Thursday, November 23, 1961

All Us Have Reason For Thanks

This is the special day of the year Americans by people of other nations, have set aside for giving thanks for the J)lessings of There have been trials and tribulations, hard-the past year, for quiet moments f meditation and ship and tragedy during the year for the nation and for family gatherings. for individuals. Yet there is* no person who pauses

It is the day that traditionally has represented the today who cannot find much for which he is thankful.^ completion of another han^est; the day that provides There is no person who will take a few moments for a brief respite from the toils and troubles that have meditation on this Thanksgiving Day who does not beset the people. From its informal beginning with the find his heart overwhelmed with gratitude, and a new ' Pilgrim fathers, it has become a national holiday of blessing in the joy of rendering thanks to the Almighty ' both special and unique significance. , for that which he has received.

There may be some who look back on the past ^ r-uj-K-r\

year of crises and troubles, at home and throughout C^OP

the world and question what special blessings there vJwVCillwX VJIVt?D

are to be thankful for. By and large, however, those J *1.

persons who-consider the meaning of Thanksgiving Cjt LrCllt

Day will find that their blessings are beyond countnig. ^ ^ ^

Compared with other peoples of the world, Ameri- Gov.*^anfords assertion that the Republican party

cans have much for which to give thanks on this day. played a major role in defeat of the recent state-wide The nation has been blessed with prosperity, but bond proposals gives the GOP credit for considerably blessings cannot be measured in material things alone, more influence than they actually have in North Caro-While much of the world lives under the heel of politics.

tyranny, Americans still live in freedom. While much Sanford, of course, pointed out that blame for de-

of the world lives in fear, we live in security unknown feat of the bond issues must be shared by many Tar

Heels, including himself. Even so, his statement concerning the GOP gives that party more credit than it deserves.

It is our impression that voters in the recent referendum cast their ballots without regard to partisan feelings or affiliation. It is also our guess that most of the no votes on the bond issue were cast by those who consider themselves Democrats rather than Republicans. We seriously doubt that the Republican this prayer for fruitful seasons organization in the state has sufficient strength or

l- influence to bring about the kind of lopsided margin dustrlal as well as field pro- by which the bond issues were defeated.^ ducts: Almighty God, who has A county-by-county review of voting in the refe-

reodum shows that many counties which normally are

In the Pioneer Tradition

Now Observing Old Tradition

By LYNN NISBET

THANTCSGIVING - Thanks^ giving Day as a special or a particular season has lost much 0 its original significance. Although it always Involved much more than gratitude for ample har\ests, the date fixed almost a century ago was selected because it came Just after the crops had been gathered into the storehouses to supply food and warmth for the coming winter.

Now so large a part of the Income from farm crops come* In regular weekly or monthly periods, and a much larger part of the entire family Income Is derived from sources other than field crops, the date i* not Important.

It is appropriate, howevi.-, to set aside a particular time for special thanksgiving. And the traditional date in late November is as good as any.

So this is Thanksgiving time. Literally millions of words will be written about the occasion, the propriety of giving thanks and a listing of the things for which thanks are due. There will be widely divergent opinion on that last point. There will be those to contend that with threats of war and turmoil throughout the world, with newspapers. radio and politicians blaring ouf warnings of total destruction of the human race by reason of nuclear bombs and fall-out, there is nothing to be thankful for. There are others who will remind that the sun rose as usual this morning and that there are more churches and colleges than there are bombs, and that fall-out from them has been very potent through the,years.

COMMONThere are many creeds and religious faiths in the United States and in North Carolina. All except a few with insignificant adherents accept as a fact the existence of a God, a Supreme Being, one who has control over all events. And, on Thanksgiving the thanks of these millions are offered to the giver of all good things. Modern hymn writers ai^d poets have sought ways to say it better, but none has Improved upon the words of the Psalmist and the authors of the Book of Common Prayer.

Take the 100th Psalm in the Prayer Book text: O be Joyful In the Lord, all ye lands; serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be sure that the Lord he is God: it IS he that hath made us and not we ourselves: we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

"O go your way Into his bates with thankstflvlogr and into hi* courts with praise: be thankful unto him and speak good of his name. For the Lord 1* gracious. his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth from gen-' eratlon to generation.

