Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1972 Page: 4 of 24
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Page Four
Guest Spot
Honesty Important
In Recruiting
Recruiting. That's big business for the Army. And
it has to be—if the Army is going to be all volunteer.
The 1st Cav. Div. and the 2nd Armd. Div. recently
received an increase in their unit-of-choice recruiting
budgets—$90000 each.
This brings the total revenue funds for the VOLAR
program to $107500 for the First Team and $106100
for the Hell On Wheeils Division.
That's a lot of money. Use it wisely recruiters.
And to use it wisely we think the recruiters should
be honest when telling future volunteer soldiers about
what the Army has to offer.
Don't just tell them the good aspects—tell them
some of the flaws that exist—that the Army is trying
to correct them. Be honest.
Young people today respect honesty—if fact they
expect it and they should get it.
Tell them that the barracks are not always as at
tractive or modern as they should be but the prob
lem is being worked on. The 1st Cav. Div. will be
moving into a few new barracks this spring.
But there still is a lot of improvements to be made.
Tell them that. That's honesty. They may think more
of you—and the Army.
When you're honest—the $90000 for recruiting
may not seem like such a giant sum to spend. The pub
lic may be more receptive. And maybe just maybe
on all-volunteer Army could become a reality. (GK)
You-An Individual
Really Important
BLACK white black WHITE BLACK WHITE—
you hear a lot and talk a lot about color these days.
In a newspaper like this one on the television on
the radio the 5 o'clock news the 7 o'clock news the
late evening news the morning news all the time—
talk—(balk—talk. Enough to make a person color blind.
So? What's the problem? Problem is that with
so much color talk going around and around people
start thinking that way not about you and me but
about black and white. Sort of a mental shorthand.
It seems as if it's easier to think about one big group
than it is to think about one small individual and
that's a problem:
You may be black and proud of it white and con
fused yellow and hungry—but there's one thing that
comes first—YOU the individual. Whatever you have
done will do—or become first things first—you are
an individual a single entity one person you are YOU.
So if you are an individual and he's one and I'm
one why don't we all start thinking as individuals—of
individuals. He's not just a black or a white or any
color—he is a person and it might work better if you
talk to him first not his 'color.' It's simple don't judge
my color judge me.
I'm not saying that this is going to be the great
solution or that it's going to keep it cool in the sum
mer but it's something I can do something you can
do something we all can do do as individuals. And
maybe as individuals we can all get it together. (HSM)
WASHINGTON—Edith Efron's book "The News
Twisters" came forth from the Nash Publishing Com
pany October 11. Since then the shells have been
flying. Her thesis is that the three television networks
were guilty of gross bias during the presidential cam
paign of 1968.
The thesis of course is valid. Any English-speak
ing adult possessed of eyes ears and access to a
television set must know the thesis is valid. To a
considerable extent though not as blatantly as before
the situation documented by Miss Efron continues
to this day.
The value of Miss Efron's book Ides not so much
in its elaborate documentation though this was in
dispensable to her work. Her greater contribution lies
.in a pathological dissection of the body of "news"
as such. She compels us to think upon these things
and these things are immensely important to the whole
process of opinion formation in our country.
WHAT IS "NEWS?" God alone knows. At some
point in his life every editor reporter and professor
of journalism struggles to compose a satisfactory defini
tion. None has wholly succeeded. David Brinkley came
closest perhaps in his laconic remark that "news is
what I say it is." But the trouble with epigrams is
that they yield something of truth to the virtue of
brevity. It is not quite so brutally simple.
Even so Mr. Brinkley has it just about right.
The essence of news lies in the process of selection.
A happening in itself is not news it is not news
until it is reported. And who decides whether a hap
pening should be reported? Who selects this happening
in preference to some other happening? An editor's
honest answer just as Mr. Brinkley says is "I do."
When it comes to putting together a prime-time
network news program this process of selection is
what the game is all about and the process is
unbelievably complex. There are dull days and big
days.
A happening that might be used Monday is thus
not used Tuesday. Some happenings lend themselves
to visual preparation others don't. TV is partly show
biz: There has to be something light. Producers writers
What Is-News News Media Accused Of Bias
SPEC. 5 FRANKLIN
LINDSAY
HHC 2nd Bn. 67th Armor
I was born in 1932. At that
time I only knew my
grandmother and I don't
remember my family talking
about other generations. When
I joined the Army 14 years
ago I went to an all black
unit in Korea. Everyone I
worked lived and fought with
was black. We were soon in
tegrated with white units. I've
had a break in service since
and the Army has new equip
ment and methods but I
believe the Army has the
same basic attitude toward
blacks.
