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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1971
A letter from the publisher
Dear News-Journal Reader:
By this time, many of us have completed our assorted over-indulgences, slept
them off or just let time cure them. We have by now got a new decade of this
fascinating age off to some sort of start with a good resolution or two. Some of us,
sadly, have even had time already in 1971 to break a resolution or two. But, it
would seem that a broken resolution is better than no resolution at all.
If you didn't read the Puppy Creek Philosopher last week you missed one fine
recommendation for what we need this year. For the benefit of those who may not
have read it 111 quickly summarize. Old "J.A." said what the world needs most in
1971 is to re-discover the ability to kid itself. I am not certain we ever really had this
ability, but I'll agree it's one we need, and badly.
I used to have a friend who abhorred the idea of a person taking himself or herself
too seriously, and considered it just about the greatest of the minor faults. We had a
code expression about someone who did this. We'd say he "violates rule six," and
tend to avoid his company.
J.A. says the measure of a real man is his ability to laugh at himself, and tells the
anecdote about President Lincoln's reply to the cabinet member who reported that
another cabinet member had called Lincoln a fool for taking a certain action.
Lincoln's reply: "You know, the more 1 think about what I did, the more I'm
afraid he's right."
That's a good example of being able to keep yourself in perspective, but the one I
have considered classic for a long time is the Army's allowing Beetle Bailey to be
printed in "Stars & Stripes."
The comment that the best thing you can say for 1970 is that it's finally over
might be a fair place to try to get a discussion started.
The fellow who thought this one up was able to recall some of the things we
found wrong with each other and the world during the eventful year recently ended.
He was probably not pleased with the slowness of the Vietnam withdrawal, or he
was displeased with the idea of any withdrawal. He was certainly sad with the state
of business during most of the year, unemployment and the stock market also, and
" the state of law and order in the country was not good. . . Of course, everywhere
you turned, there was more evidence of the younger generation going straight to
hell, what with long hair, grass, girls running all over men's dormitories. And the
Middle East situation was getting worse instead of better, and learning, during this
terrible year, that everything seems to be polluted in some way. . .the air, the water,
the land, the fish, our children's minds. Hijackings and kidnappings seem to be
increasing, and everyone is going to join a union and strike against the public, and
race relations are in bad shape.
Well. This could go on and on. I seem to have painted myself into a corner. What I
had in mind was to list a few of our problems and then apply the old Puppy Creek
philosophy to them, laugh them off, so to speak. . . But look that list over. Things
really are bad. And there must be some juicy items of evil that didn't evep occur to
me. So what can we do? How can I end this piece? Shall we.take ourselves seriously,
throw up our hands and go play a fiddle? . . That's a solution, but maybe not the
best one.
Let's try like we started. After all UNC beat USC Monday night when they didn't
have a chance just by trying harder, the old Hertz line. To rationalize, each of us
faces one inevitable end, and no matter how bad things get, that cannot be changed.
All we can do is work at the way we are able to face it, and maybe trial and
tribulation and trouble provide a better field for giving us strength than peace and
plenty, sweetness and light. If Confucius or someone didn't say "Adversity breeds
length," or something like it he sure missed a fine chance at a proverb, for to my
?Tuind it is the breeder of strength. My space is about up. but this human race got to
thi point of civilization by overcoming adversity, of all sorts and for many
centuries. So what we face today is not only a great challenge but a great
opportunity, an opportunity to be stronger than ever before.
So ?Vt's. with a chuckle, take a deep breath and have at it. The devil will probably
taki th<\hind,nost.
1
Sincerely.
\ (Pcud
Publisher
E.owsing in the files
of Tho Nows-Jouriuil
25 years ago
Thursday, Jaanary 10, 1946
The report of condition of
The Bunk of Raeford showed
assets of 53,104,352.99.
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The report of the condition
of the Raeford Savings and
Loan Association showed
awets of SI6S,732.74.
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The Hoke County
commissioners in their
monthly meeting at the
courthouse last Monday
appointed Harry A. Greene, of
Raeford, county coroner to fill
the unexpired term of Dr. R.A,
Matheson, Jr. who had
r**ltned.
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ince Rose has been
from the Navy and
knl home.
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Ffe. William McPhaul Clark.
who has been in Germany, has
been discharged from the
Army and is at home.
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Pfc. Raymond L. Clark, who
has been on duty in the Pacific,
has been discharged from the
Army and is at home.
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QM3-C Harold McDiarntid
received his discharge from the
Navy at Charleston, S.C.
Monday and is at home.
