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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT Thursday. September 2. 1965 A Good Idea -?Dr. Clarence ? Cook Little, writing an Annual Report of the Council For Tobacco Research, has asked why not check on the susceptibility of the Individual to cigarette smoking, ; * ? This observation Is so simple, It is a wonder someone else hadn't thought of It before now. The Surgeon General's Office in Washington, has denounced ciga rettes as capcer producing be cause of certain statistical data. It's almost like saying the ma jority of left-handed people have the greatest number of colds. Being l'eft-h^nded has nothing to dp with it. Realizing this, one must then see what the makeup of these left-handed people might be. Certainly, it defies- explana tion why tobacco Is bad for some and apparently perfectly harmless to others. The physi cal condition of th? individual, it seems, woulcThave a great deal to do with it. This is what Dr. Little is saying. Just as there are people su sceptible to winter colds, Just as * there are those accident prone, ^and like thpse who break out with hives after eating str-awberries, it depends on the individual. ? There are some who u n doubtedly would be (harmed by smoking. They might ^lso be harmed by eating fish, .but un til someone finds !oi<t ' fovhlch individuals these ar^, how can all smoking and all fish-eating be harmful? Dr. Little's point is*w611 tak en. It should be looked into by those who have so flagrantly de nounced all smoking as harm ful. Certainly,, the Tobacco Council will be looking into it, and we wish them the best- of luck. It's Your Life , How Many Do You Have? Franklin County has recorded fi-ve highway fatalities thus far this year. Some may take pride in "the fact that these five .are less than the sfeven killed ta ihe same date last year. But five is(still five tpo many. With the dreaded Labor Day Weekend right around the corn er, and predictions are there will be 22 killed on North Caro lina highways, the time to think ' about what you're going to do is now. Think safety. Drive ac * cordingly and insist that those you may influence do the same. Six accidents in the Franklin . County area last weekend netted one dead, eleven injured, arid five were fortunate, enough to escape ? all this plus the tre mendous-toll in property dam age. Those who visited the accident scenes or those who have seen serious^ accidents before cannot forget the terrible tragedy.' Yet, these tragedies Continue; ? and with -all - the effort being made to reduce them, they con tinue to grow. Nineteen were killed last Labor Day Weekend in the state and three more are predicted this year. Experts have attempted for years to figure this out, and, for the most; part, ? they have failed. Certainly, those of us who know very little about sta tistics and safety motivation can hardly be expected to find the answer. There is, however, one thing we all can do. We can drive as carefully as we know how. We can supervise the driving of our children. And even though most parents -don't think so, ,thes3 ybungsters who account for so many accidents can be kept at at home. True,. It might raise a ruckus; but at least they'd be alive, and so would that .other fellow. This might be drastic, but {hen so is death. You and your family have but one life; anct day by day, automobiles are taking ?more and more lives. This Labor Day WeeJcend, don't let one of them be yours; WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Who Writes Your Ticket? August 26, 1965 A * The Mebane Enterprise Those who have chosen the newspaper pro-, fesslon for a career would find It difficult to change for something else, because, although hewspapering presents some discouraging road blocks occasionally, It also brings a great deal of satisfaction for thos^ who go abffUt their work In an honest and straightforward manner. The newspaper field gives those engaged In it an opportunity to feel the pulse of the communi ty they serve. It makes possible a better under standing of problems, prejudices, hopes and potential. Yes, newspaper lng Is a wonderful profession but It has some disadvantages too. Unfortunately, a newspaper ^cannot please everyone with its news coverage. Generally, In a small community, a newspaper Is not large enough to have as many employees as It would like to\lo a better Job. But equally Important is the inability' of a newspaper to please all In Its editorial policy. Some newspapers do ndt