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WINSTON-SALEM
CHRONICLE
NDUBISI EGEMONYE CHARLES T. BYRD, JR.
Publisher Business Editor
ERNEST H. PITT
Editor-in-Chief
ISAAC CARREE, II CHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN j
Advertising Circulation Manager
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. SATURDAY JULY 3, 1976 j
A Tragic Progression \
by Dr. Kenneth R. Williams
Chancellor WSSU
Inaugural ceremonies of presidents of the United States were
held on March 4 for many years. This was, of course, five
months after they had been elected. The March 4 date was
chosen to give the newly elected presidents ample time to travel \
from their homes to the nation's capitol. j
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mi"* i* an unmanned spacecraft, launched by scientists of
the United States, began sending pictures from Mars on June I
19. The craft was one thousand miles from the planet Mars at j
that time. These early pictures and others received since June
19 were so clear and definite that the July 4 scheduled landing
of the spacecraft has been scrapped as the scientists search the
surface of the planet for a landing sight better than the one they
had chosen.
These illustrations, one from the eighteenth century and one
? from our times, illustrates dramatically the progress that
Americans have made in the last two hundred years in
conquering time and space. They represent a tremendous
accomplishment on one hand and a pathetic tragedy on the
other.
It is tragic to realize that we have develoned mir mitiHc /%
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point that we are able to land men on the moon, send pictures to
the earth from Mars, mass produce almost anything that comes
to mind, conquer practically every disease but still find it
impossible to live together in peace, harmony and prosperity.
This country after two hundred years is plagued with
problems that it seems unable to solve. There is no logical
reason why the extreme poverty that can be found in every state
of the Union should exist in a country that has the capacity to
produce what this country has. No really thoughtful person
would attempt to justify a system that says to bright eyed,
intelligent little children that they belong only among the
outcasts and must become reconciled to that fact early in their
lives. It must take years of practive for a person to reach the
point when he is able to sing with gusto, t4ln Christ there is no
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hast or West, in Him no North or South", while saying to his
fellow tax-payer, I will fight to the finish to give all that 1 have to
maintain the lines that separate us.
The Founding Fathers had a dream. They have us the
guidelines for a great society. Faced, as they were, with the
dilemma of standing at the crossroads of human history where
tradition, ancient authoritarianism and new ideologies met,
they could be expected to do little more than point the way. This
they did. Succeeding generations have failed them in many
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mnvnwiu nave uune a commendable job of improving
everything but themselves.
There is ample evidence that Americans living in the last
quarter of the twentieth century differ very little from those who
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To Be Equa
July 4th is finally upon us,
the culmination of the
months-old Bicentennial
build-up largely devoid of
content.
It's too bad, because
flag-waving isn't enough,
rampant commercialism that
wraps products in red, white
and blue, isn't enough, and
pious declarations of a
mythical past just aren't
enough.
A proper Bicentennial
observance would re-examine
the ideals that led to the
founding of this nation and the
gap batween those ideals and
the reality of today. And a
Bicentennial should be a time
of national debate to formulate
goals for the next century.
Very little of this kind o*
national self-examination has
taken olace. The old mvth*
have been reinforced and the
hypocrisy that was so blatant
in our past and is so strong
today has largely gone
unchallenged.
It is almost forgotten that
the Founding Fathers included
a disproportionate number
of slaveholders, including
Jefferson, the man who wrote
the immortal words of the
Declaration of Independence
"all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights, that among these
are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happirtess.V^
Small wonder then,'that an
Englishman of the period v
complained "How is it we
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hear the loudest yelps for
liberty from the drivers of
Negroes?"
The hypocrisy Samuel
Johnson castigated continued
as blacks were enslaved for
almost the first hundred years
of the nation's history and
kept in peonage and secondclass
citizenship since then.
Even the precious right to vote
was denied blacks in the South
until passage of the 1965
.Voting Rights Act.
"But this does not dim the
truth of the words enshrined
in the Declaration, it only
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i^aiiucs iu mc immoralities ox
(he men who shaped our
constantly changing society.
Letters To T
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To the Editor:
I wish to express my
appreciation to Congressman
Stephen Neal for his vote in
favor of the HEW appropriation
bill, which included the
funds for the National Cancer
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msiuuie. Lives are already
being saved. His vote means
that still more will be saved as
the recent clinical advances
are extended throughout the
nation.
1 recommend that those to
whom the Conquest of Cancer
is important vote for him in
the November election.
Yours truly.
Chairman
Citizens1 Committee for the
Conquest of Cancer
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in, Jr.
And it should not blind us to
the tremendous impact the
American Revolution has had
on the world.
The Revolution fought for
ideas of equality and for
government based on the
consent of the governed
inspired the world-wide movement
toward greater freedom
and justice and today is an
inspiration even to those
revolutionaries in colonial
countries whom our. government
has opposed.
But here at home it
sometimes seems as if blacks
have few allies in trying to
make the Bicentennial releSee
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Dear Editor,
1 think it is high time women
should know the difference in
clothes when buying them.
Halters; and shorts are for
beach wear or around the
house. A woman should have
more morals than to wear such
things downtown on public
streets. It is open temptation
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Tor our men.
There's no wonder why so
many cases of rape appear
here in our city. The law
should be passed forbidding
women and teenagers from
wearing halters and shorts
downtown. Children through
age 9 years is alf right iov
them to wear this.
No, I am not trying to tell
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