The Charlotte News
Tuesday, April 9, 1957
THREE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that rescue workers probed debris for additional possible victims this date, while residents along a 150-mile path through the Carolinas were cleaning up the results of the previous night's deadly tornadoes, in which hundreds had been rendered homeless and many businessmen observed only rubble where their establishments had been the previous day. The tornadoes had struck hardest in the Carolinas, but had also hit Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, as unstable weather conditions moved across the South. At least six persons had been killed, all in North Carolina, and more than 150 persons had been injured. Stormy weather, caused by the clashing of cold and warm Southern air, had lashed other areas of the South with damaging winds, torrential rains and hail. The worst of the tornadoes the previous night had hit along a 150-mile strip through northeastern South Carolina and into eastern North Carolina. Four members of two black farm families, living across the road from each other, had died in their homes as a twister hit the Highsmith Farms section southeast of Roseboro. A Raleigh couple had been killed when their car hit a truck head-on near Raeford on the edge of the tornado alley. Hospital facilities in parts of the stricken area were overcrowded as injured had been brought in by ambulance, cars and trucks. All available rescue facilities had been mobilized in the Carolinas, but injured from isolated areas straggled in hours after the twisters had passed. No immediate estimate of damage was available, but it had obviously run into the millions. The first South Carolina community had been hit shortly after 6:00 p.m., and the storm continued to hit North Carolina until after 9:00. A tornado had struck the Norfolk area in Virginia about 40 minutes before the the first tornado had struck South Carolina, ripping roofs from buildings and tearing down wires. The twisters had hit northern Mississippi before dawn the previous day and wrecked more than $100,000 worth of property before moving eastward into Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Several persons had been injured in Alabama and Georgia.
Julian Scheer of The News reports from Jefferson, S.C., that a man whose home was a block south of the business district had stepped to the window of his home and seen that it was "mighty dark in the north", looking like a storm was coming, to which his wife had said that his supper was getting cold. It had been a pretty normal Monday in town and there was no hint of impending disaster. Just as the man sat down to eat at 6:00, there was a "stirring" in the business district, and he went to the window again and saw things flying in the air, believing it to have been a cyclone or "one of them tornadoes", seeing an "angry looking funnel" hit the town, sounding "like a jet plane" according to what someone had told him, but not making a lot of noise from his perspective. Three young boys meanwhile sat in a 1948 Chrysler in front of the Jefferson Café, as the wind had picked up the car a foot or so off the ground, turned it around, and backed it up onto the sidewalk, as they crouched low and one of them maintained his foot on the brake pedal. Merchants who had not yet gone home had run to the corners of their buildings, mostly one and two-story brick and frame structures, and huddled while the winds tore at roofs, awnings, signs and windows. The funnel eventually left Main Street and moved eastward to open country, gone, it seemed, within seconds, leaving behind only two buildings in town which were practically unharmed. A cotton warehouse had been blown in, a tractor equipment firm collapsed, a small shop leveled and the barbershop, café, liquor store, bank and post office ripped and torn. Many houses and barns were removed from their foundations or blown apart, with trees uprooted, telephone and power lines downed and the Hopewell Methodist Church leveled. The man who had originally sat down to eat his cooling supper, wound up eating it in the dark, as mopping up began in the community. Neighbors took in neighbors, power generators had come from the Air Force, and National Guardsmen began patrolling the streets.
In Laurinburg, N.C., it was reported that a swirling black funnel of destruction had slashed across the Scotland-Robeson county line, leveling houses near the towns of Johns and Daystrom, had then roared through a Pembroke residential section, leaving at least 120 people homeless in Pembroke and 13 people, all Indians, hospitalized in Laurinburg, with another sent to a hospital in Lumberton. No one was reported killed in the two counties. During the 30-minute trip through the section, the tornado had demolished 27 homes and damaged about 100 others, some so extensively that the were not habitable. The Pembroke civil defense head said that they did not know what they would do with the homeless, as there were dozens of them and they had not realized the extent of the damage until sunrise. Thirteen business buildings had been damaged in Pembroke and 25 houses were described as a total loss. About 20 homeless families had found refuge in the gymnasium at Pembroke State College, where temporary shelter was offered. Injuries were greatest just west of Laurinburg, but the Pembroke area had suffered more property damage. As the tornado dipped erratically to earth, it had lifted three people, a man, woman and a seven-year old girl, out of their tenant farmhouse near Johns and dumped them to earth yards away, while moving their house six feet and splitting it down the middle. The man had held his daughter in his arms while they flew through the air. He suffered the loss of a toe but his daughter was unhurt. The woman had broken her foot. A truck loaded with cotton moving along Highway 74, the Charlotte-Wilmington highway, had 30 bales of cotton picked up like toy blocks and strewn along the highway, but the truck and driver were unhurt. Two miles away, the funnel had torn down a six-room house with six people in it, all of whom were injured. A sawmill worker and owner of the house, who was one of those hurt, described the experience from his hospital bed, indicating that they were huddled together when everything "seemed to get real calm" and he thought the worst was over, until the wind blew hard for just a few seconds and the house had come down around them. The man's wife, a 29-year old imminently expectant mother, was the most seriously hurt in the two counties, suffering a fractured pelvis, broken leg and possible back fracture as the house had crashed down on her. She was listed in the hospital in serious condition but was expected to recover from her injuries. The two-year-old daughter of the couple was also injured.
