Friday, April 17, 1970
THE NEW BERN MIRROR. NEW BERN, N. C.
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Washington Report
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CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES
Last week on Wednesday,
April 8, the United States Sen
ate once again refused to ap
prove a Southerner for a place
on the United States Supreme
Court.
Those who opposed the con
firmation of Judge Harrold
Carswell gave varying rea
sons- Some of the same ones
who voted against the confir
mation of Judge Haynsworth in
recent months at that time stat
ed that Haynsworth was quali
fied, butoffered other excuses.
But in the Instance of Judge
Carswell, the excuse of many
was that he was not judically
qualified. Therefore, those
who are adamant against the
confirmation of a Southerner
will use whatever excuse they
can find.
An analysis of the confirma
tion voted showed a lack of sup
port between President Nixon
and the Senate, for 13 Republi
can Senators voted no in spite
of White House pressure-
The majority of the Southern
Senators of both parties sup
ported Carswell, withtheglar-
Ing exceptions of Senator
Sprong of Virginia and Senator
Gore of Tennessee, both Demo
crats; and in a major surprise.
Republican Senator Cook of
Kentucky voted against.
Also last week in a most un
usual action the Congress pass
ed legislation to avert a nation
wide railroad strike- In recent
years resolutions have been
passed by the Congress to force
labor and management to fur
ther negotiate; but last week,
the Congressional action also
Included the setting of wages
as it relates to back pay and
overtime-
In other words, the legisla
tion actually spelled out the
terms of the settlement. There
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were four unions Involved In
this dispute, and three of the
unions had overwhelmingly
agreed to the settlement offer
ed by the railroads, while the
smaller imlon, the Sheetmetal
Workers, by an extremely close
vote, rejected the offer.
In spite of the Congressional
action in settling the 17-month
old dispute, the present con
tract expires at the end of this
year and negotiations on the new
contract will begin sometime
next fall.
I hope that this does not set
a precedent where each labor
dispute will reach the halls of
Congress. It seems logical that
labor and management in this
sophisticated age should be able
to devise a mutal plan for avoid
ing costly and crippling
strikes.
In the confusion of our pres
ent affluent society, we some
times overlook or forget organ
izations which are making a
a great contribution to the sta
bility of this and future gener
ations. Such an organization is
the Future Homemakers of
America, who last week cele
brated their 25th anniver
sary.
lliis is a national organiza
tion where home economics
students in junior and senior
high schools assemble through
out the nation.
It has a national member
ship of 604,000 in 12,000 high
schools. North Carolina has
29,665 FHA members in 459
chapters. This office salutes
the leaders and their member
ships.
MIRROR
MORSELS
Courage is rightly esteemed
the first of human qualities,
because it is the quality which
guarantees all others. —
Winston Churchill.
Adversity is the state in
which a man most easily be
comes acquainted with himself,
being especially free from ad -
mirers then.—Samuel Johnson.
Ireland is a country in which
the probably never happens and
the impossible always does.—
Johff Pentland Mahaffy.
A news sense is really a
sense ofwhatlsImportant,what
is vital, what has color and life,
what people are interested in.
That’s journalism. — Burton
Roscoe.
Age is only a number, a
cipher for the records. A
man can’t retire his exper
ience. He must use it. Ex
perience achieves more with
less energy and time- —
Bernard Baruch.
Democracy is government
that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appoint
ment by the corrupt few.—
George Bernard Shaw.
Hie life of every man is a
diary in which he means to
write one story and writes
another; and his humblest hour
is when he compares the volume
as it is with what he vowed to
make-—James M. Barrie.
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Marriage is the alliance of
two people, one of whom nev
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the other never forgets them.—
Ogden Nash.
Politeness is the flower of
humanity. He who is not polite
enough is not human enough.—
Joseph Joubert.
A politician is an animal
who can perch on a fence and
yet keep both ears to the
ground. — Gear Wilde.
A luncheon club is a group
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cally to eat their way to a so
lution of the world’s prob
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Insolent power.--John Qulncey
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