Las Vegas because the hotel keepers always overbooked. Every now and then the overbooking caught up with them. There was usually an irate vacation er pounding the desk, insist ing he had paid for his re servation with good, hard cash while a clerk nervously tele phoned around for a garret someplace. The weeds have taken over the lobbies these days. The hard times, it seems to me, the bases are always empty. Babe Ruth belongs to the affluent 20s and Mantle and Maris to the affluent 60s. fifties—a successful husband, father, teacher and friend. He participated freely in the ac tivities of his community and his life exemplified Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard". The even tenor of his life had never grabbed the headlines: yet, at his funeral, I marvel ed at the number and cross section of the people of the community who appeared to pay their respects. He had what we commonly call a "heart condition," but I doubt if even his family was aware of how serious it was; certainly his friends were not, as they ran into him in-and about the community. So, he came home from work one day, while his wife was out of town and nis children busy with their lives in other places, and went to bed, with no more, than the normal hu man frustrations, disappoint ments and joys on his mind; and some hours later he woke When they found him there was no sign of pain or discomfort. He had massed away quietly and alone —A beautiful way to go. of New York and the officials did not go out to any of them. That is the root of the mat ter. Prisoners, particularly black prisoners in all too many cases, are neither con sidered nor treated as human beings and since they are not, neither are their families. On a Tuesday following the mas sacre, black families of 16 in mates gathered outside the medical examiner’s office in Rochester, but could not find out whether their husbands and sons were dead or alive. Dead hostages for another fkarnpie, were sent to the morgue, tagged with, their names: dead prisoners were tagged “P-I,” “P-2” and so on. That is an ur.oearable fact. It was stated by some observers that some of ths prisoners could be overheard shouting, ‘We no longer wish to be treated as statistics, as numbers; we want to be treat ed as human beings; we will be treated as human beings.” But even in death, they were still just numbers. Time and again, members of the special group that tried to negotiate a settlement at Attica heard the prisoners pleas that they, too, were hu man beings and wanted, a bove all, to be treated as such. The physical aspect of a place like Attica the grim walls, the bare yards, the changing steel— bespeaks the attitude that prisoners are ‘‘wild ani mals to be caged.” Entering a tier in ceil block C, where me CAROLINIAN “Coverlnt The CaroUtus” Published by The Careiinlasi Publishing Company SIS E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. ITftOI Mailing Address P. O. Box 1574? Raleigh. N. C. Z1 Ml Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh. N. C. 7.1 til SUBSCRIPTION KATES Six Months HOO Sates Tax .»« TOTAL, 4.18 Oru> Year <3# Sates Tax OS TOTAL Payable la advance. Address ail communications and make ail checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., lIC Madison Avenue, New York. N, Y. 10017. National Advertising Representative. Member of the United Press International Photo Service. Th® Publisher is not rctconsi 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 dot. necessarily represent the policy of thU newspaper CONSIDERED HUMAN WASTE . ..? * MAYOR STOKES OE v - • jk cisveiMomwoeo JjL w$ black audience, J 81 THIS COUNTRY ARE ‘TllrT' \ ar jrfi A. CAPABLE OF NAZI PRISON -g If I ’? ■, , / !/% I WO STATE, POLICE i't li [; Ts Y NATIONAL GUARDSMEN STORm£*3 k I j i ' |i IN ON THE PfHSONERS-WHEN THE ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Luck of consumer spending has” been blamed for a slower-than-expected pickup in business and employment. Lack of spending, of course, reflects lack of confidence. And lack of con fidence, today, contains an element that no one apparently can do much about, i nat element is a growing tendency to question the value of money--the dollar. Moreover, the United States is not alone with its money problem. The problem is worldwide. Nation’s Business, writing on the subject of: “What Next for the Dollar?”, brings out some hard facts which lead it to the conclusion that, -‘The monetary turmoil of the past few months was just the start of a long series of changes." It points out that inflation is worsen ing--’'...abating only a little when governments take harsh measures that they don’t dare to continue.” It .adds, ‘‘This will lead to more and bigger changes in exchange rates between nations, as some kinds of currency seem better than others. Eventually, it is apt to cast doubt on the true value of all paper money, causing gold to rise in value. World trade will be jarred by the uncertainty, clouding business prospects within each county.-’ ’ The root of the money troubles facing the world steins, in the judgment of Nation’s Busi ness, from a fundamental trait of human nature. In its words, ‘‘The Western world, led by the U. S,, has just been given an answer to a basic economic question of the last two decades: Han society reached the point where man can rationally create paper' money not tied to gold or any other metal without the excesses which governments use*.! to commit? The answer has been a loud and clear No. Governments have learned to talk rationally, to vow that they will protect the value of everyone’s buyiftg powor. But they lack real ability to resist overspend ing, Each new dawn brings a new reason why this or that project must be justified. Each project may ho all right in itself but the total always adds tip to more than 100 percent of the amount of pork in the barrel." Improvisa PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW Disasters that don't happen make mighty pooi headlines. At the same time, they often hold stories worth telling. The report of Mr. William R. Gould, chairman of one of the na tion's largest power pooling organizations, telling of the work of 40 major electric gen erating systems that supply 38 million con sumers in the western United States and Canada is highly impressive. He describes the pro gress that_ has been made by 250 technical specialists “to peiuect the operating techni ques of the interconnected bulk power sys tems of the region," Twice in the past st ven months the bene fits to the public of this vast transmission power network have been demonstrated—once when the extra-high voltage transmission pow er interties linking the Northwest and South west were damaged by an ice storm in the mountains of California and again by an earth quake in Los Angeles. In neither instance wore customers aware of any trouble. There were no outages of electric service that could be traced “...to the inability of the circuits to suction.