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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
Memorial Day: Freedom Bought
"All we have of freedom, all we use
or know
This our fathers bought for us long
and long ago".
- Rudyard Kipling
Friday is Memorial Day and Kip
ling's words- while not written with
this day in mind -seem to be especially
applicable for this time.
Truly, all the freedoms we today
enjoy, our fathers and a thousand and
more gallant men bought for us. All
the freedoms we use. All the freedoms
we know. For each and everyone,
some patriot died.
As even now brave men die in
Vietnam. They, too, are buying our
freedoms.
Let others say get out. Give up.
The price is too high. I won't go. Let
them burn the flag. Destroy their
draft cards. Denounce their country.
They will never know the admiration
of a nation. Nor will they appreciate
the meaning as the country pauses to
pay its solemn respect. They know
freedom and perhaps the day will
come when they realize what price
was paid and who bought it.
It is for the brave that the flags will
fly; prayers will be said; mourners will
weep. Because this is their country
and they are our men.
So, Memorial Day, 1969. May each
of us pause, pay homage to those who
have made us custodians of the free
dom for which they died-and may
we, more than ever before, think
about it all.
How Ridiculous Can They Get?
The United States Department of
Health, Education and Welfare has ?
come up with some unbelievable
dillies in recent years and most people
have long since become immune to its
infectious stupidity. And yet, childish
and unexplainable actions continue to,
come forth from this marble mecca of
monstrous adjudications.
Witness the latejt. Over at Duke
where there has occurred some
Tieasure of militant protest and black
oemands for Afro-American studies,
KEW has reached what might* be
called its high point in juvenile ap
proaches.
Duke authorities, like so many
other,, university officials, have fallen
over themselves in a mad scramble to
obey the militant demands. In observ
ing such obedience, Duke is attempt
ing to establish what it likes to call an
"Afro-American corridor" in a dorm
itory. One would probably be safe to
assume that this includes black studies
and its been publicly stated that Duke
desires to set up portions of a dormi
tory to house black students partici
pating in such studies.
Up to this point, one must note,
Ouke's only crime seemed to be its
willingness to react to dictated de
mands. But, oh, the Methodists had
committed a much greater sin.
Soloman Arbeiter, head of the
higher education division of HEW,
alert bureaucrat that he is, spotted the
sin immediately and gallant fighter for
all that's right, as he also ?, he rushed
into the thick of Duke's efforts yelling
and waving for all to come to a quick
and sudden halt.
"If it develops, however, that the
Afro-American corridor houses onjy
black members, that practice would
indicate that the housing is not, in
fact, available to students of other
races*', Arbeiter said.
And he continued, "Given the
number of white students at Duke,
their failure to apply for such housing
would, as a minimum, constitute an
igference that they do not feel free to
apply".
If Nobel gave a prize for utter
nonsense, Arbeiter would win going
away. What if no white students at
Duke happened to want to study
Afro-American stuff? What if no
white students at Duke want to live in
the Afro-American corridor? This is a
violation of HEW's civil rights act?
It is reasonable to think Duke
officials were given the impression
that the blacks wanted to have their
own quarters and their own studies.
They almost tore down the university
to make the point. Now HEW says no.
If the blacks are to have their own
courses, the whites have to take it too.
To HEW, that's the American way.
This is a crazy mixed up country.
And we've got a pretty good notion
who's helping to mix it up. ?
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'I wonder how far these guys will be stupid enough
to carry us ?
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
The Warren Earl Burger Court
Smithfield (N.C.) Herald
President Nixon's appointment of
Judge Warren Earl Burger as Chief
Justice of the United States, coupled
with the forthcoming selection of a
successor to Supreme Court Justice
Abe Fortas, perhaps foreshadows
some ideological change in Supreme
Court decisions, but probably not
nearly so much change as doctrinaire
liberals fear and. ultra-conservatives
hope for.
Mr. Burger, a Minnesotan who has
served 14 years as a judge of the U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in the Dis
trict of Columbia, occupies a position
on the socio-political spectrum that is
to the right of retiring Chief Justice
Earl Warren, but no one brands him a
"Rightist." James Reston of the New
York Times sees him as "a perfect
symbol of the qualities and values
President Nixon is clearly trying to
emphasize" and calls him "ex
perienced, industrious, middle-class,
middle-aged, middle-of-the-road,
middle- western, Presbyterian, orderly
and handsome."
Neither Mr. Burger nor President
Nixon's choice for the Supreme Court
seat vacated by Mr. Fortas, whoever
he is, will turn back the social clock to
what many Americans call "the good
old days." Inevitable social change
requires changing ideas about the
meaning of the Constitution.
The Nixon appointments, we may
be sure, will not herald an effort to
bring back racial segregation. Presi
dent Nixon accepts the anti-segrega
tion decisions of the "Earl Warren
Court" as right and just. The new
Chief Justice is regarded as a moderate
on racial issues, which means that he
accepts integration as the proper law
of a land that is proud of its bedrock
of democratic prinicples.
It seems unlikely that the "Warren
Earl Burger Court" will reverse the
"one man, one vote" principle, which
has made legislative bodies more re
presentative of the popular will.
