TKE CAROLINIAN
RALETGH N. C.. SATURDAY. JUT.V 1971
4
jerus had that courage, and no man t , er need
ed it more. In the last year of His public life,
the forces of opposition took on a form and
coherency whose significance was perfectly
clear. If He refused to retreat or compromise,
there could be but one end to His career »
leath. He knew His enemies would kill Him
’ine 1954 Supreme Court deci
sion declared segregation in the
public schools was unconstitutional.
Blacks hailed the ruling as the root
out of dry ground and the answer
to inferior schools. Southern lead
ers resisted implementation with all
the force they couiu command. Kven
today our schools are not fully in
tegicuea, or oeiusi sun, desegrega
ted.
We knew the fight against schoo
integration would be rugged, but we
could not imagine it would take this
long - almost 20 years.
As uic legal pressure increased to
implement desegregation, the well
to-do and middle-class white par
ents began sending their children
to private schools. This is appar
ently done to prevent busing of the
children.
Another factor which we often
overlook is the matter of the Su
preme Court ruling on prayers in the
public schools. This was another
reason that many parents sent their
children to private schools. When the
public schools failed to implement al
lowable legal program of religious
and moral instruction after formal
prayer, the private schools included
moral instruction.
The big boom in the rise of pri
vate schools came when the Supreme
Court said “integrate now.’ 5 after
the iooi-oragging oi many state
school systems. While exact statis
tics are not available, the Southern
Regional Council estimates that 5 per
cent of all the children in the South
attended private schools last year.
This amounts to nearly 10 per cent
of the white children, or about
500,000 pupils.
The Southern states, in particu-
The Nation Needs A New Moral Tone
A Washington Post release indi
cated that Mississippi black voter
registration is being blocked. In're
cent months, we are told that white
politicians have been at work sys
tematically violating federal law to
disfranchise the state’s black vot
ers.
“Using a little violence and a lot
of guile, they may well succeed in
nullifying much of the arduous ef
fort of the past five years to reg
ister Mississippi Negroes.
“The Justice Department has been
amply notified of what’s going on,
particularly of the open flouting of
the Voting Rights Acts of 1965,
which it has explicit obligations to
enforce ’’
The current strategy of Mississip
pi is focused at the county level
which has not yet been challenged
in the courts. To stop the Missis
sippi politicians at the county level
means 82 separate law-suits. Ob
viously none of the independent civ
il rights organizations like the N~
AACP has the financial resources
for such battles. The Washington
Post article reported that the Jus
tice Department is sitting idly by
doing nothing.
Another thing comes to mind is
our national medical plans. The one
fault of them all is that they are too
cheap. Politicians are always try
ing to save money which often is
“penny-wise and pound foolish.’’
Note the present epidemic of a
disease that is killing horses, and
most recently one child. We learn
that our‘he a Ith officials were inform -
ed months ago of this threat as the
disease started from South Ameri
ca, men tnrougn Mexico, anu now m
the United States. Very little preven
tative measures were initiated ap
parently because they would cost too
much.
The television media carried stor-
!•,««« MORE CAROLINIAN
SUMCRIBEIIS WAMTSB NOWS
Bible Thought Os The Week
Editorial Viewpoint
A Recent Look At Our Schools
ami He knew how tne> would kill Him, Jesus
had seen the crucifixion many times. The mem
ory of such sights must have been constantly
with Him; a; every sunset He was conscious
■hat He had walked one day nearer to His own
ordeal. But He kept His calm, poise and self
:ontrol.
lar, are teeling a pinch by tnis
movement of white children to pri
vate schools. They are needed to
bring in extra school-support dol
lars from the States.
What white parents have for
gotten is that black children'were
bused many miles past white schools
to all-black schools for the purpose
of segregation. Many readers will
remember the parents of a black
pupil who sued to enter the Need
ham Broughton High School, since
he was being bused from his neigh
borhood. It was all right when black
pupils were bused to maintain seg
regation in the schools white parents
believed.
