Mmitf. April 26, 1965

Six-Year Job On Courts Of N. C.

Ourlnff the next six years North Carolina will tratii^orm its present hodge>podge of lower eourts into < uniform system of dis^ct courts as outlined in legislation passed last week.

The court reform bill that has now cleared the legislature is the most historic measure in the judicial field to come from the General Assembly in many decades. It provides for revamping all -courts

modern system of lower courts to meet the needs of this state and its people.

As the courts are changed gradually in the 100 counties between now and 1971 there are certain to be grumblings and words of disagreement over the new court plan. Given a chance to become operative, the system of lower courts will bear out the merit of the thinking which has gone

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and it will result in radical changes from the conglomeration of courts that now exist.

There was surprisingly little opposition in the legislature to the plan presented by the study commission that spent some 14 months preparing the plan. This is a tribute to the work of those who made up the commission. At the same time it reflect the near-unanimous opinLon among legislators that N(rth Carolina faced the necessity of creating a

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The transition period will require the support and cooperation of local officials throughout North Carolina and that of citizens of the counties as well. But once the transformation is completed,

North Carolinians will have a much better system of lower courts than they have today. The better administration of justice in lower courts through-^k out the state will be well worth the time, effort and money that is required to establish the new system of uniform lower courts.

Much Of That Social

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8TUNQ The Senate Propositions and Grievances committee found itself on a somewhat uncomfortable spot last n^ckend.

Its members, stung by criticism that they had acted too hastily on a 1^11 to permit es-tabllidunent bt distilleries in the state, wore\unhaw>y, hand-dog lo<^ at la4 Fridays legislative session. ^

They had decided somewhat reluctantly the previous evening to try to mce amends. This meant that Just 24 hours after they had approved t h e _j5tillerle& bJ 8-2 and sent It to the powerful and prestige-packed Senate Finance Committee. they had to ask to get the bUl back.

It wa.s up to P & G chairman Herman Moore of Mecklenburg to make the motion on the Senate floor and he almost stubbed his toe again mo\ing by mistake for recall of the wrong bill. His error was spotted quickly, however, and corrected and the right bill was sent back to Finance.

Lt. Gov. Rober W. Scott saw the tmhappinesR among PAG members and tried to dispel the gloom with a bit of light relief sending a bingo bill for Sui-f dty. ju.st pa.ssed by the House, to theii committee.

DISTILLERIES Opposition to the distilleries bill was growing. There were demands for a public hearing and a thorough airing of the proposal.

Gov. Dan K. Moore, shortly after the initial committee approval of the bill, restated his opposition to It saying it would tend to weaken the states

alcoholic beverage control.

Proponents of the distilleries bill had hoped that the governor would remain neutral beyond hi.s earlier statement that he felt the .states liquor cont r o 1 a.vstem Is working well as it is.

Some legislators were saying the distilleries bill is in trouble and that they had heard serlou.s objections to It.

On the other hand, the carefully - prepared distilleries bill had strong backing. It was de-acribed as an industrial development measui-e which would bring rich economic benefits to the state. Its backers Friday relea.sed names of 40 persons across the state Interested in establishing one such distillery, with a $5 million Investment, which would yield nearly $1 million annually in

state excise taxes alone on Its products.

RECALL The concern and chagrin of the Senate Propositions and Grievances com mittee, however, was centered on the criticism that it acted hastily.

The declslwj to ask recall came after Senate Finance chairman Frank Fors>dh indicated his committee would be terested only in w tax aspects (rf the bill, and probably would not afford hearings on any questions of morals or alcoholic control.

Well start all over, said P A G fehairman MoorE^JLjKe11 reconsider the vote by which it was approved and if anyone aks for a public hearing well have a public hearing. Artually, whe the PAG committee had heard statements and explanations of the bill by two proponents, W.C. fBucki Harris and H. J. Stockard of Raleigh, there had been no requests by opponents for a chance to speak.

One committee member. Sen. Adrian Shuford of Catawba, had raised question about voting on such a controversial bill wrlthout more members of the committee present at the meeting. And Sen. Ashley Futrell of Beaufort reserved the right to oppose the bill on the floor despite the committee approval.

