PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Wednesday. February 3, 1960

.Wednesday. February 3, 1960

Might Act To Consolidate Books

It is an old saying in political circles of North Carolina that the peoples interest in politics doesnt start rising until sap starts rising in the trees in spring.

Well, spring is still a few months away, and the first elections of the year are more distant than that. But before the year is over, folk hereabouts will be much interested in political matters. And unless the pattern from past years changes, there will be a good many people in Greenville who on election day go from one place to another before they finally find the proper place to cast their ballots.

Unfortunately, some of them who thought they were properly registered to vote in the Democratic primary, or perhaps later in the general election, will find their names are not on the books and therefore they will be ineligible to cast a ballot.

For several years now it has been evident that Greenville should w'ork out some solution to the confusion which arises over voting places in the city each time an election is held.

The root of the problem is that one set of registration books and one set of polling places is used for purely city elections and another set of registration books and another set of polling places is used in county, state and national elections. The consolidation of the registration books for city and other elections, so far as Greenville voters are concerned, would be a major undertaking. Even so, it is a task which should be considered by the city and county governments in order that some solution can be provided.

In elections in which only city matters are decided Greenville citizens cast their ballots either at the main fire station or at the courthouse. Everyone living north of Fifth Street is supposed to vote at the courthouse, and those living south of Fifth Street are supposed to

Seawell Points

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By LTNN NISBET

COURTS In his speech to the Junior Chamber of Commerce at Leaksville the other night Attorney General Malcolm Sea-well re'^ewed the long history of efforts at improvement of the courts. The speech was timely. In view of revived suggestion for a special session of the General Assembly to deal with the problems, which was muf fed so badly at the regular session last year.

Without detracting from the splendid work done by the N.C. Bar Association committee headed by Sen. Spencer Bell, which promoted the court improvement bills in the Legislature. Seawell reminded his young audience that none of the ideas suggested were original or new with that committee. He devoted most of his attention to the problems of selecting juries in superior courts and to operation of inferior courtsjustice of peace and recorder courtstwo prime features in the 1959 program.

He cited record of efforts from 1906 until now to obtain a better method of jury selection by nonpolitical commissions. As far back as 1914 there were proposal for less than unanimous verdict in civil casfsanother feature of the 1959 program. For more than 50 years it has been recognized that improvement in superior courts must start with the jury box. And in all that time very Utile progress has been made.

Perhaps a more serious problem Is In the Inferior courts, below the superior court level justice of peace and recorder setr ups. That, too. is an old and continuing menace. As far back as 1915 a constitutional amendment was adopted prohibiting establishment of recorder courts by special legislation. However, the general law had enough exceptions and loopholes to permit wide diversity In type of courts courts established under its authority.

JAYPEES The big bug-a-boo in the whole system is the justice of peace courts. They represent the first step on the judicial ladder, on which the State Supreme Court isthe top t^. In between are the 100 county superior courts and some SOO general county, municipal and recwder courts. Nobody knows how many justices of peace are legally authorized to perform the duties of that office. Estimates range from 2,000 upwards. Jus-txces of peace can be elected by the voters in their towmship.'?, the number depending upon population of the bailiwick. They can be named by the General As-

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sembly in the biennial omnibus JP bill. They can be appointed by the resident superior court judge of the district. However selected they cannot function until they have been "qualified (?) by the clerk of the superior court of their county.

Their jurisdiction is limited by the constitution and the statutes, but many of them do not know or respect the limitations. Because the JP court is lowest in the scale many of the defendants in both civil, and criminal cases are ignorant of their rights. And because of the existing policy that a JP gets paid in criminal cases only upon conviction of the defendant, rank injustice is frequent.

Your reporter has personal knowledge of the valiant fights made by Jim MacClamroch of Greensboro, Frank Winslow of Rocky Mount and Oscar Richardson of Monroe, in and out of the Legislature, to correct this evil, 20 years and more ago. Their efforts ended in sadness, disgust and failure. So did efforLs of Spencer Bell, Gus Zollicoffer and others In the 1959 session.

