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Editorial and Opinion Tax Increases Are Certaia Tix increases will ,be necessary .to meet the Korean sit uation but this will be a small matter compared with the amount of. taxes to piut the nation on a permanent ready for-war basis. ’ / Congress by interested groups in an effort to get the tax levied “against somebody else.” Many Americans, thorough ly patriotis and loyal, will do their best to dodge any part of the load necessary for the defense of‘this country. In this connection, the Congress should not hesitate to apply rather severe levies against profits arising out of war. It is unconscionable to permit war industries to make exorbitant profits while American men are giving their lives on the battlefields. —-— In our previous wars, there have been individuals and corporations lustily engaged in “business as usual.” Their profits have not been reached by the government, with the result that practically every community ha$ group of bus iness men who have made enormous profits out of the prosecution of wars. Already, there are indications that the nation will be forced to pay higher prices by those taking advantage of war psychology and that the Government itself, in pur chasing arms, equipment and supplies for its fighting men, -■* will be forced to pay prices that include extraordinary profits fof“buSmess concerns. We do not know whether effective action can be taken to control the war profiteers, or not, but we certainly think that the Congress and the Government, acting together and with real determination, might be able to prevent the nation from being mulcted in connection with its defense and war expenditures. . Officials charged with the handling of our food ^products have been somewhat alarmed By the tendency of many 1 citizens to unduly accumulate supplies of various articles, particularly thoseowhich the citizens think may soon he rationed. ' -_ - - ■ ■. l.', ‘Hoarding will not do much .good, for just as soon as a commodity is put on the rationed list, each person may be required to make an affidavit as to the supply on hand, and whatever that amount is, it will more than likely be deducted from the quantity which the citizen will be al lowed to buy under the rationing system. The only kind of rationing system which should be" put : into effect, if officials come to the conclusion that rationing is necessary, is a compulsory plan. Advance hoarding should l>e broken up by a strict inventory of each one’s supplies, verified by spot checking, if necessary, and searching for anv undue supplies concealed by greedy citizens. — ± No patriotic man or woman should resent any necessary f*>lice activities to make any rationing system fair and equal Discouraging Hoarding THE SANDHILL G+TIZEN HAS Kind Word For ‘Cood Old Days’ - . Although we welcome labor saving automatic tobacco carers that make lighter the tasks of» our farmers, we still ~ get a thriU from the scent of wood smoke in the air on a warm -August night, arising from a barn where some oue is tending a wood-fed furnace. In the old days, the night air was pungent for miles around in tobacco-growing sections and the glow of furna ces were friendly spots of color across the fields and among out buildings on the farms. ' , At the bam, long oak logs lay in readiness to be thrust into the furnace and now and then pushed in a little further as the ends were consumed by Barnes. Farmers often didn’t go to bed_to a real bed_jfor days, although there was — -usually a battered cot, covered with a quilt that had seen ——better days, to provide brief periods of rest that those watch ing the fires allowed themselves. Tobacco barns were and still are on many farqi$ the v «cene of much good talk. In the midst of the weariness hearts as they rested on their haunches before the furnace. ■*'. hearts as theyrested on their haunches before the furnace. And lucky was the farm that had a sharp-witted" man around the barn to brighten the weary vigil of the night _with jokes and laughter. We don’t believe a watermelon ever tastes as good as it does to parched throats at a tobacco bam. on a hot sum mer night. As we say, we’re all for progress, but sometimes we miss the old days. ' THE NEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday By. I H F. N E W S, INCORPORATED Hillsborb* and Chapel Hill, N. C. krwiN J. Hamlin . .Editor and Publisher ium, f »y:-.myr.:/4$sociftte*'Editor •Patricia Stanford . .. Society Editor Entered as Second Class Matter at the Port Office at Hillsboro, N. O', under the Act of March 3, 1879. Member North Carolina I'ress Associntior subscription rates Z 7; 1 Yrn- fin North Carolina) .... .... $2.00 t> Mouths (in North Carolina) ..... $1.50 1 Year (outSid^ North Carolian) ...'