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Soybeans and suDDorts
in the farm economy of four years
ago, soybeans seemed to be one major
crop that had no problems at all. Both
domestic use and exports had been
rising rapidly, and the market price was
far above the official support level of
S2.2S a bushel.
So what did the Johnson
Administration do? It raised the support
price to S2.50 and spurred a big rise in
production. By 1968 the Government
held 300 million bushels of surplus
soybeans and exports had slowed down
sharply.
At least some agricultural authorities
think that the Government, by more or
less putting a floor under the world
market, encouraged other nations to
increase their exports of other items
that supply protein, such as fishmeal. At
any rate, the exports of the other
protein sources surely did rise.
With the soybean market in a mess,
Agriculture Secretary Hurdin lust yeur
cut the support price back to S2.2S, a
move that some critics feared would
make matters even worse. "There was
the usual nonsense (then) about farmers
producing more when prices go down,"
says Charles Shuinan, prisident of the
American Furm Bureau Federation.
"But the 1969 crop was up only 13
million bushels, compared with the
disastrous 127 million bushel increase in
1968 under the incentive of higher
supports."
For soybeans now, prices once again
arc well above the support level and,
says one major exporter, "world
demand for both oil and meal is literally
exploding." Rural experts still argue
about exactly what caused what, but
one thing should be clear: Farmers
aren't as stupid as the Government
sometimes seems to think. -The Wall
Street Journal
To cut or not to cut
President Nixon says you should
never "judge what a person's reaction is
going to be by the length of his hair."
He made the comment after his
10-block stroll in New York the other
day. and he added that the long-haired
youths he had met during the walk were
"extremely friendly."
Of course we agree with the
President. And with due apologies to
the poet, we can't resist paraphrasing
the presidential dictum this way: "Long
locks do not a hippie make."
We recall the taxi driver whose long,
reddish hair was tied back with a rubber
band or shoe string. He was a student
driving taxis as a summer job-and a
verv careful d.iver at that.
Then there was the truck driver with
the long, curly bob, who saw the plight
ef <1 woman trvino to U.>r
from a difficult parking spot. The young
man got out of his truck and guided the
woman until she was clear of the
obstacles.
Let it not be thought that we arc
defending long hair indiscriminately. We
deplore the unwashed, unkempt look
which gives rise to the tendency to
brand all long ? haireds as hippies. We
think there are many places where
uncut tresses arc inappropriate on the
male head.
But fashions change. Even such a
tradition - bound institution as Britain's
Royal Navy recently made a move to
"get with it."
But we don't believe the Royal Navy
is about to return to the look of
Nelson's day when the famous
commander and his men wore their hair
at bob length, or is it? -The Christian
Scienn' Munitnr
iNo license tn hnrp
Although Senate Majority Leader
Mike Mansfield himself requested and
was given TV network time to reply to a
broadcast by President Nixon, he is
right in saying that "equal time"
demands arc getting out of hand. It may
even be said that the situation is getting
ridiculous.
Although television is a product of
recent times, presidents have properly
used all the public media
available newspapers, magazines,
radio to present the facts and their
own views about them to the American
people. Presidents usually are perceptive
in separating their purely political
pitches from their addresses on national
and international affairs. They do not
ask the media to give them free space
and time for campaign talks. These are
customarily paid for. in the case of
television time, by the national
committees of the political parties.
Newspapers carry free what is
newsworthy in such addresses. But
reports on national policies aa' another
matter. A partisan, political response to
a statement by the President doesn't
qualify properly for equal time.
The television networks and radio
have been generous in allowing
opposition leaders time to counteract
the positions taken by presidents. But
there are a lot of self - appointed
spokesmen clamoring for equal time
who cannot be and should not be
accommodated. Maybe these appeal to
some viewers as better than summer
re-runs of old programs and movies, but
one doubts the audience is very large or
very interested. The audience ratings of
Sen. Mansfield's and Larry O'Brien's TV
rebuttal appearances must have been on
the low side. Fair is fair, but networks
haven't a license to bore the people and
don't like to do it at their own expense.
-The Orcgonian
Browsing in the files
of Th* N?ws-Journal
25 Years Ago
August 30, I94S
Wilson McBryde, rcccntly
discharged from the Army, is
now employed at Western
Auto Associate Store.
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September 6, 1945
A letter received here this
week from J.W. Turlington,
former tcachcr in Hoke High
School, states that lie is now
stationed in France and is
serving as an instructor in an
Army school for instructors.
