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STREET PURPOSES
A street has many incidental purposes, in ad
dition to its service as a traffic artery. It is an
orderly area way for light and air; for pedestrians;
for display of merchandise; for ingress and egress
to stores, offices and homes; it carries water,
sewer, telephone, gas, light and power facilities;
and the down-town street has become a storage
garage for the passenger car, and an unloading
dock for the truck and bus.
Its basic function, and its most important
service, however, is to the motor vehicle in motion.
To the extent that it fails in this performance, it
fails as a street, no matter what other purpose it
may serve.
WE LIKE THE SAMPLE
Some people like the United Nations Organi
zation just as it is. Others want it improved as the
years go by. Still others think it is so feeble that
they advocate turning it into a World Government
without delay.
But all of them will surely agree on this: that
we like the sample. The clashes between Bevin of
Great Britain and Vishinsky of the Soviet Union
at the London meeting were something new under
the sun, and we like it and want more.
There were the Foreign Ministers of two of
the great world powers arguing, and pulling no
punches, right out in public, like a couple of alder
men or United States Senators! Not only were all
'the little fellows—Belgium and Uruguay and
’Ethiopia—sitting there listening to every word,
!hut through newspapers and the radio everybody
was in on it. It was enough to make a Richelieu or
Metternich or Bismarck turn over in his grave.
They handled such matters quite differently. With
them it was all secret meetings, confidential emis
saries, privately whispered threats or promises,
forged telegrams. That was the way it went for
!centuries — up to the day the war started; and, of
.course, that was how the wars started.
The loud and open argument between Bevin
and Vishinsky is certainly not a guarantee tnat
another war will never start, but it is a hopeful
sign. At the start of every war we have read
: about each side accusing the other of a double
cross, and probably both of them were usually
right. But it is not easy to manipulate a double
cross without a fair amount of privacy; it is ex
tremely difficult to talk out of both sides of your;
mouth when the whole human race is permitted
to hear everything you say.
The important thing about the argument be
tween Bevin and Vishinsky was not who won it,
nor even who was right, but the size of the audi
ence. They have started something that should
never be permitted to stop.
PITY THE WEREWOLVES
The way things are going, it will only be a
matter of months before most Americans will be
feeling guilty for having fought and defeated Ger
many.
This sense of guilt is the goal of a carefully
conceived ana wiaeiy-suppon.eu
propaganda campaign to make us
pity the Germans. In some parts
OX the country, fund-raising drives
are under way to re-build the Ger
man public buildings which our
air men "ruthlessly destroyed.”
Certain writers, certain preachers,
even certain Congressmen, are ex
pressing deep concern that the
level of nutrition iti Germany to
day is only 1900 calories per per
son., They express this concern
despite the fact that there are
parts of Europe recently liberated
from German conquest where the
daily food ration is less than 1000
calories per person. These propa
gandists tell us that we fought a
war of punishment; that in elimi
nating Hitler 'did we?), Goebbels,
Goering (we have not, yet), and a
few others, the punishment was
completed, and that now we should
extend the hand of mercy to the
“innocent” German population.
A level-headed American desires
to be neither vindictive nor a
sucker. He knows that the Ger
man will-to-aggression did not die
when a few Nazi heads were
lopped off. He knows that only by
strict limitation of German indus
try until such time as Germany
has proved her regeneration, can
the German-cause-of-war be elimi
nated. He knows, above all, and
with a profound sense of Ameri
can sportsmanship, that it is an
evil and vicious policy that would
treat Germans with more conside
ration than Frenchmen, Poles,
Greeks, Jugoslavs, Norwegians, and
all the other Europeans whom
Germany so very nearly destroy
ed forever.
Nobody should be allowed to go
hungry, but it is a little strange
that those Americans who are the
most fiercely determined that Ger
mans shall not be hungry show no
interest at all in the problem of
keeping the Germans from start
ing another war.
Mrs. Hofler Hostess
To U. D. C. Chapter
Enfield—Thursday afternoon of
ast week at 3 o'clock, Mrs. T. E.
Hofler was hostess to the Frank
M. Parker Chapter U. D. C., in
her home on Main Street. Bowls
cf jonquils and blue hyacinths
decorated the living room for the
living room for the occasion. Miss
Katie Riddick presided, and Mrs.
W. F. White led the devotional
which was concluded with prayer
by Mrs. R. E. Shervette, Jr. Dur
'ng the business discussion the
chapter voted to make a contri
bution to the Red Cross drive, and
to send $5.00 to be applied on
the Bust of Sidney Lanier to be
placed in the Collona,de of the Uni
versity of New York. Plans were
made to attend the meeting of
District No. 11 in Weldon on
April 2. Mrs. T .E. Hofler was
welcomed back to the chapter
membership, having dropped out
for several years on account of
ill VinalfVi TnconVi Rra n r>Vi affnr
ney of Enfield, was guest speak
er, and made a splendid talk on
Stephen-Russell Mallory, Secretary
of the Confederate States Navy,
which was organized in July 1861.
The meeting was dismissed with
prayer, . after which Mrs. Hofler
and her assisting hostesses, Mrs.
G. C. Howell, Mrs. B. E. Bobbitt
and Mrs. C. J. Leonard served a
salad plate with hot tea. Guests
of the afternoon were Miss Mary
Savage and Mrs. A. C. Nichols.
Jr. Members included Mrs. W. F.
Dickens, Mrs. A. S. Harrison, Mrs.
T .E. Hofler, Mrs. G. J. Leonard,
Mrs. G. C. Howell, Mrs. S. B.
Alsop, Mrs R. E. Shervatte, Jr.,
Mrs. C. F. Musselman, Mrs. J. R.
Powers, Mrs. L. C. Marshall, Mrs.
I D. Wood, Mrs. W. F. White, Mrs.
Egbert Barnhill and Miss Katie
Riddick.
Town Talk
Mrs Arthur King of Paschall,
Va., spent the week end with her
sister, Mrs. Grover Taylor.
Mrs. Gee Stephenson spent the
week end in Garysburg.
Mrs. T. M. Ridenour and young
son, Franklin, Jr., spent the week
end here with Mrs. J. H. Lyerly,
Sr. Captain Ridenour, who recent
ly returned from the Pacific, is
now stationed at Myrtle Beach
Army Air Base.
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