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^Jte ^VJjew* - journal 0x/bo6ma PRESS ASSOCIATION Publlahed Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 28376 119 W. El wood Avenue Subscription Rites In Advance P?r Year - S4.00 6 Month* - S2.25 3 Monthi - S1.2S PAUL DICKSON PublUher-Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-CUm Pottage Paid it Raeford. N. C. Your Award - Winning Community Newspaper "It o better to Ught one candle than to curse the darkness " THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1970 The Puritan Ethic Virtually everything in and about tha United Statea la under eaarchtng queation today. Thar* la hardly a traditional valua, outlook, cuatom, or concluaion which is not being tubjacted to eometlmaa con structive aomotimaa daatructive doubt and inquiry. While thii preaent state of acru tiny haa in aoma areas opened roan's minds to look more deeply at man and his works, it haa also sown wideapraad rflnfuriftn and resulted in heightened so cial anfl political tension. In short, the American people are at one of thoae chal i??gfr?g turning-points where they must, for their own safety and prograaa, decide between thoae portions of history's legacy which are outgrown and must be reformed or discarded, and thoae which are funda mental and indispensable and muat be mote fully recognised and more sincerely practiced. This weekend there begin In Massschu aetta celebrations for the 350th anniver sary of the landing of the Pilgrims, first at what is now Provlncetown on Cape Cod, then shortly thereafter at Plymouth. And there could be no better time to look st certain of the questions being raised about the United States than during celebrations for an event which, perhape more than any other, aet the country upon the moral, political, intellectual, and economic paths which it has followed ever since. We hear it lncreeaingly stated, for ex ample, that the America of today la turn ing away from one of ita strongest tradi tional attltudea, something variously tanned the Puritan or the Protestant Ethic. By this is generally meant (a) hard, unremitting toil la redemptive, and (b) an unusually narrow view on moral ques tions. Nor can there be much doubt but that in this ago of material well-being, both of thoae reetrlcted and limited inter pretation* of Puritanism and Protestant ism are being either questioned or par tially abandoned by certain clrclee and strata of American eodety. It will be noted that we said "reetrlcted The real test The blggeat challenge the two cllmben of Yoeemlte's El Capitan had to fight lr their aacent wu the attempt to save them The aheer granite wall Itself, Into which they wedged metal clampe In crevlcei or holes they drilled themeelvea, waa ol course a tremendous physical challenge. It took climbers Dean Caldwsll and Warren Harding a full month to muter It, laihinj themaalvea to their ropeholds each night. That particular face of the 3,000-foot summit had nagged at the ambitions ol rock men for years. Earlier, Mr. Hardlnj had reached the top via a somewhat easier route. But that wu achieved by a group of climbers operating from a permanent base in the valley, to which they returned each night and limited interpretations." We do to be cause we do not believe that, examined In depth, either of the Interpretations mentioned above is a true reading of the Puritan or Protestant Ethic. We believe that a far more fundamental, indeed the only correct interpretation of this ethic lies in the latter'* conviction of the per fectability of man. This goes vastly be yond questions of how hard men should work or how stern their moral outlook should be, although these, particularly the latter, cannot be disassociated from men's determination to perfect himself. When read in this simultaneously higher and deeper light, the Protestant or Purl tan Ethic If found to be not only alive but thriving in modern-day America. As one writer put it, the youth of America Is in creasingly gripped In "a neo-Protestant lsm which holds that each man must justify his existence by forsaking personal gain and doing something socially con structive." It would be blindness, indeed, not to aee in iuch an attitude a refining of Puritanism and an unquenchable yearning for the perfectability of both man and society. No, the basic impulse of the Puritan Ethic is too aoundly grounded in man kind's need, too firmly entrenched in American thinking, too applicable to that country's present need to work its wsy through monumental challenges, to be either outmoded or abandonable. Like all great historic truths, this ethic is not rigid, but is sdaptable to men's necessities st whatever period they find themselves. Outward trappings msy change, but in ward power and effectiveness remain the As the United States, along with Massa chusetts, rethinks the lessons of the last three and a half centuries, its greatest need is to draw fresh strength from the humanly wise and divinely Inspired foun dations upon which America was estab lished. It makes little difference by what nsme these are called eo long as they re main