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Editorial And Opinion ICourt Is Out-Of-Step! c framers of our Constitution never intended,” says Farm Bureau Federation in a resolution adopt U opposition at its recent Boston convention, “that „!<! be vested in the Supreme Court of the United to legislate, power to distort the plain language institution, or power to interfere with matters of ate or local concern where constitutional privileges unity of .citizens are in no way bridged.” convention was, it said, “seriously concerned with „t tendency of the Supreme Court to legislate with cscence of the executive branch” and with the furth ^ of Congress to relinquish legislative powers, resolution urged that Congress prescribe proper lim of the court’s jurisdiction, and that it enact “cor r conforming legislation in those fields where the Court has invaded the legislative area.” |e the Farm Bureau resolution does not refer specif any decision or ruling of the court, the delegates usly in agreement with former Indiana Congressman (.Pettengill, who takes issue with the oft-repeated I that 'the court’s ukase (in the school segregation "the law 'of. die land.” - t more important than integration or segregation,” r... Pettengill inHUMAN EVENTS, “is the preser ve Constitution agajnst the brainwashing of the a people now going on ttSsupport the curious notion erision of the US Supremes'Qoiirt—any decision—is There is not a,word in thcTTlonstutHion whish sail's Df Court judgment is ‘the law of the fah<Jj there is rd .which says that public-officials or private*^!izens |y bound by a decision of tin* Supreme Court's(ex partiesfo the particular case itself). N ere is not a word in the Constitution whiMi gives the Court the power or right to enact a law, or to amend titution by giving it a meaning which the proposing or ratifying state legislatures, or the people, did not to have. * ' j y - Pettengill goes on to observe that only the people power or right to annelid, the Constitution and only rress to enact Federal law. “This is what is meant,” “by a government of law. And Congress has never [segregated schools are against the law.” tainly, as the. Farm Bureau resolution suggests, it is the Congress to assert its prerogatives and its respons 9 the'people. We have faced intolerable situations md (sometimes) found orderly and dignified solu ir need for statesmanship was never greater. Little Darlings many parents are rearing spoiled darlings, who can walk to sdrool, complete theTr chores around the even entertain themselves. They must be entertain intly, either with a fine automobile,^television, or lines. —_ ^ . . i -... - mother finally had enough of this business and came an answer. Originally, we think this little touch of riginated in Seattle. Washington. In any event, the if one teen-age student, with thp help of a Spokane hool official!, gave this advice to teenagers who com hronically about not having anything to do. home! Hang storm windows, paint the woodwork, leaves. Mow the lawn. Shovel the.walk. Wash the n to cook. Scrub some floors. Repair the sink, build et a job. , . . Ip the minister, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, sick. Assist the poor. Study your lessons. And when (trough—and not too tired-read a book, ir parents do not owe you entertainment. _ ir village does not owe you recreation facilities. » world does not owe you a living. owe the world something. ,er words, the message to the teenagers who have do, and who seek entertainment-rather than life ■ them to grow up, stop being American crybabies, the dream world a>nd develop a backbone and start a man or woman. - , other concerned in the piece above was tired of otecting, helping, appealing, begging, exc^^J; ^nyihg herself needed comforts for every whim Parents who raise such monsters are themselves to it is never too late to right a wrong, if one can do u -t* ; tmas Shop At Home _ . Zm' 1 ' ’ « •_ Koc nnpnPf Christmas shopping season has opened in Orange nCd“« houses have in stock a.m«every.hmg ,1 buyers will, need or desire for the holiday season, suggest ^to* rmr*'readers that they raaike an effort to iome. Surely, every time one of uS.buys from ajoca we add to the possibility of broadening the base ol future needs. Ora,luallv. larger and larger stork .ailable, to offer wider selection in connection with b!e never atiempted io perstCade £ pay two or three times what ^;nyt unn . mv of reputable merchants who suggest as mtKh. All tellers ask is that they be Riven » 2 ,re entitled, tof their logical customers. To this theyaree_^__ riletosi of ©range Count? THI N1WS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. — j aim .tv Editor and Publish* » *cl Cbm uSSTa *• p'*L5,?