Saturday November 10, 1962

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The Puppet Doesnt Want To Let Go !

Burden Is On General Assembly

Adoption of the court reform constitutional amendment Tuesday by voters of-North Carolina places the burden of responsibility on the states general Assembly to implement the uniform system of lower courts prescribed in the amendment.

It is also up to the legislators to spell out a new system of magistrate courts throughout the state which will replace the jaypee courts that now exist in North Carolina.

The job before the legislators in implementing this new constitutional amendment is not an easy one. The system of lower courts the legislature provides in keeping with this new constitutional amendment will be expected to exist in North Carolina for many decades to come. The legislature may consume considerable time in several of its biennial systems before its job on revamping the courts is completed.

In spite of the complicated task imposed on the legislature because of this amendment, it is important that the elected representath'^s of the stai:e move forward with a program to implement this new amendment.

The subject of court reform has been one of major controversy in recent legislative sessions. It

is to be xpected that as the legislators move to implement this new constitutional provisions there will be many pressures upon them. Some legislators will favor quickly putting together a lower court system and not letting the matter drag out. Others may takn the attitude that the matter may be delayed until 1971, the date by which the new system is to become effective.

In the interest of the people of North Carolina, the legislature should move forward on this important matter with great care, and at the same time with all the speed that sound judgment will permit.

The constitutional amendment opens the way for modernizing and improving the lower courts of the state, but many detailswhich in a large measure will determine the effectiveness of this court reform movementmust be carefully worked out by the legislature.

New Endorsements Providing New Hope

IReal Bombshel.

?or Democrats

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

GUILPORD Officials at State Democratic headquarters had disbelief on their faces when the GuHford County booa&shcU burst cm election

It was apparent immediately that the Republican sweep in impulous Guilfords legislative races was the major surprise of the general election In North Carolina.

It was more unexpected than anything else that happened. And its stimulating effect upon both parties may be longer lasting.

It came as a bigger surprise In Raleigb and across the state than the victories of Republicans Charles R. Jonas and James T. Broyhill in the close Eighth and Mnth district races for Congress.

REACT We had no idea they were in that much trouble, a Democratic party official said, referring to Guilfords Democratic delegation in the legislakure.

We expected that it would be close, but we had no idea.

* Some Democratic spcrices-men (Ascribed the GuUford upsets as freakish." Guilford has bei heavily Democratic in past county and legislative races and remained so in giving big margins to Rep. Horace Komegay and Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr.

But it has been labeled as a

* Reiniblican pocket on certain issues and races in the

. past several years, and this

* pocket spilled over in the sweep

* that knocked out House Speaker Joseph M. Hunt Jr., in a bid for the state senate, and veteran state Reps. Thomas Turner and Ed Kemp.

LOSTThe Democrats thus lost four House seats and a

* Senate seat in a single fell

; swoop In Guilford. While it did

! not appreciably affect control

* ci the 1963 legislature it was plainly painful for the majority party.

Stunned by the Guilford losses. party officials grew even more ccmcemed about close legislative races in the western counties where Democrats hop-

' ed to pick up a few more seats.

Anxious calls were placed to Asheville and other key western county seats.

Prom Asheville they heard of another surprise, the defeat <rf longtime Buncombe County

* aherlff Laurence Brown by Re-

* publican newcomer Harry P. Oay.

And even in predominantly Eastern North Carolina, there were sounds of trouble for Democratic candidates for the legislature down in Carteret and Bampswi counties.

PRESTIGElIt was true that fCfV tears were shed In certain

Democratic factions over the defeat of Hunt, who had entertained gubernatorial aspirations, or over Brown, a veteran political leader who liked to go his own way and bucked as often as not.

But from an overall standpoint, loss of Democratic prestige was Involved.

Guilford gave aid and comfort to the GOPs claim that it is emerging as a political factor to be reckoned with in state politics. And it gave strength and a bit more substance to the most glaring weakness in any future Republican bid for a bigger voice in North Carolina, its feebleness in the legislature.

SENSESome state Democratic officials complained that the defeated Guilford Democrats failed to sound a warning or call for help. But those who called the Guilford upsets freakish felt that Hunt, Kemp and Turner did not sense the swing against them until election day.

There were reports that Hunt felt the Sanford administration wras cool toward him and Hunt supporters retaliated by saying the Guilford result was anti-Sanford administration reaction. This sort of analysis was in hot dispute.

