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^Jte <~yietoa - journal NATIONAL NEWSPAPER imumB IN ? MA SlSTUNMC Mtmci - mr (Jo/ioStta PRESS ASSOCIATION Published tvery Thursday at Raeford, N.C. 28376 119 W. blwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - S5.00 6 Months S2.75 3 Months SI .50 PAUL DICKSON Publisher bditor SAM C. MORRIS Oeneral Manager ELAlNk SYMANSKI Reportei MRS. PAUL DICKSON Socictv tdilor Second ( lass Postage Paid at Raeford. N.C. THURSDAY, MAY II. 1972 (fninion and commentary by Paul Dickson The papers are saying that the reaction to President Nixon's Monday night speech and the actions accompanying it in the Southeast Asia war is along party lines; that is, the Democrats are generally critical of the speech and blockade moves, while members of the President's own party am . generally approving. This analysis of the reaction would certainly be true as far as I am concerned, for I don't really find myself able to be open - minded enough to see how he can be right in taking actions which will escalate the war ' and increase greatly the chances of big power confrontation w Itile offering , little or no more chance of winning it than already existed. He spoke of "leaving the seventeen million South Vietnamese allies to their fate" as being an apparently unspeakably horrible result of our getting out of the place, and of the necessity also to protect our 60.000 American troops. Well, it may be a Democratic point of view, but I am forced to recall the Czechs, East Germans and others we backed away from and abandoned to the communists 27 years ago this spring, and the Hungarians we watched the Russians shoot down like dogs when they revolted for freedom about 1956, or the fate we have sat around in sight of while it happened to the Cubans. It would appear to me that the people of South Vietnam would certainly be no worse off than many of these and far from as bad off as most of them if we brought our 60.000 Americans to this side of the Pacific where we can really protect them and not have to be so offensive to the Russians and Chinese while we are doing it. Now don't misunderstand me. I'm not one to run around worrying about being offensive to the Russians and Chinese when there is any point in it. but there doesn't seem to be any discernible consistency in the President's over - dramatized overtures to these gangsters, with world ? wide trips, toasts, ping pong sponsoring and a lot of high - sounding, hope - filled speeches on world television and his insistence on continuing a war which it becomes more obvious every day we will never win. It seems apparent enough for a young child, I believe, to sec that if the stakes are not high enough for us to go all out for. we cannot straighten out that ' part of the world. Now this shouldn't be too hard for the President to do and keep face, as 1 see it. After all. he didn't start the war. although he may have agreed with most of us eight or ten years ago that it was something we ought to do. Sure. I used to be a hawk, but I was wrong. The President doesn't have to go nearly that far to get us out. though for that's what he told the American people he was going to do when they elected him. and it would appear to me right now that most of the American people are fast arriving at the view that out means simply pack up and leave. We just have to admit to ourselves that the imposition of American democracy on the people of Southeast Asia is not as easy as we thought it was. We might as well recognize at the same time that any crowd over there whom we train and equip well enough to keep the communists out is going to use the training and equipment to dominate its neighbors first and that never, never will they run a clean enough operation to hold the communists off very long. Seems to me that the experience of waiting around while 800 million Chinese were being victimized for almost 30 years by the likes of Mao and Chou and then deciding to play ping pong with them should teach us to forget the almost 30 years and play a little ping pong with Hanoi now. get our prisoners back and look around for someone else we can save a little easier. ybe that is thinking along party lines, as the papers say. but I am ng it's getting to be a bigger and bigger party eve hink7 Browsing in the files of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday. May S. 1947 Henry L. My rover. o7. former resident of Raeford, died in Fa>etteville Tuesday morning after an illness of 10 days * * * A new General Motors Diesel locomotive made its appearance yesterday on the Aberdeen and Rockfish failrinad. ? * * From Poole's Medlev: Horse traders used to come in singles and droves both to Carthage and Troy, and they usually stayed a week. ? * * From Rockfish News A short time ago the A & R Depot was repaired and painted, the roads into Rockfish were built up and widened and now A. W. Wood has put a new coat of paint on his dwelling house and store so Rockfish looks as shiny as a new pin ? ? ? In a rather curious town election heie Monday in which (Ik ballot box was opened before the polls closed and in which write - in votes were not counted on the first count all names on the ticket were declared elected by the town registrar and judges of election m a certificate amcivdchJ scstciday 15 years ago Thursday. May 9. 