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IHarmt Strrnri) Published Every Friday By The Record Printing Company BIGNALL JONES. Editor ? DUKE JONES. Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS "Second Class Postage Paid At Warrcnton. X t SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year. $3.00: Six Months. .< 1.,"i0 Tortures The Law Dep. Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody seems to have tortured the law In his interpretation of a North Caro lina statute which seeks to prevent the state, or any of its subdivisions or agencies from competing with private business. Fortunately, his interpretation is only a ruling and does not carry the full force of the law. Few people will fall to realize that In many Instances the schools have gone beyond their proper sphere in engaging In business ac tivities as they seek to raise funds for school purposes. But when the Dep. Atty. Gen. rules that a school or a boosters club can not sel] popcorn or soft drinks at an athle tic contest because It is In com petition with private business he Is being absurd, because such sales of fer no competition to private business. If popcorn or soft drinks are not offered for sale at the average football game it simply means that they will not be consumed, not that It will take the sale away from a prlyate business. Actually, the point might well be made that it penalizes prvate business by?denying what should be a legitimate outlet for the sale of their products. Equally absurd to this layman Is his ruling that vending machines may be placed In schools by private business Interests a:nd that conces sions may be operated at athletic contests by a private business in terest. Since when has it become proper for private business to use public property for gain? We are also at loss to understand a sub sequent opinion that the ruling would not apply to state supported col leges. Dep. Atty. Gen. Moody expressed the view that funds for the support of athletics In the schools should be raised entirely front tax sources. Most persons would agree that It would be nice if this could be done, but most persons, Including the Deputy Attorney General, should know that this is not apt to be done in the forseeable future. It may be that large city schools can run their athletic programs with tax supplements, bu> the en forcment of such a ruling In small town and rural schools would mean the crippling or possibly abolition of such programs. In some cases it would increase the danger of football to the players. Money rais ed by the sale of cold drinks, candy and popcorn at athletic contests in many Instances has been spent, and is being spent, for safer equipment for players. Naturally, school administrators and thp gpneral public are somewhat disturbed by the ruling, but believing that law must be based on common sense as well as technicality, this layman is of the opinion that Dep. Atty. General Moody's interpreta tion will not stand up, and that there will be no change in the practice of selling popcorn and drinks at athletic contests. Tarnishes Image A friend from Washington, D. C.( this week sent us a clipping from The Washington Post captioned "Backsliding North Carolina." This article is but one of several Indications of how the image of North Carolina has been hurt by recent political changes and par ticularly by the passage and re tention of the Speaker Ban Law. The writer, after recounting sev Caution Needed The Charlotte Observer North Carolinians find the legal opinions of Ralph Moody, a deputy attorney general, difficult to separate from Moody's commer cials and personal soapboxing. Moody demonstrated recently In a reply to the speaker-ban study commission that no request for a legal opinion Is going to loosen his grip on a personal pulpit. Those who make the requests and those who like their law un-Moodyed can only gnash their teeth. In vain do we wait for Attorney General Wade Bruton to inform us that Moody is, In his own mischievous way, the department jester who likes to bait the easily baited? editors and the like. Moody la, in any case, a caution. That's exactly what we suggest for local school administrative units before they im mortalize Moodylsm by following all of his suggestions. Caution. At last count, Moody had Issued four opin ions, or treatises, pertaining to the sale of various items by schools, students, civic clubs and the like, and to the dress and conduct of students on campus. He is laying off now to spell out the legitimate functions Of the Parent-Teacher Association. We wait with baited breath. The deputy attorney general may very well have the law on his side in some in- - stanch, though the law is difficult to ex tract from the smoke of Moody's burning personal convictions. However, If the law Mya all the things Moody says It says, we concur with Mr. Dickens that "the law Quotes A cynic Is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.