In bygone days, many black par
ents made the sacrifice to send their
children to Negroprivate schoolsfot
an education, for in many counties
there ""-is no hifh schools for blacks.
Many black high school graduates
would not have been able to get a
college education had it not been for
such schools as Johnson C. Smith
University, Shaw University, St. Au
gustine’s College, and many more in
stitutions.
One white commentator said re
cently, “Once we brought back moral
and religious instruction and non
busing in the public schools, exo
las to private schools would dwindle,
md soon there would be real moral
renewal in the entire community.’’
Wc hardly agree with him, because
listory has taught us that racial
prejudice has set the so-called moral
tone of our communities far too long.
Far too many people do not prac
tice the Christian religion they pro
fess. In such cases, religious ins
struct inn. whether if ’ n public
or private schools, won’t do much
good.
ies of the truck load of horses ship
ped from Texas to Florida. The
Florida authorities turned the truck
around and sent the horses back to
Texas. It seems to us that the ship
per of those Texas horses was a
ware of the quarantine; but per
haps his desire for money made
him disregard the rules for safety
of other citizens.
Giant industries are polluting our
air and waters while they have the
know-how to remedy these condi
tions. When approached to do some
thing alxmt pollution, the argument
is that it will cost too much to in
augurate anti-pollution procedures.
Man’« thirst for money and orofit
may well be me cause oi nis elim
ination from the face of the earth.
Jesus once admonished men to lay
not up for themselves treasures oi
this earth where thieves connive and
steal, but lay up for themselves
treasures in heaven. Yes, profits
nay be less if we keep quarantine
horses in Texas; profits may be lit
tle if we make industry inaugurate
anti-pollution measures;profits may
be less for black and white apart
ment owners, if they do something
tor the welfare of tne tenants; bank
accounts may be less if you don’t
cheat in the store you operate, but
your soul may be saved, if you
practice Christianity in business.
Most of us live just tor the get
ting, and we live by bread and horses
and land and profit, Think of the
man in the New Testament. After he
had built new barns to store his
bountiful harvest, he said, “My soul
be at ease, for my family has more
than enough to spare. We’ve got it
made, and let other folks look out
for themselves.’’
Selfishness, cheating, conniving
are the factors of present-day com
munity moral tones.
Where do we go from here?
Only In America
BY HA PRY GOLDEN
GOOD ADVERTISEMENTS
The advertising tuogans
which I cannot erase from my
memory are for those pro
ducts I never bought nor does
It seem to me I ever needed.
I do not think there is any
doubt that the greatest ad ev
er written was “Do You Make
This Mistake in English?” It
seems to me it must have
been one of the first ads I
ever read and it seems to me
I re-read it not so long ago.
Look what the ad promised:
It promised there were Pyg
malions who could turn stone
into beautiful Galateas. It
was a myth good enough for
the Greeks and good for Ler
ner and Lowe.
There are still correspon
dence schools, indeed there
ate more than ever before.
But now thy promise to turn
their customers in s o writers
and they entice business by
asking, “Are You the Intro
spective One?” which is an
other way of asking, “Are
You the Dumbbell at the
?arty?”
I remember, too, "Good
Morning. Have you used
Pear’s Soap?” These ads were
pasted above every step on
the staircase that lead to the
New York City Elevated
stops. Millions of working
New Yorkers read that salu
tation before they bought
their paper at the elevated
newsstand.
In the beginning, I under
stand the auto manufactur
ers used to try through the
advertising to instruct the
public on the virtues of the
engine and the technical ex
pertise that produced a car
which for a couple of years
woduced ho-hums from the
potential buyers. Then Pack
ard began advertising, “Ask
the man who owns one.”
