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TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1957 V*

Speed—Speed—Speed

WTTH the new high-powered automobiles and the modern highways speed regu lations are exceeded almost unconsciously. The new cars cruise around 55 miles an hour and with just a little bit of pressure on the accelerator the heavy cars will de velop speeds of 60, 65, 70 miles an hour with little realization of speed to those rid ing. The driver must keep an eye on the peedometer constantly. On a iong stretch of open road, relatively free of traffic, many drivers unconsciously add that extra pressure on the accelerator, and then—the speed limit is exceeded. This observation is not written in defense i 1' the Secret Service man, who was driving the limousine of President Eisenhower at speeds of 70 miles an hour last Friday. He should have had better control of his in clination to press a little harder under such conditions. We do not believe the President realized that his car was breaking the au thorized speed limit unnecessarily. However, we do know that the tendency to speed is there. It is in just such places on open roads,, traffic free, that the State Police often set up the “whammy”. Too often the State Police set the “whammy”

at the bottom of a long hill, knowing full well that careful and otherwise prudent drivers are prone to let the cars gain speed going down a long decline. When this is done we call this a speed trap. State Police would have a much greater influence in regulating speed if they would patrol the highways, and make themselves seen at the danger points, rather than set the “whammy speed traps.” When tourists begin to make the north-south drive to Florida or on the return trip, “whammy traps” seem to appear. This may be the way to control speedsters but it is not good public relations for the State or the com munity. What we are saying here does not per tain to excessive speeds — by excessive speeds we would judge a sustained speed above 65 miles an hour on the long straight stretches. In fact, in areas of light traffic and excellent road conditions, a bit of lati tude should be given thd motorist who drives carefully. A reckless driver has no place on the highway at any speed. Highway safety is an important matter and needs to be taught at the same time that it is enforced. It can not be success fully taught with “whammy traps.”

Mutual Responsibility

rriHE Eisenhower Administration proposed ^ that states be required to pay at least twenty-five per cent of the c<jst of drought and farm disaster relief programs. The proposal is, in effect, a state's rights pro posal which takes the Federall Government o t of the position of being Santa Glaus, doling out untold sums oT money to vari ous states when the states are often not helping themselves. The Federal proposal means that the U. S. Government will pay as mulch as seventy five per cent of drought and disaster relief program costs, but it makes, it clear that >uld mo\e to their own citrons when drought or other disaster strikes their area. One of the disappointing things discov ered when President Eisenhower and other

members of the Administration toured the Southwest recently, inspecting d r o u g h t conditions, was the fact that some states in that area were doing .very little to help their citizens, even though they were in dire need of relief. The new farm relief program is partly a result of this tour and while it is realized that the Federal Government has some re sponsibility in moving to relieve an emer gency which afflicts farmers in a drought er disaster area, the states also haw some responsibility. If the state is not will ing to put up twenty-five cents of every dollar for relief of its own citizens, then that state is not entitled to the other seven ty-five cents being furnished by monies col lected from all forty-eight states.

Keep Informed

|\NE of the fascinating things about life ■ i the constant realization, among in iTligent people, that few arguments and ■sic< are ever clear cut and that few final i inclusions or rules can be laid down in bmket fashion to cover a muss portion of t be population on any major question. What wo are getting at is: the fact that tb. older and wiser one gets, the more he realizes his limitations. The wiser the man, 1 e more readily he realizes the compara i ' fly small quantity of knowledge at his ■ mmand. In talking with others, if you will note r readiness to be positive about their mo ments, or their conclusions, you can m’v determine the depth of their phil ‘ipbv and the amount of wisdom they we acquired over the years. Those who ■■ays feel sure they have the answers are ’ 'st often the ones who are actually be \\ Idered and in need of further enlighten

ment. Likewise, those who should make an ef fort to improve their minds, and add to their knowledge and education, are often the ones who are completely content never to read worthwhile books, look over the news intelligently or try to draw conclu sions of their own. Admittedly, we live in a complex world and it is hard to know who is telling the truth, who really knows the score, what to read and where to find it. A general ap proach which might be of value to readers is that which includes keeping up with the news by devoting a few minutes each day to a newspaper, listening'to several news commentators, with different political phil osophies, and reading a stimulating book every month or two. Then, weigh all the opinions and arguments, think for yourself and make your own decisions.

