Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1978 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER SATURDAY. DfOMUR 2, 1*71

Inflation advisor tell it like it is

All the anti-inflation shouting and screaming emanating from the White House these past few days is more, thank goodness, than just histrionics. To those of us who hate inflation more than anything else, that ought to be music to our ears. Chief shouter and loudest screamer in all this cacophony is a crusty old entrepreneur called Alfred Kahn. He bears the banner of chief inflation adviser to the President, and stands at the head of his class when it comes to delivering no-holds barred, tell-it-like-it-is comments on our economy and what might lie ahead for it if we don’t mend our inflation waysfast! Kahn's messages moved to the headlines when he frightened many of his fellow citizens by tossing about such terms as “depression” (“deep, deep, depression”, were his exact words). He used these fear-

Lest it be overlooked, Kahn is fresh from a triumphant tour of office as CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) boss. While reigning monarch of this important department he led an industry bogged down in regulatory red tape and bureaucratic bungling out into the sunshine of free competition. The results of this enlightened leadership were just what you’d expect: lower prices (fares), more customers (passengers), more and better service (for the customers), more profits (for the airlines), more growth, more of everything that’s good in a democratic free enterprise system. He also battered away at mandatory wage and price controls, openly challenging their ability to do anything good for anybody. He rightly said that the American people won’t accept them and that they won’t work.

Kahn sfees increased productivity as one of the prime keys to rattling inflation’s chains. When this occurs, he points out, wages can be raised without doing the same to prices-a habit that’s become common to the point of inflation irresponsibility in recent years. Inflation’s most formidable enemy, apart from Kahn, is a free economy with almost no facet of it subject to government or any other kind of regulation. Our final comment on the subject, for this week, is a philosophic one: Elbert Hubbard, a literary gentleman of sorts, was asked once what he thought of Christianity: He replied, “I think it’s great. I’d like to see it tried sometime.” We’d like to make the same observation about free enterprise: We’d like to see it tried sometime!

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“Black Expressions”

CHRISTMAS TIME: CorlettA R. LaGrange, 6, daughter of Margaret LaG range, 4915 Evanston, poses for the camera after making sure good ( ol Santa's got her Christinas order straight at the Gift & Hobby Show held recently at the State Fairgrounds. [Recorder photo by Marcell Williams]

By MICHAEL W.GRENE •ZOOM’S SCOOP* Black Expressions Personified Check me out'!! lama candle flaming with detire burning with disgust melting in exhaustion Yet/I still remain erect standing straight and tall proudly proclaiming that I am a candle and I will see the light because / I am not afraid of the dark... MWG/mwg More than 220 years ago, Africans, being divorced from their native languages, continued to convey “Black Expressions” in the American literary forms. Hence--The

Cited by Nat’l Municipal League - Atty Faye Williams, former Governor Welsh, distinguished citizen awardees

LOUISVILLETwo prominent Indianapolis attorneys were presented the National Municipal Leauge’s Distinguished Citizens Award at the league’s 84th Confernce on Government, which convened here. Faye Williams, president of the 25-member citizens board of directors of the Community Service Council of Metropolitan Indianapolis, received her citation from Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. Co-recipient of the “distinguished citizen” honors was former Indiana Governor Matthew Welsh, presented his award by Cecil Morgan, Dean Emeritus of the Tulane University Law School. Both Scranton and Morgan are past presidents of the league. The league is a non-partisan citizen organization engaged : n a continuing fight to assure more effective state and local government through citizen involvement. It is the only national forum which annually brings together several hun-

FAY WILLIAMS dred civic, business, labor leaders, public officials and lay citizens to consider the basic structural and process problems of state and local government- with emphasis on organized citizen involvement. Election of officers was also conducted during the league’s conference, titled, “Building Civic Capacity.” One of Indianapolis’ most astute attorneys, Ms. Williams’ efforts in civic and voluntary programs have combined to

form an outstanding record of achievement in areas of civil rights, social service, education, community and citizen organization. She is assistant Majority Counsel to the Indiana State, has been consultant to numerous governmental groups, and has served in several capacities with the League of Women's Voters of the United States and the National Municipal League. Former Indiana Governor Welsh has given many years of devoted service to the state of Indiana, as United States attorney, member of both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly, as well as co-chairman of a Constitutional Revision Commission which expired in 1972. Welsh was also chairman for four years of the U.S. Section of International Joint Commission for the United States and Canada, and an officer of the National Governor’s Conference and the National Municipal League.