POWER The textile Industry In tlie Carolinas Increased its electric power requirements by nearly eight per cent last year, using nearly seven billion kilowatt hours of electricity, according to Duke Power Co.

Duke Power serves 765 textile plants in the two Carolinas. These combined represent more than half of the nations .spindles.

In addition to tie textile industry. Duke Power and electric requirements of its furniture industry customers Increased by l.'l.l per cent, and tobacco industries by 4.8 per cent.

EAGLES Rep. Joe Eagles of Edgecombe County, one of a near - record number of legislators who wanted to explain their vote, did cast an aye vote for the recent private power - rural electric cooperative agreement in the legislature.

Eagles was listed erroneously earlier as having voted against the bill itself after attempts to amend the measure failed. Eagles .sent up the first amendment offered on the HoiLse floor, which would have exempted municipal governments from .iuri.sdlction of the Utilities commi.ssion in build-IncT new electric generating facilities. He .said it w'as an attempt to clarify provisions of the bill, but the amendment failed: - -

Eaele.s later was among the 100 House members who voted for the entire bill on crucial .second reading.

Like everyone else we, too, groan over the heavy schedule of taxes that is deducted from our paychecks every payday. And not a small part of thi.s is the Social Security tax which, at present amount.s to the employee-employer combined rate of 6^ t percent up to $4,8000 annually.

But, unlike some taxes, we can at least see that much, if not all, of this money is returned to Pitt County in the form of old age, suvivors and disability insurance benefits.

The Social Security ofice has recently reported that such benefits in this county now top $350,000 monthly, a five percent increase over the corresponding period last year.

It was reported that 6,900 Pitt Countians are c01lecting about $4,200,000 annually. The average monthly retirement payment in ;pitt County was $61.56.

Since this money goes into the hands of those who need it most the old, disabled and widowed it is a certainty that most of it is spent with the countys merchants. Thus it goes back into circulation to make more jobs and greater prosperity in the county.

The real pity of it all is that there are people in Pitt County today who are entitled to draw Social Security, but are not aware of it. If they would but check with the Social Security ofice they, too, would find that their prior earnings entitled them to a monthly check and it is probably these people who most need the income.

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By ART BUCHWALD

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Religious Emphasis Week, now being observed at many colleges and universities throughout the South, is. like many other cherished traditions, currently under fire. In fact, it has disappeared altogether from many campuses throughout the nation.

The Reverend Malcolm Boyd, Episcopal Chaplain - at - Large to university campuses, recently attacked the whole concept as blasphemous, explain i n g that relegating religion to a specific week implied that It is irrelevant to the dynamic flux and change on the American campus today.

John E. Cantelon, Chaplain at the University of Southern California, writing in a recent issue of The Christian Century regards the religious emphasis period on campus a.s something more to be pitied than scorned.

By its very nature it oversimplified the relationship between faith and higher education, he says. It was best suited to a simple gospel and is still favored by denominations that make a rather simplistic approach to evangelism.

He argues that It Is a one way street, an opportunity for the church to speak to the university but not for the university to .speak to the church.

In hi.s article, he points out Uiat one w'cek of religious emphasis often takes a full year of planning; it rai.ses questions about religion with which it can t deal in .such a short time: and many students recognize that their colleges use it for "Kood publicity.

According to his findir.gs, campus chaplains believed that the time and re.sources w'hlch this week required of religious group.s could be used more effectively in other endeav o r s throughout the year.

J. Claude Evans, chaplain at Southern Methodist University, arKUc.s-that the week need.s overhauling, but not necessarily dispo.sal. It mu.st be revamped to bring In the relevance of Christianity to our culture. he .sa.vs.

Indications are that this is

w'hat some campuses are attempting. For example. Rod Serling, the noted television writer, recently made a series of talks on the moral and ethical problems of Influence in mass communications me d i a during Florida State Universitys annual Religion - In - Life series.

Religion - In - Life week at High Point College (North Carolina), titled The New Morality, questioned whether our morality today Is based on Playboy Magazine or on the Bible and featured showings of La Dolce Vita, a parable of futility and spiritual decay In contemporary Rome.

