Editorial And Opinion Hodges Was Impressive w hatever may. transpire during this week's momentous I session of the General Assembly, we saw in 'Governor Hodges on Monday night one ol die most impressive examples»of gubernatorial leadership North Carolina has seen in many a year. Possibly for the first time, it seemed to us, the lull force of the present Governor s powers of leadership and per suasion were brought to the fore and Hodges the man took several giant ste{ts forward in the estimation'ol many ob servers. - ' The governors sincerity and vigor, as wpll as the well thought-out jnoposals, ate bound to increase the man s sta ture and give indication that he undoubtedly will go down as one of the great governors ol our time. Labor's Mistake * Automation is a new word added to our national1 vo- . cabulary. - Although it is not fnctyded in our old fashioned dic tionary, we presume it means the practice or ability to do almost everv thing by machines automatically. It is not a new concept, it this is so. As one writer in a national magazine recently wrote, there are now machines for "fetching, carry ing. lilting, dumping, making, shifting, sorting, pushing, pulling, tacking, arranging, filing, writing, anil remember ing." In short, labor saving, and efficiency dev ices ate'with its. Automation is here with a vengeance. Labor sihuiId rejoice. Instead, looking at the transi tions they must make, they strike. I hey" should rejoice be ca’use: 1 i- Automation means a higher standard ol living for the laborer himself, because he will lie able to produce more per hour, and should receive metre.*-■ • . • ' 2. Automation will mean a higher standard of living to him as a consumer because he will be able to buy units cheaper, since they have been produced more efficiently. , 3- Automation will require more education, less man ual labor. It will save him the hard, dirty, repetitious jobs, and instead challenge him to be able to serve as a skilled work man, or, at best .an engineer. 4. Automation means an upgrading for the whole economy, savings in every area, more for the money, more ‘ production, greater national product, greater opportunities for work, expansion ofdocal and w'orld trade, and the in crease of opportunities and the expansion of life for all men, as well as^tite increase of l#tyre time. It shoe rid infcafr the growth and expansion of man’s abilities, his understanding, and Ins-use of his talents. —- , s Autonation means the worker will have to accept the challenge i ike advantage of'his learning opportunities, and move air ad to take his part in the industrial age. Just as we need fewer farmers and more engineers; sb we need fewer unskilled workers, and more trained, educated craftsmen and specialized operators; . , ..- - .. — -* ' * • * 7" ~ ~ . What About Symbolic Symbols? There was ,! time, when the donkey and the elephant, as party symbols, were young The cion key: was a homebqdy, then, clear ,to TTic ItcaiVof rurarAmeric a; in contrast, The ele phant liaiioiie-mal glamor.. This time, alas, has passed: never theless. the donkev and* the-elephant, these two ubiquitous ^ totems^ sist^ys *yjtuUols. tluty;j^ii*e^beeu I'om tc>* frazzle.-- -. We cannot hut feel rebellious when we see these |>oor. animals overworked every day in the newspapers. The time must come when some enterprising cartoonist shall 'invent new symbols to-represent the twd major protago-' nists-.of American public opinion. And some optimistic edi tor will publish the cartoon. We anticipate symbols that would make us feel that the leaders of our political parties are perha|>s intelligent, maybe dignified, possibly human, and not just coy. victimized, or baffled. • ' ' •- 7~ .'-j--. .. ■ _ Qn Changing Times, U’ith the national government getting primed and (Stoked to distribute « billion in Soil Bank benefits, students of his tory can have a field day discussing generally and specifical ly at least one drastic change in national attitudes. For, it is within the memory of some of them that Grover Cleve land vetoed a $10,000 appropriation to buy seed for farmers who had been wiped oiil, remarking in effect: The people should support the government, not the. .government the people! ’ r v -----1-;-1-^ - ' * /ti " - ’ of i;'.. Publish'd Every Thurffay By g tm« NEWS, incorporated ' gUlsboro and Chapel Eft, flC EDWiy l EfmJN - - Ediiorand fyhlftffry Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKUiS **w f«rk * Chicago * Detroit A Philadelphia - e-i. .1 _ ' . SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina) “ _~ j2 50 SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina)_ L __2.