Editorial Comment
Stop The Cradle- Robber
?t The Lions Clubs of Cherokee
County are sponsoring free
vaccinations next Sunday afternoon
against a cradle-robber known as
rubella, which is German measles.
Rubella is a cruelly misleading
disease, totally different from regular
measles. On the surtace it appears to
be a mild, rather harmless three-day
childhood infection. The child who has
it may never even have a fever or a
rash and it may go unnoticed.
But rubella is deadly for the
pregnant woman's devleoping baby,
especially in the first four months of
her pregnancy. And she is helpless
against it since the disease is very
contagious, for seven days before and
five d^ys after the rash - if any -
appears on the child who is carrying it.
A rubella wave in 1964 carried by
children infected 50,000 pregnant
women, according to the national
March of Dimes Foundation. The
results were tragic - 20,000 babies born
dead, another 30.000 coming into the
world with serious handicaps, born
deaf, blind, mentally retarded,
malformed or with defects in the heart
or other organs.
A safe vaccine, approved by the
government, has been developed and
will be given in four locations next
Sunday afternoon.
It's free and the shots your
children get might mean your sister's
next baby will be born healthy. Or your
neighbor's . Or even your own.
What One Man Can Do
And then there was the $10,000 award to
consumer advocate Ralph Nader from a
foundation. He was cited for major
achievements toward improving the quality of
human life. A most worthy endeavor for honors.
The foundation said Nader has "almost
singlehanded made our cars safer, our food more
pure, our government more open and
responsive, and our corporations more aware of
our demands."
That's a large bouquet of throw to any
person, recognizing human limitations and the
nature of the problem. But the consumer
crusader is certainly deserving.
In an era when many wonder what influence
they can exert, and when many others are
apathetic, Nader has provided an inspiring
example of what one man can do. Far more than
most would have presumed. - Atlanta (Ga.)
JouOnal
In another editorial today we discuss an open
meetings measure now before the General
Assembly. One legislator feels the open
meetings bill should also require that newspaper
editorials be signed by the writers. That suits us
but it sure seems a waste of time.
Except for those signed by other staff
members or guest writers, editorials in this
newspaper - as in most - are written by the editor
whose name appears in the masthead on the
editorial page. Our experience here has been
that no one taking exception to something we
have written has ever had any trouble learning
who wrote the editorial, how to get us on the
phone and what to say when we answered.
Tradition always has been that editorials use
the first person "We" instead of "I". We are
relatively uneducated in formal journalism
but have always figured "we" meant the editor
and the newspaper. "We" have always used
"we" for that reason.
And it has always been some perhaps false
comfort to feel that maybe if somebody got real
mad about what "we" said, he would hesitate to
come in" to shup "us" on the chance that "we" is
more than one. Which, of course, "we" isn't. ?
Eugene Price in Goldsboro (N.C.) News-Argus
Ivy League's Fading Luster
Yale, Harvard and the other six Ivy League
schools are losing popularity, although they
on't appear to be in danger of having to lock the
After several years of steady growth, and
Respite extensive recruiting efforts, the number
of applications for admission declined this spring
by an average of 7 per cent. Yale suffered the
largest drop. Almost 20 per cent fewer high
school seniors applied than a year ago. The
smallest loss was taken by Princeton, down 4 per
cent.
Registrars generally blamed the decline on
the rising costs of attending each of the schools.
More families are having to scramble to lay out
$4,470 for Junior's tuition, room and board at
Harvard. In addition, there are clothes, books
and bundles of mad money that must come from
somewhere.
A Harvard spokesman said many of his
school's applicants were frightened away by the
financial picture. A Yale official said the decline
was little more than a natural leveling off after a
sudden growth when the school went co-ed.
One admissions officer seemed to have the
picture in focus. He said: "You don't have to go
away to go to a good school anymore. And it's
cheaper to stay near home anyway."
This may pose problems for the Ivy League,
but it is encouraging news to the rest of the
country. - Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
Hooked
The first World War made cigarette smoking
popular. In the second World War, drinking
became widespread. During the present limited
engagement in Vietnam, our citizens are
learning young to survive by means of light and
heavier drugs, while their seniors pop pills at
home.
We are now, a half-century after World War
I, slowly beginning to get unhooked from
cigarettes. Perhaps a half-century from now...
It's all rather depressing , isn't it? - Charlotte
Observer
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CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues
PARTY DISCIPLINE . . .
Forty and fifty years ago you
x>uld hear many political party
workers bragging about never
splitting a ticket" and boosting
'party regularity."
But in the South those
shibbolets have gone the way of
he horse and buggy and "the
nimble seat for two."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
jreat leader of the Democratic
Party as well as of the nation
when a strong leader was
needed boasted that he often
"split his ticket."
