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PAGE FOUR i —SECTION TWO Three Fs PERSONAL AND PRIVATE PROBLEMS j f wou WUI to uiwt. mwi sitil private problems of u isasls «M submit their questions this column. These inquiries to m io famUy and social problems and 1 cuter questions that come up la lustian oneself to society; economic mtfeas to includa adjustment to busi » Hie and career*. All laouiries respoauene* and names will be taolu the strictest confldenc*. All inquii iaad questions should be addressed “Three F*s". eare of The Chowan raid. Edentoa- N. C. —Vladimir u bailor. Counselor. BDear Three Fs: For some time past I have become interested in reading the polls as printed in the news jj pag>ers, particularly the Gallup | Foil- I do not agree with many g of these polls and they are be < ginning to irritate me. As a * result I went around my neigh borhood and asked people if } they knew about the poll and if j they were ever asked quest.ons. ] Many of them never heard of the r poll and none of the people I 1 asked ever had been questioned. I As a result 1 have been wonder - ing where these people get the * information on which they base ;• their results. Can you enlighten me on this? 4 —Lucifer. * Dear Lucifer: You are not the onlv one that « is irritated by these polls. There i are a great many peop’e who j think for themselves that resent having these polls represent * their thinking. There are a j number of definitions of the i word “poll”. The Greek mean , ing is the many, the rabble, f The Old English meaning is the 1 “head”, the total number of • heads or people, a list used fo*- i voting and tax purposes, such as the poll tax. There are many j kinds bf polls taken for various ' purposes; the census taken every tpn years is a kind of poll. The Gallup Poll, with headquarters in 'I Princeton, N. J., claim that they have a scientific, mathematical | t formula that accurately portrays if the thinking of the mass of people in this country. They - may have a scientific formula, » but the weakness is in the sys * tern and the people they u c e in J developing the basic information on which the conclusions are ‘.jj based. As t>e sysem f I Ggllup has certain representative » jgeoDle in various parts of the 1 country who in turn emplov a * jriumber of young people who • !are supposed to interview peo jple of different classes of socie g £y and employment. These peo -1 pie are asked key questions and ; these replies form the basic in * formation on which the conc’us * jons are formulated. Like you, [i Sfour columnist has been curious * sand over a per : od of several igrears made a poll. The result Jwas the same as vou indicate. M/g-eat many people never heard 1 of the poll and not one person | {interviewed ever had been ask ed any of the key auestions. In in the course of a lifetime yqur column has never even met the census taker. One of the 1 tragedies of the poll taking was the going out of business of I*he old Literary D ;rr est, subse quently bought bv Time Maga zine. For a number of years the Literary Digest poll was very MAOLA . . . The Milk of Superlative Quality I JTw/- r /Wj / Milk if a (f a #, tfLLg ft •o, ■ ■,!> i&Mf ■Ttatf ’ 4J At C All Akl successful. In the early years of the depression tney took their usual poll the result of wxucii was an opinion that was com- " pletely contrary to What ihap-. 1 pened in that year’s presidential election. The reason for this ‘ questioning of a restricted class * of people. They sent out return i reply postal cards to a selected \ list of people obtained from the \ telephone directories. The weak j ness in this was twofold: First, i did the people give an honest 1 reply, secondly, their list was ■ too restricted as there were more not listed in the telephone ; directories than were listed, so , that the replies were not repre . sentative, and the resultant opin-! , ion was totally wrong. As a I , result a great many people do| not pay any attention to polls. I , One of the harmful effects of these polls is that a great many f | unthinking people feel that to be j f I in the swim, or on the right side lof the fence, have to express ,: themselves or vote according to [ I these polls. One of the undoubt ed weakness of these polls is . that many of the people who ; may be asked the leading ques-j ; tiono may not give honest re-| , plies and then again they may change their minds. While some polls may have their value on the whole the results should be t taken with a great deal of , skepticism, and people should , learn to express themselves re t gardless of the polls, t , Dear Three P’s: . A short time ago a very at . tractive woman moved into our town. She is employed in some > state agency. My husband and f I met her at church and in a - neighborly way we have had her i to dinner several times. We be - long to a private dancing and so ; cial club. We both invited this r lady to one of the dances. My ? husband was quite gallant and i introduced her to several men. i but I noticed that he had most 1 cf the dances with her. Since s then on some pretext or other, f some plumbing or hanging pic r tures, my husband is soendine a , great deal of time with her. We - have two children and I am not i going to do anything to affect i them. Is there away out of h *b : s for me and for my hus-j . band? ; —Mrs. Anna H. jjDear Mrs. Anna H.: i j Propinquity is a great tmng > for getting many men into seri -1 