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Courage Or Infirmity All too often, it seems, court officials in OrangJ^’-ounty are lawyers first and servants of the people second, ii at all. And so, we have the spectacle of cases of public interest continued ;/nd continued, sometimes to their death. becaiY.se lawyers know and discerning laymen suspect that delay and time are among the most powerful of legal weapons. Is the Cheshire cross-burning such a case? Here, has been committed a cheap, common, communi ty eye-blackening and -thoroughly dastardly crime that re quires no review here. Ihe eyes ol the cbfhnnmitv. ‘the State, yes. even the nation, arc fcxussed. awaiting a decision ol courage or of infirmity. Which can we expect? Forcing On Them Cake Any public ofliciaf or group required to make a contro versial'decision and a choice .between sirongK opposed lac,-' tions bices a difficult* task, lint decide ilirv must and on the basis of the best information sfitmmtyd to them and elicit own conception of the proper < otnse. A — :? The County Commissioners’ decision in Connectinn with the current Recreation District controversy admittedly is a hard one. It is fnade doublv hard by the absence of the filth tiembei. the Cxpei ieiiced "chairman;," ‘ " rite people ol the municipality- ol Carr I torn and" the rural areas on two sides of Chapel Hill are preponderantly opposed to being included iti this special tax district, to judge front the impressive evidence -of endorsing peMtiot’is. Ai y rayed against them are the Chapel Hill (aycees and an as sortment of recre.atioii-mi.nded citi/ens front inside and out side the municipality of Chapel Hill itself. How the larger majority ayithiu the < itv itsell leels. of course. It. - uot been recorded. " - T . ' We think the Rev. Charles Hubbard, one ol the State's top public recreation figures and a strong advocate ol the proposed Chapel Hill area program, struck the proper note when lie s: id, Ironr a legal standpoint, it might Ik- right for the proponents ol the district "to insist" on keeping it in tact. but from other, possibly more compelling, reasons stub insist.iiuc- would be out-of-order. The charge has been.made that the proposition has not been presented faith in Carrlxno and the rural areas. And, this may he right. 1 he charge It; > been made that the legislation setting up the original lines vv as rammed through the legislature with out sufficient consultation or propci regard for the smaller munic ipality and groups. And. this niav he right. ..I Ire assert ion has been mady that the prior recreation election and tax would jeopaidizr a spec iaf school tax elec - tion needed to improve The Can boro School and liquidize a moral indebtedness to Chapel Hill sc hoof district. And, this likewise mav be right. Ihe people ol Carrhoiot and the outlying rural districts digging t Item selves into a hole on ihe recreation ques tion which thev wiIT regret, as has also been c barged. I lie undisputed (ac t. however, remains that a preponder ance ol opinion in those areas at the present time favors ex clusion. The ( iommissioners, it seems to us. can only conc lude "That those who don’t want cake should not have it forced cm them, hoping that enough frosting will remain to satiate those who want it and later to .entice those w ithout. Pioneers-1957 Model In -these’take-rt-e; >y, letd ii'cuge-do-it days ol bond is sues. state and Federal; handouts, vyc give von Laurrnburg as • - the nation's shining example ol cGirrngrenfs. independent dcr it ■yourself citizenship. ■ Combining c ivic spirit w ith the w illingness to dig clown ■ deep into tlu;ii own pockets, residents ol l.am rnb.M'rg battled t7 other larger c ities loi ‘tire privilege ol assuming a tmilti tnillion dollar.oblig; lion. They pledged three million in a whirl-wind .community ’campaign, and as a sent of encore, gave- SX-.ooo moie to enlarge their hospital anil an addi tional Sjo.ooo lor a- mimic i pa I swimming |hm»1! little won der that the \; lional Munic ipal League and look magazine , named 4-iurinbing an All-American c itv—the smallest to be so honored, and the only one in the south. * Bac k ol the commotion and t,he honors w; s the decision to merge three small Presbyterian colleges into a single, consolidated