TuMday, October 16, 1962

Hodges Poor Could Be Reopened

Did statements in North Carolina political not be-reopened under proper circumstances. Obvi-circlea last* week mark the end to speculation that ously many things could happen between now and former governor Luther Hodges might again seek 1964 to cause former governor Hodges to change the post of the states chief executive, or did h his mind about running for the states top office

stieh speeulation? -again. ATTmng thenr ctroid^^ be eonditioTiE frr thw^'na-By all logical applications, the former gover- tional administration between now and then, or Conners statement in Charlotte on Friday should have ditions in either the Democratic or Republican brought down the curtain on speculation that he parties in North arolina, or a combination of all might be a candidate for governor again in 1964. three.

But it contained just enough subtle uncertainty Vo For the moment, former governor" Hodges has permit the subject to be brought up again before removed himself from a bid for the governorship the gubernatorial campaign two years from now two years from now. But it will be surprising if the It all started In Washington a couple of weeks matter isnt brought up againperhaps more than ago when IJodgcs was asked if he planned to seek oncebetween now and the closing dates for can-the post of governor of North Carolina ^or anothei didates to file for the Democratic Primary in North term. Hodges reply w^as that he would talk about, Carolina in 1964. the possibility when he visited Charlotte last week.

That w'as just enough to .set political grapevines an.i news wires humming. In Charlotte he said he had no political plans now except to serve as Secretary of Commerce under President Kennedy He addei that when he left the governors mansion in 1961,

T did not plan to seek the office again and nothing has happened since then to make me change my mind. -

The statement was about as final as a political leader in Hodges place could be expected to make, but it didnt shut the door so tightly that it could

Sanford Backs 6 Amendments

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Bj WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SUPPORT Governor Sanford has thrown hla sui^rt behind all aiz of the consUtutim-al amendments appearing on the November .4 baUet, deserib-tna them as desirable.

Sanford has been uitrtng especially approval of the court reform amendment, first of the six listed on the ballot. This is the me which has been most widely discussed, which apparently has stirred up more public interest and controversy and which observers feel may be in definite danger of being rejected.

Newvnm wanted to know how Sanford stood on the other five mefidmmts. Does he support them?

Yes. Sanford said. And he urged careful conaideration (rf all six by the voters.

PATTESIN The amend-mrats. Sanford said, were the result of careful ^dy and he feels they u-e in the pattern of North Carolinas traditional approach to its century-old state constitution.

The people and the legislature. he said, have rejected suggestions to junk the old cm-.stltutim and write a new one. So the approach has been that from time to time the const!-

governor from his duties upon physical incapacity and for their resumption upon his recovery, provision for determing the governors mental incapacity, provision to empower the governor to appoint acting officers to perform the duties of the office of members of the council of state or attorney general until a successor may be elected or appointed: providing for emergen-cy^ temporary reniov&l of the seat of state government and its functicMi from Raleigh.

Amendment No. 4 To authorize the General Assembly to reduce residence requirements for voting in presidential elections.

Amendment No. 5 To empower the General Assembly to fix and regulate salaries of elective state officials during their terms of office.

Amendment No. 6 To provide for uniform statewide classification and exemption of property for taxation, with exclusive authority to classify and grant exemptions vested in the General Assembly.

SPEAK The governor has been speaking at length on various occasions about the court reform amendment, touching many points.

He declined, however, to com-

Free World Learning To Live With Crises

\Ve are living in an age when free men must learn to live with crises as the rule, rather than tha^ exception.*

These words of Vice President Lyndon Johnson serve only to point up a fact of which most people have been aware for years. The series of crises that have beset the free world for the past two decades have conditioned free men to expect difficulties day after day, with only short periods of relative calm. Indeed, we have lived in an age la which crises were the rule.

Although the situation may continue for years tc come, people of the free world would make a grave mistake to a.s^ume they can do nothing to alter the series of crises. They have learned to livo with tensions of the gravest nature. They have also learned they can continue to move forward in the

face of adverse tensions. p,, WTTNIPV l-TOIXTADTY

If the free world has one major fault in facing ^ xv x J1.L WAitU

the future, it is the lack of confidence in its own t 11 ability, reflected by its outward reaction to crises.

