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SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK:
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of
knowledge. - Proverbs 23:12.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge
to love and imitate him. - Milton.
Grove Academy
James Sjjrunt Institute
Duplin County was formed in 174# by
the Colonial Assembly from New Hanover. It
is estimated that some 3,000 people lived in
the Lower Cape Fear region at that time. The
census of 1790 reported that the entire state
had a white population of only 288,204.
As early as 1736 Governor Johnson had
urged the legislature to do something about
education. "In all civilised societys of mov"
he said, "it has always been looked upon as
a matter of the greatest consequence to their
peace and happiness, to polish the minds of
young persons with some degree of learning,
and early to instill into them the principles
of virtue and religion." Finally, in 1734, an
act was passed which appropriated 0,000
pounds for education, but the money was
"borrowed and employed" for military pur
The promotion of formal education in
North Carolina was slow hut not because the
people lacked interest in "the finer things of
life." Finally, in 1795, the University of North
Carolina opened its doors with Hinton James
from neighboring Pender as the first student.
The University is the oldest State University in
the United States. Prior to the opening of the
University, the legislature chartered a num
ber of private schools, called academies. The
legislature created a governing board of trus
tees and dgftadJts powers and duties. They
wefe alloWedTW^graht certificates, but not
diplomas or degrees. They were operated pri
marily for education and not for profit Their
finances came from donations and fees vary
ing from twelve to twenty dollars a term of
several months.
Ten years before the University, one of
these academies was founded in Kenansvilie
by legislative grant in 1785 "to fit young men
for college, or to prepare them for the ordi
nary walks of life." This academy known as
"Grove Academy" operated off and on for
132 years until its closed permanently in 1907.
Capt. W. J. Houston, Duplin Civil War
hue; Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, Vice
President of the United States William Rufus
King and Congressman B. F. Grady attended
this academy.
In 1886, James Spnint Institute, a Pres
byterian school for girls, and maintained by
Wilmington Presbytery, opened in Kenansville
and operated as late as the middle 1920's.
This institute was founded by Henry
Farriar and Dr. James W. Blount, and first
called Presbyterian Female Institute. The
name was later changed to honor Dr. Spnint,
local Presbyterian pastor for 30 years.
t Dr. Sprunt was born January 14, 1818 in
in Perthshire, Scotland, and educated in
Edinburgh. He came to North Carolina in 18
SO and taught school at Hallsville and Rich
lands, and married the daughter of Nicholas
Hall of Hallsville. He moved to Kenansville
in 184S and assumed charge of Grove Acaremy
for 15 years.
In 1848 he became a candidate for the
Presbyterian ministry and on May 8, 1851
became pastor of Grove Church in Kenans
ville, continuing to teach in the schools.
He was a chaplain during the War Be
tween the States and after the war, served as
register of deeds of Duplin County for 14
years. He died at Kenansville December 8,
1884 and is buried near Hallsville.
The new division of Wayne Technical
Institute opened last week in DupUn to be
known as James Sprunt Institute has a greet
heritage, and wonderful and far-reaching pos
sibilities to offer, not only instruction in the
liberal arts and sciences, but in many voca
tional subjects as well. The purpose of old
Grove Academy founded in Kenansville 179
years ago was "to fit young men for college,
or to prepare them for ordinary walks of life."
Nearly two hundred years later, it is still
necessary to prepare for the ordinary wafts
of life as well as some for college. Vocational
, training is far more essential now than then.
Certainly, we in Duplin are more interested in
providing for "the polishing of the minds" of
our youths than our forebears of the 1700's. We
could not be true to our heritage, our tradi
tion, our trust and our youth if we did not en
courage in every measure this modern name
sake of that great undertaking of our fathers.
Big Stake In Tobacco
Through an official agency, the public
health service, the government has warned its
citizens that smoking is a health hazard. If
enough citizens heed the warning and douse
their cigaretts for good, a major industry will
come crashing down, a major cash crop will
face ruin and an important source of state
and federal income will be blighted
In 1982, the total value of manufactured
tobacco products was about |8 billion, 85 per
cent of it produced in the South. Tobacco was
the ninth ranking farm commodity in sales
during 1982. In North Carolina, the largest
tobacco producer, tobacco accounted for 48.7
per cent of all farm commodity sales. Tobacco
sales abroad now bring this country nearly
1609 million annually in badly needed foreign
exchange.
If smoking slumped, federal and state
tax revenue would suffer. Federal tobacco
taxes brought in $2 billion in fiscal 1962, state
taxes an additional 81.1 billion. In Wisconsin,
dgaret taxes produced 38,208,000 in 1962.