Clean lungs for children is important

Birth of Afro-American poetry. Lucy Terry--a slave girl from Deerfield, Massechusetts-has been given official credit for being the first “Negro” poet. Of course, it is common knowledge that “Negro” poets have existed for quite sometime. Black poetry can be traced as far back as Black life. Jupiter Hammon, a Long island slave, became the first \fro-American poet to be published in 1760 (an eighty-eight-line religious poem printed as a broadside). The first Afro-American to publish a volume of verse was Phyllis Wheatley, a Boston slave. Wheatley's 124 page volume was printed in London ill 1773. Terry, Hammon and Wheatley were all brilliant writers, and I would not even begin to think of discrediting them. However, as in so many cases of Black literary art forms, too many important writers are ignored or overlooked-all because some self-proclaimed expert decides who is “important” and who is not. As a result, many Blacks are turned off by poetry simply because they cannot relate to the styles used by those authors who they are forced to read-they have few options readily available to

them.

Steven Henderson states in his anthology, Understanding the New Black Poetry, that the poetry of Afro-Americans have “been widely misunderstood, misinterpreted, and undervalued for a variety of reasonsaesthetic, cultural, and politi-cal-especially by white critics; but with the exception of the work of a few established figures, it has also been suspect by many Black academicans whose literary judgements are self-consciously “objective” and whose cultural values, while avowedly “American,” are essentially European.” From Claude McKay’s classic, “If We Must Die,” to Mari Evans “Vive Noir!” the basic structure of black poetry has remained more or less identical. Of course, the diction of black poetry has changed, as does the diction of the black mans. However, the major difference between the Harlem

Renassaince poetry and the contemporary black poetry lies within the themes incorporated in the poems. Claude McKay wrote, “If we must die, let it not be like hogs... Like men well face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" McKay, as well as the other poets of the Renaissance began to speak out against their oppressors, indicating that they would no longer stand by* idly while being killed off.. However, there exists a tone of subjection in their poetry. The focus is protest, and later masterbatory art of “honkie chants". Mari Evans, on the other hand, writes:

“i

am going to rise en masse from inner city... i'm gonna spread out over America intrude my black proudness all over the place... ” This passage expresses the new black voice; the new black attitude. Ron Welburn, one of the new black poets and critics, explained it this way in a review in the New York Times Book Review: “The blackarts movement has reached a new level of commitment and sophistication; its’ focus is no longer protest against white America, but an embracement and celebration of the black experience.” Structurally, black poetry has basically remained the same. However, the black diction has changed according to the rythems and moods of the times. Thus, there is really no difference in black poetry, only a striking upheavel of black awareness. Black poetry is Black life!!! From the Baptist minister in his pulpit to the brother on the corner- Black poetry is everywhere. Unfortunatly, too many of us don’t recognize that everything about us IS poetry - our walks, our talks, our scents...Everything! Black poetry is the very essence of Black life.

Preventing and treating lung disease in children is important because lung disease can last a lifetime, says the American Lung Association. "Any disease which occurs f wrly in life may inhibit growth and damage the lungs permanently,” says Dr. Lynn Taussig, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. Dr. Taussig points to studies which show a relationship between lower respiratory tract illness in early life and chronic lung disease in adulthood. Contributing factors in childhood diseases include: air pollution; smoking, including exposure to secondhand smoke; social factors; genetic factors; infections; and asthma. One study of 3,000 newborns and their families showed that at age 20 the prevalence of chronic cough was nearly double for those with a history of one or more lower respiratory tract illnesses prior to age two. The study focused only on those who had never smoked. One recent study has shown that the rate of hospital admission for pneumonia and

bronchitis was nearly 50 percent higher among infants of mothers who smoked than it was among infants of nonsmoking mothers. Smoking mothers and fathers are a major concern of the Lung Association of Central Indiana, said Joseph A Caparo, program director of the association and director of its anti-smoking activities. Through the Indiana Interagency on Smoking and

Health, Caparo said, “we’re attempting to gain legislative approval of a bill to ban smoking in certain public places.” Lung association programming, he added, attempts to get adult smokers to “Kick The Habit” and the association invites smokers who want help in quitting the smoking habit to register for one of the association’s smoking withdrawal programs soon.

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