Thursday, May 30, 1968

A Pay-Off For Months Of Effort

ISNT THE IDEA TO UNIFY ?

A new industrial plant which will employ some Obviously the leaders of Williamston and Mar-300 people witnin tne next year in the Williamston tin County who have worked diligently for months

area is.the kind of economic progress which will help boost the per capita income of Martin County, and other counties in this area.

The new plant represents a bright feather in the cap of our neighboring county and one which is

bringing to fruition the location of this new industry in their county. They recognize the need for additional manufacturing jobs if the county is to improve its economic status. Those leaders are to be commended for their success in the location of the

certain to add significantly to the annual manufac- new industry. The new jobs and the new payroll turing payroll of that county. While the initial an- will in turn help create other jobs and payrolls in nouncement of the new plant said 300 employes the county.

would be hired in the first year, there is good rea- For the counties of the East which have tra-

son to believe that ultimately there may be consid- ditionally had little industry, the route to per capita erably more people employed in the yam proces- incomes equal to those in more industrialized coun-sing operation. ties of the state is not easy, or quick. But with each

Like many other counties in this eastern agri- new plant such as the one announced for William-cultural area, Martin ranks in the last half of the ston, another step is taken in the right direction, not 100 counties of the state in per capita income. The just for the community immediately involved, but most recent study by the Department of Tax Re- for this entire section of the state, search ranks it in 65th place with a per capita in

come of $1.615 for the year 1966.

Electronics In

ruture Voting

Time Has Run Out On Taxes, Spending Cut

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bnreaa

RALEIGHAt some time in the future, voters may be able to cast ballots in an election simply by marking a punch crd and placing it in a slot

Then swiftly, almost instantly, the ballot would be Recorded by* computer . and flashed into a statewide electronic counting system and a central headquarters.

And by pushing a button, officials would know the exact up - to - the - minute count and standing of vari-our candidates at any given

slow.

Many Doubts

In most of North Carolinas 100 counties, voters continue to use paper ballots, marked by pencil and stuffed into a wooden box.

Only 19 of the counties use voting machines and in the most recent statewide election, May 4, there were complaints about these. In one county, Mecklenburg, it appeared that the machines tallied more votes than were

Within a short time after it reconvenes after its Memorial Day recess. Congress should take final action on the measure to enact an income tax surcharge and reduce federal spending.

The matter has dragged out much too long already. The delay has been costly to the nation in terms of balance of payments in terms of inflation which has continued at an unacceptable rate while Congress and the administration wrestled with the problem of taxes and spending.

Time has ran out for debating the issue. It is past time for Congress to enact its measure and then leave it to^e administration to respond. At the heart of th\^controversy is the insistence by the Hoqse that the administration effect a $6 billion reduction in federal spending in return for Congressional passage of the $10 billion surtax measure. The

Again

Here

in

Soirit

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -Memorial Day is a resurrection.

Millions of flowers, placed with loving hands, bloom upon a tidal wave of gravea tenanted by gathering millions of ours honored dead those fallen in war, those fallen in peace.

Housewives and warriort, farmers and statesmen, orphans and overlords, girls and grandfathers all sleep together in the tremendous democracy of deaths common pasture.

The earth itself is but a vast tomb and the living art but temporary wayfarers upon its surface. But on Memorial Day they walk in spirit again, hand in band, heart to heart, with those who lie unforgotten beneath the headstones. Memory welds anew a vanished unity*

By JAMES KILPATRICK

A Well-Deserved Rebuke

Court the strongest rebuke

Congress S

days

s would' be

S. ita M0theTwayM CmZ administration clings to ite position that any spend- ,3

ty, the voting machines ap- reduction beyond $4 billion would be disasterous

parently wiped out and eras- to the jiations domestic programs,

ed the votes cast by nearly

compromising the spending m wai^'nS*since"the tag. men thrpnlls closed. - -wte went to ihejdls. ^ roducSon in' the neighfeorhlt-t^of Is'biiuk" ffio f

difficulties in compromise has not been reached. proposal has a co -____

machines^ BiU there were as Perhaps Congress and the administration can branch of government spoken many or more difficultes the luxury of additional time to debate the such unmistekable terms,

in other counties matter and delay the decision. The nation, however, Roosevelts scheme failed

The State Bord of Elec- cannot afford further delay. Each additional day adoption, of course, but it

tions has now set up a bi- causes inflation to take a bigger bite out of the na-

tions economy and each additional day further weakens the position of the dollar in the worlds economy.

said bluntly that it wants to see a balance restored between the rights of a defendant and the rights of society. The step is long overdue.*

atatewide tota available instantly.

