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Many persons in this area no
doubt read with interest and profit
a feature article, "A Sense of Purpose
for Our Schools,*' in the Sunday
edition of The News and Observer.
Written by A. B. Gibson, superintendent
of Laurinburg City Schools
and one of North Carolina's most
capable public school administrators,
the article was a sane and sound
discussion of the needs of the public
schools. It is not the purpose of this
newsnaner to comment nn nil th?
points brought out in Gibson's excellent
article, but only on j??s comments
upon education in Russia.
Gibson was one of the American
educators visiting Russian
schools last fall. He said that in
Russia, they were told, one-third of
the national budget goes for public
education, and that teachers are
plentiful and apparently well trained.
"In some schools where language
instruction begins in the lower
forms (grades) classes are limited
to ten students and teachers limited
to three classes per day." Home
work is limited to an hour and a
half a day, and brighter pupils are
paid to go to college. Gibson says,
in part, of the Russians:
The Communist world with which we
will be in competition for the foreseeable
future, and whose every move affects the
lives of our children, has assigned first
priority to education. Russia's educational
position is not, as often pictured, that of
a superior system turning out thousands
of highly trained students. It is, on the
contrary, a very second rate system movith
inexorable purpose towards becoming
first rate. Its present position
in nearly every particiular ? buildings,
equipment and curriculum ? appears inferior
to our own.
This is not to minimize the Soviet program
of education. On the contrary, there
is a plus factor which outweighs every
weakness. Make no mistake about it,
these people have purpose. The Soviet
system of education extends its influence
over the individual almost literally from
the cradle to the grave. It begins with
miisery-kindergarten and extends beyond
the university through its complex of
well organized adult education programs.
They believe that through education they
A Sense Of
History
Philadelphia Bulletin
Uf. Americans are fortunate to be witnessing
dee of the smoothest functionings in
their Hilary of a process too often marked
by coolness and lack of co-operation
That process is the transition of Governl
men!
The credit for this was placed the
other night squarely where it beiwti: on
the person of Dwight D. Eisenhower, ft
was one of a series of fitting accolades
giii the President in the course of an
hour-long telecast which rerehsed Mr.
BlssWfcewer's career. And it came from a
nun who should know: President-elect
1 Mink that there is no period in
President Eisenhower's long life of service
to his country," said the Presidentelect,
"which has distinguished him more
SS s patriot than Ms ability to lay the
81 Eisenhower has an historical
I therefore, from the day after
l the present, he hss made
to make it easier for those of
ustuninc responsibility "
lent'* contribution to the orI
r Of Goeernment should come
m to those mho have studied
on which ho has haoed hit
also at Supreme AIM Cbm mope
and as chief of NATO.
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Education
will out-think us and out-produce us. It
may be revealing to examine some of the
characteristic, and perhaps unexpected,
differences of a universal free education
system in a country which has raised
its literacy rate from below thirty per
cent to above ninety per cent in forty
years
It is more disquieting to an American
educator to see the evident concern of the
Soviet state for the education of the
young and the inescapable evidence that
education has priority in Soviet thinking
than to be told hysterically that they are
turning out more engineers and scientists
than we. To hear a communist educator
speak of the equality of every child, and
of its fundamental right to a free education
from nursery school through college
is more disturbing than to know that they
have launched another and larger space
machine.
Several months ago we read an
article by another educator who said
that the rapid progress of education
in Russia frightened him. And Gibson
says: "To hear a communist
educator speak of the equality of
every child, and of the fundamental
right to a free education from
nursery school through college is
more disturbing than to know that
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larger space machine."
It should be a cause of alarm to
us all who are engaged in a struggle
with Russia for world supremacy,
and possibly our national existence,
to know that the Russians have
seized the true key to power and are
exploiting it to the fullest, but it is
a sad commentary on the state of
our boasted civilization.
For in a world where our social
advancement reached our scientific
progress, the progress of the Russians
in both education and science
should complement our own advancement
and should be a source of rejoicing.
For in this shrinking world
the material and social gains of one
country should be a gain to all countries.
That such is not the case is a
sad commentary on our intelligence.
nowever, tnis is a woria 01 tnings
as they are and not of things as
they should be, and Russia's progress
in education is a challenge
that America must meet.
time, is disobedient, quarrelsome and disturbs
other students who are trying to
work. He needs a good threshing and I
strongly urge that you give him one."
