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Comparison Is Made
The church bulletin of Em
manuel Episcopal Church often
contains essays on various sub
jects which its rector, Dr. G. R.
Selby, wishes to share with the
congregation. This past Sunday,
August 5, Dr. Selby chose as his
subject "Law and Order."
Believing that it deserves wider
circulation than afforded by the
bulletin, we reproduce it as
follows:
Law and Order
The Ten Commandments have
been the basis from which the law of
many countries, and especially
Christian countries, has grown.
Although Christ gave us the greater
law of love, this transcends but by no
means abolishes the law of the
commandments. The command
ments are a kind of tutor to bring us
to the greater law of love.
It might have been thought that
Christian countries, with their law
based upon the Judeo-Christian
ethic, would have more law-abiding
society than non-Christian countries
but a contrast with Japan is most
disturbing.
With a population half the size of
that of the U. S. A. Japan had only
922 homicides in 1981. New York City
alone had 1,832 in that period. An
American is 12 times more likely to
be murdered than a Japanese, 14
times more likely to be raped and 20
times more likely to be the victim of
a property crime.
Japan has a low crime a^e
without either a prison state or ex
cessive litigation and only 50,000
prisoners are presently confined.
Fewer than 4% of the prisoners are
sentenced for longer than three
years. In contrast the U. S. has
580,000 adult inmates: 80% of those
in state institutions have been sen
tenced for longer than five years.
Japan brings 70% of its crimes to
conviction. The U. S. brings only
19.8% of its crimes to attest. Our
prison population has expanded by
30% in the last three years.
Another Tradition Gone
By JIM SHUMAKER
In The Charlotte Observer
The University of Mississippi,
possibily in the belief that higher
learning, like hamburgers, must be
dispensed in a fast and constant
stream to be profitable, has finally
stopped shutting down for lunch.
For as long as anybody could
remember, the weekday adminis
tration and instruction at Ole Miss
came to a halt at noon. Everybody
knocked off for lunch or siestas or
light assignations, and the thrust
toward the frontiers of knowledge
went into neutral.
Now all that has changed, in the
un-natural order of transmogrifica
tion. When noon comes nowadays
someone has to stick around to keep
track of football TV contracts and
honorary degrees and other import
ant business.
So another Old South tradition, a
hallmark of gentility and civility, is
gone with the wind. William Faulk
ner, who once fired the boilers at Ole
Miss, using the lunch break and
other odd moments to write, "Sanc
tuary," must be moaning in his
grave.
Fortunately, at the university here
in Chapel Hill, a fine old way of life is
still honored. The rich tradition at
UNC, going all the way back to the
early 1950s when television was in its
infancy, is the soaps break.
The soaps break begins sporadi
cally around the campus at noon,
when "News," a comparatively
tame semi-soap, is presented.
"News" appeals mostly to elderly
faculty members who like to munch
their peanut butter sandwiches
without excessive emotional strain
and to fifth-year students getting out
of bed who like to start the day
slowly.
The soaps break spreads across
the campus, like kudzu in a rainy
season, at 12:30 when "Ryan's
Hope," "Search for Tomorrow" and
"The Young and Restless" comes on
at once.
Secretaries gather around the
tubes, filling themselves with raw
carrots and cauliflower and dip and
commiseration. Administrators,
popping in to check with the secre
taries, linger to watch the latest
episode.
In the Student Union, which offers
pool, bowling, chess, checkers, video
games and junk food as supplements
to higher education, the soaps break
lasts from noon until 4:30, when
"Another Life" and "Edge of Night"
wind up the afternoon's cultural en
richment. Students, faculty, admin
istration personnel and a sprinkling
of Chapel Hill's street people who
use the union for personal con
veniences sit, catatonic, in front of
the big TV screens.
The break causes minor problems.
It is hard to get anybody to answer
the phones during the soaps, and
when somebody does answer the one
you're trying to call is always "in
conference."
The soaps break also has its
critics—troublemakers and outside
agitators. Except for those malcon
tents, everybody would sooner give
up the Old Well or Davie Poplar.
Explosive Situation
By RALPH DELANO
In Benson Review
This is a fishy story.
It seems that in a small town a
man rather suddenly became known
as a great fisherman. Each time he
went out he came back with so many
fish that everyone was wondering
how he did it. Even the game warden
became suspicious. On the next trip,
the warden went along to see what
was happening.
