The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 2

Opinion page 'I make the commandments around to the Youths win elders' respect by good judgment display THE ALARM over the clamor raised by shouters on the sunny side of the "generation gap" hasn't faded completely, but there are indications that many youth are beginning io win the respect and admiration ot their elders. Relative calm on the nation's campuses has confirmed a comforting awareness that most of America's young people are not rowdy revolutionists or malcontents, but responsible and concerned shareholders in the country's future. The constructive potential of the young has been recognized. Perhaps the most dramatic gesture lo bring youth into partnership in facing the world's problems was the recent World Youth Assembly of Iho United Nations. Although con.

troversies were triggered through the same ideological divisions that plague the world organization itself, Ihe representatives at the assembly convinced Secretary General Thant that youth is not on isolated element, in sociely but an integral part of it. "THKY AIJE THE inheritors of the earth," Thant said, "and as such Ihey not only have the right to be heard, but also the duty to con- in a concrete manner to the creation ot a belter world." But the most significant guide in judging the attitudes of the young is their outlook on the day-to-day realities that frustrate and inspire mankind. Results of a Harris public opinion poll published last month showed that young Americans generally think just about the same as their parents. They are not alienated from their mothers and fathers, Harris said. They have not lost faith in the United Stales.

In fact, they look upon life, family and work just abut the same way that Americans have always looked on them. OK YOUNG PEOPLE responding lo the Harris poll, only 10 per cent thought their parents too strict, 93 per cent expected a good future, 63 per wilt believe that society overstressed sex, more than 90 per cent believe in the sanctity of marriage, 95 per cent felt that they should earn sonic of their own money and only about one in three believed that marijuana should be legalized. Tlia much ballyhooed "counter- culture'' is of doubtful depth or range. Just as their elders, young people are aware of (lie many problems that remain lo be solved. But there will be no startling upheaval.

Change will come in response tu need. MEMBERS OF THE "now" generation know thai the future cannot be outlined through confrontation and controversy, but only through decisions based on knowledge and experience. They will live in it. New day for southpaws IN A DAY when every minority is clamoring for a piece of the action, it is titling that what is probably Uie world's oldest and most dis- aclvantaged minority should begin lo get its long-denied recognition. Left-handers not to be confused wilh leftists are becoming increasingly accepted and enabled to find their right (or left) place in the world.

This is the happy report of Dr. Dean Trembly, a member of the California State Polytechnic College counseling staff. Trembly notes that manufacturers are making more and more tilings for left-handed people scissors, fishing rods, gold clubs, baseball gloves, bowling balls, rifles and shotguns, potato peelers and apple corers and can openers, irons and ironing "boards, pencil, sharpeners, dental instruments, artist palettes, lettering pens and drafting machines. He even reports lliat a bank is furnishing left-handed checkbooks with the stub al the right. Trembly has some lips for parents and teachers of lefthanded kids to make, things a little less difficult for them.

In classrooms, for instance, they should be seated on the left side -so that there are fewer distractions from the left to interfere with concentration. Also recommended is use of ballpoint pens, soft pencils and hard paper to make handwriting easier, increased use of the typewriter, and choice of musical instruments designed for left-hand fingering. We still have a long waj' to go before the last vestiges of discrimination against left-handedness are uprooted, however. Consider the language itself. Most people may be unaware that the word "sinister" derives from the Latin word for left, but we still talk about left-handed compliments, say that an awkward person has two left feet, proclaim that right is might and never offer lo give our left arm for something desirable.

That's what they say With seasonally adjusted temperatures, you could eliminate winter in Canada. L. SLanfield, leader of the opposition in the Canadian Parliament, on the government's statement that unemployment on a seasonally adjusted basis had declined. was essential that troops in Vietnam put out of their mind the World War II and Korean concept of giving candy and chewing gum and things to children. Lt.

William Calley claiming at the My Lai massacre trial that the Army taught Mm to treat all Vietnamese as potential enemies. The President is aware of what is going on. That's not to say there is something going on. White House press secretary Ronald Zieglcr, when the 'South Vietnamese thrust into Laos was Jirst rumored. THE GASTONIA GAZETTE Gostonio, N.C., Monday, March 8, 1971 Let Peace Begin With Mel This newspaper is dedicated to furntsMng information to our readers so that can better promote and preserve their own freedom and encourage others to see its oiessmgs.

