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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1957.
P^' n TTift for today
c , How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
{ dwell together in unity.—Psalms 133:1.
What cience calls the unity and uniformity of na
ture; truth calls the fidelity of God.—Martineau.
& May we remember, O God, that our hearts should
! -.MI M set against one another, h|it set with one an
other —all against evil only.
Shop In Edenton
Edenton merchants are joining together in an
i all-out effort to attract customers to their
Stores. They will observe what is termed
Spring 'Festival of Values from April 5 to 13,
daring which time special bargains will be of
fered on many items of merchandise.
In order to induce new and old customers to
; shop in Edenton, an eight-page circular will be
sent all over the Albemarle area listing some of
the bargains offered and giving prospective cus
. tomers a general idea of the special prices to
be placed on some of the merchandise.
The plan is to stimulate spring sales and to
male** an effort to have shoppers cultivate the
habit of -trading in Edenton instead of travel
ing elsewhere to do their buying. In fact, if
the novel plan is successful, a similar and more
elaborate event is expected to be staged annu
ally.
[ ; Merchants are really offering some bargains.
Si 6 that it will be worthwhile for shoppers to
visit the cooperating stores during the Spring
Festival of Values.
Not only will the circulars publicize the
but The Herald will give publicity to it
[ ind radio station WCDJ will also broadcast in
- formation.
Edenton stores are an integral part of the
community and they deserve your patronage.
• Equality Prime Motive
With the County Commissioners already sit-
I ting two times as a board of equalization and
rfvieW, quite a few citizens of the county have
appeared before them to register complaints
relative to the new valuation of their property.
Sort of hot under the collar, most of those
[ complaining left the meeting in a better frame
of mind after the revaluation program had
| been thoroughly explained. True, most of the
property has been increased and some in sub
stantial amounts, but the Commissioners try to
point out that the folks who done the revalua
ion work are thoroughly acquainted with
; values and that property is valued on the same
basis, so that similar property is not higher for
: one person than it is another.
F Certainly in a job of such magnitude it is al
together possible for some mistakes to be made
and where these have been found a correction
has or will be made, but for the most part the
-valuations as set out will stand. With valua
tions being on an equitable basis with other
similar property, it would be more or less fool
hardy to make reductions. If this is done, the
whole revaluation program might as well be
thrown out of the window.
While valuations may appear to be high,
; there should be some consolation in the fact
that the county tax rate will most likely be re
} duced. However, the county needs a certain
: amount of money to operate, and this will have
to be forthcoming even with low or high prop
s' efty valuations.
The Commissioners are very eager to be
fair and just in the revaluation of county prop
erty but they do not intend to reduce valua
tions solely on the argument that those com
-1 plaining say it is too high.
The Commissioners will again sit as a board
' M equalization and review after the regular
meeting next Monday. They have already de
voted a great deal of time and study to the
i situation and are hopeful that for the most part
everybody will be satisfied and that the revalu
ation project will prove to be a good thing for
<the county as a whole.
Speeding automobiles carry you fast, where
you want to go, but sometimes they carry you
| faster where you do not want to go.
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Here’s one who thorou'ghly enjoyed the pro
gram presented by the University of North
Carolina Glee Club in the Elementary School
auditorium Wednesday night of last week. But
hereafter if the piano is not changed to a dif
ferent location, the bloomin’ thing should have
a coat of paint or varnish. Every time the cur
tain closed, one end of the piano was sticking
out until somebody on the stage pulled back
the curtain. The end sticking out looked more
like the side of a weatherbeaten box than a pi
ano, so that a freshening up seems to be in or
der.
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If you look at the list of births last week un
der “Hospital Patients,” you’ll notice that ex
actly a dozen newcomers put in an appearance,
seven of whom were girls and five boys. To
date I’ve been “paid” only one cigar and not a
single doughnut. The cigar came from Doug
las Spruill, who became a daddy of one of the
girls. He put out a cigar, maybe, because he
wanted a boy.
o-
Will Harrell asked Jim Daniels how he was
feeling at the Masonic meeting Thursday night.