When they arrived at the spot in
the lake where the fisherman
claimed there was plenty of fish, the
man stopped the boat, reached in his
tackle box and took out a stick of
dynamite, lit the fuse, and threw It
into the water. When the water set
tled, he went around picking up dead
and stunned fish by the tubfull.
"Don't you know that dynamiting
fish is illegal?" the game warden
asked him. "When we get back I'll
have to take out a warrant for your
arrest."
The fisherman said nothing, but
calmly reached in his tackle box,
pulled out another stick of dynamite,
lit it, and waited until the fuse bur
ned away down short
Then he thrust it into the hands of
the game warden and said, "What
are you going to do-Just sit there
talking, or are you gonna fish with
me?"
ANCIENT MUMMIES
A group of 74 mummies believed to
be about 5,000 years old—roughly the
same age as the first mummies in
Egypt—has been recovered from a
prehistoric cemetery in Arica,
Chile's northern-most city.
Mostly Personal
Scissors Or Nothing
By BIGN ALL JONES
life Magazine is
today one of the most
popular news maga
zines in the world and
is noted for its color
pictures, but such has
not always been the
case. In the twenties
Life was a humor maga
zine, printed in black
and white, with jokes,
satire, and numerous
cartoons. On its edi
torial page has always
appeared items of
comment under the pic
ture of a pair of scizzors
and written in Latin the
words "with scizzors or
nothing."
As I ran a sheet of
paper into the type
writer in preparation of
my weekly column, I
thought of this heading
in an old magazine of
which nothing remains
but memory and title. I
quote it, not only
because I have no
serious subject, but
because I want to resort
to scizzors in order to
quote two articles from
Sam Ragan's Southern
Accent in the Southern
Pines Pilot. One of July
25, and the other of
August 1. But first I
would like to correct two
errors in recent col
umns. Several weeks
ago in writing of the
renovation of the old
Eaton home by Col and
Mrs. John F. Jenkins I
stated that the home
was built around 1800 by
Col. William Johnston,
when it was built by Col.
William Johnson. Mary
Hinton Kerr called this
error to my attention.
Of even more concern,
because it was an error
of fact rather than the
misspelling of a com
mon name. Reporting
our family trip to Lex
ington, Va., and visit to
Lee's Chapel, I stated
that Grace's Episcopal
Church, which we were
unable to enter at that
time, was designed by
General Robert E. Lee.
It was not; General Lee
aided in the design and
supervision of Lee's
Chapel.
bam Kagan, in his
July 25 issue of Southern
Accent, writes two ar
ticles as follows:
Walter Spearman
says that when Princess
Anne came visiting the
other day to join North
Carolina officials in
launching the state's
400th anniversary ob
servance she was fed
quite well. He writes:
"Arriving in Chapel
Hill from Atlanta, Prin
cess Anne was lodged in
the sumptuous More
head House, greeted by
Governor and Mrs.
Hunt, and served a
North Carolina dinner of
strawberry soup, moun
tain brook trout, roast
duck, garden vegetables
and mocha meringue
parfaits. The Friday
luncheon menu at Man
teo on Roanoke Island in
honor of the Princess in
cluded Outer Banks
steamed shrimp, crab
meat salad, summer
chicken, and North
Carolina ham biscuits."
But Spearman thinks
there was a big omission
and he asks, "where's
the barbecue," and as
far as we can learn
Princess Anne did not
get even a small sample
of North Carolina's most
famous dish.
Barbecue, we
gather, is foreign to the
British taste. And so is
watermelon, another
product which ranks
high on any Tar Heel
food list. A group of
English visitors at
Tryon Palace in New
Bern were entertained
with a dinner and they
were enraptured with
the watermelon, even
though they had to ask
what it was they were
eating
The next time a queen
or a princess come
filing they certainly
should not be denied
watermelon, in season,
or barbecue, in all
seasons.