We shall never forget riding down the road a few miles to Pembroke the following weekend and seeing the path of destruction from that tornado, demonstrating quite visibly the enormous power which nature holds over us. It has been around a lot longer than any of us, even stretching back to the crack of doom, and, thus, one does not mess with it, driving around gas-guzzlers with abandon, sending at will hydrofluorocarbons into the atmosphere, forming a blanket over the earth, which in turn creates long-term climate change, ongoing since the start of the Industrial Revolution, not just in the last few years, ultimately to play havoc with the globe's food sources, and, if carried on long enough under such policies as Trump wants to renew, would lead to the extinction of mankind and all other forms of higher animal life. Meanwhile, Republicans in the House play idiotic word games and try to stretch House rules to fit absurd efforts to impeach or hold in contempt Administration personnel merely for doing their jobs, fiddling, as it were, while they burn Rome, thinking that they are "draining the swamp", as the Gomers who steer the Gomers want them to do, when in fact they are merely flooding the lowlands of the entire country by their inaction and absurdity. Get rid of these nuts and do-nothings, assuming you want to live and have subsequent generations live after you. If you want to go coursing off the edge of the cliff suicidally with the rest of the Trumpies, into the lemmings-land of Oz, walled off, keep on the course they are on.
In Raleigh, Governor Luther Hodges recommended pay raises of 15 percent for school teachers and 11 percent for other State employees, making the recommendations to a joint session of the General Assembly at noon, those recommended increases comparing to a recommendation of 9.1 percent which he and the Advisory Budget Commission had originally proposed for teachers, coupled with an 8 percent recommended raise for other State workers. The Governor outlined a plan for raising the revenue to provide for those pay increases, calling for the State to issue ten million dollars in bonds to finance a portion of a proposed permanent improvements programs at State institutions, and for the Highway Fund to continue as the sole means of support for the prison system for the ensuing two years, instead of having the General Fund share in that cost, releasing 4.2 million dollars for the pay increases. The Governor said that one million dollars more than originally estimated could be expected also from the State's non-tax revenues during the ensuing biennium.
At Parris Island, S.C., a first lieutenant had been sentenced this date to a dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps by a seven-man general court-martial, after he pleaded guilty to charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, stemming from an assault on March 13 on a private, the court having deliberated for 50 minutes before passing sentence. It was one of the most severe penalties which could be administered under the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and was subject to review by Brig. General Wallace Greene, the court-martial's convening authority, and would be subject to further review by the Naval Judge Advocate General, who could lessen the sentence but could not increase it. The lieutenant would remain on active duty until that review was complete. Three of the lieutenant's fellow officers had testified on his behalf, including a major and two captains, agreeing that his "loyalty to the Corps" was above reproach and that the offense to which he had pleaded guilty was, in the words of one of them, "an unfortunate occurrence". The defense had also produced letters from officers acquainted with the lieutenant, all indicating that they regarded him as an "outstanding officer".
In Empire, Colo., a snow slide, which had been deliberately started by cannon fire the previous day, had killed a cameraman filming it and a highway worker warning motorists to stay away from the scene. The photographer's helper, 18, had been trapped in the fringe of the avalanche and managed to pull himself out from under two feet of snow. The movie photographer, 26, and the maintenance worker for the Highway Department, 21, had suffocated beneath tons of snow, rock and trees. The deliberately set avalanche was part of the Highway Department's avalanche control program along U.S. Highway 40 in the Blue Hill area, about 46 miles west of Denver. The person in charge of the Highway Department team, which had fired three rounds from a 75-mm. howitzer into the snow mass, and his work, had been featured the previous Sunday in a newspaper story telling of his four years on avalanche control work, pointing out that there had been no snow slide deaths along the highway since the Department had initiated the program. He stated that he could not understand why the two men killed had not sought safety when they saw the size of the avalanche, that snow was flying everywhere. He also indicated that after what had happened, he was going to quit his job.
