PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, April 17, liS9

Friday, April 17, 1959

Every Reason To Think Itll Be Law?

Mikes TheyD Be Using ^FOR TALKS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.'

A 75-cents-per-hour minimum vvafre law for North Carolina was virtually assured Wednesday when the House approved the measure 66-39 following one of the mOsSt bitter struggles in recr^nt legislative history.

There w every reason to believe the Senate,which passed a similar measure two years ; go only to see it die in the House, will give approval to the legislation in spire of continued attack.s oy opponents of the minimum wage.

The fact that the minimum wage bill had both strong and determined support in the House was attested to by the fact that proponents of the measure were able to beat dowm a la.st massive assault of amendments on the final day of considering the measure. Not only did they beat back attack.s. which would have killed the bill, but in the final ,ote supporters of the measure picked up more strength ihan they had when the iccond reading passed the House last week.

Iassage of the measure by the current session of the legislature will prove a boon to an estimated 50,000 Tar ll<;els covered by the proposal now making less than Hh* specified minimum hourly rate. In all probability the lawwhen it becomes efftciivolikewise will oenefit others not specifically covered by the legislation, hut whose low wage rates will be increa.sed because other wage rates,are. _

Further, passage of the bill b * the Senate will make North Carolina the first slate in the South to adopt minimum wage legislaron. This fact in itself will iurlher attest to the position of leadership which North Carolina holds among her si.ster states.

For North Carolina as a whole, there can be no question but that the mitiimum wage law will be beneficial. It may cause some hardships in a few scattered ca.'ies, but generally the benefit which the stateand

inancina Plan

"s In The Works

By I.YNN MSHKT

INDUSTRIAL AID .Sen Frank Foray the of Cherokee i worklnip! on bill winch he may Introduce next week to enable citic.i and towns to provide buildings for lndu.Htry on revenue bond basis. Tentative text of the hill and its caption are necessarily long, hut the piirpo.se Is simply to permit municipalities to huM or construct bulldlnKs for IndMtry, without Keneral obllaa-lion on public credit, to encour-sRe indiifiiry to come Into the community,

To finance the projects the city or town wouU! be authoiized to Lssup 'and sell bonds, redemplhm of which would depend entirely upon rentals or other iTwenue drrived Irom the property,

IUUi08K The declared purpose of the act is "to relieve conditions of unemployment and to eiicouniKe the Increase of Industry Within the slate. Uuneby re-due.bui the evils attendant upon tuiemplo.vtuenl."

Jn furtherance of this purtiose the overning body of any city or town would be Hiithorlzed to aequirc by clft, lease or pur-clm.Ne property within the city or five ndle.s from Its limits; to erect new bulldJn.s. remodel or repHir existing strurture;,. and enter Into contract for their u.se hy private enlerprUse: to Issue houfLs for .such purpose pledging fty v^ie ceta-SKKf ^ celpls for Iheir payment-

It is f)rovt(led that such bonds shall not be counted in the legal general debt of the mimtclpallly.

1 he speelftc and aggregate amount of bond issues would he conlrolled only by the need and the ability to market tlie bonds.

Bondholders would t>e piotect-d by provision for receivership of any particular operation Ui event of default, ami the receiver would have the right to take over management of the proj>-rty.

It is specified that the powers couferred upon municlpallUe are in addition and supplemental to all other powers of municipal corporations. and that limilntUms with respect to the.se acUvUles shall not affect corporate powers under the general stalules.

NEW - The l(hB Is a departure from the traditional concept of municipal actlvilles. but Ls not without precedent. Many rltles and towns operate recrea-Monal iactlllles tor profit. For many years ttie town of Warren-lon has owned a hotel and a railroad.

