An unidentified student at Princeton High School presents a portrait of the Principal, Fred
Bartholomew, to be hung in the hall of the high school. On hand for the recent presentation were
Mrs. Bartholomew, Nancy. Ricky and Betsy Bartholomew. The principal is a Warren County
native and a former principal of John Graham High School. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
Bartholomew of Warrenton.
Point Of View
Washington's Policy Blamed (
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Burrows T. I.undv Professor of
Philosophy of Business at Campbell College
In News and Observer, Feb. 13
Who is the real employer? I think my
answer may be of interest in light of
President Carter's $31 billion plan to
Stimulate" the American economy with tax
rebates and job projects — with more, as I
see it. of the very inflationary medicine that
got us so sick in the first place.
For can we ordinary mortals perform the
miracle of turning a ktone into bread?"
Those stone into bread words come directly
from I/ord John Mavnard Kevnes' 1936
bible of the New Economics. The General
Theory of Employment, Interest and
Money. Can we, in other words, create
lasting jobs bv simply running the printing
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Consider the startling response by
H British Prii.ie Minister James Callaghan.
I ile told hi, own Labor Party last fall: We
must ask ourselves unflinchingly, what is
the cause of high unemployment? Quite
simply and unequivocablv it is caused by
paying ourselves more than the value of
what we produce. . . . We used to think you
could spend your way out of a recession and
increase employment by cutting taxes and
boosting government spending. I tell you in
all candor that the option no longer exists..
. Higher inflation, followed by higher
unemployment. That is the history of the
last 20 years."
Well, who is the real employer?I hold
that that employer is not government: it's
not unions: it's not business; and it's not
nonprofit organizations like Campbell
College.
In mv book the real employer is you as a
productive consumer, the consumer who
works or invests. I stress productive," for
clearly consumption is a function of
production and not of Uncle Sam stuffing
I $50 checks in everybody's mailbox.
The consumer is the Forgotten Man or
Woman in our midst. Yes, forgotten,
notwithstanding so-called consumer advo
cates. The consumer pays all the freight of
business and government: and if he could
send a message to Washington. Raleigh and
every other government center, it should
read: There Is No Such thing As A Free
Lunch.
Think about it. Through his decision to
buy or not, the consumer, in concert with
his fellow consumers across the land,
decides what is to be produced, how much
and who will produce it. In effect, he
decides who will be employed, how much
they will be paid, who are to be promoted,
who demoted.
Businessmen, you see, are the agents of
the consumer. They must produce the
quality he demands—or else. They must
turn our goods and services at the price he
is willing to pay — or else.
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consumer pays all wages, including those
for Muhammad Ali, Raquel Welch,
President Carter and the board chairmen of
AT&T, IRM and GE. He also pays the union
scales of the railroad workers, airline pilots,
bricklayers and truck drivers. Moreover, if
there is Teatherbedding" on the job, he pays
for that, too.
Even so, the consumer is most
demanding as to price. Price is it. And wage
rates, please remember, are prices.
Today the rub, insofar as most of our
unemployment is concerned, is that wage
rates are relatively inflexible and the
consumer relatively unsovereign. The wage
price is too high, leading to unsold labor.
Now. I don't say the price of labor is too
high. The economy says so, through today's
unemployment rate of more than 7 per cent.
And the consumer says so. How? Through
his nonpurchases — through his rejections
of high prices, of high unit labor costs. I>et
me quickly add that more than
three-quarters of all industrial costs are
labor costs, direct and indirect.
So the solution to the lion's share of
today's unemployment is mainly reinvigo
rated wage flexibility, capital investment
and consumer sovereignty.
More specifically. I say that, essentially,
unemployment is made in Washington, and
hence its solution lies in changes in federal
laws trrr labor welfare. Jaws, ,4uWj
employment" laws and tax laws.
Consider minimum-wage laws. They tend
to create unemployment by pricing
unskilled labor out of job markets. If the
government insists on a minimum wage of
$2.30 an hour while the worker only
produces, say. $1.15, the demand for the
worker naturally falls towards zero.
Economist Yale Broken of the University
of Chicago and others have demonstrated
the lock step jump in teenager joblessness
with each jump in the minimum wage.
Today black teenager unemployment is at
an incredible 40 percent. So for many a
black teenager in. Watts, Detroit and
Harlem, this situation spells streets, gangs,
trouble, maybe prison, certainly poverty.
Or consider Section 14B of the
Taft-Hartley Act which authorizes states to
pass right to work legislation so that a
worker need not join or support a union at
the peril of his or her job. North Carolina
and 29 other states have passed such
legislation.
