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wscnopj Two PAGE FOUR ■ ■ ’ ■ . Sk JB ■ ; ■yw— l ''!■' . ■ Washington As the general! elections approach there is great j»e§est in the patty or political division of the 86th Congress. • Example In the elections of 1956, there were 32 United States Senators elected. An example of the close ness thf .tptal votes cast for these. Senators is of interest. Democratic Senatorial nominees thceiyed a total of 2p,199,789 Republican Senatorial can didates received 21,248,822 votes. 1 1 You will recall that the make tip of the 83th Congress at ad journment in August was 49 Dem ocrats and, 47 Republicans. The tfcme ratio was true of the 84th Congress in the Senate. Recent, Close Division The recent division of the Sen ate has been close. The 82nd (Wsl), 83rd; 84th and 85th Con ,j»rtesses have been 48-47, 46-48, 48- 47; and 48-47, respectively, with the Democrats being in the slight majority except the 83rd. The last Congress to show a consid 1 The Forces Os Our Times il )\ Edttor’a Note: Following in an ad dress made by Mrs. W. D. Holmes, dr.. State Regent of the Daughters of the \ American Revolution, at a recent meet-; lng of the F.denton Tea Party Chapter. Mrs. Holmes delivered the same address j •t various other chapters in the state and in reproduced by request. I want to talk with you for a short while about the forces of our times. We are privileged to live today in the greatest nation and in the greatest golden age of all history. The way of life which we enjoy, and sometimes take for granted, would not only have been beyond the comprehension of our forefathers two or three generations ago, but it is many times more magnificent and! splendorous than their fondest dreams. This is true not only in material things, conveniences, and pleasures of life, but also in the! freedom, dignity, and opportunity guaranteed to every citizen of our country. I am certain that the founders and early statesmen of our country would view the pro duct of their wisdom in humble amazement. To this small group of wise and courageous men who laid the keel and established the principles around which our great ship-of-state has been built, we, i and every generation privileged to, live in this great Republic as long as it shall stand, owe an immeas urable debt of gratitude. The framework which they hammered put in our Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of In dependence, and all other con cepts of Government has stood firm against the tremendous forc es and pressures of our times in supporting the greatest Republic | known to mankind. I am certain that many speak ers in every period of our coun try’s history have stood before groups such as this and thrown out the challenge that, “These are the times that try men’s souls,” or “These are grave and serious days”. Ido not align myself with such prophets of gloom and doom = i ANOTHER HAPPY HOME WE'RE BOOKING, THE WIFE DEMANDS OUR GAS FOR COOKING rk #VT 4 |L BIHESESnK^ r • S?W : ‘'. ■* ■ v . erable political division was the 81st (1949-51) with 14 more Dem ocrats than Republicans in the Senate. The 80th Congress had a Republican Senatorial majority, 51 to 45 over the Democrats. Fluctuations Democratic Senatorial power j reached its lowest point in the past century in the 39th Congress (1865-67) during Reconstruction. There were 10 Democrats and 42 Republicans. It took until 1879 before the Democrats again took over the majority in the Senate, only to hold it for one session un til the 63rd in 1913. The 75th Congress (7937139) saw the Democrats reach the all time high in number of Senate seats with 75. The Republicans were left with only 17. Voters will decide on election day what the make-up of Con gress will be for the next two years. A giant effort is now be ing waged by both parties to con trol the 86th Congress. i for the dubious distinction of say- j j thing something which may be. ' shocking to you, for lam certain j after hearing it so often it is, in deed, no longer shocking. I be lieve, however, I am entirely jus tified in saying to you that the conditions under which we live today are of much greater com plexity and consequence than the problems of our country in all of its previous history cpmbined. To demonstrate this fact, may I review with you a few develop ments of the last 50 years. Dur ing the first 45 years of this cen ! tury, we united all territory, be tween the oceans bordering our country, into 48 states. We took to the air with wings in travel ing over mountains