Editorial And Opinion
Court Again Criticized
Tlip criticism ol the Supreme Court from the American
Bar Association, ; . its recent meeting in Chicago, is the latest
evidence that the highest court of the land is seriously out of
step with the vy.it majority of legal experts in the United
States today.
The latest criticism, concerning Supreme Court decisions
favorable to Communists, follows a repudiation of the top
court by the Supreme Court Justices of the Various states. It
also follows criticisms made by the Governors ol the various
states.
Considering, also, the fact that many of the controversial
decisions differ- from the traditional concepts of past Supreme
Courts, one wonders wlrat further evidence be needed to
prove the case against the present top court—the charge that
judicial training arid experience is lacking and, needed among
the Big Nine.
Congress,, and the President, should see to it that quali
fications for membership on the top court are carefully
raised. For example, there is little in the present pl;*n of be
stowing Supreme Court appointments as political plums to
commend itself.
just as Chief Justice Fari Warren won his apjxrintment
because ol Iris part in getting the California delegates at the
Republican convention to support Mr. Eisenhower, oth
er inexperienced men. h.'.e won seats on the high court as a
“payoff" for some |x>litical service rendered to the right jrei
son at the right-time.
To be a Supreme Court Justice one should have judicial
training on a high level over-a nuinl>er of years. I his should
be an inviolate prerequisite. The least Congress^should do
at the current session .or in tin’s Congress, is to pass a bill, or
constitutional amendment, requiring such qualifications.
A Word About Youth
It's becoming verv fashionable these days to complain
that American youth are not as rigorous or hard working as
youth behind the Iron Curtain. Today, on tlte 17th anni
versary of (fill Scouting in the United States, we would like
to-point out that many youngsters in Cirl Scouting and in
other youth groups are learning to grow up as alert, seil
disciplined an useful citizens.
—Cast year, for example a_i .7-year old Girl Scout won a
national science award for her individual research work fit
astronomy. While normally Girl Scouts are likely ti» become
astronomers, more than three and one-half million Girl
Scouts a.1.e learning how valuable our freedom and traditions
are.
« he tin I Scouts are c elebrating their anniversary this
year with the theme. "You Can Count on Her to be Creative.
Special emphasis is being given to aits, homemaking and ser
vice projects because the Girl Scouts believe that it is essent
ial lot every poungster to develop sell confidence and initia
tive as well as specific talents. Ibis is a very different kind.rtf
-youth program thru those behind tlte Iron Curtain and one
that all of ns tan he proud of.
We think the men and women who seise as volunteers
in the Girl Scouts and in other youth groups should he con
gratulated. They are not only helping youngsters, they are
serving their country as well.
The Eternal Essentials
When St. Augustine landed on the Island of Britain,
be went straight to one of the.chiefs.. I he chief, surrounded
by his1 principal warriors in their dark and smoky council
hall, listened to St. Augustine’s request that lie preach to the
warriors assembled.
The chief; replied. "A bird has flown through the coun
cil hall. He has come from tlit* darkness. AVe know not where
he has flown into the darkness, we know not where. See with
our lives. Oh stranger, if you can tell whence we come and
where we go, speak and we will listen.
—_1,Things of the moment-are often too much with us. But
thc*c come times when golf clubs, business, television and
decks of cards do not entirely satisfy a man. We realize that
Bubbles we buy for a whole souk# tasking.
“For a cap and belts our lives we pay.
Every Sabbath is a time to stop to choose what is most im
portant in Fife, to give the eternal essentials .due thought. As
the nationwide Religion In American File observance urges,
‘.'Find the strength for your life . . . worship together this
week." Attend and support the Church ol our choice.
The Original Blarney
Chances are the blarney will be as thick as the shamrocks
when tire Irish honor St. Patrick on Tuesd;'.;.
But the original "blarney” was an Irish chieftain who
proved that you can still win even if you lose.
When the castle of Blarney was besieged by the English,
the lord of the manor concluded an armistice with the Eng
lish commander. According to the research dept'tment ol
.The World Book Encyclopedia, he promised to surrender the
old homestead to an English garrison in Cork on a certain
date. _^
The Englishman waited politely for the terms of the
armistice to jbe fulfilled . . . and waited • ■ • and waited
The Lora of Blanney held hint off with promises and
flattery, until the commander became the laughingstock of
the court of England.
And the name “Blarney" ironically took its place in the
‘‘English’’ language, as a synonym for sweet talk.
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from Orange County remained in
Raleigh to do some home work
since Senator Lanier did not go to
Charlotte cither.
