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A (
REMAIN ALERT
Heartening and encouraging is the
?report of a Christian missionary who
I concludes a year's study and observa
tion in Japan with the statement that
Nipponese are anxious to learn all
they can about democracy and its un
derlying principles. The report gives
encouragement to the hope that those
who live in the Land of the Rising Sun
are ready to cast <jff the chains which
for centuries have shackled them to
their Oriental traditions.
Despite the optimism which comes
about largely by virtue of the excel
lent job General MacArthur's occu
pation army has accomplished, Amer
ica can not afford to lowe{ its regard
and accept at face value any outward
display or overtures the Japanese
miy make. Until their sincerity has
been proved beyond a shadow of a
doubt, the Nipponese must be
handled carefully.
Those who since the war have had
contact with the Japanese and have
studied them at first-hand have been
amazed at their humbleness and
humility, and their eagnernes to do
anything to cooperate with Ameri
cans. Their frozen, emotionless
smile is ever there, and in most cases
it is as artificial as paper flowers.'
Along with other Christian na
tions, America has an obligation - to
do all in its power to Christianize
Japan. But, in doing so, they must
tread cautiously and make'' certain
that the_ Japanese are not using
Christianity as a cloak to conceal
their trickery and deceit
HOSPITALITY PAYS
_a
Mute evidence that "hospitality al
ways pays handsome dividends is
given in a news story which states
that thousands of American ex-ser
vicemen have made application to
become residents of Australia rtnder
a plan by which the Aussie govern
ment pays part of the transportation
expenses of eligible persons whose
training and qualifications are need
ed in the "land down under." <
These former soldiers, sailors and
marines visited Australia at some
time during the war and are anxious
to renew acquaintances and contacts.
The gay, fun-loving, cheerful Ameri
can with a pocket full at money won
the heart of .the Australians who did
everything^ their power to take the
visitors under their care and make
them feel perfectly at home. There
were som&> instances in which the men
were sought after only for the
pound notes which line theiY pockets
but in most cases the attention stem
med from genuine affection and gra
titude.
It-is only natural that some of the
want to go back. While this
cannot afford to lose too
of its valuable young dtisens,
the presence of Americans in Aus
tralia should go far toward bringing
the two nations closer together. . j
CRIME IN THE NEWS
? mtifcfc.
t (The Mentor?Published at the
Massachusetts State .Prison) J |
We are proud to say that, through
oar newspapers, we are the beet in
formed nation In the world. That
may he so, but we are reluctant to
admit that wa are also, through our
newspapers, the mo
tion in the world. There are two
reasons for this: one is the tradition
al policy set by the publishers and
iters determining what la the most
ant what manner IS
it a*
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"If
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stiMsdMmieaMLa^M
pliahed by t K
of evil? The tnmr ia to be found
in tbo contrast between the jourtial
istfc debaucheries of human perversi
ty found on. tbe front page, and toe
indignant and sanctimonious exhor
tations, crying for mote laws and
sterner laws, to be found on the edi
torial page.
Well, we have more laws and
sterner laws bat we also have men
crime. It is safe to conclude, there
fore, that the primary need in af
fectively combating crime is not
through establishing more lawi
against the people. Not only do tlx
people who break these laws suffer
but also the free* citizen who findb
that priceless heritage we call free
dom becoming more restricted by ex
cessive legislation. Briefly, the mon
laws, the less freedom.
If it is laws we need, they should
be laws to eliminate the peraieioui
practice of ballyhooing crime, herald
ing it as the national pastime. . . .
They should be laws by which th<
dissemination %f crime news ia mini
mixed and standardised to the essen
tial facts of the individual case. The)
should be laws that suppress the pub
licising of useless speculation, pro
pounded by publicity-socking police
officials, on the development of chies
These laws would not control the
press or restrict - it from printing
crime news, but they would prohibit
the vulgar exploitation of the true
facts of a crime to the degree of fan
tasy, The achievement of logielatior
would create a more balanced and
truer perspective of community life
by removing crime news from its
coveted front-page position and rel
egating it to back-page summaries
reported in a dry and factual man
ner, stripped of all its lurid details.
