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A Great Relief
Obviously, since The Warren
Record goes to press early on
Wednesday morning, only a few
hours after votes are tallied on
Tuesday night, we are in no
position to either influence the
election or ta comment on the
winners and losers but on the
other hand time has a way of
curing disappointments.
The one safe conclusion we can
make is that most persons will
be glad the election is over. It
has lasted too long, cost too
much and been greatly overplayed
by the media, particularly,
by television advertising on
the part of the candidates.
Debates between the candidates
have for centuries been a
way of bringing the personalities
of the candidates, their abilities
and their programs before the
voters. We have found the
debates both interesting and
quite revealing, and seldom
overdone. But we have found
constant repetition of charges,
many half-truths on TV, maddening.
Now it will be a real relief to
turn our attention to more
pleasant matters.
Congratulations
We would like to congratulate
those concerned for the beautification
of the Warrenton Postoffice
during the past several
weeks, a painful time for employees
during the several days
old varnish was being removed
from boxes, tables and doors
with chemicals.
But patrons visiting the postoffice
this week will find that the
postoffice has been given a good
cleaning, including removal of
radiators and cleaning behind
them, the removal of old varnish,
and its replacement, shining
the brass fixtures, and
cleaning the lights, removing
tables to give better access for
cleaning and revarnishing. As a
result of the completion of renovating
the building, a pretty
postoffice has been made even
more beautiful.
Disturbing Trend
In The Fayetteville-Times
The most disturbing trend in the
study of higher education commissioned
by the National Institute of
Education is that the campus is
becoming more and more a drill
field for "a nation of shopkeepers"
while the classic object of schooling,
the forming of minds of wisdom and
discernment, languishes.
The percentage of higher educational
graduates in liberal arts and
sciences, as opposed to professional
or vocational areas, has dropped
from 49 percent in 1971 to 36 percent
in 1982. The percentage of entering
freshmen who want to be professors
has dropped from 1.8 percent to .02
percent since 1966.
The study warned that "the
bachelor's degree has lost its potential
to foster the shared values and
knowledge that bind us together as a
society."
No nation can truly prosper if the
energies of its best minds are
devoted primarily to getting and
spending. The demand-supply curve
for brains is the most important
measure of the wellbeing of society
and when too much of the brainpower
is enthralled by mundane
pursuits of the market place,
society's progress can expect to be
only mundane.
Fortunately, the law of scholarly
supply-and-demand so often works
to right itself. You can bet that the
statistic on professorships will not be
lost on the more alert entering freshmen.
This semester's famine is often
next season's glut. It has happened
in medicine and law, and it may be
happening in "business administration"
next.
"Back to basics" is a good principle
in higher education as in
secondary schooling, and it is clearly
time for more young people to see
the advantage of the enduring values
of the liberal arts education.
'Old Folks At Home'
"Old Folks at Home" is by
Kathryn Bright Gurkin of Clinton,
and is reproduced from Sam
Ragan's column, "Southern Accent,"
in The Southern Pines Pilot:
They were so busy living
that they never planned on living
too long in a world where life costs
more
and so lost opportunity to bend
the future to their will. Their savings
spent
on bare necessities, the rent one
pays the world
comes due and payable in blood
and they repent in anguish the fat
years •
when old men were their fathers,
not themselves.
Forty widows live along the highway
to my mother's house,
not one secure, not one who relishes
the prospect of another year
eked out from rents and pensions,
wracked by fear of falling ill but
living on and on.
"Is this America?" they cry.
"What happened Jo America, sweet
bye and bye?
Out there, they promised us the
moon
and all we get is surph>° cheese!
You can't buy groceries and oil on
what we get,
The government, it owes us more,
not less."
Their houses crumble slowly down
around them
but they try to tithe—down payment
on a hoped-for
piece of heaven wneday but of
course you have to ciie.
Meanwhile the lifeblood of America
goes hurtling down
the highways, through the skies,
down pipelines, rivers, over Oceanian
unstoppable appalling avalanche
of goods.
Quotes
"Put all your eggs in one basket
and watch that basket" -Mark
Twain
"Sane folks are too polite to be op
to aqy good."—Kim Hubbard
Mostly Personal
The Election Is Over
By B1GN ALL JONES
Since the election will
be over when The
Warren Record goes to
press Wednesday morning
and it ia too late to
change any votes, it
may be well to discuss
the meaning of liberal
and conservative in a
non-emotional manner.
Several weeks ago we
ran in this column a
"Letter to the editor" in
the Smithfield Herald in
which Jane R. Montgomery
of Smithfield
defined her idea of a
conversative. I do not
know whether Mrs.
