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"K" 'll ... ^ mmm Mowlajrs WMI mbopPMlifS «t Mi«r% WBfcx^ar^^ N. C , J. CAXim ui J1TUU8 a K«1IAS9 SUUCRIPTION RATES: Om Yew _...|1.5t ; n Wmc Meatlu — .*• Out ef tke State |2.M ftr Year •Hwei at tki fMt «Mm at Narik Wttea- k«& N. aa Me«4 class auitter aiiier Act Slb^ 4. itn. MONDAY, FEB. 27, 1989 No Entangling Alliaii^t It is not so long ago since the United States was engaged in the greatest for eign war in our history, that men still in 'tke prime of life cannot remember its be- gttn^ and its end. \*One.doe8 not have to be forty to recall tfee aldgan “He kept us out of war” which was the victorious battle-cry of the Demo cratic party in 1916, or to remember how, less than six months aftei’ his reelection. President Woodrow Wilson was forced by circumstances and the piessure of public opinion to call upon Congress to declare war against Germany. Nobody would be safe in venturing to phophesy in these troubled days that some wnfilar circumstances and an aroused public opinion may not drag the United States again into war. One point which is not always clear in the minds of people today ought to be kept to the fore in all the war talk. That is that America did not go to war to save France or England, or Belgium, or any other nation but our own. ^ We were fighting for our own hand, and President Wilson resisted every' effort to line us up as allies of any other nation. In the newly-issued seventh volume of Ray Stannard Baker’s great authorized biography of Woodrow Wilson that point is emphasized over and over again, in the personal letters and official documents of the President. On one occasion, when the Food Ad ministrator, Herbert Hoover, issued a poster containing the words “Our Allies” President Wilson wrote him, reminding him that the words “Our Associates in the War” was the proper phrase, adding that the American people were veiy jealous of any intimation of formal alliances. If we should be forced into another war it will not be as allies of any other nation, but in defen.se of our own rights alone. An Amazing Personality However strongly people may differ with each other about President Roosevelt’s po- * litical and governmental policies, there is universal admiration for his courage and fortitude in the face of a physical handi cap which would, have floored almost any' other man. Even his friends believed that -when he left the sanitarium at Warm Springs in 1928 to run for Governor of New York he eould not possibly .stand tTie strain of public office. That was eleven years ago, and Mr. Roosevelt today is in better physical con- ■ dition than any President has ever been "aften six years in office. Except that he cannot walk unaided, he haa the build of an athlete, and while car rying a far greater load of personal re- “spbnsibility than most Presidents have shouldered, he finds time for daily exer- to keep himself in trim. ^ One of the secrets of Mr. Roosevelts continued endurance l3 his ability to ti^ow off the cares of office for frequenf . ' periods of relaxation. Just now he i» ■ aboard the cruiser Houston in the Carib- — kean, watching the Navy maneuvers, i^ch are fun for him. It is his first vaca- s.- |ten since the Christmas holidays, the first KpUp he has spent as much as six weeks cwtinuoosly in the White HJouse. No President ever traveled more nor got as . :nittch recreation from his travels. .ibi the nearly eighteen years ^Ce he stricken vnth infantile paralysis Mr. Ro^vsevelt has ^veled farther than any one could Lave thought possible in 1921. The qualities o will-power and vitaUty pulled him through have won him ’ the respect even of thiose who do not ad- Wm. We wish him a pleasant vaca- tidn in the Caribbean. _ we era* he^‘«ho«^- we thteh. anybody : ¥AOJ *" ' (BsWjfr .Nsei sad Otaiiew ' Facing » committee ^^orth Ci^l^ public school teachto ^aroused over the 'Appropriation’s Commtt^’i^ rejection of all proposals to increase teiu;her'salaries —^including the Govemor’i^'rwommenda- tion—Governor Hoey counselled: ^ “The best way is to approach members of the Legislature . ;*.