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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1959
“Let us have faith that right makes might; and. in that faith let us to the
end, dare to do our duty as we understand it”—Abraham Lincoln.
Jown's bond
considerable
Regardless of the fact that less than
24 per cent of the eligible voters made
the decision, we consider it to be of far-
reaching significance to the Town of
Raeford that the decision was made to
issue the $480,000 in bonds for improv
ing the water and sewer systems of
the town. As a matter of fact, a little
figuring shows that less than 14 per
cent of the town’s voters favored the
spending of the money enough to go to
the voting place and cast a ballot. That’s
just as much a decision as if 94 per cent
had made it, however.
A great deal more will be accomp
lished in the years to come by the de
cision of these few for so many than
the mere provision of sewage disposal
without odor or stream contamination,
and the assurance of enough water the
next time all of us want to shave or
make coffee at the same time in the
morning, or of enough to fight a fire
for that matter.
The decision was actually one of
whethef the town should plan to move
forward and grow, or to move backward
and start a slow drying up process,- al
though probably neither of these re
sults would come about solely as a re
sult of this one election.
To take the positive way of stating
Tragedy is brought home
Wind whipped like a frenzied demor
across the wreck scene that was a liv
ing nightmare. The big truck lay on its
side ,two other vehicles showed signs
of having been hit, and the station wa
gon was a crumpled mess.
The child’s car seat lay on the gray
payment, a bright happy ornament
pitifully crushed. Under a khaki blan
ket the woman lay awaiting the ambu
lance.
You always read the statistics and
you cluck sympathetically. You say;
Something should be done about these
highway accidents.
And then you see it and the scene
knifes into the heart and memory.
These are neighbors or members of
the same church or the same club. It
is much more frightening when the
people are known.
Tragedy is tragedy under any circum-
• stances; when it strikes friends and
neighbors, it is doubly so.
Accidents on the highways do pass
with little concern when those involved
are strangers to us. And the indiffer
ence felt toward accidents in the next
state is likely to make those in our own
state more frequent.
And still the toll mounts. It would
be rankly presumptuous to offer a rea
son. No one seems to have the answer.
That is all the more reason that any
trip by auto, to New York, to Charlotte,
or to the drug store for cigarettes, must
be undertaken with the grim realiza
tion that automobiles are deadly and
the odds are against us.
—Jay Woodard
AIJ lose under compulsion
strike in basic industries have rais
ed a question as to the validity of free
collective bargaining. Some feel the
government should intervene with com
pulsory arbitration. The trouble with
this in the words of Secretary of Labor
Mitchell is that, “As soon as govern
ment fixes wages. . . it must go on to
determine conditions of work, fix hours,
hear grievances and. . . dictate details
of production. And does anyone think
for a moment that the government can
determine what wages are fair. . .
without eventually determining what
prices are fair. . . a government can
not assume tne power to fix wages
without eventually assuming the pow
er to fix prices. . .”
The principle involved in compul-
*ory arbitration ia not compatible with
• free society. It would mean the end
of the free market. Eventually it would
cripple the magnificent mass retail dis
tribution system which as a partner to
mass production has built a standard
of living in this country that is the envy
of the world.
So no matter how fearful the pros
pect of the resumption of a steel strike
may be. we must think long and well
before we consider solving it worth the
sacrifice of our precious freedom, which
will be ours only so long as we continue
to hold it precious.
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"Radio Russia says that America is
a hysterical topsy-turvy country where
people eat upsidedown cake, doors go
round in circles and everybody has an
inside outhouse.”
—Sangamon Co. (Ill.) Bulletin
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decision is of
significance
it, the town will now be able to adeeju-
ately take care of sewer disposal for the
most optimistic residential and indus
trial growth for some years to come.
The same will apply to water supply,
with the added assurance that fire in
surance underwriters will not be look
ing this way with a frown nor the rat
ing bureau with a sharpened pencil to
raise our rates.
Of much more importance to the fu
ture of the town, however, than these
purely physical and obvious benefits is
the fact that the town, by this vote, has
showed itself to be progressive ,able to
look at the facts, and not afraid to spend
money when the necessity arises. There
are towns this size today who could not
say the same in years past when the
occasion arose, and we figure this is a
good key to why they are still the same
size.
Raeford can now look any contem
plating business, resident or industry
squarely in the eye and say, “We are
going to do what needs to be done to
make this a good .town, spend what
needs to be spent. You may not live
here more cheaply than in some places,
but you can probably live better.”
