PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N, G

Saturdajr, April 4, 1989

Saturday, April 4, 1959

Next Time Maybe' Youll Listen

Minimum Wage Bill Dealt A Blow

In most cases a favorable committee report for a bill is viewed as a pretty good indication the legislation may be passed by General Assembly.

In the case of the proposed 75-cent minimum wage bill passed 17-16 by the Ho'use Committee on Manufacturing and Labor, committee approval of the billand the accompanying amendment to the billmay well be sending the bill to its death on the floor of the

House. .

The amendment..removed all exemptions which were contained in the original bill to provide a 75-cent per hour minimum w'age in North Carolina. There was plentv of opposition to the bill with exemptions provided* for farm workers, domestic servants, salesmen, and various other workers in North Carolina. With all the exemptions removed from the .proposed minimum wage, it is only natural to expect greater opposition to the bill on the House floor.

As originally written, the bill would have affected .some 80,000 to 90,000 workers in North Carolina now earning les.s than the 75-cents an hour minimum. Without the exemptions, the minimum wage will affect many more workers and at the same lime many more employers. '

North Carolina needs the minimum wage bill. Without any exemptions, it will oc of benefit to more people of the state than would be the case otherwise. It will provide more personal income in North Carolina at the lowest level of the economic ladder.

From a practical standpoint, however, a minimum wage bill without exemptions has much less chance . of getting by the House than a bill which provides certain .sound exemptions.

By eliminating the exemptions, the comrnittee has provided a bill v/hich will do a more effective job of providing a real minimum wage h\ North Carolina. At the same time the committee has, by its no-exemption

amendment, increased the possibilitj' that no 75-cent minimum wage will become mandatory under state law.

Exemptions or no exemptions, there is a crying need in North Carolina for the istate 75-cent-an-hour minimum wage. The full House, when the matter comes to^the floor, should give its approval to a statewide minimum wage of 76 cents per hour.

By no means.should the eliminatibn o exemptions to the minimum wage deter proponents of the measure from throwing their full support behind it on the floor of the House.

Looking Ahead To New United Fund Programs

Oratory, Flags Were In Order

By LYNN NIHBKT

CONFEDERATE HOME A public hearing called on the bill to extend the corporate life of the Confederate Womena Home at Fayetteville an additional. 10 years, or until January 1, 1970, precipitated a lot of flag-wavtng Biid oratory before the Senate J-I committee, but about matters not Involved in the bin.

Member* of the board of trustees, other active UDC members and friends of the Home had heard rumors about plans to abandon the place at Fayetteville and move the Home to atugher site. Freque*v mentioned new IfKatllon WU H building at Eastern Carolina Sanatorium at Wilson, no longer need for TB patients. The good ladles wu*re greatly disturbed. too, by rtorts of the insurance department and State properly control office that the present home is a fire hazard.

It was apparent before the hraring that every member of lliR committee was ready to vote a favorable report on the bill before them to argue about on that point, but several of the ladies and Charles . . Rose, secrelary*Lreasurer of the board, eloquently challenged the safely hazard-report,

The Home was established by the 1911 General Assembly and given a 4d*vrar itfe tn the egtnal charter. That subsequently was extended to January 1. lMH, and the current extension carries it to 1970. Originally InUmded U care only for widows of Confederate soldiers it was subsequently provided that daughters mlglit also be admitted.

Except for a sprinkler system Installed 20 years ago and minor repairs, no major Improvements have been made since the building was first occupied in 1915.

EXTREME Members of the eommiltee obviously resented extreme statements made by Spokesman Rose, which implied question of the capacity of Frank Turner, chief of the properly control division and head of ttie Budget Bureau engineering section for many years. Rose complained tliat his iMuird had not received a copy of the inspection report n\ade by State Fire Marshall Kenneth Dixon last year upon request of the State Welfare Department. He admitted that 1 urner and Olx<n are doing tlielr Job, but refuted their appraisal with reports of Fayetteville officers.

llONC said the Home Is a shi liie and "at a time when Yankee He l!iibhcan.s aie trying to crucify the Soutli on a to.ss of Integra U sliould be lunlntalncd.

