May 20, 1950

Wednesday, May 20, 1959

Mind If I Help?

Why Open The Doors To Rackets?

If legislative approval of the proposed racing and pari mutuel betting bill merely meant that North Caro* lina was going to the dogs, it wouldn't be so bad.

The real rub comes with the realization that passage of the bill may well mean that North Carolina, instead of going to the dogs, will go to the racketeers and crime syndicates.

The dogs we can take. Most of them are pretty

nice.

The point we cant condone, however, is offering racketeers and crime .syndicates the opporunity to take us . . . individually, local governments, and state government. , X

Passage of the bill now before the legislature to

permit local government option on legalizing dog and horse racing and pari mutuel betting will surely mean the opening of a number of race tracks and accorn-panying gambling operations in North Carolina. It will also mean that such operations in North Carolina most likely will be controlled by racketeering and crime interests of the country as is the case in other parts

of the nation.

We could be inviting these underworld operations to come into North Carolina, set up in business with a legalized front, take away our money at the dog and horse tracks, and also into illegal side

line enterprises as the opportunity presented itself.

In return for such privileges to these racketeers,

local governments who took them under their wing.s would get a small cut of the profits and the state would receive a slice for permitting the activities.

While on paper these tax inducements appear a big incentive for legalizing racing and betting, North Carolina would find its people being fleeced of millions every year while the state and local governments picked up a few thousands in return for their cooperation with track operators.

North Carolina has had very little trouble over the years with racketeering and organized crime When we view the experiences of other states which have -not been so fortunate, it appears evident that North Carolinas good fortune has been due to the fact that it has not allowed racketeers and crime syndicates to establish a permanent beachhead within our borders. The state permitted dog tracks and pari mutuel a few years ago, but these were quickly stamped out when the people had an opportunity to view first hand their operation.s.

So far efforts to reinstate these operations have been unsuccessful. Wc trust the present efforts to again legalize such operation.s will also be unsuccess-iuU

If the people of North Carolina want their state to go to the dogs, it can get there quick enough without turning the state over to racketeering and crime syndicates.

Compromise On A11 That Attention Is

Courts Proposa.,

Worth Stretching Out

By LYNN NLSBKT

COMPROMISE The text of Article IV tcourti) of the pro-eoeed new conetltutloti now before the Joint committee 1 a composite and compromise ver-flon of recommendatlonfl by the K.C. Bar Aitfoclatlon (Belli Committee and the North Carolina Constitutional (Bryant) Conimla-lon, with a few new auggeatlona. The compromise text la the product of a subcommittee which has worked for weeks trying to reconcile differences without loss of good points in both reports.

The main difference was the degree of conUol to be exercised ver the courts by the General Assembly and the Supreme Court. The Bell committee sought to place almost absolute control In the Chief Justice. The Bryant commission sought to place authority In the General A-ssembly. More simply stated, the commonly used expression, is that Bell group would have established one unified court with divisions from the lowest level of maglstrate (roughly comparable to present JP) to the SuprcHie Court, all administered by the Chief Justice. The Bryant commission sought rather a court system with almost the same klnil of division which should be uniform within each class throught the state, administered under general laws enacted by the Legislature.

The suljcommllU'e comes up with what Is essentially a unified court, as proposed by Bi ll, hut subject to legislative regulation, as proposed by Bryant, An illustration of the compromise Is found in the next text relating to trial session.s of the superior courts. The Bell group wanted these sessions held "pursuant to rules promulgated by the Supreme Court." The Bryant commission wanted It to read "pursuant to law," The sul)commlUt*f! makes it read "pursuant to a calendar of courts promulgated by the Supreme Court."

