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i -:. Ml.'. V s . 1' , rj;: duplin vines a.4 oack Tttrs&qr ta JTsassawllle, W. C. -' CtOTJQf COUNTY ' SMff r. Nortel, fcidneas efSce mUL printing InnMflU. N. C j. icrraT gkady. editor owner -' V " Eatered At njrrt miM. JtoKMNilK Id C , , , TZJXTWmt Tmmnii, Day . X55-4 NlcM 1I-1 RATES -ttJS per hw DapB. feces. Caste. Fender, gmnw, New Homr end swnntieai IUI per year ewtslae Sda mm la Nerta M l&M per mr elsewhere. , f,.,,1,, ' . AJvestlstng rates? ftialiaud mm A Bmlhi Cawety tanul, etevetesl Ik nHb, matertaL i mm wriwUi il IndMwti W Darfbi NATIONAL EDITORIAI ASDClgN V. ' f Jimwa RBBsma&si HEED ON THE HIGHWAYS' "We might as well join the chorus and help sing that wsuiig sung oi oaieiy on tne Highways. Although, we -wonder why we even bother, as daily we are reminded nat mere are persons not taking heed and are paying for the mistake with their lives. -But for the thousands who ignore advice on safety all that is written.or spoken is well worthwhile if only a handful observe the rules and one life is saved. -We sincerely hope that more and more drivers practice caution and heed safety measures, especially 3iow that summer is fully upon us and throngs of people will start to the seashore or the mountains, or any place, on vacations and pleasure jaunts. More driving, espec ially the carefree kind, is done in the summer months and consequently more caution is needed than ever. wnen you start on that vacation, remember to come xiacK relaxed and useful; not a highway statistic. IMPORTANCE OF SMALL THINGS Xet it never be forgotten that elamour is not erpat. toss; applause is not fame; noise is not influence; prom inence is noi eminence. Tne man of the hour is not apt to be the man of the ages. -A stone may sparkle, but that does not make it a diamond; a man may have money, but that does not jmake him a success; a student may be clever, but that .does not make him a philosopher. It is what the unim rportant do that really counts and determines the course dHhistory. '.The greatest forces in the universe are never spec- M 1 f i uuruiar. oummer snowers are more effective than hurri canes, but they get no publicity. The world would soon (die but for the fidelity, loyalty and consecration of those whose names are unhonored and unsung. There is, therefore' , no life, however humble, but may take its place in the building of a braver and better tomorrow. 3t is so easy to exaggerate the importance of the import ant and to underestimate the importance of the unim portant. . . Journal of Living. I CAUSES PDUQ ? No one really knows what causes Polio. But everyone knows that treatment is long and costly. Assure your loved .ones the best possible care if this dread disease strikes. Pro itect your savings your fam ily . future. Farm Bureau Polio Insurance pays expenses up to '$9,000 for parents and 'Children under 18. Gives your iamtty two year Polio protec tion for just $10. Call today lot free information. Fred Revelle Phone 600 Warsaw, N. C. Beulaville News (Intended For Last Week) Mr. and Mrs. Rolin Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Earl Grilfin and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Williams spent the wee kend at White Lake. Mrs. R. E. Quinn of Raleigh spent several days with relatives here. Mrs. Lula Q. Parker was called Many Julj's ago when there were still great men In our country, men of vision, man in whom burned Mere desire (or liberty and freedom, a certain Declaration was formally adopted by the Congreaa. The date of its adoption was July 4. 17781 Several days later this Declaration was read In a public place, later known as Independence Square. Copies were published in every city, town and village from " Georgia to New Hampshire, .H.tl-.v. HyA .-,:,,...',; ,,u , Early in that year Thomas Paine Issued the first of his vibrant pamphlets, Common Sense, in which be called for absolute lndepen- deuce without fear and without apologies. "O" ye that love mankind! Ye that dare to oppose not only the tyranny bat the tyrant .forthTi:-..-:.; x.X y::'-::'z'v!---':-'K-'- v: Y':- North Carolina, on April 19 of that fateful year, was the first to give explicit approval to the revolutionary Idea of separating from Great Britain. Richard Henry Lee, in the name of the delegation from Virginia, moved that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent states,' '. . . i -'lZ'Z ?! '.' :X A 'committee was chosen to draft a state paper proclaiming the Revolution and stating the reasons. There was no one who bad a more facile and persuasive pen than Thomas Jefferson and he was made chairman. For eighteen days and nights he worked at It. editing, cut ting, polishing. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams made several pertinent suggestions. A bitter debate ensued when it was presented to the Congress. ' Lines were deleted, others added. But the document was adopted, perhaps one of the most eloquent declarations ever made. As any school child knows the Declaration of Independence falls in to, two principal parts. The first part states the moral issues on which the Revolutionists based their case, the sonorous words beginning, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created free and equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The second part was a summary of the grievances of the Colonists which made George in the scapegoat for Parliament and the ministry. The king was blamed for blocking laws passed by the local legisla tures, imposing on the colonies judges they didnt want and so on and so on in a long bill of particulars. Therefore these men stated they had no course left except to declare themselves free and inde pendent states. It was a stirring time in which to live, we are told. Men still had' principles for which they dared fight and die. For generations our country celebrated that day as Independence Day with bells and whistles, with bonfires - as John Adams wrote on July 3, 1776 to his wife, - "The day will be the most memorable spocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding, generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commem orated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore." Yes, in those far off days, days so remote that they seem like an almost forgotten legend, there were men like the fiery Patrick Henry of Virginia. Addressing the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg in 1765, he dared to say, Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third (Treason!" cried the Speaker) - may profit by their example. If THIS be treason, make the most of it." Ten years later at the Virginia Convention in Richmond on March 23, 1775, he made another speech, even more famous, a speech it would do us good to re-read at least once each year, preferably on the day we call Independence Day. Among the other immortal words he spoke are these, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." "We are nqt weak if we make proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active,, the brave." "If life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Fbrbid it. Almighty God! I know not what courses others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" July, 1954, is another chapter in the history of our country. The enemies which beset our freedom and our liberty are still here, : but are not as easy to fight. St George might conquer a dragon whom he could see, a definite threat to the security of the countryside. But these new dangers are of more far reaching consequence. Even if they are recognized, men of today are loathe to take a stand, afraid to stand up and be counted as one against the forces that tnreaten liberty and independence. Instead we sit back supinely as suring ourselves that It cant happen while our liberties are being taken from us one by one. That horrible-, day of government control of everything draws closer. - , . Daily we betame more like the police state prophesied by the, tat George Orwell in his "18M" We were shocked by his book, but we. failed to see the beginnings of that same condition all around us. Our unalienable rights.' guaranteed to us by the Constitution in the ton amendments constituting the Bill of Rights, are trangressed more and more. There is no longer any apparent, need to prove a man guilty, Now a man is guilty by association, by accusation. He doesnt have to be proven guilty to be considered so - those in our government Just have to say he is. Often the poor man is so naive as to believe he has a chance before an investigating committee, that he will be cleared. True, after long, well-publicised sessions be may be found loyal faultless. But meanwhile he wilt have lost bis reputation, his 'job, and many of his friends.. :-,V,"'J''-'X "- "-";" f:';;fi;;5W;-';i' We crucify the best brains in our country. We bang in effigy not . a tyrant of the calibre of George TO, but a man who dares think. We discourage independent research, deny a man the right to his own opinion. - r ' We hound men of utmost integrity, drive them from government service. Our most brilliant