-Carolyn Wells. Ilia baat way of answering a bad argu ent is to let It go o?.-8ydney Smith. jC. - The Americans, lika the English, probably love worse than any other race.-Walt eral things that has tarnished the image of the state in recent months, says: "These are gusts that buffet North Carolina's proud banner of modera tion, but it is the speaker ban storm that is tattering it." It is no little thing for an in dividual or a state to lose face and most of our people have been proud of the image of North Carolina. There are many reasons why many people opposed the Speaker Ban Law, one of the principal reasons is that it makes both the state and the Uni versity look silly. That hurts those who truly love the state. NEWS OF FIVE TEN 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record September :{0, 1960 Work on the Roanoke Rive" Bridge wlU not be started until next year. Walter S. Smiley was re-elected chairman of the Warren County ASC Committee at the county convention here last Friday. The annual Boy Scout Drive of the Oc coneechee Council will begin In Warren Coun ty during the month of October. September :!0, 1955 Dr. William Pettway Jones Pette, a native of Warrenton, has been appointed to the staff of surgeons at Duke Hospital In Durham. Construction of a terminal warehouse for the Merita Bread Company was started at Norllna this week. W. A. Godley, former assistant Negro agent In Bertie County, has been appointed Negro Agent for Warren County. The Warrenton Woman's club has given an emergency cart to the Warren General Hospital. September 27. 1940 Comapny B, recently called into federal service, is now stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C. The John Graham High School football team won the opening game of the season last Friday afternoon by defeating a team from Oxford Orphanage 14-12. Main Street of Warrenton has been treat ed to a coat of tar and gravel this week by tbe Stat* Highway Department. Born to Mr . and Mrs. Floyd St eg all of near Warrenton on September 21, In Duke Hospital, Durham, twin daughters. -liTS:i'd ?-iSiSfiKtW'V The Way The Bored Go 'Bang' The London Economist It is not Just an American tragedy. What happened In Los Angeles Is pretty certainly going to happen in many other countries, both capitalist and Communist as the conditions that caused it spread to them. This was an American phen omenon only in the sense that the United States is half a generation ahead of the rest of the world in the development o( an industrial urban society with the special problems that brings. It has the first taste of both the pleasures and the terrors of this new sort of life. In Harlem and Rochester last year-quiet so far this year the majority of the rioters were >oung people caught up in an explosion of violence against authority - any authority, but usually the police, the authori tarians they have run afoul of in their everyday lives. This was an insurrection, but not against the' economic order (which is the Marxist fallacy) and not even chiefly agit^st white men's domination (which is going to be the Afro-Asian fallacy). It was an insurrection of anarchy, an outburst against any kind of system by the peo pel left at the bottom. Pitbreaks like this are part of the price we are going to pay for a society In which more and more people live in cities and do deadly dull work and waste their leisure. One of the problems of urban industrial life is that it creates communities of the left-behlnd These are the people who do the dullest Jobs of all, and are the worst paid, and live In the ugliest parts of crumbling old towns. They have a high rate of illegitimacy and broken mar I xx T i I ^ 11 ^ | ( I \f The Editor I A MATTER OF DEGREE To The Editor: In a discussion with a friend concerning your editorial com ment, for which I thank you, he remarked: '-The haves and have nots have always been with us, and further, they will always be [with us." This truth cannot be denied except to the point of degree. For a moment I was stymied |to give an answer until your statement came to my mind con cerning the French Revolution and the most revolutions result ed from the flaunting of wealth and privilege. This, too, is de pendent upon the point of degree. It is a fact that the historians have recorded 'ime and time again and I am glad that you clarified it. It is also a fact, as you said, that our government has a con science. This conscience re sults from our people being given a sovereign prerogative. Namely, Freedom of Speech. Little wonder that the Speaker Ban Law has stirred up so much controversy. This is not a battle between the haves and the have nots; It is a battle between thinkers and those who