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H )93j$8 jmreg sswg n 8 IV f i Application for entry as second class matter is pending. w Every afternoon, Monday through "Friday * STOP THE GRAVY TRAIN Drew Pearson, a journalist and columnist long noted “ fon-hBS ability to light fires under self-indulgent politicos, £ has opened up another situation which sends an awful | v stink to the heavens. £e .. v - Pearson, now junketing through Europe and the 2 Near East, has brought forth the not-too-startling fact 5* that the governments of Italy and France are free-load- Sing on Marshall Plan funds while refusing to levy in come" taxes on their rich folks. Jg Sftie revelation that the governments of those two •jj countries are ladling into Marshall Plan gravy to finance IS themselves doesn’t nurt too much. After supporting the 2 rest, pf the world, off and on, for a quarter of a century, become used to doling out millions to every suave alms-seeker who extends his silken palms. ZT ~ -But what galls us—especially the day before sixty million American tax-payers cougn up for Uncle Sam —is 2 that 4he little man in Europe and the United States is beJJS& milked while the slothful Continental nobility 2 tiftffrib their hoses at the tarrif-collectors. 2 This is an abominable situation. Marshall Plan «•» money, says Pearson, has been used to finance plush 2 bathrooms and exclusive night clubs in Italy. Yet the *■* Italian nobility donate exactly nothing in taxes to the 2 support of their government. Interfering with anothef country’s government, es 2. pecigjly where tax matters are concerned, is at best a 2 risky-undertaking. Yet it is apparent that America can — n?fc Support the whole of the free world indefinitely. And , 2 tha* is especially true If the government involved -makes no effort to levy the costs of maintenance on those cit : izens who can best afford it. We’ve exported grain, tanks, cracking plants, pins, tractors, diapers and about every other item imaginable— including, of course, cold cash —to both Italy and France. Now its time we exported our income tax system to those countries. If the free world is to survive, it will have to have •j* money on which to operate. It can’t all come from the Zm dwindling coffers of the United States. Let the free-load r* ing governments back away from the gravy trough long » enough to tap their own resoutce?. It’s time they were *T looking out for themselves, net-looking around for another handout. i* -*ur» y# T » < <■ ■- . | Truman (Continned From Page One) -T lishment of an all-powerful UN 2 P»ll» force. jThe President's answer came as jTL bt prepared to bold his first news 5 conference (330 P. M. EST) since *■» March 1, the day before he start ed a three-week vacation here. t *£? In Ms letter, the president blam mm ed Russia for forcing the free - wirld 'to rearm. And he gave the lie to charges by Soviet Premier Jo- M set Stalin and other Kremlin spokes — men that the West is bent on aggres si<)n apd has a greater armed force, 2 At* the moment, than the Soviet bloc. 2 ‘‘The free world,” Truman said, 11 Funeral Directory 1. FLOWERS HAVE [""always been a *l&s!= 11 HATCHER & SKINNER • Ist i i 2 1 W rBRj&AD ST- ; - DUNN, N. C. *7f-T ti ‘has joined in a defensive alliance and is rearming because Russia has failed to cooperate in any gen uine plan for international dis- : armament and because we do not know what further aggressive plans may be in the making by the ad versaries of the free world.” Without any attempt to appease, he made it plain that the United States still stands ready to work out an affective disarmament plan and to establish a just and lasting peace in the world. He said this government stands on the offer he made in a speech before the UN General Assembly last Oct. 24. And the terms of disarmament are the same. \ QUINN'S FUNERAL HOME 24-HOUR SERVICE PHONE 3306 211 W. HARNETT ST. DUNN, N. C. These Days I WM A LICENSE TO SMEAR I have recently listened to some unbelievably foul radio programs, in which the most outrageous lies have been told about fine Ameri cans. In speaking of this to oth ers, I learned that I had heard nothing, as the expression goes. I was told that much is spoken on the radio by so-called disc joc keys after midnight, which a mounts to a holiday for liars and smearers. Whether it is really so or not, I do not know as I have not listened. The subject interested me and I began making inquiries. One of the first questions that arose in my mind is, what are the qualifica tions of these so-called commen tators What is their background? Where