“Not so good,” said Jim, “my back is giving
me a lot of trouble and I’ve got to be careful.”
“Well,” said Will, “you better be careful, for
it’s the only one you’ve got.”
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At last week’s Masonic meeting the plan to
attend church in a body was considered, but it
was hard to decide whether to go to the Pres
byterian Church, where a former pastor, the
Rev. David Crawford, was preaching, on Mon
day or Tuesday night. The vote was about
evenly divided, when one of the brothers spoke
but, “Why not go both nights, it will not hurt
anybody?” Anyway it was filially agreed to
attend Tuesday night. Maybe two doses of
religion in succession might be too much for
some of the boys.
o
I’ll string along with Gilliam Wood on this
fish business. Gilliam says he believes it takes
a fish about a year to gain a pound while in
the water. However, when one is caught, the
bloomin’ fish many times gains a pound, and
in some cases several pounds, within a very few
seconds after being pulled from the water—ac
cording to the guy who caught thq fish.
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Some old-timers were talking the other day
how things have changed. “When I was a boy
I was lucky to get a penny to spend,” said one
of ’em, “but now the youngsters don’t think
of asking for less than a quarter or a dollar to
throw away.” He even said he’d frequently
resort to stealing eggs from the hen house
to sell in order to get a little spending money.
But another fellow chimed in, “You don’t know
nuthin’. I couldn’t even swipe a single egg, for
every morning my mother would go around
feeling the hens so she knew about how many
eggs to expect.”
o—
Edenton merchants are planning to observe
Spring Festival of Values from April 5 to 13.
During that time they will offer substantial re
ductions on much of their merchandise. Want
to catch up with some bargains? Then visit
the various stores during these Shop in Edenton
Days.
o
And speaking about the Glee Club, some in
the audience took a special liking to Hunter
Tilleman, the talented pianist. One lady was
heard to say, “Gosh, but I think he’s cute. I
wish I’d be about 20 years younger.” Bu't even
then maybe it would have made no difference.
Anyway, the pianist was good as were the oth
er members of the club. Here’s one who’d like
to see more of such kind of entertainment.
o
My hat’s off to 'the Edenton firemen for tak
ing precautionary measures. When the Uni
versity of North Carolina Men’s Glee Club pre
sented a program last week in the Elementary
School auditorium, firemen were located at the
front and rear of the auditorium. They were
equipped with fire extinguishers and were
ready to give orders in event an emergency de
veloped. Fortunately, their services were not
needed, but it’s far better to be prepared than
to be sorry. Not a bad idea at all whenever a
large crowd congregates in a building.
o
Maybe the fish are coming to life. Cecil
Fry is getting In the habit of catching one or
two nice bass every time he goes out. A Ma
rine caught an 8 -pound bass the other day,
and the word soon got around. While Rick
Allsbrook and I were up the creek Saturday as
THE CHOWAN HERALD; EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA. TRURSDAt, MARCH 28, 1957.
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i LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TAKES ISSUE
JAMES’ ADDRESS s
This is being; written because I
feel compelled to take issue with
some of the statements made by
Mr. James in his address to the
Lions Club as reported in last
week’s Herald.
While much of the blame for the
“alarming situation” lies with” the
home, I feel a good deal of it also
lies with the authorities- at the
school. I know of at least one sen
ior who quit school beeatise of a
teacher who picked at him con
stantly (and I understand there are
others who' have left for tihe same
reason). This v same teaeher has
hurled such epithets as.-"thief,”
“liar,” and “cheat” at her charges.
She said to one boy, in fretot of the'
entire class, “I predict that you will
be in the state penitentiary by the
time you are twenty-one years old.”
