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Thomas Jefferson, Choosing The Better Men Must Be Attempted Again Just, two weeks from today the voters of the City of Beckley must choose between eight Republicans and eight Democrats to determine which eight of the 16 they want to run the affairs of the city's government for them for the next four years. Oddly enough, only three of 16 nominees are incumbents in the positions they now seek. There are three others who now hold city posts but are seeking different ones for the next four years. A present ward councilman is seeking the mayor's post while the present mayor is seeking an at-large council post. In addition there is a present at-large councilman who seeks his ward's council seat.

We strongly doubt that either party is likely to sweep all eight offices even though the statehouse Democratic machine has moved into the city political picture bag and baggage. Beckleyans have rarely ever put all their political eggs in one party's basket There are undoubtedly those among the Democrats who received the support of the machine without wanting it, soliciting it, or even being informed they had it before the filing deadline. The mere fact that both parties had interesting primary contests and have nominated good, strong tickets -is an indication of a healthy interest in good city government on the part of Beckleyans. It is to be hoped that such a situation will not only continue but will grow in intensity in future'years. For this reason alone, the seeming quiet that has enveloped the city election campaign is not good.

Perhaps it is the quiet before the storm, partially enforced by the directed attention of the entire county--and parts of the state and nation--on the special levy elections of the past month. CERTAINLY THE ISSUES of city government should be discussed openly and vigorously. The need for enlargement of Beckley seems to be agreed upon but impossible of achievement or even much action in that direction. The possible use of the permissory provision in the city charter for the hiring of a city manager thereby realigning the municipal government's form somewhat is an old issue, particularly among the politicians. These are just a couple of the points that should be aired.

Recently a lady who resides in the city wrote us about another issue--law enforcement. She did not want her name used and was not anxious that we publish her letter. Rather she wanted to raise the question to us personally, it appeared. But she asked a few good questions, like this: "Don't you think it would be a good idea for the local group which so actively opposed liquor by the drink to find out and make known the feelings on this matter of the candidates for mayor and city council? Shouldn't they report to this community which caiididates would devote themselves to seeing that our present drinking laios are enforced? "In that icay the apparently great majority of 'drys' could show that they are still interested in their cause. They could work just as actively against the candidates who did not strongly agree with.

them. Thi-s would be a great step toward closing the illegal drinking clubs a great victory for the 'drys. 3 Mrs. raises a good question. If the vast majority of our people are against making liquor by the drink legal, they presumably want it kept out of our city and state, for that matter.

Just how the candidates stand on this question is something that the average voter should know before he goes to the polls. Certainly, the time for questions -and answers is at hand with only two weeks left for them. It is estimated thai American boating enthusiasts will spend more lhan $600 million for boats and accessories this year. The leu is the monetary unit of Romania. The human body lias some 255 BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 14,1953 The Word On Rain: More, Please! By EMILE J. MODEL We had hoped yesterday that the nice rain--a fine, soaking falJ as opposed to a dashing precipitation--would continue all through the night until Ibis morning. Unfortunately it did not. Tha rain stopped and it began to clear up well before sunset. And the forecast holds out hope for only a little more rainfall during the remainder of this week--a matter of a quarter of an inch at best.

In this case we hope the weathermen are and that we shall have an inch or so of steady, fine rain spread over a few days. The new weather station at Memorial Airport is, of course, a welcome addition to our community but it still follows that these fine people can only observe and forecast on the basis of observations. They still cannot DO anything about our weather. Would they could effectively end the drought that has been hurting our agriculture more each day. Letters On Levy Two letters arrived yesterday which contained comments upon the Stephens Branch Lake levy election.

Both struck us as being somewhat odd, to say the least. A brief one came from Robert C. Parker of Glen White as follows: "As far as the levy vote 'ayes' have it this time and 'nayes' won the last vote. Let's be snorting about the whole thing, have another vote, and two out of three take the cake." Our only comment there is to thank God that a third tune around is not necessary. After all, more than 36 per cent of the registration figures is a pretty good proportion of the voters to get out for a special election.

And when all is said and done, the actual percentage -of voters who cast ballots was probably even better than that. There are always many who have died or moved away still'on the registration books. Since these people could not vote, it means that the total registration is always a little too high and that a 100 per cent vote is impossible. The 36 per cent turn-out Saturday was undoubtedly around 40 per cent or perhaps even more of the actual possible vote. The second letter is odd in that it was written' in St.

