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Fotm BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1959 I Top The Morning World Language, 1 I Population Divisions wntwr, Editor i ir A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER FOR 58 YEARS PUBLISHED EVERY BUSINESS DAY NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION Address 339-343 Prince W. Va. HOPSL. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE STORY, BROOKS FWLEy, IXC.

Tork, Dfttrolt, Atlanta, yhiU Clevebtng. Lot Angeles. Stn Francisco Telephones AH Departments Becey CL 3-3321 'MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PXBSS is eniUled to the for an the local news printed in this es well as all AP news I33SCRJPT10N RATES MAIL where we do not have ectabteed deilv- to sure to 9c Zaily and one year $19.00 XfciJy and Sunday, six only, one year only, six months Tw3jer cent sales tax maat be for subscribers within West Wfcen requesting change of address old well HOME DELIVERED By Carrier Or Distributor and Sunday, week Daily Sunday, per njoirth taily and Sunday, per momh AJ3 dealers. distributors, are Independent Beckley not responsible for advance subscription pay- meats raade to them or their representatives. Truman's Declaration Of War Must Be An 'Allied 1 Cause Former President Harry has been miich the news of late.

He has been playing his role of elder statesman to the hilt and has enjoyed the plaudits of one who can say what he thinks without too much care for the consequences. His 75th birthday anniversary was celebrated widely and found the little man who is now an old man almost in 'tears. On April 30 he addressed the Sixth National Conference on International Economic and Social Development. In his address, he offered a new kind of a declaration of war. We have differed with Truman more often than we have agreed with him.

We are not wholly able to agree with him in regard to his "declaration of war" but it does offer some real food for thought. See for yourself: "I believe we shall be living under great tension and in great danger for a long time to come. The threat of war, whether cold or hot or lukewarm, will be the constant companion of this gener- ation, and perhaps the next. The question is, how shall we conduct ourselves in this "1 have a suggestion to make. It is that we as a nation declare a war of our own a war on poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease, and despair.

A war waged at home and abroad. A war waged with the fullest resources of the nation. "I am that if we do that, we can avoid other forms of war, emerge triumphant over so-called communism which is not communism but just olain dictatorship. Then we could build a peaceful and a free world. I am confident that in this course lies the greatest hope and promise of our civilization." THERE IS HARDLY ANYONE who professes to' be a civilized Christian who can find much with which to differ in these words.

They are a summation, and a good one, of the needs of the world and the desires of the free world. The inclusion of home territory as well as the lands abroad for the scene of our battle against poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease, and despair is a necessity. But in order to be successful in such a "war" we feel that the resources of other lands than ours will also be necessary. The U. has hesitated too little at spreading thin its resources.

We have been waging such a war for a long while, in actuality. But our aims have been made none clear to the rest of the world and- our methods have been greatly short of efficiency. To do such a job in this kind of battle, we must enlist greater aid and greater use of the resources of the rest of the free world. The United States is a nation of great wealth but, unlike Atlas, cannot support the universe upon its shoulders alone. Other nations of wealth will have to join the effort and make sacrifices, too, if we are to fulfill Truman's "greatest hope and promise of our civilization." By J.

An item in yesterday morning's "News in Brief "'on the front page was of more than passing interest, we thought. 'It was' the result ofthe first census -or nose-count in the Soviet ifaibntnOT years, "The announced results showed a population increase of 18,100,000 in the past 20 years. Of course, that included the period of the, world con- 1 flagration. which took millions of lives. But it also included the past nine years during which the United States population is estimated to have increased bv 24.5 million.

In other words, our population rose by 6.4 million more in the past nine years than has tne U.S,S.R.'s in the past 20 years. If that rate continues, the United States will soon have more population than Russia for all its vast land area. o-- The item on the front served to confirm previous information were- ceived from the Turkish Information Office which surprised us a bit. The nations among the top-five in population increase in the world 'do not include Japan, or any other nation of the Orient, You might normally have thought the oriental na. tions would lead, but that's not the case.

They've already got plenty, of course. leads the world with a population increase of 30 per thousand. In second place is Canada with an in. crease thousand. Third is Australia, 24.7 per thousand.

Fourth is Romania, 21.7 per thousand. And the United States is fifth largest with a rate of population increase of 17.7 per As we understand it, this "means that the birth rate' exceeds the death rate to that extent (so many per thousand). Here again, we have proof that our free way of life is more encouraging to growth and development. For of the top five nations, only one is an Iron Curtain country. The rest are Turkey, Canada, Australia, and the U.S.

