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NEWS-REVIEW December 30, 1971 - j HWalking > II Wrt* l StfE I I I Dignity ; : i | Üby Al Irby V / ITJTP 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. THE NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 930 Gwinnett Street - Augusta, Georgia Mallory K. Millender Editor and Publisher Mailing Address: Box 953 Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4555 Second Class Postage Paid Augusta. Ga. 30901 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One Year in Richmond County $2.50 tax inch One Year elsewheres3.oo tax incl. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Classified Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday Display Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday Office Hours -10:30 a.m. to 6 pan. Mon. thru. Fri. I ' “ 2= Page 2 I |Mh| Speaking vx- Kt. • | H ::: ‘ I I] Bl Os I lljw* Athens J I Bill By 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 Paid For By Man To Man FROM jFFk THE PILL BOX Father Streett 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. < TO BE fKjgJ 1 EQUAL tfJK] Verno»> E. Jordan, Jr. L 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. rilh. COMP\S> Til \TC\IiES" WE TR> A LITTLE HARDER—. —BECAUSE WE \RE BLACK !!! SERXING YOU XXEIII THE BEST IV- »HII CHIOS SI. 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