scientists we dismiss even if they are proved to be loyal beyond any question of doubt - they may have knorln people who were not What kind of peopIeT Well some of them fought for freedom in Spain against the Fascist government the same government that we officially embrace, .the same kind of ;. totalitarian government of Hitler or Mussolini, no better no, worse than a Communist government - they all amount to the same thing. Have we forgotten so quickly the lessons of the ItSV when the ' mad men burned books and drove out scholars? We seem to have forgotten it alL have forgotten our sons and fathers and brothers who v died to preserve our freedom for us, a freedom we valued so lightly ' that we dare not raise our voice to defend it against the mouthlngs of our senatorial demagogues. In the case of our scientists, of men like George Oppenheimer, we ' begin to committ national suicide. We cut outselves off from minds 1 that we cannot replace. The men whom we persecute suffer, but I doubt that they will suffer half as much as we will, as our children wilL How incredible that in less than two hundred years we should be : careless about those freedoms for which our forefathers foughtllU By what ricM do we tUre celebrate an Independence Day in July, 1954? What a hollow mockery It mustfseem to the ghosts of the great men who wrote that famous Declaration! ; ' " .ip, I urge you to read a statement by the Association of American Uni- , i varsity Presses. I will quote only part of It briefly, ' -"We now seem to live in an' age of unreason - an age when one ' hears the slander of many and fear is on every side, In this modern , world the man in the street is a powerful individual He holds the ' fate of more than his own country In bis bands for he la a danger to . everyone It be la ignorant and a prey to hysteria. . "He hears our scholars slandered and their loyalty questioned be : Cause they believe in freedom of opinion and the unfettered pursuit SaA ; of knowledge. While he must not be blind to the real dangers without ' he must not let unscrupulous men destroy his freedom within, ' ' What happens in the future "rests in our bands. We can ait back ''. indifferently or in helpless bewilderment." Or we can stand up and : declare ourselves. We have a common responsibility r to keep know- ; ledge free and unbiased and available to all. We must have courage ' ' to resist threats' from alt quarters, prevent the demagogues ' and ' book-burners from taking over here. Our survival of the world de - pends on our taking our stand. , ' ' - i s HHjQf CALDW1XZ. CUSHMAN . ' XL r T Join "Uncle Pete" At The 1010 Spot On Your Radio Dial Every Day. "Early Morning Jamboree 5:30 A.M. io 7:45 A.M. "Dinner Bell Time 1l:l5to 12:00 lloon "Roll On Cimmarori 1:15 P.M. to 1:55 P.M. IV E L Kinsfon, H.C. 3 RED ASH And BRIQUET COAL FUEL OIL and KEROSENE R. B. WARREN Phone 2561 Mt. Olive, N. C. fl ' OMEOUAWIIOUD Ik ' '' : M0t" 1RCJ5UCT3 I I j ' - i tCMIE-TOIt.il, C I to New Bern last week due to the critical illness of Mr. J. S. Miller. Pvt. Murphy Thigpen of Fort Jackson, S. C. is spending some time with his parents before re porting to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Mrs. F. L. Norris and children, Pat and Frank are spending the week at their cottage at Topsail Beach. Mrs. D. C. Whitehurst of Greenville is their guest. Miss Mary Jackson of Fayetteville and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Nether cutt of Rocky Mount have been recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jackson. Mrs. Carrie Batts was painfully injured Monday morning when her hand was mashed in the washing machine wringer. Mr. and Mrs. Aubert Rudell and daughters of Jacksonville were guests Monday night of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Batchelor. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fountain of Jacksonville were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Brinson. Mrs. I. J. Hines and daughter, Debra Brown have returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Brown from a Kinston hos pital. Miss Evelyn Penny is spending several days with Sgt. and Mrs. C. A. Caltany in Jacksonville. Mr. Norman Warren and children, Phil, Ray, and Ellen of Goldsboro, Mrs. Ruth Harris of Burkesville, Va. were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Kennedy. Miss Bessie Sandlin of Jackson ville was a week end guest of her mother, Mrs. L J.' Sandlin, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John G. 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