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THE DAILY REFLECTOR,. GREENVILLE, N. C.

Wedlnediay, Marcli 18, 1959

Wednesday, March 18, 1969

Now No Doubts At Home Or Abroad

He Left The Door Ajar

President Eisenhower in his address to the nation Monday niight offered noLhing new in this countrys position on Berlin.

He did, however, make the previously announced position of the United States in the Berlin crisis officially official.

We are rightfully in West Berlin and we are obligated to protect* the two million people of that free city and see that their freedom is maintained.

We will not fire the first shot, but we will defend with military force if nece/sary the rights provided in the agreement entered into by the Big Four powers at the end of World War II.

vVe are willing to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Berlin issue, but only if there is reason to believe the Soviet officials are ready to negotiate in good faith.

What could be clearer to the American people, our allies and the Soviet Union than such a statement?

Coming from the President, the statement should dispell any doubts which may exint at home or abroad that the United States is willing to risk war to maintain its rightful position in West Berlin. Added to that is the official assertion of the President that the United States and its allies have sufficient military strength to meet any military challenge the Soviet Union offers. What's more, this nation will not draw back from using this force if the Soviet reeort to military force in the Berlin crisis.

The word War in its full meaning in the nuclear age is enough to make shivers run up and down the spine of every citizen of the free world or behind the Iron Curtain. Certainly the United States does not want

?ewer Women GoOnTo College

By LYNN NISBET

COLLEGE WOMEN Th# late Charles D. Mclver, one of the youns men who were Inspired by Walter Hlnea Page to promote general education above public achool level, used to aay that when you educate a man you educat an Individual, when you educate a woman you educate a lamily. So It came about that when Charlea B. Aycock and Jamea Y, Joyner were devoting their magnlflcant mlnda to developing a public school aystem aoon after the turn of the century, and Edwin A, Alderman waa putting the Unlveralty at Chapel Hill into the national limelight, Charlea Duncan Me-Iver waa founding the woman'i college at Oreenaboro.

At about that time, aome so yeara ago. total enrollment In all the unlveraltlea and coUegea In North Carolina probably did not exceed 15,000. Enrollment In all public and private unlveraltlea and collegea. Including two-year Junior' coUegea reported by the State Department of Public Inatructlon aa of October 1 laat year waa ,58.87. Thla overall total Included 30,273 men and 22.403 women, a ratio of 61.8 per cent to 38,2 per cent.

Other interesting atatiatlca are that In inatltutlona for whltca the men outnumber women more than two-to-one, while in Negro collegea there are more women than men.

The high percentage of male tudenta has concerned the Board of Higher Education, partlculaiiy Hiden Kamsey and L. P. McLendon. They hnve pointed out many ilmea that majority of the high achool valedlctorlana are girls -but the boya get to go on to college,

NO LIZARDS You news-paper iellowa are having an aw-fid hard time trying to stir up aome Interest In the llHiO poiui cal races, aaltl an elderly farmer from down eaat who has been a factor In local poltica for many year, You are Just wasting your time, Interest In poltica doesn't raise until the sap Iw-Klna to flow up tree trunks, and country folks don't get active ui til lizards begin to run. Thats why I'm la favor of later primaries and moving the filing date Into April Instead of mid-March."

He went on to explain that while the would-lwi bossea pro bahly sought the proverbial smoke filled room'* for Ihelr shenanigans, the rank and file of voUms waited for the weather to he warm enough for them to

stand around outside the church, on Sunday, on the courthouse steps or at country stores during the week.

Another oldster expressed the same thought in different worda. Candidates bloom with the dogwood and redbud," he said, "not with the early Jonquils,*'

Town and city folks are not as much Influenced by weather as are country people. Many municipal primaries are held In April and most elections In early May. For that rewion activity for city hall offices Is gaining momentum all over the state.

State and county ofiicera are elected in November of even numbered years. City and town officers generally are elected la May of odd numbered years. Congressman Basil Whitener of Gastonia has suggested making the Tuesday after the first Monday In November a standard election day -- State and county officers even, munclpal offlc*rs odd years. He thinks standardization of dates would tend to Increase participation In the elections,

PROSPECTIVE Whether

lizards run or dogwoods bloom on time, there is a lot of backstage talk about candldatea for the big offlcea. This talk Indicates that some names which had been by more or less common consent removed from the prospect list must be reinstated.

Despite experience records In Arkansas and Virginia, and con-tiary to opinions held by many observers that these developments had taken all the wind out of the sails of Beverly Lake's ship of hope, the Raleigh attorney, former law achool professor and Stale official, has substantial following for his all-out achool seg-gegaUon program,

L. Y. (Slag) Ballentlne, commissioner of agriculture, who has been on the prospect list since 1IH8, cannot be completely written off for liKK). As of this date, Ballentlne and Lake ara regarded as Inngshot prospecta.

