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Thursday, June 7. 1962

He Might Look To The Grassroots

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Somehow we cant brinsr ourselves to be greatly events and human reactions of the past 24 hours concerned over the fact the Presidents subscription that no smaller newspaper can hope to match. '

been cSX^^aTevIr the natJn'\o''' *

unueix^iiiK cause of the nation, however, we wonder whether the

President might not have a moment for something

might be. We

t., j "'erthelss concerned about the other than the bisr newspaperswhose'nameV'WrI

President s reading habite. Of necessity, the Pre.si- spoken with reverence within the profession and dent has a neM-spaper diet consisting of what is are at least familiar to most of the citizens o'f the

considered the biggest and in many respects the nation.

timL"^7thr^fiiJr descnS^^'JwtTT'^r 'Perhaps President Kennedy might profit by

cam^more weijrht than thp wVnf"i? two minutes from his volume of big news-

make up his sibscr^nt^n list to peruse the pages of the Smithfield Herald

make up his subscription list. published .jp Johnston Cbunty, Noi:th Carolina; the

Not that we disparage any of the famous news- State Port Pilot from Southport or the Chatham

papers published in the United States. Certainlv tt News from Siler City. He might get a fresh idea

New York Times, The Herald Tribune, the St. Louis irom the McLean County News published in Cal-

Post-Dispatch and a host of others set a sh4ning ex- houn, Kentucky, the Tri-County Record of Kiel,

ample for other less distinguished and smaller news- Wisconsin, or the Lidgerwood Monitor published

papers about the country. They seemingly have Lidgerwood, North Dakota.

their reporters everyw^here and among their pages Maybe you never heard of any of these news-

each day one may find in great detail a history of papers, and probably the President hasnt either.

But these are good small newspapers, the kind of

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By WILLUM A.

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for tlie two major parties to swa^ blows and trade licks in generaJ election-year campaigning across North Carolina, Tlds Is the big show. But a lot of politics, like icebergs, lie beneath the surface.

There will be a lot of close watching of maneuveiing tlmt goes on during the next four or five months, and it is certain that things will happen that will affect actions in 1963 and 1964.

The two parties are getting their electioneering machinery oiled

The states top Democrats will tour the state again to drum up support for the party ticket. A number of state officials. Democrats of course, find time to make the stump tour and they are good drawins cards for the courihouse square crowds.

CAMPAIGNING Gov. Tern Sanford may go along on some of the stops this year, dr at least make selected appearances on behalf of Democratic candidates. The governor, who made a point of emphasizing last month that he had kept hands off the Lntro-party squabbles in the primaries, has volunteered his services for any of the Democratic nominees.

A 22-member Democratic campaign committee of one committeeman and one committee woman from each of the 11 Ctmgressional district was chosen last week.^ This group will meet later this month with Sta^e chairman Bert Bennett and his lieutenants to begin planning the Fall campaign effort.

Republicans too plan a more coordinated, more closely-knit campaign effort with emphasis on areas and Congressional districts in which GOP strength has increased.

INTEREST The Congressional races are again expected to ^ark most of the interest, especially in those where the Republicans will make a maximum effortthe Eighth. Ninth, 10th and llth districts.

Congressional nominees themselves will have their own campaign organizations going. calling on the state groups and organizations, personalities and outside help as indicated, or as available.

The four hotly-contested Con-gressiaial races pit four Democratic ' incumbents against strcHig Republican challengeis. The incumbent DembcraUs arc Reps. A- Paul Kitchin in the Eighth, Hugh Q Alexander tn the Ninth Basil Whitener in the 10th and Roy A. Taylor inlhe llth. In each, the normal Dcm-. ocratic majority i.s relatively smalland in several cases wa.s actually reduced by the 1961 Congressional redistricting.*

The GOP has incumbent Charles R. Jonas, R-N. C.. fac

ing Kitchin in what Ls billed as a Dattle of c<mservatives in the Eighth district, and Republicans are offering popular candidates in the others.

AMENDMENTSThere W'Ul be interest too 'in the fate of six proposed constitutional amendments written by the 1961 GeneraJ A,ssembly.

These, according to a niling by the Attorney General, could not be voted on until this year the next general electionand had to be put off for a year. They were not on the ballot for the bond election last year when the proposed bond issues put up by the 1961 General As-srmblj- were beaten.