On the editorial page, "Vandalism: Solution Must Be Found" indicates that local ruffians were no less reliable than robins as harbingers of spring, having opened their annual riot of destruction in Freedom Park during the weekend, breaking down doors, wrecking lockers, overturning trash cans and breaking up picnic ovens.
If past patterns persisted, the repair bill for the Park & Recreation Commission would run up to around $50,000 before the end of the warmer weather, an amount equivalent to equipping three new parks in a city which needed that many new parks and more.
The Commission had previously appealed to good citizenship and for citizens to report suspicious persons, but none of those appeals had prevailed. As a last resort the previous year, it had asked the Mecklenburg delegation to the Legislature to introduce a bill making parents financially responsible for the destructive acts of their children. Despite apparent defects in that idea and poor prospects for any overall panacea, it had thought that such a law was at least worth trying, and still thought so, hoping that the Mecklenburg delegation would push for its passage.
It indicates that some psychiatrists had objected to such a measure as just another weapon usable by rebellious children against their own parents. Perhaps it was so, but psychiatric treatment would be worth more than a hundred laws in safeguarding public and private property. It could also be argued that a financial responsibility law would force parents to take steps to ameliorate the problem, and reposit the remedy within the family, where it belonged. It finds that unless a better plan came along, the legislators ought approve the financial responsibility measure.
"Banish the Muddle over Missiles" indicates that the military tradition of "muddling through" was admirably suited to the era of cavalry charges, saber-waving and knight-errantry, but was dangerously out of touch in the present time, making the present missile muddle all the more inexplicable.
While the other major powers were busy streamlining their armed forces to accommodate the latest concepts of push-button warfare, the U.S. was preparing for one of its inter-service feuds over who was going to monopolize all of the new weaponry, with the contest this time being between the Army and the Air Force, with the Navy loosely allied with the Army, while Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson was apparently siding with the Air Force.
Meanwhile, diplomatic dispatches from behind the Iron Curtain during the week indicated that Russia had organized a new "rocket force", on par with its Army, Navy and Air Force, to take over missile development and air defense. According to experts in Soviet affairs, the Kremlin had ordered a coordinated crash program in nuclear, rocket and missile defense, in which swift progress could be expected.
The previous week, Britain had announced a dramatic change in its defense posture with heavy emphasis on atomic weaponry and long-range missiles.
The U.S. was planning to spend twice as much on its missile program as had been spent on development of the atomic bomb. But in the development of the 1,500-mile intermediate range ballistic Jupiter missile, the Army and Air Force had been competing rather than cooperating. Secretary Wilson had announced the curtailment the previous year of the Army program, and despite some later hedging by him, it was assumed that the Army's valuable program in that regard was doomed. A rancorous public debate had erupted, which would likely reach a peak the following month during the court-martial of Col. John Nickerson of the Army for divulging secret data in disputing the missile policies of the Defense Department.
It suggests that the U.S. defense establishment could not afford the luxury of another inter-service feud, that the unification of the armed forces in 1947 had been designed to stop that type of nonsense and provide coordination and teamwork, necessary to provide the nation with a strong, versatile military machine. A single, coordinated missile program was necessary when a new concept of warfare was quickly being developed, it being absolutely vital that the U.S. win the race over its enemies, as nothing was quite as important as survival.
"The Sad Situation Keeps on Prevailing" indicates that James Reston, writing in the New York Times, had noted that the British had officially conceded that the next war would be fought with atomic and hydrogen weapons and that there were no hiding places from such weapons. Meanwhile, the Russians were warning the smaller nations which were accepting U.S. armaments that they must hold on to their hats, with the implication that a person departing the world ought have headgear of some sort. The brave Hungarians had apparently been brought to heel by the Soviets after their abortive short-lived revolution the prior fall. Egyptian dictator, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, held the world on tenterhooks by holding a sword over the Suez Canal, and a biography of Secretary of State Dulles contended that the situation had resulted from the Secretary's brilliant, deliberate strategy to effect a showdown with the Communist world in the Middle East.
