PAGE TWO 1 Wxs JJailij Jlmird t . DUNN, N. C. PuMisbe* by .. . RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY I jTT 2 • At sit East Canary Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS P CLARK CO., INC. I $66-817 E. 42nd Bt, New York 11, N. T. Bntcb Otttam In Every Major City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES t. A* CARRIER: 20 cents per week; HA per year hi ad ranee; tt I" 1 f«r six months, $3 lor three months. IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: RH pc' f year; HR for six months; its for three montK OUT -OR • STATE: (8.50 per year in advance; 55 for six men the. $1 for three months I Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, I N. C., under the lews of Congress, Act erf March 3. 1879. I Every afternoon, Monday through Friday I C. T. (Tim) Johnson The death of C. T. (Tim) Johnson, widely-known resi dent Benson, has removed one of the pioneer business rgpfi -eastern Carolina and one of the leaders in the de velopift&ifc of Benson and the Benson section. For more than 60 years, Tim Johnson was a business • leader in his town. He died at the age of 80, and it wasn’t untir iast July that he finally retired from business due to infirmities of old age. Mr. Johnson was born and reared on a Johnston Coun- MtjptfßLiu, -moved to Benson after he became of age and had presided there since. « He knew the ins and outs and the ups and downs of Ebusiness few others, just'as . knew the history of this Sfine section of the State. | Tim Johnson was always a busy man, always active. I fltotil-forced to bed, he remained active and even after ill iness-struck him down, he retained a keen mind and a keen f interest in affairs of his community, State and nation. 2 He came from an outstanding family. Like his other brothers who have made a success in the business world, t‘he proved that he had the stamina, the perseverance and s,’fibe' CfthYacter required to make a success. § And even though he was a busy man, he still found ?■ time to devote to hjs church, to civic projeets and to the fjOuiouß organizations and movements which he thought •were good for the community. | M&- was a man of great personality, who had a keen jgnsejaf humor and wit and a man who made friends with all wftcrcame in contact with him . | ] **' Among his accomplishments was the rearing of an I oy,tsta»ding family. Like him, his sons have found a promi nent place in the business world and are succeeding in their chosen fields of endeavor. ~ ’Ttfn Johnson has passed on, but he has left behind many monuments to the outstanding life he lived and i a sp£en3id family to cany on in the finest Johnson tradi- Benson won’t be the same without him, and this whole shares with Benson the great loss in his passing. Why So Little Talk Qi~ War In Europe g: y*- F. N. McLamb, prominent Dunn business man and Widely-known religious leader, returned from Europe this summer and reported that people there paid almost no at tentton at all to the Korean War. (That’s the war Ameri can boys are fighting almost single-handed.) McLamb pointed out that while American newspa . pers devote big headlines to the Korean battles, they are fpfmnSniy a paragraph or so in the London and Paris news ,-napep. Lyle C. Wilson, distinguished United Press- correspon ■ ? dent, reports in a dispatch from Paris that: “They’ve got peace over here. You hear less war talk 5 in Paris in a day than you might in two hours in the Na | tionftl‘Press Club far back home, or in the Senate, for that ; g matter.” I f - . WJiJtlhe difference? * S' ‘•Jjag’ Americg been excited into war panic and hysteria? H | It is odd that a nation (vhich fared so badly in the re- I cent wagjpays so little attention to talk of another war to : dgy. In fact, it is amazing when one considers the fact that 3 so ‘many "Frenchmen died and that the property of that | Ijßnatr&ation was devasted into shambles and rubbish. i *** " Ti«*se facts make us wonder just who it is promoting ' ‘ | 3 TMid-stirrjfig up all the war talk in this country. Is s.omebody doing it deliberately. If so, who? f. Os course, it may be that the Europeans know that ' •whenever war comes along that the good old U. S. A. will ' : treasury and kill off our manpower to fight it for 3B® authorities say that history repeats itself, ft: The point we’re making is this: If there is real danger ■"I of war, then the European countries ought to show a little ftL jnoro interest. ■r "TQready, taxes are high enough and manpower is '? I scapqp enough because of those wars which always occur in ft; | «ther countries. OFFICES LISTED IN Most western—Neah Bay. Wash. S-,,'# "IN SUPERLATIVES Most southern—Key West, Fla. Most centra!