green in men's hearts. This Is teat climb wss s masterful tech nicsl fest. But still, as in all human accomplish ments of the first order, it wss eesentlslly s mental victory, not a physical one. In telligence, discipline, and steady courage, more than any sum of physicsl energy or endursnce, got them to top. At the two-thirds mark, it appeared to watchers that the climbers were stranded. A large-scale "rescue" operstion wss lsunched. But the climbers waved it off. This makes one stop to think: How often, in whatever the difficult ascents of our lives, do we take refuge In plsuslble reasons for calling them off, thus never rising fully from the vslleys of our medi ocrity? Editorials From The Christian Science Munito Browsing in the files of Tht Nows-Journal 25 years ago Thunday, November 29, 1945 At a general meeting of stockholders at the courthouse last night, the Hoke Frec/er Locker Corporation, which had been formed to finance the building and operation of a freezer locker plant here, voted itself out of existence. The Raeford Kiwanis Club will have as its guests at the regular weekly meeting next Thursday night December 6. all teachers of the white schools of Hoke County and their wives and husbands. ???? Statistics furnished by the ?ureau of the Census of the United Stales Department of Commerce and received this wa*k ihow that up to November 14. I?*S, there smi 6,640 bales of cotton 0RMd in Hoke County. Last i tg Novejnberthere had_ ' Wli Jlitfwd, oWi* Pt'c Julian McKeithan, who has been in Japan, is expected home in a few dayi, having landed on the West Coast this week. Lt. Bruce Morris, Jr. who has been in the Philippine Islands with the army, landed in San Francisco this week and is expected here in a tew days. ???? Pt'c Fred Cox, who has been in the Pacific theatre, was discharged from the army last week and is at home. Captain Herbert McLean Jr., landed at San Francisco thii week and is expected home shortly. Lt. Jake Austin, of the Navy, was ipearated from the service this week and is spending his terminal leave with his mother here. He has recently returned from sea duty in the Pacific. **** Major Malcolm 0. Gillis has returned from 15 years ago Thundiy, November 24, 1955 The cotton gin of Dundarrach Trading Co., Inc. was completely deitroyed by fire last Thursday afternoon, despite the efforts of firemen from five neighboring towns who responded to the company's call for help when the blaie was discovered. ???? The birth of Christ will be commemorated in Raeford this year with a parade at 7:00 o'clock Wednesday night, December 14. ???? Lacy Koonce, senior tackle on the 1955 Hoke County High School football team, was named a member of the second coaches all ? conference team. From Rockfish New*: The Nail Keg group are now depending on the storekeepers to provide the other kind of Mis, tine* the wooden nail km ar# out. and wt art sure ? someone who'i our kind of people* oj L/tvniL ? EiLtT Ain 8SS?S8Wg Fans Are Hardy And Noble Breed Loyal fans arc a hardy and loble breed. They willingly ind even enthusiastically rndure discomforts, brave foul leather and drive long listances to watch the objects jf their fancy in victory or iefeat. Football fans probably iuffer the most, due to the x>ld weather and the fact that games are rarely cancelled jecause of poor weather. However, I have known jeople who went to the winter Dlympics when the games were leld at Innsbruck, Austria leveral years ago. They paid arge sums foi tickets, hotel iccommodations and food and :hen stood for hours in the mow on the side of a mountain antil it seemed that one leg ivould be permanently shorter than the other from the steep slope if they didn't lose both imbs to frostbite first. They didn't get frostbitten, ind came home poorer but thrilled to have been able to spend a week or more standing in the Alps in the dead of winter watching someone else ski. Fans of big ? league baseball probably have it pretty soft. They can either watch the games on television or in a resonably comfortable stadium. But the followers of little league ball teams must be a hardy lot. The stadiums usually have the minimum of comforts, to begin with. And then the emotional wear and tear is considerable. Each play is an agony. Will he catch it or won't he? Will a pop fly become a home run as the ball is overthrown at first, retrieved and thrown away to third and finally thrown into the backstop at home? It's all possible in junior baseball. When I was a child, my father coached boys' baseball teams for ten years or more. In addition to watching the twe games a week his teams had tc play, we had to keep an eye on the opposition. We sometimes saw as many as fifteen ballgamcs during the week. Once I saw a major league game played in Chicago and found it very boring. Where was the drama, when high fly balls were routinly caught and the first baseman never missed? Vacations revolved around the baseball program for many families. .We had to go out of town once when our team was playing in the city tournament and what agony it was to miss those crucial games. We telephoned back long