What was certain, however, w'as that both parties were determined to work harderfuture campaigns and campaign strategy were bom on this election* night.

TRENDSThe search for future political trends went into the campaigns, not (mly in Guilford but in certain other contests.

In Guilfords case, House minority leader William Osteen was identified as the leader of the so-called Republican revolt and significantly Osteen taught his running-mates the tactic that he feels meant victorydo-to-door. personal touch campaigning.

Over in Buncombe County, observers were crediting a vigorous personal campaign by Clay with the upset of Browns 32-year-old county political regime. Brown had done less personal campaigning, but worked through his aides and lieutenants. Clay won by a handful of votes.

AMENDMENT Grassroots campaigning on a precinct level also was credited with pulling the court reform amendment out of trouble in the final w'eek of the campaign.

Court reform supporters went right down to precinct level in about 200 or 2.50 key precincts and put out fires that were popping up right and left and threatening to engulf the amendment ju.st a few days before the voting.

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Intervention of Greene County and the town of Snow Hill in the Civil Aeronautics Bureau hearings on an area airport for Eastern North Carolina reflects a growing interest in the project among counties and towns.

These two local governments join GreenvilW and Pitt County, Martin and Beaufort Counties, Washington, Williamston and Farmville as parties to the proceedings now before the CAB.

It is evident from the number of local governments who have now become parties to the proceedings that Greenville and Pitt County do not stand alone in the position that Eastern North Carolina could be better sened through a centrally located airport, than by individual community airports dotted around the area. It is also evident, we think, that the need for better commercial air service tc this part of the state is gaining recognition as months pass.

When the CAB completes its investigation of the feasibility of a central airport for this section, the decision it renders will have a decided influence upon the course followed by local governments in the area to obtain better air service. It will also, we think, have an influence on the quality of commercial service that is available in this area in years to come.

The fact that additional local governments ar? officially endorsing the idea of a centrally located air facility offers hope that a decade of effort for such a facility will eventually end in success.

By HAL BOYLE

7he Way It Used To Be

Nixon Forao

NEW YORK (AP) Everybody says it was different in the old days.

What were the old days really like? Well, they are at least a part of you if you can remember when:

A dime-a-dance girl didnt mind two for a nickel. If you were a fancy stepper.

The customer was always right. If he failed to return, his absence had a threat of importance.

No kid who wanted to get into the circus free could ever agree on how many buckets of water it took to fill an elephant.

A boy remembered his last enjoyment by where he had

parked his chewing gum. It was always on the immaculate underside of a piece of dining room or living room furniture.

You learned about women by studying the mail order catalog pictures of what they could wear in winter to keep themselves Warm.

The man with the largest family of marriageable daughters in the neighborhood usually had the largest front porch and the darkest back yardIn which he sometimes later grew prize vegetables.

One of the most distinguished forms of individual charity was to confide to the other person your own solution of how to deal

His 2 Slogans

Public Forum

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Richard M. Nixon carried two slogans around in his head for years: Be careful after a battle: and a good loser never gets angry at anyone but himself.

This week he disr^arded both of them after he lost in his election bid to unseat Californias Democratic governor, Edmund G. Brown. It was a defeat w-hich probably ends his political career.

A few minutes after admitting defeat, Nixon walked into a conference of about 1(X) newsmen and, in a rambling, bitter and sometimes almost incoherent way denounced them for what he claimed was unfairness in covering his campaign.

Yet, 75 percent of the California newspapers which took sides endorsed him.

The fear that sometimes after the battle he might be so tired that he would make a mistake in judgment has been on Nixons mind for years. It comes out in the book he wrote this year about the Six Crises in his life.

But the book also shows that his feeling of unfair treatment by the press also goes away back. There is even an indication in it that he thinks newsmen are only fair to him when they are on his team.

He repeats the foUow^ing statement in one form or anoth-

er;

The point of greatest danger for an individual confronted with a crisis is not during the period of preparation for battle, nor ftehting the battle itself, but in the period immediately after the battle is over.

