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. One balf the world doesn’t know how the other half lives. This is a statement heard over and over again and ft> eternally truthful. Last week Janes County Nurse Mrs. ,Ruth Simmons carried eight meshbersrtweh the same family to Durham where they are now re eeiVing eare hk:1U» Rapid Treatment Center for varying stages Of syphilis. Five adults and three children. This, the modem 20th century, the age. of science, the so-called Welfare State, and yet exist Is man his brother’s keeper? Medical science has the weapons to wipe out these crippling and killing Ve nereal daease but social science lags in the rear, permitting mediev al situations to exist in gur midst. ; ; i- A-mid-west mother has sighki with relief over the capture of the ?' confessed rapiat-murdererwho fiendishly killed her small child. The grief-stricken mother has been quoted as saying she was glad that he was captured so"-toe would not hurt any more little girls. What assurance does she have that this will be true?, Under the. absurdi ti ?s of our present laws a■ s<r-qqlied insane man cannot be put to death for his •crimes—toMuHder the Jersey character who practically <: wiped out a neighborhood and the North Carolinian who chopped h s wife into fine bits later .to be reprieved froiri a richly deserved death sentence, and committed for life imprisonment—a term much » abused these days. Capital punishment may or may not be prac tical from a crime-prevention point of view but so long as we as a state and nation practice this farm of punishment there is no good reason why .an insane person cannot-be put to death fear the same d imes that cause sane persons to be put to death. There are in stances—in most cases in factr—where so-called sane murderers have • reasons—at least to themselves for their crime—but the erased men and women who run wild on a community kill for pleasure. Let’s .< «1 nnge the law. - - **lfs a free country.” The haunting specter of Socialism even cruses our politicians to turn just a little pale. Mot too long ago , it caused them to burst Mood vesselS. The visiting speaker stressed tie effect, but not the cause of the situation facing the body politic in the policing and care of itself. The effect can be seen ariy day li »ht here at home in our local government. It is in the regulation of agriculture, Social Security and Unepiployment Compensation btnefiU, required welfare wire, and so on, in our ruthless economic pattern. \ To our way of thinking the New Jersey jurist cited the justifi cation for the growing social program in cold statistics, ft was M the numbering of the rapidly growing population, restricted in die framework of individual endeavor. The problems before the popu lation readied the 100 million mark were largely taken care of by small groups- of Individuals. ' Now they are not. Withing the fast multiplying population mass they seem to have become problems to be solved only frr*n autiiMity of cqmparable size—the county, state nr national gjoyeintuft<gg£&h V'*f y Most of us feel the burden of the social problem in the payment of tax dollars, and all of us- feel the encircling arm of socialized gov ernment in the nowadayp|M$»enditure of those dollars. We see the trend, pot as desirable, but as a continuing one. Socialism seems to be ffib legitimate childpj* bigness. If so, it is better to have such controls based on the will of the whole people than on the au tocratic dictatorship Of an unsympathetic few. The declaration is true. “It’s a free country”—within our means. — 24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE — Ml. Olive Mutual Burial An*n. SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING ily Night observance. Mrs. G. N. Noble, chairman of the Literature Department, in vited the dub members and guests to visit the Book Fair at the Trenton School during Na tional Education Week, spon sored by Miss Hjldegarde Brock, elenientary school librarian, and assisted by the Literature De partment Coihmittee. Mrs. No ble reported that sales on the first day rfrojn the 509 bodes on display had been most gratify ing. ' A social hour concluded the session during which the host esses directed the group in va rious forms erf informal enter tainment. Merriment was at its The clubhouse was very at tractive, decorated in Spanish moss, with mantel arrangements of magnolia foliage and chrysan themums in fall tones, flanked by white tapers ip crystal hold ers. From a beautifully appoint ed table, Mrs. James Henderson assisted by Mrs. W. H. Hammond and Mrs. W. W. Mallard served, lime punch, sandwiches, cakes and nuts. ' Model Airplanes Smith-Corona Typewriters Bicycles ;K: r Locksmithins Dollie and Letha Trott were the scoring aces ba the PtwttW and floor work of Do* Jraes, center forward, Nancy at»d Mel ba Banks, Beulah Riggs andLoa ise Mattocks, guards contributed greatly to the victory; Steven son was high scorer foe Alliance. - Che Maysvflle - Polloeksville beys took a beating from the Alliance boys but remained in high spirits and fought until the end, even though they were out classed. The score at the end was 48*10 ih favor of Alliance. The Junior girls and boys alaO played. Alliance won over both teams. . ■'.'UI with: dtown. who looks forward : |y|{|g. Kg imiph M ' a Tarheella is W I Jack. “I probly eat too much,” he says. “but a big meal never hurt* aw.” \ | ' But that’s where Jadk’s reason ing is wrong. As his friend Charlie reminded him the other dag: “One of these dags mil really overstuff yourself and be sony. I believe it always pays to lode ahead so you won’t make mistakes -now." ' , ; •: TRACTOR 1 Wrong types of oils and greases... or a neglected cooling system may "freeze” your tractor on an impor tine jab this winter. \W11 be safe if you bring It in for a complete checkup now, nod let us do everything neo {mil uMilif
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