—Lebanon, Kans. ‘ --» BuSEON IB—Thm Dolan, a Bos- Most southeastern Tavernier, .top-ptet office official.. Has com- Fla J | at postal superlatives: Most northeastern—Keegan, Me. •' - Most northern post office fn U. ’Most southwestern—Arlight, Cal. FUNERAL HOME These Days SOME THOUGHTS ON TAXES Adam Smith, in discussing taxes on property, wrote: •'While property remains in the possession of the same person, whatever permanent taxes may have been imposed upon it, they have never been intended to dimin ish or take away any part of its capital value, but only some part of the revenue arising from it.” The original. ideg of the income tax was not to deprive citizens o i their savings nor to diminish their possessions but to raise revenue for the use of the government. The new taxes imposed by the inequitably taxed president are ac tually reducing the possibility of savings a .d therefore of coming into possession of property. The present taxes involve not only a redistribution of earned wealth but a confiscation of earnings. Kail Marx aimed to abolish love of country so that the world revo lution would co-r.e more quickly. Whereas in the United States the theory of -ife was that there would be a constant improvement, so that workers would own their own homes, but **’pi' own insurance policies, even go into business for themselves, Karl Marx really hoped for increased poverty so that the proletariat wou’d be more numer ous. In America the aim was to in crease the middle class; Marx sought to abolish the middle class. Harold Laski put these ideas in this language: ". . . If Communists are charged with seeking to abolish love of country, the ‘Manifesto’ answers that the workers can have no country until they are emancipated from bourgeois domination; with their acquisition of political power, the hostility between nations will disappear So. also, it will change traditions' ideas in religion and philosophy. Since it puts experi ence on a new basis, it will change the ideas which are their expres sion ” In a word. Communists seek, in every respect, to abolish our world as we hr.ve knewr. it for at least 5,000 years. * Among the mem res which Marx advocated for the accomplishment of the revolution were these (the numbers aie his: there were alto gether JO 1 : ”1 Abolition of property In land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. “2. A heavy progressive or grad uated income tax. “3 Abolition of all right of in heritance. “5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital i and an erclife've monopoly. ”6. Centralization of the means ■ of communication and transport in the hands of the state." (It will be noted that since 1848, : when tins list was published, many | so-called capital:.'* countries have i accepted Marx’s program.) The income tax is high on the list. The graduated income tax can reduce the individual to a con- j starkly lowering standard of liv ing It ran prevent savings by | leaving r.ithine ever after living expenses. The tax guarantee pov erty. When to the income tax is added a complex system of excises and hidden taxes it is possible for government to arrange for an economy which permits the ap pearance-. of high wages and evfen high prices while all the time the standard of life is being de preciated and the middle class is being squeezed out of existence. In this country, we are now ob serving precisely this proems, par ticularly as it affects the white collar and professional classes. For them, very little hope of self-im provement is left. Their doom is to find rated jobs in government, jobs which pay little, permit of no initiative, require featherbedding to survive and end in a low Italian! retirement pension. If that Is pie in the sky, it certainly is not of the American dream. If we complain that too many Americans are on the government payroll, we are is error. For « Ambulance Service Phone 2077 • CROMARTIE FUNERAL HOME MATCHER AND SKINNER I DIAL s-og 2447 Ho.lf&'xJ W. BOOAB Iff. g g] . THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. “How do I get to Cedar Avenue an’ Sixteenth Street?” * Dear Boss— Phil \Silvers gave the finest ooraedy performance I’ve ever seen on Broadway, on opening night of "Top Banana, a miralcel of timing, pace and all-around stag savvy. Whether or not his voice can sustain that beating, eight times a week, is open to question, because when he’s not on stage, there Is no show. The high comedy promise Silvers showed in the locker room scene of “High Button Shoes” has come to full flower in this one .... Cornell University’s 100-piece band can take a bow. Despite the Cornell-Princeton game sadness, the band stopped off at Madison, N. J., to play for the Bayley- Ellard H. S. night game. The little high school needly help badly as the team was heavily in debt. Jesse Wool worth Donahue aHing Beverly Baker, tennis eyeful, honeymooning with John Fleitz Montgomery Clift and Ue Taylor romancing at Ruban Bleu .... Eddie Foy Jr. rallied after blood trans fusions .... A daughter for French playwright Marcel Pagnol Bob Joseph, producer son of City Controller Lazarus Joseph, * and Gloria Strooch serious Plans rejected to tear down Roseland Bldg, for a new office bldg .... Book of the Month’s December selection, “Closing the Ring” by Winston Churchill Mrs. Robert Cummings coast bound