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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY. JANUARY 9, 1971 Bible Thought Os The Week The basic teaching of Jesus is compassion. It is not, however, the sentimental condoning of wrongdoing which passes for sympathy. Rather it is tolerance, based upon understand ing. Many have sought to Know wherein lav Jesus’ unfailing capacity to draw men to Him and to heal Editorial Viewpoint Fishing Boat Captain Kind To Pelicans Agencies are expected to be kind to animals and birds if they are the Humane Society. But what can we say about an individual who gives sick and hurt animals a hand? Last week, the front photos from the AP showed a man who repaired pelican injuries during his leisure time on a fishing boat. This man is Captain Mathew Poggie and the photos showed him helping a pelican with a line tangle i around its legs, and another one with a rusty hook in its pouch on a Miami dock. Captain Mat, 58, a charter boat mate, has been doctoring pelicans in his spare time for 20 years. These sea birds must think a lot of him; and if they could talk they might say, “Thank you!” Two pelicans-Stumpy and Pete are flying testimonials to the skill of Captain Mathew Poggie, a char ter-boat mate who helps relieve the suffering ot pelicans injured by fishermen’s lines and hooks. Stumpy is a pelican who doesn’t have any feet. Captain Mat had to amputate the bird’s big webbed toes when gangrene set in after Stumpy got tangled in a fishing line. Pelican Pete has a baggy bill, evidence of Captain Mat’s handiwork with a needle and sutures. As first mate of the charter boat “Alba tross,” be is friend and healer to iSegroes Question The Nixon Record At the turn of the new year, there comes a time for reassessment and evaluation as to what are the best Qr worse news stories of the year, and what the federal govern ment has or hits not done. Our summary of the administra tion of President Nixon, after two years, can be abstracted as follows, according to ten newspapers select ed at random around the country. These summaries are also based in part upon what Mr. Nixon said him self. 1. Domestic Accomplishments-in cludes substantia] desegregation of schools, a major environmental program and progress in the fight against crime. Inflation has been brought under control. It is doubt ful that the current administration really thinks inflation is under con trol. Money is tight; and, if you don’t believe it, try to borrow S2OO from a black man living in the ghetto, 2. Our Foreign Policy—so thinks the GOP —needs praise. It is proud of the ramifications of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, the launch ing negotiations with Soviet Russia on limiting strategic weapons and the renunciation of biological war fare. The administration feels the new Aecident Toll Drops But Could Be Better Each year, especially July 4th, Thanksgiving, and the Christmas weekends are times when we ex pect large numbers of deaths and accidents. However, it appears that 1970 will go down on the record as having fewter accidents on the highways as well as deaths from them. The statistics indicate an actual decrease in deaths, injuries and economic loss in 1970. We should not lie jubilant over the slight decrease, because there is still no reason for the number we have each year. Every automo bile driver should do his part to keep these figures down to a mini m um. Economic losses, resulting from highway accidents, injuries and deaths will be reduced more than a half billion dollars from the 1969 total. There are, of course, a num- measure from Kls utter lack of censorious ness. None but the Pharisees and the Sadducces were afraid of Him, and they only because of their hypocrisy. Those people in need, no matter what they had done, came to Him free ly and gladly. a large numlier of the pelican popu lation. Unthinking fishermen “reel the pelican in and tear the hook out of his pouch.” The captain tender ly cares for the webfooted crea tures who line up at his pier, the Crandon Park Marina. When the captain reels in the injured birds, he is careful about the pelican legs that can kick like a mule. The pelicans somehow know who can help them with their injuries, 'because they line up at Captain Mat’s pier. Many of the creatures starve each day, tie cause fishing lines get wrapped around their beaks. A man who likes children, ani mals and birds has a heart of gold. Pelicans do respond to kind treatment when they are injured. It is regrettable that in the urge to make a lot of money so many fishermen tear the bird pouches t:o free the fishing hooks. Just a bit more care in removing hooks would save the birds from injury. It takes just a little more time to be kind. May the Almighty bless this kind and friendly first mate who holds these birds dear and worthy of treatment for their injuries. approaches toward Japan. Eastern Europe, Red China and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are worthy of continuing on a long range basis. However, blacks want to know why the administration is purposely quiet on the Paris peace negotiations? It is understandable that Congress rejected some of the Nixon’s pro posals. On the other hand, Nixon has acted properly in vetoing some of the Programs approved by Con gress. His efforts to keep Congress from spending, far in excess of its income is very commendable, al though not entirely successful. The Nixon administration has done well during the first two years, ac cording to the nation’s advisers. It has made its share of mistakes, but the accomplishments are consider able, according to those in the know. We hope the next two years will be much better, particularly when it comes to dealing with inflation and the economy. Negro leaders would like for the President to deal in specifics, such as the rise in employment of blacks, better housing for the poor, better health care of the underprivileged, and improvement in communication among the various racial elements of our population. ber of other factors responsible for this change. Tougher safety standards for motor vehicles, auto inspections, stricter traffic law enforcement and safety campaigns may have a part in it. Possibly, we should give some credit to better highways. The real credit goes to the driv er behind the wheel, because he is the one who has almost absolute control over the number of ac cidents. He should be encouraged to keep up his vigilance in main taining control over his vehilce. It seems that drivers go crazy on holiday weekends, and theirpati ence is small ruffled. They want to get where they are going in too big a hurry. We have seen a line of twenty automobiles tailgating ten or fifteen feet apart. There is no way to keep from hitting the car in front, should an emergency develop in the twinkling of an eye. