North and South Carolina with alert
and progressive private power inter¬
ests have experienced great industrial
development since World War II, Ten¬
nessee has lagged behind so badly that
70 of her 90 counties have been listed
as distress areas in need of federal aid,
and Senator Kefauvcr has named
Knoxville and Chattanooga as ““ma¬
jor areas in need of redevelopment
help."
From what we know and have heard
we are convinced that North Carolina
is fortunate to have two of the largest
and most progressive power companies
in the nation — Duke and Carolina
Power A: Light which pay taxes
and meet every demand for service. —
fuiurinburg Exchange.
amLsh confound Svelfarers’
A current argument raises some in¬
teresting points about whether every¬
one must get welfare benefits front the
government, wanted or not. Now
Washington has heard again front a
group of people who don’t want any
benefits.
The Amish farmers of the Penn¬
sylvania Dutch country said Social Se¬
curity payments dilute the initiative of
their youths who are taught to prepare
for old age through hard work and
thrift. Furthermore, argue the Amish,
paying Social Security taxes infringes
constitutional guarantees of their re¬
ligious freedom.
Internal Revenue Service officials
finally persuaded a group of Antish
bishops that the present law gives the
service no discretion and that they
must pay, and receive benefits.
In short, a government so geared
up for dispensing welfare on a big
scale isn't going to resist giving it to
individuals who don’t even want it.
They'll cram it down your throat if
they have to sit on you to do it. —
Savannah (Ga.) Evening Press.
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Isn’t it time to take the dunce
cap oil Uncle Sam’s head?
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We arc still waiting for our liberal
friends to explain the difference be¬
tween Hitler's march into the Sudc-
tcnland. Stalin’s swallowing up of
Latvia, Hsthonia and Lithuania and
Nehru’s current conquest of Goa,
Damao and Diu.
I here must be a difference some¬
where because Mr. Nehru is a man
of peace who would never dream of
resorting to violence to gain his own
ends.
Perhaps the difference is that Goa,
Damao and Diu have been under
Portuguese rule for more than 400
years; while the Sudeten had been
under Czech rule for less than a quar¬
ter of a century and the Baltic re¬
publics had been free for only a few
decades.
We are being cynical, of course. If
there is any difference between Mr.
Nehru's resort to force and that of the
two dictators now gone, it is not in
the Indian premier’s favoi.
But, his cold-blooded, calculated ac¬
tion has done at least one thing. It has
shown up in true colors the biggest of
the self-serving “‘neutrals’’ who has al¬
ways been so free with pious advice
to the world.
We now know what a “ neutral" will
reveal when scratched deeply enough.
Perhaps, as a result, we will no longer
feel compelled to lie down and roll
over every time one of them frowns.
If we have a basic weakness in our
national armor, it has been our readi¬
ness to attempt to adopt a national
posture pleasing to our ““neutral"
critics, who have always been able to
find much wrong with us, but precious
little wrong with our enemies.
We have been willing to squander
our wealth on foreign boondoggles de¬
signed to keep "neutrals" neutral. We
have been anxious to sacrifice national
pride and forsake proven friends to
erase a "neutral" frown from the face
of nations not yet dry behind the ears.
We have even been willing, in some
quarters, to scuttle the white race for
nothing more rewarding than the effect
it might have "on the minds of un¬
committed peoples.”
As a result, our national posture
has become that of a country with a
guilt complex reclining on the couch
of the one-world psychiatrists who
have prescribed as a cure that we kick
our friends in the shins abroad and
put a ceiling on patriotism at home.
Item one: We stopped the French
and British at the Suez and planted
the seeds for trouble to bloom later
along the length of the Panama canal.
Item two: We joined the pack of
“anti-colonials" until we hounded the
Belgians out of the Congo; now we
are trying to purchase an uneasy truce
among the savages.
Item three; We rarely missed an
opportunity to kick Portugal in the
shins; and. while we now protest the
results, we paved the way for the In¬
dian take-over of Goa, Damao and
Diu — a perfect excuse for Castro to
renew his demands over Guantanamo.
Is it not lime, at long last, to quit
pretending to be something we are not?
Is it not time again to begin acting
like a sovereign, independent nation,
answerable to nobody but God for our
acts? And is it not time to start acting
when our own national interest is at
stake? Let’s doff the dunce cap once
and for all.
Math Qaiz
By O. F. McCRARY
Solution to Problem No. 95
Let x — the number of each.
3x — number of dollars sheep
cost.
5x — number of dollars hogs
cost.
4x number of dollars calves
cost.
I2x — 108
x — 9, the number of each.
Problem Number 96
A farmer pul away a quantity of
black walnuts in a bin, to provide nut-
meats for cakes, candies, etc., made by
his w ife. As spring came he decided to
sort them over for bad ones. When he
had completed the culling, he found
that the total of the good ones, when
divided into lots of 5 left 2 over; when
divided into lots of 7 left 4 over; and
when divided into lots of 9 left 6 over.
What was the minimum number of
good walnuts?
THE STATE. January 20. 1962
