PAGE 2 (Eht Baihi^Attxxrii DUNN, H. C. * * * - ' ~ A ” Published by RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Cgjjary Street • Every afternoon, Monday through Friday Application for entry as second class matter is pending. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. 205-217 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. T. Branch Offices In Every Major City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER: 20 cents per week; $8.50 per year in advance; 95 for six months, $3 for three months. IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: *6.00 per year; $3.50 for six months; *2 for three months OUT-OF-STATE: $3.50 per year in advance; *5 for six months, $3 >—■ for three months. ’< ■ t a ■ Tough Break For Harnett During the past few years, Harnett County has done exceedingly weii in holding down its homicide rate. Harnett s murder rate never was as bad as some of the publicity might imply. It just so happened that murders Hr Harnett came in twos and threes in a row instead of one now and then. And so it was during the Christmas holidays. We didn’t I have one murder, but two. Everybody knows that the murder rate in Harnett Coun much lower than most counties. But two murders in one weekend are sure to give outsiders the wrong im pression. Jack Lemmel A bright light in our town faded out during the week end witn the death of M. E. Lemmel, better known to just about everybody in this section simply as “Jack.” Jack hadn’t lived in Dunn very long; he came here two years ago. But it was his home and he came to love the town and its people and they came to love him. Few people—il any—ever acquired so many friends in such a short period of time. He knew most of the business men by their first names. 3iui, moxe important, ne always had a cheerful greet- j , ing and a Kind word for them. He’d “kid the socks off ’em,” as he put it, and they learned to like it. Jack was a lonesome man, all alone in this world except for one cousin. His home was wherever he hung his hat and he chose to hang it permanently in our town. Only a handful of his intimate friends found the time yesterday afternoon to attend the funeral services in Ra- , leigh. But those present were inspired by the tribute paid Jack by his good friend, the Rev. Clyde Shepherd of Erwin. “His chief joy in life,” Mr. Shepherd told the group of , mourners, “was dong something for others.” He did count- : less good deeds for other pepple every day of his life—little ' things like driving Mrs. Mattie Washburn down to the movies, bringing Sam Fleishman some choice foods from 1 the delicatessen or quietly circulating among his friends to raise money to help a worthy brother in need, to pay the house rent. . i , ijick was always happiest when he could be of service to \ ‘ somebody else. Even a cancer as big as an orange that , - gnawed at his lungs for over a year, finally eating one and . t then the other, didn’t stop him. One of the last things 1 “ Jack ever did was to pass the hat for an old lady who came 1 to jpwn in search of help. k He had-one expression that he passed out, and if was , * otti his friends won’t ever forget. a ;j*The thing that counts,” Jack always said, "is what’s ■ £ ini man’s heart; not what’s on the outside.” 1 * "JJrover Henderson expressed it pretty well as he stood : *■ and chatted with other friends of Jack in front of the ~ R4feigh funeral home after the service; » *1 just hope,” said Grover, “that when my time comes, I’ll * tie'as prepared to go as we all knew Jack was.” *> ~JThat higher tribute could one man pass to another! ißunn Begins New | Drive For Industry !, *> '“*;The news that Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, President Guy ton Smith of the Chamber of Commerce and Manager Joe - McCullers are going to New York in search of new indus tries for Dunn is very gratifying. u.’jhey have a long list of prospects—northern industries reported lo be looking for new locations in this region of f me South. * . The Dunn delegation will spend several days in Gotham conferring with officials of these plants and pointing out to them the many advantages and benefits to be derived from settling in our community. <■ t In making the announcement, Mayor Hanna advised citizens not to expect them to return with news that a ~ half dozen or so plants will soon locate in the city. - -Rather, pointed out the Mayor, it is a long-range pro gram that might require months or even yews. The im r mediate idea is to get the ball rolling. Nothing can be ' done and nothing can be accomplished until the iirst steps f are taken. Dunn has made much Substantial progress during re cent years. Our tobacco market is doing well; the Dunn Hog Market last year purchased mote lhan one million , dollars worth of hogs; Dunn’s one-year-old sweet potato market ended up by being the second largest to the State, «and there are other sighs of progress—definite indications that Dunn has "growing pains.” - ~ .' , ' , : The Daily Record believes that these Dunn leaders are STRICKLAND S AUTO SERVICE •X • These Days lir.n tmw £ckcUkif A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION A man called me on the telephone from Boston spending money to tell me that he disagreed with me about an article. I luce to know about disagreements, which otten only conurm me in my fundamental «oii victions. This man denounced me for beini, a red-baiter, winch I am, because he said that what made men Commu nists are inequalities, by whicn he meant racial inequalities, it turneu out tnat this man is a Negro. I recognize that human beings show lutes and dislikes tor ina>vi uuais, races ana classes oi man, ana tnat most ot us think that wnat we are is generally oest. Bach race regards use.