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Editorial And Opinion ___:_____ i — Behold: New Golden Calf ' There’s scarcely a sensible observer of the 1952 gen eral campaign who will deny that Ike’s smile, the one that seems sometimes to be permanently engraved on his vis age, was ? big gimmick in the G. O. P. win that year. Ike’s coattails gave a lot of rides. ; ’ . In preparation for the upcoming campaign for Con gress, the so.called “Citizens For Eisenhower” are going in to action again. They will trundle out an “Eisenhower band wagon”—a huge red, white, and blue trailerTtruck, Stocked with buttons, literature, and beautiful local girls—and they expect it to cover some 50,000 miles during the campaign. Newest breath of the stunt will be a song that will be piped off the truck: “Ike! Ike! We like Ike! We love the sunshine of your smile, the sunshine in your eyes.” Looks like Republicans purpose to ride into Congress astride the biggest thing since the Golden Calf. ' , Polio Bills Piling Up Every housewife who keeps a budget knows'you can bor row "from one item to pay another. The milkman can wait if the refrigerator repairman has to be paid immediately. , That’s what the March of Dimes is doing now to meet polio bills. Patient aid funds at National Headquarters are exhausted. Chapters needing money across the country are receiving token payments “borrowed” from funds com mitted to- research and. education. . Many of the -3,100 chapters have more polio expenses than they can pay and are doing the same. They are ask ing hospitals to hold up their bills until after Aug. ,31, By then they hope the money will be there to pay these bills. Because—beginning Aug. 16^-a' nationwide Emergency March of’Dimes will be conducted for at least $20,000,000 to meet emergency polio bills. Polio cases began to mount early this year. Each new person who needed aid was one more added to the 67,000 patients from previous years who still needed help in .1954. In' addition to these- “must” expenses, the March of Dimes is financing a new and expensive program this year —polio prevention. It is costing $26,500,000 to supply gam ma globulin for1 temporary immunity and to finance the field studies of a trial polio vaccine. ~ Whether you deal, in a few dollars or in millions, the budget is.£just the* same. If you borrow from the milkman you have*to pay him back. . During the Emergency March of Dimes you can help rescue the oplfo treasury from a $20,000,000 budget squeeze. Please give. ", Promises Gone With The Wind: The fluctuations in Republican farm policy that pro duced the new parity rates draw a long parabola from Con vention to present. At convention time. Republican orators fired big, hot statements about the “wastefulfness’’ of the Democrats’ farm policy. Around their own campfires, the .. jGOR Jbtoasted. qliiow they would “change all thart-.ffp-"*5 But when the 1952 campaign" began they had to move out and look farmers in the eye. The pitch of their talk changed. Now they had the fatuousness of the Harding Coolidge-Hoover hocus-pocus about “normalcy” staring at them. They had little choice, if they were to win, but to en dorse a farm policy that had been in effect since they had. last inhabited the White House. At Kassoh, Minn., at the National Plowing Contest, President Eisenhower banged^ the shells of the Old Guard with talk of “100 per cent par ity.” Before the Brookings, S. D. speech, Eisenhower hand ed out advance mimeograph statements that read: “The Republican Party is pledged to the sustaining of the 90 per cent .parity price support and it is pledged even more than that to helping the farmer obtain his full par ity, 100 per cent parity,” 100 per cent parity, with the guar antee in the price supports, of 90.” , The seeds of falsehood were sown. Congress reaped the fruit when it passed flexible 82 to 90 per cent of parity price-support program. The inconsistencies' and the-diminu ation pf farm enthusiasm required little investigation to be pointed out. , * ' In a democratic, electoral system of government, in consistencies may be expected as concomittants with cam paign promises. This fact is not good, but it is true: We delude ourselves when we do not prepare our expectations for some inconsistency. But such -twisting incongruity be tween words at’d deeds as is illustrated by new Admintra tion farm policy is hardly to be borne. Republicans who want now to woo farm voters will do well to take stock of the inconsistency. The damage is done now, but the voters were warned by Adlai Stevenson at Fort Dodge, Iowa, when he said: “When I practiced law we looked for jokers in a contract. In the Republican farm platform it is not a question of finding the loopholes in the contract. It is a question of finding a contract in the