PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Wednesday, September 2, 1950

Wednesday, September 2, 1959

Stop Sign

Opportunity For Soft-Sell Expert

Gov. Hodges has made it clear that he would be embarrassed by any overt attempt to launch a campaign in his behalf for the vice presidential nomination at the governors meeting in Asheville where he will aerve as host.

He has also said that he feels the Presidential nominee should have complete freedom in choosing his running mate so far as the Democratic ticket is concerned.

Notwithstanding these and many other statements Gov. Hodges has made in regard to speculation that he is a candidate for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, there are a good many signs that Gov. Hodges is seeking to put himself in a position to obtain the nomination should it come his way.

He has said from time to time that he is not interested in running for the Senate in the near future, and so far tie has kept hands off the maneuvering among prospective gubernatorial candidates in the forthcoming state elections. This adds weight to the suggestions that Gov. Hodges is looking forward to further political sendee at the federal rather than at

Two Absurdities On The Record

By LYNN NISBET

EFFECTIVE DATE A major absurdity in legislative practice is making laws effective upon ratification of the act. Another absurdity is the common practice of validating, post facto, unlawful acts of public offcials. The two absurdities are related, because in many instances the unlawful acts were performed in good faith through ignorance on part of the officer that the law had been changed. The record is replete with instances, however. when no such excuse maintained.

Opinion is widely held that there should be constitutional ban against *upon ratification" effectiveness, and that every bill enacted into law should carry specific date of its effectiveness. Few general statewide legislation this should be a minimum of 30 days, and for local bills (another legislative abmirdlty) not less than two days. And legal burden should be placed upon the legislator sponsoring the bill, or upon the official clerks of the General Assembly, to notify affected law administrative and enforcement officers of the effective date.

EMERGENCIES In most instances the suggested 30 days notice for general and two days for local acts should be extended.. Admittedly, there are emergency cases when prompt action is required. Long experience as an observer of legislative process convinces your reporter that often these emergencies are deliberately created, especially in the area of locals. Also in numerous cases county anjl town officials have acted on basis of a telephone call that a law had been passed (meaning it had been given favorable vote In both branches of the Legislature) when technically it was not ratified* (by signatures of presiding officers) until two or three days later. Yet the act itself stated it was effective on and after ratification.

NOTARIES These observations ^e timely because of the hassle whk;h developed last week upon discovery that an obscure and poorly identified act of the 1959 General Assembly apparently affected the tenure of notaries public. Actually, the 1959 act did not change the term of validity of a notary public commission, which has long been and still is for two years. The recent act simply spelled out that In computing time the date of the commission should count for one day, and it would expire at midnight of the day before that anniversary two years later.

The General Statutes Com-n^sion sponsored the bill in an erort to cure the practice of notaries public fudging a day on their authority. To make the point clearer, lets take one year Instead of two. A commission that was effective on January 1, 1959, for one year would expire at midnight of December 31.

1959. To carry over another day. into another year, obviously would be iUegal. (There remains the question of whether the two year tenure of notaries should date from the signing of their commission by the Governor, or from date of their Qualification before the clerk of superior court. That has nothing to do with the fact that January 1 cannot be counted but once.)

The point is, that common practice has been to count it twice, and the act spelling out the tenure of notaries public became effective upon ratificationat some hour of the day June 19, 1959. That meant any notary public who had a commission effective as of June 19. 1957, had no authority to act under that commission after midnight of June 18, 1959. There is real question whether such acts would have been legal without the 1959 act, but the 1959 assembly pinpointed responsibility. Most of the trouble arises from the fact the original bill had an effective date of October 1, 1959, whereas as finally passed it was effective upon ratification.

VALIDATION One result of this 1959 act is likely to be an avalanche of bills in the 1961, or some earlier special session, purporting to validate the acts of notaries public performed on and after June 19, 1959, on presumption they had authority to notarize documents under previously authentic commissions.

