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Oatoima PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Rae: ford, N. C. 28376 119 W. Elwood Av? nue Subscription Rates In A dvance Per Year - S4.00 6 Months - 52.2! >' 3 Months - SI.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher-Edit or SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second Claw Postage Paid at 1 taeford. N, C. Your Award - Winning Commi inity Newspaper "It is better tu light one candle than to cut se the darkness" SEPTEMBER 24, I 970 Jordanian tragedy The civil war which erupted in Jordan last week between King Hussein's Army and the Palestinian guerrillas has rapidly become a tragedy of major proportions with unpredictable consequences for the whole of the Middle East. This is a time when those watching from the outside, and particularly the United States and Israel, must weigh their possible actions with the utmost wisdom and caution. Any precipitate move might only worsen an already desperate situa tion. The best hope for stopping the fighting lies with the Arab countries, and Presi dent Nasser of the United Arab Republic has called other Arab heads of state to an urgent summit meeting in Cairo. Syria's reported move in sending Soviet built tanks into northern Jordan to sup port the guerrillas is a deplorable inter vention likely only to prolong the fighting and increase the already heavy casualties. The two armored columns reported to have crossed into Jordan from Syria are apparently operating under the banner of the Syrian-based Palestine Liberation Army, and the tanks are said to be manned by Palestinians with some Syrian officers. Syria could therefore argue that this was no c lirect intervention. The Soviet Uni on, whic h has equipped the Syrian arm ed force: i, is believed to have urged the Syrian tGovernment to keep out of the conflict. F 'resident Nixon has hinted that the Un ited State.? might take military action in Jordan if intervention by Syrian or Irs qi armed forces were to tip the bal an ce against liCing Hussein or if American liv es were threatened. But the situation in the Middle East is far more treacherous to day than it was when President Eisen hc >wer intervened in the Lebanese civil w ar in 1958, and American stock among th ie Arab coun tries is at a much lower ebb. An Americin military move in Jordan w -ould be intei ?preted in much of the Arab v 'orld as Amttrican imperialist interven t ion on the siiie of Israel. It could spark c ounteraction against American oil inter < .-sts in the Middle East and against the ] icrsons of Ann means in many Arab coun 1 xies. Where the hi dp of the United States and other countrie:i will be urgently needed will be to relie\ >e the misery and appalling suffering into which the civil war has plunged the J ordanian and Palestinian people. The blame game Socrates wu made to drink the poison hemlock almost 2,400 years ago. His crime ? corrupting the youth. That charge, which wu used to silence one of the greatest minds and critics of social ways die world hu ever known, has been used time and again since then. It is being used today. In the words of the wife of the American Attorney Gen eral: "They are totally responsible for the sins of our children." The "they" in this case are America's academicians. This newspaper has, since the beginning of trouble at Columbia University two school years ago, consistently maintained that administrations should not let them - selves get confused by the seeming legiti- ? macy of issues where violence was con ? cemed. Issues never legitimize violence o r disruption. We have said that clear guide - lines for dissent should be drawn. And uni versities should enforce them. But we cannot go along with the ove r simpliflcation which would try to put a 11 "blame" on any one group. The debate over culpability for stude nt acting-up will intensify this week. C )n Saturday, the President's Commission on Campus Unrest will send its report to t he White House. If the course of the comrr us sion's hearings gives any idea to what' the report will contain, campus convulsi ons will likely be attributed to: the emerg ent youth culture; extremiit leanings among students and y( >unger faculty; the unique problems of bl ack students in America; the need for ur uversity restructuring; the overreaction or undisciplined action of re straining police or guard force; and, not to be avoided, t he impact of national poli cies, particularl y Cambodia, on the sensi tivities of the y( >ung. It is widely surmised that President Nixon's letter this past weekend to 900 college heads i s intended to defuse the charge that unn tst stems in part from gov ernment policies i. He affirmed in the letter that the chief rt -sponsibility for maintain ing campus orde r lay with the faculty and administration ?