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Political Kiss Of Death IURUNGTON (N.C1 DAILY TIMES NEWS Fill DAY, MARCH 3, 1 Fair Enough MAN'S BIGGEST DANGER IS IT NOT HE HIMSELF WrSTIIOOK MCUR Be Daily Times News HM MM rakUMd btttr linrt Mrr 1HI TIMEi Hf Wt IUIHIM CO. utimaicm. K. c. MOW1 Jut.

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tl tl tQ aP Nm OleiWK. NATIONAL EDITORIAL distorted Iho consUtutlim la tUa particular although not ono io at million ot ui er had Uard ot lilber of them. 1 beuev other Judges would have liked lo dissent, but wo probably never vrlil the truth because up to now these, fellows have not blabbed on cm another. Justice ltobert Jackson did reveal, al mojl, but not in plab words thai be was just about lo butt Justice Black on Ihe snoot. Justice Doug, lai once used an Elisabethan four teller word to personify Felix FranUuiter to me, preceded by the word "terrible." They probably holler and bawl like bum in a skldrow bar in some of their discussions.

There is not much class on that bench. If I do not believe in Ih constitution, then what do I believe It? 1 am glad I asked me. Because when I sw ear lo respect and uphold the cosstlluiion have in my heart tho const! that wa handed down lo us. I look Ihe same oath probably three or four time during prohibition but always with a mental referwtios. At West Polal and on football trains with West IVjint officers, who furnished boore bought wilh money out of the athletic fund, I'aiil Galiico.

Grantland lliee and many others gravely discussed over our drinks the dilemma of iho officer who renewed his professional patriotic vow lu the constitution including tho 15th Amendment, every jear. Of course that was perjury. But when a superintendent of the academy was going lo court martial a major, now retired and living in New Orleans. General Hugh Johnson, a lawyer, threatened lo defend the major and to explode a terrible scandal. The superintendent backed down.

Drinking was social routine at West Toinl and on many other posts throughout prohibition and on naval stations ashore, though not afloat. And afloat It was not the ISth that prevailed but the order of Josephus Daniels in 1513 lorhiddinn (lie wet mesr. But Ihe worst damage to Ihe constitution, next to Ihe Income lax, wa the adoption of the popular vote for the election of Presidents and Senators. That did 11. As Lord Macaulay foresaw, this put tho government in th hands of Iho whereas Ihe in.

lention of the founding fathers had been to keep them at bay and lo govern them in comfort and prosperity by an undefined aristocracy. But Ihe great original republic has not degenerated into a de. It sorrows me la hav lo'iimlt to my.ielf I don't mind od mlttisg It to yea that isma days when I awear lo uphold Iho ctmJtitutkw. 1 do io with longing and mental admission that lo me Ihe tonslllulloa If dead. It died when th income lax arnendment became the law of thtt land, dtlivning all of into the por of CortgrMS as slaves unworthy lo oVswt a penny of our Income.

The fruit of cur loll. To each on nol even a penny. The omission of a limit on Ihe portion of our income from eur work or Intenuliy which con gresa mighl lake away deprived us of the only distinction between free men and slaves of a slate. Our condiUoo is even worse because slave is assured by law 111 drilling, ii cnl7 a and his IrxxJ and some cover for his body. Our southern states had an elaborate code of law on the rights ot slaves.

Our Itth amendment gives us no such provision. After Congress has exercised its legal right to take it all, we stand naked and hungry, much worse off than the stave of Ihe Chinese Communist commune who has a theoretical right to income in some guise according lo his need. Congress has not yet gone io the limit wilh us, but that total power over us is there in the ICth amendment. That total power must have been Ihe intent of lomplei debate about limitation, and the question of a limit was avoided by non committal remarks (hat the lax would never lake more than two per cent ot Ihe rich ruin's income and would never touch the working man at Th wbol proposition was intended to appeal to ihe malice, envy and greed of an ignorant working class, a majority of Ihe people in those days and these. That was why the working clasi were assured, but without a constitutional reservation in that Uth Amendment, (hat the tax would never touch their own earnings.

