PAGE SIX Wxt Baiitx, Jlrcwd DUNN, N. <3. ~ PehlielMd RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY -* * £ At XU East Canary Street : 'Rational advertising representative §1 ; : s THOMAS P. CLARK CO., INC. f ; $ SW-217 K iZnd St, New York 11, N. Y. Branch Offices In Iwrj Major City 13® ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CMffff’ SO cents fir week; f&M per year tat tiwnni fS far six inearths; $S far three T-r-the « TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RTTRAI BOOTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: BN nsr year; (EM far sb months; VI hr three si satis HTT-Or-rtTATE- (AM per year In advance: IS far sis cssix » far three menthe Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N- C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879. Every afternoon, Monday through Friday. Yes The Public Should Know This week the Daily Record was viciously attacked bjr an editorial run in Dunn’s three-day a week publica tion. The attack was as weak in its facts as the publica tions attempt to present the facts set forth in the Rec ords editorial. ?* First of all, the publication cited a Record editorial in - which we called on the proponents of the Recreation Commission and pushers of recreation to come out in the open and say if an increase would be needed to institute a program in Dunn. At no point in the editorial did the Record say, im ply, or even vaguely hint that it was opposed to recrea tion in Dunn. * Nor did the Record say or imply it was or for that matter, was not for a tax increase. Maybe it would be good try restate the facts and call on the writer of the three-day a week publication to re-read the Record’s state ments. , Trickery, yes. At anytime a person calls on the peo ple of Dunn, or any other community, to vote on a tax without saying if it will or will not increase taxes (with the statement, “Don’t tell them,”) we call it trickery. Is there another name for such skullduggery? The Record has not proposed to tell the people of Dunn there will be an increase in ..taxes. Re-read the edi torial, Mr. Editorial writer. We asked the question would or Would not the tax mean an increase. In fact, our edi torial pointed out that Dunn’s City Manager has stated that a study would be necessary to tell whether or not an increase will be necessary. As to whether an increase is or is not inevitable, all thfiiJtecord can point to is the record of expenditures in 1903 and 1952. Was there enough surplus last year to support the program Possibly, if the necessary surplus had been drastically cramped. Was there necessary funds in '1952? Not unless a $12,000 or more deficit could be construed to be a surplus. i (Inevitable no we suppose not if the present pro gram is to be cut some SIO,OOO to $15,000. . >Now let us take a look at the points made in the edi totfid which the tri-weekly publication has attacked. We Quote directly from it: aIH.S i A balanced recreation program is an asset to any • slty. Surveys have shown that in places having such L; *1 program, crime has been reduced, property value has increased, and the general physical condition and health of the community has been bettered. Dunn is for all of these things. But not for trickery. I*t the people decide. Place before the public all p| r the facts. If a recreation tax of 10 cents on the Hundred will mean the present tax rate will have to be increased, tell the people so. Likewise, if the tax »te could be decreased if the program were not insti tuted, tell them that. Anything less than this type of information on the program will slap of dictatorship by a few, and will result in the slow death of the free dom of a. democracy. ; "What do you say Mr. Editorial Writer? Do we stand up in favor of full information, or shall we be satisfied Wittraccepting a pig in a poke. Or do you mean what was ptmted on the same page with your attack did you ®*j|® ty when you headed another editorial, “The Public • r~ ■— r Frederick OTHMAN WAtemOTON Twm ths day “ before Christmas and all •oough the capital nothing was stirring and a fine feeling this Fo» Um first time In many years House was ablaae wltn light for the holidays and It was beautiful. President Eisenhower liWM tbe precedents set by the ltatti.'