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN FUNDING THE MILDLE AGED One of the priorities on President Richard Nixon’s agenda is the desperate need to make an appointment of someone he will not have to fire and who probably won't quit. What he needs there fore is someone who will pro voke immediate sympathy for the Job at hand and who, in himself, is the practical reali zation of what the Adminis tration seeks for others. This is not a hard assign ment and I am willing to pass it on to our Republican Presi dent on the simple condition that he promise to send Spiro Agnew to North Carolina in 1972 so the Democrats can count those electoral votes. Any reporter worth his salt can find a dentist who will complain, "By what vir tue does an 18 year-old dump kin tell a sensitive 40-year old man he should spend the next 25 years filling teeth?" You can find an advertising man anxious to throw over some lucrative drug accounts to get into the local school sys tem. And you can find some over-age-in-grade movie stars who think politics is the answer to their declining years. For this I recommend you he a Republican and live in California. Men who reach middle-age always want a fresh start un less they are one of those models in the Chase Manhat tan Bank ad with a golden chain around a colossal egg bragging about their $802,304.76 they worked hard to make. Mr. Nixon needs a federal agency ready to deal with the intemperate middle-aged who want to go out and do new things. Other Editors Say ... bull in the china closet This expression in another day was a retort to repair to when one wanted to express the utter folly of placing a person wholly unfit to do a job within a situation for which he was not only not qualified to operate but was so grossly inadequate for the task that even his at tempts resulted in disaster. The more we look at this nation’s effort to bring about integration in the school sys tems of America, the more it seems to us that the ex pression, "The bull in the china closet” describes most aptly our effort within this democracy in a republic. This is tragically so be cause most of the mental e quipment wherewith we are trying to make these adjust ment based on assumptions, principles, attitudes and in stitutions are born of out-of date heritage. We are trying to solve new world problems with old world formulas, and these simply will not lit this new world which Is striving to emerge. We are trying to saddle a world bent on freedom withe quality with an old world free dom, which advocates free dom, but only on condition that men fit into the system proscribed - freedom not to differ from the system but to agree wit I, it. This new world recognizes this kind of freedom for what it is. It perceives that free dom to act only on direction is bondage regardless of the high sounding labels attached to it. This new world Is bidding for and insisting upon a sys tem in which all people must not only'* benefit from, but in which all people must have a share in bringing it in. Too many white people by their very participation in the business of integration in the field of education (their eood intentions notwithstanding like the "bull in the china clo set’ are creating havoc, and literally destroying the fragile lives they touch, because they are of the sort that are will ing to work for people of an other ethnic group, but nok with them, willing to be pati ent, but not fraternal. H, G. Wells says that "our society is a race between education and catastrophe.” If this is true we have cause to be fearful, for as of now, with the help we get in ed ■rar caroljnian “Covering Tue Carolinas” Published by The Carolinian Publishing Company 5)8 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address P. O. Box 25747 Raleigh, N. C. 27611 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh. N. C. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months „ „ ¥4 00 Sales Tax .12 TOTAL. 4.12 One Tear 6.50 Sales Tax .20 TOTAL 6.70 Payable in advance. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., SIC Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y, 10017, National. Advertising Representative. Member of the United Press International Photo Service. The Publisher Is not responsi ble for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by col umnists In this newspaper do not 'necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. Who better an appointee dis covered. this profit-sharing plan will amount to SI,OOO a year when he is 65? I understand this motive. Two million men will shave to morrow' morning and suddenly stare intently at themselves. The realization will literally curl their wet bears on their cheeks. Some of them have long since given up the pro spect of becoming President of the United States. Tomor row morning at least 1,999- 999 will also give up the pro spects of becoming President of the corporation and anoth er 1,500,000 will even put a side the notion of becoming sales manager. They are ripe and ready for advance. Who better to give that advice than some one who has had this reali zation forced upon him from above? 