4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Thursday, April 9,1970

No Trust In Southern Justice

The Senates rejection of Judge Car^ell for a seat on the Supreme Court is not so much a measure of the judges abilities and fitness to serve as it is an indication of the Senates hypocrisy.

The plain fact is that a narrow majority of the Senate could care less about any southerners abilities or his capabilities in the legal field. They just dont want a southern judge sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court.

After all, if too many moderates take on the Supreme Court, a majority of the justices sooner or later might rule that integration laws should be applied equally throughout the nation. And for these senators who have enjoyed watching the south squirm under the burden of unequal application of the law this would indeed be an unwelcome turn of events.

We have seen a majority of the Senate turn down Judge Haynesworth and then throw up their hands in horror at the suggestion of any bias on their part because the man happened to reside in a southern

So Young, And

So Far To Go

(Todays column was written for the North Carolina Association of Afternoon Dailies by Jim Lasley of the Burlington Daily Times-News.)

By JIM LASLEY

BURLINGTON - He was going to Miami on his thumb, but he had a long way to go when I picked him up on 54,10 miles out of Chapel Hill Tuesday afternoon.

You going to spend your holiday there?" I asked, shifting down into fourth gear.

"Yeah," he said. "Spring vacation doesnt start until after classes tomorrow but I'm getting a head start, like a lot of the others.

He wore light brown trousers, white tennis shoes, no socks and a navy colored jacket that looked new and bore the Carolina emblem. He had peculiar looking red splotches below and above his eyes, like hed been in a fight or had been stung by wasps.

We bounced along the narrow, wavey road a minute, not saying anything. He looked into the back seat, where hed stowed his belongings, making sure something hadnt been left beside the road. I shot a glance his way. His jacket was zipped about three quarters of the way up, and I wasnt sure, but it didnt look lide he had on a shirt.

"You a student at Carolina?"

"No, I said. "What about (you?"

"A sophomore, majoring in

economics.-

"Where you from? I asked.

"Fort Lauderdale, but I dont think Ill stop by there, he chuckled, like he wanted to impress me.

"Yorre not going to miss it by far, though being in Miami, are you?

"Yeah, I will to, he said. Miamis on the other coast from Fort Lauderdale.

We were silent again.

I reached over and turned on the heat, glancing at him again. He had dark blond hair, cut in a flat top that was growing long and combed forward. He was trying to grow a beard but his whiskers werent stiff enough.

"Im really going to check on my summer job. he said. Its on a ship going to Honolulu. Im going to be a mate and watch the radar, and the pays good too. $400 a week.

"Sounds interesting." 1 said, turning the heat off.

Hope it doesnt rain, he said Itd been sprinkling off and on an^it was cloudy in the west. He sat up straight in the seat, with his right hand tucked under his left thigh. Hed been that way since Id picked him up.

"How long you think itll take you to get there?

"I had a roommate that did it thumbing in nine hours on three rides, he said. I ought to be there this time tomorrow if I dont stop and sleep somewhere tonight. Then he looked down at his feet and said the heater had felt good. I turned it back on.

Youre the fifth ride I had since Chapel Hill, he said. Hope things are better ^n the highway ahead. Im going to take 85. It goes to Atlanta, doesnt it.

I 'think thats right.

Well, does that mean 1 should go north or south? he asked.

Not quite sure how to take the guy, I told him south and that 85 wasnt much further. We fell back into silence. He was still sitting on his hand, and I wondered whether to question some of the things hed said.

"I started to fly, but I was afraid Id end up in Cuba, he said.

Why didnt you take a bus?

Figured if I was going by wheels itd be thumbing, and besides it costs $30 on the bus.

By that time we were heading onto the Interstate. I told him to make sure he didnt go wrong on the other

State. Now we have seen a Senate majority turn down another distinguished judge and, of course, Judge Carswell, too, just happens to be from the south.

These senators are again disclaiming any prejudice against southern white justices, as thev wipe the mud from their hands.

As we southerners were often reminded back in the days of legal segregation, prejudice runs deep and it is difficult to root out.

However, legal segregation is gone in the south and wit it there is a considerable change in attitudes of southern whites toward their Negro neighbors.