T-Sgt. Daniel Bruce Conoly,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J.E.
Conoly, has received hit
discharge from the Army under
tiie point system and ii at
home.
Sgt. Tom McBryde, who ha*
been ttrving with the 30th
Division in Europe, ia spending
a furlough with kit parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ryan McBryde.
Major and Mrs. William
Latnont Jr., of Fort Moultrie,
S.C., have been guests of Major
Lamont's parents for several
days.
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Miss Lillian McBryde, until
Sept. I clerk for the rationing
board, lias resigned to accept a
position with the Bank of
Raeford.
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D. Scott hx)le reports in
"Poole's Medley" that few but
members attended the Victory
Thanksgiving service sponsored
by tlie EUis Williamson Post of
the American Legion at the
Methodist church Friday night.
Mrs. B.R. Gatlin celebrated
her 78th birthday with all of
Iter children present.
15 years ago
Aa^Mt 25, IMS
From "Addenda" ? It haa
rained here this week and is
still raining.
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Chairman J. Fulford
McMillan and former Chairman
N.HXJ. Balfour of the Hoke
County Board of
commissioners attended the
convention of (lie State
Association of commissioner!
and accountants in Asheville
this week. Mrs. Reid Children
attended to represent County
Accountant J.A. McGoogan.
J.L Hobson, life ? long
resident of this county, died
Monday night at the age of 87.
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Judge O.K. Nimocks, Jr. of
Fayettevile, is presiding over
the regular August term of
Hoke County Superior Court
this week.
????
Cap*. Edwin D. Newton,
commander, report* from Fori
Stunt,Ga., that Co. A, 130th
Tank Bn., local National Guard
unit, to having its best summer
? yet.
'Mom, Stanley wants to put me on a pedeetaT
Confession Of A Feminist
Who Copped Out On Lib
By Laurie Telfair
The 50th anniversary of the
passage of tlie women's voting
amendment and the day set lor
the women's liberation strike
passed unnoticed and
unobserved last week in
Racford, as far as I could tell.
While I experienced a few
guilt feelings at not doing
anything to help call attention
to the drive for equality. I
never quite got around to
devising any gestures I lelt
would be appropriate.
However, to help heal my
conscience, here is a Kit of
things I should have done, but
didn't on women's lib day.
1. Rotated the tires on my
car, myself. This would not
only have been beneficial to
the car, but I would have
learned to change a tire myself.
Fortunately, I've only had one
flat tire in my driving
experience and no sooner had I
taken the jack from the trunk
than a kindly motorist (male)
stopped and changed the tire
for me. That is one of the
privilages a liberated woman
shouldn't receive.
2. Registered for the draft.
Again, fortunately, I'm over
draft age, hut I threw this one
in for younger women.
3. Written a letter to the
editor protesting newspapers
still classifying jobs into "help
wanted - male" and "help
wanted - female" categories.
4. Boycotted cigarettes that
advertise "you've come a long
way, baby" and other products
whose advertisements make
women look like pea-brained
imbeciles who burst into song
over clear cooking oil or bright
laundry. However, TV ads
make women look like fools
and men a wee bit worse, so a
consumer who based her
choices on the advertising
image would be forced to lead
a rather austere life. I'm not
prepared for austerity. (More
fodder for mv guilt feelings.)
5. Written my congressmen
for a variety of reasons - to
allow child care to be deducted
as a business expense without
regard to income and to press
for enforcement of existing
legislation as well as passing
new equal rights legislation.
6. Investigated the legal
problems of changing our
surname from Telfair to
TeI fair ? King , thereby
incur porting my miiden name
into the legal family name
much as Spanish-speaking
nations use both the father's
and the mother's surname.
Some arrangements would have
to be made for the off-spring,
though. If a Telfair-King
married a Jenson-Applewhite,
the resulting family name
could get out of hand.
The cause of equal rights for
women is receiving a good deal
of attention now - getting
attention that is long overdue.
But, I hope iha( otjier
problems, more cruial to
survival, are not slighted in
lavor ^ of the emotional
women's lib issue. For if the
questions of our nation's
relationship with ohter nations
and of humanity's relationship
to the environment cannot be
resolved, it probably won't
matter who is equal and who is
not.
STORIES
BEHIND
WORDS \
by
William S. Penfield
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Pattern
"'Pattern," which denotes a guide or model (or making
? omething is derived from tho Latin word "pater," meaning
Father.
