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FRIDAY, NOV
Kennedy*!
The election of John F. Kennedy
as President of the United States
ends eight years of Republican"rule
and comes as good news to those
who believe in the philosophy of the
Democratic Party. It also ends, for
the time being, divided responsibility
in government and places the
full responsibility of Government on
the Democratic Party wh.>h now
controls both brances of Congress.
Even those of us who were never
overly fond of Richard M. Nixon
must concede that he made a magnificent
fight for the Presidency
and came disturbingly close to winning
in the popular vote. He can
take much consolation in the fact
that he was the choice of so many
millions of Americans.
Dxr 4-^ , i-t- "
jlj>j oouic luftcn, tile small
margin of the popular vote should
cause Kennedy to realize that here
is no great popular mandate for
sweeping changes, but a great challenge
to prove to th? country and to
those who supported him that their
faith is justified and to send America
forward as he promised so often
in his campaign.
In this connection, we think of a
statement made by Kennedy in an
unrehearsed interview earlier in the
campaign when he was asked to
I what he attributed the success of
the members of his family. Kennedy
said that his parents were
I strict and insisted that whatever
their children attempted to do that
they do to the best of their ability.
This trait was manifested in the
campaign and we believe it will be
manifested in the White House as
Kennedy puts a fine intellect to
I work for the good of his country.
1;,; To us there appears to be another
great gain in the country's advanceI
ment in the election of Kennedy.
I A Good Election
Warren County citizens can be
I proud of the extent of their participation
in the election on Tnesdav
when they cast the largest vote in
I the history of the county.
Jack Kennedy was not the choice
of the great majority of the citi$1
zens of Warren County at the time
^ of the Democratic Convention when
I he received his party's nomination.
B,' In addition Warren County was a
| . strong Lake county and his support1^
ers were not pleased with the deferfeat
of their man by Terry Sanford.
| I Adding fuel to this resentment was
|_ the?endorsement of Kennedy by~
; Sanford in the Democratic Convention.
Too, there was considerable
I rreligious feeling. As a result of
pi this combination of circumstances,
it was freely predicted that many
Democrats would go fishing on the
I day of election.
ifv The size of the vote in this county
Tuesday belied this prophecy.
> Five years ago Warren County cast
i 1800 votes in the General Election.
[C Tuesday more than 3700 Warren
" County voters cast their ballots.
The vote was also a fine example
v of party loyalty. In spite of the religious
issue, which was a definite
factor, Warren County Democrats
| favored both Kennedy and Sanford
|" by more than four to one.
m It la well that so many of the reg'
' istered voters participated in the
Kjwllloii and it is to be hoped that
BwM^blteiteet will be shown in future
V elections, for eternal vigilance is
g?tftj? price of liberty. We might also
jrattglat out that one result of the
tog* vote wffl be a considerable inputs
in the number of delegates
^Ethe next Democratic State ConB?
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try Friday By
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i, Owner and Kditor
Carolina Press Association
at the post office in Warrenton,
f Congress.
Year. S3.00-. Si* Mnniho *1 ?U?
EMBER 11, 1960
s Election
For the first time in history the
United States has elected a member
of the Roman Catholic Church
to the Presidency of the United
States by popular as well as electoral
vote. This fact should have
little bearing on the conduct of the
man in office but it is apt to lay for
once and for all the fears of millions
of Americans and in so doing
rid our country of another prejudice
that has long hurt our nation.
At the same time that Kennedy
svas elected President of the United
States, tire people of Roman Catholic
Porto Rico elected a Governor
c ...i ik- r? o.ii? i_ tti ?
iui >vnwa Liie rvuiiiaii v^aiiiuiic nierarchy
had presumed to tell them not
to vote. We only mention this because
church interference in Porto
Rico was used as an argument in
the recent election.
There are no people without prejudices.
but the fewer a people hold
the better it is for those people and
for their country. If Kennedy's election
will reduce this prejudice, that
will be clear gain not only for
America but for the whole world.
There is another gain from the
election, we think, and one that
would have been just as true had
Nixon been elected to the Presidency.
The debates and the appearances
of the candidates on TV
and in every state in the nation resulted
in making our rwonlo more
aware of the problems of our country
and the size of the vote indicated
a renewed interest in the workings
of their government.
