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Editorial and Opinion Potomac Fever ' • Senator Richard Brevard Russell. Georgia Democrat, had been built up bv his party's dissident Dixie division as the South's white hope in the forthcoming election I he good Russell h^d gone so far as to take upon himself the mantle of Senator Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia, and Governor Jam es F. Bvrnes, of South Carolina, two of the most partisan y Southern men in present day political life. Now, however, the Georgia Senator has succumbed completely to a bad case of Potomac Fever, and has let his sponsors down with a bang. When Byrd, Byrnes, Hoey, Smith and other like-minded Southern politicoes boomed Russell as the Democratic Presi dential nominee, they knew that the Georgian had no chance of actually being nominated by the Fair Deal—packed Demo cratic convention. They knew that Americans for Democratic Action, the CIO and AFL, the National Association tor the Advancement of' Colored People, and other organizations, would never accept an avowedly States Rights Southerner as the party’s standard bearer in the forthcoming Presidential election. Russell was merely a stalking horse, a bargaining point, and a. rallying cause. * In his early campaign utterances, Russell was forthright in his opposition to FEPC, and attendant civil rights measures, sponsored by the HumphreyT.wing wing of the party. He stood adamantly by his decision to refuse to run on a platform which included the civil rights stand of the 1948 program. Up until that time it would seem that Russell was playing bis stalking horse role to the hilt. He was being an honest. Southerner, blustering about his opposition to Humphreyiz ed civil rights legislation. But just as he was all set, and Byrd and Byrnes were en joying some hearty anti-Truman chuckles, Potomac Fever bit Russell. He decided he wanted to actually be President. One of the most easily recognized symptoms of Potomac Fever is an early delirium on the part of the patient that he actually has a good chance of being nominated and elected President. About the time of his battle with Senator Kefauv er for Florida’s delegates, Russell went into his period of de lirium, and announced that he, and only he, was a sure win ner against either Taft or Eisenhower. In one of his briefly lucid periods the Senator realized that he had to take a leaf from Kefauver’s book, and say that while he personally was against all the civil rights proposals,' he’d stand -on them, if the Fair Deal Convention wrote them into the platform. When the GOP nominated Eisenhower and the Demo crats got more jittery, Russell and the South’s bargaining pos ition got still stronger but Russell’s fever really struck at this point. He decided Taft-Hartley, the bane of big labor, had to go. This struck consternation into the ratiks of the South land’s stalwarts as well as among sympathizers elsewhere. Political doubletalk never quite covered the breach; The South’s best bargaining agent in years had fallen victim of Potomac fever. r.i>. It subsequent events in the convention |ust begin ning as this is being written make'the foregoing slightly on the inaccurate side, we ll make our apologies now. We doubt that they will. 3 How Cheap Can Talk Get While Administration .yes-men battle for a .“strong" civil lights plank in the Democratic platform, the steel strike con tinues to spread its creeping paralysis over the nation. More than a million workers in other industries are vic tims of layoffs due to lack of steel. The 600,000 strikers have thusfar lost an estimated $37,000,000 in pay. Hundreds of mil lions of dollars worth of consumer products, automobiles, trucks, tractors, farm equipment, home appliances and counr * less other needed items have been lost. The loss in defense ma terial is a military secret, and will probably j^ever be known. Twelve percent of the industry is now producingTorp ortly the most urgent military needs/Thousands of tons of foods, .es pecially fruits, will rot for lack of steel to make cans. And every day the strike continues, it is estimated the U.S. Trea sury loses $3,000,000 in income taxes. We mention the steel strike in connection with the civil rights battle, since, for more than a month the closed-shop has been the only point of disagreement between steel manage ment and the union .Thus the sole question is whether or not a man has a right to work in a steel mill without paying union dues. President Philip Murray, of the. United Steelworkers, says he can’t. And in refusing to employ the Taft-Hartley Act, which gives the workers a secret ballot on which to say whe ther tlicy wish to return to work, President Truman puts him self in Murray’s corner. ^ The steel impasse may have begun as a strike, but it is 1 rapidly assjrfming the far laid off, against the Americn people and their sons who are fighting in Korea and manning the ramparts of Europe. This, in the “land of the free and the home of the brave”, while the President’s stooges yammer about ‘‘civil rights” in Chicago! r THE NEWS of Orange County . V ' Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. Edwin J. Hamlin.Editor and Publisher Community Representatives_Miss Elizabeth Kirkland, New Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. Curtis Nickles, Cedar Grove; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Mrs. W. H. Fogleman, Chapel Hill; Miss Dot Cooke, Orange Grove; Mrs. Mirinda McPherson, Hillsboro Negro Community. SUBSCRIPTION RATES * Months (in North Carolina) X Year (outside North Carolian) .. 