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Congratulations To Cochrane
The Warren Record Joins with
other business firms and individuals
in offering our congratulations
to Cochrane Eastern, Inc.,
upon the occasion of its Open House
on Sunday afternoon and hopes that a
large number of our citizens will
take advantage to visit this modern
and beautiful plant.
^ In selling congratulatory advts to
local business people, we suggested
to one advertiser that most of
the advts offered congratulations to
Cochrane Eastern, Inc., in their
advts. This man said what he wanted
to do was to congratulate the
Warrenton area upon obtaining such
a fine plant as is Cochrane Eastern,
Inc.
We feel that this advertiser has
a point and while we congratulate
Cochrane Eastern, Inc., upon its
selection as a site for its plant,
we also congratulate the community
upon obtaining this plant.
Cochrane Eastern, Inc., means
more to Warrenton than Just the
obtaining of a manufacturing plant.
Its announcement that It had selected
Warrenton as a site meant a
turn in the economic plight of Warren
County which for years has been
suffering a decline as thousands of
Its people left the county to ob
tain work elsewhere. S offered new
hope and promise and the promise
Is being fulfilled even while the
company Is In limited production.
It has stimulated the demand for
housing to a point that citizens
desiring to sell their homes for any
reason will find a good market
for them, and it means that further
employment will be provided for
those building homes. Its ramifications
are so many that the space
of this article would not permit
their recounting.
Among other things, the establishment
of Cochrane Eastern, Die.,
here means that other Industries and
other businesses will come to our
county as will more people. Already
a second fine factory is being
built at our neighboring town of
Norlina and should soon be in operation.
No doubt other plants will
follow suit almost as fast as labor
can be provided.
To bring new hope and new opportunities
to a community is no
small thing and on Sunday when
our people attending Cochrane Eastern,
Jnc.'s Open House It will be
but an expression of gratitude that
this fine company chose to make the
Warrenton area its home.
Who Can Find The Pablum?
*
The SMMiekHferaJiT
T*e politician who turns a phrase gets
more applause than the politician who comes
to grips with an Issue. This Is an old but
deplorable political truth proved anew by
Vice President Splro Agnew.
Ever since last October, when be described
anti-war protesters as "an effete corps
of Impudent snobs," Mr. Agnew has stirred
the emotions of Americans with rhetoric
that often lacked reason as it shunned the
substance of Issues.
to the last week or so, the Vice President
has led enthusiastic followers to believe
that the report at the President's
Commission on Campus Unrest — "the
Scranton Cota mission" —gives aid and
comfort to violence-prone students and condones
lack of discipline on university campuses.
The Vice President has done this,
not by citing the substance of the Commission's
report but rather by describing the
report broadly as "more pablum for permlaslTists."
The reasonable way to expose Mr. Agnew's
demagoguery Is not to say that the
phrase-slinging vice President "Is behaving
like a drunk In a barroom," as Sargent
Shrlver described him In an address to N.
C. Democratic Women at Baleigh Saturday.
Mr. Shrlver no doubt evoked applause and
laughter. But reason directs us to concentrate
on words at the Scranton Commission's
report that refute the Vice President's
rhetoric about pablum. Either Mr.
Agnew did not read the report, or he chose
to oover it up by coining a crowd-pleasing
phrase.
Here Is what the Commission's report
said about campus violence and permissiveness:
"We utterly condemn violence. Students
who bpmb and burn are criminals ....
"There can be no more 'trashing,' no
more rock thro wine, 00 more bombing by
protesters. No grievance, philosophy, or
political Idea can justify the destruction
and killing we have witnessed ....
"There can be no sanctuary or immunity
from prosecution on the campus . . The
full resources of «Q^|ety must be employed
to bring to Justice those who commit
terroristic acts. Anyone who aids or protects
terrorists, on or off campus, must
share the moral and legal responsibilities
for the crimes they commit.
"The university should promulgate a
code making clear the limits of permissible
conduct and announce in advance,
what measures it is willing to employ In
response to impermissible conduct . . .
"Faculty members who engage In or lead
dlsnvtlve conduct haw no place in the
University community."
Political rhetoric describing that forthright
statement as pablum for permlsslvlsts
Is clearly rhetoric lacking reason -and
rhetoric Ignoring substance.
It also is rhetoric calculated to distract
the attention of the American people from
the patriotic role the Scranton Commission
Indicates they should play and the patriotic
role the President should play In the campus
crisis. The Commission, led by a former
Republican Governor of Pennsylvania who
commands public respect, has issued a report
thai merits respect and positive response
from the Nixon administration. The report
calls on both people and administration
to lower voices, cool rhetoric, and work
toward bridging the gap of misunderstanding
between youth and the older pnerrtion.
To do what the Commission recommends may
not win any votes for any party. But It does
otter hope of restoring stability to American
campuses.
Freedom Thrives On Truth
(Lorain (Ohio) Journal)
"You're a bunch at Communists," exdaimed
in indicnant, anonymoui woman, Ui a telephone
call to the Journal . . . .8be tu Inaoneerl
because the paper printed a United
" ^-arnational news report about aatntefhliwee
Communist Mm
Dad for people at the world to unite
"0. 8. imperialism." Be wan
uvi>r critical at President Nixon.
