PAGE FOUR IKw JBaiig Jl tmrfr DUNN, fc. i * Published By I . RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY ’ «• * JII ‘ At 311 East Canary Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS P. CLARK CO., INC. SH-til E. 42nd St, New York 17, N. Y. j Be— eh OMlces In Every Major City * SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER: 20 cento per week; $8.50 per year in advance; $5 for aiz months; $3 for three months IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: $6.00 per year; $3.50 for six months; $2 for three months OUT-OF-ST ATE: SUI per year in advanoe; $5 for six months. $3 «• Mr three months Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879. I Every afternoon, Monday through Friday Your Chamber of Commerce A GUEST EDITORIAL • RY CLARENCE E. McLAMB President, Dunn Chamber of Commerce I am. happy to have this opportunity to write a guest editor® in The Daily Record today in connection with the asmual membership drive of the Dunn Chamber of Comnirce. Dj doing so, however, I am writing it not as president of the-Chamber of Commerce but as a business man who appreiil&tes the chamber and the work which it is doing. My. appreciation of the Chamber of Commerce started long Before I ever thought of holding an office in the ctFganization. I can remember when the town didn’t have a chamber and how badly we needed one. As all of you know, our place of business Is chi the highway. Before the town had A chamber, tourists would stop frequently to ask for infor mation. Sometimes, we had the information readily available, sometimes it took time and trouble to get it. We always make it a point to be courteous and polite to the visitors so we always rounded up the information no matter how much trouble it was. Now, we can just direct them to the Chamber of Com merce office. That’s a mighty small thing, perhaps—but a good example of the many services rendered by the chamber every day. I fim became enthusiastic about the Chamber of Com merce 3vhen the movement got underway to secure a Wfrqccgmarket for Dunn. I wasn’t as close to the chamber ffph a* lam today, but I was aware of the great .amount of wotrl done by the chamber and am now in a position to see the amount of work the chamber does to assist the tobacco market. The4obacco market means that approximately four or five mmion dollars are paid out here every year by the tobacco market. What helps one business firm helps all of us, so the money gets around and we all get our share. Being in the farm machinery business and serving the farmers of this section, we site naturally keenly interested in farming arid are keen to sense the farmers’ needs, and we knojv how most farmers feel about things. Perhaps the merchant who sells dry goods, groceries or drugs doesn’t ifealize it, but those fat stock shows, hog sales, produce market sales, and other events designed to attract the farmers to Dunn have meant much to the farm ers here and also to the town. The fanner used to have to take his hogs to Smithfield or Clinton. Dunn’s hog market—thanks to the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce in getting it here—now buys approximately a million dollars worth of hogs every year. , Think of the thousands of farmers who come to Dunn shnply because they have business at the R. E. A. office h*re—and don’t forget that the R. E. A. was brought to Dunn through efforts of the Chamber of Commerce. The local REA office has a payroll of $89,246.84 a year (those Here the figures for last year) and last year 11,588 visits were made to the offices here. Those farmers who came to Dunn bought gas and oS, farm supplies, food, clothing and all the other com htodities. And if you didn’t get any of the farm business, jgot some business from some of the mer , There are still many things the town needs—more in l&stftes, more recreational facilities, more facilities for Dm farmers. In fact, just about more erf everything. Nobody claims that the Chamber of Commerce has accomplished wonders; nobody claims that the chamber has done sill it could or ought to do. The important thing is Chamber of Commerce is at work for you every I day aim has made substantial progress. Many projects are udfterway at all times. With; your help, with your support, the Chamber will 1: continue to make progress. Remember, the Chamber of Commerce is working for | you. lake every organization, it requires money for its |Jgeral©n. Expenses are held to a minimum and those have elected to represent you stretch the dollars as 3 far a&ahey’ll go. We «puld do more things if we had more money. For example, we need to run some small ads in The New York EtaesJßnd other northern papers to try to get more tndufrtmes to tUte* 1 Promotlon alwa - vs takes money. . v from $12.50 a year to $250 a year. g g Tho®who have been shouldering the burden receive no giiwa than those who ride along without carrying Knexpense, but as anfnvestmen^That’s 1 what ■An vestment ol a few dollars in your chamber is an busfateM and your future. " ■ ■ ■ IPryfrt’’" - " v 1 jaSaffy-r H&r.'Z'l dSer Life" i if? wCHRyOB r^W :r:.: '••?r. ; iS?