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NEWS-REVIEW December 30, 1971 -
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THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE PRESIDENT
REMOVED THE 10% SUR TAX)
WALKING WITH DIGNITY
By
Al Irby
(PRESIDENT NIXON’S 10 PER CENT SUR TAX IS OPENING
UP THE COUNTRY TO AN INVASION OF ENTERPRISE) - -
(JAPANESE SUPER SALESMEN).
Mr. Nixon and his financial advisors did not expect to see the
country that his sur-tax was primarily aimed at turn it around
and make of it a blessing in disguise.
It was obvious that Japan was exporting to the U.S. at a terrific
clip. They had all but bankrupted Southern textiles,
Automobiles, radios, motorcycles, and numerous other heavy
consumer goods. Japan had almost wrecked our economy
withstanding organized labor’s protest.
Japan was stunned by this sudden extra tax imposed upon all
industrial countries, friends and foes alike. But it was not like
these little orientals to let one set-back stymie them.
One of their American-based trading agencies, Mitsui & Co. was
left twiddling their thumbs after the embargo was put on their
American multi-billion dollar business. So the word came over
from Tokyo to their plush offices in the Pan Am. Building in New
York City to this effect; “If you can’t make money selling
Japanese goods in America, look for some American products to
peddle anywhere in the world.”
The Company’s large group of western-educated young
Japanese attired in the latest “Brook Brothers” styles started to
make rounds to small American companies to tell them how
Mitsui & Co. can sell their product on a global scale.
These small companies are shown how this Japanese company
can give them financial help, market surveys, and contacts that
know the pit-falls of world markets. Many of these firms had
rarely thought of exporting, and many of them are black owned.
This third-country dealing by the Japanese Trading houses - that
are buying and selling between two non-Nipponese nations are
being gradually developed as the concern companies seek to
cut-in on the international markets. U.S. recent surcharge has
given this trend a powerful boost. Mr. Tohru Cho, a Mitsui
official made this statement to a group of Puerto-Rican and black
business men in Spanish Harlem: “We are pushing for you all, and
we are working with the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance
your firms.”
Another top executive, Takeshi Sakurauchi did some poetic
philosophizing about the administration’s current sur-tax, by
calling President Nixon Commodore. He pointed out that “when
Commodore Perry opened Japan up the the modern world, we
kicked, and we wouldn’t open our doors. But finally we did and
took the West in. Now maybe Commodore Nixon will make us
more global-minded.”
Mitsui & Co. isn’t the largest trading house in Japan, but it is
leading the parade abroad. It has 135 foreign ventures with equity
and loan investment of $265 million from coal mines to a
nylon-fishnet company to a synthetic-rubber plant.
This is the first foreign monetary company, that has taken an
interest in black businesses in the U.S. Mitsui has the know-how
and the international facilities to assist the small firms. Mitsui has
120 offices abroad - not only in 7/nrld capitals, but also in such
obscure cities as Tachna, Peru, and Paradeep, India.
Yearly, Mitsui sends many promising young men to unversities
in cities like Paris and Beirut to learn languages. Hundreds of
others take intensive language courses offered by the company in
Japan. Every day Mitsui representatives abroad cable political and
economic reports to the Tokyo home office. A large group of
American Black businessmen, made a recent trip to Japan, to
inspect the home-based operation.
To demonstrate the keen business ingenuity of this oriental
trading house, on the home-office wall hangs a 65 page calendar
listing every holiday in the world. For instance not many
messages went out Monday, July sth, on official notes.
Americans were celebrating a delayed Fourth. In Kitwe, Zambia,
it was Heros’ Day. In Algeria it was National Day. And in
Kuching, Sarawak, it was the governor’s birthday.
Mitsui & Co.’? commerical history traces back to early 1600.
This company created the first bank in Japan. It is older than the
Bank of England. By the end of World War 11, the Mitsui family
had created an industrial complex with tenacles throughout
Japan.
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I Roosevelt Green, Jr.
Black people in this country must engage in more self help
programs rather than continuing to depend largely on whites for
things we can do for ourselves. We must become as independent
as is realistically possible. It is absolutely mandatory at this stage
of the civil rights movement that black leaders assess the position
of blacks and then plan for the future.
