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The coastland times., 1951-09-21
RoDANTHE PERSONALS

John Edgar Herbert, Jr., who is
stationed at Staten Island, New
York on U. S. Coast Guard Cutter
Mackinac spent the weekend with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. John E.
Herbert and family at Rodanthe.
Dalton w. O'Neal, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick O'Neal left
Monday to join the U. S. Navy.
Fred O'Neal and son, Orville,
spent Wednesday in Manteo on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gregory
spent Tuesday in Norfolk on busi-
ness.
Richard w. Midget and sons,
Aubrey and Boyd, of Norfolk spent
the weekend with his sister, Mrs.
Herbert X. Midget and family at
Rodanthe.
C. L. Jackson of Elizabeth City
is here visiting relatives and
friends.
The Home Demonstration Club
met at the home of Mrs. Fred
O'Neal Tuesday evening. The meet
ing was very interesting.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess and Hush Puppies
made by our home agent were also
served.
The P.T.A. at Rodanthe school
met Tuesday night, large atten.
dance. The meeting was interes.
ting.
Allen E. Crap, who is stationed
at Elizabeth City, U. S. Coast
Guard Air Base, spent last week
end with his aunt and uncle, Mr.
and Mrs. John E. Herbert, and
family at Rodanthe.
John A. Meekins was a business
visitor in Manteo Wednesday.
The coastland times., 1951-09-21

Pantego girl, were sent by the
Methodist church in Norfolk to at
tend a ministers and laymeris S
school, in 1914, he decided to en-
ter the ministry. Shortly after
that, he was licensed to preach and
assigned to the Charles City
charge, which then had five strug-
Cling little churches.
One of those churches burned
and was replaced with a large
building. A full time minister was
assigned to that charge, but the
Rev. Mr.. Berry was left with four
churches that had hard time to
raise a $2S00 budget between them.
He held IL services a month With
an average attendance of only 45.
His engineers mind began to
look for a way to improve the sit
uation and he hit on consolidation.
BY 1943, the four congregations
had accepted the idea and COM
pleted a $4,000 church at Chase
City, not more than IL miles from
any member. II is a modern struc-
ture, with rooms for Sunday school
classes and memorial chapel in
recognition of the four little
churches which had developed from
Micah church, organized in the 18th
century. The new building has a
nursery, to which an amplifying
system carries the sermon.
The budget has climbed to $13,-
600. In addition, the charge has
built nine-room parsonage. In a
recent issue of the Virginian-Pilot
of Norfolk, almost page was de-
voted to the progress made by
the combined congregations and
the engineer who turned minister.
Among committees in charge of
plans for the homecoming, Mrs.
and Miss Mildred Spencer were on
w. G. Harris, Miss Aleph Cason,
a program committee. Invitations
were lin charge of Mrs. Maude
Jones, Miss Mildred Spencer and
Mrs. Milicent Lupton.
The coastland times., 1951-09-21

Every Unis thor SUPPORTS The
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tires, and others-is engineered right
to provide the strength and capacity
needed.
Every Vnif sIbus MOVES tho Iood
-engine, clutch, transmission, pro-
peller shaft, rear axle, and others SIS
engineered right to meet q particular
operating condition.
The coastland times., 1951-09-21
STAR TO HAVE GUEST

The district deputy grand ma
tron of the Eastern Star will pay
her official visit to the Belhaven
chapten Monday night at the Ma
sonic temple. After the session,
social hour will be held.
The coastland times., 1951-09-21

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The coastland times., 1951-09-21

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The coastland times., 1951-09-21

Any coward can fight battle
when he's sure of winning; but
give me the man who has pluck
to fight when he's sure of losing.
That's my way sir; and there are
many victories worse than a de-
feat. George Eliot
The coastland times., 1951-09-21
WHY A ob-Rated" TRUCK
rs YOUR BEST BUY