On Thursday cf last week I in
troduced two Bills that mean much
to those persons who are mental
ly retarded or become mentally ill
and--thcir families. . One of these
Bill^ would provide 540 additional
beds at the Training School at
Butncr for mentailyi retarded
white children at. a cAst of one
million two hundred thousand, dol
lars. Along with these provi3'ins
was another giving the Caswell
Training School a three hundred
thousand dollar class room build
ing for those children who are edu
cable and trainable. At the present
time there are 10 classes in a build
ing that is not even_fire resistant
It is bad to think of children who
are normal attending classes where
a fire hazard exists hut it is un
thinkable that we should allow our
mentally retarded children to take
this risk.
The other Bill provides two mill
ion dollars for a hospital and ad
ministrative building at the State
Hospital at Goldsboro. We have
adequate hospital facilities at the
other institutions for the mentally
ill and this Mould simply place
all of our 4 institutions on an equal
basis. The other item in this Bill
is four million, five hundred thous
and dollars for a new institution
for mentally retarded children in
Western N. C. This institution w;l!
be badly needed before it is poss
ible to get it completed, as we al
ready have more children on the
waiting list than can be taken care
of with our present facilities and
those contemplated. Such an insti
tution should be in Western N. C.
so that the people in that section
would not have to drive 200 to 400
miles to see tjieir children at put ,
ner cr Caswell. The last iwo items
^oiild be included in the bond 'is
sue Bill to be voted upon by the
people, with the first two included
in the bond issue Bill that can be
voted by the Legislature.
During the year I received from
the County Board of Education a
request for the passage of legis
lation increasing the number of
the foiinty Board of Education
from 3 to 5. This legislation will re
quire that the two additional mem
bers be named in the Bill. I have
reouested „L. .1. Hoods. Chairman
of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee to call his committee to
gether and nominate these two
persons: J have heard no opposition
to this change hut if there should
be opposition I would like to hear
about it just as soon as possible
and if the oooos’tion wishes a hoax
ing before the Committee Edu
cation in Raleigh I would like to
arrange such a hearing.
Ja'k Gilmore s
Garden
Gossip
For 14 years I was owned by a
cat. From the first day that "Cher
ry”, a pale golden ball of silk,
came to live with us until f
found her wrapped in the gor
geous of her tail, lost in her eter
nal sleep, I wfi> her devoted
slave. As I buried her in the bed
of tiger lilies that were :io like
the amber gleam of^ her eyes I
vowed that never again would I
give my heart to an animal to
scratch and tear. I can well un
derstand why the ancient, Egyp
tians thought that cats were gods,
for the cold appraising gaze of a
cat will give any sensitive soul
a terrific inferiority complex.
The constant war between Cher
ry and myself to establish which
of us was the mistress always
found me the loser.
Now I have entered once more
into the same bondage. Jill has
been given a dog by her adoring
daddy! A tiny bit of female wiles,
so appealing and helpless. ‘Missy’
weighs only three pounds at eight
months of age. So here I go agaiq.
The Cardinals are courting and
the beautiful male, resplendant in
his mating plumage, has taken
over the TV antenna from the
mocking bird rpd from his high'
perch sings his love song. “Pret
ty-Pretty” he calls. I can not de
cide whether he means himseU
or the lady of his dreams, oi^just
life io general.
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Teaching Problem
By JOHN COREY
Appalachian State Teacher* Col.
Teaching sleepy children win
spend too much time viewing TV
ranks high among teacher prob
lems.
A list of 142 problems hampc^
ing school people in educijfiflj
youth has been prepared by Dr.
Lee F. Reynolds at Appalachian
State Teachers College, Boone,
N. C., following a survey of 200
Tar Heel teachers representing
25 public schools.
Pinpointing the problems is as
important to parents as school
officials, states education profess
or Reynolds. What troubles a
teacher usually affects students,
and their learning.
And as a rule a joint effort by
both parents and teachers is re
quired to bring about corrections,
opines the'31-year veteran of pub
lic school and college instruction.
As might be expected, money
leads the 142-prcblcm list. Low
salaries force teachers' wives to
work, discourage having children,
leave little for clothes and recre
ation and cause worry about sum
mer employment.
Too many things to do in a
school day besides teach, such as
supervising bus loadings and
keeping records, is in second
place.
Indifferent parents who show
little concern over their children's
scholastic progress rates high
Students’ poor spoken English
poses formidable problems.
Dealing with the poorly disci
plined gives many headaches.
Promoting or retaining “bor
derline" students is troublesome.
Other knotty problems include:
Youngsters lack respect for
others. , »
Working with those of low gen
eral intelligence.
