It remarks that the referendum, had, among local radio outlets and The Charlotte Observer, only the editorial support of The News, but had won anyway.

They might have added that their support was considerably diluted by the granting consistently of space in the "People's Platform" to Inez Flow, whose persistent arguments in favor of prohibition appeared no less than twenty times during the previous few months. We have to give her "A" for effort, and then a BC Powder for losing.

They stress that for the new law to work, it would have to have public support.

Anyway, there's more and you can read it.

It suggests that the system, as it prepared to enter its second year, would, when its usefulness was exhausted, form the foundation for a junior college system, absent from the state.

Yet, no one in Congress ever took these men to task for making such charges.

The American Anti-Communist Association had gone into Federal Court to forbid Mr. Wallace from using the Watergate Amphitheater in Washington for a speech sponsored by the Southern Conference of Human Welfare. In their brief, they asserted that Mr. Wallace be required to forfeit his citizenship because he had refused to subordinate his own political philosophy to the Truman Doctrine.

We may come to call this scandal...

Nah.

But we remind that just last week, on Wednesday, Mr. Nixon made his debut in the pages of The News, as a member of the HUAC subcommittee which recommended a full investigation into the charges of Communist infiltration of the United Tobacco Workers union, which had been on strike at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Winston-Salem.

The piece points out that if such statements as made by Mr. Wallace were the arbiter of treason and loss of citizenship, then Senator Taft ought also to be denied his citizenship as he had publicly differed the previous week with the President on foreign aid, accusing Mr. Truman of double-dealing, that is advocating foreign aid which tended to be inflationary as he also sought to bring down domestic prices. Mr. Taft, given his position of leadership in the Republican Party and the Senate, had probably done more damage than anything uttered by Mr. Wallace, acting as a private citizen.

It concludes by saying that if Americans abandoned the principle of dissent and free expression, then they would lose the fundamental difference which set the country apart from totalitarian Russia.

Mr. Acheson stated that Soviet Communism, as it stood for expansionism, was the primary enemy of American security. Russia was delaying peace because, as a police state, it thrived on expansion.

He stated that the foreign policy of the country was unified in its scope and gave hints that the State Department might soon compromise the Jewish position in Palestine, suggesting the final decision would be based on American policy toward Russia, thus not antagonistic to the Arabs.

Andrei Gromyko's latest pronouncement before the U.N. on atomic energy was indicative of the fact, suggesting a desire to delay implementation of any atomic control inspection by demanding that it be overseen by the Security Council and its Big Five unilateral veto, a position not acceptable to the U.S. At one point, he appeared close to agreement on the Baruch-Lilienthal-Acheson plan for international inspection and sharing of the secret. Six months later, however, he had shut the door on such agreement. Now, he appeared to have opened it again, but only halfway.

His latest proposal had a clause which would allow all signatory states to carry on "unrestricted" atomic research for peaceful purposes. It considerably retreated from the American plan which would virtually surrender all sovereignty rights in the field of atomic energy.

Members of the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission had discussed termination of their discussions by September 1, as the continuing debate appeared to be serving no purpose. They would then provide recommendations to the atomic energy subcommittee of the Security Council, issuing a majority and minority report.

There would be some at home who would argue that it would be better to achieve some agreement rather than none, even it meant giving in to Soviet terms and preservation of sovereignty on the matter. But, opines Mr. Childs, such would be worse than no agreement at all as it would provide a false sense of security. With disagreement, at least there would be a recognition of the worst situation and that policy had to be reshaped to accommodate it.

Yet, many Senators had been conferring regularly with Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and understood well the European economic emergency being set forth by Secretary Marshall.

The problems ranged from a suspicion of being ingratiated by diplomatic overtures of foreign embassies to give until it hurt, to that of Representative Clare Hoffman of Michigan, long an isolationist, who voiced the suspicion that the State Department was being used to establish a Soviet espionage beachhead in the United States.

They conclude by quoting Congressman Walter Brehm of Ohio, responding to Mr. Hoffman, that it appeared the Congress was confused. It appeared, the Alsops underscore, to be an understatement.

The editors explain that the City Manager was already undertaking to replace the dilapidated signs across the city with concrete pillars bearing the street names.

We might retort to the gentleman by asking what his fair burg, which we once visited to attend a wedding of a friend, and the surrounding burgs intended to do about the rotaries. A driver unfamiliar with them can get on one and never get off.

They still sometimes appear in our dreams, around and round and round.