Saturday, May 18, 1963

Abuses Will Be More Difficult

I Remember, Him

Federal Judge Edwin Stanley said yesterday he found it ironic that a man who had once operated one of the states largest bootleg operations, had been ^nvicted of narcotics violations and had a bigtime bookmaking racket could be idolized in his community.

We do not disagree with the Judge that such a situation is ironic.

We find it even more ironic, however, thyt Judge Stanley, after making such a statement, would allow the same man to go free on probation rather than ser\dng a prison sentence.

In fairness to Judge Stanley, it shcpld be. pointed out that he ordered the man to pay a $25,000 fine. He also ordered him to deposit with the Internal Revenue Service $125,000 to serve as payment on taxes, interest and penalties he might owe Uncle Sam. Judge Stanley also placed the man on probation for five years.

These conditions cannot be considered "soft It seems to us, however, that in addition to pro-

Senate Is Tolc. To Get Mo vina

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

MOVE - The House, in effect, has told the State Senate politely but firmly and in tactful legislative language that It should get moving on the matter of senatorial redistricting.

In this case, the language is something a bit louder than wordsaction.

By approving a redistricting bill on second reading, the House has said that unless the Senate or the Senate redistrict-Ing committee acts within a week, the House will pass and send over the plan it believes is most palatable to the Senate.

This wwild then place the responsibility for redistricting quarely up to the Senate.

POSITION The House has taken this position almost painfully and with great reluctance.

It had wanted the Senate, which will be directly affected by redistricting, to take the lead. And it is still willing to go along with what the Senate suggests just so long as the Senate suggests something.

So far the upper chamber has hemmed and hawed and kept seven different redistricting bills and alternates bottled up In Sen. Staton Williams committee on legislative representation.

It is well known that the only redistricting bill with fairly substantial support in both houses is the so-called Currie bill. House Bill 1 and Senate bill 6. the measure which the House redistricting committee sent out more than a month ago.

WAIT House chairman John Henley of Cumberland has been stalling too. He put off floor debate on the bill repeatedly, but finally .set a May 15 deadline for calling it up.

This coincided with a reported showdown meeting of Williams senate committee and a report by a subcommittee that had worked on the Currie redistricting measure. Chances appeared at least even that the Senate group would report the bill. In that case, there might have been further House delay to let the Senate act first.

What happened, however, was that Williams committee could not agree on the subcommittee-proposed amendments and failed to vote. House bill 1 was first on the public calendar and Henley called it up.

AMEND Henley went even further in his effort to hold the door open to the Senate. Without action of his own committee, Henley promptly sent up the same three amendments proposed by the Senate subcommittee.

This clearly w'as in deference to what Henley felt w'ould be the wishes of the Senate group, and one of the amendments affecting a couple of districts in the Westem Piedmont drew sharp fire and protests from Reps. Clarence Leatherman of Lincoln, William R. Pope of Iredell and'J. Henry Hill of Ca

tawba.

This controversial amendment would move the proposed placement of Watauga and Alexander counties in the 29th and 30th districts. It would take Watauga from the 29th, leaving four mountain counties Madison, Mitchell. Yancey and Avery in a single senator district with 57,940 population, moving Watauga into a district with Caldwell and Burke counties, and Alexander into a tw'o-sen-ator district with Catawba. Iredell and Lincoln.

DIVIDE Henley acknowledged that the proposal Was an amendment recommended by the Senate subcommittee following some of the ideas of the Senate at this time.

Leatherman called it unfairness to satisfy whims of a few and contended it was new and strange. Pope called the amendment procedure highly irregular and said that adopting the amendments without action of the House committee was going ahead of ourselves.

Leatherman tried first to have the bill and amendments sent back to committee for hearings, and then to have the Watauga-Alexander amendment tabled, but lost on both attempts.

This amendment and three others, one of which moves Craven County back into the 2nd district in the East, were adopted, and Rep. Martha Evans of Mecklenburg County lost in an attempt to add a third senator for Mecklenburg at the expense of one of the senators involved in the switch of Craven back to the 2nd.

DEBATE - In aU. the debate lasted two and a half hours and ended with stinging attacks on the Currie bill itself by Republicans Dan Simpson of Burke, Robert Strickland of Wilkes and Bill Osteen of Guilford, defenses by Henley. Claude Hamrick of Forsyth and side-play and questioning by a dozen other lawmakers.