Petersburg, on May 3 by Norman G. Haddad but he apparently forgot to mail it for a while. It was postmarked at 1:30 p.m Saturday and was intended to appear in print before the election which took place on Saturday. Haddad wrote as an open letter to county "Amazing! is the only way to describe the recent defeat of the Stephens Lake project levy. It is entirely inconceivable that Raleigh County--its citizens once blessed by prosperity, happy faces and beautiful landscape--could help erect the gallows which could allow the county to forever hang in the doldrums of poverty, hunger, unemployment, business failures and ugly strip mines.

"As other young persons, I have found it necessary to leave that area because of the lack of foresight years ago in the planning of the future. around the U. S. West Virginia is not known for what it was, or what it could be, but for the things which make it appear black, and dirty, and hungry, and ignorant. "Unfortunately, the levy defeat helped maintain this false image.

"What will it take to arouse Raleigh County citizens so that they will fight for themselves? Do they want to content in living with welfare their number one industry? "Wake up, or wise up, Raleigh County! No one can 'return any semblance of prosperity back to you unless you sacrifice now to build for your families and friends in the future. "Will you be guilty of a repeat performance from years gone by?" Fortunately, as to the levy we can now answer Haddad optimistically. Bui his advice to "sacrifice now to build for. the future" should be remembered well. And top of the morning! QUESTION: Is it wrong to aitow my daughter to to tht J.H.D.

ANSWER: I must answer you by asking. "What kind of movies?" There are many wholesome and inspirational films being made and exhibited by church organizations. I can wholeheartedly recommend these. Though limited in budget, it is the intention of the producers of these films to instruct, inspire, and inform. Many of the secular films such as most of the Walt Disney productions are also wholesome.

However, I can say without qualification that it is not only wrong, but sinful, to expose your daughter to some of the filth that is being exhibited on the modern motion picture screen. John Crosby, columnist for the New York Herald Tribune recently wrote about the sex overemphases in many modern films; "I violently object to young teens being exposed to this sort of thing, because it plants in them the idea that sexuality is essentially a degenerate, sharrtefuJ. rather frightening thing instead of the joyful, natural, God-given urge that it is." WAS THIS TRIP NECESSARY? Yesterday And Today- Trees, People Deemed Greatly Similar By SHIRLEY DONNELLY There is quite a similarity between trees and people. The death of some distinguished citizens recently served to bring this forcibly to mind. When you look out a woods, aren't there trees that are taller a others? And in that same forest you are bound to see one or two that tower above the tallest trees, too.

Saul among the Israelites was head and shoulders above them all, says the Good Book. feet in height. In the Bible (I Samuel 17:4) is the height dimension of Goliath, the Philistine giant. It was "six cubits and a span." With the Hebrews the cubit was roughly 18 inches. A span was half a cubit.

According to this calculation Goliath was around 117 inches which would mean the man David knocked in the head with a pebble from his sling was between nine and ten feet tall! Out on the Pacific coast some of the giant redwood trees have grown to be some 350 feet tall and have a diameter up to 20 feet. Such trees are of the cypress family. THERE ARE BIG TREES and small Only recently did West Virginia decide on what and where is her biggest tree. They found it to be a white oak near Huttonsville in Randolph County. This gnarled and knotted monarch of the glen is 11 feet and three inches in diameter.

It is hollow, however, at its base. Just as there are large trees we have huge people, some of them with sizeable diameters. The largest person I ever knew of was a Negress. She was the late Mrs. Hattie Shockey of Prudence, Fayette County.

She died in February, 1926, and weighed between 500 and 600 pounds, dying at the age of 45. It was necessary to construct for her a special coffin. It was 38 inches wide, six and a half-feet long, and two feet deep. The Rodgers Construction Co. made this burial box.

Isaac Shockey was her husband. Some living hi this area'may remember her. THERE ARE STRAIGHT trees and there are crooked trees; same as some people. Few trees grow as straight as our poplar tree. They grow best on north hillsides and attain mammoth size.

Some trees are short. Among these- are the junipers. While soldiering in Washington and Oregon I saw a lot of juniper trees, said to be very.old, dating back to the time of Christ. And there are short people on earth. AS THERE ARE TALL trees there also tall people.

