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Editorial And Age Of The Golden Mean There are signs that we Aitny icans are growing ii|». We have it from Dr. James F. McClellan of feat hers College, Co lombia University, that we are not only becoming creatures ol moderation, hnt that this is a (|ttality highly admired by most of us. “Well -balanted" and well-adjusted" are compliments now-3'da\:s. It will be recalled that moderation was not always count ed an American virtue. We have been given to boasting about . how much (or how little) we worked, played, ate and spent. We were too inclined to regard our surroundings, our pros •pects and progress, our economy and even our politics as eith er all right’or all wrong. With the growth «>f chis new spirit of moderation, we have become more discriminating, more anglvriral, more thoughtful and certainly more considerate of .egch other. Todav, the talk is on moderation in diet, in ex e^ciye. in child discipline and particularly in outbursts of potion flirt1! punish the arteries almost as severely as the iMpnorent bystanders. Dr. McClellan's findings resulted from a study of what -the word “moderation’' meansTO over t.fioomen and women in different walks of life, and was financed by the 11. S. Brewers Foundation whose members’ prodnrt has Teen re garded increasingly over the years as the beverage of modera tion. Asked to .describe the man and the woman they regarded as the best example of moderation and also to riescrd»e tin man and woman they most admired. Dr. MoClellw was sur prised to discover that the two categories turn tint to be pret ty much tire same people. The typical moderate man is hon liinreref intelligent, friendly and likeable, and he rates 72 per cent the same adjectives as the man most respondents wanted to be like. Mr. Moderate Xian and Mr. Admired Xian are berth coUego-edu<»ated professional men oxer 40. Mrs. X,k»d<urate Woman and "Mrs. Admired Woman are both col iege-educated housewives oxer 40. (This might prove also chat 40 is when life begins!) -But tin1 clincher for moderation is that most men think rhrx have itr-'I xvo-thirds modestly voted themselves the mod erate sex. And even hall of the women agreed! It occurs to us that Dr. McClelland may have unwittingly inventedITTasanaung pafTor ganuFtn which members of Tocjal gathet iug might submit sccrcvballots on these subjects ... providing thex will exeert ise mode rat ion in the discussion which follows. ’George" Can't Do It ?' At Iti.s first pi'et’Otiftfereiue in live weeks, Piesident Eis enhower predicted, in answer to a question about his plans unless management and labor held profits and wagys in cheek, "the American consumer is going to rebel ... in a big was and there will be real tumble and we will ^Psfl&thing that we don’t want." Government. ..whose .job i,V-l’iV»k<,UJ dym n exjsenaes, ” is eqnalfy concerned, he said. Most A uteri tains, we think, were under the impression that there had been something of a rebellion in recent months —even by those who were seeking higher wages at the same Jftitne—and that wt’liltfP had in the recession "something that we don’t want.' rlowfVer. pet haps shoppers have not yet rjp '•'•belled "in a big wgy* "vjnaybe we haven’t yet seen any "rewl trouble:’’ and tnpst ol us realize that a Inll-blown depression is something we wahreven less than uhat we have had. But we lail tn’ietotMiere Government is making a1 reason able effort to check a headlong decline in the worth of our folding money. Gtn^riimem has cun tinned its long discredited policy of massive largesse to friend and.foe. has reiterated its demand tor extended "reciprocal ’ trade—that has Iteeu more disastrous than, reciprocal. Government has rejected all efforts at tax reform that would stimulate business by restoring waning incentive to .workers, managers aiitf* investors. Government has made no sincere effort to curb.its own extravagance, eliminate duplica tion and useless aetivities, to remove itself from highly un economic competition with tax-paying business. On the contrary, Government has steadily added new functions, agencies, commission* and personnel. It has sought to strengthen the grip of tihions on the economy and to fur ther harass management. The budget deficit for the current year is estimated at $12 billion. The House has approved in creasing the ‘permanent” debt ceiling to lisHr, billion and authorized a further temporary Iroost to JeHM billion until June <>o. ipbo. The Senate will no doubt follow suit. While the President named management and lafror a< coequallv responsible with the Government for the existing situation and the threat to out economic future, it is actually the people, all the people—Whether classified as labor or man agement or capital or professionals or housewives or .students —who have failed in their job of making democracy work. Political interest has flared up quadrennially, onfv to he quenched