. Roosevelt and Truman, whottoually spent Christmas far trota Washington, and switched on his own Christmas tree in the back yard, of Abe Executive Mansion. was a pleasing thing for everybody, except the Western tJhfcp Tdegraph Company, which •dWt get Jbe chance to set up a tongfdistAjioe wire and a golden key ion ftqsidential Christmas tree * to** ut y ot thls Christmas, ; the optimism of the from the President and Uif» Secretory ot State on down, BMP* peace. This bucked UP aa| hands hereabouts and in my than 20 yean the ■spewr has been cheerier. AjJpSjp l * seemed to be good rm ranged from hopeful re though it was. in • hSfltaing far more vigorously on sale at the ■Vim p" - Much of the nation has a whits Christmas and that pained no one except the Midwest weatherman who predicted snow flurries and then almost didn’t get to work be cause of a blissard. Our local weather prognosticator couldn’t make up his mind. It was cold st this writing and the sun was shin ing. but there’s no telling what an other few hours will bring. My Christmas celebration out In McLean, Va.. to having 1U quiet momenta, too. I got our Christinas tree up without breaking a lag and it to such s whopper that I soaped brown marks on the ceiling with It Then X strung the lights from lost year and to my amassment they all Ut The Job of patting on the jingle hone I turned over to Hilda; she bought some new once and they were beauties. Made to toe V. 0. A, too. Chrtotosas ehopptog was no problem this year tor me; my bride bought her own gifts to the form of some dresses As was sun would fit and an I gat for her was a flve-csnt candy bar, bama—wiy gift-wrapped, so she'd have same thtog undo the tree; My own gift from ho to then, too, waiting the heavy for its stos and wte£ shako! it gurglai. I trust ft to not a Jug of maple syrup. . t ~ There'* nothing much else undo our tree except a pan of wmtor and ss-sss These Days © * SOME FUNNY TEACHERS Some months ago, I wrote of a peculiar questionnaire about the private lives of schoolchildren which a parent had sent to me. Subse quently I received a letter from a Brooklyn schoolteacher who attack ed me as “an average parent.” Par ents have been around a long time, much longer than schoolteachers. Most parents feel that they do the best they can for their children. This teacher is very class-consc ious. He wrote: “You are a practicing journalist and I am a practicing teacher. You can tell me plenty about your trade; I can tall you something about edu cation. Have you ever visited the school during school week? Have you ever conferred with the teach ers of your children or haven't you been sufficiently Interested?" I would not call myself a prac ticing journalist, the term being foreign to my trade. We do not practice on anybody or anything. We are workers in a trade which requires some little skill and a great deal of patience. Maybe, it takes more skill to be a teacher; I would not know, not having taught school since 33 years ago when I tried my hand at it for a spell. I presume that each trade re gards its own as the most difficult, as when physicians look down their noses at dentists, or when music ians always say that everybody else is no good. In our business, it to diffiicult to go to much for self praise as no cover-up for laxlness and ignorance to available, as edi tors, usually tough creatures, will tear your eyes out on the least pro vocation. Also, the public can be ungenerous to a writer whose work stands nude and cold to be read or rejected, to be praised or cursed. Teachers have It much easier. I should imagine, because they can always blame “the system." The schoolteacher goes further; “They (he quotes me) want to know whether toe family own a radio or television.’ You bet. Hut shows how progressive the schools are. We can slant our lessons by corelating what toe child hears on radio or sees on television.” I thought that we sent our child ren to school to learn how to read and write, how to do arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, Latin.' his tory, French and similar subjects. Surely I do not send them to school to gain knowledge from the “Cis co Kid," or "Martin Kane. Pri vate Eye.” or "Crime Busters” or from those sexy dames, who if they have no abnormal bosoms, buy them for exhibition purposes, imagine Wanting lessons to the tune of Mil ton Berle or Sid Caesar! This teacher says r “ . . . Radio and television de- termine our assignments for home work, both as to tone and Content. The assignment is richer and full er when it to related to radio and television ..." , r ' I hope no teachers Who are to Inspire my