and oceans. We built great industries rail roads communications systems —financial empires suffered a great depression and embarked on many new, and some would agree, questionable economic and social experiments. We fought two world wars, and invented and made available to every citizen \# _■ . =^ l Begins Thursday I SAVE ON EVERYTHING YOU SPEND THE BID-A-BUCK WAY. /& tj&j very c *°^ ar y° u spend here brings you a Bid-A-Buck (plus "extras on our START specials") . . . and every Bid-A-Buck you save gives you a chance for” a j W bigger, nener prize at the public auction to be held ori Saturday, Novem- SAVING ber 29th. r„ ti Yl BID-A-BUCKS ifaSYAm’ra-ggaawTO-ggsggate now Rexall Cleansing Tissues, 300’s. Regular 29c. Special 19c M 1-31 Antiseptic, 16 oz. Regular 89c. Sale Price . . 58c Dorothy Gray Dry Sun Lotion. Reg. *2.50. Special *1.25 Aspirin, Rexall, 100’s. Regular 59c. Special ..... 43c LEGGETT & DAVIS womens? Edenton, N. C. “DRUG STORE OF SERVICE” SPECIALS I 2pai«*Bsc I pj "IBP rt ITTK" IS THE EXCLUSIVE TRADE MARK OS PET MIUC COk JS LADIES ALL WOOL < j H ’ Coat Sweaters : I Cof< Staxl lodaY and save enough Bid-A-Bucks to get a valuable prise at the big VS «-| QPW ! i fei Bid-A-Bucks Auction Sale Saturday, November 29th —if you hurry! Get a Ks] 4 J | C£4 Bid-A-Buck for every dollar you spend get those special items that give VSI T 1( . n you extra Bid-A-Bucks and you'll have a "Bid-A-Buck Bankroll" big enough JjflfJlPfi 7 KpUC , I to get a real prize. You just can't miss getting extra value with our fine and __ \ up-to-date line of merchandise you want and need plus Bid-A-Bocks! fcW _ SIZES 32 TO 44 I 2 for 11.00 Ladies’White Cotton Slips ••• Sanforized, each . . . • 91c :: Men’s Broadcloth Shorts i(V Boys’ Coat Sweaters. ' dkj New Fall Dresses. AU &S a m \ and Knit Shirts, each Size .4 to 16. Each ... SP A« O 4 sizes. Each „ tJpOvT 4 ;; Men’s Orion V-Neck dktf) o>7 Boys’ Flannel Shirts. Art„ Ladies’ Corduroy Cans. nr* ” Sweaters Size 4to 12 Men’s Long-leg Heavy <jb-| O/T Men’s Sweat Shirts. Me-daw AA Children’s Cotton Dresses, rkff I | Underwear, each ~. VA.OU dium, large, small. ” Size Ito 6 V' * VOC | S. HOBOWSKY TtSaSSH 1 | his own private automobile and many other conveniences and luxuries. • i,. The first 45 years of this cen tury were indeed impressive; and we felt, as one of our songs im plied, that ‘-everything was sure ly up to date in Kansas City—it' had gone about as far as it could go.” Then just thirteen years ago, we witnessed the birth of the , atomic age. With all of our prob ’ lems up to this point, few, if any, I , of us realized what was to.come. [ Political, social, economic, psy chological, and spiritual concepts were all suddenly placed in an entirely different perspective. Our .national budget, which we had considered tremendous in terms of ' millions of dollars, suddenly burst | 1 into many billions. To demonstrate the significance! J and impact of these forces on our lives, may I review a few facts fro you. First, let’s get our perspective on money. When we talk about 40-andso-b'illion dollar defense budgets, what are we talking about? How large is a billion? Does anyone really know? Would you quickly estimate that there have been a billion hours in the world's 50,000 years? As a basis of comparison, the number of minutes since the birth of Christ until now would be ap proximately “one billion”—so a 43-billion dollar defense budget of today would be approximately $43 per minute. Putting it an • other way, it is approximately sl,-' j 000 per second, every second, every hour of every day; or if ! you prefer, one hundred million dollars a day every day in the cal endar year. This is the tremen- Idous cost to you and our coun try of living in the atomic age. To demonstrate this expense for you in terms of a specific item—a 852 bomber weighs more than 40 tons; but did you know that it costs more than its weight in solid silver? What about the complexi ty of the instruments and ma chines we read about and use in the atomic age? I am told that j the “electronic system alone” of a ( typical missile “has 36,000 to 37,- 000 separate items which must function properly if the missile’s flight is to be successful.” A few moments ago, in talking about man’s first flight across the At lantic Ocean, I was referring, of course, to Charles Lindbergh and his famous plane “The Spirit of St. Louis.” That plane, with its powerful engine, flew nonstop from New York to Paris. But to day, if that engine had a little more power, it could be used as a starter