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PAGE FOUR } miiti Jtittin* j 7 DUNN, N C. bv RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY ' At 311 East Canary Street kNAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE raOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. . 2*5-217 fc. 43nd BL. New York 17, N. Y. Bnnk Offices In Every Major City. H 7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES BE: N cents per week; SS.S9 per year In advanee; IS far six months, 13 for three months. NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: SAM pw year; tut for six months; 33 for three nwntln IT ATE: SBM per year in advance; $5 for six months. S 3 for three months. second class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, r the lews nf Congress, Act of March 3. 1F79. (»s er/ery afternoon. Monday through Friday It New Agricultural Industry Back is 1945, The Chicken-of-Tomorrow program was feiauguratefl. It was sponsored 'oy the Atlantic & Pacific food in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture It’s purpose was both simple and important— to produce jbetter chickens on less feed, and thus improve the quality! while lowering the cost to the consumer. A & P financed a system of awards to outstanding pro ducers of £he chickens, and also paid the administrative costs. Faria organizations joined the program eagerly. And the riult, according to H. H. Alp, director of the gjAimerfcan Farm Bureau Federation’s commodity depart ments, is that the program has created a whole new | agricultural industry. It is estimated that 800,000,000 meat-type chickens gfte, * will be marketed this year, as compared with 616,000,000 in 1950, &4d that 75 per cent of them will be descend ants of Chjcken-of-Tomorrow flocks. The annual contests have proves that chickens can now be grown in 10 weeks that are lajrger and have more meat than were formerly produced at from 14 to 16 weeks, Only a.few years ago, uut farmers poultry income was derived 80 per cent from market eg|s and 20 per cent from meat. Last year, eggs accounted far 56.5 per cent, turkeys 8.5 per cent and chick en meat 35 per cent. Here is an endeavor which has worked out to the ad vantage o£ both producer and consumer. Mr. Alp said, “Producers* throughout the country can afford to, be ever lastingly thankful for the creation of the Chicken-of- Tomorrovrprogram and to the leaders, the sponsors, who have worked so hard to make it a success.” It is not un usual program should have been sponosored by a big food wham. Leading food chains all over the country have freqflfently cooperated with farnwpp other pro dicers in ||unpaigns to move or improve" crdpß. Retailing, alter all, ie> the link between prbducer and consumer, and ftFhas a cgjrect stake in the welfare of both. t&T' —: ** ROSEBURG, ORE., NEWS-REVIEW: “The control propaganda, spread over a long period of years, has weak ened faitCin free enterprise and free competition. Con fidence hVJmr American system of economy has been sap ped by continued boring from within by propagandists. Which is flatter, to have the price of beefsteak advance 10 cents, or tjgrhave the ceiling controlled at 8 cents, and then Jpy 25 cents in taxes to regulate the price, pay subsidies W grain jsd livestock growers?” MW ■ Igk Urn. SYCAJIORE, OHIO, LEADER: “Representative John ItuUips, of California, brings the discussion into every home in we land, in terms of life insurance. ‘lt was a struggle tcrpay for those first insurance policies. Today the 310,000 oMnsurance paid for in 1913 would buy only $3,800 worth of fl&nsumers’ goods. It would have needed $26,000 insuragce then to have SIO,OOO in purchasing power fH&ty.’ That’s inflation. Is it not time to think about de bating thCinflaters in public office?” —E£ g jrin -rt Kr I FLOWERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A Kdeepest affection liEE'S FLORIST Rd. Dunn gwiiiwpwwi in linin'iii«i>«wiiHi jiiirwurni r ||/i'l CHcK AND SKINNER 1 m Ml if ■' I j QUINN'S FUNERAL HOME 24-HOUR SERVICE PHONE 3306 i | nfe t <r "211 W. HARNETT ST. DUNN, N. C. ' ■ These Days £tkcbkif Senator Fulbrigjit’s proposal, which amounts to shifting the West Point scandal to an investi gation of intercollegiate football, is not sound. The problem is not football; it is the morals of a nation. It is not whether subsidiz ed. paid athletics in Uie colleges is to be forgiven; it is rather that something has gone out of this nation when cheating is taken as lightly as fixing, which used to be called graft. It is easy for those who think only in the terms* of immediate party politics or, even worse, of their personal friendships to shunt off everything that happens into the category of the usual. But those who insist upon a moral criterion cannot help asking “why is it usual? Why has it become usual?” • It is possible to say that