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Editorial Ana l Ill-Advised, Unpfoductive Industry goes where ii is invited and remains where it is well treated. This is a maxim that is oft quoted in the heavily overcrowded fjeldrof industry-seeking which has gripped most of the communities throughout the length and breadth of our state. Another thought almost as prevalent is the proposition of helping industries a community already has to grow bigger, „ thus in effect creating a new industry by the easiest known method available. All of which leads up to some thoughts about the, cur rent strike at Reverie lingerie, now in its second week. As best wc can judge, community sentiment is prejxmd-? crantlv against rho current strike action. The.company which is the target is less than two years okL has expanded as rap idlv as conditions have permitted.ami every prospect seemed to indicate coi.itinucd expulsion. It started without a trained employee, thus has ahsovbed the-cosi of a training operation \_iiUlic .meantime.. . _ £ When a toiuptnv pi or ides needed livelihood foi overTki ^people. it is a comnmnitv asset 'hot easily replaced in a town the si/e ol ours. • *' On the otliet band, the motives of the union are certain- - lv o|ien to question. . y. Its representatives confronted the cbmpahy. slated it represented its enqilovees and wanted to sign a contract for representation. When the company proposed an election be held as provided bv the National Labor Relations Act to determine.bv legal means il the union represented a majority of the workers, the union representative advised he was op pised to such an election. In. other-.words, the company is willing tM abide. In the faw "and ask lor an election, but the union whit It claims it represents tire emph^j-es is twit willing to'put its claims to the test. l ints. tlVe company's fXwjtron thm ft, is a "needless strike is a valid one for indeed the employees could have saved their lost pay and the company could have saved the lost production. From many standpoints, it seems to us. the strike call is ill advised, unnecessary and in view of that im poruot third partv. the affected community, completely un productive^— - -- * * . m Time For A Beginning The prdjjosal made before a final civic club this week that the time is now ripe t<> begin work toward developing a cumuuinitv -wide sewage disposal system meets our approval completely. This rK'\vs|>a|x‘i more than six months ago-cited ac tivity in the federal field which might make federal money avail able for aid to small communities with sewer problems suc h a* Oius and urged the town hoard to investigate the possi hilities of obtaining such funds. ~ ~ The \lpyoi and itiQ town lrcwrd tws whom the,'*ugges tiou was addressed didn't Itotlier to reni<*ve their heads from the sand to'investigate the |mvslbilities a Ml at tittle EldH ill > > in to t they won't this time unless the < iti/eps get busy and apply the pressure needed to at least get an investigation and stuck. The .jmsition that some engineer has been sitting oil the town s sewer survey for the last 10 years^woirt hold water much longer and we’d just as soon not hear it again. The alternative to such action as a liegimiing to solve _ this community problem, it .is alnmdantly clear, will he a suit one day "from .an irate taxpayer or enforced action from the State. ' ■ lntelligen|. a< tion to avoid this eventuality is c ertainly in order. Political Education , - In the course of 14 roll-call votes in one day. the House of Representatives sored a number .of relatively trifling cuts in the budget - while a House Fducation subcommittee voted v - six to one in favor of f tiv£-yc\'U two billion dollar federa) aid program to help build schools!-.. - PresidentKisefihowci. whose four-year. >.3 billion fed .- end"schobf-bnilding effort failed last yeai\ reminded his press conference the day he fore that lie had said he Would try again this year. He reiterated liis lieliel that “ive got way behind in schools”,,-and the Federal (iovernment ought to help even though it “has not any proper*role in the operation and in the genera) maintenance of our public school system . He said he fel^thc thing to do Was to “get theye buildings built, and then turn the whole thing hack to the states, and have nothing mote1 to do with it." „ Hut jierhaps the President doesn’t realize how that class room shortage has shrunk since his aides began measuring it. HFW’s first secretary. Mrs. (beta Culp Hobby, gave three different figures in tjjyj and iq,r,.ri, all upwards of 300.000, and in March U155'revised the shortage estimate lor the year icpytriio from 407,000 to 176,000. 