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A Great Inspiration
The way in which citizens throughout Harnett County
have rallied behind Campoeii College s expansion program
campaign has been a great inspiration, but the report
oi no tonunujuiy has ueen so inspiring as that oi the
Buie s CreeK community.
With only about i,ol)u people as prospective contributors,
Buie s Creels citizens came fortn witn a grand total oi
$24,277 —more than $5,000 above their quota of $19,000.
‘mat figures more man $24 for every man, woman and
child. '
me'Record thinks it significant that Buie’s Creek has
set such a shining example, it is the greatest testimony
mat uuie s Creek could pay to its great Baptist institu
tion—wftich, incinoentaliy, is one of Harnett County's
,greatest assets.
*„ Biur-’s Creek citizens know the value of Campbell College.
Tn?y.ignow what it has meant to Buie’s Creex, to Harnett
•County, to the State and to the whole educational picture
pljfce south.
They know what Campbell College—an independent
istitution with Christian iueais and standards—has meant
Jo Jiterally thousands of boys and girls who received their
Wucjflon at the college. They know of tne thousands of
girls who received an education at Campbell when
they couiun t have gone elsewhere. Always, Campbell Col
lege has had its doors open wide to those students with
out .mpney as well as those able to pay. me nominal fees
.Charged there.
We know that President Leslie Campbell and all the
other-members of me staff must have felt mighty good
to see this tribute coming from the homefolks.
.Already, The Record nas extended congratulations to
the "Citizens of Erwin for being the first in the county to
meet and exceed their quota. We need enthusiastically
congratulate the citizens of Buie’s Creek.
It is our hope that the citizens of Dunn and the people
in every other section of Harnett will do equally as well.
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Jußtoblfen invited to attend.
dtee Au-pose of the meeting, ex
pftineiC. Manager Hobbs today, is
t£ iwomote better understanding
awMiodperation among the various
law enforcement agencies and to
hear ,AQ. outstanding program.
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«*.F»iKCfpal speaker at the meeting
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will be Carlia.-3 Johnstone, director
of public safety for the City of
Raleigh. He will discuss law en
forcement problems and show a
police training film
The group will discuss the gen
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with particular emphasis on means
of cooperation between the police
and highway patrol and coopera
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These Days
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TOT YALTA LEGEND
The “Philadelphia Bulletin,” by
entitling an editorial, “The Yalta
Legend,” got itself Into a minor
controversy. For Yalta is a fact,
not a legend; it has already cost
us perhaps as many as 80,000 cas
ualties in Korea, besides forcing
upon us preparatory mobilisation
for a general war.
In a footnote to a reader’s pro
test, the editor clarifies his views,
whioh come down to what might
be called “The Law of Necessity.”
He says:
“. . . The United States was free
to suggest what Russia ought to do
in this territory; but unless this
country was then, before the Nasi
war was over, prepared to break
with Russia, we could not enforce
our idea.”
That is a good starting point for
a discussion of “The Law of Neces
sity,” which is an application of a
very old rule of thumb that the
pleasantest way out of a dilemma
is the easiest way. It is a tempor
ary relief from pressure by princi
ples of morality. It eases the con
science somewhat. 1
Gangster parlance terms it the
alibi, in the sense that if an ac
tion cannot be explained, it can
be explained away. Little boys do
’ it all the time —and generals of
losing armies are often like little
boys: they do what necessity seems
to dictate and then try to wriggle
out of it. The sucoessful wriggler
is a great strategist; the unsuccess
-1 ful, a great disappointment.
The Yalta Conference met in
February. 1945 when the United
States was the most powerful na
tion on earth. At that conference,
Mr. Roosevelt handed the baton of
power to Soviet Russia, and we
have been a diminishing power,
i since. The price we exacted from
Soviet Russia was that the Rus
sians should cease •to be neutral
in oqr war with Japan.
The moral Issue was whether in
a global war, in which the United
States had come to the aid of
Russia to the tune of 311,000.000,-
000 to mention only money ang not
1 lives. Russia had any justification
for remaining neutral in any phase
of the war. The argument against
Russia having a second front was
equally good against the United
States having a second front.
After concessions had been made
at Yalta, where hundreds of mil
lions of human being were sold
Into subjection and slavery, Rus
sia did not enter that war until
Japan was defeated and pleading
for peace. V-J day was August 15,
1945; Russia entered the Far East
ern war on August 8, 1945. Ahd
note that the date of Hiroshima
was August 6, 1945. In a word,
Russia entered that war two days
after the atom bomb was hurled at
Japan and seven days before the
termination of that war.
To say, as the editor of the
“Philadelphia Bulletin” does: 'Tt
U now generally conceded that it
Drafting
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sidering *n administrative request
to permit drafting of 18-year-olds.
