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The whole world is talking about Korea
bul not much is said about the Koreans. The
same applies to the Formosans. Obviously,
these people go with the land, and the land
is on the market. What seems to be overlook
ed about the Koreans is that thousands upon
thousands of them will pay with their lives
for having defended their country and wel
comed our aid. Somehow, for reasons that
might have had little to do with the- belief
in democracy they preferred us to the Com
munists. Many of them wive the buddies
who, in the critical time before the Inchon
landing, strengthened the regiments of our
infantry.
Of course, whenever the Syngman Rhce
government i njoved a spell ot power, it
rounded up many of its enemies, and some
of them were shot. In times of revolution, it
is easy to dispense with politieal trial in
favor of summary justice When Commun
ists get control of a city or of a country, they
go one step fuithei From summary justice
to mass executions. The\ practice political
genocide. Some! imes. led by a sense of thrift,
they let a man die slowly, ;fnd use what is
euphemistical]) called Ins manpower for
slave labor.
As this issue of The Reporter goes to press, 1
the tide of 1 >atlie is still wavering mostly
against us We do not yet know whether the
U. N. armies will succeed in holding a line
in Korea. But one thing we do know We
feel a wrench in tin heart whenever we
think of those buddies for one season, those
Korean prisoners who die for the n unc ol
having bt en friends The !h porter
1 hitllll' fin l‘result'll I
Until recently when a candidate had no
hope of ever reaching hi,r> 1 i office the Pres
idency of the United State s. for instance
it was said: "He hasn't a Chinaman's
chance.” Now we are glad to report that a
faan who was born and has spent most of his
life in China- aside from a year or so in
Moscow may he the man to w! n we
should entru: t our dostiny.
Dear Chiang. forgive us: dear Chiang. we
shall be worthy of thee thus, approximate
ly, spake Alfred Kohlberg, the brains of the
China lobby "To win we must convince
Chiang that we are allies to be trusted. The
first step m that direction would, of course
bo the removal from influence in American
affairs of all those men who have engineer
ed his betrayal since 1944."
This presumably would leave a large num
ber of vacancies in our government the
Presidency, several Cabinet positions, and
any number of seats in both houses of Con
gress. As a replacement in the top job,
frankly, we think of nobody whom Chiang
would trust except Chiang himself. That was
the way he ruled China and lost it The
Reporter
7 //>/;/*// M if/i (liuul ( lirrr
Some boy said of his special friend “He’s
tipped with good cheer.” Surely such a
phrase, wherever we wend, wo love and re
vere. Eyes look their brightest, all of us
know, when tipped with good cheer, shed
ding a radiant sparkle and flow on all who
draw near.
Isn’t it pleasant to clasp someone’s hand,
tipped with good cheer? A handshake that
says, “I understand; life sometimes is drear."
Dickens still lives because of his pen tipped
with good cheer, bringing a tonic to thou
sands, far and wide, year by year.
Oh! for a tongue, when skies are dull gray,
tipped with good cheer, making our troubles
fly swiftly away, and slaying grim fear.
May all of us know the gift of a friend tipped
with good cheer, for that is the voice, where
ever we wend, we must love most to hear.
Selected.
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I Shadow Hairs C.on^rrss
The Eighty-second Congress of the United
States will be ruled by a political party that
does not exist and that therefore is not re
sponsible to the voters and cannot be held
responsible by ihem.
This uon-existanf but regnant party is the
Republican-Southern Democratic. Because
of it. the accomplishments of the Eighty
second Congress—if such there are—will
depend upon the exercise of a high degree
of personal responsibility by members on
both the Republican and the Democratic
sides, and perhaps particularly among the
latter’s Southern branch.
Two hundred and forty to 252 votes, or
well over the majority of 218, are being
claimed in the House by the Republican
Southern Democratic coalition, sometimes
known as Repu bloc rats.
In the Senate the formal Democratic lead
is only 4f) to 47, and when Southern Demo
crats with a fine Republican voting record
arc deleted from the formal Democratic
count, it is obvious that the Upper House too
will be at the mercy of a shadow party.