We must move beyond rhetoric to reason and cease screaming
and start scheming. We must stop hollering and start helping and
begin to practice what we preach. Brotherhood must become
more than a slogan and civil rights should rot become silver
rights. Intelligent planning and thinking must take the place of
acting solely on the basis of emotions of the moment. If hatred
has not worked for whites it will not work for blacks. Blacks have
every right to be angry and filled with rage but we must
remember the old saying that those whom the gods will destroy
they must first make mad.
It is time that blacks stop asking whites for handouts to
support their churches and other activities when they could make
better use of what they have—whites nearly always have strings
tied to whatever they give if anything. While it is true that blacks
are not as rich or as well off as most whites, it is also true that we
do not make the best use of what we have - Sometimes the things
we have in our hands (like the Bibical Moses) are just as powerful
as the things we say we need and want.
Middle-class blacks must stop looking down on their lower
socio-economic group brothers and sisters. Those of us who have
achieved anything in this country must help those who have not
been as fortunate. Those of us who are educated must help the
uneducated. Those of us who have become wealthy should invest
in self-help programs in the black community. As the Rev. Arthur
Sims once said, “the only difference between middle and lower
income blacks is two payments on our “creature comforts”.” If
most of us miss two payments on our house, car, or furniture we
will be right where some of the folks who are “looked down” on
are, if not worse. Sometimes black parents work hard to send
their children to colleges and the children come back home
ashamed of their parents and their parents friends life styles.
In this racist white country all blacks are the same to the
majority of whites. You may have a Ph.D or no “D” and you are
still seen in negative terms. We must recognize and deal with the
fact that most whites will remain bigoted and prejudiced from the
“womb to the tomb.”
Finally, there is a lesson to be learned from blacks like the
honorable Elizah Mohammed and the Black Muslims self-help
programs. Also, the Rev. Leon Sullivan of Philadelphia and his
Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) program is a vital
one in the economic area. These two models deserve
consideration and imitation by black churches and other social
clubs and organizations. The main thing this country owes us is
the opportunity to build better black citizens and communities.
A MESSAGE FROM “MAN TO MAN” ORGANIZATION
We the members of Man To Man Organization want to leave
our last appeal of 1971 to you. While looking into the fight for
recognition in this nation, we’ve had only a few men to stand up
for his fellow men. Our man today is Mr. James Brown. Mr.
Brown is a native of Augusta, Georgia. He has represented this
nation and this city from the White House dining room to the
homeland of all black people, Africa. He’s been honored by
Kings, Queens, Emperors, and princes.... Not because he is the
world’s number one entertainer but because as an entertainer he
carries a message to his people. He is a man who, through blood,
sweat and tears, grew up from a shoeshine boy in the ghettoes of
this city to the best of his trade. We’ve asked that Gwinnett
Street be renamed James Brown Boulevard. However the people
of this city don’t seem to favor it. Why not? Would they rather
continue having it named after a slave-master? Some people ask
“what has he done for me”? Let’s tell them. He gave scholarships
through Paine College; he owns and operates the only radio
station where the public can truly speak their views; he urges our
children to stay in school and get an education; he has made us
aware that black is truly beautiful; he kept our city from burning
down in the time of riots; he gives money and food to destitute
people almost everyday.
We, the members of Man To Man Organization, have seen fit to
shamefully say that the people of Augusta have been very unfair
to Mr. James Brown. The people of Augusta have failed to
understand the man, Mr. James Brown. He is soulfully the
supporter of the “feed a kid” program. If not for Mr. Brown, this
program would have failed. He doesn’t help just for recognition....
He does it for people.... Not just black people. All people.... for
mankind. But yet people ask what he has done.
Think: This is the same man who made blacks lift their heads
and be proud.... Everyday he encourages our children to lead
clean prosperous lives, through education. Augusta may still be
ignorant to his position and value and fail to stand behind him
but yet he fights for us everyday.
