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A Wise Investment Public funds are a public trust and should be invested wisely. We have long believed that those occupying public po sitions should consider this at all times. County commissioners, county board of education, and others in similar positions should weigh carefully the wiseness of ex penditure, and the benefits reaped by all people in connection with all public funds. We know of no better investment tnan schools, if we are to continue to progress. In buildings and equipment many of our schools are far below the standards of those of the majority in this State. Is it fair to the future of the county to fail to improve * bur schools in keeping with others in North Carolina? It will take funds to do this and these funds must be raised through taxes. Let’s consider the program from a broad angle, get an unbiased survey from the State Department of Education of the needs of our county and then start to work toward that end. We cannot accomplish all of this in one or two or even five years, but we can begin now. Remember an in vestment in education is an investment in the future of our county. j*v --oOca Boys And Girls Week This week the attention of the nation is focused on boys and girls interests, activi ties, and problems in connection with “Na tional Boys and Girls Week.” It is ex tremely fitting that this should be observ ed since there are 40 million children in this country between the ages of 7 and 17, who are tomorrow’s citizens. Sponsors of the observance are some fifty national organizations, including the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, YMCA, YWCA and Kiwanis, Lions, and Rotary clubs. We heartily endorse all tnat is Being done by organizations as well as individ uals, to give impetus to all character building activities of youth-serving agen cies. Never before has it been so neces sary to serve youth. Let’s recognize and award the good in youth, not just this week but every week throughout the year. It may mean the difference in the making of a good citizen and a worthless criminal. A word of encouragement may mean more than anything else to some child. This costs nothing, but a little effort. -0O0 4-H Awards It is significant to us that with the ob-_ servance of “National Boys and Girls Week” also comes the announcement from the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, that there are being offered to 4-H boys and girls this year more than $317,000.00 worth of merit awards for su perior achievements in national 4-H don teats. Outstanding records of members in the United States will receive recognition on county, state, sectional and national levels in 24 different 4-H agricultural and home wxmflmini awards programs this year, G. L. Noble announced. Adult and junior lead ers, club and county groups will also be given special awards. In Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, 4-H’en axe offered re wards for superior records in ten of the direction of the Federal and State Exten sion Services. All awards are provided by private citizens, educational founda tions and industrial organizations inter ested in furthering 4-H Club work. Awards for county winners comprise 143,500 gold and silver medals, and $9, 200.00 in ycash prizes of $20.00 to each of the ten top ranking 4-H health improve ment clubs in the state. Plaques of merit will also be awarded to the county in each state reporting the most outstanding 1947 program in 4-H farm safety and better methods electric activities. State, sec tional and national awards include 184 gold watches, 1,087 U. S. Savings Bonds, 118 col lege scholarships and 795 educational trips' to National 4-H Club Congress, Chicago. In addition, scholarships totaling $38, 480.00 are offered to adult and junior 4-H Club leaders in 42 states to receive special instruction at tractor maintenance clinics. Two national 4-H achievement trophies are presented in the name of the Presi dent of the United States. Other national 4-H club programs in which awards are offered, are sponsored by a wide variety of national figures and concerns interested in youth. We are proud of the 4-H boys and girls of this county and hope that many of them will try for some of these awards, which should furnish extra stimulus in the worth while work. oOo Stopping Communism When the foundations of the United Nations were laid at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington nearly three years ago, the Nations pledged themselves to maintain international peace and securi ty, and to cooperate in establishing politi cal, economic and social conditions favor able to the attainment of those objectives. The Charter specifically precludes UN from intervening in the internal affairs of any Nation. There were fifty-one nations that signed up as original members of the United Nations. One trouble with the United Nations is that many bargains made in the begin ning have all been violated. Evidently Russia is the villain that has upset the world peace apple-cart. Even Senator Harry Flood Byrd has finally given up hopes. He arose in the Senate the other day and said: “If Russia is an enemy and persists in being an enemy of free peoples, it is better to have her outside the family than inside the family.” On the same day Attorney General Clark responded to an inquiry from Con gressman Thomas of New Jersey, chair man of the House Committee on un-Amer ican Activities. The Attorney General said he was “taking under immediate advise ment” requests from the Government to outlaw the Communist party of the United States. J. Edgar Hoover is an official who has never stubbed his toe since he became head of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion long ago. Hoover agrees with other witnesses who have appeared before Com mittees of Congress that the Communist party and its allies are enemies of the real American way of life. ouo Fire Prevention Conference The