The free world has allowed the initiative in directing international events slip from its hands.

It has, followed the course of reacting to events which precipitated cri.se8, rather than seizing the ,

initiat^e to shape the course of international even'^ ly! pi b to

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We have learned to live in an age wdth crises hands: as the rule rather than the exception. We must now of all the ds, ands and buts, learn to move forward more vieorously and more twLa*'' Amertean' positively, shaping our course rather than having Here comes news that joining it shaped for us by the inertia on our part which he lo million with dual vehicles allows many of the crises to develop. V'b e'tte?

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You never know what to expect next when you find that in Soviet Russia, cradle of modern Red communism, theres another Madison Avenue of sorts. Tis hard to believe that

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High level State Officials are plugging with all their might to educate the Voters to support Court Reform. Tremendous sums of mwiey has been expended and nobody seems to know just what Funds have been used. This Lawyers Bill

upon ratification. When the Constitution is changed, no further Legislative action will be permitted.

If our Law Makers want to really help the mass majority of people, they will pass Leg-Islatlon to make a uniform bill of cost and place Magistrates

30 to 40 Russian ad agencies this year will be capitalistically competing for the $40 million to be spent by Soviet companies on advertising. . .

. . .And Unlvac machines never know when to quit. Following a months-long experiment by Yardley of London and a dozen Unlvac experts, a lady has now but to fUl out a form and a computer will tell her what make-up will make her most irresistable. . .

In Tokyo, theres a new craft-manship course available. Its calloii an industrial "Spy School" where students pay about 6,000 yen ($18.50) a month

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This, he said, is what the six-amendments are designed to do.

Actually when the amendments were drafted and approved by the legislature it had been hoped that they would be voted on in 1961. But legal op-Inicm was that they must be held for another year, until November. 1962.

PROPOaALS Brieny this Is what each of the other amendments would do;

"Amendment No, 2 Provide for automatic reapportionment the State House of Representatives by the Speaker on the basis of 120 members and on the existing cmistitutional formula a/ter,each federal cen-sus. The conatitutional presently provides for such reappor-tienment to be done by the General Assentbly as a while and the ammsdment would substitute order of the House Speaker for the legislative actim.

Amendment No. 3 This actually is a group of amendments which would clarify and add to constitutional provisions for suc-ctMitm to the office of governor and lieutenant-governor upon death, resignation or removal frwn office, or temporary physical or mental Incapacity. It provides for statutory procedures for voluntary relief of the

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jrdposai delivered by superior Court Judge Frank M. Arm-strwig of Troy, a leading opponent of the court reform proposal.

The governor told newsmen he does not believe that establishing of a uniform system of inferior courts would be vastly more expensive, or that expense involved in administering the judicial system would be a major consideration.

Sanford did speak out and heatedly in reply to criticism by a Republican legislator, William Osteen of Greensboro, who said Sanfords use of press conferences and public school tours to promote his education program was political.

"I dont think it's political." Sanford said. "If it is, its politics in the very best sense of the word.

OTHER Sanford clearly Indicated to newsmen that he feels that investigation of Communist activity are being conducted adequately by the FBI.

This came in reply tc question* about a Chapel Hill American Legion resolution ?.::king for investigation of Communist activities at the Univer.sity of North Carolina. The governor said he felt that the question of the need for such an investigation "has been adequately answered.

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the prospects for passage of the Law looked good.

Organized opposititm has exposed some facts that are causing widespread concern. The State ha.s a large number of fine people w'ho are Magistrates, but their Courts have been ridiculed. The State also has a large number of respectable Recorders Courts that are now referred to as Inferior Courts operated in a hodge-podge manner. The Critics of preiwsnt courts will never win by using derogatory tactics.

The new law is designed to set up a Centralized Court System, under the control of a General Court of Justice that will abolish every Recorders Court and replace them with County District Courts. This would take us right back where we were in the early nineteen hundreds. Everybody Including Officers had to sit through long and tiresome sessions of Court waiting for their cases to be called. Prisoners were jailed for longer lengths of time.

