Wtdnedty, March 28, 1982

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Nothing Like It Since Gov. Aycock

Gov. Saniofti^s rcest itinerary of ipeeches in For the most part thii healthy situation in behalf of better education in North Carolina reads North Carolina is due to the personal interest and

more like the schedule of a hard-riding candidate personal effort of Gov. Sanford,

for rather than that of the chief executive of

A small news article in most North Carolina If Overdone, Negative

newspapers Monday noted that the governor was

cheduled to ipake 18.speeches at educational rallies J\t IOII10

He Demands Equal Time!

during a two-day swing, through the eastern section of the state. Startling as 18 speeches in two days may seem, this is only part of the full story.

Instead of making nine speeches Tuesday as his original schedule called for, Gov. Sanford managed to start earlier in the day and appear before two additional audiences in behalf of better education.

Even if this marathon of speech-making by the governor in behalf of education were a one-shot campaign, it would be of significance. It is of great-

World travelJby7 members of the Kennedy family, while serving an excellent purpose in building good will for the X-nited States, should not be carried to excess.

Alr^dy there ^as been criticism of tax money spent for the round-the-world tours" taken by Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his wife, and more recently the tour of Mrs. Kennedy, the wife of the President.

While we" question the validity of criticism

er significance, however, because it is only a small leveled at the President for the recent good-will part broader and continuing program, trips by these members of his family, if such journeys

s X f brought become a pattern, often repeated, negative reaction

forth the information that Gov. Sanford in the past at home could do much to mar the good impression 35 days has made no le.ss than 54 addresses on edu- which has been left abroad by these top echelon cation within the state. These, of course, were in visitors from the United States. addition to addresses on other subjects.

Since he came to office in Raleigh, Gov. Sanford has made literally hundred.s of addresses on education throughout the state. And the pace he has set shows no sign of letting up.

During his campaign for the state's highest office. Gov. Sanford asserted that even though the governor by himself could not provide North Carolina with better schools, the influence of that office could be a great factor in bringing better education to the state. There can be no doubt that Gov. San-

A Far-Reaching ^Day In Court

By JA.HES MARLOW WASHINGTON AP) No

the Supreme Court, where Mon-dty a majority ruled: Sure, the court can step Into a case like this. It said the lower court

ford has used the influence of his office in behalf Monday^ one of the ^ost of public education to a greater degree than anv angry and exploaive, and moat nmde a mist^e in think-

chief executive since Aycock. Neither can there be <r-*chlng, Uy, In the Su- ^ nStei oSSMuw'hlt ,1.;. ______ preme Court In yean. .'?? *

any doubt that this effort on the part of the gover- the Tennessee Legislature

nor has brought po.sitive response both from other ty of t^ nine jiusUcei Supreme Ck)urt

state officials and from the citizenry as a whole in lower federal court had misun-North Carolina. derstood the nature of previous

Supreme Court decisions.

The people of North Carolina are more keenly Nor was it the whole story aware of the needs of public education today than ^'hen the justices opened the

they have bee/in decade.^, TheX is rnore'wide- "toto'Sl w'Sttai/*'?

spread concern for upgrading public schoola than state legislatures than ever be-has ever before ..been the case. Arr^ there is also tore.

more determination among individual citizens to Nor was the explosion Umlt-provude youngsters with better educational opportunities.

at the ce kriJISi Bv HENRY HOWARD

court to be tried.

But the attack on ion. already starting gress. began first preme Court itself cut loose on the majority in

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The Stakes Are Now For Time

By LYNN NLSBET PERSONAL - I lost a bet but I'm still in the garre The glib stteme.nt made tire other day that after two week.s absence I was b*ck tn routine orbit. was made wdtbout proper reckoning of facts. The same afternoon that statement was written the doctor put me In the hospital for a couple, days and it was necessary to resort to further use of guest coium.ns. I m betting now that lU be on the job regulariy, although Ln probably restricted orbit. Cancer not only is malignant, it is damnably persistent. The game were playing is for time. We know who'll win in the end.

Whiie on the personal note here's an experience at the hospital. Private rooms are scapce, and for most times when patients are not really sick it nice to have a companion. Th^*' brought a man into my rcK / rather late Friday night. An u.-ter stranger, S3 years old, who soon was left alone 'by the friends who brought him. Nurses were very attentive and all night long they were at hand adjusting oxygen and what have 3W1. Next morning just as 1 was leaving room and while a nurse was doing something for Ws comfort, he gasped and quit breathing, it wasnt by any means the flr.st person Ive seen die. but it occasioned a sort of weird feeling.

