PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Tueiaiy,

Tuesday, March 21, 19SI

Strange Roommates

Justice And Reform Equally Slow

II.

- If the wheels of justice ^ind slowly, North Caro- the individual legislative acts which brought them into

llna*s efforts to reform its courts system has Ifaoved being.

equally as slowly as the state has pondered the ques- To further complicate this problem, the number tion of how to revamp its judicial systeip. grows each time the legislature meets as more individ-

Although considerable public attention has been *' focused on this problem in the past'three years, study creation of their courts For the most part the> ^

K accorded the same reception that other local bill^-re-

ceive: if the representatives from the particular'area

streamlining the system of courts dates back many

involved give their approval, the bills are written into

more years. In this, as in every other important ques- , , ^ created

tion, the legislature holds men of divided opinion as ne c

to how best to bring about the reforms that are needed. It is essential to the development of an orderly

rp -fkaa systcm of courts in the stateparticularly at the lower

Two yeara ago, b^ause velthat the legislature this year take positive ac-

question of court refWrn could not be^br^^^ , ^ j, reform. Already

gcther the matter was left hanging ^

ture adjourned. This year, the legislature still is divid- in Raleic-h * .

ed on the question. Unless a positive and effective com- repre.entat es ^

promise can be reached between the two groups the . Although education, reapportionment and redis-1961 General Assembly may adjourn without taking tpctmg, and new sources of revenue have dominated a step to revamp the system of courts in the state. the. legislators a^^tention and will continue to do so

. - for some time, it is also important to the people of

It is apparent, we think, that the greatest need in state that the legislature resolve the matter of

the states court system is a uniform organization of court reform, lower courts. As it is now, there are hundreds of individual lower courts with varying degrees of juris

diction, without direct supervision by the judiciary G 101111(1 RuIGS C^H

branch of the state government and governed only by

Political Aura Hard To Escaoe

Using Economic Help

By LYNN NISBET POLITICS ~ A good deal has been said and written about the Influence of politics on the selection 0 an advertising agency to handle the State account. It would be very strange if politics <hd not enter Into such negotiar tions, because it is utterly im-sible to separate politics

possi

from fovemmcnt. And if political Influences entered the picture

this year it is not a new thing. Nor does it have the significance that some news stories would attempt to give it.

When the State advertising was first set up in 1937 there was not an agency in North Carolina capable of handling it. The choice of an out-of-state agency then was influenced by politics. Among several applicants an Atlanta was chosen over several Yankee firms, largely because it was Southern an element of politic.s.

Eastman-Scotl of Atlanta did a good job for ten years, but with approach of the 1948 gubernatorial race when members on the C&D board who were supporting Charlie Johnson for Governor disliked the Elastman-Scott representative, they succeeded in getting the account transferred to Ayer & Gillett of Char-lottee which had gotten in position to handle it-

The 1948 election did not turn out like the Johnson partisans had hoped, and the CAD board appointed by Governor Kerr Scott switched the account to Bennett Advertising Agency of High Point, Then came another time for awarding the Job of handling State advertising, and the CAD board appointed by Governors Umstead and Hodges switched again to Ayer & Gillett. Last week another selection had to be made and the responsible committees of the CD board chose again Bennett Advertising which had expanded to maintain full time offices In High Point, Charlotte and Raleigh.

SECONDARY It is on the record that the Bennett agency handled publicity for Terry Sanford during his two primary campaigns and was much in evidence during the Democratic gepcraj election campaign. That

slble for making the decision wanted some help. They would have been very grateful for a nod from the southwest corner of the Capitol. They didnt get it. In contrast with other time# when the administration, incumbent or prospective, obviously sought to put on pressure, there was no word last week from the Governors offtce. Politics, per se, was a secondary issue in the decision reached by the committee.

What if there had been aug-gestion or pressure? The selection of an agency to handle the State advertising account is very much like the selection of a man to head a department of the government. With one major difference: The department head usually IS paid directly by the State out of tax collected moneys. The advertising agency derives most of its pay from commissions collected from advertising media newspapers, magazines, radio stations, etc. In ih^t respect the advertising and public relations firms are different from other State employed persons or agencies. They are agents both of the State and of the media through which they channel publicity,

President Kennedys program to provide more U.S. aid to developing countries in the form of economic rather than military assistance provides a positive approach to basic problems which face many emerging nations.

