Thursday, Murch 29, 1962

Increasingly Important Role Ahead

Old Rash Breaking Out

In the years of economic development which commerce of the state. A large share of the relie ahead of North Carolina, the industrial educa- sponsibility for providing these people to fill job tional centers spotted around the state are destined needs will fall upon the industrial schools, to play an increawsingly important role. Projected over a longer period of time, the in-

It was five years ago, at the behest\f then- dustrial training centers will serve to provide a governor Luther Hodges, that the state legislature supply of skilled workers to meet the increasing authorized establishment of nine such training demands of industry. The fact that there is in North centers to be operated by the state. Two years later Carolina a program to assure a supply of skilled another nine training centers were authorized and workers and technicians to fill the neds of^ industry last year the General Assembly added two more will in turn make North Carolina a more attractive bringing the total number to 20. state for industriies' seeking new localities.

The Pitt County center, one of the last two to

By developirfg^" the human resources, these

be designated, is one of five which is not yeh-in schools will help both the individual citizen to in

operation, but ,as is the case with the Pitt project, the other five are nearing the operational stage.

Primary purpose of the centers, of course, is to provide more skilled workers and technicians in the state and to upgrade training of people who already are employed, in North Carolina. Experts say that during the next four years North Carolina will nee^ some 40,000 additional technicians and skilled workers to fill positions in industry and

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crease his earning capacity and the state as a whole to higher economic levels. Over the years the industrial training centers will become tremendous assets to the state and to the individual communities in which they are located.

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By LYNN NI8BET

HISTORIC Monday. March 16, 1962, wu an eventful and historie day In the l(mg contest between sovereign rights of the Federal government and the sevml States. Whether it was t "red letter day or a dark day depends upon the viewpoint and to some degree upon subsequent developmehCs.

/ On that day the Senate voted

overwhelming majority to uuetitute Federal rules Instead of State law in determining the qualifications oi suffrage. However unfair or unjust the requirements of payment ol poll ytx as a requisite for voting might be. the subject has heretofore been handled by the several States.

The Senate vote Monday was on a minor bill the impact of which will be slight. Significance lies in the break-through on the main iseue. If the Federal Oovemment can assume authority on that point U can use the fact as precedent for rriov-Ing in on many other voting requirements literacy tests, age limits, etc.

APPORTIONMENT - On Monday, too. the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision giving voters in any state the right to go Into Federal court to obtain reapportionment ai their State legialature. The decision was on an appeal from Tennessee but Its effect Will be felt in every ttate.

Here again wae a case of Federal invasion of an area heretofore wholly limited to State control. The admitted fact that Statee had failed to act in compliance with their own caistltu-tions. and sltuatirms had developed where voters were being denied equitable represen-tation to the point where their plight was desperate was pleaded to justify Federal intervention.

FAR-REACHING - In opinion of Ralph Moody, assistant attorney general and recognised authority on constitutional law, there was no justification for the (lecisitm. It was an exercise of super legislative authority even more far reaching than the fechool decisions of 1954. He termed it a rank, forcible interference with the rights of statee, beyond anything that has been done before.

three times that many people while in another the senator

represents less than half the average.

Almost certainly something will be don to alleviate that inequity by the next Legislature. Action probably would have been taken without the Supreme Court injecting Itself into the picture. But suppose the North Carolina General A.ssembly elects to do nothing about it. and some voters start action in Federal court and obtain a decree ordering reapportionment. how can the decree be enforced?

Moody says that Is the question that none of the smart boyB have been able to answer. No court can force the Leglsia-ture to enact any law. One extreme suggestion is that a court referee might be appointed to ^ work out a reapportionment schedule, allocating representation to this and that community. Presumably, If the people didnt like his line-up. a Federal marshall would be called upon to make it stick a sort of hybrid judicial martial law set up.

TRANSITION - Despite the serious assault on the principle of State sovereignty and the concept that this nation Is a union of many states, both the court decision and the senate vote will be hailed by many people as long forward steps. For years there has been steady transition from the idea of union to the idea of unity, not a government of many coordinated parts, but one all powerful unit.

It appears now that the 1963 General Assembly will have a lot of young members young both In years and In political legislative experience. They will not be burdened with the old jealousies and spites and affections for established order.