PIN-POINTED In pinpointing the need for revamping the inferior court set-up. Attorney General Seawell may have given the key to the start of court Improvement. Prior efforts at ne-forming the JP system failed largely because there were so many really good old time magistrates that legislators resented singling them out for attack. The blanket deal offered by the committee last year, which included what many legislators felt was "bossism of the Chief Justice over all courts, was too broad.

The Seawell suggestion of dealing with inferior courts in one package, jury selection in another, and by Implication leaving other phases of reorganization or court reform for separate consideration on merit of the individual issue offers hope of progress.

There are some who still think a special session of the General Assembly should be called to deal with court matters in time to submit necessary constitutional amendments to the voters in November of this year. Peeling is rather general that nothing would be accomplished by an extra session composed of the same people as the regular session, with the hangover of resentments occasioned by the debates then.

It is more likely that the court improvement bills will be broken down into separate Items for consideration at the next regular se.ssion. or that the entire subject wiU be left over for an extra

meeting in the summer of 1961.

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vote at the main fire station. But when it comes to primaries, county elections, state and national questions, there are eight precincts for Greenville voters and eight separate voting places.

A Greenville resident must be registered n the citys voting books to be eligible to cast a ballot in a city election and on ^he countys books to be eligible to cast a vote in party primaries of the general election. The reason, of course, is that the city books are set up for those living within the corporate limits of Greenville, and the countys books include those in all Green-\ille township, some of which is outside the citys corporate limits.

It is too late now to rearrange the voting systems before the Democratic primary in May, but before another election year rolls around, some positive effort should be made to eliminate the necessity of separate registration books and separte polling places for city elections and other elections for Greenville residents.

Sizeable Bootlegging Business Is Indicated

The year-end report of Pitt County ABC officers, whose job it is to stop if possible the illegal liquor traffic, points to the fact that bootlegging is still a business of considerable size.

According to the report, a total of 175 persons were convicted in Pitt last year in connection with the illegal liquor business. More than $16,000 in fines were collected by the courts in the cases, and 15 automobiles were confiscated in connection with liquor law violations.

Perhaps of equal significance is the fact that Pitts ABC officers last .vear destroyed 54 stills, an average of slightly better than one each week. Its a good guess there were considerably more than that number of stills in operation in the county at some time during the year, for it is highly improbable that the officers were able to discover and destroy them all.

Pitt, unlike some other counties in this section of the state, has never gained the reputation of being a big center of bootlegging. But when records for one year reflect as much activity in the illegal liquor field as do Pitts ABC records for 1959, there can be no question about the fact that |;iootiegging remains a big business in North Carolina.

Ive Got A Feeling

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U. C.Y. M. Devotional

^Redemption Is By Love

'Restrain

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Charles de Gaulle and President Elsenhower have in common a remarkable quality which has served them well in critical movements. It is restraint.

With great calmness and self-ccnfidence De Gaulle has just smashed the greatest threat to his presidency and the continued existence of the French Republic: The revolt in Al

giers.

Eisenhower, without fireworks and practically without raising his voice, has handled one crisis and peril after another during his seven years in the White House.

Where do they get this quality of restraint? There are several factors, of course. For instance their individual characters and philosophies; the fact that both grew up in a Democratic tradition. But there seem to be others.

Perhaps, because both had gained' so much self-assurance as military leaders, neither felt It necessary to prove his strength or toughness by belligerency when faced with crises in their political careers. They had become used to crises.

Unlike politicians whose prestige was derived from their office Eisenhower and De Gaulle had built up a huge backlog of public confidence in themselves as military men.

Both therefore were in a position to rely on their prestige outweighing and finally ending in their favor the problem that faced them.

Without such pre - political prestige, and the self-assurance acquired long before, they might have felt it necessary to a.ssert their power by force when confronted with a challenge to their political authority.

Thi.s may explain in part why two such political monsters as Hitler and Mussolini depended upon force for their solutions and made a religion of military action.

Neither of them came to power through previous military prestlae but. in fact, had only humble and insignificant military careers.

Unless there is another war, fuluie De Gaulles and Eisen-

Has 's Well

bowers are apt to be few and far between if only because the kind of prestige they got can come to military men only in war.

