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vorkingr pen^ of Amencans aud the increasins What about the youngster born in 1961? Suu.

tendency in business and industry toward earlier pose in his lifetime advancement in medical science

compulsory rerement. continues to increase the life span consideraWy

From the Bureau of Health. Education and *'* P^sont estimated average of 70.2 years.

Welfare came the announcement that the average w " 6 or early 60s?

lif expectancey for American born in 1961 is T0.2 *, * ^ i lenfirthemng of the average life span,

years, notching another top point in the upward . also come a lengthening of the productive

curve of lice expectancy, people. These factors present an argu-

a , w , , ^ for re-evaluating of the trend toward pushing

A few days later President Kennedy addressed the compulsory retirement downward, rather than a group of Peace Corps volunteers who had conr upward, pleted their training and were headed to overseas assignments. These Peace Corps members were iu*t the usual youngsters*. They were men and women ill their 60s and 70s who had volunteered to devote some of their remaining productive years to helping underdeveloped countries.

Weigh these items against the prevailing belief that when a person reaches the shady side of 50 The Civil Aeronautcs Board has indicated by he should begin thinking of retiring and by the its most recent announcement that it intends to ex-time he s 6a he should be put to pasture. In many pedite its investigation into the feasibility of & positions today, a man 62 knows that in three more i^gional airport for Eastern North Carolina, years he will face compulsory retirement. Mavbe Snrh an attifn/ig u

he-s ready to Uke it easy, but maybe al.o hes till often matte^Uke'routt o- ometm Vigorous and has much to contribute in productive niore for a decision is in thp hpsf infT-ocf rfr work. He hates to think of getting up in the morn- TeXn of the

ing without a job to go to. It as last week that the CAB announced that

A person 62 today was born in 1900. His life bad authorized the investigation recommended expectancy, when he was born in the United States ^ome months ago by its Bureau of Economic Regu-at the turn of the century was 47 years. But hes lotion. The board has now set the pre-hearing con-outlived this average by 15 years already and is fcrence on the matter for October 5 at which time

parties to the subsequent investigation will be ascet-

Trial Balloon

CAB Has Displayed Real Interest In Area

Another 'First

.^or Hertfore.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

FIRST Chalk up another first for historic Hertford County which always manages to have a Rood strong voice in high and strategic places around the ci^Dital.

Hertfords new state representative, Roberts Jemlgan Jr., of Ahoskie, became the first men to take the oath of public office in North Carolinas new state iKHise.

Jemlgan attended by a large delegatim from back lunne and by a number of ^ate officials who hail from Hertford.

Taking part in the swearing-in ceremony in the still unfinished chamber of the House were Jemigans father-in-law. Superior Court judge Clawson Williams of Sanford, and Secretary of State Thad Eure.

Eure is a native of Hertford County and his Raleigh home is named Hertford Hall.

POLITTCSIt was being called "Hertford County Day because of the numbers of political figures from the Eastern county in Raleigh for the occasioa Jemigan was the choice of the Hertford County Democratic Executive committee to succeed resigned Rep. Roger Jackson Jr., who is now public relations chief and assistant to the chairman of the State Highway Commission.

Jackson defeated Jemigan in a primary for the legislature in 1960. Jemigan then defeated Ned Evans In the primary this year to become the nominee for the 1963 legislature.

His appointment to succeed Jackson was a formality on the part of the governor after being named by the county executive committee.

CORDIAL Previous political differences which had been quite sharp back home appeared to have almost disappeared In the atmosi*ere of Hertford County fellowship. Jackson said be had written Jemlgan to congratulate him and said Ive had my day, now Its your turn. Jackson, of course, was among the Hertford Countians on hand for the "first at the State House.

After the ceremony, another official from Hertford, Highway chairman Merrill Evans, gave the new representative a red-carpet "briefing in the

Highway Buildfiig. A similar get - together was staged at the C&D department.

PRESS - The 1961 House Speaker, veteran legislator Joseph M. Hunt Jr. of Greensboro, says he favors free and unrestricted access for reporters to the floor in the new State House, *

Hunt, now running for the Senate, and an unannounced candidate for governor hi 1964, says he is opposed to any move

tained officially and presumable dates and sites for subsequent gathering of testimony will be set.

The matter of the investigation is of utmost importance to all of this section of the state. The sooner, >vithin reason, the hearing examiners and the CAB, the better it will be for Eastern North Carolina. The results, in all probability, will determine By GEORGE SOKOLSKY the course Eastern Carolina communities will follow in the future as they attempt to improve the quality of commercial air service in this part of the state.