Apparently a majority of the non-southern senators are determined that no similar changes will take place in their own states. Their greatest fear today is that the same laws which they so enthusiastically supported for application in southern states will be enforced in their own areas. As long as they can keep justices off the bench who believe in equal application of the law, they consider their areas reasonably safe from this. A southern justice, in these senators minds, could not be trusted to continue bending the constitution.

Recreation And Park Facilities Are Needed

The city can have another park with the agreement approved by the Housing Authority to lease Moyewood land.

Included is about ^17 acres of lowland in the northern section of Moyewood which will be rented to the city for $1 a year.

The land would be difficult to prepare for housing sites but the authority says it can be converted to a park area with relatively little cost. The lease arrangement has to be approved by the city and then by HUD.

Greenville needs more recreation and park areas, particularly in the western part of town. This lease arrangement is an example of how the city and Housing Authority can work together to provide park space, just as the city and the Redevelopment Commission have done.

Gen. Hershey Finds It Slow

Words To Irk Wives

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Remarks that suburban wives get tired of hearing:

"Youve got it pretty easy. Why, my motlier used to dd the laundry for a family of seven by handand I never heard her complain.

"Theres a strange dog in the backyard. Mom, and hes acting kind of funny. Youd better get a broom and scare him away.

"Its the plumber on the phone. He says just to tie a rag

>le. Sirk'^ Nyell Its Just a Simple LillieuhInlemal Disorder''

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

States' Rights Dwindle

By STAN BENJAMIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - I havent had much to do over here, said former draft director Lewis B. Hershey, now an adviser to the President, "but then I havent had many people to roe.

For 29 years Hershey directed thousands of workers whose activities affected the lives of tens of , millions of Americans. Today his domain is two rooms in a big federal office building; his staff, one secretary.

I can show you around my whole place here in 35 seconds, he told an interviewer.

side of Greensboro and take 40 to Winston.

I wished him luck and let him out on the exit near Fleetwood Motel. He put his unzipped overnight bag, laundry bag and suit bag on the road at his feet. In the rearview mirror, I could see him holding his sign with Miami printed in big letters in his left hand and his right arm jutted out toward the traffic; his thumb was up in the air.

1 wonder if he ever made it.

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The lone conveyed not bitterness but the self-mcKking humor of a man who says his formula for happiness includes "an ounce of worry tout only if somebody else furnishes the adrenalin.

Despite growing criticism last year, Hershey had stuck to hjS'guns as draft director until President Nixon finally "reassigned him effwtive last Feb. 16.

"It was inevitable," Hershey said in the interview. And theres always a question whether you wait the way I did too long. But I would felt I was running away.

"1 havent allowed myself to regret it. he said of his reassignment. "1 enjoyed the damn turmoil 1 went through over there. But I dont think I ever wake up at night and miss it.

And yet. after an Army career spanning 59 years, he said on his last day that he would miss having a command. At Selective Service he tried to know every headquarters employe by name, and was repaid with unswerving loyalty.

Since leaving Selective Service for the presidential advisory post, Hershey admitted, "I havent worked a. great deal.

Ive been out on .the hustings a bit making speeches. Ive got more traveling ahead of me.

I do some reading, he said, pointing to a copy of the report by the Presidents commission* on an allvolunteer Army.

To read, Hershey must perch his chick glasses on his forehead and hold the page about four inches from his left eye. A 1927 polo accident blinded his right eye.

I write a memorandum or so, he continued, "but I

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in all its sovereign majesty, rared back the other day and passed a remarkably fatuous law. This act of the General Court would prohibit any son of Massachusetts from serving his country in an undeclared war.

Just reading about the legislation, this aging advocate of interposition wiped a tear from a rheumy eye. There was a time in Rich

mond it seems a thousand years ago when the Commonwealth of Virginia undertook to throw its sovereign powers into the breach of school desegregation. Throughout the South, other States as solemnly interposed. Seen in retrospect, as a gambit for gaining time, and for letting passions cool, the tactic had its points; but as a matter of law, or so the Boston papers kept telling the- South, the

Other Editors Say Times Do Change

< Rocky Mount Telegram) Heres the situation: The year is 1939 and a United States senator is making a speech before the Setja^ pn the situation in Europe,

dont think theyre a matter of public discussion. I dont know if anybody reads them or not. I dont think you sit around and wait until somebody asks your advice.

