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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1981
Hope for maturity
Let's hope David Funderburk has matured at least 100 percent
since he wrote "If the Blind Lead the Blind: the Scandal Regarding
the Mis-Teaching of Communism in American Universities" three
years ago.
At this writing, Funderburk was headed for confirmation as U.S.
ambassador to Romania.
He told a Senate committee September 28 he wished he hadn't
written the book, which alleges the U.S. news media, colleges and
Evangelist Billy Graham had participated in a "whitewash" of
communism.
In a nutshell. Funderburk's replies to questions put by U.S. Sen.
Paul E. Tsongas, a Massachusetts Democrat, indicated Funderburk
made allegations which had no support in fact.
One example: "In this work." the book says, "1 make the serious
charge that many of the American university professors deliberately
spread lies about communism for reasons of personal benefit and
profit."
But in replying to Tsongas's question: "Who is deliberately
spreading lies?" Funderburk said at the hearing. "I don't have a
list." When Tsongas persisted, asking. "Name me one."
Funderburk told the committee he had not meant to charge any
professor with spreading lies. But he said some professors did not tell
the students about the harsher side of communism.
The book smacks of a technique used by the late Sen. Joe
McCarthy in his communist hunts of the 1950s.
"There may well be." the senator would say when asked whether
certain numbers of communists or Communist sympathizers had
infiltrated an organization.
There's nothing wrong with hunting Communists and their fellow
travelers, especially among public figures, then exposing them
publicly. But "it's not what you do. but the way that you do it," as
the old saying goes.
The report of Funderburk's replies to questions put at the Senate
committee hearing shows the book was not written on the basis of the
careful, scholarly research naturally expected particularly of a
college professor, which Funderburk is (at Campbell University).
Sen. Charles Percy, an Illinois Republican, praising Funderburk
at the hearing, called him a highly qualified expert on Romania,
fluent in the country's language. Knowledge of the country and
ability to speak its language are obviously valuable assets for anyone
considered for assignment to a specific foreign nation. But maturity
of judgment is an essential for such a position, as it is for even
sensitive position, since the people of a nation judge a country on the
character displayed by its ambassador.
Funderburk has expressed regret that he wrote the book and let
us hope this is evidence he has gained the maturity the position
requires. Maturing doesn't mean a person looks kindlier at
Communists and communism; simply, in one respect, that he uses
the tools of maturity to educate the uninformed and misinformed
about them.
Sauce for gander
A recent news report says former North Carolina Sen. Robert
Morgan has no kind words for North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms but
it wasn't always that way.
The report quotes Morgan as saying during Helm's 1976
campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate that Helms was a man of
integrity.
This was part of his reply in reference to statements made during
the campaign between Helms and Democrat John Ingram for
Helms's seat.
Presumably. Morgan was complying with the Senate tradition that
prohibits one Senator from attacking a fellow senator when he paid
the compliment. It also may have been Morgan's way of avoiding any
suggestion he was supporting Ingram, the state insurance
commissioner who has been a controversial figure.
Since the 1980 campaign, however. Morgan, as the recent news
report says, would not repeat that 1976 compliment. Thanks to
Helms's Congressional Club principally, Morgan lost his Senate
seat, though by a narrow margin, to a hitherto unknown
Republican. Helms's participation in the campaign wasn't direct,
but it was there just the same and consequently can be rated a
breaking with the Senate tradition that Morgan and others adhered
to.
One consequence is that any member of the Senate can feel free to
support actively any opponent campaigning for Helms's seat in 1982.
As the old saying goes, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander.
--BL
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Dear editor:
At this time of year a lot of
people get interested in which
college football team is Number
One and others in which TV
network is Number One.
With the networks it's nbt hard
to tell, although I can't see what
difference it makes as none can
come in lower than third. They
pretend the rating reflects the
number of people tuned in. but a
more accurate reflection can be
found in what they charge for
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For example. CBS charges
SI 75.000 for a 30-seeond com
mercial. which gives you an idea of
how many people there are in this
country with false teeth that won't
stay in. It has a prime-time ad
revenue of S29.7 million a week.
ABC has S27.7 million a week and
NBC S26 million.
With revenue like that. I'd settle
for third any time.
The college football rating
system could learn from this. Like
it is. ratings are determined by a
bunch of coaches who're too busy
'Are you coming to bed, or
are you going to read all night?'
