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Cincinnati Herald (Newspaper) - November 30, 1974, Cincinnati, Ohio Page 4 ■ THE CINCINNATI HERALD ■ Saturday, November 30.1974-^^-^RELIABLE ★★★EDITORIAL PAGE ★★★ INDEPENDENT ★★★^ ^ ^ --------******* i THE CINCINNATI HERALD KNOW THE TRITH KNOW THE TRUTH Published Weekly By The Porter Publishing Company 863 Lincoln Ave., Cincinoati, Ohio 45206 Phone: 221-5440 M. B. Parham, Publisher W M SpillersJr..................Vice Pj-esident.Adv Dir Ray Paul .................................."•••: Ne*s Editor Larry Hillman................................Circulation Mgr Steve Korb..........................................Sports Editor By Mail, $7.00 per year; $4.00 per six rao. By Carrier, $.20per copy per week Entered as Second Class Matter at Post Office, Cincinnati, Ohio, as required by the Act of March 3, 1879. ACROSS MY DESK B\ .Marjorie Parham Where Are The Statisties For the past ten years this newspaper has sought support in Its efforts to have legislators to take a more realistic look at drug abuse. This effort was predicated upon our archaic method of summarily jailing users of hard drugs for possession rather than trying to understand their problem In many instances otherwise innocent citizens caught in the toils of drug addiction spend many years in prison while alcoholics killed people with automobiles, abused their families, ’and committed fctonies similar to those of narcotic addictsj Clearly the addict of narcotics was being treated differently than the alcholic addict But more persuasively was the argument that legalizing narcotics would enable us to keep better control of the drugs, eliminate the profit motives of those underworld characters who were making millions by sale and creating new users. We argued that cola beans, nicotine and many prescription medicines were addictive and threfore subject to abuse. This was long before the fresh words “uppers” and “downers” gained popularity. But in spite of all of this we still have committees, task forces, study groups, medical groups, drug abuse centers, etc. All of these groups and organizations studying the problem and arguing their collective .points of view. The real problem is that there is a drug problem in this country. This problem is intea8Tn^ by j by tire counter- profiteers and by drug culture that finds experimentation with drugs as a source of copping out of the responsibilities to the communities. It is obvious that legalization of all drugs and de-criminalization of their use was called for. The alternative, of course, is better control, cheaper prices for addicts (to be sold on prescription) and viable programs to reduce the abuses. Years ago, probably 30, we read a book called Really The Blues by musician Mezz Mezzrow. In that book he discussed marijuana and other drugs. There did not seem to be a problem for users in that day to quit, especially marijuana. We sincerely wish that all of the do-nothing talk about legalizing marijuana would go #v DOW N TO BISINESS Dr. Berkeley G. Burrell President. National Business Uague Unilv - It Always A Starts In Atlanta Mrs. Parham away and let’s get on with it.. , at least on an experimental basis. Dialoguing should be over and the tracks should be cleared for action. For those who thought the What further worries us is ,(issue of the so-called dum dum the police argument that they bullet was dead, they have a want to use this bullet to save new thought coming. The fact is that a lot of publicity is being generated concerning the use of this kind of fire power. All of it possible reading lately tells us concluding with the Cincinnati about guns, bullets, etc. the lives of innocent bystanders. The reason we worry is that all of the information we have been all but AFRICAN BACKGROFNI) Police Division making use of gives us no statistics on how this bullet. Already area many innocent bystanders police authorities have began have been injured or killed by announcing that they use the a bullet passing through a hollow point bullet. There are SUSPECT. Until we get this some who say the FBI is using kind of data we would tend to this type of bullet and there is dissuade this argument, a wealth of information for the Another argument is that ballistic and gun user relative police are unable to stop a to the trajectory, impact and fleeing suspect (just because force of the bullet. police believe a suspect is There is talk about kinetic fleeing is no reason to believe energy, mass, velocity, hs is guilty of a crime) and no magnums, long colt 38’s and information on how many the amount of powder used in times this has happened has a bullet. • been presented. What we have argued is the Another argument, one that‘ devastating effect this bullet would readily be acceptable, has on the person it hits. All of is that failure to stop suspects the available information endangers police lives. Again indicates that the dum dum we have no information on makes about a two and one- how many police have shot half inch hole in the body and suspects and then been shot by By Faraiyi Sigau BY WALTER L. SMART Executive Director National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers BfliOKS ON AFRICA really stops the suspect. What those same suspects, we