Tqo many classroom interrup
tion! and exaggerated interest in
extra-curricular activities as band
and sports.
Little relief from the children,
GEMS OF THOUGHT
REASON
Reason is the most active hu
man faculty. —Mary Baker Ed
dy
If tee would guide by the light
of reason, we must let bur minds
be bold.—Justice Brandeis
How difficult it is to persuade
a man to reason against his in•
tereslf though 'he is convinced
that equity is again-1 him.—John
Example has more followers
than, reason. — Christian Nestell
Bovee
Irrationally held truths may be
more harmful than reasoned er
rors.—Thomas H. Huxley
Good reasons. mist, of force,
give place to better. — William
Shakespeare
especially for elementary teachers
who remain continuously with 25
to 40 little ones from beginning
of school to its end.
On the list, but not marked
once as a problem is “teachers
cannot choose where they live.”
“That’s understandable,” says
Professor Reynolds, “Jobs are so
plentiful that a good teacher can
practically pick any place in the
United States he wishes io live.”
ORANGE COUNTY
FARM AGENTS
COLUMN
DON MATHESON
County Agent
CD BARNES
CYRUS GREENS
Assistant!
SWINE MEETING
A very interesting swine meet
ing was held at the Joe Dillard
Farm near Mebane last Saturday.
A large group of farm people in
terested in swine production were
on hand to hear various phases
of swine management discussed.
Mr. Dillard has 30 sows on his 95
acre swine farm. He has a ten
stall farrowing house and plans to
build another ten-stall farrowing
house in the near future and to in
crease his herd to 60 sows. Mr.
Dillard’s records show that this
year he.raised his pig . crop to
weaning age for an average of
$5.40 per weaning pig.
A number of farmers in this
area plan to build farrowing hous
es and enter the feeder pig busi
ness this year.
FEEDER FIG SHOW AND SALE
The Third District Feeder Pig
Show and Sale will be held at
the local Livestock Market here at
-Hillsboro on Thursday, April 2nd.
All swine producers who plan to
enter litters in this event should
immediately castrate boar pigs, if
this has not already been done.
Tf you have not already notified
your County Agents as to the num
ber of litters you wish to put in
this show and sale, it is suggested
that you do so right away.
pigs for this event should weigh
between 40 and 80 pounds at the
time of t'»^ show and sale.
CONSTRUCTS PLASTIC „•
GREENHOUSE
Wilfred Phelps, young tobacco
farmer of the Cedar Grove Com
munity, has just completed a plas
tic greenhouse 18 x96’. This house
is heated. by two oil circulators.
This week he plans to transplant
about 450 hybrid greenhouse toma
to plants. These plants will be tied
to rows of stakes as they develop,
and should bear ripe tomatoes
ready for harvest in early May. .
This is a new enterprise for
Orange County and will be watch
ed with ,a great deal of interest
by a lot of people.
FARMERS NEED LIME
St. Mary’s and Caldwell Com
munities recently held two soil
testing programs attended by a
good number of leading farmers
in each communty.
Soil Specialists emphasized the
fact that farmers in North Carolina
were losing millions of dollars for
failing to properly lime their soils.
They stated that North Carolina
farmers pay more than eighty mil
lion dollars per year for fertilizer,
but that in most cases it was not
doing as much good as it should
because the land needed lime.
March
The mouth is also the birthday anniversary of many
notables. Alexander Graham Bell was horn March 3, 1842
in Edinburgh, Scotland. County Casimir Puluski was born
in Lithuania. Poland, on 'March 4, 1748. Luther Burbank
was born at Lancaster. Massachusetts, March 7, 1849. Oliver
Wendell Holmes wc, born on March 8, 1841, at Boston.
— Simon Cameron was bom in Lancaster County, Penn
sylvairia. March 8, 1799, and Joseph Priestly, the discoverer
of oxygen, was born at Fieldhead, Yorkshire, England, March
>3. >7;j.v
Andrew Jackson was born March t'5, 1 J(>J, ne;f the South
Carolina - Norjth Carolina border. Another ex-President,
fames Madison, was born at Port Conway, Virginia, on March
it). 17*,i, Robert IX. Teney, the $th Chief Justice of the Unit
ed States, was horn in Ca/ven County, Maryland, on March
■7- •777
(inner Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth
President of the United States, was borft in Caldwell, New
Jersey, on March 18, t8j7. WiUiam Jennings Bryan, a great
political .leader, was bom at Silent. Illinois, March 19, 18(jo.
- Joint Tyler, tenth President of the United States, was
born at C.reemyay, Charles City County, Virginia, March 29,
•79°- • • - s.