INFERIOR COURTS The subcommittee combined rerom-mendatlons of both study grouiJS with respect to all courts inferior to the Supei lor Court, It accepieil ebolUion of the present hwlge-podge recorder court set up for a uniform ttf not unified) system of district trial courts, and sub-atituted appointed magistrates for the present JP system. The Ooneral Assembly, rather than the gftpreme Court, will determine the scat and Juris* tllcUonal Iwunds of the district trial courts, and provide by general law for seleeUon of the Judges. The Chief Justice will appoint the magistrates, from nominees proposed by the senior resident Superior Court Jiidge, In districts where more than one Dtstrlet Judge is needed the Chief Justice shall desigimte one as "chief district Judge and the others are assnclalea: but the General Assembly shall deier-mine the nimiber of dtsirict Judges and trial magLsiiates fm

any area.

Everybody agreed that the prc*^ aent custom of making JP remuneration dependent upon fees after conviction in criminal cases or Judgment In civil actions Is vicious and should be abolished, ROTATION The present constitution requires rotation of Superior Court Judges. The Bell report would abolish any reference to rotation, leaving it entirely up to the Chief Justice to make assignments, The subcommittee text eliminates the constitutional mandate but declares that the principle Is a salutary one and ought to be observed,

The suljcommlttee also went along with the Bryant recommendations for uniform provision for th(' drawing of Juries, rather than the Bell suggestion for mandatory Jury commissions.

The text now before the full committee gives to the solicitor more responslhlllty and authority for supervising prosecution of ciimlnal actions. In all courts wllbin his district, and also places ill the Attorney General general supervision of all criminal prosee lit ions.

POPULAR INTEREST Lawyers and Judges are greatly concerned about where rule-making powers for conduct of court procedure is ve.ifed. Tlie rank and flic of cltly.en.shlp Is not bothered about that technical phase.

Popular Interest Is chleily tn the organization and jurisdiction of Inferior courU, selection of Juries, election of Judges by vote of tlie people to greatest degree possible, rotBtion of judge.H- and perhaps most of all In uniform reasonable schedules of court costs, without the Judge's compensaUon depending upon hi.s verdict. Add to the.se Ueim the further desire for quick trial of oase.s. without the feeling Umt any litigant Is being "railroaded" Just for the sake of .Hpcrd, and you have the tilings your reporter has discovered that the people generally are Interested In with respecl to court procedure,

ronstltutlonal revision of courts still has a rocky road to travel through the full Joint committee, then separate action by eoin-mlttees in etich bianeh of the General A.ssembl,v, eon.sldrrntlou by the full legislative member-siilp iwith I qulreinent for a po.sltlve three tlRlw vole In each for .snlimtssiim to the people, and finally a majority vote of all the clttaciiK at the pollst.

It Is doubted that the sub-commlllee report will gain full approval tn all these test.s. Opinion of legislators and oUiers around the eapttol who have been Interviewed, is that the sulTcommltlee headed JoUilly hy Rep. W C. Harris of Wake and f(eu. William Medford of Hsy wood has done a fine Job of lecoMcllIng differences, consolidating suggesUons and tu'tnglug out a compromise text for a new const lUit ion.

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Within the next few week literall.y thousands of youtiK men and women will be graduatn? from high schools and eollegtis throughout North Carolina.

These mtimhers of the Class of 69 will get sound advice from commencement speakers, teachers, parents, friends and neighbors. They will find themselves suddenly projected into the limelight with everyone interested in their acronipIishment.s during their formal schooling and intere.sted in helping them plan for the future.

More than at any other time since they entered the first grade they wull he aware of the intere.st people have in them. They will be aware of the responsibilities for the future which rest upon their shoulders.

Somehow at prraduation-time each year peoples interest in the members of the graduating cias.s reach-e.s a fever pitch. Unfortunately, however, the interest which is re-kindled at graduation does not carry over to following years with the same enthusiasm. Next year this time the 51) high school graduate will h(^ just another college kid or a youngster doing his first year of real work after high school. The 59 college graduate will be going through the initial throes of the eold cruel world on his owui. Theyll have to take a lack .seat to a new crop of graduates , . the Class of '60.

