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Why.Unanswered Flic mani;f for speed on the highways lias cost three more lives in the Alatnance-Cirahge border area. Two of the drivers were apparent victims of th'eir own'efforts, the third; Hillsr boro Contractor Math dr Howerton, apparently Hied the innocent vie tint of another's iresponsibility. Mather Howerton, according to those who knew him well, was invariably the moderate, careful driver. He re mained so to the end, but ibis was not enough to save him from the dire threat to life and limb-which tra\died the highways early Monday morning and which just as likely mav be stalking you on your next trip to work, to pla\. to wot ship or to shop- 4 Witnesses said, Howerton’s assailant was c. .ceiling down tiie highway at terrific speed and on t1jc wrong side. An un verified report said a passenger had left him in Mebane a few minutes earlier because he couldn't take the man s driv ing any longer. Why was he speeding' Win did he value his own and the life of fellow travellers. human beings he could not know, so c heaply? Wiiat 'fostered the mania for speed whic h brought . tills tragedy? " , Flic search for lile.savTiig answers in the generation's most pcrplexiiig riddle offers tlie challenge of our time. Let's Find Out I hi.N country lias spent millions trying-.to import people svlio don't want to tome here-AW-have spent still more mill ions importing people we don't want here. Our methods ol testing liteiae\. health and the immigrant's aptitude lor Amer ican citizenship are archaic.,. We make a Cursory effort to screen out the c riminal sand the insane. but we haven’t the foggiest notion if the next German, Irishman. Italian or Swtfdtppill make a good citizen of this country—or of any »ha^ w^.mfghr,baveJjuid a hand it) ^tHling min. We don't really know what effect immigration has tin savings!*labor's wages or the rise and fall of national incomes. \W don’t know what bearing immigration has on our foreign investments—or on foreign investments in the I'S. For all we know, we may he in the ironic position of having’ pumped untold billions into the rebuilding of Kuropean industry, and at the s<<me time .siphoned off from Furope the skilled labor essential to this undertaking. These ate a few of the faults, questions and doubts raised it) a special report on immigration just published by George Washington Cruversity. Its.shocking revelations indic ate clear* that Congress is moe to be pitied than censured il its struggle Kith immigration legislation appears to be an ellort u> ^j|p vertxthe famed,..melting jmu into a mixing howl. Few tu H oi Congress are so subject to pressure groups, special interest?, geopolitical do-gooders and a sprinkling of bleeding-hearts join forces t.o produce measmes that conlound and confuse have been used in ihe^p ist, jt makes a strong c;re. affirm vttve h. lot the need of intensive fact-finding. It offers impressive evident v that it's high time these awful gaps in knowledge in filled. After all, immigration involves the movement of the most important commodity’in international trade—humarl beings. " * v . Vfhe Congress not onlv deserves this fac t-finding support, fait hurst liavc“ rtdiabl'e .infomatrott .'before; itnm eftart"tf**K ional course through the immigration sargasso. |om force everyone *"•***-* ’-*#• ■r * ■■0 Bigger Minutes To Save With the approac h of the semi-annual dock-juggling season, it bc&comes more'and more Com plica ted—to, know what time it is. ' - And it reminds ns too. that in America an hour is prob ably' more, important than -anywhere else in the world. An hour consists of sixty lull minutes, and looking hack, we are somewhat ama/edat what has happened to the minpte in our own lifetime. , •> As a point oT reiejreiiu& we might take the year icjotj when America s hest-ktuftyn minute-minder, Big Beil, first appeared i>n the scene. You could then drive a horseless cat lia^e hall a mile in one minute—if you could lind a ^oml road for your ‘ .scorching". You cotdd earn a-eem-a-mimuc, if you were a highly skilled worker in one of the better-paid crafts. A minute tvas what von were asked to wait at the nick elodeon every time the film broke. And expectant fathers found a minute just as long then as it is now. Ol course, there wasn't much a housewife could do with « minute. She couldn't whip up a take, or sweep a room or even get the tubs read\( to do a washing. She could crank up the phonograph in that time—but she didn’t'There, were no extra minutes to "set" and listen, and no one went off to the next room and left such a device running. : One tiling, at least, has not changed in that nearly haff vetuury of furious progress. We still say to one another dur ing arguments? "Wait a minute." And even though today's Big lien is right there to tick it off for us—we still keep right on talking, r But don’t forget to turn it ahead (Ho of them) at bedtime on Sunday, the 2<)th. • —M "I 1 ■' , ■■■■ .. ■ ifjbe of ©range Count? Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED m Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. EDWIN J. HAMLIN -"-~—__ Editor and Publisher hntfrfd as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at hulsboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. o Exclusive National Advertising Representative v GREATER WEEKLIES New York * Chicago. A Detroit * Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina) _____-_$2.50 SIXklONTHS (inside North Carolina) __" $1.75 ONE YEAR (outside North Carolina)_. * ’ . $3.00 Bump.... hi. KIDD BREWER'S (Continued from Page 1) - April 1. I never have caught a channel bass—but specialize on spots, blues, and what is known as Vir ginia mullet or whiting. My son. (Tommy and I went down to Car olina Beach the last wfeek of Oc tober and caught—between Fri day night at 8 o’clock and Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock — ap proximately 80 pounds of fish, mostly spots. After we’had been on the pier , for about two hours, I saw I was faced with a decision: whether to spenjl my time fishing or cleaning '’fish. Fortunately, we found a fine little colored bOy who wanted lo make some money cleaning fish. In all, I paid that boy $9 45 for cleaning fish that weekend. My left arm was sore for a week from pulling *’em in. FOR THE NEIGHBORS . Some <»f my pier companions— and there seemed to be about 500 of them that particular weekend —gently chided me for not mak ing the neighbors to whom I had promised great quantities of fish clean them. My reply was that the neigh bors would love me a little more if I took them fresh fis-h from the Atlantic—if the fish 1 took them were cleaned ... and ready for. the pan. “In this day of prepared foods, each neighbor would thank me to my iace, but curse me a lit tle once the door was closed, if I took him fish he had to clean— and a lot of these fine fish would never reach the skillet”, said Greenwood, and that's how we rode heavily back into Raleigh with about 80 pounds of clq^f fish ... the last of whij pte, and jriin'osf-as gpriai fejty’, bftty a few 1 ■ away about cleaned ■ P««ng \ to+i tomatoes. corji, and Kenlnt^ty Wifoder beans this summer. You can’t figure on fi£htr>^. It’s like- the old slot machines. Nay them often enough and yqsrtfc hit ontfe ip awhile—but mostly you" don't. With golf, it’s different., Thp ball, .^.js always there waiting foryotf. ’ r > " • My best luck with spring fish iwg- has* been .arpntvd. tpe middle of May—aj Atlantic Beach .... and that was several yeprs ago. Because the N. €. iMerchantsAs s.ociation usually has its conven tion the .third week 'in May**' this time on Monday and Tues day, May 21-22. in Winston-Salem —I don’t get to do much fishing until summertime. . -RUN AWAY” .. • I have three boys—and they worry me a’great, deal. It’s not that they annoy me—but that I’m haunted with the feeling that I don't spend enough time with them. One is going on 17—and is al ready rapidly slipping away from me. Tommy is 13^-and little John Decatur, the delight of liv ing, is three {“‘Daddy, I wanta talk to you a question”). In trying to keep in some sem blance of contact with 7,QOO members of our Association, I have to be away fr6m home a lot. And when I^dm home, it’s Sun day School teaching and prepar ing for, civic club duties, etc.," etc. We 1956 model fathers, in des perate efforts to provide money —and things money buys — for our children, sometimes* sacrifice tilings, which no amount of money can buy: companionship with Martin, Tommy, and John ny. . Bobby, Sue. Martha, Jane, Fl ank, Joe, George .... the chil dren. I read the, other day the story of a young man who stood at the bar of a court of justice to be sentenced’*’ fop forgery The judge had known him .from a child, for his father hacr been a famous legal light add his work on the ‘‘Law (if Trusts” was the most ex haustive work on the' subject in existence. •: ‘‘Do you reinember your fath er?” asked the ludge sternly, “that father whon^you have dis graced?” The prisoner answered: “I re member him perfectly., When 1 went to him for advice and-com panionship, he would l<5ok up • *’■ - 'And Yet We Are Short of Scientists' UOHG- C nvesn^T.0** gTC. A A Catalogue Catalogued The American housewife has known it for years. The farmer knows it. The beleaguered handyman husband knows it. At long last the United States .Government has formally recognized it. What’s “it”? Why, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue: that massive tome • of illustrations, catalogue numbers, and prices, that household by word and bookcase standby, that aid in. supplying the needs of the rural dweller as-well, as the city or suburban resident. The Library of Congress has finally evaluated this publication as a catalogue of the desires and tastes of a large part of the American public in everything from, covered wagons to ivory thimbles. The library has filed a complete set of the Sears, Roebuck catalogue (in microfilm), starting from the first edition in 1888. As we’ve said, for years the American housewife has known the value of such mail-order catalqgufs. She knew it in 1912 when she first bought silk stockings by tnail with the admonition, “Treat them carefully," hnd when pajamas were "for men only" in 1899 and got* few buyers: . «j> In 1953 the United States Overseas Information Administration was sending the Sears Catalogue to at least 63 foreign countries. Just last December mail-order catalogues had to be chained tp the tables in West Berlin while Germans crowded three and four deep to catch sight ;of the illustrations. An estimated 25 per cent of all the viewer* WASHINGTON X The 0}* gre-ss conipletefl action lasrt we^fc on the farm bill. J At* loi> ■&* ^wif^; s. During the Easter recess the Senate and House conferees had ‘wo?ked 16 iron mvWRffere*ee» ht the farm bill. V1 When their agreement was reach ed, the conference report had to be* acted, upon bjuhoth Houses.