even bother to voice their opinions, and in not doing so they are shirking a duty and responsibility to their readers.and their community. Probably, one of the foremost reasons for not voicing an opinion is dislike of criticism and a fear of losing some revenue. * * Such an attitude lacks all sense of responsi bility and places a big zero under the heading of courage. It also checks up another plus for those who would prefer to see freedom of speech and freedom of the press suppressed But the newspaper which, speaks out for what It considers the best Interests of It? community Is to be admired. If It tries to assist In worth while Improvements and honestly strives to make Its community a better place In which to live and work, then tt has a conscience. If It offers Its -readers an opportunity to voice opposing opinions and - criticism, then it Is rendering a service to Its community. A professional newspaper man has to bear some behlnd-the-back criticism and a great deal of face slapping. But In the end, the satisfaction of feeling he has. done Just a tiny bit In furthering the betterment of his communi ty and the well being for his friends and neigh bors Is ample reward. ? Maintaining one's Integrity and being able to face the world with a. clear conscience gives a newspaper man, or anyone for that matter, a feeling of contentment, free of any guilt com* plexes. . *?' This, In our estimation. Is a far better pattern of behavior than that of "Oh, why bother, I don't want anybody mad at me." ? This Is the. attitude cherished by those who 'want no opposition to their own opinions and who want everything to' remain status quo. Perhaps fits Is the attitude of the majority, but, to say the least, It Is a poor attitude and can only lead to domination by the few. After all, what Is to be will be, but our destiny can be guided by the will of those who will exercise their rights of freedom, Justice and fair play. In other words "write your crwntlcket or some one else will write It for you." The FrarikHn Times . i ' Established 1870 Published Tuesdays 4 Thursdays by The Franklin Times, Inc. Blckett Blvd. Dial GY 6-3283 LOU IS BURG, N. C. J CLINT FULLER, Managing Editor ELIZABETH JOHNSON, Business Manager > %> " ,/ N AT I O Nik I |OITOIN_Al Advertising Rates Upon Request i -SUBSCRIPTION RATES In North Carol InajT ? Out' of State. One Year, $4.64; SI* Months, $2.83 Single Copy 10? 0ne Year, $5.50; SI* Months, $4.00 Three Manths^ $1.06'. r ' Three Months, $3.50 Entered as second class mall matter and postage paid at the post Office at Loulsburg, N C. 27549, 1 ? " Tr J'\J " ' Smoke Rings ^Rcevzeoao- PA/tv Oeuf$ S&icifryty 5am ^aya? Washington ? The Senate got a warning about htgher military costs and potential military equipment shortages during consideration of the defense appropriation bill last week. The warning came when Sena tor Stennls, floor manager of the $46.8 billion defense money bill, said that amounts appro priated now Would have to be supplemented in January 1966 to meet "the mounting tempo of our operations" around the world. Defense appropriations earlier this year Were thought to be leveling, oft, but some Senators studying the Vietnam situation have estimated that the defense budget will rise by $7 to $10 billion early next year. Advocating a realistic ap proach to military needs and costs, Senator Stennls said that unless the military situation changes rapidly that "sooner or later we are going to have to provide the funds to replace equipment and material di verted to Vietnam, to recon stitute our strategic reserve, to supply existing shortages of equipment and weapons, and to! forestall even more serious problems and deficiencies." He contended that while weap ons problems are not critical now, they could become so 1< ?neglected. ? ? i Repeal of the rlght-to-work i wm's LETTERS? EDITOR/ Senior Citizen Dear Sin: Raymond Hobgood, jn old festdent of your town, will be 70 years old tombrrow, Sept. first He Is the happiest man we know to be 70 years old. We thought you might want to know as he has relatives and friends In and around Louis burg. Enclosed Is the latest picture we have of him used promotion of Senior jSrogram. , Yours very truly, : * : Mrs. Sarah Sayre Senior Citizens Club I Huntington, W. V?. 826 Second Street Editor's Note: Mr. Hobgood Is half brother of Superior Court Judge Hamilton H. Hob good of L^xilaburg. I UhiIi section of the Taft-Hartley Act, which passed the House on July 28, Is listed as a priority rheasure for Senate