.Sen, Forsythe says is not his ttaiught that municljmUlles would move in to compete with or usurp the rights of any prvate real e.staie promotion He

feels enactment of this kind of legislatlofi will enable many communities to attract Industrial payrolls In cases where private enterprise has not met tlie needs* He further thinks that danger of local Ki?vernlng board.s going 'hog wild on issuance of bonds for the purposes staU*d is mlnl-ml'/.ed by the fact that Investors will not buy the bonds unless there is reasonable prospect of successful operation of the industries.

It Is Interesting to note that this Idea did not originate with some wild-eyed socialist. Frank Forsythe is a very successful and conservativa banker

,iOLICnOHH A side note on the staUiWlde (juestlon of work loads, salaries and, full-Unie sla-ius of Hupertor Court sollciuus was written in the Hou.se committee on Courts and Judicial Districts when it approved a bill to split the present ninili solid-lalorlal district and add a new solicitor to the present 21 in tha f tfite,

The bill aimed by Reps, Sidney Brllt of Bladen, John Henley and Sneed High of Cumberland, Charlie Hosteller of Hoke, David Hrltt and John Reagan of Robeson and endorsed by Sen.

( utler Moore of Robe.son tall the legislators from the affected counties) would put Cumt)erland and Hoke in one district. Bladen and K<gieo<y- ta t ae

sense it Is a local hill In another, It has Impact upon the whole sollcltarial set iu> In the state

Supporting the bin before the committee Rep DavUl Ihitt said effort had been made many times within the past ;iO years to reanange all soUollorial dls-trlcts witli the liope of equali/,-liig the rase load. Such cforts have failed because they luoke up too many playhouses" of lawyers who did tiot want their dlstncl lines changed.

Polnllng out that last year the present ninth dLstrict hud 20H days of criminal court scheduled and used |(>7'y, cornpared to the stale average of LiK scheduled and 113 ue<t, he said the lawyers in the district derided b support the s|)lit and all legislators affected had signed the bill

Committee memi)er8 raised quesllona about probability of ttip Bell committee soUcltorlal bill pas.slng, the ILkellhood of llie court reform bills selling up district courts reducing the rase load in sui>erlor courts, and other objeclion.s, It wa.s conceded that these measures have little liettcr than even chance of enactment, and even so It would he three or four years l>efore they could t)e Impleinenled

if I ii iTi' I 'iaiiaaiiiriiaii

particularly many of ita lowest paid workerswill |*e-ceive from the legislation will far outweigh any drawbacks the law might have.

Enactment of a 76-cent-an-hour minimum wage, law by North Carolina* General Assembly will be a step in which every Tar Heel can take justifiable pride.

Dulles. Going Leaves

Little Joy To Critics

Resignation of Secretary of State |jJolin Foster bulles from the top foreign affairs post he has held for six years brings little joy even to his severest critics becuurte of the circumstances which forced his resignation.

Highly prai.sed and severely criticized for his administration of the foreign affairs of the United States under President Eisenhower's administration. Secretary Dulles has become one of the most controversial figiire.s to hold the top foreign policy post for this natioii. And in spite of the criticism leveled at him over the six-year period, his tremendous capacity for work has gained him respect even fi t m sources where his handling of foreign affairs drew only criticism.

There can be no doubt that the fervOr with which Secretary Dulles went about hU job as Secretary of State contributed to the illne.ss which has now forced hi.s retirement, h'or w^hatever else the work of the State Department lacked under hi) direction, it did not lack as its head a man completely devoted to the duties assigned to him.

Secretary Dulles stayed in the harness of his demanding job HH long as his health permitted . . . and perhaps longer than he should have for his own good.

Tobacco-Planting Time Starts A New Season

.'Setting out of the first tobacco plants in Pitt always brings a tingle of excitemerd..

When farmers begin setting out tobacco hereabouts, most folks know its safe to store away winter clothes and turn to lighter trou.sers and sport shirts, 'i'he kids know for sure it will not be many days before they can di.scard their .shoes without mother scolding them.

