THE CAROLINIAN ’
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1970
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So the children swarmed around climbing
on .Jesus’ knees, tugging at His garments,
-smiling up into His eyes, begging to hear
snore of His stories. It was all highly im
proper and wasteful in the eyes of the dls
‘ciples. With bustling efficiency, they hasten
ed to remind the Master that He had import
ant work to do and many appointments, they
Editorial Viewpoint
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We Desperately Need A National Health Flan
Almost thirty years have passed
since debaters engaged in debate on
the question: Resolved, that the
several states should provide a sys
tem of free medical care available
to all citizens at public expense. We
are sorry to report that the govern
ment has failed to live up to its
responsibility in taking care of the
health of the poor.
The present plans have failed, or
shall we say are failing - . Thousands,
ves millions, have discovered it
more and more difficult to get good
health care because there are not
enough doctors and not enough hos
pitals. Thousands of other people
find health costs so high that they
;can’t afford to be sick.
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I; President Nixon has given a sound
[warning of the forthcoming health
! [crisis. One critic remarked: “Even
[the bastion of the status quo, the A
•lnerican Medical Association, is
[finally awakening to the failure of the
[medical profession.”
Realizing that urgent health needs
[should be met promptly, sixteen
•senators from both parties have
[proposed a national health insur
ji nee program, and it would take care
[Of nearly all medical needs and bills
of all the people.
Most disturbing is that Mr. Nixon
has dismissed the senator’s plan,
[Since he apparently had none of his
•Own. His arguments for doing this
[are nothing new, because he lias
hopes that Social Security can solve
Blac k Colleges Need Assistance
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• For a long time, it has been
inown that the predominantly Ne
fro colleges needed financial aid
to carry on quality educational pro
grams.
e At last, the White House and the
Scranton Commission agree on at
least one major point: there should
tie massive financial aid for black
colleges and universities,
;What is more, the President’s
Commission on Campus Unrest
■followed cooperatively Mr. Nixon’s
program for increased aid to black
j|olleges and black students.
} White colleges seem unable to
atisfy the growing demand among
for higher education, and
pie are cognizant of the fact that
black institutions must be greatly
and expanded,
jjlt should be pointed out here that
dir. Nixon’s black college aid pro
gram has been ignored largely by
g&ongress. Now the voters must let
piem know how they feel about this
fat the next election.
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£; One would hardly believe it, but
there are 123 predominantly black
Colleges in the United States, mostly
ib the South. Combined, they account
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* : How Can We Stop The Drug Traffic* '(
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The increasing use of drugs in
the country is indeed alarming!
It is a universal menace in the
United States, foreign Countries
£nd perhaps, the world. A world
wide campaign on drugs and abuse
jhtas been urged.
?' The twenty-four nations meeting
Recently in Geneva’s Palais des Na
tions will support America’s call
•for a U. N. voluntary fund to wage
the fight and campaign against drug
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: It is obvious, that the availabili
ty of narcotic drugs comes as a re
sult of the cultivation of the opium -
producing poppy in a number of
bnderpriviiedged countries. For
instance, the U. N. narcotics la
boratory in Geneva estimates 80
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Bible Thought Os The Week
tried to push the eager mothers back. But
Jesus would have none of this. “Suffer little
children to come unto me,” he commanded.
Jesus knew that children were the very essence
of the Kingdom of Heaven. Unless adults be
come like them, they shall not in no wisr
enter into Heaven. Be like little chidren--
laughing, joyous, and unaffected
the problem. It moss certainly won’t!
Listen to what the Undersecre
tary of HEW had to say: “The plan
is too drastic, too costly and total
ly alien to our basic traditions.
That’s the trouble, we keep saving
too radical and too drastic. But is it
too drastic in the* Wee of a health
crisis?
Tou alien to our basic tradition?
Hardly true, unless health care for
all citizens, whether rich or poor,
black or white, is -. itside the A
merican tradition.
It appears that opposition to a
comprehensive health program
seems to be confined to ’hose in
the medical industry and health in
surance fields who may lose some
of their gigantic profits from the
health business.
Nixon’s oppose ion. it seems, has
become political.
We would go farther than i na
tional plan and make it a guaranteed
program. We challenge doctors,
politicians and insurance com
panies to join in trying to make this
proposal work.
Wonder who wants the doctor
shortage to remain'. If the nation
wants to do it, the United States
has the know-how and plan for
supplying t ms! of
doctors to p ■ > Me adequate medical
care.
