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THE NEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday by THE NEWS, INCORPORATED J. Roy Parker, President Hillsboro,'' N. C. Entered at the Post Office at Hillsboro, N. C., as second-class matter. Editor.Harry D. Hollingsworth Associate Editor ..Mae V. Lark ew Community Representatives—-Elizabeth Kirkland, Hope; Mrs. Lloyd B. Haithcock, Eno; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carr boro; Mrs. W. V. Armfield, Palmer’s Grove; Mrs. Gi H. Pen der, Cedar Grove; Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Marinda Mc Pherson, Hillsboro Negro representative; and L. Vickers, Chapel Hill Carr boro Negro representative. Jf - . ■ . . - SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' • m 1 Year (in North Carolina) 6 Months (in J'torth Carolina) . ..... • • 1 Year (outside North Carolina) • 6 Months (outside North Carolina) °.... .$2.00 .$1.50 .$2.50 . $2.00 THE NEWS of Orange County is the oldest newspaper of continuous operation in Orange County. Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Caro lina Press Association for 1946. Member No'rth Carolina Press Association — The News. April ijj, 1948 Parking Tickets The town commissioners of Hillsboro are to be congratu lated on their attempts to im prove, the parking habits of its citizens —* hahlits which through the years have be come haphazardly inconsist ent because of the lack of any enforcement of even the most simple of parking regulations. The hope is expressed, how ever, that the town officers will be consistent in their enforce ment of the laws and not ex cuse one because he drives the town’s biggest car or be cause he’s going to the post office for his mail, while a few feet down the street another driver is tagged because he parked long enough to run info the store for a loaf of bread' or purchase a news paper. Then, too, we hope to see the laws enforced equally on all the business streets in the town and not just on Churton Street because it happens at this time to be carrying a large amount of traffic because of the ^construction work going forward on the Hillsboro DurharrT road. Proper enforcement .of the laws is necessary f6r the wel-j fare of alt the people and we hope to see the laws properly administered in this—If ills fpbro’s latest attempt to regu late traffic. *. Too Many People Vs. Too Little Food Restoration of the food sup ply to prewar levels will not be enough, writes Lester Walk er in the February issue of Harper’s Magazine. It will not be enough because the *■ world’s population is in'creas "ing at the rate of about go mil lion each year. People tend to think of vvar as a force of destruction—yet each year of the past decade ha£ seen 17, 000,000 rhore people added. Mr. Walker asks the ques tion, “What is happening, then? Is the world actually getting too full of people now for its own good? Man’s his — tory on earth has always been a race between his population and his food supply.” Geographers will tell you that, there are 4 billion acres of arable land. The well-in formed will tell you that it takes 2i/2 acres of land to feed and clothe each individual on earth. If, by simple arithme tic, you apportion the 214 acres to each of the 214 billion people (on this planet) you will find that you fall far short. There will be only 1.77 acres per person. We come to the startling realization that there is already a gross deficiency of land without the half billion additional inhabitants which authorities say we will have in 25 years. , * After Mr. Walker sets up . such a dismal picture for his readers he then goes into de- J tail to try to solve the prob lem. All of these theories ad vanced throw the responsi bility on the farmer. Such things as developing new strains of seeds so that the world’s grain output can be increased, increasing the ex isting crops by more and bet ter commercial and natural fertilizers are mentioned when you say that there must be an increase in the food produc tion else our population will deplete itself. Then, there are those who verse the opin ion that, before long we will have “sea farmers” who will tise the floors of the ocean to grow edible aquatic plants. It can be done, we are told. All of these theories can be utilized and* put into opera tion, the author tells us, and still we will not" Jiave the necessities ior the peoples of the world. The brunt of