PAGE FOUR ith? r ;r -i .MJNIV N L Published By RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Canary Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATTVF THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC m-m E. Mad St., New York 17 N « Branch Offices Id Ever; Majot Oi*» SUBSCRIPTION RATES «v CARRIER• to cents l>er week; SJj.SO per year Id nirjnw s tar six months; $3 for three months . * -en » r.n «> < u ivu-. I's ll .<»KTH tKlil.l' v It' At it.invh-, 32 fn’ ’’ for three months uitered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Durn. N C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1878 Evprv aftemr/on, Monday through Friday Outstanding Act of Citizenship One of America’s far-reaching organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, is marking its 44th birthday during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7 to 13. On this notable milestone we find the Boy Scout movement at its peak in member ship. Today 2,440,000 boys are enjoying the “game of Scout ing” in its three distinct programs, Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting and Exploring, eacn appealing to boys of various age levels. We seldom stop to think that this great work is made possible largely through the active sponsorship of the church, the school and other community institutions. But perhaps even more significant is the fact that some 860,- 000 adults share their time as volunteer leaders with the boyhood of America. Theirs is a devoted service. A large number have serv ed for many years. Boy Scout Week this year has been dedicated to hon oring the Cubmasters, the Scoutmasters and the Explorer Advisors the men who bring Scouting directly to the boys. To them has been entrusted the care and guidance of cur boys and young men. It is their influnce upon the Scouts of today, with whom they work and play, that help mould these boys and young men into better citizens and better proponents of the American way of life. These unselfish men who give leadership in Scouting are performing an outstanding act of citizenship. Our na tion owes them much. Frederick OTHMAN WASHINGTON I was sitting there, red-handed, when up strolled George P. Larrick, deputy commis sioner of the Food and Drug Ad ministration. The man responsible for my crimson paws. j So I told him my trobies. The other night Hilda was in a hurry to get the dinner cooked shjj. asked nie, pleasC, would I wash a# few sweet potatoes, dry "em grease 'em and place same in the oven to bake? Well sir, they were the prettiest sweet potatoes I ever did see; a deep scarlet like the map of Russia. So I put ‘em in the sink and the water turned pink. I dried ‘em and got red on the cup towels. I put cooking cil on ‘em and it dribbled red on the stove aod the floor. Quickly I slammed ‘em in the oven and was in the fidst of clean ing. all over the place. Then she looked at my hands. They were the color of raw beefsteak. This shocked her, and as I told Larrick, his Food and Drug Administration is respon sible. Why in the name of all -that’s honest does he allow the dealers in sweet potatoes to dye them red? Larrick said I’d pouheed on him at the exact, psychological moment. Even as he examined the stains re maining on my hands, he said the Administration’s chemists were worrying about the colors going n to and in particular opto foods. On January 18, he said the Ad ministration wouid open formal hearings on the subject of whether orange growers wouid be allowed to continue tinting their fruits orange color with coal tar dyes. The trouble is, he said, that some orangei, particularly in Florida, are still green-clored when fully ripe. Citizens in other parts of the land refuse to buy ‘em that color, so the packers have been dyeing them to make them look as sweet as they actually are. This has been perfect ly legal Each orange has born the stamp:' artificially colored. “Some of these dyes used on oranges and in certain cakes, can dies, and soda pops,” said Larrick, ‘‘were approved 40 years ago as nou-injurlotts. Our chemists got to thinking a while back that perhaps they should take another look. So Urey have been experimenting with animals, mostly rats, feeding them quantities of the colors mixed in their foods. They’ve gone about one third way down the list of chemi-- Most of the colors proved stili to be harmless to the rata, even when eaten in large