SoKialled projections of election results based on a few returns from certain key counties w(mld no longer be needed.

such weight as the jury feels it deserves under all the circumstances.

Under the Senate bill, the presence or absence cf a lawyer would be merely one fac-not necessarily a

SAL

OYLB

The problem of loss and reavement has stirred the sages of the ages, and these are a few of the thoughts they held:

Grief is crowned with con-

and 1

has a CO - equal ' provd Section 3S01'

minmg the issue of vuriinto Sit <_

WILLIAM

SHIRES

And perhaps the good old daysor nightsof suspen s e at poll closing time, and waiting for returns and county by oounty reports, the excitement and celebration, will be gone.

Not Foreaseable

The day of rapid electronic elation systems almost certainly will come some day but probably not in the foreseeable future in North Carolina.

State election officials know about such sj^tems. They have seen them in action. They have attended demonstrations and have received detailed plans for laying out a statewide election network connected to a central computer system.

The fact is, however, that there is a great deal of .suspicion about and objection to this sort of sophisticated voting system. Movement toward its adoption will be

partisan representative study group to try to find solutions to the unprecidented problems which occured ip the May 4 voting.

We are not looking cuses, says Alex executive secretary Board of Elections. ^Wcre trying to find solutions. 'This is designed to be a working groupa task forcewnich will help us find and solve problems and difficulti e s which occurred May 4, and which perhaps will never occur again.

Slow Process Were not backward, savs Brock. But the election process is a precious, reverent tradition in North Crolina. No one wants to see radical changes overnight.

For one thing. Brock says, voter education in use of voting machines is desirable. In counties which have antisingle shot voting laws, vot-. ers must know that the machines are adjusted to wipe out any ballot which is rot marked for a specified number of candidates ' in each race. Such single shot voting laws apply only to coun-ty-Iere! officessudi as county ccnmissioners and boards of educationyet the machines will void any ballot that does not show a vote for the required number of candidates, state as well as local.

Kennedy Family '-inally Beaten

had its effect nonetheless. Chief Justice Hu^s got the word. Many Americans, deeply concerned at the trend of Supreme Court decisions over the past ten years, will pray that Chief Justice Warren and his majority bloc prove equally attentive this time around. The Senate has

Crime Control Act of 1968. The section says that in Federal criminal prosecutions, a confession shall be admissible in evidence if it is voluntarily given. Trial judges are to review the circumstances in the absence of a jury. If a judge determines that a confession was in fact voluntary, according to conditions laid down in the act, he is to admit the confession and instruct the jury to give it

?ublic

1

rorum

By JACK BELL POBTL^D, Ore. (AP) -The Kenned]^ have finally lost an: election in an Oregon Democratic presidential pri-many that rubbed the winning sheen off Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. '

Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, an underdog, upset the New York senator in the first defeat 'ever handed to a member of the Kennedy family in more than a score of primaries and general elections in which they have been engag

ed.

The ultimate winner in Kennedys Oregon setback could be Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey He got on 1 y around 5 per cent of the vote by write - in.

But he was an indirect beneficiary of McCarthys derailing of the bandwagon Kennedy hopes to ride triui^hant-ly into the partys Cmcago nominating convention.

McCarthy restored his status as a top contender for the (Continued on Page 6)

Forty Years Ago

The Doily Reflector

INCORPORATID

Established 1882

Published AAonday Through Friday Afternoons and Sunday Morning

DAVID JUIIAN WHICHARD, Chirman of the Boerd

JOHN S. WHICHARD-DAVID J. WHICHARD

Publishers

Bmered at Post Office, Greenyllle. N.C. as secood elass mail matter

#

SUBSCRIPTION RATI5

Home Delivary By Carriei or Motor Route Woek 40t

By Mail, Payable in Advance

^ tis.00

six Montos ......... jjjp

Three Months ....................................**.*.** f.06

One Month ....................................... * ]

tPrtces laclnds sales tax trbere appHcaMa)

member of ASSOCIATE!} PRESS The Associated Prcas is exclusively entitled to use for publl. catloo all news dispatches credited to It or not otberwu credited to this paper and also the local news puMlshad... herein. All rlshta of publications of dlspatcbaa bate

are also rasenred.