DIVIDEND The most .significant part of the report on the travel promotion mi.s.sion to Europe made lasi week by Chairman Charles B. WadC had to do with the extra dividends

, derived from the project. Wade said he expected a number of people from Europe, particularly the travel agents, to come to North Carolina next fall and later. and that this vanguard would be followed by a lot of traveling tourists and vacationers. That wa.s the purpose of. the mission, and the anticipated dividend.

The extra pay off oxnes from the inquiries and the promises of visits by people in the United States, particularly New England, who read the stories about th. mission in the New York newspapers and for the fir.st time had their interest aroused in North Carolina. Dozens of these people have asked for more information and have ^ indicated they will visit the 1 state within the next f e w months.

This is in essence a repetition of the experience following the induittry-s^king safaris condiKtted through Europe three years ago by Governor Hodges and the CAD department. It is not known whether any European financed industrial plants has been located in North Carolina a.s a result of that trip. Certainly there has been a pickup in shipping through the State ports. But there are several big industrial plants built by American companies whose origin can definitely be traced to the publicity about the state incident to the European safari.

Both excursions paid handsomely Ixith in direct returns on the major purpo.se of the project, and in the extra dividends from stimulated interest on part of fellow Americans.

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ed to Justice Felix Frankfurter who, disagreeing, said It was not the lower court which had misunderstood but the Supreme Court which was reversing Itself and. In effect, him. too. ' But Mondays action is bound to anger rural politicians In Congress and the states against the court as they see, or think they sec, power slipping from them as a result of the action.

Most state legislatures today arc dominated by rural senators and representatives. In theory. almost every state must reapportion, or redistrict, periodically for representation in the legislature.

This is to prevent any group of voters, rural or urban, from getting a monopoly on power In a legislature by having' more representatives and senators there than their number entitle them to.

In practice the theory Is ignored. Rural lawmakers keep a firm grip on the power they got years ago when the population of cities was smaller and the rural population proportionately larger than now.

Tennessee is an example. It* state constitution calls on the legislature to require a census of qualified voters every' 10 years and then, based on the.se fuldlngs, rearoortlon the senators and representatives. But the Tennessee Legislature hasnt done this in 61 years.

The result: Tennessees rural population, despite the growth of cities, dominates the legislature as it did in 1901. But the federal Constitution guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws.

A group of Tennessee citizens, backed by some city mayors, argued they are being denied their constitutional rights and appealed to a three-man federal district court to straighten out the legislature.

For the federal courts to get embroiled with one state legislature in a case like this could involve litigation and many states for years, crie.s that the federal court was extending its authority too far. and attacks on the court for years by politicians.

The three district court judges. believing all previous Supreme Court opinions had been against Interfering in a situation like this, threw the suit out. although significantly they agreed the Tennessee Legislature had violated the states consutuuon

They could well remember a famous and often-cited case in li46. Involving the Illlnlos Legislature. when Frankfurter had said: Courts ought not to enter the political thicket. The remedy for unfairness tn districting Is to secure state legislature that will apportion properly, or to Invoke the ample powers of Congress.

But the Tennessee voters, refusing to be beaten, appealed to

just about the most overheated, acidulous and flamboyant language this writer can remember reading In Supreme Court opinions tn almost 20 years.

He called the majority (Hiin-lon, which made mincemeat out of his desire to stay out of the political thicket. a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole past in asserting destructively novel - Judicial power.

It may well impair the courts position as the ultimate organ of the supreme law of the land, in that vast range of legal problems, often strongly entangled In popular feeUngs. on which this court must pronounce. Frankfurter said.

Thats just the start. Frankfurter sizzles when he gets wanned up. a colorful demonstration that the split which has been growing in the court for years never was wider.

Justice John Marshall Harlan, agreeing with Frankfurter, let go at the majority. Justice Potter Stewart, on the majority side, teed off on Harlan.

Justice Tom Clark, also with the majority, first criticized the majority for. not handling the case Instead of bunting it back to the lower court, then accused Harlan of chasing rabbits and took a verbal belt at Frankfurter.

Opinions

him like Spring was here after all, the way everybody was either frolicking around or else dragging from place to place like something had removed their bones.

That was Tuesday afternoon. There was a gentle, fresh breeze rustling the shrubs and budding trees. The sun was warm and, like the man said, just about everybody showed some kind of effect.

