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Correction
Last week's editorial on the role of Dr. Craig Phillips, state
superintendent of public instruction, in the defeat of State Sen. Sam
Noble in the primary of June 29 contained errors.
The errors were that Noble voted in the 1982 session of the
General Assembly with the majority to table action on the women's
Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and that David
Parnell supported the amendment. We were informed later that
Noble actually supported the Amendment, voting against the tabling
motion. It also was pointed out that Parnell. as a member of the
State House didn't have the opportunity to vote on the proposal since
the Senate majority tabled it before it got to the House.
I regret the errors.
-BL
Remember the 56
Network Radio commentator Paul Harvey in an article published
in a church-related newspaper, "Pulpit Helps." describes the fates
of some of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, fates
that are not known by probably most of the American people. Few of
the 56 survived very long after the signing.
Harvey's introduction reads: "Few American living today
comprehend the courage needed to sign the now famous Declaration
of Independence."
The Declaration was signed very early in the Revolution, in a time
when the odds against victory by the rebelling colonists were huge,
since Britain was an awesome military and naval power in that 18th
century world.
If Britain won. the signers of the Declaration knew they would
hang for "treason", as King George III had "promised" all rebels
would. They also knew they also would lose their homes and all other
possessions.
Even if the Revolution succeeded. Harvey points out. the signers
knew they had nothing to gain but years of hardship in what would
be ajjgtruggling nation.
And every one of these signers had a lot to lose.
"These were all men of means;" Harvey explains, well-educated.
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants. Nine
were farmers and owners of large plantations."
He adds later. "...Each knew the full meaning of that magnificant
last paragraph, in which his signature pledged his life, fortune, and
sacred honor."
Yet the 56 men signed.
And though the Revolution succeeded, some of the signers
suffered for the victory before it was achieved.
Here are some of the fates, documented. Harvey describes.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, wealthy planter and trader, saw his
ships swept from the seas. To pay his debts he lost his home and all
his properties.
Thomas Lynch. Jr.. was a third-generation rice grower. An
Aristrocrat. A large plantation owner. After he signed, his health
failed. With his wife he set out for France to regain his health. Their
ship never got to France -- was never heard from again.
Thomas McKean of Delaware was so harassed by the enemy that
he was forced to move his family five times in five months. He served
in Congress without pay. His family lived in poverty and in hiding.
Vandals looted the properties of Elery. Clymer. Hall. Gwinnett.
Walton. Heyward. Rutledges. and Middleton.
And Thomas Nelson of Virginia raised S2 million on his own
signature to provision our allies, the French fleet. After the war. he
personally paid back the loans, wiping out his entire estate. He was
never reimbursed by his government (to this statement by Harvey we
might add in all fairness that the American government at the time
was in no position to repay such debts). And in the final battle of
Yorktown. Nelson urged Washington to fire on Nelson's own home,
which Nelson believed the British commnadner. Lord Cornwallis.
was occupying. Nelson died bankrupt.
The Hessians seized the home of Rancis Hopkinson of New Jersey.
The home and belongings of Francis Lewis were destroyed. His
wife was imprisoned. She died within a few months afterward.
Richard Stockton was captured and mistreated. His health broke
to the extent that he died at age 51. His estate was pillaged.
Thomas Heyward. Jr.. was captured when Charleston fell.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she lay dying.
Their 13 children fled in all directions, for their lives. Hart's fields
and grist mill were laid waste. For more than a year, he lived in
forests and caves and returned home only after the war ended. Then
he found his wife dead, his children gone, and his properties gone.
He died a few weeks later of exhaustion and a broken heart.
Lewis Morris saw his land destroyed, his family scattered.
Philip Livingston died within a few months from the hardships of
the war.
John Hancock is well remembered for his signing the Declaration
in script large enough, as his historic explanation goes, so King
George could read it without his spectacles. One of the wealthiest
men in New England, he stood outside Boston one terrible night of
the war and said. "Burn Boston, though it makes John Hancock a
beggar, if the public good requires it."
