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Ours is no* the only age in which
| men and nations have been in a state
of turmoil and uarest; bat the rapidity
to which events can happen, and the
parent destructiveness of modem scienti
fic implements, make ours one of spe
cial consideration. Only the future will
be able to see and evaluate the state of
mind anddttfrities of our day. It is pos
sible tht dtqhinreet may be an omen
of good, fit could mean that millions
Safe Cars Will Still Take Room
(iBOM CHARLOTTE OBSERVER)
Perhaps the automobile industry
jhould be thankful for small gifts. That's
the conclusion of television broadcaster
(and newspaper columnist) Howard K.
Smith when he looks at the dustup over
car safety.
Smith makes a good point. He says
that while it is relatively easy to ap
pease the demand for federal safety
atandards for automobiles, the indus
try's real problem for the future is in
the number of cars that can be cram
aaed into this urbanizing nation.
"Recently," said Smith, 'I lectured
some of the city fathers of St. Louis
en our congested and therefore decaying
cities. They countered by pointing out
how many acres of slums they had
cleared. I waa forced to re-counter by
telling them erf my experience: as a boy
I had ridden down their main street in
a horse-drawn beer wagon and it took
20 minutes. The dafy I talked to them
I had made the same trip in a high
powered car, and it took 40 minutes.
People have produced old newspaper
records to show that carriages at the
turn of the century could cross Man
hattan Island in half the time it takes
today in a car. Almost every city can
match that experience."
Religion In The Here And Now
One often finds significant things in
unexpected places. We have read many
magazines, newspaper articles, watched
the opening hearings on Vietnam, and
still feel enlightened on our policy there.
In Parade, issue Sunday March 20th,
which is a Sunday supplement to many
newspapers, we read the most illuminat
ing article on why we are in Vietnam
that I have ever seen. The Kim Sisters,
a trio of Korean girl entertainers told,
in very simple language, what it was
like to live in Korea under Communist
rule, and what it had meant to them and
to millions of other South Koreans when
the American soldiers had liberated
them. Theirs was not a theory, but actu
al experience, showing what Communist
rule meant.
We had seen the girls on TV and
were impressed with their beauty, their
talent, the difference in their status when
under Communist domination, and the
freedom which they now enjoy. They
had a long, hard struggle, but with the
help of a devoted mother, and the op
portunities offered in Free South Korea
and the larger opportunities in America,
they moved from a bare existence to
thirteen thousand dollars per week.
Those who have seen, and heard them
on TV can agree that in the world of
entertainment they are worth that much
and even more. To have given three
persons such fieedom and opportunity,
to say nothing of the thousands more
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World Unrest
of people are coming to see the absurdi
ty of war as a means of settling disputes,
and that some healthy cooperation to
wards the general good is needed rather
than the kind of disruptive and selfish
competition we have today. The only
alternative to this is the complete des
truction of all the gains of thousands
of years of labor and experience. The
world's greatest need today is sober
thinking rather than an emotional re
sponse to the facts £>f life.
There is something called Say's law
(not unlike Parkinson's Law) that says
traffic expands to fill new expressways
to defeat the convenience and saving of
time for which they were built. The ty
pical city now has about half its sur
face in streets and parking lots.
But that's not only the drawback
to the mounting numbers of cars in the
cities. A more serious danger comes
from the exhaust gases that spew into
the air we breathe. A California profes
sor recently warned that at the present
rate of increase in cars the air would
become intolerable on the continent
within a century.
There obviously will have to be some
kind of limits, some kind of restrictions
in the future. Certainty that will be true
for the cities. In-city transportation in
the future will have to be developed on
a mass basis. Smith suggests possible
surface transportation in the form of
small elecric carts, with space only for
two.
Ifs a familiar theme. All of us love
our automobiles and will own one kind
or another, perhaps two, for a long time
to come. But we are fast approaching
decision on what we in the urban areas
are going to do 10 build the future for
people instead of automobiles.
who were liberated, justifies our efforts
in Korea, and explains our being in
South Vietnam, far better than all the
learned discourses by columnist and so
cialists, or the debates in the open con
gressional hearings.
We have seen pictures of the suffer
ings of our troops in South Vietnam, and
read of Communists brutality. We know
that our men are fighting a cruel and
callous army. They must of necessity,
shoot to kill. But that is not the real
heart of American soldiers. They would
much prefer helping the Vietemese to
live better, and in freedom. They would
prefer making little children happy, and
a country prosperous and free. In this
area the real American can express his
real self. The Kim sisters have helped us
to see why we are in Vietnam. We are
there to preserve freedom, not only for
America but for the world. Read the
article, and you will not only fall in
love with the Kim sisters, but you will
fall in love anew with your America.
Advertising is the greatest seller of
goods available to you.
Some people fear life and death and
others fear neither. Why?
Everybody likes to hear the truth",
about someone else, In whispered form.
One reason people are so easy to
fool is that few of them really seek out
the truth.
