FACE FOUR

THE UAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, April 10, 1959

Friday. April 10, 1959

Carbon Copy Of Oppression

Battle Avoided, To Benefit Of All

One legislative battle which would have been detrimental to higher education in North Carolina has been succesafullv avoided by the agreed settlement of differences between dhe states Board of Higher hdu-cation and the trustees of the University of North Caro-

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According to the agreement between these two

groups, a bill reducing the powers of the Board of Higher Education has sailed to approval through the House Committee on Higher Education. It seems certain to clear the remainder of the legislative hurdle.s without so'much as causing a riople in the General

Assembly. , . . * i.

The bill will lessen the policy malwng functions of the Board of Higher Education and also reduce jl^ budget-making power. It will leave the Board of Higher Education on the outside so far as the internal affai-s of state-supported colleges and universities are

concerned. ....... ,

it is fortunate for North Cartdina s institutions of high-r learning that a full-scale legislative scrap over this matter was avoided. Had there not been agreement on the matter between representatives of the board and the trustees of the University nome months ago, the present bill could have caused much confusion which probably would have retarded the progresa of higher education in the state.

Although its powers will be reduced following the passage of the bill, the Board of Higher Education will still be able to perform an important function in coordinating the activities of the states institutions of higher learning. It will not be rentb red a rubber-stamp board for college trustees. Conversely trustees of slate-

Possibility Of New Precedents-

By LYNN NMIBET

PRECEDENT Houhi* Jiidirl-try and PropoaiUons At Grtrvan-eea commtttee conalderpd two littU bUia" the other day which on their faoea aeemed not very important. The eaKle-eyed lawyera cauRht Impllcatlona which they feared mlaht later he jleaded aa precedent and give a ot of trouble.

One bill introduced by Rep, iidney Britt of Bladen would not permit any county ABC board to purchase brand of liquor which had been advertised in a newspaper published In the county. When It was called to hia attention that many newspapera published In dry counties had wide circulation in ABC territory, he said he meant the ban to apply to all papers published In the stale.

It was admitted the Leglslature 1ms no control over newspaper and mwazlnes published In other states. Ij'

Next question was how long the ban would be imposed after an advertisement appeared. Rep. Joe Byrd of Burke offered an amendment to make the statute apply for months. There was admission on all sides that main pui'tiose of the hill was to reiusor newspaper ndvertlaliig. That's v.'here f*ar of precedent came In. If this degree of censorship were Imposed, why not extend the ban to any product wlilch a particular legislator did not like, even

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lawyers were reluctant to go that far. Result was the hill and amendmenU went to a sulK'oin-mlllee for further study, Indl* cations are if it gets out at all it will be materially anieiided.

The other nleaaure was by Sen. Adam Whitley of Johnston, and has already passed the Renate, dealing with confideuUar' relation between a clergyman, priest or rabbi niul parishioners confiding Informatliui under cover of that relationship.

Questions aro.se about definitions of the designation clergyman. Also to what extent such confidences should be reganled as sacred or confidential, when the Information would lie essential to obtaining the truth as basis for Judgment in court, both in civil and criminal actions.

Certain confidences between lawyers, physicians and priests are privileged under common IrtW, except wiien the piesldlng Judgf I* ronvlneed that iesli mony isf essential to finding <f facts. I.awvers on the connnittee feared the Whitley bill might prohibit dlsclo.sure under any cir-cumstanees in civil ra.ses, no matter how much property or personal rights were Involved None of the committeemen wanted to destroy the confidential relation ship, neither were ihev willing

to afford extra protection to criminals or crooks who might plead that vital Information they had given a preacher could not be used against thenr Rep, Tom Newman of Sampson said he knew some so-called preachers he wouldnt trust under any circumstances. (It wasnt brought out in public discussion but several members duscussed on the side the fact that Catfish (.'ole, Wie South Carolina Ku Kluxer convicted of instigating the riot with Indians at Pembroke last year, claims to be a minister,

The water got too deep for the PA fellows, and the hill wa,s ordered sent to a Judiciary committee for further action, since most of its Impact was on testimony in court. Laymen seemed pretty sure of what was right and what was wrong, but they were bothered about what might be legal or construed as Illegal.

