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"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1971
A letter from the publisher
Dear News-Journal Reader:
A friend of mine commented this week that he had enjoyed my efforts in this
column very much, and that he was particularly pleased to see signs that 1 was
returning from the "far left."
Now 1 was not really aware that I had been "far left," and was even more unaware
of any change in my attitude which might be considered a "return," so I have found
a minute here and there to ponder this whole situation. .. this business of trying to
label the way we think.
1 do not feel that 1 must stick to a way of thinking or doing things just because
this way was good enough for my father, or because it has got me by all right many
times. I feel that when 1 am convinced a new way is better 1 am willing to adopt it,
and even sometimes maybe to try it before being fully convinced. These feelings are
enough, I am sure, to make one "far left" or liberal in the eyes of many. On the
other hand, though. I am quite certain that many of the younger people with whom
I occasionally associate consider me quite conservative, primarily because I don't
jump at a new way quick enough. Of course, they don't yet know about the scars 1
might have from jimping too quickly, or anything about "the saddest words of
tongue or pen." and thank God for it.
Anyway, right or left, liberal or conservative, it is my opinion that in the long run,
honest and fearless thought and action, (and this includes conversation) will bring us
close to the same path.
Did you see the article in the last week or two about Senator Sam J. Ervin and
Congressman Richardson Prever being the two members of the North Carolina
Congressional delegation who had voted with President Nixon the most in the past
years? Now that's really something, when you stop to remember that Senator Sam is
and has been widely considered a staunch conservative and is widely popular because
of it, and that Rich Prever was the candidate for governor of what is called the
liberal wing of "the Party" in North Carolina. He considers himself a liberal just as
much as Sam Ervin considers himself a conserv ative. I believe.
This "honest and fearless thought and action" 1 referred to has often brought
these two statesmen to the same conclusions about what was right and best for the
people of North Carolina and the United States, that's all. . . Sen Ervin doesn't run
around hollering about a lot of causes taken up by the American Civil Liberties
Union, a group widely considered left and liberal, but he has found himself right
with them in fighting the law granting government agents the right to enter a
person's dwelling without knocking, day or night.
Of course, it's not too hard to see how frustrating it must be to agents to track
down dope pushers and users and have them flush all the evidence away while the
lawmen are knocking on the front door One of the first times they tried this "no
knock" entry after the law was passed, though, was into an apartment in which the
tenants had been changed the afternoon before, or very recently, and the dope
operators being sought were not there at all The new occupant, completely
unconnected, thought they were robbers breaking in and opened fire. He was killed
and his wife killed one of the agents.
This was the kind of tragedy predicted by Senator Ervin. and there probably isn't
enough dope to justify it. "A man's home is his castle" has been basic with us for a
long time, and it must stay that way.
Anyway, who's in right field and who's in left? From day to day and subject by
subject, the answer must change, but if you will look squarely and react honestly to
what you see. I don't believe it will be a problem, and I reckon if 1 unintentionally
move in to somewhere around shortstop, no damage will be done.
Sincerely.
(PcuJ
Publisher
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, February 7. 1946
Ryan McBryde attended a
meeting of the State Hospital
Board of Control in Raleigh
last Friday and Saturday.
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The Hoke County Board of
Commissioners in their regular
meeting at the courthouse
Monday voted to repair the
baseball park at the Armory
here as soon as materials are
available and lease the property
to the local Ellis Williamson
post of the American Legion.
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From Poole's Medley:
The United States has a
population of one hundred and
thirty million, mostly fools.
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Sgt. Ken McNeill, who has
been In Japan in the Army,
landed at a West Coast port
this week.
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Sl-C Luke Sanders, son of
W.R. Sanders, landed in San
Francisco this week. He has
been in Okinawa and expects
to be discharged soon.
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Riley Jordan was recently
discharged from the Navy and
has resumed his studies at
Wake Forest College.
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Lt. (j.g.) Hugh McLauchlin
of the U5. Navy is at home
from the Pacific Theatre on a
thirty day leave.
15 years ago
Thursday, February 2, 1956
The State Highway
Commission dropped 17 of its
A-route numbers last Thursday
but withheld action on 18
others, including US 15-A.
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HC. Gilliam. Jr. of Lee
County began work on
February 1 as assistant to Hoke
County Farm agent WC.
