North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO 3h* M ju«m* T DUNN, KC. Pu blished By RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY ■ - At 311 East Canary Street r * NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTA'nVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. MS-217 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. j - * ' Brooch Offices la Beery Major City ‘■ , TtT SUBSCRIPTION RATES . _» BY CARRIER: M cents per week; sß.s# per year in ad ranee; $5 >' far six months; $3 for three months IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL .. - ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: J6.R per • T year; 53.50 for six months; S 3 for three months ‘ * OUT-OF-STATE: SBJM per year in advance; 15 for six months. $3 for three months “Entered as second-class matter In the Post Office in Own, C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1979- Every afternoon, Monday through Friday Courts Give Officers \But Little Assistance • « a* The Daily Record is inclined to agree with Sheriff ! Still Salmon that law enforcement officers have very little ! Incentive to get out and catch bootleggers when judges • hand out no worse punishment than a suspended sentence, tr- And, like Sheriff Salmon, we have serious doubts that ‘•such light sentences ever really put a bootlegger out of Many people refer to such sentences as “merely !3aJieense” for continuing in business. Sheriff Salmon was referring to the case of a Harnett woman who was caught in her “handsomely-furnished” home with 23 half-gallon jars and eight quart containers -of bootleg whiskey stashed away beneath a clever trap-door the floor of her bedroom. —* Obviously, the offender —who pleaded guilty was So small-time bootlegger. No hip-pocket dispenser of spirits jrt any rate. The raid came, officers said, after the neighbors Complained vigorously about conditions brought on by the Roman’s bootlegging activities. —. Attorneys for the woman put up the usual, sym pathetic plea that the woman was needed at home, that -•he had arthritis, etc. etc. etc. A person who listened to the Plea would have thought the woman was just another -sainted, sanctified soul who was forced to sell mean, rotten, Sootleg whiskey or starve to death. 2 ~ 'We have no quarrel with the lawyers; they no doubt pocketed a big, fat fee. They should have charged well be- Suise they certainly succeeded ip getting a light sentence for their dlient. They did a good job. Neither do we blame -the defendant for wanting a light sentence. I’ As the lawyers pointed out, it was her first offense. *lt might have been more proper to say that it was the first •time she had gotten caught. One officer swore that he had Received “many” complaints over a period of years*’ but had ;fcpen unable to find whiskey when the place was searched Iput you out of the Uouor business.” We hope His Honor proves to be right. But, like Sjaeriff •Salmon, we have our doubts. The Daily Record does not advocate harsh or up •eeasonable punishment \for any person. We’re not cop- Even if the woman deserved another efianae, even if -she quits selling whiskey, it seems to us that Judge Lee missed a mighty fine opportunity to collect ssoo’or SI,OOO _or so of her illegal revenue for* the county school fund. • A couple thousand dollars fine for a bootlegger who ! handles that much whiskey at a time really wouldn’t be ■ much punishment. During the period of years officers been receiving reports, she should hae been storing l .away plenty of cash in the safe deposit vaults. f l.'The Judge also missed a mighty fine opportunity tq I set an example for other willful violators of the Iqw. The “others will now think—and rightly so—that they, tpo, can -Zget off with a suspended sentence and paying tjie cost. In discussing the case, Sheriff Salmon properly pdint •~ed out that, “After all, our job is catching them and '..bringing them in. The penalty is up to the court apd we i nave nothing to do with it.” £_i_ Perhaps so, but law enrorcement officers are human | and it is only natural that such action tends to discourage “them, and causes them to take the attitude: “So what; tne court isn’t too concerned.’ I The fact remains, however, that light sentences tepfl ■;o into the business with the y get caught little will happen. Tudge, we want to point* out that t from that of other judges. The cipal and county courts and even el eking the same pattern, ag spreads and thrives and pros portions than those now existing, ast its finger at the officers and do their duty. ,e law, enforcement officers have ive little encouragement for their ~OTHMAN ! "^WASHINGTON—Friend of mine | In Pittsburgh said he thought I I .ought to do the people a favor by a piece about his great, ySrar. - and nonpatented invention, ’Sn* consists of ? push button gP&riaed to a long wire. One end • i object to their advertisements? Not so, cried he. He’ll listen to their spiels on the radio, or he’ll look at ’em on the big 20-tneh screen. But he’ll be doggoned if he'll watch and listen, too. That is a double dose, which used to drive him batty in pre-push-but- What pained him most during those awful sessions with the an nouncers was the way one would, e x v* ... , •_ ’ iu» moke was superior Because U was oval-shaped instead of round, for tfia throat. gckMi/ THE SING SRENG CASE The most serious psychological i problem that faces our diplomats in Central and South Amer ica, Africa and the islands that are scattered in the seven seas is the assumption that Americans dis like human beings who are not "white.” It is perhaps a problem without solution; surely no one has yet found an answer to it which is either practical or satisfactory. The instance of the suburbanites in SoutkKvood Tract, California, re jecting a Chinese family as a neigh bor may seem a local matter of no importance except to the parties ! concerned; Yet, I am certain that 10 years from now, the Sing Sbeng case will appear and re-appear in anti- AmeriCan literature tri Guatemala, in Pakistan, in the Philippines, in China, in India, in every country where racism is an insult and a humiliation. I quote from the Wah Kiu Pat Po, a Chinese newspaper published in Hongkong: “The stronge desire for independ ence and freedom of the Southeast Asian people cannot be fulfilled unless the Western nations are ready to bring to an end their coloftial rule. The people there may not like Communism but they defi nitely hate to be ruled by others. That is why they prefer Commun ism to colonialism. . . .” This is altogether too true, and it has become the strongest weap on of Soviet Russia in many coun tries. most dangerously in Central and South America. Cur people do not realize, tor instance, that Guat emala. not far from the Panama Canal, is pretty well dominated by Communists. We get little date on the Communist troubles in Pan ama. It is too easy to blame all the troubles on Russian propaganda. But propaganda never takes effect unless it fqlls on fertile soil. There must be a ’readiness for it, especial ly in Ceptral and South American countries, and in Asia and in Af rica, and wherever people refuse to tepognize that they are inferior to any other people because of their birth and origin. tt is a very tough nroblem fpr a country Uke ours where race and color do arouse emotional responses to a large number -of citizens. Our complications arise from the adop^ Wtetern European-Amertcan alfi: ance?* ■ ' “ *'• This problem would not have faced us had we hot become in volved In the affairs of all the w'«Jd, but we have ‘become so in volved, and vye are "seeking allies everywhere, even allies among the peoples whop* we reject because of theif race when they come to live among us. ” TWs country has just experienced the humiliation of having been re jected by Meklco. Trjtot happens to be piore Important realistically than what happened to Spa|. I am diagnosing a case, not of fering a cure, because I have none. We speak about psychological war fare, ’about the Voice of America Influencing peoples, of reaching the nations behind the Iron Curtain. But none of that will really mean anything unless the people of th? countries that we want' as allies sincerely believe that we do not have contempt for them because of race. Did you £ver hear a Kash mirian talk about hit true Aryan origin to tones that arc more like a leer than a sneer? How qo you make an ally out of a nation that feels the contempt you really have for it? That was the fertile s <M that Soviet Russia found In China. If was not land- it was not the corruption of the Kuomintang; it was not even Communism. It was an anti “white” man attitude. It existed in that country before the Boxer Re bellion (1901), which was an out break against the “white" man. It existfd in a large number of anti- American and anti-British boycott movements. It was expressed in the May 30th