Carlirtt Connly Mewi-Tlran 4 Merger 4 The Beaufort News (est. 191J) it The Twin City Timet (ert. 1?J?) EDITORIAL PACE FBIDAY, JiNVUV 20, 1U< WJu -.-rrs ? i :imj. . J j.i" . .'??IUmk- ? frrr "Economize, Brother!" When it comes to this business of making the govffn?if?it economize. everyone is for it uat(l they realize tfeat it migltf mean stoppage to some of the government cash that has been flowing their way. \ It reminds us of a cartoon we saw t|ar other day, each repre sentative of a government department was tapping the other guy on the shoulder and telling him he has to cut expenses. Our government in the past twenty years has mushroomed into the most huge and complicated enterprise on earth. Methods and procedures adequate to it% management two decades ago today are obsolete. Congress, in recognition of these facts, created the Commis sion on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government under the chairmanship of former President Herbert Hoover. If this commission's report is adopted, the disastrous course of be wildered spending, due to unwieldy structure and confused admin istration, can be arrested and as annual saving of upwards of 93 billions effected, protagonists clpim. The Hoover commission, as It is familiarly known, was com posed of six Democrats and six Republicans. In Mr. Hoover's words, the members were "twelve tough-minded men of different faiths and ideologies." They explored the who|e field of govern mental activities and recommended reforms that would increase fcovernment efficiency. On the basis of the investigations of research task forces com posed of experts in every phase of governmental activity, the Hoo ver commission shaped its final report which is a blueprint for gov ernment reforms vital to the national economy. To see that these reforms are adopted and put into effect by Congress, a "Citizens Copimittee" has been formed, headed by Dr. Robert L. Johnson, president of Temple university, Philadelphia. Assisting in bringing this prpgram before the public are the Jaycees all over the United States, including members of both the Beaufort and Morehead City Junior Chambers. We, too, are in favor of taking up the slack in governmental spending and thereby make it possible, if nof to reduce our taxes, make the present amount we are paying do a greater amount of ef fective work. But no saving will be achieved if government departments all the way down the line, even to little individuals such as you and I, say, "Let the other guy cut HIS expenses, I'm not going to cut mine!" Many WiU Become Cinderella*! Ton days remain in which motorists may purchase their 1950 license plates and less than half have obtained their new tags, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles reports. The delay on the part of motor vehicle owners in purchasing their 1050 plates makes it evident that a rush will occur at the 73 licenses offices in the State as the Jan. 31 deadline approaches. Approximately 450,000 tags have been sold to date. More than a million motor vehicle* are operating in the State and each must carry a new license after Midnight ef-Jaq. 31. Cpl. W. S. clagen of the highway patrol in (,'arteret county stated this week that the minute the hands of the clock pass mid night, Jan. 31, his men will be on the lookout for vehicles without tags. And judging from previous years, recorder's court will be full of defendants who will not have complied with the law. The office lor selling tags in Carteret county has beep open since the first of December. It is open each day from B a. m. to 4 p. m. and is located in Uofchead City between 13th and 14th streets on Arendell. We fear that come midnight Jan. 31 there will be a lot of "Cin derellas." Innocent motorists will suddenly turn into lawbreakers unless they buy their lipense tags now. Thoughts for an open miiu/... All men cherish their faults, but few have courage to act on faith. Judgment suspended gives a feeling pf unstable equilibrium. Education may not end doubt, but it ends when a man stops doubt ing. No knowledge should take from us the ideals of courage, of pre serving our integrity, of standing undaunted before the chal lenge to our aplrit. For >ant of intelligence the devotee* of causes have been the pils chitf makers in ail times. ? J. it. Morrill Smile Awhile Neatly Put A lady dining it the table of Sif Mark Young, governor of Bong Kong, felt that ahe had been alighted when she was seated on the left side of her hoat instead of on tl)e right She did not feel that ah* could make a direct complaint about the matter, but she could not -resist remarking: "I suppose it 1( really difficult for you to always put your guests ip their proper plfces?" "Not at ail." her host smilingly replifd. "for 1 find that th?ee who mutter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."? Christian Science Monitor. Not Unfitted The second person in the first roiy in the picture of 4-H county council members which ran in 'biMdtir's paper, is not identified. She is Ann MoziMO, secretary of the council and a member of the ^?TO?rt senior flqb. To her right is Jackie Edwards and to her left is Mary Martin. Hffre Makes Dean's List Clyde W. Moore, Morehead City, has been placed on the dean's list at State college. Moore is one of S98 students who have made a B average or above. MBTOET CQMTT IPJ-TTO C#rt?