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The Chowan Herald
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1950. _
Welcome!
Edenton has a newcomer in its midst in the per
son of H. (Bo) Thomas, who on Thursday of last
week succeeded C. C. Saunders as manager of Hotel
Joseph Hewes. Mr. Saunders cancelled his lease
with G. H. Harding, owner of the hotel, due to ill
heath and is now at the home of his daughter in
Royal Oak, Michigan, where he will rest in an ef
fort to regain his health.
Mr. Thomas, who has with him his wife, daugh
ter and son-in-law, has had a considerable amount
of hotel experience and knows the business from
A to Z. Edenton appeals to him and he is very
anxious to become a part of the community. He,
therefore, would like to become acquainted with
Edenton people and invites them to call at the hotel
to make themselves known.
The Herald regrets to see Mr. and Mrs. Saunders
leave Edenton, but at the same time welcomes the
Thomas family in our midst and hopes they will
learn to love the old town and its people as much
as many others who have adopted Edenton as their
home.
Let’s Be Sensible
With the situation in Korea becoming more tense
and the prospect of another war in the minds of
many people, the likelihood of unscrupulous people
cashing in on the situation is becoming more and
more apparent. Already prices of commodities
have taken a boost for no reason at all except to
take advantage of the situation to make easy money.
Up to the present time no action has been taken
by the government to control prices, other than to
argue wheher or not price control should be in
voked. In the meantime some people will become
millionaires at the expense of the buying public.
There is no doubt but that many who are hungry
for the almighty dollar will take advantage of this
situation by boosting prices until such time as they
are harnessed by a program of price control.
Many people who can ill afford to do so also aid
the profiteer by becoming panicky and rushing to
purchase items they figure might become scarce.
Government officials assure us that there is no
shortage of any commodities, so that spontaneous
buying on the part of the consumer is all the more
reason for prices to go up.
It is very obvious that this buying rush tends to
create the very scarcity which people fear. It is
equally obvious that there are many people un
willing to heed the advice of leaders, who advise all
loyal Americans, which by the way incudes Cho-
w r an County citizens, not to rock the economic boat.
After all, even if some items do become scarce,
there is no reason to anticipate suffering on the
part of the buying public. There will be enough
necessities of life available to survive, so that just
a little inconvenience should be no legitimate rea
son to hoard and help raise prices.
Those who may be called upon to fight for their
country will of necessity not only experience in
conveniences, but will be forced to undergo hard
ships and in some cases even suffer death. Are we
any better than they?
What Has Man to Depend Upon?
In these troublesome times, the individual who
has no great principles to guide his life finds the
present an era of great tribulation.
There are wars, rumors of wars, economic diffi
culties, political puzzles and personal problems to
confound the average citizen of this country. What
once seemed relatively safe and secure in many
fields of human activity is now precariously at
tacked and even the sacred formulas of early days
are badly battered.
Upon what, then, can man depend? Surely, he
can depend upon the fundamental priciples that he
adopted to guide his life. The basic faith in
God that makes men lift up their heads, the confi
dence that faces doubtful fate superbly and the at
tributes of the soul that stand supreme above the
vicissitudes of earthly strife are strength to the in
telligent and the brave, a staff upon which the tired
may lean and a blessing to all those who are willing
to work for a better world of better human beings.
The number of people in a community is not
nearly as important as the type of people in the
community.
Loud talking sometimes passes as intelligence,
but not for long.
THE CHOWAN HERAU) EDENTON. N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 3, 1950
Heard & Seen
By “Buff”
——»
Jim Daniels is among a group who eats a steak
supper out at Ernest Lee’s once or twice a week and
every time when asked what be wants to drink, Jim
replies, “Coffee, please.” The other night when the
weather was hot and it felt good to sit in the path
of an electric fan, one of the group asked Jim why
he didn’t call for iced tea instead of hot coffee.
“Nope,” said Jim, “I’m going to drink coffee until
the weather is hot.” Gosh all hemlock, as I am
writing this column the perspiration is running
races down my neck, so that if Jim ordered a steak
dinner now, I’m satisfied he’d call for iced tea.
What kind of a guy is he, anyway?
I’ve just got to pay more attention to locking
the door to The Herald office when I leave, or Sgt.
Jones of the Edenton Police Department will go
“nerts.” On my desk the other morning was the
following note: “Hi Busf —If you don’t clean off
this desk I’ll report you to Capt. Dick Hall.
Awful .... but just carelessness! Third time now
in as many weeks. Let’s go a-fishin’ sometime. By
the way, ask your friend, ‘lnformer’ Allsbrook, how
many fish he caught the last time he went out.”
