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f ' , , '. ESTABLISHED 1936 I EDWARD A. YUZHJK - EDITOR & PUBLEHER . - CAROLYN R. YUZKJK - ASSOCIATE EDITOR ■* I ARCHIE BALLEW - PHOTOGRAPHER S PRESSMAN I MBS PATSY BRIGGS - OFFICE MANAGER PU3LEHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLEHING COMPANY I SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILIE,N.C. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1970 NUMBER TWELVE > SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00/YEAR I OUT OF COUNTY $5.00/YEAR SKNATOR SAM ERVIN * SAYS * WASHINGTON Senate debate on the extension of the controversial Voting Rights Act of 1965 moved in a new di rection last week. By a64to 17 vote, Majority Leader Mans field won approval of a constitutionally questionable amend ment allowing 18-year-olds the right to vote .The atrw»ndtr«»f is subject to a Senate - House conference where House - op - position to the 18-year-old vote is said to be strong. I voted against the statutory change allowing 18-year-oHs to vote for two reasons. First, it seems to me that if the Constitution has any vitality, this provision is plainly unconstitutional. The Se nate has pending in Committee S.J.Res. 147, which would submit to tire States a constitutional amendment setting tiu voting age at 18 years throughout the Nation. If we are tc deal with this issue, S. J. Res 147 has the virtue of following the prescribed method for changing our basic constitutional law. On tiie other hand, the Mansfield amendment, by taking the statutory approach, runs counter to four express provisions of the Constitution. These are: Article I,section 2, Article 11, section 1, and the Tenth and Seventeenth Amendments to the Constitution, which spell out in unequi vocal language that the States hove the power to prescribe qualifications for voting, subject only to the condition that race or sex cannot be used to deny any individual the right to vote. Second, I think it is unwise to deal with the 18-year-old voting amendment in summary fashion. A change of this magnitude Reserves considerable study, and the Mansfield amendment was not even referred to the Judiciary commit tee for review prior to its consideration. In saying these things, I recognize that there are com - pelling arguments that 18-year-olds ought to be permitted to vote, became many of our 18-year-olds possess greater educational opportunities than existed two centuries ago. It is said, too, that if a young man can be compelled to en ter the service of his country prior to his 21st birthday, he ought to be permitted to vote, and decide who shall repre - sent him in the government of the community, State ?t»h Notion. But there is more to the matter than this. Any legal age requirement contains a debatable arbitra - riness over the standard of maturity. The fact is that much of our present laws governing property, business, and con - t«cUi is founded upon the English common law precept that 21 years is the legal age for adult judgments. True, four States of the Union Georgia, Kentucky, Alaska, and Ha waii permit voting before 21 years. Still, 46 states have set 21 years as their voting age, and this fact alone ought to give Congress pause before it arbitrarily writes a new voting requirement for the entire nation. The issue now goes to the House, where it is to be hoped that constitutional reverence will prevail. If not, the Courts may have to say whether there is any meaning left to four provisions of the Constitution which delegated to the States the power to determine voting qualification. Americans Waking Up! What price patriotism? Amer icans appear to be boycotting a certain foreign airline whose country harbors some of our mili tary deserters and whose pre mier favors another-indication-thaf people are registering their indignation and disgust at such situations PICTHER by refusing to patronize people or places that are anti-American. Wouldn’t we.be fools to continue proffering money and friendship (in typical altruistic American fashion!) t 4 those who aid the very forces committed to our eventual downfall? straigliT By Tom Anderscpi - MISFORTUNE VS CALAMITY Recently a reader wrote me; “The things you write are true, I’m sure —but what I don’t understand is why the big news magazines and newspapers don’t report those things.” There are several answers: like Big Businessmen, many big news media are afraid of and sub servient to Big Government. They are also afraid of some of their advertisers—who abhor “controversy.” Leftist Look magazine editors and photog raphers, Look claims, spent almost a year, on a man-hour’s basis, studying the accomplish ments of 50 years of Communism in Russia. The editors forgot to tell—or perhaps they didn’t find out—that all editors, foreign and domestic, even includ'ng Look editors—are forbidden to photograph a vast group of ob jects, installations and activities in Russia. Bureaucratic harassment, intimidation and re prisals are relentlessly inflicted on all who seek truth in Russia. About 2/3 of the USSR is off limits to all non-communist foreigners and, we presume, to Look magazine. (And Look maga zine is off-limits to our household.) Years ago, Look magazine did a piece on me. They assigned a photographer to get 100 pictures