It will be easier for thern than for their predecessors to overboard the old district That is why reapportionme] probably would have come wi out court interference. B i these new folks are mo posed to respect the cou cisin as having the aut of law. The older people more upon the fundam principles of the constitutld'

By the calendar and by the temperature, spring has come to Eastern Carolina much to the delight of most residents who have waited impatiently for warmer, sunnier days.

. Already the warmer w^eather and brighter skies have started the trickle of people to resort areas just for an early peak. Tehnis courts, abandoned for months, have suddenly become crowded on week-ends. Golf courses, which the die-hards have had fairly much to themselves since last fall, are attracting numbers of their seasonal visitors. There has been a noticeable increase in the number of boats on the highways even though the number is still small compared with what it will be a month from now. .

Spring is a beautiful season in this section of the state and a season which could be made a maor tourist attraction for out-of-state visitors if propbr effort were put forth. Eastern Carolina, unfortunately, has traditionally thought of its tourist possibilities primarily in terms of summer. Somehow this section has missed the fact that balmy days of early sprinp^^e in beautiful contrast to this time of year iil^'eas farther north where green sprigs and good oi^-door weather are still many weeks away. Weve iT)ked the fact that many people who wouldnt

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By PATRICLV MOORE

JlcKnught SyudkaU,.

Distressed' By It At.

con^irter going to more southern states in the height of nfe winter season would jump at the chance to enjoy a few balmy days of early spring in North Carolina.

After all, if these spring days are so attractive to us after our relatively mild winters, why shouldnt they be even more appealing to residents of more northern area.s?

Spring which brings new life and new growth to Eastern Carolina also brings new tourist possibilities which wait to be capitalized upon W greater economic development of a broad section of the state.

Court i5usmess 3 Domains ^igh

humor from our city on the banks of the Contentnea Creek, popularly known as Grifton. via the Contentnea Creek Chronicle.

Though this growing towm has been thriving with news of late, there was one story which missed the news pages, and we intend to bring this story to you now.

It was one momlng this week and offices were being opened up in Grifton. As usual, the American flag was raised upon Us post In front of the Grifton Post Office.

It was just a little later that Fire Chief Wilbur Murphy, whose business it Is to Investigate fires and otherwise render help to the distressed, no

ticed that the flag was upside downit had been raised that way and upside dowm. the flag Is a distress signal.

Well, Chief Murphy dashed to the Post Office and offered his assistance, telling those inside he had noticed the distress signal.

Whereupon the Inhabitants of the Post Office, who were not in distress, became slightly distressed and immediately had the flag lowered and raised right side up. Thus ended the note of distress.

state. Thats one list Its an honor not to be on.

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

When the United Mine Workers adopt a high tariff policy, the changes that are taking place in the thinking of the workers are notable. While businessmen and bankers and their various associations hold different opinions on this subject, depending upon how much capital and how many jobs they have exported, the working man must protect himself from unemployment and goveniment impoverishment.

This is part of an editorial which recently.*appeared in the United Mine Workeife Journal!

The show-down battle over foreign trade policy has ju.st begug, in the 87th Congress. The Immediate concern of the coal industry, the UMWA and allied industries and labor organizations is to convince the powerful House of Representatives Ways and Means Comrr ' e that American coal must be protected from the ravages of Imported residual (w'aste) oil.*

In another place, the same publication says;

If the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 H.R. 9900) Is enacted by the Congress it will make the Chief Executi^ a virtual dictator over thA economic w^el-fare of AmcricaY busine.ss and industry and the jobs of millions of American workers.

Under the proposed legislation the Congress would give up, once and for all. its constitutional authority to regulate foreign commerce. The new foreign trade act would place in the hands of the President of the United States absolute control over the import-export policy of the nation. It would permit the Chief Executive to open the flood gates to a deluge and cheap-labor produced foreign goods.

This will be the principal Is-

We heard the other day that one of the history professors

at East Carolina Collep an- Yhe To62 Congre.ssional

nounced he would hold his mid- A

term examination on the Tues- nLhnfh nnlitical

day following the weekend of

Aprtl 6-3. This naturally almost Prtie *

caused pandemonium among >, v, ihnniri there

his honified students who an- eone high tariff. Should the.e

In other points around Pitt County,.we were pleased to notice that this area was omitted from the list of 25 most dangerous intersections In the

nually migrate en masse to Wilmington, Wrightsville.

Beach, Carolina Beach and other points thereabout for the Azalea Festival, which Is on the above date.

