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PAGE FOUR IYNN NISBET: Around L$ apHoJ SquaJia WOMEN Women have been voting in North Carolina for more thirty years on basis of equal ity with men, but they have never demanded or been accorded any thing like equal representation in 4{ite government or in the several partyi organizations. No woman has been- elected to statewide office, although several have been elected to! the general assembly and to nu merous county offices. Mrs. Kate /Burr Johnson, Mrs. Annie K. Bost aivi Dr. Ellen Winston, have fill ed- the position of state superinten dent of public, welfare for more than a quarter century and COMPARE THE (Wh STUDIO ) fvfe meiuß/ Y\ sAVt-*** SYLVANIA TELEVISION TJie most important decis iqn to make in buying a TV set is where you buy it. We are equipped to furnish all! your TV needs. | « PURDIE EQUIPMENT CO. Eqpipped-to equip the farm - home S.* Clinton Ave. Dunn, N. C. HATCHER AND SKINNER . 4 j, St"nSS W. BROAD ST. DUNN, N. C r Ambulance Service Phone 2077 CROMARHE FUNERAL HOME DUNN, N. C. wm |||| : . with^ Insulation serves you so many ways. It reduces its down on outside noises, adds to || because it is fireproof . . . and ' homd more comfortable, prevent ions walls and ceilings. Phone for to. DOOR & MILLWORK Company „ DUNN, N. C. SALES and MU SERVICE AMfCeeepleteShep I Qypi OQQp yj£p [.*&.£ s - MOTOR i.?-., I there have been other top woman appointees. Mrs. J. B Spillman served on the unemployment com pensation commission; Mrs. E. L. I McKee and Mrs. R. S. Ferguson 1 have been members of the state board of education, after serving in the state senate. Mrs. Vivian (Stephens) Whitfield has been a member of the state board of agri culture, and Miss Ethel Parker holds that post now. Mrs. R. P. MacClamroch is a member of the beard of conservation and develop ment. Judge Susie Sharp is the first woman ever to sit on the su perior court bench in this state. Women have been named to va rious advisory commissions, boards of trustees, and other places, but nothing like p o rata representa tion. CONGRESSWOMAN Many North Carolinians are not or have forgotten that this state has had an elected congresswomen. Miss Jane Pratt was chosen in a special eighth district election in 1946 to fill out the term of W. O. Burgin, deceased. As your reporter recalls events contvess was not in session during her tenure and she never cast a vote. She did not offer for re-election. Miss Pratt’s entire service came between ses sions, and therefore her name does not appear in the congressional di rectory nor In the official state manual. But North Carolina did have a full fledged congresswoman for a few months, the highest elec tive position ever held by a wo man in North Carolina. IGNORED The women have teen generally ignored by Demo cratic party leaders, except around election time. Print-shop service has been paid them, the plan of organization providing for equal number of men and women on the state executive committee, and for either the chairman or vice chair man to be a woman. The national committee also has a man and a woman from each state, but it is of record that frequently the na tional committeewoman In North Carolina does not know what is being done in name of the party until she reads it in the newspapers. A few years ago when W. B. Dm stead resigned as state chairman, he told then Governor Gregg Cher ry he would hold on until a meet ing could be called, to select his successor, w-ithout considering that the function of the vice chairman .« V'iMi,. ~ 'l'jU:' j»- ' ■■ KtvSaßapgjS the OLD AND NEW 4- Monday morning was moving day for 453 pnpib of fht small Negro schools to the new school at Erwin. They moved from classrooms, typical of that shown In the photo at the top, into new, modernly eqaipped classrooms mck as that shown la the lower photo. In this picture, the seventh grade class of Mrs. A. D. Drane. who appears in the background, is shown In their new classroom. Pupils and faculty alike, are pleased with the new school building. (Daily Record photos by Louis Dearborn). was to take oyer under such cir- s cumstances. Requirement that the t state executive committee be com- l posed of nine map and nine wo- 1 men from each congressional dis- I trict was forgotten as soon as s adopted. LOPSIDED Eighteen members « from each of twelve districts would I r give 218 members. The 1951 State c Manual lists 216, plus a few ex-of- i ficio members, but the rational dis- i tribution is ignored. According to t the Manual the first, third, sev- t enth, eighth, ninth and twelfth dis- t tricts have nine men and nine I women. The second district has i ten men and eight women the I fourth has nine men and eight I women (one member short); the i fifth has eleven men and seven i women; the sixth has fourteen 1 men and four women; the tenth < has ten men and nine women (one t member over); the eleventh has i thirteen men and five women. That i is the total of 216 members requir- i ed, hut the ratio is 121 men and : 95 women. i WHAT MATTER? Question Is often asked what difference that ■ makes; if the party wants to play that way, why not? It matters be- 1 cause the statutes recognize the i party committee as the vehicle for 1 making post-primary nominations < for elective office. A little more than a year ago the Democratic 1 committee as presently constituted , < placed the name of Jeff D. John- ' son. Jr., on the ticket for the