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The News-Journal n; The Frost Is On The Pumpkin-Head liATIQM Al fOITOIIAL PahUsbed Every Tfanndiy at Raaford, N. C SubscrlptloB Bates In Advance Per Tear >$4.00; 6 Months — $2-25 S Months — $1.25 r.%UL DICKSON Editor and Pnhlisher Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office at Baeford, North Carelina, under the Act of March 3,1870. THUBSDAY, OCTOBEB 20, 1860 •Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let ys to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it”—Abraham Lincoln. 0 lA Look At Page One, For National Newspaper Week In casting around for a way to take notice of National Newspaper Week, we took what we hope was an objective look at Page One of last week’s News- Journal. Our reaction to this was an inclination to point with some pride to the activities and events reported rath er than to the quality of writing or re production; to be proud of the privilege of reporting and recording the week-in, week-out, ups and downs of this fine community, and of being a part of these in so doing. Last week’s paper was a record of real progress being made, and of people in tending to do their best for themselves, their families and their community, and working at it- We would ask your in- dugence as we run through some of the items which cause us to feel this way, and maybe some day when you feel that our community is falling behind, or hear someone else belitting our efforts, you will find such a look at the total to be encouraging. Sam started the page in “Addenda” with an item aboi^t the past, indicating a pride and interest in our heritage and history. He went on into an admonition to everyone to register in order to be able to perform our most important individ ual function of government on Novem ber 8. Then attention was called to an advertisement by the Chamber of Com merce on an inside page which listed the accomplishments and objectives of this organization and listed the firma and individuals who invest their time and money through the Chamber of Commerce to improve their community in every way. The “Addenda” column wound up with a reminder of the community’s United Fund drive, and of the oppor tunity all have to work in and contrib ute to this effort that helps so many in so many different ways . . . Have you thought how this United Fund is one thing that crosses all the arbitrary lines t^t we have drawn among and be tween ourselves? It’s one thing race, religion, social standing, political party or the way we part our hair doesn’t en ter into, and it’s good. If you haven’t decided to really do your part, maybe you need to think a little longer. It’s the kind of thing that might make you sleep a little better if you know you ere really a part of it- This column on Page One announced ^ that the Kiwanis Club, working for the community’s betterment, would sponsor a meeting tonight on “Effective speak ing and leadership skills,” by people who are carrying on Dale Carnegie’s highly successful application of the Golden Rule to “Win friends and influ ence people.” If self betterment is com munity betterment, this program cer tainly pronuses much. Next column on Page One started with a fine item of news about the plans to nationally advertise our name through a big promotion of “Raeford 2^80,” the fabric made here and market ed everywhere by the Raeford Worsted Corporation. As Pacific and Burlington cevelop national and world markets for this and make more of it, Raeford jobs become better and more secure, in ad- ditioo to the publicity “Raeford” picks up along the way. The PTA made Page One last week with its plans to sell calendars, and in spite of the fact that we consistently soelled the word “calenders,” maybe the publicity will be some help to this group working with time and money toward achool improvement. We are glad to have a part in this, and in let- tiijg you know about it. Near the,|wddle of Page One was a So,-in taking a look at Page One from the last issue, maybe we didn’t talk about National Newspaper Week like many others will We did record hap penings of which we feel deeply honor ed to have a part, and in this we feel that our place in our community and our countiy is not unimportant double column headline about the re port of the county health department to the board of health. Mentioned was a plan by the Raeford Jaycees to pro vide mobile X-ray service to the people of the county, and the expression of a hope and an expectation by the health officer that through such efforts tuber culosis can be conquered completely in Hoke County. We are proud of the health department, and proud of the Jaycees, with their young and vigorous approach to jobs that need doing for the community. *111686 young men are not afflicted with the poisonous caution of their elders and will undertake any thing. Of such are real monuments built. Then there is a column on Page One about our ASC office, and how the staff there has performed better than that in any county of their district for the third year in a row, and of their getting an award to prove it. These folks pro vide a great service to farmers of the county. We can take comfort that they are doing it better than most, and we congratulate thpm. Page One last week carried an item about the Rockfish-Wayside community of the county getting together and ac quiring a fire truck for their mutual protection, and of how the public spirited operator of the truck stop is going to keep it and keep someone available to drive it when it’s needed. This is a fine example of people work ing together for progress, and we con gratulate them also. Another item of which we are all proud was the headline no one but Mike could have written, “Scots Clob bered; Massey Hill Next,” and sure enough, Massey Hill was next. This football