4 -THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT.. MARCH 24. 1979
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President Friday's Hogwash
When University of North Caro
lina President William Friday
received the unanimous vote of
confidence .Tuesday from the joint
House and Senate Appropriations
Committee on Education for his
position in the university's dispute
with HEW, it should have been no
surprise. When members of the
legislature applaud Friday,, they
are applauding themselves,
because Friday is their mouthpiece.
It should now be crystal clear to
all that the decisions being made in
the HEW conflict are not educational
decisions. They are political
decisions.
The North Carolina State Legisla
ture is loaded down with graduates
of predominantly white schools of
the University of North- Carolina
system. So one expects thai they
will do everything in their power to
convince themselves and HEW that
President William Friday deserves
the vote of confidence that the
Appropriations Committee gave him
in Raleigh Tuesday.
These legislators are lawyers and
businessmen. They don't have the
expertise to make educational
decisions. So far as that is con
cerned, President Friday is no
educator, either. He is a lawyer,
too. (Check his credentials.)
Friday tries to strengthen his
case before that pre-conditioned
(through attendance andor gradu
ation) group, by suggesting that
their precious predominantly white
institutions would "sacrifice educa
tional program control to the federal
government" if the state has to
allocate $120 million to the histori
cally and traditionallly underfunded
predominantly black schools. Friday
knows this is hogwash. He ' also
knows that all those Carolina-crazed
legislators over there in Raleigh eat
that kind of hogwash as if it were
caviar. He also knows that that is the
kind of rhetoric which plays upon
the rankest prejudices among North
Carolina voters.
"Friday said if the legislature
approved $60 million to $80 million
in new expeditures on the black
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campuses over several years, then he
doubted that it would willing to
appropriate any more for the re
maining eleven campuses in the UNC
system", reports from Raleigh said.
This is more of Friday's hogwash. He
knows fulf well what Carolina wants,
Carolina gets. It always has and
always will until black folk in this
state wake up, start playing the
political game with serious intent,
and start voting out f office some
of these nearsighted politicians.
On another point in Friday's
political game with the legislative
committee - that HEWs latest
demands for improvements on the
five predominantly black campuses
of the UNC system was only a
rough estimate and could run higher
.we answer SO WHAT! Allocations
to the black campuses have never
been fair, so if a huge chunk of it has
to be made up for in a short time,
then so be it. The state ought to
start balancing the scales sometimes
and NOW is as good a time as any.
North Carolina is always boasting
and bragging about its big surplus of
money, but when asked to use it for
black institutions, the legislators
scream bloody murder. Don't they
even care to admit that the greatest
resource of a state is its people. If
they spent the $120 million, the
resources that would become
available would make North Caro
lina a model state - an educated
and enlightened population would
attract industry and business from
around the world.
North Carolina should take the
recommendations of HEW as an
opportunity and a challenge. Now
is the time to really desegregate
North Carolina schools.
Black folks have got the right
to one vote - even the eighteen
year old group which is college age
- and we all need to arise off our
duffs and get an organized political
force going to weild some power in
this state for what we need. We
have worn out marching in the
streets - it's time now to march to
the polls. Our pencils are mightier
than our swords or our mouths.
GARNET
'a 1882
Educated atoneida institute he
became a celebrated presbyterian
PREACHER AND LECTURER HE MADE A NEVER-TO-BE-FORGOTTEN
ANTI -SLAVERY S PEECH IN
1843 TO THE CONVENTION OF COLORED AMERICANS,
BUFFALO, N.Y. HE TOURED ENGLAND IN 1850,
THEN SERVED AS A MISSIONARY IN JAMAICA
B.W.I.BYTHE I880fe HE WAS US. MINISTER
TO LIBERIA,
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At long last, public attention is finally being
focused on the escalating cancer rates among
black people. A Senate subcommittee chaired
by Senator Kennedy plans hearings on the
impact of cancer on minorities. And I recendy
took j) art in a national conference, "Meeting
the Challenge of Cancer 'Among Black Ameri
cans," sponsored by the . American Cancer
Society. '
The Society has not been identified with
special concern about cancer's impact on the ,
black community. So this conference is im
portant because it marks a new involvement of
a major national institution with black people.
