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Ctc VlcwA - journal NATIONAL NIWIPAMI PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance per Year $4.00 6 Months - $2.23 3 Months - $1.23 PAUL DICKSON Publisher SAM C. MORRIS General Manager JIM TAYLOR Editor MRS. LUCY GRAY PEEBLES Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-Clas Postage Pild tl Raeford. N. C. Your Award-Winning Community Newspaper "Do You Find My Big Flapping Ears Drafty?" THURSDAY, MARCH U. 1HI HEARINGS WRONG Senate Fires At Own Men The United States Senate this week created a spectacle before the American people or more damaging, before our enemies and the world of divergent and divided opinion about the Viet nam War and how it Is being conducted. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Sen. William J. Fulbrlght (D-Ark.) is chair man, called Dean Rusk, secre tary of state, before the commit tee to grill him about adminis tration policy In Vietnam, par ticularly as concerns the presi dent's plans to furnish or deny some 200,000 additional troops reportedly requested by Gen. Wil liam Westmoreland, commander of American forces in Vietnam. The hearing served only to prove that Fulbrlght, the lrreslstable force publicly encountered Rusk, the . Immovable object, and that while Fulbrlght and Rusk ended up deadlocked (neither gave an Inch), the nation, and particularly our boys In Vietnam, were the losers.' To begin with, Senator Ful brlght gave a fairly accurate In dication of HIS purpose for the hearing when he made an open ing speech filled with despair and desolation. "It Is the most un popular war in American history ... not even a declared war . . . and I am afraid that America's light throughout the world is burn ing dimly, indeed," Fulbrlght said. Thereafter, he was openly anta gonistic, even hostile, to Rusk. The secretary, meanwhile, exer cised remarkable control and re straint, which bolstered his stock in the eyes of many observers. Fulbrlght and other members of the Senate ought to swallow this pill before they start wring ing the neck of Rusk, or of Presi dent Johnson. If to engage in an undeclared war Is unholy, or un American, they have an obligation to do one of two things: L They ought to declare war. 2. If a de claration of war is not justified, they ought to end it. And make no mistake about It. The Con gress could end the war In a sin gle day by and one of several actions. They could, for instance, rescind the carte blanch powers they provided President Johnson at Ms request. They could impose restrictions on the president, how ever they may be authorized by the constitution. If they could find no other way to restrain the presi dent, they could refuse to vote further appropriations for the Viet nam operation, and even could in stigate impeachment proceedings against the president. These things will not be done, of course, largely because, we believe, the majority of the mem bers of Congress agree that our involvement in Vietnam is just and essential, although they may disagree on how the operation is being conducted. If President Johnson Is wrong in his policies if, indeed, we ought to withdraw from Vietnam the Senate is derelict in its duty by not taking immediate action to retreat from our Involvement and Ignore our treaty commit ments. If the president's action is merely a matter of military strategy, then the president, who is commander in chief of the armed forces, and the general staff, along with Westmoreland and other officers in the field, ought to be permitted to make the military decisions. Certainly William Fulbrlght is not compe tent to make a military assess ment of the situation not even if he were armed with all the military intelligence available to the president, and the last thing the administration ought to do is to provide him with top secret data. Obviously, Fulbrlght wants the administration to consult his committee so he can personally tell the American people the "whole truth" about the Vietnam War, Such was indicated in the hearings of Monday and Tuesday when Fulbrlght and other mem bers of the committee, repeatedly pressed Rusk for answers he de clared he could not provide, in the interest of national security. Whatever one thinks of Presi dent Johnson as a military stra tegist, no American in his right mind would deny that former pre sident Dwlght Eisenhower is a military expert. General Elsen hower said recently that If he were commanding the military ef fort against South Vietnam, he would wish for nothing more bene ficial than to know what the United States is doing and planning. If the American people were made privy to classified Information, Hanoi would have the Information before it reached Denver, Colo. We hope it is no consolation to Senator Fulbrleht that the hear ings of this week In all likelihood prolonged the Vietnam War, and therefore will cost the lives of additional Americans. If mem bers of Congress continue to ab dicate their responsibility in the situation, Hanoi will not have to press for a military stalemate or victory in the South. Washington will have won the war for them. SOUTH BOSTON, VA., GAZETTE-VIRGINIAN: "A young person today, dissatisfied with school and anxious to get out and work for che money he wants, Is heading down a dead-end street if he pur sues his dreams without a high school diploma. He finds out too late that the job he longed for will be at best a dull, dirty one with little