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PAGE SIXTEEN Text Os Address Given By British Official At 200th Anniversary Os Chowan Court House Following is the text of an address here Sunday by William M. Drower, first secretary, British Embassy. The occasion was the 200th anniversary of Chowan County Court House. My wife and I feel greatly privileged to have been permitted to take part with you in these celebrations and in par ticular in the 200th anni versary of the Chowan County Court House. Speaking in a strange city is usually slightly in timidating, however, charm ing and courteous one’s hosts may be. That para dy of Longfellow echoes: I shot an arrow into the air, I don’t know how it fell, or where. But strangely enough at At Last! A Hearing Aid MILLIONS Can Wear! < fyMotfatt Tears to Perfect! Seconds to Put On! Thousands in Use! NERVE DEAFNESS Model of New Miniature Hearing Aid Given (Not an Actual Hearing Aid) FREE SAMPLE OF THE NEW GOLDENTONE NUGGET Goldentone, Minn. A FREE OFFER -To all who hear but do not understand. 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With its court ly charm, delightful hospi tality and gay, nostalgical ly rustling costumes it makes one wonder how in the world one could have avoided coming before to such an attractive target. I would be wrong if I did not tell you here and now that Constance and I have firmly sworn to come again and bring our THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1967. daughter. This is, of course, an occasion of particular sig nificance as the flags of our two beloved countries fluttering proudly together can amply testify. We both pay homage today to common principles firmly held to common ideals. And these things are en shrined in these stones and shingles and beams. Your distinguished May or, in an admirable ad dress last night, stressed that this city has no mu seum, though you have one which we have been priv ileged to visit. Everything has the vitality of today; your houses are main tained, not restored or res cued, rather they are guarded and cherished. Is it not to be deplored that the handiwork of our fore fathers think parts of Eu rope are much to blame in this respect, are carefully stripped of humanity, cata logued in fossilized—made into museums, archeologic ad morgues? This magnificent Chowan Court House before us is no fossil. It breathes vi tality and purpose. Archi tecturally, you have in it a building which meets the three classical interiors of commodity, firmness and delight. Here it is, set among houses which stand in or dered lives like independ ent burgesses. There is nothing of vulgarity or of straining after effect. Sir Christopher Wren, the ar chitect of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, would, I believe, have ifelt especially in sympathy with its conception. It was he who wrote: “Architecture has its po litical uses. Public build ings being the ornament of a country, it establishes a nation, draws people and commerce, makes the peo ple love their native coun try.” John Ruskin comment ed that if the design of a building be originally bad, the only virtue it might ever possess would be that of antiquity. Sometimes it is hard to feel that Eu ropeans do not impose on their visitors when they show them buildings of immense age which alas were originally ugly and remain so in perpetuity. It is a kind of fraud perpe trated on the well-dispos ed. But Mr. Ruskin, with his Victorian love of Ven ice and the pointed arch would never have approv ed of anything so practical and simple as this court house. One is reminded of the two cockneys in a con cert hall. One of the ladies of this distinguished company has suggested with wit and scholarship that the Cho wan County Court House offers a unique symbolism to us of the continuity be tween the past and the present. Certainly the govern ment which erected this court house was a British colonial government and the law which was to be practised was British law. It is not without signific ance that North Carolina was one of the last two states to ratify the Con stitution, on the ground that it did not include a Bill of Rights; you felt with us that Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights were the bedrock of jus tice, and you were not content until a Bill of Rights had been framed within the first ten amend ments to the Constitution. So both our countries thus share a great constitu tional tradition—that a ci tizen is entitled to judg ment from his peers irre spective of the politics of the moment. May we con tinue to be preserved from the Alice of Wonderland type of so-called Peoples’ Courts, where the rule is nearly always “Sentence first and verdict after.” Are not such courts the hallmark of the abomin able tyranny of Hitler and Stalin? Law has been adminis tered in this building. His tory has been made here. But not merely legal his tory. Also, within its sturdy walls, the pageant of Edenton’s social life has unfolded through these centuries. How