I ?lf* Warren Serorii
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The Record Printing Company
BIGNACL JONES, Editor ? DUKE JONES, Business Manager
Member North Carolina Press Association
ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE
IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS
"Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N. C."
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, $3.00; Six Months, $1.50
"Trash" Mail
Monday we found in our postoffice
box a letter addressed to "Rural Route,
or Star Route Boxholder, Postoffice
Boxholder, Local," bearing a postmark
Oklahoma City Okla., and stamped U.
S. Postage, 2'a.c, bulk rate.
We were en route to the trash can in
the postoffice to dispose of this nuis
ance, when the thought occurred to us
that it might be an example of why the
Postoffice Department runs a deficit.
As for a public service rendered, we
haven't the slightest curiosity about
what the letter contains and have not
opened it. In addition to the cost of
handling this kind of mail by the post
office, it is a nuisance to many re
ceivers.
However, it is not of its nuisance
value that we wish to comment, but of
its cost to the postoffice department.
For quite obviously it requires just as
much handling to dispatch this "trash"
Two Cheers For
Old North State
Greensboro Daily News
On paper North Carolina's per capita in
come has crept up from 44th to 42nd place
among the 50 states, but there is considerable
question whether this represents an income
explosion for the Old North State or simply a
disastrous sag for states like North Dakota
and Louisiana.
Among the contestants near the bottom of
the ladder, and that includes mostly south
eastern states, North Dakota and West Vir
ginia, to mention two, sagged badly.
The important point about North Carolina
is this: We did not sag. We bettered our per
capita income from ($1,574 to $1,640) while
North Dakota, which undoubtedly suffered a
major crop calamity, fell from 40th position
and an income of $1,741 in 1960 to 47th and
$1,484 in 1961.
North Carolina's modest increase, during a
year vhen there was much backsliding, is
encouraging. The gain is not spectacular but
the trend is forward. It means that more jobs
are being created in the state?more than are
being wiped out by the farm revolution. It
means a dynamic spirit still stirs in a state
which has always had more children than it
knew what to do with and so has had to ex
port many of them.
We venture to make one prediction: Bar
ring some unforeseen cr?p calamity or a sud
den decline of tobacco manufacturing. North
Carolina will continue the upward march in
the sixties. By a sacrificial effort we have
liftoH r,nr tanrhnr nnlnrin. rrf the forties
into the thirties in national ratings. This
brings us national attention in the right
cvcles. It also challenges salary levels in
competitive fields.
So while the latest per capita income re
Port does not merit three cheers, it probably
merits two. The Old North State is on the
plus side, even if by a narrow margin; and
that is something.
V
Safety Sense
The Advertiser (Fountain, Colo.)
A deluge of ghoulish guessing and blood
thirsty reporting has obscured the very real
progress that has been made in automotive
highway safety.
From a high of 11.3 deaths per 100 million
vehicle miles in 1943, the rate was slashed to
U in 1980. In 1961, it was reduced even
t, with a record low of 5.1 posted in the
first 11 months. This outstanding progress was
during the decade and a half since
World War II when the number of cars,
trucks and buses on America's streets and
soared from a little over 31 millinn
than 74 million.
With the automotive safety record constant
ng, it's time to stop screaming death
the family car is home in the garage,
t's no minimising the importance of
safety and nobody wants to?but sen
reports of widespread carnage, Instead
drivers safer and more competent,
them more tense, more nervous and
better drivers is not horror but
scares but suggestions; not terror
Safe driving is a skill which,
and remembered, provides great
America's automotive safety record
proved still more, without horror and
by the conscientious application of
at safe drving
fesa!$'-,
mail as it does a first class letter, al
though in fairness it must be pointed
out that it does not require quite the
rapid handling given to first class mail.
This, however, we feel, is not too im
portant a factor in its cost to the post
jffiee department.
The Postoffice Department is now?
as is usually the case?running in the
red. In order to lessen this deficit the
department is asking an increase in
postal rates, on iirst and second class
matter. The Department is seeking to
have the first class letter rate raised
from 4c to 5c, claiming, we understand,
that the 4c rate does not cover the cost
of handling a first class letter. If a first
class letter can not be handled for 4c,
one wonders how a third class "box
holder" letter can be handled for 2V?c.
Another thing we haven't been quite
able to figure is why there should be a
cents difference in the charge for han
dling a sealed and unsealed letter. It
seems to us that the mechanics are ex
actly the same.