emphasize at this potnt^ that anybody shot by police is approach to this problem a suspect until he has been would be td‘have'móflé''’aic-found guilty by the judicial ceptable information before process. Can,we take the rislc making a decision, of killing an innocent person? For Consumers From Your Better Business Bureau lips It’s no use relying on TV and the press for information about Africa. The continent from which the ancestors of Black Americans came has the fbwest priority to the media and is of little interst to our foreign policy. Misconceptions and stereotypes about African peoples and their ways of life are promoted by the occasional sensational story. Only when things go wrong, as they do on occasion anywhere, does the issue find its way into magazine or newspaper. For * more* accurate' insight one needs to turn to books. Here are a few diverse good ones in time for Christmas shopping. Professor Elliot Skinner, a Black American, is a former ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta. His book on African Urban Life (Princeton Univ. Press) is heavy going because he makes few concessions to our ignorance. But his description of life in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Upper Volta, can be relied on for accuracy and insight. His description of a growing modern city counters the idea that Africans only live in bush villages. Most art books are unbelievably expensive. James J. Sweeney’s African Sculpture is a bargain at $3.95^ even with the pictures in black and white (also Princeton). It provides an introduction to the richness of African treasures in wood, bronze, ivory, gold, and terracotta, which have inspired and influenced European artists since the beginning of the century. Research has unearthed much of the history of West Africa which whites used to claim did not exist. A major collective work in two volumes by many authors is Food shortages have already resulted in starvation deaths in some parts of the world. Many other countries are threatened with prospects of starvation. Food prices have reached new highs. The increasing cost of food threatens to cause serious hardship for many people of History of West Africa (Columbia Univ. Press). It is edited by the forem(»t African historian, Professor J. F. Ade Ajayi. This ensures that it is accurate and takes an African viewpoint rather than focusing on European activities. A good popular book for a bright teenager is The African Adventure by Timothy Severin (E. P. Dutton and Co.). Although it deals with 400 years of African exploration, it gives the civilizations and kingdoms the explorers found due credit. If there’s one thing a consumer doesn’t need to be told these days, it’s that the cost of most items on the household budget has been soaring. Since 1967, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) -- used by the* Federal Government to measure the average price change of consumer goods and services - has gone up 51.9 jrercent. That’s a statistic you see reflected in price tags everytime you go into a store. The Better Business Bureau offers you no' great secret on how to combat this inflation, but it does offer a listing of household items that have suffered the greatest price increases in the last seven years. These items are among those used in calculating the CPI each month. Perhaps in reading over this list you will find some expenses that dominate your own household budget, and which therefore help to explain why your particular budget has gone up as much as it has. MADISON AVE. IS GOING TO HELP INFLATION By Congressman Gus Hawkins Dear Consumer Whats Behind Win V. Knauer By You may already have seen people wearing red lapel buttons with three white letters: W-I-N. Have you wondered what this button means? WIN stands for “Whip Inflation Now” “ the slogan of a new volunteer catnpaign initiated by President Ford. The President has asked all consumers to sign up as “inflation fighters and energy savers.” A coupon for volunteers to use has been appearing in newspapers throughout the country. Those who do vounteer will receive a WIN button, as well as a certificate and a variety of publicatioiis containing inflation-fighting tips. Since WIN is a citizens’ volunteer effort, it will be directed by a private citizens’ organization, the Citizens Action Committee to Fight Inflation. President Ford has 'appointed consumer economics columnist Sylvia Porter as chairman and appointed these others as committee members: Maryo Joseph Aiioio, San Francisco. U.C. Conference of Mayors*. Arch N. Booth, Chamber of Commerce of the L.S.; Roger Fellows, University of Minnesota; David L. Hale, U.S. Jaycees; Lillie Herndon, National Congress of Parents and Teachers; Robert P. Keim, Advertising Council; Carroll E. Miller, General Federation of Women’s Clubs; William J. Moyer, Central Springkler Co.; George Myers, Consumer Federation of .America; Ralph Nader, consumer advocate;/ Leo Perils, AFL-CIO; Gov. Calvin Hampton, Utah, National Governors Conference; Stanford Smith, American Newspaper Publishers Association; Frank Stanton, American National Red Cross; Vincent T. Wasilewski National Association of Broadcasters; Roy Wilkins, NAACP; Douglas Woodruff, American Association of Retired Persons. More