PAGE FOURTME UAILY REFLECnOK, fiREENVILLE, N. C.

Thursday, July 9, 1953

Thursday, July 9, 1959

Another 'Canal Problem

Everybody Out Of Step But Butler?

Democratic Chairman Paul Butler seems prone to overlook the fact that he was elected by the top echelon of the Democratic Party to represent the party as a whole.

He also apparently is willing to overlook the fact that Democrats in Congress were elected by rank and file party members throughout the nation because they (the voters) felt these men could do a, good job for the nation as well as for the party in Congress.

Butlers severe attack upon the Democrats in Congress and particularly upon leaders Sen Lyndon Johnson and Rep. Sam Rayburn was both unfounded and uncalled for. It offered nothing constructive so far as party unity is concerned, and in our opinion it indicated that Chairman Butler rather than the Democrats in Congress is out of step with the wishes of the rank and file members of the Democratic party.

While Democratic leadership in Congress may not have given support to as far reaching a program as liberal Mr. Butler would like, there have been few complaints from lower level Democrats around the nation about how Democrats in Congress have conducted themselves.

In Sen. Johnson and Rep. Rayburn the Democratic delegation in Congress has offered a positive and progressive program of legislation. That such a

Politics, Roads

/

Are Inseparable

By LYNN NISBET

ROAD POLITICS - Prom the time of Julius Caesar at least, acbd perhaps for centuries longer, public roads and practical politics have , been Inseparable. The political approach has varied in different countries and under diverse forms of government. It has been consistent in one respect torough all the centuries and throughout the world. The obligation to provide avenues of travel is primarily a function of the sovereign State whether that sovereignty be vested in an emperor or king, or in the composite citizenry of a republic.

Sovereignty has never been surrendered, although it has been delegated often and in many Ways. Kings have delegated to lords the power of eminent domain, and legislatures representing the people in republican governments have delegated powers to private business. Outstanding example of that approach is found In the development of transcontinental raUroad systems in this country. It is widely believed that while the slavery Issue was par-amounted in publicity, the real causes of the American Civil War were rooted in economic questions incident to developing shipping routes and opening up the West.

Rail development at public expense was comparable in political application then to the interstate highway system now. It was chiefly at national level, but got into State capitols and legislatures. Meantime, the building of intrastate and local highways occupied attention of politicians in Uie capital cities and county seats. Growth of motor traffic since World War I, and especially since World War n, has made road building a major political Issue at all levels of government. It is as impossible to divorce roads from poUticsas it is to separate popular government from politics.

CHANGING Every Governor since Locke Craig, who set up the first State highway commission, has sought some basic changes in the structural organisation. except Governors Broughton and Cherry. Governor Scott was not successful in getting the Legislature to effectuate his proposals for a larger commission, but he switched emphasis from primary to secondary road building. Governor Hoey in 1937 initiated the district mwnbership system, which was maintained until 1957 when Governor Hodges reverted to the central non-district policy broad idea, except that Governor Umstead in 1953 increased the commissioner districts from ten to fourteen.

Membership on the highway commission, whatever its structure, has always been one of the most coveted political appointments at hands of the Governor. It still is and as witnessed by the acUvity in behalf of candidates for the present vacancy occasioned by the death of Elvey White.

Governor Hodges made much of his purpose to take highways out of politics and politics out of the highway commission when he was urging his reorganization plan two and a half years ago. The record seems to indicate that the main difference was that political influence, like control over highway locationus, was centralized rather than eliminated.

It has always been difficult to pin down instances of political favoritism in roadbuilding. It is doubted that there ever was anything like as much politics as those who were disappointed in' construction schedules charged. More often than not the accusations of political preference arose from the fact there was none and some local politicians resented the fact their Influence was ignored. But the charges and counter charges continue.

BRIDGES AND CANDIDATES

Take the matter of several big bridges in the east Oregon Inlet, the Alligator and Cape Pear rivers. These bridges have been advocated for a generation by the people in the areas most intimately affected. As much as 20 years ago highway officials regardedt hem as desirable, and perhaps in time inevitable. But there were more immediate pressing needs for available money. Nyw the bridges have been transferred from the remotely hopeful list to the preliminary planning board stage. That probably would have happened under any kind of highway organization.

