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.: The Kings Mountain Heiald Established IMS IU to Oie promotion ef the general welfare and published m4 Its vtaSoitT. pW>Hefc«d every Thursday by the Hfvald publish!** House. ■atend as second class matter at the postofflee at Kinf* Mountain, H. c, under Act of Congress at March 3,187* EDrroaiAL m»abtment Martin Hanson..... Mitor-M>U« David Baity.Advertising Salesman and Bookeeper Miss WlTrt ftfi Stewart.Clreulatfea Manager ami Society Editor Beale Patrick.Sports Editor Eugene Matthews Horace fESS™**1 Wade Hartsoe, Jr. TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 •OBBCBPnOB BATES PAT ABLE Bf ADVANCE OWE TEAS -43,50 8EK MONTHS—9000 THREE MONTHS--tUB IT MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY*! BIBLE VERSE Bcuwre, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians t:8. T-V Glamour A Kings Mountain furniture dealer was talking about the basic nature of the furniture industry, assuming people will continue to require food and sleep, when he remarked facetiously, “But the universal necessity for all is a television set.’’ ‘ Indeed, this new instrument of enter tainment, enlightenment, and raucous commercials has invaded the living rooms and/or dens of the great mass of the nation. And this saturation of television sets has brought wondering comment from observers of the political scene on whe ther future political leaders in choosing party nominees will seek out those who are more photogenic, more handsome and more nimble of brain, if seemingly, via the television medium. The specula tion follows that such a course might foist off on the nation future presidents, governors and Congressmen who have the physique of an Atlas but a cranium of inverse proportion. There is no question of the impact of television on election campaigning. Yet, with the inauguration of the “great de bate” technique, it seems safe to guess that convention delegates (their first job is to elect a winner) will be more inclined to choose a candidate embody ing the best in brains, as well as brawn. The three debates between Candidates Kennedy and Nixon have already prov ed that a candidate must be informed and facile of brain and tongue, if he is to have a chance at the polls. Mr. Nixon showed poorly in the first one. He appeared half-sick. But his next two appearances found a different Nix on, both in physical appearance and manner of presentation. One development likely from the liv ing room invasion of the candidates is the liklihood that more and more citi zens will come to their own decisions concerning the favorite and be less sus pect to voting manipulations by friends, kin, and political bosses. This situation is a healthy one. The average citizen, with no political axe to grind, usually favors the candi date he regards as most typifying the'A merican ideal of honor, vigor, forceful ness and imaginative straight-thinking. The television medium should force candidate choosers to choose the best a vailable, if the choosers hope to play a victory march on election night. In The Know People who want to be ‘‘in the know” read newspapers, and the continuing in crease in newspaper circulations, not to mention those of the news magazines, indicate that most citizens desire infor mation, whether it be a bond hassle at City Hall or a tidal wave in Hawaii. A free press is instrumental in the lives of American citizens, to an extent known by few other nations of the world, as a recorder of contemporary history, as, in its editorial function, an interpreter and commentator on events, and, through its letters or vex populi columns, a public sounding board for all citizens. A free press is a guarantee of the U nited States Constitution, a guarantee that has been maintained through 1) ef fort of newsmen to get and publish the news and 2) the defense of that guaran tee by a public which wants to be in formed correctly. The tradition of a free press has been continued in this nation in spite of the human tendency to prefer the news to be favorable and pleasant. Unfortunately, this happy event cannot always exist.* Roadblocks continue to be placed in the way of newsmen who seek to sepa rate fact from fiction and wishful think ing. The nation’s press claims to be “the guardian of freedom”. The citizens demand it and any news man knows the embarrasing penalties of making a “bust” in print. His face is red and he has no choice but to correct the record. If he refuses, he faces loss of trust, loss of readers, and loss of influ ence. The Rocky Islands Political campaigns are noted for making mountains out of mole hills, in cluding everything from the candidates’ skeleton closet, as well as over-para mounting particular items. Case in point in the current campaign is the question of the importance of Quemoy and Matsu, the rock piles near the Red China coast, in defense of For mosa, and, in broader aspect, the free world. Majority of responsible comment seems to be that 1) the matter has been more than sufficiently