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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, November 6, 1959
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Hello, again!
Remember last week when I
told you about the great miler,
Herb Elliott and his famous tutor,
Percy Cerutty? Well, just recently
the newspapers have been in a
howl because Cerutty has openly
criticized Elliott for being lazy, get
ting married, and worrying too
much about getting an education.
I'crutty says that at tne rate El
liott i.s moving he won’t even make
I lie Australian squad for the
Ohmpics next year. Sounds to me
a.s a Percy i.s giving Elliott the old
ni'cille again. But that old codger
Hei iitt.\’ hu.s left a deep impression
111 me without even using a needle.
This week I want to talk about a
great problem facing Australia con
cerning racial matters. Since I
don't think along the same racial
lines as some good Southerners, I
wanted to take a good look at Au
stralia’s problems before I wrote
home about them.
There are three sources of racial
and national tension prevalent in
Australia, and each is almost en
tirely separated from the others.
The first two sources are relatively
minor, and Australia has taken
great steps to cancel their effects.
The third source is a potential
menace which threatens to some-
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day explode on Australia if she
doesn’t look at the matter more ob
jectively than she is now.
The first source of tensions is
with the Aboriginals, the original
inhabitants of Australia, a black
people known for their nomadic
type culture. As the term is used
here, the Aboriginals like to go on
“walk abouts”. There is a strong
similarity between the Australian
attitudes and procedures toward
the Aboriginal and with our for
mer treatment of the American In
dians.
There aren’t too many Aborigi
nals left, and many of them have
been integrated into the communi
ty. However, things are improving
for the Aboriginal gradually be
cause Australia has more of a na
tional conscience about this matter
than the United States did for the
Indians.
As I hope you know by now, Aus
tralia has a population of just 10,-
000,000 in an area the size of the
United States. Thus there is a lot
of unpopulated land which Aus
tralia confidently expects to reap
benefits from—as soon as her pop
ulation grows enough.
Thus she wants settlers, and she
has made wise and successful at
tempts to bring- immigrants into
Australia at a fast pace from Eu
rope and England. However, these
immigrants have constitute the
second minor source of tension in
Australiar
She has had some trouble set
tling the Italians and Greeks due
to their attitudes, and there is still
some feeling here toward the Ger
mans left over from the last war.
(I think I had indicated before how
much Australia cherishes and cod
dles her war memories.) Even the
English immigrant is looked upon
as a snob, and the American im
migrants are looked on as loud-
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mouthed or brash. (By the way, all
Americans are called “Yanks” ir-
regardless of what part of the
country they come from! Somewhat
distressing at times!) However,
most of this second type of tension
could be summed up as growing
pains and usually dies out with the
second generation of the immi
grants.
The last tension though is a pure
ly racial one concerning Australia’s
attitude toward Asia. The official
policy of the government has been
given the name “White Australian
Policy,” and most Australians are
distressed at this because the name
connotes a feeling which most Aus
tralians don’t hold. The policy says
though, that although many Asians
may reside in the country for sev
oral years, many studying, there is
no immigration quota for Asians,
The government has stated for
many years that this was a policy
concerning economics and not race,
but this isn’t the way it looks to
Asia, and luckily Australia is awak
ening to the fact.
Just picture vast teeming Asia
and underpopulated, rich Australia.
With Asia awakening as she is,
this fact has thinking Australia
worried; and there is a strong
move afoot now to establish some
immigration quota for Asia if only
as a token to show the falseness of
the “White Australian Policy.”
The fact is that Australians in
general are much more broad
minded than people in America
when it comes to matters of race
or different nationality. There are
quite a few Asians in Australia,
either having been brought in vast
numbers in early days to work the
gold mines or at the present time
to study. They mix with the people
without tension -as do the few
black Aboriginals around. The Aus
tralian society appears to be non-
segregated, but this could be be
cause they don’t have a very large
percentage of different races.
Notwithstanding, however, the
Australian society is far, far more
appreciative of basic human rights
than the society we’ve been
brought up in; and I think the ten
sions that are prevalent in Aus
tralia are rapidly losing their tight
ness. This is carrying through on
a national level, too, and it should
n’t be long before the ill-named
White Australian Policy is replaced
by more up-to-date thinking.
Until next time.
Cheerio,
Robbie
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Ask anyone to name the system
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your answer. And, of course, it’s
the right answer. Property of ev
ery kind is owned communally, and
a government of unlimited powers
dictates how it is to be shared and
used.
Even so, Soviet communism, cur
rent style, is considerably different
in a number of important ways than
was Soviet communism 1920-style.
The avowed goal of tlie revolution
ary leaders was expi essed succinct
ly in the famous phrase: “Fi’om
each according to his ability; to
each according to his need.” This
simply meant that incomes and liv
ing standards were to be the same
for all, regardless of the kind,
quantity or quality of the work
performed and that a truly class
less society was to be created. That
goal was fairly well approximated
in communism's early days.
But things have changed—as Ed
ward K. Faltermayer tells in a
lengthy feature article, datelined
Stalingrad.
Example; “In the clanging ma
chine shop at Petrov Petroleum Re
fining Works, 29-year-old Konstan
tin Blinkov sweats over his lathe
in a feverish effort to double his
daily production quota of rotors for
small centrifugal pumps.
“Mr; Blinkov’s incentive is far
from ideological. Simply put, it’s
plain hard cash, plus a desire for
self-betterment. If he consistently
doubles the quota, his monthly take-
home pay will reach 1,500 rubles
(equal to about $150) instead of his
regular wages of 850 rubles.” Com
rade Blinkov also is going to a
technical school at night, to learn
skills which will qualify him for
a better-paid work.
Mr. Faltermayer’s point is that
the Soviets are using the much-
reviled capitalist incentive—name
ly, money—to get more production
out of their labor force. And the
money incentive is not confined
to- the workers. It is dangled in
front of the factory directors
artists, scientists and so on. ’
This development, inevitably, has
meant the end of the classless so
ciety. Luxury and privilege have
appeared. “In fact,” Mr. Faltermay-
ef says, “that supposedly Wesrtern
badge of authority and prestige
the status symbol—is probably
more important in Russia than it
is in the U. S.” The top people of
Russia are given country houses,
chauffeur-driven limousines, and
other material boons which ace
hopelessly beyond the reach of the
masses.
To quote him again, “The chasm
between the top and bottom levels
of Soviet society leaves the great
mass at the bottom still desperate
ly poor by American standards.”
The extremes are indicated by tlje
fact that a collective farmer makes
something like $400 a year, while
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