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—THE CAROLINA TQIKS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1970
Cb CarSila Ctaws
EDITORIA LS
Un [vents That Effort Everyone
Like the soaring mushroom
cloud of a nuclear explosion, con
cern over the impact of man on the
Earth's environment has cast a sha
dow on just about every human
undertaking, and its dimensions
px>w with each passing day. Taken
as a whole, the subject of environ
ment, together with proposals and
methods of'environmental improve
ment, is beyond the grasp of the
ordinary individual. To realize this,
one has but to consider a single
environmental problem - water po
llution. This of itself is so vast
and complicated a subject that pro
bably no one. not even the experts,
can provide pat answers.
Of course, water pollution, ex
cept in an academic sense, cannot
be treated as a separate environ
mental problem. Mr. Robert P.
Mayo, director of the Bureau of
the Budget, in a lengthy discussion
of the cost of improving and pre
siMng the environment, points
out that "... in the very process of
Invitation T
Many people are old enough to re
call the stunning shock of military
invasion. They remember when Hitler
unleashed his armies against Europe
and the unbelievable "Day of In
famy" when the bombs rained oh
Pearl Harbor. To them, the present
trend toward expanding vague, politi
cally motivated, social welfare pro
grams - at the expense of U. S.
military security - is an open invita
tion to jiisjM|er. So is the pheno
menon oFa fhinority'bT young people
undercutting at every tufn the mili
tary stature and capability of our
country. While these things are going
on in our own land, what of the out
side world?
A student of communist strategy,
Senator Henry M. Jackson of Wash-
I FACTS about the NEGRO I
AS
ESMOCS AND INDIANS I
Of TMB lABTEPN SiABOARD , TWU6H THEY MIXED MUCH WITH NEGRO'
tXPySSSk y Jitl£i is, USED TO CONSIDER WHITE NORTH
SKSnmfI tlSfrX g f l S^ U l ERNERS AM INFERIOR RACE. THEV
WOULD SAY,*WU OF THE NORTH HAVE
AM MARRIED SO MUCH WITH THE LOWER
fi*T* QF Vl CLASS EUROPEANS THAT WXJ HAVB
MOANS AW CLASSIFIED , LOST YOUR TRUE ORIGIN AND THERE-
M M§6Pofc WHC»4 THgy I FORE NOT WORTHY TO BE CONSIDERED
fmw* THE fmfoffiftttONS. OF THE SAME PEOPLE AS OURSELVES* I
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living, we draw upon our environ
ment and make use of it. We are
dependent upon it for our needs.
We quarry sand, gravel, and stone
to build our homes and cut timber
to furnish them. We husband ani
mals for our food and cut hay to
feed them. We mind metals to
make our cars and machines, and
pump oil and harness rivers to
drive them ... A good share of
pollution is the result of our own
demands for one car, and then a
second, for showers, dishwashers,
clothes washers, and verdant crab
grass-free lawns."
Water pollution, like other forms
of environmental contamination, is
the direct result of individual hu
man demands - a massive natural
force that carries a potential for
great destruction, the same as any
other natural force. Controlling the
damage wrought by this force, just
as \kith floods or forest fires, will
depend upori many measures, most
of them costly.
ington State warns, "The Soviet
Union is now, for the first time in
Russian history, a global military
power. Looking ahead, the somber
prospect is a Soviet Union increasing
ly bolder in its policies and more
disposed to throw its military weight
around to support its great power
interests and to extend Soviet influ
ence into new areas of the world."
The declining regard in which the
lest of ttje wOrld holds the U. S.
and the growing boldness of the
Soviet Union are clear dang t signals
of the fate that awaits the weak and
unwary. We are not so far removed
as we may think from conditions simi
lar to the days when Indians lurked
behind every bush waiting for a
chance to scalp the carelsee settler.
The Racist Know Means—
But The Black*
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Weekly Sunday School Leeeori
For October 11, 1970
YOUR BIBLE IS YOUR MAJOR TEXTBOOK: STUDY IT
NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21,
Matt. 5:3-9.
Devotional Reading: Rom. 8:1-9.
17. Therefore if any man be
in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; be
hold all things are become new.
