The Charlotte News
Thursday, May 31, 1956
FIVE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that in Buffalo, N.Y., a holiday outing had ended in terror for passengers aboard a Lake Erie amusement park vessel the previous night as teenagers had rioted aboard the ship. Reporters aboard the crowded ship during the 15-mile trip from Crystal Beach amusement park in Ontario to Buffalo had described it as "a nightmare of flashing knives and sobbing, frightened" passengers. The riot had erupted after a day of disorder between white and black youths at the amusement park. A corporal of the Ontario provincial police at Crystal Beach had said, according to the reporters of the Buffalo Courier-Express, that the disorders were "strictly racial", but the general manager of the amusement park had said that it was "not a race riot." Six persons had been treated for injuries at hospitals and at least ten others had been treated for minor injuries at a first aid station at the park. The Ontario police arrested nine youths from Buffalo at the beach, five of whom were black and four white, the black youths having been charged with unlawful assembly and the whites with creating a disturbance, all having been released on $500 each bail. Buffalo authorities had taken three black teenagers into custody when the vessel had docked there, but police said that no charges were yet lodged against them. It was not yet known what had caused the disturbances, and an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 persons, most of whom were Americans, had been reported at the park the previous day. The two reporters for the Courier-Express who had been on the steamship reported that "nearly 40 white youngsters, several beaten or cut, cowered below decks in the ship's dining rooms for most of the trip after being attacked or threatened by the many Negro teenagers who made up the majority of the passengers." The reporters estimated that of the approximately 1,000 passengers, 80 percent were black.
In Parkersburg, W. Va., the Baltimore & Ohio's westbound National Limited had hit a boulder at a tunnel exit early this date, killing the engineer, and the fireman was missing. The large rock apparently had been loosened by heavy rain and had rolled down the hillside to straddle the tracks. The train was believed to have been traveling about 40 mph, normal for that point on the line.
Julian Scheer of The News tells of three Russian officials having visited Charlotte during the week, spending a night and a day in a local hotel, dining in various restaurants and generally touring the city, taking a lot of pictures, with hardly anyone realizing they had been there, as the visit had been shrouded in secrecy. They had local hosts but the visit had been purposely unpublicized and unannounced, as they were attached to the Soviet Embassy in Washington and were on a "See America First" junket, dressed in neat American-made suits, driving American-made cars, and Charlotte had been one stop on a two-week itinerary. The Government had been quite aware of the visit and so there was nothing about which to be alarmed. The three men had said that they were atheists, non-Communists, and that two of them had been in the country for four months, with the third more than two years. According to their host, they were pleasantly dogmatic and pretty hard to impress. In one restaurant, they had ordered steaks and shishkebab, with the latter diner having said that shishkebab had been served in Russia's Georgia for 2,000 years. They had visited a streamlined local school, prompting one of the Russians to comment that they completed their schooling in ten years, not twelve. (We 'uns used to done it in ten and in omly eight months per year, but reckon we done got dumber with all the new juveniles around after the war.) At a local textile mill, they found that while the wages, vacation leave and hours were good, the sick leave did not impress them, because a woman could not have a baby in Russia during 75 days of sick leave. They were also not impressed by the big dome of the new Coliseum, asking who wanted a big dome. (It was probably them Rooskies, therefore, in June, 1958, who done caused that roof sheeting to fly away in the storm that Sunday afternoon. You just can't trust them Rooskies.) They also said that brick veneer homes would never do in Russia because they were too cold. (Huff and puff and blow yer old straw house in, though...) They asked to take pictures at a large industrial plant on the edge of the city, but took photographs only of a nearby rose bush, finding little interest in the plant. They were impressed by the new Auditorium next to the Coliseum, of its colors, its lobby, and its landscaping, finding it the highlight of their visit, as there was nothing like it in Moscow. They then thanked their host whom they found to be a fine fellow and a very good "propagandist".
