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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH N (’ SATURDAY JANUARY 1. 1972 4 On one occasion, the great orator Nannie Burroughs set the mood for a church women’s meeting in a speech on the subject “Hinder ed from Helping." She said, "Ye entered not yourselves and they that were enter ing, vo hindered.” How true this is, for we have ma::\ people who. Instead of helping Edititial Viewpoint We Need New Thinking For The New Year The coming of the New Year, it seems to us, is always a time of recollection and reilection. It is a tine when all of us should reasses our :: es ‘n : v M new -a 'a for the future. Social psychologists may find meaning in the fact that our New Year (1972) brings forth a song of remembrance for the past “Auld Lang Syne” -- but none for the fu ture. Perhaps this is true •..-.•cause for the year just past, an old song is appropriate, But who could tell what song will be right for the new year, until the year itself brings forth a song? The opening lines of Psalm 96 strike the right note: “O sing unto the Lord a new song,” For hat ever 1972 ma\ bring us, wo m..\ be sure that it will be new. In this world of time in which we live, God never repeats himself exactly. All his songs are new songs. This is a disturbing fact or thought for some of us. If 1971 was sa tisfactory in the main, we don’t like to think of change, change that •may force us to learn something new or give up something that we cherish. For others whose memor ies of 1971 are less comforting, change is a word of hope. Bib no matter how we feel about it, L 72 will bring change. God will reward and discipline his servants in wa s they could not have predict ed. He will teach us new songs, some of sorrow, some of pleasure, some of joy and irrepressible praise to our Creator. He does not want us to forget the old songs: they are part v.f our treasure. But we can’t keep looking back, singing “Auld Lang Syne” forever, “God fulfills Himself in many ways” —the Crea tor is still creating. If we are to remain in His company, we must forever learn and grow. There is an old saying to this effect: “Forget the past and live in the future.” In this way, men pro ject their vision and ideas into re ality This challenges us to put our best foot forward. Cyrus H.K. Curtis, once associated with ihe “Saturday Evening Post,” kept hanging on the wait in his of fice i large sign which read: “Yes terda v ended last night. ” Thi s should be an inspiration for us to forget the defeats and hardships of the last 12 S(.LC Power Struggle Births A New Organization It is national news that the South ern Christian Leadership Con ference by suspending the Rev. Jes sie Jackson of Breadbasket has set the stage for a new organization. While Jackson has been suspended for two months with pay by Rev. Abernathy of the SCLC, the news media announced recently Reverend Jackson has started his own or ganization ~~ Operations Push which he compared to the birth of a child. The purpose of PUSH, Jackson said in Chicago, will be to improve the economic situation in black com munities across the country. We won’t be going to the welfare de partment begging. We will be at the United States. Treasury Depart ment...at the Labor Department...” Call it power struggle between A bernathy and Jackson if you wish, but evidently Jessie Jackson had i deas of his own. He no doubt felt that the purposes of the SCLC need reevaluation for the 1970’5. Although removed from the Chicago Operation Breadbasket, Jessie Jack son has the support of the Chicago group which may transfer its mem bership over to his new' Operations Push. Jackson’s Chicago supporters indi - cated their strong support by as sembling for a Saturday morning meeting immediately following his 10,0041 MORE CAROLINIAN SUBSCRIBERS WANTED MOW! Bible Thought For The Vi eek a brother, put stumbling blocks in the way of a struggling comrade. As we enter the New Year, let it be said that each of us walked the second, undemanded mile in the’ performance of our unrequired obligations. It Is the unenforceables that mark a man or woman. months and fix our eyes on the year ahead. The Apostle Paul, often called ‘Mr. Christian,’ remarked in one of lrs epistles, “Forgetting those thiiigs which are behind, 1 press on toward the mark of the high call ing which is in-Christ Jesus, Paul was comparing our lives whith that of an athlete who participated in track meets and the Olympics. The boxer in the ring may have his face battered bloody by his op ponent, and he may be knocked down on the canvas in the second round; but often in the third round he gets the opportunity to regain his powers which will in turn lead to victory. A baseball team can have a bad in ning while the opposing team goes ahead in the score, but the next inning offers an opportunity for a new beginning. No man is really licked until he thinks he is. While the year 1972 offers us new hope and new opportunities to make up for our 1971 failures, it must not become a year just to redeem ourselves. Rather we must view the new opportunities