It is easy to recall some of Eisenhowers demonstrations of restraint.

The first was soon after he took office in 1913 and Sen. Joseph McCarthy attacked him. McCarthy, in putting himself against Eisenhower, was relying on what he thought was the prestige he had won as a Communis t-hunter.

Eisenhower could have fought back. Instead, he depended on public confidence in him and let his aides challenge McCarthy in a public showdown which steadily and surely eroded McCarthy.

Again Eisenhower, despite the provocations of Egyptian President Nasser, avoided the possibility of world war by stopping in a hurry the British-French Invasion of Egypt.

The Red Chinese became a steady irritant with their attacks on the outposts of Formosa. Eisenhower stood firm, without belligerency, and the Chinese quieted down.

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Big budgets mean big tax demands, and yet, everyone knows that taxes already are too high. So, in Washington, theyre talking about closing the loopholes.' But, it turns out that the biggest beneficiaries of the loopholes are the .small taxpayers and that the blddle bracket folks have the fewest loopholes. There arent enough big taxpayers around to matter much, so it looks like the only hope the citizens have is to tell their Congre.ssmen they want cheaper government. Duluth (Minn.) Publicty.

By JOHN T. KELLY JR.

Memorial Baptist Church While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 'This is what is wTltten in the epistles to the Romans. This is true love. Some people are proud of having given little bits of charity to others, but such things cannot and do not represent true love.

The love of Cl\rlst cannot be understood or cherished by people who think only in the moral terms of give and take, and who dwell only on the struggle for

existence through dependence upon each other. The love of Christ has little to do with our bodies or minds. It is his intention, to restore the moral principles to the root of our souls. Such love must bring together the power with which God originally created light from dark-rfc.s.s. That almighty power is required to create a clean soul from the night of sin. You then ask why sinners must be redeemed. Redemption Is deliverance from sin. In other words.

Other Editors Saying .. Private Power Keeps Up

Perhaps some of the greatest medical advances of the future will consist not of new drugs or new surgical techniques. but rather of a better un-der.standing of the minds effect on the body Richmond Times-Dispatch.

(Henderson Dispatch)

One argument, as if any were needed, in favor of private power by comparison with the public power fanatics, can be

found in abundance In the progressive policies of the Carolina Power & Light Company.

It provides added evidence that private enterprise can meet all the needs of an exploding

economy without Federal funds and Federal controls barging into the field.

The Carolina company has just announced plans to add 30,-

000 horsepower to its already large plant on the Pee Dee river near Mount Gilead, That will bring total capacity there to

113,000 horsepower. It is already under construction and will go into operation early next year.

This is just one phase of the companys expansion. Since the war it has spent many millions of dollars in building and activating new plants or enlarging those alreadiy in service. The steam plant at Goldsboro is to be nearly doubled in capacity as rapidly as the work can be carried on. The Moncure unit only recently was also enlarged.

Public power may be furnished to consumers at a slightly lower rate than that by private producers, although that may be open to challenge. Certainly It cannot be done on the basis

01 government procedure in contrast td' the efficiency of private concerns after allowing (or the tax waiver. Public power projects, like TVA and Kerr Dam. are paid for from some .'ource, and the only source is the taxpayers pocketbook. Cut I ates are possible only because of such comsiderations. They can be offered because of Federal outlays for construction, and even operation where necessary, which is possible through hidden subsidies that are not available to private power.

Its all a segment of the so-

cialistic theory which has in recent years become so deeply Ingrained into the American thinking and economy. This doctrine has innumerable supporters, who have found It possible to sell their wares to a gullible public under the guise of low costs and on the theory that natural resources are the property of all the people and should be exploited for their benefit.

This exploitation can be done only through subsidy, which in the end is as costlyand often more sothan when activities are left to the competitive spirit that has made America great and rich and strong.

The program of the Carolina company now and in recent years should both meet consumer requirements and tend to restrict the growing sentiment for public power, which actually is not necessary at all and IS only a segment of socialistic doctrine. The area served by the Carolina Power ii Light Company has never suffered for want of power, which is supplied as cheaply as the government can furnish it. with due allowance for the tax angle. Private power is keeping itself abreast of demands made upon

It means that the person Is made again by Christs love, and then comes out a new fjerson. When the new soul appears, sms are complej^^ disolved and banished.