'V)\Q thing that most people seem t,o forget is that after rather than at the particular moment of graduation is when youngsters most often need sound advice and coiutsel. They confront new problcm.s in 1h(! years immediately following graduation. They are thrust into tiew circumstances and find new .situ-ation.H with which they must cope. And (iuite often, they find they have few people to turn to for advice, 'rhose who so freely and kindly offered advice whan they graduati^d now have their attention focused on other youngsters.

So wh('ii you pai the graduate on the back and wish him God.speed this spring, dont forget about him. Chances hk? hell nee(l your advice and counsel more desperately six months, a year or five years from now than he docs today.

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By JIMMY ELLIS

Veteran Of Strike Duty

The Fa mvUle National Gparda-men who are pulling strike duty at Henderson have sympathy from at least one other Pitt Countian.

The man, who asked that his name not be used in a story, remembers that he and two other members of Greenvilles National Guard unit were ordered to Henderson in the Ib.tO's when Governor J. C. B, EhringhBus sent troop.*) into Vance County.

to fill out the Rocky Mount company. He recalls that he was pri-vate-first-class at the time and volunteered to go with a sergeant and a lieutenant.

"We were sent as replacements for vacancic.s in the Rocky Mount company," he remembers. "We stayed only a week and had no trouble, so far as I can recall."

"The sergeant and I rode to Henderson in a new roadster I had Just bought," he says. "We got there, showed those folks we meant business and had no trouble, a.s I recall. The sergeant and I were back home In a week, but the lieutenant stayed a while longer.

Apparently, the three men were the only Pitt County Guardsmen to go on strike duty before Farmvlllea unit moved out last week.

While Greenville Guardsmen missed the strike duty of the 30a, they had their share of other active service. They were among the first units federalized in 1940 and were on an active status throughout World War II.

J. Herbert Waldrop, president of Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. and commander of Greenville'.5 National Guard unit during the 1930's, says he cannot recall any time when the whole unit was ordered out. C.K. Beatty, superintendent of the Street Department and also a member of the Guard in the 30s, says the same thing.

Waldrop, who reliqulshed command of the field artillery battery in the late 1930s, says the unit was a good one when it went into federal service.

The Army Reserves new training, center here was formally dedicated a couple of months ago to the memory of Lt. Preston C. Clark, who was a member of Battery A of the 113th Field Artillery when he was killed in action in Germany. ^

Getting back to the Idea of sti-ike duty for Greenville Guardsmen. there is a chance they might get sent to Henderson if the strike continues. Adjutant General Capus Waynick announced Monday that units assigned to Henderson would be rotated every two weeks to ease the burden any single unit has to carry.

Greenville Guardsmen would be far down the line for such duty, however. Units which are being tabbed for Henderson assignments are infantry and military police companies. Artillery units will not have to go, presumably. until all infantry units have been sent in.

NEW YORK f AP) The newi from Moscow the other day gol me thinking. It concerned a Russian couple celebrating . their liotb wedding anniversary.

Shes 136 and hes 131. They have great - great - great-grandchildren. They have two daughters and a son, each of whom is over 100.

And I got to thinking about a couple married that long and imagined they were American.

And one morning at breakfast;

He: Pass the toast.

She: Know what day this Is?

He: Lemme see, its May 20, 18 no. 1959.

She: Its our 110th wedding anniversary.

He: Who told you that, Unl-vac? ^

She: Still thoughteless, arent you? Mother was right. I ndlrer should have married a younger man. Youre Just immature. And so forgetful. You even forgot Juniors last birthday. And you know how Important 100th birthdays are to the children.

He: Pass the jelly.

She: Pull of big talk and promises. I remember you promised after the war that

He: Which war?

She: Promised wed take a long trip some time-

He; Whats the rush? Things are too crowded these days.

She: You said that about tht stage coach and clipper ships.

He: I swear, This is the toughest bacon Ive had since Shiloh.