There were posters all over
New York City advertising
the services of Painless Park
er, a dentist who specialized
in laughing gas. I went to the
dentist in my youth and mid
dle years as often as they
could yoke wild Caspian
A MM POINT OF VIEW
BY "BILL” MOSES
“PEKIN OR BUST”
Most of us are stilt trying
to digest the astounding news
which hit the firmament on
Thursday, July 15,, 1971. Pres
ident Nixon, in a five minute
statement to the United States
and the world announced that
he would visit Pekin within ten
months at the invitation of
Communist China’s premier,
Chou En-lai. This very, un
usual statement, although it
was being issued jointly in Pe
kin and Los Angeles, was e
nough to give the average
thoughtful person a fitful
night’s sleep - he might even
dream. Well, I had a dream
(a series of thoughts or i
mages passing through the
mind in sleep). Art Buchwald
writes about occasionally i
magined fantasies; so, I guess,
can I. I dreamt I was within
earshot when a conversation
took place between Dr. Kissin
ger and Premier Chou En
lai around July 9-11, 1971.
Premier Chou: Dr. Kissin
ger, I believe. Fancy running
Into you here in Pekin!”
Dr. Kissinger: (Seemingly
not too surprised) “Well, well,
Mr. Chou, himself. I didn’t
expect to run into you, although
I had hoped that I might ac
cidentally bump into one of
your ’emissaries. As a mat
ter of fact I had a bit of
stomach trouble in India -
very, very spicy food, you
know - so I thought I would
drop into Pekin and try your
palatable Chinese food until the
ailment subsided.”
Premier Chou: Very thought
ful of you, Mr. Kissinger, con
sidering the vast quantities of
Chop-Suey Americans eat,
which they say doesn’t upset
their stomachs or stay their
hunger very long either.
Dr.- Kissinger: Thank you
very much, Mr. Chou, (Chi
nese like the term ‘Mr.’ al
most as much as American
blacks - or whites, for that
matter), but seriously, I am
the emissary of a little se
cret message from our presi
dent, which I had hoped to con
vey to you through proper
chanels.
Premier Chou: Pray tell me
what it is, Mr. Kissinger; I
know of your being one of Mr.
Nixon’s most valued ad
visors on Foreign Affairs.
rmz carolinian
“Cevtrtesr The Carolina*"
Published by The carolinlaa
PubJWhtog Company
SIS ®. SSartlß Street
Haieigh. N. C. 27641
WteUift* AdfSres* S*. ©. Bo* tSW
fcaletfh. N. C. 21615
Second CJaas Postage Paid at.
N. C. zm.l
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
Six Months
Sales Tax .16
TOTAL -US
One Year
Sales Tax .ft
TOTAL Ml
Payable la advance. AAdreut
ail commanicatiom and make
all cheeks and money orders
payable to The CAKOUNIAN.
Atttslgamated Publlahers, in*.,
SIS Madison Avenne, New York,
N. T. 19417, National Atfvertisinc
Representative. Member ol the
Baited Press Intenuitoaai Phut*
Service.
The Publisher is not re*ponsj
bie for the return «t aneoltiM
news., picture* or advertising
copy ualeac necemry postage
accompanies the copy.
Opinion* expressed by
umnist* in this newspaper
not necessarily represent the
w»Bicy of this newspaper
mares to crag me. Whothci
Painless Parker delivered or
net, I do not know.
When it comes to the ad
vertising dollars, the tobacco
companies ore rjo slouches, I
cannot, however, remember'
the last ad 1 saw on televis
ion in December of 1970, but
I do remember these:
‘‘Be Nonchalant, Light a Mu- ‘
rad.”
‘l’d Walk a Mile for a Camel.”
“Lucky Strike Green Has
Gone to War.”
I must confess that I re
member Charles Atlas's ad. ‘I
Was a 98-pound Weakling.” I
understand Atlas made & mil
lion dollars on this ad which 1
amazes. I would never for a
moment have believed there
was that much money to be
made from fellows who want
ed to beat up bullies on the
beach.
An ad for surgical appli
ances vii the East Side Is un-i
forgettable: "Your killa Is my
gedilla” your rupture is my
rapture).