children slant the les sons and determine “our assign ments for homework," to toe tune of a bebop orchestra. T do not deny that good urograms do aopear, hut precisely what do they have to do With school homework? What for Instance, appears oh radio or tele vision that will help a child pass the Coll eve Entrance Examinations? Obviously something is Wrong with the educational process when one encounter* teen-agers, In high school, who know nothing about their own country and its govern ment. Something is wrong when so many of our troops In the re cent wan did so badly in their literacy and intelligence testa. Per haps we should rive examinations in toe doing of “WUd Bill Hlckok” and “'Hopalong Cassidy" to dis cover an aptitude for engineering. , Perhaps a parent might elk toe high school boy a few question* In American history or in vieivs. Ask him how • President to etoetid tad how the Constitution to amended, I recently heard e story about a well-known figure who told a Ha waiian that the best way for Ha waii to get statehood to to elect two Republican Senators and then thev could get statehood. Imagine that! Maybe toe radio and television programs wen not adequately slan ted for this man Soon he was younger. Perhaps Bob Hope—l am sun ot it—could have educated him that Hawaii could net elect Sen (ton before it was admitted to statehood. .. It would seem to me that toe tone is coming for toe parents to free the school from “practicing teachers.” < baked by kindly relatives, bent on making me fat AH tola of course. Is a minor matter. What gives me real Chrtotmaa Joy to the fact that you AS DAILY MSOOSD, DUNN. NL a MISTER BREGER “The whole town’s so PROUD of him—he got three years off for good behavior!” tLyttSißinw WASHINGTON lt is now ex actly one year since Dwight Elsen hower entered the White House, a year that has been one of great education and has seen great changes. Here to a thumbnail sketch of the Ike of today: Ike and business—A year ago Eisenhower’s economic theories sounded like a national association of manufacturers phamphlet. Now he has swung back halfway to to? ideas expressed at the F Street Club right after the war which so shocked Republican backers. "If men’s lives were conscripted in war time,” Ike said at the F Street Club dinner, “Why shouldn't profits be conscripted too?”. ..Ike to more conservative than in those im mediate prewar years, but less so than a year ago. Today he doesn’t believe in a complete hands-off policy toward business. Nor does he believe that the doctrine of states’ rights, so loudly proclaimed a year ago. constitutes a cure-all for everything. IKE AND ECONOMY—NO longer does the president believe he can balance toe budget. Nor does he View government-spending with anathema, as be did a year ago; He is willing to put his foot in govern ment-spending water as an offset to recession worries. But he to a long way from taking the big spending plunge ... And some ot the economists around him recall that If takes a lot of spending to halt a business slide once it starts .. Ike has changed his mind about creeping socialism and the Tennes see Valley, has already set aside $105,000,000 to start another “creep ing eocialtom" project on toe St Lawrence, once toe seeway projects passes Congress.. .The economy bloc In the Elsenhower administration, notably Secretary George Hum phrey and Budget Director Jos Dodge, still remain Ike’s close friends, but he doesn’t follow their advice as much as formerly ... Sometimes toe chief executive to unhappily torn between the two wings of his official family. MEN AROUND IKE—A man who’s had little experience In civilian government to almost com pletely dependent on toe men around him. That’s why it's signifi cant that a new flank of advisers has moved in around the president .. .They aren't liberal by toe Harry Hopkins standard, but they are far more progressive than the hig-busi ness golfing partners who used to move over from See hu»wa to Augusta when Ike went to the “Georgia White House”. ..Some wiseacres call them “hucksters" rather than liberals, and it’s true CUTIES ICdTHW CIUMPIOWfIIfff «N*vgr Mind THAT! J«st comment op the figure lh< , that the new flank Is passionately concerned with upping Ike’s Oallup Poll rating ... However, they in clude Kevin McCann, president of the Defiance College, Charles Moore, up-and-coming former public-relations adviser to Ford Motors; Dr. Arthur Burns, liberal head of