Finally, the roll call came and the amended bill w'as passed 80-30.

Aside from the House s intention to do its part on redlstrict-ing and its willingness to accept a plan that is clearly a compromi.se. the amended Currie bill, few' other firm conclusions could be drawn from the vote.

There was no clear pattern in the voting and rather, it was a crazy quilt of divergent views that split across party lines, rural - urban lines, and factional lines.

The five - member Mecklen-bug county delegation, for example voted 3-2 against it, with Democrats Evans and Garing-er siding wdth Republican Saxon opposing it. The House Republican bloc split on the bill. Some rural representatives voted for it and qthers against it.

Nothing was' at all clear ^ except that it was now up to the Senate.

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tecting Uncle Sam to the tune of $125,000 if that much is owed by the man in taxes, and in addition to the heavy fine, further consideration might have been given to protecting the public from a man who has a record of operations in bootlegging, narcotics and bigtime gambling. A five-year probation period for the defendant hardly seems to provide the public the protection it should have.

In the Judges eyes there is great irony in. the fact that a man of such background would enjoy an excellent reputation in his home community of Fayetteville. We see greater irony in the Judge handing the man a suspended sentence.

Iron'Y Too, In Giving Him Suspended Term

Belatedly, North Carolina has an absentee ballot law that provides machinery which will make it much more difficult for election abuses to be ^r-petrated through use of the absentee ballot, y'

The new law that has been passed by tl> General Assembly goes a long way toward tightening up restrictions on absentee ballot use. The most significant of the new provisions is the requirement that the applicant for an absentee ballot must personally request the ballot. Relatives no longer can pick up absentee ballots for a voter who says he will be unable to get to the polls on election day.

In recent years, the absentee ballot has led to more charges of election fraudand perhaps more election fraud.sthan any other one thing in North Carolina. The new law offers no guarantee that there will be no absentee ballot abuses in the future. It does, however, make it more difficult to abuse, rather than properly ii.se, the absenteebaHcJt'm thi states general elections.

Added to the provision that the voter apply in person for an absentee ballot, the ne\^ also requires a doctors certificate in the case of applications for ballots on the grounds of emergency illness. It requires that all absentee ballot applications must be approved in public meetings of the county board of election. These two provisions in themselves will strengthen the law assuring proper use of absentee ballots.

It has taken North Carolina many years to bring about reforms in its absentee ballot law. If the reforms which have now been effected are not sufficient to prevent winde.spread abuse of the absentee ballot, further reforms should be considered by future sessions of the General Assembly.

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Down Below

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP-While man triumphed beyond the imaginings and abilities of his grandfatherin the earth-orbiting of astronaut Gordon Cooper here below mar didnt change much.

President Kennedy called Coopers feat one of the victories of the human spirit. Thousands had a part in it. It was a supreme example of how men working together can achieve a dream.

But in the time it took Cooper to orbit 22 times in space, 2()th century man on earth was still involved in situations which liad not progressed beyond the inclinations and abilities of the men who lived in caves They included tyranny, spying. sudden death by executioners. racial prejudice, suspicion, insecurity and man's inability to get along with his neighbors for his own sake.

While Cooper talked to earth from his space ship President Duvalier, the tyrant of illiterate and poverty-stricken Haiti, was telling newsmen he intended to keep the presidency even though his legal term ended as he talked.

Reason and justice and the will of the peoplethree other victories which man achieved late and often forgets--are not considerations in Duvaliers lust for power. In fairness to Duva-ler it must be said he is not the only tyrant loo.se in this centuiy. He's just clumsier than some of the others Meanwhile Moscow was reporting that Col. Oleg Penkov-sky, convicted of spying for the West after a Soviet trial, was executed in accordance with the findings of the court.

This happe,upd while Britain was accusin.p, an Italian .scientist. Dr. Gieu.seppe E Mar-U'lh. of .spying for Ru.ssia.

The spying the West does on Russia and Kus.sia on the W'est is such a normal condition in intet national ivlation.s that It looks abiKiiinal only when discovered. It i.s almo.st bad manners to be caught.

