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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1958 A MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER National Whirligig By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON. THE confusion concerning the nation! present and prospective economls condition almost matches the uncertainty and controversy which surrounds tha feverish attempt to catch up with th Established 1838 PuMtslM iMh es THS ADVIHTISKB CO nttreJ at the Poet Office ifcootomer. Second Cliu Matter Under Act of Concrete of March 3. 1879 Off The Bench By Judge Walter B. Jones A Good Man WEDNESDAY morning last, In the circuit court room before going into the trial of jury cases, it was my happy pleasure to pause for a few minutes and pay tribute to a Montgomery lawyer who K.

HUDSON Chairman of Board HUDSON Pnbllshe 0ROVER HALL. JR. Editor-in-Chief 3 fRED THORNTON Associate Editor WILLIAM McPONALD Assistant Editor PttJ Report of ASSOCIATED PRESS kz? I I 4t i if i lh I Vt- sf fr a (-, ALL THOSE CHAIRS AND AO SPITTOONS New Courthouse Colorful And Modern A Trip Through Its Shiny Interiors Reveals That All That Glitters Is Not Old; Startling Features Like Heat In Winter, Air In Summer, Water-Proof Roof By Tom Johnson Of The Advertiser Staff REGARDING the new Courthouse, and remembering the wondrous battles between traditionalists and modernists over its design, a line from a song springs to mind: "ev erything's up to date in Kansas City they've gone about as fur as they can go." Which is to say, after a hurried tour of this sparkling glass steel structure, that the Courthouse is very mod- run. Those who had in- sisted that the new- building, throueh its form and substance should make clear its JOHNSON allegiance to the Old South will find at best a bland neutrality among the Herman Miller chairs of orange, molded fiber glass. However, only the most severe, partisans will find the sprawling structure unattractive.

And only the pathfinders with the surest sense of direction will find its tri-split-level unconfusing. The main entrance, for example, is on Washington. One enters an amphitheater-like lobby furnished with low, black. Knoll-designed benches and a receptionist's desk, at either side of which are stairs. It Is necessary, to mount these stairs to reach the second, or "main." floor.

THREE GROUND FOORS To reach the first floor from here, a visitor must take the elevator or descend a flight of stairs. However, the first floor does have a ground-level entrance on Perry, as does the third floor on Adams. (It Is difficult to convince a visitor who walks in at the third floor that he must take an elevator to the second floor.) All seating is of Miller or Knoll design (the latter being creator of the famed "womb" chairs, none of which was purchased for the Courthouse). Scattered about the building are about 500 of the Miller occasional chairs in white, beige, red and yellow, each of which retails for about $50 but which cost the county less than $20. Draperies add more color beige and brown on the north side, gray and yellow on the south.

Virtually all offices contain new furniture, but here and there an officeholder has held out for his old desk and chairs, to hell with whether It harmonizes with those flashy drapes and chairs. Circuit Judge Jones' office, for example, houses a massive, hand-carved desk of heart-of-pine about 90 years old, says the judge that used to be In Chancery Court. Otherwise, the judge's premises one of three circuit courtrooms are as modern as the rest of the building, and he shows them off with pride. His courtroom is oak-paneled with "new-type" seating, which, according to Mark D. Tiller of Pearson, Tittle Narrows, the architects, has not been used in this area before.

It contains other features not found heretofore in local courtrooms. By pushing buttons under the desk, the judges can flip on a public address system to amplify the remarks of witnesses and lawyers. NO BRASS SPITTOONS There is a room where lawyers may consult with clients, and "You'd be surprised how many cases have been settled out of court in there," says Judge Jones. There is a comfortable jury room with adjoining restrooms for men and women aprudent anticipation of the day when women will be given the right to serve on juries in state courts. (Notably missing from the courtrooms brass spittoons.

"I wish you'd call that to their attention," said Judge Jones.) Generally the north wing houses administration offices, the south wing the courts. On the fourth floor are the jail," space for a law library and sleeping rooms for jurors. That part of the jail which will house women inmates is yellow and green. The men's side is yellow and light brown. 'We tried to make it as cheerful as possible," said Tiller, "but it's still a forbidding place." A couple of months work remains to be done on the parking area.

Otherwise, the Courthouse is virtually completed, and its occupants happily settled in surroundings that, in comfort and looks, recall nothing of the old building "the barn," as some courthouse employes remember it. There is as yet, of course, no history attached to the new building. But then, neither is it a source of pneumonia in winter and heat prostration in summer. exploded 10 miles higher than the plane's altitude. As if we didr't have enough to worry about, Dr.

