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Sntered as Second Class Matter May 18, 1849 at the Post Ofl at Trenton. North Carolina, under the Act of March 8.1879. Sy Mall In First Zone—83.00 per year. Subscription Rate* Payable In Advance On County Police - 3 ’• •• •/ ‘/V“} : Lenoir county Attorney and Representative Tom White has stated that he will introduce a bill to the now-ln-session General Assembly asking that Lenalv County's Board of Coxmlssioners be authorised to set up a “County Police Force.’ ’ This is the board Of commissioners’ answer 'to the considerable Jury that has been raised recently by folks from a Superior Court Judge on down In an effort to get the commissioners to give the sheriff’s department some men and equipment hi keeping with the needs of that deport ment. Firstly. Oils is a direct slap in the face of Sheriff Sam Churchill and his understaffed and under-equipped deparb.rent. Churchill has asked tor more men, more cars, for two-way. radio, for an office force sufficient to keep htt' office open every hour of the day and this is file answer to his request and to the request of others, Who had no Interest in the sheriffs department beyond wanting an adequate force to meet the needs of the rapidly growing county. We don't like the idea of a County Police Force for a number of reasons, some of which we shall list here: At present we have nine police forces located and working in .Lenoir County: l. The aforementioned sheriff’s department. 2. The Kinston Police^ Department. 3. The LaOrange Police Depart ment. 4. The Pink Hill Police Department. 3. The State High way Patrol. 6. The Stkte Bureau of Investigation. 7. The Federal Bureau of investigation, 8. Township Constables in 'treat of the 13 townships of the county. 0. A full-time detachment of Military Police from Camp Lejeune- V To add a tenth police force in Lenoir County would not only •further divide an authority too divided at present but would also call for the setting up of a new office fojcei with all' of the accom panying expenses. The Office of Sheriff is the highest constitutional office in any county. The Sheriff and his deputies have full and complete au thority in ANY part of the county and at any time. Ih refusing to wp*fc wlh the county con uthority to a make-shift, would be limited and whose duties, tii total, would be a direct duplication of the .powers inher ent in the office of Sheriff. ; ^ ’■ '■ ' ^ There has been argument, perhaps with foundation, that' the current sheriff and his department have not done the best they can with what they have. That* at present, is not the question under debate. If Sheriff Sam Churchill is given What he needs to work with and then he proves derelict in carrying out his obli gations toward law enforcement, then, and not until then should he be shoved into discard and converted into a; high-priced Court Crier. There is no good reason for setting up another police author ity in this county. The Sheriff's office should be given men and equipment and then if it fails Jo measure up to comparative stan dards the people can, and will, elect a new sheriff. The New Administration The change of administrations in North Carolina which took place last week will have some effects that might be termed “change” but on the whole the affairs of North Carolina will more along in the same patterns of the past but there is every evidence that this will not be the case at the Washington level where a change of administration takes place next Tuesday morning. In North Carolina we might say that a middle-of-the-road Democrat has succeeded a liberal Democrat and this is perhaps an over implication, but at the Washington level the shift is tram the principles of the Democratic Party to those of the Republican Party and that is some shift* we believe. ' President-to-be Elsenhower has exhibited tendencies of lib eralism in the past in some respects. liberal on the interna tional level, liberal with manpower in his attitude toward Mil itary Training and, above all, liberal in his hope for cutting taxes. But on the national scene it may not be a mistake to say that Eisenhower is less liberal than even Taft. Taft sponsored' public housing and has voted favorably for many of the bills of the recent past that have at times been tagged “socialistic” There is no record on Ike in this sphere and it would not be fair to' j^idge, or attempt to Judge him on the basis of what he laid during the recent campaign which swept him Into office. To ally that he was inconsistent during his gampalgn speech making > to understate; for he followed the patterns of a na tional advertising campaign and sold the kind of “soap” people were "buying” hi the neck of the wood* he was peaking. That method ndt only sells soap pit also sbld Ike, and overwhelmingly. Now he will have to go on record in the next few months and he pay lind it exceedingly difficult to bridge the gap be tween promises he made to New Jersey and promises of a dif ®s in ee must admit that how to cut military “sour and 'clever man. to the words the public was singing on moat occasions. Scott also is a man ol considerable courage. Hestood as a Democrat when weaker men crawled into their holes and let the Party sink or swlflfi on its own. • 5 4 Scott assomplished a great deal in his four years as gov ernor. He is not through in polities by a long shot and many ! milll9n more Nbrth Carolina ballots will have that name “W. Kerr Scott” printed ah theta. ' ' ' Scott’s accomplishment is remarkable from many points of