Spyin.g a .symbol of nations disinisl of (me anotlier- niay be considered a morbid manifestation of man's inserurity and inability lo get along with himself in rea.sonable fashion But it is a sait bet that man. now working overtime on the projeei, will learn bow to reach the nioon beloie he learns how

to live at peace even though not learning may end in hi;s own annihilation.

In the South, where write citizens still insist on discrimination against Negro citizens by segregation, the racial trouble readiness to use troops.

It boiled elsewhere. In Greensboro, N. C. hundreds of Negro students demonstrated against discrimination in a cafeteria and several theaters and went to jail for their trouble.

Since more and more Negroes of the South are showing impatience against discrimination and prejudice, in the end there may be a violence worse than anything in this century.

Reasonable arrangements there might avert disaster but reason is working gnid-gingly.

One thing is .sure; Cooper saw more peace In space where there was no one but himself, then he ever saw' below.

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By HAL BOYLE

Stubborn As To Dreams

NEW YORK lAP)A Man never quite gets over the dreams of his youth. And if hes a stubborn man. he never quits trying to make them come ti-ue.

Film star Kirk Douglas, despite a deceptive dimple in his big square chin, is a very stubborn man indeeed.

His motto is: Never play it safetake a chance:

So after completing his 39th movie. The List of Adrian Messenger, a mystery melodrama directed by John Huston. Douglas has decided to live up to his motto.

Hes going to take another chance on Broadway, a street w'here he failed to w'in fame earlier in his career but which .springboarded him to Hollywood and stardom. Douglas plans to open here next November in a drama called One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Why should a man with three

Academy Award nominations to his credit shelve all that screen loot, even temporarily, for a risky adventure where he tried nine times before and lost?

Because I'm nuts said Kirk frankly. Because in a sense you can say Im a failure.

I never thought of going into the movie when I started out. I wanted to make it on the stage.

what Ive wanted to do for a what Ive wanted to do for a long time. And I felt if I didn't do it now, I'd get too scared.

This will be my tenth play on Broadway. I have a kind of consistent i-ecord of flops ex cept for Kiss and Tell

If this one is a flop I can still say Im consistent. But if its a hit. Ill have satisfied the big dream of my life

Douglas looks back w'lth no.s-talgia on his youthful years here w hen he was try'ing to belt the

Other Editors Saying... The Against Vote

(Washington Daily News)

Judging from recent statements by Tom Davis, Executive director of the state Democratic party, and Bert Bennett. State Democratic chairman, the road ahead for the Democrats in North Carolina presenfs a situation that calls for greater effort than the party has known in this century.

They, along with many other political leaders, see w'hat can happen to the party if it becomes be.set with bitterness, dissension, and disloyalty.

There was a time in our state when Democratic primaries served to give the party a lift. When the primary was over, it was naturally concluded that ranks would be closed, and that in the election a solid front would be presented. That no longer seems to be the case.

The fear now seems to be that if we have hotly contested primaries in our state, that the bitterness could spill over into the general election and thus pave the w'ay for the election of many Republicans, including the governor.

A lesson can be leanied from I960 w'hen many thousands of voters voted in the Democratic primaries only to turn around and vote Republican in the general election.

Mr. Davis and Mr. Bennett know' so w'ell that the same thing can happen in 1964. How to avoid a party splitting primary is of vital concern. It is a matter which must be fac

ed. becau.se no one or no group can tell a prospective candidate he cannot run.

Both the leaders feel that if we can stand together we have nothing to fear. If we can only get together after the primary or primaries are over, then the party wtU be stronger than before. If we cannot get together, then the party is in trouble.

In recent years particularly there has been a tendency to vote against one candidate in the minds of many people. A man goes to the po% and he puts an X opposite the name of one candidate. But in reality he tells himself he is not really voting for that man but rather voting against another candidate. If the candidate against whom he voted happens to win in the Democratic primary, then that against feeling seems too often to go over to the election. Then again he votes against that same candidate, except that the ag-ain.st vote this time means in reality he is voting for the Republican candidate. .*

Somehow in North Carolina we must try to cut down on this matter of against voting. The party is being hurt considerably by it in the general election. It is a negative approach, and the Democratic party Is to remain in power in our state, if it is to serve the people, and if it to continue to merit the trust and faith placed in it, then the party must adopt and hold high a positive approach.

big town down to his size. He lived in the traditional Greenwich Village garret, worked in a settlement house, carried trays in a restaurant.

