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f Three I PERSONAL And fjPRIVATE PRO^-gMS ft* IWW win ihiml »• m«w wwiM ui pHnta wrtlini «i » Qf>ar Three P’s: >My wife and I .«*•> dom do any ridding. Recently our agct door neighbor has b an parsing on to us some of t ,e magi fines andj articles which they read. Many I 6t the ariklei arc over our Attention! PEANUT GROWERS We Have Rebuilt Our Seed Peanut Shelter! ... it is now in perfect condition and we are reatlv to shell your peanuts. REMEMBER: AN EXPERIENCED OPERATOR C£N SAVE YOU MONEY! OUR PLANT IS LOCATED ON NORTH BROAD STREET IN FRONT OF GEORGE CHEVROLET CO. We Also Have Seed \ Peanuts For Sale. i ❖ LEARY BROS. Storage Co. (formerly Satterfield & Leary) PHONE 2141 EDENTON FREE BiIBECUE SUPPED!!! BONKR FOR CONGRESS .RALLY FRIDAY, MAY 6th, 6:00 P. M. Scott-Halstead Produce Shed-Weeksville Highway (N. C. 168 -1 Mile East Elizabeth City) MUSIC - EOTERTAINMENT BY NATIONALLY KNOWN HUMORIST EDMUND HARDING :OME BRING YOUR NEIGHBORS TOO! WE LL' MEET YOU THERE * ~ n ; .... . | By Chowan County Friends of Congressman Herbert C* Bonner j head; and deal with the sub ■ ject of materialism and moral decay without any morally es tablished philosophy. These are high sounding words to me. Are we materialistic and do we hare a moral philosophy or any phi losophy? —Zenobia Dear Zenobia: You are correct in your say ing that there are a great many articles and books on the sub ject of people becoming materia listic and selfish, that we are suffering from moral decay and that we do not have any funda mental philosophy to guide us. In <the mass and mess of words there is nothing that leads one to any conclusion other than confusion. Philosophy is the love of learning, of wisdom. A THE CHOWAITHERALD, EDENTON, WORTH CAROLINA, THURIDAY, MA? 3,1360. • | philosopher in any field dries to lj establish the causes and reasons j for effects and from this ad s I duces certain principles that ! generally are constant and ifhere -1 fore become a principle. In : moral philosophy the whole sub-1 ject revolves around what is good and what is evil. In this field there is much, confusion and as a result there is a great deal of discussion on the sub ject This is where materialism comes in for debate as a prin ciple of existence and the gen eral thesis is that the more ma terialistic w e become the faster moral decay sets in and people have no concept of what to be lieve and in what to have faith. This covers every day living, business, government, religion, and in fact every activity of our cultural life. In education, which is the most important field of our cul tural life, there is great conflict. No one really can define what education might be, what it is supposed to accomplish and its place in every day living. There is no stress on the stimulation of curiosity, there is no stress that as an educated person you iave more responsibility to so ciety than a supposedly unedu cated person. It is all on what you might say a materialistic basis. Wc have bigger and more luxurious school buildings, we have an unending list of courses to take without any concept as to the relationship to the whole. From an economic, materialistic point of view, college education is paying off for it is claimed that it is more difficult to ob tain employment if you are not a college graduate; also college graduates are paid more than non-college men. This has led o the drive to obtain a college legree, regardless. Witness 'the recent disclosures that ghost writers write examinations for university students and also write the theses for students to obtain masters’ and doctors’ de grees’. In the field of government hree large cities recently made he headlines. In one city the )olicc participated in the plan ning and carrying oUt of burg laries and in this city it is claimed that there is one mur der each day without apprehend ing the criminals. In another city the whole department of weights and measures has been guilty of collusion with suppliers of various commodities at the expense of the consumer. In an other city, the registration list is filled with dead heads, non- I existent people, people who have moved away from ’the district and names of people who have actually died have been carried on the eligible list of voters for years. And, of bourse, there are I the politicians handy who are familiar with these frauds but! continue to vote the names. I Crime .is on .the increase, ac-1 cording to the F. 8.1., and most crime has a materialistic selfish