the' Twentieth Century is not the nineteenth Century, but that does not mean that the Twentieth Century is an improvement on the Nineteenth or even on the Twelfth Century. What is called modern does not necessarily mean better as anyone who listens to Bach and Shostakovitch on the same program knows. If by improvement we mean that an automobile is a superior means of locomotion to a horse and buggy, or that an electrical re frigerator is superior to a bow and arrow, then we have made very great progress. . But when the morals or man are considered, we are halted by the astonishing retreat of the Twen tieth Century with its excess- of divorces, its broken homes, its emphasis on homosexuality, its ac ceptance of materialistic Marxism in wide areas that were so re cently Christian, its avoidance of such concepts as faith, honor, dig nity, sacrifice. If we assume that God is old-fashioned and that to. natural law is iSi we must not be shocked by what! happened at West Point. These 90 men accused of cheat ing contend that they are not the only ones and that it has been going on for some time. Does that make it right? Is that an excuse for conduct? Because some men are dope peddlers, Is dope peddling , justified? The position is so ill- 1 ogical that the men who use it i as an excuse display their un worthiness. This is a question that Amerl- i cans have to answer if they wish to preserve our nation anil our civilization. It is impossible to say that “deep freezers,” “mink coats.” fixers close to the White House and incident after incident of loose morals in high places are usual in all governments. In our Jong history, such incidents have been unusual. These are the clin ical evidences of a decaying civil ization. Just as wholesale and pro longed cribbing at West Point is a symptom of degeneracy among our armed forces. For these young men, under the circumstances of West Point education, could not have engaged in this practice without officer connivance. This undoubt edly Is their real defense. These symptoms need to be studied back to their causes. When there Is such widespread degrad ation ampng the people, it means clearly two things: 1. The moral leadership of the nation is Inadequate for influ encing oncomidg generations in decent, dignified leadership and living; « # 2. The religious training of youth Is inadequate to sustain them through the trails of life by pre cept, Inspiration, example and bv supplying the automatic restraints of moral conduct. wS* £!? lv . lduaI * lnvolved In the west Point scandal will suffer personal indignity and a loss of great opportunity, but there is much «« to this. This nation is now challenged by an incident which a 1 OU T chUdren What v doneln our schools to *£ d The Public school «»al was designed not only to teach reading and writing, but to nappens to our children in the ycara °- f t fe ir Um? This we 'Stop our der * t t WI “"*•***» msnsnvmccmKmmts.o 1 “1 TOLD you not to ask a Boy Scout for a light!” ■I- - . _ % ■» MJLUTA* BEHIND THE SCENES Uproar at West Point is being accepted as a sign of decadence of American youth, which is complete rot. Reminds you of the time just before World War n when psychologists, horrified at Princeton under grads who swallowed live goldfish, composed weighty treatises on the decline and fall of American kids. Others backed up this heavens-to- Betsey pessimism by dissecting behavior pattern of kids who went to hear Benny Goodman and'other bands at the Paramount Theatre, and danced up and down the aisles. Not long after these exhibitions, these same kids went to war and won Medals of Honor in the matted ravines of Guadalcanal, In the skies aver the Pacific, on the sloifts of Casaion and at Remagen. The viewers-with-alarm were wrong then, and they’re wrong again. How far hypocrisy goes back in sports is difficult to fathom. But certain it is that in this country, the top athlete always has been accorded special privileges. If he could win, he was a person set apart Back around 1920, this reporter Was penning sports on the New York Evening MaU, which had signed Vincent Richards for by-line articles. I wrote them. The Seabright, N. J., tennis tournament, in those days, determined the composition of the U. S. Davis Cup team. So while Richards played hte matches on the center court, T sat up in the press coop, on the club in « of the match, signed by^hjau . Particular afternoon, Richard was playing Howard, Kinsey °L Ct^ “f. d 1 Was dfctating ** play-by-play to Western Untai operator Visconti. Suddenly, Richards called for a recess In the match and dashed off the courts. A minute later, we heard flying feet pounding up the stair way to the -press balcony. Richards burst in: “Move out, quick, Ed ” he ordered. “The cup committee wants to see if I write my own stuff ” So I moved out and hastily he moved in next to the W. U. operator