wish us to be non-thinkers. True, we may err in our thinking at times but there is always some one who can correct the error. This privilege to think and speak politically is so evident under our system of govern ment, and is, if we gather In formation and think just allttle, so lacking under the totalitar ian forms of government, whether it be a communist, Facist or a military regime. Our economic and social well being Is largely dependent upon our political set up. It is, thanks for our two party system, geared and able to make proper changes when neces sary. N. M. FITTS, M. D. Complete Parts Service For All Farm TRACTORS STANDARD Motor Parte Co. WARRENTON. N. C. rlages. Their religious and cul tural roots have been cut. Ma terially, they are better off than their peasant grandfathers were, but cramming a man with distressful bread has never made him contented-qulte the reverse. These people know they are a community of the untalented, because a modem state needs to skim off the people with talent and by and large does skim them off. The rest sit and simmer. They know they are the na tural bottom layer; they have been deprived of the social and religious consolations of the old rural life; there Is nolegalout let for young male violence, and every now and then they go bang. Many of the Los Angeles riot ers are brothers under the skin t6~"the baffled young men from London and its suburbs who spend their holidays stomping along the front at Brighton and Margate, or breaking up bars of Calais and Ostend. Their fathers got Into fights at football games, or satisfied a dim ancestral prejudice by chasing second - generation Irishmen In Glasgow or Jews In Dalston. They were trying to prove that they belonged to something. The elder sons ripped up rail way carriages. It was their way of not belonging. Now the youth of the bottom layer takes It out on the town-and even the seedy parts of their towns have more than ever before to take It out on. The Swedish police were hav ing trouble last weak with young toughs raising hell In the cen ter of Stockholm; In the bad things as well as the good, Sweden Is America's closest follower on the march to the sort of society most of us will be liv ing In by the year 2000. The Czech police had a first taste of the problem a year ago when young hooligans dis rupted Wenceslas Square In Prague. Not even the Russians are Immune. The passionate vio lence of the riots In Novocher kassk a couple of years ago, which probably killed more people than the Los Angeles WANTED HARDWOOD LUMBER AND LOGS GENERAL BOX 00. WARRENTON, N. C. TEL. 257-3100 rlota, can no more be wholly explained by their ostensible cause-a rise In food prlces than the Los Angeles outburst can be wholly explained in racial terms. What had happened since IMS Is that the younger members of this community of the left behlnd now have better means of transport and a wider range of weapons, at any rate In West em Europe and North America. This makes the violence more noticeable; motorbikes and flick-knives on a south coast esplanade, or car drivers lob bing fire bombs into Los Angeles stores, make for bigger headlines, especially In the silly season, than a fists-and-boots brawl outsideaback-street pub. But at the same time, the frustration that lies behind It all has grown sharper as the hierarchy of modem industrial society takes clearer shape. For those at the bottom, life presents a still more dismal picture when It Is not God who calls men to their stations in life but the unappealable selection procMM of Monoinle lift. Russian sociologists have told Western colleague# they are deeply worried about this. So they should be. Communist^ and capitalism are rival me chanisms for supplying ma terial plenty. What neither of them haa thought out, and what both ar^_ going to run headlong into by the end of the century, Is the pro blem of the needs left unsat isfied by relative abundance; how to make routine work bear able; how to help people use their leisure; how to stop them dying of boredom - or killing from It. The world owes us nothing it was here first. You meet the craziest people on the Subway. One day a fel low sitting next to me kept say ing, "Call me a doctor." "What's the matter?" I ask ed. "Are you sick?" "No." he answered. "I just graduated from medical school." Announcement! THE WARREN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF A LICENSE SALES OFFICE IN THE TAYLOR BUILDING, WARRENTON, N. C., EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, IMS. THE LICENSE SALES OFFICE WILL SEU^? * N. C. STATE LICENSE TAGS * TRANSFER TITLES On New and Used Can, Tracks, Trailers * *i.t othf-p wnifnflm v. .nr By The Registration Division, N. C. Department Of Motor Vehicles. HOURS: 9:00 A. M. ? 1:00 P. M. 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