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-r----;---; r—' ■11 ■ : : ;-—--' N^vtar forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, —-—-*-And He May Be Wrong. Government on Faith Some may aijgue that to govern on faith is as important as to worship by faith. We can hardly accept this reasoning. The present session' of the North Caro lina General Assembly is expected to be “in business” for about four months^oot over five months at the most. In that brief time the 170 members of this legislative body are asked to act on no less than 20 major revisions in the pattern of our state government. No system is so perfect that it does not stand in constant need of revision, but what body—political or individual—is likely to survive so much major surgery in such a brief season? Without doubt the “attending physicians” who are charged with watching over the “health” of our state government will de lay many of these recommended operations. These recommendations are the result of years of studjy by sincere men and wo men, many of whom are also members of the legislature, but the final and major part of these many reorganization sugges tions is the handiwork of “professionals’'; that is the men and women who, work in government and who are interested in im provements but also have a vested interest in their own positions. /No where in these dozens of suggestions is one able to find any recommendation for less pov«er or less personnel in 'any. de-' panbpnent. True, it is recommended that the Utilities Commission be reduced from five members to three, but at the same time there are provisions for ka increase, in wtet we loosely call the career types in this same department With few, if any exceptions these recom mendations tend toward more centralized power in our state government. On paper these “improvements” loot good, but in practice they remove control of govern ment further and further from the people who are most concerned. indications fyom Raleigh are that many of' these changes wl be made; made by legislators acting on -‘‘faith”. Faith in the integrity " and intentions of those whose names are. signed to these many reports. We beg every law maker to study each of these reorganization plans -with one ques tion constantly in yiind: Does .this mean, a greater centralization of power in Raleigh, and less voice oyer our affairs by the folks back home? 4 Bureacrats support bureacracy. We must depend on die General Assembly to stand1 between them and those they seek to rule. ! Domestic Constriction one of me economy recommend ations of President Eisenhower that will be dumped by the wayside by Congress-is that future borrowing by rural electric cooperatives be done in private money sources,‘rather than from funds set up for this purpose by Congress. . This paper is as ready as any, and more than, same for every sensible kind of eco nomy not only in the federal government but in state, county and city governments ■city to those areas where private power companies refused' to extend their Hues. The success of this is more than testified to by the fact that when BEA came into being less than five per cent of the na tion's farms had electricity and today more than 95 per cent enjoy the countless bene fits provided by reliable electric power. President Eisenhower has rationalized his position by saying that BEA is, finan cially UPeakjne “out-of the woods*’, and Whose Ox is Being Gored? w; Roy Watson of Hbbucken, bar - — rules is* bly that Would re__ ___ sued by the Department of Conservation and Development in shrimping, taking oys ters and other shell fish. Last year the C&D board Issued an edict forbidding the so*caMed “weekend shrimp er” from taking shrimp between 8 a. m. on Saturday and midnight Sunday. This was a selfish piece of “legislation” bad gered out of the C&D by the commercial fishermen of the state. These commercial fishermen were not content with dosing the coastal waters of our state to Sunday taking of shrimp, but hoggishly persuaded the guillible O&D peo ple to cut out both Saturday and Sunday shrimping by individuals. .Given an inch, .they took a mile and now the legislators from several coastal areas have risen a gainst this greed by offering a bill that would return to the individual some of those “inalienable rights” that were once Of so much concern. How can a millionaire shrimp fleet opera tor from Hobudken justify with any degree of morality the massive “straining” his fleet can give say to Bogue Sound between midnight Sunday and 8 a. m. Saturday and then piously chant about “conservation” when folks who live on Bogue Sound might want to catch a “mess” on Saturday or Sunday? If they were so concerned as waison would have us believe with protecting the public, they could simply have asked for more stringent enforcement of the laws covering the retail or wholesale distribu tion. of these products of the sea. Or if they were sincerely interested in “conservation”, they could have shown it best' by 'offering to sacrifice their “awn time” rather than the “time” of those who have no lobby and no association. The fisheries association has over