1957 At the regular monthly meeting of the Raeford hoard of commissioners Monday inchi action was taken to get car owners ol Raelord to display then eit> tags or pay lines The 'C lean up. Paint ? up. Fix - up" week being sponsored heie this week by the Raefoid Chamber of Commerce has resulted in much intpiovement in the Inst half of the week and promises much more before it is over, leaders repotted todav. * * * The Hoke County hoard of commissioners ai then regulai monthly meeting Monday employed an assistant farm agent lor the county to ieplace II C. (iilliam. and took action on other matters of counts business. Grades four through seven o! the McLanchhu Momentary School will present a May Da) prograrn.it the regulai monthly meeting ol the Hoke Raefoid Parent Teacheis Association at the school next Tuesday nieht Man, ah can't understand why you have such a tough time' Passing Thoughts By tlnine Symanski Mom's Dux Of Glory Mom ... Apple pic... jnd the American flag. How man> limes do sse hear thai expression during ihe couis'e oi ihe \eai ' Although the words aie often used jokingly, we can't dens that the meaning behind them is vers much a pan of out was ol lite And no mallei m what context that expression is used. "Mem" i alsvus s leads the list Although llie second Sunday in Mas ssasn t set aside tor the otlicial honoimg of Mothers until !l)|4. the tradition ,.| honoring motherhood is certainly not new: as a mattei of fact it goes back antiquity. According t *.? ancient mvtholoes. a yearly spring festival svas dedicated to Klrea. mother ol sesei.il ol the gods. Puppy Creek. Philosopher IVar editar: According to an item I icad in a newspaper the other das. there is such a big backlog of un ? tried criminal cases slacked up in Ness York ("its that it the police made no arrests at all it'd take a sear for the courts to catch lip. and other big cities and some not so big aie reporting similar situations. fiven the Supreme Conn hasuig trouble, the Chief Justice having reported that there svere 4.000 cases filed svith the Inch court last scar computed ssith onls 1 TOO in 1040. I have been thinking about tins, using to find a solution. Take the Supieme C ourt If it's getting four tunes as mans cases now. you'd assume mas be we ought to have lour times as mans Justices, or 3(>. but judging by the was ( ongsess turn's down appointees, tlreie mas not be 3( men in the country qualified to serve. Or take the big cities. Mas be they should have four limes as mans courts, but that'd require toui l ines as nuns judges, four times as mans court rooms, four limes as mans prosecutor, four times as mans grand juries, petit tunes, bailiffs, etc Halt the cits svould be tied up in court most ol the time and halt the criminals svould have to start lobbing each other The only solution I can think <>! is to develop no ? fault crimes, like the tussn I know that cut down on speeding violations on its sheets h\ i.using the speed limit Whs not ' We've got no t.uilt insurance in some places, haven't we * I never hail understood sshat no t.uilt insurance meant until jusi the otlui das when a friend explained it to me ' No ? tault insuiancc." he said, "is the kind of insurance the insurance companies never have to pas oil op I lies say 'We find no l.uilr with that tvpe insurance." This doesn't sound right to me. but in a political se.u a man is naturails contused. Whs just last night I read tlicit some consumer organization has claimed that there are HK.()00 bridges in this Countrs un ? sale to use I Ins leaves a politician not only unwilling to cross a bridge before he comes to it. but unsmiling after he gets to it. although I guess it's only fan to say a lot of them have been following that practice for y ears any was Yours laithtulls. J A \nd tor yoars "Mothering Sunday" was observed by an eeclesiaslic 01 dei in Western. Fngland. when sons and daughters would "go a-mothering" and piesent their mothers with cakes and sweets, often walking long distances tor the visit. Credit for starting the movement in the Tinted States to honor Mom is usually given 14* Anna M. Jams of Philadclphis. who campaigned lor national observance loi j day devoted to mothers. The eustom began in churches with special seiinons and celebrations, along with the wealing of carnations m honor ol mothers. At liist it was customary for evoivone to wear white carnations, but laiei this was icscivcd fot people whose mot lie in had died. file idea of special observance of a dav for Mom spiead lapidly and soon the MothcTs Dav International Assn. introduced a icsolution to Congress to set aside a \pecial dav lor the purpose of houiinng mothers. 