DISTRICTS The mo.st commonly used term In connection with dlstHbullng representation In the General Assembly Is reapportionment. Of course what bothers most of the folks Is the re districting for the Senate. Even If the constitutional mandate were compiled with after each census It is very unlikely that ever more than six or eight of the larger counties could be possibly Involved In shuffling membership In the House of Representativas. Evei\'

case a more accurate word would l>e allocation," l>ecau.'(e the di.*(-trlbutlon of the 20 extra seats is purely mathematical.

When It cornea to the Senate the situation is different. The present constitution says there shall be 90 Senators so distributed as to give approximately equal representation to all the people As the districts are now laid out thU objective is not even approached There are districts with two senators having le.ss population than dlstrlcUi with cue senator.

Allocation of House meml>er dues not change aiiy Ixmndarles. Re (Ustrlcting for the Senate might well change the areas represented by at least 40 or the .M) n\eml>ers of that body. IIu-dnut)UHlly that constitutes a major operation.

Opinion Is general lliat because North Carolina has not grown as fast In population as some other states, we will lose a Con* gressman In the aulomnllc VM^[ apportionment. That will necessitate revamphig boundary Unes of every congressional distrUI before the 1002 elrctlnn. It make.s sense to let the Stale senatorial dUstncl changes wait until that time and i)erfonn both operations while the patient Is under Influence of the nns.sthelic

supported colleges will not have to fear that their functions will be taken over by the Board of Higher Education.

Amicable settlement of the differences which ex-i.sted between the Board of Higher Education and tru.stcc-s of the states colleges vdll enable the groups to work together more closely tor the promotion of the states institutions of higher learning. With the more clearly defined areas of authority for the Board 6( Higher Education and individual boards of trustees, (*ach will be able to better carry out its function in behalf of higher education in North Carolina.

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The Unregistered Can Not Cast Their Vote

Jf you arent registered, you cant vote.

That statement ha.s been heard many time.s by many people. And always on election day, in spite of warnings, some people go to the polls only to find they are not properly regi.stered and therefore are not eligible to cast a ballot.

Regi.stration books for Greenvillfs forthcoming city election open Saturday morning at 9 oclock at the citys main fire station and at the courthou.se. The hooks wiU be open for registration at each of the places on the next three Saturdays.

For Greenville residents who live in Ward.s 1 and 2 (north of Fifth Street) the proper place to regi.ster is at the courthouse. For residents of Wards I, 4, and 5 (south of Fifth Street), the registration place is the main fire station.

Eligible voters who already are registered on the citys books need not register anew for the city election to he held May 5. But those who have not previously registered for a municipal election here Will have to get their names on the hooks in order to vote in the ejection. Also those who have moved their place of resid* nee from one ward to another in the city since the la.st municipal election should check to see that they are properly registered for the May 5 election.

Remember, if you arent registered, you cant vote. And the registration hook.s open Saturdiay.

Over Year Away, But The Game Intrigues

Although Democratic and Republican national conventions are still more than a year away, there i.H a growing tendency among rank and file citizerm to specnlate on the shifiing political winds in both parties.

For instanci*. who was former president Truman talking about tlie other day when ho said the Demo-crat.s would nominat^^ a candidate who will not divide the country by race, religion or foreign policy?

Did he have a specific candidate in mind, or wa.s he merely outlining the (lualifications he would like to see in the partys next .standard hearer?

Did the reference to religion suggest that young Sen. John Konnedy. a Gatholic. might not fill the partys need in the opinion of the former chief cx^u-live?

Did the rofereiice to rac^ .suggest that Mr. Truman doesnt think much of Stuiale Majority Leader Johnson whose home is Texas?