team and the effort it repre sents have proven this season that they know how to win, and also that they know how to lose. This proof of char acter building is certainly an item of good news. The Page One item about U- S. Sena tor Sam Ervin coming'here Monday is certainly the recording of ah effort by a political group to get people informed about its point of view before the elec tion next month, and bringing a United States senator to a town this size is not a bad effort, we would say. Not least on Page One were the pic tures. The Chamber “Economic Discus sion Group” was pictured meeting weekly to improve their knowledge of business on all levels and thus improve their individual and collective abilities to help themselves and their communi ty. The elementary school boys’ chorus was pictur^ with their teacher, who is certainly doing a big league job with these youngsters. They are having fun, giving pleasure, and certainly gaining a speaking acquaintance with excellence, Aother Page One picture showed the award-winning staff and committee of the ASC. All this news was good, and perhaps the other two items could be taken as productive of good. One, the ever-pres ent recorder’s court, keeps us on our toes as far as minor misbehavior is con cerned, and the other, about the mer chants’ plans to outwit shoplifters, may turn out to have the same effect. They are certainly activities of a society try ing to improve itself. THIS WEEK —In Washington With Clinton Davidson % Kennedy Farm Program Da vldsen In Washington this week farm and political leaders agree the farm vote on Nov. 8 may very well decide whether Richard Nix on or John Kennedy is the next President of the United States. Farm problems, next to main taining peace with honor, rank as among the important issues in the election campaign, and will be come one of the major concerns of the next Administration. Both candidates recognize that there is a farm depression more critical than at any time since 1933-34, and that a major effort must be made to reduce surpluses and raise farm income. Farm pur chasing power—the things farm ers can buy with net income from production—is the lowest since the early 1930s. We asked both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Nixon what they would purpose, if elected, to solve the surplus problem and raise farm ers’ income. In this and a succeed ing column the two candidates answer that question: Sen. Kennedy’s Answer “First, we pledge ourselves to secure full parity of income for the farmer. That is an income which gives average producers a return on their invested capital,' labor and 'management equal to that which similiar or compar able, resources earn in non-farm employment. “Secondly, we propose to as sure parity income through pur chases and loans, where neces sary, but with major emphasis on supply management controls—in cluding the use of marketing quo tas, land retirement, marketing orders and agreements—to effec tively reach a balance between supply and demand. ‘Third, we must use our excess productive capacity to feed the hungry and undernourished here at home through the school lunch progsams, a food stamp plan, and direct distribution through wel fare agencies, as well as an ex panded program of food ship ments to strengthen friendly na tions that need our surplus. “Fourth, we will begin a sound system of soil conservation which does not destroy entire farms and which is administered at the loc al level by local farmers. Help For Low • Income Farmers “Fifth, we will revitalize our agricultural credit agencies to help farmers get the credit they need, at interest rates they can af ford, to moderize and expand. “Sixth, better research and ex tension services, niore assistance to co-ops, a strengthened REA, and expanded marketing services are essential to the development of a sound rural economy. “Seventh, we will initiate a special program for low-produc tion farmers—farmers who must work with adequate resources and who have a, gross income of less than $2,500 a year. This in cludes encouraging more indus tries to move to rural areas to provide part-or-full tinie jobs for farmers.” The point on which Sen Ken nedy differs most from Mr. Nixon is on the use of strong govern ment controls to limit production. Next week we will report on Mr. Nixon’s plans to encourage volun tary farmer copperation with the government to bring supplies and demand into balance. f Tifn6 ^ ^|L0W DOWN ^o/,i/'uY£! PreUmiuaries The Puppy Creek Philo(io^>gr ^ Wanb To Keep Prodictiea Cotb Up On Bombs, Same As Traetora Editor’s Note — The Puppy Creek PhiliBopher on his Bermuda grass farm seems to be worried about deflation in the ^mb market, his letter this week indicates. • Dear editar: When I turn on a hydrant and see running water, I sometimes think science is man’s greatest benefactor, but whert I pick, up a newspaper, I sometimes think it’s his^ worst enemy. For example, I read in a news paper last night that science has now discovered a cheap way to produce a nu clear bomb. Before I go any further, I don’t know whether you’re in the hab it of shifting gears in your mind when you get up on the in ternational level or not, but it’s necessary to follow a discussion of this type, and I will appreciate it if you’ll stop and do it. That is take the word “cheap.” If you’re in low, or ordinary gear, cheap means cheap, like low-priced auto mobiles before they became high- priced, or a $40 suit marked up to $50 and then marked down to $39.50, but in international, or high-gear thinking, cheap means something else. The first atomic bomb cost, I think, better than a billion dollars, but this method science has developed can pro duce one for around 50 million dollars. I’m not trying to be funny, that is comparatively cheap. At any rate, if a nuclear bomb can now be made foe