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r—— n -m~ii NO COMMENT •y JAMES V. DOUHUI Washington —Fact-finding is a favorite Washington sport. 'But it can be frustrating. A Senate committee investigating current po litical spending had that experience here.-just recently. AFL-ClO’s po litical subsidiary COPE and UAW's chameleon—Walter Reuther—were there presumably to tell all. The affair was a' flop. It re ceived only casual press attention —and then primarily because of not too humorous repartee between COPE witnesses and Republican Senators. Yet, buried now in the record is a story—a story with a point, and a point that ultimately Congress must settle. Precedent Set—First, a precedent was set. Publicity-minded Reuther —aware that most of Washington’s press corps is out covering the elec tion campaigns, and secondarily that his appearance would hardly warrant live television and radio coverage—brought his own tech nicians and equipment, cameras, lights, and sound. Some Capital Hill staff veterans wonder what the edited film and script will resem ble when ultimately broadcast over UAW’s own 30 station network. Second, Reuther had glib words but few facts. He (1) deeply re gretted his union was limited fi fancially in what it was able to do toward teaching their responsibili ty as citizens, (2) denied that UAW headquarters ever told members to contribute to or support particu lar parties or candidates, and (3) adroitly avoided questions as to the cost of man-hours donated by his union to political candidates or committees. Labor Union Spending—Third, a University of North Carolina pro fessor earlier presented a study of political contributions in the 1952 campaign. He showed 15 national union organizations spent $1,818,- 789. His records admittedly were incomplete because (1) contribu tions under $500.00 are not includ ed; (2) the cost of man-hours qf work is not reported; and (3) col lateral work—called “educational” —such as getting people registered, distributing voting records of can didates, radio and TV shows—is not considered by the unions as “political activities.” He reported that $51,300.00 went to Americans for Democratic Ac tion and $36,500.00 to the Steven son-Sparkman forum. Nevertheless, in spite of specific legal prohibitions, national unions contributed $100,072.00 to 21 Dem ocratic candidates for the Senate and $79,990.00 to Democratic can didates for the House. States where contributions in ex cess of $15,000.00 were made in cluded : California $27,000 Connecticut 53,100 Illinois 28,092 Michigan 66,500 Minnesota 19,312 Missouri 15,650 Montana 21,200 New Merico 18,850 New York 79,692 Ohio 34,290 Pennsylvania 34,120 Utah 20,200 Washington 24,950 West Virginia 23,350 Wisconsin 21,685 Story Still Incomplete—Even if figures on total union financial conli tributions were available, the story would still be incomplete. As Sen ator Goldwater said, in quizzing COPE’s co-directors: “If this were just an prdinary, run-of-the-mill political effort, it would be one thing. But we have here an or ganization which represents 16 to IB million people. “Now, we used to be concerned with the monopoly of business, and we were only concerned there with the monopoly of money, and there is no question that big business has historically, and probably today, supplied big sums of money for po litical campaigns, but they have never supplied people. “We have got a new factor here; apd people, I think, more than money, win elections. I think it is perfectly proper that we ask these gentlemen to supply us with the ■umber of people that work on po litical activities.” The, Senator’s request probably will go unheeded, although the in vestigation wfll continue. Even so, Washington observers see little evidence that Congress yet sees the j .problem in its real light | K Temptations, when we meet them first are as the lion that reared ■pppon 'Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey with ' h them. —John Bunyan. Boy Scouts to Visit 35 Million Homes i ' ■/' .... . V i If 111 Just before Election Day, November 6, the nation’s'4,l7s,l34 Cab Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers, and their leaders will place on the doorknobs of 35,000,000 homes Liberty Bell hangers, shown above, urging every citizen to vote. The Scouts’ “Get-Out the-Vote” campaign is being conducted in cooperation with Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. It is entirely non partisan, without reference to any candidate or party. Just Guessing 1 By “PETE” | V H Well! . . . What do you think of the Edenton Aces now ? . . . I know I speak for all supporters of the Aces when I Say they have earned for themselves a pat on the back and a greeting of “well done” from all local fans. Every member of the squad outdid himself in A'hos kie Monday night and as a result walloped a supposedly strong team by a much wider margin than had been anticipated by football dope sters of this area. There is no doubt ih my mind now that the Aces will go on and cop another Albemarle Conference crown with an enviable record of no defeats, no ties and sporting the distinction of being unscored upon in confer ence play, unless Plymouth, the