Around legislative halls and hotel rooms one hears more and more mention of Addison Hewlett as a real contender for Oov-eror. Ills handling of the House of Representatives as Speaker, a post won against slight odds prevailing Iwfore the Assembly con-ociied. has gained and held admiring respect of all faction*. Ills election as Speaker brought to prominence a number of com-mltlee chairmen whose prowess as pollllcnl leaders has not been esfabUshed. hut whose enthusiasm and loyalty cannot be questioned.

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war over Berlin. But neither docs it want Berlin to become another Munich . . . &nd President Eisenhower has made it plain the United States does not intend for Berlin to become another Munich.

In such times of crisis as the current situation of Wihich Berlin is the focal point, ft is natural to expect conflicting reports of high level determination to do this or that. It is also natural for there to be conflicting reports of the military capabilities of this nation and its allies to carry out this decision or that.

During such times it is essential for the Chief Executive to step in and fit all the pieces together into a concise picture for our own people, our allies, and our potential enemies. That is what President Eisenhower did in his address Monday night. And he did it effectively.

The American people know straight from the Con^mander in Chief where this nation stands, the problems involved, the alternatives which confront us and the course the United States proposes to follow. Our allies know, and so do the Soviet officials.

While the President's statement of policy may have taken us one step farther down the road toward global conflict, it is much more likely that it marked the turning point which will lead to a peaceful settlement of the Berlin question and the establishment of a more permanent peace throughout the world.

Perpetuating Source Of Election Frauds

How does oije justify the action of a committee which in one breath kills the bill that would abolish the civilian absentee ballot *n North Carolina, and during the game meeting gives its approval to abolishing the same civilian absentee ballot in one of the counties of the state?

If the civilian absentee ballot Is good for 99 of North Orolinag 100 counties, why isn't it good for Graham County as well?

if it is bad for Graham Countywhere the countys representative says such bzallots sold for as much as $140 each during the last electionhow can it ba good for the rest of the countie.s?

In effect the House committee on Elections and Election Laws yesterday perpetuated the greatest source of election fraud and corruption in North Carolina by killing the bill that would abolish the civilian absentee ballot on a state-wide basis. They gave new life to the element in our election laws which has caused more dispute and dishonesty in elections than any .ther one thing.

And yet, at the Insistance of Rep. Leonard W. Uoyd of Graham County, the .tame committee agreed to a bill which would outlaw the civilian absentee ballot in Graham County.

For several decades now the civilian ab.sentee ballot has been a cancerous cell in the election laws of North Carolina, spreading its spores of corruption and dishonesty in elections from one county to another. Time after time the legislature has been called on to cut this cancer before it engulfs the entire body politic of North i'arolina. And time and again legislators have blinked at the evil, knuckled to the elements which would use it to perpetuate election frauds, and have blocked any efforts to abolish the civilian absentee ballot.

By giving its passive approval to the civilian absentee ballot, the House Committee on Elections and Election Laws has likewise Indicated its passive approval of corruption and fraud in elections throughout the .state. For the absentee is the source of more election trouble in North Carolina than any other one thing.

Huch action by a committee of the General Assembly 1.S indeed a sad commentary >n legislative efforts to give North Carolina better government.

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By JIMMY ELUS

Mixed-Uo Time Of Year

This is one of those pleasantly curious times of the year.

Spring la, almost literally. Just around the corner. Yet, Winter IS still an ln-8tep companion when we stroll down the street.

The mixture of the two seasons Is a confusing one.

At night, for instance, you open the windows of the bedroom for plenty of fresh, early-Spring air - and you sleep under an extra blanket. During the day, you dress warmly in the mornings to fight off a cold" and you wind up soaking with perspiration when the sun goes down.

Thermostats that you swore by during the prolonged cold spells seems to have lost Its electronic rnlnd. Boilers and furnaces which you once had to caress and handle gently to get even a single

room war now blast away to make the whole house an inferno.

But, even with all those things, life Isn't all bad.

The rose bush next door is sprouting little green leaves as fast as the warm sun and frequent rains will let It. And the noisy sparrows who live in the neighborhood are noisier than ever, and you have to enjoy their wing-dragging struts to attract the attention of other sparrows.

Down the street, somebodys front yard bush Is beginning to show signs of pink buds. Across the way a couple of hundred yards, the stutterlmj sounds of a pair of tractors bminchea across newly broken farm land.