Mr. Scheer also reports that Governor Luther Hodges had told the newspaper this date that the increased Federal highway funding, scheduled to be provided the state on July 1, "would not mean a substantial increase in the amount of money the state will have to raise and definitely, no new bond issues." The Governor had pointed out, however, that "something on the tax angle" might have to be worked out. Currently, House and Senate confreres were attempting to work out a compromise between their two bills regarding Federal highway funding, and the measures being considered would provide several million dollars of Federal funding to the state as part of the multi-billion-dollar road-building program. Because the state had a matching program, it was possible that taxpayers in the state would have to pay more money than in the past to obtain the Federal funding, though it would likely be a small amount, as the Governor confirmed that the ratio of matching funds was lower under either of the new bills than the existing matching ratio. He had also said that he favored the bill sponsored by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee over the House bill sponsored by Representative George Fallon of Maryland, finding the former fairer in approach. The Gore bill would provide the state with an additional 30 million dollars during the ensuing fiscal year, while the Fallon bill would add only 11 million. He said that the latter bill asked states what they needed, which was like asking a child how much candy he wanted, while the Gore bill approached the matter on a sound formula. Presently, the state matched 21 million dollars of Federal funding, with the matching ratio being 60-40 for interstate highways and 50-50 for primary, secondary and urban roads. Under either the Gore or Fallon measures presently before the joint committee, the matching ratio would change to 90-10 Federal-to-state funding for interstate highways and remain at the 50-50 level for the other roads. The money would be used to complete several major projects within the state, including paving on an accelerated basis of the U.S. 29 bypass in Mecklenburg County.
Emery Wister of The News reports that the City had received a gift from the Civil Aeronautics Administration this date, the promise of ground control and surveillance radar systems for Municipal Airport, with installation scheduled during fiscal year 1958 at a cost of approximately $250,000. The airport manager said that it would be the second airport in the South open only to civilian aircraft to have those systems, with only the Atlanta airport also utilizing them, though airports in Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis and New Orleans also having them, though servicing also military traffic. The Ground Control Approach system aided in landing aircraft in the worst weather conditions and the surveillance radar swept a radius of 50 miles, finding positions of all aircraft within that radius. The airport manager said that a new tower would have to be built for a radar screen.
Charles Kuralt of The News reports that A. G. Brown, who was vowing to build his commercial buildings despite having been issued a restraining order to stop construction because of perimeter zoning restrictions prohibiting the buildings, had left his controversial building unguarded during the morning and gone to the Law Building to file a lawsuit against the City, saying he would sue them for $25,000 for loss of income and for mental anguish, while at the same time saying he would obey the restraining order, pursuant to which he was required to appear in court the following Monday to provide cause as to why it should not be made permanent, having changed his mind since the previous day about not obeying the order, determining that it would be wise to do so. He said that the retreat did not mean that his enthusiasm had been dampened for contesting the matter in court. He had a copy of minutes of a meeting from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission for November 22, 1955, which stated that the Commission had recommended Mr. Brown's land classification be changed from residential to business, though the recommendation had subsequently been refused action by the City Council, equating to a denial. He contended that the neighborhood where he was constructing the buildings should not have a strict residential zoning requirement.
As a result of a close race in the previous Saturday's Democratic primary for the 11th District Congressional seat, it appeared likely that there would be a runoff between Basil Whitener of Gastonia, who had lost by 400 votes, and Ralph Gardner of Shelby, the ostensible winner of the race, with supporters of Mr. Whitener strongly believing that he would seek the runoff. Mr. Whitener said that he was only thinking about it, indicating that his supporters were unanimous in their support of his electing a runoff.
In Los Angeles, a woman had been booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after she had shot the lock off of the door of the apartment of the television girl-Friday of commentator Tom Duggan, but she had been released shortly afterward on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by her husband, Mr. Duggan, who had also arranged for her $1,500 bail, with police quoting him as saying that he would not prosecute his wife. She said that the two shots from the revolver had been discharged accidentally. The two had been married for less than three months and had become involved in an argument at their home, at which point Mr. Duggan had left and gone to the apartment of the woman who answered telephone calls from viewers of the television show and occasionally sang on it. Mr. Duggan had explained later to police that he did not go to a hotel because somebody might see him and make something of it. His television helper said that she had let him into her apartment but had then left shortly thereafter to go fishing with a male friend. Meanwhile, Mr. Duggan's wife had driven to the apartment, saw his car parked at the curb, shortly after which, the two .38-caliber revolver shots had gone through the apartment door lock, her explanation having been that she was knocking on the door with the gun when it had discharged accidentally. The building managers, objecting to the gunshots, refused to admit her to the apartment while she was armed, and she then left, telephoned police and deposited her gun in her car. When the police arrived, a sergeant said that Mr. Duggan was standing behind the apartment door and then had accompanied his wife to the police station, but refused to sign a report on the incident. Meanwhile, his wife was to appear in Santa Monica Superior Court a week hence to answer the charges.