"1 attend a meeting now and then. I have seen some of the White House people, but I. have rather religiously stayed away from the Selective Service.

Hie phone rang and, after a brief conversation, Hershey recalled how as draft director he was deluged with calls from draft registrants and their families and friends, congressmen would call, too, about defense matters and legislation.

Now the phone doesnt ring as often

Another phone call was from an officer at the Pentagonit had to do with providing Hershey a chauffeured car.'

Yes, his pace is slower now, Hershey says, "but I see a lot of retired people who have less to hang on to than I have. Im 76 and some people think thats old, but Im still active.

where Hitler md Nazi Germany are making noises.

The senator says: Germany is far too small a power to have any serious hope of conquering all of Eastern Europe, much less posing any kind of threat to the United States. And the senator further states that the United States should accept Nazi German domination of Eastern Europe as a political fact of life that poses no threat to American security.

We ought to welcome Nazi Germanys pre - eminence in East Europe, because while Nazi Germany has shown itself strong enough to

dominate Europe if let alone by outside powers, it has also shown itself willing and able to resist Russian

domination.

What kind of reception would that United States

senator get if he made that speech in 1939? The answer is obvious.

But times do change, dont

theyT

And they have changed to this extent: In the foregoing narrative, replace the word Nazi Germany in each instance with the word North .Vietnam, and replace the word Eastern Europe with (ndochina. And instead of Russian domination, make it Chinese domination.

And there you have a speech made by Sen. W. F. Fulbright in the Senate last Thursday on the situation in Southeast Asia where the Reds are threatening to take over and make a mockery of Richard Nixons Asian policy. ^

So Fulbright has finally stopped hemming and hawing about his sentiments and has come right out in favor tif domination of Southeast Asia by the Communists operating from Hanoi. And he says such a victory would make not the slightest difference as far as the security of the U. S. is concerned.

Did anybody stand up on the Senate floor and chide Sen. Fulbright for his pro -Hanoi statement? Of course not. Like we said, times have changed.

idea was futile.

Well, history has a way of spinning like one of those nonstop record players: It

repears itself. And if you want another maxim to live by today, remember that the doctrine of "States rights, like the fable of the farmer, depends upon whose ox is gored.

In the matter of Massachusetts, we may look back precisely 161 years, to the winter of 1809. Some months, earlier, the COingress _ _ had adopted a series of Embargo. Acts, aimed' at halting trade with Britain. The acts were hotly resented by New England shipping interests. The Massachusetts General Court, charging the Congress with despotism and tyranny, adopted a resolution declaring the acts unjust, oppressive, unconstitutional and not legally binding on the citizens of this State.

Forty years^ later, Massachusetts was interposing again, this time against the Fugitive Slave Act. The Constitution ex- plicitly provided that fugitive slaves were to be delivered up to their owners, but Massachusetts undertook to nullify the law and to override the Constitution. One act of Massachusetts fixed a $1,(WO fine on any local sheriff who might even detain a slave.

These furiously ineffectual avowals of the Nineteenth Century were cut from the same cloth that Floridas Governor Claude Kirk employed last week. Wrapped in a toga of State sovereignty, his excellency commanded Manatee County to ignore the desegregation mandates of a Federal court. He might with equal success have commanded the tide to come at two instead of four. j

Alas for State sovereigntyr (Conti iued Cn ^age 6) /

, around the broken pipe, and hell try to make it here by next Wednesday.

Sorry to trouble you, Mrs. Grubbs, but if your husband doesnt make the mortage payment before our bank closes tomorrow, well have to take legal action.

Mom, cant you drive me to school today, please, please? If you dont Ill be late, and if Im late just one more time I might as well become a dropout.

My mother didnt spend every afternoon watching soap operas or playing bridge with her cronies.

Why do we have to live way out here in the sticks. Mom? Its like being a prisoner. The kids in the city have lots more things to do.

Do you think its any fun for me to have to ride standing up in a crowded train 40 minutes every morning and afternoon going to and from work?

Congratulations, Mrs.

Grubbs, a little rabbit told me that you and Mr. Grubbs are going to have another baby. That will be your fourth, wont

. it? . ' I ^

Why do you have to have another dress? Anyway, if you do, why dont you make it yourself? My mother made all her own clothes.