In a way it's surprising that three of the top five are English-speaking nations. If that continues, English may become the language in the world in another thousand years or so. As It is now, Englis is the language of more people than any other except Mandarin Chinese, according to the World Almanac." English is the language of 278 million people-- meaning that about 103 million outside of the U.S. speak English. Mandarin Chinese is spoken by 444 million.

Hindi and Urdu, which are virtually the same language in India and Pakistan, are third with 200 million speakers; Russian Is fourth with 156 million; Spanish fifth with 142 million; and German sixth with 120 million. -Those are tne only languages spoken by as many as 100 million people. Oddly enough, French is way down the list, which is probably one reason it is no longer considered the language of diplomacy or the most international language. Coming ahead of French are Japanese, Bengal, Arabic, and Portuguese in that order. There are 25 languages listed by the World Almanac which are spoken by least one million people.

And there are numbers of them that you probably never heard of before, That seemingly Just goes to prove that world Is indeed a strange place -one in which we are seeking to navigate space to other worlds before we even know our own any too well. -Now we want to pass along a lighter item 'one which we thought pretty good from Future, the national Jaycee magazine. A department store received the following letter from a couple to whom its billing department had written, requesting payment of a long overdue bill (iifce most of ours): "Gentlemen have received your letter of the 28 th and would like you to know we are dividing our creditors into three groups: "1 Those who will be paid promptly. "2 Those who will be paid sometime. Those who will never be paid.

"You will be happy to know that due to the friendly tone of your letter, we have promoted you from Group 3 to Group" 2." Top o' the morning to you I Cheapness Of Life Human life is one of the world's cheapest commodities. No longer is the public shocked by reports of mass death. Scores killed in a plane crash. Dozens of lives snuffed out by a tornado. Thousands killed every year by automobiles.

Murder on every hand. This is in direct contrast to the continued efforts of medical scientists to lengthen the span of human existence. Millions are being expended, in research and study, to eliminate the causes of disease. Thousands of earnest men are spending their lives in research laboratories, seeking new remedies to combat the ills of human flesh. So long as human life is held cheaply there will be no peace among the peoples of the world, and man will miss his ultimate destiny.

Time is a great rectifier. And it never lacks things to rectify. MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON QUESTION: My husband and I go to church quite regularly One thing that disturbs me greatly is that he always has to leave the service shortly after the sermon begins. He then waits in the car for me. He says he can't stand the crowd and other things, yet he seems to be a perfectly well and normal individual.

How can you explain such be- Most commercially grown orchids take five or more years to grow from ANSWER: Your husband could be horribly bored, but I doubt that, because it is possible to endure the most boring talk for a short time, and besides you seem to enjoy it. Most likely he is being pricked by something he hears each week. When a group cf people listened to Peter preaching one time the Bible records that they were "all pricked in their hearts" (Acts People do not usually know what is troubling them when they hear the Bible preached. They often feel uncomfortable during a service. "This is a sign that the i Holy Spirit is convicting them.

It is well that your husband is responding so well, for too many people are quite indifferent to the preaching of the Bible. Pray for him and patiently I encourage him to cor.tinue. God will convict him in answer to your pray; efs and he may yet come to che happy experience of personal faith in i Ray Tucker-Young Trust Buster' Held Back; Too Many Toes Sore Yesterday And Today-Early Account Of Half ield-McCoy Feud By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Some weeks ago there appeared on a television show a man named Hatfield. He was questioned some the show's star as to the number of persons who were slain in the notorious Hatfield-McCoy feud of the 1880's andl890's. While did not sec the show, information that came to me was to the effect that the Hatfield in the show claimed that 300 people were shot and killed in the famous feud, 'That, of course, is highly untrue.

While much time has been giv- ed to study of that feud, such a remark always sends me to check ray sourpes on the subject once more. Before me lies Vol. XXIV, No. '4 of Munsey's Magazine. It iSv the" issue of January, 1901.

this 58-year-old magazine is "The Story of a Mountain Feud" By John R. Spears. Tltts article was written about the time the guns of thefeudists were cooling. Spears tells how he "visited the abandoned home of old Bad Anse, on the east bank of Tug River, opposite the mouth of Peter Creek." There he "found a gaudy lithograph hanging in a Irame above the fireplace. It read: 'There is no place like our and someone, familiar with the history of the locality had scribbled on.the white margin beneath the letters this notthis Side of states in the opening paragraph of his article that "As a result of this quarrel about an almost worthless pair of hogs, at least ten people were shot to death and more than a dozen were wounded by His statement confirms my own findings.