discussed, 2) that the discussion is of no benefit to the na tion’s foreign policy operations, and 3) the discussion may be deleterious to the United States. Ferreters have dug up the record and found that these two rocky islands were projected into the headlines again ra ther by accident. NBC reporter Chet ' Huntley mentioned the islands in course of questioning Candidate Jack Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy,^ver well-informed, detail ed the nation’s resolved policy on the question of defense of these islands and then the fun started. Candidate Richard Nixon seemed to sense a campaign issue, and accused Mr. Kennedy of embarking on a plan of re treat in the face of Communist aggres sion. And the battle has continued. Oddly, only the more biased can find any disagreement between the Eisen hower administration position and Mr. Kennedy’s. It is a reminder, of course, that both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy are running as much against Communism, as against each other. This is not unusual, and, in fact, has been a safe warring ground for candidates for some years. Mr. Nixon catapulted himself into national promin ence by his efforts to remove Commun ists, alleged and otherwise, from the na tional government. The safety of the course is built in, it being a fair guess that not more than one percent of the voters have Communist leanings and maybe less than that, since the Castro triade and Khrushchev show. The argument does point up the piti able dilemma of the nation in its China policy. The Red Chinese are, de facto, China, controlling the land mass by that name and its 600 million people. The Red Chi nese are in the United States’ enemy category in the cold w’ar, both by word and deed, and the United States, thus far, has been successful in leading the movement against seating the Red Chi nese in the United Nations. Conversely, the United States sus tains, both through friendship and guns, the Nationalist China government-in-ex ile on Formosa. This gomernment is ra ther well-known for operating in Orien tal style, rather than in the terms of ho nor and morality more familiar to the U nited States. Only recently, a Chinaman who was leading a nascent opposition party to Chaing Kai-Shek wras clapped into jail for ten years on questionable proof of spying charges. It’s another of the situations seeming ly imponderable of a solution. Meantime, the rather pedantic argu ment of Quemoy and Matsu rages and Reporter Huntley likely wishes he’d nev er heard of these two rock piles. Congratulations to Mrs. Thomas L. Kesler, who has accepted the impor tant chairmanship of volunteer workers in the Red Cross blood program, and to Mi-s. James Rollins, who will assist in this work. Postmaster Charles Alexander is to be commended on the recently-announced improvement in rural mail service. Mounted carrier service has been ex tended to 565 families in areas immedi ately adjacent to the city. Make a liberal donation to the Kings Mountain United Fund. Eight agencies will live, or starve, for a year, in direct proportion to the support of Kings Mountain citizens. These gifts mean new books for the library, emergency aid for the indigent, support for young musi cians, emergency aid for victims of dis aster and accident, and support of the community's youth in character-build ing adventures. MARTIN'S MEDICINE it is said argument by sta tistics can be made to prove anything, or, phrased other wise, that the addition of two and two can come out three, five or shout any other fig ure. It all depends on file em PHAsis. Nowhere other than the po litical arena are figures pre sented more frequently, nor with more diametrically oppo site results. In Friday's Wall Street Jour nal was an editorial praising die Eisenhower administration for its performance in bolding the nation to a course of fis cal responsibility. The reading thereof made questionable des sert after a main course served earlier in the evening by Gov ernor Luther Hodges, in which be derided the Eisenhower ad ministration for spending in reckless fashion, loading die federal payroll with an addi tional 100,000 to die civilian agency fists, piling up last year's twelve billion deficit, and doubling the interest cost on die national debt. According to the Governor’s figures, the administration, if in office two more years am spending at the same rate, would have equal led in spending ail of the admin istrations up to 1952, inclusive of all, from George Washington on. m-m To a claim that, under the GOP, more people are under social security today than ever before, Former President Har ry Truman pooh-poohed, What are they trying to do, claim credit for the birth rate?” m-m So it goes. m-m Regardless of the figure ar guments and regardless of abil ity of the nation's citizens to unscramble the various inter pretations, it is quite certain that the appeals of the candi dates and the parties will have been heard, seen and read by more citizens than in previous history. With the