on a jet airplane. Another development of the - WIS HA EDEItTOy> OCTOBER 89# 1 sss• atomic age which affects and in fluences our lives is speed. In Nero’s time, or even fifteen hun dred years before then, man could travel oi// as fast as a horse could carry him. lam told that this is roughly 30 to 34 miles ' per hour. Thirty centuries later, when Columbus discovered Amer ica, the speed at which man could travel was still limited to the speed of the horse. Two centur ' ies after that, “when Paul Revere made Longfellow famous,” he was dependent on old dobbin. It took s Thomas Jefferson two days’ ride and two changes of horses to go ' from Richmond to Williamsburg. In 1830, with the invention of thf ' steam engine, mankind was firtal : l ly liberated from the horse, and I so-called modern methods of ! ! transportation were born. In 1910, one of our firts airplanes had a guaranteed speed of 42 miles per hour. In 1944, our mili -1 tary planes were traveling from 470 miles per hour to more than i 1,500 miles per hour. In the last two years, however, we have very calmly accepted an increase in our rate of speed from 1,500 miles per hour to more than 18,000 miles per hour. Recently, I read of an amazing incident in which a navy plane shot itself down by over taking and colliding with its own bullets. What are some of the other benefits of our tremendous tech nological advancement in the last 10 to 15 years? Today, one hun dred and seventy million Ameri cans thrive on the same land where one million Indians starved from one famine to another. To morrow morning, we will have 7,000 more people for breakfast; yet our only problem is surplus. Two-thirds of the world goes to bed hungry every night; but in America, we sometimes spank our children to make them eat. The million Indians had all the natural resources between the Canadian border and the Gulf of Mexico; between the Atlantic and, the Pacific. Their streams were! unpolluted, the topsoil was still! I in place, and the forests hadn’t, even been destroyed—yet the In dians starved. We have polluted the streams, washed the topsoil down the j drain, destroyed the forests —yetj even with one hundred seventy i million people, our only problem; is surplus. What do we have that the In did not have? Three enviable in gredients democracy, technolo- j gy and free enterprise. Where else, but in America, would a man of humble origin such as Henry i Ford dare to dr.eam that every man should or could own an au- ; tomobile? Democracy, technology and free enterprise have produced for us 'the greatest standard of living, never dreamed of in a New At lantis or an Eldorado, Anything, known to the mind of man, however, can be used for either good or evil. While in this atomic age we have an unlimited potential for material benefit and comfort, capable of relieving much of mankind’s suffering and misery, it can also be used to des troy us. In a recent article writ ten by Mr. J. Lewis Powell, of the Department of Defense, he describes the power of our hydro gen bombs in these terms: “The biggest explosive we had in the European Theatre in World War II was a blockbuster—a power of six tons of TNT. Now, we meas ure modern devices in megatons. One megaton is equal to a mil lion tons of TNT, or 166,000 block busters. It would take a freight train streaching from New York to Washington, D. C., merely to carry one magton of TNT.” While we in America would never allow our Government to use this inconceivable power in starting a horrible war, we must live in contast awareness that this power is also available to other forces and governments dedicated to the ultimate destruction of our country. These are but a few of the material forces that we must live and deal with. What are some of the others? As a result of man’s material, technological, and scientific ad vancements, we find ourselves living in a complex maze of in ternational political alliances. With our present-day systems of communication and transporta tion, we are no longer safe be hind our borders and between our oceans. Regret it though we may, ; we cannot remain apart from world political and economic forc es. The farthest country away is now our close neighbor. And so, . in spite of the wise advice of our ! President and Commander-in ! Chief, we find ourselves unable ,to escape from “entangling alli ances”. Complex treaties, agree ments, and pacts have a profound influence on our daily lives, i Would the founders of our Repub j lie ever have believed that the rice fields of Korea or the