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The Fr3 ^wWnht^ I ??' f A THwrtdty in Times Your Award Winning County Newspaper LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT 66 Thy Morals Tell Thy Mind " Few qestion that this is the greatest country on earth. Its greatness stems from its people and their ability to adjust to the changing of times. Its abundant resources intelligently used over the years with ingenuity and imagination have brought the highest standard of living to more people than any ever known before. There is good in this country. In small towns and large cities, there are people who still maintain the true values of life. The trustworthiness of the early settlers still exists in many places. The helping hands of the pioneers can be found still, if one looks for them. And even today the bravery of those who died to save this nation is still displayed. But on it all, time is running out. Alexander Pope once wrote: "Let thy morals tell thy mind". Through the years it has been the morals of the American people that have sustained this nation. The "I'd-rather be-right than-President" attitude. Honesty is the best policy. Crime does not pay. But look at us today. Sorrowfully swallowed up in a quagmire of atheism with an "Anything-for-a buck" attitude widely accepted. We are torn apart by forces we can neither describe, understand or con trol. Like so many great nations be fore us, we hang frighteningly on the abyss of destruction. Where once the good far out weighed the evil, we search now for justification of things our forefathers would not have tolerated. Horse thieves were hung. It mattered not the value of the horse. Wrong was wrong and a man was good or he was dead. When villages were attacked, they were defended and if they were worth living for, they were worth dying for. A man's word was his bond. A promise was better than a contract. Neighbors were neighbors and helping each other was the natural thing to do. If they were to survive in the early days of this country, it was also the necessary thing to do. Look at us now. In recent days, these are just a few of the things brought to light. Let thy morals fell thy mind. - 120,000 automobiles were stolen in New York City last year. - Two persons arrested in Washing ton for printing a newspaper in which was shown a "suggestive caricature of a naked judge". - In New York, ten actors were ? arrested for performing on a Broad way stage completely naked. And they called this art. - Television is threatened with pre showing of programs before a cen soring panel to protect the public. - While so-called peace is talked in Paris-, more and more Americans die each day in Vietnam. ^ - A mother of nine moved to New York from Mississippi to collect more welfare - $515 monthly in New York; $200 in Mississippi - and she has been cut off for owning a "shack" in Mississippi. - A large soup manufacturer has been threatened with a suit unless it Slops misleading the public Wi its television advertising. ? A college instructor in Richmond is released?,from the army by a federal court after he decided to become a conscientious objector after 17 weeks training. - And in Chapel Hill, the American flag under which so many have died, was taken down because a hippie singer, Joan Baez objected to it * In Washington, six Roman Catholic priests and a num were ar rested for breaking into the Dow Chemical Co. office, pouring human blood on the furniture and throwing company files out the window. ? Negro militant Howard Fuller, whose sole claim to fame has been a disruptive careet as leader of Durham demonstrators is honored by election to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Community Developers. ? And this week, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a suspect must not only be told of his rights to remain silent when arrested, but on each and every occasion when quest ioned. - And the same court freed a prisoner, who was caught when his car wrecked while running away from a bank robbery. The court ruled that the money was found in his car without a search warrant. - In Wallace, N. C., a 13-year-old school girl is abducted and murdered. - Congress given itself a 41 percent raise and ups the national debt by $12 billion to a staggering total of $377 billion. And an apology is demanded by the Governor of Mississippi for a remark made on national television by comic Jerry Lewis that he had full filled a life-long ambition to go to the bathroom while flying over Miss issippi. - And the Federal Bureau of Roads has- ordered the Christian Reform Church of Corsida, South Dakota to move two chapels from along highway 90, saying their location along a fed eral Interstate highway is a breech of the separation of church and state. - The Supreme Court seems intent that Big Brother will replace God. And in the Campaign to eradicate any vestige of religion from the schools, the preaching of brotherhood assumes a strange and frenzied tone. _ - The Sermon on the Mount is verboten. The Lord's Prayer is only for silent rememberance; don't move - the lips. You can't sing "America" or "God Bless America", or recite the Plege of Allegiance. ? But radio spots blare out the new religion. The government's spot an 1 nouncements for its "anti-poverty" programs implore us to give hope, to give jobs - to "Give a Damn". That's the government's new sologan. Let thy morals