Ronald Howard, here for "To Dorothy, a Son,” a dead ringer for his late dad, Leslie ..:. Bert Lytell lining up "Lights On” show at Carnegie Hall Nov. 18, for the National Council to Combat Blirxlness. Resignation of Robert, Moap, exec sec’y of the Eastern Paralyzed' Veterans Association, effective Nov. 30. rfif l&B’TieM the poslUdrr since early 1947, when the Eastern PVA was first organized, has done a mag nificent job Henry Lustig in Arizona, ailing Macoco’s r »tt’y. Milton Oolden, and Charlien O’Donnell honeymooning on the Liberte. Edgar Bergen in town .... Allie Reynolds getting AC’s MVP aw»ro? .... Bugs Bear out of New York Hospital after a checkup ?zupck thumbed out a deal for Betty and Harry James to do a group oi record ings to be called "The James Family Album” (Betty and the studio stall miles apart) A son for the Dave Riches (TV’s “Nig Town”) .... "Death of a Sales Tax” would be a bigger hit. wires Donald Richards. The Emil Mossfearher Jr*, expect Sir Stork (he's on the U. S. yact racing ptam) Sugar Ray Robinson turned down London Palladium offer f,.. Jack Jr. in Fordham U.’s “The Inspector General.” Pinky Lee starts Ms TV series Nov. 2S .... The Eddie Lanes expect Sir Stork (she’s Latin Quarter eyeful Joyce Evans) ,:.. Jimmy Van Heuseh recovering from a heart attack .... Decca's “Mimi BtenzeTl Sings” album in the music shops .... The Ella Raines-Lt. Col Robin Olds baby due Dec. 15 Gene Autry and Herbert Yates cooking a deal at 21 Paramount handing out subpoenas for the premiere of ‘Detective Story” Thornton Wilder resting on the Italian Riviera. Jack Dempsey out of Santa Monica Hospital. Mrs. Edward G. Robinson and Clara Bell Walsh at the first nights. .... Robert Goelet and Isa Sidney a singing love duet Ticket scalpers running wild .. . .Dave Salter’s wife died. He’s the president of tlie Honor Legion of the N. Y. F*olice Dept .... Ingrid Bergman's i attorney, Roger Marchettl, flew to Rome for a confab with her . Danny Thomas a terrific smash In ’TU See You In My Dreams.” "Stop the Music’s” singing star, Dick Brown, signed by King Records. j The Jose Wades (Pamela Currah) expect Sir Stork Duchess i of Windsor’s favorite escort, Jimmy Donahue, back in town . ...V N. Y. I Society, sth Div., holding its Armistice Day reunion, at the China D’or (contact Arthur ’McNann, 25-12 Steinway St., LIC) Never saw it so tough to make a bet on BrOadway. Henry Fonda’s "Point of No Return,” New Haven previewers re port, a male "Lady in The Dark.” .... Election campaigning at fever ! pitch on uptown street corners ... Bertica Serrano a click at Havana- I Madrid .... The Don (MGM) Weisses named her Deborah All- American selectors will have their toughest pick this year with so manv standout backs. Try to split apart Ohio State’s Vic Janowlcz, Prince ton’s Dick Kazmaier, Columbia’s Mitch Price. Use’s Frank Gifford. Illinois’ Johnny Bright, Nebraska’s Bob Reynolds. Miami’s Frank Smith, Kentucky's Babe Parfilli. Notre Dame's John Pettibone. I £ : : we pemvt our white collar arid, cul tural classes tc be taxed out of opportunity for self-Improvement, they must take government Jobs as no others are available to them. In the past,' such Americans made their own opportunities out of their ingenuity, their rbility to save or to borrow from their neighbors. They were not inhibited by gov ernment through taxes. In a word, the revolution which the new deal under Hariry Hopkins introduced and the Fair Deal under Leon Key-erling seeks to oqmplete is beinz accomplished with even peater sg l. The Americas rrvehittan is be> tog aooanuflihetl by means of tag-. -.I i es, principally the Income tax, by premeditated wasteful expenditure «f the people’s money, and by de preciating the currency. And the revolutionists can truthfully say that it is done with our consent. We authorized the revolution by our votes. The United Stetes Department of Commerce reports that the 1850 retail sates fbr hair preparations totaled tWOyOOO.OOO. plus. $100,006,- 000 for ha'r tints. fr*-**——»W|gpfjF Yel Jill J Mill J JUJjB I 1 11 ■ § OFFICE EQUIPMENT __ ' j ■ Frederick OTHMAN »•••••••••• McLEAN, Va —Did Fanner Oth auaV Abasoac, which does not base its predictions on caterpillars. i foresees a lane: cold winter, with | Plenty of the beautiful white snow 'and a good deal of skfaUUmi man claims he's running short of anti-freeze. My bride says she needs a new. warm coat. The leaves j are especially thick underfoot. The smoke curls up from .the chimney and quickly disappears. All these ! , are signs of shivers on the way. Our hens have so many feathers suddenly that they look like os ■ triches. The .water pump is begin- i ning to creak. All the apples have fallen off the trees. The gutter’s i sprung a leak. Fourteen two-legged signs of bit ter cold en route, by actual count, have tried to sell me storm win dows. My buzz saw screams unusu ally loud and there’s no sap left In the begonia plants. Skunks have built themselves a weatherproof rambler under my barn. The jack rabbits are