Then, completely exhausted and drained emotionally, he must watch his decisions most carefully. Then there is an increasing possibility of an error because he may lack the necessary cushion of emotional and mental reserve which is essential for good judgment. He even quotes his old college football coach. Chief Newman. on how to be a good loser. He considered Newman a talented molder of character and has him saying in the book: You mu.st never be satLsfied with losing. You must get an-gi7, terribly angry, about los

ing. But the mark of a good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not on his victorious oppcHients or his teammates,

Nixon said: I take the responsibility (for losing, when he walked Into the news conference) but then, after praising his 100,000 volunteer workers. blamed them for not getting out enough votes. This, he said, cost him the election.

Nor was he gracious to Brown or President Kennedy who beat him for the White House in 1960. He called Brown the peoples choice and said he hoped Browns leadership will now become more decisive.

He said he thought Kennedy could do all right in foreign policy if he has his own way but suggested the President get rid of those woolly heads around him.

Nixons greatest bitterness was towards the newsmen who, he said, kicked him around. But in his book he complained about unfair treatment even in 1952 when, running with President Elsenhower, he won the vied presidency.

He complained that while the top-flight newsmen go around with presidential candidates, cm-ly the lesser-known ones follow the would-be vice presidents. And he threw this complaint into his book, too: While most newspaper publishers are Republicans, the majority of the working reporters are Democrats.

He indicated in his book his idea of how reporters should act when assigned to him, citing that 1952 campaign: Going through the fire of crisis together had welded the members of my staff and several of the reporters Into a high-spirited united team.

This could be taken to mean that unless reporters want to be on his team they must be against him. It doesnt seem to occur to him that a lot of newsmen wouldnt, and dont, play on anybodys team.

Theodore White, who covered both Nixon and Kennedy in the 1%0 presidential race, has a different view of Nixons relations with the pre.ss. He wrote a book on the I960 campaign, Coniinued on page 6)

TO THE EDITOR:

Many Greenville citizens have some important questions concerning the Public Housing and Urban Renewal programs.

At the November 1, 1962, meeting of the Greenville City Council, Mr. Frank Wooten read a letter from the General Accounting Agency of Washington, D. C. The letter stated that the GreenvlUe Housing Authority had spent $13,150.00 as of November, 1962. The $13,150.00 spent by the Housing Authority is a part of a $70,000.00 debt owed jointly by the Housing Authority and the Redevelopment Commission to the Federal Government,

The possible repayment by the City of this $70,000.00 to the Federal Government if Public Housing and Urban Renewal were abandoned was given as the reason Dr. Aldridge denied the citizens of Greenville the opportunity to vote For or Against Public Housing.

Prior to the receipt by Mr. Wooten of the letter from the General Accounting Agency on November, 1962, attempts were made to find out how much money the Redevelopment Commission and Housing Authority had spent. Although Mr. Cochran, the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Commission and Hbusing Authority, Insisted the records were open for inspection, no one to my knowledge who opposes Public Housing or Urban Renewal has yet admitted having had the opportunity of inspecting the financial records.

Mr. Editor, the Reflector was well awave of the Public Interest in the financial affairs of the Public Housing and Urban Renewal programs. Since the Greenville citizens were unable to obtain their financial Information froni the local authorities. they w'onder why you withheld this information when It was released by Wsushington and in turn quoted by Mr. Frank Wooten.

Mr. Editor, should a newspaper attempt to .mold public

opinion or should all the facts relating to any issue be reported impartially, and the public be allowed to form its own opinion in regard to any issue? When endorsing some issue or project, is it a policy of some newspapers to print just enough of the least damaging facts relating to that issue so as to appear before the public as Telling AU when in truth some of the most important and damaging facts are being withheld?

Mr, Editor, since your paper endorsed both the Public Housing and Urban Renewal programs, isnt it your responsibility to your readers that you know the truth? So give us the facts!

TELL US

When and if the proposed Shore Drive Project is completed, could the city be billed as its share of the cost more than was originally reported?

Could the expense incurred by the city in furnishing services to the proposed South Greenville Housing Project be greater than anticipated?

Could government money in the form of projects compensate the citizens of Greenville for the self-governing power it could relinquish to the Federal Government?

How do you compensate an Individual for depriving him of his home or property? How do you place a price on something that we have always been told had a value greater than a monetary value? How do you pay for an Injustice you do your fellowmen?

Could it be that the Urban Renewal and Public Housing programs are being promoted by a special interest group not in the interest of the general public but for a select few?

Could it be that a special interest group is afraid to give the Grenville citizens the opportunity to vote For or Against Public Housing?

TELL US. MR. EDITOR!

