PAGE POURfHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

'FruiArf ^mnumrf 23. 1959

Friday, January 23, X959

Why Not Campaign For Hodges?

Secret Service Guards The President

Will North Carolinas Governor Hodges be In the number-two spot in the national Democratic ticket come I960?

At least one o North Carolinas editora has come forth with the assertion not only that Gov. Hodges is needed by the Demcrata in 1960, but that citizens of the state ehould begin a campaign to see that he wina the vice presidential nomonation.

Henry Belk, veteran editor of the Goldsboro Newa-Argue, commented editorially this week:

North Carolina can offer Hodges well and above the favorite son category. He has won for himself^ in the national Democratic circles a place of responsiblli* ty and respect with service in Europe even before he tried politics on his own at home. His broad acquaintance with party leaders throughout the nation would be valuable for the ticket. His acquaintances are found as often in the ranks of influence in the East and Middle West as in the South.

As a campaigner Hodges would be a great help to the ticket. We have only to think of his success with public relations in the 'sell North Carolina tours to New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia to recognize this. He la equally at home on radio, television or in the presa Conference. He is an excellent speaker and definitely of the modern version that aplica on logic and not platitudes.

Progress On Committees

r LYNN NI8BET

COMMITTEEt Moit of th work of the Oenertl Ambly li performed by eommltteee, tp-polnted by the preitdinf officer!. The number of iUndlns committees is fixed by rulss of etch branch adopted at befin' ninf of the aeason, The trend In recent years has been toward fewer eommltteei with less duplication of membership. The Senate used to have more than 50 committees, reduced last les-sion to 20. The Houee had ai many 78, reduced to 44.

Some of the committees have very little work, others are bujiy all the time. It is not unusual for formal lesiions of the House an! Senate to run lew than 30 minutes, while committees are in seaslon from 8:30 to 8;30 with frequent night meetinga.

Commltteea are appointed by the presidinf officers, usually after consultation with each other and with tha Governor, Traditionally the money committees-ap* proprtaUon and finance have been rated moat Important. Rulei require that any bill approprlat-Int public money or levying any tax. directly or Indirectly, miwt be conaldered by these committees, This ytsr it mifht develop that the committees on constitutional amendmants and courts would assums mort importance.

The 28 atandlng committees In the Senate under 1857 rules were: Agriculture; Appropriations; Banking: Conservation b Development; Counties, ClUes b Towns; Courts It Judicial Districts; Education; Election Laws b Senatorial Districts; Finance; Insurance; Interstate li Federal Relations; Journal, Engroasing, Enrolling It Printing; Judiciary 1; Judiciary II; Manufacturing, Labor It Commerce; Mental Institutions; Penal Institutions: Propositions b Grievances; Public Hsalth; Public UUts; Public Welfsrs; Retlrtment Im-ploymsnt leourity; Rules; Salaries It Fees; Itats Ooveriunent: Univaraity Truatses; Veterans and MlUtary affairs: Wildlife.

The 44 House oommlttees are; Agriculture: Appropriations;

Banks b Banking; Commercial FlshtrLas It Oyster Industry; Commission It InsUtuUons ^or ths Blind t CongreMlonal DUtriots; Constitutional Amendments: Corporations; Counties, Cities It Towns; Courts It Judicial Districts: Drainage: Education;

Elactlons It Election Laws; Employment Security; Engrossed Bills; Expenditures of the House; Federal It Interstate Cooperation; Finance; Health; Higher Education: Institutions for ths Deaf; Insurancs; Journal; Judiciary I: Judiciary , II; Justice* of the Peart; Local Oovernment; Msn-ufaeturera It Libor; Mental In-tltutlona; Propositions k Orle-Vances; Public Buildings k Orminds; Public UUlltles: P\ibllc Welfare; Road* It Highway SrIp-ty; Rulas; Balarlas It Fees;

Senatorial Districts: State Govern-ment; Teachers' li State Employees Retirement; Veterans* Legislation, and Wildlife Resources.