have they studied? What has been their experience? Have they traveled widely and noted the traditions of varieties of peoples? I took a sample of names and checked in such, standard works as ‘Who’s Who in America” and similar biographical indices. It came to me as a shock that the radio permits men to give the ap pearance of profound and detail ed knowledge of many subjects who cannot be qualified to dis cuss them. They may have excel lent voices; they may enunciate clearly; they may even have a gift for dramatic expression. But they lack, many of them, the experience, the knowledge, the opportunity for observation, the persoqpl contacts with events, to do the work which they pretend to do. Listeners would do we]L to check on such matters' The listeners have the right to know wfio it is who speakes to them with such an ap pearance of knowledge, just as they have a right to ask newspap ers for biographies of their fea tured writers. In some instances, when the smear was used and when the speaker seemed to be a specialist at lies, I asked for copies of" thfe statements," for transcripts re cordings: I was surprised Jb dis cover that this is not alwajrc avail able. In fact, In many instances,' no record is kept of what is said. This is particularly true of the post midnight "comments, the illusion being that stations need keep so record after midnight. Ai a matter of fact, no station need ever make a record of any program which it broadcasts. I can find no FCC rule which requires that such a record be made. A station can perpetrate any out rage against a person and unless he or some friend catches the statements or has them recorded, he may never be able to prove that he had been slandered, maligned or abused. He may be the of the most outrageous untruths, but he may be unable to establish that the indecency was perpe trated, except by the difficult and costly process of finding witnesses who heard what was said and (re tained the specific language. Os course, it is different with newspapers, which are a perma nent printed record where the facts stand as they were published.. It is impossible to deny the existence o t the printed word once it is ut tered. There it is, for better or for worse. We, who live by writing, unfortunately cannot say that it was a slip of the tongue; the error stands out like a horrible gargoyle and one can simply wait for the torrent of letters to come down qn his head. It would seem to me that a per manent record should be kept of every comment made on the pir and such a record should, by law, be available to any person con cerning whom any comment has been made. In fact, it should be made illegal to jvithhold the rec ord of remarks from a person who regards himself as aggrieved, Just as a newspaper must make its files available under similar circum stances. Radio is not. and cannot be, a licensed instrument of defamation. It must be responsible for its con duct and any station or sponsor or commentator who ducks respon sibility should be suspect among listeners. I have never listened to one of those post-midnight efforts, al ways promising myself to take a few nights off for that purpose, but never getting around to It. I am told that in many parts, of th* country this device is employed toy saloons and restaurants to attract business. I presume that the bar •eoder Is the managing editor cu the- copy and the piano-player it I the authority on world affairs. imp® w® 1 try i., A * ip * .5 * THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN. N. C. I “oh, as long as you’re’ soaking wet ALREADY^Dave, 1 MY SECRETARY, AFRICA, SPEAKS * : Dear Boss—A friend of? mine just paid ticket specs $l2O for four I seats to a Broadway musiqfcA in case you’re naive enough to believe ; conditions have changed .77 You wonder how President Truman can i tolerate small-time crooks Who sold out for such petty larceny stuff as deep freezes, a mink coaL Florida hotel room and board, a job for son . . . Ezzard Charles gldJmg weakness is lack of a great left hand i (Dempsey, Tunney and Jo# Louis all had murderously effective left hands) . . . Radio, abused, heretofore, for building up a bad fight, this time took the othef tack and played down a real good fight. In ! the TV areas, the radio account sounded pretty silly ... TV comes ; out of Detroit via a micro-wave to Toledo, where It goes on cable. Pic tures are fine, but audio Is thin. Cornell U paper phoned. Wanted to know if J. G„ in the column, ; were the Initials of a Syracuse player. Told ’em no, that J. G. will be revealed as another New York college thief . . . Cornell believes DA Frank Hogan will involve ah upstate school, too, before the indictments end .". . Read the nice letter from Ohio State’s Diraector of Athletics Richard C.