FRUITFUL SEASONS - And

ftpraTi!*t the bond issues. Surely the Republican party

cannot be given credit for bringing about such a i?

switch. Counties in which the GOP has little influence By WAL BU I showed in many instances much closer votes on the ^ ^ we may gather the fruits of the question of issuing the bonds than possibly could be earth and ever rejoice in thy accorded partisan affiliation of the voters.

Gov. Sanford, rather than hurting GOP prestige

eveMs^e?d?uWw thVe^o^f heavily in the Democratic column were also heavily man, and has commanded us to work with quietness and to eat our own bread: Bless the labors of the husbandman, ajid grant such seasonable weather that

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goodness, to the praise of the holy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

GENERAL THANKSGIVINGThen there Is the General Thanksgiving which every Episcopal congregation says in concert during the prayer service:

'Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life: but above all for thine ine.stimable love In the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be un-feignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our liv by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ oiw Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory, world without end."

FOR OUR COUNTRYAnd then this Prayer for Our Country, which is one of the finest pieces of Engll.sh composition ever written: Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage; we humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favor and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honorable Industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogan-cy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fa.sh-lon Into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds of tongues. Endue with the spirit of wi.sdom those to whom in thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be Justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to thy law we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth In the tirne of prosperity, fill our heart with thankiulnc..s.s, and In the day of trouble suffer not our trust In thee to fail: all which we ask through Je.sus Christ, our Lord.

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in North Carolina, has helped the Republicans by im- new YORK (AP) Amerl- A present-day Thanksgiving re- of children all exhausted by ^ ^ _____

plying they were able to engineer defeat of the bond cas most forgotten Thanksglv- duces many a modem man to a hardship and a crowd of hungry Khrushchev acts like a

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT '

Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Those who are too easily* discouraged by the course of events, forget that they need to be thankful for life itself. Were there no Thanksgiving Day, we should still be grateful that we .live in thi* era of futile de-stru^ion.

Man, in his limited wisdom, ha* now been able to prove that he can destroy what God has made, but he has not yet proved that he can make what God has made. It is possible now to de-sU*oy everything but we cannot make everything. We can destroy the Earth, but we cannot make the Earth. We can make a 50 Megaton Bomb and we know how to use It to smash what It has Uken millennia to make, but we cannot produce the Earth Itself. We have great knowledge and even wisdom but we know little of what we are doing.

And so we need to be thankful that our learning has not taught us to be so destructive that nothing is left of life. We have gone far in our ability to destroy; yet we have not been able really to destroy anything. We have gone far In discovering the secrets of science; yet the toW result of our activities is hardly, perceptible.

We must be thankful that In this period of leaderless men who quarrel with each other for matters which are hardly meaningful, the most that can be said Is that men battle, against each other futilely but that in all their hatUes, they have hardly really destroyed anything that cannot be rebuilt. No achievement of man and no monument of Gods creation has been destroyed during this period of mans inhumanity to man.

We need to be thankful that

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WASHINGTON (AP) One of the mast long-winded discus-sioms in hLstoryon how to ban nuclear weapon testsis about to get longer. The talks are scheduled to begin In Geneva next Tuesday. Only an optimist tould believe there will be any agreement.

These talks have been, and will be, like a slow waltz with part of the orchestra missing. The present nuclear powers the United States, Britain and the Soviet Unionwill be the ones doing the discussing.

Missing will be France, which already has developed atomic power and tested it, and Red China, which may be in the nuclear weapon business before long.

On and off for 16 yearsthe United States in 1945 first proposed control over atomic weaponsthis country and the Soviet Union, and later Britain, have talked, and bumbled, and stumbled about it. The last talks truly* ended In an expiation.

They began Nov. 1. 1958 and hemmed and hawed for almo.st three years along with a voluntary hall to testing by the Big Three for the, same period. On Aug. ,30 Premier Khrushchev announced the Soviet Union would end the moratorium and resume testing.

So the talks broke up Sept. 9. In the mcantiriie the Soviet Union has had at least 31 tests in the atmo6^here. This country has resumed testing underground and hasnt said it wont try it in the atmosphere, too.

