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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1960
‘Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to*
the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it”—Abraham Lincoln.
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Laws Of Physics Present
Frightening Consequences
Those of us not blessed with a scien
tific turn of mind could hardly be ex
pected to work up much enthusiasm for
a venture into physics. Still and all, as
applied to something as commonplace
and familiar as the family car, the laws
of physics present a clear and unmistak
able lesson — especially in their fright
ening consequences.
Take for example your own car. If
It's average it will weigh about 3200
pounds- And while you’re driving, it
will develop enough energy at 20 miles
an hour to lift a 1000 - pound elevator
three floors.
Speed up to 60 and the same car
smashes into a fixed object with a
force equal to its being driven off the
top of a 12 story building.
Professors and the textbooks say,
‘‘The force of impact varies as to the
square of the speed.” That doesn’t sound
very deadly, does it? But see what it
means in practice: If you’re ambling
along at 30 miles an hour, then sud-
Passing The Torch
The ancilht Greeks had a ceremonial
foot-race called ‘Tassing the Torch”.
Their swiftest runners carried a light
ed torch and passed it, burning, into the
hands of the next relay of runners,
sometimes from city to city, until it
reached its goal.
In our nation, we have an annual
event carrying a similar idea—a path
of light toward a goal. However, in this
event, no physical exertion is involved
—only faith. The occasion is National
Bible Week.
The twentieth annual observance of
Bible Week takes place October 17-23.
The theme for the Week is, “The
Bible—Strength of Our Nation.”
Former President (Herbert HoOver is
serving as honorary national chairman
for the Week, and Edward C. Werle,
chairman of the board of the New York
Stock Exchange, is national chairman.
This year also marks the twentieth
anniversary of the Laymen’s National
Committee, the interfaith organization
which sponsors thd Week- The first ob
servance of Bible Week began on De
cember 7th, 1941, a date that shall en
dure in our history. Today, we are
again confronted with an international
crisis. Full participation by our people
in National Bible Week will help us to
keep the faith handed down by our
Founding Fathers.
Defer Pat - On - The - Back
cnder rn old law, passed when govr
ernment bond interest rates were much
lower than they are now. Rural Electri
fication Cooperatives can borrow mon
ey from the government at two per
cent. But, for some time, the govern
ment has had to pay about four per
cent for its borrowed money.
The co-ops loans are repayable on fix
ed dates. Many of the co-ops, however,
have been making advance payments,
ahead of the dates. This caused a
spokesman for the movement to make
an astonishing statement.
He pointed out, in effect, that the co
ops didn’t have to make payments in
advance, and that they could instead
legally invest the money in govern
ment bonds paying four per cent- Then
he patted the co-ops on the back for re
fraining from doing this, on the grounds
that they are thus showing self-sacrific
ing patriotism of a high order.
Others may t^e a different view of
the matter. They may feel, for instance,
that no praise is due—that simple inte
grity, no matter what the legalities in-
•volved should prevent co-ops from, in
effect, using government" money bor
rowed at two per cent to buy govern
ment bonds paying a higher return.
And they may even feel that the pat-
on-the-back should be deferred until
such time as the co-ops themselves sug
gest that their interest rate be raised
to the point where it will equal what
the government must pay.
Can Our Youth Be Fooled?
American youth is being wooed by
the Communists.
J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, reports:
‘‘In 1959, the Communist Party, U.S-A.,
launched a major campaign with youth
e s its target . . . The Purpose . . . was
t) devise a program to attract young
blood—teenagers, students, and work
ing youth — to the ranks of the Party
. . . The Party began operating what
amounted to a regular lecture bureau,
v/ith Party spokesmen seizing every op
portunity to project their views on cam
puses across the country.
“Further illustrating the tremendous
irive the Party is making to infiltrate
stud«nt groups is the agenda for a youth
denly step on the gas and get up to
60 and happen to slam into a fixed ob
ject, the force of the impact is not
merely twice, but four times as violent,
as it would have been at 30.
Here’s another physical law, not to
be ignored: “A body in motion will con- •
tinue to move at the same speed and
in a straight line unless acted upon by
some other forcb.”
Applied to highway driving, that law
means that in every automobile crash
there are two impacts. The first occurs
when the vehicle strikes another ob
ject; the second occurs when the occu
pants, who have remained in motion af
ter the vehicle has stopped, hurtle into
the steering wheel, windshield or in
strument panel
Pretty sobering, this little venture in
to high school physics, isn’t it? But it
can be worthwhile, too, if it makes us
take a sharper look at some of our be
liefs about driving speed.