tell thy mind. Let us all pray. The Fra$k]Kn Times Established 1870 ? Published Tuesday! & Thursdays by The Franklin Times. Inc. Bickett Blvd. Dial OY6-3283 Louisburg, N. C. CLINT FULLER, Managing Editor ELIZABETH JOHNSON, Business Manager NATIONAL EDITORIAL Advertising Rates ^ | ASSOCIATION Upon Request t SUBSCRIPTION RATES In North Carolina: Out of State: One Year. $4.64; Six Months. $2.83 One Year, $5.50; Six Months, $4.00 Three Months, $2.06 Three Months, $3.50 Enterad at tccond class mail matter and postage paid at the Post Offlccet Louisburg, N C 27549. Gentlemen, the economic crisis calls for action again. Corporations are still expanding and people need money for housing . . . Gentlemen, this ... ? ? - - thinking. We must come up with an even better idea. even in the face of our brilliant tactics of raising interest rates three times in the past year. Let's raise the interest rates again. Senseless, Needless Death The Courier-Times, Roxboro, N. C. Editor's Note: On Sunday, March 16. a 16-year-old Roxboro youth, a passenger in a 1968 automobile driven by a 38-year-old man, was killed when a tire blew out and the car ran off the road and overturned. Others passen gers in the car reported the vehicle was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour. The youth was a carrier for the Rdxboro newspaper. The com ments by Neil Rattican, Editor of the Courier-Times, should have a lasting impression on us all. With apologies to none, we are mad; boiling mad, disgusted and sick at heart altogether. And with good reason and ample justification. Last Sunday afternoon Person County lost much, a young boy. You may have known him, or he may have been a total stranger. We had the privilege of knowing him for several years, watching him grow from a gawky, gangling youngster occupied with skate boards and bicycles and kites into the expanding, fascinating in-between period of adolescence. In the early years of manhood, we would watch on from a distance, amused at times, such as in the age-old course of life, when he made the revolutionary discovery that girls are made to co-exist with rather than to fight with. By nature, he was a friend ly youth, with a keen mind, a quick wit and a ready smile. We liked him a lot, as you can tell. This boy is dead now, at the age of sixteen years. He died senselessly and needlessly, and therein lies the tragedy of a problem which plagues our nation. On our highways, we daily are slaughtering more of our young people than mere statistics can relate. We are squandering potential citizens whose talents could benefits us all. Their capabilities and contributions to mankind are cut short before they i to flower and the fault is ours. oyy so, you say? Simply by this one factor; The automobile - America's major status symbol. These fabrications of steel are idolized, pampered, boasted and placed upon pedestals. And these same shiny machines are lethal wea pons, as deadly as any firearm. A car is not a toy. Qur highways are not race tracks. Supposedly ma ture adults with half an ounce of common sense should not be allowed to jeopardize the lives of our young people simply to show " what this baby will do." We all should have more sense than to permit this to continue. A young boy is dead, the victim of a car wreck which never should have happened. No amount of outrage and indigna tion can restore him, no more than any river of tears can recall him to life. It is a shameful travesty and commentary, the hopelessness and futility, we all share as one. The blame, too, is ours. We are indicted, found guilty, with a self-sentence of having to live with the knowledge that we have - by the simple acceptance of traffic fatalities as an everyday, or dinary event - condoned genocide. Think of this. A young boy is dead. And unless the mania for more power ful automobiles is checked, more will follow. Much soul searching and a re-adjusted sense of values is called for, is absolutely mandatory. A young boy is dead. There is no excuse, ho possible way to rationalize away the fact that he died for no reason, needlessly and tragically. Think about him. Think long and hard. Don't shove him out -of your mind or try to forget him. You remember this boy, every time you pick up your set of car keys and wheel out of the driveway. You re member this boy, every instancFyou are tempted to make a little time on the straightaways of our highways. You think about him everytime you toy with the idea of seeing what that big classy job of yours will do when it's wide open and floorboarded. And you bear him in mind every time you get peeved at the world and take your anger and frustration and worry out on the highway. This boy will stay with you, we think. And you needn't worry about being alone. He will haunt us as well for the duration of our days, this young boy who died before he really had a chance to live. .s Mercury //awfosw Sal- A SPECIAL EQUIPMENT-SPECIAL SAVINGS The Montego Mi specially equipped with ? big 220 hp V 8 ? automatic transmission ? power staanng ? remote control m.rror ? white sidegrail tires ? deluxe wheel covers ? AM radio plus these features end more? ? 116" wheelbese ? cloth end vinyl Of ?II vinyl interior ? 