THE CAROLINIAN
It AI.KIOH. N. C . SATURDAY. JANUARY 13, 1973
BIBLE THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
In telling the parables. Jesus Christ uses
marvelously simple and brief. Take, for
instance, "The Good Samaritan.” He told how
two passed by a man who had been stripped of
his raiment by thieves, departing leaving him
half dead The story had its toots in every-dav
human experiences and need, lives and will
live forever. Generalities would soon have
been forgotten. The parable condenses the
philosophy of Christianity into a half dozen
unforgettable paragraphs. It is the greatest
advertisement of Christianity of all time
EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT
Stokeley Carmichael Disappointed
Stokeley Carmichael was trying
recently to carry what he called “raising
the level of consciousness of African
people in Canada" when he was arrested
and deported from Canada about a month
ago.
But the Montreal officials have tnother
side of the question. Since many West
Indian students atteend colleges in
Canada, and some West Indians have
settled there to live, Canadian officials
don’t want any trouble. They blame
Carmichael for the 1970 black student
uprising at Sir George Williams
University where he had earlier addressed
a black writers conference.
Detained and deported with Carmichael
was Cleveland Sellars who was national
program secretary for the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at
the time Stokeley was national chairman
in 1966. Sellars now holds a high post with
the All-African Peoples Revolutionary
Party headed by Carmichael.
At a hearing, Stokeley was told Canada
did not want Carmichael in the country,
because the black power chief got a 1966
conviction in Selma for exciting a riot. It
was a nice way of saying that Canada
didn’t want any part of him and
prohibited persons convicted of crimes
from entering Canada.
The fact that Stok-'ey is not a citizen of
Canada can be enough to keep him out of
the country. Officials know that Mr.
Carmichael has a rhetoric that excites
black audiences. We are sorry that this is
about the reception he will receive in any
country he chooses to visit.
Stokeley said he wants to raise the level
of consciousness of African people in
Canada.
Black youth in the United States feel that
Carmichael deserted them when he
married the African dancer and left the
country. Where do you go from here, Mr.
Stokeley?
Memorial To Roberto Clemente
On New Year’s Eve, Roberto Clemente
died when a cargo plane carrying 26 tons
of supplies that he had collected for the
victims of the earthquake in Managua.
Nicuragua, crashed into the water off the
coast of his native Puerto Rico.
That he died on a mission of mercy only
serves to emphasize the humanitarian side
of his nature that was much overlooked by
the American sports public.
To those who observed and admired his
talents as a baseball player he was a
distant and often tempermental figure but
’-o those who knew him as a person he was
a tender and basically shy individual. Just
as the true recognition of his talent came
only in the last few years, so only after his
death is the real Roberto Clemente now
being seen.
arm reputed by Mays to be the best in
baseball.
It was his incredible hitting ability that
will be long remembered. This ability to
hit to all fields carried him into 12 all-star
games, 11 seasons hitting over 300 and a
Most Valuable Player Award, it was this
talent also that finally went on display in
the 1971 World Series so that the whole
nation could witness it and justly
recognize it.
iNOw It is the same with Clemente the
man. His death has brought to national
prominence his willingness to work for the
poor and the disadvantaged. So that we
might look back on him and his actions
and find greatness there too, it is well to
remember this.
As a player he was undoubtedly one of
the greatest possible only rivaled in
all-around baility by Mays, Mantle and
Aaron.
Both on the bases and on the field his
exploits were often spectacular with his
Horace Mann Bond Deserves Much Praise
Not long ago. Dr. Horace Mann Bond
passed from this earth to his reward. He
was one of the few black educators who
did research and wrote professional
articles and books concerning blacks. One
of the well-known books by Bond is
History of Negro Education in Aiaoama.
The Atlanta Daily World paid him this
tribute:
We have seen him phrase masterpieces ut
resolutions, memorials, summaries of
meetings ana convenuuiis. tie had an art
in the composition of essays, so that the
ideas were expressed not only effectively
but with measures of artistry. And the
marvelous thing about it was that it only
took him a few minutes or an hour to
produce these reriorts.