'lifts year Secretary Marion H. Folsom pul the figure at t yp.oocc—w hich Jias been widely challenged. -r*. 1 ' However misled, we are sure the President’s heart is in the right place. An advisor, speaking of the school pro gram is quoted as saying: "We went into it with tears in our ... eyes. The New Dealers would have done- it with abandon." Hut, extravagance .aside, the result must lie the same either, way. It can "oi^ly mean Federalization of our schools, the loss of local control. - • Historically ,the (ioveriiment never lets go. tEbe $EtoS of ©rangE Count? Published Every Thursday By THi NEWS, INCORPORATED < Hillsboro ud Chapel Hill, N. C. EDWIN J HAM* ™ Kdit+r mmA Publisher Entered at Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at 1. ala boro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3. 1373. ,i '***' '• *14 ■111—11 p mi "■ 1 .. 1 "I"11 ' 1,1 Exclusive National Advertising Representative , GREATER WEEKLIES He* York * Chicago * Detroit * Philadelphia ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES v ONE YEAH (inside North Carolina) --— *2.50 * SIX MONTHS (Inaide North Carolina)-*1.75 ONE YEAR (outride North Carolina)---*3.00 ■ ■ - .- ■ . ' — m ■ _ ■ t ' . '.,7. -: ■ : ■ (Continued from Page 1) much . . out on the road eating barbecue, making speeches, and generally building the prestige of the Department of Agriculture, lure. When Kerr Scott became Gov ernor, he made D. S. Coltrane as sistant director of the budget. But Dave Coltrane had a mind of his own and didn't gee—haw with Governor Scott all the time. He bad not when he was in the Agri* culture. Department On June «, 1»52-Ah*ring the last months of the stormy four years as Governor and within a few days after William ■ B. Umstead had beaten down Scott Man Hu bert Olive for Governor. .Kerr. Scott wrote this letter to D. S, Coltrane: 1 • Dear Coltrane: "In view of the events and con ditions that have developed during the past two years (Ed. note: Scott had felt that Coltrane was too conservative, was giving too much comfort to the enemy and loo much love to Umstead >. I find that your usefulness as my assistant in administering the af fairs of the Budget Act has been hampered. V "It is my earnest desire that the program of this administration be carried out to the final day of my term of office. To do this 1 need the full cooperation, loyalty, end assistance of every depart ment head; therefore. I do not believe it will serve the best in terest of this administration for you to remain as assistant direc tor of the budget and I am re questing your resignation immedi ately." BLAGGUM AGIN HICKORY . . . Well, Scott's assistants—one in particular—thought D. S. Coltrane would roll over and play dead. He did roll over, bat that’s all. Those around Raleigh who knew Dave Coltrane* ^>0^ said: ••)He'.s fs tyugb in his Wfy as Scott is In his'n. it's black gam against hickory." And that it was. Coltrane said nothing doing. He found the law was in his favor, that his job tan through Scptt's term of of Iice. The Governor then stopped his pay. Some doings. That didn't bother Coltrane. He kept plug ging. had plenty to live on, and a line wjfe to help him out. VTHKKS. TOO . , . The Gover nor fired Paroles Commissioner Dr T. C. Johnson and Motor Ve liicleS 'Commissioner L. C. Ros ier: Johnson oh June 2, 1952. and Rosser on June 15. D. S. Coltrane is st411 on the job as assistant director of the budget, serving under his third Governor. He finally got his pay. But a few days ago when Sen. W. Kerr Scott came down from Washington to Raleigh to auto graphy the book, Dove Coltrane wasn't ^around expecting to get a special copy. A long-time friend ship had been a long-time dead. Stott has gone to greater glory and is making a name for him self in the U. S. Senate. Despite his extremely bitter feelings of 1952 and the rough campaign to unsoat A1 Lennon in 1954. he is probably more popular now . than everbefore. ' >. - -s NOTES ... . Governor" Luther Hodges is. sticking around home pretty closely these days, confin ing his speeches to North Caro lina environs . . . and as close to Raleigh as possible ..... .Keep an eye on Mecklenburg County’s Freshman Representative Frank Snopp as political comer ... an attorney and smart . . . Trading stamp .legislation