Opinions 'h Brief

How wasteful can we be?

"The Department of Agriculture earmarks 1756 million to remove land from production.

The Commodity Credit Corporation budgets nearly $2.5 billion to remove surplus produce from the market.

The U.S. Department of Interior requests $216 million for dam building and irrigation progranis to add more land to the productve capacity of the country.

And advocates of this philo-.sophy seem to win votes by promising more of it.Gold Rush (Cripple. Creek, Colo.)

While we are strong supporters of freedom Including freedom of the pres and freedom of expressionwe are also agamst the license to destroy which could hide under the guise of freedom.Stanley News and Press.

Responsibility is a characteristic which can never be taken lightly. It must be met and used and promoted, for in it and In Its strength there comes character. Burlington Dally 'Times-News.

At 50.

A Kind. Of Hero

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Every year my life Insurance agent sends me a congratulatory post card on my birthday.

This month I figure he ought to splurge a bit and send a get well telegram. For It marks the starting of my 50th year, a landmark a man passes only once In his life.

Technically. I will be only 49,-but I can see 50 on the rim of the horizon, and already I am getting those who-said - 50-was nifty bluea.

Yeara ago my birthdays were kind of fun. They gave me an excuse to go around and collect kisses from all the pretty girls in the office.

His 40th birthday Is a major disaster In any mans life. He doesn't fall for that Polly anna guff that life begins at 40. He knows better. Middle age hits him with the Impact of an on-rushing locomotive.

When does the fun begin? he a.?ks plaintively, and feels in hl.s heart that for him the fun of living is mainly past.

I felt so low at 40 myself that almost every year since then my mother on my birthday has mailed me a note with this these two same cautionary bits of advice: "GhEd. child, dont you know there'll be another day? and "Sit looeely In the saddle of Ufe.

But the 40tt are a dark walk in a darkening forest, as you ftght the thought each day carries you farther from the pogo stick and nearer to the wheel chair.

And what about the prospect of being 50? WeU, strangely, as the half - century mark looms closer, you glimpse a patch of sunlight in the jungle. You know you have weathered being in the 40s, and you know that nothing can be worse than that.

You become more tolerant of the antics of teen agers, and thank your stars you'll never have to be one again. You pity rather than envy youth.

In reading a newspaper, you turn first to the obituary page, then to the stock market tables, then to the medical column and then to the sports page.

Women of 25 and 30 seem giddy and immature to you. Women of 40 and 45 are endowed with a new and meUow charm.

Your give up the idea that when you awake tomorrow youll feel as good as you did 20 years ago. Yoir know darn well youll feel just like you did when you awoke yesterday.

You quit writing letters of advice to your congressman, and decide to let him stew in his own Juice.

You no longer have to Usten to your wife, because you know everything she says by heart and. if she challenges you, you can play any of her verbal records back from memory.

You dont fight so hard against gathering fat, lost causes. and life itself. You are content to realize that one life

isnt long enough to change the wide world.

Life isnt as exciting as It

once w'as. but it is far more

comfortable.

You give up looking for new heroes. In a quiet way you feel that, after all, you are your

own best hero.

And. in a way, isnt that rather true? Isnt anyone who survives to his 50th year In this century a kind of a hero?

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NEVER LET IT HAPPEN C.S, Lvis has written that we sometimes by our prayers get ourselves involved in the very troubles we wanted to avoid.

For instance, if we fail to pray to God in the spirit of "thy will be done. God will in all possibility turn around and say to us "thy will be done." And when it l.s our will against Gods will, trouble, of course, will ensue.

Read over those early chapters of Genesis sometime and you will observe that what started us out wrong in the beginning was the eagerness of man to play God. He wanted to be his cwn God. Told to do one thing, he Insisted on doing another. Told to leave one tree in the garden alone, he was dead sure that that was the one tree he

wanted above all others and after which he must seek, even to la disaster.

