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"Okay, Once More: 'Every Day in Every Way I Am Gettine Better and Better!' ft ii . i . .yft . . ivk.vj.'.v.v.v.wvAj f, CLIFF BLUE . . . WATIONAl NIVVSPAFM Clie ewd - journal PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. Cats 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Pr Year - $4.00 6 Monthi - $2.25 3 Months - $1.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher SAM C. MORRIS General Manager JIM TAYLOR Editor MRS. LUCY GRAY PEEBLES Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON ..... Society Editor Second-Class Postage Paid at Raeford, N, C, Your Award-Winning Community Newtpaper THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, IMS ON SPENDING ABROAD President Lays Down Law President Johnson's get-tough policy on spending abroad has been greeted with mixed emotion but largely with great favor among lawmakers. International eco nomics Is beyond the grasp of we average citizens, however, and most of us aren't going abroad, anyway, so we aren't much con cerned. What the president is up to, as we understand it. is to protect the American dollar In the interna tional ' market and at home. In England", the pound sterling re cently was devalued from $2.80 to $2.40,' which has the equivalent of taxing every Britisher 7 per cent on all the cash he held. It was the second time the pound had been devalued (right after World War n. it was cut from $4 to $2.80), and most Englishmen were up in arms. We're on the short end in our balance of payments, the presi dent says.' That means that we are spending something like $3.5 or $4 billion more abroad than is being returned to this country in foreign spending. Since the Ameri can dollar is backed by gold (theo retically, a $1 banknote can be redeemed at the U. S. Treasury for a dollar's worth of gold), we get into trouble when the defecit in the balance of payments gets high enough to threaten to over take our stockpile of bullion. Naturally, if we got so far be hind that there was not enough gold at Fort Knox to cover dollars held by foreign markets, we would be in serious trouble if the foreigners sought to cash in all their dollars. That's what brings devaluation, for, obviously, if a large sum, say $20 billion, was presented for redemption and we had only $10 billion in gold, the currency would be worth only 50 cents on the dollar. Gold is the International paci fier. It's good anywhere in the world at $36 an ounce. It also is in great demand. With infla- tion a worldwide problem, and gold in short supply, many investors and nations would gladly pay more than $36 per ounce for gold, but its price is carefully controlled in the international market To battle the problem, Presi dent Johnson has promised to re duce the deficit in our balance of payments by some $3 to $3.5 billion this Year. To do so, he has called for restrictions on American investments abroad, American travel abroad, and has promised to reduce federal spend ing abroad (largely in military operations). Most of us are fond of feeling that we are free to go where we wish to go, spend our money as we wish to spend it, and still feel secure that the printing presses in Washington will keep turning out money faster than we can spend it. This country has not practiced austerity in our gene ration (not as the British did during and after the war), so any pinch on the American pocketbook will bring howls of protest from some quarters. As we say, we don't know the intricacies ot our own monetary and economic systems, and nothing of the international market. We have a certain faith in the presi dent's economic advisers, though, and we presume there is something to this balance of payments deal, because a? far back as the 1950s, President Eisenhower was worry ing about it. It seems likely that a tax will be placed against American travel abroad, with restrictions on how much money the tourist may spend, and where he may spend it. It also seems likely that the presi dent's gambit will win the 10 per cent surtax on income, which is nothing more than a slight devalu ation of the dollar. Obviously, when the American citizen ends up with only 60 cents, after taxes, on each dollar he earns, it doesn't make much difference to him whether the 40 cents is a paper loss, or if there is only 60 cents worm of gold to cover that dollar he scratches for. We can expect tight fiscal policy here and abroad only when it ap ! pears that we are fighting a los ing battle on the international money market. We may be closer to just that than any of us think. Shaping Up Rep. James Gardner, Fourth District Congressman, was expect ed to announce Wednesday that he ' will seek the Republican nomina tion for governor of North Caro lina. His candidacy will make next year's gubernatorial election interesting, if not beneficial to the state. In the first place, Gardner must beat out Jack Stickley, Charlotte business executive, in a Repub-.. lican primary. If he wins that one, he still mu?t face Lt. Gov. Dob Scott, or J. Melville Brough ton Jr., of whoever wins the Dem ocratic nomination. Many observers give Gardner