Thursday, October 17, 1968

Drawn-Out Battle Being ^ Settled

Hobby? I Never Learned One

A battle that reaches back more than twj decades is being settled in the special session of the General Assembly which is ret^stricting the state's Senate. r ^

The bitter struggle has left many scars on North Carolina. It has contributed to a growing factionalism between urbanized and rural counties of the state. It has added emphasis to the geographic differences of various areas of the state and it has brought to the fore the fact that North Carolina should give consideration of its geographic areas as well as to population in allocating the representation in its legislature.

Gov. Sanford's plan for redistricting the Senate lias gained approval of a majority of "the members of both houses of the legislature. Redistricting of the Senate^for the first time since 1941is as

sured. Indeed, it is the first real redistricting of the Senate since 1921, if one recognizes that the 1941 redistricting was at best a token measure.

The big question now is whether North Carolina will face a similar stalemate over apportionment of legislative representation seven years from now when the 1970 census figures are put before fhe General Assembly? Another question is whether North Carolina's legislature will become a body in which population of individual counties determines representation while geographic considerations of this huge state almost disappear?

- We flnd AO fault with the redistricting measure proposed by Gov. Sanford that has gained approval by a majority of the members of both houses of the legislature. We are convinced, however, that the experience of the state in the past 40 years with redistrictingr and reapportionment point conclusively to the state's need for a little federal" method of allocating legislative representation.

Certainly the people of the state should be provided the opportunity to express themselves on a constitutional amendment which would make possible this concept for allocating representation in the legislature. There should also be a provision somewhere along the line that under whatever system legislative representation is allocated, its implementation should not be stalemated for decades as has been the case in North Carolina for the past 20 to 40 years.

The little federal" approach, with a provision for automatic up-dating of'legislative apportionment every decade, has great merit which should not be thrust aside by large-county assertions that geography is of no importance in North Carolina legislative affairs. Now that Noith Carolina has taken the positive step of redistricting the Senate under the existing constitutional provisions, it should take the second step and allow its voters to say whether the constitutional provision on which legislative representation is based should be altered.

indsey, Jr. In

eadershiD Role

Back To Reality By Those Little Jolts

By WnXlAM A. SHIRES

WARREN A young but eiious-mlnded freshman tn the State Senate emerged this week cast clearly In a role of leadership in the struggle for Senate redistricting.

This was Lindsay Warren Jr. of Goldsboro, a man who bears a name revered and respected In the General Assembly and In North Carolina politics.

' He is the son of the "Lion of Beaufort," Lindsay Warren of Washington, N. C., former member of Congress, retired U. S. Comptroller General and undisputed political leader of much East North Carolina.

And like father, like son, Lindsay Warren Jr. is a fighter. He was proving his mettle to the current special session SIDES The difference, which may have appeared confusing to many observers of North Carolina politics, wa s that the elder Warren in 1961 and the younger Warren in 1963 were on (Hiposlte sides In the questlwi, of Senate redistricting.

Just two years ago, the elder Warren-was leading a fight that blocked redistricting legislation which he felt was unfair and discriminated against his beloved Eastern North Carolina.

Now, his son is leading the effort In the State Sbte to effect a "redistrict now" bill based on a statewide approach according strictly to popular tion.

Role The younger Warren stepped forward to assume leadership in this move, a role which many experienced Senate veterans did not want.

But that the youthful senator from Wayne took the reins to the special session was not surprising. He clashed first with (iponents of redlstrict-thg without a constitutional amendment late in the regular session last June.

When the deadlock on Senate redistricting occurred In House-Senate (xxiierrnce committee during the regular session, Warren came up with a proposal to break it. He made the motion to dissolve the original Senate conference committee and ai^lnt a new (me w^ Instructions to approve House amendments.

This touched off stormy debate and, tn effect, the effort was lost on a ruling by Senate president T. Clarence Stone. In the resulting crossfire and amid short tempers, Warren withdrew his motion to Instruct Senate ccmferees "in the Inter

est of harmony." Stone proceeded to re-name Uie identical conference committee.

INTRODUCE Warren became the introducer of the "consensus" bill to redistrlct under the present constitution at tte outset of the special session. He sent up the bill with 30 signatures.

Some of these signers along with Warren himself also had pledged to support a constitutional amendment. "I would support a reasonable constitutional amendment," he told the Senate. But he urged that the "redistrlct now" bill be made the "first order of business" and that It be handled first and expeditiously.

