Letters To The Editor Give wrong answers to TV exit pollsters Dear editor: I've never met anybody who knows somebody who has ever been polled by a public opinion pollster. The 1,200 people they poll to find out what 50 million voters think are as hard to find as a politi cian with a cure for the deficit or a doctor with a cure for a bad cold. What happened in New Hamp shire however where the pre election polls were turned topsy turvy leads me to believe that my notion of everybody's telling a pollster wrong, may be catching on. You see, there has been a great deal of concern over polls. People say they're influencing elections before elections are held. If a poll shows one candidate far out in the lead, political investors begin shoveling more money to him, on the sound business principle that money given to a losing candidate is like investing oil money in a dry hole. This works a hardship on the alleged trailing candidate, even though he may not actually be behind, as New Hampshire voters demonstrated. The TV networks poll voters coming out of voting booths and announce who the winner is before the real votes are counted. By but tonholing voters in the East they announce who's elected nation wide while voting in the West still has several hours to go. As a result, some voters on the west coast, seeing on their TV sets the election has already been decided, don't take the trouble to vote. Why go to the polls and stand in line to vote against a candidate the networks say has already been elected? This, it's said, skewers an elec tion outcome and it ought to be against the taw; Congress ought to put a stop to the networks' smart alec tricks. Some people's standard answer to a problem is another law. No law is needed. Befuddle the pollsters. For example, when New Hamp shire voters came out of the booths and a TV hired hand buttonholed them, they should have crossed their fingers behind their backs and told him wrong. Thus the networks would have flashed on their screens: MON DALE WINS, and when the newspapers came out next day with HART WINS, everybody could have a good laugh. And a good laugh is the only defense I can think of against some of the world's current problems. Yours faithfully, J.A. Opinions liberal backing of d'Aubuisson is inconsistant with democracy By Richard A. Viguerie Old-timers will remember when you could order a Ford automobile in "any color you want - as long as it's black." That's the kind of choice American liberals want to give the people of El Salvador: Elect any government you want, as long as it's socialist. Elect any president you want, as long as it's not Roberto d'Aubuisson. The Washington establishment has made it clear that a victory by d'Aubuisson, the pro-free enter prise candidate in the upcoming election, would mean a cutoff of aid to El Salvador. The United States would abandon five millon people to communist guerrillas backed by Castro and the Soviet Union, unless Salvadorans eliminate the remnants of freedom in their economic system. It is a difficult choice. To destroy what is left of a free economy means starvation for many Salvadorans. To lose American aid means an eventual communist victory and the end of human rights in their country. Establishment liberals say socialism is necessary in El Salvador because most of the wealth has been concentrated in a few families. But that is simply not true. According to a study in the mid-1970s. El Salvador had a wider distribution of income than Venezuela, Mexico, Columbia, or even West Germany. The very richest five percent of the popula tion had incomes only four times the national average. A Juried Black and White Photography Show Sponsored by The News-Journal Picture North Carolina will be held May 5 in conjunction with the Hoke County Heritage Hobnob Festival. The event will be open to both professional and amateur photographers who are residents of North Carolina. ?The contest will include five categories: Landscape (including seascapes) sponsored by United Carolina Bank, Historical North Carolina (sponsored by Heritage Federal Savings), Wildlife (sponsored by Southeast Production Credit Assoc.), Creative (sponsored by the Hoke County Chamber of Commerce), and People (sponsored by the Hoke County Public Library). ?All photographs must include, on the back, the name, address and phone number of the maker, and must be signed by the maker and titled. No photographs will be accepted which have been signed and titled on the front of the print. ?All historical category photographs must give the location and description of the subject. ?All prints must have been exposed by the maker, but can be processed either personally or commercially ?All prints must be matted, but not framed. Mat boards should be no larger than 16x20 and not smaller than 8x10. Photographers are limited to six prints. A fee of $1 per print should accompany each entry. ?All