To another boy who received a B in
the course, she said, “Now you
would receive an A if you’d sit
down and study instead of spend
ing your time telling the -bus driv
er to run over me.” The boy denied
be had said this, as did the bus
driver, but the teacher refused to
bel-'eve him, nor would she give him
an opportunity to defend himself.
Another had a boy ex
pelled for three days because of
something of which he was inno
cent. The entire class told the
teacher he had not done that which
he was expelled for, but she refus
ed to believe them because they
were too honorable to tattle on the
really guilty person (it was just a
childish prank, by the way). Three
of those who were present told Mr.
James that the boy was guilty, but
he would not 'believe them. Final
ly the hoy who was guilty of the
“crime” confessed, but the teacher
still insisted the other boy receive
some punishment. No apology has
been made to the hoy.
This same teacher, by the wav.
refused this same boy permission
to sharpen a pencil during a test—
though three other boys had just
been granted such permission. Os
course, he was unable to finish the
test, and received a reprimand from
Mr. James because of it. Another
teacher told a hoy at the 'beginning
of the school term, “You look like
a person I cannot trust, so I insist
vou sit riadit here in front of my
desk.” This teacher, by the way,
refused to believe another boy when
he told her his name, and called
him a liar. Finally she took him
down to Mr. James’ office where
she learned the boy had told her
the truth. She has not yet apolo
gized to the boy.
I am sorry that one of the teach
ers is “unable to understand the at
titude of the boys and girls.”
Frankly, lam not that naive—l un
derstand their attitude perfectly,
and sympathize with it. I know of
other incidents than I have listed,
some even worse than these. The
trouble is, frankly, some of the
teachers just don’t understand
young people—they think they are
little Hitlers in their classrooms,
that the student’s feelings and hu-l
man dignity are to be disregarded,
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that the student is guilty until
proven innocent; they toe, in short,
angry at their students. One boy
summed it up to me in these words:
“I don’t know what the matter is
with . . ........ she Seems to
think the whole class is her enemy,
and she is determined to ruin us be
fore w e ruin her.” ( Let me sug
gest that high school teachers be
required to take courses in teen-age
perhaps, the basic
roots of American Democracy.
High school students are human be
ings, and they deserve respect and
consideration; it is a <#gric error
to treat them as “lesser breeds
without the law.” I shoulders
with many of the students at th*-
Edenton High School every day—
'We have more than fifty of them in
our Sunday School, and 1 treat
them with the respect and dignity
they deserve. I have never had n
“discipline problem” with them, nor
has any of them ever talked back
to me. They treat me with the
same respect I treat them.
This is not to be constituted afF
either a criticism of Mr. James or
his talk. As everyone knows, Mr.
James is doing a wonderful job as
principal of our high school, and I
am in agreement with most of
what he has said. As the same
time, I feel there is another side to
the question; and I am one person
who can speak out without fear of
retaliation.
Sincerely,
James MacKenzie.
REGRETTABLE SITUATION
It is most regrettable that our
Town Council decided to take such
hasty action in voting to recom
mend a change in the town charter
relative to tenure of office of Coun
cil members. ,
It was ill-considered and ill-ad
vised for these very good reasons:
(1) No change in the town char
ter should, morally or ethically, be
considersd without a vote of the
people or at least an expression of
a majority of the people by maans
(f a mass meeting. Less than e
week before their hasty action the
Town Council had voted against
this measure. (2) It smacks too
much of politics. No one is inde
spensable. On the surface it looks
too much as if some one is afraid
of losing their jfb. (3) It was too
hasty. Any such decision of such
far-reaching significance should be
acted on only after calm and stud
ied deliberation. (4) They had no
justifiable reason for such action,
or at least they did not make
known to the public.
It seems to the writer that there
is nothing wrong with the present
method of electing our town offi
cials. Now, at least, if we don’t
approve of the way our Councilmen
are conducting town business we
don’t have to wait four years to
elect new ones. We have altogeth
er too many boards in town now
that have life tenure in office. For
goodness sake, let’s not let this
• happen to the Town Council.
