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Through the valley of the ibdow . .. ew6 - journal PR ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 28376 119 W. El wood Avenue Subscription Rate* In Advance Per Year - S4.00 6 Monthi - S2.2S 3 Monthi - SI.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher-Editor SAM C. MORRIS .General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second CUu Postage Ptid it RitFord, N. C. Your Award - Winning Community Newspaper "It is belter to light one candle than to curse the darkness" THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1970 America and the Mideast The United States is making it clear just how tough it is prepared to be in working for a Middle Eastern peace set tlement. Its rejection of an Israeli claim that Egypt was seriously violating the cease-fire agreement is plain proof that Washington does not intend to let minor matters halt momentum in the right direction. Obviously, if there were major breaches of the agreement on either side or if minor breaches were to become a regular pattern, it would be a different matter. Then Washington would be obliged to take a most serious view. But the White House, State Department, and Pentagon clearly felt that any breaches to date on Egypt's part were either too small or so uncertain as not to constitute a serious threat to the talks. We agree. Even if there were a cer tain amount of last-minute hanky-panky as the cease-fire was being rushed into operation, it is doubtful that this could seriously alter the balance of weaponry or might along the Suez Canal. Furthermore, it is ultimate intention which is the most important factor in a situation such as this. And we cling to the belief that Egypt has every reason to hope for the successful outcome of peace talks. After all, such talks aim at ridding hf?r territnrv nf in ominvino fnrn? That the Israelis now have no doubt about the American determination to push for a settlement can be seen in the statement of Gad Yakoby, a close asao ciate of Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israel's Min ister of Defense. Mr. Yakoby is quoted in an interview as saying, . . the Ameri cans are going to use every means they have to make us do so [reach a settle ment] ? and that means flnancial as well as military sanctions." In other words, Mr. Yakoby, who appar ently reflects General Dayan's hard headed view of the situation, sees Wash ington as ready to impose a Middle East ern accord. The reasons for this hard-nosed Amer ican stance are well known. Washington it determined to do all in its power to cool down a situation which, had it seethed up further, might have risked war with Russia. Washington is not unmind ful of the desirability of preserving what American influence it can in the Middle East, an area so rich in oil and so stra tegically placed. Finally, the White House is not unaware of the political dividends to be had from successful peacemaking. It is fortunate when politics, economics, good common sense, and the cause of peace all point in the same direction, as they do in this case. The Christian Science Monitor The missing Passion The Nixon Administration lacks a certain element of passion, the current standard indictment goes, and what* ever its technical efficiency it has failed to persuade people it deeply cares about the blacks, the poor and the problems of society in general. Certainly this image of the Admin* istration is held by a great many peo ple, as the prevalance of such criticism suggests. We would also agree that this indictment has a core of substance lacking in some of the previously stan dard ones; the critics are homing in. We also think, though, that the image only partly reflects things the Adminis tration is doing wrong. To an even greater extent, it reflects things the Administration is doing right. When a President can project an image that earns the people's trust and goodwill, the nation is manifestly bet ter for it. President Eisenhower did it through the patent sincerity he ra diated; President Kennedy did it through his grace and vigor. Such traits of personality have an appeal reaching across political and social di visions, and help greatly in the quest for national unity. We think it a mis take to underrate President Nixon's rapport with his "forgotten Ameri cans." but quite clearly it does not reach across the gulf that divides them from their cultural opposites. The Administration lias aggravated the situation. In the case of Vietnam, welfare reform or whatever we sense that the process of deciding a policy is making a brief to defend it. The public explanations seem to lean not on the arguments that were probably decisive in fact, but on the arguments that are most easily merchandized. This may work on individual issues, but the cu mulative result is an impression of an Administration concerned only with the most immediate questions, without broader long-range purposes to accom plish in this nation. For all that, we think the more sig nificant question is whether any ap proach or any personality (name one) could earn the trust of the various ele ments in a nation as divided as this one is today. More pointedly, what does an Administration do when its broader purpose is to restore a sense of balance