Pfesbv terian College, routi ne tion of which would cost alxn'it seven million. The |unior Chr.mber of Commerce of Laurinlnirg was impressed with the cultural and educational advantages and the general progress such ati institution could bring to their c ity. They com inced; ooo Others, and the campaign was on. Pledges from g.ooo indi viduals soon totaled more than three million dollars. Many y "ere reported as giving not merely a tenth of their income, 4mr a tenth of their net worth! ' h has been pointed out that neither the college nor the fancy new svyinimiiig pool is a financial asset. Rather, * i^E'om ^ be)?rkkc«e|Hng standpoint, they are liabilities. But the ♦ townspeople believe that both will contribute to the kind %pt city they intend to have. Most iniptguiH of all. the people ol Laurinhurg have 7.^displayed the stlI-confidence, the faith and the fortitude i not inerely to meet their ow n problems, but to seek out and ' j*eize their owfn-opportunities. Many in Laurinhurg are feel ing the pinc h of their own generosity — but all are free, and |V-11 are proud. So should all North Carolina he. ' * —. ®t)c Jfrtosf of ©range Coutitp Published Every Thursday By " THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. EDWIN J. HAMLIN ... * Editor a^A Publish Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at i*ulsboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March t, It79. Exclusive National Advertising Representative ' J GREATER WEEKLIES New York * Chicago * Detroit * Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES | ONE YEAR (inside Norjth Carolina) ___ $2.50 ' SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina) T_1._____ $1.75 t ONE YEAR (outside North Carolina)__ $3.00 II !!!!■■» ; I . r —I——. '... HI l„l II ’ ',1,11, ' I " " ..''■ . .» (Continued From Page 1) take off faster, go around curves at greater speed, maneuver *ia and oai of long lines of traffic, and pass a car on the blind side of a hill. "EliKECT ... He has.just enough .alcohol in his blood to make him the Perfect Driver . . in his own •maid. He.is a killer. The5e.,four ’i ghrbatts did the trick: His car has nevcv power, andj there is nerve tingling excitment' in its burst of -,-cal . • This four-drink* fellow will Sill v<*u, your wife, and your children. Me would be less dangerous if he held a pistol instead of a steering wheel. He is one of the great men aces of modern civilization. 7 . tie may be -an - officer in his church; president of his civic dub; and the proud father of fine chil dren. But he will wreck your life and—on the witness stand—swear on the Holy Bible—he had drunk only a c-oupla beers.” - ' WHY IS If’ . . . The X C. Dept, of Motor Vehicles needs sharper tests for determining the amount of alcohol in a driver's blood. Look .or reference to' this in their legis lative program. Why? Because they 'cave found through bitter experi ence that we lie on the witness •tand—even though we have sworn to tell the truth. The lie is breeding death, for it enables the dangerous driver to go on the highway agaiir They, yan cite you instances where the finest men in the community have failed :3 tell the truth when faced with the lively-.loss of their driver's li censa. This-is disillusioning. .This causes loss of faith In human nature and the basic goodness of man. But it happens—virtually every . day somewhere in North Carolina. At the Highway Patrol office here, they ask with furrowed brows: *• »• 1 <• ,. ',V. ■ Why rs It that a man who is ap parently a perfect citizen in every way—church, school, community, family—wall lie to protect his own, or a friend's, driver's license?” For two reasons, they tell you: Loss of the license might mean—of ’en does mean—loss of job for self or friend. The second reason he lies is. to use the Highway Patrol's statement: "Plain old lack of guts,” If you can't trust,the best men in the community to tell the truth, then what can you trust? Radar, blood tests, and . other scientific. Tews.? They don't , lie They are colct, harshy crueT 'rirfadifenfhgly ac curate— arid far delivered from hu man kindness-, Weakness, and error - To them we must go—in order to protect us against, ourselves. NOTES . . , Look for another \tllie-bar-the-door thing over par and non-par banks when fhe