* * * *
Pvt. Warren G. Childress of
the Army Signal Corps has
arrived in Italy.
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Pfc. Charles Davis, who was
wounded^ in the ETO has
received lW discharge from the
Army and tys at home.
rs ago
Thursday. January S, I9S6
At Its flrlt meeting of the
year, held MVNulay night with
Mayor Alfred Cole presiding
and all members present, the
town board of Raeford
established a clear policy on
where the town's fire
equlipment may be used.
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Crawford L.'TfttW".farn,er
and businessman, is\'?
installed as president
Raeford Kiwanis Club arVjj1'
club's regular weekly meetiirB
He will succeed " ? ? -
FROM ADDENDA
The Carl
eed Julian H.
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>ENDA
Morris sales stablel*
on Harris Avenue op^sae^'<ti
Laurinburg
Depot has beer Km dbawtjid^
the lot cleared.
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Over 70 cases vara datesU
from the docket of Recorder's
Court in a day aad a Wf of
court, and abod half aa aMfty
more were left over to start On
next week.
LAURIE TELFAIR
Glad T o See Sno
Both Come AndGol
I'm always glad to see snow
come. . .and glad to see it go.
Snow sliding silently to earth
imposes a sense of isolation as
the familiar appearance of
commonplace things changes.
Watching snow fall from a grey
overcast sky, I feel locked
within myself, private and
apart from the rest of
mankind.
Basically, i don't like snow.
It is a wet, cold nuisance, its,
only advantage being that it is
prettier than rain. Lydel Sims,
a columnist for Memphis' The
Commercial Appeal, conducts
a yearly "think sunshine"
campaign starting with the first
crisp days of fall to try to ward
off snow in Memphis. He has
had little success.
Sims also objects to pictures
of children frolicking in snow,
poems about snow or any
other glorification of the stuff
-- winter wonderland or not.
He contends that attention to
snow by the news media
encourages it to snow more
often, or, even worse, actually
creates snow out of what
would have been only rain
were it not for the publicity.
Our cat harbors an intense
dislike of snow. Let it snow
during the day while she is
asleep and she will spend the
first hour after she wakes going
from door to door trying to
find the one into summer. She
meows to go out at each door
in turn, and when it is opened
for her, she looks at the snow,
tests it with her paw and steps
back into the room. She waits
awhile and tries another door,
hoping there has been a
mistake. Finally, if she is to
maintain her social standing in
the household, she must go
out. She leaps from the
doorstep into the snow and
then, with impeccable dignity,
she walks away from the
house, lifting each foot above
the snow and shaking snow
from it before each step.
She rebelled once against the
forces of nature. We lived a
winter in Omaha, arriving there
from the South in a January
blizzard. By the time it
stopped snowing, it was
already a foot or more above
her head. This-was too much
for her. Abandoning decorum,
dignity and all her toilet
training, she let it be known ?
once ? that she was not, under
any circumstances, going out
until that snow melted and the
ground thawed so she could dig
a proper hole as a cat should.
This appeared to be a
reasonable demand, so we
compromised with a kitty ?
box in the garage.
The children are all for
snow. A' the first sign of
snowfiakes, they haul out the
Omaha sled and wait for the
ground to be covered. They
have learned from past
Southern snows that they must
move quickly to enjoy it
before it is gone. Although
grateful for snow when they
can get it, they bemoaned the
waste of a good two ? inch
snowfall last week during the
school vacation. A snow of
that magnitude should come
only on a school day,
preferably when there is a test
scheduled
Snow in the South causes
great driving miseries. It has
always been a wonder to me
that in my hometown, despite
Mr. Sims' influence, there are
usually two to four periods of
snow - covered roads each
winter and each one is greeted
by drivers as an entirely new
experience. Cars creep forward
at ten miles an hour and
become, inevitably, stalled on
the first hill they attempt to
negotiate at that speed. It
sometimes takes several hours
for drivers who live in the
suburbs to get home from
work as roads become jammed
with massive tie - ups of stalled
cars. My mother drove in snow
once in 1946 and has not
driven again when there is so
much as a heavy frost upon the
road.
Despite the nuisance, snow
has a few good points. It's
good to eat in snow cream. It's
pretty. It's perfect for building
snowmen. And it is useful in
scientific investigation.
Some years ago, I decided to
test the exact length of time a
snowball in July would last. 1
made several snowballs in
winter, wrapped them in
plastic wrap and stored them in
the freezer. On July 4, I took
one out, placed it on a plate in
the noon sun and timed it. A
snowball in July in that
particular year lasted nine
minutes and forty ? two
seconds.