In the coming Congress at Washington,
the Democratic party will bear the respon
sibility for it will organize the committees
of Congress and the presidency is Demo
cratic; but the responsibility will be borne
without authority, for the Administration
Democrats shorn of their Sothern dissent
ers form a minority. The Republican party,
as such, will neither bear responsibility nor
exercise authority, because it possesses
neither a formal nor an actual majority.
And the real power will reside with the Re
publocratic party.
To be able to act as one pleases without
taking the consequences is a very special
sort of temptation. It becomes still more en
ticing when a high degree of probability
arises that one’s enemy will be forced to
take the consequences, however unpalatable
they are to him, and however little he de
serves them. . . .
In th most practical sense the honor of
Congress and the repute of representative
government must rest on the consciences of
the individual members of the Eighty-sec
ond Congress if they rest anywhere at all,
for they are out of the hands of the parties.
St Louis Post-Dispatch
yirasiirrmcnl
Martin County ranks about fiftieth in the
list of automobile' registrations through Sep
tember, the bureau reporting that (1141 mo- j
to vehicle's had bee.: registered in the coun
ty during the period. Quite a few more were 1
registered during the remainder of the to
bacco marketing season.
While the motor vehicle count possibly
serves as a measurement of wealth, it is be
ginning to appear, especially in some coun
ties. that the conomy is getting a bit top
heavy with inotoi' vehicles. Reports main
tain that considerable borrowing was hand
led to finance car purchases, that ready cash
was taken in other cases to buy cars, leading
to borrowing to finance other activities.
It could be that the country is riding to
the poor house by motor, but it is fairly ap
parent that all are having a merry time on
the trip.
Vrvmuhiro I'xfHMitri'
Perhaps tho Republican Party, in spile
of the great need the nation has for it, will
never regain power. It seems to be the vic
tim of an extraordinary curse. In 1948, Dew
ex lost, for he ran for President thinking he
was already President. His Presidency came
to nought because of premature exposure.
I.ately the slogan of many Republicans has
been: "Let MacArtlnir run the war.” He did.
Aside from the extreme program of the lun
atic fringe, the Republican recommenda
tions for the Far East have been carried
through by the Democratic Administration
or at least the Republican opposition has
always been strong enough }o prevent the
Administration from following a course of
its own.
There must be somebody, somewhere, who
is giving the Republicans a bum steer. It is
incredible that McCarthy has not yet start
ed the search for the Republican Lattimore.
—The Reporter
Trioil tnnl Ti nt*
When a founder has cast his bell he does
not at once put it into the steeple, but tries
it with the hammer, and beats it on every
side, to see if there be a flaw. So when
Christ converts a man he does not at once
convey him to heaven, but suffers him to be
beaten upon by many temptations, and then
exalts him with his crown. As snow is of
itself cold, yet warms and refreshes the
earth, so afflictions, though in themselves
grievous, keep the Christian's soul warm and
make it fruitful.—Mason.
Three rather young Negroes were arguing
rather heatedly about the merits of their re
spective denominations while a much older,
white-haired old-time Negro looked on.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
The Impossible Never Happens
The Wise Boys Said, but It Did
-i-Bv BILLY ROSE
Last night at I,indy's a bunch of us were discussing what, for
want of a better term. I'll call the inevitability of the impossible.
The most improbable yarn 1 ever heard." said Deems Taylor, "is
the one about a mi.~Monary named Renault who was captured in 1948 by
a tribe of cannibals in French Equatorial Africa.
’ According to a report
files out at the U N., just
were about to roast him
fire. shish-kebob_
in the
as they
over a
jtyle, t h e mis
sionary fell to his
knees and asked
the Lord to have
mercy on his ser
vant, Renault And
when the canni
bal chief heard
the name, he un
tied him and told
Billy Rose
him to go about
his business.
“No. it wasn’t the prayer that
did the trick—it seems that six
months before, they had cooked and
eaten another gent named Renault
and ho had turned out to be tough
and tasteless.”
“I KNOW AN equally Implausible
story," I piped up. "The one about
the clerk in Tacoma. Washington,
who was handed five thousand dol
lars to buy insurance for a bridge
that was under construction. The
fellow had never stolen a nickel in
his life, but this was one tempta
tion he couldn't stand off—what in
the name of the five Ringling Broth- ;
ers could happen to a bridge'.’