Len Sullivan, who
writes a very readable
column in the Moore
ville Tribune, had this
recent item:
"The Rev. Bob Mat
thews is shepherd of the
Fieldstone Presbyter
ian flock and late of the
ratified academic air of
Clemson University. (If
you can't get in college
you can always go to
Clemson, we always
say). On a recent
Sunday, he made a
passing disparaging re
mark from the pulpit
about North Carolina
politicians, declaring, in
effect, that only un
savory sorts would stoop
to the level of some of
the TV ads he's been ex
posed to here in recent
months. I had the urge
to raise my hand, be
recognized and point out
that this admittedly
yukky cup was passing
South Carolina only
because all her
politicians are in jail or
banished beyond her
borders.
I'm glad I resisted the
urge. Dennis Rogers,
columnist for The News
and Observer in
Raleigh, made exactly
this observation about
South Carolina the other
day, and The State in
Columbia retorted
thusly:
"Rogers is certainly
on target in noting that
we (South Carolina) ex
ceed our share of
political wrongdoers.
But most of ours—we
hope—reside in jail.
They're still running
around loose in North
Carolina."
Bob doubtless would
have tarred me with the
same stick, right there
before God and every
body.
In his August 1 col
umn, Ragan writes:
Librarians in Cum
berland County recently
told a reporter for the
Fayetteville papers
about the strange things
people leave in books as
page markers.
Such things as
coupons, greeting cards,
playing cards, paper
clips, gum wrappers,
money, checks, bills,
rubber bands, hair pins,
pictures, car keys and
letters are common
bookmarks which show
up in books returned to
libraries.
In Fayetteville the
two most startling book
marks which turned up
were photographs of
nude women and a pac
ket of marijuana. "What
was strange about the
nude pictures and the
marijuana was that they
were found in children's
books," a librarian said.
The dogearing of
books to mark a place
where the reader has to
stop temporarily has
been frowned upon for
so long that most people
have stopped doing it,
but they will grab up
anything close at hand
to mark their place in a
book, and often they
return the book to a
library without
removing the marker.
Librarians seldom
find those fancy page
markers which people
often give as presents.
Readers remember
those and remove them
for future use, but they
often forget more im
portant things like
checks they have writ
ten or received, per
sonal letters, or money.
One librarian we know
once found a $20 bill in a
book.
But the strangest
marker of all was repor
ted to us by the Olivia
Raney Library in
Raleigh. It was a fried
egg
Ragan often closes his
column by short quotes
from Mae Wood Bell of
Rocky Mount. The
closing quote of July 25
reads as follows.
One reason I make
myself scarce
On any given graduation
day
Is that commencement
speakers tend
To say more than they
have to say.
The closing quote of
August 1 follows:
My neighbor's doctor's
as wise as Solomon
He told him at his last
diagnostic session
To give up wine and
women and song,
Then prescribed a
medicine for depres
sion.
An 8-ounce package ol
macaroni yields 4 to 5 cups
when cooked and an 8-ounc<
package of noodles or spa
ghetti yields 3 to 4 cups cook
ed.
Letter To The Editor • -
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Legacy Lives On
To The Editor:
There may be some question in the minds of same
of the residents of this county in regard to what our
leaders are doing to help enhance the welfare of all
of us. One recent event that comes to mind is the
location of Owens-Illinois, a major company, in this
area.
You are probably saying that a $15-tnillion com
pany that begins hiring only 85 people is not much
help. That isn't helping the unemployed picture, you
say. You are right, if you look at the short run.
However, as a friend of mine, Ben Ruff in, special
assistant to Governor Hunt, told me, "Sometimes
the things we accomplish in our lifetime don't
benefit us in our lifetime. Sometimes our legacy
lives on in our offspring."
Let me explain. Owens-Illinois is an environ
mental-safe company. It is a high technology in
dustry, and it is. a strong company. That means that
when your eight-year-old gets out of school, he will
have a job waiting for him. First, be has to go to
school.
The message in this discourse is that to those
people who want to prosper: "Get educated! Get
wisdom! And get understanding!
MILTON GOODWIN DAVIS
Warrenton
News Of Yesteryear
Looking Back Into
The Warren Record
August 11,1944
Sam Margolis of Durham has succeeded G. R.
Rooker as manager of the local A&P Store. Mr.
Rooker, who had been at Warrenton for several
years, was transferred back to Henderson, where
he was former A&P manager.
In a ceremony marked by dignity and simplicity
in Warrenton Baptist Church on Saturday after
noon, August 5, at 3 o'clock, Miss Trina Reid of
Warrenton became the bride of Mr. Luther Martin
Lee, Jr., of Baltimore, Md The Rev. R. E. Brick
house, pastor, officiated.