Laws such as these, and others,
regulate crime reporting in England
We have adopted, our system of law
and legal practice from Britain; il
might be well to go a step further
and assimilate their laws on crime
reporting.
HAPPINESS HITS PAGE ONE
If Shakespeare had written it for
Broadway, he might have said: The
evil that men do gets the headlines,
the good gets an inch or two some
where on th? inside pages.
So it seethed like better news than
we sometimes see on page ?ne when
we ran across that report from Chi
cago in Editor and Publisher.
The executive editor of . the Chica
go Sun had been receiving letters
from readers who wanted to know
why the front pagfes of newspapers
seem so full of nothing but trouble.
"Why doesn't an editor sometimes
put a pleasant story on page one?"
they asked.
Well, we know an editor or two who
doe* or do. But the Chicago Sun man
thought about that query. The re
sult is a new page-one feature for
the Chicago Sun?-"Stories to Make
the Heart Glad." The reasoning
which led to this feature is worth re
stating in the Sun man's own words:
The feature, he skid, is "designed to
prose to ourselves ami our readers
that all is not evil . . . that in this
great world ofjottm there are people
who are Vithout selfishness."
A newspaper feature with such a
purpose behind it* makes, a story in
itself?-i* story vhich, we trust, will
make its readers' hearts at least a
little bit gladder day by day.
THE HOMELESS
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(New York Herald Tribute)
Two yean ago .this month, eight
million dispossessed Europeans wer^
wandering" uncertainly through cen
tral Europef living as best they could
off the land of the defeated enemy
and wondering how and when, if
ever, they' could retern to the places
where they had-once had their homes.
About a million of the original
number remain, for the most part in
improvised camps in Germluiy, ^ps
tria, and Italy, not only 'without
homes put without countries to which
they feel safe to return . . .
It has long been time that the vic
tors ever Na?i tyranny .did some
thing purposeful and effective to end
the sufferings of these, its victims . .
, First,*we urge that the House of
Representatives give top priority to
the. bill*, already passed by the Sen
ate, authorising United States par
ticipation in the International Bar
fugee Organization of the United
Nations, and appropriating i
by the pre
legislation
i entry to this country,
| s immigration
of nationality,
wTbXvrthit
100,000 mis
Into Palestine
fa any prac
this cannot
does ite
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. Most important function of
Christian churches in Japan at the
present time is to interpret demo
cracy, according to Miss Alice Gary
of Boston, who has just returned
from a year in Nippon."
Miss Gary, daughter of a mission
ary, who herself was born and
brought up in Japan, was the only
woman member of the commission
of six sent to make a year-long study
of conditions.
"The Japanese sincerely admire
'the Christian character," she said,
and they are coming to our churches
and to individual European Chris
tians to ask, 'What is this religion?'
and 'What ao you people really mean
b?. this democracy you are trying to
teach us?.*
Miss Cary expressed great satis
faction overt the way the Protestant
Christian churches have united in
Japan?to an extent, she said, far
beyond what they have done in the
United States. The .unified churches
now call themselves the Church of
Christ in Japan, and more than 89
per cent of the Christian denomina
tions are ipcluded in the organiza
tion.
The Japanese people, Miss Cary
said, constantly are being ..impressed
with the spectacle of a conquering
army going about unarmed, casually,
even in friendly fashion, permitting
the conquered people more freedom
than the latter have ever known be
fore, and in addition, rescuing them
from starvation.
This is by no means the way the
Japanese have learned a conquered
people would normaly be treated, but
they like it and they admire the
United States for it. Thereforte, ac
cording to Miss Cary, American in
-fluence is practically limitless in
Japan at the present moment. Any
thing the Military Government asked
or directed or even suggested that
they do, the Japanese would do
eagerly, she said, an<L for that reason
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's restraint
is all the more important.
Miss Cary commented especially
upon the gift to Japanese women of
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If not pleased, your 36c back at any
drug store. TE-OL a STRONG fung
icide, contains 90% alcohol. It pene
trates . Reaches more germs to kill
the itch. Today at
CITY DRUG COMPANY
FOR SALE, WANTS,
LOST, FOUND, ETC.