SPEARS CALLS the Hatfield- McCoy feud "the bitterest, deadliest, and most fiendishly cruel feud that this country has ever known." His article is illustrated with numerous drawings, one of which shows Rose Ann McCoy as a beautiful and buxom-bosomed "young lady. She is pictured in the drawing leaning against a rail fence in coquettish conversation with the handsome son of Anse Hatfield "Jonce," as Spears spells the abbfeviated given name of Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield. He was Rose Ann McCoy's suitor. Spears added fanciful touches for color. It was of interest to note that Anderson "Anse" Hatfield is' called "Bad 'Anse" by Spears.

Others called the Hatfield clan head "Devil Anse." Deacon Ellison Hatfield was stabbed and shot by the three sons of Randolph "Rand'l" McCoy at the August election in '1882 at the mouth of Hatfield Branch in Pike County, the doctor who treated him found Ellison had 27 cuts and stabs, one of which pierced his lung. He also frad a. bullet wound in the small of his back and it ranged upward and forward. Ellison Hatfield was called "Deacon" because he was a deacoa in his "HardshelT'Bap- tist 'Church. He had escaped death in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, but was mortally wounded by the three McCoys.

ACCORDING TO SPEARS, Devil Anse had told Randolph McCoy's wife when she pleaded that they not kill her three 'Yo' needn't beg, and yo' needn't cry. Ellison dies, yo-' boys befe got die, d--n my heart ef "they don'tl" Spears reported that Ellison Hatfield's last words were, with reference to the three McCoy boys who had wounded him, "Give them the civil law." But.Devil Anse decreed otherwise. Three McCoys were taken over Tug River and shot to death after being tied to pawpaw trees "about two inches in diameter," Spears "When I visited the spot, a few years ago, to 1901), beech tree that stood not far from the pawpaws had these words carved on it: "TheMcCoy in 1882." SPELLINGS OF THE NAMES the'slain McCoy boys differ in the Spears article from what my 'research them be. Spears credits Messer of the Hatfield clan with slaying 13- year-old Randolph McCoy Jr. at the pawpaw thicket: "Messer loaded his shotgun with a heavy charge "of rifle balls', went bade, and, while the boy cried and writhed in agony, blew the top of his head off.

They picked up a piece of the little fellow's skull, four inches.across, several feet away from the corpse the next day." Spears said when Cap Hatfield beat Mrs. Bill Daniels with the cow's tail of a cow which the Hatfields had killed because she was giving bloody Cap heather "Jes' to see 'er lump On the night of New Year Day, 1888, the Hatfields stormed the McCoy home, home of Randolph McCoy. Spears says Jim Vance ordered Allifair (Spears spells the name' McCoy shot; that Cap'Hatfield raised his rifle to shoot her but did not shoot because Ellison Mounts had his rifle shot the girl. It was for this deed that Ellison Mounts was tried by Kentucky and hanged; After-Randolph McCoy escaped the raiders the night when Calvin McCoy and his sister, Allifair, were slain, Spears records that "Randolph McCoy passed the night with a bunch of friendly hogs, without whose warmth, he would have frozen to death, because it wao a bitter cold night." An interesting article of 58 years standing. fc WASHINGTON--An able, aggressive, and youngish Department of Justice lawyer who favors "trust busting" tactics Instead of restrictive legislation or government regulation to prevent further wage-price inflation has become the controversial figure in apolitico-economicrow at has hurt too many important He is 32 year-old Robert A.

Sicks of New York, who has been largely responsible for the ad- inistration's anticipated antitrust activity and prosecution of so many great corporations headed by White House friends. His promotion as head of the department's Antitrust Division was expected when Victor R. Hansen resigned that post. But, although he is difectineoperations. Attorney General William P.

Rogers has not given him the i "Acting The supposition is that It would be embarrassing to accord him even recognition, if the final decision goes against his permanent promotion. YOUNG MAN FIRM IDEAS -Although he testified against the bill, which would require greai! corporations like Steel," and the "Big Three" in automobiles, as well as the unions involved, to justify wage and price boosts at a public hearing, Bicks' general views seemed to please friends of the measure. A firm believer in private enterprise, Bicks prefers that the of and inflation be decided on the basis of economic forces and "market and demand, budgetary policies, taxation factors. Drew Pearson-- Dixiecrat Praises Lincoln; As Well As Lee WASHINGTON--Speaker Sam Rayburn is not averse to a bourbon and branch water, but there Is nothing he dislikes than excessive drinking. Right now he is determined to enact a bill banning the sale cf alcoholic drinks on the commercialairlines.Most of his congressional however, don't know what is behind his crusade.