A Dodge "lob-Rated' truck Is engi-
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Every unit from engine to rear axle
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The coastland times., 1951-09-21
RANSOMVILLE MANS BOAT
BURNS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Mrs. Phillip Paul and her BROTH
er, Julian MCGOWAN of Ransom
vile, left Saturday to go to Beau
fort, S. c., to the aid of Mr.. Paul,
whose boat burned. Mr.. Paul lost
all his clothes, but was not badly
injured, altho the beat was COM
plete loss.
The coastland times., 1951-09-21

Our doubts are traitors,
And make US lose the good we oft
might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Evening star., 1951-03-09

actually, efforts to germinate them generally
have failed. If Mr.. Wester achieves full-grown
Indian lotus plants from the seeds in his care,
he will have shown that oxygen is not necessary
to seed survival. Herein lies the new principle
involved in his procedure.
He is encouraged to hope for success because
OF miracle OF sort which occurred all over
England during World War II. The craters left
in the cities as we'll as in rural areas by German
bombs were at the first simply hideous holes in
the ground Then suddenly vegetation appeared
in them. This vegetation brought forth flowers
but those flowers were not of familiar varieties
Rather, they were blossoms of types not known
in England for centuries Some scientists de-
clared that the winds or birds had brought in
the alien plants, but others believed that the
seeds of them had been in the subsoil for ages
lying dormant, waiting for accidental release
to light and air and normal growth
Evening star., 1951-03-09

Well 1t happened to Templeton Jones.
While he was seated at desk in the
library of his institution, he suddenly
felt something give
Looking down with an uneasy sensa-
tion, he was amazed to see that his
trusty belt had split completely in two.
The buckle was buckled, all right
but the belt itself had simply pulled
apart, leaving it dangling.
Being modest man, Jones was horri-
fed at the very idea of getting up.
He wondered if he could make it.
Gingerly he felt his recalcitrant belt.
Would it be best to slip it out of the
trouser loops, or leave it be?
He decided that an unfaithful belt
was perhaps better than none at all.
Tentatively he raised himself in his
chair
The trousers began to slip.
He was reminded of tall tales he had
heard of the embarrassment of sensitive
ladies, household tales of the older days.
One young girl had her skirt whipped
of by handle of passing street car.
Only the kindness of policeman,
who loaned her his coat. saved her. This
Evening star., 1951-03-09
This and That

Templeton Jones is not exactly fat
man.
The only place he carried too much
weight is around the equator.
He would resent being called fat. Just
pleasantly plump, he says.
Like all fat men, he should wear
suspenders, but he insists on belt.
Now belt, according to statistics, is
the thing that keeps ones trousers up
Unless, of course, one wears sus-
penders.
Some men wear both, the belt for
looks, as they say, the suspenders to
do the real job.
When one grows plump around the
stomach, ones trousers no longer At
WELL
This is a hard fact learned by many
men after the age of SO years.
When the stomach rounds out, the
trousers tend to slip.
And slide.
You see these uncomfortable char
acters taking hitch at their pants
every now and then.
They have deep-seated conviction
that some day the things are going to
fall OF. belt or no belt,
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Suggestion for the Democrats

It is interesting to learn that the Democratic
National Committee is going to strike blow for
austerity and set an example in fighting imitation
by going ahead as usual, with its $1OO-p plate
dinner in April, celebrating Jefferson Jackson
Truman Day
But this year something should be added.
The assembled multitude of office holders should
have the chance to take part in the rattle of
mink coat valued, say, at about $9,450 less the
usual RFC discount. The winner of the mink
coat, needless to say, would be given the choice
between trip to the Saxony Hotel in Florida,
all expenses paid and job at the White House
maybe both.
And perhaps somebody would be willing to
donate couple of deep freezers. to 60 with the
mink coat
Evening star., 1951-03-09