SPEC. 5 HARBISON CLARK
HHC 17th Eng.
My family can trace its
heritage back as. far as my
great-grandmother and that's
all. My study of black history
consists of an occasional book.
I once read for instance that
a black man invented the pro
tective mask. I believe it
would be good to have black
history classes taught in the
company. It would improve
understanding between people.
The Army has improved its
paperwork in helping blacks
but I feel it breaks down at
unit level to the "old Army".
I don't believe in tokenism
that is giving one guy a?
break and shafting others just
because they are of different
colors.
THE ARMORED SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
and anchor men are prisoneFs of the clock. But when
the red light signals air time in the studio someone
has to have made the decisions. This is news tonight
and this is not.
PERSONAL DECISIONS
Such decisions have to be personal no computer
can make them. They are the products of professional
judgment but that is merely another way of saying
that they are personal opinions. Miss Efron's point
is that in 1968 the judgments—or opinions—resulted
in a lopsidedly liberal bias in the network news.
Her documentation provides a thousand telling ex
amples. One issue in the fall of 1968 was U.S. policy
toward the war in Vietnam. During the seven-week
period of her study CBS carried one item only in
support of that policy. This was a 287 word excerpt
from a speech by Lyndon Johnson Oct. 9. But CBS
carried 20 items in this period totaling 651 words
on 13 different evenings in which that policy was
opposed.
Look at the record more closely. It was "news"
in the judgment of CBS that the war was opposed
by John Gilligan of Ohio George Ball Senator Morse
and Eldridge Cleaver.
This was not news at ABC. At ABC which carried
413 words in support of the war it was news
1476 words of news that Senator Fulbright Paul
O'Dwyer Senator McCarthy Senator Javits Dick
Gregory and Vanessa Redgrave opposed the war.
None of this in turn was news at NBC. Oddly
NBC reported no news whatever not a single word
in seven weeks in defense of the war policy but
it was news at NBC to the tune of 1017 words
that the war was opposed by among others Tom
Hayden of the SDS the president of Yale and a Con
necticut matron.
This is not a pattern of news it is a pattern
of bias and for this pattern the network news
executives have to be held-accountable. As we move
into the 1972 campaign viewers of the evening news
will want to keep the pattern of 1968 in mind and
be wary. (The Washington Star Syndicate) (James
J. Kilpatrick)
PFC KENNETH MERRITT
2nd Bn. 7th Cav.
I
had several black studies
courses in high school. There
is a lot of this "black stuff"
DAP you know. Well I find
that people get along okay
without it. Now I believe the
Army is making some pro
gress with blacks. Like with
these scout bikes they are
a in or a
methods. A lot of guys come
in the Army and get mad
at the Army. All I want to
do is what I have to and
get out. Meanwhile I try to
solve any problems myself.
History is useful only when it becomes the ex
perience upon which present actions and future plans
are based. In considering the background of Afro-
Americans one must remember that the black we
know as our friend neighbor or fellow worker is
the product of civilized activities covering 5000
years. It must also be realized that the modern
W
adventurous living
EXPLO '72 you may
have heard something about
it ... or have read about
it.
But whatever you have
heard you will be hearing
a lot more from now on. EX
PLO short for Spiritual Ex
plosion 1972 is the "Student
Congress on Evangelism" to
be held in Dallas June 12
17 to train an anticipated
100000 young Christian men
and women.
Training them in what?
Training students military
and lay men and women in
skills and techniques of ex
pressing and sharing their
faith and richness they they
enjoy in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why will you be hearing
By R. DON MASTERS
On the last day of this
month I end one career and
start my second. Some call
it retirement I don't.
As I reach that cross-road
in my life you'd think that
I wouldn't have any trouble
making a decision on my
future vocation.
But there are a few ques
tions should my new career
be aimed at (1) making
money (2) gaining prestige or
(3) searching for fame? Do
any of these mean "success"?
When looking at these ques
tions I remembered hearing
my grandfather talking with
a group of farmers at the
country store on a sunny
Saturday after the crops had
been put in.
Their conversation fooired
down to this—
"The only successful pien
SPEAKING OUT
With John
1ST LT. ALAN HATFIELD
Btry. A 1st Bn. 6th Arty.
I believe we have more in
telligent motivated blacks in
our unit. I have friends in
the infantry who do have pro
blems getting through to their
men. When I was platoon
leader we were always able
to joke around and kid each
other. There were problems
and I would help the soldier.
