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DAILY ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., ^ U -AlhMtQC* Published Every Evening Except Sunday at Elizabeth City, North Carolina by The Advance Inc. HERBERT PEELE, Preside*! SUBSCRIPTION RATES — BY MAIL Ip Me Albemarle tin advance)—One tear ♦SAW. two Y*M* 89.00. Three Years $13.00. One Month 75c. Three Montes. 12.00. Six Months $3.00. Outside the Albemarle One Year $8.00. Two Years $15.00. One Month *1.W. Three Months $3.00. Six Month* $0.00. BY CARRIER „ Single Copy 6c. One Week, (pay carrter)—20o. On* Monta, (pay office In advance)—87c. Two Months 11.74. Three Mouths, *2.60. Six Months, $5.20. One Year, *10.40. Members: Associated Press, AP Features, Audit Bureau of Circulations, Southern Newspaper Publishers Associa tion, Newspaper Enterprise Association, North * ’ Carolina Press Association. tjuiefeil at the Post Office of Elizabeth City, N. C.» M •••» ond class matter. file. Associated Press and AP Features Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of news dispatches appearing in this paper and also to local news published therein. Advertising Rate’s on Request: General-National Adverttsin* Representative: Ward-Griffith Co., Ine., New York, Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, Boston. Detroit. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945. He Should Go Far Today's salute goes to Dr. Richard Leon Kendrick Jr. on taking top rank among the 131 medical students granted license to practice medicine by the State Board of Medical Examiners this year. The son of the late Dr. R. L. Kendrick, one of the city’s most successful physicians, and the grandson of the late E. F. Aydlett, one of the most eminent lawyers of the State in his generation, the young physi cian should go far in his chosen professiori. The Daily Advance will watch his career with interest. „ 0- Columbia Rotary on the Job There is interest and satisfaction here in the announcement of last week that the Co lumbia Rotary Club is making the bridging of Alligator River one of its objectives in way of a postwar project. Here’s the hope that the newly organized Rotary Club at Plymouth will join Colum bia Rotary in sponsoring this project and that together they will enlist the support of other Rotary clubs and commerce and civic organizations in this area. The bridging of the Alligator River, back in the Hoey administration, looked like an assured thing. More recently it has seem ingly been forgotten by the powers that be. This bridge, with bridge or ferry across Croatan Sound, would complete U. S. 64 to the sea and deserves inclusion, as The Daily Advance sees it, among the postwar projects for this area. Speed its early con summation. 0—. Sunday Reflection While Waiting Outside the teletypes stutter abortively and downstairs somebody sits mindfully beside the type-setting machines waiting with their metal pots simmering in readi ness to begin molding the words that will spell out yet another chapter of the history of the human race—and it may be the last chapter that will ever be devoted to re- counting war. The teletype is very like the starter at a harness race wherein the driv ers and the horses seem not quite able to make up their minds to get going. Time after time the gadget starts man fully and diligently clocks off the first line or two of what may be—and turns out not to be—The Story. It falls silent while the little motor inside it, artfully designed to give life to the typewriter that is a part of the teletype, purrs away. Nothing happens. Somebody somewhere started to put down a few paragraphs of speculation about who would accept the surrender of the Imperial Japanese government. ’ V But right in the middle of the sentence the thing ends and the teletype waits. Mom entous tilings may happen in not more than a minute. The evening wears on, and the desultory paragraph about whether it should be General MacArthur or Admiral Nimitz or maybe just a sergeant or some thing would be detailed to sign for all the peoples of the earth who have fought for this hour that is about to strike. All morn- it ing the genii of the teletype toys with the ' ’ idea ... waiting. 1 1 ■ 1 Of course it has already been decided somewhere and any further speculation about it is just idleness, a sort of mental doodling while waiting. But nobody has mentioned the great Chinese leader who for eight years has led the little people of China in their heroic defense of their lands against the evil that lay along the horizon and spilled across their narrow sea to en slave them. It seems like a very fine idea, but the teletype does not seem to know about it. It is now, of course, too late to do more than think idly about it, but how fine a ges ture it would have been, for all the peoples in the world, if Chiang Kai-shek had been designated by the triumph nations to re ceive the surrender of the arrogant people who are diving into the pitiful, face-savilig ’ rat hole of maintaining their emperor. Here China would have come of age among the Nations, here the peoples of Asia would have seen that the Western World looks up on them as equals. Here would have been honor where honor is so richly due—and reassurance for peace throughout that vast, puzzling continent that is yet so much a stranger to all of us . . . But the teletype doesn’t mention it, being pre-occupied with its stuttering. 