MAN TO MAN ORGANIZATION
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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AREA PLANNED
PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION
CLINICAL TRIALS BEGIN ON A REVERSIBLE VASECTOMY
DEVICE
A valve that can be turned on or off like a faucet may control a
man’s ability to procreate after vasectomy if clinical trials now in
progress prove successful. Dr. Josepth E. Davis, a N.Y. urologist,
reports that it has worked well in guinea pigs and now is being
tried in 10 men. Dr. Davis’ valve, called the Bionyx Control, is a
T-shaped device made of gold and stainless steel. The crossbar,
containing a microvalve, fits inside the sperm duct with the leg of
the “T” projecting so that the valve can be turned to the “on” or
“off’ position. Dr. Davis and his associate, Dr. Matthew Freund,
both on the staff of N.Y. Medical College, estimate that the
device will be ready for extensive clinical trials in a few years.
Other less-developed approaches in the search for a reversible
vasectomy technique include a metal clip to close the opening of
the sperm duct; a tube that can be inflated within the duct; a
series of connected beads inside the duct, and plugs made of
snythetic inert materials.
NO SIDE EFFECTS SEEN IN EARLY TEST OF NEW BIRTH
CONTROL METHOD
A birth control method for women which is expected to
prevent conception without undersirable side effects is being
tested on 1,000 women in the U.S. and Mexico by researchers for
the Alza Corporation of Palo Alto, Calif. The device is a soft,
flexible membrane-enclosed drug packet which, inserted directly
into the uterus by a physician, releases minute amounts of
progesterone -a natural female hormone. The drug action
slightly alters the hormone balance within the uterus and seems
to prevent the endometrium from accepting a fertilized egg. The
quantity released from the packet is so small that ovulation
continues normally, experimenters report, and there are no side
effects such as abnormal bleeding or discomfort. The amount of
progesterone needed to prevent pregnancy for one year by this
method is about the same as that in a single day’s dose of an oral
contraceptive. A new packet can be inserted each year that a
woman wishes to control her fertility. Alza Corporation
representatives say that clinical tests of the device will continue
for at least three more years before FDA safety requirements can
be met.
N.Y.C. HEALTH SERVICES HEAD URGES UNIFORM
ABORTION LAWS
The New York State law allowing abortion on request within
the first 24 weeks of pregnancy has been so effective it could be a
model for the rest of the nation, according to N.Y. City’s Health
Service Administrator. In his appearance before the Commission
on Population Growth and the American Future, Gordon vnase
reported figures indicating an excellent safety record and fewer
illegitimate births and criminal abortions since the law went into
effect on July 1, 1970. Urging more uniform abortion laws, Mr.
Chase said the procedure would be even safer if women did not
have to leave the state to return home after an abortion, “away
from the source of their initial care.” In the 14 months ending
Sept. 1, 1971, an estimated 205,615 legal abortions were
performed in N.Y.C., he reported. Os these, 58.5 per cent of the
patients came from other states.
SCIENTISTS SEE IDEAL CONTRACEPTIVE MANY YEARS
AND ssss AWAY
A poll of 51 top scientists, including 21 American Nobel
Prize-winners, on the status of and needs for population research
produced a consensus that effective new methods are in the
offering but should cost the U.S. at least S4OO million in the next
five years. The Committee report was presented at a news
conference by Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) who joined the
scientists in their plea for more vigorous federal action. “No field
of federal research policy has been more neglected than
population,” commented Sen. Cranston, pointing out that the
U.S. currently spends only S3B million in research in human
reproduction and population Reversible means of male
sterilization, immunization with antibodies “against” pregnancy
or ovulation, and use of brain hormones to control fertility were
among contraceptive developments seen as future possibilities.
Stressing the need for further research, Dr. Joseph D. Beasley,
Director of Family Health in New Orleans and Planned
Parenthood national Board chairman, said that “at present there
is no contraceptive method that is effective, safe, inexpensive,
reversible, self-administered, and acceptable to all people.” The
report included statements by Dr. John Rock, inventor of “the
Pill”, and Dr. Jack Lippes, who developed the “Lippes Loop”,
the pioneering intrauterine device (IUD).
POPULATION COMMISSION HEARS PLEA FOR HIGH
SCHOOL SEX EDUCATION
Three New York City students urged the provision of sex
education in U.S. high schools and contraceptive devices for all
who want them, regardless of age or parental consent, at public
hearings conducted during the last week of September by the
Commission on Population Growth and the American Future.
