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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1970 4 “You'll have to sand someone else," the soldiers said when they encountered Jesus and then reported to their superiors, “We don't want to go against Him, Never man so spake." They were armed; He had no defense Editorial Viewpoint is Segregation On Its Dying Bed? The last big push for school de segregation in the South is under way, and involves more than three million black and white children. No one thought it would take this long-sixteen years after the Su preme Court ruled that separate schools are unequal. President Nixon remarked re cently that legal segregation “will soon be behind us.” Will it? By reliable estimates, some 500 school districts will be opening with substantial desegregation for the first time. Prior to this year, the federal government has brought some school districts in line by threatening to cut off their funds. Many have ac cepted plans, while others have balked. One official stated the situation is comparable to a kindof“nut- Professionals Musi Save Their Money Big-time prize fighters, singers and entertainers, and others who amass great fortunes must save their money for a rainy day. History is full of former suc cessful entertainers and profes sional fighters, footballers, and baseball players who end up poor and unable to pay their debts. One of the examples is former boxer Joe Louis, who in his lifetime earn ed $4.6 million. Joe Louis lacked financial man agement ability and hence should have employed a financial advisor. He allegedly lost a fortune in spend ing high on women, friends and op portunists. When he got through en- We Must Urge Voting Power For Blacks Never underestimate the power of the ballot in solving some of the problems of Negroes in the United States. We have had registration drives, but we don’t seem able to apply the power of the vote where it can do the most good. A lot of times, peo ple lose interest after the voter registration campaign has terminat ed. Even though this may be true, the best way to fight discrimination is by voting. “It is sheer nonsense and stupidi ty for Negroes to protest through The nation’s existence is threat ened by its own waste matter. It is a case of each industry, business and municipality acting in its own short term interests--and the devil take the hindmost. A large number of suggestions and plans have teen advanced for the so lution of this problem. Until now, none have received general accept ance. The time has come for us to es tablish the principle that the en vironment belongs to us all, and that each must pay his share of the cost of maintaining a healthy en vironment and eliminating pollu tion for which he is responsible. It should not be too difficult to de termine the cost of this undertaking, and we know it will be very high. Bible Thought Os The Week Environment Belongs To All but His manner and tone of voice, but these were enough. In any crowd and under any cir cumstance, the leader stands out. By the pow er of His faith in Himself he commands, and men instinctively obey. cracker approach.” Without the problem of desegre gation, schools are having other problems. It is an ironic evolution. As private schools, such as church schools, suffer and even close be cause of rising costs in many re gions, the public schools are as suming the greatest burden of ed ucating our children. Yet, in the South, private schools have sprung up with rapidity because of the de segregation issue. Whether they will succeed remains to be seen. Disregarding the issue of deseg regation, parents should keep in mind that our public schools have better facilities than ever before. Every student can achieve to the limits of his possibilities. Every student should be able to make of himself the best that there is. tertaining them, he found himself one million dollars in debt. Here is a man of integrity who had little business acumen. However, his friends put on a benefit show which netted a sizable sum for a man who deserves every penny. Some how, lucrative job offers did not come in for Joe Louis. Joe Louis deserves a national compassion, and no one would deny it. People who are grossing money by the millions in this, their hey day, must think of the future-the tomorrows. Or else, they will find themselves in poor financial cir cumstances. violent means,” Brig. Gen. Daniel Chappie James, Jr. said at a recent gathering oi the alumni of Tuske gee. “We have got to stop fighting and finding ways to hate each oth er,” he declared. Voting is the peaceful way to fight prejudice, and it can put out. of office public officials who per sist in denying the Negro his rights. The sooner we can effectively put out of office biased politicians, the sooner we can rid the nation of dis crimination. The principal cause for our pres ent predicament of environment is the belief that each man is an en tity unto himself, separate and dif ferent from his surroundings. Our present approach to the problem fails to take into account the amount of damage the polluter inflicts on others. The cost of this should be based on an assessment against polluters tailored to the amount, of pollution caused. These fees could be collected locally or federally. They could take the form of taxes, assessments or fines. In implementing such a system, varied factors pertaining to pollution must be considered. A commission with power to as sess should be formed to establish a system of payment of ridding the nation of pollution. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN POLITICS AND TELEVISION BY HARRY GOLDEN If 1 had to assess the ef fects television has had no our politics, I would have to divide them Into long-range and Im mediate effects. The salient immediate effect television has introduc ed into the American political structure is to have made the primary almost as crucial as the election. Now primaries were always crucial ir, the South because there is only one party down he-ah. But television com mentators consider the pri mary as news and a primary campaign in Wisconsin or New York or California commands as much coverage as a dull election used to command thirty years ago. It’ is impossible to imagine that the candidacy of Eugene McCarthy would have gained the momentum it gained in 1968 without television. With out television, Bobby Ken nedy would not have been a serious contender in 1968. George Wallace is a serious threat as a third party candi date because of television. There have been other third partv candidates: Robert La- Follett in 1924, Henry Wal lace in 1948, but the only third party candidate who thought he had a chance to win was Teddy Roosevelt in 1921 and Teddy, after all, was an ex- President. When John F. Kennedy went to primary wars in 1960, he was pocketing delegates to se cure his nomination; when Bobby went eight years later, he was trying to get up steam; “momentum” the profes sionals call it. Chief among its long-range effects, television has elevat ed the image of the candidate over that of the principles of the pariy. This may be good or bad depending on whether you are a voter, a candidate or a hack. A national or statewide candidate cannot say one thing in one area and another thing in another. But he can avoid subjects wherever he goes where a party cannot. A candidate can discuss high Other Editors Say ... NIXON’S INTEGRATION TRIP In an unprecedented move President Nixon, last week journeyed to New Orleans where he met for two hours with the chairmen of the com mittees on education from Alabama, Georgia, Missis sippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana and Ar kansas. Afterwards, the President went before television camer as to declare that the nation's highest court had spoken on the school desegregation issue and tt was “the responsibility of the President of the United States to uphold the lav/. I shall meet that responsibili ty,’ he said. Mr. Nixon promised co operation rather than co ercion. He emphasized that he “was going to carry the law that way, not in a puni tive manner, treating the South as basically a second-class part of the nation.’ He asked for responsible leadership in establishing a unitary school system every where. What response the President’s conciliatory words will evoke from the Southern leadership, es pecially the unconscionable politicians, is open to ques tion. Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia are hardcore a reas which view compulsory transition from dual to uni tary school systems as in fringement upon their rights of educational self-determ ini nation. Though Mr. Nixon said he would uphold the law, he is at the same time whispering in to the < ocked ears of the Southern judges and exhorta tion to be lenient in their in terpretation of the law. If the President is against coercive or punitive measures to en force integration, the effect is that of a warning to the courts not to expect support from the federal government or the White House should they issue injunctions leading to one of two alternatives: compliance or jail commit ment. TRt, CAROLINIAN "Covering The Carolinas” Published by The Carolinian PiibUsfriiv; Company SJB E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address: P. O. 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Opinions expressed by column ists in this newspaper do not nec essarily represent the policy of this newspaper. tar riffs in Dixie Instead of fed eral school guidelines or he can talk about conversation polices in working class neighborhoods instead of school bussing, As long as he can convince the elector ate he is his own man, the electorate often forgives the principles which may be im plicit in his party’s platform. Television has inspired the rich man to seek political office Ynore and more. Only wealthy men and sometimes only wealthy families can pos sibly afford the expense of a primary. In the last New York pri mary, the party-endorsed candidate for the Senate, Ted Sorenson, could not match fiom his own pocket nor from the Treasury of the New York Democratic Party the ad vertising budget his victori ous opponent, Richard Otting ei\ easily afforded. Arthur Goldberg prevailed over his opponent, millionaire Howard Samuels only because Gold berg had been a Cabinet mem ber, a justice on the United States Supreme Court, and the ambassador to the United Na tions. He had a 10-year his tory as a public - figure. Wealthy men had wealthy friends and sometimes anoth er half million dollars of spot' announcements can swing an election. Perhaps the most import ant development of political television is the creation of new constituencies. People are not Democrats or Repub licans necessarily. Sometimes, to use the most obvious example, they are youth, dismayed over the war, over the purposelessness of many of their college courses, over their inability to make themselves not only heard but considered. The students who closed their schools over the tragedy at Kent State were children who never knew a world with out television. The one Es tablishment institution who lets them give vent to their frustrations is the nightly TV newscast. While youth is noisiest, it is not the only constituency thus created. Undoubtedly, in some, mili tant quarters, Mr. Nixon’s no “coercion” statement will tie given the color of an invita tion to massive sectional re sistance to full integration. We are inclined to view his dra matic. trip to the South to urge orderly end of school segre gation not only as a significant departure from adepressingly nebulous policy, but as a good ornen, as a rainbow in the whole firmament of civil rights. We don’t care how segregation is beater, down, whether by presuasive rhe toric, judicial mandate or by federal marshals. Use any old stick to kill the snake. The