the council of economic ad visers; C. D. Jackson, former pub lisher of Fortune Magazine and the man who pushed Ike into toe atomic-pool speech, and Robert Cutler, Boston banker who got In to the White House through Justice Felix Franfurter . . . This group to unanimously opposed to the right wing OOP. They are pulling Ike to get back to the middle-of-the-road course where he once had toe sup port of many Democrats. IKE AND CONGRESS—Con gressional relations to a field that greatly worries the President. At first he figured he could “good-will'’ members of Congress, that White House luncheons, personal conver sations would keep congressmen In line. . . Now he to a wiser man. Nothing but a strong and success ful policy, he has begun to realize, can keep Congress with him. . . . And he still hasn’t learned this com pletely. . . . When Benator Know land kicked over tne traces on tun neling of defense orders to depres sed areas; When Sam Rayburn re acted vigorously to criticism of De mocratic spending, toe President was hurt and bewildered. He still to a long way from understanding politics. VEERING TOWARD EUROPE IKE AND FOREION POLICY This to the field that Elsenhower knows best and where he to deter mined to chalk up notable achieve ments. Here he has been more con sistent than in domestic policy, but sometimes so cautious that his own advisers get impatient. . . It took time to get him to make the $15,- 000,000 food gift to East Germany last spring, a move actually Initia ted by the State Department and which met with immediate success. Later, when an old-clothes drive was planned to help the East Ger mans, the summer White House to Denver misplaced Chancellor Kon rad Adenaur’s letter for three weeks and the clothes drive never did get under way. . . . The President ato.-' hesitated three months before he made hto speech proposing the pool ing of atomic energy, and the speech was rewritten more than 30 times.... on foreign affairs generally, Iks has switched from the China Bloc’s view that toe UHA. must concen trate on the far east. He to now veering more toward Europe. . .. Hto overall pilodes remain the same Walter Wmehell In New York Broadway Smalltalk: The Copa reports toe 3-week booking of Mar tin & Scrlewis is practically sold out . . . It’s a son for toe R. Greers at Dr's Hosp. Pop’s the mag writ er . . . Texas oil man "Slip” Pratt heads for Our Town every weekend to woo actress Patricia Wheel . . . Eleanor Holm returned silverware to Billy Rose that King George 111 owned . . . Arthur Godfrey’s men tion of the Miami cold spell won him no pals on the Florida gazettes. We Yankees never pay no mind when the same Suthinners front page Manhattan's blizzards. (Shucks manl) . . . Mac Kriendler greets every femme entering his “31” with a big kiss. When La Jorgensen walked in—he started to—-and then let his puckered lips dangle. You had to witness it to enjoy it . . . Tip for the Quick-Buck Crowd; The Gov't taxes embezzlers but not swindlers. Manhattan Murals: The Evan gelist in midtown who peeaches that all should help the poor. Ar rives night In a ’S3 Caddy . . . The hot-rod mama (In her 7*s) who pilots a souped-up Jaguar (with Conn, plates) along Park Avenue every a-m. . . . The painters work ing on buildings minus gloves In the icy weather ... The violent feud on Broadway (a* 45th) between The Gardenia Lady and The Bal loon Man. She sticks pins In hto merchandise and he tips over her boxes . . . The pink galoshes for puppy-dawgx at Hammacher Schle miner's on 57th . . . Only 115. Midtown Melodrama; Atfn, Po lice Comm. Adams: It happened at 5:15 a. m. last Sunday ... An 18th Pet. Radio Car cruising on West 54th saw flames shootlmr from the ground floor at 54 W. 64th . . . Cops Kalbacher and Mackey shout ed for the fire wagons (over their two-way radio) and dashed into the building to waken tenants and lead them to safety ... As Patrol man Kalbacher staggered out (with smoke-burned eyes) a Fire Lieu tenant started bawling him out for double-parking the police car. He ordered him to move It . . • The cop fell over exhausted after using some choice language to tell the Are officer he was too busy to look for a parking space . . . "Get hto number I” said the Lieutenant. •That’s Insubordination!” . . . The hell It 1$ ... If he had lost another moment several tenants might have been smoke casualties . . . Those cope rate medals! Sounds In the Night: At Cerut tl’i: "The probes es