Vital Program Needs A Boost
Do Hillsboro parents want a 'high school band?
That is a tpiesiion that must be answered delinitely and
emphatically in the immediate future, it seems, or the reality
must be faced that this form of training and source of pleas
ure for local children will be lost for a I dug time to come.
Several years ago Hillsboro High School had a fine band
that was a credit to the institution and to the young musicians
who participated. But. faculties change and effective leader
ship was lost. The band program was allowed to deteriorate
and for a time was suspended.
l ast year a group of parents organized a band parents
club, but support was spasmodic and lar from general.
At long last, according to leaders of the band movement,
an instructor is available for the band, but funds for sup
plies, and most of all. pupils are needed to make the pro
gram a success. These will be possibleonly with enthusiastic
parental support. A meeting is scheduled at the school to
night. The. future ol the band program at Hillsboro High
School is at stake. The help of the parents of the community
is needed to insure the survival of this vital program of
culture and recreation.
Smoke And Ire
Where there’s robacro smoUe there’s ire. And sonic ol tilt
count rv's top medical and scientific men apparemlv are re
vealing a .mounting irritation with vvlrat has been called an
‘almost evangelicdi attitude" against cigarette smoking. -
These scientists and do< tors are speaking up lor the pub
lit record to express their doubts and disbelief in the freq
uentlv voiced and well-publicized charges that statistics show
cigarette smoking is related to lung canter incidence.
They make it clear that there arc many sound scientific
reasons for NOT jumping to conclusions on the basis ol
these statistical reports.
A tase in point outinnl ircently.in Cleveland when
Dr. Charles W. Mayo, wot Id-lained surgeon amf head ol the
renowned VlavO CFinic. was asked what he thought about
cigarettes anti canter. His blunt answer, as recorded by Cleve
land News medical writter Severino P. Severino:
- ‘I just don't believe smoking causes lung canter."
Severinu s story quoted ,-Dr.- Mayo as saying, “I believe
in some individuals who have a tendency that are many
thingsoutside ol .smoking ihatjnay contribute to malignancy."
Dr. Mayo’s comments came on the heels of a Congress
ional subcommittee hearing in Washington at which several
prominent scientists dissected the charges ago"** <-igar-ite*
Dr. Ian Macdonald, professor of surgery at the l'divers
ity of Southern California School of Medicine and a member
of the American Canter Society's National Hoard ol Di
rectors. told the subcommittee:
“. . the total evidence reviewed fails to establish any
sound basis'on which a causative influence may be assigned
to cigarette smoking in inducing human canter of the lung."
Dr. Macdonald is the one who said tlvat "those who ad
vocate ferventIv the supposed causative importance of ciga
rettes in lung cancer seem to have an almost evangelical at
titude and are remarkably oblivious to the fact that virtually
the entire basis on which this belief rests is statistical.”
Fqudlly outspoken was Dr. Harry S. N. Greene, (hair
man ol the department ol Pathology at Yale University-'Med
ical School and a long-time experimenter with tobacco deriva
tive* arad living -tivsm .' Mis• siUmAftrv s.'tidA**’" r " " ’
“The case "against tobacco is based mostly upon statisical
associations and some experimental work with animals. The
''~sratisTt(A ctdTibf in^ tTierhselves establish a. cause and el feet
relationship. Kxperimenls with various forms ol tobacco have
failed to induce cancer'Hu sensitive embryonic burg tissue.”
These experiemed .doctors ol met] it iue apparently AtJC
ZFooking GcYniul_a_tuXy_ot-slattstit s. stacked on charts and
graphs, and see the human beings involved. Thev knovv that,
‘iTguresi lie Hiaiiv i.i< on s and unknowns that just
don't jibe with (barges against smoking,
Federal Encroachment
III 1 'M-AVPORT Mi l l IN(r ol President Eisenhower
and Yrkansas' Governor Orval K. Faitbus may go /lown in
historv with that of Generals 'Grant and Fee at Appomattox
Court 1 louse. .Mi.. | anUus. iaxt^( UJict;ivably;TM: tfte. -last
Governor to seek ((rPNncise the aTithofity df his ()TITcfe"as it
has heretofore been understood.