There was, Warren said, "an honest, good faith effort in the regular session to do our duty" to redistrlct the Senate according to the constitution. We failed and we recog-ni^d that we failed. -------

"We can never hope to find a bill that will meet the wishes of all the members," he said. The bill he Introduced, he said, "meets the test of ccmstltution-ality and I believe the people of North Carolina expect us to enact this bill.

"I earnestly implore the Senate to ccmslder this calmly and take the leadership In this General Assembly. . . pass this bill and send it to the House."

CLASH It was the opening speech for redistricting in the special sessitm and came after a first-day victory in the powerful Senate Rules committee.

This Involved a change In rules to allow the Senate to sit as a committee of the whole, a strategy favored by the Warren forces. C(mstitutlonal amendment supporters, anxious to await the fate of a consltutlon-al amendmit measure already introduced in the House and to atAach to the Warren "consensus" bill, sought another delay and got it.

Warren sp(*e first as the Senate to(^ up the bill sitting as a c(Hnmittee of the whole Then Sen. Thomas White Jr. of Lenoir announced he and others were preparing amendments.

Under the rules, amendments would allow SUme to appoint a subcommittee which, in effect, would amount to committee ciMislderatlon of the whole question of redistricting. This was what "redistrict now" forces had wanted to avoid and what they hoped they has succeeded 'In avoiding.

It was a short-lived hope.

With all the sweet talk by the United States and Soviets over such matters of joint expeditions to the moon, Russian purchases oi American wheat, and pledges not to send nuclear weapons into space, there are- still little jolts which bring us back to reality.

If the sweet talk over these major matters had lulled the United States to sleep, certainly the delaying of Western convoys on the Berlin route should have jarred us awake to the fact that another East-West crisis could develop at any moment. And if the Soviets have decided to make another push to get us out of Berlin, there could be no better time than the cold winter months in Europe.

It is difficult to imagine how the U.S. and Soviets could ever undertake so involved a joint venture as a flight to the moon when the Soviets are unwilling to allow American convoys to move through the Berlin corridors without long, unnecessary delays. If it is so impqri^nt for us to buy good, will by providing American wheat for Russian stomachs, why isn't it also good policy for the Soviets to avoid at this time new incidentsalthough minorin the old Berlin controversy?

By FRANK WILSON

^he Things Theyll Say

In the midst of all the high-sounding talk about progress being made to eliminate issues in the cold war, there are still the little incidents to remind the United States it shouldn't delude itself by wistfully thinking the cold war has ended.Unemploymen Data'Analy zee.

"Kids Say The Damdest

Things," a TV program later in book form, both originated by Art Linkletter, have kept adults laughing since they came into being.

For the past couple weeks, I have had slight Linkletter inkling on the brain while observing what s ome of the younger set have been saying.

A Daily Reflector Feature Writer was doing a story about the new libmry at Wahl-Coates Elementary School.

Instead of stowplng children Individually, he and Principal R. E. Finer went Into a class of sixth - graders and asked them to write what they thought about the new school library.

"You write exactly what you think. Neither your teacher nor I will see what youve written only the newspaperman," Principal Finer Instructed them.

And they did.

One young fellow seemed to speak for all the boys when he said, "We like our library. Our library is the best library in the whole world and so are those student librarians."

He had three erasures In librarian, but eventually found the right letter combination.

There was also the smart-honest young man. I am in the top reading group, but I dont like to read.

Even in the sixth grade, a lady can come up with something that really makes one wonder. . ."It is big. It has nice books. But the table are small and you cant get under the tables."

fuzz either.

As his now more than ever "twuncer-eyeballs charred the room a sec(Hid time, he was assured that no such mention would be made.

"At Bethel last Saturday a young 4-H Club member came up with a real gem.

As chairman of the upcoming bicycle rodeo, he was telling (jther members about the speaker for their monilng kick-off meeting.

"Today we are going to have Police Chief Walter Gray here," the young trooper, who was big enough to be a bar bouncer, began.

"Hes going to give us a few pointers about bjcycle safety and bicycle ordinances here in Bethel.

With a quick glance at everyone, he barked "I better not hear any of y(Mi call him the

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By GEORGE HAGEDORN . With the release of the unemployment figures for September some new trends are revealed that are indicative of tile rea^s for our failure to achieve a better record of economic progrefi_in recent years.