By the time the students

be increased unemployment, the so-called labor statesmen who prefer to go along with President John P. Kennedy will have a revolt on their hands. The United Mine Workers journal deals with this, too;

The AFL-CIO. as a federa-

were through moaning and is supporting the free

groaning, we don t know w-he- trade program, although many

in

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (APi - The fog Carl Sandburg said crept little cat feet had the same w pace, and some of the :e, the Supreme Court some-es shows as it moves to-ard an explosive decision. The big decisions when they and one came this are attacked by the* 8 critics as what they call evidence it Is overstepping iOrlty by sticking Its iln-where It has no busl-

SPLIT - North Carollm fortunate Iri having two the Senate who work toge mighty well and yet v(

Implementation of Hhe decision will bring relief to many gently many times., communities. Including several Jrvin is. recognized as one In North Carolina, whlch have/the best authorities on tuffcred from Inadequare repre- tional law in the aentatiod^ The people of Mecklenburg, which has one senator representing more than 272,000 people can sue in court for relief. If senatorial representation were equitably distributed in this state each senator would represent about 91,000 people.

We have a condition where In cme district a senator represents

spoke and voted as tion law bill giving Federal trol over voting qualifications.'' Senator Jordan r,epresents thj more liberal view. H voted for the bUl as a means of Riving much-needed relief to inadequately represented commuiii-ties -'Which the State had not given.'

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lut the court long ago claim-very much its business the ?e principal domains of Ame-liie; social, political and lie.

(ereafter. the only question and the only reason for was how ftr the court ilUng to 1^0 in each domain.

The hllRaiy of its spreading 'authority goes back to 1801 when John Marshall took over the court as chief Justice.

This week a majority of the nine Justices ruled that federal courts had diie right to step In if states refused to give their voters fair representatlwi In state legislatures.

This decision was in favor of some Tennessee cltlaens who complained that -- contrtiry to the federal ConstitutlMis 14th Amendment 'guaranteeing all

people, judged by their numbers in relation to city population, have far more representation than they are entitled to.

Yet, looking back, the court took the step of interfering- in the political questions of a stale. After that it was onlv a matter of how much deeper the court would interfere. A number of cases could be cited.

One is enough. After pussyfooting and backtracking, t h e court ruled in 1927 and 1932 that a Negro In Texas had been deprived of the equal protection of the 14th Amendment when he was kept from. voting because of his color.

The most sensational action of the court in the social domain if only because it is the most vivid in recent memory was Its contrary actions on^egregatlon. Here it really pussyfooted.

In 1896 the court ruled a state could segregate Negroes that It was constitutional to do so provided that In their segregated place they were given treatment equal to that given white people.

For the next 5A years succeeding courts -Skidded all around the problem of deciding whether segregation by itself was or wasn't constltutlon-

(Rorky Mount Telegram)

In switching from the safar-l made thus far by the Kennedy family and their aides, one finds even more Interesting reading in the exploits of our congressmen who take It upon themselves to travel overseas to look after our interests there. These junkets run deepr ly into the taxpayers pockets as we shall see. Lets take the case of Maryland Congressman, Rep. Richard Lankford. His trip is one of the most interesting on record.

Rep. Lankford mu.st have set some sort of spending record with his $95 per day, not counting his plane and trahi tickets. His trip was a 38-day jaunt around the world last fall. He said he went to see hoW our military a.ssistance program ties in with oilr defense effort. Hes a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Well. Dick managed to get through 14 foreign stops, with his hotel bills averaging $28 a night. His meals were $30 a day average, meaning SlO for breakfast. What can you spend $10 for at breakfast? He also spent $36 daily for a /ague thing called mlscell^eous which totaled for the trip something like $1,30 w'Orth of miscellaneous.

His office insists his Owenses certainly were not exces-

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citizens equal protection undw\ \ In/^ad, it crept up on that the law they were depiived^tSl^r decision by a number of of proper representation In their derisions ruling out segregation

legislature.

For years the Justices had ducked and weaved on this kind of question as they had on others and took the position the court had no right to Inter

in various forms and places but only because the treatment given Negroes wasn't equal to that given whites.

In 19.54 it took the plunge, said the court of 1896 was

sive. In fact he spent a thousand dollars of his own money. Add that thousand to what he spent of our money and it's easy to see that Dick did some tall living while Inspecting our military position overseas.