Communists In New York' college* prove we have the moot educated rate In the world” ... At Major’o Cabin: "He's one of her old beaux-and-oeo" . . . At Dnlbrow’o: "Some guys get mar ried so thev can have a home to leave a Wife In” ... At Lindt's: “He’s got answers for everything but questions” ... At U Toot "A torch Is when von remember her faee long after she’s forgotten your name." Hie Niuht Watch: Mvsterv man Harry Blivh, a soender in the lute snots, dropped deed during the holi days . . . Philip Wylie’s new book. “Tomorrow.” is an excitinv novel about an Imagined Star Jet “blit*” of toe U.S.A. ... Bandleader Lucky Millinder isn’t so luckv. His ex-wlfe to pursuing him for back alimony . . . American Weekly woman’s edi tor Adele Fletcher broke her met tles', ankle In a smashup . . . Dean , Parker wopdere if anvone’* noticed ; that Rubirosa and Million* have the same number of letter* . . . 1 After 100 years McSorlev’s Old Ale ! House still sell* beer for a dime. 1 It’ll be a Century old Feb. ITth . . . It’s lrontc. but the heiress to a tvp- • leal U. 8. fortune (toe 5 ft 10 Wool- 1 worth fortune) ha* married 5 men I not one American-bom. Two • Princes, a Count and Dominican- i bom Rubirosa ... How about : Carey Orant? He was bom In Brit- j ain. i a* those laid down In the Truman administration but, after all, both Dulles and Elsenhower were among those appointed to carry those po licies forward. IKE THE MAN—After one year In toe White House, toe president works harder than before. Sensitive to criticism that he to lazy, he plays Isas golf and more himself. During early months as prddant Ike tried to delegate al most everything, even bawled out hto staff when they called him book from Burning Tree on the instruc tion of the national security council to make a major decision on Korea. The president still loses hto temper, still chews out hto staff, stffl likes to delegate authority. It to them bunts of temper that send up his ......... i,i.., Wednesday afthwoon, inipAjff sk *93* The Worry Clinic By Dr. Geo'ae W. Crone Charley’s problem troubles many modern parents. The BlbUeal Prodigal B*n was rained by hit todolgcnt father because be received a cash gift. Instead, subsidise your newlywed children or grandchil dren with down payment* on g homo of thdir own and pay for each new grandchild. By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE Case K-310: Charley H„ aged 67. to a wealthy banker. “Dr. Crane, I have a grandson who to my namesake," he said, “and he Just got married a few weeks ago. . “He to working hard to get a toe-hold in the business world, but can barely meet hto expenses. “I’d like to help him financially, but I realize the dangers of sub sidizing young folks. “In fact, I’ve seen remittance men whose wealthy dads rulqed them by educating them to look to their family for regular handouts 'of cash. “So what do you psychologists recommend in the way of aiding young married couples?” DOLLARS AND HORSE SENSE In pioneer days, the young bride received pewter and bedding and other household equipment to help set up housekeeping. The men of the region banded together to assist the young hus band erect a loft cabin. But the neighbors didn’t continue to feed the couple or keep them on a community “dole” thereafter. Nowadays our young married folks deserve similar aid at the start of their marriage. But the financial assistance should not be a regular cash allowance of SSO per weak to add to their current expenses. For that immediately inflates their living standard. They cul tivate luxurious habits which make it almost impossible for them ever to drop back to the husband’s pay check. But wealthy in-laws can very profitably make a down payment of SI,OOO to $6,000 on a little home far the newlyweds. Or a similar grub stake might be made for the down payment on a small business, such as a gasoline station, garage, farm, etc. Thereafter, the yoqng couple’s monthly rent payment would finish paying off the rest ot the puiriuee price. STABILIZE MARRIAGE Such cash invested In homes or small business ventures, doesn't inflate the weekly Income of the young couple. So R doesn’t encourage an abnormal living standard. , , But It.does help stabilize the marriage. It to far better to give newlyweds $5,000 on a home of their own NOW, than to bequeath them $25,000 some 30 years hence when they may not need it, anyway For a fixed home alts encourages a young couple to stay rooted In the same community and thus doesn’t handicap their children by fre quest moves from one school district to another. Furthermore, it Is desirable for prospective grandparents to help subsidise the newlyweds re hospital and medical costs for new babies! rre known of such beneficial subsidies which produced 4 or 6 grand fhUdren where the couple would otherwise have Umlted their f-miiy to one or two children. y „ . 