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"It it better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"
Mideast?a need for diplomacy
In the present dangerous context in
the Middle East we strongly urge that an
allout effort be made to cool the
situation, and we believe this should be
done on the basis of the latest United
States peace proposals.
Among other things they are reported
to call for at least partial Israeli
withdrawal from the occupied areas and
for the establishment of demilitarized
zones. The extent of the withdrawal and
the location of the DMZs would be
worked out in indirect negotiations
through the good offices of United
Nations mediator Dr. Jarring.
None of the states to which the
proposals have been submitted - Israel,
Egypt, and Jordan - has rejected them
outright. We are convinced that, if a
new conflagration is to be prevented,
the American plan must be given every
chance of succeeding, and that all
possible diplomatic persuasiveness be
devoted to this end.
Of course this presupposes Soviet
acceptance of the plan as well, because
Egypt cannot act without Soviet
endorsement. But there seems to be
some ground for thinking that the
Russians would prefer a peaceful
settlement to the present dangerous
drift towards escalation with its risks of
a confrontation between the two
superpowers. Moscow also has put
forward new suggestions for a
settlement which United Nations
Secretary-General U Thant in particular
sees as constructive.
In this context what is the
significance of the reported installation
near the Suez Canal of Soviet-built
SAM3 and modernized SAM2 missiles
manned by Soviet or by mixed Soviet
and Egyptian teams? To the Israelis this
is a disturbing new development because
it threatens their air superiority over the
canal zone, and they ca? be expected to
increase their efforts to persuade the
United States to sell them more
Phantom and Skyhawk jet aircraft.
We still believe that it would be a
mistake at this time to deliver more
offensive weapons to Israel, except as
replacements. The SAM missiles,
however close to the canal they may be
installed, are defensive weapons. There
is a danger that an American decision to
sell another big batch of Phantoms to
Israel would not only lead to a new
escalation in Soviet arms deliveries to
Egypt, but would touch off a chain
reaction against American interests in
the Middle East - particularly oil
interests.
We feel it would be wiser for the
Nixon administration to strengthen the
Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean rather
than give Israel more strike power.
Thus, the urgent and overriding need
is for coolheadedness, for intensified
diplomatic efforts for a settlement, and
for the avoidance of any action that
could set a spark to the tinderbox.
? The Christian Science Monitor
Independence of judgment
The necessity for avoiding blanket
judgments on individuals or groups has
just been shown at Kent State University
in Ohio. Many observers would almost
certainly have said that this campus,
scene of last May's tragic shooting of
four students by the National Guard,
must be one of the most "radical" in
the country. They might even go further
and state their conviction that it would
be a long, long time before Kent State
had a good word to say for any military
activity or presence.
But they would be wrong. The
university has just announced that in a
special referendum 78 percent of the
students participating voted in favor of
keeping the Reserve Officcr Training
Corps (ROTO on the cumpus and 55
percent favored continuing academic
credit therefor. Some 5 400 of the
18,700 students enrolled for the spring
quarter took part in the mail
referendum.
What conclusions might we draw
from the Kent State vote? One is that
people, young its well as old, continue
to show a remarkable independence of
thought and judgment. Kent State, like
virtually every other American collegc
and university, was unhappy over the
war In Vietnam. But upparently Kent
Suite students were able to separate that
war from the question of providing
trained leadership for America's defense
establishment. Such independence and
judgment are heartening. -The Christcan
Science Monitor.
--The Christian Sdtnce Monitor
TALLASSEE. ALA., TRIBUNE:
"Grocers' Advocate says, a taxpayer
recently moaned, 'I owe the government
so much money, they don't know
whether to throw me in juil or recognize
me as a foreign power.' "
DUNSMUIR, CALIF., NEWS: "When
mun is willing to become self - reliant,
thrifty, productive in his work, honest
in his builneia, fair to his employees,
honest in politics (if that is possible),
then we may hope to balance the
consumer goods and their production
with income ... and be able to buy what
we want and need, and have a little left
for a rainy day."
A 'Yankee' la...
To a foraignar, a YankM la an American.
To an Amarlcan, a YankM la a North
?mar.
To a Northarnar, a YankM la a Naw En
glandar.
To a Naw Englandar, a YankM lai Var
m on tar,
To a VtrmonUr, a YankM la a parson who
aata pia for bmkfaat.?Hm WUtew Wkiayut
Browsing in th? fil?s
of The N?ws-Journal
25 years ago
July 12.1945
Rllay Jordan, ton of Mr. ind
Mri. J. F. Jordan of
Tlmberland, S 2-c In the Nivil
Air Corp*. i? In (lie Nival
hoapltal In Key Wan, Fla.. with
a ucro-lllac ipraln.
