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A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enllghtment. entertainment and benefit of the cittern* of King* Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Filtered .is second class matter at the postofflee at Kings Mountain. N. C., 2'<0'V, under Act of Congress of March 3 ,lfl3. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon .Editor-Publisher Diik Woodward . Sports Editor MU* Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Mis* Libby Bunch .Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Douglas Houser Russell C. Parrish A'ormati Camp Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monte Hunter TELEPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE •• BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR - $3.50 SIX MONTHS - $200 THREE MONTHS - SI PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE C'xl in <i Spirit: ami flirt; that i< s/ni. him must trnrnhip him in spirit unit in truth. St. John \:H ABC Proposal The county commission, after conduct ing a heal ing on a request that it call a referendum on the question of legal sale of alcoholic beverages, declined to cail the election and inferred the route of the proponents would l>o obtaining of a pe tition of voters to call such an election. In sin'h an event, the call would be made by the county elections board, ra ther than by the commission. There are some who are inclined to criticize the commission for ducking the issue, but tin* Herald is not among them. , . The question of legal sale of alcoholic bevvages is quite an emotional one, with the vast majority of citizens teeling pret ty strongly about the issue—whether for or against. I* is presumed that the proponents would be able to obtain the necessary signatures of sufficient voters to require the holding of an election — though many w ill confide. "I’ll vote lor it in the privacy of an election booth, but I won t sign anv petitions.' The Herald does not foresee that the majority of Cleveland County is ready to vote "wet," though it is a reasonably safe wager that Cleveland does, indeed, drink wet. Nor is it right to impugn the motives of those on either side of the question. Years ago. two leading Kings Moun tain citizens were discussing the then - upcoming election on the question of continuing in Cleveland County the le gal sale of wine and beer. One of the citizens remarked. "They ought to make it all legal." The other disagreed, even while acknowledging that he enjoyed his dram on occasion, ins reasoning "as that he didn't want to be the instrument of someone else's trouble by putting his stamp of approval on legal sale of in toxicating beverages. So it goes. The fact is, of course, that man has never been very successful in regulat ing others' courses of conduct. Addition ally. the prohibition amendment, which President Herbert Hoover labeled “the noble experiment,” was neither success ful on principal intent, but also spawned racketeering and the gang era of the twenties and early thirties. Spirit alcohol is a habit-forming drug, if among the milder ones, and its contin ued use invites addiction. It is said that use of alcohol in this nation is compar able to playing Russian roulette with a ten-cartridge revolver. One out of ten wil become an alcoholic. There is considerable question, though, of the efficacy of moral preach ments in keeping people personally “dry.” Young Mem oi '63 Robert O. Southwell is a comparative newcomer to Kings Mountain, having been a citizen for only about four years. Yet in this comparatively short period he has established himself as a very civ ic-minded citizen who attacks civic chores with the same zeal he applies to the operation of his automobile dealer ship. In the recent year, he served as an active and effective president of the Kings Mountain Merchants association, accepted the hardly inviting presidency of the United Fund, and continued his considerable activity for his church. It was Kings Mountain's good fortune that Bob Southwell became a citizen of this community and other citizens are happy to ratify the decision of the speci al committee which chose him for the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Com merce distinguished service award as Kings Mountain’s outstanding Young Man of 196.1. Luthei Warn Franklin Luther Ware, who died last week at the age of 90. was another of those rugged citizens born in the days of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. Mr. Ware was an able carpenter and builder, a man of quiet disposition who attended to his work without undue fanfare. At the age of 78. a daughter remark ed, he was busy at his trade, covering a roof. He was a man of character, loyal to his church, his family, and his commun ity. Panama Crisis President Lyndon B. Johnson was figured to he accorded a honeymoon in his relations with Congress and. for the most part, has enjoyed one. His international honeymoon was less long, as evidenced by the crisis in Pana ma. a smouldering problem for many vears. The issue is much deeper tas is usual) than the mere excuse for the recent riot ing which is the matter of flying flags in the Canal Zone. From the Panamanian standpoint, the basic desire is that of a small nation in which poverty abounds seeking control of the vital Panama Ca nal. property of the United States. It is comparable * to Egypt’s finally realized desire for the Suez Canal. It is another case of the have-not be ing