fhawday, March 15, 1962

All Eyes On Massachusetts Fight

It is an illustrious array of personalities in the is the political lorce of House Speaker John Me battle for the Democratic nomination for Senator Cormack which is backing Mass. Attorney General from Massachusetts, not so much from the stand- Edward J. McCormack, Jr., a nephew of the point of the two candidates as from the political speaker. ,

big-wig behind, the candidates. Certainly more than any other primary in the

On one side there is the Kennedy clan with the nation this spring, the Massachusetts contest will . youngest member of the family, Edward, seeking bave^_ repercussions in Washington and will be the seat which his older brother John vacated last watched closely by citizens throughout the country.

The Kennedy forces and the McCormack forces within the Democratic-^-party in Massachusetts have long been arch^ enemies for control of the state machinery. The heads of the two groups. President Kennedy and Speaker McCormack, long have had their political, if not personal differences, in their home-state politics and in the nations capitol.

Willingly or not, they now come face-to-face again in party politics in their home state, not as candidates themselves, but rather as backrs of their respective kinsmen who are vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Because of the prominent position each now holds in the federal government, each has more to lose than to gain in the outcome contest.

Regardless of the role either plays in thel>amocratic contest for the Senate in Massachusetts, ea^fe^ be looked upon as the power behind the candi and will be creditedrightly or wrongly^witli victory or defeat.

Massachusetts is in for a heated and probably a bitter contest which will be heard far beyond the borders of that New England" State. It is a contest both Democrats and Republicans will follow with interest and one from which many divergent opinions and conclusions will be drawn.

Nobody Can Deny-

year when he became President. On the other side

State Rich In Historic Past

(Note to Readers: Lynn Nis-bet is visiting in Tampico, Mexico. During his absence guest writers will supply material for this column.)

By BOB PAGE. UI Guest Writer

THUNDER Too often In the past, neighboring states have stolen the thunder on com-monorations and celebrations of this type. It is time we began paying appropriate tribute to our past. North Carolina is richer and more Interesting in its heritage and history. So declared Governor Sanford as he cnter-taind special guests of the Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission at a luncheon at the mansion recently.

House Speaker Joe Hunt echoed sisterly sentiments to the Raleigh Clvitan Club two weeks ago when he said that the people of this state are in danger Of developing a psychology that they dont have much of a past to be proud of.

Next year, 1963 is North Carolina's Tercentenary year. So whats Tercentenary ?

In the case of the old North State, ttf the 300th anniversary of the granting of the Carolina Charter by King Charles II to eight gentlemen historically known as the Lords Proprietors. In granting an area that extended from sea to sea and from Virginia to Florida. Charles was settling some debts to the men that played a major role in restoring him to the British throne in 1660. The Charter today is an Indispensable link in the chain of records beginning with the Magna Carta that establishes and preserves our political liberties down to the present. It is worth noting that (mly six other states possess their original charters.

The Charter Commission, established by the legislature in 1959, is w'orking vigorously In planning the celebration. Statewide the Tercentenary theme is being incorporated into 1963 organizational activities, planning b3^ industries, pageants, fairs, travel prtnotl<m, public service activities, and. amsequently and most significantly, in the minds of North Carolinians.

A proper observance and celebration in 1963 of the granting of the Carolina Charter could be the booster for spreading Tar Heel type, or Dixie Dynamo thunder. A short look at the ataek of preprinted calendars reveals the upcoming bicentennial ol the American Revolu-

tioj in the mid I970s and shortly thereafter, the 400th anniversary (quadri-contennial?) of Roan(^e laland in 1967.

ORIGINALThrough a series of civic undertakings and extensive research. North Ca t> Una can now proudly admire Its original Charter. The document. attractively decorated with a miniature of Charles

n. is housed in a fireproof vault in the state Hall of History. In 1948 the Department of

Archives and History purchased It from a British dealer with doniUlons from private individuis. The interesting sidelight to the purchase involves the actual. cost. The dealer originally asked for $10,000. He stipulated that if the Charter were bought by and for the state, he would reduce the price by ^,000. Shortly afterwards. tl devaluation of the British pound sterling in relation to the dollar made possible the purchase by the Department of Archives and History for slightly more than

$6.000. Over 40,000 visiting school children view this handsome document each year.

