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THE CAHOLtNIAN
RALEIOH. N, C.. SATURDAY. APRIL 1. 187^
Bible Thought For '1‘Iie Week
Josus ‘^lA-axed strong** asthogospolstellus-
a phraso which has rather boon burieJ ttn«Ier
the too-frequent repetition of '‘the meek and
lowly lamb.” As He grew In stature and ex
perience. He developed with His personal
skill, an unusual capacity for directing the
fditorial Viewpoint
work of the other ^aen In he carpenter sh(^.
so that Joseph allowed Him an Increasing re
sponsibility In the management of the shop.
Jesus had learned the business thoroughly at
the supervision of Hts earthly father, Joseph.
The strength and spirit of Jesus overshadow
ed the so-called "meek and lowly lamb*”
Only In America
Rli.MEMBEH BL.ACK CHILDREN WERE BUSED FOR SEGREGATION
BY HARRY GOLDEN
JESUS AND JOSLPHUS
Was Nixon's Anti-Busing Speech Political
The PreslcIentTRceiitlvaddressed
the nation with his anti-busing fne-
dlcine bag of cure. It.s timing seem
politically inspired.
Looking at j;he question objec
tively, the litierals hold that justice
for blacks l.av in national imposi
tion of the busing requirement ori
ginally laid on the South. It is said
that some southerners went along
wUh this imposition, usually as a
tactical device to ' e the .North
to come to grips w. ality.
Kevin P. Philli[). . a columnist,
says this is not true an>-more. "The
tide has teen turned, .\owth 'search
for national standards will How the
other way. Within a short time, the
battle to prevent busing to achieve
racial Integration and to pre.’ent
busing in the North will te won.
Justice will thfui lie in the national
imposition of the neighborhood
school patterns permitted in the
North. This lime the goal of na
tional standartilzalion will te more
logical and reachable."
The anit-husing Issue is simply a
sub-issue to divert allention from
the real problem of providing good
education for all children even if
it takes busing to do it.
Historically, earlier in this cen
tury Negro children were bused
passed by their neighterhood
schools to keep segregation in force.
No white objected to this prac
tice; and, if they did, liieir voices
were mighty weak.
Senator William S[)ong of \'irginia
pul in .he Congressional Record
reserach which iic contended,
■‘shows that the excess of -1^ of
the 50 stales of this nation have
had statues, local and state, of one
kind or another, that fostered edu
cational discrimination. Whether
they were passed 50 years ago or 15
Court decision was handed down.
Judge Waiter Hoffman’s opinion in
the case of Beckett v. School Board
of the City of Norfolk, these states
Delaware, the District of Columbia.
Kansas, Kentucky. .Maryland, Mis
souri, New' Mexico, Oklahoma, West
Virginia and Wyoming as of lOoj.
Nor does the list end here. In
diana had a separate school law un
til 1949. In New Jersey two-thirds
of the schools were segregated by
local custom and practice. From
1943 ti 1947, California hacT laws
authorizing separate schools for In
dians. Chinese, and Mongolian chil
dren. From 1949 to 1951, Wisconisn
law required Inthans to attend se
parate schools, where they were a-
vailable.
A numter of citizens has backed
Nixon’s speech, tecause the} sayhis
plan will bring national standards
for education, and not the busing
follies o; the South imposed upon the
North, but rather a revitalized
Northern neighborhood school prin
ciple substantially telowthe Mason-
Dixon Line.
In discussing this issue, the neigh'
borhoods are changing their pat
terns. Whites are moving toward
the rural areasand leaving the cities
with their poor man’sghettoes which
are full of filth, poverty, health
hazards. The cities prodominantely
populated by blacks and other mi
nority groups are developing prob
lems connected with taxation.
Whether minorities like It or not,
whether the discontinuancepf busing
to achieve integration is a flop, the
populace has caused a swing In the
reverse direction. More than likely
busing will be reduced, neighbor
hood school principles will prevail.
It is coming and nothing can stop It,
it seems.
Tv.0 Hebrew scholars In
Jerusalem have uncovered
evidence for the histori
cal existence of Jesus Christ.