by campaign promises. There has been no follow through on those promises. Honest legislators and high-mind ed administrators found themselves without support alter the votes were counted. Today, leaders in all walks of life—and notably in l>usi ness—are determined to rouse the people, not to rebel (as tflie President fears they may) hut to rise in their sat red duty and accept their part in tire management of tlirtr country. It is the 11th hour. But it still may not be too late. Qttye J5ftos> of #ranjje Count? TUB NCWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro sail Chapel Hill, N. C. WWW l hajjmn Editor end PubUeher Entered e» Second Clou Matter et the Post Office at hUUbore, North Carolina, under the Act of Merck $, 197$. Pabliihed Every Thursday By Motional Advertising Representative •RCATftR WRRKLIBS * GhtosBo * Detroit * SUBSCRIPTION (inside North Carolina) (inside North Caroline) (outside North Carolina) RATES $2.50 _ $1.75 _ $300 ■ Kino BREWER'S (Continued From Page 1) over the same period in 1957. NOTES , >4 , A lot of people were surprised when Wilbert For bes decided to give tip his Burial Commissioner post to go with the railroads . . . but he is leaving a good job wih uncertain future to go with a good job and . . . cer tain future ... as a smooth lobby ist .. . and friend-maker. You won't be able to get any public statements on it, but trou ble seems to be brewing in the N. C. Wildlife Commission and . . still . . in the Alcoholic Bever age Control setup . . . Those lobbyists preparing for the 1959 Legislature are skipping over the House in advance plans as “entirely too uncertain to uness with" . . . but are concentrating on the State Senate .... and may live to regret this decision . . as it is still a two-house legislative body we hawe here .... . A snsall group of legislators coming here in 1959 are contact ing each other in efforts to come up with a tobacco tax. etc . . . and aren't we right in saying that North Carolina is the only state of the 49 that does not have a tax on cigarettes, cigars, snuff, etc.?'.’ . . . Very little was said about it in the papers, but the State Board of Education last week ap proved an exhaustive study of a merit-rating system ior teachers .... and teachers hate bitterly even the thought . . . and we doubt it can ever be worked out in N. C. . . or elsewhere. Gems Of Thought _TRUTH_ Receiving a neic truth is adding a new sense.—Justus Liebig Eternal Truth is changing the universe—Mary Baker Eddy Beg no question, shrink from no conclusion, but foltoiv truth wherever it may lead. — Henry George Every truth has practical con sequences, and these are the test Of Truth_William James A man must be stupid who be lieves there is no truth but on his oum side.—Joseph Addison We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.—Jere my Collier' • Better Try Again! In early spring the Negro Bap tist minister was baptising a new member while his friend looked on. As they stepped out of the wa ter. the friend asked, "Is the wa ter cold. Moses?" "No-o-o-o-o," shivered Moses. "Better duck him again. Pah son.” replied the friend, "he ain’t stopped lying yet.” —Progressive Fanner i for Race . . . Kerr Scott - Political Phenomenon (Harry Golden In The Carolina Israelite! Senator .W. Kerr Scott .was a po litical phenomenon. He »a| the first Southern politician since the Populist days of the 1880's who re ceived the overwhelming votes of both the rural population of a let's Hope The Atmosphere Realty Clears Up! / Wall Parlymillrr—Ynrk C,airilf X- Daily ORANGE COUNTY FARM AGENTS COLUMN DON MATH0SON County Aptnt CP IMNIS CYRUS paflNC Assistants 'feRED HEIFER SALE The fifth Annual North -Carolina Proven Sire Bred Heifer Sale will be held at the Guilford County Live stock Center in Greensboro Tues day. August 19th. The sate begins at 12:30 p m. The following Orange County farmers have consigned heif ers to this sale: iM. O. Walker, and Miss Martha Jackson of Route I. Hillsboro: H. P. Woods. Route 2. Hillsboro, and Bob Stra.vhorn. Route 2, Chapel Hill. FAMILY FARM Mr. and Mrs. Warren Walker and Mr Walker's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Walker, operate cooperative ly a family farm adjacent to the Old St. Mary's Church. 6 miles East of Hillsboro.