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OTHER EDITORS SAY KORTH CAROLINA (*ARM BUREAU NEW* HIGH COURT STRAYED by B. C. Man gum PRESIDENT N. C. FARM BUREAU FEDERATION Perhaps no Supreme Court de cision has had or will have as far reaching effects as its recent decision regarding apportion ment of state legislatures. The court’s call for a “one man, one vote” make-up of legislatures digs into the very heart of our representative form of govern ment. The Supreme Court’s decis ion is probably one of the most misunderstood questions ever to come before the American peo ple. When you condense the de cision into its simplest form, it means that both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned solely on a pop ulation basis, no matter what the people of a state may want. The astonishing thing about this decision is that since the 1800’s, previous court decisions have held that apportionment of state legislatures is a politi cal question reserved for the states, and that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction in such cases. However, today, a majority of the high court bench claims the power to amend not only the Constitution’ of the United States, but the Constitutions of the states as well. It was by a split vote of 6-3 that the justices passed the controversial ruling on apportionment. Since the beginning of our present form of government, we are all aware that the framers of the Constitution were care ful to reserve this power of amendment to the people alone. If the Supreme Court can de cide how state legislatures must be apportioned, it stands to rea son that they can also decide how county school boards, coun ty boards of commissioners, and other such boards, must be ap portioned. A lower court in Michigan ruled that, based on the Supreme Court decision, the Kent County board of commis sioners must be reapportioned on a population basis. What does all this mean to rural people? It probably will mean less road aid, high school taxes and less local school aid. It could impair the role of vo cational agriculture and home economics, bring a sales tax on ORTfc fNGIA* •URROUCH? ®CJN NEW YORK 1. 94PROOF.100%GRWNI ' farmer production items, result in the consolidation of county functions and the redrawing of county lines. It could lead to the reapportionment of congres sional districts to the disadvan tage of rural areas. These are only a few of the things that could happen. This move to apportion both houses of a state legislature on a population basis will weaken our Representative form of gov ernment. Good government de pends on fair representation, and the only way to have fair representation is to have all the people represented. We must have agreements among all the different interests from all the different sections dsion of the Supreme Court is to amend the U. S. Constitu tion, guaranteeing states the right to base one house of a bi-cameral legislature on factors other than population, and al lowing states, too, to determine how subordinate governing bod ies shall be constituted. This would allow North Caro lina to retain the present make up of the House of Representa tives, in which both area and population are considered. It OTHER EDITORS SAY WILLIAMSTOp ENTERPRISE Where The Money Goes The U. S. Defense Depart ment spends right at $48 billion a year. The Treasury Depart ment passes out right at $13 billion, followed in third place by the Health, Education and Welfare with a request for $7.8 billion. And where the money goes, no one knows. To gain Just a faint idea of where the money goes, look at a few items the Health, Edu cation and Welfare is spending in tax money, as follows: For studying aging in the house fly, $38,938; for studying the spinal cord of a mouse, or mice, would also allow county boards to continue to elect representa tives on a district basis. A bill has been introduced in the General Assembly of North Carolina calling for such an admendment to the U. S. Con stitution. The bill is referred to as H.B. 68. The measure amounts to an effective weapon which the people of North Caro lina may use in the fight to maintain good government. Fifteen other states have al ready passed similar bills in the state legislatures, and others are working on the matter. $7,500; for studying the effects of ant venom, $9,202; for study of araneae (garden spiders) in New Zealand, $9,752; for study ing chigger mites in western North America, $27,595; inves tigation of blood in new bom opposum, $13,692;. And: To make a survey of Ameri can drinking practices, $249, 179; “Longitudinal” study of changes in drinking practices, $101,512; Also: To study familial patterns of schizophrenia in Iceland, $22, 185; to study what happens if one is deprived of dreams, $11, 366; to study parasitic flat worms in bluegills (sunfish), $5, 050; to study Mexican freetail ed bat’s physiological adapta tion, $6,240; In addition:' For the “First American Con ference On Frozen Ground”, $10,000; research into a mental health program for labor, $64, 638; for investigation of ac quatic midge (2-wing fly), $3,000; As well as: Development of a comprehen sive “cottage-life program,” $100,000; a “self-instructional” program for youthful offend ers, $64,000; a “family training center as a depopulation aid”, $99,800; studying the nature and effects dtmarriage customs, $8,052; and ' for research into the nature and roles of female deliquent gangs, $24,336; and to study the “role of the brain in male reproduction,” $44,115; and a study of “personality fac tors in the vocational choice of ministers,” $4,200. 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