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Who Could Lov
Living In Cg
House Or
We often recall amid the vast
complexities of modern life a remark
made in a speech here a number
of years ago by Albert Coates,
founder and head of the Institute
of Government at Chapel Hill.
Coates said that the community is
nothing but the world "writ" small,
and the world is nothing but the
community "writ" large.
Bearing this in mind enables one
to grasp some of the things that
would otherwise be beyond the scope
of the imagination. For instance,
when one says that the United
States is more than $300 billion dollars
in debt, most people can not
conceive of its meaning, but when
broken down to several hundred dollars
for every man, woman and child
in the United States, the magnitude
of the debt can be realized.
Or one may read of a governmental
scandal in one of our large
cities, with favors to the privileged,
or of the number of murders com.
mitted in large cities, and are properly
dismayed. Few stop to think
that if the small malfeasances of
the little towns and villages were
blown up 10,000 times that they,
too, would have big scandals.
This thought has been well developed
by Dr. Henry S. Lieper of
the World Council of Churches, as
recounted in The Charleston Daily
Mail, in which he reduces the size
of the world population to the size
of a village to show why Americans
are often not liked by other citizens
oi ine world.
Dr. Lieper asks "Who Could Love
the Rich Folk Living in Comfort in
Stern P
For Cor
The Christian Science Monitor
It is a strange and pathetic sight when
men of relatively high and respected positions
in their communities, givers of
themselves to worthy and charitable unHfii-lal/inno
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uc ocuicuteu iu lerais in
jail for violation of a federal law concerning
the conduct of business.
This is what has taken place in Philadelphia
in the pronouncing of punishment
for price-fixing and bid-rigging by
electricial companies contrary to the antitrust
laws.
The charges which the defendants had
conceded involved virtually every large
manufacturer of electricial equipment in
the United States. "This," said Chief
Judge J. Cullen Ganey, "is a shocking indictment
of vast section of our economy,
for what is really at stake here is the
survival of the kind of economy under
which America has grown to greatness,
|< the free enterprise system."
f-' . It is imnnrtant tn fcpon thic nwmioo in
' view; for otherwise the moral factors involved
become blurred and the situation
to some may become actually incomphen*
ible. For the practices in which these
sales executives engaged could be rationalized
as stabilizing employment and were
the normal activities of a prewar Euro
pean carteL
Yet the laws against collusion in bid
k ding are not difficult to understand; and
the reasons for them go to the very rooU
of preserving fair competition. Without
>/. room for independent judgment a nev
company could never rise, and the con
sumer would never get the benefit of th<
most efficient production.
.V- % Statements in the cases leave some
what moot the declared opinion of th<
j judge that the victim here is "the or
?$? ganization man, the conformist," and tha
"the real blame is to be laid at the door
\ step of the corporate defendants" am
their top officials.'But there is no doufa
that Americans oppose control of thei
economy by sn industriaWUgrefcy 01
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of Congress.
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RUARY 17, 1951
re The Rich Folk
imfort In The
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the House on the Hill?" His article
follows:
Charleston Daily Mail
It bothers Americans that for all of
their good intentions they are often heart1
ily disliked in the rest of the world. It
puzzles them that for all of their geni
erosity they are so frequently rejected?
even as their material assistance is readily
accepted.
It seems to make little difference, in
fact, how much money or how many
"goodwill ambassadors" the United States
exports. Wherever American go they
are sure to be met by an uncouth
mob yelling "Yankee go home" or
something equally disrespectful and hostile.
The explanation is really quite simple.
All it takes is a little imagination,
supplied in this case by Dr. Henry S.
Lieper of the World Council of Churches.
Imagine, if you will, the world's entire
population reduced to a village of 1,000
liiuauiiaiiis. ui inese i,uuu only 60 would
be Americans. But these 60 would own
and enjoy half the world's wealth. The
other half would be unequally distributed
among the remaining 940 persons.
About 330 of the population would be
Christians; the other 670 almost anything
of the world's varied faiths. Eighty of the
villagers would be Communists, outnum
boring the Americans by 20; and 370 others
would be under Communist domination.
In such a community, the non-whites
would outnumber the whites, 700 to 300.
And just to sharpen the comparison, the
Americans would have a life expectancy
of 70 years, the other 940 less than 40
years.
