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Poor People Have More
The heavy snow of last week,
said to be the heaviest in this sec
tion in more than 30 years, served
to recall a difference in snow dress
now and in by-gone days and also
indicates an improvement in the
economic condition of our people.
A snow more than 30 years ago
would have occurred in the great
depressions when make-do was the
rule, but even before the thirties
the difference in snow dress was
pronounced.
Friday we watched hundreds of
persons walking through the snow
and were struck by the facts that
practically all of them were wear
ing rubber boots or hunting shoes,
and that most of them were warmly
clad. This was quite a contrast to
dress in snows of by-gone days when
the snow dress of many were brogan
shoes, and legs wrapped with guano
sacks, or in some cases canvas
leggings.
Thirty years ago the cold weather
of the past several days would have
Is It The
Best System?
The Christian Science Monitor
As American draft quotas go up to meet
steeper military requirements In Vietnam,
people are more and more Inclined to ques
tion the fairness of the present selec
tive service system . The recent contro
versy over whether the draft should be
used to punish those who protest against
the war In Vietnam has intensified public
Interest In the whole question of the draft.
Selective service is one means of getting
the men necessary to meet American mUi- -
tary and peace - keeping obligations.
Whether or not it is the best method Is
debatable. It has enabled the United States
to meet Its defense commitments and at the
same time has permitted many young men
to continue their education without Interrup
tion. This Is a commendable feat in itself
since continued excellence in education Is
vital to the national Interest.
Selective service, however, does have
certain defects. It does, for example, dis
criminate In favor of those who have
money and influence. But selection In
which the nation Is trying to serve vari
ous conflicting values can never be en
tirely fair. We do not agree that the In
equities are such that the government might
as well resort to a lottery, as some have
advocated.
In an article In the New York Times
Magazine, mention was made of an alter
native to selective service. It deserves
further exploration. Some urge a compul
sory multipurpose national service program,
to Include the Peace Corps, domestic peace
corps, and the like. Virtually all youth would
serve their country In some capacity?
working on conservation projects, helping
eliminate poverty, rehabilitating prisoners,
aiding delinquent and underprlvUeged child
ren, and so on.
Inducements would be provided to encour
age a sufficient number to choose military
service. For example, pay and fringe bene
?(Ha could?be?greater' and?ayrvtce tlmg
shorter. A permanent "GI bill" could be
Included as an added Incentive.
Such a system would eliminate thepresent
situation In which many avoid service al
together . And It would provide acceptable
alternatives for those with conscientious ob
jections to mUltary duty, alternatives which
would still cause them to devote a period
of their life to useful public service.
The Department of Defense should release
details of Its comprehensive study of the
draft, unless It has good reason for con
tinued secrecy. And the public should con
aider and explore all possible alternatives to
determine whether a better system of ob
taining men for military service can be
found.
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Quotes
"To admire on principle is the only way
? to llM#? without loss of originality."?
Coleridge.
"Life is made up of Interruptions."?
ailbert.
"Every age, like every human body, has
Its own distemper."?Emerson.
"For what human fll does not dawn seem
to be an alleviation?"-T. Wilder.
meant broken water pipes in most
of the homes fortunate enough to
have waterworks, and in the great
majority of cases would have meant
cold homes, paths cut through the
snow to woodpiles and outhouses,
but many homes now have central
heat and comfortable temperatures
with no wood hauling or firing of
furnaces or stoves.
It is still true that there are too
many persons in this county ill cloth
ed and ill sheltered, and here and
^there during the snow storm one
noted that a man or woman was not
sufficiently clad against the cold
weather, but for the great majority
of our people our deepest snow in
years caused some inconvenience,
some loss of revenue, but very little
physicial suffering.
And yet it is surprising how many
of those who are warmly clad and.
who enjoy indoor plumbing, and cen
tral heat, whose car radiators are
protected against freezing and whose
cars are heated, complain of life's
ill and look backwards to the good
old days. The rank and file of peo
ple have never had it so good, and
if they could be carried back to the
time of the last really big snow,
would find their talk of good old
days unbearable.
It is quite true that most people
are hard up, but most people have
always been hard up, the greatest
difference is that they have more
now while being hard up. And yet if
the average man really wanted to
live like his grandfather, he need
not be hard up, and even might be
come wealthy. But this would, of
course, mean no automobile, no tele
phone, no TV, no radio, kerosene
lamps, early retiring and early ris
ing; it would mean no fuel oil, no
coal, or little coal, kingheaters. It
would mean pipe smoking and no soft
drinks, and food raised on ones own
farm. In short, it would mean more
doing without than our people would
be willing to do, but if one wanted
to he could certainly lay aside quite
a bit of money with today's wages.