*? Counly'f Ntwiptjft THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Eat. ISuJ'mS'tHE TWIN CITY TIMES HI..1...1.. .. . ) 1 ?. CONGRESS Raleigh oundup By Eula Nixon Greenwood NOT OUT YET . . Bill Umstcad's decision not to take on Sen. Frank Graham this spring pleased a lot of people in North Carolina, and at least one individual of Managua, Nicaragua. Friends here believe that our ambassador to that country, one Capus Waynick of High Point and Baleigh, has not entirely given up the idea of running for Governor two years from now. Labor and the Alegro -good for at least 100.000 Democratic votes in the Primary or (he General Election ?would be for him solid. Waynick will be through Bal eigh on January 21 and may show up here for the big regional Demo cratic booster meeting on Janu ary 28 and the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner that evening. His avowed purpose in coming through Baleigh en route to Washington ior a conference on the 21st is as follows: to pick up warmer cloth ing for this northern clime. May be he hasn't heard about the win ters we are having around here lately. STBICTLY SECONDABY ... It used to be that the Jcfferson Jackson Day Dinner in Baleigh was the Cadillac of party gatherings hereabouts. However, that was before Truman Sidekick Jonathan Daniels got into the driver's seat. This season, the little party meet ing of North Carolina Democrats will be strictly secondary in many ways to the regional conference to be held here on the same day but several hours before the dinner itself. Among those attending the con ference, which Daniels will be chairman, are Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Agriculture Secre tary Charlie Brannan, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, Treas ury Secretary John Snyder, Budget Director Frank Pace, Jr., Arkansas Governor Sid McMath, Georgia Cover-not Herman Talmadge. There There will be others all Vips (very important persons) - and of sufficient greatness to overshadow any good old North State Demo crat. Inferiority complexes and their various complexities may be the order of the evening if all the aforementioned hang around for dinner. How about your county's quota? But like it or not? it's going to be the dadgummedest biggest day us good old Southern Democrats like Jonathan Daniels have had in high on to 50 years! Aside: The meeting might also go a long way toward discouraging any further Dixiecratting in these parts. You i will note, too, that James Byrnes of Spartanburg, S. C., is not on the invited list. NOTES . . . Remember how we counted Dr. Ralph McDonald out when he was cheated out of the 1936 election ... so they say, etc. . . . and how again in 1944 when Gregg Cherry beat him soundly . . . Well, he's still around . . . and is again the March of Dimes leader in N. C. and still one of the polite-educational leaders ... in the Nation. If you haven't done so, see "The Heiress" when it comes to your town . . . one of the best . . . They are still laughing around State Col lege about the diesel engineering prof, who caught the wroqg train here in Raleigh just before Christ mas and realized his mistake when he awoke in Fla. instead of New York ... IPs the truth . . . and he never touches a drop . . . Mrs. Her bert Peele, wife of Herbert Peele, p. City publisher and radio man, continues ill with her secqnd at tack of pneumonia this winter . . . Scott Secretary John Marshall lost his father two weeks ago . . . Nell Battle Lewis, after a stint with the "Raleigh Times" and a period of illness, is back on the News and DIRECT AND FH A LOANS Dads May Become Liabilities Can your son afford to support you after ypu ?top working? Even If he could you probably wouldn't want him to. Through life Insurance you can be sure of financial Independence dur ing your declining years. Life Insurance costs so little and means so much ?both to you and your dependents. BRUCE L. GOODWIN and ELVIN T. HANCOCK pox 592 PHONE M-3046 MOREHEAD CITY Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina f HEAR THE HYMN OF THE DAY 11:05 Mornings ? Monday Thru Saturday A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE 740 CLUB WrtN WMBL O" Y? Dial Observer with her column "Inci dentally" . . Paul Dinan, the soph- ' omore whiz at State College last fall, did not report back to school after the holidays . . . Three State footballers were suspended a week I ago fOt visiting a house of ill fame in Raleigh . . . Carolina has lost two assistant coaches since Jan. 1, Wake Forest has lost Bobby Kellogg. WORTH REMEMBERING ... As the 700,000 Baptists of North Carolina worry and fret and quar rel over whether to accept the General Board's ruling and take that $700,000 grant from the State and Federal Governments for the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, here is something they should con sider: Accepting this grant from Uncle . ? - \ ? tOBS? 5am and N C. should opt interfere too much with the separatioo-of church-andstate doctrine Why ? Because thf Baptist Church? and" ill other churches are already getting millions and millions of Hollars a year from local, State, and Federal governments. How? Phrough the exemption ?f church property from taxatuan! If the Baptists can accept these millions [rom the backdoor, what is wrong with accepting a few hundred thousand from the front? OFF THE CUFF . . . Remember 25 years ago right along now when j farmers were having such a fuss J aver the tobacco co-op? On Jan. 13. 