This was the reply she received: "Dear
Miss Smith: Lick him yourself. I ain't mad
at him."
The story is told as a joke, but it comes
very near to illustrating the unconcern
felt and expressed by some parents in connection
with their children's school activities.
A teacher cannot do a good job with
any child unless there is some cooperation
from the parents in the home. Teachers
are quick to point out that the children
which give them the most difficulty,
both as to discipline and learning, are
those from homes where the parents show
The parent who takes the attitude that
the "teacher is being paid to do the job
so let them do it" is almost sure to wind
up with children who are unprepared to
enter adult life later on. And the teachers
are hot the ones who are to blame.
Honesty Does Pay
Onuwsdal Appeml (Memphis)
While it la well enough to keep assurance
all and sundry that crime does not
pay, H may also serve a useful purpose to
*alra mom Mtitlua Mimm**!. ..J
point out thot honesty doss psy on oe
r uhlli- Ths week bo/ore Christmas a San
pe Si lis as toilets its dent (MM a billfold
with |B in it. -She returned It to the
owner and on Christmas Ess she received
a card with a money order (or $80 attached.
There is no guarantee in such
should BSC be his I Slat, hut it is nice
to know that virtue la racompeuaed now
and then at least.
Ifssnr atgn a receipt UMtt pan knew
what it < ants Ins The asms appUea to
togftl dflfumnli nitftOm of Uwy
com# iron*
Farmer K
The Christian Science Monitor
Premier Krushchev has vofted he will
make a tour of some of the rural sections
of the Soviet Union in an effort to stimulate
farmers Jo greater production and to
eliminate "some of the shortcomings" of
agriculture under the Communist regime.
These shortcomings, according to a
speech he delivered in Moscow, have to
do not only with the volume of production
but with the way crops are grown
and what becomes of them. The Ukraine
is traditionally the breadbasket of the Russians,
yet grain sales to the state from
this fertile area were the lowest last year
that they have been in 15 years.
Even on collective farms, the Premier
had been informed, some employees make
more money distilling and selling vodka
than by working in the fields. If this enahlps
thpm tr? lllro /,nr?<*ol??. ? ?? I* J?
not the best argument for capitalism.
But Mr Krushchev demanded a campaign
against the "left-overs of capitalism"
on such farms also as those of the Caucasus,
where the increase of privately
owned cattle in the last seven years was
84 per cent (and Mr. K is for meat production)
while the number of publicly
owned cattle gained only 3 per cent.
The persistence or reappearance of individual
enterprise where people work on
the land is a force communism must reckon
with, and it is not likely that it can
again be dealt with so savagely as Stalin
did in the purge of the kulaks.
Indeed, even in industry one recent
observer has noted that the Soviet state
Deserved A
(Washington)
President Eisenhower's State of the
Union Message to Congress is, in a sense,
his personal summing-up of his eight
years' service in the White House.
The President asserts that the country
has been carried to "unprecedented
heights"; that we have maintained our
world strength; that the economy shows
"vitality with inflation." At the same time
he warns that many problems remain. On
the international scene, there are Cuba,
Berlin, Loas and Africa, Domestically, unemployment
is too high and depressed
areas present a chronic dilemma.
General Eisenhower's 6500-word message
has drawn some sharp criticism from Democrats
as being too rosy. Senator Fulbright,
for example, says the next administration
will confront "as difficult a set of circumstances
as any administration since the
War Between the States."
But most Americans will be well conUncle
Luke of Lickskillet Si
Work As
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
My old lady told me at breakfast this
morning I was barking up the wrong tree
by always hollering about politicians. She
allowed as how there ain't nothing wrong
with the politicians, claimed what this
country needed was a new set of people.
i cuuiuii l ugger uui a sue was senuus
or gitting sarcastic, so I just said pass
the butter please and it looks like we
might git a nice shower today. Me and
my old lady git along fine, despite the
fact we've been hitched now fer about 40
year. And one of the reasons there ain't
been no talk about divorce in our family
is on account of when things git edgy
around the place, I just set me a chair
out in the front yard and start counting
the shingles on the roof till the storm
blows over.