And what about, the foreign poh'cv . . . could that Indicate that Mr, 'rruniun leans toward two-time loser Adlai Stevenson who has spent a large part of the past, eight years devoting his attention to fondgn affairs of

Hardly a statement is made that political ohscrv-er.s do not try to intei-pnd in terms of . pecific potential candidatfss for the majty party nominations. And there will he many such stati'ment.s and many more diffeient iiiterpridations of them before the campaigns for the nomination r<*ally get underway next year.

In the mtantime political hree/.('s on the national scene continue to stir the Interest in prospective Democratic and Republican nominees for 1960.

Swing

Nina

I'Ouay

By DON SCHLIENZ

"n That Far-Away Land

W# got this story from his

mother.

Over on the other side of the woild, In the land of Cherry Blossoms ... the land of the big Royal Wedding . . . the land cf Fujiarra. (he Ginza, U S. naval and air bases There lives

A nephew - weve-never-seen, attending hi.s first year of school.

He came home on one occasion all excited about hearing the story of the Garden of Eden. It was something hLs parents should know about, so he proceeded therewith.

Working his way through the epLsode of the apple, he paused for the right words to rightly convey the shocking penalty at hand. He found them:

"And God said. Get those monsters out of there.

Which fit the situation to a T.

from what can only be termed popular conceptions.

Deep qualities of gentleness and love for beauty prevail* Their .show of affection for children makes sister-in-law Joan wonder why they arent all spoiled.

She writes that wherever they go. cameras are In constant use ... the greatest camera fans in the world.

The family will spend one more year in Japan and then the Naval Member of the Family retires. Jim is three yeans younger than I, but he has his retirement plans already blocked out. They include a return to college and life on the West Coast.

The Armed Forces biggest single asset In enlisting career men Is to me underscored in the foregoing paragraph.

Over the many months my brother and his family have been In Japan the letters paint a picture of a people quite different

From somewhere, yesterdays breezes picked up a big piece of brown pape" and blew It along a street In Greenvilles business section.

A passerby saw it, walked over

and picked it up. He rolled up the paper and tucked it under an arm. At the first trash receptacle he encountered the paper was deposited.

As stories go, this isnt especially remarkable: other than pointing to the obvious wish that everybody was as interested in keeping our city clean, it has not point.

My own pet horror is the sight of broken glass. It abounds.

Other than posing a hazard to bare feet and maybe automobile tiies, theres something about broken glass I associate with an atmosphere of community deterioration and decay.

One of the skeletons in my closet is a childhood thrill in the sound of breaking bottles and jugs.

Strength

For Today

ther Editor s Saying... One DupUn' Family

i ime is 1- orcing Out Old Leaders

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By JAMES MAHl.OW WASHINGTON (APt - Time, like a cop handing out trnlflc tickets, taps each man in turn for over parking, Gnc by one the aging men who have led the world the.Hc past 14 po.stwar years are betng forced to make way for otheih.

Because they move off t he main street ol aeUvity only one at a time, the change may hardly Im* noticM'd Latest to go, under Itie Innden of years and respon.sibilitv. is H.l-yt*ar old Konrad Adenauer, ehanrdlor of We.st (lenuany. Me decided llu.s wt'ck to run for the les.H tiring and le,s.s important Job of pre.sldeiit

A., hu InilutMue dindul.she.s -he tiled to .say Wedne.svlav nothing will ehunge (lie attitude of We.st Germany toward h:ast and West may uiulerao .suhlle .sldftlngs wtitcli tlie We.st. fur .sure, wtll watch carefnlly and with concern Only a few moi\tlus ago Julm Fo.stcr Dnlle.s at 7t was .stricken a second time with cano'r and may never return as .seort'larv for. eviMi tluaigh he was f.itrly rlgnl, lie operated wdh deter mlnatlon IreMdenl hTsimhower i)H, lia.s less than two yeat.s left in the While Houmv Then lie, loo. must fade into tin* tnu'kground. Even if he wanted it, and there is no sign he dot'.s, * (he ('on-.stllutton forbuls a third term.