-: as the chosen people. 1 snail never forget sitting near a friend at a dinner party, a Wn whom I aamire, yet who is so Anglo-Saxon tnat ne could nc) resist telling me that what is wrong witn tms country is the queer kinus oi people who nave come to it, meaning people like me, of course. When i walked across tne lme ana took my position with my ancestor*, ne was not tv little shocked. This sort of thing happens whei. f renchman tan, auouc Uctmans aim «nen Germans talk aoc**. rrenen men. It is a universal attitude, indefensible, but trut. I myself because of my long life among Asiatics and my family relationship* with Chinese, feel no sense of race. Yet, I know that most Orientals regard themselves as racially superior to all Europeans. So, when this Negro made racial Inequalities the explanation for Communism, he talked nonsense, for racial inequality is as old as mai and is fully described in the earliest oooks of the Bible, whereas. Com-,, inunism is a comparatively movement, just over a century. ol and only effective since 1917. Racial prejudice, like religious prejudice and color prejudice, ana just plain downright prejudice, arises from psychological response to the cnallenge of superiorly. In a word, u you are as good as I am, then 1 am not so good. Future, there i* the old adage of birds of a feather preferring to play together. ‘ This Negro on the telephone tola me of his troubles and ended by lauding France, where they treated him as an equal. I could not help asking him why, if he prefers France, does he not live there. Ana that is a sound question, for no mat. has to live in the United States. That is something we too often forget In discussing deporation cases and other matters. No man has to live in the United States. Anybody is tree to leave this country. You might say that Paul Roberson is not free to leave the United States, because the State Depart ment will not give him a passport. The truth is that Roberson t not being given a passport because our government has found that whei I abroad, he, as an American citizen, makes speeches which our govern ment regards as detrimental to this country. Most Americans resnt Roberson, not a a Negro, but as an American. It haq nothing to do with his being a negro any more tha resentment over the mission ary. Dryden Phelps, has anything to do with his being a Baptist. So, when I asked this caller from Boston why, If he prefers France, he doe* not live there, I asked a good question. He did not give the right answer, which could be: ' "True, they won’t let me sit izt some hotels; true, there is Jim Crow and lots of other situations. But this United States is still the most com fortable place on earth for anyone to live in add while maybe a few problems have to be handled, 1 would rather be an American than a citizen of Any other country.” He did not say that. He said, “Neither you nor anybody else is going to push me put.” He missed the point, but it is dangerous that be missed the point. AH this talk you Rear about min orities and prejudices and anti-t defamation Is a response to accele rated hatreds to which man have devoted themselves for two decades They first create their targets of hate’and then stimulate a response Kane of this solves any American problem and it wll not serve to ttu yrifr* t* ton*. ThelsStfe here i America to much thaTte (frtal comfortable here, the country Would ; «*- improved by Ms abseriee-per* I manefitlyr * .« f. ?■ J c. ‘ [ I hr m%■ ' *■.Mi'-?»«»• ■'j l • UCENBES •-» • t . ; 4 x ,1 THE DAILY licOltD BUN*, N. C. v - •' '• l i l* L • ■ Mjtfer Breger 1111?' ■ | v : “NOW I know where we are in this fog— -Breger’s neigh borhood ... I just HEARD him!” Frederick L. OTHMAN WASHINGTON.—You can’t blame the Veep, who has to sit directly un der the Senate Press Gallery, from being a little chary about getting buzzbombed. He still has hair on his head, but not enough to provide protection against missiles from above. This is inside stuff about the news business, but I must report that Vice-President Alben W. Bafkley in lis day has suffered some near .nsses from ammunition accidental ly dropped by the busy scribes above him. Mostly this has involved such weapons s:s wads of paper and an iccasicnal lead pencil.” Once I watched a lady reporter leaning over the rail with an automatic, iietal pencil in her mouth. A states manlike statement startled her, she opened her pretty jaws and the Veep learly got beaned. Still another lady one time spilled i paper cup half full of coffee, with cream, over the ledge, but that was a