The post facto validation of

Illegal acts sometimes involves

more serious problems than

ratification effectiveness of laws. Millions of dollars worth of property can be involved in the

validity of notary public certificates. The situation is more serious in the case of many justices of the peace who continue to perform duties after their legal authority had expired. Justices of the peace can perform marriage ceremonies. Nearly every session of the General Assembly has bills which usually are enacted into law^-validating JP actions performed wdthout legal authority. In most instances these JP validations are necessary to protect innocent parties to a marriage, and to remove the stigma of bastardy from children born to parents who in good faith thought they were legally married.

Constitutional bans of some types of special personal legislation preclude validation of one or a dozen marriages, without validating all the other acts of the JP during the same time. And that might Include citations for contempt of court, which legally was not a court, or imposition of fines, as well as cloud of title on large property transfers.

These conditions could seem to justify popular belief that court reform should start at the bottom and work up. rather than hinge so much on where responsibility for rule making in the high levels should be vested.

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the state level.

It should be remembered too. that Gov. Hodges has played an increasingly prominent role in the National Democratic Party and in the governors organizations in recent years. He has made himself well known, and his abilities as an administrator have gained increasing recognition. He has traveled a great deal and has made many contacts which might stand him in good stead should he seek a national office.

Quite obviously Gov. Hodges appears to be aiming for a North Carolina delegation to the 1960 National Convention which wdll follow his lead and thus strengthen his position in the convention. He has also seen to it that North Carolina keeps peace with national party big-wigs.

While Gov. Hodges has said he would be embar-nissed by any move at the forthcoming Southern Governors Conference to endorse him for vice president, the past several years have shown Gov. Hodges a master of the soft sell as well as the hard sell. There can be no doubt that the governors will talk politics when they meet in Asheville. Neither can there be any doubf that Gov. Hodges, if he has further political ambitions, will join in the politicking. He may do it (iuietly, but we can not help but bel'eve that he will do it effectively. And he is certain to have some help.

Because of his position as host of the conference in Asheville, Gov. Hodges will have an ideal opportunity to use the soft sell in feeling out sentiment in behalf of his candidacy for the vace presidency. The hard sell can come later with en iorsements, campaigns and whatever else appears necessary.

A Heavier Burden For American Leadership

Primary responsibility for determining Western policy for dealing with the Soviet Union may be shifting back to the United States as a result of the Presidents visit to Europe and his meeting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev later this month.

During the period when the late Secretary of State John Fo.ster Dulles was ill, there was speculation that British Prime Minister Macmillan might assume the position of leadership for the west in East-West negotiations. His visit to Moscow and his subsequent role in negotiations added weight to such speculation.

Now, however, it may be that President Eisenhower will replace Macmillan as the chief negotiator for the West in dealing with the Soviet Union. It also appears likely that the East and West may be moving into a period in which summit conferences will handle'many of the problems which previously have been left to lesser officials with not much genuine accomplishment resulting.

Reports from London say it will be left to President Eisenhower in his talks with Khrushchev this month to gain removal of the Soviet threat at West Berlin and thus pave the way for a full summit conference at a later date.

This change in Western strategy places a heavier burden upon the United States, and at the same time it thrusts the primary responsibility for East-West negotiations upon the United States. For the moment at least,Mcmillan appears willing to take a back seat to President Eisenhower in dealing directly with Soviet Premier Khrushchev.

By HENRY HOWARD

First Time For Us AL

How does a guy feel when, all of a sudden, he finds out that hes got himself a girl wholl be his very first wife before long?

Well, up until just three days ago, it would have been sorta hard to say.

What happened last Sunday sorta made all kinds of feelings a little bit more clearly understood. You see, this girl's announcement came out in all the newspapers and it. got spread all over the place.

Now this announcement wasnt just any ole kind of announcementIt was a WEDDING announcement. And on top of that, that announcement was about somebody besides that girl.

These last two things made all the difference in the world in that little bit of newsprint. Y'ou can be sure of that.

Before that thing came out in public, it seemed more like S dream or something. It seemed like something that wasnt really right around the comer like it really is!

It was something that was easy to think and talk about ven joke about. But, brother, theres a strange feeling now at every thought of it. When Its talked about now. theres at least one funny-sounding voice in the conversation. And. you know, there just aint no joking about it anymore.

