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This Is National Newspaper Week Oct. 5-11 The Fraijteih Times Pwfcl.?H#d !??'? Tw?*4?y I Tkvri^y Sininf AM Of frtmktm CwX) Your Award Winning County Newspaper Newspaper Week This is National Newspaper Week. This is a time for the blowing of one's own horn; a time to relate one's worth to the community it strives to serve. Your community newspaper: - Is read by 15,200 people twice a week every week. - Is holder of ten state and na tional awards. - Tells the world about you, your family, your community. -Tells you, your family, your community atput the world. - Expresses an opinion twice a week on things concerning you. - Reports on happenings here. - Records for all time the history of this community. ? Brings home a little closer to those away. ? Brings those away, a little closer home, - Supports every worthwhile en deavor in your community. ? Cries when you cry. - Laughs when you laugh. What other instrument in today's hurry-hurry world is as interested in your. welfare? Where else can you get the full story of things that concern your life? Only here. Only in your com rrunity newspaper. Because we care. We care about you. We care about your community. It's our home, too. THE OTHER SIDE OF HITLER'S COIN JOHN J. SYNON My morning's paper, in a single article, today listed 17 areas acroa the country that had experienced high -school racial disturbances within the past 24 hours. One such dis turbance (in Pittsburgh) cen tered on a bare-breasted fe male who raced through the halls urging students to leave class. My evening's paper, this same day, reported high school football games in Richmond (Va.), hitherto played at night, hereafter will be played in the afternoon if ataU. Why? WeD, the paper gave the cause, three columns of "incidents". And who is doing it? A police officer said it was "99.44 per cent Negroes." One arrest has been made; a white person. So it goes. Day after de pressing day and not a single voice of national authority raised in outraged opposition. None, not a single one. If isn't to me thing to make light of; hardly. But there is an Inescapable similarity be tween our worsening public school situation and that of a swineherd trying to round up his escaped charges; a ludi crous similarity. And yet, in Pittsburgh, as Dallas, as in New York, as in Chicago, as in Richmond, aa in Columbia (S.C.), these wild ones will be rounded up and indiscriminately reseated. And classes will go on, check er boarded and policed, spirit ually dead, one black rfiackled to one white, in compliance with The Curse of Warren et al. And what of learning? On May 2, 1965, Dr. Mar tin Mayer, liberal spokesman for things pedantic, gave us a glimpse of the future. He told us what of learning in the public schools. Writing in The Times on New York's public school system. Dr. Mayer said: "The decline will be fairly precipitous but no one will be able to mark the place where the (public-school) system fell over the cliff and became a custodial institution for children who have no future." Since that was written, four years have passed and what, four years ago, was Dr. Mayer's promise for New York's public schools has be come New York's reality. And what has become the reality of New York is now the promise for the rest of our land; public schools every where are rapidly becoming custodial institutions. And no voice of national authority la raised in outraged protest; not a single voice. Indeed. President Lyndon B. Nixon tells us in no uncer tain terms that his administra tion is unwaveringly com mitted to further racial inte gration. Jji effect, tb an inten sification of today's situation. What a deep and an abid ing sadness, the moral col lapse ofK one-great country. Our children no longer are having their "minds stretched in a free and unfettered" at mosphere. Instead, they are being marched against their will, as against the poorly-ex pressed wishes of their supine parents, out of freedom into something that approaches in tellectual bondafe. _/ What is being tione to them ? to Mack and white children, alike ? is wrong and they know it. But the source of the wrong is beyond their ken. Did they know It, they are being told the obverse side of the Hitler lie. Hitler said there was (is) a master race. That lie was bad enough. The one being fed our children, that there are no material, inherent dif ferences between the races is infinitely more degenerate. Being unable to figure that lie, but feeling Its effects, the kids are rebelling. What's to come of our public-school systems? I put the question to the man I take to be the greatest living authority on the subject: Dr. Henry E. Garrett, Professor Emeritus of Psychology. Columbia Unhrenity, and Put President of The Ameri can Psychological Associa tion. Dr. Garret said, "The pub lic schools have no future." What the, the final ques tion comes, of the future of their product? Dr. Mayer answered that in 1965. Registration Over 10,000 Charlotte - Charlotte's motor-vehicle registration. 176,345 can and trucks, leads all North Carolina cttlea, the N. C. State Motor Club Mid today. ' Raleigh ranks second with 106,163 and Greensboro third wtth 100,341, according to final figures for 1968. Others in the' top ten are: Winston-Salem, 96,502; Dur ham, 64,363; Fayetterille, 57,212; Asheville, 60,415; High Point, 46,006; WUming ton, 37,063; and Gastonia, 35,692. The reports lists motor vehlde registration in Frank lin County at 10,463 and Louisburg is listed as having 6,239 motor vehicles No other Franklin towns were listed The ten leading counties are: Mecklenburg, 191,166; Guilford, 165,081; Wake, 143,466; Forsyth, 121,552; Buncombe, 75,412; Cumber land. 74,694; Gaston, 72,312; Durham, 66,735; Alamance, 54,520; and Catawba, 54,520. North Carolina's total reg istration last year climbed to 2,918,420, up 195,472 or 7 per cent over 1967, and rank ed eleventh in the nation. California leads the states with 11.1 million, followed by New York with 6.3 mil lion and Texas with 6.2 mil lion. Traffic Deaths Chicago ? The National Safety