With much of the rest of the world shocked by this Fourth of July display by the two nuclear giants, this country and Britain on Nov. 13 proposed to the Soviet Union that the test-ban talks be resumed-

And now the Soviet Union, which has done about all the testing It needs for the present, agreed. This is more remarkable for what the Soviet* slid they thought of test-ban talks even before the last talks ended.

They argued Just talking about banning nuclear weapon tests was not enough. They demanded these talks be made part of a discussion, under sponsorship of the United Nations, on general and complete disarmament.

Now theyve agreed to resume Just talking about a test ban on nuclear weapons-

If the Big Three ever reached an agreement on this it's pos

sible Prance might go along although it isnt taking part in the discussion- But theres absolutely no assurance Red China would.

The Chinese Commimlsts could not be bound by some agreement in which they have no part. Nevertheless, this roughly Is what the American-British proposals to the Soviet Union call for:

1. Agreement by the Big Three to set up control posts in their countriesmanned by outsidersto prevent any cheating on a test ban.

2. Then control posts would be set up in other important countriesparticularly those bordering on the big neclear powers -like Red China.

3- Then control posts would be extended to other countries around the world. The idea calls for setting up a total of 180 such control posts by the end of six years after the Big Three reach agreement.

Unless this was donefor instance, if Red China refused to let any outsiders establish cpri-trol posts inside her borders the agreement wouldnt be binding on the Big Three.

It may be only a few years before Red China has developed its own nuclear power. Since she Is not completely happy with her Soviet nelghbot, and not at all happy wltji the United States, she might refuse to observe the agreement which after all she took no part in.

What then? Thats an unplea.s-ant thought. Meanwhile the Big Threewith the rest of the nonnuclear world looking oncan at least say theyve been talking, whether or not It does any good-

him. But when you hear his story you may agree i.ts time a grateful nation built a monument to him, perhaps in the shape of a gigantic aspirin tablet or tranquilizing pill medical weapons he could well have* used 340 years ago.

Dr. Fuller sailed as the only physician among the 102 passengers on the Mayflower. Sieges of cold, hunger and sickness had reduced the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Mass., to about 50 when Dr. Fullers long holiday ordeal began.

That was on Dec. 13, 1621,

net, and the choice of a hundred patented nostrums at his friendly, neighborhood druggist.

Such was hardly the situation that faced Dr. Fuller on Americas first Thanksgiving Day in 1621.

Here Is a picture to make any physician in history turn pale;

1. A feast than rah for three full daysnot one.

2- A menu that ranged from gooseberries to pumpkin pie, from cornbread to venison stew, clams, goose and ,turkey, all washed down probably with

gorge on anything that has had its fur or feathers removed.

For three days the Pilgrims ate, drank and prayed, and for three days and three xiights the Indians ate, drank and whooped it up all over the landscape.

You cant have a party like that without someone askJcg, Is there a doctor in the house.* Dr. Fuller was the only one.

No one knows the trouble he faced. There must have been burnt fingers, cuts and bruises to treat during those three long aays.

How do you treat a child sick

when the Indian chief Massa- green wine and strong wa- from too many goaseberrles? A

solt arrived with 90 of his braves to help the Pilgrims celebrate their first bountiful harvest.

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3. A host group of 50 rundown Pilgrims including only five surviving women and a number

Other Editors Saying... Too Many Conventions

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(Washington Dally News)

The fellow, Charles Holloman, Ftate Budget officer, might not have endeared himself to some members of the top ranking echelon of state government, but he did Rive the taxpayers of North Carolina an earful when he disclosed that so many state officials arp spending too much time attending conventions and away from their work in the state.

Mr. Holloman revealed that one official has spent 58 days away from the state within the past four months. Another official has spent 44 days away from the state attending conventions within the past four months. "Both of them are asking for assistant awlministra-lors, says Mrs. Holloman.

Now the first implication is that these two men and perhaps many more state employes ought'to slay on their jobs and pet the work done rather than be skipping here and there over the country attending conventions. If they would stay here and do the work they are being paid to do, they would probably not now need assistant administrators.