Boats are taken out of their winter hibernation and are given a (juick refirnshing iob. Tennis rackets are pulled from the attics and closet^i. The lady of the house rushes to complete spring cleaning before summer catches her. Gardners launch an all-out attack on the weeds in their flower beds. School children realize vacation time is almost upon thorn again.

l-'ields, carefully prepared to leceive the young l)lunt8 soon will he bare no longer, but studded with green shoots that will grow wilder and taller as spring gives way to summer.

The planting of the cron seems to herald the ap-proacli of days when harvesting v.ill begin, evenings when the aroma of tobacco being cured in the barns will drift ()ver the quiet country-side, the days of late summer when the auctioneers chant will bring the reaping of fruit.s of another years labor.

rohacco planting time in Pitt means we have shaken off another winter.

It is time for new life, new dreams, newcrops.

Oil Qwneis .......

Crucial Meetina

SyndicM*, la.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Cant Change It, Take I

On your columnist's bedroom wall, hangs a combination thermometer-weather predictor.

Directly below the thermometer L# a circular affair which con-taiiis a treated paper that chan-gest Its color according to the weather.

So upon awakening each morning. youns t ruly can merely glance at the circle through one sleepy eye to determine the weather outside.

Prom experience Ive learned that If the circle is a bright pink, its raining without. If it

is sky blue the sun is shining beyond my drawn shade.s. And if the circle Is purple theres no telling whats going on in the outdoor world.

To be sure the little weather progposticator doesnt seem to have the slightest idea what conditions will be like next week, or three days later, the next day or even that afternoon. But who cares? If we knew it was going to rain tomorrow, there would be little to look forward to but a dreary d%y Inside. As it is we can always say theres a chance

the sun will be shining tomorrow.

All this is certainly not directed at those folks who make a living studying weather conditions and forecasting same. Lots of people simply must know what the weather will do from day-to day. Its a matter of how good business will be, or Indeed whether there will be any business at aU.

As for me, Ill just stick with my little weather predictor on the wall. It doesnt look very far Into the future, but at least it saves looking out the window.

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A meeting of grave importance to the Western world opened In Cairo yesterday.

After much jockeying and many po.Htponemcnts, the Arab League Is holding Us first petroleum conference, attended by I cpi esentatlves of both the producing and nonproducing coun-Ules of the Middle East.

Iraq, one of the big producers. Is lurt repreaenied. A combination of Arab rivalries and Connnunliit pressure has fomented a violent feud btHween the Iraqi regime of Premier Abdel Karim Kavssem and President Gamal Abdel Najwer of the United Arab Republic.

Communist InRuence Is likely to figure heavily In the Cairo deliberations. Already the Communists have opened an offensive to Identify the congress with the cold war l)etween the Kremlin and the West.

Inspired and Instructed by Soviet expt'i'ls, the Communists are atteinptlng to put a painful squcciie i>u Nas.'^er

The puri>ose of the conference Is to determine ways to use the wealth bom Arab oil to better the lot of all Arab countries

Thb oil cannot be produced without the Amerlcaiw and Brlt-tsh. Many of the partlclpanU in the congresa, indeed, will be representad ves of American and British companies otierating in the Middle East Only a few Arabs are ronqietenl to discuss the va.st complexities of the oil Indu-sdy, and surely the Aratw uuwt have Western technical ad

vice and a.ssLstance In any program they undertake.

The Communists, therefore, find themselves In the position of being able to resurrect a specter which so often ha.x moved AralM to violence. Western colonialism

American and BritLsh participation In the cmigress. the Communists are saying In a mammoth propaganda drive, provea Egypts Nas.ner Is the tool of Imperallsm and should be overthrown by patriotic nationalists. This attack has a number of purposes

At all costs, the CommunLsts want to keep Iraq out of any all-. Arab scheme to use the oil riches. Iraq represents a future golden opportunity for a first Communist grab at control in Arab oil affairs.

