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Editorial And Opinion Pageant Needs Your Support Unless more support and interest in Orange County’s forthcoming Bi-Centennial pageant is shown by a whole lot more people almost immediately, that vehicle which is sup posed to be the major attraction of the six-day celebration is going to fall flat on its proverbial nose. The projected production is a tremendous undertaking, requiring the cooperation of several hundred people, includ ing at least 100 in the cast, if it is to be successful and credi table to the county. People of all ages and all skills are need » ed. Every reasonable effort has beeen made to secure county wide cooperation buj with little success. A few people in Hillsboro who turned out as a gesture of cooperation have accepted roles, but the cooperation and spirit of competition which might have insured greater success has been lacking. A few people have pleaded and cajoled, but the spark thus far has been missing. Chapel Hill and Carrboro citizenry, by and large, has shown little interest in this phase of the Bi Centennial and rural residents likewise have revealed an ap athy that is discouraging. It’s getting late. So, it’s time now for everybody to pitch in and, as they say, get this show on the road. Honest Have Nothing To Fear Orange County’s current tax revaluation program being carried out by a professional firm under terms of a $45,000 two-year contract has drawn fire from some sources, been ac cepted gracefully by others, and earned the praise of still oth ers. Anything chat is likely to raise the taxes of some people will be unpopular with.that group. This newspaper has insisted before that equality of val ues as a tax principle is unassailable- If there are taxation in equalities throughout Orange County, as officials insist and can prove, then a revaluation such as we are now having is the only sure way of correcting them. Recent experience in Alamance County has strength ened this belief. During the past several months a special inventory com mittee Headed by a county commissioner and containing city tax officials have been poring through the taxlisting books and looking for inequalities listed by various stores and bus iness houses in Burlington. If a listing look too low, they would follow up by contacting the owner or operator, asking him to raise his inventory to a point'in line with the true , facts- Results were startling. One wholesale and retail store which was on the tax books with a $3,500 inventory, increas ed its listing to $48,750,50 Another store, whose original in ventory listing was $350 raised its listings to $7,589.97. And so it went down the line*, until an increase of over $400,000 in inventory valuation had been obtained from these chise lers in one town alone. Many i«ms were found never to have listed inventories at all Practically everyone hates to pay taxes, but as long as V*e have them to pay it is up to eaich one'to pay only his fair share. The county commissioners, who are the taxing agents for the county, owe it to the people and firms that give a fair listing and pay what amounts to more than their justified amount of taxes to equalize the load. The honest man should not be penalized to support the chiseler. What the situation in Orange County with regard to in ventories is now unknown. However, it is an even bet that something of the same situation exists in this county, human nature being what it is. The current revaluation is designed to correct this, as well as all the other inequalities that have crept in‘ under the voluntary system heretofore followed. The honest man has nothing to fear from revaluation. It is the chiseler who is not pulling his fair share of the load who will be hit. Rock Bottom ; are.gurgling, slightly, over a piece in THE STAR, of Port St. Joe, Florida, about a young lady who is goingto college at Tallahassee, and who is now doing her home-work for her master s degree in journalism at the State University. She has found out already that weekly editors (in Flor ida, that is) are writing editorials that their readers can’t un derstand. In her study, Miss Ruth Peeling has peeled the hide off 17 out of twenty editors in the,, state for writing pieces that she says are beyond the mental capacity of half the population of their respective counties. We are told that Her findings are strictly scientific and are deduced “statistically by using a mathematical formula”. But what’s even worse, we suspect that Miss* Peeling may have discovered another mathematical formula by which to write editorials as well as to judge them! At any rate, she goes on to say that editorials can be made more readable by aim ing them at the type of audience who will read them. We should use short sentences and simple words, she says. There shouldn’t be any non-essentials, but there should be some PLunctuation. While she didn’t specifically say so, we presume they should also be in the English language. We have heard that college professors require young people to go through considerable travail to obtain a degree. This effort is known in educational circles as a "thesis” and corresponds roughly, we take k, with the hazing meted out to less privileged youths when attacking that bottom rung oh the work-a-day ladder. purposes, Miss Peeling could saved a lot of shoe-leather and midnight oil had she ever heard or read the terse advice of a great authority on persua lve writing, the late William Mears, who said: “Lay the fodder on the ground, where the giraffe and -the jackass can both reach it. _ tEJjeJIetog of (Grange Countp Published Every Thursday By THrNEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill. N. C. EDWIN J. HAMLIN....Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Class Matter at thelPos^Ofjice at Hillsboro, ■ North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES Wnr Tort: A Chicago ★ Detroit ★ Philadelphia w together. Somebody’s imagina tion became overactive. The rumor was born. Well, it so happens that Wil liams had a little interest in the Scott-owned Smith-Melville Dair ies. Ralph and Jim were selling out to Long Meadow of Durham and wanted to talk to their old friend about it. They walked down the street, had lunch, en gaged in quiet business talk, and missed Scott Headquarters head lines by inched the following day. IN THE GROOVE — The more conservative Democrats in Jhe State were walking around with lifted eyebrows last week at statements being made by Sen. Alton A Lennon in his appea rances about the State. He was talking like a liberal Democrat a regular, right down the line with Adlai Stevenson and the Democratic platform. As one old-liner put it: “That fellow Lennon seems to be gett ing liberaler and liberaler.” Some of the late Willis Smith’s old friends were muttering in thejjt beards, looking off in the forest, and there was some in dication Sen. Lennon might lose an important segment of his office staff in Washington. ADVISORS — Nobody knows for sure just who is advising young Lennon. He’s a strong headed fellow and may be striking out on his own. Never theless, there is some slight in dication that the man who ap-7 pointed him might be calling a signal here and there. You know, last year the folks arbitrarily placed W B. Um stead in the conservative camp, with the liberal element follow ing Hubert Olive. We do those' things sometimes without rhyme or reason. Now people will tell you that Olive’s .political philo- * sophy is much more conserva tive than that of the Governor. If Lennon goes on the way he is moving now he will be as liberal as Kerr Scott by Primary time. HOEY PLUGGING SCOTT? — Whether he meant to or not, nobody will ever know, but Senator -Clyde R. -Hoey in his speech" to the FCX gathering here last week threw in a few sentences which could be re garded as an out-and-out en dorsement of W. Kerr Scott for, the U. S. Senate. Rolling along in typical Hoey fashion, the words just flowing, Senator Clyde talked about the U. S. Senate and Agriculture. He hinted that the Senate needs men strong for Agriculture. He referred to the losses farmers have sustained through the death defeat, or resignation of men like Senators Borah, Norris, Cotton Ed Smith, Capper, Bank head — all giants in their time ’ — end now 'terribly they are . missed in the halls of the con-’ gress. If Kerr Scott actually files as * candidate for the U. S. Sen ate, mark my word: You will hear that thought expressed over and over again — in very tell ing fashion. TEAM? L. R. Fisher, who lost his job as commissioner of Motor Vehicles, has not lost .his sense of humor. He hasn’t found a job yet; and someone asked him last week what he was going to do. Fisher solemnly replied that he thought he and v Walter Anderson would form an evangelistic team and hit ' the sawdust trail. # ^ F: S- Anderson is ala© looking _ for .a job. Fisher was joking, but nobody would be surprised if Anderson actually did enter the ministry. COACH CARNEGIE — Most People don’t realize it, but Southern Conference rules and regulations, and these also apply to thc-vgew Atlantic Coast Con ference?\fix it so that member schools can only offer a pro mising athlete so much induce ment to come enter their school and play for them. The ceiling is definitely set and limited. This fixes it so that getting an athlete enrolled comes down to a flat game of selling. The coach who is the better sales man is the guy who gets the cream. I was taking to one of the leading coaches a few days ago. ( Signs Of Life Garden Time -Robert Schmidt With the coming of the fall season we, begin to think of lawins and lawn grasses both for temporary winter lawns and for permanent ones. In most of North Carolina the I-all months-. §re the best time of the year to build permanent lawns because the young grasses get a chance to become well established be fore next summer’s heat and dry weather.