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Some months ago a duly constituted com
mit tee was created by Congress to investi
gate indirect lobbying. Headed l>v Congress
•man Frank Buchanan of I’ennsvlvannia, the
committee worked diligently and without
seeking publicity In due time, it got around
to .sending, questionnaires to about 165
corporations, seeking certain information
relative to the possibility that some of
1 hoii expenditures, “donations” or “contri
butions" were influencing legislation and
elect mns.
Possibly the questions were irksome, hut
a typical reactionary comes along with the
following ad\ ic<
“Our advice to them (the corporations) is
to tear iip Mi Buchanan s questionairo and
throw it into the most convenient waste
paper basket.”
ll an individual can be placed in jail for
not telling what party he is affiliated with
ami is held in contempt then it would ap
pear that tin ad'-icc offered for the benefit
oi powerful corporations e. a hit untimely
and certninlv 'defiant
ll could he just plain old mean eurositv,
but it would be interesting, and possibly
helpful and enlightening, to know who fi
nanced the distribution in this slate of tens
of thousands of pieces of literature of ques
tionable orgm and m collision with the true
facts
tml ffh-i
Just about every time monov is appropri
at'd m this country tu help tin* economy
in foreign nations, there are those who de
tuand more work be done in those foreign
lands bet the poor devils go to work,"
tlie\' sav. And it is no more than right for
those who get help to work
fairly recent developments prove that
those in foreign lands have gone to work,
iney are now prepared to ship manufactur
ed gof Is into ti i countr\ But t’ se who
Were instructed to go to work, now find
mark. Is blocked. W e wanted those over
there to go to woi k and now we would deny
them a market for their products.
It is no easy solution, one must admit, but
to bring economic stability to the world
some system of mutual trade must be ar
ranged
II liat s i lUftlonut II orlli?
There is a lot of hazy thinking over the
country as to education. The mere fact
Pat ;1 w»y OI gtr] manages to get a college
diploma does not necessarily testify eon
f.iusi\ el\ that their (‘ducation has 1 uvn a
success || takes more Ilian dates, tacts,
foimulae anti ligures to make an educated
human being.
There are men and women who have
never been inside of a college, but who,
nevertheless, are better educated than some
of the young graduate: When you know
what wi‘ mean by this, you are beginning
to show signs ot education yourself. Edi
tor's Copy
I'.nlillril To ll
If a person voted for a losing candidate
and no candidate received a c lear majority
ip the recent primary, then that person is
Oil titled to vote again, riie democratic sys
tem. however cumbersome li may be. prov
ided for rule by majority. If a candidate polls
the largest number of vot* s and is still short
| bf a majority, he has no complaint under
our form of government to entering a sec
ond primary.
j It isn’t that we relish the smears of poli
tics, but when Democracy’s way is clear, it
is only right to follow that way.
Onti'l Quit
| By Ruth Taylor.
There are times when doubt and dis
couragement confront even ttie most val
iant - when we seem up against a stone wall
m which there is no gate. We see no way
out of our immediate problems, and 1be.se
swamp us - mentally and spirtuallv.
Then is the time to stop and take stock
of the situation. To look at things in their
proper perspective, to see what in our own
I thoughts is the stumbling block.
It was Shakespeare who said “Our doubts
are traitors, and make us lose the good we
oft might win bv fearing to attempt.” Long
before him, Seneca had said "A great pilot
ran sail even when bis sail is rent " To both
men llie cure for defeat — for doubt and
discouragement—was action.
When those three enemies confront you
think “What can 1 do!” Rut - “What can 1
j do?"
There may not seem to be a way out - but
there is always a way up. Pause and look up.
Turn your thoughts to the eternities. Pray
not for relief but for guidance. Still your
j soul for a while. And then return to your
! problem.
Consider it not as a stumbling block, hut
as an opportunity - an opportunity for you
to gain m strength in the solving. A dial
lenge to use your God-given intelligence.
It you tackle your difficulties in this man
ner, you will he shown what to do. You will
i be able - by first mastering yourself - to
face the issue squarely and to make your
owi+ decisions honestly and wisely.
Be not afraid of the outcome. Your fear is
of your own ability, not of outside circum
stances. Have faith in yourself and go ahead.
Don’t he afraid of doing too*much. It is bet*
! ter to wear out than to rust out.
There is something you can do. Decide
i what it is - and do it!
“Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how dose you are.
It mav he near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest
hit -
It’s when things seem worst that you
must not quit.”
V/tnal in North Carolina
Chrislian Science Monitor.
The effects of sharpening the race issue
are now being read in the reactions of an
other southern state's voters. Reports from
North Carolina say the N egro question
played a decisive part in the run-off victory
of Willis Smith over Senator Frank P. Gra
ham in the Democratic primaries.
The first primary results gave Dr. Graham
a iPad of fill,000 votes. But in the run-ol'f
Mr Smith won by 20,000. His victory
strengthens the conservative wing of the
Democratic Party and gives the Truinanites
something to think about. Bltt it appears
unlikely that a new conservative tide rose
suddenly enough to account for the shift
m North Carolina.
