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Editorial business and prlstI alaat &uuuville. N. C,
feUced at the Pest G3ea, KeauiuwlUe, K C
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8TJBsdturriOIf BATES: UM per year la Du" County
tir, Jeea, aslow, Ptoder, tatapsoi, end Wayne coua
MMt . $SkM per year outside tfaU wm 1 Worth Candla; and
. HyO Far year elaewfcere. A .firA sVVFiUi&'l
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A Democrat) JoarnaL deeotef to the Material educational
eenemlc and agricultural interests el Duplin Cauntr. ' "
THROUGH THE MIST OF FEAR
f By Forrest W. Seymour
Chief Editorial Writer, Des Moines Register
"'It just happened that during recent days there
drifted into our acquaintance, long enough for brief
chats, an Anglican from Australia, a Moslem from
, Pakistan, a Catholic from Austria, a Lutheran from
Sweden, a Moslem from Iraq, a Protestant from
Holland, a Jew from Israel, a Catholic from Argen
tina. In every case these persons had beenjreared and
1 educated in cultures quite different from our own
some of them markedly different Yet as we recall
these pleasant conversations now, we realize that
we found ourselves immediately "at home" with
- the visitor, and talking about the simple things
which all human societies face in common - - prob
lems of health, and better education, and security,
and respect for law; personal family problems; the
values in our respective traditions and historical
experiences, as nations and peoples; and so on.
The whole world is akin in these things. Differ
ences of religion, of color, even of political creed,
dissolve and are forgotten because they are but
mists that sometimes blur our vision of the common
hopes and common characteristics of the human
family. -
If this is true of peoples as diverse as the globe
at its farthest reaches can provide, how wide is the
area of agreement among us who live in the same
environment of freedom, who respect the same
laws, who worship the same God, who enjoy incom- '
parable comforts and conveniences together, 'and
who have toiled and faught side by side for so long
to preserve our common security and ideals?
: 4 Ithis Brotherhood Week; sponsored by Jh$w :
national Conference of Christians and Jews, let us
all take the opportunity to step through the mist of
prejudice and fear and shallow habit, and see our '
neighbors for. what they truly are - Americans,
family groups, humble citizens, as anxious as we for,: :
their children and their ideals, as willing as we to .'
sacrifice and share in our c5mmon purposes.
Eastern Baptist Activities
A majority of the SS church la
the Xastern Baptist Association are
making plana to participate In the
forth-coming ! ; Baptist-wide. ' and
South-wide Slmlutaneoua Evangel.
IsUe Crusade March 25tb-April
8th. ,, f y,; : ;;:v--r',
Study-course books oa Prayer,
Soul-winning, and Spiritual prepa
ration are being taught in many of
the churches. .., '.:"-.-"
. Bav. Herman . Traeblood, Asso
ciational Missionary, haa been tea
ching the book on "Growing a.
Church," at New Hope church. He
win teach the same book at Mag
nolia during the week of Febm-i
ary 19th. He wUl teach "The Bible
DAII1TY MAID
-BAKERY ;..v.
'.V':'.. ".!,. , . . i ij,'-.. -. 'V .
mgccd tu:::g3 to lav
and Prayer," at Ingold church the
week of February 25th. i
Mr. Trueblood U - now attending
the State-wide Baptist Conference
on Kvsngellam In Charlotte thii
week. Ha went to Winston-Salem
Thursday and addreased the nuraei
of Baptist Hospital that night
lleorf Atkck Fatal
Tolled TaCrcdy
Ned T. Grady, 63, of Aibertson
died suddenly at noon Monday
3 Zt
4 UitMrnaliutial Vmlutdk.
SCRIPTURE: Mark 1:84 9:1. ; '
- DEyOTlMNAl,- 9UAO1M0: , Hebrew
Jesus is Christ.
Lessen for February lS, 1951
rr S0UN6S - odd te modarft ears
(or to any ear for tha past 18
centuries) to ia that Jeius '"is?
Christ It sounds flke saying Abraham-
Is Cincoln, or Winston is
Churchill, s "Jesus i
Christ" has become
long since a proper
name like any
other , combination
pi name and sur
name. But in the
early days of Chris
tianity (t took ser
mons to persuade .
people that Jesus
was i Indeed t h e
Or. Foreman
Christ; and if people ' knew what
"Christ" ' means, they would see
that most sermens todpy are really
aimed at convincing people of the
same thing: Jesus ia Christ ! When"
peter said to Jesus -you are me
Christ," Jesus' reply shows 1 that
Peter had not only said something
important, but something which up
to that time had not dawned on any
one else. v -..
wu; una wnnsi -it r.