Nininger has succeeded In adding to the world's jitters the possibility of war by accident. A Backhanded Pat For Southern Justice QLAUDE Cruell, a Greenville, S.C., Negro, was beaten by Klansmen because he had befriended one of his white tenant farmers. Cruell and his wife went to the home of his penniless tenant, Sherwood Turner, to baby-sit while Turner visited his hospitalized wife a reversal of the classic Southern paternalism. This offended the Klan trash and, to teach Cruell a lesson for associating with whites, they beat him. The four Klansmen were arrested and convicted, the leader getting six years, another three years and the other two a year each.

Though the facts of the case were somewhat inverted, the convictions attracted little attention in the South. In the North it was different. The Milwaukee Journal, for instance, felt compelled to give the all-white South Carolina jury a pat on the back: "Here Southern justice did what justice should do. It's not a sign by any means that justice prevails throughout the South. But where it does it deserves notice.

And it deserves emulation." Thus The Journal damned with faint praise, suggesting that here was a novel example. Actually, many Southern juries have shown remarkable resistance to the tensions of the times when asked to divorce the race issue from the case at hand and rule simply on the guilt or innocence of the defendants. Birmingham juries systematically gave maximum sentences to the Klansmen who participated in the hideous mutilation of a Jefferson County Negro last Labor Day. The judge in the case spoke for Southerners everywhere when he expressed regret that 20 years was all the law allowed for mayhem. There have been misses, of course; one close to home.

But the overall record of Southern juries in cases touching on the race issue would fare well indeed if compared with that of Northern juries in Chicago and New York, for In-' stance where politically powerful gangsters and labor racketeers were involved. There was nothing exceptional In the South Carolina verdict; the jurors sim-x ply did their duty. 1 Togetherness Aloft In some matters, it seems, United Airlines has even come abreast of the separate but equal doctrine. This disclosure came when Rein" made a reservation on the daily U.A. flight from Chicago to New York.

When E. Rein showed up prepared to board, an airlines official explained the reservation would not be honored. Reason: E. Rein is Miss Edythe Rein, 29, a Senior Vice President of National Telefilm Associates, and the plane she had made reservations for is an "executive flight," for men only. The tired businessmen are treated to a smoker atmosphere.

Drinks and steaks are served: slippers and hot towels are provided. But, most important of all the comforts for the executives, no women are allowed aboard. Miss Rein, an executive herself, complained that she was being discriminated against. "I'm not the kind who goes on a crusade," she said, "but I really feel very strongly about this." When told that she wouldn't have liked the flight anyway, she replied that she would be the judge of that. When warned that men took their shoes off, she explained that she would too.

Told that the cigar smoke would be offensive, she said she liked smoke. Still, she was refused a seat. This gentleman's agreement irked appealed to the 'Civil Aeronautics Board for justice, even agreeing to accept separate facilities so long as they were equal: "I'm against discriminating against women." Airlines officials called on her to appeal to her feminine understanding about the man's world. She was deaf to their entreaties. "An unwarranted complaint," said one company spokesman, "like going into the men's room at the Biltmore." Miss Rein, undaunted, has just filed a second formal complaint to the CAB.

At least, she appears to argue, the airlines should recognize the 60-year-old Plessy vs: Ferguson doctrine of separate but equal. If the airlines yield that, of course, she will then insist on right to smoke -cigars with the men and listen to their dirty jokes. Separate, she will discover as the Supreme Court did in 1954, can never be equal. Demand togetherness, Miss Rein; you have your rights. Russians in the conquest of outer space.

No authority has yet given a clear or definite answer to the question now under consideration by the Joint Administration It Optimutie Over Economy Congressional Economic Committee at Capitol Hill hearings. That all-important question is: Has the 1956-57 recession ended, or is there worse yet to come? It seems impossible, In view of the microscopic studies of the national economy, that there should be such bewilderment and difference of opinion among the so-called experts. The administration obviously indulge! in optimism. In his economic report to Congress, President Eisenhower forecast improvement in the second half of 1958. In banning tax reduction, at least temporarily, and in whittling back funds for many domestic projects schools, highways, reclamation, water power, farm benefits he is betting on prompt recovery through normal economic activity and recovery.

CITE UPTURN EVIDENCE Eisenhower also relies on several other stimulating factors. These include the increased expenditures for national defense a military WPA and the Federal Reserve Board's recent easing of credit by reversing the operations which led to complaints of its "tight money" policies. White House advisers advance considerable evidence for their sunny attitudes, to wit: Commodity prices show an upturn. Carloadings have risen in recent months. The stock market has stabilized after a sympathetic slump.