The die is cast! Will the n ition
be courageous enough to meet its
medical ami health commitments
with its citizens.
for half ol ti e : a' iI munDor o? Ne
groes in the Col 1 1* qo ,>• toe uiqn
and 80 per u i; of the diplomas
given.
Strengiheninp; these colleges fin
anoiulh will no -• irily‘pro
mote segregation in highei educa
tion, but rather the aidprogi an will
enable them not. on: substantially
to improve their overall academic
quality, but also to develop element s
ot originality and distinctiveness
sufficient to .ttinct students from a
diversity of s: sei...l and ethnic back
grounds.
The Commission reported, “In
our judgment, the question of the
future usefulness md the ability of
predominantly black colleges and
universities t ranscends integration
segregation issues and relates pri
marily to the question of quality
education.”
One last word, however! The pre
dominantly Negro colleges must, not
keep offering th< traditional pro
grams of fifty years age.. They must
institute new md chalh aging pro
grams, not found anywhere else. It
will take imugin.it i <■ presidents and
deans to set our e.iu -aHon schemes
afi re!
per cent of the heroin entering this
country com e s from the opi urn
P O PPy fields of Turkey after be
ing processed in France.
Some researchers say that 15
per cent is esti ma 1e d to come
from Mexico, Asia and the Middle
East.
in this manner, and the ease
with which mugs can be obtained,
drug addiction has reached epidemic
and crisis proportions which man
must control if he hopes to survive.
One country, acting alone, in earn
ing is not likely to have much
success. It will take concerted ac
tion among the nations of the world
to curb the drug menace.
Each citizen must study the ways
and means by whjeh he can help.
Only In America
BY HARRY GOLDEN
A HIPPY NEW YEAR
The Jewish New Year, 5731,
was celebrated this year on
October 1 and 2. The Day of
Atonement is on October 10.
I'he ancient worlu ol the
Greeks lasted about for hund
red years, then laspsed into
silence, never to regain its
former glory.
Ttie Babylonians, Hittites,
Phoenicians, Persians, Ro
mans and Philistines, all had
their hour of greatness and
then sank into silence or total
darkness.
But the Hebrews appear to
possess the same vitality to
day that they had in the days
of their prophets, the same
vigor that they exhibited even
during the period of captivity
in Babylon; and the Day of
Atonement, which Jews every
where in the world also ob
serve may be one of the rea
son for a vigor that has never
diminished.
The idea of the Day of A
tonement, which has played
an important role in Judaism’s
daughter religions. Christi
anity and Islam, established
the concept of a reconciliation
with God as the result of sin
cere repentance and the puri
fication of mankind. The oby ct
lesson was carefully worded.
‘ If one says ‘I will sin, and
the Day of Atonement will
bring me forgiveness,' the Day
of Atonement will bring him
no forgiveness... for the sin«
Other Editors Say ...
COMMISSION' ON CAMPUS
UNREST
The Commission on Cam
pus Unrest headed by former
Pennsylvania Governor
Scranton hopefully will up
set the usual procedure of
governmental commissions.
Reportedly, the Campus Un
rest Commission’s documen
tary report, although submit
ted and reported to the gen
eral public Saturday, hashes
sent back for re is ion. The
reason is that it does not
follow the pattern of writing
a report and then forgetting
it. Hut the Scranton Corn mis
sion seems determined to
make several of its many
points most clear, in spite of
a foot-dragging administra
tion.
The report contradicts
President Nixon’s own posi
tion that the trouble on cam
pus is the fault of the univer
sities, government for all the
woes of the universities is to
seek an excuse. More recent
ly, the President said in iris
speed at Kansas St at- Uni
versity, ‘•if the war were end
ed today, if the environment
were cleaned up tomorrow
morning and all the othoi
problems for which, the gov
ernment had the responsibili
ty were solved tomorrow af
ternoon. . .the moral and spir
itual crisis iu the universities
would still exist.”
Reportedly, this is not the
conclusion of the Scran on
Commission. On the con
trary, the report says that
there is a clean correlation
between Vice President Spiro
T. Agnew’s vitroiic speeches
and tensions on campus. Ac
cording to the Scranton re
port, the “threshold of viol
ence” is lowered in the wake
of Agnew’s tirades. In short,
the Vice President virtually e
verytime he speaks about
campus unrest prompts even
more violence.