But Secretary of Labor Marshall and
AFL-CIO President Meany have come out
for repeal of 14B. And Mr. Carter said he
would sign a repeal bill if one'arrived on his
desk.
Yet 14B is a key to human choice and
dignity as well as wage flexibility and job
creation.
Again, the productive consumer—not
unions, business or government—is the real,
employer.
Chinese Restaurant Is Drawing
Area Customers To Henderson
Residents of Warren County
who have developed a taste for
the Oriental cuisine may not
have to travel the long
distances as they have in the
past to partake of their culinary
delights. The Peking Restau
rant on the Norlina Road in
Henderson has recently opened
adjacent to the Lake Drive
Motel and is enjoying a brisk
business and its patrons are
extremely complimentary over
the service as well as the
Peking-Cantonese American
menu.
So far. the restaurant has
been successful in drawing its
customers, not only from the
Henderson area, but that of
Warrenton, Oxford. Norlina.
and South Hill, Virginia.
Although the Cantonese and
Peking styles of cooking vary
considerably, both are given an
American flavor to make them
more attractive to the Ameri
can dinner. Even this might not
especially suit the fancy of the
more youthful diner, so the
Peking Restaurant has a special
children's menu from hambur
gers to fried chicken.
The restaurant is operated
bv Mr. Charles Song and his
partner Hung Ju Yu, both
recent residents of Tampa,
Florida. Neither has spared
costs in outfitting the 8000
square foot facility with the
latest in food service equipment
to provide their customers with
the best in oriental food and
sanitary food service.
Chinese dishes are prepared
in a Wok. fired bv twin 750
decree gas jets which provide a
1500 degree cooking tempera
ture. Mr. Song reports that
only minutes are required for
each dish to be prepared
individually, and that all are
prepared to order in contrast to
the restaurant trend of today to
move to precooked foods.
All of the meats are prepared
either by use of fresh seafood
shipped in from Norfolk and/or
imported foods from Hong
Kong and Taiwan. Beef is
imported from Denmark. In
order to make the meal
complete, the tea is served in a
special earthen teapot and the
tea is a special imported blend.
Fifteen employees are neces
sary to provide the special and
efficient service needed to
present a relaxed atmosphere
and insure that all meals are
served piping hot. Dishes are
even preheated in a warming
cabinet to prevent unnecessary
cooling of the delicious entrees.
In order to keep the
distinction between the Peking
stvle cooking—usually promin
ent in spices—and the sweeter
Cantonese dishes, it was
necessarv toemplov two expert
chefs, each majoring jn the
specific courses. Even the decor
in the 150 seat capacity dining
area is decidelv Oriental.
The restaurant hours are 4 to
11, seven days per week. Mr.
Song said the present energy
crisis has required them to
close on Mondays until further
notice, and week day opera
tions will be reduced one hour
to ten p. m.
The upcoming weekend will
afford customers a special
delight due to the pending
Chinese New Year on Friday.
Fehruarv 18. During this time,
the Peking will offer free
Chinese Soup, free almond and
fortune cookies and free
Chinese Cocktail Cake with
meals. Also, one free dish will
he included with orders taken
at each table. The celebration
will extend throughout the
weekend encompassing Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Song also has offered to
explain anv of the methods r>f
preparation of the oriental
dishes and provide recipes, as
well as give tours to persons
interested in increasing their
culinary knowledge.
The Declaration of Indepen
dence was not signed on
July 4, 1776. The last signa
ture was put in 1781.
Local Plant Holds Has Dinner
Cochrane Eastern held a
dinner on January 25 in honor
of their five-vear employees.
Jerry Cochrane, president of
Cochrane Eastern presented an
award to the employees. Men
received a tape rule with their
name engraved on the back and
the ladies received a key chain
engraved also.
Attending the dinner catered
by The Carriage House were
James Bowman. John Russell.
Charles Sommerville, Dorothy
Robbitt, Asa Adkins. Gilbert
Crotts. Millard Richardson.
Elton G. Lvles, Willie Algood.
Louise Langston and Curtis
Alston. Honorees not attend
ing the dinner were Willie
Arnold. Oliver H. Yancey. Sr.,
and Fred Harris.
Ralph Cochrane and Richard
Mullen from the Lincolnton
offices attended the ,dinner.
Special guest was General
Claude Bowers whose interest
and assistance helped locate the
plant in Warrenton.
People who are afraid of
losing their vision can be re
assured by this statement
from The National Society
for the Prevention of Blind
ness: Half of the blindness
that occurs is preventable,
given the right medical at
tention and proper safety
precautions.
RICHARD J. RENDER
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