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In 4 Wrecking Mood
Z North Carolina’s 1953 General Assembly
■has developed a wrecking mood, placing
"convenience ahead of reason.
Z It is possible that the Lawmakers are
2 bending their acts to the w ill of the people
• in some cases, but in others they-are-ajK
• parentiy trying to break into the headlines.
* Mechanical inspection, it is true, did not
•have all the kinks ironed out of its opera
2 tions when in effect several years ago. But
2 instead of trying to iron out those kinks in
* the hope of preventing accidents and sav
• ing lives, it was expedient for the lawmak
ers to act m the name of convenience.
N it develop® drivers’ examina
* tions are not convenient, and the lawmak- t
■« ers are suggesting the mail order plan. The
act; >n, instead of enhancing convenience. 1
could mean that someone would open the
way for any and all to get behind the wheel
with the blessings of the Legislature.
Against convenience in such cases are
life, limb and property, and in their name
all of us could well forego a bit of conveni
ence every so often.
Part of the record entered in the books
so far indicates that some legislators are
read;- to attack all laws and balk against
new ones designed in the nam^jof safety* In
fact, it seems at times, that questionable
elements have the run of the Assembly
while others who stand for all that’s good
and noble find the doors closed to them.
Lott In The ('.tub*
The livestock advisory committee, made
up principally by those who spend much of
then time m the club rooms and around
tables of various’ boards, has drafted a reso
lution, advising Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson that cattle raisers do not
; want support prices.
in a few ietfei boxes, burned far b&dfe in
several papers, have appeared different ver
sions fiem the one offered by those who I
“farm the farmer”. The little two-by-four ;
stock raisers in the sorghum country merely
asked what were they going to do if prices ,
fail below' production costs? The cries ot j
those little fellows are being drownedr out i
by manipulated talk in the social and hifa- j
lutin clubs. . •
It would seem that those who ^ra able
to weather a stormy price seus*»n, see a pos
sibility to buy in *huse who have been
crushed-by-ct esu 1
t>'Mt di'V.>r.>ee little fellow, writing -iFi/ft),
Iowa, explained that he had just established
his economy, but that he was not in a posi
tion to weather an economic storm, that he
is afraid the wolf is patiently waiting to
hop on him in his adversity.
We have been told that farmers don’t
want an even break and government consid
eration. But every time there has been a
referendum in this county, the farmers vote
overwhelmingly for it.
* *v't-tott1»>*■■• * t e t < t
dumped By Magic
When Harry S. Truman proposed 9 De
partment ot Health, Education and Security,
the plan was branded as just another social
istic move.
President Eisenhower is making an iden
„ tical proposal and as if by magic, the pic
ture changes. Those who howled socialism
• not long ago are supporting Eisenhower in
the plan today.
It is apparent that the people were ted a
lot of baloney about socialism back yonder.
In addition to explaining the facta behind
the proposal .those who have switched their
positions should advance their reasons tor
doing so. -
The people are finding it indeed difficult
to understand why the new ahninidrUtta
is now adopting so many of the principles
■'* «o vigorously attacked last fall.
Truth Ahaui Yalta Emerges
Louisville Courier-Journal
Republican orators have been telling us
for years about “the crime of Yalta Presi
dent Eisenhower picked up the theme in his
<tate of the L’nion message. Then came the
momen when his administration had to draft
a resolution for Congress on the subject,
and a striking change occurred The crime
[ oi Yalta is ro Longer laid uj Roosevelt, but
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for Democratic sensibilities. There was just
no other way to do it. When the heat of
campaign oratory had beer, subjected to the
that i alia was not the document it had lietfft
i made to seem by the haters of F D. R.
Mr. Eisenhower had spoken on February
2 oi "secret understandings of the past with
foreign governments which permit enslave
ment." Then somebody in his State Depart
ment evidently had a look at the Yalta pact.
It become clear that the portions of the
pact that were at first kept secret dealt
only with Soviet interests in the Far East.
Russia got back south Sakhalin, which Jap
an had taken from her in 1904.
