Editorial By Way of RecMnoendatioa The Greensboro Daily News took a long look down Orange County way earlier this week, taking cognizance of a recent action of the Board of Commissioners as reported in this journal last week. It opined: "As a simpler wayfaring North Carolinian, who more often negotiates the 12 miles between Chapel Hill and Durham to visit a seasoned friend than to become part and/or appurtenance of the football season, we desire to hail the action of the Orange County Board of Commis sioners in refusing to intervene in connectioh with the routing of the proposed super-highway from Durham to Chapel Hill as not only seemly but tremendously encourag ing to those who believe popular government is capable of developing a sense of proportion. “It may be—although we doubt it—essential that there be a boulevard constructed to tie the Universities of North Carolina and Duke more tightly together. We* speak of Duke and Carolina as the highway objective, because as things now stand there are at least three roads leading frorn^ Chapel Hill to Durham or vice versa which sideswipe ■ liquor stores and there' is hourly bus service for those who neither drink while they drive nor drive while they drink. “What we are driving at is the simple asertion that with the current ingress and egress what it is a Chapel Hill Durham boulevard^ is a matter for the State of North Caro lina to undertake and Orange County to let alone. “There must be somebody connected or conversant with the Orange Board of Commissioners who has something approaching horse-sense.” To which we say: there is, and at®the same time are re minded that an election is coming up-very shortly now. ^Nuffsaid. : 1 Speed, The Killer _ _X: ‘ One' of~?he "sorriest symbols of otJr times is; "America's’ automobile accident record. North Carolina’s record re cently is even more alarming. The summing up for 1949 has just reached us from one of the major insurance companies who each year publish an almanac of crash data. Of all the facts about auto ac cidents in their booklet, the most significant, it seems to us, is this: More than 400,000 casualties in 1949 were the direct re sult of speeding. One out' of every three Americans who lost their lives in last year’s wrecks were killed because someone was driving too fast. — — —r Speed has been causing a greater percentage of aeidents year after year. In 1949, speed was a greater factor in traffic casualties than at any time in history. Traffic laws and law enforcement are part of the answer. Engineering will help some. But with perfect roads and r perfect police work, the man behind the wheel can still exceed the limit if he wants to or if he isn’t thinking. Keep this in mind when you drive. Stay within speed touts and yyoti’U be 4oing your full part in fi crusade to reduce Automobile accidents by one third*. A Man Misrepresented ‘‘Irresponsible and malicious 'misrepresentations concern-” ing your record and views on government and business motivate me to enlist in the front lines with those determin ed to give such falsities the lie they so deserve.” Thus was quoted H. L. Riddle, prominent Morgantori banker, in a, statement* in behalf of the candidacy of Senator Frank Gra ham for reelection. —■- " We give that quotation because of its unusual pertin ence at this time. Very rarely has a man of such basic sin cerity been misrepresented more than Dr, Frank in his long career. This has come about because of his passionate belief that only in a free education system, in a free so ciety can man ‘'develop the initiative to inyent, to develop new ideas and to progress. By espousing and upholding the cause of freedom of thought and action he has been identifi ed as favoring ideas when his only connection therewith was upholding the right to express those ideas. Thus, for Dr. Graham an innocent contribution to some organiza tion sending books to the heathen Japanese in pre-war days may now have become a very bad thing.to have done. Such actions according to present-day detractors, make him a subversive. Since we are vitally interested in hfc present endeavor, we hope he has refrained from contributing to the Red Cross this year as it could easily return to haunt him in his current campaign. THE MEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday by THE NEW S, IN CO RPO RATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. Edwin J, Hamlin .. . ..,.. Editor and Publishet Don McFee ........ .<*...... . Associate Editor ■■ ~. L -—------.. -*s A Community Representatives— Miss Elizabeth Kirkland, New Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. C.” H. Pender, Cedaf Grove; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Mrs. Marinda McPher*. son, Hillsboro Negro Community; Mrs. Golden Sellars, Chapel Hill Negro Community. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Pest Office at Hillsboro. N. C. under the Act of March S, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES l’Year (in Nortn Carolina) . $2.00 6 Months (in North Carolina) ...„.$1.50 1 Year (putside North Carolina) . $2.50 a Months (outside North Carolina), .... $2.00 u,^.i i w. . , .I,,!..n exclusive national Aavertisnig Representative ★ * Greater Weeklies f t New York • Chicago - Detroit • Philadelphia * A&**»**♦*»*»*»»»***♦*»* AAAA AAAAAAJA - ,. V . Thursday, April 15, 1950 .'I ' .. I ; PRESS COMMENT . HOW ABOUT IT, BILLY? (Thompson Greenwood in the —— Forest City Courier) FOR SALE . . .The rumor was •round Raleigh last week that "The State”, weekly Carl Goerch magazine on doings in North Caro lina, is up lor sale. Reports have it that Billie Carmichael, now act ing president of the University at North Carolina, may purchase the publication for around $50,000. The magazine has a class cir culation of 18,000, or there abouts, and 'is widely regarded as the most readable periodical of its type in the country. There may be nothing to the for sale talk, but it is known that Goerch is in great demand throughout the 8outh as an after-dinner speaker and radio commentator. His 8unday evening broadcasts on the BC Network pulls h* heavy mail; and his talks bring In the long green. Nobody has heretofore looked on Carmichael as the literary type. However, he has the North Caro lina approach, and the fact that he is not one of the scholars of literature should assure his suc cess with “The State” if he be comes asociated with it LOOK ON P^AGE TWO (Cleveland Times, Shelby, N. C.) The other day a man rebuked us for printing a story on the front page which seemed to him to pre sent unfavorably an organization of which he is "a member. . Although we had presented in rthe St»ty only facts, he declared, “I see now how you stand on ojir organization.” We explained to him that the front page of a newspaper is sup posed—if it is honest—to present to its readers the facts as they de velop on those subjects in which - the community as a whole is most isterested at the moment. Another man present who over heard commented, “In spite of popular opinion, a newspaper is not operated to cover up for its friends and expose its enemies.” In case that man didn’t under stand us at the time of our ex planation—and for the purpose of re-stating our policy as a news paper:—rthe news as we gather it will be reported on our front page or on our inside pages in propor tion to its worth as timely and important news to the community. Anyone who wants io know our opinion on an Organization, an event or another’s opinion will, please look on page two—our edi torial page. PROMOTED Valley Forge Military Academy Cadet John M. Roberts, son of Dr. and Mns. Bryan N. Roberts, afTryon St, Hillsfooro, has a temporary a anointment academy as cadet sergeant. Promotions are made by tne academy as evidence of the cadet’s fitness for further responsibility in leadership training. N. Columbia Street Chapel Hill Of Candidacy Subject to the Democratic Primary on May 27th, 1950 I hereby announce my candi dacy for the House of Representatives from Orange County. J. W. Uastead, Jr. JOE TO JOE PROPAGANDIST v I’VE (SOT New Hope By ELIZABETH KIRKLAND New 'Members At the Easter 11 o’clock service at New Hope persons were re ceived into the membership of the Church. They 'were Louis Free-' Jand, Jr.,-Kenneth Brown,- Mar garet Brown, Billy Barker, Bryan. Cates, Sam Joyner Blackwood, Bob. Blackwood. John Blackwood, and Mrs. S. C. Blackwood. -o--r— —~W\ Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Helms visited at C, ,J Freeland’s Easter Sunday. —r-o—•—-— Mrs. W. C. Craig visited her sister, Mrs. Nannie Long Lloyd at Buie’s Creek Easter Monday. Dresmaking — Alterations EVENING DRESSES OUR SPECIALTY MRS. GEORGE N. HARWARD In Carolina Drapery Shop * W. Franklin St. — Chapel Hill -<**•„ ■' " . . Attend District Meet Members of the Blackwood New Hope Home Demonstration club who attended the District Meet ing in Chapel Hill April 6 were Mrs. Clyde Hogan, Mrs. Louis Freeland, _Mrs. Sam Blackwood, Mrs. Homer Tapp, Mrs. H. N. Blackwood, Mrs. W. S. Numj, Mrs. ..Mrs,.. Foster.. Tgm Janie Blackwood, Elizabeth Kirk land. Lunch .was served to the farm women and extension lead ers by the Blackwood New Hope club members. _. . ..-Q V Charles Lockhart of Tarboro spent Easter with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Lockhart. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tapp visit ed Mrs. Foster Andrews recently. Mrs. John Kirkland and Irving Kirkland visited Mr. and Mrs. John Kirkland • in Durham last week. —-o Mrs. Tom Hogan is ill with pneumonia at her home. 'ffcu.L 7Kct