of me on the rostrum, speaking. He C <Jlie <yVlanion * J-oruvn By Marilyn Manion „ PSST ... THE GAP ISN'T REALLY THERE When man first orbited the moon, more than one wag observed that we were all quite possibly being taken in by a conspiracy of practical jokers. The idea was absurd, of course—imagine moon shot from a television studiti! Yet, some remem bered a radio announcer named Orson Welles, and an “invasion from liars’’ that threw whole sections of the nation into panic. A giant hoax is possible. Back to earth for a moment —but don’t for get the possibilities. Would you believe, for a starter, that the scourge of our age—the Generation Gap—may have been dreamed up and foisted upon the American public? That all of those long-haired girls in mini-skirts and maxi-coats haven’t the slightest notion of run ning away from home and/or overturning so ciety? That those bearded bell-bottomed boys wearing rimless eyeglasses may never have even tried marijuana, much less any hard drugs? Take politics. The average idea of “youth ful” opinions is that they are ultra, ultra liberal. Look at the protest marches. The SDS. Ad nauseum. But then look at an interesting fact about the 1968 election: a disproportion ately large number of northern votes for Wal lace came from voters under thirty. Or have a look at that shocking subject of drugs: “. . . the great majority of youngsters, almost 90 percent have had no experience with marijuana, not even to the degree of having tried it once. . . .” The statistics and the quote are from Joseph Dear Editori I was pleased to note the article in your paper last week honoring the fire fighters who had served for many years. I saw that one of them was my good friend, Julius Patton, and thought that the picture of him was particularly good. Yours very truly James Parker Dees, Pre siding Bishop, The An g 1 ican Orthodox Church, 9tatwill%MC. Dear Editor: I enjoy your paper verv much as it brings news- of my Letters To The Editor Mends and my old Home Town to me. I like especially the notes about the Country store and the pretty words above the Death and Funeral notices. It brings good and bad news alike that I would not know aly other way of receiving if it were not for your newspaper. Please keep it coming! Mrs. Cleo Fox Winston-Salem * Dear Editors ing such a splendid Job of the PICTHER got 102. You can imagine which one they used. When my teen-age daughter saw the one tiny printed, she cried. Life magazine recently gave killer Kosygin, head of the criminal Communist Soviet “Re public,” an extensive interview in which he spread more lies, threats, distortions, condem nations and propaganda against us. Whereupon oui own Dauntless Leader Johnson let it be known that he would submit to an interview by the Soviet press. The Russians were not interested. Evrn Yugoslavia’s most important literary magazine stated that the Soviet Union used ccncentration camps and practiced genocide long before Adolph Hitler did. Wonder why Life, Hollywood, Look or Pew Smearson never did a story on that? Perhaps Look is pinker than Life, but the real difference between Life and Look is the difference between a misfortune and a calam ity. When asked the difference between a mis- * fortune and a calamity, Disraeli replied: “Well, if Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.”— American Way Features Adelson’s provocative article, “What Genera tion Gap?” which appeared in the January 18 New York Times Magazine. Here are some of the points he makes, and a few of our re actions to them : 1. Most of the attention is focused on col lege youths, while the majority of young Amer icans do not attend college. (Adelson doesn’t say it, but we will: this confirms the suspicion that students are being brainwashed in the classroom.) Narrowing it down a bit further, most of the youngsters you see and hear about belong to a tiny minority of those who do attend college—and therefore a microscopic minority of American youth in general. 2. The majority of young people—including college students—are not in rebellion against their parents. After an exhaustive study of college students, pollster Samuel Lubell noted that he found “both much less authority and much less rebellion than popularly imagined.” In another study of collegians, it was found that 80 percent of them considered their relationships with their parents to be “close and friendly.” Bet you haven’t seen them on any TV documentaries of late. " 3. Studies show that most of the student radicals are “children of radical or liberal left parents.” When you add this to the knowl edge that their professors are likely to be liberal too, you might be tempted to conclude that they are not rebelling at all, but following. Ho, hum. Another generation of sheep?— American Way Features obituary on my mother, Mrs. Minnie L. Ray, in the Febru - ary 19 issue of The Yancey Re cord I especially like Tom An derson's column. It is time we told the public the proper at - titude in such matters. Marion Manion's column is also excellent. I have studied journalism myself and find The Yance y Record to reflect very good taste and above all, proper in its Public Relations department »a •a®*-. Rockville, Md. PICTHER
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