PAGE TWO Mh* jPaiig JitmriL DUNN, N. C. rhzir Published By , , RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY . C -v At 311 East Canary Street r;?.-.NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE w THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. -*->.** **s-217 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. •<* "«• Branch Office* In Every Major City !l SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY,CARRIER: 2* cents per week; HJSI per year In advance; 85 ■IyKJ-' for six months; $3 for three months s»< XS TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL v ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: 56.00 per year; 53.50 for six months; 52 for three months OUT-OF-STATE: 58.50 per year in advance; 55 for six months. $3 • >-»■ for three months ►• Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879. \n> Every afternoon, Monday through Friday -u.T'' A Splended Spirit The Daily Record wants to take this opportunity to and commend the fine citizens of Benson for their "wonderful spirit and their willingness to work for a school cafeteria. It* seems that when the Johnston County Board of "."Education was handing out funds for building purposes ” they,neglected to provide this badly-needed project for Benson. In most school districts, the citizens would probably just,keep on arguing with the politicians to come forth *'.with i.he money and provide the building. }»- Not so with the public-spirited citizens of Benson. They’re 'going 1 ahead on their own. At the last meeting of the Benson Parent-Teacher Asso- Vttiartion. the citizens voted to sponsor a number of commu nity events to raise the necessary funds. Thiy’re going to put on basketball games, a barbecue, plays and various other events. STuf# old-timers are going to forget their age and get out on the basketball court and perform—aches and liniment notwithstanding—and do their best to provide better facili ties for their boys and girls. We’re going to be watching those projects-with a great initial of interest and pride. With such a splendid spirit, ~we know the citizens of Benson can’t fail. Their example should be an inspiration to all the rest of us-,- never to givS up. Prty The Poor Potato Producers We find ourselves in complete sympathy with the white potato growers in Idaho, refused a further price boost, and nobody can blame them if they do hold their potatoes off the market. And we are quite aware of the high cost of food arid the high cost of living. The present OPS price for, 100 pounds of Idaho white potatoes is $3.95, since the government rolled back the price of potatoes 26 per, cent. Furthermore, the potato, farmers had a poor crop. Ttese, notatofermers >mgL a jighMMtty -claim that, sh* govfljrimem hßT'diserimirPP« aMmsf fttfrnTWw moditte*have heen rolled bad: 2ft)per cent. , The irony of the situatiori is that the government didn’t roll back the price of fertilizer used to produce the pota toes; the government didn’t roll back the cbst of labor to plant and harvest the potatoes; the government didn’t roll back any price except the price of potatoes. This action of the OPS was in line with President Tru man’s recent speech to Congress in which the nation’s chief executive called for a reduction in prices but made no mention of holding down wages. .It is pure ridiculous and utter nonsense to think that a Benner, a man in business or anybody else can raise the rnßnTf producing any item and then cut the price of the itwENotoedy makes that kind of profit any more. And tapgdevour anv profit that’s left. gßb.an argument is as foolish as trying to argue that wtaHß as black or that black is white. Nobody has ever suHWftdty gone against the law of economics. Nobody “ jgSody cart blame the Idaho potato farmers for holding off the market. The working man has the riJßkto strike; tp refuse the public those potatoes is the oiMSeeapon the?farmer has. Sometimes, an issue can cut boßSitys. This is one of those times. unfortunate thing is thpt a great per cent of the Washington know nothing about the laws or the hazards of business because they’ve be3taoJu|24iving off the taxayers. Frederick OTHMAN ¥• WASHINGTON Uncle Samuel, - you doubtless have read before S><« is the world’* biggest store leeper. He’s also the world’s slop jest. Keeps all the wrong stuff on ge right shelves, while his inven ! fijiry records are in such a sham bles that he’s wasting at least a Billion dollars a year of our money. §9p£bat's official; it isn’t Othman Biking. So now we’ve got almost 4,000 men, mostly military, working An a catalogue of the stuff Uncle Eys. This is a Herculean Job. It’ll maybe four or five million 4&M«t items, but at least they’ll dWr ba listed ence-and there’s a chance we’ll know where stacked. This should be Some of these bushings cost $9. Some cost 565. You can imagine the surprise of the admiral's assis tants when they discovered that aB eight batches of bushings were identical. “Some in bins only five feet f part,” he continued. Rep. M. O. Burnside (D., W. V*o * said that wasn’t the way he heard it. There weren’t eight stores of duplicate bushings SMkr different catalogue lists, but 20g. Correct, agreea Admiral Fowler. Eight in the Navy, 200 in the pos session of other outfits using bush ings. i.t- He said he’s seen a good deal hi the newspapers lately about the paid ior similar materials, ana tne general confusion between n- hadn’t seep anything . - of' His research indicated that there These Days £ckoLktf THE POSITION OF DOUGLAS MacARTHUR The fact is that in many parts , of the United States a notable grass-roots movement has appear ed for “MacArthur for President.’’ In some places, the support for the candidacy of General Douglas Mac- Arthur is stronger than that for any other candidate. To all who have inquired of him concerning this, General MacAr thur has replied that he is not a candidate and that of those who are currently In the field, he fa vors Senator "Robert A. Taft. It has been suggested by some that General MacArthur assert that he would not under any cir cumstances be a candidate. It is not in the nature of General Mac- Arthur to presume what he would do in circumstances of which he currently has no knowledge. How ever, it is apparent in all conver sations that he is sincere in his lack of aspiration for the post and in his support of Taft. In his letter withdrawing his name from the New Hampshire primaries. General MacArthur makes his position quite clear: “In reflecting upon my own re sponsibility of citizenship. I have felt that I could contribute in finitely more to the high purposes involved if not personally seeking political office through the entry 1 or use of my name in connection , with any State primary.” But in that same letter, he goes further to define the type Presi dent whom he would prefer. This paragraph, it would seem to me, might form a model for candidates of all parties this year or any oth er year. I quote; “Every American citizen shares equally the constitutional respon sibility of doing all In his power to restore and preserve our sacred American free institutions and to secure a reorientation of policy patterned to serve our impelling national needs and requirements. To this high purpose the Imme diate demand upon the citizen lies in the selection of a national lead ership of demonstrated capability in the science of civil government, of unimpeachable dedication to our country’s constitutional precepts and great traditions, and one whose wisdom is founded upon broad ad ministrative experience, with the resolve Fl fhT 1 pUWK ortheday with out eojnpromlka, of principle.” General gigfejtrthur is a literary stylist "Hrid tiles WoixW to express rather than to repress though. Thus the use of the phrase, “re store our sacred American free institutions,” clearly means that they have been damaged. It is an overt assertion that the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations have failed in the maintenance of a ba sic American philosophy. Similarly, his phrase, “a nation al leadership of demonstrated cap ability in the science of civil gov ernment,” excludes General, Dwight Eisenhower, who has never had anything .to do with civil govern ment In this country. It comes as close to a direct attack on Eisen hower’s candidacy as MacArthur has yet made. Senator Tobey cor rectly caught the fitness of this idea as applied to General Elsen hower. , I am certain that his statement is only laying a basis for similar and more pointed attacks, ending to the use of General -Elsenhower’s name, although General MacAr thur is reticent about storting a five-star generals’ battle as part of a political campaign. He reliev ed General Eisenhower when the latter was a junior officer aasoriat ed with him in the Philippines. He will not discuss that or Eisen hower's activities in connection with the Bonus March, for which Herbert Hoover and MacArthur have had to accept full credit or discredit, whichever it may be. Further, the use of the phrase, “without compromise qf principle.” is General MacArthur’s way of at tacking “Me-tooism,” particularly in relation to the foreign policy. Effort this campaign is over, the ■ihleeHnr at* the President’s office on April #;• 1961, on the subject of the dismissal of General Mac- Arthur, win have to be discussed ft** 10 ” haw to be considered os to who was there, what was said, and why General MacArthur was dismissed. This Is sattnSlaSs he was dismissed., ? jfr’ssafi&tisri supplement entitled “Prelude to Ptol»ter.” dealing With the dis- Sara 53s*«a ’ Thu - The political position of General tHB DAILY RBOOBP. DUNN. H. a I i qUVttSUMim 2*3s MERRY-60" ROUND SICS*M l» >»«w HAtSOW WASHINGTON What the ave rage cltisen may not entirely real ise about the huge new budget facing the nation is that 83 per cent of It is for the military. This Includes mutual security aid to Europe, primarily military, and care of veterans. Thus a 17 per cent chunk of tax payers’ money remains for civilian purposes, including the coast guard, which is semi-military, the FBI, secret service and other domestic policing agencies of government. While some further pruning may be possible to the civilian branches, especially to regard to the pork barrel, rivers-and-harbors bill which no congressman wants to cut, nevertheless, the major oppor