>n aroused interest does not do any good unless someone talks to the members”, ^ ' Properly, the teachers agreed to ask the Appropriations Committee to reopen the salary question, and set about inform-, ing legislators particularly and the peo^- pie back home generally of the plight of the men and women "who teach their chil dren. The task of conviction ought not to be hard. If the bare fact that the State of North Carolina provides only ?2.71 a day for the living of its best qualified and most experienced white teachers does not convince, there’s little hope of convincing by any discuasion of schools and .scbo >] needs. The bitter point is that only 5,372 '.hltc ^eachers of the State’s 16,665 draw oven this high average salary from the State. This third of the teacher staff is deemed entitled to $2.71 a day because this third has qualified for the highest certificates with a minimum of three years college training and has a minimum of eight years teaching experience. All of this third and many more of the 11,684 teachers who have A grade cer tificates but who have not taught so long as eight years have borne with remarka ble patience a progressive martyrdom to the cause qf North Carolina’s children. A 10 per cent salary cut, the abandon ment of local and county contributions to teachers’ salaries, the 33 1-3 per cent strentehout imposed when teachers were required to teach the lengthened State term of eight months for the .same annual salary they received for the previous six months term—all these items have gone into the impoverishment of the teachers, whatever may have been done meantime toward the theoretical enrichment of the curriculum. Obviously, the best of teachers cannot give the best of service harassed by the problem of living under the standards re quired of teachers on $2.71. Equally ob vious is the fact that when the best teach ers abandon a profession in which there is .so much of pain and so little of promise, their places will be taken increasingly by teachers who are worth less than the $2.71 the State is willing to pay. For the people of North Carolina and their children this may be economy, but it will be the economy of public school col lapse. • • • -■iV 8ir in Mfitn • TO.CElilDOi [saeh'a"!^ ^ pi^itiiduia will have to atop, foA aod &ton. Tkin i* .only on« tolng 'toe avarlfe .^polititon in «fraiil of or will Ustoi to. That ia toe Toten wlto eleetoa him and MayM eneonrace ioned. g ISSELLION From idl parta of too hear of pe^ orssiiltoif ^MVDHa ▼weni etoctoa nnu mio mmoceMHnr’Cnd ' oDDm* throw him oortf ha do«ii^ .hue tonatom, wbito GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE (Statesville Daily) It is oDvious that in the main the mem bers of the General Assembly have fol lowed the lead of Governor Hoey and have closed their minds to all argument against the general sales tax. As a mat ter of fact the public has become cal loused to it, and it is now accepted as a necessary evil that will endure. However, when and where two or three are gathered together and Paul Leonard is among them, you can guess pretty well what they are talking ah(out. Paul has castigated the sales tax up one side and down the other, partly because he is paid to do it, but largely, we reckon, because he honestly and sincerely considers it an unequitable and iniquitous thing. But be cause Mr. Leonard has been unrelenting and continuous in his fight, he, too. has been accepted as a neces3ai*y evil—^to be endured with as much patience as can be commended. It should be retfreshing then, to Paul at least, to find such a loyal suppox-ter of the rales tax as the Greensboro Daily News editorializing thusly: “There is that in what the Fair Tax as sociation is saying, the protest that is be ing voiced by its spokesman, Paul Leon ard, that ought to be given considerr.tton, that must receive consideration, if the sen ators and representatives are to be able to give a good account of their steward ship . . . Mr. Leonard comes in as a wit ness specially interested, but a reputable witness. It is a hfigh duty of the legisla ture to disprove his indictment if it is not truj^ It is a high duty to devise corrective meraures, if it is true, and if any substan tial part of it is true. Justice and com mon honesty demand no less”. The Graensborq paper;we s?r fe- iraw yoR8i"(Sp«ciia>—A jempet iide thcmi^ m , two milei above “Oimtocraoty.’' ‘ toe iperfeetly integrated garden city of feature toe central toen^mtotolt of torNssy York Woi^^|^^li|j^.o^!