£a:S 1 ;.3 JiM *mm m jwper *«. She poor m-Om roairnii of one Jar into the other, stirred the atfxtare aM drank quickly. She was dead when a priest te- taa4 she ft note. It tMMi: Days £ckcbkif THE AGE OF SPECTATORS On the eve of Lincoln’s Birth ’ day, I talked to my children about ■ Abraham Lincoln: I asked them whether they pledged allegiance to the flag: whether they put on plays to commemorate national holidays. i No, they had become spectators ■ rather than actors. We have become a spectator race. We sit in dark halls and watch the movies. We sit and look at television. At football or baseball games, except for a few moments ■ of shouting, we sit and watch the , performers do their stipt. Even in : music, we no longer gather about the piano to raise our voices in some kind of harmony or other; ; we sit and listen to recordings. 1 Perhaps because we sit so much, , so many of uS find it necessary to be tortured by diets and pills and ' alkalizers. But then I should not 1 practice medicine without a license. There is another side to this pic -1 ture. The United States has defin . itely gone in for classical music, which “The Wall Street Journal” 1 calls a $45,000,000 industry. Our children seem to be stirred by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. It is es timated that last year more than \ 30,000,000 Americans attended per -1 formances of serious music. Such i an institution as Tanglewood in 1 the Berkshires attracts more folks under 30 than over. In fact, the same paper, which devotes itself not to music but to dollars, says that more is spent on high-brow music than on baseball. Even in radio, those local sta tions which specialize in recordings find an unusual and growing fol lowing. Perhaps our young people discover that the , original Mozart is more stimulating than his cur rent imitators. For it is from Mo zart and Tchaikovsky that so ! much popular music is “stolen.” Musicians prefer the word, “re membered.” The increasing number of sym phony orchestras exists not only in big but in many small cities. Per haps the symphony orchestras in the smaller cities cannot compare with the famous Boston, Philhar monic (New York) or Philadelphia orchestras, but the conductor! of the lesser ones are eventually pro moted to the larger centers. And when we speak of symphony or chestras, we need to recall the high school and other student orches tras which train players for great er tasks. Increasingly the person nel of all of them is American. Professionals in this field like to speak of the “cultural maturity” of the United States. The fact is that no theatre, not even -those that play the successes of the season on Broadway, is harder to get into, to buy a seat for, than the Metro politan Opera. There seems always to be a “standing room” lino out side that building. True, the Metropolitan is always in need of aid because there com mercialism has not replaced artis tic quality. But there again, it is vouth that stands in line not on ly for “Madame Butterfly,” which is understandable, but also for any Wagnerian opera. The business men of classical music are, as business men usually do, following the trend. They seem to believe that there has Deen “program reform”; that is, that the programs are really being made light. Yet, I witnessed Kous sevitzky give all of Beethoven’s symphonies in a series to tens of thousands of listeners at Tangle wood. He gave them in order so that it was possible to note Beeth oven’s development from the First to the Ninth And I have seen enormous crowds at a performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass, which, to say the least, is not easy for the uninitiated. And all this was at a place hard to reach, on rarrow .roads, where traffic was delayed. Nobody had to come: those who did enjoyed very good music. ““ If it were only program reform, such composers as Bartok, Hinde , mith, Bernstein and Copeland would have no chance at all, for they are often hard to follow, even : as. difficult as Shostakovich