^ Action came fast and on the same day‘with the Senate and House passing the farm bill by substantia! margins.; The House acted in the afternoon, and we got a vote in, the Senate at 9:10 o'clock that night. As I had pre viously announced, my vote Was... cast for the farm bill. As this column is being Written, its fate now is in the hands of the Presi dent.. I understand that there is w ide disagreement in the Admin istration as to whether be should sign or veto the-bill- Fifteen M--. publican Senators voted for the bill. 11 • Watch Dog' Tile Senate rejected a proposal to set up a Congressional watch dog committee "to check, <yi the Central Inlelligence^gency. Sen ator Mansfield of Montana has •been leading the fight to get this action. I voted for the bill. Supreme Court , The U. S. Supreme Court has knocked out State laws by its act ion in the sedition case. I have been doing all that I can to call attention to the continued en croachment of the high tribunal on the states. This ruling has^ ..served to illustrate the dangers that lurk in the actions of the Supreme Court which tend to re duce the states to meaningless zeros in the body politic. ! expect to continue this fight, and 1 think those of us who have been in the minority on/this matter will now pick up considerable support from others following this ruling. Something must be done to halt thi^ headlong destruction of the rights Of the states. Busy Week My schedule last week was one of the most busy since I came to from his book on the Law pf Trusts, and say, ‘Run away, boy, Senate, Committee meetings are urgently requiring attend ance. Such as the investigation -i»to alleged icre^u4rit1i^.'i. in^to^ tfle procurement by tho' military serves.-There was the farm bill ■ and, other important legislation on the Senate fldor; the air in quiry suljconnmttee qf which I arn a ,member is getting under way \gith its hearings. My speak . ing 'epgagemenTs' were * for talks at the Women’s Democratic Cbm; mittee, Wake Forest, and the Ar . litigton, Virginia, Jefferson-Jack son Day Dinner. When the day is done and I am able to get to bed l wonder where all the hours have gone. The satisfaction comes'in know ing that one is a small part of the awful responsibility that faces legislators, 'and that whatever contribution is made toward the preservation of democracy and the rights of the individual makes the hard work and long hours pleasant. Chilly There were many folks from North Carolina in Washington to see the cherry blossoms. It was rainy and very cold. I felt sorry for those'who had left their top coats at home, beckuse it was cold enough to snow and did snow a little. INFLUENCE OF SILENCE The writer is situated ,in his time: each word has its rever berations, each silence too. I hol'd Flaubert and Goncourt re sponsible tor the repressions which followed the Commune, because they wrote not a sjpgle lini to prevent them. It may be said that it was none of their business: but was the case of Galas the business of Voltaire? the sentence on Dreyfus the business of Zola? the adminis tration of the Congo the busi ness of Gide? Each one of these writers, in some particular cir cumstance of his life, weighed up his responsibility as a writer. The occupation has taught us ours. Since by our very exis tence we Influence our time, we must decide thit this influence shall be deliberate. — Jean Paul Sartre; Garden Time Robert Schmidt It should be safe .bow to plant most warm season vegetable crops anywhere in the state east of the mountains,- Tomato, egg plant and pepper plants should be hardened before transplant ing to the field by withholding their water supply; that is, by keeping them on the dry side for a few days. Try some of the new bean varieties this year. Wade. Con tender and Seminole are excell ent varieties and they are-almost immune to mosaicT which some times reduces the yield %f Ten dergreen considerably. Improved Stringless Blue Lake is an ex cellent pole bean, especially good for canning and-freezing, and it is absolutely stringless. And then we have the popular Kentucky Wonder. It is time ta talk about sweet corn again. There are a few gardeners who still plant early varieties of field corn for roast ing ears because the ears are, farge and there are not many earworms. However, once you have given real sweet corn a fair trial you will not be satisfied with field corn. There is no'com parison in edible quality. Recom-. mended varieties for both fresh use and for freezing are Seneca Chief, Golden Cross Bantam, and loana. -Tbestt. ace■^a!l.