The arguments which ca.rried the proposals through the legls-lalure will have to be revived and opposition already is appearing to some of them. The proposals themselves will have to be explained again by their supporters.

ISSUESSome of the,proposed amendments as did the bond issues emanated from recommendations of .study com-

graasroots country newspapers which form the backbone of .iournaliam even in this day of griants and specialists in gathering and disseminating public information. And there are hundreds' like them scattered in small eommunities across the nation. They dont have correspondents in London, Paris. Moscow. Washington or even the state capital. They might not even have a correspondent in the next county seat, but they reflect thf life of their communitie.? and the problems and reactions of the people of gra.ssroots America. 1 heir editorials do not cause a stir at the White House or even a ripple beyond the boundaries of the countiesin which they are published, but they are topics of conversation at the town drug store and the country general store, at PTA meetings and in Sunday School. In a large mesure they help mobilize and channel citizens interest for their communities progress and for the nations.

In man.v respects they would give the President a feel of the nation and ifs people he cannot possibly get from the 100-page daily giants of the ne\v.paper' world.^ -

A Flaw

in inis ustice

By GEORGE E. SOKOI.SKY

By PATRICIA MOORE

Notes On

7his 8c That

Indicating Confidence In Countys Interest

Boom! It sounded like an explosion.

We w^ere at Morehead City, right outside Tonys restaurant, when we heard the explosion and. like everyone else, began searching for whatever exploded. ', ,

Everyone gave up looking, finally, because there wasnt

The decision of Pitt Countys United P'und board mcic waou i,

of directors not to retain the services of a professional any smoke or debris, and w'here ............fund-raising organization for the campaign this fall there isn;t smoke there isnt

mii^sioners which worked during bespeak.: confidence that citizens of the county to misquote an old expres-

^nLvVnTll^'and time as well as ^",ever. further down the

The proposal': include the to this \ears campaign. street we were slightly more

court reform amendment to es- It will mean an automatic reduction of $6,500 ^ccessful.

tabli'h a uniform system of in the exnense of the Inrnl Pnnrl battered and tired,

district courts, clarification of 1 I bund campaign soldiers, one bent

the o.der of succession to the ^Uort, ince this represents the amount paid for over his 12-inch cannon and the

KoveiTOi-ship and other top elec- professional a.ssistance each of the past" two years, other picking out a good target.

At the same time, it will mean that more time and a small stream of smoke poured

greater effort are required from volunteer workers .z_

in all parts of the county to replace the work and We were reminded this year

been reading a book on dreams written by Edwin Diamond, science writer for one of the leading news magazines.

He tells us that the Iroqhois Indians of the early United States believed in dreams as a sort of Divinity and that certain sects of the fierce tribe saw to it that every part of a dream a person had was carried out to the letter, in life else misfortune occur.

The IixKjuois had personal dreams and visitation dreams, which covered Just about any type of dream one could have.

It doesnt take much Imagination to envision what all must have' gone on In such a case.

999. We were a little emlmr-rassed, since the figure would have been 1,001 or 1,002 had we gone down to take back our books and renew them oil time. However, we take some consolation in the fact that we contribute ever so often to the library fund.

Strength .-or Today

tive state offices, providing for automatic reapportionment of the state House of Representa- lives, providing for a uniform statewide classification and exemption of property for taxation' by the General Assembly, to enable the legislature to increase Salaries of state execu-' tive officials during their terrris of office, and to authorize the legislature to reduce the residence requirement for voting for president and vice president.

The six proposed constitutional amendments bring to 2.3 the numtjer proposed and put before the people by North Carolina legislatures in the past 20 years. Of the 17 voted on since 19.50. only one has been defeated. That wa.s an amendment proposed in 1954 to limit each county to one state senator.

OTHERNew- issues also will lie forthcoming during the campaign .season and old ones will be revived by both parties arid factions of both parties.

And there will be behind-the-scenes campaigning and maneuvering for political advantage in years beyond 1963.

One sidelight which always draws considerable interest is the dickering for support by the candidates for top legislative posts, narrowed down now to Sen.s. W- Lunsford Crew of Halifax and Clarence Stone of Rockingham for Senate president and Reps Tom Woodard of Wil.son and Clifton Blue of Moore for House Speaker.

know-how put into the campaign bv a professionaJ Memorial Day, as later theories

4-u^ f 1 ^ ^ I' , Memor- .

