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They have laid away The Sat urday Evening Post, I see, and if ever the saying fit, this is' the time: Good riddance of bad rub bish. It wasn’t always so. When I was a boy, The Saturday Evening Post (it was always The,Saturday Evening Post in my home, neV er The Post; that came later) was much a part of our household as the broom. Past issues were nev er discarded but rather, as I re member, they just wore out. And some wearing it took, too, so big and fat and heavy was each issue, loaded with good reading. . a, * Contributors Edgar Allen Poe, Hamet Beecher Stowb (bad cess to her), Fennimor'e Cooper, Bret Harte, and Rudyard Kipling, such as these laid the base for greatness and it was from this base that George Horace Lor-i mer (and it was always George Horace Lorimer, too) built the book of wonders that lay each week before my opening eyes. I am not likely to forget how impressed with myself I was on reading an article by Herbert Hoover. I thought it leaden, but read it I did, manfully, and felt a cubit taller for having done so. And the wit of Edna Millay, she of the little poems. And the memory I have of Faulkner’s pieces, as those, earlier, of Sin clair Lewis, and Scott Fitzgerald, of Dreiser — a fat fool, my ma ture judgment tells me — of Arnold Rennet, of Ring Lardner, he of the funny pen, and so many others. Indeed, The Satur day Evening Post was a world of weekly wonders. * * * Then, George Horace Lorimer died and the world changed. Whether one was the cause of the other I don’t know. But sometime thereafter the finan cial underpinnings of The Satur day Evening Post began to rock. As rumors spread, I discounted them as of no moment; I had heard the same sort of thing of The British Empire and didn’t believe that either. But the rocking was there just the same — with Lorimer gone, circulation was falling — and the day came when the dirty people, the tinseled hucksters, took over the reins and attempted to re store a faded glory with sensa tionalism. Their vehicle was to be The South. The South, to read it week after week in The Post, was a land of rancid bigots, of narrow-minded, narrow-chested rednecks and no good word was said1 of us. That was The Post's mistake: The guttersnipes simply did not know their audience. A flood of Southern people sadly cancelled their subscription. The publication' got progres sively worse until a football coach, whom The Post had called a fixer, sued and won an award so large it shook the nation. What Southern people had come to know, first hand, the rest of the country came to learn through the exposure of this bit of character assassination. From then on, for The Post, it was but a matter of time. As I say: Good riddance of bad rubbish. .* * * chance work Hrmy takes toe to the home office of The Curtis" Publishing Company, the bweaved parent of this way ward child. I don’t go there of building it is, situated there on iPhiladelphia’s Independence Square. Truly impressive — un til one puts one’s foot onto the marble floor of its foyer. Then one comes to know what is a mausoleum. * * The death of this once-great publication should serve as a WASHINGTON — Those who witnessed the inauguration of President Nixon saw one of the most meaningful affirmations of constitutional government. In a moment, two men exchanged their roles as citizens and Presi dent. Once more, we have dem onstrated that our country is dedicated to a system of laws rather than of men. This is the system that has unified our coun try to meet its greatest chal lenges. Even so, the realities of the day tell us that we have some difficult tasks ahead. Congress has returned to Washington in the knowledge that few are satisfied with things as they are. The vast achievements which we have made in education, tech nology, material wealth and f power have been matched by the most pressing problems we have ever had. There is division as to how we should go about our dealings at almost every level of policy. One can look at the War, or crime, or the Budget which President Johnson submitted, and there is seldom agreement about how we should deal with any of these problems. There is division as to whether we should channel funds, which we really do not have, to pro vide for a whole range of new spending for such items as the guaranteed annual income to everybody or for the rebuilding of cities, towns, and hamlets here and abroad. Even the fiscal experts are at a loss to explain Continued on page 6 JARMAN FUNERAL HOME . . . Where Your Trust Is Sacred And Your Wishes Cared For . . . Dial JA 3-5143 Kinston, N. C. • Ready te Use • Easy te Apply ; • Quick Drying warning to tms nation, for The Saturday Evaning Post is — or was — America in microcosm. Whereas, once, The Saturday Evening Post strove for and a chieved excellence so, when put to the test and denied the char acter of its Founding Fathers, The Post sought the easy way, the unearned buck, and it found ered. How much better had its presses stopped with the heart of George Horace Lorimer. Or, failing that, how much better to have spent its last years defend ing a proud banner than to have wriggled and writhed, gasping and sucking for sustenance in a gutter where only filth is found. I would think so. WHAT IS THE ANSWER? by Henry E. Garrett, Ph.D. Profmor Emeritus, Psychology, Columbls University Psst President, Amerleen Psychologies! Association Q: Dr. Garrett, have any ef forts been made to reduce the discrepancy in learning among black students when placed in white schools? A: A number of studies have tried to bring the black pupils up to white levels. An early and rather complete program called Higher Horizons was set r up in 1959 in New York. About 100,000 children in 76 grade and high schools were involved. Five years later, investigators found ‘no significant differences be tween students in the Higher Horizons program and similarly situated students in schools with out the program”. The program was abandoned. Frosty Morn Meats Inc. "Helping to build a better Livestock Market for Eastern North Carolina" Top prices paid for Hogs & Cattle Daily No Commission Charge No Waiting Phone JA 3-5103 Kinston, N. C.
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