In such a community it is not hard to
figure out who would be hated the most.
It would be the rich, white, religious and
political minority, living in comfort in
the big house on the hill, owning everything
worth owning and assuming casually
and often blatantly that their good
fortune was the divine reward for their
superior virtues. It would not help much
to point out that they often gave as much
as a day's pay to the Community Fund.
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"Drop Outs"
Beware
Minneapolis Star
There is a grim warning to teen-agers
in the survey of school "drop-outs" just
completed by the United States Department
of Labor. They are going to have
a tougher and tougher time getting jobs.
Also they will learn much less over their
life spans and job satisfaction will be appreciably
lower than it might have been
with a finished high school education.
The Labor Department studied 26,000
students in seven widely scattered - areas
of the country. The conclusions of the
survey are plain and unequivocal: Less
money; less skilled jobs; less rapid advancement;
greater chances of unemploy1
ment.
One of the surprising items turned up
1 in the survey is the reason most youngsters
leave school' early. It is not economic
necessity. It is just plain boredom.
In part this may be due to the lower IQ's
! (on the average) of those who fail to
finish high school.
The bright side to this picture is that
I the demands for the trained, the educatt
ed, the competent promise a good future
t to almost any youngster willing to pre
r pare nimseu. studies snow, in lact, tnat
the demand for skilled youth will exceed
s the supply in the next decade.
The warning is plain: Stay in school,
get a high school diploma, go to college
s if you can, make a definite preparation
for your life work. This would be good
t advice any time, of course, but it te particularly
compelling in this fast moving,
1 rapidly advancing age in which we live.
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[ Not So Fast, Boys!
Diac jockeys pledge to judge Magi
"fakir." U the? m through with it, ride
walk* nadar thatr office window, will ha
knee-deep In broken racorda.
Everybody I
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By S. L HAYAKAWA
From The Saturday Evening Poet
and the book "Adventures of the Mind'
published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
When the Russians use the word "democracy"
to mean something quite different
from what we mean by it, we at
once accuse them of "propaganda," oi
corrupting the means of words." But
when we use the word "democracy" in
the United States to mean something
quite different from what the Russians
mean by it, they are equally quick to
accuse us of "hypocrisy." We all tend to
believe that the way we use words is the
correct wav and that nonnlp whn ?co the
same words in other ways are either
ignorant or dishonest.
Leaving aside for a moment such abstract
and difficult terms as "democracy,"
let us examine a common, everyday word
like "frog." Surely there is no problem
about what "frog" means! Here are some
sample sentences:
"If we're going fishing, we'll have to
catch some frogs first." (This is easy.)
"I have a frog in my throat." (You can
hear it croaking.)
"She wore a loose, silk jacket fastened
with braided frogs."
The Fii
Grit
Is Jackie Kennedy pretty?
At times, from certain angles, she looks
quite plain. Yet usually she is referred
to as beautiful.
Perhaps it's a certain radiance that
gives her beauty, a certain individuality.
Bv. that as it may, if ever a woman could
be said to be "born for the White House,"
it is the present hostess of the mansioD
on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue.
Her family is truly aristocratic as contrasted
with some of the more spectacular
elements of "high society." On the conservative
side, they shun the limelight,
feeling that one's name should appear in
the newspapers on only three occasions?
birth, marriage, and death.
Wants "Home" for Children
It will come as a very natural thing for
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy to handle the
big dinners and other affairs at the
White House. And you may be sure that,
big or small, all these White House doings
will r.omei;ow have Jackie's own individUncle
Luke of Lickskillet S;
Sessions
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
It's a great pity some of them Washington
column writers don't cover our sessions
at the country store. They'd git
more horse sense in one Saturday night
than they git from a whole session of
the Congress.
Saturday night, fer instant, Ed Doolittle
unveiled a plan that would help git
a heap of folks out of debt. He called
to mind how them Federal income tax officials
come out several years ago with
colored stripes on envelops to let the public
know how much income tax a feller
was paying. If he was reporting $10,000
a year, fer instant, he got a envelop with
a yellow stripe on it, so's the folks in the
post office, the mail man and all his
neighbors would know about it. The politicians
made the tax folks cut it out, but
Ed allows as how the idea is sound as a
1910 dollar.
