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Editorial and Opinion Might Be The Straw • " • *t ' ‘ , Anotlier issue in the fight for Americanism not to be overlooked by the current legislature, we hope, is the rati fication of the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States limiting the President to two ternmof four • years each. This amendment was submitted by the Congress to the States in March 26, 1947 and unless three-fourths, or 36 states, ratify it before March 2b, 1954, it fails. Latest word is that 24 states have given approval. The belief that every boy in the United States has a chance to be President has always been a part of our na tional’thinking. Limiting the tenure of the President to eight years is not only keeping with out national tradi tion, it is the essence of American Democracy. Allowing r continued multiple terms beyond the second- serves- to’ further reduce the possibilities for obtaining this most ^..•..4.cpyeted^ndumo&t pojfietfnUpMW---pc>UucaL-4>o*i4wv^.-v!«‘*-*«r#4 ' The no third term precedent which, hy usage and custom, had served the pprjjqse of limiting th.e ,Presidents termjn office was one of the great casualties ot, World War II. From this time on every President, regardless of Party, ■ will be persuaded by pressure groups, using him to their advantage, to force his renomination and attempt to force his reelection as long as he may live. Such a system serves to throttle consideration of up-and-coming presidential \. timber and leads to many undesirable' practices wholly foreign to our American tradition. Wc* hope the North Carolina legislature will follow through with formal ratification during this term for to fail might be the straw to. ultimately destroy our form of government and the American Way of Life. Unification In Prayer We are told that religion is more popular today than ever before. Dr. Norman Vincent Peele attributes this to the fact that everyone is mixed up, confused, and is seek ing the score.'Tiute waS when most of us took tilings for granted and depended on other factors* man-made factors, to balance thq boat. ^_—_^ If one person today can be found that isn’t perplexed he must either be a happy man or a very crazy one. More and more the average person is turning to the church as a solution for guidance. More and more governments are calling for divine, guidance. It is as if the whole world is in a-house of mirrors and trying to find the proper way out, runs aritci more detours and false impressions. Thousand^ pfipities throughout the world on Friday will pause in the middle of a busy day and pray. The world 6ay of Prayer this year will find air faces, creeds and beliefs ^ joining in one voice to the Divine Being for comfort and guidance. It ?y_akes,no difference if a special service cannot be at tended, but millions of people during the day will pause and although eloquent prayers may be uttered the im portant fact is that millions of people will be unified as they have never been before. Groundhog Outlook For the fifth time in the past six years the groundhog emerged from his ahode last week, took one--quick look and darted back- in. - . ■—- ; A lot of folks think that it means we will' have forty days of bad weather. It is too bad that his fast entrance and exit doesn’t; mean just that. In" the good old days the groundhog turned weather pro phet, and quite a few folks gauged their planting schedule by his performance. But now It is riot the case. Gerald, the Groundhog, gets tired of living alone in his cold, dark, damp,, solitary hole. He craves a bright, warm, friendly world. After a deep sleep he is accustomed to sticking his head out the door to see what the score is. Years ago, he came out .in February to take a look at the thermometer. Now he comes out to just see if it is safe outside. Five years ago he came out and stayed. The boys were coming home, prices looked good, the United Nations was getting started and it looked to Gerald as if the world might not be too bad a place to live. Since then he has stayed in his isolated abode. . ..... Last week was possibly the worst fast look he has had in years, He saw without even looking the N, £. State Legisla ture in session, Miltpn Berle on television, a new war. Senator Joe McCarthy, parking meters, higher taxes, and a quick freeze, and worse of all didn’t even glimpse a faint hint of brighter skies. Move over, Gerald! Tom Bost in the Greensboro Daily News . . “And all the testimony of all the statisticians who make it a business to know shows that there is not the slighest difference be tween the casualty rates of ABC and dry counties; that in the institutions which treat alcoholics there is no difference between the boozers who come from wet and the guzzlers which are grown in the dry counties. As Congressman Abbie said, “we have liquor and prohibition. Who is doing the kicking?” THE NEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro, and Chapel Hill, N. C. Edwin J. Hamlin.... ....