THE CAROLINIAN J
RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1972
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved ex
cept b' 1 those who darc< ! believe that some
thing inside themselves was superior to rir
cufhstanee. To choose the sure thing is trea
son to the 50u1,.....1f this was not the meaning
of the forty days in the wilderness, if Jesus
did not have a real temptation which might
have ended in His going hark to the bench
Pitfalls In The Path Toward World Peace
From time immemorial, there
has been ta Ik of aehm • * e- M
peace. But apparently the ■ is no
peace, if we are to judge by the pro
gress we are making in the Viet
nam War. In' reporting on the U.
S. foreign policy with reference
to peace, President Nixon used
enough words to compose a novel.
His state of the nation add re s sum -
marized efforts toward peace in
the world’s trouble spots with em
phasis on accomplishments without
ignoring the disappointments.
Our failure in negotiating an end
of the Vietnam War has been a dis
appointment. hven the President
holds out little hope for peace or an
end to the Vietnam War. He said
that this country is relying on Viet
namization of the war to enable the
U. S. to withdraw, and that effort
seems to be working successfully.
It is the opinion of Mr. Nixon that
South Vietnam has the capability of
defending itself.
Some may say that this is good,
but it does not solve the serious
problem of freeing the American
prisoners of war.
We had still another disappoint
ment in our inability through dip
lomatic negotiation, to prevent the
india-Pnkistan War which ended
with the creaction of Bangladesh.
The administration is also fearful
about the implications this war will
have on other areas of the world.
Every newspaper reader has also
observed the Baited States was un
able to discover a solution to the
Middle hast situation acceptable to
both sides. This, too, rates as a
disappointment for the adminis
tration.
The President, in announcing his
trip to Red <"hina, also mentions a
Black Veterans Must Keep On Going To School
Nearly 737,000 war veterans were
in college as of January, 1972,
Their support came from the fed -
eral government under the G1 Hill,
and the enrollment of veterans in
dicated a 25 percent increase over
1970.
Another 354,00'' veterans were in
training program* under the col
lege level, or programs with equi
valency of the secondary schools.
I his number indicated a 19 percent
increase over the preceding year.
Still another group of 91,000 were
enrolled in on-the-job trainingpro
grams. while 20,300 veterans, who
were disabled, took training under
the auspices of the vocational re
SCLCB Breadbasket Is Scheduled To Expand
Despite the resignation of the
Rev, Jesse Jackson from Operation
Breadbasket, it has been announced
that the program will expand Us
economic work into a total of 57
cities. We hope that Raleigh will
be included.
Rev, William A. Jones, interim
national chairman, has made it clear
that Operation Breadbasket intends
to remain a viable project in the
civil rights field.
The direction of Rev. Jones sug
gests that the project will be active
until a new project director is
appointed. He expects to utilize min
later® in most of the cities where
SCLC will attempt to expand Us
economic arm.
Now- that Breadbasket expects to
take on a more national scope,
there is every reason to expect
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Udik J Viewpoint
at Nazareth, then the forty days’ struggle
lias no real meaning for us. but the tempta
tion was real, and He conquered it. The youth
who had been a carpenter stayed in the wild
erness, a Man came out, Jesus still had much
growth to make, hut the beginnings were
there. And Jesus put His spiritual house in or
der.
later trip to Moscow, He hopes to
encourage Western Europe to take
over a larger share of its own de
fense.
The President’s proposed trip to
Red China is designed to thaw the
icy Sino-American relations of the
last 23 years, and Mr. Nixon is
realistic. He anticipates that he
and the Chinese leaders may not
reach an agreement on the specific
issues that divide the two coun
tries. “The trip to Peking is not an
end in itself,” Nixon said, “but the
launching of a process.”
Mr. Nixon has had broad exper
ience with the communists and
should be fully aware that the dip
lomatic path he is following is filled
with dangers. Although he may be
able to develop a working formula
for co-existence, he can’t expect
the communists in Peking or Mos
cow to agree to anything that is not
in their own interests.
Some strategists speculate that the
President hopes to play one com -
m uni st giant against the other. While
he denies this, as he must because
of the delicate negotiations, this
seems to be the only avenue which
might lead to the preservation of
peace.
