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PAGE FOUR w jPeUij DUNN, N. C. r . ” r Published By I RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY ,v . * At 311 East Canary Street I NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE if -f.SI THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. " ..... M5-Zl7 E. 42nd St. New York 17, N. Y. Branch Office* In Ever; Major City ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER: 20 cents per week; $8.50 per year in advance; $5 (or six months; $3 (or three months m TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA; S6.M per jCjr year; ss.so (or six months; $2 (or three months (hMF-STITE: $8.50 per year in advance; $5 (or six months. $3 (or three months Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. Q., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879- r Every afternoon, Monday through Friday WE ARE MET TODAY ~~ ON FORM 1040 Today is that day, that terrible day, that black (Jay for the taxpayers. TeAay is the final day that American taxpayers have to fUCJheir income tax report and turn over their hard earnwMollars to a wasteful, extravagant government. Cit!Sshs used to pay Federal taxes willingly and with pride. But, today, the burden is so great that all people stop to wonder and question, “Is such as this really nec essary? Is my money being spent wisely?” Not- that it will sooth your feelings or ease the pain on your'pocket, but we reprint herewith from Time Maga zine a taxpayer's parody of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “One score and nineteen years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this nation a new tax, conceived in desperation and dedicated to the proposition that all men are fair game. Now we are engaged in a great mass of calculations, testiflg.whether this taxpayer, or any taxpayer so confused and so impoverished, can long endure. • - “We are met qn Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend ornfmoney. It it altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The col lectors, clever and sly, who compute here, have gone far bejfoi)& our poor power to add and subtract. ‘fDjjr creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay.here, but the Bureau oMnternal Revenue can never forget, what we report here. . ‘Tt is not for us, the taxpayers, to question the tax which the.' Government has thus ‘far ignobly spent. It is rather lot;us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining befpre us—that from these vanishing dollars we take in creased devotion to the few remaining that we here higWjrTesolve that next year will not find us in the higher income-bracket, that this taxpayer, underpaid, shall figure out more deductions, and that this tax of the people, by the Congress, for the Government, shall not cause solvency to perish.” , Pretty Hostess (Ceitinuvd from page one' - j During one of these periods of de pression she took his gun away from "him. she said. ’ • * jgg After their long discussion in the I ear, he ordered her to go in and get his gun “or I’ll kick your teeth in.” Miss Tracy said. She left and returned a few min- I utes later with the gun. “He opened the door on the driv- j er’s side,” she said in her confess ion, “and I opened the door on the other side. “I took the gun from my pocket and fired. “I fired the gun until it would not 'fire any more. “All I heard him say was, ‘No, Tracy . . . No, Tracy!’ ” ®te fired seven shots. Six of the a- shots struck Kell. Sobbing, she told police she kill ed him because “I knew shooting him was my only chance to live.” Kell died a short time later at h St. Louis County Hospital. ——ra— I Frederick OTHMAN he couldjtake it out of the people's $o he tfft U anybody as lucky as ifcassaAsss.’sa Paid s^Uyeaned young and light x® ts !L for waUpaper he Sons Os Erin ! - (Continued from page one) j sit down in that soft chair at City : Hall will be to give the other 30 i street cleaners the day off,” Early ; said. BoardToHoM (Continued from page one) not passed state licenses require ments. Fluoridation; Reports from the State Board of Health relative to the addition of fluorine to the com munal water supplies of Dunn. Report on the American Fine in surance Group in which the insur ance on our fire trucks has been increased. Electric Motor and Repair of Ra leigh through a Mr. Ward asks us whether we wish to quote him a price we will take for our 60 b. p. water pump we have just removed from the water plant. turned a little pinker, but be said the answer was easy; betting on the horses and the fights. “I’d meet this bookmaker at lunch,” he said. "I must have made about $7,500 on the horse races. He’d give me tips, information on which horse was going to win.” The Congressmen were astound ed. Who was this generous book baker? A fellow named Packy, said Paul. The statesmen said they’d never heard of a bookie like that. “Wen, it was a fair trade,” said this ex-revenue man. “I used to pick the fights for him. I could tell him which man would win. I bad a very high rating on that And I guess I made the rest of my money on the fights.” Tax agent Hos rich ter said his biggest win was $1,400, one day last **#*B hone?” wondered Rep. I Cart T. Curtis <B., Neb,). Paul said he didn’t rightly remember, . “You mean to say you won $1,400 on a horse and you can’t remember "But you must have felt very Jorse,” Rip. collector