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Senator Sam Ervin Says -
WASHINGTON—President
Nixon has asked Congress for
another 16.18 billion to give
away to other nations. The
request is alqiost certain to stir
up a new storm over foreign aid.
$250 million of the money would
go to Egypt and $207 million to
Jordan.
Another $939 million wouldgo
to Southeast Asia with Vietnam
receiving $750 million,
Cambodia obtaining sllO
million, and Laos getting $55
million.
Apart from the fact that
foreign aid has not been popular
in the Congress in recent years,
there is an added factor this
time. American taxpayers, who
are hard-pressed to pay for
groceries and other necessities,
are not likely to have much
sympathy far a give-away
program that is certain to stoke
the fires of inflation. It is hardly
necessary to mention that most
individuals are trying to pinch
pennies to balance their own
budgets. Foreign aid and the
billions of dollars we have
poured out to other nations are
directly involved in the tragic
economic problems we face.
Consider the fact that since
the end of World War 11, our
government has spent in excess
of $lB3 billion in aid to other
nations. This does not include
interest on the money we
borrowed to furnish the aid or
the cost of United States forces
that have served overseas in
that period. Nor does there
appear to be any end in sight,
although hopes to that effect
have been expressed in recent
years. For example, the latest
statistics reveal that foreign
aid for 1972, 1973, and 1974
totaled $9.3 billion, $9.5 billion,
and $8.6 billion respectively.
According to Senator Inouye of
the Senate Appropriations
Committee, who compiled a
report on this last December,
these totals do not reflect
Expor t -1 mpo r t Bank
expenditures. If these
expenditures were added, the
cost of foreign aid to the
taxpayers for these fiscal years
would be sl3 billion, $13.9
billion, and $16.3 billion.
All of this means that we
cannot look for any real relief
from inflation so long as our
government is willing to give
away billions of dollars to other
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Join the Air Force and you will find yourself doing
agreat job at an exciti ngduty station. That’s because
the Air Force gives you the chance to learn a skill,
and the chance for foreign travel. Just two of the
reasons thousands of and women enlist
each year. .
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nations for a multitude of
programs, many of which are of
doubtful value. We can be sure
that so long as we are willing to
give away money there will
always be plenty of taken. The
sad fact is that our generosity
peer the years has been
forgotten when we needed it
most.
Moreover, there seems to be
no end to the ways we are called
upon to aid other countries. In
addition to the $5.18 billion that
President Nixon is asking
Congress to donate to other
countries, there was also a
proposal last week that we join
with other “rich nations (to)
spend $4 billion to help the
world’s poorest people”. The
suggestion ignores the
economic realities that are
suddenly confronting us. The
national debt now exceeds $473
billion, an increase of $lB billion
in the last tweleve months.
Interest on the public debt will
cost the American taxpayers
about S3O billion this year. If
that does not shock our national
conscience, inflation is running
at an annual increase of about
11 per cent. What this means to
each individual is that his pay
check buys less, and our
economy is staggering from a
weakening dollar.
I do not favor foreign aid, and
think that the sooner we apply
sound financial principles to our
budget, the better off we will all
be.
Birth Rate Slows
As Affluence Grows
The more developed the
country, the more likely it is to
have low population growth
rates, according to the World
Population Conference.
Most of the world's highly
industrialized nations, including
Western European countries,
Canada. Japan and the United
States have low growth rates.
They are expected to maintain
an overall downward trend.
The USSR, Eastern Euro
pean and Scandinavian coun
tries have government policies
encouraging family planning,
with resulting lower birth rates.
In the U.S., birth rates
reached the lowest rate ever it/
1972, with an average number
of children per couple at 2.03
and population growth rate of
.7 per cent per year.
SPECIAL WEEK —Mrs. Grace J. Rohrer, secretary of
the Department of Cultural Resources, looks over the
Governor’s proclamation designating May 6-12 as His*
toric Preservation Week in North Carolina with Bruce
MacDougal, acting chief of the Historic Sites and Mu*
seums Section.
Stott Proclamation Issued
RALEIGH—Gov. James E.
Holshouser, Jr., has issued a
proclamation announcing North
Carolina’s participation in
National Historic Preservation
Week, May 6-12. Gov.
Holshouser in his proclamation
stated that it is imperative that
the American people give
heightened attention to the
preservation of the towns and
villages, the buildings and
places across the land that have
shaped our lives and are the
tangible evidences of our past.
In acknowledging the
significance of historic
preservation to our country
today, and in the Bicentennial
era immediately before us, the
governor honored the millions
of Americans who are working,
most of them as volunteers, to
save our heritage of historic
landmarks and to urge many
more of our countrymen to join
their ranks.
Prominent in the field of
historic preservation is the
Historic Sites and Museums
Section of the Department of
Cultural Resources. Working in
conjunction with local historical
associations and societies,
members of the Historic Sites
and Museums staff have aided,
in the restoration and
preservation of many buildings
and places across the state of
North Carolina. They are also
continually upgrading the
preservation of the state
historic sites by discovering
new methods and ways to work
with the old fabric, and are also
expanding their knowledge of
the sites through extensive
research and architectural
studies.