result is what counts, GEN. DAVIS AND MAYOR STOKES Many people share the view that retired Lt. General Ben jamin O. Davis was less than frank in disclosing the reason for tendering his resignation as Cleveland Safety Director. He said, in effect, he was hampered in his effort to curb crime by lack of cooperation from Mayor Carl B. Stokes. There was an inescapable in ference of collusion between the Mayor and .Cleveland’s criminal element. Gen, Davis did not let the news of hts resignation come out of the Mayor’s office, which would have been the courteous thing to do. Instead, he called a press conference to announce his decision and the reason, supposedly, behind it. A more sensitive and dis creet man would have followed a different course. In selecting Davis for the post of Safety Director, Mayor Stokes had swept aside all manner of pressure from political and civic leaders who preferred a local person to an outsider. This alone should have led to a relationship in which the status of both parties should have been respected. Gen. Davis could have quiet ly tendered his resignation. He trumpeted it much in the manner of a politician seek ing an issue on which to de nounce his opponent and estab lish his line of battle. He thus laid himself open to a sus picion of ulterior motives. For a man who has gone through the stern discipline of West Point and the rigidity of army routine, Gen. Davis exhibited no inspiring example of his experience. We hope that his ill-tempered and ill founded criticism will have no m a 1 ign a n t effect on Mayor Stokes' political career. -The CHICAGO DAILY DEFEND ER. # * & You never should attempt to remove impacted wax from your ear canal, according to the Cru sade for Hearing Conservation, The problem of impacted wax in the ear canal deserves the at tention of a medical doctor. SYMPTOMS OF A RACIST SOCIETY ... WILLIS' EDWARDS WHO DELIVERED THE EULOGY, h SAID THE DEAD SOLDIER, SPEOALIS T2ZPONDEXTEUK logf* fSL.IV EUGENE WILLIAMS, 00, WAS, *4 MAN WITHOUT JMm TL v SIAbS A COUNTRY. THE JUSTICE HE FOUGHT ' M SWILL NOT FLOWN FROM / j I - - VIETNAM-HUT! j : V’MBsS-- 4g^jHl§ ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS A century or more ago, the United States offered sanctuary and opportunity to immi grants from all nations. But gradually, as the open spaces have filled and population has growTi, the attractions that brought people to the U. S. have faded. The frontiers have dis appeared, and many of the irritants and prob lems of the old world have been transferred to the new. Many good U. S. citizens now view with despair the congestion around them, the growth of a centralized superstate with an un manageable bureaucracy of regulators, pica yune laws and the prospect of near-confisca tory taxes. Many are searching for another frontier beyond the Pacific Coast and, re markably, quite a few are finding it. Mr. Harry Gordon, editor of The Mel bourne, Australia, Sun, has written a significant account of the growing flood of Ameiiqans that today are finding a new frontier and a new life in Australia. These latter-day mi grants have been welcomed in that country. They represent every profession, business and trade. A lot of them are farmers. Mr. Gordon says of this exodus of American citizens to “down under”, “What it all adds up to is a steady stream of vanishing A merlcans. . .a small but Increasingly signi ficant movement of U. S. drop-outs and opt outs from one side of the Pacific to the other. The exodus is ironic, because people are quitting a country which owes so much of its might and pride and literature to its own invasion by immigrants; it is also rather sad, because one of its major causes is disenchantment with the America that Kate Smith used to sing about so lustily. . .the folksy, uncontorted, Saturday Evening Post America that offered so much opportunity to oppressed. steerage-traveling Irish, Italians and Jews." Currently, the Australian government is handling 1,200 inquiries a day on migration to Australia--an increase of about 14 per cent over a year ago. One of the biggest attractions about Australia to Ameican is its promise of elbow room. It is a large and empty nation equaling in size the Unit ed States without Alaska or Hawaii. Its land area totals about 3 million square miles, yet Its population is a mere 12 million in contrast to more than 200 million in the U, S. Australians, according to Mr. Gordon, are glad to see the arrival of the Ameri cans, because they bring with, them skills and knowledge and capital that are helping to develop the Australian outback, as wcdl as the more settled areas of the country. For example, colonies of American settlers PRICES MUST REFLECT COSTS No one ever climbs on a soapbox in behalf of the nation’s investors whose savings make possible the building of the plants and indus tries on which everyone depends for the neces sities and luxuries of'life. All the soapboxers talk about is how to drive down the prices 01 everything regardless of costs to the pro ducers. Whether producers will be able to continue to produce the things the country needs is apparently an irrelevant question. The statement to stockholders made by the officials of a large utility company illustrates what producers of one vital service are up against. It says, "Despite Inflation and record costs of new capital, we must build plants to provide reliable service to meet the increas ing demands or our customers, and we must maintain environmental standards. Our con struction estimate for the next three years a rnounts to SSOO million. . .To obtain the. . . capital for construction, we must sell. . . securities and . . .attract equity investment. Both require an earnings picture of stable growth. We are continuing to direct every ef fort to obtain further operating efficiencies and reduce costs, and we will file for rate in creases as needed. Under the nation's com petitive