committee members may be appointed later. Watch this newspaper for' further announcements about WIN and the Citizens Action Committee to Fight Inflation and for information about how to involve yourself in the campaign. The President has decided' he can bolster his failing WIN (Whip Inflation Now) campaign by engaging Madison Avenue sharpsters to sell Americans his highly controversial, partisan antiinflation package. If my memory serves me correctly, these are the same sharpsters that slickly produced and programmed Mr. Nixon for his 1968 and 1972 campaigns, and resulted in giving the country the most damaged goods, wrapped in presidential garb, thaf the Nation had ever experienced. Now we are about to be hit again by the media boys, through the auspices of the tax-exempt, non-partisan National Advertising Council; the Council, whichjs supposed to “remain non-partisan and non-political” (according to its own bylaws) will have as its prime objective, the selling of the President’s WIN scheme. (In this case, through the use of Public Service Advertising, as the gimmick!) The President’s so-called anti-inflation program, is still a no-WIN idea in my mind, because of its heavy emphasis on raising the taxes of the average person - either directly in the form of payroll deductions, or indirectly by increased taxe§ on consumer items (ten to twenty cents on gasoline for example) its incessant emphasis on sacrifice by consumers only to the exclusion of big business; its repeated denials that 5,0(X).000 unemployed people is not a sign of a recession; its attempts to give big business innumerable ta^*breaks and tax benefits; its deafening silence on corporate excess profits, corporate price-fixing, corporate runaway price increases and corporate insensitivity to the country’s impending economic disaster. I don’t need Madison Avenue advertising to tell me that I’m not hurting, when I know I am. Aside from the fact that I’d rather take my advertising, with a bag of popcorn in my hand, as I sleepily watch an inordinate number of T.V. reruns, I am amazed that the National Advertising Council is now willing to sully its good reputation. Its involvement as a major propaganda organ for the Administration, on an issue that is volatile because of its controversy - will in the long run immerse the Council in very damaging, muddy waters. The issue of the Council propagandizing for the Administration is also one of ethics; the question of whether or not a tax exempt organization can legitimately and legally enter into partisan politics, and only present one side, is an essentially pertinent question. An additional concern is whether such •advertising is really “free.” In reality the American taxpayer is going to foot the bill on this one; all of the costs of this one-sided Presidential campaign are going to be passed on to the consuming American public. Somebody is going to be billed by the National Advertising Council; and since the Council is composed of big business, big media, and big advertising agencies, guess who these free enterprisers are going to give the check to. The danger inherent is a tax-exempt institution, like the Council, becoming engaged in a controversial issue that is of National concern, is the fact that through clever, slick, advertising the Council ,may becloud the real issues. The real issues in this inflationary struggle are that all citizens of this Nation need to determine how best to resolve inflation and recession; that big business must make realistic sacrifices which will cause employment to rise, prices to decrease, production to increase; that all segments of the society must have equal access to the public media when controversial subjects are of local or national interest; that the public media must remain free so that all sides of important public issues are fairly and fully presented. If AVIN has the slightest chance of winning - and I only wish it were the answer - all of the burning issues surrounding it, must be openly explored and resolved. The National Advertising Council’s intrusion into this highly loaded issue - is a no-win fcM* everyone! My main agenda in this matter is to alert the American people to the insidious possibility of the, National Advertising Council using public service advertising as a propagandistic guise to sell the President’s WIN Program. In a recent legal case involving the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Federal Communications Commission, the United States Court of Appeals said: “If the words and views of^ the President become a monolithic force, if they constitute not just the most powerful voice in the land but the only voice, then the delicate mechanism through , which an enlightened public opinion is distilled, far from being strengthened, is thrown dangerously off balance. Public opinion becomes not informed and «ili^tened, but instructed and dominated.” already spending most what they have on food. In the light of this background it is tragic to note that only one-third of the nation’s eligible poor are participating in the food stamp program. This has been charged by a consortium of legal services groups, who have filed suits in 17 states. The suits charged that there are, violations of Congressional orders to enroll the