and up the staircase came the U. 8. Lawn Tennis Association big-shots They surveyed the scene virtuously. "You see” said one of them, with complete hypocrisy, “he writes his own material.” r*t„^ n f th ?v. Stair \ they A "touts later Richards descended, returned to the center court, resumed bis match and I resumed the stroke-by-stroke analysis. ..In the Closing montns of World War n, one Senator arranged for ?h St sL player to be rushed beck to a southern campus so that the Senators alma mater could sew up the title in that area It would wLIbKXn" *5 mmb * * CongreT West Point footballers, human nature being what it is Pop Warner, hailed as one of the all-time greats of football coach- SU *“ aws wtoSa s»?fEmss*? decwieace 01 American y°uth “We let the outfield grass grew pretty high " the then Rmnir rsk's*: - ~ as x Orio'£T enS ' t ?' Betl,y ” 1 screamed. “Don’t disillusion me about the “Stop clowning,” said Uncle Rotafay. re P orter do< * not advocate any of this type of lar-i S P? taUn « out «» the 1961 viewers with-aSrm that ‘as.** **».■*■ »» structure of American youthhas th ? 1 en , Ur * footballer? &Ud BUUk. POin ‘. °°* ch Blalk^Lr^tt^Mto of cMk £fe c ££ SfSTto 0,6 H §am Mfj,t by Bob Mops i marry Elizabeth Taylor ” ' J »*» itu» Otner girl because he wants to’ Taylor ffiSt » ~ Frederick And in a peculiarly low-down and sneaky way. The Federal government during the last year slapped a tax of $1 a gallon on nearly a million gallons Os the purest top water coming in to the U. 8. A. .This water Just happened to be mixed with whisky, and while this may please the drys, the principle remains. John 8. Graham, the Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury, himself, said we were taxing this water. He said it wasn’t right and that he hoped Congress would pass a law. So there wqs the House Ways and Means Committee considering a scheme to simplify the weird conglomeration of rules that keeps our customs collectors wrapped In red tape. Under this bill the wa ter in the whisky would go un taxed. This would save drinkers of Scotch, for instance, the 30 cents tax (with profits added) on the water in each bottle. As Graham explained the situ ation, we tax 100-proof whisky on a proof-gallon basis. That's fair enough. But when a Scotchman waters down his whisky to 86 proof (as all of them do) his shipments consist of 14 per cent water. But the duty now is on a wine-gallon basis, which includes the water. Taxing water struck some of the Congressmen as a good idea, but I really believe they were spoofing. Mostly they agreed it was not fair. So I got to talking to Harry Lourie, the long-time representative here of the liquor importers. For 17 years, he said, he’d been trying to prove that #e really oughtn’t to tax water, no matter how It’s mix ed., Now he’s getting someplace, he hopes. He said that last year we taxed 560,000 gallons of water In the whis ky imported from Scotland. Add to that whisky from Canada and brandy from France, all with H2O added, and the taxable water per year runs close to a million galx! lons. I had an obvious idea. Why not import Scotch whisky at high proof,' pay the normal tax and add tax- j free water here? Lourie was aghast. He sald thoqe Scotchmen were es pecially prowl of their water; they f claimed it made better whisky than the tasteless, distilled stuff we u«e ! here. He said also that when they di luted their potent potables to 86 { proof, they'allowed the water and the whisky to marry (his word) in the barrel for a year or so be fore they shipped it. This added to the flavor, he said. It still seemed to me that ship ping hundreds of thousands of gal lones of water across the Atlantic' was wasteful, even if you forgot the tax. Maybe so, said Lourie, but only one importer today brings In I his Scotch at full proof In barrels, waters It here, and puts It In bot tles. This saves him a great deal of money, but his Scotch is not among . the top sellers. There must be a I reason, Lourie said. The way he' VUUING |L POWBR^#^ K With advertising! I .. for only through advertising can you reach your potential I custorners. You have to inform before your cash Register can A bring you profits! ■ THE DAILY RECORD ■■"w* mm m mm mm a aiwvVHV 8 I m 1 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AtJGtJSf H, 1951 I LYNN NISBCT • M , . . ■y'i 3 -’V >' ■ | ' f jOtHinl Snuaho { • • / CONSTRUCTION - The Btate of North Carolina has put into con struction of roads, hospitals, school houses aqd other public buildings during the past two years something more than three hundred and fifty million dollars. In many of these ! projects federal aid and local ! money has matched or exceeded state funds, and there have been | numerous instances of public build -1 ings and streets financed entirely out of local resources. It would I not be a bad guess to fix total ex