ACE FOyRA.E DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

TutJy, Mwrcli 14, 1961

Tuesday, March 14, 1961

Change Of Viewpoint

Gratifying That Area Considered

Peace

' Though many questions ^remain to be answered concerning: the joint air service for Greenville and Wilson approved by Civil Aeronautics Board examiner this week, it is Ratifying that for the first time iti a decade commercial air sen ice on some basis has been recommended for the^ Greenville area.

It is likewise significant that the joint approach taken by Greenville and Wilson in making applica-, tion for air service has paid dividends as 4s indicated by the favorable recommendation of the CAB examiner in the Piedmont Airlines case.

Since there is no joint Greenville-Wilson airport it is obvious that representatives of the two cities plus representatives of the airline will have to determine whether the airport at Greenville or Wilson will be designated for the recommended service at least on a temporary basis. This factor will put to the acid test the spirit of cooperation and unity between the two cities which have taken this joint approach in an effort to obtain commercial, air service.

It is essential that representatives of the two cities

But One Bill On

Bedistricting

By LYNN NISBET

REDISTRIcnKG Despite the popular interest and the considerable* talk and writing about the subject, there has been actually only one bill introduced In the current General Assembly dealing with the tricky question of apportionment of the members in the House of Repre-eentativea, two dealing with re-districting for members of the Senate and none dealing with redistricting for congressional eats.

Companion resolutions were ffered in the House and Senate on the first day of the session urging appropriate committees to get to work on the Jobs of properly distributing representation in both branches of the General Assembly and in the Con-freas. These resolutions did not approach the problem itself.

Then one week later, on February 15. companion blHs went into both houses calling for automatic apportionment of representatives after each census. Purport of these bills was to comply with the constitution as presently written. Next day Reps. Bunn Frink of Brunswick tod Charles Cohoon of Tyrrell dropped in a bill calling for a constitutional amendment to provide that no county should ever have more than one senator, regardless of population.

And on March 3 Sen. Claude Currie of Durham, chairman of the committee, dropped in a detailed senatorial redistricting bill, which kept total member* ship at 50. shuffled district lines to reduce the number of districts from 33 to 32, and allotting two senators each to FV)rsyth. Guilford and Mecklenburg counties. That does' not require a constitutional amendment.

That is the status of the apportionment and redistricting problem at end of the fifth week of the 1961 session. But it is not Ukely to stay in that situation very long._

PROSPECTIVE Reps. Coats ef Johnston, Dwight Quinn of Cabarrus and Frank Wooten of Pitt, with perhaps several other consigners, have a bill prepared that would increase the House membership from the present 120 to 150. Sen, Carlyle Rutledge and others in the Senate propose a bill different from that offered by Sen. Currie last week, which would retain the 50 members In the Senate but limit any county one member.

Also Sen. Robert Morgan of Cleveland and Rep. Ed Kemp of Guilford, chairmen of their respective committees on eon-sressional districting, hope to have introduced this week one or more bills establishing eleven congressional districts instead of the present twelve. Prolonged debate is anticipated on both the enatorial and congressional districting measures. If nothing Is done about the Senate the existing set up will continue. But unless the congressional districts

are re-aligned all eleven of^ the

congressmen will have to run statewide.

The Coates - Quinn * Wooten House apportionment bill increasing membership to 150 would allot seven representatives each to Guilford and Mecklenburg counties (they now have four each); five to Pors3^e and W&ke (they now have three each); four fo Buncombe (now three) and to Cumberland (now two): three to Durham and

Gaston (now two each).

Twenty counties will have two representatives each, Cabarrus, Johnston. Pitt, Robeson and Rowan will retain their present two. The present one membw counties of Alamance, Catawba. Cleveland, Craven, Davidson, Halifax, Iredell. Lenoir, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, Rockingham. Wayne and Wilson will gain an extra scat. The other 72 counties will remain In the one member class-

JUSTIFICATION Sponsors of the enlarged membership in the House point out that the present number of 120 was established in 1835. At thkt time the population of the state was about three quarters of a million. (The World Almanac shows 737.989 in 1830 and 753.419 in 1840.) The 1960 census lists the population at 4,556,155. There were 65 counties then, leaving 55 of the 120 members to be allotted on basis of population. Now there are 100 counties, leaving only 20 to be allotted above the mandatory one member per county. In 1835 the average constituency of each representative was about 6.250; now it is almost 38,000. If the membership is increased to 150 the average will be in excess of 30,000 people for each member of the House, more than four and a half time the representative load original carried.