Long-standing custom has been to name every member on either the appropriations or finance committees, and to put svery lawyer on one of the J" committees. Ths dssisnation J-I and J-n means nothing exctpt to divide the work. Custom also has been that the money committees meet every afternoon, other committees generally in the morning or at night. There is growing ftsntiment that leglilailvc process could be speeded up and made more efficient with much fewer committees, leas duplication in membership and oonfllct In meetings.

The money and Judiciary committees and those on sgrlcul* ture, education, hcslth, roads, welfare and local government are generally assigned fulltime clerks. Clerk assignment to other committees depends upon volume of work and varies from year to year. Chances are the forthcoming saaston will require full time clerks lor the committees on courts, constitutional amendments and government organisation,

PUBLIC HEARINGS - A goodly part of committee time is taken up with pubUc hearings. Only members or former members and officers of the General AMembly. State officials and those especially invited may appear on the floor of the Senate or House during regular sessions. Committee meetlrfpi are commonly open to public attendance and participation and requests by Interested cltixens to be helrd on pending leglslaUon are seldom denied. It is Inherent In North Carolina concept of popular government that no cltl-sen will be taxed without opportunity to present his side of the case. Similar courtesy is extended to any person interested in the passage or defeat of laws affecting local government, wildlife and water resourcti, health or ganeral welfare.

One reason for the muHlplicUy of eommltteei with limited Juria-dlction Is tha neceaslty for frequent eolnotdental public hearings. It is not unusual for a doxen such sessions to be in progress in different rooms at the same hour. I

INFLUENCE Comnftttee action la not final but Is tremendously Influential, specially on the negative elde. No btU can be enacted into law without a majority vote of the membership In both branches. But it a committee brings in an unfavorable report It Is difficult to get the bill on the rslendsr for full membership action. Once a bill has been klUed in committee or on the floor, the same subject matter cannot be considered aesin during that session of the Legislature.

(To be eentlnued)

DetnocrBt need Hodgg. North CBtoIinB should organize b campaign in his behalf.

Gov. Hodges has been mentioned often in recent months as a possible Democratic choice for the vice presidency in 1960. It is becoming apparent that the words and actions of Democratic Chairman Butler may make it difficult for the party to hold all the South in 1960. The choice of a Southerner for the vice presidency would almost surely prevent any sort of walk-out or read-out of Southern delegations from the party.

At the same time Hodges business-like administration during his period of governor of North Carolina has earned for him respect and admiration in all parts of the nation. As much as liberal and conservative wings of the party^and his, record doubtlessly would appeal to many Independent voters and Republicans as well.

Those points cannot be overlooked in a national political campaign.

The editorial suggestion of the Goldsboro-Argus that North Carolina organize a campaign to secure the nomination of Gov. Hodges as vice president on the Democratic ticket should be taken up throughout the state. And though the national convention is more than a year away, it is not too early to begin such a campaign.

So The Lambs Played Host To Hungry Wolf

Anastas Mikoyan had his reasons for touring ^he United States; no doubt about that. But what in the world were Am^ican industrialists and big businessmen doing? f

Wining and dining . . , listening and applauding . . . talking trade possibilities with the deputy premier of Soviet Russia.

Alice In Wonderland involves some fanciful scenes but the Mikoyan visit had its moments of the ridiculous, too.

There's room for simple courtesies in our country, even for a sworn enemy. But weve seen financiers, manufacturers and the aristocrats of capitalism fete a man who would cannibalize them in one sweep if he had the opportunity.

Lofty talk of opening up trade between Russia and the United States is deflated by remembering they have nothing to trade us in exchange for all the things they need from American producers and proces.sor8. Even their credit is bad. They owe Americans billions of dollars and won't discuss the matter.