many trimly ankles have not waltzed on the gleaming spring floor how many promises and rendezvous have not been made in the candlelight? Built in 1767 the year of the . Townshend duties which you considered taxa tion without representa tion. Already then, rumbling and flashing like an ap proaching storm, the deci sive struggle of the next decade could be heard. You —in company, let us not forget, with many lib eral voices in England— were already coming to the belief that the fusty rigidity of a mercantilist system must go and be re placed by something which we have now in fact rec ognized in the British Commonwealth of Na tions—the system where self-governing communities have their equal economic rights. Don’t be too hard on Lord North and his friends. They did their best. They simply didn’t know how to tackle a new and complex situation which defied their experience of how to run an empire. Our young daughter, at school in Washington, D. C., has a textbook in which it all' looks so easy. The good guys are good and the bad guys have, if .not black hats, red uniforms. Perhaps it is a pity that it is felt necessary to make issues so clear cut, when they seldom are in real life. You might like to know that so far as bias is concerned, most school textbooks in England are lavish in praise of George Washington; in contrast, poor King George 111 and his ministers get a thin time. No doubt some where in the United States there is a history book which says one nice thing about that honest, not over-endowed and dread fully long-lived Hanover ian monarch. Perhaps one day when we shall get a common history book for the English speaking peo ples. Let us have our legends by all means, but let us recognize them as such. It has always been diffi cult for one nation to take the measure of another; to guage accurately whether f BB Interest ■ Passbook H Savings 'B f.from the H ■ Day K ■ m Your Savings Deposits Start Earning Daily Interest From The Very First Day of Deposit At Peoples. # We Want 5,000 New Passbook Savings Accounts Now # Watch Your Savings Grow With Daily Interest # Daily Interest is Ideal and the Best Deal for the Thrif ty Because There Are NO LOST INTEREST DAYS ® PEOPLES BANK « TRUST COMPANY EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ... Which Insures Fund• of Each Depositor Up to SISfiOOJOO the other is on the way up or whether it is going to the dogs. It seems to have been particularly hard in respect of my country, when you beat us so gal lantly at Yorktown most countries in Europe were firmly of the opinion that England’s sun had irrevoc ably set. King Frederick of Prussia believed that, so did Catherine of Russia and the Hapsburg Em peror. Napoleon can, therefore, be somewhat ex onerated from having, not long after, grossly under estimated his opponent. Hitler made the same mis take, though it is less easy to excuse his miscalcula tions since some were so enormous and so horrible. But such assessments, how ever wrong, have certain ly been encouraged by the predictions of impend ing calamity so frequently made by our own famous figures. NO TICE! If you have moved within the past two years from one ward to another, please check to be sure that you are properly registered, and if necessary, secure a transfer from your regi strar. This will be necessary in order for you to be able to vote in the May 2, 1967 election. L L HOUOWELL, CHAIRMAN Chowan County Board of Elections Thus the Duke of Wel lington on his deathbed prophesied certain disinte gration and collapse ifor a doomed society. Even H. G. Wells, the prophet of a delightful and scientifical ly ordered New Order be ca m e finally convinced that we were done for. So we may be excused a cer tain cynicism about the value of such forecasting. Why, only three years ago, when we had special trouble with our balance of payments the story was that this time we had really had it. Our finan cial system, it was said, was rotten through and through; our workers spent all their time either on strike or drinking tea; our machines were out of date, our manufacturers effete and incompetent. The pub lished figures of the last few months ought to have shown how off the mark these forecasts were. No one nation has a monopoly of problems in the field of balance of payments. I need hardly say that we are well aware what the Samuel Jenkins technique of meeting international payments—“payment when convenient —it being un derstood that I am not to be pushed”—is hardly rea listic in 1967. The financial gnomes of Zurich are happy today. They have seen that we have already brought down our trading deficit to one quarter of the 1964 figure and know that next year we hope not only to bal ance the books but to be in surplus. More than our American cousins we depend on trade with the outside world. Let no one delude himself that Britain in 1967 lacks first-class competitive in dustrial power. Before the second World Continued on Page 17
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