By FOY H. DUNCAN May 30, 1928 Local Pe<^le Pay Homage To I^ad Heroes

With hundreds of poppies in evidence, conveying a grim reminder of the flower of young American manhood sleeping deaths long sleep in Flanders Field, Greenville, today paid homage to dead heroes of the world war . . . Although the exercises were not extensive as in recent years, the ^aves of the World War dead in local cemeteries were covered with a profusion of flowers by the loving hands of former buddies members of the local post of the Pitt County American Legion and the Womans Auxiliary. . .

There will be classes in house furnishing, basketry, arts and crafts and textiles at the short course for farm women. These classes will be from 9 to 11 a.m. and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. daily. Plan not to miss one. . .Do you know all about your oil stove? If not, see Mr. J. H. Hoisers demonstration Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the auditorium.

Short Course For Women And Girls

Miss Ruth McGowan has returned from Clayton, where she has been teaching.

Miss Geneva Exum has returned from Jacksonville, Florida and Savannah, Ga.

Miss Doris Hardee has returned from Louisburg College where she graduated.

Mrs. R. O. Long and Mrs. Lloyd Horton of Farmville were here yesterday.

To The Editor:

In regard to your article Jenkins Pledges to Push Fight which appeared on May 26, 1968, I could not help but notice the failure to give an accurate account of the reasons for the serving of both the warrants mentioned. No mention was made of the obvious connection between the warrant issued for Dr. Jenkins and that served on Paul Allen and Michael Ham-man. The very fact that an administration would imprison one of its own students for distributing material critical of it would seem to speak for itself. The material was not obscene, no more so than many books in the ECU book store itself. The book Essential Lenny Bruce contains every obscene word in the English language. Hie pamphlet contained two four-letter words. There was no prurient connection whatsoever, as the Supreme Court defined obscenity. The administration had the two arrested simply to retaliate for their embarrassing criticism. This will be demonstrated in the trial. Dr. Bingham signed his warrant to protest the repressive character of this administra-ti<m in their attempt to stifle dissent. If anyone would but read the pamphlet in question, he would understand what Dr. Bingham

meant. If the law is to be used in such an indiscriminate fashion, it can be applied both ways. This action will not go unnoticed, to be sure.

Robert Friedman 118 Park Drive ^ Greenville

To the Editor,

As we know from his enthusiastic support of the unconstitutional speaker ban law, Robert Morgan is not overly concerned with legal and constitutional niceties, but I am amazed that he seems not to respect a most basic right: that of any personno matter how unpopularto an unprejudiced trial. By distributing to the news media the intemperate and irrelevant statement that a young man now awaiting jury trial provided bail for a friend who is charged with possession of marijuana, Morgan has used his influential posi-fion to prejudice public opinion against tiie accused.

Officials who are not scrupulous in their concern for due process of law are surely more of a threat to law and order than is a student who possesses allegedly obscene pamphlets. In my opinion, Robert Morgan has disqualified himself as a credible lecturer on the subject of respect for the law.

Sincerely,

Myra Cain Greenville, N.C.

ness. Manifestly, this provision of the act is intended to override the high courts 5-4 decision in the famed Miranda case two years ago. The court then laid down such sweeping requirements for the advice of counsel that the use of confessions in evidence was rendered almost impossible.

As you might expect, the Senates refusal has evoked moans of anguish from knee-jerk liberals who bleed for the rights of rapists. The Washington Post, which goes into hysterics whenever Earl Warren sneezes, has been regaling its readers with horror stories of confessions obtained by the third-degree. You would suppose that police routinely exact confessions by thumbscrews and rubber hoses.

Sure enough, instances of coerced confessions have occurred. Too many of them. But there is not one line in the Senate bill that would condone the abhorrent practice. It is an insult to the whole of the Federal trial bench to imagine that such confessions would be received in the future.

The more applicable horror stories go in precisely the other direction.

Two months after the Miranda decision, a Brookl y n housewife came on trial for the murder of her four-year-old son. She had taped his mouth and beaten nim to death with a broomstick. She freely confessed. She had not had a lawyer. She went free. Miranda.

There was the case in New York of Jose Suarez, 22, a laundry worker. He killed his wife and five small children by stabbing them more than 100 times. Police arrested him. He confessed at once. No la\^r. Justice Michael Kern bitterly agreed that even an animal such as this one, and I believe this is in-

(Continned On Page f)

thy heart reprehend then not.Thomas a Kempis.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heartOld Testament.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord (^iit enter in?Oscar Wilde.

The soul is not where it lives but where it loves. Thomas Fuller.

Memory is the treasury of all things and their guardian.Cicero.

