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Editorial And Opinion The Parade Passes By A new industry employing 150 men with an annual pay roll of $350,000 and costing $300,000 does these things, ac cording to 1947 figures of the State Department of Conserva tion and Development: It means sales and service for 400 cars, a 10-room schoolhouse, a dozen stores, a taxable valuation of over $1,000,000, public improvements, $120,000 annually for railroads, opportunity for 18 professional men, an annual ex penditure in trade of $2,000,000, yearly markets for $800,000 in farm products, and the support of 1,50b people. Yesterday’s daily newspaper reported , the acquisition of another new industry for nearby Durham to employ 100 peo ple. Came the same day a release from the State News Bureau telling of at least 20 new plants planned or under constructioh and at least a half dozen others who are announcing large expansions. It’s going on all around us, this tremendous movement and expansion of industry. Yet, leaders in this community are content to sit quietly while the parade passes by., In this field of getting new business and new industry, the old adage “where there is a will, there’s a way” is as applicable as in any other. Some work and some initiative as‘usual will pay dividends. ' T The Good Will Suffer Representative John Umstead’s discussion of the legisla ture’s foul-smelling secrecy action on another page of this newspaper is an explanation of his vote for the bill, but not a justification. The action, the ill-considered vote of his and of the overwhelming majority of the Assembly, was indefen sible and will remain a blot on North Carolina long after the law itself has been repealed. Which it most surely will be in due time. Our concern is not that a few reporters by this legislation action were kept from hearing the deliberation in connection with the spending of your tax money in the next two years. It is the plain evidence of mass contempt for the people’s rights which concerns us most—the sight of a legislativetbody elected to control the destinies of four million North Carolin ians riding roughshod over tradition and scorning courtesies which even the lowliest citizen heretofore has been accus tomed to receive. When the State press leadership re quested a public hearing, something usually granted to any citizenr-a-ruthless-speaker of the-TH^use completety~ i^Trored their telegram; when pressed said he received it too late, al though it was common knowledge it was ,iil his hands a good while before the final vote. Every parliamentary block was hurdled and good taste and common courtesy were violated by a legislative body bent on eliminating what it thought was “a nuisance,” the right of the people to know what its elected officials are doing and why they* are doing it. Any argument that how a representative votes is all the public ‘‘needs to know” is so much hogwash. NoHv, wfjat pf the future? Nattfrally, the act will be repeal ed. If not by this Legislature, then by another. That much is inevitable. But what of the proposed bond issues for schools and mental institutions which the Governor and the legisla tive majority which has bent over backward to obey his will seem to want approved by the people. No doubt the people will remember the contemptious pushing around at the hands of the Legislature and the reaction to any request for money will likely be iriet with suspicion. The idea remains that the only possible reason for a secret session is to hide something. Even if that something is basical ly good how can the people know. The hider will always be suspect and in the end the good will suffer. What is our community doing fomits Teen-Agers? Is there any" effort on the part of the community to assist the public schools in their effort to lead our youth along the right paths, guide their footsteps toward the type of adulthood that makes for the kind of citizenry we visualize as ideal? The question is not put facetiously. In a short time now, public schools will be dismissing for the long vacation and children will be pestering parents for something to do, some place to go. We ask the same question. What is the answer? The responsibility for meeting the recreational needs falls not with a single group; the church, the civic club, or like organizations. This responsibility is without question, that of the community. A community Planning Council, organized to coordinate all of the resources available, put them to use under competent leadership and planning, and pointing to a useful, instructional, as well aS recreational program for our youth is the answer. Recently a philanthropic minded gentleman left a con siderable sum to a nearby community. What finer use could be made of a very minor amount of this bequest than to pro vide a public swimming pool for its youth? Limiting provis ions of the will may not permit this, however, unless overrul ed by the. courts. . It it too much to expect, that a fine community area such as we have, cannot find an answer to this thorny problem 6f providing ample recreational opportunities, and facilities for our most precious resource. '' tWieJ^etog of (Grange Count? Published, Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. EDWIN J. HAMLIN--- Editor and Publisher JENNETTE MILLER —,— -1-Women’s Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina)__$2.00 SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina) __$1.50 ONE YEAR (outside North Carolina) __ $2.50 SIX MONTHS (outside.North Carolina) __$2.00 - ..mu,' ..■—I-....