PROJECTS Directly under the supervision of the Chartpr Commission is the procuring, outfitting, and launching of a mobile museum this summer to travel to every community in Tar Heclia. The tractor-trailer outfit would afford many the opportunity to see various displays of the states colonial era. Also included in special projects of the Commission are several special musical compositions, one of which will be premiered by the North Carolina SjTTiphony in the Tercentenary year. A commemorative postage stamp request is being considered by the Citizens Stamp Advteory Committee. Presently before Congress is a resolution that would establish a federal North Carolina Tercentenary Celebration Commission, consequently adding national and international flavor to the commemoration. A series of Art Exhibitions will be staged, notably the one set for March and April. 1963, in the North Carolina Museum of Art.

A S3.000 literary contest has already been announced by the Commission. It is open to all professional writers who have a three-year residence, either physical or legal, \n North Carolina. Rules can be obtained from the Charter Commission at Box 1881. Raleigh.

A number of scholarly works will be prepared for extensive detailed study on the period involved. 1663-1763. In addition to financing this project, the Commission will also sponsor the publication and distribution of nine pamphlets to state secondary schools for supplementary use during 1963. Noted historians are currently at work on commissioned topics.

A travel workshop is being planned for late spring or early summer of the current year. This project contemplates bringing together those interested in tourism, in order that knowledgable persons in the many facets of the industry may learn how to exploit the Tercentenary potential.

At the opportune moment, the celebration can be added as frosting on the cake offered to European travelers by the European Mission which departed on February 24. With the forming of the federal Tercentenary Celebration Commission, several dignitaries of friendly foreign countries involved in the developing of our state will be invited to take 0art in the Tercentenary.

QUOTABLES Prominent quotations parallel those statements of Governor Sanfords and Mr. Hunts that might be kept in mind are: Santayana: Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it!: Honorable Francis E. Winslow of Rocky Mount, chairman of the Charter Commission: There

were eight of the Lords Proprietors. The history of North Carolina is bound up in the lives of them all. Fascinating and picturesque!

Carl Sandburg: If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers. . .then will begin rot and dlssolutioft.

R. D. W, Connor: . .a peo

ple who have not the pride to record their history will not long have the virtue to make history that is worth reading,

Discrimination, Literacy, Is At

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A Foretaste Of Spring

Attempts of the Administration to eliminate literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting is at best Py PATRICIA MOORE

an unrealistic and unweildly method of getting.at the real end it is trying to reach with such legislation.

Both proponents and opponents of the literacy tests for citizens registering to vote recognize that

the question of discrimination rather than the ques- men of the city of Gre^- ^e. at the house along the

^ XU 1 J XU XX vllle were working hard, per walks,

tion of literacy is the real core of the matter. Even usual, trimming trees on Fifth The boys from said house

the foremost proponents of the move to eliminate street. They had reached the ^ at least about eight of them

literacy tests in voter registration recognize the vicinity of the Pika house, and. found the warm sun an induce-

benefits which might be gained from a literate to tact, were actuaUy trimming ment to be In the great out-

rather than an illiterate electorate. There are few ni*

of them who will argue that a citizen who cannot ^)tnOT r r' itoTQ

read should be eligible to cast a ballot. i-jU.LL^i O iiiy . ..

What the administration proposes to do, ac-

curding to Sen Herbert Humphrey, is to strike clown ]\OOtS

the state laws requiring literacy tests for voting

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extremism

doors and were sitting around the yard so that they could ob-^ serve the activity of the workmen.

And so oj-^e workmen worked, the school boys watched.

One of the boys contentedly strummed a ukelele while watching.

and establish a uniform requirement specifying that a sixth-grade education is the only literacy test necessary.

So far as the matter of discrimination is con-

(Wall Street Journal)

when men look about them at the world. We won a great war baraly fifteen years ago, and where is the victory? In spite of ail the billions we have poured out, in spite of our efforts all over the world, we are embattled on every front. And on almost every front the years seem to have brought only a slow retreat, while the nuclear lines form for Armageddon.

Some of this has. perhaps been inevitable. No man could have halted the day of the atomic bomb, ctred the appeal of communism to some mens minds, or at home stayed entirely the growth of Government and its burdens.