Shlomo Pines, a professor
of philosophy' at Hebrew U-
fllvorsliy, has come across a
lons-forgotten passage about
Jostis written by Josephus,
ti.* Jewish historian of ”o-
man Judea, Theologians and
scholars have long suspected
tbo to’.i by Josephus that ..af^
descended to us has beensev
eral times rewritten by early
and middle Christians to suit'
the time. In this text, Joseph
us declares the divinity of
Jesus and his resurrection:
In the next text Joscpl>its re
ports only about the cruci
fixion.
t^liat I find Interesting t-
boiit this dlsco’.ery is that It
made the front page In many
newspapers. And wtat'Shlomo
Pines adduces Is not simple
to understand. Indeed It Is very
complex. Yet cvlltors know
their readers want this Infor
mation.
Whether Jew or Christian,
agnostic or infidel, any new
discovery from that tiny tri
angle in the middle east bears
importantly upon us because
that little trUmgle that once
was Judea Is the cradle of our
civilisation.
Pine's discovery Is cham
pioned hy Professor Da’id
Flusser, one of the world's
leading authorities on reli
gion. I met ^usscr In Jeru
salem the last time t was
there and reported my conver
sation with him.
To call David Flusser port
ly is lnaacuratt> but flattering
because the simple act of sit
ting can make him huff
and puff. To say ho Is im
patient is obvious. To say he
knows what he Is talking about
Is a vast understatement.
In this Instance, Flusser
not only Insists that the pas-
stpo discovered by Pines Is
the original Josephus, but he
can r'npoint who Inserted the
glosses in the original* Flus-
ser say’w it Is Eusebius, a
Palestinian prolate, who
tampered with the original text
In the hopes of establishing
s common doctrine for all
Chi 1st Ians.
X iiseblus Flusser goes on,
wa; a central poltclcal InfJu-
en'ie in the Council of N'Icca
and he Is Ijiown to have made
numerous compromises to In
sure church uelty.
The Council of Nicca In
325 substantially created the
Roman Catholic doctine. The
councillors determined that
Jesus was the same substance
as Cod " d not *iike” Cod.
as Arlan Lnsisted, The dif
ference between the words
‘•like” and "same** In Greek
Is only In an lota (the let
ter “I”), an argument at tho
lime which gave birth to the
phrase, **not one lota.”
I find this review of anci
ent history as compelling as
the most recent theory. 1 am
also happy that Flusser Is
In there taking charge.
Edmund Wilson, our premia
or crlt Ic, who offei ed us Iho
first populai study oftheDead
Sea scrolls, remarked, 'To
visit modern Israel attdlosee
what Is gobg on there now (In
historical studies) Is to feel
jneself partly released from
the narrowconslrlellonsofto-
day's and yesterday's news
paper and to find Meself thus
rising above the years with
their catastrophes and their
comings and goings In touch
of the greatest forces
for the tenacity and aidhorlty
of cur race.
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
ADARKPOmOfVaW
BY "BILL** MOSES
"£ASTeR~1972
As we approach the Easter
Season, with all the turmoil
about busing filling the air,
my min:i goes back to the
turn of the century, when
Rudyard Kipling’s phrase, the
The White Man’s Burden’,
dominated the white man's
thinking about the darker
races of mankind "lesser
breed’’, he called them: "Your
new-caught, sullen peoples,
half-devil and half-child.’’
Over ;ifty years ago. my
deceased father. WiUlam H.
Moses, a black (missionary)
Baptist preacher, wrote a
book called "The White Per
il" which was his answer to
•The While Man’s Burden.’’ I
"As to how well ChrlsUon-
iiy has worked among the
while races, let il.e ’World
War' Onei ver the spoils
of the conquered countries of
the darker races speak for ii-
seli.
"As to what the white Chris •
tlan rustlons have done for
the darker races, the destruc
tion of native races in Au-
trallB and the Isles of the Sea.
and the record of white Eu
ropean nations In .Africa, tell
a sad and discouraging story
of perverted Christianity."
- The tragic fact is that
things are no: too much bet
ter now than they were then:
a.5 we enter another celeb.'a-
tlon of the redemptive pc .ver
Max Wsys, In another of his series of For
tunes articles has offered an Interesting and
highly constructive commemary on (he
popularly accepted belief that the V. S. Isa sick
society. The title of Mr. Ways* latest contrl-
butloi to s belter understanding of our country
and Its system Is simply, "li Isn't a Sick
Society."