President’s Conference on Fire Prevention, which will meet May 6-8 in Washington, D. C., has a series of specific objectives. It will study building construction, op eration and protection, with a view to find ing means of eliminating present dangers. It will consider the wide field of fire prevention education, with particular em phasis on instructional aides for schools and colleges. It will analyze the adequacy of fire fighting facilities and personnel, and make recommendations for needed improvement. It will explore the broad question of laws and law enforcement as they relate to fire prevention and safety. It wiQ recommend a plan for obtain ing organized, aggressive public support of fire prevention activity in all its phases. It will establish a program for continu ous research with respect to fire, which will provide information on which laws and regulations can lie based. The Conference will mark the start of the most intensive drive against the fire menace ever undertaken. President Tru man called it to meet a grave and imme diate emergency. And it can do its job only if ft receives the widest possible pub lic support. As « county and as hufivid uals let’* give it our-1 47 CASES HEARD BY GRAND JURY (Continued from Page 1) size, 24 sheets and 12 pillows be added to the jail supplies. They also recommended that toilet fa cilities be installed in one of the large rooms of the jail. The jail was reported to be in good con dition otherwise. An inspection of the prison re vealed that it was in good con dition. A new drainage for the laundry there was suggested. Other suggestions included the repairing of the chimney of the community building which was partially destroyed by .lightning sometime ago. Any private or ganization making use of the community building should be re sponsible for damages, the jurors recommended. A new location for Sparta high school was also sugggested. Arthur Gambill served as fore man of the grand jury and others serving with him included: W. G. Harris, C. C. Castevens, Robert Joines, Lloyd Absher, G. M. Ed wards, Lester Cox, Talmadge Phipps, Glenn Johnson, Hassell Rector, J. L. Landreth, J. A. Wil son, Letcher Gentry, Hoyt Joines, Robert Fender, Watson Lowe, Oscar Gambill and H. C. Evans. WILDLIFE MOVIE SHOWN FRIDAY NIGHT At the meeting of the Alle ghany Wildlife club here Friday night at the community building, the club was shown a movie on Wildlife and Soil Conservation. Following the movie, brief talks were made by Kemp Dough ton, R. Emerson Black, H. E. Sin gletary and Paul Swanson. A serious cattle louse problem has been discovered in Florida It’s a Difficult Day for Mother by entomologists of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. It is apparent that whatever labor bill passes congress will be written upon the floor of the house or senate and not within either of the two committees which have been conducting hear ings for more than six weeks hnd still are unable to reach any agreement. It is also obvious, despite the telephone strike and John L. Lewis’ spurious coal strike which actually violates the court in junction and the supreme court edict upholding the lower court, that no “tough.” labor bill will get by a presidential veto, and the GOP leadership does not believe it has the strength to pass alabor bill over the presidential veto. So ,a labor bill, which is to be written from the floor by a mendment to any bill which comes out of the committees, like ly will outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts, force unions to publish member ships and financial standings and give employers equal voice with labor. There will be no ban on the closed shop or on industry wide bargaining. The appropriation bill ceiling is still stalemated and it looks now like a tax cut law will not get through the senate until some time in late May or June. It like ly will provide not more than a 10 per cent tax reduction for this year, maybe more for next year. As a matter of fact, treasury re venue is running' far above es timates for this first quarter and not only will the administration be able to balance the budget by the end of this fiscal year, June 30, but likely there will be a three or four billion dollar sur plus which no doubt will be ap plied on the national debt. Fast action by the senate is expected on the President’s re quest for a 400 billion dollar loan to Greece and Turkey. That this amount is a drop in the bucket as compared to loans and commit ments already made and pending to foreign nations is evidenced in a study of budget bureau esti mates. From July 1, 1945, to Feb ruary 28, 1947, American aid plus aid authorized 'or pending before congress totals 15.8 billion dollars exclusive of payments to the International Monetary Fund and various short-term credits. A summation of all foreign com mitments from 1940 through 1946 shows that non-war foreign com mitments of this government total almost 22 billion dollars. In addition, the treasury still is carrying upon its books a total of $11,619,006,000 in principal and $S£73,00«JN>0 in interest to Jan uary 1, 1047, in World War I debts, from other countries. The record shows that 12 dif ferent governmental agencies have given loans, credits, ad vances and financial aid to 76 foreign ■Mr So United literally covered Jat mjmn. a country that has not received some sort of loan or credit, and many colonial possessions also are included. About 80 per cent of the direct loars, credits, ad vances and financial aid, however, has gone to countries and pos sessions of the British Common wealth, to Latin America, to France, China and the Nether lands and possessions. These postwar foreign credits were split, as follows: British Commonwealth, $5,032,000,000; France and possessions, $1,953, 000,000; South America republics, SI ,775,000,000; China, $805,000, 000; Netherlands and possessions, $755,000,000; other nations, $1, 704,000,000. According to the records, this country, Great Britain and