Mikoyan looked and sounded pretty good in his public press meetings . . . but that should have been no surprise. He must have looked and sounded good to Communist leaders for a long time, too; he was never touched by the series of purges beginning since origin of the Communist regime. Yet, some Americans watched, listened . . . and nodded approvingly hes right, or hes a reasonable sort of a guy.

That was the Impression he wanted to make.

Mikoyan helps decide the fate of every slave nation in the Soviet sphere . . . and where ever he went in this country there were some who knew, first-hand, what that meant and were willing and anxious to demonstrate against him.

Themes Resting

By JIMMY ELLIS

The Family Is Growing

The Dally Reflectors oiflclal family has been expanded again.

The expansion Is a sort of left-handed one, since Anne Singleton isnt exactly a member of the staff now. But, we'll claim her new baby as a fledgling staffer, anyway.

Paul Lester Singleton. Jr., all six pounds, ten-and-a-half ounces of him. made his way Into the world Monday afternoon. Hes presently residing at the Tala-hassee Memorial Hospital In Xalahassee, Florida.

His mother, former Womens Editor of The Reflector, has forwarded this unbiased account of him: He looks so much like Paul, except that he is very blond with Just fuj* for hair."

Poppa Paul is a lieutenant In the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Bainbridge. Georgia. He Is an ROTC graduate of East Carolina College, and the cause of Anne resigning her Job hers last summer.

The Singletons have been la

Georgia since Paul returned to active duty, but will move in the next month or so to Texas where Paul will enter an Air Force navigation school. Hes a Regular Air Force officer, looking forward to at least 30 years as a flier.

All of this business about Pauls Air Force commitments and Annes wifely obligation to follow her husband where Uncle 8am sends him might make it difficult for us to get a firm hold on Little Paul, but well try. After all, its pretty hard for a little squirt like that to defy tradition.

Now if we can get a few other folks in the office in the act. The Dally Reflector can be assured of a full staff for all kinds of years to oome.

Changing the subject, any one who loves to curl up by the fire with a good Russian-language

book will, no doubt, be tickled to death to learn that the University of Michigan Press will publish the original, authentic Russian text of Doctor 2ihi-vago, as written by Boris Pasternak'*. ^

Doctor Zhivago* is. of course, the book which won this years Nobel Prize for Literature for Pasternak (which be wasn't allowed to accept), and is probably one of the most discussed publications in the world at the present time.

The book hasnt been published in Russia and ie University of ^Ochigans Press heralds the forthcoming publication in the language in which it was written as . .an Important service to world literature.

The 576-page volume will be released; February 2 at a price of $6.50 per copy. The price isnt bad at all if you understand Russian.

I dont.

Success Has Its ?rice

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (API ~ Curbstone coimoents of a Pavement Plato:

The (me thing tha iwat of the world feels surest of about the average Americas is this; That material tucceas is his god.

And the rest of the world couldnt be wronger.

Great material success is admired rather than worshipped by the average American Just as he admires achievements in any form, whether it be in the art of h(ne run knocking or hula hooping. He even has a sneaking admiration for a successful bank robber so long as the fellow doesnt aplU blood.

But material success IsnH the major goal of the average American. It is only one of his major daydreams. But he doesn't want a bad enough to make his dream come true.

Take yourself, as an average American. Why arent you a success?

You probably cant, with hon-rety, put the blame on fate, your boss or your wife, You cant even blame it on the fact you were born dumb and never outgrew it. The chances are you aren't a big success simply because it isnt worthwhile to you. There flmply are other things more Important to you.

In my work as a reporter I have interviewed perhaps 2.DOO successful people over tlwi last quarter century. Asked the reason for their success, about 99 out of 100 gave ie same answer; "Hard work. The hundredth person would credit it to "getting the breaks, or admit, off the cuff, he inherited success or married into It.

Many succcseful poeple I have met have lacked the charm, personality and even the talent I have found among othei* men so spectacularly unsuccessful they couldnt buy their way into the city dump. They arent nearly as much fun to be with.

