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m i SAM ERVIN I SAYS * I ☆ eyCfj The President has Signed the bill Increasing rates ofpay for members of the armed services. As a member of the Senate Subcommittee which had direct charge of the bill and as it member of the S«»te-House con ference committee to reconcile Sen ate-House versions of this bill, I am highly gratified that fair and reasonable increases in rates of pay lor serviceme#MW been enacted. Recently I attended the ceremony gt the White House for the Presi dential signing of this bill, Some times I think we fail to realize, as -the President reminded us during the signing, “of the great service ;to our country which our armed forces rendered." We are secure in our homes simply because we have trained men stationed all over the jworld. The bill recognizes this by en couraging men who are trained at considerable expense to our govern ment to make a career in the armed services and remain there. It is costly to train a man to be a sol dier, a sailor, a marine, or a pilot. The government bears a tremendous loss when a highly trained member of the armed forces leaves the services within a short time to re turn to civilian employment. This measure, I think, was a wise one from this standpoint, and also be cause it sought to remedy the pay injustices which were a heavy bur den to our military personnel. crime hearings Several decades ago, the nation had a keen appreciation of the ugli ness of crime. More recently the public has focused its attention and its energy into jpther sociological channels. But, last week through the testimony of Jdseph Valachi, former member of. the underworld crime syndicate, before the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcom mittee, the nation found that crime which rose with the. advent of huge cities had grown again to fearful proportions. If Valachi portrayed the evil which festers in murder, narcotics, gambling, extortion, and bribery, he also called attention indirectly to the equally serious problem of home ahd street crimes which are the daily cpncem of dwellers in our Hill I'll' ■ UI'IP ' "H ■ ' ■»!' . largest cities. Typical of this growing crime is the news which greeted Washing ton, D. G. residents one morning last week when it was revealed that the day before had produced a mid town bank robbery and the night courts, and an alert and vigilant ptibHe. A tolerance for a breakdown of law and order can. lead only to vast ly greater problems involving the foandatkmsof our entire society. The Senate Subcommittee has pro* perly called attention to a problem which merits die concern Of the Congress and the people. Other Editors CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR India Prime Minister Nehru is showing his political colors more candidly. The always latent split between conservatives and leftists > in the ruling Congress Party has broken out into the open , since Mr. Nehru reorganized his Cabinet and dis missed its leading conservatives. Mr. Nehru has now, in a speech at Lucknow, directly challenged the conservatives to leave the party if they oppose the broadly leftist brand of socialism that he has laid down. It is too early to see what this portends, except that a major right left controversy is oil This is at least the preliminary maneuvering for the succession when Mr. Nehru retires. The first skirmishes have been won by the conservatives, in states where this might be expected. The Nehru administration has re plied by pressing a constitutional amendment which would permit land reform — a social change greatly needed in India which has been *■ ' ..iij;i"i"i"n-Vw'.—-r blocked in the main by landlord control of the Congress Party. And now Mr. Nehru openly takes sides with the Socialists. His moves'' have Communist support, , which should be carefully judged because the dominant Communists (Soviet: variety) are playing their own game. There is a question as to how large the left in Parliament would be, and how strong its political base in the country, after Mr. Nehru no longer uses his great personal popularity with the people to but*,t tress it The general outlines of the socialist philosophy would undoubt edly remain, not unlike those of the Labor Party in Britain. But these would be moderate land reform rather than communal farms, to take one example, if the conserva tives. manage to retain their present momentum and weight in terms of organization throughout the coun try. C.fljj There is another safe conclusion. Party politics, which means or-' ganized criticism and constitutional ,"y'; opposition, are coming into their own for the first time in free India. They already have pushed beyond the limits set earlier by loyalty to Mr. Nehru and the one*-party, 'phony democracy,” in the biting Phrase of Indian President Rada krishnan. How to hold India to gether and keep it on the path of economic development in the new era is an immense ana unanswered question. , " The sooner it can be tackled the better. There is a strong sense of political responsibility in India. U is never far belpw the surface. It is the best hope fpr stability in a period when the component parts of the Indian Government will have to poll apart without breaking up. l <3ewr^CT ' v;’ W. w. "Billy” Kftonady .., * (FARM BROKER) i-vv/ 'a •'■ phone JA MW WWblTE 5. *1N*TW Fa«n(« Boaght And Soft Ptirmfrij. or *t Public Action Farm And TinjborLom. .miidiii fin ....mill mini ii.i l.nll.-w. 1.1.11 . "HHi ---T>-- >'--.'77' fce* us slighter and chill .your cattle and hogs Ipr gun, saving you the drudgery of slaughtering qn the farm. We slaughter eyecy day except Saturday — j^t bring .us the live animal any day — get the dressed meat the .following day or we . will deliver it to the locker plant far you. Charge: Hogs 2c per pound; Cattle $2 JO per head phis the - 5th quarter. NEW BERN PROVIStON Co. Phone: 638-1127 New Bern, N. C. Don’t let the mm
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