She; Im not surprised. You havent raised my table money since Appomattox.

He: Cant a man enjoy his breakfast in peace, just once in a century?

She; We wouldnt be worrying about money now if you had had any sense about those investments. Imagine, 100 shares of Amalgamated Lara Wick!

He: How was I to know one week later that darn young fool would Invent the light bulb?

She: You couldnt even win an election bet.

He; I didnt do sabad on Fill-more, Pierce and Lincoln.

She: When will we get a television set Matter of fact, when will we get a radio?

He; You havent seen all your stereoptican slides yet. Look, if youre so darned bored, if you have 50 much free time to kill, why dont you get yourself a hobby? Maybe skiing. Or maybe you ought to get a part-time Job, say delivering ice.

She: If I did, Id be the first one in this family to make a decent living!

He: Now, listen, woman, if I were you Id keep a civil tongue in my head. After ail, there isnt anything necessarily permanent about our arrangement.

"There are about 20 men who were members of the battery who won commissions during World War If and five or six of them went a.s high as lieutenant colonel or major," he says.

Strength For Today

According to the man w'ho said he went, volunteers were asked

One man who was assigned to the unit w'hile it was on World War II duty was honored recently.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS JUST DO YOUR PART

Now, Maybe The Work Can Beain

Other Editors Saying ... A Little Inflation

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Hy .1.4MES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Now - maybe the fmelKu miul5irts nt. Geneva will rut out the propaganda rigmarole and get down to eases. Reports from there say lliey msy go into secret iu*!H8ion. It's af)out the only way they wTU get ttiiylhlng done.

So far, fruni the standpoint of serious negortlion.s, tht pret-ing of the United States, Brt-ttttn. France and the Soviet Union has been a sony spectacle. Karh .;lrip has been making proposals tt knew beforehand Itie other would not accept. And neither did.

The whole Intention of each side (U) till now seems to have lM?en to set the juaxlmum pul)-Ucttv mrnntng propaganda -for Its prn))o.'>ifll<j before the other had a chance to say no, They let It he known what theyd .say lufore they even sat down at the conference table to .say it.

It.s a Uvisup on -who's tjead on propaganda. If theres any edge, the Soviets have it.

The We,it ean crow that Soviet Foreign Minlslei* Andrei Gromyko lo.st on his demand that the loreign ministers (f East Gi r-many. West Germany, iol.uid and tzeehoslovakta be llowe(i to take a full part , in the con-iermce. The West aid no, and made it stick.

Bill the Soviets can Uuigh at Ibis. They uccompU.''died what was no (lonbt their only pui po.se in making the demand they knew the We.sf would reject;

io gain a little puldtc nidnlon yardage tor MiKseow antong tlie peqdes of the two Gefman.v,H. Ihdand and t'/echo.slova'kla by repie.senting the Soviet ' Union a.v ilteir champion and the W'st ai the one who stifled them and refused to granv them equal sta-tua.

The whole rickety nature of this conference at Ica.si so far was expo.sed weeks ago when the American. British. French and Wi'.sl German foreign mUilsters. meeting tn Paris, agreed on a "package plau" lo offer the Soviets,

rie Soviets had demanded l^xs-Icallv two tilings; that-the Western Bl'i rtiree gel tlieir troows out of Wr.si Berlin and that they a peace trctly with Communist East Germany, a Soviil

aatelllte, thus giving it international recosnlttnn and thrmiah that tightening the Soviet grip on all the .satelltles.

Thks the West on both counts

had already said it wouldnt , do, In,stead the West came up

with the package plan which it knew the Soviets would not buy.

This called for various steps and stages that required the unification of the two Germany, which the Sovh't.s didnt want, plus elrctlon.s, formation of a single Gertnau government, and, only after all that was done, Allied withdrawal from Berlin,

The Western mmisters were so sure the Soviets wouldnt agree that they let the news leak out about their concern over what they might be able to propose once the Soviet.*) had turned down the package 'Jlan.