In January John F. Kennedy will
become the President of the United
States and as such the President
of all our people, and as such will
receive the support of all our people
in major issues that affect the
well being of the country.
A remarkable and wholesome
thing about this election was the
fact that although there were difference
of opinions and what could
have been a highly emotional issue,
the campaign was conducted without
rancor and, so far as we know,
little ill will has been generated to
plague us in future elections.
It was a good election and we are
happy that so many participated
in it.
Strengthening
Schools
The Durham Morning Herald
Since both fall the same week, excite
meni over me election and the last vigorous
campaigning have tended to obscure
the observance of American Education
Week. It is, however, an appropriate coincidence
that the 1960 general election
should fall during the education week.
For democracy, which finds its expression
in elections, must be founded upon education.
The education week observance affords
the people a fine opportunity to know
their schools better. The provision made
for visiting the schools is one which not
only is welcomed but is one which the
school patrons should take full advantage
Of. It is only as people know the schools
that they can realise their objectives and
their potentialities, their needs and theii
problems.
The theme of this year's American Edu
cation Week observance looks ahead te
a challenging era; "Strengthen Schools
for the "flCs." The theme recognises the
challenge of the times, that education,
like life, can be neither routine nor lack
adaisical if it is to measure op to the demands
of the era.
In the rut hies i competition bstoeat
freedom and totalitarianism, to which we
seem to be awakening in t^e contest bo
tioo plays and will continue to play a de
train* toedenTand?tte?aehotarsT'ltin
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A Guffaw F
By RALP McCOX
The Atlanta Constitution
South Carolina offers one of those enormous
guffaws sometimes produced by
history.
One hundred years ago, on November
5, Gov. William H. Gist, of the Palmetto
state, sent out letters to the chief executives
of all the cotton states save Texas.
asking them to join in armed secession.
This, he said, was due to the probable
election of a Republican. Abraham Lincoln.
Today, most of the leadership in South
Carolina, in a rage about the probable
election of Sen. John Kennedy, is urging
the election of a Republican. Mr. Richard
M. Nixon.
It required a century for South Carolina
to reach this stage, and it is politically
meaningless insofar as any adherence to
Republican party principles is concerned.
It is largely the work of embittered men,
inspired chieflv by former Gov, James
Brynes, who fur half a century, was honored
by the Democratic party; and Sen.
Strom Thurmond, whose Dixiecrat concepts
caused him, like Gov. Bryne, to
mourn for a world that no longer exists.
State Control
Both Gov. Bryne and Sen. Thurmond
will continue to work for one-party Dem
ocratic control in the state. But they fear
that the national Democratic leadership
may, if it elects its nominee, in some
small measure interfere with state control
in those areas where it contravenes
the national interest.
And so, we have the uninspiring picture
of two embittered men, unable to face
reality of the history of their times any
more than Gov. William Gist was prepared
to face that of his day, asking for a
Republican vote, but only in the presidential
race. Their inconsistency lies in
the fact they are supporting Democrats in
all other contests,
William Gist is a sad story. He emerges
from the pages of history as an unadmirable
man, compulsively determined to
have his own way. And when he had it,
Uncle Luke of Lickskillet S
About IV
Dear Mr. Editor:
Ever vear alon^ ahout this Hn?e when
the weather starts gitting cool, I notice
the big wedding pictures and stories falls
off in the newspapers. All summer long
the papers is full of pictures of folks gitting
married, what the bride wore and
them things. When I was a boy we didn't
have all that to-do over a wedding. But
there's one thing that ain't changed none,
and that how the wedding come about.
The first person that knows a feller is
going to marry a girl is the girl's mother.
Then the girl finds it out, then all the
friends begin to guess it. And then the
feller hiself finds all of a sudden he's engaged.
Marriage will teach a young feller a
heap of things, like thrift, regular hours,
keeping his mouth shut and many other
splendid habits he wouldn't even need if
he stayed singled. It can make a rich man
pore and a pore man squirm fer a long
time. Of course, I ain't agin the institution
of marriage, I'm just saying that, like
taxes, it can have its drawbacks.
But everbody loves to read about marriages.