W million doUara. the e^rta figure et least 20 other nationa beside the three or four that now hgye it can soon have the bomb too. Thi^ is the reason I tay scient ists seem to have as their goal working themselves out of a job, because I can name some of those 20 nations it’s going to be highly unhealthy to let have the bomb. You take Cubf. If all that’s standing between Castro and a hydrogen bomb is 50 million dol lars, he can make that much just by getting on television one af ternoon and taking over a few more American businesses over there. In fact, I guess, you’d say Castro is the highest paid tele vision performer in the history of the industry. I understand some American television stars make a million dollars for 52 shows a year, but Castro can make 50 times that much the first 30 minutes he’s on the air. Ask any American who’s lost a re finery over there. And he some times speaks for four or five ^ | hours. Now I don’t trust Castro with a B—B gun and a bag of chicken feathers, not to mention Castro with three or four hydrogen bombs and three or four planes and enough gasoline to fly to you know where. If scientists were smart, they’d make hydrogen bombs more and more expensive to make, like tractors. What’s got in to em, anyway? Yours faithfully, J. A. TAR HEEL People & Issues By Cliff Blue Youth In The Saddle . . . this is a campaign in which youth is in the saddle. Jack Kennedy ^s 43. Dick Nixon is in his late 40’s. Terry Sanford and Bob Gavin are in their 40’s. Lyndon John and Cabot Lodge are in their 50’s but both are full of vigor. Last week at Charlotte, Terry Sanford called attention to a galaxy of youthful men who came up«n the horizon with Aycock in 1901. Aycock was not quite 42 years old when he became gover nor. Edwin A. Alderman was only 40. Charles Duncan Mclver was 41. James Buchanan Duke was 44. Josephus Daniels and James Y. Joyner were each 39. R. J. Rey nolds was 51, and O. Henry just 34. Dr. William Poteat was 45, and Dr. Clarence Poo, already edi tor of The Progressive Farmer was only 18. We still have a lot of leaders in the 60 and 70 age brakets. Eisenhower was 70 last Friday. “Mr. Sam” Rayburn'is in his mid 70’s, and Harry Truman is in his mid 70’s But right now the spot light seems to be on the men in Iheir 40’s. Four years from now the cycle could swing back and it would be the older men who would be holding the spotlight. Harry Truman ... We saw and heard Harry Truman when he spoke at the State Fair in 1948. We saw and heard the pepped former President lasts Thursday. He drew big crowds, and while his speeches were more of a “give ’em hell” to the Republicans than in advocating the Democratic nominees, there is no doubt bul that he is a popular and beloved old man—probably more than when he occupied the white house. He and the late Kerr Scott reminds us of each other very much for their plain-spoken ways. History, we feel, will say that Harry Truman could be little about little things, and big when it came to big things. Goldwater ... With Bill Know- land out of the U. S. Senate and back in Oakland, California, run ning the family newspaper, Sen ator Barry Goldwater of Arizona seems to have fallen heir to the leadership mantle of the old Taft wing of the Republican party, which has been on the wane since Eisenhower won the GOP nomina tion in 1952. Issues Arise ... It’s interesting to note how issues take their places in political campaigns. Quite often yqu will find an issue created through some slip of the tongue of a candidate. Back in May when Jack Kenn edy, then running for the pres idential nomination, suggested that President Elsenhower apolo gize to Khrushchev U-2 plane in cident, he likely did not suspect that his statement would become a major issue in the campaign. Who would have thought a month ago that the tiny islands of Que- moy and Matsu, some four miles off the Chinese mainland, might become the top issues of the cam paign? Henry Cabot Lodge, GOP can- didate for vice president, told a Harlem audience that there should be a Negro in the cabinet of Nixon if the latter is elected President. In Winston-Salem last week. Lodge told his Southern / audience that he could not pledge anything. No doubt the Lodge statement about a Negro cabinet member will prove to be quite an issue. Kennedy and Nixon will both probably be questioned on their attitude towards naming a Negro to the cabinet. Southern GOP leaders did not like Lodge’a Harlem statement. Debates ... Writing of the de bates between Kennedy and Nix on, John S. Knight, author of “An Editor’s Notebook” in tha Charlotte Observer each Sunday, says:” Never, in my recollection, have the questions of prime in terest been as fully explored nor the candidate as conspicuously revealed as in this campaign. All of which speaks well for our form of democracy.” LBJ ... When Senator Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for VP on the Democratic ticket, many Southern leaders though it was a master-stroke. Then after the summer session of Congress, the Texan’s popularity waned in the South. It seemed like he was not helping in the South or North. But last week on a whistle your trip through the South he 4 appeared to rebound, atracting good crowds and making strong speeches, and bringing to the ticket public support of leading Southern conservatives in con- . gress. * Musings . . . Tar Heelia’s art scholars continue at odds, with the vote for Dr. Justus Bier for Director of the N. C. Museum of Art being 10 to three in his favor ... In a straw poll conducted by the Greensboro Daily News, Guil ford County citizens are favoring - Nixon and Gavin over Kennedy and Sanford. 0 Say You Saw It In The News - Journal ... Thank You CHECK YOUR Office Supplies & Printing IF IN NEED CALL 2121 The News-Journal
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