An annual family reunion was held at Cherry Hill,
Inez, home of Mrs. G. W. Alston, on last Sunday,
celebrating her 95th birthday.
August 7,1959
Amos L. Capps, large farmer and pulpwood deal
er, was elected president of the Warrenton Railroad
Company at a regular meeting of stockholders
recently.
H. B. Harrell, Warrenton attorney, who has main
tained a law office in Norlina for several months,
this week moved his office to Warrenton. He is
located upstairs in the Gibbs-Woodhouse building on
Main Street.
Miss Knox Polk returned Saturday after attend
ing a music camp in Greenville for two weeks.
August 8,1974
A two-foot black snake has been blamed with
causing a power failure Tuesday night which threw
a large area of Warren County into darkness. The
reptile is the third of his species to cause a power
failure here within the past 12 months.
Edgar R. Wood, Jr., Warrenton native, has been
admitted to the partnership of Peat, Marwick, Mit
chell & Co., Certified Public Accountants, in Nor
folk, Va.
[ Warren Sheriff and Mrs. Clarence A. Davis were
e among law enforcement officers and families at
- tending the N. C. Retraining Session held last week
- at the Blockade Runner Hotel at Wrightsville
Beach.
Commissioner Opposes Action
Warren County com
missioners voted Mon
day to continue to
provide the Town of
Littleton's extraterri
torial areas within
Warren's boundaries
with such services as
electrical inspections,
but expressed concern
as to how a new land use
plan, a new zoning or
dinance, and subdivi
sion regulations planned
for adoption by the town
would affect those
areas.
Of specific concern
was the zoning for an
Industrial Park located
in the town's extraterri
torial area within
Warren County's boun
daries.
If the Town of Little
ton adopts extraterri
torial jurisdiction, the
Warren portion will
have separate repre
sentation on the Lit
tleton Panning Board
and Board of Adjust
ment and the board
members would be ap
pointed by the Warren
Board of Commission
ers as outlined by
General Statute.
Although Monday's
action simply reaffirm
ed what has been past
policy, it met with
vehement opposition
from Commissioner
William T. Skinner.
"They (Littleton resi
dents) wanted to go to
historic Halifax," Skin
ner said, "so let them
stay there."
Skinner's comments
were in reference to a
decision by Littleton
voters several years ago
to locate all of their town
within Halifax County.
Before that, portions of
the town had been
located in each.
Film-Flam Operation
Suspect Is Arrested
A Raleigh man was
arrested in Warren
County last Thursday
and charged in connec
tion with a flim-flam
operation aimed at the
elderly.
George Washington
Shaw, 57, was arrested
on three counts of ob
taining property by
false pretense by
Sheriff's Deputy B. D.
Bolton and was released
on $500 bond.
According to Bolton,
Shaw allegedly posed ax
someone affiliated with
Boy Scouts of America
and offered to have his
troop members do house
repairs providing sup
plies were paid for in
advance.
Bolton said Shaw, who
also faces a traffic
charge of improper
registration and no in
surance, is scheduled to
appear In Warren Coun
ty District Court today
(Wednesday).
A spokesman for the
Sheriff's Department
indicated that additional
warrants may be forth
coming in the case.
Keeping Healthy
Hand Protection
Working with hands is con
sidered good for mind and
body, but is hard on hands.
A weekend bout with auto
mobile repairs, stripping,
painting and refinishing old
furniture or building a book
case or desk can create havoc
on skin.
To retain finger dexterity
while protecting hands a
gainst the ravages of dirt,
grime, grease, wallpaper
glues, and irritating oils and
paints, there is a skin barrier
cream that protects against
water-insoluble irritants and
acts like a strong but gentle,
invisible barrier film.
The cream is called Kero
dex SI and is applied like a
fine cosmetic skin cream. Its
protection lasts for three to
four hours unless hands come
in contact with water. After
a project is completed the
cream is easily washed off
with soap and water.
Kerodex SI also makes
clean up faster and easier be
cause its "lifting action"
helps rid skin of dirt, grime
and other irritants which can
become inbedded in the skin.
If not available at a local
drug store, the pharmacist
can order Kerodex from Ay
erst Laboratories.