0 \ “Ancient and Royal” Such among us as are addicated or dis posed to golf and the wider number who are likely to become eligible for such clas sification, are somewhat more than fortu nate that the governing body of the Eliza beth City Country Club have been able to secure the services of Frederick Findlay as the architect who will lay out and super vise the construction of the coruse. Golf is not only a game but a tradition and Mr. Findlay, by inheritance and by .long practice represents both the tradition and the sport, and the new course here may, and very proudly, claim direct inheri tance from the two oldest and admittedly the finest golf courses in the world. Mr. Findlay began golfing on these courses, upon which his forefathers had played, as a caddy. He has been playing the game for 65 years .and that antedates its introduc tion into America. Scots were playing golf on the St. An drews arid Montrose courses long before Cotymibus discovered America and as long as four centuries ago it had become nec essary for the ruling sovereign of that country to deplore the importation of golf balls from Holland — the game seems to have been invented in Germany—and later rulers were under the necessity of promul gating laws to curb the Scots from devot ing so much of their time to the sport. However, the King himself set them an ex ample in non-observance of the law, and . nothing came of it. Golf is relatively new in the United States. It might have come into the Gape Fear valley with the Highlanders who be gan to settle there in 1729 but mostly these fellows came from the Western Isles where there was no golfing, the natives for topo graphical reasons devoting themselves to the more respectable forms of piracy. They knew nothing about the oldest athletic sport in the world. It was not until two centuries of dilution in the Valley of the Highlanders that they began to acquaint themselves with the sport of kings. Or anyhow, the sport of Scottish kings. In so far as there is any authenticated history of it, golf came to the United States in 1886, which is only 59 years ago. It was played over a six hole course laid out near Yonkers in New York. That course, too, was patterned after ancient St. Andrews, but here in the Albemarle practitioners of the game can proudly claim direct kinship through the tie of one of the notable golf architects of the time, who learned his golf on the mother of all courses and who, now, dreams of home when he lays out a new course. 0 Death at Its Worst Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round a By DREW PEARSON Gaithersburg, Md., Aug. 13—In weak moment this writer yield- In North Carolina last week a man died of hydrophobia. Too late he remembered that he had been touched by a dog that gave no outward indication that here was a source of infection that, without medical intervention, can lead only to the most hid eous death in all the catalogue of necropsis. His family, and helpless physicians called to minister to him, watched for three days of mounting horror at the implacable ap proach of death. And so the man died. It is idle, now, to point out that his death was needless. But it is important to point out that so casual was the victim’s contact with infection that no thought was taken of it. The infected dog went for days unchecked and was final ly disposed of when it became evident that he was himself a victim of the most terrible disease of medical record. He was touched by an apparently masterless dog that wan dered the streets. This horrible thing could very well have happened here in Elizabeth City. That it has not already happened is one of the in scrutable mercies of providence. Up to now providence has been very kind, but there is no assurance that providence will be kind tomorrow, or the next day. The streets of Elizabeth City are infested with dogs that can be of pleasure to nobody, mangy, sore- ridden, unlovely—and menacing. Any one of them may be a source of infection and if one of them becomes so, all of them are potentially. It is not possible to enter the postoffice, or the courthouse, or to walk a block along Main street in the business section without encountering one of these dogs. They sleep in the middle Of the