„. Editor and Publishei PaI’kic.ia Stanford .. i..... Society Edito\ Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro. N. under the Act of March 8, 1«79. Member Ntirtb Carolina Press Associatior * Exclusive National Advertising Representative * * Greater Weeklies * j Ne\r Ycrtt • Chicago • Detroit Philadelphia » ^#A**»* i<1eitic+-kick1rirk'kick1rkirkitiriiir**irk'k-k1i PRESS COMMENT A Monument Better Forgotten (The Raleigh Tiirrs) Despite the Korean War, des pite a menacing economic picture^ and despite seme fancy footwork” by a group of State officials just prior to the opening of the 1951 General Assembly, North Carolina may get a million-dollar livestock judging arena whether it wants it or not. » It is the opinion of The Raleigh Times that the best interests of North -Carolina would be served by an order from the - -Nation’s Capital delaying the start off the State Fairgrounds Coliseum until ,;^.,m£XE%ia*^opiaie-•. The approval by both houses of the Assembly of a committee re port which found little TSUlt With the building during* .a tHational emergency of a highly non-essen tial and extremely costly edifice ■for the judging of liv^rteck—this is an unfortunate end to a matter which had an unfortunate begin ning. j It must be said of those State officials who decided it wise to approve the contract for the col iseum just hours before the Legi slature began its 1951 sessions that: 1—They knew what they want ed; 2—They were determined to get it regardless; and 3—They were clever enough to grab it be fore the people of North Carolina said “No, let’s wait a bit.” There are other aspects'of thfe coliseum controversy which make this unhappy affair even worse. For example, there are the secret sessions which the committee—eo— chairmaned by Senator James H. Pou Bailey of Wake—held behind closed doors. There also is the questionable figure of from $200, 000 to $250,000 given as the cost to North Carolina of getting out of -its contract committment—a figure which still has not been documented. Also, there is the ■tongue lashing which the Gover nor of North Carolina dealt a freshman representative from Wake County simply because the latter had the courage to disagree with His Excellency. * If the State Fairgrounds Coli seum is finished as now scheduled it will constitute in part a monu ment to matters which a lot of North Carolinians will like to for get- T *• ■ -o Second Payment GI Insurance Dividend In April Washington — The_Veterans Administration has announced it will begirt paying a second in - surance dividend of $685,000,000 in SpnT’td about 8,000,000 veter ans—and they will not have to write in for it. The agency could not say what will be the most any one holder of a National Service Life Insur ance policy will receive. But it was certain to be much less Sian the maximum of $528 paid in the first dividend. The money represents “profits” on the National Service Life In surance program under which servicemen are entitled to take out as much as $10,000 worth of gov ernment insurance. The policies can be converted when the holders return to civilian life, On the basis of the number of veterans' receiving payments and the total amount of money to be disbursed, the average payment would be about $85. But individu al payments could vary widely. In the first dividend, a surplus of $2,800,000,000 was available for distribution among 16^00,000 poli cy holders. It covered the period from 1950. when the NSLI law was passed, through the anniver sary date dPpolicies, in 1948. The new dividend will take up where the first one left off and cover through the anniversary date of policies this year. Anyone who took out a policy before 1951 and hold It in force for three months or longer dur ing 1948, 1949 and'1950 will be eligible. _ This time, it will not be neces sary for policyholders to apply for the forthcoming payment. VA au tomatically will send their checks to the last address on its records. -o In the 227-year-old Beaufort, N. C.. cemetery is the grave of a pre-Revolutionary