reached itself and they now shake in their boots for that the coastal waters of may be returned to the people. __—. ..j.j/' --- air-conditioning units, water heaters, ranges, and the dozen and one gadgets powered by electricity that make the modern kitchen hum more easily for Mama Farmer and make the cash register ring more frequently for Mister Business man; these have been and are still being sold by the thousands to those farm peo ple who such a short time ago wanted these gadgets but bad no use for them without electricity. In the recent past a major portion of the money borrowed by REA cooperatives has been for larger lines to ierve-the cus tomers already in their system, rather than tor extensions to new customers: If the REA cooperatives are forced into the private money market they will not only immediately have to pay much high er. interest rates, but many would be in danger of not being able to market their bonds, at ail. The reason is simple: They have no tangible collateral more than miles of wire, transformers and a service to .sell. The so-tolled private power companies have not only the monopoly right to serve a given area, but also have power plants, hydroelectric installations and many other more readily acceptable collaterals than the REA co-ops. 'But most fundamental is that of all the many-splendored alphabet agencies that have been created in Washington in the past 25 years the REA is one of the very few that has not only paid the taxpayers back on or before due all the money the taxpayers have let them have to go into business, but have also paid sizable chunks of interest on the funds they did borrow. This dividend, however, is fractional when set beside the continuing volume of trade these RIBA lines have generated, and in an era when so much lip-service is paid to helping the common man; let us not for feet that nothing has over lightened the heavy load of the farmer and his wife to the degree that ei< The government sheep that in the m > wotves of the other te the «h of our na-f So far. as we can dewnnune, me peat salt water areas of our state are not owned in fee simple by the North Carolina Fisheries Association. * ■For reasons of hygiene we support com pletely ' a strict lieensing and Aqenviaion of all people and plaices that fish for com mercial distribution, but inoralaty and common sense both combine to deny either the CM) board or die fisheries association 'the right to deny individuals to fish for their own table and entertainment. msom rmmm BY JACK RIDER Men poke a lot of fun at women, their hats, their weird fashions, their painted toes peeking out of open-toed shoes but the most aggravating sight on'the Ameri can scene today, to me, is the slojppy, sissy hair cuts that our young “men” are wear ing. Last year Judge Joseph Parker had a gang of local hoodlums in front of him in Lenoir County Superior Court, pleading guilty to the aimed robbery and beating of some fellow they had picked up along the highway. Perhaps Judge Parker over stated the case, but there surety was con siderable truth in what he said as he gazed down in rich contempt from the bench at one of those boys radio had a “duck .tail” hairdo and about a quarter’s worth of grease to bold bis “set” in place. Judge Parker said, “I reckon I ought not to say it but I will any way. Pve never seen a boy that was much good that wore his hair in that ‘drake tail’ fashion.” The judge knew, and everybody else knows'that every boy who is foolish enough to wear his hair in these “faggish” patterns is not a criminal. Nor is everybody that wears a regular* does not i any more : Tbey’ffpdn. they’re practical at sports and they're cool in the summer time. I can’t be so charit able about the flat-top, however. Carried to its silly extreme, the flat-top stands shoulder-to-padded-shoulder with the “drake tail”. ■ :#i ras;,.-. • ;* ■ rat tortt This may be some form of heresy, to write something of this sort in the month of Washington’s Birthday. This reflection comes from recalling the fancy, cumber some, hot, heavy powdered wigs that were worn for several hundred years by toe upper classes of most of the civilized world. History may .contain some sensible expla nation for that weird fashion, but if it does I have missed it. The lace and satin male fashions may have been an effort of the public to imitate the regal trappings of royalty. Whatever they were, they were utterly stupid and many Americans refuted to bow to them; not the least of these be ing Benjamin Franklin, and there were many others. ' „ Vanity, of course, is an important part of the malke up of most of us. There are some among us who have more, and many who have lees; but still the continuing con cern for appearance is a matter of com mercial and sociological concern. Consider for a moment what a sizable chunk of everyday commerce is built around that de sire to be presentable. immediately think of such track Continued on page 3' -i. JONES Published Every Thurs County NfeWB Oompein Vernon, Ave., Kinston, Entered as Second Qh 1949. at the Poet (X North Carolina, under 3, 1870.
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