But much of it need not have been, and every man knows it. We did not have to forfeit the victory of World War

It is certainly reasonable for states to require ^ ?h

XU X *x- u Tx X J XL T M 1 , the answer to every domestic ed. tricked and outmaneuvered,

that citizens be literate in order to be eligible to problem. repeatedly for fifteen years, by

vote. The methods used by most states now to de- it is, indeed, bewildering, a ruthless foe. We did not have

termine literacy of those applying to register i^ Yet surely any man who has to build of ()ur (joverament the

far more logical than the sixth grade education rule S?y oTJt SS itoUdens

Many people these days profess bewilderment at the extreme Ideas voiced by some

cernedand that is the primary matter in the eyes ,deas'have SX'silbiert'of of proponents of the administration measurewill endless articles, hour-long tele-such a provision be any better than the present vision shows and countless constate requirements? versations.

,, j x-it- X XU Although the thunder, on

Will we all carry around a certificate from the the right is most noticed, ac-

public school w'8 attended indicating that we have tualiy the extremists come in

completed work to the sixth grade level?

T j j -X u -j ui J-.- IX peace by having the U. S. stop

Indeed, it may be considerably more difficult making atom bombs; others by

for some people to provide positive proof they com- blowing up the Communists to-

pleted at least six grades of school than it would be k ^ nuf

^ , j j ., u f X Ml worlds Ills on the U. N., oth-

for them to read and wTite speeches Senators will gyre them by sub

make on the issue. There is also the fact that many merging us in world govern-people who didnt complete the sixth grade are

more literate than many others who did. mSt'ofth GTvemment'oth-

It was another sunny day (they are a rarity nowadays) yesterday though the temperature was 43.degrees at about eight in the morning when the following incident took place. (Forty-three degrees Is a bit coolish. even for those considered hot blooded.)

Bobbing down the street came a E. C. C. coed with a fresh cotton plaid dress with short sleeves. Sleeves, no. Coat, no.

Spring? not yet.. .and we with a coat on yet.

suggested by Sen. Humphrey.

Accord Depends On Two Words

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Whether this country makes concessions to Russia at Geneva to get a nuclear,test ban treaty revolves around two words: effective and experience.

At previous Geneva talks last April 18 the United States and Britain laid down the basic Western demands. Russia rejected them, offered her own. The West rejected them.

Both "sides have stood pat since.. Meanwhile, Russia has had a long series of tests. This country, through Its scientific instruments far away from those tests, learned a lot about them.

Today a new disarmament conference opened at Geneva. In recent days the Kennedy administration has denied reports it might now demand less than it did In April to get an agreement.

But among the many statements by President Kennedy on the need for a treaty, including a warning this country will resume tests next month unless Russia reaches agreement, two stand out.

1. He said any treaty must be effective.

2. He said new modifications in what has been the basic American position will be offered in the light of new experience.

An effective treaty, from the traditional American view.

The inspection arrangement laid down last April called for an International team which would:

1. Operate from 180 fixed control posts on land and sea, equipped with instruments to detect Illegal testing.

2. Also be free to go into the United States. Britain or Russia to check for suspected violations.

The Russians, while they have always objected to foreign inspectors moving across their country as potential spies, did not say no to any kind of inspection system. They just wanted a kind the West w'ouldnt buy.

This is why if the new experience has shown that a looser inspection might still be an effective one it is possible this country might feel it could make concessions at Geneva.

If this happens the Kennedy administration, however, will have to do some explaining since it has given no solid indication it had anything like this In mind.

But, if detecting Soviet tests Is easier than before, it docs not follow that it is easier to detect Soviet preparations for tests it might suddenly spring, provided it wanted to break a treaty.

WllUam C. Foster, chief U.S. negotiator on disarmament, just a few days ago emphasized that the United States is particularly

to see, perhaps even in his own heart, some of the roots of this flowering.

Consider, for instance, the course of our domestic affairs. A generation has seen the Government grow from a small and manageable institution into an unmanageable colos.sus that strides across our agriculture, our industry, our labor and our most personal lives. With this colossus come taxes piled to a height undreamed of by our fathers. With it has come a tenfold Increase in our debt and an unceasing erosion of our money. And still the appetite Is unsatisfied.

As Government has taken more and more from the people. they find it increasingly difficqlt to meet their own responsibilities, to provide education for their children, care for their old age and the daUy needs for their families.

One mans reaction to this may be an extreme assault on Government as a w^hole. Anothers to turn more extremely to Government to manage what seems now beyond his capacity. But In both these extremists there sneaks the same voice of desperation.