Gitting along in married life is like
handling a pair of mules, you got to work
as a team, keep the single-trees even to
git a good, steady pull. But it's a sight
in this world the married couples this day
and time that can't keep the single-trees
even. I was just reading yesterday where
a woman in New York told the Judge
she killed her husband to keep him from
running around. Well, that'll stop it ever
time. And I see where another one of
them Hollywoood movie stars is gitting
a divorce in Reno. That must be a mighty
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 Yl
Looking Backwan
February 3, 1956
The Warrenton Lions Club observed its
Oftf H onniuaraam m<th ? otvulol
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at Hotel Warren on lak Friday night.
The board of town commissioners on
Monday night approved the purchase of
a tractor and necessary equipment for
operation by the street departments.
W. Monroe Gardner, manager >f the
Warrenton Insurance Agency, has b
appointed secretary of the Wsrren Cc? ?t
Chamber of Commerce, succeeding 77.
r Currie, resigned
It was annonnced this week u~t -iv Explorer
Scout Camp would he established
on Kerr Ldn.
February t, 1*1
The Caralina Plajwu^eea wiU preeent
Borneo mi Juliet et the John Graham
High Sefaeol auditorium aa Wadnagdny
night under the eutpicee of the Senior
daee.
HoUry Ladtee' Night wU be held at
.Krushchev
is beginning to have to think about new
incentives for its managers and its labor
force. This leads in the direction of property
ownership. Certainly in agriculture
the regime has found that nothing brings
out production like decent prices and the
possession of a private flock or garden
plot. Individual desires will in time have
their effect even on communism.
Pinch Of Prayer
Citixen News (Hollywood, Calif.
In describing to The Citizen-News the
recipe which won her a pie baking championship,
17-year-old Julie Harper of Encino
said she first put into the ingredients
"a little pinch of prayer."
Julie has learned early in life something
which jnany people never learn.
namely, that any enterprise which starts
with " a little pinch of prayer" has a better
chance of succeeding than those which
are conducted without prayer.
The infinite wisdom within each of us
is released and expressed through prayer.
No Sense Of Humor
Vancouver (B. C.) Province
The U. S. Federal Trade Commission
says if a manufacturer advertises that a
product will grow hair, it should grow
hair. Nobody has a sense of humor any
more.
The trouble with the bulk of women
is it's so noticeable.
Lppreciation
tent to accept the President's message as
one of the last public documents of a
man who has done much to earn the country's
gratitude. There are, of course, errors
of both commission and omission in
the Eisenhower administration's record
The same holds true for anv adminiatra
tion in any period.
Yet ^President Eisenhower has achieved
much of which he can be proud. He has
restored exceptional dignity to the presidential
office. He has avoided virulent
partisanship. He has?and this may be
most important of all?helped lead the
Republican Party majority to a philosophy
of internationalism, away from the "Fortress
America" brand of isolationism.
These are some of the reasons Dwight
Eisenhower will leave the White House
as popular a man aa when, he first entered.
He deserves respect and affection,
even as the nation begins the task of improving
on his work.
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busy highway from Hollywood to Reno. I
don't see why some big promoter ain't
thought of moving Niagara Falls about
half-way between the two places. That
would make it nice fer all concerned, git
married in Hollywood, stop over at Niagara
Falls fer the honeymoon, then on to
Reno fer the divorce. They could set up
a dual highway, newly-weds traveling east
on one of them, the newly-divorced going
hark west nn tha nthor
Gitting away from the domestic situation
fer a moment, this television feller
Jackie Gleason said the other night that
the formula fer success was to work half
as much and git twict as much fer it.
That seems to be the national trend in
recent years. I reckon History is mighty
puzzled over us, keeping the country
strong and free and broke all at the
same time. We're the only country in the
world that's ever been able to pull this
trick. We do it by using a slight-of-hand
tax system. They say we got three million
laws in this country trying to enforce the
Ten Commandments. No matter how many
we got, Mister Editor, it's a safe bet that
more'n half of them has to do with taxes.
Aiid I ain't never saw nothing in the
Ten Commandments about taxes.
Yours truly,
UNCLE LUKE
LARS AGO
1 Into The Record
production of more cotton in Warren
county.
J. C. Gardner, a Warren County native,
has been named executive vice president
of the Citisens Bank and Trust Company
of Henderson, it was learned here this
week.