as a series of steps on a ladder by which we may confidently move from the bot tom to the top. So many of us have a longing for the past since they are familiar with it. They are afraid to face the future residing in the Year 1972. This very fact may account for our missingthe opportunity for a great change in e~ very walk of life. In national politics the new year comes around every fourth year. In the heat of political controversy, America examines itself and its leaders and the country is born anew. This is the miracle of democracy. It is the theme of the issue, and of the excitement - filled convention days ahead, dramatically pictured in an episode from the best - selling novel entitled “Convention.” Carl Sandburg, our beloved Ameri can poet, put the dreams of us all in a poem titled, “A NEW AMERICA.” “1 see America, not in the sett ing sun of a black night of despair ahead of us. “I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. “I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision...” suspension. ‘ We, the steering committee of the Northern Communities Division of Breadbasket (which covers some 40 North and Northwest suburbs), would like to take this opportunity to show' our continuing support for Mr. Jack son’s out standing and prophetic lead ership.” It is unfortunate that the media has focused so much attention on what is basically an internal or ganizational dispute. They should, as Mr. Jackson himself said, spend more of the same energies illuminat ing the many injustices Operation Breadbasket is trying to right. All we could say at the time of Jackson’s suspension was, “Stay on the case, Jesse!” Some Negroes felt that Rev. Ralph Abernathy, with his petty jealousies, played into the politicians’ hands. Others felt that the suspension was long overdue. Regardless of the pros and cons over the suspension, Jackson will raise no doubt to the full stature he wanted for his own leadership. Now that Jackson has resigned from Operation Breadbasket and set go ing a new organization, we will soon see what his objectives are. Whether or not the bifurcation of the SCLC was good, only time will tell us the answer. Only In America BY HARRY GOLDEN THE EMANCIPATED WOMAN In the beginning, she found herself able to travel only at her children’s speed, and was additionally handicapped by birth a: any time o.' the year. She learned therefore to at tach herself to an adult male who in turn feund safety in the young male hunters she produced and comfort in the firewood and garments her daughters provided. In the next few thousand years, she learned how to re duce the male’s speed to her own leisurely pace, and this became her passport through life. No matter the extent of her accomplishments, she has no “visa" without a male. The Hebrews have a word which is never uttered except in an inaudible whisper, “agunah” i he forsaken!, and it still strikes terror in the heart of every Jewish woman through out the world. All the essays on the life, the hope, and the destiny cf the “American wo man," or o' any woman any where, may be reduced to a single phrase: “Please don’t ever leave me.” When Sigmund Freud left Clark University in New York to go home to Vienna, he re marked America's great ex periment was the liberation of its women. He didn't think it would work, though. I wonder if he was not right. England produced an Eliza beth I and a Victoria. It is true both ' were drafted into greatness, but great ages bear their names. Ceivainly Flor ence Nightingale is one of history’s great women. She not only entered nursing in the days when its only prac titioners were prostitutes, but she reformed and bent to her will that most hidebound of all modern institutions, the British Army. Woman suf frage was still a dream, when she died, Russia had Catherine the Great, who, libertine and re ar ionary though she was, still set up the Russian bu reaucracy, a system so effic ient it has persevered right through Khrushchev’s time. Jeanne d’Arc unified France and became its patron saint. Madame Curie was instru mental in the understanding of radium and radioactivity. Egypt had Cleopatra. Only Greece. Rome, and A merica come to mind as civil zations which did not pro duce historical women a' des tiny. The nearest we Ameri cans have come to a great wo man, I suppose, is Eleanor Roosevelt. Her greatness lay in her humanity and advoca cy of reforms, and her hu manity and advocacy were significant because she was the wife of Franklin D. Roose velt. We could say Abraham Lin coln's beloved stepmother, Sa rah Bush, was great in that she had a hand in shaping greatness, but I suspect what we really mean about Mrs. Roosevelt and Sarah Bush is that they were heroic, which is diUerent from greatness. Think of the suffragettes!” some of my readers will urge. What I think is that Ellen A DARK POINT OF VIEW BY “BOX" MOSES APPROACHING THE STRETCH The year 1972 rapidly ap proaches. It is the year in which Richard Nixon wraps up his four year occupancy ol the White House, and in the the closing month 3 of the year he will be seeking, in the stretch, to