The Soviets also got the Kuriles, long dis
puted with Japan, plus treaty rights in Man
churia and a joint control with the Chinese
of Manchurian railways. Those were the
terms by which Russia was committed to
the war against Japan, long before Roose
velt or any other human being knew wheth
er the atom bomb w’ould explode or end in
a giant fizzle.
Yalta has been blamed for the fate that
has befallen the nations of Western Europe,
from Poland down to Bulgaria. Yet there
was nothing secret about the Yalta terms
concerning those states, and nothing that
could possibly be called discreditable.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin pledged
that when those nations were rescued from
Hitler, they would get the earliest possible
establishment, through free elections, of gov
ernments responsible to the will of the peo
ple. The pact contained a ringing indorse
ment of the Atlantic Charter principles.
Stalin, soon broke his word so earnestly
pledged at Yalta. In his book, it turned out.
“free and democratic elections” are those in
which all parties but the Communists are
suppressed. Perhaps Roosevelt and Church
ill should have foreseen this lack of faith.
Perhaps they should have shown only sus
picion and hostility to the wartime ally who
was still. Ut Yalta time, holding the bulk of
the German Army locked in combat.
Perhaps Roosevelt should have provided
for American troops to occupy all of central
Europe as soon as it was liberated from
Hiller, in order to prevent the area from
falling under Red control.
It would only have taken something like
a million American soldiers, garrisoned in
Europe for an indefinite period Maybo the
American people would have been willing
to leave those troops there after ihe mili
tary victory, when the one cry was to get
the boys home.
At any rate, Yalta was an open statement
of democratic principles. Eisenhower’s pro
poned resolution now speaks of “the clear
intent” of wartime agreements; among the
big three. The blame is firmly fixed on
Stalin for violating those agreements.
Here is an odd irony. It took a Republi
can victory to bring about the denuncia
tion of Yalta the GOP has been urging for
years. Now the denunciation comes. It es
tablishes Stalin, not Roosevelt, as the Yalta
vUfeun. >
60 Second Sermons
By Fred Dodge
TS3CT: the measure of time hoi-W
^/STtuiii, not nwfhanical.”
—Emerson
Vacationing in a small fishing village ho
tel, we were up early one morning just to
smell the salt air and to watch the sun
wrench itself free from the ocean. We sat
in the tiny hotel lobby when two fishermen
ambled over to speak to the weather-beaten
desk clerk.
“Sam.” one asked, “Which was is the
wind?”
On being told, they expressed satisfaction
and left.
* * *
To the fisherman, the hour cf the day or
night has no meaning. When the wind is
right, he fishes; when it isn’t right, he does
n’t fish. Living by the clock is wasteful.
The minutes we spent yesterday are rob
bing today’s minutes. The problems of the
next hour confuse is in this hour.
Ideas, ideals and purposes are not clock
bound They are timeless. They are not
' measured by hours, but by the ages Those
■ who time their lives by these standards
\ never worry about the clock. When the
ttrifid is right, they will enrich us and our
world
You never get much forward movement
by patting yourself on the shoulder.
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SCOTT STRENGTH Of She
! 50 men in the S'..,'-- s**natc. ;<<<?
; -nor* than perhaps a dozen, in
’adii— Br-Aher Ralph and the
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I story It lias * strong sprinkling
; ^‘f Sr- tt strength, wording to our
|.in.ff>»^tiffnt. <^ntoaih?rf . jtJy *,
’ ‘ t t rites Fuji tedajr oe
t weeh Sen Wilks Smith and for
mer Gov. K-r- Scottif the two
were being voted upon for the U.
S. Senate liv the 120 members of
the House
You can watch the Scott follow- j
l mg ;n the Legislature by follow-1
! mg closely the pieces of legisla- j
tion which might be regarded as'
slaps at the former Governor.
The messuie restoring to Assis-j
tant Budget Director Dave Col-'
tt ane a little better than S3.000 in
back pay is a direct paddling for:
Scott.
Gov. Umsteads reorganization
(of the State Highway Commission
and his moving in boldly on the
Board of Conservation and De
velopment brought whines and
j whimpers and whispers of "un
I fail-" 'rom Scott supporters Now
some few have opposed the mover
on solid grounds; others thought
they felt Scott-loving constitu
ents looking over their shoulders:
and a handful dreamed o? Keri i
Scott in the U. S. Senate and i
wanted to be remembered among j
the faithful if and when.