But most persons don't think it is
worth it, and neither do we. Yet it
is something to ponder as we sit
in our warm houses sheltered from
the winter's worst snow storm.
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN. 25 YEARS AGO
Looking Backward
Into The Record
February 3, 1961
Major General Claude T. Bowers, 61,
career National Guard officer of Warren
ton, was sworn at Raleigh Wednesday as the
new state adjutant general.
Tim Wari Hiitun LIuiia Club will uL?ei in
Its 25th anniversary Friday In connection
with Its annual ladles' night program.
The time for listing 1961 taxables, which
expired on January 31, has been extended
through February 15.
Jlmmle Cheves was in Duke Hospital, Dur
ham, over the weekend with a broken elbow
as the result of falling on the Ice while
skating.
February 3. 1956
The Warrenton Lions club observed Its
20th anniversary with a special program at
Hotel Warren Friday night.
An Explorer Scout camp will be developed
on Kerr Lake, It was learned here this week.
W. Monroe Gardner has been named secre
tary of the Warren County Chamber of Com
merce, succeeding W. L, Currle, resigned.
Gld H. Macon, Jr., was Inducted as a
member of the Warrenton Rotary Club on
Tuesday night.
January 31, 1941
John Graham's basketball season is now In
full swing, the boys having lost only one game
and the girls winning two out of five.
A contract to have the O. C. Back Exposi
tion play the midway of Warren County Fair
next fall was signed this week.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerston King of
near Wise on Saturday, Jan. 25, a son
Daniel Graham.
The cotton stamp program has be?s ex
tended to producers.
As Others See H
Hot Water Snowman
Bj LAWRENCE MADDRY in The Chapel Hill Weekly
If the Lord had meant for every yard to
have a snowman he'd have sent the snow
down that way.
I explained this to my wife between yawns
on the couch.
There I was off from work early, watching
the flakes swirl outside our living room
window.
"Snow Is to look at," I said. "If nature
had intended the white stuff to be made
into goofy men the weather reports would
be different."
"What do you mean different," she want
ed to know.
"I mean the weatherman would say some
thing like: A low pressure area moving
across the State is expected to bring snow
men to northern counties tonight. Large
mounds of snow mixed with coal lumps and
drifts of ragged brooms are expected from
the mountains to the Piedmont."
Before I finished that monologue she had
dressed our boy Larry, 1 1/2, and was
handing me my boots.
"If you expect any supper, there'd better
be a snowman in our front yard," she said
pointing towards the door.
Larry took to the outdoors right away.
In no time at all he was eating great hand
fuls of snow and chasing birds from the
feeder.
I tried to make a snowman. I really did.
But the snow wasn't right. It kept pouring
through my gloved fingers like powdered
sugar.
By now, the cold was getting to Larry.
After his nose turned blue he didn't move
around much. The job got easier and was
finished in no time at all.
My wife came out and was bragging about
how lifelike the snowman was. But the kid
spoiled everything when he sneezed as 1 stuck
the corncob pipe in his mouth.
She brushed the snow from his suit.
When she carried him inside to thaw out,
she locked the door.
That snowman had reached do or diet
proportions.
Fortunately, George Strother, our next
door neighbor, was home and agreed to give
me a pail of water.
"Whaddaya want the hot water for?" he
asked.
"To make a snowman," I replied.
"I've never heard of making a snowman
with hot water," he said.
I told him at our house they went hand
In hand.
Back outside, I found that by wetting a
patch of snow It could be packed Into a ball
of sorts. I kept at It, scooping and patting
until the job was finished.
I put my hat on top to finish the job when
George came out to Inspect the artwork.
"It's kind of skinny for a snowman," he
said. "Why don't you run some black
friction tape down the sides and call It the
Eiffel Tower."
I told George that I'd been locked out of
the house and wouldn't gel in or get supper
until there was a s.iowman In our yard.
He didn't believe it.
With a few sweeps of his arm he leveled
the tower and handed me my hat.
George said my trouble was that I didn't
know how to handle women. When my wife
came to the front door, George just stood
nodding his head while she talked. He never
did get to tell her about the dry snow.
I was hiding behind a tree at the time and
after she slammed the door George walked
over. I told George how the tower had
resembled a snowman and that I held him
personally responsible.
It began to get dark. We were both shiv
ering when George developed a plan he
said was foolproof.
He ran through his front door and grab
bed a sheet from !as wife's linen closet.
George said it was so dark he could just
cover himself with that sheet and hold a
broom.
"I'll stand over there in the shadows and
your wife will think I'm the darndest snow
man she ever saw," he said.
When my wife turned on the front porch
light, George seemed to pass muster. "I
can't wait until the girls from the bridge
club see it when they come over tonight,"
she said.