quantities, but three of them made the animals ofegly eyed Cfr atJwrt sickly. pose, except that nobody yet has figured out away to apply them to oranges. His chemists, in any event, will testify what happened to the rats; then the dye makers, the packers and the orange growers will have their say. Should be an inter esting session. , jtAs for the red sweet potatoes, f iSrrick said he hadn't yet dyed his own hands with them. I suggested he have sweet potatoes for dinner tonight and see for himself how to ruin the cup towels. He said he wouid. Rites Are Set For Mr. Goins Tuesday John Henry Gi:as, Jr., 27, djed Sunday mornir! at his home, Spring Lake. Route 1. -fter a lingering ill ness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bstty M. Goins: one. son, Charles Henry Goins; his parehts, Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Goins, -Route 1, Spring’ Lake; .one bro ther, Joseph T. Goins. Spring Lake, Route 1; one sister, Mrs. A. D. Tew, Fayetteville; his paternal grandmo ther, Mrs. J. R. Goins, Sanford; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. J. W. Creed, Sanford, Route 6. Funeral services will be held Tuesday af ternoon at 2 at Mt. Carmel Pen tecostal Holiness Church in Fayette ville. Services will be conducted by the Rev. A. B. Howard, pastor, as sisted by Rev. March. Burial will be in the Antioch Baptist’ Church in Manners. Robert Strickland Died In Charleston Robert D. Strickland of Charles ton. 8. C., formerly of Four Oaks, died Friday afternoon in Charles ton following a heart ailment. He had served as chief of police prac tically all his life in different cities ih North Carolina and South Caro lina. He was bom and reared in Four Oaks. Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p. fn. at U. Henry Stuhr fuseral home in Charleston. Interment was at St Stephens, S. C. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Gladys Barbour Strickland; two brothers, William of Benson, and Jessp of ’Macon, Ga.; eight sisters, Mrs. Everette Dupree of Four Oaks, Route 3. Mrs. Arthur Stevens of Fayetteville, Mrs. Millie Bowers, of . Reidsville, Mrs. Wlter Campbell of Dunn, Mrs. Carl Johnson of Dur ham, Mrs. James Arvette of Smith field, Mrs. Warren King of Allen town, Pa., and Mrs. Fred Hair of Norfolk, Va. Services Sunday For Mrs. Hargis Mrs. Clyde Pollard Hargia, 53, wife of W. R. Hargis, died at her home ih Four Oaks at 7:10 Satur day night. Graveside services were held Sunday at 2 p. m. at Rehobeth Church cemetery. Surviving In ad dition to hethpsbandar# five step- Mrs. Leo Johnson andafrs. Jonah James Benson of Benson and Pearl •\>7’ ■■ GOOD ROADS The decay of a civilization is al ways marked by a deterioration Os mtaas of communications. In older countries, these means were limited to two, land roads and waterways, 'ihe Homan Empire, for lnitance, was knit together by a system of roads, remnants of which still stand; the great British Empire was held together by control of the seas, a control now lost and per haps no longer necessary. 'me United States from earliest times was road conscious and as tne population moved westwards the roaus and trails were expanded, Kiver traffic played an enormous roie in this expansion and at one time, numerous canals were built. The dramatic* development of the American railroad filled earlier gen erations with pride of accomplish ment. The ‘‘Good Roads” move ment followed the popularization of the automobile, which required sur faced roads for greater efficiency. In this movement, counties, states and the Federal Government played the important role. It could be said at one time that the United States possessed the best road system In the world. Today that road system is dis integrating. Many factors enter into this, condition, wars, the large number of cars, the enormous size and weight of trailer trucks, bottle necks that were not foreseen, bad planning, wasteful covering of 'an cient reads without adequate en gineering, corruption, etc., etc. It is estimated that it will cost $40,- 000,000,009 to modernize the entire Federal road system which is be yond the national capability while we are expanding our wealth on past and future wars. Now along comes a very wise man, P. W. Litchfield, Chairman of the Beard of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, who knows more about roads, automobiles and rubber than any man I know. He says: “We