Charles Kuralt, in his popular
People column on page 14-C, examines whether craftsmanship was
declining, finding that it was not, after talking to glass expert
Ralph Shoe—who probably blew a really big shoe
On the editorial page, "Stadium Racing Died a Natural Death" finds that the public outcry against stock car racing at Memorial Stadium had not been "staged" by the press, as charged by the chairman of the Park & Recreation Commission the previous day, but rather had been the result of deep, earnest convictions and indignation, as well as informed opinion, expressed by the public.
It indicates that the newspaper's role had only been to air the facts, as with any issue, and that it would continue to do so as honestly and conscientiously as it could. It regards the chairman's indictment of the newspapers the previous day as an unintended compliment, as the newspapers, if enlightening the people so well regarding their business, were performing their intended function. And since the Park & Recreation Commission had requested to withdraw approval of the contract for stock car racing at the stadium, it finds that the function had been performed well. It suggests that should the effort be renewed, the Commission ought arm itself better with facts.
It finds no fault with the effort, as it had been to raise additional revenue for the Commission, and the chairman was a hard-working civic leader who was genuinely dedicated to the betterment of the parks in Charlotte. But all such proposals had to withstand debate and clashes of opinion, as the citizens thus learned of their problems and developed an ability to judge public policy intelligently. It concludes that the racing plan had flunked the acid test and "that should be that."
"Mr. Hawkins' Insurrection Is Over" tells of good manners having gotten the best of Wilton Hawkins, a teacher at the Graham High School, who had nevertheless apologized for asking his history students to specify whether the Graham City Council was composed of "idiots, ignoramuses, ne'er-do-wells or you-call-it-you-go-it."
It suggests that if his apology had been sincere, it trusts that Graham would forgive him and permit his return to conformity. But it had hoped that he was ready "to pile impertinence upon audacity" and depart Graham to take up the mantle of H. L. Mencken or George Jean Nathan, because, as unfair as the question posed by Mr. Hawkins had seemed, his disrespect had a "delicious frankness all too rare in the foggy semantics of pedagogical discourse." It finds value in verbal tomfoolery, even if it was no more than compelling attention to be paid to it.
It suggests that Mr. Hawkins might have made out a case against the city fathers of Graham from 1851, when they had passed an ordinance forbidding a railroad line within a mile of the courthouse and thus laid the foundations for busy Burlington, five times larger than Graham, three miles to the west. There had also been so many rebels in Graham and Alamance County in 1870 that Governor William Holden had declared the whole county to be in a state of insurrection and had asked President Ulysses Grant to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
It laments that the short insurrection of Mr. Hawkins had ended, as impertinence was not a part for a teacher to take, as it was not for anyone interested in three hot meals per day.
"Object Lesson" indicates that Memorial Day was the first holiday of the year to start traffic fatality figures skyrocketing, demonstrated by the fact that it was begun with a bunch of race cars going around a deadly 500-mile course in Indianapolis.
"License Fees for Hook-and-Liners" indicates that the Greensboro Daily News, conceding the common sense of the move to tax North Carolina hook and line fishermen, had concluded that the 1957 General Assembly would defeat the proposal because of the "appeal of the little fellow, the lad who trudges down to creek-bank with a pole, a hook which may be a bent pin and a can of worms, the creek-bank tribe of one-gallus fellows."
It finds the tender sentiment wasted because the $1.10 license fee would be required only of barefoot boys over 16, of whom there were only a few, even in Guilford County.
The heart of the matter was that North Carolina ranked 25th among the states in receipt of Federal funding for conservation education and game and fish restoration, despite ranking fourth among the states in inland water area, behind only Florida, Minnesota and Texas. Federal reimbursement of a ten percent excise tax on fishing tackle at the rate of three dollars for each one dollar spent by the state was hinged largely to the number of fishing licenses sold in each state. The fishermen using worms, minnows or other natural bait in their home counties were exempt from the license fees, leaving the state with less than 2 percent of available Federal aid for improvement of fishing.