Proposed stipulations that recipients of the aid take positive steps to bring about reforms to assure that air from the United States will be shared by poor masses also reflect a positive attitude on the part of the administration.

It is important, nevertheless, that the United

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mestic policies to the emerging nations the aid is de

signed to help. To be sure, there are many under developed nations in which it would appear to us that social reforms such as plugging tax loopholes, redistributing farm land, making credit easier for small That the modern young woman

farmers and businessmen and other similar measures^ is sharp thinker wa.s indicated would be most helpful. Judging conditions in other answers which six fin^-

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nations by those in our own leads us to suggest they Greenville contest, adopt our methods in seeking solutions to their prob- Not a one of the lovely final-lems. ists faltered in answering the

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To suggest such reform.s is one thing, but for this political nature, the second pure-country to specify how recipients of its aid shall carry ly personal and the third on out such reforms is quite another. Programs and approaches which have proved succe.ssful in the United States in recent decades may not be at all practical

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fashions.

Their perceptive answers perhaps proved that our system of education is not turning out such

in underdeveloped nation.s of Africa, Latin America bad product after aU.

BATTLESHIP The bUl introduced last week by Sen Lunsford Crew of Halifax setting up an official U.S S. Nortji Carolina Battleship commission Is a departure from usual procedure with respect to historical and scenic exhibits.

When it became apparent last year that the famous battleship

or some other section of the globe.

Each of the nations has individual problems which are altogether different from those faced by the United States. And each nation has its own problems which differ from-those of other underdeveloped nations.

For the first question Master of Ceremonies Bob Ray referred to Pres. Kennedys inaugural address in which he said, And so, my fellow Americans:

ask not what your country can do for you-pftsk what you can do for your country.

Ray asked each contestant none of whom had heard the others prior to giving her owm answer-rwhat she felt she could do.

I can be a good mother and housewife because that is what I want to do most, Jolinda Brewer, who was to be first runner-up said. Also I can be a good citizen because thats part of being a good housewife. LaVeme Blackley, later named

Julaine Cannon, second runner-up, answered. I think I can do something for my country by setting an example as a young lady, by having good morals, being a good Christian girl and by following all the rules of society.

Gail Walser said, I plan to become a teacher and in that profession I feel I can start younger people on the right foot by teaching the things that are right.

Patsy Jones replied to the question, The best thing I know I can do for my country Is to

Miss Greenville, said, We can^ uphold myself and keep myself

get out and work for better men and women to represent us in foreign countries.

policy to nations who could benefit by be a mistake both for the United States and for recipients of the aid.

While the United States may need to specify broad ground-rules for use of its economic aid to emerging nations, the administration should carefully

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For the United-States to dictate detailed domestic C P

policy to nations who could benefit by its aid would Li 1^1. v-/ y

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(The Tulsa Tribune)

Are there

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and

some men

woihd be Wked unless the State guard against imposing specific domestic policies upon

of North Carolina could provide . . * ^ n x, tt -x j ox x i Ti worth $1 an hour, or is every-

for preserving it. Governor recipients of that aid. Both the United States and the body worth at least $M5 or

nations who received American aid would be the losers si.25. This is a question the new h r t 104=;

in the long run if we try to solve the economic prob- "^Nhe^minimSS wem

lems of every emerging nation by U.S. standards.

Hodgfti appointed a temporary and largely unofficial committee to work out detalla of bringing the famous ves.sel back to its home state. Governor Sanford continued the informal committee. which had no real official standing and no authority.

The bill introduced by Senator Crew would conatitute an official commiaaion with authority to act in the name of the State, to accept and aoUcit funda an^ to bring the famed ship back to North Carolina and maintain it

timated, would Include er 7.5 million workers.

The first minimum wage law was passed in 1938 to cover, as President Roosevelt put it, workers who toll in factories.

New President Assertina Sel::

as a permanent memorial to record naturally did' not count ^ vtttins of World War n, aa

.against the agency in the deci-aion made by the C&D folks last week.

There ie no evidence that It was the controlling factor. Nine firms in and out of the state made presentations, and It was obvious that choice lay between Ayer k Gillett and Bennett, on basLs of what they showed they could do for the State of North Carolina. The evidence was so nearly equal that those respon-

well as an attraction for people interested in history and travel.