And everywhere, theres an awakening in young minds that something different Is happening.

Other Editors Saying..., NLRB Persecution.

NATIONAL ADVRKTINING RLI'KLSI NTA1 IVES Thomas F Clark Co. Inc, New York. Chtrago. Atlanta Membsr Audit Bureau of Circulation

All sdvertlslng copy must bt recalvtd at loast on day bafot publtcstlon asta.

By JAMRB MARLOW WASHINGTON lAPt The one thing President Elsenhower didnt explain to the nation Monday night Is what Ideas this country has to offer the Soviet Union to avoid a showdown and perhaps war over Berlin.

He used his nationwide broadcast to restate positions h has already publicly explained on Berlin and American defenses but he threw In this; That this country does have new ideas to offer the U.S.S.R,

He didnt say what they are. Posstbly the Western Allle.* are not yet fully agreed on what to propose. They may achieve such agreement after British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan confers here this week with ths pte.-xldent.

These were the familiar, b\it mu in, bases Elsenhower touched;

1 He assured the country - despite IVmoeratlo erlttcLsm that hts economy drive will Jeopardize Amertcan defenses In ths fiilure that those defenses not only are adequate now but will remain so.

2. He explained why thla country la Involved in Berlin; That wartime agreements not only give thp Allies the right to keep trooiw In We.xt Berlin but guarantee them free passage of supplies for the trooiwi through Comniu-utst Ea.>t Germany.

3. Hr repeated what he has said before; This counlrry won't yield to Soviet demands that the Allies get out of Berlin, and It wont recognize the right of the East Germans to stop supplies fiu the Allied garriJHitis in Her-lln

Since Berlin la 110 ifrtlea Inside East Germany, any Allies supplle.s for the city must pass over East German territory In the air, by road, or by rail.

PUsenhower led up to the mention of new Ideas this way:

FU'Sl. he niled out any yield Ing to Soviet demands or threats bmil Berlin l)eesuse <ndlga-I'.ons to the two mUllon We.nt Berliners, t>ee,au.se of principle.^ and agreemenls lnvolve<l, and be cause It would w eaken Amectd* s w Olid leadership Seeond. he acknowledged that any yielding position might mean war, suggested that war would

be even more likely If the United St^es backed up. and said that u war came the SovleLa would be to blame. So, he was til! unyielding.

Third, he pointed to negotiations with the Soviets as the one way to avoid a military showdown. Speaking of negotiations. he said:

We ar willing to listen to new Ideas and are prepared to present others *

Right there he got off the subject of new Ideas, leaving the world and premier Nikita Khrushchev to guess what he had in mind.

It must be remembered that Khrushchev has a tremendous slake in the Berlin outcome, loo; If the Allies don't back down, and he has to retreat to avoid war, he has suffered a n^Jor defeat.

But since Elsenhower refuses to budge on Berlin, -or as he says, l>e a party to any permanent division of Germany, it's hard to see what new ideas he could offer that would satisfy Khrushchev, at least on Berlin.

Previously- Elsenhower had brushed'off any thought of a summit meeting with Khru.shchev unless first, through a meeting of foreign ministers, there was some reason to think a summit meeting would be useful Monday night ELenhower was still putting a foreign mlnLsters Kft-together prrllmlnacy to a summit meeting.

Then he said "As.sumlng developments lustlfy a summer meeting at (he summit, the United Stat>es (meaning Eisenhower, himself would l>e ready to participate In this further effort * Some lUHv read into that sentence since it omitted direct mention of a need for advance progress a softening in his attitude and a greater readiness to meet at the summit even If I he foreign ministers accomplish nothing

But elsewhere in his .speech he .said The United States and its allies stand ready to talk with Soviet representatives at any time and under any elrcum stances which offer pt'oepccls of worthwhile results *

That doesnt look like much of a suftentng.

<Charleston News and Courier)

Americana who imagine that this country Is free of dictatorship have never had any experience with some of the quasi-Judicial government agencies. One such agency is the National Labor Relations Board. It has the power to persecute businessmen. And thats Just what the NLRB has done since the law creating it was drafted by Lee Pressman, an admitted communist. in the 1930s,

Laat week the word persecution" was used to characterize the NLRB's activities. Prank P. Bennett, editor of The Textile Reporter, a weekly magazine, charged that the NLRB was persecuting Roger Milllken, president of Deerlng, Milllken ii Co.. selling agents for 29 Southern textile mills.

The accusation was made in connection with an NLRB citation of Milllken. The citation, resulting from a complaint by the Textile Workers Union of America. alleged unfair labor practices in closing down the Darlington Manufadurlng Co.