tunity lor saving, if any, i? to be accomplished, must be from the military’s 83 per cent chunk. Yet the military have been least cooperative about even the most rudimentary principles of efficient spending. Take merely the simple question of bidding against each other. One o* the great p’ess for unifying the Army and NaVy was that it would save money;, that the two branches of the armed services could pool their buying, not dup licate a list of thousands of items, such as towels, blankets, rope, pul levs, wrenches, all about the same whether used in the army or navy. This, however, has not happened. tostead of working together on tewlßny buying, there h’liov a third competitive service, the air force. It is true that much air force materiel is purchased for it by the Army, but efficient, uni fied buying, as done by a private business firm, just does not exist. BUYING CARPENTERS’ SQUARES , For instance, the army to some •extent competes with itself. Its catalog of commodities contains she different numbers for each Army branch—the Signal Corps, Ordnance. Transportation, Engi reers. Chemical Warfare, and Quartermaster Corps. Under this arrangement, such an item as a carpenters’ square has six differ ent numbers. according to the specification of the signal corps, ordnance, engineers, etc. On top of this, the Air Force has to Jiave a seventh number for : the commodities It wants. And the cost of reprinting Army catalogs to add the Air Force’s seventh i number is about 51500,000. Congressman Herbert of Louisi ana, now studying armed servioe : inefficiency, estimates that mil- i lions of dollars cquld be saved by revamping this antiquated system of luting different competing price* i for this Army-Air Force materiel. Take the relatively simple ques- ] tion of buying carpenters’ square*, i There are only 12 inches in a foot, i whether it be-an Air Force square, ; a Navy square, or any Army i square. Nevertheless, a carpen- < ters* square for the'Quartermasters* M PARFUt OS Mi ■ l _/ > Mr fl M M BIMB /<» "It comes ifMhree scent*. ’M-m-m-mm’ . . . ’Aha’ . . . and’WOW’!" Corps costs 65 cents;" for the Navy 52.00; for the Army 51.90; for the Signal Corps 82.10; for the Army Engineers 81.48, for the Air Force 51.40; and for the Army Transpor tation Corps originally $4.35, though this was hurriedly corrected last week to 52.19. I have seen all these carpen ters’ squares. They, are all the same size, and as far as I can see almost identical. They all have 12 inches to the foot. Yet the price Is different. Thus the mere paper work of buying separately and maintaining separate numbers in catalogs take extra time and mon ey. This may sound like a small saving. But when you multiply this inefficiency by millions of items and set up to big expensive wea pons, It runs into tremendous a mounts of money. CLOSED DOOR SESSIONS The Senate Interior Committee held a super-secret meeting the other day and voted to stop print ing secret transcripts in an effort to “keep Drew Pearson from find ing out” what goes on behind clos ed doors. As a test, no secret transcript was kept of the meeting that de cided to ban secret transcripts. However, this column is able to report what happened. Able Senators Clint Anderson of New Mexico and Gene Millikin of . Colorado fussed and fumeQ, over this column’s rTC ports of what they 7(bd said be hind closed doors. Philosophic Chairman Joe O’Mahoney of Wy oming agreed that it was an out rage. but added; “I have inter viewed every member of the staff, and I am sure they are all In the clear.” “I know the source of the leak, and it wasn't anyone on the staff,” snorted Anderson. He accused the official reporters who record the committee sessions of leaking. (Note—You’re not even warm, Senator.) O’Mahoney then suggested ban ning these official reporters. If no record is kept of closed-door meet ings, he reasoned, Pearson will have trouble reporting what hap pened. But the usually genial Gene Millikin was pessimistic. “I’ll bet you two to one that all that will result from this will be a story to Pearson's column that the committee was stumped.” Note—The reason this columist frequently reports what goes on at closed-door committee sessions 1j that more and iqore important business affecting the nation is transacted at these sessions. It used to be that the mo6t im portant debates took place publicly on the floor of the House or Sen ate. But as the work of the United States government has grown big ger and more complex, it has be come necessary to transfer vital (Con tin lied on Page Six) 2m I Jr In New York MAN ABOUT TOWN Orson Wells’ carrent romance is Rita Hayworth’s double in Rome. She is Italian Airlines hostess Gina Ludovici . Joan Crawford’s most ardent Romeo is San Francisco so cialite Bradley Fuller, who wings to Movietown regularly to fight off the pack.. Martha Stewart’s movie husband has finally agreed to file. An amicable abrogation . .It’s a boy for the William Lowes. He’s Look's ime. ..The Marcus Good riches (Olivia De Havilland) are sorry ’to disappoint the rumor spreaders .The John Wayne melt ing will feature a Mexican movie actress.. Marilyn Maxwell, the thrush, hat