reckless with someone else’s proper ty, in spite of bona fide agreements and contracts. It is a tirr.e for forceful resolution and action :.s neees-ttry on the part of the United States. Tut re may be areas in which the United States can compromise on certain contractual revisions, but the basic promise of controlling the link be tween Atlantic and Pacific must not be compromised, on grounds of l>oth eco nomic and military security. Nor must the United States rights to maintaining a major military establishment for pro tection of the Canal be abrogated in any way. l here has been much criticism or tnis nation's Cuba policy, many feeling that the nation, in effect, dropped its Cuban candy by not employing force at the time Castro confiscated American properties. Yet the United States has held firm to its Guantanamo naval base. One of the principal reasons for maintaining this vital base is that it guards the approach es to the Panama Canal. The National Budget President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the main, elicited praise for his state of the union message in which he promised that his budget request would be 5597 plus billions, and less than the current year spending by $500 million. In turn, he urged speedy enactment of a cut in income tax rates, promised an attack on poverty, and said operating efficiencies could and would be effected in virtually all areas of the far-flung federal establishment. Two areas are hardly parable. One is the interest on the national debt, a growing figure, and the other is in bene fits to veterans. It is obvious that a logical place for paring was in the military outlays, which represents this year more than half the total spending. In slicing the re quests of the joint chiefs of staff. Presi dent Johnson is harking back to earlier days, prior to World War II, when cut ting of money requests was axiomatic policy, though Congress was more often ! the paring agency. Obviously, no responsible person would want a return to the depression days, when funds were short to the point it required the signing of a half-dozen requisition forms to obtain issue of a bucket of paint. On the other hand, any person who has had the pleasures of ; military duty is aware that there is often : considerable waste in the conduct of the armed forces. It is also logical that, after several years of heavy production, the stockpile of nuclear weapons is sufficient for a partial production cut-back. William Hrakfe McOinaU Death last week of William Henkle McGinnis removed from Kings Mountain a long-term citizen, active businessman, and father of 13 children. Mr. McGinnis was a down- to-earth gentleman of keen good humor and dry wit. In his latter years, when his health was poor, he continued to visit his place of business, result of long years of habit, and invariably, when someone entered the establishment, he would ask, "What can I do for you?" His answer to the how-are-you greet ing would often be answered, “Sober ing up." and was accompanied by a friendly twinkle of his eyes at his own jest. Mr. McGinnis lived a long and useful life and will be missed by many friends of all ages. MARTIN'S MEDICINE •y MARTIN HARMON Inqrnhrnti: bit» of newt u itdom, humor, and oomment*. Direction*: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid ovmlotage. To paraphrcs* the popular tune with a vic«* versa twist. “DON'T smoko, smoko that cigarette!” m-m j The long awaited and much heralded .<tud> by prominent medical rescan hers was made public Saturday and confirms what most folk, including the cigarette puffers, have known sinee they started putting fire to the end of "weeds", which Sir Walter Raleigh, the colonizer, picked up from the Indians many years ago: smoking is not a healthful habit Chatting with Dr. Phillip Pad gett recently. I .suggested that, regardless of the upcoming re port and contentions of the med ical researchers, it was mcrely ; common sens** that the lungs, giv . en man for the intake of oxygen and aeration of the blood stream. ! were not being aided by intake of carbon dioxide or. as the re searchers label them, polyclinic hydrocarbons. Dr. Padgett a greed, and exh.bited much more sons** than I. 'or I was smoking as wo talked, tie doesn't. He also related his wife had dispensed j with the praot np and also with a I chronic hronchitist.vpe cough. In i deed, it was Charlene’s loss of ' cough which caused Phil to ask what had happened. The answer was three months of surcease j from smoking. m-m Dr. J. E. Anthony is another of I the medical contingent who now 1 does not smoke mid he confesses . to burning a large number for ; many years. Not many folk would attempt to kick the smoking hah 1 it as he did. with a pack of cig arettes in his pocket, another in the dash of his car. and another on his bedside table. ■Ml A few folk » know are able to turn on the smoking light or turn it off at will, but these folk are the exceptions. My father is one of them, a onetime inveterate cigar smoker. His smoking |>at tern would continue until he caught a cold and couldn't elimi nate the cough. He w'ould sus pend his habit, then would re sume it months later when his weight got out of hand. I am not of the same type. Either I smoke, or don't, and it has hcen more than a decade since I took an 18-month saboti cal from the habit. At the time. I was having more than an undue amount of stomach upset and de cided that par* of the trouble came from inhalation of cigarette smoke. An alternate