Stain has barged ahead with this
fresh offensive against the peasantry
in the face of several facts that would
frighten off any other government
leader in the world
In the first place. there is reason to
believe that the peasantry has already
reacted unfavorably to last years drive
for the amalgamation of smaller col :.
lective farms. Blasts in the newspapers
about the shortage of local fertilizers"
indicate that the peasants have been
up to their old trick of killing off their
livestock rather than have it fall into
the hands of the government.
In the second place, it is clearly be-
yond the means of the Soviet govern
ment at this time to build thousands of
new settlements. Millions of families in
the Ukraine and White Russia are still
living in rough barracks, waiting for
their homes to be rebuilt. It is prob
ably impossible for the Russians even
to build enough barracks to handle the
population shift which is now on the
order books
Finally, Stain is taking on the peas
antry in another knock down drag out
tussle at time when his own prop
Evening star., 1951-03-09
By Charles E. TroceweN

account was in all the papers at the
time.
Jones recalled a family incident,
which happened to one of his own
household, the mere matter Of an under
garment
Jones was impelled to laugh about it.
until he saw the plain CONSERVATION OF
the pretty face before him.
Slipping garments, he decided at that
time, are not laughing matters.
Now he was finding it out for himself.
With a groan he raised himself in his
chair, just to see what would happen.
Nothing did, thank heaven!
= The trousers sagged, away down, but
stayed put. !.
Templeton Jones tentatively put one
finger through belt loop. as if the flriger
just happened to be there.
When he got back to his own desk. he
heaved al sigh.
Now to- find some rope.
A length Of window cord did nicely.
And it was with this novel belt, carefully
concealed by the coat, our hero went the
rest of the day. 10
He says he doesn't recommend win
dow cord belt, however. except In an
emerRencY.
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Home Rule Hearings

am happy to find myself. at long last,
in agreement with the Washington Board
of Trade. In my opinion, the testimony
given by it's counsel, Edward F. Colladay,
was the finest of any presented at the
hearings on home rule.
The tragedy of these hearings was the
evident willingness of our former stall
wart suffrage leaders to accept anything
so long as it is called "home rule Spon-
sors of all such bills in recent years have
made the big mistake of complicating
simplicity.
All we want is national representation
first; then, perhaps, an enlargement of
the Board of Commissioners to five. three
of whom would be elected by real resi-
dents of Washington. The Engineer
Commissioner and one Civilian Commis-
sioner should be appointed by the Presi-
dent. Then let us elect our own Munic-
ipal Court judges and Board of Educa-
ton, and feel like real American citizens.
C. Herbert Marshall, MD.
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Is This the End for Russio's Peosontrv?
By William H. Stonemon

ID USSIA'S ragged peasantry is play
Ming guinea pig in another vast and
ruthless Bolshevik experiment. Deter
mined to wipe out the peasantry as
such, because it Is too dangerous, and
to convert 1t into rural proletariat,"
Stain has decreed that all collective
farmers shall be removed as quickly as
possible from their villages and herded
into agricultural cities"
The measure will affect more than
20 million families. It has already
destroyed any vestige OF security which
the peasantry regained after the Ger
mans left the Ukraine.
In it's scope and its cruel possibilities,
this campaign can only be compared
with the two great collectivization drives
in the late 20s and the beginning of
the 30s which, after false start the
first time finally wiped out individual
farming.
The famine Of 1888, which resulted
from the second drive, cost between
4 and 6 million peasant lives-nobody
knows how many. 1t might easily have
cost Stain his neck if the GPU (secret
police had not exiled hundreds of
thousands of families from the affected
areas.
The present drive began inconspicu-
ously one year ago when the Politbureau
ordered the merger of small collective
farms into super collective farms. Three
or more small or medium sized collec-
tives were merged into each of the
larger establishments.
Collective farm members, who theo-
retically enjoyed the rights of share
holders" in the units to which they
belonged, and to which they had orig
inally contributed their own land, were
deprived of those rights to large ex-
tent and were moved around like slave
or indentured labor. This was a first
step in their transformation from peas
ants or collective farmers into hired
hands
The second step, which will get under
way this spring. will involve the con-
struction of an "agrograd" or "agricul-
tural settlement" in connection with
each of the larger collective farms.
Inhabitants of these "agrograds' will
be organized into teams to work the
adjacent land. and they are certain to
lose the few privileges which they now
have. These include the theoretical
right Of each household to have a COW
and certain number of other small
animals and fowl.
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Think This One Over