There are several unusual features in the Crew bill. One is to set up the special com-mLssion. entirely apart from any other State agency, to handle one exhibit. .Another is the provision to allow the battleship to borrow from the State contingency and emergency fund enough money to get the battleship project underway.

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By JAMFS MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy has been in office long enough, -two months today, to show some basic differences, sharp or subtle, between his administration and President Eisenhowers.

Kennedy has begun his presidency with far greater vigor and more detailed knowledge of government and its problems than Eisenhower displayed in his early period.

In one way the two are similar both are moderatesalthough that Just about ends the similarity.

While Elsenhower was willing to go along with some changes such as medical care for the aged, federal aid to education, or increasing the minimum wagehe seemed to want to keep changes to a minimum.

He would' not, for Instance, ever agree to boosting the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour, or tie medical care for the aged to Social Security,) or give federal aid to teachers. Kennedy wants to in all three cases.

Eisenhower, true to his Army training, liked the chain of command system which lets subordinates argue details and differences and.then bring him their decision for a yes or no.

Kennedy is a brtln-picker, far more accessible than Elsenhower, he take.i part In staff conferences, quizzes all he can, likes arguments and. having heard them, decides

Eisenhower, wdth small liking for politics, had an impractical political concept of the presidents role in dealing with Congress, He liked to hand Congress his programs and then stand back.

Kennedy, with 14 years in Congress, knows better. He and his aides get up to their necks in trying to line up votes in the Capitol for their programs.

The need lor such diiect action is apparent enouyh while r Kennedy so far' has been successful In getting what he wants tt has been by chillingly chiso vote.

Kennedy has an alertne.ss In his job which Eisenhower didnt show. Where Eisenhower hardly ever read newspapers. except on Sundays, Kennedy reads them in bunches every day.

know' as much as he can about events, public thinking, and details of the problems he has to handle.

The new President seems determined to assert himself both as boss and spokesman for his administration.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was, in effect, American foreign policy through the years he served in the Eisenhower administration. He made the big statements, including some provocative, some harsh, some bombastic.

Judging from the way Dean Rusk now operates as secretary of state. Dulles would have been less heard from if Kennedy had been president in hi.s time.

Rusk acts like a foreign affairs technician, quietly behind the scenes with friend and foe. leaving lb to Kennedy to make the big speeches and announce the big decisions.

People high in the administration .say the govemment Is more relaxed now'a quicker and easier communication among the agencies and between the agencies and the White House.

The big unknown about Kennedy Is in foreign affairs. He doesnt needlessly irritate Jthe Ru.ssians. But he doesn't coddle them either; The mystery is in hts programs and his longing# thinking.

How far will he go to keep Laos from falling to communism? How far will he go in wanting an end to colonialism, even If it means alienating or offending allies?

Hla profram of aid for Latin America, while it sounds big and noble. Is still so vague that its full implloations cannot ^be understood until he saya and does more about it.

ering. Raising the minimum w age to* $1.25 was one of the chief planks in John Kennedys platform.

Behind this move' are the liberals and the labor leaders. The liberalss argue that in this day of increased use of la-or - saving machinery anybody who is paid less than $125 an hour is probably being exploited. The theory is that general productivity. The labor leaders like it for even with skilled labor there is a customary difieren-, tial above minimum wages, and with higher wages all along the -line'.

Opponents complain that the value of a lot of labor is not greater than $1 - an - hour and to enforce a higher minimum will merely mean either increased prices or large layoffs among the unskilled labor that the minimum will merely mean either Increased prices or large layoffs among the unskilled labor that ,the minimum wage law Is supposed to help.

There will also be an argument over how far to extend minimum wage provision. The present law, which covers about 25 million workerSrjixempts all firms that are purely local in character, and employes in the kind of work where it is difficult for the employer td know or control the exact number of hours worked. Mr. Kennedy last' session authored a bill that failed, but that would have extended minimum wage provisions to be presently exempt retail and service businesses. This it is es-

in 1949 to 75 cents, and in 1959 to $1.

A number of employers object strenuously to the $1-25 proposal. They assert that this will force them to cut their payrolls, particularly as regards young people Just learning the business or older part-time workers now supplementing pension checks. A study recently released by the U.S. Department of Labor reported that after the minimum was raised to $1 there ware significant declines in employment in most of the low-wage industries surveyed. The Department said that if the 1956 wage had been set during a recession its adverse effects upon employment might have been much greater.