According to one member
of the Scranton Commission,
Attorney Terry Baker of
Portland, Oregon, says: “The
problem on the campus trans
cends the campus, it involves
foreign policy, poverty, rac
ism and the other social is
sues of the day.”
Revius Ortique of New Or
leans, another member of the
commission, stated recently
that the violence at Kent State
and Jackson State College
showed that the National Guard
is ill-equipped to handle civil
disorders. . , .We can’t treat
United States citizens in tin
same manner we treat the
enemy.”
Comments like this have
prompted criticism from
some Republicans and con
servatives. For example,
senator Gordon Allot (R,
Color.) has charged the com
mission as being “flamboy
ant, inflammatory, prejudiced
and irresponsible.”
In spite of this, the com
mission stuck to its guns and
called upon Prudent Nixon
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of men against God, the Day
of Atonement atones; but for
sins against man’s neighbor,
it does so only after one has
first been reconciled to him,”
Thus, the idea of an atone
ment, unknown to the great
civilizations of Greece, Rome,,
and countless others, may
very well have been the a
gency for the religious and
moral regeneration that has
resulted in an unbroken tie
with history for four thousand
years.
It is furthermore a day of
prayer. Prayer Is a religious
ritual which confers the man
tle of human dignity upon men.
The foundation of the Jewish
religion rests upon the as
sumption that each single hu
man is supremely Important.
The Jew are not unique
in having a day set aside for
prayer. Indeed every major
religion has such a day.
Moslems make a pilgrimage
to Mecca, Christians have
Go o d Friday. East er, and
Christmas.
When students came up to
Carl Sandburg after a lecture
and asked him how to become
a writer, he always answer
ed, “All you need is a bit
of solitude and a bit of pray
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Travel is man’s best ave
nue to God. It is his best
avenue because it teaches each
man he has a personal rela
tionship with his creator.
to take the first steps in pre
venting future campus viol
ence: “It is imperative that
the President bring us to
g :ther before more lives are
lost and more property de
stroyed and more universi
ties disrupted.”
Furthermore, the commis
sion stated that, “only the
President can offer the com
passionate, reconciling, mor
il leadership that can bring
the country together again.
Only the President has the
platform and tne prestige to
urge ail Americans at once
to step back from the battle
lines into which the; are
forming.
Only the President by ex
ample and by instruction, can
effectively calm the rhetoric
of both public officers and
protesters whose words in the
past too often help further
divide the country, lather than
mile it.”
President Nixon, in spite of
rumors :o the contrary, re
ceived t! e commission report
Saturday tiefore taking off on
an overseas trip. Although
President Nixon will hardly
have a chance to read and study
t ■ report before his : (Turn
in; to American shores, it is
to ! . hoped that he will not
respond lit the manner which
former President Lyndon B.
Johnson Aid upon receipt ofttie
Civil I is< li rs ■ eport.
(on f jsion is to
be congratulated lor not only
rendering a most thorough
report, but for having the
courage of their convictions
and it will riot be the com
mission’s fault if nothing
comes of its splendid report
for the reward for all gov
ernment commissions is
usually to do nothing about
'heir findings. The LOUIS
VILt E DEFENDER.
DESFGRECATION: FINAL
Ore:: t' an the tread of
mighty armies is an idea
whose hour has come,” wrote
French novelist Victor Hugo.
The late Sen. Everett Dirk
sen quoted this line in support
of strong civil-rights legisla
tion in Congress. Now per
haps desegregation of the pub
lic schools in the American
South, long years after the
Supreme Court's historic 1954
anti-segregation decision
falls somewhat within the
same definition.
Ttie very first day of
finally desegregated school
ing in the South passed fair
ly peacefully. Perhaps 280,-
000 black children went to
school with white classmates
u sno districts. But serious
issues remain unresolved, and
they group under two head
ings. One, whether the Su
preme Court, in ruling that
legal segregation of the races
in the schools was unlawful,
meant also that this required
full ingetration of the races.
Two, whether extensive bus
sing and oilier measures
Should be employed to in
tegrate pupils where the seg
regation is de facto (due to
residential patterns) rather
than de jure (enforced by law).
Fortunately the Supreme
Court, at long last, will rule
on these critical issues --
dealing with desegregation
cases as its first order of
business when the new term o
pens October 2, Among the is
sues reaching the Supreme
Court on six appeals from
Alabama, North Carolina and
George are: To what extent
does the Constitution require
bussing and other measures
to achieve a racial balance?