???
Walter R. Barrlngton. Jr.,
USN, now terving in the
Pacific, hat recently been
promoted to lieutenant (ig).
???
W. L. Poole, a veteran of
World War* One and Two, wai
totalled aa commander of the
Ellii Wllllamaon American
Legion Poet Monday night to
tooaid M.T. Poovey.
, ?. ...
Pvt. Thomas A. Potter, ion
of Alton Potter of Hoke
County, has entered basic
training ut Keesler Field. Miss.,
a unit of lit* Army Air Forcai
Training Command.
Li. Truman Austin of the
Ninth Troop Carrier Command
has recently returned from
France and is visiting hts
mother.
15 years ago
July 14,1*55
Angus J. Currie Is
repreaenting tha Bank of
'v
Raeford it the annual
management conferena of the
N.C. Banker's Asaocistlon in
Chapel Hill thJs weak.
???
John D. McN'lll wai
Installed as commander of tha
ElUa Wllllamaon Poit ihJa watk
succeeding Truman B. Austin.
???
A merger that would
e vent uall y pla ct a
coeducational, liberal arti
college in eastern North
Carolina in place of Flora
Maodonald. reace and PJC,
gained the ow-whelmlng
approval of the North Carolina
Snod of tha Presbyterian
urch in Barium Springs
yesterday.
'Let's go somewhere and talk before we get in deeper'
Dog Drill Tearn Shows Off
For Handicapped Children
By Laurie Telfair
A dog training club I belong
to in Fayetteville gave an
exhibition last week ai Camp
Sunny, the day-camp operated
at Ft. Brajw and Pope AFB for
handicapped and retarded
children.
It turned out to be a great
success. It is always more fun
to be a do-gooder if the efforts
are appreciated and the
youngsters there definitely
appreciated our efforts.
The counselors said later
that it was the first time some
of the children had ever been
allowed to pet or play with a
dog.
The first part of the
half-hour program was a drill
team from the club, somewhat
hastily formed and with less
than a half dozen practice
?estions behind them. The
results were less than
professional but it was a
forgiving audience.
The team was made up of
two German Shepherds, two
Shetland Sheepdogs (toy
collies), a miniature poodle, a
boxer, a Boston terrier and a
white, shaggy dog that 1 think
was a West Highland terrier.
The dogs wore yellow crcpc
paper ruffs around their necks
with a paper sun for Camp
Sunnv dangling on their chcst.
They alio hud on yellow party
hats. When these adornments
were introduced at the first
practice session there were a
Sood many canine complaints
ut by the time the team
performed for the kids tlicv
were looking quite juunty in
their finery.
They performed, more or
less in unison, a series of
maneuvers based on exercises
used in obedience trials. All of
the dogs in the team have been
through in obedience training
course md most of them have
been shown in at least one
trial.
When the drill team had
finished, I demonstrated some
of the advanced obedience
exercises with King. m>
German Shepherd. With an
audience to watch him he was
in fine form as he loves
applause and will play to the
crowd like a veteran actor.
He showed them how he
could jump a three foot high
barrier going and coming to
retrieve a dumb-bell thrown
over the jump. He also did
some plain retrieves without
jumping and a few other
exercises.
After King's part in the
show, the kids moved down
from the stands to pet the
dogs. About a half do/en of
them lined up to throw the
dumb-bell for King and order
him out to retrieve it.. He
thought all the attention was
just for about the first three
youngsters After that, Ins
tongue began to lung almost 10
his knees and he went more
and more slowly to fetch the
dumb-bell. 1 expected him
finally to pick the thing up and
take it to the car, but he
remained true to his training
and faithfully carried it back to
each child. The lure of praise
was probably stronger than the
heat.
The exhibition was arrangeo
by two teenaged membets of
the training club. One of the
girls works as a counselor at
the camp. She made the ruffles
and the hats for the dogs. The
other girl got the team together
and arranged the practices.
They got the ideas for the drill
routine from Winifred
Strickland's book on dog
training ~ one of the better dog
books on the market. It wu a
big job to find people who
could participate on a week
day. but they did a fine job
with the arrangements. Never
underestimate the persuasive
powers of an adolescent girl.