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people & ISSUES
By Cliff Blue
EXPENSIVE . . . The revelation
last week that U. S. Rep. Ralph
J. Scott of the Fifth North Caro
lina congressional district was
paying $1,200 a year to rent i
back-home office from his wife
may well prove expensive in the
long run in that it may well re
sult in formidable opposition for
his renomination in the 1960
Democratic primary. And primary
campaigns are expensive. Con
gressmen and United States Sena
tors are now paid $22,500 per
per plus clerical assistance, etc.,
which many people feel pretty
adequate in view of the fact that
the Governor of North Carolina
receives only $15,000 per year.
IEGISLATIVE MILEAGE . . .
There is considerable feeling that
the North Carolina House of Rep
resentatives was grabbing too
much when it voted weekly mile
age home for the state legislators
recently. The bill is now in the
Senate and chances are strong
that it will be greatly modified or
killed in the Senate.
In the North Carolina General
Assembly some of the legislators
have to travel farther than others
would have to go to attend meet
ings in Washington—the national
capital. Those living in the far
east and in the west beyond Ashe
ville are in far greater need of
travel allowance than those liv
ing near Raleigh.
HENDERSON . . . The flare-up
in the textile strike at Hender
son is poor advertising for North
Carolina which has in recent
months received so much favor
able publicity and consideration
as a good state for industry to
locate in. Governor Hodges and
State Labor Commissioners Crane
have been doing their best to
help solve the trouble but without
avail. Principal issue in the strik'1
is the company’s decision to ex
clude an arbitration clause from
the new union contract which was
in the old contract. Mill President
John D. Cooper Jr., has repeated
ly declined any suggestion of con
tinuation of the arbitration clause.
BIBLICAL RECORDER ... On
May 1, the Biblical Recorder will
appear in its “new look” as it
swings into photo-offset. The 126
year-old Baptist state publication
will depart from the traditional
letterpress or flat-bed type and
press ' printing. More than 62.000
copies of the 24-page publication
are mailed out each week. The
N. C. Baptist State Convention
has for many years invested ap
proximately one cent per copy
per week in the Recorder to help
promote its wide circulation at
nominal rates, unchanged for
years, in order to send the paper
to all pastors, missionaries. Tar
Heel students in the seminaries,
to libraries, hospitals, foreign
missionaries, and to keep it going
to the homes of Tar Heel Bap
tists at lowest possible subscrip
tion rates.
TRIP TO CHARLOTTE ... For
one legislator at least and prob
ably others, last week’s Assem
bly trip to Charlotte was his
first visit to the Queen City of
the Carolinas. Charlie Crawford.
Swain County representative, said
it was his first.
Interesting tours were conduct
ed through two Charlotte plants,
the Douglas Aircraft’!
factory where 2,000 p*,
which in case of war «
prime enemy target,
Lance plant where |
line of Lance nabs a
out in mass product*
some 30 tons of peat
with 900 men and won*
cd in the plant. We oba
church hymns were bei
in the plant, which we b
ed had been the custom
at 8:45 in the mornin
4:45 in. the aftefrnoon. g
of the hymns, every bo
for a moment of silent
COURT REFORM
to emplement the r«
tions of the Beil Court
Commission was introdig
General Assembly last«
of the suggestions of
committee are obvin
and will promote judi<
ress. But we’d like to
least one exception Wr
along with the appoints
er than the election i
The best part of the B<
we think, is its uniform
of costs and fees. To n
idea that our courts an
to produce revenue wi
win wide support over
The Lcmd
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By QUENTIN PATTE
There is some interest i
year in establishing Corn
muda grass for midsumiw
During June, July, and!
regular pastures of ordm
or fescue and ladino clovt
growth.
It is at this time that Gs
muda grass is at its pi
sufficient nitrogen fertl
can be made to produce
as seven or eight tons o(
acre. This means that a
small acreage of coastal
sufficiently fertilized, can
during the summer mod
the regular pasture is she
vide needed grazing. Being
nial, once established, it
indefinately.
The grass is established
ing stolons, which will i
f LOO per acre, li you are
in establishing some Cm
muda let us know and w
vide you with more inform
We have been asked I
delay in receiving report
samples sent to the State
ing Laboratory lor anal)
mally reports are back ia
or so after mailing the san
parently the laboratory
loaded this season, lor it
three weeks or more m
back the reports. No don
will be received again m
quickly after this season
over.
Tom Jackson, St. Mat
Ashley, Hillsboro, G. P.
Orange Grove, and Dr D.
New Hope, have recently
pines for better growth I
ing competing, low qua!
woods. They used 2, 4.5
with a tree injector to d
hardwoods.
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