Otherwise it would not have passed. There are other flaws in the constitution that arc almost fatal. Tho 13th, Ktb and 15th were hot Wood amendments adopted in political passion and Ihe Warren Supreme Court wenl further in the school segregation A Warren actually bulled through a constitutional in that decision. I have heard, I believe credibly, by leaks through the unjustified secrecy of the rr rt that Warren individually demanded unanimity, posed on us the views of one BIBLE THOUGHT I will sing of loyally and of justice; to thee, 0 Lord, I will sing. FsaLms 101:1.

Roving With Boyle THE COW IS IN THE CORN SURE AS 'MIKE' MANKIND faces the inevitable battle 10 survive disease and injury from "cradle to grave" that eventually he will lose. These are enough to cope with, with every possible safeguard as long as possible. Yet the human mind Is engaged every moment in the development of scientific exploration to create new inventions, new formulas, designed to defeat, if unleased, the Ideal. of natural survival. Instruments of death! David Lawrence, writing editorially in U.

S. News and World Report, February 27, comments: Troubles in the Congo and dramatic repercussions in the United Nations are fn the headlines and Ihe peoples of the world are becoming resigned to a "cold war" that shows no signs of abating. But, meanwhile, something else is happening which seems to be taken for granted as a necessary evil. Scientists are working day and night to produce weapons that can In an instant kill or maim more and more people. Even in some of the countries which as yet do not possess nuclear weapons, Ihe quest is on for more efficient means of inflicting death on millions of human beings.

Official plans are being made, of course, to resume "disarmament" negotiations soon between the United Stales and the Soviet Union. But "disarmament" Is a misnomer. Neither side will ever agree to disarm. America cut its armament drastically in (he 1920s, only to find itself handicapped a few years later. Likewise, after World War we permitted another period of armament reduction, and paid the penalty in Korea.

The Soviets talk about "total and complete disarmament" and derive propaganda value from the phrase but they don't mean to throw away their arms cither. For distrust prevails on both sides. The phrase "arms control" has possibilities. It implies an agreement not to use certain kinds of weapons. It suggests a system of inspection.

But, actually, the real value of such negotiations is not in the substance of what may he discussed but in the fact that an opportunity is afforded to publicize the problem itself. What peoples everywhere need is a society ruled by law or at least one that is governed by basic principles of humaneness. For neither side can win the next war. Little progress can be made to avert catastrophe as long as our opponents insist upon a closed society for a large part of tho earth's surface. We, on the other hand, live in an open society.

Everything we do is an open book anyone can read it. Almost ev crythine Ihe Soviet Union does important for the rest of the world lo know about in order to create mutual trust is hidden and kept secret behind an Iron Curtain of massive proportions. Secrecy can be the most illusory influence that the Soviets have fostered. It undoubtedly stimulates the search for and production of more weapons than cither side really needs far defense. Roth sides know (hat there is a power of mutual doslruction.

History feils us that a balance of power lias often produced a long period of peaceful equilibrium. But today a balance of power has been augmented by a balance of terror. Any minute a mistake can he made, and a war started. The danger faced by mankind today is incredible. It defies description.

But the paradox is that peoples have not really been awakened to it. They arc fearful. They are nervous. They arc hopeful that man will not commit huiclde. They have not, however, taken steps to restrain tho impulses that can at any moment, without notice to an adversary, release a destructive force of incalculable dimensions.

Joe again paid the cabbie cousia Otis asked bow much the tickets had cost. Joe said T.eo. it still costs us enly cents to see a movie bacli home," said cousia OOi. "but I suppose everything is higher here. I hope you're keeping tab of everything" "Don't worry, I am!" Joe said lartly.

After Ihe theater, cousin Otis Insisted they lake in the belt night club in town. They did. Doth Otis and Beulah confessed they were starving and thirsty. steaks. Merc drinks.

more drinks. At a.m. cousin Otis arose and mumbled. "Excuse me." At the waiter came over, put down a bill for 163 and said, "Your friend said lo tell you ho was ill, ami would meet you at Ihe hotel," Joe had lo us his company credit card lo meet the tab. Back at the hotel they found clothes on.