Well,l haven’t heard from Allsbrook (except to give
me a ticket for parking overtime) about his fish
ing trip, so I just take it for granted that he didn’t
catch nary a fish. (A Bertie 'County School teacher
told me “nary” is bad English). Well, so was AHs*
brook’s fishing bad.
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Mrs. Horace White reprimanded me on Sunday
for saying I intended to bake a cake for the Poca
hontas cake sale Saturday mbrning. The basis for
her complaint was that probably some people might
not attend the sale for fear of buying the cake I
baked. Well, I “forgot” to bake a cake, but I saw
one which one of the Pocahontas ladies baked. The
thing looked like two pancakes slapped together. I
don’t know what kind of a cake it was supposed to
be. but for lack of a better name, I called it a “flat
cake.” Nope, it wasn’t for sale at the cake sale,
and now I am tempted to try to bake a cake.
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I am convinced that we widowers must stick to
gether. In fact the last organization I joined was
the Degree of Pocahontas, so that I’m ready to join
a Widower’s Club. All of which is caused by a
rumor going the rounds that George Twiddy, a re
cent widower, is scheduled to marry one of the
Edenton school teachers. The same rumor went the
rounds about me and, as in my case, there is no;
ground for a rumor about George—or at least hej
knows nothing about it. What the Sam Hill, is,
somebody starting these rumors in an effort to find
husbands for some of our teachers? Let the teach
ers talk for themselves, eh, George! At any rate,
George says that if and when he plans to marry
again, both interested and disinterested parties will
be given due notice. I’m not talkin’.
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Major W. R. Lucius the other day wrote a letter
to Lieut. J. E. Foster, now in command of the
Edenton Marine Corps Air Station. In the letter
were some golf score cards supposed to be the scores
of some games the Major played on various courses.
Os course, the scores were very good, but how come
Major Lucius hasn’t saved some of his score cards
from the Edenton golf course: Think I’ll send
him some of my score cards so he can see how I can
fix ’em up.
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Lieut. J. E. Foster, in command of the Edenton
Marine Corps Air Station, says he loses a lot of
time when he comes to Edenton. Folks stop him
and ask about reopening of the base and some in
quire about civil service positions. Lieut. Foster is
of the opinion that the base wil be reopened but he
has had no official information. He says when he
receives any information it will be made known.
As to civil service jobs, he says no provision has
been made for interviews, so that every time he is
stopped it means he, as well as those talking to him
about it, are losing just that much time. When
Uncle Sam is ready o reopen the base he will do
it, so that it’s no need for local people to try to
rush things. ’
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Jim Daniels is one guy now who doesn’t feel like
he’s getting the heeby jeebies every time a rain is
in the making. While the Albemarle League was
in operation so many games were rained out that
Jim became fidgety every time he say a cloud in
the sky—it meant no money coming in and money
going out. Now when the clouds begin to gather
Jim says “Let it rain.” Well, that’s about all any
of us can say.
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Thanks to Asa Griffin and Percy Perry, I have
received two of the largest watermelons I’ve seen
this season. They come in very handy, for with
company from Pennsylvania scheduled to arrive
next week, I’ll have something to eat —quantity at
least, and I reckon the quality will be there, too.
Asa pinned a question on his watermeon, but I
have not been able to figure out the answer and
he’ll not tell me. Anyway, Percy said I placed an
order for a watermelon in this column, so he didn’t
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: IN WASHINGTON
! SPACE FOR TIME AND
1
BLOOD AND LIFE
It would not hurt the readers of
! The Perquimans Weekly to digest the
observation of the New York Times
j when that newspaper points out that
what our fignting men are doing in
Korea is the buying of time by the
t giving of space.
And, “what is space?” asks the
. editor. It is the “blood of men thrown
into a battle for which they were not
prepared, without the weapons they
needed.”
j And “what is time?” continues the
New York editor. It is “help coming
' from far away; the willing support of
‘ more than two score nations.”
; Is this all? The answer, unfortu
,'nately, is in the negative. Some of
the brave young men will yield in bat
s tie the “most precious gift a young
> man has”—all the years that might
r have been his, if honor, duty and
bravery were not his shield in a
i world not yet perfected.
; U. S. MUST
SUPPORT CIVILIZATION
The out-numbered and out-gunned i
Americans, fighting in South Korea,'
received no comfort from the “new i
• weapons” that the military planners !
have been talking about using in the i
next war. ]
I The handful of fighting men, now <
. being mauled by an overwhelming!
North Korean force, will pay dearly in: 1
i lives for the mistakes of their Re-'i
: public. They have suddenly been 1
! thrown into the tempest of war, un- <
, der circumstances which make it im
possible to do more than fight a de
• | laying battle. This type of warfare
| tries the nerves and tests the morale
I I of seasoned veterans, much less the ,
untried soldiers which have been sent 1 ;
into Korea from Japan. |!