The overall rate of unemployment. at 5.6 per cent, remains approximately where it was a year ao. Despite'the widely-heraided economic im provement to 1963 we seem to have made no progress in bringing this fugure down. It remains substantially above the 4 per cent level which prevailed in last 1956 and early 1957.

But this discouraging picture is the result o a balancing of divergent trends as between different groups of working people. There has been a fairly steady Improvement over the past two years in the Jobless rate for married men, which is now down to 2.9 per cent. This Is only a few tenths of a percentage above the 1917 low, when the overall unemployment rate was 4 per cent the objective so often cited as our current goal.

The favorable trend fdr mai> ried men has been offset by a rising rate of unemployment for adult women and teenai^ ers. For both these groups the Jobless rate is much higher than in 1937.

From (me point of view there Is 6(Hne satisfaction to be gained from this analysis. The personal hardship resulting from imemployment is more acute for heads of families than for women 6r teenagers who are less likely to be primary breadwinners.

But In a free society every

one male or female, married or single, teenaged or mature has the right to decide for himself whether he wants employment. If there are economic impediments to his ability to find a Job when he wants one this is certainly grounds for concern.

In part, the problem of the women and the teenagers results from the increasing numbers of them ta the Job market. But the most serious barrier an unemployed person can meet is a discrepancy between the value a prospective employer can expect to gain from his services, and the cost (all things considered) of hiring him. The divergent trends to unemployment as between married men and others can be partially understood in those terms.

In recent years there has been a shift in union strategy from their historic demand simply for more" to an increasing emphasis on Job security. As a result there has been a slow-ing-down in the rate of wage increases resulting from updon c(mtracts. At the same time, however, there has been an increase in what may be called the "overhead cost" of putting a person on a job partly because of higher training costs and partly because of obligations imposed by union contracts or by law.

The effect Is to make employers that much more hesitant to hiring new people especially women and teenagers whose attachment to a particular job may prove casual.

The American economy has, to a degree, been sacrificing the ideal of maximum job opportunity hi favor of increasing job security.

Public Forum

%o The Editor:

The October 7 issue of the Daily Reflector cai ried an article stating that the Pitt Countys Commissioners would issue $89,000 in county bonds. The proceeds derived from the sale of these bonds would be part of Pitt Countys matching share to a Federal Grant. The^. i^deral Grant was allotted Pitt County for the constriictidh of a Court House and jail.

Mr. Editor, you have freely given your advice on the necessity of a "Do Nothing Hasty Policy in regard to the construction of a new Court House and jail, although you have expressed concern over the lack of progress on the Shore Drive and Public Housing Projects.

"A Do Nothlhg Hasty PoUcy for a new Court House, a "crash program for the Urban Renewal Shore Drive Project and the Public Housing Program.

Could either a distaste for a Federal Court House Grant that calls for e(]ual matching county funds or a prejudiced desire for a Shore Drive Project which would include the Court H(Hise Block so influence your thinking to the extent that you would advise the County Commissioners to follow a "Do Nothing Hasty Policy?"

Mr. Editor, you have publish

ed several editorials advising the County Commissioners regarding the Court House Grant.

tit esufse the "Do Nothing Hasty" advice was not an attempt by the Editor to dictate and dominate the thinking of the County Commissioners.

The Reflector published several 'editorials urging "No Haste" but this is not conclusive evidence that a Public told Often enough of one side <rf any Issue would eventually agree with the favored view of the speaker.

Mr. Editor, have you ta any of your editorials made any statement that was critical of any phase of Urban Renewal or Public Housing?

Mr. Editor, could you be prejudiced?

Is it "hearsay" that some in-diiHduals and organizations In the past have operated on the theory that a statement made often enough would so(ki be accepted as a truth?

Ai^ the citizens of Pitt County what they think should be done with the Court House and Court House Block. The Court House belongs to all the people and not to one Special Interest Group.

Let's hear from some of the owners.

So far we have gotten a glimpse of 4-Hers and sixth grade students, but what about the younger generation. What are those ta kindergarten liable to come up with?

Found this from some form of news release about a dajoth ago:

Seems these two five - year olds were out In the kindergarten yard enjoying recess. One sights a strange aircraft overhead and suggests perhaps it is headed for the moon.

"To make a lunar landing, said the other five - year old, "it would be necessary to be slowed by a retrorocket."