HOT- WEATHER IS HERE?Have
your refrigerator checked and oil
ed. A stitch in time saves nine. We
do it the expert vay. GARNER
FURNITURE COMPANY.
WANTED?Fertiliser bags. We pay
10c each for burlap fertiliser bags
and 0c each for white fertiliser
bags. R L. Lang, Farmville, N. C.
?-l$tf
MRS. OPPIE L. WEST
her tesiRorary headquarters for
NuBoee corsets is Eureka, N. C.
Phone number, soon. 27-lp
SAVE YOUR BACK! Rent our
Johnson's electric waxsr and do
do your own floors. $140 for the
first day?50 cents , each additional
day. We have plenty of. Johnson's
Paste and Liquid in stock. ,
GARNER FURNITURE CO.
WANTED?Man or- wostan to take
care of established customers in
Farmville and Greenville, average
$45 weekly income. No investment.
Write J. R. Watkina Co., Dept. S S,
Richmond, Va. v 6-4p
JUST RECEIVED?Shipment of Do
pont and Trojan duatiag pow
for roses. WESTERN AUTO ASS&
(TATE STORE, Farmville, N. C.
RADIO BATTERIES ?Ws hsfk a
good stock?Corns in and get ?
WESTERN AUTO AS
N. O, Phoi
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JUST RECEIVED - Shipment efj
Boy.' and Girl.' BICYCLES -
Western Apto Aieociate Store.;,-3
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JUST RECEIVED - Big Order ef|
VIGOBO, Pruning Shears ft Hedge
Stare. Farmrille, N. C.
..... ., ,, ?
tSSSSSs^Z
aid. "About 60 women ran for of
fice in the
?eats in the Diet Of these 38, only
ibout 10, however, had enoui
:ation and background to
hem really to five something to
ikeir job. At this last election, few
* women -were elected, and I think
he numhM will get still 'fewer
voters learn to pick only women who
ure trained for office."
Mies Cary, with three other
Christian missionaries, was recently
pven an audience with Emperor
fiirohito, a man whom she describes
is charming bnt rather nervous at
interviews with Europeans. "In ae
:ordance with Court etiquette,
were allowed to speak with him
>nJy through an interpreter/
aid, "but, while he is no intellectual,
He showed a surprising knowledge of
what ?we all had been trying to do,
uid a courteous" and pleasing interest
h us."
Miss Cary understands and speaks
readily the Japanese language, so
hat rite understood all the Emperor
aid. He, however, spaks English
>nly poorly, she said.
'Can You Spare A ,
Dime?' Is Question
Asked Weed Fanners
Flue-cured- tobicco growers realize
hat foreign trade must be maintain
ed if a fair price is jto be realised
'or tobacco above normal domestic
?equirements. /
To what extent this will be main
lined will be largely determined
Fuly 12,, when flue-cured tobacco
fro were of the Carolines decide
vhether they will vote upon them
of the
with funds from other souths tor
the purpoffr ot
Ze^urJ
>nd expanding export trad. of
Difficulties Jure beei
tor some time in maintaining -export
cause of the situation in foreign
countries and the need for a program
to protect producers, the farm or
ganisations, tobacco leaf exporter*,
bankers, merchant* fertiliser manu
facturers and dealers, as well as oth
er farm and business leaders in fine
cured tooacco producing states took
the responsibility of opgaasing To
bacco Associates, Inc. The organisa
tion was financed the first year, by
tobacco farmers And allied interests
making vountary contributions.
Since it is to the public interest
that the farmers engaged in growing
flue-cured tobacco may have an op
portunity ami privilege to get joint
ly in raising reasonable and
sary funds to promote export trade
of flue-cured tobacco, authority for
the referqpdum was approved by
1M7 sessions of North and South
Carolina General Assemblies.
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table tonight, please don't spill any
thing i nfron
thing in front of my guest,"
New maid: "Dant worry,,Ma'am. I
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