Fditores
Who Is Tfce Efefreg?
It is a matter cl some deference of opinion as to who is
the better, friend of the farmer on the dirt road. The legis
lator whb advocates, submitting Governor-Scott's $500,000,
000 bond issue in toto, or the lawmaker who sides with the
Senate Roads Committee iti proposing that the people vote
on a $ioo,ooo,o0o bond issue.
For the most part, North Carolinians are conservative
minded and would doubtless come nearer approving a
$100,000,000 bond issue than they would an issue for twice
that amount. To our notion $100,000,000 made available
for spending would be far more advantageous as far as
improving the roads are concerned, than a $200,000,000
»«sue which would not be approved.
It reminds us a great deal of the story of the person who
went into a store and complained about the price of an
article.
“Why the man down the street had this article priced 10
cents below your price.”
“Why did you not buy from him?” she was asked.,
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“He was out,” she said.
“Well, when I am out of those articles, I sell them at half
price.”
Governor Scott says that it will take $200,000,000 to do
the job. On the other hand he-did say that the bonds would
be issued only as the money is needed, indicating that some
time wi’l elapse before the whole $200,000,000 could be
spent. -
To our mind, that suggests that another legislature will
meet in two years. If by that time all has gone well with
the expenditures of $100,000,000, which the Senate Roads
Committee now proposes the people vote on, and more
money is needed, that legislature can authorize additional
bonds as heeds ^re indicated. Governor Scott will still be
in the governor’s chair and can still bring his influence
to bear on his project, -
Surely we cannot do everything at once even when it
comes to such an easy venture as going into debt. We
believe the people want to £e considerate in their judgment.
Medical-Care Insurance?
The American Medical Association, spurred by the accu
sation of 136 members that it had failed to develop a pro
gram for improved medical care, has come forward with a
twelve-point program which is generally believed to be an
effort to head off the President’s uniy&isal medical-care
/ insurance plan.
It has been somewhat surprising that some doctors
throughout the nation fail to make a diffeience between
the economic problem related to medical care and the
medical problems relating to the treatment of patients.
Certainly, if the government confines its efforts largely to
;i program of iirsmance to meet the economic disaster that
disease inflicts upon individuals and leaves the treatment
of patients to doctors, the medical profession has nothing
to fear except, the possibility that a greater number of pa
tients will be. able to pay for their medical treatment.
Of course, it would be' unwise to pass final judgment
upon the proposal of the Medical Association or that of
President Truman or Senator I aft, until these programs
are out
is some possibility of socialized medicine which might
produce some mediocrity in the skill available to serve
the sick and there likewise exists the possibility that, how
ever well-planned such an insurance program may be, it
may turn into a bureaucracy to encroach upon the, field
of physicians in the treatmentiof the patients.
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Thursday, March 10, 1949
PRESS COMMENT
Ei-'Cnj “liaises”
Skori Cl^laied •
(An Editorial:"frbfti the Forest
City Courier)
The action of the House of
Repr§sentatives last week in
killing the automobile inspec
tion bill seems to be a short
sighted policy. There is no
doubt but what the inspection
system has its faults, in the
manner of its operation, and the
inconvenience it has caused the
public. But these faults lie with
the last Legislature, when they
passed a bill which was inade
quate for the purposes^ for
which it was intended. There is
nothing wrong with the present
inspection law which the pres
ent Legislature can’t correct by
setting up more inspection lanes.
Nearly all of North Carolina’s
thinking people have long ago
agreed that periodical inspec
tion is a good thing. It has had
the effect of reducing North
Carolina’s automobile fatalities
and wrecks on the highways.
If the Legislators believe only
one inspection a year is suffi
cient, then that is better than
no inspection at all. It has been
I pointed out that there are crimi
nal laws against the operation
of vehicles with faulty brakes,
lights and other mechanical
equipment. However, it is im
possible for the State Highway
Patrol to check every car in
North Carolina. It is usually
those cars wYnch have not been
inspected by the Patrol which
causes the worst wrecks, snuff
ling out innocent lives and caus
ing heavy property damages.
If the inspection law-is aban
doned, only the State Highway
Patrol stands, between the care
ful driver with a mechanically
perfect-car and the rattle trap
which should be banned from
the roads. The Patrol cannot
handle the job. Are we to re
vert to the old days of the early
1940’s when each Monday ihqrn
ing’s paper reported dozeifc of
highway deaths, most of which
were caused by defective auto
mobiles? Let’s not abandon the
state inspection law.
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“UNDER THE GUN’’
(From the News and Observer,
March 7, 1949
The Alamance County grand
jury last week reported that of
the 71 -Negro prisoners at the
prison camp, 34 were “under the
gun” and 37 were treaties, and
all but three-nJL,the prisoners
were teen-agers. This may at
test to the proportions of juve
nile delinquency. It also em
phasizes the problem of our
prison sysiem. which provides
no formal schooling for young
■WwmiBabf Obviously if' these
boys, -even the trusties, are going
to emerge from imprisonment
no better trained than they were
when they' entered, the State
better plan to keep a larger and
larger proportion of its popula
tion “under the gun.”
The . mere imprisonment of
juveniles “under the gun” or
otherwise promises little cure
for juvenile or any other kind
-of delinquency'.—There is no use
in imprisoning young criminals
unless the time of imprisonment
is devoted to some kind of effort
to turn them out as bette rciti
zens.
News Of Soil
Conservation
by
R. L. Mohler and C. V.
Ferguson, Soil Conservation
Service
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Charles Brame, Peasant Greene
neighborhood, is planning to de
vote a greater part of his open
land to pasture, since he has plans
for a small dairy farm. He has
plans for sowing about five acres
to permanent pasture this spring,
and this fall will have about 12
additional acres ready for seeding.
