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BEAD MAY ISSUE READERS' DIGEST ABOUT HUMBER. Robert Lee Humber, Gneenvillenative, today announced his candidacy for Congress from the First District of^tarth Carolina. For several weeks Mr. Humberts friends in this community have urged him to make a race and reports from other sections of the district indicated that his candidacy would be welcomed.'The Pitt County Bar Association, in its-regular monthly meeting Tuesday night, officially approved Mr. number's candidacy for the office, now held by Herbert C. Bonner, of Washington. The last Pitt Countian to represent the First District in Congress was the late Harry Skinner who served a single term ending in 1888. The welfare-and problems of the farmer have been a subject of special concern to Mr. Hum ber. He has frequently made speeches empha sizing the necessity "of stabilizing the inceme of farmers and of keeping their revenue on a par with industrial changes, indicating that he is not only a student but a champion of the farmers' interest. Farm income, he says, most be sustained on a high level, if the prosperity of this nation is to continue, or else half of the population of this country will cease to be cus tomers and Hie industrial fabric of Hie nation will crumble. He has repeatedly stressed the enormous potentialities embedded in the setl and climate of Eastern North Carolina which have scarcely be^^twiehed or developed. between farm and industrial income, the diver sification of agriculture and Hie establishment of more small businesses, the growth of Eastern North Carolina can, he said, be made mora secure. In 1940, believing that if the peace, following World War H, was to be woo, the people of America, themselves, would have to win.it, he organised among the people of Eastern *N?rth Carolina a movement for World Federation, which seeks to establish law as the means ef geographical areas of the United States; eight other stator ImveaabenmMriifiadwetiop, making 22 states that have reacted 'favorably to his leadership, fifteen aWftitma! -States are now considering the resolution that is destined to be introduced in Congress, which must ultimately decide in the name of the - American people whether the United States shall stand hereafter for world order based on law, or world chaos based on war. ?' ? Questions involving war and peace are now becoming the supreme issues of our generation* Either we win the peace and preserve civiliza tion or lose the peace and become the victims of atomic bombs. Mr. number's longandsuccess ful efforts in dealing with over half of f li mtff islatures of this country, many of which he ad dressed in joint sessions, have not only brought him a nation-wide circle of friends and collai) orators but qualified him for leadership and accomplishment in the hails of Congress. Mr.* Humber, who has now been back in Greenville for six years, established his perma nent residence in his home, where he was born on May 80,1898. It was the same spet where his father was born 82 years ago and where his grandfather made his home in 1847. He is __ the Wbn of R. L. Humber, one of the oldest ~ native residents and business men of this com munity, and of the late Lena Davis Humber, whose forebears were intimately connected with the early history of the First Congressioa* al District; one having settled in Currituck County in 1666 and another having represented Perquimans County in the Colonial Legislature in 1TQB and having served as Clerk of Court of Common-Fleas and Quarter Sessions of that county for a number of years. After attending the public schools of Green ville, Mr. Humber graduated from the Whrter ville High School, completing his high school 3 course hi two years, and entered cWalqe Forest College. During his four years at Wake Forest, he fulfilled the requirements for the B. A. and LLhB degrees and participated prominently in ooUage aetivities. He was president of Hie Sen baseball team. In recent years, his Atraa Mater honored him signally by naming kim the first atamnns of v Wake Forest College to be elected a member of the Phi Beta Jteppa,wfcieh isthe highest collegiate scholarship society in the United States. Immediately after his graduation from Wake Forest, he volunteered in World War I and serv ed as seoand lieutenant in the FSeld Artillery. At the conehision of the war he continued his studies at Harvard University, receiving the de gree of M. A. and serving on its* faculty as tutor in the Department of Geuevnmcnt, History atid Economics. He was licensed to practice laf and was sworto in as a nunibcr of the Pitt County Bar in September, 1920. In the autumn of that same year he was ap pointed Rhodes Scholar from North Carolina to Obcfood University, England, and reprenented his native State in that capacity for three years. During tes tana re of tee scholarship he travel ed extensively on the Continent and made a trip j around the world. After studying at tee University of where he was American Field Service Fellow for two years, he located in Paris as an atonfey and later became a business executive. Us interact has always been in tbe welfare of tee common man and in small enterprises. Hemps p the Eunepean head of the Gflcrease Oil Oan panjr, a small independent oil producing eaan pany of Oklahoma, and privately owned by three stockholders, whose IbeaMbkjt recently dowtad his fortune to a Foundation which he j created for the purpene of establishing an or phanage home for* ?^museum at Tulsa, j ?viit During the latter fcuw hi i: Paris, Mr. Humber was chairman of the Beard of Trustees of the American Church in ,Paris, , wnicn is uie oddest American cnurcn on-ioreign,^, v soil and which served as the religious center for $ cor 6c rxrrr ztl Greenville in 1940, he was elected chairman of the Hoard of Deacons of Memorial Baptist Church, and Is now a trustee of that church. to 3* Post No. 1, having previously been a charter member of tee American Legion Post at Har vard University. He is now a member of Pitt County Post No. M "MAKE CONGRESS BETTER" So Says Senator Fulbright Washington, April 15-(AP)-Tlie theme of this story is: What are you doing ? actively ? to make Congress a better Congress? The entire House of Representa tives and one-third of the comes up for election tins Some primaries start pretty soon. Senator Fulbright, Arkansas Dem ocrat, said recently in an at the University of Chicago: "I hope that six I may to some degree arouse your internet in ] ticipating activity in politics." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar former president of the University of Arkansas and now serving his first-Senate teem. Then said: "Americans complain of the in eptness of their government but at the same time they are supercili ous, if not contemptuous, toward those who devote their energies to its service, x x x "Improvement in the quality of our legislative bodies is primarily the function of the voter, not the legislator." In other words: If you want bet to: government, get in and pitch yourself; dont sit back and hold your noee. - Do you?through disdain or lack of interest?let a politician or a political machine pick candidates for yeu without any say so by you? Or do yon ami though it means starting in your own voting pre cinct?try to take an active hand in what ia done? And?when your congressman ia elected ? do you let him go to Wasldngton and there try to guess how you, back home, want him to vote? A good example of congressional confusion over what the people want came last week in debate over extending the draft law nine months more. T There was an argument on the floor of the House over this: Should the House try to decide now whether to extend the law or should it wait till members got home at Easter to learn what the voters wanted? CAROLINIANS ORGANIZE TO PUSH "HUMBER" PLAN Dr. Frank P. Graham, President Of University Of North Carolina And Charles Phillips Of Greensboro Active In Movement l VA-; .?. - ? v ? Greensboro, March 28?A North Carolina division of Wortd Feder alists, U. S. A., was organised here Tuesday afternoon. Dr. FVank P. Graham, president of the Univer sity of North Carolina, was elected of its ?head of its executive The program of the new group will be to advocate i ership by the United State# gov tenunent in the formation of a gen uine world federal government, teither by proposing drastic amend 'Inents to a UNO charter, or by ?calling a new worfd constitutional out | in iis aims and with to work to gether to secure appropriate polit ical action. Interested persona in Ckaiiots, Wtnaton-Salem, Dur ham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill have already indicated their desire to organize chapters in those cities. Dr. Verses Nash, national direc tor of .field Vork of World Feder alists, was present at the organiza tional meeting tor the North Caro lina division. He stated that the General Assembly of North Caro lina was the first at what by now number 14 state legislatures to pass the "Humber Resolution" call ing far a world federal ment That
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