Mr. Bennetts editorial said: The board of directors did not close this mill; Roger Milllken did not close this mill; the owners of the company, the stockholders voted to close this decrepit mill."

If an enterprise hasn't the right to go out of business it hasn't any rights at all. Mj\ Bennett correctly points out that there Isnt any law in the United States that requires a company

to stay In business to bargain with a labor union.

UntU the NLRB is stripped of its powers, Americans will continue to be In danger of being victimized by dictatorial antl-fiee enterprise bureaucrats.

S70 ACRE.S OF PARADISE (Cliarlestoti Daily Mall)

Americans are a little Inclined to make fun of His Highness, Prince Ranter III of Monaco. His title and his pretensions are so big, his principality so small a mere 370 acres. There may be a Joke here, but if there Is It Is not on His Highness. When he suspended the Constitution the other day and sent the legislature packing, there waa scarcely an objection. And why should there be?

The Monscan treasury has a years surplus tucked away against that rainy day which never seems to come. In all the kingdom there la no unemployment, no poverty, no taxation, no military conscription, no talk about the need to balance the budget, lndu.strlalie the economy or reform the school system. For all we know, there are no .schools. And now that the Prince has sent the legislature home, there isn't any politics.

There isnt much of anything, in fact just 21,000 happy people who have, as nearly a.s we can tell, nothing to worry about. Why they call their place Monaco is hard, to say. Paradise would seem to be a better word for it.

that cold weather Is about gone and says full of warmth arent far away.

Thats the best part of it all ... to see one of the little people In our neighborhood stop to examine the tender tips of a sprouting flower: or to touch, In an uncommon gentle way, the new green on'Bushes and trees; or to blow softly on the ftmy end of a bird's feather; or just to run and Jump and play because hes young and the weathers getting right for such things.

Those are the times when you sit back and admit youre not as old as you sometimes think you are, and that theres some goodness still left in the world. You look, for yourselL at the sprouting flowers, and budding bushes and trees, and the birds and youre glad to be alive.

This ;s surely a confusing time but its also pleasant and the curiosities of life itself are more interesting than ever before.

Opinions In Brief

"Higher wages, lower labor productivity and penalizing taxation handicap American industry at a steadily increasing rate. In the long run, such policies will aid Khrushchevnot Ame-rlcan.s. Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer and News,

"By the same token, reform of the corporate income tax structure and of the antiquated depredation rules w-ould be an economic stimulus and mo.st probably increase the Governments revenue as well."Wall Street Journal.

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. "With advertisements, the cost of a single copy of a newspaper would be so high nobody could afford to buy It. And without advertising, the public would be denied the tremendous variety of entertatnment. news and cultural programs offered on radio and television. It Is true that the public pays for the advertising through the price of the article sold, but the ma.ss production which advertising makes pos.slble reduces the unit price far below what it Would be without this stimulus, and advertising COS! per tailt is often incon--sequential. For instance, advertising expenditure on a l^f of bread Is less than the cost of the wrapper,Portland Oregonian.

By HAL %OYLE

NEW YORK (AP)People tH Nan Martin, hailed by some os Broadways actress of Hie year, shes lucky.

In reply Nan likes to quote a Mn from the play she currently^ is starred in; It isnt luck wKn God is good to you.*

Nan Martin, a vllxrantly slender woman with blue-ha^l eyes and hair the color tlpoie-mellow-ed IvoiTt no sudden Cinderella.

Nothing wonderful ever happens to you ovemlght, sl% said soberly. There is a long process of hsrd work before you take the long stride, th big step.

Ive always wondered what makes peopls stay in the theater. Its s cruel business. Its a brutal business. You have to work very hard to get by la It, and you have to love It very much to stay in It,*

After getdng off to a good start Nan did give up ths tbeaU er for a while but now she feels shes bock to stay.

Nan first tried lor a footUght career here at the age of 17, shortly after graduating from a Santa Monica, Calii., high school, where she was th# only girl student president in the schools history.

Although she earlier had started studying drama wiUi Max Reinhardt at 12, she first won attention here as a fashion model, and was featured on half a dos-en magazine covers.

A role in The Constant Wife with Katharine Cornell launched' her on her way, but then she married Robert Emmett Dolan, a young producer, and she quit to become a full-time wife, They moved to the West Coast.

It was a wonderful life, sh said. We had a hoxise by Ui ocean. I painted, and learned to cook, and had a son. I was very domestic. I even made slippers in needlepoint for everyone I loved.

Then one day I found I had to go back to the theater, It was burning inside me. So back I came.

She caught the eye of director Elia Kazan. The phone call from him led her to stardom, as it has many others.