is expected flare up almost any day now in the Legislature .... SeCn coming .put of the Governor’s side office last Friday; Tom Pearsall of . Pearsall Plan fame, Joe Branch, the Governor's liaison man with the Legislature, and Paul Johnston, the Governor's adminis trative assistant .... As a geilbral thing, school kids coming U> Raleigh waste their own time and their parents' money in visiting the Legislature . T* They ere marched in. very quietly and mannerly, but they have not tile slightest idea of what is jgoing on dowh there on the floor and real ly get a false Impression of how laws are made, House Speaker Doughton, sensing this. Has tried to give little explanations for the kids benefit » . r. f ' , . • , • • ' ' . v v . *--y *y • . - 4 ,r~r •'* . j ,'BotMeVOn Oor Side/ ■iM p; |£ . BtupiiHK *;?•' ;'.. -V . / . . ;.•< ■ •■■; R. Daniel Fen The News John Umstead Says . . . \ Hodges Expected To Ask 15 Pet. Hike In Teacher Pay; Racing Hearing Set 4 fty EEP. JOHN W. L’MST^AD ^ The bill that will be of mbre To tal interest than any other at least for the time being, is the one pre sented by Senator Lanier at .the re quest of the County Commissioners and more than 800 petitioners, which would ban auto racing on Vmdays in Orange County. It also provides for the protection of the ■>ublic at auto races on days .other than Sundays^. , The blit was passed Without a hearing"' in the Senate but Senator I.anier said that a hearing could be arranged when it came to the House. The bill is now in the house and is before the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns. Hearing Thursday A hearing has been scheduled for Thursday morning at TO a.m. in SENATOR SAM ERVIN :* SAYS * WASHINGTON - cast. weex 1 tpoke briefly In the Senate on the subject that the civil rights bills tire repugnant to our governmental and legal “systems. During the talk Instated that I have pointed out on other occasions that the civil rights mils now pending '’be fore Congress are designed to de prive Americans involved in civil i ights cases of their right of trial by Jury. These bills are repugnant in other respects to our govern mental and legal systems. A Definition m» Our ancestors appraised at its fall. value » the everlasting truth embodied^ in Daniel Webster's as tertion t£at . “whatever -govern ment is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it- be called what it may." Consequently, they based the governmental and legal systems of America upon these fundamental concepts: <1» That pur government should be a gov ernment bylaw and not a govern ment by men—a government in whieh laws should have authority over men, not men over laws. (2> That our courts should administer equal and exact justice in com pliance with certain and uniform laws applying in Uke manner to ell men in like situations. Senate BUI Parts IH and IV of S. 83 specify, in substance, that "the Attorney General may Institute for tbs United States, or In the name of the United States but for the bene fit of the real party in interest*" c novel civil action or proceeding to enforce or vindicate certain supposed civil rights of private citizens. By these words, the bill proposes to do these two thing*.: ill To establish a novel proce dure for the enforcement or vindi .. . . \ ... ■ a ' « cation of certain supposed civil rights of private citizens at the ex pense of the taxpayers; and (2 To confer upon'one fallible Human 'being, namely, the temporary oc cupant of the office of Attorney General, whoever he may be, the despotic power to grant the bene fit of-the new procedure to some citizens and Avithhold it from ! the proposed law is not to be operative at all unless the At torney General, acting either with or without reason, so wills. This is not government by law. It is government by the whim of the Attorney General. Novel Procedure It U to be noted, moreover, that the novel procedure to be authorized by the bill is to be used for and against such persons only as the Attorney General may select. This being true, the bill rs utterly reppugnant to the funda mental concept that courts are created to administer equal and exact justice in compliance with certain and uniform laws apply ing In like manner to all men in like situations. There is always danger that dis cretionary governmental power may -permit the public of ficer in whom it is reposed to rule arbitrarily without the restraint of lgw. As a consequence, no legis lative body should over adopt any statute conferring discretionary governmental power upon any pub lic officer unless such statute sat - isties the only valid test of the advisability of legislation of this nature. The test is the evil a bad public officer may do under the proposed law rather than the good a good public officer may do un der it, S. S3 cannot satisfy this test. ~ . room 513 of the Revenue Building This hearing was arranged so that ail might be- heard no matter whether they favored or opposed this legislation. All Interested por ous in Orange County are asked to attend. 