It runs in my mind that there is a basket ball player who is over seven THERE ARE LITHE and graceful trees. There are even people, "lithe as a poplar tree," they say. As there are graceful trees there are some not so graceful. Same way among people. Some are as clumsy as a fellow with two left feet.

Ever hear of anyone described as being That means to be like a willow tree in agility. Some people are soft and others are hard. We have soft wood trees and hard wood trees as well. If a person is particularly stubborn, intransigent, or bullheaded we say he is "hard rath a "hickory head." SOME TREES HAVE considerable root system and the elements can seldom blow them over. Others are with a sparse root system and are blown over easily by a good puff of wind.

We have people who are hard to move. There are others who change posi- tionswith the wind. Some- trees are shapely and symmetrical. By the same token we have persons who similarly stacked bundles of social realism. Then on the other hand we have folks who are.

ill-shapen, out-of- fashion and difficult of description. There are scrub trees. In life there are persons like that, the kind that never grow and develop into much. POPLAR TREES, which grow close to each other, appear to run races with each other in attaining height. There are people like that, the kind who try to "keep up 'with the Joneses." Some trtes do best when they stand alone and aloof.

They show up best when off to themselves --usually strong trees. There are people like that who do best when left to themselves. Rugged individualists, we call them. They are strong and their elements of strength are many. Cut down a tree like that and its destruction leaves a vacant place against the sky.

There are people: who are missed when they die and whose deaths leave places hard to fin. THE HEMLOCK and the pine are green all year round. There are people who seem to stay "green" all the time, not quick to catch on, a little slow in the head. Some trees bear fruit and some do not. Some trees' are not good for much of anything.

Ever run across a person like that? Some trees are pretty, same as some people. There are other ways by which trees and people are alike. This offering doesn't pretend to ex- the subject. Drew Pearson-An Earlier SOB Remark Crops Up Again WASHINGTON-President Kennedy, talking to a group of radio and television executives recently, got off this crack: "I know you are interested in the meeting with the hew Canadian prime minister, Lester Pearson, at Hyannis Port. This meeting almost didn't come off.

plications arose when the Canadian ambassa- dor came to see me. ShuffUng through papers on my desk he managed to decipher some rath- er illegible handwriting and read this marginal notation: "What will we do with this S.O.Bi "I had a hard time explaining that this was a paper left over from the Truman Administration and that the Pearson referred to was Drew." ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, the top Harlem globetrotter, didn't have any trouble getting (he House Rules Committee to okeh his new junket to Europe, May 26 to June 15. to attend the International Labor Organization meeting in Geneva. In his usual courtly manner, Chairman Howard Smith, asked Powell and Rep. Jimmy Roosevelt, whether they would be willing to submit vouchers on the expenses of their trip.

"That's only proper," replied Roosevelt. "Of said Powell. When Garence Brown, the Ohio Republican, remarked, "We don't want to be lonely, we've missed you quite a bit around here," IK wasn't entirely fooling. For Powell has an interesting attendance record. POW6LL SPENT a good part of January in Puerto Rico where he owns a beach house, returned to Washington late in January; then went back to Puerto Rico on Feb.

5. The congressman from Barken remained away from Congress most of February, about one half of March, and about one half of April. In fairness it should be noted that Congress marked time during part of February for the GOP Lincoln Day speeches, and part of April for the Easter recess. However, most chairmen of important committees were on hand to push their bills. Powell, who is chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, has now concocted a compromise plan to give loans and grants to parochial schools for scientific purposes, even though President Kennedy has said this is unconstitutional.

WHEN B1LLJE SOL ESTES was in the news. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman made headlines every day. Now that Freeman is winning some important victories, he's scarcely in the. headlines at all. Without any fanfare, the secretary of agriculture is putting across his very important feed grain biH, which should be signed by the President some time this week.