This vote has just put us into a class
with communities that we are modest-,
ly proud to be among.
Ike
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The Puppy Creek Philotopher
Advises Rest Of World Not To Hold
Back OifiAccount Of Him, Mongolia
Editor’s note: The Puppy
Creek Philosopher on his
Bermuda grass discusses a
deep subject this week, but
not too profoundly.
Dear editar:
One of the reporters following
President Eisenhower on his
tour of the world has wired
back that a leader in one of the
more backward, or to be more
diplomatic, less forward coun
tries pointed out to him that
“as long as one spot on earth is
underdeveloped,
the rest of the
world is held
back that much.’’
I’m convinced
of that all right,
but is the rest of
the world?
For example,
take my Bermu
da grass farm
out her e. Re
gardless of how you stretch the
truth, you can’t stretch it far
enough to cover the fact thi^
place is underdeveloped, yet I’ve
been watching the rest of the
world, from my nearby neighbors
on out in all directions, and if
any of them are being held back
by me, I can’t tell it.
I can’t understand it, but some
people have a tendency to ignore
this basic law and forge on a-
head, little aware that I can
prove it to them in writing that
they’re being held back by me,
Afghanistan, Mongolia, the Afri
can jungles, the frost-bitten
North Pole, and several people
whose names I won’t call and
you wouldn’t publish if 1 did.
Understand, I don’t blame
them. I don’t mind saying, if the
rest of the world is looking back
over its shoulder wondering
when I’m going to catch up and
free it to move forward, it can
stop looking. 1 don’t intend to
budge.
If disaster is going to hit the
world as a lot of leaders are
fealing, I can’t see any differ-
enoe in sitting still and waiting
for it. than in rushing forward
and mjeeting it, except that the
former is easier, lejs expensive,
and you can do it sitting by a
warm fire.
However to tell you the truth,
I don’t really think disaster is
going to hit, at least not in my
lifetime. Man is pretty smart, all
right, lots of times his guided
missiles shoot straight, but not
having created himself, I doubt
if he can eliminate himself alto
gether.
When that foreign leader
claims that as long as one spot
on earth is underdeveloped, the
rest of the world is held back
that much, I understand what
he’s getting at, but I doubt if
Washington can afford it.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
This Is The Law
By Robert E. Lee
(For N. C. Bar Association)
ORAL MORTGAGE
Joe Jones owned a farm that
was worth $50,0(X). Needing $2,-
000, he went td see Tom Tucker
for the purposes of negotiatin|
a loan for this amount. '
It was orally agreed, in the
presence of several witnesses,
that Jones should convey his
farm to Tucker by an ordinary
deed and that the delivered
should stand as a mprtgagi
secure the loan of $2,000
Jones should have as muc:
three years to redeem the sal
Jones executed and delivered
deed and got the loan of $2,1
on the basis of this agreem
Two years later Jones tei
ed to Tucker the $2,000, with i*-
terest, and requested the re-con
veyance of his farm. Tucker re
fused to re-convey the farm. He
had decided, subsequent to the
making of the oral agreement,
that he liked the farm and want-
ted to keep its ownership.
Does Jone have a legal reme
dy?
No. Jones has conveyed to
Tucker his farm by an absolute
deed and Jones no longer has
any rights of ownership in the
farm. He has disposed of his $50,-
000 farm for $2,000.
This was an actual case decid
ed by the Supreme Court of
North Carolina. Jones and his
witnesses were not even permit
ted to testify as to the terms of
the oral agreement at the time
that the deed was delivered.
In North Carolina that which
appears on its face as an absolute
deed cannot be changed by oral
evidence into a mortgage except
upon proof that the clause of re
demption was omitted by rea
son of fraud, mistake, or undue
Influence. There is no fraud,
from a legal viewpoint, merely
from the fact that a person has
failed to keep his promise. .
Jones knew, or ought to have
known, that he was conveying
his land by an ordinary deed to
Tucker. The law requires mort
gage transactions relating to land
be spelled out in writing. Igno
rance of the law is no excuse.
Jones would have been pro
tested if he had used a mortgage
or a deed of trust. Instead,
W vised an ordinary deed of con
veyance. The meaning of a deed
cannot be varied by an oral a-
.^j|y*emeht of the parties.
Zj,§iidelines...
By The Staff
always jolts us to see
sas’’ written instead of
ChHstmas.
* * * *
We figure there’s enough
smoke at Ivy Bluff to indicate
the presence of some fire.