sidewalk, or against doorways. They should be removed. If their owners will not take them away, it is clear ly the duty of the Police Department and of the Department of Health. Elizabeth City wants no. death by hydrophobia. ed to the importuning of the wife, and after five straight years of pounding out a column every day, Sunday, Fourth of July, Christ mas, and St. Swithin’s day, decid ed to take a vacation. But what a time to take a va cation! Out of all the days in the year, President Truman chose the first day of this alleged vacation to an nounce the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan. Then Joe Stalin, after keeping the world waiting three years, ' chose the exact moment when this ex-typewriter-pounder was wield ing a pitchfork in a Maryland hay- 1 field to unleash 1,000,000 troops along the Siberian border. Next came the second atomic bomb, the Japanese surrender of fer, and so on—until I have i concluded that I was right after all, and I never should have tak- en a vacation. But being only 15 miles from Washington, I am go ing back to work—at least in termittently. However, there is one advan tage to being out in the Mary land countryside where the phone doesn’t ring every five minutes and folks are interested in other things besides what change Presi dent Truman will make next in his Cabinet. You can get a clear er perspective of today’s tremen dous events and what they mean to future mankind. History of Watt are I have been thinking, for in stance, about the history of war. In the old days, wars didn’t hurt so many people. Knights in armor had their tilting jousts. Fair la dies applauded. Those who could afford it sailed off to the Cru sades. Wars were more localized, affected fewer people, and that was one reason they dragged on for years without people rising up and revolting. Then, gradually, wars got so they affected almost every man, woman and child. Actually we in this -country were the first to practice total warfare. When Sherman marched through Geor gia for the express purpose of de stroying the ability of the South to support its armies, he was car rying out exactly the same prin ciple as the atomic bomb. It took him longer to root out the agri culture, the industry, the economic structure of the South, but the objective was just the same. Then in World War I and now World War II, we went on to big ger, better, and more fiendish in struments for spreading destruc tion, until today the civilian popu lation suffers most of all. No longer, as in days of old when knights were bold, do the men who make war go out and fight the wars which they cre ate. They stay behind in bomb- I roof shelters with their charts and. their telephones, while vast conscript armies of men who have no choice in the matter, plus the-r I women and children, who starve and are bombed out behind them, do the fighting and dying. So now, as of August 5, the day we dropped our first atomic bomb bn Japan, we have reached the point in warfare which was abso lutely inevitable, the point at which either we stop going to war or mankind reaches tis own end. Brass Hats Plan War Already scientific planners for the next war had been working secretly on such weird things as bases on the moon from which they could launch huge rocket bombs on any nation; plans which would seem ludicrous and laugh able were it not for the deadly achievements of science in other directions. Already, Gen. William Donovan and his office of Strategic Ser vices had been panning a world wide espionage network to operate in peacetime by which we could spy on other countries. Already Adm. Ernest King had drawn, plans for 73 warships not to be completed until three or four years after the war, which peace-aspiring Jimmy Byrnes knocked out of the Budget be- MONDAY EVENING, AVGUST 13, 1945. assess By JOHN PEELE Ralph Nunberg, The Fighting Jew. 11 East 44th Street, New York City 17, New York. 295 pages. $2.50. * * * Racial prejudice is the most absurd, ridiculous and con temptible vice in which civilized man indulges. The chief reason for hating Hitler is not his invasion of Poland and France but his persecution of the Jews and his exaltation of Germans as the supreme race. Of course the Japanese, whom we still fight, have ex alted their race as supreme for generations. Examine this field of su premacy in each of the perse cuted races: Thomas Mann, the greatest liv ing writer in the opinion of this reviewer and most critics, is the greatest prose writer of our day. Mann is a Jew and a German. Einstein with his theory of re lativity, accepted by almost the entire scientific world as the grea test thinker in that field, is a Jew. The Good Samaritan was prob ably a mulatto. The Samaritans were a group of races brought to Palestine by the emperor of Assy ria to populate the country af ter the