As he says. "This article, a dissent to tho
woeful assumption that the U. S. is a sick
society, argues that the natic;. suffers from a
subjective disease. secUl hypochondria.** This
Is a serious motional condition. The Indi
vidual sufferl, i from hypochondria can be led
to "a total neglect of his health and well-be
ings.*’ So It can be with a nation. .Much o:
Mr. Ways’ commentary rests ipon an analysis
of two ^st-seller books—"TTie Sick Society**
and "America Inc.** The former. In Mr. Ways*
view. Is a standard attack on capitalistic so
ciety. *1110 kind that has been going on or the
last 100 years. The latter work produced by
what Mr. Ways calls "...competent and honest
observers** rests on the proposition that, "Big
E islness Is government.’* (5ne ofthefounda-
tlons for this promise Is that because a giant
rjrporatlon can affect tho quality of life, it
presumably is synonymous with government.
Mr, Ways compares this reasoning with a
phenomenon of the premodern era when ”...
goatherds with their relatively llmttedtechno-
Ibgy (1. e., goats) seriously damagol the en
vironment of many Mediterranean lands. That
iiiiiMMMIlilillfa
«wr ihe pendulum has swung lo ’ne opposite
extreme. He observes; '*Buslnes'-,.« (snow ac
cused of corrupting thesoclety'ssoulbypamp-
ering Us body. Clothes are the marijuana of
the pccple. Food is the opium of the people.
Cars are the heroin of the people. Trips to
Europe are the LSD of the people. Business Is
the pusher.'*
Statistics of the last 20 years are impressive.
Since 1950, the number of people cmDloyedhas
Increased much faster than the adult popula
tion. "Even more remarkable”. In Ways* o- >
pinion, "has been the upgrading In the quality
of Jobs. Backbreaking toll and repetitive, mind?
numbing tasks have dccllndcd, whUethepeople
most in demand are those possessing veryblgh
skUls.,.Aecordlng to government figures, from
1950 to 1970 (' s number of professional and
technical workers Increased 14S percent, the
number of 'managers, officials, and proprie
tors* increased 29 percent, clerical worters
60 percent, sales workers 27 percent, crafts-
men and foremen 32 percent, whereas *(g>era-
tlves', mainly seml-sklUed, Increased onlyris
percent and 'nonftrm labelers* only 6 per
cent.” In the same 20-year period, the flow
of goods and services from the business system
more than doubled, and tho power of thepeopte
both Individually and organisationally has in
creased dramatically. These are hardly the
mark of a sick society or a society In which
business is the government.
were miphty weak.
Senator William Spong ofVlrginla
put in the Congressional Pecord
reserach which he contended,
“shows that the excess of 40 of
the 50 states of this nation have
had statues, local and state, of one
kind or another, that fostered edu
cational discrimination. Whether
they were passed 50 years ago or 15
years ago or 25 years ago, they have
in some way contributed to the pat
terns that have resulted in racial
isolation in those areas.”
For example, the South leads the
list. The Deep South States, all ele
ven of them. had school segregation
laws in 1954 when the Supreme
lems connected wnth taxation.
Whether minorities like it or not,
whether the discontinuance pf busing
to achieve integration is a flc^. the
populace has caused a swing In the
reverse direction. More than likely
busing will be reduced, neighbor
hood school principles will prevail.
It is coming and nothing can stop It.
it seems.
Should the neighborhood school
principle prevail, we hope that com
munity people will be empowered to
manage their own schools. It would
bring suspicion, if predominantly
black neighborhoods were tobebur-
d 'ned with white school officials
who would receive the cream of the
crop in slaties.
Experiences With Marijuana Should Teach Lesson
The use of marijuana Is a subject
of much pro and con controversy.
The topic has been a favorite in
college speech classes or discus
sion groups. Students believe gen
erally that the drug is not harmful
and that Us private use should not
be a punishable offense. Like alcohol
and tobacco use, nvliher should be
encouraged.
We, like tho general public, are
willing to share the experience of
the study made by the Niiiional Com
mission on Marijuana and Drug .A-
buse—that the 12-month investi
gation was an educational experi
ence. Because marijuana remains a
little understood drug, study must be
continued. The commssion*s work
indicates a need for public open-
mindedness and debai' to proceed
on fact, rather than fear and fancy.