"Call us in (he morning," suggested Eculah. Joe did that bright and early. But his relatives had already checked out. Glumly, Joe figured Iho evening spent trying to get even with cousin Otis had cost him S300, including tips. Three days later be received an unstamped letter from cousin Otis.

Joe sighed, paid the pojt man the four cents due, opened Hie letler and read: "Sure do thank you folks for a wonderful evening, tut don't see ho you can afford to live in such an expensive Why, do you know the hatcheck girl in that night club wouldn't give me my hat and coat until I forked out a quarter. "They cculdn't gel away wilh a thing like that in our town. Do come and see us some time. And don't bother to bring any egg money. 1 wo have a night out here, everything will be on me." Moral: Beware ihe man who calls fclrntelf Just a poor liUle old country boy.

He'll city slicker you every lime. NEW YORK (API The letter to Joe and Jane Urban read: "Dear folks: "We aim lo spend next Saturday night in the big to and would like to have jon all help us paint it red. "You make the arrangements. Don't worry about tho cost Wife Deulah and I arc bringing along plenty of egg money and cookie jar cash. "Cousin Otis." "Who in the wcrld tl cousin Otis?" asked Jane.

"He's one of my father's neph cfls." said Joe sourly. "Jt calls himself just a poor liUlo old country boy, but he actually owns half the small town he lives In. "When I was a kld we lived In tho city I used lo spend a couple of weeks every summer with his family. "Cousin Otis made my We miserable with his country pranks. "If we went to the old swimming noie, I am.i4 caaw uji find my clothes wet and tied in knots so light I had to chew them loose.

Once he got me to die tobacco and when 1 got sick he told me to gnaw raw elm bark. Naturally, that made me sicker." A grim lock came over J'a face. "This Is my chance (o gel eren at last with cousin Otis. I'll nuke him pay where it hurts him most in the pocketbook. He wants lo paint the town red? We'll let htm.

"He taught me country life the hard way. I'll teach fcim a few city tricks." Well. Beulah and cousin Otis arrived and the first thing Otis said was, "A poor little old country boy like me really feels lost here. Dan't know whether I can paint the ivholc town in one night or not, but let's get started." Cousin Otis couldn't pay the taxi fare to the expensive restaurant because the smallest be had was a R0 bill. Joe paid.

When the SG5 restaurant cheek came, cousin Otis was in the men's twin. Joe paid. On the way lo see a hit musical sture native American radical who think pensions and rell prefessor, both cf whem he had money from "Ih givernmenl" the impudence (3 by come from tire rh thrn'ili lb" name, as absolute authorities generosity ol the Domocrallc over us. On their judgment he party, N. Y.

Confidential The World Today By JAMES MAR LOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) The American Trace Corps which President Kennedy created ihis week is still too new to have pre cis form. But it Is possible to indicate the shape it will take. It will, of courfc. require much lime, many months, before (ho full picture emerges. Kenncdy imply set up a temporary Peace Corps.

He asked Congress la go beyond this and by law make a permanent Peace Corps. Kennedy hopes his temporary arrangement will be able to train and send KO or more young people overseas by falL But the permanent pence may have 5,000 or mora members. Tfn 3ri fmii vnM fniAt. lion to ask about the corps who1 member! will go lo backward countries and, by living and working side by tide with the people there, kelp them improve their life and living: Wrist's ilj purpose? How will they be picked? Where will they go? What will they da? Congress last year authorized a study of the corps idea. It waj undertaken hy Colorado State Uni verity's research foundation.

This week it made a preliminary report It wilt make a final one in April. What follows is based on that preliminary rtport, line result oE extensive investigation by the foundation and interviews with hundreds of people here and abroad, including government people here and ov ericas. The purpose To help spc cd liic social and economic development cf the world's backward areas. Peace Corps members will riot get a salary. They'll get a ub tiitcne payment.

This government will look out for their health. They'll Iho with the people in towns and villages, educate them, work with them, leach them ikills from farming to engineering and rursing. Ho they'll be picked Tie cov. ernmcnt will jet up a Ptace Corps agency. Kennedy ordered it done Wednesday.