• • * •
Now here’s a switch.. .a man
who actually admits being a can
didate for political office drops
out of the race.
Eisenhower should have
joyed his “Song of India”.
en-
We have become so accustom
ed to slaughter on the highways
that a weekend death toll of 13
on the roads doesn’t even make
the front page.
* « • *
, Those horses at Meredith prob
ably had to go hungry for a day
or two this week.
• • • •
How long before Raeford will
get an Early American food
store?
Those who ire worrying about
the population boom take heart
Mark Welsh
I FARMING AROUND
I By Mark Welsh
I Thinking of buying a used
baler between now and next sea-
j son? A quick check of three key
I points can tell you a lot about
ssj'iS the machine
and maybe
s a v e unneces-
- 3 '5s sary repair bills
‘ and headaches
later on. The
knotter is a pri-
m a r y trouble
spot, so look for
worn, broken
or chipped
teeth. If the
worm gear has
been adjusted
recently, it might indicate ex
cessive wear. Check the needles
for proper alignment and make
sure the plunger blocks fit close
together in the bale chamber. If
they don’t you may have to re
place them.
B • •
Farm Weather Reporting^
Farmers may some day receive'
special kinds of weather reports, i
Wisconsin scientists are trying to
And ways to measure the amount
of water given off to the air and
evaporated by plant processes,
so it can be compared to the
amount of moisture put into the
soil and serve as an indicator for
irrigation needs. They also are
working on instruments that
would. measure and record soil
temperature, dew fall and wind
velocities. Researchers believe
there’s a need for specialized
farm weather reporting because
present reports are not always
suitable for farm interpretation.
For instance, wind velocities are
usually measured considerably
above crop levels and many oth
er observations are made at air
ports where conditions may vary
greatly from those on farms in
we area. ,,
In ' 1950, approximately 340
million hens laid an average of
174 eggs each per year for a
total of nearly 59 billion eggs.
This year, we have about 301
million hens but average output
is up to /or an estimated
total of 64'i billion eggs. More!
eggs, fewer hens, less feed.... I
wonder if man’s efficiency is im
proving as fast? /
(Editors Note: Dr. Mark Welsh
is a former university instructor
and state livestock sanitary
service director who has spent
a lifetime in agriculture. He now
is agricultural consultant to
American Cyanamid Company.)^
© Mark Welsh, 1959
One of the national news maga
zines has word of a solution.
There is talk of a bomb that
will equal a trillion tons of TNT
and will wipe out a whole conti
nent .
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This head was carried on an
article in a New York city paper;
“Deer Season Ends;
27 Hunters Killed”
Is that over the quota?
That "Titan” missile
to be less than titanic.
-0-
proved
There are about 44,(XX) farnt
ponds in North Carolina.
thoughts in passing.
• •••
A recent column in one of the
daily papcTS carried some start
ling contrasts between the way
we live and the sort of life led by
most of the peoples of the
world. Reprinted here in its en
tirety the column was written by
Ralph McGill, editor of the At
lanta Constitution. He says:
There was a line in a story
which said President Eisenhow
er in India and Pakistan, rode
between solid lines' of people
whose massed numbers portray
ed the poverty and misery of
Asia.
What did Khrushchev see in
this country?
Fabulous supermarkets, - with
food from all the great produC’
. tion areas of the world on their
shelves; a magnificent net work
of truck-and-automobile crowd
ed highways, railroad systems
and airlines; a healthy, overfed
people, the poorest of them rich
beyond comparison with Asia’s
millions; homes, apartments and
farms. Not-even teeming, tense
Harlem was so badly over-run as
some of his own densely populat
ed urban areas.
He saw, too, some of our stor
ed agricultural wealth ... $6
billion worth of cheese, wheat,
com, butter, powdered milk,
cotton.
And what did Khrushchev
think?
We know he cannot have fail
ed to think that if he had had all
that surplus of food and fiber
he would have made' political
capital of it in Asia. He had al
ready seen the multitudes of
Asia and had looked upon, and
smelled, their misery and pov
erty.
Let us summon two more wit
nesses—two more pairs of eyes
who have seen what Khrushchev
and Eisenhower have seen.
One of these is a Congressman,
Hale Boggs, of Louisiana, a con
servative. He is just recently
back from Southeast Asia and
the Middle East.
What did Mr. Boggs see?