18. And all things are of God,
who hath reconciled us to him
self to Jesus Christ and hath
given to us the ministry of recon
ciliation;
19. To wit, that God was in
Christ, reconciling the world un
to himself, not imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath
committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. >
20. Now then we are ambas
sadors for Christ, as though God
did beseech you by us: we pray
you in Christ's stead, be ye rec
onciled to God.
21. For he hath made him to
be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.
3. Blessed aroj"ie poor in
spirit: for theirs ia ..te kingdom
of heaven.
4. Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.
5. Blessed are the meek: for
they shall inherit the earth.
6. Blessed are they which do
hunger and thirst after right
eousness: for they shall be filled.
7. Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.
8. Blessed are the pure in
heart: for they shall see God.
9. Blessed are the peacemak
ers: for they shall be called the
children of God.
MEMORY SELECTION: I have
been crucified with Christ; it is
no longer I who live, but Christ
who lives in me; and the life I
now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for
me. Galatians 2:20.
FOREWORD: The Christian
ministry is a high calling; and
it is not meant only for the or
dained elder of organized relig
ion, but for everyone who ac
cepts Christ as Redeemer and
Lord. The Christian ministry is
authorized by Him who alone can
introduce reconciliation. God is
the greater, and not only so, he
is the wronged, offended party.
There is a moral Ruler and a
moral law, righteous and author
itative. Against this Ruler men
have rebelled, they have broken
the law, and thus introduced en
mity and conflict. Divine dis
pleasure has thus been incurred,
and Divine penalties, by which
just displeasure is expressed.
Our Lord Jesus has every quali
fication which can be desired in
an efficient Mediator. He par
takes the nature of God and of
man. He is apponited and ac
cepted by the Divine Sovereign:
he has effected by his sacrifice
a work of atonement or recon
ciliation; his Spirit is a Spirit
of Peace. And he has "made
peace," removing all obstacles
on God's aide and providing for
the removal of all on man's.
LESSON OUTLINED: I. Spir
itual Renewal. Vss. 17-18. 11. One
ness With the Father. Vss. 19-21.
111. The Secret of Happiness.
Vss. 3-9.
CENTRAL THOUGHT: The
Christian ministry consists in the
offer of reconciliation.
COMMENTS ON LESSON:
I. Spiritual Renewal: Paul,
' after his conversion, had an ex
perimental knowledge of Christ
as his Redeemer, through the
sacrificial death of the cross; nor
was there any ground for any
trust or hope, till he as "chief of
nal righteousness of God in the
atoning blood of Calvary. Such
a change was a creation. He was
"a nevft creature," and whoever
experienced this power of the
Lord's I death was a new crea
ture. Old things had passed
away the old self in taste and
habit, the old unbelief rooted in
the fleshly mind, the old world
liness; and all things had be
come new. All things had become
new; for all things pertaining to
this change in its cause, agency
and instrumentalities, "are of
God."
The method of reconciliation
which brings on this spiritual re
newal, is an act of God, through
Jesus Christ: "Who hath recon
ciled us to himself by Jesus
Christ." Much more is involved
in the process of reconciliation
than the moral state of a sin
ner's mind toward God. The
enmity of the carnal man has to
be subdued, and in this sense he
is a- "new creature." What has
been done for him must take
precedence, as to time, of what
is done in him. A principle of
righteousness must be establish
ed in one's life, and it must lend
itself effectively in day-to-day
relationship with one's fellows.
11. Oneness With The Father:
The world is not in harmony or
at peace with God. Sin has
caused the separation. A great
gulf yawns between God and
man, and there is need of a
bridge across that chasm. Or, a
great mountain is cast up be
tween God and man; and there
is need of that mountain becom
ing a plain, so that God and man
may not merely approach, but
unite and be at peace. God is
the Author of such coming to
gether.
"All things of the new crea
tion are of God, who has recon
ciled us to himself, and in the
richness of such oneness with the
Father gives to us the assurance
of His Divine presence along the
rough roads, and dark tunnels of
life. It is even possible for us to
share with him in His continuing
ministry of love and concern for
humankind. "God laid upon him
the iniquity of us all." He did
this that we could "become the
righteousness of God in him."