The General Assembly pas.s-ed Legislation to authorize Cities and Towns with sufficient population to have their own Courts. This was an answer to general State-wide complaints about loss of time and travel, plus expense, just waiting for slow moving Courts to try minor offenses.

The new Law does not provide for a special election for the new Judges of the District Courts and Section 17 would In all probability allow the Governor to appoint them. This plus the appointment of one or more Magistrates to work with the Di.strict Courts, would be one long list of patronage t-wards, thus denying the people their rights to elect their public officials.

Feace Officers have no guarantee that the small amount of Court Cost now assessed in each case for their retirement funds would continue.

Most counties would be forc-cdtto float bond issues to build the additional Court Houses to replace the ones that we already have bought and paid for.

this new and untried Law would take effect Immediately

the amount of work they are performing.

Yours truly,

Wayland D. McGlohon Ayden

Ooinions

"Both trade unions and employers have become technically irresponsible. Wage demands are continually made and continually met with little regard to the interests of the people as a whole ofr the well-being of the economy. Prices rise steadily.London Times.

There is too much talk today about the profits of business being excessive. The critics of profits never mention the fact that government would be flat-busted with its excessive cost of operation, if it were not for profits to tax. Industrial New's Review.

"The voice of the individual can be made to count if enough individuals reaffirm their willingness to accept local responsibility. Monte Vista tColo.) Journal,

An unintelligent, ovcr-emo-tional, angry battle on what to do with Cuba will help no one.Christian Science Monitor.

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, (Charlotte Observer)

The meeting of the Charlotte Housing Authority and the City Council this afternoon should clear away a good deal of cm-fusion about urban redevelopment and its impact on the low-rent housing market in Charlotte.

The issue broke into print some days ago when officials of the Urban Renewal Administration in Atlanta held up further funds for Phase Two of the Brooklyn clearance project.

The URA officials did not say specifically that Charlotte would have to build additional public housing units for {displaced Brooklyn families. But they rejected Charlottes alternative approach the use of local funds to subsidize these familiesas being too vague.

That seemed to put urban redevelopment in the position of creating a need for more public housing.

But urban redevelopment is not the culprit. As Douglas Con-nah explained in the Sunday Observer, many forces are at w'ork in Charlotte that will increase the demand for the inadequate supply of low-rent housing.

For example, enforcement of the citys new housing code has already brought about the demolition of 187 substandard dwelling units, half of them occupied. Inthe next two years, further demolition will displace at least 450 families, possibly more;

In addition, the Northwest Expressway will knock out dwelling units now housing 516 families. The North-South Expressway, still in tjie future, will eliminate other low-rent housing units.

Then there is the continued migration of farm workers to this urban center. Many of them have few if any skills. Their incomes are low.

And finally there Is the growing problem of providing low-

rent housing for the ever-increasing number of elderly persons. This is a need to which the council has not even begun to pay attention.

to learn "how toi atcal a competitors sales program and how to keep him from stealing yours.. . .

. . .And Tokyo now has 13 TV channels. Maybe theres a correlation.

. . .Back Stateside, frozen food dented the tin can industry, but its again on the rise. Since 1956, soft drinks in cans have climbed 176 per cent. Those in the Industry figure five per cent of the carbonated beverage market will be in cans by the years end. Thats 1.8 billion units, 160,000 t(ms of tin plate and $66 million more for the canning industry. Conclusion is: new boom up tin-can alley. . .

A little closer home still: mounds, bales, piles, stacks and bagfuls of cigarette empties continue to grow in size and number in the already tax-stori

lege. At one point, services of a full-fledged moving van were requited to move the ci|gie-empties from the college union to the gym for counting. . . .

Charles Ervin, a leading Charlotte homebuilder who ha.s tried building good houses to sell at less than $10,(X)0, told city officials at the Chamber of Commerce Friday that the problem cant be solved by making home owners out of displaced persons. They either lack the income to buy or they cant qualify as good credit risks, he said.

Moreover, Ervin said that private builders cannot build and maintain quality low-rent units at todays construction costs.

The City Council has given private industry an ample opportunity to show that It can meet the great need for low-rent housing in this community.

If Ervin is right, and he should know, the time has come for the council to ask the housing authority to propose a plan that will provide decent housing for displaced persons and for the elderly at rents they can afford.

