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Perhaps by the time thla protest has seen the light of day It will have been to vain but at anyrate we want to say loudly and everlastingly that we are 100 per cent opposed to the law be fore the General Assembly which would make every fisherman have to buy a license in his home county, even while fishing with nothing but the innocent cane pole and a can of eel worms. It looks like the tax grabbers and the commission-minded characters who try to run the state could leave that one last refuge free of bother, however small. Ten cents or ten dollars; the price Is not the point. In this hectic world of qontrdls and more con trols; or taxes and more taxes there is a great psychological need for some refuge, some mental and physical hiding place whpre ope can sit and contemplate the wonders of nature and the pulsing Of Ids navel without being hounded by some menial of the law. To deny this one last happy hunting ground to the bewildered, the burdened Is to our way of thinking, adding that last straw to the camel’s back. It’s not the money involved; It’s the principal that Irks us so and then we're not exactly flush either, On Minority Responsibilities Last Monday night a young woman addressed herself to the Kinston Board of Aldermen by thanking them for, £he privilege of appearing before- them In spite of the fact that she represented two minorities, women and Negroes. A great deal of what this young woman had to say was Intelligent and worth sincere, con sideration but before returning to her seat She soured the milk, for us at least, by slipping inao a cnide effort at humor and remarking that she doubted that any of her children would ever swim in the proposed Negro swimmlng pool, but that perhaps’her grandchildren -As one of- those who has been most directly connected with the effort to'get a Negro swimming pool for Kinston as A member of the city recreation commission, we resent her inference from a personal standpoint but more largely, and certainly fair and above any personal consideration, we resent her attitude Just as ^e resent the attitude of anyone else, black or white, pink or green, yrho in sists on “business OR recreation as usual” when thousands of American boys are being shot at and killed in a war half way around the world. : v Many of those boys who are being shot at and killed are Negro boys and It is In extremely 111 grace for anyone to Insist, to be sarcastic or to be anxious about anything but ending this war and saving the lives of as many of those boys as possible. We trust that future representatives of either the female or the Negro minority will hesitate before raising such an irrelevant issue in times pressed by more urgent matters. Another Du Pont Turnpike? One of the nation’s most famous highways Is the Du Pont Turnpike in Delaware and if the present sound and fury in Lenoir County increases in proportion with the passing of time it is likely that another Du Pont highway will receive a lot of public acclaim if not notoriety. Let’s tplk about it for a little— • Back in the dizzy rumor-days when Kinston and Lenoir Coun ty hopes for a giant Du Pont plant were hanging on the exceed ingly thin thread of a 60 day option on Henry Canady’s farm up in Contentnea Neck Township a lot of talking, promising and . more talking ewre done. Some conscientious citizens talked when they should have been listening and one of the promises they made to Du Pont executives was a four-lane highway from Kinston to the plant site, a distance of some eight miles. Now it is our opinion that Du Pont doesn’t care- whether its workers come to the plant by tunnel, overhead bridge, street car or bicycle; their prime desire is that ample roadways be provided to permit reasonably fast traffic in and out of the1 plant which will operate on a round the, clock basis throughout the year. To us it seems logical that the present highway should be expanded into a four-lane roadway rather than tearing off across some of the best farm land in the world with another MO foot right-of-way. In the final analysis this is most likely to happen toy way, so let’s forget one of these courtship promises that was never asked for. We are satisfied that traffic handling has been a major topic of conversation between Du Pont and local unofficial spokesmen, but we are Just as well satisfied that Du Pont, which has bralns as well as money, has not asked for anything unreason able, and to our way of thinking it is unreasonable, to ask these to consent to having their farm cut up like Jesse Jones, who appeared for stole or all would be touched by this unofficially observation that any private 1 iMMm There Is a very small percen tage of the people who want to be shot at. Some few enjoy the reflected glory of having been