If It were a Saturn rocket," said the first tyke, "It would carry a milU(m and a half pounds of thrust, represented by a cluster of eight engines. "Very true, agreed the tiny lad, "but did you know the actual performance of a solid rocket can be measured on a multipen homemade graph. It depends upon the thermocouple arrangement, noted the companion.

About then, the bell rang, "Well." sighed the first lad. "I gue Its time to go back to and string those stupid beads."Opinions In Brief

"No political thinker of any stature has ever interpreted a republic as allowing equality in all things. What you will find set forth Is the Ideal that every individual however broken his body, or impaired his mindshall have equality before the law and equality of opportunity to fill his own highest potential. That ,is the American dream." Brookfield (N.Y.) Courier.

Yours truly, Helen Brooks

For the first time to the peace time history of the United States, it is proposed in l^islation now pending before the Congre* to deny the right of trial by jury! This is one of the most important (and least publicized) aspects of the S.1731 and HR 715. Under this insidious bill, the judgment of federaL Inspectors, appointed to bring about social reforms, would supersede our traditional and Constitutional Judicial processes." Chipley (Fla.) News...magesually Jralse

by JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

The "Image of the American businessman and industry allst. as projected by our intellectuals. has generally been one of a cheater who would sell his own mother Into slavery for a fast buck. The meat packers, accerdtog to the ficti( (rf Upton Sinclair, made money out of poisioned beef; the ato plane manufacutrers, as depicted in a recently popular Broadway play, have been willing to risk their own aviator eons in defective planes to time of war. .

In the days when I was doing a column of book criticism this sort of stuff came over my desk regularly. Like any cliche, It got to be a bore. It also happened to be a tre-' mendous distortion of the truth, as I came to know when I deserted the book world to write corporation stories for a busl-ness magazine.

The world of buslnes Is like any other world, a mixture (rf elements. It has produced villains, no doubt, but It has also produced saintly characters, such as my friend Spencer Heath.

Mr. Heath died last we^ at the age of 86 to his natii^ Virginia, and was buried to s family plot in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester. The news of his death caueed only the faintest of ripples, for ho had been a quiet man for many years. There were only a few to remember that he was on of the gret originating pioneer In the field of avaition manufacturing, and I d(xibt that there were ten people to th country who recalled the details of his effort to force manufacturing rectitude (m the United States government to it avaition program for World War I.

Spencer Heath was the flnt man In the United States to develop a machine for the mass production of airplane propellers. His , factory to Baltimore was turning out scxne 250 propellers a day when the United States entered World War I in 1917. Naturally, the government depended almost entirely upon the celebrated "Par-agen" propellers that cams from the Heath factory. No American - made plane was produced ta time to carry such aces as Eddie Rlckenbacker up over the German lines, but manufacturers like Mr. Heath gave it a good try, and if tbo war had lasted a little longer the "Paragon" propeller would surely have made an enviablo wartime record. On May 18, 1919, a "Paragon powered the first airplane, a Navy "N-C seaplan, to fly from Trepa-sey in Newfoundland to the Alores.

As long as Mr. Heath mad propellers to his own specifications. they were good ones. But at one point during tha war the government ordered a type which Mr. Heath felt was quite unsound. When he presented an alternative design, he was Informed, "Mr. Heath, this is wartime. You make those propeliers, er well ehert you.

With a federal gun at his head, Spencer Heath complied with government ordera. He was. after all, under military discipline. But before shipping the propellers out he had a rubber stamp made which read: "Made under protest. Condemned by manufacturer." This Warning was stamped on every fective propellers he had made factory. The stamp is still In the proud possession of the Heath family. When he tried to trace the fate of the defective propellers he had made under duress, Mr. Heath was told they ha(l wound up in a warehouse to Texas.

After World War I Spencer Heath made the first practical engine - powered, controllable and reversible pitch propeller. This did for aircraft what the gear shift did for the automobUe. Without It. the airplane would not have been adaptable to commercial use.

I knew Mr. Heath to the days of his retirement, long after he had sold his patents and technical facilities to the Bendlx Avlatiixi Company. In his bo(A, "Citadel, Market and Altar, printed by the Yale University Press for his own Science of Society Foundations, (Conttoued on Page 8)

Pilferage Can Run Very . CostlyStrength For Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS The message of the New Tes-'^Iftirifent regarding ^he*. natttf' and significance oi Christ is clear and unmistakable. He was not just a great teacher, a great wonder worker, a seer.