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS
Controls Fight—Chairman Burnet
R. Maybank, D.. 8. C., demanded
that the price control enforcement
fight between price Stabiliser
Michael V. Disglle and the Justice
Department be promptly settled.
■ Otherwise, said, the whole price
and wage control law will be dis
rupted. The quarrel over Who should
enforce the control law .may have,
to be decided by the White House.
Farmers—Chairman Harold D.
Cooley, wid persons who blame
fanners for high food prices are
ignorant. Ha said all major foods
except meat are below their fair
price, or parity, level. Hfe add«
that farmers have no control over
their own prices.
RFC—Chairman j. William Ful-
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Reconstruction
tlons. He said the subcommittee
delrnd memselves at
puiaic Hearings. '
THE DAILY RECORD DUNN, N. C.
“Barbershop? About that hair restorer from a secret
18th century formula you sold me ... M
ftr ED SULLIVAN
Behind the Scenes
That lovely April night in Chester, Pa., none of us dreamed that
the big, lean, nice-looking kid was racing against a clock that was
running out on him. So all the youngsters who heard him at that
St. James Catholic H. S. team banquet, must have experienced the
same dreadful sensation that belted me in the pit of the stomach when
Page 1 blared death oi Capt. Don Gentile, killed in a routine Jet flight.
This American boy, borh in Piqua, Ohio, of Italian immigrants,
was a World War n standout. In savage aerial dogfights, he knocked
so many Nazi warplanes out of the sky and destroyed so many on the
grouad that Gen. Elsenhower called him our “One Man Air Force.”
“Don’t ever get panicky,” he urged the St. James youngsters on
that remembered April nigbt. "My mother always impressed that 4n
me, and it saved my life one day over Compeigne. In a dogfight, my
wlngman left my tail, to protect me from two Nazi attackers, Just as
I started down after three Focke-Wulf 190 s. Up high, my. Thunder
bolt outmatched them, but down low, what we call ‘down on the deck,’
their planes could outmaneuver me.”
The youngsters in the audience were leaning forward, tensely.
“I got two of them but the third settled on my tail and started
pouring it on, Just as my ammunition was exhausted. The next ten
minutes were an aerial lifetime, but I didn’t get panicky, and finally
his ammunition ran out. That was the closest I ever came to death.”
So close that Lt. Jack Raphael commemorated it with a rhyme that
Gentile’s high-scoring squadron used to sing, to the tune of “Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching.”
Gentile (pronounced Gen-tilly), recited it that night at Chester,
first asking the pardon of the padres and the youngsters for the one
curse word In it:
“Help, help, help! I’m being clobbered,
“Down here near the railroad tracks, .1 ,
’ “Those Nazis chase sue 'round,
“And we’re sqkdaran near the ground,
“Chalk up two if I don’t get back.”
When a Don Gentile is killed, the country loses a giant, far and
above the common mold of clay. To illustrate, Air Force records
reveal that the World War II ace had 20-10 vision, twice as good as
normal eyesight. That means me could distinguish at 20 feet what
normal eyes could see at 10 feet.
On my desk in his thin book, penned by Ira Wolfert, and on the
fy-leaf is this scrawled dedication: “To Ed, with great appreciation—
Don Gentile, 26 June ,’50.”
I’m going to ask the padres of St. James C. H. S. if they’d ike this
prized book for school library at Chester, Pa., as a record of Don’s visit.
At Eden Rock, just outside of Cannes, last Summer, while we were
sitting on the lower edge of rocks, I said to Liz Taylor; “In the
absence of your parents, Liz, if you need some parental advise, the
Sullivans are available.”
“Thank you very much,” she said, “but I’ll make a go of lt. Nick
has some Irish blood in him and so have I, so naturally we have flare
ups; but they’re no worse than any other young married couple.”
That was the only reference ever made by us to the obvious strain
under which the marriage of- these two youngsters was continuing. The
tension was completely unexplainable, becau. ; both wjsre nice kids an- 1
both attractive. Neither was a flirt and if he flirted with roulette an
chemin de fer, I think it was a desperate preoccupation.
. Nick Hilton, honeymooning with one of the most gorgeous girls in
the world, acted as if he had been sentenced tp a prison term and as
though she were the warden.
Older people, • observing this curious and unexplainable behavior
simply couldn’t figure it out. Through it all Liz Taylor acted every
inch a throughbread, carried herself like a real little champion.
This is the first time I’ve ever written about it, always, hoping that
the song would be resumed. Julyens from her strained, taut face In
the Los Angeles courtroom, that hope can be filed away.
was the military advisers in .this
country who pressed Roosevelt to
do almost anything to get RUssia
into that war. They thought it nec
essary. We now know it wasn't”” ts
insufficient How many lives have
been lost because these general*
did not know the facts of life. To
say, as this editor does: “. . . Rub
all this is hindsight,” is begging
the question.