Well, you might say, thats a heck of a way for somebody to

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Rouah Time For

ames Hagerty

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) That self-confidence ajid sweet air of nothingness which James C. Hagerty can exude upon occasion falls flat on its face overseas.. He is a hit at home but London gives him the miseries.

This lively, 50-year old grandfather. President Eisenhowers press secretary, is one of the oest any president ever had. at least from a presidents viewpoint.

He has done so well since 1953 that two years ago he got applauded from opposite directions. The Binghamton, N.Y. Press suggested he be named the Republican candidate for governor of New York.

And Sen. Lyndon Johnson, the Senates Democratic boss, said Hagerty had done such a good propaganda job for the administration he should be given a job to propagandize the rest of the world

He gets along all right with American newsmen who remember the superb job of information he did on Eisenhowers heart attack in 1955. The American press treats him gently.

But he clicks like a ru.sty lock in London. Two years ago the papers there gave him a big horse laugh when columnist Art Buchwald of the New York Herald Tribune stuck a needle in him and Hagerty jumped.

Buchwald thought Hagertys news conferences during NATO talks were packed with nothingness. He wrote an imaginary .spoof on the Hagerty school of questions and answers. This outraged Hagerty.

He called a special news conference. indignantly denounced the imaginary conference as unadulterated rot." The London Daily Express called It an incredible scene.

Buchwald had the last word, which ex-new'spaperman Hager-^ty might have expected. Buch-. wald wrote another piece, explaining the rot he wrote might be Sfdulterated but was never unadulterated,

La.st month, for a quick look-.see around before Eisenhower flew over for talks with American allies. Hegerty and a .squad of Secret Service men, whose job is guarding the.Presi

dent, went to London.

He lived gorgeously in headlines. One British paper reported what he ate, where he went, what he did. minute by minute. In an eight-column banner the Sunday Dispatch said Hagerty looks us over.

Then last week Hagerty returned to London, this time with Eisenhower, and this time, but only temporarily, got more subtle treatment, on the sly side.

The London Observer said Hagerty is today a great officer of state and the most powerful press officer in history.* It said if Hagerty had been a Briton he would have earned a peerage and would now be Lord Hagerty.

Then came the harpoon. The paper said; He has brought the cultivation of the relationship between the President and the mass media to a fine Machiavellian art. Whether such an art is wholly desirable is quite another question. Things got worse for Hagerty.

At a Sunday news conference reporters wanted to know what Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan talked about. A big cloud of nothingness must have invaded the room.

Hagerty and hLs British counterpart, Foreign Office spokesman Peter Hope, disclosed what Eisenhower and Macmillan had to eat, but not what they said.

After a while, the Daily Sketch said. British newsmen were so disgusted and bewildered that they protested against the aij'y-fairy information from Hagerty and Hope.

Newsmen began calling the scene of the conference the Hag^torium. To make matters wor.se for Hagerty, Ijjisenhower, who held a news conference after talkinc to West Germanys Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn, refused to hold one in London.

Reporters hoped that Monday nights informal TV talk by Eisenhower and Macmillan mif^ht give them iome insights. But the two men talked generalities.

Such informai on a.s come out on the Eisenhower-Mac-mir.ar. talks was attributed to informed sources and "dip-loma-s Why thus couldnt have been handled in an open wav Ls one of the mysteries of foreign affairs.

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

Goldsboro may be said to have its own evening college. East Carolina College through its extension department is offering a wide variety of freshman and sophomore subjects at Meadow Lane. East Carolina is able to do this through cooperation of the Air Force and Seymour Johnson Base.

While the Meadow Lane courses are primarily for Air Force personnel or connections, civilians in Goldsboro or anywhere in the section may register.

Last year wide interest was shown in these courses*. Many civilians who work by day enrolled for subjects they felt would advance them in their work or subjects they desired for self improvement and pleasure.

The quality is of standard college instruction. This year the number of students is certain to Increase.

For the man or woman who desires business courses of a non-credit rating, Mount Olive Junior College will again offer night classes. These include such subjects as typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and business English. For the ambitious girl or young man here is a real opportunity.