loop contract we have gotten? i)ctus of ©range Count? ive National Advertising Representative ORCATER WEEKLIES Philadelphia /V Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. Editor and SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina) SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina) ONE YEAR (ontside North Carolina) Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro; Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. as (Continued from Page 1) ■ In that State, Joseph Meek of the Illinois Retail Association is ^ taking on Senator Paul Douglas. Douglas is among the most liber al of senators. He is a former college professor. He is a stu dent, a Wilsonesque scholar. He will have the all-out support of Adlai Stevenson and of much of the independent farm group, labor, and the Democratic Party. Meek, younger than Douglas, has received — belatedly and a little unexpectedly—the support of President Eisenhower, whom he has frequently attacked as being liberal nad one-worldish. Meek has the backing of the Chi cago .Tribune. Since he is on* of the founders of the Illinois mer chants outfit, he will no doubt - Have the rank and file support of' business, both little and big. A win for Meek will be a defi nite slap-in-the-face for Steven son and the liberSl wing of the Democratic Party. If Douglas should win, he will rank right along with Adlai Stevenson as Mr. Democrat. As of now the (natch looks pretty evenly drawn. But Meek is scared—otherwise • he would not have called in Eisen hower for speeches. There is a great deal of unemployment in Chicago. ^ And that s why—as democrats prepare for heavy worj^nd look around for a full time assistant (at $7,500 per year) they are also looking hard at Illinois, home'of Adlai Steven'son. . ..>. \ IF HE WERE . . Remark re-, cently overheard tn a disgruntled Republican senator’s office ft) Washington: “Yes; it’s just like we said back in ’51. JEverythjnj would bp all right if Eisenhower Were just President." ABOUT TATUM . . . Maryland’s Big Jim Tatum has received some bad national publicity since the ragged showing of his Col lege All-Stars against the pro fessionals a few days ago. If you will notice, please, it’s the first time in hisTIife (b our knowledge he hasn’t had a come back—some counter statement of some kind. You- have probably wondered why he hasn’t replied to the charges and criticisms. The important part of all this is that Jim.Tatum as coach of the Alf-Stars was confronted with cer tain circumstances over which he had no control. He prubably knew1 what the trouble was and where it lay, but he could do nothing about it. He can’t refer to it now without doing harm to the college kids who participated in the game. So the talk goes on. Some of the sportswriters are tearing old Jim apart. The sports commen tators on the radio were after him before the game hr.»s half over. Coaches joined in the at tack; But> year in and year out, he will be in there laying around sound thrashings on those who are yelping the loudest against him. The Atlantic Coast Confer ences new commissioner, Jim Weaver, has been opposed to the All-Star game from the begin ning. He says the advantages are all on the side of the professionals. He believes the game works to the detriment of the colleges and their athletic programs. 3 down at kure Pier introduced the sale of five shrimp last week as additional lure to kure. They were going rather slowly the mid dle of last week at a dollar a dozen as against about 90 cents per pound for their dead cousins. If fish are biting, Kure is all right. If not, no place is all right. It is entirely possible in August, fishing from the pier—at Kure or anywhere else—to fish all day with mullet, live shrimp, dead shrimp, or what-have-you, without catvhing more than one or two fish. This is from the "voice of experience. " | --! J. L. Poole, Efland, Winfred Shambley, Buckhom, 0. A. Lloyd, Carrboro, and Don Matheson and Cn H, Johrfson, HiUsboro, ate get DOUBLE JACK Pro^ress^andJProblems^ Increased Dollars, Decreased Effort (This is the second of a series of editorials on wt and problems of education in North Carolina which first in the magazine, North Carolina Education, edited by Abrams.) : pi uyi eaa , appeared W. Amos ft < i r\n c a 1 O This second editorial in our proposed series purports to do two things: (1) To call atten tion to the increased financial support North Carolina has giv-^ en to its public schools; (2) To call attention to the fact that along with our increase in dol lars there has been a decrease in effort. We believe the facts herein contained should give cause for just- pride, yet, at the same time,' should awaken us from any lulling apathy. In recent years encouraging financial progress has been ours. The following figures