Yours truly.

Hinton D. Banihlll Greenville

with foot corns.

When chicken was served, someone at the table was bound to observe, Im pure Southern I simply cant enjoy it unless hold it in my hands.

You could always cheap date homely girl by playfully telling your mutual fortune by her freckles: This loves me, this loves me not. . .

Everybody predicted the lady w^ho played the piano at the silent movies would make her mark in the musical world. She was so sensitive to moods.

Kaiser Wilhelm was held by some to have exampled the full depths of human depravity. Others disagreed.

The h,eight of male sophistication was to say, Never chase a girl. Theyre like street cars. Wait a few moments and therell be another rae along. Ice cream came in only three flavors. If you couldnt enjoy chocolate, vanilla or strawberry-well, you had to take the apple pie and cheese for dessert.

College boys and hoboes rode box cars from New York and California to harvest Kansas wheat.

Only the rich drank orange juice except to cloak the taste of castor oil.

For less than the price of present stamps, the postman came twice dailynot onceto your door to deliver the mail. This enabled a kid taking a correspondence course in ventriloquism to learn to throw his voice doubly quicker and at less cost than he can today.

A cult held that if you chewed milk 15 times before swallowing it would improve your digestion.

Everyone confidently predicted science would free man not burden him with fresh fears.

Those were the old days. Remember?

Opinions

'n Brief

The Jonas victory was not unexpected, but along with it came the deflation of several possible gubernatorial candidates among them Kitchin, Hunt and, in all probability, the Sanford organizations candidate of the moment, Bert Bennett, Greensboro Daily News.

The United States armed services have a remarkable record of non-partisan support for the political system of the U.S. We have never had a revolt of the generals nor has the army been the tool of one branch of the government. Richmond News-Leader.

Apathy "n Our

2>anger

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

Machlavelli was a moralist who was trying to raise the banner of naticmal survival in a period of universal debasement. For instance, he wrote:

For when on the decision to be taken wholly depends the survival of ones country, no consideration should be given either to justice or injustice, to kindness or cruelty, or to its being praiseworthy or ignominious, but rather, any other thought being set aside, that alternative should be followed utterly which will save its existence and preserve its freedom.

Survival and the preservation of freedom are our problems today. It can be said that, by and large, the American people are not quite conscious of the danger that faces us or the enormity of our task. Americans tend to believe that it cannot happen to them, but it did happen to Great Britain which in half a century sank from the greatest power on Earth to a lesser power militarily and ec(momically. Soviet Russia, which was not to be reckoned with in 1917, is today our principal competitor and rival.

The fault midoubtedly lay in our general ignorance of geography. We think In terms of the steamship and the Atlantic Ocean rather than of the jet transport plane and the North Pole. On a globe our near neighbor is Soviet Russia, only a few hours away from us.

Even wise and experienced men sometimes disregard geophysical facts which run against nature and their beliefs. Napoleon, for Instance, had no appreciation of the newly developed steamboat. Just as some of our military officers, after World War I, fought hard to retain the horse despite the development of the tank. Both Americans and Canadians too often forget that in the next war from the air and from space, they wi!l look like one and will be treated accordingly.

History is replete with the rise and fall of Great Empires which come into existence on the rise of the spirit of a small people who push forward in search of land or population or slaves or food. Then comes a second period of imperialism; that is, when wealth and leisure produce art, literature, music, Lucullian living, overemphasis (HI sex. Imperialism takes the form of a distinctive civillzaticHi or religious idea. At some point the advance runs out. The usual cause is a rot-teness within, an inability to live up to national Ideals. Just as Rome was overthrown by the so-called barbarians, so was Spain ruined by too much gold and the little island off the coast of France and Scandinavia called England.

Great Powers have been reduced by lesser powers at certain periods of degeneracy in their history. After all, It is a sad moment in our history, that a pimple on the worlds map, Cuba, dares to challenge our existence and is capable of obtaining the means to make that challenge so etfective that we contemplate going to war over it.

Perhaps the greatest weakness of our culture is the unwillingness of our people to work long hours and the. inappropriate use of leisure. The theory of short hours was sound at two periods: one, was during the Presidency of William McKinley when the eight-hour day became a major political issue. In fact, it was about this time that child labor and woman labor also became political issues.