Jews were exiled. One of the races was the Cushites. The Cushites were Negroes from Eth- opia. As a result of this mixing races the Samaritans were mulat- toes. The Jews regarded themsel ves as vastly superior to the Sa maritans for that reason. This book deals with the history however of only one persecuted minority—the Jews. The author takes particular • . S ^ rights of others. We did not dam off all the water in the Colorado River from Mexico, but divided it peaceably by treaty. We have made plenty of mistakes, but per haps we have come nearer put ting Christianity to work on an international basis than other ma jor power. But even so, we have not kept out of war. pains to reject the curious legend of Jewish cowardice and proves the Hebrew nationality to be su- preme in courage, forthrightness. The Jew, according berg, turns so often power and to Mr. Nun- to pacifism because for thousands of years he has been war’s chief victim just as he was in Poland and the ravished areas of the Nazi war machine. The stories of such magnificent Jews as Josepheus, Bar Kochba, Commodore Levy, David Frankel, Juda Franklin, Admiral Strauss, Leon Trotzky, and Abra- ham Krotoschinksky and the battalion are all told here. lost Assistant Home Agent Of Bertie Back on Job Windsor, Aug. 13—Miss Hannah Ruth Spruill, assistant home de monstration agent is back at her office after two weeks absence. When on a 4-H club camping trip at Mount Gould several weeks ago Miss Spruill injured her neck while in swimming and she was forced to consult a Norfolk spec ialist who ordered her to remain in bed until the injury was heal ed. / future wars is very deep and very difficult. It goes much deeper than the United Nations, which, though a start in the right direction, has very severe limitations. It gets down to education, to the church es, and to carrying out the basic rules of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. How we can do it, I don’t know. But we must do it, or see civiliza- Capitol Square By LYNN NISBKT Ralelih Correspondent BLIND—Though some details remain to be cleared, it is fairly certain the State Board of Build ings and Grounds will turn over to the commission for the blind the property formerly used for the Confederate veterans home. This is believed to offer satisfactory solution to one of the board’s most perplexing problems by utilizing valuable State property in an im portant social service for the en tire State. Tentative plans call for making this the central unit for State sup ported and auxiliary agencies de voted to making blind persons self- supporting. These plans are am bitious and admittedly will require several years to effectuate. In some respects the cart is before the horse, The last General As sembly appropriated $15,000 to equip such a center, and the Lions Clubs throughout the State have promised to match that sum. The federal government will provide instructors and administration will be under the North Carolina Com mission for the Blind. But equip ment and administration cannot work without physical facilities in the way of buildings. Tentative proposal is to get the building fund from popular subscriptions spon sored by the several agencies, chief of which are the Lions Clubs, the State Association for the Blind, and other civic organiza tions. Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitan and women’s clubs have indicated will ingness to lend aid to the project. Official announcement of the project has been delayed pending clearance with United Daughters of the Confederacy about use of the property. Preliminary survey indicates complete willingness of UDC to go along with the idea, but some red tape must still be cut before positive action can be taken. The buildings and grounds board has a sort of off-record, un derstanding that the property will not be used except with UDC ap proval. Individual members of both groups have said they cannot conceive of opposition to the idea. When the home for Confederate veterans was abandoned by the State several years ago because the population had dwindled to half a dozen residents, the city of the corner of New Bern avenue and Tarboro street, on the edge of a thickly populated Negro sec tion of Raleigh.) White residents in the area and UDC all over the State protested such use. All buildings have now been removed except a small and seldom used chapel—which may be retained in the blind services set-up for joint use. Plans call for an administration building to house offices of the State Commission for the Blind, Federal-State Services to Blinded War Veterans, the Volunteer Membership State Association for the Blind, and perhaps some phases of the work now carried on at the State schools for the blind. Also it is contemplated eventually to have dormitories for housing students