The same voice cries out

number. These are the deeds of men.

Here, then. In the avoidable and the unavoidable alike. Is the desperation that makes men cast about for a way out, some thoughtfully and some wildly. The wild men increase by the very poverty of thoughtful leadership. Neither in one political party nor the other is there offered anything but more of the same, more of the same mistakes compounded. What different domestic policy is there proposed, what different posture before the world?

And here are the roots of all extremism, right or left. For It Is in the nature of some men. when the physician abdicates; to turn to those who loudly promise hope in some simple diagnosis and simple cure. Its all a plot of evil men In Washington. Abolish the Government. Let the Government provide you food and shelter. Ban the bomb. And all will be well.

There Is, to be sure, a touch of madness in those whom the rest of ua call extremists. But are we so sure that each of us is free of their desperation, or that its roots are not nnourisb-ed in some reality?

Apparently this inclinatl( of the weather tow'ards spring has Induced more than people to come out. Daffodils are so pretty popping up in peoples offices and such. And in our yard.

All of a sudden It set us to thinking. Every spring we are faced with a momentous decision; to cultivate or not to cultivate the flower box.

And every spring we remember the first spring we tried to cultivate that flower box. That year it was petunias (we hardly use the word unless absolutely necessary). We bought seeds and planted.

Up came green shoots, our lovely to-be petunias.

They continued to grow, just like grass. One day we came home and all the greenery had been pulled from the flower box. Nothing remained except dirt. Somehow, the petunias we planted grew up to be grass, and helpful persons who care about us took pity and pulled up the grass.

Then the landlady loaned us some petunias. But it was never the same.

Last year we tried something called a purple violet queeir, but we never saw anything purple grow out of that box.

This year we need a lot of encouragement before going through that defeating experience again. Weve considered growing something stable like carrots In the porch boxes.

Well think of something before the birds take out* all the dirt.

3ehinc. An Ole:

1 ruism

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Earle Goodrich Lee of St. Paul writes to object:

. . .you refer to the" Declaiv ation of Independence as giving to this nation a philosophy o| i life based on natural law,* which you interpret as meaning that all human beings are created by God equal in his sight. That is not natural law. It is merely religious assumption.

If the God to which you refer can see no difference between an intelligent white man and an Ignorant African savage, it would seem to me that He has very poor eyesight. First of all, the phrase, "Natural Law is a technical term in philosophy and has been so used for many centuries. It wasprobably first employed by Cicero, although the concept antedates him, to distinguish between the natural endowments divinely set in mans nature and the law manufactured by man by edict or legislation. I did not invent the term.

As for the Declaration of Independence, it is a very different document from most revolutionary proclamations. While it does state all the evils imposed on the colonies by George HI. it also lays down a philosophic reason for revolting which is justified irrespective of Georges misconduct. These words are:

When in the Course of human events. It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to ^ume among the Powers oMIne earth, the separate equal station to which the s of Nature and of Natures God entitle them, a decent respect to the* opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are en-dow'ed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. . .* Intelligence and Ignorance are universal, just as gentility and boorishness are universal. The cradles of civilization have always been among mixed races of man; Egypt, for Instance, with Its admixture of Semltlo and Hamitlc peoples: the Crescent of Fertility on the Arabian Desert into which poured human beings from three continents, producing the Judalc-Chrlstian as well as the Islamic civilizations: Greece, into which came peoples from Africa and Asia: China, into

which flowed the mixed races of Northern and Southeastern Asia: and Rome, from which much of our own civilization grew and into which many wars, and conquests brought the peoples of Africa as well as Asia.

Anne Fremantle In the

Great Ages of Western Phi

losophy states the problem wa are discussing this way:

Man, we know,^ Invented the wheel, the pulley, the arch, the internal combustion engine, the airplane. He discovered electricity and split the atom. Yet who or what was this

man? Very, very few men

have Invented or discovered anything; most men, through all the ages, and still today, are dwarfs who couldnt even figure how to set an egg up straight or how to light a firs by rubbing sticks together, unless borne aloft on the shoulders of the giants.

How then can there be sufch a concept of equality. The child bom with a cerebral palsy is not equal to a child who was bom undamaged: the * child

bora in a geographically wrong place, let us say the Ctongo, is not equal to a child bora in a favored place: the son of a Rockefeller is not equal to the son of a day-laborer and vice-versa. The inequalities of man are too numerous not to be obvious.