At the same lime, the Communists want to weaken other Arab rulers. In Kuwait. Saudi Arabia and the little British protectorates The Communists wlll try to make the rulers suspect In the eyes of nationalists America and Britain, the Arabs are told, support hated Israel, American and British Tnonopolle.s* cuUahorate with Nasser to exploit Arab riches Nas.ser Is trying to grab Iraq's oil for his own purpo.se. the Ht'ds charge.

Na.s.ser Is In a bit of a fix. In his furious eruption of anti* We.st fever between UK'i.t and late H58, he made much of his economy and mlUlary establishment dependent upon Mo.scow Moscow Is In a po.sitlon to hurt him Continueil on page g

(Henderson Dispatch)

Before proceeding farther'^leta get this straight. What is said here relates to the textile strike but is in no sense an attempt to advise either side as to the course that should be pursued. It is Intended as emphasis upon the possible destiny of Hender-aott'a latgenl itvdttstif.

Now for the first time the president of the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills corporations outlines plainly and unequivocally the pattern of the company program in the present emergency. He is quoted as saying: As soon as I get a .second shift started. I plan to start a third shift. We cannot survive on one shift. I'm going to try to run the other shifts, or shut down, sell the mill, or liquidate and get out of Vance county.

That last sentence la what .worries us, as it should, and presumably does, everybody in Vance county. Shut down, sell the mill, or liquidate and get out of Vance county, la what Mr. Cooper said-

Do we fuUy realize what it would mean to this community and section if it should con^ to that? It doesnt sound to us like a bluff. If we think it is, and if we choose to walk up to- the brink of such a disa.'^ter to be certain of It after the move It begun. lets remember it will then be too late to retrace our steps. The citys biggest industry could be lot.

Pew residents of Henderson are old enough to know fiom experience what the town would be like without these textile plants. It might unfortunately and tragically be that we are on the verge of learning the hard way the significance of such a calxstro-phe. These things have happened

elsewhere. They could happen hereand may. And if they should, the town would be dealt a blow industrially from whlch it would not In years, if ever, recover. That has occurred elsewhere, too.

Citizens of Henderson and of Vance county generally have a sUkie mUhU poenal -development. What any of us xah " do to ward it off has puzzled many minds these recent weeks. No one ha.s come up with a wholly acceptable and workable answer. Serious thinking has been stopped against a stone wall.

ThLs does not avert possible disaster, which lurks on the horizon. A way out may yet be discovered, and unless it is the days and months and years ahead may be dark and dismal for Henderson.

Now, getting back to where we came In, let It be reiterated that this is no attempt to dictate to anybody. It is nieerly an effort to arouse the communityand the catastrophe that could overtake us. It is the concern of all, and a vital issue affecting just about every segment of activity in our midst.

Everyone is desirous that justice shall be done to all interests; that fairness shall prevail; that peace and good will shall be restored in all directions. A big order? Undoubtedly. Impossible? Is anything impossible?

This is not said with bia.s to either side. But lets not sleep away our future in complacency and Indifference. A terrific setback for Henderson may be in the making if events run their courseas they might. The statement from mill management carries Its own meaning and algnifi-cance.

Some 64 Pitt County Jaycees journeyed to Goldsborq Wednesday evening for one of the organizations district meetings.

Included were 31 from Greenville. 22 from Ayden and 11 from Grifton.

While In Goldsboro (he Jaycees elected Marvin Baldree of the Ayden Club as district vice president. Baldree was elected after a knock-down-drag out political campaign which saw Greenville. Washington, Wilson and Grifton joining Ayden to put a candidate from one of the smaller Jay-cee clubs in office. Baldree was opposed by a candidate from one of ffte clubs

in the state.

It ju.st goes to show that In the Jaycees the size of the club isnt always the determining factor when it comes to ^seeking state offices. Thats just the way it is in Jaycee politics.

Congratulations to a really hustling Jaycee, Marvin Baldree.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) The hour of tragedy has come.

The moment of etenud separation Is a^ hand.

It Is the last day of kindergarten. We are at a final tumi^ tuous meeting. Some of our par> ents are there and they nervously show each other some oi the prize drawings we have made.