Its about R.s c'italn a.s anything cun be that the man who snrceeds him in looi Gemo* ciat or Reimtilican will be years younger and with Ideas that cannot po.s.sitvl> be identical witti F.Lsf'nhovvcr's Sir Win.ston I'hniTlull. imw H*l. (or all iiracUcal ivui'tuvse.x ciuUnl bus career of Icadcrsluti four years ago when. b('eau.se of age and firei!nss, he quit as Uilllsh prime mlnl.stcr Jo,seyh Stalin died six vf'ar.s a wo at 73 Soviet comimmism look a new diiTCtioii, a shrewder one, after hl.s death But timt bubbling, boiincmg

ball of energy. Premier Nikita KhriLshcliev, was reported thus week to have suffered a dizzy spell and to have been warned by hLx doctors to slow up. He Is t>5

The world wont know wdielhrr to stgh with relief or .siuidder with mi.sglvtngs If be steps aside, lor no on can predict what violent turn Soviet communism may take llien

Then there'.s the remarkable president of the Hcpublic of Korea, Syngman who .spent

liiilf a century flghlmg for Ko-ii'hu iiulcpt lUlcnce alul l.s .still fliMv But lie Is 4

What hapi>cii.s in tUx Kpnlilic, now linked to tlu' Uniti'd Siate.s I'Ut inidcr pres.snre from K(mI I'tUiui and Red Korea, when Hliee ha.s movi'd off.staye?

Geiicrall.s.dmo t'hianu Kai shck ts 7!. a (Inn allv of thi.s countrv. For that matter, he tuul better 1)0 a firm ally Alone agatn.<;t Red ('tuna he vnnild lose hl.s skin But with his deatli the Red GIuiuno will inerea.se the pres .sure to Induce bi.s NatioiuiHsts on Fonuos.i to Join them

In India. which Ls trving to go Its own wav, Il ime Miiu.ster Paiullt Jawalnuial Neliru still nin.s the show at Hi*, seein.s In good health, still prohahlv .stands on Ills head tn the morning to relax

Me ha.s been the wntdlng forcc ot hulia. a foe of conimnm.sm at hi'ine wtiere the Coimnuut>(s liave mad' .some i)rogi'.ss de .>1)110 turn What the altitude of hutians toward eommunlsm if ill be wh>n he wear.s out seem.s un predio table

rherr are now ret)ortcd sivn.s that Yugivsl.ivta's strong man, Marshal Tito. i.s thinking of an easier life ill retirement although he ts almost V,' Me hs.s broken with the Soviet Union tnit he ha.s eneniie.s at home

Franr''.s ('uvrbs de Gaidlc is HH No .sign of fatigue in liim. v'i Mc> .savoil his e)nnlrv from chao.s wlien he took over Thne Is lu) a> uraiue tl)prc wvui't be chaos when he goe.s.

(Goldsboro News-Argu>

It isnt like the first reports said. But It Is almost unbelievable. A picture in the Kenans-vllle "Duplin Times showed a Beulavllle mother registering a child for school. The caption said that the child was one of IB born to the parents. But here Ls what .slopped us. The caption said that all the children had been delivered by the father.

The mother is 4.1. The father Ls .00. They have been married 27 years. All 16 of the children were single births, not a multiple birth in the lot. The oldest is 26. The youngest was born last Christmas Day, Ten of the children are living at home on the small farm near the DupUn to,wn. Four are out on their own. One child riled at 2^-month.s. One child wa.s fatally injured in an accident at the age of l.l months.

The News-Argus sent Mike Rouse to find the couple and get their story. They seem good people.

But the father did not deliver all the children. Me says he doesnt remember bow many he did deliver, at lea.sl :i or 4.

As Mike talked to the parents, the youngest, age three month.s, cried in an adtolning room. The father pickn1 up tlie little mite, sang to her and comforted her.

In the story of this Duplin fam

ily we have capsuled most of the problems the legislators are wresting with now in Raleigh. Schools, welfare, taxes, budgets, per capita income needs, all are here in one family.