The other two deathless ad
vertisements I shall describe
both appeared i nthe pages oil
the Carolina Israelite. Katz’si
Delicatessen on Houston St.|
in New York was the first na
tional advertiser to place an,
ad with the Israelite. Katz’s!
is a famous restaurant world-!
famous for its cold cuts. The
ad read, for every Issue of the
Israelite, 208 in all, “Send a
Salami to Your Boy In the
Army.”
The other ad I wrote my
self. 'Somehow In my travels
I had purchased a gross of
mefczuzahs, the little Jewish
plaque Installed on the door
lintel inside off which Is a
prayer. Wanting to rid myself
of 143 of these, I devoted
a half page to the message,
"No Home Should be With
out a Mezzuzah.”
My friends in Charlotte still
call me the “Mezzuzah King.”
I still have 142 of them, and
will mail them any place in
the world to get them out of
mv attic.
Mr. Kissinger: The slmpie
truth is: President. Nixon is
very anxious to pay a visit to
you in Pekin.
Premier Chou: What you
say? By all means then let him
come.
Dr. Kissinger: - Mr. Chou,
it’s not quite that simple. The
president feels that the invi
tation originating from you
would make him the top
“Peace” candidate in the next
U, S. presidential election, and
thus enhance his chances for
a repeat in that office. And
you must recall there is no one
‘than whom,* when it comes to
Red ComFumists, be they Rus
sian, Chinese or Viet Cong,
than our good president.
Premier Chou: (Reluctantly)
Well, you, Mr. Kissinger, but
the elections are quite some
months away and
Dr. Kissinger: (Interupting)
I agree, Mr. Chou, but you
could set a tentative date as
some time between now and
May, 1972; and you know, Mr.
Chou, most anything can hap
pen in nine or ten months, or
even a month or two. Mr.
Nixon desperately wants to be
“The noblest Roman of them
all” - to use a quote from
Shakespeare - and who ever is
the top “Peace” candidate will
probably win the election.
Premier Chou; You have an
excellent point there, Mr. Kis
singer, and I accept the siiua-
Ton as you have outlined it.
I hope your stomach feels
better on your trip back home,
Goodby.
Well, dreams do come to an
end, don't
Letter To The
Editor
■■tvery good gift, every per
fect gift is from above, it comes
from our Heavenly Father,”
' ‘Unless the Lord build the house
(of peace and brotherhood) they
labor in vain that build it.”
“Change can be accomplished
most of all through prayer, be
cause with God all things are
possible.” --Wilfred Peterson.
Are the clergymen and others
who are concerned and distress
ed by the war in Vietnam and
the discord and ill-will here at
home, convinced of the truth of
the above words?
In vain will be marches and
mass-meetings for peace if we
neglect humble, sincere and
persevering prayer and right
living. In this atmosphere of
secular istic humanism that per
vades modern society, we should
remember that mankind of itself
can never attain peace and con
cord among nations, peoples and
classes. History proves this.
That is why every pulpit in
this land should Join in a mighty
crusade for peace and brother
hood, through prayer, penance
and amendment of life in order
to obtain these blessings for all
peoples,
War and hatred are the re
sult of sin, of widespread vi“
lation and rejection of the Dlvl
Commandments and the Golden
Rule.
In these grave times when
“Permissiveness Is over, said the President to the FBI
■rradnates ~. ?
*WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT *WHAT 00 YOU 00 IN A
THIS?(T HAPPENS ALL THE TINE' CASE LIKE THIfyARPEST
SAIO A HOUSE WIPE. THE WHOLE BLOCK -
.<« / MEAN,"ASKA POLICEMAN.
V
ECONOMIC
For 200 years, the United States nas beeq
a haven to those who sought escape from
such things as secret police, poltical perse
cution and the tyranny of rulers who recog
nie no law but their own. We have been a
fortunate nation. How long we will remain
so is yet to be seen.