__ $j 75 ONE YEAR (outside North Carolina) ______ $3 00 Tar Heel PEOPLE & ISSUES by Cliff Blue HONEST REPORT . . . This column was told by 4 leading Tar Hell politician a few days ago that Ralph Gardner’s “honest;’ report of his campaign expendi ture.! in his race for congress in the first primary was what caus ed his defeat in the run-off by Basil Whitener who trailed in the May 26 primary. While the Gard ner family is wealthy, it seems, that the People didn't like Ralph’s idea of being so open and above board with money and cam paign expenses. UNUSUAL ... The Gardner re port was unusual. Candidates of ten ffle only very incomplete re ports. In many instances other people handle the money so as to keep the candidate in the clear. In some sections of the state money plays a much larger part than t,n others. In many counties only a very modest amount of money is spent. Generally, in the heavily populated centers, the candidates feel that big money is a must. Frankly, we thing over half the money spent in political campaigns is green back thrown away. COOLEY ... A few people in North Carolina nave been at tempting to get a boom started for Harold Cooley for Vice Presi; dent. Few people in far Heelia feel that the dean of the Tar Heel congressional delegation ha* a ghost of a chance for the No. 2 spot. His only chance blight be if Harriman were to win the nomination. Cooley, who refused to sign either of the Southern manifestos introduced the New York Governor at the Asheboro Yt>C rally when most other Tar Heel heavyweight politician* were boycotting "Honest Ave.” MECKLENBURG . . We have heard talk that Ed O’Herron of Charlotte might run as an inde pendent for the House this fall. Mecklenburg Democratic leaders feel that O’Herren is too smar! a man to do such a thing. Should he run awl aiq._he wUL.fr*i»A down the wrath of the County and State party leaders on him self and might be ostracized in the House committee chairman ship assignments In the General Assembly. NOT MOVING . . . Recently, Congressman Cooley was plann ing to move his officesJn-Wash ington from the Old to the New House Office .. Building, ..which ■ would fiabe given him larger-and more elegant quarters, and by reason of hi* long tenure in Con gress and his prestige as Chair man of the House Committee on Agriculture, he was entitled to the best. But we understand Mr. Cooley isn’t going to move his office after all. The/eason: Con gressman Adam Clayton Powell, Negro from New York, was all set to move into Cooley’s old quarters as soon as he moved to the new. Cooley’* friends around him in his old office, mostly Southern members of Congress, prevailed on the Tar If eel Con gressman not to move in order to keep >bvroll ouf! so ffaro| The Federal Government-, has aided ia a number of worthwhile - projects which the people could not otherwise have obtained for themselves. This observation-;.is . illustrated ih the finest way by the REA. which I have always ad vocated and supported because It provides for the people that wh^cjj they could .j^n»ffe^for.. fhefnselves. It is a proper role oi government. But 1 could not support Federal construction of Hell's Canyon dam when it could be done by private industry regu lated by law. Basic Coda In a legislative body it' is dif ficult to reflect by one’s vote his exact and specific principles. This' is true because the role of gov ernment has broad and general policies. The tags of "liberal’’ and ‘•conservative’’ are vague connota tion- too general to be determin ed by any single vote. For ex ample, my vote against the Na tural Gas Bill earlier in this sess ion would alone perhaps classify me as a liberal; the vote lad week on Hell’s Canyon, tajken •lone, would tag nut, as a conser vative. I do not attempt to weigh pending legislation on the basis of. whether it falls in otic dr the other political category, but sim ply on the philosophy of govern ment "to do for the people what needs to be done but which they can not by individual effort do at all or do so well by them selves.” ^Roii Changes It is obvious that the'govern-' ment, local. State and Federal, must of necessity grow with the people -in their search for a bet ter life. Here is a logical place to , refer to my support of more lib eralized.. Social Security whiefc pa \jed the Senate. It is not wrong to provide security wtthin reason to the people of the country. It does not violate m^ fundamental priqciple.'as enunciated previous— - ly in the article. ... ■ HQ i . — ^ _ "The Dubious Origin of The 14th Amendment" — CAR SALES OFF*. New au tomobile and truck registrations were off considerable in June, .1836. as compared with June, l»o5 In June, 1955 11,424 new cars were registered and 2.067 trucks as compared with 8.858 cars and 1.543 truck* for June, 1956 Newjtar registrations for June 1956 were as follows: Chevrolet' 2591, ford 24.14, Phymouth 738, Buick'677, Oldsmobile 591. Pon tiac 531, Mercury 373, Dodge 237, Cadillac 156, Chrysler 153, DeSoto 