especially frisky. The sitawberry plants upon which I lavished such care have disap peared. The field mice are gang ing up on my cat. I wouldn’t be suprised if this isn’t the coldest winter since 1896. There's a halo around the moon. The back door squeaks. It’s rain- j ing now, but it feels like snow. Goal oil’s 20 cents a gallon. The Weather Bureau claims I’m talking through my fur cap. Says there's no such thing as predicting now what kind of winter weH have ■ in January. I wish the bureaucrats : with the barometers wouldn’t be so dogmatic. Farmers like me have been writ . Ing almanacs now for 200 years i and we’ve never been mistaken . yet: at least, you won’t get one ■ of us to admit it. Not in 19S1 you ; won’t, when the corn is studded with red kernels, the potatoes in the cellar aren’t even beginning to . sprout, and a long, hard winter. ;*r ; Jfcjgijgg | |j| i*ft# gg | g*i #%&,s y g|B c ■ Henfe JOB chance to buy a MHk* jn^jr >iwSSiri 6 Purdie Equipment Company - ‘•EQUIPPED —TO EQUIP—YOUR FARM AND HOME” So. Clinton Ave. ~. «A '' ' ~ : " " : Dui*n,W.C.' MAnrlljarf denhr / ELECTRIC ~ - ««*« =££** : TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 6, 1951 __ w „ w • I /7r. f I f oqAtoJtinq • 4 BY LOUIS dearborn • Thanks To The School Folks Did you escape the usual Hallowe’en depredations Wednesday night? Did you find that your car windows were not soaped? , Did you notice that your , porch and front walk were without the-outlandish markings and dis figurements of former years? If everything was all right you owe thanks to the school authorities of the county. In most schools a Hal lowe’en party kept the small fry entertained and out of mischief- , i Uncle Sam Cots Again Did you notice the difference in the old pay check this week? I certainly did. Uncle Whiskers has helped himself | to another slice from my personal melon. To most persons, this is the only tax they are particu larly conscious of paying. However there are hundreds of other hidden taxes, ail of which have gone up in propor tion to the increase in the withholding tax. Buying a car; buying gasoline for the present family buggy, or even the purchase of a package of cigarettes, will cost more under toe new tax law. We don’t enjoy paying them, of course, but pay them we will, with what grace we can muster. QoHe A Night Your reporter was somewhat busy on a visit to Buie’s Creek Monday evening. In the auditorium the Grass Roots Company was playing “LaTraviata” and in the Buie’s Creek Baptist Church the Little River Baptist As sociation wss holding its session. In trying to cover both, we had to gravitate between toe two, plus camera, since both called for picture cover age. In the play there was an opening drinking scene, which we left to hear a temperance lecture at the Little River Session. It all became slightly confusing. Anyhow, we can report that the ill-fated heroine of the play paid the penalty for her misdeeds. Formers Know A Good Thing The success of the “Nickels For Know-How” election i shows that the North Carolina farmer knows a good thing when he sees it. The five cent a ton premium pn feed and i fertilizer should prove a profitable investment. The 'vote was understandably light, however, because most farmers were in favor of the measure and conceded that it would be voted favorably anyhow. Now if toe Agricultural Research Foundation will only come up with a sure and inexpensive way of beating the boll weevil, everybody will be happy. Co id Weather Welcome Cold weather made its appearance this year with de vastating suddenness Friday and caught many of us un aware. A case in point is our family oil tank which had about three gallons when Jack Frost hit. The present cold with its promise of more to come should warn us to get everything in readiness for winter. We should get our supply of afitd-freeze and stock up on everything necessary fer frigid weather. We should, of course, but do we—ever. Hope to see you all right here again next week. Clerk Reports October Revenue Clerk of the Court Robert Mar- from civil and criminal actions in gan reported today that "courting" the same court totaled an addlt —that vort array of matters that ional $1,5061)3 arise from and cut of court pro- Other niazdes reported came from eeedings—ran into big business in the followwing sources from pro- Harnett County during October. bates, $246.35; from civil and crim- The clerk’s end-of-the-month re- inal actions and special proceedings port filed with thr county board j n superior court $196.14: from of commissioners listed total re- fines in superior oourt, 11I.$0: and oetpts of $4,120.17. all of which have from tust commissioners. $2230. been deposited with the tax oollec- ~ j tor. •" Fines ir. Recorder’s Court alone The United States set a new ) accounted for $2,08635, and receipts record in 1940 when, for the first 1 j time in medical history, this ccun > plentifully laced with blizzards, ob- try ikeorded only one death lor , I viously is on the way. each 1,000 births.