at. training schools, these to provide for separate accommo dations for the sexes and lor whites, Negroes and Indians. There are 7,412 blind persons re gistered with the State Commis sion, according to the current biennial report. Of this number nearly 2,000 are drawing aid of some kind, but a surprisingly large number are entirely self-support ing. There are two completely blind typists working with the State commission, one with the de partment of agriculture and doz ens of others in private employ ment. Dr. Roma S. Cheek, director of the commission, says blind typ ists do cleaner work and make • fewer errors than those with nor mal vision. Chairman of the State Commission is Sam M. Cathey, who despite total blindness Isa very competent judge of the Ashe ville police court. Aim of the pro posed expanded State services is to enable an increasing number of blind persons to care for themsel ves and in fields of endeavor not heretofore regarded as open to them. Revival Starts Tonight At Wesley Chapel Church Columbia, Aug. 13—A revival meeting will be conducted at the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church at Fort Landing by the Rev. V. A. Lewis of Wanchese starting to- night, the Rev. Carl K. Wright, pastor, said today. Services will be held' each ning during the week at o’clock. CARD OF THANKS The family of Booker T. eve- 8:30 Lee wish to thank friends and the pub lic for their kindnesses, condolen- Raleigh entered a plea for the property to be used as a Negro . ^», ....... ...... ..„.-. .— o ~ ^- recreation park. (It is situated atlen in their recent bereavement. joes, cars and floral offerings giv So the problem of preventing tion vanish from the earth. Object of Wrath! BLONDIE TOLD YOU YOU-1 WANT ^ SHE'S BUSY TO TALK TO YOUR WIFE RED RYDkitt OHIO YOUNG CAREFUL OF TH’ INJU^A GUARDIN’ US, FIREFLY/ I S ROD I HERE. 'YET, PUG ? 1: SS*:&%:^ Fair Warning OUT OUR WAY ^^ ^^i ^. : WHY MOTHERS SET GRAY ^Ig. 1^5. Bl NitA-i-'V^ 1 I’D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE LADY OF THE HOUSE • FIREFLY RETURNS. DISGUISED AS AM OLD NO/YAN. A ORDER To SMUGGLE LITTLE- ©EAVER. OUT OF THE RUDE DAIL SHE'S BUSY AND ANYWAY WE DONT WANT I DIDN'T ASK 8-13 HOOTS AND HER BUDDIES cause they were not needed and obviously were aimed at future use against only one country— Russia. Already the War Department had been spurring a campaign for peacetime conscription, never be fore adopted in the USA. In other words, our top plan ners were largely ignoring the hopes and ideals for which this war was fought. Already, they were plunging ahead toward the abyss of the next world war, blindly oblivious to the awful state in store for them. They were plunging ahead just as if another war were a foregone conclusion— until August, 5, and the atom bomb over Hiroshima. Now a cold chill has crept over the world, even over the hard- boiled war planners, though not over all of them. The day after the results of atomic bombing be came known, the New York News came out with an editorial urging that unless Canada shareWith us her uranium deposits, we should forcibly take them. Good Neighborliness Pays This is the kind of jingoism on which war feeds. And, if there is one thing we have learned in this country, it is that being a good neighbor pays dividends. We have only to look at our vast borders with Canada and Mexico, minus a single armed guard, or at the thousands of people commuting every day across the Rio Grande or the Niagara or the Detroit Riv er,. to see that we of North Amer ica have led the world in neigh borliness. 'And when you remem ber that our trade with Canada, Cuba and Mexico is greater than with any other three countries, ob viously good neighborliness pays. Except for off intervals, when we landed Marines in Nicaragua or Haiti, we have not tried to lord it over other people. We have tried on the whole to respect the NAH W YOU^ FACE ^T ON STRAXGAT " AN’ YOUR SHOES DON'T MATCH’. Yes, He Knows GEE, HOW W^ BY HARRAN HI^ THINK FIREFLY ONLY OLD. WOYyXN YWO BRINS FOOD TO CAPTYES/ well-llTglaw^ CWES-HEXED AS wet iw w\Nuu« HOVJ DO 1 LOOK AT A a NYLON 0 SALE' MAJOR HOOPLE ^AME you CHIMPS NOTICED POP IS RUNNING A FEVER. f ^ HE'S SONE INTO A TRANCE OVER THAT DRESS MAKER, AND IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S STITCHING A NET IT'S W GUESS THE G/XL Is LOAD ING THE DICE FOR- HiS COOKIES/-- I HEAR. HE'S el SOT SO MUCH MONEY HE I DON'T COUNT IT, HE MAJS IT 'NEIGHED/ LET’S PASS THE B ALL TO THE /A ^O^ BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE — IF ME INHERITS A STEPMOTHER NOVO HE'LL ] BE RIPE FOR THE PASTEUR, TRE ATME-NT/ VHEV SPEAK 6LKSAT- INGIN OP ROMANCE: = YOU LONG TirAE IS) HUT’ OLD ^0tW - pink cloud say CAPTNES HAYS' FIKE LAST HEAL/ By MARTIN 1 MEAN ROD ’ AN’ TH' REST OF US ARE OVE TO A MODXE .SO ’YOU'RE ON KOOR OWN' BY WILLIAMS