Walter L. Dunham, without any intention of
doing SO, has turned the spotlight on what
should be one of the most disturbing aspects of
the whole malodorous RFC mess 1t is disturb
ing, not because any one was accused of wrong
doing but rather because as Mr.. Dunham told
OF the incident, he seemed to look upon it as
mark of virtue
The RFC director was telling the Fulbright
committee of his attempt to "get tough" in in
sisting on reorganization of the Lustron Cor
poration. He was insisting that the company
make economies in its executive payroll and was
told by the company president that such econ
omieS would necesstate the discharge of E. Merl
Young, who held an $4,000 job, and who, accord
ing to the LuStron official, was exceedingly well
connected at the White House"
So what did Mr. Dunham do? He telephoned
Donald Dawson, presidential aide with results
that encouraged my high opinion of his motives"
These results were that Mr. Dawson informed
Mr.. Dunham that "the President said to 20
ahead and do whatever was best regarding Lus-
tron without regard for the status of Mr. Young"
The record does not show whether Mr. Daw-
son actually made this statement or whether, if
he did, he ever talked to the President about it,
II the Durham version is correct, however, the
incident is anything but creditable to the parties
concerned. Why did not Mr. Dunham make his
own decision? Why did he call Mr.. Dawson? And,
If it happened, why in the world would Mr. Daw-
son consult Mr. Truman? Have we reached the
point at which responsible Government official
thinks he has to get the OK. of the President of
the United States before he can do the right
thing If the job of an E. Merl Young is at stake?
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Those 1000 0-Yeor-Old Seeds

Those Indian lotus seeds of the National
Capital Parks playing to large audience.
Judging by the number of letters and telephone
calls received concerning them, they have in
trigued the Imagination of san extensive public
The interest of the laity as we'll that of scen-
lists is justified by the fact that new principle
IN botany may be in process of demonstration
The seeds that sprouted under the manage
ment of Horace v. Wester parks plant pathologist,
fossil Seeds They were found in an Upper
Pleistocene stratum near Pulan Fien in Southern
Manchuria in 1927 DR.. Seido Endo, paleon-
tologist at Sendai University in Japan estimated
them to be about $4,000 years old Two of the
lot discovered in a peat bed were given to DR..
Ralph w. CLANCY of the University of California,
who in turn gave them to Edward J. Kelly, NCP
superintendent. The seeds are dark chocolate
brown and have hard, slick surface. Mr..
Wester says they are about the size of standard
olives, not merely the size of olive pits. He
regards them as having been hermetically sealed
in their original state. In order to test their
powers of termination, he filed the outer shell
of each seed, thus admitting air and light to the
inner membrane in each instance.
Now the hoped-for sprouting has occurred
The next question is Will the infant plants
"grow up? AS of today, the answer seemed
to be: Yes Mr.. Wester has removed them from
their cotton cradle and placed them in natural
environment of earth in the potting house at
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. They are being
watched constantly, so that each phase of their
development may be chroncled-and guarded
The Importance of this security precaution lies
in the chance that the experiment will prove
that archaeological seeds can be terminated to
order. Hitherto, scientific opinion has been
skeptical of mummy wheat" discovered in the
tombs of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and
all similar finds. In theory such relics still
khould possess vitality without regard to age;
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Thot Simpler Day