that Lohengrin look. He to Rock *Hudson, a click in “Bend in the River” ...Gary Cooper and Pat Neal are still steadying. Mrs. Cooper’s coast rendezvous are with Peter Law ford.. Vlkkl Dugan, the cover girl r at Ciro’s, Miami Beach, established ! Fla. residence for her freedom. . r • ! The Cables: Anthony Eden and ■ the woman all London expected • him to wed (Mrs. Lionel Fitzsim -1 mons) have cancelled it . Jean Paul Sr.rtre and Emmy Werner, an . American, have Paris buzzing... > Just resigned Ambassador to Spain > Griffis and Paulette Goddard have ! had enough . Edda Ciano, Musso > lint's dghtr, is involved in a triangle ■ about to break in Italy.. Marcel 1 Cerdan's widow may merge with ! Murvin Marvin, a U. S. busiuess . man • Prince Sidi Buka, 14 year old Kenya Colony Potentate, mar- I ried two belles last week. Gen. Eisenhower’s former Girl • Friday, Kay Summersby (now working in a local dept, store), Jilted Taft forces attempting to “woo* her ..Architect Jeffrey Ful ' ton is buiiqing Clarissa, Newton's castles in the air. She’s a college gel .. Virginia Hill’s new agony followed threats to snatch her chil dren. . Mickey Rooney’s persistent pleas for a reconciliation with Martha Vickers, his ex, are sty mied because of a sport’s announc er . Madcap Merry Fahrncy is back to sue a renowned dermatolo gist for a 550,000 investment that didn’t Jell.. Betsy Cushenberry, ex- El Morocco haichlck, and Peggy Yancie, who clashed over a French itetodte, will fight it eat in Supreme Chart. ."Joe E. Lewis sap* he hasn’t made a bet since April, the bookies' worst news since Kefauver : If Gypsy Rose Lee derides to change grooms—first call goes to r Roanoke, Va. high school teach er. New York State license registra- i tion (for the first time) requires i tlje color of your car. All paint jobe ' during the year must be Jotted ' down. Ruthrauff & Ryan, the 1 add agency, now has 39 veeps—one for every dozen staffers . The : quick closing of “Month of Sun- < days” in Philly trapped several < mag drama pages which tried to i help it The Russian Embassy ' people (Park Ave. to the. 80s) must 4 wonder if the street repairing out • front is a form of criticism. Been 1 going on for a season or longer .. Justice Dept. exec. Philip Marcus > was in Buffalo with Rob't. Pat- i tersen on the same anti-trust case. 1 He cancelled his pew on the plane > (which wrecked) and took the ' train. Patterson did it In reverse ' and died Some swank university I clubs are battling card sharps. The ' technique Is to get members (pick ed up at bars) to invite them over 1 for “bridge” . Natl H*quarters of ' the Commies ordered members to i "become active in church groups ” 1 Robert Taylor and Barbara I Stanwyck tell chum* re-marriage i would be a mistake.. The Morton i Maguires (he’s the mag earayist) I tried hard, bat it didn’t click. She 1 is ia Las Vegas . Bobby Barry and t Hollywood's Jacqueline Parke are 1 a Weal portrait, but Just to get < their names ia the paper.. Jae E. 3 Lewis finally gave Ciro’s (Miami Beach) the llfl it needed . Lena I Home’s debut at the Clover was t Mg. tea. Her first time in the deep South and sho packs the plaee... The Cheily Knickerbockers (Dar- ) rah Waters) are beating Gone i file In Tennessee Mario Lanza shelved 45 lbs. in 1* week*. Won’t stop until he scales at 17* . Chap- 1 Ha, whs need to frown on nows- 1 J* l *? ««*ing hie t «tedio while making a film, now < iavttoe them daily “FDR Hyde « Park” is the title of a film eaon 1 SggyEfK; i Egyptton||.delega r at ttw UN, tonTltocra * |^ t,IA tnmmn « to'iSS/nK* “ 1 TWtt •OW* j wp ’ > " 'Ww’*' f * ' _ MOfrbAY AFfriWOOW, FEMtCAItt j, Jjjjr By DA. GEORUK W. CHANT l "llafftl It maea iMßtftUt |k|H wtlriah ** Uaaufcatt IWflh In INM War t kMM* »P jw tody and «I*ee you sip. H* be sure you don’t Mam your family la Its eg* huagora They are aa critical m ' iminf- CASE C-Wii Wolfe, aged at least XI. hi a beautiful farm collie dog which we’ve had for 11 years. Our two outer boys found him to the woods, with an injured teg and so starved, he had to be half cart ted to our summer home on a little farm to Indiana. That was U year* ago. Since he was fully grown ft that time, we know he must have been at least one year rid then, eo his minimum age is IS and oould be more. But my main purpose to telling you about Wolfe i* to Illustrate the fact that everybody is born with a figurative tattoo across his chest which reads: “I-want to feel Important I” But this desire to feel important is not limited to human being* No sir, animals likewise Want to feel important. WOLF’S EGO HUNGER We have a second dog, named Sandy. She is about 6 years of age. Whenever anybody stops to pat Sandy on the head, Wolfe Imme diately gets up and walks over to receive attention, too. If we ignore him, he lifts his paw. and rakes it down our leg. If I then give him a word and pat him on the head, he moves over to Mrs. Crane for similar atten tion. Indeed, I have watched him make the rounds of 6 or 8 people standing on the lawn talking. He would demand attention from each one and then he’d actually start all over again, For he’d come back to me and rake my leg, to obtain a second dose of attention.