and perspective to an over-stimulated society? Over the past decade, after all, th? standard method for a national leadei to show deep concern has been to da clare "war" on poverty, to blame slun riots on "white racism," or otherwi* to invoke the rhetoric of crisis. The im plication has been that catastrophi is imminent unlese each problem ii immediately solved, and that Govern ment-sponsored solutions are availabli and obvious if only there were eaougl goodwill to pass them. Precisely be cause the problem* involved are deeply serious, however, they have de fied any quick and complete solution. The effect has been to raise national expectations and then to dash them, and to do so in a public atmosphere al ready inflamed by an inconclusive and divisive war, dramatic political assas sinations and rapid social change. Surely this effect has in turn contrib uted importantly to the feelings of im potence, pessimism and apocalypse that bedevil our society today. It is these feelings that constitute any crisis that actually does exist today. Such a mood obscures the his torically amazing gains society has made with problems like reducing pov erty and providing more nearly equal treatment of a racial minority. Not only that, but it drains the national self-confidence and self-esteem neces sary both to further social accomplish ments, and to any unifying effort by na tional leaders in the future. At the current juncture, attempts to contain such feelings are the very es sence of long-headed national leader ship. On one hand the effort means bringing expectations back into the range history suggests a successful so ciety may be able to meet. On the other hand it means persuading people that sensible steps will be taken. In this task, an image of dispassionate ef ficiency is not a bad one to cultivate. At the least, the Administration must take pains to avoid further maligning American society and stirring unreal istic expectations with unrealistic promises. Perhaps there are other ways to show a sense of social concern, but re cent experience does not suggest any. If the only way the Administration can avoid an image of not caring about problems is to resume the crisis-mon gering, then a somewhat tarnished image is a price it sadly but wisely must pay. ...77* Wall Street Journal Bumpers Spurred by consumer protection groups and insurance companies, both outraged over the increasing cost of automobile body repairs, Detroit is reported to be bending every effort to develop shock-absorbing bumpers: they may begin appearing in an other year or two. Also, the Federal Govern ment <s preparing to call for damage-pre venting bumpers. There msy be some tech nical problems in this fleld, ss Detroit main tains, but we doubt whether there sre verj many. One trouble is that of late years the auto makers have regarded bumpers as de sign components, not as protective devices While a shock-absorbing device is under con sideration, the Government should quickl) standardize the height, vertical width an< metal thickness of all bumpers, which wouk be a big step forward1?ft. Leuls Pest Dispatch Summer Plans F ade As School Days Usher F all By Laurie Telfair It's been a short summer. School started this week, marking the end of summer vacation. Oh, 1 know, on the calendar, the season still has a month to run and the temperature is still 95 in the shade, but it isn't the same after school starts. It's fall. And I have left undone all those things which ought to have been done this summer. The old milkcan, a relic from my great-grandfather's dairy, hasn't been rcfinislicd. 1 brought it from Memphis a year ago, clanking and clattering behind the seat of my husband's sports car and if the top hadn't been firmlv afixed, it, at least, would have departed the car about Knoxville. In fact, if there hadn't been so much stuff packed on top of the can, the whole thing would probably be at the bottom of a mountain now. But a year later, it still sits, only half sanded, tucked away in a closet where 1 can't see it and feel guilty for not finishing work on it. I really meant to get it painted this summer. And the dog is still untrained and here it is time for the fall dog shows and obedicnce trials. In fact, there are five shows in the state over the Labor Day weekend and an obedience trial in Fayetteville at the end of the month, and the dog is no nearer ready for competition than he was last spring after the spring shows ended. Summer is a good time to train a dog, because the evenings are long. But it's hot, which is^as good an excuse as any not to do a job. The ten pounds I was going to lose by fall are still here, situated uncomfortably about my mid-section. So it's just as well that I never did get around to buying the hand-cranked, wooden ice-cream freezer 1 wanted. I guess the merigolds 1 didn't plant until mid-July aren't going to bloom before frost. On the other hand, the icaion wasn't entirely wuted. 