A READER.
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Lions Club Meeting
Continued
Morale was very low. (
It was about this time that the
people at home and at General
Headquarters became aware of
what had happened in Russia under
similar circumstances when the
Russian government was over
thrown, thus unleashing the hounds
of Bolshivism on the world. The
“pojrers that were” knew that
might happen to American soldiers
unless something was done to make
him a little happier In his lot in
Germany and France. ,
General Pershing realized that
unless something was done to im
prove morale there was a danger of
a million and a half soldiers get
ting out of hand. He appointed a
committee of 20 officers from rank
of major up known as a Commit
tee on Morale. This committee did
much to raise morale by making it
easier to ■get leave, organizing
sports, anct entertainment. ’ On this
committee was \ Teddy Roosevelt
who conceived the idea of a civilian
organization of veterans. He in
vited the members of the commit
tee to a dinner in Paris. The oth
er members of the group fell in
with the suggestion.
There was some feeling that it
was wrong to organize a civilian
army. Roosevelt won over the
idea and sold it to General Persh
ing, but he stipulated that attend
ance would be at the member’s ex
pense and on his own leave. There
were in France at that time two di
visions containing a high percent
age of North Carolinians, the 30th
and 81st. The 30th was on the way
home, but many North Carolinians
attended the first caucus in Paris
on April 30th. At first was
much discussion about whether the
group would be composed of both
officer and enlisted personnel, and
whether or not it would be limited
to persons who served in the A.E.C.
It was finally decided that it would
be composed of all military person
nel, including the Nurse Corps, and
including those persons who did not
serve overseas. Tt was also at this
first convention that the name
American Legion was given the or
ganization among many o ther
names suggested.
The first meeting in the United
States was held at St. Louis in
May. It was at the St. Louis meet
ing that the preamble was adopt
ed, which has become a classic in
English literature—“For God and
Country, we associate ourselves to
gether for the following purposes.”
During the first national conven
tion, which was held in Minneapolis
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What every \
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iJp should know*
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The young woman who works today .
I doe* a pretty good job of taking care of
4 herself. She may have trouble balancing her %
bank statement—but she knows how to
stretch a pay check. She may be vague about
figures of the National Debt but she
knows how to keep herself out of the red.
That’s why so many working girls Eire
investing in Savings Bonds on the Payroll
Savings Plan. They know that it’s file
simplest, surest way to save-the easiest
Way for most of us to make our fondest dreams '
wwme true. Once you tell your pay office * ,
how much you Want to save each payday,
you can rehsx and know that everything
is being taken care of. Your money will go >
regularly into U. S. Series E«Savings Bonds.
And a little money set aside every payday B
soon grows into big savings. , - B Kt ) f n
♦Notice to all working girls:
Its smart to marry a millionaire, as
every woman knows. But until he comes ' '
Along, it makes good sense to inv&t
* your hard-earned dollars in Bonds on.
tie Payroll Savings Plan. Then a lot of I V
good things will come your way. &
So Mart inventing today in Savings Bonds
-eiAir giidke Payroll Savings Plan vhers 1 'k
you work or regularly where you bank. PM
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on November 11th, a parade wasj
being held in Centralia, Washing
ton, at which time the parade was
fired upon by the Industrial Work
ers of tiie World. Four were killed
and Word was received at the Min
neapolis convention, and the con
tention adopted Americanism as
one of its main objectives and war
was declared on Bolshivism.
Some of the projects the Legion
has undertaken have been Ameri
can Education Week, Boys State,
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the outstanding projects of theVfce
gion is “Back To God IjMW
ment’’said Holmes, stating that**J
movement was sincere in this raoVaiifl
menfc and that if'an active
such as' this' were not carried - oat
the preamble would be meaningless.
The Legion entourages such tMipwq
as family Bible reading, family
worship and prayer. * *' J
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