The commission found that there
were many bogus notions about the
use of marijuana, suen a moderate
use of the drug causes physical
damage, leads to heavier drug addic
tions, creates psychological depen
dence and creates criminal and ag
gressive behavior. But the commis
sion discarded bogus notions about
the Urug. Yet the study indicated
that use of the drug posed health
and social hazards. However, the
commission found that only two per
cent of 24-rriiUion .Americans who
have tried marijuana fall Into the
foregoing category.
Alter air was said and done, the
commission advocated retention of
criminal penalties only for the pro
duction and sales of marijuana for
profit. As a contraband, marljuan
should still be confiscated by the po
lice ever, if the possessor is not
liable for criminal penalties.
Whether the public feels the com
mission is hjpocriiical. we feel
the recommendations are prag
matic, since the use of marijuana
creates social and health problems
in only two per cent—let us say.
Private use of marijuana by ma
ture adults is one thing, but wide
spread availability in schools is an
other hazard that must not be tole
rated. Parents and the politce
should vigorously educate the young
through fact, not fear, based on fact
ual medical evidence. The drug
should \x kept out of the schools
with these recommendations: (1)
no youth should be questioned bythe
police without his parent’s knowl
edge, and (2) parents should bepre-
sent when ihelr children are ques
tioned by the law.
Even If the drug Is not harmful,
let us say, then it is economically
too costly. What black youth can af
ford to pay fifty dollars a day for
drugs?
Rudyard Kipling’s phrase, the
•The White Man’s BuMen’.
dominated the white man’s
thinking about the dariter
races o( mankind "leaser
breed’’, he called them: "Your
new-caught, sullen peoples,
half-devil and half-child.”
Over ‘.Ifiy years ago, my
deceased father. William H.
Moses, a black (missionary)
Boptlst preacher, wrote a
book cal'.ed ’’The White Per
il" which (vas his ans«‘er to
The White Man’s Burden." I
th'nk a quote from this UtUe
Volume, written in 1919, la in
order now; so here it is;
"The Peril is, that the dark
er races in general, and the
black race in particular is In
danger of political. Industrial,
aoc’.al end economic slavery
or extermination by the
white Chri8.1ans nations of
the world.
“The Negro group. In Afri
ca and America. Is being
ground to death between the
upper and lower mill stones
of white organlzedcapltal and
labor: both of which have ex
cluded them :'rom their re
spective groups and made It
Impossible for them to form a
strong political, social. Indus
trial and economic group a-
mong themselves.
The white races of the world
are In peril from the reaction
of their own perverted Chris
tian attitude toward the dark
er races of the world: both by
the numerical strength of the
darker races, and the dlspo-
siuon o: the white races to
destroy each other over the
Spoils from the exploited
countries of the darker races.
"The hope c-.’ the wcrld in
general, and the darker races
in particular, is the propaga
tion of unper^'erted Christian
principles throughout the
wcrld: regardless of the names
by which the Ood of Justice,
mere)* and !ove Is called . . .
••The darker races c* the
wor’d believe that it Is the
fixed policy of the white
Christian nations of the world
to subjugate them and exploit
their countries, and force
them to accept the humiliat
ing doctrine of racial infe
riority. or exterminate them.
Japan. China. Africa and the
Isicii oi the Sea. dread the
coming of white Christians
s nong them for that ver>'rea
son. For two thousand years
the Oospel of Jesus Christ
has bzen propagated by white
Europeans and Americans, or
under their leadership.
the darker race* speak for it
self.
"As to what the white Chris*
tlan nations have done for
the darker races, the destruc
tion of native races In Au-
iralla and the isles of the Sea.
and the record of white Eu
ropean nations in Africa, tell
a sad and discouraging story
of perverted ChrlsUanlty."
The tragic fact Is that
ihlruB are no: too much bet
ter now than they were then:
as wc enter another celebra
tion of the redemptive power
of the Easter Season.
Letter To
The Editor
New “Hands” For Amputees Is Now Ours
Would It mt be wonderful if the
Almighty har given us the power
to regrow an arm or leg when
for some reason it is amputated?
Certainly it would, but this has
not been the case.