The point \va( While the Al-lle.s could agree on a plan they knew there was no chance of the Soviets accepting, wha' kind of plan, which the SovieU might accept, could they agree on? There was no sign after the raris meeting that the WS*ern allies could agree on the "iall-back plan.

And there''w as still no sign of agreement among them Monday.

There was a row* among the four Western power. -- before Monday s se.s.sion with Ornnyka began on when and how to sepralo Berlin from the package plan.

West Germany and France were reported to want a tough negotiating attitude toward Grom-yo while the Untied States and Britain were said to be willing to start liUking about .settling the Berlin dispute itself, at last the two sides met wgain Monday.

The completely expected ham pened: For the West Secretary of Slate Christian A. Her ter bluntly iTjected the Soviet demands; Gromyko grimly uirned ilown the Western package Now

- maybe and if they're ever mv. Ing to do-H the two sute wdl begin some aerloua talking and stop the .vhidow bo.xlng.

To siiitesmeii all Uiis maneuv-eilng may look like the way to C.UI V on IiIhIi diptomaey To many people o the world u.uiay look like kid iluH-

For those who believe that g "little Inflation" never hurt anyone and is. on the whole, a good thing, there 1% .some disturbing new.s: The flow of gold from the United States is continuing in an unexpectedly heavy volume.

Last year the "loss" in the American reserve was $2.3 billion the heaviest in the nation's history. In the past two w*eeks, according to the New York 'Times, it amounted to $179 million, or more than in the entire first quiirter of last year.

For a nation with something like $20 billion In gold this is not yet a cause for alarm. The exact word L "concern," this on the good ground that even with $20 btllion, the drain cannot go on indefinitely. At some point the richest nation tn the world, like tlie poorest, would be compelled to do something about its gold re.serve.

What has been going on can be stated simply. The Untied States 1 runumg a deficit in its transactions with the re.st of the world, that is to say it is buying abroad

a good deal more than It is selling. And one of the reasons for this, and perhaps the most important one. is that American goods are pricing themselves out of market.

At home this U pretty well understood.- In fact, it is the basis of the complaint of the Steelworkers, for example, that they can no longer afford to buy what they produce. Walter Reuther and the automobile work-er5 make the same point. Even with the highest Industrial wages in the country, they cannot afford mahy of the things they want.

What is not 50 well understood -- or else deliberately obscured is the relationship of wages to these unatti'acUve prices. Here the argument breaks down into a good deal of gib-berksh about "exce.ss profits." an argument which docs not obscure the fact that higher wage. and higher prices go hand in hand. When they get too high the result can be seen in the dwindling gold reaerve. The customer* depart in droves, and the whole economy is in trouble.

He was fifty-three and he had lost his Job.

Maybe you have an assured Job and it is hard for you to realize what a blow like that means to a man who is within twelve years of retirement and who knows that now that he has no regular employment, every door of advancement is locked and barrel against him.

If one has the vigor of youth, he can confront a problem of this kind and perhaps fight his way through it. But when a man is pa.st the fifty mark, dismissal is right next door to death itself. The pattern of life is against him. Or, to change the figure, the current runs savagely against bis hard strokes and his waning

strength. And nobody cares too much. "What can I do? I dont run an emplojmient agency. Doesnt the government do something in hardship cases like that?" So we query, and yawn, and pick up the paper, and sink dowm deeper in our chairs, or go over and turn on the TV andi start "probing" for our favorite western.

Brother, have mercy. You may not be able to do much, but your little bit. added to that of the man next door, or the fellow who occupies an adjacent desk at the office, or who works on the machine next to yours at the mill will get something going. Prom there on Its In the hands of God.

But you do your part, and the Almighty can be relied on to do His.