The Universal Fishing License Bill
had thus made good sense, as the hook-and-liners, and the fly-rod
fishermen benefited from the conservation and propagation work of the
State Wildlife Resources Commission, and the small license fee would
not cause harm to the "creek-bank tribe of one-gallus
"At 35, Youth Has To Be Compared" indicates that the present poser was how young was young, having been caused to consider it during the week by Governor Luther Hodges when he called William C. Friday, acting UNC president, "a comparatively young man", at age 35. It wonders whether 35 was just young or comparatively young among college presidents.
It finds that in the book publishing business, one was young if under 40, but on baseball rosters, one was aging if 35. In business circles, one was a "young executive" at age 35, but in the eyes of someone in high school, 35 was simply "old".
It finds it a shame when 35 just could not be young. "Perhaps we've taken this stand simply because 35 looks like a nice 'young' age—and we can even remember when we were."
A piece from the Milwaukee Journal, titled "Wrap It Up, Comrade", tells of a California real estate man, member of a trade which had no mean capacity for gilding the lily, coming to the conclusion that for thinking up gimmicks for publicity, the Russians were far from being slouches, as the previous October, a delegation of Soviet builders had toured the country, visiting San Francisco, where Andres Oddstad, Jr., had shown them a model home which he was promoting, causing the Russians to be intrigued and after inspecting the home, seeming to be equally intrigued by the many members of the press awaiting them outside.
The Soviet minister for urban and rural construction asked Mr. Oddstad what he would charge for the house, and after being told it was $13,750, replied that he would take it and wanted it furnished, for another $4,000, then sent to Moscow for exhibition outside the Kremlin to demonstrate to Soviet citizens how American families lived. The entire price, including the shipping, would run to $40,000 and he had shaken hands with Mr. Oddstad on that deal.
But ever since that time, the latter had been seeking to find out who was going to pay for the house and what the shipping instructions were, as no Soviet office within the U.S. or in Russia appeared to know anything about it. Thus, the house remained on Mr. Oddstad's hands and he did not want to sell it to anyone else, especially as the ceremonial closing of the deal had been publicized all over the country. But he was about ready to give up and had nearly decided that the whole thing had been a publicity stunt to show Russians being friendly. The piece concludes that it had been, however, a bit hard on the salesman.
Drew Pearson indicates that U.S. scientists and military men had made some shocking admissions recently, having appeared in scattered newspapers or in hearings held in executive session, showing the alarming state of the national defense. He provides a compilation of recent admissions by the scientists, military men and intelligence agents, including experts having admitted that Russia would launch an earth satellite ahead of the U.S., probably in 1957, with the U.S. not anticipating such a launch before sometime in 1958, that CIA reports had stated that Russia was ahead of the U.S. in guided missile development, meaning that the Soviets would likely build an ICBM, capable of flying from Moscow to Washington, before the U.S., that the CIA had testified in executive session recently that Russia was ahead of the U.S. in building atomic reactors, meaning that Russia was ahead in converting atomic energy to industrial uses, probably including an atomic airplane, that the Defense Department had acknowledged that Russia was building more jets than the U.S. and outproducing the U.S. in long-range jet bombers of the type which had just dropped the hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, with it appearing that Russia was building more of all types of jet planes, except the B-47 medium-range bomber, and that intelligence agents had reported that Russia was now only a month behind the U.S. in its stockpile of hydrogen bombs, with the U.S. having previously relied for defense on its long lead in such stockpiles of both hydrogen and atomic bombs.
Despite those reports, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson had repeatedly stated that the Russians "aren't nine feet tall", negating the importance of Congressional attempts to increase defense spending. Also despite the reports, the President had consistently assured the people that the present defense budget was adequate.
But military men recalled that on March 29, 1950, three months before the incursion by the Communists over the border into South Korea, starting the Korean War, General Eisenhower had appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee and assured them that the current defense budget of 15 billion dollars was adequate, viewing it as the maximum budget. At the time, former Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee had asked him whether he would add air groups, to which General Eisenhower said that he would not. Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts had asked him whether the Defense Department might not need more than 15 billion, and the General remained adamant that 15 billion was the maximum.