the problem cannot be placed on the farmer to solve this prob lem for the world. But the farmer will be called on to help through the methods mentioned above. He can work in developing crops that yield a greater output, break new soil -and fertilize his lands to increase his acre age, but still there will be starving in the world. The eyes of the world are on the farmer until the world is edu cated in birth control. The only population control today that is known to the world is war, starvation and destruc tion. ; Beer Selling Permits When renewal of retail beer outlet permits come up on May 1, municipal and county officials have a definite re sponsibility to make every at mpt possible to deny licenses lawbreakers and undesir ion of the United States Brew- i ers Foundation through its di rector S. M. Blount has writ ten 450 mayors and chairmen of county commissioners in North Carolina pointing out that the new year for retail beer permits begins May 1. In his letter he urges the officials OUR DEMOCRACY—--byM.t FREEDOM OF CHOICE Our democracy has given to its citizens a most PRECIOUS RIGHT— THAT OF FRCEOOM{pfrCHOICE. It REACHES INTO THE LIVES OF ALL OF US-IT NURTURE; THE STURDY INDfPENDENCE OF OUR PEOPLE, HERE IN AMERICA, IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVING, FOR EXAMPLE - WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE— . AJ-Jll, THE KIND OF HOME WE WILL LIVE IN WHAT OUR. UFE WORK WILL 3E—"V' WHAT WE V DO WITH OUR LEISURE TIME-'1 WHAT yV^WILL DO *• WITH OUR MONEy THUS FREEDOM OF CHOICE HAS STIMULATED COMPETITION TO MEET THE DIFFERENT DESIRES OF-AMERICAN FAMILIES - HAS BROUGHT FORTH,TOO ~8V VOLUNTARY£CT/ON— JHE GREATEST, PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE , ~ "~ Through life insurance and savings, that ANY C9VNTGY HAS eve/Z KNOWN. A.. PERSONAL OPINIONS A FLORIDA QUERY . . . This column got an inquiry the other . day from a Carolinian transplant ed to Florida—wanting to know what chances Kerr Scott has in the race for the Democratic guber natorial nomination. “You don’t seem to think he has a chance for election ma jority in the East. What are 4 your odds for a State major- ! I Hy?” ' My questioner knows as much I j about that as I do, and if anybody believes this column, “doesn’t seem to think Kerr Scott has a chance for election majority in the East,” said somebody may as well 'back up and start all over again. What it does know, with pretty much certainty, is that Scott would barely get a smell if he depended on votes in the Northeast from elected and appointed officials, The boys now in' office are for Charles M. Johnson. INTERPRET YOUR WAY . . J Whether such a state of affairs is good or bad. whether,in Johnson’s favor or against him, whether it means there is a machine at work for Johnson and ^against Scott, make the deduction for yourselves. I relish being left severely to my own thinking and voting. You are entitled to the same. “ FUTILE BUSINESS .. . In po litical contests, nothing is for cer tain. In this one, not even geog raphy is the same; it depends en I tirely on whether you are for Scott 'or against him. . ■ WAY DOWN EAST ... In the area" where this column is written, whieh is about as far east as you can get from Haw Cfeek and still trod Tar Heel sod, not many of us, as far as percentages, go, will give any thought to the longitude and latitude of farmer Kerr Scott’s dairy farm. We are a sight more interested in his personal success in the fanning business and ia his proven ability to direct the agri cultural interests .of «tho whole State into a proper balance with multitudinous other factors that add up to full living in North Caro lina. The longitudeousness or lati to “scrutinize most carefully all applications for renewal of [licenses, and to deny licenses to those who do not meet the legal standards or are not of good character.” Blount explained that ^‘elected officials have a clear icut responsibility in protect ing the public from undesir able persons in the beer busi ness, as none can engage in that business unless they are licensed by local govern ments.” 