taken from the annual audits of the State Board of Education and fromi the appropriations es timates in The State Budget, 1953-1955 affirm the willingness of North Carolinians to support their public schools. These fig-_ ures represent expenditures from the State Nine Months School Fund. Actual Expenditures 1947-1948 I. $ 60,5)98,108.92 Anti-Litter Campaign Serves Major Need Editor The News of Orange County Hillsboro, Orange County North' Carolina * Dear Sir: ^ The growing volume of litter along America's streets and high ways, in its parks and on its beaches, concerns everyone who takes pride in the appearance of his community. What was a minor nuisance only a few years ago has become a major problem. Here and there individual citi zens or groups have undertaken to combat the litter problem lo cally. In some areas, notably Cali fornia, this. activity has assumed state-wide proportions. A few na tianal organisations—among them the National Council of State Gar ' den Clubs, -for which I am privi leged to speak as president have recognized - the seriousness of the situation and hive urged that anti-litter activities be. In corporated ih the action programs' of their member groups at state and local levels. (' ■ ■ ; . . The public interest in. these independent efforts indicates a widespread, desire for ■ an anti litter pl.an that can be applied to the entire nation. "It is most encouraging, there fore, to find that a group of the nation’s foremost industrial lead ers not only share our concern but have taken an aggressive step toward the elimination of litter from the American scene. ‘ 1 refer to the recent organiza tion announcement of Keep Amer ica Beautiful, Inc., a non-profit corporation established for the express purpose-of combating lit ter. For the benefit of those of your readers who may not know of this new organization I would like to explain that it, represents citizen groups to cope with the litter problem on a national basis. Its program has three principal objectives: 1. To create a public awareness of litter and of the individual’s responsibility for it. 2. To stimulate widespread pub lic participation in clearing up existing litter. a joint effort Garden Time ^~J?obert Schmidt in mu vegtiauic garden now is the time to practice sanitation— a thorough clean-up of all plants which have matured their crop and are through for the season. For example, beans, melons, cu cumbers, summer squash, and others. If these old plants are allowed to remain they will carry over many iftSect pests and diseases into next season. They may be plowed under or composted with a little manure and soil. iThis will take care of the pests, and at-the same time? supply much needed organic ..matter for the garden. Just because plants are. through producing for the season, it is a mistake to let them remain, to become a breeding place for in sects and diseases which will give you trouble next year. In eastern and central North Carolina there is still time to plant such crops as turnips, must ard, spinach, Chinese cabbage, cabbage (plants), collard (plartts), broccoli (plants), beets, srnap beans, kohlrabi, kale, shallots, onion sets, leaf lettuce, and rad ishes. In the flower garden this is a good time to plant seed pf spring and early summer blooming per ennials. If these seed are planted now in flats, coldframes, or well planted as soon as they are large enough to handle, they will bloom next year. If you plant the seeds In the spring most of these plants ’ will not bloom until the -follow * m "Well, well, if U ten’t Mr. Peerta —busily wig»H[ ** ***lng **?" mMINNI iiNjNbftfJSilt ■ .^}0t mg year. Also, September is a good time to plant seed of pansies and the • wipter annuals such as annual larkspur, annual phlox, shirley poppies, and cornfolwer. . A Wellspring Of Faith It is not enough for us to repudiate, as we do, the.a theism of orthodox Com munism. It is not enough for us to- reject, as We do, a philosophy of material ism. .. Men how believe that un der God they belong to one family must be more inter ested in abolishing the ex ploitation of man by man and of establishing a class less society than any Com munist can possibly be. Together we reject once and for all those theories that command us to con form or die, and that ar ragantly affirm that dis sent is treason and devia ... ^ (The Churches) ' must make it plain that the Christian demand for just ice does riot come from Karl Marx. It comes from Jesus Christ and the He brew prophets. We must bear in as good spirit as we can the stupid ities of some current criti cism. ..TheTettre those a mong us who will soon de clare that Moses must have studied Marx. We are out for peace. We do not intend to allow spur ious and even sinster ap peals fpr peace to discredit this sacred