Waxing even more eloquent he challenged any member of the committee "who is ashamed of being a Southern gentlemen" to vote agaitmt the bill.

Sen. Pat Cooke of Gaston made several attempts to get the talk back to the subject of the pending bill, but without much success He noted that matter* affectlng safety of the present home or lt removal to some other site are sole responsibility of the trustee*.

(>hc Interesting development was the question by a member of the board as to why they hd not been notified that the 19r7 Legislature appropriated 135,000 for repair* and modernization of the building. She said they didn't find out about that until a few montlui ago, or they would have spent it sooner and had the building In good condition by now. One committeeman said sotto voce. "If I had asked for 1.35,-(KW and got it, I certainly would have known about it."

PROBLEM The Confederate Womens Home has been a problem child for the Advisory Budget Commission for years. Sentimental factors are. Involved to greater degree than in moat institutions. Guests at the home now average 84 years, ranging from 87 to 9.5. There are tear-pulling stiwle* about what might thcae fine old ladles if they had to he traniflMt*a into cold Institutional quarters as contrasted with the comfortable home Ihev now enjoy. It Is easy wmietlmes U let this kind of sentiment influence action which might be detrimental or hazard-( us to tbe very iMfrsons suugbt to iMs protected.

The Senate committee hearing the other day accomplished one very good thing. None of the members of the hoard of trusteea or in the UDC official group can say tiicy have not been told about the probable danger, or the requirements of the current building code for construction and equipment of the Home.

North Carolina has been slngiji-larly free from tragedies of fire in old people's homes, orphanges and similar InstlUitlons, such as have been reported from other states Some credit tor this happy condition must he given to the periodic inspections required by law and sometimes harsli rules which sacrifice temporary comfort to permanent safety of the people living in the homes. It t.s recalled that a few yer.s ago Ihe^ correctional school board was required to abandon what looked like a good and cmnfortable dormitory at Samarcaiul because of the fire hazard.

Pitt County** United Fund is wrapping up the loo*e end* of lU first year of operations now and beginning to look forward to its second budget-making and fund-raising programs.

During the months since last summer when Pitt United began its official organiz<htion, it has, been transformed from a groping, loosely-connected body into A rather table and substantia! organization. Many times during this first year it was shaken to its very foundations by major problems which could not po.ssi-bly have been foreseen . . . problems for which there was no fixed answer, no precedent.

Almost through sheer determination alone on the part of citizens of the county dedicated to the idea of a county-wide United giving program, the organization was held together and pushed forward. The prob-iem.s which beset it at every hand also served to* hold Pitt Countys ^dtedFund together. Overcoming the problems forged it into a solid organization.

it has under its belt a year of experience, a year of problems and scores of dedicated .supporter.^ throughout the county who helped to resolve" the most serious of those problems.

The difficult job of effecting the organization la completed.

Citizens of Pitt County owe a debt of gratitude to their neighbors who provided leadership for the new United Fund during its infancyamong them the late E. FC. Bawls, Sr., the forceful figure behind its organization and its initial president; J. B. Kittrell, Sr., who took up the reins a.s president after Mr. Bawls death and guided Pitt United through it.s first year; Dr. John Mewborn who filled the key role as chairman of the admissions and budget committee; and Dr. John Mes-sick who directed the first fund^hsingj;ampaign that brought in some $88,000.

Iitt County's United Fund is still young. It still faces many knotty problems and it has much work, before it. Yet, it has survived its toughest year . . . the first. It has taken its place as a major as.set to this county and its people. With continued support it can increase its service to Pitt year after year by filling a void that long existed in this country.

Swedes

By HANS Di^BERGH STOeiOIOLM (AP) Watch

your step when you go out for s walk in Sweden.

The whole country is undermined, honeycombed with caves and tunnels filled with

mlllt^ bases, garages, factories

By ALVIN TAYLOR

A Little Of This, That

The Junior Chamber of Commerce board of directors was meeting in a local restaurant recently. Beyond tbe thin partition in another dining room, a second, group was meeting.