ous trouble. The closer tney are - j to something attractive the more -' likely they are to become some -1 what inflamed. There are two - steps you might take to offset - this interest of your husband. , Look around the neighborhood 3 for a single, attractive man. In -1 vite him to dinner to meet this t charming lady. Throw him in • her way so that he will have 1i to take her home. If she is > wise she will recognize the at - tempt to .help her with her so -1 cial life and fasten on the single adonis. If this does not seem to t work I would suggest that you ? have a talk with your minister ! and he might call on this charm s er and point out that her at - tractions are too alluring to your ■ husband and that she should s have her light shine in another ' direction. THE CHOWAN HERALD. EPEHTOW. WORTH CAKOLIWA. THOHSPAT NOVEMBER 12. 1959. P. 0. Dept Plans Next-Pay Delivery Continued from Pane I—Section 1 metropolitan area includes the counties of Accomack, Nanse mond, Norfolk, Northampton and Princess Anne, Virginia, and Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Pasquo tank and Perquimans, North Carolina. “These major improvements in the Norfolk metropolitan ' area’s first class mail service I pattern are the result of inten sive study and planning. Per- I sonnel of the Washington Postal I Region and of 157 post offices in I the area have worked as a team I to develop a comprehensive ser | vice program and put it into effect. “Next-day delivery of most of I the first class mail in the Nor- I folk metropolitan area is now possible because of a closely in tegrated timetable which gov erns the work of the area’s pos tal units and the transportation | linking them together. Hard j working, skilled postal em ployees race against time i throughout the night in order to make possible next-day delivery of hundreds of thousands of let ters to the nearly one million people residing in this area. “The population of this area is growing rapidly and the postal service needs are becoming in creasingly complex. On an aver age day, approximately 850,000 pieces of first class mail are handled between the 157 area post offices, ranging from the large first class to the smal 1 ru ral fourth class post office. “The principal feature of the new plan involves the designa tion of certain strategically lo cated post offices to act as col lection and distribution centers for various sections of the area involved in the plan. Thus much of this mail which formerly went into Norfolk for processing will have this function perform ed by the designated centers, thereby bypassing the congested Norfolk area and eliminating time-consuming travel. “Such mail as must come into Norfolk to connect delivery routes which originate there will already have been processed, and can thus be kept separate from mail originating at Norfolk and sent on its way to destinations immediately. “Other changes include the es tablishment of some new trans portation routes, and adding trips to and changing schedules of existing routes. Some ad justment of city and mail collec tion schedules was also neces sary. “The improved delivery of letters throughout the Norfolk metropolitan area is being ac complished despite antiquated postal quarters and equipment, which do not begin to meet the demands of today’s mail load. “This plan for the Norfolk metropolitan area is another step toward achieving the depart ment’s goal of next-day delivery of mail between any two points in the United States. We have previously established similar plans in the Washington, Balti more and Richmond areas, and 46 additional plans are in opera tion in other postal regions. The national program calls for establishment of 90 such metro politan area plans, which in total will assure next-day deliv ery for more than two-thirds of the annual volume of mail gen erated by the entire country. The Washington Region of the Post Office Department is proud and happy to have been able to contribute* the Norfolk metropo litan area plan to that effort,” Mr. Clarke concluded. Postmaster J. L. Chestnutt says he is trying to improve the mail service, but needs the help of the patrons. “Please mail as early as you can, and by all means get your mail in the of fice by 5 P. M.,” he says. i Lunch Room Menu ] Menus at the John A. Holmes High School lunch room for the week of November 16-20 will be as follows: Monday: Italian spaghetti with meat balls, cole slaw, bread, ap ple pie, garden peas, butter and milk. Tuesday: Stew beef with po tatoes and onions, green string beans, rolls, apple .sauce, butter and milk, Wednesday: Ham, pickle relish, corn bread, collards, buttered sweet potatoes, butter, cookies and milk, Thursday Tuna fish salad on lettuce, salted crackers, dried Hma beans, cheese sli-es, cheese j b's-uits, butter and milk. I block cake, "scorn bread muffins, 2-Year-Oid ts 'Dimes’ Poster Girt JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES t-RABgUJf$ FPSNKt ffl * JluhSsP ' P? 1 >— 1 ■ , - , The National Outlook What Happens “If Peace Breaks Out”? By Ralph Robey V Although there is little possi bility that we may get a reduc tion of major proportions in fed eral spending within the next year or so, there is much dis cussion of what the effect of such a cut would be upon our economic trend. Benefits Os Reduced Federal Spending This problem usually is posed Old Quaker STRAIGHT i BOURBON (' < WHISKEY » ** N \ 1 * $025 ' ■■ PINT [(quakef<|| 4/5 QT. A BARREL^pr^ QUALITY Hk VEhli BOTTLED pr v_ I —' imm #... I . fj ,y- .