Since the father was the head of a family and its protec
tor, the word "patronus,'' meaning any protcctor or guar
dian, -prang from "pater.'* "Patronus" became "patron" in
F rench.
A "patron" generally was a person to be K>oked up to,
therefore the word acquired the additional meaning of a
model. "Patron,** in this sense, was corrupted to "pattern'
in English.
Word-Builders
A number of English words were formed from the root
"tract," which comes from the Latin "trahere, tractus"
(to draw, dra^; or take).
Some of the prefixes that arc used with It are: ex (out of
or away from); re (again or back); pro (for, forth or for
ward); con (with or together with); and de (down, off or away).
Combining the prefixes with the root produces the fol
lowing words; extract (to take out of); retract (to take back):
protract (to draw forth or extend); contract (to draw to
gether); and detract (to take away).
Plant
Many words are derived from the names of objects with
which there appears to be no connection. Take the word
"plant," which Is used to donote a tree, herb or shurb.
In setting out a herb, shrub, or young tree, the Roman
farmer stamped the loose earth around the trunk with his
foot.
This action was called "plantare" (to stamp with the
sole of the foot). F rom "plantare" came the English word
"plant." first as a verb and then as a noun.
Crak Phil?8?pher
Dear editar:
With motorists alerted on
[he opening of public schools
wcause of more children cn
the streets and the National
Suard slerted on the opening
colleges, I settled back down
>ut here on this Bremuda grass
arm to reflect on a couple of
term I encountered yesterday.
One was a television
nterview with a college
ttudent and the other a speech
I read by a college president.
The coUeat student, who
mm 21, said he'd tried for four
wild yean to get his iMMfi
icroea to the system, using
everyting from trying lo swing
elections to peaceful protest,
but the system's faults still
exist and he sees no choice but
not to use violence.
The college president said
one answer to the school
better off If they dkln't start
till they were 10 yean old, at
which time they'd be in shape
to learn soma really aolid stuff
four times as fast aa they could
when they were only 6.
If you ask me, neither one is
right. In the first place, if you
want a real revolution, tell
parents who are living for the
day when their child gsts 6 and
can get out of the house and
into school that he'll have to
be underfoot for another four
years. Eee-yuk!
No. The answer is to start
children to school when
they're 1 and let ihem finish
when they're 10.
This would thus give them
II years till they're 21, and
and anybody knows M takes ai
least 11 yean to strajgten out
the world, 4 yarn just never
has been long enough.
Yours faithfully
J A.
Just One Thing
After Another
Bv*Carl Coorch
There has certainly been a
lot of controversy over the
recent census. People have
always been interested and
proud of the increase in
population in their county or
state. We ran serosa son*
interesting statistics along this
line up at the State Library
recently.
Back in I67S it was
estimated that the population
of North Carolina was 4,000.
So far as is known that was the
first attempt to figure the
population. The following
years are also estimates:
1701, population 5,000
I 707, population 7,000
1715, population 11 /XX)
1729, population 35,000
1752, population 100,(XX)
1765, population 2004)00
1771, population 250j000
1786, population 350,000
Therefore, during (he
Revolutionary War, North
Carolina had a population of
somewhere around 300,000.
All of these figures thus lar
are estimates. The first official
federal census wus taken in
1790. From then on to the
present time, a census has been
taken every ten years. The
1790 census showed 393,751
persons living in North
Carolina.
In our list of unusual
township names, published
ecently, we left out a mighty
lood one. Hamp Ellington, of
Fayetteville, calls our attention
o this omission.
Up until a few years ago,
here used to be a township in
Cumberland County which
vent by the name of Flea Bite,
?towever, folks didn't like it,so
he name has been changed to
jastover.
Hulbert Footner tells this
tory in his book, "River of the
Eastern Shore."
One day in the summer o(
1805 a traveling preacher,
Lorenzo Dow, going along the
country road on his way to a
meeting, fell in with a small
Negro boy. The boy was an
interesting young fellow, and
carried with him u large tin
horn on which Ite could blow
some mighty blasts. As they
went along, Mr. Dow asked the
boy what his name was.
"Gabriel," the boy replied.
That gave Mr. Dow an idea,
because he intended to preach
that day upon the Last
Judgment. As they approached
the meeting place the plan was
fixed up. ?
In front of the church where
the meeting was to be held was
a large tree.
"You climb up in that tree
before the congregation
gathers, perch yourself in the
crock of one of the big limbs
so nobody can see you. Listen
to my sermon, and when I cry
out, "Blow Gabriel! 'you
blow."