Regardless of the many pitfalls
present, the President’speacemis
sion is indeed encouraging. Hisper
sonal diplomacy holds out hope for
the future. But when we trace the
history of failures in this respect,
it suggests that our hope for peace
may not rest upon a solid foun
dation.
Our President has numerous cri
tics; but how many of them could
do better if they were in his po
sition?
habilitation agency.
The federal report stated also
that 41,000 wives, widows and chil
dren of veterans were enrolled in
schools.
These in-training veterans de
serve our commendation andpraise
for their efforts to improve their
lot economically. There is no ex
cuse for any veteran who does not
avail himself of this bountiful op
portunity.
if any of us see veterans fail
ing to enroll in some training pro
gram, let us give them a little
nudge to impress upon them the
benefits they will receive in the
years ahead.
that one day soon some organi
zations with chain outlets across
the country will be challenged by Op
eration Breadbasket.
If the gospel la good news to the
underprivileged, we welcome it in
learning that Operation Breadbask
et will take on a bigger share of
the. economic challenge as it. af
fects minority people.
There is a tremendous amount
of work to be done in the various
areas of economic development in
the nation among Negroes, both in
business and finding jobs for blacks
and minority groups. Sines blacks
spend money with these chain busi
ness concerns, they should have a
larger percentage of jobs. And all
of ua know that jobs are still hard
to come by.
Only In America
BY HARRY GOLDEN
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDA
TES
Up iii Massachusetts, ex-Sen
ator Eugene McCarthy announ
ced his candidacy for the nom.
tnation for President of the
United States as a Democrat,
Everything Eugene McCarthy
does Is surprising, even though
some of the things he does are
obvious. That is because Eu
gene McCarthy is a mystie.the
first successful mystic In A
merican politics.
How seriously should Demo
crats regard his candidacy?
Very seriously. My bet is that
Eugene McCarthy will come to
the convention with 200 de
legates.
Mystic though he is, McCarthy
makes shrewd appraisals,
Many thought him quixotic in
<OB when he challenged Lyndon
Johnson in the early primaries,
But he had assessed the consti
tuency correctly.
He left the Senate In *7O be
cause tie was pretty sure he
could not boat Hubert
Humphrey, Probably there
were other reasons, but I sus
pect that is the chief one,
Since then, he has made his
living teaching, writing and,
importantly, lecturing at cam
puses around the country. He
pulls a crowd, which Is not true
of every lecturer; certainly not
true of me and another dozen
I could name.
The young proved the core of
his strength in‘6B. He has
every reason to expect they
will rally to him again. They
like what Eugene McCarthy has
to say. He is urbane, witty and
professorial. He may not bn
charismatic, but then none of
his opponents, including Ric
hard Nixon, are.
His candidacy will be as vi
gorous as, say, Senator Jack-
A DARK POINT OF VIEW
BY “BILL” MOSES
AN OBSERVATION
Sometimes, the feeling
comes over me that we are no
more, and no less, than the
people whom we have met and
remembered, and the people
who have met and remembered
us, I concede, some, even
many, of these people maybe
from books, fictional and oth
erwise, or from events Involv
ing people whose lives never
really touched our own. I am
quite conscious of this feel
ing when I have attended the
funeral of a relative, friend
or acquaintance. Perhaps, this
feeling Is a result of having
reached seventy years of age,
when we become more contem
plative about the act of living.
Funerals then begin to appear
more frequently than marri
ages or anniversaries. 1 dcn't
think that the feeling is gen
erated by a conscious aware
ness of, or concern for, my
own demise.
1 recently attended the fun
eral service of a friend -a
quiet, reticent, but friendly,
spinster librarian. She had
long since retired from li
brary work, and spent much of
her time traveling about the
world. We met casually, now
and then, in a supermarket,
or at some cultural event in
the community, and exchanged
a few pleasant words, A few
days ago, she met a violent
death at the hands of an un
known assailant in her eighty
fourth year. The church was
filled with people - some town
dignitaries, prominent citi
zens « very few of whom were
under fifty years of age. The
simple and dignified memori
al service was short and Im
pressive. No mention or ref
erence was made about the cir
cumstances of her death.