One difference between the suc-cessfuT man and the average man is obvious. The average man has credit. The successful man has credit plus something else it la called money.

But there are other differences. The big one lies in how they use their energy. The successful man controls his energy and directs it to a single aim the winning of success. Everything else is secondary. The average man Isnt that single-minded.

Does the successful man himself regret the price he had to pay to get where he is? Often he does in a jvery wistful human way. But there is a limit to his regret.

The average man sometimes likes to boast he wouldnt tradi pla( with the most successful man he ever knew. The success ful man returns the compliment He iant interested in changini places either.

No matter how stern the cosf of success, the last thing any successful man I ever met wai willing to give up was suco ess.

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Ry JAME.S MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) President Elsenhower's two main themes this week keep down Apending and avoid inflation are both based on the thin foundation of hope. Itf thin, indeed.

The budiift he lent Congrens Monday ironloally, It's the biggest of all peacetime budgeta but sUU not big enough to please everyone - called for spending 77 billion dollars in the next fiscal year Along with It Eisenhower dsn-gled before the country the pro*-peot that If apending can be kept down to 77 billion an expected rise in revenue may balance the budget,

This Is a nice thought, even though it calls for raxor-lhln figuring. But It's strictly a hope, for two thing* can go wrong and knock tha arithmetic through the roof;

I. The revenue may not turn out to be aa^hlgh as he hopes, That would throw the budget out of balance and mean red Ink even if Congrua* keeps apending down to 77 billion.

a. Congre* may decide hi* pending figure 1* much to modest to meet national needs, up the pending, and throw everything out of balance, even If revenue turns out to be 77 billion.

Then In hL* Economic Report to tongie** Tiieaday Elsenhower. hoUUtig out the vUaion of a surging and pro.*peroua year, said that Inflation could apoU the rosy outlook

So he called for aelf-diacipUne and restraint by busine** In ralalng pricra, and labor In demanding higher wage*

But he waa less specific Wed

nesday at hi* news conference.

It the desired results cannot be achieved under our arrangements for determining wages and prices, the alternatives are either inflation, which would damage our economy and work hardship on mtlUon* of American*, or controls, which are alien to our traditional way of life , .

That was Tuesday in his Economic Report. At his Wednesday news conference he was asked what controls he had in mind, No, I dont have controls in mind . , . because I despise them. he replied. And I believe tt i* not truly a tree economy if we are going to have federally Imposed controls, and I want to try every single thing that ks K>s*ible. *

But 1 do say If you get mounting infle lion and we will not discourse U. Something will have to be done,

He didn't aiy what that something might he.

But even as he talked, the AFLrCIO was getting ready to reject hla call for holding the wege Une. The big labor organl-attion 1* expected to say toon that wcMker* don't earn enough now in relation to the rest of the economy.

Aeros.* the country labor un-tonsi were reaching out for good-alaed wage boost* In aircraft, chemicals, rubber, steel, aluminum, electrical manufacturing, mariUme and railroad industries. Labor agreements covering around three million workers run out this year. With business Improving. as Klsenhower noted, unloiM are apt to set their sights higher. If wages go up, it's a pretty safeguesa prices will, too.

Opinions In Brief

(Greensboro Dally News)

Judge J. Will Pleas of Marlon startled Buncombe County Superior Court last week when he ordered all defendant* having cases on appeal-^ome 300 of themto be present in court this week.

The Judge was angryand rightly sa-about the cluttered condition of Buncombe County's docket. He blamed much of the trouble on unwarranted filing of appeals from lower couria;

Many defendants tried In the lower courts will take appeals when they are not Justified In taking them in the hope, not altogether unfoun(led. that their cases may latei^ become lost or nol-prosaed, . .

Congestion breeds congestin. We cannot continue to accumulate cases based on eppeals not Justified. If so. we could hold court here every day for year or two and atiU not clear up this docket.