Yet it is being charged now by people in other areas who want highway and bridge expansion that Governor Hodges and the present highway commission traded approval for these bridges in return for support against reorganization gills offered in the recent Legislature.

It is further being talked that tentative authorization for these projects will make votes for J.M. Broughton Jr., highway chairman, if he get^into the race for Governor or United States Senator

with definite intimations that he supported the projects with that advantage in mind.

Ralph Howland, former newspaper man turned industrialist and vice-chairman of the nonpolitical highway commission, is a much talked candidate for Leiutenant Governor. While appointments to the highway commission in previous years were said to come as reward for political activity, it begins to look like the present commission may be a springboard from which campaigns may be launched.

From an offside observation point it would seem that highway progress in North Carolina through the years has followed a sound pattern, fixed more by economic need than political advantage, but with Inseparable political overtones and undertones no more nor less evident under one organizational set up than under the others which have been tried.

progrram has ben to the liking of a good majority of^ the voters around the nation is evidenced by the gams made by the Democratic party in Congressional seats the past few elections. Mr. Butler, on the other hand, has not had quite the same succe.ss in trying to spearhead a program to put a President in the White House,

On a number of occasions since he became chairman of the national party, Butler has said a good many things which appeared to be aimed at alienating members of the party particularly in the South. He has been playing up to the more liberal elements in the party and in effect has given the indication he would like to read out of the party the more conservative elements.

His latest statement ^may have been designed to lessen the influence of Sen. Johnson and Speaker Rayburn in the national convention next year. It may be an indication of another sectional fight within the party at the 1960 convention. Or it may have been an effort by Chairman Butler to test public reaction to his leadership as opposed to that of the partys leaders in Congress.

Whatever the purpose of this latest attack by Chairman Butler upon the Democrats in Congress, it should be made clear to him that he was not speaking for rank and file Democrats when he made his assertions.

Chairman Butlers statements notwithstanding, the Democratic Party is fortunate indeed to have the calibre^of leadership it does in Congress.

After Her Reign, Even More Proud Of Betty

The young lady who has served during the past year as the foremost goodwill ambassador of Greenville and North ^ Carolina will relinquish her crown Saturday to another Tar Heel lass who will become the new Miss North Carolina.

Betty Lane Evans, during her tenure as the reigning beauty of the state, has added new prestige to the title Miss North Carolina. Her representation of the states ideal of young womanhood has reflected credit upon her, upon Greenville and upon the entire state of North Carolina.

Few young ladies who have held the title of Miss North Carolina have approached the degree of popularity Betty Lane has enjoyed. Her poise, her naturalness, her sincerity in the desire to well represent her home town and her state have been evident since she was crowned Miss North Carolina last July.

The manner in which she captured the hearts of the citizens of North Carolina is evidenced by the more than 300 invitations for public appearances she has received in the past year. The fact 4hat .she has traveled more than 8,000 miles and has averaged approximately four public appearances weekly during the year attests to her willingness to work hard at being a godd Miss North Carolina.

As Betty Lane comes to the end of her successful reign as Miss North Carolina, The Reflector would like to express to her, on behalf of the citizens of Greenville, deep gratitude for the manner in which she has represented this city and this state during the past year.

We were extremely proud of her when she became Miss North Carolina last July. As she comes to the end of her reign, we are even more proud of the job she has done in representing Greenville and the state during the past 12 months.

The Court' Anc. Rights Rulings

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Betten down the hatches, close up the port holes, Cindys on the loose.

Tropical storm Cindy foretold

the beginning of the hurricane season as this lithesome lady dilly dallied off the coast of South Carolina and dared the weather forecaster^^o predict

Other Editors Saying .. Get Ahead Of The Blow

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The nine Supreme Court justices provided a mixed picture this year in the one field where left-right tags are most glibly applied: individual rights against government rights.

At times they split, at times they voted solidly. In two of the major contempt cases the justices split 5-4, in three others the vote was 9-0. In still another it was 4-4, with one justice not voting.