1 wo days later I'lesivlent Wood row Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in Max loi "public expiessn?n of i>in love jnd reverence lor the mothers of our countiv." Mivn Jaivis isn't the only person who claims ctedit tor beginning the movement Others say Julia Ward Howe tned to pioiiiole the idea during the Civil Wai: aiiothei declares it began in I8S7 in Kentucky with Mary Tovvles Sasseen's annual music concert in Mom's honoi. No matlei who started the Mother's Dav movement, it must have been a good idea judging from the popularity of the holiday today. The wearing of carnations and presenting sweets to Mom caught on after Wilson's proclamation ol the day as a national holiday . and soon families were presenting gills ol all sorts to Mom. One ol the most popular by far has been a portrait by Whistler of his mother, with nvei 5.000.000 reproductions sold. The purchasing ol flowers, candy . caids and other gifts tor Mom has become a multi ? million dollar business today . Some might even argue that the dav has become too commerciali/ed. And a lot ol men- patliculailv those who take ovei ihe household chores on Mother's Day grumble that it's a day started by women loi women But alter all. Father has Ins day ol glory coming up next month, so he shouldn't mind putting Mom in the spotlight this Sunday Just One Thing After Another! B* Carl Goerch Ai the time of this witting it is vci>. vers cool foi the month of" Mas. The windows arc down, the doors arc closed, and j lire, bla/iiig on the hearth. Ice Is most comfortable. Today not less than eight people have said to me. "Don't you reckon we aie going to Ityve any warm weather?" And by next week the same eight will probably be saying. "Whew! Did you evei see it so hot?" My answer to each of the eight who made the icmark was. "Well, don't you remember the summer of 1816?" and you would be surprised to know how many answeied. "Yes. but er er why. you mean 1916. don't you?" I did not mean 1916. 1816 was meant. But since it is very cool today.and has been recently , and since theie are very few people who have any personal recollection of the summer of 181 6 even from tales told by oldtimers. the following account of it. taken from a Noithern papei may prove interesting: The year of 1816 was recorded as the year without a summer. April came in warm, but by May first there was a temperature like winter with much ice and snow. Ice half an inch thick formed on ponds and rivers. Corn was planted the second time, but there was no crop, except that of a farmer in Vermont who built fires around his field. By the last of May everything had been killed by the cold. In June, frost and ice were plentiful. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, several inches in Maine, and three inches in New York and Massachusetts. All summer long the wind blew steadilv from the north in blasts laden with ice and snow. Mothers knitted stockings of double thickness for their children. Farmers worked out their time on the roads wearing overcoats and mittens. On June 16 a Vermont fartnei sent a flock of sheep to pasture. In the morning of the 17th the Uterometer registered below the free/ins point. When he started to look alter his Hock lie jokinglv remarked he might get lost in the snow. One hour altci he left a terrible snowstorm came up. There were great drifts. Night came and the fanner did not return. His wife became frightened and a searching partv was formed. He was found the third day lying in a hole on the hillside with both feet fro/en. He was half covered with snow but still living. Most of the sheep were lost. July was usheied in jmid ice and snow. ? On the Fourth ice I'onned in the New I* n gland states. New Yoik and Pennsylvania. August proved the worst month of all. Almost cvety green thing in this counti\ and m Fuiope was blasted with frost. Snow fell at Bar net. thirty miles from London on August aO. Fnglish newspapers stated that ISIt-> would be remembered by the existing generations as the yeai in which theie was no summer. There was great puvation and thousands of people would have perished in this countiy had it not been for the abundance of fish and wild game. One id the largest lawyers fee evei awarded in North Carolina was the Si.000.000 fee ol the three lawyers who represented little Christopher Smith Reynolds in the Reynolds* estate squabble. Back in I8S(> a man by the name of Newberry started the tuberose industry in North Carolina. The do/en bulbs with which he started had ineieased to a million in two years and sold at S40 per thousand. Fights pei cent of the tubeiose crop in the United States at tone time came from Faslein Noitli Caiolina. In our list of names ol well known citizens ol North Caiolma which are unique or unusual, we also wish to include that of the late Union Leagc Spcncc of Carthage. CLIFF BLUE ... People & Issues PRIMARY RESULTS ... There wore several upsets in the May 6 primaries in North Carolina. First George Wallace's vote in North Carolina was far greater than many people expected. Second, the results showed strong "ami - establishment" sentiment in North Carolina as has been evidenced in other slates this year. It is beginning to appear that the candidates might be better olT w ithout the endorsements of top officials like governors. U.S. senators and congressmen. Ldmund Muskie had many governors. l'S. Senators, and Congressmen backing him. but it did not appear to help him at all. Here in North Carolina the so - called "party leaders" were behind Terry Sanford. the leading daily newspapers were all ? out in support of Sanford and strongly anti ? Wallace but it appears that this anti ? Wallace group may have actually aided Wallace but it appears that this anti - Wallace group may have actually aided Wallace and hurt Sanford! Wallace