For the man or w'oman who needs graduate courses or coui-ses of junior or senior college grade. East Carolina offers a wide variety of evening and Saturday classes. Teachers find the Saturday schedules most

helpful. Reports are heard of some Goldsboro people who will commute each week to Greenville for courses in the poetry of Browning and Tennyson, for instance.

Other individuals will commute to Wilson evenings for classes in fields they need or desire.

That is not all, the extension division of the University of North Carolina has expressed a willingness to make Goldsboro an important center of its work. Where there is sufficient interest in any subject offered by the University, an extension class can be formed for Goldsboro. Required would be a minimum number of students. Anyone interested in any particular topic or field might write to the director of Extension at Chapel Hill for details.

When the work week was 40 to 60 hours and transportation was a problem, the evening col-college class largely was restricted to the big city. And only those of extra strength and energy had enough drive after a 10-hour day to complete a couple of hours of study.

The 40-hour week has changed that. One now has the time and the energy in which to pursue night or extension classes. The automobile solves the problem of going to and from the classes even if they are miles from the home of the student.

Hundi*eds of Wayne County people will be studying in such classes this school year.

feel about a thing like getting married. Especially if youd seen how good-looking and sweet-.ookmg that gal was. in that picture.

You might have a point there. Ii's probably rhe proper thing to go ahead and live as normal as ever and just wait for that pretty little gal to say I do.

Well, some of us who'r in the .<'ame boat have an argument of our 'side, too. One of us might say. Look, I ain t never tried nothing like this beforehow d'ya expect me t act?

See, you have to give us a little room to bemoan our fate. Then you say, What fate? Why, man. vou're just getting ready to start living!

Okay. Thats all well and good and probably most guys are reasonably calm and collected after such an announcement has been made public. Now thats not necessiarily a .statement of fact, just a supposition!

Anyhow, theie might be some who feel sorta like a caged lion or something is pacing around in their stomachs. Its a safe bet some sensations are kinda like that.

That's ridiculou.s! you say. Yep, it probably is and youre very likely right when you say something like. 'That silly scalawag oughta be ashamed of himselfhe .should be proud to announce, his engagement to marry a girl like that!

I am.

"Co-ed Saloons A Bore

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)In middle age about the only exercise some men get Is climbing on the water wagonand falling off.

After more than a quarter century of traveling the cocktail circuitpurely in the line of duty naturallyI find myself spending more and more of my time by choice high and dry on the old wagon.

My reason is quite simple. I like the change of view it gives, and arp getting to like it more and more.

My initiation into the cup that cheers goes back to the Prohibition days when people sat around in dimly lit apartments gulping home brew out of kitchen pans at 35 cents^a pan. It was fun merely because it. was illegal. The .beer was green, strong enough to curdle all four stomachs of the average cow.

Later, as a cub reporter, it was pure joy to stand at the bar drinking two for a quarter shots of amber spirit! of grain while listening to the colorful old-timers tell how life was life in the good old days.

But one by onein this city, in that citythe old-timers took their last one for the road, and the road never led back.

The era of social drinking came in, and the trouble with social drinking is that it isnt really socialand it isn't reaUy drinking.

Barroom camaraderie began to disappear when they took the sawdust off the floor and started admitting women. *

A coeducational saloon is like a coeducational barber shop. It is an anachronism, and has no place in an ordered world.

There is another good reason for climbing the wagon. It is more peaceful and restful.

Twenty-five years ago the taverns were inhabitecf by wise and witty men who said wonderful things in a wonderful way. The conversation In a tavern today is downright boring. All the people there want to do is tell each other their personal woes. The bartender has become a wet nurse and a psychiatrist.

What is life like to a man still getting used to a high dry perch?

Well, sometimes, he does get a bit lonely for the camaraderie of vanished times, but they are times that vanished years ago. His evening now and then gets a bit monotonous, but he has wonderful mornings.

He goes to bed feeling good and wakes up feeling fine. Life holds a new awareness. He now has time to do all the things hes wanted to do, and he does them. He reads more books, goes to more plays.