Steel production may climb as the construction season opens. Department store sales are running ahead of a year ago, due largely to higher prices. Save in some hard-hit sections, applications for unemployment insurance payments have dropped. DEMOCRATS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT BUSINESS But industry's spokesmen, as well as Sen. Paul H.

Douglas of Illinois, the Democrats' leading economist on Capitol Hill, differ completely from this administration analysis. There is no area of agreement between these two schools. According to the politico-economic opposition, unemployment has now passed 4,000,000, and may climb to 5,000,000 soon, which is admittedly a danger mark requiring drastic action. There have been widespread layoffs and an Increase in part-time work in many key industries steel, metals, mining, auto, airplane, machinery, farm equipment, textiles. Unemployment insurance claims are rising in every great industrial state.

This slowdown has begun to affect employment In the service and trade fields. Due to continuing high retail prices, especially for food, consumers show great caution and selectivity-in their purchases. For some reason, the "Fed's" deflationary tactics did not lower retail costs. SEE AID YEAR AWAY Contrary to the Eisenhower belief, this faction contends that it will be many months, possibly a year, before defense spending will bolster the economy. Not until the missile and satellite tests at Cape Canaveral determine which is the most practical weapon, they argue, will any be placed in volume production.

Defense hiring so far has benefited only technicians. In view of this analysis, the Democrats and many Republicans insist that there must be a sizable tax reduction, or a three-billion increase in spending on domestic projects eliminated from the 1959 budget because of defense needs. In fact, they believe that the White House program for improving the educational system is too limited. The opposition is thinking in terms of five billions instead of the $1.6 proposed by the President. ECONOMICS AFFECTS POLITICS Perhaps even more than our succesi or failure in winning the Sputnik race, this economic dispute will color and affect 1958-1960 politics.

For if the presidential advisers have guessed wrong in betting on a late 1958 upturn, the Democrats will sweep into Congress, state legislatures and governorships on an avalanche of disgruntled and discontented workers, farmers and consumers. It would be a dismal prelude to the presidential contest in 1960. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson Small Things COME small things are unimportant and some are destructive of personality and character. Other small things are good.

They are the stuff out of which life on a high level is developed. They create good will and stimulate useful living. They build strong and stable char- LI 1 acter. They are the happiness. They are small, taken separately, but in their ultimate results they are great.

DAVIDSON You may spend life in a social game or a form of amusement, or become so absorbed in the round of social functions throughout the year, that nothing else seems to matter much with you. This is an unwise way to spend life. It is neither related to personal improvement in things that count most, nor usefulness as a citizen of the community. Lord Ashley was criticized for spending so much of his time in and out of Parliament in behalf of bills and other means to bring help to the poor, the outcasts, the dependent, vagrants, and children In need. But Lord Ashley knew that even though these things seemed small to others in reality they were great.

In time they also lifted him to fame. Live by small things. Yes. But be cautious of the kind of small things that absorb your life. NOBODY'S QUITTING The Cincinnati Enquirer Although living is costing increasingly more as time goes on, it seems nobody is trying to find a substtlute for it.

I nr on that 29, ob served, in a quiet way with family and friends, the 89th anniversary of his birth. In paying tribute to this able lawyer and useful citizen and friend of a lifetime, I noted that it is a rare thing Vv-for a judge to felicitate a lawyer who has reacnea me age oi ea iS years and been activelv JONES in the practice for 55 years. And this is the case with Mr. Whiting. At Montgomery on Jan.

29, 1869, John Arthur Whiting, a prominent and cultured planter and his wife, Mary Alicia Given, had born to them a son, Alexander Frederick Whiting, now universally beloved and known as Fred Whiting. Mr. Whiting attended the public schools of Montgomery County from 1882 to 1888. He then became a bookkeeper, working as such until 1890 and then for two years he was connected with the traffic department of one of the state's large railroads. Having saved his money, Mr.

Whiting attended the University Law School from 1902 until 1903, being graduated with the degree of LL.B. Later he added to his store of legal knowledge by taking courses at the law school at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Returning to Montgomery he was admitted to the bar June, 1903, and since that time has been in the active practice of his profession with honor and success. JN THOSE days one of the leading Montgomery firms was Hill Hill, a law partnership composed of William W. Hill and Wiley Croom Hill.

These able attorneys, finding their practice increasing, made Mr. Whiting a member of the firm. Later, the late Capt. Philip H. Stern became a member of the firm and afterwards J.

R. Thomas, now clerk of the Supreme Court of Alabama, became a member and after that Richard T. Rives, now one of the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, and later on Wiley C. Hill Jr. and John Blue Hill became members of the firm as so did Joe Pilcher.

