North Carolina Newspapers

Charity Nourishes Faith Politics—geopolitic> or ward politics—has no plate in Christian charity. It is the duty of, c harity to relieve suffering wherever it may be found, just as it is the duty of government to serve the best interests of the governed. The case of Poland offers a current illustration that, there need be no tojvllitt bqpveen these principles. American Catholics, ' fhrougir their f \Vorld-wide relief agency, Catholic Relief Services—National Catholic Welfare Conference have begun a new Polish relief program with tllje The first sur IlllC 1 Ij^U. pltis fofJfl’ Mto gdlU) POlAnd consisted of 100, odo pounds of cheese and a similar quantity of powdered milk, the value of both being 338,350. Additionally 7. >00 worth of medical supplies have already been sent to Polish Primate Cardinal Stefan \\ yvvnski and shipments of 490.416 pounds of clothing valued at $753.000—collected in the an nual Thanksgiving Clothing Col lection—are on the way. It is the hope of CHS that these shipments of food and relief supplies will be only the beginning of an expanded and con tinuing program of aid *lor the people of Poland. At the. same" time, proposals of economic aid to Poland by .the ll.'dS. Covernment are drawing widespread public criticism—as they should. Federal aid to a Communist satel lite is a matter of national policy1, and clearly 1 means of re lieving Poland's masters in the Kremlin <»f $omg of their re sponsibility to that unhappy country—so that the USSR wifi haye just that nuujlk to invest jn arms to point against fhd West. and jrt*t tfoit'milcIV more substance with which.It) dejay the day of deliseiante for its satellites. We can be sure that CRS aid will j^et. to the siullejing Poles, individually. Anjd sve can be equiiliysure that 'Wlytuaf Aid'froin Wash ington would get Itp tire I’^SR.not to Poland | It is appamjtjs rite, view oi Rome ■ rhe ChtrrrirfisA the flesh, ftnt ,to the Christian spirit. And that this Spirit has i>urviv?d all efforts of godless to stamp it out is the last-best---Irone of ultimate fieedonf! In this, certainly. Americans of all faiths will agree. people-to Ot only to etf, the fact ommunism Practical-cum laude In all t lit* cuYrent com motion crVtr liighdr jpducatiOHT (Ttir “Trying nTrd; btr TTtmibtrTtofne scrcnristr^e 1r.iven't got,' we think it's high time somebody gave a tlipught to the kids —hundreds of thousands of tliVm across tlu.‘ natiop—who do not go tooAt^Kcf*;tfld who wilt matter what the inducements. ... TH<j&4t^e thff1 khrftlgsters wit frflitiev at a-tender age; who Tnttst?« to “help du^bat, Mime; the girlsj the boys uftcX'Varif1 to be aecoujl get tlWlrCj|rfu^UMiir»ia the i who afe frJUttv liof wVtd^fjMft 1 ing to prepare for the battle of _ JjtjO- .college, no m jfj K|fjj| slijittidyi^).es))< ittsi - tlicntsfl-Yes tptti klv ('helpirietarics, ihave to ol m^uitHl others lr*cr sotnWwf'ial grooms life at a tiAMICkv te\ el. For these, a Government program that would -tone them into college would be froth heartless and futile—just as it is tragic today to see^|*mi£^|>epjj|e iw.yjyy colleges who are there be cause their pareim imisrupon Tt .Inn Tan pay the bills. And let us i^rtvighifMAbift diat tili gtonp if our citi/eury WfTfTVfbuttW'mrrre to the-natioHs economic and civil welfare, to keeping the wheels turning in business and industry and our Government functioning,at the national, state and local levels than these business, school careerists. Without them, we should be in a bad way—but jtpulcki. Xu fac t, we can think of nothing more chaotic and generalb insnllerable than a world of double-domes. . ' • - a , \< tuall\. so |,n jmu' can see, any inslitutiom to which high sc hool graduates go ill further preparation to deal with the world, whether a university or a business school is in sim ple fact a college—and should be SO established in the pi mind. It is encouraging,-.therefor, to note that this attitude is ri ii^urtii7ig 4n-HbKreT"AVlMfe it v of the Horatio Alger persuasion to devote time- and money to football—the primrostgpath. to. acclaim —jJ^bere is such a thing as school spirit in these spci£alj/ed educational facilities. In many business sufhjjcfh therec at£'.socill functions and alumni organi/ations th^t,/keep tt*e®<iries green and contacts alive. More and more of these schools hrttv conduct lorntal and impressive graduation exercises—complete with perora tions. prayers and patriotism and even to caps and gowni. Therfc is, in other words, grow ing recognitions of the fac t that it makes just as much sense ter live for good old Spivis Commercial as to die lor dear old Harvard I.aw. * * * * £Mp<M)ggest * rtwv.Jwewa- of Or* coverage of this trading area. Most parents take credit for the good points erf their Children but wonder where the bad ones originated. x.