shot at and MISSED, when they get back to the local bar with the service ribbons and war stories but any character who enjoys the shooting while it Is going on is “Section Eight” ma terial .and I no mean, he's craz^. If Intelligence levels are to be the yardstick 'for taking young men Into the .armed forces then i there are hard days ahead for this country. No matter which end of the controversy you pic ture. Some of the moist unletter ed soldiers eyer to tote a rifle have made the best fighting men and from the other side of the intellectual tracks it is equally true that some dies ' int will, i “brass” in the army had rocks in their heads, but seriously It is just as important, perhaps more so, to have intelligent men in battle as in a chemistry or phys ics lab. To presume to say that this man will be shot and .this one shall hot be shot because of their varying degrees of intelli gence is a sorry method of com puting justice. I feel that the only yardstick fhr acceptance of a man into the armejl forces should be a mini mum intelligence, and from this I'm not talking about formal education. Whether he. can read or not doesn’t matter a whole lot for a great many jobs that have to be done in the armed forces. After being accepted in to the armed forces for service, then the draftee should be as signed to the job for which he has the greatest aptitude. Be fore serving in the last war I .would not have felt that way and I’ll tell you why. I han some prety grandolse notions about who and what I should be when I went into the army, but after a lot of tests hgd been taken it developed that I had a potential as a mechanic, and no matter how much I in sisted that I wanted to be a type writer-pounder the sergeant kept telling me over .and over, “You’re going to be a mechanic-v-you can work ►on airplane engines, guns or radios; take ypur pick. I chose guns, and much to iny surprise I was made into qn excellent gun mechanic, or armorer, as their, called them, In a few weeks. Ilifee feel that everyone who is not material for a mental institution I WAR Mftwt 1 k vn -mom ft "gg&l 1 Wr - Crossword Puzzle n Greek letter “SoT* " » Base of lettuce, Wf Volcanic fluid rock M A number V The turmeric as as aaaxa aaa esaas ( Marrow edge •Jong a bank • Man'a Reverence To apread for drying y To axpira Pertaining to Drunkard Halt* Lawful Prefix: not Capable of being over By Foam To make aultable To Obaerve A color Exterior Sun god To fall behind PUZZLE No. 128 t 6 « 41 Symbol for ^ Body of water Measure of length (pi.) British baby carriage 40 The sun ssss gas ®P**f'-* ■ V' • Beverage Common' (Hawaiian) Writing, fluid To petition * Mulberry Answer to Puzzle No: 128 and who Is able to work and breathe ought to serve In the armed forces, not only for the immediate reason of the nation’s peril but for the eternal good of the Individual. It has been truthfully said that the armdd forces either build or ruin any young man they get. I feel that those who are improved are the ones who have an inherent strength of character, and that the failures; the boys who are "ruined,’’ are in the-final analysis ‘‘bums” at heart anyway—it- is, of. course, understood that I’m not talking about the men who are hurt physically or mentally, I’m talk ing wholly of those, whose morals are improved or worsened. •Hays/-1 v ' ^ ‘ llltp Recently W. E. Phillips of the Jones County draft board had the unhappy duty of being ope of the men to send his son ofl ed but there Is no earthly logical reason why the present roadway cannot be widened. This becomes even more logical when it li considered that another road across the rear of these same'farms is to be asked for in the near future. • s £ ? o>'. Let’s qttlt beating our breasts and hollering epithets at some of the county’s most reasonable people who have made a most reasonable objection tohavlng their fine firm lands chopped up recklessly, expensively and needlessly. to war. No doubt this was a most distasteful chore. It is bad to send complete strangers off tp war, but to 'send your own son, whom you’ve watched grow into manhood, off to be shot at, aibused and possibly wounded or killed requires a superior kina of courage. Tm satisfied that Phil lips would much rather have gone to war himself than to send his son, but nevertheless it was his duty and he performed.it. For Phillips and all other draft board members, to have their jobs kicked around by ^ directive from on high that would say tike intelligent shall live and the not so-tntelligent shall die is inhu man, undemocratic and besides it just ain’t right. ■$ As recently as 1945, the use chemicals for weed control , agriculture was highly ed.. Last year, farmers herbicides to more than lion acres . of cropland United States. J Stocks
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