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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 195C. TXGX' I i Z!AT0.1 SAflERVIM WSAYS . ; jWiphingtonLaat week the Sen- ate rejected all attempts w' change the, constitutional , system of elect the ftesident and Vice5 Presi dent ; i r .v. i , Electoral Reform " 1 i ' t"he overwheltnirtg t majority ; of v the Senate thinks there should b$ ft reform in our system of electing Presidents and Vice Presidents, but it is just like a poor patient having - bo many doctors who cannot agree 'just what the remedy is. The Sen ate" could not agree on the method of reform. I supported this reform ' moyement. ' Rather than kill the - resolution outright, the Senate sent the matter back to the Judiciary Committee. It was obvious at the ' ' time .that the resolution would not prevail in' a vote, as the necessary two-thirds could not be obtained. I trust that we can get through a re form in the near future which will accomplish the purpose. 1 think the Constitution ought to be chang ed Ip this respect' '! Season For Change '. In the days when the. Constitu .tion was being drafted there were many, including George, hashing .ton, who thought we should never have party government. There were no ways byhvhich the public could be acquainted with the quali fications of the men seeking the Presidency and Vice "" Presidency. A system -of electors was adopted ana. these electors were supposed to meet and vote and elect the occu . pants of these high offices as they . pleased. But party government developed. Voters began to be aware of the qualification of can-. - didates. So we have the custom under our Constitution' where the Winner of a state's votes even longs and nould, remain; Snere are Valid1 reasons, why. we cannot have an all-out popular vote. ' That would put- elections under control of the Federal government as some states' havei various voting regula tions. For example, Georgia per mits voting at age IS. ' I also sup-' port a revision of the electoral sys tern because it would free us from this business of having to go to the larger states to get candidates. We could run the best qualified men regardless of where they are located. -a;;, ':y:': 4-HOub Planning Fashion Show Tuesday A "fashions on the go" show featuring a wardrobe for the 4-H Club Miss, will be presented at the Agriculture building in Hertford next Tuesday, April 10, : The cosj tumes to be shown were design; ed which the teen-ager might sew for herself . Rachel Spivey will be the commentator for the show -and the committee in charge will be Annie L. Lane, Rachel Spivey and Lois V; Wintflow ',; .-. BURGESS NEWS : : Mrs. J. H., Boyce Was admitted to the Albemarle Hospital last Sat urday.' ' .. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Basnight visit ed her mother, Mrs. R. L Spivey, near New Hope Sunday afternoon, Annie Lou Lane was the dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs.; Clarence Chappell, Sr., and Clarence, Jr., 011 Easter. Mr. and Mrs. Walton Lane visit ed her father, Nixon Hollowell, though it be only a majority of Su"day a!- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Matthews, Mr. and Mrs Howard Matthews and one; takes all the electoral vote. . WFllAro 1ia turn mflUn 1 ! 1 1 n 1 tidm. ties are very close in numerical 'oanne T " P" strength as in New York State . A ? few splinter parties have the -" " o 7" ..... ,. . a great state. The result is that " ; T we have small pressure groups that f her Parents' Mr' ani Mrs" exert a power out of aH proportidn . t . t to their numbers and we have un-' .Ma"d Mrs. Wmstoa Lane, Jr., fortimate things in government due' lia? r pawnU at Rooky Hock Mr. and Mrs. Winston . Lane and family Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ayscue and td the fact' that both of the major political parties so often yield to the temptation to try to cater to these small groups, . The Remedy The best system that has been devised is a system which would prorate the electoral vote of state according to the popular vote cast in the state. I think this is Sunday afternoon. 