movement to 1925 when the revolution, not yet completed, was started as an opposition to all Europeans. The RussiansA moved into a soil prepared for them. ’ Few men concern themselves about the inconsiste.jcies between what they believe and what they dp. Most Americans believe that aft men* are created equal, as it say* to the Declaration of Independ ence, but they cannot apply it to human beings whom they natural ly dislike. And there is the rttb to a situation that may. in Asia, to Africa, and In Central and South *o help me, they’d read ’««n fp/irie. I just couldn’t take it The push button solved my problem.” While I was cogitating this ar gument as to the need dt spretujtog the gte(i tidings about his an nouncer silencer, along came an m DAILY RECORD, DORN. If. a nr t I "j’-J "D'y(n/qAFTA be interested in rcadin' ail our neigh* labels^” I a di.Bßli«sn Truman had a trank exchange the other day with Catholic Congress man Clement Zablocki Os Wiscon sin regarding Truman's blast at Dictator Franco of Spain. Congress man Zablocki didn’t approve of the President's action and bluntly said so. “It was most unfortuante that your remarks were made about the same time that General Eisenhower also spoke out against Spain," de clared the Wisconsin legislator. “I naturally feel that we are going to get more out of the dollars we spend for aiding Atlantic Pact Nations if Spain belongs to the pact. I agree that conditions in Spain are none too happy, but Yogoslavia isn't a democracy either and yet we have given Tito millions in aid. 1 Truman replied that his criticism was directed solely fct franco and not at the Sf»otoh people. Franco was chiefly responsible for the “in tolerance” suffered by what he called “that minority of minorities'' —about 30.000 Spanish pnoteStants. “In some parts of Spalh Protes tants oan’t even bury their dead during tile day or mark their graves w.th tombstones tor tear of inciting demonstfiaUons. ,, declared Truinan. “Dictatorships apeourage that sort Jews and that maiter. anybody with a foreign sounding name, are badly treated in qur Ku Klux areas. We have been reading lately about Ruffians stoning synagogues.” “llnfortunately,' thaj is true,” q greed Truman,' but wept‘on point but that he, as President, was doing everything passible to Stamp out intolerance White Franco wasn’t lifting a finger. ‘“As President of the United States,” he said, will not comp romise. with thes persecution of min orities either in this pduntry qr any where hi'toe world." Zablocki observed that the situa tion to Spain could he corrected a * jot quicker if we took Spain totp the Atlantic Pact; but ti)e. Presi dent disagreed. He said he had liis doubts about any real religious tolerance as long as Franco re mained dictator. TAFT BATTLES BRADLEY -Senator Taft is conducting his private war against the Joint Chiefs of Staff not only to public speeches, but behind closed doors- He even singled out General Brad ley, chairman of the Joint Chief* for special attack the other day during a private session of the J£int Committee on the Economic Sen. Ralph Flanders, Vermont Republican, gave Taft an opening by protesting: “I have no confi- ; 1 . ' J I Hr jy • ' « A\ I // - tteATN \ < /¥ TO : Svs%, i 1 ■f M t f ML,* ’ll / I ". r up, / >, i Wm Mi/ & I l ! H ‘ Wmmmss&jm ; f ’ll, i; ■H t ' ~ —m+Z SMMI \ / ■, §■ ■j y rij 1 e v bJI / - -9 i «r» W [ thing, Doc.' When I keen KanwiWte mv e fffUittiyt 1 w«{] T- ha vo iUr Tw S ■ ■ t dence whatever that the natural : professional way of thinking ■ will ever be satisfied with any scale • of military development and ex t penditure. It is just to the nature ■ of the case that they should not ■ be." I Immediately Taft interceded. “My confidence in the Joint 1 Chiefs of Staff is somewhat upset,” ‘ he said, •'when I read the .testi ’ mony of the chairman of the Joint ■ Chiefs two years ago in March I where he said to his opinion 15 billion » dollars was completely ar«quate for i the security of the United States, : and that if he recommended 30 i billion dollars for the armed forces, i he ought to be dismissed as chair ■ man of the Joipt Chiefs of Staff. “That was Just two years ago i today," optoed Taft. “It shakes your confldehce as to' whether he i is right now.” I Taft neglected to mention that < he was in the vanguard of those who, before the Korean war, pot i the heat on Bradley and the mili -1 tary to curtail their 'budget. FORGOTTEN MEN The Conference on