'He was the incarnation of God Himself. He was, and is, the Divine Being by which the guidance, illumination, and power of God are generated in our lives.

We call this belief the doctrine (rf the deity of Jesus Christ. Practically everyone is willing to admit the greatness of a humble man bom two thousand years ago Into humble surroundings, but who in a few^ short years so influenced human life Uiat time'is dated from his birth. But to believe in the deity of Jesus Christ means to believe not just in Jesus the great man Init to Jesus the divine Saviour.

There are many things about Jesus which we should like to RrtovT, but vee afe sute that* all we abs(flutely need to know has been revealed to us. Jesus birtfa c(Mistituted the entrance Into human life of God Himself to a form and power humanity had never experienced before. His miracles revealed a power unprecedented in human experience. His teachings comparatively brief In number surpassed the wisd(*n of all the seers and teachers that ever lived.

rf Here indeed we have something more than a mere man, something more than a great teacher, something infinitely above a wonder worker. This Jesus was God coming into Hu-pian life In a way and with a power that transfdifms life and turns it from something merely human to something Infinite, eternal, and divine.

BY ELMER ROESSNER "Beware of shop lifters! "Guard against pUferage!" are cries often raised to the business press. Often the loudest shouters are firms with things to seU, such as detective services, alarm systems and similar devices to thwart customers and employers.

Ibe wrategs ibea appear to be suspect. Somebody, it seems, is trying to frighten pr(^riet-ors into spending money for protection.

But similar warnings now come from two places not In the business of selling alarms, hidden mirrors or closed - circuit television cameras.

. A survey by Drug News Weekly shows that the increase In seJf-service merchandising has brought an Increase to sh(8>lifttog.

. An insurance broker has warned furniture men that American businesses lost $4 billion last year from criminal activity, with $1JB billion due to employee action.

THEFT RATIO HIGH The .drug weekly found that some shopllfttog losses ran as high as 7 per cent of sales.

cent and still make a profit if there were no shoplifting in his store. Some druggists said their own employees were robbing them.

The study showed that small items, especially cosmetics, were the chief loot. But shoplifters also walk off with tape recorders, hair driers, radios ''tfnd anything rtse portable. The study found that druggists said that mirrors, closed TV circuits,. blister packaging, private detective agencies and hidden viewers were not cttecUve.

profit and then began showing losses. It called in police and it was eventually found that employees were regularly removing furniture through an unlocked skylight.

His advice was to screen carefully all new employees and to subject both old and new* employee* to lie - detector tests -a.-rtep that is Hkcly-to bring a strike In highly organized areas.

LIE - DETECTORS RECOMMENDED

tog shekels for six years.

What he did not say was that all but the last few words might also apply to the most dedicated, honest employee in the shop.

The insurance broker was Bob Ferrell, of the firm of Marsh^fc McLennan,' who spoke before the Atlanta Retail Furn-Ituife Association. (Yes. pilferer and shoplifters walk out with furniture.)

STEAL BOSSESE BROKE

He said that one million employees are now stealing from employers and that 9 per cent of all business failures were caused by employee dishonesty.

Ferrell warned businessmen that if profits suddenly' fall off, they should suspect employee dishonesty. He -5id one firm had been making 16 to 18 per cent

Any employee, he warned, from a sweeper to the highest paid accountant, can be dishonest. He suggested that in hiring, the home background, credit rating, court and police record be checked.

One large firm, he said, tested employees and 90 per cent failed to pss the lie detector test.

His descriptioii of the typical embezzler: He Is about 35, married, with children, a pillar in his commuiiity. Re has been working for the company for nine years and has been filch-One druggist said he could mark down all prices 18 per

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HERES BAD NEWS FOR RESORT AREAS Fewer- trips- as be offered by mauacturer next year.

For one reason, the Internal Revenue Service more frequently retards such trips a income and demands taxes. Ft* another, many merchants think that manufacturers are (xxnlng between themselves and their salesmen with such c(xitest8.

WDdam Burston, secretary of the vendor relation committee of the National Retail Merchants AssociatiOD, declared that most NRMA stores oppose such awards (xi the grounds that they lower morale. Buratos said his committee preferred that "the suhetantial sums these junkets cost were

(1) used to reduce costs or

(2) added to cooperative ad-Nvertislng funds.

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