1 _ v Whether or not this county has any retail beer outlets that are detrimental to the beer in dustry’s selfj-regulation pro gram is unknown to this writer. But we hope the coun ty commissioners will make a careful study of all applica tions when renewal tithe comes up. ■ ' 7 J tudeousness of Haw Creek we will leave to the polil A PERSONAL NOTE . . . Back yonder in the days when the up staters called us “Provincials”* and when our corner was known as the “Lost Provinces,” I cast my first gubernatorial vote for O. Max Gardner. His longitude was sure and certain—he was from the West all right. Yet, as I remember some of the things that have taken place since those days, Governor Max Gardner, an industrialist of the Wrest, performed greater service for the agricultural East than any successor he has yet had in Ra leigh. PICKING UP PIECES . . . This week the column was pledged to Spring flowers, trees, shrubs, farm crops, garderr^plantings, birds and bees. The opinionated trivia of a week ago didn’t register with jny close-at-home audience. Some of 'them drove-out and made personal, protestations. They were promised a/re'turn to nbfhmi this:;, week. ■Geography has interfered.._____ A QUESTION . . . The Houston (Texas) Chronicle asks— “Isn’t it time that We had some foreign policy other than an invitation to other nations to form on the right and approach the United States treasury for their handouts? “The policy that we are pur suing appears to be governed bv thV theory that the only way in which we can have friends is —to buy them.'* ; - NORTH CAROLINA TOO . The same Texas newspaper writes this week’s ending - to this col umn— B"v “GET AWAY FROM IT ALL” “If the headlines bother you, don’t let them. Good advice, you say, but how does one go about putting current events behind? “Look out the window of your home, whether it is a mansion or a hovel, and notice the dogwood thatf is blooming and what is left of the, redbud blooms. They are putting out new leaves mostly, but there is still some color left on them. The wisteria is in full bloom, not to mention the azaleas that have been so well publicized. --- —“Then get out the old jalopy gnd, drive down to the San Jacinto Battleground, the bay, or perhaps, up into East Texas where you should find a number of native trees and flowers getting ready to bloom into fresh Spring or Easter Galley 2—Personal OpiniShs 'attire. “Go ’way back into the woods and listen to the crickets; lie down on the grass and look up at the fleecy clouds as you did when a child and lose yourself « „at„ Life is still sweet and God K ? in His heaven. W “Commune with nature the kids fly their kites and lu* to them planning their -vacation* “Such a few hours of vacate from the work and worries-0f bustling city will make most of heavy cares of life diminish j-r,at ly in their proportions and m refresh you for the next monJ ing’s grind.” For Extra Roominess and Riding Comforts You’re in for a wholly new con ception of truck comfort when you look at a new light and medium duty GMC cab. It’s away bigger than any previous GMC design ... 7 inches longer, 12 inches wider across the floor. There’s 8 inches more seating width ... nearly double the number of seat springs, all individually wrapped. Seats are thickly padded and are adjustable 3% inches forward and back. There’s 22 per cent more visibility through larger windshield and windows. There’s draft-free com fort provided by new insulation, weather sealing, plus a unique fresh air ventilation system, with heating and defrosting if desired. COLE MOTOR CO. CHURTON STREET, HILLSBORO, N. C. New Spring Models on the Southern ■ ' v ' - V ■ >?■ Have you noticed? • It’s Spring on the Southern’s rails today . . . and we’re “all dressed up” with the 116 gleaming new Diesel locomotive units and 2,350 new freight cars we put in service last year at %cost of 24 J6 million dollars. j You’ll see them all over the South... ''weeping around bends ., . clicking off the miles on the straight-a-ways... brightly new, and forerunners of even more and better things to come, And more are coming! This month we’ll begin to get delivery on 3,000 new box cars, ordered a year ago. In July delivery will begin on 1,000 new 50-ton hopper cars. More Diesels and scores of new and modem passenger cars are coming too! New ment now on order will cost 38 V4 million dollars. A lot of money? Sure. And most of it is borrowed m°De' to be paid back on the installment plan, plus interest. ^ borrowing against the future... constantly improving the portation service the South needs for continuing growth prosperity .. . because we have faith in the future r.l^e‘e the South. president
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