Psychological Strategy heard a candid report on i the shoddy treatment of Iron Cur tain escapees from, a man who had a ringside seat Philip B. Ryan, former 1 chief of mission of the In ternational Refugee Organization. “They exist in overcrowded camps with little hope for emigration, i practically no possibility 'for em ployment, and no means «r their disposal to f'iht back at the thing (Communism)' which .has broken their lives,” reported Ryan. With regard to our “policy" on refugees. Ryan explained: “on the one hand," We apparently encourage flight from intolerable conditions { under communism. The picture of , life fn the West to tantamount to an : invitation to ‘com? over to our side.' : “©nee they are in' the West, how ever, we renounce responsibility. ' After we hgve milked them of any : information they can give us, they . are tiimed'over to the Germgn gbv- i eminent. Which already is burdened i With over a.000,000 German refu gees. {, ~ T■ -; ■, ■ i “Is it any wonder q»at some reto- 1 gees, disillusioned 'by their recep tion In’ the West, have returned to i the East to be exploited and held up as examples of the unreliability of the West? Thus we hand 'the i Russians a weapon which they can < use, effectively to convince their < listeners that we merely mouth 1 false promise*.”' - i One Irbh ’Curtain refugee, bitter I because attention was lavished only < bn those who escape dramatically, • as to the Czech “Freedom Train” ] last summer, grumbled to Ryan: i : "The only way you’d get attention 1 ; now is to be shot across (the Iron ] Curtain) in a cannon.” , —OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN —1 A- New Jersey group, led by May- * {Continued On Page Six) If MM) • In New York ** By JACK LAIT Wilson Mizner’s pet line was, “The wail ‘of the sucker is music to my ears.” . . . Comes now a letter from Miami, which states: “In some 18 years of racetrack at tendance, I have never seen any thing like this Hialeah madhouse. Form is thrown to the four winds. It’s a gigantic outdoor slot-machine. Not a single rule of turf-betting works. Sprinters win long .races, mile-and-a-half; non-mudders win on an off-track; the smartest, toughest players cannot cash' a bet —but simple little housewives stand in lines before the pay-off win dows. ... I have never heAd such moaning and groaning at a race course. And the worse the racing gets, the bigger the crowds grow.” But nothing stops the chumps. . . The airplane fitted up inside with slots, etc., and maybe book makers, which I reported recently as a possible weekend novelty be tween Miami and Santo Domingo (for more gambling there) will start its schedule March 7. ... In California recently I “caught” sev eral excellent TV programs star ring Charles Ruggles. He is one of the few juveniles who grew up gracefully to become a polished character actor. Charlie was the boy in my first play, “Help Want ed,” so good in the Los Angeles- Chicago company that I chose him, alone, to repeat the role in New York. He had never seen the Big Burg before. . . . The morning we arrived, I took him to breakfast at the Claridge. then a smart theatrical hotel. At the next table sat Adele Rowland, a famed sdu brette. I introduced them—and that afternoon, in New Jersey, they were marreld. Helehe Mullins, a Greenwich Vil lage poet, read here that the hat was passed for Maxwell Boden heim, a popular bard nf the *3os. who had been pinched for sleeping in subways, and that the gross take was $11.90. Helene rounded up more than 10Q rhymsters,* admirers of the poor old fellow, and, she says, “their several individual contribu tions were in excess of the figure you quoted.” .*. . Good work, kid. ... I didn’t know there were any versifiers left who had more than MAO —except George K. Phair. of, Wily Variety, *fi ex-baseball re- 1 * porter with whom I worked long" ago, and who turns out two jingles five days * week for the little sheet. It was $20,000,000, not $10,000,000, that Columbia Pictures turned down for use of its backlog oroduct on TV! . . . Edna Wallace Hopper Is sponsoring the career of Marya Saunders, under-age actress, daugh ter of hfr old friend Lola Menzeii, Who was Oscar Hammersteln's pri ma ballerina. . . . Rare books, says Arthur Murray, are those' which are returned- . . . BIU Tabbert, singer in "South Pacific,” is get ting a rush from H’*qj>d. . . . First subscriber to “p. 8. A.," new week ly magazine issued by the Nat’l Ass’n of MTrers, was