J £ckcUklf FREEDOM OF INFORMATION A committee of the United Na tions has been in session for sev eral years, considering the prob lem of freedom of information. The idea is that the United Nations, by universay treaty,' will set up standards determining the nature and character of freedom of the press for the entire world. The American representative on this committee has been Carroll Binder, of the Minneapolis Tribune, a com petent editor. It has been obvious from the start that the real objective of this committee has not been freedom but suppression of freedom of the press in the interest of govern ments. Whereas Mr. Binder has been laboring to explain that free dom means freedom for the indi vidual, most of the European and Asiatic delegates seem to under stand that freedom means free dom for government. We have here a conflict in the basic philosophy of life—a conflict which has plagued the United States since Franklin D. Roose velt missed its import at Teheran in 1943. The American press does not assure its readers that its news is correct or true. It simply says: here is the way we present it and you can buy other newspapers and magazines: you can listen to radio and television. You can make up your own mind. The varieties of data and presentation will pro duce, in time, the truth. Granted that sometimes the press is excessive in editorializing news reports, a habit into which the Associated Press has fallen with a prodigality of adjectives, actual ly no one is forced to do anything. No one is forced to buy anything; anyone can refrain even from read ing or listening. Some of our pro fessors even boast that they never read newspapers; the ants and bees and atoms give them all the news they want. The United Nations crowd does not agree that freedom involves the right to do as one wills, pro vided the doer assumes full re sponsibility for his conduct. Car rqjl Binder once explained their problem in these words: “These governments are engaged in a terrifying experiment to con dition the minds of hundreds of millions of persons in an attempt to make them respond automati caly to the commands es their rul ers. In their hands information has been transformed from a means of enlightenment and understand ing into a political weapon taking any for mor shape required by the situation. It has become a knife to assassinate reputations, a drug to dull the senses, or a poison to instill suspicion and fear.” It is interesting that one of the phases of journalism that this United Nations committee wants to suppress is the peepholers on the ground that they disclose the pri vate doings of public characters. The theory is that character as sassination is accomplished by telling what the great men do in private, as, for instance, a-report on what George Alien says to Harry Truman about Ike Eisen hower at a poker game. This should be strictly secret, they feel. Os course, the peepholers are, in a sense, dangerous—but their danger is not that they tell the truth about public figures—or even falsehoods—butt hat they build up synthetic personalities, by popu larising immorality. Such empha sis may distort the attitudes of children gad adults with childlike minds. Nevertheless, the peepholer has his place in journalism because he does give the public the small items of . gossip for which the free human soul has a craving—even as you and I who maybe should know better. In a free society such as ours, if this element of journalism re quires a cleansing bath, public opinion will do it when it is ready. Divorce, for instance, cannot long remain of eaual merit with mar riage and those peepholers will ultimately prospar who have a re gard for human decency. TBs pub lic, In a free country, not the gov ernment, will decide that. ‘ The worship of government by so many United Nations delegates is a real peril to free peoples be cause they put their slavish the ories into treaties, employing the Aesopian language of diplomacy. One* such a treaty is sfened by Bur President and ratified by the it is Aasrtaui law and wiß he enforced by our courts. From the Standpoint of Ameri- theory, it U preferable to have TBK MM RECORD, DUNN. W. C. 5 “Hi, Hildegarde an’ Jack—sorry I can only stay a ; minute!” 4 quwsnKfoir dHsKBIRY-60-ROUND I WASHINGTON —A group of steel ■ executives sat in OPS headquarters 1 the other day 1 listening to OPS officials explain- a nice new price - formula by which the steel com -1 names would get a price increase under the Capehart amendment. 1 Most of the steel executives look -1 ed bored, twiddled their fingers, ' gazed out the window. ! Reason for looking out the win dow was not the approach of spring on the mall outside, but because it has become apparent that the ’ steel industry is not going to ac ; cept a rnodesf price increase merely 1 under the Capehart amendment but 1 wants a larger price increase above and beyond this to compensate for -a pending wage boost. So what the bored looks on steel executives’ faces meant was that | the American steel industry is heading for one of the biggest ' strikes the nation has seen in the 1 last decade. Here’ are the factors which make ; that strike just about as certaii} 1 as the setting of the sun tonight: 15 H CENT WAGE BOOST 1. THE WAGE STABILIZATION • BOARD IS RECOMMENDING A WAGE INCREASE FOR STEEL I WORKERS of about fifteen and 2 . half cents an hour. This increase : is based on accepted ; Indexes and the fact that other . workers, such as General Motors, . have enjoyed regular wage boosts ; while steel workers have been tied i down with a long-term contract. 