Under the civil rights legislation passed August gt,
Federal judges afe now empowered to pass upon the conduct
of state, county and local administrative officers frotmgoVer
nor to dog-i atelier.' The procedure is to c harge the alleged
offender with -interference with a court order. He may he
found guilty of civil contempt, fined or jailed. «
And this applies to the jS states—not just the southern
ones_ ;... —. .- •
Jail and School
■*»*' ?«,A\H'Vork has « «ettwai-U!ig-i«'« worfsfcflsvse’ m peniTent
iary for anyone who violates its traffic laws seriously. It has
had so many fatal accidents on its streets, so many pedestrians
are.hit and kj I led, so mans cars crash in ihe affige'Sti.on,. i|
" Iras taken mafen io^iab iluiTatuage....... ZJ~&£$h2z&
While offenders are cooling off in the jug, they are ((im
pelled to go to traffic school to learn how to drive carefully
and safely. That part is fine, hut the jail sentence and Com
pulsory school attendance might use up all your vacation
time and more. So either give the big city a wide berth, dr
watch your driving extra carefully there.
(Continued from page l)
people thought it would ever
match in popularity the Lost
Colony begun 20 years ago this
year.
Well, so we see what is hap
pening. This year. 'Unto These
Hills" drew 121.333 people; “Lost
Colony,” 36.142; and "Horn in the
West,” at Boone, 27,110. UTH has
now gone beyond the milfion
mark.
- NOT FLORIDA ... We recent
ly had an opportunity to chat
with a couple from Central Flori
da Spending their vacation in
North Carolina—mostly in the
mountains of North Carolina.
They said: "People who spend
their summer vacations in Flori
da are strictly off the beam. Win
ter, yes; but’summer, never!”
RETROACTIVE . , . Sam Ragan
reports that an expert attending
a Raleigh meeting to talk, over
problems of higher education in
the future said that the best way
to solve the problem is to have
rigid enforcement of birth' Con
trol- and make it retroactive- to
1M5!
DETAIL ... He didn’t spell it
out, but the expert couid have
gone in detail a bit further:
When the State decided to take
over the full expense of the
schools nearly 25 years ago now.
if had no idea our school and
_ Population in J957 would hit one- _
million. Our trouble: The birth
rate and school costs are running
far, far ahead of the tax struc
ture set up in 1933 to handle them.
Keep this in mind as you bring
<iu>t candidates for the Legislature
between now and next spring.
LITTER . . . You have been
noticing signs along the highway
about the law regarding throwing
paper and other junk along the
roads.
Warning: the N. C. Department
of Motor Vehicles will soon be
be even worse than driving with
out a license!
INSECTS ... Better be on the
alert this fall against two insects
whose stings are very painful.
- In the* Piedmont we -hear of sen
’ ious pain from in rye wasps which
have invaded that area. Somt^alL
them waspsV others, hornets. They
arc aboutr'smree times the size,
of regular wasps, according ’to
-the State Museum.
M. H. Farrier of State College
says to be on the watchout for
some little Innocent-looking cater
pillars. They are about. three
fourths of an inch in length and’
arg' very bushy, resembling,'^rays
Entomologist Fanner, a miniature
Persian kitten. They have hollow
poisonous spines.
TAX REFUND : . More and
more people arg buying boats.
They come through Raleigh by
the hundreds ’ weekends heading
to and from the ocean and Kerr
Lake, etc.