Obviously from the peels of laughter heard from the second room there was a party going on.

Then there was a loud report from that room. A cap pistol? A firecracker?

"Thats the tightest girdle I ever heard," muttered on* of the Jaycee board members.

The little auto* seem to be on the upswing at present, but then, one never knows. The owner of one of the lltUe Job* was seen parked in front of a local automobile show window the other night. The driver was gazing wistfully at the medium priced, chrome splashed giant in the show room.

One Concession

From The Wes

Who knows whether the little economy foreign car* or the big gas hogs of Detroit wUl finally win the fancy of the American motoring public?

And when It comes to mistaken Identity. Ercel Webb of Greenville figures this story take* the cake.

Webb made a trip to Chicago and returned to the Ralelgh-Dur-ham Airport one day last week. As he stepped off the plane he spotted John Larkins, National Democratic committeeman, Webb recognized Larkin* from college

day* and Larkins seemed to recognize him.

With big smile and outsUretched hand the committeeman rushed over to Webb and exclaimed, "Senator, I want to welcome you to North Carolina!*

As soon as Larkins said U. he realized his mistake. He quickly turned to another dlsUnguished looking perfon who stepped off the same plane and shook his hand.

It turned out to be Ben. Edmond Muskie <D-Malne) who was to be speaker at the Jeffersonr Jackson Day dinner held In Raleigh last Saturday night.

Any way Greenville* Krcel Webb was a senator fixr a few seconds!

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By JAME.S MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) It has taken the Western allies about four months Just to reach a point where they seem agreed on standing firm on the Berlin crisis.

- TTvey" twctt agreed for orne weeks on willingness to negotiate with the Soviet Union to settle the crisis peacefully. But If they know-rnuch less being agreed on what they want to negotiate, It's still locked up in tlrelr heads.

Chance* are they dont know yet, and wont until theyve done some more week* of talking. All of which is pretty good evidence of two things;

!. How thoroughly Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev shook them up with his demand last Naveinlrer that the United Stales, Britain and France get their troops out of West Berlin which is 11(1 miles inside Communist East Gerniany.

2. How thorougiily allied policy in Fhirope ha.s been frozen for years and how tljoroughly it was unprepared to meet a sudden twist in events like the one pulled by Khrushchev.

The Allies haven't lacked time for plenty of discussion since November British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, after conferring with Khrushchev, vl.slted I'reslitent Eisenhower. iVe.sldenl Charles de Gaulle of fiance and West Gerinanys Chancellor Konrod Adenauer Hls visits seemed something UM than fnllv sallsiactory from the .standpoint of allied unity. Ueport.s of dtsiigreement lietween him and Elsenhower or, porlmiw it would be better to say their allure (o see eye to-eye leaked out

Then this week tfie foreign ministers of the United States, Brit nln. France and West Germany met for two days before tbe North Atlautte Treaty Grgantza-tlons l5-memlier nations oi>ened their session here Kn late as TtuiVsday afternoon it was reported the Western allies were Split, with Brlfaln off on one sUle suggesting they con

centrate on solving the Berlin situation even at the cost of delaying unification of Germany.

To put it another way: There have been reports the British were for making concessions to the (Soviets to get over the Berlin hump.

Then Thursday night NATO spokesmen sought to paint a picture of unity at last among thp Big Three and West Germany with British Foreign Secretary Bi'lwyn Lloyd represented as taking a stand for Germany reunification, too.

In short: the NATO spokesmen attempted to show allied unity in determination to withstand Soviet pressure for conce.S8ions.

But If the West isnt ready to make conce.sstoris there doesnt seem much reason for negotiations.

As for concessions: It seems to this writer the West has air ready made a big one. For yeara tlie West particularly the United States had insisted on the reunification of Ea,d and We.st Germany through free elec-Uotui.

Now talk of reunification through free elections seems to have dLsappeared from the si>eech of Western spoke.smen. Actually, the idea of uniting the two Germanys through free elec-itons lias been unrealistic from the beginning.