2. THE OFFICn OF PRICE BTA [ BILIZATION WILL OPPOSE ANY ! PRICE BOOST TO COMPENSATE ! FOR THIS WAGE INCREASE. [ OPS will permit a price increase > under the Capehart amendment which probably will average out at : around $2.49 a ton. However, the i Capehart amendment covers cost > bf production increases only be ' tween the start of the Korean war - and July 1951. It does not include . cost of production increases since ■ last July. Therefore, the recom ’ mended wage boost Is not covered i by the Capehart amendment. i That was why steel executives > looked so bored when they met with - OPS officials last week. They were 1 not particularly. interested in the Capehart amendment increase . which is decreed by law and which • they knew they were going to get. ; What they were interested in was a l price increase to take care or the ) expected wags hike. This they knew they were not going to get. What they wanted was not $2.49 r a ton increase, but from $6 to $lO ■ a ton price Increase. And they knew they were not go ; ing to get this because the matter ■ has been discussed backward and' t forward inside the Truman admin - ; istration, and such friends of in i dustry as defense mobilisation I Charles E. Wilson and economic stabilizer Roger Putnam, with ex , Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia, now . price administrator,, have decided CUTIES ■ P\ \ // J/fjj im +w j ■ wtyf////// H \\ 1 «| hr, i against them. i They have decided first that steel i profits had skyrocketed •so high i that there was ample margin to ■ absorb the wage increase. They also i decided that an increase in the price of steel would knock a hole as big as a barn-door in the side , of price controls, and touch off a new wave of inflation. SKYROCKETING PROFITS Before he left OPS, ex-price czar i Di Salic sent a confidential memo - to his superiors which read: “Steel industry profits are run ' ning far above the industry earn ; ings standard which ESA has in structed me to use as a test for decisions on price increases. The excess above that standard is so large that the industry clearly can , absorb any reasonably probable i wage increase with a substantial margin left over for .other cost increases. “If a price increase were granted in spite of the industry's ability to absorb,” Di Salle continued, “the most serious consequences for the stabilization program must be en visaged.” Meanwhile, stabilization officials note a significant and vitally, im ! portant contrast between the >%Rt ; tude or labor and industry in l ßfb steel dispute. Whereas industry 1 leaders have been cool and un r cooperative, Phil Murray, head of • the CIO United Steel Workers, three j times has postponed a strike waiting 1 for the government to reach a de cision. This means, according to high r placed stabilization leaders, that in ; dustry, not labor, will be striking aginst the government—if It fails ! to accept the government’s wage t recommendations. That’s also why, t for the first time, there’s talk of s the government seizing the steel t plants, not in a move against la - bor, but in a move against indus ’ try. . At any rate, the showdown date is this week-end, and if the gov ernment doesn’t step in, fires in the blast furnaces will start being banked day after tomorrow. WASHINGTON PIPELINE - Senator Butler, the new Repub lican from Maryland, who McCar thy used to defeat Senator Tydings, is still jittery over what the Jus tice Department will do about the Maryland election scandals. Butler has written a letter to Senate col leagues virtually asking if they egged the FBI into probing his campaign'expenditures. . . . Credit Congressman Cecil King with Up ping the scales for Civil Service for tax coUectois. His radio appeal, on top of his tax-corruption probe, helped defeat even such powerful senators as Geoqge of Georgia and Millikin of Colorado. . . . Real rea son why OOP senators McCarthy and Mundt went after Newbold Morris so hard was to head off any probe of certain senators. They know that if Morris ever gets sub (Conti ntied on Page I) Walter Wiochell In A New York The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse program cancelled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” on the grounds that “It is too controversial” .... The American Legion will beat Its drams for “My Son John,” the Helen Hayes film, because of its handling of Reds .... Showmen wonder why ANTA’s matinee seats for "Golden Boy” should sell for $4.60 when “South Paci fic” (with stars) charges lots less .... FRD gets the heftiest hand clapping in the current newsreel flashbacks of candidates. . . The revival of “Pal Joey” at the Broadhnrst is doing a mightier box office business than the ori ginal. The high spots remain the contagions songs of Rodgers A Hart. . . . Equity revealed that the average player worked only 10 weeks last season. Yon can’t eat greasepaint Truman (Capote, an astrology devotee, re fused to let “The Grass Harp” go Into rehearsal until the stars above “were favorable” . . . The only theater in town where the actors’ calls (half hour and 15 minutes!) are announced in French is at the fulton, where “Gigi” is the hit. To maintain the Parisian