Barbara Ward, noted British commentator on contemporary economic and political p r o b-lems. climaxed the University of Floridas Religion - In - Life week by calling on religious people to solve the enmities between nations by reaching out to the human substance In every human being.

Traditionalist.s may shud d e r at these Innovations. But it Is tnie that on many campuses this, period of splritysil stopk -taking for college students was being virtually ignored. Now many Institutions are finding that when the emphasis is on the relevance of religion to daily life and where a dialogue is established between studen t s and spiritual leaders, the period can attract the time and interest of students.

Opinions

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"Tliere are two kinds of hobbie.s; Those a man adopUs in order to be contented at home, and those he adopts m order to get away from home. - Knoxville (Tenn.i News-Sentinel.

The real objection to student demonstrations in the United States, as far as I can discover, i.s not the politics of the students or what theyre demonstrating against, but the fact that many of the demonstrators are unwashed and uncombed.

Just the other day Congressman Dowdy of Texas told the Daughters of the American Revolution at their 74th convention that their arrival in Washington was a breath of fresh air compared to the rabble-rousers, beatniks, and bums who so recently have been descending on us.

Many people have been echoing Congressman Dowdys

v.'ords. If theyd only take a bath. a friend told me, I wouldnt care what they <lid. Another man said. I think if they really believed in America theyd shave. A lady who witnessed the White House Easter demonstrations said, 1 dont think those girls shampooed their hair in a year. And so it goes. There Is nothing that disturbs a white collar worker more than somebody else with a dirty white collar. It is therefore my belief that If we could clean up our demonstrators there would be no objection to their demonstrating. For one thing, you know anybody who LOOKS clean isnt going to be a Com-

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For another, since cleanliness Is so close to godliness, you know that a clean demonstrator believes In God, and thats all we ask of our students these days.

I talked to several of tho students picketing the White House on the Easter weekend and they agreed with me that cleanliness was quite a problem when youre demonstrating.

You ride all night <m a

bus, one student said, so youre not going to wear your

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(Christian Science Monitor)

Please do not reject this outstretched hand of our youth. . This Is a plea which later years may show was a fateful one for the world. With these W'ords Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin pled for recognition of the fact that twenty years after the end of World War n Germany must be helped reasvsert its national Identify.

Speaking in New York City. Mayor Brandt has w'amed that no people can live wntliout pride, and that the world cannot fairly ask the Ger man youth of today to answer for their fathers Germany.

'The.se are wise words and the Western world would do well to heed them. Today, with its reconstruction behind it and the future before it. Germany (primarily the West Germany of NATO and the Common Market) must decide what it will be. where it will go. and what role it wdll play in the world, A,s the history of the pa.st century has shown, it is crucially important that Germany choose, and be helped to choose, the right path.

Pew nation.s on earth can match Germany in the vigor of its intellect, the drive of its pi'ople or its indu.strial might. It is a national dynamo. And

while it may be trite to repeat that this dynamo can do great good or great harm, this is a fact the world cannot afford to overlook.

It Is not necessary to forget that the Germany of the past has made terrible mistakes, to realize that it is even more important to make sure that the Germany of the future is not tempted to repeat those mistakes. While we should not forget the lessons of nazism, we mu.st not let .such memories warp the future,

Becau.se of its Immediate past, and_becau.se of the. deep riis.satisfactions created by its split jnto two separate states. Germany lives under tensions known by few other lands or peoples. These are tremendous burdens for any nation to car-i*y upon its back. And it can carry them .successfully only if that nation has the help and understanding of it.s friends. Fortunately such help and friendship have been forthcoming. The Germans know this and are grateful. But Mayor Brandt Is only too right when he points out that something further Is needed. This is to allow Germany to assume iU full .stature a.s a mature, sovereign. fully re.spected state, Crcrmanys postwar record to date Indicates that it de.serves to be given that degree of respect.

best clothe.s. Then you have to think in terms of sit-ins. You never know when youre going to be ordered to sit down. Most sidewalks are pretty dirty, you know. Another student agreed and also said, You know, demonstrating is hard work and you work up quite a lot of perspiration carrying those signa over your head. Even if you did take a bath it wouldnt help.