Must all-black schools be
eliminated? And what weight
should he given to present
state or federal statues which
forbid zoining, school paring
and enforced bussing? - The
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONI
TOR.
The Racists know what ho moans ... But the Blacks do, too**
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
It has become axiomatic : respond to a
social or economic problem -a if':. ti.e passage
of a new law. Vert s. I,'c * s the niestion
ever raised of whet) ev n; w lav t in reality,
the best possible solution u git uproblem.
Businessmen, cducuoi:, ; ' ' "• d ap
parently most people have becor • . . undition
ed to the invincibility of government action
that it never occurs to i! • to look for alter
natives. Although l vo al complain ;U v, m big
government, and profess adherence to such
things as personal liberty flee enter
prise. we are quick to < promise our prin
ciples when expedient', dictates.
Few have the temerit y to go dov n the lino in
criticism of the sacred cows of bm vern
menl that today are accepi •>’ facts of vmerican
life. (in<i of these i nd < itics
is Yale Rr<> or, Pn.n mm f Bur; •»s Eco
nomic, Graduate School of Business, Universi
ty of Chicago, professor TV, in an .Ad
dress entitled “The Subtii Suicide of Tree
Enterprise,” starts off ;*!. t e conn ent;
“Free enter;.’ ise in this remit: y is •• • - qu i i ter
dead and one-quarter st i.. b-r, Ji i only naif
alive. We are tin in: etitm.- of: p: ’dtradi-
I ion of peaceful. • i\> ;. .; ,i ■at n -
volution tl mug! f ■ • i;e i- . ' ••••• are
seeing about u.- .me cl; . rs; nslve
rigidity (hat i fiee.Mt , i, u a e:,,ld of
stagnation. . .The peaceful, c user••<• Re, con
tinuing revo ’ition th.v v. ■ the i'n trk of
America's p . i crcatii; s.. of
America today is . ;
garded as analtm o. M >. • yoiir.g
mouth Marxist and Maoist slogans because
they are tor -,g . rant b 1 . .• poison
vhic! is sickenit; < • “
Professoi Brr i.•, or ’ condemn the
assumption t 1 a‘ t> only espouse to .‘very
problem, is ;b • pass : i law. A says,
“Our national maloise is* m.. some
one secs a problem, we tun.', that passinnr a
law will cure that problem... Toss a law
the year round Instead of t ■ after
three or four months as t used to d 0...
Pass a law. It’s boronm Renal '.Train.
Perhaps we ought to fitit u aisic.”
Professor Bron • a t <»nui ss
should begin repealing lav, v . i passing
new ones and that of th- u: ; lv.s that
should be passed - ■ .'a , sional
sessions to a max';.. ' s each
year. Beginning v,i la ; <■ 1 e g .es
on to form the Post ' Tic. I voi i amove
its monopoly stasis by if.; , : ■, L ~t r, r .
prise to go into com pet it im; v tth i ,
On poverty, he says; ... pas: d m Eco-
KAYS OF HOPE
PRESERVATION LI V.v k
In most parts of tbo country, tie- • vincipal
emphasis ts on rostering the environ.:,ent.
However, in a number of areas, particularly
certain parts of the western United States, the
emphasis is on preserving the environment as
it exists today. And. in the state of Montana,
noted for Us unspoiled scenery, an investor
owned electric company is widely rc cognized
as one of the most progressive environmental
preservation leaders in the nation.
This company has good reason to put en
vironmental considerations high on’its list of
priorities. As a recent advertisement of the
company stales: ", . .We Serve ‘The l and Be
tween the Parks. ’ ” Its customers range from
Yellowstone--the nation’s oldest National
Park —north to Glacier National Parkand sur
rounding areas. The president of the company
has said, "We are convinced that, in every part
of the Nation, it is desirahh to produce as
much electricity as can be as i by people and
industry because in alrr< ?ve:y instance
where you use electricity to replace other
forms of energy, .mu ir. ‘ liy r>-tree air
pollution. . .So we (» . tgod in producing
a commodity that is essential to the protec
tion of our environment.’
The utility executive .vide i tt.it bis com
pany is dedicated to as.surU •: its customers
and the public that econon in di vlopment anti
environmental punning are not incompatible;
in fact, theii coordinator is “.ssential. Speak
ing from i:is experience in a region where
preserving, rather than restoring, the en
vironment is a prime concern, this utility
company president should knov. what lie is
talking about,
LOGICA - CULMINATION
A shocking new hi d; is abuse of' U. S. in
stitutions was reached when a superioi court
judge was murdered i . San Rafael, Cali
fornia, with weapons that later turned up as
belonging to a former communist college
professor at u. C, !., A. in California. The
atrocity in San Rafael may be no •more than
the logical culmination of the type of "in
te’lectualism’’ that has found sand wary in
more than one institution big er learning.