word, nor to de ter us^ from our resolve to establish .law and order ip the earth. — Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam to the * WorM 3. To prevent future Inter by a combination of education, public opinion and law enforcement. Industry iss contributing gen erously, not only in financial sup port but from its technological resources and ingenuity, to insure sucess of the program. More than 30 national organizations, includ ing my own, have accepted the responsibility -of representation on an Advisory Council to work with the industrial leaders w|io constitute the directorate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc. They, and we, recognize the necessity, fgr the widest possible public knowledge and under standing of the aims and plans of our new organization. We frankly want to attract to our ranks an increasing number of those who take' pride in their homes and their communities and who, because of .that pride,'will want 4o be a part of Keep Amcf ica Beautiful. Very truly yours, Mrs. William J. Walters President, National Council, of State Gar *.' ~ den Clubs - 1940-1JW -rV—-- ' 1949- 1950 82,030,262.79 1950- 1951 , - 92,248,468 07 1951- 1952 , , 104^854,305^ 1952- 1953 111,280,052.21 i Estimated Expenditures 1953- 1954 t. $114,958,174 1954- 1955 116,524,364 ATlnual percentage - wise in creases also1 show 'that North Carolina has been movihg for ward each' year in its expendi tures from the Nine Months School Fund. Percentage Increase over > Previous Year 1947- 1948 . 16.71% 1948- 1949 . 17.49% , 1949- 1950 - 15,21% 1950- 1951 12.46% 1951- 1952 13.68% 1952- 1953 6.13% 1953- 1954 ..— 2.43% 1954- 1955 1.38% Thus, from 1947-1948, ^hen we spent $60,598,108.72 from the Nine Month School Fund, we will reach an estimated ex penditure of $116,524,364 , in 1954-1955. Let hoonethere fore, that our past General As semblies have not increased by millions of dollars our state support' Tor ptrttlh?' schools. We call this ^Progress with a capi tal P! ■ Out of- all'fairness, however, it shpultf Ke pointed out that though we have increased the amount of these expenditures,, we have decreased our efforts as measured by the percentage from the Nine Months School Fund in relation to _ the total current expenditures from the General Fund. In 1947-1948, for instance, total General Fund current expenditures were $92, 018,238 Of these expenditures, $60,598,108.92 went to support the Nine Months School Fund. In other words, and to express it percentage -wise, in 19474948 we expended for the Nine Months School Fund 85.85 per cent of the total General Fund current expenditures. “These figures for subsequent years will show the decreased effort: Ybar^ General f un;!* Expendi ture, Percentage Going to Nina Months School Fund. 1948- 1949 $107,229,323 66.39% 1949- 1950 133,610,601 61.39% 1950- 1951 147,763,332 62.42% 1951- 1952 163,655,897 64.06% 1952- 1953 188,062027 1953- 1954 191,303367. 1954- 1955 194,586,11#. The purpose of this is to present the figu~ all, a five per cent di effort between the l#f ennium and the 1953.1,^, nlum may seem small to ’ 'of our readers. Had the cent support been mail for the 1053-1955 t Jiowever, the estimated expenditures for the Months School Fund w $250,828,165 instead of 482,538. In short, the ed effort for the_ ennium alone wilhacost the I Months School Fund,} 627. This decreased) moreover, has occurred a period of greatly L state income, ever-ad' cost of living, and school enrollment. * •! The Land Of Ora “Fertilizing my pond cle; up remarkably,” said E. W. his acre, pond near Qrym> last week. “It was mnddy road runoff water, antniad moss in it. I put in 300 lh fertilizer and in a few water had a clear bluish the moss hfld disappeared,1 Troy Andrews is pf|pi three-acre pond for the ii of vegetables on his farm Calvander. Bob and Jess Hensley, Grove, are planning to use steep land as a pond site1 tend the range of their t irrigation system next y4r Sam Dark, Cedar Grove a survey made for a water pond last week. IN Ray Griffin planned a soi| water conservation system farm west of Hillsboro last A capability map showing the| erosion, slope and soil 1 was furnished by the Neuse I Soil Conservation District. Alex Hamlet, Carr, A D sher, Mebane, and Ira Miller | well, received theyr son and t conservation plans last week plans are based on the uie of| acre of their land according I capability for safe, Iong-term| duction. back-to-school NATIONALLY ADVERTISED ADVERTISED # J Weather^ shoes, for boys and girls Sk Greater values all ways... ecorifeinj cally priced. Anvil Brand Dungarees 11-oz. Denim, Western Style / 6 to 12_ $2.60 • 14 to 16 $3.00 Youth's __$3.25 TWILL PANTS _ ___ __ $2.95 SHIRTS, LONG AND SHORT SLEEVE Manes underwear
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