action be fore adjournment. The con troversial measure would prob ably' touch off a long discus sion jOn the most basic prin ciples of human rights. I have strong feelings about the repeal of this section of the Taft-Hartley Act. If it comes . to the Senate Floor at this session, I intend to dis cuss the right-to-work princi ples at length. I would do so in the hope that the majority of the Senate would reach the sound conclusion that the repeal of Section 14(b) would interfere with one of the most basic freedoms of the Ameri can people. As a matter of principle, I do not believe that any man should be "compelled to 'join or support any organi zation of ?ny kind.for the privi lege Of eating his own bread gained by the toil of his own hands. Foreign aid got another one year extension with the Senate House approval of the $3.3 bil lion authorization ? bill for the program. The subject h^s been a Senate controversy since March with action yet to be taken on the appropriations bill to provide funds for the exten sion of the program. The pro gram in its present form is not satisfactory to the Unitfed States or the recipient nations. Both its merits and its costs are constantly debated and chal lenged. I think foreign aid sontlnues to be a most expen GRASSROOTS OPINION JOHN DAY, ORE., BLUE MT. EAGLE: "Really, we hate to be a bug about thjs and speak sO often of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act In our editor ial* column, /but It seems that not enough of this Issue /is getting to the grass rbots. \ . We at the Blue Mt. Eagle, do sive mjeans for achieving limit- ' ed resytts. For this and many F other policy feasons, I voted * against the authorization of the s program. k "COME THINK OF IT..." frank count Here In this newspaper office there Is an old cigar box..... It 1s in this box that everything gets thrown which Is to be used In this column... which usually are the things which nobody else wants to write Now... this Is alright... but since this column is widely known for Its truthfulness and its factual reporting of all' that's fit to tell. ..some of the things coming out of this cigar box Can cause your eyebrows to .raise a bit T Take for instance a Juicy little report found stuck to the bottom of the box by a fcigar band 'this Week..... It says here that two Loulsburg sports went fishing the other day at Moore's Pond. ..(this shgrws they didn't catclfno fish; otherwise you'd never heard of the place)... but this is getting ahead of the story this most reliable report says. ..(and we quote)... "While cruising along In their boat they heard dogs on the nearby bank Jump a rabbit... (now this should get you suspicious) Low and behold... the report rnntlnu&s... about fifteen minutes later, they saw a snjall head bobbing about. in the water. On closer inspection they found it to be a rabbit... naturally... swimming for dear life (happens every day)." This most reliable report goes on, "Since they weren't catching many fish that afternoon they decided to j' catch" the rabbit and brought him in along with their three small fish." Now... you see.. .we know who these two sports are. ..and if you think we're going to make any comment whatsoever on the above. ..you Just ain't been paying attention But, Come to think Of .it, we are going to throw this clgai* box away. not hold an antiunion attitude. We feel that unions have brought the American worker wages and working conditions he could not otherwise obtain. We be lieve there must be a check against overbearing manage ment situations, and unions can combat this effectively,. How evei^ we- believe that unions ilso need ^ check. Without some sort of safety valve, they :a n become as overbearing as certain Industries were before jnlonlsm." SELMA, ALA., TIMES JOURNAL: "In any analysis )f Juvenile delinquency, chil lrei) of Oriental descent have ilways been conspicuous by heir .absence from the statis lcs. . . .Unfortunately, there Lre Indications this may no onger be true. Police lnSacra nento, Calif., for instance, re >ort Increasing Involvement of Chinese and Japanese youths in such things as thievery and ;nlfings. . . vsuch hitherto un Are You Planning To Re-decorate Your Old Home Or Build A New Home? IF SO - SEE US FOR ALL DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES. WALL-TO-WALL CARPET $5.00 PER SQ. YD. And UP' , . Rugs Cut Any Size WE HAVE A NICE CHOICE OF COUCHES, CHAIRS, DINETTE SUITS, PICTURES, MIRRORS & NOVELTIES. 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