1 Actually, Important persons gnd
unimportant ones, Uke myself, did
call attention to the errors ffikt
were being made. Herbert Hooter,
Hugh Gibson, William O. Bullitt,
Joseph E. Kennedy, Charles Lind
bergh and a host of „
statement that Roosevelt acted as
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h* did at Yalta because of his mili
tary advisers is true. I think that
he acted as he did because he
wanted to act that way and that
political generals fell in with his
views.
Present at Yalta, as military ad
visors to President Roosevelt, were:
Admiral William D. Leahy, Gen
eral George C. Marshall, Admiral
Ernest J. King. lieutenant General
Brehon B. Somervell, Rear Admiral
Emory 8. Laqd, Vice Admiral
Charles M. Cooke, Jr., Major Gen
eral John R. Deane, Major General
John 8. Huh. Major General
Laurence 8. Kuter.
Are they responsible?
Also present were Harry Hopkins
asa Alger Hiss. Were they as .re
sponsible as the generals and ad
umbrate? It would be interesting to
know the whole truth
(Copyright, 1851, King .Feature.
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WASHINGTON.—With plenty of
sugar and cream, Pastum Isn't bad.
Not bad at 4U, though I am no
addict to It. I am a coffee man,
myself, and hence 1 think I am a
fair arbiter in the current dispute
between the General Foods Carp,
and the Federal Trade commis
sion.
A good deal fairer, come to think
of it, than th» commission, as l
hope to prove in a minute.
This Postum is made of toasted
wheat and allied grains. Then it’s
ground until it looks like coffee,
and boiled like coffee for the bene
fit of those who insist that the
genuine article keeps ’em awake
nights. Fair enough, because a lot
of people feel that way.
So the peddlers of Postum Issued
a series of advertisement saying
Postum was one drink that caused
no divorces, business failures, fac
tory accidents, juvenile delinquency,
traffic accidents, fires,, or home
foreclosures. What other drink,
except maybe water without ice,
can claim this? Even milk causes
accidents, on account of the way
those cows kick When you try to
milk them on the wrong side.
These Postum ads weren’t de
nouncing milk, or*even tea. Just
some vague and dangerous drink
ihdy didn’t mention. The trade
commissioners, who are smart fel
lows and not easily taken in, pon
dered those displays and wondered
what drink the Postum makers
meant? Whisky? Couldn’t be that
because the tortured people in the
ads were drinking some steaming
black stuff. Hot buttered rum?
Nope, the people were taking the
fluid from a cup.
The commission concluded that
the Postum proprietors were sneer
ing at coffee. 80 they got, the law
yers to draw up formal stipulations
which they made the Genera!
Foods Corp. sign.
Forevermore, swore this mighty
corporation, it will refrain from 1
saying or even hinting in its ad- 1
vertisements that drinking coffee
causes wives to hit their husbands
sleepy carpenters to hang their
thumbs with hammers, nervous
motorists to wrap their machine
around telephone posts, or harried
householders to lose their homes to
non-coffee drinking loan sharks. I
The commission went too far.
Coffee is the cause of a great deai
of household discord. The trouble
Is that the female sex brews it too
weak. This causes husbands to be
come belligerent and that, as the
Postum people used to claim until
stopped by their Uncle Samuel
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made it necessary fpr the Telephone Company to verify all Erwin I
applications for teldphone service now on hand. The Company
also wishes to receive applications from those people hi Erwin P
and along Dunn-Erwin Highway who desire service but have
hot ploced their - , ■
To help 1 in this work the Telephone Company will open a
temporary office in Erwin on February 5, 1951, at 1:00 p m.
This office will be open Monday through Friday between the ■
hours of 1:00 p. m. and 6:00 p. m. unfit further notice. The
office wilT be locafld in the Eryin Furniture Company building ■
and Mr. T. P. WilHbmson ,w.#i fee in charge. Ms. WWtemson Is
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does the dlvoroe rate no good.
The commissioners should be In
terested to know that my own
bride, wfc» wmm lit all Other
way*, makes coffee that look* like
strong tea and testes like rusty
water Tor my steam radiator. I
have threatened to beat her and
also to consult a divorce lawyer.
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(She looks me in the eye and laughs.
I What Mr Commissioners.
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urea, as cnargea oy postum, x
wouldn’t doubt it. I long have been
a user of concentrated coffee pow
der which cost a year ago 89 cents,
per large Jar. The same jar today,
and not full all the way. to the
top, either, cost $1.56.. That’s the
kind of feint that leads to delta.
My only ognclußton is that the
Federal Trade Commission wag
nervous, irritable, and suffering
this order. Been drinking too much
: coffee, probably.
(Copyright, 1951, by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)