111. The Secret of Happiness:
We can only give a summation
of these several facets of bless
ings. Jesus begins his first ser
mon with the word "blessed."
His whole mission is a benedic
tion. It is his object to encourage
and cheer, not to repress and hu
miliate. He knows the secret of
happiness too well, to attempt
to shed joy in any other way,
than through those channels by
which, in the very nature of
things, God has appointed it to
flow. The reward for the prac
tice of these virtues, is not an
extraneous gift, but a natural
fruit, although it by the gener
osity of God that the fruit is
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made to grow. Character and
happiness go together. A com
montone pervades all the Beati
tudes. They all depend on some
lexcellency of character, and all
the excellences are unpretentious
and gentle. They are facets from
the character of Christ himself.
FOR MEDITATION
Sidelight* On Lessen:
Christian Devotedness
A Christian is an individual
who tries to see life and his fel
low men through the eyes of God.
-iHe is one who seeks to become
concerned about the welfare of
others, and not a confirmed in
trospectionist, to the extent that
his love for humankind is com
pletely taken up in himself.
Christians must see God's good
ness and love, for these attrib
utes surround us at every mo
ment. walk through them al
most with difficulty, as though
thick grass and flowers.
The amazing discovery of God's
presence in the world is this:
there is no brokeness that he
does not comprehend. There is
no ch&sm of hate, prejudice, or
anxiety that God does not span.
Death, itself, is redeemed by his
love.
"God was in Christ reconcil
ing the world to himself, and he
has made you agents of recon
ciliation." The prayer of Michel
Quoist, expresses it this way:
"I would like to rise very high.
Lord,
Above my city, above the
world,
Above time.
I would like to purify my
glance
And borrow your eyes ...
I would, then, see the universe,
humanity, history, as the
Father sees them.
We are the recipients of an un
expected miracle of redeeming
love. We, as God's people must
not wall off the world, wall off
life-as-it-iB. We must join God in
the world, in the miraculous
freedom of participating in the
forces, that build bridges over
the gulf of human misunderstand
ing. The old Aiarks of our old
creation, fear, hostility, hate and
anxiety, have passed away. We
can now become involved with
the world, in the world, where
God is at work in Christ. As a
religious commentator said some
time ago: "Do not talk of what
thou wouldst do if thou wast an
angel, but consider what thou
canst do as thou art a man."
(Baptiste)
The Chinese usually ai«
credited with Inventing the
hand fan, possibly ss early M
3,000 B. C. says National «e*
graphic.
Mrs. Spaulding
(Continued from front page)
ideals of the spirit of America,
■tying, "It is our pluralism ..
the ideal of oneness through
diversity. Our culture is en
riched by the societies that
have preceded us."
Former Arkansas congress
man Hays, now of Winston-
Salem, also spoke about the,
contributions of blacks. "The
time has come to acknowledge
the contributions of black peo
ple to the southlands, and to
our beloved nation," he said.
"The breakthrough is just
ahead for true justice in North
Carolina."
Mrs. Spaulding, wife of Asa
T. Spaulding of Durham, ac
cepted the award from Dr.
Sterling W. Brown of New
York City, president of the
National Conference of Christ
tians and Jews.
-Robinson
(Continued from front paw)
He was administrative assis
tant to the president from
1967-69 and dean of the facul
ty from 1969-70. Prior to that
he had served sixteen years
continuously at North Caro
lina A&T State University,
since 1951, as chairman of the
department of social science,
dean of the School of Educa
tion and General Studies, and
director of research.
A native of Fort Smith,
Arkansas, Dr. Robinson, a cum
laude graduate of Wilberforce
University, earned the M. A.
degree from Atlanta Univer
sity and the Ph.D. degree in
sociology from Ohio State Uni
versity.
Mood Of Despair
THERE IS AMONG black people today a mood* of despair
and resignation about this Administration and the
country in general that is unprecedented In our times.
Young people especially feel a hopelessness thjrt pervades
campuses and ghetto streets alike. They are convinced that
the Administration has written off black Americans, and
that it is pandering to the worst instincts of a fear-ridden
"silent majority."