Legis lature meets again, ft's already brewing in—of all places—the State Banking Commission. Meantime, there is some likelihood of Federal legislation aimed at non-par banks. . . . . The News and Observer's Tar Heel of the Week this past Sunday was James Kemp Doughton. who is alyepdy in V. . for ujl practical pur poses.', . as' thiy term's-Speaker ,of the House in the General As sembly. Long-living Do.ughton's. He ran for his first political office at the age of 65—at the suggestion of bis mother, who was 87 . . , That was in 1949 . . , and he came to the Legislature and moved fast .... His dad, Rufe Doughton, was Speaker in 1891! .... Some exceedingly interest ing things afoot on the tobacco front . . . has to do with s£il bank pro-., gram . .. . and can mean $49,000,000 to N. C. farmers ... if carried out with proper planning, etc. You will read more about it soon .... Insult & Injury (News And Observer) The student, who while in his cups, poured kerosene on the campus Christmas tree and then set it afire said he did so because of "Carolina tradition..” Fortunate ly the Chapel Hill Judge before \ w ho this fellow appeared did not regard his effort to add insult to injury as a defense. It was bad enough to burn down the decorated and lighted Christ mas tree. It was worse to try to make his misbehavior a part of ,-any tradition of a great university. The Littfe Men Who Are There ■t. —C. R. Daniel For The News Leader 1 Senator Scott Thinks Dulles Confuses More Than Solves ~ .- By BOX WHITLEY J TITO. In the past few weeks. Sen. W. Kerr Scott has been get ting quite a bit of mail about the proposed visit of Marshall Tito pf Jugoslavia to the United States. •> Much of the mail, from all areas of the Nation, voices strong pro test to the United States inviting the Communist .ruler to make, an ••official"Visit to this country.*——* Scott's feeling about the pro- ' posed visit is quite firm. Of it. he says: Kur quite a while. 1 have felt - the -President should- get a new. Secretary of State. Mr. Du Ups his confused move problems than he has solved. Certainly, if he did resign. ■ I'm sure anybody who f -placed him would have better judgment than to invite Tito, who has double-crossed the United States ip the ^>ast, to make an official visit to the United States.” GAS AND OIL. Senator Scott’s movement to begin a thorough in vestigation of recent gasoline and fuel oil price increases picked up steam last week. After drafting the resolution that would set up a special bi-partisan Senate committee for the purpose, Scott circulated it among his col ’cagues. By the time he introduced it last Friday. 19 other Senators, inolud-. iiig Senator Ervin, asked to co sponsor the resolution. Meanwhile, two standing Sen ate .committees announced that they wanted lo look into the price increases also. .The Judiciary Committee ex pressed an interest in the matter in respect to any monopolistic practices that might be involved, and the Interstate and Foreign .( ommeree said It planned to look into the pricing practices of the industry. '■'ll certainly, looks like there is plenty of sentiment in the Senate to carry out an investigation of the whole.affair. Scott Mid. "Since ' such an investigation cuts across the jurisdictional lines ■if several committees. I think it would be Wise to have a special committee assigned to it to go into ail its ramifications Very thoroughly," he said. ' CEREMONIES. Scott will be leav ing Washington early next . week for a b'ijsyAvcek in North Carolina. He plans to go from Washington to Raleigh Wednesday to take in all the festivities of Gov. Hodges' inauguratipn. He will remain in the state until the middle of the following week for several speaking engagements. ••• ' • ' ' • ■ . . .. ^ Dennis the Menace r" —■————■——r ted toisfes for a euct&&s(ui cookie sate fo m girl scaurs *0errER get five or six boxbs, tAotrrftu know M£[ *. Garden Time By M. E. GARDNER Today, as I write this, it is un seasonably warm in our neck ol i tie woods, but we will have more told weather. However, the days are getting gradually longer which reminds us that spring is just around the corner and we should he prepared when planting time comes. Here are some suggestions, and reminders. You folks in eastern Carolina should arrange to try the new Plymouth Irish potato this year and the Boone, another new variety, in the Piedmont and Mountains. These varieties have ■ .been especially, bred for the mas . _ Aat. 