You have until December 30 to
get a refund from the Federal
^j^efnrQenit of, one cent per gallon
for all marine gas bought be
tween July” 1, 1956 and June 30,
1957. Contact the Internal Revenue
Departrthtnt^fcr 9'ortn Vhk 843 and
Pnbticatlolt‘No7“378, A lot of cities
have IRD offices. If you do not.
write Greensboro. This is the first
year Uncle Sam has had this re
fund available. Thfs is* in addi
tion to the refund boat-owners
get from the State. Write the
N. C. Dept, of Revenue for State
refund.
You are tvelcome. But act be
fore September 30.
-,— •,
WITH GOVERNOR . . Our
Governor returns to Raleigh from
Georgia today. On Saturday, he
will introduce Adlai Stevenson in
Chapel Hill. They will see the
Clemson-N. C. game. Adlai will
spend the weekend at the Mansion
here.
It seems to me we can never
give up longing and wishing
~ while we are thoroughly alive.
There are certain* things we feel
to be beautiful and good, and we
must hunger after them.—George
Eliot
'Say, what's eating your
A I iii Trim BP
- —
('. K. Datin'I tor I he Xrws
SENATOR
SAMERVIN
* SAYS ☆
I
WASHINGTON—In late Angus!,
Congress voted $800,000 as a spe
cial appropriation to the Public
Health Service to aid its efforts
,s U>-.*ne»h j$te. 4«iatu?41u 4hreat,«*;
Flu Epidemic Funds
I am glad that the Congress.
look..this- step. 4t- is fortunate -tliat
at the same time we agreed to
authorize an additional $2 million
frcm disaster Yelief funds if the
^ .iucideuce.. of - Lhfe*.disease slmtild.
reach ttoe proportions of a national
health emergency This"show§_that.
’The 'whirls of "Congress, function
quickly to meet a peril to the wel
fare of tile people.
Fifty Years Ago
.Moonshining and the work* of
law enforcement in North Caro
lina was a dangerous thing fifty
years ago, as reflected upon iq a
news*
paper here in Washington. The
story told of an account in that
newspaper of August 23, 1907, giv
ing facts on a reciprocal case of
mistaken identity to plague re
venue agents. It sanY’that the* Fed
eral ^Commissioner of Internal
Revenue had received a telegram
from the t, Collector of Internal
Revenue at Greensboro informing
him of a situation that happened
when a Deputy Collector from Ra
leigh with a posse and a Deputy
Collector from Durham with a
posse met at a moonshine still.
Each took the other for moon
shiners anti fired. One officer was
mortally wounded and two posse
men were seriously wounded be
i'oi'e^ it was discovered “that the
■.*Tnq|tajr*w#s- a fatal chsc'o'r'niis^
taken identity.
Federal Courts ..Overloaded
The handling of moonshine whis
key cases is just one of the time
consuming ’features of our Fed
eral .Dialrkt Courts.- Fifty years
ago -this provided a major-por
tion ol the workload of thege
cdtirts. Today, our population has
vastly flunvased; the attendant,
growth or the role of Federal
Government has brought on a con
dition which has seriously over
loaded these courts. As a con-,
sequence, there is a serious need
for an additional Federal Dis
trict judge for North Carolina to
in'alj: of- the tfifeerDiWicf*.
1 have discussed this matter in
a previous column, but I do wish
‘to assure you that my bill to pro
vide for this additional judge will
be pushed insofar as I have any
thing to do with it. It has been
favorably reported by 'the Judi
ciary ’ Committee and is on the
Senate Calendar far action.
f' Do not forget that an honest,
wise zeal, a lowly, triumphant
trust, a true heart, and a help
ing hand constitute man, and
nothing less is man or woman.—
Mary Baker Eddy
Wha1 Manner Of Man Are We?
Walt Party miller~Yvxk Gazette &• Daily
Jack Gilmore's
Garden
Gossip
Every home should have sev
eral house plants, for during the
long winter months nothing will
bring so much cheer and color to
the home as : healthy blooming or
foliage plants.