The second period was dur^ Ing the Roosevelt Administration when the spread-the-work doctrine was adopted with a view to lessening unemployment by providing some work for as many as possible. The spread-the-work doctrine, as a temporary measure, was probably sound, but it encouraged inefficiency and reduction of the use of human skills because most workers lack skill. In fact, skills disappear and have to be replaced by automatic devices.

Now we come to a period when the worker becomes nonproductive in compariscHi to the automatic machine. The worker demands increasing pay to cover time rather than skill. But time is hardly worth paying for. A distortlcHi in the pay scales produced higher pay for (Continued on Page 6)

Steel Is Ready For New Upturn

Strength For Today

By ELMER ROESSNER

Bv EARL L. DOLGLA.SS TOMORROW Tomorrow will be Annlstlce Day. We shall be thinking at that time both of the brave men who have fought to defend the basic factors of freedom and of that day forty-four years ago when the signal was given that World War One was at an end A great military leader who was in a pasltion to know, once said that war is hell. That is really an understatement. There is no earthly reason why people living on this wonderful planet of ours should at times lunge at one anothers throats and attempt to wrest territory, power, and wealth from others. There is plenty for all of us if we would just give up a few pemlclops social, economic and religious boliei.s which keep some nien poor and make other man rich. Thi people of In

dia, for instance, go hungry most of their lives In a country marvelously fertile, chiefly because their religion forbids them to kill animals, and so the animals eat the food needed to feed the people.

No nation on earth needs another square inch of territory to make its people happy. No nation in the world would be either happier or richer if they were able to despoil their neighbors. We are compelled to keep armed because of the menac armed becau.se o the menace of communism. If we could turn armament budgets Into construrtiv? expenditures the whole world would take on new life and blos.som as the

People accost me In bars and stop me in the street and demand, Well, what about steel?

I say, Well, steel? Of course! and shuffle off.

rose.

Brave livc.s bravely given hut how much better for the world if the sacrifice had never been required.

Steel has been one of the liuzzles of the economy for several months. Construction which uses a lot of steel, has been holding its own. Auto sales have been increasing. Orders for military hardware have been rising. But steel just lays there.

U. S. Steel cut its quaiterly dividend from 75 cents to 50 cents a share. Forty-two iron and steel corporations were one of the only two Industries to show a decrease In earnings during the first three-puarters of this year. Have we shifted to a bamboo and balsa wood ecx)no-my?

I think I have an answer to inquirers:

Steel orders will soon pick up. They have been delayed because auto manufacturers, construction firms and other users of steel have been living off their inventories.

Remember the fulmination the last time steel workers demanded a pay Increase? Remember? Remember when President Kennedy was swinging his weight around and telling Roger Blough that U, S. Steel couldnt raise prices, even though it was agreeing to pay higher wages?

During that period, fearful of a strike and a price rise, users of steel were building up inventories. Steel piled up so high that users had more on hand than they needed even if a strike were called.

Now, Instead of ordering more steel from mills, many manufacturers are drawing steel from their stoclcpilcs. There are fewer orders, fewer shipments at Um steel mUls.

The end is in sight. Manufacturing companies including auto have used considerable amounts of their steel reserves. They are still in the drivers seat. They are saying what they want and when. But in a short time, their inventories will be low. There will be new orders for the mills: backlogs will rise again; steel production will rise. And the whole economy will be stimulated.

Prediction: Steel activity will increase. Some will hail this as a turn in the economy. Nonsense. It will merely be an adjustment of the inventory situation. But that, too, will help business generally.

Other look-aheads in business futures are:

Fashions in shower cur-, tains: Theres a strong trend to styles In shower curtains. For spring. Pari.sian and Italian designs will dominate, .said Noel Levine, of Hygiene Industries,

Inc., New York.

OLD PROMOTER SUGGESTS MANY SIGNAL FLAGS I see a manufacturer has brought out a signal flag with the words Help! for stranded autoists, the Old Prwrioter said during his hebdomadal (I looked it up) visit,

It's a good idea, he said. But why stop there? Why not a flag saying M.D. that an au-toist can put on his aerial if hes sick? And one saying Gas If thats all he needs? Such flags can bring assistance quickly.

I agree. I said. And how about one reading Hungry for the driver who needs a hamburger? And one reading Love for the driver who is lonely? And one saying Mad' for the driver who needs psychiatric tr^tment?

Die old one stomped off. He doesnt like anyone else to make the funnies.