One of the students noted that N.Y.City’s Board of Education
syllabus on the subject makes no reference to contraception. She
reported that a hygiene teacher, when asked what contraceptive
method she would recommend for a 16-year-old girl, replied:
“Sleep with your grandmother.” The student witness, 16-year-old
Hariette Surovell, said “it is obvious that the answer to this
problem is not to tell teenagers to stop having sex. The solution is
that we be taught methods of birth control and where to obtain
contraceptives.” As it is, she added, “most girls just pray.” Betty
Rollin, a former senior editor of Look magazine, also appeared
before the Commission and urged destruction of “the
motherhood myth”. She said it was “absurd and dangerous” to
assume that because “most women are equipped to bear children,
they are psychologically, emotionally or technically equipped to
rear them.” That, she commented, “is like assuming that
everyone with vocal chords should seek a career in the opera.”
Other witnesses included Manhattan Borough President Percy
Sutton and Alyce K. Friend, a practical nurse working with the
Planned Parenthood League of Rochester, N.Y. Both told the
Commission that black and minority women do not consider
unrestricted abortion a form of genocide. The PP nurse said the
question of genocide usually was raised only by the men in those
groups. The N.Y. session was the last in a series of cross-country
hearings conducted by the Commission headed by John D.
Rockefeller 3rd. Its final report and recommendations will be
submitted to the President and the Congress in March.
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1971 - THE YEAR OF PHONY ISSUES
The year just grinding to an end has been an eventful one, but
so much heat and energy was expended on superficial issues to
the avoidance of the real ones that we may call it the year of the
phony issues.
Busing is a prime example of the issues that made headlines all
over the country. Political leaders at all levels of government
siezed upon it as the kind of issue that gets people mad and helps
other people get elected. The public’s misunderstanding of the
real factors behind busing helped to make it one of those
controversial things that evoke an emotional response. Political
promises not to “force” busing on a community, and similar
misleading statements, only served to encourage resistance to the
law and to court orders, and to bury the real issues in emotional
verbiage.
The real issue is and always was quality education for all
children. There’s no plot to rope all youngsters onto buses. When
black children were bused past all-white school to attend all-black
ones, no one complained about busing. If busing could be used as
a device to defy the law it now can be used as a device to comply
with the law.
It’s just one of many ways in which the schools can be
integrated. That’s the law of the land, and if housing segregation
weren’t so rigid there would be no need for busing. Instead of
focusing attention on the real issue of making the schools work
for children of all races and economic backgrounds, we’ve
become mired in the muddy, phony issue of the school bus.
It’s the same in housing. The year saw many middle and upper
income areas wage a fight to keep poor people and black people
out. Again, instead of talking about the real issue - access to
decent housing for all -- the country became bogged down in
drawing pointless distinctions between racial discrimination,
which is bad, and economic discrimination, which amounts to the
same thing, but is described as being all right.
In addition to the surfacing of these and other phony issues, it
was a year of marking time on major reforms in welfare, in
financing cities and states, and in ending poverty. Little has been
done in any of these areas, reflecting the distortion of national
priorities in 1971.
Perhaps the most spectacular, as well as the most significant
single event was the prison rising at Attica. This was a terrible
tragedy. The blood spilled in the prison yard at Attica will have
been spilled in vain if it does not lead to a broad national program
of prison reform. That’s the real issue -- the function of the penal
system and its reform so that men may be returned to society
with a chance to become productive citizens. Instead, the phony
issues seemed to quickly dominate the discussions of the Attica
revolt and people who should know better wound up talking
about how prisons can be made more secure and oppressive.
This was also a year in which the Supreme Court gained two
new members of a conservative cast. It is now very likely that the
Court, once a refuge for the rights of poor and minority people,
will become yet another example of institutional
unresponsiveness to their needs.
And 1971 was a year that opened and closed with the deaths
of great black men. In March, Whitney Young was taken from us
in his prime, and black people from all walks of life and all
viewpoints mourned the passing of this battler for justice and
dignity. Then, as the year closed, Ralph Bunche, whose
international fame as a peacemaker overshadowed his role as one
of the great pioneers of black consciousness, died at 67. The loss
of these two giants alone is enough to make 1971 a year of
sorrow for black people and for all who value a better society.
Let us hope that the new year will bring the peace and progress
we all yearn for.
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