atmosphere. “The Continental,” the charac ter via the cameras who coos at fe males. has been attracting con siderable attention in the papers and mags. Harriet Van Horne, the teevy reporter, described him as Just another headwaiter you might encounter in the 52nd Street places. How he manages to do his stuff with a straight face eludes the giggler. . . Katharine Cornell told an interviewer she reads only the good notices. Snubs the snubs. . . . Tthe new Normandie movie temple on West 57th Street is snaz zy. It’s coffee lounge is more lavish than many swank spots. . . . The camera work is de luxe over at “Viva Zapata.” Some of the pho tographic stunners are worth fram ing. Downright artistic. . . Have a skeleton-rattler: Theater Arts mag disclosed that Herald Trlb drama Kerr co-authored 3 Broad way flops. . . The upcoming drama fetUud “Josephine" will revolve, about a 16-year-old harlot . . Oh, please! DeMille’s “Greatest Show On Earth” (his 69th film) is charac teristically colossal. It includes 85 clrcns acts. . . One of Time mag’s reviewer listed every flaw in a film before the final line described it as “slick entertain ment” .. Sam Goldwyn is no easy audience. Twenty-two scripts of his “Hans Christian Anderson” picture were discarded before one was considered usable . . . Add songs that rate being en cored: Gershwin’s delightful “Someone to Watch Over Me” -. . . Lao McCarty had only par tially completed “My Son John” (starring Helen Hayes) when ' Robert Walker died. The studio not only found someone with a voice like Walker’s but also a visuqj double. . . Sol Lesser, pro ducer of the Tarzan films, is on the prowl for an unusual girl for his next RKOpus, “Cave Girl.” he must swim like a fish, ran like a deer, fight like a tiger, climb like a monkey and hug like a bear. June Allyson rates a cookie for candor. Described her film, “Too Young to Kiss,” as “awful”, June is always expert even when the scripts betray hir. . . If you lose courage easily, paste this on your typewriter; Six years went into the writing and re-writing of 8. N. Behrman’s play, “Jane,” before it entered the Main Arena ... Fred Robbins, of the disc-jockey tribe, is the glibbest. He articulates at tractively on “Songs for Sale” . . . What interested us most while viewing newsmen was Don Hollen beck’s delivery via CBS. The leg end (among some teevy people) is that newsmen shouldn’t read *he bulletins. Hollenbeck reads them and gives the impression of auth enticity. . . The fellows alio read theirs from teleprinters look wor ried. As though the machines (out of the viewer’s sight) might break down and then what?. . . The one to feel sorry for is the masculine chap whose lips often make like a nance. George Britton’s Massing in “South Pacific” b fine. A tasty voice *h»t gives out. with Uwn froT "Patat Y°our Wage'slTS gUntenable, hot our pet is “I tared You Once and J Always jenm a . . . • A bar- When" . . . . If are ia the » affchheny artw a 4eUfkffal tjrpemller. . . « SluUHMMare was MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17, 1951 The Worry Clinic Mp By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE .S jL —~B-gg=B=, . Look around your neighborhood. Do bachelors or married men look older? And how about spinster* versus housewives? Wives, beware of taking men’s arrnments seriously! Give a man children regardless of his protest. CASE D-307: Hilda R.. aged 46. recently came to me in tears. “Dr. Crane, my husband says he is getting a divorce,” she jobbed, “for he insists that he wants to have children. “Well, I always wished to have babies and tried to persuade him to let me have them while I was •young. “But for 20 years he insisted he didn’t want any ’brats’ messing up the house and crying at all hours so he couldn't sleep. “After many futile attempts, I finally gave up and reconciled my self to a childless home. But I have done everything else in my power to be a good wife to my hus band. "Now he suddenly decides he wants an heir and blames me for not having given him one. He says if I had borne him some children, he wouldn't divorce me now. “But it was all his fault that we didn't have babies, yet he seems conveniently to forget that fact and thrusts all the blame on me.” WIVES. BEWARE Cases like Hilda's are constantly coming to Marriage Counsellors, so I am citing her dilemma as a warning to you younger wives. Men are often very illogical crea tures. They may protest disinterest in babies but if you give them a couple, they will usually be quite delighted with the children. However, if you take them at their word, as Hilda did, they may later turn upon you and criticize you because they say you cheated them out of a family. So play the batting averages and have your children, despite your husband’s grumbling protests. It’s far better to have a minor quarrel at this time than later to suffer a divorce because you are toe old to bear children . YOUTH TONICS Children also serve as a youth tonic for your middle age I By America's Foremost Personal Affairs Counselor YOUNG MATRON LONGS- TO ESCAPE HER PARENTS’ HOME WHERE SHE IS STYMIED BY PAMPERING. DEAR MARY HAWORTH: My husband and I and our twin daugh ters, age 3, live with my parents in a large modern house. All my life I have dreamed of having my own home—but the family does not respect my desires. There is no fi nancial problem Involved, and my , husband and my parents are