But there is another angle to this matter that ought to be discussed, and Mr. Holloman or some top slate official ought to do the job. The people of North Carolina ought to know who Is galavanting around the country and who is staying on the Job at home. Names ought to be called, and those engaging in the convention league ought to Lave their records looked at by the people of North Carolina. After all, it is taxpayers mon

ey being used to pay their salaries and their travelling expenses. Tihs is the business of the people, and the people have a right to know what goes on in their business.

We feel sure that some conventions cause a state official to do a better Job. But how can a man do a good Job when he is away from his work for 58 days out of a period of four months? It does not make much practical common sense.

Mr, Holloman might not realize the tremendous service he has given to the people of North Carolina in his attitude toward officials spending their time at conventions while at the same time asking for assistants to do the work.

All the money the state of North Carolina has to spend is money belonging to the taxpayers of this state. If money is to be spent unwisely, then it is the same as wasting it. And with the pinch of high taxes in our state, the taxpayers are not of a mind to stand by idly and see money thrown away.

Yes, wed like to see some names called. If the people of North Carolina do not know the names of the convention trotters. how can the people make the proper complaints?

Mr. Holloman is already high on our list of state employes who have given distinguished service. Now he can render ever more distinguished service by simply calling the names of the convention set.

This thing has gone far enough apparently. Now is the time to air the entire story publicly. The people have a right to know.

Pilgrim father sick from too much food? A Pilgrim mother sick from exhaustion and anxiety?

Or what remedy do you offer 91 savage Indians suffering at the same time from stomachaches and hangovers? , Well. Dr. Fuller left no record. But he must have found helpful such common herbs as these:: Feverfewfor headaches. "Foxglovefor the heart, and as a purge and emetic. ParsleyFor children when troubled with wind in the stomach.

Pennroyalto revive those in swoons. Also good for gums and gout. s s

Wormwoodfor diarrhea. Wild woadto staunch bleeding.

Whatever remedies Dr. Fuller employed, the three-day Thanksgiving celebration ended with no listed major casualties.

Opinions In Brief

In noting the two most often given reasons for enjoying newspaper work, being in the midst of things and in a position to serve public needs, it is hard to think of anything that offers these in such abim-dance as a small town pajaer. The Publishers Auxiliary.

Recent events in the White House show that the President and Mrs. Kennedy have genuine interest in the cultural arts. But the pattern set in the White House must be followed In the city.*Sanford (N.C.) Herald.

Two prospectors are digging gold out of the hills In Stanly County. Lets ee now. Is there a sales tax on gold you dig out, cr Just on gold you pay out? The Raleigh Times.

shrieking, he does a fighting war. He shouts but he does not shoot. He terrorizes but he does not destroy. He stands before the wadis of states blurting forth imprecations and threatening violence, but It all ends in noise and echoes. And when the* threats have maule him hoarse, others settle down to their daily tasks, wondering what he will do next but no longer fearing the consequences of his imprecations.

We axe thankful that our own country has been able to go through this period of terror without losing our stability suid without such misconduct as can only lead to self-destruction. In fact, we have come through the worst of it all, stronger than when we started, more able to meet crisis after crisis, more imified as a people, s

We aire thankful that we are achieving unity as a people. The elements of disunion are being eliminated from our society. The extremists of the Left and of the Right, those who live by hate and prejudice or treason, are being found and scourged and the nation grows stronger through unity of'ideals. It is wholesome that extremism should be extirpated.

We are thankful that we recognize the weakness of our institutions and that w*e seek means to correct our errors and to build a stronger society based on the ideals of our ancestries. We do not suffer from stiff-neckedness and false pride.

We are thankful that we have gone through a period of fear and distress and have come out of it courageous and more sure of ourselves, daring' greatly to build a stronger society based upon "historic memory and not *upon the hearsay of the moment.

Political opportunism is giving way to noble ideals.

We are thankful that In this era of revolution and disturbance we have succeeded in achelvlng a political change quietly and peacefully and that we have continued our orderly way of government.

We are grateful that we have overcome our own prejudices which make for weaknesses, that we have reached a moment in our history when religious distinction have not continued discriminations among citizens, so that'all are equal in the eyes of their neighbors as they are In the eyes of their God.