If I needed help I would turn
to a black NCO. I believe what
problems we have experienced
in the 1st Cav. Div. have been
caused by the rapid turn-over
between here and Vietnam. I
went to college in Illinois
where there was no black
studies program. I enlisted in
October 1969 and became an
officer a year later. I've been
here ever since.
more about it?
Because Lt. Gen. George P.
Seneff and Brig. Gen. F. B.
Hodson have given their full
support for EXPLO.
But besides just support
Gen. Seneff also has authoriz
ed that those persons who
wish to attend EXPLO this
June be given administrative
leave. That's leave that does
not count against you it's
free time.
But don't go just because
you want a free vacation. You
won't get one. Registration for
the six-day training con
ference is $20 (increasing to
$25 after March 1).
And be prepared to bring
$55 with you. That's the ex
pected maximum cost for
I know thoroughly enjoy their
work.
"A man doesn't have much
say over the first 25 years
of his life.
"He spends those years
finishing school serving in the
military and going to college.
"When you figure the
average man lives to be
around 75 that means he
only has control over the last
50 years of his life.
"In any 24-hour-day he
spends eight sleeping. That
leaves him just 16 hours a
day. If he doesn't enjoy his
work he's miserable. And that
misery carries over into the
eight hours a day set aside
for family and relaxation.
"Therefore a man who has
a job that he doesn't like is
actually throwing away half
of his life.
"And that man is a failure
Savard
American black has descended through the tribulat
ion of slavery where the very existence as human
beings was denied.
In connection with Black History week which
ends today Speaking Out asked blacks about their
heritage their views of the Army and improvements
of conditions in the Army as they relate to them.
STAFF SGT. ALYOUSE
WOODS
HHC 17th Eng.
I have been in the Army
for five years. During that
time I have seen one hell of
a change for blacks. The big
gest improvement I've seen
is the centralization of pro
motions. This eliminates the
discrimination which existed
when promotions were at unit
level. I have only learned a
little history concerning blacks
since the Civil War and that's
all.
EXPLO '72—Hear About It
And fellowship? With 100000
pi it he a
sisters in Christ attending
he re no a
friendship lacking. That's
because Jesus will be there
He said "Where-ever two
or more are gathered together
in my name I will there
also." (Mat. 18:20)
And He will be there for
Jesus does live today inside
the hearts of spirit-filled
Christians who have accepted
regardless of money
prestige or fame."
When I joined the Army I
knew from a tour as a Navy
enlisted man that money
wasn't the attraction. (At
least not in those days.)
Prestige? Not really and as
far as fame goes there
a re a A
Eisenhowers or Pattons.
What then was the drawing
card? Frankly for me the
release from money-grabbing
commercialism that I knew
a a ad it a
as as a
ring.
Fortunately I found in the
Army a camaraderie.unknown
in the civilian world a chance
to develop my individual
personality and a dedication
to a life of service not money
as the goal.
Friday February 18 1972
"Ask A Psychiatrist" is not available
this week for publication.
lodging and meals.- That's a
bargain.
You see the Lord has
worked out the details so well
that the motel owners in the
Dallas area have agreed to
cut their prices one half for
the six-days in June.
PFC CALVIN BROCK
HHB 1st Bn. 6th Arty
The only study of black
history I've had was in 11th
grade Black History. I've only
been in the Army eight
months. You find a few guys
a re
everywhere you go but the
majority are okay. In one
artillery unit I have served
I was the only black guy in
the section and it seemed that
I got all the work while others
sat around.
gary kupp
Him as their personal Lord
and Saviour.
They experience joy hap
piness and peace of mind in
an abundant life right now.
That's what EXPLO '72 will
be like. And much more.
For more information con
cerning EXPLO and for a
registration FACT SHEET
contact either 2nd Lt. Eddie
Cole 411th MP Co. at 685-5331
(duty) or 685-3180 (home) or
Spec. 4 David Gerry HHB
DivArty 1st Cav. Div. at 685-
8 3 4 8 6 3 4 4 5 1 0
(home).
They will be happy to give
you details on EXPLO. Or if
you can't reach them contact
your unit chaplain. He'll be
glad to help you too.
Not everyone feels the same
way about the military. For
that reason I have never
to a a an in to
making the Army a career.
A man has to look past the
in or it an a
pa at on an
moves. You "have to like"
the service to have a suc
cessful career.
In addition to having an en
joyable career as I re-enter
the civilian world I will have
earned a sizeable monthly
retirement check. It's true my
retirement check won't make
me rich but it will make me
financially independent. An in
dependence which will allow
me once again to "pick and
choose" a new vocation.
Hopefully my second career
will be as successful as my
first..
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