opportunity for advance ment. Or, the jobless rate of 13 per cent for school dropouts sud denly becomes very real to him as he discovers that he doesn't have the ticket he needs to get through the employers' doors ... For many of these young people, there Is still time. They can go back and finish high school. For others, it is too late . . . The education they get now charts the course not only for their Indivi dual lives but for the welfare of our country in the coming de cades.'1 JACKSON, MO., POST ti CASH BOOK: "It's not a pretty scene to come upon, shattered glass, twist ed metal, oozing oil and gaso line, moans of pain and the flow ing of a man's life-blood don't give you a comfortable feeling. How can drivers be made to real ize that a bit more caution, a bit more kindness, a bit more cour tesy and a lot more decency would put an end to many of these scenes." An antelope springs short dis tances at 53 miles an hour and cruises easily at 30, the Na tional Geographic says. tm mntf.e.ey feT CLIFF BLUE . . People & Issues i I I liner Around Rosie ( J Played In Coliseum ftf The second twit tnm (and torn say It was the bait) In hit wMk'i Atlantic Coast C on to ranca basketball tournament at Charlottt wai bumped off In the semifinals by N.C. State' University by the Improbable core of 12-10. Duke may not have won the tournament Indeed, the Blue Devils would have bean under dogs against the powerful UNC team but It Is a safe bet that Saturday night's finals would have been more exciting had Duke, and not the Wolfpack, been playing the Tar Heels, Coach Norman Sloan Is not to blame for the Friday "night fiasco. His Job Is to win, and he is dolns less than that Job when he doesnt employ any strategy permitted by the rules that wiu aid him and his team from winning. In the first place, be Isn't the first coach who has used the stall In the ACC tournament. Duke and Carolina played a slowed-down game In the finals several years ago, I've for gotten who employed the stra tegy, or even who won the game, but If the first game was laugh able, the second was hilarious. The very nature of basket ball makes It something less than exciting to me even If both teams are using all the aggressiveness permitted by the rules. That's the name of any port attack and defend and the challenger In virtually all sports Is required to at tack. If there Is no attack, obviously there Is nothing to defend. I say basketball Is an un exciting sport because of the manner In which points are scored. All the maneuvering, feinting, bobbing and weaving, passing, dribbling serves only to put a man Into position to throw the later at the slop bucket, as it ware. If he hits, two points; if he misses, no core. The ball Is rebounded, and the whole preposition on setting so ma body up to chuck the tater Is begun again. BasketbaU supposedly Is not a contact sport, yet It some times gets bruising, even bru tal, under the basket. If one slaps a player's wrist at mid court, a foul Is called. Yet Saturday night, I observed as many as three players lying prostrate on the floor near the basket at one Ume and no foul had been called. Therefore, one sat of rules applies outside that little area under the backboards, and those rules are chucked when the ball moves Inside the magic circle. And a team Is not penalized by fouling. Not really. Else It would never be employed as a strategy when an opponent Is four points ahead and trying to stall for the remainder of the game. In fact, a flip of the coin would be about as affective as the foul shot, exepet one player wlU make a greater percen tage of them than another. What a foul does, and all It does, Is give the player an unobs tructed shot at the basket, to chuck the potato without Inter ference. If he doesn't put the ball through the hoop, he gen erally has lost the advantage, Instead of having been given one, for considering the align ment of defenders on a foul hot situation, the offenders (who committed the foul) are in better position to rebound, therefore having actually gained control of the ball, without being penalized even one point. By fouling, then. It is possible to go from a position of disadvan tage to one of advantage. It is Inconceivable to me that Vic Bubbas, the Duke coach, would permit the stall after he surely must have observed that It was serving Sloan's pur pose. Admittedly, the stall was employed to keep the score close, because Sloan didn't feel the Wolfpack could run with Duke. If be could keep the score close, a lesser offen sive rally would be required to put the game on Ice In the late stages. The best Sloan was hoping for was that be could keep the game tied until the final seconds, have possession of the ball, and play for one last shot. If the shot could be made, the Wolfpack would win. If missed, the score would still be tied and the etrategy sou Id be continued Into overtime. Bubbas went along with the alow play, obviously thinking that sooner or later, his more powerful Blue Devils would forge ahead by four or more points, and Sloan would nave to abandon the strategy. The Blue Devils responded by making good only two of eleven field goal attempts. Normally, they would be expected to hit about 40 per cent. If they had done that well, they'd have made at least four of eleven and would have won the game by two points. The game became a comedy when Bubbas permitted Sloan to control the tempo of the game. He was right In that no