I dont want tuna fish for lunch. 1 dont want a baloney sandwich for lunch. I dont want

Oh, boy, are we lucky. Mom! The new family is moving into the house next doorand guess whattheyve got six kids.

Im running a little short this week. Honey. Can you lend me $10 from your household allowance?

If you want little Marybelle to have a normal smile, Mrs. Grubbs, "wMl have to start straightening her teeth now. Its a f\vo-year job, but Ill give you a low estimate of $1.500,

Yep, I missed the 5:41 and the 6:24. Im'aiming now at the 7:10shut up, you guys. Im talking to my Missusso meet me at the station. If I miss the 7:30, Ill be on the 8:19 for sure.

i

Dont tell me youre still stuck in the suburbs, Rosemary Grubbs. Since we moved back to the city, 1 bought an entire new wardrobe, go to all the matinees, and my husband insists we go out to dinner at least four nights every wqek. It? a whole now life!

Profit In Obscure Old Books

Strength For Today

KEEP STEADY

We all have to admit that the world today is in a pretty sad state even more so than usual. Oime is on the increase. Armament of incredible power could blow a natjon off the planet any time an enemy decides this would be advantageous. Drug,addiction has now come in tc

create- one of the most terrifying situations our nation or any other nation has confronted in centuries.

Is the trouble with us- or with the world in which we live Both. The more we examine our own lives, the less do we feel we have to be proud of. The more we regard the horrors that scientific advancement has laid open, the more we are willing to admit that so-called civilization may after all

be pretty much of a delusion.

Is this the counsel -of despair? Not at all. It is the counsel of intense anxiety. Statesmen, editors, preachers are all saying the same, and well they may, for the future is appalling unless conditions change, and change quickly.

Most of us are not willing to give up in despair, to throw in the sponge, to bury our faces in our hands and start weeping. We still believe that the world is not coming to an end and that we shall survive the present crisis as we have survived moral and political crises in the past. Now the end of the comnjandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeignled (I Timothy 1:5)

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

By ELMER ROESSNER The publishers 'catalogue reads like something out of a Lewis Carroll spoof. Indeed, many of the books Usted were published in the 19th century about the time of Mr. Dodgsons "Alice in Wonderland.

The catalogue includes such delightful titles as

ELMER

ROESSNER

"Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, published in 18%; Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events, brought out in 1891; British Goblins of 1880; and Goody Two-Shoes of 1881. y

Many of the books listed are over 100 years -old, in

cluding "The Everyday Book of 1827 and An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography of 1814.

The highest priced item on tbe list is Appletons Cyclopaedia of American Biography at $168. Lowest priced volumes are "Place Names in Imprints for $4.50 and "Bygone England for $4.75.

These are not rare old volumes , not at those prices, they are limited reprints catering to a highly specialized audience of authors, editors, researchers, historiansj bibliophiles. and the like.

Single Market

Most ar-e sold to libraries. None are marketed through bookstores and few ever find Their way .into private collections.

The economics of the rare book i''print market are unusual, I>lB;mand is sniall and convi^t^nal reprinting

would be prohibitive. Instead, ye olde rare volumes are reproduced by photo offset. This makes it practical for short press, runs at fairly reasonable prices and' preserves the appearance of the original book.

Break-even on a given title is reached at sales of somewhere'between 1(X) and 200 copies. After that, profits mount up. A book selling more than 1,000 copies is a best seller in this field. And since the inventory is small the publisher can wait years for sufficient sales to be made.

Crowded Field

One of the leaders in the specialized reprint field is the Gale Research Company. The above were taken -from its catalogue.

The company and its Singing Tree Press and Folklore Associates subsidiaries have reprinted more than. 500 titles in the

categories of reference, social history, regional history. folklore and childrens literature.

Gale Research employs more than 100 and has annual sales of .some $3 million. This compares with total industry sales of some $40 million by an estimated 100 companies in the field indicating how fractionalized rare book reprinting is.

Hardly surprising since almost anyone can get into the game. All thats needed are some old. unusual, obscure books; a little capital; and an offset printing shop with some free time on the presses. Its no trick at all to turn out 100 reprints a year.

All of which goes to show that American industry has gotten so big arid diverse the enterprising entrepreneur can find a pretty comfortable. profitable, not-so-small niche for himself if he looks