Indeed, her life Itself was
sue)' that, except for her
IvUiKis, h»r passing would
create hard!., a ripple In the
community. The people there
were not the morbidly curious
who came because an elderly
woman had met death by a vio
lent stabbing, They were her
friends - people whom she had
serviced, at one time or ano
ther, during her long, unspec
tacular career as a communi
ty librarian, All of those pres
ent were stunned by the man
ner of her death - the fear of
a violent death is innate. But
the abundant presence here of
her friends summed up a life,
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polity of tbit newspaper.
son’s, McCarthy raised be
tween $9 and sll million in 1968
and he can raise it again
through Howard Stein of the
Dreyfus Fund and Martin Pe
retz of Harvard,
A month of campaigning put
Senator Fred Harris $40,000
in debt. Raising money is cru
cial to a candidacy. If they
could raise the money, every
Democrat in the Senate would
be a candidate. Grass root
sentiments exist but they are
the last thing a serious candi
date tries to capitalize on,
McCarthy's candidacy will
probably not dim any ardor In
the Muskie cam p. Bu t Mc-
Carthy will hurt Senator Mc-
Govern’s chances.
McGovern has proved a cap
able organizer. He has fin
anced and furthered his candi
dacy through organizing thou
sands of small givers. But he
does not excite his constituen
cy.
He can give different answers,
but in the giving of them he
rarely seems visionary, though
indeed he may be, McCarthy,
joking about the need for an am
bassador to the Pentagon leta
aione one to the Vatican always
seems visionary which, of
course, is the proper attribute
of the mystic.
Lastly, the reason everyone
must take McCarthy seriously
is that he wants to be the Presi
dent.
He is not out to prove a point,
to force the Democrats further
to the left, to demand immedi
ate withdrawal from Vietnam in
their platform, although he may
thtnk these goals are desirable.
He is out to win tho nomination
and then win the election. He
thinks he can do a better jot) than
the present incumbent.
Amen to that.
What Other
Editors Say...
RIGHTS UNIT HONOR HAYH
Os the many Intriguing, gum
chewing parties given in
Washington by those who want
to survive the admixture of
politics and social Interplays,
the one given annually by the
National Board of the Leader
ship Conference ori Civil
Rights enjoys the distinction
of being purposeful as well
as selective besides being
compensatory.
The party beings after a for
mal meeting in which the main
topic of discussion revolves
around men in or out of Con
gress who have exerted efforts
toward advancing the goals of
the civil rights movement.
Last year they held a re
ception honoring the Congres
sional Black Caucus, the year
before they had a party in
honor of all the blacks In ihe
Nixon Administration, "But
most of them ain't there any
more,” said Joseph Rauh,
counsel for the Leadership
Conference,
The other night they had a
testimonial dinner in honor
of the U. S. Commission on
Civil Rights and the brilliant,
perceptive and incisive In
diana Sen, Birch Bayh, in
the North gallery of the pres
tigious Kennedy Center,
Bayfc spared no energy and
left not a single stone un
turned in compiling the evi
dence showing that these two
Nixon nominees had anti-ci
vll rights records that render
ed them unfit to sit on the Su
preme Court. It was tho Sen
ator's denunciation and in
fluence moro than any other
factor that caused the Senate
to turn thumbs down on Hayna
worth and Carswell. The
Board agreed to honor him af
ter a unanimous endorsement
of school busing.
UNEMPLOYMENT
‘‘Suppose the nation's un
satisfactorily elevated un
employment rate remains
sticky around the 6 percent
level’ for several month*
more, What new initiatives,
if any, should Washington take
to get it started on a down
ward track'.'
That question was posed to
more than a dozen leading
private economists by The
New York Times last week,
and they produced almost uni
from answers. The consensus
reply said, In affect; "Stay
basically on the present fis
cal ami monetary course, but
move swiftly with various
measures to deal directly with
structurally high level of job
lessn,ess."
They were referring to spe -
cific programs for job-find
ing and Job-training for
those who are out of work, It
was apparent that the econo
mic community ie generally
dissatisfied with the things
that have bean dona eo far In
that area.