matter what the rules say the aggressor should make an honest attempt to score. The Idea of having the ball, In the first place, Is to have an op portunity to score. The ob ject Is to put the ball through the hoop, not keep the other team from taking the ball away from you, although that Is a fringe strategy. All Bubbas had to do was take the ball away from State enough Umes to get a four-point lead. He apparently thought the gam ble was toe-great, for In the stall situation, you're out of It, usually, If you permit the stalling team to get four points ahead and continue to stall. Why didn't Bubbas take this route? His players were as sembled on the defensive third of the court and Sloan's men operated outside the per imeter of that defense. Why not, In the early stages of the tall, purpoeely foul the Wolf See TAYLOR COLUMN, Page Philosopher Says Problem I Is Cash, Not Credibility Dear edltan A man asked ma the other day, "Say, don't you ever buy newspaper? How come you're always depending on one to turn up on your farm free of charge?" I will answer him In a minute. According to newspaper I found out here yesterday blown gainst my front gate and which 1 pulled off Just before the extra wind resistance It was causing toppled the thing I'd fix die gate but It would be Just wasted effort, section of the fence itself U down and won't turn cattle anyway, they'd Just go round, cows are like guer rilla fighters, they won't attacx where fray' re supposed to nyway, according to mis paper the latest problem mis coun try's got Is the Generation Gap. It went into great detail ex plaining how people under 30 can't understand people over 30, or maybe It's the other way around and this explains some of the unbarbered goings- on, sign-carrying shenanigans, etc Maybe so. although Its possible the trouble with some young sters Is they not only don't understand the older generation, they don't understand them selves or what's going on In the world either and never will, regardless of what age bracket they're la But what got me interested was that this Is new Gap. Prior to that we had the Mis sile Cap. and I don't know whether we solved It or didn't have It, or SOU hsve it, All I know Is you don't hear much about It any more one way or the other. Then after that we had the Credibility Cap. They said the politicians were saying one tfitng and meaning another, or vice versa, about that. That system started thousands of years ago, and any man who hasn't learned to read between the lines In print and listen between the sen tences In speeches, ought to back up and sun all over again, Acutally, the only gap that really bothers most towns, dues, nations and Individuals, Including me, is the Money Cap. Me and Washington never seem to ha the money we need to do what ws'd like to. ant it's been that war all our lives. I guess this answers that man's question. Yours faithfully, J. A. I 1 ail J M SECOND PRIMARYWith hard fight facing the Democrats this fall in the general election, we are hearing more and more Democrats saying that If no one receives s majority in the first primary that the second man In the Interest of party harmony and victory In die fall should forego second prlmsry. Whether the first primary leader be Scott of Broughton, chances are that there will be popular demand that the runner-up Join hands with the high man to work for a Democratic victory in the fall rather than bitter knock-down run-off which would likely bring in high racial overtones. There are three stste-wlde races where second primaries re possible. First Is the gov ernor's race with Broughton, Hawkins and Scott the three first primary candidates. There are three candidates for lieutenant governor, where second primary Is possible, the candidates being, H. Pat Taylor Jr., Mrs. Margaret Har per and Frank R. Matlock. There are also four candidates for commissioner of Insurance in the Democratic primary. In the race where there are four candidates seeking the Job being vacated by Dr. Charles Carroll, for State Supu of Pub lic Instruction chances are strong that no candidate will garner clear majority of the votes. The candidates sre Craig Phillips, Everett Miller, Ray mond A. Stone and William B. Harrell. If there is no second primary called In the governor's race, chances are almost nil that a second primary will be called In any of the other Democratic statewide contests where run offs are possible. Better make your vote count in these contests In die first primary for mere may not be a second primary. "RISE AND FALL" Last week we were intrigued with the television presentation of Wil liam L. Shlrer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Shirer set the stage for this history of Nazi Germany by asking this pertinent question: "How did It happen that an ancient and cultured people, steeped In Christianity, preeminent in mod ern technology, who gave us Luther and Kant, Bach and Bee thoven, Goethe and Einsten, col lapsed Into savage barbarism In the 90th century?" The racial turmoil, the street rioting, the disrespect for law and order In the United States today is very remindful of the turmpll and the unrest In Ger many which preceded the rise of Adolph Hitler. Hitler did not have a majority of the people with him when he was named German chancellor, but he had a potent and well- organised minority. A well - organized minority can oftentimes prevail over a poorly organized majority. . This county needs