\’‘,5f*°n' CarSZfc. »~ur tho Act d Harch t, W SaSSuS^^u^mUS i National OdvertWot KoproowUU™ NU1M WiWU«» * Detwit * Fhu»dei»ei» SUBSCRIPTION BATES Bab (Inside North Carolina) NTHS (inside North Carolina) tAR (outside North Carolina) _: $2-90 places . , . but less personality. NOTES . . . Decision of Rey nolds Tobacco and Warner Lam bert not to wed is interesting . . . in view of fact that head of the drug firm is a confirmed, out spoken non-smoker, according to Broadway gossip columnists , , . but Camel and Winston are show ing sales increases each month ... .... One of these food plan salesmen called on a Raleigh housewife a few days ago and showed her she could save enough on wholesale meats bought through the Plan, etc., to pay for the freezer . . . and she said she was paying for television out of what she saved on movies; paying for the jalopy out of money saved on carfare; paying for the home out of money saved on rent; and paying for the washing machine out of money saved on laundry bills . . . "Right now,” she con cluded, “we just cannot afford to to save any more money!" .... The P. H. Hanes Knitting "6a is offering to any textile or ganization or. firm .' . . without charge rv. a public relations pro gram for textiles embracing news releases, advertisements, bill boards, etc . . . Ns_ , Under “Travel Opportunities” in Raleigh dallies last week was^thjs: “Anyone desiring airplane trades sportation to Philadelphia, Pa., Tues., Dec. 16, contact Everett Case. TE 4-1881.” .... That would be the coach of State College bas ketball and that is the Coliseum number .... as to who or how many answered the ad, we have not heard as of this date .... Says Harry L. Golden, author of. the best seller, “Only in America,” in the recent copy of Carolina Israelite: “Old people save every thing, old clothes, empty boxes, bags, wrapping paper, old toys, but mostly old medicine bottles. They figure the empty bottles fnight come in handy someday for ihe specimen . . 1 .” The only livjng N. C. ex-Senator is Robert R. Reynolds, now 74 and looking 50 ... . independently wealthy . . . and living in retire- < ment near Asheville .... A Tar heel present at the installation of the new Mexican president was Hon. Harold D. Cooley ... in Mexico City last week . . . and our Fourth District Representa tive is ready for a busy sessipn as chairman of the House' Agri culture Committee . . . and one of our outstanding leaders. GEMS OF THOUGHT DEVELOPING WHAT IS GOOD Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Cpolidge To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.—-George McDonald The devu loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. —James Russell Lowell tvery "great man is always be ing helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.—Ruskin Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Un less you try to do something be yond what you have already mas tered, you will never grow. — Ronald E. Osborn News Leader v In A Hoaxer's Brain Scolding whoever made the false telephone calls about bombs in the H.gh School and University buildings is a firstimpulse but i rather profitless process. The callers-the fact*that there was more than one shows how this sort of- thing goes by "'’ it s even fairly easy to understand why they made the calls. , -*■ What a seme.™ r";-,. . a,hone i_just li’l oV me—with ju^t a h « ol Ph(™ // 1 mn start the police running, can get t^oouIwrWWup Uiou everyo,*, in Chapel Hill, and I It be m the nexus and famous, even if not by name—l hope! This is like the spirit of many a practical joke-—though the results were so far from fun ny, as they’re likely to be with practical jokes. Almost anyone who's honest with himself can understand the temptation to stir up such a riimpus and"w,itcfr*iT"f)o'{t.T Resisting the temptation is vv.nere rigiu »c ha.vior comes in. And resisting is proof that one doesn’t feel himself so puny that there's ;i need to play at being powerful in a way that 'sfirs up so much, trouble for so many others. .r. ' • «•-- "r ^ ■ • ,. Vote Him Out February 3 XborwSqrtoonist Lee Madden’s vivid pic ture of onefkic result of a vote in favor of ABC stores in Orange County at the referen dum the Board of Elections has just formally called for FeXtrudry 3. ■ «. To the trash heap with Hhe bootlegger! Oh, maybe some of the peddlers of skull popping ’shine will try to stay An business, but they’ll be hurt. So, especially{ will those who buy legal liquor and resell it illegally. Those last can-offer only convenience—at a high price. Make it more convenient for their patrons to buy, and the illicit sellers wiM find a hefty crimp put in their trade. Those law violators are among the hardest workers to keep Orange County dry they say “dry” so they can cash in by wetting it. Lee Madden for The News . Harm faces them if the vote goes for open• ing the State stores. Who unit be helped? Most of all, business men in the county. They’ll cease loXtose the trade they’re now deprived of xohen folks 'travel to Durham or Wake County on ‘liquor runs' and buy some thing else while they're there. '* Orange C.ounTys treasury will gain its statutory share of the stores’ receipts, and Jjiat will help all