Another legislative item which
brought out Scott support and ;
mingled feelings kicked in un- j
gentlemanly fashion the State'
Elections Borad. Democrats in;
the western counties—where be- !
ine a Democrat isn’t as easy as!
eastward—have for a long time
now despised the election group
In fact, it did frequently appear
that the Board of Elections leaned
to the Republicans — certainly
away from the county Democratic
organizations to which the party
looked every election for strength
in the mountains. G iv. Scott re
fused to take any action. This
burned the old liners up and last
week they pushed along the bill
| which would kick the present
| board members out of oflice in
midsummer instead of the usual
| December exit
9# DAYS . Members of the
I Legislature are now paid for only
90 days’ work. They receive
some $1,350 fos t> , th: cc months,
and any additional time spent in
Raleigh is at theii own expense.
The 90-day period will be up in
about two weeks now'. With
board Mnd room running in the
j neighborhood of $10 a day—and
j considerably more than that when
| home tollcs come to Raleigh and'
arc slow picking up the check j
don't expect the Legislature to
run tui into the led A week be
yond Apul 8 ought to do it, that’s
what Lt. Gov. Luther Hodges sur
mises.
When the Legisidiare has Opei*1
! '•ted for Ion." seasons—as for in
stance in 1031 and 1933—it was
usually because the House and
| Senate could not agree on some
I highly controversial matter. In
19-49, foi example, the big argu
ments delaying adjournment had
to do with the $225 million bond
issues, the $25 milion outright ap
propriation toi sthoolhouses, and
the dipping into the huge reserve
fund accumulated meticulously
by Governors Broughton and
Cherry t r hard times.
A group of men from each
IS “Ale u .'Wit
name—appointed in 194« to
work out differences of opinion.
This is always a time-consuming
development.
That old geometric theorem to
the effect that things equal to the
same thing are equal to each
other applies in that the one
strong bond of hamiony between
House and Senate is the name, in
fluence of, and respect for, Gov.
Wiliiam B. Umsteari. Love for
him is apparently much stronger
in the Senate than in the House.
But there is always more oneness
of opimno in the upper than in
the lower bocij.
SPRING-STRUCK . Mem
bers of the Legislature were de
scribed by United Pi ess Corre
spondent Edward Cornish last
Saturday as being ‘'frisky." He
referred to them fuianer as being
"spi ing-struck". Could be, for
it's been a long, hard, wet winter.
They say that back there in the
Hurricane section of Wake Coun
ty—usually referred to as the
"Harricane” ir the days when
water-clear whiskey was prefer
red over the colored variety —they
have been "closed in” by the wet
weather. The Scott roads didn't
reach out to the Harricane. Re
ports are that a lot of those farm
ers haven’t been able to get to
town since Fair week.
But the way bills—parking me
ter, milk commission, nurses, gar-'
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nishment. wage and hour, etc.—
were flying and being shot at iast
week, it certainly didn’t look as
if the Legislature was bothered
too much with spring fever.
Some committees were meeting
at 9 o'clock in the morning, with
the Finance and Appropriations
groups preparing for long after
noon sessions.
WHITTLING The Appro
priations Committees’ biennial
spring whittling bee is now well
underway. Many a State depart
ment and institution head will
soon find himself holding the
short end r.f the financial stick as
the Legislature strives grimly to
trim the cloth to meet the pat
tern
Looking over some of the funds
set up for State schools last week,
we were surprised to find that the
Veteran Educator B. B. Daugher
ty and his Appalachian State
Teachers College at Boom aie ap
parently taking a pietty severe
licking this time. We have seen
Dr. Dougherty squeeze more out
of an educational dollar than pro
bably any other man living We1
have seen him in Raleigh working
for Appalachian, the school he
and his brother, the late D D., es-1
tablished, when he was hardly I
able to walk and was forced to use I
a five-foot-long hickory stick as i
big as your wrist for assistance in
getting around He will come as
near being the father of our con
solidated, bus-operated school
system as any man living
Well, the budget peoples . knave
set up for ASTC an average of
$222 per student for the next bi
ennium as against East Carolina's
$295: West Carolina, at Cullo
whee. $459; Woman's College of
UNC, $579; Pembroke. S665; Eli
zabeth City (colored) S305; Fay
etteville (colored) $316, etc.