1 myself have twice chang ed my profession, once when a federal judge told me to and again when 1 was a hotel keeper in a haunted house during the Depression. A 40-year-old man needs the federal government. When he realizes the track record of the rat race, he is young enough to be disappointed at the betrayal of the system and not old enough to lie philoso phical. I think there is a lot of merit in the plan. We need a federal agency to regulate the traffic of men crossing over from one profession to another. I even suspect Rich ard Nixon himself harbors some hope of a change in his own life. When his term or terms are over in the White House 1 bet he will become a sports fan. ucation, it looks like we’re on the losing end. As of now, there is little apparent in the existing education in our schools that elves any assur ance that education as we have it, has the content to salvage our civilization. "Like "bulls in a china closet” we are changing a round behind a herd of socials analysts who think that ed ucation will provide compet ing impulses that will prompt a whole generation conscious ly to embark on the noble enterprise of social redemp tion through scientific human ism and the crash of this charge is being heard around the world. We need people in the van guard of this effort to educate who see the need for every person to become fully fur nished with knowledge - and acceptance, people who sub scribe to without reservation the verity, that cooperation is the very law of life in this new world. Until we come to make this our major emphasis yve are contributors to a grow ing chaos. HELP FOR TALHLEQUAN 7 In the first part of January 1971, the hearings and the trial of those we choose here, to refer as the Tahlequah Seven, will be held at Northeastern State College and In the trial court of the tou'n of Tahle quah. Charged with a misdemea nor, the penalty assessed was arrest and suspension from the Northeastern College until 1972. Most of these students were freshmen, not more than two were upper classmen. Their alleged offense was dropping trays with lunch dishes on them in the cafeteria. Attorney Jim Goodwin has taken the case and the c< t cerned around the state are supporting this effort. There is no desire here to condone the destruction of school prop erty, nor to take issue with the school’s right to dis cipline. The cause here is to make sure that justice is done, that these young people have their day in court and the con stitutional right of'due process and to bring to light what the public would never see if these young people were denied the right to be heard. We hear much these days about the generation gap, the alienation which exists be tween young people and their elders. It ma\ be so, but if there Is a "gap’” if there is alienation, it is there because’ our adult lives have been a part from our children’s world. We have been so busy engineering a society of gad gets that we have left off build ing companionship with those who have come from our loins. We have never been "with it” when the young people bad ly needed us, not at home, nor church, nor school, nor In their societal circles. Here is a good place to be gin, with the Tahlequah Seven. We can stand with them in the hour of their trial. We can insist on justice being render ed and refuse to accept a school’s scapegoat decision, in this case and all other cases where racial phobia Is the dominant spirit. OKLAHOMA EAGLE, Must have better coordination by Blacks! tON- . 1970 WASNT A 0000 > OAR FOR US. IT'S UP TO YOU TO 1 If. Ml 1.. 1 ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Reporting the news is not the simple business a lot of people have thought--gathering facts and disseminating them through press, radio and TV. As virtually everyone knows who comes in contact” with the news in any form, there is less and less pretense of objectivity. News and opinion have become blurred in a single package that extends from the front page to the editorial page. In fart, it is doubltful if there ever was a time when the ideal of ob jectivity dominated the news. At one time, controversy raged around the "one partvpress’ issue. Newspapers and radio were charged with being Republican in their politics. Today it appears the reverse is true. Mr. Richard Harwood, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, discusses some current questions concerning the news media in a lengthy Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service feature. He raises points that go to the root of a free press--points that illus trate the heavy responsibilitr t at rests on the shoulders of those who gathei and report the news. Mr. Harwood calis attention to the findings of Gallup and Harris polls which indicate public disenchantment with "the media ’. He quotes Mr. George Gallup as o! serving, ‘ Never in my time lias journalism of ali types--book publish ing, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies--been held in such low esteem.” One poll has even indicated that 55 percent of the people believe that the media should not have the right to report any stor\ if the government feels it harmful to our national interest. It is difficult to accept the idea that the public would actually prefer censorship, as this in dicates, to a free press. Further, Mr. Har wood observes, "Fewer than 1,500 companies own all the daily newspapers ; n the United States; three companies own the great tele DISASTER PROOF Safety precautions nuclear power plants are reaching a no risk level that really strains the imagination to comprehend. Nuclear plants are expected to survive nearly every calamit ous contingency except the disintegration of the planet. A United Press International dispatch concerning a proposed nuclear plant on the Columbia river in the Pacific Northwest de scribes some of the fantastic considerations that have been included in a safety evalua tion report of the project by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. For example, the plant will he able io with stand earthquakes of an intensity that would leave metropolitan areas of the region in a shambles. The plant site is located at a height to offer protection against even the most disastrous floods. The UPI dispatch mentions that even if Grand Coulee Dam were to hurst, the torrent of water could not reach the proposed new nuclear plant. If Mount St. Helens--3f> miles away--erupted, the vol canic iava flows and ash falls would not af fect operation of the plant. Provisions have even been made for protecting the v/ater in take structure on the river from possible ramming by ships. All over the country, similar protective measures are taking place. The nuclear plant of a large power com pany on the eastern seaboard became the subject of discussion about whether propei precautions had been taken against crashes of missiles and airplanes. The Atomic Energy Commission indicated that the chance of dam age from this direction is less than one in 10 million. There Is little question but what nuclear power plants will prove to be one of the safest of all human undertakings. "THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS” Probably a million times a day, consum ers ali over the nation when they make a purchase hear the friendly query, "Do I 'you save stamps?”