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^ THIS WEEK
—In Washington ;>
With Clinton Davidson
CAMPAIGN PROMISES
ria
Voters with a long memory
know that campaign promises,
however sincerely they may be
made, cannot always be carried
out. The country is fortunate that
some of them cannot.
I attended both Presidential
nominating conventions four
years ago. Many promises were
made by both parties which were
not carried^^t, partly -because
Congress refused to vote them.
Similiar promises were made at
the national conventions this year
and are being repeated by the
candidates in the campaigning for
votes. We are hearing a great
deal of talk about “government
programs” funds to “strengthen
our economy.”
Federal regulations and con
trols follow excessive Federal
spending just as surely as night
follows days. I have called atten
tion in previous columns to the
fact that there are more than
3,000 Federal bureaus, commis
sions, and agencies in Washing
ton with administrative author
ity over private busines. More
than half of them have been
created in the past 25 years.
Danger From Within
A large number of those agen
cies, with a total of many thou
sands of employees in all parts
of the world are spending bil
lions of the U. S. taxpayers’ mon
ey in both cash grants and tech
nical aid, to build up foreign
competitors to private business
in this country. Many of these
.competitors are government-own
ed and controlled.
ThrNbgh use of U. S. financing
and cheap labor at home, those
countries can undersell us in
many markets including those in
our own country. This not only
weakens our privately owned in
dustry and agriculture but has
caused many of the larger cor
porations to form subsidiary cor
porations in Europe which pro
vide jobs for thousands of Eur
opean laborers, while reducing
employment within the United
States.
Conservative Agriculture
This situation is not too bad at
present but it would have become
very serious if all of these so-
called “liberal spending pro
grams.” had been put into effect.
Many spending projects were
pushed by Congressmen from the
large industrial cities. During re
cent years our country has been
Shot An Aitow Into The Air.,
conference the Party held in Chicago,
June 11-12, 1960. The major points on
the agenda for the two-day conference
were (1) ‘mass developments on the
campus’ and (2) ‘left-student develop
ments’. Discussed in relation to these
points were ways and means by which
young Communists could exploit such
controversial issues on campuses as civ
il rights, academic freedom, and other
so-called peace issues.”
The Communist threat from without
must not blind us to the Communist
threat from within, which, if successful,
would wipe out the very things Com
munism professes to promote, namely,
civil rights, academic freedom and
peace issues-
At Liberty
By BIBB triUBA
Hurrah for Alma Mater....8he
did the impossible; she beat No
tre Darnel There was daocing in
the itreeta Ill wager.
While we’re on the subject of
football, let’s pause a moment
in ‘respect for the Blue Devils
who also went down in true
Duke tradition before 'the ram
paging club from A/M Arbor,
Michigan.
Nikita Khrushchev is still talk
ing and capturing the propaganda
prize every time. He’s spoken at
such great lengths and beaten the
desk so often that we Americans
can be proud that he’ll return to
the U. S. S. R, with a sore throat
and bruised knuckles.
A major victory for our side!
Speaking of long talks reminds
me of a story that one of my fav
orite friends told me.
A minister was asked to pray
at a meeting and he conversed
with the Loird so long that a
fellow standing nearby turned to
a friend and whispered:
“My goodness it’s a fillibus-
ter!”
Then there’s the story about
the speed demon who was dip
ping the nMd at M rapb nhen a
Modal A Fori pawad Ma and
left him far ba^d.
Try u be coirid, tka hef-r»dder
couldn’t catch the Ford and didn’t
see it again for about 10 mlloa.
When he did see tkc ctf it iraa
parked in a larviea station yard
getting a tank of gas.
’The youngster walked up to
the Model A and aakad the dri
ver, a man with graatar age that
the auto‘ahd a straw sUcklng'Out
of the comer of his mouth, what
kind of motor ha bad in the Ford.
“Shucks son, It don’t have no
thin’ to do with the motor,” he
volunteered, “I got it hung in
second gear-”
Let’s give full support to the
United Fund this year and make
Hoke county one ht the few ta
go over her, quota.
Stop and think a minute and
youll find someone that la not
as fortunate as you. After you
think of this person than you’ll
realize that you can afford to
contribute to the drive. The only
quota you should set for yourself
is give as much as you can. If
we all do this there’ll be no pnv
blem about reaching our goal
The Puppy Creek Philosopher ^
Finds Neighbor Who Has Novel Moa
For Solving The Problem Of Castro
saved from inflation and disaster
that would have followed such
liberal spending, simply because
the agricultural areas are conser
vative.
The liberals have complained
bitterly that the Congressmen in
the Southern agricultural sections
voted with the Northern conser
vatives and thereby prevented the
enactment of the so-called “lib
eral” plans to spend many bil
lions of dollars of the taxpayers’
money. They are right about this.
