Editorials

What would you do if you only had a short time to live?
Anyone who has been to a corporate retreat, or watched a Lifetime Channel movie has probably faced that question before. While both of those activities are designed to steal your life-force, there is really a simple, Solomon-like answer.
We all have only a short time to live. Some folks are shorter than others, but for most folks, you’re looking at 76 years (men) or 81 years (women). As we age, those numbers seem awfully low.

If you go to the Graphic’s website and do a search for “Meredith Holland,” you’ll come up with more results than you can see.
If you do a search for “My Sister’s House,” you’ll get just as many results and most of them will include Meredith Holland.

To the Editor:
Everyone reaches a crossroad in their lives where difficult decisions must be made. It can be a decision that will be life changing and requires much thought and meditation. It can be a decision that can be thought-consuming and one that keeps you up at night. But, never the less it must be made.

The nation’s first Republican president explained what democracy ought to be: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. But Abraham Lincoln’s vision will remain a distant mirage if a money-drenched elections system devalues individual American’s votes by auctioning off legislative seats, governors and judges to the highest bidder.

RURITAN OFFICERS FOR 1978 –– This photo originally published in The Graphic March 3, 1977. Eddie Bullard (right) of Benvenue was elected chairman of the Ruritan Clubs of Nash County for 1978 at the group’s annual meeting in Rocky Mount.

Brrrrr… We have experienced a streak of unseasonably cold weather. NCAF would like to remind you that pets suffer from cold right along with humans. Their fur coats could be equated to human indoor clothing. When you go outside without outwear and feel cold, they feel cold at exactly that same rate. And they have no footwear! We’ve heard people say, “But my dog likes to stay outside!” We are fairly sure they would be much happier in a warm shelter.