Through all these years Mr. Whiting retained his place in the firm and followed actively and ably the practice of his profession. His law practice carried him into all the state courts and quite often to Atlanta, Charleston, S.C., and once to Toronto, Canada. Mr. Whiting found time in his busy practice to serve as an alderman of the City of Montgomery in 1909.

He has been a lifetime member of the First Presbyterian Church here and is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity. He has also taken an active interest in the work of our local Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Beauvoir Country Club and the Executive Club. Mr. Whiting's great energy has enabled him to be a farmer, a lumber manufacturer and. an insurance executive.

rv Mr. Whiting always refused election to the "I Will Arise and. Sit Down Again Club." There has never been a lazy bone in his body and he has never been happy unless he was working about 18 hours a day. THE writer of this column inherited from his parents the friendship of Fred Whiting, a friendship which through all the years has been loyal and generous, and which is above all price. The writer was admitted to the bar In 1909, six years after Mr.

Whiting. And he saw much of him in the courts and since 1920, when the writer became judge of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, he has seen Mr. Whiting in the actual practice of his profession almost daily. It is always a pleasure to look out over the bench and down into the bar and see Fred Whiting as a lawyer, representing parties having cases in court, because we judges know that he brings into the court room a profound knowledge of the law. To Fred Whiting the law Is not just some inanimate, intangible thing.

The law with him is something with a personality, a friendly thing, friendly to all just and honest men, with just and honest causes. Mr. Whiting's apr preciation of the difference between right and wrong, between honor and dishonor, and his constant and unfailing devotion as an officer of the courts to afford equal justice under the law to all people and the high quality of his manly character are but some of the many qualities which give him today a place in the hearts of all the members of the profession, both lawyers and judges. Mr. Whiting is a gentleman of the Old School, quiet and modest and loyal in all the relations of life.

He is devotedly attached to the great principles of government enunciated in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He takes pride in the fact that he is a Southerner. The South is his home. Her people are his people, their ways of life is his way of life and he stands today in his place as the worthy descendant of noble and aristocratic Southern families. Mr.

Whiting's 89 years seem to lie lightly upon him. Of course he no longer gets up at daybreak and rides his favorite saddle horse 10 or 15 miles before breakfast, and he doesn't spend long hours in the bustle and turmoil of a court trial but his mind is keen and his counsel always sound. He is an omnivorous reader and is thoroughly at home with the writings of Plato, Shakespeare, Milton, Macaulay and especially the poets, because Fred Whiting is himself at heart a poet and great is his delight to read the poems of Poe, Lanier and Father Ryan. All Montgomery congratulates Mr. Whiting on having reached his ancient and honorable age and wishes for him countless years of happiness and contentment in the future.

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and all day Sunday Wewe Department AM 2-5201 Circulation CH 7-7749 Colored News Bureau (All hoars) AM 3-2888 Sports Department AM 4-5341 Turnabout Is Fair Play Huntsville is understandably jubilant over the satellite success of the Army's Jupiter-C, which was developed there. It may be taking too much credit to claim that the Western World's first inoon was Alabama born, but let's claim It anyway. And while we're about it, let it be said that the Bamanik may even now be breaking the ancient spell which was supposed to have been cast on the state stars fell on Alabama. Carl Carmer Jn his 1934 book tells the legend: They say that on the memories of the oldest slaves their fathers knew there was an indelible imprint of an I awful event a shower of stars over Alabama. Many an Alabamian to this day reckons dates from "the year the stars fell" though he and his neighbor frequently disagree as to what year of our Lord may be so designated.

All are sure, however, that once upon a time stars fell on Ala- bama, changing the land's destiny. What had been written in eternal symbols was thus erased and the re-: gion has existed ever since, unreal and fated, bound by a horoscope such as controls no other country. We trust the Alabama moon, which some experts say is so well fixed in its orbit it may last 10 years, will set things aright out there. Accidental War One of the basic assumptions In the East-West standoff is that no one in his right mind would trigger World War III. Even a modern-day madman of the Hitler stripe would not find it easy to destroy the world.

An all-out surprise assault could not be launched by the sudden pressing of a button. The maniac would have to overcome the opposition of his sane countrymen and this would be no simple coup. However, Dr. H. H.