Am newspapers, tnrtnrtlnt our own, communistic
because they report such t dements
by the head at a foreign iu*ion? Mo, Jut the
opposite. The people of the United States
have the rare prlTfle* of bearlncril the news,
food or bad. No censors an standinc over
the newapaoers saying. "Print this. Don't
print th«L" *
China any such criticism would be b«ned.
Someone in the t*per ranks of the rultec
Some reactors seem to feel that only food
news should be printed. Unfortunately, this Is
not a Polly anna world. Bad news won't disappear
t only good news is reported.
Ttls point was made in a talk to a meeting of
Journalists in Dallas, Tex., by L. H. Steveneon,
managing editor of united Press tater■«Hnw«l
Be declared that when the free flow of news
la interrupted, rumors begin to flow. And thstls
what hgyene, The news becomes distorted, tbs
rumors art wilder and wilder. Hie true news
might indeed be bad, bat the untrue news is
Then is no satisfactory substitute tor freedom
of the press, tor freedom at apeech,
tor troth. The alternatives, though perhaps
offered with lofty Idealism, quickly tura into
awpiWMloa, deceit and Ilea.
Then tear reptacea freedom. And if that
should ever happen, the United States would
no longer be ths home of the brawn and the
lead of the free.
Quotes
Ctoe may go wrong in many dtftoreot directions,
hot right only in one.-Aristotle.
THE WARB
I
Personal
By BIG N ALL JONES
Cochrane Eastern Furniture
Plant will bold Its formal opening
Sunday and the occasion recalls
my own experiences as a
laborer In tbs days when earth
was moved by wheelbarrows,
cement was mixed In a mortar
box, rooms were plastered over
wood lathes, and trucks were In
their Infancy and most perSons
worked from sun up to sun down.
As Is the case now, many
boys In my childhood found
employment at Intervals after
school and on Saturdays and had
various schemes for raising
pin money. Among these were
the sale of needles and thimbles
and other such articles
obtained through ads In The
Youth Companion, but going
here was not very remunerative.
In addition there were
occasional jobs with some
housewives who needed the help
of a boy, but I always hated
to work for a woman because
they asked much and paid little.
Pat Hunter, now Dr. F. P.
Hunter, had a good thing In
weekly sales of The Saturday
Evening Post. Cousin Will Davis
had a farm on the outskirts of
town and another large farm
near town, so his boys always
-had plenty to do, although I
think thai Robert once or twice
tried his hand at selling needles
and thimbles. Most of my hunting
with the Davis boys was done
on rainy Saturdays when it was
too wet to work on the farm.
In addition Cousin Will, who
was a mall carrier had two
horses to be fed, and two cows
to be milked. The horses were
not an unmixed evil as Robert
would borrow a horse and buggy
some Sundays In the summer
and we would take our girl
friends to ride. But even with
the Davis boys It was not all
work, for we found time for
tennis, boating, fishing and
baseball.
At that time we had a large
Icebox and an Ice cream freezer
and Indulgent parents who did
not object to us usingthe freezer
and the ice. We could buy a
package of Ice cream flavor
for a nickle, and the only thing
separating us from ice cream
was milk. This problem was
solved by the Davis boys. On
the night selected for making
Ice cream the Davis boys
would not fully milk the cows,
and would return later and got
enough milk for a freezer of
cream. We would take the ice
and freezer in a sly manner to
the back of the old hasp factory
building where we would be
joined by the Davis boys and
soon would be eating our fill
of ice cream. I have thought
of this many times in the knowledge
that all we had to do was
to ask for the ingredients and
wp could have made the ice
cream on our back porch, but
It would not have been as much
fun. Cousin Hannah was good to
her children and treated us as
her own. I remember with
^record
pleasure Iwr Jfr lA^>l
she kept replenished with tea
cakes, her (Teham flour biscuits,
and skating up and
down her hall and going up
and dova her stairs with
skates with her boys.
Cousin Hannah said that
she did not mind how much
noise her children made so
lone as she had them around
her. We shot caroms in bar
sitting room and played Rook,
which 1 called Methodist Setback.
Cousin Hannah was a devout
Methodist and at that
time he} church frowned on
cardplaylng. The two adjoining
homes, so far as we were concerned,
were but one big borne
and about the only time Robert
Davis and I were separated In
our childhood was for punishment.
Occasionally in her
old age 1 would visit Cousin
Hannah and her daughter, Cousin
Bessie. Upon leaving Cousin
Hannah would tell me that she
always loved me as If I were her
own child and remembered me
in her prayers every night. I
treasure her love and hope that
her prayers for me avalleth
much.