In the classroom, Horace Mann Bond
taught blacks with the thoroughness as he
would for Caucasians in the large and big
universities. He resented those studente
who always had a “handful of excuses’
and "I am not ready today." He
encouraged students to make ol
themselves the best that they were
capable of becoming. That is, put their
.best foot forward.
That Auto Pollution Question Again
The problem of reducing air poUutiuu
emitting from automobiles has been a pain
in the neck for many officials. We know
that something needs to be done about it,
but no one has come up with the really
right answer.
A recent court decision postpones
mandatory air-bags in Unit^ States
automobiles until at least 1976. he court
was convinced that air-bags are not what
they are reputed to be at this time.
But automobile owners will kick terribly
if they are made to equip their cars with
air-bags necessary or not. No law should
be made tht forces a driver to equip his car
with gadgets he doesn't want or can't
afford. Batter than a statute of this kind is
a sensibie ar'* -sretul and nonspeeding
driver.
ONLY IN AMERICA
BY HARRY GOLDEN
CARUSO AT THP XU'T
The performance which made
the most lasting impression on
me was Verdi’s “La Forza del
Destino." with Caruso, Rosa
Ponselle and Antonio Scotti.
I’ve heard that opera many
times since, but I always
remember “Pagliacci” because
the aria, “Vesti la Giubba, ”
became synonymous with Car
uso.
When Caruso came onto the
stage he brought a whole world
with him. When he came out of
the stage door. too. a whole
entourage gathered around him
to walk a few blocks to an
Italian restaurant. They wanted
nothing more than to follow the
greatest tenor in the world.
Caruso was to the Metropoli
tan and opera what Babe Ruth
was to the Yankees and
baseball. Inevitably Caruso
stamped the Metropolitan as
the best. People who had never
heard the word “aria” before
"l^aruso suddenly became wild
ievotees when he sang. He had
a personal magnitude, stage
presence they call it, of such
proportions that he didn’t need
press agents or publicists. By
himself he was enough.
Thousands of people all over
the world still speak of Caruso.
For them he represents a
milestone. At the height of his
fame, when he could have
demanded anything he wanted
from the Metropolitan, he
yielded opening night once to
Geraldine Farrar, who was just
starting on her career.
But one night in 1920 while he
was singing at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, he spat
blood. “La Juive” was his last
performance.
After that he lay sick at the
Vanderbilt Hotel, and even had
the last rites of the Catholic
Church. I was one of those who
went every day to read the
doctor’s bulletins.
But Caruso said to the
officiating priest, “I want to die
in Italy,” and he got up and
within a week or so he was
photographed as apparently
recovered. He sailed to Italy
and a few weeks later he was
dead. The glorious voice was
stilled.
Arthur Brisbane wrote a
great obituary: he said that the
Archangel Michael had gone to
the heavenly choir of angels
saying, “Quiet everybody, Car
uso is coming."
HopetuUy, we will, and then if we vote
him into the Hall of Fame immediately we
can say to him “we have recogRiized your
ability now and we will recognize your
humility.”
BY MARK SOUTHERLAND
National Black News Service
Not only this, but there is growing
opinion that leans toward relaxing of the
1970 pollution law regarding new cars. It
is felt that a five-percent reluation would
enable the industry to avoid fifty per cent
of projected cost increases on 1976 and
1976 cars, as well as reduce he projected
gasoline consumption so that no device
would exceed $50.
Expert opinion felt that t,liat will
eliminate far more pollution than the loss
caused by five percent relaxation. Yet we
hold that the anti-pollution goal of 1970
should be retained.
A careful driver can do more to prevent
accidents than air-bags and seat belts. A
careful driver can keep his car in good
running order so that there is a minimum
of air-pollution.
A DARK POIIVT OF VIEW
RV “BILL" MOSKS
•JANUARY 1. 1973"
To begin this New Year essay
I should first clarify the
meaning of two words, for the
reader's information: When or
where the word ‘Emperor’ is
used substitute the word
■President': and where the
word ‘Caesar’ occurs substitute
the word ’Nixon'. Now read on.
In his campaign for continu
ance in power the Emperor
used two political slogans with
telling effect: 1.) “Imminent
Peace’’ in Vietnam is now at
hand; and (therefore) 2.) “Four
More Years■’ in office.
The body-politic, in its
confused, disturbed, and deep
yearning for Peace In The
World voted to continue the
Emperor in power.
