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VOLUME 16
NEW BERN, N. C. 28560, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1973
NUMBER 34
All New Bernlans, In these
troubled ttmes, can do worse
than recall President Franklin
D, Roosevelt’s message to Con
gress, dellverad on January 6,
1941. We offer It to you In Its
entirety.
"In the future days, which
we seek to make secure, we
look forward to a world found
ed upon four essential human
freedoms.
"The first Is freedom of
speech and eq>resslon--every-
where In the world.
"The second is freedom of
every person to worship God
In his own way—everywhere In
the world.
"The. third Is freedom from
want, which, translated Into
world terms, means economic
understandings which will se
cure to every nation a healthy
peacetime life for Its Inhabi
tants—everywhere In the world.
"The fourth Is freedom from
fear—which, translated Into
world terms, means aworld-
wlde reduction of armaments to
such a point and In such a
thorouidi fashion that no nation
will be In a position to commit
an act of physical aggression
against any neighbor—any
where in the world.
"That is no vision of a dis
tant millennium. It Is a def
inite basis for a kind of world
attainable in our own time and
generation. That kind of world
Is the very antithesis of the so-
called new order of tyranny
which the dictators seek to
create with die crash of a
bomb.
"To that new order we oppose
the greater conception—the
moral order. A good society is
able to face schemes of world
domination and foreign revol
utions alike without fear.
"Since the beginning of our
American history we have been
engaged In change—In a perpet
ual peaceful revolution—a rev
olution which goes on steadily,
quietly adjusUngltself to chang
ing cmidltlons—without the
concentration camp or the
qulck-Ume in the ditch. The
world order which we seek is
the cooperation of firee coun
tries, working together in a
friendly civilized society.
"This nation has placed Its
destiny in the hands and heads
and hearts ofits millions of free
men and women; and Its faith In
freedom under the guidance of
God. Freedom means the supre
macy of human rights every
where. Our support goes to
those who struggle to gain those
ri^ts or keep them. Our
strength Is In our unity of pur
pose.
"To that high concept there
can be no end save victory.’’
Roosevelt didn’t live to see
World War n come to an end.
Even when it did, his predic
tion "for a kind of world at
tainable In our own time and
generation’’ failed to materi
alize.
FDR, ailing physlclally and
possibly no logger mentally
alert in his final days as the na
tion’s Chief Executive, has been
blamed by some for the predica
ment confronting us since
hostilities ceased In the global
conflict.
Certainly many New Bernl-
(ponlihuc| .on.page 8)
ONCE UPON A TIME!—^HVhere dse but in TTie
Mirror would you eimect to see a j^otograirii of
North Carolina’s first wrecker, towing a
demolished auto? Henry Benton, a bdoved New
Bemian of yesteryear, owned and operated it,
more than half a century ago. Henry never referred
to it as a wrecker, he called it his “machine”. It
wasn’t a wrecker to start with, but a Cadillac he
purchased from J. A. Jones, anottier well known
local citizen. Benton stripped the vehicle down, and
had it equipped for towing at a Fayetteville
machine shop. For many years, Henry was the one
man everybody called when autos collided, got
stuck, or ran into a ditch. It is doubtful that anyone
else in the history of the Old North State ever went
to as many accident scenes, in all kinds of weather.
As cheerful as he was tireless, he had almost as
many friends as his wife, Mattie. The two of them
were active in church work, and the Order of the
Eastern Star. Automobiles weren’t as numerous in
the old days as they are now. They didn’t travel as
fast either, but there were enough foolish drivers to
keq> Henry busy. Fatalities were fairly common.
Unless a car was folded up like an accordion,
Benton usually managed to restore it to running
conditifMi. There is no longer a Benton’s Garage
here, but daughters Estelle and Sophie, with their
husbands, Adolph Paid and Guy L. Hamilton, Jr.,
operate Adolph Paul’s Auto Service and Dealers
Auto Service respectively.