distance each day, but by the time we returned, the team had been eliminated from the tournament. Following a winning team brings its own exhiliration too (hat erases for a time the worries of the world. Perhaps there is a cyclone in Pakistan and new fighting in the Middle East, but WE WON. And losing the big one has its own special misery. Some years back the college in our city had a particularly good basketball team- the first particularly good anything the college had ever had. They went to the National Invitational Tournament and Memphis followed them zealously on television. They came within two points of winning the thing too, but the game ended in controversy, a decision by the referee hotly contested, still when the shouting was over, our team had lost and, for the fans, the world stopped for a little while. There was ? band and crowd to greet them at the airport at midnight when they came home from New York, which shows, I guess, that fans will remain loyal in defeat. But winning is more fun. STORIES BEHIND WORDS William S. P?nfl?ld BARMECIDE FEAST A "Barmecide feast" means an illusion of plenty. The term came from a story in the "Arabian Nights." A member of the wealthy Barmecide family invited a starving beggar to dinner. The beggar was seated at the table and empty dishes were set before him. The merchant prince, exercising his cruel sense of humor, started questioning the beggar. "How is the soup?" he asked. "Excellent, sir," the beggar replied. Further questions about the imaginary meal brought nothing but praise from the beggar. Finally, the beggar was offered some imaginary wine, but politely declined it, explaining that he was already drunk. Then, in his pretended druken state, he knocked the Barmecide down. The Barmecide, recognizing the humor of the situation, treated the beggar to a sumptuous meal. CreT Philosopher Dear editor: You know, from time to time in between international crisis .and on-the-farm obligations, like the time I rode my tractor eight hours straight without stopping trying to get a crop planted before it rained and made it, in fact, made it three months before it rained and the seeds never did sprout, anyway, in my spare time ! have davoted a considerable amount of time to trying to figure out a way to play football with both teams winning every pme. What I'm doing is trying to preserve the sport. Like it it, with tvery pme played, from WjLmuKfwJJWN* CClHr If wir protfltXHMlft, . E,r r?. always leave the standi disappointed if not heart-broken. The game it skating on thin ice, so to speak, like the coach who said they were trying to make a political football out of a basketball scandal. Think, how long would Gun Smoke last if half its audience was always disappointed at the way tt ended? Football is ? great spectator sport, I follow it on television myself, but if they don't figure out some way to keep fans on both sides happy, it's in trouble. Regretfully I have never been able to figure out how to change the game so everybody can always come away happy but 1 have now done the next best thing. I hive discovered the people who can. They are the chairman of the Republican Party and the chairman of the Democratic Party. I read in four different newspapers that each one of these men has claimed that his party won the November elections, and they've made such a good case that nobody in the country is sure which one is riiht. A* a result, everybody thinks his side won, nobody lost, and everybody came away from the polls victorious. I know when I'm out ? classed. 1 turn my football problem over to thtm. Your. ? ?faithfully, Just One Thing After Another By Carl Gocrch Scene: Balentine's Cafeteria in Raleigh. Time: Lunch period. The place was rather crowded but we came to a table that had only one occupant. Nice looking gentleman. "Mind if we tit here?" "No." (Business of having food removed from tray and placed on table.) "You live in North Carolina?" "No." "What part of the country are you from?" "North." "What's your line of business?" "Sales." "What do you sell?" "Goods." And you know, from that moment on, there was absolute silence at that particular tabic until the gentleman from up North, a salesman who sold goods, got up and walked out. ? ? ? We came across this sentence in our reading last night. It contains some excellent philosophy and is well worth remembering. Before remembering it, however, you've got to know how to say it. Read it over one time and then see if you can repeat it. Or, try it out on someone who in near you at this moment: "What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can't help it." ? ? ? An inferiority complex, says "The Messenger," is like wealth. It would be a blessing if the right peogle had it. Have you ever noticed how often a sign painter misplaces an apostrophe when ne it painting a sign? 1 read this little story the other duy that I. believe explains the mystery.; A man noticed a sign almost;? completed on a shop ? window: " Ladie's and Cent'i. Restaurant," and the painter still at work on it. The man must have had the same curiosity I possess, lor he