'v. The final hearings before the Commitfbe on Appropriations took place Tuesday afternoon. It Is a long and tedious task, but it is netessary so that each agency or institution may have the satisfac tion. of knowing that they re quested what they thought they needed to carry on the services they render for the -next two years beginning July first of this " year, j - .* When the Committee convened on Wednesday afternoon it • began the consideration of items and requests for additional funds as'they came in the budget book. Much time was consumed -With minor details and finally a motion was made that We then and there take up the matter of increases in teachers salaries. •'"•••' " It was late in lae afternoon and rather than take up a matter that would call for much discussion a motion was made to adjourn. This motion carried. When we convened on Thursday afternoon we were told' bv Chairman Eagles of the Senate Committee that the Governor has .expressed a desire to send a mes sage to the assembly or address a joint meeting during the next week. He expressed a desire to make a statement on the matter of in creases in all salaries and have some statement about where we could get the funds for such In creases as he might recommend After hearing this statement ». motion was made and carried that we defer further consideration of appropriations until we had this message from the Governor. This message or statement is expeeted early next week. • >> See 15 Percent Propseal The prediction is made by many that Governor Hodges will recom mend either 15 or 16 per cent in crease for teachers and either U or 12 per cent increase for other state employees. These increases will mean total appropriations of practically 10 per cent more than those recommended by the Budget Commission. To do this means either increasing estimates of revenue Under the finance bill or financing the increases with sur plus funds. Financing current oper eiion with surplus funds is. in my opinion, bad policy. Lot^l legislation received quite a bit of attention during the week. ■ j*.■ '-'I Tar Heel PEOPLE & ISSUES By Cliff Blue CUMBERLAND ... Last week the expected happened in Cum berland County when the people voted by a goodly majority to un leash Sheriff Guy and return to him the responsibillty“'of law ear foreement in the county. The bill which the General As sembly enacted two years ago at the insistance of Rep. Wilson Yarborough and I. H. O Hanlon was resented by people all over the state. People do not like the idea of doing by legislative edict something that cannot be done by a popular vote at the polls. Guy had served a full four-year term and , had won a second four-year terrfi over an able candidate when he was de-horned. De-horning a” sheriff, yea a weak sheriff, is not popular. McDOWELL . . In 1953 Rep. „S. R. Perkins de-borned Sheriff Ashby ‘ Robinson of ’ McDowell County. The circumstances then was almost identical with the Cumberland County situation. Well, two years later Rep. Perkins was defeated by W. W. Wall with the latter -running on-a platform to • repeal the • de-horning act.' And too. the people of MrDowell Coun ty re-elected Robinson sheriff in 1954 after he was de-horned in 1953. SEAVY CARROLL . . . Results of Sheriff Guy’s victory in last week’s special election may well carry over into the 1958 primary when the t^rm of Q. K. Nimocks, Jr,, will expire. Judge Nimocks who has been on the bench for nearing 20 years is not| expected to be a candidate to succeed him self. State Senator Seavy Carroll is regarded as the man to beat for the job. Most of the Cumberland bar is said to be against Carroll and they are attempting to get together on a ijjan who they think can win. People close to the .Cum berland situation say that Carroll will hSve the backing of the Guy faction and this along with Car roll’s own vote-getting ability, will make it an interesting contest to watch.