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
Thanks for your 3 June
editorial on the legislative
activities of Dr. Carl Killian. It
provided me with a tidy solution
to the mystying two hour anc
twenty minute emission
from the Senator's Raleigh
Pencil, published in the scout 27
May. Let me quote, with
comment, a few lines from the
doctor's letter to the homefolks.
It is Sunday morning, May
23,1971,9 a.m. I woke up early
with a feeling that the weight of
the world was bearing down on
broad shoulders..."
The part about waking up
early is simple enough, but I
think it would take a
chiropractor, let alone an
amateur psychologist, to wrest
any meaning out of the bit about
"broad shoulders." Mine,
yours, his , atlas?
"After breakfast I bought
the old reliable news and
observer and headed for the
park where I could read my
paper and meditate on who or
what I could tax..."
Before reading your
editorial I supposed the writer
charmed by the ever-present
Raleigh mocking-birds, to be
indulging in whimsy-or just
clowning around. What threw
me was that professorial
phrase, "on who." Perhaps
your editorial didn't go far
enough. What about putting
newspapers into the hands of
narrow-shouldered persons?
Think what might have
happened had the good doctor
had his mind on his taxes when
he visited the men's room after
that breakfast at the bus
station!
"I am planning to run for
governor on a platform of more
taxes and better legislation..."
More taxes and better
government? The Senator
aims too low. We need that
swinger in the white house. I
bet he could teach 'em a thing or
two. "It is now 11:20...I will
come back to reading my paper
and start thinking about who
else, or what else we can tax..."
It certainly looks like
"who "is in for a rough time. To
the extent at least that cap and
bells are poor habiliments for a
?pioneering educator", I agree
that our tax-master should
have remained in the safe
haven of Cullowhee where it is
probably no great matter to
befuddle pioneering students..
Cordially,
"* "Nathaniel C. Browder
Hayesville
Writing on the subject,
James J. Kilpatrick, the
conservative editor and well
known columnist of Richmond,
Virginia, said a few days ago:
"The truth is the 'party
discipline' appears on the Hill
on opening day in the ritual
votes for President of the
Senate and Speaker of the
House, and seldom is seen
thereafter. In many ways, of
course, and possible in most
ways, this is a healthy thing.
Our House is not the House of
Commons, and was not meant
to be. But the process is
reducing the two party system
to a couple of antique cars, fine
for use in quadrennial parades,
but not much good for
everyday."
Kilpatrick seems to have
pretty well summed up the real
standing of "party discipline"
insofar as not only many of the
politicians but most voters
regard "party regularity"
today.
WHY STEP DOWN? Harry
Reasoner had a pretty good
"Comment" a recent day over
his TV hookup during which
time he discussed why Rep.
Wilbur Mills would never be
president. With Mills great
prestige and authority in
Congress as chairman of the
House Ways and Means
Committee, Reasoner reasoned
that it would not be the sensible
thing for a man to do to "step
down" as congressman when he
A Voice
in The Wilderness
Many of the ills today could
be prevented with a proper diet.
The age-old custom of imbibing
in fat-back and corn bread has
wrought havoc among the
people. A prescription of duly
considered substitutions is
advised. The generous amount
of dairy products such as
yoghurt, milk and cheese
reconstructs the body by means
of proper nutrients. The basic
form of wheat in its raw state
before it is plagiarized into a
nothingness by removing the
bran, should be used in bread
made in our own homes
Nothing can take the place of
this fundamental necessity of
the body for the wheat germ
found in water-ground wheat.
Fresh fruits and vegetables
have only too often been
mashed into a lifeless mass by
over cooking. The truer, purer
state of rawness is suggested. If
w e expect this engine of a body
to perform its work to the best
of advantage we had better look
unto the fuel we use for power.
ANIMAL SHELTER
BUILDING FUND <1038
Won't you add your name to
this list by sending ydur
donation to help build an animal
shelter? Send your contribution
to: The Cherokee-Clay Humane
Society, Inc. P. O. Box 660,
Murphy N. C. 28906. Tax
deductible.
The Cherokee-Clay
Humane Society, Inc. meets
every third Tuesday evening of
the month at the Power Board
Building in Murphy. The next
meetingh will be June 15 at 8
o'clock. Young people are also
invited to attend. Won't you
olease join us?
Margaret Schned"'
had only 200,000 people to
answer to and become president
when he would have 200,000,000
to answer to should he become
president.
Pretty good reasoning by
Harry Reasoner but we still
think the Arkansas
congressman would make a
better president than some who
havebeen mentioned more
promiently.
NIXON PRAISED ... We
have heard many Democrats
praising President Nixon's
forthright statement over
television defending the
Washington policemen in the
firm manner in which they
handled the would be anarchist
who sought to bring the wheels
of government in the nation 's
capital to a standstill a few
weeks ago in Washington.