s victory in North Carolina was a severe set ? back for Sanford and will greatly lessen his chances of receiving the Democratic presidential nomination in Miami. GUBERNATORIAL R A CI. S Skipper Bowies' strong lead for the democratic nomination for governor and Pat Taylor's position constituted more evidence of "ann establishment" sentiment as Taylor was generally regarded as close to Scott and the present Administration. In the Republican race for governor the closeness of the race between Gardner and Holshouser was unexpected as most of the politicians seemed to feel that Gardner would win rather easily. US. SI.NATI. ... Probably the biggest upset was Congressman Sick Galitianakis* strong lead in the race lor the US. Scutate over incumbent B Fvcrett Jordan Most people seemed to think that Jordan would be renominated with a comfortable lead. Nick is regarded as a liberal and Jordan somewhat as a middle - of ? the road man. Nick's win could be compared with Bob Reynolds* victory over Cameron Morrison lor the U.S. Senate in l*M2 t when Morrison was filling out the unexpired term of the late U.S. Senator Lee S.Overman. Lll.l T. OOVI RNOR While Jim Hunt was expected t?? lead in the race lor lieutenant governor his neat majority over his four opponents was unexpected. LIBLRAL vs CONSI RVA11VI In some instances it looked like a conservative vicloiy in the Mas (? primaries whereas in othei laees it was the liberals who sveie winning. In the race lor president in the Democratic primal > Wallace was regarded as the conservative, and he was the leader. In the Democratic race lor governor Bowles would generally have been regarded as the moie libeial between he and Taylor hut in the campaign his platform and program was more conservative than Tasini's, Lveretl Jordan svas regarded as more conservative than Nick and Nick won. In the race for lieutenant governor Hunt was regarded as the liberal and Sowers the more conservative and Hunt emerged as the top man with a near majority. CONTjRI.SS RAC I S Slate Senator Jvles Coggins* lead in the race lor Congress in the -fourth district was somewhat of a surprise. Bill Creech was expected to lead but incomplete reports showed Ike Andiews in second place.* Wens*, (irabarek in tlind place. Creech lourth. Archie McMillan tilth and Charles Bullock sixth Charlie Rose's big lead in the seventh Congressional district over Doran Berry and Hector Mc(?euchy was somewhat of a surprise as the three were generally regaided as near equal in support. SHCOND PRIMARY At this writing we have talked with none of the runners ? up entitled to call a second primary about the matter. Howcvei. we would seriously doubt that there will be run ? oils in many, if am of the state wide races. SENATOR SAM ERVIN W \SHI\C.TO\ li IS (JiITicuIi i?? conceive of iho FBI without I. Fdgai Hoover. Us Icgenduiy Chief who died quiclh at his home alter 4X sears as the Nation's top |jvv enforcement official. Iloovoi s career spanned the administrations ol Calvin Coohdee. Heihert lloovci. Franklin Roosevelt. Maris I rum.in. I)uij?ht Fisenhower. John Kenneds. Lsudon Johnson.and Richard Nixon At the ace of 2(>. the late llailan Fiske Stone, then Attornev (ieneial. later Chiel Justice ol the I tilled Stales, chose linn to clean up the mlanl bureau of investigations in the Justice Depaitment That was Mas 10. 1^24 - the eta of Prohibition, eangsteiism. when there were i Manx disclostiies ol coi nipt ion and incompetence in the bureau. Attorney f ieneial Stone called in \ounu lloovei and laid down the slandaids loi the present FBI a criminal invest iuat ions unit which would he composed of agents possessing integniv. intelligence, and training in law enforcement. Hoover carried out his orders and professionalized Ins small toicc It soon became apparent that he was indispensable to the bureau and Altornev (icneial Stone's tempoiary appointment was made permanent, a precedent which later Administrations followed to the end. The magic of J I dear Hoover was the man. He began his career when the fundamental virtues ?? honesty. integrity, courage, loyalty, patriotism were the building stones of hte. He adhered to these American sullies and he expected his age nls to do likewise The monumental powei that he had came to him because he never deviated trom his goal of creating the best law enforcement organi/ation on earth. Hiinng the Depression the I Bl won national acceptance as the conntr) extolled Hoover ai d his "d Men" lor their capture o! one alter another of the most notorious gangsters. He always won against the "public enemies" of the era John Dillmger, Ma" barker, "Pretty Boy" Floyd. "Machine dun" Kelly, "Baby Face" Nelson. Alvm Karpis. It was his agents too that found the evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the Lindbcrg baby kidnapper. Bruno Richard Hauptmann Bv the late 1930V the hoodlum war had been laigely won. and Hoover turned his agents to meet a new challenge. Na/i espionage during the daikest hours of World War II Then came the Cold War and the Soviet efforts to obtain atomic energy secrets in a new era of spy and espionage cases. The Bureau, under Hoover. turned its attention to the preservation of the securits of the nation.
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