streets ! of Budapest could ever become our first lines of defense? The Gettysburg Address con tains only 266 words; The Decla | ration of Independence, 300 words and Ten Commandments, 297 | words. These are three of the ( I greatest statements ever made ' defending the rights of mankind; yet today millions and millions of words of debate are necessary » in “a World Assembly” to SIS i the cause of freedom. , The international force and ideology called communism is dedicated to the destruction not! f only of our way of life, but, if! • necessary to accomplish its ends, j i our country and our lives. The' ! two forces of democracy and com- I munism will continue to compete f until ope or the other is ultimate l ly destroyed. For the benefit of j ■ our children, future generations, and all mankind, we must, in the ' ! end, be victorious in thip struggle, j : These are the forces of our; • times—-this is where we stand on : the threshold' of this atomic age. : Our lives have became increas • ingly and immeasurably complex; t but our democratic way of life, - our material and scientific inge ■ nuity, and our political, social,' and economic precepts have sue- 1 cessfully met every previous : challenge. I have no doubt that we wjll successfully meet every 1 problem of the future. What does all of this mean to ! you and me? Those of us in this group are small in number. The one hundred and seventy million : people of our country is only a fraction of the world’s population. But there can be no doubt that we have in our heritage and in our hearts the basic principles of right which can and will, in the end, prevail. To those of us who may be disheartened, I would remind of the great accomplishments of twelve men, through whom the profound principles of Christian living were carried to the ends of the earth. Our D.A.A. organization is dedi cated to the perpetuation of the great principles of democracy es tablished by our forefathers. Yes, we are an organization of women; and there are some who would say that this is a man’s world. I would, however, suggest that, as women living in America today, you have the potential of being one of the most effective forces in all the world. In a recent book > % Here’s what makes the 59 FIORDS' THE WOMLffS. ! MSr ■ 4 x I Ford's new Foirlone 500 Club Victoria. BEAIHFUILLY - n cusi^ Ford’s new 9-passenger Country Sedan I PROPORTIONED CARS ;1; I " * •* i »r,i f - '• '*' >| To say the 59 Ford is “new” ... is an Thunderbird. And thers ypu have it: the ( * understatement For the 59 Ford is much 59 Fortkis a perfect blending of Thunder- *. more: it’s a brilliant kind of newness. bud elyance with most beau. ; £ It’s a newness of beautiful proportions ... pifiportions! |*4 Y V | not a bulky, “padded shoulder” look, but There’ll happy a classic rightness ,of space, size and is a masterpiece of underpricing! Why & line. It’s a departure from the humdrum not come in and Action Test one of these V in cate to the exciting elegance o{ the beautiiul new Fords today? . ' NEW! 59 Ford .w.rd.d NEW! Sav, op tos emit* litnplifi^low. ' »L v '/* ' % \. # 0» ■■ r j - ‘ * * | . - ~,-'- . ; A«v.' .. -. k *• !' entitled, “The Decline of the American Male;” and, in humility, I would question! the validity of its title, the following facts are stated: “The United States today jhas one and a half million more •women than men; American wo jmen live an average of 73 years, while the men average only 67 Continued on Page 7—Section 2 • • • ’ • ‘ | Cancer Clinic ; November 7thj * The Northeastern Cancer Clinic, will be held on Friday afternoon, i November 7, with registration be- 1 ginning at 1 o’clock. A free chest j X-ray will be given to anyone 1 STRAIGHT i"BOURBOM «S^^^WH!SKEY [JSSHtOq. , H. - proof 4/S.QUART , Hpr JAMES WALSH A CO.. INQ. LAWRENCEBURO. INQ. • ' nauSllrffii'ete^^rfhe body MHOfe' cancer is most easily found and cured. There are no limitatlonsjas fb sex, race phys Sal or ecs3(up{c status at the 'ceMer. However, women should be/ii!or more; men should be 40 or over unlesS.rfeferred by a doc to*’,-or un less one of the “Seven Bangor Signals” ok “Symptoms” are pres ent. ; • t ■ ' <•>..,-sir!'/ Only 30 people can be seen At the Center *each month due ’to ! limited facilities, so it is suggest-, j ed that i anyone who wishes to be assured of an appointment should , write the Cancer Center, Health i Deportment, Elizabeth City, N.. ! for a priority. Examinees ate' j are asked’ to bring a robe housecoat with them.
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