Hcihsnn Discusses Making a Fortune In the Stock Market

Bnb.M-ti Park, Mass.. March 28 N.r.etv per cent of investments are made haphazardly. Sometimes they made on the advice of em vees of brokerage firms. It. how ever. will usually be found that these men have been unable to make and keep any money for themselves. * Importance of Patience, Hope The selfish, shortsighted person seldom makes much money in the stock market, and keeps it only by sheer luck Most of the real for tunes of today came from the funda mental desire to render service and \e “for value received" help to: A panicky market or 2 a new and useful industry. The first can be accomplished by anyone with patience and hope: the second sometimes fails because of poor' judgment or because one is too early or too late Both of the above two methods! of making money require courage, hope, and patience. It takes courage to sell stocks and "store up" cash during a bull market when most people are very optimistic: and it J

takes courage to buy stocks again, one or two years later, when most people are bearish. Furthermore, the waiting period between these right times to sell and buy requires patience and hope. However, the person who follows either of the above methods renders an impor tant service; namely, his selling 'helps make the boom less danger ous. and his buying helps check the panic For this service an investor always receives a handsome re ward. Selling High and Buying Low It is important that an invel t decide in advance winch of the above two methods he is to follow. It is difficult to mix the two meth ods. If you are to follow the first, of "selling high and buying low.” it is usually best to confine your holdings to the a c t i v e popular Stocks, perhaps those known as the "blue chips'; while the second method often requires buying stocks of new and smaller companies with inactive markets. All purchases Should be confined to listed stocks. In either case, never buy on mar

gin or borrowed money. For re i suits with this first method, under the very best conditions—which no one could expect to duplicate—$100 could increase to $90,000 in 40 years, not considering either taxes or divi dends. To show the great spread in price of some of the best single stocks, fte following figures are most interesting: — For instance. Genera! Electric, now quoted around 55, but selling due to stock splits at an equivalent of 165. sold for 9 during the thirties. Texas Company stock, now selling at an equivalent of 248, then sold at 10. Deere and Company, now selling at an equivalent of 180, then sold at 4. Du Pont, now selling at an equivalent of 720, then sold at 22. General Motors, now selling at an equivalent of 240, then sold at. 8: while Radio Corporation, now sell ing at 33. then sold at 3. Buying Into New Industries Howard N Feist, Jr., of the Busi-j ness Statistics Organization of Wel lesley Hills. Mass., has made an analysis of what could have been accomplished by investing only $100 I

Letters To Editor

Humane Methods Needed in Slaughter Editor. The Farmville Herald, I read with interest. Mr. Ogie vie's letter on the cruelties of the American slaughter houses The House Agriculture Com mittee has scheduled a hearing on humane slaughter bills April 2 I urge readers to write at once to Representative Watkins M. Ab bitt. House Office Building, Wash ington, D. C.. asking him to sup port H. R. 3029 or similar legisla tion to stop the cruelties of the slaughter houses. Mr. Abbitt is a member of the Agriculture Com mittee of the House of Represent atives. This committee has almost power to determine whether Con gress will pass a humane slaugh ter law this year. I am giving some methods list ed by the Humane Society used by most slaughter houses. "In some slaughter houses lambs and calves are jerked off tile floor and hung by one leg. like hogs before being "stuck." In other plants these infant animals are violently thrown to the floor the head is pulled back almost to the shoulders, and the throat cut. The lamb or calfeffes on the floor until it bleeds slowly into uncon sciousness and dies. Last year our slaughter houses did this to about 10.000.000 calves and 90.000.000 lambs," "Cattle are more trouble to the slaughter house than are hogs, lambs, and calves. In most slaughter houses, the animal is first driven into a "knocking" p* n — a pen narrow enough to hold the animal under close control. Along side the pen. on a slight ly raised platform, stands a man who is called a "knocker.” The knocker uses a long handled sledge hammer or axe to knock the animal to the floor. When the big animal is finally ! "immobilized," as the slaughter [men say 'the animals are not al ways unconscious >, it is dragged out of the knocking pen. Then its throat is cut.

i Last year about 20,000.000 cat I tie went through this process in i American slaughter houses. The precedures described above ; are the ordinary routine of our i billion-dollar meat packin: in dustry. But the animals going to their death are often not given the "benefit" of the routine. ! A U. S. Department of Agrieul ture inspector who has worked in many packing plants in the las 25 yeaiis wrote to the Human Society lof the United States: “When calves are slaughter! | they are shackled and pulled up j to an over head rail and bled : Sometimes the hind feet an skinned out and cut off while the animal is stilt alive and they j come out on the floor by a moving I chain still kicking This same man not an t-mo : tional layman but a man who : lias worked in slaughter hous s I for a quarter of a century — wrote: "I have seen cattle which were knocked with the hammer and | rolled out on tire floor and hunt up for bleeding after sticking, . and the header started to skin , out the head while the animal | was still alive and was trying to bellow." "Speaking in terms of moral ity. our nation long ago outlawed cruelty to animals. Every one of the major religions of our people names cruelty a sin. Every state of the Union, and the Fedral gov ernment itself have declared in a multitude of laws that cruelty to animals is impermissible. All thoughtful persons recog nize that cruelty is an evft that should be eradicated from our so ciety, not merely for the sake of the animals but for our own good. We know that cruelty j whether to animals or to man, i causes in the perpetrator a moral j and cultural erosin that is harm ! ful to the whole of society. James Aldrick Farmville, Va