That's the first thing my old lady
looks fer in the papers. I saw a piece reprinted
in a magazine not long ago from
a Raleigh, North Carolina newspaper in
1851, more'n a hundred years ago It was
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 Y1
Looking Backwart
November II, 1955
The efforts of the Presbyterian College
Promotion Committee to have a rnll"g?
located at Warrenton were abandoned at
a meeting at the Citizens Bank on Wednesday
morning.
The John Graham's victory over Littleton
last Friday night gave the Warrenton
team the county championship.
The Board ot County Commissioners on
Monday called for sealed bids for the
construction of a Welfare Building on the
Warren County Hospital grounds.
Hotel Warren, operated here for the
must depend for the victory of freedom.
For the onset of the ISOO's poses a pertinent
question, can free men maintain a
democratic culture against the challenge
of a regimented order?
Education must buckle down to a rigorous
prescription, if It is to meet this
challenge. It must put s relentless emphasis
on quality, and it must impose
high standards of achievement It cannot
do this without the backing of the people
' it serves, any more than it can do it with
out the enthusiastic participation of those
who teach and direct the operation of the
schools. Through the contacts which the
observance of American Education Week
makes possible, lay and school people
may come to a recognition of the las
t portaace of their common task and work
> together Hot the artrtosamant of the goal
uspesmuJ in the theme of this year's oh
.
i gis^tahtad 7tt^ l**i T 22
rom History
u he did, he could not cope with It And
so, he quit, retiring to his home pUce
leaving to others the task of dealing with
the destructive forces which he had help
ea loose.
William Gist was a dogmatic man, who
could not brook a difference of opinion.
He engaged in one duel, growing out of
a quarrel about a lady, and handily killed
his opponent. He was, at the same
time, a devout church goer and an ardent
prohibitionist.
Withdrawal
As governor of South Carolina he for
two years lent every effort toward the
accomplishment of the withdrawal of
South Carolina from the Union.
There is, perhaps, a certain symbolic
revelation in the fact that the ornamentation
of the home to which Gov. Gist retired
is described as "more refined than is
usually found in Up Country houses built
in that period, showing close adherence to
Greek prototypes."
It is fascinating, in studying the history
of the old South, to discover how many
of those who so fanatically defended the
slave economy fancied themselves as architects
of a revival of the ancient Greek
civilization.
And so it is, that in increasingly urban
American, where the industrial revolution
moves on space, producing acute problems
new and compelled, there is a decreasing
tribe of Southern leadership which somehow
seeks a political climate in which
they may decide whether to permit all
citizens to have the same civil rights;
where they can rule as they please, even
though national interests and the Constitution
require some other course. They
will not find this where they seek it. It
is hardly a compliment to the vice president
that they do not believe he or his
party will abide by the platform on the
. oints mutually agreed to with Gov. Nel
son Rockefeller.
There is pathos in their story, as well
as laughter. Who knows? The letters of
sucession may be in the mails.
ays:
larriages
a letter to the editor from a woman and
she said: "You can't think how much
good the marriages do me. If you knew
how I love marriages you would have
them in each issue of your paper. The
elopments are wonderful and the murders
are most satisfactory, but I like best
of all th> marriages."
That is perfect proof, Miester Editor,
that the marriage season is the best one
fer selling newspapers.
Back when I was a boy most everbody
got their wedding news over the telephone.
We had a rural line with 12 houses
on the line. Ever house had a different
ring and all the phones rung no matter
which number you called. I recollect that
our ring was three shorts and a long and
when you took down the receiver you'd
usually hear 11 more receivers come off
the hook, and they'd stay off until you
got through talking. If you didn't hear
but 10 receivers click you'd know one
family was away from home or they was
too sick to git to the phone. It was the
best newSDaDer svstem ever invented. But
I recollect that my Grandpa was agin putting
ours in. "Then fool contraptions," he
allows, "will draw lightning and kill everbody
in the house."
Your truly,
UNCLE LUKE
SABS AGO
1 Into The Record
past fourteen months by W. I. and David
Currie, will go under new management on
?NnvembeFTii, when Horace C. Cooper of
Raleigh will take over the lease of W I.
Currie.
Robert B. House, Chancellor of the University
of North Carolina, will be the
guest speaker at a meeting of the Warren
County Historical Society at the Library
on November 15.