Judge Pless was rightly con-cerntMi about the "drastic con-dlUon" of Buncombe's docket. The same conditions exist elsewhere in North Carolinaand only the determination of able and intelligent judges can do 'something about it under our present system of court*.

North Carolina surely want* to continue the independence of Its

Judiciary, but too much Independence breeds chaos. Under present conditions Judges may exercise a* much Judgment and inlUatlvi In clearing up Jammed dockets as they desire.

If they leave the Job to somebody elsea new Judge is always coming along under rota

tionnobody, save a few members of the bar, will be the

wiser. A Superior Court Judge J* pretty much his own boss. No -body publicizes the volume of work he Is doingor not doing.

Or be may, as Judge Pless has done, throw the fear of the

Lord into procrastinating lawyers and defendants hoping to evade justice by exhausting an overloaded couiTa patience.

Yet many people in North Carolinamost of them lawyers still insist North Caroilna should pay no attention to the need for court reform. They look on the N. C. Bar As.*oclatlons three-year study of the courts a* something superfluous, a lot of high-falutln figuring done by outside expert*."

Still, the cries of outrage about court conditions in certain part* of the state will continue to be heard wherever conscienUou* Judges have the courage and the energy to speak out.

Judge Pless was not crying in the wilderness.

The increase in the number of bankruptcies may not mean that business, in general, has gone to pot. It does mean that <ne people have stuck their necks out too far. The creditors lose all chance of collecting and the debtors suffer the humiliation of being declarM Insolvent. The debtor also yields any assets he may have, beyond a few personal possessiols, and has to start over trom scratch. Surprisingly, many debtors who ara discharged as bankrupts, can begin at once to accumulate new debts. They cannot go bankrupt again for six years but they can be mighty slow pay.Chenango Union, Norwich, N.Y.

profession.** Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger.

Apparently the world is completely unaware of the debt it owes to lazy men. They are the ones who have devoted lifelong study to ascertain easier ways to do the worlds work. In their zeal to remove the sweat from those who have to earn their keep the hard way they have learned to do a great many things with Infinitely less labor than was necessary at one time. Daily Oklahoman.

The latest role in which Elvis Presley ha* been cast by East German Communists is hU best for our money. He is a draftee in Germany. They call him the Wests Pled Piper of Hamelin, luring their youth away from their ideology. Good for Elvis, We knew the boy had some good in him. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

What the Kremlin wants is this city. Nikita Khrushchevs threats to Berlin are most emphatically not primarily intended to force the West to recognise the East German government, or to promote German confederation, or to produce another summit conference. They are primarily Intended to secure the surrender of free Berlin." Joseph Alsop,

Certainly it is a matter for sober reflection that our court of last resort has so patently veered off the main highway of valid Judie lality as to be drawing such vituperative reproof from responsible menJbers of the legal

Looking ahead for tha next five years we must recognize that never has it been so Important or imperative that the youth of our nation be trained to high idealism, acquired through unselfish service, by self-reliance and co-operative effmrt.Dr. A. A. Schuck, Chief Scout Xbcecutive.

democracy's Inflation Gocktai.

Strength For Today

R.V EARL L. DOUGI.AHS VET TO ('OME

Every group of truly creative thinkers In the world are thinking In lerm* of some long-range plan. The able college president is nnl ju.*t thinking of the next dormitory, he 1* thinking of a campu* plan and a curriculum plan which extend* xeveral generation* ahead. Little pint-elsed polUlciMirs think only in term* of the next election, state.smen ' mritR' w'Tmity5r mr Ttrvnff^ nvllon of public affair* and of flees. 8otue few Rclvnllst* are Stttisfled to squint through microscopes or drone*- along befoi e blackboard* to the exhaustion of a -roimt full of .student*. But the great *cienfl.sl* are thinking of tomorrows dlscovrrle.s. throsc of Um coming years, those which

will turn waste place.* of the earth Into gardens of lovellnes*. invalid* into robu.xt petaon*. the vehicle* of today Into the Incon-vftvable and almost super-human vehicles of tomorrow.