poor in the food stamp program. The suits further charged that states have underspent money in getting necessary information to residents. Roger Schwartz, staff attorney for the Food Research and Action Center, N.Y., which has been one of the principal sponsors of the suits, disclosed that there are 37 to 40 million persons potentially eligible for the food stamps program. Congress is asking for a $4 billion appropriation for the program for this fiscal year. Suits have been filed in Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia. The Department of Agriculture was named in one suit. Apart from not receiving enough information, as has been charged in these suits, a number of poor families return their food stamp authorization because they cannot afford the outlay of cash. This was indicated by Sidney Brooks, Director of the Food Stamp program. Department of Social Services in New York. For example, a family of seven would have to pay $76 to secure $115 worth of food. It is truly unfortunate that because of lack of effective administrative measures, the food stamp program is failing to provide sufficient assistance to those who need it most. With the 74th NBL Convention behind us, now comes the enjoyable part - sharing the excitement of that occasion with you. Given the quality of the hundreds of participants, it is almost impossible to find a starting point. But one thing is crystal clear, the crowd that gathered at the Atlanta Marriott, Paschals and every hotel in the area were not there to party. They had come to seek solutions which are evident by the quality of the “action resolutions” that are being circulated to the President, ’the Congress and the Federal Government agency heads, etc. With 47 colleges sending over 2(X) students, a brand new dimension was added to our organization and annual convention. The student delegates presented a resolution which established the National Student Business League and the National Association of Black Student Communicators as affiliates of NBL. When that resolution passed on the floor of our Annual Meeting of Members, unanimously, history was made! From a personal viewpoint, it means that NBL had been singled out to live, not by the “oldtimers,” but by the next generation of business persons. But the sparks had only just begun to fly. The National Business League was ready for everything that occurred in Atlanta. We demonstrated that Black America was no longer divided by artificial partitions of age, ideologies, religions, class or caste. Perhaps America was caught off guard, but change is like that. We went to Atlanta by the hundreds, some with reservations others angry because we should have known they were coming . . . from Black capitalists to the Black Muslims . .. from 18 to 88 ... from the New York Times to the Columbus, Georgia, Times! Atlanta heard from NBL and America heard “good news” from the heartland of the South. Anjierica has heard from Atlanta time and time again: Booker T. Washington in 1895, SNCC, Martin, Morehouse, Whitney, Voter Registration Drives, Julian Bond, Poppa King, Hendfn Russell, Q. V., Maynard! We are just beginning - has always been the message ~ and you’d better run fast America just to keep pace because Black Americans have begun to understand “The Power of . Unity.” Black Politicians, Brown Americans, Red Americans, Black scholars, college administrators and the clergy of , all faiths - NBLJs a place that ¡ everyone calls home. Morticians. beauticians, insurance company giants, , small store operators, govei*iiment officials defending their programs which they designed without asking . the people - but willing to listen because the annual NBL ^ Convention is the place where the rubber hits the road! We’ll do it year after year. ; But, it costs money and I believe the agencies that benefit should help foot the bills. We’ve been maligned by the same people who stand to gain the most. But NBL has a new will and a new strength of its own. After 74 years, we have again begun to get down to the® original mission and the business *iit hand. ^ The youngsters have just spoken and we thank God for them. ' Hodari Ali, News Editor of the Hilltop at Howard University will tell you about the message from the Honorable Elijah Muhammed when he visits here in my place. We join hands with young and old, all people - A Luta Continua! (The Struggle continues.) THE FAMILY LA\VYER - Proving Poverty How poor does an accused person have to be in order to quality for free legal counsel? This question is arising more frequently, now that the courts have broadened the rights of the indigent to have a lawyer provided at government expense. To begin with, he need not be absolutely penniless. Take the case of a man arrested on a felony charge. He had $100 in cash, but no other assets or income of any kind. A court ruled that he wais entitled to have a lawyer appointed for him. “It is not necessary that an accused person be utterly destitute,” said one judge. “Indigence is a relative term, and must be measured in each case by the service to be furnished. It connotes a lack of resources which, in the light of everyday practicalities, prevents the employment of competent counsel.”

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