* rifCK PHILLIPS . . . Associated with Terry Sanford in the prac tice of law in Fayetteville are two of his boyhood chums, Dick Phil s*Jms and Donald Mc£oy. The firm is-enemf Tar Heel’s most promis ing. .VTew^davs ago wre heard a A large •delegayobv. r^me down from Thomasvilie to protest a bill extenting the city limits, of Thomasvilie. .The* hearing lasted-^ more thaij an hour. On the same Say a much larger , crowd came from Greensboro to appear- both for and against a similar bill for. the extension of the limits of Greensboro. Action was deferred until next week by both commit tees. Several years ago several members, myself included, spon sored and secured the passage of a statewide bill that we thought would take care of extension of city limits in all cases and there (See UMSTBAD, Page 7) superior court judge saJ his opihion Dick Phuy good as any lawyer in j excepting none. A' nJ compliment for any is, was also high in his McCoy and Sanford. BILTMORE HOUSE persons visited the more House in .Asheville i including 6,130 from n counties. PURE. AIR ... Pure u told, was a big factor ja; selection , of a site near m th? Blue Ridge Mouj . fts new "silicon plant. , STATE "DOC*? . lina -has a State .[Jove State bird. The GreeSsl ord wonders* why no J and nominates Plott hou are big game hunting j ♦he originals being bo America in 1750 by JonaJ who settled in New | pushed across the rnaa settle in Piott Val|ey mat ville. His descendants j there and are fa metis as of hunting dogs OUTDOOR DRAMA; Carolina has three estabd door dramas whfk opa ing the summer months, ing, “Unto These Hills'* i kee; "Horn In The I Boone; and "The Lost at Manteo. Beaufort is an outdoor drama to bep with a temjporary commit ed by Norwood ..Yuun:b ready been named. COLLEGES It is | that'1 only the top "students admittance to -the top and universities and tin are tha^ the “boys and medium ability 'will find harder to gain entrant! top institutions of higher in the next few years. * But in North Carolina d growing feeling that the I girls 'of average ability ’earning should not be 4 that short courses of i years should be provided based rmore on the pract of the studies. There is I that State College in) should offer a two-year ( such studies- as Farmlni renter, manager, estate Herdsman or assistant ! operator, or assistant. i w;ork. Poultrv plant ..sdl Commercial hatcheries,it gardening. Agbiculturaf ” agencifes^and other prw which wouteLnot retiutt four year eon-iYe-Toda* e tremendous ■ dornatot. ployment in trades such above. For many boys -a course in which . the things which must be f* be emphasized would d as much value as a J course. Don’t be surprid hear more aboitr (bis H I very much enjoy reading old books. I have just finished thumb ing through one which I found interesting. It was written in 1885 hy F. R. Elliott and is entitled, Handbook of' Practical Lands cape Gardening.” This is a sec ond edition, the first appearing in W7. The reason for quoting the passages which follow is to point out that, basically, our ideas of beauty, utility, good taste and proportion have not changed miuch. . . „ •' The value of Everything that approaches the beautiful, is en t«Wiced by an appropriate setting. Even the most? beautiful flower of nature is improved by its sur rounding of delicately tinted green foliage. " ——Whfflao in all her beauty is rendered even more attractive in a setting of appropriate colors and forms of dress; and woe be to the taste of a blonde who. rowing herself in light blue, seeks to de corate for relief with coral orna ments. The opaque red, to use a common phrase, would be dread ful;’ while the use of a pale pink would light up and dispel the pal lid moonshine of the blue, and give to all a rieli peai'b'* hue, as of early morn , "There are many whose h)inds. are open.1 tion ,and inclined t° 1 whose powers of «■>* not sufficient to ena® discover what is rigi'1 * priate. until it is 1,1 them ... “ J "The art • of rontpj Landscape Gardening 81 principles which go t° ing a unity of the ^ which no deviation. ca* without marring The 1 may be possessed i» a less degree; but without to principles, it l'*’1 ® a design of harnid11 tion or’ naaoelatio'i I believe, that yo« with Mr. Elliott's Wj architectural design cally changed in recent^ basic principles^ of wa good taste and prop<ir1^ caping your home you are planning j‘ changing your prese" scheme; plan your" - your plan.
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