Take the merchants, fer instant, said
Ed. If a feller is a couple months behind
on his bill let the merchant send him a
envelop with two big red stripes on it
. If he's behind three months, send him
one with three red stripes. And when he
gits a whole year behind, send him one
printed red all over with his name in
black. Bid allowed as how people could
tell just exactly how everbody else was.
gitting along and that folks would start
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 Y
Looking Backwar
February 24, 1956
A rural fire department has been organized
at Warrenton and a drive to obtain
necessary equipment to fight rural
fires is underway.
Betty Anne Delbridge, Littleton high
school senior, winner in the county American
Legion oratorical contest held here
r ruay muniing, win represent me county
in the district contest st Wilson on Mondsy.
Dr. ii rid lis Jones oi Wake Purest was
the guest speaker at the Rotary dub's
annual Ladies Night banquet at Hotel
Warren on Tuesday night.
Littleton won both games of a doubleheader
basketball gam played at tha
I Warren tan Armory on Friday night.
February H, 1?S1
CoL Claude T. Bowers of Warren ton
has been named Chief of Staff of tha
Mth Infantry Division, National dun da
embracing troops of North Carolina and
Tennessee. The appointment was madt
> at of February IB.
A county-wide broom sale win be bek
I during the next two wooks by An Norllm
Lions Clak' in a camps in to raise faoh
Knows What
rog Is
"The blacksrdth pared down the frog
and the hoof before shoeing the horse."
' "In Hamilton, Ohio, there is a firm by
the name of American Frog and Switch
Company."
In addition to these "frogs," there is
the frog in which a sword is carried, the
frog at the bottom of a bowl or vase that
is used in flower arrangement, and the
frog which is part of the violin bow. The
reader can no doubt think of other
"frogs."
Or tuke another common word such as
"order " There is the order that the salesman
tries to get, which is quite different
from the order which a captain gives to
his crew. Some people enter holy orders.
There is the order in the house when
mother has finished tidying up; there is
the batting order of the home team;
there is an order of ham and eggs. It is
surprising that with so many meanings
to the word, people don't misunderstand
one another oftener than they do.
The foregoing are only striking examples
of a principle to which we are so
well accustomed that we rarely think of
it; namely, that most words have more
meaning than dictionaries can keep track
of.
*st Lady
ual stamp.
While her husband was running for
president, Jackie said on one occasion:
"White House children don't choose
that their fathers be president. The place
should always be a home 'or them, like
any other home, a place where they can
always bring their friends."
"If my husband should become president,
he'll still be my husband and Caro
line's father, so we must have some time
with him."
And Jackie is likely to be firm about
this, as you may judge by these words of
hers:
"If you bungle raising your children,
I don't think whatever else you do well
matters very much."
Changing Times
(Billy Arthur in Chapel Hill Weekly)
The New York Times, opposing filibustering,
says minority groups must not call
the shot. My, how the Times change.
Etys:
At Store
paying their bills a heap better.
Zeke Grubb allowed that the system
was good, would cover about everthing
cavcpv a wuiuiui s age. uein wewsier
said they ain't no system to cover this
situation, that about the only way you
can find out a woman's age fer shore is
to ask her mother-in-law.
Bug Hookum was lamenting that while
Ed's system might help a little, they ain't
no cure fer debt in this country unless
we do away with automobiles. Bug claims
we got millions of people in this country
that ain't doing nothing but supporting
their automobile. Out this way, fer instant,
Bug says most folks keep up the
payments on their car and if they is anything
left, they pay their taxes and git
some groceries. Got any of them kind
over in town, Mister Editor?
Well, I see by the papers where President
Kennedy aims to git a team of folks
and train em in the field of promoting
peace and disarmament. Up to now, al
lows Kenndy, them that's been handling
that department ain't had no more training
in it than a hound dog has had pointing
a covey of quail. But the Prime Minister
of England says he aint going to
follow suit, is going to stick to the oneman
system. I reckon he figgers that one
man can handle about all the peace and
disarmament we got at present.
Yours truly,
Uncle Luke
EARS AGO
i Into The Record
for work with the blind.
The installation of two new type stoplights
on Main street this week brings to
four the number of these lights on the
main artery of travel here.