penditures to rconstruction out of taxpayers money federal, State and local —at more than a billion i dollars. This stupendous sum does . not Include many millions more 1 spent entirely by the federal gov ernment at military Installations within the State. ROADS ißggest single object . of State spending is the public road system. State funds spent on roads 1 amounted to *271,000,000 for all > purposes. This included 1131,000,000 I of the secondary road bond Issue of two hundred millions, practical ly all of which was for construe ' tion. Highway accountants said they could give exact figures on use of the other *l4O million, but it would take some time to work them out. Intelligent estimates are that something like half the amount went for construction or roads and bridges, the other for maintenance and minor Improvements. That adds up to approximately two hun dred millions of State money spent for road conztriiltlCn. in addition to federal and municipal funds. BUILDINGS Next biggest item comes under the head of govern- : ment improvements, meaning chief ly buildings at State Institutions i and for departmental agencies. The ] legislatures of 1947, 1949 and 1951 i appreciated about *l3O millions for 1 Jhisisurpqsel .Very little was spent ] durflig the *1947-48 period, so that of i tlj| *lO6 millions committed up to i July 31 this year, a hundred mil- i lion was spent within the past two 1 years. Incidentally, twenty-five i million dollars worth of buildings i have been completed and are' In i use, while the others are In vary ing stages from planning to near completion. * j SCHOOL HOUSES The WiSf i general assembly provided fifty mil- I lion dollars for State aid In build- i . j figured it, the water tax amounts * to 20 cents per fifth bottle of 1 Scotch. But the wholesaler makes 1 a, profit on that; so does the re- 1 taller. Remove the tax on the wa- 1 ter and the price of imported whis- 1 ky would drop about 30 cents a | Jug. J So I guess those vaudevilUans • had better forget water. Maybe 1 they can think of jokes involving 1 taxes on air. I don’t believe that • is taxed yet, but, after today, I can’t * be sure. c (Copyright, 1651, by United Fea- « tore Syndicate, Inc.) 1 ing public school houses, twenty - five million by direct allocation from acrftmulatod surplus and a like amount through bonds voted by the people. Os this fifty mil lion school building fund, forty mil lion has been committed for ap proved projects—of which twenty five "million has actually been spent. Many of the buildings financed • from those allocations have been completed and are in use, many others will be ready for the school term this fall, some have not even been started although plans have been approved. HOSPITALS State aid In ft- - naridng general county and com munity hospitals begat. In 1947. Since that time stateycontributions ha 'e amounted to about three and a third millions a year, with fed eral local funds bringing the total spending to approximately ten mil lions annually. Keeping compari son within the past two years lt is safe to say the State has spent about six and a half million dol lars for general hospital construc tion. Counting federal and local funds the total amount for hospi tal construction and equipment will exceed twenty millions. % PORTS The 1949 assembly issued bonds in the amount of seven and a half million dollars* for de velopment of state ports. To date something like five millions o' that amount baa been commut' d for construction work at Wilnui.,um and Morehead City, large ijart of which is nearing completion LOCAL ln addition to local funds matching State and federal spending there has been a boom in contsruction of county and munici pal buildings, new streets, water and power plants, and other pure ly local projects financed out of public revenues. It is difficult to obtain intelligent estimate of the aggregate amount involved In these multiple projects. Local contribu tion to school houses alone, Includ ing State-matched and wholly in dependent jobs, is estimated at aruund seventy-five millions. SUMMARY The situation stacks up about like this: Within approximately the past two years the State of North Carolina has in vested a hundred -million dollars in public road construction, In ad dition to maintenance; ft has put one hundred and five millions in new buildings for colleges, mental and tubercular hospitals and de partments; it has invested forty millions in public school houses: six and a half mlllolns in local general hospitals and five milions in ports. That adds u pto three hundred and fifty-one millon dollars. ft represents the biggest building boom ih State history, and to con siderable extent wipes out the ac crued deficit In facilities occurring during the non-building war years from 1941 through 1946.
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