•. ’ PREVENT CRIPPLING DISEASES Mary Beth Pyron, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James T.' Pyron of Florence, Ala., has just ' been chosen national poster girl for the New March of Dimes 1960 campaign in January. Her picture will ap pear on millions of posters (above), canisters and coin collectors in every town and village of the country, sym bolizing the New March of Dimes attack on crippling birth defects, arthritis and polio, dis eases that affect one in every four V. S. families. Mary Beth was born with an open spine and water on the brain. Med ical science knows no way of helping her. Hope lies in sci entific research supported by the New March of Dimes. Mary Beth is a sunny, affectionate child and loves to ride her new walking horse (left). Her brother Tommy, 4, is a nor* mal child. —— in terms of a reduction of our military spending of, say $lO billion because of an end of the cold war. But there would be the same type of problem if the reduction of spending came in the non-military part of the budget. In other words, in the dis cussion it is assumed that the spending itself, regardless of its purpose, is an essential element in the present volume of busi ness. So, for the purpose of ar gument, let us assume that we had a reduction in government outlays of ten billion dollars. What would the results be? If the reduction was in the non-militaiy parts of government it would mean that the public would have just that much more to spend as it saw fib This would be true regardless of whether taxes were cut by an equal amount. The difference between a reduction of taxes and t!he alternative of the same ■ amount paid off on the pubPc debt, would be solely in the dis tribution of the proceeds. And there could be a dife - - ence according to the type of tax reduction made,,and the por tion of the puolic debt paid off. If the tax reduction was all given to those in the lower in come brackets, the vast majority of it would be spent. If the re duction was for those in the up per income brackets, a major portion of it might be invested. If the tax reduction was across the income board, it would be used much as present personal income is used. One other possibility needs mention. If the reduction were made in business taxes, it would reduce the cost of production, and prices would be lower That would be assured by com petition. If the proceeds of the lower spending were used to Day off part of ihe public debt there I NOTICE’ I * A JL Lj • To Chowan County TAXPAYERS The Tax Books for the year 1959 are 4 now in my hands for the collection of I taxes. We urge you to pay your taxes J I now and avoid the penalty which will | begin on February 1. I A PENALTY OF 1% WILL BE ADDED ON 1959 I TAXES NOT PAID BEFORE FEBRUARY 2. AN OTHER 1% WILL BE ADDED MARCH 2 AND AN ADDITIONAL V 2 OF 1% WILL BE ADDED FOR ?! EACH ADDITIONAL MONTH TAXES ARE UNPAID. EARL GOODWIN j! SHERIFF OF CHOWAN COUNTY " U "" Ll * nrwV'-jW>AAAAA»VV»Cir u vV\#VVlA^«^^^^^^vvvvyvVVW%^'«* PURE mWTi PREMIUM »lg Z I sets 30 new performance S 4PPBIP! records at niM Daytona Beach mam ip, £SiL ». j■" . &[/ \ I y—: —r—ill Totd notnber of records now stands at nn 1,1,1 y over 240-more than any other gasoline I tek*B® St fV SS< 2,l \f I At the 1957 International Safety fWMIL*** ■ Jfm | \\f // and Perfarmance Trials at Day- ton® Beach, Pure-Premium j It? * 1.-Msi aKU ' ■■S* „ powered 30 cars to record per -2 | Tl MB t Hi. -4 f formance. This brings th*- total *** 'wmmr At M&f number of re.»rds set by Pure- MV jWBpBiPj "w MJj Premium to over 240 —ir re lUr n th^ n Lascar gaßolv ** MjggsßMErA g3g 1 gasoline proved by performance again and o*dnl t also could be a variation of its effects according to the owners of the obligations repaid. » * If the owners were commercial banks it would mean that their reserves would be increased by ; | the amount of the payment, and ■ they could increase their loans : and investments by an equal i I ’ amount, or actually perhaps a , somewhat larger amount since j reserves do not have to be 100 1 , percent. If the owners were pri [ vate citizens there .would *be . the same variation as in tax re , duction. The same situation would pre vail if the reduction in spending was in the military, except in , this instance some companies, and some industries, would feel an immediate impact. These would be companies and indus tries dependent, to a greater or lesser degree, on mi itary or ders. In some instances the re adjustable probably could be] made without too much trouble;] in other- instances the readjust ment would be severe. Federal spending Not Basis For U. S. Economy What this all amounts to is the fact that our economic ac -1 tivity is not basically dependent : upon government spending. ! This does not mean, that gov ernment spending does not af r ect business. Os course it does. But given a little time, we would ad just to a reduction of govern • | ment spending of any magnitude. ‘ | This will be true just as long as > I our desire for goods is not com pletely sated, and therfe is no reason to f assume that we &re : even close to that point. “Confidence is the cohesive ,j force that holds the world ; j together making social and business intercourse possi ble. We have a proper consider ation for our responsibilities to the community and serve with fidelity and courtesy. .f