But starting with the Korean War,
the U.S. found itself unprepared to meet such a war and increased the
military budget to a high point of 38.9 billion dollars in 1952. Mr.
Pearson acknowledges that General Eisenhower had not foreseen war
when he had testified in March, 1950, but that military men also said
that no one could predict war or peace
Walter Lippmann tells of there being much embarrassment in Washington regarding the invitations coming from Moscow, after General Nathan Twining, chief of staff of the Air Force, had accepted, with the blessings of the President and Secretary of State Dulles, as well as Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, an invitation to visit the Moscow air show in June. Mr. Lippmann indicates that it would have been silly to refuse such an invitation and yet the Government had hesitated, as the Administration had worried that one invitation might lead to another and end up with Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin eventually coming to the White House "to sleep in Lincoln's bed", as Senator William Knowland had recently suggested.
Mr. Lippmann suggests that it arose from confusion and a failure to distinguish between a meeting at the summit and a meeting of subordinate officers and officials, as it did not follow that visits by chiefs of staff and other defense officials would necessarily lead to a visit by the two Soviet leaders, as a summit meeting of the heads of state might not be desirable, usually only occurring when it was known in advance from lower-level meetings that the summit meeting would accomplish specific aims, just as the summit meeting of the prior July was reasonably believed in advance to result in a declaration that thermonuclear war was not possible without mutual destruction and therefore had to be averted. Thus, a summit meeting should not occur unless it was certain to succeed.
Mr. Lippmann indicates further that there was no embarrassment therefore in saying frankly that the U.S. did not favor a meeting of the heads of state until there had been successful negotiations through diplomatic and lesser officials. At that point, the Government would not need to shrink from and could rather encourage exchange of visits by lesser officials, without stirring hopes and rumors of prospective visits by the Soviet leaders to Washington.
The two leaders, Messrs. Khrushchev and Bulganin, had gone to London recently, with nothing spectacular occurring as a result, because Britain was not in the same position among the Western allies as the U.S. While the visit to England had been useful, a visit by the two men to Washington would be seen as a summit meeting, whereas the visit to Britain was not. The President had virtually decisive power within NATO, which gave him tremendous responsibility in talking with Soviet leaders, being responsible to the allies and not just regarding a bilateral meeting. If the President were to make concessions to reach agreements at such a meeting, he might be accused of letting down the allies and partitioning the world between the two major powers, and if he made no concessions, he might become more inflexible than the allies wished. But no such dilemma existed as long as the President dealt with the Soviets only through diplomatic channels.
Mr. Lippmann suggests that it was hard to square those principles with the enthusiasm which Secretary Dulles had for traveling, engaging in personal diplomacy, having traveled 310,000 miles thus far since the start of the Administration, but without "good understandings" as a result, which he had suggested as the rationale for his travels, meeting face to face with his counterparts in other nations. But meeting only for a few minutes face to face had not thus far accomplished very much. And his enthusiasm for such meetings would probably not extend to a face-to-face meeting between the President and the Soviet leaders in Washington. "But, given his enthusiasm for personal diplomacy, he will find it harder to explain his lack of enthusiasm for a Bulganin and Krushchev visit."
Doris Fleeson tells of Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin having been denied a re-election endorsement by the Wisconsin Republican convention and that he would look to the President for help in the state nominating primary the following September. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee between 1952 and 1954, and presently its ranking Republican member, Senator Wiley had pushed the President's foreign policy program and had, as ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, fought against the amendment proposed by Senator John W. Bricker to limit the President's treaty-making powers, opposed by President Eisenhower.
Supporters of Representative Glenn Davis, who had received a surprise Republican endorsement, could be expected to insist on the White House remaining neutral in the primary race, and would likely have RNC chairman Leonard Hall supporting them, as they were the dominant fund-raising force in Wisconsin. Their best known member was Thomas Coleman, a wealthy manufacturer from Madison, who had been the late Senator Robert Taft's floor manager at the 1952 Republican convention in his bid for the presidential nomination, had strongly backed Senator McCarthy in Wisconsin, but had also prudently maintained good relations with the Eisenhower Administration. To the extent that his faction sponsored Mr. Davis, it represented a revival of the right-wing isolationist sentiment in Wisconsin, though Mr. Davis's colleagues classified him as a Nixon-type politician rather than an echo of Senator Taft. In his nine years in the House, they had found him ambitious, tough and intelligent, describing his voting record as "in between". Democrats believed his voting record to reflect "strictly standard brand" Republicanism spiced with expediency. Neither side expected to find him fighting for unpopular causes.