( Apm 30. ' Tha axhtoto towad” by Hauy iadBahhd;de||fBer, aritl be dratoatotto fitfnL li adU. jmek atidirace, wiRtooupe of ayaibblliBii^toe tofodepiOdence. of mao in tnod- Nearer], and nearer they will tramp, unto^the whole arch 'of heaven ia llllM with towering ftg- urea, arms upraised, singiixg the song of tomorrow.. As the final strains of this marching air die away, great streamers of .colored light shoot forth from the senith, drenching the sky from horizon to horizon in all the hues of the rain bow. A Dramatic Show This dramatic show will be housed In the eighteen-story Peri- sphere, companion structure to the 700-foot Tiylon, which constitute the architectural focus of the Fair. An entirely new method of pro jection, utilizing slides instead of film, will be employed to throw the moving figures on the sky New methods of fluorescent light ing will be used. The garden city itself will be a model—one of the largest ever built and the first to portray a full size metropolis catering to a mil lion people and complete in every last detail. This city of tomorrow will serve 1,000,000 people, but no one will live in it. Homes will be in suburban developments. Factories also will be located ir satellite towns, and broad green belt areas will circle both city and towns. Model City Possible City planners, engineers, archi tects, landscape architects, airport specialists and other experts col laborated on the design of “De- mocracity,” and so accurate is the model that, according to Mr. Drey- fuss, it could be given concrete reality today were sufficient funds made available. Blueprint draw ings have been made not only of street layouts, harbors, airports, athletic fields and civic centers but of traffic and pedestrian over passes, theatres, hospitals, shops, bridges, dams and apartments. The entrance to the theme ex hibit will be high up on the side of the Perisphere fifty feet above the ground. Access will be by means of the .two longest moving stair ways ever built in this country Visitors will enter on two levels and step on to two magic carpets or revolving platforms placed one above tlie other and moving in op posite directions. TAVATION^^.-^v ': bmefito .9ver34x)dly pajra taxas. Nobody* ew paid toxaa boeaoae he Uked to pay them. People are wilUngljMked Itf to pay taxea wbm tliey can see »otoj*,The .toat toeyi we gettinir aamelhtot for their money. I. th^ toe gteajt majorito oi^Americana are gettoi||r toed of paying taxpa for iMwfito whid) to^ do Borf get. f hear proteste' emridpai^ fr^ pMple vtoo run aatomobAet a^ agah;^ toe^ dfvenion of toe gaao^ line tak from ito cnginal pnrpoae of highway ithprotoment' atad maintenance ..to .an kinds of mis- cellaneoua purposes. I am hear ing more grimibles about waste of public fdnda bi maintaining high-salaried officials who do nothing for their saalries. I look back into history and read the complaints of the Amer ican colonists aagainst th^ taxes : Btfo^ there can be any such tojclstag of toe voters toey need to know that they are being soaked Ny the polittcians,'*'^^ a B d the colonist's r%elikm agatost Ring Geoige- The wobton at* takiii^’ the lead.- Woaaen of New Jersey laei toll orgaaiz(fi themselves into the greatest In Anmv ^ergency Coonmurs Tra Oooh- ina today la more {tahlkHy abont taxes, how toey ar# }evi^ who haa to-pay them, and pailacolarly what tte money is need tor. : WftfiOO persons, on the paiytoU ad the bMfai- ning -df ISiP, not|^nntaig WF-A. worltohi, bin oni^'’ngtdar em|fl^- ees.. -Th^ aw probably as many more on toa ;^yWlls of state and local ftiwiniinsittt. nTItat meanai that neatfy two millibn people are supppttoig themMlves and their fandllec out of what you and I cotttitoute. I toink it would help a lot if the names of alt of them, with the sdaries they get, were made public in some way so their neig^hboTS could see them and imposed on them by the English judge for toemselves whether government, money taken across the ocean to maintain the King and court in royal Inxnry. And I read about the Declaration of In- depmidence and the Revolution. Then I wonder what we are head ing for in America today. ECONOMY . . . . waste Politicians always talk economy before election. Very seldom do they practice it after they have been elected to positions which en able them to spend public money and levy taxes on the people. That is true whether they are town supervisors or selectmen, county commj^jioners, municipal mayors and councilmen, state governors and legislators, or Sen ators and Representatives in Con gress. I feel safe in asserting that more than half of the money spent by the 1-5,000 taxing units the United .Stages is wasted.: The people who p.iy the taxes do not get value for their money. | That goes for the Federal