While some people in the Administration take heart
from the fact that the riots that shook the cities seem to
be over, they should know that despair and hopelessness
historically precede acts of desperation far more serious
than isolated, spontaneous outbursts against property,
j The indifference to the plight of black citizens has
created a dangerous situation that may drive people to
ever more irrational extremes. We may be witnessing net
the return to normalcy, as the Administration believes,
but the lull before the storm.
I know that there are people in the Administration
who believe that it is simply abandoning the rhetoric ef
equality for the actions that are needed. They point with
pride to the welfare reform proposals as an example of a
break with the past.
Welfare Reforms Needed
But blacks aren't so easily convinced. The welfare
reforms are needed, but the Administration's proposals ***
far from ideal, and black people have yet to be convinced
that the "White House is willing to put its prestige on the
line and fight for its own bill.
When the Administration wanted to put a Haynsworth
or Carswell on the Supreme Court, it went all out. Sena
tors were subjected to tremendous pressures to vote for
them. When the AQ3M—that welfare program for the aero,
apace industry—was proposed, Congressional arms were
twisted to get the votes needed.
But where is the comparable pressure for the welfare
bill? It simply doesn't exist. It never got the all-out
support needed to pass controversial domestic legislation.
It s the same in other areas—mounting unemployment,
lack of housing, crime, etc. The need* of black people are
ignored, and the pressing needs of all the people give way
to the law and order rhetoric that wins votes but not
loyalty.
The current despair in the ghetto Is rooted in the belief
that the Administration will d 0 anything to get elected,
but will do nothing to govern. The fascihation with political
theorists who see the "silent majority" as the key to election
victories is typical. First there was the "Southern strategy"
propounded by an aide of the Attorney General, calling for
• political union of Southern racistg and Northern ethnic*
against liberals and blacks.
Now the popular theory is that of the "real majority -
that seeks the average voter as being middle-aged, middle
income, and shaken by crime, racial strife, and
morals.
Problems Of Nation Real
The problems of the nation are real, but they *re net
going to be solved by seeking the ballot affection* of people
whose minds and values are rooted in the past The real
question facing a government la not who can make it pos
sible to win elections, but who can make it possible t#
govern. • •
b Idealists, black and other minorities, and the younC
y t0 theorkt,i ld "l °f the typical voter"
; without their support and without their participation,
no Administration can hope to govern effectively. The
very e Me nce of leadership ia to give example and hope to
* nd n °t Just to a frightened, fading group
Ithat voting analysts think will swing elections.
in J ll1 * Adml f lrtr * tio n has not done. It provides the
Illusion of leadership, as for example, in the President's
eloquent condemnation of violent in his speech at Kansas
State. He rightly condemned violence, Nit at the same time,
£k" , WU goin * >rou nd the country ,pinning
tee radical label on liberals; police forces in several
cities were engaged in wars on Black Panthers; his Attorney
General was making intemperate remarks about Intellec
tuals, and that gentleman's outspoken wila was ™«*'»g
similar remarks about educators. And all the while, the
official violence of a needless war in Vietnam was con
tinuing.
It's not the illusion of leaderahlp we now need it ia
the substance. And until we get it, the mood of despair
and resignation will deepen, leading to Lord knows what
catastrophe.
-Winner
' (Continued from front page)
jcame bursting out of a giant
gift box, and a Wells Fargo
armored car put on display
$20,000 in one-dollar bills.
-Campaign
(Continued from front page)
Holton, Washington, D. C.,
Region VD, Maryland, Virginia
and the District of Columbia.
-Record
(Continued from front page)
Doors," IIE president Kenneth
Holland calls for greater co
operation among the agencies
serving international students
and scholars in order to meet
growing needs with dwindling
funds.
-Rustin
(Continued from front page)
tributed substantially to the
promotion of friendship be
tween the peoples of the
United States and Israel" ha:
been accpeted by a distin
guished roster of Americans.
Last year's award recipient
was forma President Lyndon
B. Johnson.
-Ebenezer
(Continued from front page)
begin at 6:30 p.m. with a dis
cussion on "Women of The
Buble" and followed by an in
spirational service titled "If A
Woman." William E. Daye is
minister.
To Be
EQUAL
•y
WHITNEY M. YOUNt