Council reported that more persons died In traffic accidents in July than In any other month so far this year. The council reported, 5,030 > deaths on the highways in July and a total of 30,690 for the first' sewn months of i 1969 The Franfejin Times % Established 1870 - Published Tuesdays (i Thursdays by The Franklin Times. Inc. Blckett Bl?d. Dial OY6-3283 Loulsbuff, N. C. ? CLINT FULLER. Managing Editor ELIZABETH JOHNSON, Business Manager NATIONAL EDITORIAL Advertising Rates -^^""^SSOOAT^O*^ subscription rates In North Carolina: Out oLState: One Year. $4.64; Six Months $2.83 One Ymt. $5.?b; Six Months. $4.00 Three Months. $2.06 , Three Months, $3.60 Entered at wcond dm nSI miller and postage paid al the Post Offlcc st LouMvrg, N. C. 27)49. . . . AND KEEPS THE WORLD IN FOCUS THE WHITE HOtf^K WASHINGTON National Newspaper Week, October 5-11, provides a welcome occasion for all of our citizens to think about our newspapers and the traditions in which they work. I am pleased to havtf this opportunity to add my own words of greeting. A free and unmanaged press is one of the great products of our system of government and one of its most importanjt guarantors. Much of the world does not know this freedom, nor has it always been present in America. In 1690, one of the first American newspapers, Publick Occurences Both Forreign and Domestick, was suppressed after one issue. Only fourteen years later did another newspaper appear in the colonies. , -i Over the years bold and brilliant men and women won for the American press the freedom it enjoys today, both to re port and to interpret the events of our time. Now, with the whole field of communications revolutionized beyond man's farthest dreams, it is incumbent upon all of us- -journalists and readers alike- -to see that this freedom is maintained and used in a way that is both creative and responsible. To day's newspapers are heirs to a great tradition- -one which must be honored arid extended. Come To Think Of It By FranK Count I wont supposed to be back there in that lawyer's room, but I was. I was looking for another kind of room altogether but I cant find nothing since they redone the courthouse. There was a bunch a men sitting 'round talking. Some of them wore police clothes. Them others was rich. Ever one was wearing a necktie and smoking a cigar and strutting. They was arguing. I could tell. Their faces was red. One said he thought the Motor Vehicle folks was eventually gonna run the state. He was defending a drunk driver. One of the police fellows didn t take kindly to that statement. I could tell. He got red ever where it showed. He musta arrested the drunk driver. Leastwise 1 guessed he did. Another man took up the words and talked about some points he had and told that he was a safe driver. He was proud. He was rich and he was not defending a drunk driver. Pretty soon a man come down the hall with a long black robe and I decided I was in the wrong place and left. But, it started me to thinking. I been wondering all along if everybody thought little of drunk drivers. I found out they dont. Just them that git killed by them. Them that git paid by them likes them. Aint that the way of things, though? Being a mule man myself, I ain't never had much truck with automobiles. What I've had aint always been the best and folks can laugh if they want to, but I ain't never knowed a car that's take you safe home, if you fell asleep at the wheel- -or for them that do- passed out at the wheel. I remember when I was just a boy, Tata Mullens borrowed his rich uncle's brand new car one time when the old man was visiting him. TaU wanted a bunch of ui boys to ride to school with him and we did. Being boys, we didnt hurry none on the way. We just rode around for a spell. When we got to school late, we told the teacher we had a flat tire. We all told her that and she seemed right satisfied with the answer. Then she told us to all set apart in the room and to write on a slip of paper, Which Tire. ' That made .Tata so nervous it was a week before he could go back' to his after School Job racking up balls in the pool room. Then one day, Tata got the car again and me and him went to ride to town. We parked at one of them angles and messed around awhile. When we got back there was a note under his windshield wiper. It said. "I have just smashed your car. The people who saw it think I'm writing down my name and address. I aint." _ Soon's Tata growed up he bought him a car. They said it was a real humdinger. He was the Hot-rodder of his day. He wont but twelve at the time. Back then, you could drive anytime you wanted to. Tliere wont no restrictions, except you had to have a car. I seen seven year old racing. 'Course they wont going more'n 35 at the time, but everything was standing still. That made them look like they was going faster. TTiey was the ones with money. The rest of us was the ones standing still. I been thinking about what them lawyers said. They may be right. Drunks might have a right. Everybody else got rights. Maybe somebody ought to form a League or something to help out drunks. Everybody knows they cant help themselves, lawyers is the only ones that cares anything about drunks. And I think that'i a shame. Other folks ought to take a interest. If lawyers can take a interest, the rest of us can. I been thinking we ought to name the group after Tata. He'd a liked that. TiU always was one for helping the underdog. He was finally in a terrible wreck and I remember his last words to me: "I dont see how they make a profit on this stuff at a dollar and a quarter a fifth". DURING NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK, OCTOBER 5-11, 1969 WE SALUTE The Franklin Times ... For outstanding community service, and wish to express sincere appreciation for this newspaper's fine contribution to civic aware ness of Franklin County happenings.... f if THE FMNKLINTON PUNT OF BURLINGTON MEN'S WEAR DIVISION ' 89 Burlington Industries, Inc. BUI EXECUTIVE OFFICES: GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
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