- They keep about 4000 layings hens and 8 brood sows. Their lfi acres of corn has prac tically matured and looks as if it will make an excellent yield in spite of the dry weather. When asked why this corn was withstanding the drought so well Mr. Walker replied that he thought it was because he planted reasonably early and sup plied it with a sufficient amount of Nitrogen from both chicken manure and liquid Nitrogen, used as a top dressing. He also sprayed with 2 4;D to control Morqinglories a n d other weeds The corn will be fed to his laving hens and hogs. TEMPORARY PASTURE The Cheeks, who own and operate Lomola Dairy Farm, north ol Chap el Hill,' are high in the praise of Starr .Millet as a temporary grazing < "op for dry periods like we are now experiencing. They have grazed 55 head of dairy cows and heifers for three weeks on six acres of Starr Millet and say they like it better than any temporary grazing HOME AGENT'S CORNER by Jessie Trowbridge and Kathryn Pritchett A visit to almost any section of Orange County will show improve * mints in housing. The Stray horn home at Aycock f is one of the most attractive mod - ern new homes. Miss Elizabeth _ St rayhorn entertained the home demonstration club there recently. This house is- filled with conveni ences and good storage./' The Watkins' home in St. Mary's s community was completed about a V year ago, alter the old home and t furnishings were destroyed by fire. Miss Laura Watkins has used ex cellent taste in the selection of furnishings for this home. There are a number of new homes being built in the Caldwell section. The Flint Hamlins have moved into their brick home. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cates hope to have theirs com ploted soon. Mr and Mrs. John Lockhart of New Hope have remodeled a house. The colors used throughout the house, and the convenient kitchen adjoining the family room are out standing features of this house. Mrs. Clyde Hogan of JJew Hope and her family are proud bf their family room too. This large pine paneled room was built nekt to the remodeled kitchen. A new bath has been added to this, house. The W. G. Cole house at Smith Level has recently been painted. Mr. and - Mrs. Harry Walker of St. Mary's have had an old house moved from the site where they have stai-ted building a new home. The Henry Walkers of St. Mary s are completely remodeling their home. The house has been raised and the roof has been changed. With the brick veneer and the rearrange ment of rooms, this house will have the sentiment attached to an old house and the comforts of a new house. In checking at Andrews-Riggsbee Hardware Store in Chapel Hill, I found that only 3 pressure Canne s had been checked there this sum mer. For safety's sake pressure canners should he checked every year. The people who live near Chapel Hill can get this service at Andrews-Riggsbee Hardware Stare. I am trying to make arrangements for chocking pressure canners in Hillsboro also. The first meeting of the Com munity 4-H Club in Buckhorn will be held in the Grange Hall tomor row evening at 8 p.tn. Hilda Stan ford, daughter of Mrs. Patty® Stan ford will aet as temporary chairman until officers are elected at this meeting. , „ i i prop they have ever tried. They .waited until the iMillet was about 18 uiehi'i high before turning the cows in to graze. COOPERATION _ Clarence Walters. Orange County Superintendent of Roads, earnestly requests livestock farmers to con-’ tact his office before building per manent fences along the right-of way of hard surfaced roads. He says that the state has certain laws stating the distance from the road a fence will have to be placed. He !.as had the disagreeable task of ft quest! jg certain farmers to re move fences after they had been built. Mr. Walters is thoroughly sym pathetic with the farmers problem and realizes that the** closer to the ;«4 - highway the fence cant be placed the better it will be for the farmer and the easier the right-of-way can be maintained by his crew. He says that on certain hard sur faced roads he has been granted authority to allow the fence to go a minimum distance from the high way, but in all cases he would ap preciate the opportunity to advise tlie farmer before construction be gins and to give' him definite in slructions as to distance from r^ad. WEED CONTROL SCHOOL Friday night, August 15th, at the Hillsboro High School Agriculture Building, at 8 o'clock, County Agent Don Matheson will give a summary of the latest chemical weed control practices. Members of the Veteran's Training Class, merchants handling weed control chemicals, and farm ers are invited to attend. TWO NEW HOUSES Two young dairy families are well along building attractive homes. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cates Jr., of New Hope Community, are working hard to finish their new home by this fall, and Mr. and Mrs. BUI Hogan of Calvander Com munity, are not very far behind in the construction of their new home on the Lake Hogan property. PROGRESS PRIZE At a meeting of the Agricultural Worker's Council held in Hillsboro last Monday a committee consist ing of Miss Kathryn Pritchett, Chairman, Mrs. Jane Price, and Mrs. Glenn Auman was elected to select individual prizes to be given ■at the November Rural Progress meeting of each of the eight com munities in the county. These prizes will be drawn for by individual farm families in the respective communities on the- same basis as last* year. Besides these valuable prizes which cw be woo by indivi duals for making some improve ments in their home and on the