I?aej 11, UM
The Wmseutoa Lions club wea organised
here Monday might with 41 charter
mombera and Claude Bowers serving
ae president
Ob Bright, county agent, this week
urged farmers to hold down planting cash
crops
The tbataacmetor reached a lew level of
5 degrees here on Tuesday ni^l, aooaadiag
to reoecda at the gnwrnmsnt eisport,
aa Warren County suffered its coldest
spell in ten yearn.
Benjamin G. Therrtngtoti, special aaant
- of the Bureau eg the Cessna, reported
1UT1-bales of cotton ginned In Whrreu
Cevmty tram the CMp of UM. pater to
January 1*. . r /
Born to Mr. ami Mi. Archie Alstea eo
Sunday, Jammry M a -~*tor.
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Plastic Money
WASHINGTON ? Britain's Royal Mint
favors making money of plastic, an untried
ingredient in the world's tried-andt
rue coin recipe*.
Government mints have had to improvise
now and then, like an economy-minded
chef, but the basic coinage materials
have been gold, silver, and copper, The
National Geographic Society says.
This has been true ever since a legendary
king of Lydia, probably Gyges, called
in the royal treasurers near the end of
the 7th century B.C. and said, in effect:
"I've got a grand idea. There's a
lot of electrum lying around Lydia, so
let's mint some money."
"Tell you what else,' 'he may have said.
"We can probably get by with 169.4 grains
per coin for home use, but we'd better
step it up to 224 for trade with Ionia."
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For better or worse, the world was thus
introduced to hard cash?made in Lydia
by Lydians from electrum, a natural alloy
of gold and silver.
Nothing less tnan pure gold coinage
suited Croesus, a later Lydian king who
lost his throne and bulging coffers to the
Persians in 546 B.C. The Persians were
charmed with the idea of making money
out of gold, and the art gradually spread
westward to the Mediterranean.
Though Lydians are credited with striking
the first true coins, the Greeks produced
the first metal money of standard
shape, size, content, and value. Having
many silver mines, they went in heavily
for silver.
The Greek city of Sparta, not surprisingly,
shunned the glitter of gold and
silver for solid iron money. As bulky iron
was hardly suitable for jangling in one's
wrap-around robe, the war obsessed people
were discouraged from becoming
spendthrifts. There wasn't much to buy in
Sparta anyway.
Cnnnpr th?? hnsir allnvinc appnt from
early times, was the standard of monetary
value in ancient Egypt and the young
Roman Empire.
In time, silver took first place as the
preferred ingredient of coins throught
the Old World. One of the most famous
ever struck was the Roman denarius, a
silver piece worth about 17 cents in
modern money. It was doubtless with denarii
that Joseph paid the family taxes
when he and Mary traveled to Bethlehem
on the eve of the first Christmastide.
The Roman Augustus, who died in the
A J). 14, put the Empire back on the gold
standard. For nearly a thousand years
gold dominated the coinage* of Europe.
Coins Reflect Economy
Over the centuries,- the content of coins
Hoc mflAPtoH national hoalth- iha mimr
the coin, the greater the prosperity. But
coinage has often been debased for greed
as well as thrift. Henry VIII greatly adulterated
England's coinage to the considerable
advantage of his own purse. One
particularly shabby coin earned him the
nickname, "Old Copernose."
It was not until the prosperous 10th
century that world powers possessed sufficient
gold, silver, and copper to produce
coins in variety and vast quantity.
Hard-pressed nations have continued to
experiment, however, with materials ranging
from antimony to zinc. After World
War I, German issued coins of porcelain
and papier-mache. Spanish Loyalists printed
cardboard coins during the civil war.
Mussolini withdrew coins of precious content,
substituting stell lire.
The United States considered minting a
three-cent glass piece in World War II to
relieve the copper shortage. It sharply
reduced the percentage of copper in
nickles and issued a light-weight, zinccoated,
never-popular penny of steeL
Oddly, a new fad has outmoded the old
adminition, "Don't take any wooden
nickles." To celebrate anniversaries and
other historic events, scores of American
town now issue wooden nickles ? as
souvenirs.
Farm Prestige
New England Homestead
((Springfield, Mean.)
Was there a "farm vote" in the last
election? Certainly, several agricultural
states indicated rather strongly that they
were not in favor of controls.