Ironically, the writer compared the early dream interpretations of the Iroquois Indians with some of Sigmund Freuds

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A RACIAL INSANITY

Why do we need to J^ve

firm in the fund-raising field.

The Reflector commend.s the United Fund Board of directors for their action, and we also urge the citizens of the county to take cognizance of the action and what it means for the forthcoming campaign.

we were first told last Memorial Day, that a certain clerk of coiul in Grifton had met the widow' of the unknowTi soldier at Arlington Cemetery.

Getting to more serious things, like dreams, we have

And, speaking of books, you must have noticed an Item in the news this week to the effect that Sheppard Memorial Library broke all records Monday circulation-wise from its main desk. The exact count was

The Lnited Fund of Pitt County is of necessity rganization of agencie."? which rlepeiid upon I)uhlic contributions for their support and of the pe?>ple \vho contribute funds for support of welfare "P) i*

and character-building agencies. To be successful, population,

an^ organization of agencie."? which rlepeiid upon Other Editors Saying.

a.s we are confident Pitt United will this year, it must have the full support and cooperation of both the member agencies and citizens of the county in connection with the campaign this fall.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON ,<APi - It could not hav happened anywhere except in this world.

All over people, politicians and even nations took big sniffs of optimism about things like bathing suits, budgets, billions and Berlin.

They acted sunny, even though in a lot of places rain was coming down like water from a busted pipe.

In Tokyo a Japanese textile company said it would soon market a swim suit guaranteed to keep the wearer afloat. If it didnt of course, the wearer 'might not be around to get his money back.

All day Tuesday there w' a s nothing more optimistic and probably ridiculous than the news from Congress House Ways and Means Committee. It voted to boost the linhit on the public debt up to $308 billion in the belief it could eventually come down to $300 billion.

Like many another old man,

West Germany s Chancellor Konrad Adenauer lives on hope. Tuesday he^ told the East Gr-man Communists who want to buy on credit from him he might do business if thcv'd

Graduation time is always an occasion for bright optimism an the part of those involved, but at the same time it can also be a period of concern. For one thing, the job situation Is always more critical during the month of June when the job markets become flooded with the extra manpower from high schools and colleges.

This year could well lie one of , the most critical since WoAd War II so far as employment is concerned. Of major conceni is the population explosionnot the current and possibly continuing one, but one that began 15 to 20 years ago during the war days. This war and

tear down the wall in Berlin. * postwar explosion at first trig-

Opinions 'n Brief

Truth Is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.Oliver Wendell Holmes. '

Health, measured these days in terms of the most expensive cures and the most precipus diets, has gained the semblance of a commodity, The Charlotte News,

Tn past decades when companies hired middle-aged persons, they were often simply doing their new employes a favor. But now the companies would be doing themselves a favor if they would cprefully consider the experience and stability of the mature jib applicants. Wichita Falls Tcxd Times.

For some strange reason .some defense-minded senators on a subcommittee, who should have known better, added more than a quarter billion dollars to a i-ecord annual militai-y money hill but attempted to keep their decisions secret.

Even the White House got itself into a hopeful mood. It said a joint television appearance by President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev was still possible.

It has been possible for

months, and it hasnt happened yet.

Millions of peoples hopes

"shot up when Secretary qf the Treasury Douglas Dillon said the Kennedy admini.stratlon will propose to Congress next year a top-to-bottom cut in income tax rates.

A lot of things can happen between now and' then to spoil the hof?s; a big boost in the economy and the mood In Congress.

Perhaps the most pathetic

note of optimism came from Paris where the two top men of the European Secret Army assassins In Algeria are in jail.

The No. 1 man. ex-Gen. Raoul Salan, Is under life sentence. His No. 2 man, ex-Gen. Edmond Jouhaud, Is under sentence of death unless President Charles dc Gaulle spares him.

Jouhaud sent a note to his fellow prl.soner. Salan, asking him to tell the secret army to stop killing Moslems.

The fact that Jouhaud w'ait-ed until this dramatic moment to write such a note would indicate he hoped this. If nothing else, might save his life.

The most valid optimism of the day. perhaps, pervaded a family of five from Communist China, just arrived in Chicago by plane from Hong Kong to start a new life.

They were admitted under Kennedys emergency program, to help such refugees.

gered a rush to provide more classrooms.