Ws need to mutch more af
fectively jobs with job seek
ers, said William C. Freund,
economist for the New York
Stock Exchange, At present
we do not oven have a full
inventory of job vacancies in a
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Administration of wage controls has rais
ed a question concerning the power of <u -
ganized labor that may have an impact mmv
far - reaching than anyone can precisely
visualize. It will affect the ability of go
vernment to control inflation, of many busi
ness to continue to operate at a profit and
quite possibly the future standard of living
of millions of consumer. The problem Is,
as Business Week observes, that, ‘Tn any
system of wage controls, the unorganized work
ers art' likely to be the ones wlu> get the
short end of the stick.” Certain uni*-as have
managed to push through in percent w.e e
boosts while nonunion labor agroem-Ats ;'•»'<*
bound b\ ttu l 5.5 percent limitation impose,!
by the Pay Board,
As Business Week comments, "Organimsl
labor, for all its power, can count a tot tl
membership of only 10 - million -- out of
83-million workers in the civilian labor fore .
Does the Pay Board mean to tell the 04-
mlllion unorganized workers that the way to
get ahead is to Join a union and elect a tough
bargainer to battle for them?*' For year-,,
charges of monopoly have been hurled at
labor unions. It was said that no orthodox
fiscal and monetary policies of government
could break the vicious circle of the wage
price spiral. Whether true or not, labor,
in such fields as construction, took the lion’s
share of the blame th.u led to the free. e.
By the same token, the monopoly power of
labor unions is now being blamed for allege ;
inequities in Phase II wage controls.
One of the consequences of this appear
to be renewed pressure for lab i law »a
form. Senator John G. Tower of Toms,
in an article in Nation’s Business, pi’ seats
the case for such reform and offers pro
posals for fundamental changes in labor lavs.
He says flatly: "The major cause of the in -
flationary spiral that lias plagued the nation
in recent years is the concentration of eco
nomic power In the hands of organized Li-
CARGOES FOR OUR SHIPS
No one has to be an expert on ton iy.n
affairs to realize that the pvt .sent tr< ad m
U. S. foreign policy is movinj.; steudil; "<
ward a philosophy of letting each nation stand
on its own feet. This moans w«rkinu to
ward competitive equality in internationaltr.-.
and commerce- -something that has been luck
ing so far as the U, S, Is concerned,
A highly Important area in this f-M
has had to do with the merchant maxim .
After years of effort on the part of govern
ment and industry maritime leaders, the coun
try has undertaken a program of shipbuild
ing that lii ten years should give the U.s.
one of tho finest merchant fleets in the vodd
a Hoot of high-technology ships that, If given
a fair opportunity, cun compete with all comers
in foreign trade, However, the quest ion has
arisen of whether cargoes will be uvullahh
for thesis ships.
Many nations have enacted laws that require
s given percentage of their commercial trade
to move In their own flag ships, Others
have decrees, taxes, customs, buttes, etc.
that achieve the same effect. The net n -mil
of this overt and covert discrl elnatloii.ig.ains*
American cargo vessels is that today Amen
can ships carry by volume only two porcent
of total U. 8. commercial exports, !h con
trast, the Japanese transport 40percent of tin'll
exports and 4fl percent of theii imports in
their owned ships, Tim Soviet,', carry about
73 percent of their foreign coinmore In soviet -
flag vessels; the United Kingdom, 2 r ’ percent;
Franco, 96 porcent; Greece, 40 percent ~nd
West Germany, nearly 30 percent,
An expanded U, S. -flat; merchant fleet,
along with cargoes for Its ships, Is one of
the first requisites ot recognizing the In
ternational realities of the 1070's,
BOY SCOUTS' ANNIVERSARY
The anniversary of the founding of the
Boy Scouts of America foil on February 8,
and this February the Scouting organization
will be 02 years ■young, Tho nation ha* good
reason to cherish its Bov Scouts ah never
before, As they pursue their anniversary
observation, adult* will bo reminded that such
things as self-reliance and good dii/enshin
remain very much in vogue where it counts
most--amlds* a mojor segment of the youth
into whose hands the reins of community lead
ership and business will fail a few years
hence,
One of the most important aspects of Scout
ing i» an appreciation of the outdoor* anti of
modern nationwide date bank,
Some private amende* do a
liettor job of matching poten
tial marriage partners than in
being done in business elr
RAYSOFHOPE
cloa sn brumiiitr tocrutlior jot)
applicants v, ith vacancies.