It must be conceded that because of improved communication facilities a legislator now can keep in touch with his constituency better than he could 125 years ago. It also must be admitted that the requirement for one representative for each county, regardless of area or population, does violence to the concept of equitable representation. It follows in logical sequence that while area and population both should be considered, the ability of^he representative to communllate with his constituents is more Important than elthe,r. That factor is more significant in senatorial and congressional districting than in apportioning members of the House.

Developments are proving the accuracy of predictions made before the Legislature convened that although money might be a major problem, there would be more headaches and hoss trading* in the legislative apportionment and redistricting areas.

who have w*orked so closely in preparing th joint application for air service that has now been recom-men'ded contjnue their cooperative spirit in resolving this first malor problem of a joint operation.

The first major hurdlethat of receiving favorable consideration for service by the CAB examiner has been successfully scaled by the joint effort. The second major hurdlethat of designating a temporary airport to receive the servicee^n only be successfully overcome by that same spirit of cooperation for the mutual good of the area. If Greenville and Wilson now fight each other over which airport will be designated to serve temporarily as the area airport, there is a good possibility the recommended service will not materialize. It should also, be evident that such a fight would kill any future possibility for a major joint air facility operated by these two municipalitiesand perhaps othersto serve this area.

It should also be recognized tiiat the joint effort of Greenville and Wilson to obtain approval for ajr service may cause other communities which from time to time have show*n interest in an area airport to reconsider the go-it-alone attitude that some of-them subsequently adopt. The fact that a joint effort of two communities was successful in getting a favorable recommendation for at least some air service suggests that a similar effort by more communitie may be able to obtain approval for even more commercial air service in the future.

What both Greenville and Wilson sought successfully to obtain separately over a period of a decade, they have .now succeeded in getting approval for through joint effort. That in itself should commend to each/of the communities the benefits that can be obtained through contained joint action.

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If Hodges Correct, No Great Priming Needed

If, as Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges says, the current recession has reached bottom and an upturn in the nations business is immediately ahead, perhaps the Kennedy administration should re-examine its pump-priming programs prepared for the current session of Congress.

If North Carolinas former governor is correct in his evaluation of the nations economic outlook, recovery from the current recession would be well underway before any booster shots for the economy now being planned by the Administration could have an impact upon business. If carried out, their impact would come at a time w*hen the economy was moving ahead under new momentum, and they would only serve to accelerate the rate of incline . . . perhaps to inflationary proportions.

There are obviously certain areas in the nation where dra.stically changed economic conditions will not permit recovery without special attention. In those cases positive action by the government is justified. But if the economy as a whole is moving upward, there seems little justification for sweeping federal programs of nation-wide impact to be thrust into the economy.

At the outset of his administration, the President announced his economic advisers would take another reading on the nations economy at the end of the first quarter to determi/fe whether further pump-priming measures were needed. As the time approaches for that reading, the economists should also consider whether all the measures already proposed are actually needed to put the nations economy on a sounder footing.

'New Blood Is

orgely Limited

By HENRY HOWARD

Apologies Not Forgotten

Apolog:les?

Yep. they do exist; although sometimes they seem powerful scarce.

When they do pop up suddenly, and often quite unexpectedly, here and there, theyre gratifying to see (or hear, rather).

Somebody around here the other day was saying folks in general just dont bother to make retractions for glaring miscues.

'This person was saying, further, that many times a fellow just cant expect a decent apology even when hes been maliciously wronged.

He described unapologetic offenders as those birds who go marching around, steamroUing over anybody in their way.

Quite a terrible breed of bird, we thought. That kind of bird, he said, should be absolutely banned from laying more than one egg a year and that one should be thrown at a prowling dog. ,

As he so blatantly brayed away at the unapologetic, we ventured to ponder a few mo

ments of apologies In general.

Apologies of all kinds, it seemed. were desirable in the first place. Therefore, persons offering to make amen(ls made themselves at least more acceptable than at any moment since the offense for which the apology was offered.

On the other hand, we thought, an open apologyand no matter how openusually serves only as an agent to reduce the sharpness of the cutting blade.

A quick comparison for the rational mind:

An apology to a person who has been niistakenly affronted, embarrassed, offended or insulted is about equal to a spoonful of honey in the mouth of one who has been mistakenly fed a quart or so of green persimmon juice.