the U. S. S. R. delegation here to. the p. R I did a column some time ago noting the disappearance of that 1 character famed In ’ flcttqn, song, eartoon and shows. q» hobo. ... i I heard from cops and from hun- i dreds of ex-’bos. all of whom take i great pride to to*ir past, and many < of whom have state prospered. The . consensus of their reports to that the peregrinating bum (the harm manifestation and can never come back. The following paragraphs sum 1 up some of the experts' observa- i tions. i The last two hobo'. “Jungles” near t New York were abandoned some ten i years ago, one south of the River- i dale N. Y. Central station, the : other north of the Croton yards, i . . . About 15 years ago. railroad dicks locked up 250 rod-riders a \ month: now they don’t catch a : doaen a year. ... Illegal train i riders ceased and desisted because i —I. Trains are now built to keep I them off—no more truss rods un- i der cars, etc.—2. Diesel engines ] have no tenders, the hobo#’ favorite i “Pullmans,” and—3, high-powered 1 locomotives throw back so much < steam that any outside rider would I be scalded to death. Also, most freighters now do not : make way-stops. . . .Carrying mil who still have the travail itch now i thumb their way in comfortable 1 autos instead of risking life and i every discomfort on the rails. 3 The hobo is not the predecessor a of the Skid Roir derelict. Urn, 1 fita who'befoul our* ettim and Wi *~ * pose a problem which tested ! FRIDAY AFTERNOON,FEBUARY 29,1952 II I || 11 ' mmm Martha complains because she doesn't get cared. But she has refused to take the medicine which will produce a cure. She is Uke many people, however, who think they can buy health or popularity or entrance Into heaven but who refuse to lift taelr little finger in any con structive endeavor to attain those ««*!»■ CASE C-389: Martha J„ aged 32, is an unmarried woman who lives with her elderly parents. “Dr. Crane, I have no friends,” she moaned. “Nobody loves me, ex cept possibly my parents. ; “And I have accomplished noth ing in life. Oh, I already have several of your bulletins. They tell me many of the things that a psy chiatrist once told me when I con sulted him. V “But they don't do me any gopd. Nobody can help me. I am just so unhappy I don’t want to live!” HELP YOURSELF Martha is a rank quitter. When she knows what she should do, she refuses to do it. The psychiatrist whom she con sulted several years ago had told her exactly what to do. My bulle tins repeated the prescription. But like many lazy patients, she didn't want to exact any effort. She wanted to swallow some medi cine out of a bottle or a pill three times daily, and suddenly be made into a popular girl. There are no magic pills that will produce happiness! Nor can we prescribe any liquid elixir that will get you lonely girls a husband. Neither psysiotherapy lamps nor x-ray will eradicate your hunger for friends, a home of your own and' children. THE BITTEREST MEDICINE A psychological prescription is the bitterest medicine in the world, for you can’t even hold your nose momentarily and swallow it in a few seconds. Yor Martha must go out and meet people. She must make talks when her knees are beating like castanets. She should teach a Sunday school class. She must break the social ice, and talk to people to whom she ■ WTfaui'* * b Y America's Foremost j COUPLE WERE TO MARRY AFTER THREE YEARS’ COURT SHIP. JBUT MAN, 21, DEVELOPS UNCERTAINTY ABOUT BIS DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Amory anjl I had planned to be married this Hiring, but a week ago he told me that he isn’t sure whether he really loves me. When I asked how long he had been feeling this way, he said for the last five or six months. I am 20 and he is 21'. and we have been going together for three years. We get along very well, as we have tastes In com mon, and think alike about many In our discussion Amory asked me if I knew the meaning qf love, and I answered as best I could! Then he confessed that he didn’t think he could define love; and he also saul that he to confused about money as well as love. So far as monty goes, I think we have about seven hundred dollars saved. Also we have bought and paid for bedroom furniture. In the last six months I have been almost bearing Amory for us to marrv, but he always says we aren’t financially prepared. This has caused resentment tn me, and resentment has caused me to nag him. and nagging is somethin* Amory hates. I was beginning to think he didn’t want to marry at all: or. much as I hate to face It, that maybe he. Is afraid »f the finality of marriage and the re sponsibilities that go with it. Amory to the type of boy who wants a PrectlcmUy perfect mar riage; nut he likes to feel doubly sure before be commits himself to anything. More than once he has tesd me that when he marries, he wants it to last a lifetime. I love him very much and nothing would aSSaEfH&'iS S; do "? im ® w how to meet the existing situation, and * W ®“ M »Phrectate a , prompt reply my wits end. C 8. STRONG; ™.