His planned furlough from the camera, Kirk hopes, will also provide him a w'elcome release for a time from the often chafing ordeals that go with film stardom.

I want to recapture for a w hile that simple dream of just being''-'an actorand forget the big business worries and other nonsense connected with being a movie star.

The only thing special about anybody is what they are. You can only make peace with your-.self by exploring your boundariesand then learning to function within them.

But the fear of failure Is the greatest deterrent to getting an.vthing done. I don't believe it's really safe to try to play it safe in lifeor to let yourself get too set in anything.

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Parent.': who send their .son.s and daughters to the private College are to be commended. They are doing mucn to keep private education moving and growing. It will be good for America if private education can be expanded. Keeping it flourishing will constitute a guarantee against too much state and political control over future learning in this nation and conformity. Virginia (Minn.> Mesabi Daily News.

The reason President Kennedy doesnt know exactly how to solve all the many problems that confront him is that he doesnt listen in on conversations of coffee-breakers discussing the.se problems. Hertford County Herald.

Parents who give their children all the spending money they want should save enough for their bail.Mat-toon (111.) Journal-Gazette.

So many people are for safer highways. Tliey should teJI their legislators how they feel.The Raleigh Times.

Classical music only asks a hearing, a non-prejudiced hearing.The Sanford (N.C.) Herald.

Debate

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

How do you write a dally column without living In Washington? Thats where all the important decisions are made?

Come now, you dont really think that the people could get along without Washington controlling the business system? What would you do with all the surplus population?

These are sample questlcms that a general columnist gets, particularly friMn amcHig the young who have studied economics under that generation of college professors who achieved their academic tenure In the Rooseveltian era. The questions can be answered, but I find it takes examples, not deductions from principles, to make a dent in the oppositiiMi.

Sometimes the example is provided by a bit of luck, as happened the other day when an undergraduate from an eastern college was visiting at our house. She was astounded when I Insisted in the course of a discussion that unemployment is government - made, deriving from such things as Washington support of uniwi demands that result In labor being priced out of the market. Everything I .'iaid caused her eyebrows to so up by at least an Inch. The idea that tax policy can stop investment and so keep job opportunities from being created had not been mentioned by her professors, and when I broJght it up she countered with the tax and spend purchasing power theory that was popular in the Thirties and still haunt.s the college economic curriculum today.

The efforts to answer theory with coiuiter - theory ended In a complete stalemate. But the next day two old men knocked at the door. They had driven up in a beat-up jalopy, ami their old clothes were spattered with paint. One of them limped. Pointing to our mailbox, which was a little the worse for wear, they said they were mailbox painters w'ho would do a good job with aluminum paint and nice block lettering for only two dollars.

After they had flnlsed the work of making the mailbox glisten like new. we talked a bit. It was obvious that the men felt trapped into a bureaucratic system that made them unemployable by anyone who would have to put their nan:es down in a book. Minimum wase laws, the nece.sslty of pajdng them the employer - contributed share of social seciu'it.v, Uie need to guarantee union-forced fringe benefits, and other such things, militated against t h e chance that either one of the old men would get a permanent job.

Yet. in traveling around the back country painting mailboxes. the old men exhibited a good .deal of exhilaration. Here they were taking care of themselves and making a living. It wasn t a marvelous living, but they had thought up the idea them-.selves, and they talked about it with the pride of free men.

The effect on the college student wa.s unmistakable. The o'.d men had done more to make a point than all the theory that had been spouted the night before.

Now. the columnist who lives In Washington, like the administrators who surround him. does not ordinarily run Into old men in paint-spattered/overalls who have found a wi^to keep going on their own. It wlU not do. of course, to make too much of the isolated example of the mailbox painters. But they will .serve as a symbol. And the important thing Is that they are only one symbol among many.

Take some recent developments In higher education, for instance. In Washington they tell you that the colleges cant get along without federal help. But I know of at least three instances in which colleges have been started from scratch in recent years (vithout a penny of federal aid. One of them has staffed a good faculty by hiring wide - awake professors who have been retired from other colleges. And in some places universities, seeking to give maximum service without asking the government for new funds to build classrooms, have inaugurated a three - semester system, keeping wen all sum-(Continued on Page 6) i

Samolino Of Ootimistic Notes

Strength For Today

Bv KAKL L. DOUGLASS HOW AKK YOU m)lNG.