secure an election to another four yeart erm. But so wi:l there be o her aspi rants for the high office, Mr. Muskie, Mr Humphrey and manyo thers, including a few ‘Dark Horses’, or even a ‘Black Horse’ who could be ‘Dark, Female and Potent’. I wish them all well, which doesn’t mean that I wish all of them to be elected presi ded—we can only have one. The first column I wrote in this series expressing a ‘Dark Point of View’ was subtitled, “1969 Off And Running” (Jan. 11-18, 1969 >; it was, for the most part, comiments on the new Nixon administra tion; and in which I raised some questions about black participation In government and the economy. The big question in my mind then, was: “Can this Republican rise to be a man of the dig nity and compassion of an A braham Lincoln?” IHI CABOUNIAN “Covering The Carolinas” Published by The Carolinian Fubflshing Company SIS £. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address P. O. Box 2574 T Raleigh**!. C. 27611 Second Class Postage Paid at Raleigh, N. C. 27611 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months „ „. MOO Sales Tax .12 TOTAL 4.12 One Year 6.50 Sales Tax .29 TOTAL 6.70 Payable In advance. Address ail communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The CAROLINIAN. Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 310 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10017, National Advertising Representative. Member of the United Press Internationa! Photo Service, Tire Publisher is not responsi ble for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed by eol- Ui»Si**t» in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the policy of this newspaper. Glasgow and Emily Bronte accomplished more without the vote than most women ac complish with it. A culture produces great women when the women are sure they are loved. Women entertain the erron eous idea that before the twentieth century, they were all vassals. But women were always deferred to. For noth ing has ever prevailed against the institution of marriage, not even easy divorce laws. Women always ran the house or the castle or the hut. Life itself may have been rude but it treated women less rudely than it treated everyone else. Cleopatra never looked through a micoscope nor did Queen Victoria spend her summer vacations painting sets at the local theater. Yet they were great women, great because not only were they loved, but the mass of women m their societies were loved. I never remember my mo ther sluing back on her chair. She always sat on its edge. I don’t believe she ever ate a whole meal. But when I was older and asked her why, she replied, "I sit on the edge of my chair six nigh s a week so that on the Sabbath I am the Queen,” Her experience was duplicated hundreds of thous ands of times. There was one basic system our mothers followed. The fa ther would ask her advice, something about the family, the prospective son-in-law, or even about a change of jobs or a new business venture, and the mother always said, ’■l have only a woman’s brain which is not much, but I would suggest so-and-so," And sc-and-so was adopted—that is, when the father was a man of wisdom. She made certain that the father saved face as the boss, but she ran the works. One of the big worries a inong the immigrant Ortho dox women on the Lower East Side was that their presence would fill the thoughts of th; ir men and distract them from their work and their study of the Talmud. With minor modifications, I believe this has been the case in many past societies. It is the happiest worry a woman can have. But this worry is dis sipated No woman is retiring these days but more and more are anonymous. Once upon a time, women did no. grin at us from every page in a newspaper or pa rade in their lingerie through • the editorial pages and on to the obituaries. They did not cavort in bathing suits on billboards nor did they deodo rize themselves cn television every hour on the Talf hour. Though we have liberated women, allowed them to pur sue their own aspirations, given them the ballot and ele vated them to political office, made many of them million airesses by virtue of their faces or their legs, we do not have great women because we cannot separate the girl from her natural functions. And apparently very few girls want to be separated. President Nixon has. of course, been a master at prac ticing ‘Expediency', through out his career; and his ac tions are on the record. Dur ing his last, campaign for the Presidency he announced he “had a plan” deep secret) “for ending th war in Viet nam” which continues to this day, a’rnost four years later. Before his first year in ofifice expired he introduced the phrase, “The Great Silent Majority”, into American life. Mr. Nixon’s positions on White Back-Lash” and “Law and Order” have been cleverly worded so that most black A mericans don’t miss the point. In the past few months Mr. Nixon has boldly moved on the international scene, with ‘Summit’ meetings, proposed and scheduled around the globe, from China to Russia, in the interes of “Peace in Our Time”, and, possibly, the