\ ., . *.. , __■ 1 he first thing you know, a democracy will, be an area where minorities wag majorities. ,.,/r . * * * Thedtuigc i so niiitv people have it As an advert! ange County for ®bLilrt06 of <0rangf Count? ’ricfctWiwI B«*r» Thvnday l» THI NCWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, H. C. Editor^and Publisher HP WIN J. HAMLIN Entered <u Second Clast Maxtor at the Post Office at hulsboro, Motth Carolina, motor the Act of Match 3, It79._ National Advertising Representative •RHAThft WRBKLIKS * Chicago * Detroit * Philadelphia (Continued from Page 1) community? NEW CARS . . . We have been • hearing talk about a recession. But in November, according to fig ures from the N- C. Dept, of Mo tor Vehicles, there were 1,447 new ’ cars sold in North Carolina as against 1.478 tor the previous year. That’s not much of a recession, now it it? Buick had 528 new car sales ia November compared with 376 for November of 1956; Cadillac had 128 new car sales in November as compared with 51 for 1956; Chevrolet, 1,922 as compared with 2,103 in 1956 November; DeSoto, 116 atld 8; Dodge, 250 and 277; Ford, 2.154 in this past November as Compared with 2,804 for Nov ember of 56; Hudson. 3 and 32; Imperial, 19 and 5; Lincoln! 33 and 37; Mercury, 225 and 235; Metropolitan, 10 this November and none last; Nash, 3 and 62; Oldsmobile, 393 and 319; Packard. 4 and 25; Plymouth, 574 and 566; Pontiac, 412 and 417; Rambler, 87 and 9; Studebaker, 79 this Nov ember and ,80 last; Willys, 2 and 3; F.dsel, 77 and O; and foreign, 125 and 0 in November of 1956. Now watch for contested state ments between Chevrolet and Ford as to the champion for 1957. Each will claim the leadership. One led in production, etc., and the other led in sales. We- hate to say it. but believe, these little old foreign cars are going to get a bigger bite of the market in 1958. Keep an eye on them with us. Ouch! BUT LESS TOBACCO . Have you listened to all those reports about the dire things cigarette ‘ smoiUng wifi do /or .you?WeiL then you are different from, the average American smoker. In 1957. more cigarettes were sold than in 1956. Yes, this past Yefcp. smokers puffed, chewed, and threw away as butts or ducks i according to where you were raised—and I don’t mean reared' 410 billion “coffin nails"—as they were railed back in the 20's. The big trend last year was to filters. Thirty-eight of every ICO cigarettes sold were of the filter type. In 1951, for example, filter brands accounted for only one tenth of one per cent of total sales. In North Carolina, the feeling is that the smoker gets no more to bacco—maybe, less— in a filter than in what is known as* a’“regular.'' The charge Has also been made that, since, the- fitter cuts, the strength and reduces the “real old tobacco taste." stronger ■ to baccos art1 being- used. 1,-, .. . GOOD YEAR A^EAP , WitJjy. people . smoking more cigarettes than ever before in the history of the natiae and with reduced acre age and ah extremely short sup ply in storage, there is genuine optimism among tobacco-growers throughout the State. But—the more filtered cigarettes smoked; the more strong tobacco used. The old-type “cigarette to bacco'" as we knew it and grew it 20 years ago from Carteret County east to Alexander County west may be on the way out. WltH THE BRANDS . .. . In 1957, as it has for. several years now. Camels outsold all other cigarettes—with nary a filter. Sales pf Camels were down a lit tle over eight per cent when com pared with 195f. However. Wins tons, another Reynolds product, were up nearly 18 per cent over 1958 and running fourth In total sales, so there you are. In second place last year was Poll Mall; third. Lucky Strike; fourth, Winston; fifth, Chester field; sixth, Viceroy; seventh, L&.V1; eighth. Manooro; ninth, Philip Morris; tenth. Old Gold, down in regulars 22 per cent, but up in filters eight per cent; Kent, another Lorlllard product, up 316 per cent and in eleventh place; 12th, Kool; 13th, Salem; 14th, Tareyton; 15th, Raleigh; 16th, Hit Parade; 17th, Parliament; 18th, Cavalier; 19th». Newport; 20th. Oasis. Emnlattea Barber: Now, my little fellow, how would you like your hair cut? Boy: Just like dad’s with a round hole at the top. N. C. 'Education Back It Gobs Till Next December i iJL1 k New Biography Thomas, Hart Benton, Hillsboro Native,'Magnificent Missourian* "Magnificent Missourian,” the life story of Thomas Hart Benton, has been completed by, Elbert B, Smith, and will be published on January 22 by J. B. Lippincott Company. Thomas Hart Benton was born near the village of Hillsboro, in the North Carolina piedmont. He left home in January, 1798, to en roll at the University of North Carolina. The university was only four years old, and had a student body of forty. He j ined the Philanthropic Sooaatv, only to be expelled by ynanimus vote in 1799. Twenty-eight years later, the Society passed a resolution that “Thomas H. Benton be readmitted a npemhen of our Society" and that "a certificate stating -the same1 signed by the President "and Sec retary be transmitted to Mr. Ben* ton." - In' 1801, when he was nineteen. Benton went to Tennessee with his widowed mother and fanijly He was destined to make still another move to Missouri, in 1815, and to become the great spokes man for