farm s&ne *500 in cash prizes will go to communities which make the most progress. \ - NJAIL BOX STENCILS The William L. Banrell Company, Inc., which recently purchased the Belle Vue Manufacturing Company of Hillsboro, has offered to cut a name plate stencil without cost for every ruraj. patron cooperating in the Mail* Box imvrovement feature of the 1958 Rural Progress Pro Southern stole and the Negroes, and to make the Story even more fantastic, this Southern farmer al so won the enthusiastic support of the textile unions and the intel lectuals of the colleges and news paper offices. The “branch-head boys of the farms, the factory workers, and the Negroes. Quite a story. (In four Negro precincts Kerr Scott received 97 per cent of the vote.) Why? Senator scott never once spoke out against racial segre gation! Ah, but neither did he ever "use” the issue, even by innuen do, at any time in his entire poli tical career, and coming from that part 0f the state which has the preponderant Negro -majority, it makes the Scott career one of the most important political stories of our times. What Scott did was to subsitute for the ■‘race” issue such other issues as electrification, col lective bargaining, telephone lines for the rural population, and roads —and it worked for him. He built a secondary road system in the state w h i c h, in most cases, stretched from the main highway right up to the kitchen door of the farmer. “Don't want the kids to stand in the mud waiting for the school bus.” During the Senate debate on the Civil Bights measures of 1957, a suggestion was made to Sccitt that he should be the first Southern senator to publicly support the Civil Rights program. Scott bit in to his-plug of tobacco. “You must remember that I'm a Southerner, and I'll always go along with the Southern boys, but during this Civil Rights debate, I'll have a heap to say about the need for the preservation o( our water re souroes."---■ Governor Scott used public pow er to install electricity in over 50.000 arm houses, but in the pro cess he provided private enter pris“ with the greatest stimulus the State had ever seen because electricity and rural roads meant that the folks now needed washing machines- and refrigerators and that they could now cone into town at the drop of a hat to do business with the banks and the department stores, and go to the movies. Scott’s most prized "fan” letter came from a farmer's wife right after the installation of elec tricity; "Been married forty years and for the first time I ran see what my husband looks like." Because of Senator Scott, many thousands of the ladies of our Hadasah Society now call them grum. John Clayton, who is in charge ui tite Shipping Department, says the ccwpany will be. glad to supply a stencil for every farm family that WtU clean up, repair, and paint their mail box. Applications for name plate sten cils will be handled through each of the eight community organiza tions. sponsored by the sewn Granges in the County and tbe Farm Bureau in Cedar Grove Com munity AU applications for same plate stencils will be reoeived at the Orange County Fawn Agents Office. It is requested that no calls tor name plate stencils be made to the textile company. Tins fine spirit of service and cooperation pu the part of the William L. Barren Company, foe., is very much ap preciated by the farm people of Orange County. Ur H#ft PEOPLE & ISSUES By Cliff Blue new TAXES . . . You have been reading in the dally news papers reports on statements by Governor Hodges and other state leaders about the huge amount of additional revenue which the 1059 General Assembly will have to provide tp carry on the present schedule of services for our grow ing state. We do not question for a moment the veracity of the statements, but we want to call your attention to 1955. That year the people were told that in the neighborhood of $50 jniHiou extra would have to he forthcoming, hut before the General Assembly got through with the revenue and ap propriations bills, the extra money required through new taxes had beep reduced to about half the ori ginal estimate. People are wonder ing if similar result^will folnw in 1959. If economic conditions im prove and rigid economy pressed, tax increases may well be held considerably below the $50 Bullion figure. WITHHOLDING TAX . . . Qiangcs are strong that tire mat ter of withholding state income taxes will be before the lfi© Gen eral Assembly. In 1955 the pro posal was presented by Senator David Hall of Jackson County, now the Democratic nominee for Con gress in the 12th district. Em ployees generally favor the plan but ammpioyers appose it because it lessens the take home pay of the employees and its the take home pay that the employees look at. not the gross amount. _ _ UNION RACKETEERING . . A great and growing danger to this country is union racketeering, par ticular in Jimmy Hoffa’s Team sters Union. Union racketeering