Here is what happened. Rayburn was pestered by a drunlc while flying back to a ington from Texas recently. As Sam explained to a "This fellow was already i when he sat down beside me, before the plane even took off. By the time he was served two more big drinks he was really in high gear. Unfortunately, he recognized me and began yelling in my ear about what was wrong with Congress.

"Of course, I couldn't get away from him up in that airplane. He also bothered other passengers, li was one of the most unpleasant trips I have ever experienced." When the speaker arrived in Washington he lost no time seeking out the chairman of the Interstate Commerce. Committee, Rep. Orcn Harris of Arkansas. "Oren, isn't it about time you reported out that airplane drinking bill?" he demanded.

Harris has been wasting no time acting on'the suggestion. The anti-snifter measure, whach is supported by most airline lots and stewardesses, in i lion 10 should be ed soon for House LEE AND ABE LINCOLN-Over an early breakfast eaten behind closed doors. South Carolina's Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond drew a spiritual lesson the other day from the two great leaders of the Civil War--Robert E. Lee of the South and Abraham Lincoln of the North.

Thurmond spoke to a handful senators who meet privately each Wednesday morning to worship together. What is said at their prayer breakfast is dept between them and their Maker. No senator attends for the political good it might do him back' home. However, Thurmond's remarks so impressed his listeners that this writer would like to report the highlights. 'As Lincoln in the North would likely have done had he lived, Lee did his best to heal the wounds of war," said Sena tor Thurmond.

"On many occasions, unhappy, disillusioned southerners attempted to get fuel for bitterness from him. 'But General Lee, did you never feel any bitterness toward the one such southerner asked him. "His answer came in quiet tones: 'I believe I may say, looking into my own heart and speaking in the presence of God, that I have never known one moment of bitterness or The Dixiecrat senator, whose stern face but gentle manr.sr have characterized him in the Senate, spoke 1 of Lee's humility. In an earlier talk to the prayer group, he described Lincoln's faith-even though in some parts of the South praise of Lincoln is not popular, LEE'S HUMBLENESS Of Lee, Tiswrmorid declared: "The more ora studies the character of Robert Edward Lee, seeking He concedes, however, that in a few key and concentrated industries--he is now investigating steel and auto practices--they arable to fix and "administer" ter" prices without- regard" to these influences, and sometimes without regard for the public interest. In such instances, he believes that the most effective weapon, is antitrust prosecutionv possible breakup of great concentrations of economic power, and a vigilant check on proposed mergers.

Ke has also brought action against unions where there was evidence of collusive agreements with employers to restrain trade. HAS STEPPED ON TOES Jtion," he says, "obviates the need for government regulation." Another reason for opposition to him is that he has stepped-on. the toes of several regulatory agencies. He has blocked several important niergers after they had been approved by the Federal Reserve Board, the- Federal Power Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and other independent bodies. His objection to their supervision of business and industry, and revelations have justified His attitude, is that-they are too often subject to political WOULD STOP PRICE HIKES --Reflecting his belief that antitrust action is the, most effective way to prevent price increases, he is devoting.50 per cent of his time these days to an unusual, number of merger He regards It as "our most important work." The proposed combinations which he has blocked explain, perhaps, the reluctance and delay in making him the nation's chief trust buster.

Here are a few: The Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the Youngstown Sheet Tube Continental by President Eisenhower's wartime friend, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and Hazel-Atlas Glass National Container Corporation and the Owens-Illinois Glass First America Corporation and 'the California Bank. of J. veterans concede that he has the qualifications for the trustbusting task, including those who do- not like his style.

But his fairh in that provocative weapon as an inflation preventive, especially since.he might apply it against steel and automobile interests, may operate against him. Mel Heimer-Folk Songs' Sale Growing, But Must Be 'Dressed Up' NEW. YORK I was talking about bugs with Jac Holzman today. Great fun. "Do you remember," I asked, "the big ones that looked as if they were from outer space? Water bugs, I think they called them." The bespectacled, good looking Holzman nodded.