— * ■ ..; — .. Entered, as Second'Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES A Chicago A Detroit * Philadelphia (Continued, from page 1) in an article in Saturday morn* ling’s paper, Craven said, and we quote: “She' has light brown hair and long legs. There was doubtless some doubt in the Craven mind about his •leggy describtion, for in the very next paragraph he wrote: “Lieu tenant Governor Luther Hodges and Mrs. Hodges were among thp special questions at Orton.” Any other questions before we turn this program back over to the chairman? BABY SISTERS . . . Nell Bat tle Lewis, in her fine column in Raleigh’s morning daily, wrote once upon a time something to the effect that the .gremlins which slip into one’s writing have their birth in some hidden desire or thought' in the subconscious mind. That’s why we have a sneaking suspicion there was some question in Craven’s subcon scious about his saying Alexis Smith has long legs. Maybe an old maid aunt away back there told Charlie to say limbs, or something. This-brings to mind a little ar ticle we saw last week in one of the State papers—and we forget which one, sorry to say—in which a reporter was writing about some Presbyterian gathering. We were just heading along half-interest edly; you know, letting one word follow another, when we noted that parents were urged to bring their children. That was all right, fine, but then the reporter added as a bright inducement, an extra come-on: “Baby sisters will be provided.” A pretty*’ comeoff! We read it again. That’s what it said. Of course, the ^porter meant to say baby-sitters would be provided. But, to follow Miss Lewis and some of the other amateur and professional psychologists, the boy or girl who wrote the Pres byterian church notice wanted a baby sister. Could have been, we told ourself, the reporter was real young and wanted his parents to have a little girl, a baby sister, around the house. But we frankly lean to the thought that the writer was a young married person whose children had been male—one lit old ugly boy after another, de spite all efforts to the contrary— and the old subconscious was hard at work* hence the creeper, “baby sisters”. HEAVENLY PEAS . . . Errors of this nature are not confined to adults. This past Christmas our little boy * learned a few words of “Silent Night”. There is tricky wordage in that song, and “ ’round f yon virgin” gave him a hard time. IBut “sleep in heavenly peace” he could never get right. With him, it was always: “Sleep in heavenly peas!” i We literally wallowed in heav enly peas at our house through* out Christmas and well into Jan nary. Whether the offspring meant garden or the old field .variety, we have never been able to figure out. HEAVENLY BODIES . . . Does anybody, but anybody, want to carry Lynn Nisbet, who writes in. Raleigh for the afternoon papers of the State? If he had weighed 100 pounds instead of about twice that (and solid as a rock) last week, all that trouble be tween Legislature and press might not have come to a head. It Was like this: In the subcom mitte meeting, they decided to go into executive session to dis cuss budget matters in a way so informal that it was felt it would be for the best of all concerned if the public wasn’t looking over their shoulders. The press was re quested to retire. Lynn at this point replied he would not leave and if they wanted to get rid of him they wotild have to carry him bodily. One or two others voiced similar sentiments. Senate Chairman Copeland said he just didn’t feel up to carrying any body out. Since the members of the spb coriimittee didn’t want to do any toting, and the reporters wouldn’t depart under their own steam, a ^ showdown was inevitable. The next day the Legislature struck that body blow. Away From It All A & LittJePublicized The Presbytery Viewpoint By Taul D. Hastings of Reidsville In view of so many things hav ing been written and published in the papers by individuals who evidently did not have all the facts in the“ Chapel Hill church affair, and since many of these articles attacked the motives and honesty of the Judicial Commis sion of the Orange Presbytery it self, it seems to be in order to bring some'basic facts And a bird’s eye picture of the whole situation to the general public at this time. It has taken great restraint on the -.part ^f the-eommissien and~of the leaders of the Presbytery, I am sure, not to answer these articles, as they could see that they were written by individuals who evi dently didn’t have too many of the facts and are ignorant of the true issues involved. Except for a few official state ments of the Commission as to their actions, the rest of the pub licity has come from the officers and members of the Chapel Hill Church and have had a decidedly slanted view of the matter. One article in the paper said, “that they wanted the public to be the judge of their case.” The ques tion should be asked: When has the general public ever been the judge in deciding the strictly pri vate affairs of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.? No church settles its affairs before the public and in the newspapers. Each church hasdts own form of church gov ernment under which it operates and runs the affairs of that par ticular denomination. For in stance, if a case like this happens in the Methodist Church, under its form of government the bishop cduld have quietly moved Rev. Charlie Jones to some other field no explanation would have been expected or given to Rev. Jones, the Chapel Hill church, or to the public. Orange Presbytery is do ing this the Presbyterian way, under its form of church govern ment and according to its Book of Church Order. The group of Chapel Hill ministers and the * newspaper editors who have call ed for a public airing of this af fair are completely out of order and have entered into an affair that is none of their business. A very important fact that should be kept in mind is this: The Chapel Hill situation is not a local one but affects every Presbyterian Church in the Synod of North Carolina, which sup ports the student work there, and because it should be the church home for the boys and girls from every Presbyterian Church in the General Assembly that are at tending college at the University of North Carolina: For years the members of the Presbyterian churches over the 'fenfire Assem bly have read in the papers about radical groups meeting in the Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, as well as hearing reports of its leadership and programs which has tended to destroy con fidence in the church and its work .From my own local church, and I am sure that it is not an exception, there are students at iChapel Hill whose parents refuse to let them attend the Presby terian Church there, or else they are not attending on their own accord. If an actual count was made of the Presbyterian students at the University of North Caro lina, I believe that you would find more of them in churches of other ^denominations than in the Pres byterian Church. No one but the leaders of Or ange Presbytery knows of the love, patience and consideration that has been shown to the pastor, officers and congregation