The family of the late W. Kearny Williams
of Grand Rapids, Mich., has made
a donation to furnish a memorial room
in Warren County Hospital in honor of
the former Warren native.
February 01, 1*M
A Farm Bureau waa formed in Warren
County yesterday by a (roup of around
SO farmers meeting In the court bouse
upon call of County Agent Bob Bright.
J. Haywood Duke, former manager of
Hotel Wan?n here, has been named realdent
manager of the Carolina Inn at
Chapel Hill.
Relief calls at the Warren County Wet
fare office are the highest In tan years,
I Miss Lucy Leach, superintendent, said this
i weak.
Walton County schools feeuaeod operaI
Hon on Wednesday after being cloned
t far nearly two waaks an ascowaf ef as alb
Iron Curtain
WASHINGTON?An iron curtain more
an penetrable than the one in Europe now
divides two Eskimo islands less than
three miles apart in the Bering Strait
One island, Little Diomede, belongs to
Alaska and is part of the United States.
The other, Big Diomede, belongs to the
Soviet Union. The curtain came down
between them in 1948 when 18 Eskimos
from the American island were arrested
for trading cigarettes, tea, and flour for
Siberian pelts on Big Diomede.
Thus the cold war brought to an end
a long period of friendship and common
traditions. For centuries the Eskimos had
traveled back and forth in their "uiaks,"
or skin boats, to trade and visit. Now
they are isolated from each other in two
different hemispheres. They even live in
a rtiffront time herause thp Tntprnfltional
Date Line separates the islands.
Treeless, Windswept Specks
Both Diomedes are rocky, treeless,
windswept peaks protruding from the
waters of the Strait, the National Geographic
Society says. In 1867, Russia sold
Little Diomede with the rest of Alaska to
the United States, but retained Big Diomede.
Some 100 islanders live in Ignalauk,
the only village on Little Diomede. The
steep, cobblestone streets link houses
clinging to a bouder-strewn slope. Unlike
most Eskimo dwellings, Diomede
houses are built of rocks. The roofs are
made of walrus skin.
Inside their weatherproof homes, the
Eskimos play popular American songs on
phonographs and thumb mail-order catalogues.
But they have not forgotten the
drum music and vigorous dances of their
ancestor. On special occasions, the entire
population crowds into the village
school to chant and perform.
During the long winter months, when
Arctic ice crushes against Little Diomede,
the villagers hunt walruses, seals, whales,
and bears with rifles.
In summer they desert Ignalauk for
Kitzebue, a town on the mainland of
northwestern Alaska. There they set up
a handicraft business, carving walrus
tusks into bracelets, letter openers, cribbage
boards, and animal figures. Some
men take part-time construction jobs.
Weather Station Site
Not much is known of Big Diomede.
According to unconfirmed reports, the
Russians have installed a large weather
station on their is'and.
The American Eskimos suspect they are
constantly being watched. In the summer
of 1956, while the inhabitants were
away in Kotzebue, a group of mystery
visitors landed on Little Diomede, l$ft foreign
cigarettes, and consumed the school's
store of food.
The two islands have served as steppingstones
between Asia and America
since the ice age. but the Bering Strait
was not known to Westerners until Vitus
Bering, a Danish explorer employed by
Russia's Peter the Great, spotted the
black mountain caps through fog on August
16. 1725.
Personal
Interest
The Roanoke News
Annie Jones, who., been working at the
home of Don Ward in Weldon for more
than 30 years, has a son, George Jones,
who's been on the White House staff for
some time.
During the inauguration of President
John F. Kennedy, he was the Negro man
who was helping people into the cars as
they left the White House to attend the
inaugural ceremony.
Ward, watching his TV in the living
room, as soon as he saw George, yelled
for Annie to come out of the kitchen
where she was preparing dinner.
"That's my boy," she yelled as she
came into the. living room, and .saw her
son. Lordy, that's my boy!"
Ward said he told her to sit right down
and watch the Inauguration, adding that
she was so excited he was as interested
in her and her remarks as he was in the
proceedings.
When the new President's father was
shown on the screen, said her employer,
Annie's comment was: "Mr. Ward, I know
he is as proud of his son as I am of
mine."
Certainly, said an observer, he couldn't
have been any prouder.