For only when man understands freedom and to free to control himself and all he produces can he develop to his utmost capabilities. We believe that all men are equally tnAnwcA by their Creator, and not by a government, with the right to take moral action to preserve their life and property and secure mnre aom and keep it for themselves and others. Freedom is self-control no more, no less. To discharge this responsibility, men, to the best of their ability, must understand and apply to daily living the great moral i guiae expressed In the Coveting commandment. Canine companions overdo friendship NEED dog like Nixon needs another Symington.

in the novel there is an old fellow who wanders around the countryside surrounded by his dogs. One day in the woods he has a vision of St. Francis of 'Assisi who says, "Be kind to animals, you dirty man." I am waiting for St. F. to have a chat with me some evening as Roommate and 1 take a walk around the golf course, entirely enguifed by dogs.

i-We have, one (1) dog of our own, an emotional St. Bernard'Who is kept up excepf when on a leash. He can't get out of the fence but every other dog can get in;" and so our backyard resembles a convention of the Loyal Order of the Canine. We have Dog Billy Joe (Dave) Smith and Dog Spot (Robert) Wrenn who lives with the Buddy Lewises except when lie drops by our place to take a meal or two (we call him Charlie so he won't confuse us with the Lewises or the VVrenns); and there is Dog Pabst who belongs to the Lewises, too, and we call him Oink because with a tail like that there has got to be a bog somewhere in his ancestry; and we have three Irish setters, two of them belonging lo the Episcopal Preacher, Robin Johnson, and the third to Bill Smith and named Robbie after Robin Johnson; and a vagrant black dog who consists mostly of a terminal case of the worms, named Black Dog, reasonably enough. There is a parade of miscellaneous and transient ones who come by for a drink or a little nourishment and then pass on.

We have a recurring shepherd of some sort. He vanishes and then reappears. ACROSS THE street is an animal wlio would flunk his knee-jerk test at the animal psychiatrist's. He is Dbg Sambo (Neal) Thompson. He is totally demented disoriented.

He- barks in his sleep. 1 think they slip LSD in his Kibbles. This is the group which joins us on our tour of the golf course. When we're in luck, we are joined Ihere by Dog Sam (Jay) Holmes and Dog Daisy (Tom) Smotherman. and Furman Hayes' hounds, wlio are very well trained and never tinkle on the greens.

It's a pretty good act catch. We take oiir St. Bernard along sometimes and turn him lopse when no- 1 body is around; After he's had his run and swim, we return home, followed by the K-9 Corps. We put the St. Bernard in the backyard and his friends come tinder, over and through the rails of the fence to keep him company, in shifts, until Ihe next time out.

It is very gratifying and the Saint loves the company. When he tires of them, he just walks off and goes to sleep. He is an accomplished sleeper. Some of the dogs have got it into their heads that we have a sort of obligation to feed them along with our own animal, and they scratch on 'he door, and how! and make indignant little noises if we don't invite them for supper. If St.

Francis ever makes his appearance, I intend to ask him what makes us so devilishly attractive to dogs and how many demerits I'll get if I bite Dog Thompson. ZIP's zing slipped By Jim Fiebig ACCORDING TO the U.S. Post Office, the ZIP code was to be the greatest boon to mail service since Thomas Edison discovered the house number. Some of us were immediately suspicious. After ali, if the ZIP code was so super, why did the address still have to include the city and state? Was the Post Office unsure of itself? Some Americans even began whispering that the ZIP code was some kind of strange government loyalty test.

Our mildest suspicions have been confirmed. A recent Associated Press study of the nation's mail service revealed that seven out of ten letters without ZIP codes were delivered as fast, or even faster, than let- ters carrying the five-digit nuisance. Assistant Postmaster General J. Hargrove had an explanation: Many postal employees who sort mail rnanually "don't need a ZIP they've memorized hundreds of mail routing schemes. Hargrove said the ZIP code will be useful, however, when the more experienced sorters are no longer employed.

One sniffs a snafu. If veteran postal are able to route the mail as efficiently the old way without a ZIP code why was the code introduced in the first 'place? If the new way isn't worth learning, the old way wasn't worth discarding, It's beginning to look more and more like some kind of strange, government loyalty test. School board has a need for balancing Dear Sir, Gaston County has nine school board members four are elected from districts and five are elected at large. All are voted upon by the entire county. Generally, an individual is elected to represent a certain number people in a district, but the election board and the school board officials say that the four districts were created only for the purpose of establishing the official residence of the candidate running from each area.

Highway U.S. 321 splits the county in half, running from Lincoln County in the north to Clover, in the south. The type of representation we have now has resulted in the election of eight school board members east of highway 321 and only one west of this highway. It could happen that all nine members come from (lie eastern part ot the county. As it stands now five members come from Gastonia'which has 50,000 persons while four members come from the county representing 100,000 persons.

