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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, August 15, 1958
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
J. GASKILL McDaniel ... Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.50 Six Months..
$1.25
Entered as second-class mail at New Bern April 4,1958,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
ON PICKING PARENTS
We would be the first to agree that extreme care should
always be exercised when authorities permit a child in their
eharge to be adopted. It is a momentous decision to make.
However, it seems to us that all too frequently the empha-
Bis is placed on material advantages the child will receive,
rather than the love and kindness it will fall heir to.
Fqr be it from us to suggest removing a youngster from
a well equipped orphanage and subjecting it to an environment
of abject poverty. However, we can think of lots of things
worse, including some orphanages, than being reared in a
respectable middle-class home.
There’s something woefully wrong when childless couples
who are known to be conscientous, God-fearing and thorough
ly reliable try in vain for years to adopt a baby to call their
very own.
Yet, such things happen again and again. Various New
Bernians have had this sad experience. Countless thousands,
throughout the nation, have had it too.
So prevalent is this sort of thing that many couples have
purchased babies on the black market. We don’t condone it,
but it’s pathetic that anyone respectable would deem it neces
sary to take such steps in order to provide a home for a child
who needs a home.
All of us like to tell the other fellow how to run his
business. In telling authorities who handle adoptions how to
run theirs, we would like to suggest a few items that should
weigh heavily in governing their decisions.
First and foremost is a genuine love for children. It would
seem, perhaps, that all prospective parents by the very nature
of their request are exhibiting this love. Such, unfortunately,
is not always the case.
Loving a child involves much more than petting and
baby talk. It calls for sleepless nights when a curly head is
burning with fever. It calls for patience and understanding,
and doing without so your own kids can have the advantages
that you didn’t have.
An adopted child has every right to be in a home where
the possibilities of eventual divorce are remote. Divorce,
with or without children, may be the only solution on many
occasions, but it is a sad fact that a majority of criminals be
hind bars today came from broken homes.
A child, adopted or otherwise, belongs in a home where
he will find an awareness of God, a respect for law and order,
and above all a respect for all mortals, whether they happen to
be rich folks of high social position, or folks who are doing the
best they can on the wrong side of the railroad tracks.
Very few homes reach the ultimate in this sort of
evaluation. As a matter of fact, we who happen to be parents
must in all honesty admit that we can hardly measure up to
the fullest extent.
Yet, somehow or other, we manage to rear our brood,
just as the parents of adopted children manage to rear theirs.
And in the rearing, sacrifices notwithstanding, and all our
quirks and failings, we find a mutual joy that takes us close
to Heaven itself.
If you ask us, we need more adoptions, like the adoptions
here in New Bern that have worked out so wonderfully. The
easier that these adoptions can be, made, with a minimum of
red tape and a maximum of common sense in properly evalu
ating prospective parents, the better it will be for tots who
need a Mom and Dad.
DIXON BROS. NURSERY
"MAKING THE OUTDOORS MORE BEAUTIFUL"
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Check-Up on Your
Medicine Chest!
Throw-out old drugs, never
use another person's
medicine, and let us help
you make a list of "needs"
for emergencies, and to
protect your family's health.
And remember, your pre
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ME 7-4201
IN THE RANKS—"Onward Chris
tian Sojdiers" is an ideal march
ing song for Colonel John M.
Fain, one of the nationally-known
lay speakers for the Christian
Business Men's Crusade here.
A former member of General
Douglas MacArthur's staff, the
Atlanta executive sustained a
spinal injury in a wartime plane
mishap, culminating in a stroke
of paraiysis.
It was a turning point in his
life. Soon after his release from
the last of five hospitals, he be
came a diligent worker for
Christ.
Now almost totally recovered
from the paralysis, he practices
what he preaches in conducting
a successful business.
However, he considers his most
important business the spreading
of the gospel. Those who have
heard him say that a religious
message delivered by this strap
ping ex-Army officer is inspir
ing and unforgettable.
Edenton Citizens
Back New Industry
Edenton, like New Bern, is sat
urated with history. And, like New
Bern, it has been content to bask
in its reflected glories of the past.
Not so now. Ready to go into full
production in this picturesque town
on the banks of the Albemarle
Sound is Edenton Industries, Inc.
Locally owned and operated, it
will manufacture fiberglass out
door swimming pook.
Backing it with their own money
are such Edenton businessmen as
Richard P. Baer II, Gilliam Wood
Richard S. Atkinson, Joe Conger
Jr., Dave Holton and W. P. Jones
HAVF You SUki^CRIBED
TO THE MIRROR YEl?
Before you blome
your typist.*.
take a look at
her typewriter!
A4oyb« Vt worn out.
Maybo tt |u$t noedt
aligning.
Maybe if to out of od*
justment that you should
let US have it for a thor.
ough reconditioning.
If it isn't the girl's fault it
will cost you nothing to
have us diagnose the
trouble.
Owen G. Dunn Co.
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Down with Civilization
Whenever Summer comes again, and flowers bless our street,
I get to hate the sight of shoes—they seem to cramp my feet;
And little boys who scamper by, with toes quite unconfined,
Bring further pangs of misery, and upset one’s peace of mind.
I watch them as they kick up dust, or splash about in rain,
Recalling happy days of old, along a* country lane;
I must admit that shoes are nice, in Winter’s ice and snow.
But with the early breath of Spring to attics they should go.
We grown-ups are real civilized about the things we wear,
And conscious of the latest styles, they’re always'picked with care;
We seldom think of comfort, when we thumb through fashion books.
It doesn’t matter how clothes feel—what we want is looks.
That’s why, when Summer rolls around, our job can’t be complete,
It wouldn’t be so dignified to go with naked feet;
But dignity, and foolish pride, a youngster never knpws.
Unhampered by conventions, he caii still unveil his toes.
I envy him his freedom, as he scampers unconfined.
And ’til the Summer days are gone I won’t have peace of mind.
—JGMcD.
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