In the first campaign. Dr. Graham sur
mounted charges that he had been friendly
with Communists. But before the second
balloting the Surpreme Court rendered a
decision barring segregation in the univer
sities ot Texas and Oklahoma.Smith sup
porters presented these as forerunners of or
ders requiring the mixing of races in North
Carolina's public schools and' claimed (de
spite Ins denials) that Dr. Graham backed
a policy of federal compulsion barring seg
regation. He was unfairly tied up with the
campaign for a compulsory FEPC.
Political observers in Florida reported
that a similar accentuation of the race issue
was the chief factor in the defeat of Senator
Pepper. Do these results mean that sharpen
ing this issue will give additional seats to
conservative Democrats and continue to
weaken the Truman forces? If so, both sides
ask where such a
course leads. We believe conservatism has
sounder longrange grounds, clearly sepera
tiug itsell from race prejudice and injustice.
We also believe genuine liberalism will find
d wiser to emphasize education, clearly dis
associating itself from coercion that takes
no account of custom.
Regimentation and totalitarianism have
boon the red herrings in politics for quite
somo time. 1 host* who have cried the loud
est about regimentation claimed they were
carrying out in the interest of the farmer.
Well, there never was more regimentation
than back in the early twenties and thirties
when millions were forced into bread lines
and other millions stood helplessly by while
lite savings and homos were washed away
in an economic debacle. No one stood up
and cried about regimentation in those try
ing times Rut everyone tries to do some
thing to relieve such conditions, regimenta
tion is charged.
A bachelor is a man who gets a chance to
use his home phone and his automobile once
in a while—Exchange.
'Feeder Calf Sale
! At Rocky Mount
The Rocky Mount Chamber r>l
Commerce and the Rocky Mount
.laycee , in cooperation with thr
North Carolina Agricultural Ex
tension Service are holding their
! Second annual Eastern Carolina
Feeder Calf Sale on Thursday,
September 14, 1950 at 2 p. m. at
Lancaster's Stockyards No. 2
Rocky M- unt. N C
The organization' is interested
in getting as many calves con
signed to this sale as possible.
Anyone who has one or more
| calves and desires 1o consign
to this stile may do so being
governed by the following Rules
and Regulations of the Feeder
Calf Sale. Anyone planning to
enter one or more animals, please
contact D W Brady at the Coun
ty Agent’s Office.
Rules and Regulations:
1. Only calves of strictly beef
breeding will by accepted for the
sale. Both steer and heifer calves
will be included. No bulls.
2. Calves sold through the sale
must be accepted by the selection
committee prior to the day of
sale. This rule will he strictly en
forced.
2. Calves will he sorted into
official grades ai the market on
sale day by an official grader
and. will be sold in lots of such
size as is deemed advisable by
the sales committee.
4. Actual sales management, ad
vertising, and other details of the
sale will be left entirely In the
sales committee.
f>. Producers will agree to have
their calves mixed with those of
I other producers according to
grade and sex, but lots will be
made up of calves of approxi
mately equal weights, and each
producers calves will be weighed
and the producer will he paid ac
cording 1n the weight and price
of his calves in the lot.
<i All health requirements of
the North Carolina Slate Veteri
Italian's Office will he taken care
el at the sale
7. All male calves must he cas
trated and dehorned. All pre
caution must be taken to assure
that older heifer calves are not
bred.
H. Calves will be accepted at
Stock Yards on day proceeding
sale and until 1 u:00 A. M. on day
of sabs A small charge will he
made for (ceding calves brought
in 1ho day before the sale.
!) No call under 200 pounds in
weight or over twelve months
old will be accepted.
It). Closing date for consign- ^
moots will he September 1, 1950. <
11. Sulf and advertising ex
M'lises of $2.50 per head will be
barged.
As much ;is 300,000 miles of!
golf thread is produced annually j
in Delhi alone.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STRICT '
Khrustalev Had a Lot of Crust
Saying Bad Things About Rose
1-By BILLY ROSE
Generalissimo Joseph V. Stalin
Chairman, Council of Minister*
Kremlin, Moscow, U. S. S. R.
Dear Joe:
If 1 may be so bold. I’d like to call your attention to a matter which
Is no laughing matter, even though it's been getting a lot of laughs
lately. Namely, the recent effort* of your propaganda boys ts win
friends arid influence people in this part of the world.
Take, for Instance, ’ast winter's
lollapaloozs aDOut how your engi
neers were nudging
; mountains with
uranium. We de
generate d e m a
, crats, whether you
Know it or not. ere
a fact-minded peo
ple who thrive on
details. When a fel
low says he’s Na
poleon we want to
see his birth certi
ficate, and when Billy Rase
he's atomized an
Alp we want to see the hole in the
ground.
Then there were the recent hum
dingers which claimed that every
doodad from the wheel to the fly
ing saucer had been invented by a
Russian. Now, I can't doubt that
many an important idea has been
hatched between the Carpathians
and the Urals, blit when your prop
aganda machine gives the rest of
the world credit for nothing but the
Cindy hop and the bubonic plague,
s lot of folics who might otherwise
Oe friendly begin to titter—and
even your legitimate claims get
lost in the chuckle.