In other words, the agent whether it be an apology or a spoonful of honeydoesnt necessarily avert all the after-effects, it simply leaves a better taste.

After that weak moment of

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rational reasoning, we were somewhat appalled at our deduction that seemed on the surface to cast the value of apologies in a dimmer-than-ex-pectcd light.

A consolation came, however, when we remembered how grateful a person might well be when offered a spoonful of honey after hed been mistakenly fed a quart of green persimmon juice.

Were all for ajwlogies.

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A highway ign spotted recently near the Pitt-Martin County line warned: Ice on Bridge.

Remembering the heavy snows that fell around here last March, we wondered whether the sign was inadvertently left to shift for itself and, if so, if its trying its hand at meteorology.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Richard M. Nixon has urged Republicans to look for new blood and new. talent tg help in their efforts to beat the Democrats in the 1962 ctmgresaional elections.

The former vice president, making his first political speech since losing the presidency to John P. Kennedy, was not reported as having urged the Republicans to look for some new ideas, too.

The Republican leadership in Congress represents a conservatism whlch the voters have rejected all but twice in the past 15 congressional elections, going back to 1932, and four times in a row since 11)54.

The RepublicarLs could not even win in 1956 when President Eisenhower was recapturing the White House overwhelmingly.

The same conservatism is now being expressed In Joint TV appearances by the Republicans leaders in Congress; Sen. Everett M. Dirkscn of Illinois, and Rep. Charles A, Halleck of Indiana.

They seem to appear as regularly as "Gunsmoke to expre.ss their views on President Kennedys programs. Thetr enthu.*?-lasm is always restrained and they sound rather doleful.

While new blood may help the Republicans, It can bepolnt-ed out that the idea of youth-in-government,.j which occuifed

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this year. Is still pretty much limited to Kennedys executive branch.

The age level In the Supreme Court and among congressional leaders of both parties is still not only high but shows no signs of stepping* aside so youth can be served.

Dirksen, for instance, is 65. Halleck is 60. But older than either of them is Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, House Democratic leader who split with Kennedy on the . school aid bill. Hes 69.

It would not be politically proper to limit leadership of the House Democrats to McCormack. There the speaker, Sam Ray-V, burn of Texas, Ls more powerful than McCormack in Deijiocrat-ic affair^. Hes 79.

On the Senate side the Democratic'Chiefs are a little younger. The leader. Sen. Mle Mansfield of Montana, is 58. And powerfully in the background, Is Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at 52.

Its in that third branch of governmentthe Supreme Court where youth is truly in a minority. There the average age of the nine justicesranging from 46 to 78-Ls 63.

Chief Justice Earl Warren Is almost 70. The other justices and their ages are: Frankfurter (78). Black (75). Dougla.s (62), Clark (61'. Harlan (61). Whitaker (OO), Brennan (54) and Stewart (46).

(Henderson Dispatch)

For a time there were reports that J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), would shortly retire. Now comes the cheering word that the nations chief investigator of crime will remain at his post.

For about thirty years. Hoover has headed this |gency in delving Into unlawful acts of whatever description that were in violation of Federal statutes. The American* people owe him a debt of gratitude far. greater than they realize or than they can repay. Every one, both those who observe the law and violators, have the utmost respect for this public official. His job Is above politics. It is concerned with things that make for preservation of American liberty, whether at home or abroad.

Probably no individual in the land knows more about Communist activities in this country than Hoover. His detectives go hither and yon on whatever mission may require their attention. They tell more about the undercover machinations of this foreign ideology than any other group.

Moreover, Hoovers department has repeatedly warned of these subversive activities, many people, including ^ome in high places, pass over with a mere shrug of the shoulders, rating such forebodings as no

more than routine. Repeated statements have been made about the increase of juvenile delinquency and its possible connection with Red activities In this country.

While comparatively few pay serious heed to these cautions, the Hoover agency continues its investigations. The day may come when there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth because of indifference on the part of the public. But it can never be said that warnings were not soundeci, as surely they are ever so often.

Little credence can be placed in the theory of the indispensable man. Always there seems to be some one at "hand to take the place of the most valuable official and citizen. But when Edgar Hoover retires from his job, it will be difficult in the extreme to replace him with one of such shrewdness and cunning in ferreting our criminals and baring the facts to those responsible for protecting freedom and the American way of life.

