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/ ___ PAGE TWO if y ' f '—-1 m SENATOR I Sam Ervin |||- SAYS B Washington Public attention K has focused in recent weeks upon H proposals before the Senate deal m ing with public accommodations, K Federal fund withholding . and i ■ regulation of employment prac- ‘ ; tices. But last week the Sen-. | ate debate centered upon pro j posals to set up Federal stand ! ards for voting qualification in ‘ most elections. The Federal | standard sought to be imposed | concerns those States, including North Carolina, which have so | called “literacy tests”, to deter | mine the ability of the prospec tive-voter to read and write. It would create a Federal presump tion'^-that voter literacy tests would be invalidated if the ap | plicaht, except an incompetent, ! could show that he had complet- I ed tile sixth school grade. |i The proposed legislation rais | es basic questions of wisdom and | constitutionality. The effective I functioning of democratic gov- I. ernment depends upon the in- I telligent exercise of the voting I privilege. North Carolina and I some twenty other States have | framed laws based upon the sen | sible principle that a person ■ 1 ought to be literate to vote. The : 1 U. S. Constitution expressly pro s hibits- the Congress and the Fed \ eraT Government from setting up i voter standards, and history 5 demonstrated in the post-Civil - War era ending in the 1890’s i that there are grave dangers in \ passing laws which permit the j Federal government to determine E who ,can and who cannot vote. | Title lof the civil rights bill would permit the Federal au thorities to overrule a State’s voter literacy test on the theory | that the completion of a sixth grade education is sufficient qualification without question. It expresses the unwise attitude : ft that Congress can no longer trust i ! the States to carry out the Con- : j stitutional mandate that the I States shall set the qualifications j for the exercise of the voting privilege. < Human beings being whatj they, are, the electoral process has many imperfections which include both the denial of the right to register to vote when ( there is no reason and the de i nial of the right to have a vote 1 counted after it has been cask Everyone should favor the right by qualified persons to vote and t I deplore the act of any election I official who wrongfully denies 1 any person his right to register t to vote. Yet, it is a fact that J' there, are already many Federal f statutes some of which are not [ used, to protect the right of : j qualified applicants to secure ] their voting privileges. However I unwise the conduct of some elec ' tion officials may be that should not negate the wisdom of the t 4 Founding Fathers who wrote the J governing Constitution that the I States and not the Federal gov- ■ I ernment should determine who j [ should vote. Their judgment I should lead us to ask “what safe- j, guards are there that a Federal! j Attorney-General will more STRAIGHT Hi BOURBON flgßßlfi 86 PROOF B H-VER^LAB£ L ■ I f”*.... i I |g*« *zzJL <*»** m WL I fCrnl JmggLi V - B m 9 -. , ■ j •• I BOTTLED ENERGY—A [nuclear reactor vessel is machined in the West Allis, Wis., shop where it is made. It resembles a bottle, and willJwttleup energy.^ wisely administer voter qualh fications and voter regulations than the State and local officials now do?” The lesson of history was the very reason that the Constitutional Convention grant ed the power to the States. Two years ago, when the na tion examined this subject more carefully, the St. Louis Globe- Democrat editorialized on the problem and said: “The Nation needs more literate voters at the polls, not less. Self-rule depends completely on a reasonable in telligence of voters. Even with literacy tests this will be spot ty. Without requiring voters at least to read and write, we slough the whole system of de mocracy and abort common sense.” This leads one to con clude that an inherent fault of Federal voting standards such as these is that they do “abort commonsense”'. New Industry To Build In Chowan Continued from Page 1, Section 1 poration, spent considerable time in early negotiations, but all along felt optimistic that Cho wan County would be selected for the new site. Mayor John Mitchener was among the many who were de lighted to hear the news and: said: “This operation will take' up quite a bit of slack in our surplus labor pool. This plant, plus a textile-related industry now under construction means that this area of Chowan Coun ty has reached a high point re garding its labor market and a balanced economy. “We have balanced our econ omy and now can expect to use our surplus labor. Edenton is also showing progress through a number of local projects which go along with a progressive community.” t THE CHOWAN HEHALD, EDENTON. WOBTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1964. < .RAI n: "A” FRESH PRESSED YE OLE V IRC IN NY ALL MEAT "A" I ■U B| M |p CELLO - NONE BETTER FN U.S.A. I __ * f ’i# I .> k „ C 11- 1 I FRYERS lb. 28< Mm A I *fj f | I Combination Package n t 1 BAR-B-^^Ea5y~^*JUST -, LIGHT , THE I,, FIRF« IOF Li). Quartered I Beef Short I Prepared Pork I Ihoice Parts 7 ' CHICKEN ribs SPARE RIBS I FRYERS lb. 45c * i: PI I lb.AStllb.39tllb.49tl / „ aii t ■Mjaiajaia/aigjaia/araiaosiaf3ai3iSf3iaraisiaiaHjaraiaiaiaiaiaiai3jai3rafßHai®afajaiaP!j -wr ixtc a vrio di/'iiatavia a ■mta I 2-oz. 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