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by Bill Lindau
I have a favor to ask of sports
writers: please give complete in
dentification.
There are these pictures in the
September 30 Fayetteville Times.
on the front page of the sports
section.
That's what inspired me to write
about incomplete reports. One pic
ture shows Alfredo Griffin and
Mike Heath in a scuffle. Alfredo
Griffin is landing a glove on Mike
Heath (it says so in the caption.)
The other one shows
"Peacemaker" Bill Haller "break
ing up the fracas."
I know it's something that hap
pened in a baseball game because
the two opponents are wearing
baseball uniforms. I had to assume
that they were in major league
games as newspapers just don't fool
with fracases in minor league
games.
Since 1 am not familiar with
everybody who is playing major
league baseball, I did not know
who Alfredo Griffin and Mike
Heath are playing for. Further
more, the captions didn't let me
know .
I read the major league games'
stories close to the pictures to find
out what game the fracas erupted
in. But none of the reports said a
dadgum thing about a fracas. I just
read the stories about the other
games on Page 6-D. None of them
mentioned a fracas, either. In fact,
none mentioned cither player. All
this means, though, is neither did
anything terrific in the ball game.
Besides this, neither caption
ga\e any idea what the fracas was
about. Since the guy identified as
Mike Heath is wearing a Gatler's
helmet and the person identified as
Alfredo is not. 1 assume it has
something to do with the pitching
or with Heath trying to make a
base.
Excuse me. 1 just took the trou
ble to read the box scores on page
b-D. risking damage to my eyesight
from trying to make out that
teentsie weentsie print, and found
out what game and what teams the
participants were involved with.
Heath is listed as the catcher for
Oakland, and Griffin the shortstop
for Toronto.
The box score and summary
shows Heath got one hit in for
times at bat and Griffin was charg
ed with one error.
The score by innings shows
Oakland won. 5-1 .
Daily newspapers get the infor
mation about high school games
from school correspondents, when
staff writers aren't assigned to
coser the contests. Each cor
respondent covers his or her home
game.
This arrangement generally is
satisfactory but not every time.
For examples, some high school
correspondents, most of whom are
students, reports the lineups and
box scores only of their teams.
Then once in a while a correspon
Philosopher ?
worrying about their own team and
their job to know much about
anybody else's and a bunch of
sports writers who didn't play
football past the 8th grade.
As a result, one team turns up
Number One this week, another
next week, although neither has
played the other.
There's a better, more accurate
way. Like the networks, it should
be based on the amount of revenue
pulled in.
If a Notre Dame game takes in
sav WOO. 000 Saturday afternoon
dent won't report the game at all if
his or her team loses.
This, of course, is the way sports
editors earn their pay. It also is one
of the major causes of premature
aging of sports editors.
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The Sew York Times is strict
about the information that news
reports, including reports of high
school games, should contain. The
form for basketball game, for ex
ample, has a blank space for the
name of the referee. That the
management expected as a matter
of course to be filled in along with
other miscellaneous information,
such as the final score.
High school correspondents,
however, generally speaking, do
not place the same importance, as
the management of a newspaper
does, on letting the readers of the
sports pages know who refereed
the game. So at times callers repor
ting basketball games, when asked
by the sports writer who the "ref"
was. would say they didn't find out.
One sports writer didn't see the
point of calling back to the schools
or having the correspondents find
out from coaches who the refs
were.
He simply wrote "lgnoto," in
the space reserved for the ref's
name.
"lgnoto" is Italian for "1 don't
know."
"lgnoto," however, caught the
attention of a Times executive,
who didn't know Italian but
observed that "lgnoto" was
awfully busy with high school
basketball games. In fact, he even
"officiated" in two games in a
single night, according to the box
scores.
So the exec, suggested that a
sports writer be assigned to inter
view lgnoto and do a good story
on him.
The result, of course, was lg
noto retired immediately thereafter
from officiating and was never
heard of again.
What happened to the sports
writer who created the referee I
don't know. I do know that the
Times has a reputation for being
very sticky about reporting fiction,
even so small a one as a referee of a
high school basketball game.
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and a Michigan games takes in only
S750.000, Notre Dame is Number
One. At the end of the season the
team that grossed the most is
Number one. even if it's on
probation.
There may be something un
reliable about this, but if you've
spent the whole week trying to
figure out where to cut the national
budget in some place where it
doesn't hurt you, your thinking
naturally becomes a little fuizy.
Yours faithfully.