taxpayers. And those who dririkC They gkt it easily enough, anyway, but their buying will be made a mile more convenient. Boot-leggers versus merchants, taxpayers and a large portion of the population. That s the lineup for February 3. ___ Governor - On Bomb Threats Iii my press-conference last week, I was asked to comment on the series of school bombing hoaxes . which had occurred in various communities in North Carolina. I expressed my indignation at such occurrences and expressed the } hope that we in North Carolina would be spared any further such outrages.. Unfortunately, many more- an onymous telephone- calls, .purport-, ing to report the location of bombs . in various public schools, have been made. As of yesterday, there have been anonymous telephone calls affecting more than 24 pub lie schools and 26,604 children in North Carolina." The disruption and confusion resulting from such un lawful acts cannot be condoned or shrugged away. Each anonymous bomb hoax is a- threat to the se curity and peace of our State, our communities and our entire public school system. Whether these calls may be made by prankish children'*' or misguided adulbj does not change the extremely serious con sequences of these actions. As Governor of North Carolina, I appeal to every, citizen in the State to do what he or she can to prevent any further bomb hoax or bomb threat to our schools or pub lic places'I appeal particularly to the parents of school children in North Carolina and ask each of them to make certain that their children understand fully the. seri ous consequences of making such anonymous .calls. The people of North Carolina do not believe in violence or threats of violence. We are justly proud of our public schools and we want no harm to come to any one of our 1,000,000 school children. I can assure you that every law enforcement officer in North Car olina will do his utmost to appre hend those guilty of making anony mous calls or threats and that the courts of North Carolina will deal promptly with these misguided people. We have in hand the' text of a proposed statue which is planned fo^. presentation to the 1959 Gen eral Assembly for the purpose of providing more severe criminal penalties for such outrages. It is my earnest and sincere hope that we can prevent any further bomb threats and that those who have been guilty of making these threats will be apprehended and promptly punished. I am asking every citizen in our State*-and every governmental agency to help stop these irre sponsible acts. I am informed that effective plans are now in prog ress to detect telephone calls and to apprehend the guilty people young or old. They will not De dealt with lightly. Land Of Orange ; “Tobacco that I irrigated last summer made a thousand pounds more per' acre than tobacco that was not irrigated-.’’ Ormand Woods Cedar Grove, “said Monday. Regarding water as- one of the most important resources of his farm, he is now making prepara tions for another pond. It, top, will store runoff until needed by his crops,, water that would otherwise be lost down Little River. Another conservation practice he reports profitable is the use of-fes cue in rotation with tobacco. “It wasn't my best tobacco land,” he reports of one field, “but after the fescue it made the best tobacco it ever had.” 9 V Merritt Dixon, Carr, shaped up gullied, brush grown draws in two of his fields this fall and seeded them to ladino clover and fescue. Next spring, after the sod is estab lished, the water disposal system will he completed by building ter races. Plans are to lay the terraces out parallel as far as possjble. This will eliminate the short rows that are so inconvenient. Such a system, as with any well laid out water disosal system, well serve two urposes. It will provide the drainage needed for the re moval of excess water in wet weath er. and it will slow down the run off and water and soil loss during heavy rains, giving the land time to absorb more of the short summer downpours. Mr. Dixon figures it is cheaper to hold the water In place jojL the field, within reason, that it 'is "tip pump it 6afSTo"tSe'Tielff later. Birds of all kinds arc visiting his feeding statons, 0. W, Bunker Orange Grove, says. With the snow covering most of their food for' the past week, feeding stations may be their only chance of survival, .' Tar H—I PEOPLE & ISSUES By Cliff Blue . .. SNOW AND HISTORY . . . the big now storm which melted up on Tar Heetia in the early hour* of Thursday morning, December 11 may have been the biggest “December" snow in 41 years, as reported in some of the papers, but it was well below the big snow which Ml on March 1 and 1, ltt? which in the Sandhill section of North Carolina averaged about M inches in depth, while in other sections it was considerably deep er. Last week’s snow in the Sand hills was about 16 inches deep. The snow was unusual in that it was lighter in the Northern part of the state than In the Southern