-„*** N IS DRIFTER C. 8.: Apparently ypu fella wmind West Madtoon Street. . . After he hasn’t been formally introduced ;a la Emily Post. ‘ She must take night classes *r •burn the midnight Mazda until she learns social graces. i's You shy readers today must also face the music and analyze youjr self by my “Tests for Sweethearts T or “Tests for Husbands and-Wives.” Then you must acknowledge jitjur faults and resolutely start tTsHml nating" them. - r*W LAZY PATIENTS, j i i Even God will not make you pop ular. He has used hto divine provi , dence to give you these forujutas for winning friends and' sweet hearts. But God helps those whb. help * themselves! And so do psychdjo i Bists. N j§ * As a physician, I could forcJplO * feed a patient through a stomdeh ' tube, or give him glucose intraven ously. Or I could Inject a sedative by > a hypodermic needle, even against his ranting or raving of his passive indifference. ‘ But neither God nor man cln * make you popular if you don’t cooperate! ;1 N You must EARN friends by yc ir I own intelligent analysis of the pr< V ■ lem and your diligent followtag' 5f the course of action prescribed 1 ir ‘ winning popularity. I sometimes wonder if God ai d - human doctors don’t-get much t te : same impression of people. : We doctors do everything in o ir power to help a person who to si i ) cerely struggling to get out of* le i mess in which he finds himsel! But we don’t like lazy people w io . want us to make them well br ' happy or popular or eligible ' entrance into heaven, when tl > themselves will not lift thejr little finger to. attain these goals. -jF Doctors can help you when ybu i follow instructions, but we can of( *r , you no magical "Open Sesame” lir i success or social acceptance. i This psychology column gives yi iu the correct formula*, but you mi st ; mix the ingredients and then te :e i your own medicine. You must j l . ways cure yourself I I So send for the bulletin "How « Carry On an Interesting Conv m 1 , sation,” enclosing a stamped, i If i addressed envelope, plus a dime. ’ have been the aggressor in f)so moting marriage talk up to this I point; and K may be also that yqur I forthright love of Amory w*s the influential factor in gaining bto , naifway consent to your planning. I Some philosopher has acutely Skid 1 that men don’t love so much as they ’ respond to being loved. But be that OS It may, when It comes to marry , ; ing, they Uke to feel they though' . of It first, wanted tt most or engi neered the decisive step. However, It is anybody’s guess as to whether you muffed your chahees with Amory in candidiy campaign ing for his hand and trying' Ur gently to pin him down these lajst six months. I am inclined to thlnl a craftier technique wouldn't have brought him into camp either- r f In all probability you have spofj ted the roadblock, in sensing-’that Armory to simply afraid to commit himself to the man-size, undertak ing of marriage for keeps. BfMh cially you are pretty well ftogtd by average reckoning, so hto pleas on that score are transparent excuses, not "real reasoning" The fact that he has drifted this far, with <you, making Joint purchases and other wise encouraging hopes of Wed lock, before backing down at the eleventh houh suggests tsiat he ft a weak sort of boy, inclined low the course of least resistance, until panic calls the turn. J ‘ RELAXED REINS If AFFORD TEST Amory’s extreme caution in fram ing decisions, hto desire L be dqi bly sure about everything bawe going ahead, hto perfecttbßßt dreams of marriage, these are'nea roric traits of characteN-aU to evasion of reality. Ih coritnJu' you are . a tower oi strength, djm siveness and pracUcaUty, ind fMe say the tonic vigor of your PM sraaUty has great appeal for^b^^ I believe the all-around senkfAe solving'ohe Sg^nSTwito^i him into your argument* llke qulcksllverJSt H ' 1 1 .