At home, there was the usual corruption in high places, and Senator Karl Mundt promised that the next installment of the Select Committee investigation of racketeering in labor and management would be stocked with plenty of "melodrama".
An observant magazine editor had summed the situation by indicating:
"It is a gloomy moment in history. Not in the lifetime of any man who reads his paper has there been so much grave and deep apprehension: never has the future seemed so dark and incalculable.
"In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. England and the English empire are being sorely tried and exhausted in the social and economic struggle, with turmoil at home and uprising of her teeming millions in her far-flung Indian empire.
"The United States is beset with racial, industrial and commercial chaos—drifting, we know not where.
"Russia hangs like a storm cloud on the horizon of Europe—dark and silent.
"It is a solemn moment, and no man can feel indifference, which, happily no man pretends to feel in the issue of events. Of our own troubles, no man can see the end."
The words had been written in Harper's by its editor in 1847.
It suggests that the moral to it all was: "A little perspective improves the disposition."
We recommend it, incidentally, for the Trumpy-Dumpy-Doers, who appear to know little or nothing of history, believe that history began somewhere around 2015, when their age, at least mentally, was at about four to five years, insofar as political and historical awareness. Well, we all have to learn…
The quote, by the way, which had been bouncing around newspaper offices coast to coast for at least 25 years and would continue to do so through at least 2008, is either from another publication or the date is wrong, as Harper's did not begin publication until 1850, though the date has been otherwise pinned to October 10, 1857 as well as the nonexistent 1847 issue of the same day. But we have searched the 1857 issues in vain for the quote. Maybe it existed and maybe it did not, maybe in some other place, maybe got erased by some ineluctably morose library vandal, insisting on crying in his beer without solace from worse times else, but the point is well-made nevertheless. Times are never as bad as one might think them, when placed in the perspective of time immemorial. How would you have liked, for instance, to have been a member of Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment in Montana in June, 1876, or of General Pickett's brigade that afternoon in July of 1863, all notions of chivalry and heroism tossed away in favor of the realization of the inevitable carnage to come, or among the little band of British troops known as the Light Brigade, at Balaklava in October, 1854? January 6, 2021? You creeps were just little pikers out on a devil-may-care hike, defending threatened statuary of the past, your her'tage.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it: It's not fake news after all, little four-year old Trumpie-Dumpy-Do. Persistence pays off in doing research. If at first we do not succeed, just like the little engine that could, try, try again next morning. Eureka. With the aid of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cleveland Plain Dealer from October 22, 1931, we discover the precise location of the piece. Voila. They were not lying to us from all those years ago, just to make some worthy but wholly apocryphal point. Faith in journalism is restored—even if someone, somewhere along the line by 1948, had substituted for the original words, "In our own country, there is universal commercial prostration and panic, and thousands of our poorest fellow-citizens are turned out against the approaching winter without employment and without the prospect of it," the bit which went: "The
United States is beset with racial, industrial and commercial
chaos—drifting, we know not where." (Perhaps the latter version was in a variant edition of Harper's, published in different sections of the country. Who knows? It was 1857. And whoever wrote the piece recommending abandonment of the requirement of unanimity of jury verdicts in criminal trials because guilty persons had supposedly oft been acquitted, also requiring unanimity, call it, for modernity, the "I.C.O.J. Guilt Syndrome from the Yellow Tabs
And to answer the question posed by the Saturday Evening Post ad which apparently originated the revival of the piece in the midst of the bottom of the Depression: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Was it Calvin Coolidge who said that?
A piece from the Greensboro Daily News, titled "Orpheus Descending", finds that Dorothy Kilgallen, the well-known "Voice of Broadway" columnist, who had also veered from her normal beat to cover the trial in Cleveland of Dr. Sam Sheppard in the fall of 1954, had become upset about the new play by Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, when she need not have.
She had explained that the play was
another "Southern", that is a play of a type similar to a
"Western" movie. It took place in a dry goods store
She was so wrought up about it that she was fearful that the South might secede again, and would not blame it if it did.