It may be for us A very dreadful thing to have our prayera answered as we have asked them. Which means that our prayers should always end with our assurance to the heavenly Father that we leave the events of life in His hands. If what we ask for is not, according to His perfect knowledge, the best thing for us, for our loved ones, and for the world, then let that be done which is best for everybody concerned.

Let us accept the will of God with eagerness. Otherwise God may give us the opportunity to follow our own will to our ruin. When God says "Not my will be done, but thine, then we are in for trouble.

DISEASES OF HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS

Leading Causes of Death

BELOW THE AGE OP 65

United States 1958

Bslow tha s( of 65, daaths from di^ aasas of ths haart and blood vassals txcaedad tha combinad total from tha naxt fiva aausas In tha sama aga group.

PNEUMONIA

SUICIDE

CIRRHOSIS OF LIVER

344,000 107.500 4J10 34,100 1 4.010 13,130

PUSIISHEO SY (^AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

aT*lUbi flfuTM frua NaUontI OSca af Vital SUttattaa

ockeying In Air Freight Rates

DISEASES OF THE HEART AND BLOOD V^SELS are the nation's No. 1 health problem, being responsible for 54.3 per cent tOf all deaths at all ages. Above chart shows that these diseases arc also the leading health enemy of men and women in the most

Srodurtive years of their lives. Join the flght against heart disease y giving generously when a Heart Fund volunteer calls at your home on Heart SundA/ Ftbruary 2t.

By ELMER ROESSNER If you send goods by air freight across the Atlantic, from now until April 1 you will be paying higher rates than you would pay if there were not an organization called the International Air Transport Association.

In fact, you have been paying higher rates for some time now^ The associationspelled lATA and called the Eye-Ata in Trade circlesis an organization of international am lines. Every-time it has been referred to here as a cartel or trust, I get pained letters from its representatives.

In Honolulu last fall, at one of the lushest conventions on record, lATA agreed on lower rates on specific commodities shipped across the Atlantic.

The cartel wasn't giving anything away. The rise in com-peliUoi^ between trun.'^-Atlaiitlc lines and the uiUuducUou ol jets.

with larger and faster payloads, is making it imperative for trails-All an tic airlines to Increase cargo. One way to do it is to lower rates, making it economical to ship more classes of goods by air.

APRIL FOOLS DAY

The cartel set the effective date of these cuts on April 1.

If the gasoline companies of America got together and agreed on a new low rate on April 1, the public would scream. The idea of a group of corporations getting together to fix prices, and the plan to make a uniform reduction at some later date, would infuriate the public. But this open air deal passed almost unnoticed.

Then Pap American, a member of lATA, proposed to the rivil Aeronautics Board that it begin charging the new low rates on last January 1. The CAB had extended the old rates until March 31, 19tid>sauite convenient

for the lATA membersgut Pan Am said that because of the coming change, an "open rate situation" existed and that any airline could charge anything It wanted under those circumstances.

EFFECTIVENESS OF INERTIA

Nothing happenedon the record, at least. Behind the scenes, other airlines accused Pan Am of double-crossing them and threatened reprisals. The CAB looked off into space, waiting for nothing to happen, and nothing did.

Pan Am, for its own reasons, did not press its application: CAB. for its own reasons, took no action. January passed, and the old rates are In effect, on Pan Am and on all other lines whho hold membership in the cartel.

Meanwhile, you have been paying higher rates on the specilic commodiUes lor many

weeks now. and you will be paying these same rates at least until April 1. And, as always, these higher rates will be reflected in higher prices.

lATA says it is not a cartel or a trust, but It is a tough organization and Pan Am and the

United States Government have accepted its decisions.

.SOILLESS vSAIlARA CROPS PROVIDE VITAMINS

Vegetables are being grown la spots in the Sahara where water, though not soil, is available.

At Beni Abbes, where some

water is available, seeds are planted In plastic troughs filled with sand and measured amounts of nutrients added to irrigation water.

Carrots, tomatoes, lettuce and parsley have been grown. While commercial production does not appear practical, enough can be produced to provide a vitamin t^alanca.