The show really wasn't
much by standards ?? a group
of dogs of varying sizes and
breeds performing rather
simple commands. But the
children responded as thougn it
were the Ringling Brother'i
circus.
It made us feel that we and
our dogs had done something
rather special after all.
STORIES
BEHIND
WORDS
by
Wllhim s. Penfleld
Boulevard
Thf word "boulevard," which dcnoiei a wide, tree-lined
street, was originally the name of a fortification.
The French city of Paris was once protected by high w?ll?.
With the invention of gunpowder and the development of
artillery, broad, flat enrt'vn bulwarks were built in front of the
wells, Tlr bulwarkt protected the bates of the walla from
artill-rv fire, and alio served as place* for the defenderi to mount
tlwlr own artillery.
Ir. time, when ihey were io longer us*'1!. the bulwark! were
torn down aid broad avenues were laid out on the litei. These
avenues were ci lied "boulevards," th* French name of the old
bulv-arks.
P?ppy Philosopher
Creek
Dor edltir:
Government official! are
always hunting fur new sourcw
of tax revenue. In fact one
auu ll offering a reward to
anybody who comet up with a
new Idea for more money but I
doubt if It'll be paid ai the
only source of taxei to far in
the history of the human race
has been people and I don't we
any protpectt for any change
in the system.
Therefore the problem
narrows down to a matter of
timing - when doet Congress
for example figure the people
can stand a little more taxing
without changing
Connessmen. and the best
method of gauging this was
r:toimed by a Congressman
an article I read in a
newspaper bit night.
According to him, thu it no
time to increase taxes becaiae
"the people arc in no mood for
It."
There'i the key to the whole
thing. No taxes anywhere
should be railed till the people
are in the mood for it, but
don't go any further. I mean,
don't suggest the old taxes
shouldn't be paid either till the
people are in the mood for It.
Now if Congress at any time
is in doubt about the mood of
the people for more taxes, I'll
be glad to take the contract at
a fair price to conduct a
nation-wide opinion poll, with
more accuracy than any other
poll, including the British ones.
I'll guarantee that without
?v?i leaving the front oorch of
my house on this Bermuda
grass Urm I can tell you
exactly what the mood of 95
per cent of the people It. In
this country ur any other on
earth, on the question of
railing taxes.
Furthermore, while I'm
conducting the survey, for an
additional fee I can determine
how 95 per cent of tho people
feel about increasing
government*! services.
1 can even narrow it down to
any particular city you name.
For example, my survey will
show that New York city
wants less Federal spending on
nonessentials and more Federal
spending on New York.
Cincinnati? Ditto. Chicago?
Ditto. You name the town or
city and I'll supply the ditto.
?>ur? faithfully,
Just One Thing
After Another
ByXirl Goerch
The other day a reader lent
me a little dipping he had torn
from a trade journal that
started off:
"Nothing quite ao aatonishet
the stranger to America at the
democracy of big buaineta -
where the factory employee
can become the preaident of
the largest corporation, or a
grocer one of the world.'a great
Food suppliers."
The writer of the short
article went on to say that,
being interested in the subject,
he wrote to SO of the larasst
businesses in America,
employing several million
worker* ana asked them to give
him starting figures on the men
who are now their top
management. In other words,
"How did your top men start
in buainesa and at work, and at
what salary or wage?"
The answers that came were
interesting to use the mildest
adjective at hand.
Replies Indicated that one of
the "big men" started work for
SI .SO a week; eleven others for
less than SS. Forty-three
received leu than $10 per week
when they started in.
Eighty-one others began with
starting wages or salaries
between S10 and I2S per
week. Only seven received
more than S25 a week - the
highest one getting paid S69.23
when he started.
That was 143 men - the
high-salary men in the big
corporations - and the average
starting wage of the 143 was
SI3.40a week!
Thus everyone of these big
men started at the bottom of
the ladder.
"When you think of the
head of a big business,"
comments the men who
gathered the Information,
think of a young fellow who
once drew a pay envelope at
the end of the week with
S13.40 In it."
To get out of the
atmosphere of big buainesa for
a moment listen to this about
schools and colleges. Away
back in 1837 there was a
young ladies' school called
4
South Hadley Seminary. It
liter became, and is now, Mt.
Holyoke College. A few of the
rules of that excellent place of
learning In that year of grace
may prove of interest to our
young lady college students
today. Here are just six of
them, passed along for
comparison:
1. Admission. No young
lady shall become a member of
this school who cannot kindle
a fire, wash potatoes, and
repeat the multiplication table.