It assures her that the South would
not secede, just as it had not risen up in arms over "Baby Doll",
another "Southern". Tennessee Williams, after all, also had
to make a living, and if he could get Yankees to pay Union dollars to
go to a theater and see one of his "Southerns", more power
to him. If he could not support himself in the North, he could return
to Mississippi
Drew Pearson indicates that Don Surine, an investigator in countless anti-Communist hearings for Senator McCarthy, had just been fired and he and Senator McCarthy had parted ways. Mr. Surine had been involved in the Army-McCarthy hearings in the spring of 1954 and had come under criticism at that time because of indiscretions with a white slave witness he had arrested as an FBI agent in Baltimore, later being fired by the FBI, with Senators claiming that he had misstated the facts when he said he had resigned. He had also obtained headlines when he had taken a trip to New York to collect erroneous information against Anna Rosenberg, the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the time, resulting in a public retraction. Senator McCarthy had nevertheless stuck by him, despite demands from other Senators that he be fired. An inquiry to Senator McCarthy's office as to why he was now being fired finally resulted only in the statement that he was no longer connected with the office and that they had no idea where he could be located. Mr. Pearson notes that for Senator McCarthy's information, Mr. Surine presently had a modest job at the Federal Trade Commission.
He indicates that one reason the President had become so upset when his helicopters had been mentioned at a press conference was because they were not intended to fly him to the golf course but rather to rush him from Washington in case of an atomic attack.
Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina had tried to discourage veterans' organizations from testifying against his alien property bill, with the Senator wanting to give the property back to Germany, to which the veterans were opposed. But when they insisted, Senator Johnston allowed them to testify.
Veterans were upset at the fact that 40 U.S. enlisted men would be dressed in colonial costumes to serve as scenery at Virginia's Jamestown Festival, celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first permanent English colony in North America. Some Army men were wondering whether the Army had now gone in for play-acting, while others would rather serve as scenery than wear out shoe leather on a drill field.
The real estate lobby had started a quiet campaign in Congress to put G.I. housing under the Federal Housing Administration, making it easier to raise interest rates on G.I. home loans. The present 4.5 percent rate offered so little profit for bankers that they had openly threatened to cut off future G.I. loans, and it was already nearly impossible for veterans to obtain 4.5 percent loans, with the result having been an alarming drop in low-cost home-building.
And if you wish to read the omitted material from the column, including the portion about Senator Theodore Green's interesting interaction with the traffic cop during his daily 2.5 mile perambulation to the Capitol, read the complete column in The Robesonian. He should have informed the cop about the Constitution's prohibition of having to quarter troops in one's home, blown his mind.
Joseph Alsop, in London, indicates that on the eve of a long Middle Eastern journey, he had been trying desperately to find out what Middle East policy had been agreed upon by the President and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their recent Bermuda conference, with the answer being clear that they had not agreed on any policy.
The President and Prime Minister had renewed their wartime comradeship, laying the basis for intimate personal communications between them in the future, a positive. Everyone, including the President, had been reiterating that the former closeness and frankness between the two nations had to be immediately re-established. But, he notes, whether Secretary of State Dulles, who was seldom close or frank with his most intimate subordinates, was equally sincere in that regard, was an interesting question which only the future could answer. But there was no truth in the report that special mechanisms for joint consultation and planning had been set up at the conference.
All present had agreed as to what they would like to see happen, that being Egypt's Premier Nasser curbed, the U.N. resolutions enforced, and the Middle Eastern oil sources protected permanently. But, he notes, statesmen agreeing on what they would like to see occur was tantamount to asking what one would do with ten million dollars. There was also no detailed agreement on the primary problem of making all of those things occur which everyone wanted to see happen, and that failure was the real reason for the very cool response to the conference by the British, who believed that no real policy was established at the conference.
For the immediate future, developments in the Middle East were not hard to predict from the perspective of the British, because the great powers of the West, having lightheartedly forfeited every means of pressure which could be brought to bear on Premier Nasser, would eventually have to let the Premier operate the Suez Canal on basically his own terms, as long as he kept it open to all nations except Israel. Even the most hot-headed among the British and French were aware that an attempted boycott would only spite themselves, and thus Premier Nasser would get generally his own way regarding the canal.
In Gaza, the Premier was sure to get pretty much his way as well, determined when it had been strangely decided by the U.S. that a few thousand non-shooting U.N. troops could control 250,000 suicidally inflamed Palestinian refugees completely guided by Premier Nasser's agents. The Premier might wish to keep the U.N. troops in Gaza on his own terms, however, as a shield against Israel. If the Premier did not seek to interfere with the passage of Israeli shipping through the Gulf of Aqaba, which appeared unlikely, the immediate prospect was disagreeable but unexciting. There would be bad feeling and criticism, especially Anglo-French criticism of U.S. policy, but that would be about all.