UN RRA already have put something like a billion dollars into Greece irt the last six years, British ex penditures are estimated the eq uivalent of $500,000,000 and UNRRA about $400,000,000 and another $40,000,000 from the USA in private relief. In addition, the export-import bank granted Greece a loan of $25,000,000 and the Maritime and Foreign Liqui dation commissions have extend ed property credits amounting to $45,000,000 each. Exclusive of lend-lease aid sup plies during the war, Turkey has received American credits of more than $50,000,000 of which $38,000,000 is a loan from export import bank, $10,000,000 in pro perty credits from Foreign Liqui dation commission, and about $3,000,000 from the Maritime I commission. The lireco-TurKisn aid Dili came out of the senate foreign relations committee with a un animous report for passage and the senate is expected to pass it also, but With several qualify ing and protective amendments and with due regard for the Unit ed Nations. GLADE VALLEY TO RAISE BUILDING FUND (Continued from Page 1) spoke on what Glade Valley had meant to him and some thirty students from his community who had attended here. He spoke of the high scholastic standard of the school and its Christian train ing of young people. Floyd Crouse, of Sparta, who has been a close observer of the school for many years, spoke to the assembly stressing the need of Christian schools and the work of the Glade Valley school through the years in its training of Christian leaders. ! Revs. Paul Jones, M. S. Husk and J. W. Luke made brief talks urging the churches to stand be hind the new building program of the school. O. T. Anderson, the campaign manager for rais ing the necessary funds for the new buildings gave a report of the progress of the campaign, and said Wat seven churches in the two Presbyteries had fTTfied The Everyday Counselor « Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. Character is caught, not taught. Parents should remember that in selecting schools for their chil dren. They should further re member that even in this modern industrialized world, character is more important than specialized training. ~ i I am constantly receiving let ters of inquiry from business houses concerning young people who have applied to them for po sitions. Invariably it is the char acter of the applicant with which they are concerned. Following character pomes personal habits, associates, family background. All of this means that parents should be most careful in the se lection of schools to which their children are sent, and should cer tainly know something of the teachers under whose influence they are. A letter from a parent seeking advice on a preparatory school on my desk now, and pro vokes this column. In the first place, it is my con viction that children, if they are going to college, should receive their pre-college education in schools at home if possible. The, home influence, if it is good, should be retained as long as pos sible. Too many parents are sending their adolescent sons and daughters to boarding schools “to get them out of the way,” and to avoid parental obligations in adolescence. But if the home is broken, and it is necessary to se lect a boarding school, then by all means one should be chosen where character training is em phasized, and where teaching of religio* is a part of the curri culum. II the boy or girl is not going to college, but to a business school, the standing of the school in the community should be thor oughly in\ estigated. Discover if the head of the school and fac ulty are “church people." Are they men and women of fine character? If the school takes the boy or girl away from home, be sure to investigate the board ing place and the character of those who live there. There are many schools where the admiinstration and faculty realize the importance of char acter training, and place it fore most in their courses of study.' It is during the first eighteen years of life that character is largely determined. It is caught, not taught, from parents and teachers, from associates. It is not learned from textbooks. The best textbook oil character is still the Bible. Its place here is not questioned. their quotas which amounted to more than one third the total goal of $300,000. Music was furnished by the Glade Valley students directed by Rev. C D. Hutton. . HOUSE VOTES ON BUILDING CONTROL (Continued from Page 1) he will attempt to send the en tire housing-rent bill back to the House Banking committee for re writing. ' McCormack told the House >®at abolishing controls on build ing materials runs counter to ap peals from all veterans organiza tions. Across the Capitol, Senator. Wagner (D-NY) and Taylor (D Idaho) blasted the pending Sen ate Rent Control Extension Bill and advocated carrying on the present rent program unchanged at least through June 30, 1948. The Senate bill would end con trols next March 1 and vest a big measure of authority in local committees for making rent in creases. The House adopted, 107 to 31, an amendment by Representative MacKinnon (R-Minn) that would require builders to offer veterans priorities of purchase or rental for 30 days, at prices and condi tions as favorable as the proper ties would be offered later, to the general public. TORNADO KILLS ONE: MANY ARE HOMELESS (Continued from Page 1) nearby homes. Louis H. Powell, chairman of the Raleigh chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross, said that Red Cross offices in Atlanta had ad vised him .that relief supplies would be dispatched to the scene at Fairmont “just as quickly as possible.” The Red Cross was told that one person was killed in the storm and that 200 or more per sons were homeless. Powell said that the relief sup plies probably would be moved from Fort Bragg, closest Red Cross supply point. sar VAtt tuf THP/ ARE YOU IN THE DOG HOUSE? | HAND HER Th* WALLET and Th* ADS In This Pap«; _ i
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