Thursday, October 26, 1972.
A Heavy Tongue Licks The Sky
By MURRELL SMITH
From alar a child’s brown hair and curly like a poodle’s
y skips at twilight upon a green hill. In her pink face can
be seen the flame of beauty—from afar she can hear her
L mother’s cry, “Come in, dear, and get ready for supper.”
From afar a child gently skips at twilight in. her face can be
seen the flame of beauty—the gentle music of summer
aroused in the earth—summer’s green fingers burst forth
from every bush and tree.
The winds roam aimlessly through the open windows blowing
dry dust and ashes like soft powder.
' Her mother’s white sheets hang loosely on the clothes line
and flap in the unsettled dust.
From afar a child with hair like a poodle’s skips at twilight
upon a green hill.
From afar her mother’s cry, “Come in, dear, and get ready
for supper.”
At twilight she stops and drops a soft round pebble into a
lucid pool into the ripples she can see her beautiful pink
face and jed lips—
She can see her hair that is curly as a poodle’s. She slowly
touches her face ever so gently in the lucid pool—her
toes curl up and squeeze the mud between each toe—it
tickles as the mud wriggles through.
The stars at twilight reflect from a worn out past—through a
torn screen door she can see her mother watching her.
At sunset in her youth the sky was so brilliant tears ran down
her soft pink cheeks and red lips.
From afar a child with brown hair and curly like a poodle’s
,j skips at twilight upon a hill. In her face can be seen the
' flame of beauty.
wFrom afar her mother’s cry, “Come in, dear, and get ready
for supper.”
On her way home tree ferns bend to the ground as if they
were weeping with dew.
Walking through the garden gate and past an old well she
can see the path of twilight—it is so worn and slick the
stars reflect from the very ground.
As she enters the front door with a torn screen door the scar
let is so brilliant tears run down her soft pink cheeks.
Now at noonday when the town siren screams she -scrambles
home for a brief hour then parks her car on the black
asphalt in front of my house.
I listen as the wheels turn into autumn and the town clock
claps away the long years and sleep in time forgotten anti
with a heavy tongue licks the ash-red color of the skv.
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If you've ever had a five or six
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probably already hooked . . .
If you haven't, this weekend will
be a great time to start. The 1972
National Striped Bass Derby, sponsor
ed annually by the Elizabeth City Jay
cees, is scheduled for Saturday and
Sunday.
Get a bunch of fishing- friends
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four-man teams, register by Friday,
October 27, then - have yourself a
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Coltrane is a native oC
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Sale Tuesday
The Garden of Eden Club
is preparing for its autumn
| plant and shrubbery sale, to
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I A special selection of finest
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i perennial plants, shrubbery,
] dried materials, pumpkins,
j corn, etc.
There will be unusual plants
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pansy plants and other plants
and shrubbery from Leary’s
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for a beautiful springtime.
Proceeds from the plant
sale will be used for the town
beautification projects spon
sored by the Garden of Eden
Club.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Senator Sam J. Ervin Says: . . . .
WASHINGTON—In the final
weeks of the 92nd Congress a
seesaw battle has been going
on between Congress and the
administration over how to
regain fiscal control over the
federal budget.
At the end Congress re
fused to give the President
the power to impose a rigid
3250 billion ceiling on 'federal
outlays for the current fiscal
year. Much has been made
of the unwillingness of the
Senate to go along with the
administration’s request for
unrestricted power to decide
which programs would be cut.
Indeed, the White House has
pointed an accusing finger
saying that any tax increase’
that now occurs should be
blamed on the Congress.
A review of the circum
stances which led to this im
passe may be helpful in clean
ing the air for constructive
action. In my judgment, the
real opportunity to win the
battle of inflation and fiscal
responsibility was lost on
September 9, 1971, when the
President addressed the Con
gress and laid before it he’s
new economic policy. Wage
and price controls had just
been imposed ard Congress
and the people would have
accepted curtailed governmen
tal spending as necessary to
fight inflation had Ire. called
for it then. The federal- ■’defi-
cit was then running at an an
nual rate of about 929 bil
lion. It would have been log
ical for the President to call
for reduced federal spending.
Instead, the President was
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strong on rhetoric but made
no specific call for cutbacks
in the budget, and indeed en
dorsed again his proposed
“guaranteed annual income”
welfare program and urged
Congress to approve tax cuts.
Months went by and on
January 24 deficit spending
got a new boost when the
President submitted his fiscal
1973 budget to the Congress.
He urged Congress to appro
priate $36 billion more than
general revenues would pro
vide in the current fiscal
year.
All of this was tantamount
to telling Congress that the
President was not much con
cerned about deficit spending
or taxes. Indeed, as recently
as September the President
was urging Congress to pass
a new revenue sharing bill
which would give the stales
and local communities 533
billion over the next five
years. The President was !
also committed to a whooping
increase in welfare payments
through welfare reform. I
might sav that I did not sup
port either of these new
spending proposals. By late
September the political winds
were blowing strongly against
a tax increase. The adminis
tration then began to back a
proposal to give the President
the right to pick and a-hbosc
what federal programs would
be funded to keep spending
within a $250 billion ceiling.
The tragedy ot the whole
matter is that -neither.- the
President nor the Congress
have taken effective action to
curb deficit spending. I fully
support a balanced budget. I
think it is foolish for this
country to embark upon a fis
cal policy which will ulti
mately lead to confiscatory
taxation or possible bank
ruptcy.
But I do not think it is wise
for Congress to give the
President an absolute power
over the purse. Many in the
President’s own party pro
foundly disagree with him on
this issue. Congress and the
President must find a wry of
controlling the federal bud
get. but the formula brought
to the Senate in the la-t days
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of the session would only
compounded this problem.
This spending ceiling battle
involves more than whether
the Congress or the President
is at fault in failing to re
store fiscal responsibility. It
involves the whole system of
checks and balances which
has thus far prevented the
abuses of unchecked and ab
solute power.
As much as I would like to
restrain federal spending. I
do not think that Congress
ought to give the President a
blank check and say “you fill
it in for any programs you
like up to $250 billion.”
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