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"It if better to light one cand k then to curse i 'he darkness"
THURSDAY .JUNE 25,1970
County conven tion a sltep forward
Last Saturday's County Democra tic
convention was better attended tl tan
moat, and was conducted in accorda nee
with new party rules without a s jeat
deal of excitement. Further, some < jf its
aspects could be reasonably interp reted
as adding up to progress in racial
harmony in the party in Hoke G junty.
Biggest difference in procedur e from
years past was the requirement t .0 elect
officers, delegates, committeeir (en and
alternates by the whole cor ivention
instead of in the executive cot nmittee,'
pr in caucus of delegates to state or
district conventions. Delegate s to the
convention from the pre ch icts were
required to "reasonably re' fleet" the
make-up of registered Democ ratic voters
in the precincts as to age, sex . and ethnic
background, and these app< *ared to do
this. Officers, delegates, etc., chosen by
the convention were required tc
continue this "reasonable" reflection.
Most of the voting, as could have
bsen expected, stuck largely to racial
lines, but what we see as a step forward
for the county as well as for the
Democratic patrty in the county, is the
fsct that not all of it was along such
lines. In several instances white
delegates split their votes, and in other:
blacks were able to disagree with one
another.
This is not a giant step, to be sure,
but it is a step toward the day when
well all be abl e to vote for or against a
person with our eyes shut, not knowing
or caring what color he is, just voting
our opinion of his fitness and ability foi
the position we are voting to fill.
Toward re storing the life of reason
Amid all the dissension , especially on
the campuses, a modest t >ut potentially
significant sign of hope is emerging: A
number of thinking peop le, regardless of
ideological predilection; <, are reasserting
the imperative need for a return to
reason and order in the public
discussion and the pub lie be havior.
Most so-calle d co nservative
intellectuals have be .en say ing that all
along, but recent * veeks hiave seen a
number of libera' cleaning luminaries
agreeing in no uncertain terms. A
notable example v vas Harvaird President
Nathan Pusey's e- xcoriation of the New
Left elements or , campus coupled with
his insistence tl iat academe; rediscover
"the civilized w: jy,"
Now at hand j Ls an article in the New
Republic by A Jexander M. Ilickel of the
Yale Law Sc hool, and it i.s a somber
assessment in deed.
"No sane person," writ es Professor
Bickel, " can condone riots by
constructic ,n workers or by police, and
certainly not killings. Bun a price is
inevitably going to be paid for
destroyir ,g the order of so ciety. If the
streets \ jelong to the peoj; >le, they are
going t o belong to all the people, not
just yc<ung radicals. If all v/e say about
Kent Staitc is that it is an instance of
bruta'i repression for whii:h the Via:
Presi dent and the Attorney General and
an isolated and insensitive 1 President are
resTponsib le, we are not telli ng the truth,
an d by n ot doing so we wi 11 help bring
on more 1 Kent States. . . .
"We m ust restore conditi ons in which
slogans and mass emotions do not
drown < >ut and drive out reasoned
analysis, in which passionat e assertion is
not autoi matically seen as h igh - minded
and pr esumptively riight. while
dispassio nate judgment is d enounced as
insensitiv e and presumptive!>y immoral."
Granti ng, in his opinion, that those
young p< ;ople who criticize the war and
vurious i nstitutions are correct in a lot
of what they say. Mr. Bicke l rejects the
idea that t they are right about repression
in this a runtry.
'The society is free arid open, if
flawed and gravely troubled. What
repress* rn there is is impos-ed, as often
as not, by the young in the universities,
where their pressure for ideological
orthodt >xy and a kind of emotional
solidari ty threaten to achieve what Joe
McCaet hy never did."
In tl lis scholar's opinion, the place to
begin restoring order in upeech and
action is the university; he thinks the
heads of leading universities should
annou nee their intention to institute a
refon n which is the precondition of all
othe r reforms, namely the use of
'disci' pUnary power to keep discourse
and action within the bounds of order.
Ha i ruts it simply and forcefully:
M INo more vundulism; no more
assaultive, vicious speech: no more
incitement to violent action; no more
bit Hying, simulated or actual. If the
rtsflsertlon of this minimum of
authority should bring strife and
violence In the abort term, us it may, it
sdil be laae itrife and lesa viola nee than
is otherwise in store for us."
This and some of the other strong
liberal statements of the day are in
essence certainly true, and they are
interesting in a couple of other
connections as well.
They afford a sharp and welcome
contrast to the pusillanimity with which
numerous administrators and faculty
members were greeting the radical
students' violence and "non -
negotiable" demands only a couple of
years ago. Had this kind of common
sense prevailed then, much spiritual and
material damage might have been
averted.