Incidentally, Lankford was

accompanied by an Army colonel who managed to spend only $22 a day. including everything. In London Rep. Lankford managed to get rid of $235 a day for three days. While 4here his hotel bill was $66 a night and his meaig S27 each. We should all be congressmen.

Even 80, Dick couldnt surpass Rep. Otto Passman of Louisiana back in 1960 when he went on a world tour to the tune of $6,718. Sen. Allen Ellender last year completed his seventh global tour at our expense. He want.s $2,700 from Congress to print 5,000 copies of his diary he kept on his last trip. In it he tells about what he had for breakfast in Moscow', the sunset on Mount rat and seasickness troi things like that.

Compared to some of these high-living boys, our own Tar Heel congressmen have been pretty skimpy. Rep. Jonas spent $1.700 on a trip through seven countrie.s for the Appropriations Committee. Rep. Horace Kornegay spent $1.1.33 traveling to Gennany and England for the Committee on Veterans Affairs. And Rep Hugh Alexander got by in the Middle Ea.st, Europe'and Asia on $3.000 for the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs.

Its a great temptationthis biLslness of spending other peoples money with little regard to thrift. Some of these trips might be necessary. Most are joy rides and the expense sheets turned in to Congress are exorbitant. A closer watch on such matters is part of a voters responsibility.

ther the professor still thought affiliates are actively opposed

class was class or class was because of the damaging effect

azalea. program will have on Ame-

You might conclude with the rican jobs and the Amerirrin

thought that in the spring, standard of living. The Fed?ra-

thoughts of many college stu- tlons position is contrary to U10

dents turn to azaleas; in the traditional protectionist policy

fonn of a festival, of course, of American labor. It seems to

In olden times, festivals be based on expediency. .

were connected more or less The real difficulty is that the with periodic religious or other United States has become so infeasts. We dont know where volved in treaties and agree-

the feasting comes in on this ments that it is almost hope-

one. but it has certainly be- less to make head or taU out

come a notable event in the of it. The worst of these is

North Carolina calendar year.

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We have as mafly schools and as much economic opportunity as any nation in the world, and yet a quarter of

GATT which In a measure d-'-prives the United States of its sovereignty in economic matters. W^ien the GATT agreement comes up for renewal, it would be sound to drop it and start all over again.

The reason that the United Mine Workers are so opposed to the Kennedy tariff policies as they were opposed to the El-

our two-million long-term, un- senhowcr tariff policies is )h.at

employed are on the verge of coal mining is ceasing to be a

illiteracy and not trainable for profitable enterprise. It is this

anything. What to do?-Tul- that has irnpoverished the State

sa (Okla.) Tribune, ^ (Continued on page five)

Strenath For Todav

By EARI, L. DOUGLASS HABIT

We .speak of habit formation as if this wer^ something bad or unworthy.

truth of the matter is that hahir formation lies at the bas

is of all our living. If every time we performed an act we had to start from scratch, we would never develop any skills whatsoever. Throughout the whole of our lives we would be like Infants doing everything gropingly and awka^ily. As a matter of fact, w'e would be even lower than Infants In our achievement for the infant is growing. But were it not for the established processes of hab-

us would say every act w'e perform stores up a memory somewhere in our brain. The next time we confront the necessity of performing that act we are helped ju.st a bil-^y the fact that we have performed it once before. So we go through life with habit fomialion building up skills. We listen to a great pianist, and we know that behind his brilliant achievement lies endless hours and almo.st slavish years of work and practice.

We can create good habits precisely as we create bad habits. The process Is identical in both cases. Our lives raldate vitality and purpose when we

It formation we would not grow establish the habit of automati-

at all.

By a merciful provision of nature or God as most of

cally choosing the right and rejecting the inadequate, the insufficient, or the unworthy.

fere In such a 'political thick- swronn, declared the principle of et. as Justice Felix Frankfur- legregatlon wrong, and ordered

ter said.

Therefore, the decision this week was a switch. It was a major lindmark In the history of the court for now it had gone further than ever| before Into the political business of a state.

It was explosive because dozens of states have mal-appor-tioned their legislatures and now can be brought to Court, promising fights for yeaijs to come It will probably affect American political power.

the country's public schools desegregated,

The court has stepped Into the American economic field a number of tlmps and In different ways.

R'was Marshall, starting in 1803, who as.serted as chief justice the authority of the court to move in many directions which established the right of the COUft to pass on the con-tltutionallty of acts of Congress and state legislatures, and on the decisions of state courts.

