Editorial And Opinion
Congressional Pay Hike
The best comment we have yet seen on the recent pro
posal of a commission to raise senatorial and congressional
salaries by some eighty-five per cent is the suggestion that
those lawmakers who feel that they need more money resign
from the Senate or House-and go into business on their own.
There is nd compulsion keeping any man in the House or
Senate, and if members of either body wish to resign their
offices, they are free to do so at all times.
We do not attempt to treat this matter lightly, but we
do believe that some of the lawmakers would find, if they re
signed and went into business for themselves, that making
something over*$15,000 a year is not as easy as they might as
sume.
The sad part of the situation is that, like other editors
have pointed out, a majority of the Senators and Congress
men are usually more concerned with getting reelected than
they are in doing a good job for their country. These pub
lic servants are not entitled to an eighty-five per cent pay in
crease at this time, and we suspect they will not vote them
selves such a pay hike.
Dogwood Planting Week
Orange County has many beautiful gardens with a large
variety of flowering plants and trees but if local citizens
would heed the call issued recently by Governor William B.
Umstead the beauty of the county would Be enhanced even
more. •
Governor dJmstead designated a recent week as Dogwood
Planting Week in North Carolina and called upon the State’s
citizens to give their full support to the project.
_The governor paid tribute to members of the Gar^eh
Club of North Carolina for “their initiative and zeal in pro
moting plantings of the dogwood tree” and noted that the
dogwood has a “senic value when in bloom.” The dogwood
was made the state’s official flower by act of the 1941 General
Assembly. '
Orange County could be made a much more beautiful
county in which to live if more citizens would take time to
plant one or more dogwood trees
Education Local Responsibility
A worried parent recently wrote Mrs. Oveta Culp Hob
by, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, expressing
deep concern over community apathy toward lopal school
'problems, especially those^f ^.budgetary nature. In an elec
tion involving desperately ri'eetfe® school taxes, the writer ob
served that, “There were 72 votes cast in our box—in contrast
to the several thousand votes cast during the last presidential
election. And ours is a neighborhood of young marrieds.”
Mrs. Hobby, a federal officer, was then asked to do something
abtuit the situation.
't'he.answer to a.plea of this kind should be painfully
clear. Local initiative, local responsibility and local pride are
things that cannot be established by fiat nor bought with fed
eral njoney. Turning to the federal governfnent to.solve local*
problems is a deadly process for people who value freedom.
It is suicidal in the case of education.
As Mrs. Hobby warns, “Our public schools began in our
local communities, they must stay there. . . . the Federal
Government must not interfere in educational matters which
rightly belong to the local and State authorities.”
Brotherhood—Let's Get Together
Getting together is an old American custom. It’s natural
for 11s to want to hear what the other fellow has on his mind.
Time was when the town meeting brought forth the
folks to talk together and many.a vital issue was solved around
the country store cracker barrel and pot-bellied stove. And
who can tell how many valuable contributions to public wel
fare came from a quilting bee? *
Well, time passes and settings change. • How can we today
in our society get together to build brotherhood and good
will? Let’s start in the home.
The National Conference of Christians and Jews sug
gests good will home gatherings to start this week which is be
ing observed over the nation as Brotherhood Week — with
friends and neighbors coming together to share a social ex
- perience that will advance human understanding. Here’ are
a few ways that people of different backgrounds can get to
gether to share a social experience that will advance human
understanding. Here are a few ways that people of different
backgrounds can get together to make for happier living in
the same apartment, building,, block or neighborhood*
1. Brotherhood through food — have a “Taste What’s
cooking in Your Neighbof’s Kitchen ’ party where the food
customs of nationalities, other than your own can be intro
duced. Each guest can be asked to prepare a family dish that
lias its origin in a country other than America.
2. Brqtherhood through books — invite friends to hear
an interesting book review on a subject of concern to the
group
g. Brotherhood through music — present a program of
recordings of distinctive music of various groups.
1. Brotherhood through talk — share common problems
and planning projects in the community for the benefit of
all groups.
The greatness of any community is in the rich variety
have developed the American genius.
During Brotherhood Week we take time to reassert our
belief in the values of our common humanity, and our un
common individuality.
One of the best ways we can each contribute to this re
newal of faith in the American way is by getting together
with our friends and neighbors, fellow workers and strangers,
and enjoy a fellowship possible where people are free, a fel
lowship that transcends race, creed or national origin.
®()e Jletos of (Grange Count?
Published Every Thursday By
THE NEWS, INCORPORATED
Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N, C.
EDWIN J HAMT.TN -Editor and Publisher
Entered as Second Glass Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro,
North Carolina, under the Act ef March 3, 1879.