1 removed the mow tires from the car sometime about the end of July; and I went to the ocean once and spent a weekend in Washington, D.C. and I finally got a barbeque grill and learned how to make a charcoal fire. So it's fall now and time to plan new projecta that probably wont be done by winter. But, as elected officials have known for veari. there is a virtue to simply making plans, even if the projects are never accomDlithcd. STORIES Diamond The Greeks were fimllUr with a ?tone that was ?o hard It could not be cut by other done a. They found that a atone of this type could be cut only by another such atone. This particular quality of the stone caused the Greeka to name It "adamaa." meaning that which cannot be subdued. "Adamas" wis derived from ??a" (not) and 'Mamas' (to subdue). "Adamaa" entered Latin unchanged, but was corrupted to "dlamas" in Medieval Latin. ?SJUmu," In turn, became "dlamant" In OVd French and ''diamond' In Engllah. Grandfather Clock The name "grandfather clock" originated In a song that was popular during tha latter part of the 19th Century. The aong, "Grandfather's Clock," waa written by Henry' Clay Work, an American. The flrat two llnea are: "My grandfather's clock waa too tall for the shelf; "So It stood ninety years on the floor. . Soon, any clock such aa that described In the song waa railed a "grandfather's clock." Later, the name waa abort ened to "grandfather clock." To Dicker The Romans acquired pelts from Germanic huitera and trappera In bundlea of tan. The Romana called thla trade unit "decurla" ? from "decern," tan. "Decurla" became "deeher" In German and "dyker," later "dicker," In Engllah, where It waa uaed to refer to commodities In gro\g>s of ten. English traders In the New World bartered with the Indiana for "dickers" of pelts. Such bartering, especially thehaggllng Involved, eventually waa called "dickering." Word-Builders The Latin word "acrlbere," meaning to write, la tha basis for a number of English words. The noun "scribe," which denotes one who wrltaa, la derived from U. The addition of preflxea resulted In other words. Some of the prefixes are: In (In or Into); sub (under, be neath or below); and pre (before). Adding the prefixes resulted In the following words: In scribe (to write Into); subscribe (to write beneath, hence to sign one's name to a contract); and preacrlbe (to write before, hence to aet down rulea to be foHowed). Just One Thing After Another ByCarl Gocrch Hit first survey made In North Carolina in 1709 wai to settle the dispute concerning the boundary line between our state and Virginia. North Carolinians insisted that the surveying instruments used by Virginia wsre inaccurate so lor eighteen years, the boundary line went unsettled. A second survey was finally made, Virginia admitting at tltat time that North Carolina was justified in her former accusations. The survey started on the north shores of Currituck Sound. When the headquarters of tlte 'Roanoke Rim were readied, our commissioner! thought that they liad gone far enough and stopped. The Virginians continued until they readied the mountains. This line was agreed upon by both colonies and is still the boundary line between the two states today. If you want to get Georgians all 'hot and bothered, just remind them of the fact tliat Sidney Lanier chose to spend his last days in North Carolina rather than in Georgia, hii native state. Lanier died in 1881 at the picturesque home he bought in the little mountain village of Lynn, in Polk County, near Tryon. Hie exquisite beauties of the Blue Ridge hills, the Gleeful Paoolet Valley, the Ids of waving corn and the gentle slopes of Tryon Mountain must have bought joy and peace to the soul of this inimitable nature poet in hia last days. The home has been restored and is one of my favorite haunts. Lanier ranks along with Bill Nye as one of North Carolina's most beloved foster sons. There is ? tablet to him in the yard of hit last liotne, a memorial to hint in the "Open-Air Westminster Abbey of the South" at Fletcher snd several memorials at Tryon. I don't know whether the story is original or not, but anyway, it was told to me like this: A tourist stopped u mountaineer on the road near Canton and pointed toward a tall mountain. "Wliat mountain ts that?" he inquired. "Pisgah," was the native's "I'll bet there'i some kind of a legend conncctcd with it, isn't there?" "Yep, there is. Two lovers one time went up thaMhere mountain and never came back no more." "You don't say!" exclaimed the tourist. "And what liappened to them?" went down the other side," said the native, ai he continued his walk along the edge of the Itighway. Sometime we'd like to Itavc a complete list of towns in North Carolina tliat have liad changes in their names. There are a surprisingly large number and offhand we can think of the following:! Forks of the Pigeon ~ Canton. Burnt Chimney - Forest City. Morristown - Ashville. Cross Creek and Cainpbelltown - Fayettevillc. Smithville - Southport. New Town - Wilmington. Giarleston -- Bryion City. ? Company Shops Burlington. There arc do/ens of others. CLIFF BLUE ? ? ? People & Issues ENVIRONMENTAL ...With the environmental problems apparently growing with the population we may live to ice the day that the envied areas will be the communitiei where population ii now ihowing a dccrcasc rather than an increase. In the areas where the environmental problems are becoming more acute, the longer in the delay in attempting to correct them the freatcr the problem becomes, n these areas we need to move now, - not five years from now. In inviting new industry wc should stress our thrust and