The reason: The Soviet Union Is against it and thi.s year Khrusli-chev again briushed aside any such i<lea. And no wonder. Ea.st Germany Is a llUKiiian satellite. Mo.seovv Lsnt goinK to chance-losing anything it has its hands on,

It would lo.se East Germany in any free election set up to cluKKse a single German govern-numt which would decide whether it wanted to be pro-West or pro-Gommunlsf

There s pretty good reason to believe the 18 million East tlernvans would vote agaldst any lumnrcUon with comnnmLsin which was rammed down their throats. Hut even If they w'ere liro'Communist they are outuum-iMTcd by the 5d million We.st and pro West Gerniaiw.

Other Editors Saying... Sterilization No Solution

(Greensboro Dally News)

Guilfords welfare superintendent. L, M. Thompson, hit the hill' ettttefem of the proposed bill to sterilize unwed mothers.

Desertion and low wages are far more damaging and costly problems than Illegitimacy, he recently wrote Dr. Rachel R. Davis, author of the current measure to punish mbther* of children born out of wedlock. Dr. Davis is soliciting support from county welfart superln^ tendents.

Citing statistics to show that illegitimacy is not a major problem in Guilford County. Mr. Thompson Informed Dr. Davis Jhat of the total births In the county during 1957 there were 384 born out of wedlock. This is between 6 and 7 per cent.

Even smaller is the percentage of Guilford families with illegitimate children getting financial assistance from the welfare department. Of the 1.050 families receiving aid to depen-^dent children grants, there were ^228 last January with one or more children born out of wed-loc'k. Moret han a third of these had only one child.

Figure* for the other famillel are as follows: Two children born out of wedlock. 55; thres children, 4;i; and four or more, 4(1. In a county with a total population of 225,000 this seems a very small numtwr of unmarried women who are producing large families for the purpose of

collecting welfare check*.

Perhaps there are counties where It is profitable to raise 11-icEtttoftte ctiUdtea oa ADC but Guilford doesnt seem to be one of them.

The truth is that the legislators who seem bent on punishing unwed mothers without bothering to be concerned about unmarried fathers are really opposed to the public welfare I'rogram, This is their way of getting at It in the 1959 Legislature.

Last session they proposed to cut off help to unwed mothers after the birth of one Illegitimate child as If the state had no responsibility for fatherless children or that these children ctdnt get hungry or need to be clothed.

This session that same group of legislator* * sUU of a punitive mind, still forgetting the fathers involved and still Ignoring fundamental social and economic causes of illegitimacy is eon-centratlng on the sterilization of unwed mothers.

It does seem at times that the desolate, as the Scriptures say, hath many more children than she which hath a husband. But the legislative solutions proposed so far do little or nothing to solve the problem.

And Dr. Daviss role, we add regretfully, is disappointing. Her fight for compulflory polio shp|s was admirable; her association with this questionable sterilization bill la neither Intelligent t or enlightening.

Just a friendly reminder th*t April 16 IS rapidly approaching. No. thats not my birfliday. It's the grand old date which tha federal government has set and th* state government has concurred for filing of Income tax.

Your columnist has neglected to send his in as yet. but Its almost a sure thing Uiat the return will be In the mail before the deadline.

tet'a not lorz^ get this most Important thing. Uncle Sam has ways of dealing with tax procrasUnatorsI ,

and ml stores.

For thousands of years the Swedes never realized the enormous advantages hidden in their countrys big solid graite moun-taii. They were looked upon merely as a hhuterance to agriculture and communication.

But when air warfare was developed to unexpected perfection In World War II it was suddenly understood that mountains could satisfy the demand for air shel-tw*. Now. the Mg Swedish towns have shelters* which can house all their inhabitants.

The large public shelters, blasted out in the dry and silent depths of th* primary rocks, have shelters which can house all their inhaMtants.

The large' public shelters, blasted out in tbe dry and silent depths of the primary rocks, have peacetime uses, too.