This is the subject of an interesting article
by Mr. Patrick Young in The National Ob
server on the invasion of privacy, that in this
computerized age is reaching frightening pro
portions. He lists the many ways in whicl
the lives of millions of individuals are re
corded In the minutest detail in private and
governmental agencies. As was to be expect
ed, the trend toward surveillance has been
speeded by the behavior of dissidents who
have made no bones about seeking to over
throw the government and the establishment
Many innocent victims have been caught h
the net, and it is a far-reaching net indeed
It includes the Army investigations of those
who have participated in protesting the gov
ernment’s racial and Viet Nam policies. It
includes the U. S. Civil Service Commission
files containing the names of a million ana a
half Americans in a "subversive-activities”
file, as vpell as records on 10 million people
who have applied for federal employment in
the past three decades, some with unproven
and damaging slurs gathred from acquain
tances and neighbors.
Then there are the old reliable Internal
Revenue Service records on America’s tax re
turns. These records are not as secret as
many citiens suppose. Reports Mr, Young,
“They are opened to Government investiga
tors, several congressional committees, ancj
some Government officials.” In all, says Mr.
Young, “Federal files contain more than 3
billion records on individual citizens, includ
ing tax and arrest records, psychiatric his
tories, census data, and alcoholism and drug
addiotion information, to name a few.”
Mr. Young shows instances where comput
ers have committed errors and innocent par
ties have suffered for years being bar re c
frofo jobs without knowing why and com
pelled. to live in a shadow of suspicion and
mistrust. The invasion of privacy and the
keeping of records on private citizens, whief
all too often, are inaccurate, has become a
computerised science of a magnitude incom
prehensible to the average person. The slit
of a digit in a machine can change the course
of a person’s life. For example, through a
combination of six numbers of a certain de
nomination a person can be identified as a
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ONLY
No matter how hard they try, socialist gov
ernments can never make all men equal. They
do not understand that while men are created
equal, some are endowed with a greater ability
than others and, instinctively, seek the re
wards of greater ability as nature, no doubt,
intended them to do. All that can be assured
is equal opportunity. Any governmental sys
tem that confuses the meaning of equality
in these matters is destined to end in chaos.
Judging by late reports, this is the condi
tion that is rapidly overtaking Sweden. In
that country according to Barron’s, National
Business and Financial Weekly, the break
down has “ . . showed up clearly in the shat
tering strike called by teachers and o.her
state employees with advanced university de
grees . . . The main point at issue ... was
the government’s campaign for ‘equality',
which means ... a trend toward leveling out
incomes on an after-tax basis.”
As part a1 the leveling out drive, state own
ership of business has been rapidly expanded
with disastrous results. All of these things
are happening in Sweden because of the fail
ure to understand the meaning of equality in
the affairs of government and men.
FAIR COMPARISON NEEDED
Rarely does the America public have a fall
opportunity to judge the comparative merits
of the U. S. medical care system and the
medical systems of other countries ‘‘Private
Practice” contains articles on both British
and Soviet health care. The latter is discuss
ed in a story by Russell B. Roth, M.D.
Dr. Roth, in the course of a tour of the
Soviet Union, studied Soviet medical facili
ties in considerable detail. Most of his find
ings are expressed in a dispassionate and ana -
lytical manner. However, Dr. Roth’s report
on his tour paints a picture of regimentation
and oppression that is anything but inspiring
to the American mind. He notes that the vast
majority of physicians practicing in the U.S.
S.R. “ . . . have been educated In didactic
vocational schools designed, to try to make
of them competent technicians practicing
medicine by the book.” Sotntewhat bitterly.
Dr. Roth observes, “In Russia it is eternally
drummed into the public ear through the pro
paganda machinery of the controlled com
munications media that Russian medicine is
the best in the world, that, it is a patriotic
the human race is involved in
a supremo crisis, we should
President Nixon to »««'>*> a
proclamation similar' toJh&Otte
RAYS OF HOPE
issued by President Lincoln on
March 30, 1863, at the request
of the Senate. Only Divine Inter
vention can prevent a nuclear
HIGHLIGHTS
noncommunist, while a slight varient of the
non >ers indicates that he is a member off
tin Communist Party or is an advocate of
communism..