OCR MASS REACTIONS were
neatly summed tip a few months
ago when The New Yorker car
dotted a group of your agents in
C.iina discussing policy. "The main
•h,ng is to handle them with tart."
<Md one of them. "Lei them think
'.hey invented gunpowder," Some
'•'‘■ues later, 1 he same periodical
r»r. another captious cartoon In
which several Politburocrats were
debating the question, "Shall we
invent television now or wait until
they perfect color?"
As another, and admittedly pica
yune, example of what I'm getting
at, let me tell you about my own
experiences with your editors and
copywriters.
Fi ery now ancl occasionally, as
ome idle eye in your press divi
sion has apparently noticed, l
take a playful poke at your re
pine in my column—an event
which certainly doesn't jignre to
precipitate a crisis u I state. Hut
instead of lili/if it in tf>g tf aste
basket and going ahoAt their
business, your name-callers have
'nice made the mistake ol an- i
tit ering hack — and both timet
with the finesse of a lumberjack
trying to tat.
Tbs first time, a year ago. both
Pravda and Izvestia reported I war
a "white slaver” and that my
humpty-dumpty little cabaret wa*
"the biggest bordello in the world."
And as if that weren't enough, they
went on to say that my partner* in
this enterprise were John Edyer
Hoover and Bernard M. Barusb.
Well, as might have been ex
pected, this bombastic bombshell
exploded nothing but giggle* Time
magazine reprinted the item aa *
gag. my chorus girls threatened to
picket the Russian consulate, and
the syndicate which handle* my
stuff picked up a few more paper*
AM, OF WHICH should have
taught your word-wasters a lesson,
but it didn’t. A few days ago,
someone mailed me the February
issue of your magazine. Navy Mir
iNew World), and—lo and surprise!
—in it was an article by on* P
Khrustalev which, by way of docu
menting the degeneracy of Amer
ican culture, described m* as "•
gangster with three chins" who
"murdered a man end grabbed hi*
capital,"
/ tonk tbit, l asture you, at a
plautht rather than a potshot.
On your n ay up, as I get it, yo.t
knocked off a couple of hanke
yourself, and since have undoubt
edly knocked off an opponent or
three. Khrustalev, it was evident,
meant to be complimentary it hen
he word-painted me in the image
of Soiiet Citizen bio. 1.
All kidding aside, though, don'1
you think it's about time you sent
for your typewriter assassins anc
pointed out that their releases art
getting more hnwls than hosann3s1
And while you’re at it, you migh'
point out that Joe Goebbel's theorj
— the bigger the lie the more apt :i
is to be believed—only works will
people who desperately want to be
lieve the lie.
One thing more: I fraternally
suggest you keep an eye on tht* I
Khrustalev fellow who S3id I had I
three chins. Such a man, in a reck, j
less moment, might describe b>* |
premier »« paying two head*.
Sincerely,
Biliv Rose
"Stars in Ny
Crown" Is Here
"Stars in My Crown,” now
M G-M drama playing Sunday
through Wednesday at the Vircar
Theatre, stars Joel McCrea with a
east of screen favorties in the
| action-filled story of a two-fisted
parson whose whisper spoke
! louder than six guns.
McCrea, inseparably associated
with outdoor •oles. plays the Civil
War cavalryman turned preacher,
who brings law and order, love
and laughter to a small Southern
community. Appearing opposite
the star is Ellen Drew who por
trays that unsuing heroine, the
housewife and the gentle power
behind many a man's success. As
their little ward, who contributes
much of the laughter to the story
is Dean Stoekwell, popular juve
nile star who recently scored in
‘The Secret Garden.”
An outstanding supporting cast
features Alan Hale, Lewis Stone.
Juano Hernondez, who won wide
! critical praise for his performance
in "Intruder in the Dust,” Charles
Kemper and Connie Gilchrist. The
I picture’s subsidiary romance fea
tures James Mitchell, recruited to
films after his success on the
Broadway stage, and Amanda
Blake, another talented newcomer
who makes her screen debut in
the role of a pretty school teacher.
A typical Southern frontier
town was duplicated on an M-G-M
1 set covering four acres and com
j plete with a half-mile railroad
i track. Addit ional location sequen
ces were filmed in the hills over
looking the San Fernando Valley.
Highlighting the screen adapta
tion of the Joe David Brown novel
is an unusual musical score. No
original music was composed for
; the film which draws entirely on
songs and folk tunes, both popular
and sacred, existing in the post
;Civil War period.
"Stars in Mv Crown” was di
rected by Jacques Tourneur (“Can
yon Passage") and was produced
by William II. Wright, whose di
versified productions range from
such romantic comedies as “The
Bride Goes Wild” to the dramatic
"Act of Violence.”
Itnller In Slnrnge ltosi‘n
Urohlein fur Uncle Sain
The Goverrtment*is,’lAiffiitg*f<Tr'
a way to dispose of 175,000,000
pounds of surplus butter stored
under farm price-support pro
grams. The butter represents a
Government outlay of more than
$100,000,000. The Agriculture De
partment is offering to give the
butter awav for relief use but
few states care to set up the dis
tribution machinery which Vould
he required.
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