Charlotte has only 1,420 public housing units, has not built any since 1952.

Meanwhile, 40 percent of all the public housing units erected in the last 10 years have been built in the eight southeastern states. Charleston, S. C has 2,349 units, has applied for 50 more. Greensboro has 1.036 units and recently authorized 4.50 more. Mobile. Alabama has 5.-948 units plwis for 2,180 more. Norfolk has 5,661 units, Richmond 3,309. Atlanta has built 8,-649 units, and plans 1,200 more.

Those cities and others have faced up to a problem that has been swept under the rug in Charlotte.

The City Council should lift the rug and see whats under It.

Number of Liggett & Myers packs accumulated since the last payoff in the Paper Penny drive is considered top secret at this point. But intelligence reports have it that another payoff should be scheduled soon to clear out the present collection. . .

Some may wonder what becomes of the reclaimed empties. L&M people pay the penny-a-pack fee for the privilege of hauling the whole load to a giant incinerator. , That way theres no free-loading by empties which aspire for double duty.

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"So long as more than 50 per cent of the boys and girls who enter North Carolinas public school system drop out soniewhere along the line, we are negligent of our duty, our school system is deficient, parental responsibility hag been abandoned and thoughtless youths are shortchanging themselves for life.Oreens-bwo Dafly News.

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

When, (m television, I saw the marhals on the Campus of the University of Mississippi, fully garbed with steel helmets, gas masks, trunejieons, etc.. I wondered where they came from. 1 have only known two kinds of marshals: '

One, the oltf-timc, chib-house politician, wide of girth, an enoimous, strong, smelly cigar in his mouth, who served summonses and seized the goods of those in trouble;

The other is the kind of mar* shal who appears on television, the finest of which is Matt Dll* Ion in "Ounsmoke," who always kills the wrong-doer. If is hard to understand how it happdM that nobody kills Matt DiUpn, but then thcrtj would be no more stories, t So, when I saw lobbys Marshals, looking tall and youn|( and " strong/ I wt^'ted to make sure that 00 n|ti(Hial police was being organized. We have a' militia in which ever citizen is bound to serve, called upon. We do have a-National Guard in each state, a non-professional cltisens army, whict has been of yeoman service in OUT nations hlitory. But a national police force smacks of somethUif obnoxious and against the creation of It so ex-> perienced a man u Edgar ^ Hoover has always fought.

io wherii did the marshals' come from?' Well, it seems that when William Rogers was Attorney General, a small force was started to put down riots and such, which did not require the dramatic magnification of the use of the Army.

When the situation on the Mississippi Campus began to look unpleasant, the Department of Justice wu able to mobilize quickly 545 men, 339 pf whom came from Southern StatesSouthemers, 1 fact who undertook this duty. The components of this body were as follows;

128 Deputy Marshals 320 Border Patrolmen 97 Prison Guards From the standpoint of maintaining the peace where peace cannot otherwise be maintained, this is an interesting group. They are Pedwal employees, normally assigned to various duties, who cAn be swiftly mobilized. It means that if the police In a city cannot handle such a Communist riot as occurred In San Francisco, w a race demonstration such as occurred

mediately be brought in.

The figure 339 for Southerners Is startling but I am assured that It is accurate. It means that sectionalism has degenerated more in the South than one realizes when a national issue is involved.

I am also told that, on the record, the University of Mise-issippi is not a segregated university. I am told that in the documentation of the case, the university authorities did not take the stand that a Negro would not' be admitted. It was the Gov.erar who Intervened, either as Governor or as an alumnus, who took this positloh and therefore the attitude of the Administration is that the Governor is responsible for the fracas.

Another matter which shocl(-ed Northern * reporters and about which there has been grievous concern was the language of the students, both malp and fenmle. Apparently the girls shouted the same cuse words as the toys and an experienced hand told me that h|i had not heard such cussing in a long time. To Northernere this was particularly astonishing because they had alwayji been told that southern womanhood WBA delicate and softspoli-en u well as beautiful. APPtr-ently some of these childreh need their mouths WMhed wltji yellow soap. ,

Perhaps the students will now sdttle dowTi' to the Inevitable bushiest of learning the fac(s of life as they appear In books which Is the main business of university. Perhaps this will all pass as an unpleasant dreaih and that they will work at science and engineering and the creation of a pleasanter world.