enterprise economy, a company’s obli gations to its customers and to society can not be met if its obligations to its Investors are not honored." There are only two sources from which the capital can be obtained for the growth of in dustries upon which we all depend for jobs and products. Either private citizens invest vol untarily in industrial development or the tax payers do it on a compulsory basis under so cialism. Regardless of who does the investing, prices must reflect costs of production, HISTORIC VENTURE Summer tourists to Alaska this year have become aware of two things: the immensity of the trans-Alaska pipeline project and the con troversy surrounding it. Those who visit Val dez, the coastal terminus ofthe proposed pipe line, cannot help but be impressed by the awe some proportions ofthe "cold decks" of pipe stored at Valdez and more was arriving. Eventually, the pipeline will be laid through mountains and tundra to the far North Slope of Alaska, hundreds of miles from Valdez. The undertaking has few parallels in the annuals of human endeavor. It demonstrates the enduring courage and imagination ofthe U, S, petroleum RAYS OF HOPE have revolutionized the Australian cotton growing industry. In nine years, the country's production of cotton has increased 20 times. The dreams of the immigrants apparently stand up in the light of reality, in spite of the hard climate in certain areas and a stand ard of living said to be lower than in the Unit ed States. Some of those moving to Australia criticize high prices and the comparatively low wages. But, few of those who go have any desire to return. Moreover, Australia Is far from an alien land. Its people are much like Americans, speaking the language and, in general, apparently dedicated to the ideals of individualism that are the outgrowth of a rugged frontier background closely resembling that found in early A merica. Australia’s Minister of Immigration expects the time to come when 20,000 Americans a year will settle in his country. Another Aus tralian official say s of the Americans, “ . . . They haven’t lost faith in the United States. They're just as patriotic as the Americans who stay home. I’ve seen those bumper stick ers. . .‘America! Love It Or Leave It!’ V/wt a lot of people don’t realize is that it’s quite possible to do both.” And this seems to be the secret of much of the current migration to Australia. IN SUCH A TIME Public entertainment has reached a state of almost compulsive obsession with sex and the abnormal. Many have wondered how long such a condition can exist before the pendulum will begin to swing the other way. A hint of such a swing may be the whole-hearted wel come given to a recently published work of Mr. Guy Owen entitled, “Journey for Joedel” (Crown Publishers, Inc.). The book tells the story of one day in the, life of a 13-year-old boy--a half-cast born of a white father and an Indian mother. The “journey” is a t^j to town with his father to attend a tobacco auction. Against this deceptively simply background, a powerful tale unfolds-a tale that has grip ped readers and reviewers of “Journey for Joedel” with a remarkable unanimity of feel ing. That feeling is ably expressed by Mr. William E. Taylor in The DeLarid Sun News. As Mr. Taylor puts it, “In a time when liter ary hacks are churning out garbage for a public that can’t get enough of it. . .in a time when public entertainment is characterized by phony violence, pornographic smut, and politi cal sabotage; in such a time comes this beauti ful short novel. . industry for which, as time goes on, this energy hungry nation can be most thankful. It will be years before oil begins to arrive from the North Slope; and, in the meantime, millions of dollars will be needed for exploration and development of the region. Tourists to Alaska this year have seen the beginning of an historic venture. They may also be able to grasp what oilmen mean when they speak of the need for Incentives and gov ernmental policies to encourage the necessary risk taking that is the very life of the oil in-, * dustry and the source of energy upon which; r much of the western world is utterly dependent, SEAGOING INFLATION FIGHTERS It seems only yesterday that little interest was shown in maintaining a first-rate U„ S. Merchant Marine to sustain the international commercial interests of the United States. Compared to this negative attitude, the cur rent maritime outlook represents a miracul ous change. The country and the maritime industry are now committed to forgoing a new U. S. Mer chant Marine in keeping with the highest tradi tions of overall U. S. sea power. A cardinal feature of the new generation of merchant ships is inter modal ism. Intermodalism means the development by the U. S. merchant shipping industry of a total integrated transportation system through use of revolutionary container and barge ships, now either in service, under construction or in the planning stage under the Administration’s pending ship moderniza tion program. The president of the American Institute oi Merchant Shipping touched on the implications of intermodalism when he said, "Containeriza tion for example, has made stevedoring oper ations capital intensive rather than labor in tensive, No longer, then, will high technology American ships spend much of their time in port. Containerization and the barge systems! increase vessel utilization by altering port.- \ to-sea ratios from 1 to 1 to 1 to 4 —or to put it another way, our ships will shed the one day-in-port-to-one-day-at-sea routine for a one-day-in-port-to-four-days~at-sea s c h e d ule. . „ -1 " As the new, more efficient U. S. merchant ships enter the sea -lanes of the world, their economy and efficiency may well turn out te be one of our most important allies in pre serving our overall standard of living in the face of persistent inflation.
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