The atmosphere will be cleared. The concept which should be followedan area air facility or indepen-

The Rise Of Secularism

dent efforts for air service by the separate communitieswill be fairly well established.

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i5y ordering the official investigation, the CAB successes of the Communist evidenced its genuine interest in the matter of com- ^'^>ltion is the increase of

the state, and by

arranging for beginning the in\^stigation without Marx and Lenin regarded reli-

. ^ delay the CAB has further indicated its interest in ^ opiate for the peo-

appreciation of the problem faced by this area.

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feel newsmen would be able to do their jobs from a balcraiy-like press gallery and that forbidding reporters to go onto the floor to question legislators would be against the public interest.

SAFETY North Carolina highway department safety program Is receiving the highest sort of praise imitatiwi.

The latest state interested in setting up a safety pn^ram for highway department personnel and employes engaged in highway department work is Delaware. Delaware officials have been in correspondence with highway deparnent safety director Herb Hardy, asking for detailed information on the way North Carolina ^handles its program.

The work Hardy directs already has received special praise from national groups. Delaware officials, in making their request, pointed out that North Carolinas prt^ram is recognized as very likely the best and most efficient in the nation.

Hardy, beaming^ with pride, not only assembled the materials. data and information but extended an invitation to the Delaware people to come to the Tar Heel state and see for themselves.

GOP The state Republican party, which lost its state chairman with the Julv resignation of William E. <BU1) Cobb, also lost its vice chairman this week.

Miss Stella Rutledge of Charlotte resigned, saying her party duties had interfered with her job. She sent her resignation to new state chairman Robert Gavin of Sanford and pledged continued interest in the growth and activity of the Republican party in the state.

Gavin was named at an August 1 meeting in Greensboro to succeed Cobb.

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) It was Labor Day in the year 1997, just 35 years from now,

A great trim white yacht stood at anchor in the East River off Manhattan.

At ease on its deck sat handsome Henry Palmer Bucks-bound, the famous business tycoon. smoking a $2 cigar and brushing the ashes from his $450 vicuna sports jacket.

At his feet sat his three current chorus girl favoritesRosebud la Lulu, Gloria Glamour

and Tawny Hyde._

"Lets go to Southampton for a swim and a lobster dinner, Daddykins, suggested Rosebud, "Tomorrow, grunted Henry. "Cant today. Have to go to the office.

"But Labor Days a holiday, said Tawny, Nobody works on Labor Day except bus drivers, policemen, pickpockets, and "And your Daddykins, finished Henry. Shall I tell you why?

The girls looked at each o^h-er restlessly. They hated Dad-d.vkins long storiesbut, after all, he did buy such nice big diamonds. Dutifully, they leaned back to listen.

"Back in 1962. began Henry. "I was a young clerk in the shipping department. So was my best friend. Jim Broad-beam. We were both courting a secretary, Amelia Bland.

"I was supposed to take Amelia to the beach on Labor Day, but the night before I lost all my money in a poker game. So Jim took Amelia instead, and she was so mad at me that when he proposed to her on the boat ride back she up and accepted him.

"Having nothing else to do, I went into the office that morning to clean up some orders I should have sent out the week befort}. Old J. P. McGrimhe ran the firm thencame ip and saw me. and said. Tn glad somebody around this place be-side.s me thinks of something besides play.

"The next week I got a raise and a promotion. That taught me all I needed to know.

"When Thanksgiving rolled around old McGrim came in and .saw' me at my desk, and made me head of the depait-ment."

Henry to.s.sed his cigar on the deck aud squashed it out

with his $175 alligator shoes.

"After that, he continued, the rest of the staff worked between holidaysand I worked only on holidays. Old J. P., who had come up the hard way, was more and more Impressed.

"He made me his assistant, then president, and chairman of the board when he retired. When he died he left me his fortune, and Id have g(me to his funeral except it was on the 4th of Julyand I felt I should be in the office for fear, even then, he might show op and find me missing,

"What happened to Jim and Amelia? asked Rosebud,

"Oh. Jims still in the shipping department, said%enry. "They had six kids. They all work for me now, too.

"Maybe if you had gone to the beach that day with Amelia instead of going to the office, shed have married youdont you ever think of that? suggested Gloria.

"Yes, I do, said Henry. "I saw Amelia at an office dinner last year, and I must admit she has something you girls dont have.

"What? the three girls chorused.

"Wrinkles, chuckled Henry. Well, cuties. I'll have to leave you now'. I still go into the office on holidays as a sentimental gesture.