And so. we are thankful to the God of our Fathers that while in other lands, meanness of spirit, confusion of ideals and Judgement continues, in our country, we are achieving understanding and human affection, that to us is coming the evidence of the brotherhood of man in all its reality.

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A PRESSING QUESTION Bhould children be required to attend church?

There are some who say no. Let a child grow up without prejudice and when years of discretion arrive the child can choose for himself or herself. The trouble <^lth this point of view is that the child is being trained by this policytrained not to attend church, trained not to regard church attendance as a matter of much Importance.

Every church 1* a family under God. Children are very important person* in every family and eapecially in the church family A child ahould be required to attend church with this rrqulrement, of course, becoming less insistent as adoles-ccnse progresses. Then when ^he child reache* maturitjr he

will have an opportunity to decide whether church attendance is profitable or not. The decision wUl then be up to him. and he will have reached sufficient maturity to make a right decision possible.

Children neither oppose discipline nor religious training. All they require is* that the discipline be Just and that the religious training reflect a parental faith which is sincere. If the youngster gets the idea that dad and mothers religion 1* a sham, then look out for trouble In the future. But no matter how severe religious training may be. if it is Just, children are not liable to oppose it or become embittered by It.

That person who has not received some kind' of religious training in childhood is indeed unfortunate. .

By ELMER ROESSNER

A demand for the right to permit the owner of confiscated property to sue wherever he finds such property, it* products or It* contracts was voiced by W. S. Youngman. president of C. V. Starr it Co., at the annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry.

At. present, the victim of seizure has almost no recourse under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which makes foreign governments Immune to suits Victims of Castros seizure have been unable to attach Cuban ships or plane* because, being owned by the Cuban government. they enjoy sovereign immunity.

The law as it stands right now ha* beeni made obsolescent by the changes in fact and custom. Youngman declared. We should not have to stand help-leas in our own court* while the purchaser offers his stolen goods for sale under our very noses.

defending himself smugly on the ground that he took his stolen goods or contracts from a confiscating government, even while the State Department faces a blank wall in asking for compensation.

fiBSOLESCENT EVALUATION

To say that a regime, like Red China or Cuba, can wrap the mantle of United States law about it to prevent a U. S. citizen from recovering his own property is an obsolescent evaluation of the realities in a modern world. A distinguished Euro-pean Justice once disposed of this line of argument in a single sentence. It is a* specious, he said, as a murderer killing his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court on the ground that he Is an orphan.*

Youngman propoaed, by Judicial decision if

statute If necessary, to permit the owner of confiscated prop-

Under such a proposal, the oFners of a confiscated sugar plantation in Cuba could attach Cuban sugar wherever the owners found it any place in the world.

HOLDS HOPE

While Youngman said that the feeling of ineffectiveness of rJn-edies for confiscation is a factor discouraging investment in non-European lands, he said he was not pessimistic himself.

I believe the forces of history are about to call on free enterprise for supreme efforts a bolder, more imaginative role, a higher degree of effectiveness 1)'. serving mans needs, particularly, in Asia.

famous restaurants, opera tickets, tours and other gifts. The service will later offer hinterland Anriericans similar gifts in New York.

GIFTS FOR BOTAGER8 AVAILABLE ON ARRIVAL As a substitute for bon voyage gifts, gifts to traveler* when they reach foreign countries will be available through a new service next January.

.Called Be My Guest. the erty to sue wherjvcr he find* It ^rvlce will arrange for per-or its products. fumes, cbampagn*, honer at

MORE MEAT IMPORTED; GOVERNMENT BITYS MORE The City of Brisbane, du today in Boston from Australia, carries 2,151,200 pounds of.beef.

775.040 pounds of mutton and

215.040 pounds of lamb for Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The Lake Ontario bro^ht in 660.-800 pounds of beef laiTweek and the Pioneer Glen will arrive in New York December 3 with 145,600 pounds. "

Meanwhile.ln the past week, the U. S. government boughi 3.-

192.000 pound* of frozen ground beef at around 42 cent* a pound,

2.850.000 pounds of young chickens* at from 27 to 30 cents a pound, 1,367,925 pounds of can-red chopped meat and 4,737 600 pound* oi lard at slightly under 12 cent* a' pound, the food will be -wed for^ the school iunoh program and needy l*aUie.