A more than casual scanning of the area failed to turn up any impressive numbers of people either frolicking or ragging around, but something was in the air all right.

There was a need to contact a Mr. Whats-his-name. Jones. I believe it was. Anyhow, the telephone was dialled absent-mindedly, The Spring-effected caller had directed thoughts, not dialling finger, toward the East Carolina College switchboard. The finger dialled simply: Zero.

The answer came: Operator. May I help you.

Mr. Jones, please.

All right. What town Is he in, please?

IT CAME to mind then that one of the boys in the newsroom had sailed nonchalantly through a ralher unusual episode during the morning.

BUT THERE were more Indications.

On the East Carolina campus, the baseballers seemed greatly gratified for a pleasant afternoon to whet their talents.

After sitting indoors, watching three consecutive scheduled baseball games washed away by cooler-than-Sprlng rains, Tues-

Other Editors Saying, . ?ut Another Nickel In

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Note of the times: The man who repaired his own Model T with a few simple hand tools now has a grand .son who doesnt know how' to open the glove compartment on his .snappy new car. Greenville 'SC) Gazette.

One Big Trouble with the American public these day.s is that they have come to beiicve it is easier to vote for .something they want than to work for it. Okabena (Minn.)

Profits for corporations are es.sential to the employees since they are essential to the general maintenance of a business. ev^n if nothing goes to the shareholders.Columbia (8.C.) State.

Show us a family who have just moved into an apartment and well show you a family whose little girl wants a pony.Kansas City Star. ,

(Richmond News Leader)

An employer once announced a new group plan. Henceforth he would sign no more pay checks: he would merely deliver his total payroll in one lump sum to his employees, and let them apportion it as they thought just. It was not popular.

But the president of a tool-and-die company in Dayton, Ohio, has developed another system to share responsibility with his employees, and at the same time, tap their creative imagination and ambition. Instead of following listless and mechanical routines in the performance of their duties, his men now invent new ways to increase production and refine quality. The plan has made it possible to eliminate all the time he formerly spent on supervision and production problems.

Realldng that the success of a free enterprise depended on the enterprise of its owner, Claude Wilson., Jr., looked around his City Tool Corporation and saw that he was but one. but his employees were 95. That was spreading the enterprise a little too thin. Why not make each of his employees an independent businessman?

Wilsons solution was no share-the-profits plan. Instead, groups of two and three workers organized themselves into small corporations and partnerships which subcontracted the work

from City Tool. Tool and die shops use large and expensive types of equipment, costing up to, $50,000 a machine: no small partnership could hope to ow'd them. Hence City Tool became a sales, purchasing, and leasing corporation which provided, customers, raw materials, and facilities for its enterprising sub-contractors. The machines were equipped with coin boxes and time-meters: for five min utes u.se, put a nickel in the slot; for fifteen, a dime, and for heavier equipment, a quarter.

When City Tool gets an order, each small company gets a chance to bid on the job. If it chooses. The group of partners must get, the whole job done and pay the expenses. The men have become very familiar with the three pressures which every businessman knows: To increase quality, to lower prices, to lower costs. Meanwhile City Tool has slashed its overhead 40 per cent and been able to win many more bids because of its aggressive and cost-conscious subcontractors.

About half of the original 95 workers could not adapt to the new re.sponsibiliUes and left: their Place wa.s soon taken by others, who found that they were able to make up twice as much as they had as employees. Still, they could lose instead of gain. If they dont do it right the first time, they will have to put another nickel in.

BUT SOME indications are at best slightly baffling. A high school teacher told me once that she was utterly amazed (and somewhat elated) at the feeling for Spring displayed by one of her students in these lines: 0 Golden rod youre gone and rightly so.

Jack Frost is, too. and Winters spritely snow.

Tin cans are burled deep by Rivers edge,

And Springs a-peepin at me oer th hedge.

Aint that just grand? she asked me.

I admitted to myself that I must lack that feeling for Spring or else I missed the point. But I didnt tell her so.

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There is a prophet crying in the wilderness today. He Is the Spirit of 76. He is telling you he is telling me that freedom now hangs in the balance. Liberty, that priceless jew'el, can be lost forever in a haystack of wasted and unwanted harvest. You cant buy liberty. You can only consider it a gift of God, brought about by the blood, sweat and tears of fellow Americans. You can only look at those without hope, with their crushed will and bruised flesh, and remember now and a.s long as you live that there, bt for the grace of God. go I. Gad.sden (Ala.) 'Times.