That w'as during the early Fifties. But in this decade the pressuid will be to find jobs for the graduates, most of whom ar unskilled. Union leaders are prone to blame automation solely for unemployment problems. rather than at least partly on a growing labor force. To combat this they are seeking shorter work weeks in order to make room for those losing jobs through automation.

But the administration deplores this as inflationaiy, pointing out that the real sumption Is more production, and more consumption to justify more production. This could well provide the battleground in the near future during any govern

ment attempt to get labor to follow* its guidelines on wage increases.

But there looms a still great stniggle. That is the need to find jobs for the upcoming generation. The lower age brackets of the labor force will grow drastically during this decade. The U. S. population is increasing at about three million each year. That wasn't much of a problem during the Fifties because most of the growth was amon those under 15the war babiesand over 65. But in the Sixties the big rush will be in the 15-.30 age bracket, meaning the wartime population explosion has reached maturity.

By 1970 there will be 49 per cent more people in the 18-21 age bracket than in 1960. And the 14rl7 group will increase 40 percent. This means job trouble before too long. It also means the total labor force will rise 18 percent in this decade alone.

But while labor leaders see this challenge as another rea son for shortening the work week, some economists sti*ess another aspect of the problem as equally pressing. First is the task of matching new entrants into the labor force with jobs which need to be done. There is a question wliether they will be sufficiently and appropriately educated to fill available jobs successfully.

So building more schools in the 1950s didn't solve all the population problems of the economy by any means. ,

war? Why do we have It, and why have we continued to have it since the davm of history*?

It would take wiser minds, than ours to give a complete and satisfactory answer to those questions. War is one of those incomprehensible follies in w*hich man has become involved and' for which he appears unable to give any good reason. He claims self defense. He declai-es that he is the champion of moral principle. He calls attention to the fact that If war is not waged here greater w*ar will have to be waged a few years hence.

And so we go on. Tho tanks roll, the soldiers march, blood and treasure are poured out, and why?

We can only answer that it is ^ not the common people w*ho want war or who bring it about. Goveniments and the people who lead governments are responsible for war. Human life being as It is there w'ould probably always be disorder among men which would have to be kept dowTi by police action. But police action Is one thmg and the building up ^of huge war machines is another. There Is reason behind police supervision but there Is only incomprehensible folly behind war.

Does this mean that we can disiirm?, Not at all. We must protect ourselves against a folly which we in some measure have helped to create. No one knows the answer, but we must seek to find it out. And always we should keep assuring ourselves that war is a kind of racial insanity for which we must continually seek cure.

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It would be deplorable if the AEG descended to pointless wrangling in place of d(ie deliberation. Yet one need only recall the AEG chairmanship of Lewis Strauss to realize that on occasion the public interest is well served by the obduracy of some AEG member.s. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Mrs. MStry Ellen Benson was fined llO.iO in a' Milwaukee Court because she went to church on a Sunday morning. According to Judge Robert Mlech she should have gone to a union meeting.

It is difficult for one not living in Milwaukee and not knowing the parties concerned to understand what business it was of the judges anyhow. Are our courts of law designed to enforce * union regulations? The particular union to which Mrs. Benson belongs chooses to mt on Sunday mornings q It also chooses to fine members who do not attend three out of five meetings.

This Is strictly a private matter between Mrs. Benson and the union. If she is deprived of her job because she prefers to go to church lathejr than to the union meeting, she ought to be able to sue the union for blacklisting her because of her religious scniples and a sensible judge and jury would support her in her preference of God over the union.

Mrs. Benson said;

The union meetings come on Sunday mornings exactly at my , church time. Ive told them (the union) over and over again that I will never go to their meetings as long as they are on Sunday and I still wont.

Bravo! That is the old. fighting spirit. If more of that were left in this country, there would be less bureaucracy In government, in business, in labor. The other day, I tried to put through a long distance telephwie call and it took me four calls be-^cause either the operators w*ere fresh or did not understand simple English, clearly enunciated. When I asked for'a super* ^sor, I w*as told she wa.s busy. The telephone company is a business enterprise which charges for its services. It used to be an efficient, organization with delightful and helpful operators. It advertised, The Girl with the Smile.

There is no longer a smile. Those girls won a ^strike and they are as proud as all get out. If one avoids ihe person-to-person call and uses the various code numbers, he can miss the yakety-yak of the fresh operator, but the pcrson-to-perSon call is a proper service.

