Editorial and Opinion
Persistence Equals Results
Good news was in the making last week when the an
nouncement came through that extension and some con
solidation of the telephone service in this area was being
negotiated. Some of the plans have already been put into
effect and others are tentative.
Nevertheless, this is heartening to many people in the
rural areas of the county and to the towns and communities.
This is what they have been striving for, for a number of
years.
The announcement last week culminated a two year cam
paign for extension of telephone service in Orange County.
This campaign got underway before Gov. Scott took office
and has continued without letup since that time. Many of
the civic organizations and delegations of rural folk carried
this fight all the way to the Utilities Commission and then
to the Governor’s office. /
For a time it seemed as if results would never materialize
but persistence has made the difference. Whether the crack
down on the part of Gov. Scott played an important role
in the picture is unimportant. The fact that a move in the
direction desired is important. i
Although plans, actual and tentatively, are being made,
the utmost effort should still be put forth to obtain tele
phone service on par with the large towns. There is no
excuse for service to fall under this standard.
When the present intensified campaign for more and
better telephone service got underway, the main reason for
faulty service put forth by the telephone companies was the
lack of good equipment and the non-availability of addi
tional equipment. This block of contention has been re
moved, the equipment is available, and the "ball has started
to roll, so let’s not slack off now. Every effort humanly pos
sible should be put forth to see this thing through to good,
efficient telephone service'throughout Orange County.
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It seems thru, tin: old adage of "Death and Taxation, are
. .sure things*’ <r>mimicsfo hold true in North Carolina.
last week a former member of the Advisory Budget
Commission. Leroy Martin, predicted that Gov. Scott’s budg
et message to die i 951 legislature will be "paramount in
creased taxation all along the line.”
One link in the line mentioned by Martin was an increase
in the general sales tax now in practice in North Carolina.
Back during the depression the general sales tax was put
into effect only by dire necessity. Gov. J. G. B. Eringhouse
made this general sales tax proposal to the General Assembly
and the people hesitatingly. At that time he said that if
the Assembly and the people did not accept this tax measure
on a temporary basis, the public schools would have to be
closed because there were not enough funds to fill their
needs.
Within a short time Gov. Eringhouse’s proposal was ac
r~cept©afcbut only on a temporary basis. Years |lipped^by and
y instfaJlof this tlx-being abolished, ft becarrte a permanent
thing? and at the expense of those who could least afford
to pay.
The general sales tax is a discrimitory tax in its very
nature. From any angle that it is figured, it hits the little
man the hardest. Everyone pays this tax regardless of his
financial status when making a purchase. Also, it is further
discrimitory,-in. that a limit 4s-rsetrj^:itlie,-araoiOTC'^fciax
charged on a single purchase—$15. This means that a pur
chase of $5,000.00 would only carry a $15 sales tax. While
at the same time, a $500.00 purchase would carry the same
amount of sales tax. So the man who least needs to worry
about his financial means gets out just as light or heavy as
the man who must stretch a dime further than it will go.'"'
Should this increase in the general sales tax be proposed
by Gov. Scott and accepted by the General Assembly in
1951, it will mark and deface the steps forward that have
’"taken place mThe state In the past few years. Many states
that are not on a par with North Carolina financially and
productively do not have to resort to this discrimitory
method of raising funds to meet the needs of the state. And
those that do resort to this type of taxation make special
efforts to keep it within reason.
Should this prediction by Mr. Martin materialize, the
theory and practice of taxation will have readied limits
of such unreason that it will be hard for the ordinary man
to understand or stomach.
If additional funds are . to be needed to carry on the
business of the state in the next few years, a more equal
fair means cpuld and should be devised, \
THE MEWS of Orange Comity
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Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C.
Edwin J. Hamlin....Editor and Publishet :
Don McFee
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Community Representatives—Miss Elizabeth Kirkland, New
Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. C. H. Pender, Cedar
Grpve; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Mrs. Marinda McPher
son, Hillsboro Negro Community; MrsrGolden Sellars, Chape!
Hill Negro Community.
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PRESS COMMENT
Nt ‘John’s Other
Wile’-Horrows
Boys and girls of today
have so totally different a daily
routine from that of those who
lived a century and a half ago,
that the tremendous^ contrast may
not be fully realized'Ly the present
generation.
Today’s 10-year-olds spend a
generous part of their time attend
ing movies, listening to gangster
or murder programs on the radio,
reading, comic books, and other
dubious cultural value.
Consider now the daily routine
prescribed by Thomas Jefferson
for his 10-year-old daughter, Mar
tha (known as “Patsy”), after
ward the wife of Governor Thom
as Mann Randolph, of Virginia.
In a letter written in 1783 to
Patsy from Annapolis, publish
ed in The Domestic Life of
Thomas Jefferson, by Sarah N.
Randolph, a once-rare volume
reissued by the Thomas Jeffer
(Memorial Foundation, the master
of Monticello said he would ap- .
prove the following schedule:
“From 8 to 10, practice music
“From 10 to 1, dance one day
and draw another,
“From 1 to 2, draw on the day,. , ,
you dance, and write a letter
next day.
“From 3 to 4, read French.
“From 4 to 5, exercise yourself
in music.
“Frotn 5 til bedtime, read Eng
lish. write. otc.’!——
We do not happen to know
whether Patsy actually carried
out this rigorous routine, which
.left.,practically, n(f ^t-k ne for-<any- *»
thing but study 'Wr fof practicing. ,
music, art or the dance. Probably
she varied from it only slightly. ,
or her father would have refused
his consent.
Certainly it would be out of
the question for any 10-year-old
in 1950 even to consider so ex
acting a schedule. How would he
or she keep abreast of the doings
of Roy Rodgers or Henry Ald
rich, or remain hep to the mos*
recent escapades of the Cisco Kid”
or the “Green Hornet”?_,_, L_
Yes 1783 was a long time ago
A Patsy Jefferson, devoting her
entire day from 8 A. M. until
bedtime to literature, art, lang
uage and letter-writing, is hardly
conceivable in this year of grace.
f—Richmond Timts-Dispatch’
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