WiOiford. .
Dr. Alvis Barnes Dickson,
36, native of Raeford and legal
resident since entering the
United States Navy, died in the
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
shortly after 6:00 o'clock
Saturday morning.
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Dr. Riley M. Jordan left
Wednesday for Statesville,
where he has accepted a
position on the staff at the
Davis Hospital.
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Entertaining the teams from
Rockingham and Hamlet on
Friday and Tuesday nights the
Hoke High girls brought their
season record to a perfect 12
victorious. Scoring for Hoke
High were Janet Cuin, 33, Julia
Morris, IS, and Virginia
McNeill, 12.
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From Rockfish News:
Fayetteville Street was
smoothed out by the road crew
last week, but it is so sandy it
will soon be rumpled up again.
Year of the Greased Pig
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By LAURIE TELFAIR
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(Show Dogs Carry
Many A Dream
We have a new puppy at our
house: a six ? weeks old
German Shepperd girl.
Now she is not just any
ordinary dog ~ or even any
ordinary German Shepherd,
which is, in itself, not the same
as an ordinary dog.
She is a Show Dog. I
capitalize this term because in
these two words lie the hopes
and dreams of many people.
"Dog people" are probably
like any other hobbiest ? that*
is to say they are not like
people who are not enthralled
with a sport or pastime.
They will cheerfully spend
large sums of money for a
specimen of their chosen breed
and feel they have gotten a
good deal at that. If that seems
strange, reflect that many
other people spend large sums
for golf equipment,
photography paraphernalia or
expensive gadgets for their car.
The goal is all the same.
Dog people are fairly easy to
recognize. They tend to drive
station wagons or vans. These
vehicles are often filled with
animal cages known as crates.
Come a weekend, the crates are
loaded into the car, filled with
dogs and off our sportsman
goes to a dog show in which he
(or she) will spend several
hours waiting, grooming his
dog, waiting, walking his dog
and waiting in order to go into
the show ring for a few fleeting
minutes.
The object of all this is
points toward a championship,
and while winners in each class
receive ribbons and sometimes
prizes, only one animal of each
sex in the various breeds take
home the points. This, then,
dooms most of the hopefuls to
disappointment. Why anyone
would undertake a venture
with these odds is unknown.
Perhaps dog people are more
masochistic than most.
For every dog that reaches
the show ring, there are
probably many hundred of the
same breed who didn't. It is
not uncommon for an owner
to purchase several dogs and
spend several years of hard
efforts before he ever gets one
in the show ring.
Most people bitten by the
show bug become afflicted in a
similar manner. They purchase
an AKC ? registered puppy and
come to love him dearly. After
awhile, they buy a book or two
on the breed and meet some
people who also love dogs and
like to ialk about them.
At this point, they either
attend a dog show or they
enter their dog "just to see
what he can do." I know of
one Labrador retriever who
began his show career this way
and went on, shown by his
teen-aged master, to become a
champion. But 99 times out of
100, Faithful Fido is ignored,
or barely glanced at by the
judge and his adoring owners
go home hurt and puzzled that
he didn't win.
They may let that be the
end of it, in which case they
can enjoy their pet and live in
peace. Or they may notice that
their dog and the ones winning
the ribbons are different. If
this happens, before long
they'll begin to talk of getting
a "better" dog someday.
They are probably hooked
by then and the only thing to
do is to let the disease run its
course. They will buy more
books, subscribe to dog
magazines and special breed
magazines, join dog clubs,
study pedigrees and talk, talk,
talk about dogs to anyone who
will listen. They lose many of
their friends and make new
ones among the doggy folk.
Finally they will begin to buy
show dogs and encounter all
the hazards of trying to
choose, develop and exhibit a
near ? perfect specimen against
heartbreaking odds. Most
likely, they will fail.
There is a fair chance of
recovery, however. Statistics
show that most exhibitors are
active for only about five years
before they drop by the
wayside and stop showing.
Some, of course, remain
hooked for life and a few are
curable to make a living at it.
There are, I suppose, worse
things to be hooked on.
STORIES BEHIND WORDS
by
William S. Penfield
KOX TROT
The short steps that a horse takes when changing from
a trot to a walk used to be called a "fox trot." The term
Is almost never used with this meaning anymore.