The best drawing shows a wav-ery white lamb against an eternally waving green pasture. The outline of the lamb is hysterical. The acclaim is hysterical.

All the grownups are hysterically condent nobody else in history ever drew a lamb so well before.

It is a nervous moment of class acclaim. Then Mrs. Steele, the teacher, sits down at the piano and begins to play.

The notes she strikes induce a welcome and familiar group hypnosis. Each child becomes a rampant example of true culture afoot.

Like alow, methodical horses each child begins to prance around the room in time with the tune.

You are exhilarated. The melody grows wilder.

Dew sprinkles Mrs. Steeles spectacles as she pounds the piano harder. The pace grows faster.

This is the class, united together for the last time. The parents are forgotten In the magic of Mrs. Steeles music.

You are going around in a circle at full gallop. No child in kindergarten history has galloped quite so well.

This moment is immortal. Mrs. Steele is nodding her head vigorously.

You are swept by a sense of power. Mrs. Steele has never yet had a horse in kindergarten who can gallop quite like you.

You feel your feet flinging clear in a freedom you never have enjoyed before.

Then suddenly Mrs. Steele begins to slow down the pace of her music, and the dancing kindergarten children slow down too.

But you know in your heart you galloped in a classic way, and Mrs. Steele will never again have a student who danced it so boldly and well.

Goodby kindergarten. Hello first grade!

Quote...

Every American haa been exposed to the dangers of communism and its world-wide domination oi the will of man and his dignities and freedoms.

"But we dont have to be

convinced.

The people who must be convinced are the millions who have lived In the most horrible poverty for generations and have

never had hope for the future,

lords come along and hold out a promise to the.se people it l.s

sometimes the only promise they have ever heard. They have nothing to compare it withnor do they know that complete domination Is the final commuilr-Istlc objective. Kingman (Aril) Mohave County Miner.

Opinions In Brie::

"As regularly as clockwork, liability and collision insurance rates are jacked up to pay for ever-increasing automobile accidents and court awarda, and the careful driver pays the increased premium along with the reckless and incompetent.Tam pa (Fla.) Tribune.

that the newspaper is the mirror of community life, its personality. ixmdon (Ohio) Madison Presa.

"Great Britain permits lotteries ... do we con.slder, then, that the British people are generally immoral? And do we honestly believe that because we do not permit lotteries that we Imve higher principles that those who live in the British Empire?" Tlconderoga (N.Y.) Sentinel.

"Both the puUlc and the unions, to say nothing of management, must encourage finan-olally sound operations; for jobs and service are more secure. Macon (Oa.) .Telegraph.

"No, the big trouble la not with television. It Is with lezy people who want not just something, but everythingfor nothing. It 4s ^ massiiw, passive audience. Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mall.

"You can tell what community you live in 4;

Ing at j*our newspaper!^ executive of the United States Chamber of Commerce. How can he do this? He answers simply

Tt Just isnt right for workers to be forced by a labor imlon to Join 11 they dont want to Join. Nor is it right for an employer to force employes to join a union if they dont want to.f^ Chattanooga News-Free prea.

'Elyen Stamp Dealers Grumbling

Strength For Today

B> IvtRL L. HOLGLASS

NXTl'RE (IF FAITH

What Is iaith The Episllr to lh* Hi'hrcws aiusWf'us Itiat qocii tion hv stating that Fastli \s a.vsuraticr ot things-hopt'd for. a conviction things not scrn 111 D; or a.s the marginal iraius latlon has It, Faiih t.s the giving ioibsiance to things hoped for. a test of things not seen Let tt,s observe the latter translation P'allh is the giving of sub* staiHe to thlngH hoped for It is a God Riven quality In the hu man sotil which enahles one to make hw dreams and aspirations come true. Faith is not some* Hnng man works up in his own nalnre. hut something which God give.s mairwhcn man .sliows him ,srlf In be capable of handling it and to be willing to receive

it Thi.s f.uth become.s a creative power in a mans Ufe By U he begins to perform .Some of tlie wonderful acts which bis Lord and Master ierformed