"Whatll you do if you find a young man working there, just as old Mr. McGrim found you oil Labor Day 35 years ago? Tawny asked. "Whatll you do?

"Fire him, of course: said Henry Palmer Bucksbound. "You cant trust a man like that.

Moral: Never work on your holidays. Even if It doesn't cost' you your job. In the end it will only make you old and rich and surrounded with pretty girls.

mainder of the populatiwi in thraU.

The American culture Is a direct development of three historic characteristics:

1, The Juda^J-Christian civilization as it developed in Western Europe after the Third Century;

2. Anglo-Saxon legal traditicms reaching its codification In the Magna Carta, the development of Parliament, the steady growth of the rights of the Individual as evidence of the dignity of Man and the equality of Man as children of one God. This finds its noblest expression

In the Introductory statement of the Dedaratim of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson;

3, Calvinism, based largely upon the Old Testament, and brought to this country In the form of Puritanism which influenced American thinking during the first two centuries of the presence of Western Europeans cm this ccHitinrat. Quaker, Moravian, Mennonlte, Baptist, as well as the Puritans, were strongly Influenced by Calvinism.

The Roman Catholic Church did not appear in this country when the Irish arrived in Boston. Maryland was founded in 1634 by Roman Catholic refugees who were persecuted In England. At the time of the Revolution, the Carroll family of Maryland played a ccmsiderable role. Charles Carroll signed the Declaration of Independence and Dan Carroll, the Constitution. Cardinal Bellarmins concepts undoubtedly were known to Jefferson who based the Declaration

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of Independence upon the phll-oscajhy <rf Natural Law which of course, recognizes Natures God and "Natures Law.

The Jews first appeared here In 1654. They settled in N e w York when it was a Dutch Colony, New Amsterdam. There were soon settlemoits in Philadelphia. Newport, Rhode Island, Charlest(m, South Carolina and other cities. These Jews were mostly Sephardic that is, from Western Europe, principally Spain, Portugal and Holland, although there were English and even Polish Jews during the Revolution. These were religious Jews and their social preoccupations was with the Synagogue.

The Judaic-Christlan civilization concerns itself with God and with Mans relationship to God, Perhaps the simplest definition of God is in Matthew Arnold who describes a Power outside ourselves that make for righteousness. The essence of such religlOTs is morality and morality finds its basis for Jews and Christians In the Moral Law

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(Richmond News Leader)

Last spring a study made by the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency concluded that the American econmny could well afford the consequences of disarmament If, when, and supposing this country should decide uponsvsigaclT a policy. The second part study, circulated last week, analyzes in detail what would happen. Although the U, S. as a whole could easily take up the slack of a big cut in spending, a few States over-burdened with military installations and defense plants in their economies would be staggered by the blow. Virginia would be third or fourth from the top in the list of crippled States. Right now, about ten per cent of the gross national production and of the labor pool goes directly and Indirectly into arms and defense. Although sizeable reductions would have to be made immediately in any disarmament plan, an average cut of less than one per cent of the GNP could be accommodated. After World War n, the percentage devoted to defense was rapidly slashed from 40 to 10; and after the Korean War. from 13 to 10, With proper transitional precautions, a one p>er cent annual reduction would cause no serious problems.

However, its a difficult score when the statistics are brought out for particular areas. Virginias military and service installations in Arlington, Hampton Roads, and elsewhere in

ject more than a billion dollars every year into the Old Dominions economy, 15 per cent of the total. Only California, 'Texas, and New York have higher Federal payrolls for defense. Nearly 10 per cent of Virginias one million civilian, non-agricultural workers are em-. ployed in government defense agencies or defense industries.

If the talks at Geneva continue to proceed at resort-city pace, there is no need to get worried immediately about the consequences of disarmament. But Virginia should draw a lesson from the figures chalked on the board: the Cixnmon-wealths economy is swollen to an artificial size. The study itself is prefaced with a clear warning:

It must be stressed that the allocation of resources to purely military purposes is not an economibally creative process, except in an incidental way. It yields * relatively few goods or services which contribute to the enrichment of individual lives or to the growth of the national economy.

The study, then, makes a strong point. Virginia needs to lessen its dependence on military spending. A more diversified and larger industrial growth would in itself lower the armament proportion. Such growth would be economically creative in itself. And if the oppressed peoples of the world ever sec the freedom that will make disarmament possible, both the nation and Virginia would be prepared to disarm.

"Really, having brought him all that distance, theres no .'liensible reason the bride shouldn't go ahead and carry the groom on across the thre.'ihhold.''Tonopah (Nev.) Bonanza-

as revealed in the Ten Com mandments and for Christians also in the Beatitudes of Jesus Christ.