There are of course some
other old expressions
concerning the duration of a
snowball in a particularly hot
place, but I was not able at
that time to conduct any
experiments in that location.
STORIES BEHIND WORDS
by
William S. Pen field
Libertine
When men who have been enslaved all or most of their lives
are suddenly given their freedom, it is not surprising that many
of them should abuse it.
Such was the case with freed slaves in Rome. These men, who
were unprepared for freedom, became notorious for their loose
moral conduct.
The Romans called a freed slave "libertinus" (one who is
freed), from "liber"(free). "Libertinus" was adapted into English
as "libertine," where it is used to describe a person who acts like
a freed slave - in other words, a dissolute or licentious person,
one with loose morals.
C~k Philosopher
Dear editar:
Despite the drive to clean up
the environment newspapers
can still be found blowing
around and when I saw one
coming toward me yesterday
riding a stiff north wind across
my lawn I stood my ground
and was able to catch it
without moving out of my
tracks, which makes me an
environmentalist, I guess. An
environmentalist you know is
anybody who found out within
the last two years what the
word ecology means.
Having done my duty
toward preserving the
Piunent, although I've
indentood why a copy
i News and Observer
| across a lawn is any
worse than dead leaves doing
the same thing, I went inside
and started reading.
An article that immediately
caught my attention told about
a rumored break ? through in
brain chemistry. According to
it, science hopes to have a new
chemical invented soon that'll
improve a man's intelligence.
"It may be possible/' the
report mid. "to improve by
chemical maans the general
level of intelligence in man."
All right, let's say it works.
Let's saft)** can Meet a man
with Ihi w dMMtal and he
| a c tualiy necoies more
linteDiH
ofT ihelWHMflWrt ? alec in
Wish trip* V* demand that
everybody be given an
injection, every man, woman
and child in the entire country,
and what do we wind up with?
We wind up with smarter
policemen trying to cope with
smarter criminals, smarter
prosecuting attorneys getting
their ears pinned back by
smarter defense lawyers,
smarter politicians
bamboozling smarter voters
thunder, we'd be about
where we are now, with the
main result being just an
increase in the cost of living to
cover the price of the shots.
Most people I deal with are
already too smart for me.
Speeding up both of us isn't
going to close the pp.
Yours faithfully.
J.A.
T
Just One Thing
After Another
By Carl Gocrch
A friend asked us the other
day the origin of the
expression. "Larrows catch
meddlers." We had to admit we
had never heard such an
expression. She was sure that
we had. everybody had heard
the old saying all their lives,
she admonished.
We were of no help to her
and almost forgot the incident
until we ran into another
friend who laughed and said. "I
believe the expression is.
'Laylows catch meddlers.'"
Well, this made more sense to
us and we were interested in
his comments on the subject.
"I used to hear old Jim *
Jams, our cook for fifty years,
say it - yes, a hundred times.
We kids would go snooping
around the kitchen, peeping
into pans and pots, looking for
whal it was that smelted so
good and old Jim would shoo
us out. 'Git out o' here dis
minnit. Keep outen dem boxes
'n pans 'n things. Don't you
know laylows ketch meddlers?
Dey'll ketch you sure's dc
world. Git right out. you
chillun!"
Speaking of expressions,
someone remarked the other
day, "He always calls a spade, a
spade," which reminded me of
a story that they used to tell
on Bishop Quintard of
Tennessee.
Bishop Quintard was
approaching the home of one
of his friends, perhaps the
Senior Warden of one of his
parishes, when he heard violent
language, picturesque language
- the kind a Senior Warden
would ordinarily not want his
Bishop hearing him use. As the
Bishop rounded the corner and
came in sight, he found that his
friend was evidently having
trouble with his gardening
operations. And the friend was
embarrassed when he realized
the Bishop must have heard
him.
"Bishop." he exclaimed.
"I'm sorry you heard me. but I
was very exasperated, and you
know I call a spade a spade!"
The Bishop smiled. "I don't
think you were doing it that
time. Doctor! Sounded to me
like you were calling it a
damned old shovel!"
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Here are some unusual bits
of information about some of
our presidents, contained in a
slipping sent us a week or so
ago by Miss Kiltie G. Foster of
Louisburg:
1. John Quincy Adams' wife
was born in London. England.
2. Woodrow Wilson made a
hobby of composing limericks.
3. John Quincy Adams wore
the same hat for ten years.