be [ fare he was purged culturally. Yet, these composers and others like them are played oflen and are 1 roundly applauded. The answer is much simpler; more Americans today really know ‘ a century ago. There are fewer ■ Otto Kahns: there are more boys and girls who played in high school orchestras. And a “spee- Ings. once lnltlsjeflr they njte THE DAILY RECORD. DUNN. It. CL “Just a minute! You’re charging me for a grapefruit which happens to be my baby’s head ...” ' rr^mm SIMERRY-GO-ROUI® «t Q«iw MAttOB Chico, Calif. Traveling across the U. S. A. these days you are struck with a new cynicism on the part of the American public. It’s a rebellious cynicism, inclined to lay all our troubles on the door step of Washington a feeling of frustration, of disgust with cor ruption, and weariness with the Korean War. It’s ap atmosphere that lends itself to any flag-waver or tub-thumper who wants to take advantage of this cynicism by run ning for office. This is exactly the atmosphere that swept a lot of Democratic screwhalls into offioe with the an ti-Hoover tide of Roosevelt victory in 1932. And it may sweep a lot of Republican screwballs into office this fall. One dangerous part of the cur rent feeling has been a certain dis allusionment with our"* electorial system. Folks are resentful of the bosses in both parties and they figure that though President Tru man probably didn’t mean to blurt out what he did about “eyewash” primaries, nevertheless he was tel ling the truth. On the other hand there is grow ing Interest In the proposal of Ben. Rita Rep. Charles Bennett of Florida to hold a nation-wide presidential primary, which, though not bind ing on the delegates, might put a crimp in the party bosses and pre vent the traditional picking of presidents in the 3* a. m. quiet of a smoke-filled room. The smartest thing Mr. Tru man could do, in view of his eye wash remark and this public cyni cism is to exert some altruistic leadership and help put across the Douglas-Bennett nation-wide pri mary. EYEWASH ROLLCALL Meanwhile, here is the rollcall of states conducting eyewash pri maries or conventions plus some of those which do not: BOSSED DELEGATES ln five states it’s a fact that the people have no say whatever iq the selec tion of delegates attending the presidential conventions. In Ala bama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, and Louisina, the delegates are chosen by party leaders and are simply told how they are to vote In 27 other states democracy fares little better. These states for the most part follow the plan of state conventions, where the party bosses can railroad the selection of delegates. The bigger states which follow this hand-me-down convention system are: Michigan, lowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missis sippl, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas and Virginia. >■ BEST PRIMARY The state generally conceded to have the best primary system Is Oregon, where presidential aspirants are UJTIE& W- j /tjiv r . I w jPfft WmW * ■ / f j /Mnliilik iH /f I unable to keep their name off the ballot if they feel they won’t make a good showing, Eisenhower’s name, for instance, has been kept out of the Wisconsin primary on the belief that he wouldn’t make a , good showing there but in Oregon, any .candidate’s name can be en tered without his permission, which makes for a genuine popular test. Nebraska voters had the same “free filing” privilege until 1951 when a reactionary legislature a bolished it. New Hampshire, in connection with which. President Truman used his eyewash term, happens to have one of the nation’s fairer primaries,’ though somewhat complicated by the town meeting system. Boss Flynn’s Bailiwick ln New York, which controls the largest bloc of delegates and there fore is most influential in nomin ating our presidential candidates, the delegates do not have to re veal which candidate they favor. Thus, when New Yorkers vote in a primary, they are forced to vote for pledged party stooges. They do not know whether those delegates will favor Truman- Kefauver or Stevenson; all they know is that *the delegates trill vote the way Flynn of the Bronx and State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick tell them to. Massachusetts and New Jersey have similar provisions making it possible for the bosses to manipu late unpledged convention dele gates like pawns on a chessboard. OHIO’S TRICKS Ohio has still another gimmick which plavs into the hands of the bosses. In Ohio, delegates must rqmaln pledg ed to a certain delegate only as long as