Then there is the matter of franked
mail, covering all the mail of federal
agencies, including the bulky and large
ly unread Congressional Record. What
charge the Postoffice Department
makes to these agencies for handling
their mail we do not know. But we have
a firm conviction that if instead of a
franking privilege, each Congressman
and Senator?as well as heads of other
agencies?were given a postage meter
and charged the regular rate for his
mail as a charge against the operation
of his office, that there would be much
less mail dispatched, and much less def
icit in the Postoffice Department.
The United States has a fine postal
system and renders a remarkable serv
ice to our people. It is a debatable ques
tion as to whether or not it should be
operated for profit or as a public serv
ice. But, we feel, that if the department
is to be run as a business, that it could
do away with much franked and "trash"
mail with little loss to its patrons.
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEARS AGO
Looking Backward Into
The Record
May 10, 1957
?Warrenton citizens were this week asked to
conserve water by Supt. Harold Skillman due
to a threatening water shortage.
W. A. Miles, encumbent, was re-elected
Mayor of Warrenton Tuesday, defeating Frank
Banzet by four votes.
P. J. Harton was elected a member of the
Board of Commissioners of Norlina in a light
election Tuesday.
D. A. Rose defeated Mayor T. R. Walker
in the race for Mayor of Littleton on Tues
day.
May 9, 1952
Frank Robinson of Oine, Smith Creek Town
ship Constable, was on Monday appointed
County Dog Warden by the Board of County
Commissioners.
The board of Town Commissioners approv
ed the building of a large warehouse here by
D. G. Currin at a meeting here on Monday
night.
The Rotary sponsored John Graham High
School Band will give a concert in the school
auditorium tonight under the direction of
Robert Macon Davis.
The Board Of County fyimmlMtnnw. m<v?t.
irig here Monday, ordered that $600 be in
cluded In the 1952-63 budget to subsidize a
TB X-ray campaign in the county next fall.
May 7, 1937
Harold R. Skillman was named temporary
inspector by theO-lbH
building inspector by the Board of Town Com
missioners on Monday night
Mayor W. T. Polk and seven commissioners
for the town board were elected in an elec
tion on Tuesday in which a total of 28 vote*
were cast
Closing exercises will be held at the John
Graham High School auditorium tonight
The Town of Warrenton is again seeking
the town roller, lent to someone and for
gotten.
,....
Letter To The
Editor
:
Dear Editor:
Leading the list for Con
gressional Legislation this year
is the government sponsored
King-Anderson bill, H.R. 4222,
or so-called Medical-Aid-to-the
Aged program.
President Kennedy has stat
ed that this is not a program
of Socialized Medicine. The
Governmental control necessary
to see that Governmental in
tent is fulfilled in such a pro
gram spells Socialism. Such a
gram immediately eliminates
free choice.
Bismark's plan for compul
sory national health insurance
instituted in 1884 was a type
of nationalistic socialism to
end international socialism,
and ended in failure. England's
first experiment with socializ
ed medicine in 1911 was also
a failure, as such experiments
have always been.
Such a failure establishes a
vicious entanglement. The gov-|
ernment takes power and j
money from the people to pro-j
mote their welfare and thenj
failing to do so makes matters,
worse for the people. The gov-1
ernment then argues that it j
did not have enough power j
and money to do enough pro-|
moting. consequently more leg-i
islation for more power and
more money, ad infinitum. Mix-j
ing government with a private j
activity such as medicine, edu- i
cation, etc. inevitably leads to
a political activity. On the
other hand when a people are
forced to pay for something
whether they want it or not, j
the inclination is to use as j
much of it as they can in an
effort to obtain their money's
worth
Our government's first big
venture into socialism was in
1935 with the advent of the
original Social Security Act. An
attempt to include National
Compulsory Health Insurance
in the original Act failed as
did attempts in 1939 by Sen
ator Wagner; in 1943 by Sen
ator Wagner and Congressman
Dingell; and again in 1945 and
in 1947.
However, in 1950 the ap
proacb changed to one of j
amending the Social Security |
Act to bring in a few people!
at a time. In that year amend
ments provided money pay-,
ments, medical care, and rem
edial treatment for needy and
disabled individuals 18 years j
of age and older. More amend- j
j ments since have brought more i
people under the Act.