'plftin»ond'ihe mountains, have also been extensively tested and f am sure you will like. them. Fruit I ices: grape vines, ornamental shrubs and trees should be plant ed whenever the soil is suitable. If you haven’t’pruned vour fruit trees and grape vines, there is : .niil time, but -dftn*t delay. The same is true- for the. dormant spray to control scale insects on trail plants. You were reminded in an earlier column about the im portance of controlling insects and diseases and having a spray er or duster adequate to do the job. We will give pointers from time to time as the insects and diseases appear in season. Hope you liave cut vour poinsettia plant back .one -halt and Stored it if you plan to hold It over. Ours lasted unusually well this year. In fact we still have a white one which* has been removed from the plant and placed in a flat dish over Audiha (Golddust* leaves. The question always comes up about using seed that have been saved trom last year, it is best to determine your needs so that if y«u:'fi0"have a reserve on hand, better not use them until they are tested. Here’s how. Count the seed, so you can determine the percentage that germinate, and place them on a Piece of moist blotting paper. Place this in the bottom of some thing like a pie pan and cover with another piece of moist blot Cng paper. Then invert a pie pan over the top to form a moist chamber. Keep at a temperature cf 63 to 70 degrees as near as possible. Some seed will requtfe* " lont?er germinating period than others. Frank Father: "My boy, I never kiss ed a girl until I met your mother, Will you be able to say the same thing- to your son?" Junior.: ’’Yes, Dad. But not with such' a straight face.’* \ _ ' ■ •• . V d - A - tarHeeT ] ^ PTOTrf ^TTS^Stffd By Cliff Blue PH ESS INSTITUTE . . . « was our privilege and pleasure to at tend the 32nd annual Newspaper Institute held at Chapel Hill and Durham last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It's always nice to visit in Chanel Hill, the home of the University of North Carolina with a national and international re putation which educators from far and wide refer to as a focal point ri academic aeliievment in num "cus fields of study. Frank Por ter Graham during his many years, as president of.the institu tion did much to attract attention ~Td~ttre nation's oldest state univer? , -4 - sity. • .... ^-yippp.« We would say that one W the most missed peo ple at the meeting was the late O. -J i Skipper > Coffin who served as head of the school of journalism for many years prior to- his retire ment some three years ago. The Skipper” who trained many an outstanding newspaperman ans wered the final call a few weeks ago. RKD BUCK BRYANT . . H. E. C. <Red Buck''Bryant who lives •near Matthews in ' Mecklenberg County attended the Institute meet ings Mr. Bryant was 84 years on January 3. and is still keen and S. i rlert. He was a member of the UNC's graduating class of 1885 and upon his graduation 'started to work for the Charlotte Observer. He become a noted newspaper re porter and -was the famed New York World's Washington reoprt es. He attended-many of the state and national political conventions and was personally acquainted with many of our presidents and national leaders. He retired from active reporting some seven years ago when his wife died and re turned to his.old home in Mec.^Ten berg County to live. He contributes a weekly article to the Charlotte Observer and a Jew of the weeklies i.i the State. It was a real treat " to converse with Mr, Bryant re garding some of the events of the —past 60 years of our state and op tion. SEGREGATION ... In remarks at the dinner held at Duke Uni versity Friday night. Tom Robin son, Charlotte News publisher and President of the NCPA told the • group that the most challenging days of the segregation issue lie ahead of us. even though some seemed to feel the issue closed with the passage of the Pearsall Plan and the School Assignment. Act We think .the Charlbtte pub i'slu-r quite right. We further bc ~Iieve that- from here on out most if the decisions in dealing .with the explosive issuewill have to be met and solved on‘ the local level. .