Government service has never been an Inducement to Americans on the grounds that one can make more money, or a.^ much, as in private business;if he succeeds. It never .should be an inducement ou this ground.01ark.s-ville (Tenn.) Leaf-Chronlcle.

day's bright, fresh weather was

more than welcome.

Two or three of the boys clad in light warm-up jackets were stationed near the leftfield fence taking their warm-up tosses;

Just across the fence, in the Rawl Building parking lot, was a vivid explanation for the marked absence of students sprawled on the green grass for after-lunch siestas (or whatev-er-they-ares).

A pair of size 12s, crowned by bro\^Ti-and-red argyles. hung lazily through the open window of a 1960-model sedan. Whoever it was .who belonged to those feet was sawing his siesta logs inside. He knew the ground was just too wet.

Reforms

By GEORGE E. S0K0L8KY

Copyright, 1962. King Peitures Syndicate, Inc.

President Kennedy desires the United States to accelerate Its rate of growth. Under the cipltallit system, which Is our way of Ufe even with the cur-y rent modifications, it Is not possible for our Industry to grow or to replace obsolescent machinery or equliwnent except by private means. Tlui alternative is a SoclaUst state.

For many years, Benjamin Javits, the elder brother of the New York State Senator, has been seeking for a method of meeting the problem of the receding confidence of Investors In the growth of American industry, I have for many yeans watched Benjamin Javits* growth from one who believed originally In what I regarded as a fasclstlc approach to the problem of Industrial reorganization to one who now takes a strictly capitalistic attitude. He has organized the United Shareowners of America, Inc.. which is designed to recognize the capitalist, that Is, the per-.son who has Invested his surplus possessions in the growth and development of the American economic structure. ,, *1116 principal goals of the United Shareowners of America are stated to be:

1. EUmlnating double taxation on corporate dividends.

' 2. Taxing corporate earnings ^t the same rate as Individual income.

3. Revamping the presently unclear and contradictory antitrust laws.

4. Eliminating the unnecessary governmental controls.

That the tax system In the United States defeats the possibility for growth and for ao tive coijfipetition in w'orld markets Is obvious from the continuing flight of capital, which in reality means the transfer of jobs from the American worker to workers In foreign lands. Should this trend continue, It could create a crisis from unemployment which is already the principal social problem of our time. The most hateful day of the year for most Americans is April 15, a day of an outrageous Impoverishment. It is not only the corporation that suffers, but every person, from the smallest wage earner to the collector of the largest dividends, wonders what he is working for.

Also a moral degradation sets In as the hard-working and honest person discovers that benefits go to the marginal operator, tte discoverer of gimmicks,^ fellow w'ho manages to get Ws money over to Switzerland or some such country. For a while, other countries, particularly Panama, competed with Switzerland for this dishonorable tax-haven business, but no place is quite as safe as Switzerland,

It is not envy that Is arous- -ed: rather It is wonder that the tax structure is not revisedjto protect Americans and the method of collecting taxes is not humanized. At present it is so brutal that the decent, honest citizen lives in terror of the tax-collector who has become the most disliked of public officials. although he is quite innocent. for he only obeys a very wicked, unscientific law which benefits the crook and penalizes the loyal and obedient pitl-zen.

Benjamin Javits and his group are then performing a useful service by beating the drums for a restudy and a revision of our tax system. Similarly, the so-called anti-trust laws no longer fit our prol> lems. 'They are antiquated even with such revisions as were made In the Clayton Act and some decisions of the Supreme Court. The purpose of the antitrust laws is to protect the American economic system from the perils of monopoly and cartelization. But alien monopoly Industries compete with American industries and European cartels operate in this country unhampered.

In fact, the NRA was an attempt during the Roosevelt Administration to organize the entire American industry into a group of cartels and then to associate these cartels with labor unions not unlike the Italian syndicates arranged by Mussolini. Such a program was (Continued on page five)

The new model cars never look prettier than when you get the old bus just about paid for. Pike County (Ga.) Journal.

New Kicks In Home Gardening

Will power can be defined as the ability to eat one salted peanut.Wall Street Journal.

Strenath For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT

How much do we poor mortals know? Very little as t matter of actual fact. The planet on which we live is somewhat insignificant even compared even with the other planets of our solar system. The sun. which Is the center of all we know about life, has been termed by a prominent astronomer as Just a run-of-the-mill, pale, yellow star.