very contented that we are all together. When I talk to mother about leaving her and starting house keeping on my own, she -cries and says she cannot bear to be in this big house alone. We lost my two brothers in the late war and she took their loss very hard. My lit tle girls have given her another interest, and she devotes a great deal of time to them, reading to them, putting them to bed and the like. i I guess lam a little jealous, be cause realizing what mother has been through, I resent her being so nice to my children, and doing the things I would like to do. 3he is a wonderful woman and I wouldn’t want to hurt her for the world. She does so much for me that I really feel ashamed of my atti tde, of wanting to break away and be on my own,—especially when the whole family Is against me. My husband will not let me go t<f work and leave the children with my mother; and I feel left out at home, although there Is close har mony amongst us. Am I selfish in wanting to be Independent? If so, is there some way I can overcome this frustrated fseiing? You any feel that my problem Is too mail —*——■ j' i. «- ——■--.ft..,. Initatibas”. . . Onoejsiikshi n~ "The Shrike,” starring Jose Fer rer, is romping along to hefty busi ness and will rata high among the top mints. This thriUodrama was produced for legs than IMARA . . . Hie difference between m*| lights and footlights: The “Hans Christ ian Andersen” film has one sot ting teat cost $200,000. That's tee price of tire average Broadway mu eral*cunen’t movie features, from still in stitches They even give parents a much better understanding of medical problems, for you get to see measles and chicken pox, mumps and whooping cough at first hand. They stimulate our thinking, too, by their constant queries, so we must consult an encyclopedia to satisfy their demands. In addition, they make us better citizens, for we become more criti cal of unprotected street crosslnes . or railroad tracks. We also note the presence of taverns and other dangerous elements in our com munity. Because we realize it is right and proper to give them a sound, moral training, we send them to Sunday School. And If they complain that we parents stay at home, many of us thereupon snap out of our lethargy to set our youngsters a good exam : pie on Sunday. Even our vocabulary improves, too, for we dare not teach our children the rough or vulgar speech that might otherwise issue from our Ups. HAVE THREE CHILDREN They also keep our attention ex troverted upon the current genera , tion and its problems. So we watch : the school athletic events and keep t abreast of social affairs of young ’ people. Besides, they make .parents less - likely to quarrel, for adults will i often hesitate to flaunt their pri vate feuds in front of young chil dren. Unfortunately, they don’t curb : parents entirely, but .they do exer cise a wholesome partial restraint : in this regard. If you want to grow old prema turely, don’t have chUdren. Then you will become altnost as set in ; your ways and as out of contact I with reaUty as the typical spinster or bachelor. I But if you wish to stay young, r have at least three chUdren so they can keep your attention off your - own aches and pains and on the > more constructive things of Use. ; To improve your batting average as good parents, send for my 100- point “Tests for Fathers and Moth -1 ers,” enclosing a stamped return envelope plus a dime. to consider; but I do hope you will advise me.—A. Y. SHE IS CAUGHT IN BEAR TRAP DEAR A. Y.: Actually you have a very big problem. The family < group In which you live, in captive role, is denying you the experience of growth—towards self reliance, psychological maturity, social ef fectiveness, satisfactory relatedness, - contrtbutive value to others, etc. In many respects you are treated . as negligently, by parents and hus , band, as if you were non-existent— at least, as an adult candidate for { privileges and responsibilities suited . to your literal status as wife and , mother. Thus there is real justi- i , flea tion for your sense being “left out” (of Inner circles) at home; — > even though you are pampered to , some extent by coercive "smother”- i love that won’t let you function as , * capable woman. As matters stand, you are being . callously sacrificed to the co-eqpal’ i selfishness of your mother and your , husband, each of whom would “pos i sees” you as an accessory to their , own comfort; and neither of whoop is willing to adapt, constructively, 1 , to your needs of development. ’ MOM IS TRYING TO EVADF UFE - Without knowing what she is dor . Ing or why. your mother is putting 1 on a pigmy performance of that legendary king who ordered the 1 ocean tides to recede. She ia trying to •’armst" the swift flow- of life, ’ the onward inarch of tee genera tions. She is trying to turn beck 1 the clock In her experience, to the phase when her children were small ( and dependent, and her home a teeming center of events, in which ‘ tee was the .important figure having authority over all that af fected the chUdren. Granted that the lorn of her sons . was a mighty blew, stUl it domn*t , entitle her to oonsume your Use, . figuratively, as if bTrecooipehm. Had the boys survived the war, own in time. (Or would she have ( ; held them In thrall too. making ' them nonentities under her wing?). The inner significance of her be ‘ haviour^ rigidity. She re-