Nor will the emerging conservative
or less liberal majority "put God back
into the classroom," since the Warren
Court never took him out. While the
Court led by Chief Justice Warren
refused to sanction use of prayers
prescribed by school authorities and
established safeguards against sec
tarian Bible reading in public schools,
it never handed down any decision
forbidding study and appreciation of
the role of religion in civilization -and
it never took God out of the minds
and hearts of teachers and students
who felt moved to practice their
concepts of God's will in the class
room and on the playground.
We may see a new Court majority
tighten decisions relating to rights of
criminals. Judge Burger has indicated
his agreement with Americans who
would place, increased emphasis on
protection of society against, crim
inals. But w_e have no reason to
anticipate that the Bill of Rights, as it
relates to accused persons, will be set
aside by a new Court shaped by
President Nixon.
A warning from James Reston may
be helpful. "The history of the Su- ,
preme Court," he said in the New I
York Times, "emphasizes the
treachery of trying to decide how new I
Supreme Court judges will act on the
basis of what they have said and in the
past. The security and the majesty and
the associations of the high court are
such powerful influences that they i
make speculation about men's actions |
on the Supreme Court unreliable if
not actually foolish."
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR
To th? Editor:
I have one question to ask
of the citizens of Franklin
County: Why do you people
insist of taking your cats and
dogs and driving along until
you find a lonely road and
you drop your animals off?
Last night about dark, a
light red volkswagon drove ijy
my house and stopped at the
bottom of the hill and put
out their mother dog and her
Ave puppies. These young
men than came back and
turned around in our drive
and then continued on their
merry way. leaving those pup
pies to wander on the road. (I
might add we feel sure we
know these young men.)
Mr. Editor, please educate
these men to the fact that all
they have to do Is pilk up a
phone and call Mr. Tyree
Lancaster of Centervtlle. he
will come and get your dogs
or cats.
If you don't have the guts
to do that how do you have
the guts to- leave puppies on
the road to starve?
Thank you,
Mattie Kemp
Rt. 2 l,
Kranklinton, N. C.
COME
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by
frank count
I'm always amazed at the things womenfolk do which don't
make any sense at all. Most men already know most of the
things I'm thinking about. Most women I'm sure don't know
much about their doings so's they naturally won't know too
much about why it is always a puzzle to us men the things
they do.
You take them that are too bad off to git out of bed and
cook breakfast gets awful well awful fast when their friends
come by and say the magic words: Let's go to Raleigh.
And the same ones who grab at things on the special table
'cause they can't wait and shove us men out of the lane at the
grocery store (where we're doing
their work, naturally) are the
same little darlings that go to the
Governor's tea and stand in line
with hats and everything else
waiting to get where they think
the action is.
That, one might say, ain't so
bad. But, old Frank knows some
that waited in such a line this
week . . yesterday to be exact
... for more'n a hour and a half
to get in Jessie Ray's mansion.
Guess what was inside? Jessie
Kay, or course, a doughnut and a small (small) cup of
something-or -other. What a way to spend a day, I always say. I
hear they were strung out for miles. Them women psychiat
rists (I looked it up) must do a land-slide business. If they
dont, they oughta.
Then another thing that sends many men off talking to
themselves is hair curlers. There ain't nothing ... let me repeat
that in case you missed a line . . . there ain't nothing cute,
pretty, attractive or otherwise good about hair curlers. Now
curly hair is pretty and 1 don't know how to get it unless you
curl it . . . but there's got to be a better way than hair curlers.
All in favor vote aye. The eye's have it.
But even if the things are necessary at times . . . and we
ain't saying that they are, mind you . . . some women pick the
curiousest times. A sweet young thing will come to town on
Saturday and be seen by thousands with curlers poking out of
her skull so's shell be curly for just one old knot-headed boy
Saturday night. Now I ain't saying there ain't some advantages
to this arrangement. It's the hair curlers I'm agin.
Now this next part is rated "M". That's for mature adults.
You youngins stop reading right here and go get up your
arithmetic. Do it right now. I'm gonna talk about knees.
Now there's a subject and 1 ain't going to fool around with
'em much. I just want to do some men friends a favor and ask
a question they been asking since Adam. Why's it a woman
will wear almost nothing in the way of bathing suits and some
so-called walking shorts and still rip the hem out of her short
frock to keep her knees from showing when she sits down?
I'm reminded what Zeke's new wife said to him the other
day. Zeke made the mistake of asking why women are so
pretty and yet so dumb. He oughta spank her'for her answer
but I reckon he asked for it. She told him: Pretty sp's you men
would love us. Dumb so's we women would love you.
Come to think of it . . . you sure can't beat old mother
nature for having her reasons and working things out, can you?
Do you get the blues when if rains, and do you feel on top
of the world when the day is beautiful ? There's a scientific
reason for the variations of your mood with the weather,
according to scientists. It appears that the weather determines
the quality of the lir that we breathe, and the air, in turn,
affects the chemistry of the blood, thus making us feel de
pressed and worried, or exhilarated and happy. Other forces,
of course, may modify the effects of the weather ? such forces
as diet, infection, and physical and mental activity.
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