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I Even with Its cherry blos soms, Washington Just doesn't hold appeal for us llkeproverty stricken New Bern. We want no part of a town, large or small, that isn't reasonably safe for kids. If you think the Nation's Cap ital, busily engaged in finding things to condemn in communi ties such as ours, is a fit place for children, the followlngfacts should remove this illusion from your mind. According to Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper respected coast to coast for its honesty, the home of our Fed eral Government is now so crime infested that a crimp was put in Girl Scout cookie sales this year. During the annual drive that ended March 27, Girl Scouts were forbidden to sell from door to door as usual. "The reason is the crime wave," says The Monitor. "Instead cookie-sell ing Girl Scouts will be manning sales booths in public places under closer-than-ever adult views." And even those sales, added The Monitor, will be held in suburbian areas, notin"crime- pocked downtown Washington." Besides, only older girls, ages 15 to 17, can man the booths. No young Brownies on the sales ^ _ _ How sweet it is, as Jackie Gleason wotild say, to be living in this village on the Neuse and Trent where a girl in her teens (and even a trusting brlght- eyes Brownie) can knock on a familiar or an unfamiliar door without fear of great harm. Maybe, Just during the weeks of the Girl Scout cookie sale. Uncle Sam could have spared enough Federal marshals to give each little Brownie a body guard when she walked hope fully through the sunshine and approached somebody's resi dence. We're ashamed, Washington Brownies, as many other Amer ican adults must be ashamed, that in the Capital of the most powerful coimtry on God's green earth, a-little girl who wants to pound the sidewalks for a worthy cause can't do so. What have we come to, when even an older girl doesn’t dare sell cookies in a booth on a main street in downtown Washing ton? For the sake of the record, since some who don't take too kindly to The Mirror's editor ials would have you believe otherwise, we don’t belong to any extremist organizations, or so called extremist organiza tions. We do, of course, belong to the Half Truth Club, but seeing as how Mr. Robert Monte, director of Craven Operation Progress, originated it and per sonally selected us as its first member (long before he added Colonel Evans, who heads the Neighborhood Youth Corps) we don't mind admitting this fact. Almost everyone is some sort of extremist. If your extremism is wrapped up in the dogma of an unyielding religious faith, you’re called afanatic. If you're against what’s happening in Viet Nam, you're a pacifist, and if you're all for it you’re a war monger. Who could possibly be more extreme than the young in heart (Continued on page 8) The NEW BERN 7«io-v Ik OF ■Ak. cak ^ 54 Per U; '’if VOLUME 9 NEW BERN, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966 NUMBER 1 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I ;n I ! IT’S HERE--Like the rest of u.s, Aletta Dixon (ador able daughter of Billy and Molly) has been watching and waiting for April’s arrival. Sweeter by far than anything sold at her Mom and Dad’s soda shop, she can hardly believe her eyes when she sees March torn from the calendar and tossed into the waste bas ket. April is a thing called happiness for Aletta. Tired of being bundled up, she can wear her frilly dresses in the warm sunshine, and eat an ice cream cone just anywhere without shivering. April is bringing Easter too, with all those gaily colored eggs and maybe even a live rabbit with pink eyes, a twitchv nose and the longest ears imaginable. If Peter Cottontail doesn’t want to part with one of his children, a fully stuffed rabbit will do. Yes, April for Aletta spells happiness —Photo by Eunice Wray. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllil - J'l . ;1!
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