view but perhaps it is most remarkable in what it managed to get done ip spite of some of the self seekers who hung to his coat tails and caused him headaches and considerables trouble during his tenure In the State’s highest office. v . ii'h , ;; ' 7^,7:' ,—^ . *,*; Beginning To Understand Sean, Roebuck Is the world’s largest outfit of its kind and we are beginning to understand a little better each day Just why this outfit Is ao big, it’s because they’re so hoggish. Here we had a fairly nice set up in Kinston with merchants cooperating nicely and then Sears landed .with a lot,of noise and complica tions that are not only hgogish but are Just plain rude. Take the simple matter of Wednesday afternoon closings. This has been a long-standing practice of Kinston merchants to give their employees more free time, and to make the week a little less long to the boys and girsl who stand behind the coun ters and punch the town’s cash registers. Now Sears comes in and starts hollering, “Look, folks we are open Wednesday aft ernoons ” , All in the guise of “helping” the shopper. To say that any shopper, millionaire or ditchdigger, can’t spend all the money he ean get his hands on in the regular store hours is too absurd to bother about at this time. But for the sake of the other clerks up and d6wn Queen and side streets we hope Sears doesn’t sell enough stuff on Wednesday afternoons to pay for having the floors swept. * . ■ ■* / On Preaching and Publishing It accepts whisky advertising We do not relish the Idea of telling preachers what to say and what not to say, but by the Identical Reasoning we don’t relish the idea of any preacher, and that includes Tent Preachers, telling us what we should and should not print. Even preachers named Pray. We have never looked with touch favor on these peripatetic preachers who usually are a lot more lhteresetd in dollars than they-are in the Gospel. Bray may be the exception. We have not heard him; We hope that he Is sincere and we are sure that his preaching readies people who perhaps might not be reached by organized forms of religion. In the final analysis we’d even have to admit that even the tent variety of religion is preferable to NO religion. But back to Brother Bray’s criticism of our running whisky advertising. Aside from the fact that Brother Bray has nothing to do with what kind of advertising we run, there Is also the funda mentally moral aspect of the controversy in that we believe con trolled, legal whisky and the profits derived from it converted Into better education are the answer—a least the best possible answer to a difficult problem. Brother Bray may preach, ^and he, has every, right to believe that total prohibition the best method of handling & difficult problem. We say that total prohibition has been tried in the Unit ed States and In other countries and never with success. Rather than success, total whisky prohibition has Wd to corruption and wholesale law-breaking and, fn the final analysis, even worse abuses an $ge-old problem. Brother Bray has every right to his opinion and has every right to preach against us but we also have every* right to view bis con duct with the same care and we ranted him that the same guar antees of religious freedom also belongs to those who write or speak for pubUc consumption. . A ' And in conclusion we hope that Brother Bray is as sincere and works as bard at making this a better world place as thts paper. the transit company but the stories connected with the sate to Barnes and HdUeman state that they will assume full man agement under the purchase terms. January “plentiful foods' ludes pork, turkeys, dairy ] but the reason ’ of heart on the Allen, but theJ gear came abov itor of Allen’s < wore Allen’s ha hla. Allen also janitor’s hat a than the one spite of It bell Speaking of hats wad Allen and Bast Gordon Street bring* to mind another Bast Gordon Street establishment, The Fash ion Shop, which * negotiates trarj? agreements with local folks wjho want to' wear the kind of clothing peddled in that em porium. On occasion I pause for a Coke at Sewell’s pharma cy ,and for a few minutes watch the women stride into The Fashion Shop to give mortgages on their real estate and liens on their husbands’ labor for the wM next four or five months, men are peculiar animals, but peculiar in a nice way. They are exactly opposite from men in that they never care to wear the same garment twice while men, once they get .the “feel" of a hat, a suit or a, pair of shoes would oltopst rathfer lose an arm than lose this aged piece of apparel. Of course, this habit on. the of the male of the soeeies ple’ ■ •• , • • making sorre such claims of af fection over the garment of un certain lineage the answer may be found in “mama’s” wardrobe. I'm told that salons such a£ The Fashion Shop sell .those silly looking hats that women wear for as much as $90. And then Jesse James was shot la the back. This is a funny Old World and perhaps the worst thing that can happen to anjrone of its in habitants is for that inhabitant to lose his sense of humor. Tears are good for the soul, or at least it is recognized by poets and such folks, but no bqpfcet full of tears can do as much for the heart, or the liver, as a few minutes of belly laughter. That might be a good thing for the “Papa” of the family to remem ber when “Mama” comes home lugging some of the high priced loot from the clothing bank on Bast Gordon. Speaking of sense of humor Continued on Page 5 4/5 QUART
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