1025. there was a terrific fuss ' it Yanceyville as farmers swarmed in asking for a financial statement [rom the Cooperative Association and payment for two crops of to- ' bacco. The Advisory Committee on the 1 Chair of Retailing in process of I establishment at the University is eomposed of E. S. Spainhour, El- ! tin; J. Norman Black. Greensboro: I lames A. Graham, Red Springs; I John M. Carroll, Ashevillc; Frank L. McCabe, Burlington: James fl L'lark, Elizabethtown; Judson H. Blount. Greenville; Clyde R Qreene, Boone, Brevard R. Hoo ker, Winston-Salem; Karl G. Hud son, Raleigh: Jacob Winstead,! Rocky Mount; and Chairman Lou is Lipinsky. Ashcville. Inside reports from the Wake j Forest campus are that cases against two of the footballers ac cused of cheating may be reopen ed ... . and that several discrep ancies in accused murderer Ray mond Hair's story told l.os Angeles detectives will develop in later hearings. ANOTHER SMATHERS . . . An other North Carolina Smathers is becoming prominent in politics. This one. Rep. George Smathers. Florida Democrat, is a native of Waynesvijle. The other one served one term as senator from tyew Jersey, and prior to thqt was may or of Atlantic City. He was from the Asheville~Waynesville envir ons. If memory serves- correctly, he is now deceased . . . politically, if not otherwise. But this young Smathers seems very much alive. At any rate, he is going to oppose Sen. Claude Pepper, New Dealer and Fair Deal er of Florida. A lot of people re gard tomato-faced Claude as a Communist, or at least Commun istically inclined. The Miami Congressman says "there are today in the U. S. more Communists than there were in Russia at the time of the Com munist Revolution." He will have to go some to oust Sen. Claude Pepper, but may be able to turn the trick. POLITICAL MOVES . . . Oppon ents to Sen. Frank Graham are still looking around for somebody to run against him, but so far the search has been fruitless . . ? Talk about Ag. Commissioner L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine's making the race is not taken seriously here by anybody, including Commission er Ballentine himself, who is in jecting new life daily into the N. C. Agriculture Department. One of his best moves to date: putting John Winfield as head of the Mar kets Division . . .Winfield, a bear cat of a man, grew up in Beaufort County, was one of the State's best school principals for a number of years, working for the Ag. Dept. as "inspector in the summer months. For several years now he has been market news editor in the Markets Division . . . Former Lt. Gov. R. L. Harris, who gave Gov. Scott so much trouble in the '49 Legislature, will be back as representative from Person next time . . . O. Max Gardner, Jr., will run for the State Senate from Cleveland. NEED A NEW DESK BLOTTER ? We have a limited supply on hand. Stot> by and get yours. No obligation, no expense. SECURITY ? SERVICE ? SAVINGS FOR PREFERRED RISKS MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY BANK BLDG. MOREffFAI) CITY TEL. M 8362 g S. A. CHALK, JR. CARL V. NELSON J 8 ?# Jan. 17? Mrs Dallas Willis and twin sons came borne from More head City hospital last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Good win of Tamaqua. Pa., visited rela tives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodwin and daughter of Atlantic visited her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs Guy Daniels Sunday afternoon. Mrs. .Wiley I^wis and mother, Mrs. Jack Parkin visited friends in the community Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. James Willis vis ited Mrs. Ida Willis at Beaufort Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dickinson visited her mother Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mcintosh, Mrs. Sophia Lupton and Mrs. Julia Pake visited at Merrimon Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Guion Dixon of Williston, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Simpson of Front st. ext.. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Simpson Saturday night. Master Jackie Simpson visited his cousin, Johnnie Simpson, Sun day. EVEN AN ESKIMO WANTS A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD! North pole or south pole, 6r any place in-befween, ev? erybody seems to want a roo( over their head. This human desire is more pronounce^ naturally in civilized clime* where there's a housing shortage, currently. Fire Insurance will reim burse you, Mr. Home Owner for direct physical fire dam age to your home; but where are you going to stay during the time you can't live in it? You need temporary quarters then, and RENTAL VALUE INSURANCE will provide the money to rent a temporary "roof." Let us tell you all about this providential "Keep-a? Roof-Over-Your-Head" Insur ance plan. Phone ? Write ? Call. John L. 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