As the result of faith, little men hike on new stature Weak men become stro.ng. blind men receive tlielr sight, the prisoner of .sin know the ecstasy of emancipation

A.S the result of Pauls great einphaMs on faith, some t>eople. misinterpret Ing hlx teaching, began to claim thfti they had lalth they had everything good works were not nece.ssary Of cour.se our la>rd had long before denounced that fallacy So the people who tried to separate faith and works to the derogation ol vvorks were then, and still are unsupported by Scriptural auihonty.

By EL.MER ROESSNFR

Most .stamp dealers love the Past Office because it keeps u r n I n g out commemorative .siamps like crazy, making more bu.stnes.s for the grade

Hermkn Herat.Jr.. a dealer of Shrub Oak. N Y., loves the Post Office, too. but ttiat doe-rt keep him from saying .what he thinks. When the mood over lakes him, he Ls.sucs a little house organ and the latest one spares neither the Post Office nor Pvxstmaater General Arthur E Summerfleld.

Ju8t how significant a atunt balloon flight in ihe last century Is. we cannot say." he ald, referring to the stamp la mark the centenary of the flight of the luplter, a lltUe-known balloon exploit "A stamp Issued to proclaim the advantages of world peace through world trade might he good propaganda but the Post Office doesn't know that the Slate Department wanusj world taade anly wttli thivse wha-e politics are in keeping wjth urs. and whose goods wont compete

with ours This refers to a forthcoming stamp that will carry the World Peace Through World Trade." which will be wonderful propaganda for Internatlohal Business Machines, whose slogan it us

RIBBING GENERAL .SI MMER-FIEI.U

Mr. Herat points out that the government, after stating that its policy would be to issue onlv a (iozen conimemoraUves this year has already' announced fourteen commemoratives and three new regular Issues.

In the same issue of hi. Hersts Ourbursts," he presents an "annual report" by "Boast-master General Blunderfield Excerpts Following the most recent increase In postal fates, the Post Office Department can onee aeatn report increased business. and thus brings closer the day when the nation may dis l>etwe with Its .lervtces altogether .

"In the coming year, it is the Department's hope to raise the first class rata to 6 cfnU pci

ounce Since the ultimate for this year Is a 9-cent rate, tt Is pro-po.sed to do it In these easy stages in order not to create too much objection from the do-^ die population.

ON MAGAZINE RATE.S

According to present rates, the Post Office carries at first-class speed a copy of 'Ufe.* for example, for just under one cent, when paid by the publishers.

' However, if anyone other than the publisher wishes to maU the same magazine, even if just across the street, the charge will be approximately 21 cents. The thought behind the difference is a good one, for the magazines of cour.se are in a much better pcvsltion to influence public opinion politically than would the average citizen.

Two new services will be Instituted The first . , will be known ss 'Real Special Delivery * It is not Intended to replace the system of Special Delivery, for which an Increase In rate, of 30 to cents will be asked The rate for Real Special DeLvagr

will be $1 per ounce. On. a letter from New York to Brooklyn, which cuirently takes three days by ordinary mail, the Real Special could conceivably cut this time by 20 per cent. The eer-vice Is experimental, and if the savings in time do not result, the rate can always be hicreened. The second new servlces is to be called 'Real Registered Mali.* * NO "WORLD PEACE THROUGH WORLD TRADE** HERE

The umbreUa is no symbol of appessement to Amerlcaii - im-bretla makers. The Associntlon of UmbreUa Manufaoturers and Suppliers has taken space Ut trade journals to point out that in ISiki, American mamifactur-ers made 8.000,000 umtureUas end 600.000 were Imported and that last year American makers produced the same number whUe g iXKLOOQ were Imported.

Virtually all imports are from Japan, it adds, giving the Japanese half the market The association asks Americaa retailera ts buy

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