' In Stockholm you wont find a single parking garage. But when you stroll through the quiet churchyard on the top of the Johannes mountain you would never guess that some 10 yards beneath you tht Is a large garage with parking spaces and a^ servioe station.

Stoekholins Mggest establishment o{ that kind is a three decked ear park In the Katarina mountain which has room for 990 automobiles or, la case of war, houses 20,000 people. The TOO of granite Is 60 feet thick. Shu*p angles In the tunnels leading Into the shelter are designed to atop pressure waves. The alrcondltioaing can clean the establishment of radioacUvity.

But the fwedes not only want to be sheltered In their moun-Uin caves if the war breaks out. They also would like to keep the enemy from the bordere o{ their countiT-

Bo, in order to protect the Mst coast navy from air rMds. one of Europe* major naval baaes is htdden in the heart of one of Baltic lea Islands. A solid granite root, sometimes more Uian 10 yards thick, and ghint ahoek-absorbing doort makt the base A-bmnb proof.

Included in tMa uader-grouiid base ie one of the oountrys blggent naval rM>air ymrds.

Basee of ttiat kind are defended against an attaeklag enMny by me(Bum range guided mlseUes, launched from the depths of the rocks.

The elaborate eoast defense 'system eonelsts of a network of fortifications, submariae pens and under ground karbors into which destrogere ean sail. Ifanv of the top seeret air bases all aroMl tweden are Mddtn iiietde rocke, too.

Opinions In Brief

There's nothing like a whlng-dlng'^'of a storm to put the sIm of this country back in per^>ec-tive, A reading of any on* days loundup on the nations weather the knowledge that some are basking in the sun while others arc bailing out the cellar or burrowing through snowdriftsexpands ones appreciation of the vastness of this land of ours. It put* distances back m proper perspectiva in a jet-shrunken age. Gastonia Gazette.'

AbtASi T50 tnSea scaih td ftock-hokn the Saab airplane factory is buried some 100 feet below the land aurface with workshops and aoeomodations lor several hundred workers, Including dining rooms. Air eoeditloning. a very essential thing due to Bte heat from machines, givec the air ooaetant temperature and hfiHBid-Hy.

At Saab, toe planee are pot together inskls the mountain and

taken out through a long slightly

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The United SUte* wiU be priced out of the world market if we do not recognize the Soviet use of world trade as a cold war weapon end meet the threat by dealing with th* problem of lisliiK costs snd inflation here In America. Vic* President Nixon.

A football game la one plec* where it pay* to kick when Ihlng.'i aren't going well. Cleveland (Oa.) Oourler.

sloping tunnel, wveral other big Swedish enterprises have blasted themselves into the mountains. They all report good results. Swedes nowadays prefer to beat their houses with oil instead of coal domestic wood, so ther* is a large and constant iMsd for oilstores. The Suez erisis two and a luHf years ago also showed that a sudden break in toe supplying of oil immediately causes raUoning H the stores are not Mg enough.

And where eould the inflam-abie atuff be eafer than in the mountains? Ueing closed-down mines the oil eotapanles sometimes have spared themselves the trouble even to eeve the mountains.

Walking in 8we<hsh oountryside you never ean be quite sure ttiere isnt a lake of oR from th* Middle East or South America somewhere behm your feet.

'Momism Might Be In. Business

Strength For Today

By F..4RL L. iXiK.I \S.S ' ONE l.mi E .STEP I Recently I f.at talking with an old friend about hasel)Bll heroe.* who had t umbled off their throne like Humpty Dumply falling off the wall There wtw the pitcher who won i\ game pitching only 72 halb' HK'to^s the plate, l)ti( he imifled an easy fly and lo.sl a worlil series Another famous plavei lust a world serie.N bocau.ve he fall ed to touch .cCond t>a,'e In w hat uppearo*! to l)c glunou.s pen Hunt w inning home run Juiit re ct'ntly a player lo.st' a vi'ry tm portunt .erlc.s of gume's ta'can.Ne Ilf thought the game was over, when Romeone galloped acipA ths

itome plate: whera. U would liave been if he had put mil the batter at first

. All the.M* men were .supeiia tive.s in the ba.seball world, but they are remembered today more for their im.atake th.an for their.