end. GOVERNOR BATTLE . . . For mer Governor John S. Battle of Virginia, but a North Carolinian by birth, is a member of the Civil Rights Commission authorised by the last Congress. In Alabama last week Governor Battle offered i some good advice to his Southern cousins when he admomished the Alabamians to cooperate with the commission’s current franchise probe. Qualified citizen* of all races are entitled to vote and should not be prevented from free ly exercising this sacred privilege. In 1958 which is fast drawing to a dose any community which at tempts to prevent qualified citi zens of any race from registering and voting is on thin ice which is crackling and sinking fast. Gov ernor Battle is a true Southerner with the interests of the South at heart Alabama and the whole South will do well to heed his ad monitions.f. JORDAN & WHITLEY . . . Bill for Bill Umstead when he ran for governor’4*1 1952 and won against Hubert E. Olive of Lexington. Two years later—in 1954, he was in the Kerr Scott headquarters as publicity man when the Squire of Haw River was running for the United States Senate. After Scott’s primary and election victories, Whitley became a member of his Washington office, handling his publicity and assisting in his speech-writing. When Scott died and Jordan was appointed to suc ceed him, Whitley, unlike Ben Roney and Roy Wilder, did not re sign but stayed on with Jordan. Now, some of those who were close to Scott and his Washington office set-uff say Whitley is grind ing out for Jordan almost the same statements that Kerr Scott had made while senator, parti cularly on farm, and water con servation measures. -Word is that some of Scott’s friends don’t feel quite right towards Whitley about it. ..« - publicity man NISBET . . . One of Tar Heelia’s most astute political observers is Lynn Nlsbet,. correspQiMtent^^ar. more than 20 afternoon Tar Heel dailies. Occasionally wrong, b\it most of the time right on his pre dictions, Lynn, on whose desk at his office in the Sir Walter ..Hotel can be seen half a dozen or more pipes, has an uncanny way of maintaining a straw in the wind to determine which way the po litical breeze is blowing. SEAWELL . Say what you please about this man Malcolm B. Seawell who has claimed so much attention since his appoint ment as Attorney General less than a year ago, but one thing you most, hand to him: He apeaka wii a ring of sincerity that chaBenfeeh even thoae who dtaagree with Mm on his approach to the BuprinMi Court’s integration decisions. ^ NEUTRALITY . . . Governor Hodgea ia telling aO-comera nfl# that he is keeping hands off Urn Speakership race between Cgz| Venters and Add Hewlett, that either man will be ok with him. Hewlett’s supporters say the Ne# Hanover representative has •§ commitments for Speaker with Mrs. W. G. Cover Sr., representa tive-elect from Cherokee being the latest to pledge her support. It Will require 36 to win. INTERESTING . . . S(B*t» Everett Jordan's statement ft| Washington last week that tW South won't bolt the Democratic party over the civil rights issae as quite interesting in view of thi general feeling that the senator himself bolted the national tlchlj in 1*40 to vote for Willkie against Roosevelt. Jordan may or not have voted for Willkie but H the financial reports turned in that year Jordan was listed as a cola tributor to the Willkie campaign. SOCIAL SECURITY . . . Rather than increasing the social security * payments, we believe it would he better to widen the scope and bring in some of those not pres ently covered. In looking around about us it appears that Ikuod who are not getting it are in ad great a need as those who are ting it. So many are are now Cov ered until it doesn't seem qiffle fair to leave out others who are in dire circumstances but unfor tunately were not covered lofag enough to entitle them to this help in their evening years. J ad/tl nuf pwnLpufuJt By CAUL HUM Who sayr women are not good drivers? Before you answer, here's some one who says they ARE, if given a chance. It's a man — a man among men, at that! Women are naturally careful and cautious, Mr. O'Shea con tends, and good safe and sane drivers if they have a car they can handle easily. ‘‘They've been frustrated, giv en an Inferiority complex, trying to handle and park the long, heavy cars of the last several years,” the racing champ says. They have difficulty Jndgjng dUtan&r fssSntidfto'SE&ii^riihrf parking. They can barely see over the front end of the long cars, Ie4 alone check distance via the rear view mirror, with all those high. Jutting fins in their way. „ “They’ve got a chance now to prove they can be good drivers,“ O'Shea says. “That new Stude baker Lark, Being smaller, easily handled and parked, is ideal for them.” Take things as they come—the past is gone, tomorrow is an un certainty, and today is no sure thing. corner jiuhc GRBATNES* Watt PartymtUe+-¥QTk Gazette & Datt* I
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