- - - RE-APPORTIONMENT . . . North Carolina is . not the only state where the heavily populated coun ties are crying for reapportion ment of the law-making bq Georgia and several othij the situation is Very kin the Tar Heel situation, j in Georgia the respesenn the Georgia Assembly js | in proportion from Atlq Fulton County than iiecj and Guilford counties bi \rorth Carolina. THIRD HOUSE Ktn called ’em “the third house; is1 the lobbyists Who swan Raleigh and the Sir Walter in particular when the c Assembly is in session The helpful lobbyists and loby are not for the best interest people. Among the group* ful lobbyists we would list Lee Humber of Greeovi .. did more selling than any man to bring the 1947 Ge« sembly around to appro ■n a contingency ba> , onf dollars for the purcha-e * His work was strictly UB and today the state has one outstanding art .galleries South as a result. We hn hyists for our school- and are not bad. Put on the hand there are lobbyists 4 working til the interest of , privilege who sometimes I exactly wanting justice—h wanting the scales tipped’i direction. To be a Iobbvisf a session of the General As it is necessary to convince one or firm that vbu hap ence with the law-making j Some have influence, sen helping with information ait gestions like Mr. Humbler: 1 are not effective. Lots of hiring a lobbyist is like el money down a rat liole-i — thrown away. Usually, i legislators are regarded « most effective tobbrmv M are personal- friends witinn the members of the Home Senate. NEWSPAPER TAX . . every group about to be fight back like .wild. citt recommendations of the Tax Commission includes a tax <f tenth of 1 percent on the gn come of the neu > papers, ment at the Press Institute week‘Was that there would I fight from the newspapers I proposal. Two years ago ul* General Assembly was ahi put a 3 per cent tax on circt of advertising they (ought like tigers and managed to 'it off. We think that chants improving that most-of * proposals will be accepted ! General .Assembly. ‘ ‘ LOST . . Ernest I. Ives ther-in-law of -Adlai Stevensd with Mrs. Ives spends the * at their Paint Hill Farm bd Aberdeen and Soutliern Pin some $300 in^wagers tbit would not succeed himself as! dent. SENATOR SAM ERVIN •JAYS * , WASHINGTON —We are wit nessing the unfolding of a very, strange development here in the Nations Capital, Strange Development President Eisenhower sent his budget message to Congress on January 46. The first sentence-ip that message said: “I am pre senting with this message my re commended budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1958, which begins next July From that statement, and sub sequent remarks on the general theme of fiscal integrity, J form ed the opinion that the President and the Administraiton sincerely lelt that the budget presented in cluded only responsible requests. Now we have the strange deve lopment. The President and Sec retary Humphrey shift their respon -bildy to the Congress t# cut out whi h ln the budget- a task *>»,ch 1 submit tljey -should have done I fan to see the need for tbU ,,vpe of buck-passing. I do c eary see the need for cutting he enormous Federal budget, the largest ever presented in peace time. As a Senator, l will pledge biy utmost to -assist in this cut ting task ip every area npt dl rectly Involving of our national defense Where To Cut I think that the Pi'esxk* Secretary of the TreasutJ others should "Clearly state' Congress exactly where t* > MMWiiii; p<atrr *6^* gress does not prepare >• the responsibility of the ^ through the Budget Bureau' pare and present the, Fed** vet. I think the Admit* should explain to tire * and the country what it wken Mr. Eisenhower u'a* the budget to Congress * the phrase “my reeut* budget.” After the bud* forwarded to Congress President, Secretary said that cuts could be m he declined to advise ""be* omies could be effected No Sound Basis To me, this is one of * unusual developments 1 ^ since being in the Senate , sence, the Administratiuf1 mg: “Here is the ree"* budget. It is the best "f You take it and find ,lUt the fat is.” As a doitset* see very littje hope l°r 1 payers 'in this fiscal
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