Moreover, there is increasing
recognition among the liberals that they
are partly at fault. That, in Professor
Bickel's words, "we have listened -
quietly, even solemnly, as if it were
rational - to incredibly loose talk about
the obsolescence and rottenness of our
society and all our institutions, and have
come to parrot it in order to propitiate
a sizable number of young."
We would go further. A whole
generation of largely liberal dominated
higher education has done a good deal
to discredit, in the minds of not a few
young people, that society and those
institutions. Not that the universities
should have been uncritical mouthpieces
for the "American way"; rather that
they should have been better vehicles to
free intellectual inquiry and not so
much indoctrinators of a particular
liberal view.
In any event, change seems to be in
the air. It is probably too soon to say
that a liberal - conservative coalition of
men of reason is coming into being. It is
nonetheless clear that more intellectuals
are speaking out not particularly
because they consider themselves
liberals or conservatives but because
they treasure the life of reason and
order and see it tragically threatened.
And that alone is cause for
encouragement - for the future of the
university and for the future of
America. -The Wall Street Journal
A fact sheet on inflation should
lessen our nausea when we read the
astronomical fees athletes receive when
they turn professional, says Mr. Buck
Herzog. writer for the Milwaukee
Sentinel. In 1931, he says. Babe Rutf
received a sulary of S80.000 from the
Yankees; in 1967 Willie Mays was paid
S125,000 by the Giants. Who was bettei
off? Herzog points out that on hi)
S80.000 salary. Ruth paid SI 1,500 ir
federal income taxes, giving him a take
home pay of 568,500. On Mays
SI 25,000 tulury. only S52.000 wuslefl
in take - home pay after federal income
taxes. In addition, consumer pricei
today ore about 2.2 times as high ai
they were in 1931. In terms ol
purchasing power. Mays' salary wai
worth only about a third of Ruth's.
Today, if Mays were to receive as much
purchasing power as the Babe did in
1931 ($68,500) he would have to be
paid $454,000.
'I'm not going to marry either one of you'
Hampsters Make Good Pets
Would Anyone Like One?
By Laurie Telfair
Last Christmas we became
the owners of two golden
hampsters, Henrietta and
Hortense, who have lived since
then in a cage set on a divider
between the living room and
the dinning room where they
have a clear shot at both rooms
in which to hurl their seeds and
litter.
The creatures were brought
by Santa as the pets for the
two girls in the houshold, but
the feeding and cage cleaning
quickly became the work of
the adults. Hampsters do,
however, make rather nice,
trouble-free pets.
They don't, as a species, rate
much space in the Hoke
County library, where I went
to find out more about the
animals. There are a couple of
books written on the subject
but these are not included in
the county's library collection
and the encyclopedia give them
small mention.
Hampsters are natives of
Asia and Europe. The golden
hampster, which is popular as a
pet. comes from Syria and was
introduced into England in
1931 and into the United
States in 1936 as a lab animal.
They all come from a single
litter that was discovered in
Aleppo, Syria in 1930 and
cultivated at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
They are prolific creatures. I
have heard that a female will
produce a couple of litters in
six weeks time, with a
gestation period of 16 days for
the young. There are usually
from seven to a dozen babies in
a litter and the female will
produce several litters during
her first year after she matures
at about six weeks of age. As
each of her babies reaches six
or seven weeks, they are ready
to reproduce so the hampster
population can very quickly
get out of hand. We thwarted
Nature by buying two sisters. in the kitchen, but we couldn't
They evidently felt a trifle find our cat. We could hear
thwarted themselves though meows and finally located the
and about two weeks ago cat stuck behind the washing
proceeded to try to chew each machine where she must have
other up. We now have them in chased the hampster.
separate cages until the wounds
completely heal. ..The two are easy to care for.
...... They eat sunflower seeds,
They have doubled in size jettuce( raisins. corn, rice and
since we got them right after jugh They store as much as
they were weaned and are now ^ can sluff ^to themselves
about five inches long. They jn their two pouches and
have always had quite different are double in size
personalities with Henrietta vvhen both pouches are full.
being shy and stand-offish and Thejr cage came equipped with
H o r t ense being much an automatic watering jar but
friendlier. Henrietta and Hortense have
Hortense is also an escape never learned how to drink
artist and quickly learned to from it and use instead a jar
open the cage door with her top.
teeth and slide out before the
door falls shut. She has gotten Hortense has become very
out of her cage twice during friendly and will ride in a shirt
the night and spent most of the pocket and allow the children
time running from the cat and to carry her around.