However, ou- Great God nas giv
en men wisdom to suppler..'nt an
accident of nature. A “mechani
cal hand" has teen Invented for
astronauts to use In operating tools
outside their space craft, and now
ihls knowledge is being transfer
red and adapted for amputees.
ne CAaouNXAN
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Each day now the news con
cerns buslAg and the positions
political office-seekers are
taking.
oeorge Corley Wallace hab
forced the issue In terms of
segregation. Wallace once
said: "Let'em call roe a
racist, k don’t make any dif
ference. Whole heap of folks
In this country feel tho sam«
way. I do. Race Is what’s
gonna wlri this thing for roe,”
(from Saturday Evening Post,
June IS, 1968).
As a llfcilmeDcmocral and
a believer In the two-party
system and as a schoolteach
er concerned about qualities
of character and principles,
such as: Interglty, loyalUy,
honesty, academic, freedom,
tho socialanddemocrallcpro
cess and freedom of choice,
these ques*Ions now come to
mind:
Will the Republican and De
mocratic parties strive tosc-
lect (ho candidate who will
eheorlsh Ihe fundamental
principles of Democracy?
Is this a related trend; are
Americans today loslrig their
tolerance? (bas^ onfactsthat
the TV program. All In The
FamUy (Archie Bunker) Is the
number one program, and tho
Wallace victory In Fla.?)
Is It possible that when tho
views of the majority pre-
vaU without tolerance for the
minority, that the tlroetiandof
Democracy can rotate to a
fixed, set and rigid toUall-
torlan Government^
Hov will DeroocratandRe-
publican candidates define the
social and democratic pro
cess?
Will the^e candidates be In
favor of future construction
of large consolidated schools?
Is Wallace a Southern Do-
mogogue. who would like to
draw the color line for the
nation as he has done In Ala.
Has President Nixon failed
to set a high example of lead
ership for c«her countries,
who are trying lo Impllment
(ho Democratic process?
Sincerely,
Major W. D. Aycock (Ret.)
Rl^ory Teacher,
Raleigh, N. C.
View, is a standard attack on capitalistic so
ciety. The kind that has been going on or the
last lOO years. The latter work produced by
what Mr. Ways calls "...competent and honest
observers” rests on the proposltlonthat. "Big
Business Is government.” One ofthefounda-
tlons for this premise Is that because a glart
corporation can affect the quality of life, U
presumably is synonymous with government.
Mr. Ways compares this reasoning with a
phenomenon of the premodero ora when ”...
goatherds with (heir relatively limited techno
logy (1. e., goats) seriously damaged the en
vironment of many Mediterranean lands. That
did not make goatherds the government.”
All tlToqgh his article. Ways dissects, with
careful reasoning and seemingly airtight, logic,
the current antlestabllshmentobosslonthathas
fathered the sick society cliche. Readily
conceding that the socUl health of the U. S.
Is far from perfect, and noting that there are
serious challenges, he finds neverthereless
that the country Is far from 111.
He recalls that In the 1930’s, business was
indicted because Its ai^eared to have failed in
Its primary functions of offering jobs and pro
ducing goods and services. Since then, how-
technical workers Increased 148 percent, the
number of ‘managers, officials, and proprie
tors* Increased 29 percent, clerical workers
80 percent, sales workers 27 percent, en^s-
men and foremen 32 percent, whereas 'opera
tives', mainly seml-sklUed, increased only IS
percent and ’nonfarm laborers’ only 6 per
cent.” In the same 20-year perl^, the flow
of goods and servicesfrom tho business system
more than doubled, and (he power ofthepeople
both Individually and organizationally has Is-
creased dramatically. These are hardly tb
mark of a sick society or a society to which
business Is tho government.
Concludes Ur, Ways, "One assert,
though without firm proof, that according to
fundamental American Ide^, which ore wldly
shared among mankind, the objective con
dition of the U. S. today is, on balance,
better than U has been at anytime in the past,
and morality plays about the wicked and cor
ruptive king are distracting the society from
Its present moral duty: to make more head- y
way In the formidable task of coordinating '
our fragmented functions, and to do this with
out relmposlng centralized authority. A sick
society could never succeed In (hat tuk.
Neither could a hypochondriacal society.*'
RAYS OFHOPE
Fayetteville State Univer
sity is a state-supported lib
eral arts Institution with c.
four-year curriculum leading
to Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Science degrees.
It is accredited b> he South
ern Association oi Colleges
and Schools.
