. 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.
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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." ' , ; •:
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