Caesar, having achieved his
objective, shortly before the
advent of Christmas ordered
that mass.ve bombing on North
Vietnam should resumed on
an unprecedented scale • an
order which shocked the
Christian world.
For Christmas Day. Caesar
ordered a temporary ‘Cease
Fire’; which a group of
American religious leaders
rejected, with the comment:
That they could not accepf such
What Other Editors Says:
“He is so well remembered as the
president of Fort Valley Btate College,
during the days when it was difficult for
an outspoken black man to lead his
people. His fame spread further when he
returned to Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania, his alma mater, as
president.”
Dr. Bond lived only one year after he
retired, but his instruction still marches
onward. His life was an important source
of motivation to all who could catch the
challenges he made.
We know this to be true “What a man
does here on earth lives after his death.”
Dr. Bond’s unselfishness made him
immortal, and as long as his students still
live, as long as people read his books and
articles, and as long as history keeps his
record, the educational and political public
will remember him.
May Almighty God receive him within
His spiritual realm and there to abide for
aye and aye.
Aix OFFICER’S REQUEST
Christmas comes but once a
year, but crime, poverty, social
injustice, and 'he conditions
that contribute, and create
these situations, continue to
exist. Each day of my
“work-life,” 1 am confronted by
these situations. If it is not
practical to expect “Peace On
Earth, And Good Will Towards
Man," on a national scale, I
don’t feel that it is beyond
accomplishment, within the city
of Gary.
I would like to plead with the
public, to make this Christmas
of 1972, one that we can always
remember in a positive man
ner. I would like to ask that the
parents attempt to establish
and reflect the ideology that it is
better to give than receive,”
and maintain a family-type
atmosphere for our young
people.
This is our City, our
Community, and our Children.
If we expect to reap the fruits of
our labor - we must cease the
E ractice of ruining the crop,
efore harvest time. I would
like to declare a “day of
Truce,” with the criminal
element, and ask that they give
the much needed respect that is
due the potential victims of
their fiendish endeavors.
I would like to wish a happy
holiday season to all, and ask
that we enter into the New Year
with a determination to hold
steadfast to our convictions,
that we can change “dark
yesterdays, into bright tomor
rows."
bv Clemmons Allen. Jr.
Lary z'oiice uepartmenl
TOO MANY MOONLIGHTERS
During 1970, 71 Senators
augmented their salaries by
outside lecturing and writing.
Total fees reported to the
Secretary of the Senate were
$500,000. A number of the more
conscientious members of the
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Ion, ixpriiied by celum-
beiiate have ueclared that
absenteeism and moonlighting
have become major factors in
retarding or postponing the
progress of Senate business.
They have introduced a resolu
tion proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of the United
States with respect to attend
ance of Senators and Represen
tatives at sessions of the
Congress. The resolution would
permit expulsion of Senators
and Representatives whose
roll-call vote attendance re
cords fall below 60 percent.
Now that the election is over,
voters should begin to observe
more closely the conduct of
those they have placed in office.
Public officeholders who rank
their jobs secondary to extra
curricular activities such as
public speaking should be called
to account in due course at the
nolline booths
SKIP THE FRILLS
As the U.S. Congressional
Record celebrates its 100th
birthday in March, 1973, it
seems appropriate to consider
the cost of this publication to the
taxpayer. Parade magazine
reports that publication costs
for the Record are staggering.
With only 4,000 paying sub
scribers and an annual printing
bill of $7 million, the Congress
ional Record makes available
the daily happenings, speeches,
roll-call votes and favorite
press articles of our Congress
men. To break it down further,
expenses for printing each page
come to a stunning $163. At an
average of 300 pages per daily
issue, that adds up to too much
money in any language.
The monumental waste in
curred in this endeavor is
uncalled for. The Congressional
Record as it stands is a typical
example of bureaucratic extra
vagance. and many costly
pages could be phased out if
Congressman would refrain
from reading in their favorite
recipes and anecdotes. Let’s
return the Record to its proper
form: a faithful reproduction of
Congressional proceedings -
period. The frills we will gladly
do without.
— The GARY CRUSADER
WHAT WILL BE HIS ROLE?
hypocracy. because, if it was
wrong to bomb on Christmas
Day, it would be wrong on any
other day.