“ The ice storm in the mountains of northern California pulled down seven steel towers carrying 700,000-kilowatts of electri cal energy. In the case of the earthquake, the flow of 900,000-kilowatts of electrical energy into southern California was inter rupted. Yet, no disruptions of service occur red in the quake-torn area as a result of the break In the circuit between the Pacific North west and southern California Why has the public never heard of these technological accomplishments of the investor prisoners were under control, observers were struck by the pathetic sight of shaving mir rors, popping instantly from the windows were to small lor t.e windows were too small for the cells' “occupants i,o see anywhere but straight ahead, and only the mirrors cold ness showed the prisoners what was happening in their ‘home’ Attica, like most prisons, is not a correctional facility at all. Tiie phrase is a gruesome euphamism. There is no cor rections officer there who has any real training in correct ing, teaching or counselling men. Rather, they are armed guards, set to herd animals, senselessly, Every guard at Attica is white, save one re ported Puerto Rican whom no observer ever saw, But the prisoners' are 75 percent, or maybe 85 percent ■- no one RAYS OF HOPE seems to know for sure, biack and Puerto Rican. There is no Spanish speaking doctor, all work for 30 cents a day and one of their grievances claim ed that they often are bilked of that. The emphasis on guns and clubs during the crisis was incredible. It has to be seen to be believed These guns, moreover, were in the hands of men who left no doubt they wanted to use them. The observers who wen? trying to prevent bloodshed ■aw hostility at every turn. A guard bringing them a box of food said as he put it down, ‘‘lf I’d knows it was for you people, I wouldn’t have brought It. The observer* were standing between the men with the guns and the pris oners, who had none, Even the strong belief that m as sault on the stronghold In block D would cause the prls- tions, suen as controls over wages and prices may work for a limited time. Another shot in the arrn, in the of huge government deficits, may help temporarily at the price of more inflation another slice off the value of money. The uncertainty of consumers and their reluctance to spend the country into pro sperity is matched only by the dilemma fac ing business. Again, in the words of Nation’s Business, “The months we are living through are some of the most confused, the most beset by cross-currents, in the history of money and business. On one hand, there are plus signs all around us: A wealthy U. N. popula tion with lots of unspent cash in savings banks and many new families forming. An eager Asia emerging from the worst phases of war, anxious to trade with the rest of the world. And a Europe that finally seems ready to merge more of its nations, promising another burst of Investment and growth such as came after the original Common Market was formed in 1957. All of this should add up to a surge in opportunities open to companies and lnvestors--except that money, the name of the game, has fallen into disrepute." In past eras, nations and people have sur vived monetary upheavals. Although the condi tion now is worldwide, the fact remains that people have to live and eat. The business of life must go on. Somewhere along the way people find firm standards and values upon which to build anew. Even now, if such standards could be applied to the financial affairs of government, confidence in money could be restored. One main point was brought out by the Na tion’s Business discussion of the dollar. Now adays, confidence in money and the way mil lions of people feel with respect to the pro spect of controlling inflation will have more to do with whether there are “bad times" or “good times" than the application of intri cate economic theories to the ups and downs of business cycles. owned electric industry? The answer is best ex expressed in the old adage that no news is good news. At the same time, the public deserves to know that the electric industry with Us tetter than yy percent record is striving f c~ ward that -Illusive goal of 100 percent electric power reliability, UNDERMINING CREDIBILITY An example of environmentalism swamped by its own excesses can be seen in Seattle, Washington, which a year ago was in the van guard of the environmentalist movement. To day, environmentalism has become, as one observer puts it, ", . .the butt of malicious humor at cocktail parties and In working class taverns throughout the region.'* The reason, says the observer, is “The SST.. Whether or not the SST makes good sense, economically or environmentally, is beside the point, here. The point is that the environ mental movement, in Its campaign against the project, played fast and loose with the facts, and let emotion totally overcome rationally... hundreds of thousands of people...have be come convinced that environmental leaders whom they previously had respected, have been lying to them... The credibility of the entire., movement has been....damaged,..’’ Seattle reacted strongly against those who distorted facts about the SST, If is acity which knows its aerospace technology. Al most everyone has a degree of knowledgabi lity a"bout the SST and the facts of its environ effects, A distinct disservice has been rend ered by the extremists to the long-range goal of environmental preservation. oners to kill their 38 nostages seemed to make little differ ence to those who had the guns: they wanted to -go In. The observers knew “that. They said so to Gov, Rocke feller, forcefully and in every way they could, they pre dicted a massacre. They said that waiting, while it might not. ultimately prevent the slaughter, could hardly cause It, while attacking could re sult. to nothing else. But time is for men, not for i prisoners and animals Now,“ the dead lie fagged to the morgue, and the man with the guns are counting their kill, They may even be looking forward to the highly practical form of amnesty A merlean society has already granted to the killers at Kent State, and Orangeburg and J&ckaon State. —WULBSKT M. SANDERS
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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