need to organize at the local level. Let’s go after an adequate cure for the bottlenecks we know about through our personal obser vation. Let’s concentrate our ef forts on getting roads built and bridges and streets widened in ou| .own neighborhoods, ip oup owp "citits; in our own states.” Many of our great efforts need decentralization. Our people have become so accustomed to expecting the Federal Government to do eve rything on a vast scale, involving billions cf expenditures that we forget the old Chinese adage that the place to start cleaning up is on one’s own doorstep. While we are making huge demands on the Con gress, much more can be done in municipalities. counties, states. Litchfield added; "And there, I believe, is an im portant missing key to a program of immediate action an aggres sive organization at the local level so that the public demand for ac tion can be aimed at specific ra ther than general targets. We should switch from the scatter gun to the rifle.” The lesson Mr. Litchfield teaches can be applied to many of our cur rent problems. President Elsenhower is reported to have said that FEPC, fer instance, is a local probleto. If that report is correct, It represents a sound position as regards the constitutional relations between the Federal Government and the states. Many of the functions adopted by the Federal Government In re cent years have been and still can be mere efficiently and more ex peditiously handled on a local level where citizen’s groups can bring direct pressures on their represen tatives in State Legislatures and lo cal councils. The Tugwellian con cept cf the abolition of the separ ate states and the totalitarian cen tralization of a national government have not been accepted by the A merican people. The Federal Government, for ex ample, can do nothing about the streets of our cities. As a result of automobile parking, the streets in many cities are becoming filthy because they, cannot be cleaned, fire hazards are increased, ambu lances cannot approach the curb, pedestrians are imperilled. The Fed eral Government can do nothing about that. It is a matter of muni cipal management, dften a res ponse to local public opinion. In many cities, the local shopkeeper* oppese any real improvement be cause it would keep the out-of-town trade away from the city shopping centers. But questions of thi* sort are always subject to local public opinion. In many cities parked cars- are hauled away and put in a pound to be reclaimed at rpnxiderabls cost. This is one way to handle the problem; another is the building of i municipftjty-mairatained garages, sensibly located and operating at reasonable fees. This is now being accomplished in some cities by lo cating garages' underneath the sod cf parks. It is a practical plan. i ti ’ "aV/ii feajaL"". - XB DAILY RECORD, DUNN, If. C cert I*K KING rtATvttt trwacATt. tow wow* testers* _ “Guess what, Mother— George wants me to marry him!” \ I A "te W. Crone I ‘ Tommy became e problem child because he wee. a poor reader. Yet hie par'llts remedied the difficulty inside es 6 weeks by using the “flash card” methods. You parents or grandparents should help koep your child up to par, so send for the vital bulletin named below. By Ok GEORGE W. CRANE Case K-304: Tommy R„ aged 8, is a problem child in school. “I don’t like school," he blurted out when I had a talk with hir “The kids call me dummy and make fun of me because I cant ret fast. “8o I get even with them and pick fights. Now they are all afra of me to my room,” he boasted. WHY BAD BOYS • Various surveys have shown that poor readers tend to becoJ problem children to school. 1 These youngsters may finally become so delinquent that they’ei ter our Juvenile courts. Tommy’s simple story b duplicated thousands of times in all lait cities. For the child who falls too far behind hb classmates, then fee humiliated. - ' That’s doubly true if hb thoughtless comrades tease him or lL fun at him for being a “dummy.” ” Since nobody enjoys being inferior, Tommy tries to "compensat as we term it In psychology, and thus acquires distinction, even if comes from being a naughty boy. If a child cant be famous for br’niant marks, then he will oft* sell out lor notoriety. This desire for the socbl llmeMght Is behind great deal of criminality. TUTOR YOUR CHILD A child may have a good I. Q. and still do poorly- In hb school su