better than an outside chance to become governor. They point to his decisive victory over veteran Rep. Harold Cooley, a lejend in Njrth Carolina poi.tics, in the Punk 2, But Not By Jim Taylor Police 0; Over Yet m .V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V Somewhere In or near Rae ford, there's young 12 or 13-year-old who runs Ilk a deer and rldei a bike like the wind. He's Also smart. Very Smart. But not smart enough. He might grow up to be a foot ball player, a diamond hero, an Olympic star. He might, mind you, If a miracle occurs. This gangling kid Is heading In the wrong direction to make anything of himself. Rather than hearing the cheers of an adoring crowd, this lad will someday soon hear the clanging of steel bars as the door on his prison cell Is opened and shut. This boy probably could be come a man. At the rate he's going, he'll be a hardened criminal before he's old enough to register for the draft. Punk. That's about all he can ever hope to be. He's a purse snatcher. Just before Christmas, he entered a parked car at the Raeford post office parking lot. Inside a woman's purse, laden with $60 In small bills and a quantity of change. The punk got caught by the woman as he came out of the car. He handed her the purse and fled. Thinking she had re covered her money, the woman didn't pursue him. When she opened the pocket book, she found the $60 in bills missing. The punk had removed them and atuck them In his pocket before leaving the car. Crafty. That way, If he was pursued, he could merely drop the pock etbook, and whoever was trail ing him would probably give up, thinking their Job was accom plished. It waa easy as falling off a log. He'd really scored. A 12-year-old kid with $60 for Christ mas, and he hadn't worked a minute for lt. Easy come, easy go, Is a shopworn phrase among crim inals. Before the holidays were over, the punk waa operating again. He didn't find the going easy, though, because Police Chief L.W. Stanton had warned motorists after the kid's first haul to lock their care and leave no valuables In them. Nonetheless, he was flushed by Officer Sam Motley among some parked cars after a cit izen had alerted police that the punk was looking for another score. Motley gave chase on foot. He didn't stand a chance. The kid would make a fool out of any grown man In a footrace. He merely dashed to his bike and took a well-planned route out of town, or got lost among the downtown crowd, and Officer Sam Motley marked up the score: one for the kid, none for Sam Motley. Tuesday, the punk struck again. As before, he pounced upon a car which had been parked by a woman. (His modus operandus: women can't grab you and hold you, and they can't run as fast as men). He was frantically going through the billfold on the front seat when Mrs. Harry Greene passed, saw what he was up to, and sounded the alarm. Mrs. Greene grabbed the punk, but he Jerked away and fled down an alley. He was ob served as he ran on foot around the post office, north of Mag nolia to where his bike was stashed. Once on the bike, no body had a chance to overtake him. He made good hla getaway, although Officer Sam Motley scoured the town looking for him. Score: Punk 2, Motley 0. What the punk doesn't know is that he cannot win. If be gets away with It a dozen times. sooner or later Motle) ts going to score. When he doei, the kid will have to pay dtterjy for hla foolishness. One mistake Is all he has to make. At his age, he'll end up In what used to be oiled re form school. There, kids like the punk only grow tougier. They become bigger punks, orthy of a diploma In petty crlne. In a few yearsjiat two or three, to be exact the punk will be too old for tla Juvenile courts to shelter Mm. He'll be a man at 16 nan enough to stand trial In opn court. And his day in court 111 sure ly come. The kid has lt fgured all wrong. Easy money It the hard est of all debts to pa). Restitution In casl would be merciful, compared b the days, weeks, years the criminal spends behind ban for his deeds. Even the professional crook plays a loslnf game. A $2,000 aUckup neti him 20 years. That's $100 i year be turns by his talents when In honest endeavor, mat crooks have brains enough b make a decent living. A decent living hey don't want. Because they tren't de cent. When the punk gea a little older, he'U get a litte bolder. Pursesnatchlng la a kfl's game. He'll move on to ottur things. Burglary, perhaps, or not want ing to run (It's a sign of coward Ice), he'll get hlmsef a gun. Do the world a ftvor, kid. When you get the gui, stick the muzzle against your temple and blow your brains oit. You'll save the stite a lot of trouble. :: Fourth District battle a year ago. Gardner is young, has tremendous appeal among young people, and plays every political advantage for all it Is worth. That, in our opinion, will be his downfall. He is too quick to beckon to the press (particu larly to several North Carolina television stations which happen "to carry commercial adver tisements about the hamburger chain in which Gardner is an ex ecutive, or was, before going to Washington). And all Gardner has to do Is tc becon, and