The longer the Emperor
continues in power, the shorter
and more cryptic, become his
announcements to the Republic
■ it seems that the symbol of the
conque9ring 'Eagle’ and the
Actions it generates, as in the
days of the Roman Empire, are
very present with us today.
In modern American political
life, the working axiom is: if a
worrisome problem appears,
Ignore (or, at least, pretend to)
it. and it will go away But that
isn’t the way it is happening.
The Inauguration Day of the
Emperor is late January, 1973
promises to be rather unusual.
At this ceremony, it seems, a
sizeable portion of the Ameri
can electorate, including many
religious denominations and
other groups, may be on hand in
Washington, protesting Cae
sar’s massive bombing (even if
complete capitulation takes
place in the interim). There will
be numbers of Americans
present who will be shouting:
"Hail Caesar!", and there will
be many other Americans, who
will be standing by - sadly silent
- as they witness this ceremony.
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Since the end of World War II. military
competition and confrontation between the
Soviet Union and the United States has
(iominated the course of history and shadowed
the lives and future hopes of all peoples. That
the ground rules were shifting In the U.S. -
^viet relationship has been apparent for a
long while, and unprecedented moves toward
the development of common economic
interests and trade lictween the two countries
have now been made
Upon the mutual agreement of President
Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev of the
Soviet Union, a U S - USSR Commercial
Commission was established to promote
long-range economic and trade relations
between the two nations Mutually beneficial
commercial ties entrenched in the affairs of
bo'h nations, over a considerable period of
time, will be the one thing that can eventually
bury, in common interests, the cataclysmic
threat of military conflict between the two
powers, each with the capacity to literally
wipe mankind from the face of the Earth.
In e 'ecent statement of his personal views,
U.S. ecretary of Commerce Peter G.
Peterson, who also heads the U.S. delegation
to the U.S.-USSR Commercial Commission,
evaluates the pressures upon the two
countries that have brought them to this
position. While he expresses the view that “. .
.a comprehensive trade agreement. . . will
be worked out in the next few months, he
emphasizes that the U.S. quite realistically
does not envision any all-encompassing trade
treaty to solve in one massive stroke all the
problems that exist. As Mr. Peterson puts it,
“What we are after is a comprehensive series
of agreetnents which will plot a ‘critical path'
through the issues which divide us. . to
create a long-term environment in which
business can flourish. What we expect is
steady progress built on a foundation of
mutual benefit to both countries.”
me iwo nations are enmciy diiterem m
their economic output and emphasis - they
RAYS OF HOPE
are natural trading partners. In the Soviet
Union, there is rising demand for the material
things of the good life, long available to the
people of Western nations. Know-how and
technology to produce these things are badly,
needed by the Soviets, and Mr. Peterson
expresses the view that they will become
available to them from the West only through
a "long-term relationship which, in turn, will
require a comprehensive commercial struc
ture in which both we and they can have long
term confidence " On the other hand, the
Soviet Union has vast stores of natural
resources, including metals and most ’
particularly, energy resources including oil
and natural gas. In the United States, rapidly
expanding demand has outstripped the
presently available domestic supply of these
fuels vital to our civilization
It can easily be seen that great problems
exist. The Soviet Union could become
increasingly dependent upon the technology
of the West. Western standards of quality in
consumer goods could not help but shape
some of the life styles and altitudes of her
people. What would be the political overtones
of this in the long run in terms of weakened
public support for the austerity that has
characterized the Soviet system and upon
which it has built its military influence is one
of the factors with which the Kremlin will
have to come to grips. By the same token, U.S.
dependence upon ^viet energy resources in
the light of historic political differences is not
something to be entered into lightly.
The examples of economic necessity
pushing the two nations together are many,
matched' only be the problems and fears
which make it certain that progress will be
slow. But as the wheel of history turns, and
fundamental circumstances change, the line
of action which governments must take to
pursue the best interests of their pe^le must r
change or those nations will perish, "nie world
may hope that the early glimmerings of such
change are now in evidence.