(Continued from page 1)
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another pea in the po<J. He’s a
character, dares to be different,
and likes to cut a shine.
SCOTT FIRST. . .Some other
State officials and some aspir
ants to State positions could be
come more popular If they would
be more individualistic. They are
afraid to be different, are lazily
content to be merely e pluribus
unum. Scott never lets himself
disappear in the crowd. He has
never been taken into the inner'
councils of'the Democratic Party
in North Carolina. Why? Mainly
because it was felt—either right
ly or wrongly—that he put Scott
first and the Democratic Party
second. Well, if so, he is not the
first man so built; nor will he
be the last.
. THE GAME.— Once upon 4 •
time there was a football team
that had no passing attack. It was
on good authority their best pass,
er threw like a washer-woman.
In games, every time they tried
to pass, the ball fell incomplete
or was intercepted. That was bad
enough, but the team had no de
fense against opposition passes.
They were always whipped by
passes—short passes, rainbows,
wobblers, and bullets — they all
clicked.
However, the coach of this
team was smart. He knew his
boys were good on the ground.
Didn’t the sportswriters refer to
his outfit as the Juggernault, so
mercilessly did it roll over its
foes? But still they couldn’t win.
Those passes, you know.
Hethought and he thought.
Finally, he came up with what
seemed to him as the smartest
idea of a lifetime. He was so ex
cited he could hardly sleep. Five
days before the next gamer he
called up the coach of the oppo-,
sition team. -
Know what the plan was?. It
was, friends that there woyld be
no passes. Ground rules, sort of,
would be set up, don’t you know,
with neither team throwing, the
ball ary time. Well, friends, there
was silence of the knife-cutting
variety on the other end of the
line. What do you think the other
coach thought of the plan?
» Frankly, we don’t know either,
but here is the baseball version
of the story as presented on the
editorial page of the Greensboro
Daily News last Saturday:
“By adopting the. . .‘code of
ethics for political campaigns’ W.
Kerr Scott says by inference he
is playing field this year instead
of batting as l^e was in 194&
“While- approving the ‘high
level’ campaign approach adopt
ed by the squire of Haw River,
the Daily News hastens to point
out that the move has great po
litical astuteness. Whereas Char
lie Johnson and his faction had
the entrenched position in 1948,
Kerr Scott’s record is on the fir
ing line this year. As. a political
unknown, Alton Lennon has a
scanty^ record for his opponent
to shoot at. What better strategy
could the Scott forces adopt than
to emphasize the high road. . .”
And so forth. Yes, the records,
the issues, should be brought in
to the ojJen. If the linen is dirty,
then- the people should know a
bout it. There has been too much
of this glossing-over business al
ready. If the citizens had done a
little more digging, a bit more
probing, a little less painting-ov
er, we would be free of some of
the
Let the record speak. If it must
speak filth, dirt, then so be it.
Dipping a skunk in whitewash
makes him smell none the better.
A rotten plank is made no
stronger by coating it with paint.
Lennon has 25 years of public
life behind, with Scott about 35.
Each has a record. What is it?
There are issues in the campaign.
What are they?
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Garden Time
-Robert Schmidt ^
The time is getting short for
transplanting fruit trees and
shrubs and rose bushes, especial
ly in the eastern part of the
state. All transplanting of bare
rooted plants should be done be
fore the buds on those plants be
gin to swell and- become active.
It doesn’t matter so much about
plants^ with a ball of earth at
tached to the roots—that is, ball
ed and burlapped. Also, 'trees
and shrubs set at this time tff the
year may require additional wa
tering during the early growing
season if rainfall is deficient or
the weather is hot.
Dig a hole wide enough to ac
commodate the entire root sys
tem without crowding and deep
enough so the plant may be set
as deep or slightly deeper than
it was in the nursery. (Azaleas
and Camellias must not be set
any deeper in trensplanting than
they were before. Deep planthJg
will kill them.) *■
When digging the hole, sepa
rate the top soil from the sub
soil and fill in around the roots
With topsoil, which is usually
richer than subsoil. Pack the soil
firmly around the toots and then
fill the hole, leaving a slight de
pression for watering and to
catch rainfall. Use no fertilizer
or fresh manure in the hole
which might damage the roots.
Any fertilizer should be applied
on top and stirred into the soil
about the time that growth in
the spring. '
Pruning at transplanting time
will depend on the amount of
root surface that has been lost
in the operation — that is, the
greater the less of roots, the*
more severely must the top be
prunded in order to secure a
“balance” between roots and
top. Fruit trees and deciduous
shrubs are generally pruned
quite severely.
If you intend to order your
trees and shrubs from out-of
town nursery, make your selec
tions and send the order off at
once—it takes time to get them.
And, as I have suggested, time
is getting short.
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