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FHday. March 2. 1962

Ruling Has A .Far-Reaching Impact

Booby Trapped

Thil weeks ruling of the North Carolina Supreme Court has the effect of reaching far beyond the question of whether a new lieutenant governor should be elected this year to fill the unexpired term of the late Lt. Gov. Cloyd Philpott.

Thecourt answers No to that immediate question, but more than that it clarified constitutional provisions relating to the succession to the governorship.

For the people of North Carolina, this latter point is more important in the long-range picture than the immediate issue which brought the matter to the high courts attention.

* The exact line of succession to the governorship of the statebelow the office of lieutenant governor-has been a subject of debate for many years. Now that the court has clarified the matter in ruling on the question of whether a lieutenant governor should be elected this year, the constitutional provisions of the state has been officially interpreted.

Under the courts ruling, the presiding officer elected by the Senate to fill the unexpired term of the lieutenant governor becomes first in line of

succession to thp governorship. Should there not be a lieutenant governoras is the case now in North Carolinaand the governors office should become vacant, it would be the duty ^f the Secretary of State to call the Senate into special session to elect a presiding officer who would succeed to the governorship.

Now that North Carolinians know where they stand on the matter of succession to the governorship, careful study should be given the matter. If the plan called lor . by the constitutionas interpreted in this opimon of the State Supreme Court does not appear to be satisfactory or practical, then steps should be taken to ammend the constitution to provide for succession to the governorship.

In the meantime, the official procedure under existing constitutional provisions has been clarified by the Supreme Court. In making this clarification, the states highest court has rendered a distinct and important service to the people of the state. The clear-cut ruling on the line of succession does away with the questions and the debating which heretofore have surrounded the question of the' line of succession to the office of chief executive in North Carolina.

j- our Leaders a DeCaulU victory If SteDOina Down settlement Arranged

By LYNN MSBET LOSS Sra. Joe Eagles of Waon has announced that he will not seek reelection to the 1963 senate. A few weeks ago Sen. Lindsay Warren of Beaufort made a similar umounce-ment. So did Sen. Archie K. Davis of Forsyth. And Sen. Spencer Bell Mecklenburg vacated hla seat when he accepted amxdntment on the U. S. Fourth District Court of Appeals. That means at least four stalwarts of the 1961 and prior sessions of the Ottieral Assembly will not be back In the S^iate next year, becauae of their own volition. Otbow will be absent because of rotatloD agreements in their districts which prevent them running this time.

It would be dlfflcult to evaluate the service (rf these four oiate leaders who are stepping down. In view of the problems anticipated In the next Leglalature It Is quite likely that Senators Davis and Eagles win be more sorely missed. Senators Warren and Bell had (tevoted much of their energy during the past two terms to Cbnsltutkmal matters judicial reform, legislative icappor-tlooment. Davis and Eagles were more directly concerned with ttie economic and fiscal problems of the State. Although rated generally as conservative, analysis of their legislature votes for several years indicates willingness to spend money, big money. If there is assurance that the taxpayers are gating value for tbelr spending. Senator Eagles haa served on the advisory budget commlssicm for several years which prepared, supported and obtained passage for ap-propriatloo bills larger than ever before contemplated In this state. When the rate of spending appeared to item greater than the returns to service both Davis and Eagles stood firm against the bills. There Is widespread belief that their kind will be needed noct year.

Climes.

OVERDONE Whether the right word should be overdone as applied to the extensive publicity given the scheme, or if it should underdone as applied to the incompleteness of tte plan, many people fear that emphasis placed on the so-called Cheap vacatlMi in North Carolina may detract from the general accomplishment of the purpose sought by the current travel mission to Europe.

The plan as devised by Ted Danziger, Chapel Hill restaurateur, provides for one-time flrst-vlsit accomniodations at a selected list of motels and res taurants for half price to visitors holding European passports. It Is an Imaginative venture In new methods of pro-mcrttng business, but It Is still in embryaiic stage. News stories from Europe Indicate that

There is every indication that a settlement has been arranged between the government of France and Algerian representatives to bring to an end the seven years of war for the independence of that country.