Sovorul i'cspoEidonts cctn
tloiWHi against any new g«n
oral rneusui’os at this
to expand asprogutc demand
bor... This imbalance came about largely be
cause the basic labor laws under which we
operate today are outmoded products of the
1920 s ami 10305... These laws have put up
a statutory wall of protection for organized
labor behind which it can operate with little
or no restraint,”
Senator Tnyvor believes that much of the
fault for th>. ynnvth of excessive labor power
lies with Hie National Labor Relations Board.
He cites cases which, in his opinion, show
the bias of tho NLRB in favor of big unions,
lie proposes the abolishment of the National
Labor Relations Board’s authority to hear and
rule on chat •■•••• of unfair labor practices.
He has offered a bill in Congress to accom
plish this end ..ml give federal courts juris
diction over unfair labor practice charges,
\nother factor of union power that Sena
te-, Tower tears has grown to excessive pro
portions is labor influence on broad legis- A•
lative trends. He notes as an example, ”...
the cuiTt it hysteria over the so-called Health
.•'enmity Act, sponsored by labor, which would
completely nationalize the country’s health
rum .md health Insurance systems.” Ho is
c meed that such revolutionary legislation
has little popular or congressional appeal.
“But because of tho political clout of or
ganized lalxir, the Health Security Act isprob
dely receiving more publicity than all the
othei health care proposals put together.”
''•miter Tom', i readily admits the difficul
ties ol accomplishing the labor law reforms
he has recommended. He concludes, ‘‘lf the
necessary reforms are going to lie achieved
...businessmen will have to be active in sup
pet itii for public office people who will
wu! k t wad them. You don’t have any trouble
■ •it big a union leader involved in politics.
I-uhor pies right down to the wire—win,
h -o or draw—fighting for what it wants.”
the current inequities in the administration
of wage controls could turn out to be the
final straw loading to a review of the na
tion’s labor laws.
learning to live with the most rudimentary
tools of .survival. Under the patient guidance
of voluultji r Scout leaders, young boys from
■it walk i.i lie come to that amphitheater
ot nature when all are equal--the Roy Scout
camp. They return a little wiser, a little
more humble and with a little more under
standing of tin cn-at land in which they are
privileged to live. The entire nation bene
tits from the Scouting experience, thus the
entire nation should extend best wishes to tho
Scouts on tlieli ;;2nd birthday,
competition-ALIVE AND V!• LI
There Is plenty of evidence that competi
tion t.s still wry much alive over, though the
marketplace Is dominated by a web of govern
ment controls. In many instances, the evi
dence takes the form of now promotional
Ida us to attract customers.
.Sometime ago, the publication ‘'Travel
Weekly" told of bow a company operating a
chain of mot<u hotels In 2H states planned
t offer trading stamps to its guests. While
thi company, i,v any standard of measure
incut, is already ut outstanding success in Its
ti.) -lOf m.otd properties with 10,000 rooms
--its management th fully conscious of the
fact that If it is to remain one of tho top IB
hotel and motel chains In the nation; it must
continue to work to attract the traveling pul>-
]tr. Ii is utilizing trading, stamps as away
of saving "Thank you for patronage,” Os
course, an bar, been the case with merchants
lining trading .-'amps, there will be those who
raise the old erv that promotion matins high
er prices novel having shinned to learn that
promotion Is what keeps tho wheels of any
enterprise turning and, tn the long run, means
better service, higher volume and lower prices.
The principle of muss merchandising ap
plies to tho motel business just aw It does to
any other business. Every (nitprjyvtfle must,
use ..ome form of promotion of attract cus
tomers and stay In business, Trading stamps
have proven one of tho most economically
sound and, from the standpoint of tho cus
tomer, one of the most beneficial of all pro
motions. As tins ofton been pointed out,
when trading stamps are given, the consum
er receives someth lug of value Instead of
nothing.
Tin* main point, however, tw that promotion
and advertising arc a solid part of the foun
dation of a business system that hats given
the U.S, an unparalleled level of abundance.
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tn the economy as anti-un
oniployment tools hocauso
they undent the nsk of great
ly liter cased Inflation!* rv
pressure*. The CHICAGO
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