^ If you are interested in building a new lawn this fall you should write to the N. C. Agricultural Extension .Division for John Harris’s bulletin on “Carolina Lawns”. I should like to say a few words here about winter lawns. Most established lawns in this state are of Bermuda grass, crab grass, Dallis grass, "bluegfasS or We came to the conclusion that a football coach should know football, but he should also take courses in English grammar, salesmanship,7 phychology, pub lic speaking and carry in his pocket at all times a copy of Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” a mixture or these and others. All except bluegrass will turn brown at the first hard frost. With the mild winters that we 'are blessed with oyer most -of ; the state it is very desirable to keep our lawns green the year around. This is made possi ble by sowing Italian ryegrass in the established sod during late September or early October If-your permanent sod is heavy it may require five pounds of1 ryegrass seed per -1,000 square feet of lawn. If the sod is not heavy, two to three pounds per 1,000 square feet should be suf ficient. Italian ryegrass is an annual and will die out next June. By that time the perma nent grasses should take over again. Since bluegrass remains fairly green in winter it is not recommended that ryegrass be planted in a good" ■ bluegrass l$wn. The .spring growth of rye grass is cyften very heavy and may kill out the bluegrass. In order to give a good dark green color to the ryegrass it should be fertilized before planting. About two . pounds of a. 5-10-5 By Marjorie Bond and Charlotte A few days ago I was looking at several books describing early North Carolina and came across an interesting account of this part of the country written a bout fifty years before the date which saw the beginning of Or ange County. This was John Lawson’s record of the trip he made early in 1701 along the Great Trading Path, which was the highway of the Indians. This path came northward from South Carolina up to what is now Salisbury, turned east and northeast to what is now Meb ane, kept on eastward again to what is wno Hillsboro, and then went on bearing into Virginia. Lawson’s description of the country is a lively one. When I finished reading it I realized how clearly the local Indians left their mark upon the land in some of the names we see a round us—the river Haw, Oc coneechee, Eno, and so on.' Moving north, Lawson and a companion made their way “ov er very good Land, but full of Free-Stone and Marble, which pinched' our Feet severely,” to the banks of a “delicious rapid Stream” which they crossed with some difficulty. This, he said, was “the famous Hau-River . . . called Hau-River from the Sissip ahau Indians, who dwell upon this stream.” Passing through country which “was so delight ful that it gave us a great deal of Satisfaction,” the travellers soon found themselves among the Occoneechee Indians, who had a village on the Eno River near the spot where Hillsboro now stands. “About Three a Clock we reached the Town, and the Indians presently brought us good fat Bear, and Venison, which was very acceptable at that time. Their Cabins were hung with a good sort of Tapes try, as fat Bear, and barbacued or dried Venison; no Indians having greater Plenty, of* Provi sions than these. The savages do indeed, still possess the Flower of Carolina, the English enjoy ing only the Fag-end of that fine Country. We had not been in the Town two Hours when E i ijoe Wil} name into the King’s Cabin, whibh was our Quarters. We asked him ifhe would con duct us to the English, and what he would have for his Pains; he or other good garden fertilizer per 100 square feet of lawn should give good results. n t come across ant his Indian name Will, was one oft^X most agreeable er 1 m<* with in antal ing always ready to' J English, not out of <3 real Affection; whkpB him apprehensive of eoned by some wickenK and therefore very e, Jf me, to promise to Death, if it should so 31 brought some of his3 into his Cabin, and t»o*K having a Drum, sumwB we lay in Bed, and 3 their Music to sermSi welcome us to their iZB though at last, we lei M yet they continued thA cert till Morning." TheH lers set out with Eno iB wards Adshusheer, aloifM which was very roa&B stony way made ml quite lame,” wrote yl “so that 1 was an Hovil behind the rest; but hmnB would not leave me, but jB welcome to his Hms :B us with hot Bread andlfl Oil, which is wholesomB for Travelers.” One day they went J path where stood “a grezB about the Size of a large (I and hollow; this the Inin great Notice of, puttiaf ■ Tobacco into the Concent™ spitting after it. I asked the Reason of their so don they made me no Answd'B met two “Tuskeruro" 'M who told Eno Will that ■ English to whom he w| were very wicked People; That they threatened the ans for Hunting nfcar thar totions... .Their Stories dd an Old Indian and. his &» (See Rambler, Paje J) MODEL COMPARISONS SHOW CfMvro/ai a « ™U* Omb'* The lowest priced truck line of oil! You get more truck ... you pay less money/ No other truck offers you all the advanced features, the ruggedness and economy you get in Chevrolet Advance Design trucks. Yet they’re America’s low est priced truck line/ You’ll save on operation and upkeep* Chevrolet Advance-Design trucks are built to haul your loads for less! Two great * b«.Mrad.>, te0| <£JS ^ »!■« you buy , while you drive it ’ ' jOU re m°ney ahead when }£ 22 you're ahead agaii rolet Advanee-Dji^^^^^eChev conunand a higher ^8SC^1^aditionally until ,| you get out “ it will cost Chevr„tds^ for your nee® save on th J much yo» trade-in. Buy " HilUboro, N. C
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