The major cases involved Willard Uphaus and Lloyd Baren-blatt. To understand what happened in both, two previous cases must be considered.

In 1956 the court threw out the conviction of Steve Nelson, an admitted Communist, who was found guilty in a Pennsylvania state court of violating the states sedition law.

The court said that, since sedition against the United States Is a national problem, federal sedition laws supersede state sedition laws.

But the court said a state could prosecute for sedition against the state.

This year the court tackled the case of Uphaus, director of the New Hampshire World Fellowship Center which described itself as a pacifist organization.

He refused to answer certain questions of the New Hampshire attorney general who, under authority of his Legislature, was Investigating communism. For refusing to answer, Uphaus was convicted of contempt.

Justice Clark, one of thase voting for Nelson in 1956, this .year wrote the opinion turning down the appeal of Uphaus. He cited the Nelson decision as not forbidding a state to prosecute for sedition against itself.

So, he reasoned, since a state can prosecute for sedition, it has the right to investigate sedition. Thus the court was not reversing the Nelson decision but narrowing it.

In 1957 the court upheld John T. Watkins, convicted of contempt for refusing to answer certain questions of the House Committee on Un-American Act-

Ing communism In labor.

He raised the objection of pertinency, asking how the questions asked him had anythlnYto do with the subject of the investiga

tion. The court backed him, saying he never got a clear answer and the questions were not pertinent.

Then this year the court ruled against Barenblatt, a college teacher convicted of contempt for refusing to answer some questions of the same committee, which was investigating communism in education.

Barenblatt, in his appeal, recalled the Watkins pertinency angle by complaining the questions asked him were not pertinent to the commmittees Investigation.

But the court said whereas Watkins directly raised the question of pertinency in his case. Barenblatt didnt and. if he wanted to use nonpertinency as his excuse for not answering, he should have done so directly.

The court went further, saying the committee investigation was legitimate, and Its purposes were well understood. It added that in this case the interests of the country were involved and thus subordinated an individuals interest.

Justice Harlan, who had voted for Watkins but against Barenblatt, wrote the majority opinion. It left open many questions of interpretation. No doubt the court will be confronted with similar cases, looking for loopholes and clarifications.

In the Nelson case the vote was 6-3 for him: it was 6-1 for Watkins, In the Uphaus case the vote was 5-4 against, and 5-4 against Barenblatt.

In three other contempt conviction cses the nine justices stood solidly together, 9-0, for the defendants.

One Involved a labor leader who refused to give a Senate committee Investlgafing communism a list Of union members. This decision had no special meaning. The court ruled in his favor on a technicality.

Another was the case of a Virginia Quaker who wouldnt answer a state legislative committees questions about his connection with inter-racial groups. The court mpheld him on the ground the purpose of the com-

clear. This was an echo of the Watkins case.

In the third the court freed three Ohioans who^ the Justices Con inued On Tage 6

(Henderson Dispatch)

State Board of Health authorities are sounding a warning that a severe siege of polio may be in the making this season. At the same time if offers assurance that eighty to ninety percent of those who have had all three shots of the Salk vaccine are completely protected.

The implied warning in the boards announcement is that those who have ignored appeals to immunize themselves or their families will have no one else to blame if tragedy strikes at their door. A major health problem is how to reach and convince those who have not accepted polio vaccine as safe and effective.

Four cases of paralytic polio were of record in North Carolina as of last week. Two were in Onslow county and two in Robeson. Thirteen have been reported this year, nine of which had not received the Salk serum. The other four had part or all of the series of shots recommended. More recently has come the suggestion that a fourth shot for those who have had the prescribed three would be just that much more insurance.

The recent General Assembly passed a law making it mandatory for children entering school for the first time to have the polio vaccine treatment. That will

go a long way toward bridging the gap that remains before the ailment is eradicated completely.

Before the preventive was discovered, and when large sections of the country were being swept by polio, the cry on every hand was that surely something ought to be made available to prevent infantile paralysis. In those days every one, it seemed, was ready to resort to anything that offered reasonable hope, if only it could be found. Now, however. It is available, yet there is indifference on the part of many citizens, even as to protection for their own children.