re-election of Mr. Nixon <lt won for Mr. Eisnhower). Yes, Mr. Nixon is clearly on the record. The question arises: Will it be Mr. Nixon again in 1972? Who knows? Even if he loses, he can still live pretty well on the retirement benefits from the Presidency; and I do wish Mr. Nixon A Happy New Year! So says is ttepgOK-yls JL Itnvtftl ,•*“ '" ~" ■ , W*‘ f s Jusr ?fc • % ht'JWT r» , I fvwSm I me VA 1 * r \ OF fl* CHMGf- J \ wu AWtmf/j J ~ W(/ s ■ ‘"2“^ h If m mforKUriiMi. eotiWcj <#w nramt V 4 ulfwr (chrvk y«m« p*<*w<f b**.)k I <tf writ* VflfftM AdHwnbaM4*un. 2J2X.H10 Vermont 4** ft* Wj»xh«ilglu» DC 20430 UjrtLltF you HAVE A B/O JOB ‘Tf ff AHEAO-BUT f HNOW ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS DANGEROUS IGNORANCE A survey of the editors of 21 major magazines with a combined circulation of over 50 million reveals an amazing lack of understanding of the U.S. timber Industry, timber management and the forest resources of the nation. By the same token, the public is even more confused on these important matters. Many, think the U. S. is exhausting its forests. The fact is that 75 percent of the continent’s original forest land is still growing trees. A good share of editors and the public believe that trees can be "saved" in perpetuity by simply tightening controls over harvesting. A great many people apparently feel that we could do without wood entirely. Clearly, there is a great dearth of information on facts concerning the forest products industry. Trees are this country’s largest renewable natural resource. For many years--thanks to the advancing science of forestry practiced by timber companies-- timber growth, harvesting and utilization has steadily improved. Trees, like other crops, grow to maturity and die. In the course of their growth, they con tribute in manifold ways to the preservation of wildlife and to the health and recreational needs of man. That is why timber companies have evolved a multiple-use conservation philosophy in the management of forest lands. This philosophy is consistent with the necessity of harvesting as well as utilizing America's trees. The greatest threat tothe perpetuation of forests is sheer public ignorance as reflected in the recent poll. GOOD JOB BY 4-H Nowhere has the common interest of business and agriculture been more evident than in the field of youth. Sometime ago, a leading business man, Mr. B. J, Yarrington, president, touched on the substantial contributions of business over the past 50 years to the strengthening of 4-H activities. He comments that since the late 50‘s, the entire 4-H movement has had to cope with the many changes brought about by expanding technology. "More and more", he savs, "the thrust of 4-H training of young people has had to be oriented toward science .... the change involved the whole science of agriculture and how the develop ing technology could be applied to provide food for people here and abroad." Mr. Yarrington ugres that the patterns of learning used in 4-H work be applied to public education generally. "Learning by doing--learning not just facts but A NUTS & BOLTS PROGRAM The president and chief executive officer of one of the nation’s leading oil companies has made seven specific suggestions for a na tional energy policy aimed at developing vi tally needed domestic energy reserves. First, he believes we should maintain a pro gram of oil import controls in order to en courage continuing investment of private capi tal in the discovery and development of do mestic resources. Second, he believes that prices for various fuels should be determin ed by competitive forces and demand-supply conditions in the marketplace. Third, in his opinion, it is essential that federal land be made available at costs conducive to rapid development of oil and gas potential to the maximum extent consistent with adequate pro tection of the ecology. Fourth, tax incentives should be materially strengthened. Fifth, the government should appropriate funds for re search programs in the energy field. Sixth, existing corporations such as oil and gas companies should be encouraged to extend their resources, skills, and technical talents into other energy fields, thus stimulating com petition and facilitating mobilization of capi tal and manpower needed to meet future en ergy requirements. Arid seventh, the federal government should play its primary role in es tablishing ecological requirements and ob jectives, and the task of devising ways and means of achieving the desired ends should be left as much as possible to private enter prise. The time for playing politics with the oil industry is past, and the job of hammering out a nuts and bolts program to repair a de teriorating energy situation is at hand. SELF-HELP STILL WORKS Vice President Agnew, In an Address to the board of directors of Boys’ Clubs of Ameri ca, describes what happens when accepting federal handouts becomes a habit: “In too many cases, we have regarded the availabili ty of federal money as an excuse to cease private support or to restrict the effort to that which the federal funding will