He posits that the real danger to the Western alliance lay in the future and outside the immediate vicinity of the Suez Canal. The U.S. Middle East policy, which was beginning to be vaguely put forth, was essentially one of replacing British weight and influence with American weight and influence, not an easy task under the best of circumstances. A U.S. effort to stabilize the Middle East was bound to be encountered by powerful and astute opposition from the Soviets, and replacing British influence with American influence was a delicate operation for many reasons. It required a policy or agreement to go smoothly, one made in advance in detail and at the highest level, but unfortunately, even after the Bermuda conference, no such agreement existed.
Robert C. Ruark, in Palamos, Spain, finds that probably the world's softest job at present was that of a Russian spy in any metropolitan center, as all one had to do was read magazines and newspapers, sip vodka and return to bed by around 10:00 a.m.
Life magazine, in a recent edition, had offered a full map of the U.S. and environs, replete with major atomic centers, ore processing mills currently in operation, ore processing mills contracted to be built, test and research reactors to be built, atomic power reactors currently in operation and atomic power reactors presently under construction. The positions of the Nautilus and Seawolf atomic submarines were also more or less indicated. There was also transparency about new dispersion of the Strategic Air Command bases and the reasons for the dispersal, to prevent an invitation to attack and thus serve as a deterrent to war.
It had been publicized that General Curtis LeMay, head of SAC, was on a hunting trip in Africa for about a month, and the U.S. classified weather information could be had by anyone by merely dialing the Defense Department, asking for a particular extension and receiving a 24-hour forecast, despite it being "for military use only and dissemination to the public is not authorized."
Another picture magazine—presumably Look, although maybe Playboy, figuratively speaking—carried all the necessary blueprints for the new fighter, bomber or rocket. In the newspapers, it was reported that runways in the Middle East were being lengthened, military news regarding bases in Spain appeared, etc. The stock market provided the state of the national economy. A shipping strike was tying up necessary supplies, and the Mayor of New York, Robert Wagner, was being rude to a visiting potentate, King Saud, whose favor the country needed to curry.
Thus, the Russian spy could cover the whole picture without getting out of bed.
He supposes that everyone knew what they were doing and were busy telling the enemy what they believed the enemy already knew, with a warning threat of readiness and perhaps mixed with some misinformation, but he regards it as a shame to do all the legwork for the enemy.
During World War II, simple things as road maps and house organs had been used to provide intelligence. But his main gripe was that the spy ought be made to earn his living. He hates the idea that when the spy mailed his intelligence to a drop in a nearby country, room service had brought it to him on a tray, together with orange juice and three-minute eggs. "At that, the bum probably doesn't even tip the waiter."
A letter writer indicates that it was hardly unreasonable to wonder how "foul souls" were able in some instances to write beautiful songs or poems. "How can a booze-artist wield the painter's wand?" He finds that they did it, just as the rest of the poor sinning mortals did some good, in spite of their sin. "Herein, then, is the hope for the drunkard, the libertine, the gutter-snipe, those whose sins go before them to judgment. Not a hope that they may go on sinning and still walk arm in arm with beauty but hope born of assurance that as all have to strive against ugliness, slime, and all ungodliness, so, too, all still have the chance held out to them to make the joy of Goodness yet flame across the world, reminding through nobleness of beautiful living that God is good and will not quench the smoking flax. The father always waits and yearns for the return of the prodigal." He urges, however, that no poetic license could justify profaning holiness or make evil good, that a woman should not be praised because she could act on stage while violating the code of womanly honor on life's broader plain, or likewise a man. But there was exultation in the thought that evil at its worst could not fully stifle beauty or the love of beauty in man's soul.
A letter from the Charlotte Woman's Club thanks the local newspapers, without whose cooperation they could not have carried forward with success their many projects and endeavors, able to alert the public through the newspapers to the needs of the community and soliciting help for them to be able to meet those needs. It indicates that the Junior Woman's Club of Charlotte had won first place in the junior division of the press book competition and the Woman's Club had won second place in the senior division in both press book and scrapbook competitions at the recent convention of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, held in High Point. It thanks the News, and particularly Marie Adams, Margaret Watkins, Jackie Goodman and the entire staff of the woman's page, and all of the newspaper's photographers for their help.
A letter from historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., thanks the newspaper for its editorial book review of The Crisis of the Old Order, thanking it for "generous and discerning readers".
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