This, then, is the doctrinal basis of our civilization. Without It, we get lost In a maze of secularism with guidance and without goal.

In our age, instead of the voice of God leading the people, we have come to believe that the voice of the people, no matter how untrained, how literate or Illiterate, how wise or^ moronic, is the voice of God.

The next step Inevitably Is the omission of God and the recognition of Man as the center of the universe. This, often, is called Humanism the universe is a product of Mans discovery, and therefore of Mans knowledge. What Man does not know does not exist until Man discovers it.

Thus, morals are comparative and of the moment. This Is the essential of Marxist sociology and is profoundly influencing this era. Even clergymen of many denominations reject the accumulation of experience which leads to the conclusion that when Man abandons his ancestral morality, which exists Is a religious frame, crime, perversions, broken homes, delinquency Increase. That Is our current experience, as J. Edgar Hoover reports year by year.

Secularism affects our political Institutions as Is evidenced by current Supreme Court Decisions which in several cases have, in effect, legislated against the employment of tax money for character-building by means of religious precept. The moral sanction of social pressure has lost Its force and the people (Continued from page 10)

Africa Will Be. A Rival

By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK. Mass.-Dur. mg my many years in bualnafla the (mly bad vesteunit I hava made was in the lobster boai-n^. TUa 1 am now selling out at a loss, although Uie company has paid all debts and has some money in the bank to distribute to stockholders. This company was the largest distributor of live lobsters in the world, selling at one time about five million live lobsters annually.

COMPETING WITH AFRICA

Suddenly "lobster tails'* began being Imported from Southern Africa. I visited there three years ago to learn about Africa. Last year over fifteen mlUlon lobster tails came to the nuited States. It was too much for our company to compete ^rainst. with our antiquated plant and high labor costs andr heavy overhead, and with vessels operating from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Live lobsters wyi always be in demand and small operators can trap lobsters near shore hre at home and make good money; but expenses must be kept low.

If you eat'at the very best hotel in any city and order boiled or stuffed whole lobster, it must come from the East Coast of New England or Canada and not from Africa; but If you order w lobster salad In many parts of the United l^ates chances are It will be made ot lobster meat Imported from Africa. So much for thatl LOBSTERS ARE AN INTERESTING STUDY P Lobsters are wonderful, biologically and chemically, if a lobster loses a "leg, it can grow another which Is something you cannot do. Lobsters go into hiding and climb out of their shell once a year In a most remarkable manner. During this time the mother lobster lay* 10,000 eggs.

(2) Thus far no profitable way has bei found to dehydrato lobsters or to stop their spoU-Ing by any process. . . .whllo preserving their delectable flavor. The housewife is c(xitent to buy dead fish In fact this Is the only kind she can buy but she will not buy dead whole lobsters! People will be watching live lobsters which have been dnaped into hot water turn from green to red 100 or more years from now, as the New England legislators will try to protect the Industry by fixing big fines for selling ."short lobsters.

WHAT AFRICA HAS DONE TO ME, IT CAN DO TO YOU However, the purpose of this column Is not to "cry on the shoulders of readers because I have lost money from lobster Imports. Rather, I want to warn manufacturers all over the U. S. that they may suffer the same from African Imports. Africa has over 200,000,000 native Ne- ^ groes who are Just waking up against only 2,000,000 whites. The Africans have a very low cost of living, wanting almost no clothes and being content with a mud hut to live In.

Africa Is rich in natural resources gold, copper, Inm, and all the metals, including mountains of uranium. Africa has the greatest undeveloped waterpowers in the world. Italy, which now leads the world In the manufacture of plastics and synthetics, Is teaching the African natives to manufacture textiles and other products to compete with what we are making here in the United .States. AFRICAN NEGROES MAT CONTROL THE UNITED NATIONS What Africa has done to m#

In forcing me out of the lobster business it could do to many readers of this column in every state of our union. Remember, too, that CecH Rhodes said the Negroes would som* day control the world. This becomes an even more reaUstlo possibility when it Is recognized that, as the United Nation* Council Is now set up. each on* of these new smaD African republics 95 per cent black has the same vote on the Council as does the United States or any other great nation of the world.

Russia does not fear us and will not go to war over Berlin. It Is China and Africa which Russia fears. President Kennedy Is wise In backing the Negroes of this country In their struggle for equal rights. And (Continued on page 10)

Not One Of The Best Labor Days

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Filty yea I S ai;o the laboriiq; mail was an industrial s 1 a v e with an iron collar about hi.s neck Industry raised an awlnl row when it was proposed that the twelve hou'- day be qiven up and eight hour day adopted. Collective bargaining has proven to be the best things that has even happened to the laboring man.