2. Outfit. No cosmetics,
Crfumeries, or fancy soap will
allowed on the premises.
3. Exercise. Every member
of this school shall walk a mile
everyday, unless a freshet,
earthquake, or some other
calamity prevent.
4. Company. No member of
this school Is expected to have
any male acquaintances unless
they are retired missionaries or
agents of some benevolent
society.
5. Time at the Mirror. No
merriber of this institution shall
tarry before the mirror more
than three consecutiyc
minutes.
6. Reading. No member of
this school shall devote more
than one hour each week to
miscellaneous reading. "The
Atlantic Monthly,"
Shakespeare, Scott's novels,
"Robinson Crusoe," and
immoral works are strictly
forbidden. "The Boston
Recorder," "Missionary
Herald," and Washington's
Farewell Address are earnestly
recommended for light reading.
Different names have
different pronunciations in
North Carolina. For example:
In the eastern part of the
state Deyton is pronounced
Dayton. Up in the mountains it
is pronounced Dee ton.
Congressman John Kerr
pronounced his name ai
though it were spelled Carr. We
know others who pronounce it
as though it were Curr.
And then, of course, there is
the constant confusion about
Grady. Some call it Gray-dee,
while others call it Grad-dee.
CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues!
CENSUS - In a recent luue
of thii column we stated that It
appeared that the Democrat!
had done a better Job of
counting In taking the I960
ceniui than the Republicians
were doing this year.
Our hand hat been called on
this statement, and rightly to.
While the late John F.
Kennedy wase elected
president In 1960 It was the
Republican Administration
unaer the leadership of the late
Dwlght D. Eisenhower who
were In charge when the I960
were taken. Thanks to our
readers who called this sllp-up
to our attention.
However, complaints about
the preliminary census reports
sppear to be popping up thick
snd fast.
In Aberdeen the town
authorities were displeased
with prlmlnary count which
showed the town dropping
form 1531 In 1960 to 1289
this year, but before registering
a complaint they had a census
count made upon which they
could rely which showed the
town had s 1970 population of
1,680 Instead of 1,289, Mayor
J.M. Taylor then filed with the
census suthorltles their
complaint and told how the
town had arrived at another
count.
With the oensus takers
coming back to Aberdeen It
will be interesting to note what
their second findings will be.
Our prediction'Is that the
local count which cost the
town less then S100 will prove
to be more accurate than the
preliminary US. Census count.
SITTERSON - J. Carlyle
Sltterson's resignation as
chancellor of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
effective as of Sept. I, 1970
again points up the fact that
running a college or university
is no bed of roees these days.
DEMOCRATS - it appears
that the Democratic Party In
North Carolina under its new
plan of organisation will in the
years to come become more
attentive to issues than
heretofore when at the
precinct and county meetings
resolutions on the Issues of the
day were seldom adopted or
even brought to the floor for
action. Thli it good for ihe
party and puts life In the
organization at a place where it
has been lacking.
DOCTORATES - The State
Board of Higher Education
report! that the national
production of doctorate*
almost tripled from
19S8-1968: from 8,942 to
23,091 with the estimate that
38,700 will be produced by
1976-77. The Statistical
Services of the Board reported
that durina the last several
months several articles have
appeared in Journals and other
periodicals indicating that
perhaps graduato production Is
beginning to exceed the
demand.
However, we feel that in the
field of medical physicians that
there Is itill a big need for
additional doctors to take caro
of the sick. We would like to
see more Incentives ?? msybs In
the way of tuition grants to
encouraige our young men and
women, too, to turn to the
medical field.
AMENDMENTS It Is not
too early for Tar Heel voters to
begin Informing themselves
about the seven proposed
amendments to the North
Carolina Constitution which
they will be called upon to
vote for or against on
November 3, 1970.
One of the proposed
amendments calls lor a
complete rewrite and editorial
revlilon of the State
Constitution with no basic
chantea In the document.
One amendment calls for a
major reorganization of state
government. This amendment
should be atudled carefully as
It would require the General
Aaaembly to reduoe the state's
317 administrative
departments, awncies and
ofllces to 2S by July I, I97S.
An amendment that would
affect all Income tax payers,
aimed at simplifying the annual
returns, would allow the
General Aaaembl> to fix
personal Income exemptions
lor tax purpoaes and permit a
joint return by husband and
wife at the Mate level. It would
alao set the maximum rate at
10 percent.