In part that new concern is due to efforts
of the Society's new president, Dr. LaSalle
Leffall. He is a distinguished scientist, chief of
surgery at Howard University Hospital, and a
man deeply concerned with the sharply higher
black cancer rates. '
Those higher black rates are another indica
tion that national problems can't be solved un
less they are sharply targeted. True, cancer is
something that affects all people. But when one
group - blacks, in this instance - experiences
sharply higher cancer rates, then it is obvious
special efforts have to be targeted in the af-
By Vernon Jordan 3
EXECUTIVE DIRICT0I,
NATIONAL URIAH
LEAGUE
fected community. '
That's the principal behind special efforts
in employment, housing and other sectors
where blacks, lag behind whites. And in cancer,
the black-white gap means higher death rates
for black people. !
Few people are aware of the inroads cancer
has made in the black community. Cancer
accounts for one out of every six black deaths.
The American Cancer Society estimates that
some six and a half million black people now
living will eventually have cancer. That s one
out of every four black people!
Four black people will die of cancer in the
time it takes you to read this newspaper. Every
day 121 die of cancer - and the number is
going up, not down. For some cancers, the
black rate is double or more than that for
whites. The survival rates among blacks with
cancer is lower than for whites. Far more
whites than blacks have had cancer diagnosed
at the early stages of the disease, when pros
pects for cure are best.
Yet, years ago blacks had lower cancer rates
than did whites-. In the past 25 years black
cancer rates have increased, and they are still
on the rise. Part of the jeason comes from liv
ing in a polluted, discriminatory, urban en
vironment.. Blacks, subjected to greater stress,
suffer disproportionately from a variety f
stress-related diseases. Experts suggest that,
stress and its related consequences, lower im
munity to disease.
Another factor is the lack of equal access to
health care. Affluent citizens routinely have
medical checkups and often catch cancers and
pre-cancerous conditions in the bud. Black
people don't share that access to regular health
care. '
So cancer' inroads on the black community
derive both from its greater exposure to
cancer-causing substances along with weakened
resistance to them, and to the lesser incidence
of prevention campaigns among blacks.
This it is curcially important to educate the
black community to deal with the cancer
threat. An elementary first step is for people to
familiarize themselves with the seven warning
signs of cancer. Local church groups and other
community organizations can help spread the
world to their members with materials available
from the American Cancer Society.
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Congressman Hawkins' Column
Who Says Free Lunch Is Free
Have you had a free lunch lately? If you
have, than you know the joy of someone else
paying for something you got for nothing, ;
It didn't hurt you, but it did cause a crimp
(maybe slight, but a crimp nonetheless) in the
payers pocketbook. '
It meant that the payer had that much less
cash to buy something else. '
Or if the payer bought the lunch on credit,
then although it didn t hurt at the time, itll
hurt a little later when the payer pays the
bill. It'll hurt additionally, when the
payer figures out how much the credit cost. !
Anyhow you did get a free lunch, and it
didn't cost you a cent.
Well maybe. 1
Let's look at this situation hypothetically.
If enough ' people' are buying lunches on
This is where the free lunch enonomy
begins to break down, because in the end the
free lunch may precipitate a money crunch and
a credit crunch. '
Which gets us back to how free is a free
lunch?
And whether or not there is any validity in
the old adage tht thhere's no such thing as a
free lunch. '
Which further brings me to my point.
TThere are a host of states presently rid
ing the crest of the so called tax reform move
ment, demanding a constituional convention to
force Congress to balance future budgets. 1
A major leader in this efforts the governor
of California, As he rides backwards into the
fray, glad that he can't see what's up ahead,
he s calling for tederal frugality.
uncnes on Well some of mv mlleaeues in the ConcresL , .
credit, artd their bills begin' tmbmZs ;bout COst-effectivf '
begin to pay back their increasing bills more government, are somewhat dismayed by the
slowly, the credit company may notice a cash . g00(i governor's activities, especially since
flow problem and decide to place a 'limit on California receives $8 billion plus from the feds,
credit and maybe even explore increasing the (!s tms a free lunch? I wonder!)
cost of such credit., ' " -
BY AugUStUS F. WwllM
The suggestion in some Congressional
quarters relative to the good governor and
others like him, is that the federal budget could
easily be balanced if the annual $83 billion fed
eral grants to states and localities are terminat
ed. '
In fact those states requesting a constitu
tional convention, received $31 billion in fiscal
1978, which was approximately three-fifths of
the federal deficit in that year. '
A call for federal austerity in the federal
budget except for the $83 billion in federal dol
lars going to the states, is somewhat hypo
critical. Especially when one realizes that those
governors criticizing the federal deficit, have
within their means the ability to assist in the
wiping out of 4he defict by allowing the Con
gress to have a go at state aid. '
. Senator Edmund Muskie,: Chairman- of he
Senajte ,, Bfudgfsi jCqmmittecwoii doaeJy :
look at aid to the states and noted recently,
"That's not a threat, but arithmetic."