Several (actors are likely to take the
government off the hook. For one thing, based
on British experience two years ago, efcen the
most sober warning probably won't persuade
many people to stop smoking. For another,
congress is unlikely to pass any laws which
might discourage tobacco consumption, now or
in the immediate future. Key senate and
house committees are studded with guardians
from the tobacco states. The chairman of the
house agriculture committee is Representa
tive Cooley (Dem., N. C.). whose district has
10,144 tobacco farms. Including Cooley, nine
committee members represent a total of 37,000
tobacco farms in nine states.
Congress is more likely to vote funds for
stepped-up government research to isolate the
hazardous element in smoke and eliminate it
The development of a "safe" cigaret, if there
is such a thing, would permit the country to
puff its way out of the dilemma.
The Milwaukee Journal.
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Wmnibet
frtm William C. Blerley,
P cylinder phono
rning glory borna.
Id gather in our
i to thoao early
la. Folka would
Mho record until
M^ln1 tt^Ada
She had a eweet,
country voice to
our feet to Tte
w?a nwwtvSee!
loved, "Tell Me
1MM and "Teddy
Bear* Picnic," 1808. l(y uncle got
so tired of a 1808 record, "What
Did the Parrot Say?"?he usually
added his own words as it ended.
My father had a tired arm from
winding the machine when ten
thirty came and the neighbors
went home, but he was happy.
How I would love to see neiife
bors gather in homes once more,
and to hear again that hearty
'??m?ter.
Rev. ROBERT H. HARPER
GOOO niDAY
IN SOME PLACES 1 have
known some good people to ob
serve Good Friday as day to go
Ashing. Good Friday should stir
the hearts of all of us, whether on
a Ashing stream or in the Church
of God.
See bow Jesus came in fulAll
ment of prophecy. When Jacob
lay dying, he called all his sons
about him and told them what
should befall them in the latter
days. And unto the kingly Judah
be declared, "The sceptre shall
not depart from Judah, nor a law
giver from between his feet until
Shiloh come, and unto him shall
the gathering of the people be."
On the very night before ita
obedience to the decree of Augus
tus Caesar that all the world
should be taxed, Joseph and Marj
went to Bethlehem and Jesui
was born in Bethlehem of Judea
and soon thereafter the lawgivei
passed from Judah.
And now they bring forth Lamt
of God to crucify him betweei
two thieves. One thief cursed siw
railed on him, saying, "If thot
be God save thyself and us." Th<
other thief rebuked the rallini
one, saying, "Dost thou not feai
God. seeing we are in the sami
condemnation . . . but this mai
hath done nothing amiss." Thei
he cried unto Jesus, "Lord, re
member me when thou comes
into thy kingdom." And soft am
sweet the words of Jesus mus
have sunk into his tortured sou
with the touch of an In Unite calm
"Today thou shalt be with n
in paradise." Of these things am
others may we think as we leal
to Jesus on the cross. And ma;
mem be if''*
"Lord, r?
Washington - - FILIBUSTER
OR DEBATE? Debate concern
ing pending legislative propos
als is essential to the proper
functioning of any true legisla
tive body. 'When a Senator a
rises upon the Floor of the Sen
ate and expresses his views
concerning the merits or de
merits of a pending legislative
proposal for the purpose of per- .
suading other Senators to agree
with him. he is engaged in
what must be described as an
educational debate. Undoubted
ly. educational debate serves
the public interest best when a
minority actually convinces a
majority of the real merits or
demerits of a legislative pro
posal under consideration, and
thus change their status from
that of the minority to that of
the majority.
There is a fundamental dis
tinction between an educational
debate in which participating
Senators seek converts to what
they conceive to be the truth in
respect to pending legislative
proposals and a filibuster whi
ch is merely "the use of ex
treme dilatory tactics (as
speaking merely to consume
time) by an individual or group
in an attempt to delay or pre
Bibie Facts
Of Interest
BY : ELLA V. PRIDGEN
THE TRIUMPH OP WINGS
They shall mount up with
wings as eagles ? Isaiah 40:31.
You have seen one of God's
little creatures of the sky
standing upon a flimsy branch
pouring forth his sweetest mel
odies. What a wonderful choris
ter is he, and an equally won
derful preacher; unmindful of
the fraUity of his perch, he
merrily sings.
He is quite independent of
the limb on which he stands. If
it should break beneath his
feet, his wings will lift him in
to the broad expanses of the
sky. The happy songster prea
ches to us a moat excellent ser
mon on the triumph of wings.
The things of this world on whi
ch we rest our earthly hopes
are are all of them like "a bra
nch that is ready to breaw."
Earthly security is very inse
cure. Our sweetest temporal
happiness may at any moment
| be shattered. Every day the
branches are breaking beneath
| somebody's feet. Our hearts
| are frequently oppressed by the
, branches that has broken be
i neath us and fearful of the
, time when others will break,
r Hie bird that sings tells us of
another way.