He. too. lived up to the pledge.
Of the 56 who signed the Declaration, five were captured by the
British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes --
from Rhode Island to Charleston -- sacked, looted, occupied by the
enemy, or burned. Two sons of one of the signers were captured.
Nine of the 56 died in the war. from its hardships or from its more
merciful bullets.
\ Harvey wrote this piece on the occasion of the celebration of
Independence Day this month.
The Chneien Science Mon**
The Independence Day of 1982 is 11 days past now.
But we are running this because it is important, even in these
times when this nation is far better prepared to face enemies even
infinitely more powerful than the Great Britain of the 18th century,
to remember this: the dedication and the courage of these 56 men.
not to mention on the same qualities shown by the countless other
patriots not publicly known or recognized. Harvey says of the 56:
"...they considered liberty -- indeed they had learned THAT liberty
-- so much more important than security that they pledged their lives
... their fortunes ... and their sacred honor. And they fulfilled their
pledge. They paid the price. And freedom was born." '
They did have no less to lose than the wealthiest and post powerful
of Americans of today: their lives, their families, and their property.
Let us pray that this nation ever again need that kind of courage
and dedication: but let us pray that, if we ever do. this nation already
has them.
--BI
Letters To The Editor
Editor. The News-Journal.
After reading your editorial con
cerning the Senate Primary election
in last weeks News-Journal. I felt
compelled to correct certain state
ments and assumptions made in
this article.
Concerning the ERA. you seem
to have your facts confused. Sen
ator Noble is recorded as having
voted against the tabling motion in
the Senate, which was a position
favoring the ERA. Since the tabling
motion on the ERA was passed by a
majority of 2~-23 in the Senate, the
effect of this motion w as to kill the
ERA in the N.C. Legislature.
With the defeat of ERA in the
Senate, the N.C. House of Repre
sentatives did not \otc on this issue;
therefore Representative David
Parnell did not vote at all on the
ERA during the June session ot the
Legislature.
Your editorial also made the
assumption that the endorsement
of Superintendent of Schools. Craig
Phillips was the deciding factor in
David Parnell w inning the election.
Certainly Craig Phillips's support
was helpful, but those of us who
worked in David Parnell's cam
paign know that the real reason
that our man won. was the high
quality of our candidate.
1 thought your readers needed to
know this.
Yours very truly.
Jimmy Guy
Editor. The News-Journal.
I am doing research on my family
history and am trying to find
descendents of Neal Carver
BEARD and Mahala Marsh
BEARD. I understand that Mahala
Marsh BEARD lived in Rocktish in
October 1874 when her son. John Q
BEARD was married. I am think
ing that some of that family may
still be living there.
I am the great-great grand
daughter of William Carver
BEARD, the brother of Neal
Carver BEARD.
I am anxious to hear from
anyone with information about the
BEARD family or any descendents
of the BEARD family.
Thank you for your assistance. 1
shall be l<x>king forward to a
response from this letter.
Sincerely.
Mrs. Jackie Morgan
.1520 Le Blanc
San Antonio, Tex.. 78247
Puppy Creek Philosopher
Dear editor:
I here arc a lot ol' things nobody
understands and high on the list as
far as I'm eoneerned is foreign
policy, followed right on its heels by.
monetary policy.
It's foreign policy however that's
in the news now. Some are saying
our foreign policy is in a mess,
which isn't odd in a world in the
same shape.
As I hall-wav understand it. our
foreign policy makers are always
worried that if our international
relations aren't handled with the
utmost delicacy we'll make some
other country mad.
Mv question is. doesn't any other
country ever worry about making
us mad? Has any other country ever
pulled up short and said. Look, we
can't do that, it might offend the
United States? Now you tell one.
I have no more idea that a State
Legislator what our foreign policy
or any other country's foreign
policy has accomplished in the last
hundred years, but whatever those
policies were they didn't seem to
work. The world's in about the
same shape, except that now it has
three wars going at the same time
while one used to be adequate.