emergence of the airplane, armed service extremists figured the demise of the infantryman was at hand. Yet how many GI vet erans of World War H and Ko rea wish the extremists had been right? So, with television, it was guessed by the politicians that whistlestops and political bartistorming would be mini mized. Not so. The candidates for president, vice-president and other leading political figures | have drawn amazingly large ! crowds, and have appeared in more places in a shorter period of time than ever before. m-m Again there are figure dis | agreements. . m-m Crowd estimations are oft en questionable as to accuracy, particularly the out-of-door va riety.. Neale Patrick, who trans ferred his sports beat to the Lyndon Johnston Gastonia whistle-stop, was laughing about about that one. One feU low reported 500 on hand, an other 2,000, another 4,000. Neale thought a thousand close to cor rect. m-m One reason for continued in terest in seeing the leading fig ures in person is that televi sion, though supported by sound, can’t transmit the elec tric excitement( or lack of it) running through a crowd of partisans, it’s a pretty sure bet tfiat television World Se ries viewers got a closer look see at Mazeroski’s series-win ning home run than many of the 38.000 at Forbes Field. But the TV fans would rather have been there in person. Another reason is the oportunity to swap notes, comments and informa tion with neighbors from other places, kinda like morning churchyard conversations. Thus Qllie Harris was asking Tennessee Governor Buford El lington if he knew Tom Ful ton, the ex-Mountaineer. The Governor allowed he knew Tom quite pleasantly as a neighbor and most favorably as one of his county campaign managers. I suggested to Senator George Smathers after the Shelby Dem ocratic rally he had some kin in Kings Mountain. He said. “Yes, I've got kinfolk all over Wset ern North Carolina. I wish I had time to stop and visit them.” Then he added, “The trouble with most of my North • Carolina kinfolk is that they don’t vote right!” The Senator’s folks are na tive to Haywood county. Viewpoints of Other Editors THIS PRESTIGE BUSINESS Most of the current debate a bout American prestige falls fax short of any useful campaign discussion. President Elsenho wer's annoyance with the cala mity chorus—most recently ex pressed in his TV interview with Republican women—is fully un derstandable. And correction of dismal, distorting criticism is as needed as are Jolts to compla cency. But neither pointing with {Hide nor viewing with alarm gets at the real question voters should be trying to answer. That is: How is a fast-changing world af fecting the position of the United States and what should be done about it? A mere balancing of the Uni ted States against the Soviet Un ion is the scales of world pres tige will not answer this ques tion. Indeed so much stress cm that balance discloses a faulty viewpoint The world has been altering the positon of both na tions profoundly. Consider the holes opened in the Iron Curtain and the rise of the neutralists. Moscow has lost influence in many areas—as is India, in the Mideast, and now in the Congo. The principal change in the position of the United States in the last few years has arisen from changes in the world which could not have been managed from Washington. Among these changes Soviet recovery from the war and its technological advan ce is only one. The recovery of I American’s allies and their less ! ened dependence on Washington | directly affect the prestige bal I ance—and the aims of American I policy. So also does the Dark Continent’s emergence into light and the vastly increased impor tance of new nations. When the war ended the im mediate need was to fill the po wer vacuum left when non-Com munist forces were withdrawn. The Truman Doctrine and NATO largely met the emergency. But as conditions changed, other more difficult and imaginative measures were required to help the emerging nations and keep them free. Americans—regardless of par ty—have continued to think too much in terms of the cold war and of plain military confronta tion. Maintaining adequate de fensive strength is essential. But this is not the only need— even for American security. The Uni ted States’ position will rest also on how clearly it shows that its purposes are aligned with the peace, progress, and welfare of mankind. Here is an area where what is done in Washington can largely affect American prestige and in fluence. Here is where citizens should be asking what has been left undone and what should be done in future. Americans tend to think that Washington can fix anything anyywhere in the world. This was shown when Republicans blamed Democrats for loss of Eastern Europe to the Soviets and of China to the Communists. Actually rt would have been hard to show how these blows to American prestige and power could have been prevented ex cept by war. It is shown today in Democratic charges that Re publicans have been giving ground to the Reds. _ Many of