"They were absorbing," he said, "but there was a six-legged kind that I became familiar with. We of course, just a couple of ex-Greenw i Villa -e mate i notes. Jac's Village days, like mine, seem to be behind him. Today, at 27, he is the proprietor of one of the biggest folk-music record companies in the country, under whose label such souls as Josh White, Susan Reed and Theodore Bikel have wailed their ancient laments about on top of old Smoky or John company's offices remain in Fourteenth Street, on the fringe of the Village, but Jac, his bride and his one-year-old ogre, Adam, have to probe its depths, discover its ultimate touchstone and secret, the more one is convinced that the foundation of the man's whole nature was a deep religious "He was a great soldier and a great strategist. But, more important, he was humble.

Humility enabled him to get the maximum effort from his men, and this humbleness made him a saint in the eyes of his As Lee rode by a campfire, a Confederate private remarked: 'Well, boys, the rest of us may have developed from monkeys, but I tell you only God Almighty could make a man like Marse After Lee's sad surrender, Senator Thurmond told how he accepted the presidency of small Washington College in the Shenandoah Valley. "The salary was to be $1,500 annually," reported Thurmond, "if funds were available. Pie accepted this position only after explaining to the trustees his serious doubts as to whether he could do full justice to the job. taking over the administration of war-torn Washington College, Lee first built a chapel He lived but five year.s after taking the oath of presidency, his vigor, clarity of vision, and wisdom of policy in these few years earned for him and his college a position in the history of American education." Summarizing, Thurmond declared: "As the worshipped leader of a defeated people. Lee held his head high and set out to give Merry "Hand me all those fortunt cards that read, are excellent Presidential Lincoln, the senator earlier said: "He was ahvays a good man with the highest moral principles.

Shortly' before the death of his mother, he promised her that he would never drink liquor, and he kept that pledge to his death. His strtfngest profanity, if you wish to call it that, was his use of the phrase, 'By Jing." His honesty was legendary, as was his kindness. He was a great and good man. studied God's word and tried to apply it to his own life until, finally, it became the foundation for a strong and un- an example to his shakable faith. The evidence It was his simple humility and clearly shows that Abraham Lin- deserted to the enemy.

They live in Sixteenth Street. FOLK SINGERS ARE AN ODD genre. Can't stand them, myself. As a sworn foe of affectations, except my own, I find' em too precious for my taste. Jac even understands this warped view; he grins and says he thinking of putting out an anti-folk album.

-but he really likes the stuff himself, and it certainly has taken him out of the realm of the water bugs. "I am being honest," he said, "when I tell you that folk songs seem to be getting more popular each year. Bikel's records we're readying our eighth album of his sell like hot cakes. which is almost as good as sel- ling like records, andAat song Tom Dooley that was No. 1 in the country for a weeks is a full-blown, genuine folk song from the southern App'alachian country." Jac's the grandson of Estelle Sternberger, who was a radio commentator in New York, and since boyhood he has leaned toward the sound of different sounds.

He went to St. John's College in Annapolis when he was 16 and two years later he and a friend scraped up $300 and went into the record business. Thus began Elektra in the back of a tobacconist's shop and today It grosses half a million dollars a season. JAC AND NINA MERRICK, an Antioch graduate, have been married for three years now and for one, am tremendously impressed by his method of courtship. There is the come-up-and- see-my-etchings school of attack, and a few of us subtler wolves have said listen, I've got a great new Sinatra record you ought to but Jac said to Nina, "How would you like to listen to my new magnetic tapes?" They were married on Christmas Eve, 1955, and she's helped him run the business ever since.

There are, Jac reported, only a few genuine folk singers left. "These are the ones who grew up in a certain envrronment and sing about it," he said, "and I guess the greatest, or best- known of them was Huddle Led- berter, the famous Ledbelly." Folk songs today are apparently mostly sung by singers of.folk as apart from genuine folk-singers'. Harry Belafonte, who just tops Bikel In popularity in this field, is a good example. Harry may warble about Mark Twain, but he undoubtedly never has been on a river boat in his life; "Let's face it," Jac said. "To become popular, most folk songs have to be refined and dressed up a little.

I'm sorry to report that most of them, if they were sung exactly as supposed to he, wouldn't be bought by anyone." hurribleness of character which set him apart, ahead, and above his fellow coin believed in God, in Christ, in the Bible, in prayer, in duty, and in immortality." These words carne from the The a A. Lindbergh Memorial Park near tittle Falls, a memorial to Congreas- Souih's candidate for president in Lindbergh, father of the ALSO PRAISES LINCOLN-- Of tisc 1943 election, i aviator..