Standards and qualifications will be established tor choosing Peace Corju members. Each member must have rome skill needed in the area to which he Is assigned He will undergo training, lie must know tho language of the country lo which he li sent, th culture, customs, and problem. He must be physically okay. Where they'll gc Simply. Ihey will be tent where needed, provided the country which can them wants them.

What they'll oo Thc foundation tmrd 'h jrentest needs, in countries Its investigators visaed, in these fields: Education (especially teaching English, (ier.ee, literacy, adult eiicilica, arsd vocational Iraia kg). Health and sanitation (cursing, technical assistance, mother and child cart, sanitation, and so on). Community and rural dettlop rritr.l (firm prigrairj, problems cf the home, building schools and ifod'. tcyare ajjll and jo'jlh clubs and or.i. Here are som of the specific nteds pointed out in the foundation's survey: Farming Livestock imprme nvent.

improved garden and field crops, irrigation, loci care mauitenaace, 4 chibi, ewvera tisxs, rnirtfJcg, aid grata (tor for 15 years and now that they're married, she decided to take few weeks off to visit folks on tho Coast. aati trust division; And ia Gotham Dick Cowell' friends aro saying that after fcw dates with Rockefeller hciresi Pamela Prrntlce. she'll he Ihe oil heir's next wife. Klnda merger In oil. Beach: land of the international fel.

Palm Baaeh look alikes: Stephanie Javils, niece of the Senator, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Can't tell them apart al five paces. Bob Faro, he personable young man about town who was break tig the N. Y. Columns including thi as Iho nightly dancing companion of Ginger togcrs and Do bo Tlodeidlc r.

finally turned se rious to play the small but mraly part of Vito in the Palm Itcjcn Playhouse production of "Send Me No Mowers" with David Vii and Naacy Ol.n. He raves. After Ihe opening, Boli divide! his dancing time at the Celebrity Room between Marika Harada. oi "Holiday ia Japan" and Mis Olson, but lest her boy friend gel jealous, I might odd that Eob's heart belongs to little Jusko Watanabe far off QNLY the law of supply and demand can bring economic balance to the "farm problem." There is a vast over production, encouraged by the rampage of socialism in the United States. The city breadwinner and housewife, who may not know a tedder from a vvhifflctree, can't afford to ignore the Administration's new farm proposals.

There Is a big price tag on them in taxes, and still more big price lags to be attached to family purchases of meat, poultry and dairy products. Vnr pw Ml un ItmnnM the plan didn't concern them, it goes like this. Corn price supports would he raised from $1.06 per bushel last year to Soy beans would go from $1.85 to $2.30. Other feed and grain crops would he treated similarly. To be eligible for the higher support prices and land retirement payments, a farmer would have to plant 20 per cent less.

Tills is "voluntary." But how voluntary? The farmer who went along would be guaranteed the support price. The farmer who didn't would have to sell at the open market. And the Government would be in a position to sell from its $4 billion farm surplus enough to drive him to ruin by shattering the market level. So few farmers could do anything but "volunteer" to go along with the acreage cut Their alternative is possible ruin at the hands of the supposed guardians nf (he farmer's interosl Ihe Ho partment of Agriculture. City people would get their lumps a little later.

The ranchers, stockmen, poultrymen and dairymen would all be forced to pay higher price's for the fee'd that becomes meat and dairy products. And ultimately, this bill for the new agriculture program will be passed along to everyone who eats. And, as usual, to everyone who pays taxes. President Kennedy's own task forces warned against the folly of this approach, but was ignored. The largest organization of farmers warns against it.

The meat packers warn against it. Now it's up to the voters to set up a howl and tell their Congressmen how they feel. Time is short, because Ihis year's program must be shaped before all the fields aro planted, and Spring is near. Trouble is, after a majority of the voters send their representatives lo legislative hodies they promptly forget them and more trouble is, when their representatives reach their official stations, too often, that promptly forget the prime interest of those who sent them there. Write your Congressman.

