page 2 the Carolina journal april 22, 1970
A disease has infected our country.
It has brought smog to Yosemite, dumped
garbage in the the Hudson , sprayed DDT in
our food, and left our cities in decay .
It’s carrier is man. ”
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National Editorial on Ecology
We Have Not
Forgotten
This country's priorities are not relevant to human needs.
We are building new office towers, while people a block
away are living in slums. We are spending millions of dollars
to pour a mile of concrete expressway, while mass transit
systems are collapsing around us. We are creating a
technological society, while millions of people are
unemployed. We are throwing billions of dollars into useless
weapons, while welfare and education appropriations are
being slashed. We are killing people in Vietnam.
As all this happens our environment decays each day. We
are fighting pollution because if we do not solve this problem
soon, we will not be here to solve the others.
This nation's media and government are totally mistaken if
they believe we have forgotten the other issues and suddenly
switched to the new, fashionable fight against the destruction
of environment. We haven't. Pollution is the most pressing of
this country's misdirected priorities. The others must also be
changed.
We work now to fight against pollution. We will not forget
this is only one of many battles.
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By James Cuthbertson
Reach Out
And Touch
Reach out and touch somebody's hand and
make this world a better place if you can.
Reach out and touch somebody's hand and
make this world a better place if you can. Take
a little time out of your busy day to give
encouragement to someone who's lost the way.
Reach out and touch the hands of the 13
million blacks in South Africa who are enslaved
by that country's apartheid policy. Reach out
and touch the hands of the millions of whites
who are starving to death in the gloomy
confines of Appalachia. Reach out and touch
the hands of the babies who are being eaten by
rats in Harlem and the Arkansas Hills while our
government neglects its own environment in
favor of discovering the environments of distant
places and planets that we will never inhabit.
Would you be talking to a stone if I asked
you to share a problem that's not your own.
There are many stones in this world. Richard
Nixon is a stone. George Wallace is a stone.
Claude Kirk and Senator Ervin are stones.
Caring only about their own selfish problems,
they hear no cries from the dark side of the
world.
We can change things we we start giving a
little more and asking a little less. If you see an
old black man walking down the streets of
Tugalloo, Mississippi and the people began to
throw rocks at him, then reach out and touch
his hand and suffer the torment that is being
directed at him. If you see a young virgin being
raped on the streets of New York, then reach
out and touch her hand and help her fight for
her right to exist without an indispensable scar.
If you see someone on the side of the road with
a flat tire and no jack, then reach out and touch
his hand and help him.
Try a little kindness and you'll see that it's
something that comes very naturally. Try a
little kindness, Ronald Reagan, Bob Scott,
Spiro Agnew; and make this world a better
place if you can. We can change things if we
would only reach out and touch somebody's
hand.
Reach out and touch somebody's hand and
make this world a better place if you can. Just
Reach out, because the hands will always be
there.
INSPIRATION FROM: Diana Ross's new single
entitled "REACH OUT AND TOUCH
SOMEBODY'S HAND" M 1165 MOTOWN
(ASHFORD, SIMPSON) c1970 Jobete BMI
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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER AWARD
The week's award goes to Florida's governor
Claude Kirk who chose to take over the
Manatee County School System to keep it from
complying with a federal court order. This is a
prime position for a high official like a governor
to take. Kirk only obeys laws that agree with
his philosophy. May your gavel rest. Governor
Kirk.
LET THE SUNSHINE IN AWARD.
This week's golden ray goes to the
Environmental Committee for the outstanding
work that they have done in regards to Earth
Day and the students who voted in the last
election for showing that they care about
UNCC.
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In The Union!
‘^You’re a great
guy-have
a medal”
By Howard Pearre
What is it in the human psyche that requires
mankind to pat himself on the back ever so
often? It seems that important achievements
are just not enough. They must be .capped
with some sort of award, honor, medal, of
memorial.
It is not enough to win. One must receive the
roses, the plaque, or the trophy. It is no*
enough to have served. One must receive the
credit, the letter of appreciation, or the
20-year pin.
The thing is never utilitarian and rarely
spendable. ("A Purple Heart and a dime will
buy a cup of coffee anywhere in the country.")
The military (all military, everywhere)
well aware of this human weakness (or .source
of human strength). Who has not seen the
strutting soldier with a display of color and
courage pinned above his left breast pocket?
These are the things which make us proud. Of
is it that these are the things which give ns
the courage to be proud?
The trait is not confined to the human race-
Anthropologists study monkeys who dangl®
ornaments from their necks. And it is not the
western culture. American Indians adorned
themselves with features before Columbus
arrived. All societies have their symbols. See
what I wear? See my medal? It means I arn
great or courageous or have served.
Two timely, if unrelated, examples ere
the Medal of Freedom and our own bell
tower.
Three mortal humans traveled in the servie®
of their country and of mankind on e
dangerous journey. They had many setbacks-
They came close to death. They performed
courageously and efficiently .undet
harrowing conditions.
When they returned, they were honored bV
the President They were cheered. They wet®
feted. Then to cap off the achievement
make it all proper, to give it all meaning,
they were given the Medal of Freedom.
It seems ironic. "Congratulations, Capta*'*
Lovell, on receiving the Medal of Freedom."
"Thank you, it is a great honor."
Float around in space for a few days, hav®
half of your space ship blow up, bring
rest of it back safely, grin through it all and V®*'
get one each a Medal of Freedom.
Columbus discovers America and gets ba®**
to Spain. "Congratulations, Columbus. Hav« *
Medal of Freedom." ,
Secondly, ar>d closer to home, is Belk
$1(X),0()0 donation adorning our midway.
Roy Covington's Sunday column in
OBSERVER breezed hunwrously over stud®®
suggestions concerning the tower. Regular
trite college student cynicisms , they were.
Covington used the clean ones, the fun®'
ones. But even so, they didn't suggest lightne**"
They were, in fact, down right bitter.
How can a man spend so much on someth!®’
so worthless in an age which is so aware
genuine need and can recognize genuine wa***
Congratulations. UNCC. It is a nice tow*^'
Thank you. it is a great honor. Congratulatio®*'
Mr. Belk. Thank you, it is a great honor.
Medals and towers. Why does man do !'
Maybe it is to re-assure himself that he
indeed, a great guy.
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th®
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