A college co-ed In blue jeans said, Theres no sense putting up your hair because It gets all messed up If you get arrested.

It Isnt as if were going to prom, another co-ed added.

But there are some pickets who look very neat. I said.

Oh, tho.se are FBI informers. They have to look neat or theyll ruin their Image. Besides, the other co-ed fidded, theyre the only ones allowed to use the White House washroom.

Then youre not again.st baths in principle?

Oh, no. a student said. If they'd let me in the White Hou.se Id take one right now Me. too, another student said. "They must have more than one bath In there."

Only one student In the group (Continued on page 5)

Insults

To Our Country

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

- Oopyrlght. iftfiS. King Featurfla-Syndicate, Inc.

Sumter L. Lowry of Tampa, Florida, senda me a pamphlet he has compiled - Ita fourteen page long of one hundred and thirty four faiaults to our country In forv elgn lands, He hopes that it can be used to good effect,* and adds that he would appreciate havlnff some comments on his work.

Well, .the list Is a tribute. In a way, to U.S. patience. It is also a reminder that patience.

If pushed too hard, ceaaei to be a virtue. But you don't get the full Import of Mr. Lowry's compilation until you set a second list, the record of U.S. aid to foreign nations, alongside it in a second column.

Taking (mly the year 1984, we discover from Mr. Lowrys documentation that In ILenya an American missionary woman was killed by Communist jungle fighters, that the U.S. charge daffaires was expelled from Zanzibar, that mobs of Ghanaians, eggsd on by government party loudspeakers, hauled down the American flag at our embassy In Accra, that thousands of Cambodians aadt* ed the UJ3. embassy and to-^ formation office In Phnom Penh, that In the Sudan stud-Mits tried to bum the UJ. embassy that in Cairo the John P. Kennedy Memorial library was destroyed, that Egypfa Nasser (along with Algerias Ben BenaLJbpsstsd his intso^

tion to continue forward! n f arms to the Congo, that In Jakarta mobs of Indoneelaa youths sacked ths U.S. library, etcetera, etcetera.

Taking the second list, thAt ef U.S. foreign aid to Individual nations, we discover that Kenya had received $28 million through June 30, 1964, that Zanzibar got something less than $500,000, that Ghana benefited by $163 million, that Cambodia got $376 million, that tha Sudan absorbed $42 million, that Egypt took $952 million, that Algeria received $149 million, that Indonesia was down, in our books for a total of $932 million, etcetera, etcetera.

The moral of this Is that you dont buy friendship with dollars. Everyone since the tlms of Polonius (Neither a borrower nor a lender be) ha.s known the moral, but we go on offering money to the world Jii't the same. Lyndon John-s( 1 has Just offered a billion to Southeast Asia, friends and enemies incliBive.

Just what Johnsijn dangling of a billion for a Mekong Valley Authority would purchase In the light of the record Is worth some deliberation.

Since the upper regions of the Mekong River are within the orbit of the Communists, running a Valley Authority would pose greater dtfflcultles than anyone could possibly foresee. In this connection It might he worth - while for our State Department planners to have a look at the massive research of Professor Karl Wittfogel of Columbia University. Wlttfopel has combed the evidence of the centuries to show that Aslan rulers have u.sed the control of water resources to fasten a tyrannical grip on thelr subjects. Hydraulic .society is Wittfogels name for the Oriental despotisms built on water control. Would It be any different if the Mekong River wore to be harnessed for power and Irrigation?

The answer is that some kind of universal political authority would have to be set up to see that a billion for new hydraulic forms in Southeast Asia buys what it Is Intended to buy. In brief, we would need an international peace - keeping and .ju.stice - dispensing organization that would be much more effective than the o 1 d League of Nations or the UN as it is now constituted. Can yon see such a body being (Continued on page 6)

An optimist is a man who, in.stead of feeling sorry he cannot pay hi.s bills, is glad he is not one of his creditors .Boonvllle I Mo.) County Record.