The agreement, when it is consumated, will represent a personal victory for Premier Charles DeGaulle. And although the agreement will mean independence for the major overseas territory of France, it should strengthen considerably the position of France in international affairs. It will end ^ r-nxTfw

seven years of war which has been a tremendous i/vJJN

burden to France from the standpoint of money, material and manpower, not to mention the political unrest which has resulted.

Certainly the French Premier has been the object of much abuse because of the position he has

steadfastly maintained with regard to the Algerian a good

question. It has brought to him the hatred of many month. There was a generous of his countrymen. At the same time it has also mixture of winter, near-winter brought to deGaulle a greater respect from many spring-iike climate;

people throughout the world.

The fighting and bloodshed in Algeria wll not end quickly once the agreement has been finalized

February's Better Side

In Its latter days February

confusing to some growth around the house.

It is not for these qualities alone I mourn Februarys passing. For now, inexorably, the procession of days brings nearer three long seasons of puffing behind a lawn-mower.

For instance, we have a vine-

the proposition Is being present- , - --- k

ed there as an opportunity for but it will represent the real beginning of a program hl

>pean traveler to trav to reatore to Aloeei. . kind of peace it has nrt *?"" *

any European el North Carolina at a overall cost of $10 per day. It Is feared that a great many \1sltorf who come expecting that will be sorely disappointed.

to restore to Algeria a known in many years.

SHOPLIFTING The N. C. Merchants Associatlon Is mailing out a special edition of Its house organ '.The Retailer devoted to shoplifting. Emphasis is CH3 the idea that shoplifting can be controlled. Excerpts from the North Carolina statutes and from a recent Supreme Court decision affirming validity of the law are included, along with instructions of manager and sales people on how to proceed when a visitor In the store is suspected of shoplifting. Sh(^llfting losses run Into the hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The Merchants Assocla-tlOQ suggests that In breaking up the practice at Its Inception not only will this dollar loss be saved but there Is a good chance to save the lifter from more serious consequences of

HALF-WAY - The United Forces for Education has come up with a program for Increased support of public schools *,hai will require about $45 milUon a year more than is now oe Ing sprat on that Item. When asked where the money for this program would come from the education people answered, in effect, that source of the money was not their problem. That would be up to somebody else. There was expressed hope that expanding economy would provide a good part of the needed extra dollar from existing tax sources.

Practical folks are pointing out that statement of need or how money might be wisely used goes only half way through the subject. Provision of the money is equally important.

It can be said for Governors . Hodges and Sanford that In their proposals for Increased spending and for enlarged educational pr<ram8 they suggested sources of money to finance the projects.

Eve some veteran school folks are a bit disturbed at the attitude of some of the newcomers to the ranks of the nonofficial organizations, who proposed such spending without commensurate provision for funds. And what disturbs them more than the fact itself is that most of the folks who are sponsoring these causes are not officially attached to or connected with the State Board of Education, the Department of Public Instruction or other govem-mentally responsible agency.

Fressure

rrom Sec. Goldberg

tive budding of leaves before the month came to a close.

There was also a day or so of March mixed in Februarys calendar. The kite-flying breezes associated with March made an appearance ahead of schedule.

On surveying the dull dead brown of matted grasses that still prevail outside my window, it Is assuming attractive qualities rarely appreciated before.

Alas, some green is showing.

'Fillers, in newsp .per parlance, are those little two, three and four-line items sometimes needed to fill a little

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg has had to blow away some of the semantic feg that settled around a talk he made about the government's role In collective bargaining.

He was responsible for some of the fog. The rest came from people who didnt like what they heard, or thought they heard.

In a speech last Friday In Chicago he said;

In the past when government officials were called upon to assist in collective bargaining their only aim was to achieve a settlement.

Today, in the light of our nations commitments both at home and abroad, government and private mediators must increasingly provide gidellnes to the parties to insure that the settlements reached are right settlements that are not only in the interest of the parties themselves but which also take into account the pubUc Interest.

Just what are guldeUnes? Goldberg didn't quite make this clear at the time. But AFL-CIO President George Meany and some people in the steel Industry didnt wait to find out.

Both of them thought Goldberg had In mind more government Interference. Goldberg was so disturbed by this reaction that he called in reporters Wednesday to explain.