> Enjoy life's blessings while
you have them. Though you feel
the branch trembling, stand on
it, and sing your sweetest song.
Do not put your trust in the
branch but in the wings. You
have wings, keep strong the
wings of faith. If loss or sor
row befalls you, your wings will
lift you into the heights where
hope never dies.
The greatest fact in the na
ture of man is the wings of Ms
spirit. No loss or sorrow of ear
th can trim the spirit's, wings.
Sing the happiest and sweetest
notes that your heart knows in
the face of every disaster.
Taken from Costen J. Har
rsil's work.
vent action by a majority in
a legislative or deliberative as
sembly." If we are to reach a
sound conclusion as to whether
Senators are engaging in an
educational debate or a fili
buster, we must have some re
liable standard on which to
base our decision.
Manifestly, we cannot leave
the determination of this ques
tion solely to the caprice of the
Senators charged with filibus
tering or the advocates of the
pending civil rights proposals.
The United States Senate,
which is the only legislative
body now existing on the face
of the earth with rules designed
to secure to minorities a rea
sonable opportunity to express
their views, has established a
standard for determining
whether Senators %e engaged i
in an educational debate or a
filibuster.
This standard is embodied in
Rule XXn, which provides that
a Senator or a group of Sena
tors can speak upon a pending
bill until two-thirds of the Sen
ators in attendance vote to end
debate. This rule gives the Sen
ate its distinctive character
and has enabled the Senate on
many occasions in times past to
stand as the bulwark for the
preservation of constitutional
government and individual lk>
erty. Some persons who think
that the Senate should act with
out full and fair debate as do
the counterfeit legislative bod
ies in totalitarian countries
would abolish Rule XXII, and
permit 51 Senators to condemn
the other 49 to silence when
ever they so desire. If a ma
jority of the Senate is even
given the power to.prevent a
substantial minority to stand on
the floor of the Senate and tell
the truth about pending legisla
tive proposals, the United Sta
tes is in danger of being de
stroyed by the power of a ma
jority and that moment will
mark the death knell of liberty
for all Americans.
Impatient men - - and par
ticularly those who advocate
so-called civil rights bills - - -
condemn Rule XXII. In so do
ing they resort to the unhappy
practice which has risen in our
land in recent years to use
smear words rather than rea
son to obtain their demands.
When all is said, they do not
believe in freedom of speech
for those who disagree with
them, and succumb easily to
the tempatjon to applg the
smear wor4; "filibuster toiny
speech By-* Senator who ex
presses views contrary to
theirs.
When the Senate established
Rule XXII, it recognized the
truth that a substantia] minor
ity must be protected from the
tyranny of the majority if lib
erty is to endure - - a truth
which impelled the framers of
the Constitution to require the
vote of two-thirds of the U. S.
Congress and the concurrence
of three-fourths of the States
to amend the Constitution, and
the vote of two-thirds of the
Senate to impeach the Presi
dent.
While it requires the vote of
twot-hirds of the Senators in at
tendance to bring a debate to
a close. Rule XXII contains an
additional provision which per
mits 16 of the 100 members of
the Senate to obtain a vote
every two days on the question
whether the debate should be
brought to a close.
SENATOR
SAM ERYIN
* SAYS *
Uncle Pete From ChHtlin Switch
(DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I wasa reading a ooupie
items in the papers this week
that ought to be pasted on
President Johnson's desk. He
has allowed as how he was
going to out spending to the
bone and here is a chanet fer
him to cut bone and all.
Right now they was remodel
ing Old Ironsides at the Boston
Naval Shipyard at a cost of
1700,000. This is the fourth time
in 100 year this old tub has
been rebulit, according to this
item in the papers, and the
taxpayers has now got more
than U million invested In a
ship that didn't' cost but $65,
000 when it was put in the wat
er in 1797.
This piece said the job was
give to the Navy shipyard with
out a bid while the Bethlehem
Steel Company had to close
down its shipyard next door on
account of not gitting enough
business to pay its taxes to help
the Guvernment shipyard com
pete agin 'em.
The second item was a re
port from Washington that the
Atomic Energy folks has spent
$2.6 million to dig a hole fer
testing near Hattiesburg, Mis
sissippi and has now found the
hole ain't suitable fer what
they had in mind. I reckon they
will spend another $2.6 million
covering up the hole. It makes
the taxpayer wonder if them
folks actual knows a atom from
a hole in the ground.
They ain't no quicker way.