Opinions In Brief

"The competitive enterprise economy in the United States, which ha.*5 brought us the highest standard of living of any country in the world, depends in large part on capital from invested savings. Inflation, especially iu its later stages,^ strike. at capitalism by dl-' couraging savings. If long continued, it results In capital shortage. which will reduce productivity." Chesterlown (Md.> News.

aide told Congress the other day that 1969 wheat surpluses W'cra expected to boost the Governments price-support outlays for tlmt crop lo $3.5 billion. If this huge sum. for wheat alone, is averaged out among Americans filing income tax returns, it equals almost $50 per breadwinner." Palmer (Mass.) Journal Register.

"An Agriculture Department

"They .say you cant take It with you, but don't try to travel without it." Cleveland (Ga.) Courier.

or-And Agains t~Advertising? *

n.v EL.MEIl nOEvSNNER

Many h\usinr.Mnen feel that Uncle Sam is asaiivxt advertising.

That 1 passing' .trange. because Uncle Sam himself ts only an advertisement an advertisement of you and me and the people of these United States

It Is sti'ange, loo. because the government doe o much advertising itself The Army. Air FtMce and Navy advertising hud-gtU aif aome of the jucie.st plum* of Madison Avenues year. Millions more are s|>ent in selUnt RovernmenUl Junk and in seeking bids. And even more mil-lious are sm'ut paying s,alaties of government 'information oftl-cers" who jue hUle more tl.in Rdvetlislug n'en wuh charm bul no budvets tor spiu e or Ume

However, wlult' buying atlver-Using with on hand, Uncle Sam .veeuLs to tw .slapping it dowu with the

EIGHT IUKES IN Il.SJi

The Magazine Publisher* A.sso-ciation pinpointed eight areas in which the government appears to be cracking down on advertising. These are:

vcrtLscment*.

The refusal of the Internal Revcmie Service to allow tax deductioiw for adverUslni to re-si.st political and labor depredation. on a business; the refusal of (he Federal Renegotiation Board to allow Boeing adverUaing aa an expense under government contracts; the C<numerce Department' efforts to limit billboard advertising on new highways; the Patent Offices refusal to recognize patent lawyer* who advertise; the Post Oftice'a ef-furls to increase mail rates on advei'tLsimi; the Post Offket ef-furia lo Uicre.ase veuular mail rate., which would also affect adveriLsiiig; the Post Orflee (iesiie to reduce the volume of third-claa* mail, and the Con iirc.ional prop<)sft! to prohibit interstate mo\ emeut of liquui ad-

PUBLLSHERS PROTEST

Meanwhile, an American Newspaper Publishers Association commitleel has found that increase, in Wtage charges based on advertisnig in newspapers it essentially tax on advertising.

Furthermore, Post Office re-quiiemenls for pace numbering In PIT-printed page* also laxe* - or threatens to increase postal charcfs on adverti*mg upplement*.

Even more centlv, the Internal Revenue Service has ruled that amounts contributed by taxpayer. for publicity programs to win votes against measure. affKtlng the contributol's busi-ne.s.\ are nut deductible from income taxes. In .hurt. deducUons to .'viippori Aliican cluuches are allowed, but deductions to* save jour business from oci.ilizaUon or communism arc not

III addiuoii, Um IBB ha* put into effect * rule that a*}* that

payments by dealers toward national-local "Ue-tn ads mu*t b# counted as part of the manufacturers' sale* price subject to excise tax. That works out to bo a direct tax on advertising.

In short, when it comes to advertising. Uncle Sam is a split personality. He uses it for himself, but he cracks down on others who use it HOW TO .SEND rUOWERS TO HERTEH TOMORROW

If your boa* or girl friend, or both, art goiiif to Europe Uua summer, you an arrange to have a bouquet of flower* with your greetings awaiting them in their suite in Paris or any place else this side of the Iron Ciu-tain, III fact, you could have a bouquet of roses delivered to Secretary of Stale Herier In Geneva tomorrow.

Many people do not know that local il(M"it.s. through an organisation known as Inter flora, can arrange to have Dower* deliver-

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