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The Fr^ Pvfcktfc** I f T wn4t| A TKwrt4?y n Times Your Award Winning County Newspaper LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT Where Are The True Values? Just *^ien it seemed the summer was over, and for the most part unlike summers past only the weather was hot, violence has struck again in sev eral major cities. As in other summers prefixed with "long and hot", people ^ have been killed and property has been destroyed. As millions of youngsters head back to school, warnings are being inued of more violence on our cam puses and even at our high schools. In a number of Southern cities, parents - black and white- are marching against federally imposed policies which threaten their children's education and safety. The President and the Governors are somewhat at odds over which level of government will take care of the millions who do not work. And an organization of welfare recipients just concluded a meeting in which they said $1600 a year, tax free, was a "stupid" suggestion. Closer to home, finding anyone to help in the harvest of tobacco or other manual tasks has become one of the great adventures of our time. Bearded young men and unwashed young women gather by the hundreds of thousands to hear another bearded and unwashed member of the new generation beat on a guitar and yell into a loud speaker. While they watch and listen, many smoke pot. News reports say they come from all over even across the ocean. They make no mention of where these people get the money. What ever happened to the true values? Where did we loose love of home and seH respect? Where** the man gone who believed injfl6?ay's work for a day's pay? And whatever happened to the clean-shaven young man who walked proudly up to the recruiter to say: This is my country; I am willing to fight for it? What happened to the Navy of John Paul Jones? Why has the Navy of the Pueblo replaced it? Where is the Army of Douglas MacArthur? And where did we substitute the Army of the Green Beret secrecy? Where are the leaders like Harry Truman who said it crudely, but said it nevertheless. Who spoke and meant what he said. Who spoke and only one side of his mouth opened? Why have we replaced this brand of leadership for a conglomeration of double-talk ing bureaucrats who don't understand themselves what they're saying? We are not convinced that the generation gap today is the generation gap that has brought this nation so cloee to disaster. Much of today's trouble is a result of a gap formed many years ago and try as we may -it will forever be difficult to place the entire blame on the new generation. Who looked in on a new bed of political power--the poor and ignorant? Who expediently applied the psychology of promising them all things, knowing full well it could never be. Told repeatedly by national leaders that they had a right to the better things in life, seeing these things vividly portrayed on television and believing that everybody had them all, these people found them selves in the midst of a dilemma. Like a small child tempted by the hot pie in the window, they could not resist. Nobody bothered to tell them that everybody did not have all the good things and that most of those that did, earned them by working. They do not come free. And even after all these years of experience with a philosophy that was doomed from the start, the same old beat goes on. Even so, the madness could not have developed had the values handed down from generation to generation been continued. Respect for truth; honesty and a desire to contribute something to one's neighbors; to be a healthy, working partner of the com munity in which one lives-values worth treasuring, many now long lost. And so we arm ourselves to the teeth to fight our enemies abroad and here at home our citizens- fearful for their lives-are prisoners of their fear. It is no longer safe to walk the streets. And we search l( friends. W? have shrunk the ?*o "tf rA te<ttp'??