18 cu ft trunV ? dMp loop carpeting ? curvtd and vanftess vde window* ? bright window moldings ? bright and black curb molding GRIFFIN MOTOR COMPANY ? S. BICKETT BLVO., LOUISBURG, N. C. I N. C. Dealers License No. 1004 COME r T0 THINK OF IT..." by frank count I didn't get a invitation, but I went anyway. A fellow told me that even though the meeting was for wheels only, nobody would know if I went. I hadn't never seen a real live Congressman up close to talk to and 1 was curious. 'Course I'd seen some on television and pictures in the newspapers but that ain't the same as live, in person, up close. So 1 put on my best overalls and thumbed a. ride with a truck driver that didn't know where he was going either. 1 seen the crowd from the road and 1 yell to the driver to stop. 1 scared him. 1 know 1 did "cause he turned white and slaipmed on he brakes and skidded off the road. Then he turned red. I didn't know I yelled that loud. I told him I'd love to stay and help him get unstuck but I had a date with a real live Congressman and 1 had to go. 1 didn't really nave a date-only boys and girls do that -but 1 ? thought it would im press the truck driver. I could tell he hadn't never been nowhere cause he was from Raleigh. And to show you what kind of fellow hi was. you know he didnt believe me when I told him I J was going to see a * real live Congress man. He thought I was just trying to get out of helping him. Now, don't that beat all. He told me so, too and that ain't all the things he said. I could still hear him while I was running away. It was raining horses and elephants. The cats and dogs would've drowned. That fellow was right: Nobody didn't pay no attention to me. I just stood there getting wet as them wheels and watched. I walked over to one squint-eyed fellow and asked, "Are you a Congressman?" He said no he as a Mayor. The next fellow said he was a Clerk of a Court and another one said he as a Register of Deeds -whatever that is. Nobody would own up to being a Congressman. Finally-I was getting wetter by the minute, and more aggravated -I saw this little fellow peeping underneath a bush . and I watked over and said. "Pardon me. sir (using my politest manners), are you a Congressman?" "No, I'm a banker", he said kinda bragging like. "A banker," I shouted. Everybody looked. "Whatever in the world is a banker like you doing out here in all this rain and you ain't got no raincoat. Is your money that scarce?", I commented. "Didn't have time to ge*t one," he answered. "What is a fellow? dressed like you, that is, 1 mean, what is a fellow like you doing out here in his, ug, overalls?" t ? "I'm looking for a Congressman," I said without shame. You could see 1 had hit a sore spot. "That's exactly what I'm doing," he said straightening his ten-dollar tie and what little hair he had left. "You exoect to find him under that bush?", 1 asked. I shouldn't Msked that. He didn't appreciate it. I could tell. I can always tell when a banker gets mad. Right off, he asked if I'd made a deposit that day. "A fellow told me if I'd come oul here 1 could see a real live Congressman in person. I been out here in the rain for a long time and all I seen is a Mayor, a Clerk and a Register. I want to see a Congressman." 1 stood right there and told him all that. I was getting a mite fretted myself. If they won't gonna have a Congressman they ought to have said so. "The Congressman is in town," the little fellow said. "1 left him there. . Then he cut off. His eyes rolled and his tongue stopped wagging. Me looked like he's seen a ghost. "There he is," he shouted. "There comes the Congressman." Well, sir . , after all there won't no need to shout. How about that . . a banker that ain't never seen a real live Congressman in person. Why, shucks, even old Fiink wont all that excited. I seen him walking up the muddy path. He wore a raincoat and a hat and looked just as natural as if he'd been just a regular human. I wanted to get up close I wanted to be able to tell the boys at the store I'd spoke to a real live Congiessman In person. So I run toward him. Somehow, my feet got tangled up in the mud and I slid flat of my fadte right up to him. "Are you a Congressman?" I asked. "Yes, my good friend," he said. "I am. I'd help you up, but I'm in a bit of a hurry.. People have been waiting for me." "Oh, that's alright, sir," I said. "I know how It Is. Tell me- -since you got lost -how in the world did you ever get here?" "I hitched a ride," he said. "Hitched a ride?", I shouted as he strolled by. How about that? Me and a Congressman got there the same way. Walt until the boys at the store hears about this. They ain't gonna believe it. Would you? Who ever heard of losing a Congressman? Low-Income Farmers Get Help Low-Income farmers who > want a home Harden to help provide better food for their famlllet were reminded today Truck Flips A 30-year-old Ellerbe, N. C. truck driver received facial cuta Wednesday around noon, when hla tractor-trailer truck overturned at the Intenection of US-1 and US-1A at Frank linton. The FrankHnton Rea cue Squad tranaported the driver, Curtis Richardson, to Franklin Memorial Hospital by E. G. Brewer, Chairman, Franklin County ASC Com mittee, that they may be eli gible for help with the ex pense* through the Agricul tural Conservation Program. Only low-income farmers qualify for the home garden A CP practice. Brewer nid low-income producer* Inter <* ted in the home garden ACP practice nhould Inquire at the ASCS county office for details on eligibility and practice re quirement* ?j
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