You reckon if no country had a
foreign policy the nations of the
world would get along any better?
As it is. enemies one year can be
allies the next or the other way
around and it's hard for anybody's
foreign policy to keep up with the
changes.
How can a Secretary of State
claim credit for something he
doesn't know is going to happen
and isn't sure what it is after it
does?
This predicament exists also on a
lesser level. For example. I contend
that Congress ought to pass a law
making it illegal for a big industry
to suddenly locate in a town
without first giving the Chamber of
Commerce a chance to bring it
there.
Foreign policy is like the Good
Neighbor policy. It works if you've
got good neighbors and you in turn
are one too. So far the world is a
good bit shy of being a. neighbor-'
hood, with everybody wanting
others to pen their dogs while his
runs free. Here. Rover!
Save for a sunny day.
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds.
Yours faithfully.
J. A.
Rich's Cigar Store in downtown
Portland. Ore -. offers cigarettes foe,
sale for 5 cents each.
The purpose is to help who can't
quit smoking entirely from having
to mooch cigarettes from friends. I
remember one guy saying after a
fellow worker who quit smoking
had "bummed" cigarettes from
him and others during the day: "He
hasn't quite smoking. He's just quit
buying. *
There are people who can't quit
cold turkey but want to. quit, so
they're very unhappy about buying
a whole pack when they decide they
have to have just one more cigar
ette. Buying a pack makes them
feel they've surrendered to the old
habit.
Rich's, however, let's them have
their single "fix"- and at the Same -
time gives them the feeling that
they're still quitting, that they just
back-slid this time.
* * *
That newspaper piece about
Rich's, though, reminds me of the
1930s. You could buy a single
cigarette for one cent at some
places. Offering cigarettes for sale
that way wasn't to help people quit
smoking: it was to help people who
didn't have the price of a pack. A
pack in those times was 15 cents for
the regular brands (Camels.
Chesterfields. Lucky strikes. Old
Golds, etc.). 20 Cents for. Egyptian
and other "high class" cigarettes,
like Melachrinos. . Murads. and
Herbert Tarreytons. and 10 cents
for the "cheap" brands, like
Avalons.
The "high class" brands also had
jvery or- cork- tips (to keep the'pi
from sticking to your lips). Those
were the times before the filter
cigarette was invented. You could,
however, buy for a dime a little
cigarette holder that acted as a
filter. I think it was supposed to
keep the cigarette tar from staining
your teeth and your lingers, rather
than keep all that junk from getting
into the lungs.
Those times also were long
before the U.S. surgeon general
had determined that smoking could
be hazardous.- to. your health
Coaches. however, forbade smok
ing by their athletes in training and
during sports seasons, as it was
known even then that smoking
"cut" you "wind (lung power)."
The long cigarette holder made
of bone or something like it. was
commonly used by the "classy"
smokers (see old pictures of. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt . with cigarette
inholder clenched in teeth while
smiling). . ? 5
Some cigarettes were stronger
than others. Cuban cigarettes,
which looked like cigarette-size
cigars, were the roughest I've ever
had. '? . ? :
But the most potent cigarette of
all, Denver Robinson says, was one ?
made on his.' daddy's fafm way. .'*?
back. Robinson was Western Dis
trict farm agent for the Extension
Service when he told me about it..
His daddy grew- aromatic tobacco,
which was used in the blend that
made up the cigarette tobacco. It
constituted about 10 per cent of the
cigarette tobacco (before filtered
cigarettes were invented). One day
Denver decided to see how a
cigarette made entirely of aromatic
tobacco would do for a smoke. So
he rolled himself one and he
smoked it.
He said it made him so light
headed he felt like he was floating
in mid-air. But he never tried it
again.
Many quit smoking, and many
others want to, but maiiy. others
absolutely refuse, even in thf face
of great .bribes, or threats. .