>f the universities them selves. Perhaps he al so meant to head off out side interferenc e with campus rule. But the letter also 1 >ears on the debate over blame for cam pus unrest. Much is at stake, politicallyCampus disorder is a big political issu e this fall. But the blame game for political stakes is dangerous and wasteful and foolish. The problem (>f a deeply perplexed younger generation cannot be ascribed solely to the corrupting influence of teachers or the disrupting influence of a national adminis tration. Indeed, the ve> :ing questions of Socrates have persisted 1 ong after the simplistic solution of assigi ling a cup of hemlock. //?Jilttruth from The Chris/tat) Science Monitor I Browsim 3 in the files of The Nev/s-Journal 30 years ago September 2b. 1940 Undei the heading "Cuaid Units Leave I oi Yeai's Training In Ainu Camps." lite following; Having mobili/cd Monday. September Id. bulb Hoke County units of lite National Guard left dining lite past week lor eaittps in South Carolina and Georgia wlieie they will undergo (raining with the United Slates Army loi a year's |tcrmd. First Battalion, of which Headi|iiarleis Battery is a pait. kit Saturday morning for l orl Screven. Georgia, and Battery F left Monday itioinmg for Fort Moultrie. S.C. * *' *? A bai beetle supper in Iioiioi of lire Raelord units of the National Guard which have been called into Federal service, was given hi the armory last Thursday night by tlic Raelord Kiwaimclub. President J. Benton Thomas presided over the affair. Ppmmic llpclnirch served us iter of ceremonies ami rks were made by Major am L. Poole, hatlulion inlander. Capl. J.II. Blue. com ill; ntdei of Battciy F. and Capt.nihil Walker, commando ol Fir? ,i Battalion Hc.idi|uarlcis Hallo >. Also nuking short ulks ? ,\oe Mayoi (I.W. Brown and > ..H.C'i. Balfour. cliaiihian ol t lie hoard ol county eoinn nsMoneis. 25 years ago Septi Mitber 27. Il)45 any ol' the Hoke County who have been in service a number of years were itied to the States last k and are awaiting lunge at Fort Biagg. They j members of the National .rd and enteied service in tmebcr. Il>40. serving in acao and Trinidad and re recently in Italy. They f|)l, Joseph M. Pickler. Sgi . b Barringlon. T-5 Ton i noly. Cpl. Chalmers Davis. I. James T. Blue. Pic. J.T . irborough. T-5 Alvin binson. 1st Sgi. (irahai n i rk. S-Sgt. Luther W. Clark, t . Buck Lassiter. T-5 J.(,\ ; Kcn/ic. Cpl. Carlton I.*., i "en. Sgi. Hector B. McNeill. 5 i John H. McNeill. T -5 William I . Blue. Sgl. William Han is and Set. Jack Pope. * ** * Archie Franklin Bristow lias been discharged from the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. i?. * * * Set. Henry H. Picklcr. son ol Mr *and Mrs. I .R. Pickle, of Ashley Heights, who has just returned from two years service overseas with the 8th Division Artillery, was discharged at Fort Bragg last week. He has been awarded the FTO ribbon with five battle stars. ***? Back home after two periods of service in the Pacific. Li. Ben "F. Curric was separated from the Navy last week at Great Lakes Nav.il Station. He has three Jap planes to Ins credit and has an assist on another. i'pl. Allie Oil lis and Pfe Lloyd Cilhs. son of Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Gillis. members of separate artillery units, met near Wallenrod. Germany, recently, the first time hi over a year they had seen each other. Women Are Worst Enemy Of Equal Rights Drive By Laurie Telfair Women are their own worst enemies when it comes to the women's liberation question. Being interested in the women's lib hassal. and being motivated by crass economic interests as well, last week I attended a conference sponsored by the Fayetteville chapter of the National Organization for Women on the equal pay act. The meeting would have to be rated a success at providing information and an utter failure at selling women's equal rights. It was opened by Fayetteville mayor Charles Holt, who welcomed the thirty or so men and women who came, told a joke and excused himself to attend city council meeting. Four officials of the U.S. Labor Department then took over and explained the provisions that prohibit discrimination in pay and job opportunities under three federal acts the hqual Fay Act of the National Fair Labor Practices Law; Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act and an executive act that forbids discrimination by employers who do business with the government. The discussion was very informative - friendly anil informal. I did not realize before I attended the meeting that it was already illegal, anil has been for the past six years, for women to receive, less pay than men for jobs requiring equal skills and that are performed under similar requiring equal skills and that are performed under similar conditions. One of the examples given by the enforcement officer showed how it was against the law.for example, to pay male bank tellers more than female tellers or nurses aides less than hospital orderlies when they did the same kind of work. The president of the sponsoring NOW organization was absent during the first part of the discussion and it would have been better for her cause it she hadn't made the meeting at all. Because when she came she immediately confirmed, in full and living color, one of the most often voiced arguments for not assigning women to more responsible positions -- that women may be capable but they are too emotional. She returned to the equal pay conference toward the close of the Labor Department officials' presentation after testifying in Washington that day on the equal rights amendment and apparently she had had a bad time of it with the senators Taking a belated turn to speak, she shattered the constructive mood of the conference with a heated over-emotional attack on the audience for apathy: the women who didn't attend for apathy and for being brainwashed: the