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EDITORIALS / Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinions Of One Man, __—---— --And He May Be Wrong. with this ever-growing problem in the Kinston area. There is a positive sign now that something is soon to be done Ogt tpat subject. The vast babe of Kinston’s heavy, through traffic is generated along the m*jor routes, US 70 and UB 958 which crass at Kinston. The east-west traffic of US TO carries a large percentage of the Port of Morehead City truck traffic, while us 258 carries lass weight but an akrost equal voluann of Camp Jepeune’s north bound Marine Corps traffic. Tn the summer months the vast stretches of salt and fresh water to the east of Kinston attract millions of vacationers and sport These are all very hard facts of high way life. But the problem of dealing with these fantastic traffic problems Is much leas in the realm of facts. In Kin ston, as to every town where a by-pass was ever suggested, there is some opposi tion to this re-routing. Some small part of the business life of the community feels that sending people around, rather than through Kinston will hurt their Unfortunately, this cannot be denied. But the traffic problem is much larger vast majority of this through traffic does not hesitate in Kinston ex cept lor redUgbts, and some ignore a large part of these roadway beacons. But & sufficiently large part of this traffic does hesitate, for gas, meals, small shopping Items to cause business, men some concern. This, however, is an inevitable price that must be paid in the name of progress. The gasoline engine and Its muttons of descendants have forcedly remade the map, the living and business habits of this great land. The horse, the buggy, the railroad passenger traffic and many more facets of American life have been completely ended or materially altered by this roar, lag, snorting, fume-emitting family that has brought so much pleasure, so much grief, so much prosperity and so much bankruptcy into our lives.' Some small organized effort has de veloped In Kinston, as it has In other towns hit by the by-pass problem, to stymie or to kill this step. But such a re-routing must eventually come, and we feel it to be far better to face the problem, make the adjustments and ac cept in good grace these plans which are soon to be implemented for the Kinston area. The Simplest Tax Program Tbe present tax structure of both Nbrth Carolina and tbe nation ’ is a hodge-podge that might very well be described as a “com plaster” form ed taxation. One patch has been stuck here man ought to be taxed, equitably sad directly. He outfit to has* a physical sense of attachment to his government, and at present a very krge segment of the population, has no each umbilical system, fa i a three-ooint tex svafcem Cooperating v A Very big percentage of those people who have had traffic and child hazard obstructions in front or beside their homes on the strip between the curb and their own property line have very readily cooperated with the city's current effort to clear its property. The city was a* fault in the part for not building sidewalks as It built streets. Home-owners who sought to beabtlfy their homes end their community should not'be condemned for making the rather natural mistake of planting and pretty ing up bil« void that was left by the city. It is good to know that very few of those who have had to apend money and a lot of swea^. moving plants and fences have taken it in good grace. The city was wrong, but the home owners realize that the safety of child ren and adults who in many areas have had to walk In the streets l^ecause of these obstructions is more important than a shrub or a pretty wall. the first of April. Much has a fiendish way of fooling not only people, but plants as well who deck themselves out In spring fineity one beavttnil morning only to wind up half froeen by nightfall. And. speaking of weather, which most of us do from time to time, we surely hope that between now and planting time a lot more rain falls In our general area, if the ground- gets thoroughly wet in the winter, dry weather In the sum mer Is not nearly so serious. But so far this winter the ground in our area has not gotten that very thorough soakng that It needs^ But, March has just begun and April is yet to arrive, so maybe they will bring rain and plenty of it. / During the latter part of March and the first of April another Free Mobile Chest Xray clinic will be held in every part of Jones and Lenoir counties under the direction of the Public Health De partment: Let’s hope (that the past good records- for these chest surveys will be surpassed this 'time. Plan now to get your chest check when, the mobile unit comes to your neighborhood, it takes just a second, you don’t have to undress and it might save your life, or at the least many long months or yearn in a sanitarium tied. ' JONES JOURNAL rackets still Currently a postttve, all-out effort Is being made by the North Carolina Gen eral Assembly to plug at least one of the biggest of these holes .presently flourish ing, to wit; the hospitalization insurance racket. Alt present practically all types of advertising constantly bombard the bargain hungry citizenry from dozens of directions ah beautifully describing the merits, benefits and guaranteed pay ments of these grab basket operations. The root of this racket Is very simple. None but the wealthiest family can af ford the luxury of a prolonged hospitali zation. So every breadwinner seeks to build some fragile fence around his par ticular flock by purchasing one 6r more of these so-called hospitalization in surance. All too frequently, however, when the times comes for that insurance to give that protection the poor policy holder — who may have paid and paid for years and years — finds a clause, comma or caption in his policy that either limits drastically the : policy's liability or, in many cases, completely eliminates ill protection. It is quite apparent that this, Mnd of skullduggery must have reached Us ultt yice chairman of the State. Senate su ranee committee, Is correct there is a terrific lobbying effort being expended on the Assemblymen to iprevent any changes in the Insurance lam aimed at protecting the public from, these pro jtection racketeers. I trust that everyone who has been hit by this kind of legal policy racketeer ing will voice his or her opinion, in writ ing to representatives from their county. But hospitalization insurance is not the only sphere in which this “ something for next to nothing" urge is extracting money from the gullible, greedy public. There is no remedy,-of course, for this disease.1 If one sort of confidence game doesn’t get tfle greedy buck, another will crop up to grgb it. But few operate in an area such as hospitalization where a person in great physical and financial stress often finds that he has been, “taken”. There is oiSe way of protecting yourself against this kind of trickery. In buying insurance or'anything else, KNOW THE PERSON WITH WHOM YOG ARE DEAUENG. None of 'us can be an txpert in modem life's many complicated facets. Buy insurance, cars, shirts, shoes, paint medicine, bread socks, hats, plumb ing — In short everything from some one you can trust. , -
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