their “best judgment and ability” so dictate. Though it’s never happened, this conceivably could mean that dele gates could decide the day before balloting started that their man didn’t have a chance, and switch 1 to someone the bosses liked bet ter. Ulinois has a similar loophole for countermanding the ghopte's choice. Thus, in both Illinois and/ Ohio, Senator Kefauver might win the primary but have the delegates run out on him If Boss Ray Mil ler of Cleveland and Boss Jack Arvey of Chicago so directed. These and other boss-dictated jokers in state election laws have reduced today’s presidential pri mary system to a mockery, which Instead of being called eyewash by the president, should be recti fied with the Douglas-Bennett popular primary or some other re form. . Though the American people elect the president the bosses fre quently nominate, undo- any fair electoral system the people should fConttaned on Page Six) Write*! In JL New York 'SS* By JACK LAIT Substituting for Winched Man Reading the Papers Senator O’Conor of Maryland has waged a long and losing battle against “business as usual” with Red Russia. He reported that there was a “decided reluctance” among our allies to stop the flow of Amer ican strategic material to the Red army through free ports. . . . How sick the American public is of be ing told It Is money-mad—when It sees friends and enemies alike sell ing and buying us out—for the very dollar they say WE worship! At Cincinnati, Sec’y Finletter of the Air Force said he expected we would have 143 wings in three years. “There is real hope,” he said, “that any nation which might con sider attacking us will not do so because of the fear of the counter attack it would receive.” For sup porting Finletter’s rejected request for 70 Air Groups three years ago, some Cincinnati editors called us a pseudo-expert alarmist, which is ■ not important. . . . What is impor tant now is that we’ll have to wait three years—before the lost time is made up. The President has announced stepped-up plans for atomic expan sion. . . . The atomic energy dis coveries of the last decade will change the world more than all the wars and all the diplomats put to gether. . . . Napoleon was the mightiest political figure of the last century—but the then new ■ steam engines and telegraphs changed the world more than all of its armies combined. . . . The same energy men are creating to Mow down cities will be used a hundred years from new. to pump fresh water lakes over the moun tains to make the Sahara and Mo have deserts bloom. By then, men will know bow to beat their steel into plowshares without first mak ing a sword. Hiram Bingham, head of the gov ernment's Loyalty Board, declares there Is evidence of a systematic ptetrto infiltrate Commies in top govt jobs. . . . Evidence! There already have been CONVICTIONS! Japanese newspapers age fed up on American soap operas showing the democratic way of life. . . . Actually, anything truly approach ing the way of life in a democracy Is pretty exottin*. For example, "The Mystery of the Mink Coats” is a thrilling national drama; “Who Had Custody of the Alien Property Custodians 1 ' is a serial about to un fold before a breathless nation. . . . The Japs, however, 'have no legiti mate kick. They are perfectly win ing to share the American taxpay er’s dollar. There is no reason why they shouldnt understand some es his afflictions—like soap operas^ “Whs*. has that got to do with the price of cheese?” was once a sarcastic American question indi cating no connection of the speak er's remarks with the subject un der discussion. But the sale of col ored oleomargarine In N. Y. has a great deal to do with how the State will vote in the Republican con vention. . . . Upstate New Yorkers are bitterly opposed to the bill because their constituents, the Up state fanners, Will feel it in their pocketbooks if the oleo bills are passed. ... To keep the delegates lined up for Eisenhower Gov. Dewey has taken them “off the spot” by not pressing the measures. . . . Apparently, the price of cheese has a good deal to do with the next President of the United, States. A jet plane flew from Washington to N.