But the Declaration of Independence does not say that they are equal; it says that they

were created equaland that

is something very different.

When Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues wrote the word, created, they separated man

from all else in nature, recognizing the moral character of man.

Albert Einstein said all thli (Oontinued on Page 6)

Trading Stamp Industry Shaken

must contain an Inspection ys- interested In the detection sys

tem capable of detecting cheating. Russia hu rehised to accept the kind of system thia country thought necessary.

The new experience Kennedy mentioned jpan be Interpret ed as meanlni this countrys realization of how much it can learn, from far off. about Russian nuclear capability a.s revealed in last falls test*.

When this new experience Is coupled with effective It could mean this country feels now it can settle for an inspection which would be effective" but less rigid than previously considered needed.

tern which would spot preparations for testing.

For months last year, while they went through the motions of negotiating with the West on a no-test treaty, the Russians were busily preparing to test.

This they did suddenly In September In the midst of the negotiations, thus shattering the no-test moratorium which the United States. Ru.s.sla and Britain had voluntarily undertaken three ycar^ before.

This is why Kennedv ha.s said never again on a moratorium; that there must be a treaty agreement not to test.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The trading stamp Industry is all shook up by the bankruptcy pf a small Detroit stamp company. Redemption of stamps was suspended, leaving 45,000 savers holding the book.

Some savers besieged the redemption center. Others demanded legislative investigations.

Savers of other varieties of stamps runs on other redemption centers. Sperry & Hutchinson rushed merchandise to the Michigan area to make sure its centers could meet all demands, thereby allaying the fears of its savers.

Other stamp companies have reassured both merchants and shoppers that their stamps are as good as gold (or green, as the case may be) and are working on plans to build up confidence in stamps. Efforts are being made to get one or more cdbipanies to take over the bankrupt companys store con* tracts and to redeem out.stand-ing .stamps, at lea.st In part.

The greatest fear of the stamp companies is that the Detroit

Incident will stir up various state legislatures into imposing restrictive legislation. A few years ago there was a wave of such proposals but the wave receded.

Principles used in parl-mutual machines are^ being used In a series of devices that do all the recordings and calculations on each department store sale; printing the sales slip, checking the buyers credit, auditing the sales slip, recording each sale and keeping a running total of ,the stores volume. The machln-*es are being made by American Totallsator Co., which ma-6hlnes at the race track where you lose your money.

lounges that serve hot food can also sell liquor.

An announcement that the top theatre restaurant on the fair grounds would put on Las Vegas type shows with nude or scantily clad girls is looked upon with a jaundiced eye by Variety, the show business paper.

It points out that city officials have Ur record of stern censorship and although the city censorship ordinance has been declared unconstitutional authorities now work under *a state censorship law.

SEATTLES EXPOSITION BIT ON PROPER SIDE

Some Seattle residents are concerned whether liquor laws there will dampen interest In -the Seattle Worlds Fair.

Liquor sales must stop at 2 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and at midnight on Saturdays. Sundays are dry.

-Taverns may sell only beer and wine, although cocktail

The Broadxvay Maintenance Co., which keeps New Yorks air raid sirens in working order, reports one problem is tl removal of bird nests, often with eggs or fledglings. In spring.

PENSION PLAN EXPLANATION COSTS . COMPANY $78,356 / Employers should use care In explaining pen.sion plans to their employees, warns Commerce Clearing House.

A St, Louis firm, in answering an employees query, gave

him Incomplete Information. In consequence, he delayed his pension withdrawal until ^ ho could qualify for a larger benefit, then died In an accident.

His heirs found the corre* pondence between employee and employer and sued, alleging that the man had not been given complete Information. The Federal Appellate Court in N e w York agreed and awarded $78,-356 in damages, plus Interest from October 1, 1956. The court found that the fact that the company depended on the advice of its. pension consultante did not lessen its liabUity.

The Swedish State Railways launched an advertising conv palgn to sell more sleeping car compartments. One advertisement shows a wife saying, How nice my husband took the train! Then Ingmar Bergman asked to rent a sleeping car for his new movie. The Mistress.* In which a husband and his mistress ride In a sleeping compartment. The Railways balked, then reconsidered. The advertising compaign will be over before the film is completed.