in automobile stocks in 1915 and : then making twenty-two successive switches into various industries, at the right time. This results in a most amazing figure of over two billion dollars As a practical matter, it would have been very difficult to have picked the right groups at the | right time: but if you chose 90 per cent wrong and only 10 per cent right (provided all else was 100 per cent correct’, the $100 could have resulted in over $200,000,000. disre garding both taxes and dividends. Any "Doubting Thomas” may get a copy of this analysis with list of groups by sending two dollars to the Information Center. New Boston. N. H. Results of Certain Trustees I also have a copy of what E. L. Quinn of Elm Street. Wellesley Hills, Mass., who handles trust funds <minimum of $50,0001 has ac complished per $1,000. In 17 years he has turned $1,000 into $7,256 for a local friend of mine. This means an annual rate of interest of from 25 per cent to 40 per cent. Of course, he had the general market in his favor much of the time: but it is another illustration of what intelli gent. supervised investing can the oretically accomplish

Tomorrow Bright In Hands of Today’s Youth Editor of The Farmville Herald My wife and I have just return ed from chaperoning a group of fourteen Cumberland High School Beta Club members at Hate-wide Beta Club convention at the John Marshall Hotel in Richmond. Since there were over 1300 teen-ages at this convention, we feel that we had ample opportun ity for observing the youth of to day and the leadi: of tomorrow. It was an enlightening experience for me and 1 wish every adult could have observed this group at work and at play. These young people seem to know where they are going, how they will get there, and who is going with them. They know right from wrong and good from bad. The behavior of the entire group could have put to shame many adult conventions of equal size. I can't say that these young people were not noisy. It is dif ficult to imagine the roar of their laughter, the ring of their song, and the boom of their applause. It may also be hard to believe that this same noisy group can be a most attentive audience, and that from its rankg come digni fied. capable, and serious speak ers. Many adults would fall short if placed in competition with this group, whether in behavior or in capabilities. The parents of the fourteen Cumberland High School students whom we chaperoned may well be proud of them. We found their standards high and their behavior I irreproachable. They were poised and dignified when the occasion required it. and were ready for fun when the time came for that. In a body they attended every session of the convention without being told to cio so. They sought the front rows and were on time for every meeting. Mrs. Putney almost disgraced me by being the only one even a tiny bit late for a meeting. Of course she had an could not be topped in any way by

i o tld not bp toppd in any Way by students from large schools whose Beta Club members alone exceed in number that of the entire stu dent body at our local school. We wer# proud of them and the •chool they represented and the parents hould be. too. I woulcj, like to thank not only he indents from Cumberland but 'the students of ail schools epresf 1 ■ ■ ■ t enji and enlightening experience. John M. Putney, Jr. Cumberland. Va. Turn Your Dollar On Us Back

Many of your readers have nev er taken time to look, at the back of their tax dollar or translate the Latin inscription thereon. It says: “ANNUIT COEPTIS NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM MDCCLXXVI. ' Translation reads, “God lias favored our undertaking—A new order of the Ages, 1776." * The designer intended the dol lar for the citizens who won their freedom, and for those to follow, the whole hundred cents of it, not just the residue after taxes. We need flocks of Byrds and Abbitts, just like the Men of '76 needed volunteers. Matthew Kenny. Cartersville, Va. FARM LOANS Protect the future of your farm by financing with a Land Bank Loan « LONG TERM • LOW INTEREST s Never comes due all at once Pay off any time J. F. GLENN, Sec.Trees. Main Street Phone 488 NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION OF FARMVTLLE

Double Check Got a new Doctor now. about wore the others out. Trouble is T got Symtoms. whatever that i I'mjon a Diet and loosing weight, one pound a day Sorter hummiri bird rations and to top it all off I’m breaking in a full bottom set of falsies tteeth) if you know what 1 mean. I could write a book, but nobody would even pub lish.- it, much read it;. It just ain’t funny. Why do I write this? Some of vou wrote in to know how but 1 dare not write that here. Tire nerves in my bottom set are so-o tended. My Doctor is mighty nice. He only gives advice and one pill a day. It has a big T on one side and a W on tiic other. Alph abetical medication is my guer They act like the old Tidewater and Western narrow gage ran . . sorter takes me back to 1917.

We got the Democrats and the Republicans on a split here in Virginia Politics. Governor Stan c-y ,s Dalton end o? are splitting things wide open. We may know a lot before long Hons' . built on end out iti Oregon during the or.ivv rains me unliveable. Whv do so many things happen to that State at. this Time '! . never did happen before. And one up-setser comes from the Supreme Court cl Arkansas. "Man may sue wife", a five to two decree. They should have co ded that either party so don. had best leave the State, Get that, satelite ready . we're taking off Thanks for rcadim Yours. J. Marvin Brown. In 1950, Virginia had tto places with a population of 2.500 or more, including Farmville.

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