In this day and age. as Mr. Young observes,
“Few argue that Government has no right
to protect its security, or that employers
have no right to know something of a pro
spective worker’s background, or that busi
nessmen are not entitled to ‘solid Informa
tion before extending credit. What worries
many, however, is the amount of snooping
going on with apparently inadequate guide
lines, and the dangers of inaccurate informa
tion being passed about without an individual
knowing ii exists and without recourse to cor
rect it.” Mov es are now afoot to protect citi
zens from computer snooping. A proposal has
been made for a law that would allow an in
dividual the right to find out what his idles
contain, to challenge their accuracy ana to
correct errors. The new Fair Credit Reporting
Act requires credit agencies to disclose to on
individual whathis file contains, but this law
does not apply to federal agencies.
These are preliminary steps in solving the
growing threat to privacy posed by govern
ment and private record keeping of the de
tails of the life of the individual citizen. The
danger will grow even more unless future
technological develossments In this field* are
offset by safeguards and restraint.
BEATING THE SYSTEM
Many stories have appeared telling of abus
es of the federal government’s food stamp
program. Now one comes to light that equals
or tops the best of thenv—-or the worst. It
also helps to explain how hippies .can thrive
on thin air.
After interviewing one of these freeloaders,
a columnist for the Oakland, California, Tri
bune, writes, “He boasts that for 80 cents
he buys S2B worth of < food) stamps . . . Each
week he uses the stamps to buy exactly $27.51
worth of groceries and gets 49 cents back in
cash as change, the maximum amount off casing
change he can get on a purchase. Then he
adds one penny for the 50 cents to get his
S2B worth of stamps for the next week. The
fourth week of the month he sells his food
stamps to friends for sls cash. Tims in &
month he’s paid out 53 cents for sll2 worth
of stamps, for which he gets $83.83 worth of
food and sl4 47 net profit in cash . . .” It
seems there is always away to beat the sys
tem —particularly the system of a bu-'ge'm
mg welfare state.
dul;.' of the individual to use the available
preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic serv
ices. In our coun'ry the nublic is flooded with
books, periodicals, and wspaper releasee by
columnists and commentators stressing the
inadequacy of our medical care system ... It
would ... be interesting to note In tire un
happy circumstances of becoming ill while
in Russia, hew expeditiously such American
commentators would manage to get back to
the non-system.”
By non-system, Dr. Roth was, of course,
referring to our much abused American medi
cal system which the U. S. public would find
far superior to any other if it could but have
an opportunity o? making a fair comparison.
HOW TO TRIM INSURANCE COSTS
Contrary to popular belief, decisions of car
owners can have much to do with the level
of auto insurance rates. A release from, the
American Mutual Insurance Alliance CotvW
tains motorist tips for holding down rates.
It says, “Every motorist has a hand in. deter
mining how,much he pays for his automobile
Insurance. His performance as a driver, where
and how he uses his car, the kind o? car he
drives, where he lives, the ages of the people
iriving his car, and the insurance coverages
ne buys all have a bearing on his insurance
rates.”
The release offers a number of suggestions
to car owners. It advises them to check with
insurance men before changing cars. Pre
miums are higher for some high performance
cars. Some companies are rating cars for
damagability. Buyers of similarly priced oars
with different repair records could end up
paying collision premiums that differ by as
much as 40 percent a year. Premiums on some
cars are higher, because they are target® for
auto thieves. If a person owns more than, one
car, he should insure all a” them with the
same Insurer. Most companies offer a dis
count for multiple policies In the same fam
ily.
Numerous other suggestions to cut Insur
ance casts are included in the release, but
these are sufficient to show that auto inaur-i
ance premiums, to a substantial degree, surf
based upon the discretionary choice of car
owners. This is an important factor to con
sider in today's over-all high cost of owning -
and operating a motor vehicle. *
holocaust umt would make thl
earth untenable for most of it.
inhabitants.
Respectfully, Richard Lenzi