Montgomery is white or
black or Democrat or
Republican, only that I
was so impressed with
her views that I decided
to reprint her letter at a
suitable time, which I
now feel has arrived. It
follows:
"The Reader's Idea Of
A True Conservative"
To The Editor:
The two most misused
words today are
"liberal" and "conservative."
The media, politicians
and religious
leaders bandy these
words around without
the public's really knowing
what they are
saying.
To me, a "conservative"
is one who conserves,
protects, and uses
reasonable caution. I
believe we ought to conserve
the environment:
our children need clean
air, clean water, good
land, and a reasonably
free country.
To resist the developers,
the free enterprise
fanatics, and those who
wish to maintain the
status quo—"me get,
you just sorry"—is the
true spirit of conservatism.
Have you ever examined
why people of
power and influence are
where they are? A few
are downright smart,
but many were lucky by
inheritance of color,
money, and special
privilege. Many think
they deserve all that
they have without a
backward glance at all
who helped them
achieve their comfort
(even the poor contributed).
Affording opportunity
for all is conserving
human beings for
society.
I believe that every
person should warrant
justice under the law
and be treated the same
way for the same offense.
Should this not
conserve respect for
justice?
I believe that we must
have "government on
our backs" if we conserve
the seas, the farmlands,
the air, and our
natural resources. Have
you seen what's happening
to the forests all
over our state? Do you
see the fields washing
away? Do you see the
river lowgrounds being
filled in, with trees
dying in agony to make
way for used-car lots,
gas pumps, junk, sign
pollution and scenic
filth?
A true conservative is
less greedy to make a
buck. He wishes to save
some beauty near the
Town Commons and
wants to conserve and
preserve for another
day.
A true conservative
believes in the privilege
of choice in religion. To
me, this means that you
have the freedom to
worship, to believe, to
get an education, to
travel our country
without interfering with
the rights of others. I
believe that you should
drive courteously, that
you should choose where
you wish to live and how
many children you have
without your religion or
your motives being
questioned. Do you want
a second China, India,
or other overpopulated
country?
I also believe that the
true conservative
believes in the freeenterprise
system,
which does not mean
corporations gobbling
up other corporations,
executives of large
companies pocketing
millions then blaming
the unions for wanting
job security. Conserving
our country does not
mean going overseas to
use cheap labor to make
more money to influence
people, elections
and the media while
screaming about
government regulations
and welfare cheaters.
Free enterprise means
being free to make an
honest buck but not
being so greedy that you
want to have it all, use it
all, and eat it all.
You see, my idea of
being conservative —
which I am — is so different
but correct that
I'll bet you have thought
I was a wild-eyed
liberal!
JANER.
MONTGOMERY
Smithfield
By a coincidence it
was Wingate Lassiter,
editor of The Smithfield
Herald who defines a
liberal in a recent
editorial:
Do You Really Know
WhatA'Llberal'Is?
The dirtiest word in
the political vocabulary
of 1984 is "liberal." It's
used time and again in a
spiteful manner to attack
political opponents,
the news media, and
anyone else who happens
to disagree with
Whoever's doing the
labeling.
But does anyone out
there really know the
true meaning, or
meanings, of the word
"liberal?"
Hiere is a variety of
definitions.
"Marked by generosity
and openhandedness"
is the meaning on
the minds of politicians
who want voters to
believe their opponents
are spendthrifts with the
public's money, always
looking for new ways to
tax in order to waste.
"Lacking moral
restraint" is the meaning
on the minds of fundamentalist
religious
sects and rigbtwing politicians
who often feel
threatened when subjected
to close scrutiny
by opposing politicians
and the news media.
Yet there are other
minings of the word
"liberal" that people
and institutions that are
in some way liberal
ought not to be ashamed
of.
"Broad-minded" and
"tolerant" are prominent
definitions of "liberal."
"Not bound by
authoritarianism, orthodoxy,
or traditional
forms" is another.
And what about this
definition of
"liberalism," taken
from Webster's: "a
political philosophy
based on belief in
progress, the essential
goodness of man, and
the autonomy of the individual"
and "standing
for the protection of
political and civil liberties."
Nothing shameful
there.
Mayor Jimmy Caldwell
of Tupelo, Miss,
ticked off several of
those positive meanings
of the word "liberal" as
he addressed Third
District Democrats at
last weekend's rally
here and then exclaimed:
"You're dad-blamed
right I'm a liberal-and
I didn't even know it till
I read my dictionary!"
Why should anyone be
ashamed of working
through democratic
channels of representative
government for
things like social and
economic progress, individual
liberty, and
civil rights?
And if the news media
is "guilty" of the charge
of being "liberal," let us
acknowledge here and
now that the press has
an obligation to be
broadminded, tolerant
of divergent views, and,
above all else, free to
examine new ways to
make life better for all
the citizens we seek to
serve.
The next time you
hear someone label
someone else "liberal,"
ask him to be a little
more specific in how he
chooses to use that
word.