You see, there's no such thing as a free
lunch!
Our Charcoal Broiled World
BY LAURA PARKS
Recently , there was one of those crazy weeks
that drove almost everybody to their own wail
ing wall. The two Yemeni nations of southern
Arabia were busy violating their territorial in
tegrity in the broiling Equatorial sun just at
the moment when Tanzania was reportedly
moving into Idi Amin's Uganda province. At
the same time the Arab Peoples Democratic
Republic of the Western Sahara was staging ela
borate raids into the Iranian Shah-upporting
Kingdom of King Hassan's Morocco- Mean
while, in Iran, which was supposedly the
center of all the worlds attention, momentarily
took a back seat in the drama of the nations as
dimunutive Teng Xiaoping of China launched
his armies against Vietnam.
By weeks end, it was clear that the world s
rocket artUlery was pointing into everybody's
back yard under the impersonal command of
pre-set computer programms ready to respond
to the whimsical ways of the world's leaders.
But if you and 1 were a bit confused and
angered by events, consider the plight of Presi
dent Carter who not only had to contend with
overseas turmoil but was battered by ominous
news abut domestic inflation and abundant
signs that the nation's working population
was growing increasingly restive under the
merciless hammerblows of inflation.
But President Carter might have found some
comfort in the fact that Britain was in much
worse shape with strikes and winter storms
slashing at the foundations of the royal
realm. Prime Minister Callaghan in desperation
sent die Royal Queen to visit the disturbed
Arab land which reassured a few Arab princes,
but left most unimpressed. The Queen's visit to
Araby provided some relief to the winter and
strike weary British, who still believe that
somehow, east of Suez, the empire yet lives. '
In France, the steel workers are laying seige
to police stations with Molotov coctails as they
protest the French government plan to close
down steel plants across the nation. Strong anti
German feelings surfaced among the steel
workers who blamed the French government
for bowing to the wishes and the power of the
German steel combines. French government
was trapped because the Germans, for some
years past, have agreed to buy French agricul
tural products at the high subsidised prices de
manded by the French farming sector.
In near bankrupt Rome, the Italians were
still trying to form a new government. The
various political wizareds were engaged in all
kinds os subtle and convolving antics to keep
the Italian Communists from entering the
Cabinet Meanwhile, kidnapping and knee
capping were still going on in all parts of
the country.
Last week in Germnay. the Holocaust was
stilta bad dream not quite believed by the na
tion, not quite understood by those who
wanted to instruct the heirs of the nation's
criminal past. Last week too Willy Brandt, who
fled Nazi Germany rather than serve its war
machine, and who later on became a German
Chancellor, suffered a severe heart attack, but
yet lives and hopes. "
Yes, it was a most unusual week. It was a
week of crisis in which nothing was resolved
and foreshadowed and turmoils yet to come.
In Rhodesia, the Patriotic Front launched its
first major attack on Salisbury air-fields and
installations. Militarily, the situation goes well
for the Front. But diplomatically the Patriotic
Front fears the dyed-m-the-wool old Imperial
games of the British' and the neo-colonial
machinations of Washington. '
Right now the Patriotic Front is deeply
concerned about an American proposal to lift
economic sanctions against Rhodesia after the
March 20th elections. Fear is expressed that
the proposal to send an American Congression
al Delegation to monitor the Ian Smith white
Rhodesian inspired elections will further en
courage the Smith clinque that they will have
a chance to ward off their demise.
These and other ideas are reportedly being
worked out by the former academic semanticist
and now U.S.' Senator Samuel Hayakawa, Re
publican California and ILSJ' Senator Jesse
Helms, Republican of North Carolina. Both
men were responsible for inviting Ian Smith to
the United States last year. Both are the en
emies of the Patriotic Front and the six mil
lion Zimbabweans fighting for their
independence, according to the leadership of
the Zimbabwe African National Union. '
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"If then it no struggle, then it no progress. Those who propose to
favor freedom end yet depnciete agitation, an men who want crops
without plowing up the ground They want nln without thunder and
lightning. They want the oceans maestic waves without the awful roar
of its waters.
- Frederick Douglass
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