When pines on sno,Dy hills that trimmed
the West
Stood darkly outlined on the sunset
sky,
! used to see the mill hands going BY,
Whistling or laughing at some little
JEST
narroD tootpath led across the hill
And there in struggling groups. !
matched them 90
Till purple Stddo,Ds deepened OF, the
s11oD 5....
And great stars olittered and the DorM
Das still.
oh, to turn backward to that simpler
day .-
4 When euen a child's young heart
could understand
That toll and happiness 90 hand in
hand, .~s t..
When tired workn,en take their home.
Ddrd 1Ddy -
After long hours at honest labor spent
Trudging through tDinter dusk In tiees
content. ~
lnez Barclay Kirby.
Evening star., 1951-03-09

aganda outlets are screaming to high
heaven about Western plans for pre-
ventive war against the Soviet Union.
If war were to break out this year.
1t would obviously find the morale of
the Russian peasantry at low ebb. Such
situation would be reflected in the
attitude of the Red Army. which is
largely composed of peasants.
Western experts who have studied the
move say it does not prove anything
about Stalin's ultimate objectives. They
feel it is natural outcome of his long
standing hatred and fear of the peas
antry. dating from the early days of the
revolution when they nearly starved the
city proletariat into counter revolution.
They take it as pretty certain proof
that Russia itself does not intend to
start any fireworks this year or to take
any risks Of becoming involved in a
general war.
From long-range point of view, they
think Stain may be settling his score
with the peasantry, once and for all,
in order to avoid any danger of trouble,
with it if and when Russia does be-
come involved in war with the West.
go (chicago Daily News Foreign Service)
Evening star., 1951-03-09
Hoover and ConnuIIy

I want to cheer former President
Hoover for the opinions he presented
to the committee presided over by one
Tom Connally. And I want Tom Con-
nally and everyone else to know that
while I cheer Herbert Hoover. also
am disgusted with Senator Connally
for his childish and ungentlemanly be-
havior toward Mr. Hoover
I am not native Texan, and Sem
ator Connally makes me thankful for
that. But I'll be here in Texas to vote
against Connally If he runs for the
Senate again, and there are plenty
Evening star., 1951-03-09
A Time for everything

I would like to know just who con-
jured up the idiocy of washing down
important District streets during the
daytime hours. It's the sort of sub
imbecilic idea that appeals to visiting
convention delegates who enjoy squirt
ing bare-legged women with water pis-
tolls But I, a motorcyclist. am left not
only cold by this nonsense, but indeed
wet.
If you will kindly supply me with the
rogue's name. may arm myself with
watering can and give him a dose Of
his own medicine.
Edward w. Hutmire.
Editors Note: One Of the rogues
in the District Building says that in
winter weather our streets have al
ways been washed mostly In the day.
time, so as to avoid the danger of q
quick freeze at mighty
Government Unions
The letter headed NO Union Fan"
and signed by one Miriam Blaisdale
Ketchum, who from her letters to edi-
tors appears to be a chronic union
hater, is perhaps the type of comment
that is best ignored.
However, Miss Ketchum's allegation
that Government employe unions have
harmed rather than helped working con-
ditions in Governments so patiently
unfair that the record should be set
straight. In addition, this letter-writer
has questioned the propriety of The Star
giving publicity to unions. AS constant
and thorough reader of all local news
papers, the undersigned commends the
policy of The Star in reporting both sides
of an issue in its news columns, giving
the views Of the employe as well as Of
management.
One does not have to go back 25
years to see how the Federal service
has been improved through efforts of
employe unions, like the American Fed
Grafton of Government Employees. They
initiated legislation which improved the
salary structure. retirement provisions,
annual and sick leave, within-grade
promotions, overtime pay, injury COM
pensation benefits, hazard pay. travel
allowances. job security, and other
aspects Of Government work.
Members of Congress like Senators
Johnston of South Carolina, Taft of Ohio,
LANCER of North Dakota, and Repre-
sentatives Murray of Tennessee, Rees
of Kansas, Miller of California, are
among those who have publicly acknowl-
edged the contribution of Federal en-
ploye unions to a better public service
Top-level Government administra-
tors, such as retiring Chairman Harry
Mitchell of the Civil Service Commls-
sion, former Commissioner Arthur S.
Flemming, Navy Undersecretary Kim
ball, Assistant FBI Director Stan Tracy
and others, have testified to the bene-
f1cial work of the employe unions and
their aid in solving personnel problems.
AFGE is an intensely patriotic organi-
zation that has actively combatted Com