Dont waste time on short thoughU, What i.* life worth tf it means only reluctant drudgery during the day, TV. or the moviei at night, .a $5.00 a week raise at New Year*, and a chance to quit light at blrthdnv .sixty five and -xrwrh me - Tegf antr' -nsrpT - is this living? Think of Ule in terms of btgnei* - In term* of creative enterprises which go up and up until they vanish from sight amid daxsbng sunshine.

Don't let a little bit of anything satrsfv you Live with big thought*, bla hopes\ big plans. The bf.sl is yet to come.

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B.V ELMER ROE.S.SNER

InflaUon 'ls good.

Tt is the cocktail of democracy.

Yeah. I know! For year* your boy ha.s been neiiounrtng Inflation He has called It the hole in the dike of bu.*lne.*s, the leukemia of the economy.

Now your columnist, with a switch typical of his added thinking, espouse.* Inflation,

Like lanolin, fllterlip* and hrxochiorophene, inflation la good for you. Here are some of th# benefiUi*

1. It reward* the amart. The wLse one* who put tbelr money TfT fiwtb iireL emw tffd- frowth stock* gain mure than the saps who store the cash (u banka, governmeni bonds or Insurance. KDBIN IKKU) ANGI.K . i Inflation penalties the rich and help* the poor a* far a.s it dimlnlshf* the reaT indebtedness of those who owe money and dimim.shes the equiucs of

lho*e who lend It.

3. Inflation i* an Incentive for simple people to work harder. The only way they can keep up with rising food price* is by swinging the ax faster or hitting the gong harder.

4. It get* laay wive* off the sofa. Since inflation constantly increases the cost of living, more wives have to go to work to get more income to support their famine*. Government statistics show that the number of working females has risen directly with inflation.

5. It encourages private enterprise. Workers often get wewr of the wage-prlce rat race, in

whlcfr-thrr- tritte ooc*. eveiy year or so to gel enough to keep ever. They go into business for themselves, adding to the number of tree enterprises tn the country and eventually to Dun A Brad.sireer atatlstlc-'i. riMSHES THE ANTS

6 Inflation penaU/c.' tho.^c w ho uwtat* the anla. It reduce*

the buying power of hoarded money and rewards the grass-hoppers who, llvlag for the day. spend their income.

7. li keep* oldsters out of mischief. Because their savings are attenuated and Social Security benefit* rlat slower than prices, old people must keep to their grindstones. This keeps old gaffers from wiaUng their time flli'Ung wltt glrla.

8. It keeps the younger generation alert. Youths realize that if they do not learn the economic* of Inflation along with reading. Tiling, rlthraatic and finger painting, they will be the knuckleheads of tomorrow.

if Ioung min caiff ""pir.se Inflation, he's bkely to spend hi* lalir years washing dishes--either in a hash house or in a jaU for income-tax law violaiors.

Bo if* obvious that Inflation is goed for the nation and anyone agatnst it is in a riass with those opposed to Mother, Otan

fingernaUs, bright teeth and the Boy Scout oath.

ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION WOULD SEEM TO BE *%ES*

Says Uie Reporter of Direct Mall Advertising;

Can't aome of you publisher* and mall order promoters invent some better attention devices than phony ceded 'exclusive rights Imprint* on envelopes, discount stamps inside, credit okays, untruthful personal account codes? These things may have been effective years sg< when orglnated. But now with more and more copycats using them, the public L* unimpressed and tndtatad, espectalty wchait. two. or more pieces are received by the aame Individual with the obviouslv ph<my code numbers. WbU probably be told off by some of our friends for interfering with a profitable technique. But wouldn't we all be better off evetuuaUy by bemg straight forwardly honestf

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