last conference opponent the Aces will meet this year, can come up witSi a “secret weapon” of some sort and upset the perfect record of the Aces. 1 know all football-mind ed folk of the entire Albemarle sec tion join me. in wishing the Aces all the luck in the world should they be privileged to compete in the State playoffs again this year. This week the Aces meet Ply mouth’s Panthers, a young and in experienced', but scrappy telam. However I do not believe they will put up much of a scrap for Eden ton’s high-flying Atfes. Coach Bill ings will no doubt run his second team a great deal in this game so as not to run up an unnecessarily high score. Edenton 26, Plym outh 0. Hertford will meet Spring Hope this week in what might develop in to an interesting game, A former star for the Indians is coach of the* I YOUR INQUIRY INVITED iJm 0n e * e< * e< * Securities Want information or our opinion on I stocks you own or are considering buy- I ing? List your interests below, send in, and we will supply yoq with the infor mation you desire. This will acquaint you with one of our many useful invest . jrs’ services. Name of Stock Shares Owned Name .-. : Address ' Town r| rj CHARLOTTE RALEIGH NEW YORK CITY Represented in this area by: DAVID M. WARREN 301 SOUTH GRANVILLE ST.—PHONE 626 THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1956. Spring Hope team. However, I think the score should run some thing like Hertford 20, Spring Hope 0. Ahoskie and’ Williamston will meet this week in what should be a close one if the Green Wave is up for the game. Both teams have run hot and cold all season. Never theless, I’ll go along with Ahoskie in this one. Ahoskie 20, William ston 6. Tarboro’s Tigers play Ayden this week in a non-conference game. Tarboro has improved to a great extent as the season progressed and as a result shouldn’t 'have too much trouble with Ayden. Tarboro 13. Ayden 0. • Below are listed last week’s pre dictions and the 'actual scores. The first line, in black face type, repre sents the prediction, the second line representing the actual score: Edenton 20, Ahoskie 0 Edenton 33, Ahoskie 0 Tarboro 13, Plymouth 7 Tarboro 13, Plymouth 6 Washington 54, Williamston 6 Washington 19, Williamston 0 Hertford-Manteo game cancelled Strawberry Crop In Chowan Profitable Thurman Harrell of Enterprise community has found strawberries a good cash crop, according to ■ County Agent C. W. Overman. Al though Mr. Harrell is growing ber ries on a small basis, he has in creased his patch to about eight tenths of an acre this year. * “Mr. Harrell probably inherited a strawberry nack from his father, who used to grow as fine berries as I ever saw,” Overman says. *Poda -1 hontas, Albritton, and Massey va SENATOR SAM ERVIN SAYS * Washington Election Day is Tuesday, November 6. Why The Date? In 1845, the phrase, the “Tues day next after the first Monday” of November, first appeared in fed eral legislation pertaining to elec tions. In that year, a bill was passed establishing a uniform elec tion day for the election of Presi dential electors. The bill in its original form sought to fix the : first Tuesday in the month of No vember as election day for the elec tors. Later, the bill was amended changing the date to “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November”. Why the amendment? 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The argument was advanced during the debate that there was lack of uniformity in election days and there was the hope advanced that the State constitutions would be changed to conform to a uni form date, for the Apportionment Bill would have no effect on State elections as such, and it was not intended to have any effect on State elections as such. But there was a feeling against the number of times a citizen had to go to the polls. Later on. Congress chose the same day for the election of Unit , ed States Senators. Maine Differs r Citizens of Maine vote twice, once in their State elections in Sep ; tember, and, of course, for the ’ Presidential Electors in November f just as the other States. But the ■ other States have brought their • constitutional provisions regarding general elections in accord with “the Tuesday next after the first Monday” of November. When you cast your ballot on No vember 6, you will be going to the voting place simultaneously with Americans in all the 48 States thanks to the efforts of those who worked for a uniform election day. Perhaps it is hard to imagine a time when the dates were not uni form, but it did exist. I hope tnat you will vote on No vember 6. ESPECIALLY FORII PET OWNERS Numerically, the variety of para keet known as the budgerigar ranks either first or second as the most popular pet in the United States. * * * It is believed that cats show a large degree of natural resistance to leptospirosis, says the Journal of the American Veterinary Medi cal Association. # ♦ ♦ Not all biting dogs are rabid, nor do all rabid dogs bit. Some dogs get a “dumb” type of rabies instead of the furious type and do not bite unless disturbed. * * * Don’t be surprised if you should • learn some day that your dog is ■ near-sighted. 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