cause of the upset may also have been the fact of a long, hard trip to Chap el Hill for the Dukc-Carolina football game. And the road back was longer and harder, as Duke had shellacked my Tar Heels by 3-1 to 0. My resumption was oc casioned by teasing myself with cigars, which arc not cut out for me. Shortly I was back in the old foolish habit. A sample of my personal rea soning that cigarettes do one's physique harm is nry memory on resumption that the first one ol the day produced considerable dizziness the first few days. I have reported it previously, hut it's worth repeating. Paul Mauney quit the habit many years ago on grounds that the habit was too time-consuming. I'd never thought about it and Paul explained. A fellow smokes his last one. then borrows a couple from hb. neighbors until he can take 15 minutes to head for the tobacco counter. Mean time. he probably runs out of matches, or his lighter exhausts its fuel or flint supply. The very act of lighting up costs time. Also reported here previously' was the thought of Ed Rankin.' former secretary of two gover nors (Urnslead and Hodges> that1 some future governor might find himself in a very bad state fiscal. situation, should people suddenly > begin believing the anti-smoking reports and acting accordingly. Ed. who doesn’t smoke, said the day might come when he'd have to assume the habit as a matter of patriotism to the Tar Heel state. It was a quite cogent point, for North Carolina is the leading state in the manufacture of cig arettes i325 billion last year) and is one of the leading states in the i growing of the leaf. Virginia is second in cigarette production, at 115 billion. According to the New York • Times, tobscco consumption Bo 1961 averaged 3.986 cigarettes per person in the U. S. A. That’s 200i nacks per year, less than one1 dally. But something less than half the population smokes.1 which means the average cigar-t ette user turns well over a pack ; per day. The Swiss smoke more than we do. Still, in spite of warnings of researchers, people continue to smoke, with consumption u p throe percent in Ml And moat probably will continue. Got a notch? flfNt RWmy't Flwt My htihi Viewpoints of Other Editors MANY KINDS OP THAW The most significant trend in ! today’s world, the impulse with the wildcat sweep aiul acceptance by governments and peoples a like, is toward a particular kind of peacemaking. It is not a mere yearning for peace, crying harmony as if hu man difference* t-*uld be abolish ed overnight. The new mood is more practi cal. It seeks to enable men and institutions to live with their dif ferences without enmity. And to accept changes without war es pecially on those painful occa sions when there are shifts of power between one group and another. There is no formal declaration to this effect that anyone could put his finger upon, except that this is implicit in the United Na tions Charter. The underpinning of the new attitude is the grim facto f the balance of terror and tlie willingness of the free nations to stand guard thaw in and thaw out. Aggression simply has no prospect of gain, so practical men accept this and turn to oth er means of accomplishing their aims. | No serious persons argue that in the new condition conflict will <ease. On the contrary’, it surely is realistic to say that a thousand conflicts will shift from the realm of physical force to the level of the conflict of ideas. Most intelli gent persons, experienced in pub lic affairs, will agree that human differences tend to become even more fundamental when they ate pushed hack to their foundations in concepts and convictions. The higher form of conflict could — one does not want to borrow trouble become even more- in tense. But the kind of hatred and fear that can lead in the political world to madness and killing and in the civilian world to the turn ing of differences into walls, can be put outside* the pale. The new morale underlies the political thaw in the West. It may who knows? -enable the period of easement ahead to ac complish more than a cold calcu lation of forces and positions would permit. The same approach to the handling of differences in time to change was found in the initiatives of Pope John XXIII which went beyond their immedi ate effect on his own church and touched the conscience of many men. It has been visible in Pope Paul's pilgrimage to the Holy Lan dand his gesture of respect and good will which brought a, thaw to the relationship between the Vatican and the Orthodox, Church. It must have come with some’ measure of grace to the tangled relations between Jew and Arabi as well as to the competitive; roles of many churches and; church factions in thp holy places' of Jerusalem. The many kinds of thaw that, are visible in today's world affect' violence nad extremism, both of: hand and heart, so that the dif-, fedenoes between men. honest or otherwise, can be dealt with more1 on their merits. This type of world Is a better world. This is a kind of peacemaking that seems to be evolving “in the minds of men." The Christian Science Monitor RETRAINING THE UNEMPLOYED Some of the special obstacles that block jobs for the hard-core unemployed are reflected in a Labor Department study disclosing that the federal re training program ia shutting out mony of those moat In need of to qualify tor work. State employment agencies, charged with the responsibility for picking trainees who will I PLAYED AGAME OF HAPPINESS The Times lost two friends over