Sometimes during the summer
months I am tempted to do away
with my house ‘plants, especially
the African Violets Saint Paulias).
then I remember eating break
fast on a dreary winter morning
with the window sill a mass oi
pink-,- white, punph^and-lavcfflUr
nosegays before my eyes, and
how they- gave mestrength tc
wait for the winter months,'espe
cially February to merge iikc
spring. Then 1 give each plant
a half of a Plantab and a long
drink of water, and a few weeks
later see the new ^growth, and bud
. Jb^r^ppe-a'raaSSST*
House plants can be drowned
by too frequent waterings more
readily than they can be damag
ed by the lack of water. Good
drainage is very importajU... One
thorough watering a week for vio:
lets and tender blooming plants
and once every two weeks for
dish gardens will give best re
sults. Ferns (I hope Hiat-you re
potted them in the spring i should
be placed under the shower or
sprinkled overhead to promote
their more healthy growth. Palms
Tar Heel
PEOPLE & IS
By Cliff Blue
BIG LEAGUE... • Ncrth Caro
lina is becoming the focal spot
tor some of the big league politi
cians of late. . -hi* i >f i is tic ■ pt
Last week National Pepwcratic
Chairman Paul Butler held a con
ference in Raleigh vvith Southern
leaders Of the Democratic party.
Tiie meeting and Butler * State
ment about civil rights legislation
hardly added to. the strength of
the; party in theSouth. Governor
Hodges who in infW*t Inptapces is
pretty fast to eatch go, to, how
the political wind, As WnwA»«Jet
it be known soon afkar^utBn- apd
his party were gone was
not exactly pleased, wjfBi-what But
ler had to say while here.
STEVENSON . . . This week end
will- find Adlai Stevenson back in
" Nc-th Carolina for his first visit
following his. segond defeat for
;he presidency. You can bet that
he will be given'plenty of oppor
tunity for political statements, and
Adlai is not a man who holds back
in expressing his opinion.
YDC . . . The YDC State con
vention will Im* held in Southern
Fines October 3-4-5. For many
weeks Sieve Nimocks has been
trying <>• gel Senator Lyndon John
son of Texas lor the principal ad
dress of the occasion. Last Week,
the Texas senator bowed out, say
ing he just couldn't make iit. On
an impulse, Steve then called In
dependence, Missouri and talked
witli Harry Truman's secretatry
about the possibility of getting the
for mer president for the address.
Truman's calendar showed nothing
scheduled for the day. Wires from
Jonathan Daniels. State Chairman
Larkins and others went to Tiru
man asking that^he come. As of
this writing no ireply had been
received. Should he come, the Old
Man from Missouri would make
Hie off-year convention the big
gest in YDC history. If he de
cides against the trip, North Car
olina’s two able senators, Sam
Ervin and Kerr Scott will prob
ably share the platform to pro
vide the political advice for .the
Friday night banquet meeting.
Governor Hodges is scheduled for
the keynote addres Friday after
Yioon.
— YDC POLITICS . . . The State
YDC convention is only a little
more than a week -away and'"SB
' far no contest have developed.
Bob Davis of Salisbury, is running
^unopposed, for State President and
H. D. Hawison, Jr., of Hoke'Coun:
ty is running unopposed for Na
tional Committeeman. Hqk£ "has
should be sponged. Leave off
watering Fuchsias until the end
of December then force them Into
bloom by a thorough watering
once a week. Store Christmas Cac
tus in dark place for the month
ot October, bring out and water
the month for
those Christmas blossoms.
A temperature ranging from 60
degrees F at night to 70 degrees
in the daytime is best for house
plants. Keep out of drafts but ak
low fresh air to enter the room
once, daily. The air should be
kept humid. Violets like a high"
humidity as evidenced by those
blooming in, my kitchqp over- the
sink. A tablet- form plant food is
host as it is absorbed slowly.