These amendments have been
made mainly during election
years and have succeeded in
| extending compulsory covcr
I age with liberalization of the
benefits at the same time put
ting the Federal Government
further into the Medical field.
In fact this has now reached
the proportion that today the
federal government provides
governmentalized (socialized)
medical care directly to at
least 1/5 of our total pooula
tion through numerous federal
medical systems operated by
the Armed Services, Veterans
Administration, V. S. Public
Health Service, Depatment of
Agiculture, Interior Depart
ment, and Labor Department.
This does not include grants
in-aid programs or the over
all activities of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
The agitation for socialized
medicine began with an allega
tion that Americans were in a
deplorable state of health be
cause of inadequate medical
care. Comparable figures be
lie this statement. Now a bet
ter political pawn has been
discovered, and that is the
organization of 17 million
Americans over the age of 65
to influence Congressmen.
This nations private health
insurance firms offer a strik
ing example of contributions
made to American life by vol
untary and cooperative effort.
One hundred thirty million of
more than 180 million Ameri
cans are covered by private
health insurance, all without
any Federal subsidy or tax
load on anybody.
1 feel that there is no need
for Federal intervention and
th :t this so-called insurance
program is not an insurance
program, but rather a way of
additional direct taxation of
income. Federal income tax,
originated in 1913, was estimat
ed to amount to only approxi
mately 1 %. Now it is a min
imum 20%, and a confiscatory
91in certain brackets. The
Social Security program called
for a 3% payroll tax 1% em
ployee and IVz employer) on
the first $3,000 of income.
Present law calls for increase
through 1969 ( 34 years after
its inception) which will con
stitute a 9% tax on salaries
and which is in addition to
Federal Income taxes; Federal
gasoline, excise and luxury
taxes; and County and State
sale taxes, real estate taxes,
and State income taxes. This
means a minimum of 24%
Federal taxes on income by
1969. Indeed, this is National
Socialism.
In closing I quote the Dan
Smoot Report of January 25,
1960:
"If money will solve all our
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By BIGNA1X JONES
While Warren County per
sons are enjoying Reynolds
Price's "A Long and Happy
Life," they may look forward
to reading another book whose
scene is Warrenton.
Winston-Salem Publisher John
Blair has scheduled for June
publication a novel, "The Way
We Were." by Mary Polk, a
sister of the late well-known
editor William T. Polk Of
this book. Betty Hodges com
mented in "Book Nook." of the
Sunday edition of The Durham
Morning Herald:
"The book is billed as "a
description of the beginning of
a new century in a small town
in the South and a picture of
a family that had to keep up
its prestige largely on its per
sonality."
"Mr Blair, who is not given
to extravagant statements, says
that Miss Polk's book is "aj
work of- art. subtle, incisive
and humorous . . and will
make of her one of the dis
tinguished authors of the vcar
1962."
Mrs. Gibbs uses her maiden
, J
health problems, the perfect'
solution is obvious; make the
Federal government stop seiz
ing an average of 35% of ev
erybody's income for gifts and
loans and bribes to foreign
governments and for the mul
titude of dangerous, wasteful,
illegal, and immoral vote-buy
ing domestic subsidy program.
"That will leave individuals
with enough money to buy
whatever kind and quantity of
insurance they happen to want.
And it will leave enough
wealth in every American Com
munity to provide adequate
clinics and facilities and medi
cines for the helpless and des
titute who do exist in every
community and who are a com
munity responsibility."
LEMUEL W. KORNEGAY.
name for her pen name, and
to many older persons In War
ronton she is still known as
Mary Polk in spite of having
been married to Frank H.
Gibbs for more than a quarter
of a century?as is the way of
small towns. Her book will
be widely read here because
of her friends living in the
town and because of her con
nections, and I feel, because of
the worth of her production.
The book will be particular
ly enjoyable, I predict, to older
citizens of the town who re
member the Polk family dur
ing the period described by
Mr* Gibbs.
1 am one of those who are
looking forward to the appear
ance of "The Way We Ware"
with a great deal of anticipa
tion. Pew friendships have
meant as much to me as
the friendship of Bill Polk,
not only for the pleasure of
his company but for the in
fluence he had on my life
through his counsel and
through his friends. The Polk
children were childhood
friends and this friendship has
lasted into adulthood. When
Mary Polk writes of her fam
ily. of her childhood exper
iences, she is writing of a part
of my life.
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