basis, particularly among the juveniles. Then there is the newly de veloped philosophy “sic” of ob jectivity which claims that al truism is the basis of weakness. This is a quote from such phi-| losophy: “It is the morality of I altruism that men have to re ject. And why? Because the Christian virtue leads to self im molation, tolerance of the ‘in competent’ common man, the welfare site and ultimately to the slave camp. By hindering "ego” altruism destroys human reason.” The symbol of this objectivity is tha $ sign, the symbol of the free mind. Then the medical profession is somewhat concerned, whether it admits it or not, with the ma terialistic philosophy. Today people seeking jobs want to! know if there is a pension andj what the fringe benefits might be. The individual is heavily in] debt for material things. The] load becomes heavy and he be gins to worry about his ability to pay his debts. This worry develops into fears and tensions, a feeling of insecurity, and the medical profession has an 1 NOW! BUY BOTH FOR ONLYSS99- 9 5 FRIGIDAIRE THRIFT TWINS REFRIGERATOR AND MATCHING FREEZER! Model DA-13-60—12.97 cu. ft., Model UFD-12-60 family-size Refrigerator 12.29 cu. ft.,430 lb. Upright Food Freezer Ralph E. Parrish, Inc. PHONE 2421 f ’ 11 creasing number of neurotic men I and women, to treat. Then there is a great increase in the num ber of alcoholics as a result of these fears and feeling of inse curity. These are the side re sults of \lvhait might be termed j a materialistic philosophy. A I great deal mofe could be cited |as evidence a materialistic philosophy guiding our every day life. With the tremendous Changes in out 'way of life which I are developing every day, there) is apt to come about a form of* moral decay, for science is cross ing every path of our cultural life and people will have less and less to hold on to of our past traditional way of life. Then will develop the defeatist attitude of “drink, eat and be merry, for tomorrow ve may die.” Dear Three P’s: My husband is a traveling salesman and quite regularly he is away for some time. Recently I have been told that he is liv ing with another woman in a town some fifty miles away. He is supposed to have married this woman and has several chil dren by her. W e have three children of our own. What shall I do to protect my family in this situation? —Hortcn.se Dear Hortense: This situation and problem is not uncommon. If your husband has married this other woman, he is guilty of bigamy; if he has not married her, he is guilty of adultery. In any event he can be held liable for the support l 8 E'!: H “YOUR FRIGIDAIRE DEALER» 1 ©f 'the children by this other wo man. If you do not want to go to court and make public this scandal which will have a bad effect on your children, now in school, presumably, I would, sug gest that you have a frank out right talk with your husband. If he is contrite, and you rec ognize the fraility and weak ness of mankind and want to preserve your family, you may 1 make an adjustment where he | will give up this other woman. Otherwise, your only remedy is' the court and divorce. MRS. GIBBIE V. MITCHELL PASSED AWAY SATURDAY. Mrs. Gibbie V. Mitchell, 69, 1 died Saturday night at 7:30 j o’clock at her home on East! Queen Street after an illness of five weeks. A native of Chowan County, she was the wife of the late J. H. Mitchell. Surviving arc two sons. Gib-] son Mitchell and Clifton Milch-1 ell, both of Edcnton; two daugh- 1 Notice To Voters Os Chowan County: I am a candidate for the Chowan County School Hoard. Your Vote Will He Appreciated! O. C. Long, Jr. LOOK! You get 14.30 cu. ft.—soo lbs. of freezing space plus 10.96 cu. ft. of refriger ation space—all in just 64” of floor space! EDENTON, N. C. tens, Mrs. Elva Folk of Fayette ville and Mrs. Gladys Harris of I Tarboro; a sister, Mrs. Alice j Harrell of Edcnton, 10 grand-j children and 14 great-grandchil-1 dren. She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church, where funeral services were held Mon-i day afternoon at 4 o’clock. The! Rev. R. O. Denton of AskowvilkJ a former pastor, officiated, assist- • ed by the pastor, the Rev. C. L. j Wills. Burial was in Bearer Hill i Cemetery. The more progress we have i the more wc suffer from pov 1 erty—that is some of us; great riches seem nearly always to bring extreme poverty. —Henry George, j SUyE^LARg^ Gtennwjf STRA« '‘ r I WHISK** | ! i hurra J rnrnmm SECTION TWO PAGE FIVE w .f ORKIMyf PHONI I 3223 1
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