long time ago and I can’t even etneaiber who the Vice-President vas that got splashed These hottid accidents will happen no mire. The $5,000,000 remodeling of the legislative chambers includes a new Senate press box designed by some of the leading architects in the country. Here the artistic one ave placed the reporters in such .agnificent and comfortable isola tion that they connot even see most of the Senators below. In front of the authors is a two-ton marble slab nearly three feet wide that effectlve y cuts off their view. It also pro ects tne Veep. There is a vice versa to this. The 3enators connot see the correspon im;t3. And how can a law giver de ver a proper oration unless he nows the writers are above to take .own his deathless words? The seats of the blindfolded orrespondents, I must admit, are -uper de luxe; big, fat, soft leather High Court Decision Sends Gadget Makers On Wtirpath By HARMAN W. NICHOLS UP Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—(UP)— The inventors are sore at Supreme Court'Justice 'William Orville Doug las and Hugo Lafayette Black.' , The two jurists contend that our Constitution never sanctioned gad gets. They said so In a concurring opinion on a recent decision -by the court on a -certain Invention. Douglas wrote a sidebar Optotod agreeing with the rest of the court. Said he: COURT’S OPINION • “Every patent la the grant of a privilege exacting tolls from the public. The framers of the Consti tution did not want these monop olies freely granted, the invention to justify a patent hkd to serve the ends of science—to push back the frontiers of chemistry, physics and the like; to make a distinctive con tribution to scientific knowledge. The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets.” That stirred up the tiger in «h| old friend Col. Paul S. Holbrook, executive secretary of the National Society of Inventors. The Colonel serious research. ■- ;yj KFFP A mil —FADM » RIKMIFtt _ FfOMF I hhth WHimillMLl jwi ! VGA A SAVING ON INSURANCE SEE ' II P A fYPf 'Bl% PY/'iFFI j Vs t stools with sponge rubber stuffing. Only they are so wide and placed so close together in that all-import ant front.row that I predict serious delays in bulletins from the legis lative hail. The scribblers simply can’t untangle their legs fast enough. Here, directly over the Veep and 1 separated from him by that chunk of yellow marble, sit the press association gents; two for tha United Press, two for the Associated Press, i and two for the International News. ! That makes six stools, but the archi tects (who never forget anything) have included a seventh lor the Secret Service man in case the President ever visits the Senate. So far he only done that once. So the standing comm|ttee of correspondents and the embattled architects now are engaged in a battle that would have frightened Michelangelo. The writers want that slab of marble removed; the archi tects claim that would ruin, thq har mony of the room. Then, insist the reporters, raise their stools high* enough so they can see over It.” And also toss out that seventh seat. The architects are considering this. They believe they could ease each up thfee and one-quarter inches. I hauled myself up that distance and discovered that from the Associated Press’ number two seat I could see the Senators in the rear row. And there’s worse to come. The master architects Intend to Install on the marble slab a large bronze clock, so thq Senators can see what time it is. But who can see through a clock? If this time piece goes up I predict a job of house wrecking. Even if It doesn’t, my guess is tha’ this nation is In for the loudest artistic controversy since President Truman tacked his balcony on tht back of the White House. Just wait until- {hose Senators see what they 'have wrought. - Yirst he discovered that the word “gadget” was not known to the group of 5b delegates who met at Philadelphia in 1787 for the purpose of drafting a constitution. GADGET OBSCURE ’ “Ther Oxford English Dictionary Supplement,” Holbrook said, “sari that the orgtn Is obscure. It was Tint known in use cosbor seafaring men, and said by several corrSspop-. dents to nive beta current In 1870 and by a few -as far back as the 50’s of the 19th Century, but was not found la print until 1886. That was years after the Constitution was written." According to what the secretary of Inventors discovered, Gebrge Washington was In favor of in ventions. m 1770, only three years after tint Convention quit In Phila delphia, the first President addreas bd.tae Congress thualy: "You will agree with me that than Is nuthjng which can better daeqrve. your patronage thta^the the. expediency Of* giving effectual encouragement to new and useful I Mribrook. sold ttust President First *Ba'skef Case Reported tti Korepa War WASHINGTON, Deo. 27—(UP) —The first quadruple . amputee of the Korean War—2o-year-old PF- C Robert L. Smith of Mlddleburg Pa.. . was scheduled to arrive here by air today, for treatment at Walter Reed Hospital. Slightly wounded in the fight ing around the Cholsin Reservoir Smith suffered severe frostbit that required the removal of bot’ legs below the