Every parent, as well as others, ought to take advantage of the preventive that is available. This has been said before, but there are those left who are careless and indifferent. Helpless little children know no better, and couldnt do anything about it even if they did know. If another outbreak occurs there will be a scramble for the treatments. But now is the time to act. Every one most likely to have the disease should act to get ahead of the blow. Fathers and mothers ought by all means to provide this immunity for their children. They will be sorry a thousand times that they didnt if this crippling, paralytic monster crosses their doorsteps.

Has No

By MARTHA PIERCE

Cindy Had No Sponsors

her next move.

Will she sweep across North Carolina?

Only she can tell. But she wont.

It could be that her early northwesterly direction is but an indication that the lady is indignant at being excluded from the beauty pageant and has decided to put in an appearance anyway. (Personally I dont see why we have to take the blame. Its her own fault if she couldnt ,get a sponsor for the contest.)

If she continues to hang around and gather strength, she could be sharing headlines Sunday morning with the newly crowned Miss North Carolina. Its a sure bet that if Cindy does put herself in the lineup with the 71 contestants, she wont be wearing the traditional white contest gown. Her garb will probably more nearly be billowy grey and raindrop styled.

All heads will turn to watch the darkhorse contestant who could bring a shower of anxiety

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) William Bendix, who has a face like a boulder and a heart like a maishmallow, bears a distinction unusual for a Hollywood star.

Hes been bound in wedlock to the same girl for 31 years. She was his childhood sweetheart. SKb keeps the home fires burning, just as she did when Bill was a young grocery store manager. He does all the acting for the family.

Asked his formula for a successful marriage, Bendix looked surprised.

I never thought of marriage I as a formula, he said, staring ^ thoughtfully down at his stockinged feet. He believes in going comfortably shoeless in a hotel room.

But after a little prodding, he came up with the following six rules:

First, you have to be In love with your wife.

Second, you have to want to come home to dinner because youre happy at home.

Third, you and your wife have to have common interests. We do. Ive known my wife all my life.

Fourth, you have to be willing to talk out your problems together. A wife has a right to share your problems.

Fifth, we made a pact when we got married. I was to make all the big decisions, and my wife was to make all the little decisions. So far it has worked out well. No big decisions have come up.

Sixth, you have to be willing to give in occasionally both of you.

But you dont always have to do the same thing. My wife, for instance, likes to collect antiques. I dont. So she collects all she wants and all I have to do is look at them.

Bill's climb to stardom wasnt easy. He and his wife, Teresa they have two daughters went through some lean years. Bendix was in six Broadway flops before he made a hit as the cop in William Saroyans The Time of Your Life.

But by 1945 he was listed as one of the top 25 salaried men in the United States.

Bendix now is free-lancing. He recently finished playing in summer stock and next month will return to television.

Bill sums up his outlook on life this way:

Work hard and learn your business. Never do a Job you dont enjoy doing. That applies to a truck driver or a banker, as well as an actor.

Work is so important In a mans life he has to enjoy it. If he doesnt he should quit it get out of it.

No one can be either happy or successful doing something he doesnt like, no matter how much or how little money he makes.

Strength

Opinions In Brief

No one questions the fact that a Senator must have some help. But worth it or not, no harm can come from letting the taxpayers udge for themselves. And if, it turns out. .Sen. Burble can do without at least two of those stepsonswell, so much the better. They might do a lot better on their own, working for a living and paying taxes like everyone else. Charleston Daily Mail.

credit for all good fortune coming to workers the unions can take no credit for the jobs which feed wealth into labors pockets. The Daily Oklahoman.

Surfeited with power, unions have forgotten that the workers best friend is a job. A union is nothing unless jobs exist for its members. And wiille union propaganda tends to claim

This is the age when everything has to be fun, to be easier, softer, pleasanter, milder. Dont walk if you can dire. Dont push something if you can get It self-propelled. Just float through life in a cocoon, feeling no pain. If any .should be mischance intrude upon your consciousness call it something else and maybe it will go away. Waynesboro News-Virglnian.

or even a deluge of raindrops upon the contest. Perhaps she will use a bongo beat of raindrops on the roof of Durham High School as her talent routine. She might try a wind-blown, fast moving African dance to progressive jazz.