newspapers, or throwing away her press releases on the conference and on society in general. The meeting never recovered. The question and answer period included personal attacks and ilueats from both sides of what, by then, had become something of an armed camp of advocates of both male supremacy and women's lib. I wo men in the audience, who identified themselves as employers from Greensboro and Winston-Salem and had appeared to be slightly bored by the proceedings, became by turns, either openly hostile or condescendly amused. A friend who attended the meeting with me said later, "They have some good aims and programs and it all seems logically worked out, but they're too emotional about the whole thing." A further contribution made to set the cause back came from a member of a rival women's lib group in Fayetteville - I don't know the name of the organization. This sweet young thing attended the meeting, which was held in the federal court room, barefooted, with grimy feet, and wearing bell-bottomed blue jeans and a denim shirt. She wore no make-up and her hair looked uncombed for the last few weeks. She was obviously bra-less and nature had been generous. To the un-behevers from out-of-town, this creature was Women's Lib. As I said, the worst enemies of women's liberation are the liberators. STORIES BEHIND WORDS by William S. Penfield CHECKMATE :h.e .ca.' ei <hc-- iroin the Persians. and passed the ame on to Eur.pea :he Arabs also passed along an e?< latr.ar.v 'ha' they ,-ed who:: an oppoiient'* king was put i'to at. i'.e rrirable Po-btio-.. The e t-lamation was. "'shah :i;at'' -- -he king i.- dead. l.e j became "naqne mat. " itu'ld epanish, "esthec nut' ." .'id i" renth and, finally, ''checkmate" in D.'gi' h. c'-.e - the bhra. e entered general u a,c, where it ea: to defeat or fru.-trate. PuPPy Philosopher C reck. Dear edilar: Somebody who didn't sign his name has sent mc a clipping from a newspaper I don't care whether his name is signed or not hut it looks like it'd been just as easy to send me the whole paper - with a note asking me what I thought about it. The clipping reported that the Women's Liberation Movement is complaining because the Weather Bureau gives female names to hurricanes. In fact, tliey were doing more than complaining, they were raising Ole Ned about it. "Would like to see what you have to say about this," the anony inous note said. He. or maybe she. lias come to the right source it a fair and impartial answer is wanted, as hurricanes and women are two things I'm no authority on. However, there are certain characteristics about both a person is bound.to detect. For example, the Weather Bureau will report Hurricane Felice say is headed for a certain point on the coast, reporters and TV people rush there, and an hour later Felice has changed her mind and gone in another direction. You never know where she's going or when she's going to arrive. In the entire history of hurricanes, nobody has ever been able to predict one with any dependability. In the entire history of women.... And why do they refer to it as a tropical disturbance before it becomes a full - fledged woman, I mean hurricane? 1 don't want to get tangled up with the Women's Liberation Movement, but would it seem right reading that Tropical Disturbance Albert is headed toward the mainland? Or to take protection against Hurricane Teddy1 No. Celia ... Felice ... such feminine names just sound more accurate and ominous than Thomas and Donald. Fknvever. on the other hand, there are some male characteristics about hurricanes. For example, you have to clean up after them. Your faithfully. J.A. '' ? ^11 Just One Thing After Another By Curl Goerch Tlx voters of ? cool spring near Ridge Crest divide, and flow both into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Eastward, the water flows into the Catawba River, thence into the Santee, finally entering the Atlantic near Georgetown South Carolina. Westward, the water llow into the Swannanoa, French Broad, Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississippi flowing from the latter into the Gull. The crest of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina marks the great Continental Divide of Eastern America. Two interesting clippings that appeared in two Raleigh papers some lime ago. First from The News and Observer: "Orton Gardens, near Wilmington, are in full bloom this weekend and are expected to attract the ususal throng of upstarters who come down to see the brilliant display." And from The Raleigh Times: "Corsages of gardenias marked the place of Mrs. Cliamplin and Mrs. Thompson and nosegays of panties were at the places of the other guests." A note from a reader contains this story. A man in the clothing business was asked by his young son one day, "What do people mean when they say 'ethics'? What is ethics?" "Well, it is this way. 1 am glad you asked me that question because it is something petti ought to learn about. Ybu will be in business yosrfSelf some day." "Suppose a lady comes into the store and buys something and her bill amies to live dollars exactly. Now she hands me a ten ? dollar bill by mistake and goes right on out. Tlut is where ethics come in. Should I or should 1 not tell my purtner. Tltai is ethics, my son." Sometimes when I liave spoken of the seven or eight men who were horn and reared in the little town