the weekend. We knew these two for the frame of happiness they played with us. Always cheerful and merry, able to enjoy every day. we look hack osn them as being similar in mans ways as they shared with us their happy per sonalities which contained at the same time huirble appreciation for tiro many blessings they had been able to enjoy. Paul Mowery and A. C. i Red i Dellinger died within two days of each other. Both fell victim to' cancer both hid ml hair both( held the key to contentment and' a good Viatui edness that won them friends wherever they went Mowery possessed a formula for getting the most out of life.' A doting father of seven children, ages three to 17. he found time to enjoy with them their many activities. On his city mail route he had gained the love of every patron for his friendliness and sense of duty. We will miss Red Dellinger's faithful visits and flashing grin. He had beeom« a part of every working day when The Times and Crawley Chevrolet Oo. lived side by side oti E. Warren Street. While neither man Icavbs a monument to history, they leave a host of friends who eared and who will remember them fondly. They were the type of people who are any town's best natural resource. The Cleveland Time* of finding jobs when they have finished their courses, tend to pass over the most disadvantag ed among the jobless — the old est. the youngest and the least educated. Those enrolled for training ate drawn primarily from the ranks of the jobless with high school diplomas and in the prime working ages of 22 through M. The explanation is simple: they are the easiest to trahia nds»| so the ones most in demand bv employers. But the Fedetal retraining pro gram is not s.mply a numbers game. ..i whic.i success is meas ured by how rapidly trainees fin ish their course-.- and get jobs. Specialized projects to aid the; unskilled and undereducated workers, who**- jobs are being snuffed out most rapidly by au tomation. must receive higher priority in the program. Secre tary of Labor Wirtz has demon strated his awareness of the ur gency of this need. But specializ ed projects are costly. They are a necessary part of the vastly i expanded assault on all aspects! of ingrown unemployment that ; demands national attention and. action The Nrtr York Time* j YEANS AGO THIS WEEK MamUaim mrm people m 1 luisti Mm from Ms at film af tka Kimg* Wtmnfa» I HormU~ The North Carolina Utilities Commission on Tuesday granted the City of Kings 'Mountain a certificate of convenience and necessity for the sale of natural gas within the eity limits. Members of the Junior Wo man's club will conduct the 1954 Mother’s March for the benefit of the March of Dimes campaign Thursday nigh: beginning at 7 o'clock. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. G. E. Bridges was hostess Tuesday afternoon to members of the Home Arts club at har honfc. "The Gods Are Dying99 By He*. Norman H. Posey Pastor of Groce Methodist Church Scripture; I Corinthians s Text: 1 Corinthians *:6 To us thflT is but one God, the Father, of whom an* ali things, and we in him: and one lord Jesus Christ, by whom arc all things, and we by him." Though Jesus Christ came nearly two th-usand years ago and taught men to pray "Our Father”, then* are still a great number of people who pray "My Fattier '. God, they believe, is their exclusive possession. He is their God and their* alone. He is the God thut belong* wholly to their planet, t'loir race, their na tion. Iheir denomination. He may exist for others, hut only in a marginal capacity. The confusion among Chris tians is that they have never reallyvseparawt! God Irom the gods. They have always had their God and their gods. Men accept ed the Ood of the Hebrews, and later the God o. Jesus Christ, but they have noier really freed themselves from the gods. Tottay in thir. changing world of crises after < rises, the < !od ami Father of our I ord Ji*siis Christ reigns, but the ‘gods’ are dying. Past concepts- of God cannot with candor h * held any longer, any more than the cosmology of Jesus’ day can suffice for today. The ancient eon <s*pt was that the* sky was a huge dome in which the stars vert* embedded, and that fitted ove>- a flat, four-cor nered earth that floated upon the waters. Hell ar.d Paradise Uhe intermediary place • were in the earth, and above the canopy of the sky there were the Heavens. So close weie tin* ■»■«•** ens that mail thought »'u.i by much brick making t cou'tl huilil a tower that would rea. h into them. God was small, though larger and more powerful than man. At cre ation He worked for six days, and like men He tired and rested on the seventh day. He walked the earth; men heard his voice. The sun could la* comma tid ed to stand still even though it had stood still, relatively speak ing. from the time that matter began. A flood could cover the face of Ihe earth. God was the god of the earth, fci the days of the Israelites, God was even limiter to Palestine and its environs. Today G.xl is not just the G<xl of this spivk of dust we call earth: lie is the God of a universe that staggers our ima gination. There are worlds with out number, so many that all who have ever lived and died up on this earth could have an earth of his very own. Today we anti cipate excursions to regions of the ifiiivcrse that previous gener ations could never conceive. As our knowledge of God's creation increases, our concepts of God must grow, thr god of the earth is dying. II. The racial god is dying. Milleniums in