E shall have to. think what the
word "Christ" meant as Peter
used the word and as Jesus under
stood it The Jews- of that time
were looking with eager exoitement
for an "anointed one? (the literal
meaning of Christ, or Messiah) who
would put an end to all the1 evil of
the world and usher in God's New
Age. They were ..not quite clear
bow this would, be done, but they
were sure that only , the Christ
could 'do it ' "'."; j.-o'."
. Consider three points. , First,
when Peter ' said "Ton are '
. Christ" he meant ''Yon are
nnlqne." No Jew looked for J"
:. two Christs, There Is no one else " ,
-In Jesns' class, there Is 'only
f ene ef him. Every human .
: beinf , to be sure, Is different
from all othersp bat Simon
I Peter did not mean that What
. be did mean wsS that Jesws
eonld not -be --classed as "a"
i teacher or "" prophet er "a"
ii- man ef God. He was the Teach-
er and Prophet. Be was God's
I Man aa no ether man was.
We make a mistake, wr get away
from the original Christian faith,
the .faith which Jesus ptisedWban
We put Jesus on the same level with
ether men,: any o&ermen There
Is. only one Christ ;,V1,' i , -t
sj.f "?A- y- .,. a . J ,
Gpd Was la Christ
IN ' the second place,, -when Peter
caned JestiS -'Chrlsf he -meant
tha God had anointed him. He was
not a man who took a notion to do
What ha did; ha a; ona wWbm Onrl
had appointed to- be and to do as
Jesus apart from God, for. bis
source is God. Tv:
- ' Any one who reads the gospel
(.'John will; find this . very
, prominent In Jesoa 1 thinking
; alwaysi "I was sen!. ., My
meat la to da the will of Mnf
'-that sent me."
unrisuans later tban this saw
that the relation between God' and
1 Jesus, wss even closer than .that
between sender and sent' Jesus , is
called the Son of God, he is 'called
the Word-that was with God snd
was God. Paul says God was in
Christ - . - :'J
Later generations would develop
the doctrine of the Trinity as It is
expressed (for Instance) ' In the
Nicene Creed. Every century ' ha
Its own formulas, - Peter In the
first " century does - not use ; the
language of the fourth century,, still
less of the 20th; but all the formulas
express In . various 'ways the con
viction Peter had: that when Christ
confronts us, J God confronts us.
Christ is Lord of AH. :
n .THIRD ttilng Peter meent when
he called Jesus '"Christ" . and
that tha church means now is that
be has complete ' authority. All
oiner auinomy, in me cnurcli or
out of It is less than his. .
A ward often used ta express
this truth Is 'tard." Bot tha
word alone is not .enooirh." It
' really makes less difference
. what words we ase about Jesus
v than what our attitade te him
Is. Jesns himself Mice spoke
sternly ef people whs call him
; "Lard, Lard." but do not do
the things, he says tp do.
It U one thing to say, in the
Creed, that -we believe in "Jesus
Christ his only Son, ' our Lord;
It Is another thing to. carry - that
part of the creed Into life. Jesus Is
our Lord; not the church; not Moses,
not Paul, not any hero' 6r Saint
of tha church, but Jesus. Christians
take orders from hint first, of .aH,
mr we ocueve mat nis mind was
the mind of God. , ' tv". ' ' ;
' A Christian .profession of faith.
therefore, Is more than a statement
of belief; It Is an oath of allegiance.
Crrtrhl T lilt International Ctaa.
til l K.llfltat Btfttatlta t b.hnll tl
40 PMtatUtit rif nanlnallaa. Raltiuta
bf WHO ratltr.a.) '
while visiting In the home of his
son, Frank T. Grady, in Elizabeth
town. Funeral services were held
Tuesday. at 4 p.m. in the. family
plot. Surviving with his -widow Is
one daughter, Joyce of Goldsboro;
t vo ions, John B.' Gray ct A"ert
i..a aa Frar'c Cr;?- 'y til
in.
01.
Raleigh, Fdb 12 The so-called
P6well; Bill --(' designed to baud
cities and tpwna J5,O0O,O00..a .use
on their streets -s, has been . rail
roaded through, senate, committees
faster than any piece of major leg
islation in many, 4 year.,... ,
, fta introdufi(ioi! and committee
clearance has r .been accompanied
by more deals and mis-statements,
to say the least than any promotion
since. Esau sold hUv. birthright , to
Jacob iQT a mesa.. of pottage,;
' Senator Junius Powell of Colum
bus, chairman of the Senate Roads
Committee, tossed thfe bill in- the
hopper Tuesday, Jan., 30.' His name
headed' a list oi 88 co-signers." .'