“I found,” he said, “an almost
savage desire among peoples of
such lands for the comforts they
know are available in the world
.. the Communist propaganda is
telling them that the Marxist
JtT Woodard
way ia the quickeat aai nred
road to obtaining Rwm.” (It M
a good phraae—if a frigktaalBg
one...“an almoot nrafe da;»-
nre.")
Call the next witnecs—the hia-
torian Toynbee. Mr. Toynbee,
what is the most exploaive
lopment o four age? •J ’
“This qingle fact—^that mU*
lions of backward people in the
remotest villages of Asia, Africi
and Latin America have a new
awreness of possibility— a new
hope of escape from the old vi
cious memory of poverty, hun
ger, and disease. These milliont
are rising to demand a better ■
life, a new personal dignity, and •
expanding opportunities. Their'
awakening is the paramount fact -
of our itme.”
It would almost seem that Con- • •
gressman Boggs and Historian’-*
Toynbee had traveled togetheir
and compared notes. But they
did not. What they have seen is
what every person has seen who
has been to Asia where the great •
compulsive world changes are
most apparent.
What does Ike think? ■
We can imagine. He certainly-:
will come home with a sense of'-'
orgency. He will have amend- -
ments for ol dplans. He will be
stirred and moved by the sight
of so much humanity, flowing a.
like rivers through the streets,-
much of it nearly naked, and'-
nearly all of it thin and most bl
it hungry. :
Can America be dripping with'-
fat and remain safe while the.%
vast revolution of which travel- '
er Boggs and Townbee ' have-:
spoken and the President is see-'
ing goes on about us? Can we. ■
destroy the image of America
as a land of free peoples and'
equal opportunity? Can we argue •"
about the rights of all citizens---
to vote and have housing and '
education on an equal basis? Can -
we enjoy the luxury of strikes '
and production stoppages at a
time when om: economy must ex
pand to give us momentum and
power?
Ike in Pakistan, Ike in India,'
Ike in Africa—poses a question
the real one.
What do we think?
SCHOOL
And Your Child
By John Corey
Scientists are made not born.
The sooner they start on their
way the better.
Elementary school educators
realize this and efforts to teach
scientific concepts and principles
through experiments and other
activities begin as early as the
1st grade, explains Dr. David
Middleton of Appalachian State
Teachers College.
Professor Middleton conducts
workshops in elementary science
for teachers wanting to improve
their instructional skills at var
ious localities in the state where
his services are requested.
Actually few children are ex
pected to become scientists, says
Dr. Middleton. The important re
ward from science study is that
it molds young minds toward the
scientific thinking way of doing
and understanding things.
Scientific thinking involves
solving problems step by step,
using first-hand simple materials,
thinking clearly and logically,
asking the right kind of ques
tions, supporting conclusions by
fact.
Such a conditioned frame of
mind helps a youngster in every
activity he engages, emphasizes
Dr. Middleton, from reading,
arithmetic and spelling to just
plain living.
Yet science suffers as a field
where many parents and some
teachers lose confidence and are
apt to say, as the child docs: “1
can’t.”
Opportunities .for scientific
learning, however, lie all around
us, both at school and home.'
Taking advantage of them can
be plenty of fun.
They’re found in the soil,
weather aq^ gro\Y,ing plants; in
the teakettle that Imilvthfl steam
engine that puffs its cloud of
smoke, the egg beater witj(i its
interlocking gears, the ai^lane
zooning overhead, the keesaw on,^
the playground, the rabbit in the ^
pen.
Children inevitably ask about
the “why’s” and “how’s” of these
things. When they do, elemen
tary teachers and parents when
possible should sidestep text-
bookish explanations and set up,
simple experiments.
-Children find experimentation
delightful, states Dr Middleton.
A simple experiment, for in
stance, to answer the commocr
question from where rain conibc,
Would be to boil Wafer and Ibt^;
the youngsters see the steam ri^-;
and the water evaporate.
hold a piece of glass over thw
steam and see the water con
dense.
This makes more understand
able the concept that water eva
porates under certain conditions.
And once established, the con
cept can be built upon. Then
children can see why clothes dry
and mud puddles disappear.
From this they progress to un
derstand that water also evapor-,
ates from ponds, streams and
oceans. Then they understand
the water cycle. And finally^
some understanding of weatherilY
Yes, elementary folk can havp
fun with science and most Im-^
portant learn more about scientie':
Editor’s note: Those having
questions concerning any aspect s
of education are invited to send
inquiries to SCHOOL AND
YOUR CHILD, ASTC, Boone,
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