Nininger poses the awesome possibility that nuclear war could be touched off by a stray meteor crashing into the U.S. or Russia. Dr. Nininger's American Meteorite Museum is located near the huge crater at Se-dona, Arizona, formed by a meteorite which smashed the earth before recorded history. If such a giant body should hit the U.S.

or Russia some time in the future, when intercontinental balistic missiles are operational realities, there is the frightening prospect that the country "so hit would respond with immediate retaliation against the supposed aggressor. Dr. Nininger says that there are not more than 50 persons in the U.S. specially trained to locate meteorites: "A meteorite could explode over Los Angeles or New York today and we might find ourselves engaged in a war before its true identity could be ascertained." In 1948, a one-ton meteorite landed in Nebraska. In 1950 a crater 2Vz miles wide, in solid granite mountains, was discovered in Canada.

Had the meteorite hit a city, the 'effect would have been devastating! In the chaos and confusion would be logical to assume enemy action. Dr. Nininger explains that experienced pilots have been scared out of their wits by meteorites which came nowhere near them. An example was the report of a Navy lieutenant commander flying at 17,000 feet over Myton, Utah. He said a "fireball" had narrowly his plane and exploded under him.

Through routine scentific tracking methods, Dr. Nininger was able to 'prove that the meteorite was never closer than 150 miles to the Navy plane and The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons TJANK GREENBERG was at Shor's, discussing plans for his trip to Europe this summer in search of ballplayers. "I'm going to look in Spain," he said. "If Cuba and Puerto Rico can produce good ballplayers, there must be some in Spain too." Lionel Hampton also was making trip arrangements, at the Em-t bers, where he filled out a passport questionnaire. In response to "Marital Status?" the jazz bandleader wrote "Cool." AT THE Little Club the Peter Ustinovs and Noel Coward, listening to the "modern jazz," became a captive audience for proprietor Billy Reed, an ex-nightclub hoofer, who did a soft-shoe routine for them.

Mme. Georges Picot, wife of the French delegate to the U.N., was at the Carlton House, where she explained the unusual golden bracelets she wore: the bracelets were what Venezuelan mountaineers put on their horses' tails as ornaments. At the Blue Angel the Princess Liechtenstein told Meyer Davis "Never waltzes for me. I can't waltz." pAULETTE GODDARD was at Sardi's, planning arrangements for her imminent wedding to Erich Maria Remarque. Ben Hecht was there too, up from the Renata Theater where his exciting and entertaining play Winkelberg Is being performed.

It's Hecht's memorial to the late poet, Maxwell Bodenheim a 000 monument, because that's the aggregate of the screenwriting assignments he gave up to devote himself to this play. MRS. LEO LINDY, strolling along Park Avenue, was asked what she was doing there, and replied: "Slumming." Adlai Stevenson was at the curb, at Sutton Place, when our cab pulled up to Jean Stein's party. "No, I didn't go, 1 just peeked in and left," Stevenson explained. "I've faced audiences of people, with ease, but the crowd in Miss Stein's apartment scared me away." DOBBY' FISCHER, the 14-year-old sophomore from Erasmus Hall High School, won the U.S.

Chess Championship this month, beating America's vet- Grossinger's a few days ago he tried to enter the dining room, wearing a sweater. Abe Friedman, the maitre d', stopped him and said "I know you're going to Moscow in July, to play against their champions. If you're invited to a state dinner there, wouldn't you wear a tie?" The boy shook his head "If I have to wear a tie, I won't go." rTONY AKERS, who lost to Rep. Frederic Coudert (R-NY) by only a few hundred votes, will run against him again Henry Shapiro, the U.S. correspondent in Moscow who got an exclusive interview with Khrushchev last month, will visit here in February.

It took Shapiro years to get the interview, and he had less than an hour's notification to prepare Bernard Buffet, the French artist, will have his first retrospective show in America at the Hutton-Chambard Galleries. He may be the youngest ever to have such a retrospective show. rFHE American-born daughter of Cedric Belfrage the author who faced deportation charges before he left here is in Russia, working for the Moscow News The William Faulkner movie, The Long Hot Summer, has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival The "Light of the World" award presented to President Harry Truman here recently, was sculpted by Irene Grumet. She's the wife of Jack Grumet, the former fire commissioner of New York. OUIS RUPPEL, the former newspaper and magazine editor who died recently, brought excitement with him wherever he went from the Narcotics Bureau in Washington, where he started, to his editorial roles with the Chicago Times and Collier's.

When he moved to CBS as press chief he ordered "I want new, fresh blood working here. Young men, who'll put pep into their jobs." He got the young men, and soon they were all drafted into the Army. pETER USTINOV lost out on the Challenge" show when he failed to identify Shalimar as gardens in India. "Oh, well," Ustinov sighed, as he left the studio, "this isn't the first time that a garden caused a man a lot of trouble." (Copyright, 1958, Hll Syndicate, Inc.) luses to wear a tie or jacket. At.