knees and boti hands above the wrists. Evacuated to Japan, he late' was transferred to the Travis Ah Base Hospital, Cal., where medl cal officers said his “morale an condition are excellent” and hi “chances of rehabilitation are ver good.” The Army said he Is belm flown non-stop in an Air Forc< C-97 cargo-ambulance plane tx the military transport base a Westover Field, Mass., and woult be transferred to another plan for the flight here. WITH 7th DIVISION Smith, who fought with the 7th lnfantry division, is the first American "Basket Case” in the Korean War. Only two American; had quadruple amputations dur ing World War n and both are re ported “doing well.” / Smith’s mother, Mrs. Clara El ma Smith, first learned of the ser iousness of his wounds when a news story from California re ported that all four of his limbs had been removed. She later received a telegram -from the Defense Department ad vising that he had been “slighUy wounded.” An Army spokesman explained that frostbite is not considered a. battle wound and, as such, “is not reported to next of kin in a cas ualty message." The youth had cabled his mother from Japan that he had been wounded but advised that “anxiety unnecessary.” He telephoned on Christmas Eve from the Travis Base Hospital but did not tell her the nature of his wounds. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Edna Baker to Bessie Bowden, 3 tracts. Coy Uucas and wife to Mrs. Lessie Suggs, lot. Malcome McAr ten and wife to Rollins R. Moore, lots. Lessie Suggs and Husband to Aline Whittington, lot. John Tutor | and wife to J. C. Horton and wife, tion” and “science” entirely apart. WHAT’S A GADGET? “I would like to pose this'question,” said the secretary of the society of gadget-inventors - Would you call the mouse trap a gadget? Or a new type of bobby pin? Or the tele phone? The rubber on the pencil? Or a clgaret lighter with a spring tape measure attached for use by carpenters? Whatever you call them —whether they stretch our frontiers' or not, are they not made fore better way of American life?” The Colonel also came upon e letter written to Eli Whitney by Thomas Jefferson when the latter was Secretary of State. Jefferson admitted quite frankly that he was Impressed by Whitney’s invention of a little gimmick called ’the cotton gin.” People laughed at Eli Whitney, but with the encouragement of Jefferson the inventor went from blueprint to reality. The invention later became a leg on what was once called the tripod of the south: The negro, the cotton gn, and the mule. The more the inventors think about the Supreme Court opinion ihe more confused—and—madder— they get Funeral Director j William Parker Dean, 73, died at his home, Fuquay, Springs Rt. 2, Tuesday afternoon. Services will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. at the Christian Light Church., Burial will M id the' church' cemetery. Mrs. Sudie Avery Wilboum, 58, of Erwin, Rt. 1. died Tuesday morning in Good Hope Hospital. Services were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock from the First Baptist Church in Erwin. Burial was in Greenwood cemetery in Dunn. Mrs. R. A. Dennis of Fuquay, Rtt 1, died in Rex Hospital early Tues day morning. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Plney Grove Baptist‘Church at 3 o’clock. Interment was in the church ceme tery. ' - Provide Protection For Out Simple Pre-Jfeed ‘ nißinirr nmpail ■WEDNESDAY, DECEMBE» *7, l»sf 2 tracts. J. J. Weaver to 'itblllhs S. Moore, tots. By ED SUULT^AN MY SECRETARY, AFRICA, SPEAKS Dear Bo**—NßC stands for New Berle Contract (incidentally, those uates with ex-wife Joyce Matthews don't mean remarriage unfortunately) V. . Mayor Impeiiitten’s race accord posters in the subways typify th< Holiday spirit . . . Coie Portor was least surprised at the ragged not 'rtt given his Out of This World.” . . . Jimmy Durante, Boh Hope, Sdme cantor. Burns and Alien, Robert Merrill and Frank Parker helped raise ♦ i 1,000 for the N. Y. Heart Fund at the “Harvey” premiere (Robert Downng contributed the As tor Theatre) . . Star of the night wai harvard undergrad Bugs Baer, Jr., who made the awards to chairman ogsse Block, Eve Sully and a gorgeous brunette ... Diaxy Dean getting $75,00* from 20th Century-Fox for his Hog . . . -allot noosevett and Norma Ross a twosome . . . John Conte with Judy -tcTtiiwm . .. Dore Schary back to the MGM lot . .-. Billy Eckstine Won .ae uowuueat poll 5-1 . . . Gig Young in’town to wed Lnivenai-Diter -auum». o orpine Rosenstein . . . Ethel Merman partying. “Call Me adusaia cast . . . The Lei&nd Haywards to the coast after Jan. 1 . i miarieo iaiiuoergh’s son, Jon, to wed .a California .girl? ... Israeli juiuuuicih has taken over a whole floor at the Sulgrave ... No live aOoiis to expioit James Stewart’s “Harvey," on orders of Universal -iexy Nate Biuiuberg . . . Siamese cat in "Bell, Book and Candle,” Is ,nvateiy owned, is carried on the show's payroll like any other actor. Rocky Marciano will marry Betty Ann Cousins —fc' bib Ks f ■ t —MARK'.itS ' : « —TOMBSTONES —MAI ffldlJEtTlMl V - < I . .-’if ... ’ ■ hir . - £*j£ : - w- reuemhuui l J .9m jk Staple. Mgr. ? * . .. 1 p + 11