Arriving at the church ahead
of time, the hoy climbed into
the tree and hid. The meeting
started, outdoors because it
was a warm day and the
congregation would have
overflowed the church. Mr.
[X>w began his sermon in due
time and preached like one
inspired. At the climax, as he
had every one in the
congregation listening intently,
he shouted: "Blow, Gabriel,
blow!" i
Gabriel blew a mighty blast
on his tin horn.
An indescribable scene
followed," Mr. l-'ootncr says.
'The congregation fell on the i
ground crying for mercy or
Shouting salvation. Presently
the boy was discovered in the
tree and the shamed sinners
looked at Dow threateningly,
tie was equal to the occasion.
" 'If a boy can strike such
terrors into your hearts,' he
shouted, 'what will you do
when the great day really
comes! '"
CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues
PRIiSIDliNTIAL PRIMARY
~ We are very much in
agreement with (lie
recommendations of the
Democratic Study Commission
which calls for the l')7l
General Assembly to enact a
presidential primary tor North
Carolina.
We feel that a presidential
primary coupled with the
selection of a greater number
of the delegates by the districts
would be a solid step in the
direction toward giving the
people a greater say in selecting
the nominees for president.
However, the
recommendations are a long
way from law as the General
Assembly will have the final
say on the matter. We would
like to see both the Democrats
and the Republicans unite on a
sound and progressive
presidential primary bill that it
might be available for the l')72
sweepstakes.
SPONG-PRI-YKR BILL -?
We have been interested in the
National School Policy Bill
introduced in the Congress by
Senator William B. Spong of
Virginia and Rep. Richardson
Preyer of Greensboro. Their
proposed bill would attempt to
establish a national policy on
school desegralion. We think
Senator Spong was quite right
when he said: "Neighborhood
Schools are, in Fact, now the
national policy except in the
South, of course."
The South has been and is
still the "shipping boy" when
it comes to school segregation
or desegregation.The Northern
liberals want to talk about and
make political hay back home
by trying to point the finger at
conditions in the South instead
of taking care of conditions in
their own back yard. We don't
expect the Spong-Preyu Sill to
get far but they should be
commended for trying.
QUESTION - An Associated
Press story in the daily
newspapers Saturday on the
Senate's refusal to out the
Pentagon's budget 7 per cent
from the 171.2 billion figure,
then went on to ay that the
Senate approved by voice vote
on an amendment by Sen.
Henry Bellmon, R-Okla.,
"calling on the Pmugon to
offer new employment to
civilian workers laid off
because of dafenaa spending
outbacks or the dosing of
military baaas."
The question which comas
lo mind is: II the people are to
be hired back, why lay Ihent
ofr?
If they must he kept on
Uncle Sam's pay roll why not
assign them to an agency where
their work will bring forth
more fruit?
HTHICS - The U.S. Senate
ethics committee noted wisely
last week when it told the
Senators to stop leasing new
cars offered at cut - rate priccs
lo certain members of ( ongiess
by the automobile industry.
Washington reports say that at
least 24 Senators have these
cut ? rate lease arrangments
with auto ? makers.
In making their
recommendations the ethics
committee said: "We arc
confident that no favoritism '
was given or expected by the
automobile manufacturers."
If this was the case wonder
why were not these same cut -
rates made available to the <
poor man, the average man and
the public in general. If the
move was in humanitarian
spirit it would seem that low
income people would have
been the first accorded the
"cut - rate" lease arrangements.
TURTLI- FESTIVAL ?
When it comes to unusual
contests and festivals Eastern
North Carolina can come up
with some good ones which are
down to earth, attract
attention, and provide good
fellowship for all comers.
There is "Mule Day" in
Benson; "Hollerin* Contest" at
Spivey's Corner and others.
Now we note that there will be
a North Carolina Turtle
Festival in Lillington October I
- 3 which will feature the
crowning of "Miss Turtle
Dove." We think it very kind
of the promoters of the festival
to provide a "Turn Turtle"
race for the occasion. In
describing the "Turn Turtle"
race the Dunn Record says:
"You start out on a straight
course but you may wind up
right back where you started.'
Come to think of it, many
of we members of the human
race don't do much better than
the turtles. Lots of times we
just wind up where we started
with a little leu thread on the
ball to unwind.
Well, in Proverbs 6:6 we find
Solomon nying: "Go to the
ant, thou sluggard; consider her
ways, and be wise."
SCHOOL BELLS - School
btllt are ringing acroia the
nation