Taken the world over the people who can read and write are in the minority. So few people ever receive higher education that we can put them to one side In a little area comprising a very small percentage of the total population of the world.

We happen to be living in an age which has experienced tremendous increase In knowledge, yet with this great Increase we

know very little compared with what there is to know. Medical science has made tremendous strides, yet medicine stands helpless today before certain dlsea.ses. What Is more, medical science admits that It knows practically nothing about some,of the commonevSt of human ailments. The astronomers have 'scanned the heavens, yet when they have estimated the distance of the furthest ^r, they confess that there may be countless universes beyond our own.

Let us never get Into the habit of throwing our weight around and talking about the marvelous achievements of these present days. They are marvelous compared with the past. They are In.slgniflcant compared w'llh what, we believe to be the whole truth - human and divine.

Let us be modest and stay modest.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Home gardening may get off on a new kick this year.

For a million years, give or take a few hundred thousand, home gardeners have been experimenting with seeds, cuttings, bulbs and so on. Corn as we know It today exists because Indian home gardeners in Central America experimented with grasses, replanting seeds from the fattest stems until they had developed stalks wrlth ears as big as an anchovy. A California home gardener, finding a red streak in a poppy, developed the red flower. The eggplant, a garden item, was once the size of an egg.

All this amateur experimentation may be multiplied this year. There may be an atomic boom in home gardening. Right: atomic.

GAMMA RAYS

Since the early days of X rays, it has been known that certain radiations produce changes in living matter. This was confirmed at Hiroshima, where those exposed to radiation showed a high incidence of leukemia and other cancers. It was confirmed when the Atomic Energy Commission Irradiated

seeds with gamma rays and produced sports.

Studies of just what happens when plant life is irradiated have progressed slowly. There have been more Important things to demand the attention of the atomic scientist: experiments take many yearis to complete.

First experimental work has done with grains, grasses and vegetables, first at Brookhaven National Laboratory and later at other atomic Instalations. Other experiments showed that roses with Irradiated roots would grow to a height of eight feet and produce four different colored blooms. Marigolds grew 10 feet tall.

Experiments have spread to other plants and in the next few days irradiated bulbs, shrubs and roses will be put on the market. First items, introduced through supermarkets and other chains, will be gladioli, rose of Sharon, climbing roses and hybrid tea roses. SURPRISE, SURPRISE!

There is no guarantee about the color of the bloom.s. The glads, for example, are said to grow six feet fall or higher, but the colors of the blpomk ate unpredictable, Roses will grt^ fast, but there is no telling whdt

the colors will be.

In the fall, irradiated crocu.s-es. tulips, hyacinths aiui daffodils will be on the market. Experimenters are workipg on fruit trees. Cherries the size of apples and peaches no larger than blueberries may be developed, but it will take years to determine what gamma rays can do to trees.

This springs marketing will be of shrubs and bulbs from Mentor Nurseries, Mentor, Ohio: irradiated at New York Central Research Laboratories in Cleveland, and distributed by Sanl-Speed Mamufacturing Co., 1364 E. 47th St.. Cleveland 3.

Hot bulbs and plants are likely to boom garden sales this year and for many years to come. There Is no monopoly, and dozens of other companies will arrange for radiation of plants, etc., and growing the incredible may become the big outdoor sport in the I960s.

One problem distributors face is this: Many people will fear the gamma stuff will brush off on them. Nonsense. A person could eat an irradiated tulip with no ill effects. However, a bit of mayonnaise is recommended.

I am planting a dozen iri-adlat-ed glads in my front yard. Will

let you know what happens.

PRE-TICKETING CASE UP TO SUPREME COURT

Pre-tlcketing has reached the Supreme Court.

Pre-tlcketing is the practice of manufacturers of putting price tags'on their products in the factory.

In many cases, unconscionably high prices enable dl.scounters or other retailers to offer goods at a fraction of the so-called regular price.

The Federal Trade Commission. starting back in the Elsenhower aclministratlon. has opposed pre-tlcketing and proceeded against Baltimore Luggage Co., charging that its preticketing prices were not the usual prices for the area In which they were sold. The result, the FTC said, were fictitious and deceptive prices.

Baltimore Luggage insisted that its pre-tlcketed prices were valid, and said that of 1,276 retailers, only 387 were proved to have sold for less. The case ha* Ijeen app<aled through the courts to the Supreme Court which eventually may rule on (1) the legality of pre-tlcketing generally and (2) the facts In the Baltimore Luggage case.