It can only be hoped that some one Ls being groomed to take the place of this loyal' public servant. If arid when he Is forced by age to step aside, as not many years hence he may be. Meantime, Americans owe him more than they may ever know for the protective shield he has thrown around the liberties of this people. ^

Fashion designers are concentrating on doing new things with sleeves. 'The rest of us had better concentrate on doing an old thing: rolling them up. -L Rapid City (S.D.) Journal.

We read where a feature of a college course is teaching the student haw to talk himself into a job. They fail to say if they teach him to shut up after he gets it.Hays (Kans.) News.

This would be a better bal^-anced world if a man consulted his speedometer and his checkbook oftener. Wichita Eagle.

Assuming that the people have no quarrel wth the Governor about his call for the extra millions, the job is to explore fully possible alternative revenue sources. There are tax combinations which we believe would be palatable and at the same time yield the revenue the state needs. Greensboro Record.

An isolutionst sets up a lightning conductor. An isolationist thinks that It is lightning proof already.Toronto Star.

Blessed are the poor. They can tell their creditors they are broke without lying about it. Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

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It la difficult to grasp exactly what the Peace Corps is meant to be and to do. The public relations on the subject Is exciting but not clarifying. Precisely what will the Peace Corps do? Who Is eligible for member^ ship? If the members are to receive no pay but only expenses, is this corps limited to the rich? If some of its members are not rich, how are they to live? the OWI and 065 sent some very unfortunate personalities to many parts of the world. WUl the Peace Corps be screened? If so," by which agency?. If not screeneci, how will they know whether some of their members are not enemies of the United States?

What steps then are being taken to prevent Communist Infiltration? The OWI. the 065, and the USIA did not succeed in avoiding such infUtration. Ai^>ar> ently the FBI and the CIA lve. How will the Peace Corps handle this problem?

In a word, what Is ihs Peace Corps? How is it to be organlc-ed? How Is It to work? How Is It to be directed to American purposes? What advantage Is this to be to the United States?

Before the United.States goes further in this adventure, more needs to be known about it. During the Roosevelt regime, the various agencies ci government were organized with the object of absorbing surplus population. Young men and women, some of them competent, others Communists or homosexuals, were sent to many parts of the world where great damage was done to the reputation of the United States. This produced the McCarthy investigations to which so many now object.

Of course, there are MRA teams wandering the face of the Earth and doing a magnificent work' in some places. MRA stands for Mor^ Re-Armament, a movement that started years ago at^Prlnccton and spread itself all over and particularly in Africa In recent times. Ono meets very stimulating young men and women In MRA I recently had lunch with Gandhis grandson, who is part of MRA. and he really made me realize what sincere, idealistic, rationally organized young people can do who set out to do it. MRA folks do not draw salaries. They either support themselves or find their way somehow.

I have known this group for at least 20 years and have followed their work rather closely and there has nev^ been a scandal among them. There also Is no external discipline. A person either has it in hinvor her to go the whole way lor service or quits but nobody can live MRA half-heartedly. It jurt does not happen.

Prom this international experience, it is possible to believe that good-will teams can perform useful services. The MRA groups are voluntary and inter-, national in ' character. The strength of MRA is Ideological. Those who have joined it. of various religious faiths, believe that they can help the world through the guidance of God. There is no cant, no bigotry, no hypocrisy in this movement-It is what it is and that is all. Its members are impervious to ridicule or criticism and go their way fighting the awfulness of Marxism wherever it rears its head. Annually, there is a meeting in Caux, Switzerland and at Mackinac, Michigan.

I have brought in the story of MRA because it has more than a q)iarter of a century ci hirtory beliind it. with varying experiences which cannot be ignored because they have in numy places been effective. Up to this writing the Peace Oorpa has not declared an ideological position. It seems to be an activist effort, but experience has abown that action without an idea, without a motive, without an inspiration usually becomes futile. When the Peace Corps has established its philosophy, it is possible that one can be enthusiastic about its conception. Until then, one must keep his fingers crossed. A movement witiK>ut a banner, a slogan and a song, an ideal and a hopecannot get anjrwhere.