su- ( preme court and he was elected. Nobody has shown disposition to challenge the procedure. RESPONSIBILITY Responsi bility for this situation and for do ing something about it rests square ly upon the womenfolks. It avails the woman citizen nothing to say she didn’t want the ballot in the first place. Lots of men don’t want that responsibility, either. Both men and women have got it, and must face up to It. A highly cul- I tured woman told our reporter the other day that she resented newspaper quips about there being more evidence of corruption in gov ernment since women got the right to vote. Her resentment is under standable. but utterly inexcusable; especially since she added that she, had nevered bothered to vote, al though admitting she reached vot ing age just in time to participate in the election of 1926 which came a few months after ratification of the suffrage amendment. MAJORITY. The federal cen- TRUSSES j v Hospital SsppOes ml * Cratebes ' . THE DAILY RECORD. DUNN. N. Cl sus shows there are more women than men of voting age in the United States and in North Caro lina. The constitutions- and the laws agree that women have the same right, privilege and obliga tion of citizenship as men. There fore, whatever mess the country or Hie state finds itself in Is di rects chargeable to the women. Os course they don’t like it; lots of men don’t like it either. Bpt the men have an alibi; they’re out vtted. In a democracy the majori ty wins, must assume responsibili ty, and is entitled to the preroga tives and perquisites. If the wo men want to let the men keep all the honors, that's all right with the men; but when they try to put all the responsibility on the men, it won't work. The constitution and the laws of the land and the laws of nature took care of that when they combined to give every man and every woman equal share of responsibility and made more wo men than men to do the composite job. If the womenfolks want more recognition in North Carolina poll- BREVARD. —A set income erf $5,000 from his 22-acre dairy farm within the next five years is the challenging goal which C- C. Gar ren, a test demonstration farmer of the Calvert-Cherryfield commu nity, has set for himself. J. A ' Glazener, Transylvania County farm agent for the State College Extension Service, says Garren’s goal is not as much of an idle dream ap It might seem. Ganren more than reached the halfway mark in IBM. whan his 10 cows produced aa average of 7500 pounds of milk. The Transylvania farmer, who made only SBOO from his cows in 1949, hopes to increase Ms herd to IS high-pr . Jucing cows, with ample pasture, hay, and silage from the farm to feed them, leaving only supplement and some grain to be bought. ! ■■■■.»- LEVS 14 Hour Rood j .• _ . ._ ■'■‘-■is fionflro - I * DUFMJCC 111 JO 0R 11 JLfjLw mm rnkV&m * II I FAY*TTBnLL* Hiro. ■I c: mip - tics and government, all they have to do Is demand it— and go after it. The menfolks are pretty well satisfied. •die Pimi-Ban^e JAofitfac Kfmipmmt. ottooMriw and trim iOms- FOR DOLLAR YOU CANT BEAT .. PONTIAC! Take the wheelyouiseff,, for the Driving Thrill of your life! / We wwmt yew to ha among tbs Or* driven in V /Ov . America to personaMy otporlence a banc f aßvancamtfU la motor csr an gingering— m| l Wy twb wcwkb vwv wax t * wmmx warn wakt it • wmmam vmv want tr Sfrtfhland Motor Conmanv Inc. 103 E. EDGERTON ST. DUNN, N. C. Drew Pearson (Continued From Pago Two) great ovation and boost at their convention In Hew York on May 20. 1944. Communists unanimously greeted ‘three great men,' who wore: Joseph Stalin, Marshal Tito and Dwight EJaenhower.'' •The Soviet gangsters decorated Risenhower with the Order of Suvorov which is given to those Who serve the Soviet cause. What gervtce did Eisenhower perform to warrant this great (?) honor? We remember that Roosevelt selected RtaNdtOwer over 335 senior officers. Roosevelt knew that other generals would refuse to perform the pro- Soviet role which Elsenhower so obediently played." “In the last stages of his career as president of Columbia Univer sity, Eisenhower again revealed his peculiar pro-Soviet bias. The case jn point is the acceptance of $30,- 000.00 subsidy from the Communist .government of Poland by Columbia University. This subsidy was do nated to further Communism." Later Maine’s Sen. Owen Brew ster. a member of the Taft inner circle, got hold of the above smear sheet and helped to have it circu lated in Maine. Note Actually the man the Kremlin fears most is the man now organizing a United Europe— General Eisenhower. Winchell (CenUnued From Page Two) That recalls the time Charley Michelson (FDR's genius) was call ed in to help run a campaign in .a nearby state. . . . The Democrats ,were worried about a new person ality in the opposition. He was go ing over very big as Election Day REGISTER BROS. LUMBER CO. II 1 A Phone I pROUGH - DRESSED - KILN-DRIED^^ FRIDAY AFTERNOON,JANUARY 18,1952 MSS dig something up on Mm.” Two days before election, a lieu tenant dashed into headquarters pnd breathlessly reported: “We’ve LEWIS GODWIN AND CO. | m GRADING CONTRACTORS PONDS CLEARING BULLDOZING s FREE ESTIMATES WE ARE USING NORWOOD Brick FROM LILLINGTON LOOK FOR THIS SION IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA “BUILD NOW FOB EVER” mistress!" •Good Heavens!” almost wept Michelson. “Don’t let THAT get around! It’ll get Mm another IOA -000 votes!”
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