^ h itmBwi the flfcon. TRtKirye smart enough to cope with a bunch of hoodlums that invade private meetings to present unreasonable demands ind to disrupt the rights and privileges' of others. People who will not work dtmaptf pay from those who do. People who" call for the police when they are threatened denounce them later as . brutal. A routine arrest for public drunkeness can start a riot costing scores of lives and millions of dollars in property damage. We have drifted too far off our course. We have lost our way. The hope lies now with our young people. Unless we slow our pace; unless we revive the values taught us; unless we pass them- in tact-on to these young sters today, there may not be another chance. The generation gap can be bridged by this teaching of things worthwhile. But it isn't going to be easy. The older generation has made such a mess of things. i ? WgNgjggjNEM Y ATTACKS^ Short Court Docket Heard The following cue* wen disposed of In District Court Tuesday, September 2nd: Buck Pascall, n/m/82, pub lic drunkeness. To pay coata. Harold Junior Joyner, w/m/33, speeding. Prayer for judgment continued on pay ment of costs. James Bumpers, n/m/43. public drunkeness. To pay costs of court. James Thomas Williams. w/m/33, speeding. Nolle proa with leave. Dan GlUeland, non sup port. Prayer for judgment continued for 5 yean on con dition defendant pay $25.00 per week for support of child ren. The father shall have visitation rights as specified in order. Defendant to pay costs of court. Daniel Harris, c/m/29, as sault with deadly weapon. 24 months In jail, suspended for 5 years on condition he not carry any deadly weapon of any kind on his person during that time, not commit any overt act to be in the presence of Eula Mae Cooper and pay costs. Rossle Evans, n/m/59, operating auto intoxicated. 4 months in jail, suspended for 12 months on condition he surrender his driver's license for 12 months and not op erate a motor vehicle on the public highways of N. C. for 12 months except as allowed in Restrict Driving Privileges, and pay $100.00 One and costs. David Vick, n/m/29, as sault with deadly weapon. (2 cases). Not leas than 12 months nor more than 24 months in jaB; Psychiatric ex ? mi nation recommended be fore defendant nrves his sen tence. Charlea L en wood Ed wants, w/m/17, speeding. Prayer for judgment con tinued. Charles Da? id Kaith, ? w/m/14, reckless driving, no insurance, Improper registra tion, no operator's license. tee Foster * \ n/ta/39, P*bl|e drunken**. To PSBf coeta. . ? Clarke, " Judgment abeolut# on bond. Carl Richard Wateon, w/m/35, operating auto in toxicate^. 6 months In jalk Notice of appeal given - bond set at $300.00. ?The following defendants pleaded guilty to motor ve hicle violations under walvsr statute and paid coats: Rob ert Lee Johnson, n/m/16; James Barl Taylor, n/m/24; Haywood Lawrence, n/m/18. Pleading guilty to public drunkenesa and paying $6.00 floe and costs each were: Mark Alexander McLean, w/m/41; and Raymond Allen Wells, w/m/43. These defendants wen charged with speeding and each paid $6.00 fine and coata: Leon Lewis Cojion, w/m/54; Mosss (nmn) Egsr ton, n/m/48; George Christie Jennings, w/ra/47 and Pleea Thomas Faiaon, w/m/22. John F.arl Strickland, n/m/34; speeding, paid $16.00 fine and coata. Weather sateUltea have de tected and tracked every tropical storm since 1966. ATTENTION ? FCX MEMBERS Special Enrollment This Month : IN THE _ FAMILY LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM Endorsed by FCX for Its member*. Now I* the time to apply for one of the finest low cost packages of family protection on the market today. The program offtm ? ?ni?ti>?l Kenellle Hotpitai-turficai-ntaicai otntiiti e Ufa iMiiience ? Accidents I Ptttfi li Dltwmbwmtnt NinflU For more Informetlon, call or writer JOHN 0. SLEDGE, JR. P.O. Box 41 LouMbuff, N. C. TMpKont ??-3713 LMs Met offlesi Columbus, Ohio Cancio-Bello Addresses Lions Club Dr. Emillo Cancio-Bello, former Cuban Ambuudor and presently Pro feasor of Spanish at Louiiburg College, spoke to the Louisburg Lion* Club hart Tuesday night. Dr. Cancio-Bello talked on Latin American problem*. He stressed the lack of communi cations between the United States and Latin American countries and recom mended unification of the small repub lics. He told the Lions that industrial *-*?? G The FH^Id Timet Th* Fiaakltt Tmmv I* mm*, dm GYtma lmm n c MUM CUtAMTN JOHNSON ? ?CMCWPnON MTU liNotttMM OMaftMM OatmMM.talMlknn 0? Vat M M>. *fc MMttt t? ? TtaNHklill TW Mmii* U M knowledge was small in Latin America and that the United States is the only nation that can help. Dr. Cancio-Bello commented on the demonstrations, strikes, revolutions and neglect of the people's welfare and told of the impact of Communism in Latin American countries Lion Ken Schuhart introduced Arthur Dail, a new club member at the regular meeting. Dail ii resident mana ger of First Citizens bank here. Bids On NC-39 Project Called For This Week , The North Carolina Slate Highway Commission has announced that bids will be called for this week for the NC-39 highway project in Franklin and Vance counties. Bids will be opened three weeks from now, the announcement said. 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