As in the controversial Northwest High School issue, the majority of citizens in Cherryville and Bessemer City do not want this school under the present plan. The vole was 3 lo 5 lo go ahead and construct the building. The five board members who voted to go ahead with the plans regardless of the wishes of the people were from east of Highway 321. This shows thai Ihe majority of the school board voted against the wishes of the majority of the citizens in another section." The county should be divided into six districts with one member representing each district. Then there should be three members elected at This would result in at least two members being elected from the west.

This would give a more balanced board- and better rcprescnta- HoweilStroup Cherryville Southbound Dear Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to let this Mr. W. E. Belk know that townfolk of this little old country town has got some of the finest people anywhere in the U.S.A. And to let him know that there have lots of good people of Gastonia killed by the good old Southern Railway trains.

Mr. Belk, there is one tiling about. the place called the U.S.A. and this little old country town that you are free lo come and go anytime -you wish lo. don't believe that anyone in this town is holding a shotgun on you lo keep you in this town.

There is still trains coming into Gastonia going Southern and the train station is in the 400 block ol West Main St. So if you don't like our little old country town why don't you go back to the greater Atlanta, Ga. I don't think that these old country folks would miss you around this old flagslop. Mr. Belk, there is oiie thing about this country town of Gastonia.

The people in. Gastonia can get along with other people in little old town and that is more than you can say about your great Atlanta. W. M. Nanney Jr.

Gaslonia Fence em in Dear Sir, Nobody is free in country but the big shot. The poor white man-arid Negro ain't nothing but, the rich man's slave. The rich man is funning this country. He tells you what you can do and what you can't do. If he wants you to move out he just tells you to move out like they are trying to do (he railroads.

The big man wants.them to move or bury their Well, I don't-believe you will ever be'able''to put the railroads out of Gastonia. You'-might put Bill Ward out of business- but I believe you have struck fa snag when you try to run the railroads out of their right of way. Like I said before, if I was the railroad company I would fence my tracks and not stop a train in Gastonia. I would let them cross at the underpass at Arlington or go to Gray- Notice To Letter Writers AH loiters to the editor must be signed and addresses given. I All names will be printed.

Let- I ters should be typewritten, double-spaced and kept to 300 words in length. We reserve the right to condense or not print at all. son's curve and go over (he overhead bridge. You can't run nobody-out of his own land. This is the land of the free.

That is for Ihe rich man. W. E. Belk City It's my choice Dear Sir, Ambulance service versus Ward and Ihe Rural Police. I do not.

know Mr. Ward personally. He buys liis ambulance and pays his employees salaries. The taxes that we pay buys the ambulance for the Rural Police and pays their salaries. Why do all this and pay $20 to go to the hospital? Why not let the Rural Police take care of policing the county.

Or do away with Hie Rural Police allo- gether. Place them with the Sheriff's Department, where they should be. This will save the tax-payers some money. Why not let Ward lake his calls? Do we the people not have a choice of who we want? When in need of an ambulance I will call who I want. Who gives the County Commissioners this power? 1 agree with Mr.

Pittman's article in Saturday Gazette. will all remember the Commissioners at election time. My friends wlio forget, I will help them remember. George W. Fortenbcry 503 E.

Lee Ave. Bessemer City. Many thanks Dear Sir, Although we frequently discuss (he inter-relationship between the community and the college, too often we fail to' move positively in this di- reclion. Our hope in this letter is to take a positive step in community- college relations. One month ago we assigned individual in-depth study projects of a social nature to our Sophomore American Humanities class at S.H.C.

Much of the student research within these projects involved personal interviews with members of our political and economic sub-communities. To thank all of these men and women for their lime and interest would be impossible. We to thank them publicly. The list is large and comprehensive stemming from police officers to corporate presidents, and many intermediaries. In a time when we hear so much negativism about American society leaders and its youth, we are than pleased to have learned experimental education is valid and that community members are willing to assist the questioning college student.

Thank you all for your interest and the time you gave so graciously to our students. Kathleen Hester Barbara Sullivan Assistant Professors, Humanities Department Sacred Heart College, Belmont Credit men Dear Sir, )ho ntarliclein Gazette a bunch inferred that had built Garrison Blvd. Mav I remind them that this was a team effort that took 10 years from the drawing This badly needed street may never have been possible without the valiant efforts of Mr. W. B.

Garrison This City Hail. Gang, of whom worked with or we r'ea pSted rL ydens may next claim credit for the electric lamp Wm. Martin Morgan St..