Many Democrats feel that they
will have to have some pretty
good breaks before they have an
even chance to boot Nixon out of
the white house come the first
Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1972.
HIGHER EDUCATION . . .
Many people seem to feel that
the 1971 General Assembly
should handle the problems of
higher education, and if they
are unable to come up with a
solution, then forget about it for
a few years. There is a feeling
that this biennial tampering
with higher education - making
universities out of weak
colleges, etc., and kicking up
dust much of the time is not in
the interest of quality
education-higher or otherwise
GOOD BILL KILLED .. A
bill designed to prevent
skulduggery at the ballot boxes
in North Carolina lost by a vote
of 59 to 49 in the House last
week. The bill was simple. It
would only require that the
voters sign their names at the
voting precincts as they
presented themselves for
voting.
OPEN MEETINGS .. We
have heard much discussion of
the so-called "open meetings"
bill in the General Assembly
permitting the news media to be
present at most meetings of
governing authorities in the
state. Thomas Jefferson who is
quoted by both liberals and
conservatives said in a letter to
Colonel Edward Carrington in
1787: "The basis of our
government being the opinion
of the people, the first object
should be to keep that right
and were it left to me to decide
whether we should have a
government without
newspapers, or newspapers
without a government, I should
note hesitate a mmoment to
prefer the latter."
SENATE RACE ... We
suspect that Congressman Nick
Galifianakis is much more
likely to run for the U. S. Senate
against Senator Everett Jordan
than any other Democrat now
being mentioned. Taking
Orange County from Nick's
congressional district does not
make running for reelection a
sure bet for Nick or any other
Democrat in that district.
North Carolina automobile
safety inspection stations
detected more than half a
million instances of faulty
lighting on Tar Haai vehicles
during the first nine months at
1969.
J
Rode a friend's motorcycle in
from Martins Creek the other day.
Hadn't been on one in several years
but you don't forget how. And the
thrill is still there.
Motorcycling, like water-skiing
and riding horseback, gives the heady
illusion of speed because you're being
transported out there in the open air,
with nothing to break the wind. The
breeze brings all the pleasant, and
unpleasant, fragrances of the
countryside right to you, the sun
bear* d*wn on you and the road
becomes a personal experience. The
curves are especially fun, leaning the
machine this way and that until the
foot pegs almost touch the ground,
always watching for that treacherous
spot of oil or gravel which can spill
you.
What makes it fun also makes it
dangerous - there is no protection in
case of a spill. And the worst danger
is not a spill, but a collision with a
car or truck. People who drive cars
and trucks, and that's most of us,
simply don't see a cycle. We stop at a
stop-sign and look up and down the
street for an approaching car or
truck; our minds are just not
programmed to look for a cycle and
too many times we pull out right in
front of them. The worst we can get is
a dented fender but the boy on the
bike may be wiped out. Everyone
ought to have to ride a cycle a few
months before he is licensed to drive a
car, just to learn how it feels to be a
second-class citizen. It would also
make for better drivers, as cyclists
learn to drive a half-mile ahead of
themselves, always on the watch for a
door opening on a parked car or ?
truck coming out of an alley.
But even with the dangers,
motorcycling is spreading as never
before, with the influx of noisy little
Japanese bikes, cheap to operate and
fun to ride. The one I rode even had
electric starting, just push the button.
Gone are the days of leaping high in
the air and coming down on a foot
starter which might even kick back
on you.
Of course there are unwritten
codes. I blew the horn at a girl
walking along the road over in
Bealtown. I didn't especially want to,
but when one rides a bike one has to
follow the custom. Bikers and truck
drivers are expected to blow the horn
at girls and I was afraid if I didn't,
from out of nowhere two Hell's Angels
would ride up beside me and order me
off the road.
Reminds me of the time six of us,
riding double on big Harley 74's ,
roared through the middle of the
Hanes plant one afternoon in Winston
Salem, heading for an exhibition
baseball game. It was shift change
time and the young women who
worked at the plant were all over the
street. Naturally we were blowing
the horns and hollering a little.
I was riding on the back of the
seat and the fellow who was driving
was participating, too. I knew he had
a wife and a couple of kids at home
and asked him why he was hollering
at the girls.
He said "I wear Hanes
underwear, don't I?"
Icouldn'targuewithhim. Brand
name loyalty like that is hard to beat.
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AUCTION
ROBBINSVILLE, N.C. SAT. JULY 10-10 AM
Sale To Be Held In Robbinsville High School Gym.
PROPERTY OF BEMIS HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY
Forestland liquidation for benefit of heirs of J. M. Bern is Estate
15,500 SCENIC ACRES
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65 Miles of Mountain Streams
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