; Eight days later the Roads Com
mittee gave the bill a favorable re
port, and the. following day last
Thursday, r - the Appropriations
Committee' added sits approval.
Senator Powell told -' newsmen
when the bill 'was introduced that
it 'wis his-own idea, that he had
not talked to anyone about it How
ever, it was common knowledge
around
Raleigh: more- than two
' months ago that such a bill Would
j,e introduced...
r The League . of 'Municipalities
. told Governor Scott that it wanted
and asked' his backing for-a - bill
putting city "streets under the State
Highway Commission; asking : an
extra, one-half cent gas tax and an
extra ($S ' per automobile- license
tag to' finance the., changeover". At
a press conference some two Weeks
ago, Mayor Dan Edwards of Duivj
ham ' heard - Governor - Scott tell
newsmen that such an . agreement
had been made: Edwards, the ,ep-
resentative of the' League, told re
porters that the governor's - state
ment was correct.'i ;.li'''
- Then, suddenly, when the Powell
bill was up for a public hearing
and without the League's own bill
even being introduced -- League
officials appearedin behalf of the
Powell bill, This brought a- charge
from the governor that the League
had tybrokefr . faith", , that, -it. had
"run out on ''its agreement", with
Kerr Scott. . . .i '"p "
The bulldozing atactics of" tbe
PnivaTl hlll'fi 'hn'r1rrts 4rAl'icrhf nn.
. . i
ifamnfltinh flrtm tia tfitmp'nrlr - a'a T
well as a number of legislators,
"It almost looks as' though they
don't -want either us! or the public
to find out what'rlrrtheblll," one
senator jsald. J-,..I-S''': ';I!"'
And - although the 1)111 proV
ably will pass the Senate - oppo
sition to it ii growing in 'the; upper
chamber as the senators stn'di the
Bieasurfc lYfZ$ $l,t
F04rf or- five of !the o-slgners
have - asked bldtimers "how they
could get their names withdrawn
as sponsors. . One had his . name
withdrawn, because of the railroad
ing tactics of the backers.' ,
In getting signers of the bill, Its
backers told'pne vndralt that it
merely - gave cities - and towns'. S5,
000,000 fronra $16,000,000 highway
fund '"'surplus". 'in the first place,'
that $16,000,000 is not a surplus,
It is a resarve.jt is used to match
Federal highway funds1, when they
amount to. more than the matching
amount set aside under the budget.;
It 1st used, for emergency rebuilding
or repair; such as.a bridge collaps
ing or being washed away :1a a
flash flood. It Is- used to build
needed bypasses, and In the cur
rent emergency would be used to
match federal money in building
military roads.And it is used for
needed work on primary highways,
other that that : specified under
the budget, y f ' :L,':
; in other,-words," that' 18 tnilllon
Is an emergency "reserve ' r- with
out which no big business would be
caught; and highway building is
big business..",;--.;. 'v v-, .; '
. One question being asked is: "If
this $3,000,000 is taken away, what
will it mean to the primary roads
lit my district or county?"
WeU,' it means" simply-thai' this
$3,000,000 a year -- and It is five
million dollars for ; each year1
will not be available for primary
road use. In ten years that amounts
to $30,000,000 -- a lot of money In
anybody s league. . 1 -., ,
There's a little section at the be
ginning of the measure which puts
all city , and town streets that are
a connecting part of the highway
system under the Highway Com
mission: Backers' of the; bill say
that-it merely adds $6,000,000 a
year to the $2,300,000 already ear
marked .for -city and t town street-
bulldlng. But the bill says that the
Highway Commission shall assume
au responsiDimy ; lor these con
necting links, and' continuations of
the .state's highways, with the mo
ney to come -from' the? Highway
.Fund, In other words,, the bill
mages the laie liable to pave every
city and town street that is a part
of, or connecting link to, the high
Way system no matter "what the
cost even if it's , $10,000,000 a
year or mora. ..";; '
It's an addition to this, that the
cities and towns get $5,000,000 a'
year to spend 'as they see fit on
streets. '''' ; '"-
That's' another' thing. If a city
or town saw fit It could pave a 60
foot boulevard through an undev
eloped sub-division. Thert are ne
Strings attacked to the city's shars
of the $5,000,000. except that it
town. He was the son of the late
Mr. and' Mrs.. J. Mn",. GWy ct
a:;. :i.
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shall be spent oh streets. The op
portbnities for graft by city off l-
, cials are limited only by the amount
ef money the city or town receives.