Strength For Today

By E.ARL L. DOUGLASS NATURE or TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS

One of the baoic teachings ot all true religion is that goodness Is an inner matter of the heart. We do not bedeck ourselves with righteousness, or. If we do, we make pathetic fools of ourselves. What we do is to open our hearts and let the good that Is therein come forth. Better still, as we open our hearts, that immeasurable goodness which comes from God flows into us. Our hearts become what Jesus called that inner well 0* water springing up unto eternal Ufe.

A hyprocrite Is a person who plays a part, for the word "hypocrite comes from a Creek word which means actor. The people who make a show of their righteousness are hypocrites, and for the simple reason that they are displaying on the outside of their lives that righteousness which should be a silent, pervasive something welling up from their hearts. Certainly all true righteousness has to com out, get to the outside. If it Is to accompUsh any good. But w spoil the whole of the good Uf If we make goodness an external matter, if we try to hang it on the outside of our Uves. Real goodness is not something which can be hung on. Real goodness flows. It Is like a weU of refreshing water. It bubbles up out of the life of a sincere person Just as water pushes itself up to the surface of the earth.

Real goodness Is inside good-nes.s. Beware of the people who attempt to hang goodness on the outside ot their lives. And watch out lest you tend to do the same thing yourself.

The Rubbery Quality In GNP

By KI.MF.R ROESSNPR

One of the more important national economic Indexo.s perhaps the most important single oiy ha.x a certain rubbery quality to It Thats the Gros % National l*ro-dVK1. familiarly the GNP, compilen hy the Drp.\rlment of Commerce

The ONP V *he total of goods and . .services produced by ie economy. On the surface, h. would ..eem that the GNP. divided hy the total population, .vouid how the amount of gooits nad services available to the nvera le per.*on A.% tt goes up, so should the .xtnmtard But The ONP is measured In money

That's where one bit of rub-t>er come.K in B'cause of Inflation, the value of the dollar Is roiuviantly shrinking. Thu.s, If thrie Was no inct'ca.se at all In th' GNP. It would .seem to be plun;ins: atuntd because tt would carry a higher pi ice tag* in doL bus.

IN DOI.LAR.S NOBODY USE.S To vulcanize this rubber a bit. the Department of Commerce has recently begun giving the GNP in terim of constant dollars." A constant, dollar Is an Imaginary buck with the buying power that adollar would have had If there had been no changes.

For instance, the GNP for 1958 wa. $437.7 bllhon. in ir} dollars. When the ONP for 19^48 was announced 10 years ago. it was Riven os I2.>9 4 billion. But Com-met'ce. In 1L new .serle, says tt V ,\s f-323.7 billion in 1958 dollars.

*'he cost of maintaining two sets of ONP statistics Ui one of the lea.st prices Americans p^y for inflaUon But there is more latex In ^the GNP when it is used to measure the standard of living. Umi.ARS A WOBBLY YARD-STK'K

Constant dollars can record whether the pnce of the standard of living Is going up or down, hut they dont necessarily show (hat the standard itself Is .Un-provmg or worsening.

Here is some evidence:

In recent decades, the cost of producing wonder drags has been dramatically reduced. In constant dollar, the total production of these drugs has increased very little. Yet these drugs have increased our standard of living amazingly. They have increased living itself, os well as the standard.

The cost of producing poultry, in con.stant dollars has been vastly reduced by modern methods and the quality of the meat i.as been Increased almost aa much. An>ur.d the corner from me. ire.xh-kUled fryers are selling for 2 cents a pound- the equivalent of about 15 cents a pound In the 1930s. The great increases in poultry raLsing may show very little on a GNP measured in dollars, wilh prices dropping as production increases But the increase in poultry has .nu cly .stepped up our .standard of hymg. SiHithern fried style Thcg: are hundreds of other pxamplc.s to show that the price Ugs. even at coostant doUorSt

do not measure the standard of living.

ANOTHER BIT OF STRETCH

There is another rubbery factor In trying to evaluate the standard of living by the GNP, whether in current or constant dollars.

That is the governments take.

The ONP, 1 current dollars, rose from $101 billion In 1940 to $211 billion in 1945. On the surface. that looks os if our standard of living more than doubled in those years.

In one way. tt did. We helped crush nazlism and fascism and that made moat of our lives two. four, or even a hundred times belter.

But in physical living standards, ther* was little or no increase You may remenxber 1940. No new cars Little ga.x. Long llne.s fw meat. No new appliances. Ration books.'

So next time someone aays the rise in the GNP ahows were doing better, .say, .'Yeah. I know-1 know I Because now you do.