Somebody has slipped a cog on
Appalachian which for a genera
tion now has been like a beacon
sending beams of light into the
dark coves and green valleys of
Western North Carolina. Another
thing: Appalachian has more gra
duates teaching in our public
schools of the State than any
other college in North Carolina.
Dr Dougherty's case is serious
He is fearful the accrediting agen
cies may give the school a hard
time if something isn’t done. But
scores of other men and women
representing othei State schools
and agencies are also working,
prodding, pulling, pushing in an
effort to persuade the Appropria
tions Committees to see their
needs. We have chosen the case
of Appalachian because it seems
as sincerely severe as any.
It's dog-eat-dog and devil take
the hindmost from here on out
Man Reasons It Is A ever
Too Lata /or Education!
Pasadena, Calif.—Proving that j
one never gets “too old to learn,” j
John B Ely, 83, recently receiv- I
ed his diploma from John Muir ■
College. Ely began his education
at Hardin-Simmons in Abilene, I
Tex , 45 years ago, but after onej
semester he set out to see the |
world.
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RECENT BRIDE HONORED
AT A FLOATING SHOWER I
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Mrs Ruel Turner of Oak City
honored Mrs. Minten Beach. Jr.,
recent bride, at a floating showei
at her home on Saturday. March
7.
Mrs. Minton Beach. Jr., and
Mrs. Minton Beach. Sr., greeted
the guests upon arrival and Miss
Shirlev Turner then invited them
into the dining room for refresh
ments.
Ti r .'--'t • mu '!>Wi
home was beautifully decorated
y.-or mixed arrangement*2 .-.r eoL
oifui splint; hovers, greener.* anci
burning tapers. A yellow and
white motif was garried nuf^
■if fTI^mon
oree '..ith a shoulder corsage of
red carnations and a gift of sterl
ing in her chosen pattern. Mes
dames Paul Woodworth. Lester
Keel. Norman Turner, Lance
i Johnson and Ray Tujner assisted
! the hostess in serving Bridal
squares, molded ice cream in
green and white, mints and nuts.
Miss Shirley Turner leistered
approximately 75 guests during
the evening. Mrs. Beach receiv
ed many lovely and useful wed
ding gifts.
Arlington oats average eight to
ten bushels per acre more than
old varieties.
f . S. Export* Hold To
A boat Same Fijian'
The Department of Commerce
says that U. S. export} in 1952
were about tne same as those ol
1951. The tcv&H-: licated exports
in 1952 are $15,107,000,000. com
pared to 1951 figures of $15,032,
000.000.
NOTICE OF RE-SALE
Under and by virtue of a judg
menc signed by the Clerk of Su
per v r .Court. «| Martin.Countv in
entitled J. W. Rhodes
anu ■/. ilt ; ',5;T * .'t.1** .r.- \i' 'V
the undersigned Commissioners
.. . ' Apj-'! 1. 1953. a« 12.NW
tiiK S, Noon, in front or the court
house door of Martin County, in
Wdliamston, N C offer for te
Sa|< t . i-b-: highest hidden, for
cadi, the toil' .Tilt} des.,:rsis,-,]
land:
Lying and being in Jamesville
Township, Martin County and
State of North Carolina, contain
ing 22 acres, more or less, bound
ed on the North by the lands of
Mis Lizzie Smithwick and Coop
er Swamp, bounded on the East
by the land of Robert Mobley,
bounded on the South by the land
of Robert Mobley, bounded on
the West by the land of Church
Mobley, and commonly known
and designated as the W. E
Rhodes land.
The last and highest bidder will
be required to make a deposit at
the sale of 10 percent of the bid
This 19th day of March, 1953.
B. A. CRITCHER.
E. S PEEL,
m24 & 31Commissioners.
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