For instance, there is the young f
man in one of Rudyard Kipling's
poem. He proposes to his sweet
heart. and she says. "okay. (I'll
marry you.)" or words to that
effect. But then she says she will
marry him only if he gives up
smoking.
So this worries him. and he
thinks about it. and then he replies:
"A woman is only a woman."
"But a good cigar is a smoke." ||
iniiiiiinim
CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues
HIGH WAGES.. .High wages
and high living cost is having an ill
effect upon jobs in America.
Recently we noticed that
American companies are shifting
their production to countries
where cost is not so great as in the
United States.
We note that SCM will phase
out a portable electric typewriter
factory in New York, eliminating
some 400 jobs, and will switch pro
duction to Singapore. The com
pany estimated that the loss for its
typewriter and appliance groups
widened to more than $25 million
for fiscal 1982, a big rise from the
year earlier, with an S8 million
loss.
We like to see people make good
wages, but when wages get out of
line with other nations, and with
companies losing millions of
dollars, you can't blame them for
looking elsewhere in order to sur
vive.
In Utah, Kennecott Corp., the
nation's largest copper producer,
announced layoffs of 1 .310
employees at its Utah and Arizona
operations. It also announced that
effective immediately, the base pay
for Kennecott's salaried personnel
at all locations would be reduced
10%.
Kennecott, a subsidary of
Cleveland-based Standard Oil Co:,
of Ohio, has piled up huge losses in
?recent quarters because of a sharp
slump in copper demand and
prices.
When governments, local, state
and federal realize the situation
that private business is in, they
should stop, look and listen before
asking or moving toward higher
salaries, lest units of government
find themselves in the same situa
tion that government leaders did
back in the Herbert Hoover ad
ministration.
Better to prepare for it, and it
not come, than to sail ahead and
come to the situation of "payless"
days!
LIONS. ..We read recently
where a Lions Club chapter that
was expelled last year from the In
ternational Association of Lions
Clubs for admitting women, is su
ing to have the international's bar
against women removed.' The
Lions Club tu i'vsnUuu, Oregon,
was the first Lions chapter to ac
cept women as full members. The
club, which now counts seven
women among its 23 members,
sued over Oregon's public ac
comodations law. Three of the
women are co-plaintiffs.
The suit claimed that club
membership affords economic ad
vantages that sex discrimination
denies to women. The suit asked
$2,000 in damages for the club and
$2,500 for each woman defendant.
The suit also asked restoration of
the lost insurance benefits ad
ministered by the national chapter.
POW'S...Last week we read in
the newspapers that some 40 U.S.
pilots are still held as prisoners of
war in Vietnam and may be used
for diplomatic relations with the
United States. A former member
of the Viet Cong told this to a
magazine recently. If this be true,
we feel that every effort of the
American government should
press for their immediate release.
Looks like all U.S. involvement
in Vietnam turns sour before it
ends!
3-MILE CONTRIBUTIONS ...
We feel kindly toward Duke Power
Co. Chairman, Bill Lee, who is ad
vocating that the users of public
power help the Three-Mile Island
get started up again. For Tar Heel
utility users, the cost would be a
small price to pay per customer
* -three cents a month or '36 cfcrits a
year for six years.
Something like this could hap
pen in North Carolina, and if we
have led in helping at Three-Mile
Island, we could get help in a
similar situation more easily.
DAVID BR!TT...We note that
David Britt, a good friend of your
scribe is retiring from the N.C.
Supreme Court, come July 31 this
year. Justice Britt has acquitted
himself with distinction during his
years of public life. He served
from 1958 to 1967 in the N.C.
General Assembly and as Speaker
of the House in 1967; served on the
N.C.- Court of Appeals 1967-78;
Associate Justice of N.C. Supreme
Court 1978-July 31, 1982.
In addition, he has made other
contributions in public and church
service that make him an outstand
ing citizen in North Carolina.