Mister Editor, our Guvernment
can git back the confidence of
the- American people than to
knock a few heads together
and throw these folks out of a
job. Fer instant, I see by the
papers where the Navy is still
holding out fer black dress
shoes when all the other ser
vices is using brown shoes. The
General Accounting Office re
ports that this is coating the
taxpayers (158,000 extra ever
year. The piece went on to say
the brass in the Pentagon has
been debating this matter fer
the last six year. If they can
settle it in another six. it
won't cost the taxpayers but t ,
another (048,000. And by that
time Old Ironsides will prob
able be needing another re
built job.
Another item in the papers
last week that caught my eye
was the one about the U. 8.
Embassy in London distribut
ing 18,000 pamphlets explaining
to the British people how us
Americans pick a President. I
shore would like to git hold of
one of them pamphlets and im
prove my ignorance in this
matter.
And I see where the U. S.
Department of Oommerence is t ,
making a survey on the cost of
being born and the cost of git
ting buried. It will be safe to
perdict that these matters will
show a neat profit at both
ends.
It has come to the place. Mis
ter Editor, where all I can hope
to do is keep up with yester
day. I've enjoyed a heap of
prosperity in the last 20 year
but I've had to mail most of it
to Washington.
Yours truly,
Uncle Pete
11%
TRY A TRICK ON YOURSELF
AND HAVE A NESTEG6 AT 65
YOU MIGHT FEATHER your
nest for retirement if you will
adapt a technique used by some
of the stores that sell you mer
chandise on the installment plan.
George W. Evans, who did it?
and thereby was able to swap a
cold apartment for a house beside
an orange tree at 65?tells how
it's done.
"When some of the stores sell
you a bedroom suite; a piano or
refrigerator," -he says? ^they apt
up a time payment plan for yeu
calling for payments of something
like $40 a month. Then they put
a yellow tab on your credit card
that will pop up just two months
before your last payment.
"A salesman is notified. He in
vites you to the store, and makes
a big pitch to sell you something
else for $40 a month. You're al
ready budgeted for it. You're ac
customed to paying it. After a
year you hardly miss it anymore.
"It's good psychology on the
part of the store, and it often
works . . ."
Mr. Evans made it work for
him when the last of his three
children finished college. He was
56 ?t the time. He made it work
again two years later when his
mother died.
"For almost 10 years Mama and
I had been skimping to get the
kids through college," he ex
plains. "Skimping had become a
way of life. We started out paying
$900 a year for the first child,
jumped to $1600 when two of the
kids doubleid up on us in college,
then wound up with the last child
at a flat $1200 a year.
"Suddenly we were free of the
long burden. It was like getting
a $1200 raise. And we were so
used to getting by without this
particular $1200 that we didn't
really need it . . ."
So Mr. Evans, assured of basic
security in retirement with pen
sion prospects of $345 a month,
decided to Ub the $1200 a year
for investment in stocks.
"I made a deal with a broker
to turn over $100 a month to
him, on the same basis I had been
supplying it to the child in col
lege, and he was to put it in
specified Blue Chip common
stocks. Mama and I never missed
it because things just went on
as they had fer so long ... " ,
He picked a good list of stocks.
And it happened at a good mo
ment in history?from the mid
fifties stocks were doing fine
When dividends started coming he
turned them back into more stock
And when his mother died, the
$50 a month he had been giving
toward her support for seven
years went the way of the college
money. The Evans household
didn't miss that either.
In the nine years from the time
Mr. Evans bought his first stock
until he retired at 65, he had
put roughly $15,000 into the pot
Thanks to the dividends that h<
reinvested, and the strong growth
of some of the stocks, he reachec
65 with slightly more thar
$34,000.
"It was now time to stop takini >
chances, which you do when yoi
buy common stocks," says Mr
Evans. "So I sold the entire lot
of common stocks and put the
$34,000 into bonds and preferrec
stocks, for an average return ol
4Vi per cent.
"Now I had a reasonably safe
income of $120 a month fron
here on, in exchange for givint
up $100 a month for nine years
and $50 for seven. And to boo
I had $34,000 to leave my chil
dren, or spend if I wanted to ..
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March 28, 1882. Napoleon entered Parte after eacape front Elba,
March 28,1815.
Been on March 21 were Jobann Sebastian Bach (1685); Plerens
Zlegfeld (1888) and Poet Henry Kirke White (1185).
Nevada passed a six-weeks divorce law, March 22, 1811. King
George HI signed the Stamp Act, March 22. 1765.
Germany's "Big Bertha" began bombardment of Paris, March 22,
1818. The 2nd British Army crossed the Rhine River, March 23, 1845.
Spain recognised the independence of the United States, March 34,
1783. Excavation was started for the Mrst New York City sabway,
March 24, 1888.
Ike UA and Great Britain agreed on the boandary of Alaska,
Match 25,1885.
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