Nobody expects perfection pf the human race and young people are only too often the reflection of pest generations, particularly when they are stirred to action by those In whom hate bums where love and pity (Continued on page 10)

WE DO Forecasting Self Into Recession

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE

The people who live at great tujning-polnts in history seldom realize the significance of the times through which they are passing. Christianity began as an Insignificant minority movement among the Romans, and was soon forced to go underground. Little did the people who lived along the countryside of Le.xington and (Doncord realize that the battle, little more lhan a skirmish, which took place in that vicinity in 1775 would have world-wide significance. Who could have fore.secn that when the Au.s-trlan Archduke was asaa.*..'?-nuted at Sarajevo iu 1914 that a great World War would begin, Only to be finished (or has it been ffnlshed?) by an

other World War?

We are all aware, of course, that the space programs of modem nations Is something in more ways than one "out of this world. Where It may lead us, we do not. at present have the faintest idea. There may be beings on other planets. We may come into communication with them. If such beings exist, many, no doubt, are much more advanced than we are, for our planet Is young, and there may have been people living on other planets millions of years before our ancestoraJived on the eaith. Accordingly the presumption is that these other beings have millions of years on us In the lliid of development.

Where, oh where, will it lead us? Upward, we feel sure, not only Into space, but into enlarged knowledge.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Unlteif States is rapidly forecasting itself Into a recession.

The most significant of recent dismals is the University of Michigan survey of consumer attitudes, which included 1,3(X) adults interviewed between August 7 and September 9. Its Survey Research Center deduced "a merry Christmas and a cloudy New Year. Consumer spending plans are good for the next six to nine months but "the outlook for the rest of 1963 is clouded, It reported. Purchase of automobiles during the last quarter of the year and Christmas sales should be good, it added.

The Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago said In Its October "Barometer of Busl-ius.s that althcugh bu.sine.s.s is at record levels, "economic expansion has slowed to a cix*ep, The cun-ent recovery, it said, which started 20 unonths ago.

moved briskly ahead through most of 1961 but "has progress-' ed at a slower rate this year. Television, radio and furniture industries declined during the past few months.

"LOSING MOMENTUM"

The Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, often associated with the Rockefeller family, in Its bi-monthly newsletter said that, while business If very good at the moment, "the pace of business expansion appears to be losing momentum.

Grimmer words came from E. F. Andrews, chairman of the Business Survey Committee of the National Association of Purchasing Agents. After a poll of purchasing agents, he declared, "If history Is to repeat itself, we should go into a recession In early 19(i3." He dded this comfort. I ho reco.s.sion would bo hliori. ,

Martin R. Oalnsbrough, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board,

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ally a cautious forecaster, told a Montreal meeting that "our key cconorfilc road - signs continue to lend comfort to the more optimistic - forecasters and that auto sales and housing starts were comforting. However. he added: "The U. S. business expansion of 1961 and )962 has lacked the thrust that elevated the American economy in the preceding three recoveries.

Frederick W. Stevenson, manager of "expectational research and advisor on metaphors for the same board, at another meeting declared, "The American economy appears poised once again at a crossroads of the business cycle WHATS OFFSETTING?

Prentl(ie Hall stated it foresees a recession for the com-' Ing winter and spring, but .sees an "unusual combination of strengths and weaknesses during the short and niediiim temu," adding, "the 196I-I962

expansion will probably grind tc a halt in the current quarter.

Other observers, as reported here last week, are not quite as sanguine as those quoted today. However, many expressed fear that the economy was in a "sideways movement.

All this leavot the question: Can we talk ourselves Into a recession ?

Surely, if everybody becomes frightened, we can do just that. We can cringe, slow down activities, dig ourselves into holes. But unless panic seizes business and consumers, bearish predictions can have only limited effects. Its been a truism that when the mass of investors fear a decline, the stock market risps. and vice versa. That can happen In the general economy as well as In Wall street.

Puithermore, there an .some strong counteractions coming into force in biislne.ss. About these, some words tomorrow.