stopped and said to the artist: "Pardon my inquisitiveness, but why do you put the apostrophe before the S?" "Put the what before the which?" asked the painter, courteously. "That little curly-tailed mark after that E and that T. Some call it an apostrophe." "Posserphe, is it? Well, young fellow, thank you! I seen and I make that dingus a hundred times, and 1 never knew it had a name! Posserphe! That's a good one( I'll have to spring it on the gang! Some painters always paints it after the S, but I always puts it before the S, because I think it looks more artistic there. Except for that, it don't make no difference where you put it." ? ? ? ? Over the massive stone fireplace in the living room of the late Henry Ford's estate 011 the River Rouge, near Dearborn, Michigan, is a motto * carved in the heavy wooden mantelpiece, so I am told and it reads: "Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." CI j I h Jb BLUE ? ? ? People & Issues] EVERY VOTE COUNTS - That every vote counts can be attested to by the closeness of several contests in North Carolina in the November 3 general election. In Columbus County Rep. Arthur W. Williamson was reelected by receiving two votes more than Thomas Harrelson his Republican opponent. In Alamance County veteran State Senator Ralph Scott iefeated his Republican opponent, Hubert Lowe by 13 retes. Ralph Scott has been quoted ss saying that he would hate to lose an election by 13 votes but that he was mighty happy to win by 13 votes. Looking backward, no doubt but that Thomas Harrelson can think of plenty of places where he could have picked up three votes had he only known how close the election was going to be. And no doubt but that Hubert Lowe hat thought of many placet where he could have picked up 14 extra votes had he been able to know how close hit race would be. These two contests simply go to demonstrate that every vote counts. Had just one of Arthur Williamson's supporters switched their vote to Harrelson there would have been a tie between the two candidates for the house. ADDISON HEWLETT - Former House Speaker Addison Hewlett, Jr., prominent Wilmington attorney and member of the State Board of Higher Education it not a graduate of the University of North Carolina but of Wake Forest College, but he Is one of the strongest advocates of the UNC in the old North State. LIEUT. GOVERNOR - Several prominent Democrats are said to be eying the lieutenant governor's Job with a view towards running in 1972, among them being Senator Hector McGeachy of Fayetteville, former State Senator Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines and possibly CAD Director Roy Sowers, Jr. of Senford. Since Bob Scott made it an easy stepping stone to the governor's mention, the number two office it no longer regarded at a dead ? end roaa in North Carolina politics. And the Incumbent lieutenant governor it regarded at a likely contender for governor in the Democratic primary come the Mm of March 1972. __mmmmat governor of Michigan was regarded as the front ? runner"" for the GOP presidential nomination just like Senator Huskie of Maine is now* regarded as the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. There are advantages and disadvantages to being the front ? runner, and most any candidate would prefer to be the front runner at all stages of the contest. But Romney, like most presidential candidates, made a trip to Vietnam and he came back endorsing the Lyndon Johnson Administration policy towards Vietnam. Later, Romney saw that the Johnson Administration policy was not popular with lots of people and ne wanted to move to the devish side and he made a statement in which he said that he had been "brainwashed" during his trip to Vietnam. When Romney made the "brainwashing" statement his , presidential stock started dropping and continued on the downward side until he withdrew as a candidate while in the midst of the campaign for votes in the New Hampshire presidential primary. With Muskie out front In the Democratic contest, he will have to be very careful lest he make a bad slip like Romney did in 1968. INTEREST ?? Borrowing people, and most people are on the borrowing side, wilt be glad to note that the prime interest rate has been cut to 7 percent by Chase Manhatten and some of the other leading banks of the nation including at least three North Carolina banks. The high interest rates have proved to be a great deterrent to home building in North Carolina and the nation. HONEYMOON - President* Nixon's honeymoon with Congress is over. In the recent campaign President Nixon went all out for his Republican candidates and did no better than break even at the best. With the Democrats having taken it on the chin during the recent campaign and come out pretty good. they will hardly be as easy to get along with as haa been the case during the past two years. JIM VOGLER - Rap. J|m Vogler of Mecklenburg, first elected to the State House in 1936, will be dean of the house this year and will call the Democratic caucus together on Friday, December It.
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