-yellaiW:’ .va-,, rieties and are widely *a<!apte‘d. Corn is wind pollinated and therefore it is-.best to pl»nt in blocks of two to three rows rather than in a single row. Emphasis is still being put on icebox size watermelons. The New Hampshire Midget .variety which grows to the size of a. Balanced Representation e County Best I'lir t'niversity is o>i,■ 6} dim sit ml Orange County's greatest assets, as it is the • entire Stales■ A large s'egmeuj of our people are associated and depen- • deni upon- it. Its welfare, and that of Orange County as a whole, therefore . a re very elosely bed together, insepara ble . A .BALANCE Of REP REESES lA l'l()\ from Orange County to the leg islature is important, therefore, to the ' welfare af the Cniv'ersity, the county und all its people. * H nominated and.-elected as your Slate Senator, 1 will u-ork hard for the I’ntversity as for every other segment As « member of a / A LAS (.ED If AM representing a great county, the best interests of all will bembetier served., M EDWIN J. HAMLIN EDITOR * • BUSINESS MAN • CIVIC WORKER YOUR SUPPORT AND VOTE FOP mmmm:1 H A M L I N for State Senato y WILL BE APPRECIATED Tar Keel PEOPLE & ISSUES By CRff Blue IKE ■ When Eisenhower en tered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 1952 he was led to believe that he could almost have H on a silver platter which proved quite wrong. He had to'engage in an all-out campaign in which Ike and the late Senator Robert Taft slugged it out right down to the bitter end. Then he had to go through with the same thing in the cam paign with Adlai Stevenson. It was not easy sailing in the cam-_ paign fog either the nomination^ or the ejection. Now, four years later, Presi dent Eisenhower consented to run for a second term with prob ably the same thought in mind, that there Will be no fight for the nomination and that the fall campaign will be smooth sailing. That the President will JiaVei smooth sailing for the nomination goes without saying, but the 1956 fall eanpaign may well pull Ike in for considerable more person al campaigning than he planned, just as the 1952 nomination cam paign called for much more ac tivity on his own part than he anticipated when he got into the rce. Campaign managers and can didates get jittery before voting time and sometimes put on more steam than is necessary; and of course all they can put in, often times prove inadequate. DEMOCRATS . - If the Minne sota presidential primary showed that Stevenson was down, the Illinois primary showed just as conclusively that he is not out. The Florida and California pri maries will be of gi^at influence on thc<4 Stevenson candidacy. ★ * * PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES ... The writer*#! this column has. long advocated presidential pri maries as a method of determine the choice of the'voters of the State. One reason is that the states providing presidential pri maries, or primaries for the se lection of delegates seem to have cantaloupe has become quite popular in the home garden. Hills may be spaced as close as five feet apart. A fault of this variety is that it becomes over ripe very quickly. The best of them all, in my opinion, is the Japanese ' it' Hybrid Seedless melon. It will average from. 8 to .1% pounds, ,in weight . is, of„ excellent quality. There are sel-" dom more than a dozen mature seeds in a melon. The, res^ of the seeds are undeveloped and may be eaten with the jnfeldn. Seeds for planting are quite ex pensive this yeqfc,— from six to eight cents per seed—but the . results are worth it. a great deal more infhl, determing the president didates, or at least who ft not be than do the n states clinging to the co» system. v Look at New Hampttt nesota, Illinois, Flori* » fornia! Does anyone North Carolina sentime, have the effect in deter, the nominee for the ticket comparable to the tion given the decision, voters in these states? STATE SUPREME"j RULING ... In 1950 an ,| was held on»the question i and wine jn Moore Count, the vGters gave decisive i ties against the continued both Beer and wine The tion was held within 60 i another special election, ag trary to state law. He Judge R. Hoyle Sink rule the election could be hel ter it yas held and beet wine voted out, the vali the election waif*- appeU the State. Supreme Qourt ruled the election had-not held legally, so beer and dealers in Moore' resumt sale of. the beverages. Last week the State, Su Court appears to have re itself from its 1950 ruling: Moore County election, « refused to disturb a recent tion on beer and wine in son County in which the j beer and wine was banner vote of two to one. Faili observe the strict letter ( cedure for calling such ell when rights of citizens hi been prejudiced nor the oi of the election affected, i treated as an irregularil sufficient to reverse the vo( the Supreme Court in rulii Davidson County election It might be added tin! of the seven State Suprew members now, on.Jhe ben rendering the D dciSioi Moore County decision wi ed down in 1950 in; SLOGANS It's so interesting to note the 4 that the candidates havej on the campaign cards. Whitfield, candidate fat ant governor, has on hi; “The man who never dodi ISsue,” which is -i statement as the Pendef legislator ha^ ajway&^bw spoken in his views. Seven! ago when liiW*'Jf>.Poole d County was rfmhirif "f# house, bhis slogan appear his cards: “He pays Mf and growls too,"
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