now, as it has always needed, an intelli gent, an alert, dedicated citi zenship to the solid principles of the U. S. Constitution to law and order and with the reali zation that creeping com munism from within can be Just as disastrous as a communistic army from without. But it must be remembered that socialism as we know It Is legal and con stitutional under our form of government when accomplished in an orderly manner. TOWN MERGERS Towns cloistered together are In cer tain areas beginning to consider merging. Early this year LeaksvUle, Draper and Spray in Rockingham County merged . into one municipality and called Itself Eden. In nearby South Carolina, we note that residents of four beach towns have voted to merge into single municipality and will t elect officials and pick new name this month. The towns are Cherry Grove Beach, Cres cent Beach, Ocean Drive and Windy Hill Beach. Two names are being pushed for the new South Carolina municipality Palmetto Beach and North Myr tle Beach. TRUTH In recent months we have heard about truth In packaging. With the 1968 politi cal campaign In full swing, the candidates and their lieutenants might well consider adopting the policy of "Truth in Cam paigning and Speechmaklng." Some years ago the state YDC adopted code of ethics which should be must reading for all Democratic candidates, and Republicans, too. When candi dates strsy from the truth about the only ones they fool are them selves. Generally speaking, the public is pretty well Informed. SENATOR SAM ERViri SAYS rv ma WASHINGTON The 1968 Civil Rights bill and the Dlrk sen open occupancy substitute constitute very convincing evi dence that the dlseass known as Potomac fever la now rag ing In the Senate In Its most virulent form. Potomac fever reachee epi demic proportlona when sena tors and representaUves come to the conclusion that the peo ple who sent them here do not have sense enough to manage their own affairs, and that the management of their affaire should be transferred tn a cen tralized federal government In Washington. As a consequence, the Senate has come to the brink of sac rificing upon the altar of pol ltlce one of the moet precious rights of aU Americans their freedom to control the use and disposition of their privately owned property. To be sure, the Dlrksen open occupancy substitute does not propose to rob all Americana of this precious right at one fell swoop. Instead, the Dlrk sen substitute undertakes to emulate the example of the ow ner of longtalled dog who wanted to convert hie longtalled dog Into a shorttalled dog. So he cut off the dog's tall a lit tle piece at a Ume In order not to hurt the dog too much. Un doubtedly, however, me ultimate objective of those who support the Dlrksen substitute Is to sub ject all owners of residential property of any character to Its drastic provisions. The Dlrksen substitute pro vides, tn substance, that a man cannot eell or rent his own pri vate property of residential character according to his own Judgment unless Individuals of other races or other religious or other national origins per mit him to do so. It makee the right of a man to control the use and disposition of hie own privately owned property of a residential nature dependent upon the wills of other Indivi duals. There Is not syllable In the Constitution that gives the fed eral government the power to govern transactions between In dividuals tn respect to pri vately . owned property or to regulate the title to real aetata. Essentially. this proposal strikes at a very basic liberty of all Americans, because, as John Adama expressed lti "Property must be made se cure or liberty cannot exist". In the last analysis, the de mand for enactment by Con grass of open occupancy laws la baaed upon these arguments: Americana now possess the liberty to consider the matter of race, and even to prefer persons of their own race over members of another race, In their business dealings with others, in relation to their res idential property; this liberty la essentially Iniquitous and must be blotted out by the fed eral government to confer equality upon members of the minority race; the federal gov ernment should blot out this liberty even If such action re quires the federal government to destroy all of the principles nd rights established by the Constitution to protect lndlvl duala from tyranny at Ita hands; , therefore the federal govern, ment la Justified to take such drastic action because legally coerced equality for persons of the minority race Is more precious than the liberty of all Americans to manage their own affalra free from federal Interference and control. I repudiate these arguments as unwlae and tyrannical. A merlcana must choose between equality coerced by law and the freedom of the Individual. She cannot have both. Ae for me, I choose freedom of the Indivi dual aa the more precious of these Incompatible things. Alaska has the nstlon's larg est land ares, 588,400 squsre miles, and the smallest popu lation of all SO states. 367,000. More than one-tenth of Its popu lation, 37,000, are veterans, according to the Veteran Administration. educationally di:edvamaged veterans now receive educe- tonal allowances under the new CI Bill to complete I.lgh school or take refreslier courses with out diminishing their eligibility for college education or other training, the Veterans Adminis tration states.
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