The men who fight, get wounded and j,
die in South Korea will not add any 1
victories to the proud record of this!
nation but their sacrifice will not be 1
in vain if it persuades the people of
the United 'States to adopt a sensible,
. balanced, military policy. They suffer
k today because of the hysteria that
’ swept this country in 1945, when
practically everybody on the domestic
l front demanded that the boys be
brought home at once. The same
popular opinion forced the rapid de
! mobilization of our fighting men.
While the nation proclaimed its sup
i Port of the United Nations and its de
termination to fight Soviet aggression
and talked glibly of winning the next
struggle with new techniques and in
ventions, there was no logical expan
sion, and training of any adequate
1 force of ground troops. Today, in the
face of possible emergencies in other
( areas of the world, the United States
is not in a position to effectively op
pose any vigorous thrust of the Soviet
> Union. We are not ready to imple
, ment our loudly-proclaimed principle
of containing Communism by aiding
! free nations when attacked.
If there is general approval of our
• intervention in the Korean struggle,
and a similiar intervention in other
’ cases of Soviet aggression that may
i occur, it behooves the United States
( to prepare itself for battle. We must
not only be ready to talk about sup
’ porting the free peoples of the world,
> but must have the military power to
oppose the strength of the aggressors.
If this requires the maintenance of a
, striking force of a quarter or a half
million soldiers at all times, then this
’ nation should not neglect the require
i ment.
For many years, the British Empire
maintained contingents of British
troops around the world. There was
r no United 'Nations to police the earth
■ and the British, because of their trad
ing and territorial interests, took on
the job of an international police force.
Today, in the present plight of the
world, there is nc force to act for the
> cause of human freedom and there
! will be no effective police force unless
the United States is willing to pro
-1 vide it.
! The task of preventing aggression
i of the type now being witnessed in
South Korea requires more than the
• presence of a small army in the Uni
fied States. This country must main
| tain adequate forces in key bases
' j throughout the world. They must be
.supplied with the paraphernalia of
1 warfare at all times. Not only must
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the ground troops be equipped and
ready to fight, but there must be in
service adequate ships to take them
where they are needed and supply
them where they fight. In addition,
there must be an adequate Air Force
to support them anywhere, whether
it be based on land airfields or carried
on the decks of floating airfields.
Into this picture comes the demand
in some responsible quarters in Wash
ington, that the United States par
ticipate in a mutual defense pact
throughout the Pacific area, pattern
ed after the North Atlantic Treaty.
Such a pact might have some long
range value, but, for the present
emergency, it amounts to nothing.
There is little likelihood, in fact, that
the contribution of other nations in
the Pacific area will amount to much
during the course of the next few
decades.
While we do not oppose a mutual
lefense pact in the Pacific, being
grilling to take whatever long-range
jains it may provide, we must not per
nit the idea to persuade us that we
do not have to rely upon our own'
fighting strength alone. The police-]
job in the Pacific cannot be handled
by principles of mutual defense but
must be the risk of a military force
in being, backed by the productivity
of this great industrial nation. This
means, in short, that the United States
must exert its power throughout the
Pacific and replace the British Empire
as it takes up what has formerly
been termed the “White Man’s bur
den.”
| While we are conscious of the na
tion’s desire to preserve the peace of
the world, and to set up conditions
that will permit the peoples of the
earth to develop themselves, we must
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not expect praise or appreciation from
the so-called backward areas. Instead,
we will meet criticism and hostility,
and, in the course of a very few years,
become the object of those who for
merly assailed the British as imperia
lists, bent upon the plunder of sub
ject peoples.
As a start in the tactical applica
tion of principles now followed by this
country, the United States might as
well be set up, as a permanent force,
an expeditionary contingent of suffi
cient size to cope with any emergency
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VISITING RELATIVES
Mrs. Mable Spencer and daughter
left today (Thursday) for their home
in Baltimore, Md., after spending a
week visiting Mrs. 'Spencer’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Nixon, and
other relatives.
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Two Shows Every Night Starting
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Friday and Saturday,
August 4-5
Monte Hale in
“LAW OF GOLDEN WEST”
Cartoon and Serial No. 7
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Sunday, August 6
Adele Mara and
John Carroll in
“ANGEL IN EXILE”
Cartoon
Monday and Tuesday,
August 7-8—
Here Comes Trouble
and Doc Robbins
“LAFF TIME”
Cartoon
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Wednesday and Thursday,
August 9-10 —
Myrna Loy and
Robert. Mitchum in
“RED PONY”
(In Color)
Cartoon Comedy