jects, especially If he has been out of the classroom due to illness. Other youngsters, whose parents move frequently, dont get se tied In any one school long enough to become aoqUa'taied with t teacher and her methods. And If they are shy or timid, they may hesitate \o ask questions,' they go along In Ignorance about current arithmetic, methods, etc. All parents should tutor their children at home if the youngsti begin to fall behind the average of the class. But this tutoring should be sugar-coated heavily. Make educaf a game. Inject fun and rewards Into the process. Construct “flash cards” on which you print nouns and verbs fr< hb current reader or spelling book. Then “flash" these in front of 1 for an instant, and let him try to identify the word. d FLASH CARD GAMES I Start with two cards, each of which contains a very different w< such as “door” vs. “window.” Shuffle them; then hold up one card a time. Add a 3rd and a 4th, etc. as fast as he can understand them. Soi you will have several hundred words right out of hb reading be which he can identify in a flash. Let hb Daddy oompetc with him. But always see that the ch wins at least 3 out of 4 times to keep hb morale high. And don’t h him to such educational games very long. Lou can also use multiplication combinations on flash cards, a thus permit him to become speedy in Just a couple of weeks with the arithmetical combinations. Ch'ldren learn rapidly when you sugar-coat the process in 1 manner. Be liberal with praise and stingy with criticism when deal with youngsters. For further advice on making flash cards, send for my bulb "How to Raise Your Child’s School Marks,” enclosing a stamped turn envelope, plus a, dime. (Cipyrigtit by The Hopkins Syndteato, Inc.) IlinilClll II lllic—■ ISI H..UJ lHarij Haurcrtk lA fait •y *warko»* fgnmo* Pupiw* Afftriw Cniw*> Rejected by Parents, Husband And Sons, Woman Says Divorce b Like A Curse. DEAR MARY HAWORTH: A bro ken marriage b like a curse, like a wound that never heab. When I Vras very young, toy husband cheat ed on nie and had several affair*. Once he left me whdh I was five months pregnant; I never felt se cure with him. , We have two sons (f third child was stillborn). When the younger boy wm I* months old; i took the children end went home to ray par enta—a childish mistake ih judg ment. They couldn’t support me. oi I should have known; and as a re sult of so much insecurity t had a nervous breakdown. My husband had me committed to a mental bow pital, and after 4x months my par ents took me out. Meanwhile John had taken, the children and was , y 2O *?“• mnr ' »y heart b heavy with memories most of the time. My rider son b nice to me. though he dMmt put out hb hand to me) it b X wh6 put out my band to hi*. My younger eon .has told me hq never wants to see me. WOi ' sorb are married and hare two chU dre*. My former husband had pros pered and can give them mare and bettor gifts than I mn, which hurts me. Instead of providing for me, so that I could look after aw chil dren. he gave their Stepmother the life that mine. My eider son’s twolUjttov girls, asked if. I were ever auunrlad; and when I started to tels than that I . was once married to Graiadßa, Who ] lives to another town, mX gjlß; gbt-« very angry. The childrenjjagntrjKP v 7 as the younger generation. Pt guide me somehow... ,4 SHE IS CAPTIVE jm TO FRUSTRATION ■ DEAR L.V.: In your long II here condensed, you say, “PH M with what troubles me most, bel divorced—Later you review ad of your transient friendships w| men to more recent years. Yoa J of your husband's infidelities wd you were "very young” and nn married—and of the shattering I cognition that your parents I effect) washed their hands of yl Actually your life has been.ll ken for lack of love, from a til responsible source. Your story M •kgs of emotional rejection, H m Vtoy start, to the present ! ti| •Your parents weren’t the sort,.] viously, to gfre you warm bad! and Interested guidance. Eridcd they were, themselves, too lnatw and frustrated to their lonriM to accept yoa comfortably and dbl lsh your growth. j You took a wrong road -n yl premature marriage—the tural point from bad to worse in your J rßMSsr&jsH a’ closar more satisfying relatil ship with a devoted helpmate. fortunately you married.a weak! mature frltow. who soon backed! way from your anxious tempd ment and who became dmnored as household responsibilities