finance. We.have fallen into the habit of saying, *that’s all we can do because that’s all Washington wSI give us,’*” The group to which he was speaking repre sents one of the most outstanding youth or ganizations in the country—and it is an organi zation whollv supported by private endeavor. ‘‘CAN DO” RAYS OF HOPE how to use facts--learning to work and live ir. productive cooperation--all these things 4-H young people have been doing for years,” ho declares. The work of 4-H’ers and their wholesome attitude toward life, home and country empha / size the fact that strength of character, Intel ligence and ambition are still in ample supply among the young people of this nation. As always, full development of these qualities de pends on proper guidance and encouragement. MILLIONS OF LIVES AT STAKE A late issue of Business Week magazine features an article entitled "A new antibiotic finally gets born," It recotints the ten years of research and development together with the inve.stiment of some $lO million bv one pharmaceutical com pany that lies behind the introduction of a new drug which is destined to become a major weapon ' r in combating some venereal diseases and staph infections. The new drug is also expected to be effective against bacteria that cause cholera, typhus, certain kinds of dysentery and Rooky Mountain spotted fever. Os the $lO million that this single drug company has put into the development of this lifesaving medicinal compound, $3 million has been spent for a new manufacturing plant which was made necessary by the complex process involved in producing the durg. Business Week comments, "In part, these expenditures reflect costs that all U. S. ethical drug companies face today in meeting the government’s testing standards foi new drugs. In 1970, the industry put only 16 new drugs on the market, down from 45 a decade earlier.” Pictures have teen shown of stacks of govern ment forms, higher than a man’s head that must be filled out for such things as federallv aided highway projects. The forms and reports now required of the pharmaceutical in dustry have grown to what many believe to be a point of diminishing returns so far as the public’s health is concerned. The fact that a leading drug firm has produced a new "miracle" drug over the past 10 years is en couraging. It also serves to illustrate the rising difficulties and declining rate of new drug dis coveries--matters that are of deep public con- * corn. The heavy hand of regulation has brought st rag nation and crisis to other industries— notably the railroads. It should not te per mitted to do so in the the case of the drug industry—where millions of lives may perhaps hang in the balance over the xt generation or so. Rooted in more than a century of service to boys, the Boys’ Club philosophy is a care ful blend of the virtues of honesty, patrio tism, sportsmanship, religion, self - dis cipline and a wide-awake-awareness of pres sures and problems confronting modern youth. Through the support and encouragement of busi ness leaders and citizens in all walks of life, Boys’ Clubs are approaching the goal of 1,000 clubs serving over one million boys. The Boys’ Clubs are demonstrating the kind of initiative that Vice President Agnew describ ed as lacking “in too many cases..,’’ They deserve the support of everyone with an abid ing faith in the principle of self-help. ESSENTIAL elements A food industry spokesman, the chairman of the board of a company that has been a leader in the development of frozen foods, recently testified before the Federal Trade Commission on the importance of advertising. He observ ed: it “...is crucial to the business system...” He cites the development of a number of fro zen food products of his company. The vege tables for them are grown in Oregon and are quick-frozen at one of the company’s plants there. They are then delivered to consumers in all of the 50 states. Tin food company executive notes, however, that “...without ad vertising that delivery never would take place. Without the means of telling the consumer about the availability of these delicious new menu i tems, the vegetables would have stayed right there in Oregon...” Another form of promotion—trading stamps— is also inadequately understood. Merchants use trading stamps to increase volume sales of the products that consumers have learned about through advertising. In addition, large trading stamp companies are direct genera tors of business for local communities. One large company in the trading stamp business, for example, has just opened a new redemp tion center in a South Carolina community. In Tennessee, the same company is a major •customer of local business just as it is in other states. Tennessee manufacturers sold more than $5 million worth of merchandise to this one trading stamp company during 19- 70. Who is to judge the relative importance of various elements of the U.S, economic sys tem? As a matter of fact, all of them are es sential, or they would not exist This is cer tainly true of promotion and advertising.
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