Alaska has estimated undeveloped reserves
of natural gas of over 325 trlllim cubic feet.
The contribution this vast reservoir ofnatural
gas can make toward casing the threat of a
genuine energy shortage In the lower 48 states
is crucial. But oil and gas production go
together. ”... it Is Impossible", says an
Amorlcan Gas Assochtlon official,” to pro
duce the gas without first productlng the oU.
And the only economical way to produce theotl
is to have the pipeline to transport It to the
southern coast of Alaska, where It can be
shipped to markets.**
The Imperat.ve of developing new gas sup
plies was emphasized by an A.G.A. spokes
man when he Said, "Natural gas is more .
popular than ever, yet the Incr-ase In gas
sales during 1971 was the smallest since World
War n. This is largely because now supplies
of gas are not being developed fast enough lo
meet rapidly Increasing demands.” Two
changes are needed. In the first place, those
cc .corned wtthlhecnvironmcnt must recognize
that natural gas, one of the '‘clean” sources
of energy, is an Important factor in pol
lution abatement. Secondly, no time can be
wasted In providing necessary incentives for
producers to speed il-e exploration required
to atep up developmenl of tremendous gas
resei'vos yet to be discovered in the U.S.—
reserves that arc said to total more than
1,100 triUlon cubic feet —including thr.e h;
Alask...
Ote hard fact to which everyone must soon
awakqh Is (hat energy Is life dosplteallacade-
mlc arguments to the contrary. Therefore,
the question of adequacy of energy suppUcs
has become a personal problem to which each
eltiacn must address himself with Increasing
concern.
OUR "SECRET” POWER
An Amcptcan rancher-businessman, after rc-
turnLng from a visit to the U.S.S.R,, was
Inlorvlewod by the editors of U.S. News &
World Report. At one point In the Interview,
he was asked If the Soviets are *'... getting
closer lo the capitalist system . . .*’ He
answered that he didn’t think the people of
the U.S.S.R. would ever give up the idea of
state planning, but he added that the govern
ment's official policy recognizes that profit
Is necessary as an incentive for Increasing
production. There is a movement away from
the pure idea of servke to the slate.
Honest acceptance of the urgetomakeapro-
fit as a normal human characteristic would
do much to build confidence in our own econo
mic system. The right to profit and the
Tight to property ownership have been the
"secret” of U.S.productiveness. TheU.S.S.R.
is Just now discovering this secret, to which
monypeople In the U. S. still remain blind:
TWICTEP SCALE OF VALUES
An editorial in The New York Times and
a press release irom cne Ptiarmaceuttczl
Manufacturers Association present a frighten
ing study in comparative values, Tho editorial
describes how 50 years ago, an U-year-old
boy lay In a hospital waiting to die of dia
betes. But ho did not die. He became the
first diabetic patient to receive insulin, then
newly discovered. Writes TTie New York
Times, "The present tendency la to put Into
tho foreground *pratlcal* questions of the or
ganization and delivery of health care, while
minimizing basic research In tbe medical
and related sciences." The best doctors 50
years ago could have donenothlngfor the young
diabetic. Without Insulin, he would have died.
By contrast, the roaleise from the
Pharmaceutical Mamifaciurera Association la
devoted not to telling of the progress of Ufe-
saving discoveries, but to reporting the
a>'alanche of restrictions and laws—and in
vestigations—that make it Increasingly diffi
cult for the prescription drug Industry to carry
out Its primary task of pushing back the
frontiers of knowledge in the field of tho
healing arts and transforming Us findings
Into mass production of tomorrow’s lifesaving
drugs. We might well ask whether 50 years
from now the record win show a continua
tion of great discoveries or merely a morass
of rules and regulations that proved mean
ingless so far as saving a single life was
concerned. The PMA release, for example,
reports the introduction of detailed new re
gulations having to do wUh how physicians
shall prescribe drugs and an Impending pro
posal (hat would require drug manufacturers
to describe their products publicly lo the
minutest detail. B seems little Is to be left
to the Judgment of pliarmaclsts, {^yslctans
or drug manufacturers who deal with people
as Individuals rather than as masses
voters.
There Is a good chance that 50 years now
people will bo paying the price in lives and
health for the oppressive, political atmosphere *
that overshadows all creative effort today,
p) today's scale of values. Innovation is less
Important than the rule booL-
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