There will be many who, reading this account, will insist that such families should have the benefit of birth control information. When we were younger and more certain in what we knew and what we believed, we would have Insisted with heated conviction that birth control was not only wise but obligatory for such families.

The years have changed us. We now question the wisdom of birth control unless for the protection of the life and health of the mother. We have watched ever the years families where the wholesale quantity of children seemed to present an insurmountable problem as to enough food, clothing, education. And we have seen such families develop into stalwart, sturdy, honest, upright, worthy citizens, the children that is.

How the children turned out seem.s to depend more on the moral fiber of the parents, the foundation of principle and worth they give their children, than upon plenty in the way of this world's goods.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS FASCINATION

The word fascination comes from a Latin^

a spell. It smacks of what people in olden days called witchcraft. The fascinated person Is so completely taken up and taken in by a certain appeal that he can be said to be under a spell.

There Is a fascination about evil which the wise have always noted. If the first time we came upon evil we saw it in all its grossness, we should probably turn away in disgust. But what we see is something which fairly bewitches us. It seems that here is the mo.st desirable thing in the world. Thus do the most devastating evils of life clothe themselves In vestments of beauty and appeal. Those who are weak in the flesh look on liquor and opportunities for sensual in-aulgence, and believe that they see in these lifes most desirable gifts. Those tempted by covetousness and dishonesty look on money and possessions and their minds are precipitated into turmoil as they think of the satisfaction they would have from passesslng money and other worldly good.<v. Position fascinates other people. Some love power so much that they iwUl sell their souls to get it and to be given a free hand to weild it.

When such temptations beckon us, let us beware of falling under powers greater than any which we ourselves possess. We are lu danger of being fascinated put under a spell, rendered helpless.

Fascination.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK AP) The country has grown up musically. said the King.

The King King of Swing is Benny Goodman, the first man in history to blow a million dollars out of a licorice stick. The great clarinetist, who will be 50 next month, is celebrating his silver Jubilte as a band leader this year. Ite will kick it off tonight in a hour-long Swing into Spring program over the CBS-TV network.

Looking back over a crowded quarter of a century, Goodman mused duiTiig a rehearsal break.

Musical taste hasnt changed so much as you might think, he said. Classical music is bigger than it ever was. Jazz or swing is too. Mood music is bigger than ever.

The variety and quality of music is simply unbelievable. And it is going to get even bigger.

Benny himself was one of the greatest factors in taking jazz out of the gin mill and into the concert hall and worldwide acceptance as a musical art form. He took a nailed Jungle rhythm and put it into a dress suit. He was the first to bring to it a classic precision. He civilized it.

He came up the old-fashioned way the hard slow climb. Benny was eighth in a family of 11 children. His father was an immagrant tailor. At 9 he started playing with two brothers on Instruments borrowed from a Chicago synagogue. His bigger brother got the tuba. Another older brother got the trumpet.

The only thing left for me was the clarinet, he recalled. If I had been 20 pounds heavier and two Inches taller, perhaps Id be playing a tuba or trumpet today.

At 10 Benny made his ftrst public appearance, an imitation of Ted Lewis playing When My Baby Smiles at Me.

For years he traveled ths country playing with many bands mabiring his own style. It wa.s a footloose time. Meals were sometimes hard to come by. Benny remembers filching milk bottles from Manhattan doorstoops with the late Glenn Miller.

But somewhere along the way the boy with the promising talent turned Into a man of authentic genius, a man with an almost terrifying dedication to his music.

H started his own band in 1934. The formidable look he turned on musicians who showed up late or blew a sour note led him to be known as Ths Eye, br The Ray.

In a year be and his band were on top. In 1938 his concert in Carnegie Hall became a land-/gfflsrt: tof Jazz, -.i

Over the years his band grossed between 15 and 20 million dollars. There are between 1.500 and 2,000 Goodman recordings I dont have them all myself, he says and some .50 million discs featuring him or bands or combos have been sold.

Behind his success is a single-minded drive to do something different and to do it perfectly.