But childhood jobs were not
enough when we reached our
teens and most of us found
summer Jobs. Graham Boyd
got a summer Job with Peck
Manufacturing Company and a
number of us boys obtaining
employment at the old Box Mill,
now Warrenton Box and Lumber
Company. Boxes have not been
made there for years but they
were being made there In
1913 when I was Introduced to
hard work. At t^at time a 40hour
week was undreamed of,
and I got up at 6 o'clock, ate
breakfast and walked the more
than a mile to work which
started at 7 o'clock. After a
lunch period, we again worked
to six o'clock, five days a week
and until noon on Saturdays. I
still remember my first day of
work and how my uncle, Lewis
Brodle, laughed as I dragged my
way home that first summer
day. To say that I was bushed
is an understatement.
My work consisted of removing
short planks from a rip
saw. The veteran employee who
barehanded which resulted In
alptoched fingers. The atrfeof
North Carolina would not permU
a 13-year-old boy to work
around a power saw now, but In
thoa* days children war* expected
to work, and I newer
beard of any of our crowd
being cut by the aaw. For this
work, an 1 remember, I received
$3.03 a week. From the
63 cents I bought a Pepsi-Cola
to eat with my lunch and splurged
the mat at the drug store oo
Saturday afternoon. The remaining
three dollars I turned
over to my mother who saved
It for me, and when fall came It
was used to buy me clothes.
The next summer, the late
Sam Scott was In charge of
road building In Warrenton
Township and boarded at our
home. He gave me a Job at
$1.00 a day, which was more
than many grown men were
making. The fact that Ifurnlshed
my father's horse and
wagon at times no doubt contributed
to my rate of pay.
That summer I helped In the
surveying of the Rldgeway
road, my main job being to
carry a bag of stakes for the
engineering crew. Later in
the summer we surveyed
the Macon Road, now the Airport
road. Here part of my
work was the handling of a
bushaxe on the small growth
In our path. I liked to use
the bushaxe, as It was light
and gave me a play for my
muscles.
The following summer 1 began
working at my father's
newspaper office, learning to
set pled type, put up leads and
furniture, and to feed the footpedeled
Job presses. It was
that summer that I began to
learn to operate a linotype and
in a few years I had learned
to operate this macine to the
extent that I graduated from
the ranks of common labor Into
the ranks of skilled labor.
Mrs. J. L. Newsom of Richmond,
Va., spent several days
last week with Mrs. Owen
Robertson, sr.
Crusaders Wow l norus
Enchants Audience Here ,
By BIGNALL JONES
The Crusactor* Male Chores
at Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Va., directed by Charles H.
Flax, presented a program of
sacred and dasalcal music at
the John R. Hawkins gymtorlum
on Sunday afternoon under the
Snsorshlp of All Saints Eplaal
Church women.
The male chorus, with Eugene
Harper, Jr., at the piano, alraply
enchanted the small but appreciative
audience with the beauty
at their voices and the harmony
and range ai their presentation.
In the opinion of this writer
the chorus was one of the best
musical programs ever given In
Warrenton, surpassing the
Charlotte Boys Choir and many
of the programs presented In
Raleigh by Uw Friends of the
College.
Mot Dy any means a patron
of the arts, the writer must confess
that he attended the program
with some reluctance and
through a sense of duty. But as
the chorus sang "Where-e'er
You Walk," by Handel, as the
opening number, he knew he was
In for a real treat. Turning to
John Mitchell he told him that
he was going to get his wife
and daughter. Mr. Mitchell
said "tell them to bring my
wife." m a few minutes, Mrs.
Mitchell, my wife and two
daughters came In. They were
just as thrilled as was I and
the rest of the audience. Commenting
on the program afterwards
my daughter said, "When
they sang 'This Is My Country'
I could feel shivers running up
and down my back."
During the Intermission, Director
Charles Flax spoke of
the work of the chorus and what
he hoped their efforts would
mean. He told of a trip to
Sweden where he heard great
music and realized that music
is an universal language. One
hears of the deplorable condition
of the world, he said. When
-
or turn* it tin TV or radio
om mi or tears tales of
depravity. The solution Is tte
treatment of all people as human
beings, as children of God.
All I can ask of you, be added,
Is that you be honorable.
Almost as though the music
was but a continuation of his
remarks, tte chorus in a few
minutes began to sing "This Is
My Country," and I think that
those present realized, as perhaps
never before, that this is
truly their country and tte country
of us all who are fortunate
to live in the United States.
All Saints Episcopal Churchwomen
are to be congratulated
upon bringing a program of such
high calibre to War rent on, and
should be encouraged to bring
otter similar programs here.
It is regrettable that there
was not a larger audience, but
I feel that those who missed
tearing tte Crusaders Male
Chorus and their truly beautiful
rendition have been sufficiently
punished by their absence.
BUYS HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bartholomew
have bought the home of
Mrs. Margaret Williams
Barnes In South Warrenton
where they are now living with
their daughters.
Renew your subscription.
Express Thanks
The family of A1 Mustlan
would like to express our heartfelt
thanks to our many friends
and relatives who expressed
concern upon learning of the
recent tragic death of our son
and brother. Special thanks go
to Dr. Hunter and Dr. and Mrs.
Bunch whose help meant so
very much to us at this time.
We appreciate, too, the many
cards, floral tributes, phone
calls, food gifts and visits from
alL
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