- Y. last week in 38 minutes. The takeoff and landing were tele vised all over the nation. The event was hailed variously—as evidence of the miracle age in which we live. ... It seems more the proof of our world of opportunity to youth. . . . Nearly 50 per cent of our people earn their bring in businesses Which hadn’t been in vented only SO short years ago. That* not only a challenge. X’s a promise to the 38'4-mUHan chil dren in our sphools that there’s not only a place for them in America's heart. There’s a man's Job waiting few them in America's work. Senator CemijMj of Texas will fight the new White House taxes. The tenator Mae bitterly criticizes tMNL wThSM kivlw’alTthe ’ssrzrzrz’z'zrzz The Senator is n for reelection and he fears, with g®odreason that MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 18, 1952 The Worry Clinic * By DR. GEORGS W. CRANE Poets may praise Rosalie’s be havior, but psychol agist* regard It as a foolish waste of an at tractive personality. Lean how to forget your unfortunate love affairs of yesterday. Don’t re hearse them each night as Ro salie does. CASE 0-383: Rosalie M., aged 33, Is a lovely San Francisoo girl. “Dr. Crane, she fell in love with a young engineer a year ago,” her brother informed me. . “They seemed very much attach ed to each other and we expected them to get married. “But the man got Involved with another girl of the wrong kind. He married the other girl and the child was bom. “I am wondering If in your opin ion, Dr. Crane, it is his duty to re main with this other girl the rest of his life, or do you feel that he owes Rosalie some happiness? “The tragedy of the affair is that Rosalie sits around and broods. She is still as much in love with him as before all this happened.”' FACE FORWARD The best thing for Rosalie to .do this case is to forget the man and chart her course toward some other romantic destination in the future. "But how can I forget?” she will cry. with tearful eyes and an ach ing heart. , Well, the only way to get one idea out of the focus of your attention i sto put another one there. We cannot concentrate on two ideas at ftosalie must not be asinine and' the same moment, try to drown her sorrow in liquor, as so many young people do nowa days. That course only leads to greater sorrow next day when a headache is added to your heart ache. HOW TO FORGET It is tragic when we are Jilted £ 1 rftcul" By America's Foremost Personal Affairs Counselor Married to Man She Tried to JtK at Eleventh Hew, Woman Re grets Situation, Feels She Could Have Done Better.- DEAR MARY HAWORTH: I am 32 and unhappily married. I tried to back out before the wedding, but Jim pleaded and raged. I turn ed in desperation to a relative, who was shocked at first, then laughed and said all brides feel that way before the ceremony. So I went through with it, 10 years ago; but I lost all respect for Jin,, for having ■ no pride, as he knew I had no love for him. It wasn't too bad at first. I was content with my little apartment, fixing it up, and I felt secure. When I started to feel helpless, trapped and unhappy again I had a child, which kept me busy. Then I had a nervous breakdown, and I kept crying and wanting to run away. ' Now I have two beautiful children 1 (ages nine and five) admired by ‘ everyone, and Jim and I are so : proud of them- but still I have that feeling of wanting to get away. 1 1 know you'll despise me and : think me conceited, but I have a terrible feeling that I could have ; done better than Jim; and people sometimes wonder what I saw In him, which depresses me. I long for a husband whom I could love, respect, and be proud of, and this has become an obsession with me. Recently I begged Jim to let me go, ; .and at first he listened kindly. 1 Then he got furious, said I was 1 crazy and told me to go alone. 1 But he knows I can’t leave the 1 children; so again I have that : terrible, trapped feeling. Later I burs out crying to a rte latlve and asked her help; and she said the only solution is to ac cept the situation and make the ; best of It. She told me to forget love as a lost cause, live for my children, pray, and and go out more socially. I have tried this; but when an attractive man is attentive to me, I think of what might have been and get depressed again. My re lative recommended reading, and re ! ligioua. books are helpful; hut psychology books friglften me. aa they warn insanity from this trap- , ped feeling—and advise separation , from the person who causes It 1 What do you thhik? N® major laMt vs the HtpitMlo or heartbroken by the loss of our . best sweetheart. Q And we are entitled to grieve for a few days. But no intelligent adult should waste his life by beooming a living shrine to a dead love affair. | Our brains must always be mas ters of our hearts! This means we must act our age, so to speak, and t pick up the fragments to use as / foundation stones for a rebuilt per sonality. Our hearts will never let us ad-