"Suiting misdeed to thought. \
the clerk went to Reno anil bleu
in the whole file grant! on a '
couple ol gals, and then, the
night before he teas tine to start
hatk, the Mayor of 7 acoma
phoned and wanted to know
al/ont the insurant e. It seemed
that the bridge—the famous
Galloping Gertie of the news
reels—had come apart at the
seams and fallen into the gorge."
“THE BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT that
tops them all is the one about j
Charles Coghlan,” said Eugene Burr
who writes the theatre pieces for
Playbill. '
Even if the dollar is worth only
fifty cents, its value will never be
as low as some people will stoop
to get it.
NOTICE OF LEASE
North Carolina, Martin County.
Notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of an order passed by the
Hoard of Commissioners of the
l'ovvn ol Williamston at a special
meeting held November the 15th, I
1950, and by virtue of the Gener i
al Statutes of North Carolina, sec
tion 11)0-59, the undersigned at
torney will on the 15th daV'cif De
eember, 1951); in front 'of the;
Courthouse door in the Town of j
Williamston at 12:00 o'clock noon, j
offer for lease for the term of one
year, beginning January 1, 1951,
it oubiic auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the following do
scribed tract of land.
All that certain tract of land ly
ing and being just South of the
David Moore lartn. beginning at a
point whore Martin Street inter
acts (iurganus Street and run
ning South 45 degrees West to the
[■anal, thence along the canal to
the David Moore line or corner,
thence along the David Moore
line or corner, thence along the I
David Moore line North 34 de-j
grees 30 minutes East to a point
where Martin Street would inter- :
sect the David Moore line if the !
said Martin Street extended in a j
straight line, thence a straight line
lo the point of beginning, same be
ing the lower end of the Halber
stadt Farm in th“ Town of Wil
liamston.
This tract of land has on it one
tobacco burn The successful hid
der will gel all crop allotments
These allotments for the year 1950
were as follows:
Tobacco 4 4 acres
Peanuts 2.9 acres
This the 15th dav of November.
1950.
Hoard of Commissioners Of The
Town of Williamston
Chas. II. Manning, Attornev.
No 21-23 de 5-12
NOTICK
North Carolina, Martin County,
Russell T. Roebuck ami Josie Roe
buck. vs. Amanda Roebuck, Her
bert Roebuck, Archie Roebuck,
Shepherd Roebuck, Willie Roe
buck, Mrs. Lethu Taylor and hus
band Clarence Taylor, and Mrs.
I.elia Cowen and husband, Rupert
Cowen.
Under and by virtue of an order
of sale made by L. B. Wynne,
Clerk of Superior Court of Mar
tin County in the above entitled
proceeding, on the 30th day of
November, 1950, the undersigned
Commissioner will, on Saturday,
the 30th day of December, 1050, at
3 o'clock P. M. in front of the
Guaranty Bank & Trust Company
building in the Town of Rober
sonville, County of Martin and
State of North Carolina, offer for
sate to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described real es
tate, to-wit:
All that certain tract or parcel
of land lying and being in Cross
Roads Township. Martin County
and State of N. C , containing 205
acres, more or less, and bounded
on the East by the lands of J. F
Wynn, bum James and W. F.
Wynn. On the South by the lands
of J. S Peel and S. E Roberson,
on the West by the lands of Z. D.
F. White and on the North West
bv the lands of the Everett heirs,
and more particularly described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a cypress in the
Everett Mill Swamp, corner of
this land and the land of J. F.
Wynn, and the Everett heirs,
thence S. 3 de. and 30' E, 30
■•hams S 45 F. 10 10 chains, S, 10
E. 12,80 chains, S. 14 1-2 E 10 70
chains, S. 30 E. 10.25 chains, S. 1
1-2 W. 15.50 chains, N. 78 1-2 W.
10 chains, N. 4 W 14 chains. N.
00 W 4.30 chain's, N. 85 W 13.35
“Charles who?" I asked.
"Coghlan," said Burr, "the artor
who used to play opposite Lily
Langtry back in the last century.
When he was f>0, he bought himself '
a farm on Prince Edward Island in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence and quit
the stage for what he thought was
good. A few years later, however,
Forbes-Robertson made him a very
attracti . e offer to play Mercutio
in a touring production of 'Romeo
and Juliet,' and while Coghlan
hated to leave the island, he couldn’t
afford to turn the offer down. In one
season he'd earn enough to be able
to live comfortably the rest of his
life.