Jacksonian Democracy, serving in the U. S. Senate 7* thirty years. He was the very per sonification of noisy, brawling, egotistical America in its great age of growing pains. He created and led most of the land, tariff, debt, currency, banking, expansion, and foreign -policies wbfclKjnade up the prog am of the Democratic Party for almost two decades. He played a leading role between the North and the South using all the force and influence of a fighter and a scholar to keep the country Cgethcr. He was a significant fac tor in tfie shaping of our national politics and economics- » ~*\ „ t Elbert B. Smith has an A.B. de gree from Maryville College, Ten nessee. and a Ph.D. from the Uni versity of Chicago, where Benton was the subject of his doctoial dissertatiin. “My interest in him l and the political, social, and per sonal philosophy he represents has grown through the years,” says Professor Smith. “The book was a .labor of love.” < Professor Smith recently assum ed the position of associate pro fessor of history at Iowa State College, jfit?reserving on t£e f.aculi tv' of Youngstown University,’ Ohio, for >igT}.t years. He has been a participant in, and. a di rector rtf a seminar, program on foreign policy for the State De partment, as well as a visiting Ful tnight lecturer; -■■■■■ Must Be A Reason Watching black clouds gather over an Alabama street, the man said, “I don't like it. Those clouds look just like the ones we had the other day in Texas.” A companion asked. "Was it a bad storm?” "Bad?" the man said. "How do you suppose 1 came to be in Ala bama?” N. C. Education It's Up To All Of Usl .Walt I’atlyinilln—Yoih Gawltc jfc Daily Jack Gilmore's Garden ip i . f i It is hard to write abouf gar dens and flowers with the snow falling, however, it is an ideal time to speak of beauty. As I came vacant lots and even the garbage tans were' part of a fairy land, all spun gla$s and chaste beauty. Trees wore caps of snowfeathers and many of their limbs ar.d branches dripped like crystal chaiidliers, and even if the sky is overcast 1 know that the first rays of a cold winter sun will turn the frozen world into a symphony of silver. Especially beautiful are the cedar trees with heavily laden branches- dipping iuto . graceful bows. Even the biting cold wind awakens every sense and one can not help but feel alive and tingling with Winter's Mozie. Believe ’me. anything that can do that when your fifty years old. has got to be something very special. If you haven't planted all your tulip or daffodil bulbs, wait until the ground thaws, even if it fs as late as March, before planting. Then if tire ground freezes again your bulbs will not be damaged. One of the most delightful sights I ever saw was daffodils (King Alfred i planted late, blooming along with a pink dogwood. downtown today all the barren Gems of Thought LITTLE THINGS Little things console ns be cause little things affect us.— Blaise Pascal , Most persons would succeed in small things if they ‘were, not trqubied • with ‘gred{f Longfellow, ' ^ ■ In the great matters men show themselves a,<T they wish to be> seen; in stuff? as /thef are—Gamaliel Bradford Even a wild mistake must be seen a:: a mistake, in order to be' cvrjecttid.—Mary Baker Eddy When a man is wrapped 'up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.—John Ruskin If 1 can not do great things, I cah do sma'l things in a great way—J. F. Clarke CHOW HOUND The butcher was busy \pjting on a customer when a woman rushed in and said, Give me a pound of cat food quick!” Turning to the other cus'omer she said, “I hope you don't mind my getting waited on before.you.” “Not i(j you're that hungry,” the other woman replied. ... » — N C Education -- - - Tv Heel PEOPLE & ISSUES By Cliff Blue PARTY MEETINGS . . . Two Democratic dinners will be held in North Carolina within the pext month which will give" the politici ans an opportunity to get together and discuss coming Events. YDC . . . First on the docket will be a state-wide meeting of the Young Democratic Club at the Washington Duke Hotel in Dur ham on Saturday, January 11 which will feature the installation of new officers and an address by D S. Senator Frank Church of Idaho. It will be the first meeting of the Young Democrats since the- annual convention held in Southern Pines three months ago. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. followed by the dinner meeting at 7. Dinner tickets are $5; each. Arthur Vann Is ehairman of *<tee rally It- was Senator Church who introduced the Jury Trial Amend ment to the Civil Rights bill in Congress last year. JEFFERSON-JACKSON ... On Saturday, February 1, the annu; 1 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner will be held at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh. These are always impor tant events which brings together Democratic party leaders from all T ovet the state, binnef tickets are ' " en quotas Those 1 diiig" the ’ dinners do not necessarily pay the full price for the tickets. Quite ofteit many people in a county w 11 contribute, then those w*ho want to attend or can attend get to use 'the tickets. Don’t think that just because someone you know is at tending that he or she planked out the full $30 for a place at the long table. Maybe " he did and m ay be -■ he didn't. GOVERNOR COLLINS . . . Key note speaker for the Jefferson JtfcltSbiV Day dinner ‘Will be Gov ernor LtjjRoy . Collins of Florida, f Gbvenior"' Coffins and llSwSiSr Hodges of North Carolina have a !treat deal in common. iBoth were •lected lieutenant governor of heir respective states and became tovernor upon the death .of the elected governor of heart attacks. jBoth won /ull term nominations in the next primary. Both are labeled as "moderates” on Tace issue. Both ai-e regarded as very much interested in the vice presidential nomination in 19j0. Collins recently succeeded Hodges as chairman of the Southern Gov ernors’ Conference. He is a past chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board and was suc ceeded in that post last year by Governor Hodges. Collins is 48, and served in both'"the Florida Ifouse of Representatives and' Sen-, ate before being elected governor. A full banquet hall is expected for the dinner. . CUMBERLAND A red hot race js ExpertARA Me 12fh judi cial district between Heaman R. Clark wlio was named by nof Hodges last week t0 3 unexpired term of jut|ge Nimocks, Jr., who resig* tive ( December 31 after years of service, and Seavy A. Carroll. The shei faction is expected to be i with Carroll in the expect test. Sheriff' Guy himself pected to be a candidate election so you can look foi of activity in Cutinberlaj spring. Heaman Clark is a and able man and with vantage of being judge sit able to keep the post. Ma pie seem to think that q also be able to win renom RICHMOND . With Raymond W. Goodman an of the Court Thomas I. ton of Richmond County ;)s ly preparing to go after the job in that county, a real fl be expected. Politics is g warm in Richmond »j Sheriffs office general!', n as the top prize. GARDNER Last newspaper told you of one Watson Gardner, 33. who from the State Prison i Lee County eight years ai to Houston, Texas to over again anti there 1 nose clean" and operated cessful insurance agent slipped back to North Ci marry the girl he loved, couple with a son hare Ihn estly in the flourishing Tet Having escaped from pris only four of an 18-months i left to serve, wc tliinin -determination to—sHtft live a clean life entitles the plaudits of his fellow the extent that he be pa to return in peace and dig his home in Houston, Texa JffIM : Peop been asking i| John A La who served as secretary gressman C. B. Deane for ten years will be a candidi Congress against Rep. i KitcTiin. We think not. unit stutnps his toe between t filing deadline March 21 J recently offered the job rector of the N. C." Vetera mission which pays about per year by Governor Hod turned it down to remain ingt<m for his job there "hi about $12,000 per year John will have sufficient as a Federal worker 'for a small retirement, be surprised to see him back to his native; Tar 1 time to- participate in the campaign that year jn one another. John, whd liet N. C. NY-A arirninistratioa Hie Roosevelt administrat fore he entered .the "Art private io come out as is now in his late 40‘s Abo to SENATOR SAM ERVIN * SAYS * 4 WASHINGTON — The prospects for much work faces the Congress at the. beginning of- the second ses sion. Busy Session In looking ahead at my schedule I foresee virtually unlimited time Uk.be sn£nt on such things as na tional defense, labor-management investigations, as well as the heavy amount of legislation that fl'yays comes before the Senate fJudii^-y Committee. Senator Russell has stated that “the principal matter before the Congress will be missiles, reflect ing the importance of the defense picture. I am, in agreement that no other problem is more urgent at this time. We are awaiting the President’s message on the State of the Union. This will give Mr. Eisenhower an opportunity to let Congress and the people know the facts, things that we have not been told fully. In other words, this session will afford the President and the Con gress an opportunity for leader ship of a high oVder; it ought to Jse forthcoming. i f ' Defense Spending Just how much more serious the recession will get is t lie s considerable speculation move into the new-year, la defense spending seems to1 be almost < agreement that it will be will provide somev hut of in the economic arm of (W* try. Labor - Managenieat The trail of sordid test® some unions and manage® require aggressive pursuit gommittee to learn "hat11 islation is needed in llliS am told that there is a'1 't101 ly large amount of work to by the Select Commit if6 I am a member. Bottom Hung At the moment there little possibility of any D rights legislation getting ous attention of Cong'esS that situation exists bees is absolutely no need to '' time and money of the P* this country on civil should be relegated to lhe rung of the laddei of needs, letting the people of cal communities work 11