... $2.50 C Months (outside North Carolina) ...... r... $2.00 ++*+**+*±*****+++***********++*+*11 **'■ t Exclusive National Advertising Representative * J Greater Weeklies * ■I " S & New York • Chicago • Detroit • Philadelphia 3 Thursday, August 17, 1950 PRESS COMMENT Blame’s Heat For Ed’s Blast nothing serious (Greensboro Daily News) Mayor Edwin S. Lanier of Chapel Hill issued a statement deploring the tendency of people outs\de of his' community to‘brand the University village as a center of Communism. It is true* he says, that well-known Communists get theif mail through the Chapel Hill post office, and they have been on the streets; -but it doesn’t fol low that the town is a breeding place for those who circulate the Stockholm petition. Mayor Lanier’s irritation is understandable, but we suspect some of it is a part ot a natural rash produced by the August heat. There has been some talk about Chapel Hill and its Communists of late but no more than common; and we doubt if the average citizen holds or will attempt to hold the mayor and city council responsible for any part of the brashness of a few mush-brains attracted by higher education. - Indeed, our notion of proper procedure would be for Mayor Lanier to pay the censorious critics of Chapel Hill just about the mind he is paying the Chapel Hill" Com munists. . - ... ■ • —* —0. PACKING THEM TIGHT (Waynesville Mountaineer) With two thousand Methodists here for the. special conference th is - week" end, one, businessman, who is a leader in the Method ist church, cornered a good friend who is a Baptist, and secretly con fided: “The two thousand Methodists just about filled the community, but we could have taken care of four thousands Baptists with ease.” „ . The Baptist listened intently;*, knowing the pay-off would be a crack at his denomination, said good-naturedly, “Go, right ahead and express yourself, what is it?" “Gh, nothing, except I’ve heard that Baptists are so narrow you can pack them in half the space as required for other denomina tions,” said the Methodist as he threw his head back and roared— that is until he saw his wife giv ing him a cold stiff loot—she was once a Baptist, and has often told him to keep such ideas to him self. Then the jBaptist laughed. Notes and comments We do not care tp listen to people with few ideas who al ways repeat them. --—-o The Korean campaign will be tough in the long run—-on the North Koreans. ----t--\.. ... Our suggestion for hot weather: Read some poetry and sleep late in the morning. -o- ■ Once upon a time there" was a man who remembered his friend and repaid a favor. „ - -o-— A man with one eye doesn’t see all that a man with two eyes can see but he sees enough. -—o— When you touch the pocket book nerve of a profession ~y6u can expect the ethics to disappear. -o-—--— A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be igno rant even of them. — Williaid Hazlitt. Are You Building? Many a koine is destroyed before M's completed. As soon as construc tion starts insure against loss. Farm Bureau Mutual Fir* Insurance Co. Office — Columbus, Okie by Paul H. Robertson The Mutual Agency Phone 6575 Chapel Hill Right ‘Er Wrong ■ - £AT YOUR1 SPINACH! ) Man-Made Aurora Is Being Produced At Planetarum Chapel HiH — A man-made au rora is being produced in the Morehead Planetarium at the Uni versity here during the demon strations of the new show, “Sun Spots and Hiiman Affairs,” ac cording to Director Roy K. Mar shall. • ;/ The new show is being given each night at 8:30 p.m. and at 3 p.m, matinees on Saturdays; and Sundays. William D. Bulloch of the Plan etarium staff expedited the con struction of a large glass glow tube by two technicians of* the Chemistry Department of the Uni versity. Dana E. Samson, glass blower, and Arthur R. Bennett, mechanic, prepared the tube in short order. It will be pumped practically free of air in each de monstration of the- new show.