8o K you °ider to-laws want to do the most good for your newly weda, give them a down payment on a home or small business and underwrite the cost of your grandchildren. This aid Is ideal divorce Insurance. It will make more stable-dtl atswsvar ** tt ** r r&jn**** Furthermore those grandchildren win make better marks because they^ progress through the same school from kindergarten till «<gW'h sind formy bulletin “How to Run a Home on a Budget,” enclosing a stamped return envelope, plus a dime. It also .tells how much you dare Invest in a new home. *tc. ... y (Copyright fcy-thft Hopkins Syndicate, las.) HUHf Hancrth* foil •y Aronrkg'a fortitogt Pwroowl Affair* Coumein UNMARRIED WOMAN. 51. HAS HELPS) FAMILY FOR U YEA**. SHOULD SHE CONHMiSwT DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Just where—do ypu think—does one’s duty to others stop, and ons’i duty to self begin? I am a woman of, 67. have worked about 35. rears, and much of that time have had a fair* lv good Income. But I have dressed from the bargain basement the en tire time and cut cornet* financial- W. because of the poverty, (lints* and general Inability to cope in my family—which touched my I can’t be happy when person* T love (or anyone else) ore to heed It Just ton't possible for me to go off on a trip when a methher of the family needs dental oar# or new clothes. But now t&st the age for retirement la breathing down my neck, and my sayings are pretty meager. I begin to wonder whether my appropriate headwear. Is a halo or a dunce cap. Right now I don’t know whether it is my duty to clean out my aaieß bank account and take up the mort gage; or whether to. hold on to what I have, and let the ships fan where they may in my kinfolks af faire. My concern, reafly, is wtmt Is required by God? I wish to «1 what to right and aeesptapto to Hto tight. To what lengths should one flfflow the words—“ Bell what thou hast and give to the poor." AH the way? My youth was spent to poverty. The fight for an education, the struggle through lean yean, was so hard, that I fed (Ire greatest compassion for the unfortunate. 7 am unmarried. Bve atone, work, hard and toad a rather lone su letence—not “rushed" by my family exact*! This letter to go sketchy that I am not sdro you get the uic ture; but it would take team* to teU the story and IT more you that-X shall appreciate your eettmate of me, and any advice far the present and future. x Y. not AND com over, theologian* tell i» that we cannot carp constructively ,for othenriuntU our bask needs are mdt: that to, until pur giving, to an oretflow of the substance we ac tually poMeos—whether of money or Ytodqm .OV worldly knowledge. When w« share wiA others to a spirit of 'abundance,'our offering tends to retoro to us mulUpli*? But plyih we give dutifully, uncer tainly. wKtr’anxiety—with a sense toss on both jddas. .In the latter rem.’tohat to riven to deed torn to thi fiver usually, without really helping the redolent either. Fer haps the influential factor to either meg to the “power of thought" be hind the transaction. . DON’T FORFEIT SPUNK-SFARKER Now that you are .nearing retire ment age. with some misgivings about future maintenance, you Wight,, for peace of mind, to con serve what sayings ybu have. Not Mow for the sake of the money, but for the spiritual tonic, the en ergttng value, of knowing you have eagh. in r sen tutor emergency; for vMttkr. .Any modest buffer against want helps to keep *Uve in the brsa«t a glowing mftH i es spunky bXtopondsncc -the flame of tom pwament that keeps one’s person dlty adventurous and potentially product!vs. . About your family, tt seems to me yon are spoiling than, by taedng than to suppose theet you’ll always be ratty, wffilwg and able to ac commodate their need*, sacrificial hr-So long, as they entertain that Wtton. > so tong at you aneourag* times to to thev w.mt make the ef ht. to icut ■ to their yourself to tor, with no dvtae to to hroSfefi^Sot l ii?ma^ r t sst her in care Os mm

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