the cam eras and notetakers go running. We get a little weary of seeing his likeness, or hearing others describe his poL'tlcal activity of almost every day. Four years ofl Gardner as governor would be too much. . ! Philosopher Up In Arms Over Feeding Newspapers Six-:-::; Dear ediur: At first I thought I was fac ing the new year completely out of luck. Here was this newspaper which had been used s packing around a Christmas present to keep lt from break ing with an article in lt that almost threw me. On top of that it didn't work, the pres ent was broken anyway. According to the article, some agricultural scientists have discovered that you can grind up old newspapers, add molasses, and feed lt to cattle and they thrive on it as well as they do on grain. If this gets out, I thought, it'll ruin my source of read ing matter. Who's going to throw a newspaper away if he can pour molasjes on it an? feed It to his cow? Like It Is, most people wit -j .. . , - .. ctttle spend more time work ing for their cows than their cows do working for them. It's sort of like the government, but, I said to myself, if the cows are going to get my news papers to boot, 1968 looks mighty dismal. Television and radio are ill right, but for solid news give me a news paper. Then I Xot to thinking. I'rr not in this by myself. If papei and molasses will fatten a cow, sooner o- later some smart scientist Is bound to flture out that it's unscientific to run piece of paper through t press first what does a cow care whether lt has printing on it or not, Just stir blank paper and molasses together and save the printing costs. You can't beat scientists hr thinking .things through, given enougi time and appropriations. But, and you're ixund to see this immediately, there does that leave you? You going to shut down your priming press and jo into the feed business? You going to chjige your firm's name to T,e News Journal And Molest Depot? We'd both better gx to work and change the dlrecton of this movement Get the scientists to develop a cow thi ll strive on weeds and vines mi leave the newspaper buslntss alone. Let's start a runv that the hoof-and-mouth oubreak In England was started iy a cow's eating a copy of the Fayette vllie Observer. Yours 'aithfully, J. A. WINNING ON PAPER Often times you can alt down and on paper figure out how to win an election, but when the votea are counted, open your eyea to realize that the people are pret ty Independent when lt comes to ballot marking. In 1864 at one time lt looked like Rich Preyer couldn't lose with the support of Terry San ford and his administration, with the support of the education leadera, with the support of the Negroes, RE A, and the party machinery all working for him. Prayer's defeat and Dan Moore's victory goes to prove that while the leadership of various organizations repre senting a great percentage of the voters may be for one can didate, the rank and file of the members may resent the efforts of the leadera to "deliver" their votes. 1964 was about the best evidence of this that we can think of. There was a day when many, many people wanted to get on the "bandwagon" wanted to line up for the winner. With the people becoming better ed ucated they are getting away from this philosophy and don't hesitate for a minute to vote for the "underdog." In fact lt now seems that aometlmes "underdog" Is the best vantage point from which to run for public office. Harry Truman was the "un derdog" In his successful 1948 campaign. Dan Moore was for many weeks the "underdog" in his successful campaign for governor In 1964. Many of the politicians still try hard to "pick the winner" before supporting a candidate but moat of the voters mark the man or woman they really wantand this Is good. RANDOLPH DEMOCRATS The Randolph County Democra tic Eiecutlve Committee got out an unusual '.'Season's Greetings" brochure for Christmas. Letters from all the officials of the County Executive Com mittee were enclosed in the brochure along with a message from State Party Chairman Tim ValenUne and from National Chairman John M. Bailey. In letters to J.H. Freellch, Jr., Guilford County Democra tic ExecuUve Committee Chair man and John Kern, Montgomery chairman, Randolph Chairman Lucas let It be known In no uncertain terms that Randolph Democrats are expecting to have candidates to fill slots on the Democratic ticket for the State Senate and the State House. In the 1966 election Randolph's nominee for the State Senate lost out to John L. Osttpn of Greensboro, whereas Gull jrd's two Democratic nominee , Ed Kemp and L.P. McLendoi Jr., won. WALLACE The C. jrge Wallace candidate for pres .lent received a couple of slmLj n the arm last week, first tvhen lt became known that he had succeeded In securing enough voters to sign up In his Amer ican Independent Party to get hla name on the California State ballot; and second, when the Wallace forces won control of the Louisiana State Democratic Executive Committee, which means that Wallace's name will head the Democratic ticket In Louisiana and that Johnson will have to get up a petition to get his name on the Louisiana bal lot. Johnson