Because minimum wages in much of the world are so cheap a great deal of labor does drudgery that machines could do painlessly. There is an advantage to setting minimum wages up to a point where the lowest grade of human toil becomes uneconomic and employers are compelled to install machine processes where, output is speeded. Buf there are still people who need wages who by reason of inexperience, stupidity, laziness. ignorance or lack of vigor, cannot contribute more than one dollars worth of productive labor an hour.

To force these people onto per-, manent relief in order to jack up the entire wagescale of an already-high-cost country should require careful thought. We hope Congress is thinking.

a shining example that other people might follow me. Barbara Graham said, "As a young citizen of the United States I feel I can better the United States by learning foreign affairs and trying to understand govemment real clearly.*

Next each of the finalists was asked. If she were 'married to an astronaut would she encourage or disccHirage him?

I think if I had him on earth, why Id just keep him here, was Miss Grahams reply.

Miss Blackley said, I would encourage him in that it would help our country,

Miss Walsers reply was, If he thought that this was what he wanted to do and he would never be happy in anything else, why I would be willing to let him go.

Miss Jones said, If I were married to a man of that type, I would discourage him. I would have married him because I loyed him and I would want him with me.

Answered Miss Cannon. If he had definitely decided to go to the moon. I Ithink I would encourage him and stand by him. And Miss Brewers reply was, I dont believe I would discourage him if that was what he really wanted to do. Id give him all my love and devotion and pray to God that hed return back safely.

Finally, the contestants were asked their opinions of the shorter skirts of new spring fa.shlons.

Its up to the individual and I like mine below my knees, Miss Blackley replied.

Miss Walser said. I think its all right to a certain extent but lets hope they dont get too short.

It depends entirely upon the individual girl, answered Miss Jones. If'she has pretty knees I trtink she might let them show a little. If not she should keep them covered.

Miss Graham said, I dont think knees are very pretty but I think the styles are becoming, I dont like the longer styles at all.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

It was a very wet Monday night and I was .looWnf for a fight. These days, ft is not s6~ easy to find a fight as most ev- erybody is either lackadaisical or polite. I could have gone to Miami to see the Patterson-Johansson fight but I had decided against that and it was now too late.

So I thought that maybe I ' could see the fight between Ed Sullivan and Jack Paar. Well, jf they called that off. According to Ed Sullivan, Jack Paar wanted to change the rules Jn the middle of the fight: according to Jack Paar. Ed Sullivan is a nar and sue me.

That sounded like comedy. It sounded like Anna Held bathing in milk to attract attention. But then these fellows do not need to attract attention. Everybody knows them. Millions listen to them. Jack Paar is on every night: Ed Sullivan goes on every Sunday night. They do not need the publicity of a fight.

Still and all. if two fellows, in the month of March, just before St. Patricks Day, want to fight each other who will say them nay. But the way to fight is with fists or swords or guns, not with words.

This particular battle establishes the significance of television. Here are two rather simple and obscure personalities, probably pleasant enough, if one knows them well, who Interest millions of people of all ages. Their fans take a direct, personal concern in their affairs. Their fans watch their personal affairs closely: their relations with their wives and children.

So they want to fight. What is the issue? It would seem that Sullivan who runs a vaudeville show on television pays his stars up to $7.500 a performance. These same stars, for some reason, are willing to work for Paar for his standard price of $320 a performance. Sullivan naturally^ feels that he is being robbed and that anyone who works for Paar for $320 will only get $320 from Sullivan. Paars view is that anyone who does not wish to work for him does not have to.. So there!

But this is not much of a fight. After all. actors and such work where their managers tell them to. The reason, usually, that they go on these omnibus shows is that they are out of workat libertyit is called. Generally, the managers at such a time will do anything to keep a comedians name before the public, because nobody can be forgotten faster than a comedian who does* not hve a chance i to be comical. It is like a defeated iMlitlcian who needs a platform to make himself heard. Without such a platform, the ; politician or the actor becomes as dead as a marinated herring.

So the actors manager gets him on 7>ne of these television vaude- ' ville shows where he performs between commercials and sometimes regains his reputation. New ones would really have a tough time if these vaudeville shows did not give them a break. Many of them would have to work for a living for a lon^ time before they got a chance to show the world how wonderful they are.

Back when I was a boy, fhert was a place on the Bowery called Miners and many a great star started there, singing a song, jigging through some steps, reciting something memorized. On 14th Street, in New York, next to Tammany Hall and around the comer from the distinguLshed Academy of Music, was Tony Pastorsa vaudeville place where many yoimgsters started great careers. Vaudeville was the training school of the theatre, just as Burlesque was ' a bridge between the amateur and professional.

Nothing like that exists today. Instead, television has these few vaudeville shows. The most distinguished of these performances is that of Ed Sullivan who pays fabulous prices to performers and who has managed to keep his show going for. I believe,

13 years which is a long time for anything on television. Jack Paar's show is different. Whereas Sullivan is a mere master of ceremonies, Paar is the chief performer on his show. In fact, he is the big cheese. His performers give him background support. Sometimes, they are humorous; sometimes they are unbelievably mediocre. But It must be admitted that several of those who appeared on Paars show, became stars in their own right.

Alas, there was no figbtl

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Abraham Lincoln U credited with saying the nation camiot '^^^survive, half free and .half sl^ve. Now comes the question neft'er knoWn In the self.-suffl-cieni days of Lincoln. Can a nation .survive with half or more 01 Its . people demanding * mor?, and more Freeloadtti.s from' the working and pacing half?

By ELMER ROESSNER The early Easter may help speed the economy out of the recession It is already helping sales of apparel and other department store goods to rise above year ago levels. Coming two weeks earlier than last year, Easter is compelling the populace to buy new' .finery that much earlier than last year.

the calendar spring, of course, will come at the vernal equinox is usual. But the psychological spring. Influenced by EaxSter and things as.soclated with It. will come sooner than It did last year.

The rise in apparel sales before Easter, like the tide, brings other thuiits with it. Auttvaales

business are merely advancement of peaks. Some of the sales made in the last two weeks of March are sales that would be made in the first two weeks of April if Easter werejater. Its safe to predict that sales in the weeks of April 3 and 10 will be frightfully below those in corresponding weeks a year ago simply because those were pre-Easten weeks in l%0 and will be the post-Easter weeks this year.

In another .way, early Easter this year will have lasting effects. The economy seems to be ready to rise again and the early Ea.ster may provide just the yeast It needs.- '

Total retail sales in February, as we hQtlced at the time, were

ed gains In February, Which was curious since food prices were reported to have declined. The other groups all showed declines. Most of them were minor, except for the automotive group, where sales dropped from $3.1 billion a year ago to $2.7 billion in February, 1%1. Thats a lot of money; its a lot of jobs.

On the other hand, department store sales, as compiled by the Federal Reserve, are showing considerable strength partly, of course, due to the early Easter. In the week ended February 25, salek were 11 per cent above a year ago, and In the week ended March 4, they were 26 per cent

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In that week there were soma

per cent; Tulsa, 41 per cem, tnd Liijicoln, Neb., 56 per cent. Only downtown Miami, Duluth-Superior, Dallas and downtown Los Angeles showed declines.

Note that some of the gains may be because of local weather conditions.'

SHORT AND SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS BULLETINS A new contact lens is made in.20 different shades of gray, brown, green, blue and pink. . . . A book on Starting and Managing ,a- Service Station is available for 35 cents sent to the Government Printing Office, Washington, 25. . . Danish fur breeders are Importing mink breeding stock from the United

have been picking up: interest .behind a year aga The Depart-

In new homes has been rusing and there are other signs of increased retairactivity.

NEEDS EVALUATION t

In some extent, the effects of egrly Easter arc misleading. S4m qI -the. .secmmg,

ment of Commerce advance estimate put them at $15.1 billion, compared with $15.8 billion a year earlier. '

MORE EATING. DRINKING' The food group and the eating-showt

States. . ,^.Por the fourth year, spectacular gains. Sorner Sttbtif-'4 the Norweigan winter herring ban Boston, up 109 pl?r cent; catch is below expectations.

Jacksonville, Fla., up 84 per cent: Quincy, Mass , up 83 per cent; Lancaster, Pa., up 83 per cent; Cambridge. Mass.. 73 per cent; Boston. 68 per cent; Baltimore, 49 per cent; Atlanta, 58

Ibout a third below last wintera dismal catch. . .Consumer prices have been rising in Japan, the Fuji Bank reports. . . .This year is'the 79th ahnlveriaor of the BB gun. Bang, bangl

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