In Edenton, federal and state
matching grants are being used
for preservation work on the
James Iredell House kitchen.
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‘The Goodliest Land’
In 1584, Phillip Amadas and Arthur
Barlow wrote a booklet describing what
is now the eastern region of North Ca
rolina.
They called it "the goodliest land
under the cope of heaven." In lyrical
language the two Englishmen stated
that the soil was "sweete, fruitful and
wholesome." Moreover they cont inued,
vines in this land "bowed down with
grapes, the woods abounded with game,
the waters with fish and even savage
Indians were mannerly and oivill."
Perhaps the Messrs. Amadas and
Barlow overstated their case somewhat.
But to us natives of the Albemarle
Area, it is, indeed, "the goodliest
land."
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necessary house, and
schoolhouse, as well as for
repair and restoration work on
the Barker House and Cupola
House. These houses, along with
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
and the Chowan County
Courthouse, form the nucleus of
Historic Edenton. •'
Inflation Rated Worse
Than Energy Crisis
Worldwide inflation in
1974 may present a greater
danger in slowing economic
growth than the shortage of
energy according to the First
National City Bank of New
York.
Throughout the world, in
flation is slowing the growth
of real money stocks td the
point where businesses and
households may respond by
reducing expenditures. Citi
bank economists warned in
a recent issue of the bank’s
economic letter.
‘To prevent inflation from
making the slowdown or re
cession even deeper in the
United States, the growth of
the money stock would have
.to be accelerated to a sub
stantially higher fate rhatn
in 1973," Citibank econo
mists said.
This confronts monetary
policy makers with a hard
decision, not only in the
United States, but abroad:
accept a full-blown reces
sion or pump up the money
supply and boost prices even
further, the letter noted.
Citibank economists also
pointed out that one of the
effects of the oil shortfall
has been a cutting back in
the “dollar overhang”—dol
lar assets held by foreign
central banks. ‘
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Sunday
School
Lesson
THE GOSPEL
CONFRONTS CULTURE
International Sunday School
Lesson for May 12, 1974.
LESSON TEXT: Acte 18:1
to 19:41.
Never, in our lifetime, have
we known a more controversial
subject than the Gospel!
Throughout the centuries it has
been accepted, rejected, lauded
and even reviled! Why? Is it
because it is so meaningful that
the faithful embrace it, and
rejoice, while the fearful accept
it in their idealogical standards,
and therefore are afraid? Or
are they merely self-centered
enough to be inconvenienced by
it’s demands?
For demanding it is; it calls
upon every muu to do his best—
to be what man was originally
intended to be—a supreme
being among lesser human
beings!
It has been said of Paul that
wherever he preached, riots
and revolutions followed. Is that
so bad? Does not a complacent,
comfortable society need, at
times, a moral and spiritual
“shaking-up”?
The easy way for the church
is to tell people what they want
to hear. But is that the purpose
of the church? Should it not,
rather, condemn complacency
among it’s members, in it's
community?
Human nature being what it
is, we drop so easily into ruts;
When these ruts are physical, no
*aM>ca»-d» anything te jolt us
o6t of them but our helves.
When they are spiritual—then it
is. that the active, seeking,
teaching church comes into it's
own!
This, then, is the church’s
motivation...and it’s
accomplishment for good in the
lives of it’s membership is
measured by the challenge and
the response.
Paul’s fervent teaching kept
the early Christian church upon
it's toes. So much so that
divisive issues caused such
strong dissension among it’s
members that some broke
away, to form their own groups.
And while this could, very
easily, have been a calamity, it
more often than not was
beneficial, for a new church was
formed. And so Christianity, the
body of Christ, gained a new
and vigorous limb!
The culture that Christ’s
teachings fought in Biblical
times is not thfe culture it fights
today. Today we are a very
sophisticated people; however,
the basic ingredients of self
seeking and personal prosperity
nave not changed, for human
nature does not change easily.
Therefore the thinking
Christian will find many
parallels between the man of
today and the man of earlier
times; it is hoped tht he will
learn from the lessons of
religious history, as set forth in
the Bible. It was, still is, and
will ever be, a telling pattern by
which to govern the life of the
individual!
Christ, personified, was the
beginning of Christianity as we
know it today; He must be the
goal towards which we strive.
His principles for living, and
loving, and dying, must be our
principles, if we deem ourselves
worthy of IBs saving grace!
(Based on copyrighted
Outlines produced by the
Committee on the Uniform
Series and used by permissioii).
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Does GODieejthe gap ?
Whenever you hear about a
' generation gap, you can be
sure you’re getting a human,
biased point of view. Each
generation is sure!
Yet there is a divine view.
It concentrates on the oneness
at all generations ... on all
the blessings and opportunities
that God continues to bestow.
“His truth endureth to all gen
erations,’’ said the Psalmist.
When Great-Grandma holds
little Linda in her arms next
Sunday, she’ll be th i n k i n g
gratefully of all the gifts they
have in common from the
Lord. And she’ll be praying
that Linda will be brought up
to cherish those gifts.
The generation gap—like all
differences disappears when
human intelligence grasps
God’s point of view.
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