9 Months (outside North Carolina) Entered.at Second Class Matter $1.5C $2.50 $2.00 Office at Hillsboro, N. C. PRESS COMMENT Put Out Your Bait, Merchants Told (Tom Davis in The Johnstonian* Sun) County business men suffering from usual “sumfner slumps” are sitting on this excuse and watch ing business, cash business, go to larger towns. Store owners re port sales are off this month and “until the market opens”. The ma jority are accepting this and do ing nothing about it. Some are us ing this time to make improve ments within their stores and planning fall promoions to attract customers. (Real business may be dead in Johnston County, tout it is not in Raleigh, Durham, Goldsboro and other nearby towns. A look at any daily paper from these shopping areas will indicate that the mer chants there are doing everything they can to attract business. Sales and promotion are bringing cash customers. Sales indicate that July will foe a better month than las year. What works for others will work for local stores. Customers will not come and buy unless an effort is made to get them. A fish won’t bite an unbaited hook. —--o Bible Comment Pure Heart Does More Than Resist Evil To the wise men among the ancient Hebrews the heart was' not only the center of man’s phy sical being, but it symbolized also the center and source of his moral and spiritual life. He thought not only with his mind, but with his heart. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” “Search the heart, for out of it are the issues of life.” Purity of heart, therefore, be came the supreme condition of a good and wholesome life, as much as .pure blood is the condition of a healthy body. One can live with a diseased body," for a time at least, just as one can live with a diseased soul, but the seeds of destruction are there. And the conditions and demands of good moral health are as imperative as are the conditions and demands of good health for the body. What does it mean to be pure in heart? The common tendency ’i-S to think of “purity” chiefly, if not altogether, in terms of sex; but purity of heart means a great deal more-1.than—-avoidance-.of- -what Saint Peter has called the “Fleshly continued on page 7 But Actions vounr _ f * "*" i Are you getting tired of running the cultivator and wielding the hoe to your garden in a losing battle with weeds and grass? Why not use a mulch? It is surprising how few garden ers make use of mulches as an aid in the, conservation of moisture and the control of weeds. A mulch may be any material such as hay, straw, strawy manure, leaves, leaf mold, peat, sawdust, pine straw, or paper which can be put down on the ground around plants for the purpose of conserving moisture during the hot, dry, summer weather. At the same time it will keep down most of the weeds. I recently read of one garden er who collected all the card board boxes he could get at the stares, flattened them out, and put them on the ground around his plants as a mulch- -and the results were excellent. Many vegetables, flowers, small fruits, and shrubs are good sub jects for mulching. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers may - be mulched.with- straw, leaves or paper. Azaleas, camel lias, and blueberries which desire / Kentucky whiskey A BLEND 16 PROOF *70# GRAIN NEUTRAL SPHUTS •CHINIIY DISTILLERS INCORPORATED . lOlMSVIUE. KENTUCKY an acid soil may be mulched with sawdust, leaf mold, or peat. Red raspberries, dewberries and grapes may be mulched' with straw or strawy manure. In all the cases the mulch should be applied after the soil has been well moistened by rain or irrigation. If fertilizer is nec essary it also should be applied before the mulch is laid down. continued from page 6 NOTES • • Th€ four-lane highr way being constructed between Raleigh and Durham stops abrupt ly at the Wake-Durham line. Rea son: Funds in the Durham high way district have been exhausted in the Scott Farm projects. John Marshall, private secretary to .Governor until going with J. A. Jones Construction Co,, is a new irtemfber of the State Personnel Council. 'He was appointed toy Scott last Friday, Ho hum. OVER BACKWARD? .... Criticism' of the State 'Board of Public Welfare is sometimes heard because of its failure to grant this individual and that organization a license to solicit funds on the street or from various firms and ipeople. You would be surprised at the number of street (beggars who have left a reasonable living and a set tled home supported by relatives or County welfare offices to go in search of alms from strangers. They are required toy law to have licenses. ^ The State welfare people are sometimes accused of leaning over backward in their eagerness to protect the public from schemers. However, each case is thoroughly examined'—and now and then some of those organizations regarded as most deserving are turned down. HOME . . . Take Father Flana gan’s Boys’ Home at (Boys’ Town, Nebraska, for example the home makes no TOpon, public as to its finance J* relate to income or ex * Dr. Ellen Winston feels u • entitled to solicit funds JL public in North Carolina the home’s superintendent ed' Dr. Winston that no w licitations would Ibe made State until clearance had* BfY MAUL . . . Despite this, ever, solicitations arebeinj by mail for this lar plant, according to Dr ton, whose office reports “Because of tlis ■persistent violation of Caroliha law, even after the ten assurance of is officials solicitations in this state cease, the State Boa id of Welfare has made invest! its assets. It has been as that Father Flanagan’s Home owns a luarge plant h an approximate value of $] 000. In addition, there is as dowment fund totaling about 000,000 known as the “Fater agan’s Boys’ Foundation which is set up in a separate poration for the Home’s Personally, we have been ty foolish for Boys Town sin ing the movie several years We like them, hope and than! are doing wonderful work, welfare work is moving from tirnent toward the hard reaia reality. You Are Cordially Invited To Attend The Bank of Chapel Hill i July 25th 7:30 to 10:00 See The New Modern And Expanded Facilities Which Will Make Possible A -round Service OFFICERS Clyde Eubanks President W. E. Thompson Executive Vice President Collier Cobb, Jr. Vice President J- T. Gobbel Cashier W. R. Cherry Assistant Cashier DIRECTORS D, D. Carroll Collier Cobb, Jr_ _ E. B. Crawford Clyde Eubanks R* B. Fitch Roland McClamroch C. W. Stanford W. E. Thompson I he recently completed expansion program of Chapel Hill will make your banking easitj a')f Jettei than ever. Improvements and additions elude more floor space and tellers windows, addition3 'au r anci safety deposits storage, more modern oh ;!1 nie,,t fomplete air-conditioning and increased oiiKt’ spatt o> private consultations. You are invited ; n e, new ^ remodeled offices during the Open Kelreshments will be served. TheB CMKl HILL
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