. The expression is heard so frequently that it is almost a symbol of the American merchandising system arid the free market. Not one person in thousands ever pauses to consider the full implication of the simple gesture of a merchant handing a customer a shear of trading stamps. It is the mer chants way of saying "thank you for your business.” It is also part of the process by which a merchant attracts new business and builds up sales volume. It is a reminder that promotion and advertising are the breath of life to mass distribution as we know it to day. They make the free market a working reality. And just what is the free market? The term is heard all the time, but how does it apply to the individual consumer. The most obvious illustration can be seen in the person who walks into a store, decides he does not like the treatment he is getting from a rude RAYSOFHOPE vision and radio networks. Fewer than 150,- 000--barely one tenth of one percent of the 'abor force--report and edit the ‘news’. . .” So far as the public goes, the news is pretty much what these people tell ns It is, and most of it is a product, of what Mr. Har wood calls politicized young reporters ". . . with the mission of redefining the role of the media in American life, the mission of mak ing the media more ‘relevant’ to their pri vate visions of reality.” Their style of ‘‘re- 1 porting” could be one reason for the current public attitude toward the press. Mr. Har wood calls it a decline of discipline and hu mility which may be an outgrowth of the eco non ic security of the strongest elements of the news industrv --a security that has led to an ". . .arrogance of power,* the illusion of omniscience,'' It could also be that pub lic dissatification v,ith the per formance of the "media” may lead to what Mr. Harwood calls, ". . .a new period of introspection/ self analysis and. . .candor. . .in the news in dustry.” In the course of his penetrating analysis of the press, radio and TV, Mr. Harwood’s attention was devoted wholly to problems of what, for lack of a better name, can be call ed the big city media. There is another area of the press that should not be lost sight of-- the thousands of smaller newspapers and in dependent radio stations that owe no allegi ence to any new and pervasive style of the news reporting. In these thousands of papers and radio stations lie a major strength of the free press. Many millions ofpeopleare reach ed by this segment of the so-called media. And, in this area lies the influence of the grassroots. Its power is often underesti mated--perhaps never more so than at the present time. sales clerk, and walks back out aga in and goes across the stree to the store’s competitor. This is the way the free market works. You w on’t find such a market in Russia or any other country where free choice is absent, where con sumers take what a benevolent state offers them with no questions asked and where there is no such thing as a consumerism movement. Con sumerism is one of the tilings that goes with free choice in a free market. THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW Largely unknown to the general public, which seldom has an opportunity to read anything except scare stories, much is being done to monitor the impact of industrial and agricul tural operations on the environment. For ex ample, farmers ranchers, the pesticide in dustry and the government are cooperating, as never before, in programs to keep tabs on pes ticide residues and to educate everyone in the proper uses os these chemicals that have helped make it possible for one farmer to feed himself and nearly 50 others. In 1964, Agricultural Research Service, a branch of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, began measuring for traces of pesticides in soil at selected locations In Mississippi and Arkansas. There are approximately 13,300 such monitoring sites scattered about the United States. Special emphasis is placed on areas or crops suspected as trouble spots. Soil and water samples are sent to a government laboratory at Gulfport, Mississippi. Simples of crops are also analyzed for pesticide content. Unquestionably/ as time gops on, the im portance of this kina of "monitoring” of the agricultural lands of the nation will grow in importance. Equally Important, the public should know of the protective measures that have been developed and will be develbped as guides in achieving the high agricultural techn ology on which we all depend for an abundant supply of food and fiber. The idea--widely pro moted in the name of "saving” the environ ment--that the use of such things as pesticide chemicals should be abandoned forthwith is worse than sheer folly. It could quickly tip the scales from abundance to scaraotty--and even famine. UNANSWERED QUESTIUN The latest score on the Social Security, inflation, taxation merry -go-round, as ref ported in U. S. News & World Report. shows the following: Effective January 1, Soclai Se curity "will be sweetened again’’--probably by about seven and one half percent. It Is said that minimum pensions may be raised to as high as SIOO a month; all of which sounds fine. On the debit side of the ledger, howeyer, the Increase will mean something like this, The average employee earning $9,000 will pay $468 a year in Social Security tax in 1971, compared with $374 now. By 1980, his eon trlHition will go up to $585.
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