The danger of such a movement as tile Peace Corps is tiiat it will generate enthusiasm and then peter out, like the CCO camps which served no effective purpose except to keep (Continued on page five)

Seeking More Tourist Spending

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOLGLASS GOD HAS THE LAST WORD

The Roman Emperor Diocletian. after a violent season of persecution, issued a proclamationinforming the world that Christianity had been wiped out and destroyed. A few years later a Roman Emperor had embraced Christianity and this hated creed had become the official religion of the Empire.

Christianity has been laid to rest on a number of different occasions. Certainly when Christ expired on the cro.ss everyone ^ including the Lords apostles ^ was 'surii TFTt" th relfgflous - movement which Jesus had inaugurated was at an end. The enterprise had been WTecked. Man In his sin had slain the only perfect man ever to have

walked the earth, and although his preaching was encouraging and his message beautiful, nevertheless the hard reality had to be faced either that evil men had been stronger than God. or that God had allowed the best man that ever lived to perish miserably. Either or both of these possibilities were startling and disillusioning.

But at the end of three days the ti^ulh was out. Christ who had died and was burled, had arisen frohi the dead Now the Christian movement started off with a'divine power undreame(l bfrih mens minds bPfore. To be sure, Christ had died, but with him had died sin and its power u destroy.

Thus does man propose and Cod dispose.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Although our returning tourists this year are almost sure to lose their $5(K) duty exemption on foreign purchases. Canada still hopes to bring in its great-e.st vlsitation of American spenders.

The easy customs procedures at the border on tourist purchases are being emphasized in all appeals to visitors.

Touring motorists_north of the border hitherto hav'e spent only about $.58 apiece on bring-home articles, according to Canadian figures. If they can be coaxed to use up approximately their full allowanceeven at $100 instead of the current $500the difference will be important. Canadlnft^ merchants take a cheerful view of Washingtons expected reduction of duty-free aUowances.^They rely on the di-cujslon to stimulate ioter.eiit' in bargain shopping.

Travelers in Chanada from the' United State.s In 1959, the last year for complete totals, spent $351,100,000, whereas Canadians

spent $448.413,.300 in the United States. The American tourists furthermore put about 70 per cent of their money into food and drink.lodging and transportatipn, only 7 per cent for souvenirs and handicrafts., 12 per cent for other merchandise, and 11 per cent unspecified. The Canadians have gone to work to enlarge this neighborly spending.

TO CATCH 1961 RUSH

President Kennedys request for a cut in personal exemptions to help ciu-b the outflow of gold Is consideiTd In Washington to be sure of adoption. Even before the Administration bill was Introduced late in February, two bills to cut the duty exemption were put In by Republican Congressmen and one by a Democrat. Probabilities are that the cut will breeze through with time to spare before the tourist rush.

Two of Um> speciaLiures being set up In Canada for American tourist dollars are the duty-free International export centers . just inside the border, one at the Thousand Islands Bridge,

the other at the far end of Lake Ontario at Nagara Falls. Ont. The first, on Hill Island almost opposite the town of Alexandria Bay, N.Y., opened last summer and was credited with increasing tourist traffic to'the Thousand Islands by 25 per cent.

This shop Is opening again on April 1. The second, at Niagara Falls, is due to open June 15. Both are operated on the same plan, having the status of miniature free trade zones, under the same Canadian company, International Resort Facilities, Ltd. MORE FOR DOLLAR

By their system of selling imported articles to non-Canadians without payment either of the Dominions import* duty or its 11 per cent sales ^x. the Duty Free Centers givevery American dollar a purchasing power ^ $l.30 ia_$1.5iLj)r more. The Ce>nti!rs Import their merchan- (ilse under bo.nd, and inside their area the American visitor can enjoy the same price advantages as II buying a camera in

Japan, perfume in Paris, a watch in Switzerland, tweeds in Britain, or whatever. __

Duty free aones for transshipment art conveiRional In in-, ternational commerce but the

Canadian merchants are the first to apply with idea to retailing,

Canadian merchants point out that they have nothing to do with the; current gold problem. In total international trade, the Unit- ' ed States sells to Canada about /* $700,(XX),0(X) worth every year more than It buys. By their new drive for tourists, the Canadians hope for a due share of the spending which recently has concentrated'on Europe. Thirteen years ago, 1948, Canada collected 45 per cent and Europe 21 per cent, of all United States tourist dol- lars spent abroad. Ten years later, and continuing today, the -balaftce has^tfhtfted^-to ahouk 81 per cent for Canada, 39 per cOTt for Europe. These are the pel centages which Canada Is out change this year.