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. I)OLGLA.SvS

WHAT LS HIE FUMTION OF RELIGION?

A man picked up a hitchhiker some lime ago and in the course of their conversation the man who was driving the car asked the hitch-hiker whether or not he belonged to a church. No. I dont replied the hitchhiker, but I am going to join a church soon, I am not nearly as well as I look.

Religion to this man was a fire escape. He believed that .somehow or other if he Joined church he could fix things up with God and be on the safe side in case the worst should happen. The president of a luncheon club In Introducing a mini.ster one day as the guest .speaker remarked facetloys 1 y, "It gives me, personal

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great deal of satisfactl on to welcome a minister as our .speaker today as I happen to be in the fire Insurance busl-ne.ss also.

Some people talk about religion as a.i escape mechanism, t>y which they may escape from reality. But there are many people who look upon religion and not as an escape from reality but as a final escape from punishment. When things get too hot for them in the outside world they will duck into the church and sue for Its protection, but until the possibility of punishment Is imminent, they will have what they call a good time.

How contrary to the real significance of Cfhristlan faith. "I came .said Je.sus. that they might have life and might have it more abundantly.

By ELMER KOES.SNEH

With the total consumer debt soaring about $76 billion and people going bankrupt at a rate of .500 a day, consumer debt servlce.s are a.s.sumlng a new Importance in American business.

Beware of debLadJusting .services, the National Better Bu.sinesft Bureau is warning tho public.

Consumer riebt-coun.se ling services are aiding debt-ridden families. the National Retail Merchants Association Is telling the public.

It seems that they are talking about two different things of. rather, two different versions of the same thing.

When a family bc'comes overburdened with deW, It frequently turn.*) to some kind of debt service. A debt service asks the family how much It owes to whom, finds out how much the fanill.v can pay each payday, then asks the creditors to accept scaled-down payments to keep the family from going banknipt. Because slow

money is txTter than no money, creditors usually agree. The family then promi.ses to make no more credit purchases, and to pay the credit .service a certain amount each payday, which Is pro-rated among creditors until all are paid.

THE TWO VARIATIONS

There are two kinds of these services: one the NBBB is talking about and one the NRMA Is discussing.

The NRMA is boo.stlng the nonprofit services set up by merchants, banks, and loan

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companies. Theli programs are voluntary, and debtors arc under no obligation.

The NRMA reports tliat In

ten months of operation, one bureau is proce.ssing debts for 357 families with obligations totaling $1,178,(X)0. The average debtor pledges one-third

01 his take-home pay to get out of the quagmire of debt. The NRNiA reports:

In Interview.s with 670 debtors it was found that 4 per cent have applications pending;

2 per cent have worked out their own payment plans; 24 per cent did not return after the first interview; 1 per cent have completed their pa.vment progranwi; 16 per cent did not live up to their agreements and dropped out, and 53 per cent are following their payment programs,

The NBBB 1 blasting another kind of debt service, ones that are operated for profit and who prey on tlie debtor.s. Thcsic services call them.selves debt adjusting, debt pooling, (lebt liquidation, budget planning. "pro-rating and debt lumping burcau.s.

But, the NBBB warns, these actually sink the debtor deeper Into the qulckMiulji of debt.

'Ihese servici's charge a fee of from 10 to 35 ptT cent of the total debt: some are alleged to have charged as much as 58 per cent The.se fees are often added oil the top of oulstanding dcbi,s and. under contracts the debtors are asked to sign, are paid finst. That means the debtor begins by increasing his indebtedness.

Kenneth B Willson, NBBB president, rcport.s that one now-defunct debt pooling com-pany collected $214 from or.s client, but made a single payment of $38 to a lone credltoi a Chicago firm closed its office leaving 97 customers with no records of what they had paid on their debts,

Heres sound advice for debt-burdened families : Try to work out new schedules of payments with creditors. That falling, ask your bank or chief creditor to recommend a nonprofit debt counseling service. Mean-while, check carefully on debt adjusters who advertise, We can arrange to consolidate and m aU your hUls with one low