He's also winning a lot of increasing sentiment for the crucial wheat referendum which comes up next week. Freeman is winning despite one of the most vicious campaigns against him in American agricultural history by the American Farm Bureau, The Farm Bureau has even circulated steropticon slides together with tape recordings to farm communities showing a noose around the neck of a wheat farmer. "This is the rope of Orville Freeman," proclaims the tape. Another slide shows a shock of wheat with bayonets plunged into the The tape recording warns: "You'll have federal troops enforcing the wheat program if you vote for it." As a result of the Farm Bureau's campaign, some of its local bureaus are getting restless and the Webster County Farm Bureau of Guide Rock. has demanded an investigation of reported affiliations betireen the John Birch Society and the Farm Bureau; whether the American Medical Association contributed to the Farm Bureau in order to get help in defeating the medicare program among fanners; and whether the Farm Bureau really represents the fanners of the U.S.A.

The Webster County Farm Bureau suspects that Farm Bureau executives are in league with the grain elevator owners who don't want a decreased grain surplus. A decreased surplus obviously means less revenue to' the elevator operators who have made a fortune storing grain in recent years. MERRY-GO-ROUND When William SaKonstall, long "time principal of the famed Phillips Exeter Academy, goes to Nigeria as an-executive for the Peace Corps, have to take orders from a former pupil. Joseph Palmer II is U. S.

ambassador in Nigeria and will be in command of his old headmaster, at Exeter. Secretary of Defense Bob McNamara may have problems with the TFX, but he also has -them at home. He is careful to be every evening by 7 or 7:30 to help his youngsters with seventh-grade math. One reason the wives of congressmen are down on Jackie Kennedy is that ''hen she invites them' to the annual reception for congressmen at the White Howe, the time is fixed at 9 p.m. This means they don't get out of cooking dinner and washing dishes.

When a foreign embassy invites congressional wives to a reception, the time is feed for 6 p.m., which means their husbands can munch at fee buffet table and the wives avoid cooking dinner. Most people have forgotten about the Mexican border invasion of 1916, but the veterans of the so-called "forgotten army" haven't The "Mexican bonier veterans," who served with Pershing when Pancho Villa was raiding across the Rio Grande, wfll celebrate their Stth reunion at Redington Beach, Fla June 14. Andrew Tally-Politics Dictates Tax Relief For Consumers WASHINGTON Business is better and Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, is talking about even a lower deficit than expected for the next fiscal year. But the administration is still worried about people people who don't have jobs.

In all the opti- mistic a about a coming boomlct, there is one dismal plpyment to the 4 per cent rate) with which it is said the country; can live. It will take just about as long, he says, to get production up to capacity; explain. is that even when the economy seems to be moving forward the unemployment rate remains immovable. For five consecutive years, the rate has stayed at the unhealthy figure of 5 per cent. Now, with business beginning to show an upturn, it threatens to rise even higher due to an unusually large increase in the size of the labor force employed or able and willing to work.

is why President Kennedy, pursues so relentlessly his quest'for a tax cut --to provide an expanded industrial capacity that will require more hands at the lathes and the benches. KENNEDY HAS ALL BUT been proved wrong in his dire warning that unless a tax cut was voted swiftly by Congress the nation would face 1 another recession. Instead 6f heading downward, the national output showed an $8.5 billion increase, over-all, in the January-March quarter. Prospects are good now for a year well above the $578 billion predicted by the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Yet the nation has been warned by Walter W.

Heller, chairman of the council, that it has not yet begun the job of solving its unemployment problem. Even at the present rate of growth, which is higher than had been anticipated, Heller insists it will take 10 years to cut unem-" POLITICS, AS ALWAYS, is playing, its part in the adminiK tration's efforts to solve this prob- lem. The President naturally' wants to cut in as many ordinary folk as he can on any tax reduction, and business generally- has charged that his tax cut pro-" posals concentrate too much of' the billion net reduction in the so-called "consumption seer tor," meaning plain citizens who buy things. But the administration feeling is- that industrial capacity cannot, find the path to expansion solely! through an easing of the tax burden on business. No matter how much is produced, it cannot be' sold unless people have the money to buy; it.

And the White House' insists its tax plan will-create new customers and old customers who will buy more, and thus result in the expanion necessary to meet the new demand. DILLON'S POINT IS that "we" cannot lift the entire economy onto a new and higher plane of activity by lifting merely one sector of it." He notes that last year's investment tax credit and. depreciation reform have cut the tax load on business by some $2.5 billion a year and have resulted" in the current increased flow in machinery and equipment orders and the. increase in capital ouV lays. But he wants relief now for the man in the street.