govern-' ment, most if not all of the state governments, practically evei-y city and county government and the majority of town ai\u vill.igo governments. We are paying, you and I and everybody else, almost a quarter of all that we earn in the form of taxes to maintain our govern- nent. The smaller the individual income, the higher the proportion of taxes. The average wage-^ earner works three months out of, :he year for the governments he lives under. The joke of it is that he doesn’t realize that he is pay ing taxes at all. He thinks only the rich guys are being soaked. PUBLICITY . . . voters they- tow earning their pay. PRmLBGE . . . equality The least defensible taxes are those which are imposed by politi cians for the purpose of giving special favors to one class of cit izens, or of punishing another class. They are indefensible be cause they uproot the basis of equal rights upon which the Unit ed States is founded. ! The folks who will pay are thej consumers, whose market-baskets: will cost more to fil). Millions ofi ordinary, average citizens, whose | interests surely should come first: are being l^uced for the special' benefit of a few. I have always j believed that anything which re-i cil. More than 300 local gnapt have thousanda of women pledged to combat unsound new tax pro posals, to nuke consumers aware of all hidden taxes, and to de mand tjpeal of overlto>ping and unnecessary taxes. They won their biggVst victory last month when they obtained a decision from the state supreme court revoking local ordmsnces that would tax “(lash-and-carry” stores and markets out of exist ence. They have blocked half a dozen other schemes of politicians to spend taxpayers’ money un- necessariljy. 'ITie women of every other state could fight oppressive taxes as effectively, and I hope some who read this will write to Trenton and ask the New Jersey ladies how they did it. WILLIAMS MOTOR CC. TELHP&QNB 334-J T H. Wmaau, Owmer Oldsmobil* SalM-S«rvie« Bear Franc Sqrriae and Wheel Aliganot Genernl Aafo Repnir&if Wrecker Searvice—ESeetde and Acetylene Weliing USED PARIS—Fer a|l nakw ami mtxiela «f cara and tnaefca ENJOY ^ THE PLEASURE THERE IS IN SMOKING- Let up—Light up a Camel W HEN the combination to a safe gets lost, Har old J. Weidraao is likely to get a calL His work as a lock smith is opening locks by toudi and sound. Often that’s a long, wearisome job, and, as Harold says, "No task for a man with jittery nerves.” So he pauses now and then to let up-light up a r.iild, tasty Camel. He finds these recesses pleasant and refreshing. SMOKERS FIND- Camels never jangle the nerves False Claims Call For Road Terms Raleigh.—Nuinners of indict ments have been brought again; claimants under the State I'nem ployment Compensation Act for misrepresenting their earning.- wlien signing continued claims for benefits during the past 10 oi 12 Tiionths, many of which have resulted in road sentences for the claimants guilty of law violations. In most of the cases the claim ants signed weekly statements: that they had no earnings or small earnings during the pre ceding week when actually they were fully employed and drawing wages for the . full week, or wag es larger than they reported. Recently three negroes in Wil son were found guilty and fined $20 and costs and given 30 days on the roads, with capias to issue for non-payment of the costs. Las. fall 29 negroes were tried on sim ilar charges in the Wilsoa Re corder’s Court. “Sometimes claimants who have no right to the funds ac- cum'ilated for the unemployed can get by for a short time in drawing benefits not due them, but we have seweral methods of checking up on all claims and usually detect such practices be fore they get very far,’’ said Chairman Charles G. Powell. “'We using every means possible including the courts, when neces sary, to protect the funds collect ed for unemployed eligible work ers.’’ Certainly no one shonld object to a woman’s kinking her hair in stead of streleh’entng her., brain —If she chooses so to do. Gr What OB Bairto fcr Seia) WW toe : CouMtau^ . itoMewflowD ciumM advesitnre and got it witf airplaam, toe Italian cavalry and s miUten-doUar “ghoc*,” bat more cocdtoig still was, her “hHI- sfalp” tTeaaai'* cmisc' 'mid., hor nmi>ezplolt wfil have to b*4gtos toliteg $0:40^ >ut a* on every other imte itt^^itor fair and a ttraight^h *aHi|i*plne disttttatod , thtodWto WaaWagtou -Ner- TWrrH STWUITJ
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