The Brame farm has been idle for
a number of years, and a greater
part of it is in young forests, in
which a forestry thinning program
zzkzpzze izSiaszzis.
available.
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Young Vaughn, Cedar Grove
Community, says you can not fool
cows when it comes to grass in
the pasture. Mr. Vaughn has a
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THE*FORJY-NlNERS: 1849-/9^9
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When gold was discovered in California
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS LEFT THEIR
FAMILIES AND HOMES,TO STAKE
EVERYTHING -EVEN THEIR LIVES ~
.ON THE CHANCE OF FINDING GOLD.
THEY WEK.E WILLING TO^ACRJF/CE
WHAT ECONOMIC SECURJTY THEY
ENJOYED IN THE HOPE OF
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Twr SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE -OF TAKING A CHANCE— REMAINS
STRONG IN AMERICA. SINCE 164^, HOWEVER, OUR ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITIES HAVE BROADENED GREATLY.
THE MODERN''‘FORTY-NINER* IN SEEWNG NEW FIELDS OF
ENDEAVOR, PLACES LESS RELIANCE ON.CHANCE AND MORE
ON TH£ MEASURED RISK — GREATER RELIANCE ON THE
FACTORS OF HARD WORK, INGENUITY AND THRIFT.
big acreage of “native” grass, and
a small acreage of “seeded and
fertilized” pasture, all iri the same
field, and he says his cows may
be found on the small cultivated
part most of the time. Mr. Vaughn
plans for less native grass and
more pasture mixture acreage in
his pasture program.
The only way to do anything is
the “right” way, according to
Walter Lloyd, White Cross com
munity. Walter is putting good
fences around good pasture acre
age seeded last fall. He is ter
racing and seeding about three
more acres this spring.
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Soil testing pays, according to
the experience of W. I. Suitts,
Orange Grove community. Mr.
Suitts maintains a large pasture
acreage in his dairy farming, and
he reports that he has found that
he gets best results from the fer
tilizer used on pasture mixtures
when the recommendations of the
Soil Testing Division, &. De7
partment of Agriculture, Raleigh,
are followed.
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TJhe high school students of Or
ange County are getting ready for
the school preliminary contests in
cthe Soil- Conservation Essay
Speaking contest being- field in
the State again this year, spon
sored by the N. C . Bankers Asso
ciation . The Chapel Hill High
School sturterits went on a farm
field trip Thursday, Feb. 17. On
these field trips the students have
the opportunity of seeing many of
the soil and water conservation
practices put pn the ground by
the farmers,
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Mark 5:22 23, 35-42; Luke 7.20-23
Three tunes we are given rec
ords of Jesus rescuing a human
soul iron heath. In the case of
.he twelve-year-old daughter of
he ruler of the synagogue of Ca
ernuum dea.h had just come,
'he body of the widow’s son of
Tain was met in the funeral pro
•ession. When Lazarus was res
urrected, he had been in the grave
iour days. An in the case of his
less striking miracles, all of these
were, accomplished without any
great external display of emotion
or power.
* Two of the greatest emotions of
humans are pride and love. As
a ruler of the synagogue Jairus
was doubtless proud of his posi
tion and religion. Yet, in the hour
of sorrow and need he forgot his
pride far enough to humble him
self before the wandering teacher
who was regarded as heretic by
the ecclesiastical authorities and
the priests. Love for his daughter
overcame pride for his caste, and
Jairus was very richly rewarded.
Many people today are preventing
spiritual blessings by clinging to
a false pride and dignity.
In the case of the woman who
cured herself by surreptitiously
touching the robe of Jesus we have
two other human emotions in con
flict. In this case the woman,
practically an outcast from so
ciety, because . of her malady,
struggled with her fear to presume
enough to approach the great
teacher,, yet she had greater faith,
which persuaded her that by doing
so she would be cured. Jesus did
not let her go, however, without
making it plain to her that it was
faith in him and not any wonder
working qualities of his garments
that benefitted her.
In both of these cases we see the
result of great faith. For Jesus
to accomplish his miracles there
seems to have been a necessity of
faith in him. When the messen
gers came to Jairdus saying his
daughter was dead and it was use
less for him to trouble the teacher
any more, Jesus quickly inter
vened lest the faith that had
brought Jairus to him might be
weakened, and said, “pf,
only believe.” The woman ^
was cured likewise possessed
energetic -faith in the P0,Wi„83
Jesus, Without f^ith, JCiUs 01
fbrme^l no great works. He !?'
veled.-at the unbelief of Na mar’
his childhood home, and be ^
of this condition performed
mighty works-there.
We often'wonder what might
done with this world of 0y .
its human inhabitants would ^
believe. Improvements and ^
forms are delayed and often n*
vented by the unbelief 0f th
who are Joo quick to conclude th!
existing conditions cannot l
changed. How much better
I our world be if commerce, poilt]
diplomacy, and all affairs 'could S
reshaped by great souls insnir!
with a trusting faith. Lackin
such a faith we will still end|J
the evil results of greed in
j ness, selfishness and privilege i
government* hatred and hostilit,
between nations—all becauv. J
: lack faith. * *
! Notwithstanding the important,
| of the mission Of Jesus and ft
, time limit of only three years j
| which to plant the foundation f,
his doctrines, Jesus was never to
busy to tarry and administer heli
wherever he encountered human'
ity in distress. No matter ho?
urgent his business of the mo
ment was, as, for example, wha
he was hurrying to the bedside o
the daughter of Jairus, he stoppa
long enough to plant true faith j
the heart of the woman who ha
shown her belief in him by he
act. It was said of Jesus,thath
"went.about "doing' 'good."
was his' life., and he was neve
too busy or tob engrossed with hi
i affairs to accept an opportune
{to do good.
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