of the 'Chapel Hill Church for many years. -When the Presbytery finally sent a Judicial Commission into the “Chapel Hill church to make a study of the church, and his study was made public to the Presbytery, it was plainly seen that the reputation which the 'Chapel Hill church had gained over the Presbyterian Church-at large was based upon facts and not idle gossip. Many have asked why the Commission has not made formal charges against Rev. Charlie Jones and the officers of the church. All the charges neces sary to remove any Presbyterian minister and group of officers are contained in the study report of the church which the Commission made to the Presbytery. At the very first, in the light of these facts, -the Commission saw that in order for it to fulfill its duties and responsibilities, there was no other course but to recommend to both the pastor and the officers of the church to resign, and they did this. This is not an unusual procedure for a Judicial Commis sion to take. At the present time there are other local churches in our Assembly where the pastor has moved to another field, the Commission removed all the offic ers, and the church has been with out pastor or officers, and under the care of a Judicial Commission, for the past year..This is the Pres byterian way of taking care of. cases like this. In this one church that I am speaking of, the charges ■were not nearly as serious as1 /those against the Chapel Hill pastor and officers. Listen to these charges brought out in the Commissio report to the Presbytery: "Unb tizgd persons were received ii the church on a profession faith without being baptized.’ “Some of the officers indical that, in their opinion, this sac ment was administered of not cording to the individual des of the candidate. In any eve when administered, the sacrami has been administered before 1 session in a private meeting, a not before. the congregatio This is serious, not only in i failure toy baptize these perse ■according to the requirement our confession of faith and Be of Church Order, but it is p hups even more serious in thal shows the little importance wh the sacrament of baptism has what it is a symbok of in 1 Christian faith, in the think] and life of the Rev. Charlie Joi and the officers of that church “The session does not ask 1 questions as outlined and reqi ed in the Book of Church Ord of persons received into 1 church. Sometimes the individi is asked if he will accept Jesus JUS life’s guide. At other tin the general program and inter of the church may be simply 0 lined.” According this statement, 1 procedure of joining the Cb'ai iHill Presbyterian Church v somewhat like that of joining Civic club or country club. I our denomination insists that dear awareness of sin is nec sary, together with, a sense Continued on Page 6 1 The Rambler. ■By Marjorie Bond and Charlotte Adam As I rode around the County a few weeks ago, the dogwood was n’t out enough to make any whiteness in the wobds, and yet I saw many snowy patches in the clearings where the covers were still secure over the plant beds. By then the tobacco farmers had no doubt already figured out how many acres they were going to plant, this year, since the cut ih tobacco acreage was an old story. But rambling through some books on colonial history in our library last week, I wondered if many North Carolina tobacco growers remembered how long it’s been since crop reduction was first tried as an answer to the low prices of oversupply. It was almost 30 years ago, and then—as now—the cut was made because farmers were rais ing more than they could sell, ex cept at a loss. This started up in Virginia, at Jamestown, in 1662. There was already a regulation that no tobacco plants could be set out in the fields after July 10 but the crop was evidently still too large for the market, and -in 1662 the Virginia Assembly suggested that no planting should be done after the last day of June if the people in Maryland would agree to stop planting at the same date. Maryland agreed, but the farm ers there were evidently unable to forget that if Virginia was planting less, perhaps they should - plant a little more, or at least just as much as ever. Then if thg Virginia crop should fail or if the buyers should happen to want more tobacco than had been expected, Maryland planters would be ready with a large crop. ~A» a-result the crop of the~two - colonies was much too large for the market. It had to be sold icheap, and the planters ended in debt. Then the Colonial Governor and Council of Virginia protested to the King that the people of (Maryland were not obeying the restrictions they’d agreed- to. T^iese days people keep with in the limits of their tobacco allot ment, or pay a fine. But it is not unheard of for a tobacco farmer to try setting hil little closer in the^ , haps to make his ro*!' closer together, hop* 1 some way to grow as he can on the acreage J lowed. Human nature tl too different from what three hundred years ago “ WfSKJohn Ro1^, hush the celebrated Indian Pocahontas, who in m? tobacco as a big money. Virginia, and from there u horth into Maryland » south. Before that, En, had been buying golden their pipes from m •Spain, and Virginia’s Z onists were looking for Silver or trying to find se else of value they could set home in England so they buy the things they needed Polfe, experimenting ^ from the Indies, succeei growing a leaf as pieas, mild as that from the Colonies, the people in town became tobacco overnight. Here was jtt they needed—a money ei could send back home. Men started planting y wherever they could find that had been cleared, and tor to Jamestown wrote that the streets of the town had given over to the crop. To the tiny colony from stanj became necessary to reap man to plant two acres of for every acre of tobacco! out. This was the start of the sj that spread through the tol and cotton South—the systi Which a man would put a 'work into a staple cash mp so long ago we could stj people living this way on the 'Without enough to eat be they raised no vegetables, hi milk cow or otbpr livestock even a flock of chickens for Today tobacco is again ii (news, and since in recent] North Carolina has been i more tobacco than has any state, we’re all concerns whatever happens in the toi (Continued on Paget) WHITE! ■*> 6-1 1 WWW BUIBS
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