The Wisconsin Republican endorsement ensured Representative Davis campaign funding, as Mr. Coleman was a successful money-raiser. But because Senator Wiley was an internationalist, he could expect some help from Democrats in the primary, who had little hope of capturing the Senate seat. One experienced Republican believed that the race would be hot and close, anticipating that the President would respond to the plea that Representative Davis was the young, new face, as the President had often expressed that Republicans needed younger, dynamic leadership.
A letter writer offers kind words for State Representative Jack Love, whom he finds the Republicans had ganged up against in the previous Saturday primary, such that he had come in last among the four Democrats running for election as State Representative. The writer indicates that one of the local newspapers which had led the assault against Mr. Love had now established the idea that political action was not healthy, as Mr. Love had recently taken the leadership of the Democratic Party in the state away from the "old guard". He finds that Mr. Love had no ulterior motive in mind for personal gain, as he had spent a lot of money advertising while fighting on political principles, not advertising the fact that several organizations, charities and orphanages had benefited from his support through the years and that there were hundreds of citizens to whom he had shown great heart while in and out of office.
A letter from A. W. Black, the first from him in awhile, indicates that an anonymous contributor to the letters column on May 25 had expressed a preference for candidates running for the Superior Court judgeship, and had "presumptiously [sic] and naïvely stated, 'I would vote for whom the Savior would vote were He to show up … at a polling booth… I'm sure the vote would be for [Arthur] Goodman.'" He finds the supposition to "examplify" the lengths of absurdity to which religious zealots would go in their attempts to make a case for personal prejudice. He suggests that the Savior appearing at a polling booth would be unable to cast a ballot, as he would not qualify as a citizen, and finds that it would be unlikely that anyone would be as unfamiliar with present-day politics as would be Jesus, in which case he would be bewildered.
But Jesus was and is, if the Biblical teaching is accepted, omniscient, and so… We would rather not venture to say that he would be for this or that individual candidate, as it does suggest some degree of sacrilege and, indeed, is presumptuous of the Lord's will in earthly matters—which, if taken to extremes, would suggest some divine intervention in such things as the deaths of Presidents, which, in the case of assassination, would attribute to the assassin some divinely inspired purpose, which could hardly be the case. But we digress…
A letter from the Safety Check publicity chairman praises the effort of the Mecklenburg County Voluntary Vehicle Safety Check program of the previous week and thanks the newspaper for its support of it, indicating that without that support, it was unlikely that the campaign would have survived or checked 33,000 vehicles, with some 5,000 of them having been found to have one or more mechanical defects.
A letter from Baltimore indicates that the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education had compelled American white citizens to recognize blacks as their social equals, and that "if white folks should allow that horrible anti-segregation ruling, an anti-white law to be enforced by its Negro sponsor, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to remain it will then be the beginning of the decline and fall of the United States of America, which the Eurasian Communists desire to accomplish!" He suggests that therefore the NAACP was perhaps unwittingly extending a helping hand to the "Reds", aiding them to create dissension in the nation by introducing "the black supremacy policy" which it advocated. He urges that Americans had to be wary, as one of the chief causes for the decline of the Roman Empire had been "when the white Roman citizens began to socially consort with ancient Italy's Ethiopian slaves…" He suggests that American blacks had been misled to believe that "all men are created equal", that no greater falsehood had ever been uttered, as it placed an idiot on the same level as "Cato, Cicero, Aristotle, Mark Antony, Caesar, Charlemagne, Hugh Capet, Cardinal Richelieu, Fenelon, Rabelais, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Dante, Gutenberg, Galileo, Mozart, Gounod, Napoleon, Blucher, and the Duke of Wellington..."
What about Hitler? You left him out.
A letter from the President of the Charlotte-Piedmont Better Business Bureau, Inc., thanks the newspaper for its series of three editorials on the Bureau and its efforts to protect the public and the good name of responsible businesses against fraudulent schemes by flim-flam men. He indicates that the efforts of the newspaper had assisted members in enrolling 46 additional businesses from the area to join the Bureau.
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