I,1].0. Hi! Their wounds are nearly
first time she was out she was now and we wiU 't
? ' LC by them back in the same, cage
the dog when we found her. ^"week ,f they atin^n-t gVt
The second time she escaped along together - Well, would
we found her running around anyone like a hampster?
STORIES
BEHIND
by
William S. Penfleld
WORDS
Names
The syllable "ley" appears at the end of a number of
Anglo-Saxon names. It is a variation of "lea," which means
meadow. The name Beverley is an example. "Bever" means
meadow, and "ley" means meadow.
In Bradley, "Brad" is a contraction of "broad." The name
Bradley was given originally to someone who lived in a broad
meadow.
The "Ash" in Ashely is the name of a tree. Ashley means ash
meadow. The name was given to a person who lived in a meadow
in which ash trees grew.
f-m Philosopher
Creek 1
Dear eanar:
According to an article I
read in a newspaper last night
which I'd pulled off the side of
my tractor earlier in the day
after it was blown there by a
warm summer breeze - I've
always said if you leave a
tractor standing in one spot
long enough it'll pay off, how
many newspapers have you
seen a moving tractor catch? -?
the mayors of most of the big
cities of the nation met in a
convention the other day and
nearly every one of them
reported the same thing:
they're out of money.
"The cities are simply out of
cash," they said, "and if we
don't get help we face
bankruptcy."
The answer, they said, was
for Washington to spend leu
on the military, big highways
and form subsidies and give the
difference to the cities.
Since Washington knows alt
cities want military protection,
that every one of them wants
more highways leading into
them, and that farm subsidies
are being cut anyway, the
answer may not lie with
Washington. The mayors, in
fact, are behind the times.
They do not see the trend of
civilization.
I'll explain. Whe the first
glimmering upsurge of
civilization in this country
began, a man in trouble had to
look mostly to himself. Then
as more people moved In he
could look to his neighbor,
then to the court house, then
to the state capital, and finally
to Washington.
Now everybody is looking to
Washington to much
Washington has to look the
other way.
But which way? Obviously
what Washington needs it some
plaoe diflnite to look itself, and
right there is where I have a
solution to offer.
What everybody needs is a
world capital where we all can
look when we're out of money.
The mayors ought to realize
that when their citizens turn to
them and they turn to
Washington, Washington's got
to have some place to turn
also.
1 don't know where to put
this world capital, probably on
some island as we sura don't
want it around here. Not in
Raeford.
How would you feel if all
the big city mayors thraw up
their hands and said the job
was too big for them and
Washington has got to help,
and Washington in turn thraw
up its hands and said it waa too
big for it and it guessed it
would have to look to
Raeford?
Yours faithfully.
Just One Thing
After Another
By Carl Coarch
Thin U no substitute for
courtesy. It pays to tr?at
?viryom politely. A rieint
issue of > trad* Journal told of
an incident that ocourrtd In
San Francisco not to lon| ago.
A door-to-door talaaman was
palling thi window of a
downtown rial ntati office
and taw a picturi of an
a part mint houM that wat
offend for tali. Hi itand at It
for a long timi, thin opened
the door and walked In, his
broomi over hit ihoulder.
"No broomi today!" one of
the clerki inilde laid, curtly,
and waved the man out. The
next day the peddler uw the
?ami building pictured In the
window of another real estate
operator. When he went In a
clerk stepped forward, said
politely, "Is there something
kwe can do for you?" and when
the broom salesman left the
office he had made
arrangements to buy the
apartment house - for
S600,000 cash.
You never know! But it does
not hurt to take the trouble to
find out.
A man told me some time
ago of an incident in which he
was involved which in a smaller
way parallels this.
He said that several years
ago he was in Norfolk for the
purpose of buying a building
lot on the beach somewhere in
that vicinity and went into the
office of a real estate man
whom he knew but had not
seen in some time. He inquired
for Mr. H. and the elderly
bookkeeper, the only
employee in the office at the
time, looked up from his work,
said rather gruffly tltal Mr. H.
was out but would be back
after a while. He did not invite
the caller to sit down, to my
friend said he stood for a
moment, then noticed for a
moment, then noticed that the
bookkeeper was checking the
bank account from the stubs of
the checkbook.
"The old gentleman had a
method 1 had never seen used
before that time. As he
checked off the cancelled
vouchers he stapled the paid
check to its stub. At least 1
thought that wti the proccM
and thinking It wai a good
Idaa, I leaned over to nuke
eure. When I did. the old man
Hopped hla work, deliberately
doled tlte book and looked at
me at though to aay, "Thta l?
none of your business, sir!" Of
courie. lie liad a right to do
that, but he wai 10 boorlih
about it that I was startled for
a moment. Then I got mud! I
said to him. "I was not trying
to pry Into your business; I was
merely Interested In your
method." I then turned on my
heels, left the office, went to
another place and purchased a
lot."