lost Louisiana to Goldwater In 1964 and Indies, tlons are that he may lose It to Wallace In 1968, even If he gets his name on the ballot, CALDWELL COUNTY Many people, Including this writer, have been critical of the ac. i celerated trend toward turning to the government to perform services which many feel that private enterprise could do bet ter and with less cost to the consuming public. But, sometimes, and maybe oftentimes, the government steps In because private Initia tive and private enterprise either cannot or will not provide the services an enlightened so ciety deserves and should have. The abandonment of private ambulance service in county after county Is s real good Il lustration. Last week lt was announced that Caldwell County had gone Into the ambulance business with three ambulances and a 14-man staff with a set J20 fee tor trips to hospitals In Caldwell, Catawba, Burke, Alexander, Wilkes and Watauga counties. There is but little room to criticize growing government when private enterprise finds Itself unable to meet the dire needs of people In matters like ambuiance service. fe rrtl A Tsn "W 1 i . ISAM ERVIN ' ' ' 4 ft SAYS MORGANTON Congress reconvenes on January IS to deal with the problems left over from the long session which adjourned only days ago. Two holdover measures scheduled to receive early con sideration are the Administra tion's proposed "civU rights" bill, which may come up short ly after the Senate reconvenes, and the Administration's pro posed surtax on corporate and personal incomes, which Chair man Wilbur D. Mills of the House Ways and Means Com mittee has said will get further hearings beginning January 22. The "civil rights" bill which the Senate will consider Is the measure which won Senate Ju diciary Committee approval at the last session by an 8-7 vote. The intent of the bill Is com mendable to protect persons exercising constitutional rights from violence or threats of vio lence. I abhor violence, and shall continue to fight for legis lation to curb crime. However, I oppose the com mittee reported bill because it is founded upon the dubious proposition that the Congress should protect the rights of one group of Americans in the ex ercise of their constitutional rights while ignoring the rights of millions of other Americans to be protected against the same crimes. The Committee ap proved bill Is said to be based upon the "equal protection of the laws" clause of the 14th Amendment The bill is a paradox. Upon its face it would exclude a majority of Ameri cans from its protection be cause they are not members of a minority race or group. In my Judgment, the com mittee reported bill should be rejected because lt is uncon stitutional, and it threatens to expand the federal police pow er in unlimited fashion. When this measure was under consideration In the subcom mittee on constitutional rights, I offered a substitute measure which the subcommittee adopted but which the full Senate Judi ciary Committee later rejected. Unlike the administration's bill, the substitute measure pro tects all Americans who are exercising Federally protected rights. The subcommittee sub stitute would also protect, the working man and would vindi cate his long-established Fed eral statutory rights. It would prohibit unions from levying crushing fines on union mem bers for exercising their own wills and refusing to take part in a strike they oppose. The subcommittee substitute is preferable if Congress de termines it should enact further civil rights legislation. The premise of the Constitution is "equal justice under law" for all, and this should be the premise of any new legislation on this subject The surtax proposed must first be considered by theHouse Ways and Means Committee which has original Jurisdiction over revenue measures. In the face of serious fiscal problems. Congress and the administration must find ways and means of curtailing non-essential and non-priority federal spending. Much effort has been devoted to the advocacy of a tax in crease. Much more effort should be devoted to pruning budget requests at a time when there are far too many demands for the tax dollar. The budge tary battle, again next session, will likely be a major domestic problem. Rice grows on one of every two cultivated acres In Japan, the National Geographic says. The electric scoreboard In Houston's Astrodome stretches farther than a fouthall field and requires live operators, the National Geographic says. Light travels only a few hun dred feet through ocean water yet sound wives can be trans mitted and received undersea for many thousands miles. The Nile Valley was lower In Cleopatra's time, the Na tional Geographic says,' Since she died In 30 B. C, annual silt-laden floods have gradual ly raised thevalley's.level about seven feet. ( Wall Street, financial hub of America, n its name from a mud wall which Dutre1 Governor Peter Stuyvesant built In 16SJ to keep the cows In and the British out. I Driving for pleasure la the Nation's moit popular outdoor recreational activity the Com merceiDeiareient sf ye. i I i. v., A
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