of Washington. North Carolina.or identified with it in their earlier days Josephus Daniels. John II. Small. William de Mille. Cecil de Mi He. George V. Denny. Jr.. Lindsay Warren. Norman Cordon. Jr. - and later became men of national p r o m in e n c e a n d accomplishment. I have been twitted with the familiar tease ? question: "Had to go away from Washington to become famous, didn't they?" So they did. But not long ago a schoolmaster, who had made a study of human nature for many years, set out to make a chart mostly to amuse himself during winter nights. It concerned his many hundreds of graduates. He had been at puins to keep track of most of them through the years. He had been wondering whether those who left their home town and home state to seek fame and fortune in far away places had notably prospered more than those who stuck to the native diggings. His chart showed lltal it was just about fifty-fifty. Having regard, as he put it, to what could be called real success in life, the boys who went away did not do better, but they did just as well. A friend to whom the old schoolmaster showed the chart asked him what lib conclusions were. The old man smiled dryly and answered: "I guess those who have it in 'em will do well wherever they live." CLIFF BLUE... People & Issues CHUB SLAWLLL -? Pretty well founded rumor has it that Herbert F. (Chub) Seawell, Jr., Carthage attorney, cx-Republican, church layman, and pinch-hitter for Jesse Helms' "bditorial Viewpoint" on Channel 5 TV is giving serious consideration to running for governor of North Carolina on George Wallace's American Independent Party ticket in 1972. Our source of information further reports that Chub has made a trip to Alabama where he has discussed the matter with the former Alabama Governor who has been nominated for another four ? year term, subject to the November 3 election. Now if Chub is serious about running for governor, and he ran once before - in 1952 as the Republican nominee, losing to the late William B. Umstead. In the 1952 race Seawell received 383,329 votes to 796,306 for Umstead. Following the election in which Lisenhower was elected President, Seawell became a candidate for Federal District Attorney. Ilis appointment was not coming through very fast so (. hub liad some words not exactly of commendation tint towards President hiieflhower's Attorney General ?? Herbert Brownell to the effect that he should be providing jobs for live Republicans instead of devoting his time to digging up dead communists. Reports are that Chub's humor didn't set well at all with Mr. Brownell and that the attorney general refused to recomend Mr. Seawell's appointment as a District Attorney. Anyway, Chub got fed up with the way the Republicans treated him and ended the episode by referring to himself as an "ex ? Republican." We suspect that Chub would feel very much at home in the American Independent Party, and should he run for governor on that ticket he will have both the Democrats and the Republicans scratching their heads trying to figure out which party he will hurt most. Chub was brought up in the Baptist Church but left it and was a prime leader in organi/ing an independent church in Carthage called the Gospel Chapel. We are told that Chub is in hi? iU?ni?nil i<? fill pulpits in tuislcrn North Carolina. INTLR15TING - We were interested to read that Boston's Mayor Kevin II. While drives a car converted to running on compressed natural yus as does Gov. Richard B. Ogilvic of Illinois and that Gov. Tom McCall of Oregon has converted his limousine to ? low polluting propane. An article in The Christian Science Monitor by Monty Hoyt, says: "While politicians are trying to get a lot ol' mileage out of a clean issue, significant anti-pollution efforts are being made elsewhere - but for a different reason: Sheer economics has prompted a large number of car-fleet owners through the country to convert to those motor fuels." The article further stated: "Recent tests carried out with four new police vehicles in Chandler, Ariz., indicated that savings from $500 to S600 a year could be realized by using propane (liquefied petroleum or 'LP' gas) instead of conventional gasoline. The tests showed that gasoline ? fueled cars averaged in cost S.Q295 a mile, compared with S.0165 a mile for the propane - powered cars. "The life of spark plugs in the L ? B - experimental cars was more than trebled, while crankcase oil and the oil filters only needed to he clianged every 10,000 miles, compared with every 3,000 miles for conventionally fueled cars in the Chandler police fleet. The propane cars showed almost no loss in horsepower ? although in actual operation the gasoline powered cars displayed somewhat faster acceleration. But the difference did not effect the policeman's capability in a chase situation." POLLUTION - Pollution is a chief topic these days- and since the passage of the Lnviromcntal ftrlicy Act of 1969 which took effect at the beginning of the year, the Defense Department has been the federal government's biggest poluter. We are told thai Defense pcnerales nearly HOjxrcenl of federal pollution. PARADOX - Back when the schooling opportunities were far below what is being offered today reasonable qualifications as to literacy were a requisite to registration to vote.
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