This is the nub of the disagreement between business and the White House an argument over whether tax to industry or a citizenry with more money, to', spend is the best way to give business a shot in the arm. It will not be resolved soon, and in the meantime the specter of unemployment is haunting both their houses. Thurman Sensing-Ire, Frustration Stirred By Non- Violent Agitation Editor's Note: It seems neces- sary'here today to point out 1 that the opinions expressed here by Thurman Sensing are not those of the Post-Herald. We are largely in disagreement' with them, it is wrong'to label opposition unAmerican of Communist merely because it is op- position and that the lack of much evolutionary progress in the South for 100 years is-the cause of current unrest. The use of school children to spearhead massive street demonstrations in a southern city up the increasingly revolutionary character of the agitation campaign facing this nation.

For ordinary Americans, it is hard to believe that zens of this country would a ttempt steer a minority group away from evolutionary progress to the alien and dangerous methods of revolution. Yet the troubles in Birmingham, are proof of the emergence of revolutionary methods on the American scene. Those who have kept a watchful eye on the race agitation campaigns of the last eight years are aware of the shift to revolutionary tactics and revolutionary aims. The growth of the Muslim movement, clearly understood as dangerous to civil order in this country, is only the tip of the iceberg that appears above water. Indeed the menace of the Muslims may not be so considerable as some people fear, simply because they are recognized for what they are.

But; the various groups that profess "non-violence" and use the word "Christian" in their organizational names often are shielded their pious labels. These "nonviolent" groups aim at essentially the same thing however. They aim at the incitement to violence at the stirring of civil commotion and at the breakdown of law and order in this country. FURTHERMORE, the threat of organized law-breaking is not confined to the southern states. Rep.

Adam Clayton Powell threatens the District of Columbia with the worst race riot in history'if the authorities do not submit to the demands of the Negroes. Northern communities have been subjected to mass agitation techniques with-increasing frequency in the last few years. Notes On The News- that aim at radical revision of social customs in the South are closely, related to, groups in the North' that protest nationaTdefehse measures, such as testing of nuclear weapons. So-called non-violent groups that send agitators into the southern states also have protesting against Polaris submarines in the 1 There; -is an inter-locking -director ate; of, be law-enforcement agencies in tbiia country: vX The terrible H-bomb riots in London, with the waves of political beatniks, should alert American authorities to what they face from the growth of the 'professional sit-in organizations. agitators who plan a kneiel-in in a southern church may turn, next to an invasion of a missile test center in California or a naval base in Connecticut.

"When the fishing urge comes Congress usually gels to work and tries to finish up" IT IS NOT BY SOME FREAK of behavior that the agitators in Birmingham resort to civil disobedience methods that are alien. The Rev. Martin Luther King who has planned these campaigns, is a senior official of the Ghandi Society, This organization, named after the Indian civii disobedience leader, approaches American domestic problems from the standpoint of an Asiatic agitator group. These new agi. tators seek to create human.

waves of demonstrators. They want to ride roughshod over all local and state laws. But the only form' of social protest that American communities can properly accept is demand for justice in the courts. This is the sole, truly American way' to accomplish change, except by legislative action. -But when a mass agitation leader -and his high-powered organization turns to the use of mobs, then you.

know such action is against" everything America stands for. PEOPLE IN ALL PARTS of America can profit only one deeply concerned by the rise of unAmerican methods of agitation. The goal is the breakdown of law- enforcement. The agitators, many of them wearing clerical collars, set an example of lawlessness to thousands of impressionable youths with little learning and less judgment. The result of such demonstrations, as Martin Luther.

King led in Birmingham, is the- rise of a class of terrorists who have nothing but contempt for the American government If youths are taught to be contemptuous of law made by city councils and state governments, it is only a short step to be contemptuous of law made by Congress. The sowing of dissension in America can profit only one cause the cause of international Communism. Demonstrations against the public order of our cities can only be pleasing to the masters of the Kremlin who want to destroy America from within by dividing the country and encouraging lawlessness. The United States cannot afford to have phony "noc-vioteot" groups that masquerade behind the word "Christian" and that promote violence and fan the fiames hatred. The ordeal imposed upon Birmingham and Albany, Ga.

aad other communities is an attack orr America itself. The need is for the entire nation to become akrted to the development of terrorism inside the USA by those who profess to be interested in progress but who only spread dfc- order..