English army officer, who, while dying, request ed that he be buried in his uni form with all accoutrements and that his coffin be placed ip an upright position. •--o—;— There were only 37 work atop-r ages in North Carolina due to labor-management disagreement in the 1949-50 biennium. They in volved less than % of 1 per cent of work hours lost from this cause ■in the entire United Spates. OUR DEMOCRACY—-W**, ABRAHAM LINCOLN Here ivas a man to Rof6 against tRe loorfS A man to rrcatcix ike mountains an£ ike sea "The color of fcRe ground ums in Rim, iRe re& eartR., TRe smacR ani tang of eletnentaf tilings Anb loRen ke feff In iukirfunn£, lie u>ent boton. As when a forofy ceiar, green urifcR houghs, * Goes &oton toitk a great skoul upon tRe Riffs Ani (eaves a (onesome pface against tRe sicy, ---—-£PW1N MAKKHAM The world’s record striped bass (rockfish) was landed in the Al bermarle Sound near Edenton, N. C., in* 1890. It was a 125Hpounder taken in a net. I * ■ . V ' . Improved methods helped North Carolina farmers produce 81,955, 090 bushels of corn in 1950 on the same acreage that grew 77, 525,000 bushels in 1949. Legislative Summary I NOTE: This is another of a series ~f weekly suinznarks of the work of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1951. It is confined to discussions of matters of general interest anu r. ...or importance. With tihe opening bf a new cal endar month some-stock-taking is in-order. The number of bills in troduced this session is 28 short of the comparable 1949 figure. The General irrtnressicr. that members cf the 1951 legislature have been more interested in public measures than in tnending loc§l fences has some statistical backing. At ■ this po!nt in 1949 local bills represent ed 40% of the total; this time They acc-unt for only 27% of the introductions. While no one. public bill this year is as controversial as the secondary road bond bill of 1949, there are more bills pos .io^.j.more. .indiy,idMal.» Pf* significance. Appropriations. ; ■ Since the General Assembly has decided hot to 'intervene in the construction of the State Pair coli seum; it can concentrate its at tention on the general appropria tions picture which is still fair from clear The appropriations committees have moved from the $450 million biennial budget bill to hearing requests from state agencies for reinstatement of funds not approved) by the makers of that bill, requests which totaled over $14 million inj the first three hearings. Prominent among the proposals still to Icome are those for additional funds for public schools by the State Board of Edu cation and for $10 million to sup plement 1949 perrpanent improve ments appropriations, both sup ported by the governor in his budget message. Other demands, embodied in legis'ation. such as those proposed by the United For ces for Education this week (see below), will probably swell the total during the next 3 weeks be fore the committees, with public to the job of deciding who is to get how much. Public Schools On Wednesday each «lved 7 bills carrying appropriation to*** the program of the United rL for Education. If passed ■ ^ would call for a salary $2400-$3600 for A-araL k cate holders and °an scale for other teachers a™ ministrative personnel Te v would be hired for an adS month’s work ih which to w for school opening anirnsf--'^ to make out final rop;.-£*' teacher load* figured on\e daily attendance, would V* duced from 32 to 30 pupils teachers would have lo days mulatlve sick -leave Wr • -Principals would be able to* clerical assistance. Local could, hire mote attendance cers, and more new school n, . could be 4*w^aserf;«rfirftj^ bills over to the appropriate committee, the Senate eduatJ committee recommended that ^ legislature write no pay sd ih .the. law but- leave the Board of Education to fix safe on the basis of appropriate', funds. Based on estimates of > State Board of Education, the w.' posal for a $2400-$3600 gT Scale would cost, about $30 mills, more for the biennium than 4 amount already recommended'• salaries by the Advisory ! Commission. -o State Taxation Twenty-three legislative j ago Governor Scott suggested eif nUnaMOh .Of r sales... tax exerrntic and reinstatement of a theail gross reciipts tax to raise the million he feels should be soer.f beyond the Aiopropriafions Biii'j list. While bills to authorize , expenditures—proposed bv fcl governor have not been wanting] no bill to raise any new imp! has been introduced. 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