98, Studebaker 84. Nash 62, Packard 34, Hudson 35, Lin clon 32, Imperial 6, Willys 6, Con tinental 1; foreign makes 39. New truck registrations for June were: Chevrolet 551, Ford 473, International 151, CMC' 129, Dodge 103, Diamond T 28. Mafic 24, Willys 22, White 21, Stude baker 19, Reo 12, Divco 3, Auto car 2; miscellaneous makes 13. With the surplus and over-pro duction of new automobiles and trucks, the steel strike is not expected to worry the auto mak ers so far as production Ls 6bn cerned. However, the advance in\ steel prices to offset pay^rafises | for the steel workers will be felt by the automobile manufacturers and then the buying public. U. S. Savings Bonds are called "the indestructible, investment" be> cause even if a bond is lo.,-l stolen, damaged, or destroyed completely, the Treasury Department'will re place it. Hold Those Horses Anybody who wonders at the urge toward automotive speed among young,sters might read closely some of- the latest adver tisements coming from Detroit. “• . . again proves nobody out performs Ford," says one. ‘‘Man, it's dynamite!” says another of the new Dodge. “Now the hot one is even hotter,” Chevrolet has said. These are just samples ■from the Big Three of auto man ufacturing. AH- are boasting of horsepower and • performances which might or might not be safe on a race track but which would be the next thing to suicide for the average motorist to whom these advertisements are ad dressed. The tact is that automotive power and speed are daily be ing impressed on tjie national conscience, and Detroit still tries to impress those who have re sisted. This includes Dad assail as Junior. Hence the highway delinquency problem is far from strictly juvenile. And the horse power bombardment does not help-—St. Louis Post-Dispatch V ■ " Why people store^valuable papers in a stove or an oven is a mystery to the Treasury Department. Ever so often it replaces a Savings Bond that has been roasted in that way. No matter what happens, your bonds are an indestructible invest ment. ^ Consumers would buy more dew berries if they were packed in pint 'rather •than quart boxes, a State College study shows. r • . . ■* / Garden Time Robert Schmidt At this time bf the year we usually have a lot of complaints, that tomatoes are rotting on the lower side of blossom end of the fruit. , This condition occurs on small green fruits as well as on fruits almost ripe. This is not an or ganic disease bnt rather a phys iological condition known as blossom-end rot. It appears to be caused or at least aggravated by extremes in weather condi tions—either by. periods of dry weather or periods of excessive rainfall. In periods of dry weath er it can be held in check by providing irrigation: however, don’t wait until you have lost a large percentage of your toma toes, but irrigate as soon as lack of sufficient moisture is evident .Mulching plahts with a deep layer of straw will prevent loss of moisture from the soil and will cut down on the amount of blossom-end pot. In the mountain area it will be nesessary to control late blight if you wish to be successful with tomatoes. This is the same dis ease that- attacks Irish potatoes. Use a copper spray such as tri well covered. Don’t forget to prepare for a good fall garden. Jf you have not alrpary done so, sow seed as soon as possible for broccoli, cauli flower, collard and cabbage plants. These may be grown in flats or boxes for transplanting to pots or tin cans for later trans planting .fo the field. Broccoli and cauliflower require more boron than ls^found. in most oj our -soils. Bfircm deficiency* causes hollow stems and an in ternal browning. To prevent this, mix two level tablespoo.ns ful of common borax with the fertilizer for 100 feet of row. Three good fall garden crops are . Chinese cabSage, -.kohlrabi and leaf lettuce. These.crops are not found commonly, enough ill our fall gardens Head lettuce does not do as well in the fall as leaf lettuce A good variety is “Salad Bowl”. There is. still lime to plant bush snapbeans and small but terbeans for a fall crop. Try One North Carolina Viewppint ^ \ Living With Court Decision ay REED SARRATT Executive Editor; Winston-Salatn (Excerpts from a speech be fore the Conference on Public Issues at Illinois State Normal University.) I believe that the South can live with the Supreme Court’s decision without doing violence J either to the decision or to its own customs and traditions. You may ask ask how this is possi ble. My answer is. Through full compliance with the court’s, man date by removing race as a fac tor in assigning pupils to schools Wherever a gradual approach ■ is needed, both the timing and the location of the changes are important - considerations' If the i transition is to go as smoothly an.d effectively as possible,