It is the same with the telegraph companies. A person can fly from Rome to New York faster than a telegram. I w*as notified by my nephew from France that my son was leav-tng Rome on a Friday. Friday morning, a non-English, accented person telephoned the message which turned out to be incorrect. It w*as corrected by telephone late tn the afternoon.

My son arrived Fridah night at 7 p.m. The "telegram and Its correction arrived at my house.

In the heart of New 'York City, Saturday morning at about 9 a. m.

When boys w-ere permitted to w*ork after school, telegrams were rapidly delivered. The boy got a good tip. Instead today, \ such a boy has to hang around, after he has begun to grow a beard, w*aiting to be old enough to be permitted to work. His life pattern is organized on the theory that prolonged loafing is individually and socially bene-, ficial.

There is a shortage of all kinds of help, but youngsters may not w*ork for pay, except "to cut the grass but in the big cities there is no grass Mrs. Bensons experience forces me to think that the arrogance of some unions today Is as great as the arrogance of the self-made businessman was before the 1929 crash when he learned that his business judgement was not so goqi.

The union officials know that Americans generally like to go to church on Sunday mornings.

It Is an old custom. It is part of the national mores. The union could well hold its meetings at some other time and should not have used the secular arm of a court to impose its peculiarities upon anyone.

There Is a lot of noise about the separation of church and state, but when a union and a judge decide that an American may be fined for attending a church, something very evil has entered into our way of life and that evil must be stamped out by all decent people. It is the evil of materialism, which weakens the sinews of the family and therefore weakens the nation.

One bad judgement of an individual need not force us to a generalized conclusion but It does require vigilance.

.Does It Fit Your, Association?

By ELMER ROESSNER A^ leading newsletter in a certain industry this week says of associations in its field: Too numerous. Too fragmented. Achievements are few for niost. Hardly justify time and money involved.

Important,Industry improvements are left to the association. Most of them never get beyond talking state. End re-' suit: nothing done.

Very difficult for associations to hire high-caliber executives. Resqlt: Most association heads re not real leaders^ too anxious to please everybody. Flunkies with too many bosses.

By this time you realize the letter is written in that curious kind of English, newsletter-, eze, sometimes called Kipling-eresquepatter, It continues: MINORITY RULE Most as.soclations dominated by a fPM' member companies. Non-paid officers usually publicity-hungry low'er-eschelon executives. Most .top executives

con.sider association activities too trivial to be Included in their ovcrcrow'ded schedules. In a majority of cases. association presidents are picked by a small inner group, sometimes by one man.

Basic weakness: lack of specific goals, definite programs. Aims are often so general as to be meaningless. The biggest association in the industry, the newsletter points out, has three aims: to foster, strengthen and improve the industry, to advance the Industry as a w'hole, and to serve members. Another association has seven different objectives ;;and has been floundering among them since its conception.

WHAT'S THE FIELD?

This indictment might apply to as.sociations in many other fields perhaps to^ your own. To permit you to guess the field referred to. it is not being named until a few paragraphs on, wher the newsletter is also identified.

FTC EXPECTED TO BE . TOUGHER ON RETAIL PRICE MAINTENANCE

The speeches of Pderal Trade Commission Chairman Paul Rand Dixon are noteworthy because they usually foretell FTC campaigns. It looks today as if the FTC is about to get tougher on manufacturers who try to set retail prices of their products.

Dixon chose the consumer products division of the National Electric Manufacturers Association con<*ention to say:

Aside from the partially protected area called fair trade, it Is plainly unlawful for a seller to dictate, to his customers the price at which they must resell the product. The evils of resale price fixing are the same those of all other kinds of price fixing: It deprives the subsequent buyers of the benefits of competition between the dealers, and restrains the freedom of those dealers who would otherwise try to get more busi

ness by the forthright method of offering their customers a lower price. . .

"A manufacturer of a product, once he has sold it for a price satisfactory to himself, has no further right of control over it. For him to thereafter reach down to the level of his customers and prevent them from competing with each other as to price is an unlawful restraint of trade.

So business is wameti.i

OX'ERLOOKED ADVANTAGE OF TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

The criticism of trade associa-itions in the first paragraphs overlooks one great b^eflt: associations usually hold conventions, which enables members or delegates to get away from their offices and their wives, usually on expense accounts.

The criticism quoted referred to the advertising business and the newsletter Is the Gallagher Report edited by Bernard P. Gallagher. *