I felt kind of sorry for George after I'd
finished that hot supper. He was still out
side at 11:30 p.m. when the bridge game
broke up.
He had to spend the rest of the night at
the Carolina Inn. His wife locked him out
of the house claiming that her children
weren't going to be exposed to a fool who
was out that late in the snow wearing a bed
sheet.
Women sure are funny that way.
Christian Named
President Of A&P
Grocery Company
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -
Directors of the Great At
lantic & Pacific Tea Com
pany's Southern Division
Thursday elected J. Gordon
Christian jr., president, suc
ceeding Robert M. Smith, who
retired Dec. 31.
after 54 years with A&P.
Christian, formerly execu
tive vice president of the Di
vision, was born in Richmond,
Va. He joined the A&P sales
staff in his home town in
1922 and four years later was
transferred to Charlotte,
N. C., then a sub-warehouse
of Richmond, when Charlotte
was made a Unit in 1927,
Mr. Christian became assist
ant sales manager and ser
ved in that capacity until 1928
when he went to Houston,
Texas to develop that terri
tory. He served as sales man
ager In Texas until 1958 when
he returned to Charlotte In
the same capacity.
In 1955 Christian was nam
ed director of sales for the
Southern Division and the fol
lowing year was promoted to
vice president in charge of
the New Orleans Unit. He also
served as vice president of the
Dallas Unit in 1959 and the
Charlotte Unit In 1961 before
being elected executive vice
president of the Southern Di
vision In June 1963.
Smith whom Mrs. Charitian
succeeda^m^born lq Tulhnt
County, Ga., and started as ari
A&P store Clerk in 1911 in
Atlanta. He later became store
manager and supervisor be
fore being appointed general
superintendent of the Jackson
ville Unit in 1926. Two years
later he was elected vice pres
ident In charge of the Jack
sonville Unit.
When the Southern Division
was established in 1938 to su
pervise the Company's oper
ations in Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Caro
lina, Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
Oaklahoma and East Tennes
see, Mr. Smith was elected
President of the new Division
and a director of the parent
company. In 1862 he was elect
ed a corporate vice presi
dent of the parent organiza
tion.
Smith has been active in
various civic and busineai
Pt>t*>e throughout his career
and 1* a director emerltm
th# Atlantic National Bant
? Jacksonville, director of tb?
Flr?t Federal Savings * Loan
Association of Jacksonville,
Honda State chamber oi
Commerce and the Jackson
ville Area chamber of Com
merce, He is also a commis
sioner of the Housing
Authority of Jacksonville.
Fruit trees, like most other
plants, prosper in good, well
drained soils. Low areas are
inclined to be frosty or too
wet after heavy rains.
Every biological species
has proteins unique to It and
differing in some way from
proteins of all other species.
A notable exception is the lens
of the eye, which contains the
same protein in all species.
The dimensions of a U. S.
one-dollar bill are 6 1/8 In
ches by 2 5/8 inches.
William H. Clark
Wins College Honor
William Hunter Clark of
Warrenton Is one of 31 East
Carolina College upper class
men named to the 1966 edi
tion of the National publica
tion, "Who's Who Among Stu
dents In American Universi
ties and Colleges."
Clark Is the son of Mr.
Exum Clark and the late Mrs.
Clark, and Is a graduate of
John Graham High School.
When the 1966 edition of the
Buccaneer, student yearbook
at ECC, appears in the spring,
a section will honor the 31
"Who's Who" students. Their
photographs and summaries
of their achievements at East
Carolina will be featured.
Those representing the col
lege In the 1965-'66 "Who's
Who" are uppercla-smen who
have outstanding scholarship,
leadership, citizenship and
contributions to the college.
They were nominated for the
honor by a committee of stu
dents, faculty members and
administrative officials at the
college here.
More than 25,000 banks
and other financial institutions
serve as issuing agents for
V. S. Savings Bonds, and many
more thousands of business
establishments sell Ponds to
their employees.
South Carolina was thefirst
state to plant rice and Indigo
for sale.
Man Receives
Motor Club'
s Award *
Major R. Wynn, N. C. State
Motor Club representative In
Warren County, has received
one of the company's top
annual awards for outstand
ing performance during 1985.
Thomas B. Watklns, presi
dent of the motor club, an
nounced yesterday that Wynn
received the Big X Sales
Award for the third consecu
tive year. He was commended
for his achievement by Wat
klns and C. V. Umphlett of
Durham , his division man
ager.
"The beauty of our land Is
a natural resource. Its pre
servation Is linked to the In
ner prosperity of the human
spirit." President Lyndon
B. Johnson In Message to Con
gress on Natural Beauty, Feb.
8, 1965.
Say you saw it advertised In
The Warren Record.
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