Letter To The Editor
Strength In Unity
To the Editor:
I don't know if Warren County can be considered a
typical American county or a typical southern county,
but after living here for 35 years and after
having travelled to some other counties I find these
facts to be true about my home county.
There is no doubt that there is covert as well as
overt racism here, but at the same time there is a
spirit of togetherness that almost defies logic. In
travelling around this county, I find that individuals
look out for the common good of each other whether
they are white or non-white. I find that when it is a
case of human interest, humanity is prevalent. This
is evident when one sees blacks and whites, eating,
talking and working together. It was evident when
Warren County united against other forces to attempt
to halt the dumping of PCB-laced soil in this
county. It is evident when blacks and whites go to
school and live not in a segregated manner but in a
spirit of togetherness.
I have learned in my years here that people
basically are the same with the same desires,
needs, hopes and dreams and when people are forced
to live together, they adjust to survive.
This is not to say that there is not room for improvement,
but it Is a statement that affirmative
action is voluntarily being enacted, though not on a
large enough or all encompassing scale.
If I were to leave here, and one day that may be
necessary, I could honestly say that yesterday I
learned while I struggled and things are no different
now. I hope Warren County continues to do the same
thing. Remember, there is strength in unity.
MILTON G.DAVIS
Rt 1, Warrenton
Looking Back Into
The Warren Record
November II, 1944
The USS Lenoir, named in honor of the county in
the Eastern sectioo of the state, was launched at the
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company on Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock under the sponsorship of Mrs.
John H. Kerr of Warren ton, wife of the congressman
from the Second District
Asking that they either "enforce or repeal" the
town milk ordinance, A. J. Ellington, local dairy
operator, was before the Board of Town Commissioners
in their regular monthly meeting Monday
night.
Next week is the time for the annual library campaign,
directed this year by Mrs. Clyde Rodwell of
Warrenton and Mrs. Clarence Thompson of Macon.
Both have done excellent work in the previous campaigns
for the library, and in the sale of War Bonds.
November!, 1959
Sulphur Springs Baptist Church of Elberon will
hold a loyalty dinner as part of its Forward
Program on Thursday night, Nov. 12, at Hotel
Warren according to C. H. Stegall, chairman of the
budget promotion committee.
James D. Alston, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Alston
of Littleton, will attend the National 4-H Congress
with the North Carolina delegation when they go to
Chicago the day after Thanksgiving.
Miss Scott Rodwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
E. Rodwell of Warrenton, was standard bearer for
the freshman class of Stratford College in Danville,
Va. when the school recently celebrated October
Day.
November 7,1974
Steven E. Brooks, a native of Siler City, has been
named assistant extension agent in Warren County
to succeed A. Joseph Warner, who resigned earlier
this year to return to Ohio.
Construction of a sewage system for Northwest
Warren County came a step closer on Monday when
the Board of county commissioners passed resolutions
naming Warren County as the lead agency and
authorizing Board Chairman Claude Bowers to sign
necessary papers for Survey 201.
Teresa Hicks of Norlina has been tapped for
membership in the Peace College chapter of Phi
Theta Kappa, junior college academic honor
society.
The lilac, a native of the Orient, was not introduced into
Europe until the 16th century.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Warrenton Planning Board hereby
gives notice of a public hearing to be
held Monday, November 12, 1984 at
7:00 p.m. at the Warrenton Town Hall,'
119 East Market Street, Warrenton,
North Carolina. Purpose of the hearingFor
Public consideration and comment
concerning rezoning of property
located at 305 and 307 West Franklin
Street, Warrenton Township, Warrenton,
N. C. To change present zoning
from R-12 (Medium Density Residential)
to R-8 (High Density Residential) to
allow construction of an apartment
complex. A copy of the request for
zoning change is available at the
Warrenton Town Hall between 8:30
a.m. and 5:30 p.m. for public inspection.
ROY P. ROBERTSON
Chairman, Warrenton Planning Board
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Warrenton Planning Board hereby
gives notice of a public hearing to be
held Monday, November 12, 1984 at
7:00 p.m. at the Warrenton Town Hall,
119 E. Market Street, Warrenton, N.
C. Purpose of the hearing being for
public consideration and comment
concerning rezoning of property
located on S.R. 1107 within the extraterritorial
boundry of the Town of
Warrenton. Property belonging to L. C.
Cooper and recorded in the Warren
County Register of Deeds Office-Book
13-Page 12. Owners having requested
that property be changed from present
zoning of R-20 (Low Density Residential)
to R-8 (High Density Residential) to
allow for construction of apartment
complexes
A copy of the request for change is
available for public inspection at the
Warrenton Town Hall Monday through
Friday • 8:430 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Roy P. Robertson,
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