I asked him.if lie ever suid
anything to the niun's
employer about the
discourtesy.
"No." he replied. "I was
afraid he might reprimand the
old fellow and maybe tire him.
and I did not want that to
happen, though I was plenty
hot when I left that office."
A news story from
Hiawatha, Kansas, tells of a
new implement company
opening in tliut town - the
firm name "Trupp and Kill."
No joke about it, they say.
Virgin Kill and Sheriff W. F.
Trapp decided to go into
business together.
The following item comes
from Jan Struther's book, "A
Pocketful of Pebbles:"
"I think the word freedom
needs defining. A car owner
probably considers he lias the
freedom of the road. So he lias,
up to a certain point. He can
go where he likes and as far as
his gasoline takes him. But he
isn't free to drive on the wrong
side of the road or to drive
dangerously fust or to stop
deua without warning. A few
simple rules are necessary...It is
only by obeying these rules
that a driver earns his right to
enjoy the freedom of the
roads. And it's only by cutting
out such things as rumor ?
mongering, destructive
criticism, and personal
peevishness that we are going
to preserve our right to enjoy
freedom of speech."
CiTill^ A1 BLUE ? ? ?
People & Issues
VOTING AGE ~ The Act of
Congreu lowering the voting
age to 18 will not become
effective until next year and
will not apply to the 1970
Congressional elections. The
constitutionality of the act will
be tested and it may be that
the U.S. Supreme Court will
declare it unconstitutional,
which many people feel will be
the final result.
OPINION POLL - Last
week's elections in Great
Britain where the Conservative
Party recaptured control of
Parliament when the Opinion
Polls were saying that Prime
Minister Harold Wilson and his
Labor Party were out front
should serve as a caution flag
for those who put their full
confidence in the opinion polls
which have become quite
popular in recent years.
Straw votes, while usually,
pretty accurate, like straws in
the field, are easily blown over
which is just what happened in
Great Britain last week.
CENSUS ?? In many
communities throughout the
state, and likely the nation,
complaints are coming in that
not near all the people were
counted in the 1970 census.
People take pride in
'community growth and people
are just about as scarce as hen's
teeth who take pride in
population decline.
For some reason it appears
that the Republicans have not
been able to do quite as good a
job counting the people this
year as took place ten years
ago when John F. Kennedy
was in the White House.
BILL-DRAFTING ? Our
good friend, Senator Hector
McGeachy of Fayettevilk has
said that the expenditure of
SI00,000 to set up facilities
for legislators to draft bills in
advance of the opening of the
1971 General Assembly could
shorten the session by a
month.
We doubt that the
expenditure will shorten the
aesslon by as much ai one day.
Without this $100,000
expenditure legislators in the
past have been invited to have
their bills prepared and ready
by the Attorney General's bill
drafting department. Very few
have taken advantage of the
invitation and we doubt that
the SIOO.OOO expenditure will
make a day's difference.
SEVEN YEARS OLD - The
comprehensive system of
technical institutes and
oommunity colleges officially
came into July 1,1963.
Today, 54 technical
institutes and community
colleges are located across the
state from Morehead City in
the East to Murphy in the
West, with nearly 100 percent
of the state's population in
commuting distance of one ol
them. Last year enrollment
IS.Ted to nearly 250,000
students, with predictions for
this year even higher.
Dr. I.E. Ready, director of
the Department of Community
Colleges speaks of these
institutions in this way: "All of
these institutions offer adults,
18 years old and older,
elementary and high, school
level studies that they missed
out on before. And these
institutions arc all prepared to
provide people with the skills
needed to get employment and
to move up to higher paying
jobs. They also provide training
in technical skills that will
attract higher paying industries
and will raise the income level
of the people in this state. In
addition to all this, the
community colleges offer the
first two years of academic
college credit work."
In a speech made this year,
Dr. Dallas Herring, State Board
of Education chairman,
explained the diversity found
on a technical institute to
community college campus,
saying: "An institution that
will take in an 80 ? year ? old
man who can't read and write,
but who has a consuming
desire to learn how to read the
Bible and anything else he can
get his hands on is a very
special kind of institution. But
It's even more special when
you say the same institution is
teaching a data processing
technician ..."
To our way of thinking the
greatest surge forward in public
education in North Carolina
during the past 30 years has
been through the technical
institute ?