the changes were be yond Washington's control. De bate should center on those which were not And it should be specific as to how mistakes could have been avoided and es pecially as to how new condi tions should be dealt with. — Christian Science Monitor. REGISTER: YOUR VOTE COUNTS Republican leaders in Stanly County are interested in getting everyone they believe might vote for their candidates registered. Democrats, by the same token, are wanting to get every person with Democratic leaning on the election books. With both parties hard at work it would appear that virtually e very citizen qualified to vote will be listed on the registration books before they close an Octo ber 29. This, however, will not be the case, if past experiences may be used as a guide. Each election there are a number of people who appear at the polls to vote and find they are not registered. Still others do not take the trou ble to either register or vote. Recently, we heard an Albe marle businessman expressing great apprehension over the poli cies being followed by the gov ernment. “But," he continued, “we can’t do anything about it” That is a completely defeatist attitude. It seems to be shared by many. If all those people who are un happy with the way things are being run would register, go to the polls, and vote for the party or candidates they feel come most nearly to having the same beliefs as they do, these indivi duals would find that they can and would have an influence on our government Each indivi dual, it is true, has but little, but when a great number of indivi duals express themselves and have similar feelings, attention is paid to them. It is all right to bring out the flag and wave it and orate about exercising the right and respon sibility of voting. Even though it seems to become a stale wav of approaching the problem it still has its effect. But when individuals realize that only through their honest expression of opinion in the vo ting booth can they, really exer cise any conceivable influence upon our government, they will take the trouble to register and vote. We believe that more an more people are becoming cor eemed over our national and ir temational situation. This is pod sign. They should be vita] ~y concerned. Only as they d become concerned and expres themselves, both by their vot and m letters to their electe representatives, can the peopl maintain the type of govemmen tal policy they want. This, then, is the call for fu registration. Every person’s or lectk»n.S needed ln the coming t If you are unhappy with of the policies which are b carried out make it knowr best you can through your , followed up by expressions of mion to-those in a positioi exert influence on policy king.—Stanly News & Press. 1 A tears ago I V TD8 WEEK Itenu of new* about King* Mountain area people and events taken from the 19S0 ftie* of the King* Mountain Herald. Central high school has elected Baihara Gault as their represent ative in the Carolinas Carrousel to be held in Charlotte on No-j vemfoer 16. Princess Gault is a junior in high school. The Kings Mountain Choral So ciety will present a concert on Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in the Kings Mountain high school auditorium. The annual fund campaign for books for Jacob S. Mauney Me morial Library will begin next week. Social And Personal Mrs. R. D. Goforth entertained members of the La Fete Rook Cldb and a few other friends Wednesday at her home on East King street. Mrs. Robert Neill was hostess on Tuesday night to members of the Queen of CliAw. MAKE AN OLD HOME. 11 / I W SOMETHING NEW! • Yes there is something new in Ktown! W K M T has a new sc . hedule of programs and br and new programming too. All day, every day Jonas Brid ges, Don Curtis, Ray Eddy, Ed Whitehead and Grady Queen, the W K M T music makers, bring you a balance of music, news, time, temper ature. sports, weather, and shopping information — all especially keyed to this area. Why don't you tune WKMT everyday and see how you like the new programming. 1220 ON THE RADIO KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. « "I LIKE ITS SMALL SIZE!" "I LIKE ITS LIGHT-UP DIAL!" "1 LIKE ITS SMART DESIGN 1" These are typical comments of folks-about the latest thing in extension phones—the new and lovely little Princess set. It’s so small and compact with a dial that lights up at night when you lift the receiver. When it’s not in use the dial becomes a soft night-light that glows in the dark. The Princess comes in pretty, soft colors, too: pink, blue, turquoise, beige or white. Why don’t you drop by to see our “Princess” next time you’re in town. AND SEE THESE OTHER NEW CONVENIENCES_ N°w you can answer the door by telephone, talk from room to room, even transfer calls from phone to phone with the new Home Interphone! And be sure to ask about the Bell Chime, a new musical invitation to answer the nearest phone. Here’s truly complete home telephone service! Try Herald Classified Ads
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