as revealed by the Senate Investigat ing Committee is a growing men ance. so much more dangerous selves "Hadassies." I -have—told the story all around America, and it is worth repeating here. The schools and societies visit .the Gov ernor's mansion on a certain day of the week and after Scott had been Governor for about a month or two he examined the Visitors Book and said to Mrs. Srott: “iliz Mary. (The Orthodox Presbyter ians often follow the Hebraic cus tom of such formality between husband and wife; he was always ■'Mr. Scott" to hen. "Mu Mary, how come no Hebrews have vis ited the mansion?" And Mrs. Scott had s^id; "Maybe they’re shy.” And,” continued the Governor, "I fold my secretary to call up the Hadassies and have them come on over and visit the man sion, so we can have some He brews in the book.' “And," con cluded Miz Mary, "the best be haved bunch of them all." But it was not only the “land" and the "water;" and "electrifi cation” and “roads;” Governor Scott had also appointed Dr. Frank P. j'Jrahaun, president of the University of North Carolina, to the United States Senate, and what Imagination and wisdom that took! In other words, this here man Scott sure got the point, and it will be a long tune before we see another man of his political wisdom. I mourn his loss. than the KKK that A comparison. Officlals' cian* in the North dej Rock school integral but It’s a small perlsan with the unAm, of the labor racketeer,, totte Observer is to |, iated op the forthright, which it met the TeaJ strike against the deli, Charlotte Observer |„ OBSERVER . .. Sm Charlotte Observer, , Jotw S. Knight’S Swid, “Editor’s Notebook," , the most enlightening „ national land internatio, carried in any newsp, TENNESSEE . . tiqn of Senator Albert Tennessee’s Democrat last week lessens ttog of Governor Faubus' ( ing victory in Arkansas, Oore who has been a i, his segregation views „ by former Govern, Cooper, who was sot^ by Gore. Texas has n Senator Yarborough there yo« are! AJQLAI . . . Adlai | visit to Russia. Poland, land, etc., is pretty gad that he is still infere* presidency. It now sq a must for presidents to visit abroad that tlq first hand information a attorns in the. other s will be recalled that I dent Nixon hns dorre td traveling outside the States. And right her* add that Richard Nixon a much stronger rand srrre may think Hf s known possibility in (k lican party, just as Si the best-known possihiB) -Democratic party. MALCOLM SEAWEU are hearing more am) I about the possibility ol General Malcolm Seawd for Governor in i960.! in the prime of mania shop-worn like some of t who have frequently h tioned in the past V# a long bet that Covet* is going to warn a loyal succeed him in the | mansion. More and nw ginning to look as it Ik (ration candidate may k rather than I.other I •Torn Pearsall, or M Should this be tile cai have two candidates I* mg counties in the Set gressiona! district, furl ford is from Fayette*! berland County which I well's home county d A race between Seand ford would 'or should' interesting campaign-1 stand Faubus s victory sas started some Tar ticiaus talking Beverir governor in 1#60. Gore’s win in Tennes* off. Strange alliam formed between ** squaring off time ht gubernatorial primaff From The Chapel Hill Newt School Boards Lead In Seer hei-M published. showing ,|lr degree towhicli <1 Meiem public agencies in ,f, tJe“3 closed .meetings. , ,lolrt jyet-j fur Ay loubciis. ,K)aV's °* cummissioners, honrrk „ education, hospital commissioners rtre? -iy dan,. rile nutter of particular V . . seems to be that the^nlv one of Th! T*!?1* here "which consistently holds Lee r ^ ions is one which leads .he pS T state in such private meetings ^ ^ ,ie board. ,ngs ~ ‘he school comm unicat ion1 nnd Vee Tbinkiat-' °pen he the ripe heart of i£ existencel° paradoxical that the hoard of J f' scerm no, be advanced b, 1,°,,^<"»■ respect. ''inking m this In a iu 11-page feature article for tl. n ban, Morning Herald, staff Dm jone, reviews ditierem case, ol \ *-«— ^ . secret meet *nKs by public groups in this only reference to this community .7 IU IIII> i 17III11** "In Chapel Hill, the Oasis of weeks ago, the Town's Board of .- *-. dead went behind closed doors to tioji of what to do about Card Cross pupils attending Chapel Hi Mr. Jones could also have added in a few weeks of this part iritis * local Board not onty met behindf but behind double-locked do"ri, ing concerned pupil assignment school years as provided by 11'1' f his newspaper has always in*"1 men of good faith on pnblif ----- sn IdliUI have an opportunity to disci**’r tn closed sessions. But issues a" matter. The public must bein'0 Missions of issues by its public government is to be ellt(l1 Our disappointment at the 11 C..I_i n_ . • _mi local School Board in t out in"'11' in secret as it sees fit is exceeded apparent disinterest of the pu ibli£ 1
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