The allusion was to the quick, short steps a fox takes
In his normal gait or trot?when he Is not chasing prey
nor being preyed upon.
In the early part of the present century a new ballroom
dance was developed In the Imited States. The dance was
In two-two or two-four time with short, trotting steps.
The short, trotting steps of the dance were compared to
a horse's "fox trot," and the name was given to the dance.
Puppy
Creek
Dear editar:
According to a lot of articles
I've read lately a lot of people
are arguing that the farm
program is costing the country
too much money, that not
only should it be abolished but
the Agriculture Department
itself ought to be abolished or
merged with some other
department.
This is a serious matter. Now
I know that the farm
population is dwindling, is
down to 8 percent of the total
population and may go lower
than that if we have a dry year
and the price of hogs stays
down, ana I can see how city
people could resent helping
farmers out when cities are
head over heels In problems of
their own, so mucn so in fact
that lots of city people would
move out now if their furniture
Philosopher
weren't mortgaged.
Before this gets out of hand,
however, the farmers have got
to fight back and I have figured
out an idea that will save the
day.
We've got to stop calling it a
farm program. It's an
environmental problem. If we
can get the environmentalists
interested in preserving the
disappearing farmer, we've got
it made.
Explain it to them. Farmers
may not be worth much in
themselves but youll upset the
balance of nature if they
disappear. They're bound to
feel a farmer is worth as much
to the environment as a
whooping crane.
Merge the farmer ?
preservation drive with the
drive to save the Florida
aligator or the African leopard.
What would this world be like
with no farmers and no polar
bears? What ecology -
conscious woman wants a coat
made out of leopard skins or a
farmer's hide?
It's the only way. With only
8 percent of the total
population, farmers aren't
going to get very far with their
voting power, but how many
votes have the whooping cranes
got? Aligators never elected
anybody. I don't think, it's
sometimes hard to tell, but
they stopped a $50,000,000
canal in Florida.
I call on every farmer in the
country to get on board the
environmental bandwagon. It's
the only way to keep the
species alive.
Yours faithfully,
JA.
Just One Thing
After Another
By Carl Goerch
A friend of ours in Charlotte
told us a little story the other
day that's worth passing along.
Once upon a time there were
two Irishmen dynamiting
stumps in a field, and while so
engaged one of them set off a
fuse that was rather short.
Before he could gain a place of
safety the charge exploded and
blew him away.
Shirtly thereafter, the
superintendent of the job came
upon the scene and inquired of
Pat as to the whereabouts of
Mike. Pat replied: "I don't
know, but if he returns as fast
as he went, he'll be back
yesterday."
The other day I came across
this scrap of philosophy that I
thought appropriate for most
of us: "I don't have time for
quarreling. It takes one ? half
of my time for attending to my
own affairs, and the other half
for letting the affairs ,of other
people alone."
Which reminds me of a
school superintendent we used
to have down in Washington,
North Carolina. When others
tried to draw him into their
quarrels, or when some one
would say to him, "Harry,
what do you think about the
way Thompson did?" Harry
would reply:
"Did you ever hear about
that fellow in Tennessee?"
And the other man would
ask "what about him?"
"He made a lot of money
minding his own business,"
Harry would say.
Add to your list of unusual
place names in North Carolina
- these that were sent in
recently by Mrs. Joseph
Graham of Iron Station:
Cat Square
Pumpkin Center
Egypt
Plateau
Hog Hill
All of them are located io
Lincoln County.
From George A. Gray, Sr. of
Gastonia:
"I notice in a recent issue
your mention of queer names.
I am sending herewith two
names that are historically
correct.
"When Oliver Cromwell had
purged Parliament of all
intelligent members, there were
left only 1S4 under the
leadership of a dealer in leather
by the name of Praise God
Barebone. Cromwell referred
to him as a 'radical ignorant
bigot.'
"This man had two brothers.
The first of these was named
?Christ ? came - into ? the ?
world ? to ? save Barebone.'
The second went by the name
of if ? Christ - had - not ? died ?
thou - hadst ? been ? damned
Barebone."
Thanks a lot, Mr. Gray. That
just about tops anything we've
ever heard in the way of
ynusual names.
By the way, did you ever
hear the story of how
Stonewall Jackson Training
School at Concord came to be
named?
When the bill to establish
the school was up before the
1907 Legislature, the ten
Confederate veterans who
happened to be in the General
Assembly at that time were
vigorously opposed to it.