Opinio
STATES HIRE LAW FIRM TO
FIGHT WELFARE CUT
WASHINGTON - The presti
gious law firm of Covington and
Burling has been retained by 31
states to challenge a “destruc
tive” federal plan to withhold
some of their welfare funds. The
states have asked the Depart
ment of Health, Education, and
Welfare to hold public hearings
before it starts withholding $^
million in federal welfare
payments to states It claims
omit inellii&lf
TIME WON'T WAIT
A publication, dealing in an understandable
manner with the facts of the nation’s
petroleum supply, put out by a major oil
company and entitle “The National Energy
Problem," points out that the level of
petroleum consumption between now and 1980
“. . . is already largely determined.” By
1980-within 8 years-the increase in
consumption is estimated at 10 million barrels
of oil a (lay over the present level of 16 million
barrels a day.
These figures alone mean little until they
are compared to something whose size we can
comprehend. For example, these 10 million
barrels constitute five times the expected
contribution of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay. They
mean additional manufacturing capacity
equivalent to 58 medium-sized refineries,
transportation equivalent to 325 supertankers
and capital investment of over $150 billion. All
of this must be accomplished in the next 8
years. TTiis could be done if the oil industry
were permitted a price level for its products
based on supply and demand that would
assure adequate earnings for needed growth
and capital investment. But time is short. It
takes 1-3 years of geophysical work to find a
commercial field. Off-shore drilling requires
1- 2 years to drill wells. 6-18 months to set
platforms and 2-3 years in development.
Refinery construction requires three years to
obtain a site, to design and to get permits, and
2- 4 years for construction.
It takes time, money and hard work to
produce petroleum products. These are facts
with which the public must come to grips, for
the sake of its own comfort and well-being as
well as for the security of the nation.
FALLACIES OF OPPRESSION
Along with repeated charges that A-
mericans are violence prone, advocates of
gun control legislation, aimed at depriving
law-abiding private citizens of gun ownership,
harp on the theme of the al'.-g^ly high toll in
lives attributable to firea' "ns accidents. Fact
and fiction here are as lar apart as in the
areas of firearms and crime where the
antigun advocates seem to think criminals
can be controlled by alwlishing the right of
firearm ownership.
National Safety Council figures show that
accidental firearms fatalities in the U.S. are
only about half what they were during most of
the first half of this century. From 2.5 per
100,000 population in 1913-32, they dropped to
1.1 by 1970. The fatality rate was higher that
troop from Q» looet eSv nfhpr raiic/»§', Ylgtnr
poisons 1.3. "The American Rilleman”
magazine observes that: “Having respect for
firearms while handling them around other
people is to most of us just a particular form
of respect for fellow humans. Americans have
never been behind the rest of the world that
way. no matter how vilely some antigun
spokesmen misrepresent us by charging us
with being a "violent people'"
Shorn of window dressing, the antigun
crusade is no more than a reflection of the
widely held assumption that there is
something wrong with our country - an
assumption that is generally accompanied by
acceptance of the belief that police-state type
controls are essential to law and order, ^th
are fallacies that can lead straight to
oppression.
A CLEAR DANGER
One of the most damning indictments of
government overregulation of the U.S.
pharmaceutical industry has come from the
findings of a meticulous study of the world’s
medical, pharmaceutical and chemical
literature bv two West German scientists.
Summarizing these findings. Barron's
National Business & Financial Weekly
comments: "American physicians and their
patients have access to no more than one
quarter of the new remedies developed by
U.S. pharmaceutical laboratories at home
and abroad. The rest, by law, may go only to
foreigners. . . To make matters worse, the
U.S. has forfeited first place as a discoverer of
new drugs to France. . . Despite the fact
that U.S. drug industry research and
development doubled in the decade of the
t960's from $'227 million to $550 million, the
U.S. in 1970 was at the bottom of the list of the
four leading parmaceutical producing
countries The researchers who conducted the
study trace the U.S. pharmaceutical
producing countries. The researchers who
conducted the study trace the JJ.S.
pharmaceutical’s gap to “the strict and ever
more extensive registration requirements of
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.”
They concluded their indictment of U.S.
regulatory excesses in the strongest of terms:
“Excessively rigid bureaucratic measures,
political influences and a lack of qualified
specialists are handicapping therapeutic
progress."
Many authorities will disagree with the
findings and the views of the West German
scientists. But the evidence that the cult of
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