The significant thing about the election
was not how did these states go, but
rather, how did the large urban centers
vote and what was the effect of that
vote.
For the first time in our history, the
farm vote meant little as such. In terms
of tdtal numbers the power of the nfri"
cultural vote has diminished greatly
Neither candidate really concentrated
heavily on the agricultural vote in this
past election. This, in itself, is indicative
that the powrn is slmsst gone.
All is no gloom, however. The farmer
holds the welfare of the nation in the '
palm of his hand. A sound agricultural
WWW is vital to Industry, health and
general welfarw.
t> ?nl?k 1-? -t u..
polls, Ik* former is becoming an increasingly
important individual in the overall
economy. AO the yean go on and'the number
of farmers decreases, those remaining
la am industry wffl mi am i an erarinnr
seeing position of Importance.
aim merchant who hams money by
not advertising also saves money by not
MOSTLY I
PERSONAL^
By SIGN ALL JONES II
Justice Holmes, I believe it
was, once said that he considered
taxes his contribution towards
his government, but
most people do not take the
broad minded view of that
great American. Practically 9
everyone hates taxes, and prac- j
tically everyone thinks he pays 1
too much taxes. Likewise j
everyone, or practically every- J
one in his right mind, hates 1
regimentation and restrictions. 1
People 6iraply don't like to 1
be told what they must do or 1
what they can't do.
Not only do most people 1
ha to taxes and regimentation, ~~
but most people think they
are taxed and regimented as
the result of some evil socialist
plot hatched by a bunch
of "do-gooders." Likewise most
people think of the United
States Government as some
detached thing and not as an
instrument to rarrv out the
people's will.
But the truth of the matter, ^
or so it seems to me, that the 1
country grows more socialistic
not through some plot but is
the result of ubanization and
is made necessary largely because
of it. The more urban we A I
become, the more regimentation
we will have and the higher
our taxes will be.
The automobile is a sim- fl
pie illustration of this theme. fl
When 1 was a child and the
automobile was beginning to
make its appearance in the
county, I learned to drive an
old Model T Ford. I did not
have to have a driver's license.
There was not a stop light in I
town, and I parked it where
I well pleased and left it so H
j>arked as long as I pleased.
When I went anywhere I often
drove it as fast as it
would run and there were no
highway patrolmen to stop me.
I suppose if the number of
automoDues naa remainea aa
small as they were in that day,
that these conditions would
have remained
But the cars did increase, in
number, in size and in speed.
The county road system no
longer surficed, and we taxed
ourselves to build better roads,
and turned their operation over
to the state, and thus we began
to centralize our government
And people began to
kill each other on the highways
and we gave up a little 1
more of our freedom to do
as we pleased in the realization J I
that freedom did not give us
the right to menace the lives
of others. So we tried to
weed out the poor drivers and ^ M
require a test of their knowledge
and skill, and we set a - -^||H
speed rate, and passed all kinds H
of rules and regimentation. In
a word we gave up part of our
freedom that we might have
more freedom. But the cost
was higher taxes and regimen
tation.
Even in little Warrenton
the number of automobiles increased
to the point that there
was no longer room for all to
park in the business section
for unlimited time and so parking
meters were introduced to
make all share what parking
spaces there were. It worked,
but we lost some of the privileges
to do what we wanted to
and assumed a parking tax.
Hundreds of thousands, of
people in North Carolina, thousands
in Warren Co raty, saw
all this happen. No one in his JL
right mind saw it happen as V
some evil plot
Once people could find pig
pens within the town limits,
and in comparatively recent ah
years, cow lota and stabler jj
were scattered throughout the
town, with their stenches and
breeding of flies. There was
little or no control over
privies, and open privies were
to be found within the business
section of the town. When
it ended it was because it wag
necessary to do so for the
welfare of the whole.
And even more simply when
each person la a home has a
room there is little restriction
upon what one does with
HI* rflflm. hot when the room
ti shared, there must be some
rules or understanding as to
the coodoet of each in' that
me, that it ahould be perfectly I
obvidm that the more crowded
our SMntry becomes, the more
and lew' actlon^by^he IndividA
stoat schoolteacher was 1
talk in f about birds end their
habits. "Now," she said, "at I
home I have a canary, and- It I
Iwondcrtf any of you know