Memory is the one paradise out of which we cannot be driven.Sacha Guitry.

The things that were hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.Seneca.

How cruelly sweet arc tha echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart.Eliza Cook.

A sorrows crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.r-Alfred Tennyson.

Mankind are always bap-per for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy 28 years hence by the memory of it. Sydney Smith.

Fallen blossoms 1 e a v t their perfume behind.Japanese poverb.

He lives twice, who is able to find delight in the life that is pastMartial.

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.Homer.

Grief is itself a medicine.William Cowper.

Sickness is the prison of the body, and sorrow is tlie prison of the soul.Diogenes.

Sorrows draw not the dead to life, but the living to death.-Sir Walter Raleigh.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.Chinese proverb.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.Thom-(Continued On Page 6)Strength For Today Victory Of The Little People

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

AdverUxlnf rates and deadlines available Member Audit Bureau of CirculatioD.

upon request

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE DIVORCE PROBLEM We are horrified today by the increase in divorce. Thwe have been years when the number of divorces have equalled one-fourth the number of marriages for that year, or closely adjacent years.

Yet when we think about it the amazing fact would appear to be that there are not more divorces. Romance before marriage is an uncomplicated experience involving nothing but satisfac t i o n. What takes place is that after marriage certain responsibilities arise over which there is disagreement and frequently strife. Settled --dftwn in a home, the romantic couple have to decide endless questions every week involving their relations h i p with other persons, the way they will spend their own leisure time, the investments they will make, the time they will give to business, the ex

tent to which relatives may enter into their lives and perhaps dominate their households. Premarital romance is something very lovely, uncomplicated, suffused with an atmosphere of joy. Marriage is different. Marriage prima-ty, and it is over the respon-rily involves responsibility, and it is over the responsibilities of life that contracting couples often begin to wrangle. On their wedding day most couples are sure that they will accept give and take with joy and understanding, but within a few years many of them find that they are called upon to give what they do not want to give and to take what they do not want to take.

By ELMER ROESSNER Passage of the truth-in-lending law is hailed by consumer groups as the greatest consumer victory since the Boston Tea Party. Even more significant is the fact that it is a victory of little people over one of the most powerful aggregations of lobbyists in Washington.

Arrayed against the bill were lobbyists represent i ng banks, acceptance corporations, small loan companies, giant merchancfising cna 1 n s and mail order houses, borax houses and other credit sellers.

es with a lot of razzle-daz-le.

The Grass-Roots Lobby The proponents of the law, which, incidentally, is officially the Consumer Credit Protection Act, were a motley array. They have been fighting for the legislation ever since former Senator Paul Douglas, D., 111., introduced it nine years ago. Last year Douglas was defeated by Charles Percy.

When children arrive the responsibility increases. Do we wonder at divorce? Is it not amazing that we make as much of a success out of marriage as we do?

Banks, however, were divided in their opposition to the bill, although they did not flaunt their position in front of certain customers. Banks, who have been pretty frank in describing interest rates, will now have less competition from lenders who have been concealing higher rat^

originally from farmers workers search for cheaper credit.

They had the vigorous support of Sen. William Prox-mire, D., Wis., who took over the fight in the Senate after Douglass departure; Congresswoman Leonor Sullivan, D., Mo., who led the fight in the House for a stronger bill than the Senate passed, Congressman Henry Gonzales, D., Tex.; Speaker John W. McCormack, D., Mass., who, using parliamentary law to the limit, got the conference report on the bill to a House vote in record time.

Other Presiure Sources

President Johnson gets large share of credit

a

be-

cause he made iruth-in-lend-

The best organized supporters of the legislation were labor unions. Close second were the credit unions, who sprang

his

pro-

Ing his No. 1 issue in consumer legislation gram, and Betty Furness, pis special assistant for consumer affairs, did a lot of drum beating.

Civil rights groupB, too, helped. It has been alleged, ffiat much of the Negro rioting resulted from anger at ghetto credit retailers who imposed usurious charges on the poor and ignorant. Certainly some of the first targets for looting and arsop were many of these retail ea-tablishments.

But the most powerful pressure of all came from the little people. All over the country people have been writing and talking to tlieir Con-CTessmen. Womens clubs nave been resolving, PTAi have been passing resolute ions, union members and their wives have been writing letters.

The truth-in-lending law is a demonstration of what the voters can do when they really turn the pressure on. Tlie long-term ^ffecti of this lesson may be far greater than the reforms embodied in the new law. fc-*

I