Meantime, ovar in Jhe '"House,
Rep. Fred Royster of Vance and
20. other signers introduced a little
. bill that would call for a State, ref
erendum on - whether or not the
Highway Commlssiok' should "take
over : construction - and- maintaln
ence of city' and' town .streets. ""V-
. It is in much the same fashion as
the $200,000,000 bond issue voted
.some two -years ago.-irr'1.
." If the voters go for the Idea ah
additional i one-cent - gasoline tax
would be levied to take care of the
cost This would bring in an esti
mated nine to ten million or more
dollars annually. This is the amount
.estimated by a "Study to take over
the 'streets. y,,in,i -SvV ';
i The Royster bill was almost kill
ed three hours after its Introduction
by the ' House Finance Committee,
but a -motion te adjourn staved
that Off. iH'mhl 'A'Xp. S).t. ft :
. This ictlori brought a blast from
Royster against "unfair tactics" of
the fno new tax7 boys. He corner
ed Rep. Bob Lassiter of Mecklen
burg, who ''made the motion td
kill the bill, and Jbld the Charlotte
The bill,' however, is. expected to
die In committee.'1 Vi ..v-'.r,,-';;
f ,a)tr'.'?'t-..? WtSt.9,1
, Division of funds under the Pow
ell' bill would ..be made on a per
capita basis.' It comes but roughly
$3.50 per person in a'fclty or town,
bu goes pnly to'""actlye" munlci
pallUes. Those . are the ones that
have had an ' election within the
past four years. This proviso knocks
out some 104 "Inactive towns".
Legislators, from the .less popula
ted districts find counties are wak
ing up to the fact that this bill
strongly favors ' the highly popu
lated Piedmont. Thirty-seven coun
ties east'c-T Raleigh-will get a total
f $1,237,000;' 19 far western coun
ties will get-a total 'of $410,000,
leaving the nice, sum of $3,352,000
to jato'the Piedmont."
--'Tfl . ailLflAn . nn mi i,n, A...
county breakdown, this shows up:
Mecklenburg would get something
over $491,000 (according to 1940
census figures) while Dare county
would, be giyea.. a neat $2,731 - -
at the moat, of a city block. Clay
county would get $1,367 -- Guilford
$403,615, (Three counties, Camden,
Currituck and Hydi:v,f would get
notnmg..r .r,-M- v, ;-rff-;
According to paving assessment
in WlnstonnSaietn in 1948, a, 1,000
foot long block of top-grade pavlngT
with ' curiis and gutters and, side
walks, would Cost $26,000: A block
of low-grade paving, without either
sidewalks' or curbs, would run $16,
000 -r and this cost probably is
higher now. And that is in a city
that has street-working and paving
machinery. The cost in a small
town probably would be higher.
But using that" as a measuring
stick, here's an idea of what the
per .capita distribution of the mo
ney would do: .V.j;'.;. ';j ' ..
Fifty-five of the state's 100 coun
ties would get $25,900 or less. That
is just, enough, for. one block of
top-grade paving,' or roughly pne
and two-thirds blocks of Jpw-grade
paving. 47 of the 55 counties would
't:
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niVEiiDi"?.:: ::n:
of paving at the bc .t.
Ironically, one senator sai l he
had signed the Powell bill because
he had been promised that "my
town Would get its streets paved".
His own town had about one mile
of .streets, needing paving. Under
flje per capita distribution of funds.
his town would get some $6,000 -
enough to pave about 400 feet of
street at the most , , . 1
This faetor Is causing quite a bit
of , bead-shaking. It probably will
result in amendments to the bill
before It passes the Senate,' if . it
does. And it Is Hlcety will result
in the bill being killed in the House.
; Smart money around Raleigh is
betting that neither bill will pass
the : Legislature. These boys say
the, "no new tax" boosters will kill
the Royster bill -- they're afraid
the folks will vote for the addi
tional tax if they get the chance,
just as they did in the $200,000,
000 road 'bond issue. These boys
say the" high-handed methods of
the Powell bill backers have made
enough legislators mad, plus the
difficulties of dividing the $3,000,
000 a year grab, to see that meas
ure.; killed. ,H:.:ii,. i:::t..f
In other words, the "now we're
with you, now we're not" tactics of
Municipalities probably will result
in the cities and towns not getting
any extra money out of this session
of the General Assembly.
' Ironically, at. the beginning of
the 1951 session practically all of
the lawmakers were agreed, that
"something should be done" to help
the cities and towns with their
street-building. , , ;
Of course, if these -same cities
and towns had adopted a realis
tic and' fearless attitude in evalu
ation of property they would not
now be in financial difficulties!
Most of them ha vent changed
property evaluation in more than
10 years. ,
One, city,', for example, puts a
brand new $9,500 home on the tax
books at less than $2,500. .