He will listen! WashingtonRoundup iT petir edsoh KU Within) Ccmifnaanr By LEE MORTIMER out of Miaeola has Nassau county authorities talking to New York police commissioner Steve Kennedy nboul lhat top police Job thorp, vacant since Ihe disappearance of their commissioner. obvious reasons I'alm Is the talk mill of the new administration and one of the sUries I heard is that Pres. Kennedy is miffed at Ihe guy who him Into sending Soapy Williams to Africa as "good place to get rid of him," itod Taylor, who get: aro.nd almost as much as Ben Gage, has a new sloe eyed beaut named Tlco Mara. iWi Fox is trying lo uoik IK'lorcs Hawkins, who's Gardner McKay's girl friend, in lo his TV "Adventures in Para My old pal Freddy Cordova, the handsome director, and itLcoi Hi: Kay Vvs It hard. All the work! lo a lover except when he's in a phone booth.

Jimmy "Schaoizob" Durante arrived in Palm Beach without his nrido of a few months. He cxplancd'thai Ihey went steady ot the projam would include annual appropriation of $73 million as grants to emrnunilies lor public utilities they can't finance themselves. This is a kind of make wo project to mcderniic long de.i fsscd areas and gel them started again. There noulJ al'o be ID mil Lea 3 year graz retrain ing workes in new industries and their subsistence white learniai. FiaaJy, there would be Hi mfl.

lioa a year for technical assistance to depressed eaTftturitie. Thii I to help then make iur veji ad plan fcusiaisisa la replace dead or dying lodui Irie. Tbtra is a further prorlsloa that ia the first year of this redevelop rr.cit effort, ouly tM trdtllm In loan and J'J irdQJon In grants for public works could be mad. Maybe it won't work. It merit seemi to be that it will be doing lo increase employment and end Ihe recession, which shoald better than doing nothing.

At any rate, there is little doubt that kEblation in this field will bo passed a one of Ihe President' fint recovery measures. BARBS By HAL COrtllUN Police in a western town forced a uomaa to leaic a phone booth after an hour's conversation. It probably broke up a description of a new drril. Mom really enjoys watching TV after Junior's lucked in and the' tuckered out. per csnt for the previous year.

By nny cf those measurements, this is a definition of serious. Ion; term business recession. Soaie business organisations are violently opposed to government aid for depressed areas. One ot their principal arguments ij that such areas can help themselves, if they Iry. But this private enterprise brands is a fear that building jp depressed areas will only take business away frfim where business is making licm deprived.

This is the self. approach to Ihe problem. The posi'ive approach Is that raisin? depressed areas lo prosperity should make business even liefer in areas that have less than average uiemploj meaL The r.ew version of area redevelopment which Ihe Kennedy administration I new backing wuuld set up rCT iving funds for loans of II0O mi'iion for urban commu r.itle? and $un million for loans and million for public utility loins in ail areas. This BO) million in "03ns is intended (o finance building or removing of public works sewers, staler systems and the like or phnts and facilities that will attract new Industrie or commer Cal enterprises. Tho so called giva away part WASHINGTON (NEA) There are 3d major and R3 minor "areai of substantial and persistent labor surplus" as they're b'Jt officially called la the United Kale? today.

nrcss IW out of a total of 150 labor market areas surveyed by Department of Lcbor would be eligible for help under President Kennedy's area redevelopment proposals now before Congress as cr.e ot his recovery measures. LuUlr Secretary Artier J. Cild herg Keb. uary unemployment figures will be higher. And Kennedy may visit some of the worj; areas, to focus attention on their problem and his proposed solution.

The criteria his sell tip to defac what classifies areas as depressed ore these: They mast be areas of long standing unemp'oymcnt, above the average ur.crnpby. mcnt rate now C.S per cent. They mut show SO per cent aUj.L' the national average u.t tmpVjymc't which today uould be pe; cent for three of the las: ivur years. Or, They mtat Ti per cent abjvs the national average ll.J per tfnt for Uo cf the last three ftarj. Or.

The enst sbor 100 per cent over tho national average JJ.J TH3 Oh. for the good old days when parent could wait up lo kls teen agers goodnight and still get a decent night' steep. An advice column tells gals to keep a nan jucaiiag. Not, however nntil he guest he's nritca to another gal..