1 Tommie Matthews of Drivers, Va , was the Week-end guest of J. , B. Basnight. CARD OF THANKS I want to thank all my dear a friends and relatives for the nice I cards and flowers sent me while I was a patient in the hospital, and the best remedy because it reflects ' since my return home.:: Each one the popular will and at the same of you will always be remembered. time leaves the control of elections in the hands of the state where his torically and constitutionally it be- MRS. HERBERT J. ' WINSLOW. TO ATTEND WEDDING because rfc NATURAL ,, Z M.niin n.XiiJ it - V I This is what continual un of acid-forming ammanla nitrogen without lime dldo goad farm land. Practically no growth. See the difference In the background, where craps regularly got natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda. g::lean ketxate wcsld's cnly natural nitrate A natural fertilizer is an extra good fertilizer. Not just for crops, but also for the land; not only for today, but for the years ahead. . And Chilean Nitr; is the only natural combination of nitrate nitrogen, sodium s J minor elements. .. Natural Chilean or" s fast, Small graiq yields depend upon , the supply of available nitrogen when spring growth beginA Chilean top-dressing supplies life-giving plant food at the moment of greatest need, ' - , Natural Chilean boosts yields. Iu nitrogen is 100 per cent' . . J . .1. . 1 . . . 1. . 1 . . . . uiuaie uuiuecii, rcauy lor me piani immeaiateiy atter appil cation. A top-dreesing of 300 pound per early maturity. , . ( ; ? v. ; mm mm, Natttral Chilean fights acidityi Every I HATCHCi' ton contains sodium equal to 650 pounds of a '-.l-dastroying commercial limestone, ' Sod. urn substitutes for potash and calcium, l"'"ses available phosphate supply.; . ' f.. " rtl Chilean benefit crop and , ' i. It corrects acidity, improve potash, pit.-. Late, calcium, maenesiura and minor . It' ' t availabilities. Chilean Soda is one of t. s r -it eiucient and economical ni. .'trc-if if rtnn-dre8gingnds"v ' f I r . g Soda. Look for t ci ' -. J "Voice WitK A Smile" Is Just Memory To Overseas Army, Heidelberg, Germany The tele phone operator is almost a ghost of the jast ad far as the United States Aurny 4n Germany Is con cerned.: .. , , A fully-autiomatii' 'longid'istance telephone systemwjStiH, a dream in most parts of the tTnited "States- today 'serves.' almost . every Army telephone nser ,ra Germany. In of fices; If rora ; Brtmerhawri to Gar mish, frorri Kaiserslautern to Ber lin,' it's now possible to dial direct. To call a military number in an other city, one needs only to dial two sets of three or four-digit' num bers one to connect with the ex change there, and the other to get the desire number. To reach Seventh " Army head quarters in Stuttgart from Army headquarters here, for example, a caller dials 2741 and then the num ber. Within seconds, the call is through. Only a fraction of the Army's thousands of " daily ' calls need an operator. "Through switch" calls are made by an operator when au tomatic 'equipment fails or when automatic circuits are full. Ail in ternational calls from Heidelberg to Paris, for example must be "booked" through an operator. And call on "red lines" private lines Usually serving general officers or strategic locations need an opera- tor. ' '' " " ' :" . Other operators are on hand to give information. . Yet at the Heidelberg exchange, serving more than 4,500 telephones at Army headquarters in Europe, bnly 36 German and nine WAC operators are needed to staff the exchange 'round ;the r clock.;;. The' rest is entirely automatic : Two unusual problems confront ed planners of the' system: how to set up a separate "civil" phone net work for private use by Army per sonnel, and how to tie in the' mili tary system 'with "Deutsch . Post," the national German telephone net work; . ' ;. - .'''.V., But answers were found. ' Under international agreement, civil tele phones were installed and operated by Deutsch Post, like any other German civilian phone. ' And to call from a military number to either a civil or "German number, it's necessary only to dial the pre fix 99. Conversely, to reach a mili tary number from a civil or Ger man phone, one dials 88. It's that simple. Signal Corps engineers have set up safeguards against using mili tary phones for private long-distance calls. If a person in Heidel berg tries to dial a friend at a civil number of Berlin, he gets a busy signal and nothing more. And i; he tries to go through the opera tor, he' will be asked if it is official business. If not, the call won't be placed. Key to the system is a series of hundreds of automatic "selectors", five of which are used for each call. One selector finds an open circuit as soon ' as the phone is raised from its cradie, and the oth er four corresponding to the four digit number being called pinpoint the call to 'the desired phone. : But the most important fact to users of the direct-dial system is that with only six or eight flicks of a dial, they can speak to some one at the other end of Germany. I I . L Baeh'g Masterpiece rf Iit Norfolk April 9th One of the world's greatest mas terpieces, Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Passion According, to St. Mat thew",1 will be presented April 9th at 8:15 P. 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