the future men will look back with wonder on how a little diflerence in the pig mentation of the skin could have caused so much concern and strife in the world. History a bounds with instances of race pitted against race. God was the God of the Hebrews. They were his chosen people. All others were the scum of the earth. Across the bridge of thousands of years, from Genghis Khan to Adolph Hitler, one so-called super race after another poisoned the minds of mrti a bridge of blood, con quest, tyranny and oppression which extends to our vety hour of history. But the racial god is dying. There is a rising o; men of ail races for the cause of the op pressed. God no longer belongs Just to “white" men. In God's taco there is the pigmentation of all races. X<» longer can men twist the concepts or the Scriptures to place a "mark" on the colored races. Any “mark" that exists is on him who so states and not on another. Four scon* anil twenty years ago this nation affirmed out of war and bloodshed that the color ed race should no longer he held as human slavrs; it failed at that time to establish that they were to be accepted as human beings. The racial god is dying. All men are brolhers. III. The national god is dying. The idea tha* Gtsl was the god of our nation alone has the death, rattle. If G.sl is the God of any one nation. He is the God of each ami of all nations. In some minds Cod is a Don, crat; in oIH»t minds Ho is a R< puhlic&i. God certainly is tin* Ijnl of capitalism. By no mrai s could Ho ever ho tho g<nl of sc iolism. Ho is our protoot or. ip* suharrWies to our way of lift*. But the loailor of a godless nation shames our morality by looking askance at our "<•80^0" girlie^. Our wars wore really Clod's wars. lie was with us. Wo could n’t entertain tho thought th.it possibly ho could be with anothrr naion. Wo have not seen that Coil w.i. really the champion of .to nation but truth and righteousness. Tho national god is dying. War with all its evils has had its good. Our involvement with other n.i lions has lessened fear and brought understanding. Men are substituting the conferr.ice table for bullets. World travel. change students, the Peace C|\ and ma.ty other advance-men™^ communication and transport./ tldh have brought the world in closer contact. We have featv i those that were different. Now fear is giving way to understand ing. The. national god is dying God is tlie God of all the nation^ of the earth. In our day there are no foreigners. IV’. The dew minational god is dying. In answer to the qufery to what church one belongs, the average person today teplies "f don’t know what different* it makes; we are all going to the same place." 'Hie preachers ir.av pre" for a Baptist, Methodis’, Presbj terian. or wha' have you kind of heaven, hut in the minds of the* mass«*s the denominational Hen\ en and god are dying. It is inoonoe!\a.ile that tho.-c sacraments that Jesus gave to his diciplcs as a means of uniting and bringing them in closer fel lowship with ejt-h other and with Clod should hre-ome instillment' of division. That comim>nion and the sacrament of Ilolv Baptism divide* those* wi.o bear his nanv* is unthinkalbc. and yet it is a fact. If Jesus were here in the flesh today. his words spoke n to . the* Pharisee's would he* mild in 1 comparison to what he would say | to theise who use the means vieled for fellowship for divi^B and strife. In a!l clarity He WMr proclaim. "Verily, verily, I say unto you. it is better lot a man not to e»bs«*i* e the sacraments at all than to observe the*m with bigotry, atiel malice, and pride, and hate in the* heart." Tlie denominational picture* has never been on" of be*auty to look u|x>n. Tlie* horrible things that have* happened in the past among all groups of Christians must uc forgotten. Skeletons e*an he raitl <*d in all denominational closets. Much of our diversity has come because we kn .w not how to pro perly interpiv* or understand the* Scriptures and bec ause- we want ed to serve God more* with out hearts than with our minds. No longer cai Cod la* confined to only a part of the* Christian Church. T*»day we see how the* Holy Spirit has. is, and continue s to work in all churches. Together, and only together, will the church stand. It is one body, or it is con fusion. Churches are forgetting their outworn concepts, their ig norant dogmas, their foolish and silly diversions: and ar<> talking with each other. Churches are* merging into The Church. Lead ers an* looking for answers - n*>t in a time-worn tradition, but to the* New Testament and to the Spirit of Jesus Christ. The Roman Catholic Pope the Eastc-rn Orthodox Pair! have* embraced each other in the Holy Land. It is our prayer that a third party may soon enter the embrace, and a new e*ra begin in the history of Christendom. The denominational gods ate* dying, but the God of our Lord Jesus Christ is not dead. As lie spoke of old, lie can and doe speak today—te. you and to me He needs only the outrearhing spirit of a dedicated and devoted lift*. We do not say that the gods of the earth, race, nation and do nomination an* dead. They are dying. It may he that some will never let them die. or will cm balm them in an endeavor to pro long their stay; but ultimately the find of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Church shall reign. Brymer Insorance Agency DIAL MA 9-3502 1NSUBANCE FOB YOUR EVERY NEED UFE - HEALTH . AUTO FERE 1191. Vo. Am — Btiwnir City ASSIGNED SISK — FAST FS-I — WE FINANCE TODAY M