Someone wisely suggested
that if Stonewall Jackson's
name could be given the
institution, the veterans might
be won over. This was done
and, sure enough, all ten of
them voted for it.
CTii Vt BLUE ? ? ?
People & Issues
C0DWIN - We Iwr
sis
R.il k po''"fal gossip around
Kaleigh and elsewhere.
To add to this. Speaker
Sunn*'" W" ,he honor guest
Sunday at a stag barbecue
PZ~VySheSe'C"*i?
Senator I by S?ale
senator John J. Burney 0f
lSST00 and his br?'h?
COURT APPOINTMENTS -
The last two House Speakers
Court of Is nam^d ,0 'he State
I ourt of Appeals - David Bntt
anyd E?V,e7Jor K. Moore
yo, ,uu ?ffK,,Z ?
?""M no. be in u,?'J
of maintaining the
dS52 ' J"" indeP^1dent
I' "?"s of government ..
jud.ciil Of' eXecU,,ve and
andSi J c?urs< a governor
S? ?? Pres,ding officers of
? legislative branch much
Efc.'nd ,"*??? 3
working relations with each
other for the orderly dispatch
f legislation and thVE
funcnonsofgovernment81
the GOVERNOR - With
Nor,hPrmar,ieS f?r g?vemor in
?wav nn nl? a on|yJ 5 months
away no one in either/party
democratic or RepublicVn has
anything near locks on the
nomination.
BobW*.*" ag,? at ,h" time
as rhe f? ,W3S Clear,y "gatded
as the fron, run R
State &n?frn<u Taylor and
state Senator Hargrove BowIp*
are regarded as thfmost KWy
to run. Attorney General Bob
organ, if he decides to run
njghtweU be the man to bea"'
ik j 11 not arming up to
'he idea like some ofhu
friends feel that he should
Nevertheless, there is still
Ume'e f,m?: yW P^nty of
time even for a dark hori to
come in and win.
On the Republican side re ?
dk?*!ri ?f congressional
fn ?, have r'ght much
?o do with who the GOP
candidate will be. ^
MiSTlfi ^r> Ru,hand W||mer
as. z ?p in""
SEIb w ll 'Trl ? ?ha?
Mmv RelkTJ? f0r ??vernor
Many Republicans would like
"e Congressman Jjm
fiLyh"'rUn for governor.
feeling that he would be the
strongest the party could offer.
But most people seem to feel
that should Broyhill decide not
to seek re - election, that it will
not be to seek the governorship
but to try for B. Everett
Jordan's seat in the U.S.
Senate. Many feel that Jim
Gardner is still lurking nearby
and will be ready for another
try come 1972. Then there is
Rep. James E. Holshouser. Jr.
State GOP Party Chairman
who many feel is anxious to
make the race.
GOING LIBERAL? -- Before
he was nominated for vice
president in I960 Lyndon B.
Johnson was regarded as a
Southern conservative, and had
voted that way in Congress.
After he was nominated and
elected vice president and
became president he changed
.^e one ?f '^e most liberal
political leaders in the nation.
Richard Nixon was
nominated and elected as a
fiscal conservative. Now that
he is elected he wants to out ?
spend LBJ's liberal record.
Nixon used to advocate fiscal
integrity, now he is advocating
huge deficit spending.
President Nixon says: "The
full employment budget idea is
in the nature of a self -
fulfilling prophecy. By
operating as if we were at full
employment, we will help
bring about full employment."
Well, maybe perpetual
motion will be made to work
after all!
If it is wise for the
government to spend more
than it takes in to bring about
full employment we wonder if
it would follow that people
working on short time should
do the same thing''
CHOOSING JUDGES -- A
bill has been introduced in the
General Assembly to take away
from the people their
constitutional right to elect
judges in North Carolina, and
instead, establish a judicial
nominating commission,
comprised of lawyers and
laymen which would
recommend names to the
governor for judgeship
vacancies. On this proposal we
agree with Senator Tom
Strickland and Rep. James
nolshouser when they oppose
taking away the right of the
V. '? e'ecl public
officials.
*e?,to ?g"* with Senator
Strickland s proposal that
judges should be nominated
and elected on a district basis
rather than the present system
'n which the judges are
nominated on a district system/