. aehievi'Uienb Mark Ailthony. dt |i liLi oration over the dead body o( t'ae.sar said, "The evil men do lives after them, the good un i)ft Interred with Ihelr Ihuu's

It n add.s up to the fact that ' a little mbiiake is like a ilrop of pousoii In a gta.. of water, or i'k< tbe little .lip whteh e.m.se. a w.orkmrin to plunge from a great altitude to hbs death So little, yet ol such great toitc-queues.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Mau.v paychologlsts say Ameriean ymith is afflicted with, "momsm '

By that they mean an over* dept'ndence on moUier, w on the mother Image They explain that in nuKiern life the father la o busy eaintng a living that he has little time to p*nui with hi. .son and therefore does not impart to him self relittuce and manlv qualitleii. This .tends to make youths totally dependent upi>n their mothers. In some ca.se. this reaches point at which mothers are ahmvit deified

During the war hreakdowu* in morale and abnormal eondvjcl w a..frequently ascribed to mom-tMii Witlu)ut mother there to turn to - seio.nd lleutenanUs niitde a bliysed potr sutyvtilute tor mntmi .some of our men <'racked up t\ m siNESS, TOO?

It mav be that momlou Us re-.spon-vible for that amazing phe-nonunion of the last 30 year.: the (row ing tendencl of buslne.. , agricultiue and other element. oi the economy to turn

government In every difficulty.

The government seems to be regardetl a. a kindly mother who will wipe away tear* or provide cookie. as needed.

Currently we have the spectacle of merchants and manufacturers appealing: to the Federal govermnent to set up a ay.stedi whereby manufacturers may fix the price at which their goods may be sold at retail.-They talk alKUit ruinous compeUtlon Some boy. used to complain to their nioUiers that tbe boy next door always won their marbles

Currently, too. mahy farmera are asking the mother government to continue government pilce supports With the current surplus tvf broiler*, some growers albeit a minority' want the government to support the prjce. ThL momtsm among farmers is strhnge Indeed, since in farm tamllies sons are usually in close association with father..

IN MANY OTHER AHEA.s

Many communille* are asking the Federal government to provide money for new schools,.

trvi40>'iud[ tP* ilMi

parent* in th*. community, not the government in Washington, that produced the children that now need education. In effect, these communities are asking grandmother to take care of th* youngster*. They want to spend their money on other things instead of paying it In achool taxes.

We see clUes and states asking for Federal money for their unemployed. either in doles or for public improvement* or defense contracts to create Jobs. Manufacturers want higher tariffs to protect them from bad boys in oth^r. countries; the- oil and mineral industries get cookiea in the form of tax concesaions; small businesses ask tor a slice of low*intere.t pie; almost everybody else* wants some beneficial ice cream

It has been suggested serioue-v that Uncle 8am 1 no longer a fitting symbol of the Uniteo Fate. If he to be replaced, perhaivs a better personality to repiTscnt us would be a lairge and buxom rftother. wearing an abron witok thousand itrln*. wUh a cookie Jar under one arm

and a bag of aliowaaoe money

in tbe other.

EMPLOYEES WIVES SOURCE or GOOD IDEAS

In a search for aew ideas. Rubbermaid gathered 11 wives In a coffee-klatch at Wooster, Ohio. In a way It was a captive audience, because all were wive* of employee*. Howevw, all wsr* urged to speak freely.

The conclusion*: Cleanabllity is the prime consideration ia buying kitchen accessories. Many women would like grey or neutral shade* to provide contrast to brilliant oolora in kitobeni and many acceasorlet. Some women would like a telephone ylck to be attached to a chair arm: a cup rack to accompany present cupboard plate racks; softened lines in dish drainers; added texture or ribbing on the und^side of rubber shelving; a twin bucket, and a cat dineUe to match a dog dinette already produced. Women in one-level home wanted a tot* cart for cieeninf .nippllw but the girl*, 'in two-level home* weren't la-Urastcd.

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