The featured speak, r at a rec-nt Social
ist Scholars Conference, ,n d reportedly a
member of the professorial cm rnunity, quot
ed with approval the following statement of a
conirnunist revolutionary writ.- , . .Be. 1
nomic Opportunity law <n 1964 to launch a war
on poverty.. We could oo more to ,aise me
Incomes of the poor bv repealing laws then
lias been done or will ever ue done oy this
law. Minimum wage laws create pov
erty by forcing people into unemployment.
Agricultural nrice support programs make
people poor by laising the price of food and by
decreasing job opportunities through the pro
duction restrictions imposed to maintain high
agricultural prices. ..Union supporting legisla
tion causes poverty to restrict the entrance
of the poor into higher paying job. . .”
Professor Brozen’s views are refreshing
to say the least, and final comment on to
la ’s trend toward automatic acceptance of a
government solution to every problem points <
to virtually aforegone conclusion: “Free
enterprise will continue to die by the salami
technique--slice by slice. . .”
So much has been said of the need to
protect consumers from the chicanery of
manufacturers and retailers--in fact prac
tically all business--that many people have
lost sight of the elementary principles of
t e competitive, free market system that of
fv-r built-in consumer protection of the high
est order.
The house organ of a major chain retail
ing organization describes how the produce
it sells to its customers are put through
rigorous testing procedures at its central
office. Its Merchandise Testing and Quality
Control Center, occupying two floors of a
Nev York skyscraper, performs over 100,000
individual tests each year. No government
testing bureau cold lie more thorough. Ev
eiything from wearing apparel and house
hold appliances to toys ana tv sets are test
mi for quality, safety and performance. There’s
one marked distinction between the consumer
protection efforts of a retailer such as this
and a Washington agency. The retailer’s repu- 1
tat ion and the life of his business depend on
how well he satisfies his customers. In other *•
words, the retailor has a selfish interest--
to stay in business—that impels him to make
quality control a personal concern. A gov
ernment agency, by its nature, has no such
interest.
This is the strongest recommendation for
the self-policing methods of the free market.
The merchandise testing and quality control
of this one major retailer is an illustration
of how the system works. It is unfortunate
that rro»-e consumers cannot see it firsthand.
cause one has a gun and some bullets doesn’t
mean to go out and shoot a cop. Cops, guns
and bullets are not in short supply. They’ll
be there whenever one is ready. Prior to that,
howevei, one needs to build himself a base,
so that when he proceeds to shoot that cop,
tie has minimized as much as possible the
dangers of losing his own life. . .”
Ordinary citizens cannot be expected to
comprehend such dreadful thinking, but it may
have resembled the thought processes that were
going through the neads or those wno murder
ed a judge in San Rafael, California, while he
was carrying out the duties of his office. *
PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY '
During the past year, the U. S. petroleum
industry has been subjected to an unpre
cedented wave of misinformed criticism and
political attack. In the long run, the public may
be the victim of these attacks, if the pro
ductiveness of the petroleum Industry is under
mined. But, it is the oilmen who have borne
the short-range impact of criticism and who
must provide the answers the public needs
on such things as mineral depletion, import
controls, conservation practices, product
prices and taxation.
A publication of a major oil company con
tains an article, entitled "We’re Speaking Up
For Oil,” which shows just how the oil industry
is taking its case to the public. It Is an Inter
esting chronicle of how, In the U. S. free en
terprise system, even the most vital of In
dustries must constantly strive to keep the
public informed of its operations. The oil com
pany publication describes how senior oil com
pany executives visit with representatives of
press, radio and TV, in addition to taking
their story to other businessmen and com
munity leaders. During the past year, spokes
men for the oil industry have sought to coun
teract misinformation with facts, and they are
making progress. Then publication says, "Our
speakers are finding a fairly high interest —,
level among their audiences on almost all of V
the issues.”
No Industry in the private enterprise eco
nomy Is beyond the reach of public opinion.
This is the principal virtue of the American
economic system. But, it is a virtue that au
tomatically places a heavy burden of responsi
bility on the public to give intelligent consid
eration to the work-a-day problems of an In
dustry such as petroleum.