Nevetaber 19, 1950
Alice Reavis, daughter of the late Mr.
and V. T. Reavis of Warrenton, and Elizabeth
Nau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
H. Nau of Norllna, hvae been selected as
this year's Good Citizens from Warrenton
and Norlina High Schools, respectively.
Clarence Davis, building contractor of
Areola, was endorsed for Deputy Sheriff
of warren county by tbe commissioners
at their session here on Monday.
Warren County votara cast slightly more
than 1300 vote* in the General Election
on Tuesday, of which about 78 were Re
publican.
Neveasber g, IMS
Triplets, one boy and two girls, wen
born on Hallowe'en to Annie and Goorgi
C. Robinson, Warren County Negroes.
A fiddlers' convention will be held a
1 the Afton-Elberon School on fridgy night
November 22.
The Town of Warrenton will probabl
renew Ma lease with H. C. Montgomery
permitting him to operate Hotel Warrei
for another year, it waa learned from
Paper Will Last
Four Centuries
WASHINGTON* ? Most books printed
in the United States during the past 60
years will no; be usable by the next century.
Many are crumbling already.
The majority of modern book papers
will last only So years, the National Geographic
Society reports. librarians, acpordlntf
tr? nn*? rpspirrhpr "find them.
.selves piling up mountains of paper only
to watch those mountains disintegrate before
their eyes."
L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress,
who has custody of some 12,000,000
books and pamphlets, has said the perishable
quality of book paper is a problem
that becomes more and more acute with
each passing year.
Microfilms Instead of Volumes
It is possible that future historians may
get a distorted idea of this era because of
_gaps_in the written record Scholars some
day may pore over microfilms instead of
bound books.
But a solution to the paper problem is
in sight. A newly developed book paper
cninran t f?r?c (ho e nrvivol If not eoo/lorchln
6UH>?Mtvvd M?v OU* ?????, M liVV 1VHU?<9UI|<|
of a book for at least 400 years. William
J. Barrow, document restorer at the Virginia
State Library in Richmond, devised
it after a three-year study made possible
by a grant from the Council on Library
Resources, Inc.
Mr. Barrow first determined the principal
cause of paper deterioration, then
found a process to check the decay, and
worked out a method of making lasting
book paper at reasonable cost.
The average strength of book paper of
1900-09 was especially weak. Books from
the decade retain only four per cent of
their original meager strength. Books published
in 1940-49 have lost more than 60
per cent of their durability Poor quality
of paper used during World War II accounts
for the rapid decline.
In contrast, thousands of books five
centuries old are written or printed on
paper which still is white, strong, and
flexible. A sheet from a book printed in
1534 withstood more than 400 folds; one
from a 1681 volume held up under 1,117
creases. The paper in a 1908 book, however,
was so brittle it would not fold once
without breaking.
Thf? nldpr mnst lastinc nam?rs xver#*
made from rags. During the past century,
most book papers have been manufactured
from wood pulp. Differences in material,
however, do not explain variatians
in wearing qualities. Acid in paper is the
main reason for deterioration.
Chemicals Create Acidity
The rag papers were only slightly acid,
and they often contained calcium and
magnesium compounds that acted as preservatives
The compounds apparently
came from natural washing and bleaching
agents.
Modern chemicals used in pulping,
bleaching, and sizing contemporary papers
tend to create acidity that weakens the
paper fibers. Since much paper is used
once and thrown away, the weakness has
caused great concern only in the book
industry which requires less than two
per cent of total production.
Mr. Barrow discovered that soaking old
book paper in a solution containing magnesium
and calcium checks decay. He developed
durable pulp paper from long,
stable fibers infused with calcium carbonate
to act as a buffer to acid. When
commercially manufactured, the papers
will not be expensive. They should endure
more than 400 years.
The high-quality, coated papers used in
the National Geographic Society's Magazine,
maps, and books also have a long
life expectancy. The coating penetrates
the paper, which is area ted with calcium
cargonate. The Society from the first insisted
upon a lasting paper, and 70-yearold
issues of its Magazine remain in good
condition.
More Value,
Less Price
The Aheakle Herald
William J. Levitt, builder of homes, remarked
recently that the public is "valuestarved."
After selling $8 million worth
of homes in a week near Washington, D.
C., he said, "We're selling houses hand
over fist because our dollar-for dollar
value is better than anything else available
in the area."