entries must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with enough postage to cover the return of the prints. ?The Southern National Bank $ 150 Purchase Award will be awarded to the photograph judged to be the best entry in the show. ?Prises of $50 each will be awarded to photographers judged to have the best print in each of the categories. A photographer may win the purchase award and a category award for the same print. ?Honorable Mention awards of $10 will also be given. ?All entries must be received by April 30. ?Judging, by three members of The Photographic Society of America or other qualified judges, will be conducted May 5. Winners will be announced May 5. ?All entries will be displayed at the Hoke County Library, May 6 to June 1. ?The News-Journal assumes no liability for prints which are lost or damaged ?The News-Journal also reserves the right to publish any or all of the winning or honorable mention prints Maker's name will be included in that publication. For further Information, write or call The News-Journal P.O. Box 550 Raeford, N.C. 28376 919-875-212! Yet the U.S. has forced El Salvador to adopt "reforms" that have severely damaged its economy. In 1980, at the urging of the U.S. government, the junta led by leftist Jose Napoleon Duarte took control of 80^o of the nation's economy. Under U.S. pressure, the government con fiscated private property and na tionalized the banks, took control of wages and prices and interest rates, and made it unlikely that El Salvador will be able to better the economic lot of its people. Since then, the gross domestic product of the country has dropped 25 per cent. Incredibly, the Washington establishment wants to restore Mr. Duarte to power, no matter what it takes. The Washington Post com mented in January that the U.S. was correct to make "unavoidably intrusive" demands for the exile of persons accused of killing left wingers. The Post added: "Still more in trusive policies may have to be followed to ensure the victory, and then the seating, of Christian Democrat Napoleon Duarte in presidential elections in March. A victory by his opponent, rightist Robert (sic) d'Aubuisson, could collapse the whole American enter prise." Who is this "rightist" d'Aubuisson? Until he resigned in order to run for president, he was the head of El Salvador's democratically elected legislature and leader of a coalition that got 60 percent of the vote in the 1982 election. The American establishment's ultimatum ? to elect a socialist government "or else" -- comes just as El Salvador has once again pro ven its eagerness for democracy. As they did two years ago, voters defied death threats and guerrilla attacks to march to the polls in numbers far beyond anything we have experienced in the United States in recent decades. We have seen in Cuba and Nicaragua the fate the communists have in store for the people of El Salvador. But it seems as if many liberals, including members of the U.S. Congress, would prefer a communist victory in El Salvador to a victory by Roberto d'Aubuisson. They want an end to American aid if he wins, even though most everyone knows that it would mean a communist victory in El Salvador ? and throughout Central America. Israel gets 20 times as much U.S. aid as El Salvador, even though El Salvador is in our own back yard. How can we threaten to cut off aid to our neighbor when it faces the imminent threat of a takeover by Soviet and Cuban-backed guer rillas? Attempts by members of Con gress and State Department of ficials to manipulate the Salvadoran elections (by threaten ing retaliation if d'Aubuisson wins) are not consistent with the goal of bringing democracy to that country. Fitness boom changes markets for farm goods The fitness boom is upon us and a very large percentage of Americans are interested in becom ing hoUthier. It's estimated that as. . many ft 72 million Amrficaiis*HVe* taking part in some kind of sports or fitness activity on a regular basis. Why should agriculture be con cerned about this fitness fad? Well, because it's not only chang ing the life styles of its par ticipants, it's also making drastic changes in their diets. The meat industry is especially concerned because they have been under fire by many nutritionists who influence the diets of Americans who are jumping on the health and fitness bandwagon. Surveys have revealed that far too often those consumers most concerned about being in shape are often the most nutritionally misin formed people. These are the peo ple who are not aware of the lean ness revolution that's been taking place in the meat industry in the last 30 years. Deborah W. Fegan. D.V.M. announces the opening of RAEFORD ROAD ANIMAL HOSPITAL UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Providing a full service veterinary clinic. House calls provided for small animals. 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