— A 15,000-volt electrical dis charge is fed into the tube, and the few- remaining molecules of air will glow in strange and. in teresting-' fashion, Dr. Marshall said. ■ . ' . —“Just as we can make the air in the glow tube shine by electrical excitation,” he explained, “so sun spote regions sent out' electrical particles \yhich constitute the dis mosphere glow when we see dis plays of the Northern Lights..” . Sun spots produce many other effects onj- terrestrial affairs, he said. Precipitation, growth of trees, length of rabbit fur, radio transmission and nfiany other earthly matters have been linked with sun spots, and these ideas will., all be presented in the new showing. A display of Northern Lights will be simulated, with streamersr streaks and arches as they are to he seen in nature. Service Insurance and Realty Co. Insurance, Property Management, Real Estate CHAPEL HILL k Raleigh — Rural schools will be opening in a couple of weeks, and the State had made big plans to provide around 1,000 new school buses. Most of them will be ready. But a lot of school kids will ride to. school in old, ramshackelty buses because one firm—Hackney Brothers of Wilson— has failed to live up to their.contract. Their failure may cost them as much as $150,000, but it won’t help get several hundred school buses out where they’re needed badly. , . . April 7 the State Division of Purchase and Contract signed a contract with Hackney Brothers (T. J. Hackney of Wilson is the firm’s president) to build ,450 school bus bodies. The state was to provide the chassis—delivery of which began to Hackney on May 10; Hackney Brothers, under the contract, were to have de livered buses beginning 30 days after that at the rate of 7 per cent per week until all were finished —which would have given the Sjtate the last of the buses by September 1. —~ Thirty-two buses were due by June 9. But none were delivered. By July 13, 157 buses were due. But Hackngf had delivered none. On~;July 14, Williams wrote Haekndy asking a written explan nation as’ to why no buses had been delivered to him. Williams added "that unless Hackney took immediate action, the State would^ go where it could to get the job 'done. — - Hackney replied July 18, stat ing that a shortage of steel (2(J gauge stretcher-level steel, he called it) was causing the hold up. He said he had a contract with a “reliable” steel mill but that the steel had not been delivered as yet, Hackney claimed that he still could get the buses to the school system in time rf tie could get the steel. But his capacity is rated at 50 buses per week. Thus it would take at least nine weeks after getting the steel—which had not 'been done at this writing—to fill the contract. As *of August 10 some 350 bare chassis still were standing at i Hackney's.* The Wilson outfit still Ihad no steel, tout claimed it had a bill of lading showing that the Steel was being shipped.. Williams said he will Hackney outfit a time to get the steel Ji{' delivering the other 3oo -‘®ut we can't break faith S the school kids,” Willia^ 2 “These buses were to W v d' ready by the beginning of and we’re going to get the?2 as near that time as possible^ we have to, we’ll place the tract for the other 300 buses another firm and Hackney*™ have to pay the difference T tween his bid and the cost I extra freight.” m Williams said the only comoanv that had even "nibbled" idea of building the 300 w wanted $500 more for each b™ than Hackney’s contracted pn« This would mean that Hackne, Brothers would have to pay the $500 - each difference — which would amount to $150,000-^ any extra freight charges. Added to the $9,000 they already 4,av(. lost, the final figure might run to a $175,000 bite out of Hackneys pocket. In contrast to the Haekner failure, is the action of the Thorta; body-building firm <>£ High Pair.. On April 7, Thomas got a con tract on 250 buses. The firm turn ed them out on schedule—did such a good job that in June fee High Point firm got a contract fqr 225 more buses. Thomas st:!l';i is cn schedule—apparently isn't having any steel -problems. And the-buses meet contract specif!-;: cations, too___ —: ———o-- _ The most ironical thing about the fight over giving school teach ers a—chunk of the $13,000,000 (surplus or cash balanqe, take your pick) is that nobody in the legislature thought feiere would ,be one when they passed that lit tle section known as 20 1-2 of the ’ appropriations bUL ___ That’s the little piece of fancy r writing that 'says teachers should get a retroactive pay raise, la* June 30 “if there was a surplus" In fact, the only speculation was as to how much of ^deficit the State would have at the end of the 1949-50 fiscal year. Now the teachers—particular';' the N. C. Education Association —claim there’s a $13,000,000 sur plus. 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