He contends that if an auto manufacturer
brought out a good substantial car at
$1,800, the automobile industry couldn't
keep up with the deaaead. If auto plants
were operating at eepadty, steel mills
would be forced to ran at 106 par eent
of capacity.
Mr. Levitt's reasoning aeeaas good. The
public is tired of getting cheep feeds
soia ix inuiiM prices oecsuse xm msnufacturer
not only wm feeling a price
> squeece, bat ?M taking advantage of coa>
tiimen who, if they didnt have Money,
were more than willing to boy on credit
t Maybe the consumer is learning at last
?, the money may bo easy to get but it's
even easier to get (heated with shoddy
r products.
'.."'v .
i Keep your fears to yourself, but share
i year courage with other abort Louis
Wmostl^BM
PERSONAL
By B1GNAIX JONES
No one like* to grow old,
but there a'-e certain conapen'^
sations about doing so, particularly
to those of us who have
seen the growth of this country
from the horse and buggy age
to the jet age. Perhaps they* II
greatest of these compensations* '
is the participation in events
that are nothing but a dim
memory or history to a large
part ol the people of this nation.
It has been more than forty
years since Wood row Wilson
was elected to his second
term; more than 30 years since
Hoover defeated A1 Smith; and
nearly 30 years since Roosevelt
was elected to his first term
aa president and more recent. 1
ly eight years since General
Eisenhower was elected presiThe
one thing that all of
these men have in common is
broken campaign promises,
which docs not prove that they
were either weak or dishonorable
men, but that events can j ?
be greater than the men who
try to shape them.
In 1916 Wood row Wilson
sought reelection to the Presidency
on the campaign slogan of |H
"he kept us out of the war,"
and within six months the nation
was embroiled in World
Herbert Hoover campaigned
on the promises of the full
dinner pail and "two chickens
in every pot." And instead the
people received the greatest
depression the country has ever
known.
Franklin Roosevelt campaigned
on a promises of a balanc
cd budget and after election,
the budget has seldom been
balanced. ?M
General Eisenhower prortis- ID
cd a balanced budget and an
end io corruption in his "great
crusade," and he has been unable
to either maintain a balanced
budget or to end corruption
in the national governAnd
here are four honorable
men all of whom had in common
a dedication to their
country, and yet none of which
were able to k?ep their campaign
promises.
In his hour of triumph Napolean
said that destiny was on
the side of the man with the
most cannons, but he evidently
had too few at Waterloo. Nearer
the truth is the statement V' H
that "there is a destiny that
shapes our ends roughhew
them though we may."
It is seldom recalled that H
Wilson, Hoover and Eisenhower
were forced to break their
campaign promises, but it seems
Roosevelt is being blamed for
his initiation of the New Deal H
as people groan under heavy
taxes which have not been
brought about by social legislation
but by an armament
PflfP
It may be well enough for
some of those who did not
live in those days to blame Sj
Roosevelt for inaugurating a
program that did much to socialize
the government, forgetting
that in the process he
probably saved capitalism and
the free enterprise system for
America. On the other hand
it does seem odd that his most
severe critics are those who
grew rich under his administration
and the program which k
he inaugurated.
People under forty-five
may theorise about' the New Deal
but only older cltisens
experienced the crash of banks,
the loss of life savings, men 4
unable to buy gasoline for
cars, and making Hoover carts
of them, and hundreds of men
prosperous only a few yoais
before working in gangs with
shovels and pickaxes on public
works, with breadlines in the
cities, and the once men with
good jobs selling apples on the
street corners.
1 stood on the streets of
Washington on a cold March
ilu In 1S33 and I heard
Franklin D. Roosevelt tell the
people that all they had to
fear was fear Itself and through
the years has rung that voice, I
1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt I
promise . . And as business
leaders cams to Washington
begging the government to save
their business and the country. I
he inaugurated a program un- I
?"foeldjoT" m ?a?u& th*t,c'
Roosevelt had sense rnisgh to * I
realise that saving the country
ww more Important than balancing
the budget.
Paging Dr. Oahg Sat
When nine-year old Gerald j
answered the phone.at 11 p. 1
m? a voice said: "We are mak- 1i
tag a survey of delinquent I 1
Tenth. If you have any ckO- I j
dreo do jrou not know wbare I
they ere at this moment?" M
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