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By MeUin First MaltZoM-~S3per year By Mail outside First Mall Zone—«3.50 per year Never forget that the editorials in The News are the opinions of oite man, and he may be wrong. WHICH IS RIGHT? In- last Friday's ^llews and Observer an editorial congratulated Governor Kerr Scott on his-announced intention of checking behind his appointees to see who was and who wasn’t working. This is an extremely commendable intention and one that we can wholeheart edly agree with, but a front page story in that same day’s paper Uni fact that this same Governor had gone completely over and arotusf One* vf these appointive bodies with the appoint ment of his secretary, Charles Parker, to the post of publicity chief for that department. Parker is a good man and_ will fill the good sized shoes at Bill Sharpe as well as anyone We know, so this is no rebuke top the man but rather a question: What work is there for a so-called filling body to do if the governor runs the department.him self? 'there’s not much incentive for the members of the Conserva tion and Development Department to exert themselves now that their recommendations and motions have been so completely vetoed by the Chid? E*ecdti1j|. Of course it’s none of our business what you do with your to bacco but wd most assuredly feel that the wisest thing you can do is to wajt and sell it in Kinston when the market opens next week. Our reasons t Mostly selfish, we’ll admit, but selfish for you too. We need all the tobacco we can get here in Kinston during the first few weeks of the market in order to helpget a fifth set of buyers, if the floors can be kept filled mid the fifth set of buyers kept busy there’s a fair chance that we will get the long-needed fifth set of buyers. A fifth set of buyers will mean a lot to the farmers of this area. Better sendee higher prices, less waiting for sales and shorter hauls to find, an opfeti spot on a warehouse floor are a few of the things that the farmer will get from an additional set Of buyers in Kinston. If the pried is high on the border, it will be high in Kins ton; if the stabilization corporation buys it all on the border, it will be doiSig the same thing up here—and at the same parity priees. So Last' Monday at the joint meeting of the cdunty board of com missioners and the county welfare board difficulties arose oyer the size Of the welfare department budget and one of the commissioners, spiking from; (he depth at many years experience on the board, said, "The welfare department budget gets bigger every year. Where is the Mid?" There are three possible answers to that question. Let’s exam ine each: Firstly, we could accept the Hitlerian principle and Bimply put to death those people who have become unemployable, let the state adopt all dependent children and sterilize every man or woman who ever became parent of a dependent child. This is an answer that few'in the United States will oonsider. Secondly, we can continue as at present, trying within the lim its of available funds from the county, state and federal govern ments to bring the scant necessities 6f life to the old and indigent and to the unprovided for children of our land. This is expensive, as the commissioner has observed, but is there any substitute? Thirdly, each of us as individuals trained in the great principles of Christianity could accept personally our share of the burden of caring for the less fortunate. Each family, each church, each com munity could—as they did in the past—discharge its duty to the un fortunate. ¥oday many—too many—people cause the aged in their families to be on assistance rolls simply because “the money’s there; you might as well get it as the next door neighbor”. $his is a greedy impulse that little can be done to alter. ' The third alternative is filled with “ifs, ands, ors and buts”. A small rural community can and most frequently does do a much bet ter job of helping out the needy than cities and even towns. In Kins ton, for instance, which likes to call itself a city, how many of the people who holler the loudest about paying taxes for the “welfare state” have any notion of the miserable circumstance in which most welfare department clients are forced to live for one reason or anoth er? In many instances welfare department assistance is the result of failure on the part of some less belabored governmental unit. The schools turn loose on the streets every year thousands of people who have not been trained to earn a living, who have been neglected be cause of some physical or mental handicap which is no fault of the sufferer.-* The prisons spew out embittered misfits, unwanted, un prepared to cope with the struggle to keep body and soul together. The courts confound and often add to misery of innocent children who are cursed with incompetent parents. The church refusal to. accept such practices as sterilization, simplified adoption procedure, and separation of children from parents farther complicates an al ready complicated situation. : ^ None of us Is guiltless in this matter'of aid to the needy. How many times Jiave you turned your back on a person who needed eigier your pbytfcal aid or spiritual comfort? When you pay your relief in the koowled^B that a big slice used to do the job that you as an in ■ y County and Easter Jean King of Deep Hun. John Robertson Paul of Winter Haven, Florid*, and ^Margaret Hunt West of Kinston. Dolphus Allen, Jr., and Hazel Smith of Kinston. Edward Grady Patrick of Grif fon and Nell Gray Dail of Ayden Route 3. ■ It Happened in 76 The French scientist’s discov eries meant more to iwn^kinH t^n merely standardizing or improv ing the quality of a favorite bev erage. For he wrote in his book, “When we aee bear and wine sub jected to deep alterations because they have given refuge to micro organisms invimhly introduced... ' : .1. ■nr;-, t-tiiui-': I . -i wffiSPI pmte ?*; “i-Vg ' '■*{*. -■■• a}' ■? ■ ■ "i ::?v . ■ You Can Find Bargains Every Day In Our Store But On Dollar Days We Bring You EXTRA SAVINGS m rl
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