Pi une and pinch frequently to
make the plants bushy and attrac
tive.
ncvcr offo ed a
*ta,e Y'K’ offie®
with ithe fact !ltst
ab,e and desert
w'« for him cj
particularly
counties. This j,
bid for ‘he preside
ago he lost t0
in Durham,
BEVERLY LAKE
Lake’s television
nisht criticizing
fo>‘ the integral
schools in Charioa
and Winston-Salem
result in Lake I*,,
er of the all-out ^
in North Carolina
men- college profesj
Assisfain' # wk;
highly rtspwhd j,
primary he w*
a Possible opimneat
Hodges. Had he
would probably t,
course, in Tar Heeljj
Faubus course m
Lake along with R,
field of Person p
the Pearsall plan t
special session ut n
sebmly We shii |,
long run, the pupili
enacted by the ijj
ae.mhly.wdl !&*■
the Stiprt ne Court'
any measure yet di
HOT AND lilif
tended :!u* ('auJuiai
ball game at ciiafi
day afternoon, and
hot! "Too hot for I
the statement heard i
again. What ntadeji
" bad was TTiaF wair
almost nmr-cxisa
Stadium. When vo*
thirsty no soft drinti
place ot a cool til
Bill Friday and tie i
should' see-to it that*
fountains are placet
stadium grounds, i
terprising group had!
water for sale al fe
urday they could I
land sale business.*
REUNION Tie
.-.thJp Nlorelieaff ;PM
urday for the INC
state officials mcWI
of the General Asn
as a real reunion i
the General Assert
Gemst
Thougl
. £NTHI'S1*S
' Thu ii'JIow whj iil
enthusiasm is apth
B. C. Forbes
.■mg-*-i
Experience
is due less to ability
The winner is-he wW
sell to his wod1.
—-Qhqrlfn Br&tW
Whatsoever tbv
to do. do it with il
—Ecclesiastes
Every produd oi!1
be the'production1 of*
—Disraeli
It is not the da*«
it is the strenuous, j
lers who fil’d
pry.—('harks U ^
Letter To The Editor:
Courts And Intearation
To The Editor:
I have always.been in sympathy
with the Negroes in their strug
gle they are putting forth for their
rights But, however I am not in
accord with the method atjd pro
cedure in attaining that goal and
that is by resorting to the courts.
If they ever attain and improve
their lot they will have to have
a different approach in behalf of
their cause.
There is no doubt but the de
cision of the Supreme Court May
17. 1954 was the most unfortunate
thing that, could have happened
to the colored people. Every litiga
tion instituted in the courts, raises
the barrier and widens the gap
and embi.ers and antagonizes
tne races
This whole agitation was inspi
ed by politics to allure and attra<
the Negro vote. A constitution)
nght is the most precious thin
that an individual can possess in
tins life and there isn’t anything
more sublime this side of heaven,
rhus when you take a sacred thing
as rights and place it op the level
with corrupt and perverted poli
tics, there certainly will not be
any improvement in race relation
ship.
If the NAACP had pioneered
nito churches and other organiza
tmris and generated a movement
promoting and cultivating a good
will and fellowship races, they
would have made greater stride
and progress toward the goal they
are striving to attain.
r There are about 16,000,000 Ne
t,roes scattered throughout this
ountry and we only find 300,000
whn and s°me of them are
‘e. that belong to the NAACP,
That ostensibly Indicates that
jre is enough intelligence among
01 people that they prefer
hi custom and tradition deep-root
w
ed in our soeietS
years. , . kno*
In reality they ^
v^ould only array °ne
the other and th«r
be improved. >f
integrated and 1
cess, it will l’dU 1 ,
fully, in.a "ay 1
trust and respef
races, afid this c
"Sc Whole
lem is State-1''? 5(
question is not
that the
invaded udo ;
various other ,
Will have *o-en&-^
and take a ‘firm ««
rights. A thfi
ed people <»lts,d
their leadens
dertaking. vo
(Name WiH'1 t
Carr!***