Letter To The Editor
Editor, The News-Journal
A Tribute to Jason
As many of you know, the Hoke
Co. Children's Center was going to
close in September (last month) if
we didn't come up with some
children. There were none in this
county eligible to be enrolled, so
since we're not county funded I
started looking in Cumberland Co.
for children that might not have a
program. Thanks to many people
we located some children, all in
dire need of a program; conse
quently. the Center was able to stay
open. We are Title XX ? funded
(federal money) - they didn't care
if the children were from another
County and we certainly didn't
care; after all. all children are
God's children, and if they need us,
we're going to be here to help them!
One of the children who came
into our program was a beautiful
child named Jason. He was 2'/i
years old, blond-haired, blue-eyed,
and severely handicapped, he
couldn't see very well either, yet
those big blue eyes constantly
wandered, trying to see whatever of
his world he could see. He cried
alot; was it because he was in pain,
or felt discomfort and couldn't tell
anyone? He began progressing to
where he didn't cry as much, he
started smiling more often. He
seemed more at ease. What hap
pened then? You see. Jason died.
Did he just get tired? Could his
body not fight the obstacles placed
in front of him anymore? I watched
him fight for his life for 2 days,
attached to a respirator, until he
couldn't fight anymore. Not only
did I watch him go through this
terrible ordeal. 1 watched the pain
in his parents' eyes as they saw
what their son was going through.
How many of us can really imagtne
how it feels to bear a severely
handicapped child, watch him
suffer through life, having to deal
with hospitals, clinics, expensive
equipment, physical therapy, hours
and hours spent in special feeding
techniques, etc., to have it all end
in this way? Anytime a child dies, it
is a tragedy, but a child who wasn't
given much to begin with really is
the worst of tragedies; the one thing
given to him was a set of parents
who cared so much for him and
devoted so much of their life to
him. My sadness and pain was
almost as great for them as it was.
and still is for Jason. To tell you
what kind of people they were is to
tell you that Jason's mom, Sharon,
stated she had some physical
therapy equipment to donate to our
center and that later on she'd like
to do volunteer work with us. so
that she may help other children.
Jason's father called me Friday
afternoon after Jason had died and
told me they wanted no flowers,
etc.. that they would like for all
monetary donations to be sent to
the Center. He and Sharon in
formed their relatives and friends/ |
of this.
I would like to set up the "Jason
Beers Memorial Fund" so that
Jason's spirit will live on forever.
He was a child, a very, very
precious child to his family and to
those of us who were fortunate to
work with him and help him. even
in the smallest way. Our hearts are
very saddened by his death, but
with a memorial fund, the parents
feel other children can be helped?
through whatever amount of money
may come in. This money will be
used for other children who have
needs for equipment, medical at
tention and services that are more
expensive to families than you
could ever imagine.
1 cannot express my respect and
admiration for Sharon and James,
who. in all of their pain, just want
to help other children who need
help. They are so saddened, yet so'
giving and unselfish; they've been
there and know what other parents
go through. What breaks my heart
is thinking of talking to Sharon last
Thursday on the phone; she wanted
to plan a get-together for all of the
parents of children at the Center
for Thanksgiving, because we're
one family. We stick together in
times of a crisis, and the other
parents have been supportive; one ,
mother came up to the hospital1*
with us because she knew the fear
the parents were facing. I guess
we've all been strengthened by this
and have become even more aware
of how lucky we all are in so many
ways.
1 wish I could take all of Jason's
parents' pain away. This is the
saddest thing I've ever encoun
tered. Please find it in your heart to
reach out to this family, even if you^
don't know them. I'm sure a card
or letter would be appreciated,
coming from Hoke County. You
don't have to know someone to
show them that you care. Any
donations to Jason's memorial fund
will help the parents feel a little
better about what has happened,
especially if they know other chil
dren will be helped. You may
contact me at 875-5074 for a
donation and/or the address of thoff
family. Please, please reach out to *
them. I'm sorry many of you never
met Jason. Hoke Co. has always
been very supportive of our Center,
and I'm counting on you now.
Jason, you may not be here
anymore, but we'll love you and
miss you forever. You'll never leave
our hearts...
Judy C. Hendrix & Staff
Hoke Co. Children's Center
Wisdom
We must be silent before we can listen .?
We must listen before we can learn;
We must learn before we can prepare;
We must prepare before we can serve;
We must serve before we can lead.
-William A. .Ward
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