But tiiesc clianged condition.s ha\e created grave problems. Labor unions are sometimes a.s tyrannical as were the most cruel mine and mill owners in the pa.'-t UnioniMti .sonieilmc.s protects laziiKl.'s. in every area of manuiacturinp prices added to products because of wo k that is not done but ne\erthc Irs.s ha.s to bp pald vfor.

LBbof unions on the whole

are a national as.set and a bl(\ss-ing to the laboring man. But we will never have freedom unles.s men have the right lu choose whether they will or will not belong to a union. Fuithermore, there are outrageous practices, some of w'hich need to be eliminated. others modiiied Coope-atioii and patience are the key words. Without collective bargaining we would have chaos and cruelty. With it v.c often have injustice and tyranny. In the ^realm of labor relationships we must have balance with the rights of la-

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Flags may wave, band.s may play and men may march, but IhLs Is not one of the best of all Labor Days. In fact, it is quite a soriy one.

The labor movement Is .seii-oii.ly split. Cleavages that began in 1960 and 1961 have widened. Jamc.s R. Hoffa, head of the Team.ster.s Union, is continuing gterilla tactics against the APL-CTO. George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, and Walter P. Reuther, vice president and head of the United Auto Workers. ^are publicly friends and privately engaged in a wrestle for power and control of the organization.

Three, not one. labor movements are possible.

^en wbrse. from labors poiift of view, is the White Houses divorcement from labor Influence.

bor, capital, and the public equally considered. We have taken a road on which the^re"- pcVfilTIf AI SWAY can Ije no turning back, but let FADES AWAY tis not succumb to stupidity, tyranny. or the liust for power.

The Good Bonks tells us that llie labcrrr is worthy of his hire (Luke 10:7;.. He 1.

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Since PresicleiU Kennedy may have won office by only a hancl-ful of labor votes, both lat)oi and indiifilij! e.xpectefi (nr feared. as the case may he; that

labor could write its own ticket.

But Kennedy is now writing the ticket. Labor has been wam-'(1 that it niust be nioderate in Its demancis, as in the steel case, and its demand for a 35-hour week has been firmly trod on by the Kennedy hrogans.

Labor, which expected to have the key to the front door to the White Hou.se, lia.s to knock before , being admitted to the scullery entranc(>.

The 35-hour campaign by itself did not help the labor movement. Most people agree ihat the 35-hour week will come eventually. But shouting for It ju.st when Ru.ssia has scored new .space triumphs over the United State.s wdth work based on a 48- or 44-hour weekan(i just when most people were convinced that Americans had to work halfier to save their skin from an atomic scorching aroused only resentment. Tlirrr were even some wlio felt that labor w'as a.skiug America to concede leadership to the Rn.'islan.s .gi.st so union mrinbers could (jnjoy the 3'5-hour week.

Strikes at missile bases did nothing to quiet this feeling. MEMBERSHIP DOWN

The steady attrition of membership in re<nt years is worry-litg union leadership. But the fact that the crop of war ba-biffe is just about entering the labor market is worrying them nWte'. V

The Vuinber of employables will swell, just as union memberships decline. Newcomers in the labor market will be more Interested in getting jobs than in joining unions, and Unions face the double threat: the newcomers win be reluctant to join unless they see something in them for themselves, and they will be willing to work for less than union scales if they get hungry enough.

The possibility of a number of unpopular strikes Is doing labor no good. The public is annoyed by strikes, at least in direct ratio to their inconven-Irnce. The threat of a railroad .vtrjke is especially unpopular. Tlie public, whether in consequence of shrewd railroad prop

aganda or by astute weighinf of the issues, is largely c<mi-vinced that featherbedding la an evil and that the purpose (rf the strike ia to preserve no-work jobs.

NOT ALL CAN MOTOR OR FLY

Another large section of th* public the commuters blame unlcwis for the steady ris* in commutation rates and look upon a railroad strike as a conspiracy to make ctxnmuters pay more money.

A strike In this sector would sharpen animosity because so many commuters, not having planes or autos, would be unable to get to work and per-sonl and business losses would be heavy.

Rarely has a Labor Day found union organizers In such an unenviable situation.

Ahead of leaders and ranks 11* only the prospects of profitless demands for more wages and more benefits. These will be profitle.ss becauiie as .workera niake gains, the resuitlng price hicrcase will snatch them away.

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