program for clean air and clean water and unless new industry can comply and cooperate they should not be sought after. TOM TURNER ... Former Representative Tom Turner of Greensboro was a longtime member of the State House in Raleigh and a very able legislator who was tenacious wltcn fighting for a piece of legislation in which he was wrapped up. We were interested to note in Jim McAllister's "Move Notebook" column in the Greensboro Daily News roccntly what Tom had to lay about one of his World War II generals whom he knew quite well - General Patton. Here is what Jim had to say on (he subject in his column: ''Thomas Turner, Greensboro lawyer and former member of the N.C. House of Representatives, had a special reason for seeing 'patton' at the Carolina Theater. "Turner was a G2 (intelligence) major in Gen. htton'i headquarters durin| the Battle of tha Bulge and he knew the general quite well. "I enjoyed the movie very much," he said. "It is an excellent display of Gen. Alton's character. The unly criticism I could make is that the general was a little more profane that he was pictured in the movie." "He said that actor George C. Scott looks amazingly likt Gen. htton in fade and figure "In general I would say tltai it's a fine delineation. "That scene in which he dears off the roadx was very typical of Gen. Put ton. I taw him do that on. uwself. I can't speak for Svily and the other places sl.->wn. but I car say that the pari about the Battle of the Bulge was quite accurate." "Turner aid it was true that Gen. Patton liad a 'high pitched gravelly tort of voice' as compared to actor Scott's rather deep voice, but he didn't think this distracted from the overall effect of the film. 'The local attorney also met Gen. Bradley and Gen. Eisenhower during his scrvicc in Europe. 'Karl Maiden's portrayal was very sympathetic to Bradley," lie said. "His interpretation conforms to evcryting I knew about Bradley and everything 1 read." "Turner wouldn't say that Gen. Patton was actually liked by the men around him. 'I would say that he was respected. Actually, a lot of people thought that the chief feature of his character was arrogance.' "Under dose questioning he said that he did rather resent this arrogance at the time. 'I found it to be a rather common trait among high-ranking officers. Bedell (Gen. Walter) Smith was very definitely that way. But Eisenhower and Bradley didn't show much arrogance." VIETNAM ... America's participation in the Vietnam Civil war lias cost more than 42,000 lives, some 250,000 wounded and more than SI00 billion in money expended. PRIVATE SCHOOLS ... Why shouldn't donations or tuition paid to accreditcd private schools be eligible as a tax deduction? Private school leaacn the load and burden on the public schools to a far greater extent than the tax deductions pined by thuie supporting them. It's good for the public schools to have a challenge in .the way of private schools. We also feel that it might be well for the US. Postal service to have to compete with a few pilot private enterprise operations and ice how they would stack up against each other. Competition in the marketplace has been a great factor behind the success of free enterprise in the United States and has held prices within a reasonable range for the shoppers in all walks of life. The Statue of Liberty bccamo mi marked by ItMtkk in recent years that officials coatcd it with a special lipstick-resistant paint. ^ Philosopher Dear editar: The way it looks to mc, science has now readied the last straw in claiming to uncover frauds. It was one thing to have it report breakfast foods don't amount to much (it used to be said that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, but not now; the proof of the pudding now it in its nutritional analysis as reported to a Congressional investigating committee), or that mouth washes are mostly worthless after 5 minutes, or that many cities' water systems are far under par, or that sonw cars arc un-ufe. or that one pain pill it about as good as another, but according to an article I read in a newipaper last night, the last pillar of faith ha* been destroyed. According to it, a scientist in California it now claiming that ants are lazy. Hut's right. He aid after studying ant hills scientifically he's found flat individual ants spent a great deal of time just loafing, and the females spent a lot of time primping. When you watch an ant hill you get the notion of a tremendous amount of activity, lie seid. but that's because there are so many ants and they all look alike. If you single out one and watch him closely, you'll find half the tjme he isn't working at ail. Tills is hard tu handle. You mean to tell me that despite all the moral allusions throughout the history of man the ant hai been no better worker than a grasshopper? Where can a rfuggara look to If he can't kx>k to the ants? And yet come to think of It, the grasshopper, who ia said to spend his summer frolicking hit time away with no thought for the morrow, seems to be as prevalent today as he was centuries ago. That does it. Ill tell you the found*kins of the world are being undermined. Pass me another bowl of cereal. I'm going to be as busy as an ant today. Yours faithfully. IA.
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