"When his neighbors came down
to the boat to see him off. the actor
assured them that, come heaven oi
high water, he'd return when his
tour was ended. And he did—but it
took both heaven and high water
and in that order, to arrange it.
"Heaven got into the act
shortly alter the tour started—
in Galveston he suffered a heart
att.n t> and died, and was buried
in a cemetery not far from the
tea. The high stater came a year
later. September ft, 1900, when
a tidal stale hit Galveston,
drowned six thousand people
and it ashed au ay a good part
ol the waterfront, including
most of the coffins in the ceme
tery.
"Some months after the disaster,
a fisherman on Prince Edward Is
land went down to the beach one
morning to inspect his nets, an«l
form'd a coffin which had washed up
on the sands. ,
"On it was a brass plate with the
name 'Charles Coghlan'—the actor, ;
with an assist from the Gulf Stream, i
trad made good iris promise to re- j
turn."
chains, N. 45 1-2 W 11.50 chains,!
N 12 1-4 W. 2,40 chains, thence j
along the run of the Kverett Mill
Swamp to the beginning, as'
shown by a ntap of same made by
T. .Jones Taylor, Surveyor, on the
30th day of October, 1024, which
said map is now on file with the j
N. C. Joint Stock Land Bank of
Durham.
The terms of said sale are cash
and the successful bidder at said I
sale wiU be required to make a
cash deposit of ION of the amount
of his bid.
Thus the 3()th dav of November,
1.050. t, |
Fiber! S. Peel. Commi%io|M*v.
En de5 12 10 22(1 Me de (ill3 20-27,
N O I 1 ( E
North Carolina, Martin County. |
In The Superior Court
Before The Clerk
MARTIN COUNTY DRAIN.Mill
DISTRICT NO. I
(Bear Crass, Bee Tree and
Turkey Swamps)
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Commissioners of Mar- j
tin County Drainage District No.'
I have levied an assessment in the
amount of $72,118(1.00 upon the
lands within the boundaries of I
said District. This assessment has 1
been made in accordance with the '
Classification Sheet filed by the
Board of Viewers of the said Dis
trict with their Final Report and
in accordance with a Certificate
filed by the Board of • Drainage
Commissioners with the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Martin
Countv on the 1st dav of Decem
ber 1 !)50.
All persons owning land or any
interest in land within the boun
daries of Marlin County Drainage
District No. 1 (Bear Grass, Bee
Tree and Turkey Swumns) are
hereby notified that the Board of
Drainage Commissioners for said
District propose to issue bonds of
said District for the purpose of
raising money for the payment of
the total cost of completing the
organization of said District and
the construction of the canals in
said District according to plans
and specifications set out in the
Final Report of the Board of
Viewers of Martin County Drain
age District No. 1 and as approv
ed by the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Martin County; said
bonds to be issued in an amount
not exceeding $72,000 00, to hear
interest at a rate not exceeding
six percent per annum, payable
semi-annually. The principal of
said bonds is to be paid in ten
equal annual installments, the
first installment on principal be
ing due on the 1st day of July,
1954, and the remaining install
ments on the 1st day of each July
thereafter for a total of ten years.
The first payment of interest is to
be due on the 1st day of July.
1951, and semi-annually thereaft
er on the 1st dav of January and
the 1st day of July of each year
through and including the year
19(13. The first payment to be
made by the landowners on then
total assessment is to he due on
the first Monday in September,
1951,
I Any landowner in said District
not wanting to pav interest on the
bonds or to have bonds issued for
his assessment may. prior to the
15th day of Januarv. 1951, pay to
the Treasuu; of Martin Countv
the full amount for which his
land is liable, to be ascertained
from the Classification Sheet and
the Certificate of the Board of
; Drainage Commissioners of Mar
, tin County Drainage District No.
i 1 showing the total cost of the im
j provement and have his lands re
1 leased from liability from said as
sessment.
This 2nd day of December, 1950
MARTIN COUNTY DRAIN
AGE DISTRICT NO 1.
Bv: F. M Wooten, Jr., Secretary
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