3ungl'ing Of Public Relations?

Democrats have their greatest As angry as the decisions -of

strength in the cities where citizens complain that country

the Supreme Court under Mar-(^ntlnued on page* five)

Public Forum

TO the Editor:

In the past year ieveral

newspapers in North Carolina have run short pieces concerning a well-known South Carolina root doctor, Dr. Buzzard. As part of my studies in the Folklore Program at Indiana University

'I am doing a research paper on the legends whicii are now told about Dr. Buzzard. If any of your reader* .heve biograp-

hietl information about Dr. Buzzard, if anyone knew him, ' know'S stories about him, would very much appreciate if he would write to me at following address so that might include this information in my paper.

Sincerely your.s,

Mrs. Donald .1 Smetzcr Folklore Program Library 41 Indiana Univeri.ity Bloomington, Indiana

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By ELMER ROESNER

Both banks and savings and loan as.sociations are bungling their public relations just when they need public support badly.

At the moment, the Kennedy Administration is trying to get these financial dogles Into somewhat tighter corrals. The Administrations tax bill reduces the amount of earnings that .savings associations and savin g.s bank.s are permitted to add to reserves before calculating income taxes.

These Institutions have been streaming the bill would put a tax on savings and rob the market of mortgage money for new homes.

A SPORTING CHANCE

Those sound like cogent arguments. Yet at the moment these in.4tituttons were screaming the loudest and their hearts bleeding most, the Nevada Savings k Loan As.sociation was popping a three-column ad in a New York paper offering those who deposit $1.000 or more a thnnce 10 'vin m w< ok>-vacation for two at the Stardust Hotel in Lis Vegas,

The ad Is topped with a pic ture of roulette wheel and the headline. Be a Winner

Every Time, The text says the association is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank system, that it will pay 4^4 percent dividends, and that accounts are insured up to $10.000.

New accounts, it says, really hit the Jackpot by being eligible to win Westinghouse prizes including radios, television sets, vacuum cleaners, etc., and receive a valuable gift for thrift' for each new account.

This presents an interest problem. Suppose a coupla puts its life savings into Nevada S & L, wins the trip to the Stardust, and then loses its money 0 roulette or the slot machines? Whom does it sue. if anybody? The association? The government insurer? West* highouse? The Stardust?

Incidcnlally, the ad says, Accounts are le|al investments for church funds, corpor* ate funds, pension plans and trust funds. Be a wdnner every time-open your account today!

ON THE OTHER HAND

Mean' bile. the American Bankers Association, niceting in Chicago this week, Vorkcd

Itself into a tizzy over the Administrations truth in lending* program under which every borrower or instalment buyer would know exactly what he was paying In Interest.

John O. Elmer, chairman of the instalment credit committee of the A. B. A., declared the bankers opposed the bill on technical grounds and that the matter should be left to the states.

Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R., Utah) told the bankers that he worries about putting consumer Credit in a strait jacket of Federal regulations, through enactment of 8. 1740, a bill sponsored by Senator Paul Douglas <D . 111.). 1 am particularly concerned about the attempt to do this under the guise of political stabilization and by putting tiie bill un-(ici the phony title Truth in Landing*. . .Stmator Douglas Is on shaky ground trying to Impute dangers from the excessive use of consumer credit, WHO .SAY DANGERg?

al creiHt is the accelerating rate of mercase In the number of nonbusiness bankruptciea being filed.

Last year 146,64.3 bankruptcies were filed of which 90 per cent, or about 130,000. i\ere personal bankruptcies. This is an increase of 33 per cent over 1960 and 100 per cent over 19.57.

Instalment payments figured in a vast number of the personal bankruptcy. That leaves this question for Senator Ben* nett. Mr. Elmer and the rest of the A. B. A.: Would there have been so many bankruptcies If, Instalment buyers and other borrowers really knew In advance how much they hid to pay in interest?

But at the..sanie meeting, Mr. Elmer had said, A cause for groat concern among all extenders of consumer or person-

Regardless of the answer. It would appear that the bankers re not putting their cleanest face forward by churning up opposition to the Truth In Lending bill when bankruptcies art soaring. This bungling of- public relations is strange In view of the fact thit, of all lenders, banks do the bt'st job of clear^ ly stating interest charges far better than many hlgb prgssurt instalment houses.a. \-