If i the city and town fathers
would show a little guts and have
a. proper- evaluation made, their
income -would be enough to take
care of their heeds without run
ning to the State for everything
What so: many people forget is
that "the State". is made up of 4
million .Tar Heels. The city folks
are asking all of these 4 million to
chip the , kitty for them because
they don't have nerve enough to
raise their , own taxes throueh
higher evaluation -- and pay , their
own way. 1 ..; .i- i-.:. .- v.
? i i 4 : ,-, ;-'4,i:;
Members of the House a'nd Sen
ate are important folks in the State-,
at least once every two years, anv.
how; But to visiting schdffl'WffsV
me tawmasers take a back Seat to
the pages, The girls '.rooh'! ad. "ih."
over this and that handsome youne
page. The boys want to know how
tney got the Jobs, and "why can't
I get up here next time."
.; - .; .;. - -V . -. XrfS""'
' Lawmakers this yearvare talking
about "hold .the" line", brimming
expenses, and "no new taxes". -But
they're right free-handed when it
comes to their own comfort, V
At one of the first sessions of the
Joint Appropriations Committee,
committeemen ' complained ; about
the hard seats in the chairs, asked
Rep. Larry Moore and Sen. John
Larklns, chairmen, if they couldn't
"see about getting some cushions."
They got some . - foam rubber Jobs.
Joint Finance Committee mem
bers heard about it, decided they
needed some too. The result? Noth-
AH t!; Vcr2J to
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them in dozen , lots. '
' The committeemen nded to
keep a close watch on t sxes and -spending,
but they intend to b
comfortable while they do It They
might have been better o f without
fancy cushions,, though. Kard-seaU ',
ed chairs might have helped keep -"'
them awake during committee ses
sions, . . - -
, ,
- Despite these little inconsisten
cies, don't get the idea that the
lawmakers don't work. The average
day runs something like this: com-
mittee meetings 'from about 9 or
9:30 a.m. . until nnnn iciiUn a.
hour or so Session, followed by
committee meeungs until about
5 p.m. or Uter. Then the "smoke
filled room" consultation at nlsht ..
where most of the horsetradlng'
ana aeais are done. v (
Hotel-room lawmaking' Is an art'"
That's where the boys line up sup-1
port for pet bills. They ntay stretch ! i''
the truth a little, or1 Imt a,ii. tt
They may swap ' votes ' for somf
bill another lawmaker has in mind; ? '
They may just flatter or cajole '
another member - particularly a
freshman -- Into voting their wav:
One of the best at thin aivia
persuasion is Senator Rlvara John. "
aon of Dupldn County. The dean of '
tha Can.ta Wn ,U t. . a.
auwifi aula ait uais-
wards and forwards, and la nnar nt 1
the most able men in either house
ai lining up support for a bill. Give
him enoush time alone wHh . a
fellow member, and Johnson nroh.
ably could talk the other men into "
voting tor recession.
;.
This session it has b lome com. .
mon practice to appoint a sub- -committee
to study anv bill that'
starts a little argument At a joint ,
judiciary session the other day "'
they were taking up several wel- V;.
fare bills.' One meaium oallaH na '
reciprocal' trials and abandonment 1 '
cases, itep. B. T. a alls of Cleveland
cnougnt the best Idea was to "sub, ,
marine it to. the House". A sub- "
committee was., named. "'- , -
;.!.-;-::.-..,,.; ;'.;.;
' ' Rep. Umstead of Orange believes
Tar Heels dont mind, paying extra
taxes for heeded services, if these
service are explained to them.- '
; "If you ask folks if they favor
new taxes they'll tell you no," he ";
ays. "But if you ask them If they a -are
in favor of seeing that folks ,
at the mental hospitals are takea
care, of, pr if they lavof helping-,'
heeanrtudeItsibjSugh' medical
school; theyUl tell .you, V"l ,
scrape up, theC'V somewher,'
iJ.r . 3;.ae
' The Vcta W.. the 200,000,00o'""
rural road bond issue, with its ac- -companylng
, Increase, in - the gas 1 -tax,
would seem to prove that folks -don't
nilnd paying taxes for things
they wan ind heed.- . ,5
One reason many lawmakers say.' .'
the Royster bill calling for a '
vote on increasing the gas tax to
take care of city and town streets
-.- will be killed is because some
legislators fear it would pass. me
are lawyers who represent truck.
ins firm Ar niniina ,n .. -.
at-wMw uu,0 w w UVIU .
the added tax would be distasteful,, '
io say me least, and they don't
want to even aambla thai it
be defeated. v . - ;
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