4. Garfield's funeral wa^*
never paid for. f '
5. Chester Arthur wa/ the
best - dressed president. t(e had
80 pairs of trousers.
6. Zachary Taylor died of
heat prostration afl4r laying ?
the cornerstone tof the
Washington Monumeni.
7. Mrs. Grover Cleveland
received the first parcel - post
package ever mailed in
America.
8. U.S. Grant pawned his
watch for S22 when he was a
young man.
9. Zachary Taylor and
Franklin Pierce were elected
president of the United States
without ever having run for
any political office before.
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Several years ago a couple
came into the register of deeds
office in Nashville and asked
for a marriage license.
The bride's first name was
Queen Elizabeth.
The groom's mother's first
name was Dushess.
The first name of the person
writing the license was
Empress.
CUFF BLUE ? ? r
People & Issuei
GOVERNOR'S RACE - In
less than a year from now the
1972 gubernatorial race will be
warming up, and some of the
candidates may have already
announced, come January 1,
1972. Dan Moore announced
in the early fall of 1963
followed by Richardson Preyer
and later by Dr. Beverly Lake.
On the Democratic side
three possible candidates now
appear in the offering, with
others interested in making the
race should they get the nod of
certain leaders.
Now, to name the three
most likely contenders on the
Democratic side,
alphabetically:
State Senator Hargrove
(Skipper) Bowles of
Greensboro as of now appears
to be the surest bet to run of
any of these being mentioned.
Skipper has been making
hay by coming out forthright
on issues and he will likely
have the support of the Terry
Sanford inner-circle. He will be
a formidable candidate
regardless of how many enter
the race.
Attorney General Robert
Morgan will be a strong
candidate, if he runs. As
Attorney General he has been
at the right place at the right
time saying the right things.
The time is drawing near when
he must appear more interested
if he hopes to hold the lead
position which many would
probably give him now should
he choose to run.
Lieut. Governor H. Pat
Taylor, Jr., will likewise be a
strong candidate with
formidable support if he runs
as many feel that he will. He is
able, smart and might well find
senators friendly enough and
loyal enough to keep him off
the hot seat in case of what
might look like a tie vote on a
controversal piece of legislation
like liquor ? by - the ? drink,
redistrlcting or a half - dozen
other issues which could be
very hot and close in the State
Senate.
Another man who will bear
close watching is President Leo
en kins of East Carolina
University. Do is interested
and will have some mighty
enthusiastic supporters should
he decide to make the race.
CAD Director Roy Sowers
not given up the idea of
running yet, and should he
become a candidate, would be
regarded as the candidate of
the Scott Administration.
COMPUTER RE DISTRICT
ING .. Senator Hargrove
Bowles of Greensboro and
Rep. Norwood Bryan of
Fayetteville have announced
support for a bill to turn the
sticky re-districting matter over
to a computer. A computer
might do a good job, but it will
be hard to persuade a bunch of
politicians to turn such a
touchy task over to an
impersonal robot.
SF.NATOR JORDAN - U.S.
Senator B. Everett Jordan will
be coming up for reelection in
1972 and there is talk of
primary opposition to the
Saxapaw man. Our thought is
that whoever decides to take
him on will have his hands full
for the senator will hardly be
an easy fall for any would - be
successor.
MENDEL RIVERS - The
passing of Rep. Mendel Rivers
of Charleston, South Carolina
removes from life one of the
strongest and most effective
leaders in the U.S. Congress.
Some of his opponents
probably regarded Mendel as a
typical old ourmudgeon but to
us he was every inch a strong
man and a statesman and the
people knew where he stood.
Although we disagreed with a
number of his positions we
respected his ability to get
things done. From what we
have been reading, his
successor as chairman of the
House Military Affairs
Committee, Rep. F. Edward
Hebert of Louisiana will
operate in the same manner
that characteri/.ed his fallen
chief.
TED KENNEDY - Seantor
Edward (Teddy) Kennedy has
said again and again that he is
definitely not a candidate for
the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1972. Well,
maybe not, but our guess is
that Ted will become more and
more available before
convention time 1972.
FINANCIALLY ?
Financially speaking, U.S.
Senators and Congressmen who
retire voluntarily or who are
defeated do pretty well,
provided they have served six
years. Senators and
representatives who have paid
into the pension fund for at'
least six years can draw a
pension based on the average
of their three highest ? salaried
years. We note * that U.S.
Senator Albert Gore of
Tennessee will collect a federal
pension estimated at S3M.OOO a
vear. Gore was defeated la the
November election after )2
year* In Congress.