*Larkins, on your basketball scandal piece . . . Readers, however, gripe that you misquoted Scripture, which reads; “For the love of money is the root of all evil.” ... In other words, it’s not the i money but the cupidity . . .son the' Ed Wynn show, Fred Allen cracked ’’l want to get one laugh oa TV before I die.’’ Wanna bet? Chinese laundries encßhqg notes in laundry telling customers they're against Commies . buzz is that Myrna Loy and her financee, Howard Sargßt, have booked passage to Hawaii for a Junt wedding ... John PMtoe dating Rhonda Fleming . . . The Lyle i tE&lbots expect Sir Stork j Chandler Cowles and Lenore Loncrgap Kajining to elope ... Ann® Laurie Williams, literary agent ,whp ’sold -Mne With the Wind” a Forever Amber,” in Beth Israel Hospital, y i. V Signs Hasso and an item . . . Ritz Brothers fallow , panny Thomas at Copa Citjs .„ , Carl Schreuer, Barbara .Bell Geddes’ -estranSed-Ausband, off to thl Virgin Islands to get the divorce degree and pave the way lor her ndi|p:iage to director Windsor Lewis. Listen, Kids: Take a lo£#at the faces of those two fathers, leaving Sing Sing, a few hours befeyto their 22-year-old sons were to die in the electric chair, and you’ll never* carry a gun or use one. Boys’ clubs all over the country should post The News’ photo by Meurer on bulletin boards . . . Publicist Arthur Flynn sent Jim Dawson a TV set for the Cerebral Palsy Recreation Center, on West 68th, and the kids love it. . . a Byron Nelson’s sister, Eljen, is one of the better hill-billy lyricists down Texas'way. . . Gen. W)ld Bill Donovan’s QSS gang getting back to action, fiqtest is Vincent Rao, who resumes as a lieutenant in I Counter-Intelligence (his Urwle Paul is the Federal Customs judge). ... Harlem singing “Sugar Ray,” a BMI time’ by Dixon and Dasher. ' They sound lfke Santa Claurf reindeer. One of your pals brags & he’s played 16 benefits since January. I Better late than never, of cpurse but he should have started the cir ’ Cult with you 19 years ago . . . Incidentally, bet the boys It was Hey wood Broun who started the Stork Club to fame ... It might be remembered, too, that 21, piost fabulous mint, clicked despite the ! enmity of three columnists who were barred . . . Your column on deep seated resentment of non-commissioned Navy reservists has blown up a- storm in Washington . .5. Wonder what quadruple amputee Pfc. Robert L. Smith, at Walter Reade, a stone’s throw from RFC. thinks of “patriots.” . . . Josephine Baker, hottest thing to hit U. S ! showbusiness, will make iier TV debut on “Toast.” : ~ ' „- , 1 ' " , The Gene Cavallero. the Cofcny clan expect Sir Stork (she’s State Senator Mahoney’s dadfchter, Pat) . . . Tommy Dorsey's ex, Pat . Dane, recuperating from major operation . . . Richard Bauchard to Landon for the opening of “Hiss Me, Kate,” starring his heart, Patricia Morlson . . . The Lief Eriksons expect a little movie star this Summer. [ . I . Rudolph Bing trying to fcet Joe Mankiewicz to direct his December production of “Cost Fan Tutti" at the Met ... The Harry Gordons I left a girt by Sir Stork (sh#s Jackie Heller’s sister, Shirley) Add | Clicks: Sarah Vaughan at Martinique, Nellie Lutcher at Paramount . . . Joan McCracken and Herbert Evers a twosome at Luma Fong’s . . . Peggy Lee follows Billy Eckstine into tiie Copa. - (AMELIA) Erwin Soldier 1 ! (Continued From Page Ofte) were the only ones who did not ' get hurt in the truck.” He concluded; “That makp two 1 times .that we have been trapped. I guess I was lucky both tinfta. Then the plucky corporal idded, 1 "But don't worry about me I • knoe\how to fight." ? . The letter was dated Feb. 18, at * ’ ■— j r- •■■So— -n ■' ~ , 9 . ,T— --t The bowery goes high hat The 1861 bowery social register huts just come out and is packed a with interesting news about prominent hoboes. s New York’S fundus bowery to the hoboes’ Broadway. It’s the street . SW. we c»n. bRo look forward to a gossip column about hoboes and it will probably feature items like these) i - ■ . Sioux City Slim and Boxcar Bessie are blazing. They’ve been seen l. elegant A1 really travels in style. He rides only* under the Super-Chief.” e Os course, in Its own way, the bowery social register to just as ■lsag* - *•»». **. «* •««■“*“ «.