Even An Editor Can
Dream
Kiaeardtae, Canada, Newa
Every weekly newspaper editor dreams
lURUU Uit an SB that has all Um
news of the community. But, alas. It always
remains a dream in the distance,
hwoming mora elusive as the condition
is approached. Bran if that worthy wore
a superman (and tow are) able to wort
34 bona a day, not all the news would
be published, for events have a habit of
happening here and there at the saass
time and even an editor, ae math as ha
would like, finds it impossible to he la
more than one place at ens time. Whan
he trtse to be, be usually meets himself
ceasing back bom one place while en
route to another.
But there, it's a new year and you
don't want to hear all about otw trout Us.
Bat If the fnrigiiag pstacispo stirs s
single raader to pastor cooperation in
making news, thai own feel that this
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II MOSTLY 1
personal!
By BIGNALL JONES
The sign on the gas tank ?
stated that included in the r
price of gasoline was 111?4
cents tax, and I thought of
this as Howard and I rode
over a recently constructed
road from Bethlehem to Ar- yv
cola on Monday afternoon.
Howard noticed snow still
clining in the woods and remarked
on it, which made me
recall that in 1936 schools
were closed for nearly two
weeks on account of bad
weather. I observed that if it
had not been for the hardsurfaced
roads in the county the
schools would have been closed
for many more days this
year.
If it were not for these
roads, however, I said, the
price of gasoline would be
much cheaper, but on the other
hand loss of time and wear
and tear on the cars would go
a long ways to offset any gain
made by not having to pay
gasoline tax.
Then we both imagined that N
the state roads were unpaved
as they were years ago, and
further imagined that private
enterprise had built a paved
hardsurfaced road to Raleigh. y
with a toll charge for its use.
We both agreed that we would
be more than willing to pay
a dollar toll charge for a trip
to Raleigh and back rather
than use a dirt road, which is
what we do, more or less,
when we pay our gas tax.
There was nothing new
about our reflections, and by
and large people are willing
to be taxed for good roads.
But. I think, it does point to
the need of considering values
as well as cost when we talk
about taxes.
Perhaps not in many years
has there been as much scurrying
around here as there
was on Monday night at the
conclusion of a basketball
game at the Armory, and perhaps
not as many guilty consciences.
It came about due to the
lateness of a JV game with
G-aston which was called at
5:30. The young people only
play 6 minute quarters and
most persons with plans for
the night concluded that the
game would be over around
7:15, and I was one of these.
But games have a habit of
running longer than expected,
with time outs, and it was beginning
to be late before the *
boys began to play, with much
glancing at watches.
For a while I sat with Annie
Lee Drake and Elba Ban- .
zet, who I learned later had^.
an engagement for a church
meeting at 8 o'clock. Later I
sat with W. R. Drake, who has
a son playing on the JV, and
learned that he was supposed
to be at a meeting with the
Board of Education at 8
o'clock, a meeting which Howard
was supposed to cover. I
was in even worse shape for
I was supposed to be at the
commissioners meeting at 7:30,
but knew they would not get
down to business until 8:00
o'clock.
Time kept slipping by, until
at last it was just about time
for the final whistle. At this
point Gaston tied the game up,
resulting in an overtime. Alter
a short rest, play was resumed,
and this, too, ended in
a tie, with a second overtime.
Finally the buzzer sounded^,
as John Graham won the garneT
but by that time it was close
lo 0 OCIOCK.
We started home and How
ard asked that I drop him at
the court house, saying that
he would get his supper after
the meeting. On my way home
1 passed the Prank Bamet
home and Elba was all but
running as she hurried into
her house.
At home, I found that my1
wife had gone to a neighbor's
for a church meeting, telling
my little girl that I would be
home within a few minutes.
Unable to leave the child, I
entirely missed the commissioners
meeting. 1 breathed a
jish of relief on Tneedey
morning when Hickory Wood
told me that the meeting wu
one of the shortest in a lone
time and nothing but routine
business ?u transacted.
When Howard came In he
aid that Wlddie Drake waa at
the meetinf when he arrived,
which meant that he, too, missed
nipper. But I imagine
that be dldnt mind aa ho had
oea hie hoy play a fine game.
1 1 11
effusion is worth the effort,
for It brings us at least one
step closer to the do(-goned
dream of an issue with all the
news of the community and l
1
it* consumption.