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lias long been the custom ol diplomats while awaiting instructions from their government about pending treaties, to signify theii tentative approval of these treaties by signing them with iheir mitials. This procedure means a partial, but not in ovocable, acceptance of the provisions of the treaty.

Many people treat iheir religion till- same way. They sign up with God; but tlu'y do it only to the extent of signing will) initials Like the iiplomats tliev will roasiriei tlirnisehes in no hoiiiid to tlu ir agreement shtjuld any contingency

ari.se that would make it appear at all disadvantageous. You see 'they reason with themselvesi religion, like everything else, can lie carried too far. Sensible people should scrupulously avoid fanaticism. Its all right to be a Christian provided you are sensible about It: but when religion is invoked for the purpose of regulating m detail either a mans personal habits or his hu.s|aess policies, it's time to call a halt and be sen.slblc.

So they sign up with God, not as Paul did who counted all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge ot Christ Jesus. but as tlir iiKKlern diplomat does who signs a pending treaty with his initials.

B.v ELMER KOESSNEK

Con.siderable optimLsm has been expressed at the 47th annual meeting of the National Industrial Con/orence Board that has been on since Wed-iie.sday in New York. Most of the s[>eakers. biusiness executives and econoinists, see some golden sunshine on the business horizon.

Here is a sampling of the view^ of some of the speakers:

Elmer C. Bratt. Lehigh economist: There are various reasons why we should expect an .accentuated rise In construction ill the coming decade .Between now and 1970 the number of persons entering adult life will increase about 50 per cent. This must be the most rapid rate in history. Not only will the result be revolutionary demands in housing but also accelerated demand for various types of consumer goods which will generate piocluc-tivp and distributive needs and lead to varied constioiction requirements

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II. C. Tumer, Jr., pr^ Turner Con.'truction Co.:4

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York City is now overbuilt with apartments and may well reach a .similar surplus in office space by the end of this, year, laigely due to Ihe excessive amount of new buildings start-(-d to Ix'at Uie new zoning law.

Ross D. Siragusa Admiral chairman; While the continued high level of governmeut .spending is a factor In present business conditions, I am optimistic for several additional reasons;

. Personal income continues to rise.

Consumer savings are at a high level and debt payment has been satisfactory

. Employment is higher, although a hard core of 4.5 million unemployed remains on the books and Is a matter of con-cem to government as well as to industry.

. An estimated one million new home starts providf a good market for consumer durable goods, as do the large annual volmne of new family forma-tion.s

SHORTAGE OF I NSKII.I.ED

Dr. Simon Ramo, missile an(3

space scientist: By the 198* we may find ourselves with a shortage of the unskilled. Perhaps too small a fraction of human beings In the coming technological age will be willing to apply themselves to the relatively unchallenging jobs. John J. Corson, Princeton professor and director of Mc-Kinsey & Co.: Probably the most critical of all shoi-tages in the labor market, present and prospective, is the shortage of broad-visioned, capable executives In both business and government. . .The shortage is qualitative in character as well as quantitative. For the future, the best available evidences suggest that to meet the needs of both private and public enterprises for the decade ahead wiU require the development of 1 million to 1.5 million men competent to perform executive tasks. By 1970. there will be a need for producing from 150,-000 to 200.000 new and additional executives each year. Walter, K. Bailey Wanier k Swasey chairman; Plant expansion Is not taking place, but something very important i*

happening. Manufacturers are very concerned and are doing something about the profit squeeze by doing somethhig about costs in existing plants. As a result of these cost reductions, they are increasing the capacity to produce without expanding their plants. This is one of the healthy aspects of our present economy.

.SAYS TAX COLLECTION COSTS LESS THAN $600 MILLION A YEAR

Donnell Read of La Habra, Calif., who has no relatives in the Treasury Department, challenges figures here on the costs of collecting Federal taxes. The total for the fiscal year ending June 30 will be less than $600 million, instead of $10.4 billion. The latter figure Includes interest cm the public debt, the operation of the Coast Guard and several other services S well as the business of putting the arm on taxpayers.

Read is right, of courseand he does not dispute the assertion that the cost of collecting keeps rising.