Will Cindy be a beauty of a hurricane? By some standards she might be considered too wide, and somewhat low. Staff Artist Henry Howard attempted to portray Tropical Cindy as she might storm into the Durham Beauty Pageant.

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IT C.AN BE OVERSIMPLIFIED

Some years ago it was the style for certain IntellectuaLs who had stooped to examine the Biblical records to take the position that it was highly improbable that Jesus had ever lived.

To such an assertion one can make only this reply. If Jesus never lived, then the person who invented the New Testament stories and the teachings of Jesus was the most marvelous genius that ever appeared upon the earth. Yet this marvelous person must have been untruthful, for he claimed that the story he was telling was true, while all the time it was only a marvelous fairy talethat is if the intellectuals were correct in saying that Jesus never lived.

No facts in history are so well established as are the facts of the existence of Jesus 2000 years ago, the wonder of his miracles, the wisdom of his words, the beauty of his life, the significance of his death, and the glory of his resurrection. And believing all this. I must go one step further and believe the other things the Bible tells about him; namely the fact that his Spirit is still in the world today, touching every heart that wl open the door and invite him to come in.

The intellectuals were naive. They oversimplified lifeand thw missed its meaning,

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Politics To Influence Business

By ELMER ROESSNER Whether you are a board chairman or a panhandler, your business will be Influenced from now until November, 1960, by the political situation.

TJie willingness of your customers to buy, the attitude of your suppliers, the tension of your labor relations and, in fact, the charm of your wife will be Influenced, to some extent, by politics.

The statement by President Eisenhower that he will keep hands off the selection of the Republican nominee may serve to inflame,, rather than placate, the situation. Every Republican, down to the level of county leader. wiU now consider himself Presidential mortar and start

es. h)wr taxes and fatter profits. INFLATIOiNARY PUSH Somewhat more seriously, prospects for more inflation sctm greater. The Reuubilcaus.

have denounced inflation; the Democrats have indicated that they disapprove.

Nevertheless, while everybody is against both sin and inflation, nobody does much about either. At least about inflation.

Inflation, like gin and love, seems so nice at the outset that most people ignore the eventual cost. Fall in love and in a few years you may be supportlnii a wife, a mother-in-law, two aunts and five children, Pall for Inflation and your out-of-pocket expenses may be Just as great.

Political aspirants cant sell you on love. They can sell you on inflations A little deficit spending now may create a few jobs and make everybody feel as well off as If they had been kissjbd by a

So Congressmen will We sorely tempted to vote a littl^ more spending here .and there, regardless of the budget, in hope thut it will rebound to their

party next year.

KINDNESS TO LABOR 'ivAnd no matter what speeches are made in Congre.ss or on the platformsno matter what corruption is opened in union affairslabor legislation will be mild. Nobody knows exactly how many labor ballots are voted, but no politician thumbs a nose at 12,000,000 people with union cards.

The largesse to farmers seem.s to have been shrunk a bitnotably to big farmers. But from

this day on, there will be very

little thinning of the agricultural gravy. Nineteen-slxty 1s just around the calendar.

There will be other reper

cussions .*In the fall, your, district leaders w'Ul drop around and

suggest you add a few employees, Mil

you want a new building permitv or a change in zoning regulations, you may get a more sympathetic ear, but you wont get much else if your prooosal inLerfgraa wltt^

the ideas of happy, voting families.

Like it or not, youre living with a political situation from now on through the next 16 montlis.

The best advice may be: dont fight it. Understand it. Try to figure how you can use this situation to your own advantages. Honestly, of course.

OTHER THINGS THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR BUSINESS

A nonst.op motor trailer service In double boUomstwo (trailers pulled by one tractor the equivalent of three trucks, has been inaugurated from Boston to New York state. . .If you didn't chew 200 sticks of gum last year, somebody did your jaw work for you, according to StaUsttca compiled by ledwtrial 'Etfffn^fnir Chemistry magazine. . .The worlds first cash register, devised by James Rltty, of Dayton, Ohio, has been accepted by the fimitbMian lu-