The moral socialism at the
heart of these spending programs
has not appealed to the Southern
representatives in Congress. The
South is a basic agricultural sec
tion in which there is a high pro
portion of farmers, especially in
their politics and economic be
liefs.
Far-sighted editors of thou
sands of weekly newspaper^ have
contributed immeasurably to de
feat of wasteful and dangerous
spending by keeping their read
ers accurately informed.
(Editor’s note: The Puppy
Creek Philosopher on his Ber
muda grass farm covers a wide
range of ideas this week, his
letters indicates.)
Dear editar:
The way it looks to me, the
United Nations is an organiza
tion of disunited leaders, but
what I started out to say was I
was sitting around with a bunch
of people out here the other af
ternoon discussing politics. I tell
you, after a week
or so of reading
how much Khru
shchev and Cas
tro love each
other and hate
tho'iU. S., a gen
eral discussion of
American poli
tics is as refresh-
i n g as finding
out you've got
more money in the bank than
you thought.
At any rate, the question came
up—which man can handle the
world situation, Nixon or Ken
nedy?
One of the men, who has four
kids, eight installment payments
a month, and a 10-year-old tract
or, said: “I don’t know, both of
’em I guess, at least both of ’em
claim they can, each one better
than the other, but even if eith
er of them can handle the world
situation, I don’t believe either
one of them is equal to the job
of handling my situation.”
The trouble is, h« went on, bU
budget is in worse shape than
Washington’s, without near the
resources.
“All it takes to raise the debt
ceiling for Washington U an act
of Congress,” he said, “hut It
takes an act of a banker to raise
mine, and bankers don't have to
run for re-election. Kennedy or
Nixon might talk Congress Into
voting more money, but they
wouldn’t have much luck with my
banker. Maybe Nixon or Kennedy
can solve the education problem
for the country as a whole, but
I’m still gonna be faced with the
bills for my boy in college. Maybe
they can bring our defenses up
to date, but I don’t believe they
could do much with my 10-year-
old tractor.”
I tried to explain to him that
there are some things he’s sup
posed to do himself, but he had
me there. “Where does it ssy so *
in the platforms?” he asked.
I couldn’t answer him, so I
took the natural step a men tajrcs
when he’s cornered. I asked him
what he thought we ought to do i
about Castro. ^
The only thing he could sug
gest was that if we kept on firing
off test missiles, maybe doubled
up on them, maybe one of them
would go In the wrong direction
and the problem of Cestro would
be eliminated. I don't think this
is a good idea.
Yours faithfully.
J. A.
This Is The Law
By Robert E. Lee
(For N. C. Bar Association)
SALES OF FARM CROPS
-Jones has obtained a judge
ment against Smith. Smith has a
crop of cotton and tobacco not
yet matured. May the crop of to
bacco and cotton in its imma-
yet matured. May the crop of to
bacco and cotton in its imm.i-
tured state be levied u;) on and
sold at an execution sale to satis
fy the judgement of Jones?
No, There is a North Carolina
statute which prohibits a judge
ment creditor from selling at an
execution sale the growing crops
of his debtor. He has to wait un
til they have matured or ripened.
After the annual crops of a
debtor have matured or ripened,
they may be levied upon and
sold by his judgement creditors
as personal property. This is so
even though the matured crops
are still attached to the ground.
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May a farmer orally sell his
unmatured crops?
Yes, Annual crops, whether
matured or unmatured, may be
voluntarily sold as personal pro
perty by the owner. As between
'the parties themselves (the bor
rower and the lender), the chat
tel mortage is valid though oral
and unregistered. But in order to
be valid against the creditors of,
or purchasers from the iportga.
got (the borrower), the ch|ttcl
mortgage must be in writing gnd
properly registered.
A tenant may sell or mortgage
his crops, matured or unmatured,
without the assent of hit land
lord. But a tenant cannot aell or
mortgage his crop so as to de
prive he landlord of his statutory
lien for rent and advancements.
One who buys farm products
from a tenant runs the riik of
not acquiring a good and valid to
the same. If the tenant hai not
.paid in fuH rent and advanep-
ments of the landlord, may recov
er the farm products or sue the
purchaser in conversion for their •
market value tothc extent of
his lien.
The lien of the landlord for
rent and advancements made to
wards making and saving the
crops is valid without registra- ^
tion. The landlord’s lien is acquir
ed automatically by virtue of bia
status.
The fact that the purchaser
has acted in good faith and ii
without actual notice of the land
lord’s lien is immaterial.
A purchaser of farm products
acquires a title free and elear of
the lien of the landlord if the
landlord has, by his words or
conduct, authorized the sale of
the particular farm producets by
•the tenant. *
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