A man has to know what he wants to do and then try to become classic at it, said Benny.

The public used to think of musicians as irresponsible and music as a precarious field.

But music isnt so precarious. Look at some of the people who have lasted in R Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Lionel Hampton. Guy Lombardo, Harry James, Gene Krupa. And its easy to name a lot more.

Of the thousands of musicians he has known he thinks perhaps the greatest was the legendary trumpet player, Blx Beiderbecke, who died in 1931 at the age of 28.

He gave me the greatest kick. said Benny. I got more feeling from what he did than from any other player.

Like most pros, Goodman does not have a favorite tune. But here are his nominations for the five greatest Jazz numbers;

"Honeysuckle Rose. The One O'clock Jump. "Take the A' Train. Stomping at the Savoy, and King Porters Stomp.

Many Facets In Unemployment

B\ H MER ROES.SNER

Tf.s (liilly comfort to tell a nuin out of a Job that unemploy iiH'ut L many things It jvust nu'iuus oiit> tiling to him and you're likely to get a poke In the snoot.

Neverthele.ss. it is many things At pe.ak.s t)f unemployment, many Jobs go begging. When uii-empioyment smk.s to lows, luany people are unable to find work Ihe tot4ls of employment and unemployment are deeply .sigm-ficanl.

The rpie In the number of Job* in March. rei>orted thLs week, docs refU'Ct an encouraging ruse in the economy Part of it l.x sea.sonal, of course. But part .secuvs to be basic expan.^lou of trade aiul industry And both part.s mean more spendtng for fon.sumcr giKut.': t VMINK IN THE MIDST OF PI ENTY The factors U\ Ihe totals are .sonirtlmc.s curious In fact, the total of ihaxe unemployed may

sometimes be misleading.

For example, there is heavy employment in many of the .skilled trades at the moment. On the other hand, there Is a painful shortage of secreUnes and top grade stenographers lu many metropolitan areas. In .some, even passable typlsjs are hard to find But its difficult to turn an unemployed boilermaker into a scc-^ retary.

The basic rea.son fw this, of course, is the constant incifase in speciaUzation.

The recent annual convention of the Instltute of Radio F.n-lilncers In New *York turned into a body-snatching affair, with employing corporations grabbing off every electronic engineer Vho wasnt nailed down with a cot\-tract Many corporations mntn-talned suites at ma.ior hotels where they lured engineers with higher pay, California sunshine or company swimming polb New York newspaper earned

page after page of^ispaly advertisements for engineers.

Yet at the same time professional societies reported a surplus of other kinds of engineers. PLENTY IN THE MIDST OF FAMINE In unemployment. February was one of the worst months since the w'ar. Yet the B. K. Davis & Brothers agency of Philadelphia report* newspaper help-wanted advertisements were 27 per cent more numerous than in F'ebruarv. 1958. In Ixis Angeles, thev were 69 per cent above the previous year, and better than average gains were shown in San Francisco. Atlanta. Kan-.saj. City. Chicago, Baltunore and Washington,

In all those centers, unemployment wa*high Even In Detroit, one of the cities wor.iit be.set by unemployment then, there was a gam of 17 per, cent.

There'., cowiiderahle unempUxv-nierit in New York at pre.sent, but financial houses are bavmi

difficulty in recrulUng enough good salesmen. Thats because of the stock boom. But good sale.<;nien are always scarce.

This week, while the unemployed marched on Washington. farmers in California and other states along the Mexican border were importing thousands of Mexican workers

About 450.000 Mexican workers are brought in for various periods each year.

Why not bar Mexicans and five the jobs to our own unemployed?

It wouldnt work. The farm laborers are needed for short harvest periods only. It would cost too much to ship an unemployed Boston auto assembler to the Imperial Valley of California for four weeks work harvessting celery The assembler would be a pmr workman. He wouldnt understand the Job and probably couldnt take the heat Be.sidf.>, he probably draws more uneni-pli-irment compensstion than ht would earn as a farra hand.