It Is amazing how much time two
people can waste trying to shift one
person's work between them.
What the 'experts' said six months
ago looks foolish, so don't pay too much
attention to what they say today.
Tftie reason some people don't stick
to the truth 1> that such a policy would
eliminate a lot of conversation.
We hope Hollywood will stop In
serting propaganda of any form in the
movies, which should contain only en
tertainment values.
And then there was the time when
all drivers, if they were worthy of the
name, wore gauntlets, goggles and a linen
duster.
Monkeys are not the only monkeys
that eat peanuts.
This Week's
60 SECOND SERMON
Fred Dodge
TEXT: "A faithful friend to the medkaee of life." —Apo
crypha.
On a children's television show the master of cere
monies asked one of the participants.
"What is man's best friend? And it starts with a D."
The youngster thought for a moment and ventured the
answer, Dame?
Many rules have been posted for NiiMUg and breaking
friendships. However, one act, disguised as a
builder, will break any friendship. Hud act to posessiveness.
Time and again what has started as a fine friendship has keen
tangled by an over-powering Monopoly of one person by
another. An immature individual, not capable of genuine
friendship, mistakes friendly overtures as an invitation to
enslave someone. The pathetic straggle of a kind person for
freedom from the demands of a self-styled friend to heart
breaking. Finally, two people are hurt; one angry or bitter,
the other torn with honest regret.
There can be no friendship without freedom. Friendship
must be free to grow. It weakens in confinement. It attains
full beauty and strength where it is free to exercise itself.
When a friend to subjected to another's will and control,
friendship to certain to die
SENATOR i
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WASHINGTON ~ Federal
laid programs have mushroom
led in recent years into a prime
means of financing projects
affecting virtually every Ame
rican. Annually programs to
expand Federal aid are urged,
and often a handful of new
ones are adopted during a
Congressional session. The
question arises as to what
is and what is not the proper
sphere of these programs?
The answer should come
from the experience of men
and nations with government
and its effect upon the lives
of men and the civilization
they are building.
I think that government
should do things for people
that cannot do for themselves.
For this reason, I favor the
use of Federal monies to con
trol pollution, to converse wa
ter resources, and to develop
rivers and habors. Controlling
water pollution, building huge
reservoirs, creating usuable
harbors and navigable riv
ers are functions that benefit
all citizens and yet these are
things which are beyond the
means of citizens to perform
for themselves. The develop
ment and control of these re
sources and necessities play
an important role in the life
of the people.
On the other hand, it should
not be the function of gov
ernment to grant special pri
vileges to some in an area
of life that individuals can
control themselves. For this
reason, I oppose rent subsi
dies, because they put the
Federal Government into an
activity which ought to be con
ducted by the people them
selves. Jobs are the most plen
tiful they" have been in two
decades, and anyone willing
to work has a reasonable op
portunity to do so. Aside from
this, rent handouts take away
something very precious from
the recipients They take a
way one of the durable satis
factions of life—pride. Liv
ing . cost handouts steal a
way from free men those vi
tal traits of self-reliance and
self-responsibility which are
essential to democracy.
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Jefferson disagreed over many
things which touched on in
dividual freedom and central
ized government But they
both agreed on the evils of
paternalism and the disastrous
effects it had on the spirit
of men. Hamilton put it terse
ly: "A power over a man's
subsistence amounts to a pow
er over his will". Jefferson
stated the danger in more un
derstandable terms: "Depend
ence begets subservience and
venality, suffocates the germ
of virtue, and prepares fit
tolls for the designs of am
bition".
Rent subsidies are a prime
example of what government
ought not to try to do for
men. In exchange for a few
dollars from the Government,
men trade their independence
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for the controls men design
for them. Today's handout
breeds tomoirow's subservi
ence in the hope of getting
more. The new kingdom of
Federal paternalism will make
it palatable, and greed will
justify every new demand.
This can be more re&lily un
P VOTE AND SUPPORT
: W. W. DWIGGINS ■■■
I DEMOCRAT FOR Bjp|2|
: SHERIFF - DAVIE COUNTY
■ IN THE MAY 28th 1966
PRIMARY
If I Am Elected To This Office I Will Cooperate
With All Federal, State, And County Law
Enforcement Officers.
I Will Do My Best To Be Fair, Honest, And
Sincere To Every Citizen Of Davie County.
Textile Worker 23 Years - Born And Reared In
Davie County
W. W. DWIGGINS DEMOCRAT
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YOUR VOTE IN THE MAY 28th PRIMARY
WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
derstood when one realizes
that the ink had hardly dried
cm the first guidelines approv
ed by Congress for rent sub
sidies when the Housing and
Urban Affairs Department an
nounced that it was readying
new requests to extend its aid
to low-income groups to the
middle-income bracket next
year. So the shepherd's cloak
begins to stretch to cover more
of the flock
The $64 question is how
much money does it take to
satisfy the needs of a mod
ern family?