In a way its like being born again. Nothing is stale. Everything is new. as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

He feels no urge to join a temperance league or take up Carrie A. Nation's hatchet, but he does mildly wonder why in heaven he didn't clamber up the wagon soonerso hed have a longer joyride.

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Desegregation of Durham .schools cannot be indefinitely postponed. The time has come for the Ixiard of education to meet this issue squarely in the light of federal court precedent and North Carolina law, which have been found to be not con-tradlctory.Durham Herald

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS FACING LI E

More than 100,000 new patients enter mental hospitals in the United States every year. Another 15,000 to 20,000 people commit suicide. The mental patients and suicides have this in common: they are unwilling or unable to face life. What a dreadful life we must have here, when so many people each year cannot face it!

Not at all, you replylook at the millions of people who do face life and enjoy it. There is as much happiness here as anywhere in the worldcertainly more than in many countries we could name. Probably more than there has ever been for

any group. What makes

the difference

between those who face life and those who cannot? Do the former have all the rfioney, the big houses, the yachts, the social prestige? Not at allsuicide and mental illness are more often found among the wealthy and elite, than among the poor. The difference is inside people not outsidein what they are not what they have.

Even in this land of free enterprise, we cannot all control what we shall or shall not have. Not everyone who would like to own a yacht can make enough money to do so. But we can all control what sort of people we are, and it is what we are that lets us face life and meet it joyfully.

The power to fill your life with joy and peace is within you.

Steel Strike And U. S. Econortiy

By ELMER ROESSNER

After the steel strike, what?

Lots of things. The end of the steel strike will put more economic trends in motion than were generatedor slowedby the start of the stiike itself.

Look for:

I. An immediate upsurge in business activity. This will be on all levels. Consumer spending will spur'.

Strikers and those laid off, s'lch as railroadmen, because of the cessation of steel opera-tioivs. will have wages instead of relief payments and union doles to spend.

Nonstriking wage earners will feel freer to spend; they will know that the creeping effects of the strike will not cause their lay-off.

MIDDLEMEN WILL TAKE

The distributive traderetall-er.s, wholesalers and othersvgill count on rising sales and resume^ rxpan.sion plans, start rebuilding Inventories and beefing up Lheir promotions.

Manufacturers, with steel

available at the end of production lines and customers at the other, will accelerate production.

2. A renewal of the capital goods boom. When steelworkers struck, many plans for expanding plant and increasing machinery investments were

shelved. Steel would be hard to get and costs would be uncertainly higher until the new going wage rates were fixed. Furthermore none knew (or even

knows today) whether the strike would drive the nation into a recession.

When steel becomes plentiful again, the boom will resume.

3. More labor strife. If the steel workers make gainsand they will make some, evtn if smallevery other industrial union and many nonindustrial ones will want equivalent benefits. There will be more strlke.s. Non-ferrous metal workers are already striking for advantages, and the urge to get more usually spreads.

EFFECTS ON PRICES AND CREDIT

4. Another price upsurge. If prices can go up when the economy festers from one of the biggest strikes possible, they can sui'ely shoot even higher when the boom is resumed.

The price rise will be doubly

activated. Some prices will go up because steel will cost more; other prices will go up because steelworkers and others have more money to bid for food, appliances, etc.

5. Higher Interest rates and costlier credit. Demand has been pushing interest rates

higher, although the shove has been lessened because of the steel strike. That's because

fewer companies have been borrowing money for operations and expansion.

But once the strike is over and expansion resumes, demand for money will revive and interest rates will again edge upward.

This, in turn, will affect consumer credit, sines consumer

interest rates are but an extension of corporation interest payments.

And while higher installment and loan rates may not slow down buying, they will mean that producers will get less of the consumer spending power and money lenders will get more.

There will be many other effects of the end of the steel strike Auto sales may be slowed because autos will probably rise proportionately with steel prices and because credit wl cost more: on the other hand auto sales may boom because buyers will feel business will thereafter be good and because the end of the steel strike will assure full production.

Effects on each industry, each business, will be different. This is the time for every enterpriser to put on his thinking cap (and his reading glasses) and try to a.ssess the Impact of the end of the strike on his own business.