•»<*»•«> “| I whitn tahe United Nations forces | were suffering in the Ko rean fighting. Norris observed that “things do not look so good over here.” ' Norris attended .school in Erwin before joining the Army at the age of 17. He trained at Fort Jackson, S.C. for eight weeks, got a week end pass, then was shipped to Jap an. * He stayed in Japan until the outbreak of the Korean War, when he was shlped to the battlefield with the Seventh Division. Emm JB EN ROUTE TO MONTEVIDEO— This afternoon, casual-like, I cros sed the Andes, mightiest mountain range in the world, and I still am pinching myself. I don’t believe it. These mountains make the Rock ies look like potato hills and the Alps like pimples. They are sul len chunks of rock in sullen col ors of purple and black and gray with even in this South Amer ican midsQnuner, dusting their doz ens of'•20,000 foot peaks. They are dotted with lakes of deepest green that/ man never has seen, except from above. And there I was in a soft chair of coral-colored leather in ‘the lounge of a Panagra DC-6, sipping orange juice while the wildest country left on the globe slid be low at 300 miles per hour. I was goggle eyed. What gave me the biggest Jolt was the sophisticated lady on my left. She ignored the most specta cular landscape on earth in favor of a picture magazine from the U. S. A. I glanced over her shoul der and, so help me, she was study ing a layout of Paris hats. As soon as we left Santiago, Chile, we began to climb steep.y; while most of the other passengers un sheathed their cameras for photos of jagged peaks that looked in the super-clear air as if you could touch ’em. They'd hardly snapped their first pictures when the ship at 21,000 feet crossed the Argentine line. That stopped the art work. The beautous blonde stewardess, a Miss Wood* from Paraguay, pick ed up all the cameras and put them in bond. Seems that Dictator Juan Peron doesn’t want tourists making photos of his mountains. It may be that he considers them a war se cret; Miss Wood did not know. After about 30 minutes the coun try began to flatten out in the pampas of the Argentine cow coun try and Capt. Frank Havelick, Fan agra’s chief pilot, strolled back for a bite and a chat about the loftiest aerial operation on earth. He had a chicken sandwich, ice cream, peaches, and cookies while he talked over the problems of navigation that is dang-near celes tial. In the old days, and not many years ago at that, his men flew little two-engine 'Jobs across the hump. They’d fly through the pass, which looks a little ling Grand Canyon, with granite towering far above their wing tips.. Sometimes, he said, the winds blew so hard that the planes stood still under full power and he sat there and ■ ~ 7 / • ••I-7 I ' ' ~ 7 ' Jf e ITS T lv * . U j—? tr *psssz£& • UH BM •***££ -* ***rj£i I tAeft**^ y ift IH il » II lili jmfj ill Ibll{B (tal LC« p kto** Hfl I !»*****'•*' . lAW) « Service wondered If he’d ever get *here he was supposed to go. Came the big four-motored ships with their piwurized cabins and his worries disappeared. They still fly via the pass, but so high that the winds don’t matter, or the peaks, either. The pilots even so never take their afternoon Ice cream un til the high stuff is behind. And when they see a lady devoting all her attention to Parisian chapeaux instead of mountain tops they can’t help feeling a little proud. So we slid at dusk into Dictator Peron’s airport de luxe on the At lantic to be met with efficiency, South American style. His customs NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HARNETT COUNTY The Harnett County Board of Commissioners will sit as a board of equalization and review for the > purpose of hearing all tax complaints on Tuesday, March 27, in the county courthouse. Citizens of Averasboro, Duke, Grove, Buckhorn, Hector’s Creek and Neill’s Creek will be heard at this meeting. Citizens of other townships will be given an op- | portunity to be heard at later sittings, the date to be announced later. - . .. i .--V - All citizens who desire to be heard concerning valuations or other tax matters are invited to be present, BERLES C. JOHNSON 1 Tax Supervisor COUNTY OF HARNETT THITRSD Y MARCH IS I®Sl' a fever.doThusiSSfhim but thereat of tu to daysTfor***, beefsteak situation—l understood toe best sirloin to eight cento per pound tout now I>e got a date with the Hollywood' lovelies at toe Inter national Film Festival in Monte video. Tide to an hour and a half away and 1 can hardly wait. £ LAND OF TOMORROW MILWAUKEE —<W—Dr. B. L. Corbett, Milwaukee, tells of a sign hanging over a traffic light in Mexico. It skis, “Don’t be im patient. This stop light has been waiting fpr you all day.”
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