What It amounted to was this; The government docs Intend to stick its fingers a little deeper into labor - management wage disputes when the outcome either In higher prices and wages or a strike will affect the national welfare at home or abroad.

It has been common practice for a government mediator, when called In to help straighten out a snarled up unlon-man-agement negotiation, to suggest to one side settlement terms he thinks are reasonable enough for the othra side to accept.

But Goldberg, who said flatly he is against any government wage or price controls or compulsory arbitration, explained what he had In mind;

Neither he nor the govern

ment Intends to try to Impose settlement terms In collective bargaining but to suggest In a general way and sometimes very speciflcally what will be good for the national Interest.

This amounts to moral pressure. And theres nothing new In that. But Goldberg also has an idea that will bring public pressure to bear on a union and management in an important industry after a settlement, when it could have no practical effect on the outcome.

He said he intends to have the government lay down statls-. tics and statistics would mean wages, prices, costs, hours worked in comparison with other Industries before a dispute gets out of hand.

The Kennedy administration already has put more pressure on the steel industry and the steelworkers union, now busy in bargaining on a new contract, by calling for a fair settlement.

The last time there was a steel strike 116 days in 1959 the whole country felt the effects.

Other Editors Saying... Perfect Campaign Issue

space at the bottom of a news-page column.

One of these raised some doubts In the composing room this week ... it had to do with a bicyclist who averaged over 100 mph in a Si.jed test.

It is a fact.

'The bicyclist had a windshield mounted on a racing car, an oversize sprocket and his bicycle had a slightly larger rear wheel than front wheel.

One other thing in his favor; he was a former ofessional bicycle racer.

It is still an eyebrow-raising accomplishment.

Opinions In Brief

A weather news reporter recently said that weather information for this particular area of the United States is furnished by Kansas city. Mo. If we cant get better weather from that office we feel that its time to give our weather business to some other dealer.Lexington Herald.

"This Department of Urban Affairs needs a second look. Move the subsidies to the cities, and how you gonna keep em down on the farm? Miami (Fla.) Herald.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The North Carolina General Assembly, by its action in creating the new Eighth District, has given Republicans in North Carolina the perfect issue for the next campaign. Tar Heel GOP members are making no secret of the fact that they plan to exploit this wedge to the fullest extent. The key word is gerrymander and they plan to make it a dirty word at every crossroads in the state.

There is some logic in their hopes of hanging the Eighth District deal around the necks of the Tar Heel Democratic party. Whether Gov. Sanford and the Legislature did it with deliberate malice aforethought, the fact remains that to many people in the populous Piedmont the trick looked like a deliberate attempt to squeeze out Charles Raper Jonas, the only Republican congressman in the state.

Jonas last Saturday announced his intentions of seeking re-election. Jonas is a veteran campaigner, and regardless of who runs against him we can expect a rousing battle. If Jonas is wise he will exploit the gerrymander issue to the fullest. Another item he Is certain to toss about is the food tax imposed on Tar Heels for Sanfords school program.

Democratic representatives from Mecklenburg County and other counties in the old Tenth District and the Eighth District have been warned against doing anything that could be made to appear a move to take unfair advantage of Jonas. Democrats know by now they have a bull by the

tail. The logic behind the gerrymandering was that If they were successful they would be rid of the only GOP congressman. Of course, if they failed he would still be around, but then there was al-w'ays the chance that he would be around, for Jonas is a regular winner, having been elected five times from the old Tenth before the Assembly merged part of the old Eighth to form the new Eighth District.

Republicans in the new Eighth are tickled to death to have Jonas as their man. Nevertheless they will no doubt use the gerrymander deal to club the Democrats.

One Republican lady said she was thankful to those darling Democrats for putting Jonas in the new Eighth. Or as another Republican put It, Terry Sanford has done more for the Republican party of North Carolina than anyone since Reconstruction Days.

Republican strategy of course will hit the gerrymander issue, but leaders will play down the party labels. Main idea will be to attract disgruntled Democrats. This means the old Jonas strategy will be carried over to the new Eighth, He will urge a two-party system and help form Democrats for Jonas committees in every county. His campaign will be formidable.

And whether State Rep. John P. Kennedy or Congressman Paul Kltchln of Wades-boro wins the May Democratic primary to oppose Jonas, he will have a full-scale conflict on his hands. It should be interesting to watch.

The danger of woods fires can hardly be described as critical in our area right now.

The ground Is saturated with moisture. Still, Smokey the Bear is laying groundwork for fire-prevention consciousness in the months ahead.

A sheet of suggested reminders came in the mail this week all preaching the theme that Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires.

Shrug It off, If you wish; but one point really gave me a chill of concern; Forest fires annually bum enough timber to form a belt 1% miles wide stretching from Anchorage, Alaska, to Richmond, Virginia.

Not even our country can afford to continue taking that kind of loss.

This Is a more-than-thrlce-told story, which testifies as to its quality. I saw it in one newspaper which explained the tale was borrowed from another paper, which in turn said it was taken from still another sour-3 which credited it to columnist Earl Wilson . . . who presumably got it from somewhere else.

It illustrates a degree of addiction to golf;

There was once a golfer whoT returned home unduly late, to be met by a gllnty-eyed wife who wanted to know what kept him so long.

Well, said the golfer-hus-band, today was my day to play with Irving. He had a heart attack out on the course . . . and died. Prom then on,

it was hit the ball and drag

Irving; hit the ball and drag

Irving; hit the bll and . ,

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By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKY (jopyrlgbt. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Back In the days of our youth. When we ^re re making the world. Hu Shlh and I were students at Columbia University where he had already established a reputation as a philosopher. He had com to this country, intending to become an agriculturalist; instead he went in for the higher knowledge.

Already the concept had come to him to do the Chinese what Wycliffe had done for English and what Luther had done for German to use the vernacular as a literary vehicle, thus making mass education possible.

It must be explained, at this point, that the Chinese spoken language Is highly dialectic, but that the literary language, Wen-11, is rigid and fixed. It held the place in Clilnese learning similar to Latin in the Middle Ages in Europe and only scholars could read it. Thus, the enormous literature of China, as vast as that of any people, was available only to those who devoted themselves to it. What the people knew, they got by word of mouth, often only by listening to the tales of tea-house story tellers. Even before Hu Shlh, however, some stories appeared in the vernacular and newspapers, seeking to widen their influence, increased the numbers of characters (word-pictures) which they used?

Hu Shih started his generation by writing poetry in the vernacular, by editing an edition of Chinas novels in the vernacular and by writing the first volume of his history of Chinese philosophy in the simple language of the people.

Up to the time of the Chinese Revolution (1912), civil public officials were all scholars from the standpoint that they could pass an examination in Chinese poetry. To become the equivalent of a Ph. D. that is, a Hanlin scholar it was necessary to write a thesis, an Eight-legged essay, stilted in style, limited in subject.

The Hanlin scholars were gentlemen, gourmets, calligraphers, much like the Hebrew scholars in a European Shtetel (ghetto-town) who could repeat the whole literature of their people from Genesis to Maim-onldes (12th Century) by heart. But the Chinese who could similarly quote centuries of philosophers could not build a bridge across the Yangtze or manage a factory or open a mine.

Hu Shih and his companions of the literary revolution fought to open all the wells of learning for the Chinese people. After the Boxer Rebellion (1900) the United States set aside the Boxer indemnity for Chinese students to come to the United States to study in American unlversk ties. Even before that b^o t h Catholic and Protestant missionaries had set up universities and other schools in China which had an enormous Influence on the younger generation. The leaders of the literary revolution gathered together at the Peking National University, a Chinese Institution of learning, not affected by missionary -or other alien Influences. In that group back when I first encountered It was Mao Tze-tung who Is now at the head of Red China. From his university spread a great Intellectual force which moved the youth of China as early as 1919 when the first Students Strike exhibited the power of th|e new learning. f

Hu Shih was a philosopher not a politician, although the course of events dragged him Into diplomacy in support of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government. He served his country as Ambassador to the United States and then spent some period lecturing here, finally returning to Taiwan where he headed the Academy, the highest insitution of learning in the land.

Many of his friends regretted that Hu Shih did not complete his history of Chinese philosophy and then turn it Into English. Perhaps no one else can do it with his enthusiasm, his breadth of knowledge both of Eastern and Western sciences.

Marxism had no appeal to hlrri. The Russians tried to influence him but failed. One of (Continued on Page 7)

"Fellow said with him it used to be wine, women and song. And now Its Metoecal, the same old gal, and sing Along With Mitch.Amarillo Globe-Times.

Filferaae Can Be The Last Straw

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

BEEHIVES AND BUMPERS

Some time ago a beehive was brought into a television studio to be used In a program involving agricultural surroundings. Somebody tipped over the beehive. One can imagine the disorder and crasternatlon as those liberated bees began buzzing about the studio stinging everybody.

There are some people who have a genius if it can be caile!$l that for bumptag against beehives and overturning them. They overturn them in tlw home, in the office, in the lodge. Wherever they are trouble is sure to arise. Everybody gets stung.. Everybody is angry. Confusion takes the place of concord. Some people are this way because they are overworked and tense. Others be

have in this fashion because have a mean streak through them. Still others dont know why it happens but put them in the vicinity of a beehive and they will have it broken open on the floor within a few minutes.

Individuals possessing free wills, and living in a country where the exercise of free will is permitted and encouraged, can stir up plenty of friction every day without overturning any beehives. Christian righteousness is unique In Its nature because Jesus tried to forestall evil by stopping all evil doing at its source. Don't be angry and you wont kill. Dont be furtive and unclean in thought and you will not commit adultery. Agree with thine adversary. Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek. Go the second mile.

By ELMER ROESSNEK

Pilferage was given as a major reason for the giant Davega Stores Corp. pvetition for operation under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act.

Davega operates 25 stores selling appliance and sporting goods, and five discount concessions in the East, until the time it filed its petition in New York, It was regarded as one of the most successful chains In the area.

Its assets, as of October 28, exceeded its liabilities, $5,383,-008 to $4,872,620. However, It had been operating at $130,000 to $200,000 loss a month. COSTLY LEAKS

The petition was filed by a new management which took over on January 2. It said this resulted from poor security and lack of Inventory controls.

However, other factors were involved, such as;

Expensive warehouse and trucking charges because of poorly located warehouses and poor trucking contracts:

Lack of- concentration on

profitable business in advertising and display of merchandise;

Improper sales personnel;

Lack of merchandising coordination;

Excessive general office expenses and high rentals, and loose accounting methods.

$10 MILLION LOSS

The pilferage factor in Da-vega's troubles underscores' many warnings of the rise of what is euphemistically termed inventory shrinkage.

Only a few days before Davega went to court, Addison Verill, president of Sales Systems. Inc., told a New York business seminar that more than $10 million In cash and merchandise war stolen from .one New York department store by a gang of employees before it was discovered.

He said pilferage averages 1>2 to 4 per cent of sales in discount operation today, and that it is often greater than net profit. Employee dishonesty has increased 32 per cent in the last'ten years, ha said.

Common practices, he said, Include ticket switching; not recording cash .from sales; taking big-ticket items off delivery trucks without recording them in inventory; hiding articles in trash bins and recovering them later; giving merchandise to confederates with smaller price tags so they can get full refunds later, and manipulating charge accounts.

While almost every business carries fire Insurance, less than 5 per cent have Insurance against pilferage, although the pilferage loss far exceeds fire losses.

from a tobacco company ana another sponsor.still to be sold. The New York Mets will be second with $1,200,000 from a brewery, a tobacco company and a third sponsor, ana the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees will tie for third at $1 million each. An oil company and a tobacco company will sponsor the Dodgers and a brewery and a tobacco company the Yankees.

Some 26 advertisers will pay local stations and teams $61.3 million for time, talent and facilities, and $9.5 million more to networks for weekend shows.